Each month, we share notable updates—including presentations, publications, panels, and other accomplishments—from Utah Law faculty members.
Emeritus Professor Richard Aaron
- Publications
- Richard I. Aaron, BANKRUPTCY LAW FUNDAMENTALS (40th ed. 1986).
Professor Teneille Brown
- Media appearances
- Interviewed on ABC Listen, “America’s Erin Patterson? The Kouri Richins poisoning case” (May 19, 2026).
- Interviewed on City Cast Salt Lake, “Hate the Data Center? Watch Utah’s Courts” (May 26, 2026).
Professor Paul Cassell
- Legislative/judicial engagement
- Filed amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court (along with several other former judges) in Newman v. Moore, urging the Supreme Court to grant certiorari to review Judge Newman’s administrative removal from active duty.
Professor Jorge Contreras
- Publications
- Jorge L. Contreras, “The SNP Consortium: Background and Context,” 13(1) J. L. & BIOSCIENCES lsag009 (2026).
- Jorge L. Contreras, “The Past, Present, and Future of Automated Contract Generation,” SCITECH L. (Spring 2026).
- Presentations/panels
- “Patents and Standards 2026” (panelist), University College London, London, England (May 2026).
- Awards/recognitions
- Awarded IPKat Best Patent Law Book of the Year (2025) for SUB-PATENT INNOVATION RIGHTS: UTILITY MODELS, PETTY PATENTS AND INNOVATION PATENTS AROUND THE WORLD (Jorge L. Contreras ed., 2025).
- Media appearances
- Quoted in Global Competition Review, “DOJ warns against liability for researching patented tech” (May 12, 2026).
- Quoted in The New York Times, “Greenpeace’s Long War With a Pipeline Titan Enters a Strange New Phase” (May 28, 2026)
Professor Brigham Daniels
- Media appearances
- Quoted in Utah News Dispatch, “A Box Elder County group wants voters there to decide proposed data center’s fate” (May 14, 2026).
- Quoted in Deseret News, “Harvard case study widens the reach to save the Great Salt Lake” (May 17, 2026).
- Quoted in Utah News Dispatch, “Data center: New water rights law gives less weight to pushback citing broad impact” (May 18, 2026).
Lecturer Professor Amos Guiora
- Presentations/panels
- “The Moral Imperative of Truth and the Child’s Right to Origin and Family History,” First International Conference Congress on Stolen Babies and Violence Against Children, Association of Parents of Missing Babies of Vojvodin in Ruma, Serbia, and with Association Alliance of Christians of Croatia in Belgrade, Serbia (May 15-17, 2026).
- Media appearances
- Interviewed in History, “Amos Guiora, Ph.D., J.D. on Recovered Holocaust Books, Enablers, and Denial” (May 4, 2026).
- Quoted in The Guardian, “‘Seriously the best boss ever’: inside the world of Jeffrey Epstein’s assistant” (May 28, 2026).
- Interviewed in A Further Inquiry, “Dr. Amos Guiora on Holocaust Enablers, Bystanders, and Moral Complicity” (May 28, 2026).
Associate Dean Louisa Heiny
- Media appearances
- Quoted in KUER, “Utah Supreme Court enters new era after resignation, expansion and political battles” (May 15, 2026).
Associate Research Professor Jenna Prochaska
- Media appearances
- Quoted in KUER, “Mobile home residents feel ‘stuck’ in the shadow of the Provo mall remodel” (May 7, 2026).
Research Professor John Ruple
- Media appearances
- Quoted in Bloomberg Law, “Utah Is Quietly Taking Over Control of Some of Its Federal Lands” (May 6, 2026).
- Quoted in Utah News Dispatch, “Lee, Maloy’s push to undo Grand Staircase-Escalante plan goes into new territory” (May 28, 2026).
Associate Dean Matthew Tokson
- Media appearances
- Quoted in Agence France-Presse, “Can ChatGPT be charged in a murder? Florida wants to find out” (May 10, 2026).
- Quoted in Talk Android, “Could AI creators finally face criminal charges for crimes committed with their technology?” (May 19, 2026).
Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner
- Presentations/panels
- “From Faculty to Dean: Power, Strategy, and Indian Law, “Arizona State University Gathering of Indigenous Legal Scholars, Phoenix, AZ (Apr. 30, 2026).