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SCOTUS Upholds TikTok Ban, But the Lack of Data Privacy Leaves Threats Unaddressed

Many of TikTok’s ardent users are devastated, civil liberties and First Amendment groups slammed the ruling, and politicians backpedaled on their own decision to ban the hugely popular app. No one should be surprised by the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to allow the federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or cease operations in the United States, however.

Professor Nahal Kazemi weighs in on the Supreme Court's Tik Tok ban.

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Dean Paul Paton Appointed to ABA’s Standing Committee on ITILS

Dean Paul D. Paton has been appointed by American Bar Association (ABA) President-Elect William R. Bay as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on International Trade in Legal Services (ITILS) for a three-year term beginning this August.

SCOTUS Preserves the Opportunity to Combat Disinformation, Will We Take It?

After an unprecedented month of upheaval in the presidential race, with the election still over three months away, we can expect online disinformation to again become a major concern.

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Journals & Scholarly Articles

Tom Campbell
The Economics Case for the Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust, Antitrust, Summer 2024 at 34.


Ernesto Hernández López
Corn War: a Trade Fight between the United States and Mexico, Cardozo L. Rev. De•Novo 64 (2024).


Nahal Kazemi
Spies, Trolls, and Bots: Combating Foreign Election Interference in the Marketplace of Ideas, 2 Fordham L. Voting Rts. & Democaracy F. 227 (2024).

Abigail Patthoff & Carolyn Young Larmore
Flour, Fondant & Feedback: What the Great British Bake Off Can Teach Us About Critiquing Student Legal Writing, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing (forthcoming Fall 2024)


Susanna Ripken
Corporate Civil Disobedience, 100 Ind. L.J. (forthcoming Fall 2024-2025)


Lawrence Rosenthal
The Debt Ceiling Is Constitutional, 26 N.Y.U. J.L. & Legis. 679 (2024)

Nonoriginalist Laws in an Originalist World: Litigating Original Meaning from Heller To Bruen, 73 Am. U.L. Rev. 1857 (2024).

Nancy Schultz, Legal Scholar, 27 Chap. L. Rev. 285, (2024).


Carolyn Young Larmore
First Gen in the Field, 31 Clinical L. Rev. 239 (2024).

Books & Chapters

Richard Redding
Redding, R.E. (in press). Depoliticizing science by reforming the academy. In L. Krauss (Eds.), The war on science: 40 renowned scientists speak out about the current threats to free speech, open inquiry, and the scientific process. New York: PostHill Press.

Redding, R.E. (in press). Leveraging campus DEI to promote free speech and ideological diversity. In R. Maranto, C. Salmon, L. Jussim, & S. Satel (Eds.), The free inquiry papers. Washington, DC: AEI Press.

Popular Media & Op-eds

Tom Campbell
Ramaswamy and Musk have commenced a long-overdue course correction,” San Diego Tribune, November 26, 2024.

Tariffs should only be used sparingly and constitutionally,” Orange County Register, October 26, 2024.

Trump and Biden both agree on the same bad idea, a sovereign wealth fund,” Orange County Register, September 14, 2024.

Armories can be full-time homeless shelters,” Orange County Register, September 7, 2024.

 

Ernesto Hernández López
Why the US doesn’t have a case against Mexico’s GMO corn ban,” Agriculture Dive, July 29, 2024.

Nonsense in the US-Mexico Corn Fight,” Food Tank, July 29, 2024.

En lucha por las tortillas, derecho internacional está del lado de México,” Contralínea (Mexico), July 13, 2024.

Los primeros tropiezos en la guerra de la tortilla con México,” Contralínea (Mexico), July 4, 2024.

Early US Fumbles in Tortilla War with Mexico over GMO Corn,” Common Dreams, June 27, 2024.

Maize and trade: Free lesson for Kenya from México,” Nation (Kenya), May 25, 2024, online version May 28, 2024.

"Law is Not on the US Side in GMO Corn Fight with Mexico,” Common Dreams, May 14, 2024.

Mexico Brings Science to a Trade Fight Over GMO Corn,” Common Dreams, March 19, 2024.

Canada’s dairy lesson can help solve Mexico corn crisis,” Canada’s National Observer, January 16, 2024.

 

Richard Redding (with Michael Mills & Robert Maranto)
What type of social justice do we want?,” Skeptic Magazine, September 6, 2024.

Presentations

Tom Campbell
Law Revision Commission Testimony
California Law Revision Commission, Sacramento, CA. May 1, 2024.

 

Ernesto Hernández López
Legality of the Commodity Credit Corporation
Academy of Food Law and Policy Conference, School of Law, Loyola University Chicago, IL. November 15, 2024.

Trade Sovereign Vs. Food Sovereign
ClassCrits conference, Southwestern School of Law, Los Angeles, CA. February 9, 2024.

A Reflective Look at Using Law to Build a Robust Global Food System
Reflecting on the Past to Advance the Future, UCLA Law, Los Angeles, CA. April 19, 2024. (Panelist)


Nahal Kazemi
Scotus in Focus: Insight Into Key 2024 Supreme Court Decisions
Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, Orange, CA. October 24, 2024.

Corruption As a National Security Risk
Syracuse University College of Law, National Security Law Research Seminar, Syracuse, NY. September, 2024.

Starving the Beast: A New Vetting Model to Prevent Corruption in International Security Sector Assistance
Junior International Law Scholars Association, Works in Progress Workshop. August, 2024. (Presenter)

Association of American Law Schools National Security Law Section, Works in Progress Workshop. April, 2024. (Presenter)

Southern California International Law Scholars Conference April, 2024. (Presenter)


Paul Paton
AI, the Digital Space and Regulating the Legal Profession
International Bar Association Annual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico. September 18, 2024. (Moderator & Speaker)

Adjacent Businesses, Regulatory Barriers and Virtual Nomads
International Bar Association Annual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico. September 16, 2024. (Moderator & Speaker)

Appraising Unconscious Bias: Gender, Ethnicity, Race, Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity and Neurodiversity Globally
IBA Diversity and Inclusion Council, International Bar Association Annual Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico. September 16, 2024. (Invited Speaker)

Lawyers as Gatekeepers – ABA Resolution 100 and Rule 1.16
Special Workshop on Lawyers as Gatekeepers, 10th International Legal Ethics Conference, University of Amsterdam [Paper to be published by Routledge in a forthcoming collection, Lawyers as Gatekeepers, in 2025]. July 19, 2024. (Paper Presentation)

Lawyer Regulation and Mobility in the United States and Canada
Special Workshop, “Legal Professionals in a Digitalizing World”, 10th International Legal Ethics Conference, University of Amsterdam, Holland. July 18, 2024.

Lawyers as Ethical Gatekeepers
Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) and the International Bar Association’s Legal Policy and Research Unit. July 4, 2024. (Invited Roundtable Participant)

How Solo and Small Law Firms Can Meaningfully and Lawfully Engage in Diversity Employment and Business Practices
California Lawyers Association 2024 Solo and Small Firm Summit, Virtual Conference. June 13, 2024. (Speaker & Panelist)

Navigating the Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence
Alexis de Tocqueville Society, Orange County United Way, Irvine, CA. April 23, 2024. (Speaker)

Diversity, Inclusion and Civility in the Legal Profession
Chapman University Fowler School of Law, Orange, CA. March 21, 2024. (Speaker & Moderator)

Ethics, Civility and Lawyering in the Age of Generative AI
J. Reuben Clark Law Society Orange County Chapter, Irvine, CA. January 18, 2024. (Speaker)

The Future of the Legal Profession: Values, Civility and Ethics in the Law
California Lawyers Foundation Webinar, January 17, 2024. (Speaker)

 

Abigail Patthoff
Making AI Work for You (the Law Professor)
Arizona State University Law School Webinar. October 25, 2024. (Presenter)

Generative AI As a Discipline-Building Tool
14th Western Regional Conference, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA. September 13-14, 2024.

Can Generative AI Help Build the Legal Writing Discipline?
Legal Writing Institute 2024 Biennial Conference, IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, IN. July 17-20, 2024.

 

Lawrence Rosenthal
Closing the Remedial Gap After Whole Woman’s Health
Southeastern Association of Law Schools 2024 Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL. July, 2024. (Presenter)

70th Anniversary of Brown V. Board of Education
Superior Court of Orange County, the Orange County Bar Association & The Thurgood Marshall Bar Association with Fowler School of Law, Orange, CA. February 29, 2024. (Panelist)

 

Carolyn Young Larmore
First Gen in the Field
AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Empirical Legal Research, Washington, DC. January, 2024.

AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, St. Louis, MO. May, 2024.


Carolyn Young Larmore
(With Anahid Gharakhian & Janet Nalbandyan)
First Gen in the Field
Externships 12: The Power of Agility: Navigating Change with Externships Conference, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA. October 17-19, 2024.



Appointments

John Bishop
Committee Member, ABA Mediation Committee
American Bar Association


Paul Paton
Chair, International Bar Association Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee
International Bar Association

Presidential Appointee, ABA Standing Committee on International Trade in Legal Services 2024-2027
American Bar Association

Member, International Bar Association Diversity Data Working Group, 2024
International Bar Association


Abigail Patthoff
Chair-elect, Legal, Writing, Reasoning, and Research Section of AALS, 2025-26
Association of American Law Schools

Editorial Board Member, The Second Draft
Legal Writing Institute


Richard Redding
Elected to Membership
American Law Institute


Carolyn Young Larmore
Secretary, AALS Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession Section
Association of American Law Schools

Co-chair, AALS Externship Subcommittee on Scholarship
Association of American Law Schools