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Scholarship & Presentations

View some of the recent scholarship and accomplishments from our faculty.

2024

2023

  • Katya Cronin's op ed, titled "Would You Like PFAS with That? The Poison Experts Are Allowing into Your Food Every Day," was published in the Messenger.

  • Erika Pont presented at the Western Legal Writing Conference regarding overcoming learner resistance to implicit bias and cultural humility lesson plans in the legal writing classroom.

  • Erika Pont & Associate Dean Carmia Caesar presented at the Professional Development Institute Conference regarding revised ABA Standard 303 and the "whole law school approach" GW has adopted in support of the standard

  • Erika Pont co-chaired the professional identity formation working group for NALP's Law Student Professional Development Section. She also presented at NALP's Annual Education Conference in Vancouver Canada on bridging the gap between professional identity development in law school and in practice.

  • Robin Juni has two "in progress" works: her article "When the Math Matters: Use of P-Values in Pharmaceutical Decisions" (48 Vt. L. Rev. __) will be published in late 2023/early 2024 in the Vermont Law Review, and her book chapter "Fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Negotiation Classroom," will appear in Integrating Doctrine & Diversity: Inclusion & Equity Beyond the First Year (Carolina Academic Press) in September 2023.
  • Brooke McDonough has been invited to co-moderate a panel presentation at the SEALS annual conference in July 2023 on the implementation of ABA Standard 303(c) in the Legal Writing Classroom.
  • Leslie Callahan will be a discussant for the ALWD Discussion group on "Replacing Class Participation with a Professionalism Requirement" at the July 2023 ALWD Biennial Conference at UC Irvine School of Law. She will also present a persuasive storytelling exercise at the Innovative Teaching Workshop during the ALWD conference.
  • Cori Alonso-Yoder visited the White House to receive the 2023 Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Professor Alonso-Yoder is the President of the Board of Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM), a U.S.-Mexico nonprofit organization that was recognized as an awardee for its work with migrant workers.
  • Cori Alonso-Yoder presented her teaching and scholarship at the 2023 Graciela Olivarez Latinas in the Legal Academy (GO LILA) Conference, the 2022 & 2023 SEALS Conferences, the 2023 Mid-Atlantic Clinical Conference, and the AALS Immigration Section's 2023 Biennial Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference at GW Law (for which she also served as the Steering Committee Co-Chair).
  • Katya Cronin was invited to present at the 2023 Future of Food Law Conference held in Wageningen University in the Netherlands and was the inaugural speaker at the Food Law Academic Network's Research Seminar Series. Professor Cronin's presentation, titled "Healthy with a Pinch of PFAS," addressed the role of PFAS in eroding sustainable and organic food, and the different regulatory approaches to this issue in the United States and Europe.
  • JP Collins presented his working paper, "Rethinking the National Court of Appeals," at Richmond Law School's Junior Faculty Forum on May 24, 2023.
  • Iselin Gambert was invited to participate in the 2023 Law Lecturers' Workshop hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, held in Burlington Vermont and co-hosted by Vermont Law School. She also presented her paper "Should the Great Food Transformation be fake-meat free?" at the 2023 Helsinki Animal Law Conference.
  • Robin Juni served as a discussant at Animals and the Anthropocene: a Legal Scholarship Symposium held at GW Law on March 24, 2023. Professor Juni provided comments on a paper presentation from Maggie Wang of Yale Law School entitled "In the Company of Bees: Collectives, Corporate Personhood, and the Legal Status of Animals." The discussion centered on the indicia of corporate personhood for purposes of election finance and for establishment of standing, and whether those doctrines could be applied to collective actors in the animal context, such as bee colonies and wolf packs.

  • Cori Alonso-Yoder published Imperialist Immigration Reform in the spring 2023 volume of the Fordham Law Review. The essay explores the specialized system of immigration in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Professor Alonso-Yoder presented the essay at the Fordham Law Review's fall symposium on the law of the territories and at the 2023 Law & Society Association's Annual Meeting.

  • Brooke McDonough co-presented with Iselin Gambert, Robin Juni & Erika Pont at the Rocky Mountain annual legal writing conference in the Spring of 2023. Their presentation, entitled “All that Jazz: A New Approach to Content and Coordination in the First Year Lawyering Class,” explored the differing approaches individual professors can employ to achieve uniform programmatic learning objectives.

  • Iselin Gambert presented on three topics at the 2023 AALS Annual Meeting. She spoke on a panel titled "Interconnected Justice: Animal Law in the Classroom and Beyond," and presented her paper "Should the Great Food Transformation be fake-meat free? Considering strategies for a future of food that is kinder to people, animals, and the planet" as part of the Food Law Section panel. She also participated in a roundtable discussion titled "What a Difference a Difference Makes: Empowering Students through Self Determination Theory AALS Annual Meeting, Roundtable Discussion."

2022

  • Natalia Blinkova and Leslie Callahan presented "De-Biasing [Through] Peer Review: Checking and Adjusting for Implicit Bias through Peer-review Exercises" at the LWI One Day Conference on "Teaching Values in the Classroom," hosted by Seattle University School of Law on December 10, 2022.
  • Katya Cronin presented as a plenary speaker at the 2022 LWI One-Day Workshop hosted by Seattle University School of Law, "Teaching Values in the Legal Writing Classroom." Prof. Cronin presentation, titled "Teaching the Value of Values," discussed the importance of providing law students with skills to identify their personal values and to use them as a guide in both gaining new skills and seeking meaningful and fulfilling careers.
  • JP Collins was quoted in The Economist about President Biden's efforts to rebalance the federal judiciary. (Nov. 24, 2022)

  • On November 17, 2022, Professor Gabriel Reyes participated in a presentation to a group of judges, prosecutors and a public defender from Argentina. The Argentine delegation traveled to the US as part of a program put together by the U.S. Department of State/ INL, National Center for State Courts, and Justice Studies Center of the Americas (based in Chile). Iris Bennett (a partner in the D.C. office of Steptoe & Johnson, LLP) and Ramon de la Cabada (a practitioner in Miami, FL) also made presentations to the delegation. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) hosted the presentation.

    • Professor Reyes presentation focused on a federal conspiracy case he succeeded in getting dismissed earlier in his career. It was meant to exemplify the role of the defense bar in an adversarial justice system, as Argentina is in the midst of a transition from a civil law system to an adversarial mode of proceedings in their state-level (US equivalent) criminal proceedings.

    • This work is a continuation of Professor Reyes’ efforts training attorneys in Latin America on US criminal trial proceedings. In 2016, he traveled to Buenos Aires and spent a week leading workshops on cross examination, opening/ closing statements, etc.

  • Robin Juni presented virtual programs to colleagues and students at two Ukrainian law schools, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in Chernivtsi and Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University in Vinnytsia in October and November 2022. The programs were developed as a result of two Summer 2022 workshops in which Professor Juni participated, sponsored by the Global Legal Skills Conference Committee and the USAID Justice for All Program. First, Professor Juni presented a lecture in English on Air Pollution and Climate Change, which described the regulatory and technical approaches for air pollution control in the United States. Second, Professor Juni had the extraordinary help of 10 GW Law students to present an exercise focused on Legal English, speaking and listening as a lawyer. She wrote the exercise to focus on a Ukrainian immigration situation, and the GW Law students helped their Ukrainian counterparts learn to better express legal concepts in English through small group interaction and discussion.
  • Iselin Gambert presented "Embracing Entanglements: Teaching Animal Law as a Multidimensional Social Justice Issue" at the 2022 Canadian Animal Law Conference

  • JP Collins was quoted in the National Law Journal about the differences in judicial nominees between the Trump and Biden administrations. (Aug. 17, 2022)

  • Katya Cronin was selected to present her paper "The Intentional Pursuit of Purpose: Helping Students Learn Both How and Why They Want to Practice Law" as one of only four work-in-progress presentations at the LWI Biennial Conference held in Washington, DC in July 2022.

  • During Summer 2022, Robin Juni presented at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference (SEALS) Health Law Works in Progress Panel, discussing the p-values in pharmaceutical decisions article now forthcoming in 2023/2024, and virtually presented in the AALS Balance & Well Being Section Speed Share Presentation Series, on Inviting Students to Assume the Professional Role of Legal Expert, Grapple with Ambiguity, and Make Professional Judgments.

  • JP Collins appeared on the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy's LawsFlaws podcast to discuss the Biden administration's judicial nominations. (Mar. 18, 2022)

  • Katya Cronin was invited to present at the 2022 Future of Food Law Conference held at the University of Missouri Law School. Prof. Cronin presented on the dangers of PFAS in food contact materials and advocated for a change to FDA rules authorizing the use of these chemicals as food additives.

  • In March 2022, Iselin Gambert was an invited speaker at the Future of Food Symposium at the University of Missouri School of Law, where she presented her paper, "Should the Great Food Transformation be fake-meat free? Considering strategies for a future of food that is kinder to people, animals, and the planet."

  • In March 2022, Robin Juni presented at the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference as part of an FL faculty team -- including also Professors Iselin Gambert, Natalya Blinkova, Brooke McDonough, and Erika Pont -- on All That Jazz: Enhancing Student Recognition of Implicit Bias and Client Needs in Professional Decisions.

  • JP Collins's article, "Judging Biden," was published in the SMU Law Review Forum in February 2022 and cited in the Northwestern University Law Review in March 2022.

  • JP Collins appeared on Reuters to discuss the rapid pace at which the Biden administration is filling vacancies on the federal courts. (Feb. 2, 2022)

  • Iselin Gambert's article "Should the Great Food Transformation be fake-meat free? Considering strategies for a future of food that is kinder to people, animals, and the planet" was published in The Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review (2022).
  • Anita M. Singh returned to GW Law in 2022 as Associate Director and Professor of the Fundamentals of Lawyering Program after taking leave to serve on President Biden's Transition Team and later as Associate Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Staff to Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco at the U.S. Department of Justice.
  • Robin Juni recently published "When the Math Matters: Improving Statistical Advocacy in Gerrymandering Litigation", in the Nebraska Law Review, 100 Neb. L. Rev. 727 (2022); pre-publication, the article was named an SSRN top ten paper in Election Law & Voting Rights law for July-August 2021.

  • FL Associate Professor Cheryl Kettler continued her Nothing But Dicta podcast series with former GW FL Associate Professor Michael S. Levine in 2022. The podcast series, created during the COVID crisis to offer students a way to engage with deans, professors, alumni, and other students, shares students' interviews with others. In their latest releases, students interviewed Associate Dean Scott B. Pagel about the Jacob Burns Law Library's Rare Book Room contents; Associate Dean Alan B. Morrison, Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest & Public Service, about his experiences in public interest law and government service; and a number of alumni about their experiences first as international law students hailing from various parts of the globe and then practicing law in the U.S. The podcasts can be found at NothingButDicta.com and on YouTube.

  • Brooke McDonough participated in a panel presentation at the annual SEALS conference in July 2022 on approaches to teaching First Generation Lawyers in the 1L Legal Writing Classroom.

  • Katya Cronin published her article "FDA-Approved: How PFAS-laden Food Contact Materials are Poisoning Consumers and What to do About it" in 6 BUS. ENTREPRENEURSHIP & TAX L. REV. 117 (2022).

  • Katya Cronin presented at the 2022 ALWD Innovative Teaching Workshop in Washington, DC on teaching self-advocacy.

2021