FACULTY NEWS
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Jamie Abrams was interviewed by KQED news about two lawsuits filed against the Oakland School for the Arts
aſter a #MeToo Movement student walkout. She also presented at several events this year. She presented her paper “Reevaluating Regional Law Reform Strategies aſter Dobbs” at Akron Law School’s symposium on The Future of Reproductive Rights on October 28, 2022. On November 4, 2022, she presented at the Kentucky Justice Association’s Women’s Caucus Retreat on “An Evolving and Uncertain Medical Liability Landscape aſter Dobbs.” Jamie presented a workshop, “Cultivating More Inclusive and Engaging Classrooms with VoiceThread Assignments” at American University’s Ann Ferren Teaching Conference on January 13, 2023. She published an article, “Cultivating More Inclusive Classrooms and Practice-Ready Graduates with Voice and Video Assignments,” 60 Fam. Ct. Rev. 613 (2022). Jamie co-authored a book with Daniela Kraiem and Aníbal Rosario Lebrón entitled Women and the Law (2022 ed.) compiling the most influential gender and the law scholarship from 2020 and 2021.
Hilary Allen presented “Should Crypto Assets Be Regulated?” for a webinar entitled “Fintech-Crypto
Assets and Consumers: Is it Time to Reign in the Wild Frontier?” as part of the Attorney General Alliance Africa Program/University of Pretoria on February 28, 2023. Hilary also presented on several panels this year. She was a panelist on “Policy Perspectives: Road to Policy Consensus on Crypto Assets” at the second G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies Meetings in Bangalore, India, on February 23, 2023; “How Do Frameworks for Governance, Pending Regulation, Legal and Accounting Intersect for Digital Assets? What Are the Lessons from Traditional Finance?” at the Governance, Regulation and Accounting for Digital Assets Conference at NYU Stern Business School in New York, New York, on January 27, 2023; “Confronting the Crypto Challenge: Learning from a Meltdown” for the American Economic Liberties Project on January 25, 2023; and “Regulating Emerging Technologies: Keeping Pace in a Fast-Evolving World” at the ABA Administrative Law Meeting on December 1, 2022. She served on the panel “Crypto Assets and Financial Stability,” Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) Standing Committee on Assessment of Vulnerabilities (SCAV) Meeting in Washington, DC, on November 17, 2022. Hillary spoke about the Federal Reserve and Climate Change at the Federal Reserve Conference of
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Counsel on October 21, 2022. She appeared as a panelist on “Crypto Round Table with Industry and Academics: The Future of Institutional Adoption of Crypto Technologies and Digital Assets” for the Bank of England/FSB Digital Assets Symposium in London, England, on September 29, 2022. Hilary served on a panel called “Are the Metaverse and Web 3.0 Real or Hype and What Are the Policy Issues?” at the Technology Policy Institute Aspen Form in Aspen, Colorado, on August 15, 2022. She was also a panelist on “The Future of Crypto Regulation” at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC, on July 25, 2022. Hilary presented at the AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection in San Diego, California, on January 6, 2023. She presented on “DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0?,” London Financial Regulation Seminar hosted by the Center for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London on December 12, 2022. She was a presenter for “How to Cope with the New Challenges of Fintech Innovation” at the Workshop on Financial Technology, Financial Inclusion and “Competition Policy: Legal and Economic Approaches,” Collegio Carlo Alberto at the University of Turin, Italy, on December 1, 2022. Hilary presented “Reinventing Operational Risk Regulation” at the Fiſth Conference on Law and Macroeconomics on October 20, 2022. She also hosted a book talk on “Driverless Finance” at the Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York, on October 12, 2022. She was a presenter at the “Regulatory Managerialism and the Rule of Law” Workshop
at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, on September 23, 2022. She is a member of the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee and was invited as a participant at the CFTC Staff Roundtable Discussion on Non- Intermediation on May 25, 2022.
Michael Carroll presented at the Open Data Workshop at Berkeley School of Law on January
26, 2023. He published a news article titled “Supreme Court Unlikely to ‘Break the Internet’ over Google, Twitter Cases— Rather, It Is Approaching with Caution,” which summarizes the oral arguments in two pending Supreme Court cases involving social media platforms’ legal responsibility for harmful content. He was quoted in an article published in Washingtonian titled “Explain DC to Me Like I’m a Golden Retriever: The Supreme Court Case That Could Break the Internet,” which was published on February 23, 2023.
Jerry Comizio appeared on
Faculti.net to discuss the emerging legal and regulatory
framework and policy challenges governing digital asset activities. He was quoted in The Washington Post (March 11, 2023) in an article about the recent wave of bank failures titled “Silicon Valley Bank Failure Raises Fear of Broader Financial Contagion.” Comizio is quoted in an article published in Bloomberg News titled “Silvergate Bet Everything on Crypto, Then It All Evaporated” (March 9, 2023).
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