FACULTY NEWS
Binny Miller was awarded the AUWCL Outstanding Service Award. She was also
recognized for 35 years of service at American University. She presented her article, “Building Fierce Empathy,” at the Symposium for the 50th Anniversary of the Drake Law School Clinical program on October 29, 2022. She was on the planning committee for the 2023 Applied Legal Storytelling Conference in London, England, where she participated in selecting the presentations for the conference and recruiting academics to the conference. She published an article in May entitled “New Clinician Perspectives on Social Justice Lawyering and Clinical Teaching” in the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law symposium issue, with nine co-authors. She was a presenter on concurrent session, “How Ten Clinicians Built and Wrote about a Pedagogy of Social Justice Lawyering at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Clinical Conference” at George Washington University Law School on February 4, 2023, with co-presenters Susan Bennett, Citlalli Ochoa, and Jessica Millward.
Fernanda Nicola was nominated to serve on the executive committee of the American Society
of Comparative Law. She was a discussant at the National Endowment for Democracy Event: Reagan Fascell Fellow Michał Wawrykiewicz’s presentation on “Democratic Deconsolidation and Declining Rule of Law in Poland:
Resilience, Restitution, and Prevention.” She published a chapter with Ann Shalleck entitled “The Familial Subject for the Cambridge Companion of Gender and the Law.” She presented the paper “The Authoritarian Dialogue of the European Court of Justice” at a webinar hosted by the University of Exeter School of Law. She also presented in the Law and Governance Twitter conversation by the University of Penn program on “Regulation on Law on Italy, Conditionalities in the EU Budget,” on January 25, 2023. She participated in the official movie celebrating the 70th anniversary of the ECJ.
Vicki Phillips presented on the harms of Native mascots at a cross-campus faculty colloquium
sponsored by AU’s Center for Environment, Community, and Equity. The program, “Indigenous Sovereignties & Ecologies and the Law,” highlighted the work of faculty and scholars across AU.
Diego Rodriguez- Pinzon participated as an expert lecturer in the 2023 United Nations Regional
Course in International Law for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He delivered the International Human Rights Law component of the program on February 22 and 23, 2023. He participated in the 2022 Global Forum on Human Rights Education on December 5 and 6, 2022, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. He presented “The Human Rights Education Ecosystem: the International Experience of a Law School in the Americas” in
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the panel Human Rights Education in Higher Educational Institutions: Principles, Approaches and Contemporary Challenges.
Angi Porter published “Africana Legal Studies: A New Theoretical Approach to Law &
Protocol,” in the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. She gave the keynote speech at the Dorsey & Whitney LLP Black History Month Program, “Black History Month, Africana Legal Studies, & Misconceptions about Enslavement,” in February 2023. She was a panelist discussing the killing of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police: “Where Do We Go from Here?: A Pop-Up Virtual ‘Teach-In’—The Killing of Tyre Nichols and Police Violence against African Americans,” at AUWCL in January 2023. She was quoted in Jon Collins, “Moriarty Comes to Role of Chief Prosecutor as Former Advocate for the Prosecuted,” Minnesota Public Radio News, January 18, 2023. Angi also appeared in AUWCL’s Black History Month video in late February. She became a member of the Bethel Dukes Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
Adeen Postar completed an ABA site visit to the Ave Maria School of Law, March 12-15, 2023.
Jenny Roberts has an article, “Defense Lawyering in the Progressive Prosecution Era,”
forthcoming in 109 Cornell Law Review (summer 2024). She participated in a panel on why conservatives and libertarians should support criminal justice reform despite rising crime rates for the Federal Society at AUWCL. She moderated an incubator session and presented in that session on “Studying Misdemeanor Prosecutions Abroad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Clinical Conference.” She organized and moderated an AUWCL panel, “So You Want to be a Criminal Defense Lawyer,” with four AUWCL alumni. She is a member of the Plea Bargaining Institute Advisory Board.
Ira Robbins published Prisoners and the Law (Thomson/Reuters, 6 vols., 2023) and Habeas Corpus
(Thomson/Reuters, 2 vols., 2023). He also published Citizen’s Arrest and Race in 20 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 100 (2023) and Sunshine Laws behind the Clouds: Limited Transparency in a Time of National Emergency, 56 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1 (2022).
Ezra Rosser published the Introduction to Wealth Disparities and Civil Rights Introduction in the
ABA Human Rights Magazine. He organized and presented at the Poverty Law Conference hosted by Berkeley Law in March 2023. He presented his book, A Nation Within, at faculty workshops at Florida State University College of Law and University of New Mexico Law. He presented “Affirmatively Resisting” at a faculty workshop at the William & Mary Law School. He was interviewed by ABC News on the Cherokee right to a
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