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Jamie R. Abrams presented her forthcoming book, Inclusive Socratic Teaching, at the Detroit Mercy Law
Review’s symposium titled Law School 101: An Exploration of Legal Pedagogy. She presented “Mapping the Rhetorical Shiſts in Amici Activity from Roe to Dobbs” at the Midwest Political Society Association’s Annual Conference. She contributed to an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma's death row. This amicus brief was then covered by Adam Liptak in The New York Times in an article titled “Did Prosecutors’ Sex Shaming Help Send Brenda Andrew to Death Row?”. Abrams presented a workshop on State Regulation of the Family for nearly 100 law students and faculty members in Ukraine as part of a global coalition of law school professors aimed at supporting Ukrainian law schools and students.
In 2023, Abrams co-edited Gender and the Law with Aníbal Rosario Lebrón and Daniela Kraiem. She co-authored the ninth edition of Family Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions. Abrams published a chapter on “Feminist Pedagogy in Law Schools” in The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States. Abrams also published “Reevaluating Regional Law Reform Strategies Aſter Dobbs.” She appeared on WTTG-TV’s In
the Courts, to discuss the one- year anniversary of the Dobbs decision. She presented her paper, “Divisive and Devastated Standards of Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Tort Bar Call to Action,” at the American Society of Law & Medicine’s 46th Annual Health Law Professors Conference. She also presented, “Mapping the Rhetorical Shiſts in Supreme Court Amici Activity from Roe to Dobbs” at the Law & Society Annual Meeting. Abrams presented a workshop on Inclusive Socratic Teaching at the American Association of Law School’s New Law Professor Workshop. She was a panelist for “Upholding the Hippocratic Oath: A Panel about Mifepristone and Standards of Care” held at the George Washington University Law Center. Abrams was also a panelist for the Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Series webinar titled “Can the Socratic Method Be Used in an Inclusive Classroom?” The event was co- sponsored by Roger Williams University School of Law, City University of New York School of Law, George Washington University Law School, Berkeley Law, and JURIST. She was a panelist for the Holloran Center’s Symposium at the St. Thomas School of Law titled “Transitioning from Student to Lawyer: Infusing Professional Identity Formation into the Required Curriculum.” She spoke about the use of a dental malpractice simulation in a first- year torts law class.
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Hilary Allen presented “Digital Bank Holidays” at the Wharton Financial Regulation
Conference, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale Journal on Regulation Symposium on Silicon Valley Bank. She presented “Interest Rates, Venture Capital, and Financial Stability” at the Symposium on Law, Venture Capital, and the Future of Banking in Silicon Valley, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. She presented “Fintech and Techno- Solutionism,” IMF Internal Fintech Forum, “Regulatory Managerialism and Failures of Inaction: A Case Study of Bank Regulation and Climate Change,” AALS Annual Meeting (Financial Regulation Section), and “Digital Assets,” APEC Finance Ministers Meeting. She was a panelist on “Public Citizen Event on AI in Financial Services” and “Banking Panics and Financial Crises,” at the University of Michigan Law School Conference on the International Law of Money, Ann Arbor, Michigan and “AI and Financial Services Policy Discussion,” Public Citizen Webinar. She was a discussant on “Sandbox Procedures” at the Consumer Law Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, California. She was a guest lecturer on “AI and Financial Regulation,” at the Minnesota Law School/Trinity College Dublin (via Zoom).
In 2023, Allen published “Regulatory Innovation and Permission to Fail: The Case of Suptech” and “DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0?”. She presented “The Future of Banking: Opportunities and Challenges in a New Era of Finance,” Conference on Financial Stability, Banco de Portugal
Departamento de Estabilidade Financeira; “Migration of Risk within the Financial Sector,” Financial Services Forum Policy Summit; “Understanding Crypto,” 2023 Public Pension Funding Forum; “Reinventing Operational Risk Regulation,” Reserve Bank of Australia; “Challenges with Understanding Cybersecurity Risk Implications for Operational Risk Regulation,” CFTC Technology Advisory Committee Meeting; “Reinventing Operational Risk Regulation, Federal Reserve Bank Supervisory Staff;” “Complying with Suptech, Compliance: Contemporary Problems, Contemporary Solutions;” and “FTX and Crypto Regulation,” Regulatory Law and Policy Workshop, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Philadelphia. She guest lectured on “Climate and Crypto: Hot Topics in Financial Regulation” at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and was a guest lecturer for a Stanford Engineering Crypto Class (via Zoom.) Allen was an invited participant for the Workshop on Regulatory Monitoring and Enforcement in the Information Economy Georgetown University Law Center. Allen was a panelist for “The Future of Payments, Cryptocurrencies, and Stablecoins,” Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Seventh Annual Fintech Conference, Philadelphia; “The Future of Crypto Regulation,” BetterMarkets Webinar; “The Future of Crypto,” 22nd BIS Annual Conference; and “How Might Web3 Change the Financial System?,” Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Markets Conference. She gave testimony before the US House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion, Hearing on The Future of Digital Assets: Identifying the Regulatory
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