Conference of the United States, Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules. He was invited to deliver the Dr. J. Clay Smith Equal Justice Lecture at the Washington Bar Association Annual Meeting, and to address the AALS/LSAC Workshop for Newer Law Deans. He completed the forthcoming second edition of his textbook, Adjudicatory Criminal Procedure: Cases, Statutes, and Materials (Foundation Press), and he authored tributes to the late Professor Charles J. Ogletree, in the ABA Criminal Justice magazine, and the Harvard Law Review. Dean Fairfax was appointed to the City Year DC board of directors, and to serve on the AALS Deans’ steering committee.
In 2023, Dean Fairfax published the inaugural edition of Criminal Law: A Critical Approach (Foundation Press), co-authored with I. Bennett Capers and Eric Miller. He published the 2023 Supplement for Adjudicatory Criminal Procedure: Cases, Statues, and Materials (Foundation Press). He spoke at the National Law Deans’ Retreat, and served on a panel at the AALS/LSAC Advanced Deans Workshop. Dean Fairfax participated in the fall meeting of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, and the fall board meeting of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He spoke or led discussions at several major law firms regarding the aſtermath of the US Supreme Court decision on race conscious admissions in higher education. Dean Fairfax moderated a town hall on advancing diversity in college admissions, and he spoke at the Multicultural Alumni Reunion at American University.
Christine Farley published “Trademarks in an Algorithmic World,” Washington Law Review (2023);
“The Stunted Development of Unfair Competition Law in the United States and Canada,” Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2024); “Do Trademarks Reduce Search Costs in the Age of Information?,” in Research Handbook on the Law and Economics of Trademark Law; “Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products and the Current State of Trademark Fair Use,” Chicago- Kent Journal of Intellectual Property (2023); and “Hot Take on the Wavy Baby Decision,” Technology & Marketing Blog. She presented “Parody Perils Post Jack Daniel’s,” at the 10th Anniversary IP Conference, Texas A&M University School of Law; “Parody Products,” at the 2024 Arts & Entertainment Law Journal Symposium, Cardozo School of Law; “Design Authenticity,” at the Colloquium on Innovation Policy, NYU School of Law; “Design Authenticity,” at the 2024 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property, Santa Clara University School of Law; “Cultural Appropriation in Design,” at the AALS Annual Meeting; and “How the Supreme Court Sees the Role of the First Amendment in Trademark Law,” at the conference Exploring the New Constitutional Limits on Trademark Law, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. Her article “Trademarks in an Algorithmic World” was reviewed in the World Trademark Review.
Farley published “Raising the Threshold for Trademark Infringement to Protect
Free Expression,” with Lisa Ramsey and “Trademark Extraterritoriality: Abitron v. Hetronic Doesn’t Go the Distance,” with Margaret Chon. She presented “Trademarks and Parody Products: Bad Spaniels Make Bad Law,” Annual Meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association; “Jack Daniel’s v. VIP Products and Vidal v. Elster, 2023 Supreme Court IP Review,” Chicago- Kent College of Law; and “Trademarks, Parody, and the First Amendment: Guidance from the Supreme Court’s Jack Daniel’s Decision,” Strafford CLE Webinar. She was quoted in “Commodores Fight Tees Up Test for New Trademark Reach Precedent,” Bloomberg Law; “High Court Trademark Ruling Leaves Enforcement Avenues Murky,” Bloomberg Law; and “DeSantis Taunt in Disney Typeface Tempts Trademark Punchback,” Bloomberg Law.
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson published “Video Analytics and Fourth
Amendment
Vision,” Texas Law Review (forthcoming 2025) and “Digital Rummaging,” Washington University Law Review. He presented his article, “Digital Rummaging,” at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Kentucky Law School. Ferguson presented a keynote speech, “The Use of Big Data in Criminal Investigation,” at the InternetLab’s Conference on Fundamental Rights and Criminal Procedure in the Digital Age in Brazil (2023) and spoke at a Rome conference on “Predictive Policing: The US Experience” (2023). In July 2023, he was elected into the American Law Institute (ALI).
Susan Franck was named co-chair of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International
Law.
Chiara Giorgetti edited, along with Patrick W. Pearsall & Hélène Ruiz- Fabri, Research Handbook on
International Claims Commissions (2023). She moderated “Regional Impacts and Rule of Law” for the American University International Law Review Symposium. She gave a keynote speech, “A Code of Conduct for International Arbitration,” during Atlanta International Arbitration Day and concluding remarks, “Cross-Cutting Issues in ISDS Reform—The State’s Right to Regulate,” for a conference organized by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Vienna. She represented the Institute for Transnational Arbitration at UNCITRAL Working Group III negotiation (ISDS Reform) in Vienna. She was co-chair and speaker at First San Marino Arbitration Day.
Claudio Grossman was appointed member in the prestigious Institut de Droit International.
Grossman participated in both the Human Rights Commission and the Social Justice Commission at the Institut de Droit. He delivered remarks before the Commission of Juridical and Political Affairs of the Organization of American States on the topic of sea-level rise. He also produced commentaries on sea-level rise at the International Law Commission (ILC), in which he is
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