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(Pantheon-Assas). While at Michigan, he presented his work in progress on “The Continuum of Contractual Commitment.” He also continues his work to use supply contracts as a way to protect the environment and the human rights of workers in international supply chains. He co-chaired meetings of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Working Group and of the European Working Group (Warsaw). While in Europe, he presented work from his book, Contracts for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains (with Susan A. Maslow) at an international conference hosted by the University of Warsaw.
Snyder published Contracts for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains: Model Contract Clauses, Legal Analysis, and Practical Perspectives (Susan A. Maslow & David V. Snyder, editors). Within that book, he published the introduction, “Contracts as an Instrument of International Management and Governance, and International Trade and Forced Labor Compliance: Using Contracts to Avoid Prohibited Imports from China and the World” (with Sydney H. Mintzer). He presented “Contracts as an Instrument of International Management and Governance” at the University of Copenhagen; at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; at Erasmus University, Rotterdam; in the symposium, “Sustainable Development and Supply Chain Governance: A New Framework for the EU, Università di Trento” (Italy, remotely). He also presented “Contractual Legalization of Human Rights Due Diligence” at Pennsylvania State University/
University of Dundee book conference on Human Rights Due Diligence (virtual); “Measuring Contractual Commitment: A Comparative Inquiry into Promises to Try” at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg and at L’Institut de recherches en droit des affaires de Paris (IRDA Paris). He taught a weeklong course, “Select Comparisons in American Contract Law for a Civil Law Perspective,” at the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI), Havana, Cuba, at the invitation of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) and with the sponsorship of the Center for Inter-American Legal Education. He co-chaired a meeting of the European Working Group draſting European Model Clauses for Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence, Erasmus University. He chaired a meeting of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Working Group to draſt [US] model contract clauses to protect human rights in international supply chains.
David Spratt published “The Art of Discovery: Part 2,” The Virginia Bar Association News Journal. Professor
Spratt was the primary speaker (along with Professor Heather Ridenour) at the Sixth Annual Legal Writing Workshop at WCL. The workshop is sponsored by Virginia CLE, the Virginia State Bar Section on Education of Lawyers, and the WCL Legal Rhetoric Program. Topics included grammar, writing strategies, organization, persuasive fact characterization, oral and written advocacy, and other best practices in legal writing.
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Spratt published “The Art of Discovery: Part 1,” Virginia Bar Association Journal. He presented “Deploying Effective Writing Strategies to Become a Five-Star Legal Writer” to the Department of Defense, with AUWCL Professor Heather Ridenour.
Brandon Weiss published “Corporate Consolidation of Rental Housing & the Case for
National Rent Stabilization,” Washington University Law Review. He was awarded the WCL Outstanding Service Award. He was quoted in the Washington Post article “Squatters have become a right-wing talking point. What to know about the rare practice.” He served as organizer and moderator for “Corporate Acquisition of Rental Housing & Public Policy Responses,” Section on Real Estate Transactions & Property Law Joint Program (co- sponsors: Community Economic Development Section, Clinical Legal Education Section, and State & Local Government Law Section), Association of American Law Schools, Annual Meeting. He was a panelist for “Corporate Landlords,” ABA Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law Section, online. He agreed to serve as the faculty advisor for a new Fair Housing Law Society on campus.
Weiss became chair of the AALS Real Estate Transactions Section. He was elected to a three-year term on the board of the Association of Law, Property, and Society (ALPS). He moderated the panel, “Evaluating Governance Strategies for
Housing,” Association of Law, Property, and Society, Annual Conference, University of Southampton, UK; was a panelist on “The Case for National Rent Stabilization & Tenant Protections,” The Future of Fair and Affordable Housing, Association of Law, Property, and Society, Annual Conference, University of Southampton, UK; and was a speaker at “Affirmatively Moving Beyond Shelley in Light of Major Questions,” Home is Where the Law Says: 75 Years of Shelley v. Kraemer, 2023 Kansas Law Review Symposium, Lawrence, Kansas. He worked with US Senator Jon Ossoff’s office on issues related to corporate acquisition of rental housing and helped draſt text related to the history of rent stabilization in the U.S. for a comment letter in response to a Request for Information (RFI) from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).
Steve Wermiel ’82 was interviewed for Sinclair broadcasting on Supreme Court
social media cases. He was a co-organizer, moderator, and panelist for the annual “On the Docket: Looking Ahead at the New Supreme Court Term” joint webinar with ABA Division for Public Education. He was a guest host for Chair Chat, ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice YouTube broadcast, interviewing Professor Geoffrey Stone on free speech. He also gave a lecture on the new Supreme Court term to Science & Technology Policy Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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