Following is the most recent roundup of Wake Forest University School of Law’s faculty research, publications, presentations, honors and awards as of Aug. 23, 2016.
Megan Boone
Joined Wake Forest Law as Assistant Visiting Professor, July 2016
Jonathan Cardi
Collaborated with Virgil, a career navigation platform company, to launch Legal Skills Assessment and Portfolio (LSAP) for law students, alumni and employers; presented platform and demonstration with Virgil’s Ron Mitchell on Sept. 23, 2015
Received the Joseph Branch Excellence in Teaching Award; presented by Provost Rogan Kersh at the Founder’s Day Convocation on Feb. 18, 2016
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussions on Feb. 23, 2016
Appointed Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs as of July 1, 2016
Kami Chavis
Appointed Senior Academic Fellow for the Joint Center for political and Economic Studies
Authored the New York Times piece, “Police Technology Shouldn’t Replace Community Resources,” on Nov. 18, 2015
Participated in the Michigan Journal of Race and Law symposium, “Innocent Until Proven Poor,” in February 2016 at the University of Michigan School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and participated in the panel, “Cutting Edge Issues in Criminal Justice,” in the Stanford Journal of Criminal Law and Policy’s Third Annual Symposium in April at Stanford Law School
Organized Wake Forest Law Review’s symposium, “Implementing De-Incarnation Strategies: Policies and Practices to Reduce Crime and Mass Incarceration,” on April 1, 2016
Authored the article, “The Supreme Court Didn’t Fix racist Jury Selection,” in The Nation on May 31, 2016
Appointed Associate Dean for Research, Development and Outreach as of July 1, 2016
Christine Nero Coughlin
Co-moderated the Wake Forest Law Review fall 2015 symposium, “Revisiting Langdell: Legal Education Reform and the Lawyer’s Craft,” with Professor Harold Lloyd on Oct. 23, 2015
Co-authored “An Advocate Persuades” with Joan Malmud Rocklin, Sandy Patrick and Robert B. Rocklin, a follow-up to their textbook “A Lawyer Writes;” published December 2015
Participated in “1L of a Ride Video Teaching Series,” (Thompson-West, Spring 2016)
Published “E-Formed Consent: Can Informed Consent be just a Click Away?,” 50 Wake Forest Law Review 381, 2015
Presented, “Scholarship-Playing to Win the Book Proposal Game: Getting Your Idea Noticed and Your Book Published,” 17th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, July 10-13, 2016, Portland, Oregon
Luellen Curry
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussions on Feb. 23, 2016
Served as faculty judge for the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition at Albany School of Law on March 3-5, 2016 in Albany, New York
Michael Kent Curtis
Presented at the North Carolina Symposium on the Freedman’s Convention and the State Constitutional Convention of 1865 on Oct. 1, 2015 in Raleigh, North Carolina
Published Wake Forest Law Review article, “Using the Voting Rights Act to Discriminate: North Carolina’s Use of Racial Gerrymandering, Two Racial Quotas, Safe Harbors, Shields, and Inoculations to Undermine Multiracial Coalitions and Black Political Power;” May 2016
Published, “A Welcome Defeat for the North Carolina Legislature’s Effort to Hobble Black Voting,” in The Huffington Post on Aug. 2, 2016
Timothy Davis
Organized the Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law’s spring symposium, “The Big Business of the Big Game,” on Feb. 5, 2016
Co-authored book titled, “Sports Law: Governance and Regulation” with Matthew J. Mitten, Kenneth L. Shropshire, Barbara Osborne and Rodney K. Smith; February 2016
Served as Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from July 1, 2015-June 2016
Maureen Eggert
Served as faculty judge for the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition at Albany School of Law on March 3-5, 2016, in Albany, New York
Steve Garland
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Served as faculty judge for the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition at Albany School of Law on March 3-5, 2016, in Albany, New York
Ann Gibbs
Inducted as a Commnity Trustee following participation in “Leadership Winston-Salem Flagship Program” June 2016
Shannon Gilreath
Published, “Sexual Orientation and Identity: Political and Legal Analysis,” West Academic College Textbook Series, 2016
Lectured on, “Does the Constitution Deserve Our Fidelity: Lessons on Equality and Liberty,” per Provost Rogan Kersh’s invitation, for Wake Forest University’s Constitution Day, Sept. 17, 2015
Lectured at Harvard Law School, “Examining Critical Race Theory: Outsider Jurisprudence and HIV/AIDS—A Perspective on Desire and Power,” 2015
Jaya Gokhale
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Russell Gold
Joined Wake Forest Law as Legal Analysis, Writing and Research (LAWR) faculty member, July 2016
Laura Graham
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Served as team advisor to the Wake Forest Gabrielli Family Law Moot Court team that competed and reached the final four round at the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition at Albany School on March 3-5, 2016, in Albany, New York
Participated in several “Critiquing Workshops”at the 17th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, July 10-13, 2016, Portland, Oregon
Michael D. Green
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussion on Feb. 23, 2016
Heather Gram
Joined Wake Forest Law as Legal Analysis, Writing and Research (LAWR) faculty member, July 2016
Mark Hall
Named among the top law journal authors by HeinOnline; ranked No. 157 out of the top 250; November 2015
Served as the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale University, Fall 2015
Published “How Insurers Are Competing Under the Affordable Care Act,” 15 Hous. J. Health L. & Policy 17-41 (2015) and “Medicaid Expansion Costs in North Carolina: A Frank Discussion (Jan. 2016)” with Edwin Shoaf, J.D.
Presented, “Impact of Patient Cost-Sharing on Medical Decisions,” Harvard Medical School in November 2015
Organized a town hall, “Future of Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina,” panel of industry leaders at the Worrell Professional Center on Jan. 25, 2016
Beth Hopkins
Advised Wake Forest Law’s Pro Bono Project’s collaboration with WFU athletics to present “Know Your Rights,” as a part of the 2015 National Pro Bono Week activities, on Nov. 2, 2015, for which the Pro Bono Project received American Bar Association Day of Service Award from the Law Student Division; April 2016
Received the Martin Luther King Jr. “Dare to Make a Difference” Award in recognition of her efforts for human and civil rights at the 36th annual MLK Day Noon Commemoration on Jan. 18, 2016
Received the BLSA Legacy Award at the 31st annual Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Scholarship Banquet on Feb. 2, 2016
Announced retirement after more than 30 years in various roles at Wake Forest Law; April 2016
John Knox
Participated in the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, in December 2015, as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment
Presented his report, “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment,” on March 3, 2016, to the United Nations Human Rights Council, in the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
Called on governments to protect environmental and land rights defenders, including in the op/ed, “Protecting those who work to defend the environment is a human rights issue,” with fellow U.N. special rapporteurs Michel Forst and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, in The Guardian, on June 5, 2016
John Korzen
Argued in front of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the case of Town of Beech Mountain v. Genesis Wildlife Sanctuary Inc. on Nov. 4, 2015
Advised the winning Wake Forest National Moot Court Team at the Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia, and at the 66th annual National Moot Court Competition finals on Feb. 9-12, 2016, in New York, New Yoek
Appointed to represent Douglas Fauconier in the case of Fauconier v. Clarke in his appeal to the Fourth Circuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections; February 2016
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussions on Feb. 23, 2016
Barbara Lentz
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Presented a talk with Professor Andrew Verstein, “Shared Perspectives and Strategies in Course, Curriculum and Competency Exercise Design,” at Emory University Law School’s Fifth Biennial Conference on Teaching Transactional Law in June 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia
Published four short, online pieces, including “Cultivating Careful Listening and Community” (July 2016) for the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, where she has been reappointed as Contributing Faculty for another term, the only Wake Forest Law faculty member appointed to the institute
Served on the Reynolda House of American Art Museum’s National Advisory Council
Served as Senior Faculty Fellow
Harold Lloyd
Published Law’s “Way of Words:” Pragmatics and Textualist Error,” Creighton Law Review, Spring 2016
Spoke on “Law as a Trope: Framing and Evaluating Conceptual Metaphors” at Georgia State University College of Law
Led roundtable discussion at the 45th annual ICSC Conference on Oct. 30, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona
Co-moderated the Wake Forest Law Review fall 2015 symposium, “Revisiting Langdell: Legal Education Reform and the Lawyer’s Craft,” with Professor Chris Nero Coughlin on Oct. 23, 2015
Published multiple posts on The Huffington Post including, “McCrory’s House Bill 2: A Brief Outline of Its Five ‘Parts,’” which went viral with more than 17,000 likes
Participated in the 17th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, July 10-13, 2016, Portland, Oregon
Tanya Marsh
Published, “Disposition of Human Remains: A Legal Research Guide,” William S. Hein and Company, 2016
Published, “Corpse Disposition and the Law,” Columbia University Seminar of Death, Working Paper, 2016
Named Chair of the Association of American Law Schools, Section on Real Estate Transactions
Co-launched a new property section on Jotwell, “The Journal of Things We Like (Lots),” with Professor Donald Kochan of the Chapman University School of Law; Nov. 2015, and co-edited the first post, “Property Law, Law & Economics, and Means for Researching Distributive Goals,” by Ezra Rosser on Nov. 23, 2015, with Professor Donald Kochan
Participated in the panel discussion, “Accomplishing Sustainable, Innovative Urban Change” at the colloquium, “Designing for Life and Death: Sustainable Disposition and Spaces of Remembrance in the 21st Century Metropolis,” on April 1, 2016,d at Columbia University
Kate Mewhinney
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussions on Feb. 23, 2016
Attended the North Carolina Bar Association’s 20th Annual Elder and Special Needs Law Symposium, with Wake Forest Law’s Elder Law Clinic, on Feb. 25-26, 2016, in Pinehurst, North Carolina
Led Wake Forest Law’s Elder Law Clinic’s co-sponsorship of the “Aging Re-Imagined” symposium on March 2016 at Wake Forest University
Rebecca Morrow
Published, “Accelerating Depreciation in Recession,” Florida Tax Review, 2016
Presented, “Accelerating Depreciation in Recession,” at William and Mary School of Law on Oct. 22, 2015
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussions on Feb. 23, 2016
Chosen by graduating class as faculty speaker at the Wake Forest Law’s 42nd Hooding Ceremony on May 15, 2016
Ruth Morton
Joined Wake Forest Law as Legal Analysis, Writing and Research (LAWR) faculty member, July 2016
Ellen Murphy
Wrote and shared tips on mastering virtual classrooms in eBook, “Engagement that Works: Tips from Learning Solutions Thought Leaders,” published by the ELearning Guild, at the Learning Solutions Conference March 16-18, 2016
Launched part-time, online Master of Studies in Law (MSL) degree with focus on healthcare and human relations on March 4, 2016, as director of MSL
Authored, “Dispelling Myths about Online Learning,” on The Huffington Post blog on March 30, 2016
Led MSL Webinar Series, “Today’s Workplace Risks,” featuring Professor Steve Nickles and Tomi Bryan (JD ’89)
Alan Palmiter
Presented, “Reversing Course in U.S. Housing Segregation,” Wake Forest University, 2016
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Wendy Parker
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussions on Feb. 23, 2016
Participated in panel for Wake Forest University Theatre Department’s production of “Clyborne Park” on Nov. 7, 2015
Presented “Reversing Course in U.S. Housing Segregation” at Wake Forest University; February 2016
Wilson Parker
Participated in discussion with Professor Ronald Wright at Wake Forest Law’s Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society’s U.S. Supreme Court round-up on Oct. 13, 2015
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussions on Feb. 23, 2016
Served as president of Wake Forest University Faculty Senate (2015-16)
Gregory Parks
Co-edited book with Matthew W. Hughley, “12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today,” was arranged for a theatrical production, “12 Angry Men” and premiered on Oct. 15, 2015, at Kumble Theatre for the Performing Arts in Brooklyn, New York
Authored the Atlanta Journal Constitution article, “The Rise of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,” on Dec.7, 2015
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussions on Feb. 23, 2016
Promoted to associate professor of law, July 2016
Ralph Peeples
Coached the winning Wake Forest Law team at the inaugural NASCAR Negotiation Competition on Nov. 13-15, 2015, in Charlotte, North Carolina
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on November 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Abigail Purdue
Participated in “Studying Race and Human Community: Current Curricula Opportunities in the Humanities” panel discussions on Feb. 23, 2016
Selected as Co-Editor-in-Chief of “The Second Draft,” a publication of the Legal Writing Institute March 2016 and presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, July 10-13, 2016, Portland, Oregon
Co-presented, “Maximizing Student Potential by Cultivating a Spirit of Service,” at the New England Consortium of Legal Writing Professors Conference on Sept. 18, 2016, at Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts
Authored the article, “Legal Writing Matters: Bridging the Gap between Substance and Skill,” for Suffolk University Law School’s blog, The Road to 1L, on Dec. 25, 2015
Presented at the Sixth Annual Capital Area Legal Writers’ Conference on March 12, 2016, at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland
Presented at the Emroch Faculty Colloquy Series on March 25, 2016, at the University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond, Virginia
Mark Rabil
Participated in the Criminal Justice Program and the American Constitution Society’s co-hosted event, “Beyond Ferguson — Criminal Justice Reform for the 21st Century,” on Oct. 28, 2015
Participated on panel, “Human Dignity and the Death Penalty,” on Nov. 13, 2015, at Duke University
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Received award for Innocence and Justice Clinic being named Organization of the Year at Winston-Salem Chronicle’s 31st Annual Community Service Awards Gala on April 23, 2016
Spoke on “Peace Officer” panel with Professor Kami Chavis on May 11, 2016, at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Featured in new MTV docu-series, “Unlocking the Truth,” August 2016
Suzanne Reynolds
Named to the North Carolina Commission on the Administration of Law and Justice (NCCALJ) by North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin; September 2015
Participated in Pro Bono Project’s discussion, “Imporoving Access to Justice: A Call to Action,” on Oct. 27, 2015, as part of National Pro Bono Week
Offered three, one-hour Continuing Legal Education (CLE) ethics courses entitles, “The ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services,” in participation with the North Carolina Bar Association in February 2016 in Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Raleigh
Served as faculty judge for the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition at Albany School of Law on March 3-5, 2016, in Albany, New York
Received Community Service Award at the Winston-Salem Chronicle’s 31st Annual Community Service Awards Gala on April 23, 2016, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Charley Rose
Served as team adviser to the winning Wake Forest National Moot Court Team at the Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Simone Rose
Appointed as the first associate dean for innovation and entrepreneurship, July 2016
Richard Schneider
Participated in ‘Studying Race and Human Community’ panel on Feb. 23, 2016
Organized and wrote mock trial hearing in which U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participated in as part of a series of events hosted by Compagnia de’ Colombari and Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice, which was featured in The New York Times, July 2016
Sidney Shapiro
Named 19th most-cited administrative law faculty member from 2010 to 2014 in Brian Leiter’s law school report on Law Professor Blogs Network on May 24, 2016
Testified in front of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Sept. 16, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
Participated in the American Bar Association’s panel, “The State of the Information Quality Act Teleforum,” presented by the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice on Feb. 26, 2016
Participated in the Administrative Conference of the United States’ forum, “Regulatory Capture in the 21st Century,” on March 3, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
Co-authored the Charlotte Observer article, “How a hidden clause helps banks and others rip you off,” with Martha McCluskey on May 12, 2016
Omari Scott Simmons
Served as Committee Chair of the Wake Forest Law Curriculum Committee
Inducted into the MERIT Hall of Fame for his efforts advancing higher education opportunity in Southern Delaware on June 6, 2015, in a ceremony at the Seaford Boys & Girls Club in Seaford, Delaware
Published Delaware’s Global Threat, J. Corp L, 2015
Gave keynote address at the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) Director’s 31st Annual Association Conference on Dec. 4, 2015, in Norwood, Massachusetts
Organized new Learn@Lunch series, presented by the Business Law Program, during 2015-16 academic year
Received Community Service Award at the Winston-Salem Chronicle’s 31st Annual Community Service Awards Gala on April 23, 2016
Margaret Taylor
Authored Iowa Law Review Online article, “Midnight Agency Adjudication: Attorney General Review of Board of Immigration Appeals Decisions”
Served as faculty judge for the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition at Albany School of Law on March 3-5, 2016, in Albany, New York
Invited to respond to Hon. Alberto R. Gonzales & Patrick Glen, Advancing Executive Branch Immigration Policy Through the Attorney General’s Review Authority. Forthcoming in Iowa Law Review, 2016
Presented Biannual presentation to the Committee on Federal State Jurisdiction, Judicial Conference of the United States, Seattle, Washington, 2015
Andrew Verstein
Published “The First Insider Trader in Commodities” on the Harvard Law School Forum on Dec. 4, 2015
Created partnership with UIBE School of Law in Beijing, China, on behalf of Wake Forest Law
Presented paper at 26th annual American Law and Economics Association meeting at Harvard Law on May 24, 2016
Gave lecture on national security and corporate law at Dartmouth’s Political Economy Project on May 26, 2016
Presented paper on insurance law and risk at Boston College Law on June 9, 2016
Promoted to associate professor of law, July 2016
Steve Virgil
Appointed to board of directors at the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship on March 14, 2016
Created with Austin Thompson (JD ‘17) Nano Startup Challenge in Cancer on March 21, 2016
Hosted “The Law of Raising Money” at Flywheel on April 20, 2016
Launched Veterans Legal Clinic on Oct. 19, 2015
George Walker
Served as faculty judge for the Domenick L. Gabrielli National Family Law Moot Court Competition at Albany School of Law on March 3-5, 2016, in Albany, New York
Moderated “Rising Seas, Baseline Issues” panel discussion at annual ABILA meeting on Nov. 7, 2015
Ronald Wright
Named among 20 most cited criminal law and procedure faculty on June 1, 2016
Received grant along with Wake Forest Assisant Economics Professor Francis Flanagan for $112,000 in support of their project, “Do Peremptory Challenges Increase Bias on Juries?,” July 2016
Casebook cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Betterman v. Montana decision on May 19, 2016
Served as faculty judge for National Moot Court Region IV Tournament on Nov. 21, 2015, in Richmond, Virginia
Joined U.S. Sentencing Commission expert roundtable in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 22, 2015 as well asa new think tank to train, study prosecutors
Provided commentary about upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions at Wake Forest Law’s Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society U.S. Supreme Court round up on Oct. 13, 2015