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Faculty in the News

Dean Adrien Wing participated in Expert Roundtable: Gender Justice, The Way Forward. The event is hosted by the Open Society Justice Initiative and co-convened by the American Society of International Law and the Malala Fund.

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
The Open Society Justice Initiative strives to ensure that the law, too often an instrument of power alone, is shaped and employed in the service of justice. The mission of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) is to foster the study of international law and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice

Dean Adrien Wing spoke on Distance Education linked to her role as a member of the ABA Council on the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar at the Arkansas Law Review Symposium

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
This was a part of the Arkansas Law Review Symposium on Embracing the Past, Enhancing the Future: Exploring the Evolution of Legal Education. Dean Wing proposed updates to the accreditation standards on distance/remote education.

Professor June Tai and Professor Dawn Anderson workshopped their article in progress tentatively titled, “Which Comes First? Integrating the Skill of Storytelling into the Process of Reflection” at the Clinical Law Review Workshop at NYU on Saturday.

Tuesday, October 1, 2024
The Clinical Law Review Writers’ Workshop provides an opportunity for clinical teachers who are writing about any subject (clinical pedagogy, substantive law, interdisciplinary analysis, empirical work, etc.) to meet with other clinicians writing on related topics to discuss their works-in-progress and brainstorm ideas for further development of their articles. Attendees meet in small groups organized (to the extent possible) by the subject matter in which they are writing. Each group will “workshop” the draft of each member of the group.

Iowa Law Welcomes Eight New Distinguished Faculty This Fall

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Iowa Law is pleased to welcome eight new distinguished faculty this fall. Iowa Law gains the unique expertise of Samantha Barbas, Bethany Berger, Lorraine Gaynor, Kate Melloy Goettel, Megan Graham, Jill Wieber Lens, Hope Metcalf, and James Toomey to the distinguished faculty this fall. New faculty's specialties range from defamation, federal Indian law, legal analysis, immigration law, technology law, reproductive justice, human rights law, and health law.

Iowa Law's Jill Wieber Lens gave a Constitution Day lecture at Grinnell college on September 17th

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Her lecture was titled "Reproductive Justice and Constitutional History." Jill Wieber Lens is an expert in reproductive justice law and focuses much of her work on stillbirth, pregnancy loss, and abortion rights.

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