Iowa Law is proud of the work of its faculty. With varied backgrounds and specializations, they've shared their expertise beyond their work in the classroom for an accomplished fall semester.

Below are some of their appointments, awards, books, publications, and presentations, from full-time and visiting faculty, that occurred from August to December 2025. 

Learn more about faculty and scholarship at Iowa Law.

Articles and books

Peter C. Alexander, Visiting Instructor

• Article titled “Bankruptcy in America: The Poor Need Not Apply” to be published in the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice in spring 2026.

Samantha Barbas, Aliber Family Chair in Law

• Published an essay titled “History Explains Why the U.S. Doesn't Ban Hate Speech” in TIME.

Bethany Berger, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

• Published an editorial titled “A soldier’s Iowa burial was blocked over race. A stand for equality came next” in the Des Moines Register.
• Co-authored article titled “‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’: The Indian Law Context” published in NYU Law Review.
• Review of an article published in Jotwell.
• Publication of the 9th edition of the casebook Property Law: Rules & Practices, with co-authors.

Stella Burch Elias, Bouma Family Fellow

• Article titled “Immigration Enforcement in the Second Trump Administration” will be published in the St. Louis Law Journal in spring 2026. Presented as part of the 2025 Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture series at St. Louis University.
• Article titled “Immigration Federalism in the Second Trump Administration” published in the Idaho Law Review.

Brian Farrell, Associate Professor of Instruction

• Articles “One Crisis or Two Problems? Disentangling Rural Access to Justice” and “The Rural Attorney Shortage” discussed in Harvard University’s The Practice.
• Published a book review in Rural Sociology.

Jill Wieber Lens, Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence

• Published an article titled “Fetal Value & the Pregnant Person’s Right” in the UC-Davis Law Review Online and spoke at UC-Davis Law Review Symposium.

César F. Rosado Marzán, Edward L. Carmody Professor of Law

• Book review published in English, Spanish, and French by the International Labor Review.

Daria Fisher Page, Clinical Professor

• Articles “One Crisis or Two Problems? Disentangling Rural Access to Justice” and “The Rural Attorney Shortage” discussed in Harvard University’s The Practice.

Stephanie Patridge, Visiting Professor

• Signed a book contract with Oxford University Press.

Anya Prince, Joseph F. Rosenfield Fellow in Law

• Article titled “The precarious future of consumer genetic privacy” published in Science.

Appointments and awards

Megan Graham, Clinical Associate Professor

• Appointed to the Iowa Judicial Branch AI Working Group.

Alison K. Guernsey, Herschel G. Langdon Clinical Professor of Trial Advocacy

• Appointed to the Academic Advisory Board for the U.S. Supreme Court's Fellows Program.

James Toomey, Associate Professor

• Recipient of the 2026 AALS Aging and Law Section's Emerging Scholar Award.

Media interviews and court citations

Samantha Barbas, Aliber Family Chair in Law

• Quoted in Miami Herald: “Trump v. Jimmy Kimmel: Is Free Speech On the Ropes?”
• Appeared on CNN en Español to discuss freedom of speech in America.
• Research discussed in Foreign Affairs: “Who Has Free Speech?”
• Cited by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Alan Dershowitz v. CNN.
• Interviewed on NPR’s Code Switch podcast.
• Appeared on BBC Radio to discuss President Trump's defamation lawsuit against the BBC.

Bram Elias, Clinical Professor

• Interview on IPR’s River to River about the crowd outside the Cedar Rapids ICE office.

Brian Farrell, Associate Professor of Instruction

• Interview on IPR’s River to River about rural areas struggling to attract lawyers.

Megan Graham, Clinical Associate Professor

• Interview on IPR’s River to River on AI and surveillance cameras.
• Media coverage for ACLU and Iowa Law Technology Clinic report on automated license plate readers.

Jill Wieber Lens, Dorothy M. Willie Professor in Excellence

• Cited in Second Circuit opinion Ozturk v. Hyde.

Anya Prince, Joseph F. Rosenfield Fellow in Law

• Interviewed on RadioIowa about the 23andMe bankruptcy.
• Interviewed by Law360 regarding Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act cases.
• Appeared on the Critically Speaking podcast regarding the dangers of DTC genetic testing.

Presentations

Dawn Barker Anderson, Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research

• CLE presentation titled “Effective Legal Writing: Tools and Strategies for Today’s Professionals” to lawyers insured by Minnesota Lawyers Mutual.

Robert M. Andersen, Visiting Instructor

• Presentation titled “Antarctica: Law, Science, and the Environment, A Personal Journey 1986 to Present” to Environmental and International Law Societies at Iowa Law.

Samantha Barbas, Aliber Family Chair in Law

• Presented Amicus Curiae lecture at Marshall University on New York Times v. Sullivan.
• Spoke on panel “Power, Opinion, and Containment: New Looks at Race and the Law in the 20th Century” at the American Society for Legal History conference.

Bethany Berger, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

• Spoke at the BYU Law Review Citizenship Symposium.

Diane Lourdes Dick, Charles E. Floete Distinguished Professor of Law

• Presented articles at the University of Chicago conference and participated in a Harvard workshop as an invited commentator.

Stella Burch Elias, Bouma Family Fellow

• Served as senior scholar/commentator at the Seventh Annual Equality Scholars Conference.
• Presented as part of the 2025 Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture series at St. Louis University.

Brian Farrell, Associate Professor of Instruction

• Spoke and moderated during the International Access to Justice Forum at NYU Law and Fordham Law.
• Participated in the annual Law & Rurality Workshop organized by the Rural Reconciliation Project at Nebraska Law. 

Lorraine Gaynor, Assistant Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research

• Presented “From Legal Aid Practice to Legal Writing Classroom: In-class exercise ideas” at the 2025 Central States Legal Writing Conference.

Kate Melloy Goettel, Clinical Associate Professor

• Gave Constitution Day Lecture titled “Constitutional Promises and Immigration Realities in Modern America” at Simpson College.

Megan Graham, Clinical Associate Professor

• Spoke during webinar on AI in the federal judiciary hosted by U.S. District Courts and Iowa State Bar Association.

Alison K. Guernsey, Herschel G. Langdon Clinical Professor of Trial Advocacy

• Spoke on the panel "Second Look Sentencing Practices and Practicalities" during a conference hosted by Stanford Law Criminal Justice Center, The Ohio State University Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, and the Federal Sentencing Report.
• Spoke on the panel, "How Academic Institutions and Law Clinics Support Second Look," during FAMM’s Second Chances Working Group conference in Minneapolis. 

César F. Rosado Marzán, Edward L. Carmody Professor of Law

• Presented at the Communication Workers of America 2025 Dennis Serrette Leadership Institute.
• Spoke at the 19th Annual Labor & Employment Law Conference in Denver.

Dan Matheson, Adjunct Instructor and Professor of Instruction

• Moderated a webinar for the Sports Lawyers Association.

Daria Fisher Page, Clinical Professor

• Spoke and moderated during the International Access to Justice Forum at NYU Law and Fordham Law.
• Participated in the annual Law & Rurality Workshop organized by the Rural Reconciliation Project at Nebraska Law. 

Anya Prince, Joseph F. Rosenfield Fellow in Law

• Moderated a panel on the 23andMe bankruptcy.
• Testified before the National Council of Insurance Legislators regarding the model law on Life Insurers' Use of Genetic Information.
• Presented on the 23andMe bankruptcy during a virtual conference of the Genetic Discrimination Observatory.

Shannon Roesler, Charlotte and Frederick Hubbell Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Law

• Presented on changes to energy policy at the University of Utah.
• Presentation on Trump v. Slaughter for the Supreme Court Preview.

Caroline Sheerin, Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research

• Presented “Office Hours in the Age of AI” at the Central State Legal Writing Conference at Northwestern University Law School.

Paul Thelen, Adjunct Instructor and Director of the Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center

• Partnered with the Iowa State Bar Association to present CLEs focused on nonprofit law.

James Toomey, Associate Professor

• Presented co-edited volume Reinach and the Foundations of Private Law at Harvard Law School through Harvard's Project on the Foundations of Private Law.

Carissa Vogel, Director of the Iowa Law Library and Professor of Instruction

• The Law Library hosted a series of events from October 1–4, including a symposium and professional organization events.

Adrien Wing, Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs

• Spoke at the 30th anniversary LATCRIT conference on multiple panels, including “Law & Society over the next 30 years” and “Civilization, International Law, World Orders.”

Joseph Yockey, F. Arnold Daum Chair in Corporate Law

• Presented paper titled “Algorithmic Tenure” at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
• Presented articles at the University of Chicago conference and participated in a Harvard workshop as an invited commentator.