• Published the article “Originalist Arguments in Free Speech History” in the Texas A&M Law Review. 

• Her book Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan was translated into Korean and featured in Chosun Daily. 

• Signed a contract with the University of California Press for her book Into the Vortex: Public Figures and the Making of the Free Press.  

• Received an Arts and Humanities Initiative Program grant for her book Into the Vortex: Public Figures and the Making of the Free Press.  

• Filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara, co‑authored with Standford Law professor Gregory Ablavsky. 

Jonathan C. Carlson, Victor and Carol Alvarez Fellow in Law

• Accepted for publication, Article 17: Amendment of the Convention.  In A. Quintavalla, & L. Reins (Eds.), The Basel Convention:  A Commentary on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal  Edward Elgar.

• Authored Iowa chapter for the American Bar Association's 2028 edition of its Franchise Desk Book.

• Co‑edited and published symposium papers from Governing Data in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology.

• Published, "Information About Data," 28 Yale Journal of Law & Technology 238 (2026)
• Published, "Deepest Fakes," 94 George Washington Law Review (2026)
• Accepted for publication, "Side-Channel Compliance," 52 Journal of Corporation Law (forthcoming 2026)
• Accepted for publication, "Of Crime and Men," 2026 Utah Law Review (forthcoming)
• Accepted for publication, "The Corporate Artifact," 77 Alabama Law Review (forthcoming 2026)

• Accepted for publication, "The Redemptive Grammar of Bankruptcy Law," forthcoming in Iowa Law Review (2026).

• Co-authored "Toxic Autonomy," forthcoming in Harv. J. L. & Tech. (2026) with Joseph W. Yockey (invited submission).

• "Opt-In, Opt-Out, and the Illusion of Consent: Lessons from Privacy Law for Third-Party Releases in Chapter 11," 46 No. 1 Bankr. L. Letter (2026) (invited submission).

• Boom and bust in Puerto Rico: how politics destroyed an economic miracle. A. W. Maldonado Publius: The Journal of Federalism (2026) (invited book review).

• Filed a Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of herself and seven other law professors around the country in United States v. Chatrie. The case is about geofence warrants and surveillance technologies.  

• Published a response essay and round-table discussion related to her book Stillbirth & the Law in Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc. 

• Published the article “Perinatal Palliative Care & Abortion,” co‑authored with Georgia State University’s Alison Whelan, forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. 

• Published the article “Putting the L in ELSI: legal methods for bioethics research,” in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, co-authored with Don Ford and Amy Koopmann from the Law Library. 

• Published the article “Understanding GINA through case examples: A guide for US-based genetic counselors,” in the Journal of Genetic Counseling. 

• Published the article “Genetic information in insurance: Guiding questions from state regulation” in the journal Science. 

• Published the article “Distinguishing social and medical traits: perspectives of scientists using polygenic scores,” in the Journal of Community Genetics. 

• Published the article “Tele-AI-matic Privacy” in the Insurance Law Journal.   

• Accepted for publicaion, the article “‘In All Fairness and Justice’: What Government Owes Private Property,” accepted for publication by the Florida State University Law Review (forthcoming 2026). 

• Signed a book contract with the University of California Press for A Baseline of Decency: The Promise and Power of Alt‑Labor and Worker Centers (forthcoming 2027). 

• Published “Deepest Fakes,” in George Washington Law Review with Professor Mihailis Diamantis of Iowa Law and Assistant Professor Eli Alshanetsk of Temple University.  

• Accepted for publication, the article “Legal Personal Identity,” Northwestern University Law Review (forthcoming 2027). 

• Accepted for publication, the article “Parents as Liberal Fiduciaries,” Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2027). 

• Accepted for publication, the article “Dynamic Guardianship,” Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 2027). 

• Published the chapter “Human Rights, COVID, and Global Critical Race Feminism,” in Race, Racism and International Law 173 (Devon W. Carbado, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Justin Desautels-Stein, and Chantal Thomas eds., Stanford, 2025). 

• Published the chapter “The Woman in International Law: Centering Global Critical Race Feminism,” in the Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law 19 (J. Jarpa Dawuni, Nienke Grossman, Jaya Ramji Nogales, and Helene Ruiz-Fabri eds., Oxford, 2025). 

• Accepted for publication, a prologue in Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries (Mohsen al Attar & Claire Smith eds., Oxford, forthcoming 2026). 

• Accepted for publication, the chapter “America 2050: Lessons from Apartheid,” in Global Systemic Racism (David Oppenheimer, Kirsten Barnes eds., Springer, forthcoming 2026) (with Caroline Pappalardo). 

• Published the article “Scholarly Portability in the Age of AI,” Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (2026). 

• Published the article "Governing Toxic Data," Yale Journal of Law & Technology (2026) with Diane Lourdes Dick. 

• Accepted for publication, the article “Algorithmic Tenure,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy (forthcoming 2026). 

• Elected to the Executive Committee of the Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies.  

• Co-chair of the Sports Lawyers Association 2026 Fall Symposium Planning Committee. 

• Awarded the Compass Award (known until recently as the Mentorship Award) from the AALS Externships Committee. 

• Appointed to the Frederick Douglass Collective Council of Academic Advisors. 

• Awarded the Goler T. Butcher Medal by the American Society of International Law (ASIL) for her longstanding commitment to international human rights during its 120^th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. 

• Interviewed on the Legal AF podcast about her book Actual Malice. 

• Her book was discussed in The New York Times’ “The Docket” by Adam Liptak. 

• Coverage by NBC News, The New York Times, and the Indianz.com podcast regarding the amicus brief she co-authored on birthright citizenship. 

• Interviewed on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River to talk about pending Supreme Court case and filed amicus brief. 

• Interviewed for “Bourbon, Monet, and Tax Credits Find a Niche Market in Bankruptcy” in Bloomberg Law.  

Mihailis Diamantis, Ben V. Willie Professor in Excellence

• Interviewed by American Bar Association concerning new class using Magic the Gathering to teach textual interpretation

• Appeared on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River to discuss rural indigent defense and legal deserts. 

• Interviewed on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River about the U.S. Supreme Court's recent stay in a case concerning the FDA's allowing mifepristone to be prescribed via telehealth. 

• Interviewed on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River regarding the Obermann symposium Cultivating Rurality and rural justice research. 

• Interviews and coverage of her clinic’s case representing a UI professor challenging his cancelled citizenship oath in The Daily Iowan, The Press-Citizen, The Cedar Rapids Gazette, and Little Village.  

• Interviewed by the Des Moines Register for “Pregnant, homeless Des Moines asylum seeker sues Homeland Security;” "U.S. attorney pursues effort to deport Bolivian asylum seeker to Congo;” and "Federal judge slams ICE agents for unlawful arrest of Iowa City man.”  

• Several media outlets covered the filing of the amicus brief she wrote on behalf of herself and seven other law professors around the country. 

• Submitted a letter in Support of Amending Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 15, Rules Suggestion 26-CR-15. 

• Interviewed on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River to talk about pending Supreme Court case and filed amicus brief.  

• Interviewed on KCCI Iowa news about the plea agreement by Ian Roberts, former Des Moines School Superintendent and next steps in the federal criminal process.  

• Submitted written testimony before the U.S. Sentencing Commission on the proposed amendments to U.S.S.G. § 3E1.2. 

• Submitted a letter in Support of Amending Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 15, Rules Suggestion 26-CR-15. 

• Quoted and appeared on CBS2 Iowa news discussing judicial findings in the Schleier first-degree murder case. 

• Presented on AI and legal pedagogy at the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference. 

• Spoke at an event called "Was Gorsuch Wrong" at a Dialogue Vanderbilt forum at Vanderbilt University's NYC campus.  

• Presented work on hate speech law history to the Constitutional Law Workshop at the University of Chicago.  

Bethany Berger, Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law 

• Bethany Berger present, "Sovereignty and Immigration Issues," at the Cornell Indigenous Law Summit. 

• Keynote at the Center of Art Law’s Legacy and Estate Clinic in Brooklyn, New York.  

• Keynote at the Iowa Conservation and Preservation Consortium's 2026 Save Our Stuff Conference in Moline, Illinois.  

Mihailis Diamantis, Ben V. Willie Professor in Excellence

• Presented AI Wardens, Seminar: AI and the Law, Michigan State University.
• Presented Legalist Personhood, Congress on the Metaphysics of Law, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• Presented Of Crime and Men, Faculty Speaker Series, Michigan State University.
• Presented AI Wardens, When AI Acts, Harvard Law School.
• Presented AI Wardens, Seminar: AI and the Law, University of North Carolina School of Law.
• Presented Of Crime and Men, Markelloquium, University of Pennsylvania Carrey Law School.
• Presented Of Crime and Men, Iowa Faculty Speaker Series, University of Iowa College of Law.

• Co-organized the symposium When AI Acts: Law for the Agentic Future at Harvard Law School. 

• Spoke at multiple academic and public forums, including undergraduate courses on international law and the International Access to Justice Forum. 

• Guest lectured on international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and international criminal law for the undergraduate course titled Accountability, War Crimes, & Justice.  

• Co-organized the Obermann Symposium on Cultivating Rurality.  

• Moderated a panel discussion for the American Immigration Lawyers Association titled The Federal Tort Claims Act: Emerging Trends.  

• Presented a CLE program titled Habeas Law 101 at the American Immigration Lawyers Association Midwest Regional Conference. 

• Presented a CLE webinar for the National Immigration Project on mandamus litigation, The Complaint is Filed, Service is Perfected, What’s Next?

• Presented a CLE webinar for the National Immigration Project titled Habeas Corpus: Foundations and Fundamentals.

• Presented at the AALS Clinical Conference in Portland, Oregon on a session titled Immigration Clinics in Federal Court.

• Delivered presentations to public defenders nationwide on litigating pervasive surveillance to public defenders in Missouri, Nevada, and Wisconsin. 

• Spoke during webinars hosted by federal courts and bar associations. 

• Presented Trends and Developments in Supervised Release, Criminal Defense Coalition and Federal Criminal Defense Clinic at Iowa Law, Iowa City. 

• Presented Trends and Developments in Supervised Release, Northern District of California 2026 District Judicial Conference in Sonoma, California. 

• Presented Watch What You Say: Witness Prep, Court Candor, and Negotiation at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, Fourth Annual Criminal Law Conference at the federal criminal law CLE in the Eastern District of Washington. 

• Presented The Ethics of Vouching: Rules Governing Comments on Evidence Credibility in Houston, Texas for the Administrative Office of the Courts, Office of Defender Services.  

• Presented The Ethics of Vouching: Rules Governing Comments on Evidence Credibility, Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers in Des Moines.  

• Presented a chapter from her book Stillbirth as a Crime at Seton Hall Law School.  

• Guest lectured Motherhood & the Law class at Georgetown University Law Center.  

• Gave a talk on her book Stillbirth & the Law to the Maternal and Child Health Student Interest Group at the UI College of Public Health. 

• Spoke at First Round in Iowa City about the rapidly changing world of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) in college athletics. 

• Served as a panelist during Greater Iowa City, Inc.'s recent Entrepreneurial Lunch program, Turning Pressure Into Performance at MERGE in downtown Iowa City. 

• Presented on U.S. labor and employment law at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile. 

• Served as a panelist at the Kenneth M. Piper Memorial Lecture in Labor Law. 

• Presented his works in progress, "Expertise, Embeddedness, and Power: The Administrative State after Trump," at the AALS Annual Meetings in New Orleans. 

• Presented his book manuscript, "A Baseline of Decency," at the University of Buffalo's Baldy Center and was part of their Distinguished Speakers. He also participated in a podcast about the book, and in a socio-legal seminar for students. 

• Co-organized the Obermann Symposium on Cultivating Rurality.  

•  Presented a draft of "The Unexpected Problem of Competence and the Decline of the Rural Practice Ecosystem" at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School State and Local Courts Workshop. 

• Moderated and presented on the 23andMe bankruptcy at national and international symposia, including events hosted by George Washington University Law School and the Genetic Discrimination Observatory. 

• Presented Why do Judges Cite Themselves at the Works in Progress in Intellectual Property conference. 

• Presented "Human Mistakes," co-authored with Christina Grzybowski, Nicholas Johnson, Timothy Murphy, and Caleb Stork, at The Patent Conference. 

• Co-Presenter, The Current State of Climate Regulation: Revisiting the Endangerment Finding, Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative. 

• Presented, “In All Fairness and Justice”: What Government Owes Private Property in a Time of Climate Disruption, Tenth Annual SRP Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. The paper will be published by the Florida State University Law Review this fall. 

• Presented on AI and legal pedagogy at the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference. 

• Presented Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholars research project at the SoTL Institute poster session.  

• Panelist for Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: Storytelling in the Legal Profession at the Annual Meeting of Law School Diversity Professionals. 

• Presented Externship Supervision and Introduction to CLEA, AALS & Finding Your Community during a workshop for new law school teachers and presented Holding the Line: Assessing the Strength of The Clinical Community with Sara Boonin of Suffolk University during the AALS Conference on Clinical Education.  

• Presented Zombies, AI, and the "Objective" Theory of Contracts at When AI Acts: Law for the Agentic Future at Harvard Law School. 

• Presented Privately-Crafted Obligations, 78 Fla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) at the first Berkeley/Texas/Toronto/Yale Private Law Junior Faculty Forum to be held at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. 

• Keynote and panel presentations at international law conferences, including the LATCRIT 30th Anniversary Conference. 

• Spoke at a festschrift at the University of Pretoria in honor of NY Law School professor Penny Andrews. Her title was Constitutions, Gender, Minority, and Indigenous Rights: Future Directions.

•  Keynote, Women in International Law: Past, Present & Future at Loyola-Chicago Law School.  

• Co-organized the symposium When AI Acts: Law for the Agentic Future at Harvard Law School.