Custom-Tailored Law: When Statutory Interpretation Meets the Internal Revenue Code
Michelle M. Kwon, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee College of Law
"When it comes to statutory interpretation, the traditional approaches fail to consider how the laws being interpreted by the courts were actually made. Instead, they tend to presume a uniform lawmaking process. In reality, the lawmaking process tends to be highly variable, both among, and even within, different areas of law."
Legal Education: A New Growth Vision: Part III—The Path Forward: Being Both Human and Digital
HILARY G. ESCAJEDA, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF TAX LAW, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER STURM COLLEGE OF LAW
"In the decades ahead, innovative and status quo–breaking law schools will leverage and combine multidisciplinary, multigenerational human expertise with digital platform and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to create vibrant legal education ecosystems."
Legal Education: A New Growth Vision: Part II—The Groundwork: Building a Customer Satisfying Innovation Ecosystem
HILARY G. ESCAJEDA, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF TAX LAW, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER STURM COLLEGE OF LAW
"Financial sustainability awaits agile, future-focused legal education programs that deliver students with market-valued, cost-effective, and omnichannel knowledge and skills development solutions. Shifting from an atom-based, traditional law school mindset to a platform-based, human-artificial intelligence (AI) integrated education system requires vision, planning, and drive."
The Rule of Law: More Than Just a Law of Rules
Donald B. Verrilli Jr., Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson
"One can view the deep divisions in our legal culture, and one can view this confirmation battle, in partisan terms: Conservatives want one set of judicial outcomes, liberals want a different set of judicial outcomes and what we are witnessing is just a struggle about who is going to be in charge. All the rest is just posturing. But I think something deeper is going on."
Readdressing Nebraska ’s Misinterpreted Conscience Clause
Brenna M. Grasz, Recent Graduate, Nebraska College of Law
"By declining to interpret the Conscience Clause according to its plain language and by assigning a federal provision’s meaning to the Conscience Clause, the Nebraska Supreme Court rendered the text, history, and purpose of the clause meaningless."
Digital Platforms and the Leverage Problem
Patrick F. Todd, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
"This Article analyzes the historical origins and Chicago critique of the leverage doctrine and how these informed the development of antitrust policy."
Restorative Justice and Youth Offenders in Nebraska
Kristen M. Blankley, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska & Alisha Caldwell Jimenez, Restorative Justice Program Analyst for the Nebraska Supreme Court’s Office of Dispute Resolution
"This Article primarily serves as a case study for the recently implemented VYC program utilized in Nebraska for youth offenders both in schools and in the community."
The Dollar’s Deadly Laws That Cause Poverty and Destroy the Environment
Christopher P. Guzelian, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance and Economics, McCoy College of Business Administration, Texas State University
"This Article examines implications of these four legally entrenched aspects of the modern dollar—fiat money, legal tender, functional currency, and non-fiat money bans."
Showcase Panel I: What Is Regulation For?
Panelists: Richard Epstein, Philip Hamburger, Kathryn Kovacs, Jon D. Michaels, and Britt Grant
"There are robust debates, which we will experience first-hand here today about whether the administrative state . . . is a threat to liberty or a guarantor of liberty, whether the direction that the administrative state has gone is a turn away from its originally correct role . . . or is the inevitable fulfillment of the headless monster that is the fourth branch of government."
Showcase Panel III: The States and Administrative Law
Panelists: Nestor Davidson, Christopher Green, Miriam Seifter, Jeffrey Sutton, and Michael Scudder
"Our first panel this morning is titled 'The States and Administrative Law.' And we’ve assembled for you this morning what I consider to be a truly first-class group of panelists"