S.J. Quinney College of Law Events and Webinars

College of Law to host FTC Commissioner and Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust for discussion on consumer welfare This event will take place on Monday, April 10 between 12:00-2:30 pm and is titled Do Consumers Still Reign Supreme in the Antitrust Hierarchy? How Antitrust Can Promote the Interests of Workers and Other Stakeholders in the Economy. The keynote speakers are FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya and Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter. Since the embrace of antitrust's consumer welfare standard in the 1980s, the welfare of workers has been neglected, and the focus of antitrust policy has been solely the welfare of consumers. As a result, antitrust policy has tolerated wage-fixing conspiracies that should be per se illegal based on weak procompetitive assertions. Promised layoffs following mergers have often been considered “efficiencies.” Moreover, up until recently, antitrust agencies have not addressed employment non-compete agreements. These agreements have proliferated, and challenges to non-competes have had unpredictable outcomes under conflicting state laws. But things are starting to change. In 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) blocked a merger in the book publishing industry based entirely around a theory of writer (worker) harm. The DOJ also pursued and secured criminal charges against a manager of a company for entering a no-poach agreement with a rival to not raise the wages of nurses working in the Clark County School District and to not hire nurses from each other. Not to be left out, in January 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a rule that would ban all post-employment non-compete agreements. The University of Utah has been at the vanguard of this burgeoning movement to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement. In 2019, the University of Utah Department of Economics, led by Professors Mark Glick and Marshall Steinbaum, organized a conference entitled “A New Future for Antitrust.” The conference developed a set of principles for the reform and refocusing of antitrust law in the era of “big tech” entitled “The Utah Statement.” Building from that foundation, in October 2022, the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, working in conjunction with the University of Utah Department of Economics and the Antitrust Section of the Utah Bar, held a symposium titled “The New Roaring Twenties: The Progressive Agenda for Antitrust and Consumer Protection Law.” FTC Chair Lina Khan was the keynote speaker. A new interdisciplinary center was hatched, called the Utah Project, dedicated to the study of antitrust and consumer protection law in the College of Social and Behavioral Science. And to inaugurate its annual Spring Forum, the Utah Project welcomes two antitrust leaders to deliver keynotes: FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya and Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter. Both speakers will address important topics at the intersection of labor and antitrust. A panel of economic and legal experts will follow, and will be joined by the two keynotes. For more details or the register for the event please visit the event webpage. This event is free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the Utah Project, the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah Department of Economics, and the Antitrust Section of the Utah Bar.  Financial support for the Utah Project has been provided by the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Economic Security Project. This episode was originally recorded and broadcast April 11, 2023

A Stegner Center and Tanner Humanities Center PresentationEVENT DESCRIPTION: Author Anne E. Palmer unearths a treasure-trove of Wallace Stegner's unseen letters, revealing how our Center's prolific namesake dealt with being broke and lonely, building comradery and a sense of purpose at the U of U. Free lunch for attendees who RSVP for in-person attendance.   Anne E. Palmer, Ed.D. is author of Years of Promise, the University of Utah's A. Ray Olpin Years (1946-1964) and founding director of the University of Utah Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.  At Stanford University, she directs the Aspen Rising Presidential Fellowship at the Graduate School of Education and conducts academic oral histories.  She holds a master's of public administration from the University of Utah and a doctorate in education from the University College London.  Her doctoral thesis on academic foundations of the United States Peace Corps was written at the University of Utah American West Center.  Wallace Stegner lived with her great-grandparents in Salt Lake City while he attended East High School and the University of Utah.      ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Anne E. Palmer, Ed.D. is author of Years of Promise, the University of Utah's A. Ray Olpin Years (1946-1964) and founding director of the University of Utah Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.  At Stanford University, she directs the Aspen Rising Presidential Fellowship at the Graduate School of Education and conducts academic oral histories.  She holds a master's of public administration from the University of Utah and a doctorate in education from the University College London.  Her doctoral thesis on academic foundations of the United States Peace Corps was written at the University of Utah American West Center.  Wallace Stegner lived with her great-grandparents in Salt Lake City while he attended East High School and the University of Utah.      This event is sponsored by the Wallace Stegner Center, the Tanner Humanities Center, and the Cultural Vision Fund. This episode was originally broadcast and recorded April 11, 2023

A Wallace Stegner Center Green BagEVENT DESCRIPTION: Designated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict between ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states' rights advocates, and Native American activists. In this volume, Andrew Gulliford synthesizes 11,000 years of the region's history to illuminate what's truly at stake in this conflict and distills this geography as a place of refuge and resistance for Native Americans who seek to preserve their ancestral homes, and for the descendants of Mormon families who arrived by wagon train in 1880. Gulliford's engaging narrative explains prehistoric Pueblo villages and cliff dwellings, Navajo and Ute history, impacts of the Atomic Age, uranium mining, and the pothunting and looting of Native graves that inspired the passage of the Antiquities Act over a century ago. The book describes how the national monument came about and its deep significance to five native tribes. Bears Ears National Monument is a bellwether for public land issues in the American West. Its recognition will be a relevant topic for years to come. The University of Utah Press will join us in person to sell Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance and Andrew Guilliford will be happy to sign books after his presentation. Bears Ears is also available for purchase online at the University of Utah press. Andrew Gulliford is a professor of history and Environmental Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado where he has been awarded the Roger Peters Distinguished Faculty Award for teaching, research and service. Gulliford teaches popular courses on wilderness, national parks, Western history, and environmental history. He is the author of America's Country Schools, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions, and Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, which won the Colorado Book Award.  He edited Preserving Western History, which was voted one of the best books on the Southwest by the Tucson-Pima County Library. His book Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology won the Arizona/New Mexico Book Award in the category of nature/ environment and Best Book on Arizona, as well as the Colorado Book Award for best anthology. Gulliford edited The Last Stand of the Pack: A Critical Edition, about wolves in Colorado, which was published by the University Press of Colorado. His book The Woolly West: Colorado's Hidden History of Sheepscapes, published by Texas A&M University Press, was chosen the Outstanding Nonfiction winner for the 2019 Wrangler Western Heritage Awards sponsored by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. It also won the Colorado Book Award for history. His latest book is Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance from the University of Utah Press. Dr. Gulliford has received the National Individual Volunteer Award from the U.S. Forest Service for wilderness education, and a certificate of recognition from the Secretary of Agriculture for “outstanding contributions to America's natural and cultural resources.” For a decade he held a federal appointment to the Southwest Colorado Resources Advisory Council of the Bureau of Land Management. Gulliford writes columns about the Southwest for the Durango Herald, the Cortez Journal, and the San Juan Record (Monticello, Utah) and he appears in history programs for “The Colorado Experience” television series produced by Rocky Mountain PBS. This episode was originally broadcast and recorded on April 6, 2023.

A Wallace Stegner Center Event EVENT DESCRIPTION: Understanding the foundational principles of Western Water Law is critical to solving today's complicated and nuanced water questions. This presentation will go over the basic functions of Western Water Law, highlight means and ways the Prior Appropriation Doctrine can be manipulated to address contemporary conditions, and emphasize that working within the doctrine is the most effective way to solve pressing and acute water problems. Free lunch for attendees who RSVP for in-person attendance. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: ctor and Shareholder, Co-Chair of Natural Resources & Water Law Practice Group with Clyde Snow & Sessions Ms. Lewis assists clients in navigating complex water problems. She advises individual water right owners, water conservancy districts, municipalities, mining companies, and mutual shareholder irrigation companies. Her strategic projects practice extends to innovative policy work and specialty project management. She presently acts as the Utah Water Banking Project Manager and hosts Ripple Effect – A Podcast Putting Water in Context. Utah Water Lecture Series With support from the National Audubon Society, the Wallace Stegner Center is hosting a four-part Utah Water Lecture Series, which will include presentations on Utah water law, Colorado River system management and diversions, measuring water use, and water and wildlife. The lectures will be held during the noon hour at the College of Law and streamed online on January 19, February 2, February 16, and March 2. If you miss a lecture, you can watch online on the S.J. Quinney College of Law YouTube channel. This Utah Water Lecture series is co-sponsored by the National Audubon Society. For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu. This episode was originally recorded and broadcast January 19, 2023

Jedediah Purdy, an internationally renowned scholar of legal and political theory and an expert on constitutional law, will join Utah Law on Friday, January 20 for the college's annual William H. Leary Lecture. Purdy is the Raphael Lemkin Professor of Law at Duke Law School. His talk, “The Possible Futures of American Democracy,” marks the 57th annual Leary Lecture—a College of Law tradition that brings great legal scholars to our community to speak on pressing contemporary issues. The lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required. There is plenty of doubt about American democracy: Whether it will survive, whether it can overcome our problems if it does, and whether it deserves to be called a democracy (or even to survive) in the first place. Too often, these urgent questions come at us as fast as the news cycle, and our responses, like a Twitter feed, reinforce what we already thought, amplified with fight-or-flight adrenaline. But if we slow down and think through some possible futures for the country, we can see more clearly what democracy means, and how law, politics, and culture can interact to uphold democracy or to erode it. Purdy is the author of seven books, most recently Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy is Flawed, Frightening and Our Best Hope. He has written extensively in forums including the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Atlantic, the Nation, and the New York Times. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and two children. The Leary Lecture is named in honor of William H. Leary, Dean of the University of Utah College of Law from 1915 to 1950, who was renowned for his intellectual rigor and love of teaching. The Leary Lecture has been an annual event since 1965. This episode was originally recorded and broadcast January 20, 2023

EVENT DESCRIPTION: The hashtag #LivingWhileBlack first appeared as a social media hashtag to mobilize attention to incidents where white people called the police on Black people for engaging in non-criminal, everyday activities. The explosive combination of high-quality cell phone video and ubiquitous social media platforms revealed to the public several incidents where the police were called to report Black people in spaces that the callers believed they ought not be. In each of these cases, the Black men, women, and children were occupying spaces in which they had rights to be and undertaking activities they had a right to undertake. The ability of social media to make these incidents go viral has not revealed a new phenomenon. Rather, it has simply highlighted the modern incarnation of a much older one phenomenon: Attempts to use the basis of nuisance and trespass from property law as a way to exclude Black Americans from what the callers believe to be “white” spaces. Professor Jefferson-Jones examines both the historical and modern incarnations of this “Blackness as Nuisance” doctrine, and how this attempt to distort property law norms arises from a sense of racial entitlement and discomfort with racial integration. Professor Jefferson-Jones will discuss her research which highlighted language that either explicitly called for exclusion of the victim based on his or her race or that employed racially coded language (“dog whistles”) to call for police force to be used to remove Black people from shared spaces. Finally, she will discuss why policymakers need to consider the intersections of property law and criminal law, and the historical origins of these types of incidents, in order to craft effective responses. ABOUT THE SPEAKER mila Jeffrson-Jones writes about the property rights of communities and groups on the margins of society. In line with her interest in property rights on the margins of society, she uses critical race methodologies to interrogate the ways in which members of favored racialized groups seek to exclude racial and ethnic minorities from public and private spaces, including through the use of or threat of police action to enforce both the racial segregation of space and racist notions of supremacy. Her recent article on this subject, #LivingWhileBlack: Blackness As Nuisance, was published in the American University Law Review and featured in the New York Times. In addition to this work, Professor Jefferson-Jones has written a number of law review articles and book chapters on the sharing economy and is a recognized expert on the housing segment of the sharing economy, particularly on discrimination in that sector. She has also studied the property rights of those with ex-offender status to reveal the intersection of property and criminal justice theory. Professor Jefferson-Jones is the Earl B. Shurtz Research Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at the University of Kansas School of Law. Jamila Jefferson-Jones is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College. For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu. This episode was originally recorded and broadcast January 19, 2023

EVENT DESCRIPTION: As we ring in 2023, Mike and Christina will discuss some of the new employment law cases and trends that have cropped up recently, including sexual harassment non-disclosure agreements and unionization. PANELISTS: Christina Jepson, Parsons Behle Mike O'Brien, Parsons Behle This episode was originally recorded and broadcast on Friday January 13, 2023

EVENT DESCRIPTION: This episode will present the recent dramatic changes to Utah's legal landscape with the large national firms moving into the market. The panel will discuss the challenges presented by the ongoing changes, the professional and ethical challenges and the impact on lawyers. PANELISTS: Randall Bateman – Bateman IP Brent Hawkins – Bennett Tueller Randy Jeffs – Jeffs and Jeffs View Part 1 & Part 2 on the S.J. Quinney College of Law YouTube channel or by clicking the links below. The Changing Utah Legal Market – Part 1 | The Changing Utah Legal Market – Part 2 For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu. SUBSCRIBE to the S.J. Quinney College of Law event lists to stay current on upcoming College of Law events. You may unsubscribe at anytime. The S.J. Quinney College of Law is pleased to provide free CLE opportunities for attorneys. All donations welcome to support our programs. This episode was originally broadcast and recorded November 11, 2022

EVENT DESCRIPTION: Mandatory national service (also called compulsory service) is a requirement that people serve in the military or complete other works of public service for one or two years. The U.S. military draft, created during the Civil War, is one type of mandatory national service. The U.S. has had an all-volunteer military since 1973 when President Nixon ended the draft following the extremely controversial Vietnam War which provoked huge public protests against both the war and the draft. Public opinion is about evenly split among all Americans about mandatory national service. Young adults, who would be required to complete such service, are 39% for and 57% against. The panelists, from the S.J. Quinney College of Law, have all served their countries in the military during periods of national conflict and have diverse views about mandatory national service. Audience members will be polled about their views. PANELISTS: Amos N. Guiora Amos N. Guiora is Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Utah. He is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and a Distinguished Fellow and Counselor at the International Center for Conflict Resolution, Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. Guiora is a retired Lt. Col. In the Israel Defense Forces where he served in the Judge Advocate General Corps. James Holbrook James Holbrook is a Clinical Professor of Law Emeritus who taught negotiation, mediation, and arbitration at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. In 1969 he served in combat in Vietnam with the 9th Infantry Division for which service he received the Army Commendation Medal for Valor and a Bronze Star. He is an advisor to the University's Veterans Support Center and is the Manager of Special Projects in the law school's Career Development Office. Leah Bench Leah Bench is a first-year law student at the S.J. Quinney College of Law. She served in the United States Air Force as a Munitions Specialist for four years during which time she received numerous awards and an early promotion. In 2015 she deployed to Guam in the Pacific Theater to support B-52 aircraft. In 2020 she received a Master of Legal Studies degree from the College of Law and is now pursuing a legal career in military law and public policy for veteran support. Mike Meszaros Mike Meszaros is a 2L at the S.J. Quinney College of Law. He graduated from West Point where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in military history with a focus on the U.S. Army's modernization and the transition to the all-volunteer force following the Vietnam War. He was an infantry officer in the Army for nine years during which he served as the Brigade Battle Captain in Nangahar Province in Afghanistan. MODERATOR: Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu. This episode was originally broadcast and recorded on November 09, 2022

The post-Dobbs landscape: states' abortion shield laws Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization held that abortion was not a constitutionally protected right under the Due Process Clause, and, in the absence of federal constitutional protection, state laws now govern access to abortion from the earliest stages of pregnancy. Whereas some states have passed laws severely restricting or banning abortion, other states have passed “shield laws”—laws which protect abortion providers from civil and criminal liabilities stemming from abortion care provided to out-of-state residents. Proponents of abortion shield laws argue that such laws are necessary to assure in-state abortion providers that they will not be penalized by another state for providing care to residents from those states. Shield laws, they argue, are a constitutionally permitted way to provide safety from prosecution under the laws of another state. Opponents of shield laws may counter that such laws undermine U.S. notions of comity and federalism as well as test constitutional principles underpinning states' sovereignty over its own citizens. The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law will host a debate to consider the consequences of states' abortion shield laws to federalism and the U.S. constitution. The Fordham Debate is named in honor of Professor Jefferson B. Fordham, an outstanding legal scholar and defender of individual and civil rights who joined the University of Utah College of Law faculty in 1972. The annual debate addresses r For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu. SUBSCRIBE to the S.J. Quinney College of Law event lists to stay current on upcoming College of Law events. You may unsubscribe at anytime. The S.J. Quinney College of Law is pleased to provide free CLE opportunities for attorneys. All donations welcome to support our programs. This episode was originally broadcast and recorded October 17, 2022

EVENT DESCRIPTION: In addition to overseeing the Ethics Hotline, the Utah State Bar is launching a new venture, the Professional Development Office (PDO), which offers wide-ranging information and insight on how to commence, manage, and maintain your law practice, as well as preparing for your own retirement or transition out of the practice of law. Here, you'll find helpful checklists, links, templates, and guidance to assist you in navigating any challenge you may encounter. Panelists will discuss these emerging roles, including the distinct ethics offerings of the Bar and OPC respectively, as well as the brand new Bar website and what's to come. PANELISTS: Scotti Hill (Ethics Counsel, Utah State Bar) Matt Page (Communications Director, Utah State Bar) Diane Akiyama (Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, Office of Professional Conduct) For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu. SUBSCRIBE to the S.J. Quinney College of Law event lists to stay current on upcoming College of Law events. You may unsubscribe at anytime. The S.J. Quinney College of Law is pleased to provide free CLE opportunities for attorneys. All donations welcome to support our programs. This episode was originally broadcast and recorded on October 7, 2022

TALK DESCRIPTION: In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization held that the U.S. Constitution does not provide a right to an abortion, which overturned both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. While the full impact of this decision is still being felt, the immediate impact is that state legislatures are now taking the lead in determining when someone may seek an abortion. This has led to confusion in terms of what health care providers may and may not do in terms of treating people who are pregnant. Members of the panel will begin by explaining the Dobbs decision and its impact on the law, and review the current state of Utah law. The panel will then explore challenges that this change in the law raises for medical professionals as they balance providing evidence-based care, honoring women's health care choices, and basing health care decisions on sound clinical judgment with adherence to the law; and wrestle with navigating interstate travel for abortion, determining at what point a pregnant woman's life is in jeopardy, and assessing whether a fetal defect is fatal. PANELISTS: Leslie Francis, J.D., PhD, Alfred C. Emery Endowed Professor, S.J. Quinney College Of Law Misha Pangasa, M.D., University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Family Planning Jessica Sanders, PhD, M.S.P.H, Assistant Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Family Planning Sara Simonsen, CNM, PSPH, PhD, Annette Poulson Cumming Presidential Endowed Chair in Women's and Reproductive Health and Associate Professor within the College of Nursing Moderators: Marla J. De Jong, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN Dean, Louis H. Peery Presidential Endowed Chair, and Professor Elizabeth Kronk Warner, J.D. Dean, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu. This episode was originally broadcast and recorded September 1, 2022

TALK DESCRIPTION: This is the first of two panel discussions on the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision regarding abortion rights. After briefly overviewing the Dobbs decision, the panel will focus its discussion on “what's next” – the aftermath of the Dobbs decision. Many commentators have speculated, for example, that the Dobbs decision may imperil previous Supreme Court decisions on same sex marriage and contraception, as well as others. Panelists will dive into these and other topics in exploring the potential aftermath of Dobbs. PANELISTS: Paul Burke, Shareholder, Ray Quinney & Nebeker RonNell Anderson Jones, Professor, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Moderator: Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Dean, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law For questions about this event email events@law.utah.edu. SUBSCRIBE to the S.J. Quinney College of Law event lists to stay current on upcoming College of Law events. You may unsubscribe at anytime. The S.J. Quinney College of Law is pleased to provide free CLE opportunities for attorneys. All donations welcome to support our programs. This episode was originally broadcast and recorded on August 31, 2022

This episode, presented by TaxBit, will provide an overview of Digital Asset tax basics followed by a discussion on the implications of the Infrastructure Bill on Digital Assets, and common audit issues posed by this new asset class. No prior understanding of the Digital Asset space is required, and we encourage attendees to participate in the Q&A session following the conclusion of the presentation. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Seth Wilks, Senior Director – Government Relations & SME Seth Wilks is a CPA and leading expert on cryptocurrency tax subject matters. He's been heavily involved in educating and informing policy makers and regulators in all tax matters related to digital assets. In March 2020, Wilks was recognized as a cryptocurrency tax specialist by the IRS and served as a panelist at their invite-only Virtual Currency Summit at headquarters in Washington, DC. Moderator: Sam Mehr, '20, JD/MFS For questions about this event, contact events@law.utah.edu. This episode was originally recorded and broadcast on February 11, 2022

A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag TALK DESCRIPTION: Energy democracy is a social movement and a research area that is focused on the question of how to ensure that ongoing energy transitions are as democratic, just, and equitable as possible. Dr. Endres is the co-editor on the newly released Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy (Routledge, 2022), a transdisciplinary anthology that uses a social science and humanities lens to explain key concepts, present state-of-the-art research, and highlight key on-the-ground practices of energy democracy. The book addresses the issues of energy access, ownership, and participation at a time when there are expanding social, political, environmental, and economic demands on energy systems. Endres will present a conceptual framework that guides research on energy democracy and offer examples from several of the chapters in the book. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Danielle Endres (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Professor of Communication at the University of Utah. She is also affiliated faculty in the Environmental Humanities Program and the Global Change and Sustainability Center at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of science and environmental controversies including nuclear waste siting decisions, climate change, and energy transitions. She is currently working with her graduate student, Nico Hernandez, on a three-year project to better understand practices of energy democracy in Puerto Rico. Endres's research is guided by principles of environmental justice and often focuses on how underrepresented groups and Indigenous Nations engage in science and environmental decision-making. Endres is the co-author of Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Studying Rhetoric In Situ and the co-editor of several books, including the Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. She has also published in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Western Journal of Communication, Environmental Communication, Argumentation, Argumentation & Advocacy, and Local Environment. The National Science Foundation and several fellowships from the University of Utah have funded her research. Outside of work, Endres enjoys walking in the mountains, reading mystery books, seeing live music, and visiting national parks with her partner and two kids. Please contact The King's English Bookshop to order a copy of the Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. For questions about this event, contact events@law.utah.edu. This episode was originally recorded and broadcast, Thursday, February 3, 2022 Utah Law Podcast ULAW Podcast U Law Podcast Utah Law ULAW U Law

Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean's book review. The book to be reviewed will be, Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon. The book is part of a series called, Pocket Change Collective which was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. This is your invitation to join us for a book review and panel discussion. In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination. PANELISTS: Professor Anya A. Marino (she/her)* Clinical Instructor, LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic Harvard Law School WilmerHale Legal Services Center Joél Arvizo-Zavala, PhD, MEd, CHES (they/them/theirs) Chief Executive Officer – Resilient Education Consulting Kim Koeven, S.J. Quinney College of Law, student, DEI Committee This episode was originally recorded and broadcast Monday, January 24, 2022

This panel discussion will revolve around Professor Hessick's book, Punishment without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal. PANELISTS: Carissa Hessick, Anne Shea Ransdell and William Garland “Buck” Ransdell, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina Shima Baradaran Baughman, Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Samantha Dugan – Attorney, Legal Defenders Association Hillary King – Attorney, Legal Defenders Association Grant Miller – Attorney, Legal Defenders Association Liza M. Smith – Attorney, Legal Defenders Association This episode was originally recorded and Broadcast, January 14, 2022

Join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for this book review and discussion with Dean Martell Teasley, College of Social Work. The book they will be reviewing is, Nice Racism: How progressive white people perpetuate racial harm by Dr. Robin DiAngelo for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This New York Times bestseller explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. In DiAngelo's book, White Fragility, she explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of color. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an anti-racist educator, she picks up where White Fragility left off and moves the conversation forward. Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. These patterns include: rushing to prove that we are “not racist” downplaying white advantage romanticizing Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color (BIPOC) pretending white segregation “just happens” expecting BIPOC people to teach us about racism carefulness and feeling immobilized by shame DiAngelo explains how spiritual white progressives seeking community by co-opting Indigenous and other groups' rituals create separation, not connection. She challenges the ideology of individualism and explains why it is OK to generalize about white people, and she demonstrates how white people who experience other oppressions still benefit from systemic racism. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment, and accountability. Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who recognizes the existence of systemic racism and white supremacy and wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice. BIPOC readers may also find the “insiders” perspective useful for navigating whiteness. A digital copy of this book is available at the library for University of Utah students, faculty and staff. PANELISTS: Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Jefferson B. & Rita E. Fordham Presidential Dean and Professor of Law, The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Dean Martell L. Teasley, MSW, PhD, Professor The University of Utah, College of Social Work This episode was originally broadcast and recorded, January 20, 2022 ULaw, ULAW, Utah Law

A Book Celebration & Conversation With Author Erika George Professor of Law Erika George's book considers market-based strategies to bring business practices into alignment with the responsibility to respect human rights. It also explores how corporate social responsibility initiatives could close a global governance gap that currently places human rights at risk—and that puts commercial actors in the position of becoming complicit in human rights abuses. George examines corporate codes of conduct, sustainability reporting, shareholder activism, and multi-stakeholder initiatives that could become the building blocks of a set of baseline standards for better business practices. To mark the 10th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a panel of experts will join George for a conversation on overcoming challenges and promoting change. Panelists will take stock of current and emerging efforts to advance accountability and leverage leadership. PANELISTS: Erika George - Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and director of the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah's College of Humanities. Her research explores the responsibility of corporations to respect international human rights and various efforts to hold business enterprises accountable for alleged abuses. George is chair of the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Earthjustice and is a member of the Fair Labor Association Board. She is a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge University Press Business and Human Rights Journal. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was recently elected to the American Law Institute. Before joining Utah, she was a fellow with Human Rights Watch in New York and practiced commercial litigation with Jenner & Block in Chicago. Philip Alston – Special Rapporteur, Extreme Poverty & Human Rights, UN Human Right Council's Office of the High Commissioner Surya Deva – Professor, City University of Hong Kong – Member, Macquarie Law School – Member, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights Bennett Freeman – Principal, Bennett Freeman Associates LLC Ryan Gellert – Chief Executive Office, Patagonia Works and Patagonia, Inc. Fernanda Hopenhaym – Co-Executive Director, Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER) Moderator: Tony Anghie is professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the National University of Singapore. His research interests include public international law, international economic law, human rights and the history and theory of international law, and he has published in each of these areas. He has served as a visiting professor at various universities including the University of Tokyo, the London School of Economics, the American University of Cairo and Harvard Law School. He has also served as a counselor and as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. He is a co-editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. He is a member of the Third World Approaches (TWAIL) network of scholars.

The disparate impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (“COVID-19”) pandemic on low-income and racially/ethnically minoritized communities across the Unites States has exposed America's uneven geography of public health. Public health experts trace the heightened risk of mortality from COVID-19 among such populations to their high rates of diabetes, asthma, and hypertension, among other comorbidities. Yet, food justice activists call attention to the embeddedness of structural racism in global food systems operating at local scale, perhaps best illuminated by the prevalence of food insecurity in low-income Black neighborhoods nationwide. This research explores the conundrum of resolving food insecurity catalyzed by historic racial discrimination without violating the Constitution's prohibitions against racial discrimination in publicly funded food justice programming. It argues that the answer to resolving the indignities of food insecurity provoked by racial discrimination lies in embracing a progressive constitutionalism that takes seriously the legacy of white supremacy in the United States political economy. Originally broadcast and recorded on November 17, 2021, 12:15 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Utah is currently in the midst of one of the most important times for our energy future. The UN IPCC made it clear, we must revamp our energy sector in the next decade to avoid the worse impacts of climate change. To do this, we need to build new clean, flexible, and reliable energy infrastructure that will both serve Utah's growing energy needs while also reduce pollution from our energy sector at the scale and pace needed. Policy and regulatory proceedings at the state and federal level are going to directly affect how Utah transitions to a clean energy future, and how long it will take. At the national level, the President and Congress are discussing major investments in energy infrastructure that could rapidly accelerate our energy transition here in Utah. At the state level, the Utah Public Service Commission, the state agency that regulates electric utilities in Utah, will be reviewing several proposals that that will either build clean energy resource capacity in the state or expand Utah's share of coal-fired power plants. Join Josh Craft and Hunter Holman from Utah Clean Energy to discuss these federal and state actions and learn more about how Utah is planning to transition to a clean energy future. Josh Craft, Government and Corporate Affairs Manager, Utah Clean Energy Hunter Holman, Staff Attorney, Utah Clean Energy Originally broadcast and recorded, November 19, 2021 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Professor Bob Adler will discuss the importance of Sustainability Development Goal 6 (Water and Sanitation), and its importance to human life and dignity as well as environment sustainability. He will describe the indicators used to measure attainment of the goal, U.S. progress toward attainment, and recommended measures to accelerate progress in this area. He will also discuss ways in which progress toward meeting SDG 6 has been dramatically uneven in the United States and globally, raising important issues of water justice. Professor Erika George will examine Sustainable Development Goal 17 on the creation of global partnerships to promote sustainable development Goal 17 aims to encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, by building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships. She will discuss how business enterprises and multi-stakeholder initiatives have implemented strategies to advance sustainability providing an overview of the UN Global Compact. Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner will explore Sustainability Development Goal 7, which focuses on clean and reliable energy sources. She will begin with an overview to SDG 7, and an update on how implementation of SDG 7 is going globally. Following this overview, she will explore implementation in the United States and innovative steps being taken by states and tribes. She will conclude with a discussion of what the Biden Administration has done in compliance with SDG 7.” Originally recorded and broadcast, November 4, 2021 12:15 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Though most acknowledge the reality of climate change, too many of us do not comprehend the science, the scale, and the urgency. The recently-released assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states, “The scale of recent changes across the climate system as a whole and the present state of many aspects of the climate system are unprecedented over many centuries to many thousands of years.” Understanding the complex issue of climate change is critical if we are to address it. Please join Dr. Robert Davies of Utah State University for an engaging presentation on the latest climate science and how it is impacting Utah and our world. Dr. Davies is a physicist and educator whose work focuses on synthesizing and communicating a broad range of earth systems science. The panel will also feature Sarah Wright who is the Executive Director of Utah Clean Energy (https://utahcleanenergy.org/), Utah's leading public interest group advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency policy in Utah and the Western Region. Dr. Rob Davies, Professor of Global Change and Critical Science Communication, Utah State University Sarah Wright, Executive Director and Founder, Utah Clean Energy

A discussion with Jorge Contreras, author of “The Genome Defense” and professor of law at the S. J. Quinney College of Law. Contreras will be joined by panelist Lynn Jorde, professor of human genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and moderator Erika George, professor of law at the S. J. Quinney College of Law. TALK DESCRIPTION: In 2005, two MIT researchers observed that 20% of the human genome was claimed by patents. In the same year, Chris Hansen, an ACLU attorney, and Tania Simoncelli, the ACLU's first science advisor, began to plan a lawsuit that would attack gene patenting in America. Their target was Myriad Genetics, a University of Utah spinout company that controlled the patents on the BRCA1/2 genes. Individuals with certain variants of these genes have a high risk of contracting breast or ovarian cancer, but Myriad's test for these variants was unaffordable to many. The ACLU's lawsuit, which ended in a unanimous 2013 Supreme Court victory, fundamentally changed the biotechnology industry. In “The Genome Defense”, Professor Jorge Contreras describes the circuitous path of this remarkable lawsuit, from genetics labs to corporate boardrooms to the highest reaches of the White House. It offers valuable lessons in how the law wrestles with scientific advancements and how, with determination and luck, even the most entrenched legal regimes can be changed. This book can be purchased through The King's English Bookshop ULAW Utah Law SJ Quinney College of Law

Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean's book review. The book to be reviewed will be, Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock, the book was selected in celebration of June being Pride Month. The book is riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world–without a road map to guide her. It is an honest appraisal of what it means to be your true self. The journey begins a few months before her twentieth birthday. tenisha Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation college student at the University of Hawaii and her nights as a dancer at a strip club. Finally content in her body, she vacillates between flaunting and concealing herself as she navigates dating and disclosure, sex and intimacy, and most important, letting herself be truly seen. Under the neon lights of Club Nu, Janet meets Troy, a yeoman stationed at Pearl Harbor naval base, who becomes her first. The pleasures and perils of their union serve as a backdrop for Janet's progression through her early twenties with all the universal growing pains–falling in and out of love, living away from home, and figuring out what she wants to do with her life. Despite her disadvantages, fueled by her dreams and inimitable drive, tenisha makes her way through New York City while holding her truth close. She builds a career in the highly competitive world of magazine publishing–within the unique context of being trans, a woman, and a person of color. Long before she became one of the world's most respected media figures and lauded leaders for equality and justice, Janet was a girl taking the time she needed to just be–to learn how to advocate for herself before becoming an advocate for others. As you witness tenisha slow-won success and painful failures, Surpassing Certainty will embolden you, shift the way you see others, and affirm your journey in search of self. Panelists: Engels J. Tejeda, ('06), Partner, Holland & Hart LLP Clare Lemke, PhD, Director, LGBT Resource Center, University of Utah Beth Jennings, The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Assistant Librarian

Employment lawyers Mike O'Brien and Elena Vetter from Jones Waldo talk about what happens when acronyms like BLM and MAGA show up at the workplace. Panelists: Mike Obrien, Jones Waldo, Shareholder Elena Vetter, Jones Waldo, Associate This episode was originally recorded and broadcast March 12, 2021

In Part 1 of this series Professor Louisa Heiny of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and the Honorable Richard McKelvie of the Third District Court discussed how stress, fear, race, and other factors may affect memory and result in unreliable eyewitness identifications. In Part 2 they will discuss the admissibility of eyewitness identification evidence under Utah Rule of Evidence 617; best practices in lineup and show-up procedures; and the role of expert witnesses and jury instructions to help jurors understand the sometimes counter-intuitive science behind eyewitness identification. They will also discuss applying the laws, cases and rules on identification in trial courts and, where relevant, appellate courts. Part 2 of a 2 episode set. Originally recorded and broadcast on January 8, 2021

An eyewitness identification of a defendant can be powerful and persuasive evidence. At the same time, the majority of wrongful convictions involve a mistaken eyewitness identification. Professor Louisa Heiny of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and the Honorable Richard McKelvie of the Third District Court will discuss the admissibility of eyewitness identification evidence under Utah Rule of Evidence 617; how stress, fear, race, and other factors may affect memory storage and retrieval; best practices in lineup and show-up procedures; and the role of expert witnesses and jury instructions to help jurors understand the sometimes counter-intuitive science behind eyewitness identification. Part 1 of a 2 episode set. This episode was originally recorded and broadcast on October 9, 2020

Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean's book review. The book to be reviewed will be, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong, the book was selected in celebration of May being Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world. Binding these essays together is Hong's theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you're told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, they're dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. With sly humor and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth. One of Time's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, New Statesman, BuzzFeed, Esquire, The New York Public Library, and Book Riot. It is also, The New York Times bestseller and National Critics Circle Award winner. Panelists: Raj Dhaliwal ('17), Ray, Quinney & Nebeker P.C., Attorney Leilani Marshall, The University of Utah S.J. Quinney, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs This episode was originally recorded and broadcast May 26, 2021

In Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eight Judicial District Court, 141 S. Ct. 1017 (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court clarified the circumstances in which a state court can assert personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state corporation whose products cause harm in the forum state. In a divided set of opinions, the Court held that, to support specific jurisdiction, the defendant's contacts with the forum state need not cause the alleged harm using a “but for” test, so long as the cause of action arose out of the defendant's contacts in some way. Ford aggressively marketed and supported its cars in the forum states, even though the vehicles involved in the accidents were sold elsewhere and then re-sold to buyers in those states. This webinar will explain the holding and how it affects the law of personal jurisdiction. It will also discuss implications for future interstate litigation, and the potential implications of the concurring opinions for the future of the law of personal jurisdiction given the new composition of SCOTUS. Panelists: Robert Adler, Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Eric Olson, Partner, Eisenberg, Cutt, Kendell and Olson This episode was originally recorded and broadcast May 21, 2021

Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, has in recent years expressed idiosyncratic views on some key First Amendment issues. He has gained particular attention for staking out bold new positions on the free-speech treatment of both the press and social media. Justice Thomas urged, in one instance, that the Court reconsider the watershed media-law case of New York Times v. Sullivan, which interprets the First Amendment to make it difficult for public officials to bring libel suits and suggested, in another, that the Court should adjust its constitutional free-speech approach to take into account potential censorship within the highly concentrated, privately owned information infrastructure of digital platforms. In this webinar, media law experts RonNell Andersen Jones and Jeffrey Hunt explore the contours of Justice Thomas's views, considering their origins, their place within the Justice's wider jurisprudence, and their likelihood of gaining traction with the fuller Court. Panelists: Jeff Hunt, Shareholder, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless RonNell Andersen Jones, Lee E. Teitelbaum Endowed Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law This episode was originally recorded and broadcast on May 7, 2021

A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag - Kurt Repanshek traces the history of bison from their near extinction to present-day efforts to bring them back to the landscape—and the biological, political, and cultural hurdles confronting these efforts. Repanshek explores Native Americans' relationships with bison and presents a forward-thinking approach to returning bison to the West and improving the health of ecosystems. Kurt Repanshek is an award-winning journalist well versed in public lands, wildlife, recreation, environmental, and development issues. After graduating from West Virginia University in 1979, he was hired in 1980 by The Associated Press, initially as a temporary legislative relief staffer, but offered a full-time job late that same year. In 1988, when wildfires swept across Yellowstone National Park and captured the world's attention, he directed and provided coverage of the fires for The Associated Press. He has a diverse journalistic background, having written about the rich biodiversity that lies within Great Smoky Mountains National Park and launched National Parks Traveler, the world's top-rated editorially independent website dedicated to daily news and feature coverage of national parks and protected areas. Originally Broadcast and recorded January 28, 2021 By SJ Quinney, College of Law, University of Utah. Utah Law, ULaw

A Conversation on the Barriers of Advancement and Retention of Women Lawyers and Insights into Gender Discrimination in Utah – a 2020 Study Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean's book review. This month we will be discussing the findings of the survey, Barriers to Advancement: Findings from the 2020 Study of Gender & Racial Bias in Utah's Legal Profession, along with insights into gender discrimination in Utah. This topic was selected because March is Women's History Month. On the panel will be Dr. Christy Glass, Professor of Sociology & Interim Director Center for Intersectional Gender Studies & Research, Utah State University, Mica McKinney, Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel, Utah State University and Margaret Plane, Special Counsel, Park City Municipal Corporation. They will discuss the findings of the survey, discrimination in Utah and some helpful guidance and recommendations for increasing representation of women and avoiding bias in hiring and promotion decisions. To view the study please visit https://initiative.utahwomenlawyers.org/ The study took the findings from over forty-five interviews that took place with a diverse group of interviewees, including women of color, LGBTQ+ women, solo practitioners, judges and women employed outside of the Salt Lake City area. Interview questions focused on work history, career mobility and work/life balance. Project Summary of the Study This study examined barriers to the advancement and retention of women lawyers in Utah. The following report summarizes findings from a statewide survey and in-depth interviews with women lawyers and judges across the state. To analyze changes over time and compare Utah against national trends, the survey replicated the 2010 Women Lawyers of Utah (WLU) survey and the 2018 survey administered by the American Bar Association (ABA). We find evidence of substantial gender and racial bias in Utah's legal profession and minimal improvement over time on key bias indicators. Study's Purpose The purpose of this study was to identify barriers to the advancement and retention of women lawyers in the State of Utah. Ranking last in the nation in terms of women's overall professional advancement and the gender wage gap, Utah represents a unique professional landscape for women. This context has important implications for women's advancement in law, as the current study finds that in Utah women comprise 44% of law school graduates yet only 12% of law firm partners. Originally recorded and broadcast March 31, 2021

Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean's book review. The book to be reviewed will be, His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham, it is an intimate and revealing portrait of the civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to his passing on July 17, 2020. Meacham calls Lewis, a believer in the injunction that one should love one's neighbor as oneself, Lewis was arguably a saint in our time, risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful and he had an unshakable belief in the power of hope. In many ways he brought a still-evolving nation closer to realizing its ideals, and his story offers inspiration and illumination for Americans today who are working for social and political change. Please RSVP with the link provided in this email. Once registered you will receive the link to participate. This book may be purchased or you can contact the Marriott Library to request an eBook. Here is the link to the library: Marriott Library Borrowing Dept. You do not need to purchase or read the book to participate in this book review. Panelists: Leslie P. Culver, Professor (Clinical) of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Kathryn Bond Stockton, Dean, School for Cultural & Social Transformation and Distinguished Professor of English, University of Utah Jeanetta Williams, President, NAACP Salt Lake Branch & Tri-State Conference of Idaho, Nevada and Utah-Former Member, NAACP National Board of Directors

A Conversation discussing black businesses in Utah and what legal and business activities/reforms would be helpful to support/promote black owned businesses. Panelists: James Jackson III, Founder and Executive Director of the Utah Black Chamber Chris Peterson, Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Annie Leither, Vice President, Sponsorships, Zions Bank Moderated by Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner Sponsored by the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and the David Eccles School of Business, in honor of Black History Month Originally broadcast and recoded on February 25, 2021

This podcast will discuss how COVID has impacted law firm operations in that last year, including attorney flexibility and mobility, client expectations, emerging practice areas and how the new changes will be further impacted by Utah's new regulatory reform experiment. Panelists: Keven Rowe, President, Jones Waldo Holbrook and McDonough Lee Wright, Managing Partner, Kirton McConkie Todd Leishman, President and Chairman of Dentons Durham Jones & Pinegar Hosted by Lori Nelson Originally aired and recorded February 12, 2021 @ 12:00 pm

The climate change-stricken Colorado River Basin not only provides water to forty-million people, including along Utah's Wasatch Front. It also contains ancestral homelands of 29 Native American tribes as well as pervasive, sublime public lands such as Grand Canyon National Park. Vision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin—a recent volume commemorating the historic 1869 Powell Expedition's sesquicentennial—explores the basin's past, present, and future. A panel of authors will discuss Powell's distinct vision for the basin and broader “Arid Region,” the ways that vision has and has not shaped the landscape, and ultimately what lies ahead for the basin's water, public lands, and Native Americans. Moderated by Jason Robison Originally broadcast February 18, 2021 @ 12:00 pm Jason Robison is a Professor in the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources program at the University of Wyoming College of Law, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law this spring 2021. His writing revolves around water, public lands, and Native Americans, particularly in the western United States. Professor Robison is lead editor of Vision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin (Univ. of California Press, 2020). He is also author of Law of Water Rights & Resources (Thomson Reuters, 2020) and editor of a forthcoming volume commemorating the 1922 Colorado River Compact's centennial—Cornerstone: The Next Century of the Colorado River Compact.