Professor Jane Bambauer is part of an interdisciplinary University of Arizona team that won a $26 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish and lead a new NSF Engineering Research Center called the Center for Quantum Networks. Jane is co-deputy director of societal impacts for the new center, whose core partners are Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale University. A data privacy expert, Jane will support research on the likely benefits and harms from early applications of quantum networking in order to recommend public policy, educational interventions and business practices.

 

Professor Barak Orbach's article "Interstate Circuit and Conspiracy Theories," 2019 University of Illinois Law Review 1447, was selected as the winning Academic Article in the Procedure category for the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards. The article refines four antitrust concepts whose origins stem from Interstate Circuit v. United States (1939), one of the most well-known Supreme Court antitrust opinions. The article argues that the Interstate Circuit myth demonstrates that erroneous myths may be long lasting and influence policies.

 

Barak's article was selected as the result of a five-month process involving 51 international antitrust experts and reviewing more than 600 articles.

 

Professor Sergio Puig was elected co-editor in chief of The Journal of International Economic Law, one of the leading intellectual publications in international economic law. Sergio will serve his term from 2021 to 2025 with Kathleen Claussen (Miami School of Law) and Michael Waibel (University of Vienna).

 

Sergio also has a new book publishing in the spring, "At the Margins of Globalization: Indigenous Peoples & International Economic Law" (Cambridge University Press). The book explores the extent to which the main fields of international law that are tasked with promoting business interdependence across nations-international finance, investment, trade, and intellectual property-address the rights and interests of indigenous peoples, an expressly protected category of marginalized people under international law. It contains eight case studies of the use of indigenous rights to empower tribes.

Professor Simone Sepe's article, "Banking on the Lawyers," Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 20-13 (2020), is the first to analyze a sea change in bank governance-the precipitous rise in lawyer-directors over the past two decades. Using novel empirical evidence, Simone and his co-authors show that lawyer-directors are associated with efficient changes in risk management and significant increases in bank value. Their findings challenge the standard framing of the board, suggesting that understanding corporate governance requires a more nuanced approach to board composition and directors' skills.

 

Harvard Law School's Center on the Legal Profession dedicated its May/June 2020 issue of its journal The Practice to "Banking on the Lawyers."

 

Teresa Miguel-Stearns joined University of Arizona Law in April after 15 years in various positions at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, culminating in her appointment to director of the law library and professor of law in 2016. Her areas of interest in research and teaching include Latin American law and politics, legal research, foreign and international law, and the history of law librarianship and legal education. Teresa is the co-founder and creator of ALLStAR Benchmarking (along with her husband, Steven Stearns), a data collection and analysis tool for U.S. academic law libraries. ALLStAR is now the primary method for law libraries to capture, share, compare, and analyze data, which allows libraries to benchmark, learn, and implement best practices, and more strategically allocate resources. She and the ALLStAR team were awarded the American Association of Law Libraries' "Innovations in Technology Award" for 2020.

 

 

Eunice Lee's research centers on the legal and social construction of citizenship, migration and borders. She engages overlapping areas of immigration, administrative, constitutional, and international refugee law to understand the rights of immigrants in the United States. Through both doctrinal analysis and ethnographic methods, she also considers how these rights shape boundaries of sovereignty and statehood, and how advocates and communities expand the possibilities of law through social change. In addition to her Law appointment, she is completing her doctorate in anthropology.