UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

JAMES E. ROGERS COLLEGE OF LAW

JUNE 11, 2025

Greetings,

This week we feature another member of the Class of 2025: Jennifer Torres. With her BA in Law now in hand, Jennifer will continue on the path toward a career in public interest law.

Read on,

Jason

FEATURE

Class of 2025: Jennifer Torres on How the BA in Law Helped to Lay the Foundation for Her Next Chapter

This May, Jennifer Torres graduated with dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Law and Religious Studies from the University of Arizona. Torres chose the BA in Law program to gain the tools needed to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives, and to begin building the future she envisions in public interest law.

Jennifer hopes to use the law as a tool for social change, especially for people who have been historically underrepresented in the system. After graduation, she will spend the summer traveling in Europe before starting law school at Santa Clara University in the fall. She was accepted into its highly regarded Public Interest JD Program, where she will continue her pursuit of justice for underserved and marginalized communities.

“Whether working on prison reform, advocating for victims or working for farmer’s rights, I want to stand beside people so that they are heard, protected and treated with dignity,” she says.

Pidot Joins Panels for ABA and Center for Progressive Reform, Comments on Endangered Species Act

Throughout the spring, Professor Justin Pidot, Ashby Lohse Chair in Water & Natural Resources and co-director of the Environmental Law Program, has been sharing his expertise at speaking engagements and in public comments on pending regulation.

In May Prof. Pidot was a speaker for the American Bar Association’s (ABA) “The Uncertain Future of EPA’s Endangerment Finding and EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases” webinar. The Endangerment Finding is the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) bedrock climate change decision from which years of subsequent climate change regulation have followed. The webinar discussed how the EPA and White House can seek to reverse the Finding, the likely course of litigation challenging that decision, and the impact such action would have on existing and future climate change regulation on the state and federal level.

Prof. Pidot also joined a group of law professors from around the country who are experts in environmental issues in submitting a comment to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service regarding a proposed regulation under the Endangered Species Act.

Finally, Prof. Pidot participated in a panel hosted by the Center for Progressive Reform entitled “Where do we go from here?” The event featured scholars who had prominent roles in the Biden-Harris administration. Panelists shared what they expect to see in the Trump administration and their ideas for a progressive agenda for the future.

Orbach Speaks on Potential Remedies in Tech Giant Cases

On May 14, Robert H. Mundheim Professor of Law and Business Barak Orbach spoke at the ABA’s “The Goals of Remedies for Dominant Firm Misconduct.” The webinar considered the aims that courts should seek to achieve in designing remedies in current monopolization cases involving Google and other large technology platforms.

Shefali Milczarek-Desai Recognized for Worker Justice Scholarship

Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program Shefali Milczarek-Desai’s forthcoming paper Moving Beyond Worker Rights to Worker Justice has just been accepted for the prestigious Equality Law Scholars’ Forum.

Each year, the forum, to be held at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles this fall, selects around five top junior scholars to present papers on a variety of equality law issues.

Prof. Milczarek-Desai (above, center) also recently presented the paper at the Law and Society Conference in Chicago. She participated in a panel on “Worker Injustice: Vindicating Legal Rights, Organizing, and Critical Theories.” The Law and Society Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly organization committed to social scientific, interpretive and historical analyses of law across multiple social contexts. Its 2025 conference explored the theme “Politics of the Body at the Crossroads.”

IN THE NEWS

DOJ tells Trump he can wipe out national monuments

E&E News, featuring Justin Pidot

DOJ finds Trump can abolish areas protected as national monuments

The Washington Post, featuring Justin Pidot

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