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UPCOMING EVENTS

Greetings,

As the nation continues to grapple with changes in the landscape of criminal justice, the College of Law is proud to engage in thoughtful discussion of the legal and policy issues surrounding criminal law in America.

We look forward to the 15th Annual Darrow K. Soll Memorial Criminal Law & Justice Lecture and thank alumna Jennifer Woods (’99) for her generosity in sponsoring the annual Darrow K. Soll Memorial Lecture program, through which we bring world-class leaders and scholars to the University community. This year's featured speaker is writer/lawyer Emily Bazelon.

The college’s leadership in criminal law doesn’t end with the annual lecture. The Program in Criminal Law and Policy lecture series brings speakers on all sides of criminal policy questions to the table throughout the year, and students are able to combine the theoretical with the practical by participating in our clinics as well as a broad set of externships and placements in federal, state, local and tribal justice systems.

Until the footnotes,

Marc

AROUND THE COLLEGE

3L Connor Nolan Presents Paper at Yale Antitrust Conference

Currently in the United States, there are more dollar stores than CVS, Walmart, Kroger, Rite Aid, Albertsons, Aldi, Target, and Costco stores combined. That unprecedented growth of dollar stores in highly rural and urban communities caught the attention of 3L Connor Nolan, who presented his paper on the subject at Yale Law School’s Reforming America’s Food Retail Markets on March 12. The conference explored how antitrust enforcement and competition policy can improve food retail markets in America. This is the second year in a row that Nolan has presented at the conference. 

Nolan’s paper focuses on the negative effects created by dollar stores that move into communities with limited access to affordable, nutritious food. Although dollar stores are affordable for customers, they rarely offer food beyond highly processed options. Nolan’s paper also looks at the role of antitrust law in the rapid growth of dollar stores. 

“My paper discusses how antitrust law failed to curb growth and evaluates what role, if any, antitrust law can play in solving those issues,” said Nolan.  

See here for the full story.

Students in UA/Cambodian Dual Degree Program Compete in Jessup

“Around the College” this week reaches far beyond Tucson. Through the UA Microcampus Network, students can earn dual degrees from UA and partner universities around the world.

This year, Microcampus Network students at the American University of Phnom Penh (“AUPP”) in Cambodia participated for the first time ever in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. The team, including four UA/AUPP students earning U.S.-accredited University of Arizona bachelor’s degrees in law as well as one AUPP single-degree student, advanced to the final round of its national competition. We congratulate these legal scholars!

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process Publishes Winter 2022 Issue

The College of Law and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) have released the Winter 2022 issue of the Journal of Appellate Practice and Process. It is the third volume to be released in the University of Arizona Law’s publishing partnership with the Institute, which began in 2020.

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process is a professionally-edited publication that provides a forum for creative thought and dialogue about the operation of appellate courts and their influence on the development of the law. The Journal is distributed to every state and federal appellate judge in the United States and the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Articles in the issue range from a discussion of the Sixth Amendment implications of courtroom closures to a lighthearted look at the Supreme Court use of the possessive ’s.

See here for the full story.

Unfair Housing Law with Xiaoqian Hu

Voices in Vulnerability podcast, featuring Associate Professor Xiaoqian Hu

 https://twitter.com/uarizonalaw/status/1506005245855518736

The Soll Lecture is one of several major named lectures — led by the McCormick Lecture, and including the Neumann Lecture and the Marks Lecture — that, along with a handful of major conferences like the annual William H. Rehnquist Center National Conference of Constitutional Scholars, anchor our public intellectual life.

Our college is an intellectual smorgasbord. The feast includes regular faculty colloquia, the fifteen years of weekly talks in the Program in Criminal Law and Policy, the recent addition of the Pitt Family Foundation Speaker Series in Participatory Democracy, and a steady opportunity to hear scholars, judges, lawyers and other leaders in our profession and our world.

Join us whenever you can, here on campus or — for many events — in the digital world, where you can catch up or listen again. Talk after talk, we are delighted to expand our intellectual life beyond classrooms and lecture halls.