Professor Lorenzo Luisetto’s scholarship has been published in the Ohio State Business Law Journal. In “Shaping Corporate Behavior: Evidence from the No‑Poach Initiative,” Professor Luisetto empirically examines the effects of the State of Washington Attorney General’s unprecedented “No‑Poach Initiative,” launched in January 2018. As part of that initiative, 237 franchisors agreed to remove no-poaching clauses (i.e., provisions in franchise contracts that prohibit franchisees from hiring each other’s employees) nationwide.

Professor Luisetto’s analysis shows that state‑led enforcement can have far‑reaching, nationwide consequences for corporate behavior. His findings illustrate how enforcement actions targeting contractual practices can function as powerful regulatory tools in the labor market, shaping firms’ conduct even in the absence of federal intervention.

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson attended the International Academic Association of Planning, Law, and Property Rights Annual Meeting at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.  She presented two papers. The first, presented with Dr. Rebecca Leshinksy from RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, focuses on property rights in radio-frequency spectrum allocations (“Spectrum Licensing, Property Theory, and Ecological Interference”).  The paper will be submitted for peer review later this spring.  The second presentation was associated with Professor Robertson’s work in Ohio on the state’s view of local involvement in decision-making concerning energy development facilities (“What’s Real and Remaining – A Framework for Agency Decision‑Making to Reduce Ohio’s Legislative Bias Against Renewable Energy”).  She plans to submit this draft to journals this spring.

Robertson is the Steven W. Percy Professor of Law at the College of Law and Professor of Environmental Studies at the Levin College of Public Affairs and Education, Cleveland State University.

On February 4-5, Seton Hall Law School hosted its first “Faith, Values, and the Rule of Law,” an interdisciplinary conference that hosted theologians, philosophers, and legal scholars. On the first day, during the first opening session, Professor Kalir presented his paper “Jewish Human Dignity: Equality Before God & Men,” which was well received. The Conference hosted both national and international scholars of all stripes and religions, and was crowned a great success.