Howard Katz Presents at SEALS Conference

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Legal Educator-in-Residence Howard E. Katz made several presentations at the Southeast American Law Schools Association (SEALS) annual conference at Amelia Island, Florida.  Prof. Katz was on a panel that discussed “Designing Your Course Package”, as part of the Aspiring Law Teachers Workshop. He made two presentations as part of the Newer Law Teachers Workshop, one on “Teaching Fundamentals: Designing an Effective Core Law School Course”, the other on “Constructing and Grading Exams to Enhance Assessment and Learning.”

Professor Sterio Organizes and Participates in United Nations Expert Group on Gender Parity at the International Court of Justice

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Professor Milena Sterio organized and also participated in an expert group discussion on the topic of gender parity at the International Court of Justice on May 8, at the United Nations in New York City.  The event was sponsored by the Singapore Mission to the United Nations, and also co-sponsored by the Missions of Vietnam and Colombia.  The expert group participants included legal advisors to the various states at the United Nations, as well as select academics.  Participants discussed strategies toward improving gender parity at the ICJ in light of upcoming judicial elections in 2026.

Professor Sterio Participates in Interntional Law Events

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Professor Milena Sterio participated in the American Society of International Law – International Courts and Tribunals annual workshop at Fordham Law School on May 15. Professor Sterio served as commentator for Professor Maggie Gardner’s paper (Cornell Law School) on the presumption against extra-territoriality. 

On May 21, Professor Sterio presented at the William & Mary Law School workshop on international law. The workshop – by invitation only – assembled a small group of international law experts. Professor Sterio presented her paper on the topic of “Artificial Intelligence and the Use of Autonomous Weapons.” A version of this paper will be published by the American University International Law Journal.

Professor Sterio Presents at SEALS Conference

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Professor Milena Sterio participated in the SEALS Annual Meeting in Amelia Island, Florida, from July 27-31.  Professor Sterio presented at several sessions.  On July 28, she presented at the “Teaching and Researching in Civil and Comparative Law.” On July 29, she presented at the “Governing Digital Transformation: Regulatory Competition, Institutional Capacity, and the Future of Rights.”  Also on July 29, she presented at the “Corporate Power and Accountability in Global Value Chains: Human Rights, Sustainability, Labor and Technology.” And on July 30, Professor Sterio moderated a session which she organized on the topic of “Revisiting the Trump Administration’s Use of Force: International and Comparative Law Issues.”  

Professor Sterio Participates in International Law Association Meeting in Vienna

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Professor Milena Sterio participated in the Biennial Meeting of the International Law Association in Vienna, Austria, from August 17-21.  Professor Sterio is a member of ILA’s Rights of Nature Committee. In that capacity, she contributed to the elaboration of the Committee’s first report, available here. She also participated in Committee deliberations in Vienna. 

In addition, Professor Sterio is a member of ILA’s newly founded Study Group on Rule of Law, and she participated in the Study Group’s first meeting and deliberations in Vienna.  Professor Sterio is on the Board of Directors of the American Branch of the ILA, where she also serves as Co-Director of Studies and Co-Chair of the Gender Justice in International Law Committee.  

Professor Sterio, right, at the ILA Conference.

Professor Hoffman Publishes Response to Hamm v. Smith

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On July 27, Professor Laura Hoffman, Co-Director of the CSU Law Center for Health Law and Policy, published a blog post on “Bill of Health,” a publication of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center. Professor Hoffman’s post, “Intellectual Disability, Geography, and a Life-or-Death Decision” discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling Hamm v. Smith, involving the issue of determining intellectual disability in death penalty cases.

Professor Hoffman notes that the Hamm case had been “watched by both criminal justice and disability rights advocates for its potential impact on convictions for individuals sentenced to death involving a determination of intellectual disability.” However, the Court ultimately dismissed the case as improvidently granted, thus providing no further clarification on the legal standard.

Professor Hoffman argues that “people with disabilities and their advocates have been fighting for — and very much deserve — a unified standard that still allows an individualized assessment of the individual, not just cherry-picking certain criteria like an IQ score to define intellectual disability.”

Professor Luisetto Publishes Two Articles on Noncompetes and Mobility-Restricting Covenants

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Professor Lorenzo Luisetto has published two new articles examining mobility-restricting covenants, including noncompete agreements, across different contractual contexts. Noncompete agreements and other mobility-restricting covenants have mainly been studied at the level of the employment relationship, but other contractual contexts can be just as important in disciplining their use.

In “Mobility-Restricting Covenants in Business Contracts: The Case of Franchising,” published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Professor Luisetto, together with Francine Lafontaine and J.J. Prescott, examines the use of several types of covenants, including noncompetes, but also confidentiality and non-recruitment clauses, in franchise contracts.

In “Collective Bargaining and Monopsony: The Regulation of Noncompetes in France,” published in Industrial Relations, Professor Luisetto, together with Tito Boeri, Tommaso Crescioli, and Andrea Garnero, studies what happens when unions regulate the use of noncompetes through collective bargaining.

Both articles are now available online in open access:

(JELS): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jels.70033

(IREL): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irel.70036

Professor Sterio Participates in Event on Women’s Inclusion in International Law

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Professor Milena Sterio participated in an event entitled “Women’s Equal and Inclusive Representation in International Law: Learning Lessons and Overcoming Barriers” on June 10 at the United Nations in New York City. The event was organized by the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the UN, and it was co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Canada, Mexico, Spain, Portugal and Belgium, as well as by the Gender Justice Committee at the American Branch of the International Law Association (which Professor Sterio co-founded and which she co-chairs).

Picture, by Professor Sterio, of UN event, “Women’s Equal and Inclusive Representation in International Law: Learning Lessons and Overcoming Barriers”
Professor Sterio at the UN conference.

Professor Sterio Presents at International Law Scholarly Workships

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Professor Milena Sterio participated in the American Society of International Law – International Courts and Tribunals annual workshop at Fordham Law School on May 15. Professor Sterio served as commentator for a paper by Professor Maggie Gardner (Cornell Law School) on the presumption against extra-territoriality. 

Professor Sterio also presented at the William & Mary Law School workshop on international law on May 21. The workshop – by invitation only – assembled a small group of international law experts. Professor Sterio presented her paper on the topic of “Artificial Intelligence and the Use of Autonomous Weapons.” A version of this paper will be published by the American University International Law Journal.

Professor Robertson Presents at the Sustainability Conference for American Legal Educators at Arizona State University

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Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson presented “What’s Real and Remaining: Can Clarity in Agency Decisionmaking Overcome Ohio’s Legislative Bias Against Renewable Energy Projects?” at the 10th Annual SRP Sustainability Conference for American Legal Educators (SCALE) at Arizona State University, May 14-15, 2026.

This project examines whether disciplined administrative reasoning—focusing on what is factually real and legally remaining after stipulations and project approval conditions—can mitigate structural legislative bias against renewable energy development in Ohio. The paper presents Robertson’s analysis of public comments at the Ohio Power Siting Board hearings regarding permit approval for Frasier Solar. Professor Robertson posits that similar results—where agencies rely on ‘what’s real and remaining’ of public opposition to renewable energy development projects—could reduce the outsized advantage the state has handed to oil and gas development projects over their renewable energy‑based counterparts.

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