On February 27, 2020, Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson participated on a panel at West Virginia University School of Law.  The symposium, Home Rule, a State and Local Law Symposium was hosted and organized by the West Virgina Law Review.  Robertson’s panel was entitled Home Rule and the Environment: Exploring how municipalities address environmental policy gaps including farmland solar policy and pipeline routing.

You can see videos of all of the panels of the symposium, including Robertson’s panel, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevsKZXkA1s&feature=youtu.be

Robertson is C|M|LAW’s Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law and a Professor of Environmental Studies at the Levin College of Urban Affairs.

Professor Gwen Majette (second from left) spoke at the annual conference for the National Academy of Social Insurance, an interdisciplinary meeting that was held at the National Press Club in Washington DC.  The conference coincided with the release of a 10-month study, “Examining Approaches to Expand Medicare Eligibility Key Design Options and Implications” (March 2020).

Participants included leading scholars from universities such as Yale, John Hopkins, Princeton, the University of Chicago, and George Washington; experts from think tanks (Commonwealth Fund, Kaiser Family Foundation); policy makers (former senior advisors to Senator Grassley and President Clinton, OMB staffers, and former CMS Administrator Donald Berwick); and health journalists including writer-lawyer Katie Keith who writes the Health Affairs – Following the ACA blog.

The conference recap link is here:  https://www.nasi.org/discuss/2020/03/healthcare-coverage-costs-assessing-medicare-based

Heidi Gorovitz Robertson served as the Academician on the ABA Section on Legal Education’s site team visiting the University of Nevada-Las Vegas for its sabbatical site evaluation for reaccreditation.  Robertson’s assignment was to gather and report to the ABA facts pertaining to UNLV Law School’s Program of Legal Education.  The site team spent 3 days at UNLV meeting with administrators, faculty, staff, and students, observing classes, and reviewing documents. Over the next 4 to 6 weeks, the team with compile a lengthy report for the ABA on this visit.

Robertson is C|M Law’s Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law and a Professor of Environmental Studies at the Levin College of Urban Affairs.

On Friday,  Feb. 28, Professors Reginald Oh and Doron Kalir presented at the American Constitutional Society’s Fifth Annual Constitutional Law Scholars Forum. The Forum, co-hosted by Texas A&M and Barry University Law Schools, took place in Orlando, FL. Professor Oh gave a lecture on “Dehumanization and Equal Protection Doctrine.” Professor Kalir presented a paper on “Constitutional Statutory Consistency and the Special Case of Title VII LGBTQ Litigation.” Both papers were very well received.