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School of Law & Rutgers
School of Criminal Justice’s
Criminal Law and Criminal
Justice Books, reviewing
the book Petter Gottschalk,
Organizational Opportunity
and Devient Behavior.
Additionally, she completed
as official reporter The Florida
Bar Criminal Justice Summit: A
First Step in Improving Florida's
Criminal Justice System. She
also completed as chair of
the National Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers
(NACDL)working group
The Strategic Impact Litigation
Working Group Report. In
addition to these two articles/
essays, one co-authored book
review, and two bar-related
Reports, she was a discussant on
four programs at the Southeast
Association of American Law
Schools (SEALS): Business
Law Workshop - Insider
Trading Stories; The Mueller
Investigation; A 2020 Vision
of Criminal Prosecution and
Defense, and Effective Teaching
Strategies for Criminal Law and
Criminal Procedure Faculty.
Additionally, at SEALS,
Prof. Podgor was a panelist
for the program Scholarship
Fundamentals: Becoming a
Productive and Fulfilled Scholar.
Prof. Podgor also presented
in Brisbane, Australia, at
the International Society
for the Reform of Criminal
Law (ISRCL) on the topic
The Prosecution of Bribery &
Corruption in the United States,
at the NACDL West Coast
White Collar Crime Seminar
on the topic The Ethical Side of
Brady, and at the Association
for the Promotion of Political
Economy and the Law
(APPEAL) held at University
of Maryland School of Law
on a panel on White Collar
Crime. Prof. Podgor continued
her service as a member of the
AALS Membership Review
Committee and continued to
be listed in the top 10% of
Authors on SSRN by total new
downloads.
THERESA J. PULLEY
RADWAN,
Professor of Law, completed
the article Members Only:
Can a Trustee Govern an LLC
when its Member Files for
Bankruptcy, which will be
published in the Loyola of Los
Angeles Law Review this fall.
STACEY-RAE SIMCOX,
Associate Professor of Law,
Director, Veterans Law
Institute, and Director,
Veterans Advocacy Clinic,
presented on the plenary
panel at the United States
Court of Appeals for Veterans
Claims Conference on
“Changes in the Law.” Prof.
Simcox also participated
on Congressman Charlie
Crist and Congressman Gus
Bilirakis’, J.D. ’89, Joint Task
Force on Veterans Affairs.
The Veterans Advocacy Clinic
won several cases this past
summer, including a sexual
assault case that resulted in a
lump sum payment of benefits
from the Department of
Veterans Affairs of $70,000
and hundreds of thousands
in future benefits. The Clinic
also helped a Vietnam veteran
with PTSD win his case,
resulting in $72,000 in lump
sum payment that had been
wrongfully withheld and
future benefits. The Clinic
received attorneys’ fees this
summer in the amount of
$10,500 for a case Max Yarus,
J.D. ’19, and Dustin Sjong,
J.D. ’19, won at the U.S.
Court of Appeals. This money
will be used to pay for medical
testing and evaluation for
future clients.
CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY,
Professor of Law, published
an article in the Harvard
Law & Policy Review titled
“Deregulating Corruption.”
This article was referenced in
an Aug. 14 CrimProf Blog
post. Prof. Torres-Spelliscy
also wrote the June 5 Brennan
Center for Justice article,
“The Supreme Court Nixes
Corporate Contributions for
the 2020 Campaign,” and
the opinion piece “Don’t
Rebrand Corruption,” which
was published by the Brennan
Center for Justice in May.
LOUIS J. VIRELLI,
Professor of Law, wrote the
May 31 opinion piece “Recusal
Rules for Administrative
Adjudicators” for The
Regulatory Review. This piece
was republished on June 4
in Administrative Fix, a blog
hosted by the Administrative
Conference of the United
States (ACUS). Prof. Virelli
was invited to testify before
Congress this summer on
issues of judicial recusal
and ethics, but scheduling
conflicts prohibited him from
attending. He is currently
co-authoring the eighth
edition of his Administrative
Law casebook, Administrative
Law: Cases and Materials.
Prof. Virelli contributed a
chapter titled Constitutional
Appointments to the book
The Mueller Investigation and
Beyond, and presented a related
essay this past summer at an
Administrative Law Discussion
Forum in Lyon, France. Prof.
Virelli continues to serve as
managing editor of the ABA
Section on Administrative
Law and Regulatory Practice’s
quarterly publication, the
Administrative and Regulatory
Law News (ARLN), as well
as co-author of ARLN’s
recurring “Supreme Court
Update” column and
vice chair of the Section’s
constitutional law committee.
He is also currently chair of
the Association of American
Law Schools (AALS) Section
on Constitutional Law. Prof.
Virelli recently completed
his three-year term as a
member of the Board of
Trustees of the Southeastern
Association of Law Schools
(SEALS) and has upcoming
speaking engagements at
the Hillsborough County
Bar Association’s Bench-Bar
Conference, the Goldburg-
Cacciatore Criminal Inn of
Court, the Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute at Eckerd
College, and a Constitution
Day event sponsored by the
American Board of Trial
Advocates (ABOTA).
DARRYL C. WILSON,
Associate Dean for Faculty
and Strategic Initiatives,
Attorneys Title Insurance
Fund Professor of Law, and
Co-Director, Institute for
Caribbean Law & Policy,
attended the American Bar
Association’s (ABA) Bi-annual
Associate Deans Conference
in Chicago, and the annual
meeting of the International
Association for Advancement
of Teaching and Research
in Intellectual Property
(ATRIP) in Nashville, Tenn.
Prof. Wilson also provided
expert opinions in two
intellectual property cases, and
continued in his role as Chair
of the City of St. Petersburg
Code Compliance Board.
Additionally, Prof. Wilson was
one of the presenters for an
ABA Real Property, Trust &
Estate Law Section Professor’s
Corner webinar series where
he discussed “Short Term
Rentals.”