In addition to overseeing the Ethics Hotline, the Utah State Bar is launching a new venture, the Professional Development Office (PDO), which offers wide-ranging information and insight on how to commence, manage, and maintain your law practice, as well as preparing for your own retirement or transition out of the practice of law. Here, you’ll find helpful checklists, links, templates, and guidance to assist you in navigating any challenge you may encounter.

Panelists will discuss these emerging roles, including the distinct ethics offerings of the Bar and OPC respectively, as well as the brand new Bar website and what’s to come.

Scotti Hill (Ethics Counsel, Utah State Bar)

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This episode was originally broadcast and recorded on October 7, 2022

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization held that the U.S. Constitution does not provide a right to an abortion, which overturned both Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. While the full impact of this decision is still being felt, the immediate impact is that state legislatures are now taking the lead in determining when someone may seek an abortion. This has led to confusion in terms of what health care providers may and may not do in terms of treating people who are pregnant. Members of the panel will begin by explaining the Dobbs decision and its impact on the law, and review the current state of Utah law. The panel will then explore challenges that this change in the law raises for medical professionals as they balance providing evidence-based care, honoring women’s health care choices, and basing health care decisions on sound clinical judgment with adherence to the law; and wrestle with navigating interstate travel for abortion, determining at what point a pregnant woman’s life is in jeopardy, and assessing whether a fetal defect is fatal.

Leslie Francis, J.D., PhD, Alfred C. Emery Endowed Professor, S.J. Quinney College Of Law

Misha Pangasa, M.D., University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Family Planning

Jessica Sanders, PhD, M.S.P.H, Assistant Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Family Planning

Sara Simonsen, CNM, PSPH, PhD, Annette Poulson Cumming Presidential Endowed Chair in Women’s and Reproductive Health and Associate Professor within the College of Nursing

Moderators:

Elizabeth Kronk Warner, J.D.

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This episode was originally broadcast and recorded September 1, 2022

This is the first of two panel discussions on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision regarding abortion rights. After briefly overviewing the Dobbs decision, the panel will focus its discussion on “what’s next” – the aftermath of the Dobbs decision.  Many commentators have speculated, for example, that the Dobbs decision may imperil previous Supreme Court decisions on same sex marriage and contraception, as well as others.  Panelists will dive into these and other topics in exploring the potential aftermath of Dobbs.

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RonNell Anderson Jones, Professor, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Moderator: Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Dean, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

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This episode was originally broadcast and recorded on August 31, 2022

This episode, presented by TaxBit, will provide an overview of Digital Asset tax basics followed by a discussion on the implications of the Infrastructure Bill on Digital Assets, and common audit issues posed by this new asset class. No prior understanding of the Digital Asset space is required, and we encourage attendees to participate in the Q&A session following the conclusion of the presentation.

Seth Wilks, Senior Director  – Government Relations & SME

Moderator: Sam Mehr, ’20, JD/MFS

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This episode was originally recorded and broadcast on February 11, 2022

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Energy democracy is a social movement and a research area that is focused on the question of how to ensure that ongoing energy transitions are as democratic, just, and equitable as possible. Dr. Endres is the co-editor on the newly released Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy (Routledge, 2022), a transdisciplinary anthology that uses a social science and humanities lens to explain key concepts, present state-of-the-art research, and highlight key on-the-ground practices of energy democracy. The book addresses the issues of energy access, ownership, and participation at a time when there are expanding social, political, environmental, and economic demands on energy systems. Endres will present a conceptual framework that guides research on energy democracy and offer examples from several of the chapters in the book.

Danielle Endres (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Professor of Communication at the University of Utah. She is also affiliated faculty in the Environmental Humanities Program and the Global Change and Sustainability Center at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of science and environmental controversies including nuclear waste siting decisions, climate change, and energy transitions. She is currently working with her graduate student, Nico Hernandez, on a three-year project to better understand practices of energy democracy in Puerto Rico. Endres’s research is guided by principles of environmental justice and often focuses on how underrepresented groups and Indigenous Nations engage in science and environmental decision-making. Endres is the co-author of Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Studying Rhetoric In Situ and the co-editor of several books, including the Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. She has also published in Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, Western Journal of Communication, Environmental Communication, Argumentation, Argumentation & Advocacy, and Local Environment. The National Science Foundation and several fellowships from the University of Utah have funded her research. Outside of work, Endres enjoys walking in the mountains, reading mystery books, seeing live music, and visiting national parks with her partner and two kids.

Please contact The King’s English Bookshop to order a copy of the Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy.

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This episode was originally recorded and broadcast, Thursday, February 3, 2022

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Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for her monthly dean’s book review. The book to be reviewed will be, Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon. The book is part of a series called, Pocket Change Collective which was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. This is your invitation to join us for a book review and panel discussion.

In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary.

Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today’s leading activists and artists. In this installment, Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination.

Professor Anya A. Marino (she/her)*

Joél Arvizo-Zavala, PhD, MEd, CHES

Kim Koeven,

This episode was originally recorded and broadcast Monday, January 24, 2022

This panel discussion will revolve around Professor Hessick’s book, Punishment without Trial: Why Plea Bargaining is a Bad Deal.

Carissa Hessick, Anne Shea Ransdell and William Garland “Buck” Ransdell, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina

Shima Baradaran Baughman, Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Samantha Dugan – Attorney, Legal Defenders Association

Hillary King – Attorney, Legal Defenders Association

Grant Miller – Attorney, Legal Defenders Association

Liza M. Smith – Attorney, Legal Defenders Association

This episode was originally recorded and Broadcast, January 14, 2022

Join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for this book review and discussion with Dean Martell Teasley, College of Social Work. The book they will be reviewing is, Nice Racism: How progressive white people perpetuate racial harm by Dr. Robin DiAngelo for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This New York Times bestseller explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.

In DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility, she explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of color. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains how they do so. Drawing on her background as a sociologist and over 25 years working as an anti-racist educator, she picks up where White Fragility left off and moves the conversation forward.

Writing directly to white people as a white person, DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. These patterns include:

DiAngelo explains how spiritual white progressives seeking community by co-opting Indigenous and other groups’ rituals create separation, not connection. She challenges the ideology of individualism and explains why it is OK to generalize about white people, and she demonstrates how white people who experience other oppressions still benefit from systemic racism. Writing candidly about her own missteps and struggles, she models a path forward, encouraging white readers to continually face their complicity and embrace courage, lifelong commitment, and accountability.

Nice Racism is an essential work for any white person who recognizes the existence of systemic racism and white supremacy and wants to take steps to align their values with their actual practice. BIPOC readers may also find the “insiders” perspective useful for navigating whiteness.

A digital copy of this book is available at the library for University of Utah students, faculty and staff.

Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Jefferson B. & Rita E. Fordham Presidential Dean and Professor of Law, The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

Dean Martell L. Teasley, MSW, PhD, Professor

This episode was originally broadcast and recorded, January 20, 2022

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A Book Celebration & Conversation With Author Erika George  

Professor of Law Erika George’s book considers market-based strategies to bring business practices into alignment with the responsibility to respect human rights. It also explores how corporate social responsibility initiatives could close a global governance gap that currently places human rights at risk—and that puts commercial actors in the position of becoming complicit in human rights abuses. George examines corporate codes of conduct, sustainability reporting, shareholder activism, and multi-stakeholder initiatives that could become the building blocks of a set of baseline standards for better business practices.  To mark the 10th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a panel of experts will join George for a conversation on overcoming challenges and promoting change. Panelists will take stock of current and emerging efforts to advance accountability and leverage leadership.  

PANELISTS: Erika George - Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and director of the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah’s College of Humanities. Her research explores the responsibility of corporations to respect international human rights and various efforts to hold business enterprises accountable for alleged abuses. George is chair of the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Earthjustice and is a member of the Fair Labor Association Board. She is a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge University Press Business and Human Rights Journal. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and was recently elected to the American Law Institute. Before joining Utah, she was a fellow with Human Rights Watch in New York and practiced commercial litigation with Jenner & Block in Chicago.  

Philip Alston – Special Rapporteur, Extreme Poverty & Human Rights, UN Human Right Council’s Office of the High Commissioner   

Surya Deva – Professor, City University of Hong Kong – Member, Macquarie Law School – Member, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights  

Bennett Freeman – Principal, Bennett Freeman Associates LLC  

Ryan Gellert – Chief Executive Office, Patagonia Works and Patagonia, Inc.  

Fernanda Hopenhaym – Co-Executive Director, Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER)  

Moderator: Tony Anghie is professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the National University of Singapore. His research interests include public international law, international economic law, human rights and the history and theory of international law, and he has published in each of these areas. He has served as a visiting professor at various universities including the University of Tokyo, the London School of Economics, the American University of Cairo and Harvard Law School. He has also served as a counselor and as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. He is a co-editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. He is a member of the Third World Approaches (TWAIL) network of scholars.

The disparate impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (“COVID-19”) pandemic on low-income and racially/ethnically minoritized communities across the Unites States has exposed America’s uneven geography of public health. Public health experts trace the heightened risk of mortality from COVID-19 among such populations to their high rates of diabetes, asthma, and hypertension, among other comorbidities. Yet, food justice activists call attention to the embeddedness of structural racism in global food systems operating at local scale, perhaps best illuminated by the prevalence of food insecurity in low-income Black neighborhoods nationwide. This research explores the conundrum of resolving food insecurity catalyzed by historic racial discrimination without violating the Constitution’s prohibitions against racial discrimination in publicly funded food justice programming. It argues that the answer to resolving the indignities of food insecurity provoked by racial discrimination lies in embracing a progressive constitutionalism that takes seriously the legacy of white supremacy in the United States political economy.

Originally broadcast and recorded on November 17, 2021, 12:15 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)