In January, Emily attended the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.  There, she was elected Chair of the AALS Section on Law and Interpretation for 2015.

In the fall, Emily spoke at a symposium hosted by the University of California Hastings College of Law honoring Professor Chuck Knapp’s 50th Year of Law Teaching.  Professor Knapp is a preeminent scholar in contract law.  The essay on which Emily based her talk, “Sketches of a Redemptive Theory of Contract Law,” will be published in the Hastings Law Journal.

She also spoke on two panels at “The Highest Tribute: The Michigan Journal of Race & Law at 20,” a celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law, of which Emily was a co-founder and editor when she was a student at the University of Michigan.

UC Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which Emily co-directs with Kristin Kalsem and Verna Williams, put on several events, including:

• Coffee Corner with Professor Rachel Barkow, UC Law’s 2015 Chesley Visitor (Feb. 23);
• Screening of “A Reading on the Letter from Birmingham Jail” (Feb. 11);
• Panel, Civil Rights LItigation and Policing: Lessons from the Cincinnati Collaborative, featuring Hon. Susan J. Dlott, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Al Gerhardstein, Iris Roley,a nd Hathy Harrell, co-sponsored with UC Law’s Black Law Students Association, Federalist Society, and American Constitution Society;
• Speaker: Carter Stewart, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio (Nov. 6, 2014), co-sponsored with the American Constitution Society;
• Coffee Corner on Movement Lawyering with UC Law alum Clement Tsao and Brennan Grayson (Oct. 30, 2014);
• Panel, “Sowing Seeds for Change: Philanthropy and Women’s Movements,” featuring Teresa Younger (CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, NYC) and Vanessa Freytag (Executive Director of the Women’s Fund of Cincinnati) (Oct. 23, 2014);
• Sneak preview screening of HBO Documentary Private Violence at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Museum (Oct. 3, 2014), co-sponsored by HBO and Macy’s;
• Community Summit on Domestic Violence (Oct. 3, 2014);
• Panel, Corporate Personhood, Religious Liberty, and Contraception: The Supreme Court’s Decision in Hobby Lobby, featuring women’s rights advocate Gillian Thomas and Professors Chris Bryant, Felix Chang, and Verna Williams

Emily’s article The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 1, was cited in Jay M. Feinman, Good Faith and Reasonable Expectations, 67 Ark. L. Rev. 525 (2014); Kathleen Lestage, Note, Contract Law—No Faith in Arkansas’s Approach to the Implied Duty of Good Faith: Ark. Research Med. Testing, LLC v. Osborne, 2011 Ark. 158, 2011 WL 1423993, 36 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 653 (2014); Frédéric G. Sourgens, Reason and Reasonableness: The Necessary Diversity of the Common Law, 67 Me. L. Rev. 73 (2014).