A new co-authored essay from Professors Jennifer Robbennolt and Verity Winship will be published in the FSU Business Review, as part of the 2026 Symposium on Behavioral Perspectives on Corporate Law. The essay is titled “From Tweets to Testimony: A Case Study of Apologies After the FTX Collapse,” and the abstract follows:

Susanna Lee has joined Shure Incorporated as Legal Director, Senior Product Counsel. Founded in 1925 and based in the Chicago area, Shure has been an industry leader in audio electronics, renowned for manufacturing world-class microphones and audio gear that have shaped the music and broadcast industries.

Laura Neubauer was appointed Chief of Organized Crime and Racketeering at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York, where she has served for over 30 years since earning her JD from Illinois in ’89. She also served two overseas assignments with the United States Department of Justice in 2001–05 and 2015–17.

Professor Ralph Brubaker published a new article on SSRN, titled “The Erie Doctrine, Code Common Law, and Choice-of-Law Rules in Bankruptcy.” The article was also featured in the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable.

Writing from the perspective of an immigration lawyer who has represented hundreds of clients in asylum claims, professor and director of the Immigration Law Clinic Lauren Aronson recently published an op-ed in The Fulcrum. An excerpt follows:

Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson joined Utah state representative Mike Petersen on the Political as Heck Utah podcast for a conversation about the conversion therapy case that was recently decided at the U.S. Supreme Court. They spoke about the history behind Utah’s own conversion therapy law, how the decision in the Supreme Court case might impact it, and more.

On Monday, June 1, Professor Jacob Sherkow will deliver a lecture at the 15th Waseda-Penn Global Patent Law Conference in Japan. His talk will introduce the fundamentals of indirect patent infringement under U.S. law, with a focus on inducement doctrine under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b). Drawing on recent litigation and scholarship — including the “infringement by label” debate highlighted in the Supreme Court case Hikma v. Amarin — the talk will critically examine how current case law risks expanding inducement liability beyond its traditional requirement of active encouragement and causation. In doing so, the lecture will highlight broader questions about the proper limits of indirect infringement and the role of regulatory contexts in shaping liability—issues that also resonate in ongoing Japanese debates on the scope and structure of secondary patent liability.

Professor Sarah Lawsky, along with co-author Leandra Lederman, published the paper “Constructing Deductions” on SSRN.com. The abstract follows:

Bruce recently retired after spending 7 years as an Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney, 2 years as a Special U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, 24 years as a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and 10 years as a contract Polygraph Examiner for the Federal Air Marshals and the U.S. Postal Inspection service. He now lives in Florida loving the Lord and working on his Pickleball game.

Judge Federico M. Rodriguez was recently elected 2nd Vice-President of the Illinois Latino Judges Association.