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2025 Upcoming Events
Corporate Accountability for Activity in the Global South
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025 | 12 – 1 p.m. | King Hall, Room 1002 | In-Person Only
Hannah Buxbaum, Professor of Law, UC Davis
Hannah Buxbaum is a leading expert in international jurisdiction, international litigation, and comparative law. In 2025, she was elected to the Institut de Droit International, a leading society that promotes the development of international law. She joined UC Davis in 2025 from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she had been a faculty member since 1997. She served in a number of administrative leadership positions at Indiana University, including as the university’s Vice President for International Affairs (2018-2025) and as Interim Dean (2012-2014) and Executive Associate Dean (2009-2012) of the Maurer School of Law.
Christiana Ochoa, Dean, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington
Christiana Ochoa’s research seeks to understand how economic activity impacts human and ecological well-being. Her theoretical and empirical research relies on international and comparative law, particularly in the fields of Business & Human Rights, Law & Development, International Finance, and Foreign Direct Investment. She brings her field work—as well as her practice experience at the global law firm Clifford Chance and with a number of human rights and humanitarian non-governmental organizations in Latin America—to her research questions and classroom teaching.
Lunch provided.
Technology and National Security Lawyering: A Conversation with John Dermody
Monday, Nov. 3, 2025 | 12 – 1 p.m. | King Hall, Room 1301 | In-Person Only
John Dermody is the Deputy Chief Counsel for the CHIPS Program Office at the Department of Commerce, which is responsible for providing $39 billion in incentives to support the US semiconductor industry. Before joining Commerce, John was a Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers, where he litigated false claims act cases and advised on national security, cybersecurity, data privacy, and federal grant administration issues. He previously served as a Deputy Legal Advisor for the National Security Council, where he advised the National Security Advisor, the White House Counsel, and the White House Chief of Staff on matters related to cybersecurity, intelligence activities, infrastructure protection, disaster response, and border and transportation security, among other issues. He also served in the General Counsel Offices of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Innovation, Law, and Society. Lunch provided.