Law Professor Receives Awards, Honors for Innovative Research
Jordan Blair Woods
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law has announced that Jordan Blair Woods, assistant professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law, has received a 2018 Dukeminier Award and the Ezekiel Webber Prize for his article "LGBT Identity and Crime," which appeared in the California Law Review (vol. 105, 2017).
The awards recognize the best scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy published in law reviews throughout the year. The top six articles are republished in a special edition of The Dukeminier Awards Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law. In addition to Woods' research, the 2018 volume includes scholarship from faculty members at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law, Washington University School of Law and Yale Law School.
Additionally, Woods was accepted to the second annual Junior Faculty Forum for Law and STEM, which is organized by the law schools at Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University.
In his working paper "Policing, Autonomous Vehicles and Officer Danger," Woods explores self-driving cars and police safety. Previously published work is not eligible for presentation. Papers were selected by a jury of accomplished scholars with expertise in areas such as bitcoin and other blockchain technologies, customized medicine, online security and privacy, synthetic biology and autonomous vehicles.
The forum, dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship focusing on the intersection of Law and Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM), will be held Sept. 28-29 at the Northwestern Pitzker School of Law. The inaugural forum was held in October 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Contacts
Darinda Sharp, director of communications
School of Law
479-575-7417,
dsharp@uark.edu
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