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Over the course of the 2026 Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference, I shared a series of reflections on the workshops, discussion groups, works-in-progress sessions, and scholarly conversations in which I participated, organized, or moderated.
For ease of reference, the complete SEALS 2026 series is collected below.
PART 1 — SEALS 2026: Looking Forward to Another Week of Conversations, Collaboration, and New Ideas
Read Part 1
PART 2 — Law, Governance, and Institutional Change in a Transforming World
Read Part 2
PART 3 — Beyond the Virtual Classroom: Student Engagement and Community in Distance Legal Education
Read Part 3
PART 4 — The Future of Comparative Law in a Multipolar and Technological World
Read Part 4
PART 5 — Governing Digital Transformation: Reflections from a Collective Conversation
Read Part 5
PART 6 — Corporate Accountability in a Fragmented World: Reflections from the 2026 SEALS Annual Conference
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PART 7 — Academic Institutions as Epistemic Institutions: Constitutional Law, Federal Funding, and Institutional Neutralization
Read Part 7
PART 8 — The Use of Force in a Reconfigured Global Legal Order: Venezuela, Iran, China, and the Indo-Pacific
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PART 9 — From Evidentiary Gatekeeping to Constitutional Control: Courts, Agencies, and the Governance of Knowledge
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PART 10 — Reimagining Food and Agriculture Governance: Law, Markets, Technology, and the Future of Food Systems
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PART 11 — Opening Remarks: Governing Digital Transformation: Regulatory Competition, Institutional Capacity, and the Future of Rights
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PART 12 — Opening Remarks: Corporate Power and Accountability in Global Value Chains: Human Rights, Sustainability, Labor, and Technology
Read Part 12
PART 13 — Opening Remarks: Reimagining Food and Agriculture Governance: Farmers, Animals, Trade, Technology, and Climate Resilience
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PART 14 — Preparing Lawyers for the Climate and Energy Transition: Experiential Pedagogy, Professional Skills, and Institutional Innovation
Read Part 14
Taken together, these fourteen posts trace the broader arc of my SEALS 2026 participation: legal education and distance learning; comparative law in a multipolar and technologically transformed world; digital governance and artificial intelligence; corporate power and accountability; constitutional and administrative governance of knowledge and expertise; international law and the use of force; food and agricultural governance; climate and energy transition; experiential pedagogy; and the institutional capacity required for law and legal education to respond to technological, environmental, economic, and geopolitical change.

















