Faculty Committees and Service

Professor Deborah Borman received the ALWD Outstanding Service Award and LWI Mongraph Award for Outstanding Service from the Association of Legal Writing Directors and Legal Writing Institute at the organization’s Legal Writing Institute 2018 Biennial Conference on July 2018. Received Outstanding Service Awards from the Association of Legal Writing Directors for work with the Publications … Professor Borman Receives Two Awards

Trudeau, Christopher has been appointed to Health Literacy Workgroup at the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center for the 2018 to 2020 term. Because of his expertise in informed consent, health literacy, and plain language, Professor Trudeau has been invited to serve as co-chair of this Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center workgroup. The workgroup consists of 50 members … Professor Trudeau invited to serve as co-chair of a workgroup hosted by Harvard and Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Robert Steinbuch, a law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, will serve as Vice Chair of the Arkansas advisory committee of a federal organization dedicated to advancing civil rights through investigation, research, and analysis. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent bipartisan federal agency, first … Professor Steinbuch appointed Vice Chair of Commission on Civil Rights Committee

Eric Benard Rounds v. State of Arkansas, The Arkansas Court of Appeals reversed the trial court’s order denying a motion to suppress and ordered that the State is barred from using the illegally obtained evidence., CR-17-708, Arkansas Court of Appeals (April 25, 2018). Professor Cain convinced the Arkansas Court of Appeals to reverse a trial … Professor Cain convinced the Arkansas Court of Appeals to suppress evidence discovered during an unconstitutional traffic stop

Jeff B. Woodmansee, Associate Professor of Law Librarianship, was named SWALL Chapter President at the SWALL/HALL Joint Annual Meeting on April 6, 2018 in Houston, TX. After serving as V.P./President-elect the previous year, he will also lead the Board of Directors in 2018-19, including coordination of the 2019 Annual Meeting to be held in Little … Professor Woodmansee named SW region law librarians chapter president

Professor Joshua Silverstein has been appointed to the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission 2018 Pro Bono Week Planning Committee.  The committee assists with the organization of all aspects of Pro Bono Week.

Professor Sarah Howard Jenkins, the Charles C. Baum Distinguished Professor of Law at UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, is a 2017 inductee into the University of Kentucky College of Law Hall of Fame. The University of Kentucky Law Alumni Association Hall of Fame was established to acknowledge graduates and former faculty … Jenkins inducted into University of Kentucky College of Law Hall of Fame

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will honor 17 of its top faculty members during the Faculty Excellence Awards Thursday, April 12, at 5:30 p.m. in the College of Engineering and Information Technology Auditorium. Congratulations to Bowen’s winners: A panel of external judges will review the achievements of the college-level winners and select the … UA Little Rock announces college-level Faculty Excellence award winners

Christopher Trudeau, a professor with a dual appointment at the UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law and at UAMS has been named to the Roundtable on Health Literacy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is the first lawyer to be appointed to this committee, and he’s one of … Trudeau named to Roundtable on Health Literacy of the NASEM

Professor Steinbuch has served on the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission, a Commission of the United Stated Department of State and Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, from 2015-present.  He evaluates applicants for Polish-U.S. Fulbright Awards.