Catherine Archibald

Applied Legal Theory and Analysis

Comparative Legal Writing and Research

First Amendment Law

Gender Law

International Environmental Law

Still Problematic, Even Post-Settlement: Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law and the Federal Constitution, 28 Chapman Law Review 1 (2024)

Putin’s Version of History and Claims of Provocation: An International Law Perspective on Russia’s Justifications for the Ukraine War (with Aman L. McLeod), 100 University Detroit Mercy Law Review 501 (2023)

Feminist Perspectives on Bostock v. Clayton County (co-authored with Ann C. McGinley, Nicole Buonocore Porter, Danielle Weatherby, Ryan H. Nelson, and Pamela Wilkins), 53 Connecticut Law Review Online 1 (2020) 

Commentary and Rewritten Opinion for Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority (10th Cir. 2007) in Feminist Judgments: Employment Discrimination Opinions Rewritten (Ann McGinley & Nicole Porter eds., Cambridge University Press 2020) (co-authored with Pamela Wilkins).

Transgender and Intersex Sports Rights, 26:3 Virgina Journal of Social Policy & The Law 246-276 (2019)

Transgender Bathroom Rights in the Time of Trump, 6 Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice 241-273 (2017)

Transgender Bathroom Rights, 24 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 1-31 (2016)

“The Climate Emergency and AI: Rethinking the Use of AI in Law Schools and Beyond,” Panel Presentation with Interim Dean and Professor of Law Nicholas Schroeck, and Dr. Jon Truby, National University of Singapore. 2025 AALS Annual Meeting, "Courage in Action," January 7-11, 2025, San Francisco. Wednesday, January 8.

"How Having Law Faculty that Teach Both Writing and Doctrinal Classes Can Improve Student Learning," presentation with Prof. Julie St. John as part of the Legal Writing Institute's Virtual One-Day Workshop at Vermont Law & Graduate School, called "Use It or Lose It: Upper-Level Writing for Skills Maintenance." December 8, 2023.

"Public Trust and Confidence in Perspective: Landmark SCOTUS Decisions and Their Adverse Impact," webinar presentation with Prof. Aman McLeod for the National Association for Court Management. June 7, 2023

"Putin’s Version of History and Claims of Provocation: An International Law Perspective on Russia’s Justifications for the Ukraine War" presentation, at Toledo Law School, as part of the Toledo Law/ Detroit Mercy Law faculty exchange program. April 3, 2023.

“Weekly Yoga at Law School,” panel presentation on “Well-Being Offerings” with: Jordana A. Confino, Senior Director of Professionalism & Special Projects, Fordham University School of Law; Janet Stearns, Dean of Students & Lecturer, University of Miami School of Law; Ron Hochbaum, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Brett Bowers, Director of Wellness, North Carolina Central University; Lynn Su, Professor of Law, New York Law School; and Dena Bauman, Externship Director & Lecturer, UC Davis School of Law, as part of the AALS Balance & Well-Being Section's Speed-Idea Sharing Series, on Zoom, July 27, 2022.

“Understanding Dobbs: Overturning of Roe v. Wade,” panel presentation with Prof. Richard Broughton and Prof. Leslie Scott as part of the “Current Events in the Law Series” at Detroit Mercy Law on Zoom on June 29, 2022.

“The State of Reproductive Rights in the U.S.,” panel presentation with Prof. Ederlina Co, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and Merissa Kovach, Michigan ACLU, a collaboration by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at University of Detroit Mercy and Detroit Mercy Law, on Zoom, March 24, 2022.

Moderator for: “Current Issues in Indigenous Law,” Detroit Mercy Law Diversity Committee event, on Zoom, Nov. 17, 2021, with panel presenters Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center, Michigan State University; Dr. Beverly Jacobs, Associate Professor, Associate Dean (Academic), University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Indigenous Legal Orders Institute; and Valerie Waboose, Assistant Professor, University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Indigenous Legal Orders Institute.

“Understanding the Law of Reproductive Rights in the U.S. Today,” panel presentation with Prof. Ederlina Co, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and Merissa Kovach, Michigan ACLU, as part of the Constitution Day 2021 event, Detroit Mercy Law, on Zoom, Sept. 24, 2021.

“Bostock v. Clayton County and Sex Discrimination Claims under the Equal Protection Clause,” as part of the Constitution Day 2020 Faculty Panel, Detroit Mercy Law, on Zoom, Sept. 17, 2020.

“Transgender and Intersex Sports Rights” in “Trans and Queer Life in Private and Public” paper presentation session at the Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, May 30, 2020.

“Harris v. EEOC: A Conversation with ACLU’s Jay Kaplan on LGBTQ+ Protections Under Title VII,” co-presentation with Jay Kaplan, staff attorney at the ACLU, for the OutLaws, Women’s Law Caucus, and the American Constitution Society at Detroit Mercy Law, November 19, 2019.

“All-Gender Restroom Unveiling Event,” presentation for the OutLaws at Detroit Mercy Law, October 15, 2019.

“Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions” panel roundtable presentation at the Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, June 1, 2019.

“The Rewriting of Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority (10th Cir. 2007)” presentation for the Toledo Women's Bar Association Spring 2019 CLE: Gender, Reproductive Rights, and Sexual Misconduct, Toledo Club, Toledo, Ohio, May 23, 2019.

“Wellness at Work” panel presentation on Michigan’s Paid Medical Leave Act for the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan Wayne Region Annual Meeting, Detroit Club, Detroit, May 8, 2019.

“Policy Implementation Roundtable: Increasing the Prevalence of All-Gender Bathrooms,” presentation for the Title IX Investigation Conference at Grand Valley State University, May 2, 2019.

“Commentary and rewriting of Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority,” co-presentation with by Prof. Pamela Wilkins for the 2019 Law Review Symposium, Women and the Law, March 8, 2019, Detroit Mercy Law.

“Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination under Michigan’s Elliott-Larson Civil Rights Act,” co-presentation with Dr. Agustin Arbulu, the Director of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, for the American Constitution Society at Detroit Mercy Law, November 20, 2018.

“Transgender Bathroom Rights at Detroit Mercy Law,” presentation at the 2018 Fall Colleague Development Days at University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, August 20, 2018.

“Eight Limbs and Three Branches: Yoga and Teaching Law,” co-presentation with Prof. Aliza Milner from Syracuse Law, for the Eighteenth Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, March 23, 2018.

“The Trump Presidency's Impact on Minorities and Women” panel presentation and discussion at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in Detroit, April 12, 2017.

“Transgender and Intersex and Title IX: Emerging Issues” panel presentation, University of Tennessee College of Law Conference: Title IX: History, Legacy, and Controversy, March 3, 2017.

“The Current State of Transgender Bathroom Rights” presentation at University of Toledo College of Law in Toledo, Ohio, February 8, 2017.

“Know Your Rights; How to be an advocate for yourself and an ally for others” panel presentation at University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, January 19, 2017.

“The Effects of the Election on Minorities and Women” panel presentation and discussion at University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in Detroit, November 22, 2016.

“The Pedagogy of Love: Teaching Social Justice in a Catholic Law School” panel presentation for the 2016 SALT Teaching Conference at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, October 1, 2016.