• No Department, No Enforcement: Title IX After the Collapse of the Department of Education

  Walker, Tammi; University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law (UC Davis School of Law, 2025-09)

  The structural foundations of Title IX enforcement are undergoing a profound transformation. President Trump’s 2025 executive order initiating the closure of the Department of Education, combined with the vacatur of the 2024 Title IX regulations and the Supreme Court’s elimination of Chevron deference in Loper Bright, has fundamentally dismantled the administrative framework that long anchored Title IX protections. Unlike prior regulatory shifts, these developments raise the question of whether meaningful federal enforcement will continue to exist at all. As administrative structures recede, courts will assume a much greater role in defining Title IX’s scope and enforceability, despite their institutional limitations. This Article argues that the resulting shift will narrow substantive protections, restrict access to justice, and produce fragmented interpretations of Title IX across jurisdictions. It examines the statute’s original design as an evolving administrative framework, explores the barriers marginalized students will face under a litigation-driven model, and explains why courts are ill-equipped to provide consistent, forward-looking guidance. This Article concludes by considering potential legislative reforms to restore national coordination in Title IX enforcement, drawing lessons from Congress’s intervention following Grove City College v. Bell.
• Developments in Plant Genetics

  Silvertooth, Jeffrey C.; University of Arizona (College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2025-09-30)

  This article, published in the VegIPM Newsletter (Vol. 16, No. 20), traces advances in plant genetics from the Green Revolution to Bt crops, while warning against past missteps like Lysenkoism.
• Temporal Refuges: A New Tool for Resistance Management

  Ellsworth, Peter C.; Fournier, Al; Keith, Macey; Calvin, Wilfrid; Brown, Alexa; Dixon, Wayne; King, Matthew; Rahr, Matt; University of Arizona (College of Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2025)

  The Proactive Resistance Management (PRM) web application introduces a new approach to insect resistance management by visualizing “temporal refuges” — periods when pests are not exposed to residues of a given mode of action (MoA). Using pesticide use reporting data, the tool estimates exposure windows, merges overlapping spray periods, and calculates the proportion of residue-free days across successive 90-day intervals at the community scale (~9 square miles). The resulting charts allow growers and pest control advisors to quickly assess refuge availability for multiple MoAs and make more informed insecticide choices. While not prescriptive, these outputs highlight opportunities to partition MoAs through time, preserve susceptibility in pest populations, and delay resistance. By transforming complex pesticide use records into simple, interpretable visual outputs, the PRM tool provides a practical and scalable resource to guide community-level decision making and sustain the long-term efficacy of available chemistries.
• Enhancing Design Guidelines for Metal Powder Bed Fusion: Analyzing Geometric Features to Improve Part Quality

  Bushra, Jannatul; Budinoff, Hannah D.; Luna Falcon, Pablo; Latypov, Marat; University of Arizona (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2023-11-21)

  Additive manufacturing (AM) part quality relies on many factors, including part geometry that impacts both the manufacturability and resulting dimensional accuracy of the part. To improve the dimensional accuracy of AM parts, data-driven approaches can be utilized to explore the effect of different process parameters on both simple and complex geometries. However, to provide general design guidelines, it is necessary to develop models and tools that accurately predict geometry-driven distortion across a broad range of geometries, while also being user-interpretable. Identifying and analyzing common part features that contribute to geometrical deviations and using them to design better parts could improve AM part quality. In this paper, a Gaussian process regression surrogate model was trained using 21 geometric features (selected from a set of 92 shape descriptors) from 324 different axisymmetric parts to predict maximum part distortion and identify the features that impact part distortion the most. Validated high-fidelity finite element analysis simulations were used to determine the maximum distortion corresponding to each part. Our results show the surrogate model approach can accurately predict part distortion, with a predictive error of approximately 0.07 mm for the testing set. The findings of this study can have implications for the exploration of new part designs by adjusting these identified features or incorporating them as design rules in AM product designs.
• An Innovative Approach to Medical-Legal Partnership: Unauthorized Practice of Law Reform as a Civil Justice Pathway in Patient Care

  Balser, Cayley; Rupprecht Jane, Stacy; Coronado, Antonio M.; University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025-09-16)

  This Article discusses the design of an innovative approach to the traditional medical-legal partnership. This potentially transformative service model proposes the use of unauthorized practice of law (UPL) reform to embed civil legal problem solving within a patient care setting. Unlike in the traditional medical-legal partnership — a service model which embeds lawyers within patient care settings to address patients’ justice needs — we explore the promise of patient advocacy through community-based justice workers (CBJWs): members of the community who are not lawyers but who have specialized legal training and authorization to provide civil legal help to those who need it most. This work is the result of a partnership between Innovation for Justice, a social justice legal innovation lab housed at both the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, and University of Utah Health. The present framework for UPL-reform-based medical-legal partnerships was developed through robust community-engaged research and design work across the 2022–23 academic year. This article discusses the research findings and proposes a framework for replication in other jurisdictions.

View more