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FACULTY WRITINGS

Steven Goode, Guy Wellborn, & Michael Sharlot, Courtroom Handbook on Texas Evidence (St. Paul: West, 2002 ed.).

Steven Goode & Guy Wellborn, Courtroom Handbook on Federal Evidence (St. Paul: West, 2002 ed.).

Hans Baade, Reflections on the Reception (or Renaissance) of Civil Law in Texas [Tribute to Joseph W. McKnight], 55 SMU Law Review 59 (2002).

Lynn Baker, Conditional Federal Spending and States’ Rights, 574 Annals of The American Academy of Political & Social Science 104 (2001).

Lino Graglia, Do Racial Preferences Cause Rather Than Remedy the Black Academic-Performance Gap?, 80 Texas Law Review 933 (2002) (essay reviewing Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, by John H. McWhorter).

Sanford Levinson, Book Review, History Book Club Review, June 2002, at 2 (reviewing The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, by Philip Bobbitt, and The Paradox of American Power: Why America Must Join the World in Order to Lead It, by Joseph Nye).

Inga Markovits, Selective Memory: How the Law Affects What We Remember and Forget about the Past—The Case of East Germany, 35 Law & Society Review 513 (2001).

Linda Mullenix, Some Joy in Whoville: Rule 23(f), A Good Rulemaking, 69 Tennessee Law Review 97 (2001).

John Robertson, Sex Selection: Final Word from the ASRM Ethics Committee on the Use of PGD, Hastings Center Report, Mar.-Apr. 2002, at 6.

Jordan Steiker, Did the Oklahoma City Bombers Succeed?, 574 Annals of The American Academy of Political & Social Science 185 (2001).

Michael Sturley, Transport Law: Preliminary Draft Instrument on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (New York: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Working Group III (Transport Law), 9th Session, Apr. 15-26, 2002) (with Francis M.B. Reynolds & Gertjan van der Ziel). [Also published in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian & Spanish.]

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Antonio Azuela spoke on the enforcement of environmental law under NAFTA as part of a panel on “The Regional Network Experience” at the Sixth International Conference on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, Apr. 15, 2002, in San José, Costa Rica.

Loftus Carson was designated by the Student Bar Association as the Law Week 2002 Faculty Honoree for Teaching Excellence and Dedication to the Student Body. On Mar. 4, 2002, Carson presented a paper at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, entitled “Government Supported Provision of Social Services Through Faith-Based Institutions: Some Legal and Policy Issues.”

Sarah Cleveland was one of six former U.S. Supreme Court clerks invited to participate in a day-long symposium on “The Politics of the Supreme Court” at Brown University on Apr. 22, 2002.

Lee Fennell presented a paper entitled “Death, Taxes, and Cognition: A Behavioral Look at the Estate Tax” at the 12th annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association, which was held May 4-5, 2002, at Harvard Law School.

Anne Griffiths delivered a guest lecture on “Kwena Women’s Worlds: Remaking Local Law in Africa” at Harvard University’s Center for Population and Development Studies on May 2, 2002, and attended a workshop on “The Impact of Family Forms and Functions on Poverty in Africa,” May 2-3, 2002.

Henry Hu’s comments on a range of corporate governance, investment banking, and securities regulation issues were set out in a full-length interview published in Liberation (Paris), Apr. 11, 2002. Hu was quoted in the “Heard on the Street” column in the Wall Street Journal, Apr. 10, 2002, Wall Street Journal Europe, Apr. 10, 2002, and Asian Wall Street Journal, Apr. 11, 2002, on the New York Attorney General’s initial actions against Merrill Lynch relating to the recommendations of its Internet stock analysts. Hu was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Apr. 10, 2002, on executive compensation issues in the context of Qwest Communications.

Basil Markesinis has been appointed Special Adviser to the First President of the French Supreme Court for matters of European Law. The new edition of Markesinis’ German Law of Tort: A Comparative Treatise will be launched at a June 18, 2002, reception in London hosted by Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Phyllips, The Master of the Rolls, and the presidents of the German Constitutional Court and the German federal Supreme Court.

Steven Ratner gave a talk entitled “The Pitfalls of International Criminal Justice” on Apr. 30, 2002, to the UT-Austin Chapter of Amnesty International. On May 2, 2002, Ratner delivered a paper entitled “Capacity-Building to Fight Terrorism: Finding the UN’s Comparative Advantage” to a group of senior UN and foreign diplomats in New York. The paper and the responses to it are being used by the UN Secretary-General’s Working Group on Terrorism for a report that the Secretary-General will submit to UN member states this summer.

Zipporah Wiseman gave a talk on “The Tension Between Teaching Applied Feminist Legal Theory and the Supposed Neutrality of Legal Education” during a conference at American University in honor of Elizabeth Schneider’s book, Battered Women and Feminist Practice, Apr. 18-19, 2002.

LAW LIBRARY NEWS

Tobe Liebert was the guest speaker on the Law Day segment of “Ask the Lawyer” on Local Access Channel 17, May 1, 2002.


	*Jamail Center for Legal Research* University of Texas at Austin School of Law 2001 New Faculty and Faculty Honors and Accomplishments LAW SCHOOL NEWS Volume 12, No. 12 May 16, 2002 View Past Issues
FACULTY WRITINGS Steven Goode, Guy Wellborn, & Michael Sharlot, Courtroom Handbook on Texas Evidence (St. Paul: West, 2002 ed.). Steven Goode & Guy Wellborn, Courtroom Handbook on Federal Evidence (St. Paul: West, 2002 ed.). Hans Baade, Reflections on the Reception (or Renaissance) of Civil Law in Texas [Tribute to Joseph W. McKnight], 55 SMU Law Review 59 (2002). Lynn Baker, Conditional Federal Spending and States’ Rights, 574 Annals of The American Academy of Political & Social Science 104 (2001). Lino Graglia, Do Racial Preferences Cause Rather Than Remedy the Black Academic-Performance Gap?, 80 Texas Law Review 933 (2002) (essay reviewing Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, by John H. McWhorter). Sanford Levinson, Book Review, History Book Club Review, June 2002, at 2 (reviewing The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, by Philip Bobbitt, and The Paradox of American Power: Why America Must Join the World in Order to Lead It, by Joseph Nye). Inga Markovits, Selective Memory: How the Law Affects What We Remember and Forget about the Past—The Case of East Germany, 35 Law & Society Review 513 (2001). Linda Mullenix, Some Joy in Whoville: Rule 23(f), A Good Rulemaking, 69 Tennessee Law Review 97 (2001). John Robertson, Sex Selection: Final Word from the ASRM Ethics Committee on the Use of PGD, Hastings Center Report, Mar.-Apr. 2002, at 6. Jordan Steiker, Did the Oklahoma City Bombers Succeed?, 574 Annals of The American Academy of Political & Social Science 185 (2001). Michael Sturley, Transport Law: Preliminary Draft Instrument on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (New York: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Working Group III (Transport Law), 9th Session, Apr. 15-26, 2002) (with Francis M.B. Reynolds & Gertjan van der Ziel). [Also published in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian & Spanish.] FACULTY ACTIVITIES Antonio Azuela spoke on the enforcement of environmental law under NAFTA as part of a panel on “The Regional Network Experience” at the Sixth International Conference on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, Apr. 15, 2002, in San José, Costa Rica. Loftus Carson was designated by the Student Bar Association as the Law Week 2002 Faculty Honoree for Teaching Excellence and Dedication to the Student Body. On Mar. 4, 2002, Carson presented a paper at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, entitled “Government Supported Provision of Social Services Through Faith-Based Institutions: Some Legal and Policy Issues.” Sarah Cleveland was one of six former U.S. Supreme Court clerks invited to participate in a day-long symposium on “The Politics of the Supreme Court” at Brown University on Apr. 22, 2002. Lee Fennell presented a paper entitled “Death, Taxes, and Cognition: A Behavioral Look at the Estate Tax” at the 12th annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association, which was held May 4-5, 2002, at Harvard Law School. Anne Griffiths delivered a guest lecture on “Kwena Women’s Worlds: Remaking Local Law in Africa” at Harvard University’s Center for Population and Development Studies on May 2, 2002, and attended a workshop on “The Impact of Family Forms and Functions on Poverty in Africa,” May 2-3, 2002. Henry Hu’s comments on a range of corporate governance, investment banking, and securities regulation issues were set out in a full-length interview published in Liberation (Paris), Apr. 11, 2002. Hu was quoted in the “Heard on the Street” column in the Wall Street Journal, Apr. 10, 2002, Wall Street Journal Europe, Apr. 10, 2002, and Asian Wall Street Journal, Apr. 11, 2002, on the New York Attorney General’s initial actions against Merrill Lynch relating to the recommendations of its Internet stock analysts. Hu was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Apr. 10, 2002, on executive compensation issues in the context of Qwest Communications. Basil Markesinis has been appointed Special Adviser to the First President of the French Supreme Court for matters of European Law. The new edition of Markesinis’ German Law of Tort: A Comparative Treatise will be launched at a June 18, 2002, reception in London hosted by Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Phyllips, The Master of the Rolls, and the presidents of the German Constitutional Court and the German federal Supreme Court. Steven Ratner gave a talk entitled “The Pitfalls of International Criminal Justice” on Apr. 30, 2002, to the UT-Austin Chapter of Amnesty International. On May 2, 2002, Ratner delivered a paper entitled “Capacity-Building to Fight Terrorism: Finding the UN’s Comparative Advantage” to a group of senior UN and foreign diplomats in New York. The paper and the responses to it are being used by the UN Secretary-General’s Working Group on Terrorism for a report that the Secretary-General will submit to UN member states this summer. Zipporah Wiseman gave a talk on “The Tension Between Teaching Applied Feminist Legal Theory and the Supposed Neutrality of Legal Education” during a conference at American University in honor of Elizabeth Schneider’s book, Battered Women and Feminist Practice, Apr. 18-19, 2002. LAW LIBRARY NEWS Tobe Liebert was the guest speaker on the Law Day segment of “Ask the Lawyer” on Local Access Channel 17, May 1, 2002.