FACULTY WRITINGS

Lino Graglia, The Rehnquist Court and Economic Rights, in The Rehnquist Court: A Retrospective 116 (Martin H. Belsky ed.; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Robert Hamilton, Business Basics for Law Students: Essential Concepts and Applications (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 3rd ed. 2002) (with Richard A. Booth).

Brian Leiter, Marxism and the Continuing Irrelevance of Normative Theory, 54 Stanford Law Review 1127 (May 2002) (essay reviewing If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?, by G.A. Cohen).

Brian Leiter, Rethinking Legal Realism: Toward a Natualized Jurisprudence, in Jurisprudence Classical and Contemporary: From Natural Law to Postmodernism 219 (Robert L. Hayman et al. eds.; St. Paul: West Group, 2nd ed. 2002). [Reprinted from 76 Texas Law Review 267 (1997).]

Sanford Levinson, The Lawyer as Moral Counselor: How Much Should the Client Be Expected to Pay?, 77 Notre Dame Law Review 831 (2002).

Thomas McGarity, Beyond Buckman: Wrongful Manipulation of the Regulatory Process in the Law of Torts, 41 Washburn Law Journal 549 (2002).

John Robertson, Preconception Strategies for Disposition of Frozen Embryos, 50 Emory Law Journal 989 (2001).

Michael Sharlot, Foreword, in Gus M. Hodges: An Oral History Interview v (H.W. Brands, interviewer; Austin: Jamail Center for Legal Research, 2002).

Russell Weintraub, Introduction to Symposium on International Forum Shopping, 37 Texas International Law Journal 463 (2002).

Ernest Young, Sorting Out the Debate Over Customary International Law, 42 Virginia Journal of International Law 365 (2002).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Dean William Powers and Antonio Benjamin spoke on “Financial Services and Liability” at the International Seminar on Torts, Apr. 25, 2002, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, organized by the University of Buenos Aires School of Law.

Steven Ratner and Lawrence Sager participated in a conference on “Antiterrorism Law” organized by Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs, May 14, 2002, in Princeton.

Antonio Benjamin spoke on “Law and Sustainable Development” at the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Symposium: Rio + 10, Mar. 22-23, in Williamsburg, Virginia. On Apr. 7-9, 2002, Benjamin was a keynote speaker at the 2002 Annual Conference of the Brazilian Fulbright Alumni Association in Brasilia, Brazil, on “William Fulbright and Modernity.” Benjamin spoke on “Networking and the Enforcement of Environmental Law” at the 6th International Conference on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, Apr. 14-19, 2002, in San José, Costa Rica, co-sponsored by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank. At the International Seminar on Environmental Law organized by the Brazilian Supreme Court, May 6, 2002, in Brasilia, Benjamin spoke on "Sustainable Development: An Unsustainable Concept?”.

Sarah Cleveland was interviewed on Channel 36 News, May 15, 2002, discussing why European opposition to Texas death penalty practices may be delaying the extradition of Robert Kleasen from the UK.

Henry Hu appeared on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Apr. 15, 2002, during which he was interviewed by Michelle Caruso-Cabrera on a variety of questions relating to Merrill Lynch’s Internet securities analysts’ recommendations and the New York Attorney General’s enforcement actions against Merrill Lynch. Hu was also quoted on these matters in, among other places, the Los Angeles Times, Apr. 15, 2002, Newsday, Apr. 14, 2002, and the Washington Post, Apr. 14, 2002. Hu was quoted in Texas Lawyer, Apr. 15, 2002, on an Enron-related securities law issue.

Owen Jones has been appointed Professor of Biology in the Department of Biology at Arizona State University.

Sanford Levinson’s Legal Canons (ed. with J.M. Balkin; 2000) is reviewed at 14 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 221 (2002).

Roy Mersky has been appointed to a three-year term on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress.

Alan Rau was a visiting professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in May 2002 and gave a series of classes on “Negotiation and Mediation” in the Master of Business Law program at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne.

David Robertson is one of nine UT professors who were named to The University’s Academy for Distinguished Teachers, for eight-year terms beginning in 2002.

John Robertson spoke on May 4, 2002, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists on “Pharmacogenetics and the Future of Medical Practice.” Robertson was named the recipient of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ first Award for Excellence in Ethics.

Jordan Steiker gave a talk at the University of Oregon School of Law on Mar. 2, 2002, entitled “Texas and Southern Exceptionalism: Comparative Death Penalty Practices in the United States.”

LAW SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Laura Castro Trognitz & Sarah Gainer, An Instrument of Justice: Graduating Law School Student Helps Free Domestic-Violence Victim Who Served 14 Years in Prison, On Campus, May 10, 2002, at 7.