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2001 New Faculty and Faculty Honors and Accomplishments

LAW SCHOOL NEWS

Volume 12, No. 15            June 26, 2002


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FACULTY WRITINGS

John Sutton & John Dzienkowski, Cases and Materials on the Professional Responsibility of Lawyers (St. Paul: West, 2nd ed. 2002).

Mitchell Berman, Commercial Speech and the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine: A Second Look at “The Greater Includes the Lesser”, 55 Vanderbilt Law Review 693 (2002).

Sarah Cleveland, Human Rights Sanctions and International Trade: A Theory of Compatibility, 2002 Journal of International Economic Law 133.

Calvin Johnson, Washington’s Residency, 18 Constitutional Commentary 295 (2001).

Roy Mersky, Respect Your Librarian [Letter to the Editor], ABA Journal, June 2002, at 20.

Neil Netanel, Cyberspace Self-Government: A Skeptical View from Liberal Democratic Theory, in Law, Information and Information Technology 173 (Eli Lederman & Ron Shapira eds.; The Hague: Kluwer International, 2001). [Abridged from 88 California Law Review 395 (2000).]

Wayne Schiess, Write Effective Letters to Opposing Counsel, Trial, June 2002, at 70.

Wayne Schiess, Writing for Your Audience: The Client, Michigan Bar Journal, June 2002, at 50.

Jordan Steiker, Federal Habeas and the Death Penalty: Reflections on the New Habeas Provisions of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, in Essential Readings on Political Terrorism: Analyses of Problems and Prospects for the 21st Century 216 (Harvey W. Kushner ed.; Lincoln, Neb.: Gordian Knot Books, 2002).

Gerald Torres, Excerpt from The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, 27 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 1 (2001-2002) (with Lani Guinier).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Philip Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (2002) was reviewed in the Washington Times, May 26, 2002; the New York Times, June 1, 2002; The Guardian, June 8, 2002; the Washington Post, June 9, 2002; The Sunday Times (London), June 9, 2002; The Times (London), June 12, 2002; and the Christian Science Monitor, June 13, 2002. Bobbitt’s speech on The Shield of Achilles at the Guardian Hay Book Festival was reported in The Guardian, June 7, 2002. Bobbitt’s interview with WNYC radio in New York was re-broadcast on CSPAN-2’s “Book Events,” June 15, 2002. Panel discussions of Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles were presented by the Council on Foreign Relations on May 13, 2002, in New York City and May 22, 2002, in Washington, D.C. The International Institute for Strategic Studies will sponsor a panel discussion in London on July 5, 2002. Bobbitt was interviewed on his book by Boston Public Radio, WBUR, on June 19, 2002, and by Diane Wales of BBC television on June 20, 2002.

Henry Hu was quoted in a front-page story in the Washington Post, Apr. 24, 2002, on New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s approach to Merrill Lynch and its Internet securities analysts. Hu was quoted in the cover story of Business Week, Apr. 22, 2002, on Enron shareholder litigation against, among others, Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Deutsche Bank. Hu discussed investor confidence or Merrill Lynch-related matters in the Apr. 19, 2002 Agence France Presse, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, and Washington Post.

John Sampson provided CLE training on the 2001 Amendments to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) to the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee for the Hague Maintenance Convention, Washington, D.C., Mar. 23, 2002; to IV-D attorneys and district court judges (separately) in Saratoga, Wy., Apr. 26-27, 2002; and to the Eastern Regional Interstate Child Support Association (ERICSA) in Cincinnati, Apr. 29-30, 2002. Sampson also provided training at the ERICSA conference on the Uniform Parentage Act 2000. Also during Spring 2002, Sampson chaired an ad hoc committee appointed by the Texas House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee to draft amendments to the statutes governing ad litem representation of children; and served as a member of the legislation committee of the State Bar of Texas Family Law Section. Sampson received a resolution honoring his work in interstate child support enforcement after testifying to the Delaware House of Representatives on Mar. 21, 2002.

Michael Sharlot has been reappointed by the American Bar Association’s President-Elect, Alfred P. Carlton, Jr., to the Presidential Advisory Council On Diversity in the Profession for 2002-03.

Louise Weinberg has been invited to speak at a dinner planned at the Harvard Law School for Arthur von Mehren, where a festschrift in his honor, to which Weinberg is a contributor, will be presented to him.

LAW SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

John Fleming was elected to the Council of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bar of Texas at the annual meeting in Dallas, and was named to chair a new arbitration task force charged with developing an arbitrator code of ethics, developing arbitration education programs in conjunction with the consumer law section and litigation section, and reviewing due process issues in arbitration.

LAW LIBRARY NEWS

The Marcia J. Koslov Scholarship is featured in the American Association of Law Libraries 2001-2002 Year in Review, Supplement to AALL Spectrum. Koslov established this scholarship to cover the tuition costs of one recipient per year to attend the Court Executive Development Program at the Institute for Court Management.


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