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2001 New Faculty and Faculty Honors and Accomplishments

LAW SCHOOL NEWS

Volume 12, No. 16            July 12, 2002


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FACULTY WRITINGS

George Dix & Michael Sharlot, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (St. Paul: West, 5th ed. 2002).

Sarah Buel, Why Juvenile Courts Should Address Family Violence: Promising Practices to Improve Intervention Outcomes, Juvenile & Family Court Journal, Spring 2002, at 1.

Robert Dawson, Editor’s Foreword, State Bar Section Report: Juvenile Law, June 2002, at 4.

Mark Gergen, The Logic of Deterrence: Corporate Tax Shelters, 55 Tax Law Review 255 (2002).

Douglas Laycock, Modern American Remedies: Cases and Materials (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 3rd ed. 2002).

Sanford Levinson, One Person, One Vote: A Mantra in Need of Meaning, 80 North Carolina Law Review 1269 (2002).

Thomas McGarity, Proposal for Linking Culpability and Causation to Ensure Corporate Accountability for Toxic Risks, 26 William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review 1 (2001).

Kathryn Holt Richardson, Savvy Firms Know Importance of On-Campus Presence, Texas Lawyer, June 17, 2002, at 41.

John Robertson, Conception to Obtain Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Hastings Center Report, May-June 2002, at 41 (with John Wagner & Jeff Kahn).

John Robertson, Pharmacogenetic Challenges for the Health Care System, Health Affairs (July/Aug. 2002), at 155 (with others).

John Robertson, Pharmacogenetics: Ethical Issues and Policy Options, 12 Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 1 (2002) (with others).

Wayne Schiess, Common Student Citation Errors, 10 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing 119 (2002).

Charles Silver, A Critique of Burrow v. Arce, 26 William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review 323 (2001).

Jane Stapleton, Bugs in Anglo-American Products Liability, 53 South Carolina Law Review 1225 (2002).

Jordan Steiker, Should Abolitionists Support Legislative “Reform” of the Death Penalty?, 63 Ohio State Law Journal 417 (2002) (with Carol Steiker).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Philip Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (2002) was reviewed in The Observer (London), June 16, 2002, the Times Literary Supplement, June 21, 2002, and The Independent (London), June 22, 2002. Bobbitt and his new book were profiled in the Austin Chronicle, June 21, 2002. A lengthy profile of Bobbitt appeared in The Times (London), June 24, 2002. “Philip Bobbitt’s Favourite Books on International Affairs” appears in the “Books” section of The Guardian (London) website, at <http://books.guardian.co.uk/0,5917,,00.html>.

Sarah Cleveland has been invited by Dr. Juan Hernandez, Advisor to President Vincente Fox for Mexicans Abroad, to participate in a forum on “Sending and Receiving Countries in a World of Migration,” to examine the rights and responsibilities of migrant-sending countries, at The University of Texas-Pan American on July 12, 2002. Cleveland was quoted in the July 11, 2002, issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review regarding the implications for corporate responsibility for human rights violations of the pending trial against Unocal for using forced labor in Burma.

Henry Hu was quoted in the New York Times, Apr. 30, 2002, on bank conflicts of interest matters relating to Enron. Hu was quoted by the Agence France Presse, Apr. 25, 2002, and L’Echo (Brussels), Apr. 25, 2002, on Merrill Lynch stock recommendation issues. Hu was quoted in the New York Times, Apr. 23, 2002, and by the Associated Press, Apr. 22, 2002, on certain aspects of a new filing by Enron with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Susan Klein’s article, Essential Elements, 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 1467 (2001) (with Nancy J. King), was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Harris v. U.S., handed down June 24, 2002. Klein spoke on June 25, 2002, to 185 federal appellate and district judges, U.S. Attorneys, and Federal Public Defenders on “Recent Supreme Court Cases and Sentencing Issues” during the 2002 National Sentencing Policy Institute in Raleigh, N.C., hosted by the Federal Judicial Center. Klein has accepted a position on the Board of Advisors for a new peer-reviewed criminal law journal, the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, which will begin publication in February 2003.

Brian Leiter was quoted in the New York Times, May 11, 2002, on the growing interest in philosophy of religion among analytic philosophers.

Neil Netanel spoke about “The Jewish Law of Copyright” as part of the Richard Franklin Lectures in the Jewish Legal Tradition at Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto, Calif., June 23, 2002.

John Robertson has been elected to the Fellows Council of the Hastings Center, a leading bioethics thinktank.

Michael Sturley was invited to speak at the annual conference of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, Oct. 3-5, 2002, in Melbourne, on the CMI/ UNCITRAL Transportation Draft Instrument. Sturley has been invited by the Secretariat of the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to join a Group of Experts that is assisting in UNCITRAL’s current project on Transport Law, at a meeting scheduled for July 8-9, 2002, in Vienna. Sturley has been invited to speak on a panel concerning the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act at the Journal of Commerce’s BreakBulk Conference in New Orleans, Sept. 10, 2002.


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