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FACULTY WRITINGS

Lynn Baker, Putting the Safeguards Back into the Political Safeguards of Federalism, 46 Villanova Law Review 951 (2001).

Susan Klein, Apprendi and Plea Bargaining, 54 Stanford Law Review 295 (2001) (with Nancy J. King).

Brian Leiter, Karl Nickerson Llewellyn, in International Encyclopedeia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 8999 (Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes eds.; Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001).

Brian Leiter, The Law School Observer, 5 Green Bag (2d ser.) 203 (2002).

Brian Leiter, Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence, 87 Virginia Law Review 1491 (2001) (with Ronald J. Allen).

Sanford Levinson, Second to None?, Texas Observer, Jan. 18, 2002, at 14 (reviewing The Second Amendment in Law and History, ed. by Carl T. Bogus).

Linda Mullenix, Master Class—Class Communications, National Law Journal, Oct. 15, 2001, at B11.

Linda Mullenix, State Class Actions: Practice and Procedure, Annual Updates No. 1 (Chicago: CCH, July 2001).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Mark Ascher presented a paper on Jan. 10, 2002, at the University of Miami Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, entitled “Subchapter J: Recent Developments Relating to the Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates.” This year’s Institute drew nearly 2,500 lawyers.

Sarah Buel delivered the keynote address for the ABA Domestic Violence Civil Law Institute in Tucson on Jan. 9, 2002, entitled “Race and Culture in the Context of Domestic Violence Practice: Rethinking the Lawyer’s Role.” On June 10, 2001, Buel gave the keynote address for the Georgia Bar’s conference, “Lawyers as Change Agents: Reconceptualizing Domestic Violence Practice.”

Henry Hu appeared on National Public Radio’s show, “All Things Considered,” on Jan. 14, 2002, speaking on a variety of Enron-related issues, including insider trading risks faced by top Enron executives and board members who sold their shares. Hu was quoted in the Washington Post (Jan. 11, 2002), Seattle Times (Jan. 12, 2002), and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (Jan. 14, 2002) on how securities analysts got it wrong on Enron. In the Jan. 16, 2002, Dallas Morning News, Hu discussed proposals in the wake of Enron for prohibiting accounting firms from offering consulting services. He discussed stock analyst conflicts of interest and how Enron might spark serious reform in a Dec. 20, 2001, Reuters story. Hu was quoted on leveraged buyout strategies and prospects for private equity ventures in a Dec. 9, 2001, Dallas Morning News story about Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, a leading “LBO” firm. Hu was quoted on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in relation to a lawsuit against pcOrder in the Dec. 10, 2001, Austin American-Statesman. Canada Stockwatch and Canada NewsWire reported on Dec. 17, 2001, that Goldcorp had been added to the “HUI” of the American Stock Exchange and that the company believed that inclusion in this index would increase the visibility and liquidity of its shares.

Linda Mullenix has been invited to be a Scholar in Residence during Summer 2002 at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center at Bellagio, Italy. She will be working on a book, “Resolution of Aggregate Harms in a Global Context.” Mullenix gave a talk entitled “A ‘Predominancia’ e a ‘Superioridade’ Na Class Action for Damages Norte-Americana” at the IV Jornadas Brasileiras de Direito Procesual Civil, sponsored by the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual and the Instituto Brasiliense de Ensino e Pesquisa, Aug. 6-10, 2001, in Fortaleza, Brazil. Mullenix was a panelist on “Rules-Based Approaches to the Problems and Issues Relating to Proposed Amendments to Fed. R. Civ. P. 23” at the Class Action Conference, sponsored by the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Oct. 22-23, 2001, at the University of Chicago Law School. Mullenix was a commentator for a session on “Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Tort Litigation, and the Public Good” at Brooklyn Law School’s Roundtable in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Judge Weinstein, Nov. 9, 2001. Mullenix spoke on “The Proposed Amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, The Class Action Rule” at the Jan. 16, 2002, meeting of the Federal Bar Association of San Antonio.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES– AALS Annual Meeting

At the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) in New Orleans, Jan. 2-6, 2002 ... Christy Nisbett attended a LexisNexis Legal Research and Writing Advisory Board meeting. She also organized a breakfast meeting for newer legal-writing directors for the Association of Legal Writing Directors. • Anthony Reese was elected as Chair-Elect of the Law and Computers Section; he will chair the section for 2003 and organize the section’s program for the January 2004 meeting.• Louise Weinberg was elected Program Chair and Chair-Elect of the Federal Courts Section; she will organize the section program for 2003 and will chair the section in 2003-2004. Weinberg gave a talk in the Federal Courts Section program on “Federal Courts and the Election Process.” Her talk, entitled “When Courts Decide Elections: The Constitutionality of Bush v. Gore,” is available on audiotape from Recorded Resources Corp. Written versions of the papers presented will appear in the Boston University Law Review. • Russell Weintraub concluded a year as chair of the Section on Conflict of Laws, and moderated the section’s program on “International Forum Shopping.” • Patrick Woolley spoke on “The Dangerous Search for a Big Idea” as part of a session entitled “The Big Idea: Teaching and Scholarship in Procedural Law” sponsored by the Section on Civil Procedure. • Ernest Young gave a talk on “Is Conservative Judicial Activism an Oxymoron?” to the Faculty Section of the Federalist Society, which met in conjunction with the AALS meeting.

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FACULTY WRITINGS Lynn Baker, Putting the Safeguards Back into the Political Safeguards of Federalism, 46 Villanova Law Review 951 (2001). Susan Klein, Apprendi and Plea Bargaining, 54 Stanford Law Review 295 (2001) (with Nancy J. King). Brian Leiter, Karl Nickerson Llewellyn, in International Encyclopedeia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 8999 (Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes eds.; Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001). Brian Leiter, The Law School Observer, 5 Green Bag (2d ser.) 203 (2002). Brian Leiter, Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence, 87 Virginia Law Review 1491 (2001) (with Ronald J. Allen). Sanford Levinson, Second to None?, Texas Observer, Jan. 18, 2002, at 14 (reviewing The Second Amendment in Law and History, ed. by Carl T. Bogus). Linda Mullenix, Master Class—Class Communications, National Law Journal, Oct. 15, 2001, at B11. Linda Mullenix, State Class Actions: Practice and Procedure, Annual Updates No. 1 (Chicago: CCH, July 2001). FACULTY ACTIVITIES Mark Ascher presented a paper on Jan. 10, 2002, at the University of Miami Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, entitled “Subchapter J: Recent Developments Relating to the Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates.” This year’s Institute drew nearly 2,500 lawyers. Sarah Buel delivered the keynote address for the ABA Domestic Violence Civil Law Institute in Tucson on Jan. 9, 2002, entitled “Race and Culture in the Context of Domestic Violence Practice: Rethinking the Lawyer’s Role.” On June 10, 2001, Buel gave the keynote address for the Georgia Bar’s conference, “Lawyers as Change Agents: Reconceptualizing Domestic Violence Practice.” Henry Hu appeared on National Public Radio’s show, “All Things Considered,” on Jan. 14, 2002, speaking on a variety of Enron-related issues, including insider trading risks faced by top Enron executives and board members who sold their shares. Hu was quoted in the Washington Post (Jan. 11, 2002), Seattle Times (Jan. 12, 2002), and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (Jan. 14, 2002) on how securities analysts got it wrong on Enron. In the Jan. 16, 2002, Dallas Morning News, Hu discussed proposals in the wake of Enron for prohibiting accounting firms from offering consulting services. He discussed stock analyst conflicts of interest and how Enron might spark serious reform in a Dec. 20, 2001, Reuters story. Hu was quoted on leveraged buyout strategies and prospects for private equity ventures in a Dec. 9, 2001, Dallas Morning News story about Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, a leading “LBO” firm. Hu was quoted on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in relation to a lawsuit against pcOrder in the Dec. 10, 2001, Austin American-Statesman. Canada Stockwatch and Canada NewsWire reported on Dec. 17, 2001, that Goldcorp had been added to the “HUI” of the American Stock Exchange and that the company believed that inclusion in this index would increase the visibility and liquidity of its shares. Linda Mullenix has been invited to be a Scholar in Residence during Summer 2002 at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center at Bellagio, Italy. She will be working on a book, “Resolution of Aggregate Harms in a Global Context.” Mullenix gave a talk entitled “A ‘Predominancia’ e a ‘Superioridade’ Na Class Action for Damages Norte-Americana” at the IV Jornadas Brasileiras de Direito Procesual Civil, sponsored by the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual and the Instituto Brasiliense de Ensino e Pesquisa, Aug. 6-10, 2001, in Fortaleza, Brazil. Mullenix was a panelist on “Rules-Based Approaches to the Problems and Issues Relating to Proposed Amendments to Fed. R. Civ. P. 23” at the Class Action Conference, sponsored by the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States, Oct. 22-23, 2001, at the University of Chicago Law School. Mullenix was a commentator for a session on “Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Tort Litigation, and the Public Good” at Brooklyn Law School’s Roundtable in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Judge Weinstein, Nov. 9, 2001. Mullenix spoke on “The Proposed Amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, The Class Action Rule” at the Jan. 16, 2002, meeting of the Federal Bar Association of San Antonio. FACULTY ACTIVITIES– AALS Annual Meeting At the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) in New Orleans, Jan. 2-6, 2002 ... Christy Nisbett attended a LexisNexis Legal Research and Writing Advisory Board meeting. She also organized a breakfast meeting for newer legal-writing directors for the Association of Legal Writing Directors. • Anthony Reese was elected as Chair-Elect of the Law and Computers Section; he will chair the section for 2003 and organize the section’s program for the January 2004 meeting.• Louise Weinberg was elected Program Chair and Chair-Elect of the Federal Courts Section; she will organize the section program for 2003 and will chair the section in 2003-2004. Weinberg gave a talk in the Federal Courts Section program on “Federal Courts and the Election Process.” Her talk, entitled “When Courts Decide Elections: The Constitutionality of Bush v. Gore,” is available on audiotape from Recorded Resources Corp. Written versions of the papers presented will appear in the Boston University Law Review. • Russell Weintraub concluded a year as chair of the Section on Conflict of Laws, and moderated the section’s program on “International Forum Shopping.” • Patrick Woolley spoke on “The Dangerous Search for a Big Idea” as part of a session entitled “The Big Idea: Teaching and Scholarship in Procedural Law” sponsored by the Section on Civil Procedure. • Ernest Young gave a talk on “Is Conservative Judicial Activism an Oxymoron?” to the Faculty Section of the Federalist Society, which met in conjunction with the AALS meeting. LAW SCHOOL NEWS is produced by the Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, and is edited by Michael Widener, Archivist/Rare Books Librarian. Its contents may be used freely, provided that source credit is given to LAW SCHOOL NEWS. If you wish to receive LAW SCHOOL NEWS by email, contact Michael Widener at mwidener@mail.law.utexas.edu.