FACULTY WRITINGS

Mark Ascher, The Law of Trusts: 2002 Cumulative Supplement (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 4th ed. 2002) (with Margit T. Rigney).

Mark Ascher, Recent Regulatory Developments Relating to Subchapter J, 36 Proceedings of the Annual University of Miami Philip E. Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning 12-1 (2002).

Mark Ascher, Selected Statutes on Trusts and Estates (St. Paul: West, 2002 ed.) (with Grayson M.P. McCouch).

Susan Klein, Independent-Norm Federalism in Criminal Law [Colloquium on Community Policing], 90 California Law Review 1541 (2002).

Leandra Lederman, What Has the Fifth Circuit Dunn?, 22 ABA Section of Taxation News Quarterly 9 (2002).

Neil Netanel, The Commercial Mass Media’s Continuing Fourth Estate Role, in The Commodification of Information 317 (Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Netanel eds.; The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002).

Neil Netanel, ed., The Commodification of Information (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002) (with Niva Elkin-Koren).

Neil Netanel, Introduction: The Commodification of Information, in The Commodification of Information (Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Netanel eds.; The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002) (with Niva Elkin-Koren).

Neil Netanel, TRIPS Interpretation and Dispute Settlement Panel Report on U.S. Copyright Act § 110(5), 7 International Intellectual Property Law & Policy 74-1 (2002).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

David Rabban organized the program for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Nov. 8-9, 2002, in San Diego, during which William Forbath presented a paper on “Constitutional Imagination in Progressive America”; Michael Gagarin delivered a paper entitled “Inscribing Laws in Greece and the Near East”; Sanford Levinson served as commentator for a roundtable on “Civil Liberties in Time of War”; and Scot Powe spoke on “Anthony Lewis as a Supreme Court Reporter.”

At the Texas Book Festival, Nov. 17, 2002, in Austin, Philip Bobbitt gave a presentation on his new book, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (2002), and Roy Mersky interviewed Robert Caro, the biographer of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

At the Law School’s 21st Annual Bankruptcy Conference, Nov. 21-22, 2002, in Austin, Ronald Mann will speak on “The Enforceability in Bankruptcy of Liens on IP-Related Assets,” and Jay Westbrook will give a talk on recent developments in bankruptcy law together with Elizabeth Warren.

Carl Baudenbacher spoke on “Judicialization of European Competition Policy” at the 29th Fordham Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy, Nov. 1, 2002, in New York City. On Nov. 7, 2002, Baudenbacher gave a lecture at the Harvard Law School on “The EFTA Court: An Example of Judicialization of International Law.”

Stuart Benjamin’s forthcoming Duke Law Journal article, The Logic of Scarcity: Idle Spectrum as a First Amendment Violation, is the subject of a symposium on “Revitalizing First Amendment Protection for Electronic Speech,” taking place on Dec. 3, 2002, at the University of California-Washington, D.C. Center, and sponsored by the Manhattan Institute. Benjamin’s talk, “A Positive Program for the Physical Scarcity Doctrine,” will be followed by commentary from Gigi B. Sohn (president, Public Knowledge), Scott Bullock (Institute for Justice), Glen O. Robinson (University of Virginia Law School), and attorney Thomas G. Krattenmaker.

Henry Hu appeared with Harvard Business School Professor Jay Lorsch on the syndicated show “On Point,” produced by National Public Radio’s Boston affiliate (WBUR), on Aug. 14, 2002, to discuss, among other things, the implications of the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring CEOs and CFOs to personally certify corporate financial statements. Hu also appeared the same day on two other radio progams on related matters, the first on a syndicated show produced by New York’s WOR and the other on Boston’s WBZ’s “Business Hour.” Hu was quoted in Business Week Online, Aug. 22, 2002, on the the plea agreement the Justice Department reached with former Enron executive Michael Kopper. Hu was quoted in USA Today, Aug. 21, 2002, on the Justice Department’s actions against Arthur Andersen in connection with Enron. Hu was quoted in the Investment Dealers Digest, Aug. 19, 2002, on the efforts of PricewaterhouseCoopers to increase its mergers and acquisitions advisory business. Hu was quoted in, among other places, the Houston Chronicle, Aug. 18, 2002 and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Aug. 19, 2002, on the timing of corporate news announcements in off-trading hours. Hu was quoted in the New York Daily News, Aug. 14, 2002, on incentives relating to Enron’s Kenneth Lay possibly doing a “perp walk”; Hu’s “perp walk” comments were noted by the American Political Network’s Hotline, Aug. 14, 2002. Hu was quoted by the Agence France Presse, Aug. 13, 2002, on SEC requirements as to CEO and CFO certification. Hu’s comments on the decision of General Motors to expense stock options were noted in a Bloomberg News story on Aug. 6, 2002 and included in Bloomberg News’ “Notable Quotes from the Week in Business” on Aug. 9, 2002. Hu was quoted on the impact the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 may have had on the behavior of accountants, lawyers, and investment bankers in Business Week, Aug. 5, 2002.

Steven Ratner was interviewed on Amnesty International’s “The Human Rights Show,” broadcast on Houston’s KPFT-90.1 FM on Nov. 8, 2002, on the subject of U.S. use of force against Iraq.