FACULTY WRITINGS

Sarah Buel, Twenty-Four Years of Spousal Abuse—Victim Advocate, Prosecutor, Professor, 37 International Society of Barristers Quarterly 358 (2002).

Douglas Laycock, Joint Statement of Church-State Scholars on School Vouchers and the Constitution: What the United States Supreme Court Has Settled, What Remains Disputed, in School Vouchers: Settled Questions, Continuing Disputes 3 (Washington, DC: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Aug. 2002) (with seven others). <http://pewforum.org/issues/files/VoucherPackage.pdf>.

Douglas Laycock, Vouching Toward Bethlehem, Religion in the News, Summer 2002, at 2.

Ronald Mann, Electronic Commerce (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 2002) (with Jane Winn).

Ronald Mann, Electronic Commerce: Statutory and Regulatory Supplement (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 2002).

Ronald Mann, Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions: Cases, Materials, and Problems (Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Law & Business, 2nd ed. 2003).

Linda Mullenix, Master Class—Arbitration Clauses, National Law Journal, June 3, 2002, at B9.

Linda Mullenix, Master Class—Arbitration Clauses II, National Law Journal, Aug. 26, 2002, at B8.

Linda Mullenix, Master Class—Class Actions I, National Law Journal, Nov. 4, 2002, at B9.

Neil Netanel, Locating Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein, 34 Intellectual Property Law Review 439 (2002). [Reprinted from 54 Stanford Law Review 1 (2001).]

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Charles Childress spoke at the Texas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) Fall Staff Retreat in New Braunfels, Nov. 11, 2002, on “Representing Texas Children in CPS Cases--A Legal Perspective.”

Mark Gergen presented “The Third Restatement of Restitution at Midpoint” at Balliol College, Oxford University, and at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, in November 2002. Gergen spoke on “Exit and Loyalty in Contract” at University College London in October 2002, and at the Conference on Comparative Contract Remedies at Tel Aviv University, June 2002.

Henry Hu was quoted by Dow Jones News Services, Sept. 17, 2002, on the audit committee of the board of directors of Tyco International, on Tyco’s outside auditor, and on internal control matters. Hu was quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Sept. 17, 2002, on economic reasons why high technology companies may in the long run have to expense stock options. Hu was quoted by Bloomberg News, Sept. 12, 2002, in a story on Federal Reserve Board and U.S. Treasury Department scrutiny of banks possibly tying investment banking business to the granting of loans to corporations. Hu was quoted by Bloomberg News, Sept. 10, 2002, on how Ford Motor was using a Securities and Exchange Commission filing to challenge a report by a Goldman Sachs analyst over an accounting issue. Hu was quoted in the Washington Post, Sept. 7, 2002, on disclosure of investment banks allocating hot initial public offering shares to corporate executives in a story on a Credit Suisse First Boston e-mail obtained by that newspaper. Hu was quoted by Bloomberg News, Aug. 28, 2002, on executive compensation matters. Hu was quoted in two articles in the August 26, 2002 issue of Business Week, one article on the impact of securities fraud class actions and the other on an idea for improving corporate governance.

Douglas Laycock spoke on “Religion and the American Supreme Court” to UT-Austin’s DeTocqueville Society, Nov. 15, 2002, at the Texas Union. Laycock spoke on “Separation of Church and State” to the National Leadership Conference of the Anti-Defamation League in Houston, Oct. 11, 2002.

Thomas McGarity made a presentation on White House Review of agency rulemaking at the annual meeting of the American Association of Policy Planning, Analysis and Management on Nov. 8, 2002.

Linda Mullenix was a panelist on the topic, "The Right to Opt-Out of Class Action Suits," at a symposium on “Cutting Edge Issues in Class Action Litigation,” held Nov. 1-2, 2002, sponsored by The Legal Forum, University of Chicago Law School.

Anthony Reese taught U.S. copyright law and comparative case studies (with David Vaver, St. Peter’s College, Oxford), July 4-12, 2002, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, as part of the International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law Summer Program of the University of Victoria, the University of Illinois, and St. Peter’s College, Oxford. Reese has been elected to membership on the Scientific Board of the Executive Masters in European and International Business Law Program at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

John Robertson spoke on “Legal Issues in Bioethics and Genetics” to a judicial education symposium sponsored by the National Council of Chief Justices, Nov. 15, 2002, in San Antonio. On Nov. 21, 2002, Robertson gave a paper at the Yale Legal Theory Workshop on “Procreative Liberty in the Era of Genomics.”

Wayne Schiess spoke on legal writing to the Texas Association of Professional Administrative Adjudicators, held Nov. 15, 2002, at the State Office of Administrative Hearings in Austin.

Jay Westbrook gave two lectures at the St. Gallen MBL program in Luxembourg, Oct. 16 & 18, 2002, on international bankruptcy and on a case study involving mass torts and bankruptcy in the U.S.