FACULTY WRITINGS

John Sampson & Robert Dawson, Sampson & Tindall’s Texas Family Code Annotated, with Related State and Federal Statutes (St. Paul: West, Aug. 2002 ed.) (with Harry L. Tindall).

Lee Fennell, Unquiet Ghosts: Memory and Determinism in Faulkner, in William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism (Linda Wagner-Martin ed.; East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002). [Reprinted from 31 Southern Literary Journal 35 (1999).]

Ernest Smith, Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law (St. Paul: West, 4th ed. 2002) (with John S. Lowe, Owen L. Anderson & David E. Pierce).

Gerald Torres, Garrison Lecture 2002 Reunion Roundtable Transcript, 19 Pace Environmental Law Review 755 (2002) (with several others).

Wendy Wagner, Environmental and Natural Resource Regulation, in Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice 2000-2001 323 (Jeffrey S. Lubbers ed.; Chicago: ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, 2002) (with Jonathan Entin, et al.).

Wendy Wagner, Overview of Federal and State Law Governing Brownfields Cleanups, in Brownfields: A Comprehensive Guide to Redeveloping Contaminated Property (Todd S. Davis ed.; Chicago: ABA Section of Environment, Energy & Resources, 2nd ed. 2002).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Robert Dawson presided at a meeting of an interdisciplinary taskforce sponsored by the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission on improving parental participation in the juvenile justice system, June 6, 2002, in Austin. On June 20, 2002, Dawson testified before the Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee of the Texas House of Representatives on dispositional guidelines in juvenile cases. Dawson spoke on search and seizure in schools at a conference on Law Enforcement in the Schools, June 21, 2002, in Killeen. Dawson gave the keynote address at the National Conference on School Law, July 17, 2002, in Austin. On Aug. 6, 2002, Dawson attended the Saratoga Institute on Racing and Wagering Law at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Dawson spoke on the law concerning juveniles with mental illness or retardation at a conference sponsored by the Texas Council on Offenders with Mental Impairments, Sept. 10, 2002, in Austin. On Sept. 17, 2002, Dawson moderated a panel on rural public defenders at a State Bar conference on indigent defense in Austin. Dawson gave a juvenile law update to the Texas District and County Attorneys Association convention at South Padre Island, Sept. 26, 2002. Dawson attended an Equine Law Conference at Bay Meadows Racecourse in San Mateo, Calif., Oct. 11, 2002.

Henry Hu was quoted in the Washington Post, Sept. 26, 2002, in a story on New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s likely actions against corporate executives who received allocations of shares in hot initial public offerings from Salomon Smith Barney while their companies were also investment banking clients of the firm. Hu was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Sept. 26, 2002, on a settlement offer that Salomon Smith Barney might propose to the Securities and Exchange Commission, NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers), and the New York Stock Exchange with respect to the firm’s business practices. Hu was quoted in the National Post (Toronto), Sept. 24, 2002 (and related Reuters stories, Sept. 23 and 24, 2002), on issues connected with Salomon stock analyst Jack Grubman and Salomon’s settlement with the NASD in respect of the firm’s research on Winstar Communications. Hu was quoted in the Houston Chronicle, Sept. 22, 2002, on how some corporate executives reportedly try influencing the hiring of Wall Street securities analysts who cover their stocks.

John Robertson spoke at the Yale Legal Theory Workshop on Nov. 21, 2002, on “Procreative Liberty in the Age of Genomics.” On Nov. 15, 2002, Robertson presented “Legal Issues in Genetics and New Reproductive Technologies” to the ABA Conference for Appellate Judges in San Antonio.

Ernest Smith delivered a paper on “Wind Energy Leases: Prospects and Issues” to the 2002 Advanced Real Estate Institute in San Antonio, July 12, 2002. Smith attended the trustees’ meeting of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation in Lake Tahoe, Nev.,  July 23, 2002, and the Foundation’s 48th Annual Institute, July 24-26, 2002.

Gerald Torres appeared on National Public Radio’s “Tavis Smiley Show” on Nov. 25, 2002, discussing the Texas admissions process and the 10% plan. Torres was the principal lecturer for an invited panel on “Race, Power and Social Justice” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans, Nov. 23, 2002; commentators were Renato Rosaldo from Stanford, Nahum Chandler from Johns Hopkins, and Venera Stolcke from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Wendy Wagner was the organizer and moderator of a panel on “Learning to Live with the Data Quality Act” at the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative and Regulatory Law’s fall meeting in Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2002. Wagner presented a paper on “Bad Science Fiction” at a symposium on “Science and Regulation” in Durham, N.C., May 2002, which will be published in Law & Contemporary Problems. Wagner spoke on “When Bad Laws Discourage Good Science” to the Environmental Law Section of the Houston Bar Association, March 2002.

Zipporah Wiseman spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Women Judges, Oct. 16-20, 2002, in Minneapolis, as part of a panel on “Building a National Academic-Judicial Network.”

Ernest Young presented a paper entitled “Global Constitutionalism, ‘Sovereignty,’ and the Domestic Constitutional Balance” at the NYU/Oxford Institute workshop on “Regulating Transnational Markets” at the NYU School of Law, Sept. 19-20, 2002. In May 2002, Young presented his paper, “Preserving Member State Autonomy in the European Union: Some Cautionary Tales from American Federalism” at the University of Siena, Italy.