FACULTY WRITINGS

David Robertson & Michael Sturley, Understanding Panama Railroad Co. v. Johnson: The Supreme Court’s Interpretation of the Seaman’s Elections Under the Jones Act, 14 University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal 229 (2001-02).

Sarah Cleveland, Powers Inherent in Sovereignty: Indians, Aliens, Territories, and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of Plenary Power over Foreign Relations, 81 Texas Law Review 1 (2002).

Thomas McGarity, Professor Sunstein’s Fuzzy Math, 90 Georgetown Law Journal 2341 (2002).

Jordan Steiker, American Icon: Does it Matter What the Court Said in Brown?, 81 Texas Law Review 305 (2002) (essay reviewing What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, ed. by Jack Balkin).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Mitchell Berman was an invited discussant at the Roundtable on Responsibility in Law and Morality, hosted by the University of Illinois Institute of Law and Philosophy and held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dec. 6-7, 2002.

Sarah Cleveland has been appointed to the Legal Advisory Council of the Center for Justice and Accountability, a national NGO that seeks to hold individuals accountable for violations of fundamental international human rights and humanitarian law.

Karen Engle gave a paper entitled “The Construction of Good Aliens and Good Citizens:  Legitimizing the War on Terrorism” at the Arizona State University faculty workshop on Dec. 3, 2002.

Steven Goode will present an “Evidence Update” at the State Bar of Texas 19th Annual Litigation Update Institute, Jan. 10, 2003, in Austin.

Henry Hu was quoted in USA Today, Oct. 3, 2002, on a complex financial transaction involving Enron and Merrill Lynch that allegedly boosted Enron’s reported earnings. Hu was quoted by the Dow Jones News Service, Oct. 3, 2002, on New York Stock Exchange and National Association of Securities Dealers moves to limit conflicts of interest between the securities research side and the investment banking side of financial institutions. Hu was quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 2, 2002, on the actions of the board of directors of Siebel Systems with respect to certain executive compensation and stock option matters. Hu was quoted by the Dow Jones News Service, Sept. 30, 2002, on a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer against corporate officers who allegedly were allocated shares in hot IPO’s as to which Salomon Smith Barney served as underwriter.

Susan Klein was quoted in the Nov. 26, 2002, editions of the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald regarding the practical effect of a ruling for the government in Martinez v. Oxnard, which was set for oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 4, 2002.

Scot Powe’s The Warren Court and American Politics (2000) was reviewed at 18 Constitutional Commentary 661 (2001).

David Robertson presented a paper entitled “The Supreme Court’s Approach to Determining Seaman Status: Discerning the Law Amid Loose Language and Catchphrases” at the LSU Law Center’s First Annual Alvin B. Rubin Seminar on Maritime Personal Injury, Nov. 15, 2002. On Dec. 10, 2002, Robertson was the luncheon speaker at a meeting of the UT-Exes Chapter in San Angelo. Robertson was part of the faculty at an all-day torts seminar for the Louisiana Judicial College in New Orleans, Dec. 13, 2002.

John Robertson gave a talk at Duke Law School on Dec. 3, 2002, entitled “The $1000 Genome: Ethical and Legal Issues.” On Dec. 4, 2002, Robertson spoke at Duke Medical School on “Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Therapeutic Cloning: Ethical and Legal Issues.”

John Sampson gave CLE talks in Denton, May 3, 2002, and San Antonio, Sept. 20, 2002, on the work of the ad hoc committee he chairs, which was appointed by the Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee of the Texas House to study ad litem appointments for children in custody cases and in Children’s Protective Services cases. Sampson gave a CLE presentation on the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act to the Texas College for Judicial Studies in Austin, May 23, 2002. Sampson gave CLE speeches on disestablishment of paternity to the Marriage Dissolution Course in Austin, May 9, 2002, to the Advanced Family Law Course in Dallas, Aug. 7, 2002, and in New Orleans on Aug. 5, 2002. Sampson spoke to the Conference of IV-D Directors in Vail, Colo., June 3, 2002, regarding the amendments to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act of 2001. On July 25, 2002, Sampson spoke to the State Bar College in Corpus Christi on recent developments in Texas family law. As reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act, Sampson met with representatives of the Uniform Law Conference and the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the ABA in Washington, D.C., Sept. 14, 2002, to agree on amendments to the Act. Sampson was a member of a five-person delegation of the U.S. State Department sent to Costa Rica, Honduras, and El Salvador, July 1-10, 2002, to negotiate bilateral agreements on enforcement of child support and alimony across national borders; as of November 2002, agreement was nearly complete with two of the countries.

Jordan Steiker spoke on “The Morality of Capital Punishment in Theory and Practice” to the Texas Philosophical Society in Fort Worth on Dec. 7, 2002.

A letter by Louise Weinberg on oil dependence and taxation of gas at the pump appears in Commentary, Dec. 2002, at 4.

Jay Westbrook was quoted on the prospect of Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston in New York Times, Dec. 3, 2002, and discussed the same topic as a guest on National Public Radio’s nationally syndicated program, “The Connection,” Dec. 5, 2002.