FACULTY WRITINGS

Dean William Powers, Products Liability: Cases and Materials (St. Paul: West, 3rd ed. 2002) (with David A. Fischer, Michael Green, & Joseph Sanders).

Lino Graglia, Single-Sex “Marriage”: The Role of the Courts, 2001 Brigham Young University Law Review 1013.

Anne Griffiths, Remaking Law: Gender, Ethnography, and Legal Discourse, 35 Law & Society Review 495 (2001) (essay reviewing Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court, by S. Hirsch).

Terri LeClercq, In the Time of Shoes and Butterflies [poem], 7 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy 56 (2001).

Basil Markesinis, Der wachsende Einfluß der Menschenrechte auf das englische Deliktsrecht, in Festschrift für Hans Stoll zum 75. Geburtstag 279 (G. Hohloch, R. Frank, & P. Schlechtriem eds.; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001).

Steven Ratner, Book Review, 95 American Journal of International Law 994 (2001) (reviewing Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity, by Priscilla B. Hayner).

John Sampson, Amendments to the Texas Family Code, Title 1: The Marriage Relationship [commentary], State Bar Section Report: Family Law, Summer 2001, at 6 (with others).

John Sampson, Amendments to the Texas Family Code, Title 5: The Parent-Child Relationship [commentary], State Bar Section Report: Family Law, Summer 2001, at 25 (with others).

Gerald Torres, The Miner’s Canary: The Problems of People of Color Show What’s Wrong with American Democracy, The Nation, Feb. 18, 2002, at 20 (with Lani Guinier).

Russell Weintraub, When and How to Demagnetise Magnet Forums, 12 King’s College Law Review 195 (2001).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

At a conference on “Congressional Power in the Shadow of the Rehnquist Court,” held Feb. 1-2, 2002, at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, Mitchell Berman spoke on “Getting Off the Dole: the Future of the Spending Power” as part of a panel on “Implications for Federalism and the States,” and Sanford Levinson moderated a panel on “Implications for Congress, the Courts, and the President.”

At the symposium on “Intellectual Property in a Challenging Economy” on Feb. 28, 2002, at the Law School, sponsored by the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, Dean William Powers will deliver welcoming remarks and Stephanie Gore will speak on “Internet Jurisdiction: Implications for Intellectual Property Disputes.”

Dean William Powers and Roy Mersky were honored as Life Members of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation at the midwinter meeting of the American Bar Association, Jan. 25, 2002, in Philadelphia.

Phillip Bobbitt delivered a eulogy for Charles L. Black, Jr. on Jan. 27, 2002, at St. Paul’s Chapel on the Columbia University campus (along with Judges Guido Calabresi, Louis Pollak and Jack Weinstein, and Senator Hilary Clinton), which will be published in a joint issue of the Yale Law Journal and Columbia Law Review.

John Dzienkowski will speak on “Professional Responsibility in Corporate Counsel” at the Law School’s 14th Annual Health Law Conference, Apr. 5, 2002, in Houston.

Henry Hu appeared on the “NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw” on Feb. 8, 2002, “News with Brian Williams” (MSNBC) on Feb. 8, 2002, and MSNBC’s crisis coverage on Feb. 9, 2002, commenting on various aspects of Enron’s “LJM2” partnership. Hu was quoted in the Washington Post on Jan. 30, 2002, setting out Enron- and non-Enron related reasons for recent stock market nervousness. Hu discussed certain Enron disclosure matters in the Jan. 26, 2002, Houston Chronicle. Hu was quoted in the New York Times, Jan. 22, 2002, on Enron-related financial institution decisionmaking, incentive structures, and the possible impact of the Enron disaster on competition among major money center banks. Portions of Hu’s comments to the New York Times were noted by a Jan. 22, 2002 Bloomberg article and included in the “quotes of the week” column in the Jan. 27, 2002, Austin American-Statesman. Hu was quoted in, among other places, the Jan. 22, 2002, Wall Street Journal and the Jan. 23, 2002, Asian Wall Street Journal on a Securities and Exchange Commission settlement with Credit Suisse First Boston that may foreshadow changes in initial public offering practices across the entire securities industry. Hu discussed various issues related to Kenneth Lay’s resignation as Enron’s chairman and CEO in, among other places, Associated Press stories on Jan. 23, 2002, Jan. 24, 2002, and Jan. 25, 2002. Hu discussed an Enron-related insider trading issue in the Jan. 21, 2002, Houston Chronicle. Hu was quoted on the limits of what auditors can detect in the Jan. 18, 2002, Dallas Morning News. Hu discussed the dispute between Idealab (a high-profile technology “incubator”) and certain early stage institutional investors in the Jan. 21, 2002, Los Angeles Times.

Neil Netanel presented his recent article, Locating Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein, 54 Stanford L. Rev. 1 (2001), at the University of Michigan Law School Legal Theory Workshop on Feb. 8, 2002.

Steven Ratner was quoted in an op-ed piece by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, Jan. 29, 2002, on the legality of U.S. treatment of Afghan prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Ratner was quoted in an ABCNews.com story on Feb. 15, 2002, on the UN’s decision to halt negotiations with the Cambodian government on a tribunal to try the Khmer Rouge for 1970s-era atrocities.