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FACULTY WRITINGS

Mitchell Berman, The Normative Functions of Coercion Claims, 8 Legal Theory 45 (2002).

Leslie Green, Law and Obligations, in The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 514 (J. Coleman & S. Shapiro eds.; Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Patrick Hazel, Editor’s Comments, 20 The Advocate 73 (2001).

Patrick Hazel, Oral History Interview with George Pletcher, 20 The Advocate 92 (2001).

Brian Leiter, Law and Objectivity, in The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 969 (J. Coleman & S. Shapiro eds.; Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Richard Markovits, On the Economic Efficiency of Using Law to Increase Research and Development: A Critique of Various Tax, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and Tort Law Rules and Policy Proposals, 39 Harvard Journal on Legislation 63 (2002).

Linda Mullenix, Class Actions—The Party’s Over: Do Spurned Class Action Objectors Have Appellate Rights to Further Protest?, 2001-2002 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 298.

Linda Mullenix, Master Class—Dispositive Motions, National Law Journal, Mar. 11, 2002, at B11.

Charles Silver, Defense Lawyers’ Professional Responsibilities: Part II-Contested Coverage Cases, 15 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 29 (2001) (with Ellen S. Pryor).

Gerald Torres, Translation and Stories, 115 Harvard Law Review 1362 (2002).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

At the Law School’s 2nd Annual Family Law Conference, Apr. 11-12, 2002, in Galveston, Sarah Buel will speak on “Family Violence: Ethical Representation of Victims and Offenders in Complex Cases,” and Jeana Lungwitz will be part of a panel on “Temporary Orders: How to Look Prepared Even If You Met Your Client Yesterday.”

At a legal philosophy symposium organized by John Gardner, the Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, at Balliol College, Oxford on Mar. 4, 2002, Leslie Green presented a paper on “Law and Other Causes of Judicial Decisions” and Brian Leiter delivered a paper on “Beyond the Hart-Dworkin Debate.”

John Dzienkowski presented “The Decline in Lawyer Independence: Lawyer Equity Investments in Clients” in a colloquium at the University of Florida College of Law on Mar. 15, 2002.

Lee Fennell presented a paper entitled “Death, Taxes, and Cognition: A Behavioral Look at the Estate Tax” at the University of Toronto’s Law and Economics Workshop on Mar. 13, 2002.

William Forbath presented “New Deal Constitution in Exile” at the Rutgers Law School Faculty Workshop on Feb. 11, 2002. Forbath spoke on “Welfare Rights: History and Reconstruction” at the 20th Century Politics and Society Workshop, sponsored by Columbia University’s Departments of History and Political Science, Feb. 27, 2002. Forbath delivered a paper entitled “When Jews, Italians, Slavs and Greeks Belonged to Races Different From We, the People: Race, Class and National Identity in Immigration Law and Policy, 1882-1924” to the NYU Legal History Workshop on Mar. 6, 2002, and to the Columbia Law School Faculty Colloquium on Apr. 11, 2002.

Barbara Hines presented “Seeking Termination of Proceedings Based on Suppression of Evidence” at a conference on “Representing Immigrant Children and Challenging Unlawful Arrests” at UT-El Paso on Feb. 21, 2002, sponsored by UTEP’s Center for Border Studies and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of Texas. Hines spoke on “Asylum Law Basics and Immigration Law and Criminal Convictions” at a seminar on “Asylum Law: An Introduction to Case Preparation,” sponsored by the Travis County Bar Association and the Political Asylum Project, Feb. 15, 2002, in Austin. Hines received the Excellence in Public Interest Award for teaching by the Public Interest Law Association and the Texas Legal Foundation.

Henry Hu was quoted in the New York Times, Feb. 23, 2002, on the possible impact on the Securities and Exchange Commission of a lawsuit brought by the former chief executive of Waste Management Inc. Hu was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 23, 2002, on the record pace at which the Securities and Exchange Commission has been launching accounting fraud investigations this year. Hu was quoted in USA Today, Feb. 21, 2002, on plaintiffs’ lawyers eyeing financial institutions involved with Enron. Hu discussed aspects of lead plaintiff status in a Feb. 15, 2002, Associated Press story on one securities fraud class action against certain Enron officers and directors.

Brian Leiter delivered a lecture and answered questions about the past forty years of Anglo-American jurisprudence before about five dozen law faculty and graduate students at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) on Mar. 8, 2002.

Linda Mullenix spoke on “September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001: A Model for the Future?” at a conference on “Liability and Insurance After September 11th,” sponsored by the Connecticut Insurance Law Center and the Geneva Association, Mar. 22, 2002, at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Steven Ratner has been appointed to serve as an academic advisor to the UN Secretary-General’s Working Group on Terrorism and the United Nations.

LAW SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Michael Sean Quinn was quoted in the Mar. 17, 2002, New York Times on the insurance context of child molestation claims against Catholic priests.

LAW SCHOOL NEWS is produced by the Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, and is edited by Michael Widener, Head of Special Collections. Its contents may be used freely, provided that source credit is given to LAW SCHOOL NEWS. If you wish to receive LAW SCHOOL NEWS by email, contact Michael Widener at mwidener@mail.law.utexas.edu.


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FACULTY WRITINGS Mitchell Berman, The Normative Functions of Coercion Claims, 8 Legal Theory 45 (2002). Leslie Green, Law and Obligations, in The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 514 (J. Coleman & S. Shapiro eds.; Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002). Patrick Hazel, Editor’s Comments, 20 The Advocate 73 (2001). Patrick Hazel, Oral History Interview with George Pletcher, 20 The Advocate 92 (2001). Brian Leiter, Law and Objectivity, in The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 969 (J. Coleman & S. Shapiro eds.; Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002). Richard Markovits, On the Economic Efficiency of Using Law to Increase Research and Development: A Critique of Various Tax, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, and Tort Law Rules and Policy Proposals, 39 Harvard Journal on Legislation 63 (2002). Linda Mullenix, Class Actions—The Party’s Over: Do Spurned Class Action Objectors Have Appellate Rights to Further Protest?, 2001-2002 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 298. Linda Mullenix, Master Class—Dispositive Motions, National Law Journal, Mar. 11, 2002, at B11. Charles Silver, Defense Lawyers’ Professional Responsibilities: Part II-Contested Coverage Cases, 15 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 29 (2001) (with Ellen S. Pryor). Gerald Torres, Translation and Stories, 115 Harvard Law Review 1362 (2002). FACULTY ACTIVITIES At the Law School’s 2nd Annual Family Law Conference, Apr. 11-12, 2002, in Galveston, Sarah Buel will speak on “Family Violence: Ethical Representation of Victims and Offenders in Complex Cases,” and Jeana Lungwitz will be part of a panel on “Temporary Orders: How to Look Prepared Even If You Met Your Client Yesterday.” At a legal philosophy symposium organized by John Gardner, the Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford, at Balliol College, Oxford on Mar. 4, 2002, Leslie Green presented a paper on “Law and Other Causes of Judicial Decisions” and Brian Leiter delivered a paper on “Beyond the Hart-Dworkin Debate.” John Dzienkowski presented “The Decline in Lawyer Independence: Lawyer Equity Investments in Clients” in a colloquium at the University of Florida College of Law on Mar. 15, 2002. Lee Fennell presented a paper entitled “Death, Taxes, and Cognition: A Behavioral Look at the Estate Tax” at the University of Toronto’s Law and Economics Workshop on Mar. 13, 2002. William Forbath presented “New Deal Constitution in Exile” at the Rutgers Law School Faculty Workshop on Feb. 11, 2002. Forbath spoke on “Welfare Rights: History and Reconstruction” at the 20th Century Politics and Society Workshop, sponsored by Columbia University’s Departments of History and Political Science, Feb. 27, 2002. Forbath delivered a paper entitled “When Jews, Italians, Slavs and Greeks Belonged to Races Different From We, the People: Race, Class and National Identity in Immigration Law and Policy, 1882-1924” to the NYU Legal History Workshop on Mar. 6, 2002, and to the Columbia Law School Faculty Colloquium on Apr. 11, 2002. Barbara Hines presented “Seeking Termination of Proceedings Based on Suppression of Evidence” at a conference on “Representing Immigrant Children and Challenging Unlawful Arrests” at UT-El Paso on Feb. 21, 2002, sponsored by UTEP’s Center for Border Studies and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of Texas. Hines spoke on “Asylum Law Basics and Immigration Law and Criminal Convictions” at a seminar on “Asylum Law: An Introduction to Case Preparation,” sponsored by the Travis County Bar Association and the Political Asylum Project, Feb. 15, 2002, in Austin. Hines received the Excellence in Public Interest Award for teaching by the Public Interest Law Association and the Texas Legal Foundation. Henry Hu was quoted in the New York Times, Feb. 23, 2002, on the possible impact on the Securities and Exchange Commission of a lawsuit brought by the former chief executive of Waste Management Inc. Hu was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 23, 2002, on the record pace at which the Securities and Exchange Commission has been launching accounting fraud investigations this year. Hu was quoted in USA Today, Feb. 21, 2002, on plaintiffs’ lawyers eyeing financial institutions involved with Enron. Hu discussed aspects of lead plaintiff status in a Feb. 15, 2002, Associated Press story on one securities fraud class action against certain Enron officers and directors. Brian Leiter delivered a lecture and answered questions about the past forty years of Anglo-American jurisprudence before about five dozen law faculty and graduate students at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) on Mar. 8, 2002. Linda Mullenix spoke on “September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001: A Model for the Future?” at a conference on “Liability and Insurance After September 11th,” sponsored by the Connecticut Insurance Law Center and the Geneva Association, Mar. 22, 2002, at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Steven Ratner has been appointed to serve as an academic advisor to the UN Secretary-General’s Working Group on Terrorism and the United Nations. LAW SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Michael Sean Quinn was quoted in the Mar. 17, 2002, New York Times on the insurance context of child molestation claims against Catholic priests. LAW SCHOOL NEWS is produced by the Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, and is edited by Michael Widener, Head of Special Collections. Its contents may be used freely, provided that source credit is given to LAW SCHOOL NEWS. If you wish to receive LAW SCHOOL NEWS by email, contact Michael Widener at mwidener@mail.law.utexas.edu.