FACULTY WRITINGS

Frank Cross, The Naïve Environmentalist, 53 Case Western Reserve Law Review 477 (2002).

Kimberlee Kovach, Lawyer Ethics Must Keep Pace with Practice: Plurality in Lawyering Roles Demands Diverse and Innovative Ethical Standards, 39 Idaho Law Review 399 (2003).

Sanford Levinson, The Louisiana Purchase as Seminal Constitutional Event, in The Louisiana Purchase: Emergence of an American Nation 105 (Peter J. Kastor ed.; Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2002).

Basil Markesinis, Comparative Law in the Courtroom and Classroom: The Story of the Last Thirty-Five Years (Oxford, U.K.: Hart Publishing, 2003).

Richard Markovits, On the Inevitable Arbitrariness of Market Definitions, 47 Antitrust Bulletin 571 (2002).

Linda Mullenix, Complex Litigation—Revisiting Agent Orange, National Law Journal, Apr. 7, 2003, at B7.

Dean William Powers, Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Physical Harm (Basic Principles), Tentative Draft No. 3 (Philadelphia: ALI, 2003) (reporter, with Michael D. Green).

Jane Stapleton, Book Review, 66 Modern Law Review 308 (2003) (reviewing Tort Liability Under Uncertainty, by Ariel Porat & Alex Stein).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Dean William Powers will be one of the speakers at a policy conference on “Corporate Governance and Corporate Fraud,” sponsored by the LBJ School of Public Affairs, which will take place Apr. 28, 2003, at UT’s Thompson Conference Center.

David Robertson, Michael Sturley, and Ernest Young co-authored the problem for the 10th Annual Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition. The Law School co-sponsors the Competition each year with a local host law school. This year, the local host was the University of Washington Law School, and the Competition was held in Seattle, April 10-12, 2003, with Sturley in attendance to supervise the Competition. For the second consecutive year, a UT Law School team won the competition.

Kamela Bridges helped prepare Texas Pattern Jury Charges: Business, Consumer, Insurance, Employment (2002 ed.) as a member of the State Bar Committee on Pattern Jury Charges.

George Dix will talk on “Significant Recent and Pending Decisions” at the Law School’s 2nd Annual Conference on Criminal Appeals, May 8, 2003, in Austin.

Barbara Hines participated as a resource at a discussion entitled “Hate Crimes and Discrimination Against Arabs, South Asians, Muslims and People of Color,” sponsored by the Muslim Law Students Association, National Lawyers Guild, and Thurgood Marshall Legal Society, Apr. 10, 2003, in the Law School.

Henry Hu was quoted in the Washington Post, Jan. 29, 2003, on certain alleged New York Stock Exchange floor broker practices in the context of President Bush’s nomination of William Donaldson to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hu was quoted on corporate governance and the role of stock exchanges in the Seattle Times, Jan. 26, 2003. Hu was quoted in the National Post (Toronto), Jan. 24, 2003, and the Dow Jones News Service, Jan. 23, 2003, on investors acting on securities analyst recommendations. Hu was quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Jan. 21, 2003, on individual investor and institutional investor roles in corporate governance.

Calvin Johnson gave a presentation on his book-in-progress, “Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders' Constitution,” to the Austin LAMP program on Apr. 15, 2003, at the Thompson Conference Center.

Susan Klein’s paper, “No Time for Silence” was listed on the Social Science Research Network’s Top Ten download list for “University of Texas Law School, Public Law & Legal Theory Recent Hits” as of Apr. 5, 2003.

Douglas Laycock delivered the annual Dermot S. Mcglinchey Lecture at Tulane Law School, Apr. 2, 2003, on the topic “New Developments in Federal Injunctions.”

Brian Leiter presented a paper on “The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence” as part of the conference on “Law’s Moral Foundations: Has It Any?”, sponsored by the Natural Law Institute and the American Journal of Jurisprudence, Apr. 10, 2003, at Notre Dame Law School.

Ronald Mann presented a paper on “The Rise of Bankruptcy-Directed State Legislation” at a conference on “Threats to Secured Lending” at Cardozo Law School, Apr. 7, 2003.

Anthony Reese will speak on “Copyright and Archives” to the UT Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists, Apr. 24, 2003, in the UT School of Information. Reese will present an update on developments in digital copyright at the Law School’s 16th Annual Computer and Technology Law Institute, May 30, 2003, in Austin, along with Mark Lemley.

Wayne Schiess has been named as an associate editor for the Scribes Journal of Legal Writing beginning with Volume 8.

Russell Weintraub supplied a detailed written critique, at the request of the Texas House Research Organization, of a bill pending in the Texas House of Representatives that would enact a new  master choice-of-law provision for the Uniform Commercial Code. The new provision has already been approved by the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and The American Law Institute.