FACULTY WRITINGS

Lynn Baker & Mitchell Berman, Getting off the Dole: Why the Court Should Abandon Its Spending Doctrine, and How a Too-Clever Congress Could Provoke It to Do So, 78 Indiana Law Journal 459 (2003).

Susan Klein & Jordan Steiker, The Search for Equality in Criminal Sentencing, 2002 Supreme Court Review 223 (2003).

Sarah Buel, Effective Assistance of Counsel for Battered Women Defendants: A Normative Construct, 26 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 217 (2003).

Sanford Levinson, What Follows Putting Reason in Its Place? “Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin. Yes?”, 151 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1371 (2003).

Sanford Levinson, Why I Do Not Teach Marbury (Except to Eastern Europeans) and Why You Shouldn’t Either, 38 Wake Forest Law Review 553 (2003).

H.W. Perry, Taking Political Science Seriously, 47 St. Louis University Law Journal 889 (2003).

Scot Powe, The Politics of American Judicial Review: Reflections on the Marshall, Warren, and Rehnquist Courts, 38 Wake Forest Law Review 697 (2003).

John Robertson, Let’s Not Make Criminals Out of Fertility Patients, Austin American-Statesman, June 3, 2003, at A9.

Jay Westbrook (U.S. Reporter), Transnational Insolvency: Cooperation Among the NAFTA Countries: International Statement of United States Bankruptcy Law (Philadelphia: American Law Institute, 2003).

Jay Westbrook (U.S. Reporter), Transnational Insolvency: Cooperation Among the NAFTA Countries: Principles of Cooperation Among the NAFTA Countries (Philadelphia: American Law Institute, 2003).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Lynn Baker presented a paper entitled “Preferences, Priorities, and Plebiscites” at a Symposium on “Direct Democracy,” held at the University of San Diego School of Law on June 6-7, 2003. Other Symposium speakers included Clay Gillette (NYU), Sherman Clark (Michigan), and Daniel Lowenstein (UCLA). The Symposium proceedings will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues. Baker spoke on “Potential Liability for Attorneys in Group Settlements” at the Mealey’s LexisNexis “Asbestos 101” Conference in Dallas on June 17, 2003.

Carl Baudenbacher spoke on “Compulsory Licensing of IP Rights” at a conference on Competition and Intellectual Property, sponsored by the European Policy Centre in Brussels. The conference was chaired by Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Stuart Eizenstat and European Commission’s Director General of Competition Philip Lowe.

Henry Hu was quoted in a front page story in the Washington Post, Apr. 8, 2003, on the impact on corporations of the U.S. Supreme Court State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Campbell punitive damages decision. Hu was quoted in the “Heard on the Street” column of the Wall Street Journal, Apr. 4, 2003, and the Asian Wall Street Journal, Apr. 7, 2003, on investment bank UBS Warburg’s ratings on HealthSouth Corp. stock. Hu was quoted in Derivatives Week, Apr. 6, 2003, in a story on the risks posed by derivatives to the international financial system. Hu was quoted in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Apr. 5, 2003, in a story on New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s actions with respect to biased securities research. Hu was quoted in a story on the $1.4 billion “global settlement” of claims relating to Wall Street stock analysts by Bloomberg, April 3, 2003. Hu was quoted on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of Wachovia Corp.’s actions in connection with its merger with First Union Corp. in the Charlotte Observer, Apr. 1, 2003, and by the Dow Jones News Service, Apr. 1, 2003.

Susan Klein’s paper, “The Search for Equality in Criminal Sentencing,” 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 June 12, 2003.

Brian Leiter (ed.), Objectivity in Law and Morals (2001) was reviewed at 23 Philosophical Inquiry 123 (2002).

Ronald Mann was quoted in the San Antonio Express-News, June 14, 2003, on Texas’ newly enacted statute regulating unsolicited commercial email (spam).

Gerald Torres’ The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (2002; with Lani Guinier) was reviewed at 116 Harvard Law Review 2487 (2003). Torres delivered a commentary entitled “Immigration Deaths Require Americans to See Human Link with Mexican Neighbors” on KLRU-TV’s “Austin Now” program, as part of a show on illegal immigration that was broadcast June 6, 2003; a transcript of his commentary is at <http://www.klru.org/austinnow/commentary/torres.asp>.

Jay Westbrook taught classes with Ian Fletcher in Corporate Insolvency during his visit at University College London in May 2003, and gave a public lecture, May 22, 2003, on “International Judicial Negotiation.” Westbrook spoke on a panel, “The EU Insolvency Regulation: The First Year,” at the annual conference of the International Insolvency Institute, June 10, 2003, at Fordham University Law School. Westbrook spoke on “Domestic Insolvency Law Reform Around the World” in Dallas on June 17, 2003, at the Symposium on Private Investment Abroad, sponsored by The American Center for Comparative and International Law (formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation).