FACULTY WRITINGS

Sanford Levinson & Jordan Steiker, The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action: Ruling by Ruling, We Inch Closer to Core Problem at Our Universities, Austin American-Statesman, June 25, 2003, at A11.

Philip Bobbitt, Spooks and Spin Doctors, The Guardian, July 2, 2003, at 19.

Lino Graglia, Winks, Nods—and Preferences, Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2003, at A12.

Sanford Levinson, Afterword [Legal Scholarship Symposium: The Scholarship of Sanford Levinson], 38 Tulsa Law Review 779 (2003).

Sanford Levinson, Redefining the Center: Liberal Decisions from a Conservative Court, The Village Voice, July 2-8, 2003, at 38.

Linda Mullenix, Complex Litigation: Standing, National Law Journal, June 16, 2003, at 17.

Wayne Schiess, The Five Principles of Legal Writing, The Practical Lawyer, June 2003, at 11.

Michael Sharlot, Michigan Rulings Don’t End Quest for Answers, Austin American-Statesman, July 3, 2003, at A15.

Ernest Young, Is the Sky Falling on the Federal Government? State Sovereign Immunity, the Section Five Power, and the Federal Balance, 81 Texas Law Review 1551 (2003) (essay reviewing Narrowing the Nation’s Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States, by John T. Noonan).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Philip Bobbitt is the subject of a lengthy interview in the cover story of the July/Aug. 2003 issue of The Alcalde.

Lee Fennell presented her paper, “Contracting Communities,” at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum held at Stanford Law School on June 6-7, 2003. Fennell gave a paper entitled “Family Ties and Safety Nets” at the North American Regional Conference of the International Society of Family Law, held at the University of Oregon School of Law on June 26-28, 2003.

Lino Graglia delivered a paper, “Restrictions on Judicial Campaign Speech: Suppressing Criticism of Liberal Activism,” for a Symposium on Freedom of Speech at the Public Policy and Philosophy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio, Apr. 10-12, 2003. Graglia was a panelist for “Affirmative Action: The Michigan Cases” at a dinner meeting of the Inns of Court, Apr. 15, 2003, in Austin. Graglia was part of a panel on “Civil Liberties After 9/11” at the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Society, Apr. 25-26, 2003, in New Orleans. GragliaGraglia led a seminar on “The Tradition of Natural Law” at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., June 19, 2003.

Henry Hu spoke on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and certain other matters at the NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers) Spring Securities Conference on May 1, 2003. Hu was quoted in a front page story in the Washington Post, Apr. 29, 2003, and a story in the National Post (Toronto), Apr. 30, 2003, on the Securities and Exchange Commission approval of a $1.4 billion settlement of civil claims against 10 of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions relating to alleged stock analyst conflicts of interest. Hu was quoted in a front page story in the Wall Street Journal Europe, Apr. 28, 2003, and a story in the Wall Street Journal, Apr. 28, 2003, on his doubts about the wisdom of making investment decisions based solely on the belief that stocks will do better than other asset classes. Hu was quoted in the Houston Chronicle, Apr. 29, 2003, and by the Associated Press, Apr. 29, 2003, on the possibility of Enron suing banks that had provided financial services to Enron. Hu was quoted by the Dow Jones News Service, Apr. 28, 2003, on the monitoring by institutional investors of the quality of execution of their trades at the New York Stock Exchange.

Brian Leiter’s essay “American Legal Realism,” forthcoming in The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory in 2004, has made the “all time top ten downloads” list for the Social Science Research Network’s University of Texas School of Law, Public Law and Legal Theory, along with two other papers by Leiter, and articles by Jay Westbrook, Tony Reese, Teresa Sullivan, and Neil Netanel.

Steven Ratner gave a talk entitled “The UN and Iraq” to the Texas Exes Alumni College on June 20, 2003.

John Sampson will be part of the faculty for the Law School’s 7th Biennial Sampson & Tindall Family Law Legislative Update, July 10, 2003, at the Law School; July 11, 2003, in Dallas; and July 18, 2003, in Houston.

Jane Stapleton has accepted appointment as Commonwealth Fellow of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and will deliver a public lecture on “Products Liability” in the Institute’s Council Chamber in London on July 10, 2003, with Mr. Justice Burton in the Chair. Stapleton has been reappointed by the University of Oxford as Statutory Visiting Professor for an additional five years.

Michael Sturley attended a meeting in Washington, D.C. of the U.S. delegation to Working Group III (Transport Law) of the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), June 3-4, 2003, as the Senior Adviser on the U.S. delegation. This meeting was held to discuss the negotiating position that the United States will take at the Twelfth Session of Working Group III, which is scheduled to be held at UNCITRAL headquarters in Vienna in October 2003. On June 12, 2003, Sturley delivered a paper on “Transport Law: The Treatment of Performing Parties” to the Transport Law session at the Comité Maritime International’s Colloquium held in Bordeaux, France. Sturley has been invited to speak on the CMI/UNCITRAL project on transport law at the International Bar Association’s 2003 annual conference in San Francisco, Sept. 14-19, 2003.