FACULTY WRITINGS

Sarah Buel, The Pedagogy of Domestic Violence Law: Situating Domestic Violence Work in Law Schools, Adding the Lenses of Race and Class, 11 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 309 (2003).

William Forbath, The Smart Road Out of Redistricting Quagmire, Austin American-Statesman, July 19, 2003, at A17.

Brian Leiter, When Education Board Censors Books, Schoolkids Suffer, Austin American-Statesman, July 24, 2003, at A13.

Sanford Levinson, The Debate on Torture: War Against Virtual States, Dissent, Summer 2003, at 79.

Sanford Levinson, The Historians’ Counterattack: Some Reflections on the Historiography of the Second Amendment, in Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America 91 (Bernard E. Harcourt ed.; New York: New York University Press, 2003).

Scot Powe, Searching for the False Shout of “Fire”, 19 Constitutional Commentary 345 (2002).

Anthony Reese, Will Merging Access Controls and Rights Controls Undermine the Structure of Anticircumvention Law?, 18 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 619 (2003).

John Robertson, Reproductive Cloning: Don’t Rush to Judgment [Letter to the Editor], 424 Nature 14 (2003).

Zipporah Wiseman, What Feminist Pedagogy Has Wrought, 11 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 963 (2003).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Lynn Baker became a five-time National Champion in tournament bridge when her team won the four-day Women’s Knock-Out Team event in Long Beach, Calif., on July 24, 2003.

Barbara Hines has been named a member of the Amicus Committee and the Publications Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Henry Hu was quoted in Newsday (New York), June 5, 2003, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 5, 2003, and a front-page story in the Austin American Statesman, June 5, 2003, on the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission’s decisions to charge Martha Stewart with, respectively, obstruction of justice and insider trading. Hu was quoted by the Dow Jones News Service on June 3 and June 4, 2003, on certain matters relating to the global settlement relating to stock analysts at Wall Street financial institutions. Hu was quoted in the Daily Mail (London), May 31, 2003, with respect to the possibility of Enron suing its banks. Hu was quoted in the Seattle Times, May 18, 2003, on executive compensation and corporate incentive structures.

Ronald Mann gave a talk in London to the Office of Fair Trading on July 16, 2003, on “Current Developments in US Credit-Card Litigation.” On July 17, 2003, Mann spoke at the Bank of England about “Policy Implications of Consumer Use of Card-Based Payment Systems.”

Roy Mersky delivered a paper entitled “The Evolution and Impact of Legal Dictionaries” at the 6th International Conference on Language and the Law in Sydney, Australia, July 11, 2003.

Steven Ratner was quoted in the Washington Times on July 25, 2003, and by Cox News Service on July 24, 2003, on the legality of the killing of Uday and Qusay Hussein and the publication of photographs of their bodies.

John Robertson was quoted in U.S. News & World Report, July 21, 2003, at 51, concerning the need for an exception in a federal law banning transplant use of fetal tissue when the abortion was necessary because of a health danger to the mother or fetus. In June 2003 Robertson attended a European conference on “Procreative Liberty” at the Medical School of the University of Giessen, Germany.

Wayne Schiess presented a seminar called “Better Legal Writing” to the legal staff at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, July 17, 2003, in Austin. Schiess spoke on “Legal Writing for Litigators” at the Idaho State Bar annual meeting in Sun Valley, July 25, 2003. Schiess was quoted on the importance of writing samples in Rebecca F. Greene, Law School for Dummies (2003).

Jordan Steiker, along with Michael Tigar, gave the introductory lectures at the Capital Trial Advocacy Program at the Center for American and International Law in Plano, Tex., July 26, 2003.

Michael Sturley attended a meeting of the Experts Group on Transport Law, July 16, 2003, at the invitation of the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), along with 11 other maritime law experts from around the world, to review the draft that the UNCITRAL Secretariat has prepared for discussion at the October 2003 session of its Working Group III on Transport Law. On behalf of the U.S. State Department, Sturley attended a meeting in Vienna with UNCITRAL officials and Canadian, Dutch, and Italian representatives on July 15, 2003, to explain the U.S. government’s position paper on the transport law project that was submitted to UNCITRAL.

LAW SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Mark Perlmutter was profiled in the July 28 “De Novo: Bright Ideas” section of Texas Lawyer as one of nine Texas lawyers “who’ve taken an innovative approach to the law.” Featured in the article was Perlmutter’s “Trialmasters” course in which he teaches “principles of persuasion … while pushing students to have a deep sense of ethics and professionalism.”