FACULTY WRITINGS

Philip Bobbitt, The Archbishop is Right: The Nation-State is Dying, The Times (London), Dec. 27, 2002, Features, at 22.

Lee Fennell, Homes Rule, 112 Yale Law Journal 617 (2002) (reviewing The Homevoter Hypothesis, by William A. Fischel).

Terri LeClercq, Examining Other Professional Prose, Michigan Bar Journal, Dec. 2002, at 42. [Excerpted from Expert Legal Writing (1995).]

Steven Ratner, Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello After September 11, 96 American Journal of International Law 905 (2002).

Steven Ratner, Teacher’s Manual for International Law: Norms, Actors, Process (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 2002) (with Jeffrey Dunoff & David Wippman).

John Robertson, Constitutional Issues in the Use of Pharmacogenomic Variations Associated with Race, in Pharmacogenomics: Social, Ethical, and Clinical Dimensions (Mark Rothstein ed.; New York: John Wiley, 2003).

John Robertson, PGD: New Ethical Challenges, 4 Nature Reviews Genetics 6 (2003).

Guy Wellborn, Cases and Materials on the Rules of Evidence (St. Paul: Thomson/West, 2nd ed. 2003).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Philip Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History (2002), was selected by The Economist, the Guardian (London), and by Austin-based columnist Molly Ivins as one of the top books of 2002. The Guardian (London) reprinted Sir Michael Howard’s foreword to Bobbitt’s Shield of Achilles in its Jan. 13, 2003, edition. Bobbitt participated in a half-hour interview about terrorism on the BBC’s “Newsnight,” Jan. 2, 2003.

Michael Churgin was named Chair of the AALS Standing Committee on Bar Admissions and Lawyer Performance at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 4, 2003, in Washington, D.C.

William Forbath was Program Co-Chair for the meeting of the Sections on Constitutional Law and Legal History at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 5, 2003, in Washington, D.C., and spoke on “Judicial Supremacy? The Constitution Outside the Courts.”

Julius Getman served as Chair at a meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association, during the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 2-5, 2003, in Washington, D.C.

Henry Hu was quoted by the Globe & Mail (Toronto), Oct. 16, 2002, on the involvement of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in LJM2 and other Enron-related deals.

Kimberlee Kovach spoke on “Teaching Law in ADR Courses” and on “ADR Clinics: Supervision and Evaluation” as part of the “Workshop on Dispute Resolution: Raising the Bar and Enlarging the Canon” at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 3, 2003, in Washington, D.C.

Terri LeClercq was selected Chair-Elect of the Section on International Exchanges at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 5, 2003, in Washington, D.C.

Anthony Reese assumed the office of Chair of the Section on Law and Computers at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 3, 2003, in Washington, D.C., and will be the Section’s Program Chair for the 2004 meeting.

Neil Netanel was a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law during Jan. 6-10 and Jan. 20-24, 2003.

Gerald Torres was recognized as President-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) at the association’s annual meeting, Jan. 2-5, 2003, in Washington, D.C.; his presidency will begin in January 2004. Torres spoke on “Legal Education Engages the World” at the AALS plenary session on Jan. 4, 2003. In addition, Torres was one of the speakers for the program on “Learning Theory and Student Evaluation: Throw Out Those Blue Books?”, sponsored by the AALS Committee on Curriculum and Research.

Louise Weinberg gave a panel talk entitled “Our Marbury” to a standing-room-only crowd in the Federal Courts Section program at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Jan. 4, 2003, in Washington, D.C. The other panelists were John Hart Ely, Robin West, Michael Dorf, and Christopher Eisgruber. With a further contribution by G. Edward White, the papers on which the presentations were based are to be published in the Oct. 2003 issue of the Virginia Law Review, as a Symposium entitled, “Marbury v. Madison in Its Bicentennial Year.” Weinberg was also elected Chair of the AALS Section on Federal Courts for 2003, having served as Program Chair in 2002. Weinberg was also elected to serve as treasurer of the AALS Admiralty Section for 2003.

Jay Westbrook spoke on “Principles of International Insolvency: Legal Response to Global Concerns with Law Reform Governing General Default of Multinational Enterprises” for the program of the Section on Creditors’ and Debtors’ Rights at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Jan. 2, 2003, in Washington, D.C. Westbrook also gave a presentation to the AALS Section on Commercial and Related Consumer Law, Jan. 5, 2003, on “International Secured Credit.”

Ernest Young was named Chair-Elect of the Section on Maritime Law at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Jan. 5, 2003, in Washington, D.C.