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FACULTY WRITINGS

Roy Mersky, Introduction, in Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference, December 6-8, 2001, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin ix (Marlyn Robinson ed.; Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2003).

John Robertson, The $1000 Genome: Ethical and Legal Issues in Whole Genome Sequencing of Individuals, 3 American Journal of Bioethics 3:InFocus (2003), <http://www.bioethics.net/journal/infocus.php>.

John Robertson, Extending Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Medical and Non-Medical Uses, 29 Journal of Medical Ethics 213 (2003).

John Sampson, Family Law: Top 10 Things that Happened in 2003, 66 Texas Bar Journal 684 (2003).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

At the Texas International Law Journal’s Symposium on Globalization and the Judiciary, Sept. 4-5, 2003, at the Law School, Dean William Powers and William Forbath gave welcoming remarks, Carl Baudenbacher spoke on “Judicialization: Can the European Model be Exported to Other Parts of the World?”, and Sanford Levinson spoke on “Interpreting the Constitution: Taking into Account Foreign Experience.”

Bree Buchanan presented a paper, “When Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Collide: Tension Within the Family Violence Field” at the State Bar annual meeting, June 13, 2003, in Houston, and the Advanced Family Law Course, Aug. 20, 2003, in San Antonio.

Sarah Buel delivered keynote addresses for the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, June 18, 2003, in Oklahoma City (“Trends, Challenges & Promising Practices in Domestic Violence Law”); the National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges Annual Conference in San Antonio, July 23, 2003 (“Emerging Practices in Domestic Violence”); and the Department of Defense’s Advanced Family Advocacy Conference in San Antonio, Aug. 4, 2003 (“Domestic Violence in the Military: Trends, Practices, and the Law”). Buel gave the plenary address for the FBI & ATF Gun Dispossession Conference in Portland, OR, June 13, 2003 (“Guns and Domestic Violence: Statutes, Cases, and Promising Legal Practices”). Buel gave a full-day presentation to the Oklahoma Judges’ Conference in Oklahoma City, July 15, 2003, on “Trends, Challenges & Promising Practices in Domestic Violence Law: What Judges Need to Know.” Buel received a “Certificate for Excellence in Teaching” from Harvard Medical School in June 2003 for “special contributions to students' academic and professional development” as an adjunct professor at Harvard Medical School.

Lino Graglia was a panelist on the Michigan race preference cases (with Ward Connerly and Abigail Thernstrom, versus Judge Nathaniel Jones, Ted Shaw, and Eva Patterson) at a meeting of the Litigation Section at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting, Aug. 8, 2003, in San Francisco. Graglia was a panelist for a session on “Federalism: The Different Views of Judge John Noonan and Professor Robert Nagel,” at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 30, 2003. Graglia debated the meaning of the Michigan race preference cases with Dean Michael Olivas at the University of Houston Law Center, Sept. 4, 2003. Graglia was a panelist at a Tulane Law School symposium, “From Brown to Grutter: Affirmative Action and Higher Education in the South,” Sept. 27, 2003.

Henry Hu was quoted in Money, July 2003, on how New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s efforts have helped investors better understand securities analyst ratings. Hu was referred to in Smart Money, July 2003, as to his characterization of a certain type of stock research. Hu was quoted on how transactional lawyers can influence client behavior by the Dow Jones Capital Markets Report, June 30, 2003. Hu was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2003, and Seattle Times, June 27, 2003, on a $1 billion partial settlement relating to the initial public offerings of about 300 corporations during the bubble of the 1990s. Hu was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2003, on efforts by lawyers for individual investors to intervene with respect to the planned global stock analyst settlement involving, among others, the Securities and Exchange Commission and major Wall Street investment banks. Hu was quoted in Business Week, June 23, 2003, on his concerns about the impact of recent efforts by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to lower interest rates on exuberance in the stock market.

Brian Leiter was an invited participant at the two-day conference on “Nietzsche and Normativity” sponsored by the Institute for Law and Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sept. 5-6, 2003. On Sept. 8, 2003, Leiter gave a paper on “Why Evolutionary Biology Is (So Far) Irrelevant to Law” to the Law & Economics Workshop at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Scot Powe spoke on “Constitutional Issues and the BiPartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act” as part of a panel at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 28, 2003.

Wayne Schiess gave a seminar on legal writing to staff attorneys and law clerks at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin on Sept. 2, 2003.

A letter by Louise Weinberg is published in 216 Commentary 4 (Sept. 2003).

LAW LIBRARY NEWS

Marlyn Robinson, ed., Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference, December 6-8, 2001, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin 3 (Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2003).

Michael Widener, The Jamail Rastell Dictionary and Its Hidden Surprises, in Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference, December 6-8, 2001, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin 3 (Marlyn Robinson ed.; Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2003).

LAW SCHOOL NEWS is produced by the Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, and is edited by Michael Widener, Head of Special Collections. Its contents may be used freely, provided that source credit is given to LAW SCHOOL NEWS. If you wish to receive LAW SCHOOL NEWS by email, contact Michael Widener at mwidener@mail.law.utexas.edu.


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FACULTY WRITINGS Roy Mersky, Introduction, in Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference, December 6-8, 2001, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin ix (Marlyn Robinson ed.; Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2003). John Robertson, The $1000 Genome: Ethical and Legal Issues in Whole Genome Sequencing of Individuals, 3 American Journal of Bioethics 3:InFocus (2003), <http://www.bioethics.net/journal/infocus.php>. John Robertson, Extending Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Medical and Non-Medical Uses, 29 Journal of Medical Ethics 213 (2003). John Sampson, Family Law: Top 10 Things that Happened in 2003, 66 Texas Bar Journal 684 (2003). FACULTY ACTIVITIES At the Texas International Law Journal’s Symposium on Globalization and the Judiciary, Sept. 4-5, 2003, at the Law School, Dean William Powers and William Forbath gave welcoming remarks, Carl Baudenbacher spoke on “Judicialization: Can the European Model be Exported to Other Parts of the World?”, and Sanford Levinson spoke on “Interpreting the Constitution: Taking into Account Foreign Experience.” Bree Buchanan presented a paper, “When Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Collide: Tension Within the Family Violence Field” at the State Bar annual meeting, June 13, 2003, in Houston, and the Advanced Family Law Course, Aug. 20, 2003, in San Antonio. Sarah Buel delivered keynote addresses for the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, June 18, 2003, in Oklahoma City (“Trends, Challenges & Promising Practices in Domestic Violence Law”); the National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges Annual Conference in San Antonio, July 23, 2003 (“Emerging Practices in Domestic Violence”); and the Department of Defense’s Advanced Family Advocacy Conference in San Antonio, Aug. 4, 2003 (“Domestic Violence in the Military: Trends, Practices, and the Law”). Buel gave the plenary address for the FBI & ATF Gun Dispossession Conference in Portland, OR, June 13, 2003 (“Guns and Domestic Violence: Statutes, Cases, and Promising Legal Practices”). Buel gave a full-day presentation to the Oklahoma Judges’ Conference in Oklahoma City, July 15, 2003, on “Trends, Challenges & Promising Practices in Domestic Violence Law: What Judges Need to Know.” Buel received a “Certificate for Excellence in Teaching” from Harvard Medical School in June 2003 for “special contributions to students' academic and professional development” as an adjunct professor at Harvard Medical School. Lino Graglia was a panelist on the Michigan race preference cases (with Ward Connerly and Abigail Thernstrom, versus Judge Nathaniel Jones, Ted Shaw, and Eva Patterson) at a meeting of the Litigation Section at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting, Aug. 8, 2003, in San Francisco. Graglia was a panelist for a session on “Federalism: The Different Views of Judge John Noonan and Professor Robert Nagel,” at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 30, 2003. Graglia debated the meaning of the Michigan race preference cases with Dean Michael Olivas at the University of Houston Law Center, Sept. 4, 2003. Graglia was a panelist at a Tulane Law School symposium, “From Brown to Grutter: Affirmative Action and Higher Education in the South,” Sept. 27, 2003. Henry Hu was quoted in Money, July 2003, on how New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s efforts have helped investors better understand securities analyst ratings. Hu was referred to in Smart Money, July 2003, as to his characterization of a certain type of stock research. Hu was quoted on how transactional lawyers can influence client behavior by the Dow Jones Capital Markets Report, June 30, 2003. Hu was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2003, and Seattle Times, June 27, 2003, on a $1 billion partial settlement relating to the initial public offerings of about 300 corporations during the bubble of the 1990s. Hu was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2003, on efforts by lawyers for individual investors to intervene with respect to the planned global stock analyst settlement involving, among others, the Securities and Exchange Commission and major Wall Street investment banks. Hu was quoted in Business Week, June 23, 2003, on his concerns about the impact of recent efforts by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to lower interest rates on exuberance in the stock market. Brian Leiter was an invited participant at the two-day conference on “Nietzsche and Normativity” sponsored by the Institute for Law and Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sept. 5-6, 2003. On Sept. 8, 2003, Leiter gave a paper on “Why Evolutionary Biology Is (So Far) Irrelevant to Law” to the Law & Economics Workshop at the University of Illinois College of Law. Scot Powe spoke on “Constitutional Issues and the BiPartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act” as part of a panel at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 28, 2003. Wayne Schiess gave a seminar on legal writing to staff attorneys and law clerks at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin on Sept. 2, 2003. A letter by Louise Weinberg is published in 216 Commentary 4 (Sept. 2003). LAW LIBRARY NEWS Marlyn Robinson, ed., Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference, December 6-8, 2001, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin 3 (Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2003). Michael Widener, The Jamail Rastell Dictionary and Its Hidden Surprises, in Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference, December 6-8, 2001, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin 3 (Marlyn Robinson ed.; Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2003). LAW SCHOOL NEWS is produced by the Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, and is edited by Michael Widener, Head of Special Collections. Its contents may be used freely, provided that source credit is given to LAW SCHOOL NEWS. If you wish to receive LAW SCHOOL NEWS by email, contact Michael Widener at mwidener@mail.law.utexas.edu.