FACULTY WRITINGS

Sarah Cleveland, Why International Labor Standards?, in International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade and Public Policy 129 (Robert J. Flanagan & William J. Gould IV, eds.; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).

Lino Graglia, Has the Supreme Court Gone Too Far? [symposium], Commentary, Oct. 2003, at 34.

Sanford Levinson, Has the Supreme Court Gone Too Far? [symposium], Commentary, Oct. 2003, at 37.

Sanford Levinson, Why I Did Not Sign the Constitution: With a Chance to Endorse It, I Had to Decline, Writ: Findlaw’s Legal Commentary, Sept. 23, 2003. <http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030923_levinson.html>.

Basil Markesinis, Markesinis and Deakin’s Tort Law (Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 5th ed. 2003) (with Simon Deakin & Angus Johnston).

Linda Mullenix, Complex Litigation: Inroads on “Eisen”, National Law Journal, Sept. 22, 2003, at 13.

Robert Peroni, Commentator: Response to Professor McDaniel’s Article [Stephen L. Cantor International Tax Symposium], 35 George Washington International Law Review 297 (2003).

Scot Powe, A Unique Kind of Justice, 31 Reviews in American History 471 (2003) (reviewing Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas, by Bruce Allen Murphy).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Dean William Powers delivered the keynote address at the 35th Anniversary Gala of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Sept. 26, 2003, in San Antonio, and spoke on the importance of diversity in higher education. On Sept. 13, 2003, Powers was the keynote speaker at the annual Mexican-American Bar Association dinner in Houston.

Lino Graglia’s debate with Peter Linzer of the University of Houston Law Center on the topic of “Constitutional Freedoms in a Post-9/11 World,” which took place at the State Bar of Texas annual meeting, June 2003, in Houston, was spotlighted in the Sept. 2003 issue of the Texas Bar Journal.

Patricia Hansen presented a series of lectures on “Opportunities and Challenges of Economic Integration” in Brazil, Aug. 11-14, 2003, at programs sponsored by the University of Para in Belem, the U.S. Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre. Hansen was the subject of a feature article entitled “Difficult Negotiations on the Path Toward the FTAA,” in the leading newspaper Jornal do Brasil, Aug. 13, 2003, which quoted extensively her views on the ongoing negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.

Henry Hu was quoted in a front page story in both the Washington Post, July 29, 2003, and the Chicago Tribune, July 29, 2003 (as well as in stories that same day in, among others, the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, and Canadian Press), on the settlements J. P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau with respect to the banks’ Enron activities. Hu was quoted on the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and of Warren Buffett on American corporate governance by Agence France Presse, July 29, 2003, and Schweizerische Depeschenagentur (SDA – Service de base francais), July 29, 2003.

Brian Leiter has been selected as a reviewer and evaluator of philosophy applications by the American Council of Learned Societies for their 2003-04 Fellowship Program competition.

Sanford Levinson was one of the panelists for a discussion of “The Very Mercy of the Law: Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure,” Sept. 25, 2003, in the Law School.

Ronald Mann was quoted in the International Herald Tribune, Sept. 27, 2003, on the lack of enthusiasm for credit cards in Japan.

Basil Markesinis’ The British Contribution to the Europe of the Twenty-First Century: The British Academy Centenary Lectures (editor; 2002) was reviewed at 31 International Journal of Legal Information 399 (2003).

Excerpts from four of Robert Peroni’s articles on international taxation were included in Foundations of International Income Taxation (Michael Graetz ed.; New York: Foundation Press, 2003).

Scot Powe’s The Warren Court and American Politics (2000) will appear in a Chinese language edition published by the China University Press.

Jane Stapleton delivered an invited address on “Public Authority Liability” to the appellate judges’ annual conference of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, September 2003, in Pokolbin, N.S.W. Stapleton gave a paper entitled “Lessons from Comparative Pure Economic Loss” at the annual Society of Legal Scholars Conference held in Oxford, U.K., September 17, 2003. In October 2003, Stapleton is an invited guest of the Justices of the High Court of Australia for the 100th anniversary sitting of the High Court in the original small courtroom in Melbourne. Later that week, in the High Court’s present premises in Canberra, Stapleton will address the official Centenary Conference on the topic of “Torts at the Top.”

Michael Sturley attended a meeting of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law, held in Washington, D.C., Sept. 4, 2003, to discuss the U.S. government’s negotiating strategy at the Twelfth Session of Working Group III (Transport Law) of the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), which will be held at UNCITRAL Headquarters in Vienna. As the Senior Adviser on the U.S. delegation, Sturley is the principal spokesman on issues involving substantive transport law.