FACULTY WRITINGS

Susan Klein & Charles Alan Wright, 3-3B FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (St. Paul: Thomson/West, 3rd ed. 2004) (with Nancy J. King).

Michael Gagarin, Telling Stories in Athenian Law, 133 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 197 (2003).

Leslie Green, Civil Disobedience and Academic Freedom, 41 OSGOODE HALL LAW JOURNAL 381 (2003).

David Robertson, The Supreme Court’s Approach to Determining Seaman Status: Discerning the Law Amid Loose Language and Catchphrases, 34 JOURNAL OF MARITIME LAW & COMMERCE 547 (2003).

Jordan Steiker, Abolition in Our Time, 1 OHIO STATE CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL 323 (2003) (With Carol Steiker).

Jordan Steiker, Judicial Developments in Capital Punishment Law, in AMERICA’S EXPERIMENT WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE ULTIMATE PENAL SANCTION (J.R. Acker & R.M. Bohm eds. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed. 2003) (with Carol Steiker).

Michael Sturley, The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law’s Transport Law Project: An Interim View of a Work in Progress, 39 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 65 (2003).

Jay Westbrook & Elizabeth Warren, Settling into Bankruptcy, AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE JOURNAL, May 2003, at 16.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

At the American Society for Legal History’s annual meeting, Nov. 13-16, 2003, in Washington, D.C., William Forbath delivered a paper entitled "Who, the People?: Race, Class and National Identity in Progressive Era Immigration Law and Politics"; Sanford Levinson served as the chair and commentator for a session on "Political Histories of Legal Culture"; and David Rabban presented a paper on "The American School of Historical Jurisprudence."

At the University of Tulsa College of Law's Third Annual Legal Scholarship Symposium, "The Scholarship of Frank I. Michelman," held Oct. 9-10, 2003, William Forbath gave a paper entitled "First Citizen of the Republic of Letters: Frank Michelman on Constitutionalism and Social Rights, 1969-2003"; Sanford Levinson spoke on " 'Free Love' or 'Perpetual Unino': Some Reflections on Secession"; and Gerald Torres delivered "Michelman on Judging: Adjudication and Constitutional Law Making."

Sarah Buel has been appointed by American Bar Association President Dennis Archer to the ABA Commission on State Court Funding. The commission will recommend new ways to fund state courts.

Charles Childress spoke on "What You Don't Know Can Hurt-Investigations and Appeals in Child Protective Services Litigation" at a seminar on "Advocacy in Child Protection Proceedings" sponsored by the Central Texas Association of Counsel for Children and the Children’s Justice Act Project, Oct. 9, 2003, in Austin. Childress spoke at the Texas CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) 2003 Fall Program Retreat, Nov. 11, 2003, in New Braunfels, on "Changes to the Texas Family Code" with special emphasis on Chapter 107, and on "Preparation and Participation of CASA Volunteers" as guardians ad litem in merits hearings on abuse and neglect cases. On Nov. 21, 2003, in El Paso, Childress will give a two-hour presentation at a seminar for attorneys representing children in abuse and neglect cases, on "Representing Children: Role of the Child’s Attorney," "Attorney Ad Litem and Guardian Ad Litem Relationships," "Duties of the Child’s Lawyer," and "Talking to Children."

Lino Graglia gave a paper on "Race Preferences in Admissions Institutions of Higher Education" for a panel on "Equity in Education" at the international conference, 4th Encounter Europe-Latin America, held by the Universidad Autónoma de México at Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Oct. 29-31, 2003. Other speakers included Rigoberta Menchu, Carlos Fuentes, and Francis Fukuyama. President Vicente Fox gave a closing address. Graglia spoke on "Lawrence v. Texas and the Making of Constitutional Law" at a symposium on Lawrence at Ohio State University Law School, Nov. 6-7, 2003, where Professors Cass Sunstein and Catherine MacKinnon gave keynote addresses; other speakers included Martha Feinman, Mary Becker, and Michael Seidman.

Barbara Hines was selected by Texas Monthly magazine and and Law & Politics Media as one of their "Texas Super Lawyers 2003."

Calvin Johnson testified before the Government Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2003, during a hearing on "U.S. Tax Shelter Industry: The Role of Accountants, Lawyers and Financial Professionals."

Thomas McGarity spoke on "The Goals of Environmental Regulation" at a conference on Cost-Benefit at Syracuse University School of Law, Oct. 10, 2003. As the speaker at the Plenary Session of the California Bar Association’s Annual Environmental Law Conference, Oct. 19, 2003, in Yosemite, Calif., McGarity spoke on "Judicial Review of Risk Assessment." On Nov. 7, 2003, McGarity delivered a paper on "MTBE: A Precautionary Tale" at an Environmental Law Conference at Harvard Law School.

Jordan Steiker has been invited to speak at the European Union Center at Texas A&M in January 2003, as part of a program entitled "Capital Punishment: Will the EU and the U.S. Ever See Eye to Eye?", along with lawyers from Europe who will address the EU position. Steiker has been invited to present at the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference in Austin in May 2004 on "Federal Habeas under the AEDPA." Steiker has been invited to discuss Brown v. Board of Education on its 50th Anniversary, May 2004, at UT’s School of Social Work.

Louise Weinberg has been invited to contribute the article on Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr., in the YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW. Judge Wyzanski, for whom Weinberg clerked, is widely considered to have been the greatest federal trial judge of the 20th century.