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FACULTY WRITINGS

Hans Baade, Stare Decisis in Civil-Law Countries: The Last Bastion, in Themes in Comparative Law: In Honour of Bernard Rudden 3 (Peter Birks & Arianna Pretto eds.; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Philip Bobbitt, Marketing the Future of the State, The New Statesman, Jan. 17, 2003.

Douglas Laycock, Introduction: International Litigation Symposium Honoring the Distinguished Career of Professor Russell J. Weintraub, 38 Texas International Law Journal 1 (2003).

Sanford Levinson, The Warren Court Has Left the Building: Some Comments on Contemporary Discussions of Equality, 2002 University of Chicago Legal Forum 119.

Basil Markesinis, Scholarship, Reputation of Scholarship, and Legacy: Provocative Reflections from a Comparatist’s Point of View: Being the Ninth John Maurice Kelly Memorial Lecture. (Dublin: University College Dublin, Faculty of Law, 2003).

Steven Ratner, Codifying the Unconventional, in Crimes of War Project: Rethinking the Geneva Conventions, <http://www.crimesofwar.org/expert/genevaConventions/gc-ratner.html>, (Jan. 30, 2003).

John Robertson, $1000 Genome: Ethical and Legal Hurdles, 4 Nature Review Genetics 82 (2003).

Ernest Young, Protecting Member State Autonomy in the European Union: Some Cautionary Tales from American Federalism, 77 New York University Law Review 1612 (2002).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Hans Baade delivered a paper entitled “The Legal Heritage of the Louisiana Purchase” at the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conference, Jan. 24, 2003, in New Orleans, sponsored by the Louisiana Historical Association and the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Lynn Baker has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Constitutional Law.

Carl Baudenbacher has been called as the legal expert for the Swiss Parliament’s State Council on the reform of the Swiss Competition Act.

Lee Fennell’s article, Hard Bargains and Real Steals: Land Use Exactions Revisited, 86 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (2000), was reprinted in 33 Land Use & Env’t L. Rev. 3 (2002), and was selected for inclusion through a peer-review process that identified it as one of the top five land use articles appearing the previous year. Fennell commented on a paper by Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron at the Behavioral Public Finance Conference held at the University of Southern California Law School, Feb. 7-8, 2003.

Henry Hu was quoted in Business Week, Nov. 18, 2002, on developments as to Vivendi Universal, the French media conglomerate. Hu was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 8, 2002, on criminal sanctions in the context of recent problems in corporate governance. Hu was quoted in the Washington Post, Nov. 7, 2002, on the appropriateness of Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt’s actions as to the selection of former Judge William Webster to head the new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Hu was quoted in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov. 6, 2002, and the Agence France Presse, Nov. 4, 2002, on various Wall Street securities analyst matters. Hu was quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Nov. 4, 2002, on incentives for corporate executives as to accounting matters. Hu was quoted in the Investment Dealers Digest, Nov. 4, 2002, on the efforts of Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill to restructure that financial institution’s investment banking and securities research operations. Hu was quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Nov. 3, 2002, on the use of “fractional” counsel by corporations. Hu was quoted by BBC News (World Edition), Nov. 1, 2002, on concerns raised as to SEC Chairman Pitt and former Judge Webster’s nomination to the accounting oversight board.

Terri LeClercq’s plain-language revisions of three class-action notices have been published on the Federal Judicial Center’s website, <http://www.fjc.gov>, as illustrations for proposed revisions of the federal court rules for class action cases.

Basil Markesinis delivered the Ninth John Maurice Kelly Memorial Lecture at University College Dublin, Nov. 15, 2002, with a talk entitled “Scholarship, Reputation of Scholarship, and Legacy: Provocative Reflections from a Comparatist’s Point of View.” The Kelly Memorial Lecture is Ireland’s most distinguished lecture series; past speakers include Lord Rodger, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Steyn, Richard Posner, and Neil MacCormick. In November, Markesinis was awarded the Insignia of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Italy, on behalf of Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, “for services to Italian law, comparative law, and European integration.”

Anthony Reese gave a talk on “Copyright & Archives: The Unpublished Public Domain,” concerning the implications of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act for libraries and archives, on Feb. 5, 2003, at UT’s Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

John Robertson was the keynote speaker at a conference on “Revamping the Law on Assisted Reproduction” at the University of Minnesota, Jan. 28, 2003.

Wayne Schiess’s website, <http://legalwriting.net>, was recommended in Tom Mighell, The Write Stuff on the ’Net, 66 Texas Bar Journal 114 (Feb. 2003). The author calls <legalwriting.net> a “great site” and says that lawyers will want to visit the “My Writing” page for Schiess’s articles on how to write to a variety of legal audiences.

LAW LIBRARY NEWS

Rhonda Hankins, How to Get Behind the Reference Desk, AALL Spectrum, Feb. 2003, at 12.

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 Hans Baade, Stare Decisis in Civil-Law Countries: The Last Bastion, in Themes in Comparative Law: In Honour of Bernard Rudden 3 (Peter Birks & Arianna Pretto eds.; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). Philip Bobbitt, Marketing the Future of the State, The New Statesman, Jan. 17, 2003. Douglas Laycock, Introduction: International Litigation Symposium Honoring the Distinguished Career of Professor Russell J. Weintraub, 38 Texas International Law Journal 1 (2003). Sanford Levinson, The Warren Court Has Left the Building: Some Comments on Contemporary Discussions of Equality, 2002 University of Chicago Legal Forum 119. Basil Markesinis, Scholarship, Reputation of Scholarship, and Legacy: Provocative Reflections from a Comparatist’s Point of View: Being the Ninth John Maurice Kelly Memorial Lecture. (Dublin: University College Dublin, Faculty of Law, 2003). Steven Ratner, Codifying the Unconventional, in Crimes of War Project: Rethinking the Geneva Conventions, <http://www.crimesofwar.org/expert/genevaConventions/gc-ratner.html>, (Jan. 30, 2003). John Robertson, $1000 Genome: Ethical and Legal Hurdles, 4 Nature Review Genetics 82 (2003). Ernest Young, Protecting Member State Autonomy in the European Union: Some Cautionary Tales from American Federalism, 77 New York University Law Review 1612 (2002). FACULTY ACTIVITIES Hans Baade delivered a paper entitled “The Legal Heritage of the Louisiana Purchase” at the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conference, Jan. 24, 2003, in New Orleans, sponsored by the Louisiana Historical Association and the Historic New Orleans Collection. Lynn Baker has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Constitutional Law. Carl Baudenbacher has been called as the legal expert for the Swiss Parliament’s State Council on the reform of the Swiss Competition Act. Lee Fennell’s article, Hard Bargains and Real Steals: Land Use Exactions Revisited, 86 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (2000), was reprinted in 33 Land Use & Env’t L. Rev. 3 (2002), and was selected for inclusion through a peer-review process that identified it as one of the top five land use articles appearing the previous year. Fennell commented on a paper by Edward J. McCaffery and Jonathan Baron at the Behavioral Public Finance Conference held at the University of Southern California Law School, Feb. 7-8, 2003. Henry Hu was quoted in Business Week, Nov. 18, 2002, on developments as to Vivendi Universal, the French media conglomerate. Hu was quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 8, 2002, on criminal sanctions in the context of recent problems in corporate governance. Hu was quoted in the Washington Post, Nov. 7, 2002, on the appropriateness of Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt’s actions as to the selection of former Judge William Webster to head the new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Hu was quoted in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov. 6, 2002, and the Agence France Presse, Nov. 4, 2002, on various Wall Street securities analyst matters. Hu was quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Nov. 4, 2002, on incentives for corporate executives as to accounting matters. Hu was quoted in the Investment Dealers Digest, Nov. 4, 2002, on the efforts of Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill to restructure that financial institution’s investment banking and securities research operations. Hu was quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Nov. 3, 2002, on the use of “fractional” counsel by corporations. Hu was quoted by BBC News (World Edition), Nov. 1, 2002, on concerns raised as to SEC Chairman Pitt and former Judge Webster’s nomination to the accounting oversight board. Terri LeClercq’s plain-language revisions of three class-action notices have been published on the Federal Judicial Center’s website, <http://www.fjc.gov>, as illustrations for proposed revisions of the federal court rules for class action cases. Basil Markesinis delivered the Ninth John Maurice Kelly Memorial Lecture at University College Dublin, Nov. 15, 2002, with a talk entitled “Scholarship, Reputation of Scholarship, and Legacy: Provocative Reflections from a Comparatist’s Point of View.” The Kelly Memorial Lecture is Ireland’s most distinguished lecture series; past speakers include Lord Rodger, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Steyn, Richard Posner, and Neil MacCormick. In November, Markesinis was awarded the Insignia of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Italy, on behalf of Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, “for services to Italian law, comparative law, and European integration.” Anthony Reese gave a talk on “Copyright & Archives: The Unpublished Public Domain,” concerning the implications of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act for libraries and archives, on Feb. 5, 2003, at UT’s Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. John Robertson was the keynote speaker at a conference on “Revamping the Law on Assisted Reproduction” at the University of Minnesota, Jan. 28, 2003. Wayne Schiess’s website, <http://legalwriting.net>, was recommended in Tom Mighell, The Write Stuff on the ’Net, 66 Texas Bar Journal 114 (Feb. 2003). The author calls <legalwriting.net> a “great site” and says that lawyers will want to visit the “My Writing” page for Schiess’s articles on how to write to a variety of legal audiences. LAW LIBRARY NEWS Rhonda Hankins, How to Get Behind the Reference Desk, AALL Spectrum, Feb. 2003, at 12. 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.