FACULTY WRITINGS

Lee Fennell, Death, Taxes, and Cognition, 81 North Carolina Law Review 567 (2003).

Robert Hamilton, Fundamentals of Modern Business: A Lawyer’s Guide, 2003 Cumulative Supplement (New York: Aspen Law & Business, 2003) (with Richard A. Booth).

Brian Leiter, Prospects and Problems for the Social Epistemology of Evidence Law [symposium issue on “The Philosophy of Alvin I. Goldman”], 29 Philosophical Topics 319 (2001).

John Sampson, Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (2001) With Prefatory Note and Comments (With Still More Unofficial Annotations), 36 Family Law Quarterly 329 (2002) (with Barry J. Brooks).

Jane Stapleton, Book Review, 66 Modern Law Review 308 (2003) (reviewing Tort Liability under Uncertainty, by Ariel Porat & Alex Stein).

Louise Weinberg, This Activist Court, 1 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 111 (2002). [Inaugural issue, invitation to selected commentators to respond in 500 words to one of three questions concerning the Supreme Court.]

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

At the “Bicentennial Symposium: The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion,” organized by Sanford Levinson and held Feb. 20-22 at the Law School, Dean William Powers gave welcoming remarks; Levinson gave the introductory remarks; Philip Bobbitt moderated a panel entitled “Where Is the United States (and Who Is Within It)?” that included Sarah Cleveland as a discussant; William Forbath moderated a panel on "The Louisiana Territory and the Civil War"; Scot Powe was moderator for a panel on “The Imperialist Moment of the 1840s”; and Gerald Torres delivered a paper on “American Indians and Nation Building” as part of a panel on “Indigenous Populations that included Stuart Benjamin as a discussant.

Antonio Benjamin and Daniel Sabsay were panelists for a brown bag lunch discussion on “Fostering Environmental Compliance in South America: Constraints and Opportunities,” Feb. 10, 2003, at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the International Network of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, the Government of the Netherlands, and the World Bank Institute.

Sarah Buel and Gerald Torres were panelists for a session on “Critical Race Theory” at the Rocky Mountain Black Law Students Association’s annual conference, Feb. 14, 2003, at the Law School.

John Dzienkowski and Robert Peroni’s article, The Decline in Independence: Lawyer Equity Investments in Clients, 81 Tex. L. Rev. 405 (2002), was recognized in the Top Ten List of Hits and Downloads in Corporate Law and the Professional Responsibility Topic Listings of Social Science Research Network. The article, found at <http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=365200>, was hit 139 times and downloaded 60 times in the first week that it appeared.

Carl Baudenbacher has been awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art First Class.

Sarah Buel was one of the recipients of the 2003 Excellence in Public Interest Awards, presented by Texas Law Fellowships on Feb. 14, 2003, at a reception in Austin. Buel gave a keynote presentation to the State Bar of Texas’ Juvenile Law Conference in San Antonio on Feb. 14, 2003, entitled “Domestic Violence in Juvenile Courts: Ethical Dilemmas and Promising Practices.”

Henry Hu was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Nov. 29, 2002 and the Asian Wall Street Journal, Dec. 2, 2002, on issues related to internal controls at Morgan Stanley, the investment bank. Hu was quoted in Business Week Online, Nov. 27, 2002, in a story on a dispute between LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Morgan Stanley over the latter’s stock analyst ratings. Hu was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Nov. 26, 2002, on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s first cases under the controversial selective disclosure provisions of Regulation FD, involving Raytheon, Siebel Systems, and Secure Computing. Hu was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 19, 2002, on the Sarbanes Oxley Act’s requirements that chief executive officers and chief financial officers personally certify corporate financial statements.

Steven Goode spoke on “Children in the Courtroom” at the Texas Center for the Judiciary’s Winter Regional Conference in El Paso, Feb. 11, 2003.

Barbara Hines will be part of the faculty for the Law School's CLE program on “Immigration Law Fundamentals: A Practical Guide to Removal Procedures and Strategies," Mar. 7, 2003, in Richardson; Apr. 4, 2003, in Houston; and Apr. 24, 2003, in El Paso.

Ronald Mann presented a talk at the University of Washington Law School on Feb. 3, 2003, concerning his research on “The Role of IP Protection in Financing Software Innovation.”

Steven Ratner was interviewed for the Voice of America’s story, “Dictators in Exile: Will Saddam Join the Club?”, broadcast on Feb. 11, 2003.

John Robertson was quoted in the Washington Post, Feb. 10, 2003, on the implications of a study showing the ability to knock out a gene in embryonic stem cells.

Daniel Sabsay delivered a lecture entitled “Overview of the State of Law in Latin America and in Argentina” on Feb. 7, 2003, at UT-Austin’s Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS).

Ernest Young presented a work-in-progress entitled “‘The Ordinary Diet of the Law’: Federal Preemption and State Autonomy” on Feb. 14, 2003, to the faculty workshop at Harvard Law School.