FACULTY WRITINGS

Lino Graglia, Why Race Preferences in Admissions Aren’t the Answer, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 7, 2003, at B20.

Linda Mullenix, Class Actions: Apocalypse Forever: Revisiting the Adequacy of the Agent Orange Settlement, Twenty-Five Years Later, 2002-2003 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 274 (Feb. 21, 2003).

Linda Mullenix, Complex Litigation: Class Actions II, National Law Journal, Jan. 13, 2003, at B7.

Linda Mullenix, The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: Fund Approaches to Resolving Mass Tort Litigation, 9 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 121 (2002-2003) (with Kristen B. Stewart).

Jane Stapleton, Comparative Economic Loss: Lessons from Case-Law Focused “Middle Theory”, 50 UCLA Law Review 531 (2002).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

John Dzienkowski gave the keynote address, “Ethical Issues in Lawyer Equity Investments in Clients,” and Louis Pirkey spoke on “Trademark Dilution—An Expanding or Contracting Doctrine?” at the 4th Annual Intellectual Property Law Symposium, sponsored by the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, Feb. 28, 2003, at the Law School.

Lee Fennell presented her article, Death, Taxes, and Cognition, 81 N.C. L. Rev. 567 (2003) at the University of North Carolina School of Law on Feb. 20, 2003, as part of the North Carolina Law Review’s lecture series.

Barbara Hines spoke at the Law School’s annual School Law Conference, Feb. 28, 2003, in Austin, on “Immigration Issues Relating to Schools.”

Henry Hu appeared on CNBC’s flagship show “Business Center” on Dec. 20, 2002, during which he was interviewed by anchor Ron Insana on a variety of issues relating to the $1.4 billion “global settlement” involving, among others, the Securities & Exchange Commission, National Association of Securities Dealers, New York Stock Exchange, and many of Wall Street’s largest financial institutions with respect to research practices. Also on Dec. 20, 2002, Hu was quoted in connection with this settlement by the Agence France Presse, AFX-Asia, AFX European Focus, and Dow Jones News Service. Hu was quoted on the use of “fractional” counsel by corporations in the Dallas Morning News, Dec. 18, 2002. Hu was quoted by the Washington Post, Dec. 14, 2002, on certain corporate governance aspects of the decision by Coca-Cola Co. to no longer provide quarterly or annual earnings estimates. Hu was quoted by Bloomberg News, Dec. 12, 2002, on investment bank allocations of shares in hot initial public offerings to corporate executives. Hu was quoted in a front-page story in the San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 11, 2002, on President Bush’s choice of William Donaldson to become the new chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission. Hu was quoted in a story on New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in Forbes, Dec. 9, 2002.

Susan Klein presented “Terrorism and Civil Liberties” (with Robert Pittman, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas) to the Robert W. Calvert American Inn of Court on Feb. 18, 2003, at the Headliners Club.

Douglas Laycock co-authored an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the American Law Deans Association in Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan affirmative action case.

Brian Leiter spoke to more than 200 members of the Houston Rotary Club on Feb. 27, 2003, on the textbook selection process in Texas public schools.

Terri LeClercq’s contribution to model class notices has been mentioned in the Feb. 11, 2003, issue of BNA Law Week and the Feb. 14, 2003, issue of Class Action Litigation Report.

Roy Mersky was one of the signatories to an amicus brief from veterans of the Southern civil rights movement to the U.S. Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan affirmative action case.

Linda Mullenix spoke on “Developments in the Procedural Means for Resolving Mass Tort Litigation in the United States, 1975-2003” at the Conference on Liability for Acts of Terrorism, sponsored jointly by the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) and Munich Re Group, Feb. 27-28, 2003, in Munich, Germany; her paper developed for this talk will be published in Summer 2003 in ECTIL’s annual. Mullenix attended the 30th Anniversary Program for the Supreme Court Judicial Fellows Program at the United States Supreme Court on Jan. 20-21, 2003; she was a Judicial Fellow during 1989-90.

David Rabban, as General Counsel of the American Association of University Professors, helped prepare an amicus brief from the American Council on Education and 53 other higher education organizations to the U.S. Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan affirmative action case.

Steven Ratner was quoted in the National Law Journal, Feb. 17, 2003, on the recent International Court of Justice order to the U.S. to stay the execution of three Mexicans on state death rows. Ratner’s 1992 article in Foreign Policy, Saving Failed States, was quoted in a Feb. 23, 2003, New York Times article on the feasibility of building democracy in failed states. Ratner was interviewed on New York City’s WWRL-AM on Feb. 27, 2003, concerning the international law on assassination of foreign leaders and terrorists. Ratner gave a paper on “Jus Ad Bellum and Jus in Bello after September 11” to the Legal Theory Colloquium at the University of Michigan Law School on Feb. 4, 2003.

LAW SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Andrew Hammel was quoted in the Mar. 4, 2003, Austin American-Statesman and the Mar. 1, 2003, Kerrville Times on legislative proposals for determining which capital murder defendants may not receive the death penalty on the grounds of mental retardation.