FACULTY WRITINGS

Lino Graglia, Give the Decision Back to Congress, American Enterprise, Apr./May 2003, at 27.

Lino Graglia, Facing Reality on Preferential Admissions [Letter to the Editor], Wall Street Journal, Mar. 17, 2003, at A15.

Kimberlee Kovach, Mediation in a Nutshell (St. Paul: Thomson/West, 2003).

Terri LeClercq, The Federal Judicial Center’s Model Plain Language Class Action Notices: A New Tool for Practitioners and the Judiciary, 4 BNA Class Action Litigation Report 182 (2003) (with Todd B. Hilsee).

Brian Leiter, Book Review, 112 Mind 175 (2003) (reviewing Nietzsche’s Postmoralism, ed. by Richard Schacht).

Ronald Mann, Commercial Transactions (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2nd ed. 2003) (with Lynn M. LoPucki, Elizabeth Warren, & Daniel Keating).

John Robertson, Ethical Issues in New Uses of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, 18 Human Reproduction 465 (2003).

Jay Westbrook, Class Actions for Post-petition Wrongs: National Relief Against National Creditors, ABI Journal, Mar. 2003, at 14 (with Elizabeth Warren).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Lynn Baker and Charles Silver are serving on the panel of academic contributors for the forthcoming 8th edition of Black’s Law Dictionary.

Philip Bobbitt’s The Shield of Achilles: War, Law and the Course of History (2002) was the focus of a colloquium at the Law School, Mar. 20-22, 2003, which included a talk by Sanford Levinson on “‘Precommitment’ and ‘Post-Commitment’: the Ban on Torture in the Wake of September 11.”

Lino Graglia and Douglas Laycock were among the speakers at a forum on affirmative action sponsored by Beta Alpha Rho, Mar. 26, 2003, in UT’s Welch Hall.

Lynn Baker moderated a panel on “Careers in Plaintiffs’ Law” at the Law School on Mar. 18, 2003. Baker spoke on “Sources of Liability for Attorneys in Group Settlements” at the Mar. 25, 2003, meeting of the Capital Area Trial Lawyers’ Association in Austin.

John Dzienkowski will speak on “Ethical Issues in the Health Care Sector” at the Law School’s 15th Annual Health Law Conference, Apr. 3, 2003, in Houston.

James Fishkin will be a panelist for the session on “How Do People Deliberate: Deliberative Discourse and the Internet” at the conference on “Democracy in the Digital Age,” Apr. 4, 2003, at Yale Law School.

William Forbath gave the Iredell Endowed Lecture in Law and History at the University of Lancaster, England, on Mar. 11, 2003, entitled “Who, the People? European Immigration, Race and National Identity in Progressive Era America.” Forbath will give a paper titled “Lincoln, the Declaration, and the ‘Undying Corpse of States’ Rights’: History, Memory and Imagination in the Constitution of a Southern Liberal,” on Apr. 11, 2003, for a symposium in honor of Charles Black at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Francesco Francioni has been elected to the Chair of International Law and International Human Rights at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and will also serve as the co-director of the Institute’s Academy of European Law and Human Rights.

Barbara Hines was interviewed on March 24th on Austin’s Channel 2 Fox News, Mar. 24, 2003, regarding the airport arrests of undocumented workers as part of “Operation Tarmac.”

Henry Hu was quoted in front page stories in the Wall Street Journal, Jan. 3, 2003, and Wall Street Journal Europe, Jan. 3, 2003, on matters relating to the financial arrangements J.P. Morgan Chase had entered into with Enron and with various insurance companies. Hu was quoted in the Houston Chronicle, Jan. 3, 2003, on efforts to calculate J.P. Morgan Chase’s exposure from Enron matters. Hu was quoted by the Dow Jones News Service, Jan. 2, 2003, on the settlement of a dispute between J.P. Morgan Chase and certain insurance companies over Enron-related surety bonds. Hu was quoted in the Chicago Tribune, Dec. 31, 2002, Dow Jones New Service, Dec. 23, 2002, and Los Angeles Times, Dec. 23, 2002, on issues relating to stock analyst conflicts of interests at investment banks.

Susan Klein was quoted in an Associated Press report which appeared in Newsday (New York), Mar. 11, 2003, and several other newspapers around the country, on the implications of a case accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court involving Miranda warnings.

Ronald Mann was quoted on KUT-FM, Mar. 14, 2003, regarding the implications of an inquiry by the federal Department of Justice into misconduct at the Houston Police Crime Laboratory.

Neil Netanel presented an overview of copyright law and the First Amendment at a conference on “Freedom of Expression and Copyright,” sponsored by the Queen Mary, University of London School of Law, and held in London on Mar. 21, 2003.

Anthony Reese gave a paper on “Legal Incentives for Adopting Digital Rights Management Systems” at a conference on “The Law & Technology of Digital Rights Management,” sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and the Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic, Mar. 1, 2003, at Boalt Hall. On Mar. 20, 2003, Reese presented a paper on the first-sale doctrine in the era of digital networks to Prof. Margaret Jane Radin’s High Technology Property and Contract Seminar at Stanford Law School.

John Robertson spoke on “Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning” at Texas Tech Law School, Mar. 25, 2003.