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Jamail
Center for Legal Research
University of Texas at Austin School of Law 2001 New Faculty and Faculty Honors and Accomplishments LAW SCHOOL NEWS Volume 13, No. 9 April 10, 2003 View Past Issues |
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Frank Cross, America the Adversarial, 89 Virginia Law Review 189 (2003) (reviewing Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law, by Robert A. Kagan). Karen Engle, The Rise of the Personal Animosity Presumption in Title VII and the Return to “No Cause” Employment, 81 Texas Law Review 1117 (2003) (with Chad Derum). Susan Klein, No Time for Silence, 81 Texas Law Review 1337 (2003). Inga Markovits, Justice in Lüritz, 50 American Journal of Comparative Law 819 (2002). John Robertson, Bioterrorism and the Right to Research, 4 Nature Reviews Genetics 248 (2003). Wayne Schiess, Writing for the Legal Audience (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2003). Michael Gagarin’s Antiphon the Athenian (2002) was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, Mar. 7, 2003, at 13. Henry Hu appeared on the National Public Radio show, “Marketplace,” on Jan. 21, 2003, during which he spoke on the Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Merrill Lynch provisioning for certain litigation in their financial reports (e.g., litigation relating to Enron and stock analyst recommendations). Hu was quoted by the Washington Post, Jan. 21, 2003, on corporate governance and attempts by the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to enhance practices at listed companies. Hu was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Jan. 14, 2003, Wall Street Journal Europe, Jan. 14. 2003, Globe & Mail (Toronto), Jan. 14, 2003, and Asian Wall Street Journal, Jan. 15, 2003, on the interplay between the regulatory actions against Salomon Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch as to stock analyst matters and the private arbitrations involving these investment banks. Hu was quoted in the Chicago Tribune, Jan. 6, 2003, on corporate use of outside counsel. Hu was quoted in the Washington Post, Jan. 4, 2003, on certain aspects of the upcoming “global settlement” relating to Wall Street securities analyst conflicts of interest. Brian Leiter was one of six philosophers from the United States and Britain quoted on John Rawls’s career and legacy in Remembering Rawls, 22 The Philosopher’s Magazine 34 (2nd Quarter 2003). Leiter was the featured “expert” for the “Culture Watch” column in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 14, 2003, at A8, commenting on the film “The Life of David Gale,” about a philosophy professor at UT Austin opposed to the death penalty who is convicted for murder. Roy Mersky attended the annual meeting of the National Conference of Law Reviews, Mar. 27, 2003, in Seattle, where he presented the 2002 Law Review Notes and Comments Award on behalf of Scribes (American Society for Legal Writers). The award is the most prestigious national prize for law students who write in American law reviews. Scot Powe’s The Warren Court and American Politics (2000) was reviewed at 44 American Journal of Legal History 331 (2000). Steven Ratner was interviewed on KTRH Houston on Mar. 26, 2003, and KSEV Houston, Mar. 27, 2003, about the laws of war and war in Iraq. On the same issue, Ratner was quoted in Newsday on Mar. 26, 2003, in an Associated Press article on Mar. 26, 2003, and on Mar. 28, 2003, in ABC News.com and Bloomberg.com. John Robertson was a lead speaker in a “Great Debate” at the School of Communication, Boston University, on “Human Reproductive Cloning Should Be Banned,” Apr. 2, 2003. The second member of his team was Lee Silver, a geneticist from Princeton University. The leader of the opposition was Judy Norsigian of the Boston Women's Health Collective, which published “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” a famous guide to women's health. The proceedings will be shown on C-Span. Jane Stapleton delivered a paper on “Regulating Torts” to the International Regulating Law Workshop at the Australian National University, Mar. 21, 2003. Michael Sturley accompanied representatives of the U.S. Departments of State and Transportation to a meeting in Ottawa on Feb. 20, 2003, with officials of the Canadian Departments of Justice and Transport, and representatives of Canadian industry groups, to discuss issues that would be addressed at the Eleventh Session of Working Group III (Transport Law) of the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Sturley attended the Eleventh Session of Working Group III (Transport Law) of UNCITRAL, Mar. 24-Apr. 2, 2003, at U.N. Headquarters in New York, as the Senior Adviser on the U.S. delegation. The meetings were attended by representatives from member and observer governments, other U.N. organizations, intergovernmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations representing various segments of industry. As a member of the U.S. delegation, Sturley was the principal spokesman on issues involving substantive transport law. As the Rapporteur of the Comité Maritime International’s International Sub-Committee on Issues of Transport Law, Sturley attended the seventh meeting of the group in London, Feb. 27-28, 2003. Gerald Torres’ The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (2002; with Lani Guinier) was reviewed at 7 Texas Forum on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 126 (2002). Kumar Percy’s article, Open Access to the Law: Internet Publishing Transforming the Face of the Legal System, LLRX.com, Mar. 19, 2001, was quoted by Thomas R. French in Internet Resources for Researching International and Foreign Law, 52 Syracuse L. Rev. 1167, 1168 (2002). 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. 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