Professor of Law Katherine White was elected to serve as the Vice President of the Fulbright Association in 2006. She has served on that Board since 2005.
Her article, "Preserving the Patenting Process in the Global Economy", was published in the Syracuse Science and Technology Law Reporter earlier this spring (http://www.law.syr.edu/students/publications/sstlr/framesets/archive/current/S05-ArtSum.htm).
She has published two articles on intellectual property and government contracting in the Army Lawyer Contract and Fiscal Law Developments of 2005-Year in Review, Department of the Army Pamphlet 27-50-392(January 2006).
Major White was selected for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.
Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler attended Oxford Roundtable at Pembroke College in August; presented paper on constitutional right of parents to control the education of their children.
Professor of Law Alan Schenk His book, Value Added Tax: A Comparative Approach -- will be issued the first week of September by the Cambridge University Press and will be used in courses in law schools in the U.S. and Australia this fall.
Associate Professor Brad Roth under the auspices of the Fulbright Senior Specialist program, taught a two-week intensive course in international human rights law Mari State University in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia (about 400 miles east of Moscow), in furtherance of Wayne State Law School's ongoing exchange with that institution.
In April, he and two of his Political Science colleagues co-taught, with counterparts from several European universities, the annual interdisciplinary short course on "Divided Societies" at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia; twelve graduate and undergraduate Political Science students participated, and Professor Roth took several of them to The Hague on the way back to observe oral arguments in the Bosnia v. Serbia Genocide Case at the International Court of Justice.
In June, he was an invited speaker in Jerusalem at a Hebrew University conference on sovereignty and international law.
Professor of Law Peter Henning had "Are Backdating Cases Really Securities Fraud?" published at Law.com.
He has also been quoted extensively in papers around the nation on a variety of topics.
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall published "Toward A New Horizontal Federalism: Interstate Water Management in the Great Lakes Region," University of Colorado Law Review (citation 77 COLORADO LAW REVIEW 405 (2006)).
He gave two invited presentations:
1. Federal Government of Canada Policy Research Initiative, Freshwater for the Future, Ottawa, Ontario / Gatineau, Quebec (May 8-9, 2006) "Boundary Waters: Implementing an Ecosystem Approach / Managing Conflicting Interests"
2. Canadian Bar Association Annual National Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Summit: Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Issues, Toronto, Ontario (April 28, 2006) "Waterways, Waterwars: The Protection, Taking and Use of Water"
He was quoted in the following newspaper story:
Dan Egan and Darryl Enriquez, Michigan Shuts Tap to Lake New Berlin Blocked in Request to Divert Water, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (June 30, 2006) - http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=446990
Erica Eisinger was a visiting faculty member for spring 2006 at the Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid in Maastricht, the Netherlands. She taught a course on Civil Rights Litigation in the United States.
Professor of Law Stephen Calkins was elected to 3 year term on the Council of the ABA Antitrust Section, his third term of service.
Assistant Professor of Law Jocelyn Benson was appointed to board of Community Legal Resources
Professor of Law Laura Bartell recently published "The Peripatetic Debtor: Choice of Law and Choice of Exemptions" in the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal.
She continues to work on the 2d edition of "A Guide to the Judicial Management of Bankruptcy Mega-Cases" for the Federal Judicial Center.
She was elected to the Board of Directors of Grosse Pointe Theatre, and was elected President of the Board of Trustees of the Grosse Pointe Public Library, and a member of the Board of the Grosse Pointe Library Foundation.
She is working on a new book, "Visualizing Secured Transactions", which she hopes to complete and submit for publication this fall.