Derek Bambauer 's article on the marketplace of ideas has been published in the University of Colorado Law Review: http://www.colorado.edu/law//lawreview/issues/contents/v77-3.htm
He was the lead on a study by the OpenNet Initiative (his former project) that analyzed and documented Vietnam's Internet censorship: http://www.opennetinitiative.net/ (look under "Latest News")
Associate Professor of Law Linda Beale taught a two week course in U.S. federal income tax law as part of the Anglo-American Law Program at the Universidad Catolica in Lisbon, Portugal this May.
She spoke at an economics panel at the first "Yearly Kos" conference, attended by about 1,000 bloggers and blog readers, in Las Vegas in June. (That panel is available through a streaming video link on the Daily Kos website.)
She presented a paper July 8, Brave New World after the Jobs Act: Changing Roles of Tax Professionals, Tax Administration, and the Courts, that further developed arguments for a higher standard for tax advice, as part of a panel on "Law, Society, and Taxation: Ethics and Taxes" at the 2006 Law and Society Conference in Baltimore.
Her tax blog, A Taxing Matter, (available at http://www.ataxingmatter.us) continues to receive recognition and invite commentary (both publicly on the blog and through individual emails to me), as evidenced by this statement on Paul Caron's TaxProfBlog link (below) about a recent posting: "For an extraordinarily thoughtful discussion of Murphy, see Linda Beale, Murphy: Emotional Distress Awards, Taxes and the Constitution." The link to the TaxProf item (and through it the link to Professor Beale's Murphy posting) is: Murphy: "Textbook Example of Why Blogs Beat Textbooks"
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2006/09/murphy_textbook.html
Assistant Professor of Law Jocelyn Benson recently completed two publications - one law review article and one chapter in a forthcoming book:
Preparing for 2007: Legal and Legislative Issues Surrounding the Reauthorization of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 67 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 125 (2006).
Language Accommodations for All? Extending and Expanding the Language Protections of the Voting Rights Act, in DEMOCRACY, PARTICIPATION AND POWER: PERSPECTIVES ON REAUTHORIZATION OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT (forthcoming Fall 2006 by the Berkeley Public Policy Press).
She delivered two invited presentations:
The Annual Conference of the International Municipal Lawyers Association (IMLA) (September 18, 2006), and she co-authored an accompanying paper entitled What Local Government Counsel Needs to Know about the 2006 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act, H.R. 9: Bilingual Interpreters, Foreign Language Ballots & Strengthened Preclearance Requirements (with Benjamin E Griffith); and
The Warren Institute of Boalt Law School, University of California, Berkeley, where she delivered a lecture and presented accompanying written remarks on "Appropriate Language Accommodations under Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act" before an audience of approximately 250. (February 9, 2006).
She was recently appointed to serve on the following boards:
Standing Committee on Election Law, The American Bar Association (3 year appointment);
Board of Directors, Mobilizing America's Youth (2 year appointment); and
President's Commission on Women, Wayne State University
She also supervised the research and production of three studies, completed by seven work-study students at Wayne State University Law School, into the potential legal, political, and sociological effects of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. The students will present their research and written studies to the public in October 2006.
She was an invited guest on the Detroit television broadcast of "Am I Right? Or Am I Right?" to provide commentary on Detroit municipal elections and other voting related controversies (October 28, 2006).
She completed the Green Bay Marathon in Green Bay Wisconsin, May 2006.
Professor of Law William Burnham is teaching at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands during the fall term. In exchange, Professor Remco van Rhee of the U of Maastricht is teaching his Comparative Law course at WSU.
The 4th edition of his book, Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the US, was finished in July and was published by West-Thomson in time for Fall classes. The book is the text for a course for foreign lawyers on US law studying in the US. It is also used as an undergraduate text for pre-law and other students in US colleges. A Russian edition of the 3rd edition of the book was published in Russia in August.
In April, he participated in the meetings of the Working Group on the Criminal Procedure Code, a subcommittee of the Legislation Committee of the State Duma. The working group is discussing possible changes to the 2001 Criminal Procedure Code.
In Summer 2006, he taught an intensive version of the Russian Law course to US and Russian law students at the St. Petersburg Summer Law Institute, using his book, Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation (3rd ed. 2004).
Professor of Law Stephen Calkins delivered comments on antitrust and bankruptcy at the Sixth Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium (Chicago, April 28, 2006).
He spoke on "The FTC: Past, Present, and Future," at a conference on Teaching Consumer Law sponsored by the University of Houston Center for Consumer Law, Houston, Texas, May 19, 2006. Published: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1150880721014.
Published Antitrust Modernization: Looking Backwards, 31 J. Corp. L. 421 (2006) (symposium issue).
Published Civil Monetary Remedies Available to Federal Antitrust Enforcers, 40 U.S.F. L. Rev. 567 (2006) (symposium issue).
He has delivered several addresses:
"The Antitrust Modernization at Mid-Course," at the ABA Section of Antitrust Law Program on the Antitrust Modernization Commission (Georgetown University Law Center, June 2006);
"Public Enforcement of EU Competition Law," at the 11th European University Institute Competition Law and Policy Workshop: Enforcement of Prohibition of Cartels (Florence, Italy, June 2006);
"Comments on Antitrust and Bankruptcy," at the sixth annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium (Chicago, Apr. 2006);
"Patriotic Antitrust 2005-06," the luncheon address at the 54th annual ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting (Washington, D.C., March 2006); and
"New Directions in Competition Policy: What Lies Ahead?" at the Conference Board's Antitrust Conference (session leader) (March 2006).
This past summer, he served as a Special Master in Auto Industries Supplier Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) v. Snapp Systems, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co., No. 03-74357 (E.D. Mi.).
He served on the University Tenure and Promotion Committee. He has just been elected to the Academic Senate Budget Committee.
Steven Davidoff 's recent and forthcoming publications include:
Fairness Opinions, 55 Am. U.L.Rev. ___ (Forthcoming Sept. 2006);
Myths, Consequences and the Failure of Federal Takeover Law, 34 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. __ (2006);
Section 632: An Expanded Basis of Federal Jurisdiction for National Banks, 123 Banking L.J. 687 (2006); and
Getting U.S. Security Holders to the Party: The SEC's Cross-Border Release Five
Years On, 12 U. Penn J. Int'l Econ. L. 455 (Fall 2005) (with Brett Carron).
Associate Professor of Law Paul Dubinsky became Book Review Editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law.
In October he expects to be named to the Executive Committee of the International Law Association, American Branch.
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall is quoted extensively in a new book by Peter Annin, "The Great Lakes Water Wars" (Island Press, due for release this week). The book also references his recent Colorado Law Review article. He's also quoted on the back cover of the book. The release of the book is generating considerable media attention, and many of the newspaper articles also quote him as a key source in the book. Some examples, from the Chicago Tribune, Detroit News, and Detroit Free Press are linked below.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006609100317
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006609090415
Professor of Law Peter Henning published Lawyers, Truth, and Honest in Representing Clients in volume 20 of the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy. Also, he did an audio conference on August 24 on "White Collar Crime: Strategies for Limiting Corporate Liability."
Visiting Professor of Law Margaret Leibowitz was quoted in the Detroit Free Press about the Detroit teacher's strike. The link to the article is:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006609110463
Professor of Law John Mogk published Eminent Domain and the "Public Use": Michigan Supreme Court Legislates an Unprecedented Overruling of Poletown in County of Wayne v. Hathcock in Vol. 51, No. 4, Winter 2005 of the Wayne Law Review.
David Moran spoke on the history of determinate sentencing in the United States as part of a panel presentation, Sentencing after U.S. v. Booker, at the annual meeting of the National Bar Association in Detroit in August 2006.
In September 2006, he published The End of the Exclusionary Rule, Among Other Things: The Roberts Court Takes on the Fourth Amendment, 2006 Cato Sup. Ct. Rev. 283 (2006).
Diana Pratt is on the Board of Reviewers and Contributors of The Red Book: A Manual of Legal Style by Bryan A. Garner (2nd Edition), just published by Thomson West.
She published Designing a Contract Drafting Assignment in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter 2006.
Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler published The Supreme Court Will Not Overrule Roe v. Wade, 34 Hofstra L Rev 1207 (2006).
He wrote a law review article introducing The Wayne Law Review's symposium issue, Law Beyond Borders: Jurisdiction in an Era of Globalization. The symposium was based on the program presented at the annual meeting of the AALS Section on Conflict of Laws in January, 2005, when he was Chair of the Section.
In May, he presented a paper, The Constitution, the American Federal System and Disaster Management and Preparedness, at a Conference in New Orleans on Homeland Security and Emergency Management for Lawyers, Policy Makers and Executives. The Conference was sponsored by the Center for American and International Law and was co-sponsored by the International Municipal Lawyers Association, in cooperation with the American Bar Association Katrina Task Force, the American Bar Association Section on State and Local Government Law, and the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.
On August 29, he taped two sessions on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (which would ban affirmative action in university admissions and hiring in Michigan) for Comcast. Those segments will be broadcast in September on the Laurel Hess Newsmakers show.
He is vice-president and president-elect of the Wayne State University Academy of Scholars.
On July 27, he spoke to the West Bloomfield Rotary Club on the Supreme Court's current term. The speech was taped for broadcast on the West Bloomfield cable system.