Assistant Professor of Law Jocelyn Benson was recently recruited to contribute two chapters to an upcoming "Election Law Handbook," to be published in March 2008. Other authors will be Thurgood Marshall, Jr. and former Virginia Attorney General Jack Young. Her chapters will cover "Uniform Standards for Partisan Involvement in Election Administration: the Role of the Lawyer-Citizen and Voter-Advocate" and "The Language Minority Assistance Provisions of the Voting Rights Act."
In December 2006, Professor Benson was appointed to serve on the Racial Justice Advisory Council for the Michigan ACLU. She is currently drafting a memorandum for the council on the issues surrounding the creation of a legal right to education for students in the state of Michigan.
On January 11, Professor Benson delivered Wayne State Medical School's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, "MLK and the quest for voting rights," sponsored by the Black Medical Association.
On January 22, she was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for Transportation Riders United, a non-profit organization advocating for improved public transit in the Detroit Metro area.
On February 14, Professor Benson participated as a lecturer in the Wayne State Humanities Center Brown Bag Colloquium Series, speaking on the recent reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act and the impending constitutional challenge to the Act.
Assistant Professor of Law Lance Gable published Public Goods, Private Data: History, Ethics, and the Uses of Identifiable Public Health Information,122 PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS 7 (Supplement 1 2007) (with co-authors Amy L. Fairchild, Lawrence O. Gostin, Ronald Bayer, Patricia Sweeney, and Rob Janssen).
He also published Risk Management in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: Hospital Liability Associated with the Use of Volunteer Health Professionals During Emergencies, 10 MICH. ST. UNIV. J. MED. & L. 57 (2006) (with co-authors James G. Hodge, Stephanie H. Cálves, Elizabeth Meltzer, and Sara Kraner).
Professor Gable presented at the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting in Boston on the topic of "Legal Issues and Environmental Public Health Tracking."
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall was asked to be a Contributing Editor for the 2006 Year in Review, published jointly by Energy Law Journal and American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. Professor Hall wrote the section on Great Lakes water resources.
He gave a 2007 Wayne/Windsor Forum Lecture at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law on January 15 on "Bilateral Breakdown: Going to Court Over U.S.-Canada Pollution Disputes."
On December 2, 2006, Professor Hall delivered "Federalism and Interstate Environmental Management," at the Great Lakes Water Basin: International Law and Policy Crossroads conference in Chicago, sponsored by the Institute for Trade in the Americas and Michigan State University College of Law.
He made several media appearances, most notably as an invited studio guest on a Michigan Public Radio show to discuss the Massachusetts v. EPA case recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor of Law Peter Henning published White Collar Crime Sentences After Booker: Was the Sentencing of Bernie Ebbers Too Harsh?, 37 McGeorge L. Rev. 757 (2006).
He published an editorial on Law.Com December 8, 2006, entitled "GC Power Gains Also Mean More Exposure."
On October 4, 2006, Professor Henning was appointed as the Fair Fund Administrator by the Securities & Exchange Commission in the case of "In the Matter of Veras Capital Master Fund, et al."
He is also responsible for the distribution of a $37 million fund to eligible claimants in an SEC securities fraud case.
Assistant Professor (Clinical) Dana Roach Thompson was recently appointed director of the Damon J. Keith Collection of African-American Legal History.
A full-page article about her and the new Small Business Clinic she created appeared in the Jan/Feb 2007 issue of Detroit Black Pages.
Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler published Property and Speech, 21 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 123 (2006), as part of the symposium issue, "The First Amendment and the Rehnquist Court."
Professor Sedler delivered a speech, "A Liberal Jewish View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict," to the Wayne State University Jewish Law Students Association on January 24. He gave the same speech to the Temple Beth-El Brotherhood on January 21.
He gave a CLE Presentation, "Constitutional Rights - Personal Autonomy and Equality; Constitutional Rights - Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion," to the Tau Epsilon Rho Law Fraternity Annual Convention in Sarasota, Florida on December 28 and 30, 2006.