Professor of Law Stephen Calkins published Broadcast Music, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., in Antitrust Stories ch. 7 (Eleanor M. Fox & Daniel A. Crane eds., 2007), and he was a panel participant in Roundtable Discussion: The Report of the Antitrust Modernization Commission, 21 Antitrust Source 9 (summer 2007).
He spoke at the Wrap-Up Session for the Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice Hearings on Single-Firm Conduct (Washington D.C. May 1, 2007) (transcript available on agency web sites). In addition, he delivered the following sets of remarks:
After-Dinner Remarks, at the Law Council of Australia Business Law Section Trade Practices Workshop (Surfers Paradise, Australia, Aug. 11, 2007)
Recent Developments in U.S. Competition Modernization, at the Law Council of Australia Business Law Section Trade Practices Workshop (Surfers Paradise, Australia, Aug. 11, 2007)
Horizontal Restraints, at the Fordham Competition Law Institute Refresher Course for Experienced Agency Staff and Judges (New York July 10, 2007) (full day session) (w. Andreas Reindl)
Equilibrating Tendencies in Competition Law: Implications for European Reforms, at the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, Conference on Comparative Perspectives in Multi-Jurisdictional Antitrust Enforcement (Norwich, England June 14, 2007)
Luncheon Address, at the annual ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting(Washington, D.C. April 18, 2007)
Wrong Turns in Exclusive Dealing Law, at the Conference on Conservative Economic Influence on U.S. Antitrust Policy, Georgetown University Law School (April 17, 2007)
Private Interests and Public Antitrust Enforcement, at the University of Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics conference on Strategic Firm-Authority Interaction in Antitrust, Merger Control and Regulation (Amsterdam March 2007)
Reflections from Across the Pond, to the Dutch Association for Competition Law (Amsterdam March 2007)
He also served as the moderator for Master the Basics Brown Bag Series Lesson VIII: International Antitrust (teleconference April 25, 2007), and participated in the chair's showcase program at the annual ABA Antitrust Section Spring Meeting (Washington, D.C. April 19, 2007)
At the Law School he participated in a session in which the faculty reviewed the Supreme Court year. At the University, he was elected to the Academic Senate's Policy Committee (its executive committee).
David Moran recently won a big case that he had been litigating, along with co-counsel, for seven years on behalf of the ACLU of Michigan. In Platte v. Thomas Township, Federal District Judge David Lawson struck down a portion of the Michigan "minor-in-possession" of alcohol statute as "repugnant to the Fourth Amendment." The challenged provision authorized police to force pedestrians under 21 years of age to take breathalyzer tests to determine whether they had been drinking. Judge Lawson accepted Dean Moran's argument that the police cannot force pedestrians to take chemical tests without a warrant absent a true emergency. The opinion is online at: http://www.mied.uscourts.gov/Opinions/lawsonpdf/05-10200.pdf
Assistant Professor of Law Lance Gable co-authored a book, Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform (2007). The book, published by the World Bank, is a comparative, analytical assessment of laws related to HIV and AIDS around the world.
He has been added as a Project Consultant on a project entitled "In Vitro Fertilization Programs and Embryo Storage: Policies and Practices in the United States."
He has been named the Chair of the Ethics Workgroup for the Wayne State University Clinical and Translational Services Award Proposal.
Gable is a member of the Scientific Misconduct Policy Revision Working Group in the Office of the Vice President of Research, Wayne State University.
He has presented at the following recent events:
"Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform," Book Launch, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2007
"Governance of public health emergencies: ethics, human rights, and the law, Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Health," at the 21st European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, Cardiff, Wales, 2007
"Ethics, Human Rights, and Mental Disability, Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Health," at the 21st European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, Cardiff, Wales, 2007
"Autonomy and Equality in our Transhuman Future: Legal and Bioethical Implications," at the International Conference on Law and Society in the 21st Century, Law and Society Association, Berlin Germany, 2007
"Governance of public health emergencies: ethics, human rights, and the law," at the International Conference on Law and Society in the 21st Century, Law and Society Association, Berlin Germany, 2007
"The Proliferation of Human Rights for Persons with Mental and Intellectual Disabilities," at the International Congress on Law and Mental Health, International Association of Law and Mental Health, Padua, Italy, 2007
"The Proliferation of Human Rights for Persons with Mental and Intellectual Disabilities," at the Public Health and Human Rights Conference, Prato, Italy, 2007
"Health Information Privacy," at the Michigan Association of Law Librarians Annual Meeting, Detroit, Mich.
Gable was a participant at the Socrates Society Seminar: "Embryos, Vaccines and Genes: Resolving Bioethical Dilemmas," Aspen Institute, Aspen, Colorado, 2007