Professor of Law Stephen Calkins published Coming to Praise Criminal Antitrust Enforcement, in European Competition Law Annual: 2006 (Claus-Dieter Ehlermann & Isabela Atanasiu eds., 2007).
At the university he has spoken twice at programs on the tenure and promotion process.
Associate Professor of Law Anthony Dillof appeared on a panel at the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting. The panel was entitled, "Voluntary Manslaughter: New Thoughts on an Old Crime." Professor Dillof moderated the panel.
Professor of Law Gregory Fox spoke at a conference in Kiel, Germany entitled "A Wiser Century? The 100th Anniversary of the 1907 Hague Peace Conference," where he spoke about the international administration of territory.
He spoke at a conference in Florence, Italy of authors of chapters in a forthcoming book entitled "Exit Strategies and Peace Consolidation." There, he spoke on how occupying powers attempt to secure the peace upon leaving occupied territories.
Assistant Professor of Law Lance Gable published The Proliferation of Human Rights in Global Health Governance, 35 J. L. MED. & ETHICS 534 (2007).
He also presented at the following recent events:
"Governance of Public Health Emergencies: Ethics, Human Rights, and the Law" at the Central States Law Schools Association Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI.
"Public Health Powers in Public Health Emergencies" at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference: Politics, Policy and Public Health, Washington, DC.
"Disability Rights: Will the UN Convention Change Policy and Practice?" at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference: Politics, Policy and Public Health, Washington, DC.
"Defensive medicine: How to avoid being sued and other pitfalls" at the Region V Student National Medical Association (SNMA)/ Black Medical Association (BMA) Annual Conference, Detroit, MI.
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall was requested by The United States House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Domestic Policy Subcommittee to testify at a hearing on, "Assessing the Environmental Risks of the Water Bottling Industry's Extraction of Groundwater." The hearing took place on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007, at 2 p.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.
Professor of Law Peter Henning spoke on Dec. 14, 2007, at the Federal Practice Seminar by the Iowa State Bar Association on the topic: "Lawyers, Truth, and Honesty: An Oxymoron?"
Also, in connection with the sentencing of Conrad Black, he was on nine Canadian radio stations that are part of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (similar to NPR stations) to discuss the sentencing.
He was also on the BBC on the evening Newshour programme on the same topic.
Assistant Professor (Clinical) Dana Roach Thompson is on the 2008 Governor's Emerging Small Business Advisors Resource Partners Council.
Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler paper entitled, "The First Amendment Right to Silence" was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for LSPLCL: Rights & Liberties (Topic). To view the top ten list for the journal click on its name LSPLCL: Rights & Liberties (Topic) Top Ten and to view all the papers in the journals click on these links link(s) LSPLCL: Rights & Liberties (Topic) All Papers.
From November 29 to December 4, he gave lectures in American Constitutional Law at the Ural State Law Academy Institute of Justice in Yekaterinburg, Russia (Yekaterinburg is the third largest city in Russia). The topics included the Constitution and American Foreign Policy, the American Federal System, The President and Congress, and the Constitutional Protection of Individual Rights. The lectures were in English to advanced students in the Institute of Justice. He also gave some lectures to other groups of students that were translated from English into Russia. He also went to a polling place to observe the December 2 election for the Russian Parliament and discussed this election and the results with Russian colleagues and students.