Professor of Law Erica Beecher-Monas was asked by Ontario Province to participate in two roundtables that will report on guiding principles for forensic pathology testimony in child deaths on Feb. 15 and Feb. 21, 2008.

Assistant Professor of Law Jocelyn Benson spoke on Jan. 27, 2008, at the APIA Vote Norman Y. Mineta Leadership Institute conference in Dearborn. Her speech was entitled "Major Voting Rights and Election Reform Issues Facing the APIA Community in 2008."

She spoke on Feb. 2, 2008, on a judicial panel in Washtenaw County with former Attorney General Candidate Amos Williams on the current status of standing issues in the Michigan Supreme Court.

She will speak on Feb. 8, 2008, at the national Mid-Year Meeting of the American Bar Association on a panel entitled "Modern American Election Law and Voting Rights," cosponsored by Section of State and Local Government Law, Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education.

Professor of Law John Mogk wrote a letter to the editor of the Michigan Bar Journal titled "Take a Closer Look at ‘Recent Changes in Eminent Domain Law'" that was published in the January 2008 edition of the Journal.

Assistant Professor (Clinical) Dana Roach Thompson was the featured speaker at the opening ceremony of the Marching Toward Justice Exhibit (the Exhibit is a part of the Keith Collection) at Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis on Jan. 17, 2008.

She is on the 2008 Governor's Emerging Small Business Advisors Resource Partners Council.

Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler wrote an article in the Wayne Law Review, Survey Issue, "The Constitution, the Courts and the Common Law."

He also wrote an op-ed piece in the Detroit Free Press titled "Other points of view: Unless convicted, mayor should not resign" on Feb. 2, 2008.