Professor of Law Laura Bartell article "From Debtors' Prisons to Prisoner Debtors: Credit Counseling for the Incarcerated" was just published in 24 Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal 15 (2008).

Her article "Staying the Serial Filer -- Interpreting the New Exploding Stay Provisions of Section 362(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code" is scheduled for publication in the forthcoming volume of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal published by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.

She continues to serve on the Editorial Board of the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Certification, a national organization that certifies bankruptcy and creditors' rights lawyers.

Associate Professor of Law Linda Beale gave a presentation to BC Tax Colloquium on March 27, 2008, called "Tax Patents: At the Crossroads of Tax and Patent Law."

She will also soon be published in the Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy (forthcoming 2008).

Professor of Law Stephen Calkins spoke during the "hot topics" portion of the ABA's Antitrust Law Spring Meeting. His presentation helped pack the ballroom.

Associate Professor of Law Paul Dubinsky served as a judge in the international rounds of the Jessup Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C.

In March, his op-ed "What the Fall of Eliot Spitzer Says About Us," appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.

In April, he was awarded a University Research Grant to pursue a project on the intellectual influence of the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutional courts of young democracies.

Professor of Law Gregory Fox has been invited to be part of a group of experts convened by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva to consult on a new project on the international law of occupation. The group's first meeting will take place in late May.

He gave a talk on "The Object and Purpose of Treaties" at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law in Washington on April 12, 2008.

Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall article on "Political Externalities, Federalism, and a Proposal for an Interstate Environmental Impact Assessment Policy," was published at 32 Harvard Environmental Law Review 49 (2008).

He recently gave several invited presentations at symposia and conferences, including the Hamline University School of Law/Law Review Symposium - "Water, Catalyst of Life and Strife: A Threat to Security or a Vital Opportunity to Foster Cooperation?" (St. Paul, MN, April 4, 2008) on "Climate Change and Great Lakes Water Resources - Cooperation or Conservation" and the National Association of Environmental Law Societies Annual Conference (Burlington, VT, March 21, 2008) on "Climate Change and State Water Laws."

He was quoted in several media stories, including CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Weekly - quoted in Coral Davenport, "Creating New Water Ways" (March 10, 2008); Cleveland Plain Dealer - quoted in Michael Scott, "Water is the Great Lakes Area's Prize" (March 30, 2008); and Detroit Free Press - quoted in Tina Lam, "Lakes Forecast: Tension High, and Michigan Partly to Blame" (April 3, 2008).

Professor of Law Peter Henning spoke at the 21st Annual Corporate Law Symposium at the University of Cincinnati College of Law on March 14, 2008. The Symposium was "The Dysfunctional Board: Causes and Cures," and his talk was "Board Dysfunction: Dealing with the Threat of Corporate Criminal Liability."

Professor of Law Michael McIntyre has been appointed as Consultant to the chair and co-reporters of the UDITPA drafting committee, which is preparing a new version of the Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act, adopted in 1957. The goal is to have a new draft approved by the Uniform Law Commission and then adopted by state governments. UDITPA is an important model code that provides the basis rules governing the taxation of corporations by state governments. The position of Consultant is uncompensated public service.

He also published a short piece, titled "Coming Soon - A UN Code of Conduct on Tax Evasion?". It appears in 4/1 Tax Justice Focus 1-2 (2008), available online at http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/TJF_4-1_Doha.pdf. The article discusses the efforts of the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation to develop a code of conduct to discourage government cooperation with international tax evasion and abusive tax avoidance. Professor McIntyre presented a report at the 2007 meeting in Geneva of the UN Committee in which he made the case for adoption of a code of conduct. He also served as interim chair (now as member) of the UN Committee's subgroup on Information Exchange, which has been charged with the task of preparing a draft code of conduct.

Assistant Professor (Clinical) Dana Roach Thompson recently celebrated a $25,000 gift from the AT&T Foundation to the Damon J. Keith Collection of African American Legal History.

Associate Professor Brad Roth 2004 Leiden Journal of International Law article, "Retrieving Marx for the Human Rights Project," is being republished twice this year in separate collections on Marxist political and legal thought, both due out in the Spring of 2008. A slightly revised version of the original article will appear in Susan Marks, ed., International Law on the Left: Revisiting Marxist Legacies (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and the original version will be reproduced in Susan Easton, ed., Marx and Law (Philosophers and Law Series) (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2008).

His new article, "Just Short of Torture: Abusive Treatment and the Limits of International Criminal Justice," is due out this spring in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (vol. 6, no. 2, 2008), published by Oxford University Press.

Professor of Law Alan Schenk is publishing a book review in the International VAT Monitor, a periodical of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation. He reviewed R. Bird & R.P. Gendron's "The VAT in Developing and Transitional Countries." (Cambridge University Press, 2007.)

Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler paper entitled, "The Constitution, the Courts and the Common Law" was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Political Institutions: Law & Courts.

He published: "Essay: The Protection of Religious Freedom Under the American Constitution, 53 Wayne Law Review 817 (2007). Also put online on SSRN.

He published online SSRN, "The Michigan Supreme Court Diminishes the Right to Trial by Jury in Civil Cases.

He presented a paper, "The Constitution, Territoriality, and American Citizenship," at the 5th Annual Conference of the Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University, The Boundaries of Citizenship, on March 29, 2008.

He wrote an op-ed entitled "The Mayor Still Considered Innocent" in the Detroit Free Press on March 25, 2008.

He spoke to the Wayne State Law School Chapter of the Progressive Organization for Women's Rights on March 26, 2008, discussing "What If Roe Fell?"

He served as a panelist to discuss "The Roots of Altruism and Moral Courage," at a Conference on "What Motivates Altruism" at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills on April 4, 2008.