Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law Steven Winter participated in the 2008 Joint Annual Meetings of Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association held in Montreal, Quebec. As part of a panel on "The Place of Law in Durable vs. Deficit Democracy" he presented a paper on the relationship between different strategies of social order and the conceptions of autonomy that each entail.
Associate Professor of Law Linda Beale paper entitled, "Tax Patents: At the Crossroads of Tax and Patent Law" was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for BPA: Public Policy (Topic).
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall spoke at the American Bar Association's 2008 Eastern Water Resources Conference in Charlotte, NC on the topic of "Interstate Water Management."
Professor of Law Peter Hammer gave the keynote address at a conference "Mainland Southeast Asia at its Margins: Minority Groups and Borders" sponsored by the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia, March 17-18, 2008. The presentation was entitled "Development as Tragedy: The Asian Development Bank and Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia."
He made a presentation to a joint meeting of the Michigan State Bar Health Care and Antitrust Law Sections on May 7, 2008 in Novi: "The Architecture of Health Care Markets: Economic Sociology and Antitrust Law"
He moderated a discussion for Detroit Public Television on May 10, 2008 following a public screening of a new Documentary entitled New Year's Baby about a Cambodian refugee's travel back to Cambodia to piece together the unspoken of secrets in her family's history.
Professor of Law Michael McIntyre paper entitled, "United Nations Code of Conduct on Cooperation in Combating International Tax Evasion" was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for INT: International Institutions & Law: Compliance (Topic).
Assistant Professor (Clinical) Dana Roach Thompson was interviewed by Jimmy Womack on the Jimmy Womack Show on 107.5 on March 30, 2008 and discussed the Keith Collection and Treasure of Detroit.
Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler published "The Media and National Security," 53 Wayne Law Review 1025 (2007).This article will also be put online on SSRN.
His article, "The Constitution, the Courts and the Common Law," was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for LPP: Function of Legislatures.
His article, "The Michigan Supreme Court Diminishes the Right to Trial by Jury in Civil Cases," was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for LSCP: Trial Practice.
On April 13-14, he attended a meeting of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, of which he is a member, in New Orleans.
On April 13, he did an interview from New Orleans with Paul W. Smith on WJR-FM about the case of United States v. Fieger.
On April 16, he gave a speech at the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice at the University of Louisville on the subject of "School Desegregation in Louisville and the Meredith decision. (In the early '70's, while at the University of Kentucky, Professor Sedler was the lead counsel in the Louisville-Jefferson County desegregation case, which resulted in the desegregation of the merged city and county school systems.) While there, he also spoke to a combined Constitutional Law class at the law school on the subject of "Race and the Constitution."
On May 1, he made a presentation on "Religion, Politics, and Constitutional Values" at Wayne State University's Society of Active Retirees (SOAR) program.
On May 3, as President of the Wayne State University Academy of Scholars, he carried the Ceremonial Mace and led the Academic Procession at the Wayne State University 2008 Commencement.
On May 17, he contributed to a discussion, "Should Detroit council try to oust mayor," on the Editorial Page of the Detroit News. His position was entitled "Let the People Decide," and argued that the council should not try to oust the Mayor."
On May 20, he made a presentation on "Iraq and Vietnam: Some Comparisons and Some Differences" at the Adult Learning Institute of Oakland Community College/Elderhostel.
Professor of Law Jonathan Weinberg was a commenter on Adam Cox & Cristina Rodríguez's paper "The President and Immigration Law" at the biennial Immigration Law Teachers' Workshop in May 2008.