Dean and Professor of Law Robert Ackerman served as the keynote speaker at the Labor and Employment Law Section Meeting of the State Bar of Michigan on Sept. 18.
He spoke to the Southfield Rotary Club on Sept. 25.
He served as the keynote speaker during the Stanley "Hank" Marx Lecture Series in Dispute Resolution on Oct. 20
Assistant Professor of Law Jocelyn Benson testified Joint oversight hearing on "Federal, State, and Local efforts to Prepare for the General 2008 Election" at the request of the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and the House Administration's Committee Subcommittee on Elections on Sept.. 24 in Washington, D.C.
Professor of Law Kingsley Browne was a guest on "Work with Marty Nemko" (KALW-San Francisco, NPR) on the subject of his book "Biology at Work."
Associate Professor of Law Paul Dubinsky has been selected as a national reporter for the 2010 conference of the International Association of Comparative Law. The conference will bring together comparative law scholars from around the world for a full week of meetings and presentations in Washington, D.C. to be held in July 2010 and hosted by a consortium of three U.S. law schools: American University, Georgetown, and George Washington. Professor Dubinsky's report will appear in the conference proceedings and in a supplement to the American Journal of Comparative Law. IACL conferences are held every four years. The 2010 conference is the first to meet in the United States in several decades.
Assistant Professor of Law Lance Gable published an article titled "HIV/AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and the Law," in the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health along with co-authors Lawrence O. Gostin and James G. Hodge, Jr.
He also was interviewed by Jack Lessenberry on Michigan Public Radio on the issue of the Michigan Medical Marijuana ballot initiative.
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall was quoted in the ABA Journal in an article titled, "Gulp: Litigation Won't End the Battles Over Depleted Water Resources in Several Regions of the United States," by Kristin Choo (September 2008) (http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/gulp/).
He was quoted in a popular book just published by the University of Michigan Press, "Great Lakes for Sale: From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps," by Dave Dempsey.
Professor of Law John Mogk recently wrote an op-ed in the Detroit Free Press titled "City needs angels, and a better plan on abandoned houses." It is available online at http://www.freep.com/article/20081013/OPINION02/810130307 and is also featured in this month's Raising the Bar.
Associate Professor Brad Roth article, "The Entity That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Unrecognized Taiwan as a Right-Bearer in the International Legal Order," has been published in Chinese translation in the Taiwan Law Review (Taipei: Angle Publishing), (No. 158) 2008.7, pp. 84-103. It is available in English on SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1015120. Also newly in print are his book chapter, "State Sovereignty, International Legality, and Moral Disagreement," in Yuval Shany & Tomer Broude, eds., The Shifting Allocation of Authority in International Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing Co., 2008), pp. 123-61, and his article, "Just Short of Torture: Abusive Treatment and the Limits of International Criminal Justice," 6 Journal of International Criminal Justice 215 (2008), available at http://jicj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/mqn012?ijkey=QvcVzUKbRiL4WdA&keytype=ref.
Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler did a presentation for the Humanities Center Brown Bag Colloquium Series, "Politics, Religion, and Constitutional Values" on Sept. 16.
On Oct. 2, he gave a speech, "The Ball's in Your Court: The President's Influence on the Supreme Court and the Federal Courts," to the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section.
He published, "Our Eighteenth Century Constitution: The Electoral College, and Congressional Reapportionment," 34 Ohio Northern Law Review 361 (2008).
Professor of Law Katherine White just published the third edition of her book, co-authored with Wayne Law alumnus Eric Dobrusin. It is titled "Intellectual Property Litigation: Pretrial Practice, Third Edition" and is available at http://www.aspenpublishers.com/Product.asp?catalog_name=Aspen&product_id=0735567832
Professor of Law Jonathan Weinberg moderated a panel on "Implications of Regulatory Asymmetry Across the Globe" at the TPRC Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy on Sept. 27, 2008.