Associate Professor of Law Anthony Dillof served as moderator for the McJustice Syposium, organized by the Wayne Law Journal of Law in Society.
Associate Professor of Law Paul Dubinsky spoke at the University of Amsterdam's December 2008 conference on "Interactions Between Mass Claim Processes and Cases in Domestic Courts." The conference was organized by the Amsterdam Center for International Law.
Assistant Professor of Law Lance Gable presented on two panels at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in San Diego California on Oct. 27, 2008. The presentations were on "The Proliferation of Human Rights in Global Health Governance" and "The Right to Mental Health and Other Related Human Rights: Involuntary Detention in Psychiatric Hospitals." He also conducted a lecture (via teleconference) for the World Health Organization's International Diploma on Mental Health and Human Rights, University of Pune, India on "Criminal Law and Mental Disorder."
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall working through the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center, successfully represented as amici a bipartisan group of state lawmakers in a federal case involving a challenge to Michigan's recent ballast water statute on federal preemption and dormant commerce clause grounds. The state lawmakers supported the legal authority of Michigan and other states to protect the Great Lakes from ballast water pollution that causes invasive species. The state lawmakers that he represented were Michigan State Senator Patricia L. Birkholz (R) (the lead sponsor of the Michigan legislation), Minnesota State Senator Ann H. Rest (DFL), Illinois State Representative Karen May (D), Wisconsin State Senator Robert L. Cowles (R), and Wisconsin State Representative Jon Richards (D). The Sixth Circuit's decision is Fednav v. Chester, --- F.3d --- (Case No. 07-2083, 6th Cir. November 21, 2008).For more info, visit his Great Lakes Law blog at www.greatlakeslaw.org/blog.
Professor of Law John Mogk provided the luncheon address at the university's "Shrinking Cities Conference" held at the McGregor Memorial Center on Nov, 17, 2008, and an address on the current housing crisis to the Wayne County annual conference on nuisance abatement on Nov. 20, 2008.
Associate Professor of Law Christopher Peters is visiting at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles during the Fall 2008 semester.
During October, he presented his book project "A Matter of Dispute" at a Legal Theory Workshop at the University of Oregon Law School.
His paper "Under-the-Table Overruling," which will be published in a forthcoming symposium issue of the Wayne Law Review, has been among the top ten SSRN downloads in the Law and Society "Constitutional Creation" topic since its posting in October.
He will return to Wayne Law for the Winter 2009 semester and will teach Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law II.