Associate Professor of Law Janet Findlater was invited to participate in a meeting at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City for The Ending Homelessness After Foster Care gathering on April 1, 2009, to discuss DREAM Academy, a program for juniors & seniors in high school who are transitioning out of foster care.
Professor of Law Peter Henning wrote a monograph (with Scott W. MacKay, deputy general counsel of Lockheed Martin Corp.) that has been published by BNA (Bureau of National Affairs) as part of its Accounting Policy and Practice Portfolios. The title is "Responding to Department of Justice Investigations."
Assistant Professor of Law Lance Gable published an article entitled "A Global Assessment of the Role of Law in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic" in the March 2009 issue of the Journal Public Health with co-authors Lawrence O. Gostin and James G. Hodge, Jr. The article examines the dynamic role of law as a tool, and potential barrier, to public health interventions designed to ameliorate the negative impacts of HIV/AIDS globally.
Assistant Professor of Law Lance Gable delivered a Grand Rounds Lecture at Hutzel Women's Hospital in Detroit on the topic of "Ethics and Law in Assisted Reproduction."
Assistant Professor of Law Lance Gable was named a member of the Project Advisory Group for the Legal and Ethical Assessments Concerning Mental and Behavioral Health Preparedness Project, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Director, Legal Research and Writing Anne Marie Burr will be speaking together with Professor Howard Bromberg, of the University of Michigan's Law School, to the International Law Society and faculty of Ave Maria School of Law at noon on March 24, 2009, at Ave Maria's Ann Arbor campus. The topic of the presentation is the Peking University's School of Transnational Law and a comparison of skills training in the United States and China.
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall was invited to speak at the American Bar Association 2009 Water Law Conference titled "Change in the Midst of Constants: Adapting Water Law to Meet New Demands" (San Diego, CA, Feb. 19, 2009) on the recently enacted Great Lakes Compact.
Associate Professor of Law Julia Qin published a piece in the American Society of International Law's publication of ASIL Insight: "The Mercosur Exemption Reversed - Conflict between WTO and Mercosur Rulings and Its Implications for Environmental Values." Available online at http://www.asil.org/insights070905_update.cfm
Professor of Law Peter Henning spoke to the Detroit Chapter of the Gray Panthers on the topic, "The Financial Crisis: What Can We Do?" on Feb. 21, 2009.
Professor of Law Peter Hammer edited a set of conference proceedings titled "Living on the Margins: Minorities and Borderlines in Cambodia and Southeast Asia" recently published by the Center for Khmer Studies in Cambodia.
Professor of Law John Mogk has been appointed by Governor Granholm as Chair of the state's Council for Labor and Economic Growth. The Council is charged with helping the state meet the federal No Worker Left Behind Program goals and facilitating the diversification of the Michigan economy into the renewable energy and energy conservation fields.
Professor of Law Gregory Fox is spending his Sabbatical this semester as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Center for International Law, Cambridge University, UK. On March 13 Professor Fox gave a public lecture at the Center on "The Obama Administration and International Law."
Professor of Law Joan Mahoney is presenting a paper March 21 at a conference in London, UK called "Rescuing Human Rights." Her paper is called "Constitutionalism, the Rule of Law, and the Cold War," and it is expected that the conference proceedings will be published in a book.
Associate Professor Brad Roth will be giving papers at three national conferences in the coming weeks:
Santa Clara University School of Law, Symposium on "The Future of International Criminal Justice," March 13-14, 2009 (paper on "Coming to Terms with Ruthlessness: Sovereign Equality, Global Pluralism, and the Limits of International Criminal Justice"). http://law.scu.edu/international-criminal-justice-symposium/speakers.cfm
American Society of International Law, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 26, 2009 (Participating on panel on "The Principle of Legality in International Criminal Law "). http://am2009.asil.org/full-program-schedule.cfm
University of Washington, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Symposium on "Global Justice in the 21st Century," April 17-18, 2009 ("Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement"). http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/projects_conferences_global0809.htm
Associate Professor of Law Paul Dubinsky spoke at two conferences during the week of March 2, 2009. At Yale Law's Arthur Liman Conference, he participated in a roundtable discussion on the "Globalization of Clinical Legal Education," and at the International Law Association's West Coast Conference, he gave a presentation on lis pendens and forum non conveniens in the European Union.
Associate Professor of Law Paul Dubinsky will serve as moot court judge in the international rounds of the Jessup Moot Court Competition at the upcoming annual conference of the American Society of International Law in Washington, D.C.
Professor of Law Alan Schenk will be presenting a paper entitled "Worldwide Versus Territorial Tax Systems: Comparison of Value Added Tax and Income Tax," at the International Network for Tax Research Conference on March 26-28, 2009 in Vienna, Austria, organized by the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and the Institute for VAT Research at Stockholm University.
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall was honored by the Wayne State University Academy of Scholars with a Junior Faculty Award. The Award seeks to honor faculty members who have significant publications or creative achievements that have enabled them to achieve national/international recognition earlier than usual in their careers. As one of only two Junior Faculty Awardees, Hall will receive a stipend of $1,000 for his/her research and will be recognized at the Annual Initiation Banquet of the Academy in October.
Associate Professor of Law Linda Beale was recognized by Taxrascal.com for being a top-ten tax blogger. Beale's blog is titled "A Taxing Matter."
Associate Professor of Law Linda Beale 's tax blog, "A Taxing Matter," was recognized by Jim Maule, Professor of Law at the Villanova University School, on Blogs.com for being one his favorite 10 tax blogs.