Assistant Professor of Law Susan Cancelosi presented a paper on "Risk-Shifting and Retiree Benefits" at the Law and Society Association's annual meeting in Denver. She presented the same paper June 6, 2009, at the 32nd Annual Health Law Professors Conference sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, held this year at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland.
Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law Steven Winter participated in a roundtable on "Changing the Game: Barack Obama and the New Politics of Race" at the 2009 Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association in Denver, CO.
Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law Steven Winter has for the past decade been a regular participant in the annual Conference on Philosophy and Social Sciences which is held at the Villa Lana, Prague, Czech Republic. This is the successor to the Frankfurt School conference founded by Herbert Marcuse and, over the years, run by such luminaries as Jurgen Habermas and Richard Bernstein. This year he presented a paper entitled "Faux Constitutionalism: Of Coase and Footnote 4" examining the theory behind the selling of constitutionalism, rule of law, and free market values in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe.
Assistant Professor of Law Lance Gable was named a member of the Wayne State University Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee.
Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler is celebrating 50 years since his graduation from law school. He, along with the other 50 year members of the bar, are being honored by the Michigan State Bar at a luncheon on May 11, 2009. Professor Sedler is also a member of the Kentucky State Bar, and along with a number of other members of the Kentucky Bar, he will be honored as a Senior Counselor at the Bar's Annual Meeting in Covington, Kentucky on June 12, 2009.
Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler will make a presentation to the Adult Learning Institute at Oakland Community College on May 6, 2009, on the topic, The Media and National Security.
Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler presented a series of lectures on American Constitutional Law at the Ural State Academy of Law in Ekaterinburg, Russia, from March 16 to March 20, 2009.
Professor of Law Kingsley Browne presented a paper titled Cohesion and Trust: Evolutionary Psychology and the Sexual Integration of Combat Forces on April 17, 2009, at the 10th annual Conference of the Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Professor of Law Stephen Calkins was on the editorial board for the recently published book, ABA Antitrust Section, Consumer Protection Law Developments (2009).
Professor of Law Stephen Calkins delivered an address, "What's Hot?," at the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting (April 2009). He also was a discussant on Lessons from the "Old World"-the U.S. Experience, discussant at the George Washington University Law School Competition Law Center program: Private Enforcement of Competition Law: New Directions (Washington, D.C. Feb. 27, 2009).
Assistant Professor of Law Jocelyn Benson delivered the morning keynote address at the Michigan League of Women Voters conference on Voting and Election Law. (Click here for part II of keynote address.)
Professor of Law Gregory Fox will deliver the Hillaire McCoubrey Memorial Lecture at the University of Hull (England) on May 13, 2009. The lecture will be titled Transformative Occupation: Needed Progress or Retrogression?
Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall published a short introductory article, "Canada-United States Transboundary Environmental Protection," in the Windsor Review of Legal and Social (Volume 26, Issue 1) (2009).