Associate Professor of Law Julia Qin 's paper entitled, "The Challenge of Interpreting 'WTO-Plus' Provisions" was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Asian law, dispute resolution, international courts and adjudication, treaties and other sources of international law, and WTO law.

Professor of Law Alan Schenk co-taught a course in late July and the beginning of August 2009 on value added tax for tax administrators as part of the African Tax Institute at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He also taught a course on value added tax to students enrolled in the African Tax Institute's Masters of Taxation degree program in the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria.

Professor of Law Alan Schenk spent almost the full month of May 2009 in China. On May 13, he discussed the process of drafting tax legislation with students in the master's program in taxation at Sun Yat-Sen University School of Law in Guangzhou, China. He also served as an outside expert and made a presentation as part of the International Symposium on the Reform and Legislation of Value Added Tax of China, held in Zhenjiang, China on May 26 and 27. The symposium was jointly organized by the Legislative Affairs Department of the Budget Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and the Tax Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance. He also was invited to discuss tax issues of concern to the Ministry of Finance in Beijing, China in June 2009.

Assistant Professor Christopher Lund presented a paper, "Keeping the Government's Religion Pure: Pleasant Grove City v. Summum," at the annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) in West Palm Beach, Florida. The paper was published earlier this summer and is available by clicking here and on Lexis/Westlaw at 104 Northwestern Law Review Colloquy 46 (2009).

Assistant Professor Christopher Lund published an article titled, "The Congressional Chaplaincies," which is now available at 17 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 1171 (2009) on Lexis/Westlaw.

Assistant Professor Christopher Lund will speak on Sept. 24 at Brooklyn Law School on a panel titled, "Supreme Court Roundup: Religious Messages and Government Land." The panel's focus is on the Supreme Court's recent decision in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum and the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in Salazar v. Buono. The essays of the four panelists were published in the Northwestern Law Review Colloquy earlier this summer.

Professor of Law Peter Hammer testified before the State House Judiciary Committee in favor of a bill that would expand state civil rights protection under the Elliott-Larsen Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Click here to view his testimony.

Assistant Professor of Law Noah Hall published an article titled "Interstate Environmental Impact Assessment," in 39 Environmental Law Reporter 10667 (2009). The article proposes a new state-based policy that builds on the National Environmental Policy Act's Environmental Impact Statement process to address interstate environmental harms.

Associate Professor Brad Roth is the author of the fourth most frequently-cited Journal of International Criminal Justice article. Click here for a link to the article titled "Just Short of Torture: Abusive Treatment and the Limits of International Criminal Justice."

Associate Professor of Law Julia Qin attended the second annual meeting of the Asian Society of International Law and the inaugural conference of the Asian International Economic Law Network, held at the University of Tokyo, Japan, in early August, and presented a paper on "Managing Conflicts Arising from WTO and RTA Rulings."

Associate Professor Brad Roth 's paper titled, "Coming to Terms with Ruthlessness: Sovereign Equality, Global Pluralism, and the Limits of International Criminal Justice" was recently listed on the Social Science Research Network's Top Ten download list for Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies.