Faculty and staff accomplishments

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  William Ortman's

   latest paper, "When Plea Bargaining Became Normal," has been accepted for publication in the Boston University Law Review.
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  Kirsten Matoy Carlson

  presented at the 2019 NLADA Annual Conference – Innovative Justice in Detroit on Nov. 8. She discussed “2019 Reauthorization of VAWA: What’s At Stake for Native American and Alaska Native Communities.”
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  Robert A. Sedler

  was a guest speaker for Southeast Michigan Mensa on the subject of “The Constitution, the president and impeachment.” He discussed the constitutional basis of impeachment and that it is a political question in the constitutional sense
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  Rachel Settlage

  spoke at Nickelhoof & Widick, PLLC’s ethics workshop for government attorneys on Oct. 16. 
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  Carolyn Noble

  wrote “Creating Charitable Gift Agreements with Nonprofits” for the Michigan Bar Journal.
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  Anne Choike

  is an editor of “Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Opinions Rewritten” for The Feminist Judgments Series. The goal of the book is to re-envision corporate law as it is practiced and interpreted today, using feminist methods and feminist legal theory.
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  Brad R. Roth

  co-wrote “International Law, Sixth Edition” with Valerie Epps and John Cerone. The sixth edition of this widely used textbook combines narrative explanatory sections that set forth the basic law together with cases, treaties, international documents, questions and problems.
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  William Ortman’s

   article “The Defender General,” which he co-wrote with Daniel Epps, was accepted for publication by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
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  Noah Hall

  co-wrote “Waters of the State” with Joseph Regalia for the Natural Resources Journal.
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  Julia Qin

  wrote “Market Benchmarks and Government Monopoly: The Case of Land and Natural Resources under Global Subsidies Regulation” for University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.
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  Peter J. Henning

  co-wrote “Criminal Pretrial Advocacy, 3d. Edition” with Leonid Feller and Karen McDonald Henning. The book, published by West Academic Publishing, analyzes the process of a criminal prosecution from the pretrial phase of the case through plea negotiations and sentencing.
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  Charles "Chip" Brower

  was selected for inclusion in Who's Who Legal: Arbitration. For the 2019 edition, Brower is one of only 111 American-based lawyers and only seven U.S.-based academics selected for inclusion. He is also the only individual selected from Michigan.
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  Alan Schenk

  was elected to the Wayne State University Academy of Scholars, which recognizes outstanding excellence in scholarship and in creative achievement of faculty members at WSU.
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  David Moss

  co-wrote “A Study of the Relationship between Law School Coursework and Bar Exam Outcomes” with Robert R. Kuehn for the Journal of Legal Education.
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  Sabrina Balgamwalla

  has been appointed as a member of the State Bar of Michigan Access to Justice Policy Committee. Committee work helps the State Bar meet its responsibilities to promote the professionalism of lawyers; advocate for an open, fair, and accessible justice system; and provide services to members that enable them to best serve their clients.
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  Robert A. Sedler 

  presented at The Well’s forum titled “Bake Me a Cake: Religious Freedom in America.” Sedler discussed the Free Exercise Clause and religious-based challenges to anti-discrimination laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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  Stephen Calkins

  was the 2019 recipient the prestigious Alfred E. Kahn Award for Antitrust Achievement from the American Antitrust Institute.
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  Robert A. Sedler

  was honored with the Michigan Association for Justice’s Champion of Justice Award at its annual banquet on May 11.
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  Lance Gable

  co-wrote an article with Colleen Healy and Peter D. Jacobson titled “Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Restoring and Improving Public Health Practice, Accountability, and Trust” for The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
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  Kathryn Smolinski

  was a speaker at the Association of Oncology Social Work’s meeting on the Legal and Ethical Issues Surrounding Surrogate Decision-Making.
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  Stephen Calkins

  presented at the “Boot Camp” for state assistant attorneys general run by the Center for State Enforcement of Antitrust and Consumer Protection Laws and Loyola University of Chicago School of Law.
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  Lance Gable

  was a speaker on executive decision making and liability for public health officials at the National Association of City and County Health Officers’ annual meeting in Orlando on July 10. His presentation was titled, “Criticized, Fired, Sued or Prosecuted: Hindsight and Public Health Accountability.”
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  Robert A. Sedler

  participated in the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History Initiates Vietnam War Era project titled, “University of Kentucky History: The Turbulent Years, 1965–1975.” During that time period, Sedler was a professor at the university and worked as a volunteer lawyer for the ACLU of Kentucky.
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  Susan Cancelosi

  was a panelist at the 2019 ABA Associate Deans Conference on June 28 in Chicago discussing “The Academic Workplace: A Roadmap for Associate Deans.”  She also was on the conference organizing committee. 
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  Christopher Lund’s

  article “The Congressional Chaplaincies” was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its case American Legion et al. v. American Humanist Assn. et al.