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Robert A. Sedler
participated in the Berkeley Forum, a student-run program at the University of California-Berkeley, where he discussed reparations for slavery.
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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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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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Noah Hall
co-wrote “
Waters of the State” with Joseph Regalia for the
Natural Resources Journal.
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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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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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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.
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Julia Qin
presented at the G2 Annual Conference on WTO and International Economic Regulation on June 8 in Geneva, Switzerland. Her panel was on “Trade-Wars: Causes, Consequences and How to Respond?”