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Stephen Calkins
wrote “Reflections on Matsushita and 'Equilibrating Tendencies': Lessons for Competition Authorities,” for the Antitrust Law Journal.
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Stephen Calkins
contributed a chapter to Vinod Dhall’s book “Competition Law Today” published by Oxford University Press. Calkins chapter is on “Competition Law in the United States.”
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Virginia Thomas
wrote “For Your Entertainment: Researching Animal Cruelty Under the Big Top,” for the
Michigan Bar Journal. Read the full article
here.
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Christopher C. Lund
joined the Detroit office of law firm Dalton and Tomich PLC.
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Julia Qin
was a speaker at the Global Conference on “Challenges, Issues and Responses in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, sponsored by the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security of the Republic of Korea. The conference was held in Seoul on Dec. 12, 2018, and was attended by approximately 300 diplomats and members of the public.
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Sanjukta Paul
was a panelist at the Economic Policy Institute and the Open Markets Institute’s conference, “Monopoly, Monopsony, and the Labor Market,” on Dec. 12 in Washington, D.C. She discussed policy responses to market concentration.
Watch the recording of the event.
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Anne Choike
presented at the International Legal Ethics Conference VIII: Legal Ethics in the Asian Century in Melbourne, Australia on Dec. 6. Choike’s panel was on “Business Transactions and Ethical Conflict at the Edge of the Glass Cliff: The Implications upon Client Counseling of Disparity in Attorney Discipline.”
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Richard A. Bierschbach
joined 67 other judges, lawyers and law professors from around the United States and the world in being elected to membership in the American Law Institute. He was the only newly-elected member from Michigan.
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Anne Choike
was nominated for the Wayne State University Spirit of Community Award.
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Anne Choike
participated in Stanford Law School’s Legal Design Lab summit “Prototyping For Policy” in November. The summit focused on how prototyping design methods — drawn from human-centered design, systems thinking, agile policy-making, and beyond — can be used to make better policy that better serves people.
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Brad Roth
organized and moderated a session of the WSU Humanities Center’s Brown Bag Series on “Lessons from the Break-Up of Yugoslavia,” on Nov. 28.
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Stephen Calkins
was a panelist at the 12th Annual Private Antitrust Enforcement Conference in Washington D.C. on Nov. 14. He discussed private antitrust enforcement and the new Supreme Court.
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Kirsten Matoy Carlson’s
paper “Lobbying as a Strategy for Tribal Resilience” was accepted for publication in the Brigham Young University Law Review.
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Jocelyn Benson
was elected secretary of state of Michigan in the 2018 Midterm Election.
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Robert A. Sedler
was a speaker at the State Bar of Michigan’s Legal Milestone #41 dedication, entitled “First to Abolish the Death Penalty” on Nov. 6. He discussed the significance of the death penalty ban being in Michigan’s constitution.
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Brad Roth
was a speaker at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s workshop “Recognition in the Context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” on Nov. 5. He discussed non-recognition of the fruits of peremptory norm violations.
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Richard A. Bierschbach
presented “The Administrative Law of the Eighth Amendment” at the Ninth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium at Loyola University-Chicago School of Law.
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Brad Roth
gave a lecture on “International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” to the Society of Active Retirees as part of the organization's Fall 2018 Class Series, in Farmington Hills.
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Brad Roth
gave a joint lecture with WSU Near East Studies faculty member Saeed Khan, to the undergraduate Model United Nations group on “The Future of Foreign Policy in the Trump Era.”
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David Berry
was honored with the 2018 State Bar of Michigan IP Section Excellence in Intellectual Property Award.
Read more here.
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Blanche Cook
delivered a lecture titled, “Citizenship Transmission Laws and Property Right in Rape,” on Oct. 25 at Berkeley Law as part of the Henderson Center’s Scholar-in-Residence program.
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Robert A. Sedler
was a panelist at a WSU Presidential Sesquicentennial Symposium titled, “The Free Speech Century: One Hundred Years of the First Amendment,” on Oct. 25
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Stephen Calkins
was a panelist at the Antitrust Judicial Law & Economics Institute for Judges at Berkeley Law on Oct. 24. He discussed legal and economic issues in recent cases on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; and cutting edge antitrust issues related to technology platforms, “big data” and multi-sided markets.
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Lance Gable
wrote, “Finding the Threads of Human Rights in the Global Health Tapestry: A Review of ‘Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World,’” for the
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Read the article.
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Robert A. Sedler
participated as a judge in the Soar Mock Trial on the Second Amendment at Adat Shalom Synagogue on Oct. 19.
