Faculty and staff accomplishments

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  Stephen Calkins

  spoke at the National Association of Attorneys General Antitrust Litigation Training Seminar on October 18 in Denver. His discussion topic was “The Antitrust Year in Review.”
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  Rachel Settlage

  was featured in a Wayne State University newsroom story, “Wayne Law professor making a stage name for herself.”
• Blanche Cook’s

  article, “Johnny Appleseed: Citizenship Transmission Laws and A White Heteropatriarchal Property Right In Philandering, Sexual Exploitation, And Rape (The ‘WHP’)” was accepted for publication in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.
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  Rachel Settlage

  co-led with Rebecca Robichaud a session at the 2018 Midwest Clinical Legal Education Conference on Oct. 6. The session was called, “Clinic and Externship Collaboration: Infrastructure for a Successful Experiential Education Program.”
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  Rebecca Robichaud

  co-led with Rachel Settlage a session at the 2018 Midwest Clinical Legal Education Conference on Oct. 6. The session was called, “Clinic and Externship Collaboration: Infrastructure for a Successful Experiential Education Program.”
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  Julia Qin

  delivered a public lecture at Wayne State University Law School on Oct. 3, 2018, entitled “U.S. Trade Wars: The End of an Era for International Trade War?” It was part of the public lecture series of Wayne Law’s Program for International Legal Studies.
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  Peter J. Hammer

  was named the Law School’s inaugural A. Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair. The $1.5 million endowed chair is part of a $3 million gift from the late A. Alfred Taubman in 2006 that led to the construction of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights building at Wayne Law. Read more here. 
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  Brad Roth

  presented his scholarly work on “Secessions, Coups, and the International Rule of Law” to a September 2018 meeting of the Wayne State University Academy of Scholars, into which he was recently inducted. 
• Sanjukta Paul

  was a speaker at “Building a High Wage America: Lessons from the Heartland” in Washington, D.C. on September 12. The conference was hosted by The Century Foundation’s Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative and the Economic Policy Institute.
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  Brad Roth

  attended the International Law Association Biennial Meeting in Sydney, Australia on behalf of the ILA's Committee on the Recognition and Non-Recognition of States and Governments. He summarized and defended the committee's draft final report and finalized the resolution reflecting the report's conclusions. Also at that meeting, Roth was a panelist on the operation of the concept of “general principles of law” in the context of international criminal justice. 
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  Lance Gable

  has been named an inaugural Levin Center Research Scholar. The research award will be presented on an annual basis to a member of the Wayne Law faculty in an effort to support scholarship central to the mission of the Levin Center at Wayne Law. Read more. 
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  Stephen Calkins

  was appointed by the Northville City Council to serve as an alternate member of the Board of Zoning Appeals, to fill a vacancy, with a term that expires July 1, 2021. He previously served on the Board of Zoning Appeals as an alternate member from 1987 to 1995.
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  Kirsten Matoy Carlson

  has been named an inaugural Levin Center Research Scholar. The research award will be presented on an annual basis to a member of the Wayne Law faculty in an effort to support scholarship central to the mission of the Levin Center at Wayne Law. Read more. 
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  Paul Dubinsky

  attended the 78th Biennial Conference of the International Law Association in Sydney, Australia as vice president of the U.S. branch of the ILA. At the conference, he chaired the panel on “Cities at the Frontiers of International Law and Governance.”
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  Stephen Calkins

  published “Reflections on Matsushita and ‘Equilibrating Tendencies’: Lessons for Competition Authorities” for the Antitrust Law Journal. Read the full article. 
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  Vincent Wellman

  presented his Wayne Law Review article “Michigan’s Reception of the Common Law: A Study in Legal Development” at the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual meeting on April 19.
• Jan Bissett

  wrote “Research Mash-Up: Disparate Approaches” with Margi Heinen for the Michigan Bar Journal. Read the full article.
• Jan Bissett

  presented a poster at the American Association of Law Libraries’ Annual Meeting and Conference with Kathryn Polgar in Baltimore. The presentation was on “Designing a Display for an Anniversary Event – Arthur Neef Law Library: Research, Scholarship and Community.”
• Kathryn Polgar

  presented a poster at the American Association of Law Libraries’ Annual Meeting and Conference with Jan Bissett in Baltimore. The presentation was on “Designing a Display for an Anniversary Event – Arthur Neef Law Library: Research, Scholarship and Community.”
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  Paul Dubinsky

  has been appointed as scholar in residence in Wayne State's Humanities Center for the 2018-19 school year.
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  Brad Roth

  co-wrote “The Dual Lives of “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance” with Greg Fox for the American Journal of International Law. The article was part of a symposium in AJIL Unbound marking the 25th anniversary of Thomas Franck’s landmark article “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance.” In this article Roth and Fox analyze the strengths and shortcomings of an article that started an important scholarly movement and address one of the central criticisms of Franck's piece. Read the full article.
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  Greg Fox

  co-wrote “The Dual Lives of “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance” with Brad Broth for the American Journal of International Law. The article was part of a symposium in AJIL Unbound marking the 25th anniversary of Thomas Franck’s landmark article “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance.” In this article Fox and Roth analyze the strengths and shortcomings of an article that started an important scholarly movement and address one of the central criticisms of Franck’s piece. Read the full article.
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  Lance Gable

  presented at the Health Law Professors Conference on the topic "Hindsight and Public Health Accountability" on June 9 at Case Western Reserve School of Law in Cleveland.
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  Greg Fox

  co-wrote “The Dual Lives of “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance” with Brad Broth for the American Journal of International Law. The article was part of a symposium in AJIL Unbound marking the 25th anniversary of Thomas Franck's landmark article "The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance." In this article Fox and Roth analyze the strengths and shortcomings of an article that started an important scholarly movement and address one of the central criticisms of Franck's piece. Read the full article.
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  Anthony Dillof

  wrote “Possession, Child Pornography and Proportionality: Criminal Liability for Aggregate Harm Offenses” for the Florida State University Law Review. The article explores federal penalties for possessing child pornography. Read the full article.