LAW SCHOOL NEWS

Volume 12, No. 25 November 6, 2002

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FACULTY WRITINGS

Kimberlee Kovach, Ethics for Whom? The Recognition of Diversity in Lawyering: Calls for Plurality in Ethical Considerations and Rules of Representational Work, IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION ETHICS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE 57 (Phyllis Bernard & Bryant Garth eds.; Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, Section of Dispute Resolution, 2002)

Kimberlee Kovach, Enforcement of Ethics in Mediation, IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION ETHICS: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE 111 (Phyllis Bernard & Bryant Garth eds.; Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, Section of Dispute Resolution, 2002)

Douglas Laycock, Debate 2: Should the Government Provide Financial Support for Religious Institutions That Offer Faith-Based Social Services?, 3 RUTGERS JOURNAL OF LAW & RELIGION No. 5 (2001-2002) (with Louis H. Pollack, Glen A. Tobias, Erwin Chemerinsky, Barry W. Lynn, & Nathan J. Diament).

Douglas Laycock, Injudicious: Liberals Should Get Tough on Bush's Conservative Judicial Nominees - And Stop Opposing Michael McConnell, THE AMERICAN PROSPECT ONLINE, Oct. 30, 2002, http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/10/laycock-d-10-30.html.

Brian Leiter, The Fate of Genius, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, Oct. 18, 2002, at 12 (reviewing Zarathustra's Secret: The Interior Life of , by Joachim Köhler; Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, by Rüdiger Safranski; and The Legend of Nietzsche's Syphilis, by Richard Schain).

Ronald Mann, Credit Cards and Debit Cards in the and Japan, 55 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1055 (2002).

Jane Stapleton, Lords a'Leaping Evidentiary Gaps, 10 TORTS LAW JOURNAL 276 (2002).

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Lynn Baker spoke on "Professional Responsibility: Critical Mass Tort Settlement Considerations" at the Third Annual Class Action/Mass Tort Symposium held by the Louisiana State Bar Association in New Orleans, Oct. 25, 2002.

Thomas Crandall is the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award for 2002-2003 from the Student Bar Association. Lee Fennell presented a paper entitled "Contracting Communities" at the Second Annual Meeting of the Midwest Law and Economics Association, held Oct. 11-12, 2002, at the University of Illinois School of Law.

Henry Hu was quoted in the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, July 11, 2002, in a story on President Bush's proposal to increase the maximum jail time for certain types of financial fraud. Hu was quoted in NEWSDAY, July 11, 2002, on the limitations of criminal sanctions as tools for improving corporate management. Hu was quoted in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, July 10, 2002, and the ASIAN WALL STREET JOURNAL, July 11, 2002, on the responsibilities of the outside auditor and the audit committee of the board of directors in the context of Adelphia Communications. Hu was quoted on earnings management, Securities and Exchange Commission funding, Enron, and President Bush's speech on corporate governance in a front-page story in the HOUSTON CHRONICLE, July 10, 2002. Hu was quoted on the possible securities law exposure of WorldCom's ousted Chief Financial Officer Scott Sullivan in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, July 1, 2002.

Susan Klein has filed a brief of Amici Curiae on behalf on the National Police Accountability Project of the National Lawyers Guild and the National Black Police Association in Chavez v. Martinez, a civil rights case slated for oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court this term (with Michael Avery). The Court accepted certiorari on the issues of whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when a police officer coerces a statement from a suspect that is never used in a criminal trial, and whether these same amendments are violated when an officer refuses to honor a suspect's invocation of her Miranda rights.

Blackwell Publishers released the new, 2002-04, edition of Brian Leiter's guide to graduate study in philosophy in the English-speaking world (http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com) on Monday, Oct. 28, 2002. Through Friday, Nov. 1, the site had received more than 6,000 visits.

Roy Mersky's remarks at the opening the LBJ Library and Museum's exhibition, "We Shall Overcome: Photographs from the American Civil Rights Era," on his experiences as a participant in the 1965 Selma civil rights march, were quoted at length in the AUSTIN AMERICAN- STATESMAN, Oct. 27, 2002.

Neil Netanel gave the keynote address, entitled "Impose Noncommercial Use Levy to Allow Free P2P File-Swapping and Remixing," at the conference, "Paying Artists, Protecting Innovation: New Alternatives for Resolving the Digital Copyright Debate," Oct. 21, 2002, at the American University Washington College of Law. Netanel's keynote address was spotlighted and quoted extensively in the National Journal's TECHNOLOGY DAILY, Oct. 22, 2002, http://nationaljournal.com/.

Steven Ratner's ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ATROCITIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: BEYOND THE NUREMBERG LEGACY (2d ed. 2001, with Jason Abrams), was reviewed at 3 DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT 77 (2002).

Anthony Reese presented a paper on "The First-Sale Doctrine in the Era of Digital Networks" at a symposium on "Intellectual Property, E-Commerce, and the Internet" at Boston College Law School, Oct. 18-19, 2002, and Prof. Wendy Gordon of Boston University School of Law served as commentator.

John Robertson gave two lectures on Oct. 23, 2002, at the University of Virginia: one at the Medical School on "Extreme Prematurity and the Baby Doe Amendments," and one at the Law School on "Procreative Liberty in the Era of Genomics."