Update September 2006

FACULTY NEWS

University of California, Davis School of Law Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall 400 Mrak Hall Drive, Davis, CA 95616 (530) 752-0243 Editorial Assistant: Brigid Jimenez

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CAROL BRUCH was recently elected to the International Academy of Comparative Law. The Family Law Quarterly published her article entitled “Sound Research or Wishful Thinking in Child Custody Law: Lessons from Relocation Law,” in the summer 2006 issue.

Georgetown Law Journal published DIANE In June, JENNIFER CHACÓN MARIE AMANN’s “International Law and presented a paper at a conference in Rehnquist-Era Reversals.” Diane was quoted in Paris on “Immigration, Liberty and the Star Telegram, Christian Science Monitor, Security from a Comparative Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. She Perspective." Her paper will be also did radio interviews on KCBS-San published in a forthcoming book. Francisco and Australian Broadcasting Jennifer was quoted in the Los Company. Angeles Times on the Supreme Court’s decision in Fernandez-Vargas JACK AYER is a co-author of “Chapter 11-101: v. Gonzalez. The Essentials of Chapter 11 Practice," released In August, ANUPAM CHANDER by the American Bankruptcy Institute. presented his new paper, “Everyone’s a Superhero,” at the Intellectual In June, Kluwer published ANDREA Property Scholars Conference at Boalt BJORKLUND’s co-authored book, Investment Hall. The paper will appear in the Disputes Under NAFTA. Andrea made three California Law Review. In September, presentations at the International Law Anupam presented his new IP paper Association's biennial conference in Toronto. at the Law, Science and Technology

Faculty News 1 seminar at Stanford Law School. He along with BOB HILLMAN completed a second MADHAVI SUNDER and KEITH AOKI, report addressing various legal issues received a grant to write a comic book about raised by the President of Liberia, civil rights legend Fred Korematsu. Anupam traveled to Liberia to meet with also was co-recipient of a grant to write about President Sirleaf and various the naming of Davis’s newest elementary school. Ministers, and had several meetings in New York with Liberian government JOEL DOBRIS published "Undoing Repeal of officials. Bob also published the 2006 the Rule Against Perpetuities: Federal and State updates to his treatise on Lawyer Tools for Breaking Dynasty Trusts" in the Mobility, and spoke at conferences in Cardozo Law Review and published a letter to Vancouver and Toronto. the editor of the Financial Times on the behavioral economics aspects of charitable BILL HING presented papers at (1) a giving under the Internal Revenue Code. conference at the British Library Conference Centre, sponsored by the HOLLY DOREMUS published “Species Institute for the Study of the Coverage in Multispecies Habitat Conservation Americas, University of London, the Plans: Where’s the Science?,” in BioScience. Eccles Center for American Studies, Holly is part of an interdisciplinary UC Davis and the British Library, and (2) the team that was recently awarded a $400,000 Second World Social Forum on grant to develop new hydropower licensing in Immigration held in Madrid, Spain. the Sierra Nevadas. Bill’s new book Deporting Our Souls-- Values, Morality and Immigration HAP DUNNING commented in the Los Policy (Cambridge University Press) Angeles Times (Aug. 20) on a piece of water law will be published this month. litigation. LISA IKEMOTO recently spoke at The Election Law Journal accepted for the Law, Medicine and Morality publication CHRIS ELMENDORF's article Conference at NYU and at the Annual entitled “Election Commissions and Electoral Health Law Teachers Conference at Reform: An Overview.” He presented “Advisory the University of Maryland. She Counterparts to Constitutional Courts" at the published (1) “Race to Health: 2006 Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum Racialized Discourses in a Transhuman World” in the DePaul FLOYD FEENEY published (1) Selected Class Journal of Health Care Law; and (2) Readings and Cases on American Criminal “In the Shadow of Race: Women of Procedure Law (in Chinese); (2) Chinese Color in Health Disparities Policy” in Translation of One Case--Two Systems: A a symposium issue of the U.C. Davis Comparative View of American and German Law Review. Criminal Justice. Floyd spoke to the California Association of Pretrial Release Organizations on ED IMWINKELRIED, who is the history of pre-trial release reform efforts. visiting this fall at Ohio State, published Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook

Faculty News 2 (2006 Cumulative Supplement); “An Extended Rob’s article on public opinion and Footnote to Statutory Construction: Not for the federalism (co-authored with Cindy Timid,” Federal Evidence Tactics (2006); Kam) was accepted for publication by McCormick on Evidence (sixth edition) (Vols. 1 the Journal of Empirical Legal & 2); and New York Evidentiary Foundations Studies. (2006 cumulative supplement). Ed also In July, LISA PRUITT presented her published commentary in the National Law paper "Rural Rhetoric" at the Law & Journal. He lectured on expert testimony to Society 2006 annual meeting. This Iowa prosecutors and spoke about cross- fall, she will participate in a Iowa law examination to the National Association of school symposium on the 10th Criminal Defense Lawyers. anniversary of welfare reform.

In July, ELIZABETH JOH presented a paper at In June, DONNA SHESTOWSKY the Law and Society 2006 annual meeting. In organized a panel for the annual October, she made a presentation on the future meeting of the American Society of of "abandoned DNA" at Boalt Hall's Center for Trial Consultants and presented "The the Study of Law and Society. Top Ten Recent Research Articles That Practitioners Need To Know The Hispanic National Bar Association named About." Donna’s paper “Psychology KEVIN JOHNSON the 2006 Law Professor of and Persuasion" was published in the Year. Kevin published a chapter in an edited Andrea Schneider & Christopher book on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Honeyman, The Negotiator’s Hernandez v. Texas (1954) and a book review Fieldbook: The Desk Reference for in the spring issue of Latino Studies. In June, he the Experienced Negotiator. participated on several panels at the Association of American Law Schools mid-year conference MADHAVI SUNDER presented her in Vancouver. Kevin recently was quoted in the latest IP paper, which will be Sacramento Bee, Riverside Press Enterprise, published in the Stanford Law Ottawa Citizen, Houston Chronicle, and Diverse Review, to the Stanford law faculty. Issues in Higher Education and was interviewed She and ANUPAM CHANDER about immigration on talk show radio (KGAB, presented their co-authored IP paper Cheyenne, Wyoming). at Boalt Hall. This summer, Madhavi was interviewed for a new UC-TV In June, TOM JOO was “guest blogger” in an program that features the scholarly online symposium on Enron on work of UC professors. Her Carnegie www.conglomerate.com. Tom was recently award prompted profiles in the quoted in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sacramento News & Review, Securities Law360 news wire service, and Dateline, Cal Aggie, and India Corporate Secretary magazine. Abroad. Madhavi was quoted in the Sacramento Bee and interviewed by This fall, ROB MIKOS will present a work in NPR. Madhavi, Anupam, and KEITH progress at the University of Toronto, University AOKI were awarded a grant to pen a of Texas, and University of Kansas. His latest comic book about Fred Korematsu. article will appear in the Michigan Law Review. Anupam and Madhavi, along with

Faculty News 3 King Hall 3L Raymond Kim, received a grant to create a documentary chronicling the personal internment experiences of Davis residents. * * * * Copies of this newsletter are provided to the law school faculty, senior staff, students, Judy Cook (Alumni Office), Charlene Logan (King Hall Counselor), Tony Stewart, and Julia Ann Easley (Campus News Service). A copy also is posted at www.law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/faculty_research.h tml. For more King Hall news, please be sure to visit http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/

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