Faculty Acknowledgments August 2018 MARY GARVEY ALGERO, Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Academic Affairs, Philip and Eugenie Brooks Distinguished Professor of Law, and Warren E. Mouledoux Distinguished Professor of Law Mary Garvey Algero’s article, In Defense of Forum Shopping: A Realistic Look at Selecting a Venue, 78 Neb. L. Rev. 79 (1999), has been selected for inclusion in the three-volume set, Forum Shopping and International Commercial Law, to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing. From the invitation: “Our book is designed to bring together the most important and influential material in the subject area as facsimile reprints, and supplement the resources of newly-found libraries around the world.” The book will be edited by Franco Ferrari, Director, Centre for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law, NYU School of Law, USA and Aaron D. Simowitz, Assistant Professor, Willamette University College of Law, USA. ANDREA ARMSTRONG, Professor of Law New Orleans jail history essay listed as "Scholarship of the Day" by The Marshall Project April 26, 2018. Received 2018 CityBusiness Leaders in Law award, along with Profs. Drury & Molina in May 2019 Participated in bill signing by Gov. Edwards restoring right to vote to probationers and parolees 5 years after incarceration. The legislation will restore the right to vote to approximately 40,000 people as of March 1, 2019. Drafted section on early voting as a member of the Louisiana State Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights based on testimony solicited for our final report on Voting Rights in Louisiana. The final report should be released in Fall 2019. Research on jail deaths cited in The Advocate article "'Avoidable'? New Orleans woman's death in jail cell raises questions about care in final hours" (https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/crime_police/article_36325848- 644e-11e8-a7d1-a35254e9e067.html) Interviewed and quoted in news article "Louisiana Prisoners Demand an End to Modern-Day Slavery" at the Appeal June 8, 2018 (https://theappeal.org/louisiana- prisoners-demand-an-end-to-modern-day-slavery/) Moderated panel on criminal justice reform in Baton Rouge at the Louisiana Equality and Equity Summit in June 2018 Participated in panel discussion on bail and jail at the Greater New Orleans Funders' Network Quarterly Convening in June 2018 Presented New Orleans jail history essay at the Data Center's Nola 300 Forum for Progress and Prosperity in June 2018 Interviewed by Oliver Thomas on WBOK on the impact of the jail on New Orleans communities June 26, 2018 ( https://youtu.be/u-ubNNl5tRM) Presented book outline at the Lutie Lytle Workshop in Dallas in July 2018 and discussant on paper on constitutional regulation of race and sexuality. Speaker on race and criminal justice in Louisiana at the Forum for Funding Criminal Justice Reform in July 2018, organized by Ford Foundation Mentoring two incoming1L Ignatian fellows with interests in jail/prison conditions Participated in Facebook live interview with Dean Landrieu, organized by Admissions Presented on race and history of voting disenfranchisement at Netroots Nation conference in July 2018. Member of planning team for "Per(Sister)," a forthcoming art exhibit at Newcomb Art Museum on women and incarceration in Winter 2019 (ongoing) Member of planning committee for the Unanimous Jury Coalition, which provides training and education around the impact of non-unanimous juries in Louisiana in advance of the Nov. 6 ballot initiative to require unanimous jury verdicts for all serious felonies. (ongoing) EMILY BISHOP, Director of Lawyering Program, Writing Instructor This summer, Emily Bishop published an article entitled "Avoiding 'Ally Theater' in Legal Writing Assignments" in the journal Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing. The article is available here: http://info.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/signup/newsletters/perspectives/2018- spring.aspx. Its official citation is Emily A. Bishop, Avoiding "Ally Theater in Legal Writing Assignments, 26 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 3 (2018). NIKOLAOS A. DAVRADOS, PhD, Assistant Professor of Law Demystifying Enrichment Without Cause, 78 LA. L. REV. 1223 (2018) ROBERT A. GARDA, Jr., Fanny Edith Winn Distinguished Professor of Law His article regarding charter school legislation, authorizers and special education was published. The Mississippi Charter School Act: Will it Produce Effective and Equitable Charter Schools, 36:2 Miss. L.J 265 (2018) He presented a paper entitled “Navigating the Growing and Evolving Charter Sector,” at the Counsel of Parent Advocates and Attorneys Annual Conference He co-authored a chapter entitled "Special Education and Choice" for a forthcoming book by Oxford University Press. MADELEINE LANDRIEU, Dean and Judge Adrian G. Duplantier Distinguished Professor of Law Dean Landrieu has been appointed to serve on the Legal Services Corporation’s (LSC) Disaster Taskforce for a one year term from May 2018 – May 2018. Participated: LSC Disaster Taskforce Meeting, Wednesday, May 23, 2018 How Leaders Can Intervene, Advocate and Lead on Behalf of Children and Families McCormack Foundation Executive Fellows Program Erikson Institutes Early Childhood Leadership Academy, Chicago, Illinois August, 2018 Culture Clash: Bringing the Perspective of Child Development to Social Services and Family Court - Understanding the Legal Framework 2018 National Organization of Forensic Social Work The Changing Face of Forensic Social Work New Orleans, LA June 2018 HECTOR LINARES, Coordinator of Skills and Experiential Learning and Associate Clinical Professor Professor Linares served as faculty for the Juvenile Training Immersion Program (JTIP) Summer Academy held at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. from June 10 - 16, 2018. The Louisiana Bar Journal published an article by Professor Linares in its Children’s Law issue entitled “Expungement Reform Helps Those with Juvenile Records Wipe the Slate Clean.” The full article is available online at http://files.lsba.org/documents/publications/BarJournal/Feature7-Linares-Aug-Sept- 2018.pdf. The Louisiana Judicial College invited Professor Linares to participate as parti of a team working on a project to draft an updated version of the Juvenile Court Best Practices Bench Book last updated in 2013. M. ISABEL MEDINA, Ferris Family Distinguished Professor of Law Panelist, Plenary, Teaching Immigration Law in a Time of “Crisis,” Immigration Law School Teachers Workshop, Drexel University School of Law, May 26, 2018. Paper, “Making America Great Again Revisited: Through the prism of immigration and refugees,” Immigration Law school Teachers Workshop, Drexel University School of Law, May 25, 2018. Presented on Constitutional Law for the LSBA Suit Up program, which works with high school students interested in legal careers on June 13, 2018. Volunteer pro bono counsel to conduct site inspection and interviews with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, to monitor conditions of detention of minors at the Casa Padre facility in Brownville, TX on July 11-14, pursuant to the Flores v. Sessions, et al., No. CV 85-4544 (C.D. Cal.) class action litigation court order. Accepted for publication by Bender’s Immigration Bulletin: “Arriving Aliens, Custody and Interagency Determinations Post-Jennings.” IMRE SZALAI, Judge John D. Wessel Distinguished Professor of Social Justice Professor Szalai was quoted in the Los Angeles Times about the Supreme Court’s most recent arbitration decision, Epic Systems v. Lewis. His scholarship was also cited in briefs filed with the Court in this case, and he assisted lawyers with developing arguments for the case. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-supreme-court-workers-arbitration- 20180523-story.html Professor Szalai was quoted in a Law360 article about federal arbitration law and potential preemption of a newly-enacted New Jersey statute designed to protect the victims of sexual harassment. New Orleans City Business quoted Professor Szalai in a story about employment arbitration and the Supreme Court’s recent arbitration decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis. Bloomberg News quoted Professor Szalai in an article about a recent appellate case involving Uber’s use of arbitration clauses: https://biglawbusiness.com/uber-pushed- arbitration-too-far/ On behalf of the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, Professor Szalai prepared a memorandum about the current state of arbitration law and access to justice, as well as a list of questions, which will be distributed to the Senate Judiciary Committee in preparation for the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Professor Szalai participated as an amicus in support of workers in the case of New Prime, Inc. v. Oliveira, one of the arbitration cases to be argued next term in the Supreme Court. He also assisted the attorneys representing the workers in the merits briefing by providing historical arguments and archival records regarding the development of arbitration law. Professor Szalai’s article proposing a new legal framework to analyze consumer and employee arbitration agreements was published this summer in the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. 19 CARDOZO J. CONFLICT RESOL. 653 (2018) SANDI S. VARNADO, Associate Professor of Law Professor Sandi S. Varnado completed her textbook (with Professors Melissa T. Lonegrass and Christopher K. Odinet), Louisiana Law of Sale, Lease, and Advanced Obligations: