In January, Janet attended the 2013 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) in New Orleans, where she received the 2012 Junior Scholar Paper Competition Award from the Criminal Justice Section of the AALS, for her article Democracy Enhancement in Criminal Law and New Orleans, which will be published in the 1014 volume of the Utah Law Review.  More recently, the article was selected to appear in 5 Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy eJournal (Matthew D. Adler & Brian Bix, eds., March 4, 2013) and 8 Criminal Law eJournal (Dan M. Kahan & Paul H. Robinson, eds., March 5, 2013).  This same article, which is garnering well-deserved attention, will be the subject of a roundtable discussion at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, to be held in Boston in May.

At the AALS conference in January, Janet also was recognized for receiving the 2012 Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching at an AALS reception for law professors chosen by their institutions as teachers of the year.

In February, Janet’s reputation as an expert in criminal justice reform continued to spread, both locally and nationally:

• Based on her scholarship in the field, Janet was invited to serve as an expert on criminal discovery reform and advised legislative counsel during the drafting of discovery reform legislation to be sponsored by Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis.  Senator Ellis has served in the Texas State Senate since 1990.  He chairs the Senate Committee on Government Organization, which focuses on improving the efficiency of state government, and sits on numerous other Committees, including  the Criminal Justice and Open Government Committees.
• Janet continued to lead discussions with members of the Cincinnati City Council, City Solicitor’s office, and Cincinnati Police Department regarding the establishment of a local community-based mediation program to enhance problem-solving capacities and divert low-level offenses from the local criminal justice system.
• And for something fun and “outside-the-box,” Janet was recruited to serve on a panel discussion of Opera and the Law hosted by the Cincinnati Opera, to be held in Corbett Tower at Music Hall, 7-8:30 PM on March 19th.  She will reflect on the (very juicy) subject of deviance as embodied in the character of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.  The event is to include arias by artists from the Cincinnati Opera and contributions from co-panelists Boris Auerbach (Ret. VP and Secretary, Federated Dept. Stores), Michael Cioffi (Partner, Blank Rome LLP),  attorney Berti Helmick, and Harry H. Santen (Ret. Managing Partner, Santen & Hughes, and Past President, Cincinnati Bar Association).  The panel will be moderated by the Opera’s Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director, Evans Mirageas.