Kenneth J. Hirsh / Winter 2015

  • Professor Kenneth J. Hirsh, Director of the Law Library and I.T., has published the article, Take Charge! Tips for Running Meetings Smoothly, in AALL Spectrum, November/December 2015 at 28.

Additionally, Professor Hirsh’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Hirsh’s work with Wayne Miller, Law School Education in the 21st Century: Adding Information Technology Instruction to the Curriculum, 12 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 873 (2004), in Roberto L. López Dávila, La Profesión Jurídica Puertoriqueña en la Era Global y Digital: Comentarios al Proyecto de Código de Conducta Profesional, 84 Rev. Jur. U.P.R. 1025 (2015).

Lewis Goldfarb/Winter 2015

  • Professor Lewis Goldfarb presented to Mortar Cincinnati’s class of 14 entrepreneurs on November 10, 2015, regarding legal issues faced by start-up businesses.
  • Professor Goldfarb hosted ECDC’s 5th Anniversary Celebration, Celebrating Our Past, Building Our Future, on November 13, 2015, at the Bell Event Centre, with over 140 current and former students, clients, community partners, and clinic advisers in attendance.
  • Professor Goldfarb was featured in a Cincinnati Business Courier’s article, located at http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2015/12/25/in-next-life-goldfarb-would-be-sports-announcer.html.

Mark Godsey / Winter 2015

  • Professor Mark Godsey’s book chapter, The Human Factor in Wrongful Convictions Across National Borders, was published in the book Understanding Wrongful Conviction: The Protection of the Innocent Across Europe and America (Wolters Kluwer 2015), edited by Luca Luparia, professor of law at the University of Milan. Each chapter was written by a leading innocence scholar from various European countries and the U.S.
  • Professor Godsey accepted the Rescuer of Humanity Award in December of 2015 on behalf of the OIP from Project Love, a major philanthropic organization in Cleveland. Prior winners of the award include Rosa Parks, Steven Speilberg and Christopher Reeve.
  • Professor Godsey accepted the Outstanding Organization Award in December of 2015 on behalf of the OIP from the Ohio State Bar Foundation.
  • Professor Godsey submitted a chapter titled The Global Innocence Movement for the book, Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent, to be published by the Cambridge University Press.
  • Professor Godsey was invited to present a closing lecture at the symposium launching the Japan Innocence Project in March of 2016. Mark will present at events in Tokyo and Kyoto.
  • Professor Godsey accepted a board position on the new European Innocence Network and will lecture at the Network’s upcoming conference in Prague, Czech Republic in June of 2016.

Additionally, Professor Godsey’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Godsey’s Reforming the Miranda Warnings in Light of Contemporary Law and Understandings, 90 Minn. L. Rev. 781, 805–807 (2006), in Andrew V. Jezic, Patrick L. Woodward, Kathryn Grill Graeff, Frank Molony, Md. Law of Confessions § 7:3 (2015-2016 ed.).

Jacob Katz Cogan / Winter 2015

Professor Cogan’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Cogan’s Stichting Mothers of Srebrenica v. Netherlands, 107 Am. J. Int’l L. 864, 884-85 (2013), in Giulio Bartolini, Attribution of Conduct and Liability Issues Arising from International Disaster Relief Missions: Theoretical and Pragmatic Approaches to Guaranteeing Accountability, 48 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 1029 (2015).
  • Professor Cogan’s Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Va. J. Int’l L. 411, 415 (2008), in Sadot Santana Miranda, Israel y Palestina a Diez Años de la Opinión Consultiva de la Corte Internacional de Justicia: La Seguridad del Estado versus Los Derechos de los Individuos, 84 Rev. Jur. U.P.R. 1309 (2015).

Felix Chang / Winter 2015

  • Professor Felix Chang’s book, Roma Inclusion and U.S. Civil Rights: A Legal and Cultural Comparison, has been accepted by Cambridge University Press. Professor Chang and his co-author compare the integration of the Roma minority in Eastern Europe with the U.S. Civil Rights movement.
  • Professor Chang’s paper, Vertical Integration in Derivatives Markets, has been accepted for the Next Generation of Antitrust Scholars Conference, held at NYU School of Law on January 22, 2016.
  • Professor Chang gave a talk titled “Roma Integration and Inclusion: The View from Eastern Europe” at the conference, The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America. The conference was hosted by Duke Law School’s Center on Law, Race and Politics on November 20-21, 2015.

Additionally, Professor Chang’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Chang’s Death to Credit As Leverage: Using the Bank Anti-Tying Provision to Curb Financial Risk, 9 N.Y.U. J.L. & Bus. 851, 859-65 (2013), in Charles K. Whitehead, Size Matters: Commercial Banks and the Capital Markets, 76 Ohio St. L.J. 765 (2015).

A. Chris Bryant / Winter 2015

  • Professor A. Christopher Bryant debated Ken Klukowski on October 28, 2015, on the subject of the Constitution’s provision for birthright citizenship at a lunch-time Federalist Society event.
  • Professor A. Christopher Bryant spoke on the subject of “Birthright Citizenship: A Constitutional Imperative?” at the UC Law Alumni Board CLE program on November 6, 2015.
  • Professor A. Christopher Bryant made two panel presentations at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City. On January 8, 2016, he presented “Constitutional Law from the Ground Up: How the Prohibition on ‘Under-ruling’ Distorts the Judicial Function” at the Federalist Society’s works-in-progress session. http://www.fed-soc.org/events/detail/18th-annual-faculty-conference. On January 9, 2016, he spoke at the Law & Interpretation Section’s panel addressing “The Empirics of Legal Interpretation.”
  • Professor A. Christopher Bryant judged the state finals of the high school We The People Competition on January 22, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio at the Statehouse. See http://www.oclre.org/programs/HSWTP. We The People is a national, civic education program that originated with the Burger commission on the Bi-centennial of the Constitution.
  • Professor Chris Bryant provided commentary at a lunch-time Federalist Society event on remarks by Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute reviewing the October 2014 Supreme Court term.
  • Professor Bryant, with Andy Lewis (Professor in Political Science), led a joint discussion group with both law and undergraduate students on Constitution Day, September 17, 2015.
  • Professor Bryant lectured on “Founding Documents in the Classroom” on September 21, 2015, at the Ohio Center for Law Related Education’s annual Law & Citizenship Conference for secondary school civics/social studies teachers, held in Dublin, OH.
  • Professor Bryant taught a mock-class to 85 Miami University pre-law students in Oxford, OH, on October 21, 2015.
  • Professor Bryant lectured on “William Howard Taft and His Thoughts on Presidential Power and Jurisprudence” at the Taft Symposium on October 31, 2015, sponsored by the William Howard Taft National Historic Site.

Additionally, Professor Bryant’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Bryant’s The Pursuit of Perfection: Congressional Power to Enforce the Reconstruction Amendments, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 579, 594-601 (2010), in Joshua S. Sellers, The Irony of Intent: Statutory Interpretation and the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 76 La. L. Rev. 43 (2015).
  • Professor Bryant’s work with Timothy J. Simeone, Remanding to Congress: The Supreme Court’s New “On the Record” Constitutional Review of Federal Statutes, 86 Cornell L. Rev. 328, 356 (2001), in Stephen M. Feldman, (Same) Sex, Lies, and Democracy: Tradition, Religion, and Substantive Due Process (With an Emphasis on Obergefell v. Hodges), 24 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 341 (2015).

Marianna Brown Bettman / Winter 2015

  • The University of Cincinnati selected Professor Marianna Brown Bettman as its 2016 recipient for the Distinguished Teaching Professor Award.

Professor Bettman’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Bettman’s Ohio Joins the New Judicial Federalism Movement: A Little To-ing and a Little Fro-ing, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 491, 493 (2004), in Richard S. Price, Lawyers Need Law: Judicial Federalism, State Courts, and Lawyers in Search and Seizure Cases, 78 Alb. L. Rev. 1393 (2014-2015).
  • Professor Bettman’s Commentary: Are Judicial Elections Different After All? Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar, Legally Speaking Ohio (May 6, 2015), http://www.legallyspeakingohio.com/2015/05/commentary-are-judicial-elections-different-after-all-williams-yulee-v-the-florida-bar/, in Eric J. Ambos, Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar, 135 S. Ct. 1656 (2015), 42 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 289 (2015).

Lynn Bai / Winter 2015

Professor Bai’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Bai’s On Regulating Conflicts of Interest in the Credit Rating Industry, 13 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 253 (2010), in Sung Eun (Summer) Kim, Bounds in Bank Regulation, 125 Yale L.J. Forum 185 (Nov. 9, 2015).
  • Professor Bai’s The Performance Disclosures of Credit Rating Agencies: Are They Effective Reputational Sanctions?, 7 N.Y.U. J.L. & Bus. 47, 59-66 (2010), in Asaf Eckstein, Great Expectations: The Peril of an Expectations Gap in Proxy Advisory Firm Regulation, 40 Del. J. Corp. L. 77 (2015).

Timothy K. Armstrong / Winter 2015

  • Professor Timothy K. Armstrong’s article, Dueling Monologues on the Public Domain: What Digital Copyright Can Learn from Antitrust, was published in the first issue of the University of Cincinnati College of Law Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal. The article is available at http://scholarship.law.uc.edu/ipclj/.
  • Professor Armstrong delivered a guest lecture on November 13, 2015, to a combined group of UC undergraduate and graduate students in the Software Testing and Quality Assurance course in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems. Professor Armstrong’s talk was titled “Legal Issues in Software Development” and focused principally on copyright law, patent law, and contractual and licensing issues that would be of particular concern to software developers and their employers.
  • Professor Armstrong delivered a presentation to the Harvard Law School Association of Cincinnati titled, “Art and Money, Here and Abroad: Two (or Four) Theories of Copyright.” The presentation took place on November 20, 2015, at the offices of Blank Rome LLP in downtown Cincinnati. The talk considered competing theories of copyright law that have been enunciated at different times by U.S. policymakers and asked whether the increasing prominence of copyright as an issue in the international trade regime called those theories into doubt.

Additionally, Professor Armstrong’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Armstrong’s Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 49, 60 (2008), in Trevor I. Kiviat, Beyond Bitcoin: Issues in Regulating Blockchain Transactions, 65 Duke L.J. 569 (2015).
  • Professor Armstrong’s Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 203, 204 (2004), in Nicholas Jackson, When is an Agency a Court? A Codified Functional Approach to State Agency Removal Under 28 U.S.C. § 1441, 49 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 273 (2015).