Faculty News - Part 4

Emily M.S. Houh / Spring 2018

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Professor Houh was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Professor Award, which is the University of Cincinnati’s highest teaching honor.

Professor Houh was inducted into the University’s Fellows of the Graduate School.

Professor Houh was elected to chair the Contract Compliance & Enforcement Committee of UC’s Chapter of the Association of American University Professors.

Professor Houh was invited to serve a University of Cincinnati committee that will study the University’s relationship to slavery as part of the University of Virginia’s Universities Studying Slavery consortium.

In late May, Professor Houh will speak on a panel called, “Academic Freedom and Expressive Freedoms in a Post-Truth Era,” at the joint Northeast People of Color/Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty 2018 Conference, at Albany Law School in New York.

Professor Houh moderated a panel, “Critical Race Theory and Racial Formation,” as part of a conference—co-organized by the Department of European Studies in University of Cincinnati’s College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice (which Houh co-directs with Professors Kalsem and Moore)—called Transatlantic Approaches to Racial Equality. This international conference, held on April 12-13 at UC’s African American Cultural & Resource Center, was made possible with generous support from UC’s Taft Research Center, Office of Equity, Inclusion & Community Impact, and Office of Graduate Programs.

In February, Professor Houh gave a talk as part of a panel on “Contract Law and Discrimination,” at the 13^th Annual International Conference on Contracts, held this year at Barry University in Orlando, Florida.

Kristin Kaslem / Spring 2018

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Professor Kalsem participated in an interdisciplinary group of University of Cincinnati faculty working on community-based research, discussing her three-year community research partnership on best practices for judges in domestic violence cases. This case study—which can serve as a model across disciplines—demonstrates real-world impacts of problem-based scholarship and research and community-based partnerships.

Sean K. Mangan / Spring 2018

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Professor Mangan was selected as a 2018 Goldman Prize winner for his teaching.

Bradford C. Mank / Spring 2018

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Professor Mank’s article, State Standing in United States v. Texas: Opening the Floodgates to States Challenging the Federal Government or Proper Federalism?, was published as 2018 U. Ill. L. Rev. 211.

Professor Mank’s article, Commentary, The Supreme Court Acknowledges Congress’ Authority to Confer Informational Standing in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, was published as 94 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1377 (2017).

Professor Mank’s article, Does the Evolving Concept of Due Process in Obergefell Justify Judicial Regulation of Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change?: Juliana v. United States, was accepted for publication in the U.C. Davis Law Review, volume 52 (forthcoming December 2018). Professor Mank presented this paper at the Shapiro Symposium on Public Trust Law at the George Washington Law School.

Professor Mank was quoted in a Bloomberg Environmental Reporter article, Flint Residents May Open New Door on Civil Rights Claims, published on April 18, 2018, available at

https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/environment-reporter/flint-residents-may-open-new-door-on-civil-rights-claims?emc=nerp_hlt%3A15&usertype=External&context=email&email=00000162-df7e-d8da-af66-dffe06fe0000&subscription=0000015f-20a6-d59d-a77f-bfe6c81f0000&access-ticket=eyJpZCI6IjAwMDAwMTYyLThjNDEtZDNlZi1hN2VlLWFjNjliM2RlMDAwMCIsImN0eHQiOiJORVJQIiwidXVpZCI6IkJ5T2piVmtSZWkxZ01iNmNFMmV4YWc9PU0xYjNGb2ljNmxNdlFxMFdQOS9rTVE9PSIsInRpbWUiOiIxNTI0MTY5MzIyNDczIiwic2lnIjoiZVk5WElpTHhiSEhubXIvSkNtS1NOaUNiUFBzPSIsInYiOiIxIn0%3D.

Stephanie Hunter McMahon / Spring 2018

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Professor McMahon accepted the position as Interim Associate Dean for Faculty.

Professor McMahon was selected as a 2018 Goldman Prize winner for her teaching.

Professor McMahon was elected to the Board of the Friends of the William Howard Taft Historic Site.

Professor McMahon completed the second edition for her book, Principles in Tax Policy, incorporating the changes enacted by the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017.

On February 28, Professor McMahon presented her upcoming article, “Tax as Part of a Broken Budget: Good Taxes Are Good Cause Enough,” at the University of Indiana Maurer School of Law. The article will be published by the Michigan State Law Review in late 2018.

Janet Moore / Spring 2018

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Professor Moore’s article, Isonomy, Austerity and the Right to Choose Counsel, is now in print at 51 Ind. L. Rev. 167 (2018). The article offers a theoretical and empirical critique of the nation’s first experiment with implementing a right to choose counsel in the public defense context.

Michael E. Solimine / Spring 2018

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Professor Solimine’s article, “Precedent, Three-Judge District Courts, and the Law of Democracy,” co-authored with Professor Joshua Douglas (University of Kentucky College of Law), was accepted for publication by the Georgetown Law Journal.

Professor Solimine was inducted in the University of Cincinnati’s Fellows of the Graduate School.

Professor Solimine was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief of federal courts scholars filed in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Salt River Project Agri. Improvement & Power District v. Tesla Energy Operations, Inc., 138 S. Ct. 1323 (2018). The case concerned whether an interlocutory appeal would be permitted. It was dismissed by the Supreme Court pursuant to a settlement, after the amicus brief was filed but before oral argument.

Ronna Gref Schneider / Spring 2018

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Professor Schneider published the updates for her treatise, Education Law: First Amendment, Due Process and Discrimination Law. The treatise as well as the updates are available in print and online in the treatise’s own database in Westlaw.

Professor Schneider was a panelist in a university wide program moderated by Dean Williams that was designed to explain the legal issues facing the University with regard to the potential visit of Richard Spencer to the campus.

Sandra F. Sperino / Spring 2018

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Professor Sperino was cited in a Newsday article titled, “State records: 1,200 private-sector workers sexually harassed,” on March 31, 2018, available at the following linkhttps://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/new-york-sexual-harassment-1.17765884.

Professor Sperino presented in a webinar titled, Sexual Harassment and Assault in the Workplace, hosted by the ABA Civil Rights and Social Justice Section an the Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession, and the Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence.

In April, Professor Sperino presented her book, Unequal: How America’s Courts Undermine Discrimination Law (Oxford 2017) (written with Professor Suja Thomas) at the University of Illinois College of Law. The Law, Behavior, and Social Science Program at the Illinois College of Law sponsored the event.

Professor Sperino contributed to an online symposium that reflect on the significance and impact of the book Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press 2016). The Notre Dame Law Review Online will publish a series of ten of these essays in late 2018.

Professor Sperino accepted an invitation to join West’s Employment Law treatises for students and practitioners. She will be writing the chapters of the treatises on federal employment discrimination.

Joseph P. Tomain / Spring 2018

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Dean Emeritus Tomain was a guest editor for a symposium entitled “Energy Law and Policy” for the international journal, Energy Policy.

On March 1, Dean Emeritus Tomain presented a keynote address, entitled “The Democratization of Energy Law in the United States,” for a conference entitled “The Just Transition Towards Low-Carbon Academy – Integrating Climate, Energy and Environmental Justice,” in Edinburg, Scotland.

Dean Emeritus Tomain was a peer reviewer for the international journal Energy Policy.

In February, Dean Emeritus Tomain reviewed the poetry of Gerry Grubbs, The Palace of Flowers, in Galatea Resurrects 2018, available at http://galatearesurrects2018.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-palace-of-flowers-by-gerry-grubbs.html.

The second edition of Dean Emeritus Tomain’s book, written with Lincoln Davies, Alexandra Klass, Hari Osofsky, and Elizabeth Wilson, Energy Law and Policy, was published.

In April and May, Dean Emeritus Tomain was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome.