Sandra F. Sperino / April 2013

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Sandra article The Tort Label was accepted for the Harvard/Yale/Stanford Scholars Forum.  She will present the paper at Yale Law School in June.

Sandra’s article, Statutory Proximate Cause, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1199 (2013), is now in print.  Her essay Beyond McDonnell Douglas, was accepted for publication in the Berkeley Journal of Labor and Employment Law.

Sandra gave a presentation on recent developments in employment discrimination law to the Cincinnati Lawyer’s Club.

Finally, Sandra’s article A Modern Theory of Direct Corporate Liability for Title VII, 61 Ala. L. Rev. 773 (2010), was cited in Elizabeth M. Schneider & Nancy Gertner, “Only Procedural”: Thoughts on the Substantive Law Dimensions of Preliminary Procedural Decisions in Employment Discrimination Cases, 57 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 767 (2013).

Joseph P. Tomain /April 2013

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Several of Joe’s publications were cited in April:

 

  • The Associate Dean for Faculty Research Position: Encouraging and Promoting Scholarship, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 233 (2001), in Simon Canick, Library Services for the Self-Interested Law School: Enhancing the Visibility of Faculty Scholarship, 105 Law Libr. J. 175 (2013);
  • Cyberspace is Outside the Schoolhouse Gate: Offensive, Online Student Speech Receives First Amendment Protection, 59 Drake L. Rev. 97 (2010), in Allison Martin, Student Author, Tinkering with the Parameters of Student Free Speech Rights for Online Expression: When Social Networking Sites Knock on the Schoolhouse Gate, 43 Seton Hall L. Rev. 773 (2013), and in Jose M. Delgado, Student Author, “Chill Out” Mrs. Robinson: First Amendment Implications of Limiting Private Teacher-Student Electronic Communication, 45 Ariz. St. L.J. 299 (2013);
  • ‘‘Steel in the Ground”: Greening the Grid with the iUtility, 39 Envtl. L. 931 (2009), in Joel B. Eisen, Smart Regulation and Federalism for the Smart Grid, 37 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2013);
  • Smart Grid Innovation: Policy, Politics, and Law, Fourth Annual Conference on Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (Nov. 25, 2011) in Joel B. Eisen, Smart Regulation and Federalism for the Smart Grid, 37 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2013);
  • The Dominant Model of United States Energy Policy, 61 U. Colo. L. Rev. 355 (1990), in Lincoln L. Davies, Tracing U.S. Renewable Energy Policy, 43 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10320 (2013);
  • Ending Dirty Energy Policy: Prelude to Climate Change (2011), in Lincoln L. Davies, Tracing U.S. Renewable Energy Policy, 43 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10320 (2013), and in Joel B. Eisen, Smart Regulation and Federalism for the Smart Grid, 37 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2013);
  • Energy Law in a Nutshell (2004), in Lincoln L. Davies, Tracing U.S. Renewable Energy Policy, 43 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10320 (2013), and in Alexandra B. Klass, Climate Change and the Convergence of Environmental and Energy Law, 24 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 180 (2013); and
  • Energy Law and Policy for the 21st Century (2000), in Lincoln L. Davies, Tracing U.S. Renewable Energy Policy, 43 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10320 (2013).

 

Yolanda Vazquez / April 2013

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Yolanda was invited to speak at several events in April.  She spoke on April 3 as part of the Law and Ethics Speaker Series at the University’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business on Immigration and Legal Ethics.  On April 10, she spoke on

  • Immigration Policy and Reform During the Obama Administration, at the annual Midwest People of Color Conference in Chicago, IL.  And on April 12, she presented

Navigating the Complexities of Our Melting Pot:  How Immigration Affects Legal Representation, as part of a Symposium organized by the Tennessee Journal on Law and Policy and the Tennessee Journal on Race Gender and Social Justice Immigration, in Knoxville, TN.

Yolanda’s article, Perpetuating the Marginalization of Latinos: A Collateral Consequence of the Incorporation of Immigration Law into the Criminal Justice System, 54 How. L.J. 639 (2011), was cited in Immigrant Rights & Immigration Enforcement, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1565 (2013).

Lin (Lynn) Bai / March 2013

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Two of Lynn’s articles were cited:

Marianna Brown Bettman / March 2013

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On March 1, Marianna participated in UC Law’s Downtown Teach-In, where she presented on recent cases from the Ohio Supreme Court.

As she does every year, Marianna organized UC Law’s Judge-In-Residence program, which this March featured Hon. Greg Frost of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.  To read more about the mission and history of UC Law’s Judge-In-Residence program, click here.

Marianna was invited to attend the Portrait Unveiling ceremony of Hon. Martha Craig Daughtrey of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Marianna chaired the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Committee for the region encompassing Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, which awarded scholarships in March to one college junior from each of those states for their demonstrated commitment to public service work.

In her Legally Speaking Ohio blog, Marianna posted in March on the following:

  • Oral Argument Previews – on ordering restitution as part of a plea bargain, and regulatory takings;
  • Oral Argument Analyses – on firing a teacher for teaching creationism in science class; due process Concerns over restitution order; class action certification; sovereign immunity and employer intentional torts; and filing suit under a pseudonym in a sex abuse case; and
  • Merit Decision Analysis – on State v. Darmond, Slip Opinion 2013-Ohio-966, requiring the least severe sanction for a discovery violation applies to the state as well as to the defense.

Also in March, Marianna published “Religion and intelligent design in science class?”  in her monthly Legally Speaking column in The American Israelite.

Mark A. Godsey / March 2013

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Several of Mark’s pieces were cited:

Emily M.S. Houh / March 2013

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Emily was invited to speak at UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program Annual Symposium, this year held on March 7-8 and titled Critical Race Studies at 10: Building Our Home.   There, she participated on a plenary panel on “Interest Convergence: Mapping Critical Race Studies.”

In March, Emily also traveled to East Lansing, Michigan, to present a work in progress, ‘Theorizing a Critical Legal Participatory Action Research Method,” as part of the faculty workshop series at Michigan State University College of Law.

Kristin Kalsem / March 2013

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Kristin’s article Looking for Law in All the “Wrong” Places: Outlaw Texts and Early Women’s Advocacy, 13 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Women’s Stud. 273 (2004), was cited in Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, LA and the British Novel. Edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Alison Lacroix. York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. 2013. pp. xxii, 305., 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1462 (2013).