Janet Moore / Jan. & Feb. 2013

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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.

Michael E. Solimine / Jan. & Feb. 2013

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Michael attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)  in New Orleans, and there presented a paper, “Interjurisdictional Competition, Cooperation, and Facilitating the Choice of Law Market,” as part of a panel at the program sponsored by the AALS Section on Conflict of Laws.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

  • Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007), in Joshua A. Douglas, Procedural Fairness in Election Contests, 88 Ind. L.J. 1 (2013);
  • Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage, the Public Policy Exception, and Clear Statements of Extraterritorial Effect, 41 Cal. Wes. Int’l L.J. 105 (2010), in Mae Kuykendall, Equality Federalism: A Solution to the Marriage Wars, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 377 (2012);
  • Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in MacKenzie M. Horton, Note, Stop in the Name of Discretion: The Judicial “Myth” of the District Court’s Absolute and Unreviewable Discretion in Section 1292(b) Certification, 64 Baylor L. Rev. 976 (2012);
  • Diluting Justice on Appeal? An Analysis of the Use of District Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J. L. Ref. 351 (1995)(with Richard Saphire), in William R. Richman & William L. Reynolds, The United States Courts of Appeals in Crisis (Oxford University Press 2013);
  • Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995)(with Susan Wheatley), in Laura Moyer, Rethinking Critical Mass in the Federal Appellate Courts, 34 J. Women, Pol. & Pol’y 49 (2013); and

  • Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in George Padis, Student Author, Arbitration Under Siege: Reforming Consumer and Employment Arbitration and Class Actions, 91 Tex. L. Rev. 665 (2013).

Sandra F. Sperino / Jan. & Feb. 2013

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Sandra has been very productive and busy so far in 2013.  In January, Sandra’s article Revitalizing State Discrimination Law was published at 20 George Mason Law Review 545 (Winter 2013), and her essay (co-authored with Alex Long) titled, Diminishing Retaliation Liability was accepted for the NYU Law Review Online.  In February, her article Discrimination Statutes, the Common Law, and Proximate Cause was published at 2013 University of Illinois Law Review 1.

In early January, Sandra attended the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in New Orleans, where she moderated a panel on “The Future of Discrimination Frameworks.”  She also spoke on another panel there about scholarship, sponsored by the New Law Professors Section of the AALS.

In February, Sandra attended a regional faculty workshop in Chicago, at which her article The Tort Label was discussed.  She completed a symposium article titled Litigating the FMLA in the Shadow of Title VII, which she presented at  Minding the Gap: Reflections on the Achievement Gap between Men and Women in the Workplace in 2013, a symposium sponsored by the Florida International University Law Review.

Finally, two of Sandra’s articles–Rethinking Discrimination Law, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 69 (2011), and The Sky Remains Intact: Why Allowing Subgroup Evidence is Consistent with the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 90 Marq. L. Rev. 227 (2006)–were cited in Joseph Seiner, Plausibility and Disparate Impact, 64 Hastings L.J. 287 (2013);

 

Joseph P. Tomain / Jan. & Feb. 2013

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Joe gave several presentations in February:

  • “Energy Law and Engineering” at the  University of Cincinnati College of Engineering;
  • “The Law and Policy of Hydraulic Fracturing” at the Case Western Law School Law Review Symposium on Hydraulic Fracturing;
  • “Clean Energy Policy” at the 14th Annual Northeast Florida Environmental Summit; and
  • “Nuclear Power” at an Energy Law class at Vanderbilt Law School.

Additionally, Joe posted two entries on The Center for Progressive Reform’s blog,  Natural Gas in the Big Picture: “Bridge Fuel” Or Fossil Energy Future? (with Professor Uma Outka), and Nuclear Power and Clean Energy Policy.

Joe signed a contract for a casebook with West entitled Energy Law and Policy (with Professors Hari Osofsky, Alexandra Klass, Elizabeth Wilson and Lincoln Davies), and had two pieces accepted for publication:

  • Reading Poets, __ St. John’s L. Rev. __ (forthcoming); and
  • Shale Gas and Clean Energy Policy, __ Case Western L. Rev. __ (forthcoming).

And finally, several of Joe’s publications were cited in January and February:

  • Nuclear Futures, 15 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol’y F. 221, 225 (2005), in Maxwell S. Bayman, Subsidizing Advanced Nuclear Energy, 9 Okla. J. L. & Tech. 62 (2013);
  •  Nuclear Transition: From Three Mile Island to Chernobyl, 28 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 363 (1987), in Maxwell S. Bayman, Subsidizing Advanced Nuclear Energy, 9 Okla. J. L. & Tech. 62 (2013);
  •  Nuclear Power Transformation (1987), in Maxwell S. Bayman, Subsidizing Advanced Nuclear Energy, 9 Okla. J. L. & Tech. 62 (2013); and
  • Energy Law in a Nutshell (2004), in E. Donald Elliott, Why the United States Does Not Have a Renewable Energy Policy, 43 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 10095 (2013).

 

 

Yolanda Vazquez / Jan. & Feb. 2013

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In February, Yolanda attended a conference entitled Critical Race Theory: From the Academy to the Community at Yale Law School in New Have, Connecticut, which happened to coincide with a a record-setting blizzard in the Northeast.  Braving the storm with Yolanda were colleagues Emily Houh and Verna Williams.

Verna L. Williams / Jan. & Feb. 2013

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In January, Verna attended the invite-only Women’s Rights Legal Roundtable at the Ford Foundation.

In February, she attended a conference entitled Critical Race Theory: From the Academy to the Community at Yale Law School in New Have, Connecticut, which happened to coincide with a a record-setting blizzard in the Northeast.  Braving the storm with Verna were colleagues Emily Houh and Yolanda Vazquez.

Also in February, Verna participated in Roundtable Discussion on “Representation, Race, and Justice in the Twenty-First Century” here at UC Law.  The Roundtable was part of the University of Cincinnati Black History Month Celebration.

Timothy K. Armstrong / Dec. 2012

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Tim’s article Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Policy 203 (2004), was cited in Student Author, Administrative Law–Chevron Deference–D.C. Circuit Holds that Department Of Labor’s Interpretation of Statute of Limitations in Occupational Safety and Health Act is Unreasonable.–Akm Llc V. Secretary Of Labor, 675 F.3d 752 (D.C. Cir. 2012), 126 Harv. L. Rev. 627 (2012).

Lin (Lynn) Bai / Dec. 2012

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Two of Lynn’s articles were cited: