Paul Caron / April 2012

Paul participated in the Pepperdine Law Review Symposium, The Lawyer of the Future.  He moderated a panel, Training Future Lawyers, with Paul Carrington (Duke), Steven Gillers (NYU), Bill Henderson (Indiana), Jim Moliterno (Washington & Lee), and Deborah Rhode (Stanford).

Paul published several issues of his SSRN Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:

Jacob Katz Cogan / April 2012

Two of Jacob’s articles were cited:

Mark A. Godsey / April 2012

On April 13, Mark, who serves as the faculty director of the College’s Ohio Innocence Project (OIP), and the OIP students and staff won a decision from the 2nd District Court of Appeals that threw out Roger Dean Gillispie’s conviction on the ground that someone else (Kevin Cobb) likely committed this offense.   Mark and the OIP had Gillispie’s conviction thrown out on a constitutional Brady claim in federal court in December and he was released after 20 years in prison.

Mark was featured or quoted in:

Emily Houh / April 2012

Emily received the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching.  She was selected by the Goldman Prize Committee “because of [her] depth of knowledge and passion for her subject matter and her commitment to her students’ success….  [S]he is one of the most respected and well-liked professors at UC Law.”

 “Cracking the Egg”: Which Came First — Stigma or Affirmative Action?, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 1299 (2008), an article Emily co-authored with Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Iowa/Law) and Mary Campbell (Iowa/Sociology), was selected for inclusion in the newest edition of Richard Delgado’s Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Richard Delgado ed., Temple University Press forthcoming 2012).

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which is directed by Emily, Kristin Kalsem, and Verna Williams, presented the Rev. W. Edward Harris, Minister Emeritus, All Souls Unitarian Church in Indianapolis, IN, who gave a speech, Is the Struggle for Civil Rights Over? April 4, 2012.

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which is directed by Emily, Kristin Kalsem, and Verna Williams, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies presented a symposium, A Conversation with Professor Janet Halley, on April 19.  Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Kristin Kalsem / April 2012

Kristin’s article, Stumped: The Story of Stump v. Sparkman 80 UMKC L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2012) (with Debora Threedy, Aden Ross & Laura Kessler) has been accepted for publication.

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which is directed by Kristin, Emily Houh, and Verna Williams, presented the Rev. W. Edward Harris, Minister Emeritus, All Souls Unitarian Church in Indianapolis, IN, who gave a speech, Is the Struggle for Civil Rights Over? April 4, 2012.

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which is directed by Kristin, Emily Houh, and Verna Williams, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies presented a symposium, A Conversation with Professor Janet Halley, on April 19.  Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Kristin’s article, Social Justice Feminism, 18 UCLA Women’s L.J. 131 (2010) (with Verna Williams), was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for LSN: Employment Statutes (Topic).