Mark A. Godsey / March 2012

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On March 14, Mark, who serves as the faculty director of the College’s Ohio Innocence Project (OIP), and the OIP students and staff won the release of Bryant “Rico” Gaines, who served nine years of a life sentence for a murder he did not commit.  You can read the details of the case in Bryant “Rico” Gaines to Walk Free Today in Ohio: Reflections on System Resistance to Innocence, The Wrongful Convictions Blog (Mar. 14, 2012).

Mark gave several speeches about the international expansion of the Innocence Movement at universities in the Netherlands and Italy.  He also met with criminal law professors in France who are interested in exploring the creation of a legal clinic in France based loosely on the Innocence Project model.

Mark also gave a lecture via Skype to the members of the Irish Innocence Project on how to use DNA testing to prove innocence in complicated cases.  He also spoke with exoneree, Roger Dean Gillispie, about wrongful convictions to a men’s group at a country club in Cincinnati, and moderated the debate at UC law school between Paul Butler and Mark Piepmeier titled Should Good People Become Prosecutors.

Mark’s article Reformulating the Miranda Warnings in Light of Contemporary Law and Understandings, 90 Minn. L. Rev. 781 (2006), was cited in Rachel A. Harmon, The Problem of Policing, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 761 (2012); and Laurent Sacharoff, Miranda’s Hidden Right, 63 Ala. L. Rev. 535 (2012).

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Emily M.S. Houh / March 2012

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In March, UC Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which Emily co-directs with colleagues Kristin Kalsem and Verna Williams, sponsored several events, including a Coffee Corner with Professor Barbara Black (director of UC Law’s Corporate Law Center and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law), a Coffee Corner with Professor Paul Butler (George Washington University Law School), a debate between Professor Butler and Hamilton County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier, and a Coffee Corner with Professor Cheryl Harris (UCLA School of Law), who delivered this year’s UC Law annual Marx Lecture.

On March 17, Emily participated on an alumni panel at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Kristin Kalsem / March 2012

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Kristin’s book, In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Ohio State University Press 2012), is now in print.

In March, UC Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which Kristin co-directs with colleagues Emily Houh and Verna Williams, sponsored several events, including a Coffee Corner with Professor Barbara Black (director of UC Law’s Corporate Law Center and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law), a Coffee Corner with Professor Paul Butler (George Washington University Law School), a debate between Professor Butler and Hamilton County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier, and a Coffee Corner with Professor Cheryl Harris (UCLA School of Law), who delivered this year’s UC Law annual Marx Lecture.

Bert B. Lockwood / March 2012

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The University of Pennsylvania Press published three more books in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights for which Bert serves as Series Editor:

Bert’s article, Preliminary Thoughts Towards an International Convention on Terrorism, 68 Am. J. Intl. L. 69 (1974) (with Thomas M. Franck), was cited in Samuel Estreicher, Privileging Asymmetric Warfare (Part III)?: The Intentional Killing of Civilians under International Humanitarian Law, 12 Chi. J. Intl. L. 589 (2012).