Darrell presented at a symposium, “Thirteenth Amendment: Meaning, Enforcement, and Contemporary Implications” at Columbia Law School in New York in late January. His paper, along with other papers presented at the symposium, will be published by the Columbia Law Review.
Janet Moore / Feb. 2012
Janet represented the Appellant in Scanlon v. Harkleroad, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 3789, (4th Cir. Feb. 23, 2012).
Douglas Mossman, M.D. / Feb. 2012
Doug completed an article, When Forensic Examiners Disagree: Bias, or Just Inaccuracy?
Doug’s chapter, Assessments of Dangerousness and Risk, in Coping with Psychiatric and Psychological Testimony 542-562 (D. Faust, ed. 6th ed. Oxford U. Press, 2012).
Doug presented, Lecture, Estimating the Accuracy of Neurocognitive Effort Measures in the Absence of a ‘Gold Standard’ (Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 13, 2012).
Doug’s article, Risky Business versus Overt Acts: What Relevance Do “Actuarial,” Probabilistic Risk Assessments Have for Judicial Decisions on Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization? 11 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol’y 365 (2012) (with Allison H. Schwartz & Elise R. Elam), is now in print.
Doug’s article, Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psych. L. 27 (1996), was cited in Nina A. Sayer, et al. A Qualitative Study of U.S. Veterans’ Reasons for Seeking Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Benefits for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 24 J. Traumatic Stress 699 (2011).
Michael E. Solimine / Feb. 2012
Several of Michael’s publications were cited:
- Congress, Separation of Powers, and Standing, 59 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1023 (2009), in Heather Elliott, Standing Lessons: What We Can Learn When Conservative Plaintiffs Lose under Article III Standing Doctrine, 87 Ind. L.J. 551 (2012);
- The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Student Author, Federal Statutes – Westfall Act – D.C. Circuit Holds that U.S. Officials Are Immune from Alien Tort Statute Claims. – Ali v. Rumsfeld, 649 F.3d 762 (D.C. Cir. 2011), 125 Harv. L. Rev. 1080 (2012);
- Skills Skepticism in the Postclinic World, 40 J. Leg. Educ. 307 (1990) (with Joseph P. Tomain), in Richard H. Weise, Representing the Corporation: Strategies for Legal Counsel (Aspen Publishers 2012);
- Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Ian Fein, Student Author, Why Judicial Takings Are Unripe, 38 Ecol. L.Q. 749 (2011);
- The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tulane L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Patricia Hatamyer Moore, An Updated Quantitative Study of Iqbal’s Impact on 12(B)(6) Motions, 46 U. Rich. L. Rev. 603 (2012);
- Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Rory Ryan et al., Interlocutory Review of Orders Denying Remand Motions, 63 Baylor L. Rev. 734 (2011);
- An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Patrick J. Borchers, J. McIntyre Machinery, Goodyear, and the Incoherence of the Minimum Contacts Test, 44 Creighton L. Rev. 1245 (2011), and Giesela Rühl, Applicable Law and Efficiency: Economic Foundations of Private International Law (Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2011)(published in German);
- The Law and Economics of Conflicts of Law, 4 Am. L. Econ. Rec. 208 (2002), in Giesela Rühl, Applicable Law and Efficiency: Economic Foundations of Private International Law (Germany: Mohr Siebeck 2011)(published in German);
- Judicial Stratification and the Reputations of the United States Courts of Appeals, 32 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 1331 (2005), in Christopher C. McCurdy & Ryan P. Thompson, The Power of Posner: A Study of Prestige and Influence in the Federal Judiciary, 48 Idaho L. Rev. 49 (2011);
- Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const. L. Q. 213 (1983) (with James Walker); The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005); Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood 1999)(with James Walker); State Court Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights, 12 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 127 (1989)(with James Walker); and Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Joshua G. Urquhart, Younger Abstention and Its Aftermath: An Empirical Perspective, 12 Nev. L.J. 1 (2011).
Sandra F. Sperino / Feb. 2012
Two of Sandra’s articles have been accepted for publication:
- Discrimination Statutes, the Common Law, and Proximate Cause, in the University of Illinois Law Review; and
- Statutory Proximate Cause, in the Notre Dame Law Review.
Additionally, Sandra presented “Statutory Proximate Cause” at the Fourth Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop in Miami at the Florida International University College of Law, as well as at the University of Indiana Maurer School of Law in Bloomington.
Joseph P. Tomain / Feb. 2012
Several of Joe’s publications were cited:
- The Dominant Model of United States Energy Policy, 61 U. Colo. L. Rev. 355 (1990), in Lincoln L. Davies, Beyond Fukushima: Disasters, Nuclear Energy, and Energy Law, 2011 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1937;
- Electricity Restructuring: A Case Study in Government Regulation, 33 Tulsa L.J. 827 (1998), in Lincoln L. Davies, Beyond Fukushima: Disasters, Nuclear Energy, and Energy Law, 2011 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1937;
- Ending Dirty Energy Policy: Prelude to Climate Change (Cambridge University Press 2011), in Lincoln L. Davies, Beyond Fukushima: Disasters, Nuclear Energy, and Energy Law, 2011 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1937;
- Nuclear Futures, 15 Duke Envtl. L. & Policy Forum 221 (2005), in Lincoln L. Davies, Beyond Fukushima: Disasters, Nuclear Energy, and Energy Law, 2011 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1937;
- Skills Skepticism in the Postclinic World, 40 J. Leg. Educ. 307 (1990) (with Michael E. Solimine), in Richard H. Weise, Representing the Corporation: Strategies for Legal Counsel (Aspen Publishers 2012); and
- Toward a Sustainable Energy-Environmental Policy, in Energy Law and Policy for the 21st Century (Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 2000) (with Hicky, Kelly, Mansfield, and Zillman), in Lincoln L. Davies, Beyond Fukushima: Disasters, Nuclear Energy, and Energy Law, 2011 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1937.
Verna Williams / Feb. 2012
Verna’s article, Social Justice Feminism, 18 UCLA Women’s L.J. 131 (2010) (with Kristin Kalsem), was cited in Mae C. Quinn, Feminist Legal Realism, 35 Harv. J.L. & Gender 1 (2012).
The College’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, which Verna co-directs with Emily Houh and Kristin Kalsem, hosted a Coffee Corner event with Leo Pierson, who talked with students about his local and national immigrant advocacy work.
Susan Boland / Feb. 2012
Susan was appointed to the UC Faculty Development Review Task Force.
James Hart / Feb. 2012
Jim, who is a member of the International Legal Research Interest Group (ILRIG) of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), had a preconference paper titled Politesse: Presentation of Legal Interpretation and Translation Essentials, accepted for ASIL’s Annual Conference. The preconference is jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and ILRIG.
Marjorie Corman Aaron / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012
In December 2011, UC Law’s Center for Practice, which Marjorie directs, and its Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry presented a day-long CLE, The Psyche at Work: Help for Lawyers’ Worries about Employee Mental Disorders, Trauma, and Violence. Dr. Douglas Mossman, director of the Weaver Institute, and Marjorie designed the workshop; Marjorie facilitated and Dr. Mossman, Dr. Scott Bresler, and Professor Sandra Sperino gave faculty presentations.
On January, 24, 26, and 28, the Center for Practice presented the CLE, Shifting to Neutral: A Not-So-Basic Mediation Workshop, featuring co-faculty Cathleen Kuhl, John Cruze, and Marjorie.
Marjorie’s manuscript, Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients through Bad News and Other Legal Realities, is now entirely complete and in the final stages of production at Oxford University Press.