Lin (Lynn) Bai / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012

Lynn’s article, Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settelments on Targeted Firms, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1877 (2010) (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in:

  • Samuel Buell, What Is Securities Fraud?, 61 Duke L.J. 511 (2011); and
  • James D. Cox, Securities Class Actions as Public Law, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 73 (2011).

Marianna Brown Bettman / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012

Ohio Magazine awarded its Excellence in Education honor to Marianna in its December 2011 issue.

Marianna was featured in Legally Speaking: From a Judge’s Point of View, updates@UClaw, E-mail from Sherry Y. English, Director of College Relations, to the AllCollege listserv,  (Jan. 19, 2012, 9:22 AM EST) (copy on file with Author).

Marianna gave a presentation to the Lawyer’s Club of Cincinnati on the most important cases of the Ohio Supreme Court’s 2010-11 term.
Marianna published “Justice Paul Pfeifer publicly urges Ohio to get rid of the death penalty,” as part of her monthly column, Legally Speaking, in the November 30, 2011 issue of the American Israelite.

Marianna continues to post regularly on her blog, Legally Speaking Ohio, where she provides insightful commentary on the happenings of the Ohio Supreme Court.  Her recent blog topics include:

Louis D. Bilionis / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012

Lou attended the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, where discussion of his Fall 2011 course “Becoming a Professional,” collaboratively taught with Professor Judith Wegner at the University of North Carolina School of Law, was featured at a plenary session on “Innovations in Legal Education”.  Lou and Professor Wegner taught their new joint course simultaneously to students at both UC Law and UNC Law by utilizing new media and technology.

Lou was quoted in:

Barbara Black / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012

Barbara was quoted in the New York Times in an article titled, Deciding Who’s Rich (or Smart) Enough for High-Risk Investments, N.Y. Times B5 (Jan. 14, 2012).

Barbara was quoted in Call-for-Papers: National Business Law Scholars Conference, The Race to the Bottom (Jan.27, 2012 Friday 10:49 PM EST).

Barbara’s article, Fraud on the Market: A Criticism of Dispensing With Reliance Requirements In Certain Open Market Transactions, 62 N.C. L. Rev. 435 (1984), was cited in William W. Bratton & Michael L. Wachter, The Political Economy of Fraud on the Market, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. 69  (2011).

A. Christopher Bryant / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012

Chris’s article, Foreign Law as Legislative Fact in Constitutional Cases, 2011 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1005, is now in print.

On January 27, Chris served as a judge at the Ohio We The People Competition state finals, held in the Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus.

Chris’s article, Remanding to Congress: The Supreme Court’s New “On the Record” Constitutional Review of Federal Statutes, 86 Cornell L. Rev. 328 (2001) (with Timothy J. Simeone), was cited in Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, The Puzzling Resistance to Judicial Review of the Legislative Process, 91 B.U.L. Rev. 1915 (2011).

Paul L. Caron / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012

Paul is serving as the D & L Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law during the Spring 2012 semester.

He presented Occupy the Estate Tax at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. at a joint meeting of the AALS Tax Section and AALS Trusts & Estates Section as part of a panel on Should We Tax Inherited Wealth? with Beverly Moran (Vanderbilt) and Rich Schmalbeck (Duke). Also at AALS: Paul was re-elected to a second two-year term on the Board of Directors of CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction); and he completed his two-year term on the AALS Standing Committee on Libraries and Technology.

Paul published Tax Strategy Patents, 3 Colum. J. Tax L. Tax Matters 1 (2012), which generated invited replies from Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.) and former ABA Tax Section Presidents Dennis B. Drapkin (Jones Day, Dallas) and William M. Paul (Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C.)

Paul published an op-ed on CNN, Romney Surprisingly Ill-Prepared on Tax Issue.

The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published First Amendment Stories (2011), by Richard W Garnett (Notre Dame) & Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern).

The Graduate Tax Series of LexisNexis, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Estate and Gift Taxation (2011), by Robert Danforth (Washington & Lee) & Brant Hellwig (South Carolina).

For the fourth year in a row, Paul’s TaxProf Blog has been named to the ABA Journal’s list of “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.”  The ABA’s 2012 Blawg 100 selected Paul’s TaxProfBlog from more than 3,500 blawgs written by law professors and lawyers. Paul’s TaxProf Blog also was named Best Law Professor Blog of 2011 by Dennis Kennedy in his annual “Blawggies” Awards

Paul spoke as part of a panel discussion at UC Law School on Occupy Wall Street and the Creation of the 1% (with Dean Emeritus Joe Tomain and Business School Professor Benjamin Passty).

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

Paul was quoted in: