Stephanie Hunter McMahon / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012

Stephanie was appointed to a three-year term on the Ohio Commission on Certification of Attorneys as Specialists by the Ohio Supreme Court.

Stephanie was mentioned in Supreme Court Makes Appointments to Boards, Commissions, States News Service (Dec. 28, 2011).

Stephanie’s article, To Save State Residents: States’ Use of Community Property for Federal Tax Reduction, 1939-1947, 27 Law & Hist. Rev. 585 (2009), was cited in In re Harajli, 2012 Bankr. LEXIS 210 (Bankr. E.D. Mich. Jan. 27, 2012).

Janet Moore / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012

Janet recently accepted an offer to join the UC Law faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law, beginning in Fall 2012.  Janet will continue to teach criminal law, criminal procedure, and evidence, which she has been teaching here at UC Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor since Spring 2011, as well as other related courses.  Congratulations, Janet, and welcome aboard!

Janet attended the 2012 Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in early January.

Janet is the subject of Jordan Cohen, Her Work in Public Defense Reform Led Professor Janet Moore to UC Law, Faculty News, (last visited Dec. 16, 2011).

Janet’s article, Opening the Black Box: Democracy and Criminal Discovery Reform after Connick v. Thompson and Garcetti v. Ceballos, 77 Brook. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2012), was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for Evidence & Evidentiary Procedure eJournal.

Janet’s article, Opening the Black Box: Democracy and Criminal Discovery Reform after Connick v. Thompson and Garcetti v. Ceballos, 77 Brook. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2012), was cited in Margaret Tarkington, A First Amendment Theory for Protecting Attorney Speech, 45 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 27 (2011).

Douglas Mossman, MD / Dec. 2011 & Jan. 2012

UC Law’s Center for Practice and Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry, which Doug directs, held a day-long CLE, “The Psyche at Work: Help for Lawyers’ Worries About Employee Mental Disorders, Trauma, and Violence,” on December 16, 2011.

Doug completed a manuscript, co-authored with Helen M. Farrell, MD, titled, Facebook: Social Networking Meets Professional Duty.

Doug’s article, Brief Rating of Aggression by Children and Adolescents (BRACHA): A Reliability Study (with Drew Barzman, MD, Loretta Sonnier, MD, and Michael Sorter, MD), was accepted for publication by the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

Doug’s article, Practicing Psychiatry via Skype: Medicolegal Considerations, 10 Current Psych. 30 (2011) (with Helen M. Farrell, MD), is now in print.

Doug’s book, Evaluation for Civil Commitment (Oxford Univ. Press 2011), co-authored with Debra Pinals, MD, is now in print.

Several of Doug’s articles were cited: