August 2009

Professor Beth Thornburg's article, The Curious Appellate Judge: Ethical Limits on Independent Research, has won the 2008-09 Eisenberg Prize, given by the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. She will be presented with the award at their annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in October. For more information about the award, visit: http://www.appellateacademy.org/eisenbergprize/index.cfm

July 2009

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen has two articles that will soon be published: Dynamic Federalism and Patent Law, __Indiana Law Journal __ (forthcoming 2009), and Laws on Intellectual Property (Vietnam National University Press, forthcoming 2009).

June 2009

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented the following: Scholarship:  Strategies for Success, at the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Pre-tenured Minority Law Professors Conference in Washington, D.C., and Comments on the Legislative Guide for Intellectual Property Financing Law, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, in Vienna, Austria on June 4-5, 2009.

May 2009

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented the following: Right of Publicity: From Barack Obama to Trinh Cong Son, in Hanoi, Vietnam at Vietnam National University (VNU), Intellectual Property Assets:  Management, Exploitation and Financing, to the faculty of Economics and Law at Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, and Globalization in Higher Education:  Localizing Opportunities and Challenges, at the Fulbright & VNU-HCMC Symposium.

April 2009

Professor Gregory Crespi's most recent article, Incorporating Endogenous Preferences in Cost-Benefit Analysis, has just been published in the PENN STATE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW. 17 Pa. St. Env. L. Rev. 157 (2009).

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented Intellectual Property Assets in Corporate Transactions, Faculty of Law in Hanoi, Vietnam at Vietnam National University (VNU) on April 25, 2009.

March 2009

Professor Anthony Colangelo’s article on Constitutional Limits on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (2007) was recently cited by a U.S. District Court Judge, U.S. Military Commission, numerous military and civilian lawyers in their defense motions, and a Rwandan newspaper. He also presented International Human Rights and Universality at the 2009 State Bar of Texas International Law Section, 21st Annual Institute.

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented the following: A U.S. Perspective on Higher Education as Service in Cross-border Education, at the VNU-HCMC Conference on Higher Education as Service, and The Financial Crisis:  A Commercial Law Professor's Perspective in Hanoi, Vietnam.

February 2009

Professor Anthony Colangelo presented Universal Jurisdiction as an International ‘False Conflict' of Laws at a “Territory Without Boundaries” symposium at Michigan Law School.

January 2009

Professor Maureen Armour's article, Federal Courts as Constitutional Laboratories: The Rat’s Point of View was published in the Drake Law Review. 57 Drake L. Rev. pp. 135 – 234. Read the article.

Professor Fred Moss received the 2008 Robert E. Oliphant Award for in recognition of his long-time service to the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), not only as a teacher and program director, but also for his leadership on NITA’s Public Program Advisory Committee.

December 2008

Professor Marc Steinberg recently published the following: Fifth Edition of Textbook “Securities Regulation” (LEXIS/NEXIS 2008); First Edition of Textbook “Business Enterprises: Legal Structures, Governance, and Policy” (LEXIS/NEXIS 2008) (coauthored); Release #46 to Treatise “Securities Regulation: Liabilities and Remedies” (2008) (first published 1984); 2009 Supplement to Treatise “Securities Practice: Federal and State Enforcement” (2d Edition 2008) (coauthored); Release #3 to Treatise “Attorney Liability After Sarbanes-Oxley” (2008) (first published 2006); “Disney Goes Goofy: Agency, Delegation, and Corporate Governance,” 60 Hastings Law Journal ___ (2008) (coauthored) (forthcoming); “Examining the Pipeline: A Contemporary Assessment of Private Investments in Public Equity (“PIPEs”), 11 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law ___ (2008) (coauthored) (forthcoming). He was also awarded a contract by Oxford University Press for Treatise “Insider Trading” (Third Edition)(coauthored).

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen recently published the following articles: Justice Scalia’s “Renegade Jurisdiction”: Lessons for Patent Law Reform, 83 TULANE LAW REVIEW 111 (2008); “Selling It First, Stealing It Later: The Trouble with Trademarks in Corporate Transactions in Bankruptcy,” 44 GONZAGA LAW REVIEW 1 (2008) (lead article) (Invited Symposium Issue on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND BANKRUPTCY); Acquiring Innovation, 57 AMERICAN U. LAW REVIEW 775 (2008) (lead article); The Other Famous Marks Doctrine, 17 IOWA’S TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS JOURNAL (2008) (Invited Symposium Issue on TRADEMARK DILUTION); 2008 Annual Supplement to INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TAXATION (BNA 2008); 2008 Annual Supplement to INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION LICENSING (BNA 2008).

Professor Jeff Kahn finalized a paper, The Rule-of-Law Factor, commissioned for a Festschrift to be published in 2009 in honor of Oxford Professor of Politics Emeritus Archie Brown. He also submitted Concluding Remarks for a volume on Russian Federalism edited by Katlijn Malfliet (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) to be  published in 2009. Moreover, his article, International Travel and the U.S. Constitution, was also published in the UCLA Law Review. 56 UCLA L. Rev. 271 (2008). Read the article.

November 2008

Professor Josh Tate recently published the following articles: Caregiving and the Case for Testamentary Freedom, 42 University of California Davis Law Review 129, and Inheritance Rights of Nonmarital Children in Late Roman Law, 4 Roman Legal Tradition 1 (2008)(lead article) and Codification of Late Roman Inheritance Law: Fideicommissa and the Theodosian Code, 76 Legal History Review (Tijdschrift Voor Rechtsgeschiedenis) 237 (2008).

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented Intellectual Property Litigation in China: An Empirical Study at the Center for American and International Law’s Intellectual Property Annual Conference in Plano, Texas on November 10.

Professor Jeff Kahn's paper, International Travel and the Constitution, was a commissioned essay in the November/December issue of the ABA National Security Law Report (Vol. 30, No. 4). He was also named a Colin Powell Fellow of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies and traveled to Mexico City to present his report on the unification of the law in the Russian Federation to the Intermediary Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL). The co-authored will be published as part of a book on comparative federalism edited by Mathias Reimann and Daniel Halberstam and sponsored by the IACL. Earlier in the month, he signed a negotiated contract with the University of Michigan Press to publish a book entitled International Travel, National Security, and the U.S. Constitution in War and Peace. Moreover, he gave a public lecture at the University of Oklahoma entitled, The Rule of Law in Russia--It was commissioned as part of the Presidential Dream Course Program created by OU President David Boren. Prior to the public lecture, he gave a guest lecture on Russian criminal law and procedure to students in an advanced-level undergraduate political science course on Russia.

Professor Anthony Colangelo presented Universal Jurisdiction and Double Jeopardy in London, England as part of the Global Law Forum/Conference: “Ending Impunity or Decreasing Accountability?” He also presented The Supreme Court’s Role After 9/11: Continuing the Legal Conversation in the War on Terror at SMU Dedman School of Law to the law school’s chapter of the American Constitution Society. He also presented De Facto Sovereignty: Boumediene and Beyond as part of the Law and Citizenship Colloquium at SMU Dedman School of Law. Moreover, he moderated a panel on Transnational Networks in Criminal Law as part of a one-day conference held at SMU Law, “The Rise of Transnational Networks."

October 2008

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented The Death of Perpetual, Exclusive, and Royalty-Free Intellectual Property Licenses at the Vanderbilt School of Law Symposium on Law and Business on October 30-31. Earlier in the month, she presented her paper, Justice Scalia’s Renegade Jurisdiction, at the Tulane Law School Intellectual Property Conference on October 3-4.

Professor Jeff Kahn presented his paper on International Travel and the U.S. Constitution to the Works-in-Progress forum at Minnesota Law School and Villanova Law School in Pennsylvania. Moreover, he provided commentary in a radio interview on NPR Morning Edition (KERA) during opening arguments of the controversial Holy Land Foundation case. Listen to the interviews: Opening Arguments, Supporters Rallying.

Professor Anthony Colangelo presented International Law, Extraterritoriality, and U.S. Courts as part of the International Law Association Weekend in New York City.

September 2008

Professor Linda Eads was named as one of Texas Lawyer's "Extraordinary Women in Texas Law." She is one of 30 female attorneys who were selected for their impact on law and lawyering in the state of Texas within the past five years.

Professor Anthony Colangelo article, "De Facto Sovereignty": Boumediene and Beyond, has been accepted for publication by the George Washington Law Review. The article deals with the Supreme Court's recent decision granting non-citizen detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, constitutional habeas corpus privileges. Colangelo will also be presenting it later this semester (Wednesday, November 5, 2008) at the Colloquium on Law & Citizenship.

Professor Joshua C. Tate article, Marilyn Monroe's Legacy: Taxation of Postmortem Publicity Rights, was featured on Pocket Part, online companion to the Yale Law Journal. Read the article; 118 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 38 (2008).

Professor Bill Dorsaneo recently published the following books: Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure (5th ed. LexisNexis 2008) (co-authored with D. Crump, R. Perschbacher, & D. Bassett), and Releases 89-90, Texas Litigation Guide, supplementing 26 volumes (LexisNexis 2008). He and Professor Beth Thornburg co-authored three books along with E. Carlson and D. Crump: Texas Civil Procedure: Pretrial Litigation (LexisNexis, 2008-2009 ed.) Texas Civil Procedure: Trial and Appellate Practice (LexisNexis, 2008-2009 ed.) and Questions and Answers: Civil Procedure (2d ed. LexisNexis).

Professor Gregory Crespi most recent article, The Fatal Flaw of Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Problem of Person-Altering Consequences, will appear in the October issue of the Environmental Law Reporter at 38 Env. L. Rep. 10703 (2008). Contact Professor Crespi if you would like a .pdf version of the article.

August 2008

Professor Josh Tate presented The Third Lateran Council and the Ius Patronatus in England at the Thirteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law held in Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary.

Professor Ellen S. Pryor's article, Part of the Whole: Tort Law's Compensatory Failures Through a Wider Lens, 27 Rev. Lit. 307 (2008) has recently been published as part of a symposium arising from AALS Annual Meeting Workshop on Remedies. She has also been appointed by the American Law Institute as Coordinating Reporter for the Restatement of (Third) Torts.

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented Selling It First, Stealing It Back Later: Trademarks in Corporate Transaction at the Stanford Law School Intellectual Property Scholars Conference in Palo Alto, California on August 6-8, 2008.

June 2008

Professor Josh Tate presented The Writ of Quare Impedit and the Development of English Property Law, 1180-1250 at the Property Works-in-Progress Conference at the University of Colorado Law School.

May 2008

Professor Mary Spector presented Debt Collection: Third Party Actor sat the Emerging Issues in Subprime Lending Conference at the Center for Law and Social Justice in Seton Hall University, Newark, NJ. She also presented Are We Crazy? Supervising Students in High-Risk Situation at the AALS Clinical Legal Education Conference in Tucson, Arizona.

Professor Josh Tate's article, Ownership and Possession in the Early Common Law, was published in the American Journal of Legal History. Another work by Professor Tate, Gambling and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South: Evidence from Nacogdoches County, Texas, 1838-1839, appeared in the Journal of Southern Legal History.

Professor Jeff Gaba's article, Rethinking Recycling, was accepted for publication in Environmental Law (Lewis & Clark). Additionally, his article, Generally Illegal: NPDES General Permits under the Clean Water Act was selected for republication in the Land Use and Environment Law Review. It was also selected by peer-review panels as one of the ten best environmental/land use articles of 2007.

The National Institute for Trial Advocacy published a substantially revised second edition of its law school and CLE trial skills training case file, “Scruggs v. Snyder” (203 pages), co-authored by Professor Frederick C. Moss. The case file contains cutting-edge exhibits of an auto-pedestrian accident such as three computer-generated animates of the accident, a lengthy video walk-through of the accident site, several high-tech medical illustrations, and a video of a focus group’s pre-trial discussion of the case.

April 2008

Jessica Dixon appeared on the Today Show on April, 25, 2008 to discuss the removal of several hundred children from the polygamist ranch outside of El Dorado, Texas. Watch the video.

Professor Jeff Kahn presented Vladimir Putin and the Rule of Law in Russia at the Kennan Institute in Washington D.C. on April 17, 2008. Following the lecture, he spoke about Russian Criminal Procedure Code at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Moreover, his article, International Travel and the U.S. Constitution, was also accepted for publication in the UCLA Law Review.

Professor Gregory S. Crespi’s article, Would it be Unethical to Dump Radioactive Wastes in the Ocean? The Surprising Implications of the Person-Altering Consequences of Policies, was published in the Ecology Law Quarterly. Read the article in the online edition (Ecology Law Currents).

Professor Anthony Colangelo’s article, Double Jeopardy and Multiple Sovereigns: A Jurisdictional Theory, was selected by Yale Dean Harold Koh for presentation at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum in June at Yale Law School. Forthcoming, it will appear as a lead article in the Washington University Law Review. Read the article.

Acquiring Innovation, by Professor Xuan Thao Nguyen, was published as a lead article in American University Law Review, April 2008. In addition, her article, Justice Scalia’s Renegade Jurisdiction: Lessons for Patent Law Reform, was accepted for publication by the Tulane Law Review.

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen’s article, Justice Scalia’s Renegade Jurisdiction: Lessons for Patent Law Reform, was accepted for publication by the Tulane Law Review.

Professor Anthony Colangelo, Professor Rose Villazor, Professor Josh Tate, and Professor Jeff Kahn delivered the following papers on March 28-29, 2008 at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, held at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, California: Professor Anthony Colangelo: A Jurisdictional Theory of International Double Jeopardy, Professor Jeff Kahn: International Travel and the U.S. Constitution During the War on Terror, Professor Josh Tate: Disinheritance and the Case for Testamentary Freedom, Professor Rose Villazor: Indigenous Land Alienation Laws in American Samoa, Fiji and New Caledonia: Protecting Culture and Exercising the Right of Self-Determination as well as Birthright Citizenship in the U.S. Territories.

Professor Jeff Gaba’s article, Rethinking Recycling, was accepted for publication in Environmental Law (Lewis & Clark). Additionally, his article, Generally Illegal: NPDES General Permits under the Clean Water Act was selected for republication in the Land Use and Environment Law Review. It was also selected by peer-review panels as one of the ten best environmental/land use articles of 2007.

Professor Mary Spector presented Common Tenant Problems and the Role of the Volunteer Attorney at the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program-Housing Crisis Center, Continuing Legal Education.

Professor Josh Tate's essay, Marilyn Monroe's Legacy: Taxation of Postmortem Publicity Rights, was accepted by the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part. His article, Codification of Late Roman Inheritance Law: Fideicommissa and the Theodosian Code, was accepted for publication by the Legal History Review (Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis).

March 2008

Aspen published Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen’s new casebook, LICENSING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Law and Application (Aspen 2008). Her co-authors are Professors Robert Gomulkiewicz and Danielle Conway.

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen’s 2007 Annual Supplement to the INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TAXATION (BNA Books, March 2008) and 2007 Annual Supplement to INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION LICENSING was published (BNA Books, March 2008). She also presented Trade Dress Protection: “Look and Feel” of Websites at Howard University School of Law Intellectual Property Law & Social Justice Conference, March 6-7, 2008. The presentation was reported and discussed in BNA US Law Week, Volume 76, Number 36, Tuesday, (March 25, 2008).

Professor Gregory S. Crespi’s article, “Clarifying the Boundary Between the Parole Evidence Rule and the Rules Governing Subsequent Oral Modifications,” 34 Ohio Nor. L. R. 71 (2008), was published in the Ohio Northern Law Review.

Dallas Morning News published an editorial on March 13, 2008 by Professor Frederick C. Moss’ on the Texas “castle” and “retreat” doctrines. Read the article.

Professor Julia Forrester was interviewed by Fox News on March 7 about homeowners associations/foreclosures. Watch the Video.

Professor Gail M. Daly was asked to serve on the sabbatical site inspection team for the Emory University School of Law, and will conduct the sabbatical inspection of Tulane's summer program in Siena, Italy this summer.

Professor Mary Spector spoke at the Colloquium on Law and Citizenship at SMU Dedman School of Law, Commentator on Serena Mayeri's work in progress, A New ERA or a New Era?: Amendment Advocacy and the Reconstitution of Feminism

Professor Josh Tate presented Caregiving and the Case for Testamentary Freedom at the University of Miami Law School Faculty Workshop.

February 2008

Professor Joe Norton was appointed as a contributor to the prestigious Encyclopedia of Public International Law under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute, and published by Oxford University Press. His article on Multinational Companies: of Institutional “Spheres of Influence”, Corporate Social Responsibility and Meaningful Financial Sector Law Reform for Developing Countries was accepted for publication in the summer issue of the European Business Law Review.

Congratulations to Professor Joe Norton and Professor Shubha Ghosh. They will be co-directors of a major five-year research and publication program with a consortium of 14 leading academic institutions world-wide for exploring, on an interdisciplinary basis, the longer-term implications of the Sino-India relationship and its impact on development in Asia and globally. A four day launch International Colloquium will be held at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore in May 2008 on ‘The Elephant and the Dragon’: Lessons and Challenges respecting the Role of Law In Economic Development in India and China.

Professor Lackland Bloom’s book, Constitutional Interpretation—Inside the Supreme Court’s Tool Box, was accepted for publication by the Oxford University Press.

Professor Gail M. Daly’s article titled There's No Law Library on the Starship Enterprise was accepted for publication by the Journal of Legal Education.

Professor Julia Forrester’s article, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Uniform Instruments: The Forgotten Benefit to Homeowners, 72 Mo. L. Rev. 1077 (2007), is now in print.

Professor Christopher H. Hanna published Some Observations on the Japanese Tax System at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century in Law In Japan: A Turning Point (edited by Dan Foote) (2008). The book was published by the University of Washington Press, and is modeled on the classic work Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society (1963).

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented the following: What is it Worth? Evaluation of Trademark Damages and Valuation of Trademarks, ABA-ALI, New Orleans, February 28-29, 2008. Intellectual Property and Bankruptcy, ABA Midyear Meeting, Intellectual Property Law Section, Los Angeles, February 9, 2008. Intellectual Property and Tax Planning, ABA Midyear Meeting, Intellectual Property Law Section, Los Angeles, February 9, 2008.

Professor Josh Tate presented Caregiving and the Case for Testamentary Freedom at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Ad Hoc Workshop. Moreover, his article, Gambling, Commodity Speculation, and the Victorian Compromise, was published in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.

January 2008

Professor Tom Mayo received the President’s Associates Outstanding Faculty Award at the University-wide faculty meeting. The annual award is given to “tenured faculty for the advancement of teaching and learning [and is] designed to honor faculty who have sustained high achievement as teachers and whose scholarship makes a meaningful contribution to student learning.”

Professor Gail M. Daly was a panelist at the AALS Annual Meeting's program on law library collection development offered by the Section on Law Libraries. She was also reappointed to another two-year term to the ABA's Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar's Law Libraries Committee. Additionally, she attended the White House awards ceremony for outstanding museums and libraries. Winning museums and libraries are selected by the National Museum and Library Services Board, and Gail was a member of the panel that selected the winners. Laura Bush hosted the breakfast and awards ceremony in the East Room of the White House.

Professor John Lowe published the Fifth Edition of Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law & presented Capture and Correlative Rights (Short Course in Oil and Gas Law), at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Denver, CO.

Professor Anthony Colangelo spoke at the first ILS Luncheon in 2008 on Constitutional Limits on Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction: Terrorism and the Intersection of National and International Law.

Professor Jeff Kahn’s paper Thoughts Toward Protection of a Right to International Travel was selected for presentation on the New Voices in Human Rights Panel at the AALS Annual Conference in New York City on January 6, 2008.

Professor Rose Villazor presented a draft of her paper, Deportation and the Separation of Immigrant Families, at AALS as part of the Plenary Session on Gender and Class: Voices from the Collective on January 3, 2008.

December 2007

Professor John Lowe had three presentations in Doha, Qatar: Dispute Resolution in International Petroleum Trade, International Arbitration Practice, (Qatar University Law School) and Teaching in American Law Schools (faculty forum presentation at Qatar University).

Professor Fred C. Moss delivered a lecture to members of the Texas Attorney General’s Litigation Department in Austin on December 14, 2007. His talk was entitled: The Top Ten Hearsay Myths.

Professor Gregory Crespi’s latest article, Should the Business Judgment Rule Apply to Corporate Officers, and Does it Matter?, was published in the Oklahoma City Law Review. 31. 237 (2006). A few reprints are available for interested colleagues.

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen published “Collateralizing Intellectual Property,” 42 GEORGIA LAW REVIEW 1 (December, 2007) (Lead Article). She also presented: The Intersection of Payment Systems and UCC-9, Fudan University School of Law, Shanghai, December 12, 2007. UCC-9 and Bankruptcy Law, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Law, December 13, 2007. Intellectual Property Licensing and Financing, East China University of Politics and Law, Intellectual Property School, December 14, 2007.

Professor Anthony Colangelo article co-authored with Steven Calabresi and Christopher Yoo, The Unitary Executive in the Modern Era, 1945-2004, 90 Iowa L. Rev. 601-731. The article was listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for LSN Partners in Publishing Journals.

Professor Joe Norton recently published the following: A Suggested First Step for Moving Toward a ‘Next Generation’ of Viable and Effective Long-term Financial Sector Legal Reform: Taking Stock of the “First Generation” of Reform, Monograph in World Bank (LVP) Series on Legal and Judicial Reform (2007), 68 pages. Banking Law Reform and Users-Consumers in Developing Economies: The Critical, Foundational Issue- Creating a Viable (i.e., Accessible and Equitable) Consumer Base from the “Excluded”, 42 Tex Int’l L. J. vol 3, 2-27 (2007). Law, Social Justice, Economic development and Modern Financial Sector Reform, chapter in Liber Amicorum for Professor Roberto Mac Lean, CBE, pp 192-225 (BIICL2007).

Recent appointments include the following: Three year reappointment as Visiting Professor at both Peking University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; Chair of the Advisory Board of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong. Visiting Professorial Fellow in Financial Institutions Law at The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; Advisory Board Fellow of the Center at The SMU Tower Center.

November 2007

Faculty Forum hosted a presentation by David Elkins of his paper, Responding to Rawls: Toward a Consistent and Supportable Theory of Distributive Justice on Tuesday, November. 20, 2007.

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented: Asking for a Cup of Columbian Coffee: The Bitter Taste of Geographical Indications Protection, University of Washington School of Law on November 13, 2007. Trademark Law and Pedagogy, INTA Leadership Meeting, Orlando, FL (with panelist Professor Elizabeth Rowe, University of Florida, School of Law) on November 9, 2007.

Professor Frederick C. Moss was asked to be a member of the faculty at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Advocacy Teacher Training Program in San Francisco, November 9-11, 2007.

Professor Christopher H. Hanna published Corporate Income Tax Accounting, a multi-disciplinary treatise covering tax, accounting, and corporate rules/laws relating to accounting for income taxes. He was co-author (listed as lead author); the treatise is published by Warren, Gorham & Lamont. He also presented Financial Accounting Statement No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes at Hot Issues in Corporate Tax Accounting in Houston, Texas on November 12, 2007 (first stop on a book tour for the above book). Additionally, he was appointed as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo School of Law teaching Income Taxation of Individuals and Business Entities in Summer 2008 as well as being appointed co-reporter (along with Professor Lawrence Lokken) of the Business Entities segment of The Tax Shelf Project, a tax reform project sponsored by Tax Analysts (publisher of Tax Notes).

Professor Jenia Turner’s paper, Defense Counsel Views on the Tension Between Politics and Law in International Criminal Trials, was accepted for publication in the Virginia Journal of International Law. She presented this paper at: Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice on November 9, 2007. New Voices in Human Rights Panel at the AALS Annual Conference in New York City on January 4, 2008 (competitive selection). Roundtable in Public International Law & Theory, Washington University Law School on January 17-19, 2008. She also organized and moderated a panel on Justice and the Rule of Law After Conflict at a conference on post-conflict reconstruction at Seton Hall Law School, November 2, 2007. Earlier this year, she presented the same paper at: Texas Wesleyan Junior Scholars Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, August 11, 2007. Law & Society Annual Meeting, Humboldt University, Berlin, July 25, 2007 (also organized panel on the future of international criminal law). Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable, Yale Law School, March 9, 2007. Faculty Workshop, UC Davis School of Law, March 7, 2007. She also signed a contract with Aspen Publishers to write a textbook entitled Plea Bargaining Across Borders, as part of Aspen’s forthcoming Global Dimensions Series.

Professor Nathan Cortez’s article in the Indiana Law Journal, Patients without Borders: The Emerging Global Market for Patients and the Evolution of Modern Health Care, was featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered: Employers, Insurers, Consider Overseas Health Care on November 14, 2007. Earlier in the year, the article received high remarks in the press: Concurring Opinions: Medical Tourism Myopia (October 30, 2007); The Volokh Conspiracy: Britons Flee National Health Service (October 29, 2007); Health Law Blog (by Tom Mayo): Medical Tourism: Mexico for Cost, Quality, Access (July 30, 2007).

Professor Joe Norton presented the following: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Harmony of World Development: Lessons for China (Beijing Forum, 2007); The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All––Diversity in the Development of Human Civilization (Beijing, PRC––Great Hall and University of Peking, November 1-5, 2007); Cross-Border Insolvencies––the European Union Perspective (Dallas Bar Association, November 2007).

Professor Hank Lischer and Professor Josh Tate presented Recent Developments in Trust and Estate Law and Taxation at the Probate, Trusts, and Estates section of the Dallas Bar Association.

October 2007

Professor John Lowe presented the following: Capture and Correlative Rights (Short Course in Oil and Gas Law) at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (Denver, CO); Damages in International Arbitration American University, Washington, DC (co-sponsored by AU, the International Chamber of Commerce, the American Arbitration Association, and the CPR Institutes for Dispute Resolution).

Professor Tom Mayo announced forthcoming publications: Bioethics, in Fundamentals of Health Law (accepted 2007, 4th ed., American Health Lawyers Association, Wash., D.C.). Active Surveillance Cultures and Contact Precautions for Control of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Ethical Considerations. Journal of Clinical Infectious Disease (accepted 2007) (with Siegel & Santos).

Professor Anthony Colangelo published Constitutional Limits on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in the Harvard International Law Journal 48 Harv. Int’l L. J. 121 (2007).

Professor Joe Norton presented Approaching the Issue of Accessibility and Equality in Financial Systems: Lessons from the U.S. Experience, for a conference on Reform of the Chinese Financial System, Fudan University, Shanghai, October 29-30, 2007 and “Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Global Perspective,” for the Annual SMU Corporate Counsel Symposium.

Professor Gregory Crespi recently published: Maximizing the Wealth of Fictional Shareholders: Which Fiction Should Directors Embrace?, 32 J. Corp. L. 381-427 (2007).

Professor Julia P. Forrester recently published Still Crazy After All These Years: The Absolute Assignment of Rents in Mortgage Loan Transactions, 59 Fla. L. Rev. 487-529 (2007) and spoke at the Festschrift in Honor of Dale A. Whitman, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. Her article from the Festschrift Symposium, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Uniform Instruments: The Forgotten Benefit to Homeowners, was also published in the Missouri Law Review.

The New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy published Professor Henry Lischer’s article: Application of the New Zealand - United States Double Tax Agreement to "Hybrid Entities" in Volume 13, Issue No. 3 (September 2007). The article was also selected for republication in the Journal of International Taxation.

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen presented the following: Searching for Fame: The Challenge of Proving Property in Trademark Dilution Law on the Doctrinal Challenges Panel with Graeme B. Dinwoodie (Chicago-Kent), Mark Lemley (Stanford) and Lisa Ramsey (San Diego), Santa Clara University School of Law Symposium on Trademark Dilution Law, October 9, 2007; Tax Challenges in International IP Transactions on the Tax/Transactions Panel with Greg Kanargelidis (Tax partner) Blake, Cassels & Graydon and David Rudd (M&A partner), Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, ABA-ALI Cross-Border Business Transactions, IP and Related Issues, Toronto, Canada, October 18-19, 2007.

Jessica Dixon presented Education of Juvenile Delinquents: The Forgotten Youth, at the 12th Annual Lat Crit Conference.

Professor George Martinez, Professor Rose Villazor, and Professor Nathan Cortez all participated in the Immigration Law, Immigrants, Vigilantes and Immigration Reform Symposium. The symposium was well-attended and also received tremendous praise from the participants including Kevin Johnson of UC Davis, Howard Chang of University of Pennsylvania, and Michael Olivas of the University of Houston. Read Kevin Johnson’s comments.

Professor Jeff Kahn’s paper entitled, Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for the topic Intergovernmental Relations & Federalism. Additionally, he conducted the following presentations: Vladimir Putin and the Rule of Law at the Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University and lectured on the same subject at the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (“NUPI”) in Oslo, Norway. On October 26, he presented a technical paper on criticizing the Russian Criminal Procedure Code at a conference at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. The seminar was entitled Russia and the Council of Europe: Ten Years After.

Professor Jenia Turner presented at the Faculty Forum at SMU on October 4.

Professor Mary Spector presented Collecting Consumer Debts: The Challenge of Change at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, DC., an FTC Workshop, on October 10-11, 2007. The panel topic was Concerns about Debt Collection: Consumers Perspective; Comments, submitted to Federal Trade Commission are available here. http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/debtcollectionworkshop/529233-00056.pdf

Professor Josh Tate presented The Writ of Quare Impedit and the Development of English Property Law, 1180-1250 at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History in Tempe, Arizona.

September 2007

Professor Joshua C. Tate published Conditional Love: Incentive Trusts and the Inflexibility Problem, 41 Real Prop., Prob. & Tr. J. 445 (2006) (lead article). His article was also cited in Restatement (Third) of Trusts § 82 cmt. e reporter’s note (2007).

Senior Associate Dean and Professor Marc Steinberg published: Understanding Securities Law (4th Edition) (481 pages), Release # 43 (approximately 100 pages) to Securities Regulation: Liabilities and Remedies, 2007 Supplement (207 pages) to Textbook: Securities Regulation (4th edition).

An interview by Bill Zeeble with Professor Jeff Kahn was broadcast by KERA on September 24, 2007. Listen to the interview.

Professor Jeffrey M. Gaba published the following: Generally Illegal: NPDES General Permits under the Clean Water Act, 31 Harv. Envt. L. Rev. 410 (2007). John Locke and the Meaning of the Takings Clause, 72 Mo. L. Rev. 525 (2007). Taking “Justice and Fairness” Seriously: Distributive Justice and the Takings Clause, 43 Creighton L. Rev. 569 (2007). His article United States v. Atlantic Research: The Supreme Court Almost Gets It Right, was also accepted for publication in the November 2007 issue of the Environmental Law Reporter.

Professor Tom Mayo presented the following: End-of-Life Decision-making in Texas after the Schiavo Case, CSI Dallas: Social Workers in Health Care/Annual Social Work Conference, September 21, 2007. The Texas Advance Directives Act: Legal and Ethical Update, 2nd Annual End of Life Care Conference, Legal Hospice of Texas, Plano, September 28, 2007.

August 2007

Professor Mary Spector’s article, Tenant Stories: Obstacles and Challenges Facing Tenants Today,has just been published at 40 John Marshall Law Review 407 (2007). She has also had another article, Taming the Beast: Payday Loans, Regulatory Efforts and Unintended Consequences, accepted for publication in the DePaul Law Review.

Professor Joshua C. Tate presented Disinheritance of Children and the Limits of Testamentary Freedom at the following conferences: Texas Junior Legal Scholars Conference, Fort Worth, Texas (August 2007); Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Berlin, Germany (July 2007); Gloucester Summer Legal Conference, Gloucester, England (July 2007) (co-organized panel, Structural Barriers to and Prospects for Individual Rights Protection:  A Global Perspective, with Professor Jeff Kahn and Professor Rose Villazor); and Property Works-in-Progress Conference, Boulder, Colorado (June 2007)

July 2007

Professor Jeff Kahn was featured on NPR’s “Morning Edition” program on July 16th regarding the criminal trial of the Holy Land Foundation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The program was carried nationwide and is available on NPR’s website. He also presented a paper entitled Russia’s Hybrid Criminal Procedure Code, at the conference “Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures,” in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (July 27, 2007).

Jessica Dixon, Director of the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic and Lecturer in Law organized the 2007 Dallas Youth at Risk Roundtable held at the law school in May. American Bar Association President, Karen J. Mathis, was the special guest, and the conference was featured in the ABA President’s Journal: http://www.abanet.org/op/journal. (See, “Kudos to Jessica Dixon.”) Additionally, Ms. Dixon will present a paper in November at a symposium sponsored by the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy. The paper will be published in the symposium edition of the journal.

Professor Joshua C. Tate presented the following: Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Berlin, Germany. Gloucester Summer Legal Conference, Gloucester, England, July 2007 (co-organized panel, Structural Barriers to and Prospects for Individual Rights Protection: A Global Perspective, with Jeff Kahn and Rose Villazor). The Third Lateran Council and the Ius Patronatus in England: Eighteenth British Legal History Conference, Oxford, England. The Legal Status of Abandoned Children in the Later Roman Empire: Law and Literature International Colloquium, Swansea, Wales.

June 2007

Professor Linda Eads was named as the recipient of the 2006-2007 President’s Award, presented by the State Bar of Texas. The award is given annually to a member of the State Bar who is deemed to have rendered outstanding service to that organization. Eads was recognized for her work on the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee.

Professor Fred Moss was a guest panelist on THINK, a show broadcast on KERA (90.1 in Dallas), which featured a discussion on Legality and the Presidency – 35 years after Watergate.

Senior Associate Dean and Professor Marc Steinberg published Lawyering and Ethics for the Business Attorney (2nd Ed. 2007) (Thomson/West). He was also appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg in June.

Professor Tom Mayo presented the following: “Neonatal Bioethics,” Grand Rounds, Neonatal Intensive Care Department, Parkland Memorial Hospital, June 14, 2007. Panelist, “Town Hall Meeting: Is Uncontrolled DCD [Donation After Cardiac Death] An Untapped Resource for Those Waiting on the List?,” Annual Meeting, Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, Dallas, June 15, 2007. “Legislative and Case Law Update on Futility and Advanced Directives Law,” Annual Meeting, State Bar of Texas, San Antonio, June 22, 2007. "Medical Futility and Texas Law," Medical Ethics and Humanities Seminar, Department of Neurology, UT-Southwestern Medical School, June 26, 2007.

Professor Josh Tate's article, Christianity and the Legal Status of Abandoned Children in the Later Roman Empire, was accepted for publication by the Journal of Law and Religion.