Faculty Activities

2013

John B. Attanasio

• Panelist with Justice Adel Omar Sherif, Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt on a panel entitled “Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law” at “The Arab Spring: Doing Business and the Rule of Law” Conference at the ABA Midyear Meeting on February 7, 2013 in Dallas. 
• Served as conference co-chair for the day long program, which was sponsored by the SMU Dedman School of Law in cooperation with the ABA Section of International Law.
• Presented “The Egyptian Constitutional Crisis” to faculty and students at Tsinghua University Law School on March 14, 2013 and at the China University of Politics and Law on March 15, 2013 in Beijing, China.

 
Cheryl Nelson Butler

• Article entitled “Kids For Sale: Does America Recognize Her Own Sexually Exploited Minors as “Victims of Human Trafficking?”” accepted for publication in the Seton Hall Law Review.
• Presented entitled “Prostituted in America: A Critical Race Feminist Critique” at the Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference 2013: “President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: On the Doubts, Questions, and Problems of Full Citizenship” at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in Philadelphia, PA on January 26, 2013.

 
Anthony Colangelo

• Article, “Spatial Legality” published in the Northwestern University Law Review.  His co-authored article, “Spatial Legality, Due Process, and Choice of Law in Human Rights Litigation Under U.S. State Law” was accepted for publication in the UC Irvine Law Review.
• Article, “Jurisdiction, Immunity, Legality, and Jus Cogens” was accepted for publication by the Chicago Journal of International Law. 
• Article entitled “The Alien Tort Statute and the Law of Nations” accepted by the Georgetown Journal of International Law and his article “The Alien Tort Statute and the Law of Nations” was accepted by the Maryland Journal of International Law. 
• His book chapter in Globalization and Common Responsibilities of States (Koen De Feyter, University of Antwerp, Belgium, ed.) entitled “The Legal Limits of Universal Jurisdiction in Globalization and Common Responsibilities of States” will be published by Ashgate Publishing this spring. 
• He was elected to the American Association of Law Schools’ Section on Conflict of Laws’ Executive Board.

 
Patricia Heard

• Appointed to serve on the ABA Standing Committee on Gavel Awards for a three-year term.

 
Christopher Jenks

• Presented “Battlefield Status & Protected Persons” for an Interactive Course on International Humanitarian Law held at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, CA on January 11, 2013. 
• Article, “Law as Shield, Law as Sword: The ICCs Lubanga Decision, Child Soldiers and the Perverse Mutualism of Participation in Hostilities” was accepted for publication in the University of Miami National Security & Armed Conflict Law Review.  
• On February 8, 2013, he provided testimony on the “Impact of Stand Your Ground Laws on the Criminal Justice System” before the American Bar Association’s National Taskforce on Stand Your Ground Laws – Southwest Regional Hearing. 
• Book chapter entitled, “A Rose by any Other Name: How the United States Charges its Service Members for Violating the Laws of War” accepted for publication in a forthcoming book published by Cambridge University Press.

 Bryan A. Garner

• Presented, with Justice Antonin Scalia, “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts” at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools on January 5, 2013 in New Orleans, LA.

Jeffrey Kahn

• his Op-Ed entitled “In Putin’s Russia, Shooting the Messenger” published in the New York Times (online version) and the International Herald Tribune on February 25, 2013 and February 27, 2013 respectively.

John S. Lowe

• Panelist on “Energy and the Middle East/North Africa” at “The Arab Spring: Doing Business and the Rule of Law” Conference at the ABA Midyear Meeting in Dallas, TX on February 7, 2013. 
• Taught members of the Afghan and Yemeni Ministry of Oil lawyers about “Contracts Used in the International Oil Industry” for several days in late February in Doha, Qatar.

 
Xuan Thao Nguyen

• Article entitled, “On Dynamic Trademark Law” published in the Journal of Law Application (a by invitation only publication of the China Supreme People’s Court).
• Article, “Apologies as Intellectual Property Remedies” published in the Connecticut Law Review.
• Co-authored article entitled, “Taxing Facebook Code: Debugging the Tax Code and Software” was published as the lead article in the Buffalo Law Review.
• Discussant on “Roundtable 1 – Challenges Facing China’s New Leadership” (with a focus on “Reading Tea Leaves: China’s IP Challenges from the Bottom Up”) at the “China’s Patent Regime and Its Quest to Become an Innovation Economy” at the 2^nd annual joint George Washington University Law and Fordham University Law Schools’ China Program on January 10, 2013 in Washington, D.C. 
• Served as one of the principal organizers for “GAME::BUSINESS::LAW-An International Summit on the Law and Business of Video Games” held at SMU Dedman School of Law and hosted by the SMU Dedman School of Law, The Guildhall at SMU, and the Center for American and International Law on January 24 and 25, 2013.

Joseph J. Norton

• Panelist on “Doing Business in MENA and the Rule of Law” at “The Arab Spring: Doing Business and the Rule of Law” Conference at the ABA Midyear Meeting in Dallas, TX on February 7, 2013.   

 
Keith Robinson

• Moderated a panel on “Law and the Future of Gaming (Real Money Gambling, IP Issues)” at “GAME::BUSINESS::LAW-An International Summit on the Law and Business of Video Games” held at SMU Dedman School of Law and hosted by the SMU Dedman School of Law, The Guildhall at SMU, and the Center for American and International Law on January 25, 2013. 
• One of the principal organizers of the two-day conference.
• Article, “No Direction Home: An Alternative Approach to Joint Infringement,” originally published in the American University Law Review, selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review, an annual publication by Thomson Reuters (West) that selects the best intellectual property articles of the year.

Meghan Ryan

• Presented “Death and Rehabilitation” at Arizona State University Law School on Friday, March 15, 2013.

Mary Spector

• Co-moderated a panel discussion on “The Debt Crisis and the National Response: Big Changes or Tinkering at the Edges?” at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools on January 5, 2013 in New Orleans, LA.

 
Marc I. Steinberg

• Casebook, Developments in Business Law and Policy published by Cognella and the 2^nd edition of his casebook, Business Enterprises – Legal Structures, Governance and Policy published by Lexis Nexis.
• The 2012 supplement to the 5^th edition of his textbook entitled Securities Regulation has been published by Lexis Nexis.
• The 2013 supplement to his treatise entitled Securities Practice: Federal and State Enforcement has been published by West.  Releases 53 and 54 to his treatise entitled Securities Regulation: Liabilities and Remedies have been published by Law Journal Press.
• Release 7 to his treatise entitled Attorney Liability After Sarbanes-Oxley has been published by Law Journal Press.
• Co-authored article, “Transnational Dealings – Morrison Continues to Make Waves,” was published in The International Lawyer. 
• Appointed as a non-industry member of the FINRA National Adjudicatory Council (The NAC is comprised of seven industry members and seven non-industry members) for a 3-year term.
• The 6^th edition of his textbook entitled Securities Regulation accepted for publication by Lexis Nexis.

Joshua Tate

• Presented "Property, Patronage, and the Birth of the Common Law" at Renmin University School of Law in Beijing, China on March 11, 2013. 

Sarah Tran

• Article, “Patent Powers,” originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review, an annual publication by Thomson Reuters (West) that selects the best intellectual property articles of the year.  Her article will be the lead article in the publication.

Jenia Iontcheva Turner

• Presented “Federalism and Criminal Procedure in the United States” to the European Criminal Policy Initiative at the University of Munich on January 25, 2013 in Munich, Germany.

Jessica Dixon Weaver

• Invited to participate in the Center for Law and Ethics Colloquium at Fordham Law School in the fall of 2013.  She was also invited to publish an article for the Colloquium in the Fordham Law Review in 2014.
• Invited to participate in the University of Florida Levin College of Law 2013 Juvenile Justice Conference, “Reforming the Juvenile Justice System:  A Workshop for Change” on April 26-27, 2013.   She was also invited to contribute a chapter to the book, “In Conversation,” a collection of writings by the participants of the conference, to be published by New York University Press 2014. 
• Her article, “Grandma in the White House:  Legal Support for Intergenerational Caregiving,” was published in the Seton Hall Law Review.  It was selected to be the lead article of Volume 43, Issue 1 2013.
• Selected to present her article, “Grandma in the White House:  Legal Support for Intergenerational Caregiving”, on the panel, “Evolving Responsibilities: The Impact of Recent Global Trends on Children and Families,” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting on January 5, 2013 in New Orleans, LA.

2012

Roy R. Anderson

• Recently published his 2-volume book entitled Remedies: The Law of Damages and Restitution, Cases and Materials.

 
John B. Attanasio

• Interviewed by Kurt Rongey on WRR 101 FM Dallas/Fort Worth Radio on March 8, 2012 about SMU Dedman School of Law.
• Organized and served as Host, Moderator and Discussant for a Rule of Law Forum delegation from Saudi Arabia led by the Minister of Justice from January 15 to January 25, 2012.  The delegation included officials from government, academia and business.  They met with their U.S. counterparts including Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court, Attorney General Eric Holder, Senators Lugar, McCain, Kerry and Hutchison, and representatives from the Department of State in Washington, DC.  In New York they met with senior officials from NASDAQ and the New York Federal Reserve and in Dallas they met with federal judges and SMU – Dedman School of Law professors. The Minister of Justice presented a lecture to students from Saudi Arabia and a panel of about seven members of the delegation.
• On January 22, 2012, Dean Attanasio presented “Five Themes of American Constitutional Law” to the distinguished delegation. the entire forum was featured on Channel 1 on the Saudi Arabian nightly news. Channel 1 devoted over five minutes of airtime to the event on six different evenings during the delegation’s visit, featuring the Minister of Justice and other members of the Saudi delegation. Saudi news posted videos on the Ministry of Justice's website under its YouTube section.  Several of the photographs from the visit are also posted prominently on the Ministry's website.
• Made opening remarks and a presentation about SMU Dedman School of Law at the Communities Foundation Annual Estate and Charitable Planning Seminar on May 8, 2012 in Dallas, TX. 
• Also on May 8, 2012, he made opening remarks and a presentation about SMU Dedman School of Law at “Growing Dallas, Strengthening our Economy” co-sponsored by Dallas Convention & Visitor’s Bureau, Dallas Chamber of Commerce, and the Dallas Business Journal in Dallas, TX. 
• He presented “Five Themes of American Constitutional Law” to the 2012 Academy class of American and International Law of the Center for American International Law and taught a three-hour class on American Constitutional Law on May 23, 2012 in Plano, TX. 
• On June 13, 2012, he was a panelist in a discussion on the U.S. Economy which was broadcast on China Radio International.
• On July 19, 2012, he was interviewed on the Global Financial Crisis on the Dialogue Program at CCTV News in Beijing, China.
• A panelist on “From Pledges, Goals, and Forums to Action on the Ground: Platforms, Challenges, Opportunities and the Way Forward on Rule of Law Promotion Efforts” in Miami, FL at the ABA Section of International Law Fall Meeting on October 19, 2012.
• A panelist on “Supreme Court – Current Term Preview” at the Appellate Judges Education Institute 2012 Summit in New Orleans, LA on November 17, 2012.
• Gave a presentation on the Future of Legal Education at the Summit of Legal Education in a New Industrialization Era, held at the 15^th Anniversary Celebration of Beihang University Law School in Beijing, China on November 25, 2012.
• Gave a presentation on the “Egyptian Constitutional Crisis” at the Institute of Diplomatic Studies at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on December 18, 2012.

 Jeffrey Bellin

• Interviewed by Shaun Rabb at Fox 4 about Dallas’ DA clashing with a judge insisting on knowing the criminal histories of police officers before they testify.  The segment aired on February 8, 2012.
• Povided live radio commentary on the recent Oklahoma self-defense shooting on ABC Nightline, the Mitch Albom radio show and Voice of America in a taped news segment broadcast in China.
• Quoted in “Peggy Railey’s Death a Turning Point…” which appeared in the Dallas Morning News on January 1, 2012.
• Wrote a solicited op-ed for CNN on “Stand Your Ground” laws and the Trayvon Martin case on 3/21/2012.  Jeff also provided commentary on that topic on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and in the Christian Science Monitor.  He spoke on the Confrontation Clause at the 2012 Criminal Law Symposium hosted by Arnold Loewy at Texas Tech on March 23, 2012.  His article entitled “The Incredible Shrinking Confrontation” was accepted for publication in the Boston University Law Review.

 
Lackland Bloom

• Delivered four one-hour lectures at an Appellate Court Seminar sponsored by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.  The lectures were entitled: “Constitutional Interpretation by the Supreme Court,” “Textualism and Original Understanding – District of Columbia v. Heller,” “Precedent, Principle, and Doctrine I – Citizens United v. FEC and Fisher v. University of Texas,” and “Precedent, Principle and Doctrine II - The Health Insurance Mandate Litigation.”
• An article entitled “Supreme Court Upholds Healthcare Law: Chief Justice Sides With Left Leaning Judges to Allow Individual Mandate to Stand” on June 28, 2012.
• One of three experts explaining the case, Marbury vs. Madison, on the first of five videos produced by the State Bar of Texas explaining noted U.S. Supreme Court cases. The videos will be shown to eighth grade students who will be tested on these cases in the 8^th grade statewide exams. There is an accompanying curriculum that goes with the video series and a thousand Texas teachers have already been trained.

William J. Bridge

• Gave a presentation on mediation to a visiting delegation from the Vietnam Ministry of Justice on October 15, 2012.

John G. Browning

• Wrote an article for the SMU Science and Technology Law Review Journal entitled “Digging for the Digital Dirt: Discovery and Use of Evidence from Social Media Sites”and will receive the “Outstanding Law Review Article of the Year” award by the Texas Bar Foundation in June. 

Cheryl Nelson Butler

• Article entitled “Sex, Slavery in the Lone Star State: Does the Texas Human Trafficking Legislation of 2011 Protect Sexually Exploited Minors?” accepted for publication in the Akron Law Review. Her forthcoming article entitled “Blackness as Delinquency” was featured on the Legal History Blog by Felice Batlan in February.  
• On March 15, 2012, she presented “Blackness as Delinquency” at the Conference on the American Society for Law, Society & Culture held at Texas Wesleyan University. 
• On February 27, 2012, she moderated “The F-Bomb: A Discussion on Feminism & the Law” at SMU Dedman School of Law.
• On February 22, 2012, she moderated a panel including federal judges and leading civil rights panelists entitled: “The Legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education” which was held at the SMU Dedman School of Law.
• Article entitled “Blackness as Delinquency” accepted for publication in the Washington University Law Review; it was also featured on The Legal History Blog on February 28, 2012.
• On March 30, 2012, Professor Butler presented “Kids for Sale” at the 2012 Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference program entitled “Transformative Advocacy, Scholarship, and Praxis: Taking Our Pulse” at Samford University Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, AL. 
• She was a selected panelist on “The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States” at the Inaugural Women’s Initiative Fellowship Program of the George W. Bush Institute on February 11, 2012.
• Co-led a panel discussion, “Trayvon Martin: Examining Race & Justice in America” at the SMU – Dedman School of Law on April 19, 2012. 
• She was a speaker on a panel presentation of “International and Domestic Law in Interaction: Marginalization in the Global Struggle Against Human Trafficking” on July 29, 2012 at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Amelia Island, FL.
• She was a selected panelist on “Transforming American Advocacy: Race, Gender, and Local Courts in the 20^th Century” at the American Society of Legal History conference on November 10, 2012 in St. Louis, MO.

 
Anthony Colangelo

• Panelist for a presentation on “Criminal vs. Civil Procedure” to the Saudi Arabian Rule of Law Forum delegation on January 22, 2012 at the SMU – Dedman School of Law in Dallas, TX. 
• His article entitled “Spatial Legality” has been accepted for publication from the Northwestern University Law Review. 
• He has been invited to publish a symposium piece in the UC Irvine Law Review in connection with a presentation entitled “Spatial Legality, Due Process and Choice of Law under U.S. State Law” which he will give at UC Irvine Law School in March. 
• Invited participant in a symposium at SCOTUSblog on the Supreme Court case Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum which the blog hosted from July 9-20, 2012. 
• He served as a discussant on a panel entitled “Transnational Litigation” on July 29, 2012 at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Amelia Island, FL.
• He has presented “Spatial Legality” at the Law and Government Workshop at Vanderbilt Law School and will be presenting it at Arizona State Law School’s Center for Law and Global Affairs this spring. 

Nathan Cortez

• Bid accepted for an Exploratory Seminar at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.  He will be co-organizing a two-day seminar in Fall 2013 on Health Law.
• Featured on a FOX-4 news broadcast on the health care ruling on June 28, 2012.

Greg Crespi

• Article, “Misbehavior and Mistake in Bankruptcy Mortgage Claims: Some Caveats Regarding the Porter Study” published in the Creighton Law Review.
• Gave a presentation on Economic Law to a visiting delegation from Vietnam National University – University of Economics & Law on October 9, 2012.
• Article, “Who is Liable for Attorney’s Fees Under Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code Section 38.0001 in Breach of Contract Litigation,?” published in the SMU Law Review.
• From June 25-June 29, 2012, he taught “Selected Topics in the Economic Analysis of Law” at the Appellate Judges Certificate Program in Santa Fe, NM.

Gail Daly

• Article entitled “Antiquarian Books in the Age of Technology” accepted for publication in the online journal, Trends in Law Library Management & Technology. 
• On March 13, 2012, she presented “Where is the Library?” at the Bricks, Bytes, and Continuous Renovation conference for law school deans, librarians, architects and IT professionals sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.  The conference was held at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, CA.

William V. Dorsaneo, III

• Served as moderator for the Alfred P. Murrah Lecture Series Panel Discussion on “The Best Approach to Briefing” on January 10, 2012 at the SMU-Dedman School of Law.  Eight judges from the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fifth and Ninth Circuits, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the Courts of Appeal from Louisiana, North Carolina, California and Texas participated in the panel discussion.
• Releases 97-103 of his treatise, Texas Litigation Guide, and the 2012 supplements to Dorsaneo’s Texas Pretrial Procedure, Dorsaneo’s Texas Discovery, and Texas Real Estate Guide published by Lexis Nexis.  The 2011-2012 editions to Texas Civil Procedure: Pretrial Litigation and Texas Civil Procedure: Trial and Appellate Practice that he co-authored have also been published by Lexis Nexis.
• 3^rd edition to his co-authored (with Elizabeth Thornburg) casebook, Questions & Answers: Civil Procedure published by Lexis Nexis.
• The 6^th edition to his co-authored (with David Crump, Rex Perschbacher and Debra Bassett) casebook, Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure, published by Lexis Nexis. 
• From June 25-June 29, 2012, he taught “Access to Justice: The Impact of Evolving Pretrial Dismissal Principles” at the Appellate Judges Certificate Program in Santa Fe, NM.
• Moderated “Access to Justice: What Process is Due?” at the Appellate Judges Education Institute 2012 Summit in New Orleans, LA on November 15, 2012.

Linda Eads

• Interviewed by Fox News on February 21, 2012 about the U.S. Supreme Court granting certiorari in Fisher v. University of Texas, an affirmative action case.
• Linda also appeared in a couple of segments in a series of five videos produced by the State Bar of Texas explaining noted U.S. Supreme Court cases. The videos will be shown to eighth grade students who will be tested on these cases in the 8^th grade statewide exams. There is an accompanying curriculum that goes with the video series and a thousand Texas teachers have already been trained. 
• On February 27, 2012, she spoke on a panel entitled “The F-Bomb: A Discussion on Feminism & the Law” at SMU Dedman School of Law.
• Panelist in “Ethics Lessons in High Profile Cases” at the DAYL Dinner with the Judiciary on October 23, 2012.
• Moderated a panel on “Ethical Conundrums for Appellate Judges and their Staff” at the Appellate Judges Education Institute 2012 Summit in New Orleans, LA on November 16, 2012.

 Bryan A. Garner

• appeared on CNN’s Piers Morgan show on July 18 with Justice Antonin Scalia discussing their new book, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts.

Julie Forrester

• Presented her article, “Promising to be Prudent: A Private Law Approach to Mortgage Loan Regulation in Common-Interest Communities,” along with her co-author, Jerry Organ, at the AALS Annual Meeting Joint Program of the Property and Real Estate Transactions Sections in Washington, DC in January.  The article will be published in the George Mason Law Review in a symposium issue with other papers from the program. 
• She also served as a member of the Texas State Bar Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Section committee charged with drafting the Texas Assignment of Rents Act. 
• Her article on the Act entitled, “The Proposed Texas Assignment of Rents Act: A Legislative Escape from the Common Law Morass” was recently published in the Real Estate, Probate & Trust Law Reporter. 
• She has made multiple presentations about the Act—most recently at the Mortgage Lending Institute in Austin and the Houston Bar Association, Real Property Section.

 
Jeffrey Gaba

• Article entitled “Exporting Waste: Regulation of the Export of Hazardous Wastes from the United States” accepted for publication in the William & Mary Environmental Law Journal.

Christopher Hanna

• Has had his co-authored book entitled Corporate Income Tax Accounting published by Warren Gorham & Lamont.
• Presented “From Supercommittee to the Presidential Election: Is Tax Reform Really Going to Happen?” at a CLE attended by law school alumni on April 20, 2012 at the SMU-Dedman School of Law.

Christopher Jenks

• Participated in a session on International Humanitarian Law in which he offered the perspective of the military and in a session on “hot topics” in International Humanitarian Law including the use of drones, child soldiers, and the conflict in Syria at an October conference held by the American Red Cross in Oakland, CA.
• He was quoted in a story on an East Texas sailor who allegedly raped a woman in Okinawa, Japan on KLTV (Athens, Texas) on October 18, 2012.  The story also appeared on the KLTV website.
• Presented “Self-Interest or Self-Inflicted: Why the United States should Report the Disposition of its Service Members’ Violations of the Laws of War” at an international expert seminar organized by the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law by UC Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center and Stanford University.  The event was held at the Hoover Institution at Stanford on November 27, 2012.
• On November 28, 2012, he was a panelist on “The Legal, Ethical, and Strategic Issues Relating to the Use of Drones” at Brigham Young University’s David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies.

Jeffrey Kahn

• Nominated to join the Tower Center as a Faculty Associate.
• Quoted in an article in the Toronto Star about the Russian presidential elections on March 1, 2012.  He was one of two speakers at a moderated seminar entitled “Russia on the Eve of Presidential Elections—Stagnation, Crisis or Reform?” at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Sweden on February 2, 2012. 
• On February 1, 2012, he presented a public lecture entitled “The Second Conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Implications for Russian Legal Reform and the European Court of Human Rights” at the Aleksantera Institute of the University of Helsinki, Finland.  He presented the same lecture at the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs in Oslo, Norway on January 27, 2012. 
• On January 30, 2012, he presented a public lecture entitled “After Twenty Years: Russia, Human Rights, and Legal Reform,” at the Russian & Eurasian Studies Seminar at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.
• He was an invited speaker at the University of Michigan Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies “Brown Bag Lecture Series” on January 18, 2012 and at the “Russian Law Workshop” on January 17, 2012. 
• Quoted in an article published on August 1, 2012 in the New York Times entitled, “Amid Political Prosecutions, Russian Court Issues Ruling Favorable to Oil Tycoon.” 
• On August 9, 2012, his comments regarding the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion on a federal lawsuit challenging the FBI over the constitutionality of the no-fly list being reinstated were posted on the Concurring Opinions legal issues blog and requoted in an article entitled “No-fly List Lawsuit: A Law Professor’s Perspective on the Case’s Reinstatement” which appeared in The Oregonian.
• Quoted in an article in the Austin American-Statesman on Texas being a battleground for church and state issues on November 4, 2012 and on November 5, 2012, in an article entitled “Texas Home to God, Government Court Disputes” which appeared in the Houston Chronicle.
• On November 6, 2012, the Dallas Morning News quoted him in another article on “God-in-government.”
• A roundtable participant on “Boundaries of Legal (Dis)Order in Russia,” at the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), New Orleans, November 17, 2012.
• An invited panelist for “The Trials of Mikhail Khodorkovsky: A Symposium on Russia and the Rule of Law,” at Princeton University on November 30, 2012.

 
Ndiva Kofele-Kale

• Book Combating Economic Crimes: Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Prosecuting the Crime of Illicit Enrichment published by Routledge-Cavendish.

 
John S. Lowe

• A panelist on “Emerging Issues in Energy Litigation” at the Appellate Judges Education Institute 2012 Summit in New Orleans, LA on November 16, 2012.
• Quoted in “Gas Drilling Discussion Quiets Down at Dallas City Hall” in the Dallas Morning News on November 22, 2012.

George Martinez

• Invited to publish his paper entitled “Alonso S. Perales and the Effort to Establish the Civil Rights of Mexican-Americans As Seen through the Lens of Contemporary Critical Legal Theory: Postracialism, Reality Construction, Interest Convergence and Other Critical Themes,” in In Defense of My People: Alonso S. Perales and the Development of Mexican-American Public Intellectuals, edited by Michael A. Olivas in Arte Publico Press. 
• He was also invited to publish his review of Brian D. Behnken, “Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas,” in the Journal of American History published by Oxford University Press. 
• His article entitled “Arizona, Immigration and Latinos: The Epistemology of Whiteness, the Geography of Race, Interest Convergence and the View from the Perspective of Critical Theory” was accepted for publication in the symposium issue of the Arizona State Law Journal. 
• On January 13, 2012, he presented “Alonso S. Perales and the Effort to Establish the Civil Rights of Mexican-Americans As Seen through the Lens of Contemporary Critical Legal Theory: Postracialism, Reality Construction, Interest Convergence and Other Critical Themes” at the In Defense of My People: Alonso S. Perales and the Development of Mexican-American Public Intellectuals Conference held at the University of Houston.
• Quoted in the Dallas Morning News on June 17, 2012 in an article entitled “Ruling on Arizona’s Immigration Law Could Affect Farmers Branch Rental Ordinance Case.” 
• He was quoted in the Huffington Post on June 26, 2012 about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona Law SB 1070 and Governor Rick Perry’s reaction. 
• On July 10, 2012, he was interviewed in the Dallas Morning News in an article entitled “Voting Right Act for Latinos.”

Tom Mayo

• Elected as a member of the American Law Institute.
• Received the 2012 Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Award in May. 
• He has also been named a Fellow of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute for the academic year 2012-2013. 
• His book chapter, “Twyla Tharp Goes to Law School: On the Use of the Visual and Performing Arts in Professional Education,” in Beyond Text in Legal Education – Vol. II: The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life has been published by Ashgate Press. 
• He presented “The Texas Medical Futility Law” to the National College of Probate Judges at the 2012 Spring Meeting in Tucson, AZ on May 4, 2012. 
• On June 20, 2012 he presented “Donation after Cardiac Death and the ‘Dead Donor Rule’” to the Dallas Bar Association. 
• He was interviewed on NBC-5 on “Texas and the Affordable Care Act” on July 10, 2012. 
• On July 11, 2012 he presented “Health Reform After the Supreme Court’s Decision: Where Do We Go From Here?” at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

J. Mark McWatters

• Appointed by Governor Rick Perry to the board of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs which manages a variety of programs for affordable housing, community services, colonia housing, and energy assistance for Texans in need. 
• As a former member of a congressional oversight panel for the troubled asset relief program, Mark and others on the committee issued a joint statement criticizing a special tax provision granted to A.I.G. during the financial crisis which was mentioned in a March 12, 2012 New York Times article entitled, “Bailout Watchdogs Criticize A.I.G. Taxbreaks.”
• Quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek in an article entitled “AIG May Not Be as Healthy as It Looks” on April 26, 2012.

 
Xuan Thao Nguyen

• Article entitled “Apologies as Intellectual Property Remedies” accepted for publication in the Connecticut Law Review.  The second edition of her casebook Licensing Intellectual Property: Law and Applications has been published by Aspen Press.
• The 2011 supplement to Intellectual Property Taxation co-authored with Professor Jeffrey Maine has been published by BNA Bloomberg. 
• The 2011 supplement to Intellectual Property, Software and Information Licensing: Law and Practice has also been published by BNA Bloomberg.
• On March 5, 2012 she moderated a panel entitled “Representing Start-ups and Tech Companies” at the SMU Dedman School of Law. 
• On February 22, 2012 she presented “Trademark Reputation and Remedies” at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. 
• On February 7, 2012, she moderated a panel entitled “Blogging, Social Media and the Law” at the SMU Dedman School of Law. 
• On February 4, 2012 she presented “Vietnam Today” at the SMU Cox School of Business Executive MBA Program. 
• On February 1, 2012 she moderated a panel entitled “From Facebook’s IPO to Google’s Patents Acquisition” at the SMU Dedman School of Law.
• On January 30, 2012, she presented “Intellectual Property Remedies: The Middle Kingdom and Her Three Laws” at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, MO.
• Panelist for a presentation on “Codification of Business Law” to the Saudi Arabian Rule of Law Forum delegation on January 22, 2012 at the SMU – Dedman School of Law in Dallas, TX.  Professor Nguyen helped to organize the 2012 Game.Business.Law conference, an international summit on the law and business of video games held at the Dedman School of Law in partnership with The Guildhall at SMU and the Center for American and International Law on January 25 & 26, 2012. 
• She and Professor Keith Robinson presented “The Year in Video Game Law” at the conference on January 26, 2012.
• Article entitled “Apologies as Intellectual Property Remedies: Lessons from China” featured on the Faculty Lounge Blog on July 2, 2012. 
• Her article entitled “Trademark Apologetic Justice: China and Three Laws on Trademark Reputation” has recently been accepted for publication in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law. 
• On April 18, 2012, she presented “The Other Famous Marks Doctrine,” at the University of Washington School of Law Faculty Colloquium. 
• On April 19, 2012, she presented “Promoting Intellectual Property Goals Through the Tax System?” at a faculty forum sponsored by the University of Washington Law School’s IP and Tax faculty. 
• On April 20, 2012, she moderated the panel “Tributes to the Honorable John T. Ward, Eastern District of Texas” at the SMU Annual IP Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues which she organized. 
• On May 5, 2012, she presented “Trends in Digital Copyrights” and “Virtual Property: Property, Contracts, or Both?” at Vietnam National University Faculty of Law in Hanoi, Vietnam.
• On May 9 and 11, 2012, she presented “Curriculum Development and IPR Challenges in International Trade at Hanoi Law University. On May 11, 2012, she presented “Lawyers, Lawyering, and Organizations” at the Institute of State and Law at the National Ho-Chi Minh Academy in Hanoi, Vietnam. 
• She attended and presented at the Plenary Session, “An Examination of U.S. Trademark Development and Challenges in the Last Three Decades” at the China’s International Conference on China’s 30^th Anniversary of Trademark Law, sponsored by Southwest University of Politics and Law and Chongqing Court System from June 1-3, 2012. 
• She chaired the AALS Workshop for New Clinical Law Professors held in Washington, D.C. from June 20-21, 2012. 
• She served as a co-moderator (with Dean Richard Gershon of Ole Miss Law School) of three Tax/IP Group Meetings at the AALS Workshop for New Law Professors from June 21-23, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
• She also served as chair of this workshop.   From June 23-24, 2012, she served as chair for the AALS Workshop for Pre-tenured People of Color Law Professors held in Washington, D.C.
• On July 2, 2012, she was quoted in the Dallas Morning News in an article entitled “U.S. Patent Office Branch in Dallas Area May Create 125 Jobs.”
• Organized visits of and faculty presentations to three delegations from Vietnam during October.  The first group came on October 9, 2012 from Vietnam National University/University of Economics & Law.  The second delegation came on October 15, 2012 from the Offices of the Vice President of Vietnam and the Ministry of Justice.  The third group came from the Ministry of Justice on October 22, 2012.
• Panelist on “Overview of the Court System for Patent Litigation” at the Sino-U.S. Patent Litigation Procedures conference which she co-organized with Professor Zhang Yumin, Southwest University of Political Science & Law in Chongqing, China on December 3, 2012.
• 2012 supplements to Intellectual Property Taxation and her 2012 supplement to Intellectual Property, Software and Information Licensing: Law and Practice were published by BNA.
• On December 5, 2012, she presented “Advanced Issues in U.S. Trademark Law” at the Southwest University of Politics and Law in Chongqing, China.
• On December 12, 2012, she presented “Business Entities, Property, Liability and Tax Issues” to the Faculty of Commercial and Business Law at Hanoi Law University’s Law and “Online Copyrights and Contributory Infringement at Hanoi Law University’s Department of International Private Law.
• On December 13, 2012, she presented “Trademark, Patent and Trade Secret Law and Policy Through Selected Cases” at Hanoi Law University. 
• On December 17, 2012, she presented “U.S. Culture, Trends and Trademark Choices” at Vietnam National University of Economics & Law and “Lessons from Vietnamese Enterprises in Trademark Rights Disputes” on December 18, 2012. 
• On December 20, 2012, she presented “Letters of Credit & International Business Transactions” to the faculty of External Economics at Vietnam National University of Economics & Law.   
• On December 21, 2012, she presented “Intellectual Property Management” to the faculty of Business & Administration at Vietnam National University of Economics & Law. 
• On December 24, 2012, she presented “Geographical Indications, Trademark Clearance Procedures and Enforcement” to the Ministry of Justice’s Judicial Academy in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Joseph J. Norton

• Panelist for a presentation on “Codification of Business Law” to the Saudi Arabian Rule of Law Forum delegation on January 22, 2012 at the SMU – Dedman School of Law in Dallas, TX. 
• Gave a presentation on Economic Law to a visiting delegation from Vietnam National University – University of Economics & Law on October 9, 2012.

Ellen Pryor

• Presented “The Process of Re-drafting the Re-Statement of Torts 3^rd” to the Saudi Arabian Rule of Law Forum delegation on January 22, 2012 at the SMU – Dedman School of Law in Dallas, TX.
• Finished re-writing Chapter 10 in Volume 2 of the Restatement of Torts Third.

C. Paul Rogers

• served as a discussant on a panel entitled “The Law Professor as Faculty Athletics Representative” on July 30, 2012 at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Amelia Island, FL.

W. Keith Robinson

• Spoke on a panel presentation of “Professional Perspectives in IP Law” held at the SMU Dedman School of Law on January 14, 2012.
• Presented “The Year in Video Game Law” with Professsor Xuan Thao Nguyen at the 2012 GAME.BUSINESS.LAW Conference held at the Dedman School of Law on January 26, 2012.
• article entitled “No ‘Direction’ Home: An Alternative Approach to Joint Infringement” accepted for publication by The American University Law Review. 
• He was a panelist on “Strategic Perspectives” at the SMU 2012 Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues on April 20, 2012. 
• He presented “The Limits of Human Mind and the Evolving Standard for Patent Eligibility” at the New Scholars Workshop held at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on August 2, 2012 in Amelia Island, FL.
• Panelist on “Claim Construction” at the Sino-U.S. Patent Litigation Procedures conference on December 3, 2012 in Chongqing, China.

 
Meghan Ryan

• Article entitled “Proximate Retribution” accepted for publication in the Houston Law Review.  On February 3, 2012 she presented “Science and the New Criminal Rehabilitation” at the Law Faculty Research and Development Exchange of the University of Arkansas School of Law. 
• On January 18, 2012, she presented “The New Utility and Morality of Stem Cell Research: What Every Student Should Know About Cloning & Human Stem-Cell Research” to the SMU Federalist Society at the SMU Dedman School of Law.
• Quoted in an article entitled “Texas Court’s Order Bars Fort Worth Killer From Appeals” in the Fort Worth Star Telegram on May 17, 2012. 
• On June 12, 2012 she appeared on CBS-11 in a story about a lawsuit filed against Apple’s Siri technology.  The story also ran in the Tampa-St. Petersburg market. 
• On June 14, 2012 she was quoted on Forbes.com in a Tech Blog posting entitled “Why the Class Action Siri Lawsuit Against Apple is Patently Absurd.” 
• She was a speaker in a panel presentation entitled, “Law and Neuroscience” on July 31, 2012 at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Amelia Island, FL.
• Presented her paper entitled “Juries and the Criminal Constitution” at the annual ABA Criminal Justice Section Fall Institute in Washington, DC on October 25, 2012.
• Moderated “New Issues in Torts” at the Appellate Judges Education Institute 2012 Summit on November 17, 2012 in New Orleans, LA.

 
Mary Spector

• Article entitled, “Debts, Defaults, and Details: Exploring the Impact of Debt Collection Litigation on Consumers and Courts” published in the Virginia Law and Business Review.  The article has been featured on the Consumer Law & Policy Blog and has made the Top Ten List on a number of SSRN Journals.
• Presented “Exploring the Litigation of Consumer Debt Collection” at St. Mary’s University School of Law Faculty Enrichment Program in San Antonio, TX in January.
• Organized a panel presentation of Bellow Scholars entitled “Using Empirical Research in our Clinics to Navigate a Changing Landscape” which was presented on May 3, 2012 at the 2012 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education in Los Angeles, CA.  
• On May 18, 2012 she presented “Debt Collection Update” as part of a panel she organized on “Teaching Debt Collection” for the 6^th Biennial Teaching Consumer Law Conference in Houston, TX. 
• On June 8, 2012, she presented her research, “Where the FCRA meets the FDCPA: The Impact of Un-Fair Collection Practices on the Credit Report” at a symposium on Credit Scoring and Credit Reporting sponsored by Suffolk University Law School and National Consumer Law Center in Boston. 
• As a result of the June presentation, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau invited her to serve as an expert on one of two panels at the public hearing regarding credit reporting.  The hearing was held in Detroit on July 16, 2012, where the Bureau announced a final rule regarding the CFPB’s supervisory authority over most credit reporting agencies.

 
Marc I. Steinberg

• Supplements/updates of his treatises entitled, Securities Practice:  Federal And State Enforcement, Securities Regulation published by West Publishing and Lexis Nexis.  His book entitled Developments in Business Law and Policy has been accepted for publication by Cognella Academic Publishing. 
• Panelist for a presentation on “Codification of Business Law” to the Saudi Arabian Rule of Law Forum delegation on January 22, 2012 at the SMU – Dedman School of Law in Dallas, TX. 
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David Taylor

• Panelist for “To MDL or Not to MDL: Views from the Trenches,” at the Texas Bar CLE on “Patent Multidistrict Litigation in the Wake of the America Invents Act 2012” co-sponsored by the SMU – Dedman School of Law on November 28, 2012.
• On December 3, 2012 he was on a panel on “Contentions and Fact Discovery” and a panel on “Expert Witnesses and Expert Discovery” at the Sino-U.S. Patent Litigation Procedures conference in Chongqing, China.

Orly Sulami

• Article, “Tax Abuse-Lessons from Abroad,” accepted for publication in the SMU Law Review.

 
Joshua Tate

• Serving as Vice-Chair on the Uniform Acts for Trust and Estate Law Committee, ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section through this year. 
• He is also serving on the Sutherland Prize Committee of the American Society for Legal History from 2012-2015.  He recently served on the Program Committee for the American Society for Legal History at their Atlanta Annual Meeting.  His book entitled, A Texas Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts, and Estates has been published by Aspen Publishers. 
• taught “History of Anglo-American Legal Institutions” at the Appellate Judges Certificate Program from June 25-June 29, 2012 in Santa Fe, NM. 
• He served as a speaker on a panel discussion entitled “The Law and Reality of Trusts and Estates” at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on July 29, 2012 in Amelia Island, FL.
• His book chapter entitled “The Third Lateran Council and the Ius Patronatus in England” was published in Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law: Esztergom, 3-8 August 2008, at 589 (Peter Erd` & Sz. Anzelm Szuromi eds., Monumenta luris Canonici, C:14, 2010). 
• His review of “Paolo Grossi, A History of European Law” was published in the Law & History Review.
• Selected for a Robbins Fellowship at Boalt Hall and the University of California, Berkeley, which houses the Robbins Collection.

 
David Taylor

• Article “Patent Misjoinder” accepted for publication by the NYU Law Review.
• Panelist on “Target, The Eastern District of Texas” at the SMU 2012 Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues on April 20, 2012.

 
Elizabeth Thornburg

• 2011-2012 editions to Texas Civil Procedure: Pretrial Litigation and Texas Civil Procedure: Trial and Appellate Practice that she co-authored published by Lexis Nexis.  She presented “Working With Faculty” at the American Library Association’s College Library Directors Mentor Program Seminar held in Dallas in January 2012.
• Article regarding her book “Lawtalk” featured in the Spirit in Flight magazine published by Southwest Airlines for in-flight reading by the carrier’s passengers.  She has had the 3^rd edition to her co-authored (with William V. Dorsaneo, III) casebook, Questions & Answers: Civil Procedure published by Lexis Nexis.
• Presented “Judicial Research on the Internet Outside the Record,” at the National Workshops for U.S. Magistrate Judges on April 17, 2012 and July 24, 2012.
• Moderator for “What Patent Litigators Need to Know About MDL” at the Texas Bar CLE on “Patent Multidistrict Litigation in the Wake of the America Invents Act 2012” co-sponsored by the SMU – Dedman School of Law on November 28, 2012.

 
Sarah Tran

• Article, “Patent Powers” selected for publication in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
• Article, “Policy Tailors and the Rookie Regulator” accepted for publication in the U.C. Davis Law Review. 
• She has been invited to co-author a collection of articles entitled “Intellectual Property, Innovation, and the Environment” with Peter Menell, a professor and director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Boalt Hall and a Herman Phleger Visiting Professor at Stanford. 
• She has made presentations of her recent publications at Georgetown, the University of Texas, the University of Wisconsin, the University of San Diego, Vermont, and the University of Houston in recent months.
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Jenia Turner

• Chapter entitled “Plea Bargaining accepted for publication in International Criminal Procedure, editors Fausto Pocar and Linda Carter by Edward Elgra, publisher. 
• Her co-authored chapter entitled “Negotiated Justice” was accepted for publication in General Rules and Principles of International Criminal Procedure in Oxford University Press.
• Panelist for a presentation on “Criminal vs. Civil Procedure” to the Saudi Arabian Rule of Law Forum delegation on January 22, 2012 at the SMU – Dedman School of Law in Dallas, TX.  Professor Turner was recently nominated to join the Tower Center as a Faculty Associate.
• Served as a panelist on “The Role of Green Patents and Technology Transfer in Global Sustainability” at the Symposium on Green Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center on April 13, 2012. 
• She served as a panelist on “A Brave New World of Patent Laws and Procedure” at the SMU 2012 Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues on April 20, 2012. 
• She presented “Policy Tailors and the Rookie Regulator” at ‘PatCon’ – the Patent Conference at Boston College Law School on May 12, 2012. 
• She served as a speaker on panel discussions entitled “Specialized Agencies and Courts – A Special Relationship” on July 31, 2012 and “Climate Change and Adaptation Across the Curriculum” on August 1, 2012 at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Amelia Island, FL.

 
Jessica Dixon Weaver

• Her short article “The First Father: Perspectives on the President’s Fatherhood Initiative” was published in the Family Court Review’s special issue featuring Emerging Family Law Scholars.
• Invited presenter on November 2, 2012 and November 6, 2012 to University of Florida Levin College of Law and Georgia State University College of Law for faculty enrichment/development workshops.  She presented her article, “Grandma in the White House.”
• On October 15, 2012, she gave a presentation on collaborative law to a visiting delegation from the Vietnam Ministry of Justice.
• In November 2012, she was a visiting scholar at Emory University School of Law where she spent two weeks with Martha Fineman’s Feminist Legal Theory Project and the affiliated faculty members of The Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative. While there, she presented her latest research, “Child Sexual Victimization:  When Abused Children Become Neglectful Mothers,” to the faculty and students.
• Invited to present her article, “Grandma in the White House” at the Mid-West Family Law Consortium and International Society of Family Law at the University of Iowa School of Law on June 14, 2012.  
• In June she was invited to present her article, “The Principle of Subsidiarity Applied: Reforming the Legal Framework to Capture the Psychological Abuse of Children” to the Texas Statewide Blue Ribbon Task Force.
• On April 26, 2012, she appeared on WFAA News Channel 8 to discuss the ethical conflict of interest for the attorney representing NFL Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders in his divorce case.  
• Moderated the Children & Law Section Panel, “Children and the Media,” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on January 6, 2012.

 
Peter Winship

• 5^th edition of his co-authored book entitled Cases and Materials on Admiralty and the 2^nd edition of his co-authored book entitled International Sales Law: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook published by West Group. 
• He has had the 2^nd edition of his co-authored book entitled Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code and International Commerce published by Lexis Nexis.

2011

John B. Attanasio

• Presented a six-hour public workshop on the “U.S. Experience in Developing and Amending the Constitution” at the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice in Hanoi on December 22, 2011. 
• On December 23, 2011 he presented a six-hour technical workshop/discussion at the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice in Hanoi on the “Theoretical and Practical Issues in Developing and Amending the Constitution.”
• Interviewed on China Radio on October 19, 2011 on the current state of the U.S. and Chinese Currencies and the impacts of the Senate Bill and the Currency Debate. 
• On November 12, 2011, he moderated a panel discussion on “The Supreme Court – Current Term Preview” at the Appellate Judicial Education Institute Annual Summit in Washington, DC.  Two former U.S. Attorneys General were the panelists. 
• He was also a member of the planning committee for the 3-day summit, which, among its highlights was a reception of the Supreme Court hosted by Chief Justice Roberts and a presentation by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.  Approximately 100 appellate judges attended the summit.
   

Maureen Armour

• Served on the judges’ panel for a moot of an attorney from the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Texas held at the SMU Dedman School of Law on October 27, 2011.  The attorney represents the petitioner/defendant in Setser v. United States which will be heard in oral argument before the United States Supreme Court later this month.

 
Jeffrey Bellin

• Served on the judges’ panel for a moot of an attorney from the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Texas held at the SMU Dedman School of Law on October 27, 2011. 
• The attorney represents the petitioner/defendant in Setser v. United States which will be heard in oral argument before the United States Supreme Court later this month. 
• On November 12, 2011, he was a panelist for “Emerging Issues in Criminal Law” at the Appellate Judicial Education Institute’s Annual Summit in Washington, DC.
• Article, "Facebook, Twitter, and the Uncertain Future of Present Sense Impressions" was accepted for publication in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and "Crime Severity Distinctions and the Fourth Amendment: Reassessing Reasonableness in a Changing World" was accepted for publication in the Iowa Law Review.
   

Anthony Colangelo

• Served on the judges’ panel for a moot of an attorney from the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Texas held at the SMU Dedman School of Law on October 27, 2011. 
• The attorney represents the petitioner/defendant in Setser v. United States which will be heard in oral argument before the United States Supreme Court later this month.

 
Nathan Cortez

• Completed his book chapter entitled “Cross-Border Health Care and the Hydraulics of Health Reform” which will be published in a book entitled The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges by Oxford University Press.  His symposium article entitled “Can Speech by FDA-Regulated Firms Ever Be Noncommercial?” was published in the American Journal of Law and Medicine and his symposium article entitled “A Medical Malpractice Model for Developing Countries?” will be published by Drexel Law Review.  His book chapter entitled “Into the Void: The Legal Ambiguities of an Unregulated Medical Tourism Market” will soon be published by Praeger / ABC-CLIO / Greenwood as part of the book Medical Tourism: Risks and Controversies in the Exploding Industry of Global Medicine.
• Published an opinion piece on September 17th in the Austin-American Statesman arguing that the healthcare mandate is constitutional. He also presented at the Hispanic National Bar Association's Annual Meeting on health reform and immigrants. In August, he was quoted in a Chicago Tribune article on "Medical Tourism: A Faraway Health Fix."

 
Gregory Crespi

• Named a 2010 Teacher of the Year by the Association of American Law Schools. The AALS announcement can be found here (page 13).
   

Linda Eads

• Moderated two break-out panel discussions on Ethics at the Appellate Judicial Education Institute’s Annual Summit in Washington, DC on November 12, 2011. 
   

Christopher H. Hanna

• Named Senior Policy Advisor for Tax Reform on the minority staff of the Senate Finance Committee. Click here for the full article.
   

Jeffrey Kahn

• Article entitled “The Case of Colonel Abel” published in the peer-reviewed Journal of National Security Law & Policy. He presented “The Dictatorship of Law: The Khodorkovsky Case, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law in Russia” at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on January 6, 2012.  This presentation was catalyzed by a 116-page report he prepared at the request of Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev’s Council for Civil Society and Human Rights regarding the second conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in 2010.  The report (now translated into Russian) will soon be made public and will be presented by the Council to President Medvedev.  In November he gave a presentation on his forthcoming book entitled, “Mrs. Shipley’s Ghost: The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming) at the University of Connecticut School of Law.  He gave comment on the First Amendment implications of the Occupy Dallas movement on CBS radio affiliate KRLD in December. He posted weekly contributions as a guest blogger at Concurring Opinions in December 2011 and has been asked to continue for this month.
• Awarded the Dr. Don M. Smart Award for Excellence in Teaching. Established by 1965 graduate Dr. Don M. Smart, the Don M. Smart award is given annually to the faculty member who is voted as best classroom instructor by the graduating class.
   

John Lowe

• Organized a program for the visiting Dean of the Qatar University College of Law (who is our alumnus) who was here along with the Director of the Forum on Energy and Environmental Law on October 25, 2011.  The Director of the Forum on Energy and Environmental Law made a presentation to the law students during the visit.  On Friday, November 11, Dean Lowe organized a program for a delegation of Indian officials brought in to the United States by the U.S. Department of State.
   

Tom Mayo

• Spoke at UT-Southwestern Medical School on the constitutional issues raised by the recent Supreme Court order granting review of four cases that challenge the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on November 14, 2011.

 
Xuan Thao Nguyen

• Article entitled, “Fame Law: Requiring Proof of National Fame in Trademark Law” published in the Cardozo Law Review.  Her co-authored article entitled, “The History of Intellectual Property Taxation: Promoting Innovations and Other Intellectual Property Goals” was published in a Symposium Issue on Intellectual Property in the SMU Law Review.  Her article “The China We Hardly Know—Revealing the New China’s Intellectual Property Regime” was published as the lead article in the St. Louis Law Journal.  Her co-authored article entitled, “Taxing Facebook Code: Debugging the Tax Code and Software” has recently been accepted as the lead article by the Buffalo Law Review.  Professor Nguyen has been asked to chair the AALS Conference for New Law Professors, the AALS Conference for Pre-Tenured Minority Law Professors and the AALS Conference for New Clinical Professors.  She is the Chair-Elect and a member of the Executive Board for the AALS Minority Law Professors Section.
   

Ellen K. Solender ’71

• Nominated for The League of Women Voters of Dallas Education Fund’s 15^th Annual Susan B. Anthony Award. The award is given to women who exemplify the characteristics of Susan B. Anthony: independence, persistence, determination, and dedication to obtaining equal rights for all citizens of the United States of America. The awards ceremony was held on Friday, February 11, 2011. Solender was a law professor at SMU from 1973 to 2005. For more information on her award, click here

 
Joshua Tate

• Served on the judges’ panel for a moot of an attorney from the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of Texas held at the SMU Dedman School of Law on October 27, 2011.  The attorney represents the petitioner/defendant in Setser v. United States which will be heard in oral argument before the United States Supreme Court later this month.
   

Elizabeth Thornburg

• Book entitled LawTalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions published by Yale University Press.  On December 6, she was interviewed on KERA radio, the local Dallas NPR affiliate, on “Think.” She also wrote about her book as a guest blogger for the Volkh Conspiracy in December.
• Article, "Reaping What We Sow: Anti-Litigation Rhetoric, Limited Budgets, and Declining Support for Civil Courts," has been published in the Civil Justice Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal edited by Oxford professor Adrian Zuckerman. Furthermore, Thornburg's article (co-authored with Australian law professor Camille Cameron), "Defining Civil Disputes: Lessons from Two Jurisdictions," has been accepted by the Melbourne University Law Review.

Sarah Tran

• Spoke at the Vermont Environmental Law Colloquium on September 23, 2011.  On September 27, she organized and introduced a student lecture presented by Judge Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On November 9, 2011, Channel 8 News, the Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Observer and a Dallas county judge visited her property law class to hear a guest lecture by Kenneth Robinson, a realtor who became a national celebrity overnight due to his efforts to gain ownership of a home through adverse possession.

Jessica Dixon Weaver

• Her article, “The Principle of Subsidiarity Applied:  Reforming the Legal Framework to Capture the Psychological Abuse of Children” was published in the Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law.
• Essay entitled “African-American Grandmothers: Does the Gender-Entrapment Theory Apply? Essay Response to Professor Beth Richie” was published in the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy.
• Invited Commentator for Keynote Speaker Professor Beth E. Richie at the Access to Justice Symposium at Washington University School of Law on March 28, 2011.
• Article, “Grandma in the White House,” was selected for presentation at Martha Fineman’s Feminist Legal Theory Workshop at Emory University School of Law in January 2011.
• Selected to present a poster of her article, “The Principle of Subsidiarity Applied:  Reforming the Legal Framework to Capture the Psychological Abuse of Children,” at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting on January 7, 2011 in San Francisco, CA,

2010

 Jeffrey Bellin
 

• Authored three articles that have been recently accepted for publication. His article entitled "Is Punishment Relevant After All? A Prescription for Informing Juries of the Consequences of Conviction" will be published in Boston University Law Review. Moreover, another article of his, "Widening Batson's Net to Ensnare More Than the Unapologetically Bigoted or Painfully Unimaginative Attorney" is set for publication in the CORNELL LAW REVIEW. Last, "Reconceptualizing the Fifth Amendment Prohibition of Adverse Comment On Criminal Defendants' Trial Silence," 71 Ohio State Law Journal __ (forthcoming).
   

 Alan Bromberg
 

• Provides commentary on continuing subprime mortgage troubles to CNNMoney.com. To read the article, click here: http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/16/news/companies/goldman_sec/

 
 Anthony Colangelo
 

• Paper "The Foreign Commerce Clause" was selected for presentation at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Associate Professor Jeffrey Kahn's paper entitled "The Extraordinary Mrs. Shipley: How the United States Controlled International Travel Before the Age of Terrorism" was also accepted for presentation at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Their papers were the only two selected from the same institution.
• Article "Universal Jurisdiction as an International 'False Conflict' of Laws" will be reprinted in INTERNATIONAL LAW (Sanford Silverburg, ed., Westview 2010).

 
Nathan Cortez
 

• Article, Embracing the New Geography of Health Care: A Novel Way to Cover Those Left Out of Health Reform, has been accepted for publication by the Southern California Law Review. Moreover, his chapter "The Elusive Ideal of Market Competition in U.S. Health Care," is being published this year in HEALTH CARE AND EU LAW and is one of the first book treatments in Europe on U.S. health reform. He was also quoted in an article on patent mobility between the EU and India in an article for Der Standard, an Austrian national daily newspaper.

• Article "Recalibrating the Legal Risks of Cross-Border Health Care" was accepted for publication in 2010 in the the YALE JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY, LAW, & ETHICS. He is also authoring a book chapter on "The Changing Role of Markets and Competition in U.S. Health Care" in The Changing Legal Framework for Services of General Interest in Europe: Between Competition and Solidarity (Markus Krajewski, Ulla Neergaard, Johan van de Gronden, eds.) (Work-in-progress, forthcoming 2010).

 
Greg Crespi
 

• Article "Green Cards for Foreign House Buyers: A Way to Help Stabilize Housing Prices," was accepted for publication in the TULANE LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2010).

 
 Jeffrey Kahn
 

• Paper entitled "The Extraordinary Mrs. Shipley: How the United States Controlled International Travel Before the Age of Terrorism" was also accepted for presentation at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Their papers were the only two selected from the same institution.

 
 John Lowe
 

• Provided commentary to Fort Worth Star Telegram on forced-pooling statutes related to natural gas drilling in Texas. To read the article, click here: http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4050924
• On Thursday, March 25, 2010, John Lowe, George W. Hutchison Professor or Energy Law and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, was a panelist at the "Natural Gas Nation" Conference, conducted by the Bush Institute on Economic Growth. The conference explored the economic, environmental, and national security implications of North America's increased natural gas supply.

Xuan-Thao Nguyen
 

• Articles accepted for publication. "Equity and Efficiency in Intellectual Property Taxation" will be published in Brooklyn Law Review and "The China We Hardly Know: Revealing the New China's Intellectual Property Regime" will be published in the St. Louis Law Journal as the lead article. A third article, "Dynamic Federalism and Patent Law Reform," also appears in 85 Indiana Law Journal 449 (2010). She also participated as a panelist/commentator in a discussion entitled "Google v. China: Clash of the Titans" at the University of Hawaii, Richardson School of Law, and presented "The China We Hardly Know" on March 16-17, 2010 during IP Conference Week. While in China, Nguyen presented "The Evolving Development of Intellectual Property Licensing Law," at Southwest University of Politics and Law in Chongqing. In Shanghai, she presented "A Piece of Financial Reform: The New Credit Card Law of 2010," at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics School of Law.

 
 Joseph J. Norton
 

• During the first half of 2010, has produced the following two articles: “Devising International Bank Supervisory Standards: Coherency v. Randomness and the Problems of Effective Implementation ,” to be published in Fall 2010 Special Symposium Issue of Oxford Journal of International Economic Law(23 pages); and “The Santiago Principles and the IWG for Sovereign Wealth Funds: Evolving Components of the New Bretton Woods II Post- Global Financial Crisis - accepted for publication Spring 2010 by the Banking and Finance Law Review (44 pgs). In addition, he has delivered the following conference papers/ presentations:“ IBSSs: Coherency v. Randomness,” WTLI-JIEL Conference on International Law and Financial Regulation (London, May 2010); “ Capital Adequacy Reform: Too little, Too Late,” LRI-PIDM Conference on “Managing Systemic Risk” (UK, April 2010); and “Comment on Post-Privatization Reform in Mexico,” 2010 SMU-Owens Foundation Colloquium (Dallas, March 2010).

 
Meghan Ryan
 

• Article, "Judging Cruelty", was accepted for publication by the U.C. Davis Law Review. It will appear in the November 2010 issue.

 
Mary Spector

• Provided commentary to New York Times (Bay Area section) on debt-buyer lawsuits. To read the article, click here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/us/23sfdebt.html?scp=2&sq=east%20bay%20community&st=cse

 
 Joshua Tate
 

• Provided commentary on wills and trusts to Dallas Morning News. To read the article, click here: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/personalfinance/stories/041010dnbusperfi.3cf48b0.html  

 
 Jessica Dixon Weaver

• Article, “The Texas Mis-Step: Why the Largest Child Removal in Modern U.S. History Failed,” was accepted for publication by William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law.  It was selected to be the lead article in Volume 16, Spring 2010 issue.
• Article, “Capturing the Psychological Abuse of Children,” was selected for presentation at Martha Fineman’s Feminist Legal Theory Workshop at Emory University School of Law in March 2010.

2009

Maureen Armour

• Published "Remembering Judge Sanders: Judicial Pragmatism in the Court of First and Last Resort," 62 SMU L.R. 1547-1633 (Fall 2009).
•  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.

 
 John B. Attanasio

• Published two casebooks: N. REDLICH, J. ATTANASIO & J. GOLDSTEIN, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW TEACHER'S MANUAL; N. REDLICH, J. ATTANASIO & J. GOLDSTEIN, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW TEACHER'S MANUAL (2009). He also published 2009 supplements to: N. REDLICH, J. ATTANASIO & J. GOLDSTEIN; N. REDLICH, J. ATTANASIO & J. GOLDSTEIN, UNDERSTANDING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

 
 Alan Bromberg

• Published supplements to: Bromberg & Lowenfels, Securities Fraud & Commodities Fraud and Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership (2009). He also published "SEC Action Against Lawyers Post Sarbanes-Oxley: A Reasoned Approach or an Assault Upon the Practicing Securities Bar?," 41 Securities Regulation & Law Reports 1739-44 (2009) (with Lowenfels).

 
Anthony Colangelo

• Published his article "Double Jeopardy and Multiple Sovereigns: A Jurisdictional Theory" 86 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 769-857 (2009). He also published "Universal Jurisdiction as an International "False Conflict" of Laws," 30 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 881-925 (2009) as an invited symposium contribution. Moreover, his article on "The Supreme Court's Role After 9/11: Continuing the Legal Conversation in the War on Terror," appeared as an invited contribution in 62 SMU LAW REVIEW 17-23 (2009).
•  Presented Universal Jurisdiction as an International ‘False Conflict' of Laws at a “Territory Without Boundaries” symposium at Michigan Law School.
• 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.

 
Nathan Cortez

• Article "International Health Care Convergence: The Benefits and Burdens of Market-Driven Standardization" appeared as a symposium article in 26 WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 646-704 (2009). Professor Cortez also authored several other articles related to healthcare including "Market Competition in Health Care: The EU's Parallel Struggle" Health Reform Watch (Oct. 8, 2009); "Immigrants, Health Reform, and "Lies" in Health Reform Watch and The Health Care Blog (Sep. 9, 2009); "Rationing or Cost-Effectiveness?" Health Reform Watch (June 25, 2009); "The Less You Change, The More It Costs" Health Reform Watch (June 18, 2009); "The Life Cycle of Objectionable Drug Marketing Practices" Concurring Opinions and Health Reform Watch (Mar. 8, 2009).

 
Greg Crespi

• 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).

 
Xuan-Thao Nguyen
 

• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
•  Presented Intellectual Property Assets in Corporate Transactions, Faculty of Law in Hanoi, Vietnam at Vietnam National University (VNU) on April 25, 2009.
• 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.

 
 Joseph J. Norton
 

• During 2009, produced the following articles and book chapters: “Developing Transnational Network(s) in the Area of International Financial regulation: The Underpinnings of the New Bretton Woods II Global Financial System Framework, 43 Int’l Law. 175-204 (2009); Building a Framework to Address Failure of Complex Global Financial Institutions (co-author), Spring 2009 Issue of Hong Kong Law Review (31 pgs)(co-author);  “Multinational Companies: of Institutional .Spheres of Influence., Corporate Social Responsibility and Meaningful Financial Sector Law Reform for Developing Countries”, European Business Law Review (No. 1 2009)( 43 pages); “International Responses to the Global Financial Crisis,” Ch 2 in Financial Crisis Management (eds. Kaufman and Singh, LLP Press/Informa, Fall 2009) (33 pgs; co-author); “ CSR and the Harmony of World Development,” Ch 2 in Studies on Corporate Social Responsibility( J Lou and X Guo eds; University of Peking Economic Studies Series, Peking University Press 2009). In addition, during 2009, he delivered the following conference papers/presentations: “The Global Financial Crisis Beyond the Subprime Dimensions,” 2009 Summit of Appellate Judges, Lawyers and Staff (Orlando, November 2009); “Developments in International Financial Law and Regulation, “ Dallas Bar Association- Int’l Law Section, May 2009; and “ Evaluating the Responses to the Global Financial Crisis: An American Perspective,” Conference on the Global Financial Crisis”, Conference on Global Financial Crisis: Causes, Threats and Opportunities (April 6, 2009, University of Warwick).
• Presented Advowson Litigation in Medieval England: A Quantitative Approach at the Nineteenth British Legal History Conference in Exeter, England.  His article, Ownership and Possession in the Early Common Law, was reprinted in Relations Between the Ius Commune and English Law, a volume edited by Richard H. Helmholz and Vito Piergiovanni.  He was also quoted in an article in the Wall Street Journal Online.
• Presented Immortal Fame:  Publicity Rights, Taxation, and the Power of Testation at the Property Works-in-Progress Conference in Boulder, Colorado.
• Received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University.
• Presented Basic Planning for Incapacity:  Issues and Options at a program sponsored by the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program and the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Elder Law Committee.
• Presented Immortal Fame:  Publicity Rights, Taxation, and the Power of Testation to the Internal Revenue Service North Texas Estate and Gift Tax Group.  The article was accepted for publication by the Georgia Law Review.

 
Jenia Turner

• On November 5, 2009 presented "Ethical Dilemmas Facing Defense Attorneys in War-Crime Trials," a discussion on legal ethics rules and guidelines for international criminal defense attorneys, for the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility.

 
Elizabeth Thornburg

• 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

Jessica Dixon Weaver

• Article, “FLDS Reconsidered:  Establishing Substantial Psychological Abuse as Part of the Legal Standard for Emergency Child Removal” selected for presentation at the Children and the Law Junior Faculty Workshop at Washington and Lee School of Law in July 2009.
• Selected as a 2009 Extraordinary Minority in Texas Law by The Texas Lawyer.   This honor was awarded to only twenty-five lawyers within the State of Texas.

2008

John B. Attanasio

• published a casebook N. REDLICH, J. ATTANASIO & J. GOLDSTEIN, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 1-1301 (5th ed. 2008) as well as 2008 supplements to N. REDLICH, J. ATTANASIO & J. GOLDSTEIN.

 
 Jeffrey Bellin

• Published "Circumventing Congress: How the Federal Courts Opened the Door to Impeaching Criminal Defendants with Prior Convictions," 42 U.C. Davis Law Review 289-341 (2008). He also published "Improving the Reliability of Criminal Trials Through Legal Rules That Encourage Defendants to Testify," 76 Univ. of Cincinnati Law Review 851-897 (2008).

 
Lackland Bloom

• Book, Constitutional Interpretation—Inside the Supreme Court’s Tool Box, was accepted for publication by the Oxford University Press.

Alan Bromberg

• Published supplements to: Bromberg & Lowenfels, Securities Fraud & Commodities Fraud; Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership; Bromberg & Ribstein on Limited Liability Partnership, The Revised Uniform Partnership Act and the Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2008). He also published "Suitability Actions in Securities Arbitrations Often Overlook State Law as Possible Basis, 40 Securities Regulation & Law Report" 493-95 (2008) (with Lowenfels).

 
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.
•  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."
• Presented International Law, Extraterritoriality, and U.S. Courts as part of the International Law Association Weekend in New York City.
• 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.
• 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.
• And Joshua Tate, and Jeffrey 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: Anthony Colangelo: A Jurisdictional Theory of International Double Jeopardy, Jeffrey Kahn: International Travel and the U.S. Constitution During the War on Terror, Joshua Tate: Disinheritance and the Case for Testamentary Freedom.

 
Nathan Cortez

• Article "The Local Dilemma: Preemption and the Role of Federal Standards in State and Local Immigration Laws" appeared as a symposium article in 60 SMU LAW REVIEW 47-66 (2008). He also published "Patients Without Borders: The Emerging Global Market for Patients and the Evolution of Modern Health Care" 83 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 71-132 (2008). Cortez authored a book chapter "Biopharmaceuticals: Definition and Regulation" in Preclinical Safety Evaluation of Bio PRECLINICAL SAFETY EVALUATION OF BIOPHARMACEUTICALS: A SCIENCE-BASED APPROACH TO FACILITATING CLINICAL TRIALS (John Wiley & Sons, 2008) (with Lincoln Tsang). His article "What Does Medical Tourism Say About the U.S. Health Care System?" appeared in the annual alumni publication of SMU Dedman School of Law, The Quad.

 
Greg 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.
• 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.
• 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.

 
Gail Daly

• 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.
• 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.
• Article titled There's No Law Library on the Starship Enterprise was accepted for publication by the Journal of Legal Education.

 
 William V. Dorsaneo III

• 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).

 
Linda Eads

• 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.

 
Julia Forrester

• Interviewed by Fox News on March 7 about homeowners associations/foreclosures. Watch the Video.
• Article, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Uniform Instruments: The Forgotten Benefit to Homeowners, 72 Mo. L. Rev. 1077 (2007), is now in print.

 
 Jeffrey Gaba

• 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.

 
Christopher 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).

 
 Jeffrey 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• And Anthony Colangelo, and Joshua Tate 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: Anthony Colangelo: A Jurisdictional Theory of International Double Jeopardy, Jeffrey Kahn: International Travel and the U.S. Constitution During the War on Terror, Joshua Tate: Disinheritance and the Case for Testamentary Freedom.

 
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.

 
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.”

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

 
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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Acquiring Innovation 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.
•  Article, Justice Scalia’s Renegade Jurisdiction: Lessons for Patent Law Reform, was accepted for publication by the Tulane Law Review.
• Aspen published new casebook, LICENSING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Law and Application (Aspen 2008). Her co-authors are Professors Robert Gomulkiewicz and Danielle Conway.
• 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.
•  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).

 
Joseph J. Norton

• During 2008, produced the following article: “Corporate Social Responsibility, the MNC and China,” Chapter in Proceedings on “Beijing Forum -2008- The Harmony of Civilizations and Prosperity for All- Diversity in the Development of Human Civilization (Chinese) (University of Peking, 2008) (33 pages). In addition, he delivered the following conference papers/presentations: “ Reflections on the Evolvement of Transnational Networks in theFinancial Sector Area: From The Basle Concordat to Bretton Wood II.” SMU International Conference on Transnational Networks, Nov. 2008; “A Suggested Predicate for Financial Sector Reform in China and India: A Development Component Geared to Inclusion, Equity and Poverty Alleviation” prepared for a launch colloquium on Sino-India relationship, “The Elephant and the Dragon”: Lessons and Challenges Respecting the Role of Law in Economic Development in India and China”, National Law School of India University, Bangalore May 7 – 10, 2008; and “ A New Role for the IMF: SWFs and of Known Knowns, Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns?- One American’s Perspective,” Judge School of Business, Cambridge University Conference with IMF on “The International Monetary Fund and Financial Crises- The Role of Institutional and Governance Reform, “ April 6, 2008.
• 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.
• Named co-director 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.

 
Ellen Pryor

• 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.

 
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.
• Presented Common Tenant Problems and the Role of the Volunteer Attorney at the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program-Housing Crisis Center, Continuing Legal Education.
• 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

 
Marc I. 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).

 
 Joshua Tate

• Presented Property, Patronage, and the Birth of the Common Law at the Dallas Bar Association Legal History Discussion Group.  His article, Christianity and the Legal Status of Abandoned Children in the Later Roman Empire, was published in the Journal of Law and Religion.
• 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).
•  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).
• 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.
•  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.
• 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.
• 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).
• Presented Caregiving and the Case for Testamentary Freedom at the University of Miami Law School Faculty Workshop.
• 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.
• And Anthony Colangelo, and Jeffrey 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: Anthony Colangelo: A Jurisdictional Theory of International Double Jeopardy, Jeffrey Kahn: International Travel and the U.S. Constitution During the War on Terror, Joshua Tate: Disinheritance and the Case for Testamentary Freedom.

 
Jessica Dixon Weaver

• Presented two SMU Godbey Lecture Series on September 29, 2008 and October 6, 2008 on “The Texas Mis-Step:  Why the Largest Child Removal in U.S. History Failed,” and the “Legal Implications of the FLDS Compound CPS Case.”
• Article, “The African-American Child Welfare Act:  A Legal Redress for African-American Disproportionality in Child Protection Cases,” was published by Berkeley Journal of African-American Law and Policy. 
• Appeared on News Hour with Jim Lehrer on May 22, 2008 to discuss the Texas Supreme Court’s polygamy ruling and legal debate on state power.  Watch the video.
• 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.