Faculty Activities

2012

Jeffrey Bellin, Assistant Professor of Law, 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, Professor of Law, 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.”

Cheryl Nelson Butler, Assistant Professor of Law, has had her 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.

Greg Crespi, Professor of Law, has had his article, “Misbehavior and Mistake in Bankruptcy Mortgage Claims: Some Caveats Regarding the Porter Study” published in the Creighton Law Review.

William V. Dorsaneo, III, Professor of Law and Justice John and Lena Hickman Distinguished Faculty Fellow, has had the 3^rd edition to his co-authored (with Elizabeth Thornburg) casebook, Questions & Answers: Civil Procedure published by Lexis Nexis.

Tom Mayo, Associate Professor of Law, was elected as a member of the American Law Institute.

Ellen Pryor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professor has finished re-writing Chapter 10 in Volume 2 of the Restatement of Torts Third.

Orly Sulami, Visiting Professor of Law, has had her article, “Tax Abuse-Lessons from Abroad,” accepted for publication in the SMU Law Review.

Joshua Tate, Associate Professor of Law, was selected for a Robbins Fellowship at Boalt Hall and the University of California, Berkeley, which houses the Robbins Collection.

David Taylor, Assistant Professor of Law, has had his article “Patent Misjoinder” accepted for publication by the NYU Law Review.

Elizabeth Thornburg, Professor of Law, has had an 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.

Sarah Tran, Assistant Professor of Law, has had her 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.

John B. Attanasio, Judge James Noel Dean and Professor & Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law, was interviewed by Kurt Rongey on WRR 101 FM Dallas/Fort Worth Radio on March 8, 2012 about SMU Dedman School of Law.

Jeffrey Bellin, Assistant Professor of Law, was quoted in “Peggy Railey’s Death a Turning Point…” which appeared in the Dallas Morning News on January 1, 2012.

Lackland Bloom, Professor of Law, was 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.

John G. Browning, Adjunct Professor, 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, Assistant Professor of Law, has had her 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.

Gail Daly, Associate Dean for Library and Technology and Associate Professor, has had her 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, Professor of Law and Justice John and Lena Hickman Distinguished Faculty Fellow, has had 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.

Linda Eads, Associate Provost and Associate Professor of Law, was 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.

Jeffrey Gaba, Professor of Law, had his 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.

Jeffrey Kahn, Professor of Law, was 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. 

George Martinez, Professor of Law, was 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.

J. Mark McWatters, Director of Graduate Programs and Adjunct Professor, has been 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.”

Xuan Thao Nguyen, Professor of Law, had her 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 and 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.

W. Keith Robinson, Assistant Professor of Law, spoke on a panel presentation of “Professional Perspectives in IP Law” held at the SMU Dedman School of Law on January 14, 2012.

Meghan Ryan, Assistant Professor of Law, has had her 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.

Mary Spector, Associate Professor of Law, 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.

Elizabeth Thornburg, Professor of Law, has had the 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.

Sarah Tran, Assistant Professor of Law, has had her article, “Patent Powers” selected for publication in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.

Jenia Turner, Associate Professor of Law, has had her 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.

Roy R. Anderson, Vinson & Elkins Fellow and Professor of Law, has recently published his 2-volume book entitled Remedies: The Law of Damages and Restitution, Cases and Materials.

John B. Attanasio, Judge James Noel Dean and Professor & Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional 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.

Jeffrey Bellin, Assistant Professor of Law, was 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.

Anthony Colangelo, Assistant Professor of Law, was a 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.  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. 

Christopher Hanna, Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Law, has had his co-authored book entitled Corporate Income Tax Accounting published by Warren Gorham & Lamont.

Jeffrey Kahn, Professor of Law, was recently nominated to join the Tower Center as a Faculty Associate.

Ndiva Kofele-Kale, Professor of Law has had his book Combating Economic Crimes: Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Prosecuting the Crime of Illicit Enrichment published by Routledge-Cavendish.

Xuan Thao Nguyen, Professor of Law, was a 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.

Joseph J. Norton, Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Financial Institutions, Professor of Law, and James L. Walsh Faculty Fellow was a 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. 

Ellen Pryor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professor 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.

W. Keith Robinson, Assistant Professor of Law, presented “The Year in Video Game Law” with Professsor Xuan Thao Nguyen at the 2012 GAME.BUSINESS.LAWconference held at the Dedman School of Law on January 26, 2012.

Marc I. Steinberg, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Law was a 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. 

Jenia Turner, Associate Professor of Law was a 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.

Jessica Dixon Weaver, Assistant Professor of Law, has had her article entitled “African-American Grandmothers: Does the Gender-Entrapment Theory Apply?” published in the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy. Her article “The First Father: Perspectives on the Presidential Fatherhood Initiative” was accepted for publication in the Family Court Review’s special issue featuring Emerging Family Law Scholars.

Peter Winship, Trustee Professor of Law and James Cleo Thompson, Sr. Professor of Law, has had the 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.

Jeffrey Bellin, Assistant Professor of Law, provided 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.

William V. Dorsaneo, III, Professor of Law and Justice John and Lena Hickman Distinguished Faculty Fellow, 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.

Julie Forrester, Professor of Law, 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.

Mary Spector, Associate Professor of Law, has had her 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.

Marc I. Steinberg, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Rupert and Lillian Radford Professor of Law, has had his 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. 

Joshua Tate, Associate Professor of Law, is 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.  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.

Jessica Dixon Weaver, Assistant Professor of Law, presented a paper at a session sponsored by the Children & Law Section at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on January 6, 2012.  The session proceedings will be published in the Whittier Journal of Child and Family Advocacy.

2011

John B. Attanasio, Judge James Noel Dean and Professor & Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law 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.”

Jeff Kahn, Associate Professor of Law, has had his 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.

Tom Mayo, Associate Professor of Law, 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.

Elizabeth Thornburg, Professor of Law, has had her 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.

Maureen Armour, Associate Professor of Law, 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.

John B. Attanasio, Judge James Noel Dean and Professor & Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law, was 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.

Jeffrey Bellin, Assistant Professor of Law, 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.

Anthony Colangelo, Assistant Professor of Law, 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, Assistant Professor of Law has just 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.

Linda Eads, Associate Provost and Associate Professor of Law, moderated two break-out panel discussions on Ethics at the Appellate Judicial Education Institute’s Annual Summit in Washington, DC on November 12, 2011. 

John Lowe, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and George W. Hutchison Chair in Energy Law, 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.

Xuan Thao Nguyen, Professor of Law, had her 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.

Joshua Tate, Associate Professor of Law, 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.

Sarah Tran, Assistant Professor of Law, 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.

Assistant Professor Nathan Cortez 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."

Associate Professor Jeffrey Kahn was 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.

Professor Gregory Crespi has been named a 2010 Teacher of the Year by the Association of American Law Schools. The AALS announcement can be found here (page 13).

Assistant Professor Jeff Bellin's 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.

Professor Beth Thornburg's 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.

Professor Christopher H. Hanna was named Senior Policy Advisor for Tax Reform on the minority staff of the Senate Finance Committee. Click here for the full article.

Professor Emeritus Ellen K. Solender ‘71 was 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.

2010

Assistant Professor 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.

Assistant Professor Anthony Colangelo's 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.

Associate Professor Mary Spector provides 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

Professor John Lowe provides 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

Assistant Professor Joshua C. Tate provides 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

Professor 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/

Professor Jessica Dixon Weaver’s 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. Another 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.

Professor Meghan Ryan's article, "Judging Cruelty", was accepted for publication by the U.C. Davis Law Review. It will appear in the November 2010 issue.

Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen has two 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.

Professor 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).

Professor Joseph 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).

Professor Nathan Cortez's 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).

Professor Gregory Crespi's 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).

Professor Anthony Colangelo's article "Universal Jurisdiction as an International 'False Conflict' of Laws" will be reprinted in INTERNATIONAL LAW (Sanford Silverburg, ed., Westview 2010).

On Thursday, March 25, 2010, Professor 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.

2009

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

Dean 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.

Professor 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).

Professor 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).

Professor Nathan Cortez's 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).

On November 5, 2009, Professor Jenia Turner 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.

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

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

Professor Joshua C. Tate 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.

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

Professor Joshua C. Tate presented Immortal Fame:  Publicity Rights, Taxation, and the Power of Testation at the Property Works-in-Progress Conference in Boulder, Colorado.

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

Professor Joshua C. Tate received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University.

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

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

Professor Joshua C. Tate 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.

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

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

Professor Joshua C. Tate 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.

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

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

2008

Dean 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.

Professor 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).

Professor 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).

Professor 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.

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

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

Professor Joseph 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.

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

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

Professor Joshua C. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Professor Anthony Colangelo, Professor Josh Tate, and Professor Jeff Kahn delivered the following papers on March 28-29, 2008 at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, held at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, California: Professor Anthony Colangelo: A Jurisdictional Theory of International Double Jeopardy, Professor Jeff Kahn: International Travel and the U.S. Constitution During the War on Terror, Professor Josh Tate: Disinheritance and the Case for Testamentary Freedom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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