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Faculty Activities
This section highlights some of the many activities of the Dedman Law School Faculty and is updated periodically.
August 2007
Professor Mary Spector’s article, Tenant Stories: Obstacles and Challenges Facing Tenants Today,has just been published at 40 John Marshall Law Review 407 (2007). She has also had another article, Taming the Beast: Payday Loans, Regulatory Efforts and Unintended Consequences, accepted for publication in the DePaul Law Review.
Professor Joshua Tate presented Disinheritance of Children and the Limits of Testamentary Freedom at the following conferences: Texas Junior Legal Scholars Conference, Fort Worth, Texas (August 2007); Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Berlin, Germany (July 2007); Gloucester Summer Legal Conference, Gloucester, England (July 2007) (co-organized panel, Structural Barriers to and Prospects for Individual Rights Protection: A Global Perspective, with Professor Jeff Kahn and
Professor Rose Villazor); and Property Works-in-Progress Conference, Boulder, Colorado (June 2007)
July 2007
Professor Jeff Kahn was featured on NPR’s “Morning Edition” program on July 16th regarding the criminal trial of the Holy Land Foundation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The program was carried nationwide and is available on NPR’s website. He also presented a paper entitled Russia’s Hybrid Criminal Procedure Code, at the conference “Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures,” in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (July 27, 2007).
Jessica Dixon, Director of the W.W. Caruth, Jr. Child Advocacy Clinic and Lecturer in Law organized the 2007 Dallas Youth at Risk Roundtable held at the law school in May. American Bar Association President, Karen J. Mathis, was the special guest, and the conference was featured in the ABA President’s Journal: http://www.abanet.org/op/journal. (See, “Kudos to Jessica Dixon.”) Additionally, Ms. Dixon will present a paper in November at a symposium sponsored by the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy. The paper will be published in the symposium edition of the journal.
Professor Joshua Tate presented The Third Lateran Council and the Ius Patronatus in England at the Eighteenth British Legal History Conference, Oxford, England; and The Legal Status of Abandoned Children in the Later Roman Empire at the Law and Literature International Colloquium, Swansea, Wales.
June 2007
Professor Linda Eads was named as the recipient of the 2006-2007 President’s Award, presented by the State Bar of Texas. The award is given annually to a member of the State Bar who is deemed to have rendered outstanding service to that organization. Eads was recognized for her work on the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct Committee.
Professor Fred Moss was a guest panelist on THINK, a show broadcast on KERA (90.1 in Dallas), which featured a discussion on Legality and the Presidency – 35 years after Watergate.
Senior Associate Dean and Professor Marc Steinberg published Lawyering and Ethics for the Business Attorney (2nd Ed. 2007) (Thomson/West). He was also appointed as a Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg in June.
May 2007
Professor Tom Mayo spoke on Medical Futility at End of Life, Dallas Internists’ Club, UT-Southwestern Medical Center (May 3, 2007).
April 2007
The Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility at SMU selected Professor Jeff Kahn as the recipient of the 2007-2008 Maguire Teaching Fellow Award.
Professor Tom Mayo made the following presentations in April: Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices, Ethics Discussion Forum, Children's Medical Center of Dallas, (April 4, 2007); and Treating Eating Disorders: The Ethical and Legal Thicket, 8th Annual Professional Symposium for the Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders, Dallas, Texas (April 20, 2007).
Professor Shubha Ghosh’s article, Decoding and Recoding Natural Monopoly, Deregulation, and Intellectual Property, has been accepted for publication by the University of Illinois Law Review.
Professor Rose Villazor accepted an offer from the
California Law Review to publish her essay, Blood Quantum and Equal Protection.
March 2007
Professor Tom Mayo, made the following presentations in March: Medical Privacy: DOA?,The Institute for the Humanities at Salado, Salado, Texas (March 18, 2007); Inaugural William Courtney Lecture, Ethical and Legal Responsibilities of Medical Leaders and Hospital Trustees, Texas A&M Medical School and Scott & White Clinic, Temple, Texas (March 19, 2007); and Legal and Ethical Aspects of Advance Directives, Department of Medical Humanities, Texas A&M Medical School,Temple (March 19, 2007).
Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen published the following this spring: Treatise, Intellectual Property, Software and Information Licensing: Law and Practice (BNA January 2007) (with Robert Gomulkiewicz and Danielle Conway-Jones).
Intellectual Property Financing: The Intersection of Intellectual Property and Secured Transactions , in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age, Vol. 2 Patents & Trade Secrets (edited by Peter K. Yu and published by Praeger Publishers);
Patent Donations and Tax Policy in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age, Vol. 2 Patents & Trade Secrets (edited by Peter K. Yu and published by Praeger Publishers), (with Professor Jeffrey A. Maine).
Taxing Trademarks and Domain Names in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION WEALTH: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age, Vol. 2 Patents & Trade Secrets, Vol. 3 Trademark and Unfair Competition Law (edited by Peter K. Yu and published by Praeger Publishers) (with Professor Jeffrey A. Maine).
Professor Nguyen spoke on The New Trademark Dilution Law: Is Fame Still the Name of the Game in Domestic and International Trademark Rights?at the Howard Law School IP Conference (March 1-2, 2007).
Senior Associate Dean and Professor Marc Steinberg presented, as the Distinguished Foulston Siefkin Lecturer, his article The Corporate/Securities Attorney as a ‘Moving Target’ – Client Fraud Dilemmas, which will be published at 46 Washburn Law Journal 1 (2006).
Professor Rose Villazor
presented her paper, Blood Quantum Laws: Racial Discrimination or Act of Self-Determination, at a March 5 workshop at Columbia Law School. She also presented the paper at the Texas Wesleyan Law School’s Faculty Forum.
February 2007
Professor Greg Crespi published the article “Maximizing the Wealth of Fictional Shareholders: Which Fiction Should Directors Embrace?” in Volume 32 of the Journal of Corporation Law,
Professor Christopher Hanna co-authored (with Cym H. Lowell) a book review of The Transfer Pricing of Intangibles. The review was published in the February 26, 2007 issue of Tax Notes.
Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen organized and chaired the 2007 SMU Dedman School of Law Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues -- The Future of Patent Cases, held on February 26, 2007. This is an annual symposium.
January 2007
Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen made the following presentations in January:
Of Computers, Licensing and Bankruptcy, Section of Computers and the Law, AALS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (January 4, 2007); and Collateralizing Patents: Debtor’s and Third Party’s Rights, Intellectual Property Symposium at the Commission on Drafting Legislative Guide for Secured Transactions, UNCITRAL, Vienna, Austria (January 18-19, 2007).