Marjorie Corman Aaron
Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Center for Practice

Marjorie participated in Client Troubles? It’s Time for Psychiatric Advice, a CLE Seminar (with Professor Douglas Mossman), sponsored by the Law School’s Weaver Center for Law and Psychiatry and the Center for Practice, at the Stratford Conference Center. She served as a judge for the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution’s annual awards, in the professional articles category

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Marianna Bettman
Professor of Clinical Law

Marianna is Chair of this region’s Ohio Judicial Appointments Recommendation Panel, which is now recruiting for a vacancy on the Hamilton County Municipal Court. See Judicial Panel Accepting Applications to Fill Vacancy on Hamilton County Municipal Court, U.S. State News, Dec. 10, 2009.

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Barbara Black
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Corporate Law Center

Barbara published Reputational Damages in Securities Litigation, 35 Iowa J. Corp. L. 169 (2009), as part of the Institute for Law and Economic Policy Symposium on Compensation of Plaintiffs in Mass Securities Litigation. She participated in a by-invitation-only Roundtable on Mutual Funds Under New Administration: Litigation & Regulation held at Boston University School of Law.

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Paul L. Caron
Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law

Paul’s TaxProf Blog has been named:

• One of the Top 100 Law Blogs by the ABA Journal (the “Blawg 100").
• The “Best Law Professor Blog” in the 6th Annual Law-Related Blogging Awards (the Blawggies).

Two of Paul’s articles were cited:

• Estate Planning Implications of the Right of Publicity, 68 Tax Notes 95 (1995), in Joshua C. Tate, Immortal Fame: Publicity Rights, Taxation, and the Power of Testation, 44 Ga. L. Rev. 1 (2009).
• New Decision Further Clouds Deductibility of Expenses During Administration, 11 Est. Plan. 164 (1984), in George Gleason Bogert, et al., Bogert's Trusts and Trustees (Thomson West, 3rd ed. 2009 Supp.).

Paul was quoted in:

• Tax Court Lets DUI Driver Write Off Car Damage, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 15, 2009
• Estate Tax Set to Expire Thursday, USA Today, Dec. 28, 2009.
• The Herb-Garden State?, Wall Street Journal Law Blog, Dec. 1, 2009.

Paul published several issues of his SSRN Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:

• 3 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 10, nos. 61-63)
• 3 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 9, nos. 24-26)
• 3 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 9, nos. 25-27)

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Jenny E. Carroll
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Jenny published Rethinking the Constitutional Criminal Procedure of Juvenile Transfer Hearings: Apprendi, Adult Punishment and Adult Process, 61 Hastings L.J. 175 (2009).

Mark A. Godsey

Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice, Ohio Innocence Project

Mark testified in the Criminal Justice Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives in support of Senate Bill 77, an omnibus Innocence Protection Act that passed the Ohio Senate last spring.

Mark was quoted in:

• Ohio Senate's DNA Bill Amended; After Law-enforcement Groups' Input, House Is near Vote, Columbus Dispatch, Dec. 17, 2009, at 03B.
• Convicted Murderer's Appeal Denied, Bucyrus Telegraph Forum, Dec. 3, 2009.
• Death Row Convict's Appeal Rejected, Mansfield News Journal, Dec. 3, 2009.

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Christo Lassiter
Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

Two of Christo’s articles were cited:

• Eliminating Consent from the Lexicon of Traffic Stop Interrogations, 27 Cap. U. L. Rev. 79 (1998), in Daniel E. Pulliam, Post-Georgia v. Randolph: An Opportunity to Rethink the Reasonableness of Third-Party Consent Searches under the Fourth Amendment, 43 Ind. L. Rev. 237 (2009).
• The New Race Cases and The Politics of Public Policy, 12 J. L. & Pol. 411 (1996), in David Welsh, Racism and the Law: Slavery, Integration, and Modern Resegregation in America, 2009 Utah L. Rev. 479.

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Bert B. Lockwood
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

Bert’s article, The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), was cited in Littlejohn v. UN, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100720 (D. S.C. Sept. 14, 2009).

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S. Elizabeth Malloy
Andrew Katsanis Professor of Law

Betsy's article, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Why Are Disability Law Claims Any Different?, 33 Conn. L. Rev 603 (2001), was cited in EEOC v. Supervalu, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116718 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 15, 2009).

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Bradford Mank
James B. Helmer, Jr. Professor of Law

Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

• Rewarding Defendant Cooperation under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Judges vs. Prosecutors, 26 Crim. L. Bull. 399 (1990), in F. Lee Bailey & Kenneth J. Fishman, Handling Narcotic and Drug Cases (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2009 Supp.).
• Should State Corporate Law Define Success or Liability? The Demise of CERCLA’s Federal Common Law, 68 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1157 (2000); and What Comes After Technology: Using an "Exceptions Process" to Improve Residual Risk Regulation of Hazardous Air Pollutants, 13 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 263 (1994), in William H. Rodgers, Jr., Environmental Law (West, 2nd ed., 2009 Supp.)

Brad’s article, Standing and Statistical Persons: A Risk-Based Approach to Standing, 36 Ecology L.Q. 665 (2009), was featured in Legal Scholar Advocates Statistical Risk-Based Test For Lawsuit Standing, InsideEPA.com, Dec. 9, 2009.

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Douglas Mossman
Director, Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry

Doug published Defensive Medicine: Can it Increase Your Malpractice Risk? 8 Current Psychiatry 86 (2009). He presented Client Troubles? It’s Time for Psychiatric Advice, a CLE Seminar (with Professor Marjorie Corman Aaron), sponsored by the Law School’s Weaver Center for Law and Psychiatry and the Center for Practice, at the Stratford Conference Center.

Several of Doug’s articles were cited:

• AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Roni Mayzer, et al., Juvenile Competency to Stand Trial in Criminal Court and Brain Function, 20 J. Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 785 (2009).
• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Michael T. Baglivio, The Assessment of Risk to Recidivate among a Juvenile Offending Population, 37 J. Crim. Just. 596 (2009); in Erkki J. O. Soini, et al., Predicting Forensic Admission among the Mentally Ill in a Multinational Setting: A Bayesian Modelling Approach, 68 Data & Knowledge Engineering 1427 (2009); and in Thomas Nilsson, et al., The Precarious Practice of Forensic Psychiatric Risk Assessments, 32 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 400 (2009).
• Deinstitutionalization, Homelessness, and the Myth of Psychiatric Abandonment: A Structural Anthropology Perspective, 44 Soc. Sci. & Med. 71 (1997), in Enric J. Novella, Theoretical Accounts on Deinstitutionalization and the Reform of Mental Health Services: A Critical Review, 11 Med. Health Care & Phil. 303 (2008).
• Maximizing Diagnostic Information From the Dexamethasone Suppression Test An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives of General Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza); and ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Elizabeth Cauffman, et al., A Multimethod Assessment of Juvenile Psychopathy: Comparing the Predictive Utility of the PCL:YV, YPI, and NEO PRI, 21 Psychol. Assessment 528 (2009).
• Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation, (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg), 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 263 (2009), in Charles S. Zimmerman, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation (Thomson West, 2009 Supp.)
• Resampling Techniques in the Analysis of Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med. Decis. Making 358 (1995), in Maciej Gorkiewicz, Using Propensity Score with Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) and Bootstrap to Evaluate Effect Size in Observational Studies, 29 Biocybernetics & Biomedical Engineering 41 (2009).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Colleen E. Carney, et al., Examining Maladaptive Beliefs about Sleep Across Insomnia Patient Groups, 68 J. Psychosomatic Research 57 (2010).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Alison G. Abraham, et al., Computer-aided Assessment of Diagnostic Images for Epidemiological Research, 9 BMC Med. Research Methodology 74 (2009); and, in Mael Lemoine, The Meaning of the Opposition between the Healthy and the Pathological and its Consequences, 12 Med. Health Care & Phil. 355 (2009).
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 27 (1996), in Laura L. S. Howe, Giving Context to Post-deployment Post-concussive-like Symptoms: Blast-related Potential Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Comorbidities, 23 Clinical Neuropsychologist 1315 (2009).

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Michael E. Solimine
Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law

Michael published Anderson’s Ohio Civil Rules Practice with Forms (LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2010 edition), with John W. McCormac.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited:

• Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, 70 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 101 (2008), in Marcia L. McCormick, Solving the Mystery of How Ex parte Young Escaped the Federalism Revolution, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 909 (2009); and Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Ex parte Young and the Transformation of the Federal Courts, 1890-1917, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 931 (2009).
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in Dustin E. Buehler, Revisiting Rooker-Feldman: Extending the Doctrine to State Court Interlocutory Orders, 36 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 373 (2009).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Genevieve G. York-Erwin, Note, The Choice-of-Law Problem(s) in the Class Action Context, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1793 (2009).
• Ex parte Young: An Interbranch Perspective, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 999 (2009), in James Leonard, Ex parte Young and Hard Times, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 889 (2009).
• Federal and State Judicial Selection in an Interest Group Perspective, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 531 (2009) (with Rafael Gely), in Anthony Champagne, Parties, Interest Groups, and Systemic Change, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 555 (2009); and Lee Epstein, Shedding (Empirical) Light on Judicial Selection, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 563 (2009).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Brendon Swedlow, Reason for Hope? The Spotted Owl Injunctions and Policy Change, 34 Law & Soc. Inquiry 825 (2009).
• Recovery of Economic Damages in Product Liability Actions and the Reemergence of Contractual Remedies, 51 Mo. L. Rev. 977 (1986), in Vicki Lawrence MacDougall, Oklahoma Product Liability Law (Thomson West, Oklahoma Practice Series, 2009 Supp.).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Elaine A. Grafton Carlson & Roy McDonald, Texas Civil Practice (Lawyers Coop. 2d ed., 2009 Supp.); and Steven H. Steinglass, Section 1983 Litigation in State Courts (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2009).

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Adam Steinman
Professor of Law

Two of Adam’s articles were cited:

• 'Less' is 'More'? Textualism, Intentionalism, and a Better Solution to the Class Action Fairness Act's Appellate Deadline Riddle, 92 Iowa L. Rev. 1183 (2007), in Jonathan R. Siegel, The Inexorable Radicalization of Textualism, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 117 (2009).
• The Pleading Problem, 62 Stan. L. Rev. ___ (2010), in Nicholas Tymoczko, Between the Possible and the Probable: Defining the Plausibility Standard after Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 94 Minn. L. Rev. 505 (2009).

Adam, who is co-editor of Civil Procedure and Federal Courts Blog, was guest blogger at Concurring Opinions for the month of December. His post on Justice Sotomayor, Civil Procedure, and the “Tradition” of Unanimous Debut Opinions, was picked up on Dec. 10, 2009 on SCOTUSblog.

Joseph P. Tomain
Dean Emeritus and the Willbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law

Dean Tomain has been appointed Distinguish Visiting Environmental Scholar this spring at the Lewis & Clark Law School.  He served as Reporter for the Standards Review Committee of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

Joe discussed and signed his book, Creon’s Ghost: Law, Justice, and the Humanities (Oxford University Press, 2009), at Joseph-Beth Booksellers on Dec. 9, 2009. His article, The Past and Future of Electricity Regulation, 32 Envtl. L. 435 (2002), was cited in Julia Gorodetsky, Analogy by Necessity: The Filed Rate Doctrine and Judicial Review of Agency Inaction, 23 Tul. Envtl. L.J. 1 (2009).

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