College of Law

Publications

Books

• Problems in Evidence (4th ed., West Group 2000) (with Kenneth S. Broun and Robert P. Mosteller) (with accompanying Teacher's Manual)

Book Chapters

• Inadequacy of Counsel and Legal Process, published remarks in Unjust in the Much: The Death Penalty in North Carolina (Calvin Kytle & Daniel H. Pollitt, eds., Chestnut Tree, 1999)
• The Warren Court and State Constitutional Law in The Warren Court: A Retrospective (Bernard Schwartz, ed., Oxford 1996) (with James G. Exum, Jr.)

Articles, Essays & Book Reviews

• Commemorating Seventy-Five Years of the University of Cincinnati Law Review, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1 (2006) (with Michael E. Solimine)
• Criminal Justice after the Conservative Reformation, 94 Geo. L.J. 1347 (2006)
• Conservative Reformation, Popularization, and the Lessons of Reading Criminal Justice as Constitutional Law, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 979 (2005)
• Grand Centrism and the Centrist Judicial Personam, 83 N.C. L. Rev. 1353 (2005)
• The New Scrutiny, 51 Emory L.J. 481 (2002)
• Book Review, 62 J. Politics 938 (2000) (reviewing Lloyd Steffen, Executing Justice: The Moral Meaning of the Death Penalty (1998))
• The Unusualness of Capital Punishment, 26 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 601 (2000)
• Eighth Amendment Meanings from the ABA's Moratorium Resolution, 61 Law & Contemp. Probs. 29 (Autumn 1998)
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998)
• Lawyers, Arbitrariness, and the Eighth Amendment, 75 Tex. L. Rev. 1301 (1997) (with Richard A. Rosen)
• Legitimating Death, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 1643 (1993)
• Liberty, the "Law of the Land," and Abortion in North Carolina, 71 N.C. L. Rev. 1839 (1993)
• On the Significance of Constitutional Spirit, 70 N.C. L. Rev. 1803 (1992)
• Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine, 82 J. Criminal L. & Criminology 283 (1991)

Presentations

• Innocence and Guilt in Our Judicial System: What Is Justice?, Adath Israel Congregation Critical Issues Forum, Adath Israel Congregation Synagogue, Cincinnati, OH, October 26, 2009 (moderator)
• The Supreme Court and the Constitution: How to Watch and What to Watch for, Harvard Club of Cincinnati and Harvard Law School Association of Cincinnati, University Club, Cincinnati, OH, October 13, 2009 (luncheon lecture)
• Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, Cincinnati Museum Center, University of Cincinnati College of Law, and YWCA of Greater Cincinnati, Union Terminal, Cincinnati, OH, September 17, 2009 (welcome, introduction, and moderator)
• Health Insurance Reform – What’s In It For You?, Public Forum on Health Insurance Reform with Sen. Sherrod Brown, Tangeman University Center, Cincinnati, OH, September 1, 2009 (welcome, introduction, and moderator)
• Diversity and the Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH (August 19, 2009) (panel moderator)
• Inaugural University of Cincinnati Diversity Conference, Tangeman University Center, Cincinnati, OH, April 15, 2009 (welcome and introduction)
• Religion and Politics: The Role of Religious Leaders, Adath Israel Congregation Critical Issues Forum, Adath Israel Congregation Synagogue, Cincinnati, OH, October 27, 2008 (moderator)
• The Presidency and the Federal Courts: Historical Reflections, panel at “The Presidency and the Courts,” The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (Cincinnati Lawyers Chapter) and Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University, Cincinnati, OH, October 6, 2008 (panel presentation)
• Diversity and the Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH (August 20, 2008) (panel moderator)
• Violence in Our Community: Causes, Consciousness and Courses of Action, Adath Israel Congregation Critical Issues Forum, Adath Israel Congregation Synagogue, Cincinnati, OH (May 14, 2008) (moderator)
• Ethical Ramifications of Conflicts of Interest, panel at "Ethics, Professionalism, and Substance Abuse: Conflicts of Interest" seminar, Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, OH (December 7, 2007)
• First Amendment Freedom of Association Protection for Fraternities and Sororities, 11th National Fraternal Law Conference, Cincinnati, OH (November 17, 2007)
• Diversity and the Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH (August 15, 2007) (panel moderator)
• ABA New Deans Seminar, Omni Interlocken, Broomfield, Colorado (May 29, 2007)
• Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry, Law, Ethics, Psychiatry and the Human Genome,; UC College of Law, Werner Recital Hall (April 19, 2007) (welcome, introduction, and moderator)
• Five Leading Developments in Contemporary American Constitutional Law Scholarship, lecture, School of Law, Shandong University, Jinan, China (March 7, 2007)
• The Separation of Powers and the Expansion of Presidential Power in the Global War on Terrorism, presentation, ACLU of Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio (September 26, 2006)
• Healthcare Roundtable, cosponsored by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Harris K. Weston Institution for Law and Public Policy of the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati, Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, Health Policy Institute of Ohio, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, Cincinnati, OH (June 9, 2006) (program moderator and facilitator)
• Commencement Address, Cincinnati Academy of Leadership for Lawyers, Cincinnati, OH (May 17, 2006)
• Admission to the Bar Ceremony, Ohio Supreme Court, The Ohio Theater, Columbus, OH (May 8, 2006) (address)
• Conversations on the Constitution, Cincinnati Bar Association Community Service Committee 2006 Law Day program, Cincinnati, OH (May 2, 2006) (moderator)
• The Reformation of American Constitutional Law, presentation at Harvard Law School Association of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (November 17, 2005)
• The Supreme Court and the Constitution: Recent Cases and Developments, presentation at University of Cincinnati Law Alumni Association Fall 2005 CLE Opportunities, Cincinnati, OH (October 28, 2005)
• The U.S. Supreme Court: A Faculty Conversation for Constitution Day, UC College of Law, Cincinnati, OH (September 22, 2005) (moderator)
• Federal Bar Association, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Chapter (Annual Meeting), Cincinnati, OH (September 14, 2005) (address)
• University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, OH (June 28, 2005) (address upon appointment)

Awards

• University of Cincinnati Just Community Award (2008)
• Leadership Cincinnati (Leadership Class XXX) (2006-07)

November 2011

Two of Lou’s articles were cited:

• Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine, 82 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 283 (1991), in William W. Berry III, Promulgating Proportionality, 46 Ga. L. Rev. 69 (2011); and
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), was cited in Wayne A. Logan, Police Mistakes of Law, 61 Emory L.J. 69 (2011).

September 2011

Lou was quoted in Diversity Task Force Prepares Action Plan, US Fed News, Sept. 20, 2011.

Summer 2011

Several of Lou’s articles were cited:

Criminal Justice After the Conservative Reformation , 94 Geo. L.J. 1347 (2006), in Joseph Margulies, Deviance, Risk, And Law: Reflections On The Demand For The Preventive Detention Of Suspected Terrorists, 101 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 729 (2011);

• Conservative Reformation, Popularization, and the Lessons of Reading Criminal Justice as Constitutional Law, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 979 (2005), in Joseph Margulies, Deviance, Risk, And Law: Reflections On The Demand For The Preventive Detention Of Suspected Terrorists, 101 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 729 (2011);

• Liberty, the "Law of the Land," and Abortion in North Carolina, 71 N.C. L. Rev. 1839 (1993), in Lloyd T. Kelso, North Carolina Family Law Practice (Harrison 2011 Supp.);

• The New Scrutiny, 51 Emory L.J. 481 (2002), in Kenneth L. Karst, Through Streets Broad And Narrow: Six "Centrist" Justices On The Paths To Inclusion, 2010 Sup. Ct. Rev. 1 (2010); and

• On the Significance of Constitutional Spirit, 70 N.C. L. Rev. 1803 (1992), in Scott L. Kafker, America's Other Constitutions: Book Review Of The Law Of American State

Constitutions, 45 New Eng. L. Rev. 835 (2011).

Lou was quoted in University of Cincinnati College of Law Launches Inaugural Program of The Institute for the Global Practice of Law, US Federal News, July 12, 2011.

May 2011

Lou was mentioned in:

University of Cincinnati College of Law Holds 178th Hooding Ceremony, Targeted News Service, May 10, 2011.

219 New Attorneys Admitted to the Bar in Ceremony at Ohio Theatre, States News Service, May 9, 2011.

Lou was quoted in Val Prevish, Book Lover's Paradise Preserves an Art Form, Cincinnati.com (May 22, 2011, 1:54 AM),http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110522/BIZ01/105220324/Book-lover-s....

April 2011

Lou’s article, Conservative Reformation, Popularization, and the Lessons of Reading Criminal Justice as Constitutional Law, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 979 (2005), was cited in Anthony O'Rourke, The Political Economy Of Criminal Procedure Litigation, 45 Ga. L. Rev. 721 (2011).

Lou was quoted in University Reviews Draft Diversity Plan, Targeted News Service, Apr. 6, 2011.

March 2011

Lou moderated a College-wide panel discussion on theObamacare Mandate, which featured Professors Chris Bryant, Betsy Malloy, and Michael Solimine, as well as local attorney Jack Painter, who is an advisory board member of theCincinnati Tea Partyand board member of theOhio Liberty Council

Lou’s article,On the Significance of Constitutional Spirit, 70N.C. L. Rev. 1803 (1992), was quoted in Joseph Blocher,Reverse Incorporation Of State Constitutional Law,84S. Cal. L. Rev. 323 (2011).

Lou was mentioned in UC Law Hosts Panel on Healthcare MandateTargeted News Service, Mar. 11, 2011.

February 2011

UC Law School Builds On Services,Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 30, 2011.

November 2010

Lou’s article, Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), was cited in Elizabeth Nevins-Saunders, Incomprehensible Crimes: Defendants With Mental Retardation Charged With Statutory Rape, 85 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1067 (2010).

October 2010

Two of Lou’s articles were cited:

• Lawyers, Arbitrariness, and the Eighth Amendment , 75 Tex. L. Rev. 1301 (1997) (with Richard A. Rosen), in Leona D. Jochnowitz, Missed Mitigation: Counsel's Evolving Duty to Assess and Present Mitigation at Death Penalty Sentencing, 43 Crim. L. Bull. 5 (2007); and
• Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine, 82 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 283 (1991), in Evan J. Mandery, Cruel Shoes, Cruel Mothers, and the Fair Consideration of "Mitigating" Evidence, 43 Crim. L. Bull. 6 (2007).

Lou attended the annual Association of American Law Schools Faculty Recruitment Conference in Washington, D.C.

Summer 2010

Two of Lou’s articles were cited:

• Criminal Justice after the Conservative Reformation , 94 Geo. L.J. 1347 (2006), in Lawrence Baum & Neal Devins, Why the Supreme Court Cares about Elites, Not the American People, 98 Geo. L.J. 1515 (2010); and
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), in Risa L. Goluboff, Dispatch from the Supreme Court Archives: Vagrancy, Abortion, and What the Links between Them Reveal about the History of Fundamental Rights, 62 Stan. L. Rev. 1361 (2010).

April 2010

Several of Lou’s articles were cited:

• Eighth Amendment Meanings from the ABA’s Moratorium Resolution, 61 Law & Contemp. Probs. 29 (1998), in Jesse Cheng, Frontloading Mitigation: The "Legal" and the "Human" in Death Penalty Defense, 35 Law & Soc. Inquiry 39 (2010).
• The New Scrutiny, 51 Emory L.J. 481 (2002), in Anja Seibert-Fohr, The Rise of Equality in International Law and its Pitfalls: Learning from Comparative Constitutional Law, 35 Brook. J. Int'l L. 1 (2010).
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), in Alexa Lawson-Remer, Rightful Prosecution or Wrongful Persecution? Abuse of Honest Services Fraud for Political Purpose, 82 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1289 (2010).

March 2010

Two of Lou’s articles were cited:

• Legitimating Death, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 1643 (1993), in Lee Kovarsky, Death Ineligibility and Habeas Corpus, 95 Cornell L. Rev. 329 (2010).
• The New Scrutiny, 51 Emory L.J. 481 (2002), in Curtis Waldo, Toys Are Us: Sex Toys, Substantive Due Process, and the American Way, 18 Colum. J. Gender & L. 807 (2009).

February 2010

Lou accepted a $1 million dollar gift for the College’s Cornerstones Campaign from James B. Helmer, Jr., ‘75, President of Helmer, Martins, Rice & Popham Co., L.P.A., and Co-Chair of the Cornerstone Campaign. He attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

December 2009

Lou welcomed new UC President Gregory H. Williams to an informal reception at the College.

November 2009

Lou’s article, Conservative Reformation, Popularization, and the Lessons of Reading Criminal Justice as Constitutional Law, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 979 (2005), was cited in Alice Ristroph, Is American Constitutional Law in Crisis?: Is Law? Constitutional Crisis and Existential Anxiety, 25 Const. Comment. 431 (2009). He was quoted in Event Shines Light on Domestic Violence, Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 22 , 2009.

October 2009

Lou was quoted in UC Raises $91M in Funds, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 23, 2009.

Summer 2009

Lou’s article, Legitimating Death, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 1643 (1993), was cited in Justin F. Marceau, Lifting the Haze of Baze: Lethal Injection, the Eighth Amendment, and Plurality Opinions, 41 Ariz. St. L.J. 159 (2009). He was quoted in UC Deans Face Balancing Act, Cincinnati.com, Aug. 4, 2009.

May 2009

Lou was quoted in Blake D. Morant, Reflections of a Novice: Four Tenets for a New Dean, 40 U. Tol. L. Rev. 385 (2009).

January 2009

Two of Lou’s articles were cited:

• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), in Rinat Kitai-Sangero, From Murder to Eating French Fries in a Metro Station—The Defendant's Right to a Jury Trial for All Types of Offenses, 30 Whittier L. Rev. 5 (2008).
• Legitimating Death, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 1643 (1993), in Douglas Berman, A Capital Waste of Time? Examining the Supreme Court's “Culture of Death,” 34 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 861 (2008).

Lou was quoted in Minorities, Poor, Lag in Law Schools, The News Record, Nov. 25, 2008.

November 2008

Lou participated in a panel discussion on The Presidency and the Federal Courts: Historical Reflections hosted by the Cincinnati Chapter of the Federalist Society at its program on The Presidency and the Courts. Other speakers included President George W. Bush, former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, and former Solicitor General Paul Clement.

Lou's article, Conservative Reformation, Popularization, and the Lessons of Reading Criminal Justice as Constitutional Law, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 979 (2005), was cited in Stephen W. Gard, Bearing False Witness: Perjured Affidavits and the Fourth Amendment, 41 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 445 (2008).

Summer 2008

Two of Lou's article's were cited:

• Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine, 82 J. Criminal L. & Criminology 283 (1991), in Kyle Graham, Tactical Ineffective Assistance in Capital Trials, 57 Am. U. L. Rev. 1645 (2008).
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), in Martin H. Gardner, Rethinking Robinson v. California in the Wake of Jones v. Los Angeles: Avoiding the Demise of the Criminal Law by Attending to Punishment, 98 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 429 (2008).

June 2008

Lou received the University of Cincinnati's Just Community Award, in recognition for his work in helping to launch the Freedom Center Journal, a new scholarly publication and joint venture between the College of Law and the Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Lou also was recognized for his support of the Civil Protection Order Clinic, which prepares students on representing victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, as well as for his service as Chair of the UC|21 Diversity Task Force Steering Committee.

Lou's article, The New Scrutiny, 51 Emory L.J. 481 (2002), was cited in Christopher J. Roederer, Democracy and Tort Law in America: The Counter-revolution, 110 W. Va. L. Rev. 647 (2008). He was quoted in Churches Mark 150th, 100th Years, Cincinnati Enquirer, May 9, 2008, at 2B.

May 2008

Lou spoke at the UC Law Alumni Association Spring Alumni Luncheon and at the College's Admissions Open House. He hosted College's Senior Banquet.

Lou hosted dinners and receptions for Martha Nussbaum (Marx Lecturer), Hon. Shirley S. Abrahamson (Judge-in-Residence), John C. Coffee (Chesley Distinguished Visiting Professor), and the judges here for Rendigs Products Liability Moot Court Competition.

Several of Lou's articles were cited:

• Grand Centrism and the Centrist Judicial Personam, 83 N.C. L. Rev. 1353 (2005), in Jordan Wilder Connors, Treating Like Subdecisions Alike: The Scope of Stare Decisis as Applied to Judicial Methodology, 108 Colum. L. Rev. 681 (2008).
• Liberty, the "Law of the Land," and Abortion in North Carolina, 71 N.C. L. Rev. 1839 (1993), in John T. Plecnik, Equal Access to Public Education: An Examination of the State Constitutional & Statutory Rights of Nonpublic Students to Participate in Public School Programs on a Part-time Basis in North Carolina & Across the Nation, 13 Tex. J. C.L. & C.R. 1 (2007).
• Legitimating Death, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 1643 (1993), in Frederick M. Bloom, State Courts Unbound, 93 Cornell L. Rev. 501 (2008).
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), in Stephen J. Morse & Morris B. Hoffman, The Uneasy Entente Between Legal Insanity and Mens Rea: Beyond Clark v. Arizona, 97 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1071 (2007).

Lou was quoted in Douglas Knehans Named New CCM Dean, Cincinnati Enquirer, Apr. 1, 2008, at 1B.

April 2008

Lou's article, Criminal Justice After the Conservative Reformation, 94 Geo. L.J. 1347 (2006), was cited in Roger A. Fairfax, Jr., Harmless Constitutional Error and the Institutional Significance of the Jury, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2027 (2008).

March 2008

Lou moderated a panel on Representing the Unpopular Client at the College. He spoke on First Amendment Freedom of Association Protection for Fraternities and Sororities at 11th National Fraternal Law Conference held in Cincinnati.

Lou participated in panel discussion on Ethical Ramifications of Conflicts of Interest at Dinsmore & Shohl's Ethics, Professionalism, and Substance Abuse: Conflicts of Interest CLE seminar.

Lou serves as vice chair of the Council of Deans at UC and serves on UC's Diversity Council. He served on an action team on effective governance as part of the Cincinnati USA Chamber's Agenda 360 initiative. He was invited to participate in a conference on Legal Education at the Crossroads held at University of South Carolina.

Lou attended the ABA Mid-Year Meeting and Deans' Workshop in Los Angeles.

Lou hosted a meeting of the Board of Visitors at the College.

Two of Lou's articles were cited:

• Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine, 82 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 283 (1991), in Saritha Komatireddy, A Sentence Reinstated, a Text Set Aside: Shirking the Lockett Dilemma in Ayers v. Belmontes, 127 S. Ct. 469 (2006), 30 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1085 (2007).
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), in Arthur Leavens, Beyond Blame Mens Rea and Regulatory Crime, 46 U. Louisville L. Rev. 1 (2007).

February 2008

Lou presided at the College's 175h anniversary gala celebration with Chris Collingsworth, John Grisham, and Governor Ted Strickland. He attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

Lou's article, Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), was cited in Morris B. Hoffman, The Myth of Factual Innocence, 82 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 663 (2007).

Lou was quoted in:

• CCM Dean down to Five Finalists, Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 20, 2008, at 8D.
• John Grisham to Speak at UC Gala, Cincinnati.com, Jan. 25, 2008.
• UC Law School Celebrates 175 Years: Author John Grisham Leads List of Celebrity Attendees, Cincinnati.com, Jan. 26, 2008.

January 2008

Lou published Commemorating Seventy-Five Years of the University of Cincinnati Law Review, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1 (2006) (with Michael Solimine).

Lou's article, Conservative Reformation, Popularization, and the Lessons of Reading Criminal Justice as Constitutional Law, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 979 (2005), was cited in Richard E. Myers, Detector Dogs and Probable Cause, 14 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 1 (2006).

December 2007

Two of Lou's articles were cited:

• Criminal Justice After the Conservative Reformation, 94 Geo. L.J. (2006), in John D. Castiglione, Hudson and Samson: The Roberts Court Confronts Privacy, Dignity, and the Fourth Amendment, 68 La. L. Rev. 63 (2007).
• The Unusualness of Capital Punishment, 26 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 601 (2000), in Corinna Barrett Lain, Deciding Death, 57 Duke L.J. 1 (2007).

Lou was quoted in A New CCM Trio?, Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 4, 2007, at 1E.

November 2007

Lou attended the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference in Washington, D.C.

October 2007

Lou attended the annual ABA meeting in San Francisco and visited with Bay-area UC alumni, including a graduate from the Class of 1930. He gave a welcoming address to the College of Law Class of 2010 during Orientation Week.

Lou hosted the College's semi-annual Board of Visitors meeting and participated in the Corporate Law Center Advisory Board meeting. He hosted the Constitution Day program on Thurgood Marshall and the Burlingame Lecture with Michael Powell.

Lou presided at the College's 175th Anniversary Kickoff celebration (with William Howard Taft and UC President Nancy Zimpher) and dinner. He held meetings with alumni and conducted a firm visit.

Lou was selected to serve as Chair of the College-Conservatory of Music Dean Search Committee and as a member of the UC Diversity Council.

Several of Lou's articles were cited:

• Criminal Justice after the Conservative Reformation, 94 Geo. L.J. 1347 (2006), in Michael M. O'Hear, The End of Bordenkircher: Extending the Logic of Apprendi to Plea Bargaining, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 835 (2006).
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), in Mohammed Saif-Alden Wattad, 33 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement, 501 (2007).
• The Unusualness of Capital Punishment, 26 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 601 (2000), in Dora W. Klein, Categorical Exclusions from Capital Punishment: How Many Wrongs Make a Right?, 72 Brook. L. Rev. 1211 (2007).

He was quoted in Craig Lawyer Learned Law in Cincinnati, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 10, 2007, at 2B.

Summer 2007

Two of Lou's articles were cited:

• Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine, 82 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 283 (1991), in Evan J. Mandery, Cruel Shoes, Cruel Mothers, and the Fair Consideration of "Mitigating" Evidence, 43 Crim. L. Bulletin 6 (2007).
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), in Brandon L. Garrett, Structural Reform Prosecution, 93 Va. L. Rev. 853 (2007).

June 2007

Lou's article, Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), was cited in Assaf Hamdani, Mens Rea and the Cost of Ignorance, 93 Va. L. Rev. 415 (2007); and Eric Tennen, Is the Constitution in Harm's Way? Substantive Due Process and Criminal Law, 8 Boalt J. Crim. L. 3 (2004).

Lou was quoted in Law College Honors Noted Alums, Cincinnati Post, May 1, 2007, at B3.

May 2007

Lou moderated two events in the Irving and Selma Harris Distinguished Visitor Series - Hon. William McClain and Hon. William J. Keating, Jr. He moderated a panel discussion at the Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry symposium, Law, Ethics, Psychiatry and the Human Genome.

Lou hosted guest judges to the 2007 Rendigs Products Liability Moot Court Competition and presided at the Senior Banquet. His article, Eighth Amendment Meanings from the ABA's Moratorium Resolution, 61 L. & Contemp. Probs. 29 (1998), was cited in Corinna Barrett Lain, Furman Fundamentals, 82 Wash. L. Rev. 1 (2007).

April 2007

Lou visited Shandong University in Jinan, China to develop relationships with their School of Law. He delivered a lecture there on Five Leading Developments in Contemporary American Constitutional Law Scholarship.

Lou concluded 10-month project as chair of the steering committee of the President's UC|21 Diversity Task Force with submission of final report to the President's Executive Committee and report to the Board of Trustees.

Lou attended the annual Ohio Bench/Bar/Deans Conference in Newark, Ohio and the ABA Mid-Year Meeting and Law School Deans' Workshop in Miami. He delivered remarks at the Law Review's Banquet commemorating its 75th Anniversary.

Lou visited with College of law alumni in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, and San Francisco.

Lou's article, Legitimating Death, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 1643 (1993), was cited in Scott W. Howe, Furman's Mythical Mandate, 40 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 435 (2007).

March 2007

Lou hosted and delivered introductory remarks at two events on campus:

• An exhibit at the Tangeman University Center, Marching Toward Justice: The History of the 14th Amendment from the Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal History.
• The Marx Lecture on Constitutional Humility by Michael J. Gerhardt (North Carolina).

February 2007

Lou was quoted in the latest issue of UC Magazine. He attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Lou's article, Lawyers, Arbitrariness, and the Eighth Amendment, 75 Tex. L. Rev. 1301 (1997) (with Richard A. Rosen), was cited in Leona D. Jochnowitz, Missed Mitigation: Counsel's Evolving Duty to Assess and Present Mitigation at Death Penalty Sentencing, 43 Crim. L. Bull. 1 (2007).

January 2007

Lou published Commemorating Seventy-Five Years of the University of Cincinnati Law Review, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1 (2006) (with Michael Solimine).

Lou's article, Conservative Reformation, Popularization, and the Lessons of Reading Criminal Justice as Constitutional Law, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 979 (2005), was cited in Richard E. Myers, Detector Dogs and Probable Cause, 14 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 1 (2006).

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