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Faculty News March 2008 Issue

Photo of Professor Aaron Marjorie Corman Aaron

Professor of Clinical Law, Center for Practice in Negotiation and Problem Solving

Marjorie was a judge for the 2007 International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Awards. The awards were presented at the organization’s annual meeting in New York in January.

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Center for Practice in Negotiation & ProblemSolving

Photo of Professor Armstrong Timothy K. Armstrong

Assistant Professor of Law

Tim’s article, Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 203 (2004), was cited in Edward T. Swaine, Taking Care of Treaties, 108 Colum. L. Rev. 331 (2008); Scott M. Sullivan, Rethinking Treaty Interpretation, 86 Tex. L. Rev. 777 (2008); and Abigail R. Moncrieff, Reincarnating the “Major Questions” Exception to Chevron Deference as a Doctrine of Non-Interference (Or Why Massachusetts v. EPA Got It Wrong (draft, Feb. 15, 2008).

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Photo of Professor Bettman Marianna Brown Bettman

Professor of Clinical Law

Marianna wrote an op-ed column on Guns, Guns, and More Guns (District of Columbia v. Heller). She helped Ohio Justice and Policy Center Director David Singleton prepare a student intern for an oral argument on expungement before the First Appellate District of Ohio.

Marianna chaired the Truman Scholarship committee, which awards scholarships to college juniors committed to becoming change agents in public service fields. She moderated a panel discussion sponsored by various community groups on Immigration: Who Wants What and Why? Over spring break, Marianna attended a session of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Photo of Dean Bilionis Lou Bilionis

Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

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).

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Photo of Professor Black Barbara Black

Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Corporate Law Center

Barbara organized and hosted the 2008 Corporate Law Symposium on The Dysfunctional Board: Causes and Cures. Her book, Corporate Dividends and Stock Repurchases, (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1990), was cited in Charles W. Murdock, Business Organizations (Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.).

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Photo of Professor Bryant A. Christopher Bryant

Professor of Law

Chris’s article, Remanding to Congress: The Supreme Court's New "On the Record" Constitutional Review of Federal Statutes, 86 Cornell L. Rev. 328 (2001) (with Timothy J. Simeone), was cited in Robet Glicksman, Nothing Is Real: Protecting the Regulatory Void through Federal Preemption by Inaction, 26 Va. Envtl. L.J. 5 (2008).

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Photo of Professor Caron Paul L. Caron

Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law

Paul’s TaxProf Blog was featured in the Wall Street Journal’s Blog Watch Column. He was quoted in an Associated Press story, Who Gets the Biggest Mortgage-Interest Tax Break?

Paul was quoted in a New York Times article, Obamas’ Tax Returns Show Donation Spike. His blog post on Obama’s tax returns was widely quoted in the blogosphere, including:

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

  • 4 issues of Tax law & Policy (vol. 9, nos 6-9)
  • 4 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 8, nos. 6-9)
  • 2 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 8, nos. 6-7) (with Robert A. Green (Cornell))

Paul’s aticle, What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Rafael Gely), was cited in Michael Vitiello, Liberal Bias in the Legal Academy: Overstated and Undervalued, 77 Miss. L.J. 507 (2007).

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Photo of Professor Cogan Jacob Cogan

Assistant Professorof Law

Jacob presented Representation and Power in International Organization: The Current Constitutional Crisis at Boston College Law School and Cumberland School of Law, Samford University. He was quoted in Supreme Court Decision on Treaty Rights Prompts Sharp Debate Among Legal Experts, BNA Daily Report for Executives, March 28, 2008.

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Photo of Professor Drew Margaret Drew

Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic

Margaret participated in a meeting of the University’s Sexual Offense Response Team. She spoke on Domestic Violence Dynamics and Civil Protection Orders at a conference sponsored by the Regional Forensic Counsel and organized by Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners of University Hospital.

Margaret attended a meeting of the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team and reviewed a chapter on Legal Remedies for a book to be published to assist medical personnel in working with survivors of domestic violence. Her article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005), was cited in Linda D. Elrod & James P. Buchele, Kansas Family Law (Thomson West, 4th ed., 2007 Supp.).

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Photo of Professor Gely Rafael Gely

Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Rafael posted Card Check Recognition: New House Rules for Union Organizing?, 35 Fordham Urb. L.J. ___ (2008) (with Timothy Chandler), on SSRN.

Two of Rafael’s articles were cited:

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Photo of Professor Godsey Mark A. Godsey

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

Mark was elected to the National Innocence Project Board of Directors and attended the National Innocence Network conference at Santa Clara law school, where he presented on fundraising and development, case intake procedures, and how to litigate non-DNA cases.

Mark hosted two speaking events at the College:

  • The Death Penalty in Ohio, by Phyllis Crocker (Cleveland State) and Joe Deters (Hamilton County Prosecutor).
  • Unnecessary Barriers to Successful Re-entry for Inmates Released from Prison, by Jack Chin (Arizona)

Mark and the Ohio Innocence Project’s Elkins case was featured on the Forensic Files TV show on the Tru TV network.

Several of Mark’s articles were cited:

Mark was quoted in News Viewership Sank During Strike, Cincinnati Enquirer, Mar. 2, 2008, at 5D.

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Profile of Professor Godsey
Loisand Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project

Photo of Professor Hubbard Ann Hubbard

Professor of Law

Ann posted Meaningful Lives and Major Life Activities, 55 Ala. L. Rev. 997 (2004), on SSRN.

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Photo of Professor Kalsem Kristin Kalsem

Professor of Law

Kristin completed a new article, Social Justice Feminism (with Verna WIlliams). She and Verna presented Social Justice Feminism: Words, Movements, Theory and Practice at the 11th Annual Meeting Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities at Boalt Hall.

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Photo of Professor Lassiter Christo Lassiter

Professor of Law

Christo posted Consent to Search by Ignorant People, 39 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1171 (2007), on SSRN.

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Photo of Professor Lockwood Bert B. Lockwood, Jr.

Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published:

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Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

Photo of Professor Malloy S. Elizabeth Malloy

Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law & Psychiatry

Betsy posted Mental Health Courts and Title II of the ADA: Accessibility to State Court Systems for Individuals with Mental Disabilities and the Need for Diversion, 25 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 307 (2006), on SSRN.

Betsy’s article, Recalibrating the Cost of Harm Advocacy Speech: Getting Beyond Brandenburg, 42 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1165 (2000) (with Ronald J. Krotoszynski), was cited in Ronald Turner, Cross Burnings and the Harm-valuation Analytic: A Tale of Two Cases, 9 Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Pol'y 3 (2007).

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Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry

Bradford Mank

Professor of Law

Brad's article, Standing and Future Generations: Does Massachusetts v. EPA Open Standing for the Unborn?, was accepted for publication in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.

Several of Brad's publications were cited:

Photo of Professor Mossman Douglas Mossman

Administrative Director, Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry

Several of Douglas’s articles were cited:

  • Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Mairead C. Dolan & Charlotte E. Rennie, The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth as a Predictor of Recidivism in a United Kingdom Cohort of Adolescent Offenders with Conduct Disorder, 20 Psychol. Assessment 35 (2008).
  • Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), Commentary: Assessing the Risk of Violence - Are "Accurate" Predictions Useful?, 28 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 272 (2000), Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse J. Res. Treatment 41 (2006), and Avoiding Errors about `Margins of Error' , 191 Brit. J. Psychiatry 561 (2007), in Alec Buchanan, Risk of Violence by Psychiatric Patients: Beyond the "Actuarial Versus Clinical" Assessment Debate, 59 Psych. Serv. 184 (2008).
  • Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behav. 229 (2003), in Charles W. Murdock, Business Organizations (West, Illinois Practice Series, 2007 Supp.).
  • Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter'', 2 Psychol. Pub. Pol. L. 73 (1996), in Jennifer Moyer & Daniel C. Marson, Assessment of Decision-making Capacity in Older Adults: An Emerging Area of Practice and Research, 62 Js. Geront. Ser. B-Psychol. Sci. Soc. Sci. P3 (Jan. 2007).
  • Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Constantin T. Yiannoutsos, Christos T. Nakas, & Bradford A. Navia, Assessing Multiple-group Diagnostic Problems with Multi-dimensional Receiver Operating Characteristic Surfaces: Application to Proton MR Spectroscopy (MRS) in HIV-related Neurological Injury, 40 Neuroimage 248 (Mar. 1, 2008) and, in Thomas C. W. Landgrebe & Robert P. W. Duin, Efficient Multiclass ROC Approximation by Decomposition via Confusion Matrix Perturbation Analysis, 30 IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 810 (May 2008).
  • Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 27 (1996), in Nina A. Sayer, et al., Changes in Psychiatric Status and Service Use Associated with Continued Compensation Seeking after Claim Determinations for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 21 J. Traum. Stress 40 (Feb. 2008).

Douglas has begun publishing a new column in Current Psychiatry, Malpractice Rx.

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Photo of Professor Schneider Ronna Greff Schneider

Professsor of Law

Ronna wrote a book review, to be published in the Human Rights Quarterly, entitled God, Schools, and Country, a review of Bruce Dierenfiled's book, The Battle Over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America. She served on a moot court panel as preparation for two different lawyers who argued their cases in front of the Ohio Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit.

Ronna worked with high school students by serving as a mock trial judge for the Cincinnati Bar Association's district level competition for high school students participating in the Ohio Center for Law Related Education competition and as a practice judge with Professor Chris Bryant for the Highlands High School We the People Moot Court Competition.

Ronna’s book, Education Law: First Amendment, Due Process, and Discrimination Litigation (West Group, 2004), was cited in:

  • Davis v. McKinney, No. 07-20184, 2008 WL 451769 (5th Cir. Feb. 21, 2008).
  • Sanders v. Leake County Sch. Dist., No. 4:06CV66TSL, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18405 (S.D. MS Mar. 7, 2008).

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Photo of Professor Solimine Michael E. Solimine

Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law and Director, Faculty Developmet & Director, Extern Program

Michael’s article, Congress, Ex parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, was accepted for publication in the Pittsburgh Law Review.

Several of Michael’s publications were cited:

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Photo of Professor Steinman Adam Steinman

Associate Professor of Law

Adam completed a new article, What is the Erie Doctrine? (And What Does it Mean for the Contemporary Politics of Judicial Federalism?).

Several of Adam’s articles were cited:

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Photo of Professor Thomas Suja Thomas

Professor of Law

Two of Suja’s articles were cited:

  • Judicial Modesty and the Jury, 76 U. Colo. L. Rev. 767 (2005), in Roger A. Fairfax, Jr., Harmless Constitutional Error and the Institutional Significance of the Jury, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2027 (2008).
  • Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. 139 (2007), in In re One Star Class Sloop Sailboat Built in 1930 with Hull Number 721, Named “Flash II,”' 517 F.Supp.2d 546 (D. MA October 01, 2007); and David L Shapiro, The Story of Celotex: The Role of Summary Judgment in the Administration of Civil Justice, in Civil Procedure Stories (Kevin M. Clermont, ed., Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2008).

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Photo of Dean Emeritus Tomain Joseph P. Tomain

Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law

Several of Joe’s articles were cited:

  • Land Use Mediation for Planners, 7 Mediation Q. 163 (1989), in Edward H. Ziegler, Jr., Arden H. Rathkopf, and Daren A. Rathkopf, Rathkopf's The Law of Zoning and Planning (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 4th ed., 2008 Supp.).
  • Regulatory Law and Policy (LexisNexis Group, 3d ed. 2003) (with Sidney Shapiro), in Robert Glicksman, Nothing Is Real: Protecting the Regulatory Void through Federal Preemption by Inaction, 26 Va. Envtl. L.J. 5 (2008).
  • Smart Energy Paths: How Willie Nelson Saved the Planet, 36 Cumb. L. Rev. 417 (2006), in Christopher D. Stone, Is Environmentalism Dead? 38 Envtl. L. 19 (2008).
  • To a Point, 52 Loyola L. Rev. 1201 (2007), in Ruth Gordon, Climate Change and the Poorest Nations: Further Reflections on Global Inequality, 78 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1559 (2007).

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Photo of Professor Wiliams Verna L. Williams

Professor of Law

Verna completed a new article, Social Justice Feminism (with Kristin Kalsem). She and Kristin presented Social Justice Feminism: Words, Movements, Theory and Practice at the 11th Annual Meeting Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities at Boalt Hall.

Verna made two presentations at Harvard Law School:

  • Race and Gender in the Presidential Election, at the Winter Luncheon.
  • Career Transitions: Moving from Private to Public, Public to Private, and Public to Academia, at A Celebration of Public Interest.

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Photo of Professor Wuerth Ingrid Brunk Wuerth

Professor of Law

Two of Ingrid’s articles were cited:

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