Law School

Marjorie Corman Aaron
Professor of Practice and Director, Center for Negotiation & Problem Solving

Marjorie taught a three-day workshop to the 2L class on Interviewing Counseling and Decision-Making with Professor Richard Reuben (Missouri-Columbia). She served as a judge for the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution awards for professional articles published in 2006 in dispute resolution. Marjorie designed and taught a two day workshop in Advanced Mediation and Mediation Advocacy for the CPR Institute with Amy Glass (Michigan Mediation Services).

Marjorie's article, Using Decision Trees as Tools for Settlement, 14 Alternatives to High Cost Litig. 71 (1996) (with David P. Hoffer), was cited in Robert L. Haig, Successful Partnering between Inside and Outside Counsel (West Group, 2007 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Aaron :: Center for Practice in Negotiation & Problem Solving

Timothy K. Armstrong
Assistant Professor of Law

Tim attended the 4th Annual Intellectual Property and Communications Law and Policy Scholars Roundtable at Michigan State. His article, Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 49 (2006), was cited in Peter K. Yu, Anticircumvention and Anti-anticircumvention, 84 Denver U. L. Rev. 13 (2006).

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Marianna Brown Bettman
Invited Professor of Law

Marianna published Keeping the "Public" in Public Education as her monthly Legally Speaking column in American Israelite and City Beat.

Profile of Professor Bettman

Lou Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

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).

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

Barbara launched Securities Law Prof Blog as part of Paul Caron's Law Professor Blogs Network.

Barbara attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. She was quoted in Neale Sold $19 Million in Company Stock, Post-Tribune, Jan. 31, 2007.

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Kristin Kalsem
Professor of Law

Kristin attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., where she ended her term as Chair of the Law and the Humanities Section.

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A. Christopher Bryant
Professor of Law

Chris participated in the Eighth Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop at Capital University Law School. He served as a judge for the Ohio We The People Competition in Columbus, OH.

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 Kenneth A. Bamberger, Regulation as Delegation: Private Firms, Decisionmaking, and Accountability in the Administrative State, 56 Duke L.J. 377 (2006).

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Paul L. Caron
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Faculty Projects

Paul presented Building and Marketing Your Scholarly "Brand" at the New Law Professors Section Meeting on Scholarship and the New Law Professor: Of Blogs, Books, Networks, and the Placement Game (with Dorothy Brown (Washington & Lee), Robert Chesney (Wake Forest), Mark Godsey(Cincinnati) & Lawrence Solum (Illinois)) at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Also at the AALS Annual Meeting, he:

• Attended a meeting of the Board of Directors of CALI (The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction).
• Completed his term on the AALS Committee on Curriculum, chaired by Dean Ed Rubin (Vanderbilt).

Paul launched two blogs as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network:

• Reproductive Rights Prof Blog, edited by Caitlin Borgmann (CUNY).
• Securities Law Prof Blog, edited by Barbara Black (Cincinnati)

Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts:

• 6 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 8, nos. 1-6).
• 3 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 7, no. 1-3).
• 3 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 7, nos. 1-3) (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell)).

Paul was quoted in IRS Must File Answers in Small Cases, Nat'l L.J., Jan. 30, 2007. His article, New Decision Further Clouds Deductibility of Expenses During Administration, 11 Est. Plan. 164 (1984), was cited in George Gleason Bogert, George Taylor Bogert & Amy Morris Hess, The Law of Trusts and Trustees (West, 3rd ed. 2006 Supp.).

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Margaret Drew
Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Domestic Relations/Violence Clinic

Margaret presented Interview Issues in Sexual Assault Cases at the National Civil Law Institute on Custody Issues in Domestic Violence Cases. She worked with Senator Biden's office in developing a plan to create a nationwide network of pro bono lawyers for victims of domestic violence. (The plan was announced this month by Senator Biden.)

At the invitation of Judge Jerry Bowles, Margaret attended the Jefferson County (KY) domestic violence fatality review team meeting. She also attended a conference on workplace violence issues at Sinclair Community College in Dayton.

Margaret was appointed by the ABA Family Law Section to a workgroup charged with forging a long term relationship with the American Psychological Association on issues of abuse, neglect and endangerment.

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Tom Eisele
Professor Law

Tom's article, Avalon Ethics, 67 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1287 (1992) (reviewing Thomas L. Shaffer, American Lawyers and Their Communities: Ethics in the Legal Profession (1991)), was cited in Robert L. Haig, Successful Partnering between Inside and Outside Counsel (West Group, 2007 Supp.).

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Rafael Gely
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Two of Rafael's articles were cited:

• Labor Law Access Rules and Stare Decisis: Developing a Planned Parenthood-Based Model of Reform, 20 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 138 (1999) (with L. Bierman), in Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law-Substance & Procedure (Thomson/West, 2007).
• So You Want to be a Partner at Sidley & Austin, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 969 (2003) (with Leonard Bierman), in Lawrence A. Cunningham, Language, Deals, and Standards: The Future of XML Contracts, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 313 (2006).

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

Mark was featured in the January/February 2007 cover story in Inspire Cincinnati Magazine on The Eight Most Inspiring Cincinnati Men.

Mark presented Law Review Placement Strategies at the New Law Professors Section Meeting on Scholarship and the New Law Professor: Of Blogs, Books, Networks, and the Placement Game (with Dorothy Brown (Washington & Lee), Paul Caron (Cincinnati), Robert Chesney (Wake Forest) & Lawrence Solum (Illinois)) at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. He presented Reliability Lost in the Age of False Confessions at a Symposium at Chapman University School of Law on Miranda at 40: Applications in a Post-Enron, Post-9/11 World.

Mark was quoted in two articles:

• Associated Press, Witnesses' Memories a Challenge in Reopening 1964 Case, Professor Says, Jan. 31, 2007.
• Will Ted Strickland Keep up the Pace on Death Row?, Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 28, 2007, at 1A.

Profile of Professor Godsey :: Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project

Emily Houh
Professor of Law

Emily attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., where she began her term as Chair of the AALS Section on Law and the Humanities.

Emily's article, Critical Race Realism: Re-Claiming the Antidiscrimination Principle Through the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 66 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 455 (2005), was cited in N. Jeremi Duru, Fielding a Team for the Fans: The Societal Consequences and Title VII Implications of Race-considered Roster Construction in Professional Sport, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 375 (2006).

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Max Huffman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Max attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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Christo Lassiter
Professor of Law

Two of Christo's articles were cited:

• Eliminating Consent from the Lexicon of Traffic Stop Interrogations, 27 Cap. U. L. Rev. 79 (1998), in Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law-Substance & Procedure (Thomson/West, 2007).
• TV or Not TV - That is the Question?, 86 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 928 (1996), in Kevin F. O'Malley, Jay E. Grenig, & William C. Lee, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions (Thomson/West, 5th ed., 2007 Supp.).

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William J. Rands
Professor of Law

Bill attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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Ronna Schneider
Professor of Law

Ronna attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Her book, Education Law: First Amendment, Due Process, and Discrimination Litigation (West Group, 2004), was cited in Eva DuBuisson, Teaching from the Closet: Freedom of Expression and Out-speech by Public School Teachers, 85 N.C. L. Rev. 301 (2006).

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Michael E. Solimine
Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law, Director, Faculty Development and Extern Program

Michael attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. His article, Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), was reprinted in Inside the Judicial Process: A Contemporary Reader in Law, Politics, and the Courts (Houghton Mifflin, Jennifer Segal Diascro & Gregg Ivers, eds., 2006).

Several of Michael's works were cited:

• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Press 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Bruce G. Peabody, Congress, the Court, and the "Service Constitution": Article III Jurisdiction Controls as a Case Study of the Separation of Powers, 2006 Mich. St. L. Rev. 269.
• Forum Selection-Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Gary B. Born & Peter B. Rutledge, International Civil Litigation in United States Courts (Aspen Publishers, 4th ed., 2007).
• Newsmagazine Coverage of the Supreme Court, 57 Journalism Q. 661 (1980), in Terri L. Towner et al., Media Coverage of the University of Michigan Affirmative Action Decisions, 90 Judicature 120 (2006).

Profile of Professor Solimine

Adam N. Steinman
Assistant Professor of Law

Adam presented "Less" Is "More"? Textualism, Intentionalism, and a Better Solution to the Class Action Fairness Act's Appellate Deadline Riddle, 92 Iowa L. Rev. __ (2007), at Chicago-Kent as part of the College's Scholar Exchange Program. He attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Adam's article, Sausage-Making, Pigs' Ears, and Congressional Expansions of Federal Jurisdiction: Exxon Mobil v. Allapattah and its Lessons for the Class Action Fairness Act, 81 Wash. L. Rev. 279 (2006), was cited in Brian E. Foster, Serious Mischiefs: Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc., Supplemental Jurisdiction, and Breaking the Promise of Finley, 81 Notre Dame L. Rev. 2013 (2006).

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Suja Thomas
Professor of Law

Suja presented Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. __ (2007), to the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association. She attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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

Joe attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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Verna L. Williams
Professor of Law

Verna was featured in the latest issue of UC Magazine. She was quoted in The Woman Behind Obama, Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 21, 2007.

Verna attended the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Her articles, Private Choices, Public Consequences: Public Education Reform and Feminist Legal Theory, 12 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 563 (2006), and Reading, Writing, and Reparations: Systemic Reform of Public Schools as a Matter of Justice, 11 Mich. J. Race & L. 419 (2006), were cited in Law Review Digests, 36 J.L. & Educ. 113 (2007).

Profile of Professor Williams

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