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

Several of Marjorie's publications were cited:

• ADR Toolbox: The Highwire Art of Evaluation, 14 Alternatives to High Cost Litig. 62 (1996), in Mercédeh Azeredo da Silveira, Impartiality v. Substantive Neutrality: Is the Mediator Authorized to Provide Legal Advice? 62-APR Disp. Resol. J. 26 (2007).
• The Value of Decision Analysis in Mediation Practice, 11 Negot. J. 123 (1995), and Decision Analysis as a Method of Evaluating the Trial Alternative, in Mediating Legal Disputes 307 (Dwight Golann, ed., 1997) (with David P. Hoffer), in Douglas H. Yarn & Gregory Todd Jones, Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practice and Procedure in Georgia (Harrison, 3rd ed. 2007 Supp.).

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

Marianna Brown Bettman
Invited Professor of Law

Marianna published Searching and Seizing: Two New Rulings as her monthly Legally Speaking column in the American Israelite, Cincinnati Herald, and City Beat.

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Lou Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

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.

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

The Corporate Law Center is assisting the Ohio Task Force on Commercial Dockets with research on the operation of business and commercial courts in the United States. The Task Force, co-chaired by Patrick Fischer, President of the Cincinnati Bar Association (and partner at Keating, Muething & Klekamp) and Judge John Bessey, was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court to assess the best method of establishing commercial civil litigation dockets in the courts of common pleas in Ohio and to develop, oversee and evaluate a pilot project. Barbara met with the Task Force members and 2Ls Philip Borger and Nicklaus McKee are working full-time this summer on this ongoing project.

Barbara was selected by the AALS Section on Securities Regulation to present a paper, Are Retail Investors Better Off After Sarbanes-Oxley?, for presentation at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City in January 2008. The paper will be published in the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate and Securities Law.

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A. Christopher Bryant
Professor of Law

Chris was selected by the Class of 2007 to confer the ceremonial hoods at graduation.

Profile of Professor Bryant

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

Paul presented Law School Rankings: Past, Present, and Future at the LSAC Annual Meeting and Educational Conference in Tucson, Arizona. He led a faculty luncheon discussion on Scholarly Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law hosted by his former UC colleagues Jean Braucher and Jack Chin.

Paul's TaxProf Blog was praised in the Wall Street Journal on May 30: "Mr. Caron's widely read Blog is important reading for anyone trying to keep up with tax-related news." His blog was ranked as the eighth most popular law blog among 1845 law blogs tracked by Justia.com.

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

• Adjunct Law Prof Blog, edited by Mitchell Rubinstein (St. John's & New York Law School).
• Search & Seizure Blog, edited by H. Scott Fingerhut (Florida International).
• Secured Credit Blog, edited by Larry Bates (Baylor) & Kristin Schroeder Simpson (Baylor).

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

• 3 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 8, nos. 16-18).
• 2 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 7, nos. 9-10).
• 3 issue of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 7, nos. 10-12) (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell)).

Two of Paul's articles were cited:

• Tax Myopia Meets Tax Hyperopia: The Unproven Case of Increased Judicial Deference to Revenue Rulings, 57 Ohio St. L.J. 637 (1996), in Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz, Discarded Deference: Judicial Independence in Informal Agency Guidance, 74 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (2007).
• What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Rafael Gely), in Larry Garvin, The Strange Death of Academic Commercial Law, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 403 (2007).

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Jacob Cogan
Assistant Professor of Law

Jacob Cogan has launched an International Law Blog. He is the sixth College of Law faculty member with a blog:

• Tim Armstrong: Info/Law
• Barbara Black: Securities Law Prof Blog
• Paul Caron: TaxProf Blog and MoneyLaw
• Jacob Cogan: International Law Reporter
• Mark Godsey: CrimProf Blog
• Betsy Malloy: Health Law Prof Blog

Cincinnati thus enjoys a large legal blogosphere presence in raw terms and an even larger presence on a per capita basis-nearly 25% of our tenured and tenure-track faculty now blog.

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

Margaret continued to meet with a subcommittee of the University Sexual Offense Response Team on defining the work of the Team. She participated in a planning group for a fall conference on Humanizing Law School Education to be held at Washburn University. Margaret attended a three-day conference in London, Ontario on Children's Issues in Domestic Violence Cases.

Margaret's article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005) was cited in Dana Harrington Conner, To Protect or to Serve: Confidentiality, Client Protection, and Domestic Violence, 79 Temp. L. Rev. 877 (2007).

Profile of Professor Drew

Rafael Gely
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Justice Ginsburg cited one of Rafael's articles, Love, Sex and Politics? Sure. Salary? No Way": Workplace Social Norms and the Law, 25 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 167 (2004), in her concurrence in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (No. 05-1074).

Rafael's article, What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Paul Caron), was cited in Larry Garvin, The Strange Death of Academic Commercial Law, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 403 (2007).

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

Mark received the TIAFF-CREF Award for Distinguished Public Service in a ceremony presided over by President Zimpher. The Ohio Innocence Project received "Courageous Advocate" for 2007 by the Inns of Court at a downtown banquet, and Mark spoke at the banquet about the phenomenon of wrongful convictions. Mark also gave a CLE presentation on the Clarence Elkins case and prosecutorial tunnel vision to the Lawyer's Club of Cincinnati at a downtown luncheon.

Several of Mark's articles were cited:

• The Final Frontier of Constitutional Confession Law-The International Arena: Exploring the Admissibility of Confessions Taken by U.S. Investigators from Non-Americans Abroad, 91 Geo. L.J. 851 (2003), in John T. Parry, Terrorism and the New Criminal Process, 15 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 765 (2007).
• Going Home to Stay: A Review of Collateral Consequences of Conviction, Post-incarceration Employment, and Recidivism in Ohio, 36 U. Tol. L. Rev. 525 (2005) (with Marlaina Freisthler), in Christopher Stafford, Finding Work: How to Approach the Intersection of Prisoner Reentry, Employment, and Recidivism, 13 Geo. J. on Poverty L. & Pol'y 261 (2007).
• Rethinking the Involuntary Confession Rule: Toward a Workable Test for Identifying Compelled Self-Incrimination, 93 Cal. L. Rev. 465 (2005), in Julie Renee Linkins, Satisfy the Demands of Justice: Embrace Electronic Recording of Custodial Investigative Interviews through Legislation, Agency Policy, or Court Mandate, 44 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 141 (2007).

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

Emily Houh
Professor of Law

Emily's symposium proposal, From Proposition 209 to Proposal 2: Examining the Effects of Anti-Affirmative Action Voter Initiatives, has been accepted for publication in the California Law Review.

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Ann Hubbard
Professor of Law

Ann's article, Meaningful Lives and Major Life Activities, 55 Ala. L. Rev. 997 (2004), was cited in Deirdre M. Smith, The Paradox of Personality: Mental Illness, Employment Discrimination, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 17 Geo. Mason U. Civ. Rts. L.J. 79 (2006).

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Max Huffman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Max published:

• A Standing Framework for Private Extraterritorial Antitrust Enforcement, 60 SMU L. Rev. 103 (2007).
• A viewpoint in the eSapience Center for Competition Policy on the Supreme Court's decision in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (No. 05-1126).

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

Bert hosted a dinner at the Faculty Club in honor of Unity Dow, our graduation speaker. He also hosted a lunch with Sean Lees, a Boston College Law grad who has been doing refugee work in Thailand and will be leaving shortly for Darfur where he will be working on a rule of law project.

Profile of Professor Lockwood :: Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

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

Brad published:

• Are Public Facilities Different from Private Ones?: Adopting a New Standard of Review for the Dormant Commerce Clause, 60 SMU L. Rev. 157 (2007).
• Implementing Rapanos-Will Justice Kennedy's Significant Nexus Test Provide a Workable Standard for Lower Courts, Regulators, and Developers?, 40 Ind. L. Rev. 291 (2007).

Two of Brad's articles were cited:

• Suing under § 1983: The Future after Gonzaga v. Doe, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 1417 (2003), in Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz, Discarded Deference: Judicial Independence in Informal Agency Guidance, 74 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (2007).
• Superfund Contractors and Agency Capture, 2 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 34 (1993), in Joseph A. Colquitt, Rethinking Judicial Nominating Commissions: Independence, Accountability, and Public Support, 34 Fordham Urb. L.J. 73 (2007).

Brad was quoted in Paul Webster, Is It Time to Hand Global Warming to the Lawyers?, Toronto Star, May 3 2007, at D3.

Profile of Professor Mank

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

Two of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Melinda D. Schlager & David J. Simourd, Validity of the Level of Service Inventory-revised (LSI-R) Among African American and Hispanic Male Offenders, 34 Crim. Just. Behav. 545 (2007); and F. Urbaniok, et al., The Predictive Quality of the Psychopathy Checklist-revised (PCL-R) for Violent and Sex Offenders in Switzerland-a Validation Study, 75 Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie 155 (2007).
• Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behav. 229 (2003), in Karl B. Tegland, Evidence Law and Practice (West, 5th ed., 2007 Supp.); and Michael J. Sharland & Jeffrey D. Gfeller, A Survey of Neuropsychologists' Beliefs and Practices with Respect to the Assessment of Effort, 22 Archives Clin. Neuropsychol. 213 (2007).

Profile of Professor Mossman :: Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry

Ronna Greff Schneider
Professor of Law

Ronna presented Religion and the Public Schools at Chapman University School of Law as part of its Betsy Levin's Lunchtime Lecture Series on Education Law.

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

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Institutional and Empirical Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Peter B. Rutledge, Clerks, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 369 (2007); and Stefanie A. Lindquist, Bureaucratization and Balkanization: The Origins and Effects of Decision-Making Norms in the Federal Appellate Courts, 41 U. Richmond L. Rev. 659 (2007).
• The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U. L. Rev. 559 (2002), in Brian F. Schaffner & Jennifer Segal Diascro, Judicial Elections in the News, in Running for Judge: The Rising Political, Financial and Legal Stakes of Judicial Elections (Matthew J. Streb, ed.) (NYU Press, 2007); and Herbert M. Kritzer, Law is the Mere Continuation of Politics by Different Means: American Judicial Selection in the Twenty-First Century, 56 DePaul L. Rev. 423 (2007).
• Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 563 (2002), in Vicki C. Jackson, Packages of Judicial Independence: The Selection and Tenure of Article III Judges, 95 Geo. L.J. 965 (2007).
• Judicial Reputation: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal. Stud. 271 (1998) (with William Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Christine Hurt, The Bluebook at Eighteen: Reflecting and Ratifying Current Trends in Legal Scholarship, 82 Ind. L.J. 49 (2007); Stephen J. Choi & G. Mitu Gulati, Ranking Judges According to Citation Bias (As a Means to Reduce Bias), 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1279 (2007); and Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Age and Tenure of the Justices and Productivity of the Supreme Court: Are Term Limits Necessary?, 34 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 161 (2006).
• Constitutional Restrictions on the Partisan Appointment of Federal and State Judges, 61 U. Cin. L. Rev. 955 (1993), in Joseph A. Colquitt, Rethinking Judicial Nominating Commissions: Independence, Accountability, and Public Support, 34 Fordham Urb. L.J. 73 (2007).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Henry S. Noyes, If You (Re)build It, They Will Come: Contracts to Remake the Rules of Litigation in Arbitration's Image, 30 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 579 (2007).
• Revitalizing Interlocutory Appeals in the Federal Courts, 58 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (1990), in Pauline T. Kim, Lower Court Discretion, 82 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 383 (2007).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Richard A. Posner, Economic Analysis of Law (Aspen, 7th ed. 2007); Giesela Ruhl, Methods and Approaches in Choice of Law: An Economic Analysis, 24 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 801 (2006); and Henry van Egteren, et al., Environmental Liability and Harmonization in the Presence of Transboundary Effects and Hidden Assets, 22 European J. L. & Econ. 143 (2006).

Profile of Professor Solimine

Adam N. Steinman
Assistant Professor of Law

Adam's promotion to Associate Professor of Law (effective September 1) was approved by the University.

Several of Adam's articles were cited:

• A Constitution for Judicial Lawmaking, 65 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 545 (2004), in Jack Wade Nowlin, Conceptualizing the Dangers of the "Least Dangerous" Branch: A Typology of Judicial Constitutional Violation, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 1211 (2007).
• "Less" is "More"? Textualism, Intentionalism, and a Better Solution to the Class Action Fairness Act's Appellate Deadline Riddle, 92 Iowa L. Rev. ___ (2007), and 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), in Charles Alan Wright, et al., Federal Practice and Procedure (West, 2007 Supp.).

Adam was selected by the Class of 2007 to confer the ceremonial hoods at graduation.

Profile of Professor Steinman

Suja Thomas
Professor of Law

Suja received the 2007 Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award, which recognizes outstanding research and scholarly achievement by a member of the College of Law faculty. She presented Why the Motion to Dismiss Could be Unconstitutional as part of the College's 11th Annual Summer Scholarship Series.

Suja's article, Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. 139 (2007), is the ninth most-downloaded paper in the SSRN Journal of Legal History. She was selected by the Class of 2007 to confer the ceremonial hoods at graduation.

Profile of Professor Thomas

Barbara G. Watts
Associate Dean

The Cincinnati Bar Association honored Barb Watts at their annual meeting and luncheon with their Trustees Award.

Profile of Dean Watts

Verna L. Williams
Professor of Law

Verna was quoted in a front-page New York Times story, Michelle Obama Adds New Role to Balancing Act, N.Y. Times, May 18, 2007, at A1.

Profile of Professor Williams

Ingrid Brunk Wuerth
Professor of Law

Ingrid's article, Authorizations for the Use of Force, International Law, and the Charming Betsy Canon, 46 B.C. L. Rev. 293 (2005), was cited in Eric A. Posner & Cass R. Sunstein, Chevronizing Foreign Relations Law, 116 Yale L.J. 1170 (2007); John O. McGinnis & Ilya Somin, Should International Law Be Part of Our Law?, 59 Stan. L. Rev. 1175 (2007); and John T. Parry, Terrorism and the New Criminal Process, 15 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 765 (2007).

Profile of Professor Wuerth

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