Law School

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

Marjorie presented three negotiation-related workshops, and gave a lecture on New Zealand Women Do (or Should) Negotiate, to staff from various New Zealand government ministry and agencies, sponsored by the New Zealand Leadership Development Center. Closer to home, she presented a half-day Negotiation training program for women attorneys at Hahn Loeser & Parks in Columbus, OH.

Marjorie and Betsy Malloy organized the UC Law Running Club and participated in the Flying Pig Marathon.

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

Timothy K. Armstrong
Assistant Professor of Law

Tim created the Early United States Statutes website, a repository where complete volumes of the Statutes at Large may be downloaded in multiple formats suitable for offline browsing. His blog, Info/Law, was named a Top-50 Law School Blog.

Tim's article, Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 49 (2006), was cited in Christina M. Mulligan, Perfect Enforcement of Law: When to Limit and When to Use Technology, 14 Rich. J.L. & Tech. 13 (2008).

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Lin (Lynn) Bai
Assistant Professor of Law

Lynn's proposed reform of the law review system attracted a lot of attention in the blogosphere. Her article, There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements (with James D. Cox & Randall S. Thomas), was cited in Elliott J. Weiss, The Lead Plaintiff Provisions of the PSLRA after a Decade, or "Look What's Happened to My Baby", 61 Vand. L. Rev. 543 (2008).

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Marianna Brown Bettman
Professor of Clinical Law

Marianna received two prestigious awards:

• The Ohio State Bar Association's 2008 Nettie Cronise Lutes Award, which recognizes “women lawyers who have improved the legal profession through their own high level of professionalism and who have opened doors for other women and girls.”
• The University of Cincinnati's 2008 Mrs. A. B. "Dolly" Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Marianna attended the Sixth Circuit Conference in Chatanooga, Tennessee as a delegate for Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey. She presented one of the Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus achievement awards to retired Cincinnati School Board member (and retired UC professor) Florence Newell.

Marianna gave a presentation to the NAACP membership on the school finance decisions and the problems with public school financing in Ohio.

Profile of Professor Bettman

Lou Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

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.

Profile of Dean Bilionis

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

Barbara received the 2008 Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award, in recognition of her outstanding research and scholarly achievement. From the announcement: “Professor Black's scholarly work has been influencing the way academics, judges, lawyers, the SEC, and the investing public view the nation's securities law for thirty years.” She will deliver a public lecture on her innovative scholarship at the College during the 2008-09 academic year.

Barbara attended the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Montreal, where she moderated a panel on Law, Value and Wealth: Markets and Securities Law and served as a discussant on a panel on Trends in Securities Litigation and Settlements.

Barbara's article, Fraud on the Market: A Criticism of Dispensing With Reliance Requirements In Certain Open Market Transactions, 62 N.C. L. Rev. 435 (1984), was cited in Brent A. Olson, Publicly Traded Corporations: Governance & Regulation (Thomson West, 2nd ed., 2008 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Black

A. Christopher Bryant
Professor of Law

Chris's article, Youngstown Revisited, 29 Hastings Const. L.Q. 373 (2002) (with Carl Tobias), was cited in Mark C. Rahdert, Double-checking Executive Emergency Power: Lessons from Hamdi and Hamdan, 80 Temp. L. Rev. 451 (2007).

Profile of Professor Bryant

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

Paul signed a contract with Foundation Press for a second edition of his Tax Stories book.

Paul's blog, TaxProf Blog, was named a Top-50 Law School Blog. His blog commentary on Hartman v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2008-124 (5/1/08), was featured in The Atlantic and Bloomberg News.

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

• 5 issues of tax Law & Policy (vol. 9, nos. 14-18).
• 2 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 8, nos. 14-15).
• 3 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 8, nos. 10-12) (with Robert A. Green (Cornell).

Two of Paul's articles were cited:

• Tax Myopia, or Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Tax Lawyers, 13 Va. Tax Rev. 517 (1994), in Andre L. Smith, The Deliberative Stylings of Leading Tax Law Scholars, 61 Tax Law. 1 (2007).
• What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Rafael Gely), in Richard Danner, Applying the Access Principle in Law: The Responsibilities of the Legal Scholar, 35 Int'l J. Legal Info. 355 (2007).

Profile of Professor Caron

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

Margaret attended the AALS Clinical Legal Education conference in Tucson, Arizona. She attended a meeting of the Hamilton County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, where she spoke about the work of the UC Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic.

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Rafael Gely
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Rafael's article, What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Paul L. Caron), was cited in Richard Danner, Applying the Access Principle in Law: The Responsibilities of the Legal Scholar, 35 Int'l J. Legal Info. 355 (2007).

Profile of Professor Gely

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

Mark spoke about wrongful convictions to UC English students and professors, and at two local church services. He gave a presentation at a Town Hall meeting and CLE for the Cleveland Bar Association.

Six legislative reforms that Mark drafted with 1L students were introduced in the Ohio General Assembly. He filed numerous briefs across the state on active OIP cases.

Mark was quoted in Free Pass out of Prison?, Ashtabula Star Beacon, May 1, 2008.

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

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

The publication of the May 2008 issue of the Human Rights Quarterly marked Bert Lockwood's completion of 26 years as Editor. During Bert's editorship, all 104 issues of the journal have been published and mailed to subscribers in the month of publication stated on the Quarterly's cover. The lead article in the May issue is Establishing a Workable Autonomy in Tibet, by Michael Davis, a professor at City University of Hong Kong. The article has been picked up by Outlook, the equivalent of Time Magazine in India. On the Project Muse website of Johns Hopkins University Press, HRQ is ranked second out of over 350 journals in the number of downloads of article in 2007 (186,456).

The University of Pennsylvania Press published the 54th book in the Pennsylvania Studies of Human Rights for which Bert serves as Series Editor: The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era, edited by William F. Schulz, the former head of Amnesty International USA. Georgetown hosted an all-day conference on the book, with Madeleine Allbright as the opening speaker.

Bert served as Rapporteur at the annual meeting of the principal human rights official of 30 western foreign ministries. The meeting was in Iceland. He also attended the annual meeting of the Law School Admission Council in Marco Island, FL.

Bert's article, The United Nations Charter and United States Civil Rights Litigation, 1946-1955, 69 Iowa L. Rev. 901 (1984), was cited in Scott L. Cummings, The Internationalization of Public Interest Law, 57 Duke L.J. 891 (2008).

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

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

Betsy's blog, Health Law Prof Blog, was named a Top-50 Law School Blog.

Betsy and Marjorie Aaron organized the UC Law Running Club and participated in the Flying Pig Marathon.

Two of Betsy's articles were cited:

• Beyond Misguided Paternalism: Resuscitating the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment, 33 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1035 (1998), in Strong's North Carolina Index (Thomson West, 4th ed. 2008 Supp.).
• Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Why Are Disability Law Claims Any Different?, 33 Conn. L. Rev 603 (2001), in Elizabeth F. Emens, Integrating Accommodation, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 839 (2008).

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

Brad published:

• Can Plaintiffs Use Multinational Environmental Treaties as Customary International Law to Sue Under the Alien Tort Statute?, 2007 Utah L. Rev. 1085 (2007)
• Title VI and Environment Justice, and Executive Order 12,898, in The Law of Environmental Justice (Michael B. Gerrard & Sheila Foster, eds.) (ABA, 2d ed. 2008).

Brad's article, Are Public Facilities Different from Private Ones?: Adopting a New Standard of Review for the Dormant Commerce Clause, 60 SMU L. Rev. 157 (2007), was cited in Daniel A. Crane, Antitrust Antifederalism, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2008).

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

Douglas received the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for outstanding contributions to the literature in forensic psychiatry in recognition of his article, Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006). He delivered a lecture on the topic at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C..

Douglas made two other presentations:

• The Imperfections of Protection Through Detection and Intervention: Lessons from Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, at The Dangerous Patient: Medical, Legal and Public Policy Responses, Health Policy Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Law (see coverage in the Southern Illinoisan).
• Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Assessments in the Absence of a Diagnostic “Gold Standard,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University School of Medicine (Elizabeth Place).

Douglas published a Malpractice Rx column, Violence Risk: Is Clinical Judgment Enough?, 7 Current Psychiatry 70 (2008). He completed an article, Divorce, Custody, and Parental Consent for Psychiatric Treatment (with Christina G. Weston), forthcoming in Current Psychiatry).

Two of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Susanne Bengtson, Is Newer Better? A Cross-validation of the Static-2002 and the Risk Matrix 2000 in a Danish Sample of Sexual Offenders, 14 Psychol. Crime & L. 85 (2008); Jonathan Simon, Reversal of Fortune: The Resurgence of Individual Risk Assessment in Criminal Justice, 1 Ann. Rev .L, &. Soc. Sci. 397 (2005); Howard N. Garb, Clinical Judgment and Decision Making, 1 Ann. Rev. Clinical Psychol.67 (2005); and Scott I. Vrieze & William M. Grove, Predicting Sex Offender Recidivism. I. Correcting for Item Overselection and Accuracy Overestimation in Scale Development. Ii. Sampling Error-induced Attenuation of Predictive Validity over Base Rate Information, 32 Law & Hum. Behav. 266 (2008).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Xin He & Eric C. Frey, The Meaning and Use of the Volume under a Three-class ROC Surface (VUS), 27 IEEE Transactions Med. Imaging 577 (2008); Chris Bourke, et al., On Reoptimizing Multi-class Classifiers, 71 Machine Learning 219 (2008).

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

Nancy Oliver
Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing

Nancy has been appointed Interim Associate Dean for Curriculum and Student Affairs, effective July 1, 2008. Nancy was quoted in:

• Hospital Infections Might Be Disclosed; Rates at Institutions Would Be Available for Public to Review, Columbus Dispatch, May 10, 2008, at 1B.
• State Panel May Require Hospital Infection Reports, Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 6, 2008, at B1.

Profile of Professor Oliver

William J. Rands
Professor of Law

The UC Board of Trustees approved Bill's appointment as Professor Emeritus of Law, effective September 1, 2008.

Profile of Professor Rands

Ronna Greff Schneider
Professor of Law

Ronna's article, Sexual Harassment and Higher Education, 65 Tex. L. Rev. 525 (1987), was cited in Michael E. Buchwald, Sexual Harassment in Education and Student Athletics: A Case for Why Title IX Sexual Harassment Jurisprudence Should Develop Independently of Title VII, 67 Md. L. Rev. 672 (2008).

Profile of Professor Schneider

Michael E. Solimine
Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law

Michael published Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 767 (2007). He spoke at a forum in Cincinnati Judicial Independence in Ohio, sponsored by Common Cause and the Ohio League of Woman Voters.

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• 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 George D. Brown, Political Judges and Popular Justice: A Conservative Victory or a Conservative Dilemma?, 49 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1543 (2008).
• Deciding to Decide: Class Action Certification and Interlocutory Review by the United States Courts of Appeals under Rule 23(f), 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1531 (2000) (with Christine Oliver Hines), in Richard D. Freer, Interlocutory Review of Class Action Certification Decisions: a Preliminary Empirical Study of Federal and State Experience, 35 W. St. U. L. Rev. 13 (2007); and David F. Herr & Roger S. Haydock , Civil Rules Annotated (Thomson West, 4th ed., 2008 Supp.).
• Deregulating Voluntary Dismissals, 32 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 367 (2003) (with Amy Lippert), in Lance P. McMillan, The Nuisance Settlement "Problem": The Elusive Truth and a Clarifying Proposal, 31 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 221 (2007).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in David Marcus, The Perils of Contract Procedure: A Revised History of Forum Selection Clauses in the Federal Courts, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 973 (2008).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Dietrich Fausten, Ingrid Nielsen & Russell Smyth, A Century of Citation Practice on the Supreme Court of Victoria, 31 Melb. U. L. Rev. 733 (2007).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Mark A. Hall & Ronald F. Wright, Systematic Content Analysis of Judicial Opinions, 96 Cal. L. Rev. 63 (2008).
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Bradford Mank, Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA's New Standing Test for States, 49 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 1701 (2008); and James W. Doggett, "Trickle Down" Constitutional Interpretation: Should Federal Limits on Legislative Conferral of Standing Be Imported into State Constitutional Law?, 108 Colum. L. Rev. 839 (2008).
• Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Thomas O. Main, Reconsidering Procedural Conformity Statutes, 35 W. St. U. L. Rev. 75 (2007).
• Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995) (with Susan E. Wheatley), in Gregory C. Sisk, The Quantitative Moment and the Qualitative Opportunity: Legal Studies of Judicial Decision Making, 93 Cornell L. Rev. 873 (2008).
• Shoring up Article III: Legislative Court Doctrine in the Post CFTC v. Schor Era, 68 B.U. L. Rev. 85 (1988) (with Richard Saphire), in Mark C. Rahdert, Double-checking Executive Emergency Power: Lessons from Hamdi and Hamdan, 80 Temp. L. Rev. 451 (2007).

Profile of Professor Solimine

Adam Steinman
Associate Professor of Law

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 Jay Tidmarsh, Finding Room for State Class Actions in a Post-CAFA World: The Case of the Counterclaim Class Action, 35 W. St. U. L. Rev. 193 (2007).

Profile of Professor Steinman

Suja Thomas
Professor of Law

Suja's articles, Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. 139 (2007), and Why the Motion to Dismiss Is Now Unconstitutional, 92 Minn. L. Rev. ___ (2008), were cited in Max Huffman, The Necessity of Pleading Elements in Private Antitrust Conspiracy Claims, 10 U. Pa. J. Bus. & Emp. L. 627 (2008); and Thomas Jacobs, Children & the Law: Rights and Obligations (Thomson West, 2008 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Thomas

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

Two of Joe's publications were cited:

• Energy Law in a Nutshell (West Group, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy), in Richard D. Cudahy, Asian Amperes: Chinese Electric Power, 29 Energy L.J. 33 (2008).
• Regulatory Law and Policy: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis Group, 3d ed. 2003) (with Sidney Shapiro), in David B. Spence, Can Law Manage Competitive Energy Markets?, 93 Cornell L. Rev. 765 (2008).

Profile of Professor Tomain

Barbara G. Watts
Associate Dean, Curriculum & Student Affairs

The UC Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Barb Watts as Associate Dean Emerita, effective June 30, 2008.

Profile of Dean Watts

Ingrid Brunk Wuerth
Professor of Law

Ingrid posted her most recent article, An Originalism for Foreign Affairs?, 51 St. Louis U. L.J. ___ (2008) (symposium), on SSRN. Larry Solum praised the piece on his Legal Theory Blog: “Highly recommended. This is the best scholarship I've seen that grapples with the implications of the New Originalism for constitutional power and foreign affairs. Download it while its hot!”

Ingrid's article, International Law and Constitutional Interpretation: The Commander-in-Chief Clause Reconsidered, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 61 (2007), was cited in Gary Lawson, What Lurks Beneath: NSA Surveillance and Executive Power, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 375 (2008).

Profile of Professor Wuerth

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