Law School

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

Marjorie was appointed Professor of Clinical Law. She taught:

• Two three-day negotiation workshops to representatives of various New Zealand government ministries under the auspices of the Leadership Development Centre in Wellington, New Zealand.
• A course on Decision Analysis at North Carolina Central State University.

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Timothy K. Armstrong
Assistant Professorof Law

Two of Tim's articles were cited:

• Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 203 (2004), in Lisa Schultz Bressman, Deference and Democracy, 75 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 761 (2007); and Jacob E. Gersen, Overlapping and Underlapping Jurisdiction in Administrative Law, 2006 Sup. Ct. Rev. 201.
• Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 49 (2006), in Jean Braucher, Contracting Out of Article 2 Using a “License” Label: A Strategy That Should Not Work for Software Products, 40 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 261 (2006); Robert M. Frieden, Internet Packet Sniffing and its Impact on the Network Neutrality Debate and the Balance of Power Between Intellectual Property Creators and Consumers (2007) (draft); Jerome H. Reichman, Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Pamela Samuelson, A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public Interest Uses of Technically Protected Copyrighted Works (2007) (draft); and Ralph S. Brown & Robert C. Denicola, Copyright (2007 Supp.).

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Lin (Lynn) Bai
Assistant Professor of Law

Lynn joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Law.

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Marianna Brown Bettman
Professor of Clinical Law

Marianna was appointed Professor of Clinical Law. She was appointed by Chief Justice Moyer to serve on the new Ohio Supreme Court Task on the Code of Judicial Conduct. She also was appointed to the History Advisory Board of the Cincinnati Museum Center.

Marianna published as her monthly Legally Speaking columns in the American Israelite, Cincinnati Herald, and City Beat:

• June: Ruling Too Dismissive of Right to Parent (In Re Braydon James, 113 Ohio St.3d 420).
• July: Searching and Seizing: Two New Rulings (United States v. Cohen, 481 F.3d 896 (6th Cir. 2007); United States v. Barrows, 481 F.3d 1246 (6th Cir. 2007)).
• August: Much Ado About Bong Hits (Morse. v. Fredrick, 127 S.Ct 2618 (2007))

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Joseph Biancalana
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Joseph presented Assumpsit, Consideration and Early Chancery at the 18th British Legal History Conference at Oxford. He also participated on a Panel on Chancery with Michael McNair (Oxford), Neil Jones (Cambridge), and John Langbain (Yale).

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Lou Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

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).

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

Barbara published Transforming Rhetoric Into Reality: A Federal Remedy for Negligent Investment Advice, 8 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 101 (2006). She was an invited participant in the Conglomerate Blog's Third Annual Junior Scholars Workshop and commented on a paper by Darian M. Ibrahim.

Barbara presented Should the SEC Be a Collection Agency for Defrauded Investors? at the Corporate Women Scholars Conference at Seattle University School of Law. She also presented the paper as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

Several of Barbara's books and articles were cited:

• Brokers and Advisers - What's in a Name?, 11 Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. 31 (2005), and The Irony of Securities Arbitration Today: Why Do Brokerage Firms Need Judicial Protection?, 72 U. Cin.. L. Rev. 415 (2003), in Thomas L. Hazen & Jerry W. Markham, Broker-Dealer Operations under Securities and Commodities Law (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2007 Supp.), and Thomas Lee Hazen, Law of Securities Regulation, (Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.).
• Corporate Dividends and Stock Repurchases (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1990), in Richard A. Booth, Financing the Corporation (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2007 Supp.).
• Economic Suicide: The Collision of Ethics and Risk in Securities Law, 64 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 483 (2003) (with Jill I. Gross), and Securities Regulation in the Electronic Age: Online Trading, Discount Broker's Responsibilities and Old Wine in New Bottles, 28 Sec. Reg. L.J. 15 (2000), in Thomas Lee Hazen, Law of Securities Regulation, (Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.).

Barbara was quoted in:

• OSI Deal Was Manipulated from the Top, Some Say, St. Petersburg Times, June 5, 2007.
• SEC Interested in Web Musings of Whole Foods CEO, Washington Post, July 14, 2007.
• SEC Proposes New Capital-Raising Rules, Compliance Week, July 3, 2007.

Profile of Professor Black

Michelle Bradley
Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing

Michelle was appointed Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing

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A. Christopher Bryant
Professor of Law

Chris presented Presidential Signing Statements: Congress's Power and Duty to Oversee the Execution of the Laws as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series. He completed the article and submitted it to the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal as part of a symposium issue on The Last Word? The Constitutional Implications of Presidential Signing Statements.

Chris completed thirteen encyclopedia entries on various constitutional law topics to appear in The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhaus et al. eds., Macmillian).

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

Paul was appointed Associate Dean of Faculty.

The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published its 18th book: Bankruptcy Law Stories, edited by Robert Rasmussen (Dean, USC).

Paul's TaxProf Blog passed the 3,000,000-visitor mark, making it the most-visited law-focused blog edited by a single law professor. His blog was:

• Featured in the Wall Street Journal (Tom Herman, A Popular Blog Assembles Tax Information for the Military).
• Named the 8th most popular law blog among the 1845 law blogs tracked by Justia.com, as well as the #1 tax blog among twenty tax blogs.
• Named one of the Top 100 blogs dealing with economics.

The most recent census of law professor bloggers revealed that 77 (21%) of the 365 law professor bloggers are part of Paul's Law Professor Blogs Network. He launched two new blogs over the summer:

• Leiter's Legal Philosophy Blog, edited by Brian Leiter (Texas).
• Sexual Orientation and the Law Blog, edited by Sara Benson (Illinois) & William Turner (Emory).

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

• 9 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 8, nos. 19-27).
• 7 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 7, nos. 11-17).
• 9 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 7, nos. 13-21 (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell)).

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Jenny Carroll
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law

Jenny was appointed Assistant Professor of Clinical Law.

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Jacob Cogan
Assistant Professor of Law

Jacob presented Competition and Control in International Adjudication at the AALS–American Society of International Law Joint Conference in Vancouver. His article, International Criminal Courts and Fair Trials: Difficulties and Prospects, 27 Yale J. Int'l L. 111 (2002), was cited in Gregory S. Gordon, Toward an International Criminal Procedure: Due Process Aspirations and Limitations, 45 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 635 (2007).

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

Margaret was appointed Associate Professor of Clinical Law.

Margaret trained sexual assault nurses in the dynamics of domestic violence and civil remedies. Along with clinic student Annal Vyas, Margaret participated in a mock trial demonstrating the use of a sexual assault nurse as witness. The training, which was held at University Hospital, was part of a regional training in Advanced Forensic Application in Caring for Survivors of Interpersonal Violence.

Margaret facilitated discussions at the Muskie Institute of Public Service Conference on Custody Evaluations in Domestic Violence Cases in Portland, Maine. She taught “Interviewing on Sexual Assault Issues in Domestic Violence Cases” at the National Child Custody Civil Law Institute held in San Francisco.

Margaret attended a meeting of the newly formed coalition organized to address issues of human trafficking in Greater Cincinnati. She participated in planning a conference on immigrant battered women sponsored by Legal Momentum's National Network to End Domestic Violence Against Immigrant Women. The Conference will be held in November.

Margaret attended meetings of the Youth At Risk Commission and the Commission on Domestic Violence at the ABA annual meeting held in San Francisco. She was reappointed as Special Advisor to the Commission on 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, 2007 Supp.).

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Rafael Gely
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Rafael published Social Isolation and American Workers: Employee Blogging and Legal Reform, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 287 (2007) (with Leonard Bierman).

Several of Rafael's articles were cited:

• The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421 (with Michael Solimine), in Peter B. Rutledge, Clerks, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 369 (2007).
• Through the Looking Glass: Can Title VII Help Women and Minorities Shatter the Glass Ceiling?, 31 Hous. L. Rev. 1517 (1995) (with Ramona L. Paetzold), in Clare Tower Putnam, When Can a Law Firm Discriminate among its Own Employees to Meet a Client's Request? Reflections on the ACC's Call to Action, 9 U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. 657 (2007); and Ann Carey Juliano, Harassing Women with Power: The Case for Including Contra-Power Harassment Within Title VII, 87 B.U. L. Rev. 491 (2007).
• So You Want to be a Partner at Sidley & Austin, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 969 (2003) (with Leonard Bierman), in Leonard Bierman& Michael A. Hitt, The Globalization of Legal Practice in the Internet Age, 14 Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 29 (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 presented Silence and the Self-Incrimination Clause as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

Mark's article, Reformulating the Miranda Warnings in Light of Contemporary Law and Understandings , 90 Minn. L. Rev. 781 (2006), was cited in Pamela R. Metzger, Doing Katrina Time, 81 Tul. L. Rev. 1175 (2007). He appeared on WCPO-TV to discuss a local homicide case. He was quoted in:

• Prosecutor Tries to Link Man to Al-Qaida, Cincinnati Enquirer, June 5, 2007, at 2B.
• Convicted Rapist Insists He's Innocent: Flaws in Case Have Some Convinced Gillispie is Not Guilty of the 1988 Crimes, Dayton Daily News, June 3, 2007, at A1.
• Sometimes I Wonder If Death Ain't Better”: Inmate Still Maintains Innocence 16 Years after Being Convicted of Kidnapping and Raping Three Women, Dayton Daily News, June 3, 2007, at A13.
• Ohio Parole Board Votes 7-0 against Re-hearing Gillispie's Case for Release, Dayton Daily News, June 12, 2007, at A4.
• Petro Will Work Pro Bono to Free Convicted Rapist: Fairborn Man Has Spent 16 Years in Prison, but Ex-AG Is Sure of His Innocence, Dayton Daily News, Aug. 28, 2007, at A5.

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

Emily Houh
Professor of Law

Emily presented Stigma and Affirmative Action as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series. Two of Emily's articles, Critical Race Realism: Re-Claiming the Antidiscrimination Principle through the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 66 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 455 (2005), and Towards Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), were cited in Mario L. Barnes, But Some of [Them] Are Brave: Identity Performance, the Military, and the Dangers of an Integration Success Story, 14 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 693 (2007); Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Volunteer Discrimination, 40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1895 (2007); and Berta Hernandez-Truyol, Angela Harris & Francisco Valdes, Beyond the First Decade: A Forward-looking History of LatCrit Theory, Community and Praxis,17 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 169 (2006).

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Ann Hubbard
Professor of Law

Ann's article, A Military-Civilian Coalition for Disability Rights, 75 Miss. L.J. 975 (2006), was cited in Anita Silvers & Leslie Pickering Francis, A New Start on the Road Not Taken: Driving with Lane to Head Off Disability-Based Denials of Rights, 23 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 33 (2007).

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Kristin Kalsem
Professor of Law

Kristin presented Social Justice Feminism (with Verna Williams) as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

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Christo Lassiter
Professor of Law

Christo published Consent to Search by Ignorant People, 39 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1171 (2007). His article, Sports Lexivita – Thoughts Toward a Criminal Law of Competitive Contact Sports, was accepted for publication by the St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary.

Christo was selected for the inaugural class of UC's Academy of Fellows for Teaching and Learning. His article, The New Race Cases and The Politics of Public Policy, 12 J.L. & Pol. 411 (1996), was cited in Takiyah Rayshawn McClain, An Ounce of Prevention: Improving the Preventative Measures of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, 40 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 579 (2007).

Christo was quoted in:

• Charge: Teen Boy Killed Fetus, Cincinnati Post, July 17, 2007.
• Arrests Made in Assault Case, Cincinnati Post, July 27, 2007.

Profile of Professor Lassiter

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 two books:

• The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary (2007) (William F. Schulz, ed.).
• Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts (2007) (Marianne Heiberg, Brendan O'Leary & John Tirman, eds.).

Bert hosted a Distinguished Visitor Dinner with the following guests:

• Alexandro Escudero Nahom (Assistant Director for National Program of Human Rights, Unit for the Promotion and Defense of the Human Rights, Secretariat of the Interior, Mexico).
• Jesus Alfredo Lopez Garcia (Lawyer, Indigenous Organizations, Oaxaca, Mexico).
• Francisco Rodrigo Cruz Iriarte (Visiting Judge, Cultural and Indigenous Rights State Commission of Human Rights, Oaxaca, Mexico).
• Ruben De Dios Abad Garcia (Prevention and Education Coordinator, Human Rights Vicariate, Caracas Archdiocese, Venezuela).
• Linda Carali Goitia Gracia (Public Defense Lawyer III, Legal Services Coordination, Venezuelan Ombudsman Office (Defensoria del Pueblo), Venezuela).
• Ingrid Carolina Graterol Morillo (Director, Caritas (Catholic Church Organization), Venezuela).
• Andres Trujillo Dominguez (Director, Civil Association 'VIVE' (Venezuelan Victims of Human Rights Violations), Venezuela).

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 presented Roll Out the Lawsuits: Could Tort Lawyers Have a Barrel of Fun with the Genetics of Alcoholism? (with Douglas Mossman) as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

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 Sabine Michalowski, Trial and Error at the End of Life–No Harm Done?, 27 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 257 (Summer 2007); and Karen Moulding and National Lawyers Guild, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Committee, Sexual Orientation and the Law (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2007 Supp.).
• Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Why Are Disability Law Claims Any Different?, 33 Conn. L. Rev. 603 (2001), in Ravi Malhotra, The Legal Genealogy of the Duty to Accommodate American and Canadian Workers with Disabilities: A Comparative Perspective, 23 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 1 (2007).

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

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

Brad published After Gonzales v. Raich: Is the Endangered Species Act Constitutional under the Commerce Clause?, 78 U. Colo. L. Rev. 375 (2007).

Brad presented Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens? as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series. He completed the article and submitted it to law reviews.

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

• Are Public Facilities Different from Private Ones?: Adopting a New Standard of Review for the Dormant Commerce Clause, 60 SMU L. Rev. 157 (2007); Can Congress Regulate Intrastate Endangered Species under the Commerce Clause?, 69 Brook. L. Rev. 923 (2004); 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); The Murky Future of the Clean Water Act after SWANCC: Using a Hydrological Connection Approach to Saving the Clean Water Act, 30 Ecology L.Q. 811 (2003); Protecting Intrastate Threatened Species: Does the Endangered Species Act Encroach on Traditional State Authority and Exceed the Outer Limits of the Commerce Clause?, 36 Ga. L. Rev. 723 (2002); in Linda A. Malone, Environmental Regulation of Land Use (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2007 Supp.)
• Is a Textualist Approach to Statutory Interpretation Pro-Environmentalist?: Why Pragmatic Agency Decisionmaking Is Better than Judicial Literalism, 53 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1231 (1996); and Textualism's Selective Canons of Statutory Construction: Reinvigorating Individual Liberties, Legislative Authority and Deference to Executive Agencies, 86 Ky. L.J. 527 (1998), in Meredith Abernathy, Running on Empty: Will Exxon Mobil Cause a Breakdown for Chevron and the Administrative State?, 64 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 583 (2007).
• Is There a Private Cause of Action under EPA's Title VI Regulations?: The Need to Empower Environmental Justice Plaintiffs, 24 Colum. Envtl L. Rev. 1 (1999), in Daniel A. Farber, Disaster Law and Inequality, 25 Law & Ineq. 297 (Summer 2007).
• A Scrivener's Error or Greater Protection of the Public: Does the EPA Have the Authority to Delist “Low-Risk” Sources of Carcinogens From Section 112's Maximum Available Control Technology Requirements?, 24 Va. Envtl. L.J. 75 (2005); and What Comes After Technology: Using an “Exceptions Process” to Improve Residual Risk Regulation of Hazardous Air Pollutants, 13 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 263 (1994), in Victor B. Flatt, Gasping for Breath: The Administrative Flaws of Federal Hazardous Air Pollution Regulation and What We Can Learn from the States, 34 Ecology L.Q. 107 (2007).
• Standing and Global Warming: Is Injury to All Injury to None?, 35 Envtl. L. 1 (2005), in Eric Shaffner, Repudiation and Regret: Is the United States Sitting out the Kyoto Protocol to its Economic Detriment?, 37 Envtl. L. 441 (2007).
• Using Section 1983 to Enforce Title VI's Section 602 Regulations, 49 Kan. L. Rev. 321 (2001); and South Camden Citizens in Action v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection: Will Section 1983 Save Title VI Disparate Impact Suits?, 32 Envtl. L. Rep. 10454 (April 2002), in Andrew Spitser, School Reconstitution under No Child Left Behind: Why School Officials Should Think Twice, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 1339 (2007).

Profile of Professor Mank

Darrell Miller
Assistant Professor of Law

Darrell joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Law. He published The Stain of Slavery: Notes Toward an Attainder Theory of the Thirteenth Amendment, 38 U. Tol. L. Rev. 1011 (2007).

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

Douglas published:

• Stalking, Competence to Stand Trial, and Criminal Responsibility, in Stalking: Psychiatric Perspectives and Practical Approaches 164-92 (Pinals DA, ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2007).
• Avoiding Errors About "Margins of Error," British J. of Psychiatry eLetter, July 5, 2007.

Douglas submitted two manuscripts for publication:

• Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove (2007), Law and Human Behavior.
• Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events, Correctional Service of Canada, High-Risk Offenders Roundtable.

Douglas presented Roll Out the Lawsuits: Could Tort Lawyers Have a Barrel of Fun with the Genetics of Alcoholism? (with Betsy Malloy) as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

He gave seven guest lectures during the Forensic Psychology course at Xavier University:

• The Mental Health Professional as Expert Witness
• Understanding and Assessing "Legal Insanity"
• Civil Commitment: When Courts Allow Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization
• Implications of Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms?
• Risk Assessment
• Right to Refuse Treatment and Guardianship
• Psychological Damages in Tort Litigation

He also gave a talk on The Psychiatrist's Perspective on Alcohol Use Disorders to the Cincinnati Lawyer's Club.

Several of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consult. Clin. Psych. 783 (1994), in Susanne Bengtson & Niklas Langstrom, Unguided Clinical and Actuarial Assessment of Re-offending Risk: A Direct Comparison with Sex Offenders in Denmark, 19 Sex. Abuse - J. Res. Tr. 135 (2007); and Frank Urbaniok et al., The Prediction of Criminal Recidivism - the Implication of Sampling in Prognostic Models, 257 Eur. Arch. Psych. Clin. Neuroscience 129 (2007).
• Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: a Comparison of 5 Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger); and Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sex. Abuse J. Res. Tr. 41 (2006) in Calvin M. Langton et al., Reliability and Validity of the Static-2002 among Adult Sexual Offenders with Reference to Treatment Status, 34 Crim. J. Behavior 616 (2007).
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: a Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psych. L. 27 (1996), in Michele R. Spoont et al., Does Filing a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Disability Claim Promote Mental Health Care Participation among Veterans?, 172 Mil. Med. 572 (2007).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Christos T. Nakas & Todd A. Alonzo, ROC Graphs for Assessing the Ability of a Diagnostic Marker to Detect Three Disease Classes with an Umbrella Ordering, 63 Biometrics 603 (2007).
• Neuropsychiatric Decision Making: the Role of Disorder Prevalence in Diagnostic Testing, 3 J. Neuropsych. Cl. 84.(1991); and ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic Tests, 3 J. Neuropsych Clin. N. 330 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza), in Christopher J. Recklitis & Paola Rodriguez, Screening Childhood Cancer Survivors with the Brief Symptom Inventory-18: Classification Agreement with the Symptom Checklist-90-revised, 16 Psycho-oncology 429( 2007).
• ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic Tests, 3 J. Neuropsych. Clin. N. 330 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza), in Laura Todaro et al., Alteration of Serum and Tumoral Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule (NCAM) Isoforms in Patients with Brain Tumors, 83 J. Neuro-oncology 135 (2007).

Profile of Professor Mossman

Nancy Oliver
Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing

Nancy was appointed Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing. She attended a conference on preparing winning briefs and oral arguments in Las Vegas.

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William J. Rands
Professor of Law

Bill announced his retirement, effective August 2008. He published High Pressure Sales Tactics and Dead Trees: What to Do with Promoters' Pre-incorporation Contracts, 4 Rutgers Bus. L.J. 1 (2007).

Bill's article, Domination of a Subsidiary by a Parent, 32 Ind. L. Rev. 421 (1999), was cited in Linda A. Malone, Environmental Regulation of Land Use (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2007 Supp.).

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Rachel Jay Smith
Legal Research & Writing Professor

Rachel was appointed Associate Professor of Legal Research and Writing.

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

Michael published Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J 767 (2007), as part of a Symposium on Election Law and the Roberts Court.

Several of Michael's books and articles were cited:

• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Press, 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Erwin Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction (Aspen, 7th ed. 2007); and Laura E. Little, Federal Courts: Examples and Explanations (Aspen, 2007).
• Competitive Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 83 (1998), in Kerry Abrams, Immigration Law and the Regulation of Marriage, 91 Minn. L. Rev. 1625 (2007).
• 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 Michael Dore, Law of Toxic Torts (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2007 Supp.); and David F. Herr, Annotated Manual For Complex Litigation (Thomson-West, 2007).
• Diluting Justice on Appeal?: An Examination of the Use of District Court Judges Sitting by Designation on the United States Courts of Appeals, 28 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 351 (1995) (with Richard B. Saphire ), in David R. Stras, Why Supreme Court Justices Should Ride Circuit Again, 91 Minn. L. Rev. 1710 (2007).
• The False Promise of Judicial Elections in Ohio, 30 Cap. U.L. Rev. 559 (2002), in Leita Walker, Protecting Judges from White's Aftermath: How the Public-Employee Speech Doctrine Might Help Judges and the Courts in Which They Work, 20 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 371 (2007).
• Forum-Selection Clauses and the Privatization of Procedure, 25 Cornell Int'l L.J. 51 (1992), in Michael L. Moffitt, Customized Litigation: The Case for Making Civil Procedure Negotiable, 75 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 461 (2007).
• Institutional Process, Agenda Setting, and the Development of Election Law on the Supreme Court, 68 Ohio St. L.J 767 (2007), in Edward B. Foley, Election Law and the Roberts Court: An Introduction, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 733 (2007); Michael J. Pitts, Defining “Partisan” Law Enforcement, 18 Stan. L. & Pol'y Rev. 324 (2007); and Pamela S. Karlan, New Beginnings and Dead Ends in the Law of Democracy, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 743 (2007).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Leigh Anne Williams, Measuring Internal Influence on the Rehnquist Court: An Analysis of Non-Majority Opinion Joining Behavior, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 679 (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).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in James R. Pratt & Bruce J. McKee, ATLA's Litigating Tort Cases (Roxanne Barton Conlin & Gregory S. Cusimano, eds, Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.)

Profile of Professor Solimine

Sandra Sperino
Visiting Professor of Law

Sandra was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. She published Recreating Diversity in Employment Law by Debunking the Myth of the McDonnell Douglas Monolith, 44 Hous. L. Rev. 349 (2007).

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Adam N. Steinman
Assistant Professor of Law

Adam published “Less” is “More”? Textualism, Intentionalism, and a Better Solution to the Class Action Fairness Act's Appellate Deadline Riddle, 92 Iowa L. Rev. 1183 (2007). The article was featured on the Statutory Construction Blog.

Adam completed Reinventing Appellate Jurisdiction and submitted it to law reviews. He presented Our Class Action Federalism as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

Two of Adam's articles were cited:

• 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 Hart and Wechsler's The Federal Courts and the Federal System (2007 Supp.); Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (2007 Supp.); and Appealing Remand Orders Under the Class Action Fairness Act, 8 J. App. Prac. & Process 281 (2006).
• Reconceptualizing Federal Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners: How Should AEDPA's Standard of Review Operate After Williams v. Taylor?, 2001 Wis. L. Rev. 1493, in Negating Precedent and (Selectively) Suspending Stare Decisis: AEDPA and Problems for the Article III Hierarchy, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 307 (2006); and Streamlining Habeas Corpus While Undermining Judicial Review: How 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) Violates the Constitution, 19 St. Thomas L. Rev. 361 (2007).

Profile of Professor Steinman

Suja Thomas
Professor of Law

Suja presented Why the Motion to Dismiss Is Now Unconstitutional as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series. She completed the article and submitted it to law reviews. Larry Solum (Illinois) praised the article on his Legal Theory Blog as “[a]nother important and well argued piece from Thomas. Highly recommended.”

Suja's article, Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. 139 (2007), was:

• Featured on the Deliberations Blog.
• Cited by Judge Weinstein in In re Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation, 489 F. Supp.2d 230 (E.D.N.Y. 2007).
• The subject of a presentation by Suja to the California Employment Lawyers Association in San Francisco.
• Featured on Trial Ad Notes blog.
• Discussed on the Law and Courts blog.
• Cited in John Bronsteen, Against Summary Judgment, 75 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 522 (2007).

Profile of Professor Thomas

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

Joe was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Notre Dame and a Distinguished Visiting Energy Professor at Vermont Law School. He delivered the keynote address on Law, Language, Energy and the Environment at the Second Annual Energy Summer Conference at Vermont Law School.

Joe published:

• The third edition of Energy Law in a Nutshell (with Judge Richard Cudahy of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit). The book is currently being translated into Chinese.
• To A Point, 52 Loy. L. Rev.1201 (2007).

Joe submitted a book chapter, Dirty Energy, to be included in a book on climate change to be published by MIT Press.

Joe participated in the following conferences:

• Presenter, Environmental Stewardship: An Exploratory Program for Religious Leaders, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, Bozeman, Montana.
• Facilitator, Law, Justice and Culture and Inns of Court seminars convened by the Justice Institute for the Legal Profession in Tuscany, Italy.

Joe served as a Site Inspector for the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar for the Vanderbilt Law School summer Program in Venice, Italy.

Two of Joe's articles were cited:

• Nuclear Futures, 15 Duke Envtl. L. & Pol'y F. 221 (2005), in Matthew D. Zinn, Adapting to Climate Change: Environmental Law in a Warmer World, 34 Ecology L.Q. 61 (2007).
• Rethinking Reform of Electricity Markets, 40 Wake Forest L. Rev. 497 (2005) (with Sidney A. Shapiro), in Joshua P. Fershee, Misguided Energy: Why Recent Legislative, Regulatory, and Market Initiatives Are Insufficient to Improve the U.S. Energy Infrastructure, 44 Harv. J. Legis. 327 (2007).

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Verna L. Williams
Professor of Law

Verna presented Social Justice Feminism (with Kristin Kalsem) as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

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Ingrid Brunk Wuerth
Professor of Law

Ingrid was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. She presented What Are “Rules Concerning Capture on Land and Water?” as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.

Two of Ingrid's articles were cited:

• Authorizations for the Use of Force, International Law, and the Charming Betsy Canon, 46 B.C. L. Rev. 293 (2005), in Curtis A. Bradley, The Federal Judicial Power and the International Legal Order, 2006 Sup. Ct. Rev. 59.
• The Dangers of Deference: International Claim Settlement by the President, 44 Harv. Int'l L.J. 1 (2003), in Curtis A. Bradley, Unratified Treaties, Domestic Politics, and the U.S. Constitution, 48 Harv. Int'l L.J. 307 (2007).

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