Marjorie Corman Aaron Professor of Practice and Director, Center for Negotiation & Problem Solving
Marjorie was recognized at the Better Business Bureau’s Torch Awards ceremony, for her role as judge in determining the winners of the award for businesses and charities demonstrating the highest levels of ethics and integrity.

Marjorie conducted an intensive mediation training session for the director of the mediation program at the Ontario College of Teachers. The training session included Cathleen Kuhl (Private Complaint Mediation Service), Robert Rack (Chief Mediator for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals), and three students (Kelly Church, David Kowalski, and Anitra Walden).

Marjorie made three presentations:

• Academy to Action for Negotiation Practice, to the Corporate Section of the Cincinnati Bar Association.
• Emotion in Negotiation, at the Beckman Weil Shepardson law firm retreat.
• Women Negotiation: Intelligence, Perception and Power, at Thompson Hine's Spotlight on Women event for lawyers and businesswomen. (She also participated in a panel discussion on gender issues in negotiations.)

Marjorie and Adjunct Professor Jim Lawrence (Frost Brown Todd) coached UC’s negotiations team (2Ls Adam Eckstein and Brennan Grayson) to victory at the regional ABA negotiation competition in London, Ontario. The students will represent the Midwest region at the national finals at the ABA MidYear meeting in Philadelphia.

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Tim Armstrong Assistant Professor of Law
Tim published Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 49 (2006). The article already has been cited in several sources:

• Julie E. Cohen, Pervasively Distributed Copyright Enforcement, 95 Geo. L.J. 1 (2006).
• Roberto Caso, The Lord of the Rings in Cyberspace: Control of Information and Digital Rights Management.
• Urs Gasser, Legal Frameworks and Technological Protection of Digital Content: Moving Forward Towards a Best Practice Model, 17 Fordham Intell. Prop. & Media L.J. 39, 98 (2006).
• von Knud Böhle, Digital Rights Management - Optionen der Technikgestaltung, Technikfolgenabschätzung: Theorie und Praxis #2, at 52 (2006).
• Scott Lenger, Understanding Fair Use, HighEdWebDev 2006 Conference (Rochester, NY).

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Marianna Brown Bettman Invited Professor of Law
Marianna hosted Mary Asbury, Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati, as the part of the Harris Distinguished Visitor Series. She published Do You Know if You Give Up Your Rights? as her monthly Legally Speaking column in American Israelite and City Beat.

With Michael Solimine and Adam Steinman, Marianna participated on a moot court panel to help prepare recent College of Law grads John Levy and Matthew Chasar for their oral argument before the Ohio Supreme Court in National City Commercial Capital Corp. v. AAAA At Your Service, Inc., No. 2006-0169 (whether dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction is a final, appealable order).

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Lou Bilionis Dean and Nippert Professor of Law
Citations

• Conservative Reformation, Popularization, and the Lessons Of Reading Criminal Justice As Constitutional Law, 52 UCLA L. Rev. 979 (2005), in Brandon L. Garrett & Tania Tetlow, Criminal Justice Collapse: The Constitution After Hurrican Katrina, 56 Duke L.J.127 (2006).

Presentations

• The Separation of Powers and the Expansion of Presidential Power in the Global War on Terrorism, ACLU of Ohio, Cincinnati, OH
• Public Interest Law Practice, UC College of Law Public Interest Law Group

Presentations on UC Diversity Task Force

• UC Student Government Meeting
• UC Faculty-Staff LGBT Task Force Meeting
• UC Faculty Senate Forum, Faculty Club, Lindner Center
• UC President’s Cabinet Meeting
• UC Human Resources Advisory Committee Meeting
• UC Human Resources/Union Leadership Meeting

Alumni Events

• Brunch Program for UC Chicago Alumni
• Reception for UC Alumni Inducted Into Ohio Bar, Columbus, OH
• UC Law Alumni Association Reunion Dinner, Cincinnati, OH
• UC Law Alumni Association Golf Outing, Cincinnati, OH

• AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference, Washington, D.C.

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Barbara Black Professor of Law and Director, Corporate Law Center
Barbara published an op-ed in the Cincinnati Business Courier, Upcoming Ruling May Not Clear the Air on Punitive Damages. Her treatise, Corporate Dividends and Stock Repurchases (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1990) was cited in Lee R. Petillon & Robert Joe Hull, Representing Start-Up Companies (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2006 Supp.).

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Kristin Kalsem Professor of Law
Kristin gave the keynote address, Still More Stories To Tell: Intimate Partner Abuse and Education, at the 2006 Annual Meeting Awards Celebration of the Rape Crisis and Abuse Center of Hamilton County.

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A. Christopher Bryant Professor of Law
Chris moderated a presentation by Richard Garnett (Notre Dame) at the College of Law on The Rehnquist Legacy.

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Paul L. Caron Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Faculty Projects
Paul posted two articles on SSRN:

• Are Scholars Better Bloggers? – Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. ___ (2007).
• The Long Tail of Legal Scholarship, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 38 (2006).

Foundation Press published Contracts Stories, edited by Douglas Baird (Chicago), the sixteenth book in its Law Stories Series for which Paul serves as Series Editor.

Paul launched Law School Innovation, by Douglas A. Berman (Ohio State), Anupam Chander (UC-Davis), Gene Koo (Harvard) & Mark W. Osler (Baylor), as part of his Law Professor Blog Network.

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

• 4 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 7, nos. 48-51).
• 4 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 6, nos. 38-41).
• 2 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 6, no. 23-24) (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell)).

Several of Paul’s articles were cited:

• What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Rafael Gely), in Neal Kumar Katyal, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Legal Academy Goes to Practice, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 65 (2006).
• Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Indiana L.J. 1 (2006) (with Rafael Gely), and Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006) (with Bernard S. Black), in Larry E. Ribstein, From Bricks to Pajamas: The Law and Economics of Amateur Journalism, 48 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 185 (2006).
• The Associate Dean for Research Position: Encouraging and Promoting Scholarship, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 233 (2001) (with Joseph Tomain), in Melissa J. Marlow, Scholarship Buddies, 56 J. Legal Educ. 56 (2006).

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Jacob Cogan Assistant Professor of Law
Jacob’s case note, International Decision: Prosecutor v. Milutinoviæ, Decision on Requests of the United States of America and NATO for Review, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, was accepted for publication in The American Journal of International Law. His student note, The Look Within: Property, Capacity, and Suffrage in Nineteenth-Century America, 107 Yale L.J. 473 (1997), was cited in Vivian Hamilton, Principles of U.S. Family Law, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 31 (2006).

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Margaret Drew Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Domestic Relations/Violence Clinic
Margaret presented Advanced Property Division Issues at a conference on Economic Remedies for Survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking in Baltimore. She also participated on the plenary panel, Overview of Economic Remedies.

Margaret attended two meetings:

• ABA Commission on Domestic Violence, Washington, D.C.
• National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Santa Fe, NM.

Profile of Professor Drew

Tom Eisele Professor Law
Tom attended the annual AALS Faculty Recruiting Conference in Washington, D.C. as a member of the College’s Faculty Appointments Committee.

Profile of Professor Drew

Rafael Gely Professor of Law
Two of Rafael’s articles were cited:

• What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Paul Caron), in Neal Kumar Katyal, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Legal Academy Goes to Practice, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 65 (2006).
• Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 1 (2005) (with Paul Caron), in Larry E. Ribstein, From Bricks to Pajamas: The Law and Economics of Amateur Journalism, 48 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 185 (2006).

Profile of Professor Gely

Mark A. Godsey Professor of Law and Faculty
Mark was interviewed about the Ohio Innocence Project's Clarence Elkins exoneration by Dateline NBC for an hour-long episode to air in January 2007. He also was interviewed and photographed by Inspire Magazine, published by the Cincinnati Enquirer, for the January 2007 cover story on Cincinnati's ten most inspiring men.

Mark’s article, 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), was cited in Elizabeth Sepper, The Ties That Bind: How the Constitution Limits the CIA's Actions in the War on Terror, 81 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1805 (2006).

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

Emily Houh Professor of Law
Emily attended the annual AALS Faculty Recruiting Conference in Washington, D.C. as Chair of the College’s Faculty Appointments Committee.

Emily’s article, Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), was cited in Danielle Tarantolo, From Employment to Contract: Section 1981 and Antidiscrimination Law for the Independent Contractor Workforce, 116 Yale L.J. 170 (2006).

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Ann Hubbard Professor of Law
Several of Ann’s articles were cited:

• Improving the Fitness Inquiry of the North Carolina Bar Application, 81 N.C. L. Rev. 2179 (2003), in Carol A. Needham, The Professional Responsibilities of Law Professors: The Scope of the Duty of Confidentiality, Character and Fitness Questionnaires, and Engagement in Governance, 56 J. Legal Educ. 106 (2006).
• Meaningful Lives and Major Life Activities, 55 Ala. L. Rev. 997 (2004), and The Major Life Activity of Belonging, 39 Wake Forest L. Rev. 217 (2004), in Ani B. Satz, A Jurisprudence of Dysfunction: On the Role of "Normal Species Functioning" in Disability Analysis, 6 Yale J. Health Pol’y L. & Ethics 221 (2006).

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Christo Lassiter Professor of Law
Christo was quoted in:

• No Charges to Be Filed in Fairborn Man's Death during Theft-assault: He Was Run over and Killed after He Pointed a Gun at the Defender of a Robbery Victim in Cincinnati, Dayton Daily News, Nov. 23, 2006, at A11.
• Experts: Self-defense Cases Hard to Prosecute, Cincinnati Post, Nov. 22, 2006, at A1.

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Bert B. Lockwood, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
Bert hosted two panel discussions from the Guantanamo Teach-In, American Detention Policy: The Next Frontier, and The Military and the Commander in Chief.

Bert hosted visits to the College by the following speakers:

• Ahmed Farag (Egypt)
• Husna Mulya (Indonesia)
• Anita Jakobsone (Latvia)
• Rosana Schaack (Liberia)
• Joseph Sangosanya (Nigeria)
• Mona Alshfaei (Saudi Arabia)
• Eric Nene (South Africa)

Bert’s book, Women's Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), was cited in Richard B. Bilder, Recent Books on International Law, 100 Am. J. Int’l L. 763 (2006).

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

S. Elizabeth Malloy Professor of Law
Betsy attended the annual AALS Faculty Recruiting Conference in Washington, D.C. as a member of the College’s Faculty Appointments Committee.

Betsy’s article, The Interaction of the ADA, the FMLA, and Workers’ Compensation: Why Can’t We Be Friends?, 41 Brandeis L.J. 821 (2003), was cited in Betsy J. Grey, Homeland Security and Federal Relief: A Proposal for a Permanent Compensation System for Domestic Terrorist Victims, 9 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 663 (2006).

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Bradford C. Mank James B. Helmer Jr. Professor of Law
Brad spoke on Evolving Climate Change Regulations: Developing Trends in Law and Litigation, a CLE Teleconference sponsored by the Digest of Environmental Law and the Legal Publishing Group of Strafford Publications. His article, Superfund Contractors and Agency Capture, 2 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 34 (1993), was cited in Kathryn R.L. Rand & Steven Andrew Light, How Congress Can and Should “Fix” the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: Recommendations for Law and Policy Reform, 13 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 396 (2006).

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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:

• 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 E. Tigar & Jane B. Tigar, Federal Appeals Jurisdiction and Practice (West Group, 3rd ed., 2006 Supp.).
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), in Micheal W. Giles et al., Setting a Judicial Agenda: The Decision to Grant En Banc Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 68 J. Politics 852 (2006).
• Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Michael L. Wells et al., Cases and Materials on Federal Courts (Thomson/West 2006), and Reza Dibadji, From Incongruity to Cooperative Federalism, 40 U.S.F.L. 845 (2006).
• 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 Richard E. Levy & Sidney A. Shapiro, Government Benefits and the Rule of Law: Toward a Standards-Based Theory of Judicial Review, 58 Admin. L. Rev. 499 (2006).
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const. L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James Walker), The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), Removal, Remands, and Reforming Federal Appellate Review, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 287 (1993), Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), Shoring Up Article III: Legislative Court Doctrine in the Post-CFTC v. Schor Era, 68 B.U. L. Rev. 85 (1988) (with Richard Saphire), and State Court Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights, 12 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 127 (1989) (with James Walker), in Martin H. Redish & Suzanna Sherry, Federal Courts: Cases, Comments and Questions (Thomson/West 6th ed. 2006).

With Marianna Bettman and Adam Steinman, Michael participated on a moot court panel to help prepare recent College of Law grads John Levy and Matthew Chasar for their oral argument before the Ohio Supreme Court in National City Commercial Capital Corp. v. AAAA At Your Service, Inc. , No. 2006-0169 (whether dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction is a final, appealable order).

Profile of Professor Solimine

Adam N. Steinman Assistant Professor of Law
Adam attended the annual AALS Faculty Recruiting Conference in Washington, D.C. as a member of the College’s Faculty Appointments Committee.

With Marianna Bettman and Michael Solimine, Adam participated on a moot court panel to help prepare recent College of Law grads John Levy and Matthew Chasar for their oral argument before the Ohio Supreme Court in National City Commercial Capital Corp. v. AAAA At Your Service, Inc. , No. 2006-0169 (whether dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction is a final, appealable order).

Profile of Professor Steinman

Suja Thomas Professor of Law
Suja presented Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. ___ (2007), to the faculty at New York Law School and to a group of employment lawyers in New York City.

Profile of Professor Thomas

Joseph P. Tomain Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law
Two of Joe’s articles were cited:

• The Past and Future of Electricity Regulation, 32 Envtl. L. 435 (2002), in Nicholas Bagley & Richard L. Revesz, Centralized Oversight of the Regulatory State, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1260 (2006).
• The Associate Dean for Research Position: Encouraging and Promoting Scholarship, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 233 (2001) (with Paul Caron), in Melissa J. Marlow, Scholarship Buddies, 56 J. Legal Educ. 56 (2006).

Profile of Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor Tomain

Verna L. Williams Professor of Law
Verna was profiled in the November issue of Women’s Business Cincinnati. She attended the annual AALS Faculty Recruiting Conference in Washington, D.C. as a member of the College’s Faculty Appointments Committee.

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Ingrid Brunk Wuerth Professor of Law
Ingrid’s article, The President's Power to Detain "Enemy Combatants": Modern Lessons from Mr. Madison’s Forgotten War, 98 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1567 (2004), was cited in Emily M. Calhoun, Academic Freedom: Disciplinary Lessons from Hogwarts, 77 U. Colo. L. Rev. 843 (2006).

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