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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS

MINORITY GROUPS SECTION

NEWSLETTER -- DECEMBER 2013

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BOARD

Xuan-Thao Nguyen (Southern Methodist), Chair

Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod (Florida International), Chair-elect

Ernesto A. Hernández Lopez (Chapman)

Kristin N. Johnson (Seton Hall)

Hope Lewis (Northeastern) S. David Mitchell (Missouri) Nareissa Smith (North

Carolina Central) Rose Cuison Villazor (UC-

Davis) Audrey McFarlane

(Baltimore), ex officio

EDITORS

Kenneth Williams (South Texas) Dawinder S. Sidhu (New Mexico)

CONTENTS

Messages 1 Thanks 2 Award Recipients 2 AALS Panels 3 AALS Service

Opportunity Save the Date Conference

Announcement Accomplishments Editors’ Note

6 6 6 7 28

MESSAGES

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

Dear Members of the AALS Section on Minority Groups:

Congratulations to all members of the Minority Section for all of your achievements

at your respective law schools and communities in 2013!

On behalf of the Executive Committee, I express my sincere thanks to many of you

for serving as mentors to new law teachers and future law teachers at the AALS Annual

Recruiting Conference, AALS New Law Teachers Workshop, AALS Minority Law

Teachers Workshop, and at various regional conferences. Many thanks to all the

signators for lending their names in support of the Section’s efforts in opposing the

ABA’s proposed abolition of tenure in law school accreditation. The tenure struggle in

legal academia, along with other issues concerning minority law professors, will

continue in 2014 and beyond. Again, thank you.

Special thanks to Professors Audrey McFarlane, Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod, Hope

Lewis, Ernesto Hernandez, Rose Cuison-Villazor, Kristin N. Johnson, S. David

Mitchell and Nareissa Smith for their tireless service on the Executive Committee. I

look forward to working with Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod, Incoming Chair and the Executive

Committee in 2014.

We will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the AALS Annual

Meeting in January 2014 in New York City. Please make time to attend the Section’s

panels on Friday, January 3, 2014 and the Business Meeting at the conclusion of the late

afternoon panel.

Let’s get together at the Section’s Luncheon on Sunday, January 5, 2014 to

celebrate new deans, new promotions, new tenures and new law professors. We will

also celebrate the legacies and contributions of those who left us this year, including our

hero, Nelson Mandela. We will mark our celebration with the winners of the Derrick

Bell Award and the Clyde Ferguson Award. We will fete Professor Osamudia James

and Professor Stephen Lee, the joint winners of the Derrick Bell Award, and Professor

Steven Bender, the winner of the Clyde Ferguson Award.

See you soon in New York City!

Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Outgoing Chair, AALS Section on Minority Groups

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MESSAGE FROM THE 2013-14 INCOMING CHAIR Dear Section Members,

For the past three years that I have been a member of the Executive Committee, I have served under three

incredible Chairs, Penny Andrews, Audrey McFarlane, and, most recently, Xuan-Thao Nguyen. I have learned much

from these strong leaders and from my fellow members of the Executive Committee. I was motivated by their

equanimity, sense of justice, and tireless efforts in all our work. I would also like to recognize and thank all of you,

the members of the Section, who have encouraged and supported all our efforts.

My work on the Committee has been rewarding and has allowed me to forge greater ties with you. As such, I

look forward to serving as Chair in 2014. I hope to see you at the Section’s business meeting and luncheon, and

encourage you to share your thoughts with the Committee on how we can continue to promote the mission of the

Section on Minority Groups.

Best wishes in the New Year!

Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod

Outgoing Chair, AALS Section on Minority Groups

THANKS

The Board would like to recognize the following:

- Terry Smith (DePaul) for his work on the initial draft of the letter regarding proposed ABA standards concerning

tenure

- Ben Davis (Toledo) for his tireless efforts in urging signatories to the letter

- Wendy Greene (Samford) for helping organize the hospitality suite during the AALS Faculty Recruitment

Conference

- Mario Barnes (UC-Irvine) for his input to the Board throughout the year

- Ken Williams (South Texas) and Dave Sidhu (New Mexico) for editing this newsletter

AWARD RECIPIENTS

The Minority Section Executive Committee

selected the following colleagues as the

2014 Recipient Minority Section Awards:

Clyde Ferguson Award

Steven Bender (Seattle)

Derrick A. Bell Award

Osamudia James (Miami) & Stephen Lee (UC-Irvine)

The awards will be presented during the Section’s Luncheon

on Sunday, January 5, 2014 at 12:15pm

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AALS PANELS OF INTEREST

The Minority Section Panels at the upcoming AALS Annual Meeting in New York City:

Friday, January 3, 2014

8:30 am -

10:15 am 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Examining its Future

(Part I) (co-sponsored by the Sections on Civil Rights and Employment

Discrimination)

Papers to be published in SMU LAW REVIEW.

The year 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights

Act of 1964. According to its preamble, the 1964 Civil Rights Act was

enacted, among other things, “to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to

confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide

injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to

authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights

in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil

Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, [and] to

establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity.” And, of course,

after its amendment on the floor, it provided for private actions to prohibit

discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or

national origin.

This program celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Co-sponsored by the Minority Rights Section, this program explores the

future of civil rights litigation. Specifically, it examines the gaps in the Civil

Rights Act and considers the path that lawyers and advocates should take in

future civil rights claims

Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.

Speakers

Elise C. Boddie (Rutgers-Newark)

Kareem U. Crayton (North Carolina)

Juan F. Perea (Florida)

Leticia Saucedo (UC-Davis)

Ruqaiijah A. Yearby (Case Western)

Moderator

Jessica Dixon Weaver (Southern Methodist)

3:30 pm -

5:15 pm 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Examining its Future

(Part II) (co-sponsored by the Sections on Civil Rights and Employment

Discrimination)

Papers to be published in SMU LAW REVIEW.

The year 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights

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Act of 1964. According to its preamble, the 1964 Civil Rights Act was

enacted, among other things, “to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to

confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide

injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to

authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights

in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil

Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, [and] to

establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity.” And, of course,

after its amendment on the floor, it provided for private actions to prohibit

discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or

national origin.

This program celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Co-sponsored by the Sections on Civil Rights and Employment

Discrimination, this program explores the historical origins and contemporary

impact on civil rights. Specifically, it aims to celebrate the momentous

passage of the law for promoting equality but also offers criticisms and

feedback of the law’s limits.

Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.

Speakers

Taunya Lovell Banks (Maryland)

Ming Hsu Chen (Colorado)

Anthony Paul Farley (Albany)

Danielle Holley-Walker (South Carolina)

Olatunde C. Johnson (Columbia)

Moderator

Ediberto Roman (Florida International)

Saturday, January 4, 2014

2:00 pm -

3:45 pm Title VII at Fifty: Looking Forward and Looking Back (co-sponsored by

the Sections on Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination)

Papers to be published in Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal

2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights

Act of 1964. Title VII was the first major federal employment discrimination

law—and it continues to be the most important one. By prohibiting

discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin,

Title VII transformed American workplaces. It required employers to remove

most formal barriers to equal employment opportunity and it has dramatically

reduced explicit acts of discrimination. It remains to be seen, however, how

effective Title VII will be in addressing ongoing challenges such as implicit

bias or structural barriers that impede access, as well as the extent to which it

can address issues such as discrimination on the basis of caregiving

responsibilities, gender identity, or prior criminal convictions. The Section’s

program brings together key leaders who helped shaped Title VII’s early

implementation, a current EEOC commissioner, and scholars to use this

milestone year as an opportunity for looking both forward and backward at

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Title VII’s impact and its potential.

Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.

Speakers

Alfred W. Blumrosen (Rutgers - Newark)

Chai Feldblum (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

Joseph R. Fishkin (Texas)

Trina Jones (Duke)

William L. Robinson (District of Columbia)

Steven Rosenblum (EE01, Inc.)

Moderator

Deborah A. Widiss (Indiana)

Sunday, January 5, 2014

12:15 pm -

1:45 pm Minority Groups Luncheon

Advance ticket purchase is necessary for the luncheon. Tickets may be

purchased at On-Site Registration only until 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, January

4.

The following “Hot Topic/Bridge Program” also may be of interest to Section Members

Friday, January 3, 2014

1:30 pm -

3:15 pm Enhancing the Law School Climate for Faculty and Students of Color:

What Academic Leaders Need to Know

In the past few decades, law schools have striven to increase student and

faculty diversity, with some success. Less well studied, however, is the

"second generation" issue of institutional climate.

How can academic leaders ensure that faculty and students of color not only

survive, but thrive in law school and that the benefits of "diversity" are real

and felt across the law school community? These questions are more pressing

as academic leaders respond to the economic recession by considering

policies such as abolishing tenure, decreasing the time to J.D., and adopting a

"customer service" approach to legal education that places greater emphasis

on student teaching evaluations to assess faculty performance. How might

these reforms affect the project of sustaining a diverse faculty and student

body? The recently-published book Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections

of Race and Class for Women in Academia has triggered an overdue

conversation about these issues across academia.

This program is designed to prompt reflection among academic leaders about

the climate that students and faculty of color encounter at the nation's law

schools, and to provide a forum for identifying concrete and proactive

measures to maintain our gains and underscore our commitment to inclusive

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legal education.

Speakers

Meera Deo (Thomas Jefferson)

Phoebe A. Haddon (Maryland)

Kevin R. Johnson (UC-Davis)

Aviam Soifer (Hawaii)

Moderator

Rachel F. Moran (UCLA)

AALS SERVICE OPPORTUNITY

A message from Ann Cammett (CUNY):

As a member of the AALS Section on Poverty Law, I was involved in organizing the Service Project for the

AALS conference, scheduled to take place on Jan 3rd at 8:30am in New York. I hope that those who can sign up for it

will do so, since it is for a fabulous cause! This year we will be working with Hour Children, which is a multi-faceted

family service organization that provides housing – permanent and transitional – and a wide array of supportive

services that transform the lives of women and their families involved in the criminal justice system. We will likely be

engaged in some project (such as indoor painting at one of their transitional housing facilities), but will also have an

opportunity to learn about their groundbreaking work. Bus service will be provided to and from the conference hotel

and there is no additional fee to participate, but you must register for the bus.

If you are already registered for the conference you can send an email to the Registration Coordinator

Erick Brown at ebrown@aals.org and ask to be added to [5050] Poverty Law Service Project. Don't delay. Space is

limited, and the bus is nearly full.

SAVE THE DATE

UPCOMING AALS ANNUAL MEETINGS

2015 Annual Meeting

Friday, January 2 - Monday, January 5, 2015, Washington DC

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Putting an End to Separate and Unequal Health Care in the United

States 50 Years After the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Conference Dates: March 27 and 28, 2014

Hosted by the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Conference Announcement

Fifty years after the enactment of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which mandated that all races had the

right to equal enjoyment and access to health care, the United States health care system remains separate and unequal

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because of racial bias. Decades of empirical research studies, including the 2003 groundbreaking Institute of Medicine

Study, UNEQUAL TREATMENT: CONFRONTING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTHCARE, suggest that racial

bias in health care is one of the root causes of racial disparities in health between African Americans and Caucasians.

However, efforts to eradicate racial disparities in health have failed to acknowledge or address racial bias. This years

Law-Medicine Symposium will focus on the continuation of racial bias in health care and the resultant racial

disparities in health. The interdisciplinary program will feature Professors Vernellia Randall, Dayna Matthew,

Michelle van Ryn, Rene Bowser, Sidney Watson, Ruqaiijah Yearby, and many others, who will present current

research on racial bias and health disparities and then break into working groups to develop concrete legal, medical,

and policy solutions to put an end to racial bias in health care. By the end of the Symposium, there will be an action

plan to put an end to racial bias in health care that causes racial disparities in health care. Proceedings of the

symposium will be published in the Fall 2014 issue of the Health Matrix, a premier journal of legal scholarship

focusing on the intersection of law, ethics, medicine, and policy.

If you are interested in attending the conference and/or publishing an article on racial disparities in health in the

Fall 2014 issue of the Health Matrix please contact Ruqaiijah Yearby, Symposium Chair, at ray31@case.edu by

January 31, 2014. Please forward this conference announcement to anyone who may be interested.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Peter C. Alexander

(Indiana Tech)

Published “Indiana Tech Law School: Preparing Students for Success in Law, Leadership, and Life” (April 11, 2013).

It is available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2273219.

Ruby Andrew

(Southern)

Honor: Southern University Law Center’s “Outstanding Research” award for this year.

Lisa Avalos

(Arkansas)

Presented “Perverting the Course of Justice: When Police Charge Rape Complainants with False Reporting,” as part of

the 2013 Central States Law Schools Association Annual Scholarship Conference.

Sahar Aziz

(Texas A&M)

Appointment: Scholar in Residence (invited), The Role of Law in Revolutionary Egypt, Institute for Immigration and

International Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, October 2-4, 2013

Publications:

Policing Terrorists in the Community, Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. (forthcoming Fall 2013)

A Court Decides Who is White Under Law, American Bar Association Journal, Nov. 1, 2013

Terror and the Muslim “Veil,” Oxford Islamic Studies Online (Nov. 20 2013) (solicited)

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Protest is Egypt’s Last Resort, The New York Times (Dec. 3, 2013) (co-author Shahira Abouelleil),

http://www. nytimes.com/2013/12/04/opinion/protest-is-egypts-last-

resort.html?post_id=548232274_10152173320782275

Presentation: Presenter (invited), A Typology of Muslim Women Feminists, Section on Africa, Association of

American Law Schools Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 6, 2013

Carlton Bailey

(Arkansas)

Published “Search Incident to an Arrest or a Stop: Has the United States Supreme Court Brought Clarity to a

Problematic Area of the Court’s Jurisprudence?” in Arkansas Law Notes.

Taunya Lovell Banks

(Maryland)

Law Review Article: Taunya Lovell Banks, The Unfinished Journey—Education, Equality and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Revisited, 58 Villanova Law Review 471 (2013) (remarks were delivered as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Memorial Lecture at Villanova University School of Law on January 22, 2013)

Book Chapters:

Taunya Lovell Banks, A Darker Shade of Pale Revisited: Disaggregated Blackness and Colorism in the “Post-

Racial” Obama Era in COLOR MATTERS: SKIN TONE BIAS AND THE MYTH OF A POST-RACIAL

AMERICA, Kimberley Norwood, ed. (Routledge 2013)

Taunya Lovell Banks, Dark Justice: Women Legal Actors on Basic Cable in LAW AND JUSTICE ON THE

SMALL SCREEN, Peter Robson and Jessica Sibley, eds. (Hart 2012)

Taunya Lovell Banks, Black Pluralism in Post Loving America in LOVING V. VIRGINIA IN A POST-

RACIAL WORLD: RETHINKING RACE, SEX, AND MARRIAGE, Kevin Maillard and Rose Villazor eds.

(Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Presentations:

On October 18 Taunya Banks presented her paper Still Drowning in Segregation: The Limits of Law in Post-

Civil Rights America” at the Journal of Law & Inequality Symposium Honoring Vice President Walter

Mondale, at the University of Minnesota School of Law. This project also was mentioned in a September 21

Baltimore Sun article entitled, During law school reunion, city’s history of desegregated public pools

discussed. Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/opsdf4b

On April 5, Taunya Banks presented her paper, Race, Place and Historic Moment –Why Universal Social

Uplift Legislation Seldom Remedies Racial Inequality at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

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Jeannine Bell

(Indiana)

Publications:

Hate Thy Neighbor: Move-In Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Housing (NYU

Press, 2013)

"The Puzzles of Racial Extremism in a Post Racial World, in Kenneth Mack and Guy-Uriel Charles, _The

New Black: What Has Changed and What Has Not--With Race in American (The New Press, 2013).

David A. Brennen

(Kentucky)

Editorial Activities:

Co-Editor, Beyond Economic Efficiency in United States Tax Law (with Brown and Jones) (Wolters

Kluwer) (2013)

Co-Editor, Nonprofit Law Prof Blog (with Darryll K. Jones) (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit)

(December 2007 – Present)

Editor, Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law Abstracts, (http://www.ssrn.com/link/nonprofit-philanthropy-

law.html) (August 2006 – Present)

Books and Book Chapters:

The Tax Law of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations: Cases, Materials, Questions and Activities, 3nd

ed. (with Jones, Willis and Moran) (Mathew Bender) (forthcoming 2014)

A Normative Rationale for the Charitable Tax Exemption, Beyond Economic Efficiency in United States Tax

Law (Wolters Kluwer) (2013)

Significant Speeches:

A Conversation with Justice Elena Kagan, Roy R. and Virginia F. Ray Lecture Series, University of Kentucky,

Lexington, KY, September 19, 2013

Luncheon Keynote Address, Tax Law’s Impact on Fraternities and Sororities, Fraternal Law Conference,

Cincinnati, OH, November 9, 2012

Welcome Speech, Civil Rights History of University of Kentucky College of Law, Kentucky Civil Rights Hall

of Fame Induction Ceremony, Lexington, KY, October 17, 2012

A Conversation with Justice Clarence Thomas, Roy R. and Virginia F. Ray Lecture Series, University of

Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 5, 2012

Academic Panels and Presentations:

Moderator, Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership Workshop: Engaging Key Constituents, A

Conference Co-sponsored by Society of American Law Teachers, Seattle University Law School and

University of Washington School of Law, October 11, 2013

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Panelist, ‘Grasping the Nettle’ Legal Education? Law School Deans Engage, Southeast Association of Law

Schools Conference, August 7, 2013

Panelist, Beyond Economic Efficiency in Tax Policy Analysis, Tax Reform in 2012 Roundtable Discussion,

Southeast Association of Law Schools Conference, August 2, 2012

Professional Panels and Presentations:

Presentation, The Effect of the Economy on the Practice of Law, Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, Lexington,

KY, April 26, 2012

Presentation, Law School Dean as Organizational Leader, Cincinnati Bar Association Leadership Retreat,

Lexington, Kentucky, February 10, 2012

Special Appointments:

American Bar Association, Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Accreditation Committee,

September 2013 – August 2015

American Bar Association, Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress, August 2011 – August 2014

Association of American Law Schools - Law School Site Evaluator (Golden Gate), 2013

American Bar Association - Law School Site Evaluator (Arkansas-Fayetteville (Chair)), 2013

Board Memberships:

Hospice of the Bluegrass, Board of Directors, Member, 2013 – present

Association of American Law Schools, Section on Law School Deans – Executive Committee, January 2013 -

January 2014

Kentucky Bar Foundation Board of Governors, July 2009 – present

University Service:

University of Kentucky, University Strategic Planning Committee, Member, 2013 – present

University of Kentucky, Office of Institutional Diversity Advisory Committee, 2010-present

Ann Cammett

(CUNY)

Appointments:

Appointed to the faculty of CUNY School of Law, awarded tenure and promotion to full professor.

New director of CUNY’s third year Family Law Concentration.

Presentation: Participated in a public “conversation” with Distinguished Professor of Sociology Michelle Fine on the

subject of “Exploring Questions of Youth” where I focused on the problems experienced by the most vulnerable

families (those subject to mass criminalization and the child welfare system intervention). This public dialogue can be

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live streamed at http://new.livestream.com/accounts/6039884/eqoy.

Juscelino F. Colares

(Case Western)

Law Review Articles:

Juscelino F. Colares and Kosta Ristovski, Mapping the Structure of Climate Change-Related Litigation: Can

Litigation Pressure Alter Major Emitters’ Distaste for Federal Carbon Legislation? (under peer review)

(forthcoming 2014).

Juscelino F. Colares, The Dynamics and Global Implications of Subglobal Carbon-Restricting Regimes,

24.3 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review __ (forthcoming 2014).

Juscelino F. Colares, The Emerging Supply-Side Case for Global Carbon Restrictions, 19.3 U.C. Davis Journal

of International Law & Policy 139 (2013).

Juscelino F. Colares, Paths to Carbon Stabilization: How Foreign Carbon-Restricting Reforms Will Affect US

Industry, Climate Policy and the Prospects of a Binding Emission Reduction Treaty, 47 .2 Journal of World

Trade 281 (spring 2013) (peer reviewed), available at:

http://law.case.edu/faculty/colares_juscelino/publications/Colares2013_JWT_47_2_281_as_published.pdf.

Book Chapters: “The Extraterritorial Impact of the EU and Australian Carbon-Restricting Reforms,” in Critical Issues

in Environmental Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives (Hope Ashiabor, David Duff, Larry Kreiser

and Janet Milne, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.) (spring 2013) (peer-reviewed).

Commentary: Juscelino F. Colares, The United States Must Lead on Natural Gas Exports, published on Institute for

Energy Research (Jul. 9, 2013), available at http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2013/07/09/the-u-s-must-lead-

on-natural-gas-production-and-exports/

Presentations:

Juscelino F. Colares and Kosta Ristovski, Mapping the Structure of Climate Change-Related Litigation: Can

Litigation Pressure Alter Major Emitters’ Distaste for Federal Carbon Legislation, paper selected for

presentation at the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, Joint Tort &

Compensation and Insurance Law Section, New York City (January 4, 2014).

Professor Colares’s paper proposal, titled The EU/US Aviation Stalemate—Will Law or Politics Have the Last

Say?, was accepted for presentation at the Joint Conference of the American (ASIL) and European (ESIL)

Society of International Law’s Interest Groups on International Environmental Law, hosted by the Graduate

Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland (22-23 November, 2013).

Professor Colares delivered the keynote address, titled The Supply-Side Case for Global Carbon Pricing

Reform, at the Peace of Utrecht Conference on International Law and Climate Change, hosted by Universiteit

Utrecht, the Netherlands (October 10, 2013).

Juscelino F. Colares, The Limits of WTO Adjudication: Is Compliance the Problem? A 2013 Update,

University of Arizona (September 26, 2013).

Juscelino F. Colares, Climate Change-Related Litigation: Signal or Noise?, University of Tennessee College of

Law (September 20, 2013).

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Juscelino F. Colares, On the Allocation of Talent Across Societies: Some Implications for Piracy Preemption,

the American Branch of the International Law Association, End Game! An International Conference on

Combating Maritime Piracy, hosted by Case Western Reserve University School of Law (September 6, 2013).

Appointment: Professor Colares was appointed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to

serve on the 2013-2014 United States Roster of NAFTA Panelists. NAFTA Chapter 19 provides for binational panel

review of Canadian, Mexican and U.S. trade agency determinations. Panels are formed whenever an exporting

industry or government challenges an importing-country agency’s determination imposing trade remedies (anti-

dumping, countervailing duties, injury findings, etc.) against products from a NAFTA member. Under U.S. law, the

request for a binational review panel automatically displaces the original jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of International

Trade and the appellate jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over trade cases.

In the News:

Professor Colares took part on NPR’s Sound of Ideas discussion on the “Twenty Years of NAFTA,” hosted by

journalist Mike MacIntyre on November 22. Colares appeared with guests, Alan Berube, senior fellow and

deputy director at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program and Harriet Applegate, Executive

Secretary of the Northshore AFL-CIO. (see video:

http://www.ohiochannel.org/MediaLibrary/Media.aspx?fileId=141238).

Professor Colares was quoted in an August 28 story in Law 360, titled “Asian Trade Talks Could Put Pressure

on US TPP Efforts,” http://www.law360.com/articles/465926/asian-trade-talks-could-put-pressure-on-us-tpp-

efforts.

Professor Colares was quoted in a July 11 story in Gas to Power Journal, titled “Plans to boost US gas exports

hampered by domestic emission restrictions,”

http://www.gastopowerjournal.com/regulationapolicy/item/1992-plans-to-boost-us-gas-exports-conflict-

hampered-by-carbon-restrictions-for-power-plants#axzz2YjehphBz.

Grants and Other Activities: Professor Colares now serves in the Steering Committee that supervises the grant, entitled

“Subglobal Action for the Protection of Global Interests,” with Joanne Scott (Professor of European Law, University

College of London, Faculty of Laws), Henrik Ringbom (Professor of the Law of the Sea, Scandinavian Institute of

Maritime Law) and Cedric Ryngaert (Professor of Public International Law, Utrecht University). The research is

funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant) and the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research

(NOW VIDI scheme) and will run from January 2014 through December 2018. With the assistance of members of the

Steering Committee, Professor Ryngaert, the principal investigator, will be responsible for supervising nine doctoral

students who will be working in six areas: (i) countering climate change through extraterritorial jurisdiction; (ii) using

port state jurisdiction for the protection of marine resources; (iii) using port state jurisdiction to further marine

environmental goals; (iv) exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction over corruption; (v) exercising extraterritorial

jurisdiction in furtherance of corporate social responsibility; and (vi) exercising jurisdiction over internet-based

offenses. As a Committee member, Colares will advise on doctoral dissertations and will write articles and one book

on the development of policy and legal instruments necessary to address climate change causes and effects through the

exercise of jurisdiction by individual states and regional organizations.

Professor Colares attended the ASIL Midyear Meeting and Research Forum, hosted by New York University School of

Law, New York, October 31-November 2, 2013.

Professor Colares attended the LEC-PERC Workshop on Environmental Federalism Co-Sponsored by the Property &

Environment Research Center and the Law & Economics Center at the George Mason University School of Law and

hosted by the Center for Business Law & Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, October 17-

19, 2013.

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Frank Rudy Cooper

(Suffolk)

Publication: We Are Always Already Imprisoned: Hyper-incarceration and Black Male Identity Performance, 93

B.U. L. Rev. 1185 (2013). The abstract for the essay is as follows: “Numerous scholars have pointed out that drug

war racial profiling has created an attributed identity of black men as presumptively criminal. This essay points out that

the possibility of being imprisoned has become fundamental to black men’s self identities. It criticizes Hanna Rosin’s

End of Men thesis for myopically emphasizing a recent decline in white men’s power, while ignoring the drug war’s

long-standing terrible effects on men of color. Supreme Court jurisprudence on strip searches shows a similar lack of

empathy for men of color. Rosin and the Supreme Court are consistent with my theory of the, “bipolarity of black

masculinity”: Black men are typically popularly represented as either a criminal “Bad Black Man” or assimilated

“Good Black Man,” with little nuance in between. This essay adds that black men are not just represented as

appropriately disproportionately imprisoned, but also must, therefore, struggle internally with the fear of being

imprisoned. In that sense, we are always already imprisoned within black masculinity.”

Robert J. Cottrol

(George Washington)

Book: Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, and Professor of History and Sociology at the

George Washington University was the author of a book: The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and Law in the

American Hemisphere, published by the University of Georgia Press, Studies in the Legal History of the South series.

The book appeared in February, 2013.

Publications: He also co-authored (with Raymond T. Diamond) the essay “In the Civic Republic: Crime, the Inner City

and the Democracy of Arms: Being a Disquisition on the Revival of the Militia at Large,” which appeared in 45

University of Connecticut Law Review (July 2013). He also wrote a short review of Dennis K. Bowman’s The

Original Rush Limbaugh: Lawyer, Legislator and Civil Libertarian. The review appeared in the November 2013

edition of The Journal of Southern History.

Presentations:

Chair and Commentator at session “Rights, Race and Railways: New Perspectives on the Legal Resistance to

Segregation during the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson,” 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical

Association, January 4th, 2013

“Race at the Founding: Did a Pro-Slavery Constitution Mandate Racial Exclusion? Delivered at The American

Constitution: 225th Anniversary of the Ratification. Conference sponsored by University of Georgia Political

Science Department and the National Science Foundation, March 2013

Presentation of Book, The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and Law in the American Hemisphere

Before Organization of American States, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of People of African Descent,

March 19th 2013

Chair and Commentator, session “New Viewpoints on the Law and Racial Identity in the nineteenth and

twentieth centuries,” 98th Annual Meeting, Association for the Study of African American Life and History,

Oct. 4th , 2013

Presentation of Long, Lingering Shadow before History Department and Africana Studies Program, Johns

Hopkins University, October 11th 2013

Featured Author in Author Meets Reader Session discussing The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and

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Law in the American Hemisphere Annual Meeting American Society for Legal History, November 7, 2013

Presented Paper, “Second Amendment not Constitutional Dysfunction, But Necessary Safeguard,” before

Conference “America’s Political Dysfunction: Constitutional Connections, Causes and Cures,” Boston

University School of Law, November 15th– 16th

Participant Roundtable on Gun Control and Minority Communities, Northeast People of Color Legal

Scholarship Conference December 5th -7th

Benjamin G. Davis

(Toledo)

Publications:

Benjamin G. Davis, American Diversity in International Arbitration 2003-2013, ABA Dispute Resolution

Magazine (Forthcoming Winter 2014)

Benjamin G. Davis’ questions and the answers received from Professor Jack Goldsmith (Henry L. Shattuck

Professor at Harvard Law School and former head of the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel in

the Bush Administration), Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper (former Ambassador for War Crimes issues in

the Bush Administration) and William Burke-White (Deputy Dean and Professor of Law at the University of

Pennsylvania School of Law and former member of the policy planning staff of the US State Department in

the Obama Administration) on topics such as high-level accountability for torture, misleading America into the

War in Iraq, and non-compliance with the international law rule of internal self-determination through

electoral disenfranchisement in the 2012 elections were published in “Presidential Powers and Crises” 45 Case

Western Reserve Journal of International Law 19-20, 383-385 (Fall 2012 - published August 2013).

Benjamin G. Davis, Book review of Imre Szalai’s book, Outsourcing Justice: The Rise of Modern Arbitration

Laws in America, ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine (Fall 2013).

Benjamin G. Davis, The 9/11 Military Commission Motion Hearings: An Ordinary Citizen Looks at

Comparative Legitimacy, Southern Illinois University Law Review (Forthcoming 2013)

Benjamin G. Davis, State Criminal Prosecution of a Former United States President in United States Domestic

State Courts: A Thought-Experiment on Limits to the United States President’s Constitutional Powers

Regarding Armed Conflict , Studi in Onore di Augusto Sinagra 375 (2013), Liber Amicorum Augusto Sinagra

(2013), Full Professor of European Union Law at “Sapienza” University of Rome, available at SSRN:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2151873

Benjamin G. Davis et al, State Criminal Prosecution of a Former President: Accountability through

Complementarity Under American Federalism, 24 F.J.I.L.331 (2012)

Benjamin G. Davis, Obama and Libya, 7 F. A& M L. Rev 1 (2011) (published 2012)

Benjamin G. Davis, What War Does To Law, in THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AT 50 138

(D. Swanson, ed.) (2012)

Activities and Presentations:

Advisor to the Executive Secretary/CEO of the new Lagos Court of Arbitration, Lagos, Nigeria

Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee, American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and liaison for

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its Council to the ABA Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline. Led the drafting

and presented the Diversity and Inclusion Plan for the 18,000 member section at the Fall Meeting of the

Council, November 23, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee

Continued as a Board Member of the Society of American Law Teachers and is leading its working group

preparing a report on the legal profession as part of the US Human Rights Network shadow report to the

United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for its review in August 2014 of the

periodic report of the United States on its compliance with its international law obligations under the

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

Continued blogging at www.saltlaw.org/blog and www.jurist.org and providing editorials to the Toledo

Blade.

Created Guantanamo Bay Military Commission Student Observer Program (7 students so far participated),

June 2013 –

Presented “Opportunities on the International Plane in Law School and Beyond,” International Law Society,

November 26, 2013

Faculty member for the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution 11th Annual Mediation & Advocacy Skills

Institute, November 21-22, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee

Presented “Pioneering Role of the ICC: Issues from the Fast-track and with respect to Confidentiality in the

use of Technology” at the Legal Training Program of the Lawyers of the International Chamber of Commerce,

International Court of Arbitration, September 18, 2013, Paris, France

Helped organized the program “Trayvon: Old Scars and New Activism” and presented “Stand Your Ground

Laws, Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat,” at a program to help success of black freshman, particularly black

males, September 10, 2013 in the McQuade Law Auditorium.

Organized the lunchtime program “Stand Your Ground Laws” (with Mr. James Carlisle ‘85, Assistant

Professor Greg Gilchrist, Professor Nicole Porter, and Associate Professor Jelani Jefferson Exum), September

9, 2013 in the McQuade Law Auditorium.

Organized with US Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions one week Guantanamo Bay trips

for each of four law students (Steven Allen, Linda Amrou, Trent Sulek and Sheila Willamowski) to observe

the 9/11 and Cole Bombing military commissions for which they will receive writing credit as part of their

Law School Program. Further observer research trips over the fall based on student interest are foreseen.

Helped draft an amicus curiae to the Supreme Court in a small working group of the Society of American Law

Teachers (SALT) in the Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights

and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, et al case (Michigan affirmative action case) to be heard this

term. Submitted August 30, 2013.

Evaluated an interdisciplinary online mediation platform project by the Cyberjustice Laboratory of the McGill

University Law School, August 30, 2013.

Accepted to serve on the founding editorial board for the International Journal of Online Dispute Resolution,

published by Eleven International Publishing, the publisher of the international treatise on ODR Theory and

Practice.

Represented the Society of American Law Teachers at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington,

August 24, 2013.

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Presented a joint report on his Guantanamo Bay observer trip and participated as a Council Member at the

Council Meeting of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution and as the liaison for the Section to the ABA

Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline (“ABA Pipeline Council”), August 9-10,

2013, at the ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Appointed co-chair of the Section on Dispute

Resolution’s Diversity Committee and will continue as liaison to the ABA Pipeline Council.

Presented “Big Data and Online Dispute Resolution at the international conference “ODR 2013,” June 18,

2013, University of Montreal Law School, Montreal.

Presented to Toledo junior high and high school students in the Law and Leadership Institute

Presented “The Law of Drones or Nothing New Under the Sun” at the MWPOC Conference, Loyola Law

School, April 19, 2013, Chicago

Presented “Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat,” Toledo Bar Association CLE, April 12, 2013

Presented “An O.G. on ODR,” American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution Spring Meeting,

April 6, 2013, Chicago

Presented “The 9/11 Military Commission Motion Hearings: A Citizen Looks at Comparative Legitimacy,”

Guantanamo Bay: What Next? Southern Illinois University Law Journal Symposium, February 22, 2013

Law Career Symposium, Thurgood Marshall Law Association, Toledo, February 9, 2013

Brown Bag Lunch on Gitmo Visit, University of Toledo College of Law, February 7, 2013

Observed 9/11 Military Commissions Motion Hearings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (January 27 - February 1,

2013) (Interviewed by New York One and Radio and Television Slovakia)

Presented “The Sparkle of Sovereignty: A Citizen and Torture, Military Commissions, and the War in Iraq,”

presented at the MAPOC 2013 “President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: On Questions, Doubts, and

the Problems of Full Citizenship,” University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Philadelphia, January 26, 2013

Presented (with Professor Robin Kennedy), “A New Loophole to Escape Arbitration: An Alternative to Class

Action,” Sixth Annual Association of American Law Schools Works in Progress Conference, Ohio State

University Moritz College of Law, November 10, 2012, Columbus, Ohio

Presented “Ohio Election 2012: Reflections of a Private Citizen Negotiating an Extreme Public Discourse

Experience at a True the Vote Summit and In its Aftermath,” Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution Fall

2012 Symposium: “Negotiating the Extremes: Impossible Political Dialogues in the 21st Century,” November

5, 2012, New York

Observed 9/11 Military Commissions Motion Hearings at Fort Meade, Maryland (October 18-19, 2013)

Presented “The International Law of Some Other Asian Island Disputes” at the University of Toledo Asia

Forum: The International Law of Some Asian Island Disputes: South China Sea, China-Japan, Japan-Korea,

Japan-Russia, October 15, 2012

Presented “Bringing light in Ohio 2012: ‘Coon’ Davis Finds His Place at a True the Vote ‘Voter Integrity’ Meeting,” at The University of Toledo Africana Studies Brown-Bag Lecture Series on September 20, 2012

(See also www.SALTLAW.org/blog).

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Teach in: The International Law of Embassies and Consulates, International Law Society, University of

Toledo College of Law, September 19, 2012 available at

http://www.law.utoledo.edu/facultystaff/faculty/BDavis/BDavis.htm

Panelist in the panel, “Freedom at the Polls: Voting Rights in a Time of Change,” at the Kent Public Library in

Toledo on September 18, 2012

Participated as a Council Member in the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution and as a Liaison to the ABA

Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline, Fall Meeting, September 14-15, 2012, in

Chicago

Participated in the conference “Presidential Power, Foreign Affairs, and the 2012 Election,” at Case Western

Reserve University School of Law on September 7, 2012.

Uche Ewelukwa

(Arkansas)

Speaking Engagements:

Invited Keynote Speaker at the Nigerian Bar Association Section of Business Law Annual Meeting in June in

Nigeria where she presented “New Frontiers in the Protection and Promotion of Indigenous Art, Culture and

Knowledge: Towards a Comprehensive Intellectual Property Regime.”

Invited speaker at the 2013 Law and Development Conference, International Conference on “Legal and

Development Implications of International Land Acquisitions” at Kyoto University in May, where she

presented “Disciplining Foreign Investment in Land in Africa: Mapping the Role of International Investment

Contracts and International Investment Law.”

Publications:

“Tourism, culture and intellectual property law: Hidden risks and dangers” was published online by Business

Day.

“Disciplining Foreign Investment in Land in Africa: Mapping the Role of International Investment Contracts

and International Investment Law.” Law and Development Review: special issue (forthcoming 2013)

“China-Africa Bilateral Investment Treaties”, Michigan Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2013)

Editor, “International Investment and Development - International Legal Developments in Review: 2013”, The

International Lawyer (forthcoming 2014)

Kenneth Ferguson

(UMKC)

Appointment: Elected to the Board of Directors of USATF, the National Governing Body (NGB) for the United States

Olympic Track & Field Program: http://law.umkc.edu/faculty-staff/people/ferguson-usatf-news-release.pdf.

Article: Achieving Gender Equity Under Title IX for Girls From Minority, Urban, Rural, and Economically

Disadvantaged Communities, has been accepted for publication in Spring 2014 edition of Marquette Sports Law

Review.

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Michael Z. Green

(Texas A&M)

Appointed Secretary-Elect for 2013-14 and Secretary for 2014-15 of the American Bar Association’s Section on Labor

and Employment. In this position, Professor Green will give a presentation at the ABA Labor and Employment

Section’s annual conference in November 2014 discussing labor and employment decisions issued by the Supreme

Court in the previous term. Professor Green is also the Editor of a book published by Lexis in December 2013 on The

Challenges for Collective Bargaining: The 65th Annual Proceedings of the NYU conference on Labor.

Wendy Greene

(Samford)

2013 Accomplishments:

Promoted to Full Professor, Spring 2013

Selected as a 2014 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine

Elected Secretary of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education

Elected to the Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama

Publications:

All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law, Book Review of Angela Onwuachi-

Willig’s According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family, 4 Cal. L.

Rev. Circuit 179 (2013)

Categorically Black, White or Wrong: “Misperception Discrimination” and the State of Title VII Protection,

47 U. Mich. J. L. Ref. 87 (2013)

A Multidimensional Analysis of What Not to Wear in the Workplace: Hijabs and Natural Hair, 8 FIU L. Rev.

333 (2013)

Kevin Johnson

(UC-Davis)

Continues to be a regular contributor on immigration cases to SCOTUSblog and recently published an article on the

right to counsel for immigrants in removal proceedings in the Yale Law Journal.

Cynthia Lee (George Washington)

Recently published “Making Race Salient: Trayvon Martin and Implicit Bias in a Not yet Post-Racial Society” in the

North Carolina Law Review. She gave remarks on the Trayvon Martin shooting and implicit racial bias in the creation

of fear as the 2013-2014 Diversity Lecturer at Santa Clara University Law School on October 25, 2013. Additionally, a

written version of her symposium remarks at Southwestern Law School’s symposium on LGBT Activism entitled,

“Masculinity on Trial: Gay Panic in the Criminal Courtroom,” is forthcoming in the Southwestern Law Review. The

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third edition of her casebook with Angela Harris, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (West), is also forthcoming in

2014.

Jamie Lee

(Baltimore)

Publication: Jaime Alison Lee, “Can You Hear Me Now?”: Making Participatory Governance Work for the Poor, 7

Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 405 (2013)

Honors: Received the 2013 University of Baltimore Saul Ewing Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Area of

Transactional Law. Chosen as law school’s “Teacher of the Year” and will be recognized at the AALS Annual

Meeting in January.

Stacy Leeds

(Arkansas)

Publications:

Co-authored Mastering American Indian Law (EagleWoman and Leeds ed. 2013) (Carolina Academic Press)

“Coming Full Circle: A Tribute to Professor Jim Jones,” 2013 WISC. L. REV. 733 (2013).

Honors:

Received the American Bar Association 2013 Spirit of Excellence Award in Dallas on February 8th. The

award celebrates the efforts and accomplishments of lawyers who work to promote a more racially and

ethnically diverse legal profession. University of Arkansas School of Law Dean Emeritus and Nathan G.

Gordon Professor of Law Cynthia Nance was among six recipients of the 2012 Spirit of Excellence Award.

Was elected to the American Law Institute.

Received the Inaugural Outstanding Service Award, National American from the Indian Court Judges

Association, 2013.

Speaking Engagements:

Spoke about the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative during an Agri-Business Marketing Conference

hosted by the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana.

Participated on a panel during the “Plenary session: Promises, Promises, Promises?” at the SE/SW People of

Color Conference in Little Rock on April 5th.

Hope Lewis

(Northeastern)

Appointed Northeastern University School of Law’s inaugural Faculty Director of Global Legal Studies and continues

to lead its Global Law Committee. She participated in Fall panels at the Annual Meeting of the International Bar

Association in Boston, the International Law Weekend Meeting sponsored by the International Law Students

Association and the American Branch-International Law Association in New York, and a panel on civil rights and

racial identity organized at the University of Minnesota School of Law. She continues to serve on the Executive

Committee of the AALS Section on Minority Groups, Co-Chairs the American Society of International Law Disability

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Rights Interest Group, and will complete her term as a member of the Society of American Law Teachers Board of

Governors in January 2014.

Ian Haney Lopez

(Berkeley)

Book: Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

(2014). Two central themes dominate American politics today: race as a source of opposition to the president and

loyalty to the Republican Party; and the decline of the middle class. Dog Whistle Politics connects both: it reveals how

political race-baiting convinces many white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their

own interests.

Maya Manian

(San Francisco)

Publications:

“Lessons from Personhood’s Defeat: Abortion Restrictions and Side Effects on Women’s Health,” 74 Ohio

State Law Journal 75 (2013). SSRN

The Consequences of Abortion Restrictions for Women’s Healthcare, Washington and Lee law Review

(forthcoming 2014)

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Presentations:

Presenter, The Consequences of Abortion Restrictions for Women’s Healthcare, Washington and Lee Law

School, “Roe at 40: The Controversy Continues,” Lexington, VA (November 2013)

Presenter, Lessons from Personhood’s Defeat: Abortion Restrictions and Side Effects on Women’s Health,

Abortion Seminar, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California San Francisco, CA

(November 2013)

Presenter, “Lessons from Personhood’s Defeat: Abortion Restrictions and Side Effects on Women’s

Health,” Santa Clara Law’s Faculty Workshop, Santa Clara, Calif. (January 2013).

Presenter, “Lessons from Personhood’s Defeat: Abortion restrictions and Side Effects on Women’s

Health,” The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, ”Liberty/Equality: The View from Roe’s 40th and

Lawrence’s 10th Anniversaries,” Los Angeles, Calif. (January 2013).

Ajay K. Mehrotra

(Indiana)

Book: Ajay K. Mehrotra, Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive

Taxation, 1877-1929 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013),

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/economic-history/making-modern-american-fiscal-state-law-

politics-and-rise-progressive-taxation-18771929

Cynthia Nance

(Arkansas)

Appointment: Named Council Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Law Services Corporation. This organization

created and administers the LSAT, as well as the systems for law school admissions throughout North America.

Presentations:

Moderated a panel for the ABA Annual Meeting in August in San Francisco, CA.

Chaired the Finance and Legal Affairs Committee meeting of the Law School Admission Council on Friday,

March 22nd.

Served on a panel which discussed “Challenges Which Members of Historically Underrepresented Groups

May Encounter in Attaining Leadership Positions Within the ABA.” The event was hosted by the ABA

Section LDP.

On October 11th, Dean Nance attended the Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership - Deanship

Conference at the University of Washington School of Law where she participated on panel for

“Understanding and Addressing the Presumption of Incompetence.”

Presenter for a Plenary Session on “Implications of the Supreme Court Decision” at the 2013 Institute on

Teaching and Mentoring in Arlington, VA.

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She was also invited to participate as a panelist in a presentation at the ABA 7th Annual Section of Labor and

Employment Law Conference in New Orleans, LA in November.

Xuan-Thao Nguyen

(Southern Methodist)

Appointments: Appointed to the AALS Committee on Annual Meeting and Sections, the AALS Special Committee on

Academic Symposium at the Annual Meeting, and the AALS Special Committee on Crosscutting Programs and Hot

Topics at the Annual Meeting for Terms ending in 2015.

Service: Served on the 2013 AALS Planning Committee for the Workshop for New Law School Teachers, the

Workshop for Pre-tenured People of Color Law School Teachers and the Workshop for Beginning Legal Writing Law

School Teachers

Articles:

Patent Prudential Standing, 21 GEO. MASON L. REV. 17 (2013)(Lead Article).

Trademark Apologetic Justice: China and the Three Laws, 15 UNNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS LAW 131 (2013).

2013 ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TAXATION (BLOOMBERG BNA)

(co-author with Professor Jeff Maine)

2013 ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION

LICENSING: LAW AND PRACTICE (BLOOMBERG BNA) (co-author with Professors Robert

Gomulkiewicz & Danielle Conway).

Presentations:

China’s 3rd Plenum and Potential Impact on Intellectual Property Panel (with Chief Judge Rader of the

Federal Circuit, Professor Donald Clarke of GW Law, Mark Cohen of USPTO and Conrad Wong of USPTO),

George Washington School of Law’s Third Annual China Intellectual Property Conference, December 11,

2013.

Copyrights and Business Models, Vietnam National University, UEL, School of Law, December 3, 2013.

What is Law? Economics University Faculty of Law, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, December 2, 2013.

From Aspirin to Google: Trademark Defenses, University of Washington School of Law, November 6, 2013.

Licensing IP: Transactions, Tax and Bankruptcy Concerns, CAIL Annual IP Conference, Nov. 11-12, 2013.

Copyrights in Gaylord v. United States: Government and Fair Use, Vietnam National University, University of

Economics and Law, HCMC, Nov. 27, 2013.

Presented Overlapping IP Protection for Designs: The Trade Dress Approach at the Intellectual Property

Conference, Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, October 24, 2013.

Presented Overlapping IP Protection for Designs: The Copyright Approach at the Intellectual Property

Conference, Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, October 24, 2013.

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Presented Overlapping IP Protection for Designs: The Design Patent Approach at the Intellectual Property

Conference, Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, October 24, 2013.

Presented Apple v. Samsung: Beyond the United States; the Global Mobile Phones War, Vietnam Institute of

Intellectual Property Research, October 22, 2013.

Presented AIA: Game Changer for Innovation? Vietnam Institute of Intellectual Property Research, October

22, 2013.

Presented Law and Commerce: A Critical Look at the Uniform Commercial Code, National Economics

University Faculty of Law, October 21, 2013.

Presented, Division of Powers vs. Separation of Powers: A Look at the Recent Government Shutdown,

Institute of State and Laws, Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics and Law, October 25, 2013.

Conducted workshop in close sessions with the national drafting committee from the Vietnam Ministry on

Secured Transactions and amendments to the 2005 Civil Code. On September 14, 2013, she and the drafting

team traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to speak on Secured Transactions at a symposium sponsored by the

Vietnam Ministry of Justice and the World Bank Group/IFC.

Presented, “Secured Transactions Unitary Approach and Hypotheticals,” and Professor Nguyen was one of

two professors invited to Beijing to the Drafting Committee of China Supreme People’s Court of China’s

Property Code. The Drafting Committee, currently drafting Judicial Interpretations of Secured Transactions

Law, is comprised of six justices and chaired by Justice Wang, President of China Supreme People’s Court.

Presented “Patent Prudential Standing,” at the 2013 IP Scholars Conference, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of

Law (New York, NY (August 2013)).

Conducted a seminar on “IP in Corporate Financing” at the Beijing University of International Business and

Economics (Beijing, China, (July 2013)).

Provided consultation to the drafting team from the Vietnam Ministry of Justice’s Department of National

Registration of Secured Transactions for the revision to Vietnam’s Secured Transactions Law and attended

Ministry-level meetings on Secured Transactions presided by the Deputy Minister (June 26-27, 2013).

Presented “International Commercial Contracts and Arbitrations: Lessons for Vietnam Companies,” School

of Law, University of Economics & Law, Vietnam National University (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (June

2013)).

Presented, “Intellectual Property Enforcement: Empowering IP Holders and Balancing Different Needs,” at

the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO)/Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology’s Symposium on

Intellectual Property Enforcement (Hanoi, Vietnam (June 2013)).

Presented, “Different Forms of Merger & Acquisition: The IP Experience,” to the Department of Corporate

Finance Law, Hanoi Law University (Hanoi, Vietnam (June 2013))

Presented, “Trademark Reputational Harm: China’s Three Laws,” at the International Trademarks Conference

(Dallas, TX (May 2013))

Discussant on Reading Tea Leaves: China’s IP Challenges from the Bottom Up, Roundtable on China’s IP

organized by Fordham Law School and George Washington University School of Law, January 9-10, 2013.

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Kimberly Jenkins Robinson

(Richmond)

Publication: The High Cost of The Nation’s Current Framework for Education Federalism, 48 Wake Forest L. Rev.

287-331 (2013) (invited symposium).

Future Speaking Engagements:

Moderator, Looking to the Future, Conference Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of

Education and the 50th Anniversary, Michigan State University School of Law, April 11, 2014.

Speaker, Pennsylvania State University Conference on Civil Rights and Education, June 6-7, 2014.

Past Speaking Engagements:

Moderator, Evolving Paradigms for Ensuring Access to Education, The Civil Rights Act at 50 Years,

University of Chicago Legal Forum, November 8, 2013.

Speaker, San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, Poverty Law: Cases, Teaching and

Scholarship, American University School of Law, October 25-26, 2013.

Keynote Speaker, The State of Education as a Right Today, Is Education a Civil Right?, Harvard Advanced

Leadership Initiative, Harvard Law School, April 24-27-2013.

Speaker, Innovative Programs and Positive Impacts (Magnet Schools), Looking Back, Moving Forward: A

Conference on Race, Class, Opportunity and School Boundaries in the Richmond Region, March 14, 2013.

Conference Organizer and Speaker, Exploring New Paths to Equal Educational Opportunity, Rodriguez at 40:

Exploring New Paths to Equal Educational Opportunity, University of Richmond School of Law, March 8,

2013.

Speaker, Reconstructing Education Federalism, No Child Left Behind Ten Years in Review, Thurgood

Marshall School of Law, February 8, 2013.

Moderator, 40 Years after Rodriguez, 35 Years after Bakke: Education, Equality and Fundamental Rights,

2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, January 4, 2013.

Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod

(Florida International)

Publications:

“I’m Not Quite Dead Yet!”: Rethinking Anti-lapse Redistribution of a Dead Beneficiary’s Gift, 61 Clev. St. L.

Rev. __ (forthcoming 2014)

“But My Lease Isn’t Up Yet!”: Finding Fault with “No-Fault” Evictions, 35 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. __

(forthcoming 2013)

Elena Marty-Nelson, Anegla Gilmore & Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod, Testamentary Capacity and Validity of

Wills,824-3d T.M., Tax Management, Bureau of National Affairs (forthcoming 2013)

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Valerie Schneider (Howard)

The Howard University School of Law Fair Housing and Civil Rights Clinics submitted an amicus brief to the U.S.

Supreme Court in Mount Holly v. Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc. The brief was submitted on behalf of our

client, Empower DC, a grassroots community organization that is fighting to preserve fair and affordable housing in

the Ivy City neighborhood of DC. Blog post for the American Constitution Society, which describes the case:

http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/settlement-in-fair-housing-case-a-sigh-of-relief

Wendy B. Scott

(North Carolina Central)

Appointments: After serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at North Carolina Central for three years, I

returned to full time teaching in Spring 2013. In February, Leo Martinez appointed me to AALS Planning Committee

for the Annual Meeting Presidential Workshop on “Tomorrow’s Law School”, scheduled for Sunday, January 5, 2014.

Presentations and Service: At the Southeast/Southwest People of Color Conference in April 2013, I vetted a work-in-

progress and spoke on two panels. I am now serving on the Executive Planning Committee for the 2014 SE/SW POC

conference being hosted by Texas Southern. In August 2013, I spoke on the Supreme Court Review panel at SEALS

and will participate in a roundtable discussion of Michelle Alexander’s book, THE NEW JIM CROW, at the 2014

SEALS Workshop on Criminal Law and Procedure Discussion Group entitled “Mass Incarceration: The Criminal

Justice That Got Us Here”. In fall 2013, I organized a visit by our new NAACP LDF President and General Counsel

Sherrilyn Ifill to NCCU Law School. I also served on an ABA site visit team.

Publication: Published Book Review: PRESUMED INCOMPETENT:THE INTERSECTIONS OF RACE AND

CLASS FOR WOMEN IN ACADEMIA, 37 Harv. J. L. & Gender Online 31 (2013).

Dawinder S. Sidhu

(New Mexico)

Appointments:

Fellow, Supreme Court of the United States (2013-14)

Adjunct Professor (Spring 2014) and Visiting Researcher (2013-2014), Georgetown University Law Center

Academic Visitor, Oxford University, Faculty of Law (Summer 2013)

Publications:

“The Birth of the Greenback,” N.Y. TIMES, Dec. 31, 2013.

Civic Education as an Instrument of Upward Social Mobility, 90 DENV. U. L. REV. 977 (2013).

Lessons on Terrorism and “Mistaken Identity” From Oak Creek, With a Coda on the Boston Marathon

Bombings, 113 COLUM. L. REV. SIDEBAR 76 (2013).

“Guantanamo Military Commissions: Reflections from a Legal Observer,” OXFORD HUMAN RIGHTS HUB

BLOG, Sept. 12, 2013 (Part I), Sept. 24, 2013 (Part II), Sept. 30, 2013 (Part III)

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“Get Rid of Tenure for Law Schools,” USA TODAY, Aug. 25, 2013

“In Defense of the American Sikh Congressional Caucus,” THE HILL, June 6, 2013.

“A Critical Look at the ‘Critical Mass’ Argument,” CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Feb. 18, 2013.

“The Meaning and Viability of the Thirteenth Amendment,” THE HILL, Jan. 7, 2013.

Activities:

Technical Advisor, Aspen Institute, Justice and Society Program, The Inclusive America Project

Legal Observer, Military Commissions, U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

SpearIt

(Thurgood Marshall)

Awarded the “Policy Impact Award” by the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding on 11/23/12 in Detroit, MI for

his 2013 report, “Facts and Fictions about Islam in Prison: Muslim Radicalization in Post-9/11 America.”

Promoted to Associate Professor

Jessica Dixon Weaver (Southern Methodist)

Publications:

Jessica Dixon Weaver’s recent article, Grandma in the White House: Legal Support for Intergenerational

Caregiving, 43 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1 (2013)(lead article) was cited in Weisberg and Appleton’s Modern Family

Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2013), and an excerpt of the article is featured in Nina Kohn’s Elder Law:

Cases, Problems, & Exercises (2013). The article also received feedback from First Lady Michelle Obama,

who wrote Jessica a personal letter on behalf of her mother to share how much Mrs. Marian Robinson “very

much appreciated [her] “thoughtful comments.”

Jessica Dixon Weaver, Overstepping Ethical Boundaries? Limitations on State Efforts to Provide Access to

Justice in Family Courts, 82 Fordham L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2014).

Presentations:

Overstepping Ethical Boundaries? Limitations on State Efforts to Provide Access to Justice in Family Courts,

2013 Stein Center for Law and Ethics Colloquium - “Challenges to Lawyers’ Monopoly,” Fordham Law

School (October 18, 2013).

Child Sexual Victimization: When Abused Children Become Neglectful Mothers, 2013 Southeastern

Association of Law Schools Conference, Children and the Law Discussion Group (August 4, 2013).

Uncovering Race in Family Law, 2013 Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop,

University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Law (June 29, 2013).

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Father Chasing: The State’s Ethical Duties in the Establishment of Voluntary Paternity, Emerging Family Law

Scholars and Teachers Conference, Brooklyn Law School (June 5, 2013).

Adrien K. Wing

(Iowa)

Honored with an oil portrait at the University of Iowa Law School in February to recognize her 25 years of service to

Iowa. She became director of the UI Center for Human Rights in July.

Seval Yildirim (Whittier)

Published articles:

Globally Tangled: Law, Headcoverings and Religious Identity. 10 Santa Clara J. of Int’l L. 45 (2012)

Forthcoming articles:

Reconceptualizing Love and Sex Beyond the Administrative State: A Response to Meg Penrose. Villanova

Law Review. (Forthcoming, 2013).

Rule of Law as a Tool of Orient(aliz)ing the Muslim Legal Subject. In Middle Eastern Studies after

September 11: Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia. Mohammed Bamyeh and Tugrul

Keskin, eds. Brill, 2014 (Forthcoming).

Latest presentations:

Ecumenopolis?: Turkey’s AKP and the Limits of Neoliberal Governmentality. Panelist. Panel on State Power,

Exclusion and Legitimacy. ClassCrits VI Workshop/Southwestern Law Review Symposium. Los Angeles,

CA, November 15, 2013.

Opening Plenary: Redefining Equality through Difference/Modernity/Coloniality: From DOMA to Shelby

County, Trayvon and Beyond. Panelist. 2013 Biennial LatCrit Conference. Chicago, October 4, 2013.

Elizabeth Young

(Arkansas)

Service: Planned and organized the 2013 Central States Law Schools Association Annual Scholarship Conference,

which was held from October 4th – 5th at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

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EDITORS’ NOTE

We view this Newsletter not as a formality, or just another email that arrives in your inbox at the close of the calendar

year. We instead believe this Newsletter is a meaningful way to celebrate Section Members’ commitment to their

students, the exchange and advancement of ideas, and our shared profession. This Newsletter, in other words, reflects and

recognizes that solemn commitment, as well as progress made towards the development of solutions to stubborn social

and legal problems. It also promotes the support and collegiality that are necessary predicates for the existence and

flourishing of a healthy community of teachers and scholars. In short, this Newsletter is an opportunity to take stock of

the accomplishments of the previous year, to draw inspiration from our colleagues’ work, and to be thankful to be part of

a wonderful group of law professors who, together, is poised to meet next year’s challenges.

Should you have any suggestions or comments on how we can improve the Newsletter and be of better service to the

Section, please email us at: kwilliams@stcl.edu and sidhu@law.unm.edu.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy, and productive 2014!

- Ken Williams

(South Texas)

-Dave Sidhu

(New Mexico)