



Weekly News on Akron Law Faculty Research and Development
Research News Archive
April 6, 2009
Jane Moriarty has accepted an offer to participate in a written symposium at the University of Utah on The New National Academy of Sciences Forensic Science Report. Jane has also been invited to join the planning board and speak at a conference at Cardozo Law School in the fall on wrongful convictions and Prosecutorial and Defense Attorney Accountability.
Tracy Thomas was invited to guest blog about her research and work on women’s legal history and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the International Law Girls site. See http://intlawgrrls.blogspot.com/search/label/Tracy%20A.%20Thomas
March 30, 2009
Rich Lavoie has accepted an offer from the Pace Law Review to publish his article, Flying Above the Law and Under the Radar: Instilling a Taxpaying Ethos in Those Playing by Their Own Rules.
Meg Matejkovic has published What is Reasonable Accommodation under the ADA? 28 Miss. C. L. Rev. 67 (2009)(with John E. Matejkovic).
Dick Aynes has submitted three articles for publication. See Ink Blot or Not: The Meaning of Privileges and/or Immunities, 11 Univ. Penn. J. of Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2009); The 39th Congress (1865-1867) and The Fourteenth Amendment: Some Preliminary Perspectives, 42 AKRON L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2009); Enforcing the Bill of Rights Against the States: The History and the Future, 18 J. CONTEMPORARY LEGAL ISSUES ____ (San Diego) (forthcoming 2009). In addition, he has been commissioned to write an article for the Ohio History journal entitled Kate Chase’s influence upon Chief Justice Chase and his dissent in Bradwell v. Illinois.
Carolyn Dessin will present “Sneaking Skills and Professionalism into Every Course, Every Discussion, Every Day,” at the June 2009 Gonzaga Institute for Law Teaching conference.
Dick Aynes will present two papers the annual Law & Society meeting which will take place in Denver, Colorado in May. One is on the privileges or immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and one is on the leadership role that John Bingham played in the proposal and adoption of the Fourteen Amendment.
March 23, 2009
Stephen Padfield has accepted an offer to publish his latest work, Finding State Action When Corporations Govern, in the Temple Law Review.
Will Huhn has published an essay Lincoln Was a Framer of the Constitution with Slip Opinions, the online companion to the Washington University Law Review. See http://lawreview.wustl.edu/slip-opinions/abraham-lincoln-was-a-framer-of-the-constitution/.
Elizabeth Reillywill edit a collection of papers from the Fall 2008 Constitutional Law Symposium, The 140th Anniversary of the 14th Amendment, that will be published by the University of Akron Press.
Brant Lee will present his book in progress, “Whiteness as a Spontaneous, Self-organized Complex System” at the CRT 20 conference in Iowa on April 4, and on a panel at the Law and Society Annual Meeting in Denver on May 29. He presented an early version of the work at Pace Law School in February.
Brant Lee’s article, The Network Economic Effects of Whiteness,” 53 Am. Univ. L. Rev. 1259 (2004), was posted as a resource on the Racial Equity Tools website, which launched 3/9/2009. http://www.racialequitytools.org/ci-concepts-wp.htm
February 2, 2009
Marty Belsky has published Alan Dershowitz: The Advocate and Scholar as Jew: The Jew as Advocate and Scholar, 71 Albany L.Rev. 927 (2008)
Marge Koosed has accepted an invitation to serve as a panelist and write a short article for the Creighton University Law Reivew’s TePoel Lecture in April on the topic of credibility of eyewitness testimony. The keynote speaker for the panel is Richard De Mulder, professor of law at Erasmus University in the Netherlands and Legal Tools Expert Committee member to The International Criminal Court.
Jane Moriarty has agreed to write a chapter for the forthcoming ABA book, “The Future of Evidence.”
Marge Koosed has been elected to the Executive Committee of the AALS Criminal Justice Section.
Carrie Lyons and Brant Lee will present a “Face 2 Face” discussion titled “Neither Black Nor White” on Feb. 3 at noon in the Student Union, as part of the University Program, “2009 Rethinking Race: Black, White and Beyond.”
January 26, 2009
Will Huhn will publish his article, “The Legacy of Slaughterhouse, Bradwell and Cruikshank on Constitutional Analysis" from the fall Akron Law Constitutional Law Symposium in the Akron Law Review. He has also accepted an offer to publish a related piece, “Lincoln was a Framer of the Constitution” in Slip Opinions, the online companion to the Washington University-St. Louis Law Review.
Jeff Samuels spoke on “Domain Name Disputes,” at the PTO Day Program sponsored by Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation and held in Washington, D.C.
Stefan Padfield gave a works-in-progress last week at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama.
SSRN Akron Legal Research Paper Series, volume 11, issue 1, issued on January 22, 2009, with articles posted by:
- Lloyd Anderson, Mocking the Public Interest: Congress Restores Meaningful Judicial Review of Government Antitrust Consent Decrees
- Will Huhn, In Defense of the Roosevelt Court
- Bill Jordan, Chevron and Hearing Rights: An Unintended Combination
- Rich Lavoie, Cultivating a Compliance Culture: An Alternative Approach for Addressing the Tax Gap
- Jane Moriarty, Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts
- Tracy Thomas, The New Face of Women’s Legal History: Introduction to the Symposium
Paul Richert’s Electronic Discovery Bibliography, was published in the AALS Section on Litigation’s December 2008 Newsletter.
Akron Law’s Law & Neuroscience Symposium chaired by Jane Moriarty was mentioned on the MacArthur Foundation’s “What’s new” page. See http://www.lawandneuroscienceproject.org/
Tracy Thomas has been elected chair-elect of the AALS Remedies Section.
January 20, 2009
Jane Moriarty will present her latest work on fmris, neuroscience, and the law at a faculty colloquium at Case Western Law School, where she is visiting this semester.
Kalyani Robbins’ proposed panel, The Future of ESA: Suggestions for the New Administration, has been accepted for presentation at the conference entitled, Solidarity! United Action for the Greener Good, at the University of Oregon in February.
Will Huhn’s online companion journal article, “Waterboarding is Illegal,” Slip Opinions, Wash. U. L. Rev. (June 2008) http://lawreview.wustl.edu/slip-opinions/waterboarding-is-illegal is blowing up the web site (which is a good thing) receiving up to 800 hits per day as compared to the usual 40 hits per day for the journal, and being linked from andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com.
January 12, 2009
Carolyn Dessin presented, Consumer Protection Law and the Elderly: What’s New - What’s Needed, for the Section on Aging and the Law at the 2009 Annual AALS Meeting in San Diego in January. She was elected Chair-Elect of the Section.
Bernadette Genetin presented E-Discovery for the Litigation Section at the 2009 Annual AALS Meeting in San Diego. Bernadette is also a member of the AALS Litigation Section Executive committee.
Dick Aynes presented on a panel entitled History and Historiography at a conference on “The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights: What have we Learned? Why Does it Matter?” at the University of San Diego.
Jane Moriarty was interviewed for an article by Washington Lawyer regarding her work on neuroscience and the law.
Jane Moriarty accepted an invitation to write a book review for Judicature on the new book, “Science for Lawyers,” edited by Eric York Drogin.
Jane Moriarty has accepted an invitation to present at a symposium organized by the History Department at Carnegie Mellon University focusing on Jay Aronson’s recently-published book,Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling (Rutgers University Press, 2007).
Kalyani Robbins is organizing a panel entitled “The Future of the ESA: Suggestions for the New Administration,” for the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon in late February.
Elizabeth Reilly will present a work-in-progress at Northern Kentucky University in the spring as part of our scholar exchange with Chase.
Jane Moriarty’s Neuroscience, Law and Government Symposium was featured in a post on the Stanford Center for Law and Biosciences Blog.
http://lawandbiosciences.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/university-of-akron-law-and-neuroscience-conference/
Akron law faculty Dick Aynes, Will Huhn, and Elizabeth Reilly participated as panelists and moderators at last week’s successful Constitutional Law Center Symposium, “The 140th Anniversary of the 14th Amendment.”
Top 10 Papers in SSRN Akron Research Paper Series (Total SSRN Downloads of all Papers 4,509)
October 13, 2008
Alan Newman’s forthcoming article in the journal Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal (ABA), Revocable Trusts and the Law of Wills: An Imperfect Fit, was ranked #2 of the Top 10 Downloads for the Wills, Trusts, and Estates SSRN Series for the period of August 6 to October 5, 2008, and was mentioned on the Wills, Trusts, and Estates Lawprof Blog.
Jane Moriarty and the Akron Neuroscience Symposium were featured in New Scientist magazine.
October 6, 2008
Rich Lavoie and Bill Jordan have posted new abstracts on SSRN and the Akron Research Paper Series.
Stefan Padfield has joined as a blogger on Akron Law Café highlighting issues of business and the economy.
Tracy Thomas has agreed to serve as chair and commentator for a legal history panel at the Oio Academy of History meeting to be held at the University of Akron in Spring 2009.
September 29, 2008
Kalyani Robbins has accepted an offer from the UCLA Environmental Law Review to publish her article, Strength in Numbers: Setting Quantitative Criteria For Listing Species Under The Endangered Species Act.
Bill Jordan has accepted an offer from the Administrative Law Review to publish his article, Chevron Deference and Hearing Rights: An Unintended Assault on the Legitimacy of Agency Adjudicatory Decisions.
The Neuroscience, Law and Government Symposium chaired by Jane Moriarty was featured on the front page of Sunday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer. See http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/news/1222601416127840.xml&coll=2
September 22, 2008
Carolyn Dessin has agreed to update her 2003 chapter on Durable Powers of Attorney for the Ohio Elder Law Deskbook.
September 15, 2008
Carrie Lyons will be speaking at the conference Looking Past Guantanamo: Are New Concepts Needed for Terrorist-Related Detentions? on September 19, 2008, at American University Washington College of Law.
Sarah Cravens will present her work-in-progress, “Judging Judges: Regulation of Judicial Misconduct in Common-Law Countries,” at the University of Maryland.
Stefan Padfield will present his most recent work-in-progress at Roger Williams School of Law, in addition to two other presentations at Samford University and the Central States Annual Meeting.
Tracy Thomas, with David Levine and David Jung, published the electronic 2008 Summer Supplement to the text, Remedies: Public and Private (4th ed. West).
Jane Moriarty will present her paper, Neuroimages of Deception: Evaluating Reliability for Daubert to Guantanamo, at the upcoming Neuroscience, Law and Government conference sponsored by Akron Law.
Elizabeth Reilly will moderate a panel at the Neuroscience, Law and Government symposium sponsored by Akron Law on “Neuroscience, Gender and Capital Cases.”
Dick Aynes will be presenting a talk on the work of the 39th Congress at the Constitutional Law Symposium hosted by Akron Law in October.
Tracy Thomas accepted an invitation to present her work-in-progress, Law as an Agent of Feminist Consciousness at the University of Toledo School of Law.
September 8, 2008
Carrie Lyons as been reappointed by the ABA President to serve on the ABA Standing Committee on Law & National Security Advisory Committee. Membership is by invitation only, and this is the second year Carrie has served on the committee.
Will Huhn has an offer to publishe his online constitutional law casebook with Carolina Academic Press.
Dick Aynes has been invited to participate in the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy’s conference on the Reconstruction Amendments and the Second Founding at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in November. He will be speaking on a panel on the Privileges or Immunities Clause and papers will be published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.
Dean Belsky and Will Huhn will participate in the panel, “The Constitution, Religion and the Presidential Election: An Interactive Discussion” as part of the University’s Constitution Day programming, on Wed., Sept. 17, at 4pm in the UA Student Union Ballroom B.
September 2, 2008
Jane Moriarty has published Symposium Forward: Daubert, Innocence, and the Future of Forensic Science, 43 Tulsa L.Rev. 229 (2007). She also published Rape, Affirmative Consent to Sex, and Sexual Autonomy: Introduction to the Symposium, 41 Akron L. Rev. 839 (2008) for the symposium she arranged to be published in the Akron Law Review stemming from her presentation at the Law & Society meeting in Berlin.
Tracy Thomas published The New Face of Women’s Legal History: Introduction to the Symposium, 41 Akron L. Rev. 695 (2008) introducing the symposium issue arising out of the women’s legal history conference held at Akron in Fall 2007.
Bernadette Genetin will present her paper, State E-Discovery: Another Federal Rule Improvement Project, at the Litigation Section meeting at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego.
Dick Aynes agreed to present a paper at the 14th Amendment Conference at the University of San Diego in January 2009.
Elizabeth Reilly will present her paper Empathy and Pragmatism in Selecting Constitutional Norms for Resolving Religious Land Use Disputes speaking at the Religion and Land Use Conference of the Government Law Center of Albany Law School in October.
Stefan Padfield will present his paper Finding State Action When Corporations Govern at the 2008 Central States Association of Law Schools Conference on October 24 and 25 at Southern Illinois University. He will also give a talk at the faculty workshop program at Samford Law School in Birmingham.
Brant Lee will present a works-in-progress at a Pace Law School faculty workshop and at the NE Ohio Faculty Colloquium in October at CSU.
Will Huhn will present a works-in-progress at Pace Law School.
August 25, 2008
Faculty Awards for Outstanding Scholarship were announced at the Celebration of Scholarship, April 29. The awards, determined by peer vote, went to Sam Baumgartner and Sarah Cravens for the junior faculty award, and to Jane Moriarty and Stewart Moritz for the senior faculty.
Jack Sahl published Thinking about Leaving? The Ethics of Departing One Firm for Another in 19 Prof. Law. 2 (2008).
Brant Lee published Book Review, Thomas J. Davis, Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents, 26 Law & History Rev. 467 (2008)
Will Huhn published Waterboarding is Illegal in Slip Opinions, the online companion to the Washington University Law Review.
Dick Aynes has published an entry on Judge Leo A. Jackson for Oxford's African American National Biography.
Tracy Thomas published Sex v. Race, Again in Slip Opinions, the online companion to the Washington University Law Review. http://lawreview.wustl.edu/slip-opinions/sex-v-race-again/
Sam Baumgartner was a discussant on a panel, “Transnational Litigation as a Response to Global Problems: Promises and Perils” at the Law and Society Conference, in Montreal, Canada, in June.
Jane Moriarty presented at the AALS Evidence Section conference held in Cleveland in June.
The Akron Law Café went online this summer. See http://www.ohioverticals.com/blogs/akron_law_cafe The prof bloggers so far are Will Huhn, Brant Lee, and Stewart Moritz, and guest bloggers have included Dick Aynes, Bill Jordan, Frank Quirk and Tracy Thomas. The blog has quickly become one of the top blogs for the Akron Beacon Journal.
Sarah Cravens accepted an invitation to join as a contributing blogger on the Legal Ethics Forum http://www.legalethicsforum.com"www.legalethicsforum.com.