Faculty Activities
January 21, 2011 - Professor Rebecca Hulse will participate in a forum about redistricting procedures at the James City-Williamsburg Community Center in Williamsburg, VA.
January 12, 2011 – Professor Scott Dodson was counsel of record and author of an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of federal jurisdiction professors in O’Connell v. Chapman University.
January 2011 - Dean Davison M. Douglas published the 3d edition of a co-authored constitutional law casebook, Constitutional Law in Context (Carolina Academic Press, 3d ed. 2011) (with Curtis, Parker, Finkelman, and Ross).
December 2, 2010 - Professors Alan Meese and Allison Orr Larsen participated in Constitutional Conversations, a program hosted by the Williamsburg Regional Library in conjunction with the Institute of Bill of Rights Law.
November 17, 2010 - Professor Susan Grover gave a talk about Ethics for the Williamsburg Bar Association on Substance Abuse and Mental Health in the Legal Profession in Williamsburg, VA.
November 12, 2010 - Professor Sarah L. Stafford presented a paper at the Entrepreneurship for Governmental Innovation Conference at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC.
November 8, 2010 - Professor Laura A. Heymann was appointed to the AIPLA Quarterly Journal Editorial Board for a two-year term by the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
November 8, 2010 - Professor Laura A. Heymann presented "The Law of Reputation and the Interest of the Audience" as part of the Fall 2010 Intellectual Property Speakers Series at the Cardozo School of Law in New York, NY.
November 5, 2010 - Professor Nathan B. Oman gave a forum entitled "Mormons as Minorities," at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, VA.
October 27, 2010: Professor Laura A. Heymann presented "The Law of Reputation and the Interest of the Audience" at a workshop at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, VA.
October 20, 2010 - Professor Lan Cao spoke on Culture and Gender in Law and Development at a brown bag session hosted by Women's Studies and Africana Studies at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
October 20, 2010 - Vice Dean Eric Kades participated in a briefing on the economy at the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
October 18, 2010 - Professor Sarah L. Stafford, who is the Paul R. Verkuil Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Economics and Law, participated in a Festschrift in honor of Professor Verkuil, who is a former President of William & Mary, at Cardozo Law School in New York, NY.
October 8, 2010 - Professor Scott Dodson participated in the Junior Scholars Federal Courts Workshop, sponsored by the University of Illinois Law School, in Chicago, IL.
October 7, 2010 - Professor James Dwyer participated in a panel on Family Law and Women's Rights at a symposium at Cardozo School of Law, entitled Twenty Years After Employment Division v. Smith, in Brooklyn, NY.
October 7, 2010 - Professor Scott Dodson presented a paper entitled The Complexity of Jurisdictional Clarity at DePaul College of Law in Chicago, IL.
September 29, 2010 - Professor Scott Dodson played the role of the Devil's Advocate, and won the debate, at the College of William & Mary's annual Raft Debate in Williamsburg, VA.
September 29, 2010 - Professor Neal Devins participated in a discussion about whether Obama's "czars" are unconstitutional at an event sponsored by the the Federalist Society at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, VA.
September 27, 2010 - Dean Davison M. Douglas participated in the Constitutional Conversations Kick-Off Event at the Williamsburg Library Theatre in Williamsburg, VA.
September 18, 2010 - Professor Erin Ryan presented "Intergovernmental Bargaining and Climate Federalism" at the United Nations UNITAR-Yale Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy, at Yale Law School, in New Haven, CT.
September 16, 2010 - Professor William W. Van Alstyne gave the keynote address at the Cato Institute's symposium, The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue, in Washington, DC.
September 13, 2010 - Professor Alan Meese participated in a Constitution Day debate with Professor Michael Klarman of Harvard Law School over constitutional originalism.
September 10, 2010 - Professor Michael Steven Green gave a paper entitled “Is Kelsen the Frege of Legal Theory?” at Legal Science and Legal Theory: An International Conference on Philosophy of Law at Oxford University in England.
August 30, 2010 - Highlights, the newsletter from the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs, published "Helping Law Students," an article by Professor Susan Grover, in its Summer 2010 edition.
August 12-13, 2010 - Professor Laura A. Heymann presented "The Law of Reputation" at the 10th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, held at the University of California Berkeley School of Law.
July 30-August 2, 2010 - The following professors presented papers or participated in workshops during the annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools in Palm Beach, FL: Professor Erin Ryan, “What the Constitution Tells Us About Environmental Law, and What Environmental Law Tells Us About the Constitution;” Professor Vivian Hamilton, “The Expressive Power of Marriage;” Professor Jason Solomon, "Executive Compensation in Recessionary Times;" and Professor Scott Dodson, “Dismissal Rates After Iqbal.”
July 14-15, 2010 - Professor Paul Marcus gave talks to United States District Judges on Criminal Procedure at their annual Judicial Workshop in Minneapolis, MN.
June 20, 2010 - Washington University Law Review published an article by Professor Scott Dodson titled "Justice Souter and the Civil Rules" on its website.
June 11, 2010 - Professor Erin Ryan presented "Negotiating in the Shadow of Climate Nuisance" at the AALS Midyear Property Conference in New York City, NY.
June 9, 2010 - Professor Fredric Lederer spoke via videoconferencing from McGlothlin Courtroom at the Bench Bar Conference sponsored by the Delaware State Bar in Wilmington, DE.
May 29, 2010 - Professor Erin Ryan presented a lecture entitled, “Negotiating Climate Federalism,” at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association in Chicago, IL.
May 24, 2010 - Professor Laura A. Heymann presented "The Grammar of Trademarks" as part of the Trademark Scholarship Symposium at the International Trademark Association's annual meeting in Boston, MA.
May 20-21, 2010 - Professor Paul Marcus gave talks to United States District Judges on Criminal Procedure at their annual Judicial Workshops in Washington, D.C.
May 14, 2010 - Professor Lan Cao took part in a discussion about the Vietnamese American experience at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
May 13, 2010 - Professor Michael Stein presented a talk to the faculty at the Haifa University School of Social Work in Haifa, Israel.
May 11, 2010 - Professor Michael Stein presented a talk to the faculty at the Hebrew University School of Law in Jerusalem, Israel.
May 5, 2010 - The American Bar Association published Professor Ronald H. Rosenberg's book Fundamentals of Municipal Finance (co-authors Joel A. Mintz and Larry A. Bakken).
May 4, 2010 - Professor Erin Ryan presented a lecture entitled, “Negotiating Federalism,” to the Virginia Junior Faculty Forum at the University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond, VA.
April 25, 2010 - The NAACP and the Student Assembly Department of Diversity Initiatives awarded Professor Susan Grover the Faculty Award for the 2010 Image Awards.
April 24, 2010 - Dean Davison M. Douglas delivered the keynote address on recent changes in legal education at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries in Williamsburg, VA.
April 23, 2010 - Professor Nancy Combs participated in a symposium entitled "International Justice in the 21st Century: The Law and Politics of the International Criminal Court." The symposium was sponsored by the John Marshall School of Law and took place in Chicago, IL.
April 19, 2010 - Professor Scott Dodson presented a paper entitled "New Pleading, New Discovery" to the faculty of Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, NC.
April 16-17, 2010 - Professor Laura A. Heymann participated in the Second Trademark Scholars Roundtable, held at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, IL.
April 12, 2010 - Congressman Wittman invited Professor Patricia E. Roberts to become a member of Virginia's First District Individuals with Disabilities Advisory Council. The first meeting was held in Fredericksburg, VA on April 12th.
April 10, 2010 - Professor Michael Stein was the Keynote Speaker at the PacRim Conference on Disabilities in Honolulu, HI.
April 9, 2010 - Professor Laura A. Heymann presented "The Grammar of Trademarks" at the Lewis & Clark Law Review's Spring Symposium, "Who Is the Reasonable Person?," in Portland, Oregon.
April 9, 2010 – Professor Ronald Rosenberg participated in The North Dakota Law Review Energy Symposium at the University of North Dakota Law School in Grand Forks, ND.
April 6, 2010 - Professor Michael Stein presented a lecture at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital on “What Doctors need to know about the Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities.”
April 2, 2010 - Professor Nancy Combs particpated in a workshop entitled "Prosecutorial Power: A Transnational Workshop" in Lexington, VA.
April 1, 2010 - As part of The Herbert V. Kelly, Sr., Teaching Program, Dean Davison M. Douglas gave a lecture titled "Teaching as a Core Value" at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, VA.
March 25, 2010 – Professor Neal Devins participated in a panel discussion about “The Will of the People,” sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, VA.
March 23, 2010 - Professor Michael Stein was a panelist at the Harvard Law School Conference on Millennium Development Goals in Cambrige, MA.
March 19, 2010 - Professor Michael Stein was a panelist at the Loyola-LA Law School Disability Law Conference in Los Angeles, CA.
March 19, 2010 - Professor Erin Ryan gave a talk entitled "Climate Federalism and Renewable Portfolio Standards" at a Washington and Lee Law School symposium, The Intersection of Renewable Energy Development and Geoengineering, in Lexington, VA.
March 12, 2010 - Professor Michael Stein delivered a keynote address at the Korean Human Rights Commission at a seminar on “A Disability Rights Tribunal for Asia and the Pacific.”
March 11-12, 2010 - Professor Timothy Zick participated in a symposium on Government Speech at the Brigham Young University Law School in Provo, Utah.
March 9, 2010 - As part of the Great Decisions program sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Williamsburg Area, Professor Nancy Combs gave a lecture about Preventing Genocide at the Williamsburg Regional Library in Williamsburg, VA.
March 6, 2010 - Professor Erin Ryan presented “Negotiating Climate Change Federalism,” and “Federalism at the Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability Rules in Tenth Amendment Infrastructure,” at the Association for Law, Property, & Society Conference at Georgetown University Law School in Washington, DC.
March 5, 2010 - Professor Erin Ryan presented "Negotiating Federalism" as part of a Distinguished Speaker Series at American University Law School in Washington, DC.
March 5, 2010 - Professor Michael Stein delivered a keynote address at the University of the Philippines School of Law at a seminar on “The Status and Future of the Rights of Children with Disabilities in the Philippines.”
February 23, 2010 - Professor James Dwyer provided the introduction at the International Law Society and Children’s Advocacy Law Society Panel on International Abduction, Adoption, and Child Custody at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, VA.
February 22, 2010 - Professor Scott Dodson's article "Federal Pleading and State Presuit Discovery" is published in the Lewis & Clark Law Review's symposium on Ashcroft v. Iqbal.
February 19, 2010 - Professor Neal Devins spoke at a Stanford Law School conference on state constitutionalism in Stanford, CA.
February 19, 2010 - Professor William W. Van Alstyne moderated two panels at the University of North Carolina's First Amendment Law Review Symposium: "Issues in Free Speech and Sexually Explicit Content" and "Free Speech and Censorship of Sexually Explicit Language." The Symposium featured a keynote address from Larry Flynt.
February 18-21, 2010 - Professor Nancy Combs participated in an Indiana University Maurer School of Law Conference entitled "The Milosevic Trial: An Autopsy," in Bloomington, IN.
February 18, 2010 - Professor Scott Dodson's article "New Pleading, New Discovery" is accepted for publication in Volume 109 of the Michigan Law Review.
February 12, 2010 - Professor Charles Koch gave a lecture entitled, "Two Unsolved Problems in U.S. Rulemaking," at the European Legal Studies Institute at Osnabruck University in Osnabrueck Germany.
February 9, 2010 - Professor Scott Dodson's article, "Comparative Convergences in Pleading Standards," is published by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
February 5, 2010 - Professor Jayne Barnard was a speaker at the symposium "Sharing the Blame: The Law and Morality of Punishing Collective Entities," sponsored by Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, NY.
January 30, 2010 - Professor Neal Devins spoke on the topic of the Supreme Court and public opinion at a conference sponsored by the Journal of Constitutional Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia, PA.
January 28, 2010 - Professor Alan Meese participated in a program sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law entitled, "American Original, The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia," at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, VA.
January 27, 2010 - Professor Scott Dodson moderated a panel entitled "The Law of War: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives," sponsored by the Program in Comparative Legal Studies and Post-Conflict Justice at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, VA.
January 27, 2010 - Professor Erin Ryan is chairing the University-wide Do One Thing (DOT) Initiative and leading the Law School DOT Campaign.
January 23, 2010 - Dean Davison M. Douglas is elected to the Board of Governors of the Virginia Bar Association to serve as the board’s law school representative.
January 20, 2010 - Professor Neal Devins' coauthored article, "Why the Supreme Court Cares about Elites, not the American People," is accepted for publication in the Georgetown Law Journal.
January 20, 2010 - Professor Laura A. Heymann presented "Naming, Identity, and Trademark Law," as part of the George Washington University Law School's Intellectual Property Speaker Series, in Washington, DC.
January 12, 2010 - Professor Neal Devins published "The Supreme Court, Social Psychology, and Group Formation" in David Kelin & Gregory Mitchell eds., The Psychology of Judicial Decision Making (Oxford 2010).
January 8, 2010 – Professor Michael Steven Green was elected Chair of the American Association of Law Schools, Section on Conflict of Laws for 2012.
January 6-10, 2010 - The following professors moderated panels or presented papers at the Association of American Law Schools Conference in New Orleans, LA: Professor Eric Chason, Employee Benefits; Professor Neal Devins, Legislation and Law of the Political Process; Professor Laura A. Heymann, Law and the Humanities; and Professor Linda Malone, National Security Law.
January 2010 - Professor Erin Ryan's article Palazzolo, The Public Trust, and the Property Owner’s Reasonable Expectations: Takings and the South Carolina Marsh Island Bridge Debate, 15 S.E. Envtl. L. J. 121 (2006) was republished as a book chapter in Environment and the Public Trust Doctrine (Amicus Books 2010).
December 8, 2009 - Professor Erin Ryan offered a visiting scholar seminar, "Climate Change Federalism," at the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets, in Washington, DC.
December 8, 2009 - The following professors presented papers at the Virginia Junior Faculty Forum at the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA: Professor Scott Dodson, "New Pleading, New Discovery;" and Professor Nathan B. Oman, "Contracting into God's Law." Professors Angela Banks and Laura A. Heymann also participated in the Forum.
December 2009 - Professor Susan Grover is elected to serve on the Executive Board of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education.
November 23, 2009 - Cambridge University Press accepts for publication Professor James Dwyer's fourth book, The Superiority of Youth: Moral Status and How We Treat Children.
November 20, 2009 - Professor Nancy Combs gave a talk at the Harvard Law School International Law Workshop on her forthcoming book Factfinding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions (Cambridge 2010).
November 18, 2009 - Professor Larry I. Palmer was a speaker at a lecture entitled "Health Care Reform: From Four Unique Perspectives" hosted by the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
November 17, 2009 - Professor Erin Ryan was asked to advise the Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management Initiative on a National Sea Grant Law Center proposal to develop governance performance measures for ecosystem-based fisheries management.
November 16, 2009 - Professor Timothy Zick published a response to a piece forthcoming from Columbia Law Review in the journal's online supplement, Sidebar, entitled, "Duty-Defining Power and the First Amendment's Civil Domain."
November 12-13, 2009 - The 55th Annual Tax Conference, "After the Party: Planning to Survive this Economy," was hosted by William & Mary Law School. The conference is directed by Professor Eric Chason.
November 11, 2009 - In conjunction with the 55th Annual Tax Conference, hosted by the William & Mary Law School, Professor John W. Lee taught a special class entitled "Partnership Taxation 101: An Introduction to Subchapter K" for conference participants.
November 10, 2009 - Professor William W. Van Alstyne discussed Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a case challenging corporate spending limitations under the McCain-Feingold Act, at a talk cosponsored by the American Constitution Society, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Election Law Society at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, VA.
November 8, 2009 - Professor Michael Stein presented a paper at a National Meeting of Grassroots Disability Advocates, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, hosted by Action on Disability and Development, on International Cooperation and Development Schemes under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
November 5-6, 2009 - The symposium Families, Fundamentalism, & the First Amendment, sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law, took place at the William & Mary Law School. Professors James Dwyer, Vivian Hamilton and William W. Van Alstyne participated.
November 5, 2009 - Professor Linda Malone spoke at the World Conservation Union's Academy of Environmental Law in Wuhan China.
November 2009 - The Georgetown Law Journal publishes Professor Nathan B. Oman's article, "A Pragmatic Defense of Contract Law," 98 Geo. L.J. 77 (2009).
October 31, 2009 - Professor Michael Stein presented a paper at the Global Employment Equity Conference at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, on Worldwide Employment Law Reforms Initiated by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
October 30, 2009 - Professor Linda Malone spoke at Shanghai Jiao Tong University at a Roundtable on Environmental Law in Shanghai China.
October 29, 2009 - Professor James Dwyer was a guest speaker at Harvard Law School's “Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice” class, in a session entitled "The Pros and Cons of Expanding Children’s Constitutional Rights" at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA.
October 29, 2009 - Professor Nathan B. Oman presented his paper, "Contract, Consent, and Recourse" at De Paul Law School in Chicago, IL.
October 29, 2009 - Professor Erin Ryan gave a presentation entitled "Negotiating Federalism" at the Institute of Bill of Rights Law's Scholarly Luncheon Series at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, VA.
October 23, 2009 - Professor Susan Grover gave a talk to the Women's Leadership Program, a group of undergraduates organized by William and Mary's Office of Student Activities, on the topic of Sexual Harassment in Law and Popular Culture. The students were introduced to the federal laws governing sexual harassment, then viewed excerpts from film and television depicting harassment and discussed whether the scenes viewed would support a legal claim.
October 16-17, 2009 – The 6th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference took place at the William & Mary Law School. The Conference is chaired by Vice Dean Eric A. Kades and is sponsored by the William & Mary Property Rights Project and the Institute of Bill of Rights Law. The William & Mary Property Rights Project is directed by Professor Lynda L. Butler.
October 16, 2009 - Professor Jayne Barnard was a panelist at a symposium entitled "The Past, Present, and Future of the SEC,” hosted by The University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, PA.
October 16, 2009 – Professor Scott Dodson presented a paper entitled “Federal Pleading and State Presuit Discovery” at Samford University, Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, AL.
October 7, 2009 - Professor Timothy Zick accepts an offer from Notre Dame Law Review to publish his latest law review article, "Territoriality and the First Amendment: Free Speech At -- And Beyond -- Our Borders," 85 Notre Dame L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2010).
October 6-9, 2009 - Professor Susan Grover attended the annual conference of the ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs in Phoenix, AZ.
October 6, 2009 - Professor Michael Steven Green presented a paper entitled "Horizontal Erie: Interpreting Sister State Law" at the University of San Diego School of Law in San Diego, CA.
October 5, 2009 - Professor Michael Steven Green presented a paper entitled "Horizontal Erie: Interpreting Sister State Law" at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, CA.
October 2-3, 2009 – The Supreme Court Preview 2009-2010 was hosted by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at the William & Mary Law School, which is directed by Professor Neal Devins, and with participation from Dean Davison M. Douglas, Professor William W. Van Alstyne, and Professor Timothy Zick.
October 2-3, 2009 - Professor Laura A. Heymann presented "Naming, Identity, and Trademark Law" at the Seventh Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property conference, held at Seton Hall University School of Law, in Newark, NJ.
October 2009 - The William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal publishes Professor William W. Van Alstyne's article, "The Unbearable Lightness of Marriage in the Abortion Decisions of The Supreme Court: Altered States in Constitutional Law," 18 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 61.
September 29, 2009 - Professor Paul Marcus presented "Leaving the Usual Looking Glass: The Death Penalty from an International Perspective" at a Panel on Death Penalty Issues at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, VA. Professor Nancy Combs will moderate the panel discussion.
September 25-26, 2009 - Professor Neal Devins presented a paper at a Northwestern Law School conference on law and politics. The paper was titled "Party Polarization and Congressional Committee Consideration of Constitutional Questions" and will be published in the Northwestern University Law Review.
September 25, 2009 - Professor Eric Chason presented a paper on "The Intersection of Trust Law and ERISA" at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, NJ.
September 25, 2009 - Professor Scott Dodson presented a paper at the Junior Scholars Workshop on Judges and Judging hosted by American University Law School in Washington, DC.
September 24-25, 2009 - Professor Patricia Roberts was a group facilitator at the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Education Conference at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta, GA.
September 24, 2009 - Professor Paul Marcus gave a presentation at the University of California Hastings College of the Law on "Innovative Teaching Practices in Law Schools" in San Francisco, CA.
September 16, 2009 - Professor Timothy Zick's latest article, "Property As/And Constitutional Settlement" is accepted for publication in the Northwestern University Law Review.
September 11, 2009 - Professor Paul Marcus gave a presentation entitled "Bringing Innovative Teaching Strategies Into the Law Classroom" at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, MI.
September 8, 2009 - Professor Alan Meese is one of a number of professors who signed an amicus brief in support of the settlement reached in The Author's Guild v. Google. The proposed settlement would resolve a class-action lawsuit brought by book authors and the Authors Guild, as well as a separate action by numerous publishers, challenging the Google Books venture.
September 8, 2009 - The twentieth annual supplement to Professor Linda Malone's book, Environmental Regulation of Land Use, is published by West.
September 3, 2009 - Professor Scott Dodson is appointed to the Advisory Committee on Rules of Court, a committee of the Judicial Council of Virginia, by Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Hassell.
August 31, 2009 - Professor Alan Meese's latest article, "Debunking the Purchaser Welfare Account of Section 2 of the Sherman Act: How Harvard Brought Us a Total Welfare Standard and Why We Should Keep It," will appear in volume 85 of the New York University Law Review in 2010.
August 30, 2009 - The third edition of Professor Linda Malone's casebook, International Law and Litigation in U.S. Courts (with two coauthors), is published by West.
August 28, 2009 - Professor Fredric Lederer gave a presentation entitled "Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence" for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC.
August 21, 2009 - Professor Linda Malone is awarded the Distinguished Fulbright Chair in International Environmental Law for 2009-2010. As the Distinguished Fulbright Chair, Malone will research and lecture at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin in Italy from March to June 2010.
August 13, 2009 - Professor Fredric Lederer gave a presentation on technology in trials as part of a continuing legal education class in Scranton, PA.
August 6-7, 2009 - Professor Laura A. Heymann presented "Naming, Identity, and Trademark Law" at the Ninth Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, held at Cardozo School of Law, in New York City, NY.
August 2-7, 2009 - The following faculty members presented papers at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools annual meeting in Palm Beach, FL: Professor Vivian Hamilton, "Should Civil Marriage be Abolished?"; Professor Erin Ryan, "Seamlessly Integrating Doctrinal Learning into Skill Courses"; Professor Linda Malone, "Climate Policy in a New Administration"; Professor Timothy Zick, "U.S. Supreme Court and Legislative Update: Individual Rights"; and Professor Scott Dodson, "Promises and Perils of the Harmonization of American Civil Procedure."
August 6, 2009 - Professor Patricia Roberts was a speaker on a panel entitled "Taking it to Scale: Best Practices and Beyond in the 21st Century" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools annual meeting in Palm Beach, FL.
August 5, 2009 - Professor Alemante Selassie was a speaker at a roundtable discussion entitled "Teaching International Law in the Southeast: Challenges, Insights and Rewards" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools annual meeting in Palm Beach, FL.
August 2, 2009 - Professor Cynthia Ward was a speaker at a roundtable discussion entitled "Planning your Scholarly Career" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools annual meeting in Palm Beach, FL.
July 27, 2009 - Professor William W. Van Alstyne was one of a number of law professors to file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in United States v. Robert Stevens (docket no. 08-769), which has been argued on the merits and for which a decision is expected this term.
July 2009 - The newest edition of Professor Paul Marcus's book, The Entrapment Defense 4th Edition, is available from LexisNexis.
July 2009 - Professor Erin Ryan signs a contract with Oxford University Press for her book, Federalism and the Tug of War Within, forthcoming 2011.
May 2009 - Professor Neal Devins's law review article, "How Planned Parenthood v. Casey (Pretty Much) Settled the Abortion Wars," is published in the Yale Law Journal.