October 2004

Dean Heidi M. Hurd
David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Co-Director of the Program in Law and Philosophy
Telephone (217) 333-9857
hhurd@law.uiuc.edu

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, Campus Administrators, and Friends,

I had guiltily secreted myself away in my office the other day, with my door half ajar to signal my unusual hope for privacy, when a colleague of mine busted in, peered at the open books on my desk, and practically shouted: "What? You're doing . . . scholarship? You don't get to do scholarship! Why would you think you get to do scholarship?!" Why indeed? Well, for the same reason that I teach: because if administrators leave the world of ideas for any length of time, their brains turn into mashed potatoes. And so it is that my time these days is occasionally (only very occasionally!) given over to worrying about such questions as whether criminal law should recognize a defense of "contributory guilt" by victims; whether modern fads within criminal law theory (such as "expressivism") aren't simply warmed-over versions of age-old schools of thought; and whether promises ought to be kept when they dictate that we do things that we have come to appreciate are unwise or inconvenient. But the intellectual hobbies that I rather guiltily indulge between frenzied meetings about matters that impact upon more than the remaining consistency of my brain are of humble stature when compared to the extraordinary projects in which many of the College's students and faculty are engaged. And in this October update, I want to tell you about some of those projects, and the successes that have come of them, and share with you the first of this year's Associate Dean's Addendum of Faculty Achievements, penned by my colleague Professor Charles Tabb.

In this letter:

•Professors Linda Beale, Margareth Etienne, and Bruce Smith receive promotions
•The College of Law initiates the Illinois Legal History Program
•Delegates of the sovereign Ho-Chunk Nation honor the College with a visit
•Alumni make record-breaking investments in College projects
•Opportunities for students to share their thoughts about College matters: Dean's Lunches, Open Forums, and the "Take a Faculty or Staff Member to Lunch Program"
•Homecoming 2004!
•A thank you for two very challenging years

Also:

•October Events at the College of Law
•Associate Dean Charles Tabb reports on faculty achievements

Recent Faculty Promotions

I am delighted to tell you that Professors Linda Beale, Margareth Etienne, and Bruce Smith have all recently been promoted from Assistant Professorships to Associate Professorships. These promotions reflect their success in cultivating teaching skills that have won them considerable praise from students, and in developing national reputations within their areas of expertise through thoughtful, innovative scholarship and visible public engagement.

Professor Linda Beale focuses on issues relating to book and tax accounting differences and the role of external auditors in reporting companies' tax-motivated transactions. She published two comment letters on the impact of tax planning on auditor independence as Current and Quotable, Tax Profs Urged SEC to Take Tough Stance on Auditor Independence, in 98 Tax Notes 765 (Feb. 3, 2003). A longer article on the relationship between tax risk and auditor independence, entitled Putting SEC Heat on Audits and Corporate Tax Shelters: Responding to Tax Risks with Sunshine, Shame and Strict Liability, appeared in the Journal of Corporation Law (Winter 2004). Professor Beale's most recent article, Book-Tax Conformity and the Corporate Tax Shelter Debate: A Mark-to-Market Safe Harbor? (forthcoming in the Virginia Tax Review, 2004), considers the role of structural coherence and voluntary compliance in assessing book-tax conformity rules and applies those concepts to the government's proposal for a conformity safe harbor for fair market evaluation of interest rate swaps under mark-to-market rules. A shorter article dealing with the tax court's Bank One decision on dealer mark-to-market valuations, Tax Court's Decision in Bank One Raises More Questions Than It Answers, appears in the Journal of Taxation of Investments (Volume 21, Autumn 2003). Professor Beale's publications also include An Overview of the U.S. Federal Income Tax Treatment of Collateralized Debt Obligation Transactions (co-authored with David Miller and Paul Wysocki), which appeared in 14 Journal of Taxation of Financial Institutions (2001); Developments May Lead SEC to Ban Certain Tax Services Under Sarbanes-Oxley Independence Rules in 16 Journal of Taxation of Financial Institutions 5 (2003).

Professor Margareth Etienne works in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, and international human rights. Her recent publications include "The Declining Utility of the Right to Counsel in Federal Court: An Empirical Study on the Role of Defense Attorney Advocacy Under the Sentencing Guidelines" (92 California Law Review, forthcoming 2004); "Remorse, Responsibility, and Regulating Advocacy: Making Defendants Pay for the Sins of Their Lawyers" (78 New York University Law Review, 2003); and "Tinkering with Death in Illinois" (University of Illinois Law Review, 2003). Her article, "Addressing Gender Based Violence in an International Context," appeared in 18 Harvard Women's Law Journal 139 (1995). Professor Etienne was recently awarded a Fulbright Grant to conduct judicial training on white collar crime in at the Centre de Formation Judiciaire (CFJ) in Senegal. While in Senegal, Professor Etienne also collaborated with lawyers, accountants, bankers and tax officials to complete a needs assessment of white collar crime investigation. Professor Etienne has made presentations at the Law and Society Association 2004 Conference, Northwestern University Law School, Yale Law School, University of Illinois College of Law, Fordham Law School, University of Oregon Law School and the American Bar Foundation.

Professor Bruce Smith is an historian of Anglo-American criminal justice administration, and teaches and researches in the fields of legal history, intellectual property law, Internet law, and property law. His most recent paper, "The Presumption of Guilt and the English Law of Theft, 1750-1850," was selected for presentation at the 2004 Interdisciplinary Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop (co-sponsored by Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, UCLA School of Law, USC Law School, and the USC Center for Law, History & Culture), and will be published in early 2005 in Law and History Review, where it will be the subject of a scholarly forum. He is currently revising his dissertation for publication as a book, tentatively entitled Summary Justice: Magistrates and Criminal Procedure in London, 1760-1860. Supported, in part, by a 2004-2005 State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grant, he is undertaking a study of habitual offender laws in 19th- and early 20th-century America. His other research interests include the history of intellectual property law, the history of the legal profession, and the legal regulation of self-help. In 2003-2004, in addition to his presentation at the 2004 Interdisciplinary Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, Professor Smith presented papers at the 2003 J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, which he attended as a fellow; at the annual meetings of the American Society for Legal History, the American Association of Law Schools, the North American Conference on British Studies, the Midwest Conference on British Studies, and the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies; and at seminar meetings of the Toronto Legal History Group, the British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research of the University of London, and the Research Seminar Program at University College Northampton. Professor Smith also teaches in the International and Comparative Intellectual Property Summer Program, sponsored by the College of Law, St. Peter's College of Oxford University, and the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and he serves as Faculty Editor of the Journal of Law, Technology & Policy and Co-Director of the Illinois Legal History Program.

Congratulations to all three of my colleagues for their accomplishments, and congratulations to the College for the acclaim that it has received as a result of their ambitious work!

The College Launches a New Program in Legal History

I am also very pleased to report the creation of a new program in legal history, under the co-direction of Professors Richard Ross and Bruce Smith. Sponsored by the College of Law and the University's Department of History, the Illinois Legal History Program is dedicated to furthering knowledge and appreciation of legal history through an ambitious series of workshops, seminars, conferences, and lectures. With a particular focus on American, British, and comparative legal-historical scholarship, the Program complements the College of Law's rich curricular offerings in the field of legal history and its impressive collection of rare legal-historical materials housed in the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Law Library. The Program coincides with the recent arrival at the College of Law and Department of History of Professor Ross, a leading legal historian formerly jointly appointed in the faculties of law and history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The Program has already scheduled a range of prominent events for the coming years. In 2004-05, the Program will host the following distinguished scholars in its workshop series: William Nelson, Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at NYU School of Law; Robert Gordon, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, Yale University; William Forbath, Lloyd M. Bentsen Endowed Chair in Law and Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin; and Harry Scheiber, Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor Law and History at the University of California, Berkeley and the current President of the American Society for Legal History. In 2005-06, the Program will continue the workshop series, and will inaugurate a yearly international conference on comparative early modern legal history at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Delegates from the Ho-Chunk Nation Visit the College of Law

The College was recently honored by a visit from representatives of the sovereign Ho-Chunk Nation (which once occupied a very large part of Northwestern Illinois), who met with the Native American Law Students Association (NALSA), members of the administration, and other interested students in order to discuss possible collaborations between the two organizations. Mr. William Boulware, Jr. (Legislative Counsel) and The Honorable John Dall (District 5 Legislator of the Ho-Chunk Nation's Legislature) talked about the value students could provide by doing pro-bono legal research on American Indian issues as they relate to Indian tribes originally from Illinois. NALSA was formed last year with the goal of "promot[ing] awareness within the University of Illinois College of Law community of the legal, political, cultural and social issues affecting Native Americans." Tim Bell, the President of NALSA, is excited by the prospect of working with the Ho-Chunk Nation to create research opportunities that will promote awareness of legal issues confronting Native Americans in Illinois. He is also pleased by the prospect of partnering with the Ho-Chunk Nation to bring speakers to campus to talk about Native American issues, including Indian nation sovereignty, gaming, and property issues (including divested/seized land, trust allotments, repatriation of artifacts, etc). As he said, "I believe this can be the start of a great relationship between the Ho-Chunk Indian Nation and the College of Law." Given NALSA's boundless energy and already proven ability to create positive synergies between the College and the community, I am very inclined to believe the same!

The College Had a Record-Breaking Year of Fundraising!

The College wrapped up a very successful fundraising effort with the close of the 2004 fiscal year on June 30th. A total of 1,742 alumni and friends contributed over $6.2 million to various funding opportunities at the College last year. Both the total number of donors and the dollar amount raised are the highest in the law school's 107 year history! Many, many thanks to all of you who so generously supported our mission over the last year!

The College has dedicated these funds to an aggressive agenda of excellence: enhancing support for faculty research and scholarship; establishing new programs and clinics; hosting public, nationally visible lectures and conferences; supporting student-led efforts to expand the College's community outreach; increasing scholarship support so as to ensure that the best and brightest will continue to be able to study at Illinois; sustaining innovative efforts to encourage diversification of the legal profession; and so forth. But excellence isn't inexpensive, and while we had a banner year in 2004, we cannot sustain an upwards trajectory without increasing the level of private support in the future. With only 21% of the University's funds coming from the State, it is absolutely critical that we raise our relatively low alumni participation rate from 17% to something much more closely resembling the participation rates of the private schools with whom we must compete. Recently you should have received a letter in the mail from me requesting your participation in the Law School Fund. Remember that every gift--no matter how large or small--makes a noticeable difference. So, if you haven't recently contributed to the College, please consider including us in your charitable plans. Your College needs your support, and I look forward to sharing with you the many achievements that your giving will make possible.

Opportunities for Students to Share Their Thoughts About College Matters

Last year we introduced a set of initiatives designed to encourage students to engage with faculty and members of the administration about matters of interest and concern to them. As a result of these interactions, we learned a great deal about what works and doesn't work at the College of Law, and the staff, faculty and I have embarked upon a number of efforts to improve student services that we would never have thought of had it not been for the discussions we had with students in these forums. I am thus pleased to invite students to take advantage of these opportunities again this year so that those of us who are charged with ensuring that the College meets your needs and fulfills your aspirations, have the best information possible.

Dean's Lunches: Each month students are invited to sign up for a lunch with me in the Dean's Suite Conference Room. We'll talk about whatever is of interest: tort law, faculty appointments, tort theory, career opportunities, tort reform, the changing colors of the walls of the school, tort lawyers, the election, tort lawyers in the election, etc. Watch for notices of sign-up opportunities, and come join me for lunch and a chat.

Take a Faculty or Staff Member to Lunch: Some law schools have a strong "lunch culture"--an entrenched tradition of students, faculty, and staff regularly going to lunch together. We don't have a strong lunch culture, but we should! So to seed one, we launched last year the "Take a Faculty or Staff Member to Lunch Program." Students who invite faculty or staff members to lunch and foot that guest's bill are invited to submit that bill to the Office of Student Services for reimbursement. Receipts must be submitted within 10 days of the date of the lunch; the College will reimburse up to $10 of the cost of the faculty/staff member's lunch, and alcohol cannot be reimbursed. So collect a couple of your friends and ask your favorite faculty/staff member to lunch: you can graciously pick up the tab and be no worse off for your hospitality! Students may request information about the details of this program from Diana Marshall, assistant to Assistant Dean Virginia Vermillion.

Deans' Open Forums: Each month students are invited to attend an Open Forum with me and Assistant Dean Virginia Vermillion in order to ask questions, offer suggestions, strategize about possible initiatives, and even occasionally express appreciation concerning how things are done at the College. Check the calendar below and watch for notices of scheduled Open Forums. These offer regular and very valuable opportunities to have a voice in the College's administration, so as my mother used to say, "don't just coffee-cup complain;" come and be heard. But remember: For every gripe, I'll ask you for a proposed solution, so don't bring problems without having thought about how we might together address them.

Homecoming 2004!

Homecoming is not just for those who "come home;" it is also for those who call this "home." So I very much hope that over the weekend of October 29-30, faculty, students, and staff will join returning alumni for what will be a fabulous celebration of the life and history of the College of Law. Homecoming festivities at the College will begin on Friday, October 29th, at 4:00 pm with the distinguished Piper Rudnick-Vacketta Lecture on the Role of the Government and the Law, delivered in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium by General Joseph W. Ralston, former Commander of the United States European Command and former Supreme Allied Commander, and followed by a complimentary reception in the Huizenga Commons. On the evening of October 29th, the College will host its annual Homecoming Dinner, which will congratulate recipients of the College's 2004 Distinguished Alumni Awards and celebratory stories about, and toasts to, the reunion classes of '99, '94, '89, '84, '79, '74, '69, '64, '59, '54, '49, '44. On Saturday, October 30th, all are invited to the College's traditional pre-game Homecoming Brunch in the Pedersen Pavilion two hours before the start-time of the Illinois-Iowa game (which has yet to be announced). For tickets to, and information about, the Friday Homecoming Dinner, the Saturday Homecoming Brunch, and the Illinois-Iowa game, please contact Barb Suderman at (217) 333-2628 or sudermn@law.uiuc.edu.

Thank You for the Honor of Two Very Challenging Years

October 1st of this year marks my second anniversary as the College's eleventh dean, and in closing this message, I want to thank all of you--faculty, students, staff, alumni, and campus friends--for making these first two years professionally challenging, personally rewarding, and endlessly interesting. I am grateful for the wise counsel and support that so many of you regularly extend to me, and I continue to be very honored by the opportunity to join in partnership with all of you to build the capacities of this extraordinary research and teaching institution.

Many thanks, and my best wishes during this changing Fall season.

Heidi M. Hurd
Dean, College of Law
David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Co-Director of the Program in Law and Philosophy

Calendar of College of Law Events

October 2004

October 4, 3:15-4:30 pm, Max L. Rowe Auditorium: "Doing a Joint Degree." Panel discussion including Dean Tabb, a representative from the Business School, and current joint degree students. Sponsored by the Organization for Advancing Legal and Strategic Opportunities.

October 6, 12:00-12:50 pm, Room A: "Intellectual Property in Practice." Presentation by Patrick Patras and Paul Margolis, Jenner & Block. Sponsored by Intellectual Property Legal Society.

October 8-9: Midwest Clinical Teachers Conference. For more information contact Nina Tarr at ntarr@law.uiuc.edu.

October 10, 8:30-10:30 am, Room F: Special program of the Midwest Clinical Teachers Conference, focused on teaching in the non-clinical setting. For more information contact Nina Tarr at ntarr@law.uiuc.edu.

October 11, 3:45 pm, Max L. Rowe Auditorium: A Governor Jim Edgar Political Leaders Lecture by Barack Obama (Illinois State Senator and U.S. Senate candidate). Sponsored by the College of Law and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Reception to follow in the Pedersen Pavilion.

October 12, 12:30-1:45 pm, Room B: "Beyond OCI - Strategies & Tactics That Work." Sponsored by Career Services.

October 14, 10:00 am and 11:00 am, Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Fourth District Appellate Court Oral Arguments will be heard at 10:00 am and 11:00 am followed by a luncheon in the Pedersen Pavilion. For general information contact Sally Cook at (217) 333-9851 or scook@law.uiuc.edu; students interested in attending the luncheon should contact Assistant Dean Vermillion at vvermill@law.uiuc.edu.

October 18, 12:30-1:30 pm, Room A: Careers in Affordable Housing, a panel presentation featuring practitioners in the field of affordable housing law. For more information contact Professor Geerdes at cgeerdes@law.uiuc.edu.

October 18, 6:30-7:30 pm, Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Presentation by Richard Norton Smith, Director of the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum and a renowned historian and expert on Lincoln. Sponsored by the College of Law, the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, and the Political Science Department.

October 19, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 200: Lunch with the Dean. Students are welcome to stop by Room 202E to sign-up for lunch with Dean Hurd.

October 19, 6:00-8:00 pm, Room E: "Basic Body Language Workshop." Sponsored by Professor Gunsalus and Michelle Stephens. For more information contact Professor Gunsalus at gunslaus@law.uiuc.edu.

October 21, 3:00-4:00 pm, Courtroom: "Beyond Law Firms: Criminal Defense of the Indigent." Presentations by David Baitman, Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, and Daniel Yuhas, Illinois State Appellate Defender's Office. Sponsored by Career Services.

October 21, 3:30-6:30 pm, Pedersen Pavilion: "Chili Cook-Off." Law students, faculty, and staff will compete for the title of the College of Law's Best Chili Chef. Sponsored by the Women's Law Society.

October 21, 4:00-5:00 pm, Room D: "Law from a Buddhist Perspective." A lecture by Sulak Sivaraksa of Thailand. Sponsored by the Program in Asian Law, Politics, and Society.

October 28, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room J: Deans' Open Forum. Students are invited to join Dean Hurd and Assistant Dean Virginia Vermillion for an open discussion of College matters.

October 28, 3:30-5:00 pm, Max L. Rowe Auditorium: "The Dominance of U.S. and U.K. Laws on International Business Transactions and the Impact on Latin American Legal Systems and Practice." Lecture by Stuart Berkson, Chicago attorney and UIUC alumnus. Sponsored by the Graduate and International Studies Office.

October 29, 4:00-5:00 pm, Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Piper Rudnick-Vacketta Lecture Series on the Role of Government and the Law with General Joseph W. Ralston (former Commander of the United States European Command and former Supreme Allied Commander): "U.S. National Security in Today's International Environment." Reception to follow in the Huizenga Commons.

October 29, 6:30-7:30 pm, Huizenga Commons: College of Law Reunion and Homecoming Reception. For additional information, contact Barb Suderman at (217) 333-2628 or sudermn@law.uiuc.edu.

October 29, 7:30-10:30 pm, Pedersen Pavilion: College of Law Reunion and Homecoming Dinner. For additional information, contact Barb Suderman at (217) 333-2628 or sudermn@law.uiuc.edu.

October 30, Pedersen Pavilion: College of Law Homecoming Brunch. For additional information, contact Barb Suderman at (217) 333-2628 or sudermn@law.uiuc.edu.

Our faculty - as always - has been extraordinarily active and productive in the past months. I am proud to call them my colleagues. Following is a sampling of some of their many activities and achievements, organized under topical categories.

Faculty Honorees

Margareth Etienne traveled to Dakar, Senegal in July under a prestigious Fulbright grant.

David Hyman has been serving as counsel to the Federal Trade Commission. In July, the FTC and the Department of Justice jointly issued a report, IMPROVING HEALTH CARE: A DOSE OF COMPETITION: A REPORT BY THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (July 2004). See www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/07/healthcarerpt.htm. The actual report is available at the FTC website, www.ftc.gov.

Steve Ross was selected as a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute.

Ward McDonald was named a Leading Lawyer by his peers.

Richard Kaplan has been appointed the vice chair of the Elder Law Committee of the American Bar Association's Senior Lawyers Division.

Tom Ginsburg's Cambridge University press book, JUDICIAL REVIEW IN NEW DEMOCRACIES: CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS IN ASIAN CASES, won the C. Hermann Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on Law and Courts.

Francis A. Boyle has been selected for inclusion in the 2005 Edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America.

Richard Ross was named an associate editor of Law and Society Review. He also was appointed by the American Society for Legal History to the selection committee for the Cromwell Prize in legal history. Professor Ross also was appointed by the Law and Society Association to the selection committee for the Hurst Prize in legal history.

Richard McAdams was named the Chair of the 2004-2005 Dissertation Prize Committee of the Law Society Association.

Robert Rich
2004 recipient, UIUC Campus Award for Public Engagement
Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, June-July 2004


Faculty Grants

Richard McAdams received an NSF grant, as follows: National Science Foundation Award No. SES-0351530 ($84,822) for three years (2004-2007) with Janice Nadler, for "Expressive Law in Mixed Motive Games," jointly funded by the Programs for Law and Social Science; Economics; and Decision, Risk and Management Science.

Jay Kesan's proposal, "Governing with Information Technologies," was chosen for funding by the National Science Foundation for the period Sept. 2004 to Aug. 2007. The total grant is for $395,153 for the next three years.

Robert Rich
Proposal on "Disability Claims, Reviews, Hearings and Appeals Procedures: An Analysis of Administrative Best Practices" has been approved by the Disability Research Institute for an additional $60,795, bringing the total project budget to $233,517.

Faculty Publications

Note: this is only a partial list! (Much) more to follow in future newsletters.

Lee Fennell
Revealing Options, 118 Harvard Law Review (forthcoming)
Common Interest Tragedies, 98 Northwestern U. Law Review 907
Relative Burdens: Family Ties and the Safety Net, 45 William & Mary Law Review 1453

Jim Pfander
Article I Tribunals, Article III Courts, and the Judicial Power of the United States, 118 Harvard Law Review (forthcoming)
The Tidewater Problem: Article III and Constitutional Change, 79 Notre Dame Law Review (forthcoming)

Daria Roithmayr
Locked In Segregation, Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law (forthcoming)

Linda Beale
Putting SEC Heat on Audit Firms and Corporate Tax Shelters: Responding to Tax Risk with Sunshine, Shame and Strict Liability, 29 Journal of Corporation Law 219
Congress Fiddles While Middle America Burns: Amending the AMT (and Regular Tax), Florida Tax Review (forthcoming)
Book-Tax Conformity and the Corporate Tax Shelter Debate: a mark-to-market safe harbor?, Virginia Tax Review (forthcoming)

Charles Tabb
Of Contractarians and Bankruptcy Reform: A Skeptical View, 12 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 259 (invited symposium article, part of American Bankruptcy Institute's 25th Anniversary Symposium on the Bankruptcy Code)

Larry Ribstein
RIBSTEIN AND KEATINGE ON LLCS, 2d edition, 2004
Lawyers as Lawmakers: A Theory of Lawyer Licensing, 69 Missouri Law Review 299
Fiduciary Duties and Limited Partnership Agreements, 37 Suffolk U. Law Review 927
Limited Liability of Professional Firms after Enron, 29 Journal of Corporation Law 427
SarbOx: The Road to Nirvana, 2004 Mich State Law Review 279.

John Colombo
The Failure of Community Benefit, Health Matrix (symposium issue on tax exemption for health care providers, Case Western)

Michael Murray
Jurisdiction Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for Nazi War Crimes of Plunder and Expropriation, 7 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Public Policy 223
Stolen Art and Sovereign Immunity: The Case of Altmann v. Austria, 27 Colum. J. L. & Arts 301
2004 edition, treatise, THE DESKBOOK OF ART LAW (Oceana): Copyright, Trademark, Moral and Economic Rights and the Right of Publicity, Protest Art, Censorship of Obscenity and Pornography, and Private and Indirect Censorship.
2004 update for JURISDICTION, VENUE AND LIMITATIONS (Thomson West).
Signed a contract with Foundation Press to produce a casebook, LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING

Bob Rich
Two Faces of Managed Care Regulation and Policy Making, Stanford Law and Policy Review (forthcoming)
Genetic Discrimination in Health Insurance--Comprehensive Legal Solutions for a (not so) Special Problem?, Indiana Health Law Review (forthcoming)

Richard McAdams
Testing the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance: Expressive Influence in an Experimental Hawk/Dove Game, 1 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (March 2005) (with Janice Nadler) (forthcoming)
Words that Kill? Economic Perspectives on Hate Speech and Hate Crime, 34 Journal of Legal Studies (January 2005) (with Dhammika Dharmapala) (forthcoming)
Norms in Law and Economics, in THE HANDBOOK OF LAW AND ECONOMICS (Elsevier Science, eds. M. Polinsky & S. Shavell)(2005)(with Eric B. Rasmusen) (forthcoming)
Conformity to Inegalitarian Conventions and Norms: The Relevance of Coordination and Esteem, 88 The Monist (2005) (issue on Conformism) (forthcoming)

Matt Finkin
BASIC TEXT ON LABOR LAW (West 2004, Second Edition) (with Robert A. Gorman).
2004 CASE AND STATUTORY SUPPLEMENT TO LABOR LAW (13th ed. 2001) (with Robert A. Gorman).
Presented Antipodal Assumptions in the Law of Employee Privacy to the Data Protection Research and Policy Group of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, England, on June 15, 2004. The paper was published in 4 World Data Protection Report 18 (June, 2004).
Presented Labor Mobility in a Federal System: The United States in Comparative Perspective (co-authored with Sanford Jacoby), at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of the Editors of Journals of Labor Law, in Modena, Italy, on April 16, 2004. The paper will appear in English in the Int'l J. Comp. Lab. L. & Indus. Rel. and in Italian in Diritto della relazioni industrali.

Francis Boyle
Clarity Press just published Rick Anderson's Home Front, The Government's War on Soldiers, with a Foreword by Francis A. Boyle, written in honor of his Father, a Lawyer and Marine.
The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research in Sweden published Francis A. Boyle's essay "Civil Resistance and prevention of state crimes," as TFF Peace Tips, Sept. 30, 2004

Tom Ginsburg
LEGAL REFORM IN KOREA (editor)

Wayne LaFave
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE HORNBOOK (4th ed.2004) (1431 pp.) (with Israel & King)
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND THE CONSTITUTION (2004 ed.) (934 pp.) (with Israel & Kamisar)
MODERN/BASIC/ADVANCED CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (2004 Supp. to 10th eds.) (295 pp.) (with Kamisar, Israel & King)
SEARCH AND SEIZURE (4th ed.2004) (6 vol.)
SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW TREATISE (2005 pocket parts to 3 vols.)
PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: INVESTIGATION (2004) (555 + pp.) (with Israel & King)
PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: POST-INVESTIGATION (2004) (769 + pp.) (with Israel & King)
The "Routine Traffic Stop" From Start to Finish: Too Much "Routine," Not Enough Fourth Amendment, 102 Michigan Law Review (forthcoming)
What is a Kamisar?, 102 Michigan Law Review (forthcoming)
Respondent's Brief, Illinois v. Caballes (U.S. Supreme Court, argument scheduled for Nov. 2004)

Works in progress:
CRIMINAL PROCE URE TREATISE (2005 pocket parts to 6 vols.) (with Israel & King)
MODERN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (11th ed.2005) (with Kamisar, Israel & King)
BASIC CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (11th ed.2005) (with Kamisar, Israel & King)
ADVANCED CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (11th ed.2005) (with Kamisar, Israel & King)
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE IN A NUTSHELL (7th ed.2005) (with Israel)

Jay Kesan
What Do Patents Purchase?: In Search of Optimal Ignorance in the Patent Office, with S. Ghosh, 40 Houston Law Review 1219
Supplement to Treatise, Alces, Frisch, Kesan, and See, THE COMMERCIAL LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, Aspen Publishing Co., 2004 Cumulative Supplement
The Proposed Sentencing Guidelines: Self-Auditing, Privileges, Mitigation and Admissibility, Wake Forest Law Review (forthcoming)
A Tiger by the Tail: The Law Contends with Science and Technology in America, in SCIENCE & LAW FROM A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (G. Comandé and G. Ponzanelli, eds.., G. Giappichelli, Torino 2004)

John Nowak
PRINCIPLES OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW [West--Concise Hornbook Series] (with Rotunda)
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW [West 7th edition) (with Rotunda).
In process: 2005 Supplements to TREATISE ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: SUBSTANCE & PROCEDURE [5 vols. 1999, West].
During the summer, Professor Nowak also wrote an entry concerning the late Illinois Supreme Court Justice Walter V. Schaefer for the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, which should be published in 2005. Both the late Professor David C. Baum [for whom the Baum Professorship is named] and Professor Nowak served as law clerks for the late Justice Schaefer.

Peter Maggs
LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEM OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (with coauthors William Burnham and the late Gennady Danilenko)
Conflict of Laws and Russian-US Intellectual Property Relations in "Russia in the International Context: Private International Law, Cultural Heritage, Intellectual Property, Harmonization of Laws."
Participated in a Festschrift volume in honor of Professor M.M. Boguslavsky
Published an article on precedent and the Russian Supreme Court.
Judicial Precedent Emerges at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, The Journal of East European Law.

Richard Kaplan
Enron, Pension Policy, and Social Security Privatization, 46 Arizona Law Review 53.
The Mother of All Conflicts: Auditors and Their Clients, 29 Journal of Corporation Law 363
Cracking the Conundrum: Toward a Rational Financing of Long-Term Care, in 2004 U. Illinois Law Review 47
Who's Afraid of Personal Responsibility? Health Savings Accounts and the Future of American Health Care, McGeorge Law Review

Tina Gunsalus
Signed book contract with Harvard University Press for book on preventive leadership (leadership without lawsuits/administrative survival skills); manuscript due in May 2005
The Nanny State Meets the Inner Lawyer: Over-Regulating while Under-Protecting Human Subjects, Ethics and Behavior (forthcoming)

Steve Ross
The NHL Labour Dispute and the Common Law, the Competition Act and Public Policy, 37 U. British Columbia Law Review 343

Richard Painter
The Economics of Germany's Shop Closing Hours Regulation (with Prof. Christian Kirchner, Humboldt University, Berlin), 18 European Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming)
Ethics in the Age of Un-incorporation: A Return to Ambiguity of Pre-incorporation or an Opportunity to Contract for Clarity, University of Illinois Law Review
Convergence and Competition in Rules Governing Lawyers and Auditors, 29 Journal of Corporation Law 1
The Dubious History and Psychology of Clubs as Self Regulatory Organizations, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Occasional Paper Series, Symposium on Corporate Governance

Faculty in the Press

Steve Ross was quoted in the Vancouver Sun on September 18, 2004 in an article on the National Hockey League lockout, "Brian Burke's solution: Former Canucks GM has some thoughts on a system the NHL and the NHLPA can live with." Professor Ross' thoughts on the lockout are detailed in a press release, www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0915hockey.html.

Ralph Brubaker spoke about the Delta Airlines financial woes. He was quoted in a September 19 Atlanta Business Chronicle article, "Problems abound for Delta: Any of many factors could trigger a bankruptcy." This story was picked up by MSNBC.com. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6031819.

David Meyer's expertise in family law has led to many press appearances.

On September 17, he was quoted in the Chicago Tribune, in "Meaning of 'dad' widened by judge: Man ruled father of unrelated boy."

Professor Meyer also was quoted in "Parenthood is Redefined, but Custody Battles Remain Ugly," June 12, in the Christian Science Monitor. That article also appeared in the New York Times.

More: he was quoted in "Pledge case puts chill on parental rights," Christian Science Monitor, June 17, www.csmonitor.com/2004/0617/p02s01-usju.html.

Yet again: in an article, "Modern life stretching family law," August 10, Christian Science Monitor, www.csmonitor.com/2004/0810/p01s02-usju.html.

Meyer also was quoted in a front-page story in the Chicago Tribune in early June (but the exact date and title have passed into the dustbin of history)

Charles Tabb and Cindy Geerdes were quoted in a September 26 News-Gazette article on consumer credit card debt and bankruptcy, www.news-gazette.com/story.cfm?Number=16809.

Andy Leipold and Steve Beckett were quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times on September 12, commenting on a request to have a conviction overturned based on comments purportedly made by members of the jury during their deliberations. The story also ran in the State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill.).

Richard Kaplan was the featured guest on the public broadcasting program, Focus 580, on September 28; the topic for discussion was "Medicare Changes and the Election."

On October 5, he will appear on WILL-TV as part of a panel of experts (including David Hyman) organized by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs discussing "Electing Health." This program will start at 7 P.M.

On June 28, Professor Kaplan was featured in an in an article entitled "Sarbanes-Oxley Fails to Address Corporate Accounting Flaws," observing that, far from imposing an unreasonable burden on corporate America, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has not tackled the core accounting conflicts that led to investor losses at Enron, WorldCom and other companies. www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0628accounting.html

His article entitled "Enron, Pension Policy, and Social Security Privatization" was the focus of a UI News Bureau release on the risks attendant to different pension plans: www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0426pension.html.

Kaplan also was interviewed about his article on long-term care financing (see Jurist Spring 2004) on television station WICA.

He was quoted in a story, "Health-Care Crisis Looming for Aging Boomers Unless Problems Addressed," noting that how to pay for the long-term health-care needs of aging baby boomers will become a major crisis unless steps are taken to rationalize the current hodge-podge of federal regulations and restricted coverage. www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0330longtermcare.html

Margareth Etienne was prominently featured in the press in July in connection with her prestigious Fulbright trip to Dakar, Senegal. The stories are all in French, but for example see:
Edition du Vendredi 9 juillet 2004 Qui sommes-nous Publicité
ENTRETIEN AVEC...Margaret Etienne, professeur de droit pénal aux Usa: La certitude de punition est la stratégie idoine de dissuasion contre la criminalité financière.

Richard Painter was quoted in an article on September 7 in the Chicago Sun-Times, "Sticky issues blur future in looming Hollinger-Black battles," dealing with allegations related to financial misdealings by Hollinger International, Inc.

On September 13, he was quoted in a story in the Wall Street Journal, "Secret Memo Sought by U.S. in Tobacco Suit," regarding a multibillion dollar case involving big tobacco.

On September 20, Professor Painter was quoted in the London Times: "UK Memo holds key to $280bn tobacco case," at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9065-1271115,00.html.

John Colombo was quoted in USA Today on August 24, in the article "Scales tipping against tax exempt hospitals," at
USATODAY.com. www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2004-08-24-nonprofit_x.htm?POE=click-refer

Colombo also was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article found at the below link, regarding the Provena Covenant tax exemption. The link:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB108845342848449424-INjfINklal3np2qbYGIbK6Im4,00.html.

Professor Colombo was quoted yet again in Wall Street Journal on June 17, 2004, in an article, "Lawsuits Challenge Charity Hospitals on Care for Uninsured."

And -- breaking news: On September 29, Professor Colombo was quoted in USA Today in an article, "Nonprofit hospitals' top stories may be due for a check-up" at USATODAY.com. www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2004-09-29-nonprofit-salaries_x.htm?POE=click-refer

Francis Boyle was interviewed live by Al Jazeera Television Network and twice on Iranian National TV on the trial of Saddam Hussein

The Peoria Journal Star published an interview with Professor Boyle on his life-long opposition and work against the death penalty, and why he has twice nominated former Governor George Ryan for the Nobel Peace Prize for his death penalty work.

Ward McDonald commented on the difficulty an Illinois county may have in a planned suit against Maytag Corp. seeking repayment of more than $1 million in abated real estate property taxes.

Linda Beale has been "blogged" to good repute twice, first in http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/07/beale_on_sec_us.html.
A story on TaxProf Blog, the leading blog for the more than 700 tax law professors in the country, in which bloggers are invited to read Linda's recently published article in the Journal of Corporation Law, "Putting SEC Heat on Audit Firms and Corporate Tax Shelters: Responding to Tax Risk with Sunshine, Shame and Strict Liability," 29 J. Corp. L. 219 (2004).

And second, in http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2004/07/tax_prof_spotli_4.html on July 24. Linda is the first University of Illinois tax law faculty member to have been honored with a story in the weekly "Tax Prof Spotlight."

Professor Beale also was featured in an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, on July 23, 2004, "She has a detached perspective on taxes."

Tina Gunsalus appeared in an Illinois Alumni magazine piece about our law theatre program and accompanying news reports.
Also, her negotiation exercises were "selected," "featured" and "published" by the ABA ADR Legal Educator's Colloquium.

Nina Tarr's Employee Justice Clinic was featured in an article in the News-Gazette on September 7.

Steve Beckett and adjunct professor Robert Steigmann were featured in a September 18 article in the News-Gazette, "Prominent pair plunge into teaching."

Steve Beckett authored censorship case file and supervised presentation by U of Illinois Trial Team on "City of Booksville v. A Book Entitled 'Brave New World,'", broadcast for a two-month period over local cable television network

and, to top it all off: Amy Gajda writes and produces Legal Issues in the News, weekly essays on contemporary legal topics, aired on National Public Radio stations throughout Illinois and published as a weekly column on the op-ed page of the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette.

Faculty Lectures & Conferences

Steve Beckett
Taught in the Bank of China program
"White Collar Crime" and "Money Laundering," presented to Peoples Bank of China (China Federal Reserve) the week of October 4.
March 12-14, teaching faculty, National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) at Harvard University.
April, May: speeches to civic organizations on the history of the Champaign County courthouses
April 28: talk to civic group on "Lincoln the Lawyer in Urbana"
May 14: spoke to Illinois Public Defenders Association on "The Effect of Crawford v. Washington and the Sixth Amendment Right of Confrontation on Article 115 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure."
June 21, appeared before the Capital Review Committee of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. regarding the Attorney General's exercise of discretion to seek the death penalty in United States v . Antonio Sherrod, a pending case here in the Central District of Illinois.

Richard McAdams
Law & Society Assoc. annual meeting, Chicago (May 2004), "Game Theory Accounts of Inequality and Contingency."
Law & Society Assoc. annual meeting, Chicago (May 2004), "Testing the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance: Expressive Influence in an Experimental Hawk/Dove Game" (with Janice Nadler).
American Law & Economics Assoc. annual meeting, Northwestern Univ. (May 2004), "Testing the Focal Point Theory of Legal Compliance: Expressive Influence in an Experimental Hawk/Dove Game" (with Janice Nadler).
Faculty Workshop, Yale (April 2004), "Expressive Adjudication."
Faculty Workshop, Seton Hall (April 2004), "Expressive Adjudication."
Conference of Contributors to the forthcoming Handbook of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School (March 2004), "Norms in Law and Economics" (written with Eric Rasmusen).
Workshop, Center for Law, Economics, and Organization, Univ. Southern California (March 2004), "A Third Model of Legal Compliance: Testing for Expressive Effects in a Hawk/Dove Game," (written with Janice Nadler).

Margareth Etienne was recently invited to participate in this groundbreaking conference: Stanford Law School will host a timely event, The Future of American Sentencing: A National Roundtable on Blakely, on Oct. 8-9, 2004

Peter Maggs
Attended Festschrift conference at the University of Kiel.
In June he attended a conference in Ploen, Germany, featuring the presentation of a Festchrift (to which he contributed) in honor of the 80th birthday of the Mark Boguslavsky, the leading Russian expert on private international law.
Spent three and a half weeks in Serbia starting in May, in connection with a project supported by the United States Agency for International Development. His role was to evaluate legal education in Serbia and develop a plan for its improvement. In addition to Belgrade, he visited Novi Sad, Nish, and Kraguyevac.
Participated in and made a presentation at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Workshop on Developing a Research Agenda for Electronic Voting Technologies, September 17-18, 2004, www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/evoting.
As part of a project of the United States Agency for International Development, Professor Maggs developed a position paper for discussion at a meeting in Tajikistan on law reform priorities in Tajikistan.

Richard Kaplan
Addressed the Central Illinois Estate Planning Council in Decatur, March 17, 2004 on "Whatever Happened to Medicare Reform?" Spoke on the same subject as part of the Champaign Public Library Series on May 2, 2004.
Spoke to the Board of Visitors/Alumni Luncheon on "Drugging Medicare," an overview of the Medicare prescription drug benefit that was enacted in late 2003.
Was interviewed about his article on long-term care financing (see Jurist Spring 2004) on television station WICA.
Addressed a national tax practitioners conference on the Medicare Act of 2003, focusing on the newly authorized Health Savings Accounts, Medicare prescription drug discount cards, the Medicare drug benefit scheduled for 2006, and new income-related increases in Medicare coverage for upper-income beneficiaries. At the same conference, he presented sessions on "Significant Developments in Individual Income Taxation" and on "Social Security Benefit Options".

Tina Gunsalus
March 18, 2004 IU Terre Haute/ACRP Midwest Regional Group Conference Research Integrity Terre Haute IN
April 2, 2004 CIC Department Executive Officers Spring Meeting Survival Skills for Administrators Big 10 Headquarters, Chicago
April 14, 2004 OSU Academic Leadership Group Survival Skills for Administrators OSU Columbus, Ohio
April 23, 2004 Law Board of Visitors Curricular Innovations: Negotiations Commons
April 29, 2004 California Nursing Deans Group Negotiation Skills for Conflict Resolution San Diego, CA
May 21, 2004 Teaching Research Ethics Conference 2004 "Misconduct in Science" Indiana University, Bloomington, IN luncheon speaker
June 15, 2004 Drug Information Association Annual Meeting What Causes Misconduct DC
June 22-23, 2004 Management Development Program Harvard Cambridge, MA
June, lecture, research ethics and whistle-blowing, Drug Information Association annual meeting
June, three-part presentation on leadership skills (leadership without lawsuits) at the Harvard Management Development program
October 2004, University of Minnesota
October 2004, lecture on research ethics and human subject issues at the Minneapolis chapter of Association of Clinical Research Professionals)
October, CIC Academic Leadership Program (at Iowa), presenting Illinois White Paper on Human Subject Protection policy
October, at national annual meeting of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIMR)
October, speaking at Council of Science Editors retreat on Conflict of Interest policy in scientific publication; serving as conference wrap-up respondent

Tom Ginsburg
Presented two papers, "International Substitutes and Economic Development" and "Ancillary Powers of Constitutional Courts," at the Law and Society Association Annual Meetings in Chicago, May 27-31, 2004,
Invited presenter at a post-conference small symposium on Political Liberalism and Lawyers that will lead to a book of collected essays.
Presented paper, "Civil Litigation in Japan: An Empirical Analysis" at the University of Chicago Law School Japanese Law Society, May 13, 2004; Harvard University, Reischauer Center, May 7, 2004, and our own College of Law Symposium on Japanese Law, April 30, 2004.
Paper on "Leximetrics" was selected for presentation at the American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, Northwestern University, May 8, 2004, a conference with about a 5:1 ratio of submitted to selected papers.
Visiting lecturer on "Comparative Constitutional Law and Economics" at the University of Trento, Italy, April 25, 2004, part of a seminar for PhD students.
Spoke on "Market-Dominant Minorities" at the First Annual International Law Society Symposium, on Law and Economic Development in Asia, April 17, 2004.
Taught at the University of Tokyo's new law school

Matt Finkin
Chaired a tripartite arbitration panel appointed under the authority of the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. §107d, in Chicago, Illinois, on April 19, 2004.
Chaired an ad hoc committee of investigation on behalf of the American Association of University Professors into the suspension and discontinuance of the appointment of Mr. Mohammed Yousry as an adjunct lecturer at York College of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City on May 10-11, 2004. (Mr. Yousry is currently on trial in federal court in New York for aiding a terrorist organization, as a co-defendant with Lynne Stewart.)
Served on a panel on "Privacy Issues in the Workplace" at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Arbitrators in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 27, 2004.
Attended the Annual Meting of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors in Washington, D.C., on May 4-5, 2004, as a consultant to the committee.
Attended the Annual Meeting of the Governing Board [Kuratorium] of the Institute for Labor Law and Labor Relations in the European Community [Institute für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft], in Trier, Germany, on June 18, 2004, on which he sits by appointment of the Minister of Education of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Presented a paper, Antipodal Assumptions in the Law of Employee Privacy, to the Data Protection Research and Policy Group of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, England, on June 15, 2004.
Presented a paper, "Labor Mobility in a Federal System: The United States in Comparative Perspective" (co-authored with Sanford Jacoby), at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of the Editors of Journals of Labor Law, in Modena, Italy, on April 16, 2004.

John Colombo
September 4, went to Hamburg, Germany, for a 2-day conference on international tax treatment of charitable donations and endowments.
September 16-17, went to St. Louis to participate as a commentator in a conference sponsored by St. Louis U. on health care law (commenting on a paper about nonprofits in health care).
At the end of October, goes to NYC for the National Center on Philanthropy & The Law's invitational conference, which this year is on terrorism and the charitable sector.

George Bell
Attended the AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education in San Diego, contributing to its success by leading daily small group discussions.

Ralph Brubaker
September 10, Faculty, Bankruptcy Issues for Illinois State Court Judges, Springfield, Illinois
December 2004, American Bankruptcy Institute, 16th Annual Winter Leadership Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, "The 'Supremes' and Other Hot Acts: The Year in Review and Emerging Issues in 2005"

Charles Tabb
American Bankruptcy Institute, Summer Conference, Hawaii, Taking it to (or From) Secured Creditors in Bankruptcy, June 2004
Turnaround Management Association, Chicago, "Holding Court: A Bankruptcy Judges Forum," Moderator for Panel on "Corporate Governance Matters," May 2004

Lee Fennell
Invited participant at:
June 3-6, Liberty Fund Conference, Private Neighborhood Associations and Liberty, Montreal.
June 21-25, Workshop on Public Economics and Tax Policy, Berkeley CA (organized through the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at Berkeley, with additional sponsorship from the Fund for Tax and Fiscal Research and the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics and Business, both at Harvard Law School).

Linda Beale
Will speak at the ABA October meeting on Formation of Tax Policy

Jay Kesan
Commentator on Daehwan Koo's paper, "Business Method Patents," Conference on Telecommunications & IP: U.S. and Korea, Jan. 29-31, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii.
"A Bird's Eye View of E-Government and Its Implications," LNCC--National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Feb. 1-3, 2004, Petropolis, Brazil.
"The Private and Social Costs of Bad Patents: Why Bad Patents Survive in the Market and How Should We Change?" First Annual Intellectual Property & Communications Law and Policy Conference, Michigan State University College of Law, Feb. 20-21, 2004, East Lansing, Michigan.
"The Economic Case for Cyberinsurance," with R. Majuca and W. Yurcik, Conf. on Securing Privacy in the Internet Age, Stanford University School of Law, Mar. 13-14, 2004, Palo Alto, California.
"Seed Production Contracts under Asymmetric Information: A Challenge for the Enforcement of IP Rights," with S. Umeno, Symposium: Seeds of Change--Intellectual Property Protection for Agricultural Biotechnology, UIUC, Apr. 8-10, 2004
"Insecure Property Rights and Plant Varieties: The Effect on the Market for Seeds and Farmers in Argentina," with A. Gallo, Symposium: Seeds of Change--Intellectual Property Protection for Agricultural Biotechnology, UIUC, Apr. 8-10, 2004
"The Proposed Sentencing Guidelines: Self-Auditing, Privileges, Mitigation and Admissibility," Wake Forest Law Review Business Law Symposium on Organizational Sentencing, Apr. 16, 2004, Greensboro, North Carolina.
Moderator, Panel on "The Rise of China and Its Implications for Development," in Symp. on Law & Economic Development in East Asia, Univ. of Illinois College of Law, Apr. 17, 2004
"Is Their Grass Greener?: A Comparative Appraisal of Patent Invalidation Processes in Japan and the U.S.," Symp. on Japanese Law: Current Issues and Controversies, Univ. of Illinois College of Law, Apr. 30, 2004
Panelist, "Gadgets, Gizmos, and Googling: Living in the Digital Age," Levis Faculty Center, UIUC, Feb. 25, 2004.
"Overlapping Intellectual Property Protection for Agricultural Biotechnology," Faculty Seminar, Dept. of Agricultural &Consumer Economics, UIUC, Feb. 27, 2004.
"(Un)Intellectual Property," Ford Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series, Institute of Communications Research (ICR), UIUC, Mar. 5, 2004.
"Technology & Patent Litigation: The Role of Special Masters in Context, Theory and Practice," Intellectual Property Section, Chicago Bar Association, Feb. 24, 2004, Chicago, Illinois.
Co-taught "International and Comparative Patent Law" in the College of Law's Summer IP Study Abroad Program in Victoria, British Columbia.

Francis Boyle
On Saturday September 25 Francis A. Boyle gave a public lecture in Toronto Canada on "Promoting the Peace Process in Sri Lanka" before 75,000 people.
Served as Counsel for the defense of Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, the first military Iraq War Resistance; testified at his court-martial at Ft Stewart GA, as an expert on international law and the laws of war. Upon his conviction and incarceration, Boyle got him adopted as a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International , the first in the United States since the Gulf War against Iraq, when Boyle did the same for Capt. Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn.

Bill Davey
During the summer, Professor Davey spoke at conferences on World Trade Organization (WTO)-related topics in London, Bern, Halle and Tokyo.
He also spoke on WTO topics at universities in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya and Bielefeld and at KITA in Seoul.
In addition, he is currently chairing a WTO dispute settlement panel considering a claim by Korea that certain EU measures violate WTO rules

Robert Rich
Keynote speaker, German Public Health Association, Annual Meetings, University of Bielefeld, June 18, 2004, "Recent Developments in Managed Care in the United States and the Special Needs of Chronic Illness and Long-Term Care"
"The New Social Contract," at the Dahlemer Forum, European Center for Comparative Government and Public Policy, June 7, 2004

Richard Painter
December 2004, ALI-ABA Corporate Governance Institute, Washington, D.C., "The Corporate attorney After Enron: What do Legal Ethics (and the SEC) Require?"

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