November 2005
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,
As I looked into the ashen faces of my first-year criminal law students last week during a session devoted to talking about how to prepare for first-semester exams, I got that slightly nauseous annual sensation that makes me feel as much like a 1L as our 1L's! For as I talked to them about exams, I was forced to contemplate the fact that as Thanksgiving approaches, so too do tasks as monumental as first-year exams. (That's actually a lie: Nothing is ever as monumental in life as first-year law school exams!) Fortunately, as I fret over end-of-semester administrative chores, my colleagues are chocking up the real successes of the academy that make those chores so worthwhile. This month, the news is all about them--the faculty of the College of Law. And as you cast your eye through their extraordinary activities and achievements as reported both by my letter and by Charles Tabb's accompanying "Associate Dean's Addendum," I know that you will join me in a renewed sense of admiration and pride in having the honor to be affiliated with so ambitious, productive, and engaging a faculty. It is no wonder that the new Leiter's Law School Rankings just released today rank the Illinois faculty 18th in the nation, as measured by the number of citations accorded their work by others--a ranking that reflects a 4-step increase over last year's Leiter faculty rankings.
This month's headlines:
- Professor Ribstein Gets the Jump on the Alito Nomination!
- The College Creates a New Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law and Policy, Directed by Professor Matthew Finkin
- Professor Richard Ross Achieves Great Success in Hosting the Inaugural Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History at Chicago's Newberry Library
- Professor David Hyman is Named the New Director of the J.D. and Elizabeth A. Epstein Program in Health Care Law and Policy and Organizes a Series of Engaging Public Lectures
- The Faculty Extends Joint Appointments in Law to Six Renowned Colleagues in History, Political Science, Journalism, Anthropology, Sociology, and Medicine
- Professors Aren't All Pointy-Headed Geeks: Some Can Really Play Ball!
- The Associate Dean's Addendum--An Update on the Achievements and Activities of the Faculty by Professor Charles Tabb
- The November Calendar of College Events
Professor Ribstein Gets the Jump on the Alito Nomination!
Professor Larry Ribstein was quoted and cited extensively in a front page story, "Nominee's Record Shows Backing of Business Interests, Contracts," in today's Wall Street Journal on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Professor Ribstein not only cited Judge Alito's opinions on business law on his blog site "Ideoblog" over the weekend but correctly predicted that Judge Alito would be nominated by President Bush. Professor Ribstein was interviewed by several national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Forbes.com. More than 35 blog sites are currently citing Professor Ribstein's commentary and Forbes.com posted a story, "Law and Order Guy," yesterday afternoon highlighting Professor Ribstein's posting of Judge Alito's business-related decisions.
The College Creates a New Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law and Policy, Directed by Professor Matthew Finkin
American enterprise in the new century is generating new methods of producing and distributing goods that present serious social and economic problems on a now-global scale: child labor; excessive work hours; low wages and instability of income; accidents and illness; unemployment; the loss of privacy; a reduction of employment benefits; the potential collapse of the distinction between employees and contractors; the demand for workplace voice; and the need to resolve industrial disputes. The comparative study of international approaches to these kinds of workplace problems can reveal alternative legal solutions that may be more effective, more efficient, and more congenial to the values we profess to embrace.
The College of Law has long laid claim to faculty renowned in the areas of labor and employment law, and it is also the professional home of one of the most internationally-focused faculties in the nation, with over a third of the faculty working on international and comparative issues. As a means of harnessing these resources to the task of better appreciating workplace challenges in the 21st Century, the College of Law is delighted by the creation of a new Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law and Policy. The Program's Directorship will be inaugurated by Professor Matthew Finkin, the Albert J. Harno Professor of Law, whose own work in labor and employment law regularly bridges both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Professor Finkin intends to use the Program to regularize and broaden the College's long-standing practice of hosting visiting faculty of global stature from universities around the world, and to exploit the use of teleconferencing instruction and team-teaching in order to partner with universities and research institutes to create innovative curricular offerings that will expose students here and around the world to comparative analyses of workplace issues. He also plans to sponsor and host conferences and public lectures that will unite comparativists within the College and larger campus with scholars from other leading universities both within and outside of the United States. And he has committed the Program to encouraging student research and has arranged for students to be able to spend summer residencies at the Institute for Labor Law and Labor Relations in the European Community at Trier, Germany, which has a superb up-to-date library collection in the labor laws of the E.C.'s member states.
The new Program will umbrella over the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, which was founded in 1976 and is now edited by Professor Finkin and Professor Sanford Jacoby of the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. The leading peer-reviewed scholarly journal in the field worldwide, the Journal will publish proceedings of conferences, lectures given by invited visitors, and the products of individual faculty and student research sponsored by the Program.
Professor Richard Ross Achieves Great Success in Hosting the Inaugural Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History at Chicago's Newberry Library
The inaugural Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History,
organized by Professor Richard Ross, the Co-Director (with Professor Bruce Smith)
of the College's Program in Legal History, was held at Chicago's
Newberry Library on October 14th, and was, by all accounts a smashing success.
The Symposium, entitled "Membership in Communities and States in the Early
Modern Atlantic World: Legal Rules, Social Judgments, and the Negotiation of
Citizenship," attracted leading law professors, historians, political
scientists, and sociologists from the University of California (Berkeley), the
University of Michigan, New York University, the American Bar Foundation, the
University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford (among other institutions) and from
as far away as Mexico City.
The conference had two main intellectual ambitions. First, by encouraging a
comparative perspective, the conference hoped to enrich and test claims about
the nature of citizenship regimes that have been advanced from within various
national historiographies. Second, it sought to build upon recent scholarship
that increasingly views citizenship not as a state-defined "category"
or "status," but as a set of legal claims made operative, reshaped,
or denied through negotiation at the level of local institutions and communities.
How did states, communities, and organizations in early modern Europe and the Americas use citizenship (and related, but lesser, notions of membership) to regulate participation in the public realm? As several papers revealed, the empires established in the New World during the early modern period provided an especially interesting site for exploring this question. In these imperial settings, an array of statuses and kinds of citizenship helped define the political, civil, and economic rights of settlers, of European foreigners, of religious and ethnic minorities, of indigenous populations, of Africans, and of "mixed race" peoples. Colonists and imperial administrators adjusted these statuses in order to attract or exclude settlers, manage dependent and forced laborers, and calibrate privileges in heavily regulated transatlantic trade systems. Law provided a repertoire of ill-defined, incomplete, and sometimes contradictory rules that labeled the issues and values at stake in a dispute and was mobilized to support a wide variety of positions.
I am pleased to report that the Newberry's Center of Renaissance Studies has invited Professor Ross to organize another conference on the comparative legal history of the early modern Atlantic world in 2005-06. Our hearty congratulations to Professor Ross!
Professor David Hyman is Named the new Director of the J.D. and Elizabeth A. Epstein Program in Health Care Law and Policy and Organizes a Series of Engaging Public Lectures
I am delighted to inform you that Professor David Hyman has been named to replace Professor Robert Rich as the new Director of the College's Jon David and Elizabeth A. Epstein Program in Health Care Law and Policy. Professor Rich, while retaining his long-time association with the College of Law, has accepted, once again, the challenges of the Directorship of the University's Institute for Government and Public Affairs. Under Professor Hyman's leadership, the Program will sponsor three outside lectures at the College of Law during this academic year, and I urge all of you with an interest in health and wellness to attend these community-wide events. The first will be delivered on November 16th by Professor David Studdert from the Harvard School of Public Health on the topic of "Frivolous Litigation--Fact or Fantasy?" (see the Calendar below for details). Professor Studdert will address the accuracy of the medical malpractice system, including the frequency with which unfounded lawsuits are brought, how often they attract compensation, and how much is paid to resolve such claims.
Earlier the same day, Professor Studdert will speak at Carle Hospital on whether disclosing medical injuries to patients is a plausible risk management strategy. Several recent studies have suggested that disclosure may reduce medical malpractice litigation. On the other hand, such disclosures may encourage injured patients who would not otherwise have sued to do so. Professor Studdert will discuss a new study that links existing data on the epidemiology of medical injuries with a survey of hospital risk managers about patients' actual and likely responses to disclosures--a topic on which Professor David Hyman has also published in a recent issue of the Cornell Law Review.
During the spring semester, the Epstein Program will also sponsor talks by Professor Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Professor Robin Wilson of the University of Maryland School of Law. Congratulations to Professor Hyman for launching his Directorship of the Epstein Program with this distinguished series of public lectures.
The College Extends Joint Appointments in Law to Renowned Faculty in
Journalism, Political Science, History, Medicine, Gender and Women's Studies,
Anthropology, and Sociology
Many of the great strengths of the College of Law are not its own--or at least, not until now! They are faculty members working within other departments on the Urbana-Champaign campus whose work breaks new ground on pathways often trod by our own faculty. As a means of bridging disciplinary gaps that have a tendency to inhibit the free exchange of ideas amongst those who are concerned with the history, practice, and theoretical under-pinnings of the law, the College has extended courtesy joint-appointments to six highly-reputationed colleagues in other departments on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Their appointments will permit the College to expand and enrich its curriculum by cross-crediting classes that expose law students to new methods of thinking about law and its consequences. And they will fuel the intellectual life of the College by importing the perspectives and skills of other disciplines to faculty exchanges, conferences, and workshops. Please extend a warm welcome to these distinguished colleagues.
Leon Dash, Swanlund/Center for Advanced Study Professor of Journalism and Law, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist with extensive experience in domestic and international reporting. Professor Dash joined the Washington Post in 1965 and, following a two-year leave of absence as a Peace Corps high school teacher in Kenya from 1966-68, returned to an award-winning 30-year career that included living with and reporting on Angolan guerrillas, serving as West Africa Bureau Chief, and working at the newspaper's Investigative Desk. Professor Dash won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for his series "Rosa Lee's Story," on a family trapped in the urban underclass that became the basis for his award-winning book, Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America. He also earned an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for a documentary series and, in 1999, New York University's journalism department selected the "Rose Lee's Story" series as one of the best 100 works in 20th-century American journalism. Professor Dash joined the Illinois faculty as a professor in Journalism and Afro-American studies in 1998 and is currently a Center for Advanced Study Professor. He is working on a book on the survival mechanisms of African Americans who settled in nearby Mattoon after the Civil War.
Amy Gajda, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Law, worked for many years as a television journalist, anchoring and producing newscasts and reporting for network television stations. She taught courses in legal writing and law and journalism at the College of Law before joining the faculty of Communications this fall. She is the legal commentator for National Public Radio stations throughout the state of Illinois and her weekly commentaries have won seven Associated Press awards and are published as a weekly column in the Sunday edition of The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana's regional newspaper. An opinion piece on campaign finance practices she wrote for The New York Times became the basis for a 60-Minutes investigative report. She also hosts law and public affairs programs on WILL-TV and serves as an affiliated faculty member with the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program.
Peter F. Nardulli, Professor of Political Science and Law and Director for the Center for the Study of Democratic Governance, has served as Head of the Department of Political Science within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois since 1992, having joined the Illinois faculty in 1974. He is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Governance and is currently the principal investigator of a study entitled "Liberal Institutions, National Settings, and Societal Welfare," which focuses on the global diffusion and impact of democracy, free enterprise, and the rule of law. The author of three books, Professor Nardulli recently published, Popular Efficacy in the Democratic Era: A Re-examination of Electoral Accountability in the U.S., 1828-2000 (Princeton University Press).
Leslie J. Reagan, Associate Professor of History, Medicine, Gender and Women's Studies, and Law, specializes in the history of medicine, U.S. women's history, the history of sexuality, and 20th century U.S. social history. Her book, When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, earned multiple awards and has been the basis of many presentations, lectures and international media interviews. Professor Reagan joined the Illinois history faculty in 1992, and is a member of the Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program in the College of Medicine. Her current research focuses on the history of illegal abortion, the intersections between law and medicine, and social and legal issues relating to breast cancer and public health.
Christopher C. Fennell, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Law, has a background in anthropology, archaeology and law, and is currently Co-Principal Investigator conducting archaeological investigations at the nineteenth century town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois, under a grant award by the National Science Foundation. Professor Fennell was a practicing attorney for 10 years in the areas of antitrust, contracts, product liability, torts, false claims, commercial real estate, and securities disputes. He taught at the University of Virginia, Roosevelt University, Texas State University, and the University of Texas Law School before joining the faculty of the Department of Anthropology in 2004. He has taught courses on topics ranging from Anthropology and the Law to Social Norms and the Law, Archaeology, Witchcraft and Magic, Reconstructing the Plymouth Colony, and North American Indians. He was selected as the Outstanding Anthropology Faculty Member by the Undergraduate Anthropology Students Association in 2004-2005.
Anna-Maria Marshall, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law,
joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology in 1999, earning campus-wide
recognition every year. In 2002, Professor Marshall's Criminology course
was named to the list of "The 5 Most Interesting Courses to Take"
by the Daily Illini, and she currently teaches courses in Sociology
of Law, Social Movements, Law and Social Movements, and Recent Developments
in Sociology: Gender, Law, and Society. A litigator from 1985-90 in the areas
of employment and labor law, Professor Marshall recently published the book,
Confronting Sexual Harassment: The Law and Politics of Everyday Life
(Dartmouth Ashgate Publishing, 2005). She was recently awarded a grant for her
current research on sexual harassment, social movement strategies, and lawyers
who are grassroots activists.
Professors Aren't All Pointy-Headed Geeks: Some Can Really Play
Ball!
One of the recent additions to the life of the College has been the Law School Softball League, created and run by the students. This semester a record 16 teams and more than 240 faculty, staff, and students participated, under the excellent commissionership of Joy Kadowaki. I am happy to report that the Faculty-Staff Team, under co-captains Professor Tom Ginsburg and Director of Development Jeff Coates, went undefeated and won the championship for the first time. Congratulations to the faculty and staff who proved the power of experience over youth!
And on that note, I will pass the pen to Charles Tabb, whose Associate Dean's Addendum below updates you on the extraordinary achievements and activities of the College's many other faculty members. I urge you to join the College's faculty and students for the events listed on the November Calendar at the end of this message, and I wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving. May the harvest holiday unite you with family and friends around a table plentiful in good food and warm fellowship.
All the best,
Heidi M. Hurd
Dean and David C. Baum Professor of Law and Philosophy
Co-Director of the Program in Law and Philosophy
Associate Dean's Addendum
From the Desk of Associate Dean Charles Tabb
Linda Beale
Linda Beale's blog entitled "A Taxing Matter" was featured on http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/
Her blog item on Estate Taxes appears at: http://www.investmentscope.com/law/tax_business_law.html
Stuart Levine's blog links to Professor Beale's blog appears at: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com/2005/04/writers-block.html
Francis Boyle
Francis Boyle just published his ninth book, Biowarfare and Terrorism.
He also just published "Legal Nonsense: The War on Terror and its Grave Implications for National and International Law," as Chapter 25 in the book Neo-Conned Again (2005), as well as "Grounds for Impeachment: Katrina, Bush, and Cheney, " on CounterPunch.org.
He was recently selected for inclusion in the first edition of "Who's Who in Public International Law."
John Colombo
John Colombo just published The Failure of Community Benefit, 15 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 29 (Winter, 2005), as part of a symposium on Health Care and Tax Exemption: The Push and Pull of Tax Exemption Law on the Organization and Delivery of Health Care.
Eric Freyfogle
Eric Freyfogle visited the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon in September for three days as its annual Distinguished Natural Resources Law Visitor. His visit included a public lecture, "Goodbye to the Public-Private Divide."
In September, he also spoke at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, giving a talk entitled, "Conservation In Whole."
In October, he spoke at a conference on Environmental Law/Environmental Letters at the University of Virginia Law School, giving a talk entitled "Ends and Means in Environmental Law, or the Unlikely Marriage of Law and Letters."
Cynthea Geerdes
In August, Cynthea Geerdes was officially named Editor in Chief of the ABA's Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law.
C.K. (Tina) Gunsalus
The book Tina Gunsalus has under contract at the Harvard Press is now officially on the next publication list. The topic is preventive management for academic department heads. The working title is "Leadership without Lawsuits."
Her policy paper (called the Illinois White Paper) on human subjects in research (her Law-Center for Advanced Study-OVCR-LAS interdisciplinary project) has gone to press. The White Paper will be released in a mini-conference/symposium at the College on November 17.
She led two sessions on professional ethics and conflict resolution at the Harvard Management Development Program's June sessions where many of the Illinois Administrative Fellows were attending, including Maxine Sandretto, the College's Director of Budget and Resource Planning.
She presented a day-long conflict resolution and professionalism program at the annual meeting of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual for its leadership cohort in San Antonio in August.
She conducted a full-day program on Negotiating Conflict for the Michigan State Leadership Development Program in September.
She gave the capstone speech at the Human Subject Protection Conference on Conflict Resolution Skills for Research Professionals in September.
She gave the keynote speech at the Decennial Plagiarism Conference co-sponsored by the federal Office of Research Integrity and New York University in October.
She was a guest lecturer in NRES 590 on Conflict Resolution in Situations of Ethical Ambiguity in October.
She accepted a position on the editorial board of the Journal for Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics.
Heidi Hurd
Dean Hurd's latest article, entitled "Promising Schmomising: A Critique
of Promissory Obligations," was the basis for her presentation at the
Symposium on the Rationality of Contracts and Commitments at the XXII World
Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy in Grenada, Spain. She presented
this paper most recently to the College of Law faculty in a faculty workshop
and will be presenting it later this year in endowed lectures hosted by the
University of Virginia Department of Philosophy and William Mitchell Law School.
She was named a Member of the Consejo Académico Honorario of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), the small academic advisory council that assists the Rector in setting academic policy for what is one of the few private research universities in South America, and attended a meeting of the Board this past month in Buenos Aires.
In the past few months she has had four articles appear in print:
Blaming the Victim: A Response to the Proposal That Criminal Law Recognize
a General Defense of Contributory Responsibility, 8 Buffalo Criminal Law
Review 503-522 (2005) (Forum on Comparative Liability in Criminal Law).
Was The Frog Prince Sexually Molested?: A Review of Peter Westen's The Logic of Consent, 103 Michigan Law Review 1329-1346 (2005).
Why You Should Be A Law-Abiding Anarchist (Except When You Shouldn't), 42 San Diego Law Review 75-84 (2005) (Symposium on the Rationality Of Rule-Following).
When Can We Do What We Want?, 29 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy
37-69 (2004).
Her article, Expressing Doubts About Expressivism, University of Chicago
Legal Forum 1-31 (2005) (Symposium on New Developments in Criminal Law), is
due out later this semester.
Christine Hurt
Her most recent article, "Regulating Public Morals and Private Markets: Online Securities Trading, Internet Gambling and the Speculation Paradox" was accepted for publication in the April 2006 issue of the Boston University Law Review (Volume 86, Number 2).
Richard Kaplan
Richard Kaplan's article entitled "Federal Tax Policy and Family-Provided Care for Older Adults" has been accepted by the Virginia Tax Review. This article is the first examination of how federal tax policy affects the informal family caregivers who provide most of the long-term care for older Americans.
In addition, his review of the book, Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth by Yale Law professor Michael J. Graetz and Yale political science professor Ian Shapiro, has been accepted by the peer-reviewed National Tax Journal.
He was recently the first American to be designated a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies.
In October, he presented his paper entitled "Formalizing the Informal: Family Care Agreements in Canada and the United States" at the first Canadian Conference on Elder Law in Vancouver. This paper has also been accepted for publication as an article in the peer-reviewed Canadian Journal of Elder Law.
His article entitled "Who's Afraid of Personal Responsibility? Health Savings Accounts and the Future of American Health Care," which was the subject of his lecture last year in McGeorge Law School's Distinguished Speakers series, has just appeared as the lead article in 36 McGeorge Law Review No. 3.
Richard McAdams
In May, at the annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association at NYU, Richard McAdams was elected to serve a three-year term on the Association's Board of Directors. At the conference, he also presented "The Just World Bias and Hate Crime Statutes" with his co-authors, Nuno Garoupa and Dhammika Dharmapala.
In May, he also became Editor of Law, Norms, and Informal Order, a new abstracting journal that he founded for the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
He also published "Conformity to Inegalitarian Conventions and Norms: The Contribution of Coordination and Esteem," 88 The Monist 238-59 (2005).
In June, the Board of Directors of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, in Stanford, California, added Richard's name to the list of scholars and scientists eligible (for six years) for a year-long in-residence Center Fellowship.
At the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, as Chair of the Dissertation Prize Committee, he presented the annual award for best socio-legal dissertation and also served as Discussant/Chair at a panel, "Lawyers and Doctrines: Some Ethical and Empirical Explorations of the Practice of Tax Law."
In September, the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology accepted publication of his article "A Tempting State? The Political Economy of Entrapment." He presented the article at the annual meeting of the Comparative Law & Economics Forum.
In September, he also presented "The Expressive Power of Adjudication," at the annual meeting of the International Society for New Institutional Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, Spain.
Peter Maggs
Peter B. Maggs recently published "Russia's Writing Requirement under the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods," in Balancing of Interests Liber Amicorum Peter Hay zum 70. Geburtstag (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft GmbH, 2005), pp. 279-283.
David Meyer
In October, David Meyer presented a paper, "The Constitutionality of 'Best-Interests' Parentage," at a conference on "Reforming Parentage Laws," sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg.
In October, he also presented another paper at a conference co-sponsored by the BYU and Stetson Law Schools on "Lofton and the Future of Gay and Lesbian Adoption."
He presented a paper at a conference at Villanova Law School on "Privacy
Law for the New Millennium."
Professor Meyer also accepted an invitation to deliver the 2006 Sidney &
Walter Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture at Hofstra Law School in New
York. The lecture is scheduled for April 2006.
Michael Moore
In September, Michael Moore attended a University of San Diego Institute for Law and Philosophy Roundtable on Jurisprudence.
In October he fulfilled his annual visiting appointment at Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he taught a class in Legal Theory.
This week he will give the prestigious Natural Law Lecture at Fordham University on "Deontological Ethics," exploring the situations in which one can justify otherwise evil actions by their good consequences. He will give this lecture again at Loyola University-Chicago in December.
Michael Murray
Michael Murray published Legal Research and Writing and Legal Research and Writing Problems and Exercises published by Foundation Press in August 2005. These are the first two of what Foundation Press is calling the "Legal Research and Writing Series" by Michael Murray and Christy DeSanctis of George Washington.
He also completed the 3rd editions of Civil Rules Practice and Jurisdiction,
Venue, and Limitations for publication by Thomson West in 2005.
Michael's recent presentations include:
Copyright for Visual Artists and Art Lawyers, Visual Arts and the Law Conference, Santa Fe, NM, Aug. 2005
Collaborative Legal Writing, New England Legal Writing Conference, Albany Law School, June 2005
Explanatory Synthesis and Analogical Reasoning, Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, Arizona State University School of Law, March 2005
Legal and Ethical Issues of Intellectual Property and Moral Rights Law: What Every Art and Design Professor Should Know and Every Artist and Designer Should Learn, University of Illinois College of Art and Design, Feb. 2005
Larry Ribstein
Larry Ribstein was quoted in one of the lead editorials about lawsuits brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the 9/12 Wall Street Journal.
He presented his paper, Fraud on a Noisy Market, at the Lewis and Clark conference on "Behavioral Finance: Instruction or Distraction," in September.
Also in September, he presented two papers at the Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, "Accountability and Responsibility in Corporate Governance," and "Initial Reflections on the Law and Economics of Blogging."
He also presented his paper, "Wall Street and Vine" to the Economics Department at the University of Missouri (St. Louis) and guest-taught Professor Susan Feigenbaum's class on Entertainment Economics.
In October, Professor Ribstein presented, "Outsider Trading as an Incentive Device," with Bruce Kobayashi, at the Midwest Law and Economics Association annual meeting, October 14, 2005.
On October 26 and 27, Professor Ribstein presented the "Market for Law and Adjudication" to a group of federal and state judges at the George Mason University Law and Economics Center Institute on the Logic and Limits of Contract Law, Tucson Arizona.
Professor Ribstein also participated in the NYU Journal of Law and Liberty's blog symposium on Sarbanes-Oxley and the Federalization of Corporate Law, October 28.
Professor Ribstein published, "The Important Role of Non-Organization Law," the lead article in the Wake Forest Law Review's symposium on the Future of Closely Held Business Entities, 40 Wake Forest L. Rev.751 (2005).
Jacqueline Ross
Jacqueline Ross gave a comparative law workshop at Yale Law School on her paper, "Dilemmas of Undercover Policing in Germany: The Troubled Quest for Legitimacy" in September.
Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith presented his paper, "Miranda's Paradoxical Pre-History," on the eighteenth and nineteenth-century history of English pretrial interrogations at the Yale Law School Legal History Forum.
Sandra Sperino
The University of Missouri accepted Sandra Sperino's article, "FMLA Redux: Revisiting Whether Individual Liability Should Exist Under the Family and Medical Leave Act," for publication in their Winter 2006 issue (Vol. 71, No. 1).
Calendar of College of Law Events
November 2005
November 1, 5:00-5:45 p.m., Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Leadership Lecture Series: Illinois State Representative Marlow H. Colvin, who represents the 33rd District on Chicago's South Side, will speak on "Current Issues Facing the Illinois State Legislature." For more information on the lecture contact blsa@law.uiuc.edu.
November 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Pedersen Pavilion: Taste of Asia: AALSA will be sponsoring a fund-raiser during Peer's Pub. For more information contact aalsa@law.uiuc.edu.
November 4, 12:30-5:30 p.m., Room H: Second Annual Illinois/Chicago-Kent Joint Faculty Retreat. For more information contact tginsbur@law.uiuc.edu.
November 9, 12:00-12:30 p.m., Room A: Study Abroad Brown Bag Lunch: To discuss study abroad opportunities for College of Law students. For more information contact llm@law.uiuc.edu.
November 9, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Room C: Interviewing 101: The Office of Career Services will be providing information on the skills you need to interview successfully with legal employers. For more information contact Kelly Griffith at kgriff@law.uiuc.edu.
November 10, 3:00-6:00 p.m., Pedersen Pavilion: WLS Chili Cook-Off: WLS will be sponsoring the annual Chili Cook-Off fund-raiser during Peer's Pub. For more information contact wls@law.uiuc.edu.
November 11, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Room A: WLS Panel: Where Have All the Women Gone? Paul Pless, Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, will discuss the reduced enrollment of women at the College this year. For more information contact wls@law.uiuc.edu.
November 13, 8:00-10:30 p.m., Room D: "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price," a movie about Wal-Mart's success, sponsored by the American Constitution Society. For more information contact acs@law.uiuc.edu.
November 16, 12:15-1:00 p.m., Carle Foundation Hospital Parkview Conference Room: Professor David Studdert from the Harvard School of Public Health will be speaking on "Disclosure of Medical Injury to Patients - Is It A Plausable Risk Management Strategy?" Sponsored on behalf of the UI College of Medicine and the UI College of Law. For more information contact Carle at 383-4615.
November 16, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Health Care Law and Policy Lecture: Professor David Studdert from the Harvard School of Public Health will present a lecture, "Frivolous Litigation - Fact of Fantasy." Sponsored by the College's Jon David and Elizabeth A. Epstein Health Care Law and Policy Program, the College of Medicine, the Institute for Government and Public Affairs, and the Institute for Nursing. The lecture is free and open to faculty, students, and the general public. For more information on this lecture, contact Carle at 383-4615.
November 16, 7:00-9:30 p.m., Room D: Social Justice Film Festival: "Bus 174." All are invited to join the College of Law community to view a film and discuss various social justice issues. Professor Laurie Reynolds to facilitate the discussion.
November 17, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Room A: How to Develop Your Network: The Office of Career Services to talk about how to effectively utilize the networking job searching tool. For more information contact Kelly Griffith at kgriff@law.uiuc.edu.
November 28, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Room J: Deans' Open Forum. Students are invited to join Dean Hurd and Assistant Dean Virginia Vermillion for an open discussion of College matters.
November 29, 7:00-9:30 p.m., Room D: Social Justice Film Festival: "Enron." All are invited to join the College of Law community to view a film and discuss various social justice issues. Professor Cindy Williams to facilitate the discussion.
November 30, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Room 202D: Student Lunch with Dean Hurd. Students are welcome to stop by Room 202E to sign-up to have lunch with Dean Hurd.
