March 2007

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 Faculty, Students, Staff, Alumni, Campus Leaders, and Friends:

Whew! We made it through February! The staff and I call February "Mania Month" because it always makes us crazy. Most pressingly, law schools are under March 1st appointments deadlines, which means that offers to faculty members at other law schools have to be processed and extended by March 1st. This enables schools to manage faculty arrivals and departures (and there is now tremendous mobility within the legal academy) consistent with setting and staffing the curriculum for the following academic year. In our case, we've had another aggressive year of faculty recruitment, bringing through close to 30 candidates for full-day interviews and processing 10 offers to promising prospects. Now we await the returns with much anticipation as we turn our attention back to tasks that were set aside during this marathon.

Fortunately, while we have been absorbed in the effort to build the faculty to our target number of 45 (which would give us one of the most enviable student-faculty ratios in the country), students, faculty, and staff have been making news. This month's highlights:

• A 100th Anniversary Tribute to Amos Scruggs--the College's First African-American Graduate
• Professors Hurt, Robbennolt, and Solum Receive Praise and Prizes
• Tad Armstrong '76 Creates a U.S. Constitution Class for Local Citizens
• Baum Elder Law Lecture Addresses Organ Donation Shortage
• Professor Kesan Launches BioBEL (on the Business, Economics and Law of Genomic Biology)
• The College Honors Black History Month with "One of the Toughest Lawyers in Chicago"--Alumnus James Montgomery '56
• Professor Larry Ribstein is Invested in a Prestigious Endowed Chair
• Mock Trial Jurors Needed March 6 - 15, 2007
• Viva Geneva!
• The SBA and PILF Auction Everything From Trivial Pursuit with Librarians to Sing-Alongs with Faculty to Skydiving and Waterskiing with Administrators!
• Come celebrate! Join Us for the 5th Annual Gala Dinner-Dance on April 20th

A 100th Anniversary Tribute to Amos Scruggs--the College's First African-American Graduate

February is Black History Month, and with it, the College celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the graduation of its first African American student, Amos Potter Scruggs. Mr. Scruggs is listed as the 14th African-American student at the University of Illinois and he was the first African-American to obtain a law degree from the state's flagship law school.

Mr. Scruggs was born in 1874 in Shipman, Illinois and moved to Litchfield when he was 12 years old. He was the first African-American student to graduate from Litchfield High School in 1896 at the age of 22. He graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1907 at the age of 33. He married Mary Fitzpatrick in 1906 and was a traveling salesman from 1907-1914 and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1910. He was admitted to the Nebraska Bar in 1914 and was appointed Sealer of Weights and Measures for the City of Omaha in 1916. He argued 13 cases before the Illinois Supreme Court from 1930-1935, including two criminal appeals.

One of the appeals that Mr. Scruggs argued resulted in a reversal of the defendant's conviction. In People v. Jenkins (342 Ill. 238, 174 N.E. 30), Mr. Jenkins, a black man, had been convicted of assault with intent to commit rape. The victim was an eighteen-year-old white woman. Race was never mentioned in the decision but the defendant was described as being on his way home from a meeting of the American Negro Protective Association while the victim was described as the step-daughter of an Austro-Hungarian immigrant. The Supreme Court overturned the conviction, finding that the evidence of Mr. Jenkin's "passion" was not sufficient evidence of his intention to commit rape. The next time Mr. Scruggs appeared before the court, it was as a member of the State's Attorney's staff.

In 1908, Mr. Scruggs delivered a speech entitled, "The Negro and Education" at the Litchfield Public Library. The Litchfield Herald described the speech as follows: "Scruggs, being a colored man, having been raised and educated in Litchfield, and having worked his way through college and advanced himself to a high plain in life by performing the humblest of labors, delighted his audience with his intelligent address. He handled his subject in a way that was interesting to hear and easy to believe. The speaker is modest, cultured and . . . earnest and he talks with a seriousness that is convincing."

Here is an excerpt from Mr. Scruggs' amazingly prophetic 1908 speech:

The negro, since emancipation, has made himself generally useful in every walk of life excepting two: president of the United States and governor of a state. But senators, representatives, foreign ministers, state legislators and many other positions of honor he has filled with credit and dignity.

The importance of the negro question to the American people cannot be too highly estimated. The Americans with their much boasted civilization contrasted with their treatment of the negro, an American citizen, has made the American people the laughing stock of the entire civilized world. America reaches out to foreign countries for conquests and to enlighten the Filipino when she had a greater problem within her very home which has not been solved. America sends missionaries abroad when they are more needed at home.

Prejudice, disrespect for law, malice, hatred and ill will. . .never solved and never will solve the race problems. No race can be judged by its worst characters. An individual of any race should be given credit for his personal acquirements and ability. At law one is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty, just so should any man be presumed to be good until proven bad.

Professors Hurt, Robbennolt, and Solum Receive Praise and Prizes

Professor Christine Hurt's article on online securities trading and internet gambling, entitled "Regulating Public Morals and Private Markets: Online Securities Trading, Internet Gambling and the Speculation Paradox," Securities Law Review (2007), was chosen as one of the top 10 securities law articles published in 2006. Congratulations Professor Hurt!

Professor Jennifer Robbennolt's article, "Apologies and Settlement Levers," 3 Journal on Empirical Legal Studies 333 (July 2006), received the Professional Articles Prize from the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution for being the best professional article written in 2006. The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution is a nonprofit organization with a membership base composed of general counsel and senior lawyers of Fortune 500 organizations, partners in top law firms, judges, government officials, and academicians. Kudos to Professor Robbennolt!

Professor Larry Solum, the John E. Cribbet Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and the author of the popular blog site, Legal Theory, was featured prominently in the recent edition of Yale Law Report, the biannual alumni magazine produced by Yale Law School. In the article, "Balkin Talks Blogs," Jack Balkin, Yale's Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, singles out Professor Solum's Legal Theory as a model in blogging. Here is an excerpt from the article:

Legal Theory Blog is a one man operation run by Larry Solum at Illinois. It is really a tour de force and it must take an enormous amount of work. It's strictly devoted to academics. Any time a new paper comes out on SSRN (the Social Science Research Network), an online depository for drafts of new scholarship) that Larry thinks is interesting, he'll republish the abstract and provide a link. He'll tell you about all the new academic books that have recently been published; he will tell you about academic conferences that are coming up; he gives you basic introductions to important legal and philosophical concepts, he suggests reading lists for particular topics; in short, he's a one-man clearinghouse for the academic world. It's simply amazing what he is able to do by himself, and he performs an invaluable service.

Tad Armstrong '76 Creates a U.S. Constitution Class for Local Citizens

Tad Armstrong '76 had simply heard enough criticism of the legal profession. The plaintiff's trial attorney in Edwardsville, IL stopped by his local coffee shop every morning en route to the Armstrong Law Offices and he would often overhear conversations from other patrons about lawyers, judges, and court decisions. And, more often than not, the claims made were simply wrong. The facts were wrong, the law was wrong, and the cynicism was misplaced. So, he decided to do something about it. He created a class for local citizens that would teach them the basics about the American Constitution and the judicial system so that they could evaluate high-profile national cases and legal controversies with a more tutored understanding of the law and legal process.

"I was simply sick and tired of the onslaught of criticism from well-meaning citizens about lawyers, judges, and the Madison County judicial system," said Armstrong, who has practiced for more than 30 years in the Edwardsville area since earning his law degree from the College of Law in 1976. "I talked to a friend of mine about my frustration and he challenged me, blaming the legal profession and the local Bar Association for not educating the public about what we do."

Mr. Armstrong rose to the challenge, posting fliers at local coffee shops, the Rotary Club, and his church telling of his new club. Having no idea if anyone would be interested, his first session in 2005 attracted 80 people eager to learn about their constitutional rights and the judicial system that protects them. The ELL Club, which stands for 'Earn It, Learn It, or Lose It,' was born. More than two years later, the ELL Club movement has taken off in the St. Louis metropolitan area with clubs in Highland, Glen Carbon, Granite City, Jerseyville, and with proposed Illinois clubs in Bethalto, Alton, and Godfrey and Missouri chapters in Brentwood, Webster Groves, and Creve Coeur.

The ELL club meetings are free and open to all. They take up controversial constitutional issues such as abortion, the religion clauses, gun control and war powers. While the discussions permit a robust exchange of ideas, their primary focus is not on policy or morality, but rather on an accurate understanding of relevant Supreme Court rulings.

Starting an ELL club is simple, according to Mr. Armstrong. Take hometown citizens who are willing to work hard by reading about 50 pages per session and meeting once a month. Add a local attorney who will moderate the monthly sessions for no fee. Recruit local financial sponsors and find a location to hold the meeting. And then turn on the coffee pot and begin a conversation! Mr. Armstrong has put together an easy-to-use ELL club binder that includes a Start-Up Kit, how-to tips, and the first 24 months of lessons, so volunteers can jump start programs in new areas. For more information on getting an ELL club started in your community, visit the ELL website at http://www.ellclubs.com/ or call the Armstrong Law Offices at (618) 656-6770.

Baum Elder Law Lecture Addresses Organ Donation Shortage

Yesterday, the College hosted the Ann F. Baum Memorial Lecture on Elder Law. This year's provocative lecture, "When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Worsening Organ Shortage, What It Means for Seniors, and What To Do About It" was presented by Dr. Sally L. Satel and advanced the controversial thesis that organ donors, whether living or deceased, should be compensated as a means of increasing the supply of available transplantable organs. Dr. Satel examined the specific issue of renal failure as a major problem affecting older people and how donated kidneys can ensure better outcomes for affected elderly compared to dialysis. She considered implications for Medicare, which funds the very costly end stage renal disease program. Finally, she evaluated current efforts to restructure the allocation system of donated kidneys that discriminates against older potential recipients on the basis of age.

Dr. Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. She is also the staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She is the co-author of a set of feisty books that include The Health Disparities Myth: Diagnosing the Treatment Gap, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance, and PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine. She has published in The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on ABC News, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcasting System.

Professor Kesan Launches BioBEL (on the Business, Economics and Law of Genomic Biology)

How can biofuels become economically viable alternatives to petroleum products? What criteria determine whether someone can patent a newly engineered gene? What business strategies are most effective for protecting and gaining value from intellectual property rights? What is the nature of innovation in genomics and how might the industry evolve?

Under the direction of Professor Jay Kesan, who also heads up the College's Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, BioBEL, the newest research project at the Institute for Genomic Biology, aims to tackle these issues and related ones that confront those who are working to move innovations from the laboratory to the marketplace. The mission of BioBEL (the Business, Economics and Law of Genomic Biology) is to foster education and research on the economic, legal and business issues involved in bringing genomic and biotechnology innovations to the commercial sector. To accomplish this mission, Professor Kesan has brought together a diverse team of scientists, technology experts, faculty in business, law, and agricultural economics, and personnel from the Office of Technology and Management. Most team members specialize in more than one field related to the BioBEL theme, including Professor Kesan, who has a PhD in electrical and computer engineering in addition to his law degree.

The College Honors Black History Month with "One of the Toughest Lawyers in Chicago"--Alumnus James Montgomery '56

The Black Law Students Association (BLSA), in conjunction with the College of Law Diversity Committee, celebrated Black History Month with a series of events that culminated last week in a keynote address by one of the College's most acclaimed alumni, James D. Montgomery, Sr. '56. Mr. Montgomery's talk, entitled "The New Black Realism: Attaining Social Mobility and Advocating for Progress," focused on the challenges that confront African-American lawyers and the continuing need for change within both white and black communities.

Mr. Montgomery was recently appointed to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. A legendary litigator whose resume includes his 1960's defense of The Black Panthers, Mr. Montgomery was named one of Chicago's 30 Toughest Lawyers by Chicago Magazine. In March 2000, Mr. Montgomery teamed up with famed attorney, the late Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., to form Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Montgomery, L.L.C. Referred to as the Dynamic Duo, the team of Cochran and Montgomery quickly became one of the most prolific personal injury firms in Chicago and throughout the country.

In 2001, Mr. Montgomery secured settlements in excess of $24 million; including a record $18 million settlement for the wrongful death of LaTanya Haggerty, a 26-year-old, computer analyst who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer. This year, Mr. Montgomery has already secured settlements in excess of $14.4 million, including a $13.5 million settlement for catastrophic injuries sustained by a six-year-old patron of a YMCA in Detroit when a bank of lockers fell on top of him. Mr. Montgomery's office is currently working on several high-profile cases in Chicago, including representing seven of the 21 victims of the E2 Nightclub Disaster; the family of a woman who died when scaffolding fell from the John Hancock building in March 2002; and Linda Will, the mother of Rashidi Wheeler, a Northwestern football player who died at an unauthorized football practice in August 2001. Mr. Montgomery also served as lead counsel in the 18-month civil rights trials arising from the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.

The College Invests Professor Larry Ribstein in a Prestigious Endowed Chair

This month, Chancellor Richard Herman joined the College community for the formal investiture of Professor Larry Ribstein in the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law. One of the nation's most productive and influential scholars (he was ranked 7th in the nation last year for the number of times his articles were downloaded from the Social Science Research Network!), Professor Ribstein has written or co-authored more than 120 articles on subjects that include corporate, securities and partnership law, constitutional law, bankruptcy, film, the internet, family law, professional ethics and licensing, uniform laws, choice of law and jurisdictional competition.

Mark J. Roe, the Berg Professor of Corporate Law at the Harvard Law School, writes that "Professor Ribstein is one of the leading American scholars of corporate law--productive, insightful, and interesting--and on my very short list of scholars for whom I am sure to read carefully whatever he writes." Melvin A. Eisenberg, the Koret Professor of Law at UC-Berkeley, calls Professor Ribstein "an outstanding and extremely productive scholar, and certainly one of the very best known scholars in the area of business association. He is one of the scholarly pioneers in the area of unincorporated business entities, and has come to virtually dominate the field, having really no rivals." And Professor Stephen Bainbridge, the Warren Professor of Law at UCLA, describes Professor Ribstein as "one of the most productive scholars at work today-in any field. His scholarship is both broad and deep, accounting for why he is one of the most prominent and highly visible business law scholars in the nation."

Mock Trial Jurors Needed March 6 - 15, 2007

The College's Trial Advocacy program offers the opportunity to serve as a volunteer juror in mock jury trials to be held at the College's newly-renovated Courtroom daily from March 6-9 and March 12 - 15. Criminal and civil trials are available. Jurors arrive at 8:30 a.m. and are treated to breakfast before trials commence at approximately 9 a.m. and conclude by 1 p.m. each day. Jurors are encouraged to critique the student trial attorneys following jury deliberations. Sitting state and federal judges preside over the trials and deliberations.

If you have ever wanted to serve on a jury but have not had the chance, this is a golden opportunity. If interested, please contact Diana Marshall at (217)333-5842 or by e-mail at damarsha@law.uiuc.edu.

Viva Geneva!

We have a wonderful tradition of gathering loyal College followers together every summer in Europe for an annual reunion that unites faculty, students, staff, and alumni (both J.D. alumni and LL.M. alumni) in a combination of lively discussions and professional tourism. This year's reunion will be held on June 8-10 in Geneva and its organizers invite everyone who has an affection for the College--and can make their way to France!--to join us. Among this year's celebrity guests from the College will be Sherry Cibelli, the much-beloved "den mother" of generations of international students, Charlotte Ku, the newly-appointed Director of the College's Office of International Studies, Professors Bill Davey and Michael Moore, and Associate Dean Ralph Brubaker!

Philippe Preti (M.C.L. '82) is the organizer of this year's gathering and he has planned a marvelous weekend that includes a tour of Geneva, a visit to the United Nations' European Headquarters, a cruise on Lake Geneva, and an excursion up neighboring Mount Saleve. There will also be a series of "mini-presentations" by College faculty on the hot topics in their fields and a general discussion of the College's increasingly ambitious plans for international programs and initiatives. Please join us for this memorable reunion. If you have questions, please contact Sherry Cibelli at scibelli@law.uiuc.edu. For information and to register, please visit: http://www.law.uiuc.edu/alumni/reunions2007.asp.

The SBA and PILF Auction Everything From Trivial Pursuit with Librarians to Sing-Alongs with Faculty to Skydiving and Waterskiing with Administrators!

One of the most highly-anticipated community events of the year is the annual Student Bar Association/Public Interest Law Foundation Auction. Each year, faculty, staff, students, alumni, law firms, and local businesses donate items to this popular event, and the evening is a fun-filled, often hilarious, celebration of community as students, staff, and faculty drive up the prices on each other in competition for coveted items and highly entertaining experiences. The proceeds of this extravaganza then go to provide financial assistance to students who spend their summers exploring future careers in public interest lawyering by joining organizations and government offices that are dedicated to making high quality legal representation a public good.

This year's SBA/PILF Auction boasts a remarkable menu of wonderful offerings from members of the community. To just mention a few: "An Evening with the Devil" as Professor Richard Kaplan hosts a lucky winner at a Champaign-Urbana Symphony concert featuring music inspired by the Devil, '"Food & Wine from the South of France" with Professor C.K. Gunsalus, a "BBQ and Sing-a-Long" with Professors Margareth Etienne, Patrick Keenan, Paul Stancil, and Christine Hurt, "High-Stakes Monopoly" with Professor Robert Lawless, a "Trivial Pursuit Challenge with the Jenner Law Librarians," an "Italian Dinner and a Movie" courtesy of Professor John Colombo, "Waterskiing with the Deans" from Associate Dean Ralph Brubaker, Tailgating and Golf Outings with Assistant Deans Dave Johnson, John Rossi, Jeff Coates, Tony Waller, and Paul Pless, and my two personal favorites, the opportunity to be "Dean for a Day" (or more to the point, the opportunity for me NOT to be dean for the day), and "Skydiving with Mike Sirlag, Some Other Crazy 1L's, and the Dean!" The donation deadline is March 6. Feel free to contact our enthusiastic auctioneers, 3L SBA President Erik Miles (emiles2@law.uiuc.edu), 2L SBA Vice President Katie Pieper (kpieper2@law.uiuc.edu), or 1L Tom Desplinter (tdespli2@law.uiuc.edu) for donation and auction information.

Come celebrate! Join Us for the 5th Annual Gala Dinner-Dance on April 20th

Please plan to don your dancing shoes and come see why the annual Spring Gala Dinner-Dance has become such a popular celebration of achievement, annually attended by a sold-out crowd of 300 students, faculty, staff, alumni, and campus dignitaries. This year's fifth annual Gala Dinner-Dance (black tie optional) will be held at the elegant Champaign Country Club on Friday, April 20, and it will feature a short after-dinner address by our distinguished alumnus Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier '64. This is an event for everyone--students and faculty, secretaries and alumni, campus and College administrators, and friends! Individual alumni tickets are $100. And you or your firm can make a group of financially-challenged students extraordinarily happy by sponsoring a table at the $1,500, $1,000, or $500 levels. For more information about the 2007 Gala or the benefits associated with sponsoring a table, please call our Alumni Relations and Development Office at (217) 333-2628 or e-mail Jeff Coates, Assistant Dean for Alumni Relations & Development at coates@law.uiuc.edu.

And now, with my sincere hope that March will deliver on its obligation to go out like a lamb, I pass the electronic baton to Associate Dean Ralph Brubaker, whose Addendum will tell you about all the many remarkable activities and accomplishments of the faculty over the past several months. Don't forget to calendar the interesting public events that are listed in the March Calendar at the end of the Addendum!

Sincerely,

Heidi M. Hurd

Professor Amitai Aviram published The Placebo Effect of Law: Law's Role in Manipulating Perceptions, 75 Geo. Wash. Law Review 54-104 (2006) and this month will serve as a Panel Chair for the Corporate Law Panel, Chinese Reforms in Comparative Perspective: Illinois-Zhongshan Conference on Law and Economic Development and Discussant for Rationality, Distributive Justice and Happiness at the Program in Law & Philosophy and Illinois Program in Law & Economics Joint Roundtable this month. He presented Counter-cyclical Enforcement of Corporate Law, Illinois Program in Law & Economics in January and Counter-cyclical Enforcement of Corporate Law, Midwestern Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting at the University of Kansas in October, Law's Role in Manipulating Perceptions.

Professor J. Steven Beckett appeared live on the CBC regional broadcast of "Ontario Today" on January 10 regarding the upcoming trial of former Hollinger media and communications magnate Conrad Black. Professor Beckett discussed the practice of the public prosecutors releasing details in advance of the March trial. He also fielded phone calls from listeners regarding trial practices and white collar crime. Professor Beckett was quoted in a national Associated Press story that ran coast-to-coast on Monday, November 6 concerning campaigning and fund-raising for judicial races. The story, entitled "Appellate court race raises cash, concerns, ran in Midwestern outlets such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, and was picked up by newspapers across the United States.

Professor Francis Boyle delivered the 18th annual Bertrand Russell Peace Lectures January 9-10 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada at the Centre for Peace Studies. Professor Boyle delivered two lectures, "Palestinians and International Law" and "The U.S. National Campaign to Impeach President George W. Bush Jr."

Professor Boyle is serving as a judge on the Malaysian military tribunal to hear complaints of abuse and torture by victims of war in Iraq and the Palestinian territory. The Catholic Academy of Sciences in the USA re-elected Francis A. Boyle to serve as their Parliamentarian and Member of their Board of Directors at their Annual Meeting in Washington DC on Saturday, October 21. Crescent News (KL) SDN Bhd, a leading book distributor and publisher in Malaysia, has agreed to republish and distribute all four of Francis Boyle's books with Clarity Press: The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence (2002); Palestine, Palestinians and International Law (2003); Destroying World Order (2004); and Biowarfare and Terrorism (2005). In a nationwide polling of viewers, Professor Boyle was selected "Person of the Year" by NTV Hayat, one of the leading television stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Professor John Colombo, the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor, published Tax Treatment of Charitable Donations and Endowments: The U.S. Perspective in Spenden- und Gemeinnützigkeitsrecht in Europa (Mohr-Siebeck Verlag 2006) (in German), In Search of Private Benefit, 58 Fla. L. Rev. 639-81 (2006), Federal and State Tax Exemption Policy, Medical Debt and Healthcare for the Poor, 51 St. Louis U.L.Journal (Winter 2007) (Health Law Symposium issue), and The Provena Tax Exemption Case: The Demise of Community Benefit?, 55 Exempt Org. Tax Rev. 175-186 (2007).

Professor Colombo presented "Where Are We Going with Tax Exemption for Health Care Providers?" at the IRS TE/GE Advisory Council on October 13 in Chicago, "Tax Exemption Standards for Hospitals" at the IGPA conference on "Nonprofit Hospitals in a Changing Regulatory Environment," February 20 in Chicago. He was quoted by reporter Mike Colias, Is This Charity? AG, Hospitals Debate in Crain's Chicago Business on October 2, by reporter Mark Alesia, Panel questions NCAA's tax status, Indianapolis Star, October 5, by reporter Brandon Glenn, Provena Health CEO, Crain's Chicago Business, October 10, by reporter Mark Alesia, Colleges play, public pays, Indianapolis Star, January 3, and by reporter Gregg Blesch, Defining Charity, Daily Southtown, January 31.

Professor William Davey, the Guy Raymond Jones Chair in Law, served as the chair for the Plenary Round Table entitled "Shifting Statutes: Negotiating Recent Changes in Russian Commercial Law" at the Chancellor's Conference on Russia + Business + Politics: Challenges and Opportunities on Friday, October 13 in Chicago. The session featured Professor Peter Maggs, considered the leading US expert on Soviet and Russian law. Professor Davey served as the keynote speaker at the conference "WTO at the Crossroads: The Challenges Ahead", in Bangkok, Thailand on November 25-26. Professor Davey published Enforcing World Trade Rules: Essays on WTO Dispute Settlement and GATT Obligations (Cameron May 2006).

Professor Margareth Etienne appeared live on CNBC's "Morning Call" on October 23, the day that ex-Enron CEO Jeff Skilling was sentenced to prison as a follow up to an her article asserting, "Imposing a sentence on Mr. Skilling that is several times that of the sentences faced by his co-defendants when the only material distinction between their cases appears to be Mr. Skilling's decision to go to trial strongly suggests that Mr. Skilling is being penalized for exercising his constitutional rights."

Professor Lee Anne Fennell presented "Property and Half-Torts" at the George Washington School of Law, Law and Economics Workshop, University of Southern California, Law, Economics, and Organization Workshop, University of Virginia School of Law, Faculty Workshop, Midwest Law and Economics Association, Annual Meeting, and the University of Texas Center for Law, Business & Economics Workshop. She will present the paper at the University of Michigan School of Law, Legal Theory Workshop later this month.

Professor Eric Freyfogle, the Max L. Rowe Professor, published the book, Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict & Hope (University Press of Kentucky, 2007) and two articles, Land, Ecology, and Democracy: A Twenty-First Century View, 25 Politics and the Life Sciences 42-56 (2006) (with J.L. Newton & W.C. Sullivan) and Ends and Means in Environmental Law, or the Unlikely Marriage of Law and Letters 24 Virginia Journal of Environmental Law 263-280 (2006). He also presented the public lecture "Beginning with Rivers" in Decatur, Illinois in February, sponsored by Community Environmental Council and Prairie Rivers Network and presented "Ecology and Salvation," at the Workshop on Ecology and Religion with the UI Program for the Study of Religion in October.

Professor Tom Ginsburg, the Director of the Program in Asian Law, Politics and Society, gave 25 presentations in six countries during the past five months. He will present "Odious Debt and Democratization" Second Illinois-Zhongshan Conference on Law and Development and "Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul: Occupation Constitutions" at Harvard Law School, Japanese Law Seminar. In February, he presented "The Lifespan of Written Constitutions" Cardozo Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Temple Law School, served as Commentator, Religion and Civilization, Economic Consequences of Civilizations, University of Southern California, presented "Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul: Occupation Constitutions" at William and Mary Law School, served as Commentator, Illinois-Michigan Conference on Comparative Law, and presented "Why Administrative Law is Good for Government" Conference to Celebrate the Administrative Court, Podgerica, Montenegro.

From December 30-January 6, Professor Ginsburg gave multiple presentations on "Constitutions: Issues for Consideration" in Bangkok and the northern city of Chiang Mai as Thailand beings to write a new constitution in preparation for a return to democratic rule. He served as Featured Speaker and Panelist at Seminar at King Prajadiphok Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, presented "The Creation and Lifespan of Written Constitutions" Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, "The Creation and Lifespan of Written Constitutions" Lunchtime Address to Community Leaders, American Consulate, Chiang Mai, Thailand, "Creating Constitutions" Ministry of Justice, Bangkok, Thailand, "Creating Constitutions" Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok, Thailand, and "Constitutions" American Center, Myanmar, Bangkok December 30-31, 2006.

In December, Professor Ginsburg presented "How and Why National Constitutions Incorporate International Law," Conference on Public International Law and Economics, Max-Planck Institute on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany, and "The Role of Law in Economic Development in East Asia: Will China Follow the Path of its East Asian Neighbors of Taiwan, Korea or Japan?" World University Network Teleconference. In October and November, he presented "The Lifespan of Written Constitutions," King Prajadiphok Institute Conference on Constitutional Reform in Comparative Perspective, Bangkok, Thailand, "Judicial Review of Administrative Action: The American Experience" Zhejiang University Conference on Administrative Law Reform, Hangzhzou, China, and presented "The Lifespan of Written Constitutions," at Beijing University, Beijing, China, Chinese University of Law and Politics, Beijing, China, Midwest Law and Economics Association, Lawrence, Kansas, University of Southern California, and the University of Illinois College of Law. He also presented "Locking in Democracy" Northwestern University Law School International Law Colloquium and "The Lebanon War: A Post-hoc" at the University of Illinois College of Law.

Professor Ginsburg was awarded a National Science Foundation Award for "The Comparative Constitutions Project" he is currently co-directing with Professor Zachary Elkins (Political Science). He also published Irrational War and Constitutional Design: A Reply to Professors Nzelibe and Yoo in the Michigan Journal of International Law (2006) (with Paul Diehl) and Locking in Democracy: Constitutions, Commitment and International Law, 38 NYU J. International Law and Politics (2006).

Professor C.K. Gunsalus was reappointed by the Illinois Supreme Court to its Commission on Professionalism, a 16-member board comprised of attorneys, judges, and law professors.

Dean Heidi Hurd, the David C. Baum Professor of Law and Philosophy, was a participant in a recent Liberty Fund conference on "Constitutionalism and Economic Development," in Tucson, Arizona. She also attended the Roundtable on "The Rational Consumer," jointly sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Illinois. Her article, The Morality of Mercy, will be presented at the College's Scholarly Retreat in April and is forthcoming in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. Her current work concerns the relevance of mistakes to criminal responsibility and is forthcoming in Essays on Criminal Law (Russell Christopher, ed., Oxford University Press, 2007).

Professor Christine Hurt's paper "Regulating Public Morals and Private Markets: Online Securities Trading, Internet Gambling and the Speculation Paradox," was chosen as one of the top 10 securities law articles published in 2006. Her paper will appear in the Securities Law Review 2007. Professor Hurt was informed of this honor by Don Langevoort, Georgetown law professor and editor of the Securities Law Review. She published The Bluebook at Eighteen: Reflecting and Ratifying Current Trends in Legal Scholarship, 82 Ind. L.J. 49 (2007) and recently had accepted for publication Blogging While Untenured and Other Extreme Sports, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007).

She will be presenting "IPOs and the Internet Age" at the Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal Annual Symposium, Michael E. Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, "Corporate Criminality: Legal, Ethical and Managerial Implications" at the Georgetown Business Ethics Institute, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, "Chinese Reforms in Comparative Perspective" at the second annual Illinois-Zhongshan Conference on Law and Economic Development at the College of Law.

Professor David Hyman published the book, Medicare Meets Mephistopheles (Cato Institute, 2006) and articles, Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award?: Post-Verdict Haircuts in Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988-2003, 4 J. Empirical Leg. Stud. 3-68 (2007) (with Bernard Black, Kathy Zeiler and Charles Silver), Getting the Haves to Come Out Behind: Fixing the Distributive Injustices of American Health Care, 69 L. & Contemp. Probs. 265-282 (2006), and Research on Human Subjects: Academic Freedom and the Institutional Review Board, Academe 95-108 (Sep./Oct. 2006) (with Judith Jarvis Thomson, Catherine Elgin, Philip E. Rubin, and Jonathan Knight). Professor Hyman also made several presentations, including the ABA Health Law Forum, a forum on the Massachusetts health plan at the University of Kansas Law School, the Yale Law School American Constitution Society debate on national health care, the AEI/Brookings Judicial Education Program, health care quality at Brookings, on regulatory federalism in health insurance at AALS, medical malpractice at the Indiana University-Bloomington Law School, University of Texas Law School, the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, and the University of Arizona Law School, and on medical malpractice and health care quality at the Mercatus Chief of Staff program. He also spoke at the Northwestern Searle Program Conference. Professor Hyman also completed the 2006 Chicago Marathon October 22, his second marathon!

Professor Richard Kaplan, the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor, has published the 4th edition of Elder Law in a Nutshell (co-authored with Professor Lawrence Frolik of Pittsburgh). His essay entitled "Means-Testing Medicare: Stealth Tax on Upper-Income Retirees" has just been published in Health Care News (January 2007). This essay is condensed from his article entitled "Means-Testing Medicare: Retiree Pain for Little Governmental Gain" that appeared in the Journal of Retirement Planning (May-June 2006) and was reprinted in CCH's Top Financial and Estate Planning Issues for 2007. A condensed version of this article appeared as "Means-Testing Medicare: Stealth Tax on Upper-Income Retirees" in Health Care News (January 2007). Professor Kaplan also published his review of the book, "Individual Accounts for Social Security Reform: International Perspectives on the U.S. Debate" by John Turner, in 27 Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 297 (2006). Finally, his article entitled "Federal Tax Policy and Family-Provided Care for Older Adults," which appeared originally in the Virginia Tax Review, was selected for reprinting in the Monthly Digest of Tax Articles (August 2006), and was the focus of his presentation at a panel on "Looking a 'Gift' Horse in the Mouth: When a 'Gift' is Not a Gift" held at the American Bar Association's Taxation Section Meeting in October. He also published a related article entitled "Tax Credits for Caregivers: A Possibility in New Congress?" in Aging Today (Jan.-Feb. 2007) published by the American Society on Aging.

Professor Kaplan presented papers at a Lewis & Clark Law School symposium on "The Aging of the Baby Boomers and America's Changing Retirement System" and at a Notre Dame Law School symposium on "Aging America: Who Should Pay for Long-Term Care?" He also addressed the Illinois Tax Conference and the Indiana Tax Conference on "Significant Developments in Individual Income Taxation," which included analysis of important recent cases and legislation, especially the Pension Protection Act of 2006. In addition, he presented "The Inheritance Threat That Dares Not Speak Its Name: Financing the Cost of Long-Term Care" at the University of Miami's Annual Institute on Estate Planning and spoke to the Champaign Rotary Club on "Prospects for Major Tax Reform After the Mid-Term Elections."

Professor Kaplan was quoted extensively in Congressional Quarterly Researcher (Oct. 13, 2006) on "Caring for the Elderly"; Money Magazine on long-term care; and The Daily Herald on the Medicare prescription drug plans a year after their implementation. He was featured on an episode of "Illinois Law" dealing with "Whatever Happened to Tax Reform?" and organized and was a featured guest on an "Illinois Law" episode dealing with "When a Parent Needs Your Help." Professor Kaplan was interviewed on the local CBS-TV and ABC-TV affiliates about President Bush's State of the Union proposal to change the tax treatment of employer-provided health insurance. Professor Kaplan was also the featured guest on station KHOW (Denver)'s two-hour "Smart Investor Show" focusing on Elder Law, and was the featured guest on the one-hour local radio call-in program "Penny for Your Thoughts" on WDWS-AM 1400 discussing the Bush proposal to change the tax treatment of employer-provided health insurance.

Professor Patrick Keenan, along with UI Journalism Professor Nancy Benson, and Journalism graduate student Abigail Rhodes spent eight days in Kenya in early January, 2007 as part of the "Globalization on the Ground" project created by Professors Benson and Keenan. The project's work is supported by the International Human Rights Clinic of the College of Law, the College of Communications, the Center for African Studies, and the Center for Global Studies. The goal of the project is to document the many ways that globalization affects the lives of ordinary communities around the world, including Human-Animal Conflict. They were working to address the problem of human-wildlife conflict around the Masai Mara wildlife reserve. He delivered 10 lectures on international criminal law during a week-long seminar on International Criminal Law in February at Chuo University Law School in Tokyo, presented "Legal Services and Community Participation" at a Loyola University Chicago School of Law conference in February entitled 'The Rule of Law and Delivering Justice in Africa,' and presented the paper, "Do Norms Still Matter? The Corrosive Effects of Globalization on the Vitality of Norms" as part of a panel called Emerging Human Rights Scholars at the AALS Annual Meeting in January.

Professor Jay Kesan, the Director of the College's program in intellectual property and technology law, was featured in the UI News Bureau story on BioBEL last month. Professor Kesan is theme leader for BioBEL (the Business, Economics and Law of Genomic Biology), the newest research theme at the Institute for Genomic Biology, whose mission is to foster education and research by analyzing the economic, legal and business elements necessary to bring genomic and biotechnology innovations to the commercial sector. Professor Kesan published Defining Research Values at a Research University (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (2007) (with W. Greenough and P. McConnaughay). He also published Licensing Restrictions and Appropriating Market Benefits from Plant Innovation—A Response to Profs. Carstensen and Patterson, edited remarks at Conf. on Exploring the Limits: Recent Challenges to the Scope of IP Law, Fordham University, Nov. 18, 2005, New York, New York, published in 16 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment L.J. 1081 (2006), How Are Patent Cases Resolved? An Empirical Examination of the Adjudication and Settlement of Patent Disputes, with G. Ball, 84 Wash. Univ. L. Review 237 (formerly Washington University Law Quarterly) (2006), Establishing Software Defaults: Perspectives from Law, Computer Science and Behavioral Economics, with R. Shah, 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 583 (2006). He was awarded the 2006 IBM Faculty Award ($25,000 grant) for work on intellectual property and university-industry technology transfer.

In October, Professor Kesan presented Property Rights, R&D Investment and Plant Innovation: A Comparative Perspective, 4th Annual Works-In-Progress Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, University of Pittsburgh in October, Probabilistic Patents, with M. Banik, Midwestern Law and Economics Association Meeting, University of Kansas, in October, and How Are Patent Cases Resolved? An Empirical Examination of the Adjudication and Settlement of Patent Disputes, with G. Ball, First Empirical Legal Studies Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. In December, he presented Property Rights, R&D Investment and Plant Innovation: A Comparative Perspective, Conference on Emerging Trends in Intellectual Property, National Law School, NALSAR, Hyderabad, India, and The Case for Patent Reform, Fordham University School of Law, Faculty Workshop. In February, Professor Kesan presented Property Rights, R&D Investment and Plant Innovation: A Comparative Perspective, Intellectual Property Speakers Series, George Washington University School of Law, and Patent Oppositions: The Devil Is In The Details, Conference on Patent Reform, Ohio State University.

Professor Harry Krause, the Max L. Rowe Professor Emeritus, published Comparative Family Law: Past Traditions Battle Future Trends -- and Vice Versa (Chapter vin M. Reimann & R. Zimmermann, eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, Oxford University Press 2006).

Professor Robert Lawless testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee - Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts session titled "Oversight of the Implementation of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act" on December 6 at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. Professor Lawless also appeared on the nationally-broadcast CNBC "Morning Call" program.

Professor Michael LeRoy published , "Compulsory Labor in a National Emergency: Public Service or Involuntary Servitude? The Case of Crippled Ports" in the Spring, 2007 issue of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.

ProfessorPeter Maggs, the Clifford M. and Bette A. Carney Chair, published Free Legal Advice on the Internet in the Spring, 2007 issue (Vol. 35.1) of the International Journal of Legal Information at Yale Law School and From Goldilocks to Mickey Mouse - the Limits of Intellectual Property Protection in Grazhdanskoe zakonodatel'stvo [Civil Legislation], Issue 27, edited by A.G. Didenko and E.A. Belianevich (Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2007) - also in Russian in the same volume as "Ot Zlatovlaski k Mikki Mausu - predely zashchity intellektual'noi sobstvennosti." Professor Maggs also published United States Courts Judge Transition Country Legal Systems, in Rechtslage von Auslandsinvestitionen in Transformationsstaaten (Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts Verlag, 2006) as a contribution to a Festschrift. His book (co-authored with Alexei Zhiltsov), the English translation of Fourth Part (Intellectual Property) of the Russian Civil Code is scheduled to be published in Moscow in next month. The draft of the book is currently being used by Russian negotiators with World Intellectual Property Organization and World Trade Organization. Professor Maggs has a book (with co-author Alexei Zhiltsov) Updated English translation of Parts I-IV of the Russian Civil Code in first draft form and is currently in negotiations with publishers.

Professor Maggs contributed Commentary (in Russian) on the following Articles of the Fourth Part of the Russian Civil Code: Article 1299 (technological means of protecting copyrighted works), 1465-1472 (trade secrets), 1483 (non-registerable trademarks), to be published in Moscow in the fall of 2007 in a Commentary to the Russian Civil Code edited by Professor Mikhail Fedotov. He participated in the Members Consultative Groups for the American Law Institutes Members' Consultative Groups on "Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes" and "Software Contracts" and attended a meeting on the Software Contracts project. He also attended meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and the Association of American Law Schools.

Professor Richard McAdams, the Guy Raymond Jones Professor, published "Guilt and Crime," invited comment on Ana Zablah, "In America as in Omelas," 2 Carceral Notebooks 153-159 (2006). He commented on G. Norman & J. Trachtman, "The Customary International Law Game" at the "Public International Law and Economics" conference at the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany in December. He presented "An Expressive Theory of Adjudication" at "The Institutionalization of International Norms" conference at the Center for International & Comparative Studies at Northwestern University and "The Just World Bias and Hate Crime Statutes" at the University of Virginia Law and Economics Workshop and "Economics of Racial Profiling" at the University of Virginia Center for the Study of Race & Law. Professor McAdams was invited to and joined the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science and served on the Program Committee for the 2007 annual meeting of the American Law & Economics Association.

Professor David Meyer, the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Faculty Scholar, delivered the inaugural Walter O. Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law, presented by the Center on Children and Families, on November 2nd at the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. Professor Meyer, a leading scholar in family law and constitutional law, gave the lecture, "Palmore Comes of Age: The Place of Race in the Placement of Children." The lecture will be published in the University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy.

Professor Michael Moore, the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair, will attend the third annual "Gathering of the Institutes" conference, a program he initiated, in March. The conference deals with competing kinds of justice (corrective, retributive, distributive) and is co-sponsored by the College's Law and Philosophy Program, the Institute for Law and Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania, the Law and Philosophy Program of Rutgers University, and the Institute for Law and Philosophy of the University of San Diego. He also attended the second annual joint conference on philosophy and economics as applied to legal problems, co-sponsored by the College's Program in Law and Philosophy and Program in Law and Economics, the University of Pennsylvania, and the UC-Berkeley School of Law.

In February, Professor Moore presented "Morals and Constitutional Reasoning," to the 25th annual National Student Symposium of the Federalist Society, held at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago and "Causing, Aiding, and the Superfluity of Accomplive Liability," to the members of the College's Program in Criminal Law. In November, he organized, hosted, and presented a paper at a conference in Oregon on "Causation and Responsibility" and in October attended a conference of the University of San Diego Institute for Law and Philosophy on duties to eradicate world wide poverty and the Liberty Fund conference on jurisprudence and the philosophy of law in San Diego.

Professor Andrew Morriss's book proposal on gasoline markets and regulation, to be coauthored with Nathaniel Stewart, was accepted by Yale University Press. Professor Morriss will also organize a conference in Washington in the spring of 2007 and edit a conference volume for the American Enterprise Institute on regulatory competition and offshore financial centers. He delivered presentations on Mining Law: Lessons from the U.S. Experience and Water and Markets at the Naturaleza Humana: ¿Destructora o Creadora? sponsored by the Centro para Análisis de las Decisiones Públicas at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala on Nov. 3-4, served as a panelist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Universidad Francisco Marroquín's conference on "Empowering Green Bureaucrats: How Multilateral Environmental Agreements Threaten National Sovereignty and Hurt the World's Poor," in Guatemala City on Nov. 5, discussing the law of the sea, and was a commentator on the panel on "Liberty in the Legal Institutions of the 21st Century" at the Mont Pelerin Society General Meeting in Guatemala City on November 6.

Professor Michael Murray published Copyright, Originality, and the End of the Scenes Faire and Merger Doctrines for Visual Works, 58 Baylor L. Rev. 779 (2006) and The Positive Pedagogy of Presentations to Partners, 21 Second Draft 11 (Dec. 2006). He signed contracts to publish The Law (in Plain English®) for Health Care Professionals (Sourcebooks/Sphinx) and Art Law in a Nutshell (West Group 5th ed.) and has been invited to teach International Art Law in the University of San Diego Law School's summer program in Florence, Italy.

Professor John Nowak, the David C. Baum Professor Emeritus, recently published (with Emeritus Professor Ronald Rotunda) the supplements to volumes 3, 4 and 5 of Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure (Thompson West Publishing). Professor Nowak (along with Professor Rotunda) has also completed the manuscript and page proofs for the fourth edition of Volumes 1 & 2 of Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure. Professors Nowak and Rotunda are also currently working on the 3rd edition of the concise hornbook, Principles of Constitutional Law, which will be published in early fall 2007 and are rewriting volumes 3, 4 & 5 of the Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure (Thompson West Publishing), which will be published next spring as the completion of the 4th edition of that multivolume work.

Professor James Pfander, the Prentice H. Marshall Professor, had his book, One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Department of the United States, accepted for publication by Oxford University Press. Professor Pfander has also has the following articles forthcoming, Removing Federal Judges, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev., Protective Jurisdiction, Aggregate Litigation, and the Limits of Article III, 95 Cal. L. Rev. (invited submission to the symposium in honor of Paul Mishkin), and Federal Supremacy, State Court Inferiority, and the Constitutionality of Jurisdiction Stripping, 101 Northwestern University Law Review. He will be presenting Federal Supremacy, State Court Inferiority, and the Constitutionality of Jurisdiction Stripping at the University of Georgia Law School Faculty Workshop on March 9, and Public Law Issues, Comments to the University of Illinois Conference on Chinese Reforms in Comparative Perspective on March 8. Professor Pfander presented Territorialism and the Resolution of Jurisdictional Conflict, Comments on paper by Hannah Buxbaum at the Michigan-Illinois Comparative Law Workshop in February, Federal Supremacy, State Court Inferiority, and the Constitutionality of Jurisdiction Stripping to the workshop on constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School and to the faculty workshop at the Northwestern University School of Law in November 2, and Protective Jurisdiction, Minimal Diversity, and Aggregate Litigation to a conference held in honor of Paul Mishkin at Boalt Hall School of Law on October 28.

Professor Laurie Reynolds' article (with Carlos Ball), Exactions and the Distribution of the Burden in Takings Law, in the William and Mary Law Review, will be reprinted in 2006 Zoning and Planning Law Handbook as one of the most important land use articles of the year.

Professor Reynolds has had two articles accepted for publication: School Finance Reform, Uniformity of Taxation, and the Democratization of Local Control, forthcoming in University of California-Davis Law Review (2007), and Local Governments and Regional Governance, to appear in Urban Lawyer (2007). She made two presentations at the Edwin O'Leary Endowment Seminar on School Funding, one in the fall, one in the Spring, entitled Finding a Way Around the Edgar Opinion (fall) and Litigation and the Funding of Public Schools in Illinois (spring).

Professor Larry Ribstein, the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair and the author of "The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle" was interviewed on the national radio program, "Marketplace" on the American Public Media network on Monday, Nov. 20. Professor Ribstein, who hosts the popular blog site "Ideoblog," was responding to US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's comments regarding loosening government regulatory rules in a speech to the Economic Club of New York. Professor Ribstein published Bromberg and Ribstein on LLPs and RUPA (2007 edition) and supplements to Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership and Ribstein & Keatinge on LLCs. He had a number of published articles, including Should History Lock in Lock-in, 41 Tulsa Law Review 525 (2006), Imagining Wall Street, 1 Virginia Law and Business Review 165 (2006), Outsider Trading as an Incentive Device (with Kobayashi), 40 UC-Davis Law Review 21 (2006), Accountability and Responsibility in Corporate Governance, 81 Notre Dame Law Review 1431 (2006), The First Amendment and Lawyer Blogs, Washington Legal Foundation Legal Opinion Letter, Vol. 16 No. 31, December 8, 2006, and From Bricks to Pajamas: The Law and Economics of Amateur Journalism, 48 Wm & Mary L. Rev. 185 (2006).

Professor Ribstein made presentations as part of his investiture as the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in February, Corporations and the Market for Law at the UCLA Law School Corporate Colloquium on January 29, The Rise of the Uncorporation at the AALS Section on Unincorporated Business Associations on January 4, The Uncorporation at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center Judicial Education Program, American College of Business Court Judges on November 16, The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle as the UI Department of Accountancy Lyceum Speaker on November 9, Contracting for Corporate Law at the Duke Global Capital Markets Center and Duke Law School workshop on November 3, and, What's so bad about paying plaintiffs? at the Maryland Conference on Federalism & Corporation Law, University of Maryland School of Law, on October 13.

Professor Jennifer Robbennolt's article, "Apologies and Settlement Levers," 3 Journal on Empirical Legal Studies 333 (July 2006) received the Professional Articles Prize from the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution as the best professional article for 2006. The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution is a nonprofit organization with a membership base composed of general counsel and senior lawyers of Fortune 500 organizations, partners in top law firms, judges, government officials, and academicians. CPR serves as a primary multinational advocate and resource for avoidance, management, and resolution of business-related disputes.

Professor Robbennolt published The Role of Apology in Negotiation, in The Negotiator's Fieldbook (Chris Honeyman & Andrea Cupfer Schneider, eds. 2006) (with Jennifer Gerarda Brown), Supreme Court Considers Punitive Damage Decision Making: Psychologists Share Research on Jurors' Tendencies, Monitor on Psychol., March 2007, and The Psychological Impact of Victim Impact Statements, Monitor on Psychol., October 2006, at 79 (with Christopher H. Sokn). She presented research on "Attorneys and Apologies in Civil Litigation" at the Behavioral Law and Economics Workshop at the University of Minnesota Law School in February, presented at the Faculty Workshop, Arizona State University College of Law in November and the First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Texas School of Law in October. Professor Robbennolt will be a participant at a conference on "Exploring the Judicial Mind: A Workshop on Psychology and Judicial Decision Making" at the University of Virginia School of Law in late March.

Professor Jacqueline Ross hosted the second annual Michigan-Illinois Comparative Law Works-in-Progress Workshop on February 8-10 at the College of Law. The event was co-sponsored by the University of Illinois College of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, and the American Society of Comparative Law.

Professor Richard Ross will present the paper, "Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of 'Intensity'" at the University of Tel Aviv Legal History Workshop and presented the paper on February 12 at the Legal History Workshop at Stanford Law School, on February 13 at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley, and at the American Society for Legal History 2006 Meeting. Professor Ross published Pre-Revolutionary Popular Constitutionalism and Larry Kramer's The People Themselves, Chicago-Kent Law Review 81 (2006), organized the conference, "Law, Religion, and Social Discipline in the Early Modern Atlantic World," a Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History at the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library in Chicago. He serves as Associate Editor, Law and Society Review and Corresponding Editor, e-Legal History Review, an electronic legal history journal covering the United States, Latin America, England, France, Germany, Portugal, and Italy.

Professor Lawrence Solum recently published Natural Justice, 51 American Journal of Jurisprudence 65 (2006) (publication of the 2006 Natural Law Lecture, Natural Law Institute, Notre Dame University School of Law), Public Legal Reason, 92 Virginia Law Review 1449 (2006), The Supreme Court In Bondage: Constitutional Stare Decisis, Legal Formalism, and the Future Of Unenumerated Rights, 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 155 (2006), Judicial Selection, Appointments Gridlock, and the Nuclear Option, 15 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 51 (2006) (with David Law), and Download It While Its Hot: Open Access, Intermediaries, and the Dissemination of Legal Scholarship, 10 Lewis and Clark Law Review 841 (2006), Blogging and the Transformation of Legal Scholarship, Washington University Law Quarterly (forthcoming 2006), Constitutional Texting, 44 University of San Diego Law Review No. 1 (2006), Pluralism and Public Legal Reason, 157 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 7 (2006), and his book, "Virtue Jurisprudence" has been accepted for publication by Palgrave MacMillan.

Professor Solum presented "Constitutional Possibilities, Colloquium on Constitutional Theory" on January 19 at the University of Minnesota School of Law and will also present it on March 29 at the University of Texas School of Law. He presented "Author Meets Critics, Our Undemocratic Constitution" at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting on January 5 and "An 18th Century Constitution in a 21st Century World" at the University of Maryland School of Law in December.

He presented "Disintermediation and the New Law Professor, Scholarship and the New Law Professor, Of Books, Blogs, Networks, and the Placement Game" at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting on January 5; "Copynorms and the Virtue of Justice, The Morality of Copyright Disobedience," Section on Intellectual Property, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting on January 4; "Models of Internet Governance," Conference: Netting the Net at the University of Oslo on October 18; "Virtue Jurisprudence: An Aretaic Theory of Law" for the University of Illinois Department of Philosophy on October 6, the University of Colorado School of Law (September 15, 2006); and Northern Kentucky University, Salmon Chase School of Law (September 8, 2006). He recently completed his term as Chair of the Jurisprudence Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Professor Charles Tabb, the Alice Curtis Campbell Professor, published Consumer Bankruptcy Filings: Trends and Indicators, American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, vol. 25, November 2006 (lead cover story) & December 2006 issues, Courting Controversy in 54 Buffalo Law Review 467-502 (2006), and The Top Twenty Issues in the History of Consumer Bankruptcy in 2006 University of Illinois Law Review 9-29. He completed Living With the Means Test, forthcoming in Southern Illinois University Law Journal (2007) (with research assistant, Jillian K. McClelland) and presented "Living With the Means Test" at the Southern Illinois University College of Law Conference, "Shredding the Safety Net," in February and "Consumer Bankruptcy Filings: Trends and Indicators" at the Risk Managers Roundtable in Chicago in September. He has been quoted widely on bankruptcy issues and BAPCPA, including the WCIA-TV "Evening News," Illinois Information Service (statewide radio network), Central Illinois Business Magazine, and the Springfield State-Journal Register. He was also quoted extensively in the article "("Professor: BAPCPA Doesn't Discourage Filings" in Bankruptcy Court Decisions: Weekly News & Comment, vol. 47, # 3, at 6 (Oct. 10, 2006) and "Filing drought is about over; Professor predicts filings to return to pre-BAPCPA levels" in the Consumer Bankruptcy News in the October 12, 2006 edition.

Professor Nina Tarr co-authored a book (with Richard Zitrin and Carol M. Langford) titled Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law, 3d Edition, that was released by LexisNexis.

Professor Cynthia Williams published Icarus on Steroids: A Review of Icarus in the Boardroom by David Skeel, 94 Geo. L. J. 1197 (2006) and A Tale of Two Trajectories, 75 Ford. L. Rev. 1629 (2006)(symposium on H.L.A. Hart's view of law's commands, applied to corporate law). In January, she presented the paper, "The Equator Principles: A Case Study in New Governance," (co-authored paper with Professor John Conley, UNC School of Law) at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada, made the conference keynote presentation, "Responsible Investment: Theory, Power, Promise" at the University of Toronto Law School conference on Responsible Investment, and presented "Corporate Directors' Fiduciary Obligations for Mitigating Human Rights Risk" at the University of Toronto Law School. In November, Professor Williams presented "Theories of Corporate Liability related to Climate Change" at the Georgetown University Center for Environmental Law and Policy conference on Litigation and Climate Change and presented the paper, "Third-Party Assurance as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce," (co-authored paper with Prof. Margaret Blair, Vanderbilt University, and Li-Wen Lin, JSD student at Illinois) at the University of Michigan Business School and Chicago-Kent College of Law. She also presented "Harmonizing Disclosure Standards Across International Capital Markets and Corporate Governance Across Nations," at the American Branch of the International Law Association, International Law Weekend 2006 and presented "Justice and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Social Exchange Model" (co-authored paper with Profs. Ruth Aguilera (UI ILIR and Business) and Deborah Rupp (UI Organizational Psychology) at Humboldt University Institute of Management, Berlin, Germany, Second International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility: Globalization and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Professor Williams was quoted nationally in the Chicago Tribune, BusinessWeek, and the Associated Press on Fannie Mae suing KPMG LLP, its former outside auditor, for $2 billion, alleging negligence and breach of contract that resulted in the mortgage leader restating billions of dollars in profit.

March 7, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room A: ACS Faculty Lunch Series. Law School Professor McAdams gives a talk on First Amendment issues followed by a question and answer session. For more information contact the American Constitution Society at 217-244-7893 or acs@law.uiuc.edu.

March 7-8, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Siebel Center, Room 4405: Chinese Reforms in Comparative Perspective: the Second Illinois-Zhongshan Conference on Law and Economic Development. Conference participants include College of Law and the UI Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies faculty, UI administrators, and faculty and administrators from Zhongshan University. Topics include Chinese Economic Reforms, Corporate Law, Investment and Finance, Public Law, Property Rights and Contract Enforcement, and Empirical Studies.

March 8, 2:00-3:00 pm, Room 200: Deans' Open Forum. Students are invited to join Dean Hurd and Assistant Dean Vermillion for an open discussion of College matters.

March 9: Class of 2010 Open House. For more information contact Rebecca Warsinsky at 217-333-8010 or rnw@law.uiuc.edu.

March 13, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room B: WLS Panel on Balancing Legal Careers and Family Life. Dean Hurd, along with a few other female professors and community lawyers have been invited to speak at a panel regarding balancing career and family life. For more information contact the Women's Law Society wls@law.uiuc.edu.

March 15, 4:00-5:00 pm, Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Investiture of Professor John Colombo as the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law. Reception to follow in the Pedersen Pavilion. There is no cost for this event and all are welcome.

March 26, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room C: Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw Presentation on Career Development. Representatives from Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw will present information about career development in the practice of law. For more information contact Amanda Lindemann at 217-265-5345 or lindemnn@law.uiuc.edu.

March 27, College of Law: Government and Public Interest On-Campus Interview Program. Students interested in working in the public sector will have the opportunity to interview with local public interest groups and government employers. Public interest employers that are interested in participating should contact Amanda Lindemann in the Office of Career Planning & Professional Development at 217-265-5345 or lindemnn@law.uiuc.edu.

March 28, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room A: Applying for Judicial Clerkships. Attention 2Ls: Come learn the step by step procedures for judicial clerkship applications including information about timing guidelines and OSCAR. Students interested in applying for a judicial clerkship must attend. 1Ls or 3Ls are welcome to attend as well.

March 29, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room C: Lunch with Alumni from Seattle. You are invited to have lunch with visiting alumni for an informal discussion about Seattle's legal market. Lunch and drinks will be provided to the first 60 students. For more information contact Amanda Lindemann at 217-265-5345 or lindemnn@law.uiuc.edu.

March 29, 4:00-6:00 pm, Pedersen Pavilion: Peer's Pub: Great American Cities Program featuring Seattle. Students have the opportunity to introduce themselves to visiting alumni and enjoy delicious food and beverages from the Seattle area. For more information contact Amanda Lindemann at 217-265-5345 or lindemnn@law.uiuc.edu.

March 30: Class of 2010 Open House. For more information contact Rebecca Warsinsky at 217-333-8010 or rnw@law.uiuc.edu.

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