October 2007
Dean Charles J. Tabb
Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law
Interim Dean
Telephone (217) 333-9857
ctabb@law.uiuc.edu
Professor Hyman to be invested as Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Professor David Hyman will be formally invested as the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law on Tuesday, October 23 at 4 p.m. in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium. Considered to be one of the country's top health law scholars, Professor Hyman teaches civil procedure and health care regulation. His principal research interests are the regulation of health care financing and delivery and empirical law and economics. Professor Hyman has published books and articles on a wide range of subjects, including medical malpractice, managed care, consumer protection, narrative, professional responsibility, tax exemption, and civil procedure. Professor Hyman was named the Galowich-Huizenga Faculty Scholar in November, 2005 and serves as the Director of the Jon David and Elizabeth A. Epstein Health Care Law and Policy Program. Professor Hyman is responsible for a portfolio of path-breaking work on medical malpractice, health law and policy, professional responsibility, and tax exemption. His 2006 book, Medicare Meets Mephistopheles, was named one of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce/National Chamber Foundation's Top Ten Books of 2007, and won the College of Law's Wayne R. LaFave Excellence in Faculty Scholarship Award for the best book. In March, 2005, Professor Hyman, along with three co-authors, released the research paper, "Stability, Not Crisis: Medical Malpractice Claim Outcomes in Texas, 1988-2002," which received national media coverage in outlets including the New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, and the Washington Post. The paper was subsequently published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Follow-up papers have been published in or accepted by the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
The Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law was established by the late Richard W. Corman '40 and Marie L. Corman in 1984. The professorship was first held by John Cribbet '47 upon his return to the College of Law after serving as Chancellor of the University of Illinois. Professor Peter Maggs became the second holder of the professorship in 1988 and Professor Larry Ribstein became the most recent recipient in 2003.
Chief Justice Roberts appoints Professor Leipold to Judicial Conference Advisory Committee
United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. appointed Professor Andrew Leipold, the Edwin M. Adams Professor, to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules. The committee is chaired by Judge Richard C. Tallman, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In a letter from Chief Justice Roberts dated September 11th, Chief Justice Roberts conveys his confidence in Professor Leipold and adds, "Your willingness to serve over and above the performance of your regular duties demonstrates your commitment to effective judicial administration, for which I am grateful." Professor Leipold begins his three-year term today.
Swanlund Professor Thomas Ulen to receive Honorary Doctorate
I am delighted to announce that Professor Thomas Ulen, holder of the Swanlund Chair, will be awarded an honorary doctorate by the Catholic University of Leuven later this week in Leuven, Belgium. The ceremony will take place on Friday, October 5, featuring an opening by Professor Paul Van Orshoven, dean of the Faculty of Law at the Catholic University, followed by a Laudatio by Professor Dirk Heremans and by Professor Herman Cousy. The Award of the doctorate honoris causa will be bestowed on Professor Ulen by Rector Magnificus, Professor Marc Vervenne.
Professor Ulen will deliver an acceptance lecture titled, "Law and Economics in the Future of Legal Scholarship, Education, and Practice." A closing address will then be delivered by Professor Joep Konings, dean of the Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics.
As the Catholic University notes in its invitation announcing the event, Professor Ulen is a world authority in the discipline of law and economics, co-author of one of the leading textbooks on the subject matter, and a prolific author and lecturer on various subjects such as interdisciplinary methodology, regulation, cartels and competition, tort liability and environmental policy.
In other news, two weeks ago Professor Ulen was called upon to serve as moderator for a campus-wide program from the Center for Advanced Study Initiative on Science and Technology in the Pacific Century titled "The University of Illinois' Place in Asia's Changing Scientific Landscape." The program featured Chancellor Richard Herman and Vice Chancellor for Research Charles Zukoski.
College hosts Professor Martha Nussbaum and longtime Ambassador Marc Grossman
Two nationally-renowned public figures in their respective fields, celebrated author and scholar University of Chicago Professor Martha Nussbaum and 29-year U.S. Ambassador Marc Grossman, will speak at the College of Law during the month of October.
Professor Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, will present "Equal Respect for Conscience: Roger Williams on the Moral Basis of Civil Peace" on Thursday, October 18 at 4 p.m. as the 67th David C. Baum Memorial Lecture on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. Since 1973, the Baum Lecture has welcomed the world's leading scholars speaking on a variety issues relating to the law, civil rights and civil liberties. Professor Nussbaum has written more than a dozen books and has been awarded the Brandeis Creative Arts Award in Non-Fiction, the PEN Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award, the Ness Book Award, and the Grawemeyer Award in Education. The recipient of honorary degrees from 32 colleges and universities worldwide, Professor Nussbaum will present her argument that Roger Williams, a Baptist minister who founded the colony of Rhode Island in 1636 fleeing religious persecution, and his ideas of equal respect for conscience are very helpful in thinking about the foundations of religious toleration in a pluralistic society.
Ambassador Grossman, who spent 29 years with the U.S. State Department and at one point was the Department's third-ranking official, including serving as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, will present "American Diplomacy in the 21st Century" on Thursday, October 25 at 3 p.m. as the Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and Law. Past speakers for this popular political lecture series have featured Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens; former House Majority Leader U.S. Rep. Dick Armey; General Joseph W. Ralston, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe; former Senate Majority Leader U.S. Senator George Mitchell; and, former U.S. Representative, Governor of Michigan, and U.S. Ambassador to Canada Jim Blanchard.
I encourage you to attend both lectures in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium. A reception will follow both lectures in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion at the College.
College honors this year's Distinguished Alumnus Award recipients
Since 1966, the College of Law has annually chosen individuals to receive Distinguished Alumnus Awards in recognition of their professional achievements and leadership in their communities. This year, the College of Law honors 10 Distinguished Alumnus Award recipients, bringing the total number of honorees to 250 over the last four decades.
Please join the College in congratulating the following Distinguished Alumni: Robert A. Benziger '67, Eugene E. Brott '62, Charles J. Devens '77, Richard G. Goetz '72, Mary P. Gorman '77, James B. Jurgens '67, James E. Matanky '85, Jeanette Sublett '82, Stephen P. Stanczak '82, and James C. Wood '48.
University of Illinois named one of Top 20 law schools for Hispanics
The University of Illinois College of Law has been named one of the Top 20 Law schools for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine. The website lists the top-rated undergraduate and professional schools for Hispanic students, including categories such as law, medicine, engineering, and business. The College of Law boasts the fourth highest percentage of students of color among Top 25 law schools and houses an active and vibrant Latino/Latina Law Students Association. LLSA's main objective is to help incoming students make a smooth transition into the College of Law by providing a tutor/mentor program. The group supports the professional goals of Latino/Latina law students by inviting and bringing in outstanding Latino/Latina lawyers to speak with students, assists the College of Law in recruiting Latino/Latina students, sponsors social events, volunteers in the community, and co-sponsors the Minority Pre-Law Conference.
Professor Fleischer testifies before House Ways and Means Committee on Private Equity Tax
Professor Victor Fleischer testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Private Equity Tax on September 6 in Washington, D.C. His testimony on Taxing Carried Interest is based on his forthcoming New York University Law Review article, "Two and Twenty: Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity." Click here... to view the September 6, 2007 U.S. House of Representatives "Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on Fair and Equitable Tax Policy for America's Working Families" and read Professor Victor Fleischer's "Testimony on Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds."
Women's Law Society hosts annual Ambulance Chase
More than 75 students, faculty, staff, and community members participated in the fifth annual Ambulance Chase 5K Run/Walk on September 16 at Crystal Lake Park in Urbana. Hosted by the Women's Law Society, the proceeds from the race will benefit "A Woman's Fund," a local charity that provides support services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Participants of all ages and ability levels were encouraged to attend with prizes for top finishers, a raffle for all participants and loads of prizes from local running stores, health clubs, and restaurants. Congratulations to College of Law students Jackie Schoen and Lisa Zigterman for organizing the successful fund-raising event.
Homecoming 2007 Right Around the Corner
The 97th University of Illinois Homecoming is less than a month away, set for October 25-27, with reunions, receptions, and the Board of Visitors meeting. The kickoff for the weekend is the popular Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law, featuring long-time U.S. Ambassador Marc Grossman, on Thursday, October 25 at 3 p.m. On Friday evening October 26, the College hosts the All-Campus Reception/Distinguished Alumni Awards at Lincolnshire Fields Country Club. On Saturday morning, the Homecoming All-class Reunion Brunch and Tailgate Party on Cribbet Field is a great opportunity to visit with fellow alumni prior to the Illinois-Ball State Homecoming football game at Memorial Stadium, currently undergoing a massive renovation. Following the football game and during the weekend, a variety of events will be held amongst the Classes of 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1987, and 1997. I encourage all alumni to return to the College of Law and the University of Illinois campus. Visit the Homecoming website here… or call 217-333-2628 for registration and additional information on all events.
Delaware Chancellor to come to Illinois
Why are so many companies incorporated in the state of Delaware?
The College of Law's Program in Business Law and Policy is hosting "The Mystery of Delaware Law's Success" with Chancellor William B. Chandler III, Delaware Court of Chancery on Friday, October 19 at 3 p.m. in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium. The State of Delaware has established itself, of course, as a prominent jurisdictional choice for firms to incorporate. Other states have tried to emulate Delaware and take some of its business away, but with little success. The intriguing question is why Delaware has been able to retain its stranglehold on corporate forum selection. A central explanation is that the Delaware Court of Chancery has become widely recognized as the nation's preeminent (and most expert) forum for the determination of disputes involving the internal affairs of the Delaware corporations. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Delaware Chancery Court is the "Supreme Court" of corporate law. Chancellor Chandler will share his views on the significance and role of the Delaware Chancery Court. The Delaware Court of Chancery is a non-jury trial court that serves as Delaware's court of original and exclusive equity jurisdiction, and adjudicates a wide variety of cases involving trusts, real property, guardianships, civil rights, and commercial litigation. Responses to Chancellor Chandler's comments will be provided by notable corporate law scholars, Emory Professor William Carney, Vanderbilt Professor Robert Thompson, and our own Professor Larry Ribstein, holder of the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair.
"7 Reasons to Leave the Party" - 1980 grad Judge Drummond's crusade to save high school students
The Honorable Mark A. Drummond, a 1980 University of Illinois College of Law graduate and a circuit judge in the 8th Judicial Circuit in Quincy, has taken the direct approach to reaching high school students about the legal and personal consequences of drinking and driving, taking drugs and having sex. Judge Drummond and the Illinois Judges Association (IJA) have teamed up with high schools throughout the state to present, "7 Reasons to Leave the Party," a 50-minute award-winning program to students with the potential to save young lives and alter their perception about what's "cool."
Judge Drummond's presentation shakes teenagers to their very core. This fall, Judge Drummond and the IJA are working with high schools to expand the program statewide, informing students throughout Illinois about the legal and personal consequences of drinking and driving, taking drugs and having sex. Locally, Judge Drummond will present "7 Reasons to Leave the Party" to sophomores at Urbana High School on Tuesday, October 2 at 8:15 a.m. in the Urbana High School Auditorium.
Four Illinois students selected for BLSA Midwest Region Law Journal
Since 1970, the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) has produced a national law journal disseminated throughout the country. In recent years, many of the regions within BLSA have created regional BLSA journals to provide opportunities for more students to participate and to allow more region-specific topics to be addressed. In May, 2007, the Midwest Region of BLSA created its own law journal. Four current Illinois law students have been selected as members of the Midwest BLSA Journal, including Nicole Nelson, Associate Editor; Precious S. Jacobs, Executive Editor; Inya Baiye, Assistant Managing Editor; and, Olayinka Owolabi, Associate Editor.
Professor Morriss on C-Span on Massachusetts v. EPA
College of Law Professor Andrew Morriss, the H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law, was one of the featured panelists on Monday, September 17 in Washington, D.C. at The Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies Symposium titled The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue - A Look at the October 2006 and October 2007 Terms. The Symposium, held in the Cato Institute's F.A. Hayek Auditorium, was established to celebrate Constitution Day and the publication of the sixth volume of the annual Cato Supreme Court Review. Professor Morriss was featured in the panel titled, "Spotlight on Law and Regulation: Massachusetts v. EPA, Watters v. Wachovia Bank, and Philip Morris v. Williams." Professor Morriss spoke on Massachusetts v. EPA, based on his paper in the Cato Supreme Court Review, Litigating to Regulate: Massachusetts v. EPA (SSRN link). You can watch Professor Morriss here....
I hope to see you at the 97th annual Homecoming on October 25-27, featuring reunions for the Classes of 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1987, and 1997. For more information on Homecoming, visit the alumni section on our website or contact our Development and Alumni Relations staff at 217-333-2628.
Following the Dean's Newsletter is an update on our faculty activities for the last four months from my colleague, Professor Ralph Brubaker, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Sincerely,
Charles J. Tabb
Interim Dean
Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law
Associate Dean Addendum
Associate Dean Ralph Brubaker
October, 2007
Please find below a listing of faculty activities during the summer and early fall, 2007. Our faculty members have written papers, journal articles, and books, presented scholarly lectures, served as expert legal resources for national media outlets, and participated in conferences and symposiums around the globe during the last four months.
Professor Amitai Aviram presented "Counter-cyclical Enforcement of Corporate Law," at the Junior Faculty Workshop, Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana in August, "Bias Arbitrage" at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany in July 2007), and "Counter-cyclical Enforcement of Corporate Law" at the Faculty Workshop, Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law in Ramat Gan, Israel in July 2007.
Professor Sara Benson presented a work-in-progress entitled "Beyond Protective Orders: Interdisciplinary Domestic Violence Clinics Facilitate Social Change" in July at the Storytelling in the Law Conference at City University, London. The paper will be published this Fall in the Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender. Professor Benson unveiled a new blog site, "Sexual Orientation and the Law," as part of the LawProfessorBlogs network in August, co-authored by Professor William Turner. She also began collecting data via focus groups for a qualitative research study aimed at identifying economic and legal issues facing domestic violence survivors in rural areas. This research study is co-directed by Elizabeth Sweet, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.
Professor Francis Boyle published a number of essays, including "U.S. Missiles in Europe: Beyond Deterrence to First Strike," Global Research Canada and ZNET Magazine; "The 40th Anniversary of the Occupation of Palestine," Palestine Chronicle and Global Research Canada; "Unlawful Enemy Combatants and the International Criminal Court," Global Research Canada; "Harvard's Kangaroo Law School: The School for Torturers," ZNET Magazine; "O'Reilly and the Law of the Jungle," ZNET Magazine; "The National Campaign to Impeach President George W. Bush," Global Research Canada, ZNET Magazine, and Palestine Chronicle; "Destroying Democracy in Palestine," Palestine Chronicle, Global Research Canada, and Journal of Turkish Weekly; "Fighting the Democrats Complicity with Bush," Dissident Voice and Global Research Canada; "The University of Illinois' Little Red Sambo Show," Counterpunch.org; and, "Barak Appoints War Criminal Yaron," Dissident Voice. Professor Boyle was selected for inclusion in Marquis' "Who's Who in America, 62nd Edition," appeared live on Al Jazeera Prime Time News on the crisis in Palestine, had four books from Clarity Press published by Malaysian publisher Crescent News for distribution in Asia, and appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Company on the Canadian No-Fly List.
Professor John Colombo, the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor, made two presentations on the proposed IRS revisions to Form 990 (the reporting form for tax-exempt organizations), one for the American Health Lawyers' Association on July 17 and another to the IRS TE/GE (Tax-Exempt and Government Entities) Regional Council in Chicago, IL on July 19. Professor Colombo submitted a four-page letter of comments to the IRS based on these presentations. He also finished a short paper "Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Hospitals: A Roiling Cauldron" about tax exemption for hospitals for FutureScan, an annual publication of the American Hospital Association about future trends in health care.
Professor William Davey, the Guy Raymond Jones Chair, spoke on World Trade Organization dispute settlement at a seminar in June at the World Trade Organization offices in Geneva and participated in the inaugural WTO Forum (an on-line video cast with comment facilities), in which he debated WTO dispute settlement reform issues with Professor John Jackson of Georgetown. While in Geneva, he also participated in the annual College of Law's European Alumni Reunion.
Professor Christopher Fennell published "Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World" (University Press of Florida). This book offers a fresh perspective on ways that the earliest enslaved Africans preserved vital aspects of their traditions and identities in the New World and explores similar developments among European immigrants and the interactions of both groups with Native Americans.
Professor Victor Fleischer published "Options Backdating, Tax Shelters and Corporate Culture" in the Virginia Tax Review. He testified on "Taxing Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds" to the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives in September. Professor Fleischer also presented "Targeting Carried Interest" at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. and at NYU School of Law as part of a Presentation and Panel Discussion on "Does Atlas Shrug? Taxing the Rich and the Carried Interest Debate." In August, Professor Fleischer presented "The Blackstone IPO" at the Big Ten Junior Scholars Conference hosted by the Indiana University School of Law. He was an Invited Participant at the Kauffman-Planck Annual Summit on Entrepreneurship Research and Policy in Laguna Beach, Calif. in July and presented "The Blackstone IPO" at the Junior Tax Scholars Conference hosted by Boston University School of Law in June.
Professor Fleischer appeared in national media outlets throughout the summer and fall, including "Entrepreneurs Defend a Tax Benefit Despite a Dubious Congress" in the Sept. 21 edition of the New York Times (taxation of venture capital), "Tax Loopholes Sweeten a Deal for Blackstone," in the July 13 edition of the New York Times (discussing his research on Blackstone), "Academic Gets His Close-Up in Private Equity Tax Fracas" in the June 20 Wall Street Journal (discussing his research on taxation of private equity), "Tax Gap Puts Private Equity on the Hot Seat" in the June 16 edition of the New York Times (taxation of private equity), and "Romney's Fortunes Tied to Business Riches" in the June 4 edition of the New York Times (taxation of private equity).
Professor C.K. Gunsalus made several presentations based on her book, "The College Administrator's Survival Guide," including two days at Harvard's Institute of Higher Education and at Harvard College, along with a presentation to department heads at Illinois State University and a series of joint presentations for Pitzer College and the Claremont Graduate University. The Harvard Press Author Blog ran a short piece by Professor Gunsalus titled "Ivory Tower or Hall of Mirrors?" on applications of recent organizational behavior work to universities.
In presentations related to her National Science Foundation grant with her co-PI Michael Loui of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering on assessing the efficacy of role plays in ethics education in graduate and professional education, Professor Gunsalus gave the annual ethics presentation to the faculty and graduate students in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and two divisions of the Psychology Department. She gave invited presentations on ethics and dispute resolution to a class on campus, Crop Sciences 590, and at the annual Teaching Research Ethics program at the Indiana University Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics in American Institutions. Professor Gunsalus was re-appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism by the Chief Justice. She gave the keynote presentation at the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research conference on Social, Behavioral and Educational Research, growing out of the work of the Illinois White Paper on Human Subject Protection Policy.
Professor Nuno Garoupa had several papers accepted for publication, including "Least-Cost Avoidance: The Tragedy of Common Safety," (with G. Dari Mattiacci, 2009), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, vol. 25 (1), forthcoming; "Cashing by the Hour: Why Large Law Firms prefer Hourly Fees over Contingency Fees," (with F. Gomez-Pomar, 2008), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, vol. 24 (2), forthcoming; "Paying the Price for Being Caught: The Economics of Manifest and Non-Manifest Theft in Roman Law," (with F. Gomez-Pomar, 2008), Review of Law and Economics, vol. 4, forthcoming; "On the Unsolved Dilemma of a Paretian Policymaker," (with G. Dari Mattiacci, 2008), Supreme Court Economic Review, vol. 16, forthcoming; "The Market for Legal Innovation: Law and Economics in Europe and the United States," (with T. S. Ulen, 2007), Alabama Law Review, vol. 59, forthcoming. He also presented "State Liability" in September at the Georgia State University Department of Risk Management and Insurance.
Professor Glenn Hoetker has been named Center for Advanced Study Resident Associate for 2007-2008, coordinating the Science and Technology in the Pacific Century three-year initiative dedicated to understanding the profound changes occurring in science and technology throughout Asia; the impact of those changes on the economies, societies and governments of the region; and the implications and learnable lessons of these changes for the U.S. Professor Hoetker has also been named an Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Fellow and received a faculty appointment in the Institute for Genomic Biology.
Professor Heidi M. Hurd, the David C. Baum Professor of Law and Philosophy and Co-Director of the Program in Law and Philosophy, co-taught a summer course at the University of Tel Aviv School of Law (with Professor Michael Moore) on "Theories of Areas of Law," which introduced Israeli law students to principles of American tort and criminal law. She presented a working draft of her article "Promises Schmomises" at the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Conference in Krakow, Poland, and traveled to Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, to give a series of lectures and workshops in the Law School and the Philosophy Department on the obligations generated by promises and on the morality of acts of mercy by prosecutors, judges, governors, and presidents. She presented her article, "The Morality of Mercy," at faculty workshops at the law schools of Florida State University and the University of Tulsa. Professor Hurd also organized and hosted a two-day Roundtable on the Morality of Debt Relief as part of the programming sponsored this year by the University of Illinois Program in Law and Philosophy. Her current scholarly work is preoccupied with the moral underpinnings of the institution of bankruptcy and the role of mistakes in the criminal law.
Professor Richard Kaplan, the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor, published "Honoring Our Parents: Applying the Biblical Imperative in the Context of Long-Term Care," 21 Notre Dame J. L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 493-515 (2007), an article on how the Commandment to "honor your father and your mother" is best implemented regarding this nation's long-term care policy for older Americans. Professor Kaplan presented this paper at the Notre Dame Law School Symposium on "Long-Term Care for America's Elderly: Who is Responsible, and How Will it Be Achieved?." Professor Kaplan also published "Retirement Planning's Greatest Gap: Funding Long-Term Care," 11 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 407-450 (2007), an article on the unanticipated threat of long-term care expenses to a financially secure retirement, especially in light of the February 2006 reforms of Medicaid's eligibility criteria. He presented this paper at the Lewis & Clark Law School Business Law Forum on "The Aging of the Baby Boomers and America's Changing Retirement System." Professor Kaplan also published "The Inheritance Threat of Long-Term Care Expenses," 41st Ann. Heckerling Inst. on Estate Planning, chapter 17 (2007) and presented this paper at the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the nation's most prominent estate planning conference sponsored by the University of Miami School of Law.
Professor Kaplan served as a Panelist at the Symposium on "Protecting Seniors" sponsored by the Securities Exchange Commission and held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, May 18, Co-presenter on "Funding Long-Term Care Costs in the Future," and as the luncheon speaker on "The Other Crisis in Long-Term Care: Who Will Do It?" at the Annual Meeting of the Council of Advanced Practitioners, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys on August 25. He also presented "Long-Term Care: Who Will Pay?," Osher Lifelong Learning Institute/UI Alumni Association Lecture Series, Urbana, August 27 and "The Hidden Inheritance Threat of Long-Term Care Expenses," East Central Illinois Estate Planning Council, September 11 and Seattle, WA Estate Planning Council, September 19. Professor Kaplan was quoted extensively in "Watch out for ambushes in retirement products," Chicago Tribune, June 24 and "Court OKs tax on tort recoveries," Chicago Law Bulletin, July 6.
Professor Jay Kesan co-authored "Intellectual Property: Private Rights, the Public Interest, and the Regulation of Creative Activity," with Teacher's Manual from West Publishing Co. (2007) (with Ghosh, Gruner, and Reis). He also edited "Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: Seeds of Change," CABI Publishing Co., Oxford (2007) and, co-authored "The Privatization of the Internet's Backbone Network," (with R. Shah) in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 93-109. Professor Kesan also presented "Open Standards and the Role of Politics" at the 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research May 21-23 in Philadelphia and was presented with the Best Paper Award for his paper on Empirical Study of Open Standards (with R. Shah) published in the conference proceedings. Professor Kesan also presented "The Research Exemption (or Lack Thereof) in U.S. Patent Law" at the 2007 ATRIP (International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property Teaching) Congress, July 16-18 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, presented "Setting Software Defaults," with R. Shah at the International Conference, Law & Society in the 21st Century from July 25-28 at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, "An Empirical Examination of Open Standards," with R. Shah at the 35th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) Sept. 28-30 in Arlington, VA, and "Insecure Property Rights, R&D Investment and Plant Innovation: A Comparative Perspective," Faculty Workshop, University of Alabama School of Law on Sept. 20.
Professor Kesan received the following research grants, National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, "Governing with Information Technologies," Supplemental Funding, $76,190 (2007-2008); U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soybean Disease Biotechnology Center, "Plant Innovation and Intellectual Property Regimes: Time for a Change?," with B. Endres, $60,314 (2007-2008); and, Federal Judicial Center, The Research Arm of the Federal Courts, "Empirical Study of the Role of Special Masters in Patent Litigation (2007-2008).
Professor Harry Krause, the Max L. Rowe Professor Emeritus, published "Family Law in a Nutshell" (5th edition 1977, with David Meyer), "Family Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions" (6th edition 1977, with L. Elrod, M. Garrison, T. Oldham), and Chapter 34, "Comparative Family Law," pp. 1099-1129, in Mathias Reimann and Reinhard Zimmermann, "Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law."
Professor Michael Moore, the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair, is heading the intentions and brain states research group for the MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Research Group with regular meetings, collaborations, and research projects over the next three years. Professor Moore attended an organizational meeting in September in Santa Barbara, Calif. Through the Soros Foundation Legal Theory in Russia Project, Professor Moore will teach five intensive two-week seminars on how to research and teach legal theory to Russian professors over the next two years. He taught the first session in Moscow in July and August and is scheduled to teach in Kiev next spring and Lake Baikal next summer. In August, Professor Moore presented a paper on liberty and the right to assisted suicide at the third annual "Constitutional Theory Conference for South America" at the University of Chile in Santiago. Professor Moore attended the Illinois Program in Law and Philosophy Roundtable, "The Morality of Debt Forgiveness," in September. He presented a paper on accomplice liability at the "General Aspects of Law Workshops" at the University of California-Berkeley in September.
Professor Moore also has several publications, including "Four Reflections on Law and Morality," the text of a keynote speech he presented to the College of William & Mary Conference on Law and Morality, in the conference symposium issue of the William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 48 (2007), pp. 1523-1569. His article, "Causing, Aiding, and the Superfluity of Accomplice Liability" is in the final editing stages at the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, where it will appear in issue 2 of Volume 156 (2008); "The Scope of Agent-Relative Obligations: Patrolling the Borders of Consequentialist Justification," is scheduled to appear in Law and Philosophy, Vol. 27 (2008), pp. 35-96; "Deontological Ethics," the entry on this topic in the on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (co-authored with Larry Alexander) is in the final stages of editing by the Encyclopedia's Board; "Morality in Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence" is scheduled to be published in 2008 in the Harvard Journal of Law and Policy; and, "An Overview of Legal Theories of Causation" will be published in J. Deigh and D. Dolinko, eds., Philosophy and the Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Professor Moore attended the 23rd annual International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) World Congress in Krakow, Poland in August, the College of Law European Alumni Reunion in Geneva, Switzerland in June, and taught at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law in Israel in June.
Professor Andrew Morriss, the H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor, spoke at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis) Law School at the symposium "Peace with Creation: Catholic Perspectives on Environmental Law" on the panel "The Preferential Option for the Poor."
Professor Jennifer Robbennolt, who recently held the Ross and Helen Workman Law Research Fellowship, published "Medical Malpractice in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty," 6, Supp. 1 J. Arthroplasty 2 (2007) (with Ashish Upadhyay, Sally York, William Macaulay, Brian McGrory, & B. Sonny Bal), and "Sampling and Mass Torts: The Use of Statistical Samples in Court," Monitor on Psychology, September 2007, at 19. Her joint work, "Deciding What to do After an Accident"(with Sarah Thimsen & Brian Bornstein), was presented by co-author Sarah Thimsen at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in August in San Francisco. Professor Robbennolt served as a panelist for "Teaching Psychology and Law: Opportunities and Challenges" symposium (Ian Freckelton, chair) conducted at the Third International Congress of Psychology and Law in July in Adelaide, Australia. She also presented "Apologies in Civil Litigation," in Apology and Forgiving in Law (Alfred Allan, chair) at an invited symposium conducted at the Third International Congress of Psychology and Law in July in Adelaide, Australia.
Professor Jacqueline Ross, who along with Mathias Reimann at the University of Michigan, has hosted the Michigan-Illinois Comparative Law Symposium for the last two years as a forum for works-in-progress for scholars of comparative law, was recently approached by Kim Scheppele, the Director of Princeton's Law and Public Affairs Program, to add Princeton as a co-sponsor in this workshop series, which is also co-sponsored by the American Society of Comparative Law. The symposium was hosted by the University of Illinois last spring and will move to Ann Arbor in 2008 and Princeton in 2009. The workshop is the only national work-in-progress symposium dedicated to comparative law.
Professor Richard Ross will be presenting a legal history talk on October 4 in the "British History in the Seventeenth Century" workshop organized by the Institute for Historical Research in London, England.
Adjunct Professor Kozo Yabe served as Session coordinator and host for the discussion of comparative legal studies of trademark law at the adjunct faculty interest group of the International Trademark Annual General Meeting in Chicago from May 28 to June 2, moderating a session about how effectively adjunct faculty teach trademark law to U.S./non-U.S. law students from the comparative view points of legal systems. Professor Yabe also presented a lecture on Industrial Design Law Litigation at the Japan Patent Attorney Association on July 9, as part of the national certified course for Japanese patent attorneys. He presented a lecture about the three-dimensional trademark and the unfair competition prevention in the case of Maglight at Saitama Bar Association on September 12, presented a lecture about intellectual property case reading for Japanese in-house legal staff at Shouji Houmu Journal Institute on September 13, and presented a lecture about comparative study of patent law system for the legal apprentices of the Supreme Court of Japan at the Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association on September 18, comparing different worldwide patent law systems. Professor Yabe also published an case commentary and annotation on the Japanese Supreme Court case regarding a gray-market goods for patent rights in Kinyuu Zaimu Kenkyuukai (The Society of Financial Law), which is also included in the three volumes of the case commentary and annotation series on leading business law cases.
Calendar of College of Law Events
October 2007
October 4, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Room C: Great American Cities Program. Students are invited to have lunch with visiting alumni Diane B. Davies ('81) and E. Lee Reichert ('92) for an informal discussion about Denver's legal market. Lunch and drinks will be provided to the first 60 students. For more information contact Sunda Wells at 217-265-5345 or sunda@law.uiuc.edu.
October 4, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Pedersen Pavilion: Peer's Pub: Great American Cities Program featuring Denver. Students have the opportunity to introduce themselves to visiting alumni Diane B. Davies ('81) and E. Lee Reichert ('92) and enjoy delicious food and beverages from the Denver area. For more information contact Sunda Wells at 217-265-5345 or sunda@law.uiuc.edu.
October 9, 10:00-12:00 a.m., Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Fourth District Appellate Court Arguments will be heard followed by a luncheon in the Pedersen Pavilion. For general information contact Sally Cook at 217-333-9851 or scook@law.uiuc.edu; students interested in attending the luncheon should contact Assistant Dean Virginia Vermillion at vvermill@law.uiuc.edu.
October 18, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Max L Rowe Auditorium: David C. Baum Memorial Lecture. The David C. Baum Memorial Lecture Series on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights is an endowed biannual lecture series named in memory of University of Illinois College of Law Professor David C. Baum. Professor Martha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago Law School, will present the topic, "Equal Respect for Conscience: Roger Williams on the Moral Basis of Civil Peace." Reception to immediately follow in the Pedersen Pavilion.
October 19, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Program in Business Law and Policy Lecture. William B. Chandler III, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery presents "The Mystery of Delaware Law's Success" with responses by Professor William Carney, Emory University, Professor Larry Ribstein, University of Illinois, and Professor Robert Thompson, Vanderbilt University. For more information, contact Professor Christine Hurt at 217-333-7708 or achurt@law.uiuc.edu. Reception to immediately follow in the Pedersen Pavilion.
October 23, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Investiture of Professor David A. Hyman as the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law. Reception to immediately follow in the Pedersen Pavilion. There is no cost for this event and all are welcome.
October 25, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Vacketta - DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law. The annual Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture will feature longtime U.S. Ambassador Marc Grossman presenting "American Diplomacy in the 21st Century." Reception to immediately follow in the Pedersen Pavilion.
October 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Lincolnshire Fields Country Club, 2000 Byrnebruk Drive, Champaign: Homecoming/Reunion Reception. Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award will be honored. For more information contact Meredith Olson at 217-333-2628 or maolson@law.uiuc.edu.
October 27, 8:30-11:00 a.m., Cribbet Field: Pre-game Barbeque Tailgate. $25 adults, $15 for children under 12, and $20 for law students. For more information contact Meredith Olson at 217-333-2628 or maolson@law.uiuc.edu.
