University of Pittsburgh

Curriculum Vitae

Kevin D. Ashley

Publications

Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Ill-Defined Domains, edited by V. Aleven, K. Ashley, C. Lynch and N. Pinkwart. Workshop Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2006. Jhongli, Taiwan. June 2006; “Case-Based Reasoning” in Information Technology and Lawyers: Advanced Technology in the Legal Domain From Challenges to Daily Routine, (A. R. Lodder and A. Oskamp, eds. Berlin: Springer Verlag 2006).

Conference Presentations Included in Published Proceedings

“Evaluating Legal Argument Instruction with Graphical Representations Using LARGO” with N. Pinkwart, V. Aleven and C. Lynch, Thirteenth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2007), Los Angeles; “Learning by Diagramming Supreme Court Oral Arguments” with N. Pinkwart, C. Lynch and V. Aleven, Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2007), Stanford Law School; “Argument Diagramming as Focusing Device: Does It Scaffold Reading?” with C. Lynch, K. Pinkwart and V. Aleven, Thirteenth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Workshop on “AIED Applications in Ill-Defined Domains,” Los Angeles; “Progress in Textual Case-Based Reasoning: Predicting the Outcome of Legal Cases from Text” with S. Brüninghaus, Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston; “Assessing Case Analyses in Bioengineering Ethics Education: Reliability and Training” with I. Goldin and R. Pinkus, International Conference on Engineering Education, Puerto Rico.

Activities

Co-editor of Artificial Intelligence and Law, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2006–2007); conducting an NSF project, “Hypothesis Formation and Testing in an Interpretive Domain,” which focuses on teaching law students skills of hypothetical reasoning using examples drawn from U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments through a tutoring system he and his colleagues developed, called LARGO (Legal Argument Graph Observer).

Elena A. Baylis

Publications

“Sending the Bureaucracy to War,” with D. Zaring, 92 Iowa Law Review 1359 (2007); “Parallel Courts in Post-Conflict Kosovo,” 32 Yale Journal of International Law 1 (2007); “National Security and Political Asylum,” in Immigration, Integration and Security: Europe and America in Comparative Perspective, (A. C. d’Appollonia and S. Reich, eds. University of Pittsburgh Press 2007).

Presentations

Panelist on “Global Legal Pluralism,” Association for Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Georgetown University; presented Democratic Republic of Congo/International Criminal Court research at a Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable, Yale Law School; “Parallel Courts,” University of Connecticut Law School faculty workshop; “Parallel Courts” as well as Democratic Republic of Congo/International Criminal Court research, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting.

Deborah L. Brake

Publications

“Perceiving Subtle Sexism: Mapping the Social-Psychological Forces and Legal Narratives That Obscure Gender Bias,” 16 Columbia J. of Gender & Law (2007).

Presentations

“Title IX and the Pragmatic Turn in Feminist Theory” at the Hofstra Law School forum “Sticky Cultural Norms: The Transformative Potential of Title IX”; delivered opening remarks and served as moderator at Harvard Law School’s Harvard Journal of Law & Gender annual conference, “Changing Social Norms? Title IX and Legal Activism.”

Activities

Testified before the House Education and Labor Committee on the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Ronald A. Brand

Publications

“Balancing Sovereignty and Party Autonomy in Private International Law: Regression at the European Court of Justice,” in Universalism, Tradition and the Individual, (J. Eraum, V. Tomljenovic and P. Volken, eds. 2006); “Federalism and the Allocation of Sovereignty Beyond the State in the European Union,” 44 Duquesne Law Review 71 (2005); Forum Non Conveniens: History, Global Practice and Future Under The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, with S. Jablonski, 3 CILE Studies (Oxford University Press 2007); Contract Drafting Under the CISG, H. Flechtner, R.Brand and M. Walter, eds., 3 CILE Studies (Oxford University Press 2007).

Activities

Member, Editorial Advisory Board for the Guide to the International Sale of Goods Convention.

Douglas M. Branson

Publications

“Criminalization of Criminal Law: The Impact on Director and Officer Behavior,” 12
J. Business & Technology L. 201 (2007).

Presentations

“Enron, WorldCom and Their Aftermath” at the University of Leipzig, the University of Hanover, the University of Bochum, and the Industry Club in Dusseldorf; “No Seat at the Table—How Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom” at St. John’s University and to members of the Melbourne (Australia) Bar Association.

Activities

Co-taught the Duty of Directors and Corporate Governance course at the University of  Melbourne School of Law for the 14th consecutive year.

Benjamin E. Bratman

Activities

Member, PBA Professionalism Committee; member, PBA Community and Public Relations Committee.

Teresa Kissane Brostoff

Publications

“Using Culture in the Classroom: Enhancing Learning for International Law Students,” 15 Mich. St. J. Int’l L. 557 (2007).

Presentations

“Language and the Law” at the USAID WTO Accession Program, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

John M. Burkoff

Publications

Criminal Defense Ethics: Law and Liability (2nd edition, 2007–2008, Thomson/West 2007); “Search Me?,” 39 Texas Tech L. Rev. 1109 (2007); also published supplements or pocket parts to Criminal Procedure: Cases & Materials, Problems & Exercises (3rd edition); Search Warrant Law Deskbook; Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, with N. Burkoff.

Presentations

“Citizen Ignorance, Police Deception, and the Constitution” at the Texas Tech Law School.

Activities

Elected to membership in the American Law Institute; Executive Dean of the Summer Semester at Sea 2007 voyage to South America.

Pat K. Chew

Publications

“Freeing Racial Harassment Law from the Sexual Harassment Model,” 85 Ore. L. Rev. 615 (2006).

Vivian Curran

Publications

“On the Shoulders of Schlesinger: The Common Core of European Private Law Project,” Opening Up European Law, (M. Bussani & U. Mattei, eds. 2007).

Presentations

“The Globalized and the ‘Glocalized,’” Emory Law School, on “Understanding Class and Caste within a World of Global Inequalities”; “The Layperson and the Professional in the French Legal System: Professionnels et laics: l’entente cordiale dans la justice,” Pompidou Center, Paris.

Richard Delgado

Publications

The Law Unbound: A Richard Delgado Reader (Paradigm Publishers 2007); “Why Do We Ask the Same Questions?: The Triple Helix Dilemma Revisited,” 99 L. Libr. J. 307 (2007); “Of Cops and Bumper Stickers: Notes Toward a Theory of Selective Prosecution,” 57 Syracuse L. Rev. 175 (2007); “Rodrigo’s Riposte: The Mismatch Theory of Law School Admission,” 57 Syracuse L. Rev. 637 (2007); “You Are Living in a Gold Rush,” 35 Hofstra L. Rev. 417 (2007); “Memories of Brutus Hamilton,” 75 U.M.-K.C.L. Rev. 1149 (2007); Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (2nd edition), with J. Perea, S. Wildman, A. Harris and J. Stefancic (West 2007).

Presentations

“Unhappy Lawyers, Unhappy Law Students” at a Faculty Colloquium, Lewis & Clark Law School.

Activities

Visiting Scholar at the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), Center for the Study of Law and Society, Summer 2007.

Recognition

Received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.

Harry M. Flechtner

Publications

“Article 79 of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) as Rorschach Test: The Homeward Trend and Exemption for Delivering Non-Conforming Goods,” for a Festschrift in honor of E. Allan Farnsworth; “Addressing Parole Evidence Issues in Contracts Governed by the CISG” in Drafting Contracts Under the CISG, (H. Flechtner, R. Brand, and M. Walter, eds. Oxford University Press); The CISG and the Business Lawyer: The UNCITRAL Digest As A Contract Drafting Tool, (H. Flechtner, R. Brand and M. Walter, eds. Oxford University Press 2007); “The Lyrical Side of International Commercial Law,” 6 International Handlesrecht 265 (2006).

Presentations

“Changing the Opt-out Tradition in the United States” at a Congress marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of UNCITRAL, Vienna; participant in the organizational meeting at the Juridicum of the University of Vienna in April, discussing the development of standardized materials for teaching uniform international commercial law to judges, attorneys and law students around the world, a project sponsored by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Activities

One of two “National Correspondents” for the U.S. at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and participated as the U.S. National Correspondent at the UNCITRAL National Correspondents meeting, Vienna.

Daniel Friedson

Presentations

“Best Practices for Transactional Clinics,” Sixth Annual Faculty Conference and Workshop: Teaching Transactional and Exempt Organization Law in the Classroom, in the Clinic and in Field Placements, University of North Carolina.

Lawrence A. Frolik

Publications

Elder Law Cases and Materials (4th edition), with A. Barnes (LexisNexis August 2007); “The Need for Mandatory Long-Term Care Insurance,” 21 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 517 (2007); “Estate Planning With a Very Old Client,” 34 Estate Planning 3 (May 2007); “Housing Options for the Older Client,” ALI-ABA Estate Planning Course Materials Journal (February 2007); “Elder Abuse” section of Encyclopedia of Law & Society (Sage 2007); the Elder Law column, “Watching the Watchman,” Wealth Strategies Journal online; also published supplements and/or statutory supplements to Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client, Elder Law Cases and Materials and The Law of Employee Pension and Welfare Benefits.

Presentations

“Elder Law: Past, Present and Future,” NAELA Spring Symposium, Cleveland; co-planner and presenter at the ALI/ABA CLE, “The Foundations of Elder Law,” Chicago; “Good Decisions Require Good Emotions,” Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Squaw Valley, Calif.; “Long-Term Care Insurance: Deal or No Deal?”   PBI’s Tenth Annual Elder Law Institute; “Housing Options for the Elderly Client,” Tennessee Bar Association Elder Law Symposium, Nashville, Tennessee; “Undue Influence,” NAELA Council of Advance Practitioners meeting, Chicago.

Activities

Reappointed Editor-in-Chief of The NAELA Journal; reappointed liaison to the ABA Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law for the (ABA) Trial Tort and Insurance Practice Section; appointed Vice Chair, Publications Committee, ABA Senior Lawyers Section; named a Fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute; served on the AARP Financial Security Workgroup; served on the five-person Executive Council of the Pennsylvania AARP; and participated in the work of the Pennsylvania Guardianship Legislation Working Group.

Recognition

Named one of only 68 NAELA Fellows named in the organization’s 19-year history, recognizing  “exceptional contributions to meeting the needs of older Americans.”

Arthur D. Hellman

Publications

Published 2007 supplements to First Amendment Law: Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion; Federal Courts: Cases and Materials on Judicial Federalism and the Lawyering Process.

Presentations

“Justice O’Connor and ‘The Threat to Judicial Independence’: The Cowgirl Who Cried Wolf?,” Sandra Day O’Connor Symposium, Arizona State University College of Law, Tempe.

David J. Herring

Publications

“Legal Scholarship, Humility, and the Scientific Method,” 25 Quinnipiac Law Review 867 (2007); “The Multiethnic Placement Act: Threat to Foster Child Safety and Well-being?,” Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2007).

Bernard J. Hibbitts

Activities

Member, PBA Technology Task Force; member, PBA Web site Committee.

Recognition

The 2007 Webby Awards named JURIST an “Official Honoree,” marking the first time that a law school Web site has received a Webby distinction for two consecutive years.

Anthony C. Infanti

Presentations

“Tax Equity,” Critical Tax Theory Conference, UCLA Law School; “Tax Equity,”
Texas Junior Legal Scholars Conference, Texas Wesleyan School of Law; “Tax Equity,” Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Berlin.

Sandra Jordan

Publications

“Does the Attorney Client Privilege Act Actually Protect Privilege?,”  with J. Gardner, White Collar Crime Reporter (September 2007); published a supplement to White Collar Crime: Cases, Materials and Problems.

Jules Lobel

Publications

“The Preventive Paradigm and the Perils of Ad Hoc Balancing,” 91 Minn. L. Rev. 1407 (2007); “The Commander in Chief and the Courts,” 37 Pres. Studies Quarterly 49 (2007); Less Safe, Less Free: Why America is Losing the War on Terror,  with D. Cole (New Press 2007); “Preventive War and the Lessons of History,” 68 Univ. of Pitt. L. Rev. (2007).

Presentations

“Courts as Forums of Struggle,” Yale Law School; “Success Without Victory, Enemy Combatants and the War on Terror,” Idaho State University.

Recognition

Received the Thomas Merton Center Award in recognition of his public service work.

William V. Luneburg

Publications

“Proposals to Amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995,” 31 Admin. & Reg. L. News 2 (Summer 2006); “Legislative Process and Lobbying,” with  C. Holman, edited by J. Lubbers, in Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice 2005–6 (ABA Publishing 2007); “Clean Air Act Developments at US EPA (2006–2007), Chapter C: Basic Air/Air Update, in the Twelfth Annual Environmental Law Forum 2007 Vol. 1 (PBI 2007).

Presentations

“Clean Air Act Developments at U.S. EPA,” Twelfth Annual PBI Environmental Law Forum 2007, Harrisburg.

Activities

Member, National Research Council’s Committee on the Mississippi and the Clean Water Act.

Michael J. Madison

Presentations

“Information Governance,” Yale Law School Information Society Project workshop, New Haven, Conn.; “Constructing Common Pool Resources in the Information Environment,” Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul University; “What If the Ancient Romans Had Invented the Printing Press?,” Michigan State University College of Law; commentator at the University of Houston Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law Santa Fe Symposium, “Copyright in Context,” Santa Fe, New Mexico; “Copyright Challenges in User-Generated Content: A Confidential Convening,” American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C.

Margaret M. Mahoney

Publications

“Stepparents as Third Parties in Relation to Their Stepchildren,” 40 Family Law Quarterly 81 (2006).

Martha M. Mannix

Presentations

“End of Life Decision-Making: Implications of Act 169,” sponsored by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Partnership on Aging; “Final Wishes: Legal Issues for Caregivers & Older Adults.”

Barry McCarthy

Publications

Published supplement to Pennsylvania Juvenile Delinquency Practice & Procedure.

Activities

Chair, Pennsylvania Juvenile Court Rules Committee.

Alan Meisel

Publications

The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, with K. L. Cerminara (Aspen Law and Business, 2007); “Suppose the Schindlers Had Won the Schiavo Case,” 61 Miami L. Rev. 733–762 (2007).

Presentations

“Ethical Dilemmas in Public Policy: Lessons from End-of-Life Care,” National Conference of State Legislatures, Boston.

Activities

Served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Clinical Ethics; the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal; Law, Medicine and Ethics; and Medical Ethics: Policies, Protocols, Guidelines & Programs.

Janice M. Mueller

Publications

“The Tiger Awakens: The Tumultuous Transformation of India’s Patent System and the Rise of Indian Pharmaceutical Innovation,” 68 Univ. of Pitt. L. Rev. (2007).

Presentations

“The Evolution of India’s Patent Regime: Implications for Public Health and Pharmaceutical Innovation,” IP Innovations in Science and Technology Seminar, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle; panelist, “Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Patentability, Access and Ethical Issues,” 2007 High Technology Protection Summit, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle.

Activities

Taught an International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law course at the Baylor Law School-sponsored foreign summer program for U.S. law students at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Mexico.

George H. Pike

Publications

Monthly columns in Information Today, as well as several feature articles including: “The Patriot Act Illuminated,” 24(5) Information Today 17 (May 2007); “Google, YouTube, Copyright and Privacy,” 24(4) Information Today 15 (April 2007); “The Can-Spam Act: No Canning Spam,” 24(3) Information Today 15 (March 2007).

Activities

Appointed to the AALS Committee on Libraries and Technology.

Thomas Ross

Presentations

“Sheltering Illegality: U.S. Lawyers and Abusive Tax Shelters,” Annual Meeting of the Law & Society Association, Berlin; panelist, 2007 ABA Annual Conference on Professional Responsibility, Chicago.

Ann Sinsheimer

Publications

Book review of Christopher Williams’ Tradition and Change in Legal English: Verbal Constructions in Prescriptive Texts (Bern: Peter Lang 2005), 36 Language and Society 473 (2007).

Activities

Co-taught lawyers and economists from the World Trade Organization and the Ministry of Trade in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Recognition

Received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to teach in the E.U. Law Program at the University of Ghent Faculty of Law in Ghent, Belgium.

Stella L. Smetanka

Publications

“Susie’s Voice,” R. Pinkus and N. Kottkamp, in Complex Ethical Consultations: Cases That Haunt Us (Cambridge University Press 2007).

Jean Stefancic

Publications

“Why Do We Ask the Same Questions?: The Triple Helix Dilemma Revisited,” 99 L. Libr. J. 307 (2007); The Law Unbound: A Richard Delgado Reader, with A. Wing (Paradigm Publishers 2007); Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America, (2nd ed.) with Perea, Delgado, Harris & Wildman (West 2007).

Presentations

“Unhappy Lawyers, Unhappy Law Students” at a Faculty Colloquium, Lewis & Clark Law School.

Recognition

Visiting Scholar at the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), Center for the Study of Law and Society, Summer, 2007.

George H. Taylor

Publications

“Derrick Bell’s Narratives as Parables,” 31 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 225 (2007).

Lu-in Wang

Presentations

“Economic Discrimination: Women as Buyers and Sellers,” 2007 Gender and Law Conference, Santa Clara University School of Law Center for Social Justice and Public Service.

Rhonda Wasserman

Publications

“The Curious Complications With Back-End Opt-Out Rights,” 49 William & Mary L. Rev. (2007); “Tolling: The American Pipe Tolling Rule and Successive Class Actions,” 58 Fla. L. Rev. 803 (2006).

Activities

Submitted an amici curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Powerex Corp. v. Reliant Energy Services, Inc., a brief that was discussed during oral argument before the Court in April, 2007; participant, Members’ Consultative Group for Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute; reporter, Rules Committee of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; appointed to the Advisory Board for a study by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, “The Effect in the European Community of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters: Recognition, Res Judicata and Abuse of Process.”

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