Curriculum Vitae
Kevin D. Ashley
Conference Presentations Included in Published Proceedings
“Reevaluating LARGO in the Classroom: Are Diagrams Better than Text for Teaching Argumentation Skills?” with N. Pinkwart, C. Lynch, K. Ashley, and V. Aleven, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal; “Graph Grammars: An ITS Technology for Diagram Representations” with N. Pinkwart, K. Ashley, V. Aleven, and C. Lynch, Proceedings of the Twenty-First International FLAIRS Conference, Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Florida.
Presentations
“Some Thoughts on Using Computers to Teach Argumentation,” Twenty-First International FLAIRS Conference, Florida.
Activities
Co-editor-in-chief, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Springer; served as a program committee member and/or reviewer for the Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, the Ninth European Conference on Case-based Reasoning, the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence and Law Society, the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the Second International Workshop on Juris-informatics.
Elena A. Baylis
Publications
“National Security and Political Asylum,” in Immigration, Integration and Security: Europe and America Comparative Perspective (A. C. d’Appollonia and S. Reich, eds., University of Pittsburgh Press 2008).
Deborah L. Brake
Publications
“The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX,” 31 Harv. J. L. & Gender 101 (2008); “The Failure of Title VII as a Rights-Claiming System” with Joanna Grossman, 86 N.C. L. Rev. 859.
Presentations
“The Invisible Pregnant Athlete and the Promise of Title IX,” Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Faculty Workshop.
Ronald A. Brand
Publications
The 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, with Paul M. Herrup (Cambridge University Press 2008); The Road to Vindabona: Preparing for the Moot, The Vis Book: A Participant’s Guide to the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Chapter 3 (Janet Walker, ed., 2008); “Drafting Contracts Under the CISG,” CILE Studies 4 (H. Flechtner, R. Brand, and M. Walter, eds., Oxford University Press 2008).
Presentations
“U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement,” National University of Callao and the University of Piura, Lima, Peru; “Consent and Reciprocity in the Application of Foreign and International Law,” at the Public and Private Law in the Global Adjudication System Symposium, sponsored by the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law and Duke’s Center for International and Comparative Law, Duke University School of Law; “Teaching Methodology: What Do We Teach and How Do We Teach It?,” Open Society Institute Law Disciplinary Conference, Academic Fellowship Program, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Douglas M. Branson
Presentations
“Excelling During Impeachment Attempts,” National Conference of Expert Witnesses, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; presented “Too Many Bells? Too Many Whistles? Five Years after Sarbanes Oxley” and participated in a panel chaired by Chief Justice Myron Steele of the Supreme Court of Delaware at the Fourth Annual Symposium of the Law of Delaware Business Entities, Delaware Bar Association; and gave a presentation based on his book, No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom, (NYU Press 2007), University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Benjamin E. Bratman
Publications
“Toward a Deeper Understanding of Professionalism: Learning to Write and Writing to Learn During the First Two Weeks of Law School,” 32 J. Legal Prof. 139 (2008).
Presentations
“Bar Exam Prep Course Seeking Long-Term Relationship: Legal Writing, Academic Support, Both, or Something Else Entirely?,” Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana; “Bar Support Programs: Form, Content and Collaborations,” 2008 Law School Admissions Council; “Good Writers, Not-So-Good Writers, and the Law: The Importance of Writing in the Legal Profession,” Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “Bar Exam Writing,” Indiana State CLEO course, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Teresa Kissane Brostoff
Publications
“Welcoming the Student on the Autistic Spectrum into the Legal Writing Classroom,” The Second Draft (February 2008).
Presentations
“Using Comparative Legal Principles to Teach International Students
in U.S. Law,” Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing
Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana; “Using Civil Law to Teach Analogical Reasoning in the Common Law,” ABA Global Legal Skills
Conference, Monterrey, Mexico.
Activities
Appointed as a Fulbright Peer Reviewer in Law for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program; appointed to the International Exchange Committee of APPEAL (Academics Promoting the Pedagogy of Effective Advocacy in Law); member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Plain English Committee and Women in the Profession Committee; member of the International Law and Exchange and Individual Rights and Responsibilities Committees of the ABA.
John M. Burkoff
Publications
Inside Criminal Law: What Matters and Why (with R. Weaver, Aspen 2008); Principles of Criminal Procedure (3rd edition), with R. Weaver, L. Abramson and C. Hancock (Thomson Reuters/West 2008); Criminal Law: Cases & Materials, Problems & Exercises (3rd edition), with R. Weaver, L. Abramson and C. Hancock (Thomson Reuters/West 2008); Criminal Defense Ethics: Law and Liability (2nd edition, Thomson Reuters/West 2008-2009 Edition); also published supplements to Criminal Procedures: Cases & Materials, Problems & Exercises (3rd edition); Criminal Law: Cases & Materials, Problems & Exercises (2nd edition); Search Warrant Law Deskbook; Criminal Offenses and Defenses in Pennsylvania (5th edition); Ineffective Assistance of Counsel.
Presentations
Moderator, “The Rule of Law Today: The War on Terror,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia.
Activities
Member, Executive MBA Investigative Panel, West Virginia University; member of the Pennsylvania delegation to the National Center for State Courts Workshop on Effective Judicial Campaign Oversight, Dallas, Texas.
Pat K. Chew
Publications
“Judicial Decision-Making in Racial Harassment Cases,” Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty and Western Law Teachers of Color, Denver.
Activities
Members Consultative Group on Restatement Third of Employment Law, American Law Institute.
Vivian Curran
Publications
“Perspectives actuelles de l’eneignement du droit aux États-Unis” en tant que réflet oblique de la méthodologie ‘common-law,’ 20 Cahiers de Méthodologie Juridique (Jean-Louis Bergel, 2006).
Presentations
“Environmental Law and Human Rights: The Challenge of the Alien Tort Claims Act,” Collège de France, France; “The Scent of the Past and the Sense of the Present,” 2008 Conference of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies, Edinburgh Faculty of Law, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Harry M. Flechtner
Publications
“‘The CISG Song,’ the ‘Mootie Blues,’ and a Dedication to a CISG Entrepreneur,” in Sharing International Commercial Law Across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (C. B. Anderson, U. G. Schroeter, eds., Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing 2008); Drafting Contracts Under the CISG (H. Flechtner, R. Brand, and M. Walter, eds., Oxford University Press 2008).
Presentations
“The CISG in U.S. Courts: The Undead Dicta and Other Issues,” Conference on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, Touro Law Center, Islip, New York.
Daniel Friedson
Activities
Member, Board of Directors for Growth Through Energy and Community Health (GTECH).
Lawrence A. Frolik
Publications
“Is a Guardian an Alter Ego of the Ward?,” 37 Stetson L. Rev. 53 (2007); “Later Life Legal Planning” in Theories in Law and Aging: The Jurisprudence of Elder Law (I. Doron, ed., Springer 2008); “Legal Issues of Individuals with Diminished Capacity” in American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Alzheimer’s Disease (APPI 2008); Law of Employee Pension and Welfare Benefits, (2nd edition), with K. Moore (LexisNexis 2008); also published supplements to Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client.
Presentations
“The United States Approach to Economic Assistance to the Elderly: Cultural Values in Conflict,” Congress of the Japanese American Society for Legal Studies, Kobe University, Japan; “Solving the ‘Financial Crisis’ in the American Social Security Program,” Faculty of Law, Tokyo University; “United States Approaches to Providing Income for the Elderly,” Waseda Institute of Comparative Law, Waseda University, Tokyo; workshop participant on the “Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Elder Law,” Tsukuba Law School, Tokyo; “When ERISA Meets the Endowment Effect, We All Lose,” Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law Annual Meeting, Indiana University College of Law, Bloomington, Indiana; “Responses to the Economic Needs of the Elderly: A Study of Values in Conflict,” Phoenix Law Review Symposium, and “Elder Law: Economic Planning for the Golden Years, sponsored by the Phoenix School of Law, Phoenix, Arizona; “What Is Elder Law” and “Housing Options,” ALI/ABA Elder Law Program, Florida; “Dealing With the Very Old Client,” West Virginia Bankers Association Financial and Estate Planning Seminar, Charleston, West Virginia; panel member on “Emotion, Law and Neuroscience,” Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, Squaw Valley, California.
Activities
Editor-in-Chief of the NAELA Journal; Secretary of the Elder Law Committee, ABA Senior Lawyers Division; member for Public Policy of the five-person Executive Council of the Pennsylvania AARP; member, Governing Committee, Pennsylvania Association of Elder Law Attorneys; member, Elder Law Committee, American College of Estate and Trust Counsel.
Haider Ala Hamoudi
Publications
“The Muezzin’s Call and the Dow Jones Bell: On the Necessity of Realism in the Study of Islamic Law,” 56 Am. J. Comp. L. 423 (2008).
Presentations
“Commerce Among Merchants in Shi’i Iraq,” University of Cincinnati School of Law.
Activities
Advised, escorted and arranged for participation of Iraqi Team in the 2008 Jessup International Moot Court Competition.
David A. Harris
Presentations
“No Choice But Guilty: How Possible Enemy Combatant Designation Affects Actual Terrorism Cases,” AALS Annual Meeting, New York; “Stop and Frisk: A National Perspective,” annual James Fyfe Police Accountability Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York; “The Rule of Law Today: Terrorism and Imagination,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia.
Arthur D. Hellman
Publications
“When Judges Are Accused: An Initial Look at the New Federal Judicial Misconduct Rules,” 22 Notre Dame J. L. Ethics & Pub. Pol. 225 (2008); “The Regulation of Judicial Ethics in the Federal System: A Peek Behind Closed Doors,” 69 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 189 (2007).
Activities
Testified at a public hearing of the Committee on Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Conference of the United States on proposed new rules for handling complaints of judicial misconduct; appointed member of the Executive Committee, Professional Responsibility and Legal Education Group of the Federalist Society.
David J. Herring
Publications
“Kinship Foster Care: Implications of Behavioral Biology Research,” 56 Buffalo L. Rev. 495 (2008).
Presentations
“Kinship Foster Care: Implications of Behavioral Biology Research” at the Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, and at the University of Georgia School of Law.
Bernard J. Hibbitts
Presentations
“The Real World in Real Time: Making Legal News on JURIST,” American Association of Law Librarians, Portland, Oregon.
Activities
Received a 2008 Webby Award nomination for JURIST; JURIST’s “Paper Chase” was recognized by the ABA Journal as “one of the top 100 Web sites for lawyers by lawyers.”
Anthony C. Infanti
Publications
“Tax as Urban Legend,” 24 Harv. BlackLetter L. J. 229 (2008) (book review of American Taxation, American Slavery by Robin L. Einhorn).
Presentations
“Same-Sex Tax Issues in Transnational Perspective: United States and Canada,” 2008 Joint Meeting of the Law & Society Association and Canadian Law & Society Association, Montreal.
Sandra D. Jordan
Publications
Editor, PA Law Encyclopedia (2nd edition), “Evidence,” Volume 24 (2007).
Jules Lobel
Publications
“Conflicts between the Commander-in-Chief and Congress: Concurrent Power Over the Conduct of War,” 69 Ohio State L. J. 391 (2008); “The Preventive Paradigm and the Perils of Ad Hoc Balancing,” 91 Minnesota Law Review 1407 (2007), reprinted in Top Ten Global Justice Law Review Articles 2007 (Amos N. Guiora, ed., Oxford University Press 2008); “The (Iraq) War on Civil Liberties” in Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (M. Pemberton, J. Hartung, eds., Paradigm Publishers 2008).
Presentations
“Solitary Confinement and the Constitution,” University of Pennsylvania Law School; presentation on his book, Less Safe, Less Free, Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, at University of Washington Law School and Chicago-Kent Law School; presentation on “Commander-in-Chief and Congress,” Chicago-Kent Law School.
Activities
National Vice President, Center for Constitutional Rights.
William V. Luneburg, Jr.
Publications
“Anonymity and Its Dubious Relevance to the Constitutionality of Lobbying Disclosure Legislation,” 19 Stan. L. & Pol. Rev. 69 (June 2008); Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities, co-author, (National Academies Press 2008).
Activities
Chair-Elect, ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.
Michael J. Madison
Publications
“Intellectual Property and Americana: Why IP Gets the Blues,” 18 Fordham Intell. Property Media & Ent. L. J. 677-710 (2008); “Writing to Learn Law and Writing in Law: An Intellectual Property Illustration,” 52 St. Louis Univ. L. J. 1-19 (2008).
Presentations
“Information Governance,” Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon; panelist at the IP Scholars Roundtable, Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa; “Intellectual Property and Americana,” DePaul University College of Law; moderator of panel on international copyright law at the Developing International Copyright Norms for Limitations to Copyright Conference, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York; “Constructing Commons” at the Open-Source and Proprietary Models of Innovation: Beyond Ideology Conference, Washington University Law School, St. Louis, Missouri; “Constructing Commons,” Science & Technology Studies & Intellectual Property Law interdisciplinary workshop, co-sponsored by Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley law schools, Napa, California.
Activities
Served on the Board of Advisors to develop the “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video,” published by American University’s Center for Social Media.
Martha M. Mannix
Activities
Board Member, Southwestern Pennsylvania Partnership for Aging (SWPPA); member, Executive Committee of the Pitt Chapter, American Inns of Court.
Alan Meisel
Publications
“End-of-Life Care” in From Assisted Reproduction to Stem Cells: A Bioethics Briefing Book for Campaigns, Policymakers, and Journalists (Hastings Center 2008); “Introduction,” (Symposium on Role of Modern Charitable Health Care Providers) 2 Pitt J. Envtl. Pub. Health L. 1 (2008); also published (with co-author Kathy Cerminara) the 2008 supplement to The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking.
Presentations
“Surrogate Decision-Making Statutes,” Loyola University-Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, Chicago.
Activities
Reappointed to a third term on the American Bar Association’s special committee on Bioethics and the Law; appointed to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh committee on Disorders of Sexual Differentiation; appointed to Ethics Committee of Magee-Women’s Hospital Center for Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology.
Janice M. Mueller
Presentations
“The Evolution of India’s Patent Regime: Implications for Public Health and Pharmaceutical Innovation,” Seattle University School of Law; “Chemicals, Combinations, and ‘Common Sense’: How the Supreme Court’s KSR Decision Is Changing Federal Circuit Obviousness Determination in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Cases,” Northern Kentucky University Chase Law School IP Symposium, Covington, Kentucky, and at the Advanced Patent Law Seminar, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle.
Activities
Named to the Board of Trustees of the Federal Circuit Historical Society.
Peter B. Oh
Presentations
“Going Dark,” at The ‘Going Private’ of U.S. Capital Markets Symposium, part of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s 75th Anniversary, Brooklyn Law School; “Piercing v. Lifting,” Conference for Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell Law School.
George H. Pike
Publications
Monthly columns in Information Today as well as feature articles and columns, including: “Congress Adds Copyright to Agenda,” 25(2) Information Today 1 (February 2008); “The Right to Remain Anonymous,” 25(4) Information Today 15 (April 2008); “Patent Reform in 2008?,” 25(3) Information Today 17 (March 2008); “VA Data Breach and the Privacy Act,” 25(2) Information Today 15 (February 2008); “Progress Continues on Patent Reform and Pro IP,” 25(5) Information Today 17 (May 2008).
Thomas Ross
Publications
“Judicial Opinions as Racial Narratives: The Story of Richmond v. Croson,” with Reginald Oh, in Race Law Stories (R. Moran and D. Carbado, eds., Foundation Press 2008).
Ann Sinsheimer
Activities
“Using Civil Law to Teach Common Law,” Global Legal Skills Conference, Monterrey, Mexico; “Using Comparative Legal Principles to Teach International Students in U.S. Law,” Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana.
George H. Taylor
Presentations
“Imagination and the Displacement of Reason,” Conference on Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Prague.
Activities
President, Society for Ricoeur Studies.
Lu-in Wang
Presentations
Commentator, Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty and Western Law Teachers of Color, Denver.
Rhonda Wasserman
Presentations
“Are You Still My Mother? Interstate Recognition of Adoptions by Gays and Lesbians,” Delaware Valley Feminist Law Teachers’ Conference; presented tutorial on proposed amendments to the local rules to the Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Activities
Members Consultative Group on Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation, American Law Institute (ALI); reporter to the Rules Committee of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and member of the Court’s Advisory Committee for the Study of Rules of Practice.

