Curriculum Vitae

Kevin Ashley

Publications

“Teaching a Process Model of Legal Argument with Hypotheticals,” 17 Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Law 321 (2009); “Automatically Classifying Case Texts and Predicting Outcomes,” with S. Brüninghaus, 17 Artificial Intelligence and Law 125 (2009); “Instructional Explanations in a Legal Classroom: Are Students’ Argument Diagrams of Hypothetical Reasoning Diagnostic?,” with Lynch, C. in Instructional Explanations in the Disciplines 171 (Stein, M.K., & Kucan, L. Eds. 2010); “Ontological Requirements for Analogical, Teleological, and Hypothetical Legal Reasoning,” in Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law 1 (AMC Press, 2009); “What a Legal CBR Ontology Should Provide,” in Proceedings of the 22d International FLAIRS Conference, Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning, Sanibel Island, Florida (2009).

Presentations

“Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Law and Case-Based Legal Reasoning,” at the Faculty of Jurisprudence in Bologna, Italy, May 2010; “An Approach to Ontologies for Case-Based Legal Reasoning” at the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the National Research Council (ITTIG-CNR), Firenze, Italy.

Activities

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Artificial Intelligence and Law; Guest Editor, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Special Issue on e-Discovery, 2009–10.

Elena Baylis

Publications

“Outsourcing Investigations, 14 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 121 (2009); “Response to Professor Melish,” Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 34, No. 2: Online Symposium (October 21, 2009), http://opiniojuris.org/2009/ 10/21/yjil-symposium-response-to-professor-melish/.

Presentations

Panelist on Empirical Approaches to International Law, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, March 2010; Invited participant, Workshop on International Law Compliance and Human Rights Indicators, Arizona State University, January 2010.

Activities

Organizer, Junior International Law Scholars Association, D.C. Summer Workshop Series (June–August 2010).

Deborah Brake

Publications

Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women’s Sports Revolution (NYU Press 2010).

Presentations

“Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship,” Hofstra Law School, April 2010; Speaker, panel presentation on Women in the Profession for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, March 2010; Panelist, National Equal Pay Day, Hofstra University, April 2010; Title IX workshop, Tri-State Area School Study Council, May 2010; Author Meets Reader Panel for Getting in the Game, Annual Law & Society Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2010.

Activities

Testified on two proposed bills, the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Fair Pay Act, amending the Equal Pay Act of 1963, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, in Washington, D.C., March 2010.

Ronald Brand

Publications

“Treaties and Separation of Powers in the United States: A Reassessment after Medillin v. Texas,” 47 Duquesne Law Review 707 (2009); “Arbitration or Litigation? Choice of Forum After the 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements,” in LVII Belgrade Law Review 23 (Issue No. 3, 2009); “Competition in and from the Harmonization of Private International Law, in Economic Law as an Economic Good, Its Rule Function and Its Tool Function in the Competition of Systems 353 (K. M. Meessen, M. Bungenberg and A. Puttler, eds. 2009); “Consent, Validity, and Choice of Forum Agreements in International Contracts,” in Liber Amicorum Hubert Bocken 541 (I. Boone, I. Claeys & L. Lavrysen, eds., 2009).

Presentations

“Presenting Argument in International Arbitration,” Commercial Law Development Program for University of Bahrain, Sultan Qaboos University and UAE University students, Al Ain, UAE, February 2010; “The Export of Legal Education,” Open Society Institute Palestinian Rule of Law Alumni Reunion, Amman, Jordan, January 2010; “Federalism Issues in the Implementation of Private International Law Treaties,” Co-chair of panel, International Law Weekend, New York, October 2009; “Federalism and the Implementation of Treaties,” panelist, Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law meeting, Washington D.C., October 2009; “A U.S. Perspective on Party Autonomy under the Rome I Regulation,” Conference on the Rome I Regulation on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations, Trinity College, Dublin, October 2009; Panelist, Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law, October 2009.

Activities

Member, Executive Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA); Participant in a discussion led by Harold Koh, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, on the implementation process for the 2005 Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, Washington, D.C.; Invited observer, meeting of the Drafting Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws for a new International Choice of Court Agreements Act; Member, Consultative Group for two ALI Projects: Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law and the Restatement (Third) of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration.

Douglas Branson

Publications

The Last Male Bastion —Gender and the CEO Suite at America’s Public Companies (Routledge 2010); “Nibbling at the Edges — Regulation of Short Selling: Policing Fails to Deliver and Restoration of An Uptick Rule,” 65 Business Lawyer 67 (2009); “More Muscle Behind Regulation SHO? Short Selling and The Regulation of Stock Borrowing Programs,” 5 University of Virginia Review of Law and Business 1 (2010).

Presentations

“Trekking Toward Uber Regulation,” The SEC at 75: Past, Present and Future, University of Pittsburgh, October 2009; “Current Developments: Best Practices in Corporate Governance,” Annual Meeting of the Asian Corporate Governance Association, Beijing, PRC, November 2009; “Achilles Heels in Alien Tort Claims Act Litigation,” University of Santa Clara School of Law, Corporations in International Law, February 2010; “Diversity in Corporate Governance,” University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, March 2010; “Women on Corporate Boards Project,” at State Library, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, March 2010; Commentator, “Diversity in Corporate Governance,” Twentieth Annual People of Color Scholarship Conference, School of Law, Loyola University Chicago, March 2010; Inaugural Lecture, “Diversity in Corporate Governance,” Condon Falknor Distinguished Visiting Professorship, School of Law, University of Washington, April 2010.

Ben Bratman

Activities

Pennsylvania Bar Association Professionalism Committee; Lecturer, Indiana Council for Legal Education Opportunity program.

Teresa Brostoff

Presentations

Speaker, Central Regional Legal Writing Conference, Marquette University, October 2009; “English for Lawyers,” UAE University Law School, February 2010.

Activities

Fulbright Peer Reviewer for Fulbright Senior Specialist Grants.

John Burkoff

Publications

Criminal Procedure: Cases & Materials, Problems & Exercises (4th edition 2010) (West) (with R. Weaver, L. Abramson, R. Bacigal, C. Hancock & J. Hoeffel)(and Teachers’ Manual); Criminal Offenses & Defense in Pennsylvania (6th ed. 2010) (West Pennsylvania Practice Series).

Presentations

“Criminal Defense Ethics: What Will They Think of Next?,” Virginia State Bar’s Sixth Annual Indigent Criminal Defense Seminar: Advanced Skills for the Experienced Practitioner, Richmond, Virginia, April 2010.

Activities

Appointed member, Pennsylvania Commission on Judicial Independence; Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association Amicus Curiae Committee; Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association Judicial Advertising Review Board; Appointed member, ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Committee on Ethics, Gideon and Professionalism.

Nancy Burkoff

Activities

Member, Allegheny County Bar Association Institute for Gender Equality implementation committee; Member, Legal Writing Institute; Member, Legal Writing Institute’s Global Legal Skills committee.

Pat Chew

Publications

“Myth of the Color-Blind Judge,” with R. Kelley, 86 Washington U. L. Rev. 1117 (2009); “Stars Are Made, Not Born,” with R. Kelley, American Lawyer.

Presentations

Ihlenfeld Endowed Lecture on Public Policy and Ethics, West Virginia University College of Law, April 2010; Conference of Faculty of Color, University of Arizona, March 2010; Conference on Intersection of Gender and Race, Economics and Employment, University of Iowa, February 2010; National Asian Pacific American Conference on Law and Public Policy, Harvard Law School, March 2010; Featured speaker, ABA Midyear Meeting, February 2010.

Emily Collins

Presentations

Presentation to ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, 2010 Eastern Water Resources Conference.

Mary Crossly

Publications

“Learning by Doing: An Experience with Outcomes Assessment,” with L. Wang, 41 Univ. Toledo L. Rev. 269 (2010); “Rescuing Baby Doe,” 25 Ga. St. Univ. L. Rev. 1043 (2009).

Presentations

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Institutional Assessment (at Pitt Law),” with L. Wang, Legal Education at the Crossroads v.3: A Conference on Assessment, Denver, Colorado, September 2009; “The ‘Risk Pool’ and Health Care Reform,” faculty colloquium, Hastings College of the Law, September 2009; Panelist, “Diversity Strategies in Law Schools,” 4th Annual PBA Diversity Summit, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 2009; Panelist, “The Future of Legal Education,” Third Circuit Judicial Conference, Hershey, Pennsylvania, April 2010.

Activities

Member, Executive Committee, AALS Section for the Law School Dean.

Vivian Curran

Publications

“Comparative Law and the Legal Origins Thesis,” 57 Am. J. Comp. L. 863 (2009); “Les Mécanismes de compétence universelle au service de la protection de l’environnement,” in Regards Croisés Sur L‘Internationalisation Du Droit: France-États-Unis 223 (M. Delmas-Marty & S. Breyer, eds., 2009); “L’internationalisation, entre droit comparé et droit international: Regard d’une comparatiste in Regards Croisés Sur L’Internationalisation Du Droit: France-États-Unis, 119 (M. Delmas-Marty & S. Breyer, eds., 2009); “Recent French Legal Developments Concerning a War-Time Arrest and Imprisonment Case,” 25 Md. J. Int’l L. 264 (2010).

Presentations

“Law and Memory,” American Society of Comparative Law meeting, Roger Williams University Law School, October 2009; “Legal Transnationalization,” University of Maryland Law School, October 2009; “L’affaire Yahoo!, l’Internet et le dialogue des juges nationaux,” Franco-American Network on Internationalization of Law, Cardozo Law School, New York, November 2009; Moderated panel on May 6, 2010 and summarized remarks and led discussion on May 7, 2010 with respect to “The Role of Civil Societies and Legal Education in Developing the Rule of Law,” at Policy Conference on Promoting the Rule of Law: Cooperation and Competition in the EU-US Relationship, University of Pittsburgh; “La formation des jurists aux États-Unis,” Faculty of Law, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 2010.

Activities

Member, Consultative Group of the ALI Restatement (Third) Property (Wills, Trusts and Other Donative Instruments); Chair, Scholarly Prizes Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law.

Mirit Eyal-Cohen

Presentations

“Why Size Matters — Tax Policy Surrounding Small Business Taxation,” Law & Society Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2010.

James Flannery

Publications

The Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh: Law, Technology & Child Labor, (University of Pittsburgh Press 2009).

Harry Flechtner

Publications

“Selected Issues Relating to the CISG’s Scope of Application,” 13 The Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration 91 (2009); “The Globalization of Law as Documented in the Law on International Sales of Goods,” in NIEUW International Privaatrecht: Meer Europees, Meer Globaal 541 (XXXVe Postuniversitaire Cyclus Willy Delva 2008–09) (J. Erauw & P. Taelman, eds., 2009); “Service Contracts in the United States (and from an Economic Perspective): A Comparative View of the DCFR’s Service Contract Provisions and Their Application to Hawkins v. McGee,” in Rechtsvergleichung und Rechtsvereinheitlichung (Mohr Siebeck Publishers, 2010).

Presentations

Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Civil Law Section (Zivilrechtsvergleichung) of the German Society of Comparative Law (Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung), Cologne, Germany, September 2009.

Activities

Appointed as Coordinator, project to update the CISG Case Law Digest of the United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”); “National Correspondent” for the U.S. at UNCITRAL; Faculty Member, the Institute in International Commercial Law and Dispute Resolution, Zadar, Croatia, July 2010.

Lawrence Frolik

Publications

“Protecting Our Aging Retirees: Converting 401(k) Accounts into Federally Guaranteed Lifetime Annuities,” 47 San Diego Law Rev. 277 (2010); “Long-Term Care Insurance,” Estate Planning Magazine, June 2010; Everyday Law for Seniors, with L. Whitton (2010); Elder Law in a Nutshell, 5th Ed. with R. Kaplan (2010).

Presentations

“Financial Security in Retirement,” Georgia State University College of Law Faculty Colloquium, February 2010; “The Need for Annuities to Protect Retirees with Diminished Capacity,” The John Marshall Law School Distinguished Lecture in Employee Benefits, March 2010; “The Need for Employer Mandated Long-Term Care Insurance,” The John Marshall Law School Symposium on Employee Benefits, April 2010; “Current Developments in Elder Law,” ACTEC Elder Law Committee, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 2009; “The What and How of Durable Powers of Attorney,” NAELA Fall Symposium, Jersey City, New Jersey, November 2009; “Income Only Trusts as a Planning Tool for Medicaid,” ABA National Teleconference, January 2010; “Elder Law Issues for Financial Planners,” American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Orlando, Florida, January 2010; “The Wisdom of Purchasing Long-Term Care Insurance,” Philadelphia Estate Planning Council, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 2010; “Special Needs Trusts: Recent Developments,” NAELA Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2010; “Current Developments in Elder Law,” ACTEC Elder Law Committee, Bonita Springs, Florida, March 2010; “Special Needs Trusts: Case Law and Statutory Update,” ABA Real Property & Trust 21st Annual Spring Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2010.

Activities

Vice Chair, ABA Real Property & Trust Section, Long-Term Care, Medicaid and Special Trusts Committee; Member and Case Law Reporter, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Elder Law Committee; Chair-Elect, AALS Aging and the Law Committee; Member, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) Academic Affairs Committee; Treasurer and member of Board of Directors, Kendal Corporation.

Haider Ala Hamoudi

Publications

“Dream Palaces of Law: Western Constructions of the Muslim Legal World,” 32 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 803 (2009); Book Review: The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, 47 Osgoode Hall L.J. 159 (2009); “Realism and Resistance: Shi’i Islam and the Contemporary Liberal State,” 11 Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 107 (2009); “Orientalism and the Fall and Rise of the Islamic State,” 2 Middle East Law and Governance 81 (2010); “Identitarian Violence and Identitarian Politics: Elections and Governance in Iraq,” 51 Harvard Int’l L.J. (online) 82 (2010).

Presentations

“Economic Reconstruction and the Rule of Law in Iraq,” University of South Carolina, May 2010; “Arbitration in Arab Lands,” Columbia University School of Law, February 2010; “Ornamental Repugnancy,” St. Thomas University School of Law, April 2010; “Teaching Islamic Law in Law School,” Venice Conference on Islamic Law Pedagogy, September 2009; “Islamic Capital Markets and the Spirit of Shari’a,” New York City Bar Association Special Event, February 2010; “Federalism in Iraq and Abroad,” Council of the Presidency of Iraq, December 2009; “The Iraq Constitution and Presidential and Parliamentary Systems of Governance,” Council of the Presidency of Iraq, December 2009; “Decentralization in Iraq and in Comparative Perspective,” Conference with the Legal Committees of the Iraqi Provincial Councils, October 2009.

Activities

Executive Board member, AALS Islamic Law Committee.

David Harris

Publications

“How Accountability-Based Policing Can Reinforce — or Replace — the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule,” 7 Ohio St. J. Crim. Law 149 (2009); “Law Enforcement and Intelligence Gathering …,” 34 NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Chg. 123 (2010); Book Review, Let’s Get Free: A Hip Hop Theory of Justice, by Paul Butler, 24 Crim. Justice 52 (2010); Book Review, Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of the Criminal Justice System, by Alexandra Natapoff, 25 Crim. Justice 44 (2010).

Presentations

“The Powers of American Prosecutors Compared to Their European and International Counterparts,” Washington & Lee Law School, April 2010; “Using Body Worn Video as an Accountability Device,” Texas Tech School of Law Annual Criminal Law Symposium, April 2010; Panelist, U.S. Department of Justice National Conference on Title VI Enforcement; Panelist, National Rights Working Group Conference on Racial Profiling; Panelist, ACLU of D.C. Workshop on Federal Secure Communities Initiative, February 2010.

Activities

Testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, “Ending Racial Profiling: Necessary for Public Safety and the Protection of Civil Liberties,” June 17, 2010; Consultation with Congressional committee staff on racial profiling, taser use, and other criminal justice issues; Consultation with U.S. Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division Asst. Atty. General and staff on use of federal powers for police department reform; Chair, AALS Criminal Justice Section (2009).

Arthur Hellman

Publications

“Another Voice for the ‘Dialogue’: Federal Courts as a Litigation Course,” 53 St. Louis U. L. J. 761 (2009); Federal Courts: Cases and Materials on Judicial Federalism and the Lawyering Process, with L. K. Robel and D. Stras (2nd ed., 2009); First Amendment Law: Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion, with W. Araiza and T. E. Baker (2nd ed., 2010); Prepared Statement, “Hearing Before the Task Force on Judicial Impeachment of the House Committee on the Judiciary: To Consider the Impeachment of Samuel B. Kent of the Southern District of Texas,” June 2009; Prepared Statement, “Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy of the House Committee on the Judiciary: Examining the State of Judicial Recusals After Caperton v. A.T. Massey,” December 2009; Prepared Statement, “Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy of the House Committee on the Judiciary on H.R. 5281, The Removal Clarification Act of 2010,” May 2010.

Presentations

“Judicial Imprudence, Judicial Obduracy, and Judicial Independence: Testing the Limits of the Federal Judicial Misconduct Process,” University of Richmond Law School, Richmond, Virginia, April 2010. Activities Member, Executive Committee of the Professional Responsibility and Legal Education Practice Group of the Federalist Society.

David Herring

Publications

“Fathers and Child Maltreatment: A Research Agenda Based on Evolutionary Theory and Behavioral Biology Research,” 31 Children and Youth Services Review 935 (2009); “Evolutionary Theory and Kinship Foster Care: An Initial Test of Two Hypotheses,” 38 Capital Law Review 291 (2010).

Presentations

“Kinship Foster Care: Implications of Behavioral Biology Research,” Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, Faculty Speaker Series, October 2009.

Bernard Hibbitts

Publications

“The Technology of Law,” 102 Law Library Journal 101 (2010).

Presentations

“The Accidental American: A Canadian Law Professor’s Journey ‘Home’,” Colloque sur les Canadiens aux Etats-Unis, ACFAS annual meeting, Montreal, May 2010.

Activities

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of JURIST, named by the ABA Journal in December 2009 as one of the top 12 news websites “by lawyers, for lawyers” for the third year in a row.

Anthony Infanti

Publications

“Taxing Civil Rights Gains,” 16 Mich. J. Gender & L. 319 (2010); “Surveying the Legal Landscape for Pennsylvania Same-Sex Couples,” 71 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 187 (2009); “Bringing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity into the Tax Classroom,” 59 J. Legal Educ. 3 (2009).

Charlies Jalloh

Publications

“Regionalizing International Criminal Law?,” 9.3 International Criminal Law Review 445 (2009) (peer-reviewed, lead article); “Universal Jurisdiction, Universal Prescription? A Preliminary Assessment of the African Union Perspective on Universal Jurisdiction,” 21.1 Criminal Law Forum 1 (2010) (peer reviewed, lead article).

Presentations

Speaker, Symposium on Retribution, Reconciliation, Reparation: Perspectives on Justice for Darfur, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, April 2010; Presenter, “Universal Jurisdiction: Universal Prescription?,” Case Western Reserve University School of Law, September 2009; Invited guest lecturer, “An African Union Perspective on Universal Jurisdiction,” Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, July 2009 Human Rights Summer School; Speaker, Africa Legal Aid, Conference on The Al-Bashir Arrest Warrant: The World vs. Africa or the African Union vs. the People of Africa?, The Hague, The Netherlands, April 2010; Speaker, State Department/Central Intelligence Agency, Conference on Anticipating and Countering Atrocities in Africa, April 2010; Special guest lecturer, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Canadian Department of Justice, Ottawa, Ontario, October 2009; Speaker, Consultative Conference on International Criminal Justice, United Nations, New York, September 2009.

Activities

Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Legal Studies.

Jules Lobel

Publications

“Preventive Detention and Preventive Warfare: U.S. National Security Policies Obama Should Abandon,” 3 Journal of National Security Law and Policy 341 (2009).

Presentations

Faculty Roundtable, University of Barcelona (presented work on International Law and the Extraterritorial Constitution).

William Luneburg

Publications

“The Evolution of Federal Lobbying Regulation: Where We Are Now And Where We Should Be Going,” 41 McGeorge L. Rev. 85 (2009); “Becoming An Environmental Practitioner,” in Careers in Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice 75 (J. O’Reilly ed., 2010); Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 in The Lobbying Manual: A Complete Guide to Federal Lobbying Law and Practice (W. Luneburg, T. Susman, & R. Gordon eds., 4th ed. 2010, ABA Publishing).

Presentations

Panelist, Legal Issues in Lobbying Reform, Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., September 2009.

Activities

Chair, ABA’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section; Member, ABA’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section’s Lobbying Law Reform Task Force; Liaison Member, ABA Task Force on Financial Markets Regulatory Reform.

Michael Madison

Publications

Special Issue of the Cornell Law Review, featuring a lead article, “Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment,” with Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Strandburg, 95 Cornell L. Rev. 657 (2010); responses by Nobel Laureate Professor Elinor Ostrom and Professors Wendy Gordon, Robert Merges, Lawrence Solum, Thrainn Eggertson, and Gregg Macey; “Reply: The Complexity of Commons,” with Frischmann and Strandburg, 95 Cornell L. Rev. 839 (2010); “Beyond Creativity: Copyright as Knowledge Law,” 12 Vanderbilt J. Ent. & Tech. L. 817 (2010).

Presentations

“Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment,” Oxford Intellectual Property Seminar Series, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, May 2010; “Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment,” Association for Law, Property and Society, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 2010; “Recovering Copyright as a System for Knowledge,” Drawing Lines in the Digital Age: Copyright, Fair Use, and Derivative Works, Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, TN, October 2009; Junior Scholars in IP Workshop, Invited Reviewer and Commentator, Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI, April 2010; “The Future of Legal Scholarship,” American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, January 2010; “Pittsburgh: Past, Present and Future of an American City,” Keynote Address, Morgen/Tomorrow: International Urban Planning Congress Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2009.

Activities

Legal Advisory Boards, Statements of Best Practices in Fair Use, American University Center for Social Media, for projects on Scholarly Research in Communication and OpenCourseWare; Board Chair, Yale University Association of Yale Alumni.

Margaret Mahoney

Publications

“The Case for Abolishing the Adoption Annulment Doctrine,” reprinted in 23 Minnesota Family Law Journal 49 (2010).

Activities

Consultant, National Stepfamily Association and the Alternatives to Marriage Project.

Alan Meisel

Publications

“Last-Resort Options for Palliative Care,” with T.E. Quill, B. Lo, and D.W. Brock, 151 Annals of Internal Medicine 421 (2009); Commentary, “Physician-Assisted Death in the United States: Are the Existing ‘Last Resorts’ Enough?,” 39 Hastings Center Report 3 (2009); “End-of-Life Law in the USA,” in Le Scienze Biomediche e il Diritto —Biomedical Sciences and the Law (A. Santusuosso, ed. 2010).

Presentations

Albrink Memorial Lecture in Bioethics, West Virginia University, January 2010; “Patients’ Rights in the US: A New Vision of Informed Consent,” International Medical-Law Symposium, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2009.

Activities

Member, Board of Directors, American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics; Member, Board of Directors and Assistant Treasurer, Death with Dignity National Center; Member, Task Force on Guidelines on End of Life Care; Member, Pennsylvania Pandemic Planning Ethics Workgroup; Member, Editorial Board of Bioethics Books, Journal of Clinical Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal; Law, Medicine and Ethics, and Medical Ethics: Policies, Protocols, Guidelines & Programs.

Janice Mueller

Publications

“A Rich Legacy,” 3 J. Fed. Cir. Historical Society 171 (2009).

Presentations

“Overcoming the ‘Impossible Issue’ of Nonobviousness in Design Patents,” Randall-Park Colloquium Series, University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky, February 2010; Panelist, “Gene Patentability and the Implications of ACLU v. Myriad Genetics,” University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2010; “The Future of Genetic Disease, Diagnosis, and Treatment: Do Patents Matter?,” Journal of Business and Technology Law Symposium (Spring 2010).

Activities

Member, Board of Trustees, Federal Circuit Historical Society; Chair, 11th Annual Meeting of the Expert Advisory Committee (EAC) to the Central Advisory Service for Intellectual Property (CAS-IP) of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Rome Italy, December 2009; Commentator, “Virtual Property and Copyright,” University of Kentucky College of Law Developing New Ideas Conference, May 2010.

Peter Oh

Publications

“The Dutch Auction Myth,” 41 Sec. L. Rev. 186 (2009).

Presentations

“Corporate Disregard in the U.S. and U.K.,” New Views of Corporate Separateness, Vanderbilt University Law School, November 2009; “Reclaiming Private Law,” Private Law Theory Workshop, American University Washington College of Law, July 2010.

Activities

Organizer, “The Past, Present, and Future of the SEC,” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2009.

George Pike

Publications

Monthly columns as well as several feature articles in Information Today.

Activities

Member, AALS Library and Technology Committee; Member, AALL Copyright Committee.

Ann Sinsheimer

Publications

“International students are a great source of energy,” with T. Brostoff, Central Region Legal Writing Conference, Marquette Law School, October 2009; “Teaching the common law in the Arab world,” with T. Brostoff, Global Legal Skills Conference, Georgetown Law School, June 2009.

Activities

Assistant Editor, Legal Writing Institute Journal; Peer Reviewer, Fulbright Senior Specialist Program; Member, Plain English Committee of the PBA.

George Taylor

Publications

“Ricoeur and Law: The Distinctiveness of Legal Hermeneutics,” in Ricoeur Across the Disciplines 84 (S. Davidson, ed., 2010).

Presentations

“Ricoeur and Just Institutions,” (keynote), Reading Ricoeur Once Again: Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy Conference, Lisbon, July 2010.

Activities

President, Society for Ricoeur Studies.

Lu-in Wang

Publications

“Learning by Doing: An Experience with Outcomes Assessment,” with M. Crossley, 41 Univ. Toledo L. Rev. 269 (2010).

Presentations

“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Institutional Assessment (at Pitt Law),” with M. Crossley, Legal Education at the Crossroads v.3: A Conference on Assessment, Denver, Colorado, September 2009; “Negotiating the Situation: The Reasonable Person in Context,” Lewis & Clark Law Review Spring Symposium: “Who is the Reasonable Person?,” April 2010.

Rhonda Wasserman

Presentations

“Are You Still My Mother? Interstate Recognition of Adoptions by Gays and Lesbians,” Dukeminier Panel of the LGBT Annual Conference, New York, New York, September 2009; “DOMA and the Happy Family: A Lesson in Irony,” symposium on DOMA, Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships, co-sponsored by California Western School of Law and the J. Rueben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University, March 2010.

Activities

Member, Consultative Group on the ALI Restatement (Third) of the United States Law of International Commercial Arbitration.

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