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Curriculum Vitae

The following list is just a sampling of the breadth of academic scholarship and professional activities conducted by full-time Pitt Law faculty over the past academic year.

Elena A. Baylis

Publications

“Parallel Courts in Post-Conflict Kosovo,” 32 Yale J. Int’l L. 1 (2007); “The Inevitable Impunity of Suicide Terrorists,” in Evil, Law and the State: Perspectives on State Power and Violence, edited by John Parry (2006).

Presentations

“National Security and Political Asylum” at the Immigration, Integration and Human Society Issues conference held in Paris in June, partially sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh’s Ford Institute for Human Security and organized by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.

Activities

Conducted field research in the Democratic Republic of Congo on transitional justice in June and July with the support of grants from the University of Pittsburgh Central Research Development Fund, the University Center for International Studies, the Center for International Legal Education and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Deborah L. Brake

Publications

“The Theory Behind Title IX: The Virtues and Limits of Pragmatism,” a work-in-progress presented at a conference in Cleveland, Ohio, jointly sponsored by the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, commemorating the 35th anniversary of Title IX; delivered opening remarks and served as moderator for both panels of a conference held in April at Harvard Law School on Title IX and Judicial Activism, sponsored by Harvard’s Journal of Law & Gender.

Ronald A. Brand

Publications

“CISG Article 31: When Substantive Law Rules Affect Jurisdictional Results,” 25 Journal of Law & Commerce 181–202 (2005,2006).

Presentations

“Declining Jurisdiction: Recent Developments in the U.S., the E.U., and at the Hague Conference on Private International Law” at the International Law Weekend in New York, October 26–28, sponsored by the American Branch of the International Law Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; conducted a workshop for the Law Faculty of the University of Bahrain on teaching methodology, a program sponsored by the Commercial Law Development Program, funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce as part of the Middle East Partnership Initiative; led a three-day workshop on commercial law curriculum and instruction to professors and deans from law faculties from throughout the Persian Gulf at the Qatar University College of Law, Doha, Qatar, as part of the Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce, funded by the U.S.–Middle East Partnership Initiative.

Activities

Attended the meeting of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law in Washington, D.C., October 19–20.

Douglas M. Branson

Publications

No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom (NYU Press 2007); “Too Many Bells? Too Many Whistles? Corporate Governance in the Post Enron, Post WorldCom Era,” 58 S. Car. L. Rev. 65 (2006).

Presentations

Presented talks on diversity in corporate governance at Villanova University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Puget Sound and St. John’s University.

Activities

Taught International Human Rights, summer session, Trinity College, Dublin; taught corporate governance to LL.M. students at the University of Melbourne, May and October, 2006.

John M. Burkoff

Publications

Criminal Procedure: Cases & Materials, Problems & Exercises (3rd edition) (Thomson/West January 2007); Principles of Criminal Procedure (2nd edition), edited by John M. Burkoff, R. Weaver, L. Abramson, and C. Hancock (Thomson/West 2007); Criminal Defense Ethics: Law and Liability (2nd edition) (Thomson/West October 2006); Search Warrant Law Deskbook (Thomson/West March 2007); “If God Wanted Lawyers to Fly, She Would Have Given Them Wings: Life, Lust & Legal Ethics in Body Heat,” in Screening Justice—The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice, edited by R. Strickland, T. Foster and T. Banks (William S. Hein & Co. 2006); “Remembering Welsh White” (a remembrance of his late colleague), Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (October 2006) and reprinted online in the bePress Legal Repository; “Flipper Ethics,” Champion: J. Nat’l. Ass’n. Crim. Def. Law., 38 (Jan.–Feb. 2007); also published supplements to Criminal Procedure: Cases & Materials, Problems & Exercises (2nd edition); Criminal Law: Cases & Materials, Problems & Exercises (2nd edition); Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Criminal Offenses and Defenses in Pennsylvania (5th edition).

Activities

Delivered five formal lectures and was a consultant in Albania this past summer, dealing with issues related to improving community-police relations there as part of a State Department–funded program administered by the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian and East European Studies and the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) in Albania; appointed to the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section’s newly formed Committee on Ethics, Gideon and Professional-ism; addressed the City of Pittsburgh’s Citizens’ Police Review Board (having been the Board’s first Chairperson) at its summer retreat; elected to membership in the American Law Institute.

Pat K. Chew

Activities

Chair of the AALS Section of Women in Legal Education, which sponsored several programs at the January AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., including, “Subtle Sexism in Our Everyday Lives.” Professor Chew also spoke on “Legal Issues for Managers of Intellectual Capital” at the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business.

Recognition

Along with Richard Delgado, recognized as one of the minority law professors whose work is most often cited in law reviews.

Vivian Curran

Publications

“Comparative Law and Language,” The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, edited by Mathias Reimann and Reinhard Zimmerman, (Oxford University Press, 2006); “La Gestation d’un Droit Transnational Face à la Globalization et la ‘Glocalisation,’” 4 Revue de Sciences Criminelles et Droit Pénal Comparé (2006); book review of Globalisation Économique et Universalisme des Droits de L’homme by Mireille Delmas-Marty, 4 Revue de Sciences Criminelles et de Droit Pénal Comparé, (2006); book review of Le Droit Sous Vichy, edited by Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Alessandro Summa, et al., for H-France, an electronic discussion list on French history that has approximately 2,000 subscribers from 40 nations, available at http://www.h-france.net.

Presentations

Spoke at the Pompidou Center in Paris in June on the role of the French prosecutor, judge and jury, as seen from a comparative perspective. Professor Curran’s address was rebroadcast on the Web site “FranceCulture.”

Activities

Delivered a series of five presentations on the civil-law legal system to the legal department of US Steel; spoke at Cardozo Law School on the internationalization of constitutional law.

Richard Delgado

Publications

“Shooting the Messenger,” a review essay of Ward Churchill’s On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, American Indian Law Review; “America Beyond Borders: On Latin-American Immigration” (Interview), 1 Experience (Centrum Institute for the Arts), 23 (Fall 2006).

Presentations

Spoke, together with Jean Stefancic, at Roger Williams Law School in Rhode Island on the premise of their book How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds (Duke University Press 2005); “Hernandez v. Texas and Interest Convergence” at the LatCrit XI conference at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in October.

Activities

Co-editor with Jean Stefancic of three book series: Critical America (NYU Press), Everyday Law (Paradigm Publishers) and The Critical Educator (Taylor & Francis, a branch of Routledge Press).

Recognition

Along with Pat Chew, recognized as one of the minority law professors whose work is most often cited in law reviews.

Harry M. Flechtner

Presentations

Spoke at a United Nations Sale Convention (CISG) in Istanbul in November, sponsored by the Istanbul Bilgi University Law Faculty in cooperation with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Activities

Taught a class on “Uniform International Commercial Law in U.S. Courts” for the International Law course at the University of Bologna, Italy. The students in the course are LL.M. candidates from the U.S., Canada, Italy, Germany and other European countries studying at the Faculty of Law in Bologna.

Lawrence A. Frolik

Publications

Elder Law in a Nutshell (4th edition), co-authored by Kaplan (Thomson/West September 2006); “The Grapes of Wrath: Can Justice Be Found on Route 66?,” in Screening Justice—The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice, edited by R. Strickland, T. Foster and T. Banks, (William S. Hein & Company 2006); “‘Sufficient’ Capacity: The Contrasting Capacity Requirements for Different Documents,” co-author Professor Mary Radford, 2 NAELA J. 303 (2006); “Paying for Long-Term Care”, 17 Experience 35, ABA Senior Lawyers Division (2006); also published 2006 supplements to Elder Law Cases and Materials and to The Law of Employee Pension and Welfare Benefits.

Presentations

Delivered the keynote address at the Colorado Estate Planning Annual Meeting in Vail, Colo. in June; “The Ethics of Assisting a Dying Client” along with Dr. David Barnard at the PBI Elder Law Institute in Harrisburg, Pa.; “The Ethics of Subsidized, Mandatory Long-Term Care Insurance” at the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy Symposium titled “Long-Term Care for America’s Elderly: Who Is Responsible and How Will It Be Achieved?” in November; spoke on “Issues Facing Elderly Americans” as part of the symposium, “Holding Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities Accountable” at the American Association for Justice Winter Convention in Miami Beach in February; “Elder Law—Issues, Answers, and Opportunities” at the ALI-ABA Continuing Professional Education Program in Boston in September; “Elder Law, Medicaid, and the DRA: Where Do We Go From Here?” at the 44th Annual Great Plains Federal Tax Institute in Omaha, Neb., in December; presented at the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Advanced Elder Law Institute held in Salt Lake City in November.

Activities

Invited by the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission to serve on the Guardianship Working Group; planned and organized the initial meeting in Chicago of the Certified Advanced Practitioners of  the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, an organization composed of the nation’s preeminent elder law attorneys of which Professor Frolik is one of the organization’s only two academics.

Arthur D. Hellman

Publications

“The View from the Trenches: A Report on the Breakout Sessions at the 2005 National Conference on Appellate Justice,” 8  J. App. Prac. & Proc. 141 (2006); published the 2006 supplements to First Amendment Law: Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion and to Federal Courts: Cases and Materials on Judicial Federalism and the Lawyering Process.

Activities

Formally installed in March as the Sally Ann Semenko Endowed Chair at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he delivered his inaugural lecture titled “Justice O’Connor and the Threat to Judicial Independence: The Cowgirl Who Cried Wolf?”; testified as an invited witness at a legislative hearing in Washington, D.C. of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security concerning H.R. 5219, the “Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2006”; also testified at a hearing of the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property of the House Judiciary Committee on H. Res. 916, “Impeaching Manuel L. Real, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors”; elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. 

David J. Herring

Publications

“The Multiethnic Placement Act: Threat to Foster Child Safety and Wellbeing?” at the University of Michigan Law School’s conference “Looking Ahead to the Next 30 Years of Child Advocacy,” a conference marking the 30th anniversary of the school’s Child Advocacy Law Clinic this past March.

Bernard J. Hibbitts

Publications

“Beyond the Bluebook: The Future of Writing About the Law” as part of a New York Law School Law and Journalism Program conference on “Writing About the Law: From Bluebook to Blogs and Beyond.”

Activities

During the past year, JURIST solicited, edited and published 192 exclusive op-eds by legal scholars, attorneys and high-profile international legal policy-makers, including the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe and the UK Home Secretary. JURIST law school student staffers researched, wrote and published more than 4,000 real-time news stories, where JURIST, at its peak, drew more than a half-million visitors by 370,000 unique users in a week. Professor Hibbitts is the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of JURIST.

Recognition

JURIST won another major international Web award, the W3 Gold Award in the “Law and Legal Services” category. The W3 Award honors “outstanding Web sites, Web marketing, and Web advertising created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers and creators worldwide.”

Anthony C. Infanti

Publications

“From the Sidelines: A Deconstructionist View of Circular 230,” 107 Tax Notes 1575 (2005), reprinted in Monthly Digest of Tax Articles 30 (August 2006).

Presentations

“Homo Sacer, Homosexual: Some Thoughts on Waging Tax Guerrilla Warfare” at the University of Toronto in January as part of the James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series and the Diversity Workshop Series.

Activities

Visiting Professor, Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, during the Fall 2006 semester.

Sandra D. Jordan

Activities

Appointed Chairperson of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Committee on the Rules of Evidence, October 2006; appointed to serve on the Board of Editors for the White Collar Crime Reporter; appointed to the Gender Equity Task Force of the Allegheny County Bar Association.

Jules Lobel

Presentations

“Courts of Forums of Justice” at the Rebellious Lawyers Conference at Yale Law School; lecture to a university-wide audience at Idaho State University.

William V. Luneburg, Jr.

Publications

“Lobbying Disclosure: A Recipe for Reform,” with Thomas M. Susman, 33 J. Legis. 32 (2006).

Presentations

“Can Lobbying Disclosure Really ‘Deliver’?” as part of the symposium “Election and Lobbying Reform: Can Congress Really Change the Political System?”, sponsored by the Journal of Legislation at the University of Notre Dame Law School; “Selected Developments in Litigation and Rulemaking Affecting U.S. EPA Clean Air Act Programs, 2006–2007” at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s annual Environmental Law Forum 2007 in Harrisburg in April.

Michael J. Madison

Publications

“Fair Use and Social Practices,” in four-volume series Intellectual Property and Information Wealth, edited by Professor Peter Yu (Greenwood Publishers 2006); “The Idea of the Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige, and Open Access,” 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 901 (2006).

Presentations

“Information Form and Flow” at the George Washington Law School in November; gave a presentation as part of the program “What Ifs and Other Alternative Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Stories” at the Fourth Annual Michigan State University Intellectual Property & Communications Law Symposium; spoke on the legal implications of using Web 2.0 technologies at the Community 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas, Nev.

Activities

Organized and hosted the Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in October, attended by more than 45 intellectual property faculty from around the country; started a weblog to chronicle publication, presentations and achievements of the Pitt Law faculty, available at http://pittlawfaculty.net.

Alan Meisel

Publications

“From Tragedy to Catastrophe: The Bureaucratization of Informed Consent,” 6 Yale Journal of Health Law, Policy and Ethics 101–105 (2006).

Presentations

“Emerging Issues in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research” at the National Academy of Sciences Stem Cell Symposium in Washington, D.C., in November.

Activities

Awarded the “Oscar M. Ruebhausen Visiting Professorship in Bioethics” grant in 2006 from The Greenwall Foundation; appointed to the Committee on Bioethics and the Law of the American Bar Association; appointed to the Hastings Center’s Task Force to Update End-of-Life Guidelines; appointed to the Ethics Committee of the Obstetric Pharmacology Research Unit, Pharmaceutical Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Janice M. Mueller

Publications

“Taking TRIPS to India—Novartis, Patent Law, and Access to Medicines,” New Eng. J. Med. (Feb. 8, 2007) at 541.

Presentations

Presented her India patent law research at the University of Michigan Law School’s IP Workshop in April.

Peter B. Oh

Presentations

“The Dutch Auction Myth” at the Global Conference on Business & Economics at the University of Cambridge and at a faculty workshop at the University of Tulsa College of Law; delivered the keynote address, titled “IPOs in the Internet Age: The Case for Updated Regulations,” at a symposium in March at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

Stella L. Smetanka

Presentations

“Litigating in the Public Interest” to residents in plastic surgery and their professors during Grand Rounds at Allegheny General Hospital, November 2006.

Linda Tashbook

Activities

Wrote a library training and operation manual for Ideaccess, a Canadian NGO planning to establish public libraries in needy Middle East communities; became certified as a mediator by the Pittsburgh Mediation Center.

George H. Taylor

Publications

“Race, Religion, and Law: The Tension Between Spirit and Its Institutionalization,” 6 U. Md. L.J. of Race, Religion, Gender, & Class 51 (2006).

Lu-in Wang

Activities

Elected to membership in the American Law Institute.

Rhonda Wasserman

Publications

“Tolling: The American Pipe Tolling Rule and Successive Class Actions, 58 Fla. L. Rev. 803 (2006).

Presentations

Gave a faculty workshop in February at the University of Cincinnati College of Law on “The Curious Complications With Back-End Opt-Out Rights.”
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