University of Pittsburgh

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 six months.

Kevin D. Ashley

Presentations

Participated in workshops “Theory and Practice of Argumentation Systems” and “Argumentation and Decision Support in Application Areas,” Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany

Elena A. Baylis

Presentations

“International Interventions in Conflict and Post-Conflict States” at the Oregon Review of International Law’s Second Annual Symposium, Multiscalar Civil Society?: Legal Pluralism and Inequality; commentator for the Junior International Law Scholars Conference.

Deborah L. Brake

Presentations

Invited speaker at the South Carolina Law Review Symposium, “The Roberts Court and Equal Protection: Gender, Race and Class,” University of South Carolina School of Law; panelist on the program, “E-racing the Color Line in Sports,” AALS Section on Minority Groups, 2008 AALS Annual Meeting, New York.

Ronald A. Brand

Publications

“Judicial Review and United States Supreme Court Citations to Foreign and International Law,” 46 Duquesne Law Review 423 (2007).

Presentations

“Changing Competence for Private International Law in Europe,” Global Forum on Private International Law, China Society of Private International Law’s Twentieth Anniversary Meeting, Wuhan, China; “U.S. Law and Legal Education,” Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan; “The Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements,” Taiwan Society of Private International Law, Taipei, Taiwan; “U.S. Law and Legal Education,” China Three Gorges University School of Law, Yichang, China; “Legal Education for Foreign Students in the United States,” Wuhan University School of Law, Wuhan, China; co-moderator and speaker on the panel “Developing International Private Law: Informing and Understanding Hard Law and Soft Law,” American Branch of the International Law Association, annual International Law Weekend, New York; “Competition in the Harmonization of Private Law” at a conference on “Economic Law as an Economic Good: Its Rule Function and Its Tool Function in the Competition of Systems,” Dusseldorf, Germany; presented (with Professor Harry M. Flechtner) a 30-hour course on International Commercial Law and International Business Transactions to a group of U.S. Steel lawyers from Slovakia, Serbia and the United States, U.S. Steel Košice facility, Medzev, Slovakia.

Activities

Elected a Member of the Executive Committee, American Branch of the International Law Association; served as an Academic Fellowship Program International Resource Fellow, Kyiv Mohyla Academy School of Law, Kiev, Ukraine; traveled to the University of Bahrain College of Law with a Pitt Law delegation consisting of Pitt Law students Kate Drabecki and Katerina Ossenova to assist in selecting a team for the 2008 Willem Vis International Arbitration Moot competition held this March in Vienna. The Pitt delegation introduced Bahraini students to the U.N. Sales Convention and basic documents of international arbitration law, worked with them on written and oral presentation skills and supervised that team’s initial preparation of work on the 2008 Vis Moot problem.

Douglas M. Branson

Publications

“Still Square Pegs in Round Holes? A Look at ANSCA Corporations, Corporate Governance, and Indeterminate Form or Operation of Entities,” 24 Duke Alaska Law Rev. 2003 (2007).

Presentations

“No Seat at the Table: A Discussion of Women and Corporate Boards,” College of Law (Program in Business & Entrepreneurship Law) and College of Business (Corporate Governance Center), Drexel University; Frankel lecture at the University of Houston Law Center on No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom; speaker, University of Toledo School of Law Distinguished Lecture Series, on his book No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom (NYU Press, 2007), Toledo, Ohio; “Corporate Governance Reform in Japan—Fact or Faux?”, Asian Corporate Governance Association Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan.

Benjamin E. Bratman

Publications

“For-Credit Bar Exam Preparation: A Legal Writing Model,” The Bar Examiner (Nov. 2007) at 26.

Activities

Member, AALS Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance Committee.

Pat K. Chew

Publications

“Subtly Sexist Language,” 16 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 643 (2007).

Mary A. Crossley

Presentations

Participant on “Relationships and Resources” panel at Deans’ Workshop, 2008 ABA Mid-Year Meeting, Los Angeles.

Vivian Curran

Publications

“Globalization, Legal Trans-nationalization and Crimes Against Humanity: The Lipietz Case,” 56 Am. J. of Comp. L. (2008); “A Comparative Perspective on the CISG” in Drafting Contracts Under the CISG (R. Brand & H . Flechtner, eds. Oxford University Press 2007); “The Pursuit of Law” in Harmonizing Law in an Era of Globalization: Convergence, Divergence and Resistance (Larry Backer, ed. Carolina Academic Press 2007); Review of Le Droit sous Vichy (Durand, et al., eds.), 7 H-France Review (November 2007).

Presentations

Delivered the first Blanche Grosswald Endowed Lecture on “Human Issues in the Era of Globalization,” Rutgers University School of Social Work; delivered the Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture, sponsored by McGill University Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal; “The Language of a Cosmopolitan Legal Education,” McGill University Faculty of Law’s annual Foundations of a Cosmopolitan Legal Education Roundtable; “Legal Certainty in the Era of Globalization,” Tenth Conference of the International Association of Legal Methodology, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

Richard Delgado

Publications

“Rodrigo’s Corrido: Race, Postcolonial Theory, and U.S. Civil Rights,” 60 V and. L. Rev. 1691 (2007).

Lawrence A. Frolik

Publications

Residence Options for Older and Disabled Clients, ABA (2008).

Haider Ala Hamoudi

Publications

“You Say You Want a Revolution: Interpretive Communities and the Origins of Islamic Finance,” 48 Va. J. Int’l. L. 249 (2008); Howling in Mesopotamia: An Iraqi-American Memoir (Beaufort Books, 2008).

Presentations

“Islamic Finance: A View from the Mosque,” Asian Affairs Section, New York City Bar Association; “Render Unto Caesar or Revolution: Shi’a Political Fatwa of the Past 100 Years,” New York City Bar Association; “Realism and Resistance: Shi’ism and the Contemporary Liberal State” at a conference on “Islam and Liberal Citizenship,” Yale University.

Activities

Elected to the Executive Committee of the Islamic Law Section, Association of American Law Schools.

David A. Harris

Presentations

“Police Power and Practices Post 9/11: Is the War on Terror Changing Domestic Criminal Law and Procedure?,” 2008 AALS Annual Meeting, New York.

Activities

Chair Elect of the Criminal Justice Section for 2008, Association of American Law Schools.

Arthur D. Hellman

Publications

“Judges Judging Judges: The Federal Judicial Misconduct Statutes and the Breyer Committee Report,” 21 Justice System Journal 426 (2007); “Justice O’Connor and ‘The Threat to Judicial Independence’: The Cowgirl Who Cried Wolf?,” 39 Arizona State L.J. 845 (2007).

Presentations

“‘The Law of the Circuit’ Revisited: What Role for Majority Rule?”; co-organizer of the Conference on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, sponsored by Southern Illinois University School of Law.

Activities

Inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

Bernard J. Hibbitts

Presentations

“The Dea(r)th of Legal News: What Is To Be Done?,” University of South Carolina Law School; “JURIST for Journalists,” West Virginia University School of Journalism.

Anthony C. Infanti

Publications

“Tax Equity,” 55 Buffalo L. Rev. 1191 (2008); Everyday Law for Gays and Lesbians (and Those Who Care About Them), (Paradigm Publishers), part of the Everyday Law series (R. Delgado and J. Stefancic, eds.).

Presentations

“Deconstructing the Duty to the Tax System: Unfettering Zealous Advocacy on Behalf of Lesbian and Gay Taxpayers,” annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; “Tax Equity,” Canadian Law and Economics Association 2007 Meeting, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; chaired a panel on “Culture, Family and Taxes,” Law & Society Association Annual Meeting.

Activities

Elected to the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania ACLU.

Jules Lobel

Recognition

Won the first Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize for his book Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror, co-authored with David Cole.

William V. Luneburg, Jr.

Presentations

“Lobbying and the Law,” Stanford Law School symposium.

Activities

Member of the National Research Council of the National Academies that issued a report dealing with the implementation of the Clean Water Act on the Mississippi River, “Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities.”

Michael J. Madison

Presentations

“Information Governance” at Boston College Law School, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, and John Marshall Law School.

Activities

Elected to the Executive Committee, Intellectual Property Law Section, Association of American Law Schools.

Francis Barry McCarthy

Publications

“Counterfeit Interpretations of State Constitutions in Criminal Procedure,” 58 Syracuse L. Rev. 79 (2007).

Alan Meisel

Activities

Consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation, for its Secretarial Report to Congress on Advance Directives.

Peter B. Oh

Presentations

Presentations: “Piercing v. Lifting” at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Law and Economics Association at the University of Toronto and at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Law and Economics Association at the University of Minnesota.

George H. Pike

Activities

Member, AALS Committee on Libraries and Technology.

Stella L. Smetanka

Recognition

Received the Marjorie Matson “Woman of the Year” award presented by the Pitt Law Women’s Association and the Women in the Law Division of the ACBA.

Jean Stefancic

Publications

“The Lawyer Speaks of Rivers,” 37 Envtl.L. xxi (2007).

George H. Taylor

Presentations

“The Possibility of Dialogue in Today’s Diverse World: Understanding as Metaphoric, Not a Fusion of Horizons,” Society for Ricoeur Studies, DePaul University, Chicago.

Rhonda Wasserman

Presentations

“Are You Still My Mother? Interstate Recognition of Adoptions by Gays and Lesbians,” Loyola University Chicago School of Law and at the Chicago-Kent College of Law; moderator of panel “Adoptees’ Interests, Children’s Interests, and the Law,” at the “Encountering New Worlds of Adoption” conference hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and the Alliance for the Study of Adoption, Identity and Kinship.

Bookmark & Share: | More

Copyright 2009 | University of Pittsburgh School of Law