Faculty Focus is a monthly
publication documenting the activities, accomplishments, and honors of the
January/February
2007
Christine Agnew was nominated to serve on the Council
of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation. In addition, she was
asked to serve on the academic advisory board of the Tannenwald Foundation
for Excellence in Tax Scholarship. The overriding purpose of the Foundation
is to encourage and foster in law students the intense passion that Judge
Tannenwald had for rigorous and insightful legal analysis, for precise legal
writing, and for quality legal education.
Aaron
Bruhl has been selected to write two
entries in the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Political Science
(Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008). The entries will cover “precedent” and
“Contempt of Congress.”
Darren
Bush completed a review of Network Access, Regulation, and
Antitrust by Diana L. Moss, ed. that will appear in 30 World Comparative L. & Economic Review___ (2007). In February,
he will comment on a paper by Larry Sullivan and Warren Grimes at a symposium in
honor of Larry Sullivan who is retiring this year. In March, he will present his
paper Electricity Merger Analysis: Market
Screens, Market Definition, and Other Lemmings at the American
Antitrust Institute’s 7th Annual Energy Roundtable Workshop titled
Lessons Learned from Electricity
Restructuring. In April, he will be discussing Robert Steiner’s paper
on vertical restraints at the 2007 Loyola Antitrust Colloquium. He will also be
participating in a PLI program on the Tunney Act, to be scheduled after Judge
Jackson makes his ruling in the SBC/AT&T merger. He has also wrapped up his
work for the Antitrust Modernization Commission which recently posted its list
of tentative recommendations, available at http://www.amc.gov/pdf/meetings/list_of_recommendations_jan_11v3.pdf.
In cooperation with the Houston Law Review, he will be working to gather papers
and authors for a symposium on Airline Deregulation and Antitrust to be
published next year. On December 13th 2006, he appeared on the local
NBC and ABC affiliates discussing the potential combination of United Airlines
and Continental Airlines. Finally, his article
Meredith J.
Duncan presented her article “Rape
Sans Rapist: The Need for Clearer
Lines Between Forcible Rape and Nonconsensual Sex” at the Mid-Atlantic People of
Color Legal Scholarship Conference at the University of Richmond School of Law
on January 26 & 27, 2007.
Peter
Hoffman was a presenter at the Texas
Academy of Family Law Specialists 2007 Trial Institute held in
Craig
Joyce published the Cumulative Supplement
to Copyright Law (7th Ed. 2006).
Joan
Krause is the author of an article,
Accutane: Has drug Regulation in the
Chuck
Meyer recently served as a roundtable
discussion participant on the UK National Health Services Research Agenda at the
Health, The Body and the E-Society Symposium in
Douglas
Moll (with Bob Ragazzo) completed the statutory
supplement for their recent casebook, Closely Held Business Organizations:
Cases, Materials, and Problems (Thomson West). The supplement was published in
early January. They have now started working on their treatise, The Law of Close
Corporations (Aspen Publishing), to be published in
2008.
Gerry
Moohr presented “The Prospects of
Deterring White Collar Crime” at a University of Alabama Law School faculty
colloquium last October. The paper, written for a symposium at the University of
Maryland School of Law, will be published by the Maryland School of Business and
Technology Law. Prof. Moohr has agreed to serve as co-author with Linda Malone,
Paul Marcus, and Joe Cook in the sixth edition of their Criminal Law Casebook,
published by Lexis. Her article, “What the Martha Stewart Case Tells Us About
White Collar Criminal Law,” was published by the Houston Law Review in November
2006. This article is a “Top Ten” in SSRN criminal procedure
downloads.
Tom
Oldham and co-author Kelly Weisberg
produced a new edition of Texas Family Code and Related Provisions, which was
published in January by
Michael A.
Olivas delivered a paper on Germaneness in
Academic Freedom Norms at the January AALS Annual Meeting, and serves on the
Executive Committee of the Association. He has continued to give invited talks
on his book about the Hernandez v
Jordan
Paust was a member of a panel on
Transnational Cybercrime at the meeting of the American Branch, International
Law Association-West on February 3, 2007, at
Nancy
Rapoport has two articles in the SSRN “top
10 downloads”: “Lord of the Flies (1963): The Development of Rules Within an
Adolescent Culture” at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=949168,
and “Not Quite ‘Them’, Not Quite ‘Us”: Why It’s Difficult for Former Deans to go
Home Again” at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=936251.
Prof Rapoport has also authored a chapter, Reflections of a Former Dean, in Law School Leadership Strategies: Top Deans on
Benchmarking Success, Incorporating Feedback From Faculty and Students, and
Building the Endowment (Aspatore Books 2006). In other news, on February
2-3, she spoke at a CLE for professional development coordinators of law firms
in
Irene
Rosenberg has authored an article, “The Bible
for Lawyers-Legal Principles in the Story of Creation,” which has been accepted
for publication by the Criminal Law Bulletin.
Ira B.
Shepard spoke on “Recent Developments in
Federal Income Taxation” (with Martin J. McMahon, Jr., of the University of
Texas Law School) at the Mid-Winter meeting of the American Bar Association Tax
Section in January. He also spoke in January on “Current Developments in Federal
Taxation” to the Wednesday Tax Forum. In February, he spoke on “Ethical Lessons
from the Tax Shelter Wars” to the (
Don
Tomlinson spoke on January 17, 2007 to the
Sterling Bank Women’s Business Initiative at the H.E.S.S. Club in
Jacqueline
Weaver was in