Faculty Focus is a monthly publication
documenting the activities, accomplishments, and honors of the University
of Houston Law Center Faculty.
March
2007
Christine
Agnew completed work on her article
titled “Come Hell and High Water: Can the Tax Code Solve the Post-Katrina
Insurance Crisis.” She has been invited to present this article at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society
Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of the Law on
July 25, 2007 at Humboldt
University in Berlin Germany. Professor Agnew also
published a column in the Journal of
Passthrough Entities on recent developments in partnership taxation.
In addition,
she was invited to serve as a member
of the Executive Planning Board for the Texas Junior Legal Scholars
Conference.
Marcilyn A. Burke
participated in the William and Mary
Environmental Law and Policy Review’s symposium entitled Mission Impossible?: The Compatibility of Military
and Environmental Goals, at the William and Mary Marshall-Wyeth
School of Law, in February 2007. Professor Burke spoke about post 9/11 changes
to natural resources law and their implications for military readiness and
conservation. An article will be forthcoming in that journal. Professor Burke
also made two presentations at Stetson University College of Law. The first
presentation was a biodiversity lecture for the Institute for Biodiversity Law
and Policy. The second presentation was for the (junior) faculty scholarship
exchange between Stetson University College of Law and the UH Law Center. Her Presentation was entitled
“Green Peace? Protecting Our National Treasures While Providing for Our National
Security.”
Darren
Bush commented on an article by Warren
Grimes and Larry Sullivan at the Southwestern Law School in a program titled Antitrust and Intellectual Property in Global
Context: Symposium in Celebration of the Work of Lawrence A. Sullivan
on February 23rd. His comments will be published in
the Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in
the Americas. On March 5, he
presented his paper titled Electricity
Merger Analysis: Market Screens, Market Definition, and Other
Lemmings at the American Antitrust Institute’s seventh Annual Energy
Roundtable Workshop. The paper will be submitted for peer review to the Journal
of Industrial Organization as part of the Symposium. He, along with counsel
representing the American Antitrust Institute, prepared and submitted an amicus
brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the matter of Credit Suisse Securities v. Billing. The
amicus brief was filed February 26 and is available
at:
http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Archives/crsuis)&.ashx.
On March 8, 2007, he testified at a
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Technical Conference on the Commission’s
Merger and Acquisition Review Standards under FPA Section 203 (AD07-2-000). The
webcast of the conference is available for 90 days from the date of this
conference at:
http://www.capitolconnection.gmu.edu/ferc.htm.
A copy of his written testimony is
available at:
http://www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/Files/20070308090625-Bush,%20University%20of%20Houston.pdf.
Aaron
Bruhl’s article “Return of the Line Item Veto?”
was accepted for publication in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional
Law. He recently received a New Faculty Research Grant from the
University of
Houston to support research
on strategic interactions between state and federal courts in interpreting the
Federal Arbitration Act. In February, Prof. Bruhl attended a conference in
Philadelphia on
Positive Political Theory and Constitutional
Law.
Anne
Chandler served as Program Chair and
Moderator for the American Bar Association’s national program, Child Clients are Different: Best Practices for
Representing Unaccompanied Minors, available at:
http://www.abanet.org/cle/programs/t07ccdl.html
Over 300 attorneys participated in
this program. She also was interviewed in February on Pacifica Radio’s “Open
Forum” show discussing proposed Texas legislation governing human slavery. She
recently developed the curriculum for a national program sponsored by the Vera
Institute of Justice and the Department of Justice on best practices in
delivering “Know Your Rights” presentations to detained immigrant minors. Ms.
Chandler guided University of Houston law students in presentation of
some of the materials. As part of her grant-funded clinical program working with
University of
Houston law students to
advise detained juveniles in the Corpus Christi Bokenkamp facility regarding
their rights, Ms. Chandler met with representatives of the Department of Justice
Executive Office of Immigration Review to discuss issues that have arisen in
legal representation of these individuals.
Seth J.
Chandler had his peer-reviewed paper
“Restricted Non-Cooperative Game Theory” accepted for publication in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(Springer) and for presentation this May in Beijing at the International Conference on Computational
Science. He also joined an ABA
inspection of the University of
Missouri, Kansas
City, Law School.
Victor
Flatt remote broadcast a presentation on
the likelihood of mandatory carbon dioxides cuts in the United
States at the International Carbon Trading Conference in
January. The British Government, the City of Houston, and the Greater
Houston Partnership sponsored the conference. Professor Flatt will also present
a university wide lecture at Seattle University on possible federal legislation
dealing with climate change. In February, Professor Flatt published an op-ed in
the Houston Chronicle on the City of Houston’s use of its nuisance ordinance to
control air toxins.
Paul
Janicke spoke at the State Bar of Texas
Intellectual Property Conference
in Dallas on
March 1. His topic was current case-law developments in patent litigation.
Prof. Janicke will speak in Washington, on March 27, to a meeting of the
Intellectual Property Owners organization. His topic will be remedies statistics
in recent patent infringement suits and whether recent Supreme Court decisions
have changed the landscape.
Joan
Krause gave a presentation on “The Ethics
of Influence: Pharmaceutical Companies and Medical Practice” on March 1 at the
University of Toronto
Faculty of Law Health Law and Policy
Workshop.
Tom
Oldham and Profs. Elrod and Garrison
announce, with exhaustion and pride, the completion of the sixth edition of the
Krause et al Family Law text, to be published by West in summer 2007. This is
the third edition that Elrod, Garrison, and Oldham have updated on behalf of Prof.
Krause.
Michael A.
Olivas continued on the Hernandez circuit,
giving the Presidential Distinguished Lecture at Texas A&M, the
6th Annual Commemorative Lecture in Mexican American History at the
University of North Texas, the Ft. Bend Public Library, Thurgood
Marshall Law School, and Texas Southern University, and the Gillis Long
Distinguished Lecture at Loyola-New Orleans, March 15,
2007.
Laura
Oren delivered a paper in Columbus, Ohio, entitled, “Abandonment, Termination of
Parental Rights, and the Constitutional Contrast Between the Rights of Married
and Unmarried Fathers.” This was for a symposium on No Parent Left Behind: Father’s Rights in
Adoption held on February 15 and sponsored by the Capital University
Law Review in collaboration with Capitol University Law School
and the National
Center for Adoption Law and
Policy. On February 16, she judged a round in the Second Annual Moot Court
Competition in the Area of Child Welfare and Adoption Law. On April 20, she will
be delivering a paper at Children and the
Law After Katrina: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Young Evacuees,
organized by the Center for Children, Law, and Policy at the University of
Houston Law Center in collaboration with the ABA Center on Children and the Law. Her
article, “Thwarted Fathers or Pop-Up Pops? How to Determine When Putative
Fathers Can Block the Adoption of Their Newborn Children,” appeared in the Family Law Quarterly (published by the ABA
Section on Family Law). Her article on, “Some Thoughts on the State-Created
Danger Doctrine: DeShaney is Still Wrong and Castle Rock is Still More of the
Same,” is to be published shortly
in the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law
Review.
Jordan
Paust was a panel member on a panel
addressing Executive Power, International Law, and the Bush Administration at
the University of Virginia
School of Law and Miller Center of Public Affairs Symposium on
International Law at a
Crossroads, February 23, 2007. He
was also a panel member on a panel addressing Cybercrime and the Domestication
of International Criminal Law, during the American Branch of the International Law
Association-West meeting at Santa Clara
University, February 3,
2007; and he spoke briefly at the UH BALSA meeting on Darfur, Sudan, on February 10, 2007. He
recently spoke on Channel 11’s discussion of a pending prosecution of a person
accused of providing material assistance to a foreign terrorist organization and
spoke on KTRH radio concerning possible extradition of Manuel Noriega to France
after completion of his sentence in a U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.
Professor Pause will be a keynote speaker at the NY City Law Review Symposium, Guantanamo Bay: The Global effects of Wrongful Detention,
Torture, and Unchecked Executive Power, at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
March 23rd. He has also signed a contract to produce a book with
Cambridge University Press entitled: Common Plan: The Bush Administration’s
Unlawful Responses in the “War” on Terror.
Nancy
Rapoport will give the keynote address at
Capital
University Law School’s symposium, What’s Wrong With Legal Education on March
16. She is teaching a short course, Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos, to
Bankruptcy LL.M students at St.
John’s during March and April and is speaking on a panel
at Jurist’s 10th anniversary conference. She placed second in the
Vegas Showdown Open Ladies’ B Latin Scholarship and came close to taking first,
which is even nicer.
Richard Saver
and Joan Krause received a contract from Aspen
Publishers to develop and edit a book project tentatively titled, Case Studies in Health Law and Bioethics.
This is not a traditional casebook. Instead, the book will provide the detailed
narratives and back stories of 12-14 leading cases in health law and bioethics,
as well as comprehensive analysis of each case’s continuing impact. The book is
intended for use in law school classes as well as for medical schools, schools
of public health, etc. Chapter contributors will include prominent health law
professors in the field.
Sandra Guerra
Thompson gave a speech entitled, “Latinas
and Their Families in Detention” at a symposium at William and Mary Law
School in Williamsburg, Virginia, on February 23, 2007. She has also
written a law commentary entitled, “Immigration Law and Long Term Residents: A
Missing Chapter in American Criminal Law,” which will appear in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal
Law.
Diana
Velardo, Clinical Supervisor in the
Immigration Clinic and Crime Victims Coordinator, was the guest speaker at the
Mayor’s Interagency Victim’s Council. Her presentation, Immigration Remedies for
Victims of Crime, focused on remedies for victims of trafficking, domestic
violence, abused and neglected children, and victims of violent crimes. This
type of presentation is part of the community outreach component of the Crime
Victims grants that the Immigration Clinic has received for several
years.
Greg
Vetter presented, “Some Perspectives on Patent Licensing Language
Appearing in Free and Open Source Licenses” at the 8th Annual Intellectual Property
symposium sponsored by the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal at
the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, held on February 9, 2007. At
that same symposium, he also moderated the Patent Law reform
Panel.
Jacqueline Weaver spoke at the Texas Journal of Oil,
Gas, and Energy Law’s conference on Emerging
Energy Technologies on February 15, 2007, in Austin, Texas. She also spoke on the future of the petroleum-based
economy at the University of Houston Law Center’s Advanced Oil, Gas, and Energy conference
in Houston
on February 2, 2007.
Harriet Richman, Editor
