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activities, accomplishments, and honors of the
January 2008
Richard Alderman testified before the U.S.
Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007.
He served as a panelist at the meeting of the Creditor and Debtor Law Section
of the AALS, spoke on the Deceptive Trade Practices Act at the State Bar Consumer
Law Seminar and conducted a faculty seminar and guest lectured in several
classes at the University of Tokyo Law School. He published the 2007-2008
edition of Consumer Protection and the Law (1626 pages, Thomson/West) and
published the 2007 supplement to The Lawyer’s Guide to the Texas Deceptive
Trade Practices Act (LexisNexis).
Victor Flatt’s article, “Taking the
Legislative Temperature: Examining Federal Climate Change Legislative
Proposals,” was published in 102 Northwestern Law Review Colloquy 123 (2007).
When released, the article was flagged by instapundit.com as an important
discussion of climate change policy. It was also on SSRN’s top ten downloads
for “Legislative and Statutory Interpretation”,
“Environmental
Economics”, “Public Policy Deliberation”, “Public Policy Democratic Theory”,
“Political Behavior: Voting & Public Opinion”, and “Political Theory:
Political Philosophy.” His articles’
“Act Locally, Affect Globally,” and “Let Us Drink Our Full,” have also made
several of the SSRN top ten download lists for December. Professor Flatt will
be presenting a Climate Change Legislation Update CLE on January 29 and will
also be a virtual speaker on a nationwide Environmental Law lecture forum.
Craig Joyce joined other leading
national authorities in copyright law in judging ASCAP’s Annual Nathan Burkan
Student Paper Competition.
Joan Krause was interviewed on December
17 by ENToday magazine about the fraud and abuse dangers of purchasing
in-office diagnostic imaging equipment.
Ellen Marrus coordinated and presented
at a symposium honoring the 40th anniversary of the In re Gault
decision sponsored by the Center for Children, Law & Policy at the
University of Houston Law Center. Professor Irene Merker Rosenberg (UHLC),
Professor Wallace Mlyniec (
Douglas Moll will serve on the
Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Agency and Unincorporated Business
Associations for 2008-2009. He will be visiting at the University of Texas Law
School in the spring of 2008.
Michael A. Olivas completed his three-year
term on the AALS Executive Committee, although he continues to be on the search
committee for the new association executive director. At the 2008 AALS Annual
Meeting, he made presentations about local immigration ordinances (he is
against them) and about litigation concerning immigrant children, on a panel
examining Plyler v. Doe after 25 years. He served as consultant to the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in DC, participating in a
meeting on legal issues concerning international science education and
admissions. He is also serving as a consultant to the College Board, which is
revising it admissions materials and procedures for immigrant SAT-takers; from
1995-99 he served as a Trustee of the College Board.
Jordan Paust spoke at Tulane University
School of Law on January 18 regarding war crimes and war crime responsibility
of various members of the Bush administration concerning the President’s
admitted program of secret detention and “tough”, “coercive”, interrogation of
detainees. He also participated with Professor Paul Verkuil of
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Greg Vetter concluded his year as Chair
of the Law and Computers section of the AALS by attending its annual meeting
held in