Law School

Marjorie Corman Aaron
Professor of Clinical Law, Center for Practice in Negotiation and Problem Solving

Marjorie coached Keith Hagan and Laura Railing, who won the ABA Negotiation Regional Competition in Valparaiso Indiana. She was quoted in Dwight Golann, The Changing Role of Evaluation in Commercial ADR, 14 Disp. Resol. Mag. 16 (2007).

Profile of Professor Aaron :: Center for Practice in Negotiation & Problem Solving

Lynn Bai
Assistant Professor of Law

Lynn posted There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)) on SSRN.

Profile of Professor Bai

Marianna Brown Bettman
Professor of Clinical Law

Marianna published her monthly Legally Speaking column in the American Israelite and Cincinnati Herald on State ex rel. Ohio Gen. Assembly v. Brunner, which dealt with the amount of time a governor has to veto a bill presented to him after the General Assembly adjourns before presenting the bill. She participated in a presentation on Professionalism and Substance Abuse at the Potter Stewart Inn of Court.

Marianna hosted a visit to the College by Judge John West, Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, who presided over a plea, a sentencing hearing, and an insurance coverage issue, and had a Q&A session with the students at the end of the session.

Marianna presented Highlights of the Past Term of the Supreme Court of Ohio (June 2006-June 2007) at CLE Programs at the UC Alumni Association and the Cincinnati Bar Association. She taught a class on tort law at the Institute for Learning in Retirement at Raymond Walters.

Profile of Professor Bettman

Lou Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

Two of Lou's articles were cited:

• Criminal Justice After the Conservative Reformation, 94 Geo. L.J. (2006), in John D. Castiglione, Hudson and Samson: The Roberts Court Confronts Privacy, Dignity, and the Fourth Amendment, 68 La. L. Rev. 63 (2007).
• The Unusualness of Capital Punishment, 26 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 601 (2000), in Corinna Barrett Lain, Deciding Death, 57 Duke L.J. 1 (2007).

Lou was quoted in A New CCM Trio?, Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 4, 2007, at 1E.

Profile of Dean Bilionis

Barbara Black
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Corporate Law Center

Barbara published Tattlers and Trail Blazers: Attorneys' Liability for Clients' Fraud, 46 Washburn L.J. 91 (2006). She posted Stoneridge Investment Partners v. Scientific-Atlanta (8th Cir. 2006): What Makes it the Most Important Securities Case in a Decade? on SSRN.

Barbara presented The Role of Corporate Counsel in Fostering an Ethical Environment at the Southwest Ohio Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel America CLE seminar. The presentation was announced in How In-House Counsel Can Promote Ethics, 15 (11) Metropolitan Corporate Counsel NaN. (Nov. 2007).

Several of Barbara's articles were cited:

• Tattlers and Trail Blazers: Attorneys' Liability for Clients' Fraud, 46 Washburn L.J. 91 (2006); Brokers and Advisers - What's in a Name?, 11 Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. 31 (2005); Securities Regulation in the Electronic Age: Online Trading, Discount Broker's Responsibilities and Old Wine in New Bottles, 28 Sec. Reg. L.J. 15 (2000); Economic Suicide: the Collision of Ethics and Risk in Securities Law, 64 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 483 (2003) (with Jill I. Gross); and The Irony of Securities Arbitration Today: Why Do Brokerage Firms Need Judicial Protection?, 72 U. Cin.. L. Rev. 415 (2003), in Thomas Lee Hazen, Treatise on the Law of Securities Regulations (Thomson West, 5th ed., 2008 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Black

Paul L. Caron
Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law

Paul published Are Scholars Better Bloggers? Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1025 (2006). He presented Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning at Illinois.

The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published International Law Stories, by John Noyes (California Western), Mark Janis (Connecticut) & Laura Dickinson (Connecticut).

Paul was interviewed on Real Lawyers Have Blogs. Two of his posts on TaxProf Blog were selected by the ABA Journal for inclusion on its Top Ten Stories of the Week:

• What Law Students Want (and What U.S. News Misses)
• Law Schools Won't Covet Place on This Ranking

Paul was quoted in the Wall Street Journal: High Court May Look Favorably on Municipal Bond Tax Breaks, Nov. 2, 2007, at A2.

Two of Paul's posts on TaxProf Blog were cited in law review articles:

• 545 Law Review Articles Cite Wikipedia, in Beth Simone Noveck, Wikipedia and the Future of Legal Education, 57 J. Legal Educ. 3 (2007).
• Blogging: Scholarship or Distractions?, in D. Gordon Smith, A Case Study in Bloggership, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1135 (2006).

Two of Paul's articles were cited:

• Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 1 (2006) (with Rafael Gely), in Larry E. Ribstein, The Public Face of Scholarship, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1201 (2006).
• Perspectives: How Blogging Opens Up New Areas for Professors, Diverse Issues in Higher Educ., July 19, 2006 (with Ellen S. Podgor), in Ellen S. Podgor, Blogs and the Promotion and Tenure Letter, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1109 (2006).

Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:

• 4 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 8, nos. 38-41).
• 3 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 7, nos. 23-25).
• 4 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 7, nos. 27-30) (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell)).

Profile of Professor Caron

Jenny Carroll
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law

Jenny and Adam Steinman welcomed Syla Augustine Steinman into their family on November 6.

Profile of Professor Carroll

Jacob Cogan
Assistant Professor of Law

Jacob provided commentary on a lecture by Eugene Kontorovich (Chicago) on The Quasi-Legality of Israel's Annexation of the Golan Heights & Occupation of the West Bank, hosted by the Federalist Society.

Profile of Professor Cogan

Margaret Drew
Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic

Margaret gave the keynote address on Self-Care of Those Who Work with Victims of Domestic Violence at the annual meeting of the Rape Crisis and Abuse Center. She trained lawyers and staff at Legal Aid of Greater Cincinnati on the dynamics of domestic violence.

Margaret presented Advanced Issues in Property Division in Divorce and Negotiations in Domestic Violence Cases at conference on Working With Battered Immigrant Women sponsored by the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Legal Momentum, and the Department of Justice in Lexington, KY. She participated in a meeting of the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence and in joint meetings with the ABA and AMA on training for their members on legal- medical issues involving domestic violence.

Profile of Professor Drew

Rafael Gely
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Rafael's article, Workplace Blogs and Workers' Privacy, 66 La. L. Rev. 1079 (2006) (with Leonard Bierman), was cited in Laura Evans, Monitoring Technology in the American Workplace: Would Adopting English Privacy Standards Better Balance Employee Privacy and Productivity?, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1115 (2007).

Profile of Professor Gely

Mark A. Godsey
Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice, Ohio Innocence Project

Mark and his Innocence Project students were featured in the Court-TV program, Justice Delayed. He was quoted in ‘Justice' Shows Work of UC Law Students, Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 1, 2007, at 6D.

Mark hosted a visit to the College by author Scott Turow (OneL, Presumed Innocent, Ultimate Punishment, etc.).

Profile of Professor Godsey :: Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project

Ann Hubbard
Professor of Law

Ann's article, Understanding and Implementing the ADA's Direct Threat Defense, 95 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1279 (2001), was cited in Sarah R. Christie, Aids, Employment, and the Direct Threat Defense:The Burden of Proof and the Circuit Court Split, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 235 (2007).

Profile of Professor Hubbard

Christo Lassiter
Professor of Law

Christo hosted a two-day visit to the College by Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor Jesse H. Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law and former Dean, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkley.

Profile of Professor Lassiter

Bert B. Lockwood, Jr.
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

Bert attended a Board of Governors Meeting for the Human Rights Center at the University of Connecticut. His article, Preliminary Thoughts Towards an International Convention on Terrorism, 68 Am. J. Int'l L. 69 (1974) (with Thomas M. Franck), was cited in Robert D. Sloane, Prologue to a Voluntarist War Convention, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 443 (2007).

Profile of Professor Lockwood :: Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

S. Elizabeth Malloy
Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law & Psychiatry

Betsy's article, Beyond Misguided Paternalism: Resuscitating the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment, 33 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1035 (1998), was cited in Strong's North Carolina Index (Lawyers Cooperative, 4th ed., 2007 Supp.)

Profile of Professor Malloy :: Glenn M. Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry

Bradford C. Mank
James B. Helmer Jr. Professor of Law

Brad published Title VI and the Warren County Protests, 1 Golden Gate Envtl. L. Rev. 73 (2007). He presented Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA's New Standing Test for States at Louisville.

Two of Brad's articles were cited:

• Implementing Rapanos–Will Justice Kennedy's Significant Nexus Test Provide a Workable Standard for Lower Courts, Regulators, and Developers?, 40 Ind. L. Rev. 291 (2007), in Michael C. Blumm & Sherry L. Bosse, Justice Kennedy and the Environment: Property, States' Rights, and a Persistent Search for Nexus, 82 Wash. L. Rev. 667 (2007).
• Standing and Global Warming: Is Injury to All Injury to None?, 35 Envtl. L. 1 (2005), in Timothy C. Hodits, The Fatal Flaw of Standing: A Proposal for an Article 1 Tribunal for Environmental Claims, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1907 (2006).

Profile of Professor Mank

Douglas Mossman
Director, Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry

Doug published Avoiding Errors about “Margins of Error,” Brit J Psychiatry 2007; 191:561 (with Sellke). His article, Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove, was accepted for publication in Law and Human Behavior.

Several of Doug's articles were cited:

• Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Evolving Standard of Care, 51 Psychiatric Serv. 1528 (December 2000), in John A. Larsen, Symbolic Healing of Early Psychosis: Psychoeducation and Sociocultural Processes of Recovery, 31 (3) Cult. Med. & Psychiatry 283 (Sept. 2007).
• Is Prosecution "Medically Appropriate"?, 31 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 15 (2005), in Jennifer K. Crawford, Who Really Decides? Forcibly Medicating Criminal Defendants: United States v. Archuleta, 3 J. Health & Biomed. L. 191 (2007).
• Three-Way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Todd A. Alonzo & Christos T. Nakas, Comparison of ROC Umbrella Volumes with an Application to the Assessment of Lung Cancer Diagnostic Markers, 49 (5) Biometrical J. 654 (Aug. 2007) and in Darrin C. Edwards & Charles E. Metz, Optimization of Restricted ROC Surfaces in Three-class Classification Tasks, 26 (10) IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 1345 (Oct. 2007).

Profile of Professor Mossman :: Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry

Ronna Greff Schneider
Professsor of Law

Ronna was a panelist on War and the Press at the annual Ohio State Bar Association Law and Media Conference in Columbus. She spoke about the First Amendment implications of prosecuting those who publish or otherwise reveal to the media or others leaked classified information.

Profile of Professor Schneider

Michael E. Solimine
Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law and Director, Faculty Development

Michael posted Congress, Ex Parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court on SSRN and presented the paper at the Ohio State Legal History Seminar. The paper was featured on the Legal History Blog, edited by Mary L. Dudziak (USC).

Several of Michael's books and articles were cited:

• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Publishing, 1999) (with James L. Walker) in Marcia L. McCormick, When Worlds Collide: Federal Construction of State Institutional Competence, 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1167 (2007); and Craig A. Nard & John F. Duffy, Rethinking Patent Law's Uniformity Principle, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1619 (2007).
• Deciding to Decide: Class Action Certification and Interlocutory Review by the United States Courts of Appeals under Rule 23(f), 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1531 (2000) (with Christine Oliver Hines), in Michael E. & Jane B. Tigar, Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction & Practice, (Lawyers Cooperative, 3rd ed. 2007 Supp.).
• Judicial Federalism After Bush v. Gore: Some Observations, 23 Just. Sys. J. 45 (2002), in Paul M. Collins, Towards an Integrated Model of the U.S. Supreme Court's Federalism Decision Making, 37 Publius: The Journal of Federalism 505 (2007).
• Shoring up Article III: Legislative Court Doctrine in the Post CFTC v. Schor Era, 68 B.U. L. Rev. 85 (1988) (with Richard Saphire), in Timothy C. Hodits, The Fatal Flaw of Standing: A Proposal for an Article I Tribunal for Environmental Claims, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1907 (2006).
• State Court Regulation of Offers of Judgment and Its Lessons For Federal Practice, 13 Ohio St. J. Disp. Res. 51 (1997) (with Bryan Pacheco), in Elaine A. Grafton Carlson & Roy McDonald, McDonald & Carlson Texas Civil Practice, (Lawyers Cooperative, 2nd ed., 2007 Supp.).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002); Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const'l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker); The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005); and Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), in Marcia L. McCormick, When Worlds Collide: Federal Construction of State Institutional Competence, 9 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1167 (2007).

Profile of Professor Solimine

Adam N. Steinman
Assistant Professor of Law

Adam published Reinventing Appellate Jurisdiction, 48 B.C. L. Rev. 1237 (2007). His article, Irrepressible Myth of Celotex: Reconsidering Summary Judgment Burdens Twenty Years after the Trilogy, 63 Wash & Lee 81 (2006), was cited and discussed in Wright & Miller, 10A Fed. Prac. & Proc. 2727 (2007).

Adam and Jenny Carroll welcomed Syla Augustine Steinman into their family on November 6.

Profile of Professor Steinman

Suja Thomas
Professor of Law

Suja delivered the Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award Lecture at the College on The Civil Jury: The Disregarded Constitutional Actor. She posted the lecture on SSRN; Larry Solum (Illinois) praised the lecture on his Legal Theory Blog as “Another paper from Thomas, who has written a number of cool papers on various aspects of the civil jury trial and the constitution.” The lecture also was covered on the Jury Experiences Blog.

Suja will participate on a Summary Judgment Panel at a February 29, 2008 symposium hosted by the Iowa Law Review on Procedural Justice: Perspectives on Summary Judgment, Peremptory Challenges, and the Exclusionary Rule.

Suja's forthcoming article, Why Motion to Dismiss Is Now Unconstitutional, 92 Minn. L. Rev. __ (2008), was discussed on Civil Procedure Prof Blog and the Corporate Law and Democracy.

Profile of Professor Thomas

Joseph P. Tomain
Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law

Two of Joe's publications were cited:

• Energy Law in a Nutshell (West Group, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy), in Michael H. Dworkin & Rachel Aslin Goldwasser, Ensuring Consideration of the Public Interest in the Governance and Accountability of Regional Transmission Organizations, 28 Energy L. J. 543 (2007).
• Nuclear Transition: From Three Mile Island to Chernobyl, 28 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 363 (1987) (with Constance Dowd Burton); and The Past and Future of Electricity Regulation, 32 Envtl. L. 435 (2002), in Richard R. Bradley, One Step in the Right Direction: An Analysis of FERC's Reporting Requirement for Status Changes for Public Utilities with Market-based Rate Authority,1 Envt'l & Energy L. & Pol'y J. 373 (2007).

Profile of Professor Tomain

Verna L. Williams
Professor of Law

Verna spoke at a “Coffee Talk” with students sponsored by the Public Interest Law Group.

Profile of Professor Williams

Ingrid Brunk Wuerth
Professor of Law

Ingrid's article, The Dangers of Deference: International Claim Settlement by the President, 44 Harv. Int'l L.J. 1 (2003), was cited in Bradford R. Clark, Domesticating Sole Executive Agreements, 93 Va. L. Rev. 1573 (2007).

Profile of Professor Wuerth

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