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Marjorie Corman Aaron
Professor of Practice and Director, Center for Negotiation & Problem Solving

Marjorie served as a judge for CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution annual award for professional articles. Her article, Using Decision Trees as Tools for Settlement, 14 Alternatives to High Cost Litig. 71 (1996) (with David P. Hoffer), was cited in Robert L. Haig, Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel (Thomson West, 2008 Supp.).

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

Timothy K. Armstrong
Assistant Professor of Law

Tim's article, Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 49 (2006), was cited in Jerome H. Reichman, Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Pamela Samuelson, A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public Interest Uses of Technically Protected Copyrighted Works, 22 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 981 (2007).

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Lynn Bai
Assistant Professor of Law

Lynn posted There are Plaintiffs and... There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements 61 Vand. L. Rev. ___ (2008) (with James D. Cox (Duke) & Randall S. Thomas (Vanderbilt)) at Pittsburgh as part of UC's Scholar Exchange Program.

Lynn attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

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Marianna Brown Bettman
Professor of Clinical Law

Mariana will receive the Ohio State Bar Association's Nettie Cronise Luttes Award at its annual meeting this May in Columbus. The award recognizes women lawyers who have improved the legal profession through their own high level of professionalism and who have opened doors for other women and girls.

Marianna has been appointed to a committee of community leaders who will serve as ambassadors for the Freedom's Sisters exhibit, an exhibit honoring twenty African-American women from the 19th century to the present who helped foster civil rights in the U.S. The exhibit is being sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and opens in Cincinnati at the Museum Center March 14, after which it will embark on a three-year nationwide tour.

Marianna attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

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Lou Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

Lou presided at the College's 175h anniversary gala celebration with Chris Collingsworth, John Grisham, and Governor Ted Strickland. He attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

Lou's article, Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), was cited in Morris B. Hoffman, The Myth of Factual Innocence, 82 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 663 (2007).

Lou was quoted in:

• CCM Dean down to Five Finalists, Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 20, 2008, at 8D.
• John Grisham to Speak at UC Gala, Cincinnati.com, Jan. 25, 2008.
• UC Law School Celebrates 175 Years: Author John Grisham Leads List of Celebrity Attendees, Cincinnati.com, Jan. 26, 2008.

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

Barbara's article, Securities Commentary: The Second Circuit's Approach to the ‘In Connection With' Requirement of Rule 10b-5, 53 Brook. L. Rev. 539 (1987), was cited and quoted at page 9 of the Supreme Court's majority opinion in Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., No. 06-43 (1/15/08).

Barbara's article, The Irony of Securities Arbitration Today: Why Do Brokerage Firms Need Judicial Protection?, 72 U. Cin.. L. Rev. 415 (2003), was excerpted in Donna M. Nagy, Richard W. Painter & Margaret V. Sachs, Securities Litigation and Enforcement (Thomson West, 2nd ed. 2007). She joined the Advisory Board of the Securities Regulation Law Journal.

Barbara attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, where she presented Are Retail Investors Better Off After Sarbanes-Oxley? at the Section on Securities Regulation panel on Have Securities Regulation Reforms Hit The Mark? (one of five papers selected after a call for papers; papers will be published in the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law).) She posted a subsequent version of the paper, Are Retail Investors Better Off Today?, on SSRN.

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A. Christopher Bryant
Professor of Law

Chris published Presidential Signing Statements and Congressional Oversight, 16 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 169 (2007). He participated as a judge in the state's We The People state finals competition in Columbus.

Chris participated as an “idea presenter” at the Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop at Ohio State. His article, Retroactive Application of "New Rules" and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1 (2002), was cited in Robert C. Post & Neil S. Siegel, Theorizing the Law/Politics Distinction: Neutral Principles, Affirmative Action, and the Enduring Legacy of Paul Mishkin, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1473 (2007); Brian R. Means, Federal Habeas Practitioner Guide (Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.); and Peter W. Low & John J. Jeffries. Jr., Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2007).

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

Paul spoke on a panel on Tax in the 21st Century: What's Blogging Got to Do with It? at the ABA Tax Section's Midyear Meeting in Lake Las Vegas, NV. The panel was covered in Kristen A. Parillo, Tax Press Plays Crucial Role in IRS Communications Strategy, Korb Says, 118 Tax Notes 478 (2008).

The Law Stories Series of Foundation Press, for which Paul serves as Series Editor, published Trial Stories, by Michael E. Tigar (American) & Angela J. Davis (American).

Paul attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, where he participated in a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI).

Several of Paul's publications were cited:

• Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2003), in Bryan T. Camp, The Play's the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds, 59 Hastings L.J. 1 (2007).
• The Federal Courts of Appeals' Use of State Court Decisions in Tax Cases: “Proper Regard” Means “No Regard,” 46 Okla. L. Rev. 443 (1993), and The Role of State Court Decisions in Federal Tax Litigation: Bosch, Erie & Beyond, 71 Or. L. Rev. 781 (1992), in Peter W. Low & John C. Jeffries, Jr., Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2007).

Two of Paul's posts on TaxProf Blog were included in the ABA Journal's Top 10 Stories of the Week:

• The Dark Side of Law School: Too Much Debt, Not Enough Good Jobs
• NYU Pays $4.2m for Condo to Lure Columbia Prof

Profile of Professor Caron

Jacob Cogan
Assistant Professor of Law

Jacob published Competition and Control in International Adjudication, 48 Va. J. Int'l L. 411 (2008). The article was the subject of an online symposium on the Opinio Juris blog, with commentary by Larry Helfer (Vanderbilt) and Monica Hakimi (Cardozo). See also Jacob's Introduction and Reply.

Jacob was a commentator at the Vanderbilt International Legal Studies Roundtable on The Law and Politics of International Cooperation.

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

Margaret moderated a panel on the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Massachusetts Abuse Prevention Act, sponsored by the Rosa Parks Committee of the Massachusetts Woman's Bar Association. Margaret was honored with a plaque for her “many years of standing up for justice and the rule of law.”

The ABA Commission on Domestic Violence distributed the Standards of Practice for Lawyers Representing Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking in Civil Protection Order Cases. Margaret was on the steering committee and acted as one of the drafters and editors.

Margaret presented Client Interviewing in Preparation for Trial as part of CLE webcast series for lawyers representing victims of violence sponsored by the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence.

Margaret attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City. She was quoted in More than One Family Grieving Loss, Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 13, 2008, at 13A.

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Rafael Gely
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Rafael's article, Striker Replacements: A Law, Economics, and Negotiations Approach, 68 S. Cal. L. Rev. 363 (1995), was cited in Joshua H. Whitman, Winning at All Costs: Using Law & Economics to Determine the Proper Role of Government in Regulating the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Professional Sports, 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 459.

Profile of Professor Gely

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

Mark attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City. He was quoted in:

• Pursuit of Justice, Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 31, 2008, at 01A.
• Lost Hope, Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 27, 2008, at 01A.
• John Grisham to Speak at UC Gala, Cincinnati.com, Jan. 25, 2008.

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

Emily Houh
Professor of Law

Emily attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, where she spoke on several panels:

• The Committee on Sections and Annual Meeting Program, Beyond the Program at the Annual Meeting: Other Functions and Roles for AALS Sections.
• Section on Minority Groups, “In the Name of Love”: What Does Martin Luther King Mean on the 40th Anniversary of His Assassination? (to be published in the NYU Review of Law and Social Change).
• Section on Law and the Humanities, Law and Order: SVU - Sexuality, Videos and You (to be published in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal).

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Kristin Kalsem
Professor of Law

Kristin attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

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Christo Lassiter
Professor of Law

Christo's article, TV or Not TV - That Is the Question?, 86 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 928 (1996), was cited in Jay E. Grenig, William C. Lee & Kevin F. O'Malley, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions — Jury Trial (Thomson-West, 2008 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Lassiter

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

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series of the University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published:

• International Human Rights Law: An Introduction (David Weissbrodt & Connie de la Vega, eds., 2007).
• Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa Did the TRC Deliver? (Audrey R. Chapman & Hugo van der Merwe, eds. 2007).

Bert attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

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 Roberta Achtenberg & Karen Moulding, Sexual Orientation and the Law (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2008 Supp.).

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

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

Brad was appointed as representative of the City's Environmental Advisory Council to Mayor Mallory's Steering Committee on Climate Change, which is developing a scheme to reduce the City of Cincinnati's emissions of greenhouse gases.

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

• Civil Remedies, in Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, 183 (Michael B. Gerrard ed. 2007), in Erin Overturf, Book Review, 8 Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol'y 74 (2007) (reviewing Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (Michael B. Gerrard, ed.. 2007)).
• Is a Textualist Approach to Statutory Interpretation Pro-Environmentalist?: Why Pragmatic Agency Decisionmaking Is Better than Judicial Literalism, 53 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1231(1996), in Courtney Covington, Rapanos v. United States: Evaluating the Efficacy of Textualism in Interpreting Environmental Laws, 34 Ecology L.Q. 801 (2007).
• Rewarding Defendant Cooperation under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Judges vs. Prosecutors, 26 Criminal L. Bull. 399 (1990), in F. Lee Bailey and Kenneth J. Fishman, Handling Narcotic and Drug Cases (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2007 Supp.).
• Superfund Contractors and Agency Capture, 2 N.Y.U. Envtl L.J. 34 (1993), in Reid Mullen, Statutory Complexity Disguises Agency Capture in Citizens Coal Council v. EPA, 34 Ecology L.Q. 927 (2007).

Profile of Professor Mank

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

Douglas was awarded the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry in recognition of his article, Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006). The award was established in 1967 to recognize outstanding contributions to the literature on forensic psychiatry. Douglas will receive the award and deliver the awardee lecture at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C. on May 8 (2008).

Douglas published Topiramate as Treatment for Alcohol Dependence, 299 JAMA 405 (2008) (with Stringer & Rueve).

Two of Douglas's articles were accepted for publication:

• Conceptualizing and Characterizing Accuracy in Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial, in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
• Tips to Make Documentation Easier, Faster, and More Satisfying, in Current Psychiatry.

Several of Douglas's articles were cited:

• Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clinical Psychology 783 (1994), in Nicola S. Gray, et al. Predicting Future Reconviction in Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities: The Predictive Efficacy of VRAG, PCL-SV, and the HCR-20, 19 Psychological Assessment 474 (2007).
• Dangerousness Decisions: an Essay on the Mathematics of Clinical Violence Predictions and Involuntary Hospitalization, 2 U. Chi. L. Sch. Roundtable 95 (1995), in Alanna Buchanan, Conversation: GPS Monitoring of Domestic Violence Offenders: a Racial Justice Perspective on Monitoring Domestic Violence Offenders Using GPS Systems, 43 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 271 (2008).
• Evaluating Violence Risk "By the Book": a Review of Hcr-20: Assessing Risk for Violence, Version 2 and the Manual for the Sexual Violence Risk 20, 18 Behav. Sci. L. 781 (2000), in Barry S. Cooper, et al., Clinical-forensic Risk Assessment: The past and Current State of Affairs, 7 J. Forensic Psychol. Prac. 1 (2007).
• Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med Decis Making 358 (1995), in Dongsheng Hu, et al., Central Rather than Overall Obesity Is Related to Diabetes in the Chinese Population: the Interasia Study, 15 Obesity 2809 (2007).
• Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Trevor I. Laine & Kenneth W. Bauer, 35 Computers & Operations Research 1789 (2008).
• Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: a Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psych. L. 27 (1996), in B. Christopher Frueh, et al. US Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Policies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Administrative Trends and Implications for Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Research, 97 Am. J. Pub. Health 2143 (2007).

Profile of Professor Mossman

Nancy Oliver
Associate Professsor of Law of Legal Research and Writing

Nancy was appointed to serve on the Infection Control Group committee coordinated by the Ohio Department of Health. The committee will study and recommend quality standards relating to hospital-acquired infections.

Profile of Professor Oliver

Ronna Schneider
Professsor of Law

Ronna is organizing a conference to be held at the College on April 13-14, 2008 in connection with her just-published book, Education Law Stories (Foundation Press, 2008) (with Michael A. Olivas). The book was cited in Laura Rothstein, Millennials and Disability Law: Revisiting Southeastern Community College v Davis, 34 J.C. & U.L. 169 (2007).

Ronna attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City.

Profile of Professor Schneider

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

Michael presented his paper, Congress, Ex parte Young, and the Fate of the Three-Judge District Court, at a faculty workshop at Villanova as part of the Scholar Exchange Program.

Several of his books and articles were cited:

• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Court of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), and The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L.Rev. 1421(with Rafael Gely), in Eugene Gressman, et al., Supreme Court Practice (BNA Books, 9th ed. 2007).
• Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev.1463 (2003) (reviewing John T. Noonan, Narrowing the Court's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States (2002)), Removal, Remands, and Reforming Federal Appellate Review, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 287 (1993), Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991), 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), and 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 Peter W. Low & John C. Jeffries, Jr., Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2007).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of State Courts in the Twenty-First Century, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 335 (2002), in Robert J. Pushaw, Jr., A Neo-Federalist Analysis of Federal Question Jurisdiction, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1515 (2007).
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Kermit Roosevelt, III, A Retroactivity Retrospective, with Thoughts for the Future: What the Supreme Court Learned from Paul Mishkin, and What it Might, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1677 (2007).
• The Impact of Babcock v. Jackson: An Empirical Note, 56 Alb. L. Rev. 773 (1993), and Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges,, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Jake Dear & Edward W. Jessen, “Followed Rates” and Leading State Cases, 1940-2005, 41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 683 (2007).

Profile of Professor Solimine

Adam N. Steinman
Assistant Professor of Law

Adam's article, Sausage-Making, Pigs' Ears, and Congressional Expansions of Federal Jurisdiction: Exxon Mobil v. Allapattah and its Lessons for the Class Action Fairness Act, 81 Wash L. Rev. 279 (2006), was cited in James E. Pfander, Protective Jurisdiction, Aggregate Litigation, and the Limits of Article III, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1423 (2007).

Profile of Professor Steinman

Suja Thomas
Professor of Law

Suja attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, where she organized and moderated an Open Source Program (a program competitively selected by the AALS Committee on Open Source Programs) on Implementing Scholarship.

Suja's article, Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. 139 (2007), was cited in Deirdre M. Smith, Who Says You're Disabled? The Role of Medical Evidence in the ADA Definition of Disability, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (2007).

Profile of Professor Thomas

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

Two of Joe's books were cited:

• Energy Law in a Nutshell (West Group, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy), in Daniel Pollak, S.D. Warren and the Erosion of Federal Preeminence in Hydropower Regulation, 34 Ecology L.Q. 763 (2007).
• Regulatory Law and Policy (LexisNexis, 3d ed. 2003) (with Sidney A. Shapiro), in Sidney A. Shapiro, OMB and the Politicization of Risk Assessment, 37 Envtl. L. 1083 (2007).

Profile of Professor Tomain

Verna L. Williams
Professor of Law

Verna attended the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, where she spoke on the Section on Minority Groups panel on E-racing the Color Line in Sports (to be published in the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal).

Verna's article, Reform or Retrenchment?: Single-Sex Education and the Construction of Race and Gender, 2004 Wis. L. Rev. 15, was cited in Rebecca A. Kiselewich, In Defense of the 2006 Title IX Regulations for Single-sex Public Education: How Separate Can Be Equal, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 217 (2008).

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Ingrid Brunk Wuerth
Professor of Law

Two of Ingrid's articles were cited:

• Authorizations for the Use of Force, International Law, and the Charming Betsy Canon, 46 B. C. L. Rev. 293 (2005), in David J. Barron & Martin S. Lederman, The Commander in Chief at the Lowest Ebb–Framing the Problem, Doctrine, and Original Understanding, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 689 (2008).
• International Law and Constitutional Interpretation: The Commander-in-Chief Clause Reconsidered, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 61 (2007), in Extending Hamdan v. Rumsfeld to Combatant Status Review Tribunals, 2007 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1365.

Profile of Professor Wuerth

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