Law School

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

Marjorie co-taught the first segment of her Making Mediators CLE workshop, in which lawyers serve as mediators for students enrolled in the law school's Mediation Advocacy class.

With Adjunct Professor Jim Lawrence, Marjorie coached UC's regional winners in the ABA's negotiation competition in preparation for the National Competition. She also coached and traveled with two UC teams for the Regionals of the ABA's Client Counseling Competition. Marjorie conducted the intra-school Representation in Mediation Competition, selecting two teams to represent UC at the Regionals in March.

Marjorie's book chapter, Evaluation in Mediation, Mediating Legal Disputes (Dwight Golann, ed., 1997), was cited in John Lande, How Much Justice Can We Afford?: Defining the Courts' Roles and Deciding the Appropriate Number of Trials, Settlement Signals, and Other Elements Needed to Administer Justice, 2006 J. Disp. Resol. 213.

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

Timothy K. Armstrong
Assistant Professor of Law

Two of Tim's articles were cited:

• Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 49 (2006), in Oscar Javier Solorio Perez, La Nueva Gestion del Conocimiento, AR: Revista de Derecho Informatico #100 (Nov. 2006).
• Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 203 (2004), in Katherine D. Spitz, Note, Sex, Drugs, and Federalism's Role: Regulation of Morning After Pill on Public College and University Campuses, 33 J.C. & U.L. 191 (2006).

Profile of Professor Armstrong

Marianna Brown Bettman
Invited Professor of Law

Marianna published Restoring Fault to Workers' Comp Decisions as her monthly Legally Speaking column in American Israelite and City Beat. She gave a speech to the Lawyers Club of Cincinnati on The Legal Challenge of Prenatal Torts in Ohio.

Marianna hosted two judicial proceedings at the College:

• A hearing on a motion to decertify a class action.
• A disciplinary hearing.

Profile of Professor Bettman

Lou Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

Lou hosted and delivered introductory remarks at two events on campus:

• An exhibit at the Tangeman University Center, Marching Toward Justice: The History of the 14th Amendment from the Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal History.
• The Marx Lecture on Constitutional Humility by Michael J. Gerhardt (North Carolina).

Profile of Dean Bilionis

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

Barbara presented Transforming Rhetoric into Reality: A Federal Remedy for Negligent Brokerage Advice, 8 Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. 101 (2006), to the faculty at Chase College of Law. She attended Northwestern's Small Business Opportunity Conference. Barbara moderated a seminar with the lawyers at Keating Muething & Klekamp on the new Ohio Rules of Professional Responsibility.

Several of Barbara's articles were cited:

• Fraud on the Market: A Criticism of Dispensing with Reliance Requirements in Certain Open Market Transactions, 62 N.C. L. Rev. 435 (1984), in Margaret V. Sachs, Materiality and Social Change: The Case for Replacing "The Reasonable Investor" with "The Least Sophisticated Investor" in Inefficient Markets, 81 Tul. L. Rev. 473 (2006).
• The Second Circuit's Approach to the "In Connection With" Requirement of Rule 10b-5, 53 Brook. L. Rev. 539 (1987), in Keith A. Rowley, Cause of Action for Securities Fraud under Section 10(b) of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act and/or Rule 10b-5, 9 Causes of Action 271 (2d ed. 2006).
• Making It Up as They Go Along: The Role of Law in Securities Arbitration, 23 Cardozo L. Rev. 991 (2002) (with Jill I. Gross), in Ann Morales Olazábal, Analyst and Broker-Dealer Liability under 10(b) for Biased Stock Recommendations, 1 N.Y.U. J. L. & Bus. 1 (2004).

Profile of Professor Black

Kristin Kalsem
Professor of Law

Kristin presented Bankruptcy Reform and the Financial Well Being of Women as part of UC's Women's Studies Lecture Series.

Profile of Professor Kalsem

A. Christopher Bryant
Professor of Law

Chris participated in a Symposium on Presidential Signing Statements hosted by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law and the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.

Chris and Ronna Schneider coached a Highlands High School We the People Team that won the Kentucky state competition and will compete in the national contest in Washington, D.C. in April.

Two of Chris' articles were cited:

• Remanding to Congress: The Supreme Court's New "On the Record" Constitutional Review of Federal Statutes, 86 Cornell L. Rev. 328 (2001) (with Timothy J. Simeone), in Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Legislative Findings, Congressional Powers, and the Future of the Voting Rights Act, 82 Ind. L.J. 99 (2007).
• Retroactive Application of "New Rules" and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 70 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1 (2002), in Brian R. Means, Federal Habeas Practitioner Guide (Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Bryant

Paul L. Caron
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Faculty Projects

Paul participated as a panelist at a Symposium sponsored by the New York Law School Program in Law & Journalism and the New York Law School Law Review on Writing About the Law: From Bluebook to Blogs and Beyond. Paul spoke on a panel on Just Cite It! The Traditional Law Review Structure with Ann Althouse (Wisconsin), Randy E. Barnett (Georgetown), and James Lindgren (Northwestern), moderated by Cameron Stracher (NYLS). The event was live-blogged by Ann Althouse, David Latt, and Larry Solum.

Paul was quoted in:

• Wall Street Journal Law Blog: Judicial Pay: Are Judges Being Selective with the Evidence, Feb. 15, 2007.
• Bloomberg News: Professional Gambler's Losing Streak Extended by IRS, Feb. 21, 2007.

Paul launched two blogs as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network:

• Civil Procedure Prof Blog, edited by Jeremy Counseller (Baylor) & Rory Ryan (Baylor).
• Higher Ed Law Prof Blog, edited by James Catagnera (Rider) & Patrick Cihon (Syracuse)

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

• 1 issue of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 8, no. 7).
• 1 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 7, no. 4).
• 2 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 7, nos. 4-5) (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell)).

Several of Paul's articles were cited:

• The Associate Dean for Faculty Research Position: Encouraging and Promoting Scholarship, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 233 (2001) (with Joseph P. Tomain), Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006) (with Bernard S. Black), and What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Texas L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Rafael Gely), in Law School Rankings, Faculty Scholarship, and Associate Deans for Faculty Research, by Richard Buckingham, Diane D'Angelo & Susan Vaughn (all of Suffolk).
• Back to the Future: Teaching Law Through Stories, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 405 (2002), in Adam Todd, Neither Dead Nor Dangerous: Postmodernism and the Teaching of Legal Writing, 58 Baylor L. Rev. 893 (2006).
• Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2006) (with Bernard S. Black), in Christine Hurt, The Bluebook at Eighteen: Reflecting and Ratifying Current Trends in Legal Scholarship, 82 Ind. L.J. 49 (2007).

Profile of Professor Caron

Margaret Drew
Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Domestic Relations/Violence Clinic

Margaret's published a review of Violence Against Women in Domestic Violence Reports (Civic Research Institute, 2007). She attended the ABA mid-year meeting and the meeting of the Youth At Risk Commission.

Margaret participated in several training sessions:

• Clinton County Bar Association training for attorneys representing victims of domestic violence (with retired judge Michael Brigner).
• Hamilton County Rape Crisis and Abuse Center advocates on child support and visitation issues in civil protection order cases.
• RCAC volunteers on Ohio civil protection order options.

Profile of Professor Drew

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

On behalf of the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project, Mark accepted an additional $1 million donation from local benefactors Lois and Richard Rosenthal. To date, three wrongly convicted persons have been released from prison as a result of the work of the RIJ/OIP.

Mark participated with Ann Hubbard, Suja Thomas, and Verna Williams in a moot oral argument in preparation for Pierre Bergeron's argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Winkelman v. Parma City School District.

Two of Mark's articles were cited:

• The Final Frontier of Constitutional Confession Law - The International Arena: Exploring the Admissibility of Confessions Taken by U.S. Investigators from Non-Americans Abroad, 91 Geo. L.J. 851 (2003), in J. Andrew Kent, A Textual and Historical Case against a Global Constitution, 95 Geo. L.J. 463 (2007).
• Rethinking the Involuntary Confession Rule: Toward a Workable Test for Identifying Compelled Self-Incrimination, 93 Cal. L. Rev. 465 (2005), in Barry C. Feld, Police Interrogation of Juveniles: an Empirical Study of Policy and Practice, 97 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 219 (2006).

Mark was quoted in:

• Lawyers Mostly Defend Liz Carroll's Silence, Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 22, 2007, at A7.
• Law Firms Beefing up White-collar Crime Teams, Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 4, 2007, at 1J.
• DNA Confirms Guilt of Man Who Raped Senior in '94, Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 3, 2007, at 1B.

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

Ann Hubbard
Professor of Law

Ann participated with Mark Godsey, Suja Thomas, and Verna Williams in a moot oral argument in preparation for Pierre Bergeron's argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Winkelman v. Parma City School District.

Profile of Professor Hubbard

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

Bert participated as a commentator at a presentation at the College by David H. Moore (Kentucky) on International Law in U.S. Courts Sponsored by the Federalist Society. He hosted a visit to the College by Xinqiang Sun, Director of the Center for the Study of American Law at Shandong University in China.

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, (Thomson-West, 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's article, Rewarding Defendant Cooperation under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Judges vs. Prosecutors, 26 Crim. L. Bull. 399 (1990), was cited in F. Lee Bailey & Kenneth J. Fishman, Handling Narcotic and Drug Cases (LexisNexis, 2007 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Mank

Ronna Greff Schneider
Professor of Law

Ronna and Chris Bryant coached a Highlands High School We the People Team that won the Kentucky state competition and will compete in the national contest in Washington, D.C. in April.

Profile of Professor Schneider

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

Michael published Judges Followed Law in Franklin Case, Cincinnati Enquirer, Feb. 21, 2007. The op-ed discusses Franklin v. Anderson, 267 F. Supp.2d 768 (S.D. Ohio 2003), aff'd, 434 F.3d 412 (6th Cir. 2006), cert. denied, 127 S. Ct. ___(2007)

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Due Process and En Banc Decision Making, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 325 (2006), and Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Indraneel Sur, How Far Do Voices Carry: Dissents from Denial of Rehearing En Banc, 2006 Wis. L. Rev. 1315.
• The Future of Parity, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), and Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood, 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Lonny S. Hoffman, Intersections of State and Federal Power: State Judges, Federal Law, and the "Reliance Principle," 81 Tul. L. Rev. 283 (2006).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Christine Hurt, The Bluebook at Eighteen: Reflecting and Ratifying Current Trends in Legal Scholarship, 82 Ind. L.J. 49 (2007).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Ralf Michaels, Two Paradigms of Jurisdiction, 27 Mich. J. Int'l L. 1003 (2006).
• Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 299 (2006), in Ronen Perry, The Relative Value of American Law Reviews: Refinement and Implementation, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2006), and Alfred L. Brophy, The Relationship Between Law Review Citations and Law School Rankings, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 43 (2006).

Profile of Professor Solimine

Adam N. Steinman
Assistant Professor of Law

Adam was quoted in Liz Carroll Trial to Begin Today, Cincinnati Post, Feb. 12, 2007, at A2.

Profile of Professor Steinman

Suja Thomas
Professor of Law

Suja presented Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. __ (2007), to the University of Minnesota Law School faculty and to the Minnesota Employment Lawyers Association. The article was featured in Danielle Citron, Summary Judgment on the Line, PrawfsBlawg, Feb. 6, 2007.

Suja participated with Mark Godsey, Ann Hubbard, and Verna Williams in a moot oral argument in preparation for Pierre Bergeron's argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Winkelman v. Parma City School District.

Several of Suja's articles were cited:

• The Seventh Amendment, Modern Procedure, and the English Common Law, 82 Wash. U. L.Q. 687 (2004), in Bernadette A. Meyler, Towards a Common Law Originalism, 59 Stan. L. Rev. 551 (2006).
• Judicial Modesty and the Jury, in Jason Mazzone, The Justice and the Jury, 72 Brooklyn L. Rev. 35 (2006).
• Re-examining the Constitutionality of Remittitur Under the Seventh Amendment, 64 Ohio St. L.J. 731 (2003), in Amanda Edwards, Medical Malpractice Non-Economic Damages Caps, 43 Harv. J. on Legis. 213 (2006).

Profile of Professor Thomas

Verna L. Williams
Professor of Law

Verna participated with Mark Godsey, Ann Hubbard, and Suja Thomas in a moot oral argument in preparation for Pierre Bergeron's argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Winkelman v. Parma City School District.

Profile of Professor Williams

Ingrid Brunk Wuerth
Professor of Law

Ingrid's article, Authorizations for the Use of Force, International Law, and the Charming Betsy Canon, 46 B.C. L. Rev. 293 (2005), was cited in Michael P. Van Alstine, Executive Aggrandizement in Foreign Affairs Lawmaking, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 309 (2006).

Profile of Professor Wuerth

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