Law School

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

Marjorie convened UC's Negotiation Competition, with many Cincinnati lawyers judging ten student teams, to select the two teams that will represent UC at the ABA Regional Representation in Mediation Competition in November.

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

Timothy K. Armstrong
Assistant Professor of Law

Tim's article, Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 203 (2004), was cited in Lisa Schultz Bressman, Deference and Democracy, 75 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 761 (2007); and Katherine M. Krause, Issues of State Use of Social Security Insurance Beneficiary Funds for Reimbursement of Foster-Care Costs, 41 Fam. L.Q. 165 (2007).

Profile of Professor Armstrong

Lin (Lynn) Bai
Assistant Professor of Law

Lynn presented The Uptick Rule of Short Sale Regulation – Can It Alleviate Downward Price Pressure from Negative Earning Shocks? at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Law and Economics in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Profile of Professor Bai

Marianna Brown Bettman
Professor of Clinical Law

Marianna received the Cincinnati NAACP's Fair and Courageous Award at the organization's 52nd Annual Freedom Fund Dinner. She presented Highlights of the Past Term of the Ohio Supreme Court at the Annual Meeting of the Ohio Judicial Conference.

Marianna published More Muzzles (discussing public employee speech) as her monthly Legally Speaking column in the American Israelite and Cincinnati Herald. She arranged (with Jenny Carroll) a lunchtime program on Representing the Unpopular Client with local criminal defense lawyers Cathy Adams, Marty Pinales, Scott Rubenstein, and David Singleton. She hosted a visit to the College by Kathleen Brinkman, who spoke to the students on Your Money and/or Your Life: My Career Prosecuting Crooks, as part of the Harris Distinguished Practitioner Program.

Profile of Professor Bettman

Joseph Biancalana
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Joseph published The Origin and Early History of the Writs of Entry, 25 Law & Hist. Rev. 513 (2007). His article, Early Chancery Jurisdiction over Testamentary Matters, was accepted for publication by Tijdschrift voor Rechsgeschiedenis.

Profile of Professor Biancalana

Lou Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

Lou attended the annual ABA meeting in San Francisco and visited with Bay-area UC alumni, including a graduate from the Class of 1930. He gave a welcoming address to the College of Law Class of 2010 during Orientation Week.

Lou hosted the College's semi-annual Board of Visitors meeting and participated in the Corporate Law Center Advisory Board meeting. He hosted the Constitution Day program on Thurgood Marshall and the Burlingame Lecture with Michael Powell.

Lou presided at the College's 175th Anniversary Kickoff celebration (with William Howard Taft and UC President Nancy Zimpher) and dinner. He held meetings with alumni and conducted a firm visit.

Lou was selected to serve as Chair of the College-Conservatory of Music Dean Search Committee and as a member of the UC Diversity Council.

Several of Lou's articles were cited:

• Criminal Justice after the Conservative Reformation, 94 Geo. L.J. 1347 (2006), in Michael M. O'Hear, The End of Bordenkircher: Extending the Logic of Apprendi to Plea Bargaining, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 835 (2006).
• Process, the Constitution, and Substantive Criminal Law, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1269 (1998), in Mohammed Saif-Alden Wattad, 33 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement, 501 (2007).
• The Unusualness of Capital Punishment, 26 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 601 (2000), in Dora W. Klein, Categorical Exclusions from Capital Punishment: How Many Wrongs Make a Right?, 72 Brook. L. Rev. 1211 (2007).

He was quoted in Craig Lawyer Learned Law in Cincinnati, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 10, 2007, at 2B.

Profile of Dean Bilionis

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

Barbara's article, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO)--Securities and Commercial Fraud as Racketeering Crime after Sedima: What is a “Pattern of Racketeering Activity”?, 6 Pace L. Rev. 365 (1986), was cited in Andrew Kinworthy, To Remedy or Not to Remedy: The Availability of Disgorgement under Civil RICO, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 969 (2006).

Profile of Professor Black

A. Christopher Bryant
Professor of Law

Chris wrote and submitted three more entries to be included in the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillan, 2008): overviews of Nixon v. Fitzgerald, City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey, and Missouri v. Jenkins.

Several of Chris's articles were cited:

• Quirin Revisited, 2003 Wis. L. Rev.309 (with Carl Tobias), and Youngstown Revisited, 29 Hastings Const. L.Q. 373 (2002) (with Carl Tobias), in George P. Fletcher, The Law of War and its Pathologies, 38 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 517 (2007); and Carl Tobias, The Process Due Indefinitely Detained Citizens, 85 N.C.L. Rev. 1687 (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
Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law

Paul was quoted twice this month in the Wall Street Journal:

• An article on the federal government's tax evasion case against actor Wesley Snipes (whose attorney is Billy Martin, UC College of Law Class of 1976).
• An article on the deductibility of the fine paid by New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick for videotaped spying on the New York Jets. This story was syndicated in dozens of newspapers around the country, and Paul was quoted in an NPR report on the issue.

Paul and Bill Henderson (Indiana-Bloomington) invited forty prominent thinkers in the law school world to offer their single best idea for reforming legal education to Erwin Chemerinsky, the inaugural dean of the new law school at the University of California-Irvine. The forty contributions were published on Paul's TaxProf Blog and attracted considerable attention in the media and blogosphere (including the Wall Street Journal, Appellate Law & Practice, Brian Leiter's Law School Reports, Chronicle of Higher Education, Concurring Opinions, Conglomerate, Empirical Legal Studies, Feminist Law Professors, Law School Innovation, Legal Profession Blog, Madisonian.net, Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot, PrawfsBlawg, StephenBainbridge.com, Teknoids, Truth on the Market, and Voir Dire).

Paul's TaxProf Blog was named one of the Top 100 Academic Blogs that Every Professional Investor Should Read by CurrencyTrading.net.

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

• 4 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 8, nos. 28-31)
• 3 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 7, nos. 18-20).
• 2 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 7, nos. 22-23) (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell)).

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

• BankruptcyProf Blog, edited by M. Jonathan Hayes (West Los Angeles).
• Law & Development Blog, edited by Tom Ginsburg (Illinois) & Veronica Taylor (Washington)

Two of Paul's articles, Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 1 (2005) (with Rafael Gely), and Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2005) (with Bernard S. Black), were cited in Theodore P. Seto, Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings, 60 SMU L. Rev. 493 (2007).

Profile of Professor Caron

Jenny Carroll
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law

Jenny appeared (along with Mark Godsey and several UC students) on the A&E Network's Innocence Files Series in a documentary on the Ohio Innocence Project's Glenn Tinney case, featuring several current UC Law Students.

Jenny arranged (with Marianna Bettman) a lunchtime program on Representing the Unpopular Client with local criminal defense lawyers Cathy Adams, Marty Pinales, Scott Rubenstein, and David Singleton. She was quoted in ‘Innocence' Features UC Students, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 20, 2007, at 4D.

Profile of Professor Carroll

Jacob Cogan
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law

Jacob's article, International Criminal Courts and Fair Trials: Difficulties and Prospects, 27 Yale J. Int'l L. 111 (2002), was cited in Gregory S. Gordon, Toward An International Criminal Procedure: Due Process Aspirations and Limitations, 45 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 635 (2007).

Profile of Professor Cogan

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

Margaret attended the regional conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts in Columbus. She trained advocates for the UC Women's Center on the dynamics of stalking and related legal remedies.

Margaret attended a meeting of the Hamilton County Fatality Review (which reviews the circumstances of domestic violence homicides in order to determine areas where services to domestic violence victims might be improved.)

Profile of Professor Drew

Thomas Eisele
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Tom lead a faculty colloquia at Chase College of Law on Wittgenstein Tests Holmes: On the Proposal to Separate Legal Concepts from Moral Concepts.

Profile of Professor Eisele

Rafael Gely
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Several of Rafael's articles were cited:

• Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 1 (2006) (with Paul Caron), and Segmented Rankings for Segmented Markets, 81 Ind. L.J. 283 (2006), in Theodore P. Seto, Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings, 60 SMU L. Rev. 493 (2007).
• Through the Looking Glass: Can Title VII Help Women and Minorities Shatter the Glass Ceiling?, 31 Hous. L. Rev. 1517 (1995) (with Ramona L. Paetzold), in Ann Carey Juliano, Harassing Women with Power: The Case for Including Contra-Power Harassment within Title VII, 87 B.U. L. Rev. 491 (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 appeared (along with Jenny Carroll and several UC students) on the A&E Network's Innocence Files Series in a documentary on the Ohio Innocence Project's Glenn Tinney case, featuring several current UC Law Students.

Mark was a member of the ABA panel that published Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Ohio Death Penalty Assessment Report – An Analysis of Ohio's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices.

Mark's article, Rethinking the Involuntary Confession Rule: Toward a Workable Test for Identifying Compelled Self-Incrimination, 93 Cal. L. Rev. 465 (2005), was cited in Michael M. O'Hear, The End of Bordenkircher: Extending the Logic of Apprendi to Plea Bargaining, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 835 (2006).

Mark was quoted in:

• Bar's Points Merit a Look, at Very Least: State Obliged to Come up with Response, Dayton Daily News, Sept. 28, 2007, at A14.
• Suspend Executions, Bar Group Urges Ohio, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 25, 2007, at 1A.
• Suspend Death Penalty, Bar Says, Cincinnati Post, Sept. 25, 2007, at A1.
• Ohio Death Penalty Called Unfair: ABA Asks Gov. Strickland to Suspend Executions Pending Review, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sept. 25, 2007, at A1.
• 'Innocence' Features UC Students, Cincinnati Enquirer Sept. 20, 2007, at 4D.
• Confession to Slaying May Be False, Mansfield News Journal, Sept. 19, 2007, at 1.
• Trial of Sex Pill Promoter to Span Month, Cincinnati Post, Sept. 15, 2007, at A1.

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

Ann Hubbard
Professor of Law

Ann's article, Meaningful Lives and Major Life Activities, 55 Ala. L. Rev. 997 (2004), was cited in Allan Kickertz, Holistic Learning: Amending the Rowley Test to Clarify the Inclusion Debate, 29 W. New Eng. L. Rev. 733 (2007).

Profile of Professor Hubbard

Christo Lassiter
Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

Christo published Lex Sportiva: Thoughts Towards a Criminal Law of Competitive Contact Sport, 22 St. John's J.L. Comm. 35 (2007).

Christo published an op-ed in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Bring Federal Charges against Mom in Heat Death , Sept. 11, 2007, at 7B, which generated an opppsoing op-ed by Don White, Law Professor's Column on Heat Death Wrong on Many Counts, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 12, 2007, at 7B.

Christo was quoted in:

• Sheriff Is Sued over Jail Tax Issue, Cincinnati Post, Sept. 21, 2007, at A1.
• 'I'm Not Going to Change My Mind', Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 9, 2007, at 1E.

Profile of Professor Lassiter

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

Bert hosted a Distinguished Visitor Dinner with the following guests:

• Ghana: Joyce Opoku-Boateng (Legal Officer, Ministry for Women and Children's Affairs)
• Israel: Ziva Agami-Cohen (Head, Crime Unit, Immigration Administration)
• Lesotho: Pulane Lechesa (Legal Officer)
• Mexico: Arturo De Jesus Gonzales Ocampo (Sub-Delegate, National Institute of Migration, Secretariat of the Interior, Guadalajara's International Airport)
• Moldova: Irina Todorova (Direct Assistance Coordinator, Counter-Trafficking Unit, International Organization for Migration)
• United Kingdom: William Alan Skelly (Chief Superintendent, Lothian and Borders Police)

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, The Interaction of the ADA, the FMLA, and Workers' Compensation: Why Can't We Be Friends?, 41 Brandeis L.J. 821 (2003), in Carol Wong, The Family and Medical Leave Act: To Waive, or Not to Waive, 2007 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1567.

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, Should States Have Greater Standing Rights Than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA's New Standing Test for States, was accepted for publication in the William & Mary Law Review. The article was featured on Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog.

Brad participated in an online CLE program on Evolving Climate Change Regulations: Developing Trends in Law and Litigation sponsored by The Digest of Environmental Law and the Legal Publishing Group of Strafford Publications.

Several of Brad's articles were cited:

• Should State Corporate Law Define Success or Liability? The Demise of CERCLA's Federal Common Law, 68 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1157 (2000), in Marsh v. Rosenbloom, No. 05-0514-cv (Lead), 2007 WL 2416543 (2nd Cir., August 28, 2007).
• Textualism's Selective Canons of Statutory Construction: Reinvigorating Individual Liberties, Legislative Authority and Deference to Executive Agencies, 86 Ky L.J.l 527 (1998), in David S. Rubenstein, Putting the Immigration Rule of Lenity in its Proper Place: A Tool of Last Resort after Chevron, 59 Admin. L. Rev. 479 (2007).
• Civil Remedies, in Global Climate Change and U.S. Law 183 (Michael B. Gerrard ed. 2007), in Christina Ross, Evan Mills, & Sean B. Hecht, Limiting Liability in the Greenhouse: Insurance Risk-management Strategies in the Context of Global Climate Change, 26 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 251 (2007).
• The Murky Future of the Clean Water Act after SWANCC: Using a Hydrological Connection Approach to Saving the Clean Water Act, 30 Ecology L.Q. 811 (2003); 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); Are Public Facilities Different from Private Ones?: Adopting a New Standard of Review for the Dormant Commerce Clause, 60 SMU L. Rev. 157 (2007); Is There a Private Cause of Action under EPA's Title VI Regulations?: The Need to Empower Environmental Justice Plaintiffs, 24 Colum. Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (1999); Protecting Intrastate Threatened Species: Does the Endangered Species Act Encroach on Traditional State Authority and Exceed the Outer Limits of the Commerce Clause?, 36 Ga. L. Rev. 723 (2002); and Can Congress Regulate Intrastate Endangered Species under the Commerce Clause?, 69 Brook. L. Rev. 923 (2004), in Linda A. Malone, Environmental Regulation of Land Use (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2007 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Mank

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

Doug completed an article, Conceptualizing and Characterizing Accuracy in Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial, and submitted it to the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He presented Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events at the Correctional Service of Canada, High-Risk Offenders Roundtable, in Ottawa, Ontario.

Two of Doug's articles were cited:

• A Decision Analysis Approach to Neuroleptic Dosing: Insights from a Mathematical Model, 58 J. Clinical Psychiatry 66 (1997), in Vita Dolzan et al., Polymorphisms in Dopamine Receptor DRD1 and DRD2 Genes and Psychopathological and Extrapyramidal Symptoms in Patients on Long-term Antipsychotic Treatment, 144B Am. J. Med. Genetics Part B-Neuropsychiatric Genetics 809 (Sept. 5, 2007).
• Three-Way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Shuangge Ma & Jian Huang, Combining Multiple Markers for Classification Using ROC, 63 Biometrics 751 (2007); and Thomas C. W. Landgrebe & Robert P. W. Duin, 28 Pattern Recognition Letters 1747 (Oct.1, 2007).

Profile of Professor Mossman

William J. Rands
Professor of Law

Bill's article, Domination of a Subsidiary by a Parent, 32 Ind. L. Rev. 421 (1999), was cited in Linda A. Malone, Environmental Regulation of Land Use (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2007 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Rands

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

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const. L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), in Erwin Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction (Aspen, 7th ed., 2007), and Gary S. Gildin, The Sanctity of Religious Liberty of Minority Faiths under State Constitutions: Three Hypotheses, 6 U. Md. L.J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 21 (2006).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Keith N. Hylton, Torts and Choice of Law: Searching for Principles, 56 J. Legal Educ. 551 (2006).
• Enforcement and Interpretation of Settlements of Federal Civil Rights Actions, 19 Rutgers L.J. 295 (1988), in John C. Jeffries, et al., Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution (Foundation Press, 2d ed., 2007).
• Formalism, Pragmatism, and the Conservative Critique of the Eleventh Amendment, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2003), and The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 1421 (with Rafael Gely), in Richard H. Fallon, et al., Hart and Wechsler's The Federal Courts and the Federal System (Foundation Press, 2007 Supp.).
• Ideology and En Banc Review, 67 N.C. L. Rev. 29 (1988), and Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Micheal W. Giles, et al., The Etiology of the Occurrence of En Banc Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 51 Am. J. Pol. Sci. 449 (2007).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1998) (with William M. Landes & Lawrence Lessig), in Frank B. Cross, Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals (Stanford University Press 2007); James H. Fowler, et al., Network Analysis and the Law: Measuring the Legal Importance of Precedents at the U.S. Supreme Court, 15 Pol. Analysis 324 (2007); and Leigh Anne Williams, Measuring Internal Influence on the Rehnquist Court: An Analysis of Non-Majority Opinion Joining Behavior, 68 Ohio St. L.J. 679 (2007).
• The Quiet Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (1998), in Roxanne Barton Conlin & Gregory S. Cusimano, eds., ATLA's Litigating Tort Cases (Thomson West, 2007 Supp.).
• Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 563 (2002), in Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, If the Judicial Confirmation Process is Broken, Can a Statute Fix It?, 85 Neb. L. Rev. 960 (2007).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temp. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Michelle Schuld, Statutory Misinterpretation: Small v. United States Darkens the Already Murky Waters of Statutory Interpretation, 40 Akron L. Rev. 751 (2007).
• Recalibrating Justiciability in Ohio Courts, 51 Clev. St. L. Rev. 531 (2004), in Jonathan L. Entin & Shadya Y. Yazback, City Governments and Predatory Lending, 34 Fordham Urban L.J. 757 (2007), and in Brinkman v. Miami University, No. CA2006-12-313, 2007 Ohio App. LEXIS 3910 (OH 12th App. Dist. August 27, 2007).
• Removal, Remands, and Reforming Federal Appellate Review, 58 Mo. L. Rev. 287 (1993), in Adam N. Steinman, “Less” is “More”? Textualism, Intentionalism, and a Better Solution to the Class Action Reform Act's Appellate Deadline Riddle, 92 Iowa L. Rev. 1183 (2007).
• Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Greenwood Press 1999) (with James L. Walker), in Erwin Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction (Aspen, 7th ed. 2007), and in Laura E. Little, Federal Courts: Examples and Explanations (Aspen 2007).
• Rethinking Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 383 (1991); 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 State Court Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights, 12 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol'y 127 (1989), in Catherine M. Sharkey, Federalism in Action: FDA Regulatory Preemption in Pharmaceutical Cases in State Versus Federal Courts, 15 J.L. & Pol'y 1013 (2007).
• Rethinking Feminist Judging, 70 Ind. L.J. 891 (1995) (with Susan E. Wheatley), in Theresa M. Beiner, Diversity on the Bench and the Quest for Justice for All, 33 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 481 (2007); and Erika Rackley, From Arachone to Charlotte: An Imaginative Revisiting of Gilligan's In a Different Voice, 13 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 751 (2007).
• Status Seeking and the Allure and Limits of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 299 (2006), in Theodore P. Seto, Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings, 60 SMU L. Rev. 493 (2007).
• Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Court of Appeals En Banc, 9 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 171 (2001) (with Tracey George), in Tonja Jacobi & Emerson H. Tiller, Legal Doctrine and Political Control, 23 J. L. Econ. & Org. 326 (2007).
• The Three-Judge District Court in Voting Rights Litigation, 30 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 67 (1996), in Samuel Issacharoff et al., The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process (Foundation Press, 3d ed., 2007).

Profile of Professor Solimine

Sandra Sperino
Visiting Professor of Law

Sandra's article, Complying with Export Laws without Importing Discrimination Liability: An Attempt to Integrate Employment Discrimination Laws and the Deemed Export Rules, was accepted for publication in the St. Louis University Law Journal. She presented the article at the Second Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law at the University of Colorado School of Law.

Profile of Professor Sperino

Adam N. Steinman
Assistant Professor of Law

Adam presented Erie's Past, Erie's Future: What Is the Erie Doctrine and What Does It Mean for the 21st Century Politics of Judicial Federalism? at Indiana as part of the Cincinnati-Indiana Scholar Exchange Program.

Profile of Professor Steinman

Suja Thomas
Professor of Law

Suja's article, Why the Motion to Dismiss is Unconstitutional, was accepted for publication in the Minnesota Law Review. She presented the paper at Florida State as part of its Faculty Enrichment Series, and it was featured on Deliberations blog and in the National Center for State Courts Jur-E Bulletin.

Suja participated in the Vanderbilt University School of Law workshop on Empirical Research from the Federal Judicial Center.

Profile of Professor Thomas

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

Joe was appointed to the:

• Screening Committee for the Annual m Meeting of the Ohio Sate Bar Association.
• Community Investment Committee of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.
• Human Services Committee (Chair) of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.

Joe served as a peer reviewer for Yale University Press. His article on Judicial Compensation will appear in next month's issue of the Cincinnati Bar magazine.

Joe served as Board Chair of the:

• Program and Grants Committee of the Ohio State Bar Foundation.
• KnowledgeWorks Foundation.

Joe's article, Institutionalized Conflict between Law and Policy, 22 Hous. L.Rev. 661 (1985), was cited in Charles H. Koch, Jr., Administrative Law and Practice (Thomson-West, 2007 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Tomain

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