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12/11/2009
Dec. 11

Professor Marge Koosed discusses Ohio's death penalty on WCPN 90.3 FM's The Sound of Ideas listen here

12/6/2009
Dec. 6

Experts from Akron Law's Small Business Legal Clinic will be among the presenters at an upcoming financial workshop. The text for this Akron Beacon Journal story is available here .

11/30/2009
November

Jane Campbell Moriarty is quoted in the November issue of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal on using expert witnesses in federal civil litigation.

11/30/2009
Nov. 30

Crains' Cleveland Business ran a story nothing that the percentage of Akron L aw students passing the bar has changed for the better since the start of the decade. Associate Dean Bill Jordan is quoted in the story. Electronic text is not available.

11/30/2009
November 2009

• Tracy Thomas' work, Bailouts, Bonuses, And The Return Of Unjust Gains, was posted on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Saturday October 31, 2009.  Link is here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2009/10/31/bailouts-bonuses-and-the-return-of-unjust-gains/#more-4812
• The Miller Becker Symposium (courtesy of Jack Sahl and Frank Quirk) was written up in the ABA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct.  Link is here:
  http://lawyersmanual.bna.com/mopw2/3300/split_display.adp?fedfid=15446206&vname=mopcnotlatest&fn=15446206&jd=a0c1b5x5q3&split=0
• Rich Lavoie's new Textbook, Problems in Tax Ethics (West) was just published.
• Kalyani Robbins published Strength in Numbers: Setting Quantitative Criteria for Listing Species Under the Endangered Species Act, 27 UCLA J. Envt L. & Pol. 1 (2009)
• Dick Aynes'  learned that two of his articles had been cited multiple times and quoted in the amicus brief filed by lawyers for the Institute for Justice and the Cato Institute in support of the petition for writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court in McDonald v. Chicago and NRA v. Chicago.
• Will Huhn was solicited to submit and did submit an article to the Amsterdam Law Forum (Online journal in the Netherlands) and submitted Cross Burning as Hate Speech Under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was published last month.  He also published The Legacy of Slaughterhouse, Bradwell, and Cruikshank in Constitutional Interpretation, 42 AKRON LAW REVIEW 1051-1080 (2009).
• Marge Koosed learned that her LawYou Can Use column, "Judges Instruct Juries in Criminal Cases" for the OSBA was printed in five newspapers in Ohio in August including the Cleveland Daily Legal News.
• Alan Newman Published Ohio Trust Code Update: Recent Developments, 20 Probate Law Journal of Ohio 1 (September/October 2009.

11/25/2009
Nov. 25

Historian Paul Finkelman, who held the John F. Seiberling endowed chair at Akron Law in 1998 and 1999, will deliver remarks at a ceremony commemorating John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Sesquicentennial. The text for this West Side Leader story is available here .

11/23/2009
Akron Law Gives Thanks

Akron, Ohio, Nov. 23, 2009 - In the spirit of Thanksgiving, members of The University of Akron School of Law faculty and administration share what aspects of the law for which they are most thankful.

11/22/2009
Nov. 22

Professor J. Dean Carro is quoted in an Akron Beacon Journal story on juror compensation. The text for this story is available here .

11/13/2009
Nov. 13

J. Dean Carro is quoted in a WCPN-FM story on insanity pleas. Text and audio are available here .   Akron Law students participated in the Buffalo-Niagara National Mock Trial Competition. The text for this Buffalo News story is available here .

11/12/2009
Nov. 12

Akron Law students participated in the Buffalo-Niagara National Mock Trial Competition.  Text is available here.

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