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2/2/2009
February 2, 2009
Marty Belsky has published Alan Dershowitz: The Advocate and Scholar as Jew: The Jew as Advocate and Scholar, 71 Albany L.Rev. 927 (2008) Marge Koosed has accepted an invitation to serve as a panelist and write a short article for the Creighton University Law Reivew's TePoel Lecture in April on the topic of credibility of eyewitness testimony. The keynote speaker for the panel is Richard De Mulder, professor of law at Erasmus University in the Netherlands and Legal Tools Expert Committee member to The International Criminal Court. Jane Moriarty has agreed to write a chapter for the forthcoming ABA book, "The Future of Evidence." Marge Koosed has been elected to the Executive Committee of the AALS Criminal Justice Section. Carrie Lyons and Brant Lee will present a "Face 2 Face" discussion titled "Neither Black Nor White" on Feb. 3 at noon in the Student Union, as part of the University Program, "2009 Rethinking Race: Black, White and Beyond."
1/28/2009
Akron Law and Akron Bar Association to Hold Benefit Feb. 19
Akron, Ohio, Jan. 28, 2009 - The University of Akron School of Law and the Akron Bar Association will join forces on a special benefit event titled "Law, Love and Chocolate." The event will be held from 4 - 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 19 at the Akron Bar Association (Fire Station No. 1, South Broadway).
1/27/2009
Jan. 27
The Akron Legal News ran two front-page stories on William Jordan being named Associate Dean and Elizabeth Reilly returning to the faculty. Electronic text is not available.
1/26/2009
January 26, 2009
Will Huhn will publish his article, "The Legacy of Slaughterhouse, Bradwell and Cruikshank on Constitutional Analysis" from the fall Akron Law Constitutional Law Symposium in the Akron Law Review. He has also accepted an offer to publish a related piece, "Lincoln was a Framer of the Constitution" in Slip Opinions, the online companion to the Washington University-St. Louis Law Review. Jeff Samuels spoke on "Domain Name Disputes," at the PTO Day Program sponsored by Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation and held in Washington, D.C. Stefan Padfield gave a works-in-progress last week at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. SSRN Akron Legal Research Paper Series, volume 11, issue 1, issued on January 22, 2009, with articles posted by:
- Lloyd Anderson, Mocking the Public Interest: Congress Restores Meaningful Judicial Review of Government Antitrust Consent Decrees
- Will Huhn, In Defense of the Roosevelt Court
- Bill Jordan, Chevron and Hearing Rights: An Unintended Combination
- Rich Lavoie, Cultivating a Compliance Culture: An Alternative Approach for Addressing the Tax Gap
- Jane Moriarty, Flickering Admissibility: Neuroimaging Evidence in the U.S. Courts
- Tracy Thomas, The New Face of Women's Legal History: Introduction to the Symposium Paul Richert's Electronic Discovery Bibliography, was published in the AALS Section on Litigation's December 2008 Newsletter. Akron Law's Law & Neuroscience Symposium chaired by Jane Moriarty was mentioned on the MacArthur Foundation's "What's new" page. See http://www.lawandneuroscienceproject.org/ Tracy Thomas has been elected chair-elect of the AALS Remedies Section.
1/25/2009
Winter 2009
The Winter issue of Pre-Law magazine featured a profile on Akron Law part-time student Sean Quinn. The story is available here.
1/23/2009
Jan. 23
Akron Legal News ran a front-page feature on Professor J. Dean Carro being named a Super Lawyer. Electronic text is not available.
1/20/2009
January 20, 2009
Jane Moriarty will present her latest work on fmris, neuroscience, and the law at a faculty colloquium at Case Western Law School, where she is visiting this semester. Kalyani Robbins' proposed panel, The Future of ESA: Suggestions for the New Administration, has been accepted for presentation at the conference entitled, Solidarity! United Action for the Greener Good, at the University of Oregon in February. Will Huhn's online companion journal article, "Waterboarding is Illegal," Slip Opinions, Wash. U. L. Rev. (June 2008) http://lawreview.wustl.edu/slip-opinions/waterboarding-is-illegal is blowing up the web site (which is a good thing) receiving up to 800 hits per day as compared to the usual 40 hits per day for the journal, and being linked from andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com.
1/18/2009
Jan. 18
The Akron Beacon Journal mentioned that Akron Law students Tyler T. Allchin and Shannon E. Sorensen were awarded internships with Sternberg, Newman, Shifrin, Inc. Electronic text is not available.
1/15/2009
Jan. 15
Professor J. Dean Carro has been named one of the top attorneys in the state by Ohio Super Lawyers magazine.Electronic text is not available.
1/13/2009
Professor Carro Named 2009 Ohio Super Lawyer
Akron, Ohio, Jan. 13, 2009 - Professor J. Dean Carro, a 1978 graduate of The University of Akron School of Law, has been named by Ohio Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in Ohio. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers.


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