C|M|LAW Associate Dean Mark Sundahl has published an article in latest issue of The Air & Space Lawyer, the newsletter of the American Bar Association’s Forum on Air and Space Law.  In the article, entitled The Space Assets Protocol One Year Later: An Update and Reassessment, Sundahl argues that the Space Assets Protocol on the financing of satellites and other space assets was revised in the final drafting stages to address specific industry concerns regarding issues such as insurers’ salvage rights, the Protocol’s application to existing interests, and the definition of space assets. Sundahl concludes that the Protocol represents a rare opportunity to establish an international law of secured transactions for the space industry and urges industry to support the Protocol’s ratification.

C|M|LAW Professor John Plecnik has just given permission to Professor Robert Sitkoff (Harvard) to include a classroom example he created in his first year of teaching to illustrate the modes of intestate distribution.  Plecnik’s illustration will appear in the teacher’s manual and in PowerPoint slides accompanying the new edition of Dukeminier & Sitkoff, WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES (9th ed. 2013), the leading American coursebook on trusts and estates.

C|M|LAW’s Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich comments in an IdeaStream interview on the Madison indictment for triple murder.  See:

http://www.ideastream.org/news/feature/55130?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

C|M|LAW Legal Writing Professor Karin Mika and C|M|LAW Legal Writing Professor Emerita Barbara Tyler attended the Association of Legal Writing Directors conference June 26-28 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Mika and Tyler participated on a panel called “Love me Now or Thank me Later,” arguing that the Dunning-Kruger effect colors law student reviews of law faculty teaching. This references a 2012 article that Tyler published in the Touro Law Review with Catherine Wasson, a Legal Writing Professor from Elon University.

On July 1st, C|M|LAW Associate Dean Mark Sundahl began a two-year term as the Chair of the International Law Section of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.  The International Law Section provides a forum for international law practitioners as well as for student members of the CMBA with an interest in international law.  The section holds monthly luncheon meetings featuring a presentation on current issues in the field of international law.  An annual full-day CLE event is also organized for the spring.  Dean Sundahl plans to involve students to a larger extent in the section’s activities in order to raise student awareness of the importance of international law in the era of globalization.