Professor David Forte recently delivered three different presentations. Professor Forte lectured on “Building the Moral Edifice against Abortion,” at the Colloquium on the American Founding, Amherst College, in Amherst Massachusetts, on September 27, 2014. Additionally, Professor Forte spoke on “The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, Second Edition. What has Changed?” at The Heritage Foundation, in Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2014. Finally, Professor Forte spoke on “Taming the Prince: A 25-year Retrospective on the Work of Harvey Mansfield,” at the American Political Science Association, on August 30, 2014.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Professor May Participates in Cleveland Heights High School Alumni Career Fair
Professor Claire Robinson May has been an active participant in 25th reunion for the Cleveland Heights High School Class of 1989 (the reunion will take place on October 11-12). As a service project, CHHS alumni, including Professor May, have put together a mini career fair for students in the district. Professor May reports that “we wanted to show how our Heights experience contributed to our paths and success.” Professor May’s career fair web page is available here. Another alumnus and participant in the career fair is Juvenile Court Judge Michael J. Ryan, who is also a Cleveland-Marshall Law alumnus.
Professor Robertson Awarded Fulbright Specialist Grant
Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson was recently notified by the U.S.Fulbright Commission that she has been awarded a Fulbright specialist grant to complete a multi-faceted project in India in the spring of 2015. She was selected to travel to Lucknow, India, to visit Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University. Professor Robertson’s Fulbright project will be three-fold: she will teach a 4-week course on International Environmental Law to undergraduate and graduate law students; hold seminars to help faculty improve and adapt their teaching; and assist the faculty in organizing an international conference on climate change.
This is Professor Robertson’s second Fulbright grant. She received a Fulbright in 2009 to conduct research, guest lecture, and work with graduate students and environmental law faculty at Uppsala University, in Uppsala, Sweden.
Sundahl Speaks on Space Tourism at International Astronautical Congress
Pounding on the podium and inviting dissenting opinions, Associate Dean Mark Sundahl delivered the lead paper on the human spaceflight panel at the space law colloquium at the International Astronautical Congress last week in Toronto. The regulation of commercial suborbital (and orbital) human spaceflight is one of the most controversial issues in the law of outer space at the moment. In his paper, Sundahl evaluated the current efforts to shape this law and focused on several initiatives to compile best practices and safety guidelines that may eventually ripen into regulations. Virgin Galactic and XCOR will be flying their first paying passengers into space likely within the next year and so regulators are looking closely at the need to ensure the safety of crew, passengers, and third parties on the ground. Although the FAA has taken a “hands off” approach so far in the regulation of this new industry, this may change in the coming years.
Katz & O’Neill Article Among SSRN Top Ten Downloads
A paper which Howard Katz and CM Law Professor Kevin O’Neill co-authored, “Strategies and Techniques of Law School Teaching,” has been listed among SSRN’s Top Ten downloads of all time for papers related to legal education. The paper was just included in SSRN Top Ten Download list for “Innovation in Legal Education eJournal.” It has been downloaded 2,155 times! This paper had also been published in book format in 2009 by Aspen. Congratulations to the authors.
Professor Keating Publishes New Article
Professor Dennis Keating of the Levin College of Urban Affairs and the College of Law has published a new article entitled “Urban Land Banks and the Housing Foreclosure and Abandonment Crisis” in 33 St. Louis Public Law Review 93-107 (2013).
Professor May Presents at Western Regional Legal Writing Conference at Stanford Law School
Professor Claire Robinson May presented “Evaluate Everything: Instilling the Critical Reader in the Novice Legal Writer at the Western Regional Legal Writing Conference at Stanford Law School. The conference took place on September 19-20.
Professor Plecnik Presents at ABA Tax Section Meeting
On September 19, 2014, Professor John Plecnik spoke on tax policy at the 2014 Joint Fall CLE Meeting of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation in Denver, Colorado. Professor Plecnik was invited to speak as a result of his article, “The New Flat Tax,” which ranked number one as the most downloaded recent tax paper on the Social Science Research Network shortly after its publication in the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly this spring.
Plecnik spoke as part of a panel on wealth taxation and the Apportionment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Professor Plecnik’s panel was hosted by the ABA Tax Policy and Simplification Committee. It was moderated by Roger Royse of the Royse Law Firm PC, and included Professor Alice Abreu of Temple University Beasley School of Law, Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and Professor Richard Lavoie of the University of Akron School of Law.
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