Professor Eric Tucker, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, co-edited a book which will be published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History in the fall of 2015.

The book is entitled Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace: Canadian State Trials Volume IV, 1914-1939; the book launch is currently scheduled for November 5, 2015, in Toronto, Canada.  This book “looks at the legal issues raised by the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the 1930s and the Great Depression” (quoted from the book website, available here).

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in partnership with the Cleveland eDiscovery Roundtable is excited to announce “Electronic Discovery and the Pending Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,” Friday, September 4th at 9:00 a.m.  Please join us for an informative discussion on these important changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and their connection to eDiscovery.  This event will be sponsored by Eaton Corporation.  Professor Brian Ray will moderate the first panel, featuring Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, as well as Judge Benita Pearson, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio and Magistrate Judge James R. Knepp, II, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio.

More details about the event are available here.

On Thursday, July 30, Professor Alan Weinstein was one  of two presenters for a national webinar, “Reed v. Town of Gilbert: The Supreme Court’s New Rules for Temporary — and other — Signs,” presented by the Chapters & Divisions Consortium of the American Planning Association.  He discussed the effect on local sign regulations of the Reed decision, how cities can respond to ensure their sign codes could withstand a legal challenge, and noted the significant unresolved questions raised by apparent conflicts between Justice Thomas’s majority opinion and Justice Alito’s concurrence. More than 750 local government planners, city attorneys, and elected officials logged into the webinar.

Professor Weinstein has also been selected by the American Planning Association to serve on a panel of legal experts who will review and select the planning law sessions for the annual Alfred Bettman Legal Symposium at the 2016 APA National Conference in Phoenix. 

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio’s book, “The Right to Self-determination Under International Law: ‘Selfistans,’ Secession, and the Rule of the Great Powers,” which had originally been published as a hard back edition in 2013, will be re-published in paper back in late 2015, following excellent sales of the original edition.

Professor Sterio’s book proposes a novel theory of self-determination- the Rule of the Great Powers. This book argues that traditional legal norms on self-determination have failed to explain and account for recent results of secessionist self-determination struggles, and it thus proposes and develops a new theory of self-determination, based on the Rule of the Great Powers, the most geo-politically and economically powerful states in the international arena.

Professor Matthew Green presented at the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference in Havana, Cuba, on July 24th. His presentation topic was “LGBT Workplace Discrimination: Extant Protections & Issues on the Horizon.”

Browne Lewis, the Leon M. and Gloria Plevin Professor of Law presented on the impact that technology has on autonomy from the cradle to the grave and beyond.

On July 24, 2015, Professor Lewis presented at the Midwest People of Color Scholarship Conference in Havana, Cuba. Professor Lewis’ presentation was about the technology that permits patients to live longer. Unfortunately, that same technology causes terminally ill persons to spend more time experiencing severe pain and other side effects. Professor Lewis discussed the ethical and legal issues that may arise if physician-assisted suicide is made available to terminally-ill children in order to relieve pain and suffering. She discussed two main questions-Should the law permit physician-assisted suicide to be used to end the lives of minor children suffering from terminal illnesses? Should the minor child be included in the decision-making process? Currently, only five American states have legalized physician-assisted suicide. However, the procedure cannot be used to end the lives of terminally ill persons who are under the age of eighteen. Recently, Belgium removed the age restriction on physician-assisted suicide in order to permit parents to request lethal medication for their dying children.

On July 29, 2015, Professor Lewis presented at the Southeastern American Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Meeting in Boca Raton, Florida. In her presentation, Professor Lewis discussed the technology that make posthumous reproduction possible. The presentation consisted of an overview of Professor Lewis’ book on posthumous reproduction that is forthcoming from Routledge Press. According to Professor Lewis, the number of persons seeking to use the gametes of dead people to conceive children is increasing. Professor Lewis talked about the need to balance the reproductive rights of the dead with the best interests of the child conceived as a consequence of posthumous reproduction. Professor Lewis also spoke about human oocyte cryopreservation/egg freezing. Young women are choosing to freeze their eggs for future use to defer motherhood while they pursue their careers or wait to meet “Mr. Right”. Opponents of the procedure argue that the government should ban the use of human oocyte cryopreservation or restrict its availability to women of child-bearing years.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio’s paper proposal, entitled “Humanitarian Intervention ‘Exception’ and its Applicability to the Refugee Crises in Iraq and Syria,” was accepted through a blind peer review competitive process for the 2015 American Society of International Law Research Forum. The Research Forum will take place in Washington, D.C.., on October 23-24, and Professor Sterio will present her paper, along with other selected scholars.

Professor Karin Mika presented at the 5th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, held at Seattle University School of Law from July 21-23rd, along with Terri LeClercq, retired from the University of Texas. Their joint presentation was called, Orange is More than the New Black : The Struggle and Some Success at Achieving Prison Reform.

The presentation also discussed the work of Terri Leclercq, who travels nationally bringing to light problems with prisons and why we should care about reform. Two years ago, she wrote the graphic novel “Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write.” The book, written for prisoners reading at a fifth grade level, teaches inmates about their rights and educates them about the court system. The book has become a major staple in many prison systems and was named one of Amazon’s top 100 books for 2014. A link to the book is available through Amazon here.

Chris Sagers, James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, was quoted in the national and trade press a number of times in recent weeks, as several major antitrust events drew public attention. He discussed the Justice Department’s investigation of airline price fixing with BuzzFeed News and the Wall Street Journal, an investigation arising from a controversial trade association meeting on which he had earlier commented for the New York Times.

Sagers also discussed the Apple computer corporation’s loss before a federal appeals court in the long running case against for fixing the price of ebooks, with Publishers Weekly, Global Competition Review (paywall) and Policy and Regulatory Report (paywall), as well as other antitrust problems facing Apple with Yahoo Finance.