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Professor Robertson Awarded Fulbright Specialist Grant

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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ABA Wealth Tax Panel

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.

Professor Sterio Participates in Irish-American Law Forum

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Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio participated in the inaugural Irish-American Law Forum on September 26 in downtown Cleveland.  Professor Sterio moderated two sessions: one on international insolvency, and the other on cyber security.  Speakers at both sessions included practicing attorneys and experts from both the United States and Ireland.

Professor Sterio Participates in WCPN Show

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Associate Dean and Professor Milena Sterio participated in the taping of another episode of the “Talking Foreign Policy” radio show on WCPN 90.3.  This episode focused on the ongoing military strikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, and it will be broadcast on Monday, September 29 at 9:00 p.m. on WCPN 90.3.

Other participants included Shannon French, Director of Case Western’s Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, Paul Williams, Professor at American University Law School and Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, and Sandra Hodgkinson, former Department of Defense member of Senior Executive Service.  The show was hosted, as usual, by Case Western Law School Interim Dean Michael Scharf.

Professor Sundahl Participates on Panel at ABA Forum on Air & Space Law

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On September 19th, Associate Dean Mark Sundahl participated in a panel on Key Issues in Space Law at the Annual Meeting of the ABA Forum on Air & Space Law in Montreal.  Other panel participants included the General Counsel of NASA, Sumara Thompson-King, and the General Counsel of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Chuck Dickey. The panel addressed a number of current topics in the field of space law including regulatory issues related to the privatization of space travel, the intentional jamming of telecommunication satellite signals by government censors, and the legality of private companies to assert ownership over natural resources extracted from the Moon and asteroids.

Professor Kerber Participates in Judge4Yourself Interviews

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Professor Sandra Kerber recently participated in Judge4Yourself interviews of judicial candidates running in the November 4th Ohio General Election. The candidates’ ratings are due to be released soon and are based on their answers to the comprehensive questionnaire that is used to vet the judicial qualifications.