C|M|LAW Dean Craig M. Boise has been appointed to serve on the Standards Review Committee of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. The Standards Review Committee is charged with reviewing proposed changes in, and additions to, all Standards, Interpretations, Rules, Policies, Procedures, and Criteria for the accreditation of law schools. Proposed changes are referred to the Standards Review Committee by the Section’s Council for its review and recommendations. Dean Boise was appointed to the Committee by Section Council chair, Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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Lewis Speaks to Female Judges about Intestacy and Nontraditional Families
Professor Browne Lewis
C|M|LAW Professor Browne Lewis recently spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Female Judges in New Orleans. The audience consisted of female judges from the United States and several other countries. Her talk focused upon the need for legislatures to change the intestacy system to accommodate nontraditional families. She argued that judges should be given the flexibility to consider the best interests of the children when designating the heirs of the estate of a person who dies without executing a will. For example, the current intestacy system negatively impacts children who are born into same-sex families. In order to accomplish that judges should be able to expand the definition of legal parent to include adults who have parental-type relationships with children.
After her presentation, Professor Lewis signed and sold copies of her book, Papa’s Baby: Paternity and Artificial Insemination.
Information about the event is at:
Sundahl Quoted in SpaceNews Regarding Proposed Safety Guidelines for Human Spaceflight
C|M|LAW Associate Dean Mark Sundahl was quoted in a September 27, 2013, article in SpaceNews, regarding new proposed safety practices for commercial orbital and suborbital human spaceflight companies. The safety practices have been proposed in response to the recent growth of private companies, such as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, that will soon be providing human spacelflight services to NASA and the public. The article quotes Sundahl during a recent FAA teleconference where he commented that “if the intention of the document is to prevent Congress from stepping in to guide the process, I think we need to continue to consider whether the contents of the document are sufficient to do that.” The entire article can be found here:
Borden Publishes on the the Role of Journalists in Caremark Litigation
Professor Michael J. Borden
Congratulations to C|M|LAW Professor Michael J. Borden, whose article Of Outside Monitors and Inside Monitors: The Role of Journalists in Caremark Litigation, in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law. In this article, Borden argues for a change in Delaware corporate law that would allow for competitive forces to improve the quality of corporate compliance programs, thus reducing hard to society from corporate illegality and improving shareholder welfare. Specifically, he argues that courts should remove some obstacles that prevent plaintiffs in shareholder derivative actions from forcing defendant directors to demonstrate the efficacy of their compliance cases where outside monitoring by journalists appears to have detected illegal corporate actions before those actions have been detected by the internal monitoring of the compliance department.
To read the article abstract, click here:
Kalir Speaks on Same-Sex Marriage and Jewish Law at Michigan State Law School
Clinical Professor Doron Kalir
On October 8, 2013, C|M|LAW Clinical Professor Doron Kalir presented his work in progress on Same-Sex Marriage and Jewish Law: A Contemporary Perspective to faculty and students at Michigan State Law School. Professor Kalir’s presentation was a part of Michigan State’s LGBT History Month events. In his remarks, Kalir argued that the notion that the Jewish Bible supports only a one-man and one-woman marriage model is intellectually indefensible, and that contemporary reflection on the text must lead us to recognize a much more tolerant approach. In addition, Professor Kalir reviewed recent developments in Israeli Law on the subject, which let the Israeli Supreme Court to de-facto recognition of same-sex marriage conducted outside Israel.
Kerber Serves on Editorial Board for The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, and Interviews for Judge4Yourself
C|M|LAW Legal Writing Professor Sandra Kerber served as one of the Board of Editorial Advisers for Bryan Garner’s The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, Third Edition which was recently published by West Academic Publishing. See: http://www.amazon.com/The-Redbook-Manual-Legal-Style/dp/0314168915
In addition, she participated in the fall Judge4Yourself judicial interviews. The recent interviews were of candidates for Municipal Court. She will also participate in the next series of interviews for Common Pleas Judicial candidates. Judge4Yourself arranges for dozens of experienced lawyers to interview judicial candidates and evaluate their qualifications for the best. Ratings for the interviewed candidates are generated by four cooperating bar associations. See: http://www.judge4yourself.com/index.html
Weinstein Publishes 2013 Edition of Federal Land Use Law & Litigation
C|M|LAW and Levin College of Urban Affairs Professor Alan C. Weinstein has published the 2013 edition of Federal Land Use Law & Litigation (Thomson Reuters,) a one-volume treatise that he co-authors annually with Brain Blaesser, Esq. The book examines all federal, constitutional, and statutory limitations on local land use controls, discussing cases, regulations, defense strategies, doctrines, and antitrust restrictions. It reviews Supreme Court and lower federal court decisions that consider the constitutionality of land use regulations and discusses complicated free speech issues affected by federal land use law and municipalities exercising home-rule powers.
For more information about this new edition, see:
Sundahl Publishes Book on Satellite Finance
C|M|LAW Associate Dean Mark J. Sundahl has just published The Cape Town Convention: Its Application to Space Assets and Relation to the Law of Outer Space. In the book, Dean Sundahl examines the recently adopted UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and its Space Assets Protocol which together create a new international regime of secured finance applicable to satellites, launch vehicles, and other types of space equipment. In addition to explaining the operation of the convention and protocol, the book explores the relationship between these new instruments and the existing body of space law founded on the five UN treaties that were adopted in the 1960s and 1970s.
Further information can be found on the Brill website:
American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics Focuses Spotlight on C|M|’s Lewis
C|M|LAW’s Leon and Gloria Plevin Professor and Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Browne C. Lewis was featured recently in the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics’ Member Spotlight. ASLME used the member spotlight as a way for its Network for Public Health Law to introduce its Scholars in Residence program. ASLME member Browne C. Lewis is one of their six selected scholars. Through the Scholars in Residence fellowship, legal scholars work with public health agencies to face a variety of public health challenges. The program gives scholars field experience, while giving public health agencies access to legal experts. Lewis is using her fellowship to work with the Cleveland Public Health Department to fight the problem of small cigar smoking in Cleveland. Small cigars have fewer federal regulations than cigarettes, and they are offered in kid-friendly flavors, making them seem less dangerous than cigarettes. Recently, the use of small cigars has dramatically increased among young adults.
To read the Member Spotlight, click here: http://www.aslme.org/Member_Spotlight?post=439
Lewis to Travel to Israel on a Fulbright Specialist Grant
Congratulations to C|M|LAW Professor Browne Lewis who will be traveling to Israel for 14 days in December as a Fulbright Specialist at Haifa University. Lewis will be assisting the university in the areas of global and community health. Professor Lewis’ project aims to foster a platform for exchange of knowledge and ideas in the areas of reproductive health law. During her visit, Professor Lewis will conduct a workshop for participants from the fields of public health, reproductive health, sociology, and law. She will go on a site visit to a legal clinic. She will conduct a seminar with the nursing – law program’s graduates and current students, and work on development of an advanced studies curricula for a joint Nursing – Law program. Finally, she will participate in a seminar with Haifa Fulbright scholars/alumni concerning the establishment of a Haifa Israel Fulbright Chapter.
The Fulbright Specialist Program promotes linkages between U.S. scholars and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas. The program awards grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals, in select disciplines, to engage in short-term collaborative two- to six-week projects at eligible institutions in over 140 countries worldwide. Shorter grant lengths give Fulbright Specialists greater flexibility to pursue projects that work best with their current academic or professional commitments.
For more information about the Fulbright Specialist Program, click here: http://www.cies.org/Specialist/
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