Professor Karin Mika presented at the New England Regional Legal Writing Conference on October 27th.  Her presentation was “Connecting with our Students in the Age of Technology.”  The conference was held at the University of Connecticut Law School.

In addition, Professor Mika has also been appointed chair of the Nominations Committee for the AALS Section on Teaching.

Finally, Professor Mika is one of the organizers (as well as talent coodinator and photographer!) for the Blackwell Awards Reception, which will take place at the AALS.  The Award is named for Tom Blackwell who was shot to death by one of his students at Appalachian Law School about 15 years ago.

If further proof were needed that antitrust really is all over the place these days, Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, spoke with the press on antitrust aspects of affairs as diverse as Russian election hacking and veterinary medicine.

Eyebrows were raised by the suggestion this week by Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr that Congress might given an antitrust exemption to Facebook, Google, and other powerful online platforms so that they can coordinate their security efforts. Sagers spoke on the matter with the National Journal, available here.

He spoke with Yahoo Finance about this week’s surprising news that the Justice Department might sue to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, in a story available here.

He spoke with Bloomberg BNA about a new federal bill that would protect whistleblowers who report their own companies for price-fixing, in Alexei Alexis, “Antitrust Whistleblower Protection Bill Advances in Senate,” BloombergBNA, Nov 02 2017.

Finally, he spoke with the trade journal Veterinary Information Network News about a merger of two very large veterinary chains, the Banfield firm (owned by Mars, Inc., the massive firm known as a candy maker but that is also involved in a variety of pet care services and products) and the Veterinary Corporation of America. Both firms are large and both are integrated vertically into a variety of veterinary products and services, but the deal was approved by the Federal Trade Commission on condition of a small set of local divestitures. You can read the story here.

If further proof were needed that antitrust really is all over the place these days, Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, spoke with the press on antitrust aspects of affairs as diverse as Russian election hacking and veterinary medicine.

Eyebrows were raised by the suggestion this week by Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr that Congress might given an antitrust exemption to Facebook, Google, and other powerful online platforms so that they can coordinate their security efforts. Sagers spoke on the matter with the National Journal, available here.

He spoke with Yahoo Finance about this week’s surprising news that the Justice Department might sue to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, in a story available here.

He spoke with Bloomberg BNA about a new federal bill that would protect whistleblowers who report their own companies for price-fixing, in Alexei Alexis, “Antitrust Whistleblower Protection Bill Advances in Senate,” BloombergBNA, Nov 02 2017.

Finally, he spoke with the trade journal Veterinary Information Network News about a merger of two very large veterinary chains, the Banfield firm (owned by Mars, Inc., the massive firm known as a candy maker but that is also involved in a variety of pet care services and products) and the Veterinary Corporation of America. Both firms are large and both are integrated vertically into a variety of veterinary products and services, but the deal was approved by the Federal Trade Commission on condition of a small set of local divestitures. You can read the story here.

On October 17, 2017, Professor Kevin O’Neill was a featured speaker in a nationwide webinar presented by the American Bar Association entitled First Amendment Review: Public Forum and Government Speech. Professor O’Neill spoke on “The Regulation of Public Protest: Mass Demonstrations, Marches, and Parades.”

On October 30, 2017, Professor Kevin O’Neill spoke at a Viewpoint Forum at Case Western Reserve University,  Freedom of Speech: Understanding Our Rights in Troubling Times. The other panelists were Case Western Reserve law professors Jonathan Adler and Jessie Hill. The presentation was moderated by Dan Moulthrop, CEO of the City Club of Cleveland.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio presented at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Midyear Meeting on October 26, at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.  Professor Sterio presented on a panel entitled “Evaluating the Practice and Legacy of International Courts,” and her individual presentation was on “The Legacy of Ad Hoc Tribunals in International Criminal Law: Assessing the ICTY’s and ICTR’s Most Significant Legal Accomplishments.”

Professor David Forte’s presentation, at the conference entitled “John Marshall Landmark Cases,” aired on Saturday, October 28th, at 12:40 p.m. EDT on C-SPAN3 American History TV.  The presentation is available for viewing here. 

Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, C|M|LAW’s Steven W. Percy Professor of Law, participated in the State and Local Government Law Works-in-Progress Conference at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, October 19 – 21, 2017.  In addition to serving as the primary commenter for a colleague’s paper, Professor Robertson presented an early piece of her current work-in-process Cities and Citizens Seethe: A Case Study in Piloting the Path of Oil and Gas Pipeline Permitting.  The paper focuses on citizen and local government efforts to influence the routing of the NEXUS/Spectra Energy pipeline proposed for central Ohio.