Professor Patricia Falk was interviewed by Channel 5 News on February 28 regarding the marital rape exception under Ohio law, in a segment entitled “In Ohio, it’s legal for a husband to drug and rape his wife.”  Professor Falk’s interview is available in this video clip.

Professor Matthew W. Green Jr.’s article entitled Same-Sex Sex and Immutable Traits: Why Obergefell v. Hodges Clears a Path to Protecting Gay and Lesbian Employees from Workplace Discrimination Under Title VII has been published in The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice at the University of Iowa College of Law. Professor Green’s article explores the ways in which Obergefell may be used to advance the rights of gays and lesbians in the area of employment discrimination.  Obergefell struck down state laws prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying.  Although the decision ostensibly addressed only marriage equality, the article argues that Obergefell’s identification of same-sex sexual intimacy as a fundamental right and recognition that sexual orientation is both immutable and a “normal expression of human sexuality” have the potential to protect workers from sexual orientation discrimination by significantly influencing the interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio participated in the 10th Year Anniversary Conference of the Intlawgrrls Blog, of which Professor Sterio is one of six permanent editors, at the University of Georgia School of Law on March 2-3.  Intlawgrrls is a prominent academic blog dedicated to discussions of international law and policy and open to female contributors only.  Professor Sterio presented a paper entitled “The Karadzic Genocide Conviction: Knowledge, Inferences and Intent.”  In addition, she moderated a panel on international humanitarian law.

Professor Kevin O’Neill was quoted in The New York Times in a article entitled “Across the Country, a Republican Push to Rein in Protesters.” According to Professor O’Neill, some of the recently proposed state laws may be unconstitutional. Professor O’Neill was quoted as follows in the article: ‘“There’s a First Amendment right of access to sidewalks, public squares and even public streets,” he said. “Heckling is a well-protected First Amendment right.”’ The New York Times article is available here:

On March 28, Oberlin College hosted a day-long conference on “Offering Sanctuary”. The conference examined the remedies and support communities, cities, and higher-education institution may offer undocumented persons. The conference was attended by many spiritual leaders, including priests, reverends, and rabbis, and was extremely dynamic. Professor Kalir’s presentation focused on two issues: first, the clergy-penitent privileged and its recent interpretation by the Ohio courts (both state and federal); second, the legal implications of declaring a city, a church, or a college a “sanctuary.” Russel Gates, a student at the Civil Litigation Clinic, assisted in the preparation of the presentation and attended the conference as well.

Professor Patti Falk was interviewed by Channel 5 (ABC affiliate) evening news on February 23, for a story on rape sentencing in Cuyahoga County (“A Plea for Justice: Cuyahoga County accused rapists spend, on average, just 5.3 years behind bars”).  The story, with Professor Falk’s interview, is available here.

Professor John Plecnik was selected by the CSU Office of Research as the “Featured Researcher” for February 2017.  News about Professor Plecnik’s selection, as well as the accompanying video, are available on the CSU website.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, wrote in the DealBook blog of the New York Times on February 14 about a report issued last week by the Federal Trade Commission. While the report was nominally just a technical study of the effectiveness of the commission’s merger remedies, Sagers asks what the report and some of its remarkable language says more broadly about federal merger policy and the Commission’s relations with its critics.

The article is available here.

C|M|LAW Professor Mark J. Sundahl has published an article regarding the procedural aspects of the ancient Athenian maritime commercial courts.  The piece was published in Symposion 2015, a book published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences collecting the papers presented at the 20th Symposium of the International Society for Greek and Hellenistic Legal History which took place in August 2015 in Coimbra, Portugal.

Professor Sundahl has also published an article describing the recent evolution of U.S. regulation of new space ventures including on-orbit servicing and refueling of satellites, private lunar missions, and asteroid mining.  The article examines how U.S. regulations are expanding along with new types of space activity and explores what degree of regulation is required in order to comply with international law.  Regulating Non-Traditional Space Activities in the Wake of the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act was published in the Air & Space Law, a peer-reviewed journal published by Wolters Kluwer.

Professor Karin Mika was an essay grader for the Maltz Museum High School Essay Competition, “Stop the Hate.”

Professor Mika and Professor Emerita Barbara Tyler developed the problem that will be used in the near future for the CMBA Minority Clerkship program.

Finally, Professor Mika was a brief grader for the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition.