Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio will co-edit, with Dean and Professor Michael Scharf of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, a book entitled “The Legacy of Ad Hoc Tribunals in International Criminal Law: Assessing the ICTY and the ICTR.”  The book will be published by Cambridge University Press in late 2017, and it will be a collected volume assessing various legacy aspects of the two ad hoc tribunals.  Both Professors Sterio and Scharf will, in addition to serving as co-editors, contribute several chapters to this volume.

Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss’essay discussing the highlights of her almost completed book, The Princeton Fugitive Slave: James Collins Johnson, has been published in the print version of the October 5, 2016 Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW). The article is also available online at this link.  The print and online versions of PAW have a combined circulation of approximately 100,000.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, wrote in the DealBook section of today’s New York Times about United States v. American Express, a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dealing the Justice Department a major setback in its long effort to bring more competition to the payment cards sector. You can view the article here.

Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, C|M|LAW’s Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law, has been selected as a member of the Anti-Defamation league’s 2016-2017 Glass Leadership Institute. ADL Glass Leadership Institute participants are nominated and selected through a competitive process. They are committed to civil rights, human relations, and anti-bias education, and recognize that religious freedom for the Jewish people demands vigilance and both proactive and defensive attention. Institute participants attend monthly educational and leadership programming about the substantive issues of ADL’s agenda and attend ADL’s National Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. in the spring.

Leon M and Gloria Plevin Professor of Law Browne Lewis presented at the Central States Law Schools Association Conference on September 23, 2016. The Conference was hosted by the University of North Dakota School of Law. Professor Lewis discussed the history of the right to die movement in the United States. She compared that history with the movements in Europe. Professor Lewis also analyzed the current state of physician-assisted suicide law and predicted that the issue would probably be heard by the United States Supreme Court in a few years.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio presented on September 23 at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Midwest Interest Group Annual Workshop, at the University of Wisconsin Law School, in Madison, Wisconsin.  Professor Sterio’s presentation was entitled “On Genocide: The ICTY Karadzic Conviction.”  Professor Sterio currently serves as Co-Chair of the ASIL-Midwest Interest Group and was one of three main Workshop organizers.

Leon M. and Gloria Plevin Professor Browne Lewis has accepted an offer to publish her article entitled “A Deliberate Departure: Making Physician-Assisted Suicide Comfortable For Vulnerable Patients” in the Arkansas Law Review. The article is scheduled to be published in the Winter of 2016. In the article, Professor Lewis discusses the plight of terminally ill patients who may be vulnerable because of their age, disability, race or socio-economic status. She examines the safeguards that must be put in place to allow those patients the opportunity to die with dignity. The article is a result of the research Professor Lewis conducted in London, England and Glasglow, Scotland.

Leon M. and Gloria Plevin Professor Browne Lewis‘ article entitled “You Belong To Me: Unscrambling the Legal Ramifications of Recognizing A Property Right in Frozen Human Eggs” has been reprinted in Volume 16 of the Minnesota Family Law Journal. The Journal is a bimonthly magazine published by Lexis-Nexis Matthew Bender. Professor Lewis‘ article was originally published in the Tennessee Law Review. The article discusses the potential property rights a woman may have in her frozen eggs. It also examines the ethical concerns that arise when human eggs are treated like personal property.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio presented at the Case Western Reserve University Law School Cox Center Symposium on September 16, entitled “The Art of International Law.”  Professor Sterio presented on a panel entitled “International Criminal Responsibility,” which focused on a discussion of international criminal responsibility for the war crime of destruction of cultural and religious property.  A webcase of the conference, including Professor Sterio’s panel, is available here.

In addition, Professor Sterio participated in the taping of a new episode of the radio show entitled “Talking Foreign Policy” at WCPN/90.3.  Professor Sterio is a regular participant on this show, and this particular episode focused on a discussion of similar issues (international criminal responsibility for the destruction of cultural and religious property, restitution in cases of art theft, etc.).  This episode will be broadcast on WCPN/90.3 on Friday, October 7th, at 1:00 p.m.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, wrote today at the invitation of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago, in reply to remarks from Federal Trade Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen. Earlier this year, Ohlhausen had taken Sagers to task for certain criticisms he’d made in an article for New York Times DealBook.

Sagers’ original NYT editorial is available here.

Commissioner Ohlhausen’s reaction is available here.  Sagers’ reply is available here.