Professor Pamela Daiker-Middaugh was selected as one of Cleveland State University’s 2016 Women of Influence.  This award is given by the CSU Office of Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement, as part of the 2016 Women’s History Month Celebration.  Professor Daiker-Middaugh (and other Women of Influence) will be honored at a luncheon on Tuesday, March 29, from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, in the third floor Student Center Glasscock Family Ballroom.

Alan Weinstein was the guest speaker for a national webinar on Regulation of Sex Businesses offered by the International Municipal Lawyers’ Association on Monday, March 14. Professor Weinstein discussed legal and practical concerns local governments face when regulating such businesses. Municipal attorneys from more than 90 cities participated in the webinar.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit wrestled with the question of which court has jurisdiction to review a federal agency decision, and found guidance in a law review article recently published by Joseph Mead, Assistant Professor.  In its opinion, available at https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/279C5D8F82CF8ECC85257F7A004E02EC/$file/14-1240-1604600.pdf, the D.C. Circuit quoted from the article “Choosing a Court to Review the Executive,” which examines the complicated jurisdictional maze for challenges against federal agency decision.  The article was co-authored with Nicholas Fromherz and published last year in the Administrative Law Review.  The article has also been cited in the Yale Law Journal and the NYU Law Review.

Professor John Plecnik and students at the Willoughby-Eastlake School of Innovation

On March 3, Professor John Plecnik gave a guest lecture on the role of local government in tax law and economic development to the students at the Willoughby-Eastlake School of Innovation in Willoughby Hills, which is a STEM school for gifted students.

The Plain Dealer published today an opinion piece written by Professor Emeritus Sheldon Gelman and Professor Emeritus Joel Finer, entitled “Why not filling Antonin Scalia’s seat could work.”  The piece is available here.

On February 11, 2016, Professor David Forte delivered an address to the Orange County California Federalist Lawyers Chapter entitled, “What would the Framers Have Thought of Today’s Supreme Court?”

In addition, Professor David Forte’s article, Lincoln, Marshall, and the Judicial Role, 1 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 149 (2002) has been quoted and cited in Steven G. Calabresi & Bradley G. Silverman, Hayek and the Citation of Foreign Law: A Response to Professor Jeremy Waldron, 2015 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1, 158 n.1180.

On Thursday, February 25, Professor Alan Weinstein presented a one-hour CLE session titled “The First Amendment and Local Government: Ongoing Concerns/Recent Developments” at the Northeast Ohio Municipal Law Directors Association’s annual Presidents’ Day Municipal Law Seminar. Professor Weinstein discussed several topics, including: policies regarding prayer at public meetings after the Court’s 2014 ruling in Town of Greece v. Galloway; how lower courts are applying the Court’s 2015 ruling in Reed v. Town of Gilbert in challenges to sign regulations and panhandling/solicitation ordinances; updates on cases involving the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and regulation of adult entertainment businesses; and the public employee speech issues before the Court this term in Heffernan v. City of Paterson, N.J.

In January 2016, Professor Sandra Kerber participated in the Southeastern Legal Writing Conference at the University Of Miami School Of Law. The Panel Discussion which Professor Kerber participated in focused on Teaching and Advising students for Independent Research and Writing in conjunction with the ABA Standard 314.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio has been asked to contribute an article to the German Yearbook of International Law (GYIL). Established in 1948, the GYIL is a peer-reviewed journal, edited by the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel, the oldest university institute for public international law, founded in 1914. GYIL’s advisory board members include some of the most prominent academics in the field of international law, such as Lori Damrosch (Columbia Law School), James Crawford (Cambridge Law School and judge on the International Court of Justice), Bruno Simma (University of Michigan Law School and former judge on the International Court of Justice), and Christine Chinkin (London School of Economics and University of Michigan Law School).

Professor Sterio will contribute an article for Volume 59 (2016) due to appear in April 2017. The issue’s focus will be on “frozen conflicts” and Professor Sterio’s paper will focus on the on Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is disputed between Azerbaijan and Armenia.  Professor Sterio was a Fulbright Scholar in Azerbaijan in 2013, where she conducted research about the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, the Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law, attended the 10th Annual Meeting of the International Academic Association for Planning, Law, and Property Rights, at the University of Bern, Switzerland.  Professor Robertson presented Seeking Local Control: When State Legislation and Constitutions Collide with Local Government’s Quest to Influence Shale Development within their Borders.