Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio published an article entitled “The Covert Use of Drones: How Secrecy Undermines Oversight and Accountability” in a special “Drones Issue” of the Albany Government Law Review (“Game of Drones: The Uses and Potential Abuses of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the U.S. and Abroad, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2015). The Drones Issue of the Albany Government Law Review was published as follow up to a March 2014 symposium at Albany Law School, which had been featured in the Wall Street Journal (available here). Professor Sterio’s contribution, and those of other contributors, had been solicited by the journal editors.
Category Archives: Faculty in the Media
Professor Kalir Presents at Toledo Law School on Same-Sex Marriage & Jewish Law
Clinical Professor Doron Kalir
As part of the faculty exchange program between University of Toledo Law School and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Clinical Professor Doron Kalir presented on March 17 his work-in-progress paper entitled “Same-Sex Marriage & Jewish Law: Time for a New Paradigm?” During his presentation, Prof. Kalir expressed his hope that the United States Supreme Court would soon grant the right to marry to all Americans, and that Jewish Law would follow suit.
Professor Mika Presents at Rocky Mountain Regional Conference
Professor Karin Mika presented at the Rocky Mountain Regional Conference, which took place on March 6th and 7th at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Professor Mika’s presentation was entitled “Does Size Really Matter? Intangibles as Affecting Course Evaluations as Well as Learning.” Despite the provocative title, the presentation was about how various factors of the classroom — room size, class size, gender distribution, alpha students, etc. — affect perceptions of competency and what can be achieved in the classroom (both positively and negatively). The discussion focused on what variables can be controlled and what, if anything, can be done when negative variables exist.
Professor Sagers to Publish With Harvard University Press on the Apple “eBooks” Case
Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, will publish his new book “Apple, Antitrust, and Irony” with Harvard University Press, with an anticipated publication date of early 2016. The book studies the Justice Department’s closely watched 2012 antitrust suit against the Apple computer corporation, in which it challenged Apple’s agreement with major publishers to fix the price of electronic books. Sagers takes the case as not only important in its own right, but as a case study in larger difficulties in competition policy. At the heart of the case was this paradox: to most economists and antitrust lawyers, it was an easy case. On the law and the facts, Apple and the publisher defendants plainly deserved to lose. Indeed, if Americans believed in competition as we typically claim to do, eBooks should have seemed like an easy case. But to many people it seemed like a difficult case indeed.For example, the defendant publishers argued that if they couldn’t protect themselves from unrestrained price competition, and above all from the cut-rate eBook prices being imposed on them by the retailer Amazon, they would be unable to survive. They claimed that price competition would spell the end of the paper book, of bookstores and traditional publishing, and would imperil even the livelihoods of writers and perhaps literature itself. Sagers suggests reasons not only that these arguments were not persuasive, and don’t call for clemency for the eBooks defendants, but that in fact similar arguments have surfaced in all kinds of markets, in all kinds of circumstances, throughout the history of capitalism. In the end, the eBooks case showed not that there are very important special cases calling for exemption from competition, but that competition itself is simply a rough business. If we are to have a competition policy–and we should–we have to make peace with its consequences in times of disruption and change.
Cleveland-Marshall Solo Incubator Program Featured in Crain’s Cleveland Business News
The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Solo Incubator was featured in an article published by Crain’s Cleveland Business News entitled “Cleveland-Marshall Incubator if making convincing case.” The article describes the solo incubator as one of the first such programs in the country and features two of its five current residents, Matthew Williams and Jeremy Adell (both 2013 graduates of C-M Law). In addition, the article highlights the work of C-M Law Dean Craig Boise in creating the incubator, and of Chris Sagers, James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, who has been serving as the solo incubator program director. According to the subtitle of this article, “[l]awyers who are getting their start can benefit from program.”
Professor Robertson Writes in Crain’s on Ohio Supreme Court’s Munroe Falls/Beck Energy Decision on Local Control of Shale Development
Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
C|M|LAW’s Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson has published a short piece in Crain’s Cleveland Business’ Energy Report regarding the Ohio Supreme Court’s recent decision concerning Munroe Falls, Ohio’s efforts to control shale oil and gas development within its jurisdiction. In Ohio Supreme Court leaves room for traditional zoning as it rejects Munroe Falls’ ordinances, she writes that although the court struck down Munroe Falls’ ordinances, the majority did so because they ran afoul of the state oil and gas law. The state law gives sole and exclusive authority over the location, spacing, and permitting of oil and gas drilling operations to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Justice O’Donnell, in a separate concurrence, however, indicated that if Munroe Falls’ ordinances had been traditional zoning controls, rather than ordinances intertwined with a local permit requirement, he would have upheld them. Robertson suggests that we will see local jurisdictions using more traditional zoning principles to protect their communities. If so, Justice O’Donnell may join the three justices from the Munroe Falls dissent to form a new majority.
Professor Forte Presents at Case Western Reserve Law School and at McKinney Law School in Indiana
On March 6, Professor David Forte presented a paper entitled, “Religion and the Republic,” at the conference, Religion in the Public Square, held at Case Western Reserve Law School.
On Tuesday, March 10, Professor David Forte delivered a lecture entitled, “How Justice Cardozo Almost Saved the Commerce Clause and Our Freedoms,” at the McKinney Law School in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Professor Forte Lectures on Separation of Powers
David Forte’s lecture, “What Has Happened to the Separation of Powers?” delivered on the occasion of the publication of the second edition of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, has been published on-line and in hard copy. The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, Second Edition: What Has Changed Over the Past Decade, and What Lies Ahead? is available here.
Professor Kalir Presents on a Panel on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Clinical Professor Doron Kalir
On March 11, Akron Law School hosted a panel discussion entitled “Effects on International Law: Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” The panel featured Dean Matthew Williams of Akron Law School, Mr. Raeed Tayeh, an International-law attorney and Palestinian activist, and Professor Kalir, who was born and raised in Israel. In his presentation, Kalir noted that aside from the traditional UN Resolutions related to the conflict, a civil-law tool was recently added to the legal arsenal related to the conflict: a record-high, $216M jury verdict awarded in the S.D.N.Y against the Palestinian Authority for its support of Hammas’ terrorist attacks against Israel between 2002-2004. Kalir also cautioned against the recent rise in Antisemitic incidents in campuses around America, and called for their immediate eradication.
Professor Sagers Writes in Washington & Lee Law Review’s Online Edition on O’Bannon Case
Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, was invited to co-author a reply article about the landmark district court decision in O’Bannon v. NCAA. The article appears in the Washington & Lee Law Review’s Online edition, and is available for free here.
In the O’Bannon case, the federal district court for the Northern District of California found the NCAA’s ban on compensation to student-athletes for use of their names and likeness to be an antitrust violation. Many observers expect the eventual consequences to be more significant, and that student-athletes will eventually start to share in some of the revenue they generate. Sagers, along with his co-author Michael Carrier of the Rutgers-Camden Law school and 24 other professors of antitrust and sports law, had earlier written an amicus brief in the O’Bannon case supporting the plaintiffs in the NCAA’s appeal before the Ninth Circuit.
CSU Law Faculty 