C|M|LAW Legal Writing Professor Sandra Kerber served as one of the Board of Editorial Advisers for Bryan Garner’s The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, Third Edition which was recently published by West Academic Publishing.  See:  http://www.amazon.com/The-Redbook-Manual-Legal-Style/dp/0314168915

In addition, she participated in the fall Judge4Yourself judicial interviews. The recent interviews were of candidates for Municipal Court. She will also participate in the next series of interviews for Common Pleas Judicial candidates. Judge4Yourself arranges for dozens of experienced lawyers to interview judicial candidates and evaluate their qualifications for the best. Ratings for the interviewed candidates are generated by four cooperating bar associations.   See:  http://www.judge4yourself.com/index.html

C|M|LAW and Levin College of Urban Affairs Professor Alan C. Weinstein has published the 2013 edition of Federal Land Use Law & Litigation (Thomson Reuters,) a one-volume treatise that he co-authors annually with Brain Blaesser, Esq. The book examines all federal, constitutional, and statutory limitations on local land use controls, discussing cases, regulations, defense strategies, doctrines, and antitrust restrictions. It reviews Supreme Court and lower federal court decisions that consider the constitutionality of land use regulations and discusses complicated free speech issues affected by federal land use law and municipalities exercising home-rule powers.

For more information about this new edition, see:

http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Treatises/Federal-Land-Use-Law-and-Litigation-2013-ed/p/100207203

C|M|LAW Associate Dean Mark J. Sundahl has just published The Cape Town Convention: Its Application to Space Assets and Relation to the Law of Outer Space.   In the book, Dean Sundahl examines the recently adopted UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and its Space Assets Protocol which together create a new international regime of secured finance applicable to satellites, launch vehicles, and other types of space equipment.  In addition to explaining the operation of the convention and protocol, the book explores the relationship between these new instruments and the existing body of space law founded on the five UN treaties that were adopted in the 1960s and 1970s.

Further information can be found on the Brill website:

http://www.brill.com/cape-town-convention

C|M|LAW’s Leon and Gloria Plevin Professor and Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Browne C. Lewis was featured recently in the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics’ Member Spotlight. ASLME used the member spotlight as a way for its Network for Public Health Law to introduce its Scholars in Residence program.  ASLME member Browne C. Lewis is one of their six selected scholars.  Through the Scholars in Residence fellowship, legal scholars work with public health agencies to face a variety of public health challenges. The program gives scholars field experience, while giving public health agencies access to legal experts.  Lewis is using her fellowship to work with the Cleveland Public Health Department to fight the problem of small cigar smoking in Cleveland. Small cigars have fewer federal regulations than cigarettes, and they are offered in kid-friendly flavors, making them seem less dangerous than cigarettes. Recently, the use of small cigars has dramatically increased among young adults.

To read the Member Spotlight, click here:  http://www.aslme.org/Member_Spotlight?post=439

C|M|LAW Professor Milena Sterio participating in  “Talking Foreign Policy” on Tuesday, September 10, on WCPN 90.3.  The discussion concerned combating maritime piracy, solving the problem of child soldiers/pirates, and the legality of bombing Syria.  In addition to Sterio, and “Talking Foreign Policy” host Michael Scharf (Case), the expert panel for this program included General Romeo Dallaire (former UN Force Commander), Sulakshna Beekarry (Chief of Piracy Prosecutions in  Mauritius), and Rosemelle Mutoka (Chief Piracy Judge in Kenya).

You can listen to the broadcast at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ15w4y65mc&feature=youtu.be

In addition, Professor Sterio participated in the SEALS Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, FL.  where she spoke on a panel entitled “The Future of International Criminal Prosecutions” on August 8th.  Her remarks focused on the need for prosecutorial guidelines for the International Criminal Court prosecutor, which would provide more detailed rules about the appropriate exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

C|M|LAW Professor Milena Sterio participation in a day-long piracy conference at Case Western Reserve Law School last week, and was featured in a September 6,2013, Plain Dealer article by James Ewinger, Case Western Reserve University symposium takes judicious aim at piracy.  The conference addressed the international war on piracy, which was brought into international focus by Somali pirates who, in the 1980s began to prey on commercial ships in the Indian Ocean.  Mauritius, the Seychelles and Kenya, are major players in the war on piracy and have become active in organizing and carrying out most of the prosecutions using both international law and domestic legislation within their own countries.  The involvement of children in acts of piracy was a particular focus of the conference.  Regarding the role of children, Professor Sterio said that “[l]egal debates remain about whether to treat these youth as adults or to give them consideration because of their age. The United Nation’s International Convention on the Rights of the Child does not prohibit the criminal prosecution of juveniles.”

To read the article about the piracy conference, click here:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/09/piracy.html#incart_river