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The American Society of International Law has included a news item about C|M|LAW Professor Milena Sterio and her Fulbright experience in Baku, Azerbaijan,  on its front page:  http://www.asil.org/

In addition, Professor Sterio attended the United Nations Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, Working Group 2, meeting on April 10-11 in Copenhagen, Denmark.  At that conference, she presented on the existence in national legislation on the crime of conspiracy to commit piracy, and on the legal duties of a ship master after he/she detains pirates.  C|M|LAW 3L students  Aleksandar Rakic and Marina Saric provided research assistance on these two topics.

Finally, Professor Sterio has published a Report from the Piracy Contact Group as a blog post Intlawgrrls.org.  The post has been picked up by several other blogs, including Communis Hostis Omnium (piracy-law.com), and the Maritime Security Review.

To read Professor Sterio’s post, click here:

http://www.marsecreview.com/2013/04/report-from-the-piracy-contact-group/

Cleveland-Marshall Dean Emeritus Steven H. Steinglass has been appointed as Consultant to the newly-created Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission.  The bi-partisan Commission, which is patterned after a successful commission that operated in the 1970s, has 12 legislative and 20 public members.  The Commission is charged with reviewing the Ohio Constitution and recommending by a two-thirds vote proposed constitutional amendments to the Ohio General Assembly (for ultimate submission to the voters). Dean Steinglass, who is the co-author of a leading book on the Ohio Constitution, will be assisting the Commission in its organizational and educational efforts.

C|M|LAW Professor John Plecnik presented a work-in-progress, with a working title of Officers Under the Appointments Clause, to the University of Pittsburgh School of Law’s 2013 Tax Workshop on March 20.  He participated on the panel titled, Tax Legislation and Tax Compliance.

To see coverage of the workshop on the TaxProf Blog, click here:

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/03/pittsburgh-hosts.html

On March 1, 2013, C|M|LAW Professor and Associate Dean Mark Sundahl was the guest on The Space Show, a Internet radio program hosted by Dr. David Livingston and dedicated to recent developments in space commerce.  During the 90-minute interview, Prof. Sundahl discussed current issues in the field of space law, including legislative reform initiatives in the area of export controls, liability for damage caused by space debris, orbital private space activity, and the mining of near-earth asteroids. 

The podcast of the interview can be found at http://archive.thespaceshow.com/shows/1961-BWB-2013-03-01.mp3.

C|M|LAW Professor Candice Hoke was quoted in an article in today’s Plain Dealer (Sunday, March 17, 2012) Electronic poll books seem conceptually simple but may be vulnerable to hacking and cyber attacks, experts say, by Karen Farkus.  In response to Cuyahoga County elections officials’ plan to experiment with electronic poll books to verify the registration of in-person, Hoke warned that “E-poll books are similar to other computer-based technologies in voting – full of promise and lousy execution in most locations.”  Hoke stated that “[o]ur counties should be extremely wary of adopting them, but definitely a pilot project is a good way to proceed.”

To read the story, click here:

http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga-county/index.ssf/2013/03/electronic_poll_books_seem_conceptually_simple_but_may_be_vulnerable_to_hacking_and_cyber_attacks_ex.html

C|M|LAW’s Joseph C. Hostetler, Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law, Lolita K. Buckner Inniss has published a Letter to the Editor in the New York Times.  The letter concerns “The Good, Racist People,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (column, March 7), about the actor Forest Whitaker, who was stopped and frisked last month in a Manhattan deli by a deli employee.  In the letter, Inniss suggests that we treat all shoppers alike, either by scrutinizing no one, or everyone, and shifting the increased costs — of either lost goods due to shoplifting or of increased security — to the consumer.  The letter appeared on March 11, 2013, under the headline Shopping While Black:, Racism in Everyday Life, at page A20.

It is also available at  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/opinion/shopping-while-black-racism-in-everyday-life.html?smid=fb-share

C|M|LAW Professor Milena Sterio posted Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know about the Fulbright Program on the IntLawGrrls.com blog.

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Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know About the Fulbright Program