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Robertson Comments on Local Attempts to Ban Hydraulic Fracturing in Crain’s Cleveland Business’ Shale Report Blogs

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Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

C|M|LAW Professor and Associate Dean Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, who holds a joint appointment at the Levin College of Urban Affairs, posted Support for Fracking Seems to be Fueled by Gas, on November 15,2013, in Crain’s Cleveland Business’ Energy Report.  In this blog post, Robertson notes that ballot initiatives seeking to ban the use of the hydraulic fracturing technology were up for a vote in several jurisdictions, most visibly in Ohio and Colorado.  She commented that although the attempts to ban the technology met with varying degrees of success, the attempts seemed primarily to succeed in jurisdictions where the technology was not really at issue — that is, no drilling permits had been requested.  In contract, in areas that were already active in the exploration or drilling process, the bans mostly failed.

To read more, see:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20131115/BLOGS05/131119907/-1/blogs05

Sagers Speaks About Airline Merger on NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook

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C|M|Law’s James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law Chris Sagers, who was quoted last week on the issue in the Wall Street Journal [http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303559504579196173938040380-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwMzExNDMyWj] and in the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/business/baffling-about-face-in-american-us-airways-merger.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&ref=commonsense], appeared on National Public Radio today to talk about the pending merger of U.S. Airways and American Airlines.  Sagers appeared on the program “On Point with Tom Ashbrook,” a production of WBUR in Boston that is distributed on public radio in 260 American cities.  He discussed the settlement of federal challenge to the merger, whether the terms of settlement would likely achieve desirable goals, and what may have motivated the agency to settle.

An audio-file of the program can be heard here:

http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/11/18/us-airways-american-airlines-merger-justice-department

Sagers Quoted in New York Times on Airline Merger

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Professor Chris Sagers

Professor Chris Sagers

C|M|LAW’s James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law Chris Sagers was quoted in Saturday’s New York Times, in James Stewart’s “Common Sense” column, entitled Baffling About-Face in American-US Airways Merger.  The article concerned the settlement of a federal challenge to the merger of U.S. Airways and American Airlines.

“The settlement is hard to square with the original complaint, ” said Christopher L. Sagers, an antitrust professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

He testified in Congress last March about the potential harm to consumers if the merger went ahead. “I have a lot of respect for the people in the antitrust division,” he said this week, “But I’m perplexed, and so are a lot of other people. I’m afraid the merger is likely to result in some real consumer harm.”

The article is here:

 

 

Sterio Provides Serbians with an Introduction to American Law and Applies the Concept of Grotian Moments to Humanitarian Intervention in Syria

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Professor Milena Sterio

Professor Milena Sterio

C|M|LAW’s Charles R. Emrick Jr. – Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor of Law Milena Sterio recently visited Serbia.  On October 29 and November 1, 2013, she spoke to students and faculty at Novi Sad University and provided them with an “Introduction to American Law.”  According to Sterio, Serbia uses essentially a civil law system, and learning about the basics of the US Constitution/government was novel and interesting to the students and faculty at Novi Sad.

In addition, on November 25, Sterio presented at the International Law Weekend 2013 in New York City  on a panel entitled “Debating the Concept of Grotian Moment.”  Her remarks focused on the application of the concept of Grotian Moment to the notion of humanitarian intervention, with a particular focus on Syria.    

Boise Appointed to Standards Review Committee of ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar

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C|M|LAW Dean Craig M. Boise has been appointed to serve on the Standards Review Committee of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar.  The Standards Review Committee is charged with reviewing proposed changes in, and additions to, all Standards, Interpretations, Rules, Policies, Procedures, and Criteria for the accreditation of law schools.  Proposed changes are referred to the Standards Review Committee by the Section’s Council for its review and recommendations.  Dean Boise was appointed to the Committee by Section Council chair, Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Sundahl Quoted in SpaceNews Regarding Proposed Safety Guidelines for Human Spaceflight

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C|M|LAW Associate Dean Mark Sundahl was quoted in a September 27, 2013, article in SpaceNews, regarding new proposed safety practices for commercial orbital and suborbital human spaceflight companies.  The safety practices have been proposed in response to the recent growth of private companies, such as SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, that will soon be providing human spacelflight services to NASA and the public.  The article quotes Sundahl during a recent FAA teleconference where he commented that “if the intention of the document is to prevent Congress from stepping in to guide the process, I think we need to continue to consider whether the contents of the document are sufficient to do that.”  The entire article can be found here:

http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/37428industry-faa-look-to-stay-one-step-ahead-of-congress-with-draft-safety

Borden Publishes on the the Role of Journalists in Caremark Litigation

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Michael Borden

Professor Michael J. Borden

Congratulations to C|M|LAW Professor Michael J. Borden, whose article Of Outside Monitors and Inside Monitors: The Role of Journalists in Caremark Litigation, in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law.  In this article, Borden argues for a change in Delaware corporate law that would allow for competitive forces to improve the quality of corporate compliance programs, thus reducing hard to society from corporate illegality and improving shareholder welfare.  Specifically, he argues that courts should remove some obstacles that prevent plaintiffs in shareholder derivative actions from forcing defendant directors to demonstrate the efficacy of their compliance cases where outside monitoring by journalists appears to have detected illegal corporate actions before those actions have been detected by the internal monitoring of the compliance department.

To read the article abstract, click here:

http://works.bepress.com/michael_borden/3/

Lewis to Travel to Israel on a Fulbright Specialist Grant

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Congratulations to C|M|LAW Professor Browne Lewis who will be traveling to Israel for 14 days in December as a Fulbright Specialist at Haifa University.  Lewis will be assisting the university in the areas of global and community health.  Professor Lewis’ project aims to foster a platform for exchange of knowledge and ideas in the areas of reproductive health law.  During her visit, Professor Lewis will  conduct a workshop for participants from the fields of public health, reproductive health, sociology, and law.  She will go on a site visit to a legal clinic.  She will conduct a seminar with the nursing – law program’s graduates and current students, and work on development of an advanced studies curricula for a joint Nursing – Law program.  Finally, she will participate in a seminar with Haifa Fulbright scholars/alumni concerning the establishment of a Haifa Israel Fulbright Chapter.

The Fulbright Specialist Program promotes linkages between U.S. scholars and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas.  The program awards grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals, in select disciplines, to engage in short-term collaborative two- to six-week projects at eligible institutions in over 140 countries worldwide.  Shorter grant lengths give Fulbright Specialists greater flexibility to pursue projects that work best with their current academic or professional commitments.

For more information about the Fulbright Specialist Program, click here:  http://www.cies.org/Specialist/

Sterio’s Piracy Article Cited by the D.C. Circuit

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C|M|LAW Professor Milena Sterio’s article on piracy, The Somali Piracy Problem: A Global Puzzle Necessitating A Global Solution, 59 Am. U. L. Rev. 1449 (2010) was cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in U.S. v. Ali (decided on June 11, 2013).  The case is available here, and Professor Sterio’s article is cited on page 3:

http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/16778EF07896FFB085257B8700507F47/$file/12-3056-1440653.pdf

Sundahl Speaks on Commercialization of Space at International Law Weekend

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On September 19th, C|M|LAW Associate Dean Mark Sundahl spoke on a panel on Regulating and Incentivizing Commercial Space Markets at the International Law Weekend organized by the American Branch of the International Law Association at Washington University in St. Louis.  The panel covered a broad spectrum of issues related to the expansion of the commercial use of outer space.  Particular attention was paid to the regulation of the nascent space tourism industry and the likely legal issues that will arise when private companies, such as Virgin Galactic, begin ferrying private passengers to space in 2014.