On July 1st, C|M|LAW Associate Dean Mark Sundahl began a two-year term as the Chair of the International Law Section of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. The International Law Section provides a forum for international law practitioners as well as for student members of the CMBA with an interest in international law. The section holds monthly luncheon meetings featuring a presentation on current issues in the field of international law. An annual full-day CLE event is also organized for the spring. Dean Sundahl plans to involve students to a larger extent in the section’s activities in order to raise student awareness of the importance of international law in the era of globalization.
Becker Speaks on Marriage Equality Before and After Windsor and Perry
C|M|LAW Professor Susan J. Becker gave a presentation titled “Marriage Equality in the U.S. Before and After Windsor and Perry” at the Cleveland ACLU on July 11 and at the Columbus Urban League on July 16. She will give a similar presentation at the Clifton Cultural Art Center in Cincinnati on Aug. 8th.
A webcast of her Cleveland presentation is available here:
Brian Ray, C|M|Law Fulbright Scholar in South Africa, is Named the Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law
Professor Brian E. Ray
Congratulations to Brian Ray, currently serving as a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa, who was recently named by C|M|LAW Dean Craig M. Boise to serve as the Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law.
Ray has recently published a book review of Sandra Liebenberg’s Socio-Economic Rights. Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution in the European Journal of International Law 2013 24: 739-744. It’s available here: http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/2.toc
Ray also recently helped organize a half-day conference “Meaningful Engagement as a Political Process: Understanding the Roles of Government, Communities, Civil Society and Courts.” The Community Law Centre’s Socio-Economic Rights Project hosted the event on May 30 at the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University’s Socio-Economic Rights and Administrative Justice Project co-sponsored. The roundtable discussion brought together government officials, civil society groups active in socio-economic rights and citizen leaders to discuss ways to implement the constitutional requirement that government “meaningfully engage” with people and civil society when developing social welfare policies.
Milena Sterio, C|M|LAW Fulbright Scholar in Azerbaijan, is Named The Charles R. Emrick Jr. – Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor of Law
Professor Milena Sterio
Congratulations to Milena Sterio, named recently by C|M|LAW Dean Craig M. Boise to serve as The Charles R. Emrick Jr. – Calfee Halter & Griswold Professor of Law. Professor Sterio is currently serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Baku, Azerbaijan. You can read her first-hand account of her experience here:
https://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/news/milena-sterio-cmlaw-fulbright-scholar
Lewis Busy this Summer as Visiting Scholar, Speaker, Author on Various Issues in Bioethics
Professor Browne Lewis
C|M|LAW’s Leon and Gloria Plevin Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy was a visiting scholar this summer at The Hastings Center. The Hastings Center, located in Garrison, New York, is a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to bioethics and the public interest. Professor Lewis is conducting research on human oocyte cryopreservation for a chapter to be included in a book that is being published by Oxford University Press in 2015. On June 26, 2013, at the Hastings Center, she presented Bioethics and Reproductive Technology. Her presentation focused on the legal and ethical issues that arise because of the law’s failure to regulate adequately the use of reproductive technology.
As one of six public health law scholars in residence with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , Professor Lewis will work for six months with the Cleveland Public Health Department to develop a plan to reduce the use of small cigars by young adults in the city. On June 20, 2013, Professor Lewis presented Where There is Smoke: Regulating Small Cigars to Protect Children at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Health Scholar in Residence Program in Austin, Texas, Her presentation focused on the manner in which tobacco companies are targeting young adults. Even though cigarette smoking is down, the use of small cigars has increased by almost 123%.
Professor Lewis also served as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Medical Humanities of the University of Texas Medical Branch. While at the Institute, she researched the ethics of patient dumping. Her presentation on June 13, 2013, Graceful Exit: Addressing the Ethics of Physician-Assisted Suicide focused upon the ethics of physician-assistant suicide and the physician’s ability to declare medical futility. In Texas, there is a procedure in place for the physician to declare a patient medically futile and to remove that patient from life support over the objections of the patient’s next-of-kin.
On June 1, 2013, at the Law & Society Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, Professor Lewis presented Arrogance, Avarice and Anguish: Addressing the Ethical and Legal Consequences of Posthumous Reproduction. Also at the Law and Society meeting, a group of professors discussed her book Papa’s Baby: Paternity and Artificial Insemination in an author-meets-reader session.
Witmer-Rich Guest Blogs on PrawfsBlawg Regarding Sneak and Peek Searches
C|M|LAW Professor Jonathan Witmer-Rich is guest blogging in July at PrawfsBlawg regarding sneak and peek searches. His posts will draw from his scholarship on delayed notice search warrants, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2226977.
His first post on PrawfsBlawg is here: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2013/07/sneak-and-peek.html.
Sagers Posts Again on HuffingtonPost, This Time on the “Reverse Payments” Drug Case
C|M|Law’s James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law Chris Sagers had a new post on the HuffingtonPost last week concerning last week’s Supreme Court decision in Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis, Inc. In the case, the Court held that so-called “reverse payment” or “pay for delay” agreements between branded drug manufacturers and would-be generic competitors are not only subject to antitrust law, but are likely illegal in any case in which the reverse payment is “large.” Sagers offers thoughts about why the case matters not just for the narrow context of the drug sector, but for antitrust law and competition generally.
You may read Sagers’ post here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-sagers/the-drug-patents-case-the_b_3480866.html
Sagers Featured Prominently in Press Reports Concerning Apple eBooks Antitrust Trial
Professor Chris Sagers
C|M|Law’s James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law Chris Sagers was widely quoted in the press recently concerning the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Apple, alleging that Apple had coordinated a price-fixing conspiracy among publishers of electronic books. In addition to his own post about the case on the HuffingtonPost (see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-sagers/the-fate-of-apple-and-ant_b_3480835.html) Sagers was quoted in several articles in Publisher’s Weekly (concerning Apple’s trial strategy, see http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/57395-at-hearing-judge-says-she-is-leaning-against-apple.html, concerning the likely scope of the remedies it may face, (see http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/57395-at-hearing-judge-says-she-is-leaning-against-apple.html), and in a long summation of the case after trial had closed (see http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/retailing/article/57943-why-apple-loses.html). He was quoted on the technology website CNET on the testimony of key witness Eddy Cue (see http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57589185-37/apples-eddy-cue-yep-we-caused-e-book-pricing-to-rise/), and in another long summary of the case (see http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57586765-37/apple-and-the-doj-face-off-over-e-book-prices-faq/), as well as in the widely read InformationToday (see http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Apple-Gambles-on-Winning-Ebook-Antitrust-Suit-90274.asp).
Forte Speaks at the Claremont Institute’s Wilson Seminar on the Framers’ Thoughts on What Constitutes Religion
On April 27, C|M|LAW Professor David Forte delivered a paper in Washington to the Wilson Seminar of the Natural Law Center of Claremont University. The Wilson Seminar on the role of Natural Law in American Constitutional Jurisprudence, is named for James Wilson, a central figure in the formation of the Constitution, and sponsored by the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy. The topic of the latest meeting was the Parameters of Religious Liberty. Professor Forte’s contribution centered on what kinds of “religion” the framers had in mind when they went out of their way in the First Amendment to guarantee the “Free Exercise of Religion.” It was entitled Satan, Religious Freedom, and the Natural Law.
Plecnik Participates in Young Cleveland Running Panel Presentation
On Thursday, June 13th, at the Nighttown restaurant in Cleveland Heights, C|M|LAW Professor John Plecnik participated in a panel discussion hosted by Young Cleveland Running. Along with other young political candidates, Plecnik answered questions from the mediator, and then the attendees, about the importance of getting more young people involved in local politics. The panelists included Professor Plecnik, who is running for Willoughby Hills City Council, Cuyahoga County Councilman Julian Rogers, Euclid City Councilman Scott Lynch (a current C|M|LAW student), and Cleveland City Council candidates Jonathan Simon and Basheer Jones.
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