On Sept. 12, Professor Doron Kalir gave a presentation at Congregation B’nei Jeshurun about the meaning of atonement, penitence, and the prayer of Kol-Nidrei. The presentation was given as part of a lecture series in preparation for the Jewish High Holidays. It reviewed the origins, text, and purpose behind the most famous of Jewish prayers – the Kol Nidrei.
Professor Oh Presents and Publishes in Various Venues
Professor Reginald Oh:
- Spoke at the California Western School of Law’s Law Review symposium on immigrant rights last spring. He presented a paper entitled, Dehumanization, Immigrants, and Equal Protection. The article is forthcoming in the California Western Law Review.
- Is working on a chapter for the book, Critical Race Judgments. His chapter is a rewrite of the Supreme Court’s 1927 school segregation decision in Gong Lum v. Rice.
- Published an article, “The Supreme Court Post-Kavanaugh,” on The Loyal Opposition website. The article contends that one seat should be added to the Supreme Court to have ten justices sit on the Court.
- Published an article, “How We Should Think About Impeachment,” on The Loyal Opposition website. The article contends that the debate over impeaching President Trump should focus less on whether he has committed federal crimes and more on his fitness to wield executive power.
- Has been appointed to the Board of Directors for DemCast, a nonprofit organization engaging in social media political advocacy.
Professor Sagers Appears in Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Public Radio on Antitrust Affairs
Chris Sagers, the James A.Thomas Professor of Law, appeared in prominent news media on breaking antitrust news. He spoke with the Wall Street Journal in an article attempting to explain the many possible lawsuits that state and federal regulators may be planning against the big tech platforms. He also appeared on Forum, a public affairs program on KQED public radio in San Francisco, to discuss the remarkable news that 50 separate U.S. states have joined in an antitrust investigation of Google.
Professor Sagers to Present at the City Club of Cleveland
Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, will give a presentation at the on his new book, “United States v. Apple: Competition in America,” as part of the popular and widely attended Weekly Forum series of the City Club of Cleveland. His book, which will be published by Harvard University Press on September 16, concerns the so-called “eBooks case” of 2012-2013, in which the Justice Department accused Apple and several publishing firms of fixing the prices of electronic books.
The event is Wednesday, October 2, 2019, at noon. Tickets are available here.
Professor Sterio Presents to Oberlin Students on Somali Piracy
Professor Milena Sterio met with a group of first-year Oberlin College students, on August 28, at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. The students were visiting Cleveland as part of their first-year orientation, and Professor Sterio held a mock class for the students on the topic of Somali piracy.
Professor Sterio Presents at Humanitarian Law Dialogues in Chautauqua, New York
Professor Milena Sterio participated in the 13th International Humanitarian Law Dialogs, held in Chautauqua, New York, from August 25-27. Professor Sterio co-moderated a break-out session entitled “The Rising Tide? Grass-roots Efforts” along with Professor Paul Williams, American University Washington College of Law, on August 26. Professors Sterio and Williams also reported to all conference participants about the recommendations and conclusions reached during their break-out session on August 27.
In addition, Professor Sterio delivered the official introduction to the Katherine B. Fite Lecturer, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, on August 26.
Professor Sterio serves as an Advisory Board member of IHL Dialogs, and has, in this capacity, participated in the planning of this year’s conference.
Professor Forte Publishes “The Faith and Morals of Justice Antonin Scalia”
Professor David Forte’s article, “The Faith and Morals of Justice Scalia,” has been published in the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review. In the article, Professor Forte explains Scalia’s fundamental view that “statutory and constitutional law” was fundamentally “positivistic,” with “validity derived from the will of the democratic electorate.” The article discusses Justice Scalia’s devout Catholicism, examining how parts of Justice Scalia’s Catholicism “might have accounted for his particular style of judging and why he believed that originalism and textualism were morally required of judges.”
The citation is David F. Forte, “The Faith and Morals of Justice Scalia,” 14 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 68 (2019).
Katz Presents on Legal Education
In July, Legal Educator in Residence Howard E. Katz participated in the Wolters Kluwer Leading Edge conference on the future of legal education in Riverwoods, IL. He organized and chaired a session discussing “The First 100 Days: What Would You Do as a New Dean?”
In August, Mr. Katz made two presentations at the Southeast Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference in Boca Raton, FL. He spoke about “Teaching Fundamentals: Designing an Effective Core Law School Course” as part of the Newer Law Teachers Workshop. He spoke about the Unified Field Theory of Legal Analysis (originally discussed in his book on law school teaching co-authored with Professor Kevin F. O’Neill) as part of a discussion group on “Giving Feedback in Large Classes.” He also participated in a c.v. review session for aspiring professors as part of the Prospective Law Teachers Workshop.
Professor Sundahl Featured on PRI on Space Law
Professor Mark Sundahl, director of CM|Law’s Global Space Law Center, was interviewed by PRI’s Marco Werman about the challenges of law enforcement in space. The discussion included questions of who has jurisdiction over crimes in space, how law enforcement might function on Mars or the moon, and regulation of new non-traditional space activities such as asteroid mining and private space stations. Professor Sundahl is directly involved in national and international work on formulating new legal frameworks for these and related space-law issues.
CM|Law is the only law school in the United States with a center dedicated exclusively to the study of the law of outer space.
Professor Sundahl Quoted Extensively in The New York Times on Space Crime
Professor Mark Sundahl, director of CM|Law’s Global Space Law Center, was featured in a New York Times story, “How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space.” The article centers on a “bitter separation” between NASA Astronaut Anne McClain and her spouse, Summer Worden.
According to the article, Ms. Worden noticed that Ms. McClain seemed to know about her spending habits, even though the two were estranged. After some investigation, Ms. Worden’s bank reported that her account had been accessed by a NASA computer network. Ms. McClain, who was serving on a six-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS), “acknowledged that she had accessed the bank account from space, insisting through a lawyer that she was merely shepherding the couple’s still-intertwined finances.”
The article notes that the ISS, run by space agencies from the United States, Russia, Japan, Europe and Canada, has “long-established procedures to handle any jurisdictional questions that arise when astronauts of various nations are orbiting Earth together.” The article then turned to Professor Sundahl, who observed “he was not aware of any previous allegation of a crime committed in space.” NASA officials likewise stated that they were “unaware of any crimes committed on the space station.” Professor Sundahl is quoted as stating, “Just because it’s in space doesn’t mean it’s not subject to law.”
Professor Sundahl also commented on the complexities raised by the discovery process in this context: “One potential issue that could arise with any criminal case or lawsuit over extraterrestrial bank communications, Mr. Sundahl said, is discovery: NASA officials would be wary of opening up highly sensitive computer networks to examination by lawyers, for example. But those sorts of legal questions, he said, are going to be inevitable as people spend more time in outer space.”
The article concludes as follows: “The more we go out there and spend time out there,” Mr. Sundahl said, “all the things we do here are going to happen in space.”
Professor Sundahl has written extensively on space law issues, and served on both domestic and international space law projects, such as the NASA Advisory Council Regulatory and Policy Committee, The Hague Working Group on the Governance of Space Resources, and the ICAO/UNOOSA Space Learning Group. He is a member of the Board of Editors of Air & Space Law and has served as the Assistant Executive Secretary of the International Institute of Space Law.
CM|Law is the only law school in the United States with a center dedicated exclusively to the study of the law of outer space.
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