Professor Karin Mika’s essay, Familiar Battles Yield Next Generation Victories, was published in Volume 23 of the Legal Writing Institute Journal.  In this essay, Professor Mika reflects on teaching Legal Writing for 30 years.

In addition, Professor Mika’s article, Optimizing the Classroom Experience by Collaborating with Colleagues, was published in the Spring Edition of the Second Draft, published by the Legal Writing Institute.  In this article, Professor Mika discusses various classroom collaborations with colleagues, including with law librarians and with doctrinal colleagues.

Prof. Mark Sundahl recently published an article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science on the evolution of law during the rise of the United States space industry.  The piece, entitled Business, Legal, and Policy Issues in Relation to Increased Private Space Activity shows how critical changes over time in law and policy fueled the rise of the private space industry. Although private industry was a key player in government programs from the beginning, the Space Shuttle tragedies set in motion a series of policy changes that eventually gave rise to the vibrant panoply of private launch service providers and other space companies that we have today.  

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio was interviewed for a Sputnik News (Russia), on the subject of President Trump’s recent recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli sovereign territory.  Professor Sterio’s interview is available here.

Professor Browne Lewis and Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio were selected as recipients of the CSU Faculty Scholarship Initiative (FSI) grants for 2019-20.  FSI grants, available through the CSU Office of Research, provide funding for CSU faculty for up to $5,000 per year.  Grant recipients are selected through a competitive application process, conducted by the CSU Office of Research and a university faculty committee (University Research Council).

Professor Lewis’ research project is entitled “Mildred Jefferson, Margaret Sanger, Medical Racism and the Black Anti-Aborton Movement.”  Professor Sterio’s research project is entitled “Women at International Criminal Courts.”

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio will write a new book, to be published by Cambridge University Press, tentatively entitled “The Syrian Conflict’s Impact on International Law.”  Professor Sterio will co-author the book with Professor Paul Williams, American University Washington College of Law, and Dean Michael Scharf, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.  Expected publication date is late 2020.

Professor Karin Mika published a blog post on Legal Writing Prof Blog entitled “Congratulations, Barbara Tyler!”  In this post, Professor Mika praises Professor Emerita Barbara Tyler’s near-future induction into Cleveland-Marshall’s Hall of Fame, in light of Professor Tyler’s distinguished career as a legal writing professor at Cleveland-Marshall.

Over the past month, Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio served as reviewer/referee for the following journals: Brazilian Political Science Review (article about humanitarian intervention); Crime, Law and Social Change (article about Somali piracy); and National Science Center (Poland) (proposed research grant on the topic of self-determination).

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio is participating in a Transitional Engagement Training for Yemeni civil society organizations, as program facilitator.  The Training is funded through a U.S. State Department grant and organized by the Public International Law and Policy Group, a prominent Washington D.C.-based NGO which specializes in peace negotiations, post-conflict constitutions, and war crimes prosecutions.  Professor Sterio is a director on the PILPG Board of Directors and has participated in the past in similar PILPG-led projects in Libya and South Sudan.

Clinical Professor of Law Doron Kalir has been presenting to wide audiences on the upcoming Israeli election, and the likely indictment of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. On Friday, Feb. 15, he spoke before Case Western University’s Siegal Lifelong Learning audience, in an “East-Side Conversation” designed to mimic the venerable Friday Forum at the City Club. On Tuesday, March 19, he spoke before the “Sisterhood” at Park East Synagogue. On both occasions, professor Kalir was impressed by the level of knowledge of and interest in Israeli politics.

Professor Claire Robinson May presented Spinning Straw into Gold? The Challenge of Maintaining and Enhancing Legal Writing Programs Amid Institutional Austerity at the 19th Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law. Professor May has also contracted with Carolina Academic Press to contribute a chapter to the book, Lawyering Skills in the Doctrinal Classroom: Using Legal Writing Pedagogy to Enhance Teaching Across the Law School Curriculum, forthcoming in 2020.