Professor Patricia J. Falk is quoted in an article entitled Rape by Fraud: Inside the Fight to Criminalize Lying About Who You Are to Sleep with Someone, by Caitlin Nolan, that appeared on InsideEdition.com. The article is available here.
Professor Sterio Participates in “The Sound of Ideas” on WCPN/90.3
Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio participated in “The Sound of Ideas” morning show on WCPN/90.3, the Cleveland-area NPR-affiliate radio station, on the topic of “Trump’s Prime-Time Address & Medicaid’s Future in the DeWine Administration.” Professor Sterio participated in the first segment of the show, and discussed President Trump’s border security policy, as announced in his speech on January 8th. The show is available for viewing here.
Professor May Presents at the 2019 AALS
Professor Claire Robinson May organized and participated in the following session at the 2019 AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans on January 5th:
Building Bridges Between Theory and Practice: Incorporating Lawyering Skills into Doctrinal Courses
Description:
The ABA and the legal profession increasingly call for law school graduates to be practice ready. Despite the Carnegie Report’s recommendation for legal education to more fully integrate skills, professionalism, and doctrine, years later many law schools continue to offer separate skills courses and traditional “podium courses,” with little intersection of the two. Why do doctrine and skills remain so separate in legal education? What have law schools done to reform their curricula to allow students to learn law in a practical context? This Discussion Group will provide a forum for sharing how some law schools are bridging the gap by incorporating legal writing, simulations, client-based programs, or other experiential learning opportunities into traditional doctrinal courses. Topics include pedagogy, benefits and challenges of integrating skills and doctrine, and whether the legal academy’s longstanding divide between podium and practice best serves our students and our profession.
The ABA and the legal profession increasingly call for law school graduates to be practice ready. Despite the Carnegie Report’s recommendation for legal education to more fully integrate skills, professionalism, and doctrine, years later many law schools continue to offer separate skills courses and traditional “podium courses,” with little intersection of the two. Why do doctrine and skills remain so separate in legal education? What have law schools done to reform their curricula to allow students to learn law in a practical context? This Discussion Group will provide a forum for sharing how some law schools are bridging the gap by incorporating legal writing, simulations, client-based programs, or other experiential learning opportunities into traditional doctrinal courses. Topics include pedagogy, benefits and challenges of integrating skills and doctrine, and whether the legal academy’s longstanding divide between podium and practice best serves our students and our profession.
Participants:
Roberto Corrada, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Renee Knake, University of Houston Law Center
Harold Lloyd, Wake Forest University School of Law
Claire Robinson May (Moderator), Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University
Andrea McArdle, City University of New York School of Law
Rebecca Rich, Duke University School of Law
Amy Sloan, University of Baltimore School of Law
Craig Smith, University of North Carolina School of Law
Etienne Toussaint, University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law
Professor Sterio Presents at Conferences in Jerusalem, Israel and in Ankara, Turkey
Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio presented at the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, on November 5th, at a conference entitled “Recognition in the Context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Professor Sterio’s remarks focused on “Recognition of Palestinian Statehood.”
On November 9th, Professor Sterio presented in Ankara, Turkey, at a conference entitled “The Centennial of the Independence of the Three South Caucasus States: Historical Background, Contemporary Developments and Prospects of Peace and Prosperity,” organized by the Center for Eurasian Studies.
Professor Sterio Presents and Moderates Panels at the 2019 AALS Annual Meeting
International Law Section panelists (from L-R): Professor Cindy Buys; Professor Milena Sterio, Dean Michael Scharf; Professor Paul Williams; Professor Tom McDonnell
Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio presented and moderated several panels at the AALS 2019 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. In addition, Professor Sterio was elected to the Executive Committee of the Women in Legal Education section.
On January 3, Professor Sterio moderated a panel sponsored by the National Security Law section, entitled “Junior Scholars Works-In-Progress.” Professor Sterio had participated in the National Security Law section’s subcommittee on works-in-progress, and had thus helped select papers for this panel. Professor Sterio served as Treasurer of the National Security Law section during 2018, and she was elected as Secretary of this section for 2019.
On January 4, Professor Sterio moderated a panel sponsored by the International Law section, entitled “U.S. Leadership in Global Affairs in 21st Century International Law.” Professor Sterio had organized this panel, in her capacity as Chair of the International Law section.
On January 5, Professor Sterio presented at the Annual Breakfast for International Law Faculties, sponsored by the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. Professor Sterio presented remarks on “Anti-Globalization Forces and International Criminal Law.”
On January 6, Professor Sterio moderated a panel sponsored by the International Human Rights and International Law sections, entitled “New Voices in Human Rights and International Law.” Professor Sterio had helped select papers for this panel in her capacity as member of this section’s Executive Committee.
Sagers Quoted in Various Media on Recent Antitrust Matters
Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, spoke with various news outlets recently about ongoing antitrust matters. He spoke with both Bloomberg and the trade journal Comm Daily about the Justice Department’s appeal of the high-profile loss in its challenge to the merger of AT&T and Time Warner.
He spoke with the widely read technology blog Ars Technica about a potentially spectacular new antitrust suit just filed by the failed ride-share firm Sidecar against Uber, and he commented for the Washington Examiner on a federal judge’s notable criticism of a government approval of the CVS-Aetna merger.
Finally, he spoke with Reorg M&A, a trade publication of Reorg Research, Inc., about the unusual litigation developments in the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust challenge to the merger of two industrial pigment manufacturers, Tronox and Cristal. The significance of the case concerns ongoing uncertainties over the Commission’s in-house adjudication procedures before Administrative Law Judges.
Professor Sterio Attends Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Netherlands
Plenary, Assembly of States Parties, International Criminal Court
Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio attended the 17th annual Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, Netherlands, from December 10-12. The Assembly of States Parties is the ICC’s management oversight and legislative body, which consists of representatives of ICC member states. Attendance at the Assembly is limited to member states’ representatives, as well as to delegates of accredited NGOs. Professor Sterio attended the Assembly as a delegate of the Public International Law and Policy Group, a Washington, D.C.-based NGO which provides free legal assistance to parties involved in peace negotiations, drafts post-conflict constitutions, and works on transitional justice and war crimes prosecution issues. Professor Sterio currently serves as one of three Directors of the PILPG Board of Directors. Professor Sterio has also published a blog post on Intlawgrrls, describing her experience at this year’s ASP; the blog post, entitled “Three Themes from the 17th Assembly of States Parties of the ICC: New Prosecutor, Victims’ Role, and Cooperation,” is available here.
Briefing of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda
World Forum, site of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court
Professor Geier Publishes 2019 Edition of her Federal Income Taxation e-Textbook
The updated 2019 edition of Professor Deborah Geier’s free e-textbook for the first course in Federal Income Taxation is now posted on CALI’s eLangdell’s website. The ePub format (for iPads) and the Mobi format (for Kindles) should be posted by December 20.
The 2019 edition incorporates all inflation-adjusted numbers (tax tables, standard deduction, payroll tax ceiling, etc.), updates some tables and graphs on economic data, and corrects mistakes that were inevitably made when Professor Geier had to incorporate all of the many changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in two frantic weeks last December so that professors who used the textbook in the spring semester had a fully updated version.
Here’s the link to the 2019 textbook: https://www.cali.org/books/us-federal-income-taxation-individuals
Professor Geier Guest on the “Sound of Ideas” Radio Show on WCPN/90.3
Professor Deborah Geier was a guest on the “Sound of Ideas” program on WCPN 90.3 on Wednesday, November 28, to discuss the possible impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted last December on charitable giving. To listen to the program, go to minute 39 here:
Prof. Sundahl Appointed as Advisor to NASA
Prof. Mark Sundahl was appointed last week by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to the NASA Advisory Council Regulatory and Policy Committee. The Committee will provide advice to the Administrator regarding the policy and regulatory changes that are needed to assist NASA in its mission to increase mankind’s understanding and use of outer space. In its first meeting at NASA Headquarters, the Committee issued recommendations to, among other things, increase the commercial use of the International Space Station through reform of the regulations regarding intellectual property rights and the access of commercial partners to privately-owned hardware installed on the ISS. The Committee will continue to assist NASA in leveraging the strengths of the private sector in the development of human activity in Earth orbit, on the Moon, and eventually on Mars and other celestial bodies.
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