Professors Matthew W. Green Jr., Doron Kalir, Kenneth Kowalski, and Carolyn Broering-Jacobs co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of Equality Ohio that was cited in a recent opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  Alana Jochum, C-M Law ‘10, serves as Equality Ohio’s executive director.  The case, EEOC v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc., No. 16-2424 (March 7, 2018), involved the termination of an employee because of her transgender status in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  Title VII, among other things, prohibits discrimination because of an employee’s sex.  Equality Ohio submitted its amicus brief on behalf of the employee, Aimee Stephens.  The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the employer and the Sixth Circuit reversed.  In its opinion, the court cited Equality Ohio’s brief multiple times, including in support of its holding that discrimination based on an individual’s transgender status is impermissible under Title VII because such discrimination necessarily takes into account the individual’s sex.

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, C|M|LAW’s Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law and a dual appointee at the Levin College, has accepted an offer to publish her article, Get Out from Under My Land: Hydraulic Fracturing, Unitization, and the Role of the Dissenting Landowner, in the Georgetown Environmental Law Review.  It will be published in the Summer 2018 edition of the journal.

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, C|M|LAW’s Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law and a dual appointee at the Levin College, has accepted an offer to publish her article, Get Out from Under My Land: Hydraulic Fracturing, Unitization, and the Role of the Dissenting Landowner, in the Georgetown Environmental Law Review.  It will be published in the Summer 2018 edition of the journal.

This spring the Ohio State law journal “I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society” will publish a mini-symposium on a forthcoming book by Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law. The book, “Apple, Antitrust, and Irony,” concerns price-fixing in the book industry, and will be published this fall by Harvard University Press.

In the symposium, two readers read and critique the book, and exchange ideas with Sagers, who wrote in response. The readers are Professor Abe Wickelgren of the University of Texas, an expert in antitrust law, and Professor Guy Rub, who teaches intellectual property at Ohio State. The symposium was organized by Professor Shane of Ohio State.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio was selected as the recipient of the Smart Woman Award in the Progressive Women Award category, by Smart Business Cleveland.  Professor Sterio was recognized, with other honorees, at the Smart Women Breakfast on April 26th.  Professor Sterio and other honorees were featured in a special editorial report in the April edition of Smart Business Cleveland and Smart Business Akron.  Professor Sterio was nominated for this Award by Dean Lee Fisher; all nomination were judged by a panel of judges at Smart Business Cleveland and Smart Business Akron.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio has provided peer review for two academic journals: Law and Society Review (on an article discussing international criminal accountability and domestic policies in Kenya and Lebanon), and International Theory (on an article discussing self-determination under international law).

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, C|M|LAW’s Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law and a dual appointee at the Levin College, recently submitted the United States’ Report for the Common Core of European Private Law project, Access to Commons Working Group. The project, partly funded by the European Commission, has been working for more than 20 years to seek commonalities among the diverse legal systems in Europe.  It often includes a U.S. comparison.

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, appeared at Villanova University School of Law last week to give a presentation on his forthcoming book “Apple, Antitrust, and Irony,” as part of the school’s visiting scholar series.The book concerns the Justice Department’s 2012 antitrust challenge to an agreement among the Apple computer company and several publishing firms to fix the prices of electronic books. It will be published this fall by Harvard University Press.

Professor Howard Katz spoke about “Teaching the Contracts Course: Strategies, Techniques, and Ideas for Consideration” at the Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Contracts, held at Barry University School of Law, on February 24, 2018

Professor Howard Katz led a plenary session about pedagogy at the American Constitution Society Third Annual Constitutional Law Scholars Forum, co-sponsored by the Texas A and M School of Law and the Barry University School of Law. The conference was held at Barry University School of Law on March 2, 2018.

Professor April Cherry is a participant in this month’s American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Discussion Forum (online) on the topic of “Screening and Surveillance for Pregnant Patients Who Use Illicit Drugs.”  The discussion forum begins today, March 1; please click on the following link to access.

According to the Journal’s website, “[t]he AMA Journal of Ethics discussion forum brings together individuals to talk about the most pressing ethical issues in health care. The topic for each monthly discussion focuses on a challenging ethics case featured in the current theme issue of the journal.”