Professor Gwendolyn Majette presented her work-in-progress entitled, “The ACA’s New Governing Architecture and Innovative State Delivery System Reform Initiatives in the Age of a New Presidency,” on October 26, 2017 at a national conference on health care reform entitled “Next Steps in Health Care Reform.”  This conference brought together national leaders in health care law, policy, economics, and administration to track implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other statutes; identify developments on the horizon; and offer bold, new ideas for balancing cost, access, quality and patient autonomy in our rapidly changing health care system.  Professor Majette’s piece examined the comprehensive or global cost control systems recently implemented by Maryland and Massachusetts in light of the ACA.  

Several plenary sessions were recorded and broadcast on C-Span, including this one which featured Professor Majette.

David Forte presented a paper entitled, “Righting a Wrong: Warren G. Harding and the Espionage Act Prosecutions,” at the Colloquium, National Security, National Origin, and National Security, 75 Years after EO9066, held at Case Western Reserve  Law School.  He also penned a remebrance essay, “A Great and Good Place,” for the  the 2016/2017 edition of Massey News, the journal of Massey College at the University of Toronto where Professor Forte received his Ph.D.

Professor Mickey Davis’  Letter to the Editor was published in The New York Times on December 3d.  Professor Davis’ Letter comments on a recently published New York Times article on art made by Guantanamo prisoners and the United States government’s erroneous assertion that it owns such art.  According to Professor Davis’ Letter, “[t]he government cannot destroy the copyright that each prisoner owns in his works. Under United States copyright law, that right belongs to each prisoner-artist for the next 70-plus years.”

Crain’s Cleveland Business reported on Professor Davis’ Letter to the Editor to The New York Times on December 4th.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio will contribute a chapter to The Routledge Handbook on State Recognition.  Professor Sterio’s chapter will be entitled “Power Politics and State Recognition.”

The Handbook will be jointly edited by Dr Gëzim Visoka (Dublin City University), Professor John Doyle (Dublin City University) and Professor Edward Newman (University of Leeds).  The Routledge Handbook of State Recognition will be the first of its kind, offering a comprehensive analysis of theoretical and comparative debates, as well as empirical aspects underpinning state recognition in international studies.  The Routledge Handbook series is a highly successful existing series.

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio contributed an article to a symposium issue of The Independent Review on the use of drones.  Professor Sterio’s article is entitled “Drones: International Law Issues.”
The Independent Review is the acclaimed interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed,journal devoted to the study of political economy and the critical analysis of government policy. The Independent Review is thoroughly researched, peer-reviewed, and based on scholarship of the highest caliber. However, unlike so many other journals, it is also provocative, lucid, and written in an engaging style. Ranging across the fields of economics, political science, law, history, philosophy, and sociology, The Independent Review boldly challenges the politicization and bureaucratization of our world, featuring in-depth examinations of past, present, and future policy issues by some of the world’s leading scholars and experts.

Professor Joseph Mead and Marissa Pappas, a student in the College of Urban Affairs, recently published an op-ed in The New York Times entitled “When Calling 911 Makes you a ‘Nuisance’ and Gets You Evicted.”  The op-ed describes some of their work into local nuisance laws, which often results in the eviction of the tenant who herself reported the nuisance (such as a 911 call to report a domestic violence incident).  Several local media outlets have also reported on Professor Mead’s and Ms. Pappas’ research and work on this issue of public nuisance laws (see here, here, here, here, here, and here).

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, wrote this analysis  of the Justice Department’s recent and much-discussed antitrust challenge to the pending merger of AT&T and Time Warner, Inc. His post was featured on the blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago.