Professor Ferguson gave the keynote speech for the International Law Society at Charlotte School of Law, in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday, November 17, 2008.  His topic was Politics, Policy and Perspective: New Opportunities to Lead in International Human Rights Enforcement. Charlotte Law is a member of the InfiLaw consortium of schools. 

 

On November 7, Professor Karcher gave a presentation on professional sports leagues disciplining players for off-field misconduct at a symposium at Seton Hall University.   

Michael Lewyn continues to participate in the Planetizen urban planning blog, at http://planetizen.com/interchange .

 

Michael Lewyn was recently named Contributing Editor of the “Keeping Current” section of Probate & Property, a publication of the ABA Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law Section.   He also continues to participate in the Planetizen urban planning group blog, at http://planetizen.com/interchange .  In addition, he continues to write for local weekly Folio Weekly; his articles are available in the “Op-Eds” section of his web page at http://works.bepress.com/lewyn

Professor Andrew Long was invited to join the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Commission on Environmental Law.  The Commission is a volunteer legal network that assists in the work of IUCN, the world's oldest and largest global environmental network.  Professor Long’s forthcoming article, International Consensus & U.S. Climate Change Litigation (33 William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 177), was featured on the Legal Theory Blog. 

  

David Pimentel will present his research on the problems in the federal judicial discipline regime – “The Reluctant Tattle-tale:  the Untold Story of Judicial Misconduct” at a Junior Faculty Forum at Stetson University on November 15.  He has been invited to present as well at a J. Reuben Clark Law Society Conference in San Diego on January 6, 2009. 

 

Professor Cynthia Stroud has been appointed to the Archives Committee of the Legal Writing Institute. 

Professor Susan Daicoff made a pedagogical presentation to the faculty titled “How The Comprehensive Law Movement & Recent Empirical Research On Lawyer Wellbeing Are Changing Legal Education,” and a substantive presentation to students titled “The
Comprehensive Law Movement:  An Expanded Toolkit, Greater Lawyer Wellbeing, and Better Client Representation” at Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law in September, 2008, by invitation.  This year, she is chairing the scholarship subcommittee of the AALS Section on Balance in Legal Education.

 

Professor Hogshead-Makar was the primary author on the NCAA’s “Pregnant and Parenting Student-Athletes:  Resources and Model Policies” to be released to all NCAA member institutions later this month.  The materials include a policy rationale, a review of federal law and NCAA rules impacting treatment of pregnant and parenting student-athletes, a power point presentation for a facilitator with notes, a model administrative policy, a model student-athlete handbook statement, a decision-making chart, a list of success stories of women who had achieved athletic success after giving birth, a set of best practices of athletic trainers, and the best medical position statements on exercise during pregnancy. The NCAA will send hard copies to every member school in the country and an e-mail alerting institutions of this new resource.  The materials are available at:  http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=39941 . 

Nancy Hogshead-Makar’s answer to the question, “What Does Title IX Mean to You?” was featured on the main page of the NCAA website.  The video clip is now available at:  http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=1488 

 

Professor Hogshead-Makar spoke at a chapter of American Association of University Women on September 20, 2008. Her talk was entitled, “The History of AAUW and Title IX; The Future Depends on Leadership.” 

 

Professor Hogshead-Makar was a guest on the half-hour cable show, Woman to Woman, with Lane Silverman and Nadine Gramling that has aired over half a dozen times. 

 

Professor Hogshead-Makar has spoken at numerous elementary school students this fall after the Olympics.  Her presentation is entitled, “Success is a learned skill.” 

 

 

On 10/8/2008, Professor Tom Hornsby. as Chairperson of the Ethics Committee of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ), appeared before the Georgia Supreme Court Committee on Justice for Children, and presented the NCJFCJ Recommendations in Support of Specific Changes to the February 2007 ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct.

 

On October 29-31, 2008, Professor Tom Hornsby, as Chairperson of the Ethics Committee of the NCJFCJ represented the NCJFCJ at the 21^st National Council on Judicial Conduct and Ethics sponsored by the American Judicature Society, in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Hornsby presented the NCJFCJ Recommendations in Support of Specific Changes to the February 2007 ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct.

 

Rob Hornstein will speak to a group of high school students at A. Philip Randolph Academies and Technology on Friday, November 21st. A. Philip Randolph Academies and Technology is one of Duval County's oldest high school magnet programs.  He will speak to a group of high school students on a career in the law and on interpreting the constitution.

 

Rob Hornstein's essay, Teaching Law Students to Comfort the Troubled and Trouble the Comfortable: An Essay on the Place of Poverty Law in the Law School Curriculum, will appear in Vol. 35 No.3 of the William Mitchell Law Review.

 

Professor Karcher’s article, Tort Law and Journalism Ethics, was accepted for publication by Loyola University Chicago Law Journal.

Professor Jana McCreary’s article, The Laptop-Free Zone, was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for LSN Educator: Courses, Materials & Teaching; ESMST: Survey Methods; Econometrics: Data Collection & Data Estimation Methodology; and DCDEM: Other.  The article has also been featured in numerous blogs including Legal Theory Blog, TaxProf Blog, and Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog.

 

In October 2008, Prof. Ponte presented her research, Preserving Creativity from Endless Digital Exploitation: Has the Time Come for the New Concept of Copyright Dilution?, at the Sixth Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquiumat Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans. The 2008 WIPIP Colloquium brought together national and international intellectual property scholars to make formal presentations and provide feedback on current research projects.  Prof. Ponte’s article discusses the international legal issue of moral rights for creative works and proposes a new legal theory of copyright dilution in the U.S. to protect such rights in an increasingly digital open content environment.

  

Professor Shannon’s latest article, “Should Summary Judgment Be Granted?” was officially published at 58 Am. U. L. Rev. 85 (2008).

 

Professor Shannon also was selected to serve as a panel moderator at the 2009 SEALS Conference.  The panel topic is “How to Market Your Research.”

 

Professor Nareissa Smith’s article, Eatin’ Good?  Not in this Neighborhood.  A Legal Analysis of Disparities in Food Availability and Quality at Chain Supermarkets in Poverty-Stricken Areas,  will be published in the Winter 2009 edition of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law. 

 

 

Professor Sullivan will be appearing before the Spring 2009 Session of the United States Supreme Court   as counsel for Edgar Townsend in the case of Atlantic Soundings v Townsend.   Townsend is an indigent seaman who was denied medical care by his employer, Atlantic Soundings, after he suffered an accident on a tugboat in Fort Lauderdale.  He sued his employer seeking damages, including punitive damages.  The United States District Court in Jacksonville held that punitive damages could be awarded but certified the issue for interlocutory appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.  The Eleventh Circuit affirmed the District Court’s decision, placing it in conflict with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.  The Supreme Court granted Atlantic Sounding’s petition for certiorari, agreeing to decide whether punitive damages may be awarded against  a ship owner which willfully refuses to provide a seaman with medical care.  A final decision is expected from the Supreme Court by June 15, 2009.  Of the 8000 petitions for certiorari filed each year, the Supreme Court only hears about 200 cases.

  

Prof. Tan’s article, "Advancing Civil Rights, the Next Generation: the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 and Beyond” was accepted to be published in Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, the top-ranked student law review in the field.

 

 

 

Professor Elizabeth L. DeCoux spoke about animal rights to a group of scientists and businesspeople, at the First International In Vitro Meat Symposium in Norway. In the days following her talk, Professor DeCoux was interviewed by both the Christian Science Monitor and abcnews.com. In addition to those two publications, a number of other U.S. news outlets featured her comments. Professor DeCoux’s address focused on the potential for this technology eventually to end the suffering of food animals by producing beef, chicken, pork, etc. starting with just a few animal cells, rather than by raising and killing food animals. 

 

Professor DeCoux also appeared before the Jacksonville City Council to describe the necessity for high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter services, the only real hope for solving the problem of companion-animal overpopulation. 

 

She also spoke to a group of visiting judges and lawyers from South America regarding the use of expert witnesses in courts in the United States.

 

The latest edition of the Cleveland State Law Review features Professor DeCoux’s article,“Does Congress Find Facts or Construct Them? The Ascendance of Politics Over Reliability, Perfected in Gonzales v. Carhart.”   

Professor Mary Margaret Giannini’s article, Equal Rights for Equal Rites?: Victim Allocution, Defendant Allocution and the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, has just been published by the Yale Policy and Law Review, and is available at 26 YALE L. & POL’Y REV. 431 (2008).

Professor Susan Harthill will present her work-in-progress, deconstructing whether make-whole relief is available against breaching fiduciaries under ERISA’s equitable relief provision, on October 25, 2008, at the Third Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, to be held in San Diego.  Professor Harthill’s article, Bullying in the Workplace: Lessons from the United Kingdom, was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for European Economics: Labor & Social Conditions, and was also recently on SSRN's Top Ten download list for LSC: Labor Policy & Regulation. 

 

 

 

Carolyn Herman spoke at the Annual Florida Heritage Book Festival held at the Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine on September 12, 2008. Her presentation included how to negotiate literary publishing agreements and the importance of obtaining permissions and releases.

 

Carolyn Herman was a panelist at the CLE seminar titled Hollywood to Hollywood: EASL at the Emmys co-sponsored by the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section of the Florida Bar and the Los Angeles County Entertainment Law Section. Carolyn discussed how to license music on the Internet and her short paper titled Licensing Music in the Digital Age was included in the course book. Since the event was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel on September 20, 2008, Carolyn also had the opportunity to attend the Emmy Awards Show with fellow panelists. She walked the red carpet and wore Vera Wang.

 

Carolyn Herman was appointed chair of Jacksonville Women’s Network’s Legal Section for the upcoming year.

Herb Jervis, adjunct professor, spent a part of the spring semester teaching at Cambridge University in their LLM program in International Patent Law. While there he also made a presentation on the proposed changes to U.S. patent law to one of the large IP firms in London.

 

Professor Jervis, along with two colleagues from the University of Iowa School of Law, has recently agreed to co-author a treatise on the Intellectual Property Law of Plants for Oxford University Press.  The treatise is scheduled for publication in 2010. 

 

 

“Professor Rick Karcher has been retained as an expert witness in the case of Andy Oliver vs. NCAA.”

 

 

Professor Ourednik participated in the Lorman Education Service’s presentation on The New Trust Code in Florida.  He provided an overview of the ethical and legal issues present in the creation and termination of Florida trusts with particular emphasis to the recent statutory alterations.

 

 

Professor Nareissa Smith will join the Law Professors Blog Network.  The Network is sponsored by Thompson West.  Professor Smith will serve as a co-editor of the brand-new Constitutional Law blog.   Professor Smith and her co-editors are very excited to bring this blog to the Network.

 

Professor Smith was also invited to be a guest blogger on “The Faculty Lounge.”  The Faculty Lounge is a blog focusing on law, politics, academia, and other topics of interest to law professors.

 

 

Rod Sullivan presented his paper “The Exxon Valdez Case and the Future of Punitive Damages in Admiralty Law” to the Admiralty Law Section of the Florida Bar in Tampa.