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February 03, 2015
Craig Nard, director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and Art at the School of Law, will address "Opportunities in Intellectual Property Law” Friday, Feb. 6, from 12:30 to 1:45 in Sears 356. He will discuss how IP law meshes with engineering.
The session is an initiative of the pre-law...
January 29, 2015
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, recently published “Climate Balkanization: Dormant Commerce and the Limits of State Energy Policy” in the Louisiana State University Journal of Energy Law and Resources as well as “The Halbig Cases: Desperately Seeking Ambiguity in Clear S...
January 29, 2015
Cassandra Burke Robertson, professor of law, recently has had works published:
Professional Responsibility In The Life Of The Lawyer, second edition, forthcoming in 2015, with Carl A. Pierce, Judy M. Cornett, Alex B. Long and Paula Schaefer;
“Toward a New Equilibrium in Personal Jurisdiction,” in...
December 22, 2014
Cassandra Burke Robertson was named director of the endowed Center for Professional Ethics at ӰƵ School of Law.
Robertson has taught professional responsibility at the university’s law school for more than eight years. Her scholarship focuses on ethics and procedure in ...
December 05, 2014
Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor of Law, recently published “Student Athletes Revisited” in the fall 2014 edition of Journal of Taxation of Investments. In addition, he had four entries in the second edition of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution:
“Article I, Section 2, Clause 3—Thre...
December 05, 2014
Jessie Hill, professor of law, associate dean for faculty development and research, and Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar, recently gave a number of presentations.
Recent talks include:
“The Affordable Care Act and the Politics of Reproductive Health Care” at The ACA and Beyond: The...
November 20, 2014
Paul Giannelli, the Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor in the School of Law and Distinguished University Professor, recently gave a report on pretrial discovery to the National Commission on Forensic Science at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.
In additi...
November 20, 2014
Praeger Publishers accepted a book manuscript by Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, titled Aging with A Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow.
In addition, she presented at three confere...
November 12, 2014
School of Law professor has analyzed data from 178 environmental lawsuits
Legal attempts to deter major emitters of environment-damaging greenhouse gases (GHGs) have been ineffective and are unlikely to have much effect for years, a ӰƵ School of Law professor concludes in peer-revi...
November 11, 2014
What began as legal analysis of the Affordable Care Act after it became law in 2010 now has ӰƵ School of Law Professor Jonathan Adler close to a case that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review.
At stake is the future of the law known as Obamacare, which authori...