The Informant
July 2010
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Library locker and carrel clean out
Please clear any of your personal items from the library lockers and carrels. All library locker keys must be returned no later than Friday, July 30.
In preparation for the fall semester library staff will begin removing any items left in lockers or carrels on Monday, Aug. 2.
If you feel we have collected something of yours, please check with a full-time staff member of the Circulation Department. Any unclaimed materials will be discarded after Sept. 10.
Fall CLE programs
The College of Law is offering four CLE programs this fall, including three that are free. Free one-hour progams will be offered prior to UT home football games on Sept. 11, Oct. 23 and Nov. 13. A seven-hour program on "Behavior and Business Law" is offered Oct. 2. MORE
Former Clayton Visitor to teach in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jeff Kelleher, the former Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law visiting professor, has been appointed a Professor of Law at the College of International Law and Diplomacy at American University Bosnia & Herzegovinia in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He begins teaching there this fall. Kelleher taught International Business Law and European Union Law in the fall 2010 and gave a great presentation to the law school community on the state of the EU community.
FACULTY
From Greg Stein, Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Professor Maurice Stucke’s article, “ Money, Is That What I Want?: Competition Policy and the Role of Behavioral Economics,” has been published in the Santa Clara Law Review. Stucke has given several presentations during the past year based on earlier versions of this paper.
Professor Maurice Stucke presented his paper, “Reconsidering Competition and the Goals of Competition Law,” at the Academic Society for Competition Law’s conference in Bonn, Germany. He also was elected to the Executive Board and the managing Steering Committee of ASCOLA, an academic association of more than 150 lawyers and economists from about 25 different countries who specialize in competition law and policy. Stucke then spoke in London at the conference, “US Antitrust Law under an Obama Administration: One Year On,” sponsored by University College London’s Centre for Law and Economics.
Professor Maurice Stucke attended the American Antitrust Institute's annual conference on June 23-24. As a Senior Fellow of the AAI, he will participate in policy meetings about AAI's strategies in the coming year. In addition, one conference panel will discuss his behavioral economics research.
Professor Greg Stein has accepted an invitation to serve on the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. His three-year term begins in March 2011. ACREL is an organization of approximately 900 real estate lawyers, most of whom are practicing lawyers. ACREL Fellows are selected based on skill and experience in the practice of real estate law. The organization seeks to promote high standards of professionalism and ethical responsibility in the practice of real estate law, and to improve and reform real estate law and practice. Stein has been a Fellow of ACREL since 2006.
Professor Dean Rivkin’s latest article, “Decriminalizing Students With Disabilities,” was published recently by the New York Law School Law Review. The article is part of a symposium addressing "The School-To-Prison-Pipeline."
Professor Dean Rivkin’s article, co-authored with attorney Chris Irwin (‘06), has just been published by the Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal. The article is entitled “Strip-Mining and Grassroots Resistance in Appalachia: Community Lawyering For Environmental Justice.”
Professor Dean Rivkin and Brenda McGee (‘84), who serves as cooperating attorney in the Education Law Practicum, recently made a presentation about the College of Law’s Education Law Practicum to the staff of Health Connect America in Knoxville. Health Connect is an in-home mental health service for at-risk children.
Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds has authored a chapter for a forthcoming book on civics education, published by Rowman & Littlefield. Coauthors include Juan Williams, Sandra Day O'Connor and Alan Dershowitz.
Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds published an oped in the Wall Street Journal on Jacques Cousteau’s centennial, observing that Cousteau’s record as inventor of modern scuba equipment deserves more attention. MORE
Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds is currently working, along with summer visiting professor and College of Law alumnus Professor Brannon Denning (Cumberland School of Law), on an article about the Supreme Court’s decision in the Chicago gun case.
A column by Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds appeared in The New York Times “Room for Debate” blog on June 28. The column addressed the impact of the Supreme Court’s opinion in McDonald v. City of Chicago, concerning the scope of Second Amendment rights.
Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds’s review of the book “Voyager,” by Stephen J. Pyne, appeared recently in The Wall Street Journal. MORE
Professor Karla McKanders gave a presentation at the Law and Society Conference in Chicago in May, with UT Anthropology Professor Dr. Tricia Hepner. The topic was “The Material Support Bar and Security Inadmissibility: Coordinating Analysis and Advocacy in the United States and Canada.”
Professor Karla McKanders gave a presentation on Monday, July 12, at the American Counsel for the Blind Conference in Phoenix, Ariz. on “The Constitutionality of Arizona’s Immigration Law SB 1070.”
Professor Karla McKanders has had four articles accepted for publication, three of which will appear during the fall of 2010 and the last of which will be published during the spring of 2011. The first article, “Sustaining Tiered Personhood: Jim Crow and Anti-Immigrant Laws,” will appear in the Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice. The second article is part of a collection of essays authored by Praveen Kosuri (University of Pennsylvania Law School), Minna Kotkin (Brooklyn Law), Karla M. McKanders, Steven Reid (Northwestern School of Law), and Dean Rivkin (University of Tennessee College of Law). The collection, entitled “Generational Perspectives in Clinical Legal Education,” will be appear in the fall issue of the Clinical Law Review. McKanders’s essay is entitled “Varying Shades of Grey: Teaching Amongst Generational Difference,” and is available online. MORE The third article, “Class Based Coalition Building During the ‘Post-Racial’ Era,” will appear in the Saint Louis University Public Law Review. The fourth article, “Unspoken Voice of Indigenous Women in Immigration Raids,” will appear in the Journal of Gender, Race, and Justice.
Professor Don Leatherman gave a presentation on “Affiliated & Related Corporations: Consolidated Return Issues for Troubled Companies” at the ABA Tax Section Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Professors Joan Heminway and Brian Krumm gave presentations earlier this summer at Emory Law School’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice, which hosted its second biennial conference on teaching transactional law and skills. Heminway’s presentation covered her use of IRAC as a drafting tool in her Corporate Finance planning and drafting seminar. Krumm’s presentation focused on the analysis of real contracts as a mechanism for reinforcing critical contract drafting skills.
An excerpt from Professor Joan Heminway’s article, “Duties of the Modern Corporate Executive: Article & Essay: Personal Facts About Executive Officers: A Proposal for Tailored Disclosures to Encourage Reasonable Investor Behavior,” which was published in the Wake Forest Law Review in 2007, will appear in a forthcoming textbook about corporate governance. The author of the book is Professor Jay Brown of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
CAREER SERVICES
Upcoming programs offered through the Bettye B. Lewis Career Center:
-- No programs scheduled this week.