The Informant
April 21, 2009
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Prof. Gary Anderson retirement reception
Prof. Gary Anderson, a member of the College's clinical faculty since 1973, was the honored guest at a retirement reception April 15 in Knoxville. After celebratory remarks from colleagues, friends, and students, Prof. Anderson was presented a handsome framed photograph of the law school by Dean Doug Blaze. Prof. Anderson will be moving to Tucson, Ariz., at the conclusion of the current academic year.
Annual Novak Auction
The Student Bar Association hosted the Annual Allen Novak Auction April 15. Funds raised by the auction support TAPIL, which provides summer stipends for students participating in public service work, and emergency student loans. Dean Doug Blaze and Associate Dean Carol Parker (left) were auctioneers.
Transactions Special report forthcoming
Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of its Special Report issue titled “Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills: The Basics and Beyond,” a summary of the Emory University Law School conference of the same name held May 30 to 31, in 2008. The journal’s faculty advisor is Prof. George Kuney, who was a member of the conference’s steering committee and a speaker on two of the conference’s panels. Kuney, UT’s Director of the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law, accompanied by Adjunct Professors Mark Jendreck, Brian Krumm, and Douglas Gordon, attended the conference, where Professor Tina Stark, Director of Emory’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice offered Transactions the opportunity to publish the proceedings. The editors and staff of transactions have worked with Prof. Kuney over the last year to produce this Special Report.
If you would like to order a copy of this special edition, please send a check or money order for $20 payable to The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, 1505 W. Cumberland Ave., Suite 202, Knoxville, TN 37996. (Annual subscriptions to Transactions—which include two issues plus any special reports—are available for $20 per year.) click here for a link to Emory’s webpage featuring the handouts and videos of the conference.
FACULTY
From Greg Stein, Associate Dean for Faculty Development:
Prof. Jeff Hirsch recently gave a presentation entitled "Collective Action in a Global Workplace" as part of a faculty exchange program at West Virginia University School of Law. He gave a similar presentation at St. Louis University School of Law's symposium, entitled "Competition in the Global Workplace: The Role of Law in Economic Markets." In addition, Prof. Hirsch's article, "Revolution in Pragmatist Clothing: Nationalizing Workplace Law," will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Alabama Law Review. Congratulations to Prof. Hirsch on the article and the presentations!
Last Friday in Boston, Prof. Maurice E. Stucke presented an issue paper (available here) at an antitrust conference before competition authorities, lawyers, and professors from the E.U. and U.S. The British Consulate-General for Boston, the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law sponsored this roundtable discussion on competition policy and the rule of law from a comparative E.U.-U.S. perspective. The issues papers and an edited transcript of the conference will appear in the Loyola Consumer Law Review later this year. Congratulations to Prof. Stucke for his continuing fine work in the antitrust field.
I am pleased to announce that I recently signed a contract with Ashgate Publishing to write a book about Chinese real estate law and practice. In addition to contrasting China’s new written property laws with actual practice in that nation during the past two decades, the book will also examine the question of how a country can produce a sophisticated real estate industry while its property laws are so undeveloped. Many commentators have suggested that a well-developed law of property is a necessary precondition to a modern
Cumberland School of Law invited Prof. Mae Quinn to participate in its faculty workshop series last week. Prof. Quinn talked about two related works in progress. The first, "The Modern Problem-Solving Court Movement: Domination of Discourse and the Untold Stories of Contemporary Criminal Justice Reform," is an invited essay she is writing for a Symposium Issue of the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy. The second work, "When Lady Vols Called the Shots: Judge Anna Moscowitz Kross and Her Auxiliary Army of Women Criminal Court Case Workers," served as an example of one of the movement's "untold stories." It is an invited chapter for the book, Feminist Legal History: New Perspectives on Law, which is being submitted to NYU Press for consideration later this year. Congratulations to Prof. Quinn for her continuing work examining Judge Kross and her legacy.
Congratulations to Prof. Iris Goodwin, who just had an article published in the Arizona Law Review. Prof. Goodwin’s article, entitled "Ask Not What Your Charity Can Do for You: Robertson v. Princeton Provides Liberal-Democratic Insights into the Dilemma of Cy Pres Reform," looks at the larger lessons to be learned from litigation concerning a huge restricted gift to Princeton. The article appears at 51. Ariz. L. Rev. 75 (2009).
Prof. Heminway gives two talks
On April 8, Prof. Joan Heminway gave a luncheon presentation on "Responsibilities of Nonprofit Directors" for the Smoky Mountain Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. In addition, on April 17, Prof. Heminway offered introductory remarks entitled "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Securities Regulation Scholarship and Teaching in the Global Financial Crisis" as moderator of a panel of Securities Regulation scholar-teachers at a conference at the University of Maryland School of Law. Her remarks will be published in an upcoming volume of the Journal of Business and Technology Law.
STUDENTS
Student has article published
An article written by 3L Katie Southworth as part of Prof. Dean Rivkin’s International Environmental Law course has been published in Policy and Society. The article is entitled “Corporate voluntary action: A valuable but incomplete solution to climate change and energy security challenges” and can be found here. Southworth is a Vito Stagliano Scholar, which is a summer internship opportunity for a student to conduct research on pertinent energy policy topics in Washington, D.C., at the National Commission on Energy Policy headquarters.
Advocacy Center to hold year's end collaboration
Students who are graduating with a concentration in Advocacy and Dispute Resolution are invited to attend the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution's Year-End Collaboration on April 23 at the Bridgeview Grill, located on Neyland Drive across from the Thompson-Boling Arena. At the Collaboration, which begins at 5:30, concentration students will have an opportunity to thank their adjunct professors and to hear one of Tennessee's most respected lawyers, Robert E. Pryor, talk about why he loves the practice of law. In addition, the Center will announce the 2009 Summers-Wyatt Scholar and will award certificates to concentration graduates
FCBA Student writing competition
The Federal Circuit Bar Association announces the 2009 George Hutchinson Writing Competition on a topic directed to a subject within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Deadline for submissions is June 26, 2009. MORE
LEWIS CAREER CENTER
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