FACULTY NOTES
Professor
Debbie Bell, the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Distinguished
Lecturer, this fall presented a family law update to the state chancery
court judges organization. Her article on the transformation of family
law in the last half century will appear in the next issue of the Mississippi
Law Journal. The Civil Law Clinic, under Bell's direction, has been expanded
to include a Family Violence Unit, which will provide representation in
cases involving children who are victims of family violence.
Professor John R. Bradley co-authored a lengthy piece on workers'
compensation that makes up two-thirds of the contents of Vol. 9 of West's
Encyclopedia of Mississippi Law. His prior papers on workers' compensation
law continue to be cited in court and commission decisions.
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Assistant Professor Charles Brower, the Jessie D. Puckett
Jr. Lecturer, completed the article "Structure, Legitimacy and NAFTA's
Investment Chapter," which will appear in the Vanderbilt Journal
of Transnational Law. Brower also co-authored the article "The Coming
Crisis in the Global Adjudication System," which will appear in the
journal Arbitration International. He has agreed to co-author a multivolume
NAFTA Arbitration Reporter for Kluwer Law International. In addition to
continuing his service as co-chair of the American Society of International
Law's 97th annual meeting, Brower will speak at the Association of American
Law Schools' annual meeting about "Hot Topics in International Arbitration."
Assistant
Professor Mercer Bullard was featured in the April 2002 issue
of Investment News, announcing his joining the UM law faculty. He appeared
on Mississippi ETV's "Statewide Live" program to discuss Worldcom
and other accounting scandals. As a guest speaker at the Portland, Ore.,
meeting of the National Association of Investors Corporation-a 700,000-member
investor group-he spoke about mutual operations and regulations that adversely
affect the interests of mutual fund shareholders.
In October, Bullard was asked by Pax World Funds, a social investing mutual
fund complex, to participate with Pax World and the AFL-CIO in a press
conference on a controversial proposal by the Securities and Exchange
Commission to require mutual funds to disclose how they vote proxies of
their portfolio companies. (He is the president of Fund Democracy, a mutual
fund shareholder advocacy group that he founded in January 2000.) The
event received extensive coverage in the national press, including the
Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los
Angeles Times.
Professor George Cochran participated as a panelist on a Mississippi
ETV program on civil liberties and terrorism. He also spoke at the University
of Memphis School of Law on election reform and the McCain-Feingold bill.
Dean
Samuel M. Davis, the Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government,
was selected for inclusion in the 7th Annual Edition of Who's Who Among
America's Teachers. He continues to serve on a committee of the National
Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws to draft a Uniform Child
Witness Testimony by Alternative Means Act. The committee presented its
proposed act at a meeting of the full conference in July and will present
the revised act to the conference in July 2003 for final approval. He
completed the manuscript for the 2003 supplement to his book Rights of
Juveniles: The Juvenile Justice System, to be published in April 2003.
He continues to serve on the Mississippi Bar's Professionalism Committee.
Professor Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, director of the National Remote
Sensing and Space Law Center, was invited by the Department of Commerce
to be a member of the new federal Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote
Sensing, which has a two-year charter. As chair of a federal advisory
committee for the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive,
she was asked to brief Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton on the archive.
NRSSLC has released the following publications: "The Remote Sensing
Industry: A CEO Forum," edited by Gabrynowicz and John Graham; "Remote
Sensing and Space Law Bibliography," edited by Gabrynowicz, et al.;
"Landsat 7: Past, Present and Future," edited by Gabrynowicz
and Graham; "The United Nations Principles Relating to Remote Sensing
of the Earth from Space: A Legislative History-Interviews of Members of
the United States Delegation," edited by Gabrynowicz; "Proceedings:
The First International Conference on the State of Remote Sensing Law,"
edited by Gabrynowicz; and "A Legal Assistant's Guide to Legal Applications
of Geospatial Information," edited by Gabrynowicz.
Assistant
Professor Matthew R. Hall coached the National Moot Court team,
which competed in regional competition in Baton Rouge, La., in late November.
His current research focuses on an attempt to reconcile the philosophy
of civil disobedience with the criminal law defense of necessity. As a
part of the nationwide effort to mark the beginning of the Supreme Court's
term, Hall helped the Law School Student Body government organize a First
Monday panel discussion on "Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America"
at which he, Professor Jack Wade Nowlin, and second-year law student David
Denison spoke.
Professor Tim Hall, the Jessie D. Puckett, Jr., Lecturer and interim
associate provost, directed the Law School's 2002 summer program in Cambridge,
England, and while there, presented the paper "Timeless Law and the
Statutes of Babel" at the Oxbridge Conference on C.S. Lewis. He was
asked to prepare and recently submitted an extensive book review to the
Journal of Law and Religion on the book Separation of Church and State
(Harvard 2002), by University of Chicago law professor Philip Hamburger.
He presented a talk on Baptist contributions to American law at the annual
meeting of the Christian Legal Society in Savannah, Ga. This presentation,
and others with which it was associated, grew out of the book Christian
Perspectives on Law, published by Yale University Press in 2001, to which
Hall contributed a chapter.
Hall's responsibilities as UM's interim associate provost have increased
his opportunities to speak to students and other groups on campus. He
delivered the keynote address for the fall induction ceremony of the National
Society for Collegiate Scholars in the Paris-Yates Chapel. He also spoke
at the fall induction ceremony for Phi Kappa Phi.
Professor
Michael H. Hoffheimer, the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
Distinguished Lecturer, published "Murder and Manslaughter in Mississippi"
in the latest issue of the Mississippi Law Journal. This comprehensive
survey of Mississippi law on unintended killings was praised by former
Chief Justice Armis Hawkins of the Mississippi Supreme Court as "the
bible for criminal defense lawyers, district attorneys, circuit and appellate
judges, and justices on the Supreme Court." Hoffheimer drafted two
bar examination questions that were used by two different states during
the past year. He presented the lecture "Race and Law in Hegel's
Philosophy of Religion" in the fall at Mississippi State University.
Professor
Richard McLaughlin, the Ray & Louise Stewart Lecturer, completed
the book chapter "Managing Foreign Access to Marine Genetic Resources:
Moving from Capture to Cooperation" to be included in Bringing New
Law to Ocean Waters, edited by Harry Scheiber and David Caron, Kluwer
Law International 2003. He completed the law review article "Foreign
Access to Transboundary Marine Genetic Materials: Management Options for
a Quasi-Fugacious Resource," and sent out for review and future publication.
He also finished the final manuscript of a chapter on "Coastal Management"
for Matthew Bender's Environmental Law Practice Guide, scheduled for publication
in January 2003.
He is invited to speak at the Conference on Multilateralism and Ocean
Resources Management, scheduled at the University of California at Berkeley
Law School, February 2003. He continues to direct the successful Hawaii
Summer Law Program, in which 87 students from across the United States
and Canada participated during summer 2002.
Professor
Gary Myers and his co-authors, David Lange (Duke) and Mary LaFrance
(UNLV), completed a manuscript for the second edition of their casebook,
Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials, which is slated to be published
by West Group in November 2002. The 1,200-page text provides comprehensive
and up-to-date coverage of the entire field of intellectual property.
The first edition of the casebook, which appeared in 1998, has been used
at more than 20 law schools.
Myers spoke in March at a Tulane Law School faculty colloquium on the
topic "Reinventing the Intellectual Property Misuse Doctrine"
and in the fall at the University of Toledo Law School on "Who's
Afraid of Genetically Modified Food?". His Toledo speech was covered
by two local television news stations and received front-page coverage
in the science section of the Toledo Blade, the local newspaper. More
than 100 people attended the speech.
Myers recently completed a one-year visit at the Tulane Law School, where
he taught courses in Intellectual Property, Communications Law, and Copyright
Law. He also taught Copyright Law this past summer at the Tulane program
at the University of Amsterdam.
Assistant
Professor Jack Wade Nowlin, the Jessie D. Puckett Jr. Lecturer,
had his book review of Andrew Halpin's Reasoning with Law (Hart Publishing,
2001), published in Law and Politics Book Review, July 2002. His book
chapter "Richard Posner: Pragmatist, Classical Liberal, and Legal
Anti-Positivist" will appear in the revised and expanded edition
of Liberalism at the Crossroads (eds., Christopher Wolfe and John Hittinger),
Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2003. And his book chapter "The
Case Against A Special Judicial Power of Moral Expertise: Real-World Constraints
on Judicial Moral Reasoning" will appear in a volume tentatively
titled Reining in Judicial Imperialism, edited by Christopher Wolfe, and
forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2003. Nowlin's book review,
"Reason's Culture, Life's Defense," a review of Robert P. George's
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, is forthcoming
in Touchstone magazine.
Nowlin presented the paper "Defending Fetal Rights: Protecting the
Unborn from Third-Party Assault" at the From Death to Life: Agendas
for Reform conference, sponsored by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and
Culture, University of Notre Dame. He was an invited participant in the
2002 Ingersoll Symposium, hosted by Belmont Abbey College, with his appearance
sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions,
Princeton University.
Nowlin, along with Professor Matthew Hall, served on a law school panel
discussing the subject of "Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America"
as part of First Monday, an event sponsored by the Law School Student
Body Association. He also appeared, with Professor Paul Secunda, on a
panel discussing the Establishment Clause, school vouchers, and the Zelman
decision, as part of a program sponsored by the Ole Miss Federalist Society.
Nowlin and Professor George Cochran are coaching the Law School's First
Amendment moot court team, slated for participation in the Vanderbilt
Freedom/Forum First Amendment Moot Court competition, scheduled in February
2003.
Assistant Professor Lisa Shaw Roy presented the paper "Roe
and the New Frontier" as part of the Young Scholar's Workshop at
the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association of American Law Schools
this past summer in Kiawah Island, S.C.
Associate
Dean and Professor Ronald J. Rychlak, the Mississippi Defense Lawyers
Association Distinguished Lecturer, continues to serve as a member of
the editorial board for The Gaming Law Review. In that capacity, he has
helped seven UM law students publish papers that they wrote for his fall
2001 Gaming Law course. He also continues to serve on the Mississippi
Supreme Court Task Force on Revising the Mississippi Criminal Code, and
as a delegate at the United Nations' meetings on the newly established
International Criminal Court.
He made presentations at the SEAALS annual conference held at Kiawah Island,
S.C., the University of Oklahoma School of Law, University of Illinois
at Chicago, and in Washington, D.C.
Rychlak is editing (and teaching from) his new textbook Gaming Law: Cases
and Materials, co-authored with I. Nelson Rose, et al., and under contract
for release in 2003. He also recently submitted a second edition of his
first book, Real and Demonstrative Evidence: Applications and Theory (1995),
to Lexis-Nexis for publication next year, and he submitted a chapter on
gambling to Carolina Academic Press for Courting the Yankees: Legal Essays
on the Bronx Bombers, which will be released in 2003.
He recently published the following: "The 1933 Concordat Between
Germany and the Holy See: A Reflection of Tense Relations," The Digest
(Syracuse University); "Comments on Susan Zuccotti's Under His Very
Windows," Modern Italian Studies, a refereed journal; "A Broken
Faith: John Cornwell's New Book," St. Austin Review; "Goldhagen
v. Pius XII," First Things; "Misusing History to Influence the
Future," Forum Focus; "A 'Righteous Gentile' Defends Pius XII,"
Zenit News Agency, commentary.