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Professor Barry taught a session on collaboration at the AALS New Clinical Teachers Conference on June 19-20, 2010, in Washington. Professor Barry was also honored as the 2009 recipient of the William Pincus Award, given at the clinical section luncheon at the AALS conference in San Diego, CA. on Jan. 7, 2009. The Pincus Award honors clinical legal educators who have demonstrated excellence in service, scholarship, program design and implementation, and other activity beneficial to clinical education or to the advancement of justice. Barry was found by the Pincus Award review committee to "have been a tireless advocate for clinical legal education, and she has fought to protect and enhance the role of clinics and clinical faculty in law schools in numerous ways. In addition to help to build a strong clinical program in her own law school where she is an inspiring teacher, she has contributed to the development of clinical legal education in the United States and in other countries through her work with many organizations and by mentoring other clinical faculty." During the same conference, Barry was also a panelist on the AALS's third Presidential Program, "Associational Pluralism," which examined the rise in recent years of parallel organizations for attorneys such as the Federalist Society, the Society of American Law Teachers, the National Association of Scholars, the Law Professors Christian Fellowship, and the American Constitution Society. |
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Professor Breger led a delegation of eight American Muslim leaders on a study tour to Dachau and Auschwitz that was co-sponsored by a German think tank and the Center for Interreligious Understanding, a New Jersey-based interfaith dialogue group. The excursion ran from Aug. 8 through August 10. Accompanying the group were several government officials, including Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism. Recent Media Professor Breger published an opinion essay, “Why the U.N. Vote Doesn’t Matter,” in the Sept./Oct. 2011 issue of Moment magazine. Breger discusses the Palestinian Authority’s recent decision to seek United Nations recognition.
Professor Breger was quoted in the Toronto Star on May 12, 2010 in its story, “Jerusalem is Golden to Two Embattled Peoples.” |
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Professor Roger Colinvaux |
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Professional Activities/Presentations 2011 Professor Colinvaux was appointed to the Board of Advisors, Tax Policy and Charities, which is a project of the Urban Institute and the Tax Policy Center with funding from the Gates Foundation. Professor Roger Colinvaux’s paper, "Citizens United and the Political Speech of Charities", was listed in early 2011 on SSRN's Top Ten download list for topics including political institutions, constitutions, political communication and political behavior. As of mid-January, it had been downloaded 73 times. The paper made two additional top ten lists: Political Institutions: Constitutions eJournal Top Ten and Political Behavior eJournals Top Ten and currently has 125 downloads. 2010 Professor Colinvaux organized and moderated “Political Activities of Tax-Exempt Organizations this Election Cycle,” a luncheon program sponsored by the DC Bar. The Sept. 29 discussion examined how the Citizens United Supreme Court decision is affecting the behavior of nonprofit organizations in the 2010 election cycle, including whether new organizations are being formed, how existing organizations are reacting, whether there are concerns for 501(c) organizations of making political activity a primary purpose and losing tax exempt status, and current IRS enforcement efforts.
Law and Society Association, “The Pension Protection Act of 2006: The Beginning or the End of Reform of the Status of Charitable Organizations” May 28, 2010 (Chicago, IL). Professor Colinvaux organized and moderated “Philanthropy in the 21st Century: Should All Charities Be Created Equal?” held at the National Press Club on April 14, 2010. The symposium invited four experts to discuss the treatment of charitable organizations by the tax code, and whether changes are needed. The event was reported on in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, among other media outlets.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, “What is the Value of Conservation Easements Under the Internal Revenue Code?” Mar. 19, 2010 (Cambridge, MA). "Governance of Charitable Organizations: How Does or Should Governance Factor Into Exempt Status, On Audit or Otherwise?" Mar. 24, 2010.
"The Exempt Organization Update From the IRS," Dec. 9, 2009.
"The New Supporting Organization Regulations," Oct. 22, 2009. "Future of the Charitable Deduction in Light of the Obama Administration Proposal to Limit the Value of Itemized Deductions," May 27, 2009, "Nonprofits in Financial Distress: Possible Regulatory Responses," May 18, 2009. On March 10, he spoke on a panel that followed remarks by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) at an event called "Nonprofits in a World of Change," hosted by the Buchanan Ingersoll law firm. His remarks were reported in BNA's Daily Tax Report. Publications Professor Colinvaux was quoted extensively in BNA’s Daily Report for Executives on March 14, 2011. Its article, “Grassley Seeks Estimate of Nonprofit Tax Exemption, Putting Organizations on Edge,” discussed the implications of a change to the tax code that would prompt Congress to calculate the cost of the nonprofit tax exemption, which currently is not considered an expenditure.
The New York Times, "Nonprofits Fear Losing Tax Benefit," (Dec. 2, 2010) The Chronicle of Philanthropy, (Dec. 2, 2010) |
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Professor Robert Destro |
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Professional Activities Professor Destro was among the panelists for “New Conscience Regulations from the Department of Health & Human Services: Do they Strike the Right Balance between Conscience and the Medical Profession?” a symposium on April 14, 2011, that was sponsored by the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group at Georgetown University Law Center. 2010 The conference at CUA Law was itself a subset of a larger event, The XVIIIth International Congress of Comparative Law, held July 25 - August 1 in Washington, D.C. More than 450 attendees from 56 countries were represented at the international congress. Publications Professor Robert Destro is the author of "Learning Neurology the Hard Way: The Terri Schiavo Case and the Ethics of Effective Representation," published in May, 2009 in Mississippi Law Journal of the University of Mississippi. Professor Destro was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on April 4, 2011, about whether or not there should be First Amendment limits in the wake of the killings that followed the burning of the Koran by Pastor Terry Jones. Catholic University law school Professor Robert Destro has appeared twice on of the Diane Rehm Show, produced in Washington, D.C. , and syndicated across the country by National Public Radio. He was a guest panelist on the Aug. 31 edition, discussing the the ruling earlier in August by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth that immediately blocks federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
On Sept. 9, Professor Destro discussed religious intolerance on the program.
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2010 Professor Cara Drinan was a panelist for “Access to Justice: Paths to Achieve Indigent Defense Reform,” on Sept. 8, 2010. Held at American University’s Washington College of Law, the discussion addressed ways to achieve indigent defense reform to ensure that all criminal defendants receive their constitutional rights to effective representation.
Professor Cara Drinan contributed an essay, "Advice for New Law Teachers: Be Your Authentic Self" for the summer 2010 newsletter from Women in Legal Education.
Professor Drinan’s issue brief, “A Legislative Approach to Indigent Defense Reform,” was distributed in July by The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy to its print and web readers. Professor Drinan's brief is the first in a series that ACS will publish focused on ideas about a possible federal role in improving indigent defense systems in states around the country. In her work, Drinan proposes a piece of legislation that would allow federal courts to hear claims alleging that a state has systemically violated the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
Recent Media Professor Drinan was quoted by Dolan Media Newswires on Oct. 3, 2010 for its story “Federal bill calls for DOJ to sue failing defender systems: Will Missouri be Sued?” Drinan commented on a U.S. Senate bill that would penalize states like Missouri that are struggling to provide adequate criminal defense to the poor.
Professor Drinan was quoted in an Aug. 22, 2010 article published by Missouri Lawyers Media, “Scholars debate federal ‘bailout’ of defender systems.” She commented upon reports that the White House or U.S. Department of Justice may float a proposal to aid states in indigent defense. Drinan has drafted a federal statute that would allow state public defender clients to file pretrial ineffective assistance of counsel claims in federal court. Her measure would allow a class of plaintiffs to sue a state for its inadequate defense system.
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Professor Sarah Duggin |
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Professor Duggin conceived, organized and moderated “Innovative Approaches to Advancing Corporate Morality,” the third in a series of CUA Law symposia held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. She assembled a panel of four experts for a two-hour examination of corporate philanthropy, ethics and honesty. Professor Stephen Goldman assisted Professor Duggin in planning and organizing the symposium.
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Professor Susanna Fischer |
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Professor Susanna Fischer presented "A Fair Use Massacre? Automated Filtering Systems, Copyright Infringement, and the Future of YouTube," at a symposium that explored explore the changing world of copyright law in the digital age on Feb. 20, 2009. Organized by the University of Virginia School of Law, the symposium was titled "Copyright at a Crossroads: How the Digital Age is Changing the Game." It featured presenters from academia, private practice and groups such as the Future of Music Coalition and examined the rapid emergence of technologies such as peer-to-peer music sharing and streaming online video. “Threatening the Founding Ideal of a Republic of Letters: An Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Copyright Decisions Over the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century,” 5 Akron Intellectual Property Law Journal 205 (2011). [Back to Top]
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Professor Clifford S. Fishman |
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Professor Fishman was invited to give the 2010 James Otis Lecture at the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law at the University of Mississippi on Oct. 5, 2010. The prestigious lecture series offers a forumto leading scholars to comment on search and seizure and other criminal procedure topics. Fishman intends to speak on Fourth Amendment Rights in the workplace in light of last term’s City of Ontario v. Quon. 2009
In July, in Memphis, TN, Prof. Fishman presented a tutorial, Search, Seizure and Technology, to the National Technical Investigators Association. After a side trip to Vicksburg, Miss., to tour the Civil War battlefields (he happily reports that "Not one person referred to it as 'The War of Yankee Aggression'"), he returned to Memphis, gave another Search, Seizure and Technology presentation to the National Black Prosecutor's Association, and visited Graceland ("Nowhere near as tacky as I thought it would be") and the National Civil Rights Museum ("superb, awesome, excellent"). He and his wife Betty also made several trips this summer to "Grandsonland," which is located somewhere near Boston.
Professor Fishman was quoted in the March 26, 2010 edition of the Washington Examiner for an article about sentencing in the criminal charges brought against NBA star Gilbert Arenas. Professor Fishman was a guest on the Drew Mariani Show, broadcast by Relevant Radio, on March 17, 2010. He discussed a new proposal to take DNA samples from anyone who is arrested and keep them permanently in a national law enforcement data bank. |
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Professor George E. Garvey |
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Professional Activities Professor George E. Garvey was elected a Fellow of Catholic University's multidisciplinary Life Cycle Institute for a 4-year term that began in January, 2008. He also had an article published in the Journal of Law, Philosophy and Culture, titled "Catholicism's Critique of Civil Society at the Turn of the Third Millennium." |
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Professor Donna Gregg |
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Professional Activities Appointments: Co-Chair of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Committee on Communications;
Publications “The Future of Media Report: When Future Success Requires Abandoning Past Regulatory Failures,” Perspectives from FSF Scholars, Vol. 6, No. 18 (Aug. 5, 2011).
Recent Media Professor Gregg was quoted in Communications Daily on Dec. 6, 2010, for an article about the FCC's risky legal strategy of of adopting net neutrality rules without reclassifying broadband as a telecom service. |
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Professor Stephen Goldman |
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Professor Stephen Goldman spoke at the ABA Section of Litigation Annual Conference, held April 29 - May 1, 2009 in Atlanta, GA. Professor Goldman addressed "This is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Us Into: Ethical and Professionalism Problems that Arise During Discovery and Pretrial," on the final day of the conference. In late October, he regaled a crowd of CUA students at a specially arranged talk with tales about his days litigating complex commercial cases. During his remarks, "Coaching Deposition Witnesses: Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No," Goldman recalled his experiences deposing witnesses and the ethical abuses he witnessed from other attorneys in coaching their clients. From these experiences Goldman developed an axiom of ethical behavior in deposition testimony: "The Anti-False Testimony Principle." The principle prevents an attorney from soliciting false testimony or suffering the introduction of false testimony by his or her client. It is a mechanism that balances an attorney's duty to represent his or her client with the duty to present accurate information to the court.
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Professor William Kaplin |
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Professor Catherine Klein |
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Professor Klein participated in an international forum, “Comparative Case Studies in Divorce Law: An International Roundtable Workshop,” Sept. 17-18, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey. She discussed the development of divorce law and practice and examine the treatment of religious practices in the United States. Professors Catherine Klein and Leah Wortham were featured speakers at the 6th Global Alliance (GAJE) Worldwide Conference and the 9th International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference (IJCLE) jointly sponsored by the University of Valencia on July 11-15, 2011. 43 countries were represented among the almost 300 conference attendees.
Klein co-presented “The Importance of Relationships in Clinical Supervision and Lawyering.”
Professors Wortham and Klein also led a workshop on “Mainstreaming Human Rights in the Law School Curriculum,” along with colleagues from other law schools. “The New Law School: Reexamining Goals, Organization, and Methods for a Changing World,” a book co-edited by Professor Wortham and published by Jagiellonian University Press, was distributed to all conference attendees.
Professor Klein organized a concurrent session: “Understanding Content and Context: The Importance of Relationships in Clinical Legal Education and Supervision,” on June 15 at the AALS Clinical Conference in Seattle.
She served as legal education consultant and workshop leader, the University of Alexandria, Egypt, where she conducted orientation sessions for law students selected to participate in the newly developed clinical program on the protection of women and children. Klein also presented on clinical legal education at an annual nationwide conference of Egyptian law deans and faculty in March 2010. She recently participated in two roundtable discussion and organized a visit to CUA for a delegation of Egyptian law faculty, deans, students and judges in April 2011. Klein participated in another roundtable with Egyptian visitors on Sept. 9, 2011.
Professor Klein’s article, “Teaching Social Justice Lawyering: Systematically Including Community Legal Education in Clinical Legal Education,” has been accepted for publication. Her co-authors include CUA faculty members Margaret Martin Barry and Lisa Martin.
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Professor Klein gave a presentation: “New Strategies in Community Legal Education,” at the UCLA/University of London 7th International Law Conference, Lake Arrowhead, CA, on November 6, 2010. She also presented: “Teaching Social Justice Lawyering Through Community Education: Expanding the Vision of Clinical Legal Education,” Society of American Law Teachers Conference, Honolulu, HI, December 10, 2010.
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Professor Megan La Belle |
| Professional Activities 2010 Professor La Belle was the co-organizer and co-moderator, along with Professor Elizabeth Winston, of “The Ethical Ramifications of Therasense,” a symposium sponsored by Catholic University’s law school as the first installment of its 2010-2011 series at the National Press Club in downtown Washington, D.C. The Sept. 27 program explored the consequences of expected changes to the “inequitable conduct” doctrine, under which courts refuse to enforce otherwise valid patents based on findings that the patent owner engaged in inappropriate conduct during the patent application process. In March 2010, Professor La Belle presented her paper ”Patent Litigation, Personal Jurisdiction, and the Public Good,” which is forthcoming in the George Mason Law Review, at the Intellectual Property Roundtable sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University School of Law.
Professor La Belle was interviewed in July by Intellirights a web site that focuses on intellectual property, about the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Bilski v. Kappos regarding patentable subject matter. Professor La Belle was interviewed together with Christopher Cotropia, a professor at the University of Richmond. |
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Professor Mary G. Leary |
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Professional Activities 2011 Professor Leary spoke on in St. Louis on May 4, 2011, at the Domestic and Sexual Violence Conference sponsored by the Missouri Office of Prosecution Services. The conference brought together prosecutors, law enforcement officers, victim advocates and other allied professionals for training on the issues surrounding domestic and sexual violence investigation and prosecution. Leary discussed “System Responses to Sexting: Techniques in Achieving Teen Safety & Offender Accountability.” Professor Leary served as a panelist for “Porn Predators and the Law: America’s Children in the Internet Era,” a discussion sponsored by Syracuse University College of Law on April 9, 2011.
Professor Leary also organized and moderated“Child Trafficking: America’s Role in the Problem and Solution,” a symposium held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 2011. Panelists included Luis CdeBaca, ambassador-at-large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State.
2010 In March, 2010, Professor Leary discuseed "The Reasonableness of Children’s Expectations of Privacy in Today’s {digital} World" at a symposium held by the University of Mississippi on "The Fourth Amendment Rights of Children and Juveniles."
“Reasonable Expectation of Privacy for Youth in a Digital Age- What if Savana Redding Had a Cell Phone?” Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 80, No. 3 (2011).
Professor Leary’s paper, "Sexting or Self-Produced Child Pornography? The Dialogue Continues – Structured Prosecutorial Discretion within a Multidisciplinary Response", was listed on the Social Science Research Network’s Top Ten download list for Criminal Law (Sexuality). As of Sept. 20, 2010, her work had been downloaded 25 times. Professor Leary's paper,"Mulieris Dignitatem: Pornography and the Dignity of the Soul: An Exploration of Dignity in a Protected Speech Paradigm", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Law & Religion. As of late January, 2010, it had been downloaded 45 times. It was also published in Ave Maria Law Review. Her article, "Kennedy v. Louisiana: A Chapter of Subtle Changes in the Supreme Court's Book on the Death Penalty," was published in Jan. 2009 in Vol 21, No. 2 of the Federal Sentencing Reporter.
Professor Leary was the subject of a profile in the summer, 2011 issue of CUA Magazine, “Legal Scholar Confronts Child Pornography.”
Professor Leary was interviewed by Larry Magid, On Air Technology Analyst, CBS News, for a story broadcast on March 25 about "sexting." Leary noted that in many circumstances such pictures are considered to be child pornography, even if taken and distributed by a minor. Professor Leary's essay, "2009: A Critical Year for Protecting Children" was written at the invitation of the Witherspoon Institute at Princeton University and has been published online. The work discusses Congress's recent passage of the PROTECT Our Children Act. Leary's essay was also published by the National Review Online. |
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Professional Activities Professor Lisa Lerman served as a panelist on “View from the Outside,” the South Carolina Department of Justice’s Professional Responsibility Officer Conference held in Columbia on Feb. 25, 2011. Professor Lerman attended her first meeting as a new member of the AALS Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in San Francisco, held Jan. 5 to 8, 2011.
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Professional Activities Professor Lipton served as moderator of a video cast for the SEC Historical Society on Nov. 1, titled "The Silver Screen and the SEC." He is a member of the Board of Advisors to the organization. Professor Lipton conceived, organized and moderated a March 4, 2010 symposium, “A Symposium to Enhance Diversity of Legal Employment within the Securities and Financial Services Industry,” offered to all D.C. - area law students as an opportunity to learn from experts about what it takes to plan a successful career in securities law. The program was sponsored by Catholic University’s Securities Law Program along with the SEC. Nearly every major securities regulatory agency in Washington and many leading firms in the field participated in the discussion on ways to increase diversity in securities law.
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Professor Malveaux served as a panelist for “How Legal Rules Shape Access to Justice,” held on Nov. 4, 2011 as part of the 19th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber Conference in Denver, CO. The theme of this year’s conference was Toward the Constitutional Right of Access to Justice: Implications and Implementation.
Professor Malveaux was an invited speaker for “Crisis in the Legal Profession,” held at the Claude W. Pettit College of Law of Ohio Northern University on March 30, 2011. Her remarks were titled “Procedure in the Pursuit of Justice.” Professor Malveaux was part of a panel discussion, “Equal Justice for All: Are Pro-Corporate Decisions Hurting Everyday Americans?” hosted by Alliance for Justice on March 4, 2011. The event was held at the National Press Club. The event was part of AFJ’s campaign to raise awareness about what it considers the disproportionate influence exerted by corporations on the judicial system. Professor Malveaux gave a Feb. 9 keynote address to an audience of about 600 high school students, administrators and teachers at the Academy of the Holy Cross to celebrate Black history month and diversity. Holy Cross is an all-girls Catholic high school located in Kensington, Md., and describes itself as “committed to developing women of courage, compassion, and scholarship who responsibly embrace the social, spiritual, and intellectual challenges of the world.”
Professor Malveaux was quoted on June 18 in BLT: The Blog of Legal Times for a story,"The Changing World of Civil Procedure Post Twombly, Iqbal," which examined the impact of two landmark Supreme Court rulings that changed the standards civil lawsuits must meet to proceed. Publications |
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Prior to his retirement during the summer of 2009, Professor Marcin completed editing the third editions of the three casebooks that he co-authors: The American Constitutional Order: History Cases, and Philosophy; the History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution; and Individual Rights and the American Constitution. The 3rd Editions will be published by LexisNexis in early 2009. He presented the casebooks at a "Meet the Author" session conducted by LexisNexis at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Law Schools in San Diego in January. Publications Professor Marcin's article, "God's Littlest Children and the Right to Live: The Case for a Positivist Pro-Life Overruling of Roe" will be published in the next issue of the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy. |
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Professor Michael Noone |
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Professor Noone attended the Global Intelligence Forum in Dungarvan, Ireland from July 11-14. The forum was sponsored by Mercyhurst College's Intitute for Intelligence Studies. Professor Michael Noone participated in a conference at Duke University Law School from April 14 to 16, 2010, that was sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security. The conference theme was "Security Challenges to the Obama Administration After One Year in Office." Professor Noone was one of three panelists discussing alternative fora for trying terrorists.
"In The Security Sector Legislation of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal," Hari Phuyal and Marlene Urscheler, eds. (Brambauer Publishers, Hungary, 2009).
Commentaries on the Armed Police Force Act and Regulation" (pp. 39-44); the Arms and Ammunition Act and Regulation (45-46); the Explosive Substance Act (47-50); the Act of Some Public Offences and Penalties (51-58); the Prison Act and Regulations (59-60).
Book Review. Maha.bharata Book 6, Bishma, Volume 1 Translated by Alex Cherniak, New York City: Clay Sanskrit Library/New York University Press, 2008. 74 Journal of Military History (Oct. 2010) pp. 1256-1258.
Recent Media Professor Noone was interviewed by the Associated Press on March 30, 2011, about the religious makeup of the United States Armed Forces, and particularly the growth of service personnel who have no particular religious affiliation. |
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Rev. Raymond C. O'Brien |
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Rev. O'Brien taught the Virginia trusts and estates material for BAR/BRI in preparation for the February 2009 bar exam, and began his twenty-second year teaching decedents' estates at the Georgetown University Law Center. Also, in January, he traveled to New York City to baptize the first child of Dan and Ann Roque, Rosemary Catherine. Dan is a graduate of CUA law school. Publications Rev. Raymond C. O'Brien recently published his article "The Momentum of Posthumous Conception: A Model Act," in 258 J. of Contemporary Health & Law Policy 332 (2009). Excerpts from the introduction to his article were published on June 23, 2009 on Wills, Trusts and Estates Prof Blog, a member of the Law Professors Blogs Network. |
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Professor Sandy Ogilvy |
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Professor Antonio Perez |
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Professional Activities Professor Perez was a coach of seven-member Catholic University 2010 Vis Moot Court team, which competed against hundreds of other law school teams from around the world in Vienna, Austria during the final week of March, 2010. The annual William C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot has grown into one of the world’s largest, attracting law school teams from 50 nations. The goal of the Vis moot is to foster the study of international commercial law and arbitration for resolution of international business disputes.
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Professor Kenneth Pennington |
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Professional Activities 2011 Professor Pennington received a grant of $20,000 from the Ames Foundation of the Harvard Law School to update his Web site, “Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.” The grant provides stipends for two students to work with him on the project from September 2011 to May 2012. After the work is complete the site will be hosted at CUA and at http://amesfoundation.law.harvard.edu/
Professor Pennington gave a lecture on April 21, 2011 at Columbia University in New York City to the Society of Fellows in the Humanities on “The Evidence of Torture.” The lecture was part of a semester long program on the topic of evidence. 2010 Professor Pennington is the recipient of the first annual "Excellence in Teaching" Award from the American Catholic Historical Association, the only scholar designated with that honor in 2010. He was formally recognized at a banquet in Boston on Jan. 8, 2011. The award honors a college or university professor who has taught beyond the expected requirements of their position and through their influence and skill, promoted Catholic studies from one generation of scholars to another.
Professor Pennington delivered an address,“The Roots of Democracy in Canon Law” at Catholic University on Sept. 14, 2010 as part of its Constitution Week lecture series and the Dialogue on Demand lecture series for undergraduates.
Professor Pennington delivered a lecture in Erice, Italy on Oct. 10, 2010. Speaking at the Centre Ettore Majorana, he discussed “The Principle of Due Process, the Women of Naples, and Statutes contra the Norms of the Ius commune.” A week later he attended a meeting of the board of scholarly advisors of the Pope John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna. Pennington has served on board since 2002. Professor Pennington’s lecture, “The Statute of Pisa, Authenticae, and Roman Jurists in the Early Twelfth Century: The Context is Everything” was delivered in early March in Leuven, Belgium, at an EU conference for Ph.D. candidates at European universities. The meeting, titled “Undoing Law, Framing Contexts. Normativity across the Disciplines,” was designed to encourage a reflection on the concepts of law and context, bringing together scholars with different academic backgrounds but with a common interest in law. On Feb. 26, Pennington was in Madrid giving a talk to students of canon law at the Facultad de Teología “San Dámaso” on the origins of the norms of liberty and consent in canonical jurisprudence of the Middle Ages.
Essay: "Rights," Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, ed. George Klosko (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) 530-543 Professor Pennington is the author of “Torture and Fear: Enemies of Justice,@ Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 19 (2008) 203-242 (Dec. 2009); and “Roman Law, 12th Century Law and Legislation,” Von der Ordunug zur Norm: Statuten in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Edited by Gisela Drossbach (Paderborn-München-Wien-Zürich: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010) 17-38
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Professional Activities On Oct. 19, Professor Rienzi returned to the Capitol to participate in a panel discussion of religious freedom issues in the healthcare field, sponsored by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He discussed the recent HHS regulations requiring most employers to purchase insurance for contraception, sterilizations, and arguably some abortions.
Professor Rienzi was among the panelists for “New Conscience Regulations from the Department of Health & Human Services: Do they Strike the Right Balance between Conscience and the Medical Profession?” a symposium on April 14, 2011, that was sponsored by the Federalist Society’s Religious Liberties Practice Group at Georgetown University Law Center. On April 9, Professor Mark Rienzi spoke on two panels at Columbia Law School as part of a symposium, "Looking Back, Looking Forward: Pro-Life Strategy and Jurisprudence for the 21st Century." Rienzi spoke about the intersection of abortion law and the First Amendment as part of a panel discussing the speech rights of sidewalk counselors at abortion clinics.
On March10, Professor Rienzi spoke at Boston College at a conference, “Abortion Clinic Access vs. the First Amendment,” that examined whether the Massachusetts "buffer zone" law is unconstitutional.
Recent Media Professor Rienzi was quoted in the May 24, 2010 edition of the Washington Times about the First Amendment implications of speech regulations in Maryland that require disclaimers from pro-life pregnancy counselors, but not their pro-choice counterparts.
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Professional Activities Commenter, The Inaugural Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop, George Washington University Law School (April 2, 2011)
Presenter, “United Kingdom and United States Responses to the Financial Crisis,” The European Union 20 Years After Maastrict – Transatlantic Perspectives, Tulane University Law School (March 25, 2011)
Speaker, U.S. Financial System and the Global Economy, International Visitor Leadership Program, U.S. Department of State (March 15, 2011)
Respondent, 2011 Student Scholar Series, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America (Feb. 17, 2011)
Moderator, AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services, Section Breakfast Panel, San Francisco (Jan. 7, 2011)
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Professor Marin Scordato |
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Professional Activities/Scholarship Citations This article was also cited by Boris I. Bittker and Brannon P. Denning in their book, "Bittker on the Regulation of Interstate and Foreign Commerce," (Aspen, 2011) (Chapter 5, Federalization of Local Activities; Section 5.06, Federal Preemption: Introduction).
This article has also been cited by Andrew R. Simank in Deliberately Defrauding Investors: The Scope of Liability, 42 St. Mary’s Law Journal 253 (2010). His 2008 article, Understanding the Absence of a Duty to Reasonably Rescue in American Tort Law, 82 Tulane Law Review 1447 (2008), has been cited by Marshall S. Shapo, the Frederic P. Vose Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, in An Essay on Torts: States of Argument, 38 Pepperdine Law Review 579 (2011).
His 2004 article, Evidentiary Surrogacy and Risk Allocation: Understanding Imputed Knowledge and Notice in Modern Agency Law, 10 Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law 129 (2004), has been cited by Vincenzo Iuppa in When Efficiency Arguments Fail: The Counter-Intuitive Effects of Amended Rule 78.07(C), 76 Missouri Law Review 213 (2011).
His 1990 article, The Dualist Model of Legal Teaching and Scholarship, 40 American University Law Review 367 (1990) has been cited by Michael P. O’Connor in Perish the Thought of Publication?: Scholarship’s Critical Role in Effective Teaching, 3 Phoenix Law Review 417 (2010).
Marin Roger Scordato, “The International Legal Environment for Serious Political Reporting Has Fundamentally Changed: Understanding the Revolutionary New Era of English Defamation Law,” 40 Connecticut Law Review 165 (2007), was cited in Daniel C. Taylor, “Libel Tourism: Protecting Authors and Preserving Comity,” 99 Georgetown Law Journal 189 (2010). Marin Roger Scordato, “Federal Preemption of State Tort Claims,” 35 U.C. Davis Law Review 1 (2001), cited in Barbara Kritchevsky, “Tort Law is State Law: Why Courts Should Distinguish State and Federal Law in Negligence-Per-Se Litigation,” 60 American University Law Review 71 (2010).
Marin Roger Scordato, “Distinction without a Difference: A Reappraisal of the Doctrine of Prior Restraint,” 68 North Carolina Law Review 1 (1989). Cited in Smolla & Nimmer, SMOLLA & NIMMER ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH (2010)
Marin Roger Scordato, “Evidentiary Surrogacy and Risk Allocation: Understanding Imputed Knowledge and Notice in Modern Agency Law,” 10 Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law 129 (2004)
Cited in Brief for Defendants-Respondents to the Court of Appeals of New York in the case of Kirschner v. Beckenham Trading Company, Inc.
Marin Roger Scordato, “Reflections on the Nature of Legal Scholarship in the Post-Realist Era,” 48 Santa Clara Law Review 353 (2008)
Cited in Michael P. O’Connor, “Perish the Thought of Publication?: Scholarship’s Critical Role in Effective Teaching,” 3 Phoenix Law Review 417 (2010) Marin Roger Scordato, "The Dualist Model of Legal Teaching and Scholarship," 40 American University Law Review 367 (1990), was cited by Brent E. Newton in "Preaching What They Don’t Practice: Why Law Faculties’ Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical Competencies Obstruct Reform in the Legal Academy," 62 South Carolina Law Review 105 (2010).
Publications
“A Bold Challenge to the Conventional Narrative on Formalism and Realism,” an essay review of Brian Tamanaha’s Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide (Princeton Univ. Press), 46 University of Richmond Law Review (2011, forthcoming).
“Innocent Threats, Concealed Consent and the Necessary Presence of Strict Liability in Traditional Fault-Based Tort Law,” 37 Pepperdine Law Review
(2010). Professor Scordato’s papers listed with the eLibrary of the Social Science Research Network have been downloaded more than one thousand times as of April, 2011. Nearly 200 downloads were within the past 12 months, and Scordato’s work garnered 5,298 views of abstracts.
Professor Scordato’s paper, "Post-Realist Blues: Formalism, Instrumentalism and the Hybrid Nature of Common Law Jurisprudence", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for LSN: Appellate Review (Topic) and LSN: Limitations on Judicial Review (Topic). As of Dec. 30, 2010, it had been downloaded 90 times.
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Professor Lucia Silecchia |
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2010 June 5: She presented a paper at the annual conference of University Faculty for Life, hosted this year here at Catholic University. Her topic was “Toward a Pro-Life Environmental Movement.”
August 2: Professor Silecchia served as a panelist at the annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) in Palm Beach FL. Her panel was titled: The Changing Worlds of Trusts and Estates: Scholarship.”
The Association of American Law School’s Workshop on Property (New York City, June 10)
New York State Bar Association program on Advanced Document Drafting for the Elder Law Practitioner (New York City, June 21).
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Professor Karla Simon |
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2012 Professor Simon was a featured speaker at the "International Symposium on Outsourcing Government-Financed Social Services to Civil Society Organizations," held on Dec. 10 and 11 in Shanghai, China. Simon and her fellow panelists explored the expanding role of civil society organizations in China as providers of social services.
Professor Simon delivered a lecture, “Civil Society Organizations in China: Background and Recent Developments,” at Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 19. Professor Simon was among the speakers on July 25, 2011, for “China 101: An Introduction to Issues in the U.S.-China Relationship,” a six-week seminar series that focused on the People's Republic of China and the U.S.-China relationship. The seminar was held at the request of senior leadership and staff in Congress.
Professor Simon published an article, “Shenzhen Reforms: The Test of the Municipal Experiments,” in Chinese in the magazine Social Entrepreneurs in April, 2011.
Professor Simon was among the invited speakers at the “Conference on Civil Society and Nonprofits in China,” held by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University from Jan. 21 to 23, 2011. She spoke as part of a panel that dealt with the regulation of nonprofits and policy evolution, addressing her remarks specifically to the legal and policy environment for civil society in today's China with an emphasis on philanthropy. 2010 Professor Simon has begun a new listserv for people interested in civil society in China. Hosted by CUA Law School and launched in October, 2010, it already has over 300 subscribers. They include legal academics, academics in other disciplines, practitioners, and journalists. Subscribers live in many parts of the world, including China.
Professor Simon’s paper, "Two Steps Forward One Step Back - Developments in the Regulation of Civil Society Organizations in China", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Asian Law. As of mid-February, it has been downloaded 35 times. View the abstract.
Professor Simon’s article, “Enabling Civil Society in Japan: Reform of the Legal and Regulatory Framework for Public Benefit Organizations,” was published as the lead article in the fall, 2009 issue of the Journal of Japanese Law (Vol. 14, No. 28).
Professor Simon recently led a study tour for the Aga Khan Foundation for government officials and nonprofit sector professionals from East African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) to South Africa. The group visited government agencies involved in the nonprofit sector in South Africa, as well as community organizations that provide public benefit services. Recent Media Publications
Professor Simon’s paper, "The Regulation of Civil Society Organizations in China," was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for ERN: Institutions and Management. As of Jan. 14, 2012, it had been downloaded 176 times.
Conferences and Symposia Professor Simon spoke at a “Leading Developments in Chinese Law Conference,” held at UCLA School of Law on March 5, 2010. She was also an invited speaker at “Half a Century of Asian Law: A Celebration of Prof. Jerome Cohen,” on Feb. 19, 2010. The conference marked the 80th birthday of the noted NYU Law School professor. |
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Professor George Smith |
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Professional Activities
Smith had an appointment as the Parsons Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Sydney Law School, Australia, in August. The month before, he served as visiting professor of law at the University of Melbourne, Australia. And in June, 2010, Smith was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Law and Ethics in Medicine at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He also spent time as a visiting fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge, where he completed the research and writing of his 15th book manuscript, “Bioethical Intersections Along the Mortal Coil.” Publications |
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Professor William Wagner |
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Professional Activities 2010
Professor Wagner organized and moderated “The Nature of Judicial Authority: A Reflection on Philip Hamburger's Law and Judicial Duty,” held at the law school on April 8 and 9, 2010. The symposium gathered leading scholars in the areas of the history of law and politics, constitutional law and jurisprudence to take up the ideas posed by Hamburger’s book, “Law and Judicial Duty.” The discussion was presented by CUA’s Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture.
In late November, Professor Wagner traveled to Poland to deliver a paper, "Judicial Independence and Claims of Executive Branch Authority," at the International Conference on International Standards of Judicial Independence: Comparative Analysis and Challenges of Implementation, held at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. On Nov. 6, the Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture sponsored a panel that discussed "Counseling Clients Who Confront Complex and Competing Obligations." The four panelists considered an attorney's ethical responsibilities to clients who are experiencing potential conflicts among their obligations. Discussants included Michael F. Curtin, partner, Curtin Law Roberson Dunigan & Salans, P.C.; Stephen M. Goldman, distinguished lecturer, Columbus School of Law; Anthony Picarello Jr., general counsel, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Carolyn Williams, partner, Williams & Connolly LLP. |
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Professional Activities Professor Winston was the co-organizer, along with Professor Megan La Belle, of “The Ethical Ramifications of Therasense,” a symposium sponsored by Catholic University’s law school as the first installment of its 2010-2011 series at the National Press Club in downtown Washington, D.C. The Sept. 27 program explored the consequences of expected changes to the “inequitable conduct” doctrine, under which courts refuse to enforce otherwise valid patents based on findings that the patent owner engaged in inappropriate conduct during the patent application process. Professor Winston was one of three legal experts to participate in a webinar sponsored by the Intellectual Property Owners Association on Sept. 30, 2010. “False Marking Update: New Twists and Turns” examined recent federal circuit court decisions on false marking that send mixed signals to both defendants and plaintiffs.
Professor Winston was quoted in the March 1, 2010 edition of Inside Counsel for a story, “Marked for Trouble: Ruling Turns False Marking Statute on its Head.” The article addressed a new ruling that may require patent owners to be more vigilant about marking their products as patented.
An article of Winston’s about false marking was also referenced in the blog Patentlyo:
…Patent Reform: In her recent article, Professor Winston (Catholic U) has argued that the rules of false-marking should be shifted to place more of a burden onto the patentee to avoid false marking. Winston would ease the proof necessary for to prove "intent to deceive the public." Professor Winston’s most recent article, “Harmonizing Antitrust and Patent Law,” was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Antitrust: Antitrust Law & Policy eJournal and LSN: Patent Law/Intellectual Property. As of Oct. 7, 2011, the paper has been downloaded 105 times. The article is forthcoming in the Lewis & Clark Law Review.
Professor Winston’s article, “Clarifying the Doctrine of Inequitable Conduct,” was published by the John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, 10 J. MARSHALL REV. INTELL. PROP. L. 277 (2011).
Professor Winston’s “The Flawed Nature of the False Marking Statute,” 77 Tenn. L. Rev. 111 (2009) was selected for inclusion is the 2010 edition of Intellectual Property Law Review for having “been judged one of the best law review articles related to intellectual property law published within the last year.” |
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Professional Activities
On Aug. 5, Professor Wortham taught a session on “Regulation of Business: Law Firms and Professional Responsibility” as part of the Orientation to the U.S. Legal System program for foreign lawyers conducted by the International Law Institute.
On June 27, she gave an address, “Impact on Globalization and Technology on the Legal Profession” for the certificate ceremony for the American, Austrian, French, and Ukrainian Law programs at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
In 2010-11, Professor Wortham completed her third year as a non-resident international scholar in the academic fellows program funded by the Open Society Institute Higher Education Support Program. The program’s objective is to strengthen academic departments in 11 disciplines including law. Thus far, Professor Wortham has worked with the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and next year will be the international scholar for Tbilisi State University in Georgia. In 2010-11 she also served as the coordinator for the Law Disciplinary Group and will do so again for 2011-12. This entails planning the twice-yearly training conferences for the junior academics from the eight law departments in the AFP program representing universities in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine.
More than 150 educators from 21 countries attended the conference. Professors Klein and Wortham presented to colleagues on the factors that motivate people to perform at a high level in the discharge of creative and complex tasks.
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