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COMPILED BY  WILLIAM BEVERLY  AND  ERIN KIDWELL

 

Professor Lama Abu-Odeh’s article “The Case for Binationalism: Why One State – Liberal and Constitutionalist – May Be the Key to Peace in the Middle East” appeared in the Boston Review’s December 2001-January 2002 issue.

Associate Dean for Research T. Alexander Aleinikoff saw three books into print in 2002: Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration (written with Douglas B. Klusmeyer) was published by the Migration Policy Institute; Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship was published by Harvard University Press; and the West Group published Immigration and Nationality Laws of the United States: Selected Statutes, Regulations, and Forms, As Amended to May 15, 2002 (written with David A. Martin and Hiroshi Motomura).

     Aleinikoff’s article “Detaining Plenary Power: The Meaning and Impact of Zadvydas v. Davis” appeared in 16 Geo. Immigr. L.J., and “Securing Tribal Sovereignty: A Theory for Overturning Lone Wolf” was published in 38 Tulsa Rev.
     In March, Aleinikoff served as the keynote speaker for the Owen M. Kupferschmid Holocaust/Human Rights Project at Boston College. His talk was entitled “Human Rights, Citizenship and Popular Sovereignty: U.S. Commitment and Confusion.”

Professor Jeffrey D. Bauman edited Corporations and Other Business Associations: Statements, Rules, and Forms, and the fourth-edition supplement to his Corporations, Law and Policy: Materials and Problems (coauthored by Donald E. Schwartz) was also published, both by the West Group in 2002.

Professor Susan Low Bloch collaborated with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on a Georgetown Law Journal article, “Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Federal Courts of the District of Columbia.” Another article, “The Marbury Mystery: Why Did William Marbury Sue in the Supreme Court?” was published in 13 Const. Commentary.

Professor M. Gregg Bloche edited and contributed to The Privatization of Health Care Reform: Legal and Regulatory Perspectives, published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. He wrote the book’s introduction and chapters entitled “Should the Law Prefer Non-Profits” and “One Step Ahead of the Law: Market Pressures and the Evolution of Managed Care.” Bloche also penned a chapter, “Medical Ethics in the Courts,” in Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy, published in 2002 by Oxford University Press.
     Bloche is a member of the International Dual Loyalty Working Group, a group convened by Physicians for Human Rights and composed of medical ethi-cists, human rights experts, and health practitioners. The group authored Dual Loyalty & Human Rights in Health Professional Practice: Proposed Guidelines and Institutional Mechanisms, a report addressing the “pervasive problem” of clinical conflicts between the interests of patients and of third parties.

Professor J. Peter Byrne’s article “Judicial Activism in the Regulatory Takings Opinions of Justice Scalia” appears in 1 Geo. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y. His article “Two Cheers for Gentrification,” solicited by the Howard Law Journal, appeared in summer 2003, accompanied by a critique by john powell [sic] and Marguerite Spencer of the University of Minnesota Law School and by Byrne’s response, “Rhetoric and Realities of Gentrification: Reply to powell and Spencer.” Byrne has collected previously unpublished historic preservation decisions issued by the Mayor’s Agent of the District of Columbia and published these on the Williams Law Library’s Web site, at www.ll.georgetown.edu/histpres, making them available as a research tool nationally.

Professor Barry E. Carter’s monograph (with coauthor Michael T. Williams)
Study of U.S. Unilateral Sanctions 1997–2001: With a Compilation of U.S. Laws Authorizing, and Executive Branch Decisions Imposing, Unilateral U.S. Sanctions from 1997–2001 was published in 2002 by USA-Engage. The fourth edition of a case-book he coauthored, International Law, was published by Aspen in August 2003, accompanied by the sixth edition of a documentary supplement, International Law: Selected Documents 2003–2004. He contributed a chapter, “State-Supported Terrorism and the U.S. Courts: Some Foreign Policy Problems,” to the proceedings volume of the 96th annual meeting of the American Society of International Law. The New England Law Review published Carter’s article “Terrorism Supported by Rogue States: Some Foreign Policy Questions Created by Involving U.S. Courts” in 2002. An editorial entitled “A Baghdad Tribunal” appeared in The Wall Street Journal on June 24, 2003.

Professor Sheryll D. Cashin’s “Drifting Apart: How Wealth and Race
Segregation are Reshaping the American Dream,” appeared in 47 Vill. L. Rev. It is the title essay of a forthcoming book. Her Cornell Law Review article about middle-class black suburbs was selected as one of the year 2002’s ten best articles about environmental law and land use by the peer-reviewed Environmental and Land Use Reporter. She was a panelist on the “Race, Class and the 2000 Census” program at the AALS annual meeting in 2003.

Professor Julie E. Cohen is one of five editors of Copyright in a Global Information Economy, published in 2002 by Aspen. Her piece “Intellectual Property and the Information Economy” comprises a chapter in Cyber Policy and Economics in an Internet Age, edited by William H. Lehr and Lorenzo Pupillo and published by Kluwer. Her article “DRM and Privacy” was published in 46 Comm. ACM in April.

Professor Sherman L. Cohn has written a chapter titled “The St. Bartholomew of West Twelfth Street” for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society’s 120 HIAS Stories; another chapter, “Teaching Jewish Law in a Secular American Law School,” appears in 12 Jewish Law Association Studies: The Zutphen Conference. His memorial to Yale Rosenberg appeared in 39 Houston L. Rev., and an article, “The Challenge of Self-Regulation,” appears in the November/December 2002 issue of Bencher.

Professor David D. Cole’s book (with James X. Dempsey) Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security has been published in a second edition by The New Press, which also published his 2003 book Enemy Aliens. He contributed chapters to Amitai Etzioni, Jason H. Marsh, and Robert H. Barnard’s Rights vs. Public Safety After 9/11: America in the Age of Terrorism and Danny Goldberg, Victor Goldberg, and Robert Greenwald’s It’s a Free Country: Personal Freedom in America After September 11. Cole’s recent articles on civil liberties and immigration law in the post-September 11 era include “In Aid of Removal: Due Process Limits on Immigration Detention,” 51 Emory L.J.; “The New McCarthyism: Repeating History in the War on Terrorism,” 38 Harv. C.R.-C.L.L. L. Rev.; “Enemy Aliens,” 54 Stan. L. Rev.; “Fighting Terrorism – Not the Constitution,” 12 Responsive Community; “Terrorizing Immigrants in the Name of Fighting Terrorism,” 29 Hum. Rts.; and “Their Liberties, Our Security: Democracy and Double Standards,” Boston Rev., Dec. 2002-Jan. 2003. Other articles appeared in 75 S. Cal. L. Rev., 35 Suffolk U.L. Rev., and Champion (April 2002).

Professors Samuel Dash and Lisa Heinzerling received the Frank Flegal Teaching Award for 2002-2003 in April. Seventy-seven full-time faculty members were nominated for the award.

Professor Viet D. Dinh returned to the full-time faculty after a leave of absence during which he served as Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice.

The president of the American Bar Association reappointed Father
Robert F. Drinan, S.J., professor at the Law Center, to serve on the 12-person executive committee of the Center for Human Rights of the American Bar Association. In May, he received an honorary degree from the City University of New York and lectured at Heidelberg University on international human rights, continuing a decade-long tradition of professorial exchange between Heidelberg and Georgetown. Father Drinan writes a monthly column for the National Catholic Reporter.


Professor Peter B. Edelman’s Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope was published by Georgetown in 2003. He contributed to Jacquelynne Eccles and Jennifer Appleton Gootman’s Community Programs to Promote Youth Development and is among the editors of The Future of Social Insurance: Incremental Action or Fundamental Reform?, published by the Brookings Institution.
     Edelman has delivered several notable lectures recently. In November 2002, at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, he delivered the Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Memorial Lecture, the keynote of a conference, “Whose Welfare? Income Transfers & Economic Justice”; that talk is forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. In September 2002, he delivered a keynote address at America’s Second Harvest National Conference, and in December, he gave the First Annual Relman & Associates Public Interest Fellowship Lecture, “Racial and Economic Justice: Inseparable and Inextricable.” His keynote address, “TANF Reauthorization: Is Congress Acting on What We Have Learned?,” for the Building Alliances to End Poverty conference, was published in Seattle J. Soc. Just. In April 2003, he delivered the Donley Lecture at the West Virginia University College of Law.

Professor Deborah Epstein, director of the Domestic Violence Clinic, was the 2002 recipient of the Wendy Webster Williams award for achievements in women’s rights. An article coauthored by her, “Transforming Aggressive Prosecution Policies: Prioritizing Victims’ Long-Term Safety in the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Cases,” appeared in Am. J. Gender, Soc. Pol’y. & Law.

Professor Daniel R. Ernst’s Total War and the Law: The American Home Front in World War II (coedited with Victor Jew) was published by Praeger in 2002. The Georgetown Law Journal published his article “Dicey’s Disciple on the D.C. Circuit: Judge Harold Stephens and Administrative Reform, 1933–1940” in 2002. In April 2003, Ernst was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to pursue research for his book-length project, “The Legal Professional and the Administrative State in 20th Century America.”

Professor Chai Feldblum has contributed chapters to two books: “Gay Rights” appears in The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right, edited by Herman Schwartz and published by Hill and Wang; “The Limitations of Liberal Neutrality Arguments in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage” is included in Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European and International Law, edited by Robert Wintemute and Mads Andenæs and published by Hart.

The 32nd edition of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts, the four-volume semian-nual coauthored by Professor Martin Ginsburg and Jack S. Levin, was published in June by Aspen; the publication is now available on CD-ROM. Ginsburg also coedits (with Levin and Donald E. Rocap) Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions, published annually, also by Aspen.

Professor Steven P. Goldberg’s article “Antonin Scalia, Baruch Spinoza, and the Relationship Between Church and State” appears in 23 Cardozo L. Rev. “Religious Contributions to the Bioethics Debate: Utilizing Legal Rights While Avoiding Scientific Temptations” appears in 30 Fordham Urb. L.J.

Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader, by Professor Lawrence O. Gostin, was published in 2002 by the University of California. Gostin has cowritten chapters on public health law for Ronald O. Valdeserri’s Dawning Answers: How the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Helped to Strengthen Public Health (Oxford); for Richard A. Goodman, et al.’s Law in Public Health Practice (Oxford); for Jonathan D. Moreno’s In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis (MIT Press); and for Justine Burley and John Harris’s A Companion to Genetics (Blackwell).
     The summer 2002 issue of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics presented a symposium on “Public Health Law and Ethics” for which Gostin wrote a preface and coauthored several articles; other contents address Gostin’s work in public health law. His “The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Planning and Response to Bioterrorism and Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases” (with coauthors) appeared in 288 JAMA. Other recent articles authored or coauthored by Gostin include “AIDS in Africa Among Women and Infants: A Human Rights Framework,” 32 Hastings Center Rep.; “Balancing Communal Goods and Personal Privacy Under a National Health Informational Privacy Rule,” 46 St. Louis U. L.J.; “The Bioterrorist Threat and Access to Health Care,” 296 Science; “Commentary: Public Health and Civil Liberties in an Age of Bioterrorism,” 21 Crim. Just. Ethics; “Conceptualizing the Field after September 11th: Foreword to a Symposium on Public Health Law,” 90 Ky. L.J.; “Law and Ethics in a Public Health Emergency,” 32 Hastings Center Rep.; “Personal Privacy and Common Goods: A Framework for Balancing Under the National Health Information Privacy Rule,” 86 Minn. L. Rev.; “Public Health Law in an Age of Terrorism: Rethinking Individual Rights and Common Goods,” 21 Health Aff.; “School Vaccination Requirements: Historical, Social, and Legal Perspectives,” 90 Ky. L.J.; and “Tobacco Advertising in the United States: A Proposal for a Constitutionally Acceptable Form of Regulation,” 287 JAMA.

     Fulbright Senior Specialist grants were awarded both to Gostin and to Esther F. Lardent, adjunct professor of law and director of the Pro Bono Institute (see related article in the Feature section of this magazine issue).

Professor G. Mitu Gulati’s 2002 publications include: “Giants in a World of Pygmies? Testing the Superstar Hypothesis with Judicial Opinions in Casebooks,” coauthored by Veronica Sanchez, in 87 Iowa L. Rev.; “How Do Judges Maximize? (The Same Way Everyone Else Does – Boundedly): Rules of Thumb in Securities Fraud Opinions” in 51 Emory L.J.; and “When a Workers’ Cooperative Works: The Case of Kerala Dinesh Beedi” in 49 UCLA L. Rev.

Professor Charles H. Gustafson contributed a paper, “Income Tax
Incentives for Research and Development in the United States,” to a comparative study by the law faculty of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. This spring he delivered a series of closed-circuit satellite television lectures to Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice attorneys across the United States on “International Law in Tax Litigation.” He lectured in April at the Stockholm School of Economics on “Current Issues in United States Tax Law and Policy” and in July at the Academy of American and International Law in Dallas on “International Taxation.” Twice, most recently in July, he lectured on “U.S. Taxation of International Transactions” to a program for Mexican lawyers, government officials, and company executives run jointly by the Law Center and Iberoamericana University in Mexico City. In February, he was a panelist at the Tax Council Policy Institute’s program on Jurisdiction to Tax, and in April at a program on the Future of European Company Taxation, held in Stockholm.
     Professor Gustafson is a faculty member at Wintercourse, a comparative tax law and policy program shared by the Law Center and students and faculty from universities representing nine European nations. Since 2000, he has served on the advisory board of the Schoordijk Institute of Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Professor Robert J. Haft has published the following with the West Group:
Analysis of Key SEC No-Action Letters; Due Diligence in Securities Transactions; Liability of Attorneys and Accountants for Securities Transactions; Venture Capital and Small Business Financings; and (coauthored with Peter M. Fass) Tax-Advantaged Securities Handbook.

Professor Lisa Heinzerling wrote the entry for “The Environment” in the new Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies, edited by Peter Cane and the Law Center’s Mark Tushnet and published in 2003. Her article “Markets for Arsenic” appeared in volume 90 of the Georgetown Law Journal. Other recent articles include “Five Hundred Life-Saving Interventions and their Misuse in the Debate Over Regulatory Reform” in 13 RISK, and, with Frank Ackerman, two articles: “The Humbugs of the Anti-Regulatory Movement,” in 87 Cornell L. Rev., and “Pricing the Priceless: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Protection,” in 150 U. Pa. L. Rev. The latter was originally published as a monograph by the Geo. Envt’l. L. & Pol’y. Inst. in 2002.
     Heinzerling shared the 2002-2003 Frank Flegal Teaching Award in April with Professor Samuel Dash.

Professor John H. Jackson’s The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO: Insights on Treaty Law and Economic Relations, originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2000, has been translated into Chinese and published by Xinhua Publishing House of Beijing. The fourth edition of Legal Problems of International Economic Relations: Cases, Materials and Text on the National and International Regulation of Transnational Economic Relations (with William J. Davey and Alan O. Sykes Jr.) was published by the West Group. Daniel L. M. Kennedy and James D. Southwick’s The Political Economy of International Trade Law: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec (Cambridge, 2002) features a chapter by Jackson titled “Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, and the Separation of Powers: The High Wire Balancing Act of Globalization.” Jackson’s article “Afterword: the Linkage Problem – Comments on Five Texts” appears in 96 Am. J. Int’l. L.

Professor Vicki C. Jackson and Professor Mark Tushnet are the editors of Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law, published by Praeger in 2002. Her article “Cook v. Gralike: Easy Cases and Structural Reasoning” appears in 2001 S. Ct. Rev.

Professor Emma Coleman Jordan’s recent publications include “A History Lesson: Reparations for What?” in 58 NYU Ann. Surv. Am. L., and “Editing Together: Social Capital and Creating the Intellectual Infrastructure for Legal Feminism,” in Columbia University Journal of Gender and the Law’s spring 2003 symposium issue.
     Professor Jordan delivered the keynote address at an October 2002 conference on “Lynching and Racial Violence in America” at Emory University in Atlanta; her address was titled “Lawless Law.” She spoke at an April 2002 conference on “Reparations for Slavery and Its Legacy” at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, and participated in a panel debate on affirmative action held by the Federalist Society at the Law Center. In March 2003, she spoke on “Anatomy of Outsider Jurisprudence: Examining Multiple Identities in Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Law” at the Sixth Annual Symposium on Gender and Sexuality at Georgetown, and spoke at Howard University in Washington on the topic “Rise and Reorganize: The Missing Arguments about our Racial Past in the Michigan Affirmative Action Cases.”

In 2002, the Yale Law Journal published two articles by Professor Neal Kumar Katyal: “Architecture as Crime Control” and “Waging War, Deciding Guilt: Trying the Military Tribunals,” the latter article coauthored by Laurence Tribe.

Professor David A. Koplow’s Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge was published by the University of California Press in 2003.

Professor Donald C. Langevoort published two books in 2002: Insider Trading: Regulation, Enforcement & Prevention and Securities Law Review – 2002, both with the West Group. He contributed two chapters to the latter book; one, “Seeking Sunlight in Santa Fe’s Shadow: The SEC’s Pursuit of Managerial Accountability,” had appeared in 79 Wash. U. L.Q. in 2001. Professor Langevoort’s recent articles include: “Are Judges Motivated to Create ‘Good’ Securities Fraud Doctrine?” in 51 Emory L.J.; “Introduction: Issue on the Harmonization of the Securities Laws” in 33 Law & Pol’y. Int’l. Bus.; “Monitoring: The Behavioral Economics of Corporate Compliance with Law” in 2002 Colum. Bus. L. Rev.; “Taming the Animal Spirits of the Stock Markets: A Behavioral Approach to Securities Regulation” in 97 Nw. U. L. Rev.; and “When Lawyers and Law Firms Invest in Their Corporate Clients’ Stock” in 80 Wash. U. L.Q. His inauguration as the first Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor is reported in the Faculty Notes section of this magazine.

Professor Charles R. Lawrence III wrote a chapter, “Foreword: Who are We? And Why are We Here? Doing Critical Race Theory in Hard Times,” in Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory, edited by Francisco Valdes et al. and published by Temple University Press in 2002.

Recent journal articles by Professor Richard Lazarus include “Environmental Law and the Supreme Court: Three Years Later,” in 19 Pace L. Rev., and “Thirty Years of Environmental Protection in the Supreme Court,” also in 19 Pace L. Rev., updating an article that appeared there two years earlier.

A Japanese translation by Hiroshi Sumiyoshi of Professor David Luban’s book Good Judgment in Legal Ethics was published in 2002 by Chuo University Press in Tokyo. Luban has penned two chapters for recently published books: “Professional Ethics” appears in R.G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman’s A Companion to Applied Ethics (Blackwell, 2003), and “Intervention and Civilization: Some Unhappy Lessons of the Kosovo War” is published in Ciaran Cronin and Pablo de Greiff’s Democracy and Transnational Politics: Beyond the Nation-State Paradigm (MIT Press, 2002). Luban’s article “The War on Terrorism and the End of Human Rights” appears in 22 Phil. & Pub. Pol’y. Q.; “A Midrash on Rabbi Shaffer and Rabbi Trollope” appears in 77 Notre Dame L. Rev.; and “Silence! Four Ways the Law Keeps Poor People from Getting Heard in Court” was featured in 1 Legal Aff.

In January 2003, Professors Mari Matsuda and Charles R. Lawrence III
were awarded the 2003 SALT Human Rights Award at the AALS Conference in Washington. Matsuda’s “Beyond, and Not Beyond, Black and White: Deconstruction has a Politics” appears in Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory, edited by Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp, and Angela P. Harris, published by Temple University Press in 2002. As a board member of the Chevron-Texaco Task Force on Equality and Fairness, she coauthored its final report in September 2002.
     Matsuda’s recent articles include “Asian Americans and the Peace Imperative,” in 27/28 Amerasia J.; “I and Thou and We and the Way to Peace,” in the August 2002 Issues in Legal Scholarship (available at http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss2/art6); and “What Would It Take to Feel Safe?” in 27 NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Change. She is among the speakers quoted in “Symposium: Building a Multiracial Social Justice Movement,” 27 NYU Rev. & Soc. Change.
In October 2002, Matsuda participated in the Annual SALT TeachingConference, “Teaching in Crisis, Teaching about Crisis: Law, Peace & Pedagogy,” held at Fordham Law School in New York. In November, she delivered the Seventh Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society, “Somebody Else’s Child: The Public, the Private and Education as a Human Right,” at New York University Law School. In December, she was keynote speaker at the NAIS People of Color Conference in Chicago. In January 2003, she participated in the SALT Robert Cover Study Group and spoke at the University of Wyoming. In March, she spoke on “Hate Speech: What Price Tolerance” at the Arlin M. Adams Center for the Law & Society at Susquehanna University. In April, she spoke at Wesleyan University.

Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s book Dispute Processing and Conflict Resolution: Theory, Practice and Policy was published in August 2003 by Ashgate Press. She has seen several articles into print, including “The Lawyer as Consensus Builder: Ethics for a New Practice” in 70 Tenn. L. Rev. and “Ethics Issues in Arbitration and Related Dispute Resolution Processes” in 56 U. Miami L. Rev. “Practicing ‘In the Interests of Justice’ in the Twenty-First Century: Pursuing Peace as Justice” was published in 70 Fordham L. Rev. and “When Litigation is Not the Only Way: Consensus Building and Mediation as Public Interest Lawyering” appears in 10 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y. She has contributed to several recently published encyclopedias: “Conflict Theory” and “Conflict Resolution” appear in the new Encyclopedia of Community (Berkshire Press, 2003); “Lawyers” and “Alternative Dispute Resolution” appear in The Oxford Companion to American Law, and “Alternative Dispute Resolution” appears in the Encyclopedia of the Behavioral and Social Sciences. She wrote the chapter “Ethics, Morality, and Professional Responsibility in Negotiation” for Dispute Resolution Ethics: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Phyllis Bernard and Bryant Garth and published in 2002 by the American Bar Association.
     Menkel-Meadow gave the keynote address (which will be published as a subsequent article) on “Correspondences and Contradictions in International and Domestic Conflict Resolution: Using General Theory in Varied Contexts” at the University of Missouri’s Program on Dispute Resolution. Her paper “Legal Negotiation in Film, Literature and Popular Culture: What is Being Bargained For?,” delivered at the University College of London Law Faculty this summer, will also appear in a forthcoming book. She has given a paper titled “The Lawyers’ Role in Deliberative Democracy” at several other law schools recently.
     In spring 2003, she was visiting professor of law at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, the home university of Law Center Professor Franz Werro. At Fribourg, she taught the first course on Feminist Jurisprudence. Through the Law Center’s program with INCAE, a multinational university in Central America, she taught courses in mediation and negotiation in Paraguay, Argentina, and Nicaragua. The Georgetown-Hewlett Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution and Legal Problem Solving, which she oversees, has completed its first year.
     Menkel-Meadow and the Law Center’s Mark Tushnet will serve as coeditors-in-chief of the Journal of Legal Education, which will be edited at the Law Center for the next five years. Menkel-Meadow is associate editor of the Negotiation Journal, published by the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

Professor Eleanor Holmes Norton was awarded the inaugural Ida B. Wells-Barnett Justice Award by the New York County Lawyers Association and the Metropolitan Black Bar Association.

Professor Robert L. Oakley, director of the Williams Law Library, is the U.S. Representative to the Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters of the International Federation of Library Associations. In summer 2003, the American Association of Law Libraries presented Oakley with an award for exemplary leadership on the issue of preservation of legal information for the 21st century. He authored the entry “Copyright 2001: Exploring the Implications of Technology” for The Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac’s 2002 edition. His remembrance of Harry Bitner appeared in 94 Law Libr. J. in 2002.

The Georgetown Immigration Law Journal published two articles by Professor James C. Oldham in 2002: “Brief Amici Curiae of Legal Historians in INS v. St. Cyr” (with coauthors), and “The Historical Scope of Habeas Corpus and INS v. St. Cyr” (with Michael J. Wishnie).

Professor Julie Rose O’Sullivan’s article “Professional Discipline for Law Firms? A Response to Professor Schneyer’s Proposal” appeared in 16 Geo. J. Legal Ethics in 2002.

Professor Joseph A. Page’s book Torts: Proximate Cause was published by Foundation Press in 2003. His article “A Voice of Reason: The Products Liability Scholarship of Gary T. Schwartz” appears in 53 S.C. L. Rev. Page also took over as director of the Law Center of the Americas Program, which has since been christened the Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas (CAROLA).

“Demystifying Disclosure: First Steps,” an article by Professor Ronald A. Pearlman, appears in 55 Tax L. Rev.

Professor Nina Pillard’s “Plenary Power Underground in Nguyen v. INS: A Response to Professor Spiro” appears in 16 Geo. Immigr. L.J. She filed briefs before the Supreme Court on behalf of respondents in Green Tree Financial Corp., et al. v. Lynn W. Bazzle et a.l, [123 S. Ct. 817 (2003) (No. 02-634)], and in Nevada Department of Human Resources, et al., v. William Hibbs, et al. [123 S. Ct. 714 (2002) (No. 01-1268)].

Professor Robert Pitofsky’s recent articles on antitrust law include
“Antitrust at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: The Matter of Remedies,” 91 Geo. L.J., and “Antitrust at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A View from the Middle,” 76 St. John’s L. Rev. His article “The Essential Facilities Doctrine Under United States Antitrust Law” appeared first in 708 PLI/Pat in 2002 and was revised (with coauthors) in 70 Antitrust L.J.

Professor Milton C. Regan’s recent articles include “Corporate Norms and Contemporary Law Firm Practice,” in 70 Geo. Wash. L. Rev.; “Taking Law Firms Seriously,” in 16 Geo. J. Legal Ethics; “Calibrated Commitment: The Legal Treatment of Marriage and Cohabitation,” in 76 Notre Dame L. Rev.; and “Law, Marriage, and Intimate Commitment,” in 9 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y. & L.

Professor Paul F. Rothstein’s Federal Rules of Evidence was published in its third edition by the West Group in 2002. His article “What Courts Can Do in the Face of the Never-Ending Asbestos Crisis” appears in 71 Miss. L.J.

The National Center for State Courts presented Professor Roy A. Schotland an award for his ongoing work with the Conference of Chief Justices on judicial election matters. He has worked with the Conference since 2000. Among Schotland’s recent articles are “2002 Judicial Elections,” 76 Spectrum; “Proposed Legislation on Judicial Election Campaign Finance,” 64 Ohio St. L.J.; “Comment on Professor Carrington’s Article ‘The Independence and Democratic Accountability of the Supreme Court of Ohio’,” 30 Cap. U.L. Rev.; “Commentary: The Limits of Being ‘Present at the Creation’,” 80 N.C. L. Rev.; “In Bush v. Gore: Whatever Happened to the Due Process Ground?,” 34 Loy. U. Chi. L.J.; “Judicial Elections and Campaign Finance Reform,” 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. (with coauthors); “Judicial Campaign Conduct Committees,” 35 Ind. L. Rev. (with Barbara Reed); and “Myth, Reality Past and Present, and Judicial Elections,” 35 Ind. L. Rev. His article “Should Judges be More Like Politicians?,” first printed in 2002 in 39 Court Rev., was reprinted as “Republican Party of Minnesota v. White: Should Judges be More Like Politicians?” in 41 Judges’ J.

Professor Philip G. Schrag’s book Repay As You Earn: The Flawed Government Program to Help Students Have Public Service Careers was published by Bergin & Garvey in 2002.

Journal articles by Professor Warren F. Schwartz include “The Economic Structure of Renegotiation and Dispute Resolution in the WTO/GATT System” (coauthored with Alan O. Sykes), in 31 J. Legal Stud., and “Long Shot Class Actions: Toward a Normative Theory of Legal Uncertainty,” in 8 Legal Theory.

Professor Louis Michael Seidman’s book Constitutional Law: Equal
Protection of the Laws was published in 2002 by Foundation Press. With the Law Center’s Mark Tushnet, he wrote “When Judges Tell Us What They Mean,” which appeared in 5 Graven Images, and his article “Democracy and Legitimation: A Response to Professor Guinier” appeared in 34 Loy. U. Chi. L.J.

The second edition of Professor Abbe Smith’s book (with Monroe Freedman) Understanding Lawyer’s Ethics was published by LexisNexis/Matthew Bender in 2002. She reports three recent journal articles: “The Complex Uses of Sexual Orientation in Criminal Court,” in 11 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y. & L.; “The Difference in Criminal Defense and the Difference it Makes,” in 11 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y.; and “The Innocent and Not So Innocent Alike,” in 29 Hum. Rts.

Professor Girardeau A. Spann’s book (with coauthors) The Contracts Experience was published as a DVD-ROM by the Duke University School of Law in 2002.

Professor Jane Stromseth, codirector of the Joint Degree in International Studies and Law, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution in April 2002 on constitutional war powers and the war against terrorism. In April, at the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, she spoke on panels on “The Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Role: Continuity and Innovation” and on “Law and the Use of Force in Iraq.” Her book Accountability for Atrocities: National and International Responses was published by Transnational Publishers. Her chapter “Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: The Case for Incremental Change” appears in Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas, edited by J.L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane and published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. Stromseth’s letter to U.S. Senator Robert Byrd regarding constitutional war powers and Iraq appears at 148 Cong. Rec. S10279-82, the daily edition of October 11, 2002.

Professor Daniel K.Tarullo’s article “The Hidden Costs of International Dispute Settlement: WTO Review of Domestic Anti-Dumping Decisions” was published in 34 Law & Pol’y. Int’l. Bus. He reviewed Gráinne de Búrca and Joanne Scott’s The EU and the WTO: Legal and Constitutional Issues in 5 J. Intl’l. Econ. L.

Professor Jay Thomas published two books in 2003: Cases and Materials on Patent Law, 2nd edition, with coauthors, by the West Group; and Intellectual Property: The Law of Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks, with Roger E. Schechter, by Thomson-West. His article “Liberty and Property in the Patent Law” appears in 39 Hous. L. Rev., and “The Responsibility of the Rulemaker: Comparative Approaches to Patent Administration Reform” in 17 Berkeley Tech L.J.

New books by Professor Mark Tushnet are Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law, edited with Law Center professor Vicki C. Jackson

(Praeger, 2002); Federal Courts in the 21st Century: Cases and Materials, with coauthors, originally published in 1996, now in a 2002 LexisNexis edition; The New Constitutional Order (Princeton University Press, 2003); and The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies, edited with Peter Cane (Oxford University Press, 2003). He contributed a chapter, “The Constitutional Politics of the Clinton Impeachment,” to Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle, edited by Leonard V. Kaplan and Beverly I. Moran and published by NYU Press in 2001.

     Tushnet’s recent articles include: “The Issue of State Action/Horizontal Effect in Comparative Constitutional Law” in 1 I.CON; “A Goldilocks Account of Judicial Review?” in 37 U.S.F. L. Rev.; “Law and Prudence in the Law of Justiciability: The Transformation and Disappearance of the Political Question Doctrine” in 80 N.C. L. Rev.; “The Return of the Repressed: Groups, Social Welfare Rights, and the Equal Protection Clause” in the August 2002 Issues in Legal Scholarship (available at http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss2/art7); “Senate’s Role in the Nomination and Confirmation Process: Whose Burden?” in 50 Drake L. Rev.; “State Action, Social Welfare Rights, and the Judicial Role: Some Comparative Observations” in 3 Chi. J. Int’l. L.; and (with the Law Center’s Louis Michael Seidman) “When Judges Tell Us What They Mean” in 5 Graven Images. He reviewed Mark E. Neely Jr.’s Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism for 576 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci., Kent Roach’s The Supreme Court on Trial: Judicial Activism or Democratic Dialogue for 52 U. Toronto L.J., and three books on antebellum slave law in the South for 27 Law & Soc. Inquiry. Professor Tushnet currently serves as president of the Association of American Law Schools, as is reported in the Faculty Notes section of this magazine.

Professor Carlos M.Vásquez’s article “Treaties and the Eleventh Amendment” has been published in 42 Va. J. Int’l. L.

Professor David C.Vladeck wrote a chapter (with Alan B. Morrison), “The Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of the Executive Branch,” which appears in The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right, edited by Herman Schwartz and published in 2002 by Hill and Wang. His recent articles include “Defending Courts: A Brief Rejoinder to Professors Fried and Rosenberg,” in 31 Seton Hall L. Rev., and “Hard Choices: Thoughts for New Lawyers,” in 10 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y.

Professor William T.Vukowich’s book Consumer Protection in the 21st

Century: A Global Perspective was published by Transnational Publishers in 2002.

Professor Edith Brown Weiss’s articles “Invoking State Responsibility in the Twenty-First Century” and “Water Resources and Future Generations” were published in 96 Am. J. Int’l. L. and 6 Hamishpat L. Rev., respectively. Professor Weiss currently is serving as chair of the Inspection Panel for the World Bank.

Re-imagining Justice: Progressive Interpretations of Formal Equality, Rights, and the Rule of Law, by Professor Robin J.West and Alvin Van Silverstein, was published by Ashgate/Dartmouth in 2003. Three chapters by West appear in other recent books: “Skodljive posljedice sporasumnog seksa,” in Suvremena Filozofija Seksualnosti, edited by Igor Primorac and published in Zagreb by Kruzac, 2003; “The Right to Care,” in The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency, edited by Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen K. Feder and published by Rowan and Littlefield, 2002; and “Sex, Harm, and Impeachment,” in Aftermath: The Clinton Impeachment and the Presidency in the Age of Political Spectacle, edited by Leonard V. Kaplan and Beverly I. Moran and published by NYU Press in 2001.
     West’s recent articles include “Tradition, Principle and Self-Sovereignty: Competing Conceptions of Liberty in the United States Constitution,” in 6 Rev. Const. Stud., and “Groups, Equal Protection and Law,” in Issues in Legal Scholarship, August 2002, available at www.bepress.com/ils/iss2/art8.Top