Professor Davis presented a work-in-progress titled “‘I know you like me, but I can’t ask you to say that’: The Tension Between Communicating Lawyer Reputational Information in Online Advertising and ‘The Good Life’ for Consumers of Legal Services” at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender held in St. Petersburg, October 14-17.
Ellen Podgor
Professor Podgor testified on September 28th before the U.S. House of Representatives Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, which held a hearing on “Reining in Overcriminalization: Assessing the Problems, Proposing Solutions.”
Catherine Cameron
Professor Cameron spoke on two panels on Septmeber 25th at the conference “Media Law in the Digital Age” sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University, in conjunction with the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She spoke on issues surrounding media access to government information. She was also invited to serve on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed Journal of Public Access Law.
Monu Bedi
Professor Bedi’s article, “Excusing Behavior: Reclassifying the Federal Common Law Defenses of Duress and Necessity Relying on the Victim’s Role” was accepted for publication in The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern).
Bobbi Flowers, Ellen Podgor, Luz Nagle, Judy Scully, and Monu Bedi
Professor Flowers organized a very successful roundtable program for the ABA Criminal Justice Section this weekend on the proposed 4th edition of the Prosecution & Defense Ethics Standards. Professor Flowers and Professor Podgor presented papers, Professor Nagle moderated a panel and filled in for a speaker, Professor Scully moderated a panel, and Monu Bedi served as reporter. The work from this roundtable will provide important feedback to the ABA on the proposed standards.
Kirsten Davis
Professor Davis has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of Legal Writing Directors’s Board of Directors.
Luz Nagle
On September 7, 2001, Professor Nagle will be presenting at the 15th International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) Annual Conference at the Hague. Her panel is titled: “The rise and expansion of gangs.” Her topic focuses on gangs emerging as a national and transnational security threat.
Blake Hudson
Professor Hudson’s article on “Commerce in the Commons” will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Harvard Environmental Law Review.
Ellen Podgor
Professor Podgor moderated a SEALS corporate law workshop discussion group titled “Re-Evaluating Corporate Criminal Liabliity.” She also served as a mentor for a new scholar as part of the new scholars workshop program.
Charles Rose
Professor Rose spoke at SEALS as part of a workshop on evidence titled “The Admissibility of Electronically Stored Evidence.”
Susan Rozelle
Professor Rozelle moderated a panel at SEALS titled “Interacting with Medical Professionals in Representing Clients with Questionable Capacity: Advice for Law School Clinical Program Personnel and Law Professors Who Do Pro Bono Work.”
Stephanie Vaughan
Professor Vaughan moderated a panel at SEALS titled “The Status of Legal Writing Faculty in the Academy.”