Marjorie Aaron Professor of Practice
Director, Center for Negotiation & Problem Solving
Marjroie organized UC’s Negotiation Competition to select two teams to participate in the midwest regionals of the ABA’s Negotiation Competition. 32 students and 24 attorney judges participated in the event. UC will host the regionals on November 12-13.

Profile of Professor Aaron :: Center for Practice in Negotiation & Problem Solving

Marianna Brown Bettman Invited Professor of Law
Marianna published her monthly Legally Speaking column in the American Israelite, Cincinnati Herald, and City Beat on a pair of decisions from the California Supreme Court which held that a child can have two parents, both of whom are women.

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Joseph Biancalana Professor of Law
Joseph published The Development of the Penal Bond with Conditional Defeasance, 26 J. Legal Hist. 103 (2005).

Profile of Professor Biancalana

Lou Bilionis Dean and Nippert Professor of Law
Lou spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Cincinnati/Northern Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and moderated The U.S. Supreme Court: A Faculty Conversation for Constitution Day at the College of Law.

Lou’s article, Moral Appropriateness, Capital Punishment, and the Lockett Doctrine, 82 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 283 (1991), was cited in Paul Litton, The "Abuse Excuse" in Capital Sentencing Trials: Is it Relevant to Responsibility, Punishment, or Neither? 42 Am. Criminal L. Rev. 1027 (2005). He was quoted in Nancy Zimpher Is on a Mission To Remake UC, Cincinnati Enquirer, Aug. 28, 2005, at 1.

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Kristin Kalsem Associate Professor of Law
Kristin’s article, Bankruptcy Reform and Financial Well-Being: How Intersectionality Matters in Money Matters, was accepted for publication in the Brooklyn Law Review.

A. Christopher Bryant Professor of Law
Chris’s article, Retroactive Application of "New Rules" and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 70 George Washington L. Rev. 1 (2002), was cited in Marc E. Johnson, Everything Old Is New Again: Justice Scalia’s Activist Originalism in Schriro v. Summerlin, 95 J. Crim.. L. & Criminology 763 (2005).

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Paul L. Caron Charles Hartsock Professor of Law
Director, Faculty Projects
Foundation Press published Environmental Law Stories, by Richard J. Lazarus (Georgetown) & Oliver A. Houck (Tulane), the ninth book in the Law Stories Series for which Paul serves as Series Editor.

Paul’s forthcoming article, Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. ___ (2005) (symposium) (with Bernard S. Black) was the most downloaded tax paper on SSRN.

Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals www.ssrn.com:
• 5 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 6, nos. 31-35)
• 5 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 5, nos. 31-35)
• 1 issue of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 5, no. 11) (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell))

Paul added a new blog to his Law Professor Blogs Network :
• ImmigrationProf Blog, by Jennifer Chacón (UC-Davis), Bill Hing (UC-Davis) & Kevin Johnson (UC-Davis)

Paul’s views on the opening of the Supreme Court’s new term were featured in Courting Change - But Carefully; With New Chief, Justices Look at Issues That Affect Us All, Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 2, 2005, at C-1

Paul’s book, Tax Stories (Foundation Press, 2003), was cited in Noah Burton, The Taxation of Contingent Attorneys’ Fees: How the Court Got Lost In the Forest, 36 Rutgers L.J. 953 (2005).

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Margaret B. Drew, Professor of Clinical Law
Director, Domestic Relations/Violence Clinic
Margaret was quoted and pictured in Margaret Graham Tebo, Protective Orders’ Power in State's Hands: Castle Rock Ruling Leaves Advocates Looking Toward Home, A.B.A. J. (Sept. 2005).

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Rafael Gely Professor of Law
Rafael’s article, The Supreme Court and the DIG: A Legal and Empirical Analysis (with Michael Solimine), was accepted for publication in the Wisconsin Law Review.

Several of Rafael’s articles were cited in prestigious law reviews:
• The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation: A New Frontier in North American Labor Relations, 10 Connecticut J. Int’l L. 533 (1995) (with Leonard Bierman), in Monica Schurtman, Los “Jonkeados” and the NAALC: The Autotrim/Customtrim Case and its Implications for Submissions under the NAFTA Labor Side Agreement, 22 Arizona J. Int’l & Comp. L. 291 (2005).
• The Political Economy of Supreme Court Constitutional Decisions: The Case of Roosevelt’s Court-Packing Plan, 12 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 45 (1992) (with Pablo T. Spiller), and A Rational Choice Theory of Supreme Court Decisions with Applications to the State Farm and Grove City Cases, 6 J. Law, Econ. & Org. 263 (1990) (with Pablo T. Spiller), in Keith E. Whittington, James Madison Has Left the Building, 72 U. Chicago L. Rev. 1137 (2005), and Keith E. Whittington’s Congress before the Lochner Court, 85 Boston Univ. L. Rev. 821 (2005).

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Mark A. Godsey Associate Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice, Ohio Innocence Project
Mark presented Reformulating the Miranda Warnings in Light of Contemporary Law and Understandings, 90 Minn. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2006) at Ohio State. The paper was the fifth most downloaded criminal law paper on SSRN during September.

Mark and his students with the Ohio Innocence Project, along with Akron attorney Jana DeLoach and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, filed a motion in the case of Clarence Elkins. The motion seeks Elkins’ release based on DNA evidence which not only exonerates him of the rapes and murder for which he was convicted, but demonstrates that another man—a convicted rapist—committed the crimes. Mark was quoted about the case in the Akron Beacon Journal, Cincinnati Enquirer and Cleveland Plain Dealer, and appeared on television news across the state.

CrimProf Blog, which Mark co-edits with Arizona professor Jack Chin, received its 200,000th visitor in September.

Profile of Professor Godsey :: Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project

Emily Houh Professor of Law
Emily’s article, Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003), was cited Stephen S. Ashley, Bad Faith Actions Liability & Damages (West Group, 2005 Supp.).

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Ann Hubbard Professor of Law
Two of Ann’s articles were cited in prestigious law reviews:
• The Major Life Activity of Belonging, 39 Wake Forest L. Rev. 217 (2004), was cited in Samuel R. Bagenstos, The Future of Disability Law, 114 Yale L.J. 1 (2004).
• Meaningful Lives and Major Life Activities, 55 Alabama L. Rev. 997 (2004), in Patrick Rogers, Challenges in Meeting the Disability Qualification under the ADA: The Tenth Circuit’s Analysis in Mason v. Avaya Communications, Inc., 82 Denver U. L. Rev. 539 (2005).

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Christo Lassiter Professor of Law
Christo served as a panelist on The U.S. Supreme Court: A Faculty Conversation for Constitution Day at the College of Law.

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Bert B. Lockwood, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law
Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
The University of Pennsylvania Press published The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague, by Eric Stover (UC-Berkeley), the 38th book in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Series for which Bert serves as Series Editor. Bert served as a panelist on The U.S. Supreme Court: A Faculty Conversation for Constitution Day at the College of Law.

Profile of Professor Lockwood :: Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

Bradford C. Mank James B. Helmer Jr. Professor of Law
Brad published Can Administrative Regulations Interpret Rights Enforceable Under Section 1983? Why Chevron Deference Survives Sandoval and Gonzaga, 32 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 843 (2005). His article Prudential Standing and the Dormant Commerce Clause: Why the “Zone of Interests” Tests Should Not Apply to Constitutional Cases, was accepted for publication in the Arizona Law Review. Cincinnati City Council member David Crowley has named Brad Mank to the Environmental Justice Working Group.

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Donna M. Nagy Charles Hartsock Professor of Law
Donna Nagy participated in a symposium at Iowa that honored the 25th anniversary of Professor Robert Clark’s treatise, Corporation Law.

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Michael E. Solimine Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law and Director, Extern Program
Michael’s article, The Supreme Court and the DIG: A Legal and Empirical Analysis (with Rafael Gely), was accepted for publication in the Wisconsin Law Review. He conducted a peer review for the Law and Society Review.

Several of Michael’s articles were cited in prestigious law reviews, including:
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temple L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Keith E. Whittington, James Madison Has Left the Building, 72 U. Chicago L. Rev. 1137 (2005).
• Constitutional Litigation in Federal and State Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Parity, 10 Hastings Const’l L.Q. 213 (1983) (with James L. Walker), and The Future of Parity, 46 William & Mary L. Rev. 1457 (2005), in Brian M. Hoffstadt, The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Habeas, 78 Southern California L. Rev. 1125 (2005), and Denise C. Morgan & Rebecca E. Zietlow, The New Parity Debate: Congress and Rights of Belonging, 73 Univ. Cincinnati L. Rev. 1347 (2005).
• Deciding to Decide: Class Action Certification and Interlocutory Review by the United States Courts of Appeals under Rule 23(f), 41 William & Mary L. Rev. 1531 (2000) (with Christine Oliver Hines), in Michael E. & Jane B. Tigar’s Federal Appeals Jurisdiction and Practice (West Group, Sept. 2005 Update).

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Adam N. Steinman Assistant Professor of Law
Adam had two articles acccepted for publication:
• The Irrepressible Myth of Celotex: Reconsidering Summary Judgment Burdens Twenty Years after the Trilogy in the Washington & Lee Law Review. The paper was the third most downloaded new litigation and procedure paper on SSRN.
• Sausage-Making, Pigs’ Ears, and Congressional Expansions of Federal Jurisdiction: Exxon Mobil v. Allapattah and its Lessons for the Class Action Fairness Act in the Washington Law Review. The article was featured on Larry Solum’s Legal Theory Blog and the Civil Procedure Blog, and was the sixth most downloaded new litigation and procedure paper on SSRN.

Adam's article, Reconceptualizing Federal Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners: How Should AEDPA's Standard of Review Operate after Williams v. Taylor?, 2001 Wisconsin L. Rev. 1493, was sited in Brian M. Hoffstadt, The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Habeas, 78 Southern California L. Rev. 1125 (2005).

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Suja Thomas Professor of Law
Suja presented Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional at Kansas as part of the College of Law’s Scholar Exchange Program. She presented How to Get a Job at the BLSA Regional Conference.

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Joseph P. Tomain Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law
Joe published Bargaining in the Shadow of Regulation, 5 Antitrust Source (Sept. 2005) (reviewing Jim Rossi, Regulatory Bargaining and Public Law (2005)). He submitted for publication Lost in the Flood (reviewing Bradbrook et als., The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development & Ottinger et als., Compendium of Sustainable Development Laws), forthcoming in the Pace Environmental Law Review.

Joe was a panelist on The Use of Imminent Domain for Economic Redevelopment: A Necessary Tool for Cities—Or an Unconstitutional Trampling of Property Rights? at Dayton. He attended board meetings of the Mercantile Library Association and the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation.

Joe was busy with several Katrina-related activities, including:
• Contributor, Center for Progressive Reform, An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (September 2005) to be found at www.progressiveregulation.org.
• Board Meeting, Ohio State Bar Foundation at which we designated $100,000 for disaster relief and rebuilding and will serve a Ohio clearinghouse for contributions form law firms and lawyers.
• Board Meeting, Greater Cincinnati Foundation at which we designated $100,000 for disaster relief and rebuilding and will also serve as a clearinghouse for local contributions.
• Chair of KnowledgeWorks Foundation which sent a team of specialists to Louisiana to assist the rebuilding process.

Joe was quoted in Nancy Zimpher Is on a Mission To Remake UC, Cincinnati Enquirer, Aug. 28, 2005, at 1.

Profile of Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor Tomain

Verna L. Williams Associate Professor of Law
Verna’s article, Private Choices, Public Consequences: Examining Education Reform through a Feminist Lens, was accepted for publication in the William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law.

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Ingrid Brunk Wuerth Professor of Law
Ingrid served as a panelist on The U.S. Supreme Court: A Faculty Conversation for Constitution Day at the College of Law.

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