Marianna Brown Bettman Invited Professor of Law
Marianna published Domestic Violence: Defining the Evidence as her monthly Legally Speaking column in the American Israelite and City Beat.

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Lou Bilionis Dean and Nippert Professor of Law
As Co-Chair (with Marian Spencer) of the President’s Task Force on Diversity, Lou lead a discussion on Diversity At UC: A Work in Progress. He was featured in Leadership: Cincinnati Names its 30th Class, Cincinnati Enquirer, Oct. 6, 2006.

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Barbara Black Professor of Law and Director, Corporate Law Center
Barbara presented Transforming Rhetoric into Reality: A Federal Remedy for Damages for Negligent Investment Advice, Transactions: Tenn. J. Bus. L. ___ (2006), at Case Western as part of the College’s Scholar Exchange Program.

Several of Barbara’s articles were cited:

• Brokers and Advisers - What’s in a Name?, 11 Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. 31 (2005), and The Irony of Securities Arbitration Today: Why Do Brokerage Firms Need Judicial Protection?, 72 U. Cin. L. Rev. 415 (2003), in Thomas L. Hazen & Jerry W. Markham, Broker-Dealer Operations under Securities and Commodities Law (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2006 Supp.).
• The Second Circuit's Approach to the "In Connection With" Requirement of Rule 10b-5, 53 Brook. L. Rev. 539 (1987), and The Strange Case of Fraud on the Market: A Label in Search of a Theory, 52 Alb. L. Rev. 923 (1988), in Keith A. Rowley, Cause of Action for Securities Fraud under Section 10(b) of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act and/or Rule 10b-5 (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 2nd ed., 2006).

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A. Christopher Bryant Professor of Law
Chris participated in a moot court/CLE program held at the Boyd School of Law (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) on Whorton v. Bockting, a habeas corpus case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a “Justice” in the moot court and a commentator in a subsequent panel discussion of the case.

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Paul L. Caron Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Faculty Projects
Paul was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the tax and accounting fields by Accounting Today magazine.

LexisNexis published Partnership Taxation by Richard Lipton (Baker & McKenzie, Chicago), Paul Carman (Chapman & Cutler, Chicago), Charles Fassler (Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, Louisville) & Walter Schwidetzky (University of Baltimore School of Law), the fourth book in the Graduate Tax Series for which Paul serves as Series Editor.

Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals:

• 5 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 7, nos. 43-47).
• 3 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 6, nos. 35-37).
• 3 issues of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 6, no. 20-22) (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell)).

• Banking Law Prof Blog, by Ann Graham (Texas Tech)
• Legal Profession Blog, by Alan Childress (Tulane), Michael Frisch (Georgetown) & Jeffrey Lipshaw (Tulane)

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Jenny Carroll Staff Attorney, Ohio Innocence Project
Jenny participated in a panel discussion on Women in the Legal Profession at the College of Law, sponsored by Law Women. Other panelists were Susan C. Lipnickey (Robinson & Lipnickey; Associate Professor for Physical Education/Health Sport Studies in the Education and Allied Professions Division at Miami University); Patty Pryor (Taft, Stettinius and Hollister); and Kim Brooks-Tandy (Executive Director, Children's Law Center).

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Margaret Drew Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Domestic Relations/Violence Clinic
Margaret trained a group of volunteer advocates for the Rape Crisis and Abuse Center on legal relief available to victims of violence through civil protection orders. She hosted a dinner for experts on Human Trafficking in Cincinnati as part of a two-day program presented by the Alliance for International Women.

Margaret attended the 15th anniversary celebration of Northeastern’s Domestic Violence Institute and facilitated a discussion on Joint Custody in Domestic Violence Cases.

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Rafael Gely Professor of Law
Rafael and Michael Solimine received the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers’ 2005-2006 Eisenberg Prize for their article The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 421. The prize honors the best article in the field of appellate practice and procedure published in 2005-06. The article also was cited in Lawrence Baum, The Supreme Court (Congressional Quarterly Press, 9th ed., 2007).

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Mark A. Godsey Associate Professor of Law and Faculty
Mark presented his scholarship on confessions at a conference on Cautions and Confessions: Miranda v. Arizona After Forty Years. He attended the conference on Miranda at Forty at Ohio State Moritz College of Law.

Mark spoke about the DNA and wrongful convictions at three universities: Miami, Toledo, and Utah. He gave public addresses on the issue to the legal community in Salt Lake City, to the Rotary Club in Montgomery, Ohio, and to a group of UC alums in Chicago.

Mark was quoted in:

• My Husband Was No Killer, People Magazine, Oct. 9, 2006
• Sex-Abuse Registry to Include Uncharged, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 25, 2006.

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

Emily Houh Professor of Law
Emily spoke on the triangulation theory of racial formation and its impact on interracial relationships in the workplace at a conference at Duke on Makeup, Identity Performance and Discrimination, sponsored by the law school and the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy. She participated on a panel at the 4th Annual LatCrit/SALT Junior Faculty Development Workshop at UNLV on Scholarship: What to Write, How to Finish.

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Ann Hubbard Professor of Law
Ann published A Military-Civilian Coalition for Disability Rights, 75 Miss. L.J. 975 (2006).

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Christo Lassiter Professor of Law
Christo’s article, TV or Not TV - That is the Question?, 86 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 928 (1996), was cited in Kevin F. O'Malley, Jay E. Grenig & William C. Lee, Federal Jury Practice and Instructions (West Group, 6th ed. 2006 Supp.).

Christo was featured in Law School Professor Inducted into Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame, Currents, Oct. 26, 2006.

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Bert B. Lockwood, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, University of Pennsylvania Press, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published two new books:

• African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam (2006), by Abdullahi An-Na’im.
• Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action (3d ed. 2006), by Richard Pierre Claude & Burns H. Weston.

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

S. Elizabeth Malloy Professor of Law
Betsy published Mental Health Courts and Title II of the ADA: Accessibility to State Court Systems for Individuals with Mental Disabilities and the Need for Diversion, 25 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 307 (2006) (with Ronda Cress & J. Neil Grindstaff).

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Bradford C. Mank James B. Helmer Jr. Professor of Law
Several of Brad’s articles were cited:

• Is a Textualist Approach to Statutory Interpretation Pro-Environmentalist?: Why Pragmatic Agency Decisionmaking Is Better than Judicial Literalism, 53 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1231 (1996), in Norman J. Singer, Statutes and Statutory Construction (West Group, 6th ed., 2006 Supp.).
• Preventing Bhopal: "Dead Zones" and Toxic Death Risk Index Taxes, 53 Ohio St. L.J. 761 (1992), in Robert H. Jerry, II & Steven E. Roberts, Regulating the Business of Insurance: Federalism in an Age of Difficult Risk, 41 Wake Forest L. Rev. 835 (2006).
• Prudential Standing and the Dormant Commerce Clause: Why the “Zone of Interests” Test Should Not Apply to Constitutional Cases, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 23 (2006), in Sherry L. Jarrell, Gary Shoesmith & J. Neal Robbins, Law and Economics of Regulating Local Economic Development Incentives, 41 Wake Forest L. Rev. 805 (2006).
• Using Section 1983 to Enforce Title VI’s Section 602 Regulations, 49 Kan. L. Rev. 321 (2001); Suing Under § 1983: The Future after Gonzaga v. Doe, 39 Hous. L. Rev. 1417 (2003); and Are Title VI's Disparate Impact Regulations Valid?, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 517 (2002), in David Monsma, Equal Rights, Governance, and the Environment: Integrating Environmental Justice Principles in Corporate Social Responsibility, 33 Ecology L.Q. 443 (2006).

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William J. Rands Professor of Law
Bill’s article, High Pressure Sales Tactics and Dead Trees: What to Do with Promoters’ Pre-Incorporation Contracts, was accepted for publication in the Rutgers Business Law Journal.

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Michael E. Solimine Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law and Director, Extern Program
Michael and Rafael Gely received the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers’ 2005-2006 Eisenberg Prize for their article The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 421. The prize honors the best article in the field of appellate practice and procedure published in 2005-06.

Michael’s articles, The Supreme Court and the DIG: An Empirical and Institutional Analysis, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 421 (with Rafael Gely), and The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Temple L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), were cited in Lawrence Baum, The Supreme Court (Congressional Quarterly Press, 9th ed., 2007).

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Adam N. Steinman Assistant Professor of Law
Adam’s article, Sausage-Making, Pigs’ Ears, and Congressional Expansions of Federal Jurisdiction: Exxon Mobil v. Allapattah and its Lessons for the Class Action Fairness Act, 81 Wash. L. Rev. 279 (2006), was cited in Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller & Edward H. Cooper, Federal Practice & Procedure (West, 2006 Supp.).

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Suja Thomas Professor of Law
Suja presented Recasting Originalism at William Mitchell, and Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional at the Labor & Employment Law Symposium in Cincinnati. Her forthcoming article, Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. ___ (2007), was discussed in Edward J. Brunet & Martin H. Redish, Summary Judgment: Federal Law and Practice (West, 2d ed. 2006), the leading treatise on summary judgment. They note that “[b]ecause summary judgment rests on an unsettled and tenuous constitutional foundation, the arguments advanced by Professor Thomas merit careful scrutiny.”

Several of Suja’s articles were cited:

• The Seventh Amendment, Modern Procedure and the English Common Law, 82 Wash. U. L.Q. 687 (2004), and Re-Examining the Constitutionality of Remittitur under the Seventh Amendment, 64 Ohio St. L.J. 731 (2003), in James Oldham, Trial by Jury: The Seventh Amendment and Anglo-American Special Juries (NYU Press, 2006)
• The Seventh Amendment, Modern Procedure and the English Common Law, 82 Wash. U. L.Q. 687 (2004), in Linda J. Silberman, Allan R. Stein & Tobias Barrington Wolff, Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice (Aspen, 2d ed. 2006).
• Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. ___ (2007), and The Seventh Amendment, Modern Procedure and the English Common Law, 82 Wash. U. L.Q. 687 (2004), in Paul Lermack, 16 Law & Politics Book Rev. 788 (2006) (reviewing James Oldham, Trial by Jury: The Seventh Amendment and Anglo-American Special Juries (NYU Press, 2006))

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Joseph P. Tomain Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law
Joe’s article, Land Use Mediation for Planners, 7 Mediation Q. 163 (1989), was cited in Arden H. Rathkopf, Daren A. Rathkop & Edward H. Ziegler, Rathkopf's the Law of Zoning and Planning (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 4th ed., 2006 Supp.).

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Verna L. Williams Professor of Law
Verna’s article, Reform or Retrenchment? Single-Sex Education and the Construction of Race and Gender, 2004 Wis L. Rev. 15, was excerpted in Katharine T. Bartlett & Deborah L. Rhode, Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, and Commentary (Aspen, 4th ed. 2006).

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