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Cassandra Burke Robertson named new director at School of Law’s Center for Professional Ethics
Cassandra Burke Robertson was named director of the endowed Center for Professional Ethics at ϳԹ School of Law. Robertson has taught professional responsibility at the university’s law school for more than eight years. Her scholarship focuses on ethics and procedure in ...
Law’s Erik Jensen has recent work published
Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor of Law, recently published “Student Athletes Revisited” in the fall 2014 edition of Journal of Taxation of Investments. In addition, he had four entries in the second edition of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution: “Article I, Section 2, Clause 3—Thre...
Law professor Jessie Hill presents at recent events on variety of topics
Jessie Hill, professor of law, associate dean for faculty development and research, and Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar, recently gave a number of presentations. Recent talks include: “The Affordable Care Act and the Politics of Reproductive Health Care” at The ACA and Beyond: The...
Law’s Paul Giannelli reports to National Commission on Forensic Science, publishes multiple works
Paul Giannelli, the Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor in the School of Law and Distinguished University Professor, recently gave a report on pretrial discovery to the National Commission on Forensic Science at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In additi...
Law Professor Sharona Hoffman presents on big data, has book accepted for publication
Praeger Publishers accepted a book manuscript by Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, titled Aging with A Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. In addition, she presented at three confere...
Law research article paints dismal picture for litigation against greenhouse gas emitters
School of Law professor has analyzed data from 178 environmental lawsuits Legal attempts to deter major emitters of environment-damaging greenhouse gases (GHGs) have been ineffective and are unlikely to have much effect for years, a ϳԹ School of Law professor concludes in peer-revi...
U.S. Supreme Court to review challenge to Obamacare based on research by Law Professor Jonathan Adler
What began as legal analysis of the Affordable Care Act after it became law in 2010 now has ϳԹ School of Law Professor Jonathan Adler close to a case that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review. At stake is the future of the law known as Obamacare, which authori...
Law’s Dale Nance to present at developing nations symposium
Dale Nance, the John Homer Kapp Professor of Law, has been invited to present at “The Foundations of the Law of Evidence and Their Implications for Developing Countries” conference. Nance will present “The Weight of Evidence and the Design of Adjudicative Systems” at the conference, which will be h...
Law’s Maxwell Mehlman has three works published on ”super soldiers,” genomic technology
Maxwell Mehlman, the Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law, professor of bioethics and director of the Law-Medicine Center, wrote three works that recently were published. “Super Soldiers (Part 1): What is Military Enhancement?” and “Super Soldiers (Part 2): The Ethical, Legal, and Operational Impl...
Law Professor Kathryn Mercer presents around the world
Kathryn Mercer, professor of lawyering skills in the School of Law, has presented around the world in recent months. In May, she co-presented with Law Professor Jonathan Gordon at Global Legal Skills Conference IX in Verona, Italy. The title of their talk was “A Multi-Cultural Perspective on Plagiar...