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Here are some of the activities over approximately the last six months of the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Law.
Full-time College of Law
Amitai Aviram
Articles
“What do Corporate Directors Maximize? (Not Quite What Everybody Thinks),” 6 Journal of Institutional Economics 47 (2010).
Current Research
Studies mechanisms of norm enforcement in private legal systems (including business associations) and the role of law in manipulating perceptions, using analytic tools from the field of law & economics (in particular behavioral economics).
J. Steven Beckett
Presentations
“The Business Side of the Criminal Practice of Law: Ethical Considerations and Criminal Defense Fees” at ISBA programs in Chicago and Bloomington.
“The New Rules of Professional Conduct and the Criminal Defense Lawyer” at the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
“Ethical Considerations for Criminal Defense Lawyers: The New Rules of Professional Conduct and the Criminal Defense Lawyer” at a U.S. District Court conference for Federal Defender and CJA Panel Attorneys.
Press Room
CNN (Jan. 19) -- According to U. of I. law professor Steven Beckett, hearsay evidence is a serious disadvantage to defense lawyers because they cannot cross-examine the person being quoted. Illinois passed a law in 2008 -- dubbed "the Drew Peterson law" or "Drew's law" by the media -- that allows hearsay evidence if prosecutors believe the victim was killed to prevent his or her testimony. "This other witness may truthfully be saying what the person said, but how do we know what the person said is true?" said Beckett, director of trial advocacy at the College of Law.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Jan. 26) -- U. of I. law professor Steven Beckett comments on a point of law in effect in Missouri known as the “castle doctrine,” which allows people who encounter an intruder to use deadly force to protect themselves or their property.
Francis Boyle
Books
“Tackling America’s Toughest Questions” (Clarity Press, 2009).
Verlag Zeit-Fragen has published French and German translations of “The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence: Will the U.S. War on Terrorism Go Nuclear?”
Presentations
“Prospects for Peace in the Middle East” at the Violence, Trauma, and Displacement in the Middle East and Eurasia conference hosted by the University of Illinois.
"The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence" before the Catholic Academy of Science USA at Catholic University in Washington, DC on September 26, 2009.
“Sri Lanka's Genocide Against the Tamils: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights under International Law," before an international conference in Chennai, India and met with the Tamil Nadu Bar Association at their request to advise them on instituting litigation concerning this matter.
Works in Progress
Clarity Press has contracted to publish "Sri Lanka's Genocide Against the Tamils: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights under International Law," scheduled for release in March of 2010.
Press Room
The Wall Street Journal (Jan. 5) -- U. of I. law professor Francis Boyle, in a letter to the editor, talks about his late father, who was a Marine, and his conduct during World War II and after. The letter was one of several the Journal received in response to a Dec. 23 essay about whether the realities of war turn warriors into criminals.
Chicago Sun-Times (Jan. 14) -- U. of I. law professor Francis Boyle has again nominated former Illinois Gov. George Ryan for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Honors and Grants Received
2010 Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World, featuring "biographies of more than 50,000 of the most accomplished men and women from around the globe and across all fields of endeavor." He is already included in Marquis Who's Who in America.
Re-elected as Parliamentarian and Member of the Board of Directors of the Catholic Academy of Sciences USA and has been appointed a Professor in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Ralph Brubaker
Books
“A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Indebted Global Society” (Ralph Brubaker, Robert M. Lawless & Charles J. Tabb eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming 2010).
“Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies, and Practice” and comprehensive Teacher’s Manual (LexisNexis 3d ed., forthcoming 2010) (with Charles J. Tabb).
Articles
“A Postscript to the Chrysler and GM Sales: The Supreme Court (Quietly) Brackets Their Legitimacy,” 29 Bankr. L. Letter No. 2, Feb. 2010.
“Preferential Transfers, the Subsequent New Value Defense, and the Requirement That the New Value ‘Remain Unpaid’ (or Not),” 29 Bankr. L. Letter No. 2, Feb. 2010.
“Cramdown of an Undersecured Creditor Through Sale of the Creditor’s Collateral: Herein of Indubitable Equivalence, the § 1111(b)(2) Election, Sub Rosa Sales, Credit Bidding, and Disposition of Sale Proceeds,” 28 Bankr. L. Letter No. 12, Dec. 2009, at 1-16.
“The Chrysler and GM Sales: § 363 Plans of Reorganization?,” 28 Bankr. L. Letter No. 9, Sept. 2009, at 1-16.
“Supreme Court Validates “Clarified” Manville Insurance Injunction: Channeling… and So Much More!,”28 Bankr. L. Letter No. 8, Aug. 2009, at 1-11.
“An Administrative Expense Odyssey,” 28 Bankr. L. Letter No. 6, June 2009, at 1-14.
“Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction to Enter a Money Judgment on a Nondischargeable Debt: Exposing Pacor’s Deficiencies and the True Supplemental Nature of Third-Party ‘Related To’ Bankruptcy Jurisdiction,” 28 Bankr. L. Letter No. 4, Apr. 2009, at 1-11.
Presentations
“The Intrinsic Moral Value of Bankruptcy Discharge” (with Professor Heidi Hurd) at Emory University and the University of San Diego.
“A ‘New’ Theory of Bankruptcy Discharge” (with Professor Hurd) at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Panel speaker on “Chapter 11: Myths and Realities” at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and “Global Lawmaking and Systematic Financial Crisis” at the Center on Law and Globalization ABA Annual Meeting program.
Works in Progress
“An Essay on the Chrysler and GM Bankruptcy Sales: Remembering the Origins of Reorganization Law” forthcoming 2010).
“Debt and the Demands of Conscience: The Virtue of Bankruptcy Discharge” (book, forthcoming 2010) (with Professor Hurd).
John Colombo
Books
Charity Care for Nonprofit Hospitals: A Legal and Admininstrative Guide, Aspen (Wolters-Kluwer) 2009 (with Gerald Griffith and James R. King).
Articles
“The NCAA, Tax-exemption and College Athletics” was the subject of an entire Symposium in the December, 2009 issue of the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport and was cited by the General Accounting Office’s report “Tax Preferences for College Sports.”
Presentations
“Tax Exemption for Newspapers?” to the Great Lakes TE/GE advisory Council.
“Tax Exemption for College Athletics” at the Penn State Colloquium on College Athletics.
“The Role of Redistribution to the Poor in Federal Tax Exemption For Charities” at the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law.
Commentator at the Symposium on Philanthropy in the 21st Century: Governance.
Press Room
USA Today (Jan. 14) -- Because a sizable portion of the money donated to athletic programs helps give the donors preferential seating at games and other benefits, John D. Colombo, a U. of I. law professor who has written about tax exemption and college athletics, calls it “essentially subsidizing seat licenses for wealthy football fans.”
CNBC (from The Associated Press, Jan. 22) -- Tax experts say it is not illegal for charitable organizations to pay for the services of board members as long as they are paid market rates. John Colombo, a U. of I. law professor specializing in tax-exempt organizations, said tax laws permit such fees. Also: CNBC (from The Associated Press; New York City, Jan. 22), Contra Costa Times (from The Associated Press; Walnut Creek, Calif., Jan. 22), eTaiwan News (from The Associated Press; Taipei, Jan. 23), The New York Times (from The Associated Press, Jan. 23).
Honors
Awarded the John E. Cribbet Teaching Fellowship Award.
Honored by June Michael during Foundation Weekend as she endowed the John D. Colombo Professorship in Law.
William Davey
Articles
Published several articles on international trade law issues.
Works in Progress
Continued work on a new edition of his EU Law casebook and on a course to be presented at the Hague Academy of Private International Law in the Summer of 2010.
Dhammika Dharmapala
Articles and book chapters
“Taxes, Institutions, and Foreign Diversification Opportunities” (with Mihir A. Desai) 93 Journal of Public Economics 703 (2009).
“Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value” (with Mihir A. Desai) 91 Review of Economics and Statistics 537 (2009).
“Which Countries Become Tax Havens?” (with James R. Hines, Jr.) 93 Journal of Public Economics 1058 (2009).
“Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice” (with Mihir A. Desai) Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming 2010 (accepted for publication in September 2009).
“Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit” (with Mihir A. Desai and Monica Singhal) Forthcoming 2010, in Jeffrey R. Brown (ed.) Tax Policy and the Economy, Vol. 24, University of Chicago Press (accepted for publication in October 2009).
Presentations
“Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice” (coauthored with Mihir A. Desai) at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation Summer Symposium in Oxford, UK, and at the University of Illinois Department of Finance colloquium.
“Tax Incentives for Affordable Housing: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit” (coauthored with Mihir A. Desai and Monica Singhal) at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference on “Tax Policy and the Economy” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
“The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act” (coauthored with Fritz Foley and Kristin Forbes) at the University of Illinois Deloitte Tax Symposium in Chicago and at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
“Investor Taxation in Open Economies” (coauthored with Mihir A. Desai).
Commentator on two papers at the National Tax Association Annual Meetings in Denver.
Honors
Elected to the Board of Directors at the National Tax Association Annual Meetings in Denver.
Margareth Etienne
Book chapters
“In Need of a Theory of Mitigation” and “Restoring Justice Through Individual Sentencing” in “Criminal Law Conversations” (Oxford Univ. Press 2009).
Presentations
“Sentencing Women” at the University of Iowa Law School with a publication to follow in the coming months as part of multidisciplinary project funded by the National Science Foundation.
“Managing Parents” at the 2009 SEALS conference.
Works in Progress
Invited to publish an article in the inaugural volume of the Chapman Journal of Criminal Justice after the publication of “Legal and Practical Implications of Evidence-Based Sentencing by Judges,” 1 Chapman J. Crim. J. 43 (2009).
Honors and boards
Splitting her time between serving in her administrative position as a faculty member and as an Associate Provost Fellow in the Office of the Provost, working on issues such as negotiating the contract between the University and the graduate student union (GEO).
Contributing editor for the Criminal Law section to the online journal, Jotwell.com.
Matthew Finkin
Books
“For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom” (Yale University Press) (with Robert Post).
“Privacy in Employment Law (3d. Edit.).”
“2009 Statutory Appendix and Case Supplement to Cox, Bok, Gorman & Finkin, Labor Law.”
Articles
“A Consumer Warning for the Restatement of Employment Law: READ CAREFULLY BEFORE APPLYING,” 70 La. L. Rev. 193 (2009).
Presentations
Panelist at both the International Industrial Relations Research Association (IIRRA) World Congress in Sydney, Australia and the 19th World Congress of the International Society for Labor and Social Security Law (ISLSSL) in Sydney, Australia.
Panelist on the ABA Teleconference/Webcast, “International Labor and Employment Law 101.”
“Labour Law in the Global Economy” at the University of Sydney (Australia) Law School.
Boards
Serves as a member of the American Association of University Professors subcommittee on “Academic Freedom after Garcetti v. Ceballos” (with Robert M. O’Neil, Judith Areen, and William Van Alstyne), report appears at 8 Academe 64 (November–December 2009).
Eric Freyfogle
Books
Released the second edition of his “Wildlife Law” casebook (2010), co-authored with Dale Goble and issued by Foundation Press.
Articles
“Taking Property Seriously,” in D. Grinlinton & P. Taylor, eds., Property Rights and Sustainability: The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges (Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, Netherlands, forthcoming 2010)
“Private Rights in Nature: Two Paradigms” in P. Burdon, ed., Wild Law: A Reader in Earth Jurisprudence (Wakefield Press, Australia, forthcoming 2010)
“Property and Liberty,” Harvard Environmental Law Review (forthcoming 2010)
“Owning Nature Responsibly,” in K. Barth, ed., Imagination and Place: Ownership (forthcoming 2010)
“Making Room for Nature’s Refugees,” in W. Rodgers, et al., eds., Climate Change: A Reader (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2010)
“Simplicity, Community, and Private Land,” in S. Alexander, ed., Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture (Stead & Daughters Ltd., Australia, 2009)
“Better Ways to Work Together,” in L. MacDonnell & S. F. Bates, The Evolution of Natural Resources Law and Policy 98-123 (ABA Books 2009)
Freyfogle has also contributed to various encyclopedias, extended entries on natural resources law, conservation, and agrarianism.
Presentations
Conference on progressive property law at Cornell University.
Conference on the water commons held at Wingspread Center in Wisconsin.
Keynote speaker at a land conservation conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Works in Progress
New property-law casebook under contract with West Publishing with Brad Karkkainen of Minnesota. It will offer an approach to property law that draws extensively upon legal history and philosophy, that pays more attention to nature and ecological interconnection, and that mixes common law and statutes throughout.
Monograph dealing broadly with foundational issues of humans and nature, very tentatively entitled “Our Place in Nature: A Meditation.”
Collection of agrarian writings by the early twentieth-century nature writer, John Burroughs, in a forthcoming book series by the University of Kentucky Press.
Boards
On behalf of the Office of Sustainability, Professor Freyfogle is leading a campus-wide series of sessions dealing with the overarching issues of humans and nature.
Nuno Garoupa
Books
Editor, “Criminal Law and Economics”
Articles
“Decoupling as a Tax on Primary Activities” Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 39 (2), forthcoming (with C. Sanchirico).
"Corruption and Private Law Enforcement: Theory and History" Review of Law and Economics, vol. 6 (1), forthcoming (with D. Klerman).
“Corruption and Optimal Law Enforcement,” American Law and Economics Review, vol. 12, forthcoming (with L. Echazu).
“Reputation, Information and the Organization of the Judiciary” Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 4 (2), forthcoming (with T. Ginsburg).
“Assessing the Argument for Specialized Courts: Evidence from Family Courts in Spain” International Journal of Law, Policy and Family, vol. 24 (1), forthcoming (with N. Jorgensen, and P. Vazquez).
“Scope of Liability: The Vanishing Distinction Between Negligence and Strict Liability” European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 28 (3), pp. 257-287 (with P. Salvador-Cordech, and C. Gomez).
“The English Rule with Upfront Payments” Portuguese Economic Journal (Special Issue in Law and Economics), vol. 8 (3), pp. 137-139 and 177-181.
“Judicial Reputation and Audiences: Perspectives from Comparative Law” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 47 (2), pp. 451-491 (with T. Ginsburg).
Book chapters
“Regulation of Professions,” in Handbook of Regulation.
“The Economics of Prosecutors,” in Economics and Criminal Law.
“Economic Analysis and Comparative Law,” in the Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law.
“Class Action in Portugal,” in Class Actions for Europe: Perspectives from Law and Economics.
“On the Boundary between Torts and Contracts: An Economic View,” in Economic Analysis of the DCFR.
“The Contributions of A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell for Law and Economics,” in Pioneers of Law and Economics.
Presentations
Presented talks at the University of Texas Law School, the Spanish Judicial School, the FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro, the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, ENS in Paris, the University of Hamburg Institute for Law and Economics, and the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Current Research
The empirical analysis of judicial behavior in higher courts across the world; Understanding why the transplant of the US constitutional arrangements to Latin America has failed to produce a strong and independent judiciary; Identifying the problems of the efficiency hypothesis of the common law from a comparative law perspective.
Honors and Grants Received
Searle-Kauffman Fellow in Law, Innovation, and Growth by the Northwestern University School of Law.
Boards
Member, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois.
Board of Directors, ALACDE [Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association].
Daniel Hamilton
Articles and book chapters
Comment on paper in a symposium on Abraham Lincoln, “A Response to John Burt,” American Literary History (Volume 4, 2009).
“The Dred Scott Case, Emancipation and the Rise of the Fifth Amendment,” in David Konig, Paul Finkelman and Chris Bracey (eds.), (Edited collection of papers for the 150th Anniversary of Dred Scott, Ohio University Press, forthcoming 2010).
Books
Co-edited “Transformations in American Legal History: Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz, Volumes I and II,” Daniel W. Hamilton and Alfred L. Brophy, eds. (Cambridge, Harvard Law School, 2009), following major legal history conference at Harvard Law School.
Presentations
Presentation at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Commentator, Conference on the Law of Nations at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
National lecturer in Property for BarBri.
Honors and boards
Named Associate Editor for Book Reviews for the Law and History Review, the preeminent journal in his field.
Appointed to a three year term as a member of the Prize Committee, Littleton-Griswold Book Prize in American Law and Society for the American Historical Association.
Member, Program Committee for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History.
Appointed member of the Committee on the Future of the Society for the ASLH.
Christine Hurt
Books
“Interactive Citation Workbook and Workstation” (Lexis Publishing 2009) (w/Tracy McGaugh).
Articles
“Re-Regulating Banks,” 4 Ohio St. Entrepreneurial Bus. L. J. (forthcoming 2010) (symposium).
“Evil Has a New Name: Madoff,” Mich. St. L.J. (forthcoming 2010) (symposium).
“The Windfall Myth,” Geo. J. L. Pub. Pol’y (forthcoming 2010).
Presentations
“The Windfall Myth” at the University of Wisconsin School of Law corporate colloquium and at St. Mary’s School of Law
“Evil Has a New Name: Madoff” at the Business Law and Narrative Symposium at Michigan State School of Law
“Hedging, Speculation and the Magic of Having Skin in the Game” at the Law & Society 2009 Conference in Denver
Participant in a debate sponsored by The Federalist Society on Corporate Criminal Liability at the College of Law.
Works in Progress
After traveling to Malawi, Africa and meeting with microfinance lenders and borrowers there, Professor Hurt is beginning several research projects exploring microfinance and peer-to-peer borrowing in developing countries and in the United States from the standpoint of law and entrepreneurship.
Boards
She also serves as Chair of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Task Force on Admissions.
Blogging and Web-based Activities
Active contributor on “Conglomerate.”
David Hyman
Books
“Controlling the Cost of Medical Care: A Dose of Deregulation,” in Antidote: Strategies for Containing America’s Runaway Health Care Costs, Brookings Institution Press (forthcoming 2010) (with Richard Epstein).
Articles
“Follow the Money: Money Matters in Health Care, Just Like Everywhere Else,” Am. J. Law & Med. (forthcoming, 2010).
“O’Connell Early Offers: Toward Realistic Numbers,” J. Empirical Leg. Stud. (forthcoming, 2010) (with Bernard Black and Charles Silver).
“The Impact of the Duty to Settle on Settlement: Evidence From Texas,” (under submission) (with Bernard Black and Charles Silver).
“Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: Regulatory Strategies and Institutional Capacity,” Tulane L. Rev. (forthcoming, 2010) (with William Sage).
“Access to Justice in a World Without Lawyers: Evidence from Texas Bodily Injury Claims,” Fordham Urb. L. J. (forthcoming, 2010) (with Charles Silver).
“Health Care Fragmentation: We Get What We Pay For” in Health Care Fragmentation, Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2010).
“The Effect of ‘Early Offers’ in Medical Malpractice Cases: Evidence from Texas,” 6 J. Empirical Leg. Stud. 747-803 (2009) (with Bernard Black & Charles Silver).
“Employment-Based Health Insurance and Universal Coverage: Four Things People Know That Aren’t So,” 9 Yale J. Health Policy, L. & Ethics 435-452 (2009).
“What Lessons Should We Learn From the First Malpractice Crisis of the 21st Century?” 1 Drexel L. Rev. 261-272 (2009).
“Estimating The Effect of Damage Caps in Medical Malpractice Cases: Evidence from Texas” 1 J. Legal Analysis 355-409 (2009) (with Bernard Black, Charles Silver and William Sage.
Presentations
Presentations and lectures at Case, Akron, Cornell, Florida, Nova, UCLA, Denver, Kentucky, Louisville, UNC, Texas Wesleyan, Albany, BU and UM-KC, the Washington & Lee faculty workshop, the law and economics faculty/student workshops at Michigan and Georgetown, the law and economics seminar at Penn, the Georgetown Law School program on medical malpractice, the Empirical Legal Studies conference at USC, and the Midwest Law and Economics Annual Meeting at Notre Dame. He was the keynote speaker at 20th Annual Health Economics Conference at Boston University.
Works in Progress
“Waiting for the Big One: The Economics of Plaintiff-side Personal Injury Litigation” (with Bernard Black & Charles Silver).
“Does Medical Malpractice Litigation Work For the Elderly? Evidence from Texas, 1988-2005” (with Myungho Paik, Bernard Black, Charles Silver, and William Sage).
“Too Bad For Granny: The Impact of Tort Reform on Nursing Home Litigation (with Myungho Paik, Bernard Black & Charles Silver).
“Enforcing Competition Law: Costs and Benefits of a Dual Purpose Agency” (with William Kovacic).
“Who Does What?: Toward A Theory of the Government Agency (with William Kovacic).
Press Room
“Pay (only) for health care that works,” Detroit News, November 3, 2009 (with Charles Silver), “Malpractice litigation in U.S. health care reform,” Washington Times, August 23, 2009, (with Charles Silver), “History’s Painful Lessons,” National Review Online, August 20, 2009, and “Texas-style caps on non-economic damages isn’t smart tort reform, Texas Star-Telegram, July 18, 2009, (with Charles Silver and Ronen Avraham).
NPR appeared with Professor Jennifer Robbennolt on a January 7 “Focus 580” program on local NPR station, WILL-AM 580 with host David Inge, discussing the unique balance between medical malpractice and apologies from caregivers.
Blogging and Web-based Activities
Active contributor on “The Volokh Conspiracy”
Eric Johnson
Articles
“Doctrine’s Role in Criminal Statutory Interpretation: Some Thoughts on United States v. Figueroa,” 9 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. (forthcoming 2010) (invited symposium contribution on the subject of Justice Sotomayor’s appointment).
“Is the Idea of Objective Probability Incoherent?,” 29 L. & Phil. (forthcoming 2010) (invited comments from symposium commemorating publication of Crime and Culpability by Larry Alexander & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan).
Presentations
“Probability and Perspective in Criminal Law and Procedure,” presented at Northwestern University Law School, Chicago, Illinois, November 5, 2009.
“Probability and Perspective in Criminal Law and Procedure,” presented at the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 29, 2009.
“Probability and Perspective in Criminal Law and Procedure,” presented at Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, October 23, 2009.
“What Crimes Are Made of: Toward a Taxonomy of Objective Elements,” presented at University of Illinois College of Law faculty workshop, Champaign, Illinois, October 15, 2009.
Current Research
“Objective Risk in Criminal Law:” This paper, which is nearing completion, addresses the question how courts go about calculating the probability of harm in prosecutions for crimes of recklessness and criminal negligence. The paper argues that courts usually calculate the probabilities the basis of what the actor knew of the facts, rather than on the basis of what the actor believed or on the basis of what a reasonable person in the actor’s place would have believed.
“What Crimes Are Made of: Toward a Taxonomy of Objective Elements:” This paper argues that it is possible for courts to classify the objective elements of crimes systematically according to their functions, and that these classifications can tell the courts something important in relation to the (frequently litigated) question whether a particular element requires a mental state.
Richard Kaplan
Articles
“Retirees at Risk: The Precarious Promise of Post-Employment Health Benefits” in vol. 9, no. 2 of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, a peer-reviewed publication of the Yale Law School, the Yale School of Medicine, the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Yale School of Nursing (co-authored with Nicholas Powers ’03 and Jordan Zucker ’06).
“To Roth or Not to Roth: Analyzing the Conversion Opportunity for 2010 and Beyond” in the BNA Daily Tax Report.
Presentations
He was a featured presenter on “Significant Developments in Individual Income Taxation” at the Illinois Tax Conference in Chicago and at the Indiana Tax Institute in Indianapolis, where he also presented a workshop on “To Roth or Not to Roth: Now Is the Question.” Professor Kaplan addressed “Medicare After Obama’s Healthcare” to the Social Science Club of Champaign and Urbana and “The Increasing Diversity of the Aging” to the World Study Group on Elder Law.
Press Room
Taxation of College Athletics: “Does big-time college football deserve its big tax breaks?”Austin American-Statesman (Dec. 26)
Roth IRA Conversion Opportunity: Inside Illinois (Oct. 26)
Social Security Benefit Freeze: Interview “A Minute With . . .” featured on the Illinois campus homepage (Oct. 1).
Family Caregiver Agreements: The Futurist (Sept.-Oct. 2009), page 2, brief article about Professor Kaplan’s work on family caregiver agreements.
End-of-Life Counseling: Interview “A Minute With . . .” featured on the Illinois campus homepage (Aug. 27).
Retiree Health Care Benefits: United Press International (UPI, Aug. 19) Science Centric (Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 19) -- A nearly two-decade trend that is stripping away employer-provided health-care benefits for retirees in private business will likely continue and could soon hit an even deeper pool of government retirees, says U. of I. law professor Richard L. Kaplan. The world-wide story also appeared in Science Centric (Sofia, Bulgaria), e! Science News (Quebec City, Aug. 19), News-Medical.net (Bexhill-on-Sea, England, Aug. 19), PhysOrg.com (Douglas, Isle of Man, Aug. 18), RedOrbit.com (Dallas, Aug. 19), Times of the Internet (from United Press International; Cleveland, Aug. 19), The National Science Foundation newsletter, and the front-page cover story in Inside Illinois (Aug. 18).
Taxation of Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Interview “A Minute With . . .” featured on the Illinois campus homepage (June 9).
Robin Kar
Articles
"On the Prospects of a Naturalized Jurisprudence" in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. This piece reviews Brian Leiter's book, "Naturalizing Jurisprudence" and discusses the broader scope and prospects for this type of philosophical program in jurisprudence.
Presentations
Invited to speak on a special session at Vanderbilt, co-sponsored by the Gruter Institute and the Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law, on "Evolution, Morality, and Biolegal History" to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's death. I presented a work in progress, entitled "Evolution, Biological History and the Deep Structure of Law."
Invited by Brian Leiter to speak at the University of Chicago, at a conference entitled "Rethinking the Genealogy of Morals."
Public talk on Justice Sotomayor and the Supreme Court on Constitution Day last term with Andy Leipold, Eric Johnson, and Dan Hamilton.
Attended the Chicago/Darwin 2009 Conference, which commemorated the 200th anniversary of Darwin's death with a series of scientific and philosphical-historical talks on Darwin's legacy.
Presentation at the Gruter Institute's Annual Conference on Law and Human Behavior on Evolution and Morality, summer 2009.
Forthcoming presentations
"The Second Person Standpoint and the Law," at the Faculty Workshop series of the University of Illinois Philosophy Department and College of Law. This piece is forthcoming in the Philosophy Compass, a peer-reviewed journal published by Blackwell.
Honors
Awarded the Second Annual Junior Faculty Writing Prize for Texas Law Review article, "The Deep Structure of Law and Morality."
Named to the Board of the Society for the Evolutionary Analysis of Law.
Named to the Executive Board of Legal Theory.
Press room
Appeared on local television and on "Illinois Law" to discuss Justice Sotomayor's appointment.
Jay Kesan
Articles
“The Political Economy of the Patent System,” with A. Gallo, 87 N.C. L. Rev. 1341 (symposium issue) (2009).
“Transferring Innovation,” 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2169 (symposium issue) (2009).
Book chapters
“Improving Access to Government Information with Open Standards for Document Formats,” with R. Shah, in Handbook of Research on ICT Enabled Transformational Government: A Global Perspective (V. Weerakkody, M. Janssen, and Y.K. Dwivedi, eds., IGI Global 2009), pp. 163-174
“Taking Stock and Looking Ahead: The Future of U.S. Patent Law,” a chapter in The Future of the Patent System, Edited Volume Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP), Tokyo, Japan, 2009
Presentations
“Incentivizing Second Generation Biofuels,” at the Second Summer Institute on Intellectual Property at Drake University.
“A Study of the Role and Impact of Special Masters in Patent Cases,” at the Works-In-Progress in Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Conference at Seton Hall University School of Law.
“An Economic Evaluation of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Biofuel Program: An Industrial Policy Approach” at The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Law and Economics Association at Notre Dame Law School.
"Laws of Creation: Property Rights in the World of Ideas” and "Empirical Studies of Patent Litigation” at the Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth at Northwestern University.
“Different Strategies for Domain Name Dispute Resolution in an International Environment,” with A. Gallo, Symposium on Signifiers in Cyberspace: Domain Names & Online Trademarks at Case Western Reserve University.
“An Economic Analysis of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)—Expectations and Reality,” (with A. Ohyama) at a College of Law Faculty Workshop.
“A Perspective by Judges and Practitioners on Planning, Presenting, and Winning Your Patent Case” at the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference in New Orleans.
“Social Networking Issues” at Creighton University.
Current Research
Professor Kesan continues to research patent law issues, such as whether judicial specialization improves accuracy and efficiency in resolving patent disputes. Professor Kesan is also conducting an empirical study at the request of the Federal Judicial Center on whether Special Masters improve the adjudication of patent disputes and is studying the how the Renewable Fuel Standard passed by Congress is impacting first generation and second generation ethanol producers and how open standards in information technology are affecting innovation and interoperability.
Honors and Grants Received
Professor Kesan and Bryan Endres received a fourth-year renewal for 2011 ($275,000) of their earlier grant from the Energy Biosciences Institute to continue their studies on “Biofuel Law and Regulation.”
Charlotte Ku, Assistant Dean for International and Graduate Programs
Book
“The Dynamics of International Law” (Cambridge University Press 2010) (with Paul F. Diehl).
Presentations
“Creating and Sustaining Information Networks: The Role of the Professional Association and Learned Society in the United States,” at the China-United States Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries in Beijing, China.
Organized and participated in The Center on Law and Globalization Colloquium on Sexual Violence as International Crime: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Evidence, The Hague, The Netherlands.
“Converging Governance Systems and International Law” at the Regional Colloquium on Globalization of Law, International Organizations, and International Law, International Organization and International Law Working Group at Northwestern University.
“LLM Advantage: Introducing the Foreign Graduate Law Student to the Study of Law in the United States,” at the Annual Meeting of University of Illinois Graduate Directors
“The Dynamics of International Law,” at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan.
Boards
Editorial Board, Global Governance
Editorial Board, International Studies Perspectives
Council on Foreign Relations, Advisory Committee on United Nations Security Council Reform and U.S. National Interests
Board of Directors, International Judicial Academy, Washington, DC
Strategic Planning Committee, International Studies Association
University of Illinois Education Abroad Task Force, 2009
Wayne LaFave
Books
“Criminal Procedure,” 5th ed., with Profs. Israel, King & Kerr.
“Principles of Criminal Procedure: Investigation,” 2nd ed., with Profs. Israel, King & Kerr.
“Principles of Criminal Procedure: Post-Investigation,” 2nd ed., with Profs. Israel, King & Kerr.
“Criminal Procedure and the Constitution” (2009 edition), with Profs. Israel, Kamisar & King.
2009 Supplement to “Modern Criminal Procedure,” “Basic Criminal Procedure” and “Advanced Criminal Procedure,” with Profs. Kamisar, Israel, King & Kerr.
2009-2010 Pocket Parts for “Search and Seizure” treatise, 4th ed. (6 vols.).
2009-2010 Pocket Parts for “Substantive Criminal Law” treatise, 2d ed. (3 vols.).
2009-2010 Pocket Parts for “Criminal Procedure” treatise, 3d ed. (7 vols.), with Profs. Israel, King & Kerr.
Articles
“The Smell of Herring: A Critique of the Supreme Court’s Latest Assault on the Exclusionary Rule, 99 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 757 (2009).
Robert Lawless
Books
Empirical Methods in Law, co-authored with University of Illinois law professors Jennifer Robbennolt and Thomas Ulen, was released by Aspen Publishing.
Presentations
September speech at the Hudson Valley (New York) Bankruptcy Bar Association’s annual meeting
Press Room
The Des Moines Register (Iowa, Jan. 7) -- Bankruptcies aren’t a direct measure of economic pain, because many people who lose jobs or get behind on mortgages never file for bankruptcy, says Bob Lawless, a law professor at Illinois. The pace of bankruptcy filings nationally appears to be slowing, even though there were about 1.4 million last year. “Bankruptcy filings are actually starting to slow down,” Lawless said. “It’s a weak indicator of economic conditions. It’s not the bellwether that people often take it for.”
Honors and Grants Received
In October, he attended the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges to receive the 2009 Editor’s Prize for best article in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal for his co-authored work, “Did Bankruptcy Reform Fail: An Empirical Study of Consumer Debtors.
Andrew Leipold
Articles
Prosecutorial Charging Practices and Grand Jury Screening: Some Empirical Observations, in Grand Jury 2.0: Modern Perspectives on the Grand Jury (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2010).
A Case for Negligence -- Review of Alexander & Ferzan, Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law, Law & Philosophy (forthcoming, 2010) (book review).
Guest Editor, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 7 No. 2 (forthcoming Spring 2010).
2010 Supplements, Volumes 1 and 1A, Wright & Leipold, Federal Practice & Procedure: Criminal.
Against Jury Nullification, in Criminal Law Conversations (Robinson et al., eds., Oxford 2009).
Presentations
Speaker, Perspectives on Judicial Decisionmaking, Illinois Advanced Judicial Academy (June 2009).
Commentator, Probability and Perspective in Criminal Law and Procedure by Eric Johnson, University of Illinois College of Law Faculty Retreat (May 2009).
Speaker, Why Not Criminal Negligence?, at Conference on Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law, by Larry Alexander et al. Chicago, IL (May 2009).
Commentator, Intelligence Reform and Local Security Partnerships in France, at Conference “Transatlantic Perspectives on the Local Pursuit of Intelligence,” University of Illinois College of Law (April 2009).
Prosecutorial Charging Practices and Grand Jury Screening: Some Empirical Observations, Capital Law School (March 2009).
Speaker, Ethics Reform, at Conference “Why Lawyers Matter: Prosecutors and Ethics,” University of Illinois College of Law (March 2009).
Lectures to the China Executive Leadership Program, 2009.
Honors and Grants Received
Selected Outstanding Faculty Member by the graduating class, 2009.
Boards
Continue to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Peter Maggs
Books
“Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation,” 4th Ed. (Huntington, N.Y.: Juris Publishing, 2009) (With co-authors William Burnham and Gennady Danilenko).
“Internet and Computer Law: Cases, Comments, Questions, 3rd ed. (West, 2010)(with co-authors John Soma and James Sprowl).
“Civil Code of the Russian Federation, 4th ed.” (Moscow, 2010)(with co-translator Aleksei Zhiltsov).
Completed the first draft of the book “Trademark, Unfair & Consumer Protection” (West, 2010) (with co-author Roger Schechter), and has begun a book on the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Articles
"Unconscionability of the Arbitration Clause" (scheduled for publication in Brazil and Russia).
Presentations
Professor Maggs sat as an arbitrator with the International Commercial Arbitration Court of
the Chamber of Commerce of the Russian Federation in an international dispute.
Upcoming Presentations
Scheduled to testify in February as an expert witness in the largest civil claim ever heard in a British court.
David Meyer
Books
“ Contemporary Family Law” (West Publishing, 2009) (with Douglas E. Abrams, Naomi R. Cahn, and Catherine J. Ross)
Press Room
Chicago Tribune (Jan. 23) -- Language added to an Illinois law this month includes virtual visitation among the rights of noncustodial parents, making it enforceable by a judge. According to the measure, parents are entitled to electronic visits unless the court believes that contact would be harmful to the child. The law is similar to a handful passed in other states over the last six years, according to U. of I. law professor David Meyer. Also: Parenting Central (Canada, Jan. 30); Best Syndication (Pinon Hills, Calif., Jan. 30), Buffalo News (from the Chicago Tribune; New York, Jan. 30).
Michael Moore
Books
“Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics” was published by the Oxford University Press in January, 2009. The book printed out to 630 pages and has received good preliminary reviews. The book has thus far attracted five live symposiums devoted exclusively to it (at Oxford University, Rutgers University, the Australian National University in Canberra, Girona University in Spain, and Aachen University in Germany) as well as a symposium issue devoted to it by Cambridge University’s journal, Legal Theory.
“Foundations of the Criminal Law” (Oxford, 1999). This co-edited volume (Katz, Moore, Morse) has been reprinted by Foundation Press, and is scheduled to be revised for a second edition.
“The Causal Efficacy of Intentions,” in Walter Sinnott Armstrong and Lynn Nadel eds., Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet (Oxford University Press, 2009).
“Intention as a Marker of Moral Responsibility and Legal Punishability,” in Antony Duff and Stuart Green, eds., The Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2010).
“Recent Challenges to the Causal Theory of Action,” in J.H. Agular and A.A. Buckareff, eds, Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action (MIT Press, a Bradford Book, 2010).
“Criminal Law: Cases and Materials,” Foundation Press, to be submitted. This is the radically different theoretical casebook co-edited with Stephen Morse (Penn), Heidi Hurd (Illinois), Leo Katz (Penn), Gideon Yaffe (USC), Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden), Ken Simons (Boston University), Doug Husak (Rutgers-New Brunswick), Claire Finkelstein (Penn), Larry Alexander (San Diego), Peter Westen (Michigan), Chris Kutz (Berkeley), and Mitch Berman (Texas).
“ Act and Crime,” originally published by OUP in 1993, 2d edition scheduled to be issued in paper, August 2010, along with new paperback editions of Placing Blame, and Causation and Responsibility, all in matching covers.
“New Essays in Criminal Law Theory” (with Heidi Hurd), a collection of previously uncollected essays, some co-authored with Hurd, some solo by each of us; submitted to OUP-Oxford.
“Causation in the Law,” scheduled to be published in J. Deigh and D. Dolinko, eds., Oxford Handbook for Philosophy and the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Articles
“Editor’s Introduction: The Nature of Singularist Theories of Causation,” was published in January, 2009, The Monist, Vol. 92 (2009), 3-22, the oldest philosophy journal published in English.
“Counterfactual Dependence as a Non-Causal Desert-Determiner,” published in the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Vol. 34 (2009), pp. 1-52.
“A Tale of Two Theories,” Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 28 (2009), pp. 27-48 (a review essay on Douglas Husak’s book, Overcriminilization).
“Intention, Responsibility, and the Challenges of Recent Neuroscience,” Stanford Technology Law Review (Feb. 16, 2009).
“Blaming the Stupid, Clumsy, Selfish, and Weak: The Culpability of Negligence,” with Heidi Hurd, scheduled for publication in a festschrift volume for Tony Duff, Rowan Cruft, Matt Kramer, and Mark Reiff, eds., Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility, Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Free Will Revisited,” a paper to be published in Social Philosophy and Policy, 2011.
“Intention as a Marker of Moral Responsibility and Legal Liability,” an overview of the role of intentions in determining moral responsibility and legal liability; this paper is completed and is shortly to be published in Antony Duff and Stuart Green, eds., The Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2010).
“The Causal Efficacy of Intentions,” a paper on the challenges to the common sense and legal view that intentions are the immediate cause of voluntary behavior; this paper was completed in Jan., 2009, for publication in Walter Sinnott Armstrong and Lynn Nadel eds., Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2010).
“Recent Challenges to the Causal Theory of Action,” a paper criticizing the view that personal agency cannot be reduced to causation by mental states of belief, desire, intention; to be published in J.H. Agular and A.A. Buckareff, eds, Causing Human Action: New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action (MIT Press, a Bradford Book, 2010).
“Intention, Responsibility, and the Challenges of Recent Neuroscience,” a paper expanding (b) above, published electronically in the Stanford Technology Law Review (Feb. 2009).
Works in Progress
“Free Will Revisited,” a paper asking whether neuroscience changes the challenge presented by determinism generally; to be published in Social Philosophy and Policy, 2011.
Presentations
Comment to the University of Illinois Roundtable on the new book by Alexander, Ferzan, and Morse on criminal law theory in Chicago.
Book launch for his book, Causation and Responsibility, sponsored by the Oxford University Press in Oxford; one day seminar with commentators from law, ethics, and the philosophy of science.
Annual Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference, King’s College, London.
Comment on Suja Thomas’ paper, Faculty Retreat, College of Law.
Annual MacArthur Foundation meeting of both research networks of the Law and Neuroscience Project, Santa Barbara.
Soros Foundation Lectures on Criminal Law Theory in Moscow.
Chicago, MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Research Network Conference.
Champaign/Urbana, 19th Annual Center for Advanced Study Lecture, “Mechanical Brains and Responsible Choices.”
San Diego, USD Roundtable on Tort Theory.
University of Illinois Philosophy Dept. Colloquium on “Recent Challenges to the Causal Theory of Action.”
Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Lecture on “Moral Luck,” sponsored by the National Institute of Health.
Law and Philosophy Institute of Rutgers University, Conference on Ignorance of Law as an Excuse, Camden, New Jersey.
Commentary on Alexander and Ferzan, on Negligence, Faculty Workshop, Rutgers University Law School, Camden, NJ.
Lectures on the role of causation in responsibility assessments, and on the nature of causal tests in the Anglo-American law of torts, to the Conference on Moore’s Causation and Responsibility, Girona University, Girona, Spain.
Upcoming Presentations
Lecture to the Institute for Legal Philosophy and Public Affairs, Freiburg University, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany (March, 2010).
Reply by author, to the three day symposium on Moore’s Causation and Responsibility, a joint venture of various German universities, Aachen Germany (March, 2010).
Annual meeting, MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Project Research Networks, Santa Barbara (May, 2010).
Lecture to the Faculty of Law, Australian National University, Canberra (May, 2010).
Lectures on the Limits of the Criminal Law in a Liberal Society, Uganda Christian University, Uganda (July, 2010).
Lectures to the Soros Foundation Seminar on Human Rights, Lviv University, Lviv, Ukraine (August, 2010).
Reply by author, to the Rutgers University Institute for Law and Philosophy Conference on Moore’s Causation and Responsibility, Camden, New Jersey (August, 2010).
Lectures to Torceato di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina (November, 2010).
Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, paper to Conference on New Essays in Political and Social Philosophy (November, 2010).
Lecture on Law and Morality in Contemporary Legal Philosophy, Bologna University, Bologna, Italy (May, 2011).
Plenary paper to the conference on Criminalization, UK Arts and Human Research Council, Stirling University, Scotland (September, 2011).
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, lead paper to conference on Truth and Law, Mexico City (November, 2011).
Soros Foundation Legal Theory in Russia Project, August 2007 to August 2009. Professor Moore (with Professor Hurd) taught the general theory of the criminal law in July/August 2009, in Moscow and has agreed to sign onto another 3 year series of seminars with the Soros Foundation. These will be held at Lviv University, Lviv, Ukraine, and will be with a fresh group of 25 young professors of law, philosophy, and political science drawn from the countries comprising the former Soviet Union.
Torceato di Tella University, Buenos Aires. Lectures in legal philosophy or criminal law theory (October, 2010.
Australian National University, Canberra. Research fellow position ( Jan. – July, 2010).
Uganda Christian University, Uganda, Lectures tentatively scheduled for summer, 2010
Sociedad Filosofica Ibero Americana (“SOFIA”), the annual get together in Mexico City or Huatulco; invited to give one of the six lead papers at the Jan. 2010 meeting on the philosophy of action.
Honors and Grants Received
Lifetime member, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois
Boards
Editor in chief, Law and Philosophy, since 2001.
MacArthur Foundation Law and Neuroscience Research Group, October 2007 to October 2010, with extension possible. Professor Moore was formerly head (with John Cacioppo of the U. Chicago) of the intentions and brain states research group. He has now joined the Research Network on Responsibility, Addiction, and Diminished Brains and serves as co-chair (with Stephen Morse of Penn) of the Responsibility Research group. In this connection, Professor Moore has attended the Research Network meeting in New York City, Network meeting in Santa Monica, and several annual meetings of both networks.
Shannon Moritz
Presentations
“Laughing Matters: Using Humor in the Legal Writing Classroom” at The First Colonial Frontier Legal Writing Conference at Duquesne University School of Law on December 5, 2009.
“LL.M. Advantage: Introducing the Foreign Graduate Law Student to the Study of Law in the U.S” (with Charlotte Ku) at the 2009 Annual Workshop for Directors of Graduate Study and Graduate Contacts on October 13, 2009, hosted by the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The presentation was part of the session on Best Practices by Directors of Graduate Study.
Andrew Morriss
Articles
“Change, Dependency, and Regime Plasticity in Offshore Financial Intermediation: The Saga of the Netherlands Antilles” (with Craig M. Boise), 45 Texas International Law Journal 377-456 (2009).
“Changing the Rules of the Game: Offshore Financial Centers, Regulatory Competition & Financial Crises,” 15 Nexus: Chapman’s Journal of Law and Policy (invited symposium piece) (forthcoming 2010).
“Regulatory Competition and Offshore Finance” (AEI Press, forthcoming 2010)
“Symbol or Substance? An Empirical Assessment of State Responses to Kelo,” Supreme Court Economic Review 237-278 (2009).
“Advocating Autarky: A Flaw in Green Jobs Policy Proposals as They Pertain to Renewable Energy” (with William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak, and Roger E. Meiners), 5 Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, & Energy Law 155-164 (forthcoming 2010).
“Disestablishing Environmentalism” (with Benjamin Cramer), 39 Environmental Law 309-396 (2009).
“Borders & the Environment” (with Roger E. Meiners), 39 Environmental Law 141-192 (2009).
“Politics & Property in Natural Resources,” 26(2) Social Philosophy & Policy (Summer 2009) and The Environment: Philosophy & Policy (Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, & Jeffrey Paul, eds.) (Cambridge Univ. Press forthcoming 2009).
“Green Jobs Myths” (with William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak, & Roger E. Meiners), 16 Missouri Environmental Law & Policy Review 326-473 (2009).
“Green Jobs: Boom or Bust?,” PERC Reports (Summer 2009) (with William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak, & Roger E. Meiners).
“Putting Law First: Richard Epstein’s Contribution to Law & Economics,” in Pioneers in Law & Economics (Lloyd Cohen & Joshua Wright, eds.) (Edward Elgar, 2009).
“The Rise and Fall of Curacao’s Offshore Financial Center,” The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty 36-39 (October 2009).
“From Moscow to Detroit: Two Economies, Two Tales,” Books & Culture: A Christian Review (2009).
Assorted articles in the Cayman Financial Review, including a lead editorial.
Books
“The Myth of Green Jobs” (with William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak, & Roger E. Meiners) (Cato Institute, forthcoming 2010).
The 2nd edition of “Property Stories” (ed. with Gerald Korngold).
“Moral Choice, Wizardry, Law & Liberty: A Classical Liberal Reading of the Role of Law in the Harry Potter Series,” in Harry Potter and the Law (Jeffrey Thomas, ed.) (Carolina Academic Press, 2010).
“The Forties in America” (Salem, forthcoming 2010), articles on Economic Regulations of the U.S. during World War II; Emergency Price Control Act of 1942; Our Plundered Planet by Fairfield Osborn; Yakus v. United States.
“Iceland, Booms and Busts: An Economic Encyclopedia” (Golson 2009).
“Encyclopedia of Business in Today’s World” (Sage 2009), articles on Comparative Advantage, Confidentiality, Import Substitution, Offshoring, Tax Haven.
“Historical Encyclopedia of American Business & Finance” (Salem 2009), articles on California Gold Rush, DDT Ban, Energy Crisis (1970s).
Presentations
Taught the Asia Institute for Political Economy, jointly sponsored by Hong Kong University, Georgetown, and the Fund for the American Studies in Hong Kong.
Lectures on common law in Shanghai, Weihai (at Shandong University), and Wuhan (at Central China University of Science and Technology).
Panel discussant at SEALS on the future of legal education.
Taught a short course on The Law and Economics of Financial Crises at the University of Alabama School of Law.
Speaker at Chapman Law School, the Stuarts International Funds Conference in Grand Cayman, University of Florida, and Louisiana State University.
Testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Press Room
Published more than 50 OpEds in newspapers worldwide, including “The EPA wants to put a time bomb in America’s gas tank” (Chicago Tribune and more than 60 newspapers), “Cap-and-trade will raise prices and unemployment” (US and Canadian newspapers), “Ending ethanol subsidies will lower food prices dramatically” (US and Canadian newspapers), “Green Jobs Won’t Do Much to End Recession” (Associated Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer, many other news outlets), “Tapping Energy Reserves Will Help Spur Economic Recovery,” and “Windfall tax would make U.S. oil companies uncompetitive.”
Boards
Editorial Board for the Cayman Financial Review
Board member, Friends of the Hogar Rafael Ayau, a charity supporting an orphanage in Guatemala, currently launching a capital campaign.
Laurie Reynolds
Books
7th edition of “Cases and Materials on State and Local Government Law” (West 2009) (with Richard Briffault)
Articles
“Home Rule, Extraterritorial Impact, and the Region,” 86 University of Denver Law Review 1271-1302 (2009) (invited symposium piece, given at a conference on home rule sponsored by the University of Colorado’s Byron White Center on Constitutional Law and the University of Denver Law School)
“Full State Funding of Education as a State Constitutional Imperative,” 60 Hastings Law Journal 749-796 (2009).
Larry Ribstein
Books
Unincorporated Business Entities, Lexis/Nexis, 4th edition 2009 (with Lipshaw).
The Rise of the Uncoropration (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Articles and book chapter
Litigating in LLCs, 64 Bus. Law. 739 (2009).
Partnership Governance of Large Firms, 76 U. Chi. L. Rev. 289 (2009).
Reflections on Global Legal Centers, Best Practice: A Public Policy Journal for Hong Kong, (Autumn, 2009), Vol. 1, no. 3, at 25.
The Non-Uniformity of Uniform Laws, (with Kobayashi), 35 J. Corp. L. 327 (2009) (with Kobayashi).
The Single-License Solution, 31 Regulation, n. 4, 36 (Winter, 2008-2009)
Henry Manne: Intellectual Entrepreneur, in Pioneers Of Law And Economics (Lloyd R. Cohen and Joshua D. Wright, eds.,. Elgar Publishing, 2009).
Presentations
Moderator, Bankruptcies or Bailouts, Federalist Society Faculty Conference, January 8, 2010.
Law and economics of choice of law, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Conflict of Laws Section, January 8, 2010.
Managerial Tort Liability, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Agency-Partnership Section, January 9, 2010.
Jurisdictional Competition for LLCs, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (November 21, 2009).
Rise of the Uncorporation, presented in seminar on Theory of the Firm in Law and Economics, October 19, 2009.
Death of Big Law, University of Wisconsin, September 23, 2009; University of Illinois College of Law faculty workshop, October 1, 2009; Midwest Law & Economics annual conference, October 10, 2009.
Participant in Searle Public Policy Roundtable on Third Party Financing of Litigation, Northwestern Law School, September 24, 2009.
How movies created the financial crisis, keynote address, Conference on Business Law and Narrative, September 10, 2009.
Market for Conservation Law, Property and Environmental Research Center, Bozeman, Montana, July 29, 2009.
Participant, Federalist Society Colloquium on The Free Market and the Financial Crisis, New York, N.Y., July 9-10, 2009.
Works and presentations in progress
Are Partners Agents?
Close Corporations in the Age of LLCs, for Western New England College School of Law Conference on “Fiduciary Duties in the Closely Held Corporation 35 Years after Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home,” October 15, 2010.
Conflict of Laws and Choice of Law (November 3, 2009) (with O’Hara), forthcoming Elgar’s Encyclopedia of Law and Economics.
Constitutional rights of corporations, for Stanford Constitutional Law Center's mini-conference on the constitutional rights of corporations, March 5, 2010.
Death of Big Law (latest draft, January 31, 2010).
The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising (December 13, 2006) (with Klick and Kobayashi).
How Movies Created the Financial Crisis (November 1, 2009), forthcoming Michigan State Law Review, Winter 2009.
Incorporating the Hendricksons (January 19, 2010), forthcoming Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, prepared for Conference on For Love or Money, Washington University School of Law, March 25, 2010.
Jones v. Harris, article on Supreme Court’s decision for Cato Supreme Court Review.
Jurisdictional Competition for Limited Liability Companies (with Kobayashi) (July 9, 2009).
Managerial Tort Liability (January 4, 2010).
Preemption as Micromanagement (January 2010), forthcoming in Business Lawyer.
A Single-License Approach to Regulating Insurance (with Henry Butler), (May 21, 2008).
The Uncorporation’s Domain (November, 2009), forthcoming Villanova Law Review.
Wall Street and Vine: Hollywood’s View of Business.
Press Room
The Economist: Professor Ribstein’s “Death of Big Law” featured in story on law firm downsizing
Excerpts from Professor Larry Ribstein’s paper, “Death of Big Law” are highlighted in The Economist in a recent story about law firm downsizing and the changing legal marketplace. In a recent paper, “The Death of Big Law”, Professor Ribstein argued that after decades without changing, law firms are likely to have an outburst of experimentation with different business models: even the venerable and lucrative “billable hour” method of charging clients is in doubt. The experimentation may include more firms abandoning their traditional partnership model to go public, following in the footsteps of an Australian law firm, Slater & Gordon, which went public in 2007.
New York Times, (Jan. 7) -- Regulatory guidelines say companies must disclose “any material pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business.” But when does a lawsuit rise above the routine? “It’s not crystal clear,” says U. of I. law professor Larry Ribstein. Judges and regulators “have provided a lot of guidance over the years, but there’s no ‘bright-line’ test and there’s always going to be some problems at the edges.”
Honors and boards
Recently assumed the role of Associate Dean for Research at the College of Law.
Blogging and Web-based Activities
Hosts “Ideoblog” and is a regular contributor to Forbes.com.
Jennifer Robbennolt
Books
“Empirical Methods in Law” (with Professors Lawless and Ulen). The text is based on the cross-disciplinary course taught by Professors Robbennolt, Lawless, and Ulen.
Article and book chapter
Co-authored “Resolving Disputes Over Childhood Vaccines, and Judicial Recusal: Can Judges Determine Their Impartiality?” in the American Psychological Association’s monthly publication, Monitor on Psychology.
“Multiple Constraint Satisfaction in Judging,” in The Psychology of Judicial Decision Making.
Presentations
Presentations at Northwestern University’s Law & Psychology Colloquium and at DePaul University’s Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy.
Press Room
Joined Professor Hyman on a January 7 “Focus 580” program on local NPR station, WILL-AM 580 with host David Inge, discussing the unique balance between medical malpractice and apologies from caregivers.
Jacqueline Ross
Presentations
Presented a paper in December, 2009 about new investigative powers against suspected terrorists at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg.
Presented a paper on "The Joint Analysis of Intelligence in Local Security Partnerships" at the law school of the University of Copenhagen and to a meeting of French police and Gendarmerie debating reform of the French intelligence apparatus.
Richard Ross
Works in Progress
Series of articles radiating out of “‘Filtering’ Legal Traditions in Early America and Early Modern Europe: The Judicial Laws of Moses, Civil Law, and Natural Law,” exploring the problem of “filtering” legal inheritances in early America and early modern Europe. In a variety of contexts, contemporaries examined legal traditions in order to distinguish provisions valid across different societies and time periods from provisions that were local and transitory and therefore not compulsory in the present.
Upcoming Presentations
Talks on “‘Filtering’ Legal Traditions in Early America and Early Modern Europe: The Judicial Laws of Moses, Civil Law, and Natural Law,” this spring at the Harvard Legal History Workshop, the Yale Legal History Forum, and the University of Pennsylvania Legal History Workshop.
Jamelle Sharpe
Presentations
Moderated a panel on Civil Procedure and Federal Courts at the Big Ten Untenured Conference in August 2009.
Nicola Sharpe
Articles
“Rethinking Board Function in the Wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis” for the Maryland Journal of Business and Technology Law (forthcoming 2010).
“Corporate Cooperation through Cost-Sharing” for the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review (forthcoming 2010).
Bruce Smith
Book
History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (Aspen Publishers, 2009)(with John Langbein and Renee Lettow Lerner).
Lawrence Solum
Articles
Indeterminacy, forthcoming in A Companion to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
The Unity of Interpretation, forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review
Incorporation and Originalist Theory, 18 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 409 (2009)
District of Columbia v. Heller and Originalism, 103 Northwestern University Law Review 923 (2009)
Models of Internet Governance in Internet Governance: Infrastructure and Institutions.
Forthcoming books
Introduction to civil procedure in the Oxford University Press series on American law
Originalism: For and Against from Cornell University Press
法理词典, the Mandarin translation of Solum’s Legal Theory Lexicon
Originalism Semantico, the Spanish translation of his Semantic Originalism.
Presentations
In Ankara in January, delivered a lecture to the International Law Congress in Ankara, Turkey called Remarks on Ideology and Character in Judicial Selection and the Rule of Law and a paper entitled, Virtue Jurisprudence: An Aretaic Theory of Law, to the law faculty at Ankara Üniversitesi.
Participated in a discussion of Human Rights and the Philosophy of Law at Maltepe University in Istanbul.
In November, spoke to the Advanced Course in Jurisprudence: Law, Interpretation and Rights at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy on Toolkits for Legal Theorists.
In October spoke at a Conference on the Place of Precedent in Objective Law, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, where he gave a paper entitled Precedent and Constitutional Construction.
In September, delivered a paper entitled The Unity of Interpretation at Justice for Hedgehogs: A Conference on Ronald Dworkin's Forthcoming Book at Boston University School of Law.
Also in September delivered a paper entitled Confucian Virtue Jurisprudence at the 24th World Congress, Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie in Beijing, China.
Delivered a series of lectures on Aristotelian and Confucian Virtue Jurisprudence at the National Institute for Advanced Study on Social Science at Fudan University in Shanghai, at Guanghua Law School, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, at Nanjing University Law School, and to the Beijing Society of Jurisprudence.
Forthcoming presentations
The annual McGlinchy Lecture at Tulane University’s School of Law on Can Living Constitutionalism Be Reconciled with Originalism?
The Interpretation-Construction Distinction at the University of San Diego, which was also the focus of the program of the Section on Constitutional Law of the Association of American Law Schools in early January and the subject of a faculty workshop presented by Professor Solum at the University of Tulsa College of Law in November.
Honors and boards
Selected Co-Director with Professor Kurt Lash of the Program in Constitutional Theory, History and Law at the College of Law.
Paul Stancil
Articles
“Close Enough for Government Work: The Committee Rulemaking Game,” forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review.
“Balancing the Pleading Equation” in the Baylor Law Review.
Presentations
“Close Enough for Government Work: The Committee Rulemaking Game” at the Midwestern Law & Economics Association Conference, the Junior Faculty Federal Courts Conference, the Washington University College of Law Junior Faculty Workshop and the Big Ten Untenured Faculty Conference.
“Balancing the Pleading Equation” at the Canadian Law & Economics Association and Midwestern Law & Economics Association.
“Assessing Interest Groups: A Playing Field Approach” at the Midwestern Law and Economics Conference and before law faculties at Virginia, Washington University, Florida State, Cincinnati, and Marquette.
Upcoming Presentations
Invited discussant at the Law & Society Association Annual Meeting on Stearns & Zywicki “Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law.”
Invited to present “Close Enough for Government Work: The Committee Rulemaking Game” at the upcoming Midwest Political Science Association National Conference.
Charles Tabb
Books
“The Law of Bankruptcy” (2nd ed. Foundation Press 2009)
“A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Indebted Global Society” (Ralph Brubaker, Robert M. Lawless & Charles J. Tabb eds.) (Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming 2010).
“Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies, and Practice” and comprehensive Teacher’s Manual (LexisNexis 3d ed., forthcoming 2010) (with Ralph Brubaker).
Presentations
American Bankruptcy Institute, “Legislative Symposium: Chapter 11 at the Crossroads,” Washington, D.C., Revisiting the Idea of a Mandatory Trustee, November 2009.
National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, Chicago, Illinois “Exemptions,” June 2009
Charles Terry
Articles
“Tax-Leveraged Stimulus for the Equipment Leasing Industry” in Tax Notes Magazine
Current Research
Writing “Reforming the Tax Structure of Municipal Transit Leasing Finance” in advance of the 2010 Joint Forum of the Equipment Leasing Association (ELA) and the Association for Government Leasing Finance (AGLF). Professor Terry has received research resources from both organizations for his work.
Suja Thomas
Articles
“The New Summary Judgment Motion: The Motion to Dismiss Under Iqbal and Twombly,” which will be published in a symposium issue of the Lewis & Clark Law Review in 2010 and was featured prominently on a number of blogs including SCOTUSblog, How Appealing, Legal Theory Blog, Civil Procedure and Federal Courts Blog, and Workplace Prof Blog.
Presentations
“The New Summary Judgment Motion: The Motion to Dismiss Under Iqbal and Twombly” at the Fourth Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law at Seton Hall Law School.
Co-coordinated the “Originalism and the Jury Symposium” at The Ohio State University and presented “Congress and the Jury” at the symposium.
Wrote a solicited statement for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing “Has the Supreme Court Limited Americans’ Access to Courts?”
“Why the Motion to Dismiss Is Now Unconstitutional” at The Federalist Society Faculty Conference in New Orleans.
“Why Summary Judgment Is Unconstitutional” to the National Employment Lawyers Association in New Orleans.
“The New Summary Judgment Motion” paper during The Future of Summary Judgment panel, which was co-sponsored by the Section on Litigation and the Section on Civil Procedure at the AALS annual meeting in New Orleans.
Press Room
Wall Street Journal Law Blog (Dec. 14, 2009) In an article on the WSJ Law Blog on her new blog on giving, Professor Thomas was described as “a Seventh Amendment expert [who] has written a handful of controversial but well-received articles in recent years on whether certain common legal moves — like motions for summary judgment and dismissal — are constitutional.
Full-time visiting
Sean Anderson
Article
“Risky Retirement Business: How ESOPs Harm the Workers They Are Supposed to Help,” 41 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 1 (2009)
Presentations
“Toward a Contract Theory of ERISA Remedies” at Albany Law School, Rutgers School of Law-Newark and the College of Law.
“What Part of ‘Nothing’ Do You Find Confusing? Statutory Text, Harms Without Remedies, and ERISA Preemption” at the Big 10 Aspiring Scholars Conference.
Press Room
Interviewed on the nationally-syndicated television program, First Business, regarding Employee Stock Ownership Plans.
Sara Benson
Article
Failure to Arrest: A Pilot Study of Police Response to Domestic Violence in Rural Illinois,” 17 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 685
Press Room
Quoted in the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News on the federal trial based on a lawsuit challenging Proposition 8, the 2008 voter-approved initiative that restored California’s ban on same-sex marriages.
Emily Cauble
Current Research
Focused on the tax treatment of investment income earned by tax-exempt entities and other tax considerations faced by tax-exempt entities in the context of their investment activity.
Beth Burkstrand-Reid
Has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
Joe Yockey
Has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Article
“On the Role and Regulation of Private Negotiations in Governance,” forthcoming in the South Carolina Law Review.
Presentations
Presented the above paper at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the 2009 Big Ten Aspiring Scholars Conference, as well as at faculty workshops at Case Western Reserve University, George Mason University, Michigan State University, the University of Illinois, the University of Iowa, the University of Nebraska, and the University of Washington.
Courtesy Appointments
Glenn Hoetker
Julian Simon Faculty Fellow in Business, with courtesy appointments in Law and at the Institute for Genomic Biology and directs the Center for International Business Education and Research.
Current research
Focused on the governance of interfirm relationships, transfer of knowledge across firms, industries and regions, and the impact of national institutions--both formal (contracts, regulation) and informal (social norms, business groups).
With the Center for Law and Globalization and the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, CIBER has initiated an ongoing series of events looking at professional responsibility and compliance, hosting a fall conference focusing on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Articles
“Choice and performance of governance mechanisms: matching alliance governance to asset type” in Strategic Management Journal 30(10): 1025-1044 (with T. Mellewigt).
“The Effects of Liberalization on Litigation: Notes Toward a Theory in the Context of Japan” in 8 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 303 (with T. Ginsburg)
Articles under review
“Alliance experience and accommodation in the choice of alliance governance structure” in Strategic Management Journal (w J. Lee and W. Qualls)
“Configuration of value chain activities: The effect of pre-entry capabilities, transactions hazard and industry evolution on the decision to internalize” in Organization Science (with L. Qian and R. Agarwal)
“A concurrent reconceptualization of concurrent sourcing” in Strategic Management Journal (with A. Krzeminska and T. Mellewigt).
Presentations
“Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage: Implications of the Environment?,”“New Perspectives on Risk and Investment in the Developing World,” and “Scope, Boundary Choices and Profit Evolution over the Industry Life-Cycle at the 2009 Academy of Management
“New Political Economy Perspectives in International Business Research”
“Wounded goose? Japan’s place in Asia’s innovation ecosystem” at the 2009 Academy of International Business Annual Meeting.
Michael LeRoy
School of Labor & Employment Relations
Articles
“Do Partisan Elections of Judges Produce Unequal Results? When Courts Review Employment Arbitrations,” Iowa Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 4 (2010).
“Irreconcilable Deferences? The Troubled Marriage of Judicial Review Standards under the Steelworkers Trilogy and Federal Arbitration,” Journal of Dispute Resolution, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2010), symposium, University of Missouri School of Law.
“Revisiting Debt and Labor— Bailouts for Homeowners: Can the U.S. Compel Public Service in Exchange for Debt Relief?” Proceedings of the Sixty-Second Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Research Association, Vol. 62 (2010).
Press Room
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (Jan. 21) -- While a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision presented dramatic changes for federal campaign laws Thursday, one Illinois legal expert says it could raise serious concerns about the independence of the judiciary. Michael LeRoy, a U. of I. labor law expert, said his research suggests that the ruling could cause more money to flow into judicial campaigns and thus make judges more susceptible to political pressures.
PhysOrg (Douglas, Isle of Man, Jan. 13) -- A pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling could aggravate the influence of corporate campaign spending that already has skewed justice in some of the nation’s courts, warns U. of I. labor law expert Michael LeRoy. Professor Michael LeRoy says he found evidence that judges’ rulings are being swayed by campaign contributions from businesses, based on a new study of more than 200 state court cases. The study will appear in the Iowa Law Review.
Also: e! Science News (Quebec City, Jan. 13), Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (New Rochelle, N.Y., Jan. 13), R&D Magazine (Rockaway, N.J., Jan. 13).
Anna-Maria Marshall
Associate Professor of Sociology and Law
Book
Book chapter, "The Challenge of Law: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Social Movements” in the textbook, “Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law.”
Article and book chapter
“A Trial in the Life of the Environmental Justice Movement: USA v. Citgo” Studies in Law, Politics and Society 49: 97-120.
Chapter in the book entitled, “The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement, and the Challenge of Law.”
Adjuncts
Greg Adamski and Karen Conti, partners of Adamski & Conti, Chicago, were appointed Adjunct Professors of Radio Communication at Chicago's Columbia College and continue to produce and host the award-winning "Legally Speaking" on WGN Radio 720.
The Honorable David Bernthal, Federal Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, was appointed to the Advisory Group of Magistrate Judges, an advisory group of up to 11 Magistrate Judges from around the country. The appointment was made by James C. Duff, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Bruce Bonds, partner at Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allenco in Urbana, authored volume 27 of the Illinois Practice Series, “Illinois Workers’ Compensation” (West Publishing, 2009) and was named an “Illinois Super Lawyer” for 2010 as rated by his peers throughout the state.
The Honorable James Holderman, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, published, in collaboration with S. Ann Walls, “As Generations X, Y, and Z Determine the Jury's Verdict, What is the Judge's Role?,” 58 DePaul L. Rev. 343 (2009).
