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• Donald H. Beskind

  • Professor Donald Beskind received the Distinguished Service Award from the Board of Governors of the American Association of Justice. The award was presented at AAJ's Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. (July 17, 2008)
     
  • At the American Association of Justice's Annual Meeting, Professor Donald Beskind delivered a paper on “Developing Themes in Jury Selection.”  (July 15, 2008)
     

• Curtis A. Bradley

  • Professor Curtis Bradley was recently elected to serve on both the American Society of International Law Executive Council and the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. (May 5, 2008)
     

• Paul D. Carrington

  • Professor Carrington delivered a presentation at the Conference on the Civil Consequences of Corruption, held at Universitat Bremen in Bremen, Germany. (March 1, 2008)
     
  • Professor Carrington delivered a presentation at the Institute of Bill of Rights, held at William and Mary Law School. (February 1, 2008)
     

• James D. Cox

  • Professor James D. Cox was honored recently by having an article he co-authored with Randall S. Thomas, “Does the Plaintiff Matter? An Empirical Analysis of Lead Plaintiffs in Securities Class Actions,” selected as Corporate Practice Commentator’s “Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2007.” (April 16, 2008)
     

• Richard A. Danner

  • Professor Danner was a panelist on program: “Law Library Journal at 100: The Evolution of a Publication,” American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, Porland, Oregon. (July 13, 2008)
     
  • Professor Richard A. Danner was recently honored by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) for his article “Redefining a Profession.” Originally published in Volume 90 of the Law Library Journal, a quarterly publication of the AALL, the piece was selected as one of the 25 “essential” articles published in the journal’s 100-year history. (March 11, 2008)
     

• Scott Dodson

  • Professor Scott Dodson gave a presentation entitled "Jurisdictional Rules and the Supreme Court" at the Civil Procedure Workshop at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools' Annual Meeting.
    
    (August 1, 2008)
     

• Robinson O. Everett

  • Professor Robinson Everett was honored by the American Bar Association's General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division during an ABA meeting in August for his service to the division and his distinguished career as a senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. (September 2, 2008)
     

• Joel L. Fleishman

  • Professor Joel L. Fleishman was recently honored with the American Bar Association's 2008 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award. (May 22, 2008)
     

• Andrew Foster

  • Professor Foster, currently the Associate Editor of the American Bar Association's Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, was the organizer and lead editor of the journal's upcoming issue, which will focus primarily on the subprime crisis. (June 10, 2008)
     

• Clark C. Havighurst

  • Professor Havighurst received a special lifetime achievement award from the Health Law Teachers section of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics at a meeting in Philadelphia (at the College of Physicians) on June 6. (June 6, 2008)
     
  • Professor Clark Havighurst gave the Regis J. Fallon Lecture on Health and Law at the University of Chicago School of Law.  His talk was entitled "Fairness in Health Care:  Who Pays? Who Benefits?"  The lecture series is conducted under the auspices of the University's Center of Health and Social Sciences. (April 24, 2008)
     

• Marty Lybecker

  • Speaker, Moving Securities Regulation Boxes in the 21st Century: The Department of Treasury Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure, Section of Administrative Law, ABA Annual Meeting, New York, New York. (August 8, 2008)
     
  • Discussant, How Do Mutual Funds Vote Their Proxies?, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C. (July 10, 2008)
     
  • Speaker, Regulation R, Knowledge Congress Teleseminar. (June 10, 2008)
     
  • Moderator and Speaker, Representing the Financial Services Client: Current Ethical Issues, ALI-ABA Teleseminar. (June 6, 2008)
     
  • Panelist, Election 2008: What It Will Mean for the Life Insurance Industry, Its Products, and Its Contract Owners, 2008 Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Conference, Association for   Insured Retirement Solutions, Washington, D.C. (June 2, 2008)
     
  • Speaker, The Intersection of Federal Securities Regulation and Banking, Banking Law II, ABA Fourth Annual National Institute, Chicago, Illinois. (May 8, 2008)
     
  • Professor Mary Lybecker gave a talk entitled, "Evolving Regulatory Oversight: The SEC, GLBA, Mutual Funds and More" at the 2008 Wealth Management and Trust Conference, Texas Bankers Association, Fort Worth, Texas. (March 28, 2008)
     

• Arti K. Rai

  • Professor Art Rai participated in the "Intellectual Property Policy and the Presidential Election: A Discussion on its Future by Leading Policy Advisors to the Candidates"  in Denver. The debate was part of the recent Democratic National Convention. Rai, along with Professor Chris Sprigman of the University of Virginia, represented the Obama campaign. (September 2, 2008)
     

• James Salzman

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    Professor Jim Salzman participated in a workshop in Lima, Peru, co-hosted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Katoomba Group.  He is a co-author for a report on the legal issues of payments for ecosystem services, with a particular focus on developing countries. (September 2, 2008)
     
  • Professor Jim Salzman is one of five international experts selected by the Asian Development Bank to work with the Chinese Ministry of the Environment as it drafts its Macro-Environmental Strategy.  He has participated in workshops in Beijing in May and July, and will participate in the formal launch of the report in October. (September 2, 2008)
     

• Steven L. Schwarcz

  • Professor Steven Schwarcz delivered the 2008 Roy R. Ray Lecture at Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law. (September 2, 2008)
     
  • Professor Steven Schwarcz was the Distinguished Speaker at the University of Tennessee's Corporate Governance Center. (September 2, 2008)
     
  • Professor Schwarcz recently gave expert testimony in the U.K. High Court of Justice, Chancery Division in a landmark international financial case on legal issues relating to tension between indenture-trustee duties to senior and subordinated investors and desire of seniors to foreclose on undervalued collateral. (July 4, 2008)
    » Link to transcript of testimony.
     

• Carol Spruill

  • Associate Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono Carol Spruill, along with co-author Kenn Schorr, was co-author of the Initial Report of the NC Equal Access to Justice Commission.
    (June 3, 2008)
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  • Carol Spruill, along with co-author Kenn Schorr, was co-author of the Initial Report of the NC Equal Access to Justice Commission.
    
    (June 3, 2008)
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• Michael E. Tigar

  • Professor Michael Tigar recently published a short article in the current ABA Journal, which is largely devoted to movies about law. (September 2, 2008)
     
  • Professor Michael Tigar, along with his wife Jane, are representing former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan in his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee about his assertions that top Bush administration officials misled him about their role in the leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. (June 10, 2008)
     

• Jane R. Wettach

  • Clinical Professor Jane Wettach participated in the inaugural Clinical Teaching Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center. The Institute was a week-long intensive study of clinical teaching theory and techniques. (July 29, 2008)
     

• Jonathan B. Wiener

  • Professor Jonathan Wiener delivered the opening address, "The Tragedy of the Uncommons,"  at the conference on Global Catastrophic Risks held at Oxford University, England. (July 18, 2008)
     
  • Professor Wiener gave a welcome talk at the Second World Congress on Risk in Guadalajara. Mexico. The conference is sponsored by the the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), of which Wiener is president. He also chaired the "Risk Leaders Summit" of the heads of SRA, as well as giving a talk on Global Climate Risks. (June 10, 2008)