Institute Faculty Activities 06-07

APRIL/MAY 2007

• Quoted in "Court backs employees who missed breaks," Los Angeles Times
  

• "Broadcast Technology as Diversity Opportunity: Exchanging Market Power for Multiplexed Signal Set-Asides," 59 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS LAW JOURNAL 1 (December 2006)
  

• Co-Chair, "Teaching Latin American Law - Themes, Approaches, Materials," Latin American Law Workshop, Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University Law School
  

• Panel Moderator, "Video in the Digital Age," Hot Topics in Intellectual Property, Duke University (remarks will be published in the DUKE LAW AND TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)
• Moderator, "The Court System and the Media," Armenian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Santa Monica
• Panelist, "Surgery on Dinosaurs: The Future of the Media Lawyer," 20th Annual Media and the Law Seminar, Lawrence, KS
  

• Presenter, "IP and Entertainment Law," Thomson-West Meeting
• Presenter, "Law of Ideas," ALI-ABA Annual Entertainment, Sports and Arts Program
• The Law of Ideas in NIMMER ON COPYRIGHT (LexisNexis, 2007)
• Speaker, "How Lawyers Use Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law Treatises and Books in the Day-to-day Practice of Law," West Publishing Company Sales Rep Meeting, Los Angeles
• Speaker, "The Law of Ideas," California CEB Program on Entertainment Industry Litigation, Los Angeles
• Speaker, "Ethics for Entertainment Lawyers" and "Motion Picture Production Issues," Entertainment Law 202, Chicago Bar Association and ABA Forum on Entertainment & Sports Law, Chicago, IL

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2007

• Spring 2007 Update, ENTERTAINMENT LAW: LEGAL CONCEPTS AND BUSINESS PRACTICES, 2nd ed. (with P. Acton, T. Selz and M. Simensky; Thomson/West, 2006)

JANUARY 2007

• Panelist, "Proposals for Reform," Reclaiming the First Amendment: Constitutional Theories of the Media Reform, Hofstra Law School, Hempstead, New York

• ENTERTAINMENT LAW: LEGAL CONCEPTS AND BUSINESS PRACTICES, 3rd ed., vol. 1, (with P.Acton, T. Selz and M. Simensky; Thomas/West, 2006)

• SCOTT ON OUTSOURCING: LAW AND PRACTICE (Aspen Publishers 2006)
• SCOTT ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW, 3rd ed. (Aspen Publishers 2006)

• Quoted in "They're not in concert: Wolfgang's Vault site opens a Pandora's box of copyright issue over rock performances," San Fransisco Chronicle

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2006

• Speaker, "Cost Recovery in the Post-Aviall World," Environmental Law Symposium, Los Angeles County Bar Association, Los Angeles, California

• Commentator, "The First Motif: The Late 1960s and 1970s Desegregation and Community Mobilization - The Courts and the Questioning of Institutions," The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966-2006: Text and Context, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium

• Moderator, "The First Motif: The Late 1960s and 1970s Desegregation and Community Mobilization - The Courts and the Questioning of Institutions," The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966-2006: Text and Context, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium

• Panelist, "Client Trust Accounts," California State Bar Annual Meeting, Monterey, California
• Panelist, "Ethical Obligations of Retained Defense Counsel," Mealey's LexisNexis, Construction Defect Insurance Coverage, Las Vegas, Nevada

• Moderator, "The Second Motif: Hollywood and Technology," The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966-2006: Text and Context, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium

• Commentator, "The Second Motif: Hollywood and Technology," The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966-2006: Text and Context, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium

• Speaker, "The Web 2.0 and Other New Licensing Methods," IFCLA Conference on IT LAW - The Global Future, International Federation of Computer Law Association, Amsterdam, Holland
• Panelist, "The Right of Privacy and the Government's Right To Know," Privacy Rights in the Internet Age, San Fernando Valley Bar Association, California State University at Northridge (CSUN)
• Co-Chair, roundtable discussion, "Suing the Spooks: NSA Litigation and the Future of Privacy," Southwestern Law School and the State Bar of California IP Section, Computer Law Committee, Southwestern Law School

• Chair-Elect, Forum Committee on the Entertainment & Sports Industries, ABA
• Introduction and Moderator, "Rights Deals," Legal and Business Issues in the Videogame Industry, conference co-sponsored by Southwestern and Loyola law schools, Loyola Law School
• Speaker, Lexis-Mealey's Conference on Copyright - From Traditional Concepts to the Digital Age, San Francisco, California
• Panelist, "Recent Developments in Copyright Law," California State Bar Intellectual Property Section Conference, Santa Barbara, California

OCTOBER 2006

• Panel Moderator, "Immigration, Identity, and the Potential for Social Change," 11th Annual Latino/a Critical Legal Studies Conference (LatCrit XI), UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law, Las Vegas
• Interviewed regarding the National Labor Relations Board's decision clarifying who is a "supervisor" and therefore ineligible for union representation, "Air Talk With Larry Mantle," KPCC

• Panelist, "The Next Big Thing: Hot Issues for 2007 and Beyond," Protecting the First Amendment in Challenging Times, Media Law Resource Center/National Association of Broadcasters/Newspaper Association of America Conference, Alexandria, Virginia
• Featured in "Take 2: How Former CNN CG David Kohler and Others Redirected Their Careers," GC South
• "Flag Burning Debate a Waste of Time," "Andrew Young's Speech Lesson," "Free Speech Put to the Test," Commentary Series, Fulton County Daily Report (American Lawyer Media, 2006)

SEPTEMBER 2006

• Eyes Off the Prize: Copyright Clearance and the Disappearance of One of Television's Cultural Treasures, 36:3 TELEVISION QUARTERLY 12 (2006)
• Presenter, Standards of Review of Administrative Decision Making and the Role of Deference in U.S. Telecommunications Law and Policy, U.K. Administrative Law Bar Association Conference, St. John's College of Cambridge University

• "The White House's 'nuclear option'" Commentary Series, Fulton County Daily Report (American Lawyer Media, August 2006)
• Quoted in "Even Burning Man Must Exist Within the Legal Matrix," Los Angeles Daily Journal

AUGUST 2006

• At the Intersection of Comic Books and Third World Working Conditions: Is It Time to Re-Examine the Role of Commercial Interests in the Regulation of Expression? 28 HASTINGS COMMUNICATIONS AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 145 (2006)
• "Beware: Attorney-Client Privilege May Be at Risk," "Challenge to Military Recruiters Raises Key First Amendment Issue," "Going Postal with Free Speech," "Its Own Worst Enemy" and "'Zero Tolerance' Restricts Free Speech: Some educators are curbing students' First Amendment rights as if Columbine is lurking around every corner," Commentary Series, Fulton County Daily Report (American Lawyer Media, 2005/2006)

• Quoted in "A coverup? Not so fast," Los Angeles Times (June 2006) (on the moral rights of mural artists)

ABA - American Bar Association
AALS - Association of American Law Schools
LACBA - Los Angeles County Bar Association
NALP - National Association for Law Placement