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AUGUST 2007
PROFESSOR RONALD ARONOVSKY
- Reappointed, Executive Committee, and Appointed Vice Chair, Law School, Government and Public Interest Outreach Sub-Committee, Environmental Law Section, LACBA
- Moderator, Cost Recovery Litigation Roundtable, 12th Annual Spring Roundtables on Contaminated Sites, State Bar of California Environmental Law Section, San Diego
- Member, Organizing Committee and Speaker/Workshop Leader, Academic Assistance Workshop, LSAC, University of Miami School of Law, Miami, FL
- Acknowledged in Reconciling Strict Liability With Corrective Justice In Contract Law, 75 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 3013 (C. Bridgeman; 2007)
- Faculty, "International Sports Law," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, London, England
- Interviewed regarding employer crackdowns on personal Internet/email usage at work, NBC4 News
- Quoted, "Postal Service settles bias suit; The agency agrees to pay $61 million in a disability discrimination case filed by workers," Los Angeles Times
- Quoted, "Largest Disability Discrimination Suit Settled by Postal Service," Workplace Prof Blog
- Joint Marital Property in Indonesian Customary, Islamic, and National Law in ISLAMIC LAW APPLIED (with M. Feener; I.B Taurus, 2007)
- Faculty, "Comparative Constitutionalism," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, co-sponsored with University of New Mexico, Universidad de Guanajuato and Texas Tech, Guanajuato, Mexico
- Participant, Editorial Workshop for ISLAMIC LAW APPLIED, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School
- Presenter, "The Indonesian Human Rights Court," Conference on New Courts in Asia, Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives of the University of Victoria and the Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Participant, Accreditation Committee Meeting, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Kalispell, MT
- Presenter, "Opening the Box - Getting a Handle on Site Evaluation Materials," New Site Evaluators' Workshop on Podcast, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Site Evaluator, Villanova University School of Law and St. Thomas University Law School Summer Abroad Programs, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Rome, Italy
- Featured in "Reengineering the J.D. Curriculum," The ABA Journal
- The Group Dynamics Theory of Executive Compensation, 28 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 2025 (2007)
- Faculty, "International and Comparative Media Law," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, London, England
- Program Director, Southwestern's Summer Law Program, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Quoted in "Former Spector attorney in a rare bind, faces jail," Daily News, San Diego Union Tribune and Copley News Service
- CRIMINAL EVIDENCE, 5th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2006)
- International Strategies and Local Transformations: Preliminary Observations of the Position of Law in the Field of State Power in Asia in RAISING THE BAR: THE EMERGING LEGAL PROFESSION IN EAST ASIA (with Y. Dezalay; W. Alford, ed.; Harvard University Press, 2007)
- Appointed, Board of Governors, Beverly Hills Bar Association
- Faculty, "Globalization and the Transformation of Roles of Lawyers and Law in Latin America," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Keynote Speaker, The Legal Education Conclave Committee, Bloomington Indiana
- Presenter, "Legal Elites and the Construction of the State: From Colonialism to International Human Rights," Universidad de Palermo Faculty of Law, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Y. Dezalay)
- Presenter and Panelist, "Lawyers in the Field of State Power" and other panels, Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
- Featured in "Preparing young lawyers for law practice; Conclave to examine how bar, academia can better work together," The Indiana Lawyer
- Recipient (with Prof. Emeritus L. Sullivan), Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for THE LAW OF ANTITRUST: AN INTEGRATED HANDBOOK, 2nd ed. (2006), Trustees of the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Charitable Trust
- This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us - Or is it? Reflections on Copyright, the First Amendment and Google's Use of Other's Content, 2007 DUKE LAW & TECHNOLOGY REVIEW 5 (2007)
- "Government's involvement in television programming and privacy suit could impede First Amendment rights," Fulton County Daily Report (American Lawyer Media, 2007)
- Moderator, 9th Circuit Judicial Conference on Secrecy in the Electronic Age, Honolulu, HI
- Presenter, "Indecent Exposure and Other Content Malfunctions: The FCC's New Crusade Against Sex and Violence on Television," CLE presentation, Warner Bros., Burbank
- "Let market set free speech limits," Creative Voices (Newstex Web Blogs)
- HEALTHY CITIES - THE INTERSECTION OF URBAN PLANNING, LAW AND HEALTH (Carolina Academic Press, 2007)
- Urban Planning and the American Family, 36 STETSON LAW REVIEW 67 (2006) (lead symposium article)
- Faculty, "Comparative Urban Planning Law," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Presenter, "Law of Podcasts" and "Law Student Note Sharing - Websites, Copyright and Learning Styles," Legal Education and IT: Mirage or Oasis? 17th Annual Conference for Law School Computing, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), Las Vegas, NV
- Appointed Chair, ABA Task Force on International Trade in Legal Services (second consecutive term)
- Appointed Co-Chair, Task Force on Legal Education and Specialist Certification for the ABA Section of International Law (SIL)
- Appointed Vice Chair, Seasoned Lawyers Interest Network, ABA Section of International Law
- Appointed, SIL Liaison to ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar and Union Internationale des Avocats
- Honored as Life Member, Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
- Faculty, "Settlement of Transnational Disputes," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Member, Prof. Louis Sohn Memorial Award Committee, ABA Section of International Law
- Guest Lecturer, "Changes in the Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and the Regulation of Foreign Lawyers in the U.S.," Marvel, O'Farrell & Mairal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Organizer/Moderator, Roundtable Discussion, Second Annual Asian Summit on Legal Services, San Francisco
- Organizer/Moderator, Roundtable Discussion, Fourth Annual European Summit on Legal Services, San Francisco
- Participant, American Bar Foundation Fellows' Research Advisory Committee Meeting
- Listed in Specialties in International Trade and Finance Law, THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA, 2008 ed. (S. Naifeh and G. Smith, eds., Woodward/White, Inc.)
- Presenter, "Litigating the Saldaño Case: An Argentine on Death Row in Texas," Universidad Torcuato De Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Participant, USAID Meeting, Mexico
- Commentator regarding a bill providing for jury trials, Argentine Association of Bar Associations Committee, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Program Director, and Faculty, "International Environmental Law," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Participant, Inaugural Harvard/Boalt/UCLA Junior Environmental Law Workshop, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
- Presenter, Expert Testimony regarding a case involving transboundary pollution litigation, Canadian Supreme Court
- Quoted, "Woman inmate free at last," Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
- Quoted, "Woman freed after multiple reversals," San Bernardino Sun
- Interviewed regarding Paris Hilton being remanded back to jail to complete her sentence, ABC Radio News Network and "Air Talk," KPCC
- Interviewed regarding U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Brendlin v. California, "Dateline Washington," Radio America Network
- Comments on Child Abuse Litigation in a 'Testimonial' World: The Intersection of Competency, Hearsay and Confrontations After Davis, 82 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 1009 (2007)
- Featured Speaker, "Confrontation Clause: Crawford and Davis Update," National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
- Participant, Youth at Risk Commission and Criminal Justice Magazine Board meetings, ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
- Good (Native) Governance, 107 Columbia Law Review 1049 (2007)
- INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY LAW DESK REFERENCE, 8th ed. (Aspen Publishers, 2007)
- SCOTT ON MULTIMEDIA LAW, 2nd ed., 2008 Supplement (Aspen Publishers)
- Additional articles in E-book, THE WIZARDS OF OZYMANDIAS: REFLECTIONS ON THE DECLINE AND FALL
- CALIFORNIA WILLS AND TRUSTS, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPALS, ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS, AND MORAL CONCERNS, 2nd ed. (Thomson West, 2007)
- Presenter, "Carrying On in the Dark: The Stories of Hickman v. Taylor," The Rights, Ethics, Law & Literature International Colloquium, Swansea University School of Law, Whales, UK
- Presenter, "I Dismember Mama: What Remains of 'The Woman' after Gonzales v. Carhart?" Law and Justice in the Age of Globalization Conference, University of Gloucestershire, Gloucester, UK
- Quoted, "City atty., D.A. wage heated turf war; Cooley says that Delgadillo, a potential opponent in '08, keeps key cases for himself," Los Angeles Times
- Program Director, and Faculty, "International Entertainment Law," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, London, England
- Quoted, "Judicial hopefuls treading the line," Philadelphia Inquirer
- Faculty, "Comparative Constitutionalism," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, co-sponsored with University of New Mexico, Universidad de Guanajuato and Texas Tech, Guanajuato, Mexico
- Recipient (with Prof. W. Grimes), Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for THE LAW OF ANTITRUST: AN INTEGRATED HANDBOOK, 2nd ed. (2006), Trustees of the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Charitable Trust
SEPTEMBER 2007
PROFESSOR PAUL BATEMAN
- Lecturer (with Professor Michael Frost), Judicial Opinion Writing Seminar, National Judicial College, Reno, NV
- The Fault(s) in Negligence Law, 25 QUINNIPIAC LAW REVIEW 695 (2007)
- Interviewed regarding the child labor law implications of the reality show Kid Nation, "Air Talk," KPCC
- Presenter, "Remember to Stay Past 6:00 p.m. and other Guiding Principles: Conducting a Dual Division Site Visit," Chairs' Workshop, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Chicago, IL
- Lecturer (with Professor Paul Bateman), Judicial Opinion Writing Seminar, National Judicial College, Reno, NV
- Panelist, ABA Law Student Division Deans' Panel Discussion, ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
- ENTERTAINMENT LAW: LEGAL CONCEPTS AND BUSINESS PRACTICES, 3rd ed., vol. 2 (with P. Acton, T. Selz and M. Simensky; Thomson/West, 2007)
- Changing Territoriality, Fading Sovereignty, and the Development of Indigenous Rights, 31 AMERICAN INDIAN LAW REVIEW 291 (2007)
- Interviewed regarding Jose Padilla terrorism conviction and Michael Vick's dog-fighting plea, "Dateline Washington," Radio America Network
- Interviewed regarding U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation, "Mark Bernier Program," WNDB (Daytona Beach)
- EVIDENCE IN A NUTSHELL: STATE AND FEDERAL RULES, 5th ed. (with D. Crump and P. Rothstein; Thomson West, 2007)
- Reappointed Co-Chair, Innocence Committee, ABA Criminal Justice Section
- Reappointed, ABA Commission on Youth at Risk
- Meeting Participant, "Model Penal Code Sentencing," ALI Members Consultative Group, Minneapolis, MN
- (Tribal) Sovereignty and Illiberalism, 95 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 799 (2007)
- Presenter, "The Failure of Constitutions to Limit State Power: How a Collapsing, Top Down Civilization Can Be Transformed Into a Free Society," at Refounding of America Conference, International Society for Individual Liberty, Williamsburg, VA
- INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE DESKBOOK, 3rd ed. (18th Release; Practising Law Institute, 2007)
- Chair, ABA Forum Committee on Entertainment & Sports Industries
SENIOR STAFF
ASSISTANT DEAN GARY GREENER- Panelist, Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles' First Annual Career Fair, Southwestern
OCTOBER 2007
PROFESSOR RONALD ARONOVSKY- Speaker, "From Aviall to Atlantic Research: The Rebirth of CERCLA Cost Recovery Claims," LACBA Environmental Law Section, Los Angeles
- Quoted, "O.C. courts slowed by deputy slowdown," Los Angeles Times
- Interviewed regarding Southwest Airline's threat to remove a passenger from a flight for wearing supposedly revealing clothing, KPCC-FM
- Participant, Joint Retreat, Council and Accreditation Committee, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Chicago, IL
- Participant, Accreditation Committee Meeting, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spectrum Set-Asides as Content-Neutral Metric: Creating a Practical Balance Between Media Access and Market Power, HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW (forthcoming)
- Presenter, "Property Rules, Property Talk, and the Public Domain," Fifth Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, Washington College of Law
- Panelist, "Insurance and Ethical Issues in Representing Policy Holders," Tort and Insurance Section, ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
- Installed, Board of Governors, Beverly Hills Bar Association
- Presenter, "Building and Revamping Legal Virtue: Legal and Colonial Strategies in the Construction of Asian States: The Example of the Philippines," and panelist, "The Important Role of the Urban Law School: Implications of data from ‘After the J.D.' Research," Law and Society Colloquium, New York University
- Participant, Guanajuato Summer Law Institute Consortium Meeting, Lubbock, TX
- From Schwinn to Sylvania to Where? Historical Roots of Modern Vertical Restraints Policy in ANTITRUST STORIES (E. Fox and D. Crane eds.; Foundation Press, 2007)
- Speaker, "European Sustainable Development," The Progress of International Environmental Law, International Law Student Association, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
- Co-Chair, Program on Contemporary International Law, ABA Section of International Law, Oxford University, England
- Panelist, "New Directions in International Law" (with Sir Elihu Lauterpacht of Cambridge University), Oxford University's Oriel College, England
- Panel Moderator, "Deans-Practitioners Roundtable on Transnational Legal
Education," ABA Section of International Law Fall Meeting, London,
England
Speaker, "What Can Bars Do to Facilitate Cross-Border Legal Practice?" "Opening of the Legal Year" Celebration, Law Society of England and Wales, London, England - Elected, "Southern California's Best Lawyer" for "International Trade and Finance Law" category (second year in a row), Los Angeles Times (special section)
- Participant as U.S. program director of Southwestern and Tecnologico of Monterrey's USAID project, "Partnership for Advocacy Training," Inaugural National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Training Course, Monterey, Mexico
- Quoted, "Quiero que me maten," Clarin (Argentina's largest newspaper), regarding Victor Saldano, the only Argentine to face capital punishment
- Quoted, "Murder Charges Filed in 1994 Shooting," Los Angeles Times
- Interviewed regarding U.S. Senate vote to block habeas corpus rights for terrorism suspects and efforts by the Administration's National Security Agency to retain legislation passed by Congress in August allowing electronic surveillance of suspected foreign terrorists without a warrant, "Dateline Washington," Radio America Network
- Keynote Speaker, "Compensation of Exonerees and Systemic Remedies to Avoid Wrongful Convictions," Hearing of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, Santa Clara University
- Participant, Board Meeting, Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents
- Presenter, Main Banquet Address, "Calculated Chaos and the Emergence of Decentralization," Association of American Physicians and Surgeons 64th Annual Meeting, Cherry Hill, NJ
- Participant, Ludwig von Mises Institute 25th Anniversary Conference and Dinner, New York, NY
- Speaker, Copyright Law Presentation, Society of Composers & Lyricists, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles
- Moderator, "The Relationship Between Punitive Damages and Class Actions," Symposium on Punitive Damages, Due Process, and Deterrence: The Debate After Philip Morris v. Williams, Charleston Law School
- Welcome/Opening Remarks, Judicial Appointment Workshop: Practical Tips on the Appointment Process, Japanese American Bar Association and Southwestern Alumni Association, Southwestern
SENIOR STAFF
ASSISTANT DEAN GARY GREENER- Member, Board of Directors of the HIV and AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA)
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007
PROFESSOR RONALD ARONOVSKY- Elected, Member, American Law Institute
- Presenter, "Law Tutors' Training Workshop," UC Davis School of Law, Davis, CA
- ISLAMIC LAW IN CONTEMPORARY INDONESIA: IDEAS AND INSTITUTIONS (with R. Feener; Harvard University Press, 2007)
- Appointed Member, Special Committee on Outcome Measurements, AALS Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
- Participant, Accreditation Committee Meeting, AALS Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Salt Lake City, UT
- Quoted, "Training Law Students for Real-Life Careers," New York Times
- Participant, "Legal Education at the Crossroads: Ideas to Action, Part 1," University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC
- ABA Standard 305's 'Guided Reflections': A Perfect Fit for Guided Fieldwork, CLINICAL LAW REVIEW (Fall 2007)
- Presentation, "Gatekeepers Inside Out," Symposium on Corporate Compliance: The Role of Company Counsel, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC
- Presentation, "Gatekeepers Inside Out," Law & Finance Colloquium, Duke Law School, Durham, NC
- SUBDIVISION LAW AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT 2nd vol., Supplement Release No. 2 (Thomson-West, 2007)
- GOVERNMENT DISCRIMINATION: EQUAL PROTECTION LAW AND LITIGATION (Thomson-West, 2007-2008)
- Entertainment Law: Legal Concepts and Business Practices 3rd ed., 2007 Fall Update (Thomson/West, 2005)
- Lecturer, "Enforcement and Recognition of Foreign Judgments" and "Recent Developments in International Arbitration," USAID and University Technologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
- Appointed, Working Group on International Attorney-Client Privilege Issues, ABA Task Force on the Attorney-Client Privilege
- Panel Chair, "Crime and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century European Empires," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Tempe, AZ
- Changing Territoriality, Fading Sovereignty, and the Development of Indigenous Rights, 3 THE AMERICAN INDIAN LAW REVIEW 291 (Special Symposium Issue, Fall 2007)
- Litigating Canada-U.S. Transboundary Harm: International Environmental Lawmaking and the Threat of Extraterritorial Reciprocity, 48 VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1(2007)
- Mixed Blessings: The Great Lakes Compact and Agreement, the IJC, and International Dispute Resolution, 2006 MICHIGAN STATE LAW REVIEW 1299 (2007)
- Panel Moderator, "Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law: Reflections on Benefits and Changes," International Law Weekend 2007, American Branch of the International Law Association, New York, NY
- Guest Blogger, "Colloquy on Transboundary Pollution," Opinio Juris and VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
- Book Review, MANLINESS (H. Mansfield; Yale University Press, 2006) in 19 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW & FEMINISM 201 (2007)
- Domestic Violence Cases After Davis: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? XV JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY 759 (Confrontation Clause Symposium, 2007)
- Panelist, "Legal Issues Concerning Female Offenders,"12th National Workshop on Adult and Juvenile Female Offenders, Baltimore, MD
- Guest Lecturer, "Wrongful Convictions" and Guest Trial Judge, University Technologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
- Participant, ABA Youth at Risk Commission Meeting, Washington DC
- Participant, California Forensic Science Institute Board Meeting
- Participant, Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents Board Meeting
- Presentation, "Intellectual Property Protection for Traditional Knowledge," Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA
- The Global-Warming Neurosis and What Debates? in THE WIZARDS OF OZYMANDIAS (eBook; LewRockwell.com)
- Speaker, "The Calculated Chaos and the Emergence of Decentralization," 64th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Cherry Hill, NJ
- Attendee, Ludwig von Mises Institute 25th Anniversary Conference, New York
- Quoted, "Inherit a home - not a hassle: Determined activist battles for state approval of a one-page form to bequeath property - without courts and lawyers," Los Angeles Times
- Elected, Executive Committee, Lawyers Conference, ABA Judicial Division
- White Collar Crime and Punishment: Reflections on Michael, Martha, and Milberg Weiss, 15 GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW 45 (2007)
- Reappointed, LSAC Investment Policy Oversight Group, and Meeting Participant, Philadelphia, PA
- Re-elected Member, Board of Trustees and Appointed Chair, Governance Committee, Queen Margaret's School Society, Duncan, BC, Canada
- Reappointed, NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education Board of Trustees, and Participant, Board of Trustees Retreat, San Diego, CA
- Panelist, "A Higher Sense of Purpose: Access to Higher Education and the Professions," Symposium in Honor of Philip D. Shelton, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO
- Participant, Board of Advisors Meetings, Charlotte School of Law, Charlotte and Jacksonville, NC
- Participant, North Shore Community Resources Board of Directors Meeting, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Panelist, "Avoiding Legal Remedies in Special Education," Association of California School Administrators, Santa Clara, CA
ADJUNCT FACULTY
PROFESSOR CAROLINE NEWCOMBE- Panelist/Speaker, "Significant Education Law Developments 2006-2007," 2007 Administrative Law Conference, ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, Washington DC
- Appointed Meeting Chair, 2008 Mid-year Meeting, ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
- Awarded, Best LL.M. Paper (as a candidate for Doctor of Juridical Science S.J.D.), UCLA School of Law
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008
PROFESSOR RONALD ARONOVSKY
- Chair-Elect, AALS Section on Litigation
- Member, Executive Committee, AALS Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Panel Moderator, "Capstone Session - Synthesizing Perspectives: Quick Takes, Questions and Answers," Perspectives on Asbestos Litigation, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- Co-chair and Panel Moderator, "Moral and Economic Perspectives," Perspectives on Asbestos Litigation, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- Interviewed, re: undocumented childcare workers, Larry Mantle's "Air Talk," KPCC-FM
- Presenter, "Crystals in the Public Domain," PrawfsFest Conference, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- The "Right" to Injunctive Relief for Patent Infringement, 24 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 1 (2007)
- Panelist, "Who is the Client?" California State Bar Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA
- Panel Moderator, "Judicial and Practical Perspectives," Perspectives on Asbestos Litigation, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- Participant, Working Group on Curricular Reform Meeting, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Legal Education, Palo Alto, CA
- Panel Moderator, "Empirical Research Strategies for Understanding the Legal Profession: Examples from Current Research," Committee on Research Program Presentation, AALS Annual Meeting, New York, NY
- Chair, AALS Committee on Research Meeting, AALS Annual Meeting, New York, NY
- Chair, LSSSE National Advisory Board Meeting, AALS Annual Meeting, New York, NY
- NEWSGATHERING AND THE LAW, 2008 Supplement (LexisNexis, 2007); available online via Lexis
- ENTERTAINMENT LAW: LEGAL CONCEPTS AND BUSINESS PRACTICES, 2008 Supplement (Thomson-West, 2007); available online via Westlaw Entertainment Database
- Transnational Legal Practice: 2006-07 Year-in-Review, 42 THE INTERNATIONAL LAWYER (with L. Terry, C. Silver, E. Rosen, C. Needham and P. Ehrenhaft, forthcoming)
- Lecturer, "Comparative Aspects of the Law of Arbitration and Transnational Litigation," USAID and University Technologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
- Interviewed, Monterrey, Mexico, local radio program focusing on Southwestern-Tecnologico cooperative programs
- Alternate Member and Presenter, Proposals to Joint Editorial Board on International Projects of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), Washington, DC
- Participant, American Bar Foundation's Fellows Research Advisory Council Meeting, regarding ABF's current research program and review various projects
- Participant, India-U.S. Joint Working Group on Legal Services Meeting with U.S. Trade Representative, regarding meetings with representatives of Indian about liberalizing Indian legal services regulation, Washington, DC
- Participant, Section on Graduate Programs (as Executive Committee member) AALS Annual Meeting, New York, NY
- Participant, Virtual Law School Class, "International Trade Treaties" transmitted to 3,000 students throughout Latin America
- Decorated, "Oficial" of the "Orden de Mayo" of the Argentine Republic pursuant to Presidential Decree, for pro bono work on behalf of Víctor Hugo Saldaño, an Argentine citizen on death row in Texas
- Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner before the U.S. Supreme Court in Victor Hugo Saldaño v. State of Texas, brief filed for Government of the Argentine Republic
- Panelist, "The Internationalization of Argentina's Understanding of Rights and Access to Justice," Global Conceptions of Access to Justice, Section on Comparative Law, AALS Annual Meeting, New York, NY
- Trail Smelter Déjà vu: Extraterritoriality, International Environmental Law and the Search for Solutions to Canadian-U.S. Transboundary Water Pollution Disputes, abridged and reprinted in WATER POLLUTION: POLICIES AND PERSPECTIVES (K. Kumari, ed., ICFAI Univ. Press, 2007)
- Quoted, Teck pollution lawsuit 'two-edged sword,' The Globe and Mail (Canada)
- Interviewed, "U.S. Supreme Court Expected to Make a Decision on Teck Cominco Case Soon," Canadian Press
- Interviewed, "Teck Cominco's Chances of Supreme Court Hearing Have Diminished, Experts Say," Canadian Press
- Interviewed several times on ABC Radio New Network; "Dateline Washington," Radio America Network; and Larry Mantle's "Air Talk," KPCC-FM on oral arguments before U.S. Supreme Court regarding habeas corpus for Guantanamo Bay detainees; U.S. Supreme Court decisions Gall and Kimbrough (regarding power of Federal District Judges to use sentencing discretion); U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments regarding lethal injection and 8th Amendment; and legal aspects of the indictment against former U.S. Congressman Mark J. Siljander on charges of conspiracy, money laundering, and obstruction of justice
- See No Evil: Wrongful Convictions and the Prosecutorial Ethics of Offering Testimony by Jailhouse Informants and Dishonest Experts, 76 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 1413 (2007, Ethic and Evidence Symposium issue)
- Comments on Forty Years of Demographic Changes in the Central District of California, 36 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 215 (2007)
- Panel Moderator, "Social and Cultural Perspectives," Perspectives on Asbestos Litigation, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- Participant, Criminal Justice Magazine Board Meeting, Washington, DC
- Participant, California Gender Responsive Strategies Commission Meeting, Fresno, CA
- Quoted, "Ridges of doubt: Baltimore judge throws out fingerprint evidence in murder trial," Lawyers USA
- Presenter, "Indigenous Peoples and Emerging Protections for Traditional Knowledge," Section on Law and Anthropology, AALS Annual Meeting, New York, NY
- Introduction of Keynote Speaker, Perspectives on Asbestos Litigation, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- Co-Chair and Panel Moderator, "Public and Private Law Perspectives," Perspectives on Asbestos Litigation, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- An Assessment of the Law School Climate for GLBT Students, JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION (forthcoming)
- Panelist, "Outside Looking In: The (Dis)enfranchisement of LGBT Law Students," AALS Annual Meeting, New York, NY
ADJUNCT FACULTY
PROFESSOR EDWARD WOLKOWITZ- Debtors have New Weapons Against Involuntary Bankruptcy in JOURNAL OF CORPORATE RENEWAL (December 2007)
MARCH/APRIL 2008
PROFESSOR PAUL BATEMAN- Lecturer (with Professor Michael Frost), Judicial Opinion Writing Seminar, National Judicial College, Orlando, FL
- Admissibility of Evidence to Prove Undisputed Facts: A Comparison of
California Evidence Code Section 210 and Federal Rule of Evidence 401, 36 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
LAW REVIEW 879 (2008)
- Commentator, "Experiments with Jury Trials in Argentina," Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America's Criminal Procedure Revolution, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas Symposium
- Welcome Remarks and Commentator, "International Influences and International Law," Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America's Criminal Procedure Revolution, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas Symposium
- Interviewed regarding IBM employees being reclassified from salary to hourly, "Marketplace," NPR
- Presentation, "Opening the Box: Navigating Through Site Evaluation Materials," New Site Evaluators Workshop, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Chicago, IL
- Presentation, "Faculty: Numbers and Beyond," Workshop for Law School Representatives, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Chicago, IL
- Participant, Accreditation Committee Meeting, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Tucson, AZ
- Commentator, "Experiments with Jury Trials in Argentina," Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America's Criminal Procedure Revolution, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas Symposium
- Panelist, "Can Attorneys Go Undercover: Ethical Issues in Intellectual Property Pretext Investigations?" Young Lawyers Division; Section of Intellectual Property Law; Section of Science and Technology Law; and the Center for Professional Responsibility, ABA Midyear Meeting, Los Angeles
- Quoted, "Aguirre's actions place focus on limits to authority," San Diego Union Tribune
- Lecturer (with Professor Paul Bateman), Judicial Opinion Writing Seminar, National Judicial College, Orlando, FL
- 2007 Supplement to EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE, 3rd ed. (with E. Imwinklereid; Lexis-Nexis, 2007)
- The Changing Social Role of Urban Law Schools, 389 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 36 (with J. Sterling and R. Dinovitzer, 2007)
- "Profile," Bar Brief, Beverly Hills Bar Association
- Participant, Deans' Workshop, ABA Mid-Year meeting, Santa Monica
- Participant, AALS Planning Committee Meeting, January 2009 AALS Annual Meeting Workshop on "Empirical Research on Gender and Race in Legal Education and Profession: What to Do and How to Get Money," Washington DC
- Composed Community Property question included in February 2008 California Bar Exam by invitation of Bar Examiners
- Panel Moderator, "Experts and Forensic Evidence," Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Cures, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- Presentation, "Contract Formation and the Formation of Power," International Contract Law Conference, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento
- Panelist, "The Importance of Transparency in a Democratic Society," in conjunction with docudrama "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," Sunshine Week, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Skirball Cultural Center
- Panelist, "New Paradigms in Entertainment and Media Law," ABA Midyear Meeting, Los Angeles
- Panelist, "Hot Issues in Entertainment Law," ABA's Forum on Communications Law Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, FL
- Appointed, Member of Nominating Committee, ABA's Forum on Communications Law
- Speaker, "Land Use Planning, Social Cohesion and Sustainability," 17th Annual Mountain Land Use Institute, University of Denver, CO
- Moderator, "Pathways to Careers in International Law", ABA Section of International Law, Southwestern
- Presentation, "Trends of Chinese International Arbitration," Section of International Law Panel, ABA Midyear Meeting, Los Angeles
- Presentation, "The Opportunities and Challenges of a Global Legal Market," National Association of Bar Presidents Meeting, Century City
- Presentation, "Current Directions in International Trade in Services," Council of the ABA Section of International Law, Century City
- Meeting Chair, ABA Task Force on the International Trade in Legal Services, ABA Midyear Conference, Century City
- Appointed Co-Editor, Volume celebrating 130th Anniversary of the ABA Section of International Law
- Organizer and Commentator, "The Mexican Reform Process," Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America's Criminal Procedure Revolution, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas Symposium
- Panel Moderator, "Race, Informants, and False Confessions," Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Cures, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- Commentator, "The First Wave of Reforms," Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America's Criminal Procedure Revolution, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas Symposium
- Do the Different Approaches to Business and Official Records Found in the CEC and FRE Tell the Whole Story?: Exploring the Differences, Exposing the Expansive Hearsay Exception Hidden in General Applicability Provisions, and Questioning the Efficacy of Unified Evidentiary Rules in Civil and Criminal Cases, 36 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 677 (2008)
- Organizer and Opening Remarks, "Wrongful Convictions - An Overview," Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Cures, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- Panel Moderator, "The First Wave of Reforms," Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America's Criminal Procedure Revolution, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas Symposium
- Member, Planning Committee and Meeting Participant, ABA Youth at Risk Commission Roundtable on youths aging out of Foster Care, Los Angeles
- Advisor, study of prior victimization and access to services of female offenders by the Illinois Department of Corrections
- Interviewed re: issues raised at Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Cures symposium, KPFK
- Participant, Debate (with. Professor J. Yoo) regarding NSA's Wiretapping Program, moderated by the Hon. Alex Kozinkski, Chief Judge, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, Los Angeles
- Panelist, "Evolution of the Id, the Ego and Equal Protection," Unconscious Discrimination Twenty Years Later: Application and Evolution, Connecticut Law Review Symposium, Hartford, CT
- Panel Moderator, "Systemic Issues and the Media," Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Cures, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- 19th Release, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE DESKBOOK, 3rd ed. (Practising Law Institute, 2008)
- Op-ed articles, "Multistate Sham" and "When There's a Will," Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal
- Presentation, "Top 10 Music Cases of the Last 50 Years," Grammy Foundation Luncheon, Los Angeles
- Quoted, "Clemens hearing useless unless we learn from it," Press-Enterprise
- Now It's Personal: Punishment and Mass Tort Litigation After Philip Morris v. Williams, 2 CHARLESTON LAW REVIEW 433 (Symposium Issue, 2008)
- Presentation, "Applications Panel," Crimtorts, Widener Law Journal Symposium, Harrisburg, PA
- Presentation, "Vexing Situations: Ethics and International Practice," State Bar of California's 80th Annual Meeting, Anaheim, and to White & Case LLP
- Interviewed in "Special Features," Damages: The Complete First Season (FX Television Series DVD, 2008)
- Recipient, Award of Excellence in Teaching Law, 2006-07, University Students' Council Teaching Honour Roll, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- Elected Vice Chair, Board of Governors, Queen Margaret's School, Duncan, BC, Canada
- Member, ABA Site Evaluation Team, John Marshall Law School, Atlanta, GA
- Panel Moderator, "Innovations in the Delivery of Legal Services" ABA Midyear Meeting, Los Angeles
- Panelist, "The Role of the Prosecution and Defense in Causing and Correcting Wrongful Convictions," Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Cures, Southwestern University Law Review Symposium
- Elected President, Japanese American Bar Association (see story)
ADJUNCT FACULTY
PROFESSOR JEFFREY LENKOV- Featured in "Alumni News," Northern Lawyer, as recipient of 2007 Outstanding Alumni Award, Northern Illinois University College of Law
- Chair, ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
- Participant, Second Annual Planning Law and Property Rights Symposium,
Warsaw, Poland
MAY 2008
PROFESSOR RON ARONOVSKY- Panelist, "Clarity or Confusion: The Aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's Landmark 2006-07 Environmental Law Decisions," 22nd Annual LACBA Environmental Law Spring Symposium, Los Angeles
- Participant, Research Roundtable on "Expansion of Liability Under Public Nuisance," Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL
- Presenter, "Instrumental Justice" at the Imagining Justice and Injustice Conference, Association for Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
- Harry Pregerson, The Real Mayor of Los Angeles, 36 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW 311 (2007)
- Speaker, "The Road to Representation Under the National Labor Relations Act," 46th Annual Short Course on Labor Law, Center for American and International Law, Dallas, TX
- Member, AALS Accreditation Team, Florida International University School of Law, Miami, FL
- Interviewed regarding wage and hour class action litigation over the status of workers as employees or independent contractors, Marketplace, NPR
- "Joint Marital Property in Indonesian Customary, Islamic, and National Law" in The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari`a (with M. Feener; IB Tauris, 2008)
- Marital Property in California and Indonesia: Community Property and Harta Bersama, 64 WASHINGTON AND LEE LAW REVIEW 1417 (2008)
- Chair, ABA Site Evaluation team, Faulkner University, Jones School of Law, Montgomery, AL
- Participant, Accreditation Committee Meeting, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Portland, OR
- Participant, Special Committee on Outcome Measures, Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Chicago, IL
- Quality Control: The Daily Show, the Peabody and Brand Discipline in QUALITY TELEVISION: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN TELEVISION AND BEYOND (with M. Rogers and J. Reeves; J. McCabe and K. Akass, eds.; I.B. Taurus, 2007)
- Presenter, "Crystals in the Public Domain," Intellectual Property Scholars' Round Table, Drake Law School, Des Moines, IA
- Presenter, "Property Rhetoric and the Public Domain," Workshop on Property Transactions and Transitions in an Age of Globalization, Chapman Law School, Orange, CA
- "From the Foreign Policy Establishment to the Legalization of Foreign Policy" in The Cambridge History of Law in America Vol. III (with Y. Dezalay; M. Grossberg and C. Tomlins, eds.; Cambridge University Press, 2008)
- "L'imperialism moral: Les jurists et imperialisme americain; (Philippines, Indonesia)," 171-172 ACTES DE LA RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES SOCIALES 40 (with Y. Dezalay; March 2008)
- Selected Co-chair (with Professor Peggy Davis, NYU), Working Group on Law Schools and Assessment, Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching
- Meeting chair, AALS Committee on Research, Washington, DC
- Presentation (with Professor Ronit Dinovitzer, University of Toronto), "Pro Bono as a Strategy to Build Legal Capital," Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University of Buffalo Law School
- Featured on "Champions of Justice," KRLA 870AM
- Presenter, "Transition to Practice: How Externships Relate to the Mission of the School and the Careers its Graduates Typically Pursue," Externships 4 Conference Workshop, Seattle, WA
- Sex and Violence in the Media: Some Thoughts on the Importance of Underinclusion as a Barrier to Medium Specific Regulation, 60 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS LAW JOURNAL 38 (March 2008)
- LAND USE REGULATION: CASES AND MATERIALS, 3rd ed. (with D. Selmi; Aspen Publishers, 2008)
- The Unintended Consequences of Consent Decrees and the Case of the Century Freeway Litigation: Keith v. Volpe, 36 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW 301 (2007)
- Presenter, "Urban Neighborhood Regeneration and the Phases of Community Evolution After World War II in the United States," The Fair Housing Act After 40 Years: Continuing the Mission to Eliminate Housing Discrimination and Segregation, Indiana Law Review Symposium, Indiana University at Indianapolis
- Placing Second Parent Adoption Along the "Rational Continuum" of Constitutionally Protected Family Rights, RUTGERS WOMEN'S RIGHTS LAW REPORTER (Fall/Winter 2008)
- Invited Participant, "Lawyers and the Construction of the Rule of Law - National and Transnational Processes," American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL
- Meeting Chair, ABA Task Force on International Trade in Legal Services, New York, NY
- Presenter, "The American Legal System and Transnational Legal Practice," Inter-Pacific Bar Association's Annual Meeting, Los Angeles
- Presenter, "An Analysis of U.S. Legal Developments with respect to Dispute Resolution," NAFTA Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Dispute Resolution (NAFTA 2022), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Presenter, "International Legal Services Developments," ABA Section of International Law Section's Council, New York, NY
- Presenter, "Legal Education," Roundtable of Deans and Practitioners on Legal Education, ABA Section of International Law Spring Meeting, New York, NY
- Selected, Co-chair (along with Mexican and Canadian co-chairs), Legal Issues and Strategies Committee, NAFTA 2022 Committee
- Lecture, "Argentina and the Inter-American Human Rights System," International Human Rights Course, USC Law Center, Los Angeles
- Interviewed regarding U.S. Supreme Court's 7-2 decision to uphold lethal injection as a constitutionally permissible form of the death penalty, Radio America Network
- Appointed, Member of the ABA Criminal Justice Section's Committee drafting Standards concerning the intersection of juvenile justice and other service providers such as child welfare, and participant in first meeting, Washington D.C.
- Lecture, "Criminal Evidence," National Judicial College, University of Nevada, Reno
- Meeting Participant, ABA's Youth at Risk Commission and Criminal Justice Section's Magazine Board, Washington D.C.
- Meeting Participant, Evidence Drafting Committee of National Conference of Bar Examiners, Park City, UT
- Panelist, "Contestations in Indigeneity, Race, Culture and Property," Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
- Panelist, "New Scholarship in Race and Ethnicity: The Human Rights Hierarchy and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples," Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
- SCOTT ON OUTSOURCING LAW & PRACTICE, 2008 Supplement (Aspen Publishers, 2008)
- Tort Liability for Vendors of Insecure Software: Has the Time Finally Come? 67 MARYLAND LAW REVIEW (2008)
- The FTC, the Unfairness Doctrine, and Data Security Breach Litigation: Has the Commission Gone Too Far? 60 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW (Winter 2008)
- Where Matters Stand in THE WIZARDS OF OZYMANDIAS: REFLECTIONS ON THE DECLINE AND FALL (E-book, lewrockwell.com 2008)
- Crime, Punishment and the Central District, 36 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW 323 (2007)
- Now It's Personal: Punishment and Mass Tort Litigation After Philip Morris v. Williams, 2 CHARLESTON LAW REVIEW 433 (Symposium Issue; 2008)
ABA - American Bar Association
AALS - Association of American Law Schools
LACBA - Los Angeles County Bar Association
NALP - National Association for Law Placement
