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Southwestern Reporter

February 2006

FACULTY ACTIVITIES
ASSOCIATE DEAN CHRISTOPHER CAMERON
  • External Local Authority, Five-year Review Committee, UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations
  • Interviewed regarding the head of the LA County Federation of Labor's possible resignation, "AirTalk," KPCC
PROFESSOR CATHERINE CARPENTER
  • Participant, Accreditation Committee, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Phoenix, Arizona
  • Invited Speaker, Opening the Box: A Review of the Self-study and Site Evaluation Questionnaire, New Site Evaluator's Workshop, ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Chicago, Illinois
PROFESSOR SILVIA FAERMAN
  • Panelist, "Intellectual Property: International Issues for Corporate and Outside Counsel," Substantive Legal Issues and Approaches to the Practice of Law, State Bar of California Section Education Institute, Santa Monica
DEAN BRYANT GARTH
  • Speaker, "Managing Law Schools" and "The Uses of Empirical Research from a Law School Perspective," Meeting for Deans and Law Professors from Afghanistan law schools under the auspices of a State Department Grant, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
PROFESSOR SUNG HUI KIM
  • The Banality of Fraud: Re-Situating the Inside Counsel as Gatekeeper, 74 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 983 (2005)
PROFESSOR DAVID KOHLER
  • Speaker, "Sending Central Hudson Down the River: What Abandoning the 'Commercial Speech' Test Would Mean for Advertising and Right of Publicity Law," Los Angeles Copyright Society meeting, Santa Monica
PROFESSOR JAMES KUSHNER
  • Speaker, "Brownfield Redevelopment in the United States and Some Lessons from Europe," What Kind of Metropolitan Areas Do We Want: Challenges, Promises and Pitfalls in Redevelopment, Georgia State Law School, Atlanta, Georgia
  • City Life in the Age of High Technology, 37 URBAN LAWYER 893 (2005)
PROFESSOR ROBERT LIND
  • Use of Loan-Out Corporations in the Entertainment Industry, ANDREWS ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY LITIGATION REPORTER (with Southwestern student Z. Hamzeh; January 11, 2006)
  • Keynote Speaker, "The Demise of Record Companies?" 2006 Music Law Conference, University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida
  • Lecturer, Nuts and Bolts of Intellectual Property Law, Continuing Education of the Bar, Los Angeles, San Diego and Anaheim
  • Panel Moderator, "To Clear or Not to Clear: Product Uses in Film and Television," Brave New World: Representing Clients in an Evolving and Regulated Environment, Biederman Institute and the Media Law Resource Center

 
PROFESSOR ROBERT PUGSLEY
  • Interviewed regarding the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings into a secret spying program by the NSA and the Federal indictment and entry of not guilty pleas of three Ohio men in alleged terrorist plot against U.S. soldiers in Iraq, "Dateline Washington," Radio America
PROFESSOR LON SOBEL
  • Presenter and Co-chair, "'LexisNexis' Copyright - From Traditional Concepts to the Digital Age," Pace University, New York City
  • Speaker, "Entertainment Law Year in Review," Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Los Angeles
  • Invited Speaker, "Entertainment, Technology and the Academy's Role in IP Policy-Making," Annual Thomas McCarthy Distinguished Scholar Lecture, McCarthy Institute for Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of San Francisco School of Law
  • Speaker, "The Global Copyright Protection System," 2005 Entertainment Law Institute, Texas State Bar CLE, Austin, Texas
  • Panel Moderator, "Repatriating Royalties From Abroad," Entertainment Without Borders: Practicing Law in a Global Environment, Biederman Institute and Beverly Hills Bar Association
  • Panelist, "Copyright and Idea Protection for Filmmakers," Film and Media Business Seminar, California Lawyers for the Arts, Los Angeles
PROFESSOR BYRON STIER
  • Resolving the Class Action Crisis: Mass Tort Litigation as Network, 2005 UTAH LAW REVIEW 863 (2005)
DEAN EMERITUS LEIGH TAYLOR
  • Appointed, Board of Trustees, Charlotte School of Law
  • Participant, Past President's Meeting, LSAC, Naples, Florida

ADJUNCT FACULTY

PROFESSOR JEFFREY LENKOV
  • Mentioned in REMEMBERING THE MONTREAL EXPOS (D. Gallagher and B. Young; Scoop Press, 2005)
  • Quoted in "Two Raider Candidates Back Out of Couch Hunt," Los Angeles Times
  • Legal Analyst, KCAL9 News

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



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