Faculty

From Greg Stein, Associate Dean for Faculty Development: UT well represented at AALS Clinical Law Conference

May 14, 2012

UT College of Law was well-represented at the annual AALS Clinical Law Conference in Los Angeles, which was attended by more than 500 clinical law faculty. Clinic Director Val Vojdik and Professors Wendy Bach, Ben Barton, Kris Tobin, and Paula Williams attended, along with Clinic Manager Lisa Holden and Professors Brian Krumm and Joy Radice, [...]

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Professor Wolitz moderates comparative law panel

May 14, 2012

Professor David Wolitz recently moderated a panel on “International and Comparative Criminal Law” at the American Society of Comparative Law’s “New Perspectives in Comparative Law” conference. The conference was held at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

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Professor Vojdik to teach in Turkey this July

May 14, 2012

Professor Val Vojdik will be teaching in a July summer program in Istanbul, Turkey, sponsored by the Open Society Institute. Vojdik will be teaching lawyers and fellows from Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq in OSI’s Middle Eastern Rule of Law Program. The fellows have been awarded grants to study in LL.M. programs in [...]

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Professor Plank article is millionth download at William & Mary

May 14, 2012

Professor Tom Plank is the author of the article that was the one millionth download in the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. The article, “The Essential Elements of Judicial Independence and the Experience of Pre-Soviet Russia,” was downloaded on May 9. Read about it here.

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Professor Leatherman speaks on bankruptcy and workouts

May 14, 2012

Professor Don Leatherman spoke recently at the meeting of the ABA Tax Section, held in Washington, D.C. Leatherman’s topic was “Bankruptcy & Workouts: Acquisition of Troubled Corporations.”

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Professor Heminway presents at TBA CLE program

May 14, 2012

Last week, Professor Joan Heminway gave a presentation at a Tennessee Bar Association continuing legal education program on changes made to the Tennessee Business Corporation Act during the recent legislative term. Heminway’s portion of the presentation related to mergers, share exchange transactions, and conversions. Heminway served as a member of the task force of the Tennessee [...]

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Professor Black participates in Tennessee Supreme Court “Summit”

May 14, 2012

Professor Jerry Black recently participated in a “Summit for Improving Indigent Party Representation” that was convened by the Tennessee Supreme Court. This summit was called in response to a petition filed by the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to raise the rates paid to appointed counsel and to set performance standards for appointed counsel. [...]

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From Greg Stein, Associate Dean for Faculty Development: Professor Reynolds’s article most downloaded

May 7, 2012

Professor Glenn Reynolds’s article, “A Due Process Right to Record the Police,” is ranked the number one most downloaded article on the Social Science Research Network’s Legal Scholarship Network. See the rankings here and read the abstract and download the article here. 

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Professor Hess speaks at American College of Trust and Estate Counsel meeting

May 7, 2012

Professor Amy Morris Hess spoke at the Southern Regional Meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel in Mobile, Ala., on April 15.  Her paper was entitled, “Estate Planning for the Baby Boomers: Will They Have Estates to Plan?”  It updated the results of Hess’s continuing research on differences in the approaches to [...]

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From Greg Stein, Associate Dean for Faculty Development: Professor Schaefer’s article noted in Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Blog

May 3, 2012

Professor Paula Schaefer’s recent article, “Injecting Law Student Drama Into the Classroom: Transforming an E-Discovery Class (or Any Law School Class) with a Complex, Student-Generated Simulation,” was noted positively in the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning blog. Schaefer’s article appeared originally in the Nevada Law Journal. Read the blog post here (second item on the [...]

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Professor Long’s work cited on the Legal Writing Prof Blog

May 3, 2012

Professor Alex Long’s work on judicial citations to Bob Dylan songs was cited favorably on the Legal Writing Prof Blog. See the blog post here and download the full article here.

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Professor Heminway on panel discussing crowdfunding

May 3, 2012

Professor Joan Heminway recently participated in a panel at the Crowdfunding Conference, an all-day event in New York City sponsored by DealFlow Media, an independent research and analysis firm serving the financial sector.  Heminway’s contribution to the panel included a discussion of aspects of her recent article on crowdfunding, published by the Tennessee Law Review, [...]

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Professor Blitt to lecture in China this summer

May 3, 2012

Professor Robert Blitt will travel to China this summer as an invited lecturer for a certificate training program on “Religion and the Rule of Law.” This academic program brings international scholars to Beijing to lecture on religion from a comparative and international law perspective. Participants include professors, graduate students, government officials, judges, and religious leaders from many parts [...]

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Professor Emeritus Ansley has chapter published in book on Appalachia

May 3, 2012

Professor Emeritus Fran Ansley has just published a chapter, “Talking Union in Two Languages:  Labor Rights and Immigrant Workers in East Tennessee.” Ansley’s chapter appears in “Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia,” edited by Steve Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith. Ansley and several other local contributors to the book also participated in book receptions this past [...]

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Recent graduate has article published on zoning and planning

May 3, 2012

An article by recent graduate Yusuf Malik (LAW ‘11) has been published in the “Zoning and Planning Law Handbook, 2012.” The article, entitled “The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act: A Perspective on the Unreasonable Limitations Provision,” appeared originally in the Tennessee Law Review. Read more about the book here. 

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From Greg Stein, Associate Dean for Faculty Development: Professor White among featured speakers at Harvard symposium

April 23, 2012

Professor Penny White was one of three featured speakers at the Harvard Law Review Annual Symposium held at the Harvard Law School on April 16. White, joined by former Chief Justice Marsha Ternus of the Iowa Supreme Court and Chief Justice Paul De Muniz of the Oregon Supreme Court, discussed the topic, “Can Accountability be Balanced [...]

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Professor Stucke quoted in Law360 article, speaks in The Netherlands

April 23, 2012

Professor Maurice Stucke was quoted in the April 12 Law360 article about the Department of Justice’s recent lawsuit against Apple and five major book publishers. Last Thursday, Stucke discussed the importance of behavioral economics for competition law enforcement before the Dutch association of competition lawyers (the VvM).  The following day, he was the keynote speaker [...]

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Dean Stein’s book on modern Chinese real estate law published

April 23, 2012

Associate Dean Greg Stein’s new book, “Modern Chinese Real Estate Law: Property Development in an Evolving Legal System,” has just been published by Ashgate Publishing. Read Chapter 1 here and learn more about the book here.  

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Professor Rivkin gives seminar in environmental law

April 23, 2012

Professor Dean Rivkin recently gave a two-hour seminar in environmental law for a UT noncredit certification program for technicians studying how to deal with unexploded ordinance (UXO). Rivkin focused on the students’ responsibilities under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), especially EPA’s Military Munitions Rule.

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Professor Reynolds’s article on recording police published

April 23, 2012

Professor Glenn Reynolds’s latest article, “A Due Process Right to Record the Police” (coauthored with John Steakley), has been published by the Washington University Law Review. 

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