OTHER FACULTY PRESENTATIONS
Pat Chew presented “Gender, Arbitration, and Sex Discrimination” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as part of a CLE program on the work of feminist legal scholars. She discussed empirical study on the effect of arbitrators’ gender on the outcome of sex discrimination cases.
Vivian Curran spoke at the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) about the new challenges globalization poses to comparative law.
Larry Frolik gave a talk to the Young Professional Organization of Pittsburgh on Issues with Aging Parents. The group consists of younger professionals and business persons who meet regularly to discuss their professional and personal challenges.
Haider Ala Hamoudi spoke at a RAND conference in Arlington, Va., about prospects for the Iraqi judiciary in light of Iraq’s continuing turmoil. Also participating on Hamoudi’s panel were Iraq’s former ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid al-Bayati, and the author and academic Kanan Makiya. Others participating in the daylong conference included Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Ambassador James Jeffries, both of whom served in Iraq for a period of years.
Haider Ala Hamoudi spoke at a University of Pittsburgh conference on Countering Violent Extremism, focusing specifically on the history of the caliphate in Sunni Islam and its controversial misuse by groups such as ISIS. Also appearing on the panel were Dan Simpson, editorial writer for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Seamus Hughes from the National Counterterrorism Center and Harald Weilnbock from the EU Commission in Belgium.
Anthony Infanti presented his paper titled “The House of Windsor: Accentuating the Heteronormativity in the Tax Incentives for Procreation” at the Conference on Reproductive Health, Rights, Access, and Action, organized by the University of Pittsburgh Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program.
Anthony Infanti presented an incubator session at the 18th Annual Critical Tax Conference, held at Northwestern University School of Law. He talked about the idea for his sabbatical project, which is tentatively titled “Presumptuous Selfishness: The ‘Other’ in Tax Law.”