Notable scholarship and activity from the Pitt Law faculty
Notable scholarship and activity from the Pitt Law faculty
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Faculty Impact                                   Oct. 2017 

Lawrence Frolik publishes Elder Law and Later-Life Legal Planning with ABA Publishing

Lawrence Frolik, John E. Murray Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law, has published his latest treatise, Elder Law and Later-Life Legal Planning with ABA Publishing. Frolik is a national expert on legal issues facing older Americans and one of the founders of the field of Elder Law. He is the author, co-author or editor of over a dozen books in the field.

New Faculty Publications

Vivian Curran, "Comparative Law and Language Revisited," forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (eds., Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann, Oxford Univ. Press).
Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Racial Character Evidence in Police Killing Cases, 2018 Wis. L. Rev. __ (2018, forthcoming).
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Speaking Engagements

Vivian Curran delivers John Sumner Stead Lecture in International and Comparative Law at University of Baltimore and presides over two major comparative law conferences

Vivian Curran delivered the John Sumner Stead Lecture in International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore on Oct. 25.
The next day, in her capacity as President of both the American Society of Comparative Law and of the North-American Société de Législation Comparée, Curran organized a bilingual French-English conference of both of those organizations on “Porosities of Law.” Numerous distinguished speakers from France, Italy, Singapore, Austria, Canada, and the U.S. spoke at the conference, the proceedings of which will be published in a book that preserves the bilingual nature of the conference.
On Oct. 27, Curran presided over the annual conference of the American Society of Comparative Law. The theme this year was on the interface between law and faith.

Additional Speaking Engagements

Elena Baylis presented a work-in-progress paper, “Transnational Collaborations in Transitional Justice,” at a faculty workshop at Marquette University Law School on Oct. 24, 2017. The paper will be published by Cambridge University Press as a chapter of a book edited by Harlan Cohen and Timothy Meyer in 2018. Professor Baylis also moderated a panel on reconciliation at the Nuremberg 10th Anniversary Forum on Oct. 20, 2017, an annual meeting hosted by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy. The Forum was held in historic Courtroom 600, the location of the Nuremberg trials.
Ronald Brand spoke on “Determining Qualification for the Global Circulation of a Judgment Under a Hague Judgments Convention,” at the September Global Forum on Private International Law, in Wuhan, China, on Sept. 23, marking the 30th Anniversary of the China Society of Private International Law. Brand was one of only two U.S. law professors invited to speak on the program. Professor Brand also led, “A Dialogue with Members of the U.S. Delegation to the Hague Judgments Project,” at the NYU School of Law on Oct. 23. The program was jointly sponsored by the NYU Center on Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law and the University of Pittsburgh Center for International Legal Education. Participants included two former Legal Advisers to the Secretary of State, two State Department members of the U.S. Delegation, a member of the Office of Foreign Litigation of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Director of the Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg, and a group of distinguished law professors and litigators.
Doug Branson attended and moderated a panel at the Academic International Conference on Interdisciplinary Business Studies at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, England on Oct. 16-18, as part of the International Conference on Trade, Business, Economics and Law. The conference involved presentation of papers by faculty around the globe, including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Slovakia, Poland, United Kingdom, Nigeria, South Korea, and Australia.
Mary Crossley presented “Community Integration of People with Disabilities: Can Olmstead Protect against Retrenchment?” at the Next Steps in Health Reform 2017 Conference in Washington, D.C. in Oct. 2017. The conference was sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and the American University Washington College of Law. Professor Crossley also presented, “Parental Autonomy, Children with Disabilities, and Horizontal Identities,” at the University of Tennessee’s annual Tennessee Value and Agency conference in Knoxville on Oct. 29. The subject of this year’s conference, which included speakers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia, was “Philosophy of Disability: Perspectives, Challenges, and Aspirations.”
Paul Finkelman spoke at the Boston Area Early American History Seminary at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Oct. 2017. His paper, “John Marshall, Slaveowner and Jurist,” will be the second chapter of his forthcoming book, Supreme Injustice: Slavery In The Nation’s Highest Court. Harvard University Press will publish the book in January 2018.
Haider Hamoudi spoke about Competing Faith Commitments in Islamic Finance at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law on Oct. 27.

Faculty In The News

David Harris speaks to National Public Radio and New York Times on use-of-force policy and police body cameras

David Harris spoke to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered concerning the new use of force policy rolled out by the Chicago Police Department. Harris explained that a number of features of the new policy put the Chicago policy in the forefront of police reform. The policy will give officers more options and will encourage de-escalation.
Harris also commented to the New York Times on a new study indicating that body cameras deployed by the Washington D.C. police had little effect on the use of force or citizen complaints.
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