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| | Mary Crossley presents "Ending-Life Medical Decisions: Some Disability Perspectives and Parallels to Black Lives Matter"
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| Professor Mary Crossley presented “Ending-Life Medical Decisions: Some Disability Perspectives and Parallels to Black Lives Matter,” on April 6 as part of the Grand Rounds Series sponsored by the Hall Center for Law and Health at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. The Hall Center Health Law Grand Rounds Series is a year-round, cross-disciplinary speaker series designed to bring nationally and internationally recognized researchers, scholars, teachers, and practitioners to the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law for lectures and workshop opportunities targeted toward students, faculty, and practitioners.
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| David Harris, with D. Rudovsky, Terry Stops and Frisks, 'Common Sense' Judgments, and Empirical Evidence, 78 Ohio St. L.J. __ (2017) (forthcoming).
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| Deborah Brake was a featured speaker April 13-14 at the Harvard Law School conference, What Comes Next: Title IX Under a Trump Administration. The conference was sponsored by the Harassment and Assault Legal Team (HALT), the Harvard Journal on Law & Gender, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, LAMBDA, the Harvard Law School Gender Violence Program, and the Dean of Students Office. Brake was also an invited participant May 1-2 at the Stanford Law School conference, The Way Forward: Title IX Advocacy in the Trump Era. Matiangai Sirleaf presented at the University of Wisconsin Law School International Law Journal’s Symposium on Regional Human Rights Systems in Crisis. During the Symposium, participants explored how and whether regional rights systems can constructively engage in these challenging times. Sirleaf presented her draft article on the Criminalization of Trafficking in Hazardous Waste in Africa. Ronald Brand spoke on Teaching Arbitration to the University of Vienna Faculty of Law on April 7, as part of a conference of authors for the Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration. Brand’s chapter on Teaching Arbitration will be included in the Compendium, which will be published later in 2017 by Cambridge University Press. David Harris attended and spoke at the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge Meeting at the foundation’s headquarters in Chicago and presented at the founding Academy of Justice conference at Arizona State University. After the conference, a select group of the scholars will contribute chapters to a book for policy makers and legislators, to form the intellectual basis for criminal justice reform throughout the country. Harris will write the chapter on racially-biased policing. Jasmine Gonzales Rose gave a talk at an April 4 faculty workshop at the University of Maryland School of Law on her article, “Toward a Critical Race Theory of Evidence,” 101 Minn L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2017). Arthur Hellman spoke on a panel at the National Lawyers Conference of the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C. The subject of the panel was, “Using Judicial Processes for Political Purposes.” Hellman discussed possible remedies for the misuse of judicial processes to stifle free speech. These included injunctions against state proceedings and removal to federal court.
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| | Pitt Law hosts voting rights colloquium "Legislatures, Courts & Voting Rights: Developments Since the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder Decision"
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| Pitt Law hosted a colloquium of distinguished experts on April 10 to explore implications and developments since the Supreme Court voided significant parts of the Voting Rights Act in the case Shelby County v. Holder where Chief Justice John Roberts famously declared “our country has changed" when he delivered his opinion. The event was cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and featured speakers Bernard Grofman, the Jack W. Peltason Endowed Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Irvine and Justin Levitt, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General.
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| Professor Rhonda Wasserman’s scholarship was quoted in an opinion of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued on March 28. Bartolucci v. 1-800 Contacts, Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44928 (D.D.C. March 28, 2017). Mary Crossley, with Professors Bill Eskridge (Yale) and Robin Fretwell Wilson (Illinois), co-authored an op-ed titled “Thinking Like Millennials” in the March 15 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Arthur Hellman spoke to the Associated Press regarding a federal judge in Louisiana who took medical leave after she was mysteriously pulled off a string of cases who is now facing a lawsuit from a fellow judge challenging her mental and physical capacity to manage her personal and financial affairs. Grant MacIntyre was quoted at length in WalletHub’s feature, “2017’s Greenest States,” discussing environmental impact.
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