SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Jessie Allen's forthcoming work,
Discriminating Professionals: Can Lawyers Choose Clients on the Basis of Race or Gender?, was the focus of a roundtable of legal ethicists at Cardozo Law School in New York City on March 25, 2016. The discussion focused on a proposed amendment to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Responsibility, on
which Allen has submitted comments.
Chaz Arnett presented at the
Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, hosted by American University Washington College of Law. Held from January 28-30, the conference’s focus was on the rights of children. Arnett presented on a work-in-progress titled “Virtual Shackles,” which focuses on the proliferation of electronic monitoring of juvenile defendants.
Dean William M. Carter, Jr. moderated the Q&A following Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg’s lecture entitled "
A Matter of Interpretation" at Carnegie Mellon University recently. The event was organized by Kiron Skinner, the director of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute of Politics and Strategy and the Center for International Relations and Politics. Joseph Devine, assistant dean of Dietrich College, gave the opening remarks.
Vivian Curran presented "A Slice of Life in Vichy France" at Cardozo Law School on April 17, 2015. She was also on a panel presenting a talk entitled "Commemoration as a Form of European Resilience" at the Council on European Union Studies Annual Conference, on April 16, 2016 in Philadelphia. At the same conference, Curran appeared as a discussant at a session on Perspectives of EU Law.
Stephanie Dangel participated in the Ashoka U Exchange at Tulane University, where she presented an article co-authored with Pitt Law Professor Michael Madison, “Innovators, Esq.: Training the Next Generation of Lawyer Social Entrepreneurs,” 83 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 967 (2015).
Lawrence Frolik delivered the Edward J. Kelly Memorial Lecture on Elder Law at Notre Dame Law School. Frolik’s talk, entitled, “Loving and Loathing the Elderly,” focuses on how societal attitudes towards the elderly effect legal and programmatic responses to the needs of older Americans.
David Garrow served as a panelist at the April 8, 2016 conference "The Color of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of the African American Community" at Georgetown Law. He was a member of a three-speaker panel on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the FBI.
Anthony Infanti gave the keynote address at the second annual conference of the Centre on Taxation and Governance at the University of Birmingham Business School in Birmingham, England. The conference theme was “Taxation as a Social and Political Institution.” Professor Infanti’s talk was titled “Tax Law and Politics: Seeing Self and Other in the Tax Mirror.”
Rhonda Wasserman spoke at the program “Discovery Dilemmas: Staying Clear of the Ethical Inferno.” The program was
sponsored by the Women’s Bar Association of Western Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh Friends of E-Discovery. Her co-presenter was Reed Smith partner David Cohen. Professor Wasserman and Cohen engaged the audience in an interactive game that raised a host of ethical issues in the e-discovery context.