An update of the scholarly activities of the Pitt Law faculty.
An update of the scholarly activities of the Pitt Law faculty.
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Faculty Impact                                                 May 2016

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP AND ACTIVITY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF LAW

Deborah Brake Addreses Maternity Discrimination and Title IX in Latest Georgetown Law Journal Issue and Yale Lecture

Deborah Brake's latest work, "The Shifting Sands of Employment Discrimination: From Unjustified Impact to Disparate Treatment in Pregnancy and Pay" has been accepted for publication in Vol. 105, No. 2 of the Georgetown Law Journal. Additionally, Brake was an invited speaker at Yale University, April 26, 2016. The event, "The Past, Present and Future of Title IX," was sponsored by The Scholars Strategy Network and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. Brake presented her latest work in progress to the multi-disciplinary audience.

Jules Lobel Hosts International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Prolonged Solitary Confinement Conference

Jules Lobel hosted the highly successful International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Prolonged Solitary Confinement at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, April 15-16. With hundreds of guests in attendance, the conference brought together leading neuroscientists, professors of medicine, psychologists, prison officials, and former prisoners from around the world to explore the medical, mental health, and neurological damage wrought by prolonged solitary confinement. Other Pitt Law professors who moderated panels include Matiangai Sirleaf, Jasmine Gonzales Rose, and David Harris.
Lobel was the lead attorney in the landmark solitary confinement case Ashker v. Governor of California and is currently president of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Pitt Law Dean William M. Carter Jr. Lectures at Pennsylvania Supreme Court for Second Founding Celebrations

Dean William M. Carter, Jr. gave a lecture May 16 at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of our nation’s Second Founding. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Commission on Judicial Independence and the Pennsylvania Bar Association hosted the special lecture at the Pennsylvania Capitol Building.
Dean Carter, an expert on the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution, presented "Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction," which was aired on Pennsylvania cable as well.

NEW PUBLICATIONS


Douglas Branson published "Alternative Entities - Reintroduction of Fiduciary Concepts By The Backdoor," in Mark J. Loewenstein’s and Robert W. Hillman’s just-released book, Research Handbook On Partnerships, LLCs And Alternative Forms Of Business Organizations (Edward Elgar 2015).
Douglas Branson will publish "An Essay For Professor Alan Bromberg: Removing the Taint from Past Illegal Offers and Sales – 40 Years Later," in Southern Methodist University Law Review.
John Burkoff’s 2016 edition of the two-volume treatise, Search Warrant Law Deskbook, has been published by Thomson Reuters.
Danshera Cords’ Surviving Poverty in a Post-Welfare Reform America" was published by ABA Tax Times. The paper is a review of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. Their book is a multidisciplinary consideration of the consequences of poverty in a post welfare-reform America.
Vivian Curran will publish her article, "U.S. Discovery and Foreign Blocking Statutes," in 75 La. L. Rev. It addresses issues that have resulted in an uncomfortable situation, too often characterized by insufficient mutual understanding, between the common law and civil law world in the area of evidence gathering in transnational litigation.
Lawrence Frolik published "Private Long-Term Care Insurance: Not the Solution to the High Cost of Long-Term Care for the Elderly" in 23 The Elder Law Journal 371 (2016), a journal published by the University of Illinois College of Law. 

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.”
Matiangai Sirleaf served as a panelist on a discussion at Duke University's Keenan Institute for Ethics addressing the power and limits of current human rights approaches to confronting mass atrocities in Africa, as well as the possibilities of alternative models. 
Matiangai Sirleaf spoke at Case Western Reserve University School of Law as part of the junior faculty exchange program this February. She presented her article “Regionalism, Regime Complexes and International Criminal Justice in Africa” (forthcoming Spring 2016) before the faculty.
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.

David A. Harris Launches Criminal (In)Justice Podcast with Pittsburgh's NPR Station, 90.5 WESA, Reaches 12,000 Downloads Since April

David A. Harris, an expert in criminal justice, racial profiling, and police procedure, has developed a new podcast series titled Criminal (In)Justice. Produced by 90.5 WESA’s Josh Raulerson, Criminal (In)Justice examines issues surrounding America’s justice system through interviews with leading figures in the field. Guests so far have included former federal judge Robert Cindrich, Assistant District Attorney for Miami-Dade, Fla., Melba Pearson, and Capt. Chip Huth of the Kansas City (MO) Police Department.
Criminal (In)Justice has risen to the top of iTunes New and Noteworthy lists, been downloaded more than 12,000 times, and has been renewed for another season after the initial eight episodes. Subscribe on iTunes.

IN THE NEWS

Michael J. Madison's "Constructing Commons in The Cultural Environment" Recognized Among Most-Cited IP Law Articles in the Last 10 Years

Michael J. Madison’s paper “Constructing Commons in The Cultural Environment” was recognized as being among the most-cited IP law articles in the last 10 years in a study by Written Description, a patent and IP law blog. The article was ranked 14th in the Intellectual Property category with 62 cites.

COMMENTARY


Michael J. Madison was recently featured on Episode 90 of Oral Argument, a podcast about law, law school, and legal theory. The episode, titled “We Are a Nation of Time-Shifters?” focuses on fair use, a topic in which Madison has extensive knowledge. 
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