FACULTY PRESENTATIONS
Jessie Allen presented her work in progress, “Empirical Doctrine,” to the faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Elena Baylis was an invited participant in a workshop “International Law as Behavior” at the American Society of International Law (ASIL)’s Tillar House in Washington, D.C. The workshop was convened by the ASIL Legal Theory Interest Group and University of Georgia School of Law. A book based on the presentations at the workshop will follow.
Deborah Brake was an invited speaker at a symposium held at Boston University School of Law, “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 at 50: Past, Present and Future." Her paper, “On Not Having it Both Ways and Still Losing: Reflections on 50 Years of Pregnancy Discrimination,” will be published in the symposium issue of Boston University Law Review.
Mary Crossley led a program at La Roche College for the University of Pittsburgh’s Consortium Ethics Program titled “Tax-exempt Hospitals and Community Obligations: How the Affordable Care Act Changes the Picture.” The Consortium Ethics Program is a regional health care ethics network that provides educational programming for nurses, physicians, social workers, and other ethics committee members from participating health care institutions.
Tony Infanti presented a CLE program for the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County (Pa.). The title of the program was “Surveying the Post-DOMA Tax Landscape: Key Questions and Issues."
Rhonda Wasserman was a panelist in a program titled “Class Actions and FLSA Collective Actions: Overview, Differences, and Third Circuit Developments” hosted by the Federal Courts section of the Allegheny County Bar Association in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Rhonda Wasserman addressed the United States Supreme Court’s treatment of class action waivers and the fraud-on-the-market theory as well as cy pres remedies and the court’s fiduciary duty to absent class members in reviewing proposed class action settlements.
