Professor Christina Zawisza was recently recognized by Florida's Children First, a
statewide advocacy organization that she helped to create, as Director Emeritus, with
the following statement: "For realizing that Florida's children in care have similar
systemic problems across the state, Having the foresight to bring together passionate
child advocates to lay the groundwork in creating the leading nonprofit child advocacy
organization in the state of Florida, And for tirelessly working to improve child-caring
systems, serving for over a decade as a motivating force for all who follow."
Professor Kate Schaffzin was elected as treasurer of the American Association of Law
Schools (AALS) Section on Litigation.
Professor Kate Schaffzin's article, entitled "Beyond Bobby Jo Clary: The Unavailability
of Same-Sex Marital Privileges Infringes the Rights of So Many More than Criminal
Defendants," was published in the University of Kansas Law Review.
Professor Daniel Schaffzin's essay, "So Why Not An Experiential Law School ... Starting
With Reflection In The First Year," was published in volume 7 of The Elon Law Review.
Professor Schaffzin served on the Planning Committee for the Southern Clinical Conference
at William & Mary Law School. At the conference he co-presented a concurrent session
entitled "Is Subjective Assessment an Indispensable Cornerstone of Clinical Legal
Education? Exploring the Role that Subjectivity Should Play in the Evaluation of Law
Clinic Students."
Professor Steve Mulroy was recently published in the Willamette Law Review, the article
is entitled "Sunshine's Shadow: Overbroad Open Meetings Laws as Content-Based Speech
Restrictions Distinct From Disclosure Requirements."
Professor Mulroy presented a paper in March at the Sorbonne in Paris, as part of the
International Symposium on Freedom of Information & Governmental Transparency in the
Open Government Era, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. His paper, "Sunshine's
Chill: Overbroad American Open Meetings Laws and the Limits of Disclosure," which
takes a comparative approach, will be published in the book produced as part of the
symposium.
Professor Andrew McClurg's article, "In Search of the Golden Mean in the Gun Debate,"
will be published in volume 58 of the Howard Law Journal as part of a symposium, "Rights
vs. Control: America's Perennial Debate on Guns."
Professor Ernest Lidge's article, "The Necessity of Expanding Protection from Retaliation
for Employees Who Complain about Hostile Environment Harassment," was published in
the Louisville Law Review.
Professor Lidge also served as a presenter on a panel at the ABA Practice and Procedure
Under the National Labor Relations Act Committee Meeting, Region VIII. The panel topic
was "NLRB Rulemaking: Proposed Amendments to Election Procedures."
Professor Lidge was also a presenter at the Association of Administrative Law Judges
Annual Conference, where he spoke on the topic, "Legal Ethics for Administrative Law
Judges."
Professor Christina Zawisza was a presenter at the Association of Administrative Law
Judges Annual Conference, where she spoke the topic, "Children in the Courtroom."
Professor Barbara Kritchevsky gave a presentation entitled "Moot Court Judging: The
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," at the Moot Court Conference held at Marquette Law School.
She was also a panelist at the same Moot Court Conference, serving on a panel entitled
"Teaching Brief-Writing: Some Successful Approaches."
Professor Daniel Kiel recently had a chapter published in a book entitled "Law & Educational
Inequality: Removing Barriers to Educational Opportunities." His chapter, "Equity
Through Differentiation," examines the foundation and merits of the claim that equity
can be achieved by providing more individualized educational opportunities by granting
greater autonomy to individual school leaders.
Professor D.R. Jones was invited to be a speaker on copyright law at the Wake Forest
School of Law Intellectual Property in the Digital Age Symposium. The symposium was
in February 2015. Professor Jones discussed fair use issues and issues concerning
the resale of digital works.
Professor Jones' article entitled "Law Firm Copying: An Examination of Different Purpose
and Fair Use Markets" will be published in the winter issue of the South Texas Law
Review.
In February 2015, Professor Jones presented a paper topic, "Libraries, Contracts and
Copyright" at the 2015 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium (WIPIP)
held in Alexandria, Va., at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Professor Donna Harkness's article, entitled "Bridging the Uncompensated Caregiver
Gap: Does Technology Provide an Ethically and Legally Viable Answer," was published
in the spring 2015 edition of The Elder Law Journal.
Professor Amy Campbell published a chapter in the Handbook of Community Sentiment.
Her chapter was entitled "Is There a Therapeutic Way to Balance Community Sentiment,
Student Mental Health, and Student Safety to Address Campus-Related Violence?"
Professor Campbell also made a presentation, entitled "Embedding a Longitudinal Experience
in Public Health Law/Policy in the Academy & Community," at the APHA 2014 annual meeting
in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Professor Ralph Brashier's article, "Conservatorships, Capacity, and Crystal Balls,"
was the lead article in the first issue of volume 87 of the Temple Law Review (fall
2014).
The second edition of Professor Brashier's book, "Mastering Elder Law," was published
by Carolina Academic Press in January 2015.
In February 2015, Professor Brashier and Shelby County Probate Judge Kathleen Gomes
headed a legal-musical presentation on elder financial abuse, entitled "Probate: How
to Catch a Thief," before the Leo Bearman Sr. American Inns of Court.
Professor Jeremy Bock attended the second annual Roundtable on Empirical Methods in
Intellectual Property at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. He was also a panelist at
the Leo Bearman Sr. American Inn of Court program, "A Case For and Against Patent
Reform."
Professor Jeremy Bock published an article in the University of Richmond Law Review,
entitled "Does the Presumption of Validity Matter? An Experimental Assessment."
Citing our own Professor Katherine Schaffzin prominently, the Supreme Court of New
Jersey, in the case O'Boyle v. Borough of Longport, broadly adopted the common interest
doctrine. Click here to read more about the case.
Summer/Fall 2014
Professor Andrew McClurg's book, The "Companion Text to Law School: Understanding
and Surviving Life with a Law Student has been named one of Amazon Editors' Favorite
Books of the Year.
Professor Steve Mulroy has been a recently featured speaker at a number of events
in Fall 2014, such as:
A panel discussion on Tennessee Amendment 2 (judicial selection), Memphis Law SBA
sponsored event—October 2014.
A presentation on his amicus curiae participation in Van Tran v. Colson (6th Cir.
2014) and his Vermont Law Review article on mental retardation and the death penalty—Sponsored
by the Memphis Law Mental Health Law Society.
A debate against Prof. John Stinneford, Univ. Florida School of Law, on Eighth Amendment—sponsored
by Federalist Society—November 2014.
A panel discussion on Amendment 1 (abortion), a Memphis Law SBA/ACS sponsored event—November
2014.
Moderated panel discussion between Prof. Michael Helfand of Pepperdine School of Law
and Prof. Steven Green of Willamette School of Law re: the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court
decision and religious freedom—sponsored by the law school—November 2014.
Professor Lynda Black's article "The Birth of a Parent: Defining Parentage for Lenders
of Genetic Material" was published in the Nebraska Law Review June 2014 edition. She
also spoke at the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) Law Research
Conference hosted in Athens, Greece, with a presentation on how the practices of assisted
reproductive technology and surrogacy leave open many questions regarding legal parentage,
particularly when couples engage in these practices abroad and then return to their
home country with the child. Professor Black was also a workshop discussant at the
2014 Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, where she spoke
on the topic of "Innovations in Trusts and Estates."
Professor Jeremy Bock's article "Restructuring the Federal Circuit" was published
in the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law.
His article "Neutral Litigants in Patent Cases" was published in the North Carolina
Journal of Law & Technology in 2014.
Professor Donna Harkness participated in the 21st Belle R. & Joseph H. Braun Memorial
Symposium/2014 International Elder Law and Policy Conference, jointly sponsored by
John Marshall Law School, Roosevelt University and East China University of Political
Science and Law, held in Chicago during July. Professor Harkness presented remarks
as part of the Panel 2 discussion – "Health Care, Caregiving for Older Persons, and
Legal Decision Making." Professor Harkness' recently published article "What Are Families
For? Re-evaluating Return to Filial Responsibility Laws" was also featured in Professor
Katherine Pearson's (Penn State Dickinson Law) March 18, 2014, post to the Elder Law
Prof Blog.
Professor Jones presented a paper on "Law Firm Copying and Fair Use" at the Works
in Progress Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Colloquium held at Santa Clara University
School of Law, Santa Clara, Calif., in February and at the 15th Annual Intellectual
Property Scholars' Conference held at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif., in August.
Professor Jones was the moderator and a speaker for the program "Emerging Issues in
Copyright: What You Need to Know" at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual
Meeting in July 2014.
Professor Daniel Kiel made two presentations at the Education & Civil Rights Conference
at Penn State School of Law in June 2014. One paper offered the merger and demerger
of school districts in Shelby County as a case study of contemporary educational reform,
while the other made a broad structural critique of the American education system
as one of inherent inequality.
Professor Kiel also served on the scholar review committee for the renovations to
the National Civil Rights Museum, which reopened in April. He consulted on the completely
reconfigured exhibition on Brown v. Board of Education and contributed footage that
is now featured in the museum.
Professor Boris Mamlyuk published an article titled "Regionalizing Multilateralism:
The Effect of Russia's Accession to the WTO on Existing Regional Integration Schemes
in the Former Soviet Space" in the UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs.
Florida State University Law Review published Professor Mulroy's article "Raising
The Floor Of Company Conduct: Deriving Public Policy From The Constitution In An Employment-At-Will
Arena," co-authored by Elon University Professor (and former Memphis law professor)
Amy Moorman in the fall of 2014. Professor Mulroy has authored another law review
article "Sunshine's Shadow: Overbroad Open Meetings Acts As Content-Based And Distinct
From Finance Disclosure" which has been accepted for publication in several law journals
and is currently being evaluated by others. He made a presentation on this article
at St. Mary's Law School in San Antonio, Texas in the fall of 2014.
Visiting Assistant Professor John Newman's article "Cloud-Computing Contracts and
Innovation Policy" was accepted for publication in the Handbook of Research on Digital
Transformations for a forthcoming 2015 issue.
Professor Daniel Schaffzin's latest article "Warning! Lawyer Advertising May Be Hazardous
to Your Health: A Call to Limit Commercial Solicitation of Clients in Pharmaceutical
Litigation" was published in the winter 2013-14 volume of the Charleston Law Review.
The article has been reprinted in the latest Volume 63 of the Defense Law Journal.
In April 2014, Professor Daniel Schaffzin co-presented a concurrent session entitled
"Educating Money (and Other Motivators): Teaching Social Justice and Life Balance
to Future For-Profit Attorneys" at the annual AALS Conference on Clinical Education
in Chicago, Ill.
Professor Katherine Schaffzin has been named as a Provost's Fellow by the University
of Memphis and will serve in this role in the Provost's office in spring 2015.
Professor Katherine Schaffzin also had her article "Beyond Bobby Jo Clary: The Unavailability
of Same-Sex Marital Privileges Infringes the Rights of So Many More than Criminal
Defendants" in the October 2014 issue of the Kansas Law Review.
Professor Kevin Smith published his article "25 années de problem-solving courts aux
Etats-Unis" in the French publication Cahiers de la sécurité intérieure (Journal of
Safety).
Professor Smith also continues his service on the Tennessee Access to Justice Commission
– Education Advisory Committee and the Tennessee Access to Justice Commission – Pro
Bono Committee.
During the Legal Writing Institute's 2014 Biennial Conference, Professor Jodi Wilson
gave a poster presentation entitled "Wikipedia on the Rise: Teaching Legal Writers
to Assess Non-Traditional Sources." In June 2014, Professor Wilson gave a joint presentation
with Robert B. Vandiver, Jr., entitled "Joint Representation in Bankruptcy - Ethical
Considerations" at the American Bankruptcy Institute's 2014 Memphis Consumer Bankruptcy
Conference. Professor Wilson has been appointed to serve as the chair of the Listserv
Committee of the Legal Writing Institute and the co-chair of the Survey Committee
of the Association of Legal Writing Directors.
In April 2014, Professor Chris Zawisza presented a seminar on "Hot Topics in Education
Law" to over 100 student teachers in the University of Memphis Department of Education
student teaching seminar. In June 2014, she presented a CLE on "Ethics and Professionalism:
Integrity in the Courtroom" in Nashville on behalf of the Tennessee Administrative
Office of the Courts Dependency Court Improvement Program (AOC). The session has been
videotaped for viewing on the AOC website.
Spring 2014
Professor Boris Mamlyuk's essay, Uniting for "Peace" in the Second Cold War: A Response
to Larry Johnson, was recently published on the American Society for International
Law website. To read the full essay, please click here.
In an extremely unique result of legal scholarship, Prof. Andrew McClurg's presumption
proposal in the recent Hasting Law Journal was enacted into law in Florida. The presumption
statute pass unanimously through each legislative committee and also the Florida House
and Senate. Florida Governor Rick Scott signed it into law on June 20, 2014 and it
has an effective date of October 1, 2014. This is the ONLY statute of its type in
the nation. To read a PDF version of the original article, click HERE.To see the final version of the Florida statute, please click HERE.
Prof. Amy Campbell, director of the University of Memphis Health Law Institute, has
been selected as one of 10 faculty fellows chosen to participate in the Future of
Public Health Law Education: Faculty Fellowship Program. The program is funded by
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to foster innovations and build a learning community
among those who teach public health law at professional and graduate schools. For
more information, visit law.gsu.edu/phlfellowship.
Professor D.R. Jones is the recipient of the 2014 American Association of Law Libraries
Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award. This national award, which is one of
AALL's highest honors, is given for outstanding achievement in research and writing.
The award is for Professor Jones' article entitled Locked Collections: Copyright and
the Future of Research Support, 105 Law Library Journal 425 (2013) (available HERE). Professor Jones will receive the award at the AALL Annual Meeting in July 2014.
Spring 2013
Prof. Boris Mamlyuk participated in an academic conference titled "Russia Between
Asia and Europe" in Moscow and Perm, Russia from May 27 to June 2, 2013. The conference
was organized by Rossotrudnichestvo, under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. Prof. Mamlyuk also participated in the Institute for Global Law
and Policy Conference and Colloquium at Harvard Law School from June 2 to June 8,
2013. Prof. Mamlyuk presented remarks on a forthcoming article with Dr. Karolina Zurek,
titled "Political Economy of a 21st Century Corporate Mass Merger: Walmart-Massmart
and the Future of Global Governance."
Prof. Christina Zawisza was reappointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to the Court
Improvement Program Work Group. The Supreme Court has asked the Work Group to review
and revise the Tennessee Rules of Juvenile Procedure.
Prof. Kate Schaffzin's article, The Great and Powerful Oz Revealed: The Ethics and
Wisdom of the SCOTUS Leaks in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebilius,
7 CHARLESTON L. REV. 317 (Winter 2012-13) (invited submission) will be published later
this year in the Charleston Law Review.
Prof. Jodi Wilson has several recent publications: How the Supreme Court Thwarted
the Purpose of the Federal Arbitration Act, 63 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 91 (2012) and
Students Can't Avoid What They Can't See: Helping Students Recognize Ethical Pitfalls,
THE SECOND DRAFT, Fall 2012, at 11. A forthcoming publication will be: Teaching by
Engaging; Engaging by Gaming, The Learning Curve (forthcoming Winter 2013-2014).
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs David Romantz was elected to the Executive Committee
of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section for Legislation & Law of
Political Process.
Prof. Kate Schaffzin presented at the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference
at the University of Memphis School of Law in early 2013. She presented a course on
Prosecutorial Ethics in Closing Arguments.
Whitney Curtis, Assistant Director for Public Services in the Memphis Law Library,
recently published an article titled We Go Out Looking for Trouble: Taking Library
Services to the Patrons' Point of Need in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and
Writing.
Assistant Professor Boris Mamlyuk presented a paper at the University of Maryland,
in connection with the annual meeting of the Society of American Law Teachers. The
presentation topic was "Logic and Pedagogy: Third World Perspectives & Public International
Law." A link to the conference can be found here.
Prof. Daniel Kiel was recently selected as one of the University of Memphis' 2013
Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Award recipients.
Prof. Alena Allen recently presented her paper, Direct to Consumer Advertising and
Neo Classical Economics: A Dangerous Cocktail, at the St. Louis University and American
Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics health scholars workshop.
Prof. D.R. Jones was appointed to serve on the American Association of Law Libraries'
Copyright Committee, a national committee that serves to represent, promote, and advocate
AALL's interests regarding copyright and other intellectual property issues.
Professor D.R. Jones' article, Protecting the Treasure: An Assessment of State Court
Rules and Policies for Access to Online Civil Court Records, was accepted for publication
in the Drake Law Review, volume 61, issue 2 (2013). The article has been distributed
in the LSN Information Privacy Law eJournal (sponsored by the George Washington University
Law School and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology), the LSN Cyberspace Law
eJournal and the LSN Information & Technology eJournal.
Fall 2012
Assistant Dean for Career Services, Estelle Winsett, was recently named one of the
2013 Memphis Bar Association Fellows.
Professor Lynda Black's review of Alan L. Feld's article, Who Are the Beneficiaries
of Fisk University's Stieglitz Collection?, was recently published inTrusts & Estates
JOTWELL publication. Please read her full review, The Failings of Donor Intent, by clicking here>>
Herff Chair and Professor Andrew McClurg's article , Fight Club: Doctors vs. Lawyers,
was recently published as the lead article in Chicago Medicine Magazine, the official
publication of the Chicago Medical Society. The article is a revised, shortened version
of an article McClurg originally published in the Temple Law Review. To read the article,
please click here>>
Herff Chair and Professor Andrew McClurg's book review of Philip Howard's Life Without
Lawyers: Restoring Responsibility in America has been published in the American Journal
of Legal History, vol. 52, p. 387.
Professor Danny Schaffzin has been appointed by Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton, Jr. to
serve on the Memphis Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service Commission, comprised
of seven members, conducts hearings to review disciplinary actions, including suspensions,
dismissals, or demotions, of any city employees not exempted from the provisions of
the City of Memphis Charter and Code. Members of the Commission are appointed by the
Mayor, with the approval of a majority of the Memphis City Council. Professor Schaffzin
will serve a three-year term as a commissioner.
Summer 2012
The Community Alliance for the Homeless has recognized our very own Professor Steve
Mulroy, also a Shelby County Commissioner, by awarding him the Homeless Public Champion
Award for his recent advocacy for the homeless. Please click here to read more.
Jamie B. Kidd has been named the assistant director for Law School Administration
at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Her responsibilities
will include matters concerning human resources, accreditation, budgeting, academic
regulations, and other administration-related projects.
Jacqueline O'Bryant is the new coordinator of diversity programs at the Cecil C. Humphreys
School of Law at the University of Memphis. O'Bryant will oversee the Tennessee Institute
for Prelaw, the state's only summer diversity access program for law school. She will
also actively recruit and support diverse law students, while developing additional
diversity outreach initiatives for the school.
The Student Bar Association has named Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Parker as the
2011-2012 Adjunct Professor of the Year and has posthumously named Professor Francis
Gabor as the 2011-2012 Professor of the Year.
Professor Daniel Kiel received the Farris Bobango Scholarship Award for The Memphis
13, a documentary film. The film tells the stories of the 13 African-American individuals
who broke the color line in the Memphis City Schools system.
Herff Chair and Professor Andrew McClurg is one of 10 professors nationwide to be
invited to this summer's West Author Inside Look conference, in which select West
Academic Publishing authors are invited to the publisher's manufacturing headquarters
in Minneapolis to meet with editors and staff to tour the facility and discuss current
and future trends in legal publishing.
Spring 2012
Professor Boris Mamlyuk will be participating in the third annual Institute of Global
Law and Policy workshop at Harvard Law School from May 29 to June 9, 2012. Click here to view a video of Professor Mamlyuk's from last year's Workshop.
Whitney A. Curtis, Assistant Director, Public Services at the Law Library, was a presenter
at the 2012 Southeastern American Association of Law Libraries Conference. The Conference
is entitled In Step with the Future, and is in Clearwater Beach, Florida on March
22-24, 2012. Ms. Curtis will present a session entitled We Go Out Looking for Trouble:
Taking Library Services to Patrons' Point of Need. This presentation is part of the
SEAALL Insitutute, Going Mobile in a Mobile World.
Professor Christina Zawisza has been reappointed by Tennessee Supreme Court Justice
Sharon Lee for an additional year on the Court Improvement Program Workgroup. The
workgroup is charged with identifying and addressing barriers for safety, permanency,
and child and family well-being at the state and local levels.
At the invitation of the Governor's Counsel, Professor Eugene Shapiro recently submitted
his views concerning the constitutional issues involved with the state regulation
of a public forum.
Two law professors, Chris Zawisza and Angela Laughlin Brown, are working with law
students to assist the Shelby County Juvenile Court in operating its Youth Court program.
Youth Court is an effort to divert juvenile first time offenders from adjudication
as delinquents. Professor Zawisza recently presided over one Youth Court trial, while
a Student Attorney in the Child and Family Litigation Clinic, Jennifer Sutch, mentored
a young prosecutor. Professor Laughlin-Brown also recently mentored a high school
student and also introduced her Evidence students to the Youth Court process.
Professor Daniel Schaffzin was a presenter at the Externships 6 Conference, Preparing Lawyers: The Role of Field Placement, co-hosted by Harvard Law School and Northeastern University School of Law on March
1-4, 2012. Professor Schaffzin presented as part of a session entitled "Necessary
Control or Control Freak? For and Against Faculty Selection of For-Credit Field Placements
for Externship Students."
Professor Alena Allen recently published an article in the BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
LAW REVIEW entitled State-Mandated Disability Insurance as Salve to the Consumer Bankruptcy
Imbroglio.
Professor Barbara Kritchevsky, whose article, Judging: The Missing Piece of the Moot
Court Puzzle, served as inspiration for the Legal Writing Institute's model guidelines
for oral argument judges. The guidelines will be used by coordinators of intramural
and national moot court competitions to educate their oral argument judges. The article
originally appeared in 37 U. Mem. L. Rev. 45 (2006).
Professor and Herff Chair Andrew McClurg was interviewed on West Academic Publishing's
Insider Blog about his new book, The "Companion Text" to Law School: Understanding
and Surviving Life with a Law Student.
Callie Caldwell (JD 10) has been named the first public interest counselor in the
Office of Career Services. Read more here>>
Estelle Winsett, Assistant Dean for Career Services, was recently named a West TN
Delegate for the TBA General, Solo and Small Firm Practitioner's Section Executive
Council.
Professor Katharine Traylor Schaffzin contributed to the winter edition of the AALS
Evidence Section Newsletter.
Professor Daniel Schaffzin will be a presenter at the Externships 6 Conference in
March. Professor Schaffzin's session abstract is "Necessary Control or Control Freak?
For and Against Faculty Selection of For-Credit Field Placements for Externship Students."
The session will be held at Harvard Law School.
Professor Boris Mamlyuk recently published an article in the WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
GLOBAL STUDIES LAW REVIEW entitled Russia and Legal Harmonization: an Historical Inquiry
into IP Reform as Global Convergence and Resistance.
Professor Lee Harris recently gave a talk to Duquense Law School faculty in Pittsburgh,
regarding executive compensation and reform.
Professor and Herff Chair Andrew McClurg recently published a book entitled, The "Companion"
Text to Law School: Understanding and Surviving Life with a Law Student (West 2012).
Read more about the book here.
Fall 2011
Professor Donna Harkness published an article in the December 2011 edition of the
TENNESSEE BAR JOURNAL, Now That We've Got It, What Does It Do For Us? The Uniform
Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act! The article is the
feature story in the publication.
Professor Katharine Traylor Schaffzin contributed to the winter edition of the AALS
Evidence Section Newsletter.
Professor Katarine Traylor Schaffzin authored three guest posts on EvidenceProf Blog
regarding the newly revised Federal Rules of Evidence that became effective on December
1, 2011. Click on the following links for the posts: Take 1, Take 2 and Take 3.
Professor Lee Harris recently authored a guest column for the Commercial Appeal.
Professor and Herff Chair Andrew McClurg was recently featured in an entertaining
article in the Commercial Appeal.
Associate Dean David Romantz spoke to the Memphis Daily News about the law school's
new curriculum, effective for the incoming class of 2012.
Professor and Herff Chair Andrew McClurg's article, Fixing the Broken Windows of Online
Privacy Through Private Ordering: A Facebook Application, has been published as the
feature article by the Wake Forest Law Review Online.
Professor Boris Mamlyuk attended a conference on Third World Approaches to International
Law (TWAIL) hosted by the University of Oregon, School of Law from October 20-22,
2011. His presentation discussed whether TWAIL frameworks offer any guidance to understanding
international law developments in the Post-Soviet space. Additionally, Professor Mamlyuk
moderated a panel titled "Situating TWAIL within Political Struggles and Ideational
Contestations." The conference brought more than 50 international law scholars from
more than ten countries.
Professor Ernest Lidge was a panel speaker at the ABA/NLRA Practice and Procedure
Region meeting on Friday, Sept. 10 on the topic of "NLRB Rule Making: Proposed Amendments
to Election Procedures." He will also speak at the upcoming Federal Bar Association
Annual Seminar on Wednesday, Oct. 26 on the topic of "Ethics of Contacting the Opposing
Party's Current and Former Employees."
The Memphis 13, a documentary directed and produced by Professor Daniel Kiel, premiered
to the public on Tuesday, October 4, 2011. Click here for the full release.
Professor Steven Mulroy spoke on Separation of Church and State: DeSoto County Issues
on Sept. 15, at the Cordova Library. The event was sponsored by the Memphis Freethought
Alliance. The talk dealt with the constitutional issues raised by the recent controversies
in DeSoto County regarding the broadcast of prayers at public high school football
games, and the distribution of Bibles by private groups on public school campuses
during school hours.
The Law Teacher will publish an essay written by David S. Romantz, Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs, in its spring 2012 edition. Professor Lee Harris was recently
included in Memphis-based Grace Magazine's "Top Forty Under Forty" list.
Read the September issue of the National Jurist for insights from Professor Andrew
McClurg about the first year of law school. The Law Teacher is published twice a year
by the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning (previously the Institute for Law School
Teaching). It provides a forum for ideas for improving teaching and learning in law
schools and informs law teachers of the activities of the Institute.
Jamie Kidd (JD 10) joined the law school in August as Acting Assistant Dean for Administration.
Memphis Law named five new faculty in the fall of 2011.
Professor Barbara Kritchevsky chatted with the Daily News in August about her years
of involvement with Memphis Law's advocacy program.
Professor Daniel Kiel was featured in August on CSPAN discussing the history of Memphis
school desegregation.
This summer, Professor Lee Harris published his second book, Corporations and Other
Business Entities: A Practical Approach.
Janette Smith, law school receptionist, received a Bachelor of Professional Studies
with a concentration in Organizational Leadership from the University of Memphis.
Professor and Herff Chair Andrew J. McClurg's book, 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled
Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School, was recently touted
in an article about the summer before law school that appears in both the National
Jurist's Prelaw and Concurring Opinions, a well-respected legal blog.
