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Faculty Highlights and Intellectual Life

Faculty Presentations

RECENT PRESENTATIONS BY STURM COLLEGE OF LAW FACULTY

Fall Semester 2009:

  • Alan Chen, Rosy Pictures and Renegade Officials: The Slow Death of Monroe v. Pape, Edward A. Smith/Bryan Cave Symposium, Enforcing Constitutional Rights in the 21st Century: Section 1983 Thirty Years After Owen v. Independence, October 23, 2009
  • Justin Marceau, Don’t Forget Due Process: The Path Not (Yet) Taking in § 2254 Habeas Corpus Adjudications, Second Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Conference, Michigan State University College of Law, October 23, 2009
  • Rashmi Goel, Reasonable Rape, Fourteenth Annual Lat Crit Conference, American University, Washington College of Law, October 2-4, 2009
  • Phoenix Cai, Making WTO Remedies Work for Developing Nations: The Need for Class Actions, Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, September 25, 2009
  • Tamara Kuennen, Calling the Police to Report Domestic Violence: Exercising the Right of Petition, Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, September 24, 2009
  • Viva Moffat, Proposal, A Uniform Noncompetition Agreement Act, Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, September 24, 2009
  • Jan Laitos, Seminar on Natural Resources Law, Austral Univ. School of Law, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2009.
  • Jan Laitos, The Emerging Conservation of Natural Resources, presented to the 54th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, San Francisco, CA., July 2009
  • Jan Laitos, The Looming Right of Nonuse, presented to the 35th Annual Conference on Resource Economics, Hawaii, June 2009
  • Jan Laitos, The Law of Resource Nonuse, presented to the Society of Economics and Environmental Law, Vancouver, BC, April 2009.


Spring Semester 2009:

  • Professor Kris Miccio, convened and presented at the Roundtable on Male Intimate Violence in Dublin Ireland, May 13, 2009. Her topic was Male Intimate Violence and Conceptions of Accountability.
  • Professor Rashmi Goel presented at the Dublin Roundtable on Male Intimate Violence on May 13, 2009.
  • Professor Kris Miccio gave a presentation on the integration of legal theory with practice at the University of Dublin Law School, May 20, 2009.
  • Professor Kris Miccio, spoke at the St. John’s Law School Conference, “Thinking Outside the Box: New Theories and Strategies in the Law of Domestic Violence. Her topic was Castle Rock, Domestic Violence and the Failure of the Battered Women’s Movement.” March 2009
  • Prof. Kris Miccio presented at the Human Rights Colloquium, Columbia University Law School, October, 2008. Her topic was, “A Cruel Deception: Castle Rock, Constitutional Protection and Conceptions of State Accountability.”
  • Professor Eli Wald gave a presentation in California, The Other Legal Profession and the Orthodox View of the Bar: The Rise of Colorado’s Elite Law Firms, Faculty Colloquium, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA, April 2009.
  • On Friday, March 20, Professor Bob Hardaway delivered his paper “The Great American Housing Bubble: the Road to Collapse” at the University of Dayton Law School Conference:” The Fallout form the Bailout: the Impact of the 2008 Bailout on Lending Regulation, Securities regulation, and Business Ethics: How Weaknesses in the Mortgage Market Created the Need for the 2008 Bailout”. Former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt also delivered a paper at this conference.
  • Professor Eli Wald gave a talk in Texas, Loyalty In Limbo: The Peculiar Case of Attorneys’ Loyalty to Clients, 8th Annual Legal Malpractice and Professional Responsibility Symposium, St. Mary’s Law School, San Antonio, TX, February 2009.
  • Professor Rachel Arnow-Richman gave a talk entitled How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ALI’s Restatement of Employment Law, at the Labor Law Group Conference on the ALI’s Restatement of Employment Law, U.C. Hastings College of Law in February 2009.
  • Professor Erik Bluemel presented Regional Regulatory Initiatives Addressing GHG Leakage in the USA, at the Climate Change and European Emissions Trading Symposium in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in January 2009. He will give a talk on The Implications of Wolf Depredation Compensation Strategies on the Development of Beneficial Wildlife Coexistence Practice by Ranchers in the Rocky Mountain Region at the Natural Resources Law Teachers Institute in Chico Springs, Montana in May 2009.

At the January 2009 meeting of the AALS, the following DU faculty spoke:

  • Dean Beto Juárez spoke on the panel, Best Practices for Recruitment of Minority Law Professors.
  • Professor Roberto Corrada presented Does the Carnegie Report Support Humanizing Legal Education? at the AALS Section on Balance in Legal Education (Thursday, January 8, 2009) and Toward an Integrated Framework for Title VII Religion Cases, at the meeting of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination. The latter paper was one of four selected through a competitive call for papers.
  • Professor Sam Kamin presented on a panel on Race and Gender in the Legal Profession.
  • Professor Joyce Sterling gave a presentation on the panel, What Funding Is Available How to Get It; Databases, which addressed the availability of databases and funding for research on issues of race and gender in the legal academy and profession.
  • Also, lecturer Valeria Elliott spoke on the panel, Cooperative Efforts to Maximize Study Abroad Opportunities: Can U.S. Law Schools Work Together?
  • Among Professor Ved Nanda’s recent presentations was a talk on U.S. Foreign Policy under the Obama Administration at the International Council of Foreign Relations in New Delhi, India in January 2009.


Fall Semester 2008:

  • Professor Eli Wald spoke at a CLE, Effective Attorney-Client Communications, Tuesdays at the Bar, Denver Bar Association, Denver, CO, November 2008.
  • Professor Ved Nanda spoke on Religion and Human Rights at the 60th Anniversary celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the ABA and Paris Bar Association meeting in New York City in November 2008.
  • Professor David Thomson was the keynote speaker on Practical Legal Education in the United States and China, hosted by Peking University Law School, in Beijing, China, in late October 2008.
  • Professor Eli Wald gave a paper called Understanding the Duty of Loyalty: The Peculiar Case of Lawyers’ Loyalty to Clients, at the Center in Law, Economics and Organization Workshop at the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California, in October 2008.
  • Professor Kristen Carpenter presented Individual Religious Freedoms in Indian Country at a symposium on The Indian Civil Rights Act at 40, at Michigan State University Law School, and In Defense of Property at the Michigan State University Faculty Workshop in early October.
  • At the Third Annual Colloquium on Labor & Employment Law Scholarship at California Western School of Law in San Diego in late October, Professor Roberto Corrada gave a presentation entitled A Plan for NLRB Rulemaking and Professor Marty Katz presented What Constitutional Law Can Learn from Employment Discrimination Law.
  • Professor Nancy Ehrenreich was a speaker on the panel, Issues in Intersex Informed Consent, at the University of Connecticut School of Law and presented A Substantive Justice Approach to Reproductive Rights, at the LatCrit Annual Conference, Seattle University School of Law in October 2008.
  • Professor Rachel Arnow-Richman gave two presentations at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida on August 1, 2008. She presented a work in progress, Employment as Transaction, on the panel Pedagogical Methods for Teaching Labor and Employment Law in the 21st Century and presented a talk about the value of procedural protections for employees seeking workplace accommodations as a mechanism of dispute avoidance on the panel Tackling Workplace Disputes: A Spectrum of Approaches.