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December 2007

New York Public Radio interviewed Professor Brad Smith on their program "On the Media", Sun., Dec. 16. Smith was interviewed about the low number of confirmed members of the Federal Election Commission and what this means for the 2008 Presidential Election. [ Listen Here ]

Dec. 14, Professor Dennis Hirsch gave a 1-hour CLE presentation at the Columbus Bar Association. His talk, titled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Programs: Speaking the Language of Trading”, provided an overview of the main carbon trading programs and reviewed current legislation for a possible federal program.

Professor Mike Distelhorst has had several speaking engagements in December, 2007 in which he presented on the subject of ethics and substance abuse. December 4, Distelhorst was a speaker for the Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association (FCTLA) for their 2007 Ethics, Substance Abuse, and Professionalism Seminar. The title of his presentation was the New Ethics Rules. December 6, Distelhorst spoke to the Board of Governors of the Ohio State Bar Association about the Carnegie and Stuckey Reports on Legal Education. December 7, Distelhorst was a speaker for the Supreme Court of Ohio Judicial College’s state-wide video teleconference program entitled Ethics, Professionalism and Substance Abuse for Magistrates. He spoke on the topic “Substance Abuse: The Growing Incidence of Combined Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Anxiety/Depression Disorders in the Legal Profession.”

November 2007

Professor Floyd Weatherspoon has been inducted into the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. He also has been appointed to the Virgin Islands Panel of National Arbitrators.

Professor Mike Distelhorst has had a busy November. He was the speaker for the annual, firm-wide “Ethics and Professionalism” program at Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP in Akron, Ohio. He was one of the speakers for the “Standards of Practice Project” for Juvenile Courts Training held at the Ohio Judicial Center under the direction of the Advisory Committee for Children, Families & the Courts, Legal Representation Subcommittee for The Supreme Court of Ohio. His presentation was entitled, “Representing Children and Parents Touched by Substance Abuse.” Most recently, Professor Distelhorst spoke for Leadership for Tomorrow, Excellence in Ethics program held by The Ohio State University Leadership Center. The title of his presentation was “Ethical Leadership and Five Essential principles of Business Ethics.”

Professor David Mayer spoke about "Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary" at the Commonwealth Dinner of the Virginia Society (the combined Virginia chapters) of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), in Alexandria, Virginia, on November 17. Mayer was awarded the silver Good Citizenship Medal by the Virginia Society of the SAR.

November 14, Professor Dennis Hirsch was the featured speaker at the Georgetown University Law Center Environmental Law Research Workshop. Hirsch presented a work-in-progress paper entitled “The Greening of Industry and the Evolution of Environmental Law.”

Professor Angela Upchurch, the Real Living Academic Director for the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy at Capital, will be representing NCALP at a White House Compassion in Action Roundtable on "Faith and Community Solutions for Orphans and Vulnerable Children." The Roundtable will convene on Friday, November 16, 2007. Only 100 representatives from across the country were asked to participate.

October 2007

Professor Susan Rozelle, who is currently serving as a visiting professor at the University of Oregon School of Law for 2007-08, was interviewed on Oregon Public Radio for two stories — Central Oregon Man Imprisoned Wrongfully (OPB radio broadcast Oct. 30, 2007) and Oregonians' Perceptions of Statutory Rape May Be Changing (OPB radio broadcast Oct. 31, 2007).

[ Listen to the wrongful imprisonment story ]

[ Listen to the statutory rape story ]

On October 6, 2007, Professor Regina Burch presented a draft of her work-in-progress entitled, “Cultural-Identity-Protective Bias and the Need for Corporate Board Diversity,” at a junior faculty development workshop sponsored by the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) and the Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc. (LatCrit). The workshop was part of the annual conference entitled, “Critical Localities: Epistemic Communities, Rooted Cosmopolitans, New Hegemonies, and Knowledge Processes.”

Professor Angela Upchurch, the Real Living Academic director of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy at Capital, was the featured guest speaker at a recent meeting of the Juvenile Law Committee of the Columbus Bar Association; the meeting was co-sponsored with the Central Ohio Association of Juvenile Lawyers. Upchurch spoke about the importance of representing children involved in the legal process.

The National Center for Adoption Law & Policy was one of 40 invited participants from across the country to participate in the National Council for Adoption’s Families for All National Parent Recruitment Summit on Oct. 3. Professor Upchurch represented the Center. The summit participants developed and sent a statement to Congress urging them to reform the foster care financing system.

Professor Brad Smith published "Von Spakovsky Deserves Senate Confirmation" in the October 29 Roll Call, a newspaper of Capitol Hill. [ Read the article -- subscription required ]

Smith published "Bundling ban would unravel free speech" in the October 30 Politico which covers politics and the presidential campaign, as well as lobbying. [ Read the article ]

Professor Athornia Steele has been appointed by the Ohio State Bar Association Board of Governors to a one-year term as an at-large member of the Commission on Judicial Candidates beginning January 1, 2008. In years in which there is an election involving the chief justice or other justice(s) of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the Commission evaluates each candidate for those offices based upon several factors (legal knowledge and ability, professional competence, judicial temperament, integrity, diligence' health' personal responsibility, and public and community service) and publishes its ratings of the candidates (not recommended, recommended, or highly recommended).

Professor David Mayer spoke about "Atlas and the American Revolution" at The Atlas Society's conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, on October 6 in Washington, D.C. Professor Mayer's summary of the conference and the text of his talk are posted on his blogsite, MayerBlog.

Professor Mayer also gave a talk on "Interpreting the Constitution Contextually: How Both Liberals and Conservatives Get It Wrong" on October 19 at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan (sponsored by Cooley's chapter of the Federalist Society).

October 4, Professor Mike Distelhorst spoke at the Fall 2007 Conference of the Ohio Association of Magistrates, sponsored by The Supreme Court of Ohio Judicial College. Distelhorst’s presentation was entitled, “The Growing Incidence of Combined Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Anxiety/Depression Disorders in the Legal Profession.”

Professor Distelhorst also spoke on October 19, 2007 at a program entitled “Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics” sponsored by The Central Ohio Center for Economic Education. The topic of his presentation was “Self-Interest and Greed.”

Professors Mark Brown and Floyd Weatherspoon were guest speakers at The Fourth Bench Bar Conference of the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio on Oct. 4-5, 2007. Weatherspoon was joined by Judge John R. Adams and spoke on Employment Law. Brown and Judge Gregory L. Frost gave an update on § 1983.

September 2007

September 28, an article discussing the Jena 6 by Professor Floyd Weatherspoon was featured by Diverse Issues in Higher Education. The article, Perspectives: Jena Sparks Interest in African-American Youth in Civil Rights, discusses how the unfornate incidents can "inspire and motivate African American youth."

Additionally, Professor Weatherspoon was a guest speaker at the Association for Conflict Resolution National Conference held in Phoenix, Az. He spoke on “Developing an Internal Conflict Resolution Program.” He presented two programs for the State Bar of Michigan Alternative Dispute Resolution Section Annual Meeting and Conference in Traverse City, Mich. He gave an advanced mediation training on “Using Principals for Effective Representation in Mediation to Inform Mediator Strategies and Interventions” and he presented a second advanced mediation training in the area of cultural competence: “What Mediators and Advocates in Mediation Need to Know.”

September 18, Professor Dennis Hirsch spoke at Carbon Finance World 2007, an international meeting of professionals working in the area of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction finance and trading. Hirsch served on a panel entitled "Forcing Change: How Will Climate Litigation Influence the Market?" His presentation focused on recent cases in which states and private parties have brought public nuisance and tort claims against large emitters of GHG. He explained how these cases increase the need for, and likelihood of, comprehensive federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, probably in the form of a cap-and-trade system.

Roll Call profiled Professor Brad Smith and the Center for Competitive Politics September 17.

[ Link to Roll Call item -- requires subscription ]

Also on September 17, Professor Smith and John Lott published an op-ed in New York Post about the New York Times' advertising rate given to the controversial Moveon.org advertisement.

[ Link to New York Post Op-Ed ]

Professor Lance Tibbles, Director of the Ethics Institute at Capital Law School, addressed a joint meeting of the Ohio Society of Healthcare Risk Managers (OSHRM) and The Society of Ohio Healthcare Attorneys (SOHA) on September 27, 2007.

Professor Tibbles’ topic was “The Organization As A Client Under the New Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct.” The Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct, which regulates the professional conduct of lawyers, was promulgated by the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio and became effective on February 1, 2007. The “Ohio Rules” are a combination of the “ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct” and existing Ohio law under both common law and the old “Ohio Code of Professional Conduct,” which was superseded by the new “Ohio Rules.”

According to Professor Tibbles, a 2003 amendment to the ABA Model Rules would permit an organization’s lawyer to reveal confidential information outside the organization if the organization has clearly engaged in a violation of law and the organization’s lawyer reasonably believes that the violation is reasonably certain to result in substantial injury to the organization. However, this ABA provision was not included in the new Ohio Rules. But of keen interest to attorneys representing business organizations, a separate provision in the new Ohio Rules requires a lawyer to disclose any material fact when the disclosure is necessary to avoid assisting an illegal or fraudulent act by the lawyer’s client. This provision compelling disclosure of confidential information may be more important for lawyers representing organizations than the omitted ABA provision that permits, but does not require, disclosure of confidential information.

Tax Expert Myron Grauer was quoted in the Wall Street Journal printed edition on Sept. 19 and on the WSJ Law Blog on Sept. 17 regarding NFL coach Bill Belichick's fine. The story also ran on the wires and appeared in the Sept. 18 edition of the Los Angeles Times and on Sept. 24 in The Baltimore Sun. [ Read the law blog entry ]

Sept. 11, Professor Mike Distelhorst was one of the speakers for the Ohio Land Title Association’s 2007 Annual Convention in Columbus, Ohio.

Sept. 27, Distelhorst was the luncheon speaker for the Council for Ethical Leadership. The subject of his presentation was “Ethical Issues in the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown.”

August 2007

Professor Floyd Weatherspoon presented a session at the Florida State Courts 16th Annual Dispute Resolution Conferences in Orlando, Fla. He spoke on “Mediating Employment Disputes: A Guide to Resolution.” He also was the plenary speaker for the topic: “Eliminating Barriers and Expanding Diversity in the Field of ADR: Creating a Formula for Success.

Professor Lance Tibbles, Director of the Ethics Institute at Capital University Law School, has been appointed to the Ohio Health Ethics Advisory Committee for Community-Based Services. This multi-disciplinary Committee is one of five Ethics Committees for Ohio Health (Riverside, Grant, Doctors West, & Grady Hospitals) and is made up of both employees and community members. The Committee serves the lines of service for HomeReach - hospice, skilled homecare, medical equipment, and infusion – as well as the Gerlach Senior Health Center for patients in non-acute settings.

The Ohio Health Ethics Advisory Committee for Community-Services has three primary roles: (1) Education about ethical issues for the members and staff of HomeReach and the Gerlach Senior Health Center; (2) Case consultations for patients served in the community-based settings involving issues of safety in the home, autonomy, ethical conflicts between the patient/family and the staff or between patients and families; & (3) Review of organizational policies, often recommending guidelines to Ohio Health management.

The Committee has recently considered the ethical considerations involved in the supplying and discontinuing oxygen in the home setting, offering futile treatment, projecting the impact of the impact of pandemic flu on the central Ohio community, and providing culturally sensitive end-of-life care to diverse populations.

Professor Tibbles also continues to serve on the Honoring Wishes Task Force of the Ohio Hospice & Palliative Care Organization, the Capital University Institutional Review Board, and the Columbus Children’s Hospital Institutional Review Board.

Professor Mike Distelhorst has been named the new Executive Director of the Council for Ethical Leadership. The Council is an organization of businesses and professional firms which advocates the highest standards of ethical leadership in business and the professions.

He served as a member of the Ethical Leadership Panel for the Ohio Ethics Commission’s “Ethics Education Session for Senior Staff” program held at the Riffe Center on August 24, 2007.

August 16, Distelhorst presented a program on Legal Ethics, Professionalism, and Substance Abuse in the Legal Profession for the Legal Department of Wendy’s International. The program included a presentation on Ohio’s New Rules of Professional Conduct, and was attended by members of the Wendy’s Legal Department and other attorneys from various outside law firms and corporations.

August 10, Distelhorst was a panelist for the Ohio Ethics Commission’s program on “Ethical Leadership”. The program was presented to several hundred Senior Staff of Ohio’s various government agencies and departments.

Professor of Legal Research and Writing Risa Dinitz Lazaroff has been selected to participate in the Hadassah Leadership Academy (HLA), a two-year program that is "at the cutting-edge of Jewish Women's studies and leadership development." Hadassah is a Jewish women's organization with more than 80,000 members worldwide that supports the Hadassah Medical Organization in Israel and humanitarian efforts to provide war victims with medical care. Only 15 women were selected to participate in the HLA from the Columbus, Ohio region. The program includes monthly meetings, a visit to Washington, DC to lobby Ohio's congressmen on issues affecting Israel, attendance at the Hadassah's National Convention in Los Angeles, and a trip to Israel in spring 2009 to meet with officials of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. After completion of the program, Professor Lazaroff will be responsible for organizing a social action event addressing an issue of concern to Hadassah and its membership.

Professor David Mayer has joined the advisory board of the College of the United States, a new liberal-arts college being established by the Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute.

Professors Jim Beattie and Mark Brown published an op-ed titled "Ohio Supreme Court ruling puts governor's veto power at risk" in the August 10, Cleveland Plain Dealer.

[ Read the article ]

August 8, Executive Director of NCALP Denise St. Clair was quoted by ABC regarding adoptive parents. [ Read the Article ]

Also, the August 6 Fayetteville Observer quoted St. Clair in its article "Every adoptive parent's worst nightmare" about child abductions. [ Read the Article ]

Professor Mark Brown published an op-ed in the Aug. 1 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. It was a response to an editorial about Ralph Nader.

[ Read the article ]

Professor Angela Upchurch, academic director of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy at Capital University Law School, appeared on the Live Desk with Martha MacCallum on Fox News Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. MacCallum interviewed Upchurch about screening processes for parents who adopt from the foster care system.

Professors Myron C. Grauer and Richard J. Wood have both published tax-related articles in volume 39 of the Arizona State Law Journal.

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July 2007

Professor Rachel Janutis was selected to serve as director of faculty development. [ More ]

Professor Floyd Weatherspoon published an editorial in the July 11 USA Today, "Schools have failed black male students". [ Read the Editorial ]

Professor Mark Strasser was interviewed in the Economist article "Out and proud parents". [ Read the article ]

Professor Dan Kobil was quoted in the July 4 Seattle Weekly article "Gov. Gregoire: One Tough Clemency Judge" by Nina Shapiro. [ Read the Article ]

Kobil was quoted in the July 5 USA Today and interviewed on radio station KSRO. [ More ]

Additionally, he was quoted extensively by editor Tom Scarritt of The Birmingham News (Alabama) in the editorial, “If Scooter Libby merits mercy, what about Don Siegelman?” on July 8, 2007. Scarritt referred to Kobil’s 2001 congressional 2001 on executive clemency in his editorial about the controversial use of the president’s power in commuting Scooter Libby. [ Read the editorial ]

Professor David Mayer presented two lectures – “Judicial Activism, Real and Imagined” and “Crime Through Time: The Joy of Historical Mystery Novels” – at The Atlas Society’s Summer Seminar at Towson University, in Towson, Maryland, July 9 & 10. Additionally, his essay “Thomas Jefferson, Man versus Myth,” which originally appeared on MayerBlog, Professor Mayer’s Web log, April 13, 2006 (link), has been published as a monograph by The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois.

Associate Dean and Professor Shirley Mays has been invited to be a panelist at the ABA's Annual Meeting. The title of the session is "Deans' Panel Discussion - Communication with Administration" and the panel will address how successful communication among SBA leaders and law school administrators can enhance their credibility and advance their missions and goals. This year's annual meeting will take place from August 9 - 14, in San Francisco, CA.

Professor Brad Smith published an article in the June 27 Wall St. Journal. [ Read the Article ]

Professor Dennis Hirsch published a co-authored chapter in Climate Change and US Law (M. Gerrard, ed., 2007). The title of the chapter is "Emissions Trading -- Practical Aspects".

June 2007

Adjunct Professor Michael Lehv published two book chapters in the 7th Edition of Legal Medicine (American College of Legal Medicine, 2007). The titles were "Medical Product Liability" and "Liability of Plastic Surgeons".

Professor Max Kravitz has assumed Professor Emeritus status.

Also, Kravitz served as co-counsel on a case that was featured on Dateline. The case overturned a woman's complicity to commit aggravated murder conviction on insufficiency of the evidence, thereby barring retrial based on double jeopardy. The prosecution is appealing to the Ohio Supreme Court.

Professor Rachel M. Janutis and Tracy A. Thomas published Q & A Remedies, by Lexis Nexis.

June 28, Professor Lance Tibbles was interviewed by Channel 10 news in Columbus, OH. Tibbles was asked to comment on an exhibit now appearing in Columbus that features human bodies in such a manner as to reveal the muscles and internal organs. He raised questions regarding the relationship of a human being to the human body and body parts suggesting in his interview moral and legal questions raised by displaying bodies in this manner.

Professor Dennis Hirsch presented "Privacy Law Theory and Advocacy" to the Privacy Law Workshop, Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley on June 22, 2007.

June 14, 2007 Hirsch gave a presentation to the City of Columbus Green Team, a group that advises the Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, on environmental policy and sustainable development. His talk, “Ecosystem Services and the Green City,” described the ways in which natural ecosystems can provide valuable services to human society (e.g. flood protection, water filtration, cooling, pollination, etc.), and discussed the policies that cities can adopt to enhance and protect urban ecosystems and the services that they provide.

The Ohio State Law Journal accepted for publication Professor Peggy Cordray’s latest article entitled “Strategy in Supreme Court Case Selection.”

Professor Micah Berman led two sessions discussing the development and implementation of tobacco-free school policies at the Ohio Coordinated School Health Conference at Salt Fork State Park on June 19.

He was also was the speaker at “Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy” in South Lake Tahoe, California, June 4. Session entitled “Let the (Legal) Challenges Begin” – a review of legal challenges to smoke-free laws. Additionally, he testified before the Ohio Senate’s Finance and Financial Institutions Committee regarding funding for tobacco prevention efforts.

Professor Myron Grauer published an article in the Arizona State Law Journal. This article is titled Justice O’Connor’s Approach to Tax Cases: Could She Have Led the Court Toward a More Collaborative Role for the Judiciary in the Development of Tax Law?, 39 Ariz. St. L.J. 69-133 (2007).

Professor Mark Brown presented a work-in-progress at a Florida State University Law School workshop June 7. His paper was titled "Qualified Immunity in the Eleventh Circuit: Is there Hope?" Additionally, he was interviewed by Sam Hendren of WOSU Radio regarding constitutionality of Congress withholding funds for the Iraq war.

May 2007

On May 15, Professor Dennis Hirsch was a guest lecturer at the State of Play Academy, a virtual conference center created by the Stanford Law School Center on the Information Society. The Academy exists in a virtual world called There. People can create an avatar and use it to participate in Academy lectures. His topic was “Why Privacy Injuries are the Environmental Damage of our Time, and What This Can Tell Us About How to Protect Privacy.” It took insights from the field of environmental law and policy and applied them to the emerging area of privacy regulation.

An article in the Daily Reporter featured an exercise developed by Professors Angela Upchurch and Susan Gilles that brings civil procedure rules to life in class through a simulated litigation project.

Professor Tom Brown weighed in on teaching civility to new lawyers in the May/June 2007 issue of Ohio Lawyer. Professor Brown specifically touted the exemplary behavior of Capital students in the article.

Professor Susan Rozelle's paper entitled, "The Principled Executioner: Capital Juries' Bias and the Benefits of True Bifurcation" was recently listed on Social Science Research Network's (SSRN) Top Ten download list for "Criminal Procedure".

Professor Micah Berman spoke to the Wellness Council of Northeast Ohio at the Cleveland Clinic on May 29. The presentation was entitled “Tobacco in the Workplace: New Guidelines, New Directions.”

Berman also served as the keynote speaker for the Employer Health Care Alliance of Cincinnati. The presentation on May 11 was entitled “Work, Smoking & Health: Designing and Executing Policies for the Workplace.” May 9, he testified before the Ohio Senate’s Health, Human Services & Aging Committee regarding the Smoke-Free Workplace Act.

Professor David Mayer was a participant in Liberty Fund's “American History Roundtable” (a round table discussion of Liberty Fund’s publishing program in American history), in Indianapolis, Indiana, May 17-19, 2007.

Professor Brad Smith published an article, Stifling Speech, in the May 10 New York Post. The article discussed campaign finance restrictions.

Also, Smith was featured on American Public Media's Marketplace May 8 radio show. Listen here.

Professor Danshera Cords presented a paper at the Akron Law School faculty development workshop.

April 2007

The April 30 issue of the Weekly Standard quoted Professor Brad Smith at length in an article, The Right To Life Lobby vs McCain, on the relationship between John McCain and the pro-life movement. The article focused on the role that campaign finance has played in that rift between the pro-life senator and the leading pro-life lobbying organization.

Also, Smith published "McCain-Feingold Failed to Meet Its Goals" in Roll Call on April 30. Subscribers can access the entire article here.

Professor Susan Rozelle's most recent article, Fear and Loathing in Insanity Law: Explaining the Otherwise Inexplicable Clark v. Arizona, will appear in volume 58 of the Case Western Reserve Law Review. It is scheduled for publication in Fall 2007.

Professor David Mayer was the commentator on two papers, in a panel on “Early Republican Ideology and Aspirations,” at the Ohio Academy of History annual meeting, at Otterbein College, in Westerville, on April 28.

April 26, Professor Dennis Hirsch presented "GHG Emissions Trading: Is There a Role for Lawyers?" at the Ohio State Bar Association 22nd Annual Ohio Environmental Law Seminar on the panel on "Climate Change and its Implications for Environmental Practice".

April 26, Professor Susan Looper-Friedman spoke at the 87th annual state conference of the Business and Professional Women of Ohio. Her topic was lobbying state legislators.

Professor Roberta Mitchell was selected as one of the NOW Inspiring Female Professor at Capital awards. She was honored on April 25 in the Weiler Conference Suites.

Professor Micah Berman gave a presentation on April 24 at Capital University on "Clean Elections: A New Solution to an Old Problem." The event was sponsored by the Democracy Matters student group and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

April 20, Berman spoke in Baltimore, MD at a conference hosted by the University of Maryland Law School entitled “’Safer’ Tobacco Products: Reducing Harm of Giving False Hope?” His presentation focused on the legal and regulatory implications of the major cigarette manufacturers (Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds) entering the smokeless tobacco market. A paper based on the presentation will be published in the law school’s Journal of Healthcare Law & Policy later this year.

Professor Danshera Cords was quoted in On the Docket, April 25 on the case of Hinck, John, et ux. v. U.S.

[ Read the Article ]

March 2007

Dean and Professor of Law Jack A. Guttenberg joined three other law school deans as facilitators for the Ohio Judicial Conference’s Symposium on the Changing Role of Judges held at the Ohio Judicial Center on January 25-26, 2007. The symposium has lead to a number of recommendations that are currently being developed into a “white paper” and being reviewed by the Ohio Judicial Conference Specialty Courts Committee and Judicial Ethics Committee for final recommendations and consideration.

Professor Lance Tibbles has been appointed to the Honoring Wishes Task Force of the Ohio Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. This task force, comprised of professionals from emergency medical services, emergency room physicians and nurses, hospital administrators, and home health providers, as well as legal and medical experts on end-of-life-care, will examine Ohio palliative care and end-of-life healthcare policies. [ More ]

Professor Mark Brown was quoted in a widely-distributed AP article, "CIA Leak case moves on to civil court" by Mark Apuzzo.

[ Read the Article ]

Professor Dan Kobil was quoted the Sunday, March 3, 2007 Houston Chronicle in the article by Michelle Mittelstadt, "Bush in a quandary over border agents' case".

[ Read the Article ]

February 2007

The highest court of Maryland, the Maryland Court of Appeals, cited Professor Charles Cohen's article from the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, " Eminent Domain After Kelo v. City of New London: An Argument for Banning Economic Development Takings", 29 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 491 (2006), in a decision handed down on Feb. 8 in Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Valsamaki, 2007 WL 415356 (Md. Feb. 08, 2007) (No. 55 Sept. Term 2006). Maryland's high court is the second state supreme court (along with the Supreme Court of Ohio) to cite Professor Cohen's article in an eminent domain decision.

Professor Brad Smith Awarded a Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University for summer 2007. Past Visiting Scholars include John Gray of Oxford Univ., Stephen Macedo of Princeton, Jacob Levy of Univ. of Chicago.

Professor David Mayer was interviewed February 15 on Jamie Johnson's "Faith and Freedom Network" radio show, on KFFF-AM and KFFF-FM in Ames and Des Moines, Iowa, discussing Thomas Jefferson's political philosophy and Professor Mayer's blog essay "Rating the U.S. Presidents".

Professor Brad Smith appeared on the show Early Today with Contessa Brewer on February 9.

Professor Brad Smith was quoted in the New York Times on February 7 in an article entitled "White House Bid? Giuliani Is Still Undeclared" and in the Associated Press on February 9 in an article entitled "Candidates begin hunting for '08 funds" and in the Bangor Daily News on February 16 in "US Senate Race Coffers Filling".

On February 7, Professor Dennis Hirsch gave a lecture at the University of Georgia Law School. The talk, which was entitled “Protecting the Inner Environment: What Privacy Regulation Can Learn from Environmental Law,” is based on an article by the same name that he recently published in the Georgia Law Review. Each year, the Law Review selects one of its authors to present their work at the law school. This year, it selected Professor Hirsch for that honor.

Professor Lance Tibbles, of Capital University Law School was an invited participant in a meeting on February 6 at the Ohio Department of Health today. Department officials met with interested parties to review the Department’s draft amendments of Ohio’s “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR) rules. The draft amendments would eliminate the current distinction in the Department’s administrative regulations between a “DNR Comfort Care Patient” and a “DNR Comfort Care–Arrest Patient.” Following today’s meeting Health Department officials will consider changes in the Department’s draft before setting the proposed amendments for a public hearing in the spring.

Professor Regina Burch was a featured speaker in Cleveland-Marshall School of Law’s faculty lecture series. Professor Burch presented her article on a post-Sarbanes-Oxley SEC determination that an outside director of a public company who fails to oversee properly corporate operations may be unfit to serve as a director and officer of any public company.

January 2007

Professor Floyd Weatherspoon published an opinion piece entitled “Black Male Student-Athletes Owe Themselves, Forefathers More” in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a national publication for in Blacks in Higher Education.

January 29, Professor Mike Distelhorst was a speaker for the portion of a program entitled Roundtable Ethics – Best Practices in the Public Sector. The program was presented as part of the annual Ohio Forum on Public Retirement, the Annual Conference for The Public Retirement Systems of Ohio. Professor Distelhorst’s presentation dealt with the principles of Sarbanes-Oxley as guidelines for public trustees and management.

Professor Floyd Weatherspoon published an article in North Carolina Law Journal (29 N.C. Cent. L.J. 1) entitled Racial Justice and Equity for African-American Males in the American Education System: A Dream Forever Deferred.

Dean and Professor of Law Jack A. Guttenberg was a guest speaker at the January 10th swearing in of Terrence O’Donnell, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Guttenberg Offered reflections on legal scholarship and former Attorney General Jim Petro offered reflections on the law. The ceremony was attended by Gov. Ted Strickland, Attorney General Marc Dann and Auditor Mary Taylor. The Hon. Michael A. Barrett, judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, was master of ceremonies and Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer administered the oath of office. Guttenberg also served as a facilitator for the two-day conference of the Ohio Judicial Conference.

Professor Peggy Cordray was quoted in the Washington Post in an article on the Supreme Court’s docket entitled “Justices Continue Trend of Hearing Fewer Cases” Sunday, January 7.

Professor Brad Smith appeared twice on MSNBC (12/29/06) and Hannity and Colmes (1/5). These appearances were generated by Smith’s blog entry entitled “Racing to Absurdity: What would Dale Earnhardt Do?”, which discussed the application – or misapplication – of campaign finance policies to cases involving stock car racer Kirk Shelmerdine and filmmaker Michael Moore.

Professor Brad Smith published an op-ed in Washington Examiner with Paul Sherman on January 25. The article, “It’s an Unhappy Birthday as Campaign Finance Reform Turns 100,” discusses the failure of campaign finance reform to achieve its objectives 100 years after passage of first federal law.

Professor Brad Smith published an op-ed in Columbus Dispatch on January 26, “Campaign Finance Reform Has Roots in Bigotry,” about Senator Ben Tillman, on 100th anniversary of Tillman Act, the first federal campaign finance law.