Faculty News & Announcments 2001

December 2001

Professor Dennis D. Hirsch's editorial, "Nation must reduce its need for oil," appeared in The Columbus Dispatch on December 13, 2001, on page A15.

Professor and President Emeritus Josiah Blackmore dedicated the newly constructed courtroom and chamber of the Honorable James Graham, U.S. district court judge for the southern district of Ohio. Professor Blackmore, as the keynote speaker for the event, spoke about Themis, the Greek goddess of justice and civility. Most of the members of the federal bench and many leaders of the Central Ohio legal community were in attendance.

November 2001

Professor Lance Tibbles has been invited to serve a four-year term on the Ethics and Grievance Committee of the Columbus Bar Association. The committee investigates complaints of disciplinary violations by local attorneys and prosecutes disciplinary violations before the Board of Commissioners of Grievance and Discipline and the Supreme Court of Ohio. This is his second term on the committee.

Dean Steve Bahls was elected chair of the board for Columbus Works, Inc., a United Way agency that provides job-readiness programming for disadvantaged young people to move from unemployment to the workplace. He previously served two years as vice chair of the organization.

Professor David Mayer presented a paper and participated in a panel discussion at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., in a conference titled "Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy," celebrating the academy's bicentennial.

Dean Bahls and Professors Robert Wade and Rick Wood were part of a delegation of Central Ohio judges and attorneys who traveled to Shanghai, China, to prepare Chinese judges for participation in the World Trade Organization. Dean Bahls spoke to the judges of the Shanghai High People's Court on the subject of the "Rights of Minority Shareholders in U.S. Corporations."

October 2001

HIRSCH PARTICIPATES IN ENVIRONMENTAL FORUMS
Professor of Law Dennis Hirsch participated in the U.S. EPA Stakeholder Forum on Regulatory Innovation in Washington, D.C. on October 31, 2001. An invitation-only meeting with senior EPA officials, Professor Hirsch and other representatives from the environmental, business, legal and government communities met to discuss the future of environmental regulatory innovation. Professor Hirsch also delivered the opening address at the American Bar Association and Environmental Law Institute Joint Forum on "Prospects for Second Generation Legislation" in Washington, D.C. on October 18, 2001. The talk was titled Regulatory Innovation and the Existing Environmental Law Framework: The Need for Second Generation Legislation. Professor Hirsch outlined the tensions between innovative approaches to environmental regulation and the existing legal framework. These tensions, and possible solutions to them, are a primary focus of Professor Hirsch's research.

On October 19, 2001, Professor Lance Tibbles spoke at and moderated the Law School's fall symposium, "Thinking About Biomedical Advances: The Role of Ethics and Law." Professor Tibbles organized the symposium which included Michael H. Shapiro, bioethicist and law professor at the University of Southern California Law School.

August 2001

Professor David Mayer participated in a press conference in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., announcing the release of the reports of the Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter. Mayer joined 12 other distinguished historians and professors of government, economics, law and microbiology on the blue-ribbon panel that re-examined the allegation that Thomas Jefferson fathered children by his slave Sally Hemings.

May 2001

On May 30, 2001, Dean Steve Bahls spoke on the subject of fund-raising and friend-raising after a major capital campaign at the American Bar Association's Law School Development Officer's Conference.

April 2001

Dean Steve Bahls spoke about the issues facing the next generation of lawyers at the Franklin County Trial Lawyers meeting.

February 2001

On February 15, 2000, at the American Bar Association Dean's meeting in San Diego, CA, Dean Steve Bahls served on a panel discussing how to motivate law school administrators and staff to achieve excellence.

January 2001

On January 9, 2001, Dean Steve Bahls spoke to the Columbus Bar Association's People's Law School on "What the Greek Goddess Themis Symbolizes for Contemporary Justice."