Law School

Marjorie Corman Aaron
Professor of Clinical Law, Center for Practice in Negotiation and Problem Solving

Marjorie was appointed to serve on Governor Strickland's Ohio Judicial Appointments Regional Panel.

Marjorie completed teaching her Making Mediators Workshop, a CLE seminar for lawyers who want to learn to mediate. She coached and accompanied two student teams to the ABA Regional Representation in Mediation Competition at Michigan State.

Marjorie spoke on Academy to Action for Effective Negotiation Practice to the West Chester Chamber Alliance.

Profile of Professor Aaron :: Center for Practice in Negotiation & Problem Solving

Marianna Brown Bettman
Invited Professor of Law

Marianna published Damaging Ruling on Punitive Damages as her monthly Legally Speaking column in American Israelite and City Beat.

Marianna chaired a meeting of the Truman Scholarship Committee, which awards scholarships to college juniors from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana to pursue public service careers. She moderated a program on Immigration at Home sponsored by a variety of civic and religious organizations.

Marianna hosted a visit to the College by former Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge William McClain, who spoke to the students on A Struggle for Selfhood.

Profile of Professor Bettman

Lou Bilionis
Dean and Nippert Professor of Law

Lou visited Shandong University in Jinan, China to develop relationships with their School of Law. He delivered a lecture there on Five Leading Developments in Contemporary American Constitutional Law Scholarship.

Lou concluded 10-month project as chair of the steering committee of the President's UC|21 Diversity Task Force with submission of final report to the President's Executive Committee and report to the Board of Trustees.

Lou attended the annual Ohio Bench/Bar/Deans Conference in Newark, Ohio and the ABA Mid-Year Meeting and Law School Deans' Workshop in Miami. He delivered remarks at the Law Review's Banquet commemorating its 75th Anniversary.

Lou visited with College of law alumni in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, and San Francisco.

Lou's article, Legitimating Death, 91 Mich. L. Rev. 1643 (1993), was cited in Scott W. Howe, Furman's Mythical Mandate, 40 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 435 (2007).

Profile of Dean Bilionis

Barbara Black
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Corporate Law Center

Barbara organized and moderated the Center for Corporate Law's symposium, Twenty Years After Shearson/American Express v. McMahon: Assessing Investors' Remedies. Among the presenters and commentators were:

• Edward J. Brunet (Lewis & Clark)
• Mercer E. Bullard (Mississippi)
• Jill Gross (Pace)
• Jennifer A. O'Hare (Villanova)
• Jeffrey Stempel (UNLV)
• Stephen J. Ware (Kansas)

Barbara hosted a panel discussion at the College on Professional Lives of Corporate Counsel.

Barbara's book, Corporate Dividends and Stock Repurchases, (Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1990), was cited in Charles W. Murdock, Business Organizations (West, Illinois Practice Series, 2007 Supp.).

Barbara's article, The Elusive Balance Between Investor Protection and Wealth Creation, 26 Pace L. Rev. 27 (2005) (with Jill Gross), was cited in Stephanie Thielen Eckerle, Three Strikes You're Out: The Effect and Controversies of the SEC's Attempted Mandate for Greater Independence on Mutual Fund Boards, 40 Ind. L. Rev. 149 (2007).

Profile of Professor Black

Kristin Kalsem
Professor of Law

Kristin's article, Bankruptcy Reform and the Financial Well-being of Women: How Intersectionality Matters in Money Matters, 71 Brook. L. Rev. 1181 (2006), was cited in In re Gellington, No. 06-31918 HDH-13, 2007 WL 706955 (Bankr.N.D.Tex. Mar. 8, 2007).

Profile of Professor Kalsem

A. Christopher Bryant
Professor of Law

Chris's book, Powers Reserved for the People and the States: A History of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments (Greenwood Press 2007) (with Thomas B. McAffee & Jay S. Bybee)., received a very favorable review by David Ponet (Columbia) in the Law and Politics Book Review published by the Law & Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. The review praised the book's "lucid description of these federalism amendments and their applications – from their moment of inception to the present day."

Chris's article, The Third Death of Federalism, was accepted for publication in the Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy.

Profile of Professor Bryant

Paul L. Caron
Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director, Faculty Projects

Paul presented Technology in the Law School Classroom at The Future of Law Libraries Symposium in Jacksonville, Florida.

Paul's TaxProf Blog received its 2.5 millionth visitor in March, making it the most-visited law-focused blog edited by a single law professor.

Paul was quoted in:

• Court has Second Thoughts in Tax Case, Nat'l L.J., Mar. 5, 2007.
• Second Life's Looming Tax Threat, CNNMoney, Mar. 7, 2007.
• Unmerited Designs on a Tax Deduction, Washington Post, Mar. 14, 2007.

Paul launched Poverty Law Prof Blog, edited by Ezra Rosser (American) & Lowell Hunt (Notre Dame), as part of his Law Professor Blogs Network.

Paul published several issues of his Tax Law Abstracts e-journals :

• 2 issues of Tax Law & Policy (vol. 8, nos. 8-9).
• 2 issues of Practitioner Series (vol. 7, nos. 5-6).
• 1 issue of International & Comparative Tax (vol. 7, no. 6) (co-edited with Robert A. Green (Cornell)).

Several of Paul's articles were cited:

• Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 1 (2005) (with Rafael Gely), and Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2005) (with Bernard S. Black), in Ronen Perry, The Relative Value of American Law Reviews: Refinement and Implementation, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2006), and Ronen Perry, Correlation versus Causality: Further Thoughts on the Law Review/Law School Liaison, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 77 (2006).
• Ranking Law Schools: Using SSRN to Measure Scholarly Performance, 81 Ind. L.J. 83 (2005) (with Bernard S. Black), and What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004) (with Rafael Gely), in Alfred L. Brophy, The Relationship Between Law Review Citations and Law School Rankings, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 43 (2006).

Profile of Professor Caron

Jacob Cogan
Assistant Professor of Law

Jacob presented Competition and Control in International Adjudication at the University of Georgia School of Law's International Law Colloquium.

Jacob's essay, Noncompliance and the International Rule of Law, Yale J. Int'l L. 189 (2006), was one of five papers chosen for the international law blog Opinio Juris's inaugural online symposium for junior scholars. The commentator on Jacob's paper was Joost Pauwelyn (Duke), and Jacob wrote a reply to the commentary.

Profile of Professor Cogan

Margaret Drew
Professor of Clinical Law and Director, Domestic Relations/Violence Clinic

Margaret published Do Ask and Do Tell: Rethinking the Lawyer's Duty to Warn in Domestic Violence Cases, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 447 (2006) (with Sarah Buel).

Margaret attended a two-day conference on Domestic Violence and Mediation at the Hamilton County Domestic Relations Court and spoke on the work of the Domestic Relations/Domestic Violence Clinic as part of a panel of local service providers.

Along with her clinic students, Margaret hosted a dinner for clinic students from Detroit's Mercy Law School Immigration Clinic and their clinical professor, David Koelsch, who were in Cincinnati to argue two immigration cases before the Sixth Circuit.

Margaret's article, Lawyer Malpractice and Domestic Violence: Are We Revictimizing Our Clients?, 39 Fam. L.Q. 7 (2005), was cited in Linda D. Elrod & Honorable James P. Buchele, Kansas Family Law (West, Kansas Law and Practice, 2007 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Drew

Rafael Gely
Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law

Rafael published:

• The Law and Economics of Identity, 14 Duke J. Gender Law & Pol'y 229 (2007).
• Workplace Blogs and Workers' Privacy, 66 La. L. Rev. 1079 (2006) (symposium) (with Leonard Bierman).

Several of Rafael's articles were cited:

• Dead Poets and Academic Progenitors: The Next Generation of Law School Rankings, 81 Ind. L.J. 1 (2005) (with Rafael Gely), in Ronen Perry, LLD., The Relative Value of American Law Reviews: Refinement and Implementation, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2006) and in Ronen Perry, LLD, Correlation versus Causality: Further Thoughts on the Law Review/Law School Liaison, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 77 (2006).
• Labor Law Access Rules and Stare Decisis: Developing a Planned Parenthood-Based Model of Reform, 20 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 138 (1999) (with Leonard Bierman), in Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law (Thomson-West, 3rd ed., 2007 Supp.).
• A Rational Choice Theory of Supreme Court Statutory Decisions with Applications to the State Farm and Grove City Cases, 6 J. L. Econ. & Org. 263 (1990) (with Pablo T. Spiller), in Max M. Schanzenbach & Emerson H. Tiller, Strategic Judging under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: Positive Political Theory and Evidence, 23 J.L. Econ. & Org. 24 (2007).
• So, You Want to be a Partner at Sidley & Austin, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 969 (2003) (with Leonard Bierman), in David B. Wilkins, Partner, Shmartner! EEOC v. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1264 (2007).
• What Law Schools Can Learn From Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L. Rev. 1483 (2004)(with Paul Caron), in Alfred L. Brophy, The Relationship between Law Review Citations and Law School Rankings, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 43 (2006).

Profile of Professor Gely

Mark A. Godsey
Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice, Ohio Innocence Project

Mark completed an article, Reliability Lost, False Confessions Discovered, to be published in the Chapman Law Review as part of a symposium on Miranda at 40: Applications in a Post-Enron, Post 9/11 World at which Mark spoke in January.

Mark spoke on DNA and the Innocence Revolution at Ohio Northern University School of Law, Hebrew Union College, and London High School (London, Ohio). He spoke on Successful Fundraising Techniques and on A Primer Course for Lawyers Seeking to Understand How to Use DNA Technology in Post-Conviction Cases at the National Innocence Network Conference at Harvard Law School.

Mark appeared on the Dateline NBC espisode Killer Instinct, a one-hour episode dedicated to the story of Melinda Elkins and her quest to free her innocent husband from prison. He also was interviewed by the Oxygen Network for an upcoming episode on Melinda Elkins and the Elkins case.

Mark was selected as the winner of the TIAA-CREF Award for Extraordinary Public Service. President Nancy Zimpher will present Mark with the award at a ceremony in the Great Hall, Tangeman University Center, on May 1.

Mark hosted two speakers at the College as part of the Seasongood College Visitor Series

• Richard Leo (San Francisco), Police Interrogations and False Confessions: Understanding and Solving the Problem
• Victor Streib (Ohio Northern), The Application of Capital Punishment to Women in Ohio

Mark was quoted in several newspapers:

• University of Cincinnati College of Law Receives Million-Dollar Gift in Support of Innocence Project, US States News, Feb. 28, 2007.
• DNA Testing Ordered in Sloopy's Killings; Edmund Earl Emerick III, Convicted in 1994 Slayings, Wins Appeal to Get Evidence from the Case Tested, Dayton Daily News, Mar. 29, 2007, at A4.

Profile of Professor Godsey :: Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project

Emily Houh
Professor of Law

Emily presented The Antidiscriminatory Impulse of Contract Law at Iowa and Suffolk.

Two of Emily's articles were cited:

• Toward Praxis, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 905 (2006), in Alfred L. Brophy, Law [Review']s Empire: The Assessment of Law Reviews and Trends in Legal Scholarship, 39 Conn. L. Rev. 101 (2006).
• The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessel?, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 1, in Daystar Const. Management, Inc. v. Mitchell, 2006 WL 2053649, *8 (Del.Super. Jul 12, 2006) (NO. CIV.A. 04C-05-175JRS).

Profile of Professor Houh

Christo Lassiter
Professor of Law

Christo's article, Eliminating Consent from the Lexicon of Traffic Stop Interrogations, 27 Cap. U. L. Rev. 79 (1998), was cited in Ronald D. Rotunda & John E. Nowak, Treatise on Constitutional Law (Thomson-West, 3rd ed., 2007 Supp.).

Profile of Professor Lassiter

Bert B. Lockwood, Jr.
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

The Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, for which Bert serves as Series Editor, published:

• Sonia Cardenes, Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International Human Rights Pressure (2007).
• Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Human Rights in Turkey (2007).

Profile of Professor Lockwood :: Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

Bradford C. Mank
James B. Helmer Jr. Professor of Law

Brad's article, Can Plaintiffs Use Multinational Environmental Treaties as Customary International Law to Sue Under the Alien Tort Statute?, was accepted for publication in the Utah Law Review.

Profile of Professor Mank

Michael E. Solimine
Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law, Director, Faculty Development and Extern Program

Several of Michael's articles were cited:

• Deciding to Decide: Class Action Certification and Interlocutory Review by the United States Courts of Appeals under Rule 23(f), 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1531 (2000) (with Christine Oliver Hines), in Michael Dore, Law of Toxic Torts, (Clark Boardman Callaghan, Environmental Law Series, 2007 Supp.) and in David F. Herr & Roger S. Haydock, Civil Rules Annotated, (4th (West, 4th ed., Minnesota Practice Series, 2007 Supp.).
• An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Choice of Law, 24 Ga. L. Rev. 49 (1989), in Jack L. Goldsmith & Alan O. Sykes, Lex Loci Delictus and Global Economic Welfare: Spinozzi v. ITT Sheraton Corp., 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1137 (2007).
• Judicial Influence: A Citation Analysis of Federal Courts of Appeals Judges, 27 J. Legal Stud. 271 (1988) (with William M. Landes and Lawrence lessig), in Steven Shavell, On the Proper Magnitude of Punitive Damages: Mathias v. Accor Economy Lodging, Inc., 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1223 (2007).
• Nepotism in the Federal Judiciary, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. (2002), in David R. Stras & Ryan W. Scott, Are Senior Judges Unconstitutional? 92 Cornell L. Rev. 453 (2007).
• The Next Word: Congressional Response to Supreme Court Statutory Decisions, 65 Tenn. L. Rev. 425 (1992) (with James L. Walker), in Jonathan T. Molot, Ambivalence about Formalism, 93 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2007).

Profile of Professor Solimine

Suja Thomas
Professor of Law

Suja published Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional, 93 Va. L. Rev. 139 (2007). She presented the article at the 7th Circuit National Employment Lawyers' Association's Conference in Chicago and to the Massachusetts Employment Lawyers' Association in Boston. The article was featured on the blog Deliberations in The Case of the People Versus Summary Judgment.

Suja completed an article, The PSLRA's Seventh Amendment Problem. The article was cited by one of the amicus curiae in Tellabs v. Makor, a securities litigation case before the Supreme Court this term. The article was featured on a number of blogs, including:

• Civil Procedure Prof Blog
• Federal Civil Practice Bulletin
• Legal History Blog
• Legal Theory Blog
• Securities Law Prof Blog

Suja's article, Judicial Modesty and the Jury, 76 U. Colo. L. Rev. 767 (2005), was cited in Univ. of Miami v. Wilson, No. 3D04-2939, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 2728, 32 Fla. L. Weekly D 597 (Fla. 3rd Dist.Ct. App., Feb. 28, 2007).

Profile of Professor Thomas

Joseph P. Tomain
Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law

Joe's book, Energy Law in a Nutshell (West Group, 2004) (with Richard Cudahy), was cited in Brian H. Potts, Trading Grandfathered Air – A New, Simpler Approach, 31 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 115 (2007).

Joe's election to the Great American Board of Directors was recognized in several local newspapers:

• Great American Adds Second Director to Review Sale Offer, Cincinnati Business Courier, Mar. 16, 2007.
• Business Digest, Cincinnati Enquirer, Mar. 3, 2007, at 2D.
• New Director Elected, Cincinnati Post, Mar. 2, 2007, at A15.
• Great American Financial Resources, Inc. Board Elects Additional Director, Business Wire, Mar. 1, 2007.

Profile of Professor Tomain

Ingrid Brunk Wuerth
Professor of Law

Ingrid's article, International Law and Constitutional Interpretation: The Commander-in-Chief Clause Revisited, was accepted for publication in the Michigan Law Review.

Two of Ingrid's articles were cited:

• The President's Power to Detain "Enemy Combatants": Modern Lessons from Mr. Madison's Forgotten War, 98 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1567 (2004), in Robert J. Pushaw, The "Enemy Combatant" Cases in Historical Context: The Inevitability of Pragmatic Judicial Review, 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1005 (2007).
• Authorizations for the Use of Force, International Law, and the Charming Betsy Canon, 46 B. C. L. Rev. 293 (2005), in Stephen Townley, The Use and Misuse of Secret Evidence in Immigration Cases: A Comparative Study of the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, 32 Yale J. Int'l L. 219 (2007); Roger P. Alford, Foreign Relations as a Matter of Interpretation: The Use and Abuse of Charming Betsy, 67 Ohio St. L.J. 1339 (2006); and Ronald D. Rotunda, The Detainee Cases of 2004 and 2006 and Their Aftermath, Syr. L. Rev. 1 (2006).

Ingrid was selected as co-chair of the American Society of International Law Interest Group on International Law in the Domestic Courts.

Profile of Professor Wuerth

Faculty News is edited by Paul L. Caron, Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Projects.
Back issues can be accessed from the Faculty News Archive.