Professor Philip Hackney’s article What We Talk About When We Talk About Exemption will be published in the forthcoming issue of the Virginia Tax Review. 

Professor Hackney was part of a panel on exempt organizations at the 8^th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop at University of Miami Law School on May 23, 2013.

Professor Christopher J. Tyson has been named to Lawyers of Color’s 50 Under 50 list, a comprehensive catalog of minority law professors making an impact in legal education.

Professor Keith Hall will teach International Petroleum Transactions at Baku State University Law School in Azerbaijan in May 2013.  His students will be Azeri lawyers who are seeking graduate degrees in law that are equivalent to an LLM.  The students will receive two semester hours of credit for the course, which focuses on an industry that is very relevant both to Azerbaijan’s economy and the country’s history.  The country’s first oil well was drilled in the 1870s and by the 1890s Azerbaijan was a major oil center.  Azerbaijan remains a major producer of oil today.   

Professor Ed Dawson’s article Adjusting the Presumption of Constitutionality Based on Margin of Statutory Passage has been accepted for publication in volume 16 of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.

On May 12, Professor Dawson will present “Anatomy of a Good Oral Argument,” a video-based demonstration of effective and ineffective oral advocacy, at the National Association of Attorneys General Appellate Practice Conference in Washington, D.C.  He previously presented this training at a joint training conference for the Illinois Attorney General’s office and Illinois State’s Attorney Appellate Prosecutor office, organized by The National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute (NAGTRI) on April 25.

Professor Christina Sautter’s article Promises Made to be Broken? Standstill Agreements in Change of Control Transactions was published in the most recent issue of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.

Professors William Corbett and John Church spoke at the second annual University of Louisiana-Monroe School Law Conference on April 30.  Professor Church discussed Louisiana Legislative Act 1 (tenure reform and charter schools).  Professor Corbett spoke on the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 and tort liability of schools.   The conference is geared toward attorneys, school board members, school administrators, central office staff, or those interested in the legal issues affecting K-12 education in Louisiana.

On April 19, Professor Blake Hudson spoke on the topic of “Subnational Forest Policy, Regional Governance Culture, and Global Climate Change” on the “New Governance Structures in Urban Forestry Panel” at the Urban Forests and Political Ecologies Conference held at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic Hydraulic Fracturing: Trade Secrets and the Mandatory Disclosure of Fracturing Fluid Composition at the Legal Aspects of Hydraulic Fracturing Symposium organized by the Idaho Law Review in Boise.

Professor Bill Corbett was recently interviewed by KATC about teachers who are required to sign contracts that contain a morality cause.

Professor Maggie Thomas provided opening remarks and moderated a panel discussion at Louisiana Law Review’s annual symposium: Eastern District of Louisiana: The Nation’s MDL Laboratory.

Professor Thomas was recently interviewed by 225 about her efforts to establish Red Stick German Shepherd Rescue, a local animal welfare organization.

Professor Christina Sautter presented her article Auction Theory & Standstills: Dealing with Friends and Foes in a Sale of Corporate Control (forthcoming in 2013 in the Case Western Reserve Law Review) at the third annual Junior Faculty Business and Financial Law Workshop hosted by George Washington University Law School’s Center for Law, Economics & Finance (C-LEAF) on April 5-6, 2013. The workshop supports and recognizes the work of young legal scholars in accounting, banking, bankruptcy, corporations, economics, finance, and securities, while promoting interaction between them and selected senior faculty.  Her article was one of 12 papers selected for presentation from a pool of over 70 blind submissions.

Professor Christina Sautter participated as a panelist on Current Issues for NDA’s for M&A Deals at the American Bar Association Business Law Section’s 2013 Spring Meeting held in Washington, D.C. on April 6, 2013.

Professor Elizabeth Carter’s article New Life for the Death Tax Debate has been published in the Denver Law Review.

Professor Carter was quoted in The Times Picayune regarding the collection of criminal debt on a defendant’s estate.

Professor Lee Ann Lockridge was recently interviewed for two Baton Rouge Business Report articles concerning trademarks: The Name Game and Faux Pas.

On March 15, Professor Blake Hudson participated as a panelist  on the Gulf Coast Sustainability and the RESTORE Act at the American Society for Public Administration Conference on “Governance & Stability: Local Concerns, Global Challenges”  that  was held in New Orleans.

Professor Christina Sautter spoke at the University of Iowa College of Law’s Journal of Corporation Law Symposium on Ten Years After Omnicare: The Evolving Market for Deal Protection Devices.  Other Symposium speakers included: Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey (Former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court); Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster (Delaware Court of Chancery); Professor Steven M. Davidoff (The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law); Sean J. Griffith (Fordham University School of Law); Professor Brian J.M. Quinn (Boston College Law School); and Megan W. Shaner (The University of Oklahoma College of Law) as well as partners from Potter Anderson & Caroon LLP; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates. 

Professor Kevin Bennardo’s commentary, Prisoner-Plaintiffs and the Frontiers of Frivolousness: Why Claim Value Should Play No Role in In Forma Pauperis Frivolousness Determinations, was recently featured in the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law’s Amici Blog.

In “Founders’ Fear of Division Made the Deal Inevitable,” Vice Chancellor Ray Diamond examines the three-fifths clause in an op-ed as part of the New York Times’ Room for Debate series.

On February 19, in connection with Black History Month, Vice Chancellor Raymond Diamond presented a paper, “Brown v. Board of Education, History, Legacy, Implications,” at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Asylum Division of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the topic “Recent Developments in the Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing” at the Florida State University College of Law Spring 2013 Environmental Forum, “Effectively Governing Shale Gas Development,” in Tallahassee.

Professor Robert Lancaster has been appointed to the Louisiana State Advisory Committee for the United States Commission on Civil Rights.  Congress has directed the Commission to establish state advisory committees (SAC’s) in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to study issues and forward advisory reports to the Commission on matters within the agency’s jurisdiction that reflect the views of the majority of SAC members producing the report.

Professor Christina Sautter presented a work-in-progress tentatively entitled The Real Deal on Deal Protection on February 2 during the 2013 Northeast Regional Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop at Albany Law School in Albany, NY. 

Professor Kevin Bennardo’s article, Sweeping Up Guideline Floors: The Misguided Policy of Amendment 767 to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual, was recently published in the UCLA Law Review Discourse.  The article challenges a recent amendment to the federal sentencing guidelines that raises the floor of the Guidelines range of imprisonment for all counts in a multi-count conviction to match a mandatory minimum sentence applicable to one of the counts.

Professor Christina Sautter’s work-in-progress,  Auction Theory & Standstill Agreements: Dealing with Friends and Foes in a Sale of Corporate Control, was featured as a poster presentation during the January 2013 American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.  

Vice Chancellor N. Gregory Smith’s article Judicial Disqualification in America was recently published in volume 2 of the International Journal of Procedural Law.

Professor Bill Corbett’s article, Unmasking a Pretext for Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal to Let Employment Discrimination Speak for Itself, will be published in volume 62:3 of the American University Law Review in early 2013.  On January 6, 2013, Professor Corbett will be speaking on a  panel with other professors at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans on the topic of “Torts and Compensation Systems – Tort and Compensation Principles in Related Fields.”    

Professor Melissa Lonegrass’ article, Finding Room for Fairness in Formalism—The Sliding Scale Approach to Unconscionability, will appear in the upcoming volume of the Loyola University Chicago Law Review. She will participate in a panel titled, Collegiality and Service: A Balance, during the inaugural Beginning & Newer Law Teachers Workshop to be held at the 2013 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting.  Professor Lonegrass, who served as Secretary for the Central Law Schools Association during the 2011-2012 academic year, was elected Vice President of the same organization for the upcoming academic year. 

Professor Heidi Thompson presented her poster,Over the Rainbow: Using Color and Pop Culture to Gently Introduce ILs to the Structure for Legal Analysis, at the 2013 AALS conference in New Orleans in January. 

Professor Mark Glover’s article, A Therapeutic Jurisprudential Framework of Estate Planning, which is published in the Seattle University Law Review, was featured in the Journal of Things We Like (Lots).  The feature can be accessed here.

Professor Ed Richards presented Public Health Policy and Legislation as Tools to Drive Population Health at the 2012 Childhood Obesity and Public Health Conference at Pennington Biomedical Center on October 24.

During summer 2012, Professor Bill Corbett worked on several publications.  He completed work on the second edition of his coauthored Torts casebook: FRANK L. MARAIST, JOHN M. CHURCH, WILLIAM R. CORBETT, H. ALSTON JOHNSON & THOMAS E. RICHARD, TORT LAW: THE AMERICAN AND LOUISIANA PERSPECTIVES (2d ed. 2012).  He completed the annual supplement to a coauthored labor law book: DOUGLAS E. RAY, WILLIAM R. CORBETT & CHRISTOPHER DAVID RUIZ CAMERON, LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS: STRIKES, LOCKOUTS & BOYCOTTS (2d ed. 2004).  Professor Corbett completed and submitted to journals an article on employment discrimination and torts:  Unmasking a Pretext for Res Ipsa Loquitur: A Proposal to Let Employment Discrimination Speak for Itself.   He also completed two recent developments papers, one in labor and employment law and one in Louisiana Civil Procedure, which he will be presenting in the LSU CLE Department’s Recent Developments seminars during fall 2012.  Professor Corbett has been invited to participate in a panel discussion with other Torts professors at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting in New Orleans on January 6, 2013.

Professor Christine Corcos published “Prosecutors and Psychics On the Air: Does a “Psychic Detective Effect” Exist?” in Law and Justice On the Small Screen 173 (Jessica Silbey and Peter Robson, eds.; Hart Publishing, 2012). In July, she was re-elected to the Board of Governors of the Law and Humanities Institute where she serves as Secretary and Treasurer.  The Institute is a non-profit devoted to promoting interdisciplinary studies between law and the humanities.

Professor William Crawford updated Supplements on the following works: WILLIAM E. CRAWFORD, LOUISIANA CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (2013 ed. 2012); WILLIAM E. CRAWFORD, Tort Law, in 12 LOUISIANA CIVIL LAW TREATISE (2^nd ed. suppl. 2013); WILLIAM E. CRAWFORD, 10 CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (suppl. 2013); WILLIAM E. CRAWFORD, 11 CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (suppl. 2013); and WILLIAM E. CRAWFORD, 12 CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (suppl. 2013).

Professor Alain Levasseur recently edited the following: LOUISIANA POCKET CIVIL CODE (Alain A. Levasseur, ed., 2013 ed. 2012).  He also served as lead author for the following casebook that will be available in 2013: ALAIN A. LEVASSEUR, RICHARD F. SCOTT, ARNAUD RAYNOUARD, CHRISTINE A. CORCOS & JOEL MONEGER, THE LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (2^nd ed. forthcoming 2012).

Professor Lee Ann Lockridge has a recent casebook publication: Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials, fourth Edition, with David Lange, Mary LaFrance, and Gary Myers.  It is a West casebook designed for a survey course covering trademark, patent, trade secret, and copyright law.

Professor Christina Sautter presented “Auction Theory and Standstills:  Dealing with Friends and Foes in a Sale of Corporate Control” during a Current Issues in Mergers & Acquisitions panel at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools 2012 Annual Conference in Amelia Island, Florida on August 2, 2012.  Professor Sautter organized the panel which also included Professors Afra Afsharipour (UC Davis) and Elizabeth Nowicki (Tulane).  Professor Hilary Allen (Loyola New Orleans) served as the panel’s moderator. 

Professor Paul R. Baier is managing a Boston production of his play, “Father Chief Justice,” scheduled for later in fall, 2012.  He continues to rehearse four members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (Justice Robert Cordy, Holmes; Justice Margot Botsford, Fanny Holmes; Justice Francis Spina, Brandeis; and Justice Ralph Gants, Chief Justice White), all of whom will join Baier on the stage of the Social Law Library, John Adams Courthouse, Pemberton Square.

Professor Edward Dawson was a panelist on “Louisiana: The State We’re In” where he discussed the current dispute over who should be the next chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Professor Keith Hall spoke on the subject, “Hydraulic Fracturing – What is it and Why Should you Care?” at the 20th Annual Arizona Water Law Conference in Phoenix on August 10, 2012. He spoke on the subject of “Implied Covenants in Oil and Gas Leases” at the Utica Shale conference held at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law on September 14. Hall will discuss “Hydraulic Fracturing – The Legal Issues and Effects on Industry” at the 27th Annual Conference of the National Association of Lease and Title Analysts in Baltimore, Maryland on September 27 and 28, 2012.

Professor Blake Hudson was quoted in the article Muir-Pinchot Debate Lives On
In Challenge To New Forest Rule, regarding a new ecosystem-service-based forest-planning rule introduced by the US Forestry Service.  The article appeared in Ecosystem Marketplace. 

Professor Robert Lancaster recently provided training to the staff of Alzheimer’s Services of the Capital Area on the legal needs of their LGBT clients. His presentation focused on discrimination aging LGBT individuals and couples face within current law and what legal steps exist to provide recognition of their relationships and protect their wishes regarding medical decisions and hospital and nursing home visitation.

Professor Michael Malinowski served as a panelist regarding race/ethnicity-based genetics research at the 2012 International Conference on Law and Society.

Professor Keith Hall presented a paper “Fraud, Misrepresentation and Related Ethical Issues in Obtaining Leases” at the 58th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in Newport Beach, California on July 21, 2012.  The Annual Institute was attended by approximately 1000 lawyers and other mineral law professionals from around the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Australia, as well as several countries in South America and Africa.

Professor Blake Hudson presented Policy Formulation in the South, Enforcement in the North: Linking Institutional and Political Governance Strengths for More Effective Forest and Climate Policy, at the 2012 International Symposium on Society and Resource Management at the University of Alberta in June.

Also in June, Professor Blake Hudson presented Dynamic Resources, Undynamic Federalism as part of the AALS Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster panel that addressed “Disaster Federalism.”

The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation featured Professor Christina Sautter’s article, Promises Made to be Broken?  Standstill Agreements in Change of Control Transactions, forthcoming in the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.   The feature can be accessed here.  The Forum provides an arena for corporate governance communications and draws over 50,000 readers each month.  The Forum has been cited in leading financial media, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The Economist.    

Professor Raymond Diamond, Vice Chancellor for Faculty Development and Institutional Advancement, was recently cited in an Associated Press article regarding the constitutional question on succession to the Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice position.

Professor Philip Hackney recently presented a paper, On Corporations, Honey Badgers, and the Rationale for Exempting Organizations from the Federal Income Tax, at the 7^th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop at the University of California-Hastings College of the Law. 

Professor Robert Lancaster recently presented a session at the American Association of Law Schools Clinical Conference in Los Angeles, California. Professor Lancaster participated on a panel that explored ways in which clinical professors teach their students to be culturally competent in representing clients with diverse religious, theological, or spiritual views. Professor Lancaster specifically addressed the obligation of a domestic mediator to be sensitive to the impact of religion in parenting decisions.

Professor Robert Lancaster was appointed to serve on the Nominating Committee for the American Association of Law Schools Section on Clinical Legal Education. The AALS is a non-profit educational association of 176 law schools representing over 10,000 law faculty in the United States with the purpose of “improvement of the legal profession through legal education.” The Section on Clinical Legal Education promotes quality experiential programs in law schools and supports clinical faculty. Professor Lancaster will serve through 2014.

Professors Robert Lancaster and Kenneth Mayeaux presented at the Southern Clinical Conference sponsored by the University of Tennessee Law School on March 17, 2012. Professor Lancaster gave a presentation entitled “Metaphor as Heuristic in Family Mediation: Teaching the Importance of Language in Transforming Perspective.”

Professor Mayeaux presented with Laila Hlass from Loyola New Orleans College of Law on “Teaching Multi-faceted, Social Justice Lawyering in a Clinic Setting: The Importance and Impotence of Community Education and Advocacy Initiatives.”  Professor Mayeaux’s presentation explored the combined advocacy model used in the LSU Immigration Clinic which integrates community education and advocacy components in the students’ clinical work.

The University of Pennsylvania Law Review has published an essay by Professor Edward Richards that analyzes the Hurricane Katrina Levee Breach litigation.

Professor William Corbett, along with his co-authors, is pleased to announce the second edition of The Global Workplace: International and Comparative Employment Law Cases and Materials. 

Professor Corbett was recently interviewed on possible lawsuits arising out of the New Orleans Saints bounty system.

Professor Robert Lancaster recently spoke at the Amaker Social Justice Retreat in Chicago. Professor Lancaster was the “Defining Speaker” and spoke to participants about their roles as lawyers in social justice movements. “It is important for law students to understand the history of lawyers in social justice and civil rights movements to appreciate the opportunities present today as lawyers for social progress,” stated Professor Lancaster. Lancaster spoke of recent achievements lawyers have made in the movement for marriage equality.

Professor Lancaster started the Amaker Social Justice Retreat in 2002 when he was on the faculty of Indiana University School of Law — Indianapolis. The Retreat is named in honor of the late Professor Norman Amaker who taught at Loyola University – Chicago School of Law. Professor Amaker started his career as a lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and represented Dr. Martin Luther King during the time he was held at Birmingham Jail.

Professor Jeffrey Brooks and Professor Christine Corcos were quoted in a recent Baton Rouge Business Report article about the use of social media in legal proceedings.

Professor Edward Richards participated in a roundtable discussion on “Disaster Preparedness and Public Health” at the 2012 ABA Midyear Meeting.  The panel of national and local experts discussed the impact that disasters, whether natural or man-made, can have on our health system.

Professor Robert Lancaster recently spoke at the Annual Louisiana Community Justice Conference sponsored by the Access to Justice Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association. Professor Lancaster gave an overview of Louisiana laws relating to family and dating violence. Professor Lancaster also recently participated in a panel discussion at the November Baton Rouge Bar Association Luncheon and spoke about Access to Justice Issues in Baton Rouge.

Professor Hector Linares presented Recent Developments in Juvenile Justice at the 2011 Annual Fall Judges Conference.  Professor Linares also presented on Compelling Disposition Advocacy at the Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit in Seattle, Washington.  Also this semester, Professor Linares gave a presentation entitled Teaching and Inspiring Future Juvenile Defenders:  Building a Model Juvenile Defense Law School Clinic at the Southern Clinical Conference held in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

During 2011, Professor Ken Mayeaux served as Chair of the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation’s Pro Bono Project.  He also served again on the National Pro Bono Services Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).  Professor Mayeaux was the lead author of AILA’s new resource, The AILA Chapter Pro Bono Manual, A Guide for Developing and Sustaining Effective Pro Bono Programs.  The Manual presents a framework and suggestions to help local chapters generate greater commitment to pro bono service and develop an agenda of pro bono activities responsive to local community needs.  Professor Mayeaux’s article “Why Do Pro Bono?”  was published in the Summer issue of the AILA Pro Bono Newsletter and in the October 2011 issue of Around the Bar, the monthly magazine of the Baton Rouge Bar Association.  In October, Professor Mayeaux was an invited speaker at the Jesuit Migrant Service Annual Meeting in El Progreso, Honduras, where he spoke on U.S. Immigration Policy.

Professor Christina Sautter presented a work-in-progress tentatively entitled “Promises Made to be Broken? The Interplay Between Standstill Agreements and Fiduciary Duties” during the Louisiana Junior Faculty Forum held on November 4 at Tulane University Law School.  She also presented the same work-in-progress at the Central States Law Schools Association 2011 Annual Conference held on October 29 at the University of Toledo College of Law.

The Library of Congress has posted a webcast of Professor Paul Baier’s Coolidge Auditorium production of his play, “Father Chief Justice,” on its webpage and on You-Tube.  View the post at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7F9alN_OZQ

STAFF HIGHLIGHTS

Susan Gualtier recently joined the Law Center as the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian. Ms. Gualtier manages foreign, comparative, and international collection; teaches legal research courses; and provides reference services for faculty, staff, students and other library patrons.  She received her M.L.I.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to obtaining her M.L.I.S., Ms. Gualtier worked as an associate at the firm of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in New York City, and as an independent contract attorney for General Electric Oil & Gas in Florence, Italy.

Valerie Horton joined the Law Center as a Reference Law Librarian in the fall of 2011. Ms. Horton received her Juris Doctor and Master of Library and Information Studies from Florida State’s dual-degree program in August of 2011. As a Reference Law Librarian, Ms. Horton will be teaching Advanced Legal Research and providing reference services for faculty, staff, students and the community.

Natalie Palermo will serve as the Law Library’s Assistant Director for Technical Services.  Natalie earned her B.S. in International Trade and Finance from LSU and an M.L.I.S from LSU.  Natalie comes to LSU Law after working at LSU Middleton Library for a number of years.  Natalie’s duties in the library will include managing the library’s technical services department and systems administration.

Brenda Salassi received the 2011 Outstanding Service Award for the LSU Law Center presented by the LSU Foundation.  Congratulations to Brenda for her superior job performance and dedication to the Law Center!

Alisa D. Williams will receive a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Louisiana State University’s Public Administration Institute at the E.J. Ourso College of Business,  on Friday, December 16, 2011,  Alisa has been an employee of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center since November 2004. She began in the Law Center’s Continuing Legal Education Department and is now working in the Law Center’s Office of Admissions and Student Records.

Chancellor Jack Weiss joined the deans and chancellors from Southern University Law Center, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, and Tulane University Law School at the Baton Rouge Bar Association luncheon on October 6 for a panel discussion of the “State of Legal Education.” The panel addressed the proposed changes to the Louisiana Bar Exam, diversity of law schools, and the impact legal education has on community service.

Professor Lee Ann Lockridge was promoted to the rank of Professor and received tenure. Professor Lockridge joined the Law Center faculty in 2005. Her research and teaching interests are primarily in intellectual property and advertising law. She teaches Introduction to Intellectual Property, International Intellectual Property, Advertising Law, Advanced Trademark & Unfair Competition Law, and Advanced Copyright.

Professor Missy Lonegrass was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Law. Professor Lonegrass joined the LSU Law faculty in the fall of 2008. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of Civil Law, Comparative Law, and a wide range of areas of Louisiana law. Professor Lonegrass’ teaching assignments include Successions and Donations, Western Legal Traditions and Systems: Louisiana Impact, Sales and Real Estate Transactions, and Obligations.

Professor Christina Sautter was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Law. Professor Sautter joined the Law School faculty in 2008. Professor Sautter teaches Business Associations I and II, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Securities Regulation. Her scholarship explores the impact of judiciary rulings, boards of directors’ fiduciary duties, market conditions, and acquisition agreement terms on the mergers & acquisitions sale process for public companies.

Professor Sautter presented a work-in-progress on the use of standstill agreements in mergers & acquisitions at the American Association of Law Schools Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality in June 2011. Also in June 2011, she presented the same work-in-progress at the 2011 Midwest Corporate Law Scholars Conference. In addition, in July 2011, Professor Sautter was a panelist on the Junior Faculty Challenges Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools.

Cultural Vistas, the magazine of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, has published Professor Paul Baier’s Centennial Reflection (with Georgia Chadwick):  “The Justice from the Bayou:  Edward Douglass White,” in its Fall 2011 issue.  The Louisiana State Museum has distributed 2,000 copies for statewide distribution.

View a scene of Professor Paul Baier’s play, “Father Chief Justice:  Edward Douglass White and the Constitution,” as it was performed in the Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, on the Louisiana Bar Foundation website: http://www.raisingthebar.org/News/FoundationNews.asp?NewsID=171

The Social Law Library, Boston Massachusetts, is the play’s next venue. It will take place on Justice Holmes’s birthday, March 8, 2012, at the John Adams Courthouse, Pemberton Square.

Professor William R. Corbett’s article on appearance-based employment discrimination was recently published in the Catholic University Law Review.  He has two other articles forthcoming this fall in the Villanova Law Review and the Oklahoma Law Review.  The 2011-12 edition of his book on strikes, lockouts, and boycotts (with Dean Doug Ray and Professor Chris Cameron) was published in September by West.  Professor Corbett spoke at the LSBA labor and employment law seminar in August and the Fall Conference of the Louisiana Judicial College in October on recent developments in Louisiana law.  He is speaking around the state this fall on recent developments in labor and employment law in the LSU CLE program.   

Professor Philip Hackney appeared on a panel with James R. King of Jones Day on October 3 and 4, 2011 in Washington D.C. discussing the federal income tax rules for supporting organizations (a type of charitable organization under the Internal Revenue Code) for healthcare systems before the American Health Lawyers Association as part of its conference titled Tax Issues for Healthcare Organizations.

Professor Hackney also moderated a panel titled IRS Collection – Is the Pendulum in the Right Place, where the panel discussed the effects of the 1998 IRS Restructuring Act and its current effect on enforcement at the IRS at the ABA Tax Section’s Joint Fall CLE meeting in Denver, CO on October 21^st.

Professor Robert Lancaster recently presented “Representing Victims of Family Violence” at the 2011 Louisiana Community Justice Conference hosted by the Access to Justice Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association.  The Conference provides substantive legal and skills training to legal services attorneys throughout the state. 

Professor Lancaster participated in a panel discussion on “Building Social Justice Community Among Law Students” at the Southern Clinical Conference at the University of Alabama.  Professor Lancaster was on the planning conference for the conference which, for the first time, brought together clinical law professors from schools across the South. 

STAFF HIGHLIGHTS

Mr. John Hightower, Senior Development Officer for the Office of Alumni Relations, was honored with the Greek Excellence Award at a spring gala hosted by LSU. 

Joining Chancellor Weiss on the panel were:

RonNell Anderson Jones, Associate Professor of Law at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, a constitutional law, First Amendment, and media law authority. Jones clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and directed the 2007 Media Subpoena Study, a nationwide study of the impact and frequency of subpoenas served upon the media.

Adam Liptak, the Supreme Court correspondent of the New York Times;

Floyd Abrams, of the New York law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindell, LLP; and

Paul M. Smith, of the law firm Jenner & Block of Washington, D.C.

The panel was moderated by Lee Levine, one of the nation’s leading media attorneys and coauthor of the annual PLI program. Levine taught Comparative Media Law at the LSU Law Center’s program in Lyon in the summers of 2009 and 2010. He practices with Levine Sullivan Koch & Schultz, LLP in Washington, D.C.

Panelists addressed such issues as:

• What are the implications of the Supreme Court’s rejection in United States v. Stevens of a federal law criminalizing distribution of films showing infliction of harm to animals?
• Will the Supreme Court, despite Stevens, reverse course and uphold a content-based ban on distribution of violent video games to minors?
• Where is the Court going on campaign finance restrictions a year after Citizens United?
• Will there be an impact on the media if the Court holds that it is constitutional to impose tort liability on extremists who picket military funerals to protest the recognition of gay rights?

PLI delivers cutting-edge continuing legal education seminars, books, treatises, webcasts and audio briefings on subjects critical to the legal profession.

Chancellor Jack Weiss also participated in a panel discussion during a day-long symposium sponsored by Columbia University on November 4, 2010.  The symposium, entitled A Free Press for a Global Society, explored the role of American journalism and American free expression law in the global digital world. The program was co-sponsored by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia Law School, and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Chancellor Weiss’ area of legal specialty is national media law and First Amendment law.

Joining Chancellor Weiss on a panel on “What I Need to Know” were:

Emily Bell, Director of Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism;

Bill Grueskin, Dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism;

Michael Schudson, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; and

Specific topics addressed by the panel were:  What should journalism in a global society be? What should journalists know, how should they be trained, and what should be their role in the larger society?

The panel was moderated by Nick Lemann, Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Professor Paul Baier’s annual Constitution Day Program featured Northwestern University Professor Jerry Goldman, whose Oyez Project brought “Voices of the Constitution” to McKernan Auditorium, featuring voices of Chief Justices Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, Justices Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, Anthony Kennedy, and Antonin Scalia.  The program was jointly sponsored by the LSU Law Center SBA (Sean Corcoran, President) and Southern University Law Center SBA (Chuck Toney, President).

The International Association of Gaming Advisors invited Professor Baier to address its annual meeting, October 11-12, in Washington, D.C.  The invitation came via Paul West of Baker Donelson, President of the Association.  Baier’s lecture was entitled “Inside the Supreme Court.” Baier led the group on an inside tour of the Court, starting at the great bronze statue of Chief Justice Marshall, traveling down the exhibit area to the National Archive film clips of Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Cardozo, Holmes, Brandeis and McReynolds, and the portraiture of the West Conference Room, including Louisiana’s Chief Justice Edward Douglass White. 

Professor William Corbett attended and participated in the Fifth Annual Seton Hall Employment and Labor Law Scholars’ Forum.  Five young labor and employment law scholars presented papers that were critiqued by two or more senior scholars and then discussed by the entire group.  Professor Corbett and Professor Steven Willborn of the University of Nebraska College of Law, critiqued a paper by Georgetown University Law Center fellow Matthew Dimick, entitled Paths to Power: Labor Law, Union Density, and the Ghent System.

Professor Corbett accepted an offer of publication from the Catholic University Law Review for his article Hotness Discrimination: Appearance Discrimination as a Mirror for Reflecting on the Body of Employment Discrimination Law.  The article will be published in Issue 3 or Volume 60 in spring 2011.

Professor Christine Corcos recently published the article Some Thoughts of Chuck Lorre, Bad Words, and the Raging Paranoia of Network Censors, 22 Regent U.L. Rev. 360 (2009/2010) (Symposium Issue).  Her essay Magic Images in Law will appear in Explorations on Courtroom Discourse (Anne Wagner ed., Ashgate, 2011)   Professor Corcos’ book review of Neil Feigenson and Christina Speigel, Law on Display appears in the May 2010 issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.   For the third year in a row, Professor Corcos was approached by an editor of the ABA Journal to participate as a juror to select the ABA’s pop culture “Top 25”.   This year the subject was “the 25 greatest fictional lawyers who are not Atticus Finch.”  See the results of the jury’s deliberations at: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_25_greatest_fictional_lawyers_who_are_not_atticus_finch/

Professor Robert Lancaster published an article, co-authored with Cynthia Baker from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, entitled Under Pressure:  Rethinking Externships in a Bleak Economy.  The article is published in Volume 17 of the Clinical Law Review. 

Also, Professor Lancaster was recently re-elected to the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers.

Professor Michael Malinowski served as a member of the Working Group that in May founded LouisianaBio, http://www.louisianabio.org/, a nonprofit trade association dedicated to the promotion and growth of the bioscience industry throughout the state of Louisiana. He presented, All that is Gold Does Not Glitter in Human Clinical Research: A Law Policy Proposal to Raise the Global `Gold Standard’ for Drug Research and Development at the  9^th International Conference on Health Economics, Management and Policy Presentation, a peer-reviewed event held in Athens, Greece, June 28-July 1, 2010.  He also presented this paper at the 5^th International Conference on Social Science Research, another peer-reviewed event, which was held in New Orleans, LA, Sept. 23-25, 2010. 

In this paper and in two related, ongoing articles, Professor Malinowski challenges the Food and Drug Administration’s science-regulatory standards for drug development and approval and broad physician discretion to use pharmaceuticals “off-label,” meaning beyond the scope of the clinical research relied upon to put them on the market and the FDA’s actual approval.  In May 2010, Professor Malinowski’s Keynote Address to Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, entitled A Law-Policy Proposal to Promote the Public Nature of Research in Contemporary Life Science, was published in the Biennial Review of Law, Science and Technology 2-24 (Wen-Tsong Chiou ed., 2010).

Professor Olivier Moréteau, Russell Long Chair, published “Catastrophic Harm in United States Law: Liability and Insurance” in the American Journal of Comparative Law, a report prepared for the World Congress in Comparative Law (Washington DC, July 2010). He gave interviews to the Austrian national television (ORF) and Radio Canada on the compensation of victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Professor Moreteau gave a keynote speech on the use of dictionaries in comparative law at the 4^th Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics at the University of Moncton (Canada).

With Dr. Agustín Parise, he discussed The Louisiana Civil Code, A Global Give and Take, at the Hemispheric Freedom Symposium, organized by the LSU Law Center, the Baton Rouge Area Foundation and the Pennington Foundation in Baton Rouge on September 21-22.

On October 15, he was the guest speaker at a Society of Bartolus meeting in New Orleans, presenting François-Xavier Martin, father of Louisiana Jurisprudence.

Professor Ken Murchison was recently quoted in the ABA Journal in its July 2010 article on The Supreme Court Report titled The ‘Super Median’: On an Ideological Court, It’s All About Keeping Justice Kennedy.

Professor Christina Sautter presented a work-in-progress, tentatively titled Standstills: Friends or Foes in a Sale of Corporate Control, on September 30, 2010 at Florida State University College of Law as part of Florida State’s Faculty Enrichment Series. 

She also presented this work-in-progress on August 2 during a panel she organized called The Changing Face of Mergers and Acquisitions, at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida.  Other panelists were:  Professor Afra Afsharipour of UC Davis School of Law, Professor Steven Davidoff of University of Connecticut School of Law, and Professor George Geis of University of Virginia School of Law.  Professor Trey Drury of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law moderated the panel.

In addition, Professor Sautter’s article titled, Rethinking Contractual Limits on Fiduciary Duties, will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Florida State University Law Review.  The article discusses a board of director’s ability to change its recommendation to shareholders in favor of a merger and situations in which a board may agree to contractually limit its ability to change this recommendation

Professor Christopher Tyson will be recognized by the Baton Rouge Business Report as a “Forty Under 40” award recipient at a ceremony to be held on December 2, 2010. The “Forty Under 40” program honors forty of Baton Rouge’s most dynamic young business leaders who share a commitment to professional excellence, the community and who are under the age of 40. 

Professor Tyson earned his B.A. in Architecture, with honors, from Howard University; a Masters of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.  Prior to earning his law degree, Professor Tyson worked in management consulting and in the Washington, DC office of United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu.  After earning his law degree, Professor Tyson worked as an associate in the Real Estate Practice at the law firm Jones Walker, LLP in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  He teaches and writes about real estate development, local government law and problems in urban development.  The professor has also published scholarly works on politics and public policy, including At The Intersection of Race and History: The Unique Relationship Between the Davis Intent Requirement and the Crack Laws, 50 How. L.J. 345 (2007). 

Professor Bob Lancaster  participated in a Louisiana Lagniappe segment with Jane Thomas (counsel for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Inc.) and briefly discussed the LSU Law Center’s Family Mediation Clinic. The segment aired on WGMB FOX, WVLA NBC33, WBRL CW21, and KZUP RTV10 on June 26 & 27.