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WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 31 Washburn Law Faculty AÏDA M. ALAKA Associate Dean for Academic A airs and Professor of LawPresentations: Co-taught one-week seminar, “Legal Writing and Analysis for Law Professors and Practitioners,” Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, June 11-15, 2012 (with Tonya Kowalski). • Conducted workshop “Legal Writing for Practitioners,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, • “Legal/professional Ethics: Lawyer and Media,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 20-21, 2012. • Moderator, “Immigration and Employment Panel,” Breaching Borders: State Encroachment into the Federal Immigration Domain?, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Oct. 20, 2011. RORY D. BAHADUR Associate Professor of LawPresentations: Presenter, “An Active Learning Presenter, “Principles of Academic Support Pedagogy: Creating Context,” Workshop on Academic Support, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, 2012. Presenter, “Comparing Lecturing and Multimodal Instruction,” • “The Scienti c Impossibility of Plausibility,” 90 Nebraska Law Review 435 (2011). • “Almost a Century and Three Restatements After Green it’s Time to • “Trayvon Martin and Comments on the Florida Self Defense Law,” Arizona State Law Journal Blog, April 10, 2012. ELLEN BYERS Visiting Associate Professor of LawPublications:“Be Easy on the Court: Get Your Law In Order,” 81:5 The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 12 (May 2012). JAMES M. CONCANNON Distinguished Professor of LawProfessional Service: • Testi ed on behalf of Kansas Judicial Council Civil Code Advisory Committee on HB 2472, adopting amendments to the Kansas Code of Civil Procedure, House Judiciary Committee, Jan. 30, 2012, and Senate Judiciary Committee, Feb. 23, 2012.Publications: DEALLACEFORTHESTABLISHMENTREAT “Evidence,” (chapter 13), 2012 Kansas Annual Survey (Kansas Bar Association. MYRL L. DUNCAN Professor of LawPublications: “Global Warming and Non-Point Source Pollution on the Great Plains: What’s Good for Agriculture Is Also Good for Planet Earth” in Climate Change: A Reader (William H. Rodgers LINDA HENRY ELROD Richard S. Righter Distinguished Professor of LawPresentations: “The ABA Family Law Section Model Relocation Act - Back to the Drawing Board?” Sustaining Families: Global and Local Perspectives, International Society of Family Law North American Regional Meeting and Fifth Annual Rory D. BahadurEllen ByersJames M. ConcannonLinda Henry Elrod 32 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDUFaculty PlauditsMidwest Family Law Consortium Meeting, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Ia., June 14-16, 2012. • “Best Interests of the Child - Judicial and Parental Roles,” Horizons, Solutions for Change Co-Parenting Program, Shawnee County Court Services, Topeka, May 10, 2012. “History of Kansas Child Custody Laws and Ten Ways to be a Better Co-Parent,” Horizons, Solutions for Change Co-Parenting Program, Shawnee County Court Services, Topeka, Jan. 12, 2012. “Hearing Children’s Voices in Hague Abduction Cases,” Right to Freedom of Personality, Mt. Kopaonik School of Natural Law 24th Annual Conference, Dec. 11-18, 2011. • “Boot Camp Review of Family Law: Child Support Guidelines, New Cases and New Numbering,” KBA Alternative Dispute Resolution CLE, Overland Park, Kan., Nov. 18, 2011. • “History of Kansas Child Custody Laws and Avoiding Con ict,” Horizons, Solutions for Change Co-Parenting Program, Shawnee County Court Services, Topeka, Sept. 8, 2011.Professional Service: Attended committee meeting of the Family Law Committee of International Law Section of American Bar Association and Family Law Conference, Washington, D.C., May 24-26, 2012. Attended ABA Family Law Section Spring Meeting, Miami, Fla., April 19-22, 2012. • Attended the drafting committee meeting for the revisions to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, Washington, D.C., March 8-11, 2012. • Attended the Uniform Law Commission Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Family Law meeting, New Orleans, La, Dec. 2-4, 2011. Appointed, liaison for the Family Law Section to the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, 2011-2012. • Re-appointed, liaison to the Uniform Law Commission Family Law Joint Editorial Board, 2011-2012. • Re-appointed as editor of the Family Law QuarterlyAugust 2011-2012. • Attended meetings of the Family Law Section Council and Publications Development Board, American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, August 4-7, 2011. Participated in Solidarities Between Generations conference, International Society of Family Law, Lyon, France, July 18-24, 2011.Publications: “A Review of the Year in Family Law: Numbers of Disputes Increase,” 45 Family Law Quarterly 443 (2012) (co-authored with Robert G. Spector). • “‘Please Let Me Stay’: Hearing the Voice of the Child in Hague Abduction Cases,” 63 Oklahoma Law Review 663 (2011). HILDUSTODYRACTICEANDROCEDURE, 2012 ed. (West Publishing, 2012). “Hearing the Voice of the Child in Hague Abduction Cases,” No. 9, Book 1 PRAVNIIVOTASOPISRAVNUEORIJURAKSU, Special Issue Law and Responsibility, 24th Annual Conference. (Belgrade, Serbia: Bar Association of Serbia, 2011). WILLIAM E. FOSTER Associate Professor of LawPresentations: “Piercing the Corporate Veil,” Selected Topics and Miscellany 2012 CLE Program, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, June 21, 2012. • “Mergers & Acquisitions: Structuring and Tax Considerations,” Wichita Bar Association Business Law CLE Seminar, Wichita, May 4, 2012. • “Due Diligence: Practical Aspects,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 20-21, 2012. • “Fiduciary Duties, Duty of Care, Business Judgment Rule,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 20-21, 2012. • “Responsibility of Directors Towards the Third Parties / Piercing of Corporate Veil,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 20-21, 2012. JOHN J. FRANCIS Professor of LawMedia Interviews: “For wrongly convicted man, healing begins,” Lawrence Journal-World (April 27, 2012). Presentations: “Beyond Angkor Wat and the Killing Fields: Law, Education, and Life in Cambodia,” Washburn University Brown Bag International Lecture, Topeka, Feb. 8, 2012.Professional Service: Volunteer teaching, Royal University of Law and Economics, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, fall semester 2011 ( ve weeks while on sabbatical teaching lawyering and advocacy skills to an English speaking section of Cambodian law students).Publications: “Reassessing Concurrent Tribal-State-Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Kansas,” 59 The Kansas Law Review 949 (co-author with Stacy L. Leeds, Aliza Organick, and Jelani Jefferson Exum) (2011). ALEX GLASHAUSSER Professor of LawPresentations: “The Extension Clause and the Independence of the Supreme Court’s Jurisdiction,” Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, Florida International University College of Law, Miami, Fla. (Feb. 2012) • “Signs of Distress: The First Amendment and Snyder v. Phelps,” Fukuoka University exchange group (March 2012). John J. FrancisWilliam E. Foster WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 33 Professors Gabriel Bocksang, Carolina Larrain, Nicolás Cobo, and Raúl Madrid visited Washburn Law in January. our Chilean law professors visited Washburn University School of Law for a week in January as part of a two-week immersion into American law school teaching methods. The project is part of the work of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning (ILTL), which is dedicated to the improvement of law teaching and learning, assessment, and curriculum design in the United States and abroad. Visiting the law school were Professors Gabriel Bocksang, Nicolás Cobo, Carolina Larrain, and Raúl Madrid. IMMERSION PROGRAM WELCOMES CHILEAN PROFESSORS Publications: “The Last Word on the Debt Ceiling,” ngton Post (June 20, 2012). “Taking Care of Our Constitution,” ngton Post (April 3, 2012). • “‘It’ Is the Supreme Court’s Jurisdiction — and Congress Can’t Take Exception,” ngton Post (Feb. 22, 2012). EMILY GRANT Associate Professor of LawPresentations: “Legal Writing Concepts and Issues,” Selected Topics and Miscellany 2012 CLE Program, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kan., June 21, 2012. Panelist, “Views from the Tenure Track,” The 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Palm Desert, Calif., May 31, 2012. JEREMIAH HO Visiting Associate Professor of Academic SupportPresentations: “Teaching Students to Become Better Learners,” 2012 LSAC Academic Assistance Training Workshop, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, June 15, 2012. “Because Otherwise They Will Be Disoriented: Developing a Student-Centered Orientation Process,” Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) conference, Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 6, 2011.Publications: “A New Rhetorical Angle in Marriage Equality Cases,” 125:036 The Daily Journal, Feb. 23, 2012. • “Helping the Helpers: ASP Basics from Orientation to the Bar,” Report from the LSAC Newcomers Conference, Western State University College of Law, Fullerton, Calif., Aug. 4-6, 2011 (Law School Academic Support Blog, Aug. 29, 2011). • “Time Capsules,” Idea of the Month, August 2011, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning. Jeremiah HoRandall L. Hodgkinson The Chilean professors were introduced to interactive teaching best law teachers do, best practices cooperative learning. Washburn Law professors introduced the visitors to free writing, cognitive think-alouds, classroom assessment techniques, discovery sequence instruction, integrated learning strategies instruction, in-class instant messaging, and simulations and linking to real life. At the end of the week, the visiting professors practiced their new skills by teaching simulated classes. This is the second group of Chilean professors to visit Washburn Law. Washburn Law and Gonzaga University School of Law co-host the ILTL, and Michael Hunter Schwartz, law professor and associate dean for faculty and academic development at Washburn Law, is the co-director. 34 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDUFaculty Plaudits RANDALL L. HODGKINSON Visiting Assistant Professor of LawProfessional Service: Submitted testimony before the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee, Feb. 2, 2012.Publications: “Clear as Mud? ‘Clearly Erroneous’ as a Standard of Review for Instructional Claims,” Kansas Bar Association Appellate Practice Newsletter(Spring 2012). JANET THOMPSON JACKSON Professor of Law and Interim Co-director of the Law ClinicMedia: Host, “The 2012 Kansas Legislature,” I’ve Got Issues (produced by Washburn University’s public broadcasting station KTWU), June 27, 2012. • Co-host, “Year in Review,” I’ve Got Issues(produced by Washburn University’s public broadcasting station KTWU), Jan. 15, 2012. Host, “When Terrorists Attack - Remembering 9/11,” I’ve Got Issues (produced by Washburn University’s public broadcasting station KTWU), Sept. 11, 2011.Presentations: Panel Presenter, “Getting It Done,” Transactional Law and Skills, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 7, 2012.Professional Service: Board of Directors, Clinical Legal Education Association, 2012-2014. • Chair, Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research, April 2012-2014. JEFFREY D. JACKSON Professor of LawPresentations: “Recent Developments in United States Supreme Court Cases,” Selected Topics and Miscellany 2012 CLE Program, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kan., June 21, 2012. • Panelist, “Views from the Tenure Track,” The 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Palm Desert, Calif., May 31, 2012.Publications: “Be Careful What You Wish For: Why McDonald v. City of Chicago’s Rejection of the Privileges or Immunities Clause May Not Be Such a Bad Thing for Rights,” 115 Penn State Law Review 561 (2011). PATRICIA L. JUDD Associate Professor of LawPresentations: “Protecting Your Clients’ IPR Overseas: Strategies for Engaging U.S. Government Agencies,” 2012 Intellectual Property Law Institute, Kansas Bar Association CLE Seminar, Overland Park, Kan., May 4, 2012. • “Online Infringement: Secondary Liability,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 22, 2012. • “Recognition and Enforcement of International Arbitral Awards in Georgia,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 20-21, 2012. • “From Cacophony to Chorus: A Call for Harmony, Not Harmonization, in International Intellectual Property Dispute Settlement,” Panel on Intellectual Property Law in National Politics and International Relations, International Law Association annual meeting, New York, Oct. 22, 2011. • “Toward a TRIPS Truce,” 2011 Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Intellectual Property Law Speaker Series, Southern Illinois University School of Law (presented to students and faculty at SIU via Skype), Oct. 6, 2011.Publications: “Toward a TRIPS Truce,” 32 Michigan Journal of International Law 613 (2011). LIAQUAT ALI KHAN Professor of LawMedia Interviews: “U.S. ignores Pakistanis’ feelings about drone attacks: Analyst,” Press TV (June 7, 2012) “U.S. wants to reserve right to kill across border,” Press TV (April 29, 2012) • “Obama makes ‘great confession’ on drone strikes,” Press TV (Jan. 31, 2012) “U.S. resumes drone strikes in Pakistan,” Press TV (Jan. 11, 2012) “U.S.-Pakistan ties cannot be reconstructed easily,” Press TV (Dec. 14, 2011) “The Wrath of Khan,” Christopher Hitchens Watch (Dec. 6, 2011) “U.S. bullying Pakistan in drone row,” Press TV (Oct. 10, 2011) • “U.S. ghting a failed war in Afghanistan,” Press TV (Oct. 8, 2011) • “President Obama ‘has morally degenerated’,” Press TV (Aug. 13, 2011) • “Kansas Legislature Does Harm in Barring Islamic Law,” The Huf ngton Post, May 15, 2012. “Murder as Instrument of Foreign Policy,” MWC News (Nov. 2, 2011). “Pakistan’s Nuanced Duplicity,” MWC News (Oct. 6, 2011).Publications:“The Paradoxical Evolution of Law,” 16 Lewis & Clark Law Review 337 (2012). • “Taking Ownership of Legal Outcomes: An Argument Against Dissociation Paradigm and Analytical Gaming,” 55 Saint Louis University Law Journal887 (2011). • “A Portfolio Theory of Foreign Affairs: U.S. Relations with the Muslim World,” 20 Transnational Law & Liaquat Ali Khan Jeffrey D. JacksonPatricia L. Judd Janet Thompson Jackson WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 35Faculty PlauditsContemporary Problems 377 (Symposium: A Critical Juncture: Human Rights and the U.S. Standing in the World Under the Obama Administration, Iowa University School of Law) (2011). Pakistan’s Burgeoning Business of Nepotism,” ngton Post, June 18, 2012. “Attacking Iran Is Illegal,” ngton Post, March 7, 2012. TONYA KOWALSKI Professor of LawPresentations: Panelist, “Views from the Tenure Track,” The 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Palm Desert, Calif., May 31, 2012. • Panelist, “Designing Legal Research Exercises in Context and WestlawNext Pros & Cons,” Legal Research: Teaching Strategies and Current Issues Panel, Legal Writing Institute Teaching Workshop, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 2, 2011. • Moderator, “Curtailing Birthright Citizenship Panel,” Breaching Borders: State Encroachment into the Federal Immigration Domain?, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Oct. 21, 2011. Invited speaker, “Toward a Pedagogy for Clinical Legal Writing,” The Clinical Theory Workshops at New York Law School, New York, Sept. 30, 2011. Conducted teaching and learning Workshop, University of Arkansas, Little Rock Bowen School of Law, Little Rock, Ark., February 2012 (with Michael Hunter Schwartz). • Opening Plenary, “Value of Variety in Action,” 2012 Annual Conference of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, Wash., June 25, 2012 (with Sandra Simpson, Gerry Hess and Michael Hunter Schwartz). • Co-taught one-week seminar, “Legal Writing and Analysis for Law Professors and Practitioners,” Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, June 11-15, 2012 (with Aïda Alaka). Professional Service: Co-Editor, Kansas Bar Association Indian Law Section Newsletter, Dec. 2011-present.Publications: “Mentoring New Legal Writers,” 81 Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 12 (January 2012). • “Demarginalizing Tribal Law in Legal Writing,” 25:2 The Second Draft 12(Fall 2011). SHAWN LEISINGER Executive Director, Centers for ExcellencePresentations: Facilitator, Externship Programs Working Group, AALS Clinical Education Conference, Los Angeles, April 30-May 3, 2012. • Presented a training session on non-pro t board members’ duties and legal obligations, Washburn University Child Development Center Board, Topeka, April 23, 2012. • Presented “Legal Duties and Obligations of Non-Pro t Board Members,” United Way of Greater Topeka and Washburn Leadership Institute Introductory Non-Pro t Board Member Training Program, Topeka, March 8, 2012. CRAIG MARTIN Associate Professor of LawPresentations: “Denial of the Rights of Belligerency: The Forgotten and Misunderstood Clause in the Constitution of Japan,” Law and Society Association Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 9, 2012. • Keynote Address, “Targeted Killing with Drones: At the Intersection of Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello,” Public International Law and Foreign Affairs Conference, Creighton University School of Law, Omaha, Nebraska, March 30, 2012. • “Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech from a Comparative Perspective,” Faculties of Law and Journalism, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jan. 23, 2012. Oral Advocacy Training, University of Sarajevo Faculty of Law, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jan. 20-22, 2012. • Panel Participant, “Japan’s Peace Constitution at 65: Time for a Change?,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., Sept. 22, 2011.Publications: “The Japanese Constitution as Law and the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Decisions: A Response to Matsui,” 88 Washington University Law Reveiw 657 (2011). • “A Constitutional Case for Amending Article 9,” The Constitution of Japan at 65: Time for a Change?, (Bryce Wake eld, ed.) (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2012). • “Going Medieval: Targeted Killing, Self-Defence, and the Jus Ad Bellum Regime,” in Targeted Killing: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World (Claire Finkelstein al., eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2012). • “LDP’s Dangerous Proposals for Amending Anti-war Article,” The Japan Times, June 6, 2012. • “Targeted Killings Symposium: Craig Martin Comments on ‘Targeting Co-Belligerents’ by Jens David Ohlin,” Opinio Juris, June 4, 2012. “Obama Administration Fails to Address the Legality of Targeted Killing,” Truman National Security Project, Doctrine Blog, May 3, 2012. • “Why We Should Not Support an Israeli Attack on Iran,” ngton Post, March 2, 2012.Joseph P. Mastrosimone Craig Martin Tonya Kowalski 36 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDUFaculty Plaudits JOSEPH P. MASTROSIMONE Associate Professor of LawPresentations: “Recent Developments in Labor and Employment Law,” Selected Topics and Miscellany 2012 CLE Program, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, June 22, 2012. • Panelist, “Views from the Tenure Track,” The 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Palm Desert, Calif., May 31, 2012. “Writing It Right: Ethical and Professional Concerns in Legal Writing,” Kansas Bar Association CLE Seminar, Topeka, April 4, 2012. • “Creating Ethical and Professional Law Students and Lawyers: Introducing Professionalism and Legal Ethics Through the First-Year Writing Class,” Legal Writing Institute Teaching Workshop, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 2, 2011.Publications: “Adding Punch to Your Arguments: The Thesis Sentence,” 81:3 Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 12 (March 2012). NANCY G. MAXWELL Professor of LawPresentations: Plenary session, “Feminist Jurisprudence,” Kansas Women Attorneys Association Annual Meeting, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., July 14, 2011 (with Jennifer Zook and Shawn Jurgensen). JOSEPH E. MCKINNEY Visiting Professor of LawPresentations: Speaker, Use and Abuse of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Topeka Bar Association, Topeka, April 27, 2012. LORI A. MCMILLAN Associate Professor of LawPresentations: “An Empirical Examination of the Noncharitable Nonpro t Subsector in Canada,” Washburn University School of Law Tax Colloquium, Topeka, April 20, 2012. • “The Business Judgment Rule as an Immunity Doctrine,” Washburn University School of Law Faculty, Topeka, April 11, 2012. • “Honest Services Update: Directors’ Liability Concerns After Skilling and Black,” Northern Kentucky University, Chase School of Law, Oct. 14, 2011.Publications: “Honest Services Update: Directors’ Liability Concerns after Skilling and Black,” 18 Texas Wesleyan Law Review149 (2011). [127 KB PDF] • “Recent Developments in U.S. Nonpro t Taxation: The Pension Protection Act Takes Effect,” 81:6 Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 20 (June 2012). ALIZA ORGANICK Professor of Law and Interim Co-director of the Law ClinicPresentations: Plenary Speaker, “Introducing Indigenous Legal Theory into Clinical Practice,” Australian National Conference on Clinical and Experiential Learning, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Sept. 7-9, 2011.Publications: “Reassessing Concurrent Tribal-State-Federal Criminal Jurisdiction in Kansas,” 59 Kansas Law Review 949 (co-author with John J. Francis, Stacy L. Leeds, and Jelani Jefferson Exum) (2011). DAVID E. PIERCE Professor of LawPresentations: “Recent Developments in Property Law,” Selected Topics and Miscellany 2012 CLE Program, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, June 21, 2012. • “Recent Developments in Contract Law,” Selected Topics and Miscellany 2012 CLE Program, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, June 21, 2012. • “Basic Conveyance Principles: Conveyance Requirements, Lifetime Transfers and Transfers at Death, Encumbrances,” Special Institute on the Nuts and Bolts of Mineral Title Examination, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Westminster, Colo., Feb. 9, 2012. • “Oil and Gas Issues of Interest to the Agricultural Lawyer,” 8th Annual Agricultural Law Update, Kansas Bar Association, Manhattan, Kan., Oct. 28, 2011. “What the Courts Have Done to Oil & Gas LawRecently,” 36th Annual KBA/KIOGA Oil & Gas Conference, Wichita, Oct. 21, 2011. “Common Interests Created in Oil & Gas,” Oil & Gas Law Short Course, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Denver, Colo., Oct. 19, 2011. • “Environmental Regulation of the Oil & Gas Industry,” Oil & Gas Law Short Course, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Denver, Colo., Oct. 19, 2011. “The Oil & Gas Lease: Implied Covenants,” Oil & Gas Law Short Course, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Denver, Colo., Oct. 18, 2011. “A Short, Short Course on Oil & Gas Law for the Wyoming Practitioner,” Wyoming State Bar Annual Meeting and Judicial Conference, CLE presentation, Cheyenne, Wyo., Sept. 15, 2011. • Aliza Organick David E. PierceJoseph E. McKinney Nancy G. Maxwell WASHBURN LAWYER | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | 37Faculty Plaudits“Professional Responsibility, Ethics, and the Transactional Lawyer,” 57th Annual Institute of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation CLE, Santa Fe, N.M., July 22, 2011.Publications: “Kansas,” 2012 Survey on Oil & Gas, 18 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 485 (2012). • “Void Enactments of the Kansas Legislature,” 80 Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 28 (July/August 2011). • “Professional Responsibility and the Transactional Lawyer: The Drafting Context,” 57 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 19-1 (2011). • “Carol Rose Comes to the Oilpatch: Modern Property Analysis Applied to Modern Reservoir Problems,” 19 Penn State Environmental Law Review 241 (2011). • “Developing a Common Law of Hydraulic Fracturing,” 72 University of Pittsburgh Law Review(2011). Co-editor, Oil and Gas Law Reporter, Volumes 173 (2012). • Co-editor, Oil and Gas Law Reporter, Volume 172 (2011). MARY KREINER RAMIREZ Professor of LawMedia Interviews: Quoted, “Ticket case’s legal aspects unclear,” Lawrence Journal-World (Feb. 22, 2012). “Criminal Af rmance: Going Beyond the Deterrence Paradigm to Examine the Social Meaning of Declining Prosecution of Elite Crime,” Citizen Warriors, WSBR Radio South Florida 740AM, Feb. 19, 2011.Presentations:Reader/Responder, “Police Ef ciency and the Fourth Amendment,” LatCrit XVI: The 16th Annual LatCrit Conference, San Diego, Calif., Oct. 8, 2011. WILLIAM RICH Professor of LawPresentations:Winter School Course, Constitutional Interpretation, Free University of Tbilisi, Bazaleti Training Centre, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Feb. 2012. • Workshop on Constitutional Law, Racial Pro ling Advisory Board of the City of Wichita, Wichita, June 30, 2012. • Panelist, Af rmative Action, Fisher v. Texas, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Kansas City, Mo., May 24, 2012. “Supreme Court Review,” NAACP Annual Conference, Kansas City, Kan., July 11, 2010.Professional Service: Constitutional Law Project, Free University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, 2011-2012 (coordinated Washburn student participation in consulting with Free University students who drafted amicus briefs for cases pending before the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Georgia). • Facilitation of law school retreats, Resource Corps, Association of American Law Schools, September 2011 and May 2012. Chair, Association of American Law Schools, Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, 2009-2012.Publications: Cumulative Supplement, Modern Constitutional Law, 3d ed., Volumes 1-3 (West, 2011-2012). “Why ‘Privileges or Immunities?’: An Explanation of the Framers’ Interpretation and the Supreme Court’s Misinterpretation,” in nite Hope Finite Disappointment: The Story of the First Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment, (Elizabeth Reilly, ed.) (Akron University Press, 2011). REGINALD L. ROBINSON Professor of LawPresentations: “Our Work Here is Done?: Considering Changed Circumstances and the Continuing Need for Special Rules Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” Thurgood Marshall Program, University of South Dakota School of Law, March 14, 2012. • Panel moderator, “State Policy Potpourri: Some Comparative Assessments,” Breaching Borders: State Encroachment into the Federal Immigration Domain?, Topeka, Washburn University School of Law, Oct. 20, 2011.Professional Service: Symposium Planner and Host, Breaching Borders: State Encroachment into the Federal Immigration Domain?, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Oct. 20-21, 2011. • Board member, Capitol Federal Financial Inc., 2012-present. • Chair, Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice, 2011-2013. DAVID S. RUBENSTEIN Associate Professor of LawPresentations:“The Subfederal Immigration Revolution,” Topeka Bar Association, Topeka, Feb. 3, 2012.Professional Service: Symposium Planner and Host, Breaching Borders: State Encroachment into the Federal Immigration Domain?, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Oct. 20-21, 2011 MICHAEL HUNTER SCHWARTZ Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Development and Professor of LawPresentations: Opening Plenary, “Value of Variety in Action,” 2012 Annual Conference of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, Wash., June 25, 2012 (with Sandra Simpson, Gerry Hess, and Tonya Kowalski). • Conducted week- William RichReginald L. Robinson Mary Kreiner Ramirez David S. Rubenstein 38 | SPRING/SUMMER 2012 | WASHBURNLAW.EDUFaculty Plauditslong course design workshop for Iranian and Turkish law professors, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012. • Conducted week-long course design workshop for Georgian law professors, Tbilisi, Georgia, May 2012 (part of year-long train-the-trainers curriculum). • Guest Speaker, “Maximizing Learning in a Multi-Generational Setting,” 2012 PA CLE Providers Conference, Harrisburg, Penn., June 8, 2012. • Presented, “Mid-Semester Student Evaluations,” Capital University School of Law, Columbus, Ohio, May 2012. • Presented, “Non-Exam Assessments,” Charlotte Law School, Charlotte, N.C., May 2012. Presented, “Assessment,” William Mitchell School of Law, St. Paul, Minn., April 2012. • Presented, “What the Best Law Teachers Do,” University of Mississippi School of Law, Oxford, Miss., April 2012. • Conducted Program Evaluation for Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, Calif., March-April 2012. • Plenary Presentation, “Choosing Wisely: Beyond Using Technology for Its Own Sake,” Technology in and Beyond the Classroom, North Carolina Central University College of Law, Raleigh, N.C., March, 2012 (with Gerry Hess). • Conducted Half-Day Workshop “Law Teaching Techniques,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 23, 2012. • “Insurance of Professional Liability of Lawyers,” Symposium on Commercial Law, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia, March 20-21, 2012. • Conducted teaching and learning Workshop, University of Arkansas, Little Rock Bowen School of Law, Little Rock, Ark., February 2012 (with Tonya Kowalski). • “What the Best Higher Education Teachers Do,” College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va., Jan. 13, 2012. • Conducted workshop, “Outcomes, Measures, and Re ections: Moving Student Services Towards the Continuous Improvement Ideal,” American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 5, 2012. “What the Best Law Teachers Do,” University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, Mo., September 2011. • Discussion Facilitator, “Innovations in Teaching,” Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Grand Rapids Campus, Grand Rapids, Mich., September 2011. • “What the Best Law Teachers Do,” Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing Campus, Lansing, Mich., September 2011. • “Leadership in Learning: Views from Georgia,” Thomas M. Cooley Law School Leadership Group, Lansing, Mich., September 2011. • “Resources for Law Teachers,” West Publishing’s Innovation Conference, St. Paul, Minn., August 2011.Professional Service: Academic Curriculum Coordinator, Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO), 2012. Overhauled the design and teaching of CLEO’s two pre-law school programs and taught expert learning skills to more than 200 minority or economically disadvantaged students who are starting law school in fall, Atlanta, Georgia, Des Moines, Iowa, Los Angeles and San Diego, California, June-July, 2011. • Appointed, Panelist of Consultants for Incorporating Practical Problem Solving into Non-ADR Courses, ABA LEAPS Project, 2011-present. • Fellow of Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (April 2012). • Contracts I and II courses selected by the University of Denver Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System as innovative courses that re ect exemplary innovative teaching (2011).Publications: “All About the First Year of Law School,” 12 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law 77 (2011) (with Chaim Saiman and Jessica Rubin). • “Improving Legal Education by Improving Casebooks: Fourteen Things Casebooks Can Do to Produce Better and More Learning,” 3 Elon Law Review 27 (2011). [2.6 MB PDF] AMY DEEN WESTBROOK Professor of LawMedia Interviews: “War on Terror: Metro companies wary of work with ‘rogue states,’” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Jan. 5, 2012). Presentations: “Double Trouble: Collateral Shareholder Litigation Following Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Investigations,” The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, March 16, 2012. • Panelist, “U.S. Securities Law and Global Security,” Panel on ‘Cutting-Edge’ issues in Public and Private International Law, ABA Section of International Law Fall Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 12, 2011.Professional Service: Developed and taught a Winter School program on International Business Transactions and Contract Drafting, National Center for Commercial Law, Free University of Tbilisi, Bazaleti Training Centre, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Jan. 23-29, 2012.Publications: “The Inadequate Disclosure of Business Conducted in Countries Designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism,” 39 Securities Regulation Law Journal 15 (2011). • “Banking, Commercial & Contract Law” (chapter 2), 2012 Kansas Annual Survey (Kansas Bar Association). Amy Deen Westbrook Michael Hunter Schwartz