SCOL Highlights

January – August 2010

Name: Alan Chen

Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship & Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: An Introduction to Government Speech

Location: Sturm College of Law

Date: January 21, 2010

Significance: Gave a background presentation on the First Amendment issues associated with

"government speech" as background for law review editors and staff in conjunction with the 17th

Annual Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference on Constitutional Law, co-sponsored by the DU Law

Review.

Is video available? N/A

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Program: Law Reviews

Name: Alan Chen

Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship & Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Right Labels, Wrong Categories: Comments on Steven D. Smith’s, "Why is

Government Speech Problematic?"

Location: Old Supreme Court Chambers, Colorado State Capitol, 17th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber,

Jr. Conference on Constitutional Law: Government Speech

Date: January 22, 2010

Significance: Professor Chen presented a critique and commentary on the First Amendment

implications of a paper presented at this conference, which was co-sponsored by the Byron R.

White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, the Keller Center for the First

Amendment, and the Denver University Law Review.

Is video available? N/A

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Program: DU Law Review

Name: Stacey Bowers

Position: Outreach & Access Services Librarian

Type: Award/Appt/Acknow

Is video available? N/A

Appointment/award Name: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grant Program

Date: January 12, 2010

Significance: The team of Claire Williamson, Dr. Sylvia Hall-Ellis, and Stacey Bowers won a

grant entitled, "Reintroducing the Value of Law Librarians to Public Librarians" that they will

complete over the next 12 months. This grant will increase awareness and the value of law

librarianship among public librarians in Colorado. The team will work with public librarians to

assess their needs and perspectives in regard to legal information through moderated focus

groups. The data collected will be used to create strategies and technologies that public librarians

could adopt for use with their patrons.

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Program: Morgridge College of Education

Name: Stacey L. Bowers

Position: Outreach & Access Services Librarian

Type: Award/Appt/Acknow

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Appointment/award Name: University of Denver Public Good Fund

Date: February 5, 2010

Significance: Stacey Bowers, Dr. Sylvia Hall-Ellis and Claire Williamson were awarded a Public

Good Fund grant for the Colorado Law Project. This project will create a public, legal

information gateway website designed initially for use by Colorado’s public librarians and the

general public. The project website will provide a single access point for publically available

legal information specific to Colorado. The website will focus on information most needed by

the general public and will serve as a community outreach tool for public librarians.

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Program: Morgridge College of Education

Name: Alan Chen

Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship and Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Right Labels, Wrong Categories: Some Comments on Steven D. Smith's,

"Why is Government Speech Problematic?"

Location: 17th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference on Constitutional Law

Date: January 22, 2010

Significance: Comment on one of the principal papers relating to the First Amendment

implications of governmental speech at a national conference of constitutional law scholars.

Is video available? N/A

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Program: Law Review

Name: Joyce Sterling

Position: Professor

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Essay

Publication Title: "Closing Remarks: Symposium - The Evolution of J.D. Programs - Is Non-

Traditional Becoming More Traditional

Date of Publication: 2009

Full Citation: 38 Southwestern Law Review 4, 653 (2009)

Subject Area: Innovations in Legal Education Curriculum

Significance: My remarks summarized what was learned at this symposium . It was focused on

new innovative programs in legal education. These include Northwestern's new two year legal

education degree and Southwestern's experience with its' long history of a two year excellerated

degree program.

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Name: Joyce Sterling

Position: Professor

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: After the JD II: What is the Picture for Women Lawyers After the 7th Year of

Practice?

Location: Denver

Date: March 16, 2010

Significance: Employing the Second Wave of Data from After the JD, I will present findings

focused on the progress of women lawyers after seven years of practice. I will address questions

of practice settings, movement and questions of Opt-Out from the progression. After the JD is

the first National Longitudinal study of the careers of lawyers in the U.S.

Is video available? N/A

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Name: Laura Rovner

Position: Associate Professor of Law/Civil Rights Clinic

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Suing on Behalf of Federal Prisoners

Location: Yale Law School

Date: March 4, 2010

Co-presenters: John Boston, David Shapiro, Deborah Golden

Significance: This presentation will discuss post-9/11 developments in the constitutional rights

of federal prisoners, including Fifth Amendment Due Process rights and the Eighth Amendment

right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.

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Name: Laura Rovner

Position: Associate Professor of Law/Civil Rights Clinic

Type: Media

Type of Media: web

Name: CNN.com

Date: February 25. 2010

Is video available? no

URL:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/25/colorado.supermax.silverstein.solitary/index.html?iref

=allsearch

Significance: The Civil Right Clinic at DU's Student Law Office represents Tommy Silverstein,

a prisoner who has been held in solitary confinement for 26 years. Our students, under the

supervision of CRC Fellow Brittany Glidden and me, have brought a lawsuit asserting that this

treatment violates his 8th Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.

Of interest to Alums? yes

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Name: David B. Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: McDonald v. Chicago – The Supreme Court and Second Amendment Rights

Location: Univeristy of Chicago, International House

Date: March 3, 2010

Co-presenters: Lee Walker, President of the New Coalition and Senior fellow at the Heartland

Institute, and Douglas Krick, founder of Pink Pistols.

Significance: An analysis of how the Second Amendment will likely be enforced, once it is made

applicable to the states by McDonald v. Chicago.

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Name: David Thomson

Position: LP Professor and DIrector

Type: Award/Appt/Acknow

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Appointment/award Name: Board of Directors, Legal Writing Institute

Date: March 8, 2010

Appt Length: 4 years

Significance: The LWI is the national organization for those who teach legal analysis, research,

writing and oral expression. Founded in 1984, the LWI now has over 2200 members representing

all ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. The Institute also has members from other

countries, as well as from English departments, independent research-and-consulting

organizations and the practicing bar. The purpose of the LWI is to exchange ideas about legal

writing and to provide a forum for research and scholarship about legal writing and legal

analysis. A blog post announcing David’s election can be found at

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/2010/03/lwi-board-election-results.html.

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Article

Publication Title: The Right to Arms in the Living Constitution

Date of Acceptance: 2009

Date of Publication: 2010

Full Citation: The Right to Arms in the Living Constitution. 2010 Cardozo Law Review de Novo

99

Subject Area: Second Amendment, legal history, constitutional theory

Significance: Examines the Second Amendment from the perspective of living constitutionalism

Is video available? N/A

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Article

Publication Title: Pretend "Gun-free" School Zones: A Deadly Legal Fiction

Full Citation: 42 Connecticut Law Review 515 (2009)

Subject Area: Lawful carrying of firearms, crime control, education law

Significance: The first in-depth empirical examination of the effects at educational institutions of

prohibition the lawful carrying of firearms pursuant to state-issued licenses.

Is video available? N/A

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Essay

Publication Title: Entries on "Samuel Colt", "Richard Gatling" and "Hudson Maxim"

Date of Acceptance: 2009

Date of Publication: 2009

Full Citation: Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions (Salem Press, 2009)

Subject Area: Biographies of important inventors

Significance: Biographies of three American inventors from the 19th century whose made major

breakthroughs in firearms design.

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Publication Type: Popular Media

Scholarly Publication Type: Book

Publication Title: Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and Self-

Defense

Date of Publication: Dec. 2009

Full Citation: Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and Self-Defense

(Bellevue: Wash.: Merril Press, 2009)

Subject Area: Self-defense, right to arms, civil liberty, equality

Significance: The book covers topics including the origins of the DC handgun ban, the Heller

decision, the genesis of modern American gun control, the KKK and its role in gun control,

errors used to promote anti-gun laws, the right to self defense from Judeo-Christrian

perspectives, the United Nations, international gun control, law enforcement abuses and

solutions, the culture of the right to keep and bear arms and the gun control movement. The book

concludes with biographical essays on Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and heroes of

freedom.

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: State Court Standards on the Right to Arms

Location: Santa Clara Law School

Date: Jan. 22, 2010

Significance: Surveys two centuries of state court cases on state right to arms provision, for

guidance in analyzing the Second Amendment.

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: The Privileges or Immunities Clause

Location: DU Law School

Date: Mar. 11, 2010

Co-presenters: Kurt Lash

Significance: Commentary on Kurt Lash's speech at a Federalist Society event regarding the 14th

Amendment's Privileges or Immunities clause, based on his forthcoming articles in the

Georgetown Law Journal.

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Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: The History and Future of Denver’s ―17th Street‖ Large Law Firms

Location: Davis, Graham & Stubbs, LLP

Date: February 2010

Is video available? N/A

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Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: How to Effectively Network during an Economic Downturn, or Don’t Burn

the Bridges You’re Trying to Build!

Location: Sturm College of Law

Date: March, 2010

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Type: Media

Type of Media: Newspaper

Name: Wall Street Journal

Date: March 24

Is video available? no

URL:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704896104575139961196603490.html?KEYW

ORDS=Kopel

Significance: WSJ excepts Kopel's post on Volokh.com, arguing that the federal power to tax

does not include the power to punish people for choosing not to purchase federally-designed

health insurance. (The WSJ link is a partial quote, with the rest behind a paywall. The full blog

post is http://volokh.com/2010/03/22/is-the-tax-power-infinite/ )

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Name: Rachel Arnow-Richman

Position: Assoc. Prof.

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Article

Publication Title: Just Notice: Re-reforming Employment At Will

Date of Acceptance: April 1, 2010

Date of Publication: October 2010

Full Citation: 58 UCLA L. Rev. (forthcoming 2010)

Subject Area: Employment Termination

Is video available? N/A

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Program: Workplace Law Program

Name: Ann Vessels

Position: Director - Legal Externship Program and Lecturer

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Designing Externship Courses in Specialized Areas and Class Content that

Engages Students

Location: Externships V Conference, Miami Florida

Date: March 5, 2010

Co-presenters: Denise Platfoot Lacey, University of Dayton; Carl Circo, University of Arkansas

Significance: In this presentation, Ann discussed the capstone course to the Sustainable Natural

Resources Development Certificate she will teach for the first time in the ENRLP Graduate

Program in Fall 2010. Sustainability has traditionally been focused on attaining harmony with

nature rather than humanity. This certificate program focuses on both—harmony with nature and

humanity--and will help prepare our students (who will work with business leaders in these kinds

of issues) for a morally complex and sustainable future so they can accept their moral obligations

and duties to future generations, the deprived and the environment. Partnering with a local

organization and utilizing the concept of ―Action Learning,‖ students will work in teams as they

engage in real time problem solving of a complex issue involving social and environmental

issues. We believe this is the first course of its kind taught at a US law school.

Conference Title: Externships V

Date: March 5, 2010

Significance: I'm not sure if this goes under Presentations or Conference. The presentation I

made at this conference which is described above was presented at the Externships V

Conference.

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Program: Sturm College of Law

Name: Steve Pepper

Position: Professor

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Keynote Address - 32nd Legal Ethics Institute, Washington and Lee

University. Topic of keynote: Three Dichotomies In Lawyers' Ethics"

Location: Lexington, Virginia

Date: March 19, 2010

Significance: In the past the position of "keynote scholar" for this Institute has been filled by

leading scholars in the field, such as David Luban (Georgetown), Bill Simon (Columbia,

Standford) Bob Gordon (Yale), Daniel Markovitz (Yale) and Arthur Applbaum (Harvard).

Is video available? N/A

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Name: Kris Miccio

Position: Associate Professor of Law

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Essay

Publication Title: A Review of Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases

Date of Acceptance: 12/2009

Date of Publication: any minute

Full Citation: Will appear in the International Criminal Law Journal

Subject Area: Criminal law

Significance: Book review to be published by the university college of dublin law school. The

journal is peer reviewed and the leading criminal law journal in the EU.

Presentation Title: Lesbian Parenting: Same or Different

Location: SCOL

Date: 3/13/10

Co-presenters: Professor Catherine Smith; Professor Caryn Aviv

Significance: A discussion at the Motherhood COnference of the issues that surround lesbian

mothers, their families, their children--including rights, social and political issues

Conference Title: MotherJood Conference:

Date: march 12-13, 2010

Location: SCOL

Significance: First co-sponsored conference between the SCOL, UCD-Dublin and Whittier Law

School. Drew in panelists from Ireland, the UK, Israel, Argentina, Canada and across the US. I

organised the conference along with my counterpart, Prof. Judy Walsh UCD-Dublin.

Is video available? N/A

Appointment/award Name: Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge Fellowship; Fulbright Senior

Specialist Award; PROF Grant Awardee

Date: 3/28; 4/6; 4/9

Significance: The Marie Curie is awarded by the European Commission and two Americans

received this award--Professor Miccio and Professor Martha A. Fineman, AEmory University

Law School. Will be lecturing on male intimate violence and state accountabilty and working

with Ph.D students at the Univeristy of Dublin Law School and School of Social Justice

(May/June 2010). Fulbright Senior Specialst Award has been awarded by the US and Irish

Fulbright Commission-will be at the University of Dublin Law School to assist in the

devlopment of simulation based learning. Will be teaching US Criminal Procedure and

atomizing the course so that faculty who attend (along with law students) can experience this

pedagogy. Will also be running faculty workshops (2010-2011). PROF Grant was awarded to

fund my research on the impact of mandates in domestic violence cases on the Battered Women's

Movements in the US and Ireland (2010-2012)

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Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Using Deception in Intellectual Property Related-Investigations: Are You

Unwittingly Violating The Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct?

Location: CBA, IP Section

Date: April 1, 2010

Is video available? N/A

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Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Judges, (in) Civility and the Media, Judicial Ethics and Accountability: At

Home and Abroad

Location: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA

Date: April 9, 2010

Is video available? N/A

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Type: Other

Other: Supreme Court citation

Is video available? N/A

Appointment/award Name: Citations of my amicus brief in McDonald v. Chicago.

Significance: Alito plurality: Chicago residents now face one of the highest murder rates in the

country and rates of otherviolent crimes that exceed the average in comparable cities.2 2....see

also Brief for International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association et al. as Amici

Curiae 17–21, and App. A (providing comparisons of Chicago’srates of assault, murder, and

robbery to average crime rates in 24 otherlarge cities). Stevens dissent: In their briefs to this

Court, several amici have sought to bolster petitioners’ claim still further by invoking a right to

individual self-defense.31 31 See, e.g., Brief for Professors of Philosophy, Criminology, Law,

and Other Fields as Amici Curiae; Brief for International Law Enforcement Educators and

Trainers Association et al. as Amici Curiae 29–45; Brief for 34 California District Attorneys et

al. as Amici Curiae 12–31. Stevens dissent: Chicago’s handgun ban, in itself, has divided

researchers. CompareBrief for Professors of Criminal Justice as Amici Curiae (arguing that

ordinance has been effective at reducing gunviolence), with Brief for International Law

Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association et al. as Amici Curiae 17–26 (arguing that

ordinance has been a failure). The amicus brief, which was published as part of the DU Law

Research Paper series, is avalable here:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1511425

Of interest to Alums? yes

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Name: Kris Miccio

Position: Professor of Law

Other: Publication/Appointment/Award

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Essay

Publication Title: Domestic Violence Prosecution-A Review

Date of Acceptance: March 2010

Date of Publication: June 2010

Full Citation: International Journal of Criminal Law

Subject Area: Prosecution of perpetrators of male intimate violence in the US and UK.

Significance: It is a review of a book written about the UK and prosecutions in that jurisdiction

and published in a peer review journal from the EU.

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Appointment/award Name: Fulbright Senior Specialist and Visiting Professor

Date: May 2010

Location: Ireland

Appt Length: 6 months

Significance: I have been granted a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to assist the university

College of Dublin Law School Faculty in development of modern learning skills for their law

courses. Additionally, I will be teaching a course in Irish/US criminal procedure and giving a

series of lectures in the School of Social Justice as part of the Marie Curie Transfer of

Knowledge Award. Significance: the MCTKA is rarely given to a US scholar; I am acting as a

consultant to an Irish Law School in their development of modern learning for their classes in

law.

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Students? yes

Name: Kris Miccio

Position: Professor of Law

Type: Award/Appt/Acknow

Is video available? N/A

Appointment/award Name: Appointed to the Advisory Board in Family Law, Women's Aid-

republic of Ireland

Date: june 2010

Location: Ireland

Appt Length: indefinitely

Significance: I have been appointed to the Advisory Board to assist in the training of barristers

and solicitors in the family Courts of ireland. Moreover, I will be doing a study for the largest

NGO in Ireland on Domestic Domestic Violence--specifically opening the family courts without

compromising the safety of battered women. In Ireland all family court matters are handled in

camera, no transcript is made and the parties are not permitted to reveal any information to

anyone.

Name: Kris Miccio

Position: Professor of Law

Type: Award/Appt/Acknow

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Appointment/award Name: PROF GRANT

Date: JUNE 2010

Location: DENVER, NY, DUBLIN

Appt Length: 2 YEARS

Significance: comparative study of best practices in the US and Ireland concerning male intimate

violence.

Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Testimony at Confirmation Hearings of Elena Kagan

Location: Washington, DC, Senate Judicary Committee

Date: July 1, 2010

Significance: Will testify about Ms. Kagan's record on the Second Amendment and related

issues.

Is video available? N/A

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Name: David Thomson

Position: LP Professor

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: A New and Urgent Role for the LRW Professorate: The Impact of

Technology on the Law and the Legal Profession

Location: Marco Island, Florida

Date: 6/29/10

Co-presenters: Ian Gallacher (Syracuse); Ellie Margolis (Temple); Kristen Murray (Temple)

Significance: As part of the Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, I convened this

panel of emerging scholars on the diverse impact that technology is having on the development

of the law. Discussed were the accuracy and reliability of Google Scholar, the increasing citation

to non-legal materials and internet-based materials in judicial opinions, and the implications of

these developments on legal education.

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Name: Dan Edwards

Position: Adjunct Professor

Type: Award/Appt/Acknow

Is video available? N/A

Appointment/award Name: Colorado Attorney General's Excellence in Achievement Award

Date: May, 2010

Location: General Office Meeting

Significance: Was recognized for work on the Homicide Assistance Team, assisting local

prosecutors in their homicide prosecutions during the 2009-2010 year, including the successful

prosecution of Sir Mario Owens and Robert Ray, and continuing contributions to the continuing

education of lawyers in the Attorney Generals Office and the Colorado District Attorney's

Association.

Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Ethics of Attorney Communications

Location: Denver Bar Association Bench/Bar Retreat, Denver, CO

Date: April 10, 2010

Is video available? N/A

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Article

Publication Title: How Many Global Deaths from Arms? Reasons to Question the 740,000

Factoid Being Used to Promote the Arms Trade Treaty

Date of Acceptance: 4/13/2010

Date of Publication: 2010

Co-Authors: Paul Gallant, Joanne D. Eisen

Full Citation: 5 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, number 3

Subject Area: International Law

Significance: Currently, the United Nations is drafting an Arms Trade Treaty to impose strict

controls on firearms and other weapons. In support of hasty adoption of the Treaty, a UN-related

organization of Treaty supporters is has produced a report claiming that armed violence is

responsible for 740,000 deaths annually. This Article carefully examines the claim. We find that

the claim is based on dubious assumptions, cherry-picking data, and mathematical legerdemain

which is inexplicably being withheld from the public. The refusal to disclose the mathematical

calculations used to create the 740,000 factoid is itself cause for serious suspicion; our own

calculations indicate that the 740,000 figure is far too high. Further, while the report claims that

60% of homicides are perpetrated with firearms, our review of the data on which report claimed

to rely yields a 22% rate. The persons responsible for the report have refused to release their

homicide calculations, or any other calculations. This Article also shows how a narrow focus on

restricting firearms ownership continues to distract international attention from life-saving,

viable solutions. We propose some practical alternatives which have already saved lives in war-

ravaged areas.

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Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Type: Event

Event Title: Debate on Constitutionality of Federal Health Care Reform

Date: April 28, 2010

Time: 6 pm

Location: CU Law School, Wolf Law Building

Of interst to alums? yes

Significance: David Kopel and Jean Dubofsky (Bell Center, former Justice of the Colorado

Supreme Court) will debate the constitutionality of the new health care bill, and Attorney

General Suthers' participation in the 18-state lawsuit against the bill. Sponsored by the American

Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.

Is video available? N/A

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Name: David B. Kopel

Position: Adjunct Professor

Type: Other

Other: Cited by Colo. Ct. App. today.

http://www.courts.state.co.us/Courts/Court_of_Appeals/opinion/2010/09CA1230.pdf

Is video available? N/A

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Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Jack Abramoff Exposed: The Integrity of the Legal/Lobbying Profession in a

Money Culture

Location: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

Date: April 15, 2010

Is video available? N/A

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Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context

Location: Buffalo Law School, Baldy Center

Date: April 23, 2010

Is video available? N/A

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Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Article

Publication Title: Glass-ceilings and Dead Ends: Professional Ideologies, Gender Stereotypes

and the Future of Women Lawyers at Large Law Firms

Date of Acceptance: October 2009

Date of Publication: April 2010

Full Citation: 78 FORDHAM L. REV. 2245 (2010)

Subject Area: Legal Profession

Is video available? N/A

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Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Essay

Publication Title: The Great Recession and the Legal Profession

Date of Acceptance: October 2009

Date of Publication: April 2010

Full Citation: 78 FORDHAM L. REV. 2051 (2010)

Subject Area: Legal Profession

Is video available? N/A

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Name: Alan Chen

Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship & Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Meaningful Access to Constitutional Remedies

Location: Access to Justice Conference, DU Sturm College of Law

Date: April 23, 2010

Significance: Panel presentation on the access to justice implications of the wide scope of

limitations on effective federal judicial remedies for persons injured by the unconstitutional

conduct of government officials.

Is video available? N/A

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Students? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Name: Joyce Sterling

Position: Professor

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Article

Publication Title: So You Want tobe a Lawyer? The Quest forProfessional Status in a Changing

Legal World

Date of Publication: April 2010

Co-Authors: Nancy Reichman

Full Citation: 78 Fordham Law Review 2289 (April 2010).

Subject Area: The impact of the Financial Crisis on the development of lawyer identity and

status.

Significance: The article shows the adverse impact of he Financial Crisis on lawyers seven years

after graduating from law school. Among lawyers interviewed as part of AJD2, we find that

lawyers have lost jobs, found out that they are not going to be promoted to partner, while others

decide to leave firm settings and go into solo practice.

Is video available? N/A

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Students? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Name: Christine Cimini

Position: Associate Professor/Director of Clinical Programs

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Nuts and Bolts: What Do We Mean By Outcomes and Assessment

Location: AALS Annual Clinical Conference, Baltimore Maryland

Date: May 5, 2010

Co-presenters: Elliott Milstein, American University and Alicia Alvarez, University of Michigan

Is video available? N/A

Appointment/award Name: Ronald V. Yegge Clinical Director

Date: May 11, 2010

Significance: This endowment was created by the late Dean Robert B. Yegge and his mother, to

honor Dean Yegge's father, and was funded by them and a number of generous alumni. The

purpose is to attract and retain top line talent to direct our clinic.

Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Glass Ceilings and Dead Ends: Professional Ideologies, Gender Stereotypes

and the Future of Women Lawyers at Large Law Firms

Location: Chicago, IL

Date: May 28, 2010

Co-presenters: Law & Society Association Panel

Is video available? N/A

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Students? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Name: Arthur Best

Position: Professor

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Expert Testimony on Victims' Credibility

Location: Chicago, IL

Date: May 29

Significance: This research studies whether the legal system's restrictions on expert testimony

about victims' credibility match up well with the views on this subject held by social workers, as

identified through interviews with social workers.

Is video available? N/A

Name: David Thomson

Position: LP Professor & Director

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Teaching Contract Drafting Online

Location: Emory University Law School

Date: June 5, 2010

Co-presenters: Susan Duncan (Univ. Louisville)

Significance: As part of the Transactional Law Teaching Conference at Emory, this presentation

offered details of two experiences teaching online. Over the last year, I have been helping

Professor Susan Duncan (Univ. Louisville) develop an online contract drafting course, and we

discussed "best practices" for online teaching, and she shared her experience teaching this new

course.

Is video available? N/A

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Name: David Kopel

Position:

Type: Award/Appt/Acknow

Other: SSRN top 10 list

Is video available? N/A

Significance: My paper in the DU Research Series, "Mexico’s Federal Law of Firearms and

Explosives", was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

& Legal Philosophy eJournals.

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Students? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Name: David Kopel

Position: Adjunct

Type: Award/Appt/Acknow

Is video available? N/A

Significance: My DU Research Series paper (forthcoming in NYU Journal of Law & Liberty)

"How Many Global Deaths from Arms? Reasons to Question the 740,000 Factoid Being Used to

Promote the Arms Trade Treaty", was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Conflict

Studies eJournal.

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Students? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Name: Alan Chen

Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship and Professor

Publication Type: Scholarly

Scholarly Publication Type: Article

Publication Title: Rosy Pictures and Renegade Officials: The Slow Death of Monroe v. Pape

Date of Acceptance: July 2009

Date of Publication: June 2010

Full Citation: 78 UMKC 889 (2010)

Subject Area: Constitutional Rights and Remedies, Federal Courts

Is video available? N/A

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Students? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Of interest to a Specific Program? yes

Program: Constitutional Rights and Remedies

Name: David Thomson

Position: LP Professor

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Mile High Summit on Training

Location: Denver, Colorado

Date: July 11, 2010

Co-presenters: Molly Peckman (Dechert LLP), Linda-Jean Schneider (Cahill Gordon & Reindell,

LLP), and Tommy Preston, University of South Carolina School of Law.

Significance: With the economy putting pressure on law firms and law schools, the talk about

who and how to train law students to become practicing attorneys is becoming action. Law firms

have announced in-depth training programs where incoming associates are paid less, but enrolled

in intensive training on practicing law. Law Schools have added practice-oriented courses, and

expanding their existing skills training programs. This program examined how the current

economic crisis is shifting the focus of training law students and graduates to be practice-ready

lawyers.

Is video available? N/A

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law

Publication Type: Bar Assoc/Practitioner

Publication Title: Partner Departures and Lateral Moves Book Review

Date of Publication: August, 2010

Full Citation: 39(8) COLO. LAW. 127 (2010)

Subject Area: lawyer mobility

Is video available? N/A

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Students? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law

Type: Presentation

Presentation Title: Law Practice as a Morally Responsible Business: Reintegrating Ethics into

Economics and Law

Location: Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA

Date: July 16, 2010

Co-presenters: Prof. Russell G. Pearce, Fordham Law School

Significance: We study the dominance of unconstrained self-interest in American culture, its

impact on clients and lawyers and the ways in which it excludes ethics and other values from the

practice of law. The paper presented at the conference develops the concept of relational self-

interest as an alternative to unconstrained self-interest, explains its meaning for clients and

lawyers and suggests appropriate reforms to the rules of professional conduct based on the notion

of relational self-interest.

Is video available? N/A

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Admissions? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes

Name: Eli Wald

Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law

Type: Media

Type of Media: Television and web

Name: ABC 7 News

Date: July 14, 2010

Is video available? yes

Significance: The interview explored the disciplinary implications of recent plagiarism

allegations concerning gubernatorial candidate S. McInnis

Of interest to Alums? yes

Of interest to Students? yes

Of interest to Faculty? yes