- Professor Gail Hammer was recently appointed to the Washington State Supreme Court’s Practice of Law Board for a term that goes through 2012. She also gave a presentation to the Gonzaga-in-Florence faculty on “Degrees of Separation: How Injustice Can Result From Knowing Too Much, Knowing a Little, Or Knowing Nothing At All.”
- Professor Gerry Hess co-presented and facilitated a four-day faculty development workshop for judges at the National Judicial College: “Designing and Presenting Effective Programs.”
- Professor Cheryl Beckett’s article, “A Factor By Any Other Name: The Religious Employers’ Defense to Contraceptive Equity Claims Under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII” will be published in the December 2009 volume of the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy. On July 18, Professor Beckett presented and led a roundtable discussion on “Burnout in the Seasoned LR&W Teacher – Be Careful What You Wish For,” at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Conference at the University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Law. She presented on a related topic on August 29th at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. Professor Beckett was recently reappointed to a second term as a City of Spokane Civil Service Commissioner.
- Professor Linda Rusch recently attended the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in Chicago in her capacity as Secretary of the Business Law Section. She also submitted the 2009 supplements for Hawkland’s Uniform Commercial Code Treatise for the volumes on UCC Article 2, UCC Article 7, and Revised UCC Article 7. Publication is anticipated in December 2009.
- In early August, Professor Upendra Acharya presented a paper titled “Right to Development: Conspiracy in International Law” at the University of Tokyo’s International Conference of Asian Society of International Law. This paper is also being published in the “African Executive” — an online opinion magazine. Professor Acharya’s article “War on Terror or Terror Wars: Problem in Defining Terrorism” has been accepted for publication in the upcoming volume of the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy. Professor Acharya also participated this summer in a panel discussion on Stopping Genocide at the annual conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars at George Mason University.
- Professors Kevin Shelley and Heidi Holland were co-presenters at the Northwest Regional Legal Writing Conference in Portland, Oregon, on August 29th. Their topic was: “The Benefits of Color-Coding: Use Highlighters as an Essential Legal Writing Tool to Improve Teaching and Learning.”
- Professors Stephen Sepinuck and Linda Rusch recently completed the supplement to their Secured Transactions course book and its teacher’s manual. They have also recently completed the supplement to their Bankruptcy course book and its teacher’s manual.
- Professor Dan Morrissey’s article The Securities Act at its Diamond Jubilee: Renewing the Case for a Robust Registration Requirement has been published in the Spring, 2009 volume of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law.
