- Professor Gerry Hess, along with co-authors Michael Schwartz and Sophie Sparrow, submitted the manuscript for a new book, “Teaching Law by Design for Adjuncts,” to Carolina Academic Press.
- Professor Kevin Shelley’s “Notes from a Legal Writing Lifer: A Celebration and A Concern,” has been accepted for publication in The Second Draft. It will appear in the Spring 2010 issue.
- Professor Lisa Bradley and Professor Shelley participated in a panel presentation at the Tenth Annual Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, sponsored by the James E. Rogers College of Law of the University of Arizona, in Tucson. The presentation was entitled “Of Rubrics and Margin Notes: Assessing Students Over Time (A Roundtable Discussion of Uses and Expectations)”.
- Professor Amy Kelley spoke recently on “Emerging Issues in Constitutional Law – State and Federal” at the spring Appellate Judges’ conference in Lake Chelan.
- Professor Ann Murphy has finished an article for the WSBA Litigation Section newsletter for Spring 2010. The topic of the newsletter is Evidence, and the article is entitled “The Attorney-Client Privilege and Inadvertent Disclosure.”
- Professor Lynn Daggett is also a featured writer for the same newsletter. Her article is entitled “Evidentiary Arguments in Proceedings that are Not Governed by the Rules of Evidence.”
- Professor Upendra Acharya’s paper “Defining Terrorism and Lingering International politics: International Law as a Quiet Observer” has been selected for presentation in Athens, Greece, at the International Conference on Politics and International Affairs in June 2010. Professor Acharya recently attended a meeting of the WSBA international law section and spoke to attendees about the Law School’s activities in the international law area.
- Professor Rusch attended the March drafting committee meeting of the UCC Article 9 Review Committee and prepared a thirty-page report on the meeting for the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. She also acted as Editor-in-Chief of the February issue of the Business Lawyer, published by the ABA Business Law Section. In her capacity as Vice Chair of the Section, Professor Rusch attended the ABA Business Law Section Midwinter Leadership meeting and participated in a leadership development forum and the Section’s Council meeting. Professor Rusch also attended ABA Business Law Section Mid-Year Meeting and participated in the meetings of the Section Officer’s Conference and the Business Law Section. Also, in her capacity as the President of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, Professor Rusch presided over the meeting of the Board of Regents in which new members of the College were elected.
- Professor Sepinuck and Professor Rusch received contracts from Thomson/West publishing to prepare a new edition of their Secured Transactions course book and teacher’s manual and a new edition of their Payments course book and teacher’s manual.
- Professor Stephen Sepinuck attended what is expected to be the last meeting of the Joint Review Committee for Article 9, where he and Professor Rusch successfully proposed various changes to the committee’s draft language. Professor Sepinuck also attended the second meeting of the Drafting Committee for the Uniform Certificate of Title Act for Vessels. As the project reporter, he has taken on the responsibility for drafting the proposed uniform law. Professor Sepinuck has also published three brief articles on recent commercial law developments. The first, “Reg Z Requires Extra Effort to Enforce Security Interest in Consumer Deposit Account,” was published in Clark’s Secured Transactions Monthly in January and Clark’s Bank Deposits and Payments Monthly, also in January. The second article, “Seventh Circuit Strikes Down Indiana Law Aimed at Car Title Pawns,” appeared in the Clark’s Secured Transactions Monthly February newsletter. And the third article, “Vague Terms in Collateral Description Lead to Partial, Pyrrhic Victory for Secured Party,” will be appearing the next edition of Clark’s Secured Transactions.
- Acting Dean Critchlow recently attended a conference co-sponsored by New York Law School and Harvard Law School on “Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education.” He will be part of a newly organized working group tasked with investigating and disseminating information about law schools that seek to innovate by securing variances from the ABA with respect to applicable accreditation standards.
