Faculty Speaker Series ArchivePrinter friendly version Fall2008/Spring 2009Spring 2009Wednesday, January 21, 2009: PANEL: Maxine Harrington, Neal Newman, Aric Short, Joe Spurlock, "Exam Drafting and Other Student-Related Issues Regarding Dealing With Final Exam Grades." Conference Center.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009: Danielle Holley-Walker, University of South Carolina School of Law, School Law Topic, "The Future of Desegregation Plans in the Wake of Parents Involved." Conference Center.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009: Lou Virelli, Stetson School of Law, Administrative Law Topic, "Political Science: Peer Reviewers as Agents of Administrative Legitimacy." Conference Center.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009: Huyen Pham, "When Immigration Borders Move," Room 212.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009: Susan Ayres and Prema Manjunath, "Mothers in Denial," Conference Center.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009: Terri Helge, "Disinheriting Deadbeat Dads and Child Predators: The Role of Morality in Crafting Intestate Distribution Schemes." Conference Center.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009: Jasmine Abdel-Khalik, University of Missouri-Kansas City, "Taking an Intangible: Trademarks and The Takings Doctrine." Conference Center.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009: Chris Mays, Teaching Topic, eInstruction, "Classroom Performance System (Clickers)." Conference Center.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009: Paul Boudreaux, Stetson School of Law, "The Impact Xat." Conference Center.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009: Wade Savoy, Practitioner in Residence, "Why I Can't Find E.T. on iTunes, What Copyright Law Can Do About It, and How the Intellectual Property Industry Has to Respond." Conference Center.
Fall 2008August 20, 2008 (Wednesday)
Keith Hirokawa, "Property Pieces in Compensation Statutes: Law's Eulogy for Oregon's Measure 37," Conference Center.
August 26, 2008 (Tuesday)
Wayne Barnes, "Comparative Analysis of the Objective Theory of Contracts," Rm. 104.
September 3, 2008 (Wednesday)
Carla Pratt, "The Role of the Black Lawyer in our Democracy," Conference Center.
September 17, 2008 (Wednesday)
Neal Newman, "The U.S. Move to International Accounting Standards – A Matter of Cultural Discord – How do we Reconcile?" Conference Center.
September 24, 2008 (Wednesday)
Beth Thornburg, SMU Dedman School of Law, "A Collision of Ambiguities: Independent Judicial Research and the Boundaries of Law and Fact," Room 104.
October 1, 2008 (Wednesday)
Jason Gillmer, "Shades of Gray: Free Blacks, Poor Whites, and the Politics of Difference in Antebellum Texas," Room 104.
October 16, 2008 (Thursday)
Rose Cuison Villazor, SMU School of Law, Rediscovering Oyama v. California: The Intersection of Property, Immigration Law, and Citizenship , Room 206 at 1 p.m.
October 22, 2008 (Wednesday)
Megan Carpenter, "The Intersection of Trademark Rights and Human Rights," Conference Center.
October 29, 2008 (Wednesday)
Paul George, Charlotte Hughart, Vickie Rainwater, Lynne Rambo, Malinda Seymore, "Panel on Teaching Performance Issues," Conference Center.
November 5, 2008 (Wednesday)
James McGrath, "Transgendered Prisoners," Conference Center.
November 19, 2008 (Wednesday)
Aric Short, "Faith by Itself is Dead: Local Homeless Feeding Restrictions and their Impact on the Free Exercise of Religion," Conference Center.
Junior Faculty Workshops on Thursdays: Actual Dates and Speakers To Be Determined.
For questions about this page or the speaker series, please contact Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development, Michael Z. Green.
Spring 2008Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008James McGrath,
Are You a Boy or a Girl?
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008
Mark Burge, Statutory Construction in an Age of Outsourcing
Monday, Jan. 28, 2008
Terri Helge, Policing the Good Guys: An Alternative to the Enforcement of Charitable Organization Laws
Friday, Feb. 8, 2008
Junior Faculty Workshop
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008
Anna Teller and Stephanie Marshall, I know WHAT I need—now WHERE do I find it?
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008
Jeff Kahn, SMU Law School, International Travel and the U.S. Constitution during the War on Terror
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
Maxine Harrington, The Thin Flat Line: Are Donors Whose Organs are Removed After Cardiac Death Legally Dead?
Friday, March 7, 2008
Junior Faculty Workshop
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Paul George, Access to Justice: Whatever that Means
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Mark Bauer, Stetson Law School, The Softer Side of Antitrust: Why Department Stores Matter
Friday, April 11, 2008
Junior Faculty Workshop
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Van Pham, Baylor University, Import R Us
Fall 2007Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007Wayne Barnes,
The Objective Theory of Contract
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007
Margarita Coale, Foreign Parallel Litigation Revisted
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007
Neal Newman, The Holy Grail of Financial Reporting and Why We May Never Get There
Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007
Michael Green, Searching for the WRIGHT Answer to Collective Bargaining Arbitration of Statutory Claims
Friday, Oct. 5, 2007
Junior Faculty Workshop-Room # 107
Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007
Malinda Seymore, The Case of the Crooked Convictions: Erle Stanley Gardner, Perry Mason, and the Court of Last Resort
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007
Christian Halliburton, Seattle University School of Law, How Privacy Killed Katz: A Tale of Cognitive Freedom And the Property of Personhood as Fourth Amendment
Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007
Paul George, Access to Justice—Impediments in the Legal Process
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007
Susan Kuo, University of South Carolina School of Law, Speaking in Tongues: Mandating Multilingual Disaster Warnings in the Public Interest
Friday, November 2, 2007
Junior Faculty Workshop - Room #212
Spring 2007
January 22, 2007
Michael Green, Negotiating A Call to Action for Selection of Diverse Arbitrators in Employment Discrimination Matters
January 29, 2007
Meredith Conway, The Tax Code and Executive Compensation: Who Really Profits?
February 5, 2007
Frank Snyder, Legal Realism and the Uniform Commercial Code
February 12, 2007
Aric Short and John Veileux, Using Electronic Bluebook
February 19, 2007
Jason GIllmer and Frank Snyder, Panel Discussion on Scholarship
February 27, 2007
Rose Cuizon Villazor, SMU School of Law, Blood Quantum Property Laws: A Political, Not Racial, Justification
March 5, 2007
Susan Ayres, What I Did on My Sabbatical
March 20, 2007
Jason Gillmer, Black, White, and Brown: Texas Interracial Cases in the 19th and early 20th Centuries
March 26, 2007
Michael Townes Watson, Practitioner in Residence, Can We Make the Medical Liability System Work for Patients and Doctors?
April 2, 2007
Srividhya Ragavan, University of Oklahoma School of Law, WTO and Dispute Settlement
April 4, 2007
Jana McCreary, A Safari into East African Legal Education... And Beyond
April 10, 2007
Huyen Pham, The Privatization of Immigration Law Enforcement
April 18, 2007
Mary Clark, American University Washington College of Law, Not My Brethren’s (Gate) Keeper?-Reflections on the Senate Judiciary Committee Testimony of Seven Current and Former Third Circuit Judges in Support of Justice Samuel Alito's Confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court
April 23, 2007
Anthony Baker, Campbell University, Background of Chief Justice Roger Taney and the History of the Dred Scott Decision
Fall 2006
September 11, 2006
Mark Burge, Who Wants to be a Muggle?
September 18, 2006
Lynne Rambo and Reginald Oh, Judicial Independence on Constitutional Day
October 2, 2006
Elisabeth Cawthon, University of Texas at Arlington, Legal Aspects of the Dartmoor Controversy -- Prisoners of War: U.S. Prisoners in Britain During the War of 1812
October 30, 2006
Jeffrey Lipshaw, Visiting Faculty Tulane School of Law, The Right to Lie in Business Acquisition Agreements: Reconcilng Fraud and Contract
November 6, 2006
Reginald Oh, The Tragedy of the White Racial Commons: Racial Segregation, Anti-miscegenation, and the Regulation of White Desire
November 20, 2006
Robert Gray, The Establishment Clause and the Separation and Seclusion of Faith
For questions about this page or the speaker series, please contact Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development, Michael Z. Green.