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 And in the Future


Professor Stuart Green will give a Corporate and White Collar Crime master at the University of Melbourne Law School. (May 2–8)

Dean John J. Farmer, Jr. will be a panelist for the “Sharing Lessons Learned Across Sectors” discussion at the Third Annual Ethical Leadership Conference sponsored by the Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership. (May 4) He’ll moderate the session on “How Treatment Now Works in New Jersey and How It Could Work” at the program on Treatment Alternatives for Drug Addiction for the Incarcerated, sponsored by the law school, the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice and the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration. (May 23)

Attendees at the Immigration Law Teachers Workshop will hear two presentations by Professor Alan Hyde: “The Law and Economics of Family Unification, or, A Visit for Abuela” and “Toward a North American Free Labor Market.” (June 1-2)

Assistant Professor Christina Ho will give a talk titled “Health Rights at the Juncture Between State and Market: The People’s Republic of China” at a workshop on works-in-progress on Chinese law at Columbia Law School’s Center for Chinese Legal Studies. (May 9) At the International Conference on Law and Society, to take place in Honolulu, she will present “Health Rights at the Juncture Between State and Market: The People’s Republic of China.” (June 5) She will present “Recursivity and Health Reform in the U.S.: An Application of Niklas Luhmann’s Essays on Self-Reference” at the 35th Annual American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Health Law Professors Conference, to be held at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Her presentation will be part of the session on Theories of Health Reform in the United States. (June 8)

At the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Professor Twila Perry will present “Non-Marital Mothers, Race, and Feminist Legal Theory.” (June 5)

Associate Professor Suzanne Kim will speak at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting as a panelist discussing the legal significance of Mignon Moore’s Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood Among Black Lesbians. (June 5)

Professor Vera Bergelson will present “The Meaning of Consent” at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. (June 7)

Professor Alan Hyde will present “Citizens of the World?” at Seminario Interdottorale, University of Bologna. (June 12)

Professor Carlos Ball has been invited to be on a panel about Romer v. Evans at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, to be held in Denver. (August)


 








Recent Faculty Activities

APRIL 2012

Assistant Professor Christina Ho presented a seminar talk on “Health Reform in the People’s Republic of China: Implications for Managing Communicable and Noncommunicable Disease” at Georgetown University’s School of Nursing and Health Studies. (April 24)

Professsor Stuart Green presented a master class on “Regulating White Collar Crime: A comparative perspective” at the University of New South Wales. (April 20)

Associate Professor Suzanne Kim, in a keynote address to a joint conference of the New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium and Rider University, discussed the state of gender equality throughout various segments of society, including the family, the workplace, and on university campuses. (April 13)

In an opinion issued April 4, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington cited Associate Professor Steve Gold’s 2009 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law article titled “Dis-Jointed? Several Approaches to Divisibility After Burlington Northern.” This is the second time that Gold’s article has been cited by a lower court in interpreting and applying the Supreme Court’s decision.
MARCH 2012

Professor Carlos Ball presented “Generations of LGBT Parents in the Courts” at the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women as part of the institute’s Distinguished Lecture Series. (March 29)

At the Election Verification Network annual conference, Clinical Professor Penny Venetis discussed legal methodologies that can be used to obtain voting machine software for forensic examination. (March 29) 

Assistant Professor Reid Weisbord presented “Charitable Bankruptcies” at the annual Rutgers–Newark Chancellor’s Research Day. (March 26) 

Professor Mark Weiner presented “The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Can Teach Us About Modern Law and Culture” at Brigham Young University. (March 14) Watch the video.

Clinical Professor John Kettle moderated the panel on “Emerging Legal Issues in Reality Television” at the Seton Hall Sports & Entertainment Law Journal symposium titled Emerging Legal Issues in Internet Gambling. (March 1)
FEBRUARY 2012

Associate Professor Suzanne A. Kim discussed her scholarship on gender, sexuality and parenting, and particularly about her article “The Neutered Parent,” forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, at the Boston University School of Law Colloquium on Gender, Law and Policy. (Feb. 28)

At a DePaul Law School faculty colloquium, Assistant Professor Reid Weisbord presented his article “Wills for Everyone: Helping Individuals Opt Out of Intestacy,” forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review. (Feb. 27)

Professor James Pope presented “Solidarity and the United States Constitution” as a panelist at the Conference on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity, held at the University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill. (Feb. 25)

“‘Arab Spring’ or ‘Arab Winter’? Women’s Human Rights and Law Reform in the New North Africa” was the title of Professor Karima Bennoune’s presentation at the University of Virginia Law School conference, Constitution-Making and the Arab Spring. (Feb. 24)  

Clinical Professor John Kettle presented his annual lecture on the “Strategic Importance of Patents” to the biomedical engineering students at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technology. (Feb. 15)

Associate Professor Suzanne A. Kim spoke at and wrote an essay for the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender Conference “Unsex Mothering: Toward a New Culture of Parenting.” (Feb. 13)
JANUARY 2012

Assistant Professor Taja-Nia Henderson was the invited moderator for the “Perspectives on Race and the Criminal Justice System” panel at Cardozo Law School as part of the school’s Public Advocacy Law Week (P*Law). (Jan. 24)

Clinical Professor Penny Venetis presented her scholarship at the “New Voices for Human Rights” session held at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. (Jan. 6)

Professor Alan Hyde presented “To What Duties Do Global Labor Rights Correlate?: Responsibility for Labor Standards Down the Production Chain” at the International Labor Law and Global Justice Conference, held at Haifa University. (Jan. 5)

Professor John Leubsdorf was a speaker at the “Regulation of the Legal Profession and the Academy” panel at the AALS annual meeting. (Jan. 5)

Associate Professor Suzanne Kim co-organized and presented at the conference of the Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network, held at George Washington University Law School. (Jan. 4)