Faculty Luncheon Series
Fall 2007
Wednesday, September 5—Kunal Parker, “Time as Spirit: Common Law Thought and the Historical Imagination in the Early Republic”
Tuesday, September 11—Dena Davis, “Genetic Research with Identified Communities: Law and Ethics”
Thursday, September 20—Michael L. Rich, Capital University Law School, “Prosecutorial Indiscretion: Encouraging the Department of Justice to Rein in Out-of-Control Qui Tam Litigation under the Civil False Claims Act”***
Thursday, September 27—Keith Sipe, Carolina Academic Press, Book Publishing
http://www.cap-press.com/contact.php
Monday, October 1—Recent Supreme Court Cases: Dena Davis ("Bongs 4 Jesus" case); Joel Finer, Panetti v. Quarterman (mental competence of death row inmate); Heidi Robertson, Mass v. EPA (EPA's ability to regulate carbon emissions); Chris Sagers, Bell Atlantic v. Twonbly (antitrust case); Steve Lazarus, Gonzalez v. Carhart and Gonzalez v. Planned Parenthood (the abortion decisions); Reggie Oh, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District; Steve Steinglass, Powerex Corp. v. Reliant Energy Services, (federal court jurisdiction, separation of powers, etc.)
Thursday, October 4 at 3:30 (social time)/4:00 (presentation)—Reginald Oh, “Language, Belonging, and the 14th Amendment: An Analysis of Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District;” Northeast Ohio Law Schools’ Colloquia Series, at Case Western Reserve University School of Law
(Wednesday, October 10—Baker-Hostetler Visiting Scholar Brian Tamanaha, Chief Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law, St. John’s University School of Law)
Thursday, October 18—Browne Lewis, University of Detroit Mercy School Of Law, “’One Size Doesn't Fit All:’ Creating a Flexible Intestacy System that Balances the Inheritance Rights of Marital and Non-Marital Children”
Tuesday, October 23—TBA
Monday, October 29—Dennis Keating, “A Law Professor's Reflections on Serving on a Common Pleas Jury in a Murder Trial”
Thursday, November 8—Susan Becker, Veronica Dougherty, and Chris Sagers, Panel on Summer Teaching Grants—Creating Your Own Teaching Materials and Other Teaching Innovations
***We’re continuing a faculty lunch exchange with Capital University Law School this fall. Brian Ray will be giving a lunch presentation at Capital and Michael Rich is visiting us.