View
218
Download
1
Category
Preview:
Citation preview
SCOL Highlights
January – August 2010
Name: Alan Chen
Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship & Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: An Introduction to Government Speech
Location: Sturm College of Law
Date: January 21, 2010
Significance: Gave a background presentation on the First Amendment issues associated with
"government speech" as background for law review editors and staff in conjunction with the 17th
Annual Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference on Constitutional Law, co-sponsored by the DU Law
Review.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Of interest to a Specific Program? yes
Program: Law Reviews
Name: Alan Chen
Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship & Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Right Labels, Wrong Categories: Comments on Steven D. Smith’s, "Why is
Government Speech Problematic?"
Location: Old Supreme Court Chambers, Colorado State Capitol, 17th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber,
Jr. Conference on Constitutional Law: Government Speech
Date: January 22, 2010
Significance: Professor Chen presented a critique and commentary on the First Amendment
implications of a paper presented at this conference, which was co-sponsored by the Byron R.
White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, the Keller Center for the First
Amendment, and the Denver University Law Review.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Of interest to a Specific Program? yes
Program: DU Law Review
Name: Stacey Bowers
Position: Outreach & Access Services Librarian
Type: Award/Appt/Acknow
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grant Program
Date: January 12, 2010
Significance: The team of Claire Williamson, Dr. Sylvia Hall-Ellis, and Stacey Bowers won a
grant entitled, "Reintroducing the Value of Law Librarians to Public Librarians" that they will
complete over the next 12 months. This grant will increase awareness and the value of law
librarianship among public librarians in Colorado. The team will work with public librarians to
assess their needs and perspectives in regard to legal information through moderated focus
groups. The data collected will be used to create strategies and technologies that public librarians
could adopt for use with their patrons.
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Of interest to a Specific Program? yes
Program: Morgridge College of Education
Name: Stacey L. Bowers
Position: Outreach & Access Services Librarian
Type: Award/Appt/Acknow
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: University of Denver Public Good Fund
Date: February 5, 2010
Significance: Stacey Bowers, Dr. Sylvia Hall-Ellis and Claire Williamson were awarded a Public
Good Fund grant for the Colorado Law Project. This project will create a public, legal
information gateway website designed initially for use by Colorado’s public librarians and the
general public. The project website will provide a single access point for publically available
legal information specific to Colorado. The website will focus on information most needed by
the general public and will serve as a community outreach tool for public librarians.
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Of interest to a Specific Program? yes
Program: Morgridge College of Education
Name: Alan Chen
Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship and Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Right Labels, Wrong Categories: Some Comments on Steven D. Smith's,
"Why is Government Speech Problematic?"
Location: 17th Annual Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference on Constitutional Law
Date: January 22, 2010
Significance: Comment on one of the principal papers relating to the First Amendment
implications of governmental speech at a national conference of constitutional law scholars.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Of interest to a Specific Program? yes
Program: Law Review
Name: Joyce Sterling
Position: Professor
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Essay
Publication Title: "Closing Remarks: Symposium - The Evolution of J.D. Programs - Is Non-
Traditional Becoming More Traditional
Date of Publication: 2009
Full Citation: 38 Southwestern Law Review 4, 653 (2009)
Subject Area: Innovations in Legal Education Curriculum
Significance: My remarks summarized what was learned at this symposium . It was focused on
new innovative programs in legal education. These include Northwestern's new two year legal
education degree and Southwestern's experience with its' long history of a two year excellerated
degree program.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Joyce Sterling
Position: Professor
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: After the JD II: What is the Picture for Women Lawyers After the 7th Year of
Practice?
Location: Denver
Date: March 16, 2010
Significance: Employing the Second Wave of Data from After the JD, I will present findings
focused on the progress of women lawyers after seven years of practice. I will address questions
of practice settings, movement and questions of Opt-Out from the progression. After the JD is
the first National Longitudinal study of the careers of lawyers in the U.S.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Laura Rovner
Position: Associate Professor of Law/Civil Rights Clinic
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Suing on Behalf of Federal Prisoners
Location: Yale Law School
Date: March 4, 2010
Co-presenters: John Boston, David Shapiro, Deborah Golden
Significance: This presentation will discuss post-9/11 developments in the constitutional rights
of federal prisoners, including Fifth Amendment Due Process rights and the Eighth Amendment
right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Laura Rovner
Position: Associate Professor of Law/Civil Rights Clinic
Type: Media
Type of Media: web
Name: CNN.com
Date: February 25. 2010
Is video available? no
URL:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/25/colorado.supermax.silverstein.solitary/index.html?iref
=allsearch
Significance: The Civil Right Clinic at DU's Student Law Office represents Tommy Silverstein,
a prisoner who has been held in solitary confinement for 26 years. Our students, under the
supervision of CRC Fellow Brittany Glidden and me, have brought a lawsuit asserting that this
treatment violates his 8th Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Admissions? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David B. Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: McDonald v. Chicago – The Supreme Court and Second Amendment Rights
Location: Univeristy of Chicago, International House
Date: March 3, 2010
Co-presenters: Lee Walker, President of the New Coalition and Senior fellow at the Heartland
Institute, and Douglas Krick, founder of Pink Pistols.
Significance: An analysis of how the Second Amendment will likely be enforced, once it is made
applicable to the states by McDonald v. Chicago.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Thomson
Position: LP Professor and DIrector
Type: Award/Appt/Acknow
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: Board of Directors, Legal Writing Institute
Date: March 8, 2010
Appt Length: 4 years
Significance: The LWI is the national organization for those who teach legal analysis, research,
writing and oral expression. Founded in 1984, the LWI now has over 2200 members representing
all ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. The Institute also has members from other
countries, as well as from English departments, independent research-and-consulting
organizations and the practicing bar. The purpose of the LWI is to exchange ideas about legal
writing and to provide a forum for research and scholarship about legal writing and legal
analysis. A blog post announcing David’s election can be found at
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/2010/03/lwi-board-election-results.html.
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Admissions? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Article
Publication Title: The Right to Arms in the Living Constitution
Date of Acceptance: 2009
Date of Publication: 2010
Full Citation: The Right to Arms in the Living Constitution. 2010 Cardozo Law Review de Novo
99
Subject Area: Second Amendment, legal history, constitutional theory
Significance: Examines the Second Amendment from the perspective of living constitutionalism
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Article
Publication Title: Pretend "Gun-free" School Zones: A Deadly Legal Fiction
Full Citation: 42 Connecticut Law Review 515 (2009)
Subject Area: Lawful carrying of firearms, crime control, education law
Significance: The first in-depth empirical examination of the effects at educational institutions of
prohibition the lawful carrying of firearms pursuant to state-issued licenses.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Essay
Publication Title: Entries on "Samuel Colt", "Richard Gatling" and "Hudson Maxim"
Date of Acceptance: 2009
Date of Publication: 2009
Full Citation: Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions (Salem Press, 2009)
Subject Area: Biographies of important inventors
Significance: Biographies of three American inventors from the 19th century whose made major
breakthroughs in firearms design.
Is video available? N/A
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Publication Type: Popular Media
Scholarly Publication Type: Book
Publication Title: Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and Self-
Defense
Date of Publication: Dec. 2009
Full Citation: Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, And Future of Freedom and Self-Defense
(Bellevue: Wash.: Merril Press, 2009)
Subject Area: Self-defense, right to arms, civil liberty, equality
Significance: The book covers topics including the origins of the DC handgun ban, the Heller
decision, the genesis of modern American gun control, the KKK and its role in gun control,
errors used to promote anti-gun laws, the right to self defense from Judeo-Christrian
perspectives, the United Nations, international gun control, law enforcement abuses and
solutions, the culture of the right to keep and bear arms and the gun control movement. The book
concludes with biographical essays on Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and heroes of
freedom.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: State Court Standards on the Right to Arms
Location: Santa Clara Law School
Date: Jan. 22, 2010
Significance: Surveys two centuries of state court cases on state right to arms provision, for
guidance in analyzing the Second Amendment.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: The Privileges or Immunities Clause
Location: DU Law School
Date: Mar. 11, 2010
Co-presenters: Kurt Lash
Significance: Commentary on Kurt Lash's speech at a Federalist Society event regarding the 14th
Amendment's Privileges or Immunities clause, based on his forthcoming articles in the
Georgetown Law Journal.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: The History and Future of Denver’s ―17th Street‖ Large Law Firms
Location: Davis, Graham & Stubbs, LLP
Date: February 2010
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: How to Effectively Network during an Economic Downturn, or Don’t Burn
the Bridges You’re Trying to Build!
Location: Sturm College of Law
Date: March, 2010
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Type: Media
Type of Media: Newspaper
Name: Wall Street Journal
Date: March 24
Is video available? no
URL:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704896104575139961196603490.html?KEYW
ORDS=Kopel
Significance: WSJ excepts Kopel's post on Volokh.com, arguing that the federal power to tax
does not include the power to punish people for choosing not to purchase federally-designed
health insurance. (The WSJ link is a partial quote, with the rest behind a paywall. The full blog
post is http://volokh.com/2010/03/22/is-the-tax-power-infinite/ )
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Rachel Arnow-Richman
Position: Assoc. Prof.
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Article
Publication Title: Just Notice: Re-reforming Employment At Will
Date of Acceptance: April 1, 2010
Date of Publication: October 2010
Full Citation: 58 UCLA L. Rev. (forthcoming 2010)
Subject Area: Employment Termination
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Of interest to a Specific Program? yes
Program: Workplace Law Program
Name: Ann Vessels
Position: Director - Legal Externship Program and Lecturer
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Designing Externship Courses in Specialized Areas and Class Content that
Engages Students
Location: Externships V Conference, Miami Florida
Date: March 5, 2010
Co-presenters: Denise Platfoot Lacey, University of Dayton; Carl Circo, University of Arkansas
Significance: In this presentation, Ann discussed the capstone course to the Sustainable Natural
Resources Development Certificate she will teach for the first time in the ENRLP Graduate
Program in Fall 2010. Sustainability has traditionally been focused on attaining harmony with
nature rather than humanity. This certificate program focuses on both—harmony with nature and
humanity--and will help prepare our students (who will work with business leaders in these kinds
of issues) for a morally complex and sustainable future so they can accept their moral obligations
and duties to future generations, the deprived and the environment. Partnering with a local
organization and utilizing the concept of ―Action Learning,‖ students will work in teams as they
engage in real time problem solving of a complex issue involving social and environmental
issues. We believe this is the first course of its kind taught at a US law school.
Conference Title: Externships V
Date: March 5, 2010
Significance: I'm not sure if this goes under Presentations or Conference. The presentation I
made at this conference which is described above was presented at the Externships V
Conference.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Admissions? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Of interest to a Specific Program? yes
Program: Sturm College of Law
Name: Steve Pepper
Position: Professor
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Keynote Address - 32nd Legal Ethics Institute, Washington and Lee
University. Topic of keynote: Three Dichotomies In Lawyers' Ethics"
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Date: March 19, 2010
Significance: In the past the position of "keynote scholar" for this Institute has been filled by
leading scholars in the field, such as David Luban (Georgetown), Bill Simon (Columbia,
Standford) Bob Gordon (Yale), Daniel Markovitz (Yale) and Arthur Applbaum (Harvard).
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Kris Miccio
Position: Associate Professor of Law
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Essay
Publication Title: A Review of Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases
Date of Acceptance: 12/2009
Date of Publication: any minute
Full Citation: Will appear in the International Criminal Law Journal
Subject Area: Criminal law
Significance: Book review to be published by the university college of dublin law school. The
journal is peer reviewed and the leading criminal law journal in the EU.
Presentation Title: Lesbian Parenting: Same or Different
Location: SCOL
Date: 3/13/10
Co-presenters: Professor Catherine Smith; Professor Caryn Aviv
Significance: A discussion at the Motherhood COnference of the issues that surround lesbian
mothers, their families, their children--including rights, social and political issues
Conference Title: MotherJood Conference:
Date: march 12-13, 2010
Location: SCOL
Significance: First co-sponsored conference between the SCOL, UCD-Dublin and Whittier Law
School. Drew in panelists from Ireland, the UK, Israel, Argentina, Canada and across the US. I
organised the conference along with my counterpart, Prof. Judy Walsh UCD-Dublin.
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge Fellowship; Fulbright Senior
Specialist Award; PROF Grant Awardee
Date: 3/28; 4/6; 4/9
Significance: The Marie Curie is awarded by the European Commission and two Americans
received this award--Professor Miccio and Professor Martha A. Fineman, AEmory University
Law School. Will be lecturing on male intimate violence and state accountabilty and working
with Ph.D students at the Univeristy of Dublin Law School and School of Social Justice
(May/June 2010). Fulbright Senior Specialst Award has been awarded by the US and Irish
Fulbright Commission-will be at the University of Dublin Law School to assist in the
devlopment of simulation based learning. Will be teaching US Criminal Procedure and
atomizing the course so that faculty who attend (along with law students) can experience this
pedagogy. Will also be running faculty workshops (2010-2011). PROF Grant was awarded to
fund my research on the impact of mandates in domestic violence cases on the Battered Women's
Movements in the US and Ireland (2010-2012)
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Using Deception in Intellectual Property Related-Investigations: Are You
Unwittingly Violating The Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct?
Location: CBA, IP Section
Date: April 1, 2010
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Judges, (in) Civility and the Media, Judicial Ethics and Accountability: At
Home and Abroad
Location: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA
Date: April 9, 2010
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Type: Other
Other: Supreme Court citation
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: Citations of my amicus brief in McDonald v. Chicago.
Significance: Alito plurality: Chicago residents now face one of the highest murder rates in the
country and rates of otherviolent crimes that exceed the average in comparable cities.2 2....see
also Brief for International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association et al. as Amici
Curiae 17–21, and App. A (providing comparisons of Chicago’srates of assault, murder, and
robbery to average crime rates in 24 otherlarge cities). Stevens dissent: In their briefs to this
Court, several amici have sought to bolster petitioners’ claim still further by invoking a right to
individual self-defense.31 31 See, e.g., Brief for Professors of Philosophy, Criminology, Law,
and Other Fields as Amici Curiae; Brief for International Law Enforcement Educators and
Trainers Association et al. as Amici Curiae 29–45; Brief for 34 California District Attorneys et
al. as Amici Curiae 12–31. Stevens dissent: Chicago’s handgun ban, in itself, has divided
researchers. CompareBrief for Professors of Criminal Justice as Amici Curiae (arguing that
ordinance has been effective at reducing gunviolence), with Brief for International Law
Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association et al. as Amici Curiae 17–26 (arguing that
ordinance has been a failure). The amicus brief, which was published as part of the DU Law
Research Paper series, is avalable here:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1511425
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Kris Miccio
Position: Professor of Law
Other: Publication/Appointment/Award
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Essay
Publication Title: Domestic Violence Prosecution-A Review
Date of Acceptance: March 2010
Date of Publication: June 2010
Full Citation: International Journal of Criminal Law
Subject Area: Prosecution of perpetrators of male intimate violence in the US and UK.
Significance: It is a review of a book written about the UK and prosecutions in that jurisdiction
and published in a peer review journal from the EU.
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: Fulbright Senior Specialist and Visiting Professor
Date: May 2010
Location: Ireland
Appt Length: 6 months
Significance: I have been granted a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to assist the university
College of Dublin Law School Faculty in development of modern learning skills for their law
courses. Additionally, I will be teaching a course in Irish/US criminal procedure and giving a
series of lectures in the School of Social Justice as part of the Marie Curie Transfer of
Knowledge Award. Significance: the MCTKA is rarely given to a US scholar; I am acting as a
consultant to an Irish Law School in their development of modern learning for their classes in
law.
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Name: Kris Miccio
Position: Professor of Law
Type: Award/Appt/Acknow
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: Appointed to the Advisory Board in Family Law, Women's Aid-
republic of Ireland
Date: june 2010
Location: Ireland
Appt Length: indefinitely
Significance: I have been appointed to the Advisory Board to assist in the training of barristers
and solicitors in the family Courts of ireland. Moreover, I will be doing a study for the largest
NGO in Ireland on Domestic Domestic Violence--specifically opening the family courts without
compromising the safety of battered women. In Ireland all family court matters are handled in
camera, no transcript is made and the parties are not permitted to reveal any information to
anyone.
Name: Kris Miccio
Position: Professor of Law
Type: Award/Appt/Acknow
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: PROF GRANT
Date: JUNE 2010
Location: DENVER, NY, DUBLIN
Appt Length: 2 YEARS
Significance: comparative study of best practices in the US and Ireland concerning male intimate
violence.
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Testimony at Confirmation Hearings of Elena Kagan
Location: Washington, DC, Senate Judicary Committee
Date: July 1, 2010
Significance: Will testify about Ms. Kagan's record on the Second Amendment and related
issues.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Admissions? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Thomson
Position: LP Professor
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: A New and Urgent Role for the LRW Professorate: The Impact of
Technology on the Law and the Legal Profession
Location: Marco Island, Florida
Date: 6/29/10
Co-presenters: Ian Gallacher (Syracuse); Ellie Margolis (Temple); Kristen Murray (Temple)
Significance: As part of the Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, I convened this
panel of emerging scholars on the diverse impact that technology is having on the development
of the law. Discussed were the accuracy and reliability of Google Scholar, the increasing citation
to non-legal materials and internet-based materials in judicial opinions, and the implications of
these developments on legal education.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Dan Edwards
Position: Adjunct Professor
Type: Award/Appt/Acknow
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: Colorado Attorney General's Excellence in Achievement Award
Date: May, 2010
Location: General Office Meeting
Significance: Was recognized for work on the Homicide Assistance Team, assisting local
prosecutors in their homicide prosecutions during the 2009-2010 year, including the successful
prosecution of Sir Mario Owens and Robert Ray, and continuing contributions to the continuing
education of lawyers in the Attorney Generals Office and the Colorado District Attorney's
Association.
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Ethics of Attorney Communications
Location: Denver Bar Association Bench/Bar Retreat, Denver, CO
Date: April 10, 2010
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Article
Publication Title: How Many Global Deaths from Arms? Reasons to Question the 740,000
Factoid Being Used to Promote the Arms Trade Treaty
Date of Acceptance: 4/13/2010
Date of Publication: 2010
Co-Authors: Paul Gallant, Joanne D. Eisen
Full Citation: 5 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, number 3
Subject Area: International Law
Significance: Currently, the United Nations is drafting an Arms Trade Treaty to impose strict
controls on firearms and other weapons. In support of hasty adoption of the Treaty, a UN-related
organization of Treaty supporters is has produced a report claiming that armed violence is
responsible for 740,000 deaths annually. This Article carefully examines the claim. We find that
the claim is based on dubious assumptions, cherry-picking data, and mathematical legerdemain
which is inexplicably being withheld from the public. The refusal to disclose the mathematical
calculations used to create the 740,000 factoid is itself cause for serious suspicion; our own
calculations indicate that the 740,000 figure is far too high. Further, while the report claims that
60% of homicides are perpetrated with firearms, our review of the data on which report claimed
to rely yields a 22% rate. The persons responsible for the report have refused to release their
homicide calculations, or any other calculations. This Article also shows how a narrow focus on
restricting firearms ownership continues to distract international attention from life-saving,
viable solutions. We propose some practical alternatives which have already saved lives in war-
ravaged areas.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Type: Event
Event Title: Debate on Constitutionality of Federal Health Care Reform
Date: April 28, 2010
Time: 6 pm
Location: CU Law School, Wolf Law Building
Of interst to alums? yes
Significance: David Kopel and Jean Dubofsky (Bell Center, former Justice of the Colorado
Supreme Court) will debate the constitutionality of the new health care bill, and Attorney
General Suthers' participation in the 18-state lawsuit against the bill. Sponsored by the American
Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David B. Kopel
Position: Adjunct Professor
Type: Other
Other: Cited by Colo. Ct. App. today.
http://www.courts.state.co.us/Courts/Court_of_Appeals/opinion/2010/09CA1230.pdf
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Jack Abramoff Exposed: The Integrity of the Legal/Lobbying Profession in a
Money Culture
Location: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Date: April 15, 2010
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decision Making in Context
Location: Buffalo Law School, Baldy Center
Date: April 23, 2010
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Article
Publication Title: Glass-ceilings and Dead Ends: Professional Ideologies, Gender Stereotypes
and the Future of Women Lawyers at Large Law Firms
Date of Acceptance: October 2009
Date of Publication: April 2010
Full Citation: 78 FORDHAM L. REV. 2245 (2010)
Subject Area: Legal Profession
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Essay
Publication Title: The Great Recession and the Legal Profession
Date of Acceptance: October 2009
Date of Publication: April 2010
Full Citation: 78 FORDHAM L. REV. 2051 (2010)
Subject Area: Legal Profession
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Alan Chen
Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship & Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Meaningful Access to Constitutional Remedies
Location: Access to Justice Conference, DU Sturm College of Law
Date: April 23, 2010
Significance: Panel presentation on the access to justice implications of the wide scope of
limitations on effective federal judicial remedies for persons injured by the unconstitutional
conduct of government officials.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Joyce Sterling
Position: Professor
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Article
Publication Title: So You Want tobe a Lawyer? The Quest forProfessional Status in a Changing
Legal World
Date of Publication: April 2010
Co-Authors: Nancy Reichman
Full Citation: 78 Fordham Law Review 2289 (April 2010).
Subject Area: The impact of the Financial Crisis on the development of lawyer identity and
status.
Significance: The article shows the adverse impact of he Financial Crisis on lawyers seven years
after graduating from law school. Among lawyers interviewed as part of AJD2, we find that
lawyers have lost jobs, found out that they are not going to be promoted to partner, while others
decide to leave firm settings and go into solo practice.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Christine Cimini
Position: Associate Professor/Director of Clinical Programs
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Nuts and Bolts: What Do We Mean By Outcomes and Assessment
Location: AALS Annual Clinical Conference, Baltimore Maryland
Date: May 5, 2010
Co-presenters: Elliott Milstein, American University and Alicia Alvarez, University of Michigan
Is video available? N/A
Appointment/award Name: Ronald V. Yegge Clinical Director
Date: May 11, 2010
Significance: This endowment was created by the late Dean Robert B. Yegge and his mother, to
honor Dean Yegge's father, and was funded by them and a number of generous alumni. The
purpose is to attract and retain top line talent to direct our clinic.
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Glass Ceilings and Dead Ends: Professional Ideologies, Gender Stereotypes
and the Future of Women Lawyers at Large Law Firms
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: May 28, 2010
Co-presenters: Law & Society Association Panel
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Arthur Best
Position: Professor
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Expert Testimony on Victims' Credibility
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: May 29
Significance: This research studies whether the legal system's restrictions on expert testimony
about victims' credibility match up well with the views on this subject held by social workers, as
identified through interviews with social workers.
Is video available? N/A
Name: David Thomson
Position: LP Professor & Director
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Teaching Contract Drafting Online
Location: Emory University Law School
Date: June 5, 2010
Co-presenters: Susan Duncan (Univ. Louisville)
Significance: As part of the Transactional Law Teaching Conference at Emory, this presentation
offered details of two experiences teaching online. Over the last year, I have been helping
Professor Susan Duncan (Univ. Louisville) develop an online contract drafting course, and we
discussed "best practices" for online teaching, and she shared her experience teaching this new
course.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position:
Type: Award/Appt/Acknow
Other: SSRN top 10 list
Is video available? N/A
Significance: My paper in the DU Research Series, "Mexico’s Federal Law of Firearms and
Explosives", was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence
& Legal Philosophy eJournals.
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: David Kopel
Position: Adjunct
Type: Award/Appt/Acknow
Is video available? N/A
Significance: My DU Research Series paper (forthcoming in NYU Journal of Law & Liberty)
"How Many Global Deaths from Arms? Reasons to Question the 740,000 Factoid Being Used to
Promote the Arms Trade Treaty", was listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Conflict
Studies eJournal.
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Alan Chen
Position: Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship and Professor
Publication Type: Scholarly
Scholarly Publication Type: Article
Publication Title: Rosy Pictures and Renegade Officials: The Slow Death of Monroe v. Pape
Date of Acceptance: July 2009
Date of Publication: June 2010
Full Citation: 78 UMKC 889 (2010)
Subject Area: Constitutional Rights and Remedies, Federal Courts
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Of interest to a Specific Program? yes
Program: Constitutional Rights and Remedies
Name: David Thomson
Position: LP Professor
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Mile High Summit on Training
Location: Denver, Colorado
Date: July 11, 2010
Co-presenters: Molly Peckman (Dechert LLP), Linda-Jean Schneider (Cahill Gordon & Reindell,
LLP), and Tommy Preston, University of South Carolina School of Law.
Significance: With the economy putting pressure on law firms and law schools, the talk about
who and how to train law students to become practicing attorneys is becoming action. Law firms
have announced in-depth training programs where incoming associates are paid less, but enrolled
in intensive training on practicing law. Law Schools have added practice-oriented courses, and
expanding their existing skills training programs. This program examined how the current
economic crisis is shifting the focus of training law students and graduates to be practice-ready
lawyers.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Publication Type: Bar Assoc/Practitioner
Publication Title: Partner Departures and Lateral Moves Book Review
Date of Publication: August, 2010
Full Citation: 39(8) COLO. LAW. 127 (2010)
Subject Area: lawyer mobility
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Students? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Type: Presentation
Presentation Title: Law Practice as a Morally Responsible Business: Reintegrating Ethics into
Economics and Law
Location: Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA
Date: July 16, 2010
Co-presenters: Prof. Russell G. Pearce, Fordham Law School
Significance: We study the dominance of unconstrained self-interest in American culture, its
impact on clients and lawyers and the ways in which it excludes ethics and other values from the
practice of law. The paper presented at the conference develops the concept of relational self-
interest as an alternative to unconstrained self-interest, explains its meaning for clients and
lawyers and suggests appropriate reforms to the rules of professional conduct based on the notion
of relational self-interest.
Is video available? N/A
Of interest to Alums? yes
Of interest to Admissions? yes
Of interest to Faculty? yes
Name: Eli Wald
Position: Charles W. Delaney Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Type: Media
Type of Media: Television and web
Name: ABC 7 News
Date: July 14, 2010
Recommended