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BOARD
Xuan-Thao Nguyen (Southern Methodist), Chair Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod (Florida International), Chair-elect Ernesto A. Hernndez Lopez (Chapman) Kristin N. Johnson (Seton Hall) Hope Lewis (Northeastern) S. David Mitchell (Missouri) Nareissa Smith (North Carolina Central) Rose Cuison Villazor (UCDavis) Audrey McFarlane (Baltimore), ex officio

MESSAGES MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

Dear Members of the AALS Section on Minority Groups: Congratulations to all members of the Minority Section for all of your achievements at your respective law schools and communities in 2013! On behalf of the Executive Committee, I express my sincere thanks to many of you for serving as mentors to new law teachers and future law teachers at the AALS Annual Recruiting Conference, AALS New Law Teachers Workshop, AALS Minority Law Teachers Workshop, and at various regional conferences. Many thanks to all the signators for lending their names in support of the Sections efforts in opposing the ABAs proposed abolition of tenure in law school accreditation. The tenure struggle in legal academia, along with other issues concerning minority law professors, will continue in 2014 and beyond. Again, thank you. Special thanks to Professors Audrey McFarlane, Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod, Hope Lewis, Ernesto Hernandez, Rose Cuison-Villazor, Kristin N. Johnson, S. David Mitchell and Nareissa Smith for their tireless service on the Executive Committee. I look forward to working with Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod, Incoming Chair and the Executive Committee in 2014. We will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the AALS Annual Meeting in January 2014 in New York City. Please make time to attend the Sections panels on Friday, January 3, 2014 and the Business Meeting at the conclusion of the late afternoon panel. Lets get together at the Sections Luncheon on Sunday, January 5, 2014 to celebrate new deans, new promotions, new tenures and new law professors. We will also celebrate the legacies and contributions of those who left us this year, including our hero, Nelson Mandela. We will mark our celebration with the winners of the Derrick Bell Award and the Clyde Ferguson Award. We will fete Professor Osamudia James and Professor Stephen Lee, the joint winners of the Derrick Bell Award, and Professor Steven Bender, the winner of the Clyde Ferguson Award. See you soon in New York City! Xuan-Thao Nguyen Outgoing Chair, AALS Section on Minority Groups

EDITORS
Kenneth Williams (South Texas) Dawinder S. Sidhu (New Mexico)

CONTENTS
Messages Thanks Award Recipients AALS Panels AALS Service Opportunity Save the Date Conference Announcement Accomplishments Editors Note 1 2 2 3 6 6 6 7 28

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MESSAGE FROM THE 2013-14 INCOMING CHAIR

Dear Section Members, For the past three years that I have been a member of the Executive Committee, I have served under three incredible Chairs, Penny Andrews, Audrey McFarlane, and, most recently, Xuan-Thao Nguyen. I have learned much from these strong leaders and from my fellow members of the Executive Committee. I was motivated by their equanimity, sense of justice, and tireless efforts in all our work. I would also like to recognize and thank all of you, the members of the Section, who have encouraged and supported all our efforts. My work on the Committee has been rewarding and has allowed me to forge greater ties with you. As such, I look forward to serving as Chair in 2014. I hope to see you at the Sections business meeting and luncheon, and encourage you to share your thoughts with the Committee on how we can continue to promote the mission of the Section on Minority Groups. Best wishes in the New Year! Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod Outgoing Chair, AALS Section on Minority Groups

THANKS
The Board would like to recognize the following: - Terry Smith (DePaul) for his work on the initial draft of the letter regarding proposed ABA standards concerning tenure - Ben Davis (Toledo) for his tireless efforts in urging signatories to the letter - Wendy Greene (Samford) for helping organize the hospitality suite during the AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference - Mario Barnes (UC-Irvine) for his input to the Board throughout the year - Ken Williams (South Texas) and Dave Sidhu (New Mexico) for editing this newsletter

AWARD RECIPIENTS
The Minority Section Executive Committee selected the following colleagues as the 2014 Recipient Minority Section Awards:

Clyde Ferguson Award Steven Bender (Seattle) Derrick A. Bell Award Osamudia James (Miami) & Stephen Lee (UC-Irvine)
The awards will be presented during the Sections Luncheon on Sunday, January 5, 2014 at 12:15pm
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AALS PANELS OF INTEREST The Minority Section Panels at the upcoming AALS Annual Meeting in New York City: Friday, January 3, 2014
8:30 am 10:15 am 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Examining its Future (Part I) (co-sponsored by the Sections on Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination) Papers to be published in SMU LAW REVIEW. The year 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According to its preamble, the 1964 Civil Rights Act was enacted, among other things, to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, [and] to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity. And, of course, after its amendment on the floor, it provided for private actions to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This program celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Co-sponsored by the Minority Rights Section, this program explores the future of civil rights litigation. Specifically, it examines the gaps in the Civil Rights Act and considers the path that lawyers and advocates should take in future civil rights claims Business Meeting at Program Conclusion. Speakers Elise C. Boddie (Rutgers-Newark) Kareem U. Crayton (North Carolina) Juan F. Perea (Florida) Leticia Saucedo (UC-Davis) Ruqaiijah A. Yearby (Case Western) Moderator Jessica Dixon Weaver (Southern Methodist)

3:30 pm 5:15 pm

50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Examining its Future (Part II) (co-sponsored by the Sections on Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination) Papers to be published in SMU LAW REVIEW. The year 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights

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Act of 1964. According to its preamble, the 1964 Civil Rights Act was enacted, among other things, to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, [and] to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity. And, of course, after its amendment on the floor, it provided for private actions to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This program celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Co-sponsored by the Sections on Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination, this program explores the historical origins and contemporary impact on civil rights. Specifically, it aims to celebrate the momentous passage of the law for promoting equality but also offers criticisms and feedback of the laws limits. Business Meeting at Program Conclusion. Speakers Taunya Lovell Banks (Maryland) Ming Hsu Chen (Colorado) Anthony Paul Farley (Albany) Danielle Holley-Walker (South Carolina) Olatunde C. Johnson (Columbia) Moderator Ediberto Roman (Florida International)

Saturday, January 4, 2014

2:00 pm 3:45 pm Title VII at Fifty: Looking Forward and Looking Back (co-sponsored by the Sections on Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination) Papers to be published in Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII was the first major federal employment discrimination lawand it continues to be the most important one. By prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin, Title VII transformed American workplaces. It required employers to remove most formal barriers to equal employment opportunity and it has dramatically reduced explicit acts of discrimination. It remains to be seen, however, how effective Title VII will be in addressing ongoing challenges such as implicit bias or structural barriers that impede access, as well as the extent to which it can address issues such as discrimination on the basis of caregiving responsibilities, gender identity, or prior criminal convictions. The Sections program brings together key leaders who helped shaped Title VIIs early implementation, a current EEOC commissioner, and scholars to use this milestone year as an opportunity for looking both forward and backward at

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Title VIIs impact and its potential. Business Meeting at Program Conclusion. Speakers Alfred W. Blumrosen (Rutgers - Newark) Chai Feldblum (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) Joseph R. Fishkin (Texas) Trina Jones (Duke) William L. Robinson (District of Columbia) Steven Rosenblum (EE01, Inc.) Moderator Deborah A. Widiss (Indiana)

Sunday, January 5, 2014

12:15 pm 1:45 pm Minority Groups Luncheon Advance ticket purchase is necessary for the luncheon. Tickets may be purchased at On-Site Registration only until 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 4.

The following Hot Topic/Bridge Program also may be of interest to Section Members Friday, January 3, 2014
1:30 pm 3:15 pm Enhancing the Law School Climate for Faculty and Students of Color: What Academic Leaders Need to Know In the past few decades, law schools have striven to increase student and faculty diversity, with some success. Less well studied, however, is the "second generation" issue of institutional climate. How can academic leaders ensure that faculty and students of color not only survive, but thrive in law school and that the benefits of "diversity" are real and felt across the law school community? These questions are more pressing as academic leaders respond to the economic recession by considering policies such as abolishing tenure, decreasing the time to J.D., and adopting a "customer service" approach to legal education that places greater emphasis on student teaching evaluations to assess faculty performance. How might these reforms affect the project of sustaining a diverse faculty and student body? The recently-published book Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia has triggered an overdue conversation about these issues across academia. This program is designed to prompt reflection among academic leaders about the climate that students and faculty of color encounter at the nation's law schools, and to provide a forum for identifying concrete and proactive measures to maintain our gains and underscore our commitment to inclusive
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legal education. Speakers Meera Deo (Thomas Jefferson) Phoebe A. Haddon (Maryland) Kevin R. Johnson (UC-Davis) Aviam Soifer (Hawaii) Moderator Rachel F. Moran (UCLA)

AALS SERVICE OPPORTUNITY

A message from Ann Cammett (CUNY): As a member of the AALS Section on Poverty Law, I was involved in organizing the Service Project for the AALS conference, scheduled to take place on Jan 3rd at 8:30am in New York. I hope that those who can sign up for it will do so, since it is for a fabulous cause! This year we will be working with Hour Children, which is a multi-faceted family service organization that provides housing permanent and transitional and a wide array of supportive services that transform the lives of women and their families involved in the criminal justice system. We will likely be engaged in some project (such as indoor painting at one of their transitional housing facilities), but will also have an opportunity to learn about their groundbreaking work. Bus service will be provided to and from the conference hotel and there is no additional fee to participate, but you must register for the bus. If you are already registered for the conference you can send an email to the Registration Coordinator Erick Brown at ebrown@aals.org and ask to be added to [5050] Poverty Law Service Project. Don't delay. Space is limited, and the bus is nearly full.

SAVE THE DATE

UPCOMING AALS ANNUAL MEETINGS 2015 Annual Meeting Friday, January 2 - Monday, January 5, 2015, Washington DC

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Putting an End to Separate and Unequal Health Care in the United States 50 Years After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Conference Dates: March 27 and 28, 2014 Hosted by the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law Conference Announcement Fifty years after the enactment of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which mandated that all races had the right to equal enjoyment and access to health care, the United States health care system remains separate and unequal
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because of racial bias. Decades of empirical research studies, including the 2003 groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Study, UNEQUAL TREATMENT: CONFRONTING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTHCARE, suggest that racial bias in health care is one of the root causes of racial disparities in health between African Americans and Caucasians. However, efforts to eradicate racial disparities in health have failed to acknowledge or address racial bias. This years Law-Medicine Symposium will focus on the continuation of racial bias in health care and the resultant racial disparities in health. The interdisciplinary program will feature Professors Vernellia Randall, Dayna Matthew, Michelle van Ryn, Rene Bowser, Sidney Watson, Ruqaiijah Yearby, and many others, who will present current research on racial bias and health disparities and then break into working groups to develop concrete legal, medical, and policy solutions to put an end to racial bias in health care. By the end of the Symposium, there will be an action plan to put an end to racial bias in health care that causes racial disparities in health care. Proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Fall 2014 issue of the Health Matrix, a premier journal of legal scholarship focusing on the intersection of law, ethics, medicine, and policy. If you are interested in attending the conference and/or publishing an article on racial disparities in health in the Fall 2014 issue of the Health Matrix please contact Ruqaiijah Yearby, Symposium Chair, at ray31@case.edu by January 31, 2014. Please forward this conference announcement to anyone who may be interested.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Peter C. Alexander (Indiana Tech) Published Indiana Tech Law School: Preparing Students for Success in Law, Leadership, and Life (April 11, 2013). It is available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2273219.

Ruby Andrew (Southern) Honor: Southern University Law Centers Outstanding Research award for this year.

Lisa Avalos (Arkansas) Presented Perverting the Course of Justice: When Police Charge Rape Complainants with False Reporting, as part of the 2013 Central States Law Schools Association Annual Scholarship Conference.

Sahar Aziz (Texas A&M) Appointment: Scholar in Residence (invited), The Role of Law in Revolutionary Egypt, Institute for Immigration and International Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas, October 2-4, 2013 Publications: Policing Terrorists in the Community, Harv. Natl Sec. J. (forthcoming Fall 2013) A Court Decides Who is White Under Law, American Bar Association Journal, Nov. 1, 2013 Terror and the Muslim Veil, Oxford Islamic Studies Online (Nov. 20 2013) (solicited)
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Protest is Egypts Last Resort, The New York Times (Dec. 3, 2013) (co-author Shahira Abouelleil), http://www. nytimes.com/2013/12/04/opinion/protest-is-egypts-lastresort.html?post_id=548232274_10152173320782275

Presentation: Presenter (invited), A Typology of Muslim Women Feminists, Section on Africa, Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, Jan. 6, 2013

Carlton Bailey (Arkansas) Published Search Incident to an Arrest or a Stop: Has the United States Supreme Court Brought Clarity to a Problematic Area of the Courts Jurisprudence? in Arkansas Law Notes.

Taunya Lovell Banks (Maryland) Law Review Article: Taunya Lovell Banks, The Unfinished JourneyEducation, Equality and Martin Luther King, Jr. Revisited, 58 Villanova Law Review 471 (2013) (remarks were delivered as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture at Villanova University School of Law on January 22, 2013) Book Chapters: Taunya Lovell Banks, A Darker Shade of Pale Revisited: Disaggregated Blackness and Colorism in the PostRacial Obama Era in COLOR MATTERS: SKIN TONE BIAS AND THE MYTH OF A POST-RACIAL AMERICA, Kimberley Norwood, ed. (Routledge 2013) Taunya Lovell Banks, Dark Justice: Women Legal Actors on Basic Cable in LAW AND JUSTICE ON THE SMALL SCREEN, Peter Robson and Jessica Sibley, eds. (Hart 2012) Taunya Lovell Banks, Black Pluralism in Post Loving America in LOVING V. VIRGINIA IN A POSTRACIAL WORLD: RETHINKING RACE, SEX, AND MARRIAGE, Kevin Maillard and Rose Villazor eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Presentations: On October 18 Taunya Banks presented her paper Still Drowning in Segregation: The Limits of Law in PostCivil Rights America at the Journal of Law & Inequality Symposium Honoring Vice President Walter Mondale, at the University of Minnesota School of Law. This project also was mentioned in a September 21 Baltimore Sun article entitled, During law school reunion, citys history of desegregated public pools discussed. Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/opsdf4b On April 5, Taunya Banks presented her paper, Race, Place and Historic Moment Why Universal Social Uplift Legislation Seldom Remedies Racial Inequality at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

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Jeannine Bell (Indiana) Publications: Hate Thy Neighbor: Move-In Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Housing (NYU Press, 2013) "The Puzzles of Racial Extremism in a Post Racial World, in Kenneth Mack and Guy-Uriel Charles, _The New Black: What Has Changed and What Has Not--With Race in American (The New Press, 2013).

David A. Brennen (Kentucky) Editorial Activities: Co-Editor, Beyond Economic Efficiency in United States Tax Law (with Brown and Jones) (Wolters Kluwer) (2013) Co-Editor, Nonprofit Law Prof Blog (with Darryll K. Jones) (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit) (December 2007 Present) Editor, Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law Abstracts, (http://www.ssrn.com/link/nonprofit-philanthropylaw.html) (August 2006 Present)

Books and Book Chapters: The Tax Law of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations: Cases, Materials, Questions and Activities, 3nd ed. (with Jones, Willis and Moran) (Mathew Bender) (forthcoming 2014) A Normative Rationale for the Charitable Tax Exemption, Beyond Economic Efficiency in United States Tax Law (Wolters Kluwer) (2013)

Significant Speeches: A Conversation with Justice Elena Kagan, Roy R. and Virginia F. Ray Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, September 19, 2013 Luncheon Keynote Address, Tax Laws Impact on Fraternities and Sororities, Fraternal Law Conference, Cincinnati, OH, November 9, 2012 Welcome Speech, Civil Rights History of University of Kentucky College of Law, Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Lexington, KY, October 17, 2012 A Conversation with Justice Clarence Thomas, Roy R. and Virginia F. Ray Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 5, 2012

Academic Panels and Presentations: Moderator, Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership Workshop: Engaging Key Constituents, A Conference Co-sponsored by Society of American Law Teachers, Seattle University Law School and University of Washington School of Law, October 11, 2013

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Panelist, Grasping the Nettle Legal Education? Law School Deans Engage, Southeast Association of Law Schools Conference, August 7, 2013 Panelist, Beyond Economic Efficiency in Tax Policy Analysis, Tax Reform in 2012 Roundtable Discussion, Southeast Association of Law Schools Conference, August 2, 2012

Professional Panels and Presentations: Presentation, The Effect of the Economy on the Practice of Law, Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, Lexington, KY, April 26, 2012 Presentation, Law School Dean as Organizational Leader, Cincinnati Bar Association Leadership Retreat, Lexington, Kentucky, February 10, 2012

Special Appointments: American Bar Association, Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Accreditation Committee, September 2013 August 2015 American Bar Association, Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress, August 2011 August 2014 Association of American Law Schools - Law School Site Evaluator (Golden Gate), 2013 American Bar Association - Law School Site Evaluator (Arkansas-Fayetteville (Chair)), 2013

Board Memberships: Hospice of the Bluegrass, Board of Directors, Member, 2013 present Association of American Law Schools, Section on Law School Deans Executive Committee, January 2013 January 2014 Kentucky Bar Foundation Board of Governors, July 2009 present

University Service: University of Kentucky, University Strategic Planning Committee, Member, 2013 present University of Kentucky, Office of Institutional Diversity Advisory Committee, 2010-present

Ann Cammett (CUNY) Appointments: Appointed to the faculty of CUNY School of Law, awarded tenure and promotion to full professor. New director of CUNYs third year Family Law Concentration.

Presentation: Participated in a public conversation with Distinguished Professor of Sociology Michelle Fine on the subject of Exploring Questions of Youth where I focused on the problems experienced by the most vulnerable families (those subject to mass criminalization and the child welfare system intervention). This public dialogue can be
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live streamed at http://new.livestream.com/accounts/6039884/eqoy.

Juscelino F. Colares (Case Western) Law Review Articles: Juscelino F. Colares and Kosta Ristovski, Mapping the Structure of Climate Change-Related Litigation: Can Litigation Pressure Alter Major Emitters Distaste for Federal Carbon Legislation? (under peer review) (forthcoming 2014). Juscelino F. Colares, The Dynamics and Global Implications of Subglobal Carbon-Restricting Regimes, 24.3 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review __ (forthcoming 2014). Juscelino F. Colares, The Emerging Supply-Side Case for Global Carbon Restrictions, 19.3 U.C. Davis Journal of International Law & Policy 139 (2013). Juscelino F. Colares, Paths to Carbon Stabilization: How Foreign Carbon-Restricting Reforms Will Affect US Industry, Climate Policy and the Prospects of a Binding Emission Reduction Treaty, 47 .2 Journal of World Trade 281 (spring 2013) (peer reviewed), available at: http://law.case.edu/faculty/colares_juscelino/publications/Colares2013_JWT_47_2_281_as_published.pdf.

Book Chapters: The Extraterritorial Impact of the EU and Australian Carbon-Restricting Reforms, in Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives (Hope Ashiabor, David Duff, Larry Kreiser and Janet Milne, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.) (spring 2013) (peer-reviewed). Commentary: Juscelino F. Colares, The United States Must Lead on Natural Gas Exports, published on Institute for Energy Research (Jul. 9, 2013), available at http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2013/07/09/the-u-s-must-leadon-natural-gas-production-and-exports/ Presentations: Juscelino F. Colares and Kosta Ristovski, Mapping the Structure of Climate Change-Related Litigation: Can Litigation Pressure Alter Major Emitters Distaste for Federal Carbon Legislation, paper selected for presentation at the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, Joint Tort & Compensation and Insurance Law Section, New York City (January 4, 2014). Professor Colaress paper proposal, titled The EU/US Aviation StalemateWill Law or Politics Have the Last Say?, was accepted for presentation at the Joint Conference of the American (ASIL) and European (ESIL) Society of International Laws Interest Groups on International Environmental Law, hosted by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland (22-23 November, 2013). Professor Colares delivered the keynote address, titled The Supply-Side Case for Global Carbon Pricing Reform, at the Peace of Utrecht Conference on International Law and Climate Change, hosted by Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands (October 10, 2013). Juscelino F. Colares, The Limits of WTO Adjudication: Is Compliance the Problem? A 2013 Update, University of Arizona (September 26, 2013). Juscelino F. Colares, Climate Change-Related Litigation: Signal or Noise?, University of Tennessee College of Law (September 20, 2013).

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Juscelino F. Colares, On the Allocation of Talent Across Societies: Some Implications for Piracy Preemption, the American Branch of the International Law Association, End Game! An International Conference on Combating Maritime Piracy, hosted by Case Western Reserve University School of Law (September 6, 2013).

Appointment: Professor Colares was appointed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to serve on the 2013-2014 United States Roster of NAFTA Panelists. NAFTA Chapter 19 provides for binational panel review of Canadian, Mexican and U.S. trade agency determinations. Panels are formed whenever an exporting industry or government challenges an importing-country agencys determination imposing trade remedies (antidumping, countervailing duties, injury findings, etc.) against products from a NAFTA member. Under U.S. law, the request for a binational review panel automatically displaces the original jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of International Trade and the appellate jurisdiction of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit over trade cases. In the News: Professor Colares took part on NPRs Sound of Ideas discussion on the Twenty Years of NAFTA, hosted by journalist Mike MacIntyre on November 22. Colares appeared with guests, Alan Berube, senior fellow and deputy director at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program and Harriet Applegate, Executive Secretary of the Northshore AFL-CIO. (see video: http://www.ohiochannel.org/MediaLibrary/Media.aspx?fileId=141238). Professor Colares was quoted in an August 28 story in Law 360, titled Asian Trade Talks Could Put Pressure on US TPP Efforts, http://www.law360.com/articles/465926/asian-trade-talks-could-put-pressure-on-us-tppefforts. Professor Colares was quoted in a July 11 story in Gas to Power Journal, titled Plans to boost US gas exports hampered by domestic emission restrictions, http://www.gastopowerjournal.com/regulationapolicy/item/1992-plans-to-boost-us-gas-exports-conflicthampered-by-carbon-restrictions-for-power-plants#axzz2YjehphBz.

Grants and Other Activities: Professor Colares now serves in the Steering Committee that supervises the grant, entitled Subglobal Action for the Protection of Global Interests, with Joanne Scott (Professor of European Law, University College of London, Faculty of Laws), Henrik Ringbom (Professor of the Law of the Sea, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law) and Cedric Ryngaert (Professor of Public International Law, Utrecht University). The research is funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant) and the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NOW VIDI scheme) and will run from January 2014 through December 2018. With the assistance of members of the Steering Committee, Professor Ryngaert, the principal investigator, will be responsible for supervising nine doctoral students who will be working in six areas: (i) countering climate change through extraterritorial jurisdiction; (ii) using port state jurisdiction for the protection of marine resources; (iii) using port state jurisdiction to further marine environmental goals; (iv) exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction over corruption; (v) exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction in furtherance of corporate social responsibility; and (vi) exercising jurisdiction over internet-based offenses. As a Committee member, Colares will advise on doctoral dissertations and will write articles and one book on the development of policy and legal instruments necessary to address climate change causes and effects through the exercise of jurisdiction by individual states and regional organizations. Professor Colares attended the ASIL Midyear Meeting and Research Forum, hosted by New York University School of Law, New York, October 31-November 2, 2013. Professor Colares attended the LEC-PERC Workshop on Environmental Federalism Co-Sponsored by the Property & Environment Research Center and the Law & Economics Center at the George Mason University School of Law and hosted by the Center for Business Law & Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, October 1719, 2013.

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Frank Rudy Cooper (Suffolk) Publication: We Are Always Already Imprisoned: Hyper-incarceration and Black Male Identity Performance, 93 B.U. L. Rev. 1185 (2013). The abstract for the essay is as follows: Numerous scholars have pointed out that drug war racial profiling has created an attributed identity of black men as presumptively criminal. This essay points out that the possibility of being imprisoned has become fundamental to black mens self identities. It criticizes Hanna Rosins End of Men thesis for myopically emphasizing a recent decline in white mens power, while ignoring the drug wars long-standing terrible effects on men of color. Supreme Court jurisprudence on strip searches shows a similar lack of empathy for men of color. Rosin and the Supreme Court are consistent with my theory of the, bipolarity of black masculinity: Black men are typically popularly represented as either a criminal Bad Black Man or assimilated Good Black Man, with little nuance in between. This essay adds that black men are not just represented as appropriately disproportionately imprisoned, but also must, therefore, struggle internally with the fear of being imprisoned. In that sense, we are always already imprisoned within black masculinity.

Robert J. Cottrol (George Washington) Book: Robert J. Cottrol, Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, and Professor of History and Sociology at the George Washington University was the author of a book: The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and Law in the American Hemisphere, published by the University of Georgia Press, Studies in the Legal History of the South series. The book appeared in February, 2013. Publications: He also co-authored (with Raymond T. Diamond) the essay In the Civic Republic: Crime, the Inner City and the Democracy of Arms: Being a Disquisition on the Revival of the Militia at Large, which appeared in 45 University of Connecticut Law Review (July 2013). He also wrote a short review of Dennis K. Bowmans The Original Rush Limbaugh: Lawyer, Legislator and Civil Libertarian. The review appeared in the November 2013 edition of The Journal of Southern History. Presentations: Chair and Commentator at session Rights, Race and Railways: New Perspectives on the Legal Resistance to Segregation during the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson, 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 4th, 2013 Race at the Founding: Did a Pro-Slavery Constitution Mandate Racial Exclusion? Delivered at The American Constitution: 225th Anniversary of the Ratification. Conference sponsored by University of Georgia Political Science Department and the National Science Foundation, March 2013 Presentation of Book, The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and Law in the American Hemisphere Before Organization of American States, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of People of African Descent, March 19th 2013 Chair and Commentator, session New Viewpoints on the Law and Racial Identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 98th Annual Meeting, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Oct. 4th , 2013 Presentation of Long, Lingering Shadow before History Department and Africana Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, October 11th 2013 Featured Author in Author Meets Reader Session discussing The Long, Lingering Shadow: Slavery, Race and

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Law in the American Hemisphere Annual Meeting American Society for Legal History, November 7, 2013 Presented Paper, Second Amendment not Constitutional Dysfunction, But Necessary Safeguard, before Conference Americas Political Dysfunction: Constitutional Connections, Causes and Cures, Boston University School of Law, November 15th 16th Participant Roundtable on Gun Control and Minority Communities, Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference December 5th -7th

Benjamin G. Davis (Toledo) Publications: Benjamin G. Davis, American Diversity in International Arbitration 2003-2013, ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine (Forthcoming Winter 2014) Benjamin G. Davis questions and the answers received from Professor Jack Goldsmith (Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School and former head of the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush Administration), Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper (former Ambassador for War Crimes issues in the Bush Administration) and William Burke-White (Deputy Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and former member of the policy planning staff of the US State Department in the Obama Administration) on topics such as high-level accountability for torture, misleading America into the War in Iraq, and non-compliance with the international law rule of internal self-determination through electoral disenfranchisement in the 2012 elections were published in Presidential Powers and Crises 45 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 19-20, 383-385 (Fall 2012 - published August 2013). Benjamin G. Davis, Book review of Imre Szalais book, Outsourcing Justice: The Rise of Modern Arbitration Laws in America, ABA Dispute Resolution Magazine (Fall 2013). Benjamin G. Davis, The 9/11 Military Commission Motion Hearings: An Ordinary Citizen Looks at Comparative Legitimacy, Southern Illinois University Law Review (Forthcoming 2013) Benjamin G. Davis, State Criminal Prosecution of a Former United States President in United States Domestic State Courts: A Thought-Experiment on Limits to the United States Presidents Constitutional Powers Regarding Armed Conflict , Studi in Onore di Augusto Sinagra 375 (2013), Liber Amicorum Augusto Sinagra (2013), Full Professor of European Union Law at Sapienza University of Rome, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2151873 Benjamin G. Davis et al, State Criminal Prosecution of a Former President: Accountability through Complementarity Under American Federalism, 24 F.J.I.L.331 (2012) Benjamin G. Davis, Obama and Libya, 7 F. A& M L. Rev 1 (2011) (published 2012) Benjamin G. Davis, What War Does To Law, in THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AT 50 138 (D. Swanson, ed.) (2012)

Activities and Presentations: Advisor to the Executive Secretary/CEO of the new Lagos Court of Arbitration, Lagos, Nigeria Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee, American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and liaison for
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its Council to the ABA Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline. Led the drafting and presented the Diversity and Inclusion Plan for the 18,000 member section at the Fall Meeting of the Council, November 23, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee Continued as a Board Member of the Society of American Law Teachers and is leading its working group preparing a report on the legal profession as part of the US Human Rights Network shadow report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for its review in August 2014 of the periodic report of the United States on its compliance with its international law obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Continued blogging at www.saltlaw.org/blog and www.jurist.org and providing editorials to the Toledo Blade. Created Guantanamo Bay Military Commission Student Observer Program (7 students so far participated), June 2013 Presented Opportunities on the International Plane in Law School and Beyond, International Law Society, November 26, 2013 Faculty member for the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution 11th Annual Mediation & Advocacy Skills Institute, November 21-22, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee Presented Pioneering Role of the ICC: Issues from the Fast-track and with respect to Confidentiality in the use of Technology at the Legal Training Program of the Lawyers of the International Chamber of Commerce, International Court of Arbitration, September 18, 2013, Paris, France Helped organized the program Trayvon: Old Scars and New Activism and presented Stand Your Ground Laws, Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat, at a program to help success of black freshman, particularly black males, September 10, 2013 in the McQuade Law Auditorium. Organized the lunchtime program Stand Your Ground Laws (with Mr. James Carlisle 85, Assistant Professor Greg Gilchrist, Professor Nicole Porter, and Associate Professor Jelani Jefferson Exum), September 9, 2013 in the McQuade Law Auditorium. Organized with US Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions one week Guantanamo Bay trips for each of four law students (Steven Allen, Linda Amrou, Trent Sulek and Sheila Willamowski) to observe the 9/11 and Cole Bombing military commissions for which they will receive writing credit as part of their Law School Program. Further observer research trips over the fall based on student interest are foreseen. Helped draft an amicus curiae to the Supreme Court in a small working group of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) in the Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, et al case (Michigan affirmative action case) to be heard this term. Submitted August 30, 2013. Evaluated an interdisciplinary online mediation platform project by the Cyberjustice Laboratory of the McGill University Law School, August 30, 2013. Accepted to serve on the founding editorial board for the International Journal of Online Dispute Resolution, published by Eleven International Publishing, the publisher of the international treatise on ODR Theory and Practice. Represented the Society of American Law Teachers at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, August 24, 2013.
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Presented a joint report on his Guantanamo Bay observer trip and participated as a Council Member at the Council Meeting of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution and as the liaison for the Section to the ABA Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline (ABA Pipeline Council), August 9-10, 2013, at the ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Appointed co-chair of the Section on Dispute Resolutions Diversity Committee and will continue as liaison to the ABA Pipeline Council. Presented Big Data and Online Dispute Resolution at the international conference ODR 2013, June 18, 2013, University of Montreal Law School, Montreal. Presented to Toledo junior high and high school students in the Law and Leadership Institute Presented The Law of Drones or Nothing New Under the Sun at the MWPOC Conference, Loyola Law School, April 19, 2013, Chicago Presented Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat, Toledo Bar Association CLE, April 12, 2013 Presented An O.G. on ODR, American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution Spring Meeting, April 6, 2013, Chicago Presented The 9/11 Military Commission Motion Hearings: A Citizen Looks at Comparative Legitimacy, Guantanamo Bay: What Next? Southern Illinois University Law Journal Symposium, February 22, 2013 Law Career Symposium, Thurgood Marshall Law Association, Toledo, February 9, 2013 Brown Bag Lunch on Gitmo Visit, University of Toledo College of Law, February 7, 2013 Observed 9/11 Military Commissions Motion Hearings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (January 27 - February 1, 2013) (Interviewed by New York One and Radio and Television Slovakia) Presented The Sparkle of Sovereignty: A Citizen and Torture, Military Commissions, and the War in Iraq, presented at the MAPOC 2013 President Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation: On Questions, Doubts, and the Problems of Full Citizenship, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Philadelphia, January 26, 2013 Presented (with Professor Robin Kennedy), A New Loophole to Escape Arbitration: An Alternative to Class Action, Sixth Annual Association of American Law Schools Works in Progress Conference, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, November 10, 2012, Columbus, Ohio Presented Ohio Election 2012: Reflections of a Private Citizen Negotiating an Extreme Public Discourse Experience at a True the Vote Summit and In its Aftermath, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution Fall 2012 Symposium: Negotiating the Extremes: Impossible Political Dialogues in the 21st Century, November 5, 2012, New York Observed 9/11 Military Commissions Motion Hearings at Fort Meade, Maryland (October 18-19, 2013) Presented The International Law of Some Other Asian Island Disputes at the University of Toledo Asia Forum: The International Law of Some Asian Island Disputes: South China Sea, China-Japan, Japan-Korea, Japan-Russia, October 15, 2012 Presented Bringing light in Ohio 2012: Coon Davis Finds His Place at a True the Vote Voter Integrity Meeting, at The University of Toledo Africana Studies Brown-Bag Lecture Series on September 20, 2012 (See also www.SALTLAW.org/blog).
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Teach in: The International Law of Embassies and Consulates, International Law Society, University of Toledo College of Law, September 19, 2012 available at http://www.law.utoledo.edu/facultystaff/faculty/BDavis/BDavis.htm Panelist in the panel, Freedom at the Polls: Voting Rights in a Time of Change, at the Kent Public Library in Toledo on September 18, 2012 Participated as a Council Member in the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution and as a Liaison to the ABA Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline, Fall Meeting, September 14-15, 2012, in Chicago Participated in the conference Presidential Power, Foreign Affairs, and the 2012 Election, at Case Western Reserve University School of Law on September 7, 2012.

Uche Ewelukwa (Arkansas) Speaking Engagements: Invited Keynote Speaker at the Nigerian Bar Association Section of Business Law Annual Meeting in June in Nigeria where she presented New Frontiers in the Protection and Promotion of Indigenous Art, Culture and Knowledge: Towards a Comprehensive Intellectual Property Regime. Invited speaker at the 2013 Law and Development Conference, International Conference on Legal and Development Implications of International Land Acquisitions at Kyoto University in May, where she presented Disciplining Foreign Investment in Land in Africa: Mapping the Role of International Investment Contracts and International Investment Law.

Publications: Tourism, culture and intellectual property law: Hidden risks and dangers was published online by Business Day. Disciplining Foreign Investment in Land in Africa: Mapping the Role of International Investment Contracts and International Investment Law. Law and Development Review: special issue (forthcoming 2013) China-Africa Bilateral Investment Treaties, Michigan Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2013) Editor, International Investment and Development - International Legal Developments in Review: 2013, The International Lawyer (forthcoming 2014) Kenneth Ferguson (UMKC) Appointment: Elected to the Board of Directors of USATF, the National Governing Body (NGB) for the United States Olympic Track & Field Program: http://law.umkc.edu/faculty-staff/people/ferguson-usatf-news-release.pdf. Article: Achieving Gender Equity Under Title IX for Girls From Minority, Urban, Rural, and Economically Disadvantaged Communities, has been accepted for publication in Spring 2014 edition of Marquette Sports Law Review.

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Michael Z. Green (Texas A&M) Appointed Secretary-Elect for 2013-14 and Secretary for 2014-15 of the American Bar Associations Section on Labor and Employment. In this position, Professor Green will give a presentation at the ABA Labor and Employment Sections annual conference in November 2014 discussing labor and employment decisions issued by the Supreme Court in the previous term. Professor Green is also the Editor of a book published by Lexis in December 2013 on The Challenges for Collective Bargaining: The 65th Annual Proceedings of the NYU conference on Labor. Wendy Greene (Samford) 2013 Accomplishments: Promoted to Full Professor, Spring 2013 Selected as a 2014 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine Elected Secretary of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education Elected to the Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama

Publications: All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law, Book Review of Angela OnwuachiWilligs According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family, 4 Cal. L. Rev. Circuit 179 (2013) Categorically Black, White or Wrong: Misperception Discrimination and the State of Title VII Protection, 47 U. Mich. J. L. Ref. 87 (2013) A Multidimensional Analysis of What Not to Wear in the Workplace: Hijabs and Natural Hair, 8 FIU L. Rev. 333 (2013)

Kevin Johnson (UC-Davis) Continues to be a regular contributor on immigration cases to SCOTUSblog and recently published an article on the right to counsel for immigrants in removal proceedings in the Yale Law Journal.

Cynthia Lee (George Washington) Recently published Making Race Salient: Trayvon Martin and Implicit Bias in a Not yet Post-Racial Society in the North Carolina Law Review. She gave remarks on the Trayvon Martin shooting and implicit racial bias in the creation of fear as the 2013-2014 Diversity Lecturer at Santa Clara University Law School on October 25, 2013. Additionally, a written version of her symposium remarks at Southwestern Law Schools symposium on LGBT Activism entitled, Masculinity on Trial: Gay Panic in the Criminal Courtroom, is forthcoming in the Southwestern Law Review. The

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third edition of her casebook with Angela Harris, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (West), is also forthcoming in 2014.

Jamie Lee (Baltimore) Publication: Jaime Alison Lee, Can You Hear Me Now?: Making Participatory Governance Work for the Poor, 7 Harv. L. & Poly Rev. 405 (2013) Honors: Received the 2013 University of Baltimore Saul Ewing Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Area of Transactional Law. Chosen as law schools Teacher of the Year and will be recognized at the AALS Annual Meeting in January.

Stacy Leeds (Arkansas) Publications: Honors: Received the American Bar Association 2013 Spirit of Excellence Award in Dallas on February 8th. The award celebrates the efforts and accomplishments of lawyers who work to promote a more racially and ethnically diverse legal profession. University of Arkansas School of Law Dean Emeritus and Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law Cynthia Nance was among six recipients of the 2012 Spirit of Excellence Award. Was elected to the American Law Institute. Received the Inaugural Outstanding Service Award, National American from the Indian Court Judges Association, 2013. Co-authored Mastering American Indian Law (EagleWoman and Leeds ed. 2013) (Carolina Academic Press) Coming Full Circle: A Tribute to Professor Jim Jones, 2013 WISC. L. REV. 733 (2013).

Speaking Engagements: Spoke about the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative during an Agri-Business Marketing Conference hosted by the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. Participated on a panel during the Plenary session: Promises, Promises, Promises? at the SE/SW People of Color Conference in Little Rock on April 5th. Hope Lewis (Northeastern) Appointed Northeastern University School of Laws inaugural Faculty Director of Global Legal Studies and continues to lead its Global Law Committee. She participated in Fall panels at the Annual Meeting of the International Bar Association in Boston, the International Law Weekend Meeting sponsored by the International Law Students Association and the American Branch-International Law Association in New York, and a panel on civil rights and racial identity organized at the University of Minnesota School of Law. She continues to serve on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Minority Groups, Co-Chairs the American Society of International Law Disability
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Rights Interest Group, and will complete her term as a member of the Society of American Law Teachers Board of Governors in January 2014.

Ian Haney Lopez (Berkeley) Book: Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (2014). Two central themes dominate American politics today: race as a source of opposition to the president and loyalty to the Republican Party; and the decline of the middle class. Dog Whistle Politics connects both: it reveals how political race-baiting convinces many white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their own interests.

Maya Manian (San Francisco) Publications: Lessons from Personhoods Defeat: Abortion Restrictions and Side Effects on Womens Health, 74 Ohio State Law Journal 75 (2013). SSRN The Consequences of Abortion Restrictions for Womens Healthcare, Washington and Lee law Review (forthcoming 2014)

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Presentations: Presenter, The Consequences of Abortion Restrictions for Womens Healthcare, Washington and Lee Law School, Roe at 40: The Controversy Continues, Lexington, VA (November 2013) Presenter, Lessons from Personhoods Defeat: Abortion Restrictions and Side Effects on Womens Health, Abortion Seminar, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California San Francisco, CA (November 2013) Presenter, Lessons from Personhoods Defeat: Abortion Restrictions and Side Effects on Womens Health, Santa Clara Laws Faculty Workshop, Santa Clara, Calif. (January 2013). Presenter, Lessons from Personhoods Defeat: Abortion restrictions and Side Effects on Womens Health, The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, Liberty/Equality: The View from Roes 40th and Lawrences 10th Anniversaries, Los Angeles, Calif. (January 2013).

Ajay K. Mehrotra (Indiana) Book: Ajay K. Mehrotra, Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/economic-history/making-modern-american-fiscal-state-lawpolitics-and-rise-progressive-taxation-18771929

Cynthia Nance (Arkansas)

Appointment: Named Council Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Law Services Corporation. This organization created and administers the LSAT, as well as the systems for law school admissions throughout North America. Presentations: Moderated a panel for the ABA Annual Meeting in August in San Francisco, CA. Chaired the Finance and Legal Affairs Committee meeting of the Law School Admission Council on Friday, March 22nd. Served on a panel which discussed Challenges Which Members of Historically Underrepresented Groups May Encounter in Attaining Leadership Positions Within the ABA. The event was hosted by the ABA Section LDP. On October 11th, Dean Nance attended the Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership - Deanship Conference at the University of Washington School of Law where she participated on panel for Understanding and Addressing the Presumption of Incompetence. Presenter for a Plenary Session on Implications of the Supreme Court Decision at the 2013 Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Arlington, VA.

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She was also invited to participate as a panelist in a presentation at the ABA 7th Annual Section of Labor and Employment Law Conference in New Orleans, LA in November.

Xuan-Thao Nguyen (Southern Methodist) Appointments: Appointed to the AALS Committee on Annual Meeting and Sections, the AALS Special Committee on Academic Symposium at the Annual Meeting, and the AALS Special Committee on Crosscutting Programs and Hot Topics at the Annual Meeting for Terms ending in 2015. Service: Served on the 2013 AALS Planning Committee for the Workshop for New Law School Teachers, the Workshop for Pre-tenured People of Color Law School Teachers and the Workshop for Beginning Legal Writing Law School Teachers Articles: Patent Prudential Standing, 21 GEO. MASON L. REV. 17 (2013)(Lead Article). Trademark Apologetic Justice: China and the Three Laws, 15 UNNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF BUSINESS LAW 131 (2013). 2013 ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TAXATION (BLOOMBERG BNA) (co-author with Professor Jeff Maine) 2013 ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION LICENSING: LAW AND PRACTICE (BLOOMBERG BNA) (co-author with Professors Robert Gomulkiewicz & Danielle Conway).

Presentations: Chinas 3rd Plenum and Potential Impact on Intellectual Property Panel (with Chief Judge Rader of the Federal Circuit, Professor Donald Clarke of GW Law, Mark Cohen of USPTO and Conrad Wong of USPTO), George Washington School of Laws Third Annual China Intellectual Property Conference, December 11, 2013. Copyrights and Business Models, Vietnam National University, UEL, School of Law, December 3, 2013. What is Law? Economics University Faculty of Law, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, December 2, 2013. From Aspirin to Google: Trademark Defenses, University of Washington School of Law, November 6, 2013. Licensing IP: Transactions, Tax and Bankruptcy Concerns, CAIL Annual IP Conference, Nov. 11-12, 2013. Copyrights in Gaylord v. United States: Government and Fair Use, Vietnam National University, University of Economics and Law, HCMC, Nov. 27, 2013. Presented Overlapping IP Protection for Designs: The Trade Dress Approach at the Intellectual Property Conference, Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, October 24, 2013. Presented Overlapping IP Protection for Designs: The Copyright Approach at the Intellectual Property Conference, Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, October 24, 2013.

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Presented Overlapping IP Protection for Designs: The Design Patent Approach at the Intellectual Property Conference, Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, October 24, 2013. Presented Apple v. Samsung: Beyond the United States; the Global Mobile Phones War, Vietnam Institute of Intellectual Property Research, October 22, 2013. Presented AIA: Game Changer for Innovation? Vietnam Institute of Intellectual Property Research, October 22, 2013. Presented Law and Commerce: A Critical Look at the Uniform Commercial Code, National Economics University Faculty of Law, October 21, 2013. Presented, Division of Powers vs. Separation of Powers: A Look at the Recent Government Shutdown, Institute of State and Laws, Ho Chi Minh Academy of Politics and Law, October 25, 2013. Conducted workshop in close sessions with the national drafting committee from the Vietnam Ministry on Secured Transactions and amendments to the 2005 Civil Code. On September 14, 2013, she and the drafting team traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to speak on Secured Transactions at a symposium sponsored by the Vietnam Ministry of Justice and the World Bank Group/IFC. Presented, Secured Transactions Unitary Approach and Hypotheticals, and Professor Nguyen was one of two professors invited to Beijing to the Drafting Committee of China Supreme Peoples Court of Chinas Property Code. The Drafting Committee, currently drafting Judicial Interpretations of Secured Transactions Law, is comprised of six justices and chaired by Justice Wang, President of China Supreme Peoples Court. Presented Patent Prudential Standing, at the 2013 IP Scholars Conference, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (New York, NY (August 2013)). Conducted a seminar on IP in Corporate Financing at the Beijing University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China, (July 2013)). Provided consultation to the drafting team from the Vietnam Ministry of Justices Department of National Registration of Secured Transactions for the revision to Vietnams Secured Transactions Law and attended Ministry-level meetings on Secured Transactions presided by the Deputy Minister (June 26-27, 2013). Presented International Commercial Contracts and Arbitrations: Lessons for Vietnam Companies, School of Law, University of Economics & Law, Vietnam National University (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (June 2013)). Presented, Intellectual Property Enforcement: Empowering IP Holders and Balancing Different Needs, at the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO)/Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technologys Symposium on Intellectual Property Enforcement (Hanoi, Vietnam (June 2013)). Presented, Different Forms of Merger & Acquisition: The IP Experience, to the Department of Corporate Finance Law, Hanoi Law University (Hanoi, Vietnam (June 2013)) Presented, Trademark Reputational Harm: Chinas Three Laws, at the International Trademarks Conference (Dallas, TX (May 2013)) Discussant on Reading Tea Leaves: Chinas IP Challenges from the Bottom Up, Roundtable on Chinas IP organized by Fordham Law School and George Washington University School of Law, January 9-10, 2013.

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Kimberly Jenkins Robinson (Richmond)

Publication: The High Cost of The Nations Current Framework for Education Federalism, 48 Wake Forest L. Rev. 287-331 (2013) (invited symposium). Future Speaking Engagements: Moderator, Looking to the Future, Conference Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the 50th Anniversary, Michigan State University School of Law, April 11, 2014. Speaker, Pennsylvania State University Conference on Civil Rights and Education, June 6-7, 2014.

Past Speaking Engagements: Moderator, Evolving Paradigms for Ensuring Access to Education, The Civil Rights Act at 50 Years, University of Chicago Legal Forum, November 8, 2013. Speaker, San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, Poverty Law: Cases, Teaching and Scholarship, American University School of Law, October 25-26, 2013. Keynote Speaker, The State of Education as a Right Today, Is Education a Civil Right?, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, Harvard Law School, April 24-27-2013. Speaker, Innovative Programs and Positive Impacts (Magnet Schools), Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Conference on Race, Class, Opportunity and School Boundaries in the Richmond Region, March 14, 2013. Conference Organizer and Speaker, Exploring New Paths to Equal Educational Opportunity, Rodriguez at 40: Exploring New Paths to Equal Educational Opportunity, University of Richmond School of Law, March 8, 2013. Speaker, Reconstructing Education Federalism, No Child Left Behind Ten Years in Review, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, February 8, 2013. Moderator, 40 Years after Rodriguez, 35 Years after Bakke: Education, Equality and Fundamental Rights, 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, January 4, 2013.

Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod (Florida International) Publications: Im Not Quite Dead Yet!: Rethinking Anti-lapse Redistribution of a Dead Beneficiarys Gift, 61 Clev. St. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2014) But My Lease Isnt Up Yet!: Finding Fault with No-Fault Evictions, 35 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2013) Elena Marty-Nelson, Anegla Gilmore & Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod, Testamentary Capacity and Validity of Wills,824-3d T.M., Tax Management, Bureau of National Affairs (forthcoming 2013)

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Valerie Schneider (Howard) The Howard University School of Law Fair Housing and Civil Rights Clinics submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Mount Holly v. Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens in Action, Inc. The brief was submitted on behalf of our client, Empower DC, a grassroots community organization that is fighting to preserve fair and affordable housing in the Ivy City neighborhood of DC. Blog post for the American Constitution Society, which describes the case: http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/settlement-in-fair-housing-case-a-sigh-of-relief

Wendy B. Scott (North Carolina Central) Appointments: After serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at North Carolina Central for three years, I returned to full time teaching in Spring 2013. In February, Leo Martinez appointed me to AALS Planning Committee for the Annual Meeting Presidential Workshop on Tomorrows Law School, scheduled for Sunday, January 5, 2014. Presentations and Service: At the Southeast/Southwest People of Color Conference in April 2013, I vetted a work-inprogress and spoke on two panels. I am now serving on the Executive Planning Committee for the 2014 SE/SW POC conference being hosted by Texas Southern. In August 2013, I spoke on the Supreme Court Review panel at SEALS and will participate in a roundtable discussion of Michelle Alexanders book, THE NEW JIM CROW, at the 2014 SEALS Workshop on Criminal Law and Procedure Discussion Group entitled Mass Incarceration: The Criminal Justice That Got Us Here. In fall 2013, I organized a visit by our new NAACP LDF President and General Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill to NCCU Law School. I also served on an ABA site visit team. Publication: Published Book Review: PRESUMED INCOMPETENT:THE INTERSECTIONS OF RACE AND CLASS FOR WOMEN IN ACADEMIA, 37 Harv. J. L. & Gender Online 31 (2013).

Dawinder S. Sidhu (New Mexico) Appointments: Fellow, Supreme Court of the United States (2013-14) Adjunct Professor (Spring 2014) and Visiting Researcher (2013-2014), Georgetown University Law Center Academic Visitor, Oxford University, Faculty of Law (Summer 2013)

Publications: The Birth of the Greenback, N.Y. TIMES, Dec. 31, 2013. Civic Education as an Instrument of Upward Social Mobility, 90 DENV. U. L. REV. 977 (2013). Lessons on Terrorism and Mistaken Identity From Oak Creek, With a Coda on the Boston Marathon Bombings, 113 COLUM. L. REV. SIDEBAR 76 (2013). Guantanamo Military Commissions: Reflections from a Legal Observer, OXFORD HUMAN RIGHTS HUB BLOG, Sept. 12, 2013 (Part I), Sept. 24, 2013 (Part II), Sept. 30, 2013 (Part III)

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Get Rid of Tenure for Law Schools, USA TODAY, Aug. 25, 2013 In Defense of the American Sikh Congressional Caucus, THE HILL, June 6, 2013. A Critical Look at the Critical Mass Argument, CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Feb. 18, 2013. The Meaning and Viability of the Thirteenth Amendment, THE HILL, Jan. 7, 2013.

Activities: Technical Advisor, Aspen Institute, Justice and Society Program, The Inclusive America Project Legal Observer, Military Commissions, U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

SpearIt (Thurgood Marshall)

Awarded the Policy Impact Award by the Institute for Social Policy & Understanding on 11/23/12 in Detroit, MI for his 2013 report, Facts and Fictions about Islam in Prison: Muslim Radicalization in Post-9/11 America. Promoted to Associate Professor

Jessica Dixon Weaver (Southern Methodist) Publications: Jessica Dixon Weavers recent article, Grandma in the White House: Legal Support for Intergenerational Caregiving, 43 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1 (2013)(lead article) was cited in Weisberg and Appletons Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2013), and an excerpt of the article is featured in Nina Kohns Elder Law: Cases, Problems, & Exercises (2013). The article also received feedback from First Lady Michelle Obama, who wrote Jessica a personal letter on behalf of her mother to share how much Mrs. Marian Robinson very much appreciated [her] thoughtful comments. Jessica Dixon Weaver, Overstepping Ethical Boundaries? Limitations on State Efforts to Provide Access to Justice in Family Courts, 82 Fordham L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2014).

Presentations: Overstepping Ethical Boundaries? Limitations on State Efforts to Provide Access to Justice in Family Courts, 2013 Stein Center for Law and Ethics Colloquium - Challenges to Lawyers Monopoly, Fordham Law School (October 18, 2013). Child Sexual Victimization: When Abused Children Become Neglectful Mothers, 2013 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Conference, Children and the Law Discussion Group (August 4, 2013). Uncovering Race in Family Law, 2013 Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop, University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Law (June 29, 2013).

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Father Chasing: The States Ethical Duties in the Establishment of Voluntary Paternity, Emerging Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, Brooklyn Law School (June 5, 2013).

Adrien K. Wing (Iowa) Honored with an oil portrait at the University of Iowa Law School in February to recognize her 25 years of service to Iowa. She became director of the UI Center for Human Rights in July.

Seval Yildirim (Whittier) Published articles: Globally Tangled: Law, Headcoverings and Religious Identity. 10 Santa Clara J. of Intl L. 45 (2012)

Forthcoming articles: Reconceptualizing Love and Sex Beyond the Administrative State: A Response to Meg Penrose. Villanova Law Review. (Forthcoming, 2013). Rule of Law as a Tool of Orient(aliz)ing the Muslim Legal Subject. In Middle Eastern Studies after September 11: Neo-Orientalism, American Hegemony and Academia. Mohammed Bamyeh and Tugrul Keskin, eds. Brill, 2014 (Forthcoming).

Latest presentations: Ecumenopolis?: Turkeys AKP and the Limits of Neoliberal Governmentality. Panelist. Panel on State Power, Exclusion and Legitimacy. ClassCrits VI Workshop/Southwestern Law Review Symposium. Los Angeles, CA, November 15, 2013. Opening Plenary: Redefining Equality through Difference/Modernity/Coloniality: From DOMA to Shelby County, Trayvon and Beyond. Panelist. 2013 Biennial LatCrit Conference. Chicago, October 4, 2013.

Elizabeth Young (Arkansas) Service: Planned and organized the 2013 Central States Law Schools Association Annual Scholarship Conference, which was held from October 4th 5th at the University of Arkansas School of Law.

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EDITORS NOTE
We view this Newsletter not as a formality, or just another email that arrives in your inbox at the close of the calendar year. We instead believe this Newsletter is a meaningful way to celebrate Section Members commitment to their students, the exchange and advancement of ideas, and our shared profession. This Newsletter, in other words, reflects and recognizes that solemn commitment, as well as progress made towards the development of solutions to stubborn social and legal problems. It also promotes the support and collegiality that are necessary predicates for the existence and flourishing of a healthy community of teachers and scholars. In short, this Newsletter is an opportunity to take stock of the accomplishments of the previous year, to draw inspiration from our colleagues work, and to be thankful to be part of a wonderful group of law professors who, together, is poised to meet next years challenges. Should you have any suggestions or comments on how we can improve the Newsletter and be of better service to the Section, please email us at: kwilliams@stcl.edu and sidhu@law.unm.edu.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy, and productive 2014! - Ken Williams (South Texas) -Dave Sidhu (New Mexico)

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