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Christine Cooper
served as
a panelist at the 6th Annual
CLE program of the Labor and
Employment Section of the American
Bar Association (ABA), held in Seattle
in November. Her topic was titled
“Keeping Secrets: Unique Tasks of
In-House Counsel.” She served as a
moderator for “Cross-Border Labor
Mobility” at the ABA Labor and
Employment Section’s International
Law Committee Meeting in Berlin,
Germany, in May, and for “OBJECTION!
Evidentiary Issues in Employment
Litigation” at the University of
Louisville Brandeis School of Law’s
28th Annual Carl A. Warns Jr. Labor
and Employment Law Institute’s
“Changing Technology and the
Impact on Work Law” in June. She also
presented “Principles of Civility and
Professionalism for Advocates” at the
College of Labor and Employment
Lawyers Regional Meeting:
“Remaining Civil with the Uncivil.”
Sacha Coupet
presented “The
Development and Use of an
Advanced Planning Tool for
Grandparent Caregivers” as a
panelist at the Illinois Governor’s
Conference on Aging in Chicago
and was an invited speaker for the
American Bar Association’s Section
on Litigation, Children’s Rights
Litigation Committee, for the panel
“Counseling Children and Youth
in Times of Crisis: Tips to Achieve
Success and Avoid Pitfalls.” Coupet
also gave a lecture on “Beyond
‘Eros’: Relative Caregiving, ‘Agape’
Parentage, and the Best Interests
of Children” as a panelist at the
symposium“The ‘New Illegitimacy’:
Revisiting Why Parentage Should Not
Depend on Marriage,” at American
University Washington College of Law
in Washington, DC, in March.
Diane Geraghty
was honored by
Concern Worldwide U.S. with the
Women of Concern Leadership
Award. The award, which recognizes
the outstanding accomplishments
of women who reflect justice,
generosity, and compassion in their
work and daily lives, was presented to
Geraghty at a luncheon in February.
She authored a set of case files for
use in training law school clinical
and experiential faculty in the
developing world. Topics covered
in the materials include child rights,
family law, domestic violence, HIV/
AIDS, prisoners’ rights, and restorative
justice. The materials were piloted
in Ethiopia.
Cynthia Ho
gave the keynote
lecture at the symposium“What Is
Compulsory Licensing of Medicine?”
at the University of Richmond School
of Law. Her speech, which also served
as the 24th Annual Emanuel Emroch
Lecture, was on the topic “Patents,
Patients, Patience: Why the World Still
Awaits a Consensus on Compulsory
Medicine.” She also presented
“Beyond Patents,” based on a chapter
of her recent book,
Access to Medicine
in the Global Economy: International
Agreements on Patents and Related
Rights
(Oxford University Press,
2011), as an invited speaker for the
“Globalization of Health Care: Legal
and Ethical Challenges,” sponsored by
the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law
Policy, Biotechnology, and Ethics at
Harvard Law School. She also gave a
presentation based on her book at the
10th Annual “Recent Developments
in IP Law and Policy” Conference at
Golden Gate University School of Law.
Ho gave a presentation at Marquette
Law School titled “Access to Medicine:
From Social Science to Patent Law.”
She was an invited speaker for the
Intellectual Property Owner’s Annual
Meeting, for the panel “Bilski—What
Is the Future of Business Method
Patents?” She was also an invited
speaker at George Washington School
of Business, where she presented
“Competing Patent Perspectives”
for an A2K workshop. Ho presented
“Unveiling Competing Patent
Perspectives” as an invited speaker
for the Symposium on Intellectual
Property in International Perspective,
Institute for Intellectual Property and
Information Law, sponsored by the
University of Houston Law School.
She also presented “Towards a New
Interpretive Framework for TRIPS,”
as an invited speaker for a symposium
at the University of South Carolina
School of Law titled “Perspectives
on Justice.”
Michael Kaufman
delivered his
research paper on securities fraud
remedies at the Institute for Law and
Economic Policy’s “Access to Justice”
conference sponsored by Duke
University School of Law.
Jeffrey Kwall
testified in March
before the House Ways and Means
Committee in Washington, DC, at a
hearing on the treatment of closely
held businesses in the context of
tax reform.
Margaret Moses
delivered a
lecture titled “Ethics in International
Commercial Arbitration” this
semester at the
Loyola University
Chicago International Law Review
Symposium, “U.S. Impact on
International Commercial Arbitration:
Positive or Negative?” held in
February. She attended an Academic
Council Meeting of the Institute
for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)
at Pepperdine University where, as
cochair of the ITA-ASIL Conference
on International Arbitration, she
provided an overview of the
program held in March and presented
a talk on the dispute resolution
program at Loyola University Chicago
School of Law as part of a program
on teaching. Last fall she participated
as a speaker at Lewis & Clark Law
School’s Global Law Series, where
she spoke on “Antisuit Injunctions in
International Arbitration.”
Charles Murdock
gave a lecture
on liability issues including breach
of fiduciary at the Illinois State Bar
Association’s (ISBA) fall seminar
“What You Need to Know about
LLCs.” He also spoke on successor
liability issues at the ISBA’s seminar
“Fraudulent Transfers and Piercing
the Corporate Veil.”
John Nowak
is serving as a member
of the Rules Committee for the U.S.
District Court of Northern Illinois.
Nowak was voted Faculty Member of
the Year at Loyola University Chicago
School of Law in 2011.
Juan Perea
presented his
forthcoming article “Recognizing the
Proslavery Constitution” at the
Northwestern Constitutional Law
Colloquium last fall. He also served
as moderator at the American
Association of Law Schools (AALS)
Section on Minority Groups
discussion held during the AALS
Workshop for New Law Teachers. This
past spring he presented “Searching
for Hercules: Exploring the Proslavery
Origins of the Constitution” at
Loyola University Chicago School
of Law’s annual “Race and the
Law” symposium, and at a faculty
workshop at Villanova Law School.
He also served as a luncheon plenary
speaker at the conference “We Must
First Take Account: A Conference
on Race, Law, and History in the
Americas” held at the University of
Michigan Law School.
Stacey Platt
was named the January
2011 Advocate of the Month by
Illinois Legal Aid Online and was
the 2011 recipient of the Leonard
Jay Schrager Award of Excellence,
given annually by the Chicago
Bar Foundation to an exemplary
attorney in academia who has made
significant and lasting contributions
to improving access to justice for the
less fortunate.
Steven Ramirez
presented “Lawless
Capitalism: The Subprime Crisis and
the Case for an Economic Rule of
Law” as follows: Faculty workshop
cosponsored with the Ronald H.
Brown Center for Civil Rights and
Economic Development at St. John’s
University School of Law; Southeast,
Southwest, and Midwestern People of
Color Legal Scholarship Conference,
“The Role of the Law in Fostering
Social, Political and Economic
Equality”; Center for Real Estate
Law at the Peking University Law
School; Hamline University School
of Law, “Reforming the Secondary
Mortgage Market”; Sixteenth Annual
LatCrit Conference, “Global Justice:
Theories, Histories, Futures,” San
Diego, California; Loyola University
New Orleans College of Law Faculty
Workshop; 2012 AALS Annual
Meeting, Section on Socio-Economics,
“Socio-Economics in the Academy
and the Economy: Changing the
Economic Debate,” Washington,
DC; Mid-Atlantic People of Color
Legal Scholarship Conference,
“The Response of Contemplative
Lawyering to the Economic
Dominance of the Corporate
Structure,” Howard University
School of Law; Lectures and Awards
Colloquium (in cosponsorship with
the Wayne Morse Center for Law
and Politics) (faculty presentation),
University of Oregon Law School;
University of Oregon Wayne Morse
Center for Law and Politics, “Food
for Thought”; Faculty Development
Colloquium at Capital University
School of Law, “Three Years after
Lehman: Assessing the Regulatory
Reforms of the Next Financial Crisis,”
University of Utah, S.J. Quinney
School of Law. He also participated as
a panelist at “Research Roundtable,
Innovation Policy, Intellectual
Property, and Entrepreneurship,” at
Searle Center on Law, Regulation,
and Economic Growth held at
Northwestern University School of
Law; and at the First Annual Institute
for Investor Protection Symposium,
“Corporate Governance after Dodd-
Frank,” at Loyola University Chicago
School of Law.
Alan Raphael’s
article “Opinion
Analysis: Court Reverses Habeas Grant
and Limits Application of
Miranda”
was featured on SCOTUSblog on
February 22, 2012.
Anne-Marie Rhodes
spoke last
spring at the Texas Tech
Estate
Planning & Community Property Law
Journal
Symposium titled “When
an Estate Includes Art: An Essay on
Inclusion” and moderated a panel on
“Family Foundation Case Studies” at
the ACTEC Annual Meeting in
Phoenix, Arizona.
Matthew Sag
presented his paper
“League Structure and Stadium
Rent Seeking—The Role of Antitrust
Law Revisited” at Cardozo School of
Law’s IP & Information Law Program
Speaker Series and at the Marquette
University School of Law Intellectual
Property Colloquium. He presented
“Fairly Useful: An Empirical Study of
Sacha Coupet presented at several recent conferences on legal issues relating to parenting and caregiving.
Diane Geraghty was honored with the Women of Concern Leadership Award.
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