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Copyright’s Fair Use Doctrine” at the
Internet Law Scholars Conference
at Santa Clara University; “Objective
Factors in Fair Use Litigation” at
the “Research Design and Causal
Inference”workshop at Northwestern
University School of Law and at
the Intellectual Property Scholars
Conference at the University of
California, Berkeley; “The Pre-History
of Fair Use” at the “Copyright @300,
Looking Back on the Statute of Anne”
conference held at the University of
California, Berkeley; “Trademark and
Copyright in the Days of Internet:
The Google Influence” and “Patenting
Social Interactions: Bilski Before the
Supreme Court” at
Northwestern
University Journal of Technology
& Intellectual Property
Annual
Symposium; and “Google Book” at
Northwestern University School of
Law’s IP Week.
Nadia Sawicki
gave the Regis J.
Fallon Lecture on Health and
Law, titled “Legal Solutions for
Ensuring Decision Aid Quality,” at
the University of Chicago’s Center
for Health and the Social Sciences
this spring. She presented her paper
“Informed Consent Beyond the
Clinical Encounter: Shared Decision-
Making and Tort Law Implications”
at the 34th Annual ASLME Health
Law Professors Conference, and
at Washington University in
St. Louis’s Regional Junior Faculty
Workshop Series. Last spring, Sawicki
presented an article in progress,
“The Hollow Promise of Freedom of
Conscience,” at Washington University
in St. Louis’s Regional Junior Faculty
Workshop Series.
Lea Krivinskas Shepard
organized
and spoke at the Loyola University
Chicago School of Law conference
“Hidden Traps, Fair Contracts, and
Consumer Choice” held in January.
She was awarded an
American
Bankruptcy Law Journal
Fellowship
by the National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges.
Allen Shoenberger
participated
in a municipal and state law judge
educational program for the Illinois
State Bar Association Administrative
Law Council, which presented a
benchbook with annotations on the
New Illinois Rules of Evidence.
Larry Singer
presented “The
Impact of Health Reform on Hospitals”
at an Illinois State Bar Association’s
conference on “Physicians’
Transactions,” and again at the
University of Chicago’s Regis J.
Fallon Lecture Series on Health Law.
Singer also gave a talk on “Health
Reform” at the Chicago Municipal
Analyst Society.
Barry Sullivan
was awarded a
Fulbright Canada Visiting Research
Chair at the University of Alberta
School of Law and Center for
Constitutional Studies for fall
semester 2011. At the University
of Alberta, he presented “Access
to Government Information in the
U.S. and Canada” to law faculty and
graduate students, and gave a lecture
on a similar topic to the Constitutional
Law Section of the Canadian Bar
Association. He also delivered the
Fulbright Lecture in American Studies
titled “Representative Democracy and
the People’s Elusive ‘Right to Know.’”
In February, he served as a panelist
at a breakfast discussion at The
University Club of Chicago titled
“Ethics in a New Era for Illinois.”This
past summer he participated in a
segment of the Loyola University
Chicago initiative “Democracy,
Culture, and Catholicism International
Research Project,” an academic
conference held at Universitas
Sanata Dharma, a Jesuit university in
Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He presented
a paper entitled “‘Bilge Water’ and
‘The Consciousness of Contemporary
Man’: Catholic Social Thought and
the Right to Know in Constitutional
Design and Democratic Government.”
He also presented that paper at the
Loyola Ethics and Political Philosophy
Workshop. He was a part-time visitor
at Princeton’s WoodrowWilson School
of Public and International Affairs last
spring. Sullivan was named an Irish
Legal 100 honoree for 2011.
Alexander Tsesis
recently presented
“The Thirteenth Amendment and
American Freedom” at Georgetown
University Law Center; and “The
Reconstruction Amendments and
Constitutional Structure” at Notre
Dame Law School. In January, he
organized a symposium titled
“Thirteenth Amendment: Meaning,
Enforcement, and Contemporary
Implications”with the
Columbia Law
Review,
where he delivered opening
and closing remarks in addition
to presenting a paper. Last year,
Tsesis presented “The Declaration of
Independence in the Constitution”
at Wake Forest University School
of Law, and “Self-Governance &
the Declaration of Independence”
and “Expanding the Protection
of the Thirteenth Amendment”
at Loyola University Chicago
School of Law’s Constitutional Law
Colloquium, where he also served
as a panel moderator. He presented
“Inflammatory Speech” at University
of Texas, Austin; “Declaration of
Independence and Civil and Political
Rights” at Washington University
School of Law; “Due Process in Civil
Commitment Proceedings” at the
University of Cincinnati College of
Law; and “Genocide and Propaganda”
at the
Loyola University Chicago Law
Journal
Conference. He presented
“Congressional Authority to Interpret
the Thirteenth Amendment”
at the Maryland School of Law
Constitutional Law Schmooze in
February, and “True Threats of
Hate Speech” at the University of
Chicago Law School at a luncheon
debate titled “The Regulation of
Hate Speech.”Tsesis spoke on the
following topics: “Internet, New
Media, Traditional Stereotypes,
Overt Bigotry, and the International
Regulation of Hate Speech” at the
Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Antisemitism; and
“Regulating Campus Antisemitic
Speech without Running Afoul of
the First Amendment” at the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center
for Advanced Holocaust Studies. In
addition, Tsesis participated as a chair
and discussant at the Law and Society
Annual Conference in Chicago,
where he critiqued presentations
on “Diversity in Employment and
Educational Institutions”; “Individual
Rights, Collective Identities, Regional
Policies, Global Society: The Problems
and Promises of Community”; and
“Challenges to Applying Human
Rights.” He was also a guest blogger
last summer on the important legal
blog Concurring Opinions.
SpencerWaller
spoke at University
College London on the paper
he coauthored titled “Brands,
Competition, and the Law.” He
also presented the paper at the
University of Rome (Sapienza). He
presented “Corporate Governance
and Competition Policy” at the
International Competition Network
Research conference “Alliance
Building for a Culture of Competition”
held in the Hague, Netherlands,
and the University of Utah School
of Law; “Access and Information
Remedies” at the second Loyola-Haifa
competition workshop, “Antitrust
in High-Tech Industries,” in Haifa,
Israel, and the ABA Antitrust Section’s
spring meeting in Washington, DC;
and “Competition and Consumer
Protection in the United States:
Benefits and Burden of Extreme
Decentralization” at the Center for
Competition Policy, University of
East Anglia in Norwich, England.
Waller also served as a commentator
on a panel at the conference “100
Years of Standard Oil” held at George
Washington University in Washington,
DC, and as a panelist on “The Good
Monopolist” held at the Searle
Center Second Chicago International
Antitrust Forum at Northwestern
University Law School in Chicago.
Neil Williams
delivered the following
lectures this spring: University of
Chicago, “From Emancipation to
the Age of Obama: The Evolving
Relationship Between the Norm of
Freedom of Contract and African-
American Civil Rights”;
DePaul
Business and Commercial Law Journal
Annual Symposium, “Taking and
Perfecting Security Interests in
Collateral Subject to Specialized
Rules: Deposit Accounts, Commercial
Tort Claims, and Intellectual
Property”; 2012 Norman Amaker
Public Interest Law and Social Justice
Retreat, “Norman Amaker and
Lessons from Birmingham in 1963:
Building Bridges Between Lawyers
and Organic Community Leadership
to Effect Legal and Social Change”;
and University of Nebraska-Omaha’s
11th Annual Malcolm X Festival, “The
Law: A Tool of Justice or Weapon
of Injustice?” Last year he delivered
opening remarks at the 10th Annual
Norman Amaker Midwest Public
Interest Law Retreat hosted by Loyola
University Chicago School of Law at
Loyola’s Resurrection Retreat Center
in Woodstock, Illinois. He served as
moderator of a panel discussion at
Loyola University Chicago School
of Law’s annual Race and the Law
symposium on the topic “The Law:
A Tool of Justice or Weapon of
Injustice?”Williams was a corecipient
of the Midwest People of Color
Legal Scholarship Conference’s Third
Annual Norman C. Amaker Award
at the organization’s joint meeting
with the SE/SW People of Color
Legal Scholarship Conference in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida.
David Yellen
led a panel discussion
last fall on the current crisis
surrounding the future of legal
education at a dinner hosted by
the Lawyers Club of Chicago. He
also recently spoke on the ABA’s
accreditation standards at the ABA
Deans’ Annual Workshop, and at a
Federalist Society meeting held in
Washington, DC. Yellen serves on the
ABA’s Standards Review Committee
and the executive committee of the
Association of American Law Schools
Section on the Law School Dean. He
recently served as chair of the ABA
New Deans Workshop. Yellen also
serves on the Illinois Sentencing
Policy Advisory Council, and on
the board of trustees of Blackburn
College in Carlinville, Illinois.
Michael Zimmer
is the recipient of
the First Annual Paul S. Miller Award
for Contributions to Labor and
Employment Law. He was presented
the award at the Sixth Annual Labor
and Employment Law Colloquium
held last fall at Loyola Law School
Los Angeles. Zimmer served as a
moderator last spring for the panel
“Debate: The Targeted Killing of
Anwar al-Awlaki” at the
Loyola
University Chicago International Law
Review
Symposium“Laws of War,”
and spoke on the role of religion
and religious activism as reflected
by constitutional litigation at a
presentation sponsored by Loyola’s
student organization OUTLaw. He
also gave the keynote address,
“Wal-Mart v. Dukes:
Taking the
Protection Out of Protected Classes,”
at a conference at Lewis & Clark Law
School about “The Protected-Class
Approach to Antidiscrimination Law:
Logic Effects, Reform.”
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Neil Williams recently spoke at several conferences, including Loyola’s Race and Law Symposium.
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