Matthew Sag
recently presented
“An Economic Analysis of Design
Patents” and “Compulsory Licenses
and Copyright Collectives” at the
Intellectual Property Scholars
Conference held at Benjamin N.
Cardozo Law School; “Webcasting
Through the Lens of Kristelia Garcia’s
Penalty Default Licenses” at the
Searle Center Research Roundtable
on the Law and Economics of Digital
Markets in Chicago; and “Predicting
Fair Use” at the Melbourne Law School
Faculty Research Seminar Series.
Sag delivered the keynote address,
“Copyright Reform in the Digital
Age: Is Fair Use Too Uncertain?”, at
the Australian Digital Alliance 2013
Annual Copyright Forum held in
Canberra in March.
Nadia Sawicki
presented “Strong of
Spirit, Weak of Will: A Virtue Ethics
Account of Conscience Claims” at
the American Society for Bioethics
and the Humanities Annual
Conference; the American Society
of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Health
Law Professors Conference; and the
University of Chicago Conference on
Medicine and Religion. She presented
“Ethical Limitations on the State’s
Use of Arational Persuasion” at the
American Bar Foundation and the
Midwest Political Science Association,
and “Pathos and Government
Persuasion” at the Chicago Junior
Faculty Workshop andWake Forest
Junior Scholars in Bioethics Workshop.
She presented “Compelling Images:
The Constitutionality of Emotionally
Persuasive Health Campaigns” at
Albany Law School this past spring.
Lea Krivinskas Shepard’s
article
“Toward a Stronger Financial History
Antidiscrimination Norm”won the
American College of Consumer
Financial Services Lawyers’ 2012
Writing Competition for best
professional article. She recently
presented her paper “Seeking
Solutions to Financial History
Discrimination” at Washington
University Junior Faculty Forum;
served as a moderator for the panel
“Implementing the Settlement:
The Role of the Monitor and Legal
Oversight” at Loyola’s National
Mortgage Settlement Conference;
presented “Seeking Solutions to
Financial History Discrimination” at a
faculty workshop at Loyola University
New Orleans College of Law; and
presented “Toward a Stronger
Financial History Antidiscrimination
Norm” on a panel, “The Great
Deleveraging: Bankruptcy After the
Crisis, Formal and Informal,” at the
Association of American Law Schools
Annual Meeting, Debtor-Creditor
Section, New Orleans.
Allen Shoenberger
spoke this fall at
the annual meeting of the National
Association of Administrative Law
Judiciary on the topic of evidence in
administrative law hearings.
Lawrence Singer
spoke on the
impact of health reform to the
American Association of Clinical
Urologists and the Illinois
State Bar Association. He was
recently appointed to the Illinois
Department of Public Health’s
Brain Injury Taskforce.
Barry Sullivan
was the Arthur Cox
Visiting Research Fellow and a visiting
professor during the spring semester
last year at Trinity College Dublin in
Ireland. While in Dublin, he presented
“FOIA and the First Amendment:
Representative Democracy and
the People’s Elusive Right to Know”
to the Irish Jurisprudence Society;
“Questions, Statements, and
Interruptions: Oral Argument in the
Supreme Court of the United States”
to the law faculty at Trinity College
Dublin; and “Recusals in the Supreme
Court of the United States: It Didn’t
All Start with Scalia” to the Dublin
international law firm Arthur Cox. He
served as chair of the 2013 European
Law Student colloquium, “Rethinking
Law on ‘Law and Terrorism,’” held at
Trinity College Dublin. Sullivan was
recently appointed to the Fulbright
Commission Law Discipline Peer
Review Panel.
Alexander Tsesis
presented
“Challenges of Privacy in the
Cyberworld” at Wake Forest
University School of Law, “The Global
Consequences of Free Speech”
at the Milton and Ethel Sorokin
Symposium hosted by the University
of Connecticut School of Law and
the American Civil Liberties Union
of Connecticut, and “Constitutional
Limits” at DePaul University School
of Law. He served as a commentator
at Freedom of Expression Scholars
Conference held at Yale Law
School this past spring. Tsesis co-
organized and presented at the
Texas Law Review
’s 2013 Symposium,
“Constitutional Foundations.” He
also co-organized “Plurality of
Constitutional Theories” held at the
University of Texas School of Law this
past spring.
Spencer Waller
presented
“Google
and the Growth of Global Antitrust”
at the Chicago Bar Association,
Young Lawyer’s Division; and “The
Rise and Fall of the US Class Action”
at the Second Annual Congress on
International Law and Globalization,
Autonomous University of the State
of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
He served as a panelist at the Third
Annual Workshop on Competition
in Internet Search, George Mason
University School of Law, Arlington,
Virginia; for “Google Search: Antitrust
and IP Perspectives” held at Notre
Dame Law School; and for “Consumer
Protection and Antitrust Enforcement
Developments and Compliance
in Social Media, The Social Media
(R)Evolution” held at the Chicago law
firm Mayer Brown. He served as a
moderator at the symposium“Debt
Collection in the Modern Economy,”
hosted by the
Loyola Consumer Law
Review
this past spring; and on the
panel “The Rise of the Subprime
Loans and the Housing Collapse,”
which was part of Loyola University
Chicago’s recent National Mortgage
Settlement Conference. Waller was
a co-organizer, moderator, and
presenter at “Antitrust Marathon
V: Public and Private Enforcement,”
hosted by the Italian Competition
Authority in Rome this past spring.
Neil Williams
delivered
“What the
1963 March on Washington Means
to Americans” as part of the School
of Law’s program“50 Years Later—
Has America Really Changed?” He
presented “The Legacy of Norman
Amaker: We Must Do It Because They
Did It For Us” at Loyola University
Chicago’s 2013 Norman Amaker
Public Interest and Social Justice
Retreat and at the School of Law’s
Norman Amaker Tribute Breakfast. He
also provided opening and closing
remarks at the School of Law’s 2013
Race and the Law Symposium,
“Breaking the Glass Ceiling:
Advancing Diversity in the Legal
Profession.” He gave a talk, “Letter
from a Birmingham Jail and the
Founding Principles and Principals
of the Midwestern People of Color
Legal Scholarship Conference,” and
served as commentator on a work-in-
progress paper by Professor Jasmine
Abdel-Khalik on the topic “Fairness
in Pre-Acceptance Behavior: Equity
Based Option Contracts” at the 2013
Annual Meeting of the Midwestern
People of Color Legal Scholarship
Conference. Williams was recently
appointed to the Board of the Cook
County Bar Association Foundation.
He was voted Professor of the Year
by Loyola University Chicago law
students in 2013.
AnitaWeinberg
was honored by
the Family Defense Center at its
annual benefit in September for her
work as a gifted policy advocate and
teacher who has led countless major
child welfare policy initiatives to
strengthen child and family bonds
and improve the health and safety
of children with their families. She
recently copresented with Diane
Geraghty on the topic “A Child’s Right
to Health--Childhood Lead Poisoning,
and the Role of the International
Child Rights Community” at a
conference held at Yale University
and cosponsored by Distressed
Children & Infants International.
Weinberg participated as an invited
speaker at the National Healthy
Housing Leadership Conference titled
“Preventing Lead Exposure for US
Children: A Dialogue and Strategy for
Action.” She also participated in the
Green and Healthy Homes Executive
Leadership Institute conference, and
presented “Ethics in ChildWelfare” at
the plenary session convened by the
Child Care Association of Illinois.
David Yellen
has been appointed
by BARBRI to serve on its new Legal
Education Advisory Board, which was
recently formed to assist the company
in analyzing legal education trends
and identifying potential solutions
for industry challenges. He delivered
“Re-imagining the Legal Workforce”
at the National Association for Law
Placement/American Law Institute
(NALP/ALI) Lawyer Development
Institute held in New York in October,
and “Deaning in the New Normal”
at the Association of American Law
Schools’ annual meeting held in New
Orleans in January.
Michael Zimmer
recently served
as co-organizer of the School of
Law’s annual Constitutional Law
Colloquium in November, and as
co-organizer and commentator
at the Seventh Annual Seton Hall
Law School Labor and Employment
Law Forum for young scholars.
He presented his paper “Title VII’s
Last Hurrah: Can Discrimination Be
Plausibly Pled?” at the symposium
“Civil Rights Act After 50 Years” held at
the University of Chicago Law School.
The paper will be published in the
University of Chicago Legal Forum
.
He also moderated the labor and
employment law panel at the annual
LatCrit scholarship conference, and
presented at the Eighth Annual Labor
and Employment Law Colloquium
held at the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas. His paper “Hiding the Statute
in Plain View:
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar
”
is will be published in a symposium
issue of the
Nevada Law Journal
.
This past spring, Zimmer presented
a paper at the symposium“Bridging
the Gap,” sponsored by the
Florida
International University Law Review.
He also served as a guest lecturer at
the University of Western Ontario law
school. In April, the amicus brief he
coauthored with Sandra Sperino and
Deborah Widiss in
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar
was filed in the US Supreme Court.
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FACULTY EXCELLENCE
Anita Weinberg was honored by the Family Defense Center this fall with
the 2013 Family Defender Award.
Matthew Sag writes and speaks frequently on issues related to copyright law.
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