Steven Ramirez
presented
“Affirmative Action at the Crossroads:
The Uncertain Future of Race-
Conscious College Admissions,”
Dorothy L. Thompson Civil Rights
Lecture Series, Kansas State University
in September; and “Enterprise Risk
Management After the Financial
Crisis,” University of Washington
School of Law, Managing Risk in a
Complex World in October.
Anne-Marie Rhodes
presented
“Art in Estate Planning: Magnifying
Valuation Issues” at the Estate
Planning Committee of the Chicago
Bar Association Young Lawyers
Section in February; “Art Law: A
Natural from Trusts & Estates” at the
Legal Education Committee of the
American College of Trust and Estate
Counsel Annual Meeting in Maui in
March; and “Art Authenticity: Legal
Aspects” at the International Society
of Appraisers Annual Meeting in
Chicago in April.
Matthew Sag
recently presented
“Predicting Fair Use” at the Melbourne
Law School Faculty Research Seminar
Series. He gave the keynote address
at the Australian Digital Alliance
2013 Annual Copyright Forum in
Canberra, Australia. Last fall he
attended the Second Annual Global
Congress on Intellectual Property and
the Public Interest in Rio De Janeiro
as a participating expert with the
Copyright Limitations and Exceptions
Working Group. He presented a
comment on “Standards of Proof in
Patent Litigation” at the Conference
on Empirical Legal Studies at Stanford
University School of Law; “Copyright
Policy and Information” at the
Intellectual Property Law Speaker
Series at University of San Diego
School of Law; and “Orphan Works
and Mass Digitization” at the In Re
Books Conference at New York Law
School. He also attended the Global
Research Network on Copyright
Flexibilities in National Legal Reform
Experts Meeting at American
University Washington College of Law.
Sag presented “Orphan Works As Grist
for the Data Mill” at the Intellectual
Property Scholars Conference at
Stanford University School of Law,
and at the U.C. Berkeley School
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Professor Anne-Marie Rhodes recently presented papers on art and estate law at several major conferences.
of Law’s Orphan Works & Mass
Digitization Conference; “League
Structure and Stadium Rent
Seeking—The Role of Antitrust
Revisited” at the Cardozo School of
Law IP Speaker Series; “Copyright
and the Future of the Entertainment
Industry” at the Northwestern Journal
of Technology & Intellectual Property
Annual Symposium; and “Sports,
Economics, and Politics—League
Structure and Rent Seeking through
Stadiums” at the Marquette
University School of Law Intellectual
Property Colloquium.
Nadia Sawicki
was recently selected
as a participant in the highly selective
Wake Forest Junior Scholars in
Bioethics Workshop. This past fall
she served as a visiting fellow at
the American Bar Foundation. She
recently presented her research
on the constitutionality and ethics
of emotionally persuasive health
campaigns at Albany Law School,
Valparaiso University Law School, and
the American Society for Bioethics
and the Humanities. She also served
as a panelist at a New York Law
School symposium on end-of-life
medical care. She participated as
a guest blogger on Lawrence B.
Solum’s Legal Theory Blog, and the
Petrie-Flom Blog, a Harvard University
center dedicated to interdisciplinary
research and debate of cutting-
edge issues in health law policy,
biotechnology, and bioethics.
Lea Krivinskas Shepard’s
article,
“Toward a Stronger Financial History
Antidiscrimination Norm,”which
was published in 53
Boston College
Law Review
1695 (2012), won the
American College of Consumer
Financial Services Lawyers’ 2012
writing competition, which
recognizes contributions to the field
of consumer financial services law
.
She recently presented this paper
at the American Association of Law
Schools Annual Meeting in New
Orleans, and her forthcoming article
“Seeking Solutions to Financial
History Discrimination” at a faculty
exchange at Loyola University New
Orleans College of Law. She co-
organized with Cynthia Ho a Chicago
Junior Faculty Workshop for junior
faculty to present working papers in a
supportive, collaborative setting. She
served as moderator at the workshop.
She also served as moderator on the
panel “Implementing the Settlement:
the Role of the Monitor and Legal
Oversight” at Loyola’s National
Mortgage Settlement Conference
held in February.
Barry Sullivan
was the inaugural
Arthur Cox Visiting Research Fellow at
Trinity College, University of Dublin,
where he taught during the spring
semester 2013. While in Dublin, he
gave a talk titled “Recusals in the
Supreme Court of the United States:
It Didn’t Start With Scalia” at the
international law firm Arthur Cox.
He also chaired a panel on Law and
Terrorism at the Fifth Annual Trinity
College Law Student Colloquium.
The panel included papers presented
by law and graduate students
from Trinity College, Oxford, and
Cambridge. Last fall he presented
"Law and Discretion in the Supreme
Court: A Response to Professor Lubet"
at Valparaiso University’s Tabor
Institute on Legal Ethics.
Alexander Tsesis
presented “Hate
Speech in a Changing World” at the
University of Connecticut School
of Law in April, and “Constitutional
Limits” at DePaul Law School’s
faculty colloquium in March. He
co-organized and presented at the
Texas Law Review’s
2013 Symposium
“Constitutional Foundations” and
“Plurality of Constitutional Theories”
held at the University of Texas School
of Law in February. This past fall, Tsesis
presented “Due Process and Civil
Commitments” at Loyola University
Chicago School of Law’s Annual
Constitutional Law Colloquium;
“Antisemitism in Comparative
Perspective” at Fordham University;
and “The Declaration’s Historical
Influences” at the National Archives,
Washington, DC.
Spencer Waller
recently participated
on the panel “Antitrust and Social
Networking” at the Mayer Brown
Annual Social Media Conference.
He served as moderator for the
panel “The Rise of the Subprime
Loans and the Housing Collapse”
at Loyola’s National Mortgage
Settlement held at the School of
Law in February. He also moderated
the panel “Recent Developments in
Antitrust Class Actions” at the 2nd
Annual Comprehensive Seminar on
Litigating Class Actions, Gleacher
Center, in Chicago. Last fall he
presented his forthcoming paper
“Antitrust’s Democracy Deficit” at
George Washington University
Law School; co-organized and
moderated the Loyola conference
“Brands, Competition, and the Law”;
commented on “Media Diversity and
Market Structure” at Northwestern
University Law School; and presented
“Fostering Internet Competition”
at The Brooking Institution, in
Washington, DC.
AnitaWeinberg
recently gave a
presentation to the Illinois Juvenile
Justice Commission on youth who are
adjudicated for sexually offending.
She discussed recommendations for
reforming Illinois law and policy to
conform with evidence-informed
research. Students enrolled in Loyola’s
ChildLaw Legislation and Policy Clinic
worked with Weinberg on the study.
Last fall, Weinberg and her students
from Loyola’s ChildLaw Policy and
Legislation Clinic participated in a
bill-signing ceremony with Governor
Patrick Quinn. The new law, PA
97-1076, which was drafted with
the assistance of Loyola’s student
clinicians, will help preserve sibling
relationships for children in foster care
who have been adopted through the
child welfare system. Weinberg, with
colleague Mary Burns, community
programs director for Loyola’s Lead
Poisoning Prevention Initiative,
presented a workshop on Steps in
Advocacy to the Grand Families
Program of Chicago. Weinberg
served as a panelist on the webinar
“Examining the Impact of Lead Laws
on Housing Quality and Children’s
Health” sponsored by the American
Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and
the Public Health Law Association.
She also spoke in a concurrent
session at the AALS Clinical Teacher’s
Conference “Teaching Policy and
Legislative Advocacy,” and was co-
leader of an AALS working group
on policy and legislative advocacy.
Weinberg served as a panelist at
the Urban Issues Summit on Health
Disparities held at Loyola University
Chicago. In February, Weinberg was
an invited participant at the National
Dialogue and Strategy for Action to
Address Childhood Lead Poisoning in
Washington, DC.
JuliaWentz
was invited to join the
Academic Law Library Advisory Board
of Wolters Kluwer, a major provider of
texts and research materials for the
law school and attorney markets. The
first meeting was held in New York
last fall. Wentz will retire as associate
dean and director of the Law Library
in July after 14 years of dedicated
service to Loyola.
Michael Zimmer
recently served
as a senior commentator at the
Seton Hall Scholars Forum on
Labor & Employment Law where
papers presented by junior labor
and employment law scholars
are critiqued by more experienced
faculty. He also presented a paper
on women, income, and
achievements at the Florida
International University Law Review
Symposium titled “Minding the
Gap.”This spring he served as a
visiting scholar at Western Ontario
School of Law, where he taught a
course on issues related to United
States labor and employment law.
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