Science,”
Jotwell
(July 8, 2014);
“Binders Full of Women and
Closing the Gap,” 8
Florida
International University Law Review
541 (2013); “Is the Antidiscrimination
Project Being Ended?”, 1
Indiana
Journal of Law and Social Equality
1
(2013); and “Inequality, Individualized
Risk, and Insecurity,” 2013
Wisconsin
Law Review
1.
HONORS,
AWARDS, AND
PRESENTATIONS
Mary Ann Becker
recently
presented “Understanding the
Tethered Generation: Net Gens Come
to Law School” at the Fourth Colonial
Frontier Legal Writing Conference
“Teaching the Academically Under-
Prepared Law Student” hosted by
Duquesne University School of Law
in Pittsburgh.
Emily Benfer
was inducted into the
Equal Justice Works Hall of Fame for
her significant contributions to public
interest law. The induction was held
at the Equal Justice Works annual
dinner in October.
Mary Bird (JD ’87), Director of
Loyola’s Public Interest Law
Programs,
and alumna Emlyn
Ricketts (JD ’11) were recognized
by Congressman Danny K. Davis
as “outstanding educators” for their
outreach efforts on Chicago’s
West Side. The 18th Annual
Outstanding Educators and
Scholarship Recipients awards
ceremony was held on August 2.
John Blum
was appointed to the
Interdisciplinary Health Policy
Consortium’s Committee on Non-
Discrimination in the Affordable Care
Act, and to vice chair of the American
Bar Association’s Health Law Section,
Health Policy Taskforce. He presented
“Ebola and Hobby Lobby: Public
Health and the Conundrum of
Religion” at the Belmont University
College of Law Health Law
Symposium in October.
Teresa Frisbie
presented “Open
Their Minds, Cool Their Brains: Quick
Mediation Techniques That Turn
Down ‘Fight or Flight’ Hormones” at
the Association of Conflict Resolution
meeting held at Loyola University
Chicago School of Law in May.
Jean Gaspardo (JD ’94, MBA ’99),
Assistant Dean of Student Affairs,
was sworn in as president
of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of
Chicago in May.
James Gathii
presented his paper
“The Incomplete Transformation
of Judicial Review” at the Annual
Judges Conference of the Judiciary
of Kenya in Nairobi; and “The
Variation in the Use of Sub-Regional
Integration Courts Between Business
and Human Rights Actors: The Case
of the East African Court of Justice”
at the Workshop on International
Courts in Context, Duke University
Law School. He spoke on the panels
“New Developmental States and the
Transformation of Law” and “Special
50th Anniversary Roundtable:
Envisioning a Global Socio-Legal
Field: Networks, Institutions,
Initiatives, Prospects,” both at the
50th Annual Meeting of the Law and
Society Association, Minneapolis.
Zelda Harris
was a faculty presenter
this spring at the Family Violence
Conference hosted by the Texas Cen-
ter for the Judiciary, and at the Advo-
cacy Institute training held at SUNY
Buffalo Law School. She served on
the faculty of the National Institute
for Trial Advocacy’s Office on Violence
Against Women program; Emory
School of Law’s Trial Techniques Pro-
gram; the Thomson Reuters Federal
Trade Commission Deposition Skills
Training Seminar; and the National
Council of Juvenile and Family Court
Judges Seminar on domestic violence
held in Chicago. She served as panel
moderator at the conference “Patient
Safety and Medical Malpractice in
an Era of Reform” hosted by Loyola
University Chicago School of Law this
past spring.
Cynthia Ho
served on the panel
“
On
Professionalism & Balance: Academic
and Personal Success” at the 12th
Annual LatCrit-SALT Junior Faculty
Development Workshop held this
fall at William S. Boyd School of
Law, Las Vegas; and on the panel
“Supreme Court Review” held at
Chicago-Kent College of Law. She
recently presented “A New Challenge
to Domestic Ability to Determine
Intellectual Property Rights:
Evaluating Eli Lilly’s Investor-State
Arbitration Claim for Invalidation
of Patent Rights” at the Intellectual
Property Scholars Conference held at
Boalt Hall School of Law; and “Drug
Rehab: How FDA recognition of
Cognitive Biases Can Improve Drug
Development” at the IP Scholars
Forum held at the University of Akron
School of Law. The new paper builds
on her article “Drugged Out: How
Cognitive Bias Hurts Drug Innovation.”
Charles Murdock (JD ’63)
presented
his talk “Pitfalls in the Operation of
Closely-Held Entities” at a Chicago Bar
Association seminar in September.
Margaret Moses
presented
“International Arbitration:
Challenges for the Future” at an
arbitration conference sponsored
by the Center for International
Legal Studies and held at Schloss
Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria;
and “Inherited Powers of Arbitrators
to Deal with Ethical Issues” at an
arbitration conference held at
Fordham Law School.
Stacey Platt
was recently named
to the board of directors of the
Association of Family and Conciliation
Courts, an interdisciplinary and
international association of
professionals dedicated to improving
the lives of children and families
through the resolution of family
conflict. She presented this fall
at a three-day training hosted by
the ABA Commission on Sexual &
Domestic Violence in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, on the fundamentals
of sexual and domestic violence
and the representation of survivors
in child custody cases. She also co-
presented the workshop “Seen but
Not Heard: Moving Beyond Quieted
Children in the Middle” at the AFCC’s
11th Symposium on Child Custody
Evaluations in San Antonio, and
taught in the National Institute for
Trial Advocacy’s Advanced Litigation
Training for Advocates for Survivors of
Domestic Violence in Custody Cases.
Steven Ramirez
was an invited
speaker at the conference “Liberty,
Prosperity and the Rule of Law in
Smith, Bastiat, and Hayek” held at
Liberty Fund in Park City, Utah. He
served as a panelist on “Political
Dynamics of Corporate Governance”
at the AALS mid-year panel discussion
“CEO Primacy Everywhere,” Section on
Business Associations, Workshop on
Blurring Boundaries in Financial and
Corporate Law, held in Washington,
DC, this summer; and on “Navigating
the Grey: Tone at the Top,” held at the
University of Chicago Booth School of
Business this spring.
Alan Raphael
recently presented
“Constitutional Law and Individual
Rights: A Recap of the Past
Supreme Court Term and a
Preview of the Coming Term” at
the Chicago Bar Association’s
Individual Rights and Constitutional
Law Committee, and spoke on this
topic at Loyola’s Constitution Day
program in September.
Nadia Sawicki
recently presented
“Medical Materiality in Informed
Consent” at Loyola University
Chicago’s Stritch School of
Medicine; “The Constitutionality
of Emotionally Persuasive Health
Campaigns” at the conference
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the First Amendment hosted by
Yale Law School; “Medicalization
of Schedule I Drugs: Learning from
Medical Marijuana” at the American
Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Health Law Professors Conference
in San Francisco; and “Law as a Tool
to Resolve Futility and Surrogacy
Disputes” hosted by the Edward
Hospital Ethics Committee in
Naperville, Illinois.
Barry Sullivan
was reappointed to
serve on the Peer Review Panel for
Fulbright Law Awards. This fall he
presented “Access to Information
as a Constitutional Value” to the
Constitutional Rights Foundation’s
Program for Illinois Teachers.
Alexander Tsesis
recently
presented “Constitutional Design”
at a faculty speaker series held at
the University of Iowa College of
Law; “First Amendment Foundations”
at Loyola University Chicago School
of Law’s Fifth Annual Constitutional
Law Colloquium; “Critical Race
Theory and the Constitution” at
the symposium“Examining Critical
Race Theory: Honoring Richard
Delgado” hosted by the University of
Minnesota Law School; “Free Speech
Constitutionalism and Hate Speech”
at the Law and Society Conference
held in Minneapolis; and “Free
Speech Constitutionalism” at the
Information Society Project hosted
by Yale Law School.
Spencer Waller
recently delivered
“Promoting Innovation” at the
Iowa
Law Review
’s 100th anniversary
symposium, and as the keynote
address at the 25th Annual New
Zealand Competition Workshop
held in Wellington, New Zealand.
He also presented “The Year in
Review for US Antitrust Law” at
the New Zealand Commerce
Commission; and “The Fall and Rise
of the Antitrust Class Action” at
the University of Rome (Sapienza).
Waller served on the panel Antitrust
Risks of Information Exchange at
the Fifth Annual Northwestern
International Antitrust Forum in
Chicago. He is the recipient of the
2014 Concurrences Antitrust Writing
Award for his article “Antitrust’s
Democracy Deficit” (coauthored by
Harry First).
AnitaWeinberg (JD ’86)
was
awarded the Ignatius Loyola
Award for Excellence in Teaching
at Loyola University Chicago’s
Faculty Convocation held on
September 14. The award, which
is presented once every two years,
is the University’s most prestigious
teaching award, and recognizes a
faculty member whose teaching
involves a commitment to
excellence, raises global awareness,
promotes social justice, and
educates the whole student.
David Yellen
delivered the
opening address this fall at the
Midwest Association of Pre-Law
Advisors Conference held in
Chicago, and spoke on the
future of legal education at the
Inauguration of the W. Bruce
Lunsford Academy for Law, Business
+ Technology program titled
“Leading Voices of the Future of
Law” hosted by NKU Chase College
of Law. He presented “The ABA
Task Force on the Future of Legal
Education: New Developments in
the Ongoing Crisis” at the National
Conference of Bar Examiners
Annual Bar Admissions Conference
this past spring. Yellen was
appointed to the Illinois State Bar
Association Task Force on the Impact
of Law School Curriculum and Debt
on the Future of the Profession.
He served as chair of the ABA New
Deans Workshop in June.
Michael Zimmer
presented
“Creative Disruption, Not
Destruction” at the 12th Annual
Marco Biagi Conference in
Modena, Italy; and “US
Antidiscrimination Law in a
Nutshell” at the University of
Milan. He presented “Lemonade
from a Lemon: Proving Direct or
Disparate Treatment Employment
Discrimination” at the AALS
Transnational Equality workshop
in Washington, DC; and “The End
of At-Will Employment? Ricci +
IAT = Intent to Discriminate” at the
annual Labor & Employment Law
Colloquium hosted by the University
of Colorado Law School.
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Professors Barry Sullivan, Cooney & Conway Chair in Advocacy (left), Michael Zimmer (center), and Alexander Tsesis hosted a lively two-
day colloquium in November with more than 75 constitutional law scholars from across the country.
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