Juan Perea
was recently honored
by the Latino Law Professors
Group with its 2015 Award for
Scholarship, Teaching, and Service
for his scholarly contributions and
advocacy work on behalf of the
civil rights of Latinos in the US. He
recently presented “Doctrines of
Delusion: On the History of the
GI Bill and Other Inconvenient
Truths that Undermine the
Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action
Jurisprudence” at Loyola University
New Orleans College of Law and
“Learning to See Straight: Legal
History and the Creation of Racial
Inequality” at the Fall Speaker Series
on Social Justice at Loyola University
Chicago and the School of Law’s
2015 Norman Amaker Retreat.
Stacey Platt
was recently elected
to the board of directors of
the Association of Family and
Conciliation Courts, an international
and interdisciplinary association
of professionals dedicated to the
resolution of family conflict.
Anne-Marie Rhodes
presented
“How Art Transforms Law: Whistler,
Brancusi, Klimt, and their Legal
Legacies” at Loyola University
Chicago in March; “Estate Planning
for a Survivor—Some Choices
and Flexibility” at the Chicago Bar
Association’s Women in the Law
Committee in February; and “Legal
Reform and Grantors’ Jurisdictional
Options: The Implications of
Freedom” at the AALS Annual
Conference, Section of Trusts and
Estates, in January. Rhodes was
named a 2014 Illinois Super Lawyer
in Estate Planning and Probate.
Matthew Sag
was recently
appointed as a Distinguished
Fellow of the Searle Center on Law,
Regulation, and Economic Growth.
He moderated the ABA Intellectual
Property Litigation Roundtable on
“The Uncertain Scope of the Public
Performance Right After Aereo,”
and was an invited participant
at a workshop on “The State of
Fair Use in US Copyright Law As It
Affects Libraries and Educational
Institutions” at the University of
California, Berkeley. He recently
presented “IP Litigation Trends in
United States District Courts” to the
UCLA Entertainment, Media, and
Intellectual Property Colloquium
Workshop and the Roundtable on
Empirical Methods in Intellectual
Property; and “Copyright Trolling,
An Empirical Study” to the Intellectual
Property Scholars Conference at
the University of California, Berkeley,
and the Society for Economic
Research on Copyright Issues
Annual Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
He also presented “Patent Trolls and
Chicago’s Tech Community” to the
Chicago Tech Roundtable.
Nadia Sawicki
recently presented
“Does Informed Consent Require
Disclosure of Physicians’ Religious
Convictions?” at the Harvard Law
School conference “Law, Religion,
and Health Care in America”; “Tort
Liability in End-of-Life Care” at the
University of Chicago MacLean Center
for Clinical Medical Ethics Seminar
Series; “Fight for Control: Leaping
Hurdles to Reproductive Health” at
Loyola’s Norman Amaker Midwest
Public Interest Law and Social
Justice Law Retreat; and “Medical
Materiality and the Scope of Informed
Consent Disclosure: Harvard Law
School” at Case Western Reserve
University School of Law, Marquette
Law School, and Loyola University
Chicago Stritch School of
Medicine. She also presented
“Compelling Images: The
Constitutionality of Emotionally
Persuasive Health Campaigns” at
the Yale Law School symposium
“Public Health in the Shadow of the
First Amendment” in October.
Barry Sullivan’s
article “In This, the
Winter of Our Discontent: Legal
Practice, Legal Education, and the
Culture of Distrust,” 62
Buffalo Law
Review
659 (2014) (with Konefsky),
was one of the eight finalists on
Green Bag’s list of best law review
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Zelda Harris welcomed guests at the year-end Advocacy Banquet for students and their coaches.
articles published in the US in
2014. His article “FOIA and the
First Amendment”was recognized
as one of the noteworthy First
Amendment articles of 2013, as
signified by its inclusion in the
First
Amendment Handbook
.
Alexander Tsesis
organized and
developed a symposium, “The New
Age of Communication: Freedom of
Speech in the 21st Century,”which
will be published by the
Emory Law
Journal
. He also presented a paper
and wrote the introduction for
the journal’s symposium issue. He
organized a symposium on genocide
and another on Internet privacy at
Loyola University Chicago School of
Law, a symposium on Internet privacy
with the
Wake Forest Law Review
,
a conference on the Thirteenth
Amendment for the
Columbia
Law Review,
and a symposium on
constitutional interpretation with
the
Texas Law Review
. His recent
presentations include “Incorporation
of the Declaration of Independence”
at the National Constitution
Center; “Internet Privacy” at Loyola
University Chicago School of Law;
“Constitutional Essentialism” at
Duke Law School; “The New Age of
Communication” at Emory University
School of Law; “First Order Principles”
at University of Iowa College of
Law; and “Hate Speech in the Age
of Internet” at the University of
Minnesota Law School’s “Law and
Inequality Journal Symposium.”
Spencer Waller
presented “Can
False Advertising Constitute an
Antitrust Violation?” at the ABA
Antitrust Section Spring Meeting
in Washington, DC, in April; co-
organized and presented at
the conference “Comparative
Competition Law” in Bogotá,
Colombia, in May; co-organized
and presented at the program
“Lost in the Fine Print” at Loyola
University Chicago School of Law in
February; and presented “Promoting
Innovation” at the University of Iowa
College of Law’s 100th Anniversary
Law Review Symposium in Honor of
Herbert Hovenkamp in October.
AnitaWeinberg (JD ’86)
presented
“State of the State on Childhood
Lead Poisoning” at a Region V US
Environmental Protection Agency
staff meeting; and “Building
Community-Academic Partnerships
for Improving Healthy Homes
Outcomes and Health Disparities”
at the National Healthy Homes
Conference. She participated on a
plenary panel for the annual meeting
of Statewide Child Advocacy Centers,
where she spoke on the ChildLaw
Policy Institute’s study “Improving
Illinois’ Response to Youth Offending:
Considerations for Law, Policy, and
Practice,”which was completed by
Loyola faculty and students with the
Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission.
She also testified before the Joint
Criminal Justice Reform Committee
on the report. She served as
moderator on the plenary panel for
Voices for Illinois Children’s annual
“Kids Count 2015 Symposium,”
focused on child poverty and its
adverse effects.
David Yellen
was named by the
National Jurist
as one of the “25 most
influential people in legal education”
for the second year in a row. In the
publication’s January 2015 issue,
Yellen jumped from 17th to fifth on
the 2014 list of those having the
most influence. This fall, he presented
“The Future of Legal Education”
at Northern Kentucky University
Chase College of Law’s Inaugural
Symposium of the Lunsford Academy
for Law, Business, and Technology.
He is a member of the Illinois State
Bar Association Task Force on the
Impact of Law School Curriculum and
Debt on the Future of the Profession,
and is a regular contributor to the
newly launched
Law Deans on Legal
Education Blog.
Since his appointment
last year by Cook County Criminal
Division Judge Paul P. Biebel Jr.,
Yellen continues to serve as special
master to help identify inmates who
may have suffered torture by former
Chicago police commander John
Burge (also see page 2).
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Alexander Tsesis organized three national conferences this year and served as
panel moderator at Loyola’s Race and the Law Symposium.
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