News - Capital University Law School

May 2013

Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández was interviewed for the May 6 Fronteras article "Some Arizona Immigrants May Not Be Eligible for Immigration Reform" by Jude Joffe-Block. Read or listen to the article.

García Hernández was also quoted in the May 7 article by Martin Michaels, "Despite Drops in Immigration and Violence, Congress Ups Border Security".

April 2013

Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández was interviewed on Politics Tonight, a Chicago political talk show on April 22. The topic was the immigration legislation recently introduced in the Senate. Additionally, García Hernández was mentioned in the April 25 "Thursday round-up" of the SCOTUSblog for his discussion of the decision in Moncrieffe v. Holder on his crImmigration blog.

Also, García Hernández's article "The Perverse Logic of Immigration Detention: Unraveling the Rationality of Imprisoning Immigrants Based on Markers of Race and Class Otherness" was named "Immigration Article of the Day" for April 28 by Kevin R. Johnson, dean and professor of law and Chicana/o studies and Mabie-Apallas public interest law chair at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. More.

Professor Melinda Molina will present work-in-progress, "The Re-education of Barack Obama", at the Midwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference hosted by Loyola University Chicago School of Law (April 2013).

Also, Molina will present "Boricua Certificado: Law 191 Decertifying Citizenship" at The South-North Exchange on Theory, Culture and Law LatCrit South-North Exchange hosted by Facultad de derecho de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico (May 2013)

Molina is organizing and planning a Mentoring Academy in collaboration with Columbus Bar Association’s Managing Partners Diversity Initiative. The Mentoring Academy which will consist of two workshop sessions that will present key strategies to build the foundation for successful mentoring relationships for both mentees and mentors. These workshops will take place in Fall 2013.

An Endowed Scholarship Fund at North Carolina A&T has been created in honor of Capital University Law School Professor Floyd Weatherspoon. Scholarships from the Floyd D. Weatherspoon Endowed fund will be awarded to deserving NC A&T students based on criteria including attendance at a High Point, NC, high school, familiarity of the African-American male culture or experience, maintaining a minimum GPA and a 500-word essay. Weatherspoon, a native of High Point NC, received a Bachelor of Science Degree, cum laude, from NC A&T State University and a JD from Howard University Law School. More.

Also, Weatherspoon presented "The Good, the Bad and the in Between of Mandatory Employment Arbitration" at the April 12 meeting of the Columbus Bar Association's ADR committee.

Professor Brad Smith was named the 2013-14 Visiting Judge John T. Copenhaver Chair of Law at West Virginia University, and will spend next year at West Virginia University College of Law. The one-year visiting chair is awarded annually to a scholar with “a national or international reputation in their field of expertise.” Smith is one of the nation’s leading experts in Election Law and Campaign Finance.

Smith has posted a trio of forthcoming articles on the Social Science Research Network: Separation of Campaign and State, 82 George Washington Law Review (forthcoming 2013); Disclosure in a Post-Citizens United Real World, 6 St. Thomas Journal of Law & Policy (forthcoming 2013), and The Non-Expert Agency: Using the SEC to Regulate Partisan Politics, 3 Harvard Business Law Review (forthcoming, 2013).

Smith also published a pair of book reviews for the Library of Law and Liberty: Campaign Finance Merry-Go-Round, reviewing "Curbing Campaign Cash: Henry Ford, Truman Newberry, and the Politics of Progressive Reform by Paula Baker; and Accelerating Freedom, reviewing "Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance Through Technology," by John O. McGinnis.

He published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on February 15, A Supreme Opportunity to Build on Citizens United.

Recent speaking appearances for Smith include the University of Maine School of Law Federalist Society on April 10, on the topic "One Person - One Vote: Does it Mean What we Think it Means?"; and The Ohio State University Department of Economics Free Enterprise Lecture Series, on "The Economics of Campaign Finance Reform," on April 2.

On April 9 Smith testified before the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism of the U.S. Senate, at a hearing on "Current Issues in Campaign Finance Law Enforcement."

Smith was interviewed in March on Republicans Abroad Radio, NRA Radio, National Public Radio, and a number of local radio programs around the country. He also appeared on HuffPost live TV on February 24.

Smith continues to be a regular source for media writing on campaign finance and political law, and administrative law. Recent publications quoting Smith include the Philadelphia Inquirer, Tampa Bay Times, Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Columbus Dispatch, the BNA Money and Politics Reporter, and Bloomberg News.

Professor Mike Distelhorst has been reappointed by the Ohio Supreme Court to a new term as a member of the Court’s Professionalism Commission. He will also continue to serve as the Chair of the Commission’s Law School Committee.

Adjunct Professor Matthew Schrader was elected president of Central Ohio Chapter of Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM). Professor Schrader also serves as coach of and advisor to Capital University Law School's Mock Trial Team.

April 1, Professor Dennis Hirsch presented his research on Dutch privacy law at George Washington University Law School’s International and Comparative Law Colloquium.

March 2013

Professor Peggy Cordray was quoted in the March 30, 2013 New York Times on the strategic grants of certiorari by the Conservatives in Perry and Windsor. Read the article, Who Wanted to Take the Case on Gay Marriage? Ask Scalia.

Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández was quoted in an article about a college student who was kicked out of Georgia State University by a policy that prohibits unauthorized individuals from enrolling in the state's five most competitive public colleges. Read the March 25 article, Girl, Undocumented. García Hernández also had an essay in NACLA, a magazine about Latin America and its relationship with the USA, about last month's release of people from immigration detention centers in its "Border Wars" blog. Read the essay, Time to Rethink Immigration Detention.

Professor David Mayer was quoted in an article about intellectual property in the March 22, Columbus Business First article, "Legislators, federal courts make intellectual property a priority." Read the article.

Professor Angela Upchurch presented on Assisted Reproduction Technology and Children’s Best Interests (with other panelists) at Wells Conference on Adoption Law: March 14, 2013 at Capital University Law School. Upchurch has been invited as a speaker on flipping the classroom at The Institute for Law Teaching and Learning's summer 2013 conference, "Hybrid Law Teaching," The conference will be June 7-9 at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas.

March 6, Professor Dennis Hirsch presented his research on Dutch privacy law to the OSU Moritz Law School faculty. The title of his talk was “Going Dutch: Should U.S. Privacy Law Follow the Collaborative Dutch Model?”

March 5, Professors Brad Smith and Mark Brown debated the pending Supreme Court voting rights act case, Shelby County v. Holder, at a forum co-sponsored by Capital University Law School's Federalist Society and American Constitution Society.

February 2013

Professor Brad Smith recent presentations include the following “Justice for Sale? Examining Judicial Elections in the Wake of Citizens United”, University of Toledo Law Center, Feb. 11; “Understanding ‘Coordination’ in Campaign Finance Law: Its Meaning, Purpose and Regulation,” Willamette College of Law, Salem Oregon, Symposium: Campaign Finance and the 2012 Election, Feb. 8.; “After Citizens United: Did Elections Change?,” Cato Institute, Washington D.C., Symposium: Campaign Finance after Citizens United: What Happened? What Now?, Jan. 23.; and “Campaign Finance in a Post-Citizens United World,” National Conference of State Legislators, Washington D.C., Dec. 6.

Also, Smith was elected to the Executive Committee of AALS Section on Legislation and Law of the Political Practice, at the Annual AALS Meeting in January.

LexisNexis published the third edition of “Understanding Bankruptcy” by Professor Jeff Ferriell and co-author Ted Janger (Brooklyn Law School). Ferriell is currently working on the third edition of “Understanding Contracts” which is scheduled to be published this time next year.

Professor David Mayer has joined the editorial board of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies.

Every year, CapLaw Faculty serve as experts for the Law Review staff. For the Capital University Law Review, Volume 41, these faculty include Professors Scott Anderson, Jim Beattie, Janet Blocher, Mark Brown, Charles Cohen, Peggy Cordray, Stan Darling, Jeff Ferriell, Myron Grauer, Dennis Hirsch, Dan Kobil, Brad Smith, Fenner Stewart, Angela Upchurch and Rick Wood.

Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández presented a paper, "Strickland-Lite: Padilla's Two-Tiered Duty for Noncitizens" at the University of Houston Law Center's Spring 2013 Colloquium on February 7. Also, he was quoted in a February 27 Mint Press News article about the Department of Homeland Security's decision to release people confined in immigration prisons in light of the expected budget cuts that will result from sequestration, DHS To Release Detainees Amid Budget Cuts, Reducing Immigrant Population Behind Bars.

January 2013

Professor Melinda Molina was an Invited panelist on “Redefined Through Neutrality: Modern Movement of Exclusion and the Meaning of Citizenship” at President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: On Questions, Doubts and the Problems of Full Citizenship at MAPOC 18th Annual Conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Molina presented a work-in-progress related to the Fisher v. University of Texas at the 17th Ohio Legal Scholarship Workshop at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Professor César García Hernández presented a paper titled "Questioning Immigration Detention" at Brigham Young University January 24.

Dean Richard Simpson spoke to the Upper Arlington Rotary on “Current Issues in Legal Education”; to the Central Ohio Association for Justice January 8 on “The Changing Landscape of Legal education”; and to the Fisher College of Business (Tony Rucci’s MBA class) on “Lessons in Leadership”.

Professor Scott Anderson has had two peer-reviewed articles published recently. The articles include Plain Language and Statutory Drafting: A Stark Contrast, CLARITY, VOL. 69 (January 2013), Anderson responded to Jack Stark’s article in THE LEGISLATIVE LAWYER attacking the merits of “plain language” drafting. Anderson described how and why he used Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods to teach criminal litigation drafting in A Novel Teaching Practice: Using Nonlegal Fiction to Instill Legal Values, 21 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RES. AND WRITING 28 (2012).

Professor Regina Burch was a speaker at the 18th Annual Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, January 27, 2013, “Dodd-Frank, State Fiduciary Duty Law and Diversity;” and at the AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Socioeconomics, session titled, “Corporate Personhood, Fiduciary Duties, Social Responsibility, and Governance,” “Teaching Corporate Law Post-Financial Crisis,” January 4, 2013. She was also an invited Panelist, at the Society of Socioeconomists Annual Meeting, “The Politics of Race, Gender and Class in the United States,” January 3, 2013.

Professor Bradley Smith appeared on C-Span as part of panel discussions on the "Citizens United" ruling. The event took place January 23. Watch the video.

December 2012

Faculty serving as advisors to the fall competition teams include Jim Beattie, Susan Gilles (pictured left) (Fall National Moot Court Competition), Scott Dewhirst (International Cyberweek 2012 – eMediation Competition) and Karen Rosenberg (all the outside teams). Judges for the teams’ practices included Peggy Cordray, Karen Rosenberg, Janet Blocher, Susan Simms, Jeff Snapp, Danny Bank, Rick Wood, Jacqueline Orlando, Rachel Janutis, Scott Anderson, Jeff Ferriell, Risa Lazaroff, Susan Looper-Friedman, Myron Grauer, Lorie McCaughan, Dan Kobil, Darren Nealy, Yvonne Twiss and Chuck Cohen.

Professors Peggy Cordray (pictured left), Dan Kobil and Melinda Molina, have come forward to run the Academic Success Program (ASP) this Spring. Additionally, Professors Janet Blocher, Jeff Ferriell, Dan Kobil,Jacqueline Orlando, Jeff Snapp and Yvonne Twiss contributed office hours to help complete the fall ASP program.

Professor Mark Strasser has published “Making the Anomalous Even More Anomalous: On Hoasanna-Tabor, the Ministerial Exception, and the Constitutions" 19 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 400 (2012); and "DOMA: The Constitution,and the Promotion of Good Public Policy" 5 Alb. Gov't L. Rev. 613 (2012).

Professor Rachel Janutis published the second edition of Remedies in a Nutshell with William M. Tabb.

Professor Fenner Stewart has two new working papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN ). Read Indeterminacy and Balance: A Path to a Wholesome Corporate Law and The Economizing Corporation, the Free Market, and the Place of New Governance.

Professors Angela Upchurch (pictured left) and Susan Gilles, along with Professor Ho from Loyola University Chicago, have signed a contract with Carolina Press to author “Civil Procedure: An Interactive Guide,” an interactive civil procedure book due out in 2014.

Professor James Beattie served as a faculty member and presenter at the Ohio Judicial Conference: “Supreme Court Year in Review.” He also published "Cases from the United States Supreme Court: The 2011-2012 Term,” Vol. No. 12-093, Chapter 3, Ohio State Bar Reference Manual (Ohio State Bar Association, 2012).

November 2012

Professor Brad Smith spoke November 3, for Students for Liberty, Midwest Chapter, Chicago, at “Campaign Finance Reform and the First Amendment;" and November 16, for the George Washington University Law Review Symposium, “Panel: Future of Campaign Finance Reform.” Smith was featured on the Allen Loudell Show, WDEL Radio, Wilmington, DE, Nov. 11, in an interview on state of the Republican Party.

Smith was quoted in the Nov. 1 Roll Call, the Nov. 5 Columbus Dispatch, the Nov 12 New York Times and the Nov. 13 International Herald Tribune.

Also, Smith appeared on Blogging Heads, with Yale’s Heather Gerkin, on Campaign Finance After the Elections.

November 16, 2012, Professor Lance Tibbles served as a Facilitator for the Ohio Supreme Court’s Professionalism Commission at its “Student to Lawyer Symposium 2012.” The break-out session that he facilitated dealt with various subjects related to “Cooperative Education.”

Professor César García Hernández has been honored by the American Bar Association, which selected his law blog as one of the top 100 in the country. More.

Also, García Hernández published an immigration reform opinion piece on November 12 in Migration Pulse, a blog produced by the London-based advocacy organization Migrants’ Rights Network. Read the article.

November 21, García Hernández was interviewed by 10 TV (Columbus, OH) about why immigrants try to avoid interacting with police. Read the print version. NOTE: The video available on the 10 TV website doesn't include a clip of Professor García Hernández.

Professor Michael Distelhorst is continuing the redesign of his Contracts I class in order to more closely incorporate the recommendations of the Carnegie and Stuckey Reports regarding the need for integrated teaching of legal ethics and skills and to better enable the students to create a portfolio of skills and ethics accomplishment. The class meets approximately three times per week. Two days per week the class studies the substantive doctrines and rules of contract law in a more traditional approach. One day per week, the class highlights one or more rules of legal ethics and/or actual draft contracts

Outside the classroom, Distelhorst, as a member of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism and as Chair of the Commission’s Law School Committee, is working with the Committee in the design and planning for its second Student to Lawyer Symposium to be held in November, 2012. This symposium is entitled “Using Professionalism to Build a Professional Identity Together.”

November 16, Distelhorst, who serves as the Chair of the Law School Committee of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Professionalism Commission was a speaker at the Commission’s “Student to Lawyer Symposium 2012.” The title of his presentation was “Understanding the Present Model of Professionalism.”

The Michigan State Law Review recently accepted Professor Dennis Hirsch's article, “Going Dutch? The Collaborative Dutch Approach to Privacy Regulation and the Lessons it Holds for U.S. Privacy Law.” It conveys the results of Hirsch's Fulbright research project on Dutch privacy regulation.

Hirsch recently served on the U.S. Scholar Peer Review Committee for Fulbright awards for Ireland and the Netherlands. He is one of four former Fulbright scholars to be asked to serve on this committee.

Additionally, Hirsch's article, “Going Dutch? The Collaborative Dutch Approach to Privacy Regulation and the Lessons it Holds for U.S. Privacy Law” was awarded “honorable mention” by the Future of Privacy Forum in its annual Privacy Papers for Policy Makers competition. The FPF, a leading privacy think tank, invites academics to submit privacy-related papers for this competition. It seeks to identify academic work with the most relevance for privacy policy in order to build a bridge between the academic and policymaking communities.

Professor Mark Strasserpresented “Let Me Count the Ways: The Unconstitutionality of Same-Sex Marriage Bans,” at a conference entitled “Symposium on Whether Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage Is Constitutionally Required,” at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Nov. 2, 2012

October 2012

October 25, 2012, Professor Mike Distelhorst was a speaker for the Annual Conference of the Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO). The title of his presentation was “Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues.”

October 20, Professor Dennis Hirsch presented “Going Dutch: Collaborative Privacy Regulation in the Netherlands and its Lessons for U.S. Privacy Law and Policy” at the Central States Law Schools Association 2012 Annual Scholarship Conference.

Professor Mark Strasser presented “Hosanna-Tabor, the Ministerial Exception, and Judicial Competence,” at conference entitled, “Emerging Issues in First Amendment Jurisprudence: Interpreting the Relationship between Religion and the State in the Modern Age,” at Elon University School of Law, Greensboro, NC, Oct. 26, 2012; and presented “Conscience Clauses and the Placement of Children,” at American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (AAAA), conference entitled “The Future of Adoption,” Salt Lake City, Utah, October 18-19, 2012

Professor Richard Woodpresented on the tax advantages of adoption at the 2012 Adoption Academy hosting by the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy at Capital University Law School.

Professor Floyd Weatherspoon became the Associate Dean for Alternative Dispute Resolution at Capital University Law School.

Also, Weatherspoon presented "Complacent African American Parents and the African American Community Must Share in the Blame for Poor High School Graduation Rates of African American Males" at the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities conference in Columbus, Ohio.

Weatherspoon was elected Chair, Ohio/Kentucky Region of the National Academy of Arbitrators.

He delivered a presentation entitled “An Update: Judicial Review of Labor and Employment Arbitration Awards” at National Academy of Arbitrators’ National Training Conference in Charleston, S.C.

Weatherspoon’s article The Status of African American Males in the Legal Profession: A Pipeline of Institutional Roadblocks and Barriers, Mississippi Law Journal Fall 2010, was cited in the Coalition of Bar Association of Color’s Amici Curiae brief before the Supreme Court in support of respondents in Fisher v. University of Texas.

Professor Brad Smith debated the influence of nonprofits on the 2012 campaign season October 9, 2012. You can watch it on C-Span.

Smith has also been working on a series of five videos for Learn Liberty. The first three have been released on YouTube:

Listen to a podcast, "Below the Line," by Smith done for Case Western Reserve University Law Review. He was also featured on the Leonard Lopat Show, WNYC, October 9.

Additionally, Smith contributed to a podcast for Case Western Law Review, Reviewing Dan Tokaji on “The Federalization of Election Law.”

Smith spoke at the Columbus Bar Association, October 5 CLE Citizens United and Campaign Finance. He presented at the Pro Publica Debate at the Tenement Museum, in New York City, October 9. He presentation was called Dark Money Rises: The Influence of Nonprofits on Campaign 2012. At Baylor University School of Law, on October 10 Smith spoke on the topic “Voter ID Laws: Much Ado About Nothing?” Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, featured Smith October 10 for a speaking event "Citizens United: Free Speech Triumph or Deathknell of Democracy?" At Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, October 11, Smith presented “Money and Politics in the 2012 Election.”

Additionally, Smith spoke October 16, for the Vermont Law School Federalist Society, at their event “Debate: National Popular Vote: Replacing the Electoral College; October 18, for the National Society of Corporate Secretaries, New York, at their event “Panel: Corporate Responsibility and Political Participation After Citizens United;”October 24, for the University of Oregon Federalist Society, at “Debate: Corruption and Democracy After Citizens United." October 25, for Lewis & Clark Law School Federalist Society, at their event “Separation of Campaign and State;” and October 29, for the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law Federalist Society, at “Debate: Citizens United: Death of Democracy or Victory for Free Speech.”

Smith was quoted in the Oct. 27 New York Times, in the Oct. 27 Virginia Pilot, the Oct. 27 Norfolk, and the Oct. 31 Richmond Times Dispatch.

An op-ed by Smith appeared in the October 29 Wall Street Journal, “The Dangers of an Informed Electorate,” p. 11. Smith appeared on CBC News, Oct. 31, and was interviewed on Money in Politics.

crImmigration.com, Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández's blog, was mentioned on the SCOTUSblog October 11, 2012 and on the ImmigrationProf blog October 10, 2012. Both refer to the online symposium Professor García Hernández ran on Moncrieffe v. Holder, a case that was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court recently.

UK-based Migrants Rights Network published García Hernández's essay on their blog October 27. Read U.S. Immigration Policing in the Season of Presidential Elections.

García Hernández served as co-chair of the day-and-a-half long Tenth Annual Society of American Law Teachers and Latina/o Critical Theory, Inc. Junior Faculty Development Workshop hosted by the University of Maryland College of Law on October 4 and 5.

García Hernández presented "Padilla's Two-Tiered Duty is Strickland-Lite for Noncitizens" at Cleveland Marshall College of Law (September 11) and the University of Akron Law School (October 9).

García Hernández spoke at the National Latina/o Law Students Association's national conference at UCLA Law School on October 6 about the increased convergence of criminal law and immigration law.

Additionally, García Hernández was elected to the Board of Directors of the academic organization Latina/o Critical Theory, Inc.

At the 2012 OSBA Law & Media Conference, Oct. 12, Professor Susan Gilles served as facilitator for the plenary session, "That's So 27 Seconds Ago," and as the legal expert on the Ethical and Legal Issues in Newsgathering.

September 2012

For the Fall 2012 semester, the students in Professor Risa Lazaroff's Civil Litigation Drafting section drafted documents based on the events that occurred in the novel White Noise by Don DeLillo. The students already had worked in “law firms” to develop a strategy for the litigation and have written a strategy memorandum to the file and a letter to the client. They drafted a Complaint, a Motion in Limine and a Health Care Power of Attorney.

On September 21, 2012, Professor James Beattie presented Basic Principles of the United States Constitution and the Evolution of the United States Government” as the keynote speaker at the Cincinnati Public Schools Workshop, sponsored by the Ohio Historical Society, in Cincinnati, OH.

Professor Michael Distelhorst continued the redesign of his Contracts I class in order to more closely incorporate the recommendations of the Carnegie and Stuckey Reports regarding the need for integrated teaching of legal ethics and skills and to better enable the students to create a portfolio of skills and ethics accomplishment.

Professor Lance Tibbles has been reappointed to Ethics Advisory Committee for Community Based Services of the OhioHealth system. The Committee is responsible for planning and implementing ethics education for OhioHealth’s Home Reach services, as well as consulting on individual cases.

Additionally, Tibbles’s short essay was published on September 28, 2012 by the East Oregonian, Eastern Oregon’s leading newspaper. It has long been recognized that limits on the size of magazines for guns used to hunt big game and game birds do not violate the Second Amendment. A similar limit for magazines for guns used for other purposes also would be valid. He urged a Public Health approach to study whether the Public Health benefits of the limits on the size of magazines in guns used for hunting wild game and game birds are likely to be enhanced by limiting the number of rounds in the magazines of guns used for other purposes. His approach avoids constitutional issues about banning guns and promotes a Public Health analysis for responding to mass killings like those in Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut.

Professor Brad Smith has started a series of video created in conjunction with Learn Liberty. Watch the first video, Should the Government Track Your Political Activity?

At Hillsdale College, September 10, Smith presented “The First Amendment and Campaign Finance Reform,” as part of symposium on “The Supreme Court: History and Current Controversies.” At Northern Illinois University, September 12, he participated in a debate with Professor Richard Hasen (UC-Irvine ) on the topic of “The Impact of Citizens United and the Role of Money in the 2012 Elections,” as part of the Presidential Speakers Series. View here. Smith was at George Washington University School of Law, September 19 as part of the “Political Law and the 2012 Election" panel.

In the September 30, 2012 Dayton Daily News he published "Issue 2 the wrong solution for redistricting in Ohio." Additionally, Smith was quoted in the September 12, 2012 Congressional Quarterly.

Professors Brad Smith and Richard Wood spoke at the Election 2012 Presidential Speaker Series on September 12 at Northern Illinois University. Each professor spoke on the Citizens United ruling, then participated in a discussion on the effects of the ruling. Watch the video.

Professor Mark Brown was quoted in the September 6 Examiner.com article, "Ruling on 2010 ONO TV debate gives Socialist Party candidate a new day in court." Read the article.

A recent article by Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández was named "Immigration Article of the Day" on the September 6 Immigration Law Professors blog. The article is titled "The Perverse Logic of Immigration Detention: Unraveling the Rationality of Imprisoning Immigrants Based on Markers of Race and Class Otherness" and was published by Columbia University's Journal of Race and Law.

Also, a law review article by García Hernández, Padilla's Two-Tiered Duty is Strickland-Lite for Noncitizens, will be published by the Maryland Law Review in 2013.

August 2012

Professor Lance Tibbles has been appointed to the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) “Best Practices for Health Law Curriculums” project. Five working groups will produce best practices resources that will support law schools in their health law curricular development or help law schools establish a health law program if one does not yet exist.

Professor Brad Smith was featured in several panels discussions of Citizens United (at American Constitution Society National Conference in Washington and at the Boston College Center on Corporate Citizenship). Smith also spoke at spoke to the Legal Studies Institute of The Fund for American Studies in Washington D.C, on "Lawyering Up: Why Campaigns Need So Many Lawyers." Smith submitted comments (on behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics) to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, regarding a proposed constitutional Amendment to overrule Citizens United.

He published Redirect the Outrage, an op-ed in the August 29 USA Today. Smith published many op-eds. He published "D.C. campaign finance reform, or cynical politics?" in the August 30 Washington Examiner.He was featured in the Cincinnati Enquirer on August 2, "Ohio Election Laws are Not So Gloomy," noting that improvements in vote counting and voting procedures makes it less likely than ever that voters will be improperly turned away from the polls or not have their vote properly counted. Smith was quoted in the August 3 Washington Post on the subject of Super PACs. On August 5, his column "Would the Public Support an Amendment to Overrule Citizens United?" was published in the Washington Examiner.

Smith was named Vice-chairman of the Board of Zoning and Building Appeals for the Village of Granville, his hometown.

Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández presented "Padilla’s Two-Tiered Duty is Strickland-Lite for Noncitizens," at the 2012 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference on August 1, 2012. He also co-led a roundtable conversation about social justice scholarship at the 2012 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference and spoke at ACLU of Ohio's conference in Columbus about privatization of immigration prisons.

Also, García Hernández was quoted in the August 27, Chicago Reporter blog "Chicago Muckrakers." Read the article.

Professor Melinda Molina was an invited speaker at the Defense Research Institute’s Annual Diversity Conference in Chicago, IL; at the John Mercer Langston Bar Association annual meeting discussing Fisher v. University of Texas hosted by Bricker & Eckler LLP; and at the Law & Leadership Institute program.

Professor David Mayer presented a two-part lecture on "Restoring the Constitutional Presidency," at The Atlas Society's annual Summit in Washington, D.C. on June 30 & July 1. He also participated in a Liberty Fund colloquium, "Governmental Growth and the Free Society," discussing Richard Epstein's new book, Design for Liberty, in Indianapolis, IN, July 27-28.

Professor Susan Looper-Friedman was awarded this "flame of liberty" at the ACLU Ohio biennial conference on July 28th. Professor Looper-Friedman is rotating off the governing board of trustees after 25 years with the central Ohio chapter and 12+ years on the state affiliate board. She will continue as an active spokesperson on civil liberties issues and will also continue to serve as faculty advisor to the CapLaw student organization.

Professor Rachel Janutis published a new edition of her casebook: the fifth edition of Shoben Tabb & Janutis, Cases and Problems on Remedies.

Professor Dennis Hirsch was an invited speaker at the Privacy Law Scholar's Conference.

Hirsch also launched the “Privacylawprofs” listserv, a listserv for academics who teach or write in the areas of privacy law or policy.

Professor Regina Burch’s “The Myth of the Unbiased Director,” made one of SSRN’s top ten lists.

Professor James Beattie, published a review: "Normative Economics," a review and reply to L. Backer, Values Economics and Theology, Penn. St. Univ. Press, 2010, in 52 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 419 (July 2012).

July 2012

Professor Richard Wood started a blog on the topic of Family Tax Law. Visit the blog.

Professor Jeff Ferriell was designated by the Uniform Law Commission as the Legislative Liaison for states in the ULC's "Great Lakes Region," covering Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. He will work with state legislative liaisons and members of the ULC's legislative staff to obtain enactment of ULC legislation in these states.

Professor Brad Smith published an article in the July 16 National Review Online. Read the article, "DISCLOSE Is a SHAM, A proposed campaign-finance law attempts to scare and regulate opponents into silence".

Professor Smith spoke to the Legal Studies Institute of The Fund for American Studies in Washington D.C. on July 19, on the topic, "Lawyering Up: Why campaigns need so many lawyers."

At the end of July, Professor Smith submitted comments to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, regarding a proposed constitutional Amendment to overrule the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The comments were submitted on behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, for which Professor Smith serves as Chairman.

Professor Smith has also been active on the media front. On July 20, he appeared on C-Span's Washington Journal to discuss the "DISCLOSE Act" and other campaign finance and election law news.

Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández published “Immigrant Outsider, Alien Invader: Immigration Policing Today,” 48 California Western Law Review 231 (2012), an introduction to the LatCrit XVI symposium issue.

García Hernández spoke about privatization in immigration imprisonment at the ACLU of Ohio's membership conference on July 28, 2012. Also he was quoted in the Spanish-language newspaper El Mundo regarding the Affordable Care Act. Read the El Mundo article.

June 2012

Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernándezpresented "Padilla’s Two-Tiered Duty is Strickland-Lite for Noncitizens," at the biennial Immigration Law Teachers Workshop on June 1, 2012, and at the 2012 International Conference on Law and Society on June 7, 2012.

García Hernández was quoted in June’s U.S. Law Week in “Eighth Circuit Grapples With New ‘Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude' Test.”

He was quoted in Michael O. Loatman, Eighth Circuit Grapples with New ‘Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude’ Test, U.S. Law Week, 80 U.S.L.W. 1677 (June 5, 2012) and in the article "Los 'dreamers' pasan de ser la excepción y son ahora la constante" on June 2 on Vivelohoy.com. Read the Vivelohoy.com article.

The SCOTUSblog's Tuesday Round-Up feature for June 26 mentions García Hernández's blog, crImmigration.com, with regard to yesterday's decision in Arizona v. United States.

Professor and Former FEC Chairman Brad Smith published an article in the June 25 National Review Online responding to the US Supreme Court reversal of the Montana Supreme Court’s ruling that Citizens United v. FEC didn’t apply to Montana. Read the article.

USA Today ran his column, "Montana Gave Supreme Court no Choice," on the American Tradition Partnership case, on June 27; another column on the case, "Montana's Citizens United Challenge Fails," appeared in National Review on June 26. He wrote "How Government Stifles Grassroots Political Activity" for National Review on June 18 and "McConnell Stands for Free Speech" on June 15.

Professor Brad Smith was featured in a panel on a “Citizens United Two Years Later: Money, Politics and Democracy at Stake.” at the American Constitution Society National Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 16.

On June 20, Professor Smith spoke at a Conference of the Boston College Center on Corporate Citizenship, as part of a panel on the topic, "Citizens United: Benefits and Risks of Pursuing the Corporate Interests Through Participation in the Political Process." The panel was part of the Center's Directors Intensive Program on Corporate Governance.

Professor Smith appeared on National Public Radio's "On Point" with host Alex Kingsbury on June 26, and on "All Things Considered" on June 25, discussing on both programs money in politics and the Supreme Court decision in American Tradition Partnership v. Bullock.

Professor Smith was quoted in the National Journal on June 12 and the Washington Post on June 7 on the subject of money in the Wisconsin Gubernatorial Recall Election; in the Washington Post on June 17 and the Boston Globe on June 21, on the 40th Anniversary of the Watergate break-in; in the Boston Globe and in the Daily Caller on June 26 on the Supreme Court decision in American Tradition Partnership v. Bullock; in the Los Angeles Times on June 26, the Chicago Tribune on June 24, and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel on June 22, all on campaign finance disclosure rules on June 26.

Professor Dennis Hirsch was an invited speaker at the Privacy Law Scholar's Conference, June 7-8, 2012. Over 250 privacy law professors, policymakers and practitioners attended.

"The Myth of the Unbiased Directory," by Professor Regina Burch made one of SSRN's top ten lists. The article was among the top ten downloaded for the Rhetoric of Academic Disciplines eJournal. Abstract available.

May 2012

May 30, 2012, Professor Michael Distelhorst was a panelist for the Columbus Bar Association’s CLE program on “Judicial Independence.” During May 2012, Mike also served as one of the three judges for Columbus Business First’s second annual Top Corporate Counsel Program and awards. This was Distelhorst's second year for serving as such a judge.

In May, Professor Jacqueline Orlando, presented a program on electronic legal research in Cleveland for the Ohio State Bar Association.

Professor Floyd Weatherspoon published "Complacent African American Parents and the African American Community Must Share in the Blame for Poor High School Graduation Rates of African American Males" in the May 2012 Columbus African American News Journal. Read the article here (PDF).

Dennis Hirsch has his paper proposal accepted for the 2012 Privacy Law Scholars Conference. He will be presenting his work on Dutch privacy regulation – which was based on his Fulbright research. The PLSC is the leading conference in the field of privacy law and attracts several hundred participants annually.

Mark Strasser was quoted in the May 13 Delaware Online article "Same-sex marriage comes to forefront: Obama, Biden statements ignite national debate." See page four online.

May 4 Professor Joe Grant spoke at the Columbus Bar Association's 2012 Probate Law Institute on issues surrounding digital property and death. His CLE presentation was entitled "Death and the Digital Self: How to Handle a Decedent's Online Presence."

Also, his article, "Planning for the Death of a Systemically Important Financial Institution Under Title I § 165(d) of the Dodd-Frank Act: The Practical Implications of Resolution Plans or Living Wills in Planning a Bank's Funeral," appeared in Volume 6 of the Virginia Law & Business Review.

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández and his blog, crImmigration.com, were mentioned on SCOTUSblog's "Tuesday round-up" on May 1, 2012 regarding his analysis of the Court's decision to grant ceriorari in Chaidez v. United States, a case addressing the retroactive application of the Court's 2010 decision recognizing that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel requires that criminal defense attorneys advise noncitizen defendants about immigration consequences of conviction.