Faculty Awards for Outstanding Scholarship were announced at the Celebration of Scholarship, April 29. The awards, determined by peer vote, went to Sam Baumgartner and Sarah Cravens for the junior faculty award, and to Jane Moriarty and Stewart Moritz for the senior faculty.
Jack Sahl published Thinking about Leaving? The Ethics of Departing One Firm for Another in 19 Prof. Law. 2 (2008).
Brant Lee published Book Review, Thomas J. Davis, Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents, 26 Law & History Rev. 467 (2008)
Will Huhn published Waterboarding is Illegal in Slip Opinions, the online companion to the Washington University Law Review.
Dick Aynes has published an entry on Judge Leo A. Jackson for Oxford's African American National Biography.
Tracy Thomas published Sex v. Race, Again in Slip Opinions, the online companion to the Washington University Law Review. http://lawreview.wustl.edu/slip-opinions/sex-v-race-again/
Sam Baumgartner was a discussant on a panel, “Transnational Litigation as a Response to Global Problems: Promises and Perils” at the Law and Society Conference, in Montreal, Canada, in June.
Jane Moriarty presented at the AALS Evidence Section conference held in Cleveland in June.
The Akron Law Café went online this summer. See http://www.ohioverticals.com/blogs/akron_law_cafe The prof bloggers so far are Will Huhn, Brant Lee, and Stewart Moritz, and guest bloggers have included Dick Aynes, Bill Jordan, Frank Quirk and Tracy Thomas. The blog has quickly become one of the top blogs for the Akron Beacon Journal.
Sarah Cravens accepted an invitation to join as a contributing blogger on the Legal Ethics Forum http://www.legalethicsforum.com"www.legalethicsforum.com.