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9/8/2008
September 8, 2008

Carrie Lyons as been reappointed by the ABA President to serve on the ABA Standing Committee on Law & National Security Advisory Committee. Membership is by invitation only, and this is the second year Carrie has served on the committee. Will Huhn has an offer to publish his online constitutional law casebook with Carolina Academic Press. Dick Aynes has been invited to participate in the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy's conference on the Reconstruction Amendments and the Second Founding at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in November. He will be speaking on a panel on the Privileges or Immunities Clause and papers will be published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Dean Belsky and Will Huhn will participate in the panel, "The Constitution, Religion and the Presidential Election: An Interactive Discussion" as part of the University's Constitution Day programming, on Wed., Sept. 17, at 4pm in the UA Student Union Ballroom B.

9/2/2008
September 2, 2008

Jane Moriarty has published Symposium Forward: Daubert, Innocence, and the Future of Forensic Science, 43 Tulsa L.Rev. 229 (2007). She also published Rape, Affirmative Consent to Sex, and Sexual Autonomy: Introduction to the Symposium, 41 Akron L. Rev. 839 (2008) for the symposium she arranged to be published in the Akron Law Review stemming from her presentation at the Law & Society meeting in Berlin. Tracy Thomas published The New Face of Women's Legal History: Introduction to the Symposium, 41 Akron L. Rev. 695 (2008) introducing the symposium issue arising out of the women's legal history conference held at Akron in Fall 2007. Bernadette Genetin will present her paper, State E-Discovery: Another Federal Rule Improvement Project, at the Litigation Section meeting at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego. Dick Aynes agreed to present a paper at the 14th Amendment Conference at the University of San Diego in January 2009. Elizabeth Reilly will present her paper Empathy and Pragmatism in Selecting Constitutional Norms for Resolving Religious Land Use Disputes speaking at the Religion and Land Use Conference of the Government Law Center of Albany Law School in October. Stefan Padfield will present his paper Finding State Action When Corporations Govern at the 2008 Central States Association of Law Schools Conference on October 24 and 25 at Southern Illinois University. He will also give a talk at the faculty workshop program at Samford Law School in Birmingham. Brant Lee will present a works-in-progress at a Pace Law School faculty workshop and at the NE Ohio Faculty Colloquium in October at CSU. Will Huhn will present a works-in-progress at Pace Law School.  

8/25/2008
August 25, 2008

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.  

3/11/2008
Law Students Win Top Honors at Regional Competition

Akron, Ohio, March 11, 2008 - University of Akron law students took top honors last weekend at the 2008 American Association for Justice Student Trial Advocacy Regional Competition (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America).

11/29/2007
UA Trial Team Wins National Competition

Akron, Ohio, Nov. 29, 2007 – The University of Akron School of Law trial team returned from the National Civic Trial Competition at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles earlier this month as national champions. Student advocates Matthew Bruce of Huber Heights, John Conley of Canton, Ryan Melewski of Youngstown and Julie Grant of Steubenville beat the University of Houston Law Center in the semifinal round. They defeated Stetson University College of Law in the final round for the national championship. John Conley was named Best Advocate. The team was coached by trial team alumni Lawrence Sutter III ('89) and Adam Stacy ('04).

11/6/2007
Trial Team Places 2nd at NITA Competition

Akron, Ohio, Nov. 6, 2007 – University of Akron law students placed second in the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Tournament, which brought the nation's top 16 law school trial teams to NITA's Louisville, Colo., Education Center from Oct. 25-27. The winning UA trial team included Kristen Moore and John Rubis of Canton; John Ramsey of Huron; and Marc Sugerman of Akron. John Ramsey received the Best Advocate award for the semifinal and final rounds.

10/11/2006
Law Students Take Top Honors in Advocacy Competition

Akron, Ohio, Oct. 11, 2006 - Two University of Akron School of Law students took top spots at the Landskroner Closing Argument Competition recently held in Cleveland. This marks the fourth consecutive year that University of Akron law students have garnered first and second place in the competition.

3/16/2006
Trial Advocacy Accolade

Akron, Ohio, March 16, 2006 — University of Akron law students scored another victory in mock trial competitions with a first-place finish in the recent ATLA (Association of Trial Lawyers of America) Student Trial Advocacy Regional Competition. The win advances the team to the national competition to be held March 30-April 2 in Miami.

11/14/2005
Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Akron, Ohio, Nov. 14, 2005 —The University of Akron School of Law's mock trial team continues to be an imposing opponent in the annual National Invitational Tournament of Champions Trial Advocacy Competition with a 2005 second-place finish. This comes on the heels of a first-place award in 2003 and a second place in 2004.

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