April 2010

April 2010

Faculty Accomplishments:

Professor William G. Rice. Professor Rice spoke on the subject of Native Americans and the Environment at the Wake Forest University dedication of its new Cherokee Indigenous Garden and Earth Day festivities. He was joined by alumna, Stacy Leeds, now an Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Kansas law school in the "fireside chat" which explored issues of Indian sovereignty and environmentalism. The chat was lead by Alta Mauro, Director, The Office of Multicultural Affairs, Wake Forest University.

Professor Marianne Blair. Professor Blair was recently quoted in an article in the New York Times on adoption: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/us/28adopt.html?emc=eta1.

Noted First amendment scholar, Rod Smolla, editor of the Copyright Annual Anthology and Dean of Washington & Lee School of Law will include Professor Robert Spoo's article "Ezra Pound's Copyright Statute," 56 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 1775 (2009) in the next edition of the anthology as one of the "prior year's notable scholarly works on copyright." The Copyright Annual Anthology is published by Thomson Reuters West.

Professor Sam Halabi. Professor Halabi's article "Participation and the Right to Health: Lessons from Indonesia" appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Health and Human Rights (Fall 2009). In February, Professor Halabi presented a special briefing to the United Nations Briefing Series on Global Aging. He spoke about access to health and social inclusion. He was also a panelist at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin on March 13. He discussed the "problem of defining the right to health" in international law.

Professor Tom Arnold. Professor Arnold presented a program on November 18 entitled "Multinational Corporations and Human Rights" at the College of Law. Professor Arnold and his co-authors also completed the 2009 Update of GOLDWASSER, ARNOLD, & EICKEMEYER, ACCOUNTANTS' LIABILITY (P.L.I.). In addition, Professor Arnold and his co-author completed the 2009 update of their three volumes on Oklahoma business organizations, Volumes 3A, 3B & 3C of ARNOLD & COOPER, 3A VERNON'S OKLAHOMA FORMS: BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS (West).

Professor Barbara Bulcholtz. Professor Bulcholtz has recently published, "Doing Well by Doing Good and Vice Versa: Self-Sustaining NGO/Nonprofit Organizations," XVII Journal of Law and Policy 403 (2009) and "Hegemony Revisited: Rebalancing the Roles of the Three Governance Sectors in a Global Economy," Paper Presentation at The Annual Global Studies Conference in Dubai, Summer, 2009.

Professor Marguerite Chapman. Professor Chapman has recently presented a paper on "Ethical Issues in Dealing with Elderly Clients" to the LIFE Senior Services Seminar for Attorneys on "Surfing the Age Wave and Its Impact on Your Practice," December 29, 2009, Tulsa, OK; presented "Living Organ Donation in the United States: The Role of Ethics Committees in Policy Formulation and Implementation," to the UNESCO International Conference on Bioethics Committees in Zefat, Israel, May 18, 2009; presented "Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Jewish Medical Ethics and the Gift of Life," and developed the materials and facilitated two other sessions for the Jewish Medical Ethics Series sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Tulsa Adult Studies Institute, March 2009; and presented "Recent Developments in Medical Genetics (Canavan's Disease Litigation and Related Cases)" to the Luncheon Roundtable of the Center for Genetic Testing at Saint Francis Hospital at Saint Francis Hospital, March 5, 2009]. She also has been invited back to Israel for the 2010 UNESCO International Conference on Bioethics and is scheduled to present a paper on May 3, 2010, in Zefat, Israel.

Professor Chuck Adams. Professor Adams has recently published the Oklahoma Jury Instruction Handbook (West 2009-2010 edition) Vernon's Oklahoma Form 2d (2009 Pocket Parts) (2 volumes with Daniel Boudreau) and a law review article entitled, Allocating Patent Rights Between Earlier and Later Inventions, 54 St. Louis L.J. 55 (2009).

Professor Johnny Parker. Professor Parker's article "Uninsured Motorist Law in Oklahoma" was published in 34 Oklahoma City University Law Review 363 (Fall 2009).

Professor Russell Christopher. Professor Christopher was a discussant at the Roundtable on Mistake of Law, Rutgers University: The Institute for Law and Philosophy, Camden, New Jersey, November 13-14, 2009. He also co-presented (with Kathryn Christopher), "The Crime of Being Raped," Southwest Criminal Law Workshop, University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona, October 2-3, 2009. Professor Christopher's article A Political Theory of Blackmail: A Reply to Professor Dripps, was published in 3 CRIMINAL LAW AND PHILOSOPHY 261 (2009) (Symposium: The Evolution of Criminal Law Theory).

Professor Ray Yasser. Professor Yasser with coauthors Goplerud, McCurdy and Weston, have committed to revising and updating their sports law casebook Sports Law: Cases and Materials. Their casebook is the most widely used casebook in the country. Over the years, it has been adopted for use in over 100 schools. The 7th edition is in the planning stage, with an anticipated publication date in 2011. Ray is also working on a companion text, tentatively entitled, "Selected Topics in Comparative and International Sports Law" which he will use for his course in Dublin this summer.

Professor Marianne Blair. Professor Blair recently has published with co-authors Merle Hope Weiner, Barbara Stark & Solangel Maldonado, her book entitled Family Law in the World Community: Cases, Materials, and Problems in Comparative and International Family Law (2nd ed.) (Carolina Academic Press - 2009) (published in Aug. 2009). With co-authors Robert Spector, Carolyn Thompson, she has published, Oklahoma Family Law - Statutes and Rules - Annotated 2009-10 (Imprimatur Press 2009) (published in Oct. 2009).

Professor Vicki Limas. Professor Limas participated on a panel titled "Beyond 'Traditional Tribal Activities': Sovereign Immunity in Commercial Law" at the 35th Annual Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference in Santa Fe on April 8, 2010.

Student Accomplishments:

ConocoPhillips Global Real Estate Division has selected Laura Coffey (JD '11) as its 2010 summer intern.

Sarah Yates (JD '11), received several recognitions for work from her Fall 2009 Law, Medicine and Ethics seminar. Yates co-authored a paper entitled "Psychiatric Advance Directives: A Compilation of Purpose, Structure, Formation and Enforcement" with Emily Stilwell, a third-year pharmacy student at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa College of Pharmacy. The Journal of Pharmacy Practice accepted the paper for publication, and the students presented their findings at the 13th annual meeting of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists, held April 18-21 in San Antonio, Texas. The paper also was a finalist for best innovative practices paper, a category that included papers by licensed professionals and academics. The students presented an abstract of the paper at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa Research Forum on April 8 and the Mental Health Association of Tulsa also invited them to present at an upcoming meeting. Yates also won the National Law Review Student Writing Competition on Health Law and Labor Law with a condensed version of the paper. That version was included in the April 2010 issue of the online National Law Review, which focused on Health and Labor Law.

College of Law Accomplishments:

USNWR recently ranked The University of Tulsa College of Law 123 out of 188 schools, placing the College of Law comfortably in the 3rd tier. This is a significant jump in ranking over the past several years. In the US News Peer Reputational Ranking, the TU College of Law jump 17 places from last year, moving to 114 out of 188 law schools ranked.

The Tulsa World recently applauded the College of Law's achievements in ranking, student quality and faculty scholarship in the April 25, 2010 Opinion Section. The article, written by Wayne Greene, Editorial Editor, may be found at http://www.tulsaworld.com/opinion/article.aspx?subjectid=261&articleid=20100425_261_G1_Abanne414547&archive=yes

Alumni News:

Associate Professor Angelique Eaglewoman (LLM '2004), currently teaching at the University of Idaho College of Law, has launched its Native American Law program which shares a resemblance to her alma mater program at TU. EagleWoman, chief architect of Idaho's academic emphasis in Native Law, modeled its components on the two major Native American Law programs in North America: One at University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the other at University of New Mexico. She has firsthand experience of Tulsa curriculum, having earned her master's degree in law there. EagleWoman also studied political science at Stanford University and holds a juris doctor at University of North Dakota. She is the James E. Rogers Fellow in American Indian Law at University of Idaho and currently serves as immediate past chair and secretary of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Indian Nations & Indigenous Peoples. EagleWoman joined the Idaho College of Law faculty in 2008 and also serves on the University's American Indian Studies (AIST) faculty.