December 2009

December 2009

Faculty Accomplishments:

Professor Tamara Piety participated in a Federal Trade Commission public forum on food marketing to children, titled Sizing Up Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity. The forum was held on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at the FTC’s Satellite Building Conference Center in Washington, DC and Professor Piety was part of a panel discussion on advertising food to children and the First Amendment. A link to the press release announcing the forum can be found at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/09/foodmarket.shtm.

Professor Marianne Blair has recently published International Family Law: Conventions, Statutes, and Regulatory Materials (2nd edition), which she co-authored with Merle Weiner. This is the supplement to the second edition of her casebook, Family Law in the World Community, co-authored with Merle Weiner, Barbara Stark, and Solangel Maldonado, which was published in its second edition in August.

Professor Elizabeth McCormick was recently selected to receive funding for participation in the CIEE International Faculty Development Seminar, “Spain & Morocco: Exploring the Coexistence and Challenges of Neighboring Cultures.” As a condition of her participation, she will submit a report to the Center for Global Education upon return from the seminar and present a workshop as part of the CGE’s Fall 2010 Faculty Brown Bag series.

The College of Law is pleased to announce that three new faculty hires will be joining the Faculty in the fall of 2010: Hannah Wiseman, Samuel Wiseman, and Sam Halabi. Hannah and Sam Wiseman are graduates of Yale Law School and are currently living in Austin, Texas where Hannah is a visiting professor at The University of Texas at Austin and Sam is employed by the Texas Solicitor General’s Office. Sam Halabi is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and he is currently a fellow at the Georgetown Law Center’s Oneill Institute for National and Global Health Law.

Student Accomplishments:

Deborah Reed, a 2009 December law graduate, was recently honored with an article in Indian Country Today for her contributions to international development. Deborah, currently a legal assistant to the Cherokee Nation, was an under 40 honoree at the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s Indian Progress (INPRO) in Business Events for 2009. One of the goals of INPRO is to study the relationship between American Indian communities and the rest of the world through a Native American perspective.

Law School Community Accomplishments:

The Law School Annual Fund is up by $13,273.00 which represents a 20.13% increase over last year in December.

John Williams, Esq. has joined the College of Law to serve as the Coordinator of Natural Resources programs for the law school for the spring semester. In this capacity, John is to work with students, faculty, recruiting, placement, other colleges and the National Energy Policy Institute to strengthen our natural resources program. John will operate out of and coordinate the Chesapeake grant activities and serve as a resource for students
considering working in the natural resources field.

John is a veteran of The Williams Companies where he served in several legal and business capacities. He is a founder of Yaka Energy, LLC, the first tribally-owned energy marketing firm with a national presence. John obtained both his chemical engineering and Juris Doctor from The University of Tulsa. He is currently working on his thesis for his LL.M. in American Indian Law. John recently assisted Gary Allison in the NEPI research project and will teach Energy Policy this fall.

The Tulsa Law firm, GableGotwals made a $50,000 gift to the College of Law for a scholarship to be directed to underrepresented groups in the legal profession.