November 2009

November 30, 2009


Faculty Accomplishments:

Professor Tamara Piety has been invited to address the FTC’s public forum on food marketing to children, titled Sizing Up Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity. The forum will be held on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at the FTC’s Satellite Building Conference Center in Washington, DC. A link to the press release announcing the forum can be found at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/09/foodmarket.shtm.

Also, on Monday, February 8, 2010, Professor Tamara Piety and Professor Calvin Massey from Hastings College of Law will formally debate the topic: “Does Corporate Speech Deserve Constitutional Protection?”

Professor Robert Spoo will become a contributing author to a single-volume treatise entitled Copyright Law: A Practitioner’s Guide in the Practicing Law Institute’s Intellectual Property Law Library.

Emeritus Professor Martin Frey recently published “Arbitration: Assured Resolution,” with coauthor Kay Bridger-Riley in the Winter 2009 edition of Solo eNewsletter, an American Bar Association epublication for solo and small firm practitioners.

Student Accomplishments:

Ben Lambert, a third-year law student at The University of Tulsa College of Law, authored an article that will be published in the January issue of the Defense Counsel Journal. The article is entitled “Professional Liability and International Lawyering: An Overview.”

The Defense Counsel Journal is the quarterly scholarly publication of the International Association of Defense Counsel. Lambert’s article won the organization’s national writing competition for law students earlier this year, beating out submissions from students from numerous schools, including University of Houston Law Center, Duke University School of Law, and University of Virginia Law School.

Ross Crutchfield, also a third-year law student at The University of Tulsa College of Law, is the recent recipient of the Shannon Bybee Scholarship Award for his law review article on internet gambling. Ross is the second TU Law recipient of this scholarship. The first TU Law student to receive this award was Nathan Mendenhall for his paper submission entitled, “Tracking 25 U.S.C. Section 2719: IGRA Exceptions to Indian Gaming on Newly Acquired Lands.”

The International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA) created the Shannon Bybee Scholarship to honor the memory of Shannon Bybee, one of the IAGA founders, who had a distinguished career as a gaming attorney, state gaming regulator, gaming industry executive and pioneering educator in casino operations and gaming law.

Alumni Accomplishments:

Dawn Sturdevant Baum, (TULaw LLM 2006) a staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), will deliver the keynote address for the Library of Congress 2009 celebration of Native American Heritage Month. This year’s national theme is "Pride in Our Heritage. Honor to Our Ancestors."