panelist discussing the yearâs key cases at the Board of Contract Appeals Judges Association annual seminar in Alexandria, Va. In February, Schooner discussed procurement policy at the symposium on the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement in Geneva, Switzerland. Also in February, he testified regarding âInteragency Contractsâ before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, ad hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight; he also testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Defense Acquisition Reform Panel (alongside Professor Joshua Schwartz and Emeritus Professor Ralph C. Nash) on âManaging the Defense Acquisition System and the Defense Acquisition Workforce.â In November, he made a number of presentations at the Joint WTO-United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Regional Workshop on Government Procurement for Asia-Pacific Economies, in Bangkok, Thailand. Dinah Shelton gave the second distinguished lecture in environmental law in Port of Spain Trinidad at the invitation of the Trinidad and Tobago Environmental Law Commission. The lecture was organized with the assistance of the European Union and the U.S. Embassy. Daniel J. Solove joined the advisory board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and was co-organizer of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference at GW Law in June. In February, he gave the keynote speech, âUnderstanding Privacy,â at the British Columbia governmentâs Privacy and Security Conference 2010 in Victoria, British Columbia. He also gave the presentation âProsserâs Privacy Law: A Mixed Legacyâ at Symposium: Prosserâs Privacy at 50 in Berkeley, Calif., in January.
Peter J. Smith received the Distinguished Faculty Service Award, voted on by graduating students, at this yearâs Diploma Ceremony. On March 6, Jessica Tillipman copresented âIntegrating Technology into Externship Pedagogyâ at the Externship V Conference in Miami. Her co-presenters were Juliana Russo, a GW Law Friedman Fellow, and two faculty members from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The presentation discussed various methods in which technology may be incorporated into law school externship programs. One of the focal points of the presentation was the success that the Outside Placement Program had with its Summer 2009 pilot long-distance co-requisite courses and its increasing use of online, interactive reflective learning assignments.â H
Awards & Honors
Richard J. Pierce, Jr., was named the most frequently cited scholar in administrative law and government regulation by Brian Leiter, a University of Chicago professor who studies the frequency with which scholars are cited in judicial opinions and scholarly articles. In March, Dinah L. Shelton was presented with the American Society of International Lawâs Prominent Women in International Law Award. The Women in International Law Interest Group presented the award to Professor Shelton at a luncheon ceremony at the Ritz Carlton, part of the annual meeting held each year in Washington, D.C. Professor Shelton serves on the boards of many human rights and environmental organizations and has served as a legal consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme, UNITAR, World Health Organization, European Union, Council of Europe, and Organization of American States. â H
Roger Fairfax was elected to the American Law Institute. In summer 2009, David Freestone was the Ingram Fellow at the University of New South Wales Law School in Sydney and delivered the biannual Ingram Lecture on Climate Change and Development. In April, Joan Meier was notified that she would receive the Sunshine Peace Award, which was established by the Sunshine Lady Foundation to honor those who work on domestic violence. Dawn Nunziatoâs Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age was selected as a finalist for the 2009 Donald McGannon Book Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research.
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Scholarship, Honors, and Professional Activities Publications Naomi Cahn and co-author June Carbone published Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (Oxford University Press, 2010). The book and its authors have received significant attention and praise from critics and the media, with Professor Cahn making a number of appearances to comment on the work and current events. With Fionnuala Ni Aolain, she published âHirsch Lecture: Gender, Masculinities, and Transition in Conflicted Societies,â 44 New England Law Review 1 (2009). Steve Charnovitz published an article in The International Economy (Fall 2009) on âAmericaâs New Climate Unilateralism.â He published one book review for the World Trade Review and five book reviews for the American Journal of International Law. In January, Jessica L. Clark published Scholarly Writing: Ideas, Examples, and Execution (Carolina Academic Press, 2010) with Kristen Murray of Temple University Beasley School of Law. Charlie Craverâs âNegotiation Ethics for Real World Interactionsâ was published in the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. His âWhat Makes a Great Legal Negotiatorâ will be published in an upcoming issue of the Loyola Law Review. He also co-wrote the fourth edition of the Employment Law Hornbook. Lawrence A. Cunningham published new editions of two of his books, Introductory Accounting, Finance and Auditing for Lawyers (West, 2010) and Corporations and Other Business Organizations (Lexis, 2010). He also published two new articles, âThe Three or
Four Approaches to Financial Regulation,â co-written with David Zaring of The University of Pennsylvania, in The George Washington Law Review, and âTraditional versus Economic Analysis: Evidence from Cardozo and Posner Torts Opinions,â in Florida Law Review. David Freestone co-edited Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading: Kyoto, Copenhagen and Beyond, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2009 and launched at the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He also edited a special issue of the Carbon and Climate Law Review on climate change and the law of the sea and wrote the editorial on âClimate Change and the Oceans.â With David Frenkil, Professor Freestone published âEmissions Trading in the U.S.: A New Regime Approaching?â It was published in European Energy Law Report VII. Rob Glicksman published a new casebook, Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context (Foundation Press, 2010, with Richard Levy), and submitted the manuscript for a book to be published by Stanford University Press, Pollution Limits and Pollutersâ Efforts to Comply: The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement (with Dietrich Earnhart). His article âScience, Politics, Law and the Arc of the Clean Water Act: The Role of Assumptions in the Adoption of a Pollution Control Landmarkâ appeared in 32 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 99 (2010). He also published two chapters in a book published by the MIT Press, The Failure of U.S. Climate Change Policy (with C. Schroeder) and âAnatomy of Industry Resistance to Climate Change: A Familiar Litanyâ in Economic Thought
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and U.S. Climate Change Policy (West, 2010, D. Driesen, ed.). West published two updates to his treatise on Public Natural Resources Law. His article âAgency-Specific Precedentsâ was accepted for publication in the Texas Law Review. He published Center for Progressive Reform White Paper #1004 (with Y. Huang), âFailing the Bay: Clean Water Act Enforcement in Maryland Falling Short,â available at www.progressivereform.org/articles/ MDE_Report_1004FINALApril.pdf. A Spanish-language version of Phyllis Goldfarbâs Minnesota Law Review article titled âA Theory-Practice Spiral: The Ethics of Feminism and Clinical Educationâ (1991) appeared as âUna espiral entre la teoria y la practica: la etica del feminismo y la educacion practica in Academia: Revista Sobre Ensenanza del Derecho de Buenos Airesâ (Primavera, 2005). With coauthor Christopher B. Mueller, Laird Kirkpatrick completed the 2010 supplement for their five-volume treatise, Federal Evidence. Michael Matheson published âThe Bush Administrationâ in Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser (Cambridge, 2010). He also wrote âSecurity Concerns of the United Statesâ in The Oceans in a Nuclear Age (Martinus Nijhoff, 2010). Joan Meier published an article in the Journal of Child Custody titled âA Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation.â She also published a research review on parental alienation syndrome, which was solicited by VAWnet, the electronic research forum hosted by the Minnesota School of Social
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