Faculty News

• Donna E. Arzt, professor of law and director, Center for Global Law and Practice, attended the Lockerbie criminal trial at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands during the wrap-up of the Crown (prosecution) case. The national and world media interviewed her when the verdict was announced. Under her direction, the College of Law co-hosted a conference on "International Terrorism, Victims' Rights and the Lockerbie Criminal Trial" which was web-cast live for the Pan Am 103 victim families on a password-protected website operated by the College of Law. She also was a speaker at the Association of American Law Schools' workshop on Human Rights. Arzt is on leave for the academic year.
  
  
• William C. Banks, professor of law and Laura J. and Douglas L. Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, is developing a new course on U.S. anti-terrorism law. He spoke at one conference in Germany on "Enhancing the Security of States in a Multipolar World: Focus on Extremism" and moderated another in Germany on corruption in government security forces.

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  Banks published three articles. "Executive Authority for National Security Surveillance," (with S. Bowman) is in 50 AM. U. L. REV. (2000) and "A Comparison of Enforcement of Administrative Agency Rules and Orders in China and the United States," (with Professor Richard I. Goldsmith and G. Xue), appeared in THE STUDY ON ADMIN. L., No. 1, 2001. His "Trolling for Terrorists: New Report Outlines Surveillance Authorities" appeared in 22 ABA NAT. SEC. L. REP. 10 (2000). Banks is the acting director of the Global Law and Practice Center during Professor Arzt's leave.
  
  
• David M. Driesen, associate professor law, submitted an amicus brief on behalf of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund in American Trucking Ass'ns v. Browner, which was before the U. S. Supreme Court. A unanimous Court adopted the holding advocated in the brief. Driesen's article, "What is Free Trade? The Real Issue Lurking Behind the Trade and Environment Debate," appeared in 41 VA. J. INT'L L. 279 (2001). Driesen presented a paper, "Does the Constitution Forbid Protection of Public Health? The Supreme Court Confronts the Clean Air Act," at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. MIT Press plans to bring out his book, The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law, in the fall of 2002. Driesen was granted tenure by a unanimous vote of the faculty.
  
  
• Patricia Hassett '66, professor of law, co-directed the 24th College of Law Summer Law in London program. While in London, she presented her research paper, "Assessment of Law Faculty Performance: Should Law Schools Practice What They Teach?" at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. She is co-organizing, with colleagues from the University of a Paris, a conference on "Technology and Legal Practice." Hassett is on leave for the academic year.
  
  
• Peter E. Herzog, Crandall Melvin Professor of Law, emeritus, published "The 'Conflict of Laws Revolution' in New York - And Where Did It Leave Us," 50 SYR. L. REV. 1279 (2000), "Einige neuere Entwicklungen in der Arzthaftpflicht in den Vereinigten Staaten," in Festschrift für Erwin Deutsch and an article on patient autonomy near the end of life (also in German) in a symposium by the Institute of Health Law of the University of Mannheim.
  
  
• Paula C. Johnson, associate professor of law, was invited to give the keynote address to the American Philosophical Association's annual meeting on Theories of Jurisprudence.
  
  
• Hilary K. Josephs, professor of law, was elected an associate member of the International Society for Comparative Law. She is among the most junior U.S. nominees to be elected and the second member of the faculty to be so honored. Josephs published "Upstairs, Trade Law; Downstairs, Labor Law, " in GEO. WASH. U. INT'L L. REV. (2001) and a book review, "Conflict of Law: American, Comparative, International: Cases and Materials, 60 LA. L. REV. 1123 (2000).
  
  
• Keith Sealing, who will teach Torts, Property, and International Business Transactions II, visits our College of Law from John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Georgia. Professor Sealing also serves as an adjunct instructor at Georgia State University School of Business, teaching International Business Law to American and International M.B.A. and Ph.D. candidates. Professor Sealing has developed innovative programs in legal education including use of the Internet and first year student "law firms." He is a legal consultant to the Georgia Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and has five years of experience as an associate in law firms in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. Professor Sealing earned his B.S. degree from the University of Northern Colorado and his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Temple University School of Law. He recently published, "Blood Will Tell: Scientific Racism and the Legal Prohibitions Against Miscegenation," 5 Mich. J. Race & Law 559 (Spring 2000).