Faculty News

Adeno Addis 

• Imagining Home from Afar: Community and Peoplehood in the Age of the Diaspora, 45 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 963 (2012).

Adam Babich 

• Why Environmental Law Clinics, (with Jane F. Barrett),43 Envtl. L. Rep. 10039 (2013).
• The Supremacy Clause, Cooperative Federalism, and the Full Federal Regulatory Purpose, 64 Admin. L. Rev. 1 (2012).

Martin J. Davies

• Insurers’ Pre-Contractual Disclosure Obligations: The Position in the United States of America, 23 Ins. L.J. 70 (2012).

Mark S. Davis

• Escaping the Sporhase Maze: Protecting State Waters Within the Commerce Clause (with Michael Pappas),73 La. L. Rev. 175 (2012).

Tessa Davis

• Reproducing Value: How Tax Law Differentially Values Fertility, Sexuality, and Marriage, 19 Cardozo J.L. & Gender 1 (2012).

Claire Moore Dickerson

• Fairness and Formal Laws in the Informal Sector: The Example of Cameroon, in An Exploration of Fairness: Interdisciplinary Inquiries in Law, Science and the Humanities (Janis P. Sarra, ed., Carswell: Toronto, forthcoming 2013).
• Promises of Future Performance and Informal-Sector Transfers of Personal Property: The Example of Anglophone Cameroon, 2011 Acta Juridica 285 (published in 2012).
• Promises of Future Performance and Informal-Sector Transfers of Personal Property: The Example of Anglophone Cameroon, in Pluralism and Development: Studies in Access to Property in Africa (Hanri Mostert & Thomas Bennett, eds.: Juta & Co. Ltd. 2011).
  

Onnig H. Dombalagian

• The Expressive Synergies of the Volcker Rule, 54 B.C. L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2013).

Jörg Fedtke 

• Country Report German Tort Law 2011, (withFlorian Wagner-von Papp) in European Tort Law 2011 250 (Helmut Koziol & Barbara Steiniger, eds.) (Springer, 2012).
• Legal Transplants, in Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, 2nd ed. 550 (Jan Smits, ed.) (Cheltenham, 2012).
• Privacy, (withColm O’Cinneide and Myriam Hunter-Henin) in Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, 2nd ed. 687 (Jan Smits, ed.) (Cheltenham 2012).
• The Culture of German Tort Law, 3 J. Eur. Tort L. 183 (2012).

Adam Feibelman

• Europe and the Future of International Monetary Law, __ Transnat’l L. & Contemp. Probs. __ (forthcoming 2013).
• Living Wills: A Prelude to Private Ordering in Bankruptcy?, in Regulatory Competition in Contract Law and Dispute Resolution (Horst Eidenmüller, ed., Beck, forthcoming 2013).
• American States and Sovereign Debt Restructuring, in When States Go Broke: Origins, Context, and Solutions for American States in Fiscal Crisis (David Skeel & Peter Conti-Brown, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012).
• Involuntary Bankruptcy for States, 7 Duke J. Const. L. & Publ. Pol’y 81 (2012).

Gabriel Feldman

• Antitrust versus Labor Law in Professional Sports: Balancing the Scales after Brady v. NFL and Anthony v. NBPA, 45 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1221 (2012).
• Brady v. NFL and Anthony v. NBPA: The Shifting Dynamics in Labor-Management Relations in Professional Sports, 86 Tul. L. Rev. 831 (2012).
• NFL’s Tight Grip on Drug Policy Review Invites Intervention, Sports Bus. J., Apr. 30-May 6, 2012, at 27.

Joel Wm. Friedman

• Annual Supplement to The Law of Civil Procedure: cases and Materials, 3rd ed. (with Michael Collins) (West Pub. 2012).

Amy Gajda

• Book Proposal (The First Amendment Bubble: Legal Controls on News and Information in an Age of Over-exposure) accepted by Harvard Univ. Press, Nov. 2012.

Stephen M. Griffin

• How Do We Review the Time? Review of Jack Balkin’s Constitutional Redemption and Living Originalism, 91 Tex. L. Rev. 101 (2012).
• Watergate and Vietnam: The Cold War Origins of a Constitutional Crisis, 16 Chap. L. Rev. 31 (2012).
• What is Wartime?, 48 Tulsa L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2012) (book review).

Günther Handl

• Le droit à la santé dans le context du droit de l’environnement, in Manuel de droit international social 1608 (Jean-Marc Thouvenin & Anne Trebilcock, eds.) (Bruylant, 2013).
• Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalism, (co. eds. with Joachim Zekoll and Peer Zumbansen) (Brill, 2012).
• Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm Declaration), 1972 and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992, United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law, at http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/historicarchives.html#envir.
• Extra-Territoriality and Transnational Legal Authority, in Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalism, (co. eds. with Joachim Zekoll and Peer Zumbansen) (Brill, 2012).

Janet C. Hoeffel

• Fear and Loathing at the U.S. Border (with Stephen Singer), 82 Miss. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2013).

Oliver A. Houck

• Genetic Tales: Don’t Ask Me, I Don’t Know How it Ends, 29 Envtl. F., Nov.-Dec. 2012 at 6 (book review).
• Louisiana v. Lee and the Battle of Lake Pontchartrain, 26 Tul. Envtl. L.J. 1 (2012).
• Rescuing Ophelia: Avoyelles Sportsmen’s League and the Bottomland Hardwoods Controversy, 81 Miss. L.J. 1473 (2012).
• Save Ourselves: The Environmental Case that Changed Louisiana, 72 La. L. rev. 409 (2012).
• Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Future of Environmental Law and Policy, 29 Envtl. F., July-Aug. 2012 at 6 (book review).
• What Happened After Columbus Arrived, 29 Envtl. F., Mar.-Apr. 2012 at 6 (book review).

David R. Katner

• In Opposition to the Mandatory Registration of Juvenile Sexual Offenders, 4 J. Race Gender & Poverty 1 (2012).
• Mandatory Reporting of Mouth and Oral Injuries Indicating Possible Child Abuse (with Christopher Brown, D.D.S.), 143 J. Am. Dental Ass’n  1087 (2012). This is a peer reviewed science journal published and distributed to more than 150,000 English-language print copies per month world wide. The article was also featured on www.MDLinx.com, the world's most up-to-date index of articles about physicians and other healthcare professionals and circulated to an additional 1,000,000 professionals at http://www.mdlinx.com/dentistry/news-article.cfm/4229784.

Glynn S. Lunney, Jr.

• Not So Obvious After All: Patent Law’s Nonobviousness Requirement, KSR, and the Fear of Hindsight Bias (with Christian T. Johnson), 47 Ga. L. Rev. 41 (2012).

David D. Meyer

• Family Diversity and the Rights of Parenthood, in What is Parenthood? Contemporary Debates about the Family (Daniel Cere & Linda C. McClain, eds.) (NYU Press, 2013).
• Contemporary Family Law, 3rd ed.  (West, 2012).

Shu-Yi Oei

• Who Wins When Uncle Sam Loses? Social Insurance and the Forgiveness of Tax Debts, 46 U.C. Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2012).

Vernon Valentine Palmer

• The Quest to Implant a Civilian Methodology in Louisiana, (The 2012 LSU Tucker Lecture) was accepted for publication by the Louisiana Law Review (forthcoming 2013).
• Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide—The Third Legal Family, 2nd ed. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012).
• Mixed Legal Jurisdictions: The Origin of the Species, (in Italian) Annuario (B. Pozzo, ed.) (2012).
• Through the Codes Darkly: Slave Law and Civil Law in Louisiana (Lawbook Exchange, 2012).

Ronald J. Scalise, Jr.

• Freedom of Testation in the United States, in Testierfreiheit (Reinhard Zimmermann, ed., Mohr Siebeck, 2012).
• Testamentary Formalities in the United States, in Testamentary Formalities (Comparative Succession Law, vol. 1) (Kenneth G.C. Reid, Marius J. de Waal & Reinhard Zimmermann eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2011).

 Amy Stein

• Renewable Energy Through Agency Action, 84 U. Colo. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2013).
• The Tipping Point of Federalism, 45 Conn. L. Rev. 217 (2012).

Elizabeth Townsend-Gard

• A Tale of Two Ginsburgs: Eldred v. Ashcroft and Golan v. Holder,__ DePaul L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2013).
• Copyright and Social Media: A Preliminary Case Study of Pinterest (with Bri Whetstone),31 Miss. C. L. Rev. 249 (forthcoming 2013).
• Federalizing Pre-1972 Sound Recordings: Two Proposals (with Erin Anapol), 15 Tul. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 123 (2012).

Corinne J. Van Dalen

• Oakville—Unprotected: A Study in Environmental Injustice, 58 Loy. L. Rev. 391 (2012).

Adeno Addis

• Presenter, “Human Dignity in Comparative Perspective,” Conference on Comparative Law, Qatar University College of Law, Oct. 7, 2012.
• Lecturer, “The Role of Human Dignity in a World of Plural Values and Ethical Commitments,” City University of Hong Kong, Apr. 4, 2012.
• Lecturer, “The Role of Human Dignity in a World of Plural Values and Ethical Commitments,” University of Hong Kong, Mar. 26, 2012.
• Presenter, “Judicial Independence in Times of Perceived Emergencies: The Case of Targeted Killings,” The International Conference on Judicial Independence and Globalization, City University of Hong Kong, Mar. 23, 2012.

Adam Babich 

• Presenter, Keynote Address, Gulf Restoration Network Fall Fundraiser, New Orleans, Louisiana, Oct. 14, 2012.

Jeanne L. Carriere 

• Presenter, “The Not-So-Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act,” in “Interjurisdictional Handling of Child Custody/Abduction,” Annual Summit of the Appellate Judges Educational Institute (non-profit education arm of the ABA Appellate Judges Conference), New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 18, 2012.

Martin J. Davies

• Presenter, “More Lawyers But Less Law: Maritime Arbitration in the 21st Century,” Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand, Aug. 3, 2012.
• Presenter, “The Effect of the Master’s Signature on a Bill of Lading for Carriage on a Chartered Ship: A Comparative Analysis,” 2nd International Congress of Maritime and Admiralty Law (II Denizcilik ve Deniz Hukuku Ulusulararasi Kongresi), Istanbul, Turkey, May 25, 2012.
• Presenter, “Financial Issues under Charterparties: Insolvency, Liens and Letters of Indemnity,” Intertanko International Tanker Chartering Seminar, Singapore, May 11, 2012.
• Presenter, “Security in Maritime Arbitration,” Maritime Law Association of Singapore, May 8, 2012.

Mark S. Davis

• Presenter, Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, Chalmette, Louisiana, Dec. 20, 2012.
• Moderator, “Going with the Flow—Ensuring Freshwater Flows for Estuaries,” Restore America’s Estuaries National Conference, Tampa, Florida, Oct. 24, 2012.
• Panelist, ”Big Money, Big Plans, Big Challenges: The Public’s Role in Gulf Restoration,” Restore America’s Estuaries National Conference, Tampa, Florida, Oct. 23, 2012.
• Featured Speaker, Tulane Law Alumni Event, Zynga Games, San Francisco, California, July 9, 2012.
• Invited Lecturer, “Relief and Resilience: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the BP Macondo Spill” (and two other panels), Renaissance Weekend, Monterey, California, June 30-July 4, 2012.
• Presenter, “Multi-State Water Compacts,” America’s Wetland’s “Big River Works” Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 31, 2012.

Claire Moore Dickerson

• Presenter, “African Comparative Legal Studies, Business Law, and the OHADA Reality,” Inaugural Meeting, Centre for Comparative Law in Africa, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Oct. 22-24, 2012.
• Presenter, “Fiscal Regulation as the Public Face of Government: The Cameroonian Experience,” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 28, 2012.

James E. Duggan

• Coordinator & Moderator, “Law Libraries of the 21st Century: Butterflies, Phoenixes, or the Same Old Thing?” Section on Law Libraries and Legal Information, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 7, 2013. 
• Speaker, “’The Times They Are A’Changin’: Leveraging Library Services and Resources to Respond to Evolving Faculty Scholarly and Curricular Needs,” Committee on Libraries and Technology, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 5, 2013.
• Speaker, “’What Legal Administrators Should Know About Law Libraries,” Association of Legal Administrators (New Orleans Chapter), New Orleans, Louisiana, July 12, 2012.

Adam Feibelman

• Panelist, “Europe and the Future of International Monetary Law,” Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems Symposium, “The European Sovereign Debt Crisis: A Critical Assessment of the Euro & European Monetary Union,” University of Iowa Law School, Iowa City, Iowa, Feb. 24, 2012.
• Presenter, “Involuntary Bankruptcy for States,” Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Symposium, “The Consequences and Constitutional Dilemmas of State Debt,” Duke Law School, Durham, North Carolina, Feb. 10, 2012.

Gabriel Feldman

• Presenter, “Sports Law Year in Review,” Sports Lawyers Association 38th Annual Conference, San Diego, California, May 10, 2012.
• Presenter, “Sports Law Year in Review,” Georgia Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia, Apr. 9, 2012.

Joel Wm. Friedman

• Presenter, “Recent Developments in Employment Discrimination Law”, Tulane CLE By the Hour, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 28, 2012.
• Presenter, “Recent Developments in Employment Discrimination Law”, U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals Annual Judicial Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Dec. 6, 2012.
• Presenter, “Recent Developments in Employment Discrimination Law,” U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Annual Judicial Conference, Point Clear, Alabama, Nov. 14, 2012.
• Presenter, “Overview of Employment Discrimination Law,” Orientation Seminar for Newly Appointed U.S. Magistrate Judges, Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2012.
• Presenter, “Recent Developments in Employment Discrimination Law,” Annual U.S. District Judges Seminar, San Francisco, California, July 16, 2012.
• Presenter, “Recent Developments in Employment Discrimination Law,” Annual U.S. District Judges Seminar, Boston, Massachusetts, Apr. 30, 2012.
• Presenter, Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of Florida Bar Association Section on Labor and Employment Law, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Apr. 18, 2012.

Amy Gajda

• Panel Chair, “Me @ the Zoo: Privacy, Celebrity and Modern Media,” Section on Defamation and Privacy, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 5, 2013.
• Presenter, Paper, “The First Amendment Bubble: Legal Controls on News and Information in an Age of Over-Exposure,” Israeli Law & Society Annual Conference, Ramat Gan, Israel, Dec. 19, 2012.
• Panelist, “Privacy Law Update,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2012 Conference, Chicago, Illinois, Aug. 8, 2012.
• Commenter, International Privacy Law Conference, Clare College, Cambridge, England, June 26-27, 2012.
• Presenter, Paper, “The Supreme Court and Matters in the Public Interest,” “The Press, the People and the U.S. Supreme Court,” Law and Society Association 2012 International Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 7, 2012. 

Stephen M. Griffin

• Presenter, “Long Wars and the Constitution” (forthcoming book), Case Western Reserve Law School Faculty, Cleveland, Ohio, 2012. 

Günther Handl

• Speaker, “Oil Spills: Lessons We Can Apply at the Regional and Global Level,” United Nations Divisions on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, New York, New York, Dec. 11, 2012.

Janet C. Hoeffel

• Presenter, “Fear and Loathing at the U.S. Border,” Criminal Discussion Forum, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012.

Julie H. Jackson

• Speaker, “Pro Bono Innovations: Professional Development and Service to the Community,” National Association for Law Placement (NALP)/PSJD Mini-Conference, Washington, D.C., Oct. 25, 2012.

David R. Katner

• Plenary Speaker, “Graham v. Florida: Racial and Cultural Implications,” 100th Year Convening, National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA), New Orleans, Louisiana, Mar. 16, 2012.
• Presenter, “In Opposition to the Mandatory Registration of Juvenile Sex Offenders,” “Registration of Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Civil Regulation or Criminal Punishment,” Journal of Race, Gender and Poverty Symposium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Feb. 24, 2012.

Marjorie E. Kornhauser

• Presenter, “Taxing Bachelors in America: 1895-1939,” History of Tax Law Conference, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, July 3, 2012.

Glynn S. Lunney, Jr.

• Speaker, “Copyright and Consumer Copying: What Role Collectives?”  New Zealand Centre for International Economic Law Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, Nov. 16, 2012.
• Speaker, “Trademarks and Consumer Welfare: The Unrepresented Interest,” Trademarks Works in Progress Colloquium, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., Sept. 7, 2012.
• Speaker, “Copyright’s Mercantilist Turn,” Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, California, Aug. 9, 2012.

David A. Marcello

• The Public Law Center held their 25th Anniversary Celebration at the home of Tulane President Cowen, where over 100 guests heard from Tulane University Law School Dean David Meyer about the Center's accomplishments during its quarter of a century of public interest advocacy, Nov. 8, 2012.
• Panelist, Introduction to ALICE (the American Legislative Issues Campaign Exchange), a progressive alternative to ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange, which was operated by the Chamber of Commerce), Society of American Law Teachers Teaching Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, Oct. 6, 2012.

David D. Meyer

• Invited to Serve as Keynote Speaker, Michigan State University College of Law Symposium “In Search of Equality in Family Law,” East Lansing, Michigan, Apr. 11, 2013.
• Presenter, “Family Diversity and the Rights of Parenthood,” Panel on “Defining and Supporting the Parent-Child Relationship: Comparative and International Perspectives,” Section on Family and Juvenile Law, Association of American Law School Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 5, 2013.

Shu-Yi Oei

• Presenter, “Who Wins When Uncle Sam Loses? Social Insurance and the Forgiveness of Tax Debts,” Law and Society Association 2012 International Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 8, 2012. 
• Presenter, “Collecting in the Shadow of the Bankruptcy Law,” Junior Tax Scholars Workshop, University of California--Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, May 30-31, 2012. 
• Organizer, Presenter and Discussant, “Who Wins When Uncle Sam Loses? Social Insurance and the Forgiveness of Tax Debts,” Tulane Tax Roundtable, Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana, Apr. 13-14, 2012.
• Presenter, “Who Wins When Uncle Sam Loses? Social Insurance and the Forgiveness of Tax Debts,” Critical Tax Conference, Seton Hall Law School, Newark, New Jersey, Mar. 30-31, 2012.
• Presenter, “Who Wins When Uncle Sam Loses? Social Insurance and the Forgiveness of Tax Debts,” Northwestern University School of Law Colloquium on Advanced Topics in Taxation, Chicago, Illinois, Mar. 8, 2012.

Vernon Valentine Palmer

• Presenter, “Through the Codes Darkly: Slave Law and Civil Law in Louisiana,” Gottingen Society of Friends of History, Gottingen, Germany, Dec. 2012.
• Presenter, “The Meaning of a Leading Case in Codified Legal Systems,” Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, Hamburg, Germany, Nov. 2012.
• Visiting Professor, Bucerius Law School (International Program), lectured to students from twenty-four countries for six weeks on “The Comparative Law of Products Liability,” Hamburg, Germany, Fall, 2012. 
• Presenter, “Beyond the Truisms of Pluralism,” 75th Annual Meeting, Japanese Society of Comparative Law, Kyoto, Japan, June 2012.
• Presenter, “Double Reasoning in the Codified Mixed Legal Systems,” International Academy of Comparative Law, Taipei, Republic of China, May 2012.

Sally Brown Richardson 

• Selected to present forthcoming paper, “Adverse Possession, an Ex Ante Planning Tool,” at Durham Law School Workshop, Durham, England, March 2013.

Ronald J. Scalise, Jr.

• Speaker, “What’s Around the Corner in Louisiana Civil Law?: Agreements to Shorten or Toll Liberative Prescription,” 2012 Semaine Française, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 15, 2012.
• Presenter, “Revisions to the Louisiana Civil Code Regarding Prescription,” Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, Sept. 21, 2012.
• Speaker, “The BP Oil Spill Compensation Process,” National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary (NAALJ) and the Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Sept. 12, 2012.

Stacy Seicshnaydre

• Speaker, “Tulane Civil Litigation Clinic,” “U.S. Department of Justice: A Project for Africa,” State Department International Delegation, New Orleans Citizen Diplomacy Council, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 5, 2012.
• Speaker, “Real Estate Sales, Purchases, and Agents’ Liabilities,” City of Lafayette Fair Housing Month Conference 2012, Lafayette, Louisiana, Apr. 19, 2012.
• Speaker, “Civil Litigation Clinic,” Tulane International Programs, Baku State University (Azerbaijan) Visit, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana, Apr. 10, 2012.
• Panel Presenter, “Real Estate Sales, Purchases, and Agents’ Liabilities,” U.S. Dept. of HUD Fair Housing Month Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Apr. 5, 2012.

Amy Stein

• Presenter, “Positive Energy Externalities of Energy Storage,” Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship at Vermont Law School (accepted for presentation), South Royalton, Vermont, Oct. 11-13, 2012.
• Presenter, “Renewable Energy Through Self-Imposed Federal Regulation,” Southeastern Law Schools Junior-Senior Scholar Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Oct. 2012.
• Commenter, “Jim Rossi’s Federal Preemption and the Clean Energy Floor,” Tulane University Law School Intellectual Life Workshop, New Orleans, Louisiana, Oct. 1, 2012.
• Presenter, “The Tipping Point of Federalism,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Florida, Aug. 1, 2012.
• Visiting Professor, “Solar and Wind Development,” Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, June 2012.

Elizabeth Townsend-Gard

• Will Present, “Social Media Websites and Section 512,” Third Annual Internet Law Work-In-Progress, High Tech Law Institute, University of Santa Clara Law School, Santa Clara, California, Mar. 16, 2013.
• Invited Presenter, “Social Media and Copyright,” “Intellectual Property and Social Media,” Section on Intellectual Property, Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Jan. 6, 2013.
• Invited Presenter, “Testing the Durationator® Copyright Experiment: An Inside Look on Copyright Status,” “In Re Books” Conference on Law and the Future of Books, Institute for Information Law & Policy, New York Law School, New York, New York, Oct. 26, 2012.
• Presenter, “Moving Towards Beta,” LOUIS (The Louisiana Library Network) Users Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Oct. 15, 2012.
• Invited Presenter, “Post-Golan, IP, and the Constitution” Second Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property, University Of New Hampshire School of Law, Concord, New Hampshire, Sept. 28, 2012.
• Presenter, “Access and Transparency of Copyright Law Through Code: An Introduction to the Durationator®,” UNESCO Conference, “The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation,” Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Sept. 26, 2012.

Corinne J. Van Dalen

• Speaker, “Oakville—Unprotected: A Study in Environmental Injustice,” Loyola Law Review Symposium, “Perspectives on Environmental Justice,” New Orleans, Louisiana, Mar. 22, 2012.

Keith Werhan

• Speaker, “Religious Accommodation and the First Amendment 20 Years After Smith,” Appellate Judges Education Institute 2012 Summit for Appellate Judges, Lawyers and Staff Attorneys, New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov. 18, 2012.
• Speaker, “Judicial Review as a Check on Democracy,” National Association Of Administrative Law Judiciary/Federal Administrative Law Judges Joint Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, Sept. 12, 2012.

Mark B. Wessman

• Visiting Professor, College of Law of England and Wales; lectured to students for two weeks on “American Contract Law,” London, England, Dec. 2012. 

Martin J. Davies

• Recipient, Tulane University President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012.

Vernon Valentine Palmer

• Recipient, Fellowship for Research in Japan, Japanese Foundation for the Promotion of Science. The award allowed Prof. Palmer to travel and lecture for two weeks at five Japanese universities and to deliver the keynote speech at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Comparative Law, held in Kyoto in June 2012.

Sally Brown Richardson 

• Recipient, Tulane University Office of Academic Affairs Networking Grant, 2012.

Amy Stein

• Recipient, Tulane University Office of Academic Affairs Networking Grant, 2012.

Adeno Addis 

• Interview on Human Rights, Voice of America (International Radio Service), July 2012.

Adam Feibelman 

• Member, World Bank's Working Group for the Treatment of the Insolvency of Natural Persons.

Mark S. Davis

• Appointed to Water Committee, Louisiana Law Institute.
• Interviews with WVUE TV News, Baton Rouge Advocate, New Orleans Times-Picayune, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” & “Morning Edition,” USA Today, WWL Radio (Garland Robinette), McClatchy Newspapers, Aug.-Dec. 2012.

Onnig H. Dombalagian 

• Appointed to three year term on Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) National Adjudicatory Council, the national committee that reviews initial decisions rendered in broker-dealer disciplinary and membership proceedings.

James E. Duggan

• Serving as Chair, Section on Law Libraries and Legal Information, Association of American Law Schools, 2013-2014.
• Appointed Associate Editor, Law Library Journal (published by the American Association of Law Libraries), 2012-13.

Jörg Fedtke 

• Serving as key advisor to the initiative “Kirkuk and Beyond – Strengthening Multi-Level Governance and Service Provision in a Challenging Environment” (funded by the German Foreign Office in Kirkuk/Iraq).
• Assisting the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) on a mission to support the constitution drafting process in Tunisia (human rights protection and regionalism/federalism).

Günther Handl

• Interview on the Scarborough Shoal Dispute Between China and the Philippines, Sanlian Life Weekly Magazine (Beijing, China), May 12, 2012.

Ronald J. Scalise, Jr. 

• Successfully led the enactment of La. Act 277 (2012) concerning the revision to the law of simulations and counterletters in the Louisiana Civil Code.
• Elected as an Associate Member to the International Academy of Comparative Law.
• Appointed Reporter for the Trust Code Revision Committee of the Louisiana State Law Institute.

Stacy Seicshnaydre

• Interview, “Mystery Shopping Exposes Rental Discrimination on the Northshore,” WDSU-TV, Feb. 23, 2012.

Elizabeth Townsend-Gard 

• Renewed affiliation with Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (Non-Resident Fellow since 2004).
• Completed license negotiations with Tulane University for transfer of technology related to the Durationator Copyright Experiment to Ron Gard, sole managing member of Limited Times, LLC.  Durationator Copyright Experiment also added the University of Michigan, NYARC (a research consortium of MOMA, Brooklyn Museum and the Frick Collection), and MediaNOLA as strategic research partners.

Adam Babich

• The Supremacy Clause, Cooperative Federalism, and the Full Federal Regulatory Purpose, 64 Admin. L. Rev. 1 (2012).

Vernon Palmer

• Double Reasoning in the Codified Mixed Jurisdictions: Code and Case Law as Simultaneous Methods, 6 J. Comp. L. 1 ( 2012).
• The Great Spill in the Gulf … and a Sea of Pure Economic Loss: Reflections on the Boundaries of Civil Liability, 116 Penn St. L. Rev. 105 (2011).
• Three Milestones in the History of Privacy in the United States, 26 Tul. Eur. & Civ. L.F. 67 (2011).

Keith Werhan

• Popular Constitutionalism, Ancient and Modern, 46 U.C. Davis L. Rev.  ______ (forthcoming 2012). 

Adam Babich

• Luncheon Speaker, "The Environmental Law Clinic’s Role," New Orleans Bar Association Oil & Gas Committee, New Orleans, Louisiana, Mar. 20, 2012.
• Moderator, “Gov­­ern­ment Account­ability Project Whistleblower Tour,” New Orleans Coalition on Open Governance, New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 28, 2012.
• Panelist, “Two Years After the Gulf Oil Spill,” American Bar Association (ABA) Section on International Law, 2012 ABA Midyear Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 3, 2012.
• Debate Panelist, “The Future of Offshore Leasing,” 2nd International Offshore Oil & Law Conference, The Institute for Energy Law, Center for American and International Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 7, 2011.
• Keynote Address, Environmental Conference, National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, Oct. 24, 2011.

Jeanne L. Carriere

• Commenter, Prof. Richard McAdams’ draft of his paper, “Empathy and Manhood in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird,” Tulane Law School Faculty Workshop Series, New Orleans, Louisiana, Mar. 19, 2012.

Martin J. Davies

• Presenter, “The Deepwater Horizon/Macondo Blowout,” Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China, Mar. 9, 2012.
• Presenter, “The Deepwater Horizon/Macondo Blowout,” Shanghai International Shipping Institute, Shanghai, China, Mar. 9, 2012.

Mark S. Davis

• Panelist, “Water Management,” Governmental Research Association National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2, 2012.
• Keynote Speaker, “Water = Asset,” 2012 Water Challenge, New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, New Orleans, Louisiana, Mar. 12, 2012.
• Speaker (with Michael Pappas), “Escaping the Sporhase Maze: State Protection of Water Resources and the Commerce Clause,” Louisiana Law Review Symposium, “Coastal Land Loss in the Gulf Coast and Beyond Symposium,” Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Mar. 30, 2012.  

James E. Duggan

• Speaker, “Alternative Careers,” ABA Law Student Division, 13th Circuit, Spring Meeting, Loyola University College of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 3, 2012.

Susan L. Krinsky

• Invited Panelist, “The ABA, the LSAC and the LSAT:  What Next?," Law School Admission Council Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida, June 2012.
• Invited Speaker, “The Intersection of Law & Medicine,” Adelphi University, Long Island, New York, Apr. 27, 2012.
• Panelist, “Applying to Law School” (sponsored by The Princeton Review), Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, Mar. 28, 2012.
• Panelist, “The Legal Profession,” Tulane Prelaw Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, Mar. 20, 2012.
• Presenter, “Legal Issues in Admissions,” Law School Admission Council Newcomers Workshop (which trains new law school admissions professionals), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sept. 13, 2011.
• Panelist, “Relationship Between Admission Criteria and Employment After Law School,” presented to pre-law groups at SMU, Johns Hopkins, George Washington University, Mt. Holyoke, and Villanova.  Also spoke on other law school admission topics at  Vassar, Carleton College, St. Olaf College, Columbia University, Boston University, Tufts University, Brandeis University, and Boston College, Fall, 2011.

Glynn S. Lunney, Jr.  

• Speaker,  “The Future of Trademark Law: Consumer Welfare or Corporate Welfare,” University of Detroit Mercy Law Review Symposium, “The Future of Intellectual Property,” Detroit, Michigan, March 9, 2012.
• Speaker, “Not So Obvious After All: Patent Law’s Nonobviousness Requirement, KSR, and the Fear of Hindsight Bias, Works-In-Progress IP Colloquium, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas, Feb. 11, 2012. 

Katherine Mattes 

• Speaker, “Criminal Justice and Mental Illness in New Orleans,” Federal Inns of Court, Federal District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, Feb. 24, 2012.

Michael Pappas 

• Speaker (with Michael Pappas), “Escaping the Sporhase Maze: State Protection of Water Resources and the Commerce Clause,” Louisiana Law Review Symposium, “Coastal Land Loss in the Gulf Coast and Beyond Symposium,” Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Mar. 30, 2012.  

 Amy Stein 

• Invited Participant, “Reclaiming Environmental Federalism,” Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia, Feb. 17, 2012.
• Invited Participant, “Progress Without Agreement: Climate and Other Regulatory Challenges in a Time of Dissensus,” Emory University Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance (CFIG) Roundtable, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 28-29, 2011.

Martin J. Davies

Numerous interviews concerning the BP Oil Spill, including:

• Interview, “Settlement Only the First Step in BP’s Legal Woes,” All Things Considered, National Public Radio (NPR), Mar. 3, 2012.  (Available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=147879742).
• Interview, “The World Today,” BBC World Service, Feb. 27, 2012.
• Interview, Minnesota Public Radio, Feb. 27, 2012
• Interview, “535 Lawsuits, 110,000 Plaintiffs, 72m Pieces of Paper: BP Set for Epic Trial (United States),” London Times, Feb. 25, 2012 at 41.
• Interview, CNN (with Don Mattingly), Feb. 25, 2012 (not used because the trial was postponed).
• Interview, 5 O’clock News Broadcast,  Fox 8 Local News, WVUE-TV, Feb. 24, 2012.
• Interview, “Environment: Gulf Oil Spill Trial -- Let the Fingerpointing Begin,” Reuters, Feb. 23, 2012 (Available at:
  http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE81M1W520120223?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews). (Note: “Like most Reuters stories, this was syndicated in many places, including: Scientific American; news.yahoo.com; the Chicago Tribune; the Times of India; the International Business Times; and many, many, web news portals all over the United States and in places like Ghana, India, Mexico, Norway and the Philippines.”)
• Interview, “Gloves Will Come Off During the Massive Oil Spill Trial - High-profile Players to Enter the Ring as Witnesses,” New Orleans Times-Picayune,  Feb. 19, 2012 at A1.
• Interview,”BP's Oil Slick Set To Spill Into Courtroom,” Morning Edition, National Public Radio (NPR), Feb. 16, 2012.  (Available at: http://www.npr.org/2012/02/16/146938630/bps-oil-slick-set-to-spill-into-courtroom).
• Interview, “BP and the Trial of the Century,” Living on Earth,  National Public Radio (NPR), Feb. 10, 2012.  (Available at:
  http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=12-P13-00006#feature1).
• Numerous “backgrounders” for Bloomberg, PBS, BBC News (Washington bureau), the Financial Times, and Svenska Dagbladet (a Swedish newspaper).

Mark S. Davis 

• Interview, “Louisiana's Ambitious Coastal Vision,” Los Angeles Times Online, Mar. 11, 2012 (Available at:
  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-louisiana-coastline-20120312,0,2253573.story ).

James E. Duggan

• Elected, Member at Large, Louisiana Academic Library Information Network Consortium Board (LALINC), 2012-2013.
• Serving as President, New Orleans Association of Law Librarians, 2012-2013.

Gabriel Feldman

• Interview, “Should the Saints Worry About Legal Trouble?,” The Atlantic Online, Mar. 28, 2012 (Available at: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/03/should-the-saints-worry-about-legal-trouble/255113/).
• Interview, “Cash for Hits Has Some Calling Foul on NFL,” Tell Me More, National Public Radio (NPR), Mar. 6, 2012 (Available at:
  http://www.npr.org/2012/03/06/148046241/cash-for-hits-has-some-calling-foul-on-nfl).
• Interview, “Football Coordinator Paid Players to Hurt Opponents,” All Things Considered, National Public Radio (NPR), Mar. 5, 2012
  (Available at: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=147992068&m=147993039 ).
• Interview, “NFL Bounties Amount to Incentive System Run Amok,” U.S. News Online, Mar. 5, 2012 (Available at:
  http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2012/03/05/nfl-bounties-amount-to-incentive-system-run-amok?page=2).
• Interview, “Teams Could Be Held Liable for Injuries Traced to Bounties,” N.Y. Times, Mar. 5, 2012, at D8 (Available at:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/sports/football/nfl-bounties-could-lead-to-lawsuits.html?_r=2).
• Interview, “NFL Plays Defense on Suits: 'Bounty' Crackdown Comes as League Faces Legal Actions for Other Injuries,” Wall St. J. Online., Mar. 4, 2012 (Available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203370604577261770046772532.html).

 Stephen M. Griffin

• Interview, “Health Law’s Days in Court to Begin--Justices to Hear Oral Arguments,”  New Orleans Times-Picayune,  Mar. 26, 2012 at A1 (Available on Nola.com at: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/health_care_law_under_3_days_o.html).

Katherine Mattes 

• Invited to join Core Faculty, Tulane Forensic Behavioral Science Institute.  The multidisciplinary faculty is focused on promoting evidence-based research in forensic behavioral sciences, provides forensic training and professional development, informs public policy and practices in the area of forensic mental health. 

Susan L. Krinsky

• Serves as Chair, Law School Admission Council Test Development & Research Committee, and as a member of the Board of Trustees, 2011-2013.
• Serves as Board Member, Pre-Law Advisors National Council (PLANC).
• Serves as Board Member, Southwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors (SWAPLA).
• Served as Chair, Pre-law Committee of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, American Bar Association, 2010-11.

Edward F. Sherman

• Interview, “Environment: Gulf Oil Spill Trial -- Let the Fingerpointing Begin,” Reuters, Feb. 23, 2012 (Available at:
  http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE81M1W520120223?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews).

Keith Werhan

• Video Interview, “Is 'Obamacare' Unconstitutional?: On Politics,” Mar. 29, 2012 (Available at:
  http://videos.nola.com/times-picayune/2012/03/is_obamacare_unconstitutional.html).
• Interview, “Health Law’s Days in Court to Begin--Justices to Hear Oral Arguments,”  New Orleans Times-Picayune,  Mar. 26, 2012 at A1 (Available on Nola.com at: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/health_care_law_under_3_days_o.html).

Adeno Addis

• Constitutions as Autobiographies of Peoples (Nations), in Future of Comparative Study in Law: The 60th Anniversary of the Institute of Comparative Law in Japan, Chuo University 1 (Chuo University Press, 2011).
• Law as a Process of Communication: Reisman Meets Habermas, in Looking to the Future: Essays in International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman 33 (Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Jacob Katz Cogan, Robert D. Sloan & Siegfried Wiessner, eds., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011).

Adam Babich 

• Protecting Public Participation (with Brandon Sousa) 28 Envtl. F., May/June, 2011, at 22.
• Controversy, Conflicts, and Law School Clinics, 17 Clinical L. Rev. 469 (2011).
• Can Preemption Protect Public Participation?, 61 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1109 (2011)

Mark S. Davis 

• Guest Columnist, Nation Needs a Fresh View of Its Rivers, Com. Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee), Aug. 11, 2011, at A5. (Available online at: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/aug/11/guest-column-nation-needs-a-fresh-view-of-its/).
• A Defining Resource: Louisiana’s Place in the Emerging Water Economy (with James Wilkins), 57 Loy. L. Rev. 273 (2011).

James E. Duggan

• ”Members’ Briefing: AALLNET 2.0,” 16 AALL Spectrum (Dec. 2011).

Jörg Fedtke

• Legal Transplants, in Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Jan M. Smits ed., forthcoming 2012).
• Privacy (with Colm O’Cinneide and Myriam Hunter-Henin), in Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Jan M. Smits ed., forthcoming 2012).
• Electoral Reform in Egypt, in Electoral Systems 85-117 (Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty, 2011).
• Germany (with Florian Wagner-von Papp), in European Tort Law 2010 200-246 (Helmut Koziol and Barbara Steininger eds., 2011).
• Protective Purpose of the Rule, in Tort Law in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights 539-566 (Attila Fenyves, Ernst
  Karner, Helmut Koziol and Elisabeth Steines eds., 2011).
• Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort (Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell eds.) 2 J. Eur. Tort L. 330 (2011) (book review).

Günther Handl

• “International Legal Implications and Responses to the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo Oil Spill,” in International Law and the Liability for Catastrophic Environmental Damage, [2011] Proceedings, American Society of International Law (forthcoming).
• In Re South African Apartheid Litigation and Beyond: Corporate Liability for Aiding and Abetting under the Alien Tort Statute, 53 German Yearbook of Int’l. L. 435  (2010).
• “Responsibilities and Obligations of States Sponsoring Persons and Entities with Respect to Activities in the Area:  The International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea’s Recent Contribution to International Environmental Law,” 20 Rev. of Eur. and Int’l. Envtl. L. (2011) (forthcoming).

David Katner

• Delinquency and Daycare, in Justice for Kids: Keeping Kids Out of the Juvenile Justice System 29 (Nancy E. Dowd, ed., 2011).

Katherine Mattes

• The Tulane Criminal Law Clinic: An Evolution into a Combined Individual Client and Advocacy Clinic, 18 Clinical L. Rev. 78 (2011).

Stacy Seicshnaydre

• Fair Housing Choice Myth, 33 Cardozo L. Rev. (2012) (Forthcoming).
• How Government Housing Perpetuates Racial Segregation: Lessons From Post-Katrina New Orleans, 60 Cath. U.  L. Rev. 661 (2011).

Francis X. Shen

• Sorting Guilty Minds (with Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, Rene Marois, Joshua D. Greene), 86 N.Y.U.  L. Rev. 1306 (2011) [this research was featured in an article in the National Law Journal: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202536252480&et=editorial&bu= 
  National%20Law%20Journal&cn=20111221nlj&src=EMC-Email&pt=NLJ.com-%20Daily%20Headlines&kw=Study%3A%20Jurors%20can% 
  27t%20distinguish%20between%20knowing%20and%20reckless%20conduct&slreturn=1 ].
• How We Still Fail Rape Victims: Reflecting on Responsibility and Legal Reform, 22 Colum. J. Gender & L. 1 (2011).
• Law and Neuroscience: Possibilities For Prosecutors, 33 CDAA PROSECUTOR’S BRIEF 17 (2011) (invited essay).

Edward F. Sherman

• Federal Preemption: What Is It and Why Is It Important?, 28 Tul. Law. 12 (Fall 2011).
• The BP Oil Spill Litigation and Evolving Supervision of Multidistrict Litigation Judges,” (Symposium on BP Oil Spill), 30  Miss. C. L. Rev. 237 (2011).
• Arbitration Law in Flux and Maritime Implications, 85 Tul. L. Rev. 1221 (2011).
• Abandoned Claims in Class Actions: Implications for Preclusion and Adequacy of Counsel, (Symposium on Aggregate Litigation), 79 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 438 (2011).

Elizabeth Townsend-Gard

• In the Trenches with §104A: An Evaluation of the Parties’ Arguments in Golan v. Holder as It Heads to the Supreme Court,” 64 Vand. L. Rev. 199 (2011) (this article was twice cited in Golan v. Holder by Justice Breyer in his dissent, 132 S.Ct. 873 (2012).

Adeno Addis

• ”Shared Responsibility in International Law,” University of Antwerp, Belgium. May 22, 2011. 

Adam Babich

• Keynote Address, National Petrochemical & Refiners Association Environmental Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 24, 2011.
• ”The Future of Offshore Leasing, 2nd International Offshore Oil & Law Conference,” Debate Panelist, The Institute for Energy Law of the Center for American and International Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dec. 12, 2011.

Jörg Fedtke

• Invited Presenter, “The Culture of Tort Law in Germany,” 11th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, Austria, Apr. 12-14, 2012.
• Invited Panelist, “Euro Crisis and EU Constitutional Law,” Euro Crisis Symposium, Texas International Law Journal, Austin, Texas, Feb. 10, 2012.
• Presenter, International Conference on Election Systems (organized by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights), Cairo, Egypt, Apr. 6, 2011.
• Presenter, “Liability of Public Authorities,” 2011 Australian Bar Association Conference, Berlin, Germany. July 3-6, 2011 (served on panel discussion with Lady Justice Hale, UK Supreme Court).

Joel W. Friedman

• Keynote Speaker, Labor Law Section, Recent Supreme Court Developments, Florida Bar Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Apr. 13, 2012.
• Will Present Series of Lectures on the American Legal System to LL.M. students at University of Zurich School of Law, Zurich, Switzerland, Mar. 29-30, 2012.
• Symposium Panelist, “Privacy vs. Free Speech in the Age of Mass Media," (Sponsored by the Washington Post), Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 2011. The panel also included Jim Lehrer (PBS), Donald Graham (publisher of the Washington Post), Albert Hunt (Bloomberg News), Ruth Marcus (New York Times), Professor Arthur Miller, and Chief Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal.
• Presenter, "Overview of Employment Discrimination Law," Orientation Sessions for Newly Appointed U.S. Magistrate Judges, Washington, D.C., Oct. 26 & Nov. 14, 2011.

Günther Handl

• “International Responsibility for Transboundary Harm/International Liability Regimes for Transboundary Harm,” Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, Netherlands, Jan. 18, 2012.
• “Managing the Risk of Offshore Oil and Gas Activities: The International Legal Dimension,” at Indonesian Government-sponsored International Conference on Liability and Compensation Regime for Transboundary Oil Damage Resulting from Offshore Exploration and Exploitation Activities, Bali, Indonesia, Sept, 21-23, 2011.
• “The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,” Academy of Legal Studies in Business, International Law Section, New Orleans, Louisiana, Aug. 13, 2011.

Pamela Metzger

• Presenter, “Justice Equality and A More Perfect Union: Community Recovery and Restoration After A Crisis,” American Bar Association Midyear Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 3, 2012.

Stacy Seicshnaydre

• “How Clinical Education Can Increase Lawyer Satisfaction Within the Legal Profession,” Panel Presentation, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, July 24, 2011.
• Speaker, “Suit Up for the Future” Louisiana State Bara Association High School Legal Institute, (representing Tulane Law School), New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2011.           
• “Lessons from Post-Katrina New Orleans”, Paper Presentation, U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development Leadership Training (to directors of all U.S. HUD programs in the state of Louisiana), New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 10, 2011.

Francis X. Shen

• ”Law and Neuroscience: What Prosecutors Need to Know,” Webinar presented to the California District Attorneys Association, Sacramento, California, 2011.

 Edward F. Sherman

• “Handling Mass Harms: Litigation Through Consolidation,” Chuo University Law School, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 29, 2011.
• “Compensating Victims of Mass Disasters,” Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 27, 2011.

Vernon V. Palmer

• ”The Quest to Implant Civil Law Method and Restrain Judicial Lawmaking: Tracing the Origins of Judicial Methodology in Louisiana,” 36th John H. Tucker, Jr. Lecture in Civil Law, Center for Civil Law Studies of the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Nov. 17, 2011.

James E. Duggan

• Received American Association of Law Libraries Presidential Certificate of Appreciation, “For his exemplary leadership, service and dedication to AALL, and for his tireless efforts to ensure AALLNET as a valuable member service and repository for AALL information in support of the profession of law librarianship”, 104th AALL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 26, 2011.

• Named a Stone Scholar (for early career contributions), by the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, Sept. 2011.

Martin J. Davies

• Interview with National Public Radio on the Costa Concordia, Jan. 19, 2012 (available at:
  http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145457651/rock-and-a-hard-place-what-to-do-with-concordia).
• Costa Concordia Interview, Mitch Albom Radio Show (Jan, 2012).
• Costa Concordia Interview, New Republic (forthcoming 2012).

James E. Duggan 

• Interview, “Business Model for Legal Research Raises Questions About Public Access,” New Orleans City Business, Feb. 17-23, 2012 at 20.

Mark S. Davis

• Interview, “Water is Louisiana’s Defining Resource,” Garland Robinette Show, WWL Radio, Jan. 31, 2012.
• Interview, “Views Collide At Meeting On Louisiana's Coastal Plan,” Louisiana Weekly (New Orleans, Louisiana), Jan. 30, 2012, at 1.
• Interview, “Coastal Master Plan Draws Critics, and Some Praise,” WWNO Radio News, Jan. 24, 2012 (available at: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wwno/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1897147 ).
• Interview, “Fishers Say Coastal Master Plan Could Destroy Their Livelihoods,”  Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), Jan.. 23, 2012. (available at:
  http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/01/fishermen_object_to_large_dive.html )

Jörg Fedtke

• Continued work with governorate legislators and executives in Kirkuk/Iraq aimed at the provision of services by provincial authorities and the development of legislative and administrative capacities within the governorate. The project is funded by the German Foreign Office.

Edward F. Sherman

• Interview, “BP Plaintiff Attorneys Request 6% Set-aside - Opponents Blast Measure as Improper and Unfair,” Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), Dec. 6, 2011, at C6.
• Interview, “Coast Guard Suit Expected to Make Few Waves for Bollinger - Analysts Expect It to Be Settled Out of Court,” Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana), Sept. 4, 2011, at E1.
• Interview, “Lawsuits in BP’s Gulf Spill Blame Game,” Montreal Gazette, Apr. 22, 2011.
• Interview, “Tulane Law School Honors Civil Rights and the Answer to Racism,” Birmingham Times (Alabama), Apr. 7, 2011.
• Taught at Chuo University Law School for three weeks in October, 2011 and joined Professor Colin Crawford for two weeks in November 2011 in visits to law schools and law firms in Beijing and Shanghai, China, concerning programs with Tulane Law School.

Elizabeth Townsend-Gard 

• Interview, “Copyright Controversy Has Scholars’ Attention,” Tulane New Wave, Aug. 1, 2011
  (http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/080111_copyright.cfm?RenderForPrint=1).
• Interview, “Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars’ Rights,” 57 Chron. Higher Educ., May 29, 2011, at A3. (Available at: http://chronicle.com/article/A-Professors-Fight-Over/127700/).