Faculty News

On November 13-14, 2009, the 2nd round of a Frankfurt-Tulane Workshop, entitled "Extraterritoriality:  Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalization," will take place at Tulane Law School.  Individual presentations will be followed by a round-table discussion of the papers delivered. 

Topics and presenters include:

Extraterritorial Legal Problems in a World without Nations: What the Medieval Jurists Could Teach Us
Professor James Gordley (Tulane University)

Traditionality and Extraterritoriality of Fundamental Rights
Professor Stefan Kadelbach (Goethe University)

The Radiating Effect of EU Law
Professor Jörg Fedtke (Tulane University)

The Extraterritorial Aspects of Admiralty Jurisdiction
            Professor Martin Davies  (Tulane University)

Financial Markets
            Professor William Lovett (Tulane University)

Extraterritorial Aspects of Aggregate Litigation
            Professor Edward Sherman (Tulane University)

Extraterritoriality of Environmental Laws from a European Perspective
            Professor Eckhard Reehbinder (Goethe University)

Extraterritoriality in the Context of WTO Law
            Professor Friedl Weiss (University of Vienna)

Final Comments
            Professor Gunther Handl (Tulane University) and Professor Joachim Zekoll (University of Frankfurt) 

Jörg Fedtke will present the 5th session of the Civil Law Workshop/Saúl Litvinoff Series at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center on Monday, November 9th, 2009.  The topic of the series is "Civil Law and Common Law: Cross-Influences, Contamination, and Permeability."  The title of Professor Fedtke's talk is "Time to Move On Challenging a Tired Division Common Law Methods in a Civil Law System."  Tulane law professor Ronald J. Scalise, Jr. is an Editor of the Saúl Litvinoff Series.

Tania Tetlow was invited to (and did) present her article on "Discriminatory Acquittals" to the faculty of the Washington University Law School on September 11th. 

Gabe Feldman 's article The Puzzling Persistence of the Single Entity Argument for Sports Leagues:  American Needle and the Supreme Court's Opportunity to Reject a Flawed Defense has been accepted for publication by the Wisconsin Law Review.  The article was also just cited by the Petitioner's Brief to the Supreme Court in American Needle v. NFL.

JAMES DUGGAN:  

• Served as President and presiding officer at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting and Conference in Washington, D.C., July 25-28.  The conference, which was attended by approximately 3,000 law librarians, invited guests, speakers, and vendors, focused on his chosen theme “Innovate”.  He presided over the AALL Executive Board Meeting, Opening of Exhibits, Recognition Luncheon, Business Meeting, Opening Session, and Closing Banquet.  He also moderated a session and introduced the keynote speaker, Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law School), who spoke about the future of the Internet and Law Libraries.
• Was an invited delegate to the China-U.S. Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries, held May 27-30^th in Beijing.  Spoke as part of the Opening Ceremonies.
• Was appointed to the American Advisory Board of the Chinese American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL), with a  service term through June 30, 2012.
• Was the featured speaker at the May 21, 2009 Meeting of the Chicago Association of Law Libraries (CALL).
• Represented AALL at the Mayflower II meeting in Washington D.C, May 19.  (Mayflower II consists of representatives of AALS, LSAC, the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, AALL, NCBE, NALP, CCJ, NCBP, and Access Group). 

ROBERT FORCE:  

• On June 4-5, attended an International Conference on Maritime Pollution Liability and Policy co-sponsored by Dalian Maritime University and the University of Maastricht.  The conference was held in Dalian, PRC.  He delivered a paper titled  “A Comparison of the Recovery of Compensation for Injury to Natural Resources under the 92 CLC and Fund Conventions with the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990.”   He also chaired one of the sessions.
• He also gave three lectures on the proposed Rotterdam Rules which is a new Carriage of Goods by Sea regime. The lectures were in Beijing, Wuhan and Shanghai.

CLAIRE DICKERSON:

• Presented on May 15, 2009 at the University of Stellenbosch, in Stellenbosch, South Africa, at a conference organized jointly by the International Association of Legal Science, and the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists.  Topic: OHADA on the Ground: Harmonizing Business Laws in Three Dimensions.
• For OHADA-Nigeria, presentation in Lagos, Nigeria on June 3, 2009.  Topic: OHADA and Doing Business in Africa: An Academic Perspective.
• For the Public Law Center’s Legislative Drafting seminar, presentation on June 24, 2009.  Topic: Drafting laws for commercial transactions.
• Published Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons from the South on Law and Business Norms, in Law and Economics: Toward Social Justice (Dana Gold ed.: Elsevier book series Research in Law and Economics 2009). 

VERNON PALMER:  

• co-edited with Elspeth Reid the first comparative work on Louisiana and Scots private law.  “Mixed Systems Compared: Louisiana and Scots Private Law” , published by Edinburgh University Press, including his chapter “Contracts of Intellectual Gratification.”
• edited and published the Bicentennial Papers of the Louisiana Digest of 1808 in the Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, which appeared in late August. 
• Published his Wainwright lecture at McGill “Quebec and Her Sister Mixed Jurisdictions” in the McGill Law Review (summer 2009).
• presented a new research project “Immaterial Loss and Moral Damages in European Contract Law” to the “Common Core” group in Turin this last June.

 MARK DAVIS:  

•  authored “Effective Coordination and Cooperation Between Ecological Risk Assessments and Natural Resource Damage Assessments: A New Synthesis”,  to be published in Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, October 2009
• Authored “Preparing for Apportionment: Lessons from the Catawba River”, published in the Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal, June 2009
• Was briefly featured in the documentary “The Yes Men Fix the World,” currently airing on HBO and slated for theatrical release in October.  The Yes Men impersonate spokespersons for big companies and government agencies to both satirize them and draw attention to underlying issues. 

ELIZABETH TOWNSEND GARD 

• has been invited to be the keynote speaker on  “Copyright and the University in the Era of Google Books” to be held November 13, 2009, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona.  

Adeno Addis

Publications

Symposium: International Judges: Identitarian Anxiety and the Nature of Inter-tribunal Dialogue 9 Chicago J. Int’l L. (2009)

Imagining the International Community: The Constitutive Dimension of Universal Jurisdiction 31 Human Rights Quarterly 129 (2009)

Torture as a Counterterrorism Strategy ___ Chuo L. Rev. (forthcoming, 2010) 

Conferences
Participated at a conference held at the Hague on June 8, 2009, on “Fighting Impunity and Promoting International Justice.”  The conference assembled invited academics, government officials and presidents of international courts and tribunals. 

Participated on a jurisprudence panel and presented a paper at a conference held at Yale Law School (“Realistic Idealism”) honoring the work of Professor Michael Reisman of the Yale Law School.  The paper, which will be published as a chapter in a volume celebrating Reisman’s work, was entitled “Law as A Process of Communication: Reisman Meets Habermas.”  The piece compares Reisman’s theory of communication with Jurgen Habermas’s discourse theory of law.

Gave three lectures at Chuo University (Japan), as part of the Tulane-Chuo exchange program.

Jeanne Carriere

•  Presented “The English Constitution in Shakespeare’s Richard II” on the Law and Literature panel at SEALS on August 3, 2009
•  Co-edited  Yiannopoulos’ Civil Law Property Coursebook, 9^th ed. (Baton Rouge: Claitor’s 2009) (with Dian Tooley-Knoblett of Loyola and J.R. Trahan of LSU).

Martin Davies

• delivered presentations on “Time Charters: Last Voyage and Related Issues” and “Rule B Attachment”  at an International Chartering Seminar organized by Intertanko in Tokyo, Japan, on May 14^th, 2009.
• delivered a presentation on “Double insurance and contribution” at the  Australian Insurance Law Association/Queensland Law Society Insurance Law Intensive in Noosa, Australia, on May 16^th, 2009.
• participated in invitational National Intelligence Council Workshop on Piracy and Counter Piracy in Herndon, VA, on June 12^th, 2009.
• delivered the Annual Address of the Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission in the Federal Court of Australia in Brisbane, on July 2^nd, 2009.  The topic was “More Lawyers But Less Law: Maritime Arbitration in the 21^st Century”.  The Address was video-linked to federal courthouses in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth.
• was quoted by Newsday on piracy laws (and by the most recent Tulanian on the same topic) and by the Press of Atlantic City on maritime liens in relation to a dispute over seizure of houseboats in a marina.

Onnig Dombalagian

• delivered a presentation entitled “A Virtuous Cycle?:  Legal and Regulatory Responses to the Rise in Shareholder Activism,” at the George A. Leet Business Law Symposium, “Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance:  Heroes or Villains?”, sponsored by the Center for Business Law and Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, April 17, 2009.
• His article, “Requiem for the Bulge Bracket?:  Revisiting Investment Bank Regulation,” has been accepted for publication in volume 85 of the Indiana Law Journal (2010 forthcoming).
• Testified as an independent legal expert at a field hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs chaired by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) entitled “Alleged Stanford Financial Group Fraud: Regulatory and Oversight Concerns and the Need for Reform.”  The field hearing took place on Aug. 17, 2009, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Joerg Fedtke

• Co-authored a 40+-page update on German tort law (with Dr Florian Wagner-von Papp of UCL), due to appear in the European Tort Law Yearbook 2008 (ed. Koziol/Steiniger). A second contribution to a volume on the legal implications of genetically modified organisms (agricultural products in particular) in Germany will appear soon in a volume published by the European Center for Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) in Vienna.
• Engaging with Foreign Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, together with Sir Basil Markesinis), a book about comparative methodology, appeared two or three months ago, as did an Italian edition of an earlier book with Sir Basil - Judicial Recourse to Foreign Law.

Gabe Feldman was quoted by the press: