Faculty News

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/).