2 0 11 D E A N ’ S A N N U A L R E P O R T
Professor Larry Barnett presents in Gothenburg, Sweden.
17
2011 Global Externs Halak Mehta, whose placement took her to the United Nations, and Adam Gibbons, an extern with the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration. James Doyle (not pictured) was also placed at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
W I D E N E R L AW
Professor James R. May, the 2009-2011 H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law, traveled to Hungary to speak at a consultation entitled “The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Representation of Future Generations’ Interests in the new Hungarian Constitution” for the Hungarian Parliamentarian Ombudsman. His talk, “Constitutional Reformation and The Prospects of Environmental Rights for the new Hungarian Constitution,” is an outgrowth of work conducted by Professor May and Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development Erin Daly to explore constitutional environmental and human rights in an international context. The trip included a meeting with members of the U.S. Embassy in Budapest to discuss a variety of environmental and constitutional issues, including climate change. In Harrisburg, Associate Professor of Law D. Benjamin Barros presented “Organization in Population-Level and Social Mechanisms” at Erasmus University in the Netherlands. The talk was part of the conference on Causalities in the Biomedical and Social Sciences held there. Ann Conaway took the Delaware model abroad, lecturing at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Her topic: “Why Delaware? Choice of Forum and Law and Freedom of Contract in International Transactions.” Professor Larry Barnett traveled to Gothenburg, Sweden, to participate in the International Sociological Association meeting. There, he presented his study on social, economic, and demographic variables that help to explain whether same-sex nonmarital partnerships or same-sex marriage is recognized by law in 14 European Union countries. He also traveled throughout Italy, where he presented the study at universities in Florence,