FACULTY This fall, Emily L. Sherwin completed a three-year project of extensive revisions to a textbook on remedies (written in collaboration with Professor Eisenberg). This book incorporates materials on equity first assembled by James Barr Ames and further developed by Zechariah Chafee; the book was expanded by Edward Re to include other aspects of remedies and will now appear as Sherwin and Eisenberg, Ames, Chafee, and Re on Remedies. Sherwin participated in a Boston University symposium about the new Restatement of Restitution, contributing an article on constructive trusts in bankruptcy that will appear in the Boston University Law Review. She also participated in a symposium on private law at Harvard Law School, contributing comments on remedies that will appear in the online version of the Harvard Law Review. She has several other articles in various stages of the editing process and continues to pursue a graduate degree in philosophy.
Steven H. Shiffrin, the Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law, published an article entitled “Freedom of Speech and Two Types of Autonomy” in Constitutional Commentary. In Seattle, Shiffrin served as a critic of papers by Corey Brettschneider, Brown University; Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University; Tommie Shelby, Harvard University; and Anna Marie Smith, Cornell University at an American Political Science Association political theory panel, “The Complexity of State Spending and Human Rights.” Shiffrin is working on a book entitled What’s Wrong with the First Amendment. He is the chair of the Admissions Committee and the president of Loaves and Fishes of Tompkins County. He blogs at religiousleftlaw.com.
This fall, Chantal Thomas was a visiting professor at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, where she taught International Economic Law to a class composed of
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students from twelve law faculties around the world, Mexico City to Moscow. In addition, her essay, “The Death of Doha? Forensics of Democratic Governance, Distributive Justice, and Development in the WTO,” was published as a chapter in the volume Global Justice and International Economic Law (Carmody, Garcia, and Linarelli, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2012). The essay elucidates reasons for the continued stalemate in World Trade Organization negotiations under the rubric of the Development Agenda adopted at the WTO’s 2001 Ministerial Conference in
dictions may have been easier to overlook with a smaller set of key players in earlier trade rounds; in the more inclusive negotiations following the Doha Ministerial, they are much harder to ignore. As director of the Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa, Thomas coorganized, with Professor Rana, a fall colloquium series, “Law, Revolution, and Reform in the Arab World.” This colloquium considered the constitutional and legal aspects of political transitions in the Arab world. (The colloquium will be
As director of the Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa, Thomas co-organized, with Professor Rana, a fall colloquium series, “Law, Revolution, and Reform in the Arab World.” This colloquium considered the constitutional and legal aspects of political transitions in the Arab world.
Doha. Many of the problems can be described as institutional —collective action problems that impede the coordination of state behavior potentially available from international institutions. Underlying and perhaps exacerbating these coordination difficulties, however, lie deep normative contradictions. These contra-
followed up by a scholarly conference in April 2012 in New York City.) In November, the Clarke Initiative also cosponsored a conference on the topic “Water Scarcity and Policy in the Middle East and Mediterranean.” The conference, held on November 4-6 at the Law School, addressed the