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symposium on “Trade, Investment, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities Associated with China’s Rise as a World Economic and Political Power,” University of Texas School of Law, February 2009. Bhala also presented this paper at the KU Faculty Discussion Club in February. n “Doha Round Schisms: Numerous, Technical, and Deep” (published in the Loyola (Chicago) International Law Journal), Faculty Workshop Series on Comparative Law, Villanova University School of Law, February 2009. Bhala finished first in the 9/11 Patriots Marathon in Olathe, Kan., with a time of 3:38:37. He went on to complete an ultramarathon (31.4 miles). Bhala also ran a half-marathon in April in Lawrence. He finished second in the 45-49 age group with a time of 1:33:39. Robert Casad published the annual supplements for Kansas Code of Civil Procedure Annotated (three volumes) and Jurisdiction and Forum Selection. He also published a memoir, “Coming of Age in Kansas, 1929-1954,” that gives an account of his childhood and the towns he lived in growing up. Joseph Custer has served this year as president of the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries. In February, his chapter submission, “Researching Initiatives and Referendums in Arkansas,” was published in “Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law,” a Haworth Press book. In April, he received the 2009 Open Division LexisNexis/American Association of Law Libraries Paper of the Year Award for “The Truthiness of Thinkable Thoughts Versus the Facts of Empirical Research.” Custer consulted on a pro bono basis with a judge and district attorneys at the Franklin County Courthouse in May concerning an update to their law library. He spoke in July at the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on the subject of legal research tools. Since July, Custer has been serving as vice chair for the Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum Committee. He published “Kansas Legal Research Teachers Manual” (Carolina Academic Press, 2009) in August, with Christopher Steadham as co-author.
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Mike Davis gave a CLE presentation on initiative and referendum issues in early June at the annual convention of the Kansas City Attorneys Association. In July, he began serving on an ad hoc panel of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation on the delivery of backroom services to other community foundations. In August, he began serving on a special Kansas Judicial Council committee on common interest communities. Martin Dickinson edited the 2009-2010 edition of “Federal Income Tax Code and Regulations: Selected Sections,” published in July by CCH. The book is used at 113 law and business schools across the country. In May, he received the Dean Frederick J. Moreau Award for commitment to student advising. Dickinson was included in both the tax law and the trusts and estates categories in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America (August). And in March, he testified before the Taxation Committee of the Kansas House of Representatives, supporting changes in the Kansas estate tax. The changes were adopted by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Christopher Drahozal was named associate dean for research and faculty development at KU Law. He also published the following articles: n “Is There a Flight from Arbitration?” 37 Hofstra Law Review 71 (2008), with Quentin Wittrock. The article was featured in a column in the online Wall Street Journal on June 1. n “Private Ordering and International Commercial Arbitration,” 113 Pennsylvania State Law Review 1031 (2009), for a symposium on “Building the Civilization of Arbitration.” n “Restating the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration,” 113 Pennsylvania State Law Review 1333 (2009), with George Bermann, Jack Coe and Catherine Rogers, for a symposium on “Building the Civilization of Arbitration.” n “Disenchanted? Business Satisfaction with International Arbitration,” 2(5) World Arbitration & Mediation Review 1 (2009). n “Business Courts and the Future of Arbitration,” 10 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 491 (2009), for a symposium on “Whither Arbitration?”
n “Buckeye Check Cashing and the Separability Doctrine,” 1 Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation 55 (2009). n “Franchising, Arbitration, and the Future of the Class Action,” 3 Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal 275 (2009), with Quentin Wittrock, for a symposium on franchising law. Drahozal continued his service as chair of the Consumer Arbitration Task Force of Northwestern University School of Law’s Searle Civil Justice Institute. The task force issued a preliminary report in March on “Consumer Arbitration before the American Arbitration Association,” available at www.searlearbitration.org. Drahozal held a policy briefing on the report on March 11 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and made a presentation on the study to the Searle Board of Overseers at a meeting at Northwestern Law School on April 29. Drahozal has testified three times before Congress on matters arising out of the Searle study: at a hearing on “Protecting Main Street from Lawsuit Abuse” before the Senate Republican Conference on March 16; at a hearing on “The Federal Arbitration Act: Is the Credit Card Industry Using the Act to Quash Legal Claims?” before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the House Judiciary Committee on April 28; and at a hearing on “Arbitration or ‘Arbitrary’: The Misuse of Arbitration to Collect Consumer Debts” before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 22. He also participated in a roundtable workshop on debt collection arbitration and litigation held by the Federal Trade Commission on Aug. 6 in Chicago. In addition to participating in the panel discussion, Drahozal also made a presentation on “Consumer Arbitration and the FAA: A Primer.” Along with the other co-reporters, Drahozal presented preliminary draft No. 2 of the Restatement, Third, of the U.S. Law on International Commercial Arbitration at a May 17 meeting with the members consultative group for the project in Washington, D.C. Drahozal did a presentation on “The Federal Arbitration Act and its Impact on State Arbitration Laws” before 120 state appellate judges and justices at a symposium sponsored