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Michael Hoeflich published a book, “Legal Publishing in Antebellum America” (Cambridge University Press), in April 2010. The book presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Mike Kautsch served as host at the School of Law for two delegations of foreign leaders, one from Iraq on April 1 and the other from Indonesia on July 22. The two groups were on a tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department in conjunction with the International Visitors Council of Greater Kansas City. Kautsch spoke to both delegations about freedom of information and open government laws. On April 9, he made a presentation at the 2010 Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium, “Live a Life That Matters.” He spoke on parody as a defense to infringement claims during a session titled, “What’s Mine is Not Yours: How to Find the Line between Lawful and Infringing Uses of Intellectual Property.” On April 23, Kautsch served as moderator of the 23rd annual Media and the Law Seminar in Kansas City, titled “OMG! u rtnp? (Oh my gosh! You read the newspaper?) How the digital age is changing media and the law.” He also served as a panelist during a pre-seminar session on crisis management and media response training for lawyers. During the 2010 Kansas Legislature, Kautsch provided research support to legislative leaders who were studying a bill to establish a shield law for journalists. In March, the Senate voted 39-1 and the House 116-3 to approve the bill. During the Kansas Press Association’s 118th annual convention in April, the organization gave Kautsch a leadership award recognizing his work with legislators. He wrote an account of the passage of the bill, “Kansas Enacts Shield Law by Wide Margin,” which was published by the Media Law Resource Center in New York (MediaLawLetter, April 2010, pp. 13-14). Pamela Keller presented with Betsy Six at the University of Kansas Course Redesign Colloquium on “Podcasting: Teaching Outside the Classroom” in May.
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Keller and Six also spoke in July at the Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference in Marco Island, Fla. They were part of a panel presentation with professors from Northwestern University School of Law on “Integrating Legal Writing and Legal Research: Collaborating with Librarians to Improve How Legal Research Is Taught.” Stacy Leeds made the following presentations: n Presenter, roundtable discussion on the Kansas Act and recent case law impacting tribal court jurisdiction, 10th Annual Native Nations Law Symposium, Mayetta, Kan., held in conjunction with the 14th Annual Tribal Law and Government Conference at KU Law, February 2010. n “The Significant Role of Tribal Courts for Tribal Economies,” Idaho College of Law conference on “Living in Balance: Tribal Nation Economics and the Law,” March 2010. n Fireside chat, “Indigenous Nations and the Environment,” Wake Forest University, April 22, 2010. n Panelist and moderator, “Cross-Jurisdictional Agreements between State and Tribal Entities,” panel on “Uniformity in Judgments and Sentences,” The Sovereignty Symposium XXIII, sponsored by the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, June 2, 2010. n “Indian Child Welfare and Child Support Enforcement in Tribal Courts,” Young Williams Child Support Services CLE Seminar, Washburn University School of Law, June 11, 2010. n Panelist, Past, Present and Future of Indian Law Clinics Deans and Associate Dean’s Panel, Fourth Annual Indian Law Clinics & Externship Programs Symposium titled “Borderland or Hinterland? The Role of Specialty Clinics in Legal Education,” hosted by the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M., June 21, 2010. Leeds also served on the editorial advisory board and was a contributing author for the Encyclopedia of American Indian Policy, Relations, and Law (CQ Press), edited by Finkelman and Garrison. On April 27-28, the Tribal Law and Government Center hosted a training session for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Safe Communities Team in conjunction with the U.S. Department
of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance. On Aug. 31-Sept. 1, the center hosted the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation for a training session funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice. Leeds is director of the Tribal Law and Government Center. In June, Leeds taught a course to Native American undergraduates as part of a pipeline grant program from the Law School Admissions Council. The program, called NA Plus, was hosted at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Elizabeth Weeks Leonard published “What I Talk about When I Talk about Health Law,” 18 Annals of Health Law 9-12 (2010), an invitation-only special edition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She also made the following presentation: “State Constitutionalism and the Right to Health Care,” panel on “State Constitutionalism: Past, Present and Future,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools annual meeting, Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 2, and at a panel on “Health Care Rights and Responsibilities,” Law and Society Association annual meeting, Chicago, May 27. n “Uncooperative Federalism: The Role of Dissent in Health Care Decisionmaking,” at the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Health Law Professors Conference, University of Texas School of Law, June 4; an International Seminar for Faculty, University of Kansas International Programs, May 6; and at the University of the Pacific-McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, Calif., March 17. n “Medical-Legal Partnerships” (with Trinia Arellano), CLE for the Greater Kansas City Society of Health Care Attorneys, Kansas City, Mo., March 31. n “Training the Next Generation of Medical-Legal Advocates in Law School and Beyond” (with Trinia Arellano), panel on Health, Law and Poverty at conference on “Vulnerable Populations and Economic Realities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Law Teaching,” Golden Gate University School of n
