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SWALL president and presented “Hot Topic: Tech Tools and Tips” at the same meeting. Green’s review of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) annual meeting session, “K-1 CRIV Tools: Useful Resources for Working with Information Vendors,” was published in the September/October 2008 AALL Spectrum, Vol. 13, No. 1. John Head completed three books: n “General Principles of Business and Economic Law, published spring 2008 by Carolina Academic Press, designed for use in law schools and business schools in various countries. n “Losing the Global Development War: A Contemporary Critique of the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO,” published by Brill/Nijhoff in spring 2008. n “China’s Legal Soul: The Modern Chinese Legal Identity in Historical Context,” completed in July 2008 and now under production at Carolina Academic Press. In addition, Head published three law journal articles: n “Law and Policy in International Financial Institutions: The Changing Role of Law in the IFIs,” 17 Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy 194 (2008). n “In Whose ‘Best Interests’? – An International and Comparative Assessment of U.S. Rules on Sentencing of Juveniles,” 1 Human Rights and Globalization Law Review 89 (2008), co-authored with Professor Jelani Jefferson Exum. n “How Letters of Credit Operate in International Commercial Transactions,” 77 Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 16 (2008). Head also prepared a second edition of his monograph “The Asian Development Bank,” published by Kluwer Law International in its International Ency-
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clopaedia of Laws series on Intergovernmental Organizations. Head’s current writing project is a book titled “Great Legal Traditions: Civil Law, Common Law, and Chinese Law in Historical and Operational Perspective.” In March and April, Head served as Paul Hastings Visiting Professor of international law and finance at the University of Hong Kong, where he gave several public lectures, taught in two courses and conducted research. In late March, he visited Renmin (People’s) University of China and Peking University, both in Beijing, where he gave lectures and discussed collaborative publishing projects. Head received the Michael P. Malone award for leadership in international education at an April meeting of NASULGC (National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges) in Portsmouth, N.H. He has been awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento for the spring 2009 term. Head continues to chair the Graduate and International Programs Committee, serve on three universitywide committees, and to assist generally with the International and Comparative Law Program. During the spring 2008 term, Head served as the faculty sponsor for Edina Sudzuka, a visiting scholar from Bosnia. Webb Hecker presented “The Model Entity Transaction Act Comes to Kansas (Almost)” in June at the Kansas Bar Association Annual Meeting. Also in June, he conducted a seminar on corporate governance for the board of directors of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas. In September, the Kansas Bar Association Subcommittee to Study the Model
Entity Transaction Act, on which Hecker serves, completed its work and recommended introduction of the Act in the 2009 session of the Kansas Legislature. Mike Kautsch participated in planning and presenting the 21st annual Media and the Law Seminar, “Fourth Estate or Fifth Wheel? Government Curbs on Free Speech,” on April 18 in Kansas City, Mo. He served as moderator for the seminar, which offered seven hours of continuing legal education credit and was attended by approximately 300 media lawyers, educators, students, judges, journalists and members of the public. During the seminar, he conducted a discussion of legal ethics titled “Do Judges Have First Amendment Rights? Judicial Canons as Vehicles to Curtail Speech.” On Feb. 21, he testified before the Kansas Senate Committee on Elections and Local Government concerning a proposed amendment to the Kansas Open Meetings Act. On March 10, he testified before the Kansas Judiciary Committee regarding a proposed shield law that would give journalists a qualified testimonial privilege. His other activities included a copresentation Feb. 7 in Ellsworth, Kan., on Kansas open government laws. The program was sponsored by the Ellsworth County Independent/Reporter newspaper, and the attendees included area public officials. On March 1, he served as a judge for a regional mock trial competition in Olathe. The competition, open to Kansas high school students, was sponsored by the Kansas Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section Competition and presented by Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP. On March 7 on the Lawrence campus, he led two workshops on Creative