Faculty Presentations Professor Peter Alexander was a presenter at the Office of the United States Trustee (Region 10) Chapter 7 Trustee Continuing Education Program. Alexander was a panelist for the “Bankruptcy Ethics” panel. Emeritus Professor Robert Beck spoke at the symposium on “The Future Course of Oil & Gas Jurisprudence II” at Washburn University Law School in October. His topic was: “Current Water Issues in Oil and Gas Development and Production: Will Water Control What Energy We Have?” In 1994, Professor Beck had spoken at “The Future Course of Oil & Gas Jurisprudence I” also at Washburn. In October, Beck spoke at the 12th Biennial Governor’s Conference on the Management of the Illinois River System which was held in Peoria. His topic was, “The Historical Foundations of Illinois Water Law: Private and Public.” His paper has been published on line as part of the Conference Proceedings, at http://ilrdss. sws.uiuc.edu/pubs/govconf2009/Plenary2/Beck.pdf. Beck also spoke at the 56th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in Banff, Alberta, Canada. His topic and the title of his paper was “Municipal Priorities and Preferences in Times of Scarcity: The Impact of Urban Demand on Natural Resource Industries.” Assistant Professor Chris Behan served as a faculty member at Stetson University College of Law’s Educating Advocates: Teaching Advocacy Skills conference in Gulfport, Florida in May. He also joined with Professor Hugh Selby of the Australian National University in co-presenting a seminar entitled “Different Ways to Do the Same Thing--Innovation and Recycling in Advocacy Teaching.” Behan was a guest speaker for the 53d Military Judge Course at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia. His speech was entitled “Old Wine in a New Bottle: Preparing for Daubert Challenges to First-Generation Scientific Evidence.” The Military Judge Course at the JAG School trains and certifies military judges from all United States Armed Services, as well as military judges from allied nations. Associate Professor Cindy Buys co-chaired a meeting of the American Society of International Law, Teaching International Law Interest Group in Washington, D.C. in March. She also moderated a CLE program in Chicago in March for the Illinois State Bar Association entitled, “Deportation, Divorce 18
and Disciplinary Complaints: Avoiding Immigration Pitfalls in Family Law.” Buys co-chaired a conference on Teaching International Law at Hofstra Law School in September. The conference is sponsored by the Teaching International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. Assistant Professor Lucian Dervan was the winner of a call-for-papers competition for the SEALS 2010 conference with his article entitled “Re-Evaluating Corporate Criminal Liability: Can the Department of Justice’s Internal Moral Culpability Standard be Added to the Respondeat Superior Test for Corporate Criminal Liability?” Dervan presented “Plea Bargaining with Terrorists,” at the Conference on Crime and Terrorism, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, at SIUC in April. Dervan presented “Terrorism Against America,” to students at Rosario University, Bogota, Colombia, in March (via Skype). Professor Leonard Gross made two presentations for a Continuing Legal Education program for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of IL, on “Ethics Issues While Representing Prisoners in Civil Rights Litigation.” Associate Professor Sue Liemer participated in a scholarship forum sponsored by the Association of Legal Writing Directors at Marquette University School of Law, in Milwaukee in October. In addition to presenting her own writing and helping to critique other law professors’ writing, Liemer was a member of the forum’s plenary panel that presented “Getting It Published.” She spoke specifically on “How to Choose a Title.” Liemer has been selected to serve as a Contributing Author for the ABA-IPL’s Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments. More specifically, she will be writing about developments in copyright and related areas of the law. Assistant Professor Hokulei Lindsey presented a work-in-progress, “Agreements Between Developers and Grassroots Community Groups Creating ‘Cultural Reserves’ in Hawai’i” in Chicago in April. Associate Professor Trish McCubbin spoke on a national ABA teleconference in March about rulemakings under the Clean Air Act to regulate
greenhouse gases. She also participated in a roundtable discussion of that same topic at a conference sponsored by the Duke Law School, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, and the University of North Carolina Law School; and spoke again on the topic at the Florida State University College of Law. In April, McCubbin spoke on “The Clean Air Act at the Crossroads,” at a conference at the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. She discussed the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Assistant Professor Michele Mekel was accepted into the American College of Legal Medicine. Clinical Professor Rebecca O’Neill taught a continuing legal education course on “Grandparents Raising Grandchildren” to the Illinois Senior Task Force-a group of attorneys throughout the state who provide legal services to seniors. The course included instruction about Grandparents’ Visitation, Guardianship, Custody and Adoption. Assistant Professor Tracie Porter presented a work-in-progress, “Creating an Even Playing Field with Lenders: Conflict of Interests and Fiduciary Obligations in the Residential Mortgage Loan Transaction” in Chicago in April. Porter presented as a panelist “What We’ve Learned: Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 and Other Interventions” in February during an Illinois Institute on Continuing Legal Education (IICLE) Real Estate Short Course in Chicago, Illinois. Assistant Professor Suzanne Schmitz facilitated a discussion of professionalism in negotiations as part of a recent continuing legal education program in Carbondale. Professor William Schroeder gave a presentation on “Involuntary Intoxication from the Ingestion of Prescription Medications as a Defense to a Criminal Charge,” at Rush-Presbyterian in Chicago in October. Associate Professor Mark Schultz spoke in November on “The Real Costs of Piracy Creative Industries for Developing Countries” at the IP Indaba, a conference in Johannesburg, South Africa hosted by Microsoft and the Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa. In November, Schultz moderated a panel at the Federalist Society National Convention on “Intellectual Property and Economic Growth.”