FACULTY NEWS & BRIEFS
Since 2012 BARBARA ARMACOST ’89 has participated in a unique book project in which pairs of law professors and theologians collaborated. The book explores what various parts of the biblical text might have to say about law and legal institutions. The group first met in the winter of 2012 for a roundtable conference in which each collaborating pair presented a first draft of its chapter. The reason for the law/theology collaboration was to make sure they were reading the biblical text in a way that did justice to its original context and audience but were also drawing enduring themes that could have something to say about modern legal, institutional, and ethical issues. Their initial roundtable brought together a diverse group of experts from the disciplines of theology and law. (Law professor contributors included, among others, David Skeel from University of Pennsylvania, Bob Cochran from Pepperdine University Law School, John Nagle
Last fall MARGO BAGLEY presented “Apple v. Samsung and Multinational Patent Litigation” to the J.B. Moore International Law Society at the Law School. She published Patent Law in Global Perspective, (Ruth L. Okediji and Margo A. Bagley, eds. Oxford University Press, 2014) and one of the included chapters, “Patent Barbarians at the Gate: The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of U.S. Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Disputes.” In January she presented that chapter at
from Notre Dame, and John Witte Jr. , from Emory University Law School). The discussion on their drafts was “rich and formative,” according to Armacost. Over the next year, each pair continued its collaboration, applying the insights gleaned from the conference. The book, Law and the Bible: Justice, Mercy and Legal Institutions, was completed in 2013 with an introduction by Witte. Armacost collaborated with Old Testament scholar, Peter Enns, on a chapter entitled “Crying Out for Justice: Civil Law and the Prophets.” More recently, Armacost participated in a panel discussion on the case Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby with Doug Laycock and Rich Schragger. Students from a range of organizations sponsored the panel (St. Thomas Moore, Law Christian Fellowship, and Advocates for Life), which was strategically scheduled for the day before the oral argument in the case. Armacost is also working on an article entitled “Immigration Policing: Federalizing the Local,” which explores the ways in which engaging state and local police in immigration enforcement changes the shape of policing in ways that are counterproductive to ordinary law enforcement.
Vanderbilt University School of Law. In February Bagley provided expert assistance to the government of Mozambique in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore 26th session negotiations
MICHAL BARZUZA published “Noise Adopters” in the Columbia Business Law Review 627. She was also a panelist at a conference on Financial Regulation and Comparative Corporate Governance at Tel Aviv University and on “Incorporation and the Nevada Delaware Debate, Power and Control” at the Law School in February. Last year Barzuza participated in conferences and workshops at UCLA, Fordham, Brooklyn, and Vanderbilt.
in Geneva, Switzerland. She also presented “Improving Search and Examination in Developing Country Patent Offices” at South Centre/Third World Network WIPO ICG Side Event in Geneva. In March Bagley presented “Issues in Patenting Genetic Resource-based Inventions” at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Dallas and served as a facilitator to the chair of the WIPO IGC 27th session.
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