UVA Lawyer - Spring 2010

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Faculty Briefs

Century” at the anual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in New Orleans, La. Bonnie also published an article on collective actions in public health in the American Journal of Public Health (with Gil Siegal), on prescribing of drugs to enhance mental performance in Neurology, and on the virtues of pragmatism in drug policy in the Journal of Health Care Law and Policy.

In January Tomiko Brown-Nagin was a panelist on “Student Activists as Law Makers,” at the Law School’s conference, Fifty Years After the Sit-Ins. In February she moderated, “Charter Schools: The Future of Public Education?” at the Law School’s Public Service and the Law Conference. In April Brown-Nagin was a panelist on “Race with History,” at From Slavery to Freedom to the White House: A Conference in Honor of John Hope Franklin, Duke University School of Law. In May she was a panelist on “Discovering a Pragmatic Tradition of Civil Rights Lawyering,” A Conference in Honor of William Nelson, New York University School of Law. Finally, Brown-Nagin reviewed Martha Minow, In Brown’s Wake (Oxford, 2010); Frymer, Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (Princeton, 2007); Julie Novkov, Racial Union (Michigan, 2008) in Book Review Edition, Tulsa Law Review (summer, 2010)(Sanford Levinson & Mark Graber, Guest editors).

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George Cohen has a number of books and chapters forthcoming; a casebook, The Law and Ethics of Lawyering (5th edition), with Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Susan P. Koniak, Roger C. Cramton, and W. Bradley Wendel ; a chapter, “How Fault Shapes Contract Law,” in Contract Law and Fault (Ariel Porat and Omri Ben-Shahar eds.); and “Interpretation and Implied Terms in Contract Law,” in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Boudewign Bouckaert & Gerrit De Geest eds.) In June Cohen will be a panelist at the 12th Annual Bench & Bar Conference of the Federal Circuit Bar Association at The Broodmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He will be speaking about Advance Waivers of Conflicts of Interest.

Anne Coughlin published an article in November in the Virginia Law Review entitled “Interrogation Stories.” It focuses on the ways in which police use victim-blaming narratives to shape the confessions provided by accused rapists. Coughlin is teaching the first course in the Law School’s Law & Public Service Program. All students enrolled in the program must take this course. It is offered as an elective to other students at the Law School. In March Coughlin presented a paper entitled “What the Police Do” at a conference being held at Harvard Law School to honor Bill Stuntz. In May she is giving a lecture at the

Judicial Conference of Virginia in Norfolk. The conference is attended by the Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia and by all judges on Virginia appellate courts. Her assignment is to provide a round-up of the Virginia appellate criminal case law decided in the past year. She has assembled a team of first-year Law students who are assisting her in preparing a memorandum describing the cases, which they will submit to the conference prior to her lecture.

Kimberly Emery’s ’91 article on parents and child-rearing decisions, co-authored with Robert Emery, Ph.D., and originally published in the Wake Forest Law Review, was reprinted in the Minnesota Family Law Journal. Her article submission was accepted for Volume 34 of the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy on “New Directions in ADR and Clinical Education Theory, Teaching and Practice.” Emery participated as a presenter and commentator in the Volume 34 Roundtable held at Washington University in November. The article is forthcoming this summer.

Brandon Garrett testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administra-


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