Faculty Accomplishments Discovery
Johanna Bond published “Gender, Discourse, and Customary Law in Africa” in the Southern California Law Review and made several presentations on related topics, including African marriage law and the problem of early marriage. She spoke at William & Mary, the University of Florida and the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law. You can read her blog commentary at intlawgrrls.blogspot.com. Christopher Bruner traveled to Russia with a team of corporate law experts to hold discussions on corporate and securities law with several judges and other representatives of the Supreme Arbitrazh Court, as well as representatives of Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development. In addition to his presentations in Russia, Bruner spoke at Indiana University-Bloomington Maurer School of Law and the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on post-crisis corporate governance reform efforts. Bruner also participated in an online forum on the SEC’s new proxy access rule at The Conglomerate, a widely followed blog focusing on corporate law and securities regulation. Mark Drumbl presented his work on international criminal law in public lectures to the law faculties at Melbourne,
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Sydney, Monash, Bond and Australian National universities. Drumbl was the keynote speaker at the Melbourne Journal of International Law Annual Commemoration and the Rethinking International Criminal Conference held at the University of Sydney. He wrote a book chapter on child soldiers in Collective Violence and International Criminal Justice—An Interdisciplinary Approach. He gave a radio interview to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on the case of Omar Khadr and whether child soldiers should be held accountable for war crimes. Susan Franck published a book chapter, “Considering Recalibration of International Investment Agreements: Empirical Insights,” in The Evolving International Investment Regime, and an article, “The Crossroads of Investment Arbitration,” in the American Society of International Law Proceedings. She made presentations on international investment law topics, including empirically assessing ICSID, in Australia, Switzerland, France and Germany. Franck also co-organized the major annual conference for the American Society of International Law, International Economic Law Interest Group. The conference, titled International Economic Law in a Time of Change: Reassessing
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Legal Theory, Doctrine, Methodology and Policy Prescriptions, was held in Minneapolis in November. Lyman Johnson published “CounterNarrative in Corporate Law: Saints and Sinners, Apostles and Epistles” in the Michigan State Law Review and gave a number of corporate law talks, including presentations at Emory Law School and the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Johnson also co-authored an amicus brief in a case now being heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, Matrixx Initiatives Inc. v. Siracusano, involving the over-the-counter nasal spray Zicam and a securities fraud claim under Rule 10b-5. Johnson served as an expert witness on corporate law issues for the plaintiff in a trial in Louisville, Ky., that resulted in a $9.4 million verdict for the plaintiff. Tim Jost has continued his work as a consumer representative with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and as an expert on the Affordable Care Act. He has given presentations at the Federal Bar Association in New Orleans; the Hobby Center in Austin, Texas; Princeton University; the University of Pennsylvania; and in Washington. He published a second paper with the Commonwealth Fund
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