Faculty Updates

Professor Flavia Berys

Professor Berys, Adjunct Professor for Real Property Finance, expanded her real estate company by adding new real estate agents and rebranding the company into a separate brokerage and property management company, formerly combined and now separate. Bookmark Realty is the new brand for the real estate brokerage, and the tagline is “Your Next Chapter Awaits.” The property management company is Solamar Realty. By being attorney-founded, these companies provide superior real estate advice and service to clients looking to sell, buy, or invest.

Vice Dean Susan Bisom-Rapp

J. Scott Bovitz

In March, Adjunct Professor J. Scott Bovitz was inducted into the prestigious American College of Bankruptcy. In 2023, Bovitz was selected as a Super Lawyer in bankruptcy for the 20th year in a row (every year that the program has been active in the Central District of California). This is a record held by fewer than 350 attorneys in the state, in all areas of the law.

Professor James Cooper

This spring, Vice Dean Bisom-Rapp spoke at two overseas events. On March 14, she delivered the Second Annual Malcolm Sargeant Memorial Lecture at Middlesex University - London. Malcolm Sargeant was her long-time co-author. During the decade they collaborated, they wrote eight major works on older workers and age discrimination in the US and UK. Her Sargeant Memorial Lecture is titled, “Older Women Workers, the Pandemic, Discrimination, and Lifetime Disadvantage.” The Vice Dean recently completed a book chapter on that subject. On March 16 and 17, she participated in the 20th International Conference in Commemoration of Professor Marco Biagi at the University of Modena, Italy. The conference theme was “The Green Transition and the Quality of Work.” On March 16, Vice Dean Bisom-Rapp was the discussant on a panel titled, “Linking Environmental Protection and Employment: The Role of Law.” She compared and contrasted papers presented by professors from France, Italy, Denmark, and Poland.

Professor Cooper has spoken at What Next.Law at Novo University in Lisbon, Portugal, at Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property, University of New Hampshire and First Meeting on Corporate Integrity and Global Legal Regulation, at FACAMP in Campinas, Brazil. His article Piracy in the Time of the Metaverse will be published in 63:3 IDEA: The Law Review of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property/U. of New Hampshire in Spring 2023. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Hill, L.A. Lawyer, and the Business Times of Singapore. He has appeared in numerous podcasts including TechXchange from of the Singaporean government.