EPA’s Watershed Implementation Plan Process” at a GW Environmental Law Association panel discussion on local water quality issues. He convened a workshop for academics on climate change adaptation at GW in November. Professor Glicksman also moderated panels on Legal Issues and the Gulf Oil Spill at the 40th anniversary celebration of the GW Law Environmental Program in November. In May, Phyllis Goldfarb presented “Using Narratives of Race and Criminal Justice” at the Southern Clinical Conference at the University of Alabama School of Law. In December, she presented two papers at the Society of American Law Teachers conference held at the University of Hawaii: a co-written paper on clinical program design and a paper on lessons to be drawn from the exoneration of a capital defendant. In May, Susan Jones spoke at a conference on Research and Pedagogical Trends in Entrepreneurial Outreach at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. She spoke at the National Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Conference in Miami in April, where she presented “The Arts’ Impact on Community Economic Development.” In March, Professor Jones presented “Innovative Approaches to Public Service through Institutionalized Action Research: Reflections from Law and Social Work” at the annual Ben J. Altheimer Symposium at the University of Arkansas School of Law. The conference theme was Reframing Public Service Law: Innovative Approaches to Integrating Public Service into the Legal Profession. Orin Kerr argued before the Supreme Court in March in the case of Davis v. United States. The issue concerned whether there is a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule when a search is authorized by precedent at the time of the search but that precedent is later overruled. Professor Kerr was mooted by faculty members before an audience of students to prepare for the case. Laird Kirkpatrick participated as a member of the evidence drafting committee of
the National Conference of Bar Examiners at their May meeting in Carmel, CA, where the committee prepared questions for the multi-state bar exam. Last winter and this spring, Kelly Knepper-Stephens argued three cases before the Maryland Court of Appeals. The cases presented issues concerning the interpretation of Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600 (2004) (J. Kennedy, concurring) involving the prohibited two-part interrogation technique where officers deliberately withhold Miranda warnings; the constitutionality of a jury instruction explaining that the state is not required to present forensic evidence; and the procedure required when a defendant writes a letter to the judge indicating a desire to discharge appointed counsel, but says nothing out loud in court. These cases were handled by the Federal Criminal Appellate students in the lower appellate court. In July, West will sponsor a roundtable on Cynthia Lee’s Criminal Law casebook (co-written with Angela Harris) in San Diego. She will present a paper at the annual Law and Society meeting in June. Professor Lee was invited to speak at the National Judicial College’s Annual Fourth Amendment Symposium in March. Also in March, she was invited to speak on a panel at UC Irvine’s Conference on Race, Law, and Socio-Economic Class. In April, Renée Lettow Lerner spoke to judges on the Mexican Federal Electoral Court on the topic “Oral Trials in the Adversary System” during a seminar at the Washington Center. Chip Lupu and Bob Tuttle presented several chapters of their forthcoming book Secular Government, Religious People in faculty workshops at the University of Virginia’s School of Law and Religious Studies Department. They also presented their forthcoming article “The Forms and Limits of Religious Accommodation” at a Cardozo Law School symposium. Gregory E. Maggs was chair of the executive committee of the American Association of Law Schools’ Section on
Commercial and Related Consumer Law in the 2010–2011 academic year. He also spoke at and moderated a roundtable discussion on new federal credit card regulations at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco in January. Michael Matheson spoke on “The International Criminal Court and Libya” and on “The Legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia” at GW Law. He also participated in meetings of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Public International Law and the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. Joan Meier is pleased to announce that DV LEAP received a $450,000 two-year grant to fund trainings of judges, lawyers, evaluators, advocates, and pro se litigants on the misuses of science in custody and abuse litigation and making the record for appeal. This development is in partnership with the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Abuse. DV LEAP also has launched the national consortium Take a Leap for Kids to bring together the leading organizations working on the failure of family courts to keep kids safe and to develop a multi-year, multi-level plan for reforms. The consortium’s first meeting was May 6. By late 2011, the consortium hopes to have a business plan in place and to begin sharing it with major funders. In March, at the request of DOJ’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW), Professor Meier, DV LEAP, and Rita Smith of the National Coalition against Domestic Violence organized a full-day federal roundtable on Protective Parent Litigation. Four DV LEAP clients, three other mothers, and one teenager spoke about their ordeals within family court cases in which the courts refused to allow the mothers to keep their children safe from an abusive father. In the afternoon, approximately 10 experts in protective parent advocacy including lawyers, advocates, psychologists, and organizers spoke about the system failures that lead to these outcomes. Numerous federal agencies were represented in the audience, and the OVW is dedicated to working to make change on this issue. In November, Professor Meier debated the leading criminal lawyer in Supreme Court confrontation rights