2008FacultyNews Grant M. Hayden, professor of law, gave a presentation titled “The False Promise of One Share, One Vote” at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, held in May. William E. Hettrick, professor of music, announced the recent publication of his critical edition of music by Viennese conductor and composer Johann Herbeck (1831-1877), Selected German Works for Unaccompanied Men’s Chorus, in the series Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, published by A-R Editions, Inc. For more information on this volume, visit areditions.com/ rr/embellish and read the 2008 spring issue of Embellishments. Dr. Hettrick is at work on a second volume, which will contain additional works by Herbeck for men’s chorus and mixed chorus.
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William L. James, professor of marketing and international business, was named 2008 Teacher of the Year for the Frank G. Zarb School of Business. Teachers of the Year are selected by graduating students in each school. “What makes Teacher of the Year such a singular honor is that for the faculty member to be selected, that person needs to rank as a top faculty member by graduating students over a three- to five-year period of time,” said Hofstra Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Herman Berliner. Dr. James was recognized at the Hofstra Gala on May 1 and at commencement on May 18. Susan Joffe, assistant professor of law, gave a presentation titled “Risks and Opportunities: Legal Guidelines for Employee Screening and Interviewing” to the Nassau/Suffolk Nurse Recruiters Association on March 5. Lawrence W. Kessler, the Richard J. Cardali Distinguished Professor of Trial Advocacy, served as faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy Teacher Training Program held in March. Tom Klinkowstein, professor of fine arts, was a guest speaker at the Fashion Futures program at the University of East London on October 23. His presentation, titled “De-sign 2015,” portrays the requirements for the near future for designers to be “engineer-entrepreneurs.” He also conducted a workshop on the future of communities and the Internet at an event organized by Virtueel Platform in Amsterdam, Holland, on November 20 and 21, 2008. Professor Klinkowstein presented a 1 x 30 meter “diagrammatic narrative” about the future of design, A Day in the Life of a Networked Designer’s Smart Things or a Day in a Designer’s Networked Smart Things, 2030, at the DesignCenter Winkelhaak in Antwerp, Belgium, on June 6. Also contributing to the project were Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Carolyn Lloyd, Amarides Montgomery and Irene Pereyra. Stefan Krieger, professor of law, presented “Out of the Shadow: Clinical Legal Education” at the University of Chicago Mandel Legal Aid Clinic’s 50th Anniversary Symposium on February 23. In December Professor Krieger and Hofstra Law School launched the Center for Applied Legal Reasoning, a forum for studying theories of legal reasoning, researching issues related to solving legal problems, decision making in practice, and the development of teachers to train law students for the practice of law.
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Julian Ku, professor of law and associate dean for faculty development, was invited to speak at a November conference titled Universal Jurisdiction Ten Years After Pinochet: Ending Impunity or Decreasing Accountability? Hosted by The Global Law Forum at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, the conference took place at The Royal Horseguards in London with a fi nal public session at the House of Commons. The Global Law Forum invited Professor Ku because of his work on the problems raised by new systems of international criminal justice.
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