faculty news
Raj Bhala received a book publishing contract to write “Understanding Islamic Law.” The book will be published by LexisNexis and is designed for Islamic Law courses taught in English in law schools in the U.S. and around the world. The project will take about two years to complete. Bhala’s article, “Virtues, The Chinese Yuan, and the American Trade Empire,” was published in the Hong Kong Law Journal (Vol. 38, 2008). He presented the article in February in Toronto at Heenan Blaikie, one of Canada’s premier law firms, to an audience that included Canada’s former Minister of Trade. Bhala also presented his research titled “Doha Round Schisms: Numerous, Technical and Deep” at a symposium on the World Trade Organization (WTO) in February at Loyola Law School in Chicago. Along with Professor Steve McAllister, Bhala wrote an amicus brief for the United States Supreme Court in a case involving alleged dumping of enriched uranium by French producer-exporters into the American market. It is rare for the Supreme Court to accept certiorari in an international trade matter. The amicus brief argues that both WTO and American antidumping law apply only to goods, not to services such as uranium enrichment, and that is how it should be. LexisNexis has appointed Bhala to its Law School Publishing Advisory Board for a three-year term commencing Jan. 1, 2009. He received a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in September. Finally, Bhala completed the 9/11 Patriots’ Run Marathon in Olathe in a time of 3 hours and 44 minutes, and continued on for another 45 minutes for an Ultra Marathon of 30.5 miles – good
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for a second-place finish. The event is in remembrance of the victims of the terrorist attacks, and proceeds go to the Salvation Army. Robert Casad published the 2008-2009 supplement to Gard and Casad, “Kansas Code of Civil Procedure Annotated,” 4th edition (3 volumes). Shelley Hickman Clark, pro bono counsel for the Friends of Bethany Inc., a nonprofit group dedicated to the preservation of Bethany Place, a property listed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places, was a recipient of the Heritage Preservation Award for legal advocacy from the Shawnee County Historical Society. Joseph Custer co-authored with Chris Steadham a book titled “Kansas Legal Research” (Carolina Academic Press, 2008). The book is being used as the legal research text for the law school’s first-year students in Lawyering. Custer also wrote a book chapter in “Exploring Initiative and Referendum Law” (Hayworth Press, 2008). Michael Davis taught Comparative Religion & The State in Istanbul this summer. While there, he also spoke on accreditation at the Black Sea Countries Accreditation Association’s annual meeting, and on regulation of American lawyers to the Istanbul Bar Association. Martin Dickinson edited the 2008-2009 edition of “Federal Income Tax Code and Regulations: Selected Sections” (CCH). Christopher Drahozal published the following articles: “Codifying Manifest
Disregard,” 8 Nev. L.J. 234 (2007), as part of a symposium on “Rethinking the Federal Arbitration Act”; “Arbitration Costs and Forum Accessibility: Empirical Research,” 41 Mich. J. L. Ref. 813 (2008), as part of a symposium on “Empirical Studies of Mandatory Arbitration”; and “Busting Arbitration Myths,” 56 U. Kan. L. Rev. 663 (2008), which is the text of his inaugural lecture as the John M. Rounds Distinguished Professor of Law. Drahozal presented a paper on “Franchising, Arbitration, and the Future of the Class Action” at a symposium on franchising law, held March 7 at Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. The paper is co-authored with Quentin Wittrock, a partner at Gray Plant Mooty in Minneapolis; it will be published in the Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal at Ohio State. He presented a paper titled “Is There a Flight from Arbitration?” also co-authored with Wittrock, at the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop on Feb. 29, and at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, held Sept. 12 at Cornell Law School. Drahozal organized and moderated a panel and made a presentation on “Supreme Court Arbitration Jurisprudence: Future Issues” at the annual meeting of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section in Seattle on April 4. Drahozal is on sabbatical during the 2008-2009 academic year, working on two projects. First, he continues work as an associate reporter for the “Restatement (Third) of the U.S. Law on International Commercial Arbitration.” With Jack Coe, one of his co-associate reporters, Drahozal did a presentation on the “Restatement” at the Friday Forum of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration during its annual meeting on June 20 in Dallas.