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the text of his ASCL speech, “The Chinese Legal Order’s Hybrid Modernity.” Ellen D. Katz, professor of law, published “Leave It Up to Congress” in the National Law Journal in April and “Withdrawal: The Roberts Court and the Retreat from Election Law” in the Minnesota Law Review’s 2009 symposium issue. In addition, she presented “The Gamechanger?” at the symposium “How Far Have We Come Since 2000?” at the University of Miami Law School in January. James E. Krier, Earl Warren DeLano Professor of Law, gave a workshop at Cornell Law School in March about the evolution of property rights. His paper on the subject, “Evolutionary Theory and the Origin of Property Rights,” will be published in the Cornell Law Review in late fall 2009.
Nina A. Mendelson
Douglas Laycock, Yale Kamisar Collegiate Professor of Law, received the National First Freedom Award from the Council on America’s First Freedom in January. He spoke on “Religious Liberty as Liberty” at the University of Chicago Law School; “Pulpit Freedom: Taxes, Elections, and Religious Freedom” at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in San Diego; and “Religious Liberty in America” at Duke University Law School, all in January. He also gave a Keller Center for the Study of the First Amendment Lecture on “Substantive Neutrality Toward Religion,” at the University of Colorado in February, and the Inaugural Donald C. Clark Jr. Program in Law and Religion Lecture, on “The Religious Exemptions Debate,” at Rutgers-Camden Law School in April. Laycock gave a speech at a program on “Potential Tax Liability for Churches Engaged in Political Advocacy,” jointly sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Alliance Defense Fund, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in May; and spoke about “The Religion Clauses” to the annual State Solicitors General and Appellate Chiefs Conference of the National Association of Attorneys General in Colorado Springs in June. He planned to give the Robert T. Miller Professorship Distinguished Lecture, about religious liberty, at Baylor University on October 19.
Nina A. Mendelson, professor of law, presented a paper on disclosing executive supervision of agency decisions in May at the University of Chicago Law and Politics Workshop. She wrote “Six Simple Steps to Increase Contractor Accountability” in Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy, published this year by Harvard University Press; “Quick Off the Mark? In Favor of Empowering the President-Elect,” published in Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Volume 103; and co-authored “Preemption and Theories of Federalism,” published in Preemption
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Jessica Litman, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law, was elected to the American Law Institute; gave the 2009 annual Helen Nies memorial lecture at Marquette Law School; spoke at the Michigan Journal of Gender and Law Symposium on Privacy and the Cyberfuture; and spoke at the William & Mary Law School Institute of Bill of Rights Law Symposium on the “Boundaries of Intellectual Property.”
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