FACULTY•FOCUS Kevin Barry
Jeffrey Cooper
Neal Feigenson
Associate Professor PUBLICATIONS
Professor
Professor PUBLICATIONS
“Toward Universalism: What the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 Can and Can’t Do for Disability Rights,” Journal of Employment and Labor Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Vol. 31(2), (2011).
Jennifer Gerarda Brown Professor PUBLICATIONS E-Marriage: “DotCom” or “Dot-Org”?, Michigan State Law Review (forthcoming October 2011). In April, Brown presented “Getting Our Students in the Ring: Value Claiming as Empowerment” as a panel participant at the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution annual meeting. She also served as moderator for a seminar in May 2011 sponsored by the Connecticut Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution titled, “An Arbitration Grand Slam, Reestablishing the Goals for Quicker, Cheaper, Better Protocols for Corporate and Transactional Counsel.”
Frederick Tseshyang Chen Professor Emeritus In May 2011, Chen served as a discussant at the “International Frederick Conference on the Rule of Law in China” in Hangzhou, China. In August, he gave a presentation on American law to 25 judges from Xinjiang, China, who were visiting the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science, University of New Haven.
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Cooper was appointed by Connecticut’s Probate Court administrator to sit on the Probate Practice Book Advisory Committee. He also was elected an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
Susan R. Dailey Associate Professor of Legal Writing In June 2011, Dailey gave a presentation at the Association of Legal Writing Directors conference in Sacramento, Calif., titled, “Teaching for Lifelong Learning: Learning Portfolios for Integrating the Curriculum and Enriching the Learning Experience.” She also gave a presentation in July 2011 at the Applied Legal Storytelling Conference in Denver titled, “Teaching Narrative Theory Through Clint Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino.’”
William Dunlap Professor PUBLICATIONS “Courts Unlikely to Weigh in on Libya Conflict,” op-ed in the Connecticut Law Tribune, Aug. 8, 2011. Dunlap was the moderator of a worldwide teleconference exploring the extradition of Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The July 21 program was sponsored by the International Human Rights Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on International Law. He discussed “International Law and Homeland Security” during a University-wide symposium commemorating 9/11.
“Visual Technologies in Court,” Japanese Journal of Law and Psychology, Vol. 10(1), pgs. 62-73 (2011). “Age and Disability Biases in Pediatric Resuscitation among Future Physicians,” Rocksheng Zhong, Joshua Knobe, Neal Feigenson & Mark Mercurio, Clinical Pediatrics, DOI: 10.1177/0009922811410053 (2011). “The Brain Sciences in the Courtroom” (symposium contribution), Mercer Law Review, Vol. 62, pgs. 797-804 (2011). Feigenson presented “Enhancing Advocacy through Visual Displays: An Overview,” at the New York City Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Legal Staff Conference, Tarrytown, N.Y., in May 2011.
Marilyn Ford Professor The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has appointed Ford to its Connecticut Advisory Committee for a two-year term. Advisory committees in all states and the District of Columbia receive reports, suggestions and recommendations from individuals, public and private organizations, and public officials, and forward advice and recommendations to the commission.
Jane Grossman Adjunct professor Grossman ’98 was appointed by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy to a three-year term as a family support magistrate. Prior to this appointment, she was a longtime staff attorney for New Haven
Legal Assistance and has served in numerous capacities for the courts and advisory boards concerning the legal needs of low-income families. Magistrates decide cases involving child support, alimony, visitation and paternity.
Carolyn Wilkes Kaas Associate Professor Kaas was appointed to the Connecticut Chief Justice’s Commission on Civil ADR in the Courts. She presented classes at Mediation Training for Court Mediators in Citrus County, Fla., in April on ethics, new developments in mediation theory and practice, and cultural competence. She also presented “Integrating Professionalism in the Externship Program” at the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism in Minneapolis in April; presented a non-defensive communication workshop to AmeriCorps fellows in Hartford in May; presented “Beyond Best Practices: Integrating Cultural Competence into the Law School Curriculum” at the AALS Clinical Legal Education Workshop in Seattle in June; and presented “Mediation Ethics” at the Straus Institute at Pepperdine University workshop in Malibu, Calif., in June. Kaas also attended two in-depth workshops in non-defensive communication as part of her research for an article chronicling the increasing use of these communication practices by lawyers and mediators. She continues to co-chair the committee on Connecticut mandatory training for child advocates in divorce and custody matters, hosted by the School of Law.