UM Lawyer FALL/WINTER 2006-07 • Faculty Notes

Faculty Notes

Professor Kristi Bowman is a visiting professor from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Her article “Seeing Government Purpose Through the Objective Observer’s Eyes: The Evolution—Intelligent Design Debates” was recently published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Another article, “Science Under Siege,” was published in Counsel, a legal journal for England and Wales. On Aug. 11, she lectured on intelligent design at the MidSouth Education Law Conference, and, on Sept. 5, she delivered a faculty colloquium lecture at Marquette University Law School titled “Who is Teaching What? Evolution, Creationism and Intelligent Design in Public Schools.”

Professor John R. Bradley’s book, Mississippi Workers’ Compensation, was published in July by Thomson/West. The 632-page publication is a comprehensive treatise on a topic about which Bradley has written numerous articles and has developed a reputation as an expert. The work includes the overlap of workers’ compensation and tort law, and was co-authored by Linda Thompson, a workers’ compensation administrative judge.

Croft Associate Professor of International Law and Jessie D. Puckett Jr. Lecturer Charles H. Brower II continues to serve on the executive council of the American Society of International Law and the executive committee of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA). He also will co-chair the ITA’s annual workshop in June 2007. In addition, Brower addressed a meeting of the International Association of Judges on the topic of international arbitration in November 2006. His lengthy entry on arbitration will appear in the next edition of the Max Planck Institute’s Encyclopedia of Public International Law, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Thomas Clancy continues his duties as director of the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law, which is expected to host six conferences for trial and appellate judges on search and seizure, four conferences for police on computer searches, the annual Fourth Amendment Symposium on March 30, 2007, and three conferences for state attorneys general on cybercrime. His article “Seizures of Persons” was submitted to law journals in August, and he recently completed “What Constitutes a Search within the Meaning of the Fourth Amendment.”

Professor George Cochran was lead counsel in the 11th Circuit’s decision in Amlong & Amlong, PA, v. Denny’s, Inc., 457 F.3d 1180 (11th Circuit 2006) that reversed a sanction against lawyers and their firm in excess of $400,000. In addition to involving one of the most expensive sanctions ever imposed, the case, which has been active for 10 years, continues to be the longest in litigation. Cochran serves on the board of directors for the Louisiana/Mississippi Innocence Project and has completed his 18th year as a visiting professor at the Fordham Law School.

Dean Samuel M. Davis, Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government, serves as vice president and as a member of the board of directors of the Mississippi Children’s Justice Center. He also serves on the board of directors of North Mississippi Rural Legal Services and on the board of directors of the Mississippi Equal Justice Foundation. He has been appointed an ex officio member of the Mississippi Access to Justice Commission. He also serves as an elected member of the American Law Institute and is a member of the Professionalism Committee of the Mississippi Bar and the board of the Fellows of Young Lawyers.

Assistant Professor Kyle Duncan has an article in an upcoming issue of the Villanova Law Review titled “Subsidiarity and Religious Establishments in the U.S. Constitution.” This summer, he completed another article, “Written with the Finger of Antonin: Bringing the Decalogue Dissent down from the Mountain.” Last spring, Duncan delivered a speech at an NCJRL Internet crime conference titled “Child Pornography and First Amendment Standards.” A version of that speech will appear in an upcoming volume of the Mississippi Law Journal.

New to the faculty

Chris Green

Assistant Professor Chris Green formerly taught philosophy of law and medical ethics at the University of Notre Dame and is looking forward to discussing law in the classroom full time. Green completed his undergraduate studies in politics at Princeton University before attending Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor for the Yale Law Journal. After graduating, Green clerked for Judge Rhesa Barksdale of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and then practiced in the Jackson office of Phelps Dunbar for two years before pursing his doctorate in philosophy from Notre Dame. Green said he’s been fascinated with the study of law since his first exposure to it. While he is interested in a variety of areas in law and is currently teaching courses in commercial law, Green said his “main focus is the Constitution and criminal law.” Green and his wife, Bonnie, are expecting their first child in December.

A. Kate Margolis

Visiting Professor Kate Margolis, a graduate of UM School of Law, is exchanging practicing law with the Bradley Arant firm in Jackson for teaching at Ole Miss. She said even though this is her first time as a law instructor, teaching has been in the back of her mind for as long as she can remember. Prior to graduating from law school, Margolis worked for Secretary of State Dick Molpus and Assistant Secretary of State for Elections Constance Slaughter-Harvey, an experience that prepared her for her future law career. Margolis’s law expertise ranges from commercial litigation to advising clients on campaign finance, lobbying and ethics laws. She and her husband, Thomas Fisher, live in Oxford.

Kristi Bowman

Visiting professor Kristi Bowman, who is on leave from Drake University, has joined the UM law faculty for the 2006-07 school year. Before becoming an instructor, Bowman practiced law at Franczek Sullivan, PC, in Chicago, where she represented school districts before state and federal courts, and successfully argued law education cases twice before the 7th Circuit. Bowman said she was mainly involved in consultation work in addition to litigation. However, Bowman said she missed the philosophical side of law. Bowman graduated from Duke University with both a master’s degree in humanities and a Juris Doctorate. While there, she was articles editor for the Duke Law Journal and associate executive editor for the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy. Bowman’s work focuses primarily on constitutional law, civil rights and educational policy. She is writing about legal and social issues implicated by high-school science teachers providing instruction about evolution, creationism and intelligent design.

Research Professor Joanne Gabrynowicz conducted research in Thailand, India, Malaysia and Japan over the summer of 2006. Through meetings with legislators and educational leaders, she discussed potential collaborative projects between the National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center and their schools. She presented her paper “The Disasters Charter” at the International Institute of Space Law Conference on Aug. 3 in Bangkok, Thailand. Gabrynowicz made a report on her findings at a Department of Commerce/NOAA meeting in Washington, D.C., in September. In addition, she moderated the Space Law Panel at the American Bar Association Forum on Air and Space Law at the annual mid-year conference in St. Louis, Mo.

Assistant Professor Christopher R. Green joined the faculty at Ole Miss this year after receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy in May 2006 from the University of Notre Dame. His doctoral dissertation was titled “The Epistemic Parity of Testimony, Memory and Perception.” His article “Originalism and the Sense-Reference Distinction” was published in the St. Louis University Law Journal in 2006, and his article “Suing One’s Sense Faculties for Fraud: ‘Justifiable Reliance’ in the Law as a Clue to Epistemic Justification” will be published in Volume 36 of the journal Philosophical Papers.

Professor Karen Green serves as adjunct professor for the University of Alabama School of Law in the taxation program. During the summer session, she taught Taxation of Partnerships, and she will be teaching Advanced Partnership Tax in fall 2007. The program is offered to attorneys throughout Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Mississippi by means of videoconferencing and Web-based technologies. The faculty also includes professors from the law schools of Emory University, Georgia State University, the University of Alabama and the University of Tennessee.

Assistant Professor Matthew Hall completed the article “Guilty but Civilly Disobedient: Reconciling Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law.” In spring 2006, his latest national security article, “Constitutional Regulation of National Security Investigation: Minimizing the Use of Unrelated Evidence,” appeared in the Wake Forest Law Review.

Professor Marc M. Harrold, senior counsel for the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law and visiting professor, published the article “Computer Searches of Probationers—Diminished Privacies, ‘Special Needs’ & ‘Whilst Quiet Pedophiles’—Plugging the Fourth Amendment into the ‘Virtual Home Visit.’” He presented the findings from this article at national training sessions and conferences, most recently in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Atlanta, Ga., and Dallas, Texas. He also has written two shorter articles on this subject. Harrold and fellow professor Ronald Rychlak recently completed their annual update for a book they co-authored, Mississippi Criminal Trial Practice (West). Harrold prepared a successful asylum petition on behalf of a minister from Myanmar, Burma, who was subject to religious persecution upon returning to his home country. He also is a regular columnist for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson.

Professor Michael Hoffheimer, Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Distinguished Lecturer, spent the summer researching the defense of necessity in criminal cases. His article, “The Future of Constitutionally Required Lesser Included Offenses,” appears in the most recent issue of the Pittsburgh Law Review, and he published the article “Awara and the Post-Colonial Origins of the Hindu Law Drama” in the most recent issue of the peer-reviewed Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. During the past year, courts in Mississippi, Kansas and West Virginia have cited his scholarship. He chairs the speakers committee that brought two nationally prominent scholars to the law school in the fall and hosted a series of faculty lunch presentations. Hoffheimer also helped coordinate the law school’s participation in a national teach-in on Guantanamo Bay in October.

Assistant Professor Kali N. Murray authored an article, “Rules for Radicals: A Politics of Patent Law,” which was published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law in fall 2006. She presented her current work, “The Cooperation of Many Minds: Domestic Patent Reform in a Multi-Institutional Perspective,” at the New Scholars Workshop at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools annual meeting in Palm Beach, Fla., and at the sixth annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (Boalt Hall School of Law), Berkeley, Calif. She is also currently serving a one-year term as an executive member of the AALS Property Section.

Professor Gary Myers has two new book contracts with West Group, which has agreed to publish his new book on the interrelationship between two major fields of law—antitrust and intellectual property. Titled The Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials, the book will be published this spring. Myers is the sole author of the 800-page book. West Group will also publish the third edition of Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials, co-authored by David Lange (Duke) and Mary LaFrance (UNLV) in summer 2007. Myers and his co-authors, over the past summer, completed and published the 2006 supplement to the second edition of their intellectual property casebook. This 263-page volume covers developments in patent, copyright and trademark law in the last two years. Myers is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the Members Consultative Group on Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law and Judgments in Transnational Disputes.

Professor Jack Nowlin’s article “Conceptualizing the Dangers of the Least Dangerous Branch” has been accepted for publication by the Connecticut Law Review and will appear in early 2007. Nowlin also presented this article in June at the Lehrman Summer Institute in Princeton, N.J., which is co-sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Nowlin also has completed a book chapter, “The Judicial Assault on Human Dignity,” which will appear in a volume edited by Edward B. McLean. Over the summer, Nowlin taught at the Blackstone Legal Fellows program, where he discussed “Natural Law and the Constitution” with 99 law students from across the nation. He was selected as Outstanding Law Professor of the year by the UM law student body in spring 2006.

MDLA Professor and Associate Dean Ronald J. Rychlak traveled to Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand, in August to present the paper “The International Criminal Court in a Changing World” to the triennial meeting of the International Federation of Catholic Universities. Also in August, The Legal Times published his piece “Against the Odds: Smart Money Won’t Bet on the Feds’ Latest Push to Stop Internet Gambling.” Earlier this year, his co-authored article “Anticipatory Search Warrants: Constitutional Tools for Fighting Crime” was published in Engage, a political journal. In March, Rychlak traveled to Rome, where he made a presentation on “Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons” at the International Conference on Concepts of Peace and War in the Abrahamic Religions. He also recently spoke at the annual SEALS meeting, at the Mississippi Law Update CLE in Natchez and at the University of South Dakota.

Assistant Professor Paul M. Secunda has a book review in the Journal of Law & Education next year titled “‘At Best an Inexact Science’: Delimiting the Legal Contours of Specific Learning Disability Eligibility Under IDEA.” Additionally, he had other law review pieces published in 2006 in the University of California-Davis Law Review, Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution and John Marshall Law Review. Secunda is also co-author of the forthcoming book from Lexis-Nexis titled Understanding Employment Law. Secunda continues to co-edit one of the most popular law blogs on the Web, “Workplace Prof Blog,” which receives more than 500 visitors a day. He was also the co-organizer of the first Colloquium on Recent Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law at Marquette University Law School in October. He will serve during 2007 as the national chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Employment Discrimination Law.

Associate Director of the National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center and Lecturer in Aviation Law Jacqueline E. Serrao was selected as an assistant editor of the American Bar Association publication The Air & Space Lawyer. In addition, Serrao won the 2006 Rising Star Award from Golden Gate University School of Law, her alma mater. The award is given to an alumnus or alumna whose professional achievements and contributions to the community are of exceptional stature.