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11/13/2008
Nov. 13

Akron Legal News ran a feature on Akron Law students Brian Dodez and Kenneth Jacobson. Dodez and Jacobson took home top honors at the 2008 Landskroner Competition. Professor Dana Cole and Adjunct Professor Bill Rickett were also mentioned in the article. Electronic text is not available.

11/10/2008
November 10, 2008

Jay Dratler wrote and published a short on-line article (see http://works.bepress.com/jay_dratler/16/) entitled "Bush v. Boumediene: the Court is Back" (posted June 22, 2008). Dick Aynes joined as a party amicus and helped edit an Amicus Brief by Professors of Law (Aynes, Michael Kent Curtis of Wake Forest and William W. Van Alstyne of Duke) on the history of the privileges or immunities clause of the fourteenth amendment in Nordyke vs. King, pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Dick Aynes agreed to write a 4,500 word essay on Chief Justice Burger for Milestones Documents of American Leaders: Exploring the Primary Sources of Notable Americans (forthcoming 2009)  

11/6/2008
Nov. 6

The Akron Legal News ran previews of both the Geoffrey Hazard lecture and the IP Seminar on Patents and Copyrights. Electronic text is not available.
  West Side Leader had a brief item on Akron Law students receiving top honors at the 2008 Landskroner competition. Electronic text is not available.

11/4/2008
Nov. 4

Tracy Thomas was interviewed for an NPR story on whether Sarah Palin is a "new" feminist. Audio of the interview is available here.

11/3/2008
Nov. 3

The Fourteenth Amendment:140th Anniversary Symposium is mentioned in a Commentary in the Akron Beacon Journal here.

11/3/2008
November 3, 2008

Jane Moriarty will be speaking in Denver at the American Association of Forensic Science Annual Meeting on a panel entitled "Whores of the Court Revisited," with Dr. Margaret Hagan (Boston University Department of Psychology and author of the book "Whores of the Court"), Dr. William Bernet (Vanderbilt School of Medicine), Carl Edwards, Ph.D., and two expert witnesses on behavioral science. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Andre Moennsens, Douglass Stripp Professor of Law Emeritus (UMKC ). Jane Moriarty has also accepted an invitation from Dean Geoffrey Mearns at CSU to participate in a Symposium on March 19, 2009, on the Future of Forensic Science to discuss the forthcoming, long-awaited report on forensic sciences from the National Academy of Sciences. Elizabeth Reilly has been invited to speak at the 2009 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on a panel addressing "Institutional Programs to Develop Teaching and Learning" and along with three other Associate Deans for Faculty Development will discuss institution-wide and individually focused ideas for facilitating faculty members' growth as teachers. Jay Dratler's 2005 Akron Law Review article "Alice in Wonderland Meets the U.S. Patent System" was cited in Judge Mayer's dissenting opinion in Bilski v. Warsaw, 2008 WL 4757110 (Fed. Cir. 2008), the en banc decision of the Federal Circuit where Bilski sought to patent hedge contracts as a business method patent. Paul Richert has begun is monthly column in the Akron Legal News with this week's entry, "Believe it ... the age of the ‘on-demand' book is here." Jay Dratler and Jeff Samuels will host the Second Annual Intellectual Property Scholars' Roundtable, Friday, November 14, at Akron Law. The roundtable consisting of 20 invited scholars in the field will discuss the topic of "Secondary Liability for IP Infringement." The essays from the roundtable will be published in the Akron IP Journal.  

11/2/2008
Nov. 2 and Nov. 3

Akron Law had the highest pass rate of nine Ohio law schools in the July bar exam. Coverage is available from the Akron Beacon Journal, here ; and Cleveland Plain Dealer, here .

11/1/2008
November 2008

Akron Law was named one of the Best Law Schools for Public Interest Law in the November issue of The National Jurist. Out of the list of the Top 60, Akron Law was ranked #42.
  Professor Carolyn Dessin was mentioned in the November 2008 issue of Estate Planning, a widely distributed, national, monthly publication. Professor Ronald Volkmer of the Creighton University School of Law, and author of the publication's column "New Fiduciary Decisions" wrote the column on the subject of durable powers of attorney. His intro to the discussion includes: "With regard to durable powers of attorney, Professor Carolyn Dessin has written that 'perhaps we have created an instrument of abuse rather than a helpful tool." He then goes on to discuss two recent cases that illustrate the misuse of durable powers. Electronic text is not available.

10/31/2008
Oct. 31

An Op-Ed by Professor Carrie Newton Lyons titled "Indian Casinos, the red herring in the Issue 6 debate" ran in the Akron Beacon Journal Commentary section. Electronic text is available here.

10/29/2008
Oct. 29

Assistant Dean Rosemary Cannon was sworn in as president of the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library Board of Trustees. The text for this Stow Sentry story is available here.

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