Monthly Archives: March 2017

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio was elected Co-Chair of the International Criminal Law Interest Group at the American Society of International Law.  She will serve a two-year term as Co-Chair.  Professor Sterio just completed a two-year term as Co-Chair … Continue reading →

Professor Karin Mika was a brief grader for the Capital University Child Welfare and Adoption Law Moot Court Competition. In addition, Professor Mika presented at the 17th Annual Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference, held at Arizona State, Sandra Day … Continue reading →

Professor John Plecnik was awarded a bilateral grant from the Public Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia in partnership with Professor Jernej Letnar Černič, Professor Matej Avbelj and Assistant Lecturer Dejan Valentinčič of the Graduate School of Government and … Continue reading →

Professor Witmer-Rich has accepted an offer from the American Criminal Law Review to publish an article entitled, “The Heat of Passion and Blameworthy Reasons to be Angry.”  The American Criminal Law Review, published by the Georgetown University Law School, is the … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, March 21, Clinical Professor of Law Doron Kalir appeared on Tim Farley’s POTUS Talk, a Sirius-XM morning radio talk show, to discuss Day 1 of Judge Gorsuch nomination hearing. During the 13-minute interview  Kalir discussed issues ranging from the exercise of … Continue reading →

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio published a blog post entitled ‘Somali Pirates Are Back?” on Communis Hostis Omnium, an academic blog dedicated to discussions of maritime piracy.  In this post, Professor Sterio discusses the recent successful piracy attack on … Continue reading →

Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson’s article, When States’ Legislation and Constitutions Collide with Angry Locals:  Shale Oil and Gas Development and its Many Masters, was just published in the William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review (Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall … Continue reading →

Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio was quoted in an article by Al Jazeera entitled “Six years on: ‘Syria is an accountability-free zone,” available here.  Professor Sterio’s quotes are reproduced below: Moving forward, the opposition “can demonstrate that it has international … Continue reading →

Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, wrote in today’s DealBook blog of the New York Times on a bill that passed the House this week, that could have the practical effect of ending the class action … Continue reading →

Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss’ article, Lolita K. Buckner Inniss, “Tricky Magic: Blacks as Immigrants and the Paradox of Foreignness,” 49 Depaul L. Rev. 85 (1999), was cited in an article published by the Washington Post, by Professor Eugene Volokh (of the … Continue reading →