Professor John Burkoff is quoted in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in connection with ongoing jury deliberations in the so-called Bonusgate trial of former state Rep. Mike Veon and three co-defendants.
“It’s like the events in ordinary people’s lives: We disagree and argue, and then there’s a breakthrough,” said John Burkoff, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Professor John Burkoff was quoted by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in connection with a federal grand jury’s review of an alleged beating of a Pittsburgh teenager by Pittsburgh police officers.
University of Pittsburgh professor John Burkoff said not every FBI investigation advances to the level of a grand jury investigation.
“It often means the investigation is ramped up,” Burkoff said. “But it could mean that the U.S. Attorney’s Office wants to get the feel of a grand jury, whether or not there’s enough to bring a formal indictment.”
David Harris spoke on March 15 at a community forum in Homewood, a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh, about the issues raised by the arrest and beating of a local high school honor student by three plain clothes Pittsburgh police officers. Professor Harris said that the incident showed the need for a “balanced approach” to law enforcement and crime prevention in which police and members of the community worked together to make the streets safe.
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On January 29, Professor Douglas Branson was a featured guest on Radio WXTEL in Los Angeles. His subject was his newest book, The Last Male Bastion – Gender and the CEO Suite at America’s Public Companies (2010).
He was the featured guest In “About The Money” on KCTS, public television for the Pacific Northwest, on January 28, 2010. The show aired on Friday, January 29 and again on Sunday, January 31. His subject was “Diversity in the Workplace and in Corporate Governance.”
On March 2-3, in Sydney, Australia, Professor Branson participated in a two day program on “Women on Corporate Baords.” Other participants came from Norway, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia. The program was held at the State Library, New South Wales, under the auspices of the University of Technology – Sydney.
On Thursday, March 11, Professor Branson was interviewed on WREK, Atlanta, Georgia, by host Ethan Candes. The subjects were two of his recent books, The Last Male Bastion, and No Seat at the Table – How Law and Governance Keep Women Out of the Boardroom.
On Saturday, March 13, Professor Branson presented one of four principal papers at a conference hosted by the University of Santa Clara School of Law in Santa Clara, California. The conference was entitled “Corporations and International Law.” Professor Branson’s presentation, to appear in the Santa Clara Law Review, was “Holding Mulitnational Corporations Accountable? Achilles Heels in Alien Tort Claims Act Litigation.”
Seattle radio talk show host Vicki St. Clair interviwed Professor Branson live on Radio KKNW (”Conversations Live with Vicki”). The subjects again were diversity in the workplace and in corporate governance, based upon Professor Branson’s books The Last Male Bastion and No Seat at the Table.
On March 11, 2010, Professor Deborah Brake testified before the U. S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, in a hearing on pay equity. Professor Brake, in written and oral testimony, discussed the failure of existing pay discrimination laws, including the Equal Pay Act of 1963, to close the gender wage gap, and the need for provisions in two pending bills, the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Fair Pay Act, to strengthen these laws.
On March 12th in Bonita Springs, Florida, Professor Frolik presented an update on statutory and case law to the Elder Law Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
David Harris explained the complexities of a sexual assault investigation in which the parties know each other, and the role of DNA.
Professor Pat Chew’s (with co-author Robert Kelley at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business) work on judges’ race has recently been the focus in on-line media sources, including the American Constitution Society, the Huffington Post, and the American Judicature Society. (See below.) Professor Chew and Professor Kelley’s work is timely given the public discussions of judicial appointments and the increasing diversity of the federal bench.
Professor Pat Chew spoke on “New Directions in the Study of Race” at the University of Arizona College of Law on March 5, 2010. The presentation was part of the joint Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty and the Conference of Law Faculty of Color. Law faculty from all over the country attended the Conference.
On Wednesday, March 10, Professor Michael Madison gave a presentation on the fundamentals of intellectual property law to an evening meeting of the Penn State Master Gardeners of Allegheny County, in Pittsburgh.
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