University of Pittsburgh School of Law Faculty Blog

Professor John Burkoff is quoted in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in connection with a Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that allows District Judge Arthur Schwab to continue to preside over the prosecution of former Allegheny County Coroner Dr. Cyril Wecht.
Link:  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07103/777709-85.stm

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On April 11 in Harrisburg, Professor William Luneburg was a speaker at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s annual Environmental Law Forum 2007. He was on the panel for Basic Air/Air Update Issues. His specific presentation was entitled:  Selected Developments in Litigation and Rulemaking Affecting US EPA Clean Air Act Programs-2006-2007, which covered EPA’s on-going efforts to [...]

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Professor of Law, Pat Chew, was involved in a number of activities at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting this past January in Washington D.C.  She was: (1) a speaker and a workshop leader for the “Workshop on the Ratings Game (or not): The Search for Sensible Assessment” (one of two plenary sessions),  (2) the [...]

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Professor Sandra Jordan has been appointed by LexisNexis to serve as content consultant for the upcoming publication, Evidence, Pennsylvania Law Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition. Professor Jordan is Chair of the Commonwealth’s Committee on Rules of Evidence.
The Pennsylvania Law Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition, is a comprehensive topical jurisprudence that gives a broad overview for dozens of Commonwealth law [...]

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Professor John Burkoff presented a paper titled, “Search Me?,” relating to consent search law under the Fourth Amendment, at the Symposium on Citizen Ignorance, Police Deception, and the Constitution, hosted by Texas Tech University School of Law on April 6, 2007, in Lubbock Texas.  An expanded version of his presentation will appear in the Summer [...]

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Professor Deborah Brake presented a work-in-progress talk on Title IX and feminist legal theory, on Friday, March 30, at a conference in Cleveland commemorating the 35th Anniversary of Title IX.  The conference was jointly sponsored by the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission to coincide with Cleveland’s hosting of the Women’s [...]

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Together with Professors Arthur Miller, Erwin Chemerinsky, Michael Solimine, Adam Steinman and Farish Percy, on March 23  Professor Rhonda Wasserman submitted an amici curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court in Powerex Corp. v. Reliant Energy Services, Inc. (05-85).  Amici argue that the Court should interpret 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) to bar appellate review of remand [...]

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Professor Michael Madison published two op-ed essays in last Sunday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on different dimensions of the economic development challenges facing Pittsburgh and Southwest Pennsylvania.
Link:  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07091/773950-109.stm (on “hockey tourism,” with Chad Hermann, Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business)
Link:  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07091/774200-109.stm (on small business and entrepreneurship, and cupcakes)

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Professor David Herring presented a paper on Friday, March 30 at the University of Michigan Law School’s conference marking the 30th anniversary of the School’s Child Advocacy Law Clinic. The conference was titled “Looking Ahead to the Next 30 Years of Child Advocacy.” The paper and presentation are titled ”The Multiethnic Placement Act: Threat to Foster Child [...]

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JURIST, published by Professor Bernard Hibbitts, celebrated its 10th anniversary last week with a day-long conference titled “Law as a Seamless Web|Site: JURIST Celebrates 10 years of Documenting Law to Empower People.”
Conference website:  http://www.law.pitt.edu/juristconference/
Local media coverage:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07092/774425-298.stm
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_500068.html

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