Faculty Activities

As listed in the Spring 2011 Florida State Law magazine

Frederick M. Abbott, Edward Ball Eminent Scholar
Book: International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy (Aspen 2011) (with Thomas Cottier and Francis Gurry). Presentations: Preliminary and Permanent Injunctions in the Law of the USA and Analysis of Patentability of Pharmaceutical Innovation (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, International Judicial Academy Workshop for Latin American Judges on Biotechnology, Bioethics, Pharmaceutical Products and Access to Health, April 2011);  Emerging Issues and Trends in the Application of Competition Law to Intellectual Property and Using Competition Law to Facilitate the Transfer of Technology (New York, United Nations Development Program Meeting on Developing a Tool to Facilitate the Use of Competition Law to Increase Access to Essential Medicines in Low and Middle Income Countries, March 2011); Collective Action, Public Health and Biodiversity: Can we supply public goods through multilateral action? (Florence, Italy, European Institute Workshop on Multilateral Governance of Interdependent Public Goods, February 2011); Trends in Transfer of Technology and Local Production of Pharmaceutical Products in Developing Countries: Background and Proposals for a Work Program (Geneva, Meeting of the WHO Secretariat on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Study Group on Local Production of Medicines in Developing Countries, November 2010).

Kelli A. Alces, Loula Fuller and Dan Myers Professor
Article: Limiting the SEC’s Role in Bankruptcy, 18 ABI L. Rev. 631 (2011) (symposium); The Equity Trustee, 42 Ariz. St. L.J. 717 (2010). Presentations: Beyond the Board of Directors (University of Florida Levin College of Law Faculty Workshop Series, February 2011); Compensation, Incentives, and Risk-Taking: The Impact of the Great Recession on Executive Compensation Design (San Francisco, California, AALS Annual Meeting Hot Topics Panel, January 2011).

Paolo Annino, Clinical Professor
Presentations: Guardian ad Litem Volunteers Save Lives (Tallahassee, Florida Legislature, Guardian ad Litem Day, Key Note Speaker, March 2011); How Should the Florida Legislature Respond to the U.S. Supreme Court's Graham Decision? (Tallahassee, Florida Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, January 2011). Recognitions: Named a Loren Warboys Unsung Hero for 2010; received the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Steve M. Goldstein Criminal Justice Award.

Shawn J. Bayern, Assistant Professor
Chapter: A Formal System for Analyzing Conveyances of Property under the Common Law, in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (R.G.F. Winkels, editor) (2010). Presentations: False Efficiency and Missed Opportunities in Law and Economics (Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Faculty Workshop Series, March 2011); The Expectation Measure and Its Discontents (6th International Contracts Conference, February 2011); A Formal System for Analyzing Conveyances of Property Under the Common Law (University of Liverpool, JURIX [The Foundation for Legal Knowledge Based Systems], December 2010).

Curtis Bridgeman, James Edmund & Margaret Elizabeth Hennessey Corry Professor
Article: The Morality of Jingle Mail: Moral Myths about Strategic Default, 46 Wake Forest L. Rev. 123 (2011). Presentations: Contract, Tort, and Promise (with John C.P. Goldberg) (Suffolk Law School Symposium on the 30th Anniversary of "Contract as Promise," March 2011); The Morality of Jingle Mail: Moral Myths About Strategic Default (University of North Carolina School of Law Faculty Workshop, November 2010); The Morality of Jingle Mail: Moral Myths About Strategic Default (Georgetown Law School Conference on Contract and Promise, September 2010).

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, Assistant Professor
Articles: Litigating Together: Social, Moral, and Legal Obligations, 91 B.U. L. Rev. 87 (2011); Group Consensus, Individual Consent, 79 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 506 (2011) (symposium). Presentations: Optimal Lead Plaintiffs (University of Cincinnati College of Law, 2011 Corporate Law Symposium, The Principles and Policies of Aggregate Litigation: CAFA, PSLRA, and Beyond, April 2011); Optimal Lead Plaintiffs (Miami, Florida, Fourth International Congress on Psychology and Law (joint program of the American Psychology-Law Society, European Association of Psychology and Law, and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law), March 2011); Optimal Lead Plaintiffs (University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law Faculty Workshop, February 2011); Litigating Together: Social, Moral, and Legal Obligations (University of Georgia School of Law, February 2011); Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (San Francisco, California, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2011); Law Professors and the Work-Life Balance (San Francisco, California, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2011). Recognitions: Florida State University Graduate Teaching Award recipient; nominated to the Federal Rules Advisory Committee.

Donna R. Christie, Elizabeth C. & Clyde W. Atkinson Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs
Article: Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection: Much Ado about Nothing?, 40 Stetson L. Rev. 1 (2011). Presentations: The Impact of Stop the Beach Renourishment v. DEP on Takings Jurisprudence, at Environmental Law Forum (Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program, University of Mississippi School of Law, December 2010); Resolving Conflicts between the Magnuson-Stevens Act and Protected Marine Species (Roger Williams School of Law, Taking Stock: The Magnuson-Stevens Act Revisited, Annual Marine Law Institute Symposium, November 2010).

Robin Kundis Craig, Attorneys’ Title Professor and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs
Book: Toxic and Environmental Torts: Cases and Materials (Thomson/West Fall 2010) (with Michael G. Green, Andrew R. Klein & Joseph Sanders). Articles: The Gulf Oil Spill and National Marine Sanctuaries, 40 Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 11074 (November 2010); The Public Health Aspects of Environmental Enforcement, 4 Pitt. J. Envtl. & Pub. Health L. 1 (2010) (invited submission); Adapting Water Federalism to Climate Change Impacts: Energy Policy, Food Security, and the Allocation of Water Resources, 5 Envtl. & Energy L. & Poly J. 183 (2010) (symposium). Presentations: Ocean Resilience, Place-Based Marine Management, and Climate Change (Northwestern School of Law Searle Research Roundtable on Climate Change Adaptation and Environmental Law, April 2011); The Public Trust Doctrine – Reviving, Thriving, or Maxed Out as a Water Resources Management Tool? (Salt Lake City, Utah, 40th Annual Conference on Environmental Law, American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources, March 2011); Ocean Resilience, Placed-Based Marine Management, and Climate Change (University of Utah School of Law Faculty Workshop, February 2011); The BP Oil Spill and Damages to Natural Resources: Ocean Resilience, Lack of Knowledge, and the Time Horizon for Recovery (BYU School of Law, Disasters and Environment Annual Law Review Conference, February 2011); New Voices on Cutting-Edge Issues in Natural Resources and Environmental Law (San Francisco, California, Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference, Moderator, January 2011); Placed-Based Marine Management in a Climate Change World (Stanford Law School Environmental Seminar, November 2010); Environmental Ethics and Professional Ethics (Florida Bar Environmental & Land Use Law Section Webinar, Ethics - A Scholastic Perspective for the Environmental and Land Use Practitioner, October 2010); The Public Health Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Change Adaptation (Atlanta, Georgia, American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and Public Health Law Association, Using Law, Policy, and Research to Improve the Public’s Health: A National Conference, September 2010). Recognition: Florida State University Graduate Teaching Award recipient.

Jeanne B. Curtin, Legal Writing Professor
Presentation: “Law & Order” Meets “The Office” – Writing Skills for the Paralegal (Tallahassee, Florida, Big Bend Chapter of the Paralegal Association of Florida, March 2011).

Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte, President Emeritus and Professor
Recognitions: Appointed to serve on the bipartisan Task Force on Detainee Treatment; public sector recipient of the Sunshine State Ethics in Leadership Award; recipient of the Rotary Foundation Trustees 2010-11 Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award; served as keynote speaker for the Jacksonville Bar Association 12th Annual Equal Justice Awards.

Joseph M. Dodge, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson Professor
Book: Federal Taxes on Gratuitous Transfers: Law and Planning (Aspen 2011) (with Wendy C. Gerzog and Bridget J. Crawford).

Dino Falaschetti
Articles: An Information Market Proposal for Regulating Systemic Risk, 12 U. Pa. J. Bus L. 849 (2010) (with Matthew Beville and Michael J. Orlando); Dodd-Frank and Board Governance: New Political-Legal Risks to Monetary Policy and Business Judgments?, 29 Banking & Fin. Services Pol'y Rep. 1 (2010) (with Fred Karlinsky and Richard Fidei).

Tara Leigh Grove, Assistant Professor
Article: The Structural Safeguards of Federal Jurisdiction, 124 Harv. L. Rev. 869 (2011). Presentations: The Article II Safeguards of Federal Jurisdiction (University of Florida School of Law, Southeast Regional Junior Faculty Working Papers Conference, December 2010); The Structural Safeguards of Federal Jurisdiction (Emory University School of Law, November 2010); The Structural Safeguards of Federal Jurisdiction (Boston University School of Law, October 2010); The Article II Safeguards of Federal Jurisdiction (University of Illinois College of Law Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop, October 2010); The Structural Safeguards of Federal Jurisdiction (William & Mary Law School, September 2010).

Adam J. Hirsch, William & Catherine VanDercreek Professor
Presentations: Freedom of Testation/Freedom of Contract (Arizona State University College of Law Faculty Colloquium, March 2011); The Code Breakers: How States Are Modifying UDPIA (Phoenix, Arizona, Annual Meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, March 2011).

Marshall B. Kapp, Director, Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law and Courtesy Professor of Law
Chapter: Legal Issues in Dementia, in Long-Term Management of Dementia 210 (Douglas W. Scharre, editor) (New York: Informa Healthcare 2011). Articles: Older Clients with Questionable Legal Competence: Elder Law Practitioners and Treating Physicians, 37 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 99 (2010); Medical Decision-Making for Incapacitated Elders: A "Therapeutic Interests" Standard, 33 Int’l J. of L. & Psychiatry 369 (2010) (symposium); Health Law Teaching in Medical Schools: Balancing the Different Roles, 38 J.L. Med. & Ethics 863 (Winter 2010); The 2010 U.S. Health Reform Legislation: Evaluating the Experiment, 22 Int’l J. Risk & Safety in Med. 209 (2010); Health Care Technology, Health Care Rationing, and Older Americans: Enough Already, 11 J. Long Term Home Health Care 245 (2010). Presentations: Assessing Decision Making Capacity in Older Individuals: Does the Law Give a Clue? (Miami Beach, Florida, Annual Conference of the Florida Bioethics Network, April 2011); Medical-Legal Literature 2010-2011: Top Ten Hits (Las Vegas, Nevada, Annual Conference of American College of Legal Medicine, February 2011); Humans Are Mortal?!  I'm Calling My Attorney (New Orleans, Louisiana, Symposium on "The Great Transition: How Mortality Organizes Behavior in Later Life" at Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 2010).

Lawrence S. Krieger, Clinical Professor and Director of Clinical Externship Programs
Presentation: Applying the Science of Thriving to Law Students (San Francisco, California, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Sections on Academic Support, Student Services, and Balance in Legal Education, January 2011).

Jennifer Parker LaVia, Legal Writing Professor
Presentation: Florida FACTS Review for Property (Barbri, December 2010).

Tahirih V. Lee, Associate Professor
Presentations: Media as Lawmaker in China (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for East Asian Legal Studies, April 2011); Recent Trends in the Practice of Law in Asia (Asian Law Students Association, University of Notre Dame Law School, March 2011); Media Products as Law in China (University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute ISLA-Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshop on Chinese Culture and Society, March, 2011); Trading Places: The Legal Underpinnings of US-China Trade (Case Western University School of Law, Faculty Workshop, February 2011); Trading Places: The Legal Underpinnings of US-China Trade (University of Notre Dame Law School Faculty Colloquium, January 2011).

Wayne A. Logan, Gary & Sallyn Pajcic Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Articles: Megan's Laws as a Case Study in Political Stasis, 61 Syracuse L. Rev. 371 (2011); Erie and Federal Criminal Courts, 63 Vand. L. Rev. 1243 (2010); Litigating the Ghost of Gideon in Florida:  Separation of Powers as a Tool to Achieve Indigent Defense Reform, 75 Mo. L. Rev. 885 (2010). Presentations: Police Mistakes of Law (Vanderbilt Criminal Justice Roundtable, Vanderbilt Law School, December 2010); Developing Technologies and the Fourth Amendment (Washington, D.C., ABA Criminal Justice Section, Criminal Justice Educators Colloquium, November 2010).

Dan Markel, D’Alemberte Professor
Chapter: What Might Retributive Justice Be?, in Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy (Mark White, editor) (Oxford University Press 2011). Article: Overcoming Tradeoffs in the Taxation of Punitive Damages, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 609 (2011). Presentations: Retributive Justice and the Demands of Democratic Citizenship (NYC Criminal Law Theory Colloquium, New York University School of Law, March 2011); Retributive Justice and the Demands of Democratic Citizenship (University of Virginia School of Law, April 2011); Retributive Justice and the Demands of Democratic Citizenship (Yale Law School Criminal Justice Roundtable, April 2011); Retributive Justice and the Demands of Democratic Citizenship (Southwest Works in Progress Conference, Arizona State University, March 2011); Should Retributivists Care About Preventive Detention? (Boston, Massachusetts, American Philosophy Association Annual Meeting, December 2010); A Few Questions for Retributivists (and their friends) (Arizona State University, Prawfsfest!, December 2010).

David L. Markell, Steven M. Goldstein Professor
Books: Compliance & Enforcement in Environmental Law: Towards More Effective Implementation (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011) (co-editor with Du Qun, Kotze, Markowitz, Paddock & Zaelke); Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (Aspen Law & Business, 6th ed., 2011) (with Glicksman, Buzbee, Mandelker, and Bodansky). Presentation: Environmental Enforcement Policies and Practices (Ottawa, Canada, External Advisor to the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, December 2010). Recognition: Appointed to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Advisory Committee for August 2010-August 2012.

Jim Rossi, Harry M. Walborsky Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Book: New Frontiers of State Constitutional Law: Dual Enforcement of Norms (Oxford University Press 2011) (co-edited with James Gardner), with two authored chapters: New Frontiers of State Constitutional Law (with James Gardner) and Dual Constitutions and Constitutional Duels. Article: The Shaky Political Economy Foundation of a National Renewable Energy Requirement, 2011 U. Ill. L. Rev. 361 (symposium). Presentations: Federal Preemption of State Renewable Power Incentives (University of San Diego's Third Annual Conference on Climate Change, April 2011); Legal and Regulatory Challenges for Smart Grids (University of Texas Interdisciplinary Energy Conference, April 2011); Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory Space (Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Workshop, March 2011); A Critical Look at Federal Preemption of State Feed-in-Tariff Programs (University of Utah Symposium on the Future of Energy Law, January 2011); Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory Space (University of Virginia Faculty Workshop, November 2010).

J. B. Ruhl, Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property
Articles: Gaming the Past: The Theory and Practice of Historic Baselines in the Administrative State, 64 Vand. L. Rev. 1 (2011) (with Jim Salzman); Adaptive Management in the Courts, 95 Minn. L. Rev. 424 (2010) (with R. Fischman); Background Principles, Takings, and Libertarian Property - A Reply to Professor Huffman, 37 Ecology L.Q. 805 (2010) (with M. Blumm); Climate Change Adaptation and the Structural Transformation of Environmental Law, 40 Envtl. L. 363 (2010); Facilitated Migration as Mitigation, 32 Nat’l Wetlands Newsletter 26 (July-Aug. 2010). Presentations: Climate Change in the Courts (Berkeley Environmental Law Workshop, April 2011); Climate Change in the Courts (Texas Wesleyan Faculty Workshop, April 2011); Climate Change Adaptation and the Law of the Horse (Northwestern Climate Change Workshop, April 2011); General Design Principles for Resilience and Adaptive Capacity In Legal Systems (University of North Carolina Law Review Symposium, October 2010).

Mark B. Seidenfeld, Patricia A. Dore Professor of Administrative Law
Article: Chevron's Foundation, 86 Notre Dame L. Rev. 273 (2011).

Nat S. Stern, John W. & Ashley E. Frost Professor
Article: Protecting Lives, Careers and Public Confidence: Florida's Efforts to Prevent Officer-Involved Domestic Violence, 49 Fam. Ct. Rev. 84 (2011) (with Karen Oehme, Darcy Clay Siebert, Carl F. Siebert, Colby Valentine and Elizabeth Donnelly). Recognition: Received a 2011 Prudential Davis Productivity Award (partnership catagory).

Fernando Tesón, Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar
Article: The Liberal Constitution and Foreign Affairs, 28 Soc. Phil. & Pol’y 115 (2011). Presentation: Fake Custom (Washington, D.C., American Society of International Law International Theory Group, November 2010).

Franita Tolson, Assistant Professor
Article: Partisan Gerrymandering as a Safeguard of Federalism, 2010 Utah L. Rev. 859 (2010). Presentation: Gerrymandering the Voting Rights Act (UCLA 5th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium, April 2011).

Manuel A. Utset, Jr., Charles W. Ehrhardt Professor
Article: Is Cap-and-Trade Fair to the Poor? Shortsighted Households and the Timing of Consumption Taxes, 79 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 33 (2010) (with Brian Galle).

Donald J. Weidner, Dean and Alumni Centennial Professor
Presentation: Recruitment, Maintenance and Retention of Faculty (San Diego, California, 41st Annual ABA Deans Workshop, Panelist, March 2011).