FACULTY NOTES
Professor Emeritus Guthrie T. Abbott, the Butler, Snow O'Mara, Stevens,
and Cannada Lecturer in Law Emeritus, this spring taught Mississippi Civil
Practice and Procedure to 119 select law students. In June, he presented
a program on recent developments in civil practice to the newly elected
judges at a conference in Jackson. He serves as chair of the Mississippi
Bar Foundation Awards Committee, and he is a member of the Mississippi
Bar nominating committee. He continues to serve as a member of the Mississippi
Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules. He recently served as chair
of the Mississippi Bar Ad Hoc Committee to study lawyer advertising.
Professor Richard Barnes' article "UCC Article Nine Revised: Priorities,
Preferences and Lien Effective Only in Bankruptcy" has been selected
to be the lead article in Nebraska Law Review. Publication is scheduled
for February 2004.
Croft Assistant Professor Charles Brower, the Jessie D. Puckett Jr. Lecturer,
in January delivered the paper "Hot Topics in International Arbitration"
to the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting. In April, he
co-chaired the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International
Law. Brower continues his service on the Academic Council of the Institute
for Transnational Arbitration and as co-editor of the NAFTA Chapter 11
Arbitration Reporter. During the 2003-04 academic year, Brower will serve
as a visiting professor at American University, ranked by U.S. News &
World Report as having one of the nation's top international law programs.
Director Thomas K. Clancy, National Center for Justice and the Rule of
Law, had his article "What Constitutes an 'Arrest' within the Meaning
of the Fourth Amendment" published in the Villanova Law Review (2003).
His essay "Coping with Technological Change: Kyllo and the Proper
Analytical Structure to Measure the Scope of Fourth Amendment Rights"
was published in the Mississippi Law Journal, 2002 symposium issue titled
"The Effect of Technology on Fourth Amendment Analysis and Individual
Rights." He also wrote the foreward for that issue.
Dean Samuel M. Davis, the Jamie L. Whitten Professor of Law and Government,
had his 2003 supplement to his book Rights of Juveniles: The Juvenile
Justice System published in April. He is working on a new edition of his
casebook, Children in the Legal System, to be published by the West Group.
He continues to serve on the Mississippi Bar's Professionalism Committee.
Professor Joanne Gabrynowicz, director of the National Remote Sensing
and Space Law Center, was an invited participant in the IISL's 42nd session
of the Legal Subcommittee of the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of
Outer Space in March in Vienna, Austria. At the invitation of the subcommittee,
she gave the presentation "Strengthening the Registration Convention:
Practice of National States-The United States of America."
Gabrynowicz has been tapped for service by the Eisenhower Institute in
Washington, D.C. As a new member of the institute's project "The
Future of Space: The Next Strategic Frontier," she participated in
several meetings in Washington and in an April meeting in Paris, France.
At NASA general counsels' meeting in Nashville in April, Gabrynowicz chaired
a panel that discussed the role of the general counsel. She has been invited
to serve another two-year term on the International Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing International Policy Advisory Committee, on which she
has served four years. She attended the by-invitation-only Earth Observations
Business Network, held in May in Vancouver, Canada. It is a biannual meeting
of the world's Earth observations leaders, hosted by MacDonald Dettwiler,
to explore the fundamental business and policy issues facing the community.
Also in May, she met with the Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote
Sensing, NOAA, in Silver Springs, Md., and she attended the Commercial
Satellite Remote Sensing: Improving the International Business Environment
Conference in Washington, D.C. She chaired the program committee and the
session "Policy: A Non-U.S. Perspective." She served as a judge
in the semifinals of the worldwide International Institute of Space Law's
11th Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, held in March in
Washington, D.C. In January, she met with the Advisory Committee on Commercial
Remote Sensing in Washington, D.C., and gave the presentation "The
Domestic Remote Sensing Law of Other Nations."
Assistant Professor Matthew Hall's article "Procedural Due Process
Meets National Security: The Problem of Classified Evidence in Immigration
Proceedings" recently appeared in the Cornell Journal of International
Law, Vol. 35. This past spring, he addressed the topic of racial profiling
under the immigration laws as a commenter at the National Center for Justice
and the Rule of Law's symposium Racial Profiling and the Fourth Amendment.
This summer, Hall will present the paper "Civil Disobedience and
the Criminal Law: An Attempted Reconciliation at the Southeastern Association
of Law Schools Annual Meeting."
Professor Michael H. Hoffheimer, the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
Distinguished Lecturer, is serving on the National Steering Committee
for the 40th Year Commemoration of the Life of Medgar Evers. Hoffheimer
drafted two questions that were used on bar exams in Colorado and Minnesota
this past year. His recent article "Murder and Manslaughter in Mississippi"
has been well-received and has already been cited by the Mississippi Court
of Appeals.Together with Professor Kris Gilliland, director of the law
library, and Lynn Murray, public services librarian, Hoffheimer has completed
a historic study of pre-1900 Mississippi legal resources that will be
published in a forthcoming issue of the Mississippi Law Journal. Hoffheimer's
critical review of Pinkard's Hegel, A Biography will be printed in the
next issue of The Owl of Minerva. He has been invited to contribute a
chapter to a book on Philosophers on Race and has been asked to write
an introduction to a book by Alan Watson titled The Scandal of American
Legal Education. Hoffheimer's Directory of Law Reviews has survived corporate
reorganizations and is still available online.
Professor Gary Myers and his co-authors, David Lange (Duke) and Mary LaFrance
(UNLV), recently completed the second edition of their casebook, Intellectual
Property: Cases & Materials. The book was published by West Group
in January 2003. The 1,200-page text provides comprehensive and up-to-date
coverage of the entire field of intellectual property. The first edition
of the casebook, which appeared in 1998, has been adopted at more than
20 law schools. They are currently revising their teacher's manual for
publication at the end of the summer of 2003. Myers also delivered three
speeches this year. In March 2003, he spoke at the Eighth Annual Tulane
Law School Environmental Conference in New Orleans, where he served on
a three-person panel on the subject "Genetically Modified Organisms."
Assistant
Professor Jack Wade Nowlin, the Jessie D. Puckett Jr. Lecturer, appeared
on a panel with Assistant Professor Paul Secunda discussing the Establishment
Clause, school vouchers, and the Zelman decision, an event sponsored by
the Ole Miss Federalist Society. Nowlin presented his paper "A Dangerous
Branch: Interpretation, Illegitimacy, and Judicial Constitutional Violations"
at the Robert A. Levy Fellows Workshop at George Mason University School
of Law in February. He also served on a panel at a conference on "National
Sovereignty and International Institutions," sponsored by the James
Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University
in April 2003. Nowlin provided comments on Dean Ann-Marie Slaughter's
paper "Are Apolitical International Courts Possible?" Nowlin
will be reviewing Paul O. Carrese's book The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu,
Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (University of Chicago Press,
2003) for the Law & Politics Book Review. Nowlin's current research
project is an article provisionally titled "A Dangerous Branch: The
Concept of Constitutional Violations by the U.S. Supreme Court,"
which explores the nature of the constitutional limits on the high court's
power and the implications of those limits for issues such as judicial
interpretation of the Constitution.
Assistant Professor Lisa Shaw Roy is teaching Law and Religion in the
Hawaii program this summer at the University of Ha-waii William S. Richardson
School of Law. Roy's article "Roe and the New Frontier"will
appear in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 27, No. 1.
Associate Dean and Professor Ronald J. Rychlak, the Mississippi Defense
Lawyers Association Distinguished Lecturer, had the second edition of
his book Real and Demonstrative Evidence: Applications and Theory released
recently by Lexis Publishing. His new article, "An Empire of Law?:
Legalism and the International Criminal Court," (co-authored with
Associate Professor John Czarnetzky) has been accepted for publication
by the Notre Dame Law Review. The two also had a short version, "A
Court Out of Order," published in First Things, April 2003. Rychlak's
book reviews include The Defamation of Pius XII by Ralph McInerny in The
Catholic Historical Review, January 2003; Opening the Archives, Not Ending
the Debate in The Wanderer, March 2003; and Another Reckoning: A Response
to Daniel Goldhagen's 'A Moral Reckoning' in Crisis, January, 2003. Rychlak
spoke on the International Criminal Court at Princeton University at an
April 2003 conference sponsored by the James Madison Program in American
Ideals and Institutions. He presented the paper "Defense Counsel
and the Death Penalty: An Obligation to Oppose the Theory Behind the Punishment?"
at Washington and Lee University School of Law, May 2003. In March, he
attended the first meeting of the International Criminal Bar Association.
He gave Continuing Legal Education talks on "Real and Demonstrative
Evidence: Applications and Theory" at the Law School during Law Weekend
and at the annual Mississippi Law Update in Natchez. He also has given
talks based on his book Hitler, the War, and the Pope, in Seattle, Washington,
and Portland, Oregon.