Faculty Activities

As listed in the Spring 2009 Florida State Law magazine

Presentations

Fred Abbott presented An International Legal Framework for Access to H5N1 Virus Samples and Globally
Adequate Vaccine Supply: Basic Concepts (Wasan Island, Canada, WHO Scientific Resource Group Meeting, September 2008); Patent Landscaping in the Field of Medicines: Policy and Technical Options (New York, UNDP-WHO-EPO Technical Consultation, Transparency in the Patent System: Meeting Patent Information Needs of Developing Countries, October 2008); The Future of TRIPS Issues in the Doha Round (Geneva, Switzerland, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Roundtable Discussion, October 2008); Assessing Claims of Common Law Rights in UDRP Cases (Geneva, Switzerland, World Intellectual Property Organization Domain Name Panelists Meeting, October 2008); Cross-Retaliation in TRIPS: Issues of Law and Practice (Geneva, Switzerland, ICTSD Roundtable on Cross-Retaliation in TRIPS and GATS: Options for Developing Countries, October 2008); Innovation and Technology Transfer to Address Climate Change: Lessons from Global Policy Development on Intellectual Property and Public Health (Poznan, Poland, Meeting on “A Post-2012 Technology and Finance Framework,” organized by ICTSD, ECN and the University of Sussex, in connection with the United Nations Climate Change Conference, December 2008); Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (University of Barcelona, Spain, Masters Program on International Economic Law & Policy, January 2009); Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (CARICOM Regional Project on Coordination of Intellectual Property and Medicines Procurement Systems, Meeting with Government Officials in the Dominican Republic and Bahamas, February 2009).

Kelli Alces presented Learning How to Replace Mandatory Fiduciary Duties by Looking at Unincorporated
Firms (American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Agency, Partnership, LLCs & Unincorporated Associations Section Meeting, January 2009).

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch presented Civil Justice in America (Albany Law School, Commentator for Conference on Civil Justice, November 2008); Mass Settlements via Contracts with Plaintiffs’ Law Firms and Procedural Justice in Nonclass Aggregation (as background material) (Vanderbilt University Law School Roundtable, January 2009).

Robin Kundis Craig presented A Public Health Approach to Sea Level Rise (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina School of Law & University of Houston Law Center, Workshop on Adapting Legal Regimes in the Face of Climate Change, October 2008); The Navy’s SONAR and Marine Mammals: Law and Policy (Boston College School of Law, 15-Ton Canaries: the Great Whales of the North Atlantic, Natural Indicators of Pressing Challenges to the Health of Global Oceans, Climate, Science, Law, Policy & Government, October 2008); Public Health Valuation in Environmental Enforcement: The Basics (Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University Law Journal Symposium: Contemporary Issues at the Intersection of Public Health and Environmental Law, February 2009); Climate Change Comes to the Clean Water Act: Now What? (Lexington, Virginia, Remote Participant in Washington & Lee School of Law Symposium: Climate Policy for the Obama Administration, February 2009); Supreme Court Update (Keystone, Colorado, Panelist, 38th Annual Conference on Environmental Law, American Bar Association Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources, March 2009).

Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte presented A Symposium Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Cameras in the Courtroom (St. Petersburg, Panel Presentation, First Amendment Foundation and The Poynter Institute, September 2008); Keynote Speech (Tampa, 2008 Statewide Meeting of Florida Legal Services, October 2008); Creating a Global Rule of Law Culture (Panel Presentation, Minnesota Journal of International Law’s Fall 2008 Symposium, November 2008).

Charles Ehrhardt presented Evidence, Civil Trial Lawyers Certification Review (Tampa, Trial Lawyers Section of
The Florida Bar, February 2009); Recent Hearsay Developments, Advanced Evidence Seminar (Tampa, The Florida Bar, March 2009).

Dino Falaschetti presented Democratic Governance and Economic Performance: How Accountability Goes too far
in Politics, Law, and Business (Washington University in St. Louis, Center for New Institutional Social Science, September 2008); Shareholder Democracy and Corporate Governance (Cornell University, Department of
Policy Analysis and Management, October 2008); Auditor Independence and Earnings Quality: Evidence for Market Discipline vs. Sarbanes-Oxley Proscriptions (Cornell University Law School, October 2008); Auditor Independence and Earnings Quality: Evidence for Market Discipline vs. Sarbanes-Oxley Proscriptions (University of Texas School of Law, November 2008); The Politics of Inefficient Regulation, and What Insurers Can Do About It (Orlando, State
of the Florida Insurance Market Summit, January 2009); Solvency (Orlando, Florida Chamber Property Insurance Summit, February 2009); Politics, Law, and Economic Performance: Implications for the Current Recession (Tallahassee, University of Chicago Alumni Club, February 2009); A Political Economy of Financial Services Regulation (Tallahassee, Capital Campus Florida, Mercatus Center, February 2009); Education, Finance, and the Political Economy of Productivity (Tallahassee, Florida Senate, Select Committee on Florida’s Economy, February 2009); Politics, Law, and Economic Performance: Implications for the Current Recession (Tallahassee, Florida House of Representatives, Office of the Speaker-Designate, March 2009).

Brian Galle presented Do Hidden Taxes Increase Welfare? (Georgetown University Law Center, October 2008); Do Hidden Taxes Increase Welfare? (National Tax Association Annual Conference, November 2008); Fiscal Federalism and Preemption (NYU Annual Survey of American Law 2009 Symposium, Tort Law in the Shadow of Preemption, February 2009); Laboratories of Democracy? Policy Innovation in Decentralized Governments (Vanderbilt Law School, February 2009).

Adam Hirsch presented Text and Time: A Theory of Testamentary Obsolescence (Fiduciary Law Institute, July
2008); Text and Time: A Theory of Testamentary Obsolescence (University of San Diego School of Law Faculty Colloquium, November 2008); Disclaimers and UDPIA’s Unintended Consequences (American College of Trust and
Estate Counsel Fall Meeting, November 2008); Delaware Unifies the Law of Charitable and Noncharitable Purpose Trusts (American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Annual Meeting, March 2009).

Lawrence Krieger presented Is the Budget that Important to Your Career Satisfaction? (Tallahassee, Government
Lawyers Association, October 2008); Optimal Courtroom Management: Factors Impacting Professionalism and Performance Among Lawyers and Judges (Amelia Island, Florida Conference of County Court Judges, December 2008); Do the Carnegie Report and Best Practices for Legal Education Mandate a “Humanized” Law School? (San Diego, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, January 2009).

Tahirih Lee presented New Challenges for U.S.-China Trade (Shanghai, China, Shanghai Institute of Foreign
Trade, September 2008); French Administration of Law in China, 1840 to 1930 (Shanghai, China, The 3rd World
Forum on China Studies, organized by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the Shanghai Municipal Information Office in cooperation with the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, September 2008); Imperialism and Customary Land Law in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Shanghai (Ottawa, Canada, Annual American Society for Legal History, November 2008); Procedure as Strategy for Foreign Control Over Land in Extraterritorial Shanghai (City University of Hong Kong, School of Law, December 2008).

Wayne Logan presented Federalism Implications of Congressional Efforts to Nationalize Sex Offender Policy (Atlanta, National Conference of State Legislatures Meeting, December 2008); Great Fourth Amendment Dissents: Justice O’Connor’s Dissent in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista (Oxford, Mississippi, University of Mississippi Law School, National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law, February 2009).

Dan Markel presented How Should Punitive Damages Work? (Southeastern Association of Law Schools,
August 2008); How Should Punitive Damages Work? (Marquette Law School, September 2008); How Should Punitive Damages Work? (Canadian Law and Economics Association, September 2008); Executing Retributivism (Amherst College, October 2008); How Should Punitive Damages Work? (Brooklyn Law School, November 2008); How Should Punitive Damages Work? (Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, December 2008); How Should Punitive Damages Work? (University of Houston Law Center, February 2009); Can Punitive Damages Law Inform the Copyright Infringement Litigation? (Interview with UCLA Law Professor Doug Lichtman in the IP Colloquium, online at http://www.ipcolloquium.com/Programs/5.html, February 2009).

David Markell presented Greening the Economy Sustainably (Washington and Lee Law School Symposium: Climate Policy Advice for the Obama Administration, February 2009); Toxic Regulation: Goals and Strategies (Washington University Journal of Law & Policy Symposium: New Directions in Environmental Law, March 2009).

Gregg D. Polsky presented Recent Partnership Tax Developments (San Francisco, Panel Presentation at the ABA
Tax Section Fall Meeting, September 2008); This Treas. Reg. is Wrong! Substantive and Procedural Challenges and Standards of Review for Attacking Department of Treasury Tax Regulations (San Francisco, Panel Presentation at the ABA Tax Section Fall Meeting, September 2008); Taxing Structured Settlements (with Brant Hellwig) (Dallas, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law’s Tax Policy Colloquium, February 2009); This Treas. Reg. is Wrong! Substantive and Procedural Challenges and Standards of Review for Attacking Department of Treasury Tax Regulations (American Bar Association Tax Section Teleconference Panel, February 2009); Mugel National Tax Moot Court Competition (Buffalo, New York, Final Round Judge, February 2009).

Jim Rossi presented Encouraging and Promoting Faculty Scholarship: Myths and Pitfalls (Suffolk Law School Workshop, February 2009); Beyond Symbolic Goals in Energy Legislation (Harvard Environmental Law Review Lecture, February 2009); Public Choice and Energy Law (Vancouver, British Columbia, Society for Environmental Law & Economics, March 2009).

J.B. Ruhl presented Whittling Away at Massive Problems (Indiana University-Bloomington Law School, September 2008); Whittling Away at Massive Problems (University of Connecticut Law School, October 2008); Climate Change and Endangered Species (University of North Carolina Law School Climate Change Conference, October 2008); Green Building and the Endangered Species Act (Virginia Environmental Law Journal Annual Symposium, October 2008); Keeping the Endangered Species Act Relevant (Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum Annual Symposium, October 2008); Ecosystem Services – A New Old Policy Comes of Age (University of Connecticut Teale Distinguished Lecturer, October 2008); Whittling Away at Massive Problems (University of California, Irvine School of Law, November 2008); Whittling Away at Massive Problems (Wake Forest University School of Law, December
2008); Climate Change and the Endangered Species Act (National Conservation Training Center, January 2009); Climbing Mount Mitigation Without a Map (Washington & Lee Law School Climate Change Symposium Panel, February 2009).

Mark Seidenfeld presented Who Decides Who Decides: The Institutional Competence of Courts and Agencies to Set Standards of Care (New York University, Annual Survey of American Law Symposium: Tort Law in the Shadow of Agency Preemption, February 2009).

Don Weidner presented The Privatization of Public Law Schools (Lakeland Bar Association, December 2008); several presentations at the Advanced Development for Deans Conference (San Diego, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, January 2009); New Scholar Workshop (Property Law) (Palm Beach, Moderator, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, July 2008).

Leslie Wexler presented Blood Diamonds (University of Florida Faculty Workshop, September 2008); Passive Discrimination (Northwestern University Law School, Midwest Law and Economics Association, October 2008); Getting off the Hedonic Treadmill: Applying Happiness Studies to Employment Law (University of San Francisco, Third Annual Labor and Employment Colloquium, October 2008); White Collar Arms Races: Revisiting the Work-Life Balance Debate (Thomas Jefferson Law School, Colloquia in Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, October 2008); Resource Curses (University of Miami School of Law, Prawfsfest, December 2008); Regulating International Labor Through Trade Law (Temple Law School, Commentator, Junior International Law Society Association Meeting, January 2009).