Pitt Law Professor Doug Branson talks with the Washington Post about the difficulties women find when balancing raising a larger family with successfully executing an executive-level job. Branson, author of “The Last Male Bastion” said he said he’s never seen a senior-level woman with four or more children.
Read the full article here.
On Thursday and Friday, May 10-11, 2012, Professor Deborah Brake was a featured speaker at the inaugural conference, “Title IX at 40,” at the new SHARP Center at the University of Michigan (SHARP stands for the Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy Center for Women and Girls). Professor Brake’s talk was titled, “Masculinities in Sport and in Relation to Gender Equality.” On Monday, April 23, 2012, Professor Brake delivered the Tucker Center Distinguished Lecture at the University of Minnesota. The topic was “Title IX at 40: Changes, Challenges and Champions.” On Tuesday, April 24, 2012, Professor Brake gave a recap of her remarks at a VIP breakfast hosted by the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota.
Professor David Garrow's review of "Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas," by Dale Carpenter, appears currently in The New Republic. Lawrence v. Texas was the case in which the Supreme Court struck down state laws criminalizing gay sex. Professor Garrow says that Carpenter's "assiduous unearthing of the case's early history in Houston's overlapping gay and law enforcement communities highlights how every great constitutional decision owes its existence to obscure individuals whose crucial contributions proved more essential to the final outcome than anything in the legal briefs or oral arguments."
Read Professor Garrow's review here.
On May 3, 2012, Professor Stella Smetanka received the Eileen P. Sweeney Award from the National Organization of Social Security Claims Representatives. The award is given “[i]n appreciation and recognition of your distinguished service on behalf of people with disabilities in America.” Professor Smetanka received the award at NOSSCR's semi-annual meeting, which was held this year in Philadelphia.
On May 11 and 12 Professor Harry Flechtner participated in a conference entitled “The CISG vs. Regional Sales Law Unification” at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Max-Planck Institute and the University of Hamburg. On Friday May 11 Professor Flechtner presented a paper entitled “The U.S. Experience with the UCC and the CISG: Positive Aspects and Some Insights for the Proposed CESL?” On Saturday, May 12, Professor Flechtner chaired sessions which focused on regional sales law unification efforts in Africa (the “OHADA” Sales Law) and the European experience with the CISG. The conference papers will appear in a book to be released by the Max-Planck Institute.
Professor David Harris told the Associated Press that the prosecution's revision of the date of a crucial incident in the failure-to-report-abuse case against two former Penn State officials will doom that charge. Prosecutors now say they were incorrect about the date of an incident in which former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was seen raping a young boy in a Penn State locker room shower. The incident actually happened a year earlier than previously thought. According to Professor Harris, this will put the failure-to-report charge against the Penn State officials beyond the statute of limitations. It will not change the case against Sandusky. The story was reported in media outlets across the country.
Link to the story in the San Francisco Chronicle, Yahoo News, or ABC News.
In an article in the Los Angeles Times on the importance of the health care sector to economic growth, Professor Michael Madison commented that one of the results of this growth has been that the the number of people from India nearly doubled in Pittsburgh between 2000 and 2010. This has had an "unmistakable impact" on the region, Professor Madison said.
See the Los Angeles Times article here.
Professor Pat Chew attended a meeting of Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in Washington D.C. May 8-10. The Executive Committee leads the AALS, the nation's premiere organization on legal education; Professor Chew is a member of the Executive Committee.
Professors John and Nancy Burkoff will each be teaching a 5-hour short course for Turkish law students and lawyers next week at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. Professor Nancy Burkoff will be teaching “American Legal Reasoning & Analysis for Civil Law Attorneys.” Professor John Burkoff will be teaching “Introduction to U.S. Criminal Justice.”
Professor John Burkoff discussed the case against former Penn State Coach Jerry Sandusky in numerous media outlets this week. He also commented on the request from the District Attorney's Office that State Sen. Jane Orie, who was recently convicted of political corruption, repay the cost of her defense. Professor Burkoff said that ordering Orie to pay these costs would be "piling on" in light of Orie's conviction and likely incarceration and order to pay restitutution.
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