Pitt Law Professor Arthur Hellman comments on Justice O'Connor’s coexisting continued court participation and public policy debates. He states that she should consider stopping her participation in court cases if she "wants to engage in this level of political or politically related activity."
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Faculty News
Monday, April 11, 2011 - 4:59pm
Friday, April 8, 2011 - 9:10am
Professor Anthony Infanti spoke at Harvard Lambda's 6th Annual Legal Advocacy Conference at Harvard Law School on April 1st and 2nd. The title of the conference was "Queering Age: Exploring the Lived Experiences of LGBT Youth and Elders." Professor Infanti spoke about same-sex couples and transfer taxes on the panel on Elder Law and Services.
Link to conference description
Link to description of panels
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 11:18am
Pittsburgh entrepreneurs looking for legal advice are getting help through programs that are initiating a collaborative legal model for growing companies in the region. Pitt Law's Innovation Practice Institute assists this growing entrepreneurial sector.
Read the full article here.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 9:08pm
Professor Michael Madison presented a paper on Friday, April 1, 2011 at Texas Wesleyan School of Law in Ft. Worth, Texas as part of a conference titled "Evolving Economies: The Role of Law in Entrepreneurship and Innovation." The conference featured presentations on work to be gathered into a book of the same title, to be published by Edward Elgar and edited by Texas Weslayan Professor Megan Carpenter.
The title of Professor Madison's contribution and presentation is "Contrasts in Innovation: Pittsburgh Then and Now," adapting the title of a classic article by the late economist Ben Chinitz.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 9:05pm
Professor Pat Chew and her co-researcher, Robert Kelley of CMU, conducted a workshop for state and federal judges in Seattle, Washington, sponsored by the University of Seattle Law School and the Washington State Access to Justice Board on March 7. The workshop was titled "A Conversation on Race and Judicial Appointments," and reviewed recent data on the diversity of the federal judiciary and empirical research on the relationship between the judges' race, the plaintiffs' race, and outcomes in racial harrasment cases. The next day, Chew and Kelley presented in the "Influential Voices" speaker series at the law school on "Dear President Obama" with a presentation on the same topics.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 8:57pm
Professor Pat Chew presented a faculty workshop at Case Western Reserve Law School on April 4, 2011. She discussed her empirical work on how a party's race can make a difference in case outcomes. In particular, she discussed the plaintiff-employee's race in racial harassment cases.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 8:45pm
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 8:39pm
Linda Tashbook, Foreign and International Law Librarian at the Barco Law Library at Pitt Law, has joined the Board of NAMI Familias. The organization is a support and advocacy organization for the well relatives of people living with mental illness.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 8:33pm
Professor Vivian Curran has published a new article, "History, Memory, and Law, in volume 16 of the Roger Williams Law Review.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 12:28pm
Professor Alan Meisel to American Medical News that a case in which a surgical patient showed signs of a lack of competency for decision making raises difficult questions for treating physicans and surgeons. In a Montana case, doctors recommended life-saving surgery to save a woman from cancer, but she refused; a judge ordered her to undergo the surgery, finding the woman incompetent. The Montana Supreme Court has stayed that ruling, pending appeal. Professor Meisel said that although it is ultimately up to a judge to decide a patient's competency, "[i]f doctors have reason to believe a patient lacks decision-making capacity, they should do something" to bring it to the attention of appropriate authorities, he said. "It could be considered an abrogation of their duty to ignore it."
