Faculty Notes – Fall 2021

JOSE ANDERSON

Article, “What Will Protect Us from the Protectors? The Civil Rights Paradox of Qualified Immunity,” The Trial Reporter, Maryland Association for Justice, 2021 (Issue Number 2) (with F. Michael Higginbotham)

“Urban Trauma Drama: The Intersecting Path of Criminal Justice and PublicHealth Revealed During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol’y (forthcoming)

JOHN BESSLER

The Death Penalty’s Denial of Fundamental Human Rights: International Law, State Practice, and the Emerging Abolitionist Norm. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)

“The Rule of Law: A Necessary Pillar of Free and Democratic Societies for Protecting Human Rights,” Santa Clara L. Rev. (forthcoming)

FRED BROWN

Understanding Business Entity Taxation, 2nd Edition, Carolina Academic Press (with Walter Schwidetzky) (2021)

“Designing Nonrecognition Rules Under the Internal Revenue Code,” Fla. Tax Rev. (2021)

PHILLIP CLOSIUS

“Myth, Manipulation and Minor League Baseball: How A Capitalist Democracy Engenders Income Inequality,” U. Cin. L. Rev., with Joseph Stephan (2020)

GILDA DANIELS

Promoted to full professor

Testified on voting rights June 11 to a congressional subcommittee on elections

MICHELE E. GILMAN

Digital Barriers to Economic Justice in the Wake of COVID-19, Data & Society Research Institute (2021)

“Feminism, Privacy & Law in Cyberspace,” in The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States, Oxford U. Press (forthcoming)

DANIEL HATCHER

His work fighting systematic exploitation of the poor was included in three investigative series this past year: the HBO docuseries “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez,” the NBC docuseries “Children That Pay,” and the NPR/Marshall Project investigative series on states that financially exploit foster children. 

NIENKE GROSSMAN

Elected in March to a three-year term to the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). Currently serving a three-year term as co-chair of the Women in International Law Interest Group of ASIL, through 2022.

“Litigating US Policy toward the ICC,” ASIL Insights, with co-author (2021)

MICHAEL HAYES

“‘Sorry, It’s My Bad, but You’re Still Fired — & Have No Case’: The Honest Belief Defense in Employment Law.” Drake L. R. (forthcoming)

F. MICHAEL HIGGINBOTHAM

Race Law: Cases, Commentary, and Questions (5th Edition ed., pp. 793). Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press (2020)

“Saving America’s Racial Soul,” Harvard Kennedy School Journal of African American Policy (forthcoming)

MARGARET E. JOHNSON

“Menstrual Dignity for Bar Examinees,” with co-authors, U.C. Davis L. Rev. (forthcoming)

“Title IX and Menstruation,” with co-authors, Harv. J. L. & Gender (2020)

ELIZABETH KEYES

“Hamilton’s Immigrant Story Today,” in Hamilton and the Law, Cornell University Press (2020)

“Duress in Immigration Law,” Seattle U. L. Rev. (2021)

ROBERT KNOWLES

Received tenure

“Torture and Institutional Design,” Yale L. J. Forum (2020) 

DIONNE L. KOLLER

“‘Keep It in the Locker Room’: How Athletic Departments Stifle Controversy and Dissent,” in Not Playing Around: Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the Power of Sport (forthcoming)

“Magnifying the Problems with Collegiate Sports in the Impact of COVID-19 on Sports: A Mid-Way Assessment,” Int’l Sports L.J. (2020)

 

ROBERT H. LANDE

“The Sherman Act Is a No-Fault Monopolization Statute: A Textualist Demonstration,” Am. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming)

“Preventing The Curse of Bigness Through Conglomerate Merger Legislation,” Ariz. St. L. Rev. (2020)

JAIME A. LEE

“Turning Protest into Reform: Creating Structural Power for Public Voice,” Geo. Mason L. Rev.(forthcoming) 

Testified before the Taxation, Finance, and Economic Development Committee of the Baltimore City Council regarding the implementation of the Water Equity and Accountability Act (2021)

SHELDON B. LYKE 

“Can Affirmative Action Offer a Lesson in Fighting Enclosure?” in The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations, Cambridge University Press (2021)

Elected for a three-year term to the board of directors for the Association for Law, Property & Society

JAMES R. MAXEINER

“America’s COVID-19 preexisting vulnerability: a government of men, not laws,” The Theory and Practice of Legislation / Taylor & Francis (2020)

HUGH MCCLEAN

Promoted to associate professor, with tenure

“Discharged and Discarded: The Collateral Consequences of a Less Than Honorable Military Discharge,” Col. L. Rev. (2021)

AUDREY MCFARLANE

Panelist, Managing Integration: Race, Class, Privilege and Inclusionary Housing, University of Florida 27th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference 

Presenter, Black Transit, Iowa Law Review Symposium, “The Future of Law & Transportation” 

NANCY M. MODESITT

“The War on Whistle-blowers,” U. Pa. J. Law & Pub. Affairs (2021) 

“The Biden administration should use OSHA to help curb the pandemic,” The Hill, Nov. 22, 2020

MAX OPPENHEIMER

“Truth,” Harvard Bus. L. R. (2021) 

“The Species of Origin,” Mich. State L. Rev. (2021)

ROBERT RUBINSON

Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, 5th Edition ed., with Lerman, L.G., and Schrag, P.G. (Walters Kluwer, 2020)

WALTER SCHWIDETZKY

Understanding Business Entity Taxation, 2nd Edition, Carolina Academic Press (with Fred Brown) (2021)

Partnership Taxation, 5th Edition, Carolina Academic Press (forthcoming)

MORTIMER SELLERS

“The Universalism of International Law,” in Tipping Points in International LawCambridge University Press (forthcoming) 

“Formal and Informal Constitutional Amendment,” in General Reports of the General Congress of the International Academy of International Law (Heidelberg, 2021)

MATTHEW SIPE

“A Fragility Theory of Trademark Functionality,” U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming)

AMY SLOAN

Basic Legal Research: Tools & Strategies, 8th Edition, Wolters Kluwer (2021)

COLIN STARGER

“The Argument that Cries Wolfish,” MIT Computational Law Report (2020)

CHARLES TIEFER

Regular columnist for Forbes magazine

KIMBERLY WEHLE

Received the 2020 University of Maryland System Board of Regents Faculty Award for excellence in scholarship

How to Think Like a Lawyer — A Common Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas, Harper Collins (forthcoming 2021)

Regular columnist for The Hill, The Bulwark, Politico and The Atlantic

SONYA ZIAJA

How Algorithm Assisted Decision Making Is Influencing Environmental Law and Climate Adaptation, Ecology L. Q. (forthcoming). Paper was presented at the Sabin Colloquium for Innovative Environmental Scholarship and the University of Michigan Law School’s Junior Scholars Conference this past spring.

International and Comparative Law Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School, summer 2021