Recent faculty research and scholarly activitiesHannah Buxbaum published
the fifth edition of TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS PROBLEMS (Foundation
Press), co-authored with the late Detlev Vagts, Harold Koh and Bill
Dodge; attended the 19th Congress of the International Academy of
Comparative Law in Vienna, where she presented the general report
(authored by George Bermann) on the New York arbitration convention;
presented a work-in-progress entitled
Accounting Firms as Transnational Networks: Testing the Viability of 'Enterprise Jurisdiction' at an Indiana Law faculty summer workshop; and
co-taught
(along with Heinz Mansel of the University of Cologne) a two-week
course in the German National Academic Foundation's summer academy.
Kenneth Dau-Schmidt's
newest book is titled LEGAL PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEES (West
Publishing Co. 5th ed., forthcoming 2015) (with Matthew W. Finkin and
Robert N. Covington). Recent publications include:
- The
Relative Bargaining Power of Employers and Unions in the Global
Information Age: The Employment and Economic Advancement of African
Americans in the Twentieth Century (with Ryland Sherman), JINDAL GLOBAL L. REV. (forthcoming 2014).
- Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan,
forthcoming in ENTERPRISE LAW: CONTRACTS, MARKETS, AND LAWS IN THE US
AND JAPAN (Zenichi Shishido ed. 2014) (with Benjamin C. Ellis).
- Undermining or Promoting Democratic Government? An Economic and Empirical Analysis of Public Sector Collective Bargaining (with Mohammad Khan), 14 NEV. L. J. 414 (2014).
He was a discussant in Reimagining North American Labor Law at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, Minneapolis (May 30, 2014).
Charles Geyh's
forthcoming book, COURTING PERIL: THE POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE
AMERICAN JUDICIARY, will be published by Oxford University Press. The
book explores the ways in which the state and federal courts have been
increasingly politicized in recent decades, and what those developments
portend for the future of the American judiciary and the rule of law.
William Henderson recently completed an article titled
Human Capital Accounting for Lawyers
(LAW PRACTICE (Sept.-Oct. 2014)), which develops a system of human
capital accounting for lawyers; and another article that draws on the
social science literature on innovation diffusion to explain the shifts
now taking place in the market for legal services (
Living Through a Paradigm Shift,
NALP BULLETIN (Aug. 2014)). He is now writing a series of strategy
memos for law firms, law schools, and legal departments that explain the
short- and long-term trends in the market and offer practical advice
for how to adapt. The memos are part of a larger book project.
Ethan Michelson
has completed a survey instrument for a new wave of a longitudinal
survey of Chinese lawyers that he launched in 2009. Among other things,
Wave 2 will allow him and his colleagues to assess where lawyers are now
(including measuring attrition) and how their careers have changed five
years after the first wave. He has also developed a separate survey
instrument to be administered to a new sample of Chinese lawyers.
Mark Need
lectured on business entities, confidentiality agreements, and
non-compete agreements at National Chiao-Tung University sites in both
Taipei and Hsinchu City, Taiwan. The following week, he taught an
intensive one-week business law course at
Sungkyunkwan University's Graduate School of Business in Seoul, South Korea.
Christiana Ochoa
has been engaged in pre-production research and fieldwork in Vanuatu in
connection with her current documentary project, with support from the
Mellon Innovating International Research, Teaching, and Collaboration
Award. In addition, she contributed a chapter to a forthcoming book to
be published by Edward Elgar Press titled NATURAL RESOURCES AND
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW PERSPECTIVES. Her
chapter,
Generating Conflict, explores the destabilizing capacity of large-scale development projects and is informed by her ongoing fieldwork in Colombia.
Carwina Weng has been working on a chapter for an externship textbook, LEARNING FROM PRACTICE, entitled
Navigating Cultural Difference.
She and co-author Prof. Meg Reuter will present their ideas at the SALT
teaching conference at UNLV in September. The chapter offers a
comprehensive unit on teaching students in externship placements to work
with clients, supervisors, and others with cultural awareness and
humility.