Washburn Law Faculty Scholarship and Activities, July 2017-June 2018

Aïda M. Alaka

Presentations

"Building Knowledge and the Presentation of Self: Making Learning More Interactive," International Week at Eszterházy Károly University, Eger, Hungary, May 7, 2018 (with John L. Rury).

Rory Bahadur

Books and Monographs

Torts: A Contemporary Approach, 3rd ed., Interactive Casebook Series (West Academic Publishing, 2018) (co-authored with Meredith J. Duncan and Ronald Turner).

Other Publications

"Should I Teach to the A or the C Student And Can Active Learning Render this Question Moot," Idea of the Month, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, January, 2018.

"Random Thoughts About Resistance To Active Learning," Idea of the Month, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, November, 2017.

Andrea J. Boyack

Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

"Side by Side: Revitalizing Urban Cores and Ensuring Residential Diversity," 92 Chicago-Kent Law Review 435 (2017).

Chapters in Books

"Banking, Commercial & Contract Law," (chapter 2), Kansas Annual Survey (Kansas Bar Association, 2018) (co-authored with Amy Deen Westbrook and Lori A. McMillan).

Presentations

"Can Students Loans be Discharged in Bankruptcy? – an Evolving Perspective in Kansas," 2018 Selected Topics and Miscellany CLE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 21, 2018.

Moderator, " Access to Capital: Challenges and Opportunities," Fair Housing and Financial Markets Diversity Symposium, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, March 6, 2018.

Panelist, "Uneven and Unfair: The Financial Fallout of the Boom & Bust Mortgage Cycle," Fair Housing and Financial Markets Diversity Symposium, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, March 6, 2018.

"The Freedom of Contract Myth: Status Law Ascendant," Liability Without Assent: When Contract Occurs Without Assent, What Grounds Liability and Remedy? Seeking Positive Premises, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Section on Contracts, San Diego, California, January 6, 2018.

"Urban Renewal for a New Millennium," Exploring New Frontiers in Real Estate Development, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Sections on Commercial & Related Consumer Law and Real Estate Transactions Joint Program, San Diego, California, January 4, 2018.

"Too Poor for Bankruptcy," J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Annual Scholarship Conference, San Diego, California, January 3, 2018.

"Residential Segregation, Rental Unaffordability, and Neighborhood Decline: Taming the Three-Headed Housing Hellhound," Class Crits X conference, Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 10-11, 2017.

"The Scary Truth about Housing Segregation," Business and Transactional Law Center, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, October 31, 2017 (with Michelle Ewert and Janet Jackson).

Discussant, Rule of Law workshop, Liberty Fund and the Federalist Society, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 13-14, 2017.

"Prevention or Cure: Comparing European and American Approaches to Consumer Financial Distress," session on Business, Bankruptcy, and Financial Distress, National Business Law Scholars Conference, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 8, 2017.

Professional Service

Treasurer, Central States Law Schools Association, 2018-2019.

Secretary, American Association of Law Schools, Section on Real Estate Transactions, 2018.

Participated in the American Society of Comparable Law (ASCL) Annual Meeting, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, October 27-28, 2017.

Gillian Chadwick

Media Contact

Quoted, "Law School Clinics Support Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Recipients," The National Jurist, September 28, 2017.

Quoted, "Washburn, University of Kansas Law Clinics Offer Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Renewal Assistance Before Deadline," The Topeka Capital Journal, September 13, 2017.

Presentations

"Legitimating the Transnational Family," Association of American Law Schools, 41st Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Chicago, Illinois, May 2, 2018 (work-in-progress).

"Issues with Order Modification," American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, Advanced Custody Litigation Institute, Dallas, Texas, March 2, 2018 (with Stacey Platt)

"Direct Examination Issues," American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, Advanced Custody Litigation Institute, Dallas, Texas, March 1, 2018 (with Amie Lopez)

"Challenges with Discovery," American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence and Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women, Advanced Custody Litigation Institute, Dallas, Texas, February 28, 2018 (with Erin Scheick)

"Brief Service Fairs: Identifying Learning Goals and Navigating Ethical Challenges," Midwest Clinical Legal Education Conference, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas, October 13, 2017 (with Michelle Ewert).

"Addressing LGBTQ Bias in Legal Systems," ABA Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence training program, "A Coordinated Response: Legal System Advocacy for LGBTQ Victims of Intimate Partner Violence" Frankfort, Kentucky, September 27, 2017 (with Kelly Behre).

Litigation

Ross v. Jenkins, 2:17-cv-02547-DDC-TJJ, United States District Court for the District of Kansas, May 23, 2018 (secured $8M civil judgment for a survivor of human trafficking by a “regimented cult”).

Brief of Amicus Curiae, Schreiber v. McCament et al, Case Number 2:17-cv-02371-JAR-JPO, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (filed December 29, 2017 on behalf of the Children and Family Law Center advocating for the rights of adopted children under immigration law).

James M. Concannon

Chapters in Books

"Evidence," (chapter 13), Kansas Annual Survey (Kansas Bar Association, 2018).

Professional Service

Style Committee Liaison, Uniform Law Commission, Registration of Canadian Money Judgments Act, 2018.

Attended meeting of Uniform Law Commission Style Committee, Madison, Wisconsin, May 3-6, 2018.

Commissioner from Kansas at the annual meeting of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, San Diego, California, July 14-20, 2017.

Linda Henry Elrod

Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

"Review of the Year 2015-2016 in Family Law: Domestic Dockets Stay Busy," 50 Family Law Quarterly 501 (2017) (co-authored with Robert G. Spector).

Books and Monographs

Child Custody Practice and Procedure. 2018 ed. (Thomson Reuters, 2018).

Family Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions. 8th ed. American Casebook Series. (co-authored with Harry D. Krause and J. Thomas Oldham) (West Academic, 2018).

Kansas Family Law: Kansas Law and Practice, Volumes 1 and 2. 2017-2018 ed. (Thomson Reuters, 2017).

Presentations

"UCCJEA and Relocation: Jurisdictional Problems," American Bar Association, Section of Family Law Spring CLE Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, May 10, 2018.

"International Family Law: Children and International Relocation, International Family Law and Assisted Reproductive Technologies Law Day, Nashville, Tennessee, May 9, 2018.

"Family Law Update: International, National and State," 29th Annual Ellis County Bar Association and Gene F. Anderson Memorial CLE, Hays, Kansas, May 4, 2018.

"Are you My Mother/Father? What the Ross Case Means Now," 2018 Department for Children and Families (DCF) / Child Support Services Spring CLE, Topeka, Kansas, April 11, 2018.

"Is the Trend toward Using Best Interests in Relocation Cases actually in the Child’s Best Interests?," Family Law in a Changing Society: Changing Family Forms Conference, Edinburgh Centre for Private Law, Edinburgh, Scotland, March 21, 2018.

"Ethical Dilemmas in Settling Cases with Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)," Dispute Resolution Outside the Box, 11th Annual Fall CLE Seminar, Topeka, Kansas, September 29, 2017.

"Ethical Considerations for Lawyers Practicing in a Cyber World," Advanced Family Law CLE, Wichita, Kansas, September 22, 2017.

"Searching for Federal Family Policy," 16th World Congress of the International Society of Family Law, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 29, 2017.

Moderator and facilitator, "High Conflict Divorce," 16th World Congress of the International Society of Family Law, July 26, 2017.

Professional Service

Submitted written testimony and testified in opposition to HB 2529, February 6, 2018 (the bill would create a presumption of fifty/fifty residency for all children in disputed custody cases that could only be overcome by clear and convincing evidence) also submitted written testimony on SB 257 which had the same provisions.

Member, Board of Editors, Brill Research Perspectives in Family Law in a Global Society, 2017-.

Reporter, Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Family Law, 2017-2021.

Participated in the 16th World Congress of the International Society of Family Law, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 25-29, 2017.

Michelle Ewert

Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

"One Strike and You’re Out of Public Housing: How the Intersection of the War on Drugs and Federal Housing Policy Violates Due Process and Fair Housing Principles," 32 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 57 (2016).

Presentations

Panelist, "How to Foster Transgender Activism in a Clinical Setting and Provide Competent Legal Services to Transgender People," Association of American Law Schools, 41st Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Chicago, Illinois, May 1, 2018.

"Discriminatory Maintenance, Code Enforcement and Decreased Home Values as the Next Fair Housing Battlefield," Junior Faculty Scholars Works in Progress Workshop, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, Washington, DC, April 21, 2018.

Panelist, "Building on #MeToo: Disarming Efforts to Wield Power and Control over Female Tenants," Fair Housing Act at 50: Renewing our Commitment to Housing Equity symposium, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, Washington, DC, April 20, 2018.

Moderator, "How Did We Get Here? The Evolution of Fair Housing Protections," Fair Housing and Financial Markets Diversity Symposium, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, March 6, 2018.

"Contemporary Constitutional Issues in Housing," Living Democracy discussion series, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, February 25, 2018.

"The Scary Truth about Housing Segregation," Business and Transactional Law Center, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, October 31, 2017 (with Andrea Boyack and Janet Jackson).

"Brief Service Fairs: Identifying Learning Goals and Navigating Ethical Challenges," Midwest Clinical Legal Education Conference, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas, October 13, 2017 (with Gillian Chadwick).

John J. Francis

Media Interviews

Quoted, "After a 10-Year-Old's Waterslide Decapitation, Why Were the Ride Designers Charged With Murder?," People Magazine (April 4, 2018).

Presentations

"Should Criminal Courts Borrow Structures and Remedies Used by Civil Courts to Address Spoliation of Evidence?," Association of American Law Schools, 41st Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Chicago, Illinois, May 2, 2018 (work-in-progress).

"Recognizing the Assets and Closing the Gaps in Underserved Communities Through Client-Centered Lawyering," Midwest Clinical Legal Education Conference, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas, October 13, 2017 (with Janet Thompson Jackson).

Alex Glashausser

Presentations

"The Role of the Judicial Branch in our Constitutional Democracy," The Living Democracy discussion series, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, March 2, 2018.

Emily Grant

Books and Monographs

Co-editor, Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum (with Sandra Simpson and Kelly Terry) (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).

Chapters in Books

"Experiential Learning Deliverables: Making the Most of the Experience" (with William E. Foster) in Experiential Education in the Law School Curriculum chapter 3 (Carolina Academic Press, 2018).

Presentations

"Helicopter Professors," Sixth Annual Southwestern Consortium of Academic Support Professionals Workshop, Assisting the Modern Law Student: Academic Support in Changing Times, UNT Dallas College of Law, Dallas, Texas, March 9, 2018.

"Legal Writing Concepts and Issues," Heartland Paralegal Association Annual Fall Seminar, Lenexa, Kansas, November 3, 2017.

"Cultivating Collaboration through Constructive Competition," Central States Legal Writing Conference, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 16, 2017 (with Pamela Keller and Joyce Rosenberg).

"Making a Great Second Impression: Resetting a Legal Writing Class after a Rough Stretch," Association of Legal Writing Directors 2017 Biennial Conference, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 19, 2017 (with Joe Fore).

Media Interviews

Quoted, "Forget 'The Paper Chase,' This Prof Wants a Warm, Fuzzy 1st Day of Law School," Law.com, August 3, 2017.

Burke W. Griggs

Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

"Interstate Water Litigation in the West: A Fifty-Year Retrospective," 20 University of Denver Water Law Review 153 (2017) (invited).

Presentations

"Water Law Issues Update," Washburn Law Out West CLE, Rebein Brothers Trial Lawyers, Dodge City, Kansas, June 26, 2018.

"Playing the Analogy Game in Natural Resources Law: Updates from the Field," 2017 Global Land & Resources Colloquium, University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma, October 21, 2017.

Media Contacts

Quoted, "Westar Gets an Earful about Proposed Electric Rate Increase, You Can Still Weigh In," The Wichita Eagle, May 23, 2018.

Marsha Griggs

Presentations

"The Changing Compass of Professional Competency: Mentoring/Becoming New Lawyers in the Modern Age of Practice," 2018 Selected Topics and Miscellany CLE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 21, 2018.

Professional Service

Executive board member, Association of Academic Support Educators, 2017-2019.

Randall L. Hodgkinson

Presentations

"Racial Bias and Traffic Stops: State v. Gray and Strategies for Defense Advocacy," Third Judicial District Public Defender Office, Lawrence, Kansas, March 9, 2018.

Janet Thompson Jackson

Media

Quoted, "Brown v. Board Mural Unveiled at Kansas Capitol on Anniversary of Historic Ruling," The Topeka Capital Journal, May 17, 2018.

Host, I've Got Issues (produced by Washburn University's public broadcasting station KTWU), 2017-.

Presentations

"Begin at the Beginning and End at the Ending: The First and Last Days of Class," Association of American Law Schools, 41st Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Chicago, Illinois, May 2, 2018 (work-in-progress).

Panelist, "Why Did Neo-Nazis Leaflet Our Campus?," Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, April 25, 2018.

"Formation & Governance of a 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Organization," Kansas Bar Association CLE webinar, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, April 4, 2018 (with Michael Davis and Matthew Wiebe).

Panelist, "Speakers at Women’s Forum Optimistic about Topeka," International Women’s Day, Topeka, Kansas, March 8, 2018.

"The Scary Truth about Housing Segregation," Business and Transactional Law Center, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, October 31, 2017 (with Andrea Boyack and Michelle Ewert).

"Recognizing the Assets and Closing the Gaps in Underserved Communities Through Client-Centered Lawyering," Midwest Clinical Legal Education Conference, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas, October 13, 2017 (with John Francis).

Jeffrey D. Jackson

Books and Monographs

Interactive Citation Workbook for ALWD Guide to Legal Citation, 2017 Edition (co-authored with Tracy McGaugh Norton, Christine Hurt) (LexisNexis, 2017).

Chapters in Books

"American Legal Education: A History of Integrated Instruction," The Doctrine-Skills Divide: Legal Education’s Self-Inflicted Wound (Linda H. Edwards) (Carolina Academic Press, 2017).

Media Interviews

Quoted, "Bible Giveaways End at Kansas Elementary School After Constitutional Complaints," The Wichita Eagle, January 3, 2018.

Presentations

"Recent Developments in United States Supreme Court Cases," 2018 Selected Topics and Miscellany CLE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 21, 2018.

L. Ali Khan

Legal Commentaries

"Kansas Supreme Court Fights for Public Education Funding," Jurist, October 6, 2017.

Foreign Affairs Commentaries

"Pakistan's Hyperactive Supreme Court," Jurist, February 9, 2018.

Tonya Kowalski

Chapters in Books

"Indian Courts," in Florida's Other Courts: Unconventional Justice in the Sunshine State (edited by Robert M. Jarvis) (University Press of Florida, 2018) (co-authored with Robert M. Jarvis).

Essays and Other Shorter Works

"How Do We Help to Encourage and Sustain Transcendent Motivation in our Students?," Idea of the Month, Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, September 2017.

Presentations

Presenter and Panelist, "Sacred Bonds: Collaboration to Protect American Indian Sacred Sites," in panel Tribal/State Collaborations Related to Law Enforcement, ICWA, and Cultural Preservation, 22nd Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference Tribal-State Collaborations: Advantages & Obstacles, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas, March 9, 2018.

Panelist, "Designing Legal Writing Problems Incorporating Access to Justice," 2018 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, San Diego, California, January 6, 2018.

"Protecting Sacred Sites from Desecration under RFRA," 2017 Global Land & Resources Colloquium, University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma, October 21, 2017.

Professional Service

Member, Board of Directors, Association of Legal Writing Directors, 2018-2021.

Shawn Leisinger

Presentations

"Are you an Ethical Attorney Negotiator? A Live Exercise based on the "American Pickers" Show!," Washburn Law Out West CLE, Rebein Brothers Trial Lawyers, Dodge City, Kansas, June 26, 2018.

"Should Kansas Adopt Model Rule 8.4(g)?," 2018 Selected Topics and Miscellany CLE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 21, 2018.

Craig Martin

Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

Cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, Haaretz.com v. Goldhar (June 6, 2018): "Tolofson and Flames in Cyberspace: the Changing Landscape of Multistate Defamation," 31 University of British Columbia Law Review 127 (1997).

"Striking the Right Balance: Hate Speech Laws in Japan, the United States, and Canada," 45 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 455 (2018).

Opinions/Editorials and Blog Articles (Selected)

"The Assumptions of Koh's Transnational Legal Process as Counter-Strategy," Opinio Juris, February 26, 2018.

"Japan's Definition of Armed Attack and 'Bloody Nose' Strikes Against North Korea," Just Security, February 1, 2018.

"The Omar Khadr Settlement Reaffirms Canada’s Values," Huffington Post, July 17, 2017.

Presentations

"The Royal Prerogative and Canadian Constitutional War Powers," ICON-S (International Society of Public Law) Annual Conference, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Hong Kong, June 27, 2018.

"The Hidden Dangers of the Japanese Government's New Constitutional Amendment Proposals," ICON-S (International Society of Public Law) Annual Conference, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Hong Kong, June 26, 2018.

"The Hidden Dangers of Abe's Current Constitutional Amendment Proposal," Leiden University Asia Centre conference "Security and Human Rights: Japan's Constitutional Revision Debate," The Hague, Netherlands, May 4, 2018.

"The Legality of Pre-emptive Strikes Against North Korea," Kansas National Guard's Judge Advocate General CLE Conference, Topeka, Kansas, April 28, 2018.

"Challenging and Refining the Unwilling or Unable Doctrine," AALS (American Association of Law Schools) Annual Conference, San Diego, California, January 3, 2018.

"Challenging and Refining the 'Unwilling or Unable' Doctrine," American Society of International Law (ASIL) Mid-Year Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, October 28, 2017.

Keynote address, "Hate Speech Laws in Japan in Comparative Perspective," symposium at UC Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, California, September 22, 2017.

Keynote address "Change it to Save it: Why and How to Amend Article 9," Smposium entitled How to View Abe's Constitutional Amendment Proposals, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, August 4, 2017.

"The Legitimacy of Informal Constitutional Amendment and the 'Reinterpretation' of Japan's War Powers," I-CON Society Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 6, 2017.

Joseph P. Mastrosimone

Media Interviews

Quoted, "Training? Policy? Kansas Legislature’s Efforts Against Sexual Harassment ‘Inadequate’," The Kansas City Star, November 10, 2017.

Presentations

"Update in Employment Law," 2018 Selected Topics and Miscellany CLE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 21, 2018.

Professional Service

Chair, American Association of Law Schools, Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law, January 2018 - January 2019.

Roger A. McEowen

Presentations

"Tax Law Overhaul and the Impact on Agriculture," Washburn Law Out West CLE, Rebein Brothers Trial Lawyers, Dodge City, Kansas, June 26, 2018.

"Agricultural Law Update," 2018 Selected Topics and Miscellany CLE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 22, 2018.

"Tax Law Update and the New Tax Bill Impacts," 2018 Selected Topics and Miscellany CLE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 22, 2018.

"Farm and Ranch Income Tax/Estate and Business Planning," Washburn University School of Law Seminar/Webinar, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, June 7-8, 2018 (with Paul Neiffer).

"The Present Tax Landscape: Implications for Individuals, Businesses, Investors, and Others CLE," Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, January 10, 2018 (with Lori A. McMillan).

"Farm and Ranch Income Tax/Estate and Business Planning," Washburn University School of Law Seminar/Webinar, Sheridan College, Sheridan, Wyoming, July 13-14, 2017 (with Paul Neiffer).

Lori A. McMillan

Media Interviews

Guest, "US Tax Bill Update," Wharton University of Pennsylvania Business Radio on Sirius XM program, Knowledge@Wharton, December 20, 2017.

Chapters in Books

"Banking, Commercial & Contract Law," (chapter 2), Kansas Annual Survey (Kansas Bar Association, 2018) (co-authored with Amy Deen Westbrook and Andrea Boyack).

Presentations

"The Present Tax Landscape: Implications for Individuals, Businesses, Investors, and Others CLE," Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, January 10, 2018 (with Roger A. McEowen).

Professional Service

Vice-Chair, Academia Committee, International Fiscal Association (IFA), 2018-2020.

David E. Pierce

Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

"The Renaissance of Law in the Law of Oil and Gas: The Contract Dimension," 3 Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal 515 (2017) (reprint of 42 Washburn Law Journal 909 (2004)).

"Breaking With Tradition: Exercising Professional Judgment When Drafting Oil and Gas Documents," 38 Energy & Mineral Law Institute 1 (2017).

Books and Monographs

Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law. 7th. ed. (2018) (West Academic) (co-author with John S. Lowe, Owen L. Anderson, Ernest E. Smith, Christopher S. Kulander and Monika U. Ehrman).

Teacher's Manual to Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law. 7th ed. (2018) (West Academic) (co-author with John S. Lowe, Owen L. Anderson, Ernest E. Smith, Christopher S. Kulander and Monika U. Ehrman).

Kuntz A Treatise on the Law of Oil and Gas, Cumulative Supplements, 2018 (Anderson Publishing Co. and LexisNexis) (with Owen L. Anderson, Ernest E. Smith and John S. Lowe).

Oil and Gas Law and Taxation. (West Academic) (2017) (with Owen L. Anderson, John S. Dzienkowski, John S. Lowe, Robert J. Peroni, and Ernest E. Smith).

Co-editor, Oil and Gas Reporter, Volume 184 (Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., 2017) (Annual reporting on case law developments).

Presentations

"Contracts, Property, and Oil and Gas Law Update," Washburn Law Out West CLE, Rebein Brothers Trial Lawyers, Dodge City, Kansas, June 26, 2018.

"Recent Developments in Contract and Property Law," 2018 Selected Topics and Miscellany CLE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 21, 2018.

"Duration of the Lease as Defined by the Habendum Clause," Drafting and Negotiating the Modern Oil and Gas Lease, Special Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Denver, Colorado, May 3, 2018.

"Oil and Gas Law: A Critique," Deans of Oil and Gas Practice Lecture and Luncheon, 69th Annual Oil and Gas Law Conference, Houston, Texas, February 16, 2018.

"The Basics of Joint Operation," Joint Operations and the New AAPL 610-2015 Model Form Operating Agreement, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Denver, Colorado, December 5, 2017.

"Recent Developments in Oil and Gas Law," Kansas Bar Association and the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association (KBA/KIOGA) 42nd Annual Oil and Gas Conference, Wichita, Kansas, October 6, 2017.

"Is My Lease Dead? Exploring the Guts of Paying Quantities," Kansas Bar Association, Eastern Kansas Oil and Gas Law Conference, Chanute, Kansas, August 4, 2017.

Honors and Awards

2018 Honoree, Deans of Oil and Gas Law Practice, 69th Annual Oil and Gas Law Institute, Houston, Texas, February 16, 2018.

Recipient of the 2017 Robert L. Gernon Award for Outstanding Service to Continuing Legal Education in Kansas, Kansas CLE Commission, 2017.

William Rich

Media Interviews

Quoted, "Sharp Division Marks Kansas Debate on Joining Campaign for U.S. Constitutional Convention," The Topeka Capital Journal, February 18, 2018.

Guest, "Education and the State Constitution," KCUR 89.3, December 18, 2017 (begins about 7:55).

Quoted, "A Look Back At 2005, When Kansas Neared Constitutional Crisis Over School Funding," KCUR 89.3, December 18, 2017 (audio begins about 3:32).

Thomas J. Romig

Presentations

"Reflections on the Enhanced Interrogation Debate," The Twentieth Hugh J. Clausen Lecture in Leadership, Promoting Principled Legal Counsel, Charlottesville, Virginia, May 21, 2018.

Panelist, "Leadership and Developing Leadership in Law Firms, Government and Corporate Law Departments and the Legal Profession, symposium on Advancing Leadership Development in the Legal Profession: Addressing Challenges in Legal Education and the Practice of Law, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, March 23, 2018.

David S. Rubenstein

Articles in Law Reviews

"Taking Care of the Rule of Law," 86 George Washington Law Review 168 (2018).

Media Interviews

Quoted, "Student Loan Giant Sues Connecticut Over its Crackdown on Student Debt," MarketWatch, April 8, 2018.

Quoted, "States to DeVos: We’ll Keep Cracking Down on Student-Loan Companies," MarketWatch, March 2, 2018.

Quoted, "House Republicans Seek to Roll Back State Laws Protecting Student Loan Borrowers," MarketWatch, December 9, 2017.

"Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)," I've Got Issues (produced by Washburn University's public broadcasting station KTWU), September 14, 2017.

Presentations

"Immigration Blame," Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, May 29, 2018

"Immigration Blame," Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand, May 23, 2018

"Immigration Blame," Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, May 22, 2018.

Thomas Sneed

Presentations

"Legal Research Update: Kansas Research Tips and What is New with Federal Research Resources," 2018 Selected Topics and Miscellany CLE, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, June 22, 2018 (with Creighton Miller).

Frédéric G. Sourgens

Articles in Law Reviews

"Climate Commons Law: The Transformative Force of the Paris Agreement," 50 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 885 (2018).

"Value and Judgment in Investment Treaty Arbitration," 2018 Journal of Dispute Resolution 185 (2018).

"The Privacy Principle," 42 Yale Journal of International Law 345 (2017).

Books and Monographs

Co-editor, Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law - Volume 11 (with Ian A. Laird, Borzu Sabahi, and Todd J. Weiler Editors; Kabir Duggal and Rekha Rangachari, Associate Editor) (Juris Publishing, 2018).

Evidence in International Investment Arbitration (with Kabir Duggal and Ian A. Laird) (Oxford University Press, 2018).

• Michael Ballentine & Lisa Ballentine v. Dominican Republic PCA Case No. 2016-17, Procedural Order No. 14 (August 31, 2018).

Presentations

"The Role of International Law in Domestic Courts – Engaging the Nepalese Judiciary," Kathmandu, Nepal, May 1, 2018.

"Carbon Custom," 2017 Global Land & Resources Colloquium, University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma, October 21, 2017.

Editorial Appointments

Editor in Chief, Investment Claims (Oxford University Press), July 7, 2017.

Other Publications

"More Privacy Principle: A Reply to Asaf Lubin," Yale Journal of International Law Online (November 29, 2017).

"Preserve the Investment Protections in US Free Trade Agreements," Washington Examiner (September 2, 2017).

Conferences Planned

Co-Chair, Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) 30th Workshop and Annual Meeting, Multiple Proceedings, Multiple Parties, and International Arbitration: What a Tangled Web We Weave, Dallas, Texas, June 20-22, 2018.

Co-chair, Oxford Investment Claims Summer Academy, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, United Kingdom, July 6-7, 2017.

Amy Deen Westbrook

Articles in Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

"Cash for Your Conscience: Do Whistleblower Incentives Improve Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? 75 Washington and Lee Law Review 1097 (2018).

"Unicorns, Guardians, and the Concentration of the U.S. Equity Markets," 96 Nebraska Law Review 688 (2018) (with David A. Westbrook)

Chapters in Books

"Banking, Commercial & Contract Law," (chapter 2), Kansas Annual Survey (Kansas Bar Association, 2018) (co-authored with Lori A. McMillan and Andrea Boyack).

Media Interview

Guest, "Business Ethics in Corporate America," Working Capital series (produced by Washburn University's public broadcasting station KTWU), April 22, 2018.

Quoted, "How the World’s Wealthiest Keep it in the Family," MoneyWeek, April 13, 2018.