Jane Moriarty will be speaking in Denver at the American Association of Forensic Science Annual Meeting on a panel entitled "Whores of the Court Revisited," with Dr. Margaret Hagan (Boston University Department of Psychology and author of the book "Whores of the Court"), Dr. William Bernet (Vanderbilt School of Medicine), Carl Edwards, Ph.D., and two expert witnesses on behavioral science. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Andre Moennsens, Douglass Stripp Professor of Law Emeritus (UMKC ).
Jane Moriarty has also accepted an invitation from Dean Geoffrey Mearns at CSU to participate in a Symposium on March 19, 2009, on the Future of Forensic Science to discuss the forthcoming, long-awaited report on forensic sciences from the National Academy of Sciences.
Elizabeth Reilly has been invited to speak at the 2009 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting on a panel addressing "Institutional Programs to Develop Teaching and Learning" and along with three other Associate Deans for Faculty Development will discuss institution-wide and individually focused ideas for facilitating faculty members' growth as teachers.
Jay Dratler's 2005 Akron Law Review article "Alice in Wonderland Meets the U.S. Patent System" was cited in Judge Mayer's dissenting opinion in Bilski v. Warsaw, 2008 WL 4757110 (Fed. Cir. 2008), the en banc decision of the Federal Circuit where Bilski sought to patent hedge contracts as a business method patent.
Paul Richert has begun is monthly column in the Akron Legal News with this week's entry, "Believe it ... the age of the ‘on-demand' book is here."
Jay Dratler and Jeff Samuels will host the Second Annual Intellectual Property Scholars' Roundtable, Friday, November 14, at Akron Law. The roundtable consisting of 20 invited scholars in the field will discuss the topic of "Secondary Liability for IP Infringement." The essays from the roundtable will be published in the Akron IP Journal.