February 2010

02/15/2010

  • Marge Koosed, for being invited to speak on NPR "Sound of Ideas" on "What's Next for Lethal Injection?".  She also spoke at the OACDL Death Penalty Seminar as a panelist on "Winning Cases--Legal Developments, Federal Case Law Update" and spoke also on the appellate practice panel.
  • Dick Aynes, who published his terrific article, McDonald v. Chicago, The Fourteenth Amendment, The Right to Bear Arms and the Right of Self-Defense, in Cardozo Law Review, De Novo, their on-line journal.  Dick also worked on an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in the McDonald case, with a group of renown constitutional law scholars.  The Brief was cited by Green Bag as one of two briefs on its 2009 list of Exemplary Legal Writing. 
  • J. Dean Carro, who spoke to 200 Ohio Common Pleas Court Judges on Criminal Proceedure and at a CLE for the Akron Bar Association on appellate practice and direct examination.
  • Steve Cook, who spoke at Kent State University on business formation and operational issues for small businesses to 80 entrepreneurs and students.
  • Jane Moriarty, who published a book review on Science for Lawyers in Judicature Magazine; and accepted an invitation from Bruce Green at Fordham Law School to write a paper for an ABA Criminal Justice Section Roundtable discussion regarding the draft revisions of the Criminal Defense and  Prosecution Function Standards.  These roundtables will be held at law schools around the country.  She accepted an invitation to write a symposium law review article for this project to be published in either Fordham or Hasting law review in 2011; and agreed to speak at the Wecht Institute Symposium in March, 2010 on Is Football Bad for the Brain?  Forensic Scientific, Medical-Legal and Societal Aspects of the Concussion Debate, presenting on the admissibility of neuroimaging evidence.