30 Mar 2015
Professor Eric Berger
Professor Eric Berger presented a paper at a conference about Chief Justice Rehnquist’s legacy entitled “The Rehnquist Court: Ten Years Later" held in Tucson, Arizona. The conference was hosted by the William H. Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional Structures of Government at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Berger's paper is entitled “The Rehnquist Federalism Revolution and Stealth Constitutional Decision Making.”
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Assistant Professor Kristen Blankley
Assistant Professor Kristen Blankley presented a faculty colloquium on her upcoming paper: A Uniform Theory of Federal Court Jurisdiction Under the Federal Arbitration Act at South Dakota University School of Law. Her paper considers the intersection of arbitration and the federal courts and suggests a simplified and universal jurisdictional test to replace this confusing area of law.
Professor Blankley also testified, in a neutral capacity, before the Nebraska Legislature on Thursday, March 12, 2015, before the Judiciary Committee regarding Legislative Bill 437, a bill that, if passed, would create a presumption of joint legal custody and shared parenting time of at least 35% time for non-custodial parents undergoing a divorce or separation. Professor Blankley testified in her capacity as President of the Nebraska Mediation Association and discussed issues of mediation in child custody cases.
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Assistant Professor Jessica Shoemaker
On March 27, Assistant Professor Jessica Shoemaker participated in a Property Roundtable co-hosted by Tulane Law School and the Tulane University Murphy Institute in New Orleans. The subject of the Roundtable was “Regulating Private and Public Property,” and Shoemaker's panel was called, “Maximizing Social Benefits through Property Law.” Shoemaker was one of eight property law scholars from around the country invited to participate in this fascinating event. She also presented her new paper, Emulsified Property, which analyzes the complex property and sovereignty institutions within modern American Indian reservations through the lens of mixed tenure properties.
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Professor Frans von der Dunk
Professor Frans von der Dunk gave a presentation titled "Transmissions to Extraterrestrials and the Law: Where Do We stand, Where Should We Stand?" at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence workshop on February 14th.
Additionally, Professor von der Dunk co-chaired the annual European Centre of Space Law (ECSL) Practitioners’ Forum in Paris. The theme of the forum was “Space Governance in Europe: Regulation of Space Activities,” focusing on the roles the European Union and member states play in regulating space activity.