"Content-Based Laws Are Unproblematic?: The Case for Content-Based Promotion of Democratic Speech," Federal Communications Law Journal (2009 forthcoming)
"The Fairness Doctrine: A Flawed Means to Attain A Noble Goal," Administrative Law Review (2009 forthcoming)
"Competition and Investment in Wireline Broadband," book chapter in "...and communications for all: A Policy Agenda for the new Administration" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, forthcoming 2009)
Another Worthy Tradition: How the Free Speech Curriculum Ignores Electronic Media and Distorts Free Speech Doctrine, 59 Mo. L. Rev. 70 (2005)
A Shadow Government: Private Regulation, Free Speech, and Lessons from the Sinclair Blogstorm, 12 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech L. Rev. 1 (2005)
Public Opinion and Freedom of Speech, Knight Foundation White Paper (2006)
·Associated Press: Peter Svensson, “ISPs Hog Rights in Fine Print,” April 4, 2008 (published in USA Today, Miami Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Sydney Morning Herald-Australia, and others)
·Associated Press: Dibya Sarkar, “Senators Seek Media Ownership Rule Ban,” March 5, 2008 (published by Chicago Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Seattle Times, San Diego Union Tribune, Forbes, CNNMoney.com, and others)
·Associated Press:“Ahead of the Bell: Data Discrimination,” February 25, 2008 (published by Business Week, CNN Money, Forbes Conde Nast Portfolio, MSN Money, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle)
·Associated Press: Peter Svensson, “FCC to Probe Comcast Data Discrimination,” January 8, 2008 (published by USA Today, Editor & Publisher, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere)
·Associated Press: Peter Svensson, “Consumer groups ask FCC to fine Comcast,” Nov. 1, 2007 (published by New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Forbes, ABCNews.com, and dozens of other publications)
Professor Ammori's scholarly research focuses on how communications, information, and media policies affect the distribution of political and economic power and whether those policies serve or fail to promote innovation and to serve the values underlying freedom of speech and press.
Before coming to Nebraska, Professor Ammori practiced as an advocate in Washington, DC, where he was centrally involved in many of the most prominent media and Internet policy debates, including network neutrality, broadcast ownership limits, children's media rules, wireless policy, and access for all Americans to high-speed internet. He served successfully as the lead counsel for consumer groups and scholars in related FCC proceedings (prompted by filings he authored) that resulted in a landmark decision regarding Internet freedom and FCC jurisdiction. As General Counsel for Free Press and as a staff attorney at GeorgetownUniversityLawCenter's Institute for Public Representation, he practiced before appellate courts, the Federal Communications Commission, and Congress.Previously, Professor Ammori practiced at a corporate law firm in Chicago and held a research fellowship at YaleLawSchool, with its Information Society Project.Professor Ammori also enjoys literature, politics, playing four-player tennis on Nintendo Wii, and (trying to) cook.
The Collision of the Takings and State Sovereign Immunity Doctrines, 63 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 493 (2006)
Note: The Right to Education Under the South African Constitution, 103 Colum. L. Rev. 614 (2003)
Education
B.A., with Honors, Brown University (1995)
J.D., Columbia University School of Law (2003)
Professor Eric Berger joined the faculty in 2007. He received his B.A. with Honors in History from Brown University, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Kent Scholar and an Articles Editor on the Columbia Law Review. After law school, Professor Berger clerked for the Honorable Merrick B. Garland on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then practiced in Jenner & Block's Washington, D.C. office, where he worked on litigation in several state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Professor Berger's matters there included cases involving lethal injection, gay marriage, the detention of foreign nationals at Guantanamo Bay, and internet obscenity.
Professor Berger teaches Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, and Legal History: American Consitutional History. In 2008, he was voted Professor of the Year by the upperclass law students.
Professor Berger's scholarly interests include constitutional law and federal courts. His current work explores courts’ approaches to Eighth Amendment lethal injection cases.
Does Size Matter?: An Economic Analysis of Small Business Exemptions from Regulation, 8 J. Small and Emerging Bus. L. 1 (2004)
The Cost of Regulatory Exemptions, 72 UMKC L. Review. 857 (2004)
Securities Regulation and Small Business: Rule 504 and the Case for an Unconditional Exemption, 5 J. Small and Emerging Bus. L. 1 (2001), reprinted in Securities and Exchange Commission, Twentieth Annual Government-Business Forum On Small Business Capital Formation: Program Materials (Sept. 6-7, 2001), and to be reprinted in Securities L. Review
Expanding the Non-Transactional Revolution: A New Approach to Securities Registration Exemptions, 50 Emory Law Review 437 (2000)
Education
J.D., magna cum laude, 1982, Harvard Law School
M.P.P. 1982, Harvard University
B.S., summa cum laude, 1978, Utah State University
Professor Bradford joined the faculty in 1987. He received his B.S. degree (summa cum laude) from Utah State University in 1978; an M.P.P. from Harvard University in 1982; and a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University in 1982. From 1982 to 1986, he worked for the law firm of Jenkens & Gilchrist in Dallas, Texas and, during the 1986-87 academic year, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University.
Professor Bradford teaches Corporations; Securities Regulation; Securities Brokers, Mutual Funds, and Investment Advisers; Accounting for Lawyers, now in a second edition, and Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions. He is the author of an introductory book on accounting, Basic Accounting Principles for Lawyers. He has also authored several CALI lessons on aspects of the law of business organizations. Professor Bradford is a member of the editorial boards of the Villanova Journal of Law and Investment Management and the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and is also a member of CALI's board of directors. Professor Bradford also has an interest in legal humor and has published several humorous articles. In 2007-2008, Professor Bradford was the President of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Senate.
Professor Bradford is the father of four sometimes-wonderful children. His hobbies include running, bicycling, backpacking, and Australian rules yak-tossing. (If you have access to a yak near Lincoln, please let him know.)
Name:
Robert C. Denicola
Title:
Margaret R. Larson Professor of Intellectual Property Law
Margaret R. Larson Professor of Intellectual Property, 1988
Acting Dean, 1994-96
Cline Williams Research Chair, 2004-05
Books
Restatement of the Law (Third), Unfair Competition, (with H. Perlman), American Law Institute (1995)
Copyright, Unfair Competition, and Related Topics, Foundation Press (1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2009)
Supplement to Copyright, Unfair Competition, and Related Topics, Foundation Press
Articles
Access Controls, Rights Protection, and Circumvention: Interpreting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Preserve Noninfringing Use. 31 Columbia J. Law and Arts 209 (2008)
Copyright and Open Access: Reconsidering University Ownership of Faculty Research, 85 University of Nebraska Law Review 351 (2006)
Fair's Fair: An Argument for Mandatory Disclosure of Technological Protection Measures, 11 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 1 (2004)
Mostly Dead? Copyright Law in the New Millennium, 47 J. Copyright Society 193 (2000)
Freedom to Copy, 108 Yale Law Journal 1661 (1999)
Education
L.L.M., magna cum laude, 1976 Harvard University
J.D., magna cum laude, 1974 Harvard University
B.S.E., magna cum laude, 1971 Princeton University
Professor Denicola joined the Law College faculty in 1976. He received a B.S.E. degree from Princeton University in 197l and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1974. He also received an LL.M. degree from Harvard in 1976. Professor Denicola worked with a Boston law firm before coming to Nebraska. He has also been a visiting professor at Cornell University and the University of Alabama, and was Acting Dean of the Law College from 1994-96. Professor Denicola teaches courses in Contracts, Copyright, and Unfair Competition. He has written a casebook on copyright law published by Foundation Press and was the Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law of Unfair Competition.
The Law and Practice of Secured Transactions: Working with Article 9 (with Lyons and Wilson)(1987).
Hardwick’s Landmark Status, Romer’s Narrowness, and the Preservation of Marriage, in Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate, 264-73. (Wardle et al ed.) Praeger 2003).
Reflections on the Emperor’s Clothes: A Response to Professor David B. Cruz’s Theory on Marriage and the First Amendment, in Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate, 261-63. Wardle et al ed.) (Praeger 2003).
Book Chapter: On Liberty and Life In Babylon: A Pilgrim's Pragmatic Proposal, in McConnell et.al, Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (Yale University Press 2001)
The Impact of Smith On Free Exercise Issues Concerning Education, contribution to International Perspectives On Church and State (Menachem Mor, ed., 1993)
Locked Out: Locke v. Davey and the Broken Promise of Equal Access, 8 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 699 (2006)
Free Exercise and Individualized Exemptions: Herein of Smith, Sherbert, Hogwarts and Religious Liberty, 83 Neb. L.Rev.1178(2005).
Free Exercise Is Dead, Long Live Free Exercise: Smith, Lukumi and the General Applicability Requirement, 3 U. Pa J. Const. L. 850 (2001)
Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education, (Book Review) 16 J. Law & Religion 945 (2001).
Parental Opt-Outs In Nebraska Schools: Respecting Freedom of Thought, Parental Rights, and Religious Pluralism, 79 Neb. L. Rev. 922 (2000).
'They Call Me 'Eight Eyes'': Hardwick's Respectability, Romer's Narrowness, And Same-Sex Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 241 (1998)
From Loving To Romer: Homosexual Marriage And Moral Discernment, 12 B.Y.U.J. Public Law 239 (1998)
The Narrow And Shallow Bite of Romer And The Eminent Rationality of Dual-Gender Marriage, 6 William & Mary Bill of Rights J. 147 (1997)
Wigstock And The Kulturkampf: Supreme Court Storytelling, The Culture War, and Romer v. Evans, 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 345 (1997)
Public Schools And The Inevitability of Religious Inequality, 1996 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 569
Homosexual Marriage and the Myth of Tolerance: Is Cardinal O’Connor a “Homophobe”? 10 Notre Dame J. Law, Ethics & Pub. Policy 587 (1986)
Homosexual Rights and Citizen Initiatives: Is Constitutionalism Unconstitutional, 9 Notre Dame J. of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 97 (1995) (with Young)
Who Wants To Stop The Church: Homosexual Rights Legislation, Public Policy, and Religious Freedom, 69 Notre Dame L. Rev. 393 (1994)
Religious Civil Rights In Public High Schools: The Supreme Court Speaks on Equal Access, 24 Ind. L. Rev. 111 (1990)
Federal Tax Liens and the Secured Party, 21 U.C.C.L.J. 3 (1988) (with Lyons)
Loan Payments to Secured Creditors as Preferences Under the 1984 Bankruptcy Amendments, 64 Neb. L. Rev. 83 (1985)
Section 547(c)(1) and Delayed Perfection of Security Interests in the Ninth Circuit: Matter of Vance, 721 F.2d 259 (9th Cir. 1983), 58 Am. Bankr. L.J. 269 (1984)
Delayed Perfection of Security Interests in Personal Property and the Substantially Contemporaneous Exchange Exception to Preference Attack, 62 Neb. L. Rev. 201 (1983). This article was the subject of a lengthy "digest" in 17 U.C.C.L.J. 82-85 (1984)
Preferential Transfers, the Floating Lien, and Section 547 (c)(5) of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, 36 Ark. L. Rev. 1 (1982)
Through the Trap Door Darkly: Nebraska Exemption Policy and the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, 60 Neb. L. Rev. 219 (1981)
Education
J.D., cum laude, 1976, Cornell Law School
B.S., magna cum laude, 1973, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Professor Duncan joined the faculty in 1979. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1973. In 1976, he received his J.D. degree from the Cornell Law School, where he served on the Board of Editors of the Cornell Law Review. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1977. From 1976-79, he was associated with White & Case, a New York City law firm. Professor Duncan teaches Property and Constitutional Law. He is a passionate and enthusiastic classroom teacher, whose style is not so much Socratic Dialogue as Socratic Performance Art. Professor Duncan has a strong interest in defending religious freedom and in the legal protection of pre-born children. He is also widely published in defense of traditional - dual-gender - marriage laws. Professor Duncan says that he enjoys teaching because it helps him to stimulate students' minds and challenge accepted views.
Professor Duncan and his wife, Kelly, have five children (Casey, Joshua, Rebecca Joy, Hannah Grace, and Kathleen Noel). They are active in the home school movement and are currently educating their children at home. Professor Duncan's activities outside law include following the Boston Red Sox, bird-watching, working on the native grass and wildflower meadow on the family acreage, and coaching girl's softball teams for his daughters.
J.D., cum laude, 1972, University of Wisconsin Law School
Order of the Coif, 1972
B.S., History, 1966, Duke University
Professor Frank joined the faculty in 1972. He received his A.B. degree from Duke University in 1966 and a J.D. (cum laude, Order of the Coif) from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1972. From l966 to l968, he served in the Peace Corps in Libya. He was employed with the Legal Services Center for Dane County in Madison, Wisconsin, prior to coming to the University of Nebraska. Professor Frank currently teaches Family Law, Client Counseling, Mediation and Family Law Practice. He is the editor of the college's alumni magazine, the Nebraska Transcript, one of the coaches of Nebraska's Client Counseling competition team, and supervises the Community Legal Education Project, which aids in teaching law courses in area elementary and secondary schools. For five years, Professor Frank served as Associate Dean of the College, working with financial aid, admissions and student advisement. In 2005, he was awarded the Outstanding Service Award by the College of Law's Alumni Council.
The Fourth Amendment and the Public Schools: Observations on an Unsettled State of Search and Seizure Law, 36 Criminal Law Bulletin 373 (2000)
The Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and its Underlying Values: Defining the Scope of Privacy Protection, 90 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 397 (2000)
Education
J.D., 1972, University of Utah
B.S., 1969, University of Utah
Professor Gardner teaches Family Law, Juvenile Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He attended the University of Utah and received his B.S. degree in 1969 and his J.D. degree in 1972. He served as Associate Comment Editor for the Utah Law Review. During the 1975-76 academic year, he was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard University. He is a member of the state bars of Nebraska and Utah. Professor Gardner was an Instructor at the Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington) during 1972-73 and was on the faculty of the University of Alabama School of Law from 1973-77. Professor Gardner was the John Sparkman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law for the Fall semester of 1986-87.
When he is not teaching or writing, Professor Gardner finds time to work out at the gym, play clarinet in several ensembles, and serve in church callings.
Arbitration Policies, Laws, Cases, Procedures, and Skills, Volume 1: Judicial Decisions and Volume 2: Statutes, Rules of Procedure, and Documents (2006)
Professor Gradwohl was born in 1930. Education: B.S., 1951, LL.B., 1953, University of Nebraska; LL.M., 1957, Harvard Law School. Admitted to practice: Nebraska, 1953. Teaching positions: Associate Professor, 1959-60, University of Minnesota; Associate Professor, 1960-63, Professor 1963-present; Visiting Professor, Texas A & M University, 1979. Current subjects: Arbitration, Legislation Seminar. Judge, Nebraska Commission of Industrial Relations (1963-1972 and 1978-1985); labor arbitrator, 1965 to present.
J.D., summa cum laude, 1995, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
B.A., English and Political Science, 1992, Boston College
Book Supplements
2008 Supplement to Advanced Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Practice, Second Edition, Aspen Publishers (with Troop and Mirick) (forthcoming)
2007 Supplement to Advanced Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Practice, Second Edition, Aspen Publishers (with Troop and Mirick)
Book Chapters
The Implications of North American Catholic and Trenwick: Final Death Knell for Deepening Insolvency? Shift in Directors’ Duties in the Zone of Insolvency?, 2008 ANNUAL SURVEY OF BANKRUPTCY LAW (Lieb ed. 2008) (with Brighton) (forthcoming)
Chapter 89, Clearing Bank Liquidation (Code §§ 781–784), in NORTON BANKRUPTCY LAW AND PRACTICE, THIRD EDITION (Norton, Jr. ed. 2008)
Chapter 25, Enforceability of Contractual Restrictions on Disposition of Property, in BANKRUPTCY BUSINESS ACQUISITIONS, SECOND EDITION (Tilton ed. 2006) (with Black and Goodman)
Recent Articles
Corporate Control and the Need for Meaningful Board Accountability, 94 MINN. L. REV. (forthcoming 2010)
The Corporate Governance and Public Policy Implications of Activist Distressed Debt Investing, 77 FORDHAM L. REV. 703 (2008)
Trends in Distressed Debt Investing: An Empirical Study of Investors’ Objectives, 16 AM. BANKR. INST. L. REV. 69 (2008)
Reinstatement v. Cramdown: Do Secured Creditors Win or Lose?, 16 J. BANKR. L. & PRACTICE 459 (August 2007) (with Lennox and Goodman)
Debtors Beware: The Expanding Universe of Non-Assumable/Non-Assignable Contracts in Bankruptcy, 13 AM. BANKR. INST. L. REV. 187 (Spring 2005) (with Black and Goodman)
Licensing Intellectual Property and Technology from the Financially Troubled or Startup Company: Prebankruptcy Strategies to Minimize the Risk in a Licensee's Intellectual Property and Technology Investment, 55 BUS. LAW. 1649 (August 2000) (with Cieri)
Professor Harner joined the faculty in 2006. She previously was in private practice in the business restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy fields, most recently as a partner at the Chicago office of the international law firm Jones Day. Before joining that firm in 1996, and after her graduation, summa cum laude, from the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University, Professor Harner served as law clerk to Judge William T. Bodoh of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
As a student, Professor Harner served as Executive Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal, and also was a member of the Order of the Coif. She earned her undergraduate degree at Boston College (B.A. 1992, English and Political Science), and she is admitted to practice law in Illinois and Ohio.
Professor Harner is widely published and lectures frequently on various topics involving financially distressed entities and related legal issues. Her research interests include, among other topics, activist distressed debt investing and its impact on corporate restructurings; “deepening insolvency” and other emerging theories of liability in distressed situations; legislative responses to serial business failures and related implications for discrete industries; and the ethical implications of insolvency for directors, officers and other fiduciaries. In addition, in March 2009, Professor Harner received a research grant from the American Bankruptcy Institute Endowment Fund to study the role of creditors’ committees in chapter 11 business bankruptcies.
Confrontation Rules After Davis v. Washington, 15 Brooklyn Law School J.L. & Pol'y 635 (2007)
Can History Define the Structure of Confrontation Doctrine?, 71 Brooklyn Law Rev. 35 (2005)
Appellate Court Answers to the Confrontation Questions in Lilly v. Virginia, 53 Syr. L. Rev.89 (2003)
Filling the Gaps in Federal Rule 45 Procedure for Nonparty Nondeposition Document Discovery, 205 F.R.D. 638 (2002)
Hearsay and the Right of Confrontation in the European Court of Human Rights, 22 Quinn. L. Rev. 777 (2003)
Education
J.D., 1970, Stanford University
B.S., Economics, 1967, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Kirst joined the faculty in 1974 and is a Professor of Law. In 1970 he received his J.D. degree from Stanford Law School where he served as a member of the Stanford Law Review. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1971 and the Nebraska Bar in 1974. He was employed as an associate by a New York City law firm from 1970-71 and served in the U.S. Navy JAG Corps from 1971-74. Professor Kirst teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence and Civil Rights Litigation. He is the Reporter for the Nebraska Supreme Court Committee on Practice and Procedure and a member of the Federal Practice Committee for the District of Nebraska.
The Puzzle of Intended Harm in the Tort of Battery, 74 Temple Law Review 355 (Summer 2001)
Advancing the Rights of Children and Adolescents to be Altruistic: Bone Marrow Donation by Minors (Robbennolt, Weisz & Lawson), Journal of Law and Health (fall 1995)
Education
J.D., 1974, University of California, Hastings College of Law
B.A., French, 1970, Yale University
Professor Lawson joined the faculty in 1978. Born in 1948, he received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970 (French) and his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1974. At Hastings, he was Executive Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1974 and practiced with a San Francisco law firm from 1974 to 1976. During the 1977-78 academic year, he was a teaching fellow at the University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor Lawson directs the first-year Legal Writing Program, coordinating the work in it, and lecturing. His Main course is first-year Torts. He also teaches Advanced Torts, three electives in Health Law (Law and Medicine, Bioethics and the Law, the Law of Provider and Patient) and two advanced electives in legal writing (Style and Composition in Legal Writing, and Law & Literature).
Professor Lawson is an avid reader, especially in the humanities and the arts (literature - especially lyric poetry - and literary criticism, philosophy, art history and art criticism) and in medicine and the life sciences. He's a self-taught, amateur guitar picker (VERY amateur). When he has the time to couchpotate, he favors movies over Monday-night football. He leads a relatively sedentary existence, although he will climb on a mountain bike, when he needs to get his blood moving. When he comes out of the closet, he admits to being an unreconstructed 1960s liberal. He is married to an actress, and has two college-age children (one an undergraduate sophomore in Drama; the other a Masters candidate in Paleontology).
Book Chapter, Simultaneous Recoupment in the Maryland Medical Electronic Claim Submission Market (with David I. Rosenbaum), Measuring Market Power, Daniel Slottje ed. (2002)
Articles
What's So Special About Special Proceedings? Making Sense of Nebraska's Final Order Statute, 80 Neb. L. Rev. 239 (2001)
Notice Pleading Comes to Nebraska, Part I - Pleading Claims for Relief, Neb. Law., Sept. 2002; Part II - Responding to Claims for Relief, Neb. Law., Oct. 2002, and Part III - Odds & Ends, Neb. Law., Nov. 2002
Education
J.D., summa cum laude, 1980, Northwestern University School of Law
Order of the Coif, 1980
B.A., with Honors and Distinction, 1977, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle
Professor Lenich joined the faculty in 1984 as an Assistant Professor, became an Associate Professor in 1988, and served as Associate Dean of the College from 1988 to 1990. He received his B.A. (with honors and distinction) from the University of Illinois in 1977 and his J.D. (summa cum laude, Order of the Coif) from Northwestern University in 1980. While at Northwestern, he was Notes and Comments Editor of the Northwestern Law Review and was named an Edwin C. Austin Scholar. After graduating, he taught legal writing and research at Northwestern during the 1980-81 academic year and then practiced with the Los Angeles firm of O'Melveny & Myers. In between watching CSI: Miami and following the the Chicago White Sox, Professor Lenich teaches Antitrust, Appellate Advocacy, Civil Procedure, and Remedies. He also serves as the coach of the College's National Moot Court Team.
Section 482 Allocations: Judicial Decisions and IRS Practice, Tax Management Portfolio 553, Bureau of National Affairs (2006)
Section 482 Allocations: General Principles in the Code and Regulations, Tax Management Portfolio 551, Bureau of National Affairs (2005)
Section 482 Allocations: Specific Allocation Methods and Rules in the Code and Regulations, Tax Management Portfolio 552, Bureau of National Affairs (2005)
Hope for a Global Ethic: Shared Principles in Religious Scriptures, Baha’i Publishing (2005)
Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions, Pennsylvania State University Press (2002)
Unrelated Business Income Tax Issues in Health Care, Bureau of National Affairs (1996) (with Frederick J. Gerhart)
Articles
“Jurying Humanitarian Intervention and the Ethical Principle of Open-Minded Consultation,” in Humanitarian Intervention, Terry Nardin and Melissa Williams, eds., New York University Press (2005)
“Iraq, Fundamental Ethical Principles, and the Future of Human Rights,” 4 The Journal of Human Rights 53 (2005)
“Protecting the Human Family: Humanitarian Intervention, International Law, and Baha’i Principles,” 13 The Journal of Baha’i Studies 33 (2004)
“Why Obey International Law? Theories for Managing Conflicts with Municipal Law,” 97 American Society of International Law Proceedings 111 (2003) (with Hilary Charlesworth, Harold Hongju Koh, and Fernando Teson)
“Humanitarian Intervention, International Law and the World Religions,” in Human Rights and Responsibilities in the World Religions, Joseph Runzo, Nancy Martin, and Arvind Sharma, eds., Oneworld Publications (2003)
“Humanitarian Intervention and International Law in the New Millennium,” The Nebraska Transcript (2001)
“Is the United States Obligated to Drive on the Right? A Multidisciplinary Inquiry into the Normative Authority of Contemporary International Law Using the Arm’s Length Standard as a Case Study,” 10 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 43 (2000)
“The Prospects for a Permanent United Nations Military Force: Lessons from the Debate on the French Proposals at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, 75 Years Later,” 88 American Society of International Law Proceedings 390 (1994)
“The Role of Religions and Beliefs in Establishing Social Peace,” in “Proceedings of an International Symposium on >Freedom of Conscience: Basis for Social Peace’, Tirana, Albania, 26-28 May, 1992,” 4 Conscience and Liberty: International Journal of Religious Freedom 113 (1992)
“Offering Shares of Non-U.S. Investment Funds in the United States: A U.S. Securities and Tax Law Perspective,” 7 Journal of International Banking Law 344 (1992) (with Robert W. Helm and Natalie S. Bej).
“From League of Nations to World Commonwealth: A Baha’i Perspective on the Past, Present and Future of International Organization,” in Emergence: Dimensions of a New World Order, Charles Lerche, ed., U.K. Baha’i Publishing Trust (1991)
Education
J.D., 1989, Yale Law School
B.A., 1983, Princeton University
Professor Lepard joined the faculty in 1995. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1983. At Princeton, he was named a Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and concentrated on the study of international law. Following his graduation, he worked for three years as an international human rights law specialist at the United Nations Office of the Baha’i International Community, a non-governmental organization. In 1989, he received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. From 1989 until 1995 he practiced tax law as an associate with the Philadelphia-based law firm of Dechert Price & Rhoads, with a special focus on international tax law as well as exempt organizations law.
Professor Lepard has multidisciplinary scholarly and teaching interests in the fields of tax and business law, including international tax law; international human rights law; humanitarian intervention; international legal theory; ethics; world religions; and comparative law. He is the author of six books and numerous articles relating to these diverse subject areas. His books include three Tax Management Portfolios relating to the allocation of income and deductions among related businesses. They also include Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention, which was published by Penn State University Press in 2002. Professor Lepard is currently writing a book tentatively entitled Redefining Customary International Law: A New Theory with Practical Applications.
Professor Lepard serves as co-director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Human Rights and Human Diversity Initiative. He is a member of the editorial review boards of a number of academic journals, including The Journal of Human Rights, Human Rights & Human Welfare: An International Review of Books and Other Publications, Religion and Human Rights: An International Journal, and The Journal of Baha’i Studies. He serves as vice-chair of the International Legal Theory Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. He is a member of the International Board of Consultants of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum and of Genocide Watch.
Professor Lepard will teach Individual Income Tax and Business Planning in the Fall 2007 semester. He will be on leave during the Spring 2008 semester.
Name:
Richard A. Leiter
Title:
Director of the Schmid Law Library and Professor of Law
Director and Professor of Law at the Schmid Law Library, 2000
Books
National Survey of State Laws, 1st Ed. (1993), 2nd Ed. (1997), 3rd Ed. (1999), 4th Ed. (2003)
Spirit of Law Librarianship (with Roy Mersky), 1991
Use of Law Reviews in Modern Legal Research: The Computer Didn't Make Me Do It!, 90:1 LLJ 59 (Winter 1998)
Articles
Reorganize AALL's Membership Structures for More Effective Representation of Members, 6:5 Spectrum 4 (February 2002)
Planning for the Inevitable (with Paul Morrison), 20:9 Legal Information Alert 6 (October 2001)
AALL Exhibits 2001: An Annual Reveiw, 20:7 Legal Information Alert 5 (July/August 2001)
Twenty Years Ago … A Reminiscence, Not a Database Report, 20:6 Legal Information Alert 9 (June 2001)
Education
M.L.I.S., 1986, University of Texas, Austin
J.D., 1981, Southwestern University School of Law
B.A., with Honors, 1976, University of California, Santa Cruz
Richard Leiter is the Director and Professor of Law at the Schmid Law Library. Although he assumed his current position in 2000, he had worked on the UNL law library staff years ago (1986-1988) as Public Services Librarian. He earned his undergraduate degree (with honors) in 1976 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, his J.D. in 1981 from Southwestern University School of Law, where he was an editor of the law review, and his MLIS in 1986 from the University of Texas at Austin.
He has been a law librarian over twenty years. Before coming to the College of Law, he was Associate Dean of Information Technology & Services and Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. and Library Director and Associate Professor at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Prior to that he held various positions in both law firm and academic libraries on both coasts.
Professor Leiter has written widely on law library, legal research, and legal information technology issues. His most recent book, National Survey of State Laws, now in its fifth edition, is widely held by library reference collections and was named An Outstanding Resource by the New York Public Library. In 2003 it won the prestigious Andrews Bibliographical Award from the American Association of Law Libraries. He is a regular columnist for Legal Information Alert and has contributed to the Law Library Journal and numerous other law library publications. Prof. Leiter also edits a web-log ("blog") on computing and online technology and their influence on libraries called, The Life of Books (as opposed to the Death of Books), and can be found at: http://thelifeofbooks.blogspot.com/.
Chapter entitled "Financially Troubled Partnerships" in Collier on Bankruptcy Taxation (1992), with annual updates
Sourcebook on The Nebraska Uniform Trust Code [with Professor John M. Gradwohl (November 2003)
Chapter entitled "General Partnerships" in Volume 4 of the Nebraska "How To" Practice Seriesl (2d ed.1998)
Chapter entitled "Selected Tax Issues in Bankruptcy" in Volume 6 of the Nebraska "How To" Practice Seriesl (2d ed.1997)
Chapter entitled "Apportionment of Federal and Nebraska Wealth Transfer Taxes" in Nebraska Probate Manual (Nebraska Continuing Legal Education, Inc. 1993) The Law and Practice of Secured Transactions: Working with Article 9 [Co-Authored with Professors Richard F. Duncan and Catherine Lee Wilson] (New York Law Journal Press 1987)
Articles
"Discretionary Trusts, Support Trusts, Discretionary Support Trusts, Spendthrift Trusts, and Special Needs Trusts Under the Nebraska Uniform Trust Code" (co-authored with Professor John M. Gradwohl), 86 Nebraska Law Review 231 (2007).
"Constitutional and Other Issues in the Application of the Nebraska Uniform Trust Code to Existing Trusts" (co-authored with Professor John M. Gradwohl), 82 Nebraska Law Review 212 (2003)
"The New 'Innocent Spouse' Rules", The Nebraska Lawyer (May 2001)
"Report entitled Partnership Equity for Debt" [portion of the Report of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation Section 108 Real Estate and Partnership Task Force], 46 The Tax Lawyer 397 (1993)
"An Examination of the Tax Consequences of Discharge of Indebtedness," 10 Virginia Tax Review 1 (1990) [Co-Authored with Fred T. Witt, Jr.]
"Federal Tax Liens and the Secured Party," 21 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal 3 (1988) [Co-Authored with Professor Richard F. Duncan]
"Corporate Liquidations and the 'General Utilities Rule'," 38 Southwestern Law Journal 1081 (1985)
Education
J.D., cum laude, 1973, Boston College Law School
Order of the Coif, 1973
B.A., Government, 1969, Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Mr. Lyons joined the faculty in 1981. He received his B.A. degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1969 and his J.D. degree (Cum Laude, Order of the Coif) from Boston College Law School in Newton, Massachusetts in 1973. Mr. Lyons was a member of the law review publications staff during his second year at Boston College Law School and served as Coordinating Casenote and Comment Editor of the Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law during his third year. Admitted in Maine, Massachusetts and Nebraska and to the Bar of the United States Tax Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. Lyons practiced in Bangor, Maine from 1973 to 1981 with the law firm of Vafiades, Brountas & Kominsky. During the 1987-88 academic year, Mr. Lyons was a Professor-in-Residence in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C. He has been a visiting professor at Boston College Law School, University of Miami School of Law, Vermont Law School, and the International Tax Center of the University of Leiden in Holland. He has twice taught comparative wills and trusts law as part of the summer program for study in Ireland sponsored by UNL, University of Kansas and University of Limerick. Mr. Lyons presently teaches Individual Income Taxation, Partnership Taxation, Estate Planning and Wills & Trusts.
Mr. Lyons is a Fellow and former Regent of the American College of Tax Counsel. He is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, is Chair of The Tax Lawyer committee, Managing Editor of The Tax Lawyer, a past Chair of that Section's Committee of Individual Investments and Workouts (currently Individual and Family Taxation), and is active in the Committees on Bankruptcy & Workouts, Teaching Taxation and Low Income Taxpayers. He served as Co-Vice Chair of that Section's I.R.C. Section 108 Real Estate and Partnership Task Force. He is also a member of the ABA Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law. He is Faculty Advisor to the Law College's Volunteer Tax Assistance (VITA) Program, and one of the faculty advisors to the Law College's Interschool Appellate Moot Court Competition Teams. His non-professional interests include amateur radio (his current call sign is KC0HMJ), bicycle touring, science fiction, historical geology, the current Boston American League Baseball Club and the former Boston National League Baseball Club.
Professor, University of Nebraska College of Law (2005-present)
Associate Professor, University of Nebraska College of Law (2004-2005)
Professor, University of Tennessee College of Law (2003-2004)
Associate Professor, University of Tennessee College of Law (1997-2003)
Books and Book Chapters
Contemporary Property (with Grant S. Nelson, William B. Stoebuck, Dale A. Whitman, and Shelley Saxer (4th ed. forthcoming 2012, published by West)
Principles of Employee Benefits Law (forthcoming 2010, published by West)
Acing Property (forthcoming 2009, published by West)
Introduction to Employee Benefits Law: Policy and Practice (2004, 2d ed. 2007, 3d ed. forthcoming 2010) (with accompanying Teacher's Manual)(published by West)
Enron and the Pension System, published in Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Implications (Foundation Press 2003)
Recent Articles
The Retirement Distribution Decision Ten Years Later: Results From An Empirical Study, 16 Elder L.J. 295 (2009).
Transforming the Role of the Social Security Administration, 92 Cornell Law Review 323 (2007) (Social Security Reform Symposium Issue).
Resolving the Judicial Paradox of "Equitable" Relief under ERISA Section 502(a)(3), 39 J. Marshall Law Review 827 (2006) (ERISA Symposium Issue).
Challenging the Four Truths of Personal Social Security Accounts: Evidence from the World of 401(k) Plans, 81 North Carolina Law Review 901 (2003).
Stock Market Volatility and 401(k) Plans, 34 Michigan Journal of Law Reform 469 (2001).
Targeted Pension Reform, 27 Journal of Legislation 1 (2001).
The Individual Responsibility Model of Retirement Plans Today: Conforming ERISA Policy to Reality, 49 Emory L. J. 1 (2000).
HIPAA And Its Related Legislation: A New Role For ERISA In The Regulation Of Private Health Care Plans?, 65 Tenn. L. Rev. 485 (1998).
The Law Of Directed Trustees Under ERISA: A Proposed Blueprint For The Federal Courts, 61 Mo. L. Rev. 825 (1996).
Other Publications
How Do Conflicts of Interest Affect Benefit-Denial Claims Under ERISA?, 2008 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 343 (previewing Metropolitan Life Insurance- Co. v. Glenn).
Are Constructive Trusts or Equitable Liens Available As Equitable Remedies Under Section 502(a)(3) of ERISA?, 2006 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 309 (previewing Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc.).
How Readable Are Summary Plan Descriptions for Health Care Plans?, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Notes (Oct. 2006) (with Wiener, Bornstein, and McGorty).
Works in Progress
The Federal Common Law of Vicarious Fiduciary Liability Under ERISA
ERISA and the Future of Health Care Reform
Presentations
Invited Speaker, Employee Health Care Benefits and ERISA Preemption, Association of American Law Schools, Workshop on Work Law, June 2009, Long Beach, California.
Panel Organizer and Speaker, Merging the "Old" with the "New": Community-Based Collaborative Legal Research and Opportunities for Empirical Legal Studies, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of American Law Schools,July 2008, Palm Beach, Florida.
Invited Speaker, Ninth Annual Joint Conference of the Retirement Research Consortium, Retiree Perceptions and Decision-Making Concerning Longevity, Inflation, and Investment Risk in the Early Years of the Post-Retirement Phase, August 2007, Washington, D.C.
Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of the National Tax Association, Improving Retirement Savings Through Retirement Financial Education: A "Best Practices" Approach, November 2006, Boston, Massachusetts.
Invited Speaker, University of Missouri School of Law, Faculty Colloquium, ERISA and the Future of Health Care Reform, October 2006, Columbia, Missouri.
Invited Speaker, Fourth Annual Employee Benefits Symposium, John Marshall Law School, April 2006, Chicago, Illinois.
Moderator and Invited Speaker, Roundtable on Law Review Publishing, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of American Law Schools, July 2005, Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Program Chair, Coverage of Reproductive Technologies Under Employer-Sponsored Health Care Plans, Section on Employee Benefits Law, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2004, Atlanta, Georgia.
Invited Speaker, Company Stock In 401(k) Plans and the Old-Fashioned Duty of Prudence, Panel on Employee Stock Ownership After Enron, Section of Employee Benefits Law, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2003, Washington, D.C.
Invited Speaker, Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Yale Law School, June 2002 (presentation of scholarship work on proposed reform of the Social Security system).
Invited Speaker, Privatizing Social Security: A Closer Look, Kansas Insurance Institute, February 2002, Overland Park, Kansas.
Invited Speaker, What 401(k) Plans Teach Us About Privatizing Social Security, Kansas Governor's Conference on Aging, May 2001, Topeka, Kansas.
Invited Speaker, The Budget Process, Pension Tax Policy Cycles, and Pension Reform, Panel on Tax Law Policy, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of American Law Schools, August 2000, Captiva Island, Florida.
Invited Speaker, Preventive Medicine for Employee Benefit Plans, Eighth Annual Tennessee Corporate Counsel Institute, May 2000, Memphis, Tennessee.
Invited Speaker, Employer Fiduciary Liability for Participant Retirement Savings Education and Investment Advice, Sixth Annual Tennessee Corporate Counsel Institute, October 1998, Kingsport, Tennessee.
Invited Speaker, Redesigning Federal Retirement Laws For An Age Of Individual Responsibility, Young Scholars Workshop, Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Association of American Law Schools, July 1998, Marco Island, Florida.
Invited Speaker, Panel on Costs of Litigation and Access to the Federal Courts, Tenth Circuit Judicial Conference, July 1996, Aspen, Colorado.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Tobin Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Member of the Working Group on Retirements Security (2006-present)
Elected Member, American Law Institute (since 2006)
Pension Rights Center, Washington, D.C., Conversation on Coverage Project, Member of Working Group III (2004-2007)
Chair, Association of American Law Schools, Section of Employee Benefits Law (2003-2004)
Executive Committee Member, Association of American Law Schools, Section on Women In Legal Education (2009-present)
Research Fellow, Employee Benefit Research Institute (1999-present)
Member, American Bar Association (since 1989)
Member, ABA Committee on Employee Benefits Law (since 2008); co-chair of Subcommittee on Recruitment (2008-present)
Member of the Kansas, Missouri, and Tennesse Bars (inactive status)
Awards
Professor of the Year Award (voted by the first year class)(2008)
Ditinguished Faculty Award, University of Nebraska College of Law Alumni Council (2007)
One of ten finalists for the University of Tennesse National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award (2002)
Winner of the Labor and Social Welfare Policy Category for the 2002 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Scholarship Forum
UT College of Law Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence (2001)
UT College of Law Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award (2000)
UT COllege of Law W. Allen Separk Faculty Scholarship Award (2000)
Research Grants
Principal Investigator, Retiree Perceptions and Decision-Making Concerning Longevity, Inflations, and Investment Risk in the Early Years of the Post-Retirement Phase, funded by a Sandell Grant from the Social Security Adminstration, awarded and administered by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (2006-2007)($30,000).
Co-Principal Investigator, An Empirical Analysis of Summary Plan Description Language (with Richard Weiner and Brian Bornstein), funded jointly by the Commonwealth Fund and the Employee Benefit Research Institute (2005-2006) ($20,000).
Colleen E. Medill teaches Employee Benefits Law (ERISA), Property, Real Estate Transactions, and Wills, Trusts and Estates at the College of Law.
Professor Medill graduated first in her law school class from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1989 and served as an articles editor of the Kansas Law Review. At graduation she received the C.C. Stewart Award, which is awarded annually by the law school faculty to the Law School's outstanding graduate. After graduation from law school, Professor Medill served as a law clerk to the Hon. Deanell Reece Tacha, of the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Medill was in private legal practice in Kansas City, Missouri, with the law firm of Stinson, Mag & Fizzell (now Stinson, Morrison & Hecker) from 1990 to 1997. Her private legal practice focused primarily on representing employers concerning tax, corporate, and litigation issues arising in the context of employee benefit plans. She also represented banks and bank holding companies concerning corporate and bank regulatory matters under federal and state laws.
Professor Medill is a frequent writer and speaker on federal retirement policy and ERISA. Professor Medill is the sole author of the casebook, INTRODUCTION TO EMPLOYEE BENEFITS LAW: POLICY AND PRACTICE (2d ed. 2007), which is used by over 25 law schools around the country. Her articles have been published in such journals as the Cornell Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, and the North Carolina Law Review. She is a regular contributor to the American Bar Association's Preview of U.S. Supreme Court Cases as a commentator on ERISA cases, and is a regular speaker on ERISA and federal retirement policy at national conferences on employee benefits law and public policy.
Professor Medill is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a member of the Employee Benefits Law Committee for the American Bar Association. She served as the Chair of the Association of American Law School's Section on Employee Benefits Law from 2003-2004. Professor Medill is actively engaged in retirement policy research and development at the national level. She is a Research Fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a participant in the Conversation on Coverage, sponsored by the Pension Rights Center in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Pensions Working Group for the Tobin Project, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Americans With Disabilities Act in Cyberspace: Applying the 'Nexus' Approach to Private Internet Websites, 55 Mercer Law Review 963 (2004)
Long-term Employment Agreements with In-house Counsel: Employment Security or Ethical Quagmire, 9 Ga. B.J. 20(2003)(co-authored article).
Third Circuit Holds That Prayer at Graduation is Unconstitutional. Even if it Results from a Student Vote, 110 Harv. C. Rev. 78, (1997).
Education
J.D., magna cum laude, 1998, Harvard Law School
B.A., summa cum laude, History, 1991, Emory University
Research Areas
Employment Law
Disability Law
Law and Technology
Professor Richard Moberly joined the law faculty in August 2004, after practicing as an attorney with McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his B.A. degree in History, summa cum laude, from Emory University, where he focused on the civil rights movement in the United States. Professor Moberly graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable N. Carlton Tilley, Jr., United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina.
Professor Moberly teaches Employment Law, Evidence and in the Civil Clinical Law Program. He also coaches the Law College's award-winning Trial Team. In 2006, he was voted the Professor of the Year by upperclass law students. In 2007, Professor Moberly received a College Distinguished Teaching Award. Also, in 2007-08, he received the Cline Williams Research Chair.
Professor Moberly's research interests include employee whistleblower protection. In May 2007, the United States House of Representatives invited Professor Moberly to testify on his research and as an expert on federal whistleblower protections in a hearing before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections entitled Private Sector Whistleblowers: Are There Sufficient Legal Protections? A copy of Professor Moberly's written testimony can be downloaded here, and videos of his testimony can be found here and here.
Currently, Professor Moberly is working on a variety of projects, including an empirical study of Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower cases filed in federal court and an examination of the Supreme Court's treatment of retaliation claims.
Name:
Susan Poser
Title:
Associate to the Chancellor and Associate Professor of Law
Director, Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics, 2004
Associate to the Chancellor, 2007
Articles & Book Chapters
Sample Prescription Drugs and the Learned Intermediary: The Case for Liability Without Preemption, 62 Food & Drug Law Journal (forthcoming 2007) (peer reviewed).
Perceptions of Procedural and Distributive Justice in the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Cornell Journal of Law & Policy (forthcoming 2007) (co-authored with Brian Bornstein).
Punitive Damages and Metaphor. Book chapter in Bornstein, B.H., Wiener, R.L., Schopp, R.F., & Willborn, S. (Eds.), Civil juries and civil justice: Psychological and legal perspectives. New York: Springer. (expected publication late 2007/early 2008).
A Fledgling Center’s Three Strategies for Faculty and Administration Buy-in. Association for Practical & Professional Ethics publication (2007).
What's a Judge to Do?: Remedying the Remedy in Institutional Reform Litigation. Book Review of Democracy by Decree, by Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod. 102 Michigan Law Review1307 (2004).
Main Street Multidisciplinary Practice: Laboratories for the Future. 37 Michigan Journal of Law Reform 95 (2003).
Measuring Damages for Lost Enjoyment of Life: The View From the Bench and the Jury Box, 27 Law & Human Behavior 53 (2003) (co-authored with Brian H. Bornstein and E. Kiernan McGorty) (peer reviewed).
Termination of Desegregation Decrees and the Elusive Meaning of Unitary Status, 81 Nebraska Law Review 283 (2002).
The Ethics of Implementation: Institutional Remedies and the Lawyer's Role, 10 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 115 (1996).
United States V. Steinmetz: The Legal Legacy of the Civil War, Revisited, 46 Ala. L. Rev. 725 (1995) (co-authored with Elizabeth R. Varon).
Education
Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, 2000, University of California, Berkeley
J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, 1991, Berkeley
o Order of the Coif
B.A., Ancient Greek and Political Science, 1985, Swarthmore College
Professor Susan Poser received her B.A. in Ancient Greek and Political Science from Swarthmore College and her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2000, Professor Poser received a Ph.D. in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the remedial phase of desegregation litigation.
After law school, Professor Poser was a law clerk to Chief Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She practiced law in Philadelphia and was the Zicklin Fellow in Ethics in the Legal Studies Department of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In Spring 2004, Professor Poser was a visiting professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Poser's research interests include professional responsibility, with a focus on Multijurisdictional and Multidisciplinary Practice. She has written and spoken widely on these issues. In 2003, she served as the Reporter to the Nebraska State Bar Association Committee that reviewed the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and proposed their adoption in Nebraska. In 2004, Poser became the director of the UNL Center for the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics. Professor Poser is has also published articles on Tort law and has participated in empirical research and scholarship on the effects of Tort rules.
Professor Poser has been a member of the Women's and Gender Studies Faculty, the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women, and served as Chair of the NU Systemwide Gender Equity Committee. She is a member of the Pennsylvania and Nebraska bars and serves on the Ethics Committee of the Nebraska State Bar Association. In 2002, she was appointed by the Nebraska Supreme Court to the District One Committee on Inquiry, which reviews disciplinary complaints against Nebraska attorneys. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska and the National Board of Directors of the ACLU.
In 2003, Poser was awarded the Law College Distinguished Teacher award. In 2004 Poser was elected to the American Law Institute and in 2006 she received the Shining Light Award from the Nebraska State Bar Foundation. In 2007 she took the position of Chief of Staff and Associate to the Chancellor at UNL.
Richard H. Larson Professor of Constitutional Law, 1988
2005-06 Cline Williams Research Chair
Books
Federal Criminal Jury Instructions (2d ed. 1991)(with Perlman and Saltzberg) and 1993 Supplement
Prisoner Collateral Attacks: Federal Habeas corpus and Section 2255 Motions (1991) and 1992 and 1993 supplements
Articles
Constitutional Litigation, 78 Neb. L. Rev. 550 (1999)
Education
J.D., 1974, Rutgers University Law School, Newark
Order of the Barrister, 1974
M.A., English Literature, 1971, Seton Hall University
B.A., Journalism, 1967, Douglass College
Professor Potuto joined the faculty in 1974. She is the Richard H. Larson Professor of Constitutional Law. Among the courses she currently teaches are Federal Jurisdiction, Constitutional Law, Sports Law, and Criminal Procedure. Professor Potuto also maintains a special interest in Conflict of Laws and Appellate Advocacy and, among other courses, has taught Mass Communications and Criminal Law at the Law College.
Professor Potuto is the Faculty Athletics Representative for the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She represents the university on NCAA committees and is a member of the governance group of the Big XII Conference. A past chair of the Big XII Conference, she sits on the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions and on the Division I Management Council. She also is a member of the NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championship Committee and the Region 5 Postgraduate Scholarship Committee.
Professor Potuto is the author of Prisoner Collateral Attacks: Habeas Corpus and Federal Prisoner Motion Practice (Clark Boardman); the author of Winning Appeals (NITA); and a co-author of Federal Criminal Jury Instructions (Michie). From 1975-78, she worked as project director and reporter on the Model Sentencing and Corrections Act of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (model act published 1978). From 1985 to 1992, she was reporter to the Nebraska Supreme Court Committee on Criminal Practice and Pattern Jury Instructions (the pattern instructions for criminal cases were published by West in 1992). In 1994 she was a consultant to the Nebraska Racing Commission. Professor Potuto has been a visiting professor at Seton Hall University Law School (1994-95), North Carolina Law College (Fall 1990), Oregon Law College (Spring 1991), Arizona Law College (Spring 1982), Rutgers Law College (Summers 1985 and 1986), and Cardozo Law College (Summer 1986). Professor Potuto also has prosecuted criminal cases (1983-84 in Essex County New Jersey; Summers of 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1996 in Morris County, New Jersey).
Professor Potuto has a B.A. degree in Journalism from Douglass College, an M.A. degree in English Literature from Seton Hall University, and a J.D. degree from the Rutgers University Law College where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers Law Review, Best Oralist in the Rutgers Intramural Moot Court Competition, and Captain of the Rutgers National Moot Court Team. She is a member of the American Law Institute and a past member of the Federal Practice Committee of the Federal District Court, District of Nebraska, the Nebraska Crime Commission, and the Robert Van Pelt American Inns of Court (master in the Brandeis Inn). She also is a past advisor to the Nebraska National Moot Court Team and the National Client Counseling Team.
Protecting Nebraska's Vulnerable Adults (published with Alicia Hendersen in 1999)
Family-Based Immigrant Visas (first published in 1997 for the biannual NCLE Immigration Conference and updated in 1999 and 2001)
A Criminal Practitioner's Guide to Immigration Law (published in 1998 and updated in 2001)
Office Manual For Clinical Law Students (Clinic Manual) (Revision 1987 - 1990, 1992 - 2002)
Education
J.D., 1979, University of Nebraska College of Law
B.A., English, 1975, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Professor Ruser joined the Law College faculty in June, 1985, as a supervising attorney in the Civil Clinical Law Program. He received a B.A. from UNL in 1975, with an English major and a history minor. Professor Ruser attended UNL College of Law and received his J.D. in 1979. He worked for Western Nebraska Legal Services from 1979-1985; the first two years were spent in the Grand Island branch office, and the last four years were spent in the Scottsbluff office, where he was managing attorney. He is a member of the Nebraska bar, a past member of the Legal Services Committee of the State Bar Association, and a member of the Poverty Law Section of the State Bar. He is also a member of the ABA, the Clinical Section of the AALS, and the Clinical Legal Educators Association. He is involved in the revision of several Clinic practice manuals, and has authored the following: A Criminal Practitioner's Guide to Immigration Law; Protecting Nebraska's Vulnerable Adults (a field manual for HHS employees)(with Henderson); Family-Based Immigrant Visas; Nebraska Chapter Seven Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Manual; Nebraska Adoption Manual and Checklist; Powers of Attorney, Guardianships and Conservatorships (a training manual); Nebraska Chapter Thirteen Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Manual; Overview of Consumer Law: Debt Counseling, Fair Debt Collection Practices, Home Solicitation Sales Act and Bankruptcy (a training manual); An Overview: The Right to Rescind Consumer Contracts Under the Home Solicitation Sales Act and the Truth in Lending Act (a training manual); Guardianships, Conservatorships, The Patient Self-Determination Act, Powers of Attorney, and Living Wills (a training manual); Nebraska Landlord/Tenant Law (a training manual); Outline of Immigration Law and Guide to Interviewing Incarcerated Aliens; and Federal and State Fair Housing Law: An Overview (a training manual). His outside interests are reading, camping, soccer, gardening and, increasingly, any other form of sedentary diversion.
Director Space and Telecommunications Law Program, 2006
Articles
Sovereignty, Realpolitik and the World Trade Organization, Hastings Journal of Int'l & Comp. Law (2002)
Conscientious State Legislators and the Cultures of Compliance and Liberalization Relating to International Trade Agreements, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 52 (2001)
Education
S.J.D., University of Michigan Law School
L.L.M., International Law, University of Michigan Law School
J.D., magna cum laude, University of Michigan Law School
Order of the Coif, B.A., with Honors, Economics and General Honors, University of Chicago
During the 1999 calendar year, Professor Schaefer served as a director in the International Economic Affairs Office of the National Security Council (NSC). He was the principal staff member responsible for the formulation, coordination and implementation of U.S. foreign policy as it relates to international economic issues. In his role as a director, he prepared senior NSC officials for meetings with the President and foreign dignitaries and assisted in the development of international trade policy recommendations.
Professor Schaefer is a graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A.) and the University of Michigan Law School (J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, L.L.M. in international law). During his law studies, he received the William W. Bishop, Jr. Award for performance with distinction in the field of international law and also served an externship at the U.S. State Department-Office of the Legal Advisor. He studied at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia under a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Professor Schaefer currently is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the board of editors of the Journal of International Economic Law, and serves on the advisory board of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Schaefer served as an international trade consultant to the National Governors' Association and Western Governors' Association in Washington, D.C. during the legislative implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and GATT Uruguay Round multilateral trade agreement. He has also served as a consultant to two members of the European parliament in Brussels, Belgium and the states of Hawaii, Texas, and Utah. Professor Schaefer teaches Public International Law, International Trade Law, International Business Transactions, and International Trade Law and Policy Seminar. In March 2006, Professor Schaefer was named Director of the Space and Telecommunications Law Program.
J.D., with Distinction, 1998, University of Nebraska College of Law
Order of the Barristers, 1998
M.A., Distinguished Graduate, 1994, Webster University
B.S., 1987, University of Nebraska
Professor Schmidt joined the faculty in 2007. He received his B.S. degree in 1987 and spent the next eight years as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps. He received his M.A. degree in 1994 and his J.D. in 1998. Following law school, he worked in the Lancaster County Attorney’s Office. As a Deputy County Attorney, he primarily prosecuted sexual assault and domestic violence cases, but also handled a wide variety of other felony and misdemeanor cases.
He is an active bar member, participating in Inns of Court and serving as Vice-President of the Lincoln Bar Association. He also coaches the Law College’s Trial Team. When not working, Professor Schmidt spends time with his wife and two sons. They enjoy camping, fishing, and scuba diving.
Competence, Condemnation, and Commitment, Washington D.C., Amer. Psychological Assoc. Press (2001)
Justification Defenses and Just Convictions, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press (1998)
Automatism, Insanity, and the Psychology of Criminal Responsibility, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press (1991)
Articles
Two-edged Swords, Dangerousness, and Expert Testimony in Capital Sentencing, 30 L. & Psych. Rev. 57 (2006)
Involuntary Treatment and Competence to Proceed int eh Criminal Process: Capital and Noncapital Cases, Behav. Sci. & L. 495 (2006)
Multiple Personality Disorder, Accountable Agency, and Criminal Acts, 10 S. Cal. Interdisc. L. J. 297 (2001)
Reconciling 'Irreconcilable' Capital Punishment Doctrine as Comparative and Noncomparative Justice, 53 Fla. L. Rev. 475 (2001)
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, 1989, University of Arizona
J.D., summa cum laude, 1988, University of Arizona
Ph.D., Psychology, 1977, North Carolina State University
Professor Schopp practiced clinical psychology before turning to the study of law and philosophy in an attempt to understand some perplexing issues that he encountered during ten years of clinical practice. So far, he remains perplexed, but he likes to think that he is perplexed in a deeper and more comprehensive manner. He joined the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1989 after completing the concurrent law/philosophy program at the University of Arizona. His primary areas of interest involve questions that lie at the intersection of law, psychology and philosophy. These issues tend to arise in criminal law, mental health law, jurisprudence and professional ethics.
Environmental Law and Water Resource Management Seminar
Land Use Law
State and Local Government Law
Appointments
Assistant Professor of Law, 2006
Education
J.D., with Highest Distinction, 2003, University of Nebraska College of Law
Order of the Coif, 2003
B.S., summa cum laude, 1998, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Professor Schutz is a 2003 graduate of the College of Law and joined the faculty in 2006. During law school, he worked for Cline, Williams, Wright, Johnson, and Oldfather in Lincoln, Nebraska, and was the editor-in-chief of the Nebraska Law Review. After law school, Professor Schutz clerked for the Honorable C. Arlen Beam of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit until 2005. During the 2004-2005 academic year he also taught Legal Research and Writing at the College of Law as an adjunct instructor. During the 2005-2006 academic year he was a Visiting Lecturer in the Lawyering Program at the Cornell Law School.
The product of a farm family in Elwood, Nebraska, Professor Schutz’s research interests include the often intertwined subjects of agricultural law, environmental and natural resources law, and state and local government. He has recently authored a chapter in The History of Nebraska Law (Ohio Univ. Press, forthcoming Spring 2007) entitled “Land Use Law and Livestock Production.”, two forthcoming articles on state corporate farming restrictions and the dormant aspects of the Commerce Clause, and a forthcoming second edition (with Peter Longo) of The Nebraska State Constitution (Nebraska University Press, 2009). Professor Schutz chairs the AALS Section on Agricultural Law, is active in the American Agricultural Law Association, and is a frequent lecturer on agricultural and water law issues.When he is not working, Mr. Schutz spends time with his wife and two daughters, rides his motorcycle, and plays golf.
Name:
Anna W. Shavers
Title:
Associate Dean and Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law
M.S., Business, 1973, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., 1967, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio
Recent Articles
Katrina’s Children: Revealing the Broken Promise of Education, 31 T. Marshall L. Rev. 499 (2006)
“The Invisible Others and Immigrant Rights: A Commentary.” 45 Hous. L. Rev. 99 (2008)
Book Chapter: “Providing an Adequate and Equitable Education for the Children of Katrina and Other Victims of Disaster” published in CHILDREN, LAW, AND DISASTERS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM THE HURRICANES OF 2005? (2008)
Professor Shavers joined the faculty of the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1989. She received her B.S. degree from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio and her M.S. in Business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was elected to membership in the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society. She received her J.D. degree (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota where she served as Managing Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. She was admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1979 and the Nebraska bar in 1989. Other positions include: Associate, Faegre & Benson Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN 1979-83; Director of University Student Legal Services, University of Minnesota, 1983-86; Associate Clinical Professor, University of Minnesota, 1986-89. While at the University of Minnesota, Professor Shavers established that law school's first immigration clinic. She has also served as a mediator and arbitrator and has a strong interest in alternative forms of dispute resolution. Professor Shavers teaches Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Gender Issues and Civil Procedure and is faculty co-advisor to the Multi-Cultural Legal Society and BALSA.
Professor Shavers believes that she has found the position for which she is ideally suited. She thoroughly enjoys the interaction with students. She also enjoys having the time to devote to reading and questioning various aspects of our legal system. Her primary interest is the area of immigration and its intersection with gender issues. This area appeals to her because of her appreciation of the differences of people from various cultures.
She currently serves as a Board Member of the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Inc., Liaison for the ABA Administrative Law Section to the ABA Commission on Immigration and Secretary and Publication Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section. She has previously served as Chair of the AALS Section on Immigration Law, a Council Member and Immigration Committee Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section, member of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging and member of the ABA Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law. She is a frequent national and international presenter on immigration and administrative law issues.
Professor Tomkins joined the UNL Law/Psychology Program in 1986. He received his undergraduate degree from Boston University with a joint major in psychology and philosophy. He then attended Washington University in St. Louis, graduating in 1984 with a J.D. and Ph.D. in social psychology. Prior to coming to Nebraska, Professor Tomkins was affiliated with the Department of Psychology at St. Louis University, the Community-Clinical Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Research Division of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. In 1997, Professor Tomkins taught a course in the Department of Psychology at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea) and served as a Visiting Scholar at the University at of Southampton Faculty of Law (England). In 2005-06, Tomkins was one of two inaugural William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellows, University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. He currently serves as Director of the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center (http://ppc.nebraska.edu/), a position he has held since the PPC's inception in July 1998.
Over the years, Professor Tomkins has studied disposition decisions in the juvenile justice system and has written about how psycholegal examinations of juvenile justice issues allow the identification of institutional policies and practices that can promote the safety and welfare of delinquent youths. In addition, he has written about violence and risk assessment, decision-making about acceptable risk, discrimination in the justice system and elsewhere in society, public trust and confidence in the courts, child maltreatment decision-making, and the use of social science evidence in the courts. He also is interested in the use of therapeutic jurisprudence to guide research and analyses of mental health/justice systems interactions. At the NU Public Policy Center, Professor Tomkins research interests are focused on public participation and its implications for democracy in policymaking, public trust and confidence in government (especially the courts), the interplay between policies and behaviors, behavioral health systems of care and related practices and policies, program evaluation, and examining issues of justice and fairness in natural resources (especially water resources) contexts. In addition, he is involved in the Center’s work on a judicial restructuring project (looking at possible changes to the boundaries of judicial districts, authority of the courts to create and/or reassign judgeships, utilize technology to make the courts more efficient, etc.) and the on-going Minority Justice Project; both of these judicial projects are being conducted under the auspices of the Nebraska State Bar Association in partnership with the courts and other key stakeholders.
Because of his work with the Policy Center, Professor Tomkins is not currently teaching any courses at the Law College. However, he does supervise law students who serve as research assistants at the Policy Center, and he invites interested law students to contact him to check on current opportunities for funded internships or assistantships.
Name:
Frans von der Dunk
Title:
Harvey and Susan Perlman Alumni / Othmer Chair of Space Law
European regulation of space and telecommunications
National space legislation
Appointments
Professor of Law, University of Nebraska, College of Law, 2008
Director, Black Holes B.V., Consultancy in space law and policy, Leiden, 2007
Associate Professor, Department of Public Law, University of Leiden, 2007
Director, Space Law Research, International Institute of Air and Space Law, LeidenUniversity, 2002
Academic Coordinator, LLM Programme in International Air and Space Law, LeidenUniversity, 2000
Co-Director, International Institute of Air and Space Law, University of Leiden, 1990
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Law, University of Leiden, 1989
Books
The International Space Station – Commercial Utilisation From A European Legal Perspective (2006), Ed. with M.M.T.A. Brus.
Private Enterprise and Public Interest in the European ‘Spacescape’ – Towards Harmonized National Space Legislation for Private Space Activities in Europe (1998)
Recent Articles
“Europe and the ‘Resolution Revolution’: ‘European’ Legal Approaches to Privacy and their Relevance for Space Remote Sensing Activities”, 34 Annals of Air and Space Law (2009), 809-44.
“Space law in the age of the International Space Station”, in Humans in Outer Space – Interdisciplinary Odysseys (2009), 148-61.
“A Sleeping Beauty Awakens: The 1968 Rescue Agreement after Forty Years”, 34 Journal of Space Law (2008), 411-34.
“As Space Law Comes to Nebraska, Space Comes Down to Earth”, 87 Nebraska Law Review (2008), 498-515.
“Implementing the United Nations Outer Space Treaties – The Case of the Netherlands”, in Nationales Weltraumrecht / National Space Law (2008), 81-104.
“Hosting Galileo Ground Stations – Liability and Responsibility Issues under Space Law”, in Proceedings of the Fiftieth Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space (2008), 358-68.
“EGNOS: Testing the Waters for Galileo – Certifying Europe’s first satellite navigation services”, 7 Journaal LuchtRecht (2008), 75-84.
“Legal aspects of using space-derived geospatial information for emergency response, with particular reference to the Charter on Space and Major Disasters”, in Geospatial Information Technology for Emergency Response (2008), 21-40.
“The ‘S’ of ‘Security’: Europe on the Road to GMES”, 4-2 Soochow Law Journal (2007), 1-27.
“Passing the Buck to Rogers: International Liability Issues in Private Spaceflight”, 86 Nebraska Law Review (2007), 400-38.
“Target Practising in a Global Commons: The Chinese ASAT Test and Outer Space Law”, 10 The Korean Journal of Air and Space Law (2007), 181-99.
“Space for Tourism? Legal Aspects of Private Spaceflight for Tourist Purposes”, in Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space (2007), 18-28.
“Navigating Safely through the 21st Century: ICAO and the Use of GNSS in Civil Aviation”, 47 Indian Journal of International Law (2007), 1-29.
“The Moon Agreement and the Prospect of Commercial Exploitation of Lunar Resources”, 32 Annals of Air and Space Law (2007), 91-113.
“Reach for the Stars … as long as Lawfully! Legal aspects of Planetary Exploration”, in Proceedings of ISRO-IISL Space Law Conference “Bringing Space Benefits to the Asian Region” (2006), P5-P21.
“Perspectives for a Harmonised Industrial Policy of ESA and the European Union”, in ‘Project 2001 Plus’ – Global and European Challenges for Air and Space law at the Edge of the 21st Century (2006), 175-91.
“Towards Monitoring Galileo: the European GNSS Supervisory Authority in statu nascendi”, 55 Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht (2006), 100-17.
“Current and Future Development of National Space Law and Policy”, in Disseminating and Developing International and National Space Law: The Latin America and Caribbean Perspective (2005), 25-51.
“Bringing Space Law into the Commercial World: Property Rights without Sovereignty”, 6 Chicago Journal of International Law (2005), 81-99 (Co-author with H.R. Hertzfeld)
“Big Brother or Eye in the Sky? Legal Aspects of Space-Based Geo-Information for Disaster Management”, in Geo-information for Disaster Management (2005), 35-50.
“Heeding the Public-Private Paradigm: Overview of National Space Legislation around the World”, in 2004 Space Law Conference Papers Assembled (2004), 20-34.
“Surreal estate: addressing the issue of ‘Immovable Property Rights on the Moon’”, 20 Space Policy (2004), 149-56 (Co-authors: E. Back-Impallomeni, S. Hobe & R.M. Ramirez de Arellano).
“Liability for Global Navigation Satellite Services: A Comparative Analysis of GPS and Galileo”, 30 Journal of Space Law (2004), 129-67.
Education
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Prof. Von der Dunk was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) in Vancouver, in October 2004, and the Social Science Award of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) in Valencia, in October 2006. In the summer of 2008, he was nominated, as the first lawyer ever, Member of the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) of the European Space Foundation (ESF). Also, he is member of the Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation established by the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) in 2007.
He defended his dissertation on “Private Enterprise and Public Interest in the European ‘Spacescape’” in 1998. He has written well over 100 articles and published papers, has given more than 100 presentations at international meetings and was visiting professor at some 25 foreign universities across the world on subjects of international and national space law and policy, international air law and public international law. He has (co-)organised some 20 international symposia, workshops and other events, and has been (co-)editor of a number of publications and proceedings. As of 2006, he is the Series Editor of ‘Studies in Space Law’, published by Brill. Finally, he has given a range of interviews to the international media on issues of space law and policy.
Prof. Von der Dunk has served as adviser to the Dutch Government, several foreign Governments, the European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA), the United Nations (UN), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Dutch National Aerospace Agency (NIVR), the Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA), the German Space Agency (DLR), the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB), the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), as well as a number of companies. Such advisory work dealt with a broad area of issues related to space activities, such as space policy, international cooperation in space, national space law, privatisation of space activities, Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) (in particular Galileo), satellite communications, radio astronomy, and earth observation. Also, he has acted as the Legal Task Manager in a number of studies undertaken in particular within the context of leading European Commission projects, such as on European space policy, Galileo and GNSS, satellite communications, the Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security (GMES) project and earth observation. Much of his recent work furthermore focused on such topical issues as space tourism, the legal status of the Moon and other celestial bodies and the ‘sale-of- lunar-estate hoax’, and planetary protection.
He is Director and Treasurer of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), Member of the Board of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL), and Member for the Netherlands in the International Law Association’s (ILA) Committee on Space Law. He is also Member of the International Editorial Board of ‘Space Policy’. Further memberships include: International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), International Bar Association’s (IBA) Section on Business Law (SBL), Committee Z on Outer Space Law, International Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC) of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA; Senior Member), and Centro de Investigacion y Difusion Aeronautico-Espacial (CIDA-E; Corresponding Member).
B.A., summa cum laude, Psychology, 1984, Creighton University
Professor Wilson joined the faculty in 1993. She received her bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) from Creighton University. She received her law degree from the University of Alabama, where she was selected to the Orders of the Coif and Barristers. After law school, Professor Wilson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert S. Vance, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to joining the Nebraska faculty, she was a litigation associate with the Atlanta law firm of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan. Professor Wilson teaches Banking Law, Payments Law, Secured Transactions, and Electronic Commerce.
Margaret R. Larson Professor of Insurance Law, 1987
Education
J.D., 1967, St. Louis University
A.B., 1966, Kansas State University
Professor Works is the Margaret R. Larson Professor of Insurance Law. From 1967 to 1969, he was a Legislative Research Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School. From 1969 to 1970, he was a special consultant to the Michigan Department of Commerce and was a staff member of the Michigan Governor's Commission on Insurance Availability in Urban Core Areas. He joined the Nebraska faculty in 1970.
Professor Works was Co-Reporter for the ABA Commission to Improve the Liability Insurance System (1987-1989) and Principal Consultant for the Ford Foundation Nonprofit Sector Liability and Insurance Project (1988-1989). He is author of Nebraska Property and Liability Insurance Law (1985). He is a member of the American Risk and Insurance Association and twice has been a Harry J. Loman Insurance Insurance Research Fellow. He teaches first-year Contracts, Insurance Law, and a seminar on Insurance Institutions which in recent years has concentrated on issues in health care financing.
Committee Member, National Academy of Sciences National Research Council - Missouri River Recovery and Associated Sediment Management Issues (2008-2010)
Trustee, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (2004-present)
Academic Legal Advisor, Council of Great Lakes Governors Water Working Group Task Force on Tribal/First Nation Treaties and Reserved Rights (2002-2004)
Chair, Committee on Marine Resources, American Bar Association (ABA) Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources (2002-2004)
Steering Committee, Lake Erie Commission Blue Ribbon Panel on Balanced Growth (2001-2004)
Books and Articles
When Congress Goes Unheard: Savings Clauses’ Rocky Judicial Reception, in PREEMPTION CHOICE (ed. Buzbee) (Cambridge 2009)
The Emergence of Environmental Considerations in the U.S., in THE EVOLUTION OF THE LAW AND POLITICS OF WATER (eds. Dellapenna and Gupta) (Springer 2009)
The Law of Instream Flow Protection, in INSTREAM FLOWS FOR RIVERINE RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP (Int’l Instream Flow Council 2009)
Preemption by Stealth, 45 HOUS. L.REV. 1659 (2009)
Why Resilience May Not Always be a Good Thing: Lessons in Ecosystem Restoration, 87 NEB. L. REV. (2009) (with Gunderson)
Unbundling Property in Water, 59 ALA. L.REV. 679 (2008) (with Harder)
The Anti-Speculation Doctrine and its Implications for Collaborative Water Management, 8 NEV. L.J. 994 (2008)
Boom and Bust on the Great Plains: Déjà vu All Over Again, 41 CREIGHTON L.REV. 385 (2008)
Mississippi River Stories: Lessons from a Century of Unnatural Disasters, 60 S.M.U. L.REV. 101 (2007) (with Klein)
A Tale of Two Imperiled Rivers: Reflections from a Post-Katrina World, 59 FL. L.REV. 599 (2007)
A New Corps of Discovery for Missouri River Management, 83 Neb. L.Rev. 401 (2004)
A Preservation Paradox: Political Prestidigitation and an Enduring Resource of Wildness, 34 Env'l. L. 1015 (2004)
Managing Interjurisdictional Water Resources, 18 NR & E 8 (2003) (with Mark Squillace)
The Improvement of Water and Water-Dependent Resources, 4 J.G.L.L., Sci. & Pol. 289 (2003) (with Kori Mann and David Gecas)
Sustaining Geographies of Hope: Cultural Resources on Public Lands, 73 U. Colo.L.Rev. 413 (2002)
Biodiversity In and Around McElligot's Pool, 38 Id. L.Rev. 473 (2002) (with Scott Johnson)
The Virtues of Command and Control Regulation: Barring Exotic Species from Aquatic Ecosystems, 2000 U. Ill. L.Rev. 1233 (2000)
The Devil, The Details, and the Dawn of the 21st Century Administrative State: Beyond the New Deal, 32 Ariz. St. L.J. 941 (2000)
Education
LL.M. - Environmental Law, with Highest Honors, 1996, The George Washington University National Law Center
J.D., Sterling Honor Graduate (summa cum laude equivalent), 1990, University of South Dakota School of Law
B.S., magna cum laude, 1985, Morningside College
Research Areas
Natural Resources
Public Lands
Water Law
Cultural Resources
Constitutional and Environmental Issues
Sandra Zellmer began teaching at the College of Law in 2003. She teaches and writes about natural resources, water conservation and use, environmental law, property, and related topics. She recently completed a casebook, Natural Resources Law, published by Thomson/West Publishing Co. in 2006 (with Professors Laitos, Cole, and Wood). She is a co-director on the Steering Committee of the University's Water Resources Research Initiative. Click here for information about the Initiative and upcoming events.
Professor Zellmer was a member of the faculty at the University of Toledo College of Law from 1998 - 2004. She has been a visiting professor at both Tulane Law School and Drake University Law School. Zellmer received her LL.M in environmental law from the George Washington University National Law Center, J.D. from the University of South Dakota School of Law, and B.S. from Morningside College. Prior to teaching, she was a trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, litigating public lands and wildlife issues for various federal agencies, including the National Forest Service, National Park Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service. She also practiced law at Faegre & Benson in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and clerked for the Honorable William W. Justice, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas.
