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faculty news
Lonnie Beard was named
associate dean for academic
affairs in July 2006. He presented
“Alphabet Soup of Modern
Business Planning Issues” at the
University of Arkansas at Fort
Smith in May 20, 2005.
Howard W. Brill served as the
interim dean of the School of Law
during the 2005-06 academic year.
He published the 7 th edition of
Arkansas Professional and Judicial
Ethics and the 2005 supplement to
the 5 th edition of The Arkansas Law
of Damages. He gave presentations
on the State of the Law School
in Springfield, Mo. (September 2005); Tulsa, Okla.
(October 2005); Fort Smith, Ark., (November 2005);
the Washington County Bar Association (February
2006); Kansas City, Mo. (February 2006); Paragould,
Ark., (March 2006); Jonesboro, Ark., (March 2006);
and Fayetteville, Ark. (April 2006). Brill presented
a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program on
“The New Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct:
Challenges, Changes, Opportunities” in Fort Smith,
Fayetteville, Paragould, and Jonesboro, Ark. In summer
2005, he taught Comparative Legal Ethics in St.
Petersburg, Russia. He moderated a panel discussion
on “Civility in the Courtroom” as part of the Red
Mass in Little Rock (May 2006) and participated in
a program on “The Ethics of Negotiations” at the
Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Bar Association in
Hot Springs, Ark., in June 2006. It’s his eleventh year
as the University’s Faculty Athletics Representative
to the SEC and the NCAA, responsible for academic
eligibility and compliance. He drafted ethical opinions
for the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee and was
the reporter for the Professional Ethics Committee
of the Arkansas Bar Association. He gave bar review
lectures on civil procedure, domestic relations and
equity in Fayetteville, Ark., and Little Rock, Ark.
Chauncey Brummer earned the
American Counsel on Education
Teaching Fellows Award for 2005.
Herbert E. Cihak published
“HAVA and Arkansas Election
Law Reform: Compliance and
Promise” in Arkansas Law
Notes 2006 and “Law Libraries:
Maximizing their Impact and
Resources,” Law Library Journal,
Vol. 97, No. 2, spring 2005. He
presented “HAVA and Arkansas
Election Law: An Update” at the University of
Arkansas School of Law Winter CLE in Fayetteville,
Ark., February 2006; “Advocacy and Marketing:
Librarian Tools for Addressing the ABA Section
605 Instructional Mandate” at the Southwestern
Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries
Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, April 2006; and
“Maximizing the Impact and Resources of Libraries and
Continuing Legal Education Departments” at the 2005
Association of American Law Schools Conference in
San Francisco.
Carl Circo published “When
Specialty Designs Cause Building
Disasters: Responsibility for Shared
Architectural and Engineering
Services” in the Nebraska Law
Review, 2005, and “Why Is This
Boilerplate in My Real Estate
Contract?” in Arkansas Law Notes,
2005. He co-authored “Crafting a
License to Use Architectural Plans” in the American
College of Real Estate Lawyers News, May 2005, and
participated in “Allocating Design Responsibility
in the Construction Industry,” a faculty colloquium
presentation at the University of Nebraska College of
Law, fall 2005.
Kim Flanery Coats presented
“Legal Writing for the Business
Client,” CLE Program, Wal-Mart
Legal Department, Bentonville,
Ark., in April 2005 and was a
faculty coach for the American Bar
Association National Appellate
Advocacy Competition in New
York, March 2005. Team members
Brian Newberry and Brandon Carter were semifinalists
in the New York Regional. She was also faculty coach
for the National Criminal Procedure Moot Court
Competition in San Diego in October 2005.
Scott Dodson was hired as
assistant professor of law beginning
the academic year 2006. He
published “Subclassing,” 27
Cardozo L. Rev. 2351 (2006) and
was named the School of Law
representative for the Association
of American Law Schools.
Uche Ewelukwa published
“Litigating the Rights of
Street Children in Regional
or International Fora:
Trends, Options, Barriers and
Breakthroughs” 9 Yale Human
Rights & Development Law Journal
85-131 (2006).
Janet Flaccus presented a CLE
in January 2006 and one at the
Arkansas Bar Association’s Best of
CLE in June 2006, and she spoke
at the Northwest Arkansas Debtor-
Creditor Bar in July.
Don Judges has been selected
a member of the inaugural class
of Leadership Arkansas, which is
sponsored by the Arkansas State
Chamber of Commerce/Associated
Industries of Arkansas.
faculty news
Christopher R. Kelley was
a Fulbright Scholar in Kharkiv,
Ukraine, from Sept. 1, 2005 to
Jan. 5, 2006. Since completing
the Fulbright Scholarship, Kelley
has returned to Kharkiv twice to
participate in conferences and a
series of lectures at the Kharkiv
National University for Internal
Affairs, the Kharkiv National Agrarian University,
and the Kharkiv Law Academy. He also participated
in a CLE conference in St. Paul, Minn., in June 2006
sponsored by the Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc.
Mark Killenbeck’s book,
M’Culloch v. Maryland: Securing
a Nation, was published by
University Press of Kansas in
August 2006. He wrote the
chapter “Affirmative Action
and the Courts: From Plessy to
Brown to Grutter, And Back?” in
Legal Decision Making in Everyday
Life: Controversies in Social Consciousness, Richard L.
Wiener et al., Eds., New York: Springer Publishing
Company (to be published in late 2006 or early 2007)
and “M’Culloch v. Maryland,” in The Public Response
to Controversial Supreme Court Decisions, Melvin I.
Urofsky, Ed., Washington: Congressional Quarterly
Press, 2005.
Killenbeck published the “The New Commerce
Clause,” an entry in The Oxford Companion to the
Supreme Court of the United States, Kermit Hall
and James Ely, Eds., New York: Oxford University
Press, 2nd Ed., 2005; “It’s More than a Constitution,”
49 St. Louis University Law Journal 1095 (2005);
and a review of pre-publication review of the book
Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise
and Fall of Generational Regimes by Gerard N.
Magliocca, (University Press of Kansas). Killenbeck
presented “The Supreme Court: An Assessment of the
Roberts Court’s First Year,” Supreme Court Update
Teleconference, Arkansas Bar Association, Sept.
26, 2006; “The Roberts Court: Present and Future,”
National Constitution Center Audio Conference, Nov.
14, 2006; and “The Challenge Ahead: Affirmative
Admissions in an Post-Grutter World,” 28th Annual
Legislative Conference of the National Black Caucus
of State Legislators in Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 2004.