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in academia Co-authored an op-ed article on immigration reform in Truthout, June 21, 2012. Published an op-ed article “Selective Counterterrorism Practices Threaten Social Mobility of American Muslims” published in The American Muslim, June 20, 2012. Co-authored an op-ed article “To Stop Corruption, Egypt Needs a Freedom of Information Law,” published in The Huffington Post, May, 23, 2012. Published “From the Oppressed to the Terrorist: American Muslim Women Caught in the Crosshairs of Intersectionality,” in the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (Spring 2012). Published “Caught in a Preventive Dragnet: Selective Counterterrorism in a Post-9/11 America,” in the Gonzaga Law Review (Winter 2011/Spring 2012). Activities: Presented Egypt’s draft constitution at the conference The Arab Spring and Constitutionalism in the Middle East at Fordham Law School, New York City, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2012. Testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Federal Civil Rights Engagement with Arab and Muslim Communities, Washington, D.C., Nov. 9, 2012. Presented on a panel, Rule of Law in Egypt: Rhetoric or Reality, at the Georgetown University Law Center, Oct. 10, 2012. Participated in an invitation-only meeting with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in New York City about Egypt’s transition to democracy, Oct. 3, 2012. Participated on the panel Targeted Killings Abroad, Arrests at Home with Professor Greg McNeal of Pepperdine Law School at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, Sept. 27, 2012. Testified before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Religious Discrimination Against Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians Post-9/11, Washington, D.C., July 27, 2012. Interviewed on Nile TV about current developments in Egypt, June 23, 2012. Interviewed on RT America in connection with a recent lawsuit filed in New Jersey challenging the constitutionality of the NYPD’s systematic spying of Muslims, Muslim student associations, and Muslim owned businesses, June 7, 2012. Interviewed at the Brookings Institution U.S. Islamic Forum in Doha, Qatar, May 29-31, 2012. Attended the Brookings Institution’s U.S. Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, where she participated in a working group addressing adverse consequences of counterterrorism laws on the philanthropic sector in the United States and the Middle East, May 29-31, 2012. 30 Interviewed on St. Louis radio station WGNU 920 AM, where she discussed the latest developments in Egypt’s presidential elections and counterterrorism policy in the United States, May 2012. Interviewed on The Marc Steiner Radio Show discussing questions about the balance between free speech and national security, April 24, 2012. Presented “Terror(izing) the Muslim Veil” at Critical Discourses on Islamophobia: Symbols, Images and Representations, UC Berkeley Boalt Law School, Berkeley, Calif., April 20, 2012. Presented at the spring conference — After Afghanistan: Where To From Here? — at Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke Law School, Durham, N.C., April 13, 2012. Presented on the panel, Intersection and Divergence of Interests: Coalition Building Among People of Color Communities, at the 2012 Southeast/Southwest People of Color Scholarship Conference — Transformative Advocacy, Scholarship, and Praxis: Taking Our Pulse — at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., March 29, 2012. Interviewed about the murders of Trayvon Martin and Shaima Al Awadi for the television news channel Russia Today, March 28, 2012. Presented on the panel Preparing for Egypt’s Presidential Elections and the Transition to Civilian Rule, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., March 26, 2012. Interviewed on the television news channel Russia Today about the New Jersey attorney general’s investigation into the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims in universities, mosques and businesses, March 24, 2012. Mark Burge Associate Professor of Law Activities: Along with Texas Wesleyan law professors Cynthia Alkon, Maxine Harrington and James McGrath, participated as a facilitator during the conference Reforming and Renewing the Education of Profession: An Interactive Vision of Professionalism, which was coorganized by the law school, the UNT Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, the TCU Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and Brite Divinity School. The event was held in Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 21, 2012. Presented “Too Clever by Half: A Cautionary Tale in Socio-Legal Legitimacy Starring the Uniform Commercial Code” at the Seventh International Conference on Contracts, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, Calif., March 3, 2012.
Megan Carpenter Professor of Law Publications: Published “Intellectual Property: A Human (Not Corporate) Right,” in The Challenge of Human Rights: Past, Present and Future, a book edited by David Keane and Yvonne McDermott and published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., October 2012. Published Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Evolving Economies: The Role of Law (Edward Elgar Publishing), July 2012. The book is part of the Law and Entrepreneurship Series and contains contributions from experts on the role that law can play in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in communities whose economies are in transition. This book addresses concrete policy issues, including analysis of legal efforts to incentivize entrepreneurship, through intellectual property law and other areas of law. Professor Frank Snyder wrote the foreword of this book. Published “Drawing a Line in the Sand: Copyright Law and New Museums” in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. The article was selected by West as “one of the best law review articles published within the last year in the fields of entertainment, publishing and the arts,” and will be republished in the 2012 edition of the Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook. Activities: Organized, planned and moderated the Professor Panel at the annual meeting of the International Trademark Association on May 7, 2012. The panel focused on “Exploring the Outer Limits of Trademark Law” and addressed ways that trademark protection has expanded to accommodate interests potentially unrelated to the core function and purpose of trademark law. Spoke to the IP Section of the Tarrant County Bar Association on “Scandalous and Immoral Trademarks,” Fort Worth, Texas, May 2, 2012. Presented “Will Play for Tips: 10 Legal Tips for Musicians/Artists/Songwriters” at the music conference 35 Denton. Other participants included Tamera Bennett of the Bennett Law Office P.C./Farm to Market Music and Dale Brock of Sonar Management and Kirtland Records, Denton, Texas, March 8, 2012. Presented CLIP Need-to-Know workshop, “The Art of Copyright: How to Protect Your Legal Rights,” at the Grapevine Arts Project with 3Ls Paige Ammons and Elizabeth Wilhelm Hayes, March 1, 2012. Presented “Notes on a Scandal: The 2(a) Bar on Scandalous and Immoral Trademarks” as part of the faculty exchange program, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas, Feb. 17, 2012. Participated in the panel Appropriation Art and Copyright Challenges at Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 30, 2012. 31 Gabriel Eckstein Professor of Law in academia Publications: Accepted an offer to publish “Rethinking Transboundary Ground Water Resources Management: A Local Approach along the Mexico-U.S. Border,” Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Vol. 25(1), pp. ___ (forthcoming January 2013). Accepted an offer to publish “Emerging EPA Regulation of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment” in The Environmental Reporter, Environmental Law Institute (forthcoming January 2013). Published “Rethinking Transboundary Ground Water Resources Management: A Local Approach along the Mexico-U.S. Border,” Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Vol. 25(1), pp. ___ (forthcoming January 2013). Published an essay co-authored with Kavitha Pramod, “The Future of Africa’s Water Security,” in Legal Developments in Environmental Law newsletter, American Bar Association Section of International Law, International Environmental Law Committee, May-July 2012. Published an op-ed in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram discussing the recent Texas Supreme Court ruling that states landowners have a constitutional right to the water underneath their land, March 11, 2012. Reprinted an essay that Professor Eckstein published on his blog titled “Nicaragua and Costa Rica Return to the International Court of Justice for Third Case over the San Juan River” in the newsletter of the ABA Section on International Law, International Environmental Law Committee, January-April 2012 issue. Published an article co-authored with George William Sherk of Sullivan & Worcester, “Alternative Strategies for Addressing the Presence and Effects of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in Fresh Water Resources,” in Denver Water Law Review, Vol. 15(2), pp. 369-445 (2012). Published a book chapter co-authored with Dr. Itay Fischhendler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Dr. Aaron Wolf, Oregon State University, “The Role of Creative Language in Addressing Political Realities: Middle-Eastern Water Agreements,” in Shared Borders, Shared Waters: Israeli-Palestinian and Colorado River Basin Water Challenges (S. Megdal, S. Eden, & R. Varady, Eds., CRC Press/Balkema Taylor & Francis Group in cooperation with UNESCO-IHE, Delft (2012). Co-authored book review with Kavitha Pramod, Transboundary Water Resources Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach (J. Ganoulis, et.al., Eds. 2011), in International Journal of Water Resources Development, Vol. 28(4), pp. 693-695 (2012). Activities: Received the Texas Wesleyan University Board of Trustees 2012 Faculty Scholarship Award. continued on next page…
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