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Organized and moderated a panel on International and
Interstate Transboundary Water Issues for the American
Water Summit, Chicago, Ill., Nov. 14-15, 2012.
Spoke on a panel, The Clean Water Act at 40:
Under-enforced and Out of Date, at the Society of
Environmental Journalists’ 22 nd Annual Conference,
Lubbock, Texas, Oct. 17-21, 2012.
Spoke at the International Association of Hydrogeologists
39 th Congress on Confronting Global Change, Niagara
Falls, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 16-21, 2012:
• “Managing Hidden Treasures Across Frontiers:
Emerging International Customary Norms for the
Management of Transboundary Aquifers.”
• “Correlating Governance of Transboundary
Freshwater Resources to Manageable Hydrologic
Units on the Mexico-U.S. Border” (presented
with his father, Dr. Yoram Eckstein, professor of
hydrogeology at Kent State University).
Presented “Sagebrush Lizards, Prairie Chickens,
and Humpback Whales, Oh My!: Endangered Species
Challenges for Oil and Gas Production” at the 25 th Annual
Energy Law Institute for Attorneys and Landmen, South
Texas College of Law, Houston, Aug. 29-30, 2012.
Spoke on the topic “Water Use in Oil & Gas Production” at
the Seminar/Webinar on Water and the Future of Energy,
hosted by the Environmental Law Institute and Sullivan &
Worcester LLP, Washington, D.C., May 30, 2012.
Interviewed by Embassy Magazine, a Canadian foreign
policy newspaper, on the human right to water,
May 24, 2012.
Received the Frederic White Scholarship Award at the
law school’s May 12, 2012, graduation ceremony. The
award is distributed annually to one tenured faculty
member and one tenure-track faculty member in
recognition of their outstanding commitment and
contribution to legal scholarship.
Interviewed by The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch
on water as an essential investment, March 30, 2012.
Frank Elliott
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law
Publications: Published the 2012 supplements to
Volumes 9 and 10, West’s Texas Forms: Civil Trial and
Appellate Practice.
Activities: Along with Texas Wesleyan law professors
Jim Hambleton, Cynthia Alkon, Sahar Aziz, Gabriel
Eckstein, Frank Snyder, Peter Reilly and Huyen
Pham, hosted Ciaran Martin, director of security
and intelligence for the United Kingdom, during his
presentation at the law school about the nexus of
Constitutional Law and National Security, May 18,
2012. Martin’s Texas trip was sponsored by the Office
of International Visitors, Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, and the
North Texas Council for International Visitors.
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Paul George
Professor of Law
Publications: LexisNexis Publishing used a portion of
his article on parallel litigation in their casebook, Federal
Courts: Cases and Materials on Judicial Federalism and
the Lawyering Process.
Activities: Organized and hosted (along with three other
lawyers) a reception for the American Law Institute at
the City Club of Fort Worth, Nov. 8, 2012.
Spoke to a business lunch group at The Fort Worth Club
on the topic, Five Things Business People Should Know
About Agency Law, Oct. 11, 2012.
Presented a one-hour CLE on Principal-Agent Tort
Liability to Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz, PLLC,
Sept. 18, 2012.
Served by invitation as manuscript reviewer for the
German-based Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics, reviewing an article titled “Access to
Justice” by two French economics professors whose
article was based in part on one Professor George
wrote looking at similar data in the United States,
Access to Justice, 54 Am. J. Comp. L. 293 (2006
Supp.), Summer 2012.
Presented a lunch-hour CLE on electronic discovery
to the Dallas law firm Shackleford Melton & McKinley,
May 9, 2012.
Delivered the graduation address at the hooding
ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students
in the political science department at Oklahoma
State University and was named the department’s
distinguished alumnus for 2012, May 4, 2012.
Michael Z. Green
Professor of Law
Publications: “Against Employer Dumpster Diving
for E-mail” published in the South Carolina Law
Review for Volume 64, December 2012. Professor
Green presented components of this paper at the
Southeastern Association of Law Schools in Amelia
Island, Fla., on Aug. 1, 2012, as part of a discussion
group on Privacy in an Era of Advancing Technology.
This paper was also noted in a discussion on the
Workplace Prof Blog on Aug. 21, 2012, and was listed
on the Social Science Research Network’s Top Ten
Download List on Aug. 30, 2012, for the Legal Ethics &
Professional Responsibility eJournal.
Activities: Invited to speak on an upcoming panel
regarding the role and duties of a research dean at the
Association of American Law Schools’ annual meeting
in New Orleans, La., Jan. 6, 2013.