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Received notice that the Texas Equal Access to Justice
Foundation has renewed the grant of Interest on Lawyers
Trust Accounts (IOLTA) funds to the law clinic for Sept.
1, 2009, through Aug. 31, 2010. This grant allows the
law clinic to provide legal services to assist caretakers of
children who were victims of abuse or neglect in Tarrant
County. This is the second grant that IOLTA has awarded
the law clinic.
James McGrath
Professor of Law
Activities:
Presented “Issues of Transsexuals,
Intersexual and Transgendered Persons
in Prison” at the 12th Annual Conference
of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and
Humanities, Suffolk University Law School, Boston,
Mass., April 4, 2009.
Participated with Professor Susan Ayres as a cast
member in the public reading of the play Third Crossing,
by Professor Deborah Threedy, at the 12th Annual
Conference of the Association for the Study of Law,
Culture and Humanities, Suffolk University Law School,
Boston, Mass., April 4, 2009.
Presented “A Prisoner’s Dilemma: Transgendered Persons
in Prison” at the Southwest Social Science Conference,
Denver, Colo., April 10, 2009.
Presented about transgendered and intersexual persons’
experience in prison and explored the historical
underpinnings of the segregation of people in penal
institutions based on their sex at the Law and Society
annual meeting, Denver, Colo., May 28, 2009.
Spoke on the panel “So You Want to Be a Law Professor?”
at the Lavender Law Conference, Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Sept. 12, 2009.
Timothy Mulvaney
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Activities:
Is a co-project investigator on a team
of researchers that has been awarded a
federal grant to conduct a two-year interdisciplinary
and cooperative research project on regulatory takings,
environmental law and land use issues related to
natural hazard and climate change resiliency. Professor
Mulvaney is collaborating on this project with researchers
at the University of Florida, Louisiana State University,
the University of Mississippi, and the Harte Research
Institute at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi.
Neal Newman
Professor of Law
Activities:
Selected by the Dallas Business Journal to be
one of the 10 judges who determined the “Best
Corporate Counsel” in categories such as Best Deal, Diversity
Champion, and Community Service. A reception for the
winners was held in November 2009.
Mary Margaret “Meg” Penrose
Professor of Law
Publications:
Published An Introduction to Civil
Procedure: Forum Selection and Choice of
Law (Vandeplas Publishing 2009). Co-authored with
Professor Paul George.
Published Education Policy and the Law: Cases and
Commentary (Vandeplas Publishing 2009). Co-authored
with Bernard James (Pepperdine).
Huyen Pham
Professor of Law
Publications:
“Problems Facing the First Generation of
Local Immigration Laws” was recently listed
on Social Science Research Network’s top ten download
list for immigration, refugee and citizenship law.
Activities:
Quoted in feature story, Lydia Lum, “When Work
Experience Is Not Enough,” Diverse Issues in Higher
Education (May 14, 2009).
Spoke at the Emerging Immigration Law Scholars and
Teachers Conference, Hofstra Law School, Hempstead,
N.Y., July 16-17, 2009.
Presented “Immigration Law from the Left: Progressive
Scholars Speak Out for Noncitizens in Our Midst” at the
14th Annual LatCrit Conference, American University
Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2, 2009.
Spoke at the symposium Perspectives on Justice, University
of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, S.C.,
Oct. 30-31, 2009.
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