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Susan Phillips
Professor of Law
Publications:
Published “‘Like Sands Through the
Hourglass…’: How to Develop a Good Legal
Research Problem,” 28 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 218
(2009).
Lynne Rambo
Professor of Law
Activities:
Received an award for the Outstanding
Upper Level Professor of the Year at the
annual Barristers’ Ball, April 3, 2009.
Served as a commentator on President Barack Obama’s
decision to nominate United States federal court judge
Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court
position, The CW Channel 33, KDAF-TV, Dallas-Fort
Worth, May 26, 2009.
Wade Savoy
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Activities:
Presented “The Google Book Settlement:
The Demise or Rebirth of Copyrights?” with
2L Rick Sanchez to the Tarrant County Bar
Association Intellectual Property Section, Fort Worth,
Oct. 22, 2009.
Malinda Seymore
Professor of Law
Activities:
Presented “Transcending Procedure: How
Rape Shield Law Can Help in Teaching
Substantive Rape Law” at the Southeastern
Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference,
Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 3, 2009.
Aric Short
Professor of Law and Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs
Activities:
Presented “Faith By Itself Is Dead: Local
Homeless Feeding Restrictions and Their Impact on the
Free Exercise of Religion” at the 12th Annual Conference
of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and
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Humanities, Suffolk University Law School, Boston,
Mass., April 3, 2009.
Received an award for the Outstanding First Year Professor
of the Year at the annual Barristers’ Ball, April 3, 2009.
Quoted in an article, John Austin, “Beware of Foreclosure
‘Rescue’ Outfits, Feds Say,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram
(April 11, 2009).
Neil Sobol
Legal Writing Professor
Activities:
Received an award for the Outstanding
Legal Writing Professor of the Year at the
annual Barristers’ Ball, April 3, 2009.
Joe Spurlock II
Professor of Law and Director of Asian
Judicial Institute
Activities:
Hosted a delegation of attorneys from
Bahrain, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar
and Saudi Arabia, April 21, 2009. The attorneys
discussed sharia law under Islam with approximately
50 Texas Wesleyan students in Legislation, Contracts II,
Jurisprudence and National Security Law classes.
Frederic White
Dean and Professor of Law
Activities:
Selected for the Leadership Fort Worth class
of 2010.
Participated as a panelist at the Summer Comparative
Law Program, co-sponsored by Golden Gate University
School of Law and the University of Paris, Nanterre,
Paris, France, June 24, 2009.
Appointed among 13 members, including Vince Cruz
Jr., director of advocacy programs and adjunct professor
at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, to serve on a merit
selection panel formed to assist the United States
district judges of the Northern District of Texas in their
appointment of a new full-time federal magistrate judge
to be located in Fort Worth, Texas. The order was issued
by Chief Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater on Aug. 19, 2009.
Dean White was nominated for the position by Judge
Terry R. Means, and Cruz was nominated by Judge John
H. McBryde. z