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Ariela J. Gro s s
Ariela Gro s s’ book Double Character: Sl a ve ry
and Ma s t e ry in the Antebellum Southern
C o u rt ro o m was published by Pr i n c e t o n
Un i versity Press. Professor Gross presented a
faculty work s h o p, “Be yond Black and W h i t e :
Cultural Ap p roaches to Race and Sl a ve ry,” at
USC in October and was an invited speaker at
the 25th annive r s a ry Po rter L. Fo rt u n e
Symposium on Sl a ve ry at the Un i versity of
Mississippi, where she discussed law, culture
and slave ry. In addition, she presented a paper
titled “Be t ween Race and Na t i o n :
Bl a c k / Indian Identity in the So u t h e r n
C o u rt room,” at the annual meeting of the
American Studies Association in De t roit. He r
“ Be t ween Race and Na t i o n” paper was listed
recently among the top-10 most fre q u e n t l y
d ownloaded papers on the Social Science
Re s e a rch Ne t w o rk. She discussed fre e d o m
and slave ry on the American frontier as a
panelist at the American Society for Legal
Hi s t o ry annual meeting in Princeton, N.J.
She has been elected to serve a thre e - year term
on the American Society for Legal Hi s t o ry’s
b o a rd of dire c t o r s .
William J. Hoye
William Hoye was appointed chair of the Law
School Admission Council’s 2001 annual
meeting and educational conference. De a n
Hoye led a discussion for minority pre - l a w
advisers attending the Pre-Law Ad v i s e r s’
National Council conference in San Di e g o. In
addition, he presented a session on how
admissions decisions are made at the Pre p
2000 Conference for pre-law advisers fro m
historically black and Hispanic colleges and
u n i versities. He also gave a presentation on
the financial aid process at the Dallas Law
School Fo ru m .
Ehud Kamar
Ehud Kamar presented “Price Di s c r i m i n a t i o n
in the Ma rket for Corporate Law” with
Ma rcel Kahan, a New Yo rk Un i versity law
p ro f e s s o r, at a law and economics workshop at
Ha rva rd Law School. Professor Kamar also
p resented the paper at Tel Aviv Un i ve r s i t y
Faculty of Law, the annual meeting of the
Canadian Law and Economics Association at
the Un i versity of To ronto, and the USC-
U C LA Corporate Law Roundtable. T h e
a rticle was included on top-10 recent dow n-
loads lists for several journals on the So c i a l
Science Re s e a rch Ne t w o rk and on the all-time
top-10 downloads list for In d u s t r i a l
Or g a n i z a t i o n - Pricing on that network .
G regory C. Keating
Gre g o ry Keating attended the John W. Wa d e
C o n f e rence on the T h i rd Restatement of
To rts at Vanderbilt Un i versity Law School,
w h e re he commented on the treatment of
strict liability by the current draft of the T h i rd
Restatement and presented his paper
“Comment: The Wo rk e r’s Compensation
Acts and Common Law Strict Liability. ”
Professor Keating participated, along with
Professor Eric L. Ta l l e y, in a workshop at
Columbia Law School examining a manuscript
by Luis Kaplow and St e ve Sh a ve l l ,
“ Principles of Fairness vs. Human We l f a re . ”
Daniel M. Klerman
Daniel Klerman presented “The Selection of
1 3 t h - C e n t u ry Criminal Disputes for
L i t i g a t i o n” at the American Law and
Economics Association annual meeting in
New Yo rk last Ma y. He also presented his
paper “Female Pr i vate Prosecutors in 13th-
C e n t u ry En g l a n d” at a legal history work s h o p
at Tel Aviv Un i versity and at an
In t e rd i s c i p l i n a ry Center faculty workshop in
He rzliya, Israel. His paper “Settlement and
the Decline of Pr i vate Prosecution in 13th-
C e n t u ry En g l a n d” was recently listed as an
all-time top-10 download for experimental
and empirical studies on the Social Science
Re s e a rch Ne t w o rk; several additional papers
written by Professor Klerman have been listed
recently as top-10 downloads for various other
journals on the network. In August, Pro f e s s o r
Klerman spoke at the National Bu reau of
Economic Re s e a rch Summer Institute in Law
and Economics. He also presented his paper
“The Selection of 13th-Century Cr i m i n a l
Cases for Litigation” on a panel he organize d
to discuss an economic analysis of legal history
at the American Society for Legal Hi s t o ry’s
annual meeting in Princeton, N.J. He was
named to the program committee for the
a s s o c i a t i o n’s next meeting. Ad d i t i o n a l l y,
Professor Klerman presented “Ec o n o m i c
Analysis and Legal Hi s t o ry: Settlement and
the Selection of Cases for Litigation in 13th-
C e n t u ry En g l a n d” at a California Institute of
Technology work s h o p.
K a ren A. Lash
K a ren Lash was listed as a “rising star in the
s t a t e’s power stru c t u re” in Ca l i f o rnia Law
Bu s i n e s s m a g a z i n e’s annual roundup of the
100 most influential attorneys in the state. In
addition, Dean Lash has been named co-chair
of the California Access to Ju s t i c e
Commission, which works to increase the
d e l i ve ry of legal services to poor and
moderate-income Californians. The commission
is composed of judges, lawyers, political
appointees and re p re s e n t a t i ves fro m
C a l i f o r n i a’s religious, labor and education
communities. Her co-chair will be Justice Earl
Johnson of the California Court of Ap p e a l ,
who, among other things, formerly taught in
the USC Law School’s clinical program. De a n
Lash also has been named to the U.S. Di s t r i c t
C o u rt Magistrate Judges Merit Se l e c t i o n
Panel. Chaired by District Court Ju d g e
Mariana Pfaelze r, the panel will re c o m m e n d
candidates for five magistrate positions in the
Central District of California.
G e o rge Lefcoe
George Lefcoe, Florine and Ervin Yo d e r
Professor of Real Estate Law, chaired two
panels at the Building In d u s t ry Association
Fall 2000 Lawyers Conference, in In d i a n
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Ariela Gross
William Hoye
Ehud Kamar
Gregory Keating
Daniel Klerman