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Lisa M. Mead
Lisa Mead is completing her two-year term on
the National Association for Law Pl a c e m e n t’s
b o a rd of directors. In Oc t o b e r, she discussed
associate re c ruitment and retention at a
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher part n e r s’ re t reat in
Marina del Re y, Calif.
Denise Meyer
Denise Me yer was asked to serve another ye a r
as co-chair of the Association of Legal Wr i t i n g
Di re c t o r s’ adjunct- and student-taught
committee during the association’s biennial
c o n f e rence in Seattle last summer.
Elyn R. Saks
Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law
and Ps yc h i a t ry and the Behavioral Sciences,
re c e i ved a two-year grant from the Gre e n w a l l
Foundation to study capacity to decide on
p s ychiatric re s e a rch in collaboration with
re s e a rchers at the Un i versity of California–Sa n
Di e g o. Professor Saks also re c e i ved funding
f rom the American Ps yc h o a n a l y t i c
Foundation to serve as principal inve s t i g a t o r
on a training grant from the Committee on
Re s e a rch and Special Training (CORST) to
study informed consent to psyc h o a n a l y s i s .
She also is consulting on a National In s t i t u t e
on Mental Health grant to study another facet
of capacity to decide on tre a t m e n t .
Robert M. Saltzman
Ro b e rt Saltzman presented “How Di versity in
the Classroom Im p roves Legal Ed u c a t i o n” at
a Law School Admission Council confere n c e
in Philadelphia. He also led panel discussions
on law school admissions for several large
g roups of minority law school applicants in
New Yo rk City and Chicago and presented a
re p o rt on incidents of misconduct in the law
school admission process to the Law School
Admission Council in Seattle. Dean Sa l t z m a n
is chair of the LSAC committee on misconduct
and irregularities in the admission
p rocess. In addition, Dean Saltzman made
s e veral presentations at the Pre-Law Ad v i s e r s’
National Council conference in San Di e g o ,
w h e re he discussed the importance of dive r s i t y
in the law school classroom, disabilities issues
in law school admissions and ethical issues
facing law students and law school applicants.
M i chael H. Shapiro
Michael Sh a p i ro, Do rothy W. Ne l s o n
Professor of Law, was on sabbatical in
Tennessee during fall semester, working on
the second edition of his Bioethics and Law
casebook and on an article on constitutional
s t a n d a rds of re v i ew. He participated in a
seminar on behavioral genetics at Va n d e r b i l t
Un i versity and spoke about the re l a t i o n s h i p
b e t ween political philosophy and constitutional
interpretation to the Orange County
chapter of Me n s a .
Dan Simon
Dan Simon was awarded two thre e - ye a r
re s e a rch grants totaling more than $400,000
f rom the National Science Foundation to
study the application of cognitive models to
legal reasoning. The projects are being
conducted in collaboration with Stephen J.
Read, a psychology professor at USC, and
Keith J. Ho l yoak, a psychology professor at
U C LA. Professor Simon and Professor Re a d
p resented recent re s e a rch at a workshop spons
o red by USC’s Center on Law, Ec o n o m i c s
and Organization in Ju l y. The pre s e n t a t i o n ,
“ Integration of Evidence by Constraint
Satisfaction,” described an experiment with
mock jurors that examines how people
p rocess and evaluate large sets of complex,
ambiguous and conflicting information. In
addition, Professor Simon presented “Ma k i n g
Mu l t i - Attribute Decisions By Constraint
Satisfaction,” co-written by Pro f e s s o r
Ho l yoak, at the Society for Judgment and
Decision Ma k i n g’s annual conference in New
Or l e a n s .
W. David Slawson
W. David Slawson, To r rey H. Webb Pro f e s s o r
of Law, presented “The In s t i t u t i o n a l
Foundations of Contract Damages and the
Thesis of Fuller and Pe rd u e” at a USC faculty
w o rkshop in Oc t o b e r.
Edwin M. Smith
Edwin Smith, Leon Be n well Professor of Law
and International Relations, presented “Pe a c e
Operations: Responding to Conflict in a New
Mi l l e n n i u m” at the United Na t i o n s
Association of the United St a t e s’ So u t h e r n
California division meeting in December at
U C LA .
Matthew L. Spitzer
Ma t t h ew Sp i t ze r, Dean and Carl M. Fr a n k l i n
Professor of Law, published “Di g i t a l
Television and the Quid Pro Quo,” co-written
by Thomas Hazlett, in Business and Po l i t i c s
Vol. 2 (2000). He also published “Ju d i c i a l
Auditing,” co-written by Eric Ta l l e y, in the
Jo u rnal of Legal St u d i e s, Vol. 29 (2000).
Nomi M. Stolzenberg
Nomi St o l zenberg published “The Pro p e rt y
of Cu l t u re” in the Oct. 27 issue of Da e d a l u s
Ma g a z i n e. She participated in a ro u n d t a b l e
c o n versation on religion and politics with
St e ven Cart e r, Michael Sandel, Ba r b a r a
Eh re n reich and Stanley Fish that was
published in Tikkun Magazine .
Christopher D. Stone
Christopher Stone, J. Thomas Mc C a rt h y
Trustee Professor of Law, presented a paper
at the United Nations headquarters in New
Yo rk City. His presentation, “T h e
Pre c a u t i o n a ry Principle: A T h e o re t i c a l
Critique,” was part of a seminar for diplomats.
He also presented “A Fi ve - Step Plan for
the Oc e a n s” at the Scripps Institution in La
Jolla, Calif., as part of the Un i versity of
California Re velle Program on Climate
Science and Po l i c y. Professor Stone also deliv-
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Lisa Mead
Denise Meyer
Elyn Saks
Robert Saltzman
Michael Shapiro
Dan Simon
W. David Slawson