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Gregg D. Polsky
Visiting Associate Professor of Law;
Associate Professor of Law, University
of Minnesota Law School
■ Appointed the Professor-in-Residence
in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal
Revenue Service for the 2007-2008
academic year. He will serve as a special
assistant to Chief Counsel Don Korb.
■ Published article, “Reforming the
Taxation of Deferred Compensation,” 85
North Carolina Law Review 571 (January
2007) (co-authored with Ethan Yale).
■ Appointed to the Board of Editors of
the Journal of Deferred Compensation
(Aspen Publishers).
■ Presented “The Tax Codeʼs Misguided
Attempt to Control Executive Compensation”
at Seton Hall Law Schoolʼs
faculty colloquium.
■ Presented “Regulating Independent
Political Organizations” at the First
Amendment Law Reviewʼs annual
symposium at the University of North
Carolina Law School.
■ Cited five times by majority opinion in
Washington Supreme Court decision of
Van Pham v. City of Seattle, 151 P.3d 976.
■ Cited by the Federal Election Commission
in support of its decision declining
to create a per se rule regulating
independent section 527 organizations as
political committees, Federal Register,
Vol. 72, No. 25 at 5598.
Steve Powell
Director, International Trade
Law Program
■ Presented paper on “Nature of the
Obligation of States to Use Trade Instruments
for the Advancement of Environmental,
Labor, and Other Human Rights”
at Idaho International Law Symposium.
Leonard L. Riskin
Chesterfield Smith Professor
■ The Journal of Dispute Resolution
published a symposium of articles
based on the symposium honoring him
held at the University of Missouri-
Columbia School of Law last October.
Riskin was the founding director and
a senior fellow of the Center for the
Study of Dispute Resolution.
■ Appointed to the AALS Professional
Development Committee.
■ Appointed to the Advisory Board of
ProDialogo, a Peruvian NGO dedicated
to conflict resolution and prevention.
■ Published essay, “Awareness in Lawyering:
A Primer on Paying Attention,”
in Marjorie A. Silver, ed., The Affective
Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law
as a Healing Profession (Carolina Academic
Press, 2007).
■ Gave a public lecture at Suffolk Law
School, “Defining the Problem in Court-
Oriented Mediation,” and a presentation
to the law faculty, “What Every Law
Student Should Know about Conflict
Resolution: The Top Ten Ideas.”
Elizabeth A. Rowe
Assistant Professor
■ Published article, “Saving Trade
Secret Disclosures on the Internet
Through Sequential Preservation,”
42 Wake Forest Law Review 1 (2007).
■ Quoted in Gainesville Sun article, “UF
Leads Way With Anti-Piracy Technology,”
about steps by recording industry to
address piracy among college students.
Mike Seigel
Professor
■ Named by UF Law students as 2007
Professor of the Year.
■ Co-authored a chapter, “Federal Prosecutorial
Power and the Need for a Law
of Counts,” in Joan MacLeod Heminway,
ed., Martha Stewartʼs Legal Troubles
(Carolina Academic Press, 2006).
Belleville News Democrat, Feb. 9, 2007
“
There’s a great deal of mental and
emotional suffering in this profession.
Mindfulness meditation is a terrific way
for some people to feel better.
”
Leonard L. Riskin, Chesterfield Smith Professor, recommended
meditation to combat “a great deal of mental and emotional
suffering in this profession,” in a story about the growing focus
on meditation in law schools.
■ Participated in a panel and presented
a lecture, “An Update on the Federal
Rules of Criminal Procedure,” to members
of the Stetson Law faculty.
■ Published an editorial, “Corporate
America Fights Back,” in The Washington
Post.
■ Published a letter to the editor,
“Down With the Ship,” in the American
Bar Association Journal.
■ Appointed to The Florida Bar Task
Force on the Attorney-Client Privilege.
Michael R. Siebecker
Assistant Professor
■ Published article, “Corporate Speech,
Securities Regulation and an Institutional
Approach to the First Amendment,” in
William and Mary Law Review.
Christopher Slobogin
Stephen C. OʼConnell Chair,
Edwin A. Heafey Visiting Professor
of Law, Stanford Law School
■ Spoke on “Public Camera Surveillance
and the Right to Public Anonymity” at
“Unblinking: Visual Privacy” conference
at Berkeley Law School.
■ Commented on Richard Salgadoʼs
paper at the “Search and Seizure in the
Digital Age” conference at Stanford
Law School.
■ Gave a talk on “Preventive Justice
and the Implications of Bioscience”
at Stanfordʼs Center for Law and the
Biosciences.
■ Co-authored a chapter titled
“Federal Prosecutorial Power and
the Need for a Law of Counts” in Joan
MacLeod Heminway, ed., Martha
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