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second edition of the casebook, also co-authored by Professor Healy, has also been published. Professor Healy joined Professor Andrea Dennis in attending the Jurisgenesis conference in June 2008 co-sponsored by Washington University and St. Louis University. Nicole Huberfeld, Willburt D. Ham Associate Professor of Law, has an article titled “Bizarre Love Triangle: The Spending Clause, Section 1983, and Medicaid” forthcoming in the U.C. Davis Law Review (Winter 2008). She also participated in a panel entitled “Federalism and Healthcare” at the Health Law Professors Conference in May and a talk at the South Eastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference entitled “The Roberts Court and Healthcare, Something for Everyone.” Currently, Professor Huberfeld is working on research projects that follow her articles in the North Carolina Law Review and U.C. Davis Law Review. One will examine the impact a recent Supreme Court decision is likely to have on interpreting the False Claims Act in federal healthcare programs. The other explores tensions between the doctrine of federalism and the practical aspects of cooperative federalism programs. Mark F. Kightlinger, James and Mary Lassiter Associate Professor of Law, recently published “The Gathering Twilight Information Privacy on the Internet in the Post-Enlightenment Era,” in the John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law (2007) and “Twilight of the Idols EU Internet Privacy and the Post-Enlightenment Paradigm,” in the Columbia Journal of European Law (2007). An article that he wrote entitled “Nihilism with a Happy Ending: The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Emergence of the Post-Enlightenment Paradigm” will be published in 2008 in the Penn State Law Review. He is currently working on an article that will use the conceptual framework developed in these articles—a framework based on the critical moral philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre and the sociology of Max Weber—to evaluate the movement to enhance “skills and values” education in law schools. Kightlinger chairs the Program and Curriculum Committee and the Diversity Committee. He is also the faculty advisor to the Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law and the UK Law Gay Straight Alliance. Douglas Michael, Edward T. Breathitt Jr. Professor of Law, assumed the job of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs on July 1, 2008. He is co-author of a casebook on Business Planning with Scott B. Ehrlich of California Western School of Law, which will be published by Lexis/Nexis in 2009. He recently published “Self- Regulation for Safety and Security: Final Minutes or Finest Hour” in the 2006 Seton Hall Law Review. Professor Michael was an invited panelist at a July 2008 symposium entitled “Toward A Regulatory Framework for Internet Self- Regulation”, held at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado. He continues to train students for and supervise the College’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Clinic, which last year helped over 500 taxpayers with their returns and other tax problems. His current research includes articles in progress on internet selfregulation and the tax policy consequences of electronic tax return filing, and a casebook on Legal Accounting. Kathryn L. Moore, Everett H. Metcalf, Jr. Professor of Law, welcomes the second edition of her co-authored casebook, Law of Employee Pension and Welfare Benefits with L. Frolik. She completed a chapter entitled, “Other Eligible Employees: Owners, Partners, Independent Contractors, and Leased Employees”, forthcoming in a new treatise, Federal Income Taxation of Retirement Plans. In addition, Moore published two articles. “The New Retiree Health VEBA”, appears in the 2008 NYU Review of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation while the second, “The Future of Social Security: Principles to Guide Reform”, was published in the John Marshall Law Review. In April 2008 Moore discussed the second article at the John Marshall Law Review’s 6 th Annual Employee Benefits Symposium. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the John Marshall Law School’s Employee Benefits program and as a senior associate editor for the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law’s Employee Benefits Law treatise. In July 2007 Moore was appointed a member of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government’s Board of Adjustment. Moore has two works in progress: one on Social Security dependent benefits and one on practicing before the Board of Adjustment. 20 University of Kentucky Law Notes
Melynda Price, Assistant Professor of Law, presented a lecture entitled “Litigating Salvation: Race/ Gender, Religion and Innocence on the Texas Death Row” to students and faculty in the John E. Andrus Public Affairs Center at Wesleyan University on April 3. It was part of a series on incarceration awareness and the government department’s annual speaker series. The event was co-sponsored by the Ethics in Society Program, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, African American Studies and the Office of Affirmative Action. Price received a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship Postdoctoral Award and will be at the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law for the 2008-2009 academic year. Paul Salamanca, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Professor of Law, published “Civil Resolution of Ecclesiastical Disputes” in the July 2008 issue of Bench & Bar. He is working on a longer article on the same subject that will include discussion of Baker v. Fales, a famous ecclesiastical dispute in post-revolutionary Massachusetts. Robert G. Schwemm, Ashland-Spears Distinguished Research Professor of Law, is the inaugural holder of the Ashland Professorship. In 2008, Schwemm gave presentations on fair housing law in San Diego, Chicago, Indianapolis, New Orleans, West Palm Beach and Washington, D.C. The annual update to his book, Housing Discrimination: Law and Litigation, was published in July. At the same time, his article on “Cox, Halprin, and Discriminatory Services Under the Fair Housing Act” appeared in the Indiana Law Review. He is currently working on an article to be published in the Kentucky Law Journal next year dealing with a Kentucky slave case, Strader v. Graham, that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1851 and was one of the foundational precedents for the Dred Scott decision. In the Spring semester of 2009, he will be a visiting professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Richard H. Underwood, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law, was cited multiple times in the newest edition of Federal White Collar Crime by Julie R. O’Sullivan (Thomson/West) and identified as an expert of perjury. Underwood recently published three crime essays in the Journal of Legal Studies. The first was, “The Other Batson Case” with John Garst. Underwood followed with “Mr. Howe’s Last Case” and “Arch and Gordon: The Crime Behind the Ballad”. Sarah Welling, Wendell H. Ford Professor of Law, was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). Her election to the premier learned society for legal academics is recognition of her national reputation in criminal law. She gave two-day presentations in January and March to the Sixth Circuit Criminal Pattern Jury Instruction Committee at the federal courthouse in Cincinnati, Ohio. The conference was attended by federal district judges, federal prosecutors and federal defense attorneys from the Sixth Circuit states. Richard Westin, Laramie L. Leatherman Distinguished Professor of Tax Law, published “Energy and Environmental Tax Changes in the Flood of Recent Federal Revenue Laws and What They Imply” in the Penn State Environmental Law Review. Over the summer he completed editing two extensive BNA Tax Management Portfolios of his, both on the taxation of the mining industry, as well as four portions of BNA’s Tax Practice Series, on the taxation of mineral, oil and gas-related activities. He is currently a member of the International Fiscal Association. Harold Weinberg, Wyatt Tarrant & Combs Professor of Law, constructed a data base he is using to analyze judicial and administrative applications of trademark law’s controversial functionality doctrine. He was assisted by Kristy Parton (UK Law ‘08) and Jun Wu (UK Law ’09). faculty notes celebrating 100 years of excellence • Fall 2008 21
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