FACULTY BRIEFScriminal cases at Villanova LawSchool. Taught a course at the WorldTrade Institute’s master’s program ininternational law and economics atthe joint center <strong>of</strong> the Universities<strong>of</strong> Bern, Fribourg and Neuchatel,Switzerland.Activities: Member, joint scholarshipcommittee, Association <strong>of</strong> LegalWriting Directors and Legal WritingInstitute. Lead counsel, pendingcapital murder case in Alexandria, Va.Eric B. EastonERIC B. EASTONPr<strong>of</strong>essor and Co-Director,Legal Skills ProgramRecent Publications: ABASourcebook on Legal Writing Programs(September 2006). “The Press asInterest Group: Mainstream Mediain the Supreme Court.” UCLAEntertainment Law Review(forthcoming).Works in Progress: “The Colonel’sFinest Campaign: Robert R.McCormick & Near v. Minnesota.”As yet untitled article on Branzburgv. Hayes.Presentations: Panelist, ASTARJudges Training Program (April2006). Presented “Of Secrets andSpies: Strengthening the Public’sRight to Know About the CIA,”Stanford Law & Policy Review, at theAALS Annual Meeting (January2007). Presented “Navigating LawSchool Politics” at the RockyMountain Legal Writing Conference(March 2007).Activities: Member, ExecutiveCommittee, AALS Section on MassCommunications Law. Boardmember, Association <strong>of</strong> Legal WritingDirectors. Member, CommunicationSkills Committee, ABA Section <strong>of</strong>Legal Education and Admissionsto the Bar. Member, ABA SiteInspection Team (FAMU). Member,Maryland-China Business Council.Coach, National TelecommunicationsMoot Court Team.WILLIAM T. FRYER IIIPr<strong>of</strong>essorRecent Publications: Chapter,“Teaching Industrial Design Law”(forthcoming). “A New Way forDesign Owners to Obtain ForeignDesign Protection,” AIPLA IndustrialDesigns Committee Web site (2006).“Geneva Act <strong>of</strong> the HagueAgreement Concerning theInternational Registration <strong>of</strong>International Design,” www.fryer.com.Work in Progress: An articleon trademark and design patentprotection.Presentations: Spoke on “TheHague Agreement Protection <strong>of</strong>Designs” at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> AkronSchool <strong>of</strong> Law on several occasions,including at the school’s NinthAnnual IP Law Symposium(March 2007).Activities: Member, Bylaws DraftingCommittee, Maryland State BarAssociation IP Committee. Co-chair,Committee 412 (Industrial Designs),ABA Section on InternationalProperty Law. Committee chair,Design Patent Section, ABA JointTaskforce to Review the China PatentLaw Reform Legislation. Member,Association for the Advancement <strong>of</strong>Intellectual Property and Research.Coach, American IntellectualProperty Law Association.WENDY GERZOGPr<strong>of</strong>essorRecent Publications: “The CollisionBetween CRTs and the UPC ElectiveShare,” Tax Notes (May 2006).“Focardi: Cook-ed not Schott,” TaxNotes (May 2006). “ConservationEasements Under Turner and Glass,”Tax Notes (July 2006). “Amlie Feud,”Tax Notes (September 2006).“McCord and Postgift Events,” TaxNotes (October 2006). “McCord:Value <strong>of</strong> Gifts Must Be ‘TaxAffected,’” Tax Notes (December2006). “Gerson: Plain Meaning andthe GSTT,” Tax Notes (February2007). “Janis: Two Perspectives <strong>of</strong>Basis,” Tax Notes (March 2007).“Equitable Apportionment: RecentCases and Continuing Trends,” ABAReal Property, Probate and TrustJournal (winter 2007).Presentations: Chair and discussant,“Law, Society, and Taxation III:Policy Ideas for a More JustEconomy” at the Law and Societymeeting in <strong>Baltimore</strong> (July 2006).Presented “Looking a ‘Gift’ Horse inthe Mouth: When a ‘Gift’ is Not aGift” at the joint meeting <strong>of</strong> ABASections <strong>of</strong> Taxation and RealProperty, Probate and Trust inDenver, Colo. (October 2006).Presented “Key Resources for Estateand Gift Tax Research,” ABA Section<strong>of</strong> Taxation, with the ABA Section <strong>of</strong>Real Property, Probate and Trust andthe New York State Bar Tax Section,at the U.S. Patent and TrademarkOffice, Alexandria, Va. (January2007). Spoke on “Gift and EstateTax Valuation: Consideration <strong>of</strong>Post-Valuation Date Events” at theCritical Tax Theory Conferenceat UCLA (April 2007).Activities: Coordinator, mentorprograms for AALS sections onDonative Transfers, Fiduciaries andEstate Planning; Taxation; andEmployee Benefits. Member,Patenting Estate Planning TechniquesTask Force, ABA Section <strong>of</strong> Taxation.Award: Academic Fellow, AmericanCollege <strong>of</strong> Trust and Estate Counsel.MICHELE GILLIGANAssociate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor and Director,Study Abroad Program in Curaçao,Netherlands AntillesRecent Publications: “Workshopon Real Property.” “Another Effect<strong>of</strong> Globalization: Role <strong>of</strong> ForeignEducated Lawyers in Maryland LegalPractice,” UB Law Forum (fall 2006).“A Study <strong>of</strong> Teaching Ethics at the<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Baltimore</strong> and China’sShandong <strong>University</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Law”for the H<strong>of</strong>fberger Center forPr<strong>of</strong>essional Ethics at the <strong>University</strong><strong>of</strong> <strong>Baltimore</strong>.Work in Progress: “U.S. BarsBarriers to Globalization <strong>of</strong>Legal Education.”Presentations: Panelist, JudicialInstitute on Real Property (April2007). Presenter, EACLE Conference,Helsinki, Finland (May 2007). Judge,ABA Regional Client CounselingCompetition.Activities: Member, MSBA RealProperty Section. Member, MSBALegal Education & Admission to theBar Section. Member, ABA Section<strong>of</strong> Real Property. Board member,Sylvan Beach Foundation.Michele GilmanMICHELE GILMANAssociate Pr<strong>of</strong>essorRecent Publications: “Reflectionson 10 Years <strong>of</strong> Charitable Choice”(forthcoming). “Litigating PresidentialSigning Statements” (forthcoming).Presentations: Invited speaker,symposium on “One Act, Ten Years,and Thousands <strong>of</strong> Families: WelfareReform in Contemporary America”at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Iowa Law School.12 <strong>NOTA</strong> <strong>BENE</strong> fall 2007
Invited speaker, symposium on“The Last Word? The ConstitutionalImplications <strong>of</strong> Presidential SigningStatements” at the William and MaryLaw School (February 2007).Activities: Board member, PublicJustice Center. Member, MarylandBar Section Council on Delivery <strong>of</strong>Legal Services. Member, PublicBenefits Taskforce.Leigh GoodmarkLEIGH GOODMARKAssociate Pr<strong>of</strong>essorRecent Publications: “Where’s theProtection?” The Daily Record (May2006). “Going Underground: TheEthics <strong>of</strong> Advising a Battered WomanFleeing an Abusive Relationship,”UMKC Law Review (forthcoming).Book review, “What Unified FamilyCourt Judges Should Know AboutChildren & Violence,” <strong>of</strong> Handbookon Children, Culture and Violence.Work in Progress: “The BatteredMother’s Catch-22: How the FriendlyParent Failed to Protect.”Presentation: Spoke on “ChildWelfare, Domestic Violence, andBatterer Accountability” at SturmCollege <strong>of</strong> Law (March 2007).Activities: Board member, Women’sLaw Center <strong>of</strong> Maryland and PublicJustice Center. Editorial boardmember, Journal <strong>of</strong> Child Custodyand the National Council <strong>of</strong> Juvenileand Family Court Judges’ Juvenileand Family Court Journal. Member,MSBA, Maryland Women’s BarAssociation, Clinical Legal EducationAssociation and AALS sections onClinical Law and Women in LegalEducation.STEVEN P. GROSSMANDean Julius Isaacson Pr<strong>of</strong>essorRecent Publication: “Lawmakers’Offices Not Immune From Searches,”The (<strong>Baltimore</strong>) Sun (May 2006).Work in Progress: Becoming a TrialLawyer.Presentations: Spoke on “TheInnocence Project” at the <strong>University</strong><strong>of</strong> <strong>Baltimore</strong> (October 2006). Spokeon “Sentencing” at the MarylandSchool for New Judges. Spoke on“Trying the Case” for MICPEL.Activities: Board member, JudicialInstitute <strong>of</strong> Maryland. Member,MICPEL Curriculum PlanningCommittee. Member, MarylandSchool for New Judges.DANIEL L. HATCHERAssistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essorRecent Publication: “Child SupportHarming Children: Subordinatingthe Best Interests <strong>of</strong> the Child to theFiscal Interests <strong>of</strong> the State,” WakeForest Law Review (forthcoming).Presentations: Testimony regarding“Hearing to Review Proposals toImprove Child Protective Services”before the U.S. House <strong>of</strong>Representatives, Committee on Waysand Means, Subcommittee on HumanResources (May 2006). Spoke on“Child Support Harming Children:Subordinating the Best Interests <strong>of</strong>Children to the Fiscal Interests <strong>of</strong> theState” at the Southeastern Association<strong>of</strong> Law Schools Annual Meeting (July2006). Spoke at the Mid-AtlanticClinical Theory and PracticeWorkshop (January 2007). Spoke onthe Foster Children Self-Support Actat a Congressional Briefing (February2007). Speaker, Harvard Law SchoolChild Advocacy Program and ABACenter on Children and the Law’s12th National Conference onChildren and the Law, “PromotingChildren’s Interests: Preparation,Practice & Policy Reform”(April 2007).Activities: Invited testimony beforethe U.S. House <strong>of</strong> Representatives,Committee on Ways and Means,Subcommittee on Income Securityand Family Support. Drafted andtestified in support <strong>of</strong> the ChildSupport Payment Incentive Program(HB 263 and SB 154). Drafted federallegislation that was introduced asHR 1104, the Foster ChildrenSelf-Support Act (February 2007).Member, Steering Committee,Coalition to Protect Maryland’sChildren. Advisory board member,Legal Aid Bureau Child SupportProject. Member, Job OpportunitiesTask Force, Public Policy Committee.CASSANDRA JONES HAVARDAssociate Pr<strong>of</strong>essorRecent Publication: “The Future <strong>of</strong>the CRA,” Western New England LawReview (2007).Works in Progress: “Katrina andPredatory Lending: An EmpiricalAnalysis.” Community DevelopmentReader.Presentations: Presented “HomeOwnership and Predatory Lending—Issues for Seniors” at the NE InterfaithAlliance (November 2006).Spoke on “Small Business LendingInitiatives—Pitfalls and Problems” atthe Woodstock Business Roundtable(February 2007).Activities: Chair, AALS Section onFinancial Institutions. Chair, CLEOFellows, ABA Section <strong>of</strong> BusinessLaw. Member, Diversity Committee,ABA Section <strong>of</strong> Business Law.Participated in an amicus brief alongwith 14 other law pr<strong>of</strong>essors onbehalf <strong>of</strong> the state <strong>of</strong> Michigan,Watters v. Wachovia. Provided probono legal consultations for smallbusinesses with transactional needs.Consultant, Black Farmers MediationProcedures.MICHAEL HAYESAssociate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor and Director, StudyAbroad Program in Aberdeen, ScotlandRecent Publications: “Critique <strong>of</strong>the Veil <strong>of</strong> Fair Representation,”<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Baltimore</strong> Law Forum(2007). The Campaign Guide,2006and 2007 annual supplements.Works in Progress: “JudicialTreatment <strong>of</strong> ‘Mistaken Reasons’ forEmployee Terminations.” A bookon the law <strong>of</strong> public-sector laborrelations in Maryland.Presentations: Spoke on the 1981air traffic controllers’ strike at theAssociation <strong>of</strong> Labor RelationsAgencies Conference (July 2006)and at the Maryland Labor &Employment Research Association(October 2006).Activities: Member, Women’s LawCenter <strong>of</strong> Maryland AwardsCommittee. Advisory board member,Employment Law Hotline.F. MICHAEL HIGGINBOTHAMPr<strong>of</strong>essorRecent Publications: “After 150Years,” The Afro-American (March2007). “An Open Letter FromHeaven,” Harvard BlackLetterLaw Journal (forthcoming).Presentations: Keynote speaker,Washington Bar lecture and ABAMid-Atlantic Regional Conference.Activity: Co-chair, Minority AffairsGroup, O’Malley/Brown TransitionTeam.MARGARET E. JOHNSONAssistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essorWorks in Progress: “Avoiding HarmOtherwise: Reframing WomenEmployees’ Responses to the Harms<strong>of</strong> Sexual Harassment.” “ReframingDomestic Violence Law BeyondCrimes <strong>of</strong> Physical Violence.”Presentations: Presented paperstitled “The Value <strong>of</strong> Critical LegalTheory in Clinical Education” at theNew York <strong>University</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Law(May 2006) and “Avoiding HarmOtherwise: Reframing WomenEmployees’ Responses to the Harms<strong>of</strong> Sexual Harassment” at the Lawand Society Annual Meeting in<strong>Baltimore</strong> (July 2006) and atMarquette <strong>University</strong> Law School(October 2006). Spoke on“Collaborating on Language AccessIssues” at the AALS Conference onClinical Legal Education and on“The Intersection <strong>of</strong> LGBT Issuesand the Classroom” at the <strong>University</strong><strong>of</strong> <strong>Baltimore</strong> (March 2007).Activities: Editorial committeemember, Women in the Law inMaryland Project. Advisorycommittee member, D.C. Superiorhttp://law.ubalt.edu 13