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FACULTY NewsProfessional ActivitiesProfessor Helen Alvaré will serve as a visitingprofessor of law at George MasonUniversity in the spring of 2008. She willteach family law.Professor MargaretBarry was a visitingFulbright Scholar atthe Universitet CrneGore, in the southeasternEuropean nation ofMontenegro, during thesummer of 2007. Shecalled the experience “a very rewardingtrip in many ways: challenging, interestingand striking.”Professor Marshall Breger taught acourse in American public law to a class of32 students at the Hebrew University of Je -rusalem during the summer of 2007. Whilein Israel, he also held a workshop on thelegal and cultural issues surrounding thetreatment of religiously significant gravesites located in lands held by the Abrahamicreligions. His work was part of CUA law’sgrant-funded Holy Places project. In July,Professor Breger served as a moderator of adiscussion of the play “Pangs of theMessiah,” staged at the Goldman Theaterin Washington, D.C. The production tellsthe story of eight West Bank settlers whoresist the dismantling of their settlement bythe Israeli Defense Forces.Professor Robert Destro served as moderatorfor a panel discussion, “Preservingthe First Freedom in Virginia: the State ofReligious Liberty,” held at the Old HouseChamber at the State Capitol in Richmond,Va., on Oct. 25.Professor Sarah Duggin was the chieforganizer for the 2007 D.C. Area LegalHistory Roundtable, hosted this year at theColumbus School of Law. The topic of discussionwas “Judges and Judging.” Theannual informal gathering of D.C. lawprofessionals and historians was on hiatusfor several years until it was revived by theGeorge Washington University LawSchool in the fall of 2006.Professor A.G. Harmon participated in aconference held by the SoutheasternAssociation of Law Schools in July 2007.He was part of a panel discussion thatreviewed how issues of law are treated infiction that is inspired by real-life events.Harmon and his fellow professors presentedpapers on such books at Jessamyn West’sThe Massacre at Fall Creek, Harper Lee’s ToKill a Mockingbird, William Faulkner’sIntruder in the Dust, and selected shortworks of Andre Dubus.Professor Roger Hartley was appointedby Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to atwo-year term on the Foreign ServiceGrievance Board, effective Oct. 1, 2007.The board is an independent body whosefunction is to adjudicate grievances filed bymembers of the Foreign Service. It providesa forum for the review and dispositionof a wide range of grievances involving separationfrom employment, disciplinaryactions, complaints relating to the employee’sworking environment, prejudicialinformation in the employee’s personnelrecords, and denial of financial benefits. Itsdecisions generally are binding on thegrievant and the agency alike, subject onlyto judicial review.Research Ordinary Professor WilliamKaplin was named senior fellow of theCenter for Excellence in Higher EducationLaw and Policy, Stetson University Collegeof Law.Visiting Associate Professor TamaraLawson granted permission to the NewYork City Bar Association to reprint herarticle “Can Fingerprints Lie? Re-weighingFingerprint Evidence in Criminal JuryTrials,” (31 Am. J. Crim. L. 1 2003) for useas part of its materials for a continuing legaleducation course. She was also asked topresent on the use, misuse and appropriatechallenges of fingerprint evidence andforensic expert witnesses in criminal jurytrials. Professor Lawson was invited by theDickinson School of Law to offer a scholarlypresentation on the “Jena Six” — cases thatstem from alleged hate crimes at Louisiana’sJena High School, as well as allegations ofoverzealous prosecution of young blackdefendants in the nationally profiled incident.Her presentation focused on the legaland policy concerns underlying the exerciseof prosecutorial discretion.Professor Lisa Lerman served as chair ofthe planning committee for the ABANational Conference on ProfessionalResponsibility, held in Chicago from May30 to June 2, 2007. Professor Lerman alsochaired two subject panels at the conference,and CUA law reference librarianSteve Young assisted in leading a discussiontitled “Legal Ethics Research, Online andOff: A Workshop.” The annual conferenceis the preeminent educational and networkingopportunity in the field of ethics andprofessional responsibility.Professor Mary Leary made a presentationbefore the National Center forMissing and Exploited Children on Oct.24, 2007. Her subject, “Meeting Defensesin Child Pornography Cases,” was part ofa larger program that addressed protectingchildren online. Leary has also beeninvited to address students at theUniversity of Virginia about the issue ofonline self-exploitation.Professor David Lipton was appointed inAugust to a three-year term as a director ofthe Municipal Securities Regulation Board.The self-regulatory organization developsrules regulating securities firms and banksinvolved in underwriting, trading and sellingmunicipal securities. In April, he was30CUALAWYER /Fall–Winter 2007