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FACULTY NewsProfessional Activitiesamong five featured speakers for a programtitled “How Boards of Directors CanOversee Strategic Decisions and GetInvestigations Right,” held on April 24,2007, in downtown Washington, D.C. InSeptember, Professor Lipton conducted aluncheon panel for about 25 alumni in NewYork City that featured Marc Menchel,FINRA general counsel, as speaker. He alsoorganized an address at the law school byErik Sirri, the SEC’s director of the divisionof market regulation, who spoke to the studentsabout the globalization of regulatingthe international securities markets.Professor Lipton has continued his work onbehalf of his colleagues as sponsor of thefaculty luncheon speakers. This year’s beganwith a presentation by an editor fromMoment Magazine on “The Spirituality ofEinstein.” Professor Lipton also traveled toJerusalem to help evaluate a proposedCUA/HU joint summer program in lawbetween Catholic University and HebrewUniversity. And in November, he moderateda talk at the law school by SECCommissioner Paul Atkins.Professor Suzette Malveaux attended ameeting of the New South Wales BarAssociation and the New South WalesCentre for Legal Education held in Sydney,Australia, during the summer of 2007. Atthe conference, she was invited to give animpromptu talk about the ColumbusSchool of Law to the deans of various lawschools and legal institutions in New SouthWales. Professor Malveaux was asked questionsabout a variety of legal issues by herAustralian peers. “It was a great opportunityto learn and promote the law school,”says Malveaux. Her article, “Statutes ofLimitations: A Policy Analysis in theContext of Reparations Litigation,” 74 Geo.Wash. L. Rev. 68 (2005), was entered intothe record at a hearing before theSubcommittee on the Constitution, CivilRights, and Civil Liberties of the JudiciaryCommittee in support of H.R. 1995, theTulsa-Greenwood Race Riot ClaimsAccountability Act of 2007. The article wasintroduced on April 24, 2007, during thetestimony of Professor Alfred Brophy, whocharacterized it as a “terrific article …specifically addressing state of limitationsfor old civil rights cases.” ProfessorMalveaux was part of a delegation that traveledto Macau in December. The group’sobjective is to preserve the history, cultureand heritage of Portuguese people inChina. On Oct. 28, Professor Malveaux ranD.C.’s Marine Corps Marathon for thefourth time.Professor Raymond Marcin delivered apaper, “The Oath Against Modernism andthe Present State of Affairs [in the CatholicChurch],” at the 11 th Annual Conference ofthe Saint Benedict Center in Nashua, N.H.,on Aug. 18, 2007. In late November,Marcin was among a group of authors whosigned copies of their books at the EdwardJ. Pryzbyla University Center on the campusof Catholic University. His book, InSearch of Schopenhauer’s Cat: ArthurSchopenhauer’s Quantum-Mystical Theory ofJustice, was published in 2006.Dean Veryl V. Miles spoke about faith andprofessional life to the Young MembersFellowship of The John Carroll Society ofWashington, D.C., on Sept. 27, 2007. OnOct. 20, Dean Miles was the keynotespeaker at the 50 th reunion of thePomonkey High School class of 1957.Opened in 1922, Pomonkey was the firsthigh school for African-American childrenin Charles County, Md. Her address celebratedthe accomplishments of the historicinstitution and its community of students,faculty and parents.Research Ordinary Professor MichaelNoone was elected president of theCommittee on Military Criminology andCrime by the board of directors of theInternational Society for Military Law andthe Law of War in Brussels, Belgium.Noone also briefed the military law committeeof the D.C. Bar Association on extraterritorialU.S. criminal jurisdictionover government contractors. His tutorialto colleagues was offered on Nov. 7, 2007.Father Raymond O’Brien taughtDecedents’ Estates at the summer school ofthe Georgetown University Law Center,upon his return from a trip to Sicily duringthe summer of 2007. In November, FatherO’Brien baptized Ella Lovelace, the secondchild of Michael and Dawn Lovelace.Professor Antonio Perez met with U.S.and Norwegian policy makers, defense officialsand media representatives during afour-day swing through Norway from May20 to 24, 2007. During a trip arranged inconjunction with the U.S. Embassy in Oslo,Perez discussed such issues as the war onterror, human rights, and the workings ofthe U.S. Supreme Court with various audiences.During the trip, Perez appeared as aguest lecturer before the law faculty at theUniversity of Bergen. He also spoke withsenior researchers at the NorwegianInstitute for Defense Studies. In his capacityas a member of the Inter-AmericanJuridical Committee of the OAS, Perez submittedtwo dissenting opinions to decisionsof the Juridical Committee: “Explanation ofDissenting Vote on a Resolution Concerningthe Right to an Identity,” and the“Explanation of Dissenting Vote onthe Resolution Concerning Review ofthe Application of the Inter-AmericanDemocratic Charter.”Professor Peter “Bo” Rutledge was aninvited participant in a discussion about“Medellin v. Texas: Presidential Power andInternational Tribunals,” sponsored by theAmerican Enterprise Institute’s LegalFall–Winter 2007 / C UALAWYER 31