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FACULTY NewsProfessional ActivitiesCenter for the Public Interest on Sept. 27,2007. The case revolves around a 2004 decisionby the United Nations’ InternationalCourt of Justice that challenged America’sright to keep more than 50 Mexican nationalson death row. A transcript of the AEIpanel discussion was published in theGeorgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy.On Oct. 25, 2007, Rutledge testified beforethe U.S. House Subcommittee onCommercial and Administrative Law at ahearing on H.R. 3010, the “ArbitrationFairness Act of 2007.”Professor Heidi Schooner testified beforethe council of the District of Columbia’sCommittee on Public Services andConsumer Affairs on June 18, 2007. ShePublicationsProfessor Helen Alvaré has had an articleaccepted for publication by the MontanaLaw Review. “Gonzales v. Carhart: AbortionLaw that Looks Like Family Law” dealswith the Supreme Court’s April 2007 decisionin the Gonzales v. Carhart abortioncase. Her article will appear in 2008.Professor MarshallBreger published “TheQuest for Legitimacy inAmerican AdministrativeLaw” in Israel LawReview, (Vol. 40,Number 1, spring 2007).He was the author of anessay in a collected volume titled A Dream ofZion: American Jews Reflect on Why IsraelMatters to Them (Jewish Lights Publishing,2007). Breger also co-edited “EuropeanUnion Issues from a PortuguesePerspective,” the first in an occasionalpublished collection of papers in comparativelaw produced by the Initiative forPortuguese-American Legal Dialogue.spoke about Bill 17-166, the Bank CharterModernization Amendment Act of 2007.Professor Lucia Silecchia accepted an invitationextended during the summer of 2007to serve a term on the executive committeeof the Conference on Catholic LegalThought. Founded in 2006, the group isself-described as an organization of “legalscholars interested in the Catholic socialthought tradition.”Professor Ted Sky attended the NationalConstitutional Convention in Washington,D.C. on Oct. 19. Sponsored by theUniversity of Virginia’s Center for Politics,the convention’s purpose was to discuss thenation’s founders’ expectation for theProfessor A.G. Harmon had a work of fictionpublished in the journal Triquarterly(October 2007). He also had literary reviewspublished in Commonweal magazine, and waspart of the American Writers Speaker’s Seriesat the University of Evansville in September,where he read from his work and talkedabout the discipline of law and literature.Research Ordinary Professor WilliamKaplin’s paper, “Equity, Accountability, andGovernance: Three Pressing MutualConcerns of Higher Education andElementary/Secondary Education,” waspublished by the Institute for HigherEducation Law and Governance, as IHELGMonograph 06-11. The student edition ofhis treatise, The Law of Higher Education, 4 thed., (Co-authored with Barbara Lee ofRutgers University) was published in July byJossey-Bass Publishers. In August 2007, theteam’s teaching materials for use with thestudent edition and their instructor’s manualwere published electronically by theNational Association of College andUniversity Attorneys.Constitution to be revitalized on a “regular”basis and to consider a series of possiblechanges designed to encourage a greaterlevel of civic engagement and raise the levelof trust in government and politics. All inattendance had the opportunity to vote oneach panel topic and render a tentative decisionon the major reforms, giving the eventthe feel of a constitutional convention.Professor George Smith was a visiting fellowin July at the University Center for Law,Ethics, and Health at the University ofMichigan School of Public Health in AnnArbor, working on the issue of public healthemergencies and how the government shouldrespond during international pandemics.Professor Mary Leary’s article, “Self-Produced Child Pornography: TheAppropriate Societal Response to JuvenileSelf Exploitation,” was accepted for fallpublication in the University of Virginia’sJournal of Social Policy and the Law. She alsoanticipates publishing a book chapter,“Perspectives on the Investigative andProsecutorial Issues Facing IntimatePartner Abuse Professionals,” in IntimatePartner Violence: Resource for ProfessionalsWorking With Children and Families” duringlate 2007. In addition, Professor Leary hassigned a contract with G.W. Publishing toco-author a first-of-its-kind book on abductionstitled “Missing, Abducted & After.”Professor David Lipton’s treatise on“Broker-Dealer Regulations” has beenexpanded into two volumes by WestPublishing. It was previously in a singlevolume.Professor Stephen Margeton is theauthor of Introduction to Design for Law andOther Academic Libraries: Reflection and32CUALAWYER /Fall–Winter 2007