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FACULTY NewsRecent MediaProfessor Marshall Breger spoke beforethe American Jewish Press Association’s2008 conference in Washington, D.C., onJune 24. He was part of a panel that discussed“Tikkum Olam, the NewJudaism?”. On Sept. 25, Breger was quotedin the Jewish Daily Forward for an article,“Ritual Ramadan Dinner Becomes anOpportunity for Muslims to Reach Out,”on the increasing number of official Iftardinners held by government agencies, localcommunities, universities and interfaithgroups. On Nov. 6, Breger was quoted inNew York’s The Jewish Week for an articletitled “Jews Roll with Obama Wave;Dramatic Generational Shift.”Professor Roger Colinvaux was quoted inthe Sept. 4, 2008, issue of The Chronicle ofPhilanthropy for an article titled “Paying ItForward — and Back.” He discussed likelytax code changes that Congress will make tononprofit hospitals and universities, speculatingthat lawmakers could decide to putthose two groups in a separate tax category,as they did with credit-counseling groups in2006. Colinvaux was also quoted in the Oct.16 edition of the Daily Tax Report for a storytitled “IRS Eyeing Revision of PenaltyRegime Following Debut of RedesignedForm 990.” The article examinedColinvaux’s suggestion, introduced at aD.C. Bar Taxation Section ExemptOrganizations Committee panel, that sincethere is now a new Form 990, there shouldbe a new penalty structure to go along withit. A similar story also ran the same day inTax Notes Today.Professor Cara Drinan was the author ofan op-ed published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on May 16, 2008. “BacklogDeath-Penalty Rationale Fatally Flawed”condemned the eagerness of some stateswith legal capital punishment to rush theexecution of death row inmatesProfessor Clifford Fishman was quoted inthe July 9, 2008, edition of Jewish Forward foran article titled “Pro-Palestinian Professor’sReturn to Court Puts Anti-Terror EffortBack on Trial,” a story about Sami Al-Arian,a Florida professor acquitted in a major terrorism-financingcase in 2006 but who nowfaces possible conviction for contempt ofcourt. On Aug. 26, Fishman was a guest onthe Drew Mariani Show, discussing therecent decision by a Texas district to allowteachers and staff to carry guns to protectagainst school shootings. The Mariani programis broadcast by Wisconsin-basedRelevant Radio, the largest Catholic talkradio network in the United States.Professor Suzette Malveaux was interviewedby MSNBC on Nov. 13 aboutpotential changes to the composition ofthe United States Supreme Court byPresident–elect Barak Obama. In August,she prognosticated on the same subject asa commentator for the Philadelphia-based“Art Fennell Show.” Malveaux has establishedherself as the Washington legalcommentator for the cable talk program,syndicated by Comcast. Her weekly guestappearances through the summer and fallhave afforded her the opportunity to analyzethe issues in a dozen significant casesfor viewers, including Pearson v. Callahan,FCC v. Fox, Wyeth v. Levine, Melendez-Diazv. Massachusetts and Penn. Plaza v. Pyett.Research Ordinary Professor MichaelNoone participated on Oct. 29 as a presenterin “Religion and the Military:Intersections and Issues,” a Web trainingcourse sponsored by religion news writersand the McCormick Tribune Foundation.Noone’s presentation addressed “TheLegal Perspective.”Professor Lisa Lerman was the featuredguest on the Australian BroadcastingCorporation’s “The Philosopher’s Zone,“hosted by Alan Saunders. The radio programaired on Sept. 20, 2008. Lerman discusseda famous American legal ethics case,often referred to as the Lake PleasantBodies case, which was also the subject of apaper she gave at the Third InternationalLegal Ethics Conference in Brisbane,Australia, during the summer.Professor Antonio Perez was interviewedfor the Voice of America television program“Foro Interamericano” on Aug. 1,2008. He provided an overview of theHague Tribunal, including an explanationof the difference between the Hague andthe International Court of Justice. “ForoInteramericano” is a one-hour analysis programthat examines important bilateralissues between the United States and LatinAmerica. He appeared on the same programon June 27 to discuss the SupremeCourt’s ruling on the administration’s policyregarding detainees at Guantanamo Bay.Professor Heidi Schooner was the authorof an op-ed, “A Lashing for the Bankers,”published in the Points of View section ofthe Oct. 20, 2008, issue of Legal Times.Schooner speculated that the new federalownership plan for large banks may heraldmore punishing regulation in the future.Professor Ted Sky was interviewed inOctober by the Greensburg Tribune-Reviewin Fayette County, Pa., for its article regardinga local slab of historic road bed that wasrecovered during excavation for a newbridge overpass. Sky is an authority on thehistory of the National Road, one of theearliest large-scale civic projects in America.He has written about the subject in his bookTo Provide for the General Welfare: A Historyof the Federal Spending Power. In that volume,Sky explains the constitutional historyof the National Road and its contribution tothe interpretation of the federal spendingpower in the Constitution.Fall–Winter 2008 / C UALAWYER 45