December 12, 2003

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Professor of Law Mary Algero's article, "A Step in the Right Direction: Reducing Intercircuit Conflicts by Strengthening the Value of Federal Appellate Court Decisions," was published as the lead article in volume 70 Tenn. L. Rev. 605 (2003). Algero also was selected to speak at the 2004 Conference of the Legal Writing Institute on the importance of scholarship to teaching. The conference will be held in Seattle in July 2004.

George Bilbe, professor of law, published Show Your Own, An Arguable Novel and a Screenplay. The book involves the theatrical depiction of manic depressive behavior and the evolution of a screenplay portraying a manic episode in a period of mid-life despondency. Show Your Own provides an insider's view of manicdepression and a law teacher's take on legal education.

Bill Butler was promoted from programmer/analyst to senior programmer/analyst in the Office of Information Technology.

Mitch Crusto, professor of law, presented a paper, "Race, Sex, and Private Property Law," at the 14th Annual Midwestern Free People of Color Scholarship Conference in October in Cleveland, Ohio. He also addressed the Regional Black Law Students Academic Retreat in October on "How to Succeed in Your First Year in Law School." Crusto also has published in the Louisiana Law Review (Volume 63, Winter 2003, Number 2.) an article titled "Green Business: Should We Revoke Corporate Charters for Environmental Violations?"

Jennifer Dinsmore, associate director for student activities, received the Shirley Plakidas Outstanding New Professional Award at the Association of College Unions International Conference. Her conference session, "Leadership on the Loose," was selected as a "Best of the Best" session at the conference.

Brenda Engeron joined the University Police as a shuttle driver. Engeron has over 15 years of driving experience.

Lucian O. Fleming joined University Police as a police officer.

Debra Firor was hired as an administrative assistant in City College.

At the invitation of the Korean Ministry of Justice, Henry Gabriel, DeVan Daggett Professor of Law, recently visited Seoul, Korea, to confer with senior members of the ministry about participation in the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. While in Korea, Gabriel presented a paper to the Korean Institute of International Trade Law titled "An American Perspective on the U.N. Convention on the International Sale of Goods." The paper will be published in Volume 9 of the International Trade and Business Law Annual (2004). Gabriel also presented a paper titled "The Emerging Law of International Electronic CommerceRecent Work by UNCITRAL" at the Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Carnegie Mellon University Press will publish the paper as a chapter in the proceedings of the conference.

Assistant Professor of Law Robert Garda's article, "Untangling Eligibility Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," has been accepted for publication in the spring edition of the Missouri Law Review.

The Tulane European and Civil Law Forum accepted Louisiana Outside Counsel Health and Ethics Foundation Distinguished Professor David Gruning's article, "Mapping Society Through Law" for publication. An earlier version was delivered as a lecture in March in a series sponsored by the Center for Research in Public Law in Montreal, which will publish all the papers in that series in book form.

Carol A. Jeandron, director of the Office of Service Learning, presented the session "Addressing the Challenges Related to Diversity and Learning," at the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commission on Colleges (COC) Annual Meeting held in Nashville in December.

Zanada Joyner was hired as administrative assistant in the Department of Nursing. Joyner received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Loyola and a master's degree in education from the University of Mississippi. Joyner taught 7^th -10^th graders in English, language arts, and reading. She was the first runner-up in Loyola Women's Center Writing Competition (2000) and the Recreations Sports Complex Employee of the Year (1999).

Cheryl A. Kirk joined University Police as an officer trainee.

Anthony Ladd, associate professor of sociology, organized a session on the aftermath of the Iraqi war and presented a paper titled "Caught in the Crossfire: Bush's War on Iraq and the Environment" at the Association for Humanist Sociology meetings in Burlington, Vermont. Ladd also organized a session on Environmental Sociology and presented a paper on the "Environmental and Energy Impacts of the Iraqi War" at the Mid-South Sociological Association meetings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Corey Laurent was hired as an accounting clerk in the Office of Financial Affairs. Laurent received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Southern University New Orleans.

Jacob E. Maurer joined Physical Plant as a carpenter.

Carolyn Mikulencak joined the Institute for Ministry as a writing tutor. Mikulencak received a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Tulsa and a master's degree in teaching secondary English from Agnes Scott College. She received the L. Anderson Creative Writing Award in 1996.

Gäbriel Moens, visiting professor of law, gave two sessions on oral advocacy tips for the Moot Court workshop held at Adams & Reese law firm in September.

Lawrence W. Moore, S.J., associate dean of academic affairs, provided a presentation on a comparison between the ALWD whitebook and the bluebook for the Moot Court workshop held at Adams and Reese in September.

Gerard Rault, professor of law, has been invited to deliver a keynote address in Ningbo, China, at the first "Forum on Sino-West Legal Studies," sponsored by the Chinese Legal Studies Association of North America (CLSANA). Earlier this year, he was named to the CLSANA international board. This semester Rault served as host and legal education liaison for a lawyer from the People's Republic of China visiting under the auspices of the joint U.S. State Department/People's Republic of China Rule of Law Initiative. He also participated in a panel and forum on Prison Reform in September cosponsored by the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center and the Twomey Center and held at the law school.

Anthony J. Roque was hired as a carpenter in Physical Plant.

Heather Szapary joined the Crescent City Farmers Market as an on-site coordinator. She received a bachelor's degree in geography and a master's degree in urban regional planning from the University of New Orleans. Szapary has grant writing and management experience.

Assistant Professor of Law Monica Wallace's article, "The Pitfalls of a Putative Marriage and the Call for a Putative Divorce," was accepted for publication by the Louisiana Law Review (Volume 64, Number 1 in the Spring of 2004). In September, Wallace gave a presentation to the editors of the Intellectual Property Law Journal on the differences between ALWD whitebook, and the Bluebook, and answered general questions about citations.

William Warren was hired in Physical Plant as an engineer.

John T. Whelan, assistant professor of physics, traveled to Kyoto, Japan, in December for the Seventh Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, an annual international meeting of gravitational wave physicists. Whelan gave a presentation titled "Stochastic Background Search Correlating ALLEGRO with LIGO Engineering Data." With Martin P. McHugh, assistant professor of physics, Whelan published the paper in the Classical and Quantum Gravity based on the presentation. Additionally, Whelan and others published "Towards the First Search for a Stochastic Background in LIGO data: Applications of Signal Simulations" also in Classical and Quantum Gravity (7 September 2003).

Jeanne Woods, Henry F. Bonura, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law, was a speaker on a panel on globalization and markets at Northeastern University School of Law in November. Her article, "Justiciable Social Rights as a Critique of the Liberal Paradigm," was published in Texas International Law Journal and an article, "Rights as Slogans: A Theory of Human Rights Based on African Humanism," was published in National Black Law Journal (2003). Two students from her international law seminar, had their seminar papers accepted for publication in national law journals. Erin Guruli published "The Terrorism Era: Should the International Community Redefine Its Legal Standard on the Use of Force in Self-Defense? in the Willamette University Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution, and James M. Donovan wrote "Civilian Immunity and the Rebuttable Presumption of Innocence" for the Wayne State University Journal of Law in Society.