Faculty/Staff Footnotes
S.L. Alexander, professor of communications, has written her latest book, Media and American Courts: A Reference Handbook, by request of the publisher. The book, part of the ABC Clio series on Contemporary World Issues, is an up-to-date reference guide for scholars, journalists, and students of law, journalism, political science, and communications, as well as for members of the general public who are interested in the topic of media coverage in the courts. The book includes a historical overview of the most widely covered cases of the last 100 years (from the Girl-in-the-Red-Velvet-Swing case through Bush v Gore and the trials of the 9/11 terrorists). It includes a discussion of current controversies (including access to records, gag orders, cameras, and the virtual courtroom); a chronology of U.S. Supreme Court cases on point; biographical sketches of lawyers, judges, and print journalists involved in high profile cases; and results of research into the free press/fair trial conflict. In addition, the handbook contains a useful listing of organizations, associations, and government agencies as well as an extensive annotated bibliography of print and non-print resources, followed by a brief glossary of legal terms.
Mary Algero, professor of law, received the Outstanding Advising Award in the school of Law for the 2003 -2004 academic year. Algero spoke on "The Value of Producing Scholarship" at the 11th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute held in July in Seattle, Washington. Algero was named a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Legal Writing for a two-year term. Algero spoke at the conference commemorating the Bicentennial of the French Civil Code held in New Orleans in September. Her topic was "The Value of Precedent in Louisiana: A Contemporary Examination."
John Biguenet, Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor, conducted a masterclass in writing fiction, "The Short and the Long of It," and chaired a panel on "The Dark Side of the Crescent" at the 2004 Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. He gave the 33rd annual Lipsey Lecture at Mississippi College, where he also taught a workshop for advanced creative writing students in fiction and poetry. He gave a lecture and reading on "Faith and Fiction" at Taylor University in Indiana, where he also guest lectured in a seminar on "Fiction Writing" and spoke on "The Novel and Short Fiction" in a class on the history of the novel. Also at Taylor, he led a roundtable discussion for the Center for Teaching Excellence on "The Changing Role of the College Teacher" and spoke with students at a dinner hosted by the Integration of Faith and Culture campus organization. Finally, he was the subject of a taped interview about his fiction by a member of the Taylor faculty for the university's literary magazine, Parnassus. He was a featured author at the 30th anniversary arts festival of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. He was the keynote speaker at the Soiree in the Stacks 2004 annual lecture of the Rapides Parish Library in Alexandria. He spoke about careers in professional writing and in academia at the Career Forum 2004 at Metairie Park Country Day School and was a featured author at the 2004 Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. His book review of Natasha by David Bezmozgis appeared recently in the Chicago Tribune. He served as a judge of the 2004 Louisiana Writes K-12 Youth Writing Contest of the Louisiana Writing Project. His play, The Vulgar Soul, was presented with the work of eight other playwrights at the 2004 Southern Festival of New Plays; The Vulgar Soul was chosen from that festival to be a featured production of the 2004-2005 season of the Southern Rep Theatre.
Assistant Clinical Law Professor Cheryl P. Buchert completed two days of basic divorce mediation training in June and three days of advanced divorce mediation training in July. The program was taught by Bobby M. Harges, professor of law, and sponsored by Loyola's Office of Continuing Education.
Mitch Crusto, professor of law, presented a paper, "Unfinished Agenda? Can the Law Remedy Vestiges of Black Enslavement/Racial Hate Crimes?" to the Louisiana Judicial Council/National Bar Association, Jamaican Sunset CLE, in Negril, Jamaica, in July. Crusto also presented a paper titled, "Green Business: Corporate Law and the Environment: Does Corporate Law Intersect with the Environment?," at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, The Intersection of Law and Business, in August.
Dominique Custos, professor of law, participated in a comparative law conference on regulation, hosted by her alma mater, Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Custos presented a paper on "American Regulation" that will be published later this year, with other conference contributions devoted to European and non-European approaches of regulation.
Lucas Diaz joins the Division of Institutional Advancement as the director of corporate and foundation relations. For the last four years, Diaz has worked at Dillard University as a grants writer and most recentlyas the director of foundation relations and grant development.He is alsoa Loyolaalumnus and is pursuing a graduate degree in romance languages.
Kristine David-Lelong, APR, was an instructor in crisis communications at the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs National Training Conference held in New Orleans in August.
Henry Gabriel, professor of law, recently presented the following papers: "Pre-impanelment Remedies in International Commercial Arbitration" at the Center for International Commercial Law in Salzburg, Austria, (to be published as a book chapter); "International Organizations: The Global Playing Field for U.S.-EU Cooperation in Private Law Instruments" at the Private Law and Private International Law & Judicial Cooperation in the EU-U.S. Relationship Conference at the University of Pittsburgh (to be published as a book chapter); and "Article 2 and 2A- Coming Attractions" in the Emerging Trends in Commercial Law: Surviving Tomorrow's Challenges Conference at DePaul University College of Law (to be published in the DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal). Gabriel also made the following presentations: "Current Projects Concerning Electronic Commerce in UNIDROIT" CLE Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association in Atlanta; "Article 7 Update" at the 37th Annual Uniform Commercial Code Institute in Chicago; and "UNIDROIT Global Markets Project" at the New York Federal Reserve Bank in New York City, and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. Additionally, Gabriel has been appointed to the Editorial Boards of the International Trade & Business Law Review and the Macquarie Business Law Review.
Professor of Law David Gruning's article, "Mapping Society Through Law: Louisiana Civil Law Recodified," appeared in Dessiner la société par le droit (Les Éditions Thémis 2004).
Lindsay Hilton was hired as a media relations specialist in the Office of Public Affairs. Hilton is a Loyola graduate with a degree in communications/photojournalism and a minor in French. Prior to joining Loyola, she handled publicity for Worldwide Entertainment Network. While a student at Loyola, Hilton completed an internship with The New York Times.
Craig S. Hood, professor of biological sciences, presented a paper titled "Challenges of inventory and monitoring mammals of Jean Lafitte National Park Historic and ongoing urban impacts" at the 18th annual meeting of the Society of Conservation Biology at Columbia University in New York. The paper describes research results on the mammals of Jean Lafitte National Park being conducted through a two-year National Park Service grant. This summer, Hood organized and presented two educational programs for 8-10-year-old kids titled "Learning about Bats" at the Barataria Summer Camp Program, Jean Lafitte National Park.
Armin Kargol, assistant professor of physics, published an article "Application of oscillating potentials to the Shaker potassium channel" (with A. Hosein-Sooklal, L. Constantin, M. Przestalski) in Gen. Physiol Biophys.
James M. Klebba, professor of law, moderated a panel discussion on "Distance Learning" at the annual meeting of the Southeast Association of American Law Schools in Kiawah, S.C., in August.
Cynthia Lepow, professor of law, presented a paper to the ABA Section of Taxation Domestic Relations Committee fall meeting in Boston on the topic, "Tax Issues for Unmarried Households."
Kathryn Lorio, Leon Sarpy Professor of Law, received the Outstanding Service Award in the School of Law for the 2003 - 2004 academic year. Lorio's article, "The Changing Concept of Family and its Effect on Louisiana Succession Law," was published in Volume 63 of the Louisiana Law Review.
Professor of Law John Lovett's article, "On the Principle of Legal Certainty in the Louisiana Civil Law Tradition: From the Manifesto to the Great Repealing Act and Beyond," was published in the Louisiana Law Review in July.
David Normann, professor of law, has been nominated by law graduates, to be included in the eighth edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
Bill Quigley, Janet Mary Riley Distinguished Professor of Law, received the Outstanding Research Award in the School of Law for the 2003 - 2004 academic year. He also was named editor of Blueprint for Social Justice; a member of the executive committee and advisory board of National Jobs for All Coalition in New York City; and a member of the Legal Collective, G8 Protest.
Quigley had the following articles published: "Catholic Social Thought on Work and Prisons," in the 44 Santa Clara University Law Review; "Seven Principles for Catholic Law Schools
Serious About a Preferential Option for the Poor," 1 St. Thomas University Law Journal; "Catholic Social Thought and the Amorality of Corporations: Time to Remove Corporate Person-hood," Loyola University Journal of Public Interest Law; "Jailed for Justice," Southern Perspectives of Jesuit Volunteer Corps South; "State Criminal Charges Dismissed Against Blood Pouring Peace Activists: Federal Prosecutors Step" in Counterpunch and on www.commondreams.org.
Quigley spoke on "What Now? A Dialogue on War, Occupation and the Anti-war Movement," at the UNO Theater; "Repealing Corporate Personhood & Catholic Social Thought," and "Corporations, Law and Democracy," at The Other Economic Summit, G-8 site in Brunswick, Ga. Additionally, he spoke on "Criminalization of Dissent," at the National Lawyers Guild (Southern Regional Meeting), and "Restorative Justice," at the Alexandria Catholic Diocese. Quigley served on the advisory counsel on the "St. Patrick's Four," in Ithaca, N.Y., a state felony trial for criminal damage to property from pouring blood on walls of a marine recruiting station two days before invasion of Iraq, March 17, 2003. Defendants stipulated that they did the action. A six-day jury trial resulted in a hung jury, for acquittal.
Professor of Law Gerry Rault's Handbook on Louisiana Evidence Law for 2004 (with co-authors) and his book, Louisiana's Common Law of Crimes, were published in August. Rault was named to the board of directors of Grace House of Louisiana, an in-house treatment and recovery center for women. He recently began a monthly outreach program at Grace House, offering legal assistance to the residents. During the summer, Rault began a comparative study of the Thai legal system, with particular focus on its civil law heritage.
Professor of Law Keith Vetter recently had an article, "La compilacion de Justiniano: su implementacion en los Estados Unidos en la actualidad," published in Revue Internationale des droits de l'antiquite, 3e Serie Tome XLIX.
Monica Wallace was named Professor of the Year in the School of Law for the 2003 - 2004 academic year. Also, she was appointed to the tutorship and emancipation committees of the Louisiana Law Institute.
David A. White and Craig S. Hood, professors of biological sciences, published a journal article titled "Vegetation patterns and environmental gradients in tropical dry forests of the northern Yucatan peninsula, Mexico" in the Journal of Vegetation Science, an international journal of plant ecology.
Correction:
An item in faculty/staff footnotes in the September issue contained errors. Professor of English John Mosier wrote one essay on the strategies used to adapt Emma into Clueless for Jane Austen on Screen. Paulette Richards, associate professor of English, wrote an essay on Austen's characters' clothing styles. Professor of English Andrew Macdonald and co-author Gina Macdonald wrote Screen which was published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press.
