Faculty/Staff Footnotes
Professor of Law Mary Algero's article, "The Sources of Law and the Value of Precedent: A Comparative and Empirical Study of a Civil Law State in a Common Law Nation," was published in The Louisiana Law Review, issue 2 of volume 65. Additionally, the Loyola Law Review will publish a transcript of Algero's speech at the Conference on the French Bicentennial earlier this semester titled "The Value of Precedent in Louisiana: A Contemporary Examination."
Cheryl P. Buchert, visiting assistant clinical professor of law, and Ramona Fer-nandez, assistant director of the Law Clinic, attended a three- day juvenile mediation training seminar sponsored by the Louisiana Supreme Court's Child Advocacy Mediation Project.
Mitch Crusto, professor of law, presented a paper titled "Grutter, Miscegenation, and Black Women's Property Rights: A Legal History of Sex, Race, Status, and Wealth," at the Second National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, sponsored by George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., in October. At the same conference, Crusto moderated a panel discussion on "Environmental Justice," featuring panelists AALS President Gerald Torres and Professor Linda Fisher. Also, Crusto participated as a visitor in the 2004 meeting of the Multistate Bar Examination Real Property Drafting Committee in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as a guest of the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Professor of Law Robert Garda's article, "Untangling Eligibility Requirements Under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act," was published in the spring 2004 edition of the Missouri Law Review, and his article, "The New IDEA: Shifting Educational Paradigms to Achieve Racial Equality in Special Education," has been accepted for publication in the summer 2005 edition of the Alabama Law Review.
Robert Gnuse, professor of religious studies, had five essays published under the title "Theological Themes" in Lectionary Homiletics.
Alicia Hansen, music collections and services coordinator and assistant professor, delivered a presentation titled "Integrating the Music Library into our Main Library: Our No-Surprises Approach" at the Southeast Chapter of the Music Library Association at Emory University in October. She also served as editor of the Music Library Association's 2004 Facilities Subcommittee Bibliography, published at www.music-libraryassoc.org/committee/co_fac_bibliography.htm
Kristine Haskett was hired as the assistant director of grant development in the Division of Institutional Advance-ment.Haskett has a graduate certificate fromIndiana Univer-sity's Center on Philanthropy in addition to a bachelor of arts degree in Spanish and French from Loyola.
Hazel James joined the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures as an administrative assistant.
Denis R. Janz, Provost Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, has published an essay, "What Did Luther Understand By 'Faith?,'" in Reforming the Reformation: Essays in Honour of Principal Peter Matheson (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2004).
Carol Jeandron, director of the Office of Service Learning, was a presenter at a session titled the "Junior Meteorologists: Service Learning in Louisiana's Universities" at the Louisiana Association of Non-profit Organizations Grant-maker/Grant-seeker Conference in October. Susan Suthon, assistant vice president for development and alumni relations, and Teri Henley, chair and associate professor in the Department of Communications, also attended the conference.
James M. Klebba, professor of law, gave a talk to the Rotary Club of Carrollton about his travels this summer to Russia, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, including political and economic developments in Eastern Europe.
Kathryn V. Lorio's article titled "The Changing Concept of Family and Its Effect on Louisiana Succession Law" has been published in the 63 La. L. Rev. 1161 (2003). Also, in October she presented a paper on "Inheritance Rights of Posthumously Conceived Children" at the meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel that was held in Pittsburgh.
M. Isabel Medina's essay "Of Constitutional Amendments, Human Rights, and Same-Sex Marriages" was published in the spring 2004 issue of the Louisiana Law Review.
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine honored Richard Mc-Carthy, IV, co-founder and executive director of the Economics Institute at Loyola University New Orleans and its flagship project, the Crescent City Farmers Market, as one of this year's Champions of Public Health.
Elizabeth Orgeron, library instruction coordinator and associate professor, participated in the Information Literacy in Louisiana's Academic Institutions panel at the LOUIS Users Conference in Baton Rouge in October.
Peter S. Rogers, associate professor in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, discussed Marcel Proust to classes in the honors program at Wake Forest University in September.
Monica Hof Wallace spoke on a panel for the Federal Bar Association at a seminar entitled "Inside Chambers: Conversations with Judicial Law Clerks" in October.
Robert R.M. Verchick, Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law, had two articles published in academic journals: "Toward Normative Rules for Agency Interpretation: Defining Jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act," Alabama Law Review 2004) and "Unique Property Annotated Bibliography," 18 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (2004) (with Nancy Levit). Verchick also contributed chapters to the following books which have just been released: The New Progressive Agenda: Repaying our Debt to the Future (Carolina Press 2004) (with scholars from the Center for Progressive Regulation) and New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality and Activism, (Rachel Stein, ed., Rutgers University Press, 2004). A previous article, "Feathers or Gold? A Civic Economics for Environmental Law," has been anthologized in the new book, Sophisticated Sabotage. Ver-chick's article, "Lost in Translation: The Case Against Cost-Benefit Analysis," was accepted by the Ecology Law Quarterly (UC-Berkeley). Verchick was appointed to the board of directors at the Center for Progressive Regulation in Washington, D.C., where he is a research scholar.
Professor of Law Jim Viator accepted an invitation from the editor of the Law & History Review to write a review of Elizabeth Alexander's Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines (LSU Press, 2001). Viator has also, at the request of the Oxford Univ. Press, reviewed a book by Allan Farnsworth on the law of mistake and has provided comments for the book's jacket.
