In November 2009, adjunct faculty member Joseph Labrecque, senior multimedia application developer with the Center for Teaching and Learning, co-presented “Streaming Video for Education” at Educause in Denver. Also in November, he was interviewed for the Adobe Developer Connection website about the use of streaming video systems at the University. In October 2009, he presented “Custom Event Reporting from Flash to Google Analytics” at the FITC unconference during Adobe MAX in Los Angeles. Writing as An Early Morning Letter, Displaced, he released the album Shudderflowers on the Fractured Vision Media label in September 2009; his track “Condemnation,” from the album A Prison of Oneself was nominated for Best Ambient Song in the JPF Music Awards. Also in September, he presented during the three-part Video in Higher Education eSeminar Series on his work with streaming media systems at DU.
Tamara Kuennen, an assistant professor at the Sturm College of Law, published “Public Problems and Private Lives: Applying Relational Contract Theory to Domestic Violence Cases,” in the February 2010 issue of the BYU Law Review. In September 2009, she presented “Calling the Police to Report Domestic Violence: Exercising the Right of Petition,” to the Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School.
K.K. DuVivier, an associate professor in the Sturm College of Law, delivered presentations on solar access code to a meeting of the Denver Zoning Code Task Force, the West University Community Association and the Denver City Council and Board of Adjustment Zoning Listening Session.
In January 2010, Martin Katz, dean of the Sturm College of Law, published “Gross Disunity” in the Pennsylvania State Law Review.
Wanda Ellingson, clinical associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and site director of the Four Corners MSW program in Durango, Colo., received the Leadership La Plata Barbara Conrad Award in January 2010 from the Durango Chamber of Commerce. The award recognizes graduates of Leadership La Plata—the Chamber’s skills training and broad-based community education arm—who are consistently involved and active in leadership roles throughout the community and who demonstrate collaborative leadership skills and creative, independent thinking.
Jeff Jenson, a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, was elected to a three-year term on the Society for Social Work and Research board of directors. Jenson presented “Preventing Childhood Aggression and Bullying: Implications for School-Based Intervention Research from the Denver Public Schools Trial” at the Conference on Intervention Research in Social Work held in October 2009 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In January 2010, Jenson was a presenter at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research in San Francisco, Calif. He also co-authored “Advances in preventing childhood and adolescent problem behavior” in Research on Social Work Practice.
In January 2010, Raja Raghunath, an assistant professor at the Sturm College of Law, traveled to New Orleans for the Association of American Law Schools’ annual meeting, where he served as a panelist. Raghunath published “A Promise the Nation Cannot Keep: What Prevents the Application of the Thirteenth Amendment in Prison?” in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.
Eli Wald, an associate professor in the Sturm College of Law, published “The Legal Profession and the Economic Meltdown” in a forthcoming issue of the Fordham Law Review. He presented “Avoiding Grievances—The Ethics of Communication and Expectations’ Management” to the Colorado Bar Association Family Law Section in October 2009; “The History and Future of Denver’s ‘17th Street’ Large Law Firms,” at the law firm of Moye White LLP; and “Large Law Firms, Gender Stereotypes and the Economic Downturn” at the Fordham Law School.
In January 2010, Stacey Freedenthal, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, presented “Adolescent help-seeking after a suicide prevention program: evidence from staff and student” at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Jay Brown, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, published “Returning Fairness to Executive Compensation,” in the Notre Dame Law Review. Throughout the year Brown gave several presentations, including “The Trial of Joe Nacchio” at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business 2009 annual conference, “Reforming the Gatekeepers” at the 92nd annual fall conference of the North American Securities Administrators Association, and “Issues of Islamic Finance” at the University of California Hastings Law School.
Ryan Vacca, a lecturer at the Sturm College of Law, published “Abolishing the Missing-Claim Rule for Judicial Cancellations” in a forthcoming issue of the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal and was a panelist for “IP and Administrative Law: Rulemaking, Tafas, Zurko and Regulatory Capture” at the University of Akron School of Law Third Annual IP Forum.
Frank Ascione, a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, American Humane Endowed Chair and executive director of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection, presented a workshop—“The Classic Link: Domestic Violence & Animal Abuse”—at the 2009 Animal Law Conference at Lewis & Clark Law School, held October 16–18 in Portland, Ore.
Federico Cheever, a professor and associate dean of academic affairs at the Sturm College of Law, published “Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy and Perspectives,” included in Chapter 3 (“Critical Habitat”) of a new American Bar Association publication on the Endangered Species Act. Cheever gave several presentations to the Colorado Bar Association, including “The Endangered Species Act and the Obama Administration” in October 2009 and “Legal Ethics in Environmental Transactions” in December 2009.
In November 2009, Sam Kamin presented “Cyber Civil Rights: New Challenges for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Our Networked Age,” to the Sturm College of Law, where he is an associate professor.
Tim Sisk, professor and director of humanitarian assistance at the Korbel School of International Studies, hosted a November 2009 symposium on “Sustainable Peacebuilding: Regional Approaches and Pivotal States” in Vail, Colo. The symposium is the research track of a larger project aimed at filling an important gap in knowledge and understanding of peacebuilding. The research—directed by Sisk and Roland Paris of the University of Ottawa—is supported by the Carnegie Corp. of New York Program in International Peace and Security “States at Risk” initiative. The Korbel School’s Center for Sustainable Development and International Peace will develop a policy paper based on information presented and discussed at the symposium.
Steve Pepper, a professor at the Strum College of Law, wrote “How to Do the Right Thing: A Short Primer on Ethics and Moral Vision,” a book chapter in Good Business: Exercising Effective and Ethical Leadership (Routledge, 2009), edited by Donald Mayer and James O’Toole.
Rock Pring, a professor in the Sturm College of Law, is co-authoring the forthcoming book with Kitty Pring, Greening Justice: Creating and Improving Environmental Courts and Tribunals. Pring has also given several presentations, including “Specialized Environmental Courts” and “Judicial Remedies in Environmental Cases,” to the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative China Project in Beijing.
In November 2009, Julie Laser and Lynn Parker, both associate professors in the Graduate School of Social Work, presented a paper, “Increasing social justice awareness through international education: Two models,” at the Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting. Laser also co-authored several articles, including “A journey to China: Embarking on a professional and personal experience of growth” in Reflections. Parker published “Disrupting power and privilege in couples therapy” in the Clinical Social Work Journal.
Lucy Marsh, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, wrote the book Drafting Wills and Trusts (Vandeplas Publishing, 2009). She also delivered several presentations at the request of the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, including “Colorado Law on Wills, Trusts, Living Wills, Medical Powers of Attorney and Burial Instructions,” “Fundamentals of Colorado Law on Wills, Probate and Medical Powers of Attorney,” and “Aspects of Medical Powers of Attorney, Guardianships for Young Children and Wills.”
Dale Rothman, associate professor and associate director of the Pardee Center for International Futures, co-authored an article on behalf of the Integrated Assessment Society. The article, “How to make global assessments more effective: lessons from the assessment community,” will appear in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. In September 2009, Rothman participated in the inaugural meeting of the Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for Our Unstable Earth Project of the European Science Foundation. He participated in the Plausibility Project at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University in November 2009, and a workshop on modeling the Millennium Development Goals hosted by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in December 2009.
During the Cyber Civil Rights Symposium held at DU in November 2009, Nancy Ehrenreich, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, was a presenter on the panel “Thoughts on Cyber Harassment.”
Ved Nanda, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, co-authored the book Litigation of International Disputes in U.S. Courts with David Pansius (Thomson West, 2009). In addition, Nanda wrote “Global Governance and Human Rights, With Special Emphasis on the Control of Corruption,” the lead chapter in Global Governance, Human Rights, and Development (Satyam Law International, 2009).
In November 2009, James Herbert Williams, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, to attend a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on National Sustainable Development Strategies in countries emerging from conflict. The meeting was part of an ongoing effort to increase the likelihood of sustainable peace by improving the capacities of these countries to integrate sustainable development principles into their development strategies. Williams, who also is conducting a research project in Kenya, was the only American invited to attend the conference. Williams also co-authored several journal articles, including “Substance use, mental illness, and violence: The co-occurrence of problem behaviors among young adults,” in the Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research and “The effects of individual characteristics, teacher practice, and school organizational factors on students’ bullying: a multilevel analysis of public middle schools in Taiwan” in the Children and Youth Services Review. Williams and John Jones, a research professor at the Conflict Resolution Institute, contributed to “Conflict and human security in the Northern Rift and North Eastern Kenya,” which was published in International Journal for Social Economics
John Soma, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, published “Corporate Privacy Trend: The ‘Value’ of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) Equals the ‘Value’ of Financial Assets,” in the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology.
In November 2009, Debora Ortega, associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, was elected vice president of the Association of Latino Social Work Educators. The organization is dedicated to the professional development of Latino social work educators and doctoral students.
In October 2009, Alan Chen, a professor and associate dean of faculty development at the Sturm College of Law, delivered “Rosy Pictures and Renegade Officials: The Slow Death of Monroe v. Pape,” at the Edward A. Smith/Bryan Cave Symposium.
The American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review appointed Michael Sousa, an assistant professor at the Sturm College of Law, to a three-year term on its advisory board. Sousa published “The Principle of Consumer Utility: A Contemporary Theory of the Bankruptcy Discharge” in a forthcoming issue of the University of Kansas Law Review and served as a panelist for “Chapter 11 Business Bankruptcies in the Post-General Motors and Chrysler Landscape” at the American Bankruptcy Institute Rocky Mountain Conference. In October 2009, Professor Sousa received a law professor fellowship to attend the Annual National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.
On October 20, 2009, Ed Ziegler, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, presented “American Cities, Sustainable Development and Obama’s New Green Initiatives,” in France at Pantheon-Sorbonne, University of Paris.
Kimberley Bender, an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, published a co-authored article, “Keeping families engaged: The effects of home-based family therapy enhanced with experiential activities,” in Social Work Research. Bender also presented several papers, including “The importance of both self control and social control in preventing arrest in young adulthood: A nationally representative longitudinal study” at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, and “Empirical evidence for reducing adolescent substance use: Implications for social work curriculum” at the Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting.
Robert Hardaway, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, published Perfect Storm: The Great American Housing Bubble Collapse of 2007-2009: How Byzantine Regulation, Tax Subsidies, and Good Intentions Laid the Foundation for the Worst Economic Crisis Since the Great Depression (ABC-CLIO, 2009). He published an article, “The Great American Housing Bubble: Re-Examining Cause and Effect,” in the University of Dayton Law Review.
Rashmi Goel, an associate professor at the Sturm College of Law, presented “Reasonable Rape” to the Fourteenth Annual LatCrit Conference at the American University Washington College of Law in October 2009.
In October 2009, Justin Marceau, an assistant professor in the Sturm College of Law, gave a presentation, “Don’t Forget Due Process: The Path Not (Yet) Taking in § 2254 Habeas Corpus Adjudications,” at the Second Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Conference hosted by the Michigan State University College of Law.
Daniel Brisson, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, co-authored and presented “Predicting material hardship from social cohesion and immigrant status in low-income neighborhoods” at the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, and “Neighborhood social cohesion for low-income Latina mothers’ experience of hardship” at the Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting.
In October 2009, Joyce Sterling, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, presented “Detours, Exits or Staying Put: Lawyers’ Experiencing the Economic Crisis” with Nancy Reichman, chair of the sociology and criminology department, at the Symposium on the Economic Downturn and the Legal Profession hosted by the Fordham Law School. Sterling also co-authored several articles, including “Exploring Inequality in the Corporate Law Firm Apprenticeship: Doing the Time, Finding the Love” in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and “The Differential Valuation of Women’s Work: A New Look at the Gender Gap in Lawyer’s Income” in Social Forces.
Don Smith, director of graduate environmental law at the Sturm College of Law, published “USA Update: Transmission Top of the Agenda?” in the September/October 2009 issue of Renewable Energy Focus.
Kristian Miccio, an associate professor at the Strum College of Law, published “Giles v. California: Is Justice Scalia Hostile to Battered Women?” in the Texas Law Review.
In September 2009, Phoenix Cai, an assistant professor at the Sturm College of Law, presented “Making WTO Remedies Work for Developing Nations: The Need for Class Actions,” to the Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. In August 2009, Cai spoke about “Remedies at the WTO: The Need for Class Actions” at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business 2009 annual conference.
Jean East, associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, and Mary Krane, director of GSSW’s Bridge Project, received 2009 Wall of Fame Awards from the Housing Authority of the City and County of Denver for their outstanding community work. East’s award recognized her “support and encouragement to students on their path to self-sufficiency.” Krane was recognized for her “efforts to bring education resources to residents and encourage the attainment of a higher education.” With GSSW Assistant Professor Daniel Brisson, East co-authored “Race and ethnicity as moderators of bonding social capital for employment in low-income neighborhoods” in Families in Society.
In August 2009, Rachel Arnow-Richman, associate professor at the Sturm College of Law, presented “Much Ado about Something? Some Straight Talk about the ALI’s Restatement of Employment Law” at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business 2009 annual conference. She was invited to speak on “Incenting Flexibility: The Relationship Between Legal Rules and Voluntary Action in Redressing Work/Family Conflict” at the Redefining Work: Implications of the Four-Day Work Week Symposium presented by the Connecticut Law Review in October 2009. Arnow-Richman also was a presenter on the panel “The Law and Economics of Reduced/Compressed Work Weeks,” which is to be published in the Spring 2010 issue of the Connecticut Law Review.
Catherine Smith, an associate professor at the Sturm College of Law, published “The Rights of the Child” in a forthcoming issue of Tulane Journal of Law and Sexuality.
Christine Cimini, associate professor and director of the Clinical Program at the Sturm College of Law, had excerpts of “Ask, Don’t Tell: Ethical Issues Surrounding Undocumented Workers’ Status in Employment Litigation” published in the Stanford Law Review and reprinted in Stephen Legomsky’s Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy, fifth edition (Foundation Press, July 2009). In September 2009, Cimini presented “Formative Assessment of Ethical Judgment: Clinical Course Models from the Past, Directions for the Future,” at the Crossroads v. 3: Conference on Assessment.
In August 2009, Philip Tedeschi, a clinical associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and clinical director of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection, gave a presentation, “The Role of Pets in the Socio-Emotional and Bio-Behavioural Development of Children,” at the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition in the United Kingdom. Tedeschi also spoke in Denver before the Veterans Benefits Administration Leadership Conference on assistance dog interventions with veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, presented at the Assistance Dogs International 2009 Trainers Conference and spoke before the 37th Annual Association for Experiential Education Conference in Montreal.
The China University of International Relations in Beijing bestowed an honorary professorship on Sam Zhao, executive director of DU’s Center for China-U.S. Cooperation and professor at the Korbel School of International Studies.
Jan Laitos, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, published “The Right of Nonuse,” in the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute. Laitos also delivered several presentations: “The Law of Resource Nonuse” to the Society of Economics and Environmental Law in Vancouver, British Columbia; “The Looming Right of Nonuse,” at the 35th annual Conference on Resource Economics in Hawaii; “The Emerging Conservation of Natural Resources” at the 54th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation in San Francisco; and “Teaching Abroad” to the Austral University School of Law in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Teresa Bruce, a lecturer at the Sturm College of Law, gave three seminars on “Professional Writing: A Crash Course,” at the Denver Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, a division of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Eugene Walls, an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, published “Grappling with the relationship between men’s endorsement of positive stereotypes of women and women’s rights” in Advances in Gender Research. He presented a co-authored paper, “Legal recognition of same-sex relationships: Advancing understanding to inform practice and research,” at the Council on Social Work Education annual program meeting.
The St. Louis University Public Law Review published an article by Kristina Campbell, a lecturer in the Sturm College of Law, entitled “Imagining a More Humane Immigration Policy in the Age of Obama: The Use of Plenary Power to Halt the State Balkanization of Immigration Regulation.”
Roberto Corrada, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, co-authored the teacher’s manual Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace (Thomson-West Publishing, 2009) and published “Toward an Integrated Disparate Treatment and Accommodation Framework for Title VII Religion Cases” in the Cincinnati Law Review. In addition, Corrada spoke at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Fourth Annual Seton Hall Employment and Labor Law Scholars’ Forum.
Two articles by Wendy Duong, an assistant professor at the Sturm College of Law, were listed on the Social Science Research Network’s Top Ten download list: “Using Poison to Treat Poison as an Antidote: Stimulating Corporate Self-Compliance with the Self-Evaluation Privilege” and “Extraterritorial Effect of U.S. Anti-Discrimination in Employment Law: Re-examining the Goals and Policies Behind the Citizenship Nexus.”
David Kopel, an adjunct professor at the Sturm College of Law, published “Unraveling Judicial Restraint: Guns, Abortion and the Faux Conservatism of J. Harvie, Wilkinson III” with Nelson Lund in the Journal of Law and Politics.
Michele Hanna, an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, had a peer-reviewed journal article she co-authored, “Faculty of color in the academy: Teaching in the line of fire,” published in Thought and Action. She also presented her paper “Happily ever after? The journey from foster care to adoption” at the annual conference of the Society for Social Work and Research. Hanna and Cathryn Potter, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, contributed to “Intervening in multiple states: The Western Regional Recruitment and Retention Project,” which was published in Child Welfare. Potter also helped present “Roundtable: Methodological successes and challenges in conducting comprehensive organizational health assessment in child welfare” and “Utilizing a randomized control trial study in child welfare: The Jeffco Community Connection Project” at the conference of the American Evaluation Association.
David Thomson, a lecturer and director of lawyering process at the Sturm College of Law, wrote Law School 2.0 Legal Education for the Digital Age (LexisNexis, 2009). In addition, he presented “Law School 2.0” to the faculty of the Appalachian Law School.
The Morgridge Family Foundation awarded Deb Austin, a lecturer at the Sturm College of Law, a grant for the Smart Board and student response system.
Nantiya Ruan, a lecturer at the Sturm College of Law, published “Facilitating Wage Theft: How Courts Use Procedural Rules to Undermine Substantive Rights of Low-Wage Workers,” in the Vanderbilt Law Review.
Joseph Szyliowicz, a professor at the Korbel School of International Studies, has had his paper on U.S. intermodalism selected for inclusion in a forthcoming book. Szyliowicz presented the paper at an international conference held at Oxford University. In July 2009 he participated in the International Political Science Association Meeting in Santiago, Chile, as the chair of the research committee on science and technology policy. He also attended the first transatlantic meeting of the Network of European Communication and Transportation Researchers, where he presented a paper on transportation security, and was invited to participate in a forthcoming workshop in Leche, Italy.
Arthur Best, a professor at the Sturm College of Law, wrote the books Wigmore on Evidence 2009, Cumulative Supplement (Aspen, 2009) and Translation of Evidence: Examples and Explanations (Tamgusa Publishing, 2009).
Nicole Nicotera and Inna Altschul, associate professors at the Graduate School of Social Work, contributed to “Conceptual and analytic development of the civic engagement and social development survey,” which was presented at the International Research Conference on Service-learning and Community Engagement, and “Connecting civic engagement with positive academic development in adolescents” at the annual conference of the Society for Social Work and Research. Nicotera also presented “Building civic leadership skills through a neighborhood afterschool program” at the Society for Social Work and Research conference.
Viva Moffat, an assistant professor at the Sturm College of Law, presented “Proposal: A Uniform Noncompetition Agreement Act” to the Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum at Brigham Young Univerity’s J. Reuben Clark Law School.