Washburn Law Faculty Scholarship and Activities
July 2008-June 2009
Kelly Lynn Anders
Book Reviews
Museum Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century, edited by Hugh H. Genoways. 43 Libraries & the Cultural Record 235 (2008).
Bradley T. Borden
Articles in Other Journals
"A Win-Win Proposal for Analyzing Profits-Only Partnership Interests," 121 Tax Notes 75 (October 6, 2008).
"Financing Reverse Exchanges and Safeguarding Exchange Proceeds," 22 Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions 33 (September/October 2008).
Book Chapters and Similar Publications
Real Estate Transactions by Tax-Exempt Entities, Tax Management Portfolio 591-2nd T.M. (2008) [restricted].
Academic Presentation
"Residual-Risk Model for Classifying Tax Entities," Midwest Law and Economics Association, 2008 Annual Meeting, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, October 4, 2008.
Other Presentations
Panelist, "Conflicts Check: Who's Your Client? What's the Scope? Should you Take the Work?," University of Texas School of Law 56th Annual Taxation Conference, Austin, Texas, November 5, 2008.
Panelist, "Open Issues in Deferred Exchanges 15 Years Later (including newly issued regulations under §468B)," Jeremiah Long Memorial National Conference on Like-Kind Exchanges Under Section 1031 IRC, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 24, 2008.
Panelist, "Intangible Property under Section 1031," Jeremiah Long Memorial National Conference on Like-Kind Exchanges Under Section 1031 IRC, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 23, 2008.
Panelist, "Vacation Homes & Other Qualified Use Conundra," Jeremiah Long Memorial National Conference on Like-Kind Exchanges Under Section 1031 IRC, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 23 2008.
"Open Tenancies in Common," Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, Canada, September 2008.
Moderator, "Section 1031 Like-Kind Real Property," American Bar Association Section of Taxation and Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Joint Meeting, Sales, Exchanges & Basis Committee Meeting, San Francisco, California, September 2008.
Linda Henry Elrod
Presentations
"Why Are you There? You Should Be Here! – Jurisdiction Over Children Across State Lines," Appellate Judges Education Institute, 2008 Summit for Appellate Judges, Lawyers and Staff Attorneys, Scottsdale, Arizona, November 14, 2008.
"Child Support Goes International: How America's Experiments Helped Shape the Hague Convention on the International Enforcement of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance," 13th World Congress of the International Society of Family Law, Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2008.
"Historical Views of Child Custody: Who Determines What is in the Best Interest of the Child?" Shawnee County District Court Horizons Program, Topeka, Kansas, September 9, 2008.
Other Activities
Chaired, Family Law Quarterly Editorial Board Meeting (to plan future Quarterly issues into 2010), October 4, 2008.
Attended, American Bar Association Family Law Section, Family Law Council Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 2, 2008.
John J. Francis
Presentations
"Substantive Criminal Law in Tribal Court" and "Tribal Court Practice," multi-session panels at Introduction to Tribal Court Practice, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Mayetta, Kansas, October 3, 2008 (with Tonya Kowalski and Aliza Organick).
Ronald C. Griffin
Chapters in Books
"A Prairie Perspective on Global Warming and Climate Change," The Dynamics of Trade: Law and Economics, p. 313. International Association of International Trade Lawyers, 2008. (ISBN-10: 87-9911385-6-5; ISBN-13: 978-87-991385-6-2)
Janet Thompson Jackson
Presentations
Presenter and Facilitator, "Governance Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards," Douglas County Dental Clinic Board of Directors Retreat, Lawrence, Kansas, August 9, 2008.
L. Ali Khan
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Journals
"The Immutability of Divine Texts," 2008 Brigham Young University Law Review 808 (2008).
"Advocacy under Islam and Common Law," 45 San Diego Law Review 547 (2008).
Legal Commentaries
"Obama and the Second American Revolution," Jurist: Legal News & Research (November 5, 2008).
"Meltdown in American Markets: An Islamic Perspective," Counterpunch (September 27/28, 2008).
"Presidency and the Constitution in Post-Musharraf Pakistan," Jurist: Legal News & Research (August 26, 2008).
Presentations
"Islamic Culture and Terrorism," U.S. Attorney's Citizens Academy, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas, October 7, 2008.
Media Interviews
Khan's comments on political situation in Pakistan are published in the Lebanese paper As-safir (in Arabic) (August 26, 2008).
Tonya Kowalski
Presentations
"Toward a Pedagogy for Clinical Legal Writing," 23rd Annual Midwest Clinical Law Conference — Building Bridges: Creating Clinical Opportunities through Collaboration, Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, November 14, 2008.
"The Forgotten Sovereigns," Faculty Exchange Lecture, University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, North Dakota, October 22, 2008.
"Substantive Criminal Law in Tribal Court" and "Tribal Court Practice," multi-session panels at Introduction to Tribal Court Practice, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Mayetta, Kansas, October 3, 2008 (with John Francis and Aliza Organick).
Other Activities
Co-chair, Website Committee, Association of Legal Writing Directors, 2008-.
Member, Committee on Cooperation Among Clinical, Pro Bono, and Legal Writing Faculty, Legal Writing Institute, 2008-.
William G. Merkel
Presentations
"The District of Columbia v. Heller and Justice Scalia's Perverse Sense of Originalism," Midwestern Law Schools Junior Faculty Forum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 3, 2008.
"Dubious Originalism and the Supreme Court's Second Amendment Decision," Faculty Symposium, University of Houston Law Center, September 8, 2008.
Aliza Organick
Presentations
"Substantive Criminal Law in Tribal Court" and "Tribal Court Practice," multi-session panels at Introduction to Tribal Court Practice, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Mayetta, Kansas, October 3, 2008 (with John Francis and Tonya Kowalski).
David E. Pierce
Presentations
"Understanding Royalty Calculation Disputes," Training sessions for the Mid-America Association of Division Order Analysts, Wichita, Kansas, September 19, 2008.
Sheila Reynolds
Articles in Law Reviews and Other Journals
"Initial Interviews with Prospective Clients: How to Prevent Conflicts of Interests," 76:7 Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 26 (2008).
Books and Monographs
Rewrote Chapter 8, "Ethical Considerations in Representing an Impaired Client," Kansas Long-term Care Handbook, 2d edition, November 2008.
William Rich
Presentations
"The Path of Mentally Ill Offenders," Colloquium on Conditions of Confinement, Fordham Law Prisoners' Rights Advocates, the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, and the Fordham Urban Law Journal, Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York, October 24, 2008.
"Why the 39th Congress Chose the Terms 'Privileges or Immunities,'" The Fourteenth Amendment: The 140th Anniversary Symposium, Co-sponsored by the University of Akron School of Law, Center for Constitutional Law, and the Akron Law Review, October 23, 2008.
Michael Hunter Schwartz
Presentations
Invited Speaker, "What the Best Law Teachers Do," Boston College Law School, November 21, 2008.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Workshop, "Beyond Socratic Questioning and Cooperative Learning: Seven Additional Tools for Engaging Your Students," Gonzaga University School of Law, October 23, 2008.
Co-Presenter, "Improving Learning to Improve Bar Pass and Other Outcomes," American Bar Association Bar Exam Passage Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 2008.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Workshop, "Formative Assessment in Large, Doctrinal Courses," University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, October 14, 2008.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Tulsa University School of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 26, 2008.
Plenary Presentation, "Teaching Techniques for Bar Pass," LSAC Bar Preparation Workshop, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California, September 19, 2008.
Conducted Faculty Teaching Workshop, University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, Illinois, September 11, 2008.
Plenary Speaker and Moderator, "Institutional Process for Making It Happen," Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 7, 2008.
Moderator, "Whole Curriculum Projects: Reforming the Curriculum at Small, Limited Resource State Law Schools," Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 6, 2008.
Moderator, "First-Year Projects Integrating the Cognitive, Skills and Professional Formation Apprenticeships," Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law Seattle, Washington, September 6, 2008.
Showcase Presenter, "Five Days, Three Apprenticeships, One Orientation: Towards a Model First Week Curriculum," Legal Education at the Crossroads Conference: Ideas to Accomplishments: Sharing New Ideas for an Integrated Curriculum, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 6, 2008.
Conducted Half-Day Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, California, August 25, 2008.
Conducted Half-Day Faculty Teaching Development Workshop, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California, August 23, 2008.
Presenter, "The Faint Scent of Change: Legal Education at the Crossroads," Topeka Bar Association, Topeka, Kansas, August 8, 2008.
Panelist, "Law School Teaching Methods that Even Socrates Would Admire: How Law Schools Can Move Toward Meeting Best Practices in Legal Education," Southeastern Association of Law Schools, 61st Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida, July 29, 2008.
Presented (as part of a panel), "Bar Exam Prep Course Seeking Long Term Relationship: Legal Writing, Academic Support, Both, or Something Else?" 13th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 15, 2008.
Other Activities
Invited Discussant, "The Future of the Coursebook," Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington, September 27, 2008.
One of less than 20 invited law teachers from law schools ranging from Harvard, Vanderbilt, and Georgetown to Elon and Seattle University to collaborate with representatives from all the legal publishers, Microsoft, Adobe, and other private sector entities to explore how law school coursebooks can be improved.
