Accomplishments

Visiting Assistant Professor Jud Mathews will serve as the plenary discussant at the second annual Workshop on Comparative Administrative Law in Asia conference, in Taipei, Taiwan, providing commentary on all the papers presented at the conference.  The theme of the conference is "Proportionality and Democratic Accountability."  

On May 17, 2013, Professor Jay Kesan was interviewed by WEIU TV for their "Four Rivers Ag Report."  Professor Kesan discussed the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowman v. Monsanto.  The link to the full interview can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-4qXmOXHZs&list=PL27628178D46ED0B6&index=10.

On May 13, 2013, Professor Jay Kesan was a commentator for WILL AM's "Legal Issues in the News."  He discusses the untrue statements posted all over Twitter and what the law should do about them.

Professor Wexler presented her co-authored paper Valuing Foreign Lives at the Regional Colloquium on Globalization of Law, International Organizations & International Law. The colloquium brings together scholars who employ empirical social science approaches to globalization and law.

Professor David Hyman and co-author William E. Kovacic published "Institutional Design, Agency Life Cycle, and the Goals of Competition Law" in the Fordham Law Review. 81 Fordham L. Rev. 2163 (2013).

Professor Kar presented work in progress at the University of San Diego Law School's conference on the "Status of International Law and International Human Rights."  This conference was invite only, and was hosted by the San Diego Institute for Law and Philosophy.  Other invitees included Oona Hathaway (Yale Law), Scott Shapiro (Yale Law), Michael Perry (Emory Law), Michael Blake (U Washington Philosophy, formerly Harvard's Kennedy School of Government), and Fernando Teson (Florida State Law).

Professor Kar presented his work on the "Psychological Foundations of Law" to the Georgia State Departments of Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience.

Professor Kar presented a newly revised version of "Contractualism about Contract Law" at Georgia State Law School.

Professor Paul Heald with give the presentation, "Veggie Tales: Pernicious Myths about Patents, Innovation, and Crop Diversity in the Twentieth Century," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, [November, 2013]

Professor Ralph Brubaker published "Artificial Impairment and the Single-Asset Real Estate Debtor" in Bankruptcy Law Letter. 33 No. 4 Bankruptcy Law Letter 1 (2013).