Faculty News & Scholarship
Visit our Experts Guide for a complete listing of faculty, searchable by subject.
On election night in November, a close race for the swing seat in the
U.S. Senate brought attention to Virginia’s
vote. Television viewers looking for election analysis were likely to
see and hear commentary from Law School faculty. Among those interviewed
during the night were professors Peter Swisher, Henry
L. Chambers Jr., Carl Tobias and John
Pagan.
Timothy L. Coggins, associate dean for library and information services and professor, received the Distinguished Alumni Award from North Carolina Wesleyan College in October. In July, he received a Presidential Certificate of Merit from the American Association of Law Libraries for work with the association’s government relations program. He published “Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites for Attorneys and Others” in Richmond Journal of Law and Technology. He also conducted a statewide seminar on Internet research for the Virginia Alliance of Paralegal Associations.
David Frisch spent last summer as a visiting professor at the University of Montevideo School of Law in Montevideo, Uraguay. He co-authored The Commercial Law of Intellectual Property (Aspen 2006). His article “Rational Retroactivity in a Commercial Context” was selected for publication by the Alabama Law Review.
James Gibson’s article “Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law,” has been selected for publication in the Yale Law Journal. Gibson presented a paper at the Berkeley/Stanford 2006 Intellectual Property Scholars Conference. He served on panels at Georgetown and George Mason universities, and presented “Fair Use in the Digital Age” at the annual meeting of the Virginia State Bar’s intellectual property section.
Ann C. Hodges has rejoined the board of directors of LINC, the Legal Information Network for Cancer. She published “Fulfilling the Promise of the National Labor Relations Act: A Review of Taking Back the Workers’ Law” in the fall 2006 issue of Labor Law Journal. Hodges was on a panel at a conference of the Labor Law Group, speaking on “A Comparative Analysis of the Law and Practice of Labor Relations in the Public Sector: The Two Extremes-Illinois and Virginia.”
Corinna Barrett Lain presented “Furman Fundamentals” at Wake Forest School of Law. She also presented “Deciding Death” at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ annual conference. She gave a Continuing Legal Education update on criminal procedure for the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association in Richmond, Norfolk and Fairfax. Lain was moderator for an evidence panel at the annual Bench-Bar Conference in October, and for a panel on hiring good writers for the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys. She served as consultant on evidence for the National Board of Bar Examiners. Lain was honored last spring with a University Distinguished Educator
Award.
Kristen Osenga presented “Trying to Kill an Ant with an Elephant Gun: The Patent Office, Computer Software and Statutory Subject Matter” to a symposium at George Washington University Law School in November. She presented Rembrandts in the Research Lab: Why Universities Should Take a Lesson from Big Business to Increase Innovation to a symposium on “Trends in Intellectual Property and Scientific Research” at the University of Maine School of Law in September. She also presented Mob Mentality and the Federal Circuit at the Sixth Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, in August.
Robert E. Shepherd Jr., professor emeritus, published three columns in the ABA’s Criminal Justice magazine: “Juvenile Justice: What Next After Roper? Part I,” “Juvenile Justice: What Next After Roper? Part 2,” and “Juvenile Justice: Advocating for the Juvenile Sex Offender, Part I.” He also spoke at a faculty colloquium at the University of South Carolina School of Law on “Reconceptualizing Due Process in Juvenile Justice.”
Peter N. Swisher’s article “The Insurable Interest Requirement for Life Insurance: A Critical Reappraisal” was reprinted in volume 55 of the Defense Law Journal (Fall 2006). It was published previously in the Drake Law Review (Winter 2005). Swisher spent last summer on the faculty of a new executive fellowship program in health law at the Williamson Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Law School was co-sponsor. Principles of Insurance Law (revised third edition) and the 2006 casebook supplement, published by LexisNexis, co-authored with Jeffrey Stempel, professor, the Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Carl W. Tobias has published an essay on charitable immunity and a review of a book about the Chesapeake Bay in the University of Richmond Law Review. He also published articles on judicial selection in Findlaw, the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Roanoke Times. He published articles on the Ninth Circuit in the National Law Journal and Legal Times. He published an article on executive power in the Providence Journal, on military tribunals in Jurist, and on terrorism litigation in Findlaw. Tobias also wrote articles on capital punishment for the National Law Journal and the Roanoke Times. Tobias’ “letters to the editor” appeared in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, the Economist and The Wall Street Journal. He appeared on National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio, “Marketplace,” CBS Radio and others.
Gail F. Zwirner, head of access services in the law library, received a Presidential Certificate of Merit from the American Association of Law Libraries for activities with the association’s publications interest caucus.