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	Thomas L. Greaney October 15, 2007 Professor Greaney was interviewed for feature article in the St. Louis Business Journal, Oct. 12, 2007, profiling the school's No.1 ranked Health Law Program.
	Ann M. Scarlett October 15, 2007 Professor Scarlett was quoted in an article in the St. Louis Business Journal, Oct. 12, 2007, on the increase in litigation involving electronic documents.
	Christine Rollins October 10, 2007 Director, Legal Research and Writing, Rollins' poster presentation, "Turning the Light Bulbs On: Effective Ways to Teach CREAC to All Types of Student Writer/Learners", has been accepted for the 13th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute. Faculty members had an opportunity to view the posters as part of a recent presentation by Ms. Rollins and Joyce Herleth, Director of Academic Support, on student learning styles.
	Sandra H. Johnson October 10, 2007 Prof. Johnson co-edited "Legal Perspectives in Bioethics (with Dr. Ana Iltis and Barbara Hinze), a book published simultaneously in September in the U.S. and the U.K. By Routledge as part of the Annals of Bioethics series. The volume contains chapters by Prof. Jesse Goldner, Prof. Nic Terry and Deirdre Madden. Prof. Johnson also has a chapter on "Risk, Responsibility and Litigation", co-authored by Dr. Iltis, which will be included in "Ethics, Profits, and Medical Innovation, edited by Tristham Engelhardt, which is in press. Prof. Johnson served as a member of the Nominating Committee for the Fellows of the Hastings Center in New York. Next week she will be in Portland, OR as the Providence Health Care System's 2007 Curtis R. Holzang Visiting Scholar, where she will be doing Grand Rounds, a national videoconference, and other lectures and workshops. While in Portland, Prof. Johnson will give a lecture at Lewis and Clark Law School on the topic "Should the Law Define Futility".
	David Sloss October 8, 2007 Prof. Sloss published an essay addressing the case of Medellin v. Texas, which will be argued before the Surpreme Court this week. Published in the Texas International Law Journal Forum, a web-based publication.
	Thomas L. Greaney October 2, 2007 Tim Greaney participated in a meeting of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute in Washington, D.C. on Sept 30-31. The AAI is preparing a Transition Report which will make recommendations to the next administration on the future course of antitrust enforcement and competition policy in the United States.
	Professor Stephen C. Thaman September 25, 2007 Steve Thaman's article, titled "A Comparative Approach to Teaching Criminal Procedure and its Application to the Post-Investigative Stage", was published in 56 Journal of Legal Education 459 (2006). His chapter, entitled "Plea-Bargaining, Negotiating Confessions and ConsensualResolution of Criminal Cases", was published in General Reports of the XVIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law 951-1011 (Katharina Boele-Woelki & Sjef van Erp eds. 2007). His chapter, entitled "USA Country Study", was published in Organized Criminality and Criminal Organizations Preventive and Repressive Measures Against the Background of September 11, 2001 (Walter Gropp & Arndt Sinn eds. 2007) (in German). Steve gave a lecture entitled "Plea Bargaining and Consensual Resolution of Criminal Cases: A Comparative Perspective" at Queen's University School of Law, Belfast, Northern Ireland in May; a lecture entitled "El jurado norteamericano" (the American Jury), at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Cuenca, Spain in June; and two lectures entitled "Jury and Democracy: Requiring Reasoned Jury Verdicts in Spain", and "Twelve Angry Men and its Reception in the Soviet Union and Russia" at the Law and Society Meting, Humboldt University, Berlin in July.
	Professor Mark P. McKenna September 25, 2007 Mark McKenna has been invited to participate in the inaugural workshop series sponsored by the Center on Technology, Innovation and Competition Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He will present a paper on October 29.
	Professor Thomas L. Greaney September 25, 2007 Tim Greaney spoke at the annual American Bar Association/American Health Lawyers Association Conference on Antitrust in Health Care in Washington, D.C. on September 17. His topic was "The Year in Review", a critical survey of the year's most important developments in case law and legislation.
	Professor Kelly Dineen September 25, 2007 Kelly Dineen spoke at the monthly meeting of the St. Louis Health Lawyers Assciation on September 7 on the subject of conflicts of interest in the medical device industry. Kelly also was a commenter at the ASLME/SLU Health Center Young Scholars Program September 7-8.
	Professor Sidney D. Watson September 12, 2007 Professor Watson presented a paper, "Grafting Communitarian Values on to the Individual Autonomy Tree: A Discussion of Massachusetts Health Reform," at the Law and Society Annual Meeting in Berlin. She also served as a commentator for a session on Mental Health Law. Sidney's article, "The View from the Bottom: Medicaid Consumer-Directed Health Care and Cost Shifting to Patients," was published in this year's health symposium issue of the Saint Louis University Law Journal, volume 51, 403 (2007).
	Professor Mark P. McKenna September 12, 2007 Professor McKenna will present a paper at a colloquium on trademark law at the University of Minnesota Law School on September 14-15, and to a trademark scholars roundtable on April 11-12 at the University of Iowa College of Law. The Trademark Reporter will publish Mark's article, "The Normative Foundations of Trademark Law" (which first appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review) in its September-October issue.
	Professor Anders Walker September 12, 2007 Professor Walker published a chapter, "Taxing Prejudice: Non-Constitutional Approaches to the Problem of Minority Rights," in the anthology The Intersection of Rights and Regulation: New Directions in Sociolegal Scholarship (Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2007).
	Visiting Professor Lynn Branham September 4, 2007 Professor Branham was elected to serve on the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section Council.
	Professor Jesse Goldner September 4, 2007 Professor Goldner's article (co-authored with James G. Sheehan), "Beyond the Anti-Kickback Statute: New Entities, New Theories in Healthcare Fraud Prosecution," was published in the Journal of Health Law (2007).
	Professor John J. Ammann August 29, 2007 Professor Ammann was quoted in a Washington Post story that also ran in the San Francisco Chronicle.
	Visiting Professor Howard Wasserman August 28, 2007 Professor Wasserman was quoted in the August 27 issue of Sports Illustrated, commenting on various lawsuits filed by or against sports stars. He was also a guest on “Lawyer 2 Lawyer,” a program on the Legal Talk Network.
	Professor Henry M. Ordower August 28, 2007 Professor Ordower's article, "Demystifying Hedge Funds: A Design Primer," appears in No. 9 of The Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University's Working Paper Series (2007).
	Professor Henry M. Ordower August 23, 2007 Professor Ordower delivered two papers at the Law and Society Conference at Humboldt University in Berlin last month-"The Culture of Tax Avoidance in Europe and the U.S." and "Methodology for Analysis of Cultural Origins of Taxation Rules."
	Professor Mark P. McKenna August 23, 2007 Professor McKenna's article, "The Normative Foundations of Trademark Law," was published in the June issue of the Notre Dame Law Review.
	Professor Eric Miller August 23, 2007 Professor Miller's article, "Judicial Preferences," will be published in the Houston Law Review in its March 2008 issue. He is also publishing a book review in the British law journal, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and an essay on drug courts and the Second Chance Act (HR 1593) in the Federal Sentencing Reporter. In June he presented a paper at the second annual Jurisgenesis Conference co-sponsored by Saint Louis University and Washington University Schools of Law.
	Professor Sandra H. Johnson August 22, 2007 Professor Johnson was interviewed by KMOX-AM 1120 about a new study that suggests oxycontin abuse is on the rise in St. Louis.
	Professor John J. Ammann August 22, 2007 Professor Ammann was featured in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story about the work he and the Legal Clinics do in the community.
	Professor Joel K. Goldstein August 14, 2007 Professor Goldstein was quoted on crosswalk.com (Cybercast News Service).
	Professor Joel K. Goldstein August 1, 2007 Professor Goldstein was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News about Vice President Cheney.
	Richard Amelung July 31, 2007 At the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting in New Orleans (July 2007), Richard Amelung spoke on "Access to Native American Legal Materials" during the program, “Indigenous Government and the Law in the Americas. Library of Congress Online Classification.” His update on the work of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control was the program for the Technical Services Special Interest Section's "Hot Topic." He also served on a panel presenting aspects of technical service operations at the Workshop for Newer Law Library Directors.
	Professor Susan McGraugh July 11, 2007 Professor McGraugh was interviewed by Metro Networks, a radio news service, about the criteria for a child to be tried as an adult in a murder case.
	Professor Joel K. Goldstein July 9, 2007 Professor Goldstein was mentioned on NewsHounds.us for his insights about news stories on Vice President Cheney.
	Professor Joel K. Goldstein July 2, 2007 Professor Goldstein was quoted on RawStory.com about the vice presidency.
	Professor Susan McGraugh June 29, 2007 Professor McGraugh was interviewed for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and on KMOX-AM 1120 about extradition practices.