Professor Allison Hayward appeared at a Senate Committee on Rules & Administration hearing on Capitol Hill to discuss the Supreme Court's recent decision to allow unlimited corporate spending in elections. The following day she testifieded before the House Administration Committee. Read more...

Professor James E. Byrne gave five one-day programs immediately before, after, and during the 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Singapore on a comparison of the Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees (URDG) and the International Standby Practices (ISP). Read more...

On January 27 Professor Neomi Rao moderated a discussion at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in which panelists considered progress made in the War on Terror and discussed what has transpired, what has gone wrong, and what the nation should expect next. Read more...

The United States Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Citizens United v. FEC, citing Professor Allison Hayward, who had filed an amicus brief with the Court. Hayward's work, cited favorably by the Court, reexamined the history of the corporate expenditure ban. Read more...

Professor Michael O'Neill appeared as a a guest of Fox 5 morning news co-anchor Steve Chenevey in a January 19 segment in which O'Neill offered analysis of some of the issues presented by the Obama Administration's proposal to try a notorious terror detainee in the nation's capital. Read more...

Professor Nelson Lund was a lecturer at a January 14 program hosted by the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., dealing with constitutional questions within the current House and Senate health care bills. Read more...

Professor Helen Alvaré has been named a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, a Princeton, New Jersey, think tank that describes itself as an independent research center working to enhance public understanding of the moral foundations of free and democratic societies. Read more...

In January 2010 the law school welcomed Richard Kelsey to the position of Assistant Dean for Management and Planning, where he will focus on strategic planning for the School of Law. Read more...

Professors Nathan Sales and J.W.Verret were program participants in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, held in New Orleans from January 6–10. The theme of this year's annual meeting was Transformative Law.  Read more...

Professor Laura Bradford took part in a panel discussion at the Colorado Bar's National CLE Conference in Vail, Colorado, on January 10, discussing the topic "Academic Perspectives on Dilution Law." Read more...