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June 2017 New Books

In June 2017, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

2017 June new bks

ANIMAL LAW

  1. Eisenstein, Yolanda and Bruce Wagman, eds., Wildlife law & ethics : a U.S. perspective (2017).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

  1. Monahan, Edward C. and James Clark, eds., Tell the client’s story : mitigation in criminal and death penalty cases (2017).
  2. Brick, John, Forensic alcohol test evidence (FATE) : a handbook for law enforcement and accident investigation (2017).
  3. Light, Caroline E., Stand your ground : a history of America’s love affair with lethal self-defense (2017).

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

  1. Schmitz, Amy J. and Colin Rule, The new handshake : online dispute resolution and the future of consumer protection (2017).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

  1. Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, ed., Finding consciousness : the neuroscience, ethics, and law of severe brain damage (2016).
  2. Bambra, Clare, Health divides : where you live can kill you (2016).
  3. Zabawa, Barbara J. and JoAnn Eickhoff-Shemek, Rule the rules of workplace wellness programs (2017).
  4. Clinton, Chelsea and Devi Sridhar, Governing global health : who runs the world and why? (2017).
  5. Miller, Dinah and Annette Hanson, Committed : the battle over involuntary psychiatric care (2016).
  6. Delaney, Courtney, et.al., What are . . . medicare and medicaid secondary payer laws (2016).

LEGAL EDUCATION

  1. Funk, Andrea Susnir, The art of assessment : making outcomes assessment accessible, sustainable, and meaningful (2017).
  2. Schwartz, Michael Hunter, et.al., What the best law teachers do (2013).

LEGAL RESEARCH AND LIBRARIES

  1. Albitz, Becky, et.al. eds., Leading in the new academic library (2017).
  2. Lankes, R. David, The Atlas of New Librarianship (2011).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

  1. McEntire, Sawnie A., Mastering the art of depositions (2016).
  2. Friedman, Rick, Becoming a trial lawyer : a guide for the lifelong advocate (2015).

RELIGION

  1. Brady, Kathleen A., The distinctiveness of religion in American law : rethinking religious clause jurisprudence (2015).
  2. Hussin, Iza R., The politics of Islamic law : local elites, colonial authority, and the making of the Muslim state (2016).
  3. Turner, Bryan S., Religion and modern society : citizenship, secularisation, and the state (2011).
  4. Hollander, David A., Legal scholarship in Jewish law : an annotated bibliography of journal articles (2017).

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW

  1. Leiter, Richard A., National survey of state laws (2015).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

  1. Kalman, Laura, The long reach of the Sixties : LBJ, Nixon, and the making of the contemporary Supreme Court (2017).

All of these books are available from the Law Library.  If you would like to check out any of these titles, please contact the circulation desk at either 806-742-3957 or circulation.law@ttu.edu.  Library staff will be able to assist in locating and checking out any of these items.

February 2017 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout February 2017, the Law Library’s Faculty Services & Scholarly Communications Department received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is the compilation of daily alerts for February 1, 2017 to February 28, 2017.

Published:

  1. Richard Murphy, Administrative Law and Practice – 3 Admin. L. & Prac. (3d ed 2017).
  1. Sally McDonald Henry, Paying-to-Play in Chapter 11, 17 J. Bus. & Sec. L. 113 (2016).
  1. Gerry W. Beyer & Brooke Dacus, Estate Planning for Mary Jane and Other Marijuana Users, 55-2 REPTL Reporter 50 (2017).
  1. Brie D. Sherwin, Joseph F. Mudge, Jaclyn E. Cañas-Carrell, Heather A. Lanza, Thomas R. Rainwater, Steven G. Platt, Scott T. McMurry, and Todd A. Anderson, Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Caudal Scutes of Belize Morelet’s Crocodiles (Crocodylus moreletii), 50 (4) Journal of Herpetology 552–558 (2016).
  1. John Krahmer, Commercial Transactions, 2 SMU L. Rev. 103 (2016).

Cited:

  1. Prof. Murphy’s Punitive Damages, Explanatory Verdicts, and the Hard Look, was cited in the February 2017 update of: 1 Fed. Jury Prac. & Instr. § 8:8 (6th ed.)
  1. Prof. Camp’s article, The Failure of Adversarial Process in the Administrative State, was cited in the February 2017 update of: 2:13 Deriving procedural norms, 1 Admin. L. & Prac. (3d ed.)
  1. Prof. Murphy’s & Afsheen John Radsan’s article Measure Twice, Shoot Once: Higher Care for Cia-Targeted Killing, was cited in the following research article: Jennifer Varriale Carson, Assessing the Effectiveness of High-Profile Targeted Killings in the “War on Terror”. Criminology & Pub. Pol’y J. doi:10.1111/1745-9133.12274 (2017).
  1. Prof. Camp’s articles Tax Administration as Inquisitorial Process and the Partial Paradigm Shift in the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, and Theory and Practice in Tax Administration were cited in the following article: Joshua D. Blank & Leigh Osofsky, Simplexity: Plain Language and The Tax Law, 66 Emory L.J. 189 (2017).
  1. Prof. Loewy’s article Rethinking Search and Seizure in a Post-9/11 World, was cited in the following article: Ric Simmons, Quantifying Criminal Procedure: How to Unlock the Potential of Big Data in Our Criminal Justice System, 2016 Mich. St. L. Rev. 947 (2016).
  1. Prof. Loewy’s essay Morals Legislation and the Establishment Clause was quoted in the following note: Charles B. Straut, Due Process Disestablishment: Why Lawrence v. Texas Is a First Amendment Case, 91 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1794 (2016).
  1. Prof. Beyer’s article Ante-Mortem Probate: A Viable Alternative was cited in the following article: Mark Glover, Probate-Error Costs, 49 Conn. L. Rev. 613 (2016).
  1. Prof. Beyer’s article Ante-Mortem Probate: A Viable Alternative was cited in the following article: Kyle Frizzelle, Better to Play Dead? Examining North Carolina’s Living Probate Law and Its Potential Effect on Testamentary Disposition, 39 Campbell L. Rev. 187 (2017).
  1. Prof. Camp’s article The Play’s the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds was cited in the following article: Adam Chodorow, Bitcoin and the Definition of Foreign Currency, 19 Fla. Tax Rev. 365, 398 (2016).
  1. Prof. Camp’s was cited in the following article: Michelle Lyon Drumbl, Joint Winners, Separate Losers: Proposals to Ease the Sting for Married Taxpayers Filing Separately, 19 Fla. Tax Rev. 399 (2016).
  1. Prof. Camp’s article The Early Supreme Court Justices’ Most Significant Opinion was cited in the following article: Adam Dec, Controversy and Oversight: Recent Developments in 702 Surveillance and Article III Jurisprudence, 35 Rev. Litig. 293 (2016).
  1. Prof. Murphy’s article Chenery Unmasked: Reasonable Limits on the Duty to Give Reasons, was quoted in: 33 Fed. Prac. & Proc. Judicial Review § 8301 (1st ed.).
  1. Prof. Humphrey’s article ‘‘Let’s Talk About Sex”: Legislating and Educating on the Affirmative Consent Standard was cited in the following article review: Universities and Other Institutions of Higher Learning, 46 J.L. & Educ. 141 (2017).
  1. Prof. Velte’s essay Obergefell’s Expressive Promise was cited in the following colloquium: Marc Spindelman, Obergefell’s Dreams, 77 Ohio St. L.J. 1039 (2016).
  1. Prof. Velte’s essay Obergefell’s Expressive Promise was cited in the following article: Mark P. Strasser, Obergefell’s Legacy, 24 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol’y 61 (2016).
  1. Prof. Beyer’s article The Fine Art of Intimidating Disgruntled Beneficiaries with In Terrorem Clauses, was cited in the following blog post from February 16, 2017: Jonnette Watson Hamilton, Residential Tenancy Agreements, Options to Purchase, In Terrorem Clauses, and Relief from Forfeiture, WLNR 5079390 (2017).
  1. Prof. Loewy’s article, Rethinking Free Exercise of Religion After Smith and Boerne: Charting a Middle Course, was cited in: Teneille Ruth Brown, Medical Futility and Religious Free Exercise, 15 First Amend. L. Rev. 43 (2016).
  1. Prof. Camp’s article, The Retroactivity of Treasury Regulations: Paths to Finding Abuse of Discretion, was cited in the following article: Andy S. Grewal, Why Lenity Has No Place in the Income Tax Laws, 81 Mo. L. Rev. 1045 (2016).
  1. Prof. A. Pearl’s article Redskins: The Property Right to Racism was cited in the following law review: Katelynn Hill, Sports Law in Law Reviews and Journals, 27 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 259 (2016).

Quoted:

  1. Prof. Camp’s articles, The Failure of Adversarial Process in the Administrative State, & Tax Administration as Inquisitorial Process and the Partial Paradigm Shift in the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 were cited in: Bret N. Bogenschneider, The Taxing Power After Sebelius, 51 Wake Forest L. Rev. 941 (2016).
  1. Prof. Black’s article A National Tax Bar: An End to the Attorney-Accountant Tax Turf War was quoted in: Victoria Shannon Sahani, Reshaping Third-Party Funding, 91 Tul. L. Rev. 405 (2017).
  1. Prof. Batra’s article Judicial Participation in Plea Bargaining: A Dispute Resolution Perspective was quoted in: Darryl K. Brown, What’s the Matter with Kansas-and Utah?: Explaining Judicial Interventions in Plea Bargaining, 95 Tex. L. Rev. (2017).
  1. Prof. Velte’s article Obergefell’s Expressive Promise was quoted in: Matthew W. Green Jr., Same-Sex Sex and Immutable Traits: Why Obergefell v. Hodges Clears a Path to Protecting Gay and Lesbian Employees from Workplace Discrimination Under Title VII, 20 J. Gender Race & Just. 1 (2017).
  1. Prof. Sutton’s article Whistleblower and Liability Protections for Scientific Laboratory Employees and Insider Adversary Study for the Office of Safeguards and Security: US Department of `Energy. Final Report were quoted in the book: Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan, Insider Treats, 2016.

News:

  1. On January 19, 2017, Prof. Shannon participated in a panel presentation at the 2017 NCAA Convention in Nashville. The panel was entitled, “Division I Issues Forum.”
  1. Prof. Beyer was quoted in the January 30, 2017 Tech Romance Ends in Fake Will Scheme, from the Arkansas Business Volume 34; Issue 5.
  1. On January 20, 2017, Prof. Shannon served as Parliamentarian for the third consecutive year at the NCAA Autonomy Business Session, which involves the five NCAA Division I Autonomy conferences (the Big 12, Big 10, Pac 12, ACC, and SEC). Professor Shannon and University of Minnesota President, Eric Kaler, were presiding over the proceedings.
  1. On February 2, 2017, Prof. Shannon addressed the Amarillo Criminal Defense Bar on the topic of Competency to Stand Trial.
  1. On February 2, 2017, Prof. Beyer was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Tarrant County Probate Bar Association. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Cyber Estate Planning and Administration.
  1. On February 8, 2017, Prof. Beyer was a speaker for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Lubbock, Texas. His presentation was entitled “Do You Have Annoying Neighbors?” during which he discussed different types of annoyances and the remedies that are available.
  1. On February 10, 2017, Prof. Loewy was interviewed by FOX34 News concerning President Trump’s options on travel ban policy the article can be found here.
  1. Prof. Baker’s blog, The Ginger Law Librarian, was cited in Best of the Legal Blogs in 22 No. 2 Internet L. Researcher NL 3.
  1. On February 15, Prof. Baker’s blog, The Ginger Law Librarian, was listed as one of the Top Ten Blogs for Info Pros.
  1. Prof. Tracy Pearl presented a new film series called Lights, Camera, Law at the local Alamo Drafthouse. This semester, four films relating to law will be shown followed with a discussion about the topics of law discussed in the film.
  1. On February 14, the Daily Toreador published an article about the new film series Lights, Camera, Law and quoted Prof. Tracy Pearl.
  1. On February 16, 2017, Prof. Beyer was the guest speaker at the February meeting of the South Plains Trust & Estate Council in Lubbock, Texas. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Intestate Succession: What Every Texas Estate Planner Needs to Know.
  1. On February 21, 2017, Prof. Camp and Victor Thuronyi, wrote an article for Forbes titled Disclosing President Trump’s Tax Returns – An Unconventional Idea, Forbes, the article can be found here.
  1. On February 24, 2017, Prof. Beyer presented a two-hour session entitled Digital Assets, Guns, and Pets: Estate Planning Does Not Include Just Grandma’s Cameo Brooch Anymore, as part of a CFP Continuing Education Program held in conjunction with “Opportunity Days” sponsored by the Texas Tech University Department of Personal Financial Planning.
  1. Prof. Velte was among over 200 law professors and law school clinicians that signed a motion in support of the State of Washington who filed suit against Donald Trump in the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The motion moves the court for permission to file a brief amici curiae opposing the motion to stay the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

January 2017 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout January 2017, the Law Library’s Faculty Services & Scholarly Communications Department received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is the compilation of daily alerts for January 1, 2017 to January 31, 2017.

Published:

  1. Gerry W. Beyer, Estate Planning and Probate Law, B.J., (2017).
  2. 9 & 10 Gerry W. Beyer, Texas Practice: Texas Law of Wills (4th 2016-2017).
  3. Gerry W. Beyer, Transfer of Death Deeds: A Texas Primer, Lubbock Law Notes, Dec. 2016, at 1.
  4. Gerry W. Beyer & Brooke Dacus, Estate Planning for Mary Jane and Other Marijuana Users, Plan. Dev. for Tex. Prof., Jan. 2017, at 1.
  5. Gerry W. Beyer, Texas Trust Law – Cases and Materials (3rd 2017).
  6. Tracy Hresko Pearl, Far from The Madding Crowd: A Statutory Solution to Crowd Crush, Hastings Law Journal, 68 Hastings L.J. 159 (2016).
  7. Brie D. Sherwin, Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Caudal Scutes of Belize Morelet’s Crocodiles (Crocodylus moreletii), Journal of Herpetology 50(4):552-558 (2016).
  8. Brie D. Sherwin, Chocolate, Coca-Cola, and Fracturing Fluid: A Story of Unfettered Secrecy, Toxicology, and the Resulting Public Health Implications of Natural Gas Development, 77 Ohio St. L.J. 593 (2016).
  9. Gerry W. Beyer, Feature: 2016 The Year in Review: Estate Planning and Probate Law, 80 B. J. 28 (2017).
  10. Eric A. Chiappinelli, Jurisdiction Over Directors and Officers in Delaware, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Dec. 2017.

Cited:

  1. Professor Murphy’s article Abandoning Standing: Trading a Rule of Access for a Rule of Deference was cited in the following article: Alexander Tom, Standing in a Federal Agency’s Shoes: Should Third-Party Action Affect Redressability under the National Environmental Policy Act?, 43 Ecology L.Q. 337 (2016).
  1. Professor Metze’s article, Plugging the School to Prison Pipeline by Addressing Cultural Racism in Public Education Discipline, was cited in: Sarah E. Redfield and Jason P. Nance, American Bar Association: Joint Task Force on Reversing the School-to-Prison Pipeline, 47 Mem. L. Rev. 1 (2016).
  1. Professor Loewy’s article Statutory Rape in a Post Lawrence v. Texas World was cited in: Dr. Anna High, Good, Bad and Wrongful Juvenile Sex: Rethinking the Use of Statutory Rape Laws Against the Protected Class, 69 L. Rev. 787 (2017).
  1. Professor Batra’s article Judicial Participation in Plea Bargaining: A Dispute Resolution Perspective was cited in: Nancy J. King & Ronald F. Wright, The Invisible Revolution in Plea Bargaining: Managerial Judging and Judicial Participation in Negotiations, 95 L. Rev. 325 (2016).
  1. Professor Velte’s article Egging on Lesbian Maternity: The Legal Implications of Tri-Gametic in Vitro Fertilization was cited in: Deborah Zalesne, The Intersection of Contract Law, Reproductive Technology, and the Market: Families in the Age of Art, 51 Rich. L. Rev. 419 (2017).
  1. Professor Casto’s articleThe Federal Courts’ Protective Jurisdiction Over Torts Committed in Violation of the Law of Nations was cited in: Dustin Cooper, Aliens Among Us: Factors to Determine Whether Corporations Should Face Prosecution in U.S. Courts for Their Actions Overseas, 77 L. Rev. 513 (2016).
  1. Dean Torres’,Is Link Rot Destroying Stare DecisisaAs We Know It? The Internet-Citation Practice of the Texas Appellate Courts was cited in: Lee F. Peoples, Is the Internet Rotting Oklahoma Law?, 52 Tulsa L. Rev. 1 (2016).
  1. Professor Casto’s article, Advising Presidents: Robert Jackson and the Destroyers for Bases Deal was cited in: Harold Hongju Koh, Triptych’s End: A Better Framework To Evaluate 21st Century International Lawmaking 126 Yale L.J. F. 337 (2017).
  1. Professor Casto’s article, The Federal Courts’ Protective Jurisdiction over Torts Committed in Violation of the Law of Nation was cited in: Lyle D. Kossis, The Define and Punish Clause and the Political Question Doctrine, 68 Hastings L.J. 45 (2016).
  1. Professor Murphy’s & Sidney A. Shapiro, Eight Things Americans Can’t Figure out About Controlling Administrative Power, was cited in: Jud Mathews, Minimally Democratic Administrative Law, 68 L. Rev. 605 (2016).
  1. Professor Metze’s article Death and Texas: The Unevolved Model of Decency, was cited in: Amy L. Greenbaum, The Death Penalty: Mentally Ill Men Are Executed; Mentally Ill Women Are Committed, 42 Marshall L. Rev. Online 1 (2016).
  1. On January 18, 2017 Professor Baker’s blog post AI as Premature Law Librarian Disruptor was cited in a Canadian online legal magazine, Slaw, in a column titled The Magic Ingredient.

Quoted:

  1. Professor Murphy’s & Sidney A. Shapiro, Eight Things Americans Can’t Figure out About Controlling Administrative Power, was quoted in: Aram A. Gavoor & Daniel Miktus, Public Participation in Nonlegislative Rulemaking, 61 L. Rev. 759 (2016).
  1. Professor’s Murphy’s article Measure Twice, Shoot Once, Higher Care for CIA-Targeted Killing, was quoted in: An Thien Tran, A Trifold Regulatory Convergence: Medical-Device Drones Under the Faa, Fda, and State Regimes, 68 Admin. L. Rev. 701 (2016).
  1. On January 21, 2017 Dean Rosen was quoted in a Huffington Post article by Matt Fuller titled, President Trump Just Told The CIA The U.S. Should Have Stolen Iraq’s Oil.
  1. On January 22, 2017 Professor Shannon was quoted in a Victoria Advocate article by Jessica Priest titled, Local Judge Shaped Mental Health law.
  1. Professor Beyer was quoted in a January 30, 2017 article titled Fake Will Scheme Puts Camden Real Estate Agent in Hot Water by Mark Friedman published in the Arkansas Business Weekly Journal.

News:

  1. On December 15, 2016, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was notified that he was reappointed as Chair of the State Laws Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a nonprofit association of lawyers and law professors skilled and experienced in the preparation of wills and trusts; estate planning; and probate procedure and administration of trusts and estates of decedents, minors and incompetents. Its more than 2,700 members practice throughout the United States, Canada and other foreign countries.
  1. Professor Soonpa and Professor Beyer were part of the Blogger Panel during the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco on, the program was titled “Building and Sustaining Academic Communities Through Blogging and Other Tools.”
  1. Professor Chiappinelli was invited back as a Guest Blogger on PrawfsBlawg for the month of January, he contributed 6 blog posts.
  1. On January 10, 2017, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was the speaker at the January meeting of the Siouxland Estate Planning Council in Sioux City, Iowa. Prof. Beyer’s presentation was titled “Planning for Digital Assets” was attended by estate planning professionals from the tri-state area of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
  1. The fifth edition of Prof. Beyer’s 10.5-hour discussion of Wills and Trusts was recently released by West Academic Publishing as parts of its Sum +Substance CD Series.
  1. Professor Beyer’s Feature: 2016 The Year in Review: Estate Planning and Probate Law was listed highlighted article by the Texas Bar Journal Board of Editors.
  1. On January 5, 2017, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was a panelist at the AALS Annual Meeting for an “AALS Arc of Career Program” titled Building and Sustaining Academic Communities Through Blogging and Other Tools. Beyer shared his experiences as being the editor of the Wills, Trusts, & Estates Prof Blog since he started it in 2005. His blog was five times named as part of the ABA’s Blawg 100 and was inducted into the ABA’s Blawg 100 Hall of Fame in 2015.  His blog is the most popular estate planning blog in the nation and is the 22nd most popular blawg overall.
  1. Professor Beyer’s presentation to the Tarrant County Bar Association—Fort Worth Business & Estate Section on Nov. 17, 2016 Cyber Estate Planning and Administration was cited in: Marvin Blum, Filling in the Gaps, Wealth Management, January 26, 2017.

September 2016 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout September 2016, the Law Library’s Faculty Services & Scholarly Communications Department received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is the compilation of daily alerts for September 1, 2016 to September 30, 2016.

Published:

  1. Gerry W. Beyer, Keeping Current—Probate, 30-Oct. Prob. & Prop. 24 (2016).
  2. Bryan Camp, Collecting Tax Liabilities From Third Parties, 75 Prac. 645 (2016).
  3. Gerry W. Beyer, MODERN DICTIONARY FOR THE LEGAL PROFESSION (4th ed. 2008) (2016 Cumulative Supplement).

Op/Ed:

  1. Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: States Shouldn’t Punish Abortion, Lubbock Avalanche-J. (Sept. 4 2016, 12:06 AM), http://lubbockonline.com/editorials/2016-09-04/its-debatable.
  2. Arnold Loewy & Charles Moster, It’s Debatable: Term Limits, Lubbock Avalanche-J. (Sept. 18 2016, 12:49 AM), http://lubbockonline.com/editorials/2016-09-18/its-debatable.

Cited:

  1. Professor Murphy’s article, Punitive Damages, Explanatory Verdicts, and the Hard Look, was cited in the following: Illinois Civil Jury Instructions Companion Handbook §§ 12:3; 12:4.
  1. Professor Camp’s articles, The Failure of Adversarial Process in the Administrative State and What Good is the National Taxpayer Advocate?, were cited in the following article: Keith Fogg & Sime Jozipovic, How Can Tax Collection Be Structured to Observe and Preserve Taxpayer Rights: A Discussion of Practices and Possibilities, 69 Tax Law. 513 (2016).
  1. Professor Loewy’s & Charles Moster’s article, It’s Debatable: On the Fates of State’s Plates, was cited in the following article: Morgan E. Creamer, Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. and License Plate Speech: A Dangerous Roadblock for the First Amendment, 65 Am. U. L. Rev. 1461 (2016).
  1. Professor Beyer’s book Estate Planning in the Digital Age was cited in the following treatise: Ga. Guardianship and Conservatorship § 5:15.
  1. Professor A. Pearl’s article, How to Be an Authentic Indian, was cited in the following article: Andrew Jensen Kerr, Writing the Short Paper, 66 J. Legal Educ. 111 (2016).

Quoted:

  1. Professor Camp was quoted in the Collecting Tax Liabilities From Third Parties, 152 Tax Notes 1549 (Sept. 12, 2016).
  2. Professor Batra was quoted about the AALP program in The Daily Toreador on September 19, 2016.

News:

  1. Professor Sutton was a keynote speaker (on cyber warfare) at the first annual Archive of Modern American Warfare Symposium, September 15, 2016 in the ICC. Information on the Symposium can be found here.
  2. On September 19, 2016, Horn Professor Brian Shannon began his third two-year term as President of 1A FAR, the association of NCAA faculty athletics representatives representing the 130 universities and 10 conferences from the Football Bowl Subdivision of the NCAA’s Division I. These universities include all institutions from conferences such as the Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, and Pac 12, five additional conferences, and several independents.
  3. On September 18, 2016, Horn Professor Brian Shannon moderated a panel discussion entitled, “NCAA Division I – The New Governance Structure – Views from the Leadership,” at the 2016 1A FAR Annual Conference in Grapevine, Texas. Panelists included Kevin Lennon, the NCAA Vice President for Division I, and Diane Dickman, the Managing Director of Governance for NCAA Division I.
  4. On September 19, 2016, Horn Professor Brian Shannon addressed over 100 of the nation’s athletic directors at the 1A Athletic Directors Association annual meeting in Grapevine, Texas, on the topic of the integration of academics as a hallmark of intercollegiate athletics participation.
  5. Professor Shannon, President of the 1A Faculty Athletics Representatives, along with the rest of the 1A FAR recognized the National Football Foundation for its support of student-athletes and NCAA faculty athletics representatives across the country. The full article can be found here.