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Faculty and Staff in the Spotlight

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:47:50 +0000

Professor Lars Noah has published “Rewarding Regulatory Compliance: The Pursuit of Symmetry in Products Liability,” 88 Geo. L.J. 2147 (2000); and (with co-authors) “Regulatory Improvement Legislation: Risk Assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Judicial Review,” 10 Duke Envtl. & Pol’y F. (2000). He also accepted offers of publication for “What’s Wrong with ‘Constitutionalizing Food and Drug Law’?” 75 Tulane L. Rev. (Dec. 2000); “Peer Review and Regulatory Reform,” 30 Envtl. L. Rep. (Aug. 2000); “Comments on the Restatement (Third) of Torts,” 9 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y(Dec. 2000); and “Snuffing Out the FDA’s Tobacco Restrictions,” Health L. News (Sept. 2000). Noah will be a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law this semester, teaching a small section of Torts (integrated with research and writing exercises) and Products Liability. He will present his latest paper, “Civil Jury Nullification,” to the Texas faculty in mid-September. He will continue assembling a casebook he is co-authoring with Barbara Noah, Medical Technology and the Law, and hopes to start working on a new manuscript tentatively entitled “Mapping the Haphazard Diffusion of Knowledge in the Biomedical Community.” He will begin serving as vice-chair of the Food & Drug Law Committee of the ABA Section on Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, and continue serving as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Food & Drug Law Journal.

Faculty and Staff in the Spotlight

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:40:51 +0000

Professor Robert Moffat’s “Whining in the Spoiled Society: Can Semiotics Help Us Survive Prosperity?” is Chapter XVI in “The Law” vs. “The People,” Peter Lang Publishers, 2000.

Faculty and Staff in the Spotlight

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:34:44 +0000

Professor Paul Magnarella’s book, “Justice in Africa,” has been nominated for the Raphael Lemkin Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide, to be presented March 2001. The award is for best book or dissertation in English in 1999-2000 that focuses on explanations of genocide, crimes against humanity, state mass killings and gross violations of human rights and strategies to prevent such violations. The Award carries a stipend of $500, with matching travel funds for an award ceremony lecture at the Institute in New York.

Faculty and Staff in the Spotlight

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:09:36 +0000

Professor Jonathan Cohen wrote “Apology and Lawsuits: Toward Better Lawyering and Dispute Resolution,” in Alternative, and “Apology: Moral Conduct Can Also Be Good Business,” in Dispute Resolution Magazine. His article, “In God’s Garden: Creation and Cloning in Jewish Thought,” 29 Hastings Center Report 4, 7-12, will be reprinted in The Human Cloning Debate, 2nd ed., 2000. He was quoted extensively recently in American Medical News regarding his study on the use of apology as a means of dispute resolution.

Faculty and Staff in the Spotlight

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:06:49 +0000

Professor Thomas Cotter coauthored “The Elusive Logic of Standing Doctrine in Intellectual Property Law,” reprinted from the Tulane Law Review.

Faculty and Staff in the Spotlight

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:59:27 +0000

Professor Walter Weyrauch’s essay “Nonrational Sources of Scholarship: Remembering David Daube (1909-1999),” has been accepted for publication in Rechtshistorisches Journal, a journal of legal history, published in Frankfurt, Germany, in German, English, French and Italian.

Noted antitrust expert named first Criser Eminent Scholar

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:14:18 +0000

William H. Page, regarded as one of the nation’s top antitrust scholars, has been selected as the law school’s first Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar in Electronic Communications and
Administrative Law. He will teach antitrust, administrative law and civil procedure. Page, formerly J. Will Young Professor of Law at Mississippi College, served as a trial attorney in the
Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He began his academic career at Boston University School of Law, and joined the Mississippi College faculty in 1981. “We are delighted to add someone of the stature and expertise of Professor Page to our faculty,” said Dean Jon Mills. “And it is doubly rewarding to have him fill the eminent scholar chair so generously provided by former UF President Marshall Criser and his wife, Paula.” The Criser chair was established through a $600,000 gift from the Crisers, and $420,000 from the state’s Matching Gifts Trust Fund. Criser is a 1951 UF law graduate, former member and chair of the Florida Board of Regents, UF Foundation director, and UF president, 1984-89. He is with the Jacksonville law firm of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe. Page has published articles and commentary in more than 20 journals and books, including recent pieces on the Microsoft litigation. He is chair of the Antitrust Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, and chaired the Antitrust Section of the Association of American Law Schools. He was a reporter for the Mississippi Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules. A native of New Orleans, Page received his B.A. (cum laude) from Tulane University, his J.D. (summa cum laude) from the University of New Mexico, and his LL.M from the University of Chicago. Mills noted Page adds impetus to the law school’s new intellectual property law certificate program, the only one in the southeast and one of only 13 in the U.S.