Faculty News
Jordan Steiker, Judge Robert M. Parker Chair in Law and Co-Director of the Capital Punishment Center, has written a preview of McQuiggin v. Perkins, a federal habeas case scheduled to be argued the week of February 25, 2013, at the Supreme Court, at SCOTUSblog.
Tags: habeas, Jordan Steiker, McQuiggin v. Perkins, Supreme Court
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Professor Linda Mullenix, Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy, has written an article in the American Bar Association’s Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases previewing the issues and arguments in American Express Corp. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, et al. (PDF link), for which the Supreme Court will hear arguments on February 27, 2013.
Tags: American Express Corp. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, Class Action Suits, Linda Mullenix, Supreme Court
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Professor Linda Mullenix has written a commentary on Standard Fire Ins. Co. v. Knowles—argued before the Supreme Court on January 7, 2013—in Preview of Supreme Court Cases. The case concerns the removal of a state class action into federal court and addresses the issue of whether state court plaintiffs may stipulate to damages below the federal jurisdictional threshold to evade removal under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA).
Tags: Class Action Fairness Act, Linda Mullenix, Preview of Supreme Court Cases, Supreme Court
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The Law School community is saddened to learn that Russell J. Weintraub, Ben H. & Kitty King Powell Chair Emeritus in Business & Commercial Law, passed away December 13, 2012.
Tags: Conflict of Laws, Deaths, Hans Baade, Russell Weintraub
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Professor Henry Hu discusses how complexity and innovation mandate radical changes in disclosure.
Tags: asset-backed securities, bank regulation, corporate finance, derivatives, disclosure, efficient markets, Feature Stories, Featured Stories, Financial Innovation, global financial crisis, Henry Hu, informational asymmetry, law and economics, risk disclosure and management, Securities and Exchange Commission, securities regulation, Systemic Risk, technological innovation, too big to fail
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Professor David Rabban, who holds the Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, has just published a new book, Law’s History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History. The book is now available from Cambridge University Press.
Tags: Cambridge University Press, David Rabban, Law's History, Legal History
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Professor William Sage has been awarded a research grant to study the relationship between federal competition policy and health care reform, a subject he first became interested in during the Clinton years. His grantor is the Commonwealth Fund, a New York–based foundation dedicated to identifying practices and formulating solutions to help the U.S. build an effective, affordable, and high-quality health care system. Sage’s research project will be titled “Health Reform, Competition Policy, and Emerging Health Care Markets” and will run during calendar year 2013.
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Commonwealth Fund, Grants, Health-care Law, Obamacare, William Sage
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On November 5, 2012, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two cases dealing with appeals in class action litigation: Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, and Comcast Corp. v. Behrend. Professor Linda Mullenix has written analyses of each of these appeals for the ABA Preview of Supreme Court Cases.
Tags: Class Action Litigation, Linda Mullenix, Supreme Court
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University of Texas at Austin President William Powers Jr. has, along with coauthor Mike Green, been awarded the John G. Fleming Memorial Prize for Torts Scholarship. The Fleming Prize is awarded every other year to an outstanding tort law scholar. Powers, a former dean of the Law School, and Green received the prize for, among other things, their “outstanding work as American Law Institute co-reporters for two core portions of the Restatement (Third) of Torts.” Powers and Green will jointly deliver the second Fleming Lecture at Berkeley Law at the University of California, Berkeley, on November 5, 2012.
Tags: Dean, Fleming Prize, Mike Green, Tort Law, William Powers Jr.
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The academic ties between the University of Texas School of Law and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), which began with the establishment of a dual-degree program in 2011, are growing stronger. On October 19–20, 2012, a group of professors from the Law School traveled south to Mexico City, Mexico, to participate in a scholarly symposium with their ITAM colleagues.
Tags: Faculty News, International Law, ITAM
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