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Thomas Jefferson School of Law faculty members have been invited to speak at international, national, regional and local conferences on a wide variety of subjects. The faculty is often called upon to contribute their expertise to the growing and changing body of the law.

Recently, members of the faculty have given presentations in areas as diverse as alternative dispute resolution, bioethics, civil liberties, commercial law, copyright law, embryo disputes, the death penalty, entertainment law, endangered species, gender assignment, high school drug testing, human rights abuses, international investment agreements, international law, law and literature, law and medicine, law and religion, legal ethics, the media, NAFTA, patents, race discrimination, sex trafficking, trademark, terrorism, and workplace discrimination.

STEVEN K. BERENSON

What is a Progressive View of the City Attorney's Office?, American Constitution Society, San Diego, CA, Jan 23, 2008 

Legal Ethics Goes to the Movies, North County San Diego Bar Association, Vista, CA, Jan. 10, 2008

Why Can't We All Just Get Along, Civility in Litigation, With: Dean Jeff Joseph, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Alumni, San Diego, CA, Apr. 27, 2007

Meeting Community Needs, Mountain West Regional Clinical Conference, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Nov. 18, 2006

Institutional Professionalism for Lawyers: Realizing the Virtues of Civic Professionalism, 109 W. Va. L. Rev. 67, 2006

Avoiding Ethical Blowouts, American Trucking Association Litigation Center, Forum for Motor Carrier General Counsels, San Diego, CA, July 2005

Interviewing and Counseling in Context: New Approaches and New Ideas - Older Adult Clients, AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 2005

Ethics in High Profile Cases, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2004

LINDA L. BERGER

Metaphor and Narrative in Family Law Disputes, How Legal Rhetoric Shapes the Law Conference, American University, Washington School of Law, Washington D.C., Nov. 2, 2007 

The Continuing Denial of Rhetoric in Legal Scholarship, Biennial National Conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, University of Denver, Denver, CO, June 15, 2007

Metaphor and Narrative in Family Law: The Story in the Stone, Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, The City Law School, Gray¹s Inn, London, July 19, 2007

The Continuing Denial of Rhetoric in Legal Scholarship, Biennial National Conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, Denver, CO, June 2007

Metaphor, Metonymy, and Corporate Money, Mercer Law Review Symposium, Using Metaphor in Legal Analysis and Communication, Mercer University School of Law, Macon, GA, Nov. 10, 2006

Leaping from the Peer: Peer Reading and Writing Groups in Action (with Prof. Steve Berenson), Biennial National Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Atlanta, GA, June 2006

Looking Forward (panel discussion), Biennial National Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Atlanta, GA, June 2006

Scholarship Guides: Journals, Passports, Roadmaps (with Prof. Michael Smith),Biennial National Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Seattle, WA, July 2004

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SUSAN BISOM-RAPP

A National Report on Diversity Programming in the United States, International Forum: Diversity, Equality and Integration, Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 2007

Globalization and Interdisciplinary Workplace Trends, The Global Workplace: Learning from One Another, Marco Biagi Foundation, University of Modena, Italy, Mar. 2007

How Well Do Internal EEO Litigation Prevention Measures Advance the Traditional Goal of Anti-Discrimination Law?, Joint Program of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Employment Discrimination Sections, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Jan. 2007

Judicial Deference in Employment Discrimination Law, Workshop on Judicial Deference, University of Colorado, Boulder, School of Law, Boulder, CO, Aug. 2006

Commentator, Robyn Stryker's "The Politics of Social Science in Government Regulation of Equal Employment Opportunity," Social Scientific Perspectives on Employment Discrimination in Organizations Group (SSPEDO), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, Feb. 2006

A Critical Look at Organizational Responses to and Remedies for Sex Discrimination,Social Scientific Perspectives on Employment Discrimination in Organizations Group (SSPEDO), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, Nov. 2005

Remedies and Solutions for Sex Discrimination
, Nag’s Heart Symposium, Lake Tahoe, CA, Oct. 2005

Author Meets Reader – Gender Myths v. Working Realities by Theresa M. Beiner, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Jun. 2005

From Bulletproofing the Workplace to Bulletproofing the World? Spreading US Anti-Discrimination Law and Legal Practice, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, Jun. 2005

Work in Progress, Social Scientific Perspectives on Employment Discrimination in Organizations Group, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford CA, Mar. 2005

Personal Reflections in Five Acts, Lawyers Club of San Diego Symposium on “How I Became a Professor and How I Became a Judge: Real Stories of Careers in Law”, California Western School of Law, San Diego CA, Mar. 2005

Welcoming Remarks, Fifth Annual Women and the Law Conference: The Global Impact of Feminist Legal Theory, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego CA, Feb. 2005

Transnational Employment Law Practice and the Exporting of American Lawyering Styles to the Global Worksite, California Western School of Law Faculty Forum, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2004

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MARJORIE COHN

Voices of Conscience, The Women's Center, UCSD (San Diego, CA) April 28, 2008 

Torture of Prisoners and Denial of Habeas Corpus, Muslim Students Association, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA, April 21, 2008

Cowboy Republic, National Lawyers Guild Far West Regional Conference, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA, Apr. 12, 2008 

Impeachment 101, League of Women Voters, Orange Coast College, Huntington Beach, CA, Apr. 5, 2008

Lawbreaking by the Bush Administration, Fallbrook Democratic Club, Fallbrook, CA, Apr. 3, 2008

Guantanamo, Torture, and the Military Commissions, Veteran's For Peace, Church of Today, San Diego, CA, Apr. 1, 2008

Bush's War on the Rule of Law, National Lawyers Guild Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 1, 2008 

Bush's War on the Rule of Law, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada and University of British Columbia Continuing Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Feb 23, 2008 

Presidential Abuse of Power & What This Year's Election Portends, ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, San Diego County Bar Association, San Diego, CA, Feb 8, 2008 

Cowboy Republic, Claremont Democratic Club, Claremont, CA, Dec. 7, 2007

Colorblind Injustice: Roberts Court Violates Affirmative Action Mandates in Race Convention, Civil Rights, Human Rights and Race: An Applied Legal Scholarship Symposium, Howard University Law School, Washington DC, Dec. 14, 2007

Expansion of Executive Power and Closing Ceremony, A Question of Impeachment, The Culture Project, New York, NY, Dec. 17, 2007

Cowboy Republic, National Lawyers Guild Reception, Pittsburg, PA, Nov. 16, 2007

Cowboy Republic, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA Nov. 10, 2007 

Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, Social Justice Monday Series, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA, Nov. 12, 2007

Cowboy Republic, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, Nov. 10, 2007 

Book Talks, Cowboy Republic, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, Palo Alto, CA, Oct. 12, 2007

Book Talks, Cowboy Republic, Stanford Bookstore, Palo Alto, CA, Oct. 12, 2007

Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, Friends of the La Jolla/Riford Library, La Jolla, CA, Sept. 30, 2007

Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, Attorneys as Authors Special Speaker Series, S. D. County Public Law Library, San Diego, CA, Sept. 28, 2007

Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, Progressive Grandmothers for Political Action, Remington Club, San Diego, CA, Sept. 25, 2007

Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, La Jolla Democratic Club, La Jolla, CA, Sept. 23, 2007

Practicing Law in Bush's Cowboy Republic: Challenges to Progressive Lawyering, National Lawyers Guild, Connecticut Chapter, Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden, CT, Sept. 8, 2007

War on Terror? What They Don't Tell You! The Case of the Cuban Five, June 28, 2007

Crimes Against Humanity - The Bush Record, June 29, 2007

Torture, Terror & Political Repression - COINTELPRO & Attica to Guantanamo & Patriot Act, June 28, 2007

U.S. Social Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, June 28-29, 2007

War On Terror? What They Don't Tell You, National Lawyers Guild, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Apr. 12, 2007

Are Our Human Rights a Casualty of the War on Terror? The Legality of the Iraq War, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Apr. 18, 2007

Are Our Human Rights a Casualty of the War on Terror? Torture and Inhuman Treatment of Prisoners, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, May 2, 2007

Are Our Human Rights a Casualty of the War on Terror? Willful Killing and Summary Execution, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, May 30, 2007

Are Our Human Rights a Casualty of the War on Terror? Guantánamo - Is It a Gulag?, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, June 6, 2007

Are Our Human Rights a Casualty of the War on Terror? Warrantless Surveillance, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, June 13, 2007

The War on Terror and the Rule of Law, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Havana, Cuba, Apr. 2006

United States Military Policy and the Globalization of Poverty, Political Economy Days, Palomar College, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2006

The Party Line: Who's Listening to Your Phone Calls?, World Affairs Council, San Diego Chapter, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2006

US Military Policy & the Globalization of Poverty, Poverty Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools, Washington, DC, Jan. 2006

International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration, Riverside Church, New York, NY, Jan. 2006

US Nuclear Policy: A History of Hypocrisy, World Affairs Council, North County Chapter, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2005

Delegations to Haiti, National Lawyers Guild Convention, Portland, OR, Oct. 2005

U.S. War of Aggression in Iraq, Women in Black rally, Portland, OR, Oct. 2005

Torture of Prisoners at Home and Abroad, National Lawyers Guild Convention, Portland, OR, Oct. 2005

What Precisely is International Law? A Primer on International Covenants and Treaties and Their Applicability to U.S. Law, National Lawyers Guild, Out of the Classroom - Into the Courtroom: How to Use International Law in Our Everyday Law Practices, Portland, OR, Oct. 2005

Criminal Liability for Torture of Prisoners in US Custody in Iraq, Afghanistan & Guantanamo, World Affairs Council, North County Chapter, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2005

John Roberts and the Next Nominee for the Supreme Court, North County Democratic Club, San Diego, CA, Sept. 2005

Overview of the Historical Roots of the Iraq War, Antiwar Rally, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, Sept. 2005

Supreme Court in the Balance, Southern California Americans for Democratic Action, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 2005

Vigil to Honor Victims of Nagasaki Bombing, Coalition for Peace and Justice, San Diego, CA, Aug. 2005

Featured guest, Military Resisters, The Rocio Show (in Spanish), Miami, FL, Jul. 2005

Leader, panel discussion following A Dramatic Reading: Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, sponsored by Voices of Women, Amnesty International, International Museum of Human Rights in San Diego, Peace & Democracy Action Group of First UU Church, San Diego, CA, Jul. 2005

Commission Director and Presenter, The United Nations, International Organizations, and International Relations, International Association of Democratic Lawyers Congress, Paris, France, June 2005

Legal and Political Ramifications of Torture, Teach-in on Torture, UC Berkeley, Apr. 2005

Court-martial of Pablo Paredes, Pacifica Radio with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Apr. 2005

Nominations of John Bolton and John Negroponte, judicial nominees, Pacifica Radio with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Apr. 2005

Globalization and Terrorism, San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice rally against the Iraq war - 2 year anniversary, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2005

The United Nations & International Law, public television, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2005

Human Rights and the New World Order, American Association of Jurists, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jan. 2005

Debate with USD law professor Michael Ramsey on Whether Military Tribunals violate Geneva Conventions, San Diego Inn of Court, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2005

Human Rights and the New World Order, American Association of Jurists, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jan. 2005

Torture and International Law, UCSD English class, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2004

Torture of Prisoners, Escondido Democratic Club, Escondido, CA, Dec. 2004

Human & Civil Rights at Home & Abroad, S.D. Coalition for Peace & Justice, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2004

Torture of Prisoners, World Affairs Council of North County, Rancho Bernardo, CA, Nov. 2004

The Iraq War and International Law, National Lawyers Guild convention, Birmingham, AL, Oct. 2004

War on Terror & Erosion of Civil Liberties, ACLU, National Lawyers Guild, ADC, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2004

Treatment of Prisoners, National Lawyers Guild, Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, Sep. 2004

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DEVEN DESAI

Property, Persona, Publicity, IP Scholars Conference, Depaul University, Aug. 2007

Body of Information, Law and Society Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, July 2007

Conference Fellow and Moderator, What Ifs and Other Alternative Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Stories Conference, Michigan State University College of Law, Mar. 2007

Property, Persona, Publicity, IP Roundtable, Michigan State University College of Law, Jan. 2007

Confronting the Genercism Conundrum, Colloquium, Chapman University School of Law, Oct. 2005

Confronting the Genercism Conundrum, Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Washington University School of Law and Saint Louis University School of Law (co-hosts) St. Louis, MO, Oct. 2005

Confronting the Genercism Conundrum, IP Scholars Conference, Cardozo School of Law, Aug. 2005

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ILENE DURST

Legacies of Guilt: Law's Inability To Account for the Bystander-Witness to Persecution, School of Law, Swansea University, Wales, and Law and Humanities Institute, Rights, Ethics, Law and Literature International Colloquium, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK, July 5-8, 2007

Bearing False Witness: Genocide and Narrative [Un]Reliability, Law and Humanities' Representation of the Holocaust, Genocide and other Human Rights Violations, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2005

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MAURICE DYSON

Racial Discrimination and Accountability in U.S. Public Education: A Closer Look at the Nation's Compliance Under The Convention for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Treaty, Law and Society Conference, Montreal, Canada (2008)

Brown Undone? The Future of Integration in Seattle after PICS v. SSD No. 1, Seattle University School of Law, Achieving Racial Diversity in the Classroom after PICS c. SSD In A Legal and Socially Responsible Manner (2008)

Center for Constitutional and Humanitarian Law, American University College of Law, panel entitled Discrimination in Public Education: Intent v. Impact?, Discrimination in The Discriminatory Impact of U.S. Education Law on the Human Rights of Racial Minorities: Who's Really Being Left Behind? (2007)

School Transfers, Charter Schools and School Funding, invited at the University of Toledo School of Law (Jan. 29, 2007)

African American Charter Schools, Robin Hood & The No Child Left Behind Act: A Triple Entendre in the Battle For Educational Equality, presented at Florida A&M University College of Law (Jan. 10, 2007)

2007 AALS Annual Education Law Section Panel, conceived, organized, moderated and panelists selected by Maurice Dyson, The Assault on Academic Freedom in the Academy: Exploring the Intersectionalities of Race, Religion and Gender in Higher Education, co-sponsored in conjunction with the Section on Minority Groups (Jan. 4, 2007)

Charter Schools, the No Child Left Behind Act: Avenues for Reform, presented at Thomas Jefferson School of Law (Dec. 12, 2006)

Reinforcing School Choice Provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act: Possible Solutions for Systematic Reform, presented at Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law (Dec. 8, 2006)

The No Child Left Behind Act & Wealth Recapture, presented at Drexel University College of Law (Oct. 20, 2006)

2006 AALS Speaker: The Clash of the Titans: (Section on Education Law, Washington, D.C.)

2006 Annual AALS Minority Groups Section Panel, The Fate of Minority Inter-Group Collaboration or Conflict, conceived, organized, moderated and panelists selected by Maurice Dyson (invited speaker for January 2006, Section on Education Law)

Educational Experts: School Finance & Legislative Issues: A Talk With SMU Prof. Maurice Dyson (2005)

2nd Northeast Regional People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference: America, Race, and Law at the Crossroads, Hosted at The George Washington University Law School (Oct. 2004)

Opportunity To Learn discussing Dyson, Leave No Child Behind: Normative Proposals To Link Educational Adequacy Claims To High Stakes Assessment Challenges, sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley and the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)(Oct. 2003)

Critical Race Theory Workshop, American University Washington College of Law sponsored by Darren Hutchinson, Pamela Bridgewater, Devon Carbado, Letti Volp and others (Apr. 2003)

School Funding and Educational Ultimatums: A Look At School Funding Implications For Public School Accountability, presented at The Educational Funding Deficit, sponsored by the University of Connecticut Law School & the University of Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, (Apr. 2002)

Finance and Educational Ultimatums: A Look At School Funding Implications For Public School Accountability, Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal (2002)(symposium)

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A. THOMAS GOLDEN

Tort Reform, UCSD Institute for Continued Learning, San Diego, CA, May 2005

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JULIE A. GREENBERG

Speech in the Culture Wars, Lavender Law Conference, Chicago, IL, Sept. 2007

Dismantling or De-emphasizing Gender?: The Radical (or not) Agenda of the Transgender Rights Movement, Lavender Law Conference, Chicago, IL, Sept. 2007

Sex Matters, University of Keele, Keele, England, June 2007

Feminist and Queer Social Justice Movements, Kent University, Canterbury, England, May 2007

CUTTING-EDGE SEX DISCRIMINATION ISSUES: Inside Insights into Transgender Law, Featured Discussion with Attorney M. E. Stephens, San Diego County Bar Association Sponsored Meeting, San Diego, CA, Dec. 12, 2006

Intersexuality and the Law, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., Jan. 2006

FAIR v. Rumsfeld and the Constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2005

Plenary Speaker: Marriage, Civil Unions, Domestic Partnerships and Other Family Structures in a Mobile Society, Lavender Law Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2005

Intersex Legal Issues, Lavender Law Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2005

International Legal Developments Protecting the Autonomy Rights of Sexual Minorities, Nice Law School, Nice, France, July 2005

International Developments in the Medical Management of Intersexuality and the Doctrine of Informed Consent, XXIX International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Paris, France, July 2005

Keynote Address, Intersex and Intrasex Debates: Building Alliances to Challenge Sex Discrimination, Cardozo Law School, New York, N.Y. Feb. 2005

Transglobal Transformation Through Transgender Theory, Fifth Annual Women and the Law Conference: The Global Impact of Feminist Legal Theory, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2005

You Can’t Take it with You: Constitutional Limitations on Interstate Identity Rulings, The Williams Project and UCLA Faculty Colloquium, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2004

When is a Same-Sex Marriage Legal?, The Implications of Lawrence and Goodridge for Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage and for the Validity of DOMA Conference, Catholic University, Washington, D.C., May 2004

Sex Determinations and Same Sex Marriages: Will They Be Entitled to Full Faith and Credit?, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2004

Beyond Equality and Liberty: Full Faith and Credit and DOMA Applied to Same Sex Marriages and Sexual Identity, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2004

Same-sex Marriage: What is Missing from the Debate?, University of San Diego, Department of Sociology, University of San Diego, Mar. 2004

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KEVIN J. GREENE

Intellectual Property at the Intersection of Race and Gender - or "Lady Sings the Blues", Intellectual Property Scholar's Conference, Depaul University Law School, Chicago, IL, Aug. 9, 2007

Black Cultural Appropriation, Indigenous Theft and Feminist Critiques of Intellectual Property, LatCrit 12th Annual Conference, Florida International University College of Law, Miami Beach, FL, Oct. 6, 2007

Revisiting Abusive Trademark Litigation in the Context of Expressive Works, Creators vs Consumers: The Rhetoric, Reality & Reformation of Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference, Syracuse University Law School, Syracuse, NY, Oct. 26, 2007

Copynorms, the Blues and the Crisis of Copyright Law: How Socio-Economic Theory Can Inform Copyright Reform, AALS Section on Socio-Economics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Jan. 2007

Contract Making, Breaking and Damages Hollywood Style, National Contract Management Association, San Diego Chapter, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2006

Black Cultural Appropriation as a Violation of International Norms of Intellectual Property, International Law Association, American Branch, New York, NY, Oct. 2006

Stereotyping and Cultural Devaluation as a Moral Rights Violation, Association of American Law Schools (AALS),Workshop on Intellectual Property, Panel on Moral Rights, Vancouver, Canada, June 2006

Recent Developments in Trademark Law: Apple Computer vs. the Beatles Apple Label, San Diego County Bar Association, Entertainment Law Section, San Diego, CA, May 2006

How to Build a Great Law School, New Student Open House, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2006

Remedies and Reparations for Intellectual Property Deprivations, Western People of Color Conference, California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2006

Black Artistic Production and the Case for Reparations for Intellectual Property Deprivations, Taking Reparations Seriously Scholarly Conference, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2006

Copynorms, Digital Copyright Infringement and Black Music Appropriation, AALS, Washington, DC, Jan. 2006

RIAA Filesharing Lawsuits and Devenses to Copyright Infringement, UCSD, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2005

Using Patent Law Standards to Inform the Law of Ideas, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Patent Law Conference at Qualcomm Corp., San Diego, CA, Nov. 2005

Copyright in the Digital Age, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 2005

Defenses to Copyright Infringement for Online File Sharing, UCSD, San Diego, CA, Apr 2005

African-American Reparations and Intellectual Property, Michigan State College of Law, East Lansing, MI, Feb. 2005

So You Want to be an Entertainment Lawyer? Strategies for Breaking Into the Industry, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2005

Organized and Moderated, The Uncertain Future of the Music Industry, TJSL Alumni Event, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2004

Careers in Entertainment Law, Martin Luther King High School, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 2004

Copyright Infringement and Rap Music Production, Youth Workshop on Hip-Hop and Music Industry, Grassroots Artists Movement, Manhattan, NY, Oct. 2004

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MARYBETH HERALD

Brain Science 101: Bringing the Delphic Oracle to Law School, Humanizing Legal Education Symposium, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, KS, Oct. 20, 2007

Bias: Theory and Practice, Lavender Law Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, Sept. 7, 2007 

Bottled Happiness: Confronting Prescription Drug Advertising and the Desire to Believe, International Association of Law and Mental Health, Padua, Italy, June 26, 2007

It's All in the Framing: Structuring Constitutional Law Claims to Advance LGBT Rights, Lavender Law Conference, Washington, D.C., Sept. 2006

Transgender Marriage Law and Constitutional Doctrine, Lavender Law Conference, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2005

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Balancing Medical Training and Patient Privacy, UCSD Medical School, La Jolla, CA, June 2005

Transglobal Transformation Through Transgender Theory, Fifth Annual Women and the Law Conference: The Global Impact of Feminist Legal Theory, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2005

You Can’t Take it with You: Constitutional Limitations on Interstate Identity Rulings, The Williams Project and UCLA Faculty Colloquium, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2004

Sex Determinations and Same Sex Marriages: Will They Be Entitled to Full Faith and Credit?, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2004

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MADELINE JUNE KASS

Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing in the United States, UCSD English Language Program, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2004

Panel Moderator, The Endangered Species Act at 30, Conference at Lewis & Clark School of Law, Portland, OR, 2004

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ANDERS KAYE

The Secret Politics of the Compatibilist Criminal Law, University of Chicago Scholarship Workshop Class, Nov. 2006

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LINDA M. KELLER

Victims’ Reparations in International Law, World Affairs Council, Rancho Bernardo, CA, June 15, 2006

Legal Research & the Google Generation: Update from Cyberspace (with Prof. Ben Templin; co-presenters Prof. Susan Sullivan and Mary Ann Neary), Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, Atlanta, GA, June 9, 2006

Seeking Justice at the International Criminal Court: Victims’ Reparations, Conference on Taking Reparations Seriously, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Mar. 19, 2006

Moderator, Guantanomo Debate: Professor Cohn vs. WestPoint Professor Margaret Stock, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Sept. 7, 2005

International Human Rights Law: Hot Topics, UCSD English Language Institute, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2005

Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing in the United States, UCSD English Language Program, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2004

The Work of the International Criminal Court Begins: Investigating International Crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo & Uganda, World Affairs Council, Rancho Bernardo, CA, Oct. 14, 2004

The Creation of the International Criminal Court, World Affairs Council, Rancho Bernardo, CA, Mar. 2004

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MICHELE MELDEN

Testimony on High Deductible Health Plans and the Need to Provide a Legislative/Regulatory Response with Specific Recommendations, The California State Assembly Health Committee, Sacramento, CA, Feb. 2006

ERIC J. MITNICK

Law, Cognition, and Identity, Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference, Georgetown University Law Center, Mar. 24, 2007

Rights, Groups, and Self-Invention - An Introduction, University of San Diego School of Law Faculty Colloquium, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2005

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ARNOLD S. ROSENBERG

Letters of Credit and Wire Transfers: A Primer for the General Practitioner, State Bar of California, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 2005

A Trillion Dollars a Day: The Law of Cross-Border Electronic Funds Transfers, State Bar of California, Monterey, CA, Oct. 2004

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AARON SCHWABACH

Perception Gaps between Developed and Developing Countries on Intellectual Property Piracy, Conference on the World Trade Organization: Dislocations and Solutions, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China, Dec. 2, 2006

Harry Potter and the Rule of Law, presentation at San Diego County Law Library, Sept. 12, 2006

Harry Potter, Law & Culture, University of Gloucestershire Faculty of Law Power of Stories: Intersections of Law, Culture and Literature Conference, Gloucester, England, July 2005

P2P and Recent Developments in Copyright Law, Beijing University School of Law, Beijing, China, Apr. 2004

Copyright Law and Electronic File-sharing in the Post-Napster Era, Fudan University Faculty of Law, Shanghai, China, Apr. 2004

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RICHARD SCOTT

The European Union’s First Constitution, San Diego World Affairs Council North County, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2005

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STEVE SEMERARO

Credit Card Interchange Fees: Three Decades of Antitrust Uncertainty, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, Apr. 14, 2007

WILLIAM R. SLOMANSON

American Judges Against Judicial Independence, Moscow State University American Legal System Class, Mar. 20, 2008

Kosovo's Dependent Independence, Moscow State University World Politics Association, Mar. 17, 2008

Kosovo's Dependent Independence, USAID American Center Moscow, Mar. 17, 2008

Q & A on Kosovo's Impact on Other post-Conflict Societies, Russian Academy of Foreign Trade, Mar. 17, 2008

Kosovo: United Nations Nation Building, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali campus, Mexico, Nov. 15, 2007

U.S. Supreme Court's Third Strike in the Alien Detainee Cases, Yeditepe University School of Law, Istanbul, Turkey, July 3, 2007

Presented the following papers: Isolation at All Costs: Attacking Judicial Reliance on Non-US Legal Sources; and Alien Detainee Cases: Washington's Balance of Power Struggle: Alien Detainee Cases and Responsive Legislation, Miskolc University, Miskolc, Hungary, Mar. 19 and 20, 2007

Bring Your Office to the Students, West Coast ASP Conference, TJSL, Jan. 26, 2007

California Civil Procedure: Merger and Bar, California Western School of Law Faculty Development Lunch, San Diego, CA, May 2005

Moderator, State Building Panel I: Issues of Choice, Creation and Justification, American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., Mar. 2005

Moderator, The Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Human Rights Violations Conference, Panel on The Law and Literature of the Holocaust and Genocide, Congregation Beth Israel, La Jolla, CA, Jan. 2005

Moderator, The Global Impact of Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Panel on Globalization and Sexuality, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2005

UN Role in Iraq After June 30th: Lessons Learned from Kosovo, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, Apr. 2004

Recent Developments in International Law, Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, Apr. 2004

International Rule in Kosovo: Five Years in Lessons in State Building, San Diego County Bar Association, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2004

Kosovo: Lessons Learned for Governing Post Conflict Societies, San Diego State University World Affairs Institute, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2004

NATO and UN Occupation of Kosovo: Prospects for Peace, Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2004

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BENJAMIN TEMPLIN

The Marriage Contract in Fine Art, Fourth International Contracts Conference, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA, Feb. 8, 2008

The Public Trust in Private Hands: Social Security and the Politics of Government Investment, 6th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 9, 2007

Teaching Contracts: Pedagogy of PowerPoint, AALS Poster Presentation, Jan. 3-6, 2007

Legal Research and the Google Generation, Legal Writing Institute, June 9, 2006

PowerPoint Pedagogy, Spring Contracts Conference, Texas Wesleyan Law School, Feb. 24, 2006

Moderator, Innovative Methods for Teaching Research, Writing, and Effective Communication Skills to ESL and EFL Students, John Marshall Law School’s Global Legal Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, May 2005

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SUSAN TIEFENBRUN

Child Soldiers, Slavery, and Human Trafficking, New Voices in Human Rights Program, American Association of Law Schools, New York, NY, Jan. 6, 2008 

Trafficking, Slavery, and the Jews, Chavurah Group in Del Mar, Del Mar, CA, Nov. 18, 2006

Is Slavery Really Dead? Global Human Trafficking, TJSL Women's Law Association, Nov. 16, 2006

Human Trafficking, a Contemporary Form of Slavery, Twelve-Thirty Club, La Jolla Country Club, Nov. 8, 2006

Chaired panel, International Law & Literature, American Branch of International Law, New York. elected member of the executive committee of ABILA, Oct. 26-28, 2006

The Trafficking of Women, The Women's Commission at UCSD, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2006

Sex Slavery Here and Abroad, UCSD International Affairs Group, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2006

Film as Remedy for Human Rights Violations, University of Houston Law School, Houston, TX, Apr. 2005

Sex Trafficking in the US and Abroad, Loyola Law School, Chicago, IL, Feb. 2005

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KENNETH J. VANDEVELDE

The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard in International Law, OAS-UNCTAD Advanced Training Course on Managing Investment Disputes, Puebla, Mexico, Oct. 2006

The Impact of Investor-State Dispute Settlement on the APEC Region, APEC-UNCTAD Regional Seminar on Investor State Dispute Settlement, Mexico City, Mexico, Oct. 2006

Policy Coherence in International Investment Agreements, Presentation to UNCTAD Commission on Investment, Geneva, Switzerland, Mar. 2006

Policy Cohearnce in International Investment Agreements, Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 2005

Keynote Speaker, Romancing the Foreign Investor: Bit-by-Bit, UC Davis, Mar. 2005

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ELLEN A. WALDMAN

Risk and Uncertainty in End-of-Life Disputes, 2007 Hamline University School of Law's Symposium on Conflict Resolution in Health Care, St. Paul, MN, Nov. 9, 2007  

Ethical Intuitionism and Casuistry Toward a Method for Ethical Decision Making, South Texas Annual Ethics Symposium: Ethics in the Expanding World of ADR, Houston , TX, Nov. 2, 2007 

Challenges and Opportunities in the Mediation Clinic, 2007 Mountain West Regional Clinical Conference, San Diego, CA Oct. 12, 2007

Mediation at the End of Life: The Limits of the Talking Care, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Jan. 5, 2007

The Right to Refuse Medical Care - Whose Choice Is It?, Kaiser Permanente Bioethics Symposium, Long Beach, CA, Dec. 9, 2006

Ethical Issues in Donor Insemination: What Should We Tell the Children?, University of California, San Diego Biomedical Ethics Seminar, San Diego, CA, Nov. 15, 2006

Restorative vs. Retributive Justice: Exploring the Psychology of Victim Need, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, New York, New York, Nov. 10, 2006

Selected Topics in Mediation, Cardozo Law School, New York, NY, Sept. 2005

Conflict Resolution at the End of Life, Santa Clara Law School, Santa Clara, CA, Aug. 2005

Personality Disorders in Family Court, International Academy on Law and Mental Health, 29th Annual Conference, Paris, France, July 2005

Conflict Resolution in Ethics Consultation, University of California San Diego Ethics Committee, San Diego, CA, July 2005

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Balancing Medical Training and Patient Privacy, UCSD Medical School, La Jolla, CA, June 2005

Musing on the Justice in Restorative Justice, Marquette Law School Faculty Colloquia, Milwaukee, WI, Feb. 2005

The Limits of Narrative: Story-telling and “Magical Thinking” in Restorative Justice Schemes, Law and Humanities conference, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2005

Conflict Resolution Procedures and Skills in the Health Care Setting for Hospital Bioethics Committee, Sharp Hospital, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2004

Negotiating Social Divisions: Lessons from ADR for Responding to Structural Injustices, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, June 2004

The Parent Trap: Uncovering Bias in Judicial Treatment of Frozen Embryo Disputes, Biomedical Ethics Seminar Series, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, June 2004

Is There a Place for Justice in Mediation? The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, Sixth Annual Conference, New York, NY, Apr. 2004

Competing Visions of the Lawyer's Role - Gladiator or Problem-Solver, Dialogue on Doing Justice in a Conflict-Ridden World, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2004

The Dialectic of Justice in Mediation, Cardozo Symposium on Justice in Mediation, New York, NY, Mar. 2004

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RICHARD WINCHESTER

Parity Lost: The Price of a Corporate Tax in a Progressive Tax World, Southern California Junior Faculty Workshop, Chapman University School of Law, Orange, CA, Mar. 14, 2008 

The Original Personal Holding Company Tax: An Overlooked Model for Classifying Business Entities, Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, MD, Jan 26, 2008

Working for Free, Western Law Professors of Color Conference, California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA, Apr. 2006

Moderator, Taking Reparations Seriously, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2006

Indefensible Distinctions: Employment Taxes and the Employee-Owned Business, The Mid-Atlantic People of Color Conference, American University, Washington, DC, Jan. 2006

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CLAIRE WRIGHT

Will the New Democratic Congress Change U.S. Trade Policy?, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California, Jan.16, 2007

Screen Quotas, Subsidies and the Promotion of National Films, presented at Korean Legal Studies Summer Program, Columbia Law School, New York City, New York, July 13, 2006

The WTO, guest lecturer in International Law class taught jointly by Dan Rogers and Richard Scott, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California, Mar. 17, 2006

Geographical Indications, guest lecturer in Trademark Law class taught by Professor Sandra Rierson, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California, Mar. 10, 2006

The WTO, guest lecturer in International Organizations class taught by Professor Laura Adams, University of San Diego Law School, San Diego, California, Feb.16, 2006

Moderator and panelist on panel entitled EU Trade Issues in the Doha Round in seminar entitled World Trade update, annual meeting of California Council on International Trade, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, La Jolla, California, Feb. 23, 2005

Moderator of panel on the Practice of International Law, sponsored by International Law Section of California State Bar, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California, fall 2004

Trade Issues in the Presidential Election and the Outlook for the WTO, Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, California, Sept. 22, 2004

The Outlook for the WTO, University of Nice Law School, Nice, France, July 26, 2004

Is China Meeting its New WTO Commitments? World Affairs Council, Rancho Bernardo, California, Feb. 26, 2004

China and the WTO: Two Years Later, China Executive Series, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, Feb. 26, 2004

The Role of Multilaterals in China Today, Moderator and Panel Presenter at annual China Update seminar sponsored by HarvardChina Review, Harvard Business School, Apr. 12, 2003

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JULIE D. CROMER YOUNG

What if Man Never Walked on the Moon?, Fourth Annual Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program Symposium: "What Ifs and Other Alternative Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Stories", Michigan State University, Mar. 31, 2007

Questions About Copyright (and a Few Answers), San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA, Aug. 2004

Database Rights and Protection Worldwide, North County Chapter-San Diego World Affairs Council, Rancho Bernardo, CA, June 2004

When the Law Pushes You Around, How Do You Know When to Push Back?, College of Arts & Sciences/New College Program, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, Apr. 2004

European Union Database Directive and HR 3261, Southern California International Law Conference, California Western School of Law, Mar. 2004

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