Institute Faculty Activities 07-08

MAY 2008

• Harry Pregerson, The Real Mayor of Los Angeles, 36 SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW 311 (2007)
• Speaker, "The Road to Representation Under the National Labor Relations Act," 46th Annual Short Course on Labor Law, Center for American and International Law, Dallas, TX
• Member, AALS Accreditation Team, Florida International University School of Law, Miami, FL
• Interviewed regarding wage and hour class action litigation over the status of workers as employees or independent contractors, Marketplace, NPR

• Quality Control: The Daily Show, the Peabody and Brand Discipline in QUALITY TELEVISION: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN TELEVISION AND BEYOND (with M. Rogers and J. Reeves; J. McCabe and K. Akass, eds.; I.B. Taurus, 2007)

• Presenter, "Crystals in the Public Domain," Intellectual Property Scholars' Round Table, Drake Law School, Des Moines, IA
• Presenter, "Property Rhetoric and the Public Domain," Workshop on Property Transactions and Transitions in an Age of Globalization, Chapman Law School, Orange, CA

• Sex and Violence in the Media: Some Thoughts on the Importance of Underinclusion as a Barrier to Medium Specific Regulation, 60 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS LAW JOURNAL 38 (March 2008)

• SCOTT ON OUTSOURCING LAW & PRACTICE, 2008 Supplement (Aspen Publishers, 2008)
• Tort Liability for Vendors of Insecure Software: Has the Time Finally Come? 67 MARYLAND LAW REVIEW (2008)
• The FTC, the Unfairness Doctrine, and Data Security Breach Litigation: Has the Commission Gone Too Far? 60 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW (Winter 2008)

MARCH/APRIL 2008

• Welcome Remarks and Commentator, "International Influences and International Law," Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America's Criminal Procedure Revolution, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas Symposium
• Interviewed regarding IBM employees being reclassified from salary to hourly, "Marketplace," NPR

• Commentator, "Experiments with Jury Trials in Argentina," Abandoning the Inquisitor: Latin America's Criminal Procedure Revolution, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas Symposium

• Panelist, "The Importance of Transparency in a Democratic Society," in conjunction with docudrama "Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers," Sunshine Week, American Society of Newspaper Editors, Skirball Cultural Center
• Panelist, "New Paradigms in Entertainment and Media Law," ABA Midyear Meeting, Los Angeles
• Panelist, "Hot Issues in Entertainment Law," ABA's Forum on Communications Law Annual Meeting, Boca Raton, FL
• Appointed, Member of Nominating Committee, ABA's Forum on Communications Law

• Presentation, "Top 10 Music Cases of the Last 50 Years," Grammy Foundation Luncheon, Los Angeles
• Quoted, "Clemens hearing useless unless we learn from it," Press-Enterprise

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008

• Interviewed, re: undocumented childcare workers, Larry Mantle's "Air Talk," KPCC-FM

• Presenter, "Crystals in the Public Domain," PrawfsFest Conference, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

• NEWSGATHERING AND THE LAW, 2008 Supplement (LexisNexis, 2007); available online via Lexis
• ENTERTAINMENT LAW: LEGAL CONCEPTS AND BUSINESS PRACTICES, 2008 Supplement (Thomson-West, 2007); available online via Westlaw Entertainment Database

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2007

• Entertainment Law: Legal Concepts and Business Practices 3rd ed., 2007 Fall Update (Thomson/West, 2005)

OCTOBER 2007

• Quoted, "O.C. courts slowed by deputy slowdown," Los Angeles Times
• Interviewed regarding Southwest Airline's threat to remove a passenger from a flight for wearing supposedly revealing clothing, KPCC-FM

• Spectrum Set-Asides as Content-Neutral Metric: Creating a Practical Balance Between Media Access and Market Power, HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW (forthcoming)

• Presenter, "Property Rules, Property Talk, and the Public Domain," Fifth Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, Washington College of Law

• Speaker, Copyright Law Presentation, Society of Composers & Lyricists, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles

SEPTEMBER 2007

• ENTERTAINMENT LAW: LEGAL CONCEPTS AND BUSINESS PRACTICES, 3rd ed., vol. 2 (with P. Acton, T. Selz and M. Simensky; Thomson/West, 2007)
  

• Chair, ABA Forum Committee on Entertainment & Sports Industries (see story)

AUGUST 2007

• Faculty, "International Sports Law," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, London, England
• Interviewed regarding employer crackdowns on personal Internet/email usage at work, NBC4 News
• Quoted, "Postal Service settles bias suit; The agency agrees to pay $61 million in a disability discrimination case filed by workers," Los Angeles Times
• Quoted, "Largest Disability Discrimination Suit Settled by Postal Service," Workplace Prof Blog
  

• Faculty, "International and Comparative Media Law," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, London, England

• Program Director, Southwestern's Summer Law Program, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  

• This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us - Or is it? Reflections on Copyright, the First Amendment and Google's Use of Other's Content, 2007 DUKE LAW & TECHNOLOGY REVIEW 5 (2007)
• "Government's involvement in television programming and privacy suit could impede First Amendment rights," Fulton County Daily Report (American Lawyer Media, 2007)
• Moderator, 9th Circuit Judicial Conference on Secrecy in the Electronic Age, Honolulu, HI
• Presenter, "Indecent Exposure and Other Content Malfunctions: The FCC's New Crusade Against Sex and Violence on Television," CLE presentation, Warner Bros., Burbank
• "Let market set free speech limits," Creative Voices (Newstex Web Blogs)
  

• Presenter, "Law of Podcasts" and "Law Student Note Sharing - Websites, Copyright and Learning Styles," Legal Education and IT: Mirage or Oasis? 17th Annual Conference for Law School Computing, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), Las Vegas, NV
  

• INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY LAW DESK REFERENCE, 8th ed. (Aspen Publishers, 2007)
• SCOTT ON MULTIMEDIA LAW, 2nd ed., 2008 Supplement (Aspen Publishers)
  

• Program Director, and Faculty, "International Entertainment Law," Southwestern's Summer Law Program, London, England

ABA - American Bar Association
AALS - Association of American Law Schools
LACBA - Los Angeles County Bar Association
NALP - National Association for Law Placement