On March 13, 2010, Professor I. Bennett Capers presented his paper “The Unintentional Rapist” at UCLA Law School’s Critical Race Studies Symposium. His co-panelists included Professor James Forman of Georgetown Law and Professor Russell Robinson of UCLA Law. The topic of the panel was “Masculinities and the Law.”

On Thursday, March 11, 2010, Professor J. Herbie DiFonzo presented a paper, “The Children of Baby M: Can Functional Norms Resolve Surrogacy’s Core Question?” at a panel dealing with the Impact of Assisted Reproduction on Families, at the Sixth Annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law, at Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio.

On Friday, March 12, 2010, Professor Camille Nelson delivered a keynote address, "On Whose Backs?: Assessing a Restitutionary Response to Medical Advancements," at Hamline University School of Law for the Symposium Opening Our Eyes to Health Disparities: A Look Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory Signature.

Professor Monroe H. Freedman was quoted in the following LA Times article.

A silly smear on the Justice Department
Editorial
March 8, 2010

EXCERPT:

This is a manufactured and silly "scandal." Providing legal representation even for the guilty is in the finest traditions of this country's legal system. And it's not at all uncommon for Justice Department lawyers to have worked in areas that overlap with what they do in government service. As legal ethicist Monroe Freedman has noted, it's no more improper for lawyers who represented detainees to join the Justice Department than it was for Thurgood Marshall, the legendary civil rights litigator and future Supreme Court justice, to serve President Lyndon B. Johnson as solicitor general. (Under ethics rules, Obama's appointees may not participate in particular matters involving previous clients.)

Professor Barbara J. Stark presented a paper, "At Last? Ratification of the Economic Covenant as a Self-Executing Treaty," at a Symposium on the Obama Administration and Human Rights at the University of Iowa College of Law on March 5th.