Professor Julian Ku has been awarded a grant to serve as a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in Law at the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai during the spring 2011 semester.

While in China, Professor Ku will teach courses in U.S. constitutional law and international economic law. He also will pursue research on China and international law, among other topics.

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Professor Miriam Albert was a presenter at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools’ Annual meeting on August 4th. Professor Albert spoke on a panel entitled “Innovative Teaching Techniques for Clinical and Skills Courses,” one of several Teaching Technique Workshops at the conference. She spoke about the challenges of cleanly characterizing teaching as pure skills or pure doctrine, the political and pedagogical dramas that may ensue, and the challenges of adopting a “skills requirement” in light of the inevitable overlap between skills and doctrine.

Professor Barbara Stark presented an overview of international adoption from a U.S. perspective, along with a review of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, to a U.S. State Department-sponsored delegation from Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic at Hofstra on August 9th.

Professor Norman Silber has been formally appointed to the position of Visiting Professor of Law for the spring 2011 term at Yale Law School. During that semester, he will teach Comparative Consumer and Products Liability Law. For the coming fall semester, Professor Silber has been named a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, where he will begin work on an oral history of Judge Guido Calabresi.

Professor Scott Fruehwald has passed 1500 paper downloads on SSRN. He has four of the top ten all-time downloads for the SSRN Law & Evolution Journal and two of the top ten all-time downloads for the SSRN Law & Neuroscience Journal.