Joshua Blank, Associate Professor of the Practice of Tax Law
and Faculty Director of Graduate Tax Program
New York University School of Law
Faculty Library, 4:00 p.m.
Topic: Property Law

Professor Blank joined the faculty of NYU School of Law in 2010. Professor Blank's scholarship focuses on tax administration and compliance, taxpayer privacy, and taxation of business entities. His recent publications include What's Wrong with Shaming Corporate Tax Abuse, 62 Tax L. Rev. 539 (2009), Overcoming Overdisclosure: Toward Tax Shelter Detection, 56 UCLA L. Rev. 1629 (2009), and When Is Tax Enforcement Publicized?, 30 Va. Tax Rev. 1 (2010) (with Daniel Z. Levin). His current article, In Defense of Individual Tax Privacy, will be published in Emory Law Journal in December 2011.Professor Blank is active in professional and scholarly tax law organizations. He is Vice Chair of the Teaching Taxation Committee of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association. In January 2009, Blank was elected a full member of Academia Tributária das Américas (ATA) – Tax Academy of the Americas, an association of tax scholars from the three Americas as well as from Portugal and Spain. From 2008 to 2009, Professor Blank was an Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark . From 2006 to 2008, he served as an Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law in the Graduate Tax Program at NYU School of Law. Prior to entering academia, Blank was a tax lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he advised clients regarding tax aspects of public and private company mergers, spin-offs and hostile takeovers.Blank received his B.A., summa cum laude, from NYU, College of Arts and Science, his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his LL.M. (Taxation) from NYU School of Law.

M. Cathleen Kaveny
John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology
University of Notre Dame Law School
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: Law and Morality

Professor M. Cathleen Kaveny, a scholar who focuses on the relationship of law and morality, joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty as an associate professor in 1995 and was named the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law in 2001. She earned her A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1984, and holds four graduate degrees from Yale University including her M.A. (1986), M.Phil (1990), J.D. (1990) and Ph.D. (1991). A member of the Massachusetts Bar since 1993, Professor Kaveny clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as an associate at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray in its health-law group. Professor Kaveny teaches contract law to first-year law students. She also teaches a number of seminars which explore the relationship between theology, philosophy, and law. One seminar, “Mercy and Justice,” explores those concepts using texts drawn from caselaw, analytic philosophy, Byzantine history, as well as both medieval and contemporary theology. Another seminar, “Ethics and Law at the End of Life,” looks at the issues of assisted suicide and euthanasia from an interdisciplinary perspective. She regularly teaches both undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Theology. Professor Kaveny has published over forty articles and essays, in journals and books specializing in law, ethics, and medical ethics. She has served on a number of editorial boards including The American Journal of Jurisprudence, The Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of Law and Religion, and The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. She has been a Senior Fellow at the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago (2002-2003) and the Royden B. Davis Visiting Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgetown University (1998). Professor Kaveny is a member of the Steering Committee of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, which was founded by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin to help overcome polarization within the Catholic Church). She also serves on the advisory board of the University’s Erasmus Institute, created in 1997 to focus on reinvigorating the role of religiously-based intellectual traditions in contemporary scholarship.

Darrell A. H. Miller, Associate Professor of Law
University of Cincinnati College of Law
(Visiting Duke Law School-Spring 2012)
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: TBA

Professor Darrell Miller began his teaching career with the College of Law following five years in the litigation department of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease where he practiced in the areas of complex and appellate litigation. He is a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School where he served as a Notes Editor for the Harvard Law Review.  In addition to his J.D., Professor Miller holds degrees from Oxford University, where he studied as a British Marshall Scholar, and from Anderson University, where he was honored with the Distinguished Young Alumni Award in 2004. Following law school, Professor Miller clerked for the Honorable R. Guy Cole, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  Professor Miller's scholarship focuses on issues of civil rights, constitutional law, and civil procedure.  His current project, Guns Inc.: Citizens United, McDonald, and the Future of Corporate Constitutional Rights, will be published in the summer by the New York University Law Review.  He is also the author of several other works, including Guns as Smut: Defending the Home-Bound Second Amendment, 109 Colum. L. Rev. 1278 (2009), which was recently cited by Justice John Paul Stevens in dissent in McDonald v. City of Chicago, and White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 77 Fordham L. Rev. 999 (2008).

Ani B. Satz, Associate Professor of Law
Emory University School of Law
Rollins School of Public Health and Center for Ethics
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: TBA 

Ani B. Satz is a regulatory health lawyer and philosopher who teaches Torts, Health Law, Disability Law, Animal Law, Genetics and the Law, and Law and Vulnerability. Her research focuses on the legal response to vulnerability and governmental obligations to those who are vulnerable. Professor Satz's most recent scholarship addresses from a law and ethics perspective access to health care, disability discrimination, and the well-being of nonhuman animals. Her work has appeared in books, peer-reviewed journals, and law reviews. Professor Satz's scholarship is published in journals including the Michigan Law Review; Washington & Lee Law Review; Emory Law Journal; Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics; and Washington Law Review.  Professor Satz was a Fulbright Postgraduate Research Scholar at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, after graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Tulsa. She holds a JD from the University of Michigan School of Law and a PhD in philosophy from Monash University, which she completed while a fellow at Princeton University. Before coming to Emory, Professor Satz lectured at Yale University in the Philosophy Department and the Ethics, Politics and Economics Program, as well as at Monash University Medical School. She also clerked for the Honorable Jane R. Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In addition to her Law School appointment, Professor Satz holds faculty appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health and the Center for Ethics.  Professor Satz was a visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center Fall 2010. She served as 2009-10 chair of the Disability Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and continues to serves as a member of the executive board of that section as well as the Animal Law Section.
Education: BA (Hons.), University of Tulsa; PhD, Monash University (completed at Princeton University); JD, University of Michigan.

Jerry A. Menikoff, M.D., J.D.
Director of the Office for Human Research Protections
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: TBA

Jerry A. Menikoff, M.D., J.D, is the Director of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), a component of the Office of Public Health and Science in the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). His office is responsible for protecting the rights, welfare, and well-being of subjects involved in research conducted or supported by HHS and helps ensure that such research is carried out in accordance with the regulations described at 45 CFR part 46. In addition, OHRP provides leadership in the protection of human subjects participating in such research by providing clarification and guidance, developing educational programs and materials, and maintaining regulatory oversight. Prior to joining OHRP, Dr. Menikoff served as the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Human Subjects Research, responsible for day-to-day oversight of the NIH intramural research program's human research protection program, including policy development and educational activities. Dr. Menikoff held several academic positions prior to his government service. He served for nine years as the chair of the human subjects committee and the hospital ethics committee at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He also taught in schools of law at the University of Akron, the University of Chicago, and Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. He is currently on leave from the position of associate professor of law, ethics and medicine at the University of Kansas. Dr. Menikoff's research interests have concentrated on bioethics in general, and more particularly on the ethics of research with human subjects. Dr. Menikoff is the author of the textbook Law and Bioethics: An Introduction (Georgetown University Press 2001), now in its second printing. His most recent book is What the Doctor Didn’t Say: The Hidden Truth about Medical Research (Oxford University Press 2006). Dr. Menikoff received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (magna cum laude in Mathematics, 1973), and also received in 1977 a J.D. (magna cum laude; Editor and Officer of the Harvard Law Review) and M.P.P. (Public Policy) from Harvard. Dr. Menikoff earned an M.D. in 1986 from Washington University (St. Louis).

Judge Mark W. Bennett
U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Iowa
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: TBA

Mark W. Bennett was appointed a United States District Court Judge in the Northern District of Iowa on August 26, 1994. On January 1, 2000, he became Chief Judge of the Northern District and served in this capacity for seven years. Judge Bennett had previously served, from December 2, 1991, as a United States Magistrate Judge in the sister district, the Southern District of Iowa. Judge Bennett graduated from the Drake University Law School in 1975. Upon graduation, he started his own law firm in Des Moines, in the basement of a long since demolished building, with his two legal mentors, Gordy Allen and Les Babich. The firm was originally known as Allen, Babich & Bennett and eventually became Babich, Bennett & Nickerson. During more than sixteen years, his extensive practice in employment discrimination, constitutional law and other civil rights litigation took him to numerous state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the United States resulting in more than seventy reported decisions, including arguing Evans v. Oscar Mayer Co., 441 U.S. 750 (1979), in the United States Supreme Court. When he was in private practice, Judge Bennett was admitted to and practiced in the United States Supreme Court; the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth Circuits; the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa; and the Iowa Supreme Court and state courts of Iowa. He was also admitted, pro hac vice, in numerous jurisdictions, including the United States District Courts for the District of Arizona, District of Colorado, Southern District of California, Northern District of Illinois, Southern District of Indiana, District of Minnesota, Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, District of New Mexico, Northern District of New York, and District of Wyoming; and state courts of Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, Judge Bennett was actively involved in professional organizations and community service. This included serving as the first Chair of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 Advisory Group for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, as a member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Trial Lawyers of Iowa, as a Fellow in the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers and as a Master of the Bench and founding member of the Blackstone Inn of Court. He has been active in the Iowa State Bar Association, where he has served as a member of and co-chaired several committees, including the Federal Practice Committee, the Professional Development Committee, the Committee on Professionalism, the Labor and Employment Law Section Council, the Litigation Section, the Committee on Legal Aid, the Study Committee on Women and Minorities Involvement in Bar Association and Judicial System of Iowa, the Executive Council of the Young Lawyers Section, the Silent Partner Program Committee of the Young Lawyers Section, the Committee on Federal Practice Manual and the Committee on the State Adoption of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Prior to becoming a federal judge, Judge Bennett was selected for inclusion in Naifeh & Smith, The Best Lawyers in America. He was the youngest lawyer in the state to receive an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell and to be inducted as a Fellow in the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. Judge Bennett is often invited to speak at seminars throughout the United States for the bench and the bar on topics such as federal litigation, civil rights, employment law, professionalism, and courtroom technology. He has spoken at more than 280 seminars and CLE programs across North America. He has also enjoyed teaching law students at the Drake University Law School (trial advocacy, employment law and employment discrimination), the University of Iowa College of Law (trial advocacy), and the University of Nebraska College of Law (employment discrimination). Judge Bennett has a keen interest in technology which led him to complete a project for the United States Courts where he was instrumental in the design, development, testing and implementation of new case management software based on state of the art WEB browser technology. He has applied technology to judging, which has led to the remodeling of the main historic courtroom in Sioux City, to add state of the art technology. Judge Bennett has tried hundreds of cases in his high-tech courtroom over nearly a decade. Judge Bennett has also consulted with other federal courts and two law schools on courtroom technology. Judge Bennett is a prolific writer and his numerous published opinions reflect his keen interest in legal scholarship. He has co-authored a book entitled, Employment Relationships Law & Practice (Aspen Law & Business 1998) and he has also published recent articles on “high tech courtrooms” and “the vanishing civil jury trial."

Kent Greenfield, Professor of Law
Boston College Law School
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: TBA

Kent Greenfield is Professor of Law and Law Fund Research Scholar at Boston College Law School, where he teaches and writes in the areas of business law, constitutional law, decision making theory, legal theory, and economic analysis of law. He is the Chair of the Section on Business Associations of the American Association of Law Schools. He is also the author of the book “The Failure of Corporate Law,” published by University of Chicago Press. The book has been called “simply the best and most well-reasoned progressive critique of corporate law yet written,” and the Law and Politics Book Review said that “it merits a place alongside Berle and Means, [and] Easterbrook and Fischel.” In addition, he is the author of the book "The Myth of Choice," forthcoming in 2011 from Yale University Press, and Prunsoop Publishing (in Korean). Greenfield also has had journal articles published in the Yale Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, and the Tulane Law Review, among others. His articles are widely cited, and he has been called “the leading figure” and “the most creative thinker” in the progressive, stakeholder school of corporate law scholarship. Greenfield has presented papers or lectured in 33 states, 7 foreign countries, and at 78 institutions (including Harvard, Yale, Brown, Stanford, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and the London School of Economics).  Greenfield was named B.C. Law Teacher of the Year for 2003-04, a recognition bestowed by the Law Students Association on vote of the entire student body.  He was also awarded the Emil Slizewski Award for outstanding teaching, given by the graduating class of 2004.  Greenfield has been a Law Fund Research Scholar, a recognition of his scholarly contributions, since 2003.  He has taught at the University of Connecticut School of Law and the University of Hawaii School of Law, and at Brown University in the political science department. He is the founder and president of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), an association of three dozen law schools and other academic institutions organized to fight for academic freedom and against discrimination.  FAIR brought suit against Donald Rumsfeld and others to contest the Solomon Amendment, which forces universities to assist military recruiters.  The Supreme Court decided the case against FAIR on March 6, 2006.  Greenfield’s work with FAIR was featured in numerous newspapers and media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and NPR.  Greenfield also consults with litigators on issues of corporate accountability.  He was instrumental in developing the theory of the case brought against Unocal Corporation for alleged human rights violations committed by the company in Burma. Before joining the faculty in 1995, Greenfield served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter, of the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Levin H. Campbell, of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  He also worked at the law firm of Covington & Burling, in Washington, D.C., and as an corporate policy advisor at Levi Strauss & Co., in San Francisco. Greenfield is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he graduated with honors and was awarded membership into the honorary society Order of the Coif.  He also served as Topics and Comments Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.  He received an A.B., with highest honors, from Brown University, where he studied economics and history.  Before law school, he traveled extensively in South America and Africa.

Kal Raustiala, Professor, UCLA School of Law and UCLA International Institute Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations
Faculty Library, 4:00 PM
Topic: TBA 

Kal Raustiala holds a joint appointment between the UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global Studies. Since 2007 he has served as the director of the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations. The Burkle Center is UCLA's primary academic unit that fosters interdisciplinary research and policy-oriented teaching on the role of the United States in global cooperation and conflict, and in military, political, social and economic affairs.  Professor Raustiala holds a JD from Harvard Law School and PhD in political science from the University of California, San Diego. Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international law and politics and on intellectual property.  His recent publications include "Al Maqaleh v. Gates,” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2010), “Toward a Post-Kyoto Climate Architecture: A Political Analysis” (with Robert O. Keohane), in Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, eds, IMPLEMENTING ARCHITECTURES FOR AGREEMENT: ADDRESSING GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE POST-KYOTO WORLD (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and "The Piracy Paradox Revisited (with Chris Sprigman), Stanford Law Review (2009). His book about the extraterritorial reach of American law Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?, was published by Oxford University Press in May 2009.  Professor Raustiala has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to coming to UCLA he was a research fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution, a Peccei Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems, and an assistant professor of politics at Brandeis University. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he serves on the editorial boards of International Organization and the American Journal of International Law.  He is a frequent media contributor whose writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New Republic, the New Yorker, the International Herald Tribune and Le Monde.