Faculty & Staff Achievements

Robert Brownstone, Adjunct Professor — Law, authored “Privacy Litigation” for the legal reference book series Data Security and Privacy Law in June.

Cori Bussolari, Associate Professor — Counseling Psychology, co-authored “A Positive Affect Intervention for People Experiencing Health-Related Stress: Development and Non-Randomized Pilot Test” for the Journal of Health Psychology in July.

Donald C. Carroll, Adjunct Professor — Law, authored “At-Will Employment: The Arc of Justice Bends Towards the Doctrine’s Rejection” for the University of San Francisco Law Review in August. 

Connie De La Vega, Professor and Academic Director of International Programs — Law, presented “Juvenile Life Without Parole: Miller v. Alabama” to the American University Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in July.  

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Dolores Donovan, Professor and Director of International Programming — Law, authored the article “Cambodia’s Overdue Land Reforms” for the East Asia Forum in August.

Deborah Hussey Freeland, Associate Professor — Law, presented “Legal Education in Working With Science and Scientists” in June at the International Conference on Law and Society in Hawaii. She also presented “What Is a Lawyer? A Reconstruction of the Lawyer as an Officer of the Court” for the International Legal Ethics Conference in July and for the Saint Louis University Public Law Review in September. 

Susan Freiwald, Professor — Law, received first place for her proposal “The Four Factor Test” at the fifth annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference, hosted by the George Washington University Law School in June, where she also co-presented “Simply More Privacy Protective: Law Enforcement Surveillance in Switzerland as Compared to the United States.” Freiwald authored “The Vanishing Distinction Between Real-Time and Historical Location Data” for the legal blog site Concurring Opinions in July. 

Bill Ong Hing, Professor — Law, authored “Obama’s Hypocrisy on Arizona’s SB 1070” for The Huffington Post in June. He was the keynote speaker at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony at the joint meeting of the Sonoma County Human Rights Commission, Sonoma County Counsel, and the Napa County Counsel in July, where he presented “Public Safety and Cooperation with ICE Officials.” He authored “Wade Michael Page: A Reflection of De-Americanization” for The Huffington Post in August.

Grace Hum, Assistant Professor — Legal Writing Program, presented “The Third Draft” at the Second Annual Western Regional Legal Writing Conference at the University of Oregon School of Law in August.

Alice Kaswan, Professor — Law, presented “Climate Change, the Clean Air Act, and Industrial Pollution: Traditional Versus Market-Based Regulation” in June at the International Conference on Law and Society in Hawaii. She also presented  “Domestic Climate Change Adaptation and Equity” and co-presented “Disaster Justice: The Advocacy of Redress” at the Association of American Law Schools MidYear Meeting in June. Kaswan authored “Environmental Justice and GHG Cap-and-Trade: It’s More Than a Complaint” for the Center for Progressive Reform’s blog in June.

Daniel Lathrope, Professor — Law, authored the book “Selected Sections on United States International Taxation” and co-authored the book “Fundamentals in Partnership Tradition,” published in June. He also authored the book “Selected Federal Taxation Statutes and Regulations,” published in July. 

Richard Leo, Professor — Law, co-presented “An Early Peek at the Results: An Empirical Study of Wrongful Convictions Versus ‘Near Misses’” in June at the International Conference on Law and Society in Hawaii. He co-authored “To Walk in Their Shoes: The Problem of Missing, Misunderstood, and Misrepresented Context in Judging Criminal Confessions” for the New England Law Review in July. 

Rhonda Magee, Professor — Law, and Interim Co-Director — Center for Teaching Excellence, presented “Beyond Burnout: The Mindful Judge” at the Arizona Judicial Conference in June. The same month, she presented “Happiness, Ethics, and Meaning: How Mindfulness Works for Lawyers” at the International Conference on Law and Society in Hawaii. She also presented “Beyond Burnout: The Mindful Lawyer” at the State Bar of Arizona Annual Convention in June.

Maya Manian, Professor — Law, authored “Perverting Informed Consent: The South Dakota Court Decision” for the nonprofit reproductive and sexual health and justice site RH Reality Check in August.

Jesse Markham Jr., Professor — Law, authored “Sailing a Sea of Doubt: A Critique of the Rule of Reason in U.S. Antitrust Law” for the Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law in August. He authored “Does Criminalization of Cartels Work” for the New Journal of European Criminal Law in August. 

Julie Nice, Professor — Law, co-presented “Cross-Cultural Studies of LGBT Legal Mobilization” at the International Conference on Law and Society in Hawaii in June. She co-presented “The Season for Gay Rights? A Discussion of Emerging Constitutional Law” for the Elizabeth J. Cabraser 2012 Summer Brown Bag Lectures in Public Interest Law, hosted by the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center in San Francisco in July. She authored “The Price of Minimalism: Same-Sex Marriage and Judicial Confusion” and “Federalism Concerns in DOMA Litigation” for the online legal news and research site Jurist in July and August, respectively.

Laurence Popofsky, Adjunct Professor — Law, authored “Does Leegin Liberate the Law Governing Horizontal Conspiracies from its Vertical Contamination?” for the Antitrust Law Journal in July. 

Dan Rascher, Professor — Sport Management, authored “The Impact on Demand from Winning in College Football and Basketball: Are College Athletes More Valuable Than Professional Athletes?” for the Santa Clara University Sports Law Symposium in September. He presented “Sports Economics, Analytics, and Decision Making” in September at the Sports Analytics Innovation Summit in San Francisco.

Juliet Spencer, Associate Professor — Biology, received a $500,000 grant from the Fletcher Jones Foundation in September to create the Fletcher Jones Microscopy Center at USF. 

Michelle Travis, Professor — Law, authored “Toward Positive Equality: Taking the Disparate Impact Out of Disparate Impact Theory” for the Lewis & Clark Law Review in June. She authored “Impairment as Protected Status: A New University for Disability Rights” for the Georgia Law Review in July. 

David Wolber, Professor — Computer Science, was awarded a research grant with colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and four other universities, worth about $565,000, from the National Science Foundation in June. The group’s work will focus on encouraging more students to learn fundamental computer programing by building phone apps.

— Updated 11-30-2012 —