April 2008
Professor Ranko Shiraki Oliver has agreed to serve as a mentor to attorneys, law students, and potential law students with disabilities through the Mentor Program of the American Bar Association Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. The Mentor Program is a support service that ranges from providing advice on whether mentees may be entitled to seek reasonable accommodations to providing them with networking opportunities.
The Executive Council of the Arkansas Psychiatric Society has voted to award Assistant Dean for Institutional and Organizational Affairs at UAMS College of Public Health Diane S. Mackey the Laurence H. Miller, MD, Award. The award is given for significant contribution to persons with a mental illness within the criminal justice system.
Professor Kenneth S. Gallant presented a paper at a conference on The Individual and Customary International Law Formation, held at Indiana University-Bloomington School of Law on April 4-5. His topic was “Individuals and International Organizations in the Creation of Customary International Criminal Law and Related Customary Human Rights Law.”
Assistant Professor Zak Kramer presented his paper, “Heterosexuality and Title VII,” at a junior faculty workshop at Washington University, in St. Louis. The paper will be published in the 2009 volume of the Northwestern University Law Review.
Associate Professor Coleen Miller Barger has been appointed by the presidents of the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors to be the 2009 Chair of the Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award Committee, which solicits nominations and selects the winner of the legal writing field's most prestigious award. Honoring the life of Professor Thomas F. Blackwell of Appalachian Law School for his personal and professional qualities as a legal writing educator, the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors give this award to recognize a person who has made an outstanding contribution to improve the field of legal writing.
Professor Ken Gould testified before the Arkansas General Assembly Joint Performance Review Committee in regard to water law issues associated with natural gas drilling in the Fayetteville Shale formation. Professor Gould is also serving on a planning committee convened by the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission to consider revision of the Arkansas Water Plan.
Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor Lynn Foster gave a presentation on “The Arkansas Trust Code Revisited” to the Faulkner County Bar Association on April 4.