March 18, 2003

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Reba Carruth, assistant professor of business and public policy and international affairs, director of the Transatlantic Policy and Global Market Governance Project, SBPM, presented a series of lectures on “Globalization, Regional Market Integration, and Governance” in the Kyrgyz Republic. The lecture series specifically addressed the strategic management implications of transatlantic regulatory harmonization and industry standards in global biotechnology, financial services, and transport industries. In addition, Carruth gave public lectures on the management of World Trade Organization-sponsored market liberalization, public policy cooperation, and the growing role of transatlantic and trilateral policy convergence for the Central Asian Economic Cooperation (CAEC). During her visit, Carruth was interviewed by Slovo Kyrgyzstana, one of the large national newspapers in the Kyrgyz Republic, on the topic of governing globalization, competition policy cooperation, and market integration. Her trip was sponsored by the US Department of State and the Academy of Management of Kyrgyzstan.

Amitai Etzioni, University Professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies, participated in three panel discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.

Kimberly Gross, assistant professor, SMPA, CCAS, and Seth Goldman, George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellow, CCAS, were accepted to present their paper, “Framing Hate: The Nature and Consequences of Media Coverage of Anti-Gay Hate Crimes,” at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in August.

Valentina Harizanov, associate professor of mathematics, CCAS, presented “On the Learnability of Vector Spaces” co-authored with Frank Stephan, at the 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory in Lübeck, Germany. She also presented “Principal Filters of the Lattice of Computably Enumerable Vector Spaces” at the meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Madison, WI.

Suzanne H. Jackson, associate professor of clinical law, Law School, testified twice before the DC City Council Committee on Human Services about the availability of prescription medicines to the District’s elderly population, and proposed legislation to create a District-wide health care ombudsman’s office. She also gave a presentation before the DC Commission on Aging on the recent disenrollment of seniors from the DC Health Care Alliance.

Leo P. Ribuffo, Society of the Cincinnati George Washington Distinguished Professor, CCAS, presented the paper, “Conservatism and American Politics,” at the 2003 convention of the American Historical Association in Chicago.

Alfreda Robinson, associate dean for strategic planning and skills training, associate director of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program, and professorial lecturer in law, Law School, has been named chair-elect of the Litigation Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Larry Singleton, associate professor of accountancy, spoke at the National Investor Relations Institute E-Learning seminar, “Changes in Accounting,” Webcast live to NIRI members on Feb. 18.

Awards
Gregory B. Scoma, security and safety coordinator, UPD, received the Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation by the Professional Certification Board of the American Society for Industrial Security, based in Alexandria, VA. The CPP credential provides an objective measure of an individual’s knowledge and competency in security management. Throughout the world, it is the security profession’s highest recognition of practitioners.

Louis Sohn, distinguished research professor of law, director of research and studies of the International Rule of Law Center, Law School, was honored for his accomplishments in international environmental law as a teacher, practitioner, public servant, and visionary in the area of international law. Sohn was the first recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Development of International Environmental Law — an award recently established by the Center for International Environmental Law in recognition of the importance and richness of the topic.

Publications
Hossein Askari, professor of international buisiness, SBPM, John Forrer, assistant research professor of international business, SBPM, Hildy Teegen, associate professor of international business, SBPM, and Jiawen Yang, associate professor of international business, SBPM, have published the book “Economic Sanctions: Examining Their Philosophy and Efficacy.” The book, published by Praeger, is the first of three volumes on the topic by the authors.

Valentina Harizanov, associate professor of mathematics, CCAS, co-published “Sequences of N-Diagrams” with Julia Knight and Andrei Morozov, in the Journal of Symbolic Logic, v. 67, pp. 1227–1247. Harizanov also published “Computability-Theoretic Complexity of Countable Structures” in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, v. 8, pp. 457-477.

Susan L. Karamanian, associate dean for international and comparative legal studies and professorial lecturer in law, Law School, recently published “The US Death Penalty Under International Scrutiny: Lessons from Ottawa, Strasbourg, and The Hague,” in Globalism: People, Profits and Progress (2002). Her book review of Mark R. Joelson, “An International Antitrust Primer: A Guide to the Operation of the United States, European Union, and Other Key Competition Laws in the Global Economy” (2d ed. 2001) appeared in American Journal of International Law 1012 (2002).

Mark Klock, professor of finance, SBPM, published “Two Possible Answers to the Enron Experience: Will It Be Regulation of Fortune Tellers or Rebirth of Secondary Liability?” The paper was published in the fall 2002 issue of The Journal of Corporation Law, pp. 101–141.

Sean Murphy, associate professor of law, Law School, published “International Law, the United States, and the Non-Military ‘War’ Against Terrorism,” in the spring 2003 issue of the European Journal of International Law. He also published an essay on “Liability and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control,” in the International Law Association’s Forum magazine.

David Shambaugh, professor of political science and international affairs, director of the China Policy Program, ESIA, recently published “Modernizing China’s Military: Progress, Problems and Prospects” (University of California Press).

Kudos is a recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of the GW faculty and staff.