March 5, 2002

Kudos!

Acknowledgements
Robert Cottrol, professor of law, of history, and of sociology, and Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, was appointed to the nominating committee for the American Society for Legal History.

Joan Meier, professor of clinical law, was awarded the Edgar and Jean Cahn Article Award by the National Equal Justice Library (NEJL) for her article, “Domestic Violence, Character and Social Change in the Welfare Reform Debate.”

Stephen J. Trachtenberg, University president and professor of public administration, received the Department of the Treasury’s Medal of Merit in recognition of his service as higher education campaign chair in support of the US Savings Bond Program.

Robert Tuttle, associate professor of law, and Ira Lupu, professor of law and Louis Harkey Mayo Research Professor of Law, received a two-year grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to study the legal aspects of government partnerships with faith-based organizations in the delivery of social services.

Appointments
Brian Mathews is a new librarian at the Virginia Campus, where he will serve as liaison with SEAS and EMIS programs.

Ginger Smith, associate professor and director of the Accelerated Master of Tourism Administration program, SBPM, has been appointed an associate dean of GW's College of Professional Studies.

Publications
William Bratton, professor of law and Samuel Tyler Research Professor of Law, published, “Restructuring the Relationship Between Shareholders and Managers,” co-written with Joseph McCahery of the University of Tilburg, in Herpositionering van ondernemingen (Uitgeverij Lemma BV, Utrecht 2001), a volume of essays produced annually by the Dutch Royal Society for Political Economy.

Paul Butler, professor of law, published “Terrorism, Utilitarianism, and the Criminal Law” in the spring edition of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Bradford Clark, professor of law, published, “Putting the Safeguards Back Into the Political Safeguards of Federalism” in the Texas Law Review, p. 327.

Robert Cottrol, professor of law, of history, and of sociology, and Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law, published, “The Long Lingering Shadow: Law, Liberalism, and Cultures of Racial Hierarchy and Identity in the Americas,” in the Tulane Law Review, v.11 (2001).

Shi-Ling Hsu, associate professor of law, co-authored with John Loomis, professor of agricultural and resource economics at Colorado State University, “A Defense of Cost-Benefit Analysis for Natural Resource Policy,” in the February issue of the Environmental Law Reporter.

Barbara Miller, professor of anthropology and international affairs and associate dean, ESIA, published an article on “Female-Selective Abortion in Asia: Patterns, Policies and Debates” in the American Anthropologist, v. 103, pp. 1083–1095.

J. Houston Miller, professor of chemistry, CCAS, co-wrote, with Glauco R. Souza, “Oligonucleotide Detection Using Angle-Dependent Light Scattering and Fractal Dimension Analysis of Gold—DNA Agregates,” in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, v. 123, pp. 6734–6735.

Larry Mitchell, professor of law and John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law, published, “Of Distance, Role, and Accountability,” in England’s Parliamentary Brief. He also published, “America’s Corporate Sovereigns,” in The Chronicle Review of The Chronicle of Higher Education, and “How To Be An Ethical Manager; How to Run an Ethical Corporation” in Optimize magazine.

Robert Tuttle, associate professor of law and Ira Lupu, professor of law and Louis Harkey Mayo Research Professor of Law, published, “The Distinctive Place of Religious Entities in Our Constitutional Order,” in Villanova Law Review, v. 37.

Michael Young, professor of law and dean, GW Law School, published United States Trade Law and Policy, Carolina Academic Press, and Japanese Law in Context, co-authored with Mark Ramseyer and Curtis Milhaupt, Harvard University Press.

Massood Yahya Zadeh, associate professor of accounting, SBPM, published, “A Linear Programming Framework for Flexible Budgeting and Its Application to Classroom Teaching,” in the February edition of Issues in Accounting Education, published by the American Accounting Association.

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