Faculty Scholarship Impacts Students, the Nation and Beyond
Scholarship is the backbone of faculty. This is our way of learning and expanding our knowledge base. It usually starts as we get excited or inquisitive about specific topics and conduct research in those areas. As we contemplate the existing scholarship in an area, we begin to write and publish exciting and new theories to propose changes or new ways of analyzing a topic. Indeed, we may become known for our developing expertise and be invited to speak at conferences and present scholarly papers. In the end, the real winners are our students because we bring our scholarship into the classroom to enhance our teaching.
La Verne Law faculty also took their scholarship to all parts of the United States and several countries in Europe as we spread our knowledge during the past year. Two new books were published: Advanced Guide for Mediators and Making Tax Law. Several new editions to books were written, including: third edition of Contracts, Doctrine, Values and Skills; renamed text, Courtroom Use and Misuse of Mathematics, Physics and Finance; and second edition for Computer and Video Game Law. Annual supplements were published for the following texts: Documentary Evidence, Demonstrative Evidence, Guerrilla Discovery, and Is It Admissible?.
Many law review articles were published this past year in such journals as: the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal; Complexity, Governance & Networks; Idaho Law Review; Journal of Law, Business & Ethics; Mississippi College Law Review; Nevada Law Journal; Rutgers Law Review; and St. John’s Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development. Smaller journal articles and op ed pieces were published in The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution e-newsletter, The Federal Lawyer Magazine, International Law Journal Section e-Journal, The Los Angeles Daily Journal, and The Riverside Lawyers’ Magazine.
The faculty members’ public presentations were equally impressive. A sampling of the presentations include: “After Perry, Windsor, and Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: Where Are We Now?,” (Diane Klein); “The Art of Being Clutch: How to Perform Your Best on Exams and Avoid the Choke” (Kevin Sherrill), “The Complexity of Entrepreneurial Systems and Networks” (Kevin Marshall), “Disinfecting Market Pathogens – Astroturfing and Its Anticompetitive Impact” (Krystal Lyons), “From Confusion to Concision: Tips and Techniques to Improve Student Writing” (Jodie Jewel), “How the ‘Fourth Party’ Affects Mediator Ethics” (Susan Nauss Exon), “Internet Copyrights” (Ashley Lipson), “Stigma, Anti-Sodomy Statutes, and the Lost Promise of Lawrence” (Tiffany Graham), “Stuck in Forward: Debt, Austerity, and Possibilities of the Political” (Victoria Haneman), “Training the Litigator in the 21st Century” (Gilbert Holmes), “The Voting Rights Act of 1965: Past, Present and Future” (Charles Doskow), and panel member at the Southeast Southwest People of Color Conference (Diane Uchimiya).
The College of Law is proud of the hard work and scholarly accomplishments of its faculty during the past year. Their dedication to legal education outside of the classroom is impressive, especially as it enriches the classroom experience for students. We look forward to reporting on the exciting scholarly endeavors that faculty are currently working on and to profiling individual faculty members in coming editions of Law Verne.
