SALT members have the additional benefit of publicity for their upcoming publications--books, text, and articles.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, California Assembly Votes to Report on Human Rights to U.N. Committees, Huffingtonpost.com, August 19, 2010
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, Landmark Ruling Declares Proposition 8 Unconstitutional, Huffingtonpost.com, August 8, 2010.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, Losing in Afghanistan, Huffingtonpost.com, July 6, 2010.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, Rwandan Arrest of U.S. Lawyer Motivated by Politics, Huffingtonpost.com, May 31, 2010.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, Israel Murders Human Rights Workers Delivering Humanitarian Aid, Huffingtonpost.com, May 31, 2010.
Ben Davis, University of Toledo, No Military Commission for KSM, The Blade, May 16, 2010.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, Kagan's Troubling Record, Huffingtonpost.com, May 14, 2010.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, Obama’s Kagan Choice Will Push Court to the Right Can Kagan Fill Stevens’ Mighty Shoes?, Commondreams.org, May 9, 2010.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, Arizona Legalizes Racial Profiling, Jurist, April 26, 2010.
Norman Dorsen, NYU, American Federism and the American Civil Liberties Union, coauthored with Susan Herman, Liman Program on the Public Interest, Yale Law School, December 2009.
Olympia Duhart, Nova Southeastern University, published a post, Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, on the DefendersOnLine, February 16, 2010.
Michael Rooke-Ley, Willamette University, published an oped in The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR " Athlete Tutoring Center a Symbol of Serious Problems at UO, January 24, 2010.
Angela Mae Kupenda, Mississippi College of Law, published several articles in 2009: The State as Batterer:Learning from Family Law to Address America's Family-Like Racial Disfunction, 20 University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 33 (2009); Donning Judicial Robes, Cloaking Racial Views: Judicial Speech on Matters Involving Race, Especially on the Jena Six, co-authored with Evelyn Holden and Ke Yuan, 36 Southern University Law Review 207 (2009).
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jeffrson Law School, posted on Truthout.org, questioning the legality of Obama's Af-Pak war on December 21, 2009.
Ruben J. Garcia, California Western School of Law, published Fundamental Change for the Protection of Law-Wage Workers: The "Workers' Rights are Human Rights" Debate in the Obama Era, in University of Chicago Legal Forum.
Deirdre Bowen, Seattle University School of Law, commented on the new breast cancer screening recommendations in November 19, 2009 post on Cases & Controversies.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson Law School, is the author of Lynne Stewart: Casuality of the "War on Terror," in Jurist, November 24, 2009.
Bert B. Lockwood, Jr., University of Cincinnati, is the series editor for the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Ben Davis, University of Toledo, published a piece on accountability on The Jurist, September 18, 2009, Torture Tales: Calling John Durham.
Doug Colbert, University of Maryland, published an op ed piece in the Baltimore Sun on August 26, 2009, entitled "A Loss for Poor Defendants."
Constance de la Vega, University of San Francisco, will be publishing "The Special Measures Mandate of the International Convention on the Elimination of Race Discrimination: Lessons from the United States and South Africa" in an upcoming issue of ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law in Summer 2010. A draft is available at her SSRN page by clicking on her name.
Paul Butler, George Washington University, has published Let's Get Free-a Hip-Hop Theory of Justice.
Kathleen Clark, Washington University School of Law, has contributed to Room for Debate in the New York Times on whether John Yoo, professor at University of California, Berkeley School of Law, should be dismissed.
Olympia Duhart, Nova Southeastern, has published Life After Wrongful Conviction, at The Defenders On Line, August 13, 2009
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson, Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent"By Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd Poll Point Press, Sausalito, 2009. Read the June 22, 2009 review in truthout.org.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson, Agent Orange Continues to Poison, Huffingtonpost, June 15, 2009
Robert Hornstein, Florida Coastal Law School, TEACHING LAW STUDENTS TO COMFORT THE TROUBLED AND TROUBLE THE COMFORTABLE:An Essay on the Place of Poverty Law in the Law School Curriculum, 35 Wm. Mitchell. L. Rev. 1057 (2009).
Lawrence Velvel, Dean, Massachusetts Law School, "An Enemy of the People: The Unending Battle Against Conventional Wisdom," won the 2009 gold medal in the essay/creative category of Independent Publisher, the voice of the independent publishing industry.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson, Obama's Guantanamo Appeasement Plan, May 26, 2009, Huffingtonpost.com
Ben Davis, University of Toledo, If Americans Insist, Our Leaders Will Prosecute, May 26, 2009, Toledo Blade.
Ben Davis, University of Toledo, Ashcroft v. Iqbal: Different Spanks for Different Ranks?, May 20, 2009, The Jurist.
Ben Davis, University of Toledo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, May 12, 2009, The Jurist.
Jonathan Kahn, Hamline University, Race, Genes and Justice: A Call to Reform the Presentation of Forensic DNA Evidence in Criminal Trials, 72 Brooklyn Law Review 325-375 (2009).
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson, Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11, April 23, 2009, www.marjoriecohn.com.
Ben Davis, University of Toledo, America's Moment of Truth on Torture, April 8, 2009, The Jurist.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson, Spain investigates what America should, April 6, 2009, SFGate Open Forum.
Deborah Waire Post, Touro Law Center, Interview on Legal Talk Network, AIG Mess: Executive Contracts, March 27, 2009.
Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School, The Supreme Court and the Peculiar Institution: Marshall, Story, Taney, and the Defense of Slavery, W.EB. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Nathan I. Huggins Lectures, March 17, 18 and 19 at 4:00 pm Thompson Room Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
Michael Avery, Suffolk Law School, editor of We Dissent, January 2009. Download pdf flyer for the book cover.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson, A Call to End All Renditions, The Jurist, February 10, 2009; Memos Provide Blueprint for Police State, Truthout.org, March 4, 2009.
Leslie Francis, Univeristy of Utah, The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease, (authors: Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A. Jacobson, Charles Smith). Oxford, 2009.
Leslie P. Francis, “Privacy and Confidentiality: The Importance of Context,” Monist 91(1) (January 2008).
Leslie P. Francis and Anita Silvers, “Debilitating Alexander v. Choate: “Meaningful Access” to Health Care for People with Disabilities,” 45 Fordham Urban Law Journal 101 (2008).
Silvers, Anita, and Leslie P. Francis, “Law School Education, Disability, and Standpoint Theory,” University of Pittsburgh Law Review (2008).
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson, Why Was Cheney So Quick To Admit He's a War Criminal?, Alternet.org, December 22, 2008.
Hazel Weiser, Let the Walls Speak: Collecting the Stories From the War on Terror, Truthout.org, December 5, 2008.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson, Guantanamo Justice After Seven Years, Jurist and Truthout.org November 24, 2008.
Benjamin Davis, University of Toledo, Open Letter From a Citizen to President-Elect Barack Obama:No Bailouts for Torturers, November 24, 2008.
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, University of Iowa, Civil Rights Initiative Does Not Advance Civil Rights, October 21, 2008, American Forum.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson, Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights, November 10, 2008, Truthout.org.
Deborah Waire Post, Touro Law Center, Merit is More than Numbers, American Forum, October 17, 2008.
---A Fresh Look at Prejudice, Newsday, November 9, 2008.
Margaret Martin Barry, Catholic University, What's Wrong With the Civil Rights Initiative?, American Forum, October 22, 2008.
Deirdre Bowen, Seattle University, Affirmative Action: Numbers Don't Lie, American Forum, October 20, 2008 and assorted blogs and newspapers.
Patricia Cain, Santa Clara University, Churches Won't Lose Tax Exemptions for Performing Same Sex Marriages, Fog City Journal, October 20, 2008.
Benjamin Davis, University of Toledo, Prosecuting High Level Americans for War Crimes, Jurist, September 22, 2008.
Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Pre-Emptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC, Truthout.org, September 2, 2008.
---A Palin Theocracy, truthout.org, September 11, 2008.
Bill Quigley, Loyola University, New Orleans