Homeowner Advocacy Unit featured on KTVK-TV (Channel 3)

The College of Law’s Homeowner Advocacy Unit was featured in a report by KTVK-TV (Channel 3) that discussed the work the Unit had done to help homeowner June Geffre, who was in danger of losing her house.

Hessick quoted in ‘Wall Street Journal’

Professor Andy Hessick, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the College of Law, recently was quoted on an upcoming Supreme Court case in The Wall Street Journal article, “Hurdle for Health- Law Suit.”

Homeowner Advocacy Unit fights to stop foreclosure sale

The ASU Homeowner Advocacy Unit today filed for a temporary restraining order to stop the foreclosure sale of June Geffre’s Phoenix home after Bank of America stopped taking Geffre’s mortgage payments in July 2011. The bank refused payment because her deceased husband failed to sign a permanent loan modification agreement, which was approved after he died. The foreclosure sale is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011.

‘Dispute Resolution Magazine’ publishes Wissler article

An article, “Party Participation and Voice in Mediation,” by Roselle Wissler, Research Director of the College of Law’s Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program, was published in the Fall 2011 edition of Dispute Resolution Magazine.

Weinstein pens chapter in new First Amendment book

A chapter by James Weinstein, Amelia Lewis Professor of Constitutional Law at the College of Law, has been published in First Amendment Stories, edited by Richard Garnett and Andrew Koppelman (Foundation Press).

Gartner, Marchant quoted in ‘New Haven Independent’

Professors David Gartner and Gary Marchant were quoted in The New Haven Independent on the concept of “pacing problems” in which the fast pace of new technological innovation far exceeds the slow pace of legislation and regulation.

Marchant article published in ‘Slate’

The widespread clinical use of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) will be good for patients, but it also will leave physicians exposed to great liability risks, according to a new article in Slate magazine, by ASU Regents’ Professor of Law Gary Marchant and Rachel Lindor, Research Director in the Center for Law, Science & Innovation.

Marchant testifies at Congressional hearing

ASU Regents’ Professor Gary Marchant, Executive Director of the College of Law’s Center for Law, Science & Innovation, addressed a Congressional subcommittee on Wednesday, Nov. 30. Marchant testified before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology at a hearing, “Fostering Quality Science at EPA: Perspectives on Common Sense Reform.”

Wissler research on settlement procedures published

Two articles reporting lawyers’ views of court-connected settlement procedures in federal court, written by Roselle Wissler, Research Director of the College of Law’s Lodestar Dispute Resolution Program, were recently published.

Free speech articles by Weinstein published

In a recently published Symposium in the journal, Constitutional Commentary, James Weinstein, Amelia Lewis Professor of Constitutional Law at the College of Law, wrote responses to lead articles by Seana Shiffrin and the late C. Edwin Baker defending different views of autonomy as the basis of free speech.