Moritz Junior Faculty Scholarship Roundup,
2013-14
By
Ryan Edmiston, Class of 2015
Over
the last few years, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law has
continued to build its distinguished faculty by attracting some of the nation’s
most promising entry-level law professors.
These half-dozen pre-tenure professors have advanced Moritz’s
long-standing tradition of excellence with their passion in the classroom,
service to the community, and numerous contributions to the academic
literature. Over the past year, each of these
professors has placed or published one or more articles in a top-20
journal. Here is a snapshot of some of
their published and forthcoming work:
Amna Akbar: Professor Akbar’s interdisciplinary research
focuses on the intersection of national security and criminal law. In addition, she co-directs the Moritz Civil Law
Clinic and serves on the Board of Editors of the Clinical Law Review. Professor
Akbar’s article, National Security’s
Broken Windows, provides a taxonomy for national security community
policing initiatives and situates national security policing as a form of
community policing. The article will be
published in the UCLA Law Review.
Micah Berman: Professor Berman holds a joint
appointment at Moritz and the College of Public Health. His research investigates the intersection of
public health law and policy, with an emphasis on tobacco regulation. Professor Berman’s article, Manipulative
Marketing and the First Amendment, contends that
manipulative marketing practices should be entitled to limited, if any,
protection under the First Amendment, particularly when the products or activities
being promoted are harmful to public health.
The article will be published in the Georgetown
Law Journal.
Margot
Kaminski:
Professor Kaminski is the newest member of the Moritz faculty. Her diverse research interests in law and
technology include media freedom, online civil liberties, international
intellectual property law, legal issues raised by artificial intelligence and
robotics, and surveillance. Professor
Kaminski’s article, The Capture of International
Intellectual Property Law through the U.S. Trade Regime,
87 S. Cal. L. Rev. 977 (2014),
highlights the problem of regulatory capture in U.S. trade negotiations and
proposes a reinstatement of the Federal Advisory Committee Act to combat the
trend.
Guy
Rub:
Professor Rub writes at the intersection of intellectual property and
economic theory. His article, Stronger
than Kryptonite? Inalienable Profit-Sharing Schemes in Copyright Law,
27 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 49
(2013), points out some of the shortcomings in copyright law’s system of terminating rights. Professor
Rub’s most recent article, Rebalancing Copyright Exhaustion,
sets forth the economic case for a balanced approach to the first sale doctrine
in copyright. That article will be
published in the Emory Law Journal.
Dakota
Rudesill: Professor Rudesill, prior to joining
the Moritz faculty, spent over a decade serving as an advisor to senior leaders
in all three branches of the federal government. Although he now resides in Columbus, Professor
Rudesill remains a familiar face in the nation’s capital through his role as a co-director
for the Moritz
Washington D.C. Summer Program. Professor Rudesill’s article, Regulating
Tactical Nuclear Weapons, 101 Geo.
L.J. 99 (2013),
leverages his vast knowledge of national security law to propose a model
regulatory framework for smaller, tactical nuclear arms that currently are
subject to far fewer restrictions than their larger, long-range counterparts.
Chris
Walker: Professor Walker’s research focuses
on administrative law and regulation.
His article, The Ordinary Remand Rule and the
Judicial Toolbox for Agency Dialogue, uncovers a novel
set of tools that courts have developed to enhance their dialogue with federal
agencies on remand. The article will be
published in the George Washington Law
Review. In The
Death of Tax Court Exceptionalism, he collaborates
with Professor
Stephanie Hoffer to argue that the Administrative
Procedure Act should apply to the U.S. Tax Court. That article will be published in the Minnesota Law Review. Professor Walker’s empirical study of agency
statutory interpretation, entitled Inside
Agency Interpretation, was recently accepted for publication
in the Stanford Law Review.
Editor's Note: This is part of a new series in which the library will spotlight recent scholarship produced at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. If you have suggestions for books or articles to include, contact Sara Sampson.