Professor Katherine Darmer was quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times entitled “Disgraced NBA referee alleges 2002 playoff conspiracy.” In the article, Professor Darmer said she expects the letter by referee Tim Donaghy to further postpone sentencing, with the judge likely to press prosecutors about their investigation into his claims. “It’s really hard
Dean John Eastman was quoted in an article in the Los Angeles Times entitled “Lawsuits in defense of gay marriage can backfire, activist groups warn,” which reported on a memo drafted by nine major gay rights groups asking couples not to sue the federal government or other states to have their California nuptials recognized, saying
Dean John Eastman was quoted in an article in ABA Journal: Law News Now, entitled “Illegal Aliens on I.C.E. – Tougher immigration enforcement tactics spur challenges,” which addressed a number of issues in immigration law, including racial profiling. In the article, Dean Eastman stated: “Should the Supreme Court revisit racial profiling in immigration, it’s possible
Professor Bobby Dexter presented a paper entitled “Serfs at the Mercy of a Hungry Beast: Aggressive Regressivity, Private Equity, and the Quandary of the St. Luke Imperative” and served as a discussant on several other papers at the 2008 Junior Tax Scholars Conference on June 6, 2008 at New York University.
Professor Vernon Smith has published an article entitled “The Promise of Prediction Markets” in the May 16, 2008 issue of Science Magazine.
Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted on “Morning Edition” (NPR) in a piece about whether Wall Street investment houses knew that they were packaging bad loans for securitization. “It’s amazing if any investment bank agreed to a maximum number of loans they would kick back for defects. That means that they were willing to accept junk.
Associate Dean Tim Canova was featured in the Orange County Register’s Mortgage Insider, in a piece entitled “Did the agencies rating mortgage bonds let greed trump common sense?” Dean Canova was quizzed about the agencies and their role in the housing boom and its subsequent collapse. In the wide ranging interview, Dean Canova tackled some
Professor Kurt Eggert was quoted in the Los Angeles Times, in a story entitled “In mortgage market, ‘walkaway’ homeowners may be urban myth,” which discussed whether homeowners are walking away from their mortgages . Excerpt: “So many of the loans made were irresponsible — for the borrowers and for the lenders,” said Kurt Eggert, an
Professor Donald Kochan has published an op-ed in Los Angeles Daily Journal, entitled “Hungry for Precedent,” in which he builds on an ongoing project regarding judging and precedent.
Dean John Eastman was interviewed this week on the television news program, “Daybreak OC,” where he discussed the constitutional implications of the recent City of Orange dog barking / free speech controversy and the California home schooling decision. “Daybreak OC” is a weekday morning newscast for all of Southern California that focuses on the news,