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Professor Lisa T. Alexander, Director of the Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law:
Presented, "Tiny Homes: Bringing Home the Right to Housing," and moderated the panel "Housing and Homelessness: Fresh Approaches to a Lasting Problem, at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Association for Law, Property, and Society at Maastricht University in Maastricht, Netherlands (June 1-2, 2018).
Moderator/Commentator/Participant, University of Pennsylvania Perspectives on Fair Housing Symposium, 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, sponsored by the Provost's Office at the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Philadelphia, Pa. (April 11, 2018).
Organized the Texas A&M University School of Law Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law's Second Annual 2018 Real Property Law Schmooze, titled Bridging the Urban Versus Rural Divide, from February 1-3, 2018. The program, directed by Professor Alexander, invited 17 prominent legal scholars with expertise in either urban or rural property law to present unpublished works-in-progress or early-stage ideas relevant to the theme of how law can bridge the urban versus rural divide. Six Texas A&M University School of Law faculty members affiliated with the program also participated. Professor Joseph William Singer, the Bussey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, served as the Program's Distinguished Real Property Law Keynote Speaker. The Schmooze received positive publicity on the Property Profs Blog.
Published "Bringing Home the Right to Housing to Advance Urban Sustainability," 4 Texas A&M J. of Property Law 67 (keynote address) (2017).
Published "Tiny Homes for the Homeless: A Return to Politically Engaged Community Economic Development Law?" in "Community Development Law and Economic Justice--Why Law Matters," 26 J. of Affordable Hous. & Comm. Dev. L. 31, 39 (2017), co-authored with 11 other professors from law schools such as Michigan, Northeastern, UC Davis, UC Hastings, and UCLA
Professor Wayne Barnes:
His article "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Online Reviews: The Trouble with Trolls and a Role for Contract Law after the Consumer Review Fairness Act" has been accepted for publication in Volume 52 of the Georgia Law Review.
Published, along with co-authors David Epstein (Richmond), Paula Franzese (Seton Hall), and Kevin Tu (Maryland) the new classroom text Learning Core Commercial Law Concepts (West Academic Publishing). The new text is a condensed survey of key concepts from the Uniform Commercial Code, including Article 2 (Sales), Articles 3 and 4 (Payment Systems), and Article 9 (Secured Transactions).
Invited to participate in an upcoming online roundtable symposium to be published in the Washington and Lee Law Review Online. The online roundtable is a follow-up to a live symposium held at Washington and Lee on March 16-17, 2018, titled "Religious Values and Public Policy: Does the Separation of Church and State Also Require Separating Religion from Politics?" The live symposium featured a keynote address by Professor Sam Calhoun at Washington and Lee on whether arguments from a faith-based perspective (and, specifically Christian) are appropriate in a pluralistic society.
Presented "Negative Online Reviews, the Consumer Review Freedom Act, and the Potential Role of Contract Doctrine," at the Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Contracts, Barry University School of Law, Orlando, Fla. (February 24, 2018).
Associate Professor Amber Baylor, Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic:
Presented "Committing To Change: Building Intentional Uncertainty and Fluidity Into Clinic Design" at AALS Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Chicago, Ill. (April 30, 2018).
Presented "A Trifold View of the Cost of Misdemeanor Charges," at American University Washington College of Law, Economic Justice Program, Poverty Law Conference, Washington, D.C. (March 24, 2018).
Senior Lecturer Cecily Becker, Externship Program Director:
Co-presented "Professional Identity Formation: It's No Accident" at the Externships 9 Conference: Coming of Age, at the University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Ga. (March 9, 2018).
Professor Mark Burge:
Presented "Contract Law Bargains for a New Audience," at the Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Contracts, Barry University School of Law, Orlando, Fla. (February 23, 2018).
Professor William Byrnes, Associate Dean for Special Projects:
Co-authored (with Robert Munro):
Tax Havens of the World, Matthew Bender Rel. 162 (February 2018)
International Withholding Tax Treaty Guide, Matthew Bender Rel. 154 (February 2018)
Money Laundering, Asset Forfeiture and Recovery, and Compliance—A Global Guide, Matthew Bender Rel. 27 (February 2018)
Foreign Tax & Trade Briefs, Second Edition, Matthew Bender, Rel. 523 (December 2017)
Tax Havens of the World, Matthew Bender, Rel. 161 (December 2017)
International Trust & Company Laws, Wolters Kluwer, Rel. 4/2017 (December 2017)
Published the article "Show me the Money. Where Are All the FATCA Fat Cats?" IFC Economic Report (Winter 2017-2018) (pp. 36-37).
Published the following articles (with Robert Bloink) in ThinkAdvisor:
"How Is an S Corporation, or Pass-Through Entity, Taxed?" (January 31, 2018)
"The HSA Priority: Rethinking Tax-Preferred Account Funding Strategies" (January 22, 2018)
"Small-Business Retirement Rules Shift under New Tax Law" (January 16, 2018)
"Your Kids Could Pay the Price for Poor LTC Planning" (December 11, 2017)
"Level Fee Trend Survives Fiduciary Rule Delays" (December 4, 2017)
"When the IRS Wants Your Life Insurance Policy," (November 29, 2017).
"Reducing RMDs' Tax Impact by Using NUA Tax Break" (November 27, 2017)
"Creating a Special Needs Plan for Social Security, ABLE Accounts" (November 16, 2017)
"4 Common Questions about End-of-Year Charitable Giving Strategies" (November 13, 2017)
Presented the webinar "Forms W-8BEN and W-9 Compliance in Foreign and U.S. Business Transactions" (December 19, 2017).
Presented "Adding Value for Graduate Law Students" at the AALS co-sponsored Sections of Graduate Programs and Post Graduate Legal Education (January 6, 2018).
Workshop leader, "Comparables Benchmarking for Cost Accounting of a Law School" at the AALS Section for Finance & Administration Full Day Friday Program (January 5, 2018).
Moderator, "Teaching Civil Law Students a Common Law Curriculum" at the AALS co-sponsored Sections of Graduate Programs and Post Graduate Legal Education (January 4, 2018).
Assumed the following AALS Leadership Positions for 2018:
Founding Member of the 38 Fellows of the American Association of Law School
Chair, Section for Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers
Chair Elect, Section for Finance & Administration
Executive Committee, Post Graduate Legal Education
Executive Committee, International Legal Exchange
Professor Irene Calboli:
Published "Chocolate, Fashion, Toys, and Cabs: The Misunderstood Distinctiveness of Non-Traditional Trademarks" 49 International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 1 (2018) (pp. 1-4).
Presented "3D Printing and Disruptive Technologies," Faculty Seminar, Faculty of Law and Social Science, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (February 16, 2018).
Presented "Geographical Indications at the Crossroads of Trade and Marketing," public lecture, Centre of International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg, France (February 13, 2018).
Served as commentator and participated at the Workshop of the Harmonization of Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, Switzerland (February 9, 2018).
Presented "How to Tie IP, Cultural Heritage, and Economic Development in Southeast Asia" at the Cultural Industries and Intellectual Property in Southeast Asia Conference, Faculty of Law and Wee Kim Wee Centre, Singapore Management University (February 1-2, 2018).
Presented the keynote address, "Intellectual Property and Patents for Medicines," at the Conference on Harmonization on Law, Economics and Health towards Social Justice, Universitas 17 Augustus 1945, Semarang, Indonesia (January 29-30, 2018).
Presented "The ASEAN Approach to Under-Water Cultural Heritage, Admiralty and Maritime Law Panel," co-sponsored by Art Law and International Law Sections, "Sunken Treasure: Recovery of Cultural Property from Historic Shipwrecks," 112th AALS Annual Meeting Access to Justice, San Diego, Calif. (January 3-7, 2018).
Presented "Is the RCEP so Different than the TTP? The Indirect Influence of the US in International IP Negotiations in Asia," Intellectual Property Section Panel on "International IP Law in a Post-TPP/TTIP, Post-Brexit World," at the 112th AALS Annual Meeting Access to Justice (January 3-7, 2018).
Gave the keynote, "Intellectual Property (IP): Its Role in the Global Economy and Development," at the Intellectual Property is Big News: Regional Seminar for Journalists Seminar, World Intellectual Property Organization, Singapore Office (December 11-12, 2017).
Served as commentator at The Future of Asian Trade Deal and IP Conference, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Singapore (December 8, 2017).
Presented "Intellectual Property and Free Movement of Goods in ASEAN" at the ASEAN Law Conference, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Singapore (December 7-8, 2017).
Presented "3D Printing Technology and Digital Trade" at the Digital Trade in the Asia-Pacific: Identifying Challenges, Seeking Solutions Conference, School of Law, Singapore Management University (organized by Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne), Singapore (December 6, 2017).
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law and Social Science, University Carlos III of Madrid, Master in Intellectual Property Rights teaching classes on "Non-Traditional Trademarks" and "Geographical Indications" (February 2018).
Visiting professor at the Centre of International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg [France], Graduate Program in Intellectual Property. Lecturing on "The International Protection of Trademarks" and "Geographical Indications" (February 2018).
Visiting professor, Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia, Master in International Business Law, teaching "Intellectual Property" and "International Trade" (December 2017).
Professor Gabriel Eckstein, Director of the Program in Natural Resources Systems:
Published the essay "The wicked problem of pharmaceuticals in our waters," in "Wicked problems facing integrated water quality management: what IWRA experts tell us," (James E. Nickum, Henning Bjornlund & Raya Marina Stephan, Eds.), Water International, Vol. 43:3, pp. 336-348 (2018).
Presented "Basics of Texas Water Law" to the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association, Fort Worth, Texas (January 16, 2018).
Interviewed on the KUHF/NPR radio show Houston Matters (at 1:05) about the U.S. Supreme Court case in which Texas sued New Mexico over water rights and allocations in the Rio Grande (January 8, 2018).
Interviewed on the Texas Standard (at 16:33) radio show about the U.S. Supreme Court case in which Texas sued New Mexico over water rights and allocations in the Rio Grande (January 2, 2018).
Presented "Sharing What You Can't See: Policy and Governance Challenges for Managing Transboundary Groundwater Resources on the Mexico-U.S. Border" to the Dallas Bar Association Environment Law Section (December 7, 2017).
Professor Susan Fortney, Director of the Program for the Advancement of Legal Ethics:
Co-moderated the 3rd ABA Workshop on Developments in Proactive Regulation of Lawyers. In 2014, Professor Fortney spearheaded these workshops to bring together interested regulators and others to explore proactive regulation of lawyers. Since that time two U.S. states and one Canadian province have implemented proactive self-assessment programs (June 2, 2018).
In June 2018, West Academic Press released the newest addition to its hornbook series: Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, and the Legal Profession. Professor Susan Fortney with Professor Vincent Johnson co-authored the legal malpractice part of the book, consisting of over 232 pages of the 1000+ page book. It is the first legal ethics hornbook published since 1986.
Presented the evaluation component of the Lubbock County Private Defender Training Program to program participants in connection with her consultation of a National Association of Legal Aid and Defender Attorneys grant from the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice. The program trains and empowers lawyers appointed to represent indigent defendants (April 13, 2018).
The Texas Bar Foundation awarded a $25,000 grant to the Texas Apprenticeship Network, an apprentice program that places recent graduates with respected attorneys who work in the communities and practice areas of interest to the recent graduates. The program is designed for recent graduates who are committed to solo law practice that focuses on representation of persons with limited means to pay market rates for legal services. Professor Fortney launched the program in 2016 with a grant from the Texas Bar Foundation and grant match from Texas A&M University (April 2018).
Served as a co-organizer of the Third Annual Bovay Workshop Ethical Risk Management: Theory and Practice sponsored by The Bovay Chair and the Texas A&M Program for the Advancement of Legal Ethics. The workshop included experts who shared their European and Canadian experiences and perspectives (April 9, 2018).
Published "A Portrait of Uninsured Lawyers; Using Empirical Data to Enhance Public Protection" in JOTWELL. Professor Fortney serves as a contributing editor for the Legal Profession Section of JOTWELL (March 30, 2018).
Convened and moderated an Ethics Scholar Roundtable on public health ethics at Texas A&M University. The roundtable provides opportunities for ethics professors from across the Texas A&M University community to come together to discuss their research and teaching, while exploring collaborative endeavors (March 2, 2018).
Presented "Lawyers Making Mistakes: Understanding Your Legal Malpractice Insurance and Duties to Clients" at the St. Mary's Law Journal's 17th Annual Symposium of Legal Malpractice and Ethics (January 26, 2018).
Professor Paul George:
Presented a CLE program titled Forum Clauses—Law, Tactics and Ethics at Gray Reed McGraw, LLC, in its Dallas office (February 28, 2018).
Met with Uniform Law Commission members in Philadelphia as Reporter on the ULC project Joint Drafting Committee on Registration of Foreign Judgments to Harmonize the Law of Canada and the United States (February 15, 2018).
Organized a meeting with Oklahoma Secretary of State Deby Snodgrass, Secretary of Agriculture Jim Reese, Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce President Fred Morgan, and OSU Vice President Gary Clark concerning Oklahoma's interacting with the North Texas Commission on trade corridor development, specifically the trade function of intermodal transportation (December 4, 2017).
Professor Michael Z. Green, Director of the Workplace Law Program:
Media commentator discussing presentation at Arkansas law school and matters on race and negotiations, KUAF National Public Radio 91.3 HD (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), interview by Kyle Kellam on "Race, Gender and Negotiations" (April 23, 2018).
Presenter and discussant, "Rewriting Clark County School District v. Breeden," Feminist Judgments Workshop: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions, University of Nevada Las Vegas Law School (April 20, 2018).
Presenter, "Retaliating Against Black Lives Matter in the Workplace," University of Arkansas School of Law Speaker Series, Fayetteville, Ark. (April 17, 2018).
Presenter, "Employment ADR and Race," Prejudice in ADR: Still a Problem in These Complex Times program, ABA Dispute Resolution Section Spring Conference, Washington, D.C. (April 6, 2018).
Posted his commentary, "Employer Catering to Discriminatory Harassment and Preferences by Influential Outsiders," discussing Professor Dallan F. Flake's article, "Employer Liability for Non-Employee Discrimination," in Worklaw JOTWELL (March 20, 2018).
Delivered the invited keynote speech "Protecting Speech in Black Work Matters," at the University of San Francisco Law School's 14th Annual Jack Pemberton Lecture on Workplace Justice held at the United State Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Francisco, Calif. (March 22, 2018).
Presented "Black Worker Protests and the Employment Discrimination Implications" at the Fort Worth Human Resources Management Association Monthly Legal Hour and Luncheon (March 15, 2018).
Selected to write the revised opinion, from a feminist perspective, in Clark County School District v. Breeden, 532 U.S. 268 (2001) for the book, Feminist Judgments: Employment Discrimination Opinions Rewritten (Editors Ann C. McGinley & Nicole Porter Cambridge University Press forthcoming 2018) (February 28, 2018).
Presented "Speech Protections and Black Lives Matter in the Workplace" at The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers 5th and 11th Circuit Regional Annual Program, New Orleans, La. (February 17, 2018).
Presented "Assuming the Existence of Implicit Bias, Then What Do We Do About It?" as part of a program for Black History Month sponsored by the Texas A&M University School of Law Black Law Students Association on "Implicit Bias: What's Next?" and joined a panel discussion on the topic of on "Implicit Bias" with Associate Director of Academic Support DeShun Harris, Associate Dean for Experiential Education and Professor Luz Herrera, and Professor Lynne Rambo (February 12, 2018).
Presented "Collective Voice in Dispute Resolution" on a panel at the AALS Annual Meeting Program of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice in San Diego, Calif. (January 4, 2018).
Published "Developing Workplace Law Programming: A Labor of Love," 86 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 521 (2018) (March 2018).
Published three papers in December 2017:
"Reconsidering Prejudice in Alternative Dispute Resolution for Black Work Matters," 70 Southern Methodist University Law Review 639 (2017).
"The Audacity of Protecting Racist Speech Under the National Labor Relations Act," 2017 University Chicago Legal Forum 235 (2017).
Chapter 41, "Negotiating While Black," in The Negotiator's Desk Reference (Editors Christopher Honyeman & Andrea Kupfer Schneider DRI Press 2017).
Executive Professor William H. Henning:
Principal drafter for several comments that were adopted by the Texas Bar Association's Uniform Commercial Code Committee. As a committee member, he participated in monthly committee telephone conferences.
Appointed by the president of the Uniform Law Commission to chair a working group charged with drafting policies on transparency and conflicts of interest. Served as principal drafter to develop a set of proposals that will be presented to the membership of the ULC at its 2018 annual meeting in July.
Serves on a drafting committee that is revising several articles of the UCC to accommodate electronic promissory notes backed by residential real estate mortgages and attended a meeting of the committee in Washington, D.C. The UCC provisions are being developed in coordination with the New York Federal Reserve Bank, which is developing federal legislation that will create a national electronic note and mortgage registry. (March 2-3, 2018)
Inducted into the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers at the spring meeting of the ABA's Business Law Section in Orlando, Fla. (April 12-14, 2018).
As a member of the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on Private International Law, he helped the committee develop a proposal for an international model law on warehouse receipts, which are playing an increasingly important role in the economies of developing countries. He participated in a committee conference call on April 26 during which the proposal was approved.
As a member of the U.S. State Department's delegation to Working Group VI of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, Henning attended a week-long meeting of the working group at UN Headquarters in New York City. Working Group VI has developed a model law on secured transactions for developing nations and is currently working on a practice guide to accompany the model law. Additionally, the proposal for a model law on warehouse receipts was presented and approved (April 29 – May 4, 2018).
Professor Luz Herrera, Associate Dean for Experiential Education:
Published "The Network for Justice: Pursuing a Latinx Civil Rights Agenda" (with Pilar Margarita Hernández Escontrías), Harvard Latino Law Review (Spring 2018).
Received $30,000 T3 grant for "Needs Assessment in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas" (along with Amber Baylor and Felipe Hinojosa - History).
Received $80,000 Global Engagement Grant to study Mexican reintegration of immigrants deported from the United States (with Huyen Pham, Angela Morrison, Sonia Hernandez, and Nancy Plankey-Videla).
Received $800,000 grant from USAID as part of an interdisciplinary research team organized by The Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University to assess crime prevention efforts in Mexico.
Featured speaker at Clinic Community Town Hall: Gathering Momentum for Racial Justice, AALS Annual Clinical Conference, Chicago, Ill. (May 1, 2018).
Spoke on panel "The Politics of Law School Engagement in Post-Disaster Relief Efforts," AALS Annual Clinical Conference, Chicago, Ill. (April 30, 2018).
Spoke on "The Future of Latinos in the United States," Dallas Hispanic Bar Association (March 27, 2018).
Presented work in progress, "The Network for Justice: Latinos in Rural Communities," Second Annual Real Property Law Schmooze, Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas (February 3, 2018).
Spoke on the panel, "Empirical Research Methods and the Experiential Curriculum: 'New' Tools for Securing Justice in a Post-Fact Era," at the 112th AALS Annual Meeting, San Diego, Calif. (January 7, 2018).
Spoke on the panel, "On the Front Line: The Role and Position of Clinical Faculty of Color in Challenging Times," at the 112th AALS Annual Meeting (January 5, 2018).
Professor Charlotte Ku, Associate Dean for Global Programs and Graduate Studies and Co-Convener of the Global and Comparative Law Program:
Published Climate Change and the UN Security Council, co-edited with Shirley V. Scott. Co-authored book's introduction, conclusion, and the chapter "The creation of a climate change court or tribunal." Authored the chapter "Security Council responsibility to respond to climate change."
Published "The evolution of international law," in International Organizations and Global Governance, Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkenson, Eds., 2nd edition (Routledge, 2018).
Chaired and co-authored the organizing paper for the roundtable "Visualizing International Law: What's Occurring: Can/Should We Adjust?" at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, Calif. (April 4, 2018).
Gave the plenary address, "Teaching International Law: The State of the Art, Problems and Prospects" at the Teaching International Law International Conference, University of Innsbruck, Austria (January 24, 2018).
Spoke on the panel, "A Global Guide to International Legal Exchange: Practical Secrets of Success (and What to Do if Things Go Horribly Wrong)" at the 112th AALS Annual Meeting Access to Justice, San Diego, Calif. (January 3, 2018).
Associate Professor Brian Larson:
Invited panelist for the panel "Regulatory and Industry Factors Affecting Residential Real Estate Competition," at What's New in Residential Real Estate Brokerage Competition – An FTC-DOJ Workshop, Washington, D.C. (June 5, 2018).
Presented "Celebrating Classical Rhetoric & Building Contemporary Law" with Professors Kirsten Davis, Francis J. Mootz, Susan Provenzano, & Susie Salmon, at the 18th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, Minn. (June 2, 2018).
Invited panelist for the panel "Using Technology to Make Real Estate More Competitive," Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, Washington, D.C. (April 5, 2018).
Presented "Hand annotation and reliability," as a faculty member at the conference workshop, Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Teaching and Studying Writing, during the Conference on College Composition & Communication, Kansas City, Mo. (March 14, 2018).
Presented "By reading this title, you have agreed to our terms of service," with Dr. Halcyon Lawrence & Dr. Sarah Whitcomb Laiola, at the 7th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (February 26, 2018).
Published an article in the inaugural issue of peer-reviewed journal Rhetoric of Health & Medicine with co-authors Dr. Mary Lay Schuster and Dr. Amy Propen, "Medico-legal discourse regarding the sexual offender: Othering and resistance," (2018).
Published the book chapter with co-author Dr. Lee-Ann K. Breuch "Research and Rhetorical Purpose: Using Genre Analysis to Understand Source Use in Technical and Professional Writing" in Points of Departure: Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods (Tricia Serviss & Sandra Jamieson, Eds.), Utah State University Press (December 2017).
Professor James McGrath, Associate Dean of Academic Support and Bar Services:
Published "Assessments All the Way Down", The Green Bag (with Andrew Morriss), (forthcoming 2018).
Published "Planning Your Class to Maximize Your Students' Use of Highly Effective Learning Techniques," 95 Detroit Mercy Law Review (forthcoming 2018).
Presented "Harnessing the Synergies of Non-Obvious Partners in Creating a Sense of Belonging in Law School," Conference for the Association of Academic Support Educators, St. Louis, Mo. (May 23, 2018).
Presented "Taking Advantage of the Science of Highly Effective Learning Techniques," Teaching Seminar, Charleston School of Law, Charleston, SC (April 20, 2018).
Presented "Applying Positive Psychology and Strengths-Oriented Approaches to Teaching," AALS Midyear Meeting, San Diego, Calif. (January 6, 2018).
Professor Thomas W. Mitchell, Interim Dean:
Dean Mitchell's scholarship and successful legal reform work on partition law with respect to heirs' property is featured in Gabriel Kuris' article, "'A Huge Problem in Plain Sight': Untangling Heirs' Property Rights in the American South, 2001-2017" published by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The case study is part of a Woodrow Wilson School Innovations for Successful Societies program, which highlights how certain selected policy initiatives or reforms (most in the international context but some domestic) were achieved even though they had long been deemed unachievable. The case studies are designed to be studied within universities and drawn upon by those pursuing very challenging reform efforts.
Served on a jury in a criminal misdemeanor case in Dallas (February 21- 22, 2018).
On April 11, 2018, Governor Reynolds of Iowa signed SF 2175 into law, making Iowa the eleventh state to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act (UPHPA) into law. Dean Mitchell served as the Reporter (principal drafter) for the UPHPA.
Associate Professor Felix Mormann:
Interviewed by Knowledge@Wharton to discuss renewable energy deployment in Costa Rica and beyond. SiriusXM Business Radio's Knowledge@Wharton is a daily, call-in business interview program, broadcasting live from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (May 15, 2018).
Presented "Equity Challenges in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Electricity Sector: A Comparative Perspective" at the 2nd Annual North American Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Conference at Houston Law Center (May 4, 2018).
Presented "Constitutional Challenges and Regulatory Opportunities for State Climate Policy Innovation" to the Dallas Bar Association Environmental Law Section (April 26, 2018).
Presented "Combating Climate Change Without the U.S. – The German Perspective" at the Paris, Policy, and the Grid: The Future of Transnational Energy Policy symposium at the University of Connecticut School of Law (April 20, 2018).
Presented "Market Segmentation vs. Subsidization: Clean Energy Credits and the Commerce Clause's Economic Wisdom" at the Environmental Law Colloquium, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, Ill. (February 8, 2018).
Presented "Constitutional Challenges and Regulatory Opportunities for State Climate Policy Innovation" to the panel of the Natural Resources Section of the 112th AALS Annual Meeting Access to Justice, San Diego, Calif. (January 3, 2018).
Professor Timothy Mulvaney, Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development:
Published his article, "Non-Enforcement Takings," 59 Boston College Law Review 145 (2018).
Presented "Property-as-Society" (forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review) at the Progressive Property Conference at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., on May 4, 2018; the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England at the invitation of the Cambridge Centre for Property Law on May 26, 2018; and at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Law, Property, and Society at Maastricht University in Maastricht, Netherlands on June 2, 2018.
Presented a working paper, "The Property Crime of Trespass," at the Property Roundtable at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland on May 30, 2018, and at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Law, Property, and Society at Maastricht University in the Netherlands on June 3, 2018.
Appointed as a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Health Systems & Design, Texas A&M University College of Architecture.
Appointed as a Faculty Affiliate with the Texas A&M University Community Resilience Collaborative, Texas Sea Grant, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences.
Professor Tanya Pierce:
The United States Supreme Court cited Tanya Pierce's article "Improving Predictability and Consistency in Class Action Tolling," 23 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 339 (2016) on class action tolling in the Court's opinion in China Agritech v. Resh, No. 17-432, 2018 WL 2767565, *6, n.2 (U.S. June 11, 2018). A PrawfsBlawg post about the China Agritech case and the Court's engagement with civil procedure legal scholarship discussed Pierce's article (June 11, 2018).
Senior Lecturer Bob Probasco, Director of the Low Income Tax Clinic:
Named chair of the planning committee for the 66th Annual Taxation Conference, to be held in November 2018 at the University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas (January 23, 2018).
Professor Srividhya Ragavan:
Her article "Correlative Obligation in Patent Law: The Role of Public Good in Defining the Limits of Patent Exclusivity" in 6 NYU Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law 47, 53 was cited in Aatrix Software, Inc. v Green Shades Software, Inc., a patent case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. (May 31, 2018)
Associate Professor Peter Reilly:
Presented "Business People Must Be Great Negotiators," at the Texas A&M School of Law Business Speaker Series held in San Antonio, Texas (April 17, 2018).
Served as a moderator for one of four panels and helped Nancy Welsh in organizing the Texas A&M Law's ADR conference Natural Disasters, Stakeholder Engagement and Dispute Resolution (April 13, 2018).
Served as moderator and panelist for the panel "Toward Integrating ADR Teaching, Writing, Theory and Practice" at the ABA Dispute Resolution Spring Conference, Washington, D.C. (April 7, 2018).
Organized (along with Associate Professor Angela Morrison) and served as a panelist at the Texas A&M School of Law "1L Judicial Clerkship Workshop" to provide advice to 1Ls on how to obtain a judicial clerkship (March 26, 2018).
Presented negotiation training as adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership, Washington, D.C. (March 3, 2018).
Co-taught the workshop "Department Heads as Negotiators: Working to Improve Your Skills" (with Cynthia Alkon and Nancy Welsh), Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (February 8, 2018).
Taught a "Negotiations" class for the Texas A&M University School of Law Masters of Jurisprudence Program in San Antonio (January 30, 2018).
Published "Corporate Deferred Prosecution as Discretionary Injustice," 2017 Utah Law Review 5 (December 2017).
Professor Lisa A. Rich, Director of the Residency Externship Program in Public Policy:
Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Lone Star Policy Institute, an independent think tank based in Dallas.
Served as a moderator and provided closing remarks at the Texas A&M Journal of Property Law's symposium The United Stated Defense Industry: Innovation, Acquisition, and Analysis in Fort Worth, Texas (February 23, 2018).
Served as a panelist on the panel "Reintroduction of the Sentencing Reform & Corrections Act," at the Texas A&M Law Review symposium Searching for Justice: Modern Issues in Criminal Justice Reform in Fort Worth, Texas (February 9, 2018).
Participated as an invited guest at the Center for Advancing Opportunity's Annual Summit in Washington, D.C. (February 5-6, 2018).
Lynn Rodriguez, Family Law & Benefits Clinic supervising attorney:
Received the "Eagle Service" award from the Tarrant County Bar Foundation for her volunteer efforts while working with the Tarrant County Division of Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans (January 24, 2018).
Professor Neil L. Sobol, Director of the Legal Analysis, Research and Writing Program:
Co-authored op-ed in the San Antonio Express-News, "Another View: Hold Accountable Debt Collection Attorneys Who Mislead" (with Mary Spector and Genevieve Hebert Fajardo) (January 18, 2018).
Co-authored op-ed in The Monitor, "Commentary: Rep. Gonzalez' Bill Would Unfairly Shield Lawyers in Debt Collection Cases," (January 17, 2018).
Co-authored op-ed in the Brownsville Herald, "Our Turn: Debt Bill Hurts Consumers" (with Mary Spector and Genevieve Hebert Fajardo) (January 16, 2018).
Professor Elizabeth Trujillo, Co-Convener of the Global and Comparative Law Program:
Published "Regulatory Cooperation in International Trade and its Transformative Effects on Executive Power," 25 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 1 (25th Anniversary edition) (2018).
Appointed to the Advisory Council (now called the Council and Action Committee) of the International Law Section of the Texas State Bar Association. She will be assisting in outreach efforts of the Texas Bar abroad, primarily focused this year on Mexico and Latin America.
Elected to the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Executive Council (April 2018).
Associate Professor Saurabh Vishnubhakat:
Published "The Porous Court-Agency Border in Patent Law," 51 Akron Law Review 915 (2018).
Published "When Can the Patent Office Intervene in its Own Cases?" 73 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 201 (2018).
Published a post on the PatentlyO blog, "Mapping the Patent Office Intervenor Power" (February 5, 2018).
Published a post on the Antitrust Attorney blog, "Antitrust-Style Analysis in Patent Law" (January 30, 2018).
Published a post on the PatentlyO blog, "Shenanigans, Time Bars, and Federal Circuit Oversight" (January 10, 2018).
Co-presented the "Last Party Standing: Who Has Standing to Appeal Administrative Decisions to the Federal Circuit?" webinar of the Federal Circuit Bar Association PTAB/TTAB Committee (May 22, 2018).
Presented "Patent Powers in India" at the 10th Conference on Innovation & Communications Law at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy (May 3–4, 2018).
Presented on the "Developments at the PTAB and the Federal Circuit" panel at the Stanford IP Law and the Biosciences Conference (April 26, 2018).
Presented on the "Agency IP Invalidation Procedures" panel at the 22nd Annual Berkeley Center for Law & Technology/ Berkeley Technology Law Journal symposium: The Administrative Law of Intellectual Property (April 12–13, 2018).
Delivered an Edward D. Manzo Lecture at the DePaul University College of Law, "The Porous Court-Agency Border in Patent Law" (April 11, 2018).
Presented "Patent Powers in India" at the 3rd IP Scholars Asia Conference at the Singapore Management University School of Law (March 1–2, 2018).
Presented "Rethinking Patent Law's Validity Power" at the Opening Plenary Session of the 14th Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium at Case Western Reserve University School of Law (February 16–17, 2018).
Presented "Rethinking Patent Law's Validity Power" at the AALS 2018 Annual Meeting Program on New Voices in Administrative Law (January 4, 2018).
Presented "Rethinking Patent Law's Validity Power" at the Federalist Society 2018 Annual Faculty Conference Panel on Works in Progress (January 4, 2018).
Served as panel chair and moderator for the panel "DMCA and 1201 Rulemaking" at the Texas A&M symposium Digital Millennium Copyright Act at 20 (March 23–24, 2018).
Served as panel chair and moderator for the "Second Parallel Session on Patents" at the 3rd Works-in-Progress IP Scholars Asia Conference at the Singapore Management University School of Law (March 1–2, 2018).
Professor Nancy A. Welsh, Director of the Aggie Dispute Resolution Program:
Led (with Professor Gabriel Eckstein) global field study in Israel for Texas A&M law students, Intro to Israel: Water, Energy and Dispute Resolution (May 2018).
Organized (with Professor Peter Reilly) and moderated Natural Disasters, Stakeholder Engagement and Dispute Resolution, the first annual conference of the Texas A&M Aggie Dispute Resolution Program (with co-sponsors Program in Natural Resources Systems, Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law, and Global Programs) (April 2018).
Presented (with Marvin Johnson) "How the Preference for Third Party Decision Making and Substantive Expertise in 'Major' Cases Fosters Bias in Neutral and Process Selection" at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference, in Washington, D.C. (April 2018).
Presented "Combining Mediation and Arbitration: Procedural Safeguards" at the Asian International Arbitration Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (March 2018).
Presented on dispute resolution topics to faculty, administrators and students at the International Islamic University and the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (March 2018).
Presented "Trustworthiness, Transparency and Procedural Safeguards" at Expanding the Scope of Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice: The Use of Mediation Within the Courts, a research forum sponsored by Singapore Management University and the Centre for Cross-Border Commercial Law in Asia, in Singapore. The forum was supported by the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy and the Singapore International Mediation Institute (March 2018).
Received the 2018 Texas Bar Foundation Outstanding Law Journal Article Award for her article, "Do You Believe in Magic?: Self-Determination and Procedural Justice Meet Inequality in Court Connected Mediation" (March 2018).
Conducted a program for Texas A&M University department heads, "Department Heads as Negotiators: Working to Improve Your Skills" (with Cynthia Alkon and Peter Reilly) Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (February 9, 2018).
Published "Do You Believe in Magic? Self-Determination and Procedural Justice Meet Inequality in Court-Connected Mediation" 70 SMU Law Review (December 2017).
Visited with Israeli and Palestinian judges, lawyers, and other dispute resolution and legal professionals as part of a U.S. dispute resolution law professor delegation sponsored by Academic Partners for Peace with Cynthia Alkon and Charlotte Ku (December 12-18, 2017).
Professor Peter Yu, Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property (CLIP):
Published "A Half-Century of Scholarship on the Chinese Intellectual Property System," 68 Am. U. L. Rev. 1045 (2018).
Published "A Spatial Critique of Intellectual Property Law and Policy," 74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 2045 (2017).
Published "Crossfertilizing ISDS with TRIPS," 49 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 321 (2017).
Published "Editorial," 8 Queen Mary J. Intell. Prop. 1 (2018).
Published "When the Chinese Intellectual Property System Hits 35," 8 Queen Mary J. Intell. Prop. 3 (2018).
Published "Customizing Fair Use Transplants," 7 Laws (2018).
Published "TPP, RCEP, and the Crossvergence of Asian Intellectual Property Standards," in Governing Science and Technology in the Mega-Regionals: Regulatory Divergence and Convergence (Peng Shin-yi, Liu Han-wei & Lin Ching-fu Eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2018).
Presented "Intellectual Property Law Issues Overview" at the WIPO IGC TK, GR & TCE Instrument Tribal Drafting Session at the University of Colorado Law School (May 21-22, 2018).
Presented "Data Producer's Right" and chaired the "Internet Governance, Fundamental Rights and Platforms' Interests" panel at the 10th Annual Conference on Innovation and Communications Law organized by the School of Law, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy (May 3-4, 2018).
Presented "Data Producer's Right" at the 7th International Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable at Duke University School of Law (April 26-27, 2018).
Presented "Building a New International Intellectual Property Infrastructure Through China's Belt-and-Road Initiative" at the 26th Annual Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference at Fordham University School of Law (April 5-6, 2018).
Presented "A Seamless Global Digital Marketplace of Media and Entertainment Content" at the Faculty Workshop at Florida International University College of Law (April 3, 2018).
Presented "Building a New International Intellectual Property Infrastructure Through China's Belt-and-Road Initiative" at the 2018 University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review Symposium titled Development of Intellectual Property Law in Asia (March 30, 2018).
Presented "A Spatial Critique of Intellectual Property Law and Policy" at the Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium at Loyola University Chicago School of Law (March 20, 2018).
Presented "Data Producers' Rights and the Platform Economy" at the workshop "Legal Implications of the Platform Economy" at the Institute for Civil and Business Law at Vienna University of Economics and Business in Vienna, Austria (March 12-13, 2018).
Presented "Data Exclusivities in the Age of Big Data, Biologics and Plurilaterals" at the 15th Annual Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Colloquium at Case Western Reserve University School of Law (February 16-17, 2018).
Presented "Imitative Pasts, Innovation Pathways and Intellectual Property" at the 19th Congress of the European Intellectual Property Institutes Network (EIPIN) in the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands (January 25-27, 2018).
Presented "Data Exclusivities in the Age of Big Data, Biologics and Plurilaterals" in the webinar on "TRIPS and the Life Sciences: Data Exclusivities and TRIPS Art. 39.3," organized by the Centre for Information and Innovation Law at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark (January 18, 2018).
Delivered the 22nd ACIP Intellectual Property Forum Lecture titled "Customizing Fair Use Transplants" at the Intellectual Property School at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China (December 12, 2017).
Presented "The Copyright Dilemmas in the Big Data Era" at the Intellectual Property in Big Data Era: Opportunities and Challenges Conference at the School of Law at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China (December 10-11, 2017).
Presented "Digital Copyright Reform and the Fair Use Paradigm" at the International Conference on "New Paradigms of Law?" at National Chengchi University College of Law in Taipei, Taiwan (December 4-5, 2017).
Served as the guest editor of Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property Law, curating a special issue on "The Modern Chinese Intellectual Property System at 35" (February 2018).
Participated in a meeting of the external advisory board of the EIPIN Innovation Society in the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands (January 26, 2018).
Organized the Digital Millennium Copyright Act at 20 Symposium at Texas A&M University School of Law (March 23-24, 2018).
Chaired a panel at the Law and Social Sciences Workshop at Texas A&M University School of Law (April 20, 2018).
Sat on the Arts & Humanities Faculty Fellowship Proposal Review Board at Texas A&M University.
Served as a faculty reviewer for volume 10 of Explorations: The Texas A&M Undergraduate Journal.
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Mike Rowbottom: Going out to all elite athletes - "cliff edge trauma, and how to avoid it"
"You wouldn't turn up to an Olympic final without training. So why would it be different for what you do after?"
It's a very good question. Particularly when it is posed by someone who has personally turned up to two Olympic finals, finishing them with a gold and a silver medal - British rower Mark Hunter, who is now spending his time trying to help elite athletes prepare themselves for that often devastating moment when they become ex-elite athletes.
There a bit in the Superman II film that resonates with Hunter - the bit where Superman decides it's time to get rid of his superpowers. "After about 20 minutes he wants them back again," Hunter observes with a chuckle.
"Many elite sportsmen and women lead a kind of Superman life, where they are funded, and have a clear sense of what they are working towards.
"At some point the curtain comes down, the lights go out and your sport moves onto the next person.
"It doesn't matter what success you have, what Olympic or world medals you have, or even what money you have earned. You have dedicated yourself to follow a dream, and now it has come to an end.
"We call this 'cliff edge trauma'. And it's a very real thing"
Hunter knows whereof he speaks.
At Athens 2004, while Matt Pinsent, James Cracknell, Ed Coode and Steve Williams were maintaining the British men's gold standard in the coxless four, a 26-year-old Hunter was in the lightweight four that finished 13th and last in its competition.
Mark Hunter, left, with Zac Purchase after winning gold in the lightweight double scull at the Beijing 2008 Games ©Getty Images
As part of his work he recently attended a mental health first aid course. It was illuminating - and a touch chilling.
"It took me a couple of days to come to terms with, to be honest. It made me realise that I had been at quite a dangerous point myself back then," he said.
"Finishing last wasn't good enough. But in retrospect some of our preparation wasn't right. There was no sense of anyone saying to us - 'you have been let down.' You were just out. Your funding was cut, and it was a case of, 'Sort yourselves out'.
"For a while I was in a really dark place. It was my worst experience as an athlete. Competing at the Olympics had been my dream, but it had gone wrong."
As far as Hunter was concerned, he had the talent, perseverance and, eventually support required to return to the Olympic arena, winning lightweight double sculls gold with Zac Purchase at Beijing 2008 and silver at the London 2012. The latter race left Hunter virtually comatose in a boat from which he was tenderly lifted by Britain's five-times Olympic champion Steve Redgrave, who had swiftly quit his BBC commentary position.
But when the curtain came down on his own career, Hunter also faced times of uncertainty as he sought to find a new way to access the drive he had previously devoted to sporting goals.
Six years on, he is working for Ernst & Young, the global tax, transaction and advisory business, on the EY Personal Performance Programme - centred on athlete care and development. The Programme is headed by former Luton Town goalkeeper Scott Ward, who had to retire due to injury and has since required numerous operations including spinal implants, hip surgery and more recently cardiac surgery.
Their introductory leaflet offers a graphic picture of the challenges retiring athletes can face. According to their data, "40 per cent of athletes divorce within five year of retirement, 95 per cent athletes surveyed want a development programme, and 40 per cent of athletes are bankrupt within five years of retirement.
"A total of 80 per cent athletes surveyed do not understand translation of skills to other areas - and two out of three athletes can suffer from mental health challenges."
It's a scenario that has been increasingly raised, often by retired athletes themselves. Dame Kelly Holmes, for example, found a way to utilise the drive and ability of former sportsmen and women in helping develop young people's pathways through her Trust.
"Since launching in 2008, we've reached over 300,000 young people (aged 14-25) from diverse backgrounds and supported over 400 athletes," the Trust introduction announces.
The Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, set up in 2008 by Britain's double Olympic gold medallist, has sought to find ways of supporting retired elite athletes for over a decade ©Dame Kelly Holmes Trust
Hunter and Ward are addressing the issue in a more technological fashion by preparing bespoke online, interactive programmes for a variety of different sports. Before that can happen, dialogue occurs with sports federations or agents who fund the initiative.
Retired athletes are a big part of the focus - but the key issue, Hunter insists, is to get athletes thinking and processing on future options before they leave the cocoon of the sporting life.
"We are trying to upskill people before this big change comes in their life," he says. "And we encourage them to look at different options of moving forward, rather than just hoping on sport 24/7.
"We tend not to work with one-off, face-to-face meetings. If you've been training, all you want to do is go back home and rest ahead of the following day's session, because you know what's coming. The last thing you want to do is to go into a room with a lot of others and listen to someone preach at you.
"What we are working on is a very flexible way of learning new things.
"It's more a case of drip feeding than a one-off hit."
Among their current clients is the West Indies women's cricket team. Here the focus is on developing the athletes' confidence and ability to communicate effectively - something that is seen as being good for them going forward, and a good way of selling a sport that, in that region, is coming under increasing pressure from other attractions such as basketball.
Hunter believes the direction is correct - although he doesn't kid himself that everything is going to change overnight. Dark places are still being inhabited.
"Some sports are very good at painting a great picture, but when you look under the bonnet there's no substance," he says.
"Very often, in terms of funding, we are giving support to the sportsman or woman, but not to the person."
Hunter likes to envisage a time when working on personal skills and development beyond sport is part of the package everyone signs up for when they become eligible for, say, National Lottery funding.
"That's my dream," he says.

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The genetic architecture of human cortical folding
Dennis Van Der Meer, Tobias Kaufmann, Alexey A. Shadrin, Carolina Makowski, Oleksandr Frei, Daniel Roelfs, Jennifer Monereo-Sánchez, David E.J. Linden, Jaroslav Rokicki, Dag Alnæs, Christiaan De Leeuw, Wesley K. Thompson, Robert Loughnan, Chun Chieh Fan, Lars T. Westlye, Ole A. Andreassen, Anders M. Dale
Complex Trait Genetics
Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics
The folding of the human cerebral cortex is a highly genetically regulated process that allows for a much larger surface area to fit into the cranial vault and optimizes functional organization. Sulcal depth is a robust yet understudied measure of localized folding, previously associated with multiple neurodevelopmental disorders. Here, we report the first genome-wide association study of sulcal depth. Through the multivariate omnibus statistical test (MOSTest) applied to vertex-wise measures from 33,748 U.K. Biobank participants (mean age, 64.3 years; 52.0% female), we identified 856 genome-wide significant loci (P < 5 × 10-8). Comparisons with cortical thickness and surface area indicated that sulcal depth has higher locus yield, heritability, and effective sample size. There was a large amount of genetic overlap between these traits, with gene-based analyses indicating strong associations with neurodevelopmental processes. Our findings demonstrate sulcal depth is a promising neuroimaging phenotype that may enhance our understanding of cortical morphology.
eabj9446
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj9446
The authors were funded by the Research Council of Norway (276082, 213837, 223273, 204966/F20, 229129, 249795/F20, 225989, 248778, 249795, 298646, and 300767), the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (2013-123, 2014-097, 2015-073, 2016-064, 2017-004, and 2019-101), Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen (SKGJ-Med-008), the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC Starting Grant, grant agreement no. 802998), ERA-Net Cofund through the ERA PerMed project "Implement," and the National Institutes of Health (R01MH100351, R01GM104400, U24DA055330, R01MH111359, and U24DA041123; principal investigator: A.M.D.).
© 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Genome-Wide Association Study Medicine & Life Sciences 89%
Cerebral Cortex Medicine & Life Sciences 79%
Neuroimaging Medicine & Life Sciences 77%
Genome Medicine & Life Sciences 57%
Van Der Meer, D., Kaufmann, T., Shadrin, A. A., Makowski, C., Frei, O., Roelfs, D., Monereo-Sánchez, J., Linden, D. E. J., Rokicki, J., Alnæs, D., De Leeuw, C., Thompson, W. K., Loughnan, R., Fan, C. C., Westlye, L. T., Andreassen, O. A., & Dale, A. M. (2021). The genetic architecture of human cortical folding. Science advances, 7(51), 1-9. [eabj9446]. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj9446
Van Der Meer, Dennis ; Kaufmann, Tobias ; Shadrin, Alexey A. ; Makowski, Carolina ; Frei, Oleksandr ; Roelfs, Daniel ; Monereo-Sánchez, Jennifer ; Linden, David E.J. ; Rokicki, Jaroslav ; Alnæs, Dag ; De Leeuw, Christiaan ; Thompson, Wesley K. ; Loughnan, Robert ; Fan, Chun Chieh ; Westlye, Lars T. ; Andreassen, Ole A. ; Dale, Anders M. / The genetic architecture of human cortical folding. In: Science advances. 2021 ; Vol. 7, No. 51. pp. 1-9.
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Want to relive the days of Currie, Deane, Jagielka, Edwards and Woodward, then take a look at the Sheffield United retro shirts you can get:
Having been a student in Sheffield I have a soft spot for the Blades, especially seeing as their ground is in the centre of the city. I went there a few times and the period I was there they were near the top of Division One and had some good players. I have fond memories of going to the 1998 Play-Off Semi Final first leg when they beat Sunderland. Steve
Favourite player: Don Hutchison – saw him out in Sheffield a couple of times, good player and good laugh it seemed.
Favourite kit: The 1990-92 home shirt. When the Blades were in top flight and Brian Deane was scoring goals! Available from Vintage Football Shirts and Classic Football Shirts (see below for links)
They have around some classic Sheffield United shirts and pieces of kit from the 90s to the present day.
They include the 1990 home shirt (above left). This retro football shirt was worn as Dave Bassett guided the Blades back to the top flight of English football after an absence of 15 years.
Bassett took over United in January 1988 with the club in dire straits, in fact in his first season in charge he couldn't prevent relegation to the Third Division. However, they came up at the first time of asking and were then promoted from Division Two in 1989-90 to the top flight.
It seemed like the step up two divisions in successive seasons was too much for the Blades, as they picked up just four points from their first sixteen games to be firmly rooted to the bottom of the table. A 3-2 win against Nottingham Forest in December proved to be the catalyst for a change in fortune, and of their last 22 games they won 13 of them, including a run of seven wins in a row. They eventually finished a respectable 7th, 12 points clear of relegation.
1995 Away Shirt
You can also get the eye-catching vintage 1995-97 away shirt (above right) with its blue and yellow halves. During this period United were back in Division One having been relegated from the newly created Premier League in 1994. New manager Howard Kendall made a fist of getting United in promotion contention as they made the Play-Offs for two successive seasons.
Sheffield United's 1997 Play-Off Final against Crystal Palace was manager Howard Kendall's 20th appearance at Wembley and United had won both encounters between the sides in the season. Unfortunately, a last-minute goal from David Hopkin put Palace through and saw Sheffield United's share value drop by £2million in the next few days.
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They have around a collection of classic Sheffield United shirts ranging from the 80s to the present day. These include the 1991-93 away shirt (above left). This retro football shirt was worn when Sheffield United were in the old Division One and then the following season the newly formed Premier League.
The first of these two seasons saw United firmly bottom of the table in November with a record of played 15, won 2, drawn 3, lost 10. They then went on a fantastic run which saw them rise slowly up the table and finally finish 9th. In the second season, Brian Deane scored the first-ever Premier League goal in a win over Manchester United who went on to become Champions. Deane scored 14 goals in the first Premier League season and at the end of the season earned himself a £2.9million move to Leeds United and three England caps.
You can also pick up the classic 1997-99 home shirt (above right) when United finished 6th and 8th in the First Division (the league below the Premier League).
In the first of these seasons, they reached the Play-Offs but were eliminated in the Semi-Finals by Sunderland (I, a student at the time in Sheffield, was at the first leg at Bramall Lane).
That season United had just snuck into the Play-Offs in sixth place, finishing nine points behind fifth-placed Ipswich and 16 points behind third-placed Sunderland.
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CLASSIC SHEFFIELD UNITED MOMENT
It has been slim pickings for Sheffield United up until recently, but in 2016-17 they secured promotion back to the Championship – the start of something great…:
Amazon has a limited selection of retro Sheffield United shirts and memorabilia including a couple of 1970s related shirts – a decade that saw Sheffield United spend five seasons in the top flight.
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TOFFS (which stands for The Old Fashioned Football Shirt) specialises in handcrafted, vintage football shirts made to the highest quality in the North of England – with each shirt as close to the real thing as possible.
1936 FA Cup Final Shirt
You can pick up some top-notch retro Sheffield United shirts here including a 1936 FA Cup Final shirt (above right).
During the 30s Sheffield United were regularly at the top of the Second Division without ever quite getting promoted until 1938-39 when they finished second after two third-place finishes.
They did however reach the 1936 FA Cup Final where they were beaten 1-0 by Arsenal, with 93,000 people packing Wembley to see a Ted Drake goal give the Gunners the victory. The Final was notable for being the first time the BBC experimented with sports commentators during its live broadcast.
You can also get a 1925 FA Cup Final shirt (above left) worn when the Blades beat Cardiff City thanks to a Fred Tunstall goal.
The Blades were an established force in English football at this time having been in the top flight since 1893 and this was their fourth (and currently last) FA Cup victory in the space of just over 25 years.
This was also the first time a team outside of England had competed in an FA Cup Final since Queens Park of Glasgow in 1885.
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So there you have it. If, like me, you are a lover of football and all things retro there are a huge selection of classic Sheffield United shirts you can pick up to revel in the nostalgia of days gone by!


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Conan O'Brien's Viral Emmys Stunt Was Ultimate Middle Finger to Hollywood Elite
Late-night host Conan O'Brien has gone viral for interrupting a powerful TV executive at Sunday's Emmy Awards to give him a sarcastic salute.
For a brief moment, O'Brien popped the Hollywood elite's self-congratulatory bubble.
As Frank Scherma, the chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, took the stage to introduce and present the annual Governor's Award, O'Brien repeatedly shouted "Yes! Yes!" before standing and saluting from the audience.
Conan is the best part of this show and he hasn't even been on stage. pic.twitter.com/jZfEFo6C5f
— av clark (@annevclark) September 20, 2021
It's far from the first time O'Brien, whose off-beat comedic stylings distinguished him from his more conventional late-night rivals, has thrown up a middle finger to the media establishment.
The "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" show host revealed during a podcast this week that NBC execs once tried to bar him from booking the late comedian Norm MacDonald, after MacDonald was fired from "Saturday Night Live" for refusing to stop making jokes about O.J. Simpson.
In 2010, in the wake of a feud with NBC over his hosting duties, O'Brien took parting shots at the network before departing to host a late-night show on TBS.
EVERYBODY HATES THE EMMYS
In a rare show of bipartisanship, viewers on the left and right united to bash this year's Emmys as unfunny and bloated.
On the right: Commenters criticized attendees of the awards show for foregoing masks in what many saw as out-of-touch spectacle.
On the left: Critics complained that while Hollywood pays lip service to the cause of racial progress, all the major Emmys awards went to white actors.
Awards show ratings have been in decline for years, and the most recent Oscars and Emmys broadcasts have hit historic lows.


Below are the details of the route for day 57 of my LEJOG walk. I've included a map plotting the day's route if you want to see where I walked in more detail. I've also included elevation and climb information so that you get an idea of the lay of the land.
If you're interested you can download the KML file and/or GPX file of the plotted route. Please be aware though that the route was hand-plotted by me and so may not be 100% accurate. I used the GPX files on my GPS for the walk and they were perfectly serviceable, but I was primarily using my OS Explorer maps to navigate.
If you want to find out more about this day you can read the blog post or see the photos I took.
More information about climb ratings can be found at Map My Walk.