FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES

Professor John Brittain moderated the Doctors of the Dark Side documentary screening and discussion on UDC’s main campus. The film examines the role of physicians and psychologists in the torturing of detainees in U.S. military prisons after 9/11. For photo slideshow, click here.

Professor Kristina Campbell was interviewed by Voice of America on Arizona's immigration law, SB1070. Professor Campbell, along with the UDC-DCSL Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, is also working on a case involving a Salvadoran immigrant accused by the Department of Homeland Security of supporting terrorism.

Professor Susan Waysdorf spoke at the Inaugural Conference of Albany Law School’s Center for Excellence in Teaching on the "Service Learning Model in the Law School Curriculum.” Professor Waysdorf discussed how the service-learning model, which is both similar and different from clinical education, can provide a transformative experience for law students. Read More.

Professor Wade Henderson published an editorial in The Hill arguing against the proposal by the House of Representatives to remove the requirement that individuals respond to the American Community Survey (ACS).

Professor Wade Henderson was quoted in The Huffington Post on a new mobile app that will allow users to report instances of alleged racial profiling by the Transportation Security Administration. Wade Henderson was also quoted in The Rainbow Times on a new House bill of the Violence Against Women Act that leaves LGBT, immigrant and Native women and men without vital services or protections. Wade Henderson was also quoted in The Paramus Post on a new report documenting the lack of funding, enforcement, and oversight of transportation programs for disabled people. He was also quoted in The Hill regarding his presentation to Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) of the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award.

Duke University alum Jack O. Bovender Jr. is funding a $1 million scholarship named in honor of Professor Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke (and four other students), who were the first African-American students to take classes at Duke University. Read More.

Professor Andrew Ferguson posted "Predictive Policing: The Future of Reasonable Suspicion" on SSRN. Read More.

Professor Karen Evans was sworn in as President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Read More.

Maryland Delegate Keiffer Mitchell (D-Baltimore), '94, was quoted three times recently in The Baltimore Sun calling for increased oversight of spending in the Baltimore City school system, in The Baltimore Sun on the resignation of Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III, and in The Baltimore Sun criticizing Republican Delegate Pat McDonough's news release.

Tom Devine, Government Accountability Project Legal Director and '80 alum, was quoted in The Washington Post on a new internal Pentagon report showing the Department of Defense has failed to protect whistleblowers from reprisal. He was also quoted in The Washington Post on the Senate passing the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA).

Caroline Smith DeWaal, '85 alum and Food Safety Director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), called the USDA's announcement to speed up the process for tracking E. coli in meat a "very positive first step." Read More.

Andrew Galbreath '98 is currently Vice President and Corporate General Counsel for the IPR Group of Companies, an independent international petroleum company engaged in exploration, production and services. Read More.