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Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Lost Brandeis Opinion Posted on Web

Posted on July 11, 2010
The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law is not the only school that has a collection of Brandeis papers.  Harvard has a very large collection that is devoted almost exclusively to his time on the Supreme Court. (Brandeis University has a collection as well–mostly papers donated to it by Brandeis’ daughter Susan Gilbert...

Faculty Blogs: Sharing What Works: Enhancing Our Teaching through Technology

Posted on June 30, 2010
Thank you to everyone who attended this session at the LWI Biennial Conference.  We have now finished compiling the master list of all the great suggestions reported out to the group, which is attached.  The slides and handouts are also attached.  And at one participant's suggestion, we have attached a sample PowerPoint of possible ways to use "clicker" exercises.

Faculty Blogs: Using Visual Aids to Enhance Your Case

Posted on June 18, 2010
I had the pleasure of presenting with Luke Morgan and Lars Smith at the KBA Convention today.  Attached are the materials, the slides, and my notes for our presentation, "Using Visual Aids to Enhance Your Case."  You can find the video of Professor Smith's "how to" segment here https://www...

Faculty Blogs: Recent Mental Health Talks

Posted on June 10, 2010
In addition to those speeches already mentioned in this blog, in 2010 I have addressed 6 other groups.  I spoke to the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Kentuckiana about "Intelligence and Insanity:  Phi Beta Kappas With Madness in the Academy."  I spoke about "Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment" to the Mental Health Nursing class of the University of Louisville School of Nursing, the Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing class of the Lansing School of Nursing and Health Sciences of Bellarmine University, the Primary Care of the Adolescent graduate nurse practitioner class of the Lansing School of Nursing and Health Sciences of Bellarmine University, the Psychology Club of Indiana University Southeast, the Socrates Club, and the Psychopathology class of the Kent School of Social Work of the University of Louisville...

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Faculty Blogs: Register for Warns Institute

Posted on June 10, 2010
Remember, it's not too late to register for the Warns Institute on June 24 & 25.  We have a great line-up of speakers this year.  http://www.law.louisville.edu/2010WarnsInstitute

Faculty Blogs: Recent Events

Posted on June 06, 2010
I am featured in the latest issue of Duke magazine, which goes to all Duke University alumni and friends (the magazine features 3 University alumni per issue, or 18 per year).  The article is at http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/050610/depmini-jones...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: The Right to What Kind of Privacy?

Posted on May 14, 2010
Louis D. Brandeis and Samuel Warren’s article “The Right to Privacy” continues its reign as the most cited law review article ever with two new articles discussing its implications. In “The So-Called Right to Privacy” (43 UC Davis Law Review 715 and on SSRN) Jamal Greene announces the death of the right to privacy...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Louis D. Brandeis In Popular Culture

Posted on April 28, 2010
Brandeis got quoted again on The Daily Show–this time in a bit on the new Arizona immigration law on their April 26 2010 episode. (Somebody on the staff of that show must be quite a Brandeis fan.) Also, a couple years ago, the library here at the Louis D...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: John Marshall Harlan Lives! And Is Related To William Hurt

Posted on April 27, 2010
Here are a couple recent items about John Marshall Harlan that caught my eye. Interestingly, they both are related to acting. I was well aware that there were Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln impersonators out there, but until today I had no idea that there was a John Marshall Harlan impersonator as well...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Brandeis and Mixed Martial Arts

Posted on April 21, 2010
In order to keep up with Louis Brandeis scholarship, I created a Westclip search on Westlaw. As result, I get about 4 or 5 articles sent to me every week–usually about privacy or about financial regulation, and most of them only tangentially related to Brandeis...

Faculty Blogs: Celebrate National Library Week

Posted on April 15, 2010
Each year, the American Library Association celebrates of the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians. This year's theme is "Communities Thrive @ your Library". On April 13, the House of Representatives passed H.RES.1222, a resolution to support the goals and ideals of National Library Week...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: John Marshall Harlan and the Great Margarine Controversy of 1898

Posted on April 13, 2010
John Marshall Harlan is still making the news.  Here’s a story from Monday’s (April 12,2010) issue of The Union Leader about a 1898 Supreme Court decision that apparently still making waves in New Hampshire.  The case in question is Collins v...

Faculty Blogs: Humanities Class Speech

Posted on April 05, 2010
On April 1 I spoke to the Masterpieces of the 19th and 20th Centuries class in the Division of Humanities of the University of Louisville's School of Arts and Sciences.  I received the following from Dr. Allen Share, the professor in the course: Dear Jim,Thank you so much for speaking to my class last Thursday...

Faculty Blogs: Issues in the Workplace Arising from New Technologies and How Arbitrators Are Dealing with Them

Posted on April 03, 2010
  My article, What Hath the Twenty First Century Wrought?  Issues in the Workplace Arising from New Technologies and How Arbitrators Are Dealing with Them, forthcoming in Transactions:  Tennessee Journal of Business Law is now available on SSRN.Here's the abstract...

Faculty Blogs: Split decision in Ebay v. Tiffany: eBay Wins on Trademark Issues, Looses on Advertising Claims

Posted on April 01, 2010
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals today issued its ruling in the eBay v. Tiffany case. TIffany sued eBay claiming that eBay was liable for trademark infringement and false advertising because sellers sold counterfeit merchandise on eBay's site. The basic trademark argument was that eBay was contributorily liable for the infringement because it did not do enough to prevent fakes being sold on its site...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: More Speeches From Brandeis Medal Winners

Posted on March 22, 2010
After writing my last post about how Linda Greenhouse’s Brandeis Medal speech was published by the University of Louisville Law Review, I decided to go back and see how many other Brandeis Medal speeches were published there. There weren’t as many as I hoped, but there were still enough to warrant listing here...

Faculty Blogs: Ivy Tech Community College Speech

Posted on March 18, 2010
On March 16, on behalf of the MHAKY Speaker's Bureau, I addressed a group at the Ivy Tech Community College of Southern Indiana's Listen and Learn Speakers Series in Sellersburg, Indiana.  Today I received the following communication:  Dear Professor Jones: I wanted to thank you for addressing our Listen and Learn Speakers Series this week on the topic, ?Severe Mental Illness, Stigma, and the Value of Treatment?...

Faculty Blogs: Bellarmine College Nursing School Talk

Posted on March 16, 2010
Today I spoke to around 20 nursing students in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing class at the Lansing School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Bellarmine University in Louisville.  Afterwards I received the following from the professor for the course, Dr...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Mel Urofsky to Receive the Brandeis Medal

Posted on March 15, 2010
Since 1982, the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville has periodically awarded the Brandeis Medal to “recognize individuals whose lives reflect Justice Brandeis? commitment to the ideals of individual liberty, concern for the disadvantaged, and public service...

Faculty Blogs: Advocating for Unpopular Clients

Posted on March 11, 2010
  Recently, a group called Keep America Safe posted a web ad asking, "Who are the al Qaeda Seven?"  The ad's apparent purpose is to besmirch lawyers who had advocated for detainees at Guantanamo Bay and are now working for the justice department...

Faculty Blogs: ADR & the Economic Crisis - Materials Posted

Posted on March 09, 2010
The Conflict Resolution and the Economic Crisis conference materials are now available online.

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Brandeis is on the Cover of Louisville Magazine

Posted on March 08, 2010
It’s time for Louisville Magazine’s annual Top Lawyers issue, and who better to put on the cover than Louis D. Brandeis? Louisville punk rock legend Chip Nold writes an informative overview to Brandeis’ thought and career. He uses Melvin Urofsky’s biography as a starting point and then sprinkles the article with quotes, anecdotes and statements from (among others) Laura Rothstein, Nelson Dawson, James Klotter and Brandeis’ grand-nephew Charles Tachau...

Faculty Blogs: Save the Date - 27th Annual Warns Labor & Employment Law Institute

Posted on March 05, 2010
The 27th Annual Warns Labor & Employment Law Institute will be held on June 24 and June 25 at the Galt House in Louisville, KY. William Gould, a Professor of Law at Stanford University and former Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, is the keynote speaker...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: John Marshall Harlan: The Original Heavy Hitter

Posted on March 03, 2010
The 2010 Green Bag Reader has come out recently, and as usual, it’s a blast to read. The Reader, for those of you who don’t know, is an annual offshoot of the journal, which reprints excerpts of pieces they consider to be the best in legal writing for the previous year, whether it be articles, excerpts of books or judicial opinions...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Campaign finance and the Supreme Court

Posted on March 03, 2010
tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.law.louisville.edu/cardinallawyer/node/233'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'chenx064'; The United States Supreme Court's blockbuster decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No...

Faculty Blogs: "Issues in the Workplace Arising from New Technologies and How Arbitrators Are Dealing with Them"

Posted on February 20, 2010
I had the honor of serving as the ABA Labor and Employment Law Section ADR Committee's Scholar in Residence at their mid-winter meeting.  Attached are the slides of my closing presentation, "What Hath the Twenty-First Century Wrought? Issues in the Workplace Arising from New Technologies and How Arbitrators Are Dealing with Them...

Faculty Blogs: "A Scholar's Guide to Lawyering Skills that Just Might Tip the Scales in Close Arbitration Cases"

Posted on February 20, 2010
I had the honor of serving as the ABA Labor and Employment Law Section ADR Committee's Scholar in Residence at their mid-winter meeting.  Attached are the slides of my opening presentation, "A Scholar's Guide to Lawyering Skills that Just Might Tip the Scales in Close Arbitration Cases...

Faculty Blogs: ADR and the Economic Crisis

Posted on February 20, 2010
Last weekend I attended A Conference on Conflict Resolution and the Economic Crisis at The Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV.  It was a great opportunity for those practicing and writing about alternative dispute resolution in a variety of disciplines and legal areas to share their thoughts with each other...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Capping off a great deal

Posted on February 16, 2010
tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.law.louisville.edu/cardinallawyer/node/232'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'chenx064'; Section 1 has secured Professor David Leibson's hat. In fulfillment of a contract made in October 2009, 1L students Nancy Vinsel and Alex Davis presented Professor Leibson with a check for $1040 and twenty-four 12-ounce cans of Dr...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: A New Look at Olmstead

Posted on February 14, 2010
One of Louis Brandeis’ most famous opinions is his dissent in Olmstead v. US, 277 US 438, in which he railed against government use of wiretaps. It’s the source of the quote, “Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher…” that Rob Shetterly used in his portrait of Brandeis...

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