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Faculty News
WILLIAM G. MERKEL
Associate Professor of Law
Publications: Book review, The Founders’
Second Amendment: Origin of the
Right to Bear Arms, Stephen P. Halbrook
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008), 114 American
Historical Review 1074 (2009).
Activities: Speaker, “Bearing Arms: Policy,
Policing, and Incorporation after Heller,”
Santa Clara Law Review Symposium, Santa
Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif., Jan.
22, 2010 • “Guns on Campus? The New
Understanding of the Right to Bear Arms,”
A Dialogue, Discussion, and Debate
sponsored by the Dorothy L. Thompson
Civil Rights Lecture Series in celebration of
Constitution Day, Kansas State University,
Manhattan, Kan., Sept. 16, 2009.
ALIZA ORGANICK
Professor of Law
Publications: “Holding Back the Tide: The
Existing Indian Family Doctrine and its
Continued Denial of the Right to Culture
for Indigenous Children,” in Facing the
Future: The Indian Child Welfare Act
at 30 (Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Wenona T.
Singel, Kathryn E. Fort, editors) (Michigan
State University Press) (2009) • “Tribal
Law and Best Practices in Legal Education:
Creating a New Path for the Study of Tribal
Law,” 19 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy
63 (2009) • “From Confl ict to Cooperation:
State and Tribal Court Relations in the Era
of Self-Determination,” 45 Court Review 48
(co-author with Tonya Kowalski) (2009)
• “Practicing Law in Tribal Courts: What
Every Practitioner Should Know,” YLS
Forum, Winter 2009, p. 6.
Activities: Roundtable Discussant, “The
Kansas Act and Recent Case Decisions
Impacting Tribal Court Jurisdiction,” 10th
Annual Native Nations Law Symposium,
Mayetta, Kan., Feb. 12, 2010.
Aliza Organick
Gregory Pease
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LYNETTE F. PETTY
Associate Professor of Law
Assistant Dean for Accommodation
Serving as Associate Dean for Student Affairs
for 2010-11
Honors: Received Certifi cate of
Appreciation for Private Attorney
Involvement with Kansas Legal Services,
Legal Services Corporation, Topeka, July 24,
2009.
DAVID E. PIERCE
Professor of Law
On Sabbatical Fall 2010
Publications: Contributor, Oil and Gas
Reporter, Volumes 168-169 (LexisNexis 2009-
2010) (with other editors) • “Understanding
Royalty Calculation Disputes,” NADOA
(National Association of Division Order
Analysts Quarterly Magazine), Part I, April/
May/June (2009); Part II, July/August/
September (2009) • Reprint of: “Exploring
the Origins of Royalty Disputes,” 23:2
Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management
Journal 72 (2004).
Activities: “Recent Developments in
Oil and Gas Law,” 34th Annual KBA/
KIOGA Oil and Gas Conference, Kansas
Bar Association, Wichita, Oct. 23, 2009
• “Technical Aspects of Oil and Gas
Exploration, Production, and Marketing,”
“Common Interests Created in Oil and
Gas,” “The Oil and Gas Lease: Implied
Covenants,” “Environmental Regulation
of the Oil and Gas Industry,” Oil and Gas
Law Short Course, Rocky Mountain Mineral
Law Foundation, Institute for Energy Law,
and Energy and Mineral Law Foundation,
Westminster, Colo., Oct. 9, 2009 • “Royalty
Jurisprudence: A Tale of Two States,” The
Future Course of Oil and Gas Jurisprudence
II Symposium, Washburn University School
of Law Business and Transactional Law
Center, Topeka, Oct. 2, 2009.
Lynette F. Petty
MARY KREINER RAMIREZ
Professor of Law
On Sabbatical Spring 2011
Activities: Panelist, “Street Law,” Center
for Excellence in Advocacy, Washburn
University School of Law, Topeka, Oct. 21,
2009.
SHEILA REYNOLDS
Professor of Law
Retired at the end of the 2009-10 academic year.
WILLIAM RICH
Professor of Law
Publications: “Betrayal of the Children
with Dolls: The Broken Promise of
Constitutional Protection for Victims of
Race Discrimination,” (Chapter 5) in Racial
Discrimination: A Jurisprudential Study
(edited by G. Chandana) (Icfai University
Press, 2009) • “The Path of Mentally Ill
Offenders,” 36 Fordham Urban Law Journal 89
(2009) • “Why ‘Privileges or Immunities’?:
An Explanation of the Framers’ Intent,” 42
Akron Law Review 1111 (2009) • “Charting
the Course to Same Sex Marriage,” 4 Journal
of Race, Gender & Ethnicity 31 (2009).
Activities: “The Aftermath of Brown,”
Brown v. Board of Education National
Historic Site, Topeka, Feb. 12, 2010.
MICHAEL HUNTER
SCHWARTZ
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic
Development
Publications: Contracts: A Context
and Practice Casebook Teacher’s
Manual (Carolina Academic Press, 2009) •
Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook
(co-authored with Denise Riebe) (Carolina
Academic Press, 2009) • Teaching Law
By Design: Engaging Students from
the Syllabus to the Final Exam (co-
David E. Pierce Mary Kreiner Ramirez Sheila Reynolds