FELLOWS & ASSOCIATES RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS, SPRING 2015

FELLOWS & ASSOCIATES RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS, SPRING 2015

John A. Booth, Associate

• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • “Political and economic policies that affect economic development in Northern Central America,” U.S. Department of State conference, Washington DC, April 13, 2015.

Karisa Cloward, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • “Elites, Exit Options, and Social Barriers to Norm Change: The Complex Case of Female Genital Mutilation.” Studies in Comparative International Development.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • “The NGO Life Cycle: Organizational Birth and Death in the Kenyan Development Sector” The annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 21, 2015.
  • Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Fellows Seminar, Co-organizer, “Global Africa: Between Intervention and Engagement” 2014-2015.

Christopher Jenks, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • A Military Justice Solution in Search of a Problem: A Response to Vladeck, 104 GEORGETOWN L. J. ONLINE 29 (2015) (co-authored).
  • Sentencing Complexities in National Security Cases, 27 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 151 (2015).
  • Posting to JURIST, UN Report on the Central African Republic: Is the Glass Reflecting the International Community’s Efforts Half-Empty or Half-Full? (guest columnist) (February 14, 2015).
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • “Proportionality: Crossing the Line on Civilian Casualties” and “Rules of Engagement in Non-Traditional Conflicts: Force Multiplies or Agents of Defeat?” Panelist as part of Towards a New Law of War Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, May 2015.
  • “Crossing the Rubicon: The Path to Increasingly Autonomous Weapons.” Presentation to Australian defence legal and foreign affairs officials as part of Melbourne at Defence speaking series, Australian Defence Legal Headquarters, Canberra Australia, February 2015.
  • “International Criminal Law and its Influence, If Any, on the U.S. Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay and other Domestic Tribunals?” As part of Indiana University School of Law International and Comparative Law Review Symposium.
  • “Is 2015 the Beginning of the End for the ICC and Guantanamo Bay, or a Turning Point for the Law and Practice of International Criminal Law?” Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 2015.
  • “Labs of Federalism: State Laws Governing Law Enforcement Drone Use.” As part of Washington and Lee Law Review Symposium Cybersurveillance in the Post-Snowden Age, Washington and Lee Law School, Lexington, Virginia, January 2015.
• Media Appearances
  • Yonah Jeremy Bob, Top experts for upcoming Shurat Hadin conference on law, warfare discuss thorny issues, JERUSALEM POST March 29, 2015.
  • Kate Brannen, Bowe Bergdahl’s Legal Limbo, FOREIGN POLICY, March 9, 2015.
  • Elahe Izadi, American Sniper trial: Why prosecutors often don’t seek the death penalty, WASHINGTON POST, March 6, 2015.
  • Dianna Hunt, ‘American Sniper’ trial set to start this week in glare of international publicity, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, February 7, 2015.
  • Steven Beardsley, Overseas benefits elusive for same-sex military couples, Stars and Stripes, February 6, 2015.

Robert Jordan, Senior Fellow

• Papers and Publications
  • Book, Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11. Potomac Books, July 2015.
  • Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia: Why the Saudi King Snubbed President Obama, Time, May 13, 2015.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • Speeches at Richland College and Texas A&M University Commerce.
  • Contributed to the oral history project of the SMU Center for Presidential History.
• Media Appearances
  • Saudi, Bahrain kings will not attend gulf leaders’ summit, Al Jazeera America, May 11, 2015.
  • Lou Dobbs Tonight, Al Qaeda taking advantage of fighting in Yemen?, Fox Business News, April 8, 2015.
  • Lou Dobbs Tonight, U.S. counter-terrorism strategy failing?, Fox Business News, March 30, 2015.

Carolyn Smith-Morris, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • Husain, Saira and Carolyn Smith-Morris.  “Diapers in War Zones: Ethnomedical Factors in Acute Childhood Gastroenteritis in Peshawar, Pakistan”. PLoS One. Online, March 13, 2015.

Hiroki Takeuchi, Senior Fellow

• Papers and Publications
  • “U.S.-Japan Relations in a ‘New Age’ after Abe’s Visit to the U.S. (3): Implications of TPP ‘beyond Economics’” (in Japanese), Foresight, June 3, 2015.
  • “U.S.-Japan Relations in a ‘New Age’ after Abe’s Visit to the U.S. (2): Alliance One Step Ahead” (in Japanese), Foresight, May 23, 2015.
  • “U.S.-Japan Relations in a ‘New Age’ after Abe’s Visit to the U.S. (1): How to Manage China?” (in Japanese), Foresight, May 14, 2015.
  • “Mexico, a North American State, Not a Latin American State” (in Japanese), Foresight, May 5, 2015.
  • “U.S.-China Relationship in 2015 (2): ‘Pivot’ and Japan’s Roles” (in Japanese), Foresight, February 23, 2015.
  • “U.S.-China Relationship in 2015 (1): What Is ‘Japanese’ Engagement Policy?” (in Japanese), Foresight, February 11, 2015.
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • “Japan Economic Update–Current Issues,” 2015 Tomodachi-Mitsui & Co. Leadership Program, Houston, TX, May 2015.
  • “China and Security in East Asia,” Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Washington D.C. Office Security Lecture Series, Washington, D.C., May 2015.
  • “Openness, Growth, and Social Institutions in Bangladesh” (co-authored with Rahfin Faruk). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2015.
  • “U.S. Counterterrorism Measures Before and After 9/11 and the Iraq War” (co-authored with Anika Reza). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, February 2015.

Jenia Iontcheva Turner, Associate

• Papers and Publications
  • The Exclusionary Rule as a Symbol of the Rule of Law, 67 SMU L. REV. 821 (2014) (contribution to Rule of Law symposium issue).
  • Foreword, The 2014 SMU Criminal Justice Colloquium, 67 SMU L. REV. 489 (2014) (with Meghan Ryan) (contribution to Criminal Justice symposium issue).
  • Interstate Conflict and Cooperation in Criminal Cases: An American Perspective, 4 EUR. CRIM. L. REV. 114 (2014) (peer review).
• Academic Lectures, Conference Presentations, and Speaking Engagements
  • “Pre-Plea Disclosure in Germany and the United States”, Willamette University College of Law, Salem, OR, Apr. 27, 2015.
  • “Pre-Plea Disclosure in Germany and the United States”, William & Mary Law Review Symposium, Williamsburg, VA, Feb. 21, 2015.
  • “Pre-Plea Discovery in Criminal Cases: A Tale of Two States”, AALS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 4, 2015 (based on paper co-authored with Allison Redlich).
• Awards
  • Sam Taylor Fellowship from the United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry in support of project (with Allison Redlich, University of Albany) to survey prosecutors and defense attorneys about their pre-plea discovery practices.