Academic Minute from 7.17 – 7.21
Monday, July 17th
Billie Murray – Villanova University
Hate Speech
A rhetorical activist scholar, Dr. Murray’s research explores the timely territory of community responses to hate speech. In conducting her research she observes, and can speak about, protest movements at street level. Dr. Murray can also address issues and events related to rhetoric and social justice, rhetoric and democracy and civic engagement..
Tuesday, July 18th
Cassandra Burke Robertson – Case Western Reserve University
Government Information Leaks
Cassandra Burke Robertson regularly teaches Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility and Secured Transactions, and has also taught Transnational Litigation and Remedies. She directs the law school’s Center for Professional Ethics, whose mission is to explore moral choices across professional lines in a variety of disciplines. Her scholarship focuses on legal ethics and litigation procedure within a globalizing practice of law. She has co-authored a popular casebook in the field of professional responsibility and published articles in the Columbia Law Review, Emory Law Journal and Boston University Law Review, among others.
Within the community, Robertson serves on the board of Maximum Accessible Housing of Ohio, a nonprofit organization that works to provide and promote accessible housing solutions for people with physical mobility disabilities. In addition, she serves as one of Ohio’s representatives to the Uniform Law Commission (also known as the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws) and chairs the Appellate Litigation subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Civil Rights Litigation Committee.
Prior to joining the faculty in 2007, Robertson clerked for the Texas Supreme Court and served as Assistant Solicitor General in the Office of the Texas Attorney General. Robertson received a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also obtained joint master’s degrees in Middle Eastern Studies and Public Affairs.
Wednesday, July 19th
Thaddeus Hoffmeister – University of Dayton
Social Media and the Courtroom
As a professor of law, Thaddeus Hoffmeister teaches courses related to criminal law, technology, and the jury. He also directs the UDSL Criminal Law Clinic where his students represent indigent clients charged with criminal offenses. Prior to joining UDSL, Hoffmeister worked on Capitol Hill, clerked for a federal judge, and served in the military.
Hoffmeister has published a number of law review articles, essays, editorials and lengthier writings exploring the criminal justice system, litigation, and social media. His most recent book is entitled Social Media in the Courtroom. In addition to his academic publications, Hoffmeister edits two blogs. His first blog, Juries, which has been continuously published since 2008, focuses on the various issues that arise with jurors and the jury process. His second blog, Social Media Law, examines social media’s impact on the legal system.
Hoffmeister has been widely cited in various media outlets ranging from the Los Angeles Times to the Wall Street Journal to Wired magazine. He has also made numerous appearances on both television and radio programs.
Outside of his work in academia, Hoffmeister teaches legal seminars, serves as a mediator in federal court, and works as an Acting Judge in Dayton Municipal Court. He was a jury consultant on several high-profile cases, including U.S. v. Barry Bonds. Hoffmeister has also taught a wide range of CLE-related courses to law students, practicing attorneys, and judges.
Hoffmeister obtained a B.A. in French from Morgan State University, a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, and an LL.M from Georgetown University Law Center. He is admitted to practice law in California, Washington, D.C., Indiana and Ohio.
Thursday, July 20th
Stephen Cheskiewicz – Mount Saint Mary College
Social Network Policing
Stephen Cheskiewicz, EdD is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology at Mount Saint Mary College. Dr. Cheskiewicz has worked in the field of higher education for over 20 years in both senior administrative and faculty positions. He holds a Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, and a Doctor of Education in Educational Technology from Wilkes University. Dr. Cheskiewicz was previously an Assistant Professor and the Coordinator of Information Technology Programs at Keystone College, Director of Information Technology at Johnson College, and a Pro Rata Professor at Misericordia University. He has taught for many years in the Graduate Teacher Education program at Wilkes University.
He has presented his research at regional, national, and international conferences including the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference (PETE&C), EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences, EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Conferences, Campus Management 2011, the Inaugural European Conference on Education, the International Academic Forum (IFOR) in the United Kingdom, and the International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society in Madrid, Spain. He recently completed a collaborative research project with a co-researcher from Barcelona, Spain that was presented at the University of California at Berkeley and the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in 2015. He also presented at the 9th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2016) in Seville, Spain in November 2016. Through this partnership he was recently asked to be a doctoral examination board member at the Universi tat Autonoma de Barcelona and is co-authoring a book with co-researchers from Universtat Autonoma de Barcelona and Universtat Oberta de Catalunya.
Dr. Cheskiewicz is a Scientific Advisory Board member for the 9th Annual International Conference on Education and New Technologies (EDULEARN17) taking place in Barcelona, Spain in July. He will be presenting collaborative research projects with Dr. Miquel Colobran from Barcelona, Spain and Dr. Scott Ellis from Newcastle, United Kingdom at the European Conference om Education (ECE2017) sponsored by the International Academic Forum (IAFOR) in Brighton & Hove in the United Kingdom in July.
He is a contributor to numerous Pearson Education Business and Technology textbooks and is a published author in an academic peer-reviewed journal. His scholarship focuses on a better understanding of student retention and persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) academic programs.
Friday, July 21st
Aaron Kivisto – University of Indianapolis
States and Gun Laws
Aaron J. Kivisto, Ph.D., HSPP is a forensic and clinical psychologist who maintains a private practice in Indianapolis and is a tenure-track assistant professor in the clinical psychology graduate programs at the University of Indianapolis. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Augustana College in 2004 and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee in 2008 and 2011, respectively.
Following his academic training, Dr. Kivisto completed his pre-doctoral internship in the forensic specialty track at NYU School of Medicine / Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City and his post-doctoral fellowship training in forensic psychology at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has conducted comprehensive forensic psychological evaluations on a variety of criminal, juvenile, and family law matters and has provided behind the scenes consultation to attorneys, including peer review of other professionals’ forensic reports and assistance in formulating effective direct and cross-examinations of mental health professionals.
Dr. Kivisto prides himself on providing objective, clearly organized, well-substantiated and legally relevant forensic evaluations for the legal community. As an assistant professor, Dr. Kivisto teaches graduate courses in psychological assessment, forensic evaluation, and psychotherapy, remaining informed of the latest scientific research. An active scholar, Dr. Kivisto has published over 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles and book chapters on a variety of forensic topics, including violence risk assessment and management with mentally ill individuals, the motivations and psychiatric characteristics of fatal and nonfatal intimate partner violence perpetrators, risk management of those who stalk and threaten mental health professionals, juvenile competence to stand trial, psychopathy, the admissibility of psychological testing in legal contexts, and the use of forensic mental health consultants for litigation consultation.
