Block, Hughes Named Treiman Fellows
Professors Cheryl Block and Emily Hughes have been named Treiman Fellows for 2009-10. The fellowship, which supports faculty scholarship, is named in memory of Israel Treiman, an alumnus, a faculty member, and a longtime supporter of the law school.
Block is an expert in federal tax and budget law and policy. She is currently working on her new book, Overt and Covert Bailouts: Developing an Effective Public Policy, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. This book will draw upon work from multiple disciplines to explore the many ways, some more hidden than others, in which government bailouts can and do occur, and will examine government intervention to assist private enterprise within the broader context of allocation of risk. Block argues for a public policy infrastructure and guidelines to deal with economic crisis in advance rather than ad hoc government response in times of crisis.
Block also is serving as the editor for a book resulting from the law school’s recent interdisciplinary conference, Federal Budget and Tax Policy for a Sound Fiscal Future. The book will include her paper on measuring bailout costs along with other papers and essays. Her fourth edition of Corporate Taxation Examples & Explanations is forthcoming in 2010.
Block’s recent publications include a book chapter in Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy and an article on federal budget process and policy in the Nebraska Law Review.
Emily Hughes concentrates her teaching and scholarship in the area of criminal law. Her current research focuses on mitigation in capital cases, including a project examining the role of this mitigation. The second edition of her co-authored book, Federal Habeas Corpus: Cases and Materials, Carolina Academic Press, is forthcoming. She also is the co-author of the Illinois Capital Defense Motions and Jury Instruction Manual and Illinois Death Penalty Defense Law and Practice Manual.
Among her recent articles, “Mitigating Death” is forthcoming in the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. The article examines ethical considerations in capital litigation, exploring how legal ethics that mitigation specialists experience on capital defense teams interact with ethical norms and world views that mitigation specialists develop in professions outside of the law (such as social work).
She also has recently published articles in the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy and DePaul Law Review.
