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Elsa Y. Ransom
Associate Professor of Law
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Phone:(713) 313-1047
Email: eransom@tmslaw.tsu.edu
Joined the faculty in 1990.

Additional Biographical Information

• Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (1992-1995)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX
  (1990-1992)
• Associate Program Director, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin, TX (1987-1990)
• Summer Law Clerk, Board of Regents, Texas State University System, Austin, TX (1986)
• Assistant Professor, Communications, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX (1979-1986)
• Television News Producer, Anchor, Reporter, NBC News (WKYC-TV), Cleveland, OH (1973-1978)
• Television News Producer, Anchor, Reporter, (KPRC-TV), Houston, TX (1970-1973)

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Publications

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• The Ex-Public Figure:  A Libel Plaintiff Without a Class, 5 SETON HALL J. SPORT L. 389 (1995).
• Home:  No Place for "Law Enforcement Theatricals" - The Outlawing of Police/Media Home Invasions in Ayeni v. Mottola, 16 LOY. L.A. ENT. L.J. 325 (1995).

       Presentations

• Speaker, Lyceum and Cultural Arts sponsored TSU Jazz Symposium, presentation on Legal Issues of Importance to Recording Artists, Houston, TX, 1994-1995.
• Volunteer Legal Consultant for Ft. Bend County YMCA Teen Court Program in FBISD Schools, 1994-1995.
• Speaker, Careers in Law, HISD Contemporary Learning Center, sponsored through Boy Scouts of America, 1994-1995.
• Speaker, Faculty Photocopying and the Copyright Law:  What are the Legal Limits?, 1993-1994.

       Unpublished Papers

• The New World Information Order:  An Analysis of It's Impact on the International Law of Communication (1987).
• The Out Influence Exception of Texas Rules Concerning Juror Testimony on Jury Misconduct (1987).
• The Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984
• Needed Cure or Needless Proliferation? (1986).
• Public Figures and the Passage of Time--An Attempt to Escape the Sullivan Standard (1986).
• The Right of Publicity (1986).

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Affiliations

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• Evaluation Team Member, convened by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, San Antonio, TX, 1995-1996
• Committee Member, Academic Standards, Curriculum, Scholarship and Development, 1995-1996
• Faculty Advisor, Intellectual Property Society, 1995-1996
• Acting Chair, University Residency Appeals Committee
• Chair, Discipline Committee; Curriculum Committee; Faculty Awards Committee; Rank and Tenure Ad Hoc Committee, 1993-1994
• Committee Member Admissions, Curriculum, 1992
• Faculty Advisor, Intellectual Property Society, 1992

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Research and Teaching Interests

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• Civil Procedure I, II
• Case Analysis
• Appellate Litigation
• Torts I, II
• Communications Law Seminar