February 2007

Dean Heidi M. Hurd
David C. Baum Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy
Co-Director of the Program in Law and Philosophy
Telephone (217) 333-9857
hhurd@law.uiuc.edu

Dear Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, Campus Colleagues, and Friends:

Two months have passed since my holiday newsletter, and the College's faculty, students, alumni, and staff have challenged my ability to keep up with them during this new year, chalking up successes and embarking upon initiatives that constitute a long list of points of pride. Indeed, I've had to leave out a great deal in reporting the following this month:

• The Faculty Adopts a New 1L Curriculum for the Class of 2010
• Gregory Willard '79 Serves as Spokesman for the Family of Former President Ford
• Lt. Commander Charles Swift Speaks on Defending Hamdan
• The Great American Cities Program Chalks Up Early Employment Results for Students
• Professor Lawless Testifies on the 2005 Bankruptcy Act before U.S. Senate Committee
• Jane Hays '79 and Mark Wanda '86 Assume Leadership of the Annual Fund Drive
• The National Trial Competition Returns to Illinois
• Professor Ross Co-Hosts the Michigan-Illinois Comparative Law Workshop
• 16th Alumni-Student Career Conference is a Rousing Success
• Illinois Alumni Achieve High Bar Passage Scores Again … in California!
• Professor Ginsburg Advises Thai Leaders as They Ponder a New Constitution
• The Military Law Society Hosts its Annual Care Package Drive for U.S. Troops
• Lawyers Practice the Law of Poetry and Poets Contemplate the Poetry of Law
• The College Community Celebrates Books with President White and Provost Katehi
• Professor Finkin is Invested as the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law
• The Legend of Albert Jenner '30
• Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier '64 Headlines this Spring's Gala Dinner

The Faculty Adopts a New 1L Curriculum for the Class of 2010

After extensive Curriculum Committee and full faculty discussions, the College of Law faculty voted to work significant changes in the first year curriculum, effective next Fall. The Class of 2010 will thus inaugurate a curriculum that gives four credits to all substantive courses in the first year which will now consist of: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Torts, and Property. 1L students will continue to receive 3 credits for a paced series of Legal Research, Writing, and Advocacy classes, but they will no longer be required in their first year to take either Criminal Procedure or a statutory interpretation elective (though such courses will remain available as upper-year electives). The faculty refrained from specifying set semesters to which the six courses are assigned, but urged the Associate Dean, who is responsible for designing and staffing the College's curriculum, to structure the course schedule so that students will have a public law and private law course in each semester.

The adoption of this course schedule brings the College's 1L curriculum in line with that offered by many of the top-tier law schools in America and redresses a number of serious complaints that have been registered repeatedly by students, faculty, and staff. Curriculum reform is typically thought to be a devil's game, with variables so polycentric that to tweak one often causes a cascade of changes. It is a great tribute to the faculty that out of the hundreds of hours of discussion cumulatively devoted to this topic came a curriculum that virtually all believe will provide Illinois students with a superb grounding in the core disciplines that define the practice of law.

Gregory Willard '79 Serves as Spokesman for the Family of Former President Ford

Gregory D. Willard '79, a partner in the Bryan Cave law firm in St. Louis, served as the Ford family spokesman and assisted in making the arrangements for the recent state funeral held for former United States President Gerald R. Ford. Mr. Willard was a White House staff assistant to President Ford and has been the Ford family's lawyer and longtime family friend for many years. President Ford passed away on December 27 at the age of 93 and Mr. Willard gave eloquent remarks during the funeral service and was featured prominently on national and international television and radio broadcasts. At Bryan Cave, Mr. Willard works on corporate reorganizations and restructurings and has served as lead counsel for debtors and creditors in some of the nation's largest reorganization proceedings.

Lt. Commander Charles Swift Speaks on Defending Hamdan

Navy Lieutenant Commander Charles D. Swift, who served as defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan (a former driver for Osama bin Laden) in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the United States Supreme Court, made a special appearance at the University of Illinois College of Law as part of the College's Program in Criminal Law and Procedure. Lt. Commander Swift spoke about the Supreme Court's decision, recent Congressional legislation authorizing new military commissions, and his continued representation of Hamdan (who was captured during the invasion of Afghanistan and charged in July 2004 with conspiracy to commit terrorism).

In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S., 126 S.Ct. 2749 (2006), Lt. Commander Swift declared that the military commissions had "abandoned the rule of law" by using torture evidence without disclosing its provenance. The Court agreed, holding that the military commission that tried Salim Hamdan was illegal and violated the Geneva Conventions as well as the United States Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

Charles D. Swift is a Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) in the U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General's Corps. He is assigned to the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, the venue for the extrajudicial tribunals in which alleged terrorists captured in Iraq and Afghanistan may challenge their detentions. Lt. Commander Swift was featured in the December 2004 issue of Esquire and was chosen as runner-up "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal in 2005 for his challenge to the Guantanamo review tribunals. In June 2006, the National Law Journal also named Swift as one of "The 100 most influential lawyers in America."

The Great American Cities Program Chalks Up Early Employment Results for Students

This year the College launched "The Great American Cities Program" which hosts day-long events that introduce students to the opportunities, lifestyles, and practice options available in America's most popular cities. To date, alumni have returned to Champaign to talk about their lives and careers in New York, Washington D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, and San Francisco.

I am delighted to tell you that this new program has yielded some early returns that demonstrate its promise in matching students with career opportunities across the nation. Here is testimony from John Bradford '80, who is the lead tax relationship partner at KPMG and came to campus last Fall to participate in the Houston program.

Dean Hurd, Just a note as I work away down here on a beautiful winter day to say thanks for the opportunity to participate in the Great American Cities program last fall. As you probably know by now, as a result of that speaking engagement we (KPMG) were able to interview and hire Annvi Shah into our Houston Tax practice. We're looking forward to her starting later this year. We also had an office visit from James English, a first year student, over the holidays. I spoke to James while I was up for the program and he was interested in seeing what tax work we do at an accounting firm. We did a conference call with one of my colleagues in London to talk about the international oil and gas practice. So there is another possibility for benefit in a couple of years, as we stay in touch with James. Thanks. John

Professor Lawless Testifies on the 2005 Bankruptcy Act before U.S. Senate Committee

In December, Professor Robert Lawless testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts in a session entitled "Oversight of the Implementation of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act." The Subcommittee was chaired by U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) and also included Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania), Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisconsin), and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona). Professor Lawless conducted a subsequent interview live on CNBC "Morning Call" to discuss his testimony and the Bankruptcy Act.

Jane Hays '79 and Mark Wanda '86 Assume Leadership of the Annual Fund Drive

It is a great pleasure to announce that Jane A. Hays '79 and Mark J. Wanda '86 have agreed to head up the Law School Annual Fund Drive. The Law School Annual Fund is crucial to the College of Law because it provides current-use funding for student scholarships, student organizations, faculty and student recruitment, career planning events, our unique law minority access program, conferences, clinics, community outreach, and many other worthy endeavors currently taking place at the College. These funds help fill the gaps created by the State's declining support (which now funds only 12% of the College's annual budget!).

Jane Hays is Vice President and Managing Director of The Downey Group, Inc., which specializes in providing best-in-class, highly customized insurance programs and policies for highly affluent individuals and large professional firms across America. Jane is a past president and current member of the College's Board of Visitors, a member of The Cribbet Society, and a long-time adjunct faculty member at the College of Law. Prior to joining The Downey Group, Jane was a partner in the law firm of Thomas, Mamer, & Haughey, and principal outside counsel to The State Universities Retirement System (SURS) of Illinois. From 1994 until 2004, Jane was a Trustee of SURS, serving as Treasurer of the SURS Board and on the Executive, Investment, Legislative, Claims, and Audit Committees.

Mark J. Wanda is Vice President of Legal Affairs-Commercial at Sepracor Inc., a Marlborough, Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company that enjoyed revenues exceeding $1 billion in 2006. Mark joined Sepracor after having worked as Senior Corporate Counsel for Schering-Plough Corporation in Kenilworth, New Jersey, and Fujisawa Healthcare in Deerfield, Illinois, and as an international tax specialist at the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse in Chicago. Mark obtained an undergraduate degree in Finance at the University of Illinois and was licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in 1991. Mark is a current member of the University of Illinois College of Law Board of Visitors.

The National Trial Competition Returns to Illinois

For the second consecutive year, the University of Illinois College of Law has been selected to host the Region 8 Trial Competition at the Champaign County Courthouse and United States Federal Courthouse in Urbana. The National Trial Competition was created to foster the development of trial advocacy skills in law students and is sponsored by the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

The University of Illinois competition (which will be organized and hosted by the College's celebrated Director of Trial Advocacy, Professor Steven Beckett) will be one of 13 regional competitions and will feature teams from Illinois and Indiana for rounds on February 15-18. Two teams will advance from each regional competition to the National Trial Competition in Dallas, Texas, in March. The judging staff is comprised of local and regional attorneys and circuit and appellate court judges. The Region 8 competition is sponsored by the law firms of Hepler Broom, Heyl Royster Voelker & Allen, and Jones Day.

There are a limited number of judging positions available for local attorneys. If you are interested in volunteering to judge the Region 8 competitions, please contact Professor Beckett at (217) 333-3608 or sbeckett@law.uiuc.edu. For more information on the 2006-2007 National Trial Competition, please visit the official website: http://www.tyla.org/advocacy_ntc.html.

Professor Ross Co-Hosts the Michigan-Illinois Comparative Law Workshop

Illinois law professor Jacqueline Ross and Michigan law professor Mathias Reimann have teamed up to host a second annual forum in which comparative law scholars from both institutions will share their work. The Michigan-Illinois Workshop: Comparative Law in Progress will be held at the College of Law February 8-10 and will involve as many as 20 faculty members in two-day discussions of cutting-edge scholarly work. Professor Ross is pleased to report more than twice as many submissions during this second year of the workshop series.

The 16th Alumni-Student Career Conference is a Rousing Success

The Alumni-Student Career Conference was initiated to enable Illinois graduates to meet alumni who would help them make informed career decisions as they transition from their years in school to their lives in the legal profession. Boasting more than 150 participants this year, the Conference involved students in alumni-led seminars on such topics as "An Introduction to Networking," "Networking Your Way to the Perfect Job," "Cover Letters, Resumes, and Interviews, "Litigation versus Transactional (or Both)," "Judicial Clerkships and the Judiciary," "Public Interest and Public Sector Employment," "A Profession in Real Estate," "The Insider's Perspective on Summer Associate Evaluations," "Large Firms versus Small Firms," "Corporate Law and In-House Counsel," "Careers in Intellectual Property," "Labor and Employment Law Practice," and it also involved a day of mock interviews in which students could practice their interviewing and networking skills.

Many thanks to our alumni, students, and staff for the hard work and energy that went into making the 16th annual conference another great success!

Illinois Alumni Achieve High Bar Passage Scores Again . . . in California!

Illinois graduates have always enjoyed very high bar passage rates in jurisdictions throughout the land. This year I am delighted to tell you that in addition to enviable bar passage rates elsewhere, 10 out of 11 College of Law graduates passed the notoriously difficult California Bar Examination on their first attempt. The 91% pass rate ties for fourth among out-of-state schools with 10 or more students taking the test (beating the University of Chicago, Northwestern, NYU, and Yale!) and it represents a higher bar passage rate than those of in-state schools such as Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley and USC! (OK, we know it's only 11 students!) California, here we come.

Professor Ginsburg Advises Thai Leaders as They Ponder a New Constitution

As Thailand begins to pave a return to democratic rule through the drafting of a new constitution, Professor Tom Ginsburg, the Director of the College's Program in Asian Law, Politics and Society, gave multiple presentations on "Constitutions: Issues for Consideration" in Bangkok and the northern city of Chiang Mai. Thailand has drafted 17 constitutions since becoming a constitutional monarchy in 1932, and leaders now hope that a new constitution will help to restore democracy, which ended last September after a military coup ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Professor Ginsburg's lectures were designed to inform Thai audiences about the American constitutional system, as well as about different constitutions that Thais may wish to emulate in drafting their new constitution. His topics included "Checks and Balances," "Independence and Oversight of the Exercise of State Power," and "Political Parties, Elections and the Exercise of Legislative Power."

Professor Ginsburg, who is a Professor of Law and Political Science at Illinois and a visiting faculty member this semester at the University of Pennsylvania, gave a presentation to Thai diplomatic service officers in the North American division of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs and officers at the Justice Officials Training Institute. The following day, he traveled to Chiang Mai and gave a luncheon, hosted by Consul General Beatrice Camp for leading government officials and civil society leaders; and a similar presentation at the American Corner at Chiang Mai University to students from several universities in Chiang Mai. Professor Ginsburg was also the keynote speaker at a seminar hosted by King Prajadhipok's Institute (KPI), one of Thailand's leading think tanks for leading academics, media figures, political party activists, NGO leaders, local administrators, and private sector representatives.

The Military Law Society Hosts its Annual Care Package Drive for U.S. Troops

The Military Law Society's Annual Care Package Drive kicked off this week and will continue through February 11th. Nearly all of the College's 40 student groups set ambitious philanthropic goals for themselves each academic year, donating literally thousands of dollars and much needed items to people in need. The drive sponsored by the Military Law Society fills much-appreciated care packages for U.S. troops stationed around the globe. Please pitch in! Our heroes and heroines love magazines, paperbacks, candy, lighters, facial wipes, toiletries, etc., and of course, the Military Law Society is grateful for monetary donations that will enable them to enrich packages with favorite items from home.

Lawyers Practice the Law of Poetry and Poets Contemplate the Poetry of Law

On February 15-16, the College will host the first conference in the United States to explore and celebrate the relationship between law and poetry. The event is being organized by local attorney and poet Carl Reisman '96, Professor Jim Pfander, and Professor Eric Freyfogle, and is co-sponsored by the College of Law, the MFA Creative Writing Program, and English Professors Michael Madonick and Richard Powers. Conference participants include James Elkins, Editor of The Legal Studies Forum, the poets Evie Shockley, Frank Pommersheim, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Tim Nolan, and Carl Reisman '96, current students from the College of Law and the Department of English, and interested members of the University and Champaign Urbana community.

Among the session titles are "Does the Practice of Law kill Passion? A Conversation with Five Poet Lawyers," "Lincoln and Whitman: The Poetic Imaginers of Us," "Law and Social Justice--Is All Justice Poetic?," and "Law and Poetry as Spiritual Paths--Do Lawyers Have to Play the Devil's Advocate?" For details, see the calendar in the appendix that follows.

The College Community Celebrates Books with President White and Provost Katehi

Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and campus leaders joined to celebrate the work of our incredibly productive faculty at a Book Reception hosted in the Jenner Library this week. The College's current and emeritus faculty displayed a lifetime of scholarly work and toasts were made to the 23 faculty members who, in the last two years, have written a remarkable total of 38 books!

Amongst those who joined in the institutional tribute was University of Illinois President B. Joseph White, whose recently-published and much-sought-after book The Nature of Leadership was featured among the display. Also Provost Linda Katehi, a renowned Electrical and Computer Engineer and former Dean of Engineering at Purdue University, gave remarks, and as the classical sounds of the Graduate String Quartet wafted across the wine-and-cheese reception, students and faculty perused her contributions on Si Micromachining in High-Frequency Applications, Silicon-Based, On-Wafer and Discrete Packaging, and Surface-Wave Mode Reduction for Rectangular Microstrip Antennas on High-Index Materials.

Professor Finkin is Invested as the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law

Professor Matthew Finkin was formally invested as the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law last Wednesday in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium. Richard Wheeler, the Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate College, and Associate Dean Ralph Brubaker joined me in presiding at the gala ceremony, which was attended by a roomful of colleagues, students, staff, alumni, family, and friends.

The investiture of a faculty member in an endowed Chair represents one of the finest moments in the life of this University. Endowed chairs are to be distinguished from professorships, which are themselves symbols of great stature and influence in the academy, for endowed chairs are even fewer in number, and they are reserved for the elite of the professorate whose prolific scholarly works have proved seminal in fields of manifest importance to society's advancement. In gathering to invest the Harno-Cleary Chair, the College thus celebrated Professor Finkin's attainment of elite stature within the fields of labor and employment law, higher education law, and comparative law.

In their lengthy letters supporting the College's nomination of Professor Finkin for this life-time achievement, renowned scholars around the globe testified to his remarkable reputation and lasting contributions to the law governing the workplace and the academy. For example, Joseph Grodin, the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California-Hastings, captured Professor Finkin's stature when he wrote "Professor Finkin is, in my opinion, quite simply the outstanding active labor/employment law scholar in America today, and I know that my opinion is widely shared." Professor Benjamin Aaron, Emeritus Professor of Law at UCLA, echoed this sentiment: "In my opinion, Professor Finkin is currently the most distinguished American authority on domestic and comparative labor law. His recent labor law text is the the preeminent work on the subject and the breadth of his knowledge and the incisiveness of his thinking and writing establish him as unique among his peers." Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Weiss of the University of Frankfurt wrote that "there is no doubt that Matt Finkin is one of the most outstanding colleagues in our field who enjoys high prestige in the international scholarly community. In my view, he is the most esteemed personality in comparative labor law of his generation in the United States."

The Legend of Albert Jenner '30

Professor Finkin's investiture is one of two investitures this semester which will celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of Albert Jenner of the highly-regarded law firm Jenner & Block. Mr. Jenner funded both the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair bestowed upon Professor Finkin last month and the Albert E. Jenner Professorship, in which we will formally invest Professor John Colombo in March.

You have certainly heard of the law firm, Jenner & Block, but who was its namesake, Albert Jenner? Albert E. Jenner, Jr. graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1930 and in 1933 he joined the law firm that was later to bear his name. By the early 1940's, the so-called "Boy Wonder" was well known as an extremely able trial lawyer; and by the 1960's his reputation had spread around the globe and to the highest offices of the nation. President Truman appointed Mr. Jenner to serve on the National United States Loyalty Review Board in the 1950's. He was appointed to presidential, congressional, and Supreme Court commissions and committees through the 1960's and 1970's, serving as Senior Counsel to the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He was a member of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, formed after the murders of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and he served as Chief Special Counsel to the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary in the impeachment proceedings of former President Richard M. Nixon.

Mr. Jenner was an avid supporter of the University of Illinois. He was a member of its Foundation and served as chairman of the College's first capital campaign. He was the Distinguished Alumni Award recipient in 1962, an Illini Achievement Award winner in 1966, and he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1981. Mr. Jenner died in September 1988 at the age of 81 and at the huge memorial service conducted in Chicago, Illinois Governor James Thompson said the following: "When the soul of our nation was torn by the assassination of a president, our nation reached out to Bert Jenner. And when the fabric of our Constitution was threatened by the actions of a president, our nation reached out to Bert Jenner. When the wounds were deep and grievous for all Americans, when some impoverished soul was threatened, when some unpopular cause would have been extinguished but for the bravery and perseverance of that man, they all reached out for Bert Jenner."

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier '64 Headlines this Spring's Gala Dinner

All alumni, faculty, students, staff, campus colleagues, and friends are invited to the fifth annual College of Law Spring Gala, which will be held on Friday, April 20th, at the beautiful Champaign Country Club! More than 250 guests will join to celebrate student achievements, thank alumni for their generous support, honor and congratulate faculty and staff for their numerous accomplishments, and toast university and campus administrators for their visionary leadership. I am delighted to announce that the keynote address this year will be delivered by Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier, College of Law Class of 1964. For information about the 2007 Gala, please contact the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at (217) 333-2628.

You will find as an appendix a listing of events for February, and I very much hope that you will join in the life of the College by attending as many occasions as your busy schedules permit. My hearty thanks and congratulations to all those in the community whose passion, commitment, and energy accounts for the remarkably engaging activities that makes the College of Law a hub of University life here in Urbana-Champaign.

Sincerely,

Heidi M. Hurd

February 6, 12:00-1:00 pm, Max L. Rowe Auditorium: How to Complete Legal Externships for Credit. Are you interested in earning credit for hours worked with a judge or a legal service organization? Do you want to apply your legal skills to real-world cases and issues? Come and find out more at the informational meeting with Professor Pahre. She will discuss the mechanics and requirements of the Legal Externship Class. Information packages will be distributed. Attendance is mandatory for all new externship participants. For more information contact Deanna Shumard at 217-244-5999 or dshumard@law.uiuc.edu.

February 7, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room A: ACS Faculty Lunch Series. Law School Professor Pfander gives a talk on jurisdiction stripping followed by a question and answer session. For more information contact the American Constitution Society at 217-244-7893 or acs@law.uiuc.edu.

February 13, 10:30-11:30 pm, Room 200: Deans' Open Forum. Students are invited to join Dean Hurd and Assistant Dean Vermillion for an open discussion of College matters.

February 13, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Paul M. Van Arsdell Memorial Lecture. Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow from Georgetown Law School will be the guest speaker. A reception will follow in the Pedersen Pavilion.

February 15, 12:00-2:20 pm, Max L. Rowe Auditorium: IPLS In-House Counsel Presentation. This event will present a panel of in-house counsel members of various disciplines for presentation to the school at large. For more information contact IPLS at 217-244-7893 or ipls@law.uiuc.edu.

February 15-16, College of Law and Channing Murray Foundation: Law & Poetry Conference. Conference participants include James Elkins, Editor of The Legal Studies Forum, the poets Evie Shockley, Frank Pommersheim, Rachel Contreni Flynn, Tim Nolan, and Carl Reisman, students from the College of Law and the Department of English, and any interested members of the University and Champaign Urbana community. The program is free and open to the public. For more information contact Professor James Pfander at 217-333-8237 or jpfander@law.uiuc.edu.

February 15-17, All Day, Champaign County Courthouse and U.S. Federal Courthouse, Urbana: 2007 National Trial Competition Regional. The College hosts Region 8 of the National Trial Competition with 20 teams and 60 competitors from law schools throughout Illinois and Indiana. For more information contact Professor Steve Beckett at (217) 333-3608 or sbeckett@law.uiuc.edu.

February 16: Class of 2010 Open House. For more information contact Rebecca Warsinsky at 217-333-8010 or rnw@law.uiuc.edu.

February 21, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Investiture of Professor Larry Ribstein as the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law. Reception to immediately follow in the Pedersen Pavilion. There is no cost for this event and all are welcome.

February 22, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Room C: Lunch with Alumni from Atlanta. You are invited to have lunch with visiting alumni for an informal discussion about Atlanta's legal market. Lunch and drinks will be provided to the first 60 students. For more information contact Amanda Lindemann at 217-265-5345 or lindemnn@law.uiuc.edu.

February 22, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Pedersen Pavilion: Peer's Pub: Great American Cities Program featuring Atlanta. Students have the opportunity to introduce themselves to visiting alumni and enjoy delicious food and beverages from the Atlanta area. For more information contact Amanda Lindemann at 217-265-5345 or lindemnn@law.uiuc.edu.

February 26, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room 202D: Student Lunch with Dean Hurd. Students are welcome to stop by Room 202E to sign-up to have lunch with Dean Hurd.

February 28, 12:00-1:00 pm, Room B: ACS Faculty Lunch Series. Law School Professor Leipold gives a talk on Wrongful Convictions followed by a question and answer session. For more information contact the American Constitution Society at 217-244-7893 or acs@law.uiuc.edu.

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