May 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 Faculty, Students, Staff, Alumni, Campus Leaders, and Friends:
As the annual eerie hush falls over the College as students hunch over their books in the library and quell butterflies as they turn pages on examinations, I want to devote this last newsletter of the academic year to the comings and goings of the faculty and to the latest successes that have been celebrated by the community. I also want to thank the members of the J.D. and LL.M. Classes of 2007 for the many contributions they have made to the College of Law and to the local community through dedicated efforts at improving the learning and living experiences of those both within and outside the walls of the academy. Their rite of passage into the legal profession on May 12th will be bitter-sweet for me and the faculty and staff, for even as we celebrate the completion of their metamorphoses into lawyers, we will be sad to see them leave the College.
This month in the news:
- Illinois Faculty Will be Visiting Law Schools Around the Country and Conducting Research Around the World!
- The College of Law Welcomes Professor Nuno Garoupa to the Faculty
- The College Bids a Sad Farewell to Professors Lee Fennell, Richard McAdams, and Jim Pfander
- The College of Law Celebrates Staff Promotions, Commemorates Staff Retirements, Welcomes New Incoming Staff, and Bids Farewell to Staff who Are Moving to New Opportunities
- Annual Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship Go To Professors Leipold, Hyman, and Freyfogle
- Professors Hyman, Leipold, Reynolds, Kesan, and Lawless are Honored with Endowed Professorships and Faculty Scholar Positions
- The College's Baum Lectures Attract the National Spotlight after the U.S. Supreme Court's Ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart
- Professor Tabb Moves into Top 10 in SSRN Downloads with a New Bankruptcy Paper
- The College Dedicates the Kimball R. and Karen Gatsis Anderson Courtroom
- The 2007 Class Gift Campaign Breaks the Record for Student Participation
- Professor Kaplan and the Elder Law Journal Partner with the SEC and Federal Reserve Bank for a Senior Investor Protection Symposium
- College of Law Faculty and Alumni Gather for a June Reunion in Geneva–And All Are Invited!
Illinois Faculty Will be Visiting Law Schools Around the Country and Conducting Research Around the World!
During the next 12 months, eight University of Illinois faculty members are taking advantage of opportunities to be visiting professors at other law schools, teaching courses, conducting research, and acquainting themselves with new faculties and different academic communities. Having exploited the mobility of the legal academy to visit at several law schools during my career, I am very eager to enable faculty who want to engage in this kind of “professional tourism” to do so, for the knowledge that they acquire about the practices and people at other institutions proves very valuable upon their return. The College of Law typically welcomes a number of visiting scholars from other institutions each year, for we find that visiting faculty enrich our curriculum and broaden our intellectual engagement. And we are always delighted when our own faculty brings home from their visits creative ideas for improvement that they have harvested from other institutions who share our enthusiasm for engagement with the great issues of the day.
Among the faculty who are visiting other law schools during the 2007-2008 academic year are Professors Margareth Etienne, Patrick Keenan, and Tom Ginsburg, all of whom will be visiting at the University of Chicago Law School; Professor Larry Ribstein, who will be visiting at the N.Y.U. Law School; Professor Lawrence Solum, who will be visiting at Georgetown University's Law Center; Professor Cynthia Williams, who will be visiting at Osgoode Hall-Toronto; Professor Ekow Yankah, who will be visiting at Cardozo Law School; and Professor David Meyer, who will be visiting at Brooklyn Law School.
“I'm excited to spend time at the University of Chicago Law School, a unique place in American higher education,” said Professor Tom Ginsburg. “Among legal academics in the know, it is considered the most productive school in the country, and I look forward to returning to Champaign with a deeper knowledge of law and economics, as well as a few more articles under my belt. I view it as a tremendous learning opportunity.”
"I'm looking forward to a semester at Georgetown University's Law Center, located just a few blocks from the United States Supreme Court,” said Professor Lawrence Solum.” I'll be teaching Civil Procedure to the Hoya 1Ls and an advanced course called 'Normative Legal Theory'. Visits are always stimulating and refreshing--I'll return to Champaign-Urbana in the spring with new ideas and renewed appreciation for the University of Illinois."
“The University of Chicago Law School is a premier institution with an international reputation for excellence,” said Professor Margareth Etienne. “Like the University of Illinois College of Law, it is part of a vibrant university with interdisciplinary strengths in a wide array of fields relevant to my interests in criminal law and policy. As a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, I will surely benefit from the intellectual energy for which the law school is so well known. I look forward to returning to Illinois with new ideas, new approaches to my work, and a revitalized sense of academic engagement.”
Professor Larry Ribstein will be teaching Unincorporated business, jurisdictional competition and securities regulation at New York University. As Professor Ribstein writes, “I'm continuing my research in jurisdictional competition, partnerships and private equity, corporate crime and other areas. I'm sure I'll gain from being at the center of the world finance community for a year, and will bring that to Illinois with me in 2008.”
Professor Jacqueline Ross will be in Paris, France during the 2007-2008 academic year as she and her French research partner, Dr. Thierry Delpeuch (a legal sociologist at France's Centre Nationale de Recherche), have been given a research grant of 250,000 Euro — over $350,000! — from the French Agence Nationale de Recherche. Professor Ross has been awarded a Fulbright research fellowship and an additional research fellowship from the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Over the next 12 months, Dr. Delpeuch and Professor Ross plan to conduct interviews with police, community organizations, and social service agencies in the immigrant communities of St. Denis (on the outskirts of Paris), Marseille, and Grenoble as part of a project to compare policing strategies in the immigrant communities of France and the United States. In the following year, plans call for Dr. Delpeuch to come to the College of Law as a visiting scholar to conduct the American portion of the research in Chicago, Dearborn, and Tampa. We wish Professor Ross the best during her year in France as she works on this important and timely research project, and we look forward to Dr. Delpeuch's reciprocal visit in the following year!
As is the case in the normal course of academic life, several faculty members will also be taking regularly paced sabbaticals and ordinary research leaves during the next 12 months. For example, Professor Richard Ross is going to take the research leave that he has been awarded as part of his Thomas M. Mengler Faculty Scholarship to spend the coming academic year in Paris with his wife, Professor Jacqueline Ross, and their children. He will be a visiting scholar at Sciences Politiques [Paris], and he will spend the year working on his forthcoming book, The Commoning of the Common Law: The Relationship of the English People to their Law, 1500-1700. Every other week, Professor Ross will travel to England to consult manuscript sources at the National Archives, British Library, Inns of Court, Oxford and Cambridge universities, and some regional repositories.
The College of Law Welcomes Professor Nuno Garoupa to the Faculty
As faculty take advantage of opportunities to travel the country and the globe on visitorships and research leaves, so we welcome new faculty who are eager to leave such far-flung places to come to Champaign-Urbana! Last month I told you about how excited we are to have hired one of America's most celebrated young “power couples,” Professors Victor Fleisher and Miranda Perry. This month I am delighted to tell you that we have also hired one of the most dazzling global experts in law and economics, Professor Nuno Garoupa.
Professor Nuno Garoupa will join the Illinois faculty this fall after serving as a Professor of Law and Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, for six years, and as an Assistant and an Associate Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, for five years. His areas of research include Comparative Law and Economics and Institutional Economics.
Professor Garoupa teaches Economic Analysis of Law, Institutions and Development, and Institutions for Public Policy Reform. Professor Garoupa received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of York (UK) and also holds an LL.M. from the University of London with specialization in criminal justice and criminology. Professor Garoupa has a long established research interest in the economics of law and legal institutions and his research has been published in law and economic journals worldwide. Professor Garoupa's current research agenda includes the organization of the judiciary from a comparative perspective and the behavior of prosecutors, and he has co-authored some of his most high-profile recent pieces with Illinois faculty members Richard McAdams and Tom Ginsburg. He is currently serving as the Vice President of the European Association of Law and Economics, a member of the board of directors of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, a member of the editorial board of the International Review of Law and Economics, and the editor of the Review of Law and Economics.
As Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Schaefer of the University of Hamburg puts it, Professor Garoupa “stands out as one of the most brilliant and productive scholars of law and economics in Europe.”Professor Garoupa's sphere of fame and influence extends well beyond the European scholarly community, however. Mitchell Polinsky, the Crocker Professor of Law and Economics at Stanford Law School, writes of Professor Garoupa: “He is already probably the best young European scholar in law and economics, and among the best young scholars in this field worldwide. At his current extraordinary rate of productivity, I think there is a high probability that he will, within the next five or ten years, be considered one of the two or three best European scholars in law and economics, regardless of age, and competitive with the better scholars worldwide regardless of age.” Steven Shavell, the Rosenthal Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School calls Garoupa “a well-recognized player, an important person, in the growing field of economic analysis of law. On scholarly grounds, he is excellent. I also believe that he will be a continuing producer and that trajectory is only upward.” John J. Donohue, the Surbeck Professor of Law at Yale Law School, says that “Professor Garoupa is one of the most talented young theorists in law and economics in the world today.” Eric Posner, the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, says that “Garoupa's work on enforcement of the law is consistently creative and interesting.” Posner also regards Garoupa's work as “extremely broad-in the sense of addressing interesting legal problems from diverse areas of the law-and extremely careful.”
The College Bids a Sad Farewell to Professors Lee Fennell, Richard McAdams, and Jim Pfander
While we say a cheerful bon voyage to those who are visiting at other law schools or pursuing exciting research opportunities around the globe, we say a much sadder farewell to three faculty members who have accepted permanent positions at other institutions. Professors Lee Fennell and Richard McAdams have both been recruited away from Illinois by the University of Chicago Law School (which, judging by its further visiting offers to Professors Ginsburg, Etienne, and Keenan, has serious Illinois envy!), and Professor Jim Pfander has accepted a faculty position at the Northwestern University School of Law.
“Illinois is a wonderful intellectual community and I feel privileged to have been a part of it,” said Professor Lee Fennell. And Professor Richard McAdams wrote: "My eight years as a member of the College of Law community have been a privilege and a joy. The students, staff, and faculty are wonderful. I am sad to leave some of my greatest friends in the world. I can do so only because I am not moving very far away and will continue to see them often!”
Professor Jim Pfander, who has been on the Illinois faculty for 19 years and has served as the Prentice H. Marshall Professor since 2001, wrote this in a letter to those who fund the Marshall professorship: "It's with a genuine sense of sorrow that I sit down to write my last letter to you and the supporters of the Pren Marshall professorship. I spent the fall semester as a visiting professor at Northwestern Law School and was given an offer to join the faculty there. I have spent nineteen happy years on the faculty at the University of Illinois and leave many friends and fond memories behind. The decision to leave was complicated by the very tangible efforts you and the institution made to keep me on board. As you know, in the end, family considerations tipped the scales. We're very close to Laurie's parents and to her sister's family in Chicago, and the prospect of greater proximity to them proved irresistible.
Happily, I leave the College of Law in good hands and good health. We have had a successful year at Illinois, with new professors on the way and a student body that lights up the classroom. I am confident that future professors here will benefit from their association with the Pren Marshall professorship, just as I have, and that confidence softens the sense of disappointment that I feel in leaving the professorship behind.”
The College of Law Celebrates Staff Promotions, Commemorates Staff Retirements, Welcomes New Incoming Staff, and Bids Farewell to Staff who Are Moving to New Opportunities
Over the course of the semester, the College has celebrated numerous staff promotions, commemorated two staff retirements, welcomed several new staff appointments, and bid farewell to several staff whose family circumstances have motivated cross-country moves or who have found promotional opportunities elsewhere on campus. Our community has been tremendously enriched by the contributions of these invaluable staff members, and I want to thank them, from all of us, for their hard work and dedicated commitment to the Illinois community.
To sum up the staff's career news: Rhonda Davis joined the College's Business Office; Marianne Downey was promoted from Associate Director to Director of Development; Brenda Faul was promoted from Secretary IV to Staff Secretary; Debby Fletcher was promoted from Secretary III to Secretary IV; Kim Green moved from the Directorship of Human Resources and Facilities to Program Coordinator for the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering; Terry Neutz Hayden was promoted from Associate Director to Director of Communications; Jenny Hill has decided to take time away from the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development to be a stay-at-home Mom; Amanda Lindemann is leaving the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development to move with her husband to Dallas, Texas; Diana Marshall was promoted from Staff Secretary to Administrative Secretary but will be retiring at the end of June to spend more time with family; Meredith Olson joined the College as the Assistant to the Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations; Mary Parsons was promoted from Secretary III to Secretary IV and will soon transition into her new role as Assistant to the Assistant Dean for Administration; Lindsay Price is leaving the College after one year as Special Projects Director to move with her husband to Idaho; Carleen Taylor moved from the Journals Office to the Office of Career Planning and Professional Development; Buffy Vance moved from WILL-AM-FM to join the College as an Assistant in the Offices of Development and Communications; Rebecca Warsinsky is departing from the Directorship in Admissions to be with her family on the East Coast; and, Robin Yette is retiring from the College's Business Office.
Annual Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship Go To Professors Leipold, Hyman, and Freyfogle
Professor Andrew Leipold is the recipient (again! . . and again!) of this year's student-voted Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. Over the past years, Professor Leipold has won 11 teaching awards, including nine of the College's annual Outstanding Teacher of the Year Awards, the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching, and the Award for Distinguished Teaching at Duke Law School when he visited there for a semester. It is only fitting that we honor his remarkable talents as a teacher by awarding him his twelfth teaching award!
Professor Eric Freyfogle has been awarded the Wayne R. LaFave Award for Scholarly Excellence for his book Why Conservation is Failing and How it Can Regain Ground (Yale University Press, 2006). This elegantly written and thoughtful book explores the ways in which the conservation movement has, in his view, responded ineffectively to the many cultural and economic criticisms that have been leveled against its efforts to protect healthy lands and build communities. As one renowned conservationist writes of Professor Freyfogle's book: "We've lost our way, but we can find our path again if we take seriously Eric Freyfogle's courageous and clear-headed assessment. His is at once a summons back to the core truths of conservation in law, democracy, and land health and a provocative call for cultural change that honors nature and posterity. Why lament the death of environmentalism when we have, right here, a clear vision of rebirth?"
Professor David Hyman, the Galowich-Huizenga Faculty Scholar, has been awarded the Carroll P. Hurd Award for Scholarly Excellence for his acclaimed article, "Rescue without Law: An Empirical Perspective on the Duty to Rescue," 84 Texas Law Review 653 (2006). This work examines the empirical assumptions of those on both sides of the debate about whether lawmakers should enact a general duty to rescue as a means of encouraging Good Samaritanism under circumstances in which aid to those in peril would be effective and not unduly burdensome. It demonstrates that both proponents and opponents of Good Samaritan legislation harbor presuppositions that are inconsistent with the data, for the evidence proves that Americans are both willing to sacrifice their liberty for others, and they do so without threat of legal sanction in virtually all circumstances in which a law would require them to do so. In short, in America, rescue is the rule, even if it is not the law.
I am very pleased to tell you that Professor Jennifer Robbennolt received an Honorable Mention for the Carroll P. Hurd Award for Scholarly Excellence for her very interesting and insightful article "Apologies and Settlement Levers," 3 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 333 (2006). This article explores the role of apologies in legal settlement negotiation, and offers the helpful conclusion that apologies (subject to certain kinds of constraints) can promote settlement by altering the injured parties' perceptions of the injury and the offender so as to make them more amenable to compromising on their recovery, rather than pressing for full vindication of their rights.
Professors Hyman, Leipold, Reynolds, Kesan, and Lawless are Honored with Endowed Professorships and Faculty Scholar Positions
It is my great pleasure to tell you that three faculty members were recently nominated to prestigious endowed professorships--positions that are among the highest honors that are bestowed upon highly-reputationed scholars in the academy. First, Professor David Hyman, the current Galowich-Huizenga Faculty Scholar and the Director of the Jon David and Elizabeth A. Epstein Health Care Law and Policy Program, has been nominated to the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professorship. Professor Hyman is considered one of the country's most innovative health law scholars with a portfolio of genuinely path-breaking work on medical malpractice, managed care, consumer protection, professional responsibility, tax exemption, and topics in civil procedure.
Professor Andrew Leipold has been nominated to the prestigious Edwin M. Adams Professorship in Law. Professor Leipold serves as the Co-Director of the College's Program in Criminal Law & Procedure. A former clerk for both Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Lewis Powell, Jr., of the United States Supreme Court, Professor Leipold writes extraordinarily insightful and elegantly conceived articles in the areas of criminal law and procedure.
And finally, Professor Laurie Reynolds, whose recent research focuses on issues of local government law and regionalism, has been nominated to the Prentice H. Marshall Professorship. Professor Reynolds is a past recipient of a Fulbright Americas Research Grant for work she did in Brazil. She spent the 2004-2005 academic year in Lisbon as a Fulbright grantee to the School of Law at the Catholic University of Portugal, teaching courses on U.S. Land Use and State and Local Government Law. And in 2003, Professor Reynolds was recognized with the campus-wide award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching.
I am also very pleased to report that Professor Jay Kesan and Professor Robert Lawless have been awarded two-year rotating faculty scholar positions that will afford them research support and relief from teaching necessary to advance large empirical projects that both have planned. Professor Kesan, the Director of the College's Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program, is currently leading the highly-visible BioBEL (on the Business, Economics and Law of Genomic Biology) cross-disciplinary campus-wide initiative through the UI Institute for Genomic Biology. He has been named the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Faculty Scholar. Professor Lawless joined the faculty last year from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, bringing with him a nationally-celebrated reputation in bankruptcy law. Professor Lawless is frequently quoted by the national media, and just this past December, he testified about the effects of the 2005 bankruptcy law before a session of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. Professor Lawless will assume the Galowich-Huizenga Faculty Scholar position.
The College's Baum Lectures Attract the National Spotlight after the U.S. Supreme Court's Ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart
The recently released edition of the Illinois Law Review presents two David C. Baum Memorial Lectures addressing the South Dakota Legislature's recent attempts to redefine the terms of the abortion debate. Professor Robert Post, who delivered the Fall 2007 David C. Baum Lecture, focuses on a South Dakota law that requires physicians to inform a patient seeking an abortion that she is terminating the life of "a whole, separate, unique, living human being." After analyzing the First Amendment principles that should apply to compelled physician speech of this sort, Post suggests that the statute unconstitutionally obliges physicians to utter ideological speech.
Yale University Professor Reva B. Siegel presented the Spring 2007 David C. Baum Lecture, entitled “Enforcing Sex Roles in South Dakota: An Equality Analysis of Abortion Restrictions Under Casey and Hibbs.” The lecture and subsequent article, which traces and critically examines the metamorphosis of the notion of an abortion's harm to the woman from internal strategy sessions amongst anti-abortionists to the deployment of legal arguments and public policy recommendations, was featured in an April 20 article in the New York Times. Professor Siegel's lecture took on additional significance when the U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down Gonzales v. Carhart, in which Justice Kennedy's majority opinion adopted the woman-protective argument while upholding the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
Professor Tabb Moves into Top 10 in SSRN Downloads with a New Bankruptcy Paper
Professor Charles Tabb, the Alice Curtis Campbell Professor and one of the nation's leading scholars in bankruptcy, was recently listed among the Top 10 list of faculty whose articles have been most downloaded from the Social Science Research Network in the category, “Law School Research Papers - Law & Economics.” His article, “Living with the Means Test,” co-authored with Jillian McClelland, explores the radical 2005 Congressional enactment of BAPCPA (the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005). The abuse provisions in BAPCPA introduced substantive and procedural adjustments to the practice of consumer bankruptcy that have had profound effects on debtors, creditors, attorneys, trustees, and judges alike. Professor Tabb and Ms. McClelland's highly-influential and widely-read article explores the impact of the “means test” on the players in the bankruptcy system.
The College Dedicates the Kimball R. and Karen Gatsis Anderson Courtroom
On April 20, the College held a marvelous ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the newly-renovated, state-of-the-art Kimball R. and Karen Gatsis Anderson Courtroom. Kimball and Karen Anderson are both 1977 graduates of the University of Illinois College of Law and have been long-time members of the College's Cribbet Society and the University's President's Council. Ms. Anderson practiced labor and commercial litigation for many years in Chicago for Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, also doing extensive pro bono work for the ACLU. She moved to the Chicago Board of Education as in-house counsel in 1984 and became the supervising attorney of a division within its Law Department in 1988, doing litigation particularly in civil rights and school law matters. In the community, Ms. Anderson has served for many years on the Board of Directors and as President of the Board at the Near North Montessori School, and she is a current member of the College of Law's Board of Visitors.
Kimball Anderson is a Senior Partner with Winston & Strawn in Chicago with more than 30 years of experience in the areas of professional and product liability, patent and trademark infringement, class actions, and insurance coverage. He has tried many cases to verdict in state and federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court and has been named as a Leading Lawyer for Business, Top 100 Super Lawyer and as a Laureate of the Illinois Academy of Lawyers. He received national attention for his representation of former Governor George Ryan and his representation of the Illinois Council of Long-Term Health Care before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Anderson is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Distinguished Neutral for the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution and is recommended in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration. He was named “Person of the Year” by Chicago Lawyer magazine in 1996, Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient by the College in 1997, and received the ABA's Pro Bono Publico Award in 2003.
The Anderson Courtroom features a beautiful, newly designed, ADA-compliant bench, witness box, and jury box and a state-of-the-art evidence presentation system, together with lovely new furniture and elegant decor. The EPS has a document camera, DVD, and VCR for displaying content on monitors at the counsel tables, witness box, bench, and on a 50" plasma screen monitor for the jury. The EPS system has built-in annotation software allowing the witness and the presenting attorney to use a touch-screen monitor to annotate images on the screen. The system allows the images to be printed on the system's color image printer. In addition to the EPS, the College has also installed a new ceiling-mounted LCD projector, allowing the room to be used as a general purpose classroom and a forum for academic conferences and lectures. The Andersons, along with fellow Illinois alumnus Judge James Holderman ‘71, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and Adjunct Professor Paula Holderman consulted in the design of the Courtroom and the selection of the EPS system.
Thank you many times over to the Andersons, and to the Holdermans who worked with them, for making the dream of a signature courtroom a reality!
The 2007 Class Gift Campaign Breaks the Record for Student Participation
Ever since the Class of 2004 launched the class giving program with an astonishing 41% participation rate, each graduating class has challenged itself to beat the preceding class in the number of donors giving to the College through the class gift program. The Class of 2005 achieved a 60% participation rate and the Class of 2006 hit a 63% participation mark with the LLM class achieving a 108% participation rate (adding one visiting professor and two exchange students!). This year, the Class of 2007 hit a remarkable 76% participation rate and took the total dollars raised into six figures thanks to six members of the Class of 2007 joining the John E. Cribbet Society!
By comparison, the 2006 graduating classes boasted a mere 16% participation at Washington University Law School, 18% participation at Harvard Law School, 46% participation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and 75% participation at the Yale Law School. And the fact that the graduates at University of California-Berkeley achieved a 97% donor participation rate is simply a rallying cry to the Class of 2008!
The aim of each Class Gift Campaign is to achieve a record-high donor participation rate. With the College of Law receiving only 12% of its funding from the State of Illinois, it is less a state-supported school than a state-assisted school, and initiatives like this are crucial to ensuring that it cultivates the kind of long-term alumni support that sustains its competitiveness.
A special thanks to the Class of 2007 Gift Committee, co-chaired by Jessica Bruskin and Sarah Tomkowiak and including committee members Kamel Aranki, Jennifer Carnahan, Amber Drew, Steve Flores, Sharon Ganger, Daniel Hwang, Scott Kramer, Jonathon Levin, Jillian McClelland, Doug McMeyer, David Pivnick, Jeremy Stewart, Flavia Trevisan, Anders Watson, and Andrew Wone.
Professor Kaplan and the Elder Law Journal Partner with the SEC and Federal Reserve Bank for a Senior Investor Protection Symposium
Professor Richard Kaplan, the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law, together with the Elder Law Journal will partner with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to present the Senior Investor Protection Symposium in Chicago on May 18. The Symposium will feature a distinguished panel of experts in business, law, government, and the academy (including the College's own Professor Kaplan) on topics that face seniors as they prepare for and enjoy their retirement. The Symposium will be held in the Illinois Rooms of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 S. LaSalle Street. For more information, please call (312) 353-0626 or e-mail ChicagoSeniorsSymposium@SEC.GOV.
College of Law Faculty and Alumni Gather for a June Reunion in Geneva--And All Are Invited!
We have a wonderful tradition of gathering loyal College followers together every summer in Europe for an annual reunion that unites faculty, students, staff, and alumni (both J.D. alumni and LL.M. alumni) in a combination of lively discussions and professional tourism. This year's reunion will be held on June 8-10 in Geneva, Switzerland and its organizers invite everyone who has an affection for the College to join us--most especially, current students and recent graduates! Among this year's celebrity guests from the College will be Sherry Cibelli, Charlotte Ku, the newly-appointed Director of the College's Office of International Studies, Professors Bill Davey and Michael Moore, and Associate Dean Ralph Brubaker!
Philippe Preti (M.C.L. '82) is the organizer of this year's gathering and he has planned a marvelous weekend that includes a tour of Geneva, a visit to the United Nations' European Headquarters, a cruise on Lake Geneva, and an excursion up neighboring Mount Saleve. There will also be a series of "mini-presentations" by College faculty on the hot topics in their fields and a general discussion of the College's increasingly ambitious plans for international programs and initiatives. Please join us for this memorable reunion. If you have questions, please contact Sherry Cibelli at scibelli@law.uiuc.edu. For information and to register, please visit: http://www.law.uiuc.edu/alumni/reunions2007.asp.
At the close of my fifth year as Dean, I want to thank everyone who has made the last half-decade such an exciting and successful period in the College's long and successful institutional life. I deeply believe that what we have at Illinois is a very precious public good--a vibrant, intellectually rigorous, socially responsible community of students, scholars, staff, and graduates who deeply care about the integrity of the legal profession and the promise of law as a tool of social change. My very best wishes to all of you in the summer months to come.
Sincerely,
Heidi M. Hurd
Calendar of College of Law Events
May-June 2007
May 11, 6:00-8:00 pm, Pedersen Pavilion: Class of 2007 Graduation Open House.
May 12, 11:30-2:00 pm, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts: Class of 2007 College of Law Convocation, Speaker: Professor Samantha Power, Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
May 13, 10:30 am, Assembly Hall: University of Illinois Commencement, Speaker: Alumnus Jawed Karim, a co-founder of YouTube, a popular video-sharing Web site.
June 8-10: European Alumni Association Reunion - Geneva, Switzerland. For more information contact Sherry Cibelli at 217-244-1476 or scibelli@law.uiuc.edu.
