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Dean Charles J. Tabb |
March 2008 |
Obama Chief Counsel Michael Strautmanis '94 provides "Black History Month" lecture Michael A. Strautmanis '94, the Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-IL), was the keynote speaker last week as part of the College's "Black History Month" festivities sponsored by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA). The Chicago native took time off from his extremely visible and hectic national campaign schedule to address a crowd of students, faculty, staff, and community members in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium. Michael has worked with Senator Obama since they met in the early 90's at the Chicago law firm, Sidley & Austin. Michael practiced complex litigation, labor and employment law, and intellectual property matters before entering the political arena, appointed by the Clinton administration as Chief of Staff to the General Counsel at the U.S. Agency for International Development and later working for Governor Blagojevich and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America before reuniting with Senator Obama. Ex-NFL player says Congress should regulate steroids in pro sports Before enrolling in the College of Law, third-year student Josh Whitman was a first-team Academic All-American tight end at Illinois and played four years in the National Football League. In the January issue of the University of Illinois Law Review, Whitman wrote an article stating that Congress should step in to regulate performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports because players and owners lack the incentive to police themselves effectively. Whitman's article, "Winning at all Costs: Using Law & Economics to Determine the Proper Role of Government in Regulating the Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Professional Sports," was awarded the Best Note Award and was recently nominated by the College for the Burton Award for Legal Achievement, a national legal writing award. "Faced with the overwhelming incentives present in modern sports – whether tangible like money or intangible like the competitor's inner drive – it is both unrealistic and arguably unfair to ask athletes to protect themselves from the innate parts of their own character that we cheer so heartily while they are within the competitive arena," said Whitman in an article that received national media attention. Professor Maggs lectures at Harvard on Russian Law and Cultural Valuables Professor Peter B. Maggs, the Clifford M. and Bette A. Carney Chair in Law, presented "The Constitutionality of the Russian Federal Law on Cultural Valuables" at Harvard Law School February 8-9 as part of a conference, Spoils of War vs. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context. The conference was sponsored by Harvard Law School Arts & Literature Law Society, the Commission for Art Recovery, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Foundation for International Cultural Diplomacy, and the Harvard Law School European Law Research Center. After World War Two, Soviet authorities, seeking reparations for the extensive costs of Nazi aggression, used special "Trophy Brigades" to empty museums, castles, and salt mines in Germany and Eastern Europe, transporting millions of cultural treasures to the USSR. These included German state-owned cultural objects, cultural objects taken from churches and synagogues, as well as a great deal of private property that had been looted by the Germans from individuals. The art works taken back to the Soviet Union were held in relative secrecy for years, until the final years of glastnost (Гла́сность). As European countries started to demand their cultural treasures and archives, Russian legislators passed a law that potentially nationalizes all cultural treasures brought to Russia at the end of World War II. In 1999, the Constitutional Court issued an opinion basically upholding the law. Professor Ginsburg receives Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement Professor Tom Ginsburg, the Director of the College's Program in Asian Law, Politics, and Society, will receive the University of Illinois Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement at an all-campus faculty awards banquet on April 2. This award honors faculty members whose accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service in the international dimension are truly distinguished. This award recognizes Professor Ginsburg's "long and distinguished academic career as constitutional advisor and comparative constitutional scholar, along with your many contributions to international constitutional law, your prominence in the legal field, and your service both on this campus and abroad." Professor Ginsburg joins Professor William Davey (2004) and Professor Peter Maggs (2005) as College of Law recipients of this prestigious honor. As I mentioned in last month's newsletter, Professor Ginsburg received the Abe Fellowship from Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and will be spending time in Korea, Taiwan and Japan during the Summer of 2008, working specifically on the topic "Legal Reform in Northeast Asia." Professor Morriss authors statewide energy overview for the 2008 Illinois Report for legislators Professor Andrew P. Morriss, the H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business, authored a detailed examination of the energy situation in the state of Illinois. His chapter, Illinois' Energy Outlook, is contained in the 2008 edition of The Illinois Report, an extensive survey of statewide issues intended to serve as an information aide for Illinois' political leaders. The Illinois Report is produced by the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Professor Morriss focuses on two major issues in Illinois' energy use in 2007: gasoline prices and the cost of electricity. Second-year law student named President of National Democratic Law Students I am always amazed at some of the previous life experiences of our current law students. I'd like to pass along the College's congratulations to second-year student S. Asra Husain, who was recently named President of the National Democratic Law Students Council (NDLSC) after serving as the National Treasurer last year. The NDLSC is comprised of law students from more than 100 law schools nationwide. Prior to coming to Illinois, Ms. Husain served as the Asian-American Liaison and Constituent Services Agent for U.S. Senator Barack Obama. While she was earning her master's degree in Political Science at Loyola (Chicago), Asra also worked with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky as a Constituent Advocate and was selected as one of 12 Illinois women to participate in the Illinois Women's Institute for Leadership. Asra also has extensive experience with the Democratic National Party, taking part in the DNC's Campaign School in 2002 and working with the Finance Committee at the DNC National Convention in Boston in 2004. Jane Hays '79 receives Athena Award from Champaign County Chamber of Commerce Jane Hays '79, who serves as Vice President and Managing Director of The Downey Group, Inc., was recently honored with the 20th annual Athena Award, presented by the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce annually to someone who excels professionally, devotes time to the community, and encourages other women to become leaders. Ms. Hays is the past president and a current member of the College's Board of Visitors, the Co-Chair of the College's Annual Fund Campaign, and was an adjunct faculty member teaching "Legal Drafting and Law Office Practice" for 10 years. In her 14th year at The Downey Group, she manages a Champaign-based firm which provides life, disability and related planning for ultra-affluent individuals throughout the U.S. and for large U.S. based professional firms. This remarkable alumnus is involved in just about every Champaign-Urbana and University of Illinois organization, currently serving as board president for the United Way after co-chairing last year's campaign. She is on the board of the Carle Foundation, member of the University of Illinois Foundation, past president of the Champaign County Freedom Celebration, a former member of the Champaign Public Library board of directors, and a past member of the UI Alumni Association board of trustees. She was also appointed to the State Universities Retirement System board of trustees by former Gov. Jim Edgar in 1994 and served until 2004. Before joining The Downey Group, Jane practiced law at the firm of Thomas, Mamer, & Haughey, from 1979-1993, where she was a partner for 10 years, and managing partner for three years. Following the Dean's Newsletter is an update on our faculty activities for the last four months from my colleague, Professor Ralph Brubaker, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Sincerely,
Associate Dean Addendum Please find below a listing of faculty activities during the late fall and winter, 2007-2008. Our faculty members have written papers, journal articles, and books, presented scholarly lectures, served as expert legal resources for national media outlets, and participated in conferences and symposiums around the globe during the last four months. Professor Steve Beckett, the Director of the College's Trial Advocacy Program, will present an overview of the factual background and history behind the "Scottsboro Boys Trials" at a panel discussion March 13 in New Orleans commemorating the 75th anniversary of the seminal United States Supreme Court opinion in Powell v. Alabama in which the High Court outlined the premises of the Right to Counsel in the context of the infamous "Scottsboro Boys Trials." The panel discussion is presented by the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, in co-sponsorship with the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society of New Orleans and the A.P. Tureau Inns of Court at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Professor Beckett was named a 2007-2008 "Top 100 Attorney" by the Leading Lawyers Network in the areas of Civil Rights/Constitutional Law, Criminal Defense Law: DUI, Criminal Defense Law: Felonies & Misdemeanors, and Criminal Defense Law: White Collar. Professor Beckett has practiced law in Champaign-Urbana since 1973 with a primary focus in litigation and appeals, both criminal and civil. One of the state's best-known defense attorneys, Professor Beckett is currently of counsel to the Urbana firm, Beckett & Webber, P.C., that he founded in 1988. The lone downstate full-time law professor listed among the state's "Top 100 Attorneys," Professor Beckett also serves as the coach of the College's nationally-competitive Trial Team. Professor Beckett has been quoted by regional and national media on a wide variety of legal issues. One story featuring Professor Beckett's expertise that received coast-to-coast coverage by the Associated Press was a South Dakota murder investigation. Hyde County State's Attorney Jennifer Lowrie's presence at the crime scene immediately after a November shooting in Highmore, S.D. raises serious ethical questions and opens the door for defense lawyers to attack the integrity of the murder case, said Professor Beckett. "A crime scene that has someone enter upon it is a tainted crime scene," said Professor Beckett. "And the crime scene investigation experts want the crime scene to be pristine." Professor George Bell was named "Advocate of the Month" in January by the Illinois Legal Advocate. Professor Bell is the Director of the College's Civil Litigation Clinic, working with students representing clients in civil litigation matters under close supervision in a model law office setting. Illinois Legal Aid Online has produced an excellent video interview on its website, Illinois Legal Advocate, featuring Professor Bell. You can watch the interview here... The Civil Litigation Clinic represents low-income individuals and families who do not have the resources to hire an attorney. Professor Bell joined the College of Law in 1996 after working for 20 years in the Champaign office of Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance. He teaches classes in all aspects of civil litigation, while supervising the work of the senior law students who practice law with a temporary license from the Illinois Supreme Court. He has also developed and teaches a course in Poverty Law. Professor Francis Boyle published "Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., November, 2007) as part of the War and Peace Library series. He also published "Breaking All the Rules: Palestine, Iraq, Iran and the Case for Impeachment," a compilation of the proceedings of the 18th Annual Bertrand Russell Peace Lectures delivered by Professor Boyle at the Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University, in January, 2007. The French language edition of his book "Biowarfare and Terrorism" (2005) has now been published in Paris by Editions Demi-Lune under the title "Guerre biologique & terrorism: retour sur les attacques terroristes de l'anthrax.' Professor Boyle is also continuing to serve as an advisor to Bosnia and Herzegovina on their recently renewed constitutional reform process. He presented "Law and Resistance: The Republic in Crisis and the People's Response" at Northwestern Law School at an event sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and the Northwestern Law Student NLG Chapter. He was also included in the 2008 editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, and Who's Who in American Law. Professor John Colombo, the Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor, was invited to Washington, D.C. in October, 2007 to participate in the Senate Finance Committee's Roundtable on Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Hospitals in Washington, D.C. His presentation at that roundtable was quoted extensively in Tax Notes magazine and The Exempt Organizations Tax Review. Professor Colombo attended the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law's annual conference at New York University. In January, Professor Colombo completed a chapter titled "Utah County v. Intermountain Health Care: Reconsidering the Charitable Status of Nonprofit Hospitals" for a new book by Aspen Publishers called "Health Law Cases in Context." The chapter is a history and analysis of Utah County v. Intermountain Health Care, a famous case on nonprofit hospital state property tax exemption decided in 1985 and excerpted in virtually all health law casebooks. The book is scheduled for publication this summer. In January, Professor Colombo signed a contract with Aspen Publishers for a new book on federal and state tax exemption on nonprofit hospitals, which will be co-authored with two attorneys from Jones, Day that specialize in representing nonprofit hospitals. The book is scheduled for publication in Spring, 2009. Professor Colombo was also quoted in the Feb. 20 New York Times in an article about a union and non-profit hospital accounting practices. A union is trying to force nonprofit groups like hospitals to comply with standards of governing similar to those that federal law requires of private companies. Professor William Davey, the Guy Raymond Jones Chair, was presented with an honorary doctor of laws degree by the University of Berne (Switzerland) at its 173rd Dies Academicus on December 1, 2007. Professor Davey was cited "for his fundamental work in the development and evolution of the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement system, thanks to which numerous trade conflicts were peaceably resolved; for his outstanding academic contributions to the law of GATT and the new WTO in the search for balanced and fair rules for international trade; and for his longstanding efforts to promote knowledge of European law in the United States so as to advance and contribute to the trans-Atlantic dialogue." Professor Davey, who joined the College of Law faculty in 1984, teaches courses on international trade law, European Union law, and international business transactions. He served as the Director of Legal Affairs of the World Trade Organization from 1995 to 1999. In 2004, Professor Davey received the Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement, the highest award bestowed upon a University of Illinois faculty member for scholarship and service within the international community. Since its founding in 2001, he has been on the faculty of the Masters Program in International Law and Economics at University of Berne. Professor Christopher Fennell was awarded a grant of $284,856 from the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program for three years (2008-2010) of field school research at the town site of New Philadelphia, Illinois. New Philadelphia was the earliest town planned, platted, and legally registered by an African American in the United States. Professor Matthew Finkin, the Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair, published Disloyalty! Does Jefferson Standard Stalk Still?, 28 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 541 (2007); Bearing the burdens of decisions made by others: The corporate reallocation of employee risk in the United States, Perspektiven der Corporate Governance 501–519 (Ulrich Jürgens et al eds., 2007); and, an essay, Weber's Frage, 2007 Arbeit und Recht 409. His report to the Swedish Ministry of Education, Academic Tenure in the United States, was published in the government's study Karriär för Kvalitet (2007). As Director of the College of Law's Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law and Policy, Professor Finkin co-hosted a conference in Athens, Greece, on January 11–12, 2008, in conjunction with the European Public Law Center, on Labor Law in the Eastern Mediterranean comparing the developing labor and employment law in Greece, Turkey, and Israel. He was the respondent to the keynote address given by Professor Roger Blanpain of Belgium to a conference on The Global Workplace in San Diego, California, on February 15, 2008. On January 31, 2008, he gave the Rush McKnight Labor Law Lecture at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. In terms of public service, on December 13, 2007, Professor Finkin testified before a joint hearing of the relevant U.S. Senate and House subcommittees on oversight of the National Labor Relations Board critiquing the NLRB's recent performance; and he published an op-ed criticism of the American Law Institute's projected Restatement of Employment Law—Flawed Restatement, The National Law Journal (Sept. 24, 2007). Professor Tom Ginsburg published three articles, Commitment and Diffusion: Why Constitutions Incorporate International Law, 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 101-37 (2008); Lessons for Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia, Orbis (Dec. 2007); and, Odious Debt and Democratization, 70 Law and Contemporary Problems 115-36 (2007) (with Thomas Ulen). During the winter semester, Professor Ginsburg has made presentations at UCLA, the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt University. He has also presented several international lectures, including "Japanese Law and Asian Development" at the Kyushu University Conference on Law and Development: Asian Alternatives to Universal Schemes, Fukuoka, Japan; "International Delegation: The Nth Power" at the Conference on the Separation of Powers, University of Haifa; "Northeast Asian Legal Reform" at the University of Haifa; and, "Judicial Independence: A Comparative Perspective" at the Oxford Foundation for Law and Justice Conference on Judicial Independence in China. Professor Ginsburg was awarded the prestigious Abe Fellowship by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern and to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance. Professor Ginsburg will utilize the Abe Fellowship to spend time in Korea, Taiwan and Japan during the Summer of 2008, working specifically on the topic "Legal Reform in Northeast Asia." Professor David Hyman, the Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor, will be the keynote speaker at the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Law Forum March 6 in Washington, D.C. Professor Hyman will discuss key legal issues in health care immediately following the 2008 AHIP National Policy Forum to in-house and outside counsel, legal experts, government representatives and other plan and insurance specialists. AHIP is the national trade association representing nearly 1,300 member companies providing health insurance coverage to more than 200 million Americans. Professor Richard Kaplan, the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor, published as the lead article "Back to School: The New Parameters of Funding a Grandchild's College Education," Journal of Retirement Planning, January-February 2008. The article was reprinted in 3 CCH Financial and Estate Planning Reports ¶ 33,111 (2008). Professor Kaplan also presented "Significant Developments in Individual Income Taxation" at the Illinois Tax Conference in Chicago and at the Indiana Tax Institute in Indianapolis. Professor Kaplan also presented a workshop on "When to Take Social Security Retirement Benefits" at the Indiana Tax Institute in Indianapolis. He served as a panelist on "Distributions from Pension Plans After the 2006 Legislation," Section on Employee Benefits at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City in January. Professor Kaplan was named to the Advisory Board of the Center for Elder Justice & Policy at the William Mitchell College of Law. Professor Jay Kesan, the Director of the College's Program in Intellectual Property & Technology Law and the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Faculty Scholar, received a "Best Paper Award" at the 41st annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), sponsored by the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Professor Kesan teamed with Rajiv Shah from the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Communication to publish "An Empirical Examination of Open Standards Development," earning the "Best Paper Award" in the Electronic Government category for E-Government Organization and Management. Since 1968, HICSS has been an internationally-known forum for the substantive interchange of ideas in all areas of information systems and technology. Professor Kesan's work is being funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Charlotte Ku, Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs, presented the lecture, "International and National Control of the Use of Military Force" at the Seminar on Use of Force in October at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. Last month, she presented "The Dynamics of International Law" to the Post-Graduate International Law Program at Leiden University in The Netherlands and at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She also participated in the panel on Enriching the Law School Curriculum in an Increasingly Interrelated World at the AALS Annual Conference in New York. Professor Michael LeRoy conducted regional and national media interviews, including WBBM-AM 780 in Chicago and the Associated Press after the release of the Mitchell Report detailing steroid usage in Major League Baseball. Professor LeRoy was also interviewed extensively by the Detroit Free Press and national wire service outlets during the month of February on the negotiations during the merger of Northwest and Delta airlines. Professor Peter Maggs, the Clifford M. and Bette A. Carney Chair in Law, presented "The Constitutionality of the Russian Federal Law on Cultural Valuables" at Harvard Law School February 8-9 as part of a conference, Spoils of War vs. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context, sponsored by Harvard Law School Arts & Literature Law Society, the Commission for Art Recovery, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Foundation for International Cultural Diplomacy, and the Harvard Law School European Law Research Center. After World War Two, Soviet authorities, seeking reparations for the extensive costs of Nazi aggression, used special "Trophy Brigades" to empty museums, castles, and salt mines in Germany and Eastern Europe, transporting millions of cultural treasures to the USSR. These included German state-owned cultural objects, cultural objects taken from churches and synagogues, as well as a great deal of private property that had been looted by the Germans from individuals. The art works taken back to the Soviet Union were held in relative secrecy for years, until the final years of glastnost (Гла́сность). As European countries started to demand their cultural treasures and archives, Russian legislators passed a law that potentially nationalizes all cultural treasures brought to Russia at the end of World War II. In 1999, the Constitutional Court issued an opinion basically upholding the law. Professor Michael Moore, the Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Chair, and Co-Director of the College's Program in Law and Philosophy, was recently saluted by Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy Douglas Husak in a recently-released book, Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Here are a few excerpts:
Professor Andrew Morriss, the H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor, served as discussion leader for a Liberty Fund Colloquium on "Property, Freedom and Prosperity" in Tucson, Arizona on Feb. 14-17 and at one on "Private Property, Government Takings, and Individual Liberty" in La Jolla, California, on Feb. 28-March 1. Professor Morriss contributed a chapter on the contributions of Richard Epstein to law and economics to Pioneers in Law & Economics (Edward Elgar forthcoming 2008, Lloyd Cohen & Joshua Wright, eds.). Professor Morriss coauthored a report for the Pope Center on Higher Education on "Legal Education in North Carolina" with William Henderson and then presented the report at a public forum in Raleigh, NC on Feb. 26. Professor Morriss spoke to the North Carolina State "Society for Economics, Politics, and the Law" on "The Market for Legal Education" on Feb. 26. Professor Morriss authored the chapter on energy policy in the Institute for Government and Public Affairs Illinois Report 2008, distributed to state lawmakers and policy makers. He appeared on WILL on "For the People: Primary Focus" to discuss energy issues in the presidential campaign on Jan. 24 and appeared on the WCIA/WCFN-TV "Morning Show" to discuss the FutureGen project on Dec. 20. Professor Laurie Reynolds, the Prentice H. Marshall Professor, published two law review articles, School Finance Reform, Uniformity of Taxation, and the Democratization of Local Control, in the University of California-Davis Law Review (2007) and Local Governments and Regional Governance, in the Urban Lawyer (2007). Professor Reynolds was recently named to a three-year term on the Fulbright Peer Review Committee for Southern Europe and was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Local and Regional Law Journal. This new quarterly journal is published by the Local Government Law Research Unit (NEDAL) of the School of Law of the Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal. Professor Larry Ribstein, the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair, was quoted extensively in the January 21 edition of the National Law Journal on the "Stoneridge" securities fraud case. Should lawyers, accountants, investment bankers and others rest easy after the U.S. Supreme Court's most recent securities decision? Yes and no. In Stoneridge Investment Partners LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta Inc., No. 06-43, investors sought to hold liable two vendors who, acting as customers and suppliers, agreed to contracts that they knew would allow the investors company, Charter Communications, to issue a misleading financial statement that affected Charter's stock price. "If a lawyer is involved in structuring the transaction, you might say the lawyer is a little bit closer to being a conventional target of securities laws than the suppliers in Stoneridge," said Professor Ribstein. "But liability for merely structuring transactions is unconventional enough, I think, that it would fall within the danger area where court was concerned about being too aggressive with securities remedies." Professor Jennifer Robbennolt recently published Apologies and Plea Bargaining, Marq. L. Rev. (2007) (with Margareth Etienne), and Apologies and Civil Justice, in Civil Juries and Civil Justice: Psychological and Legal Perspectives (Brian Bornstein et al. eds., 2007). Professor Robbennolt also produced two entries (on Jury Competence and on Legal Negotiation) in the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law (Brian Cutler, ed., 2008). As Chair of the AALS Section on Law and Social Science, Professor Robbennolt organized and chaired a session on "Empirical Scholarship in Law: Multiple Methodological Approaches" at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City in January. Professor Jacqueline Ross is one of 10 University of Illinois faculty and administrative members who have been awarded a 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholar grant, based on academic and professional achievement and demonstrated leadership potential in a particular field of study. Professor Ross and the other Illinois recipients join about 800 other Americans who have received the grants to lecture or conduct research abroad. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Professor Ross is currently in France studying policing in immigrant communities. She is comparing France and the United States as part of a larger comparative study of undercover policing in the U.S., Italy, Germany, and France. Professor Ross is a guest researcher at the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique de Cachan in Paris until June and presented a lecture in December at the Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature in Paris titled "Les differentes perspectives juridiques sur les infiltrations policieres: Les Etats-Unis, l'Italie, l'Allemagne, et la France," that is, "Different legal perspectives on undercover policing: the U.S., Italy, Germany, and France." Established in 1872, the Paris Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (English translation: Paris Institute of Political Studies), often referred to as Sciences Po (pronounced see-ahns po), is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. Sciences Po is an elite and highly selective institution and has traditionally educated the French political and diplomatic elite. Its academic focus spans not only the political and economic sciences, but also law, communications, finance, business, urban policy, management, and journalism. The campus is located just off the Seine River, and within walking distance of Notre Dame de Paris, Panthéon, and Assemblée Nationale and is comprised of 17th and 18th century mansions located on and around rue Saint-Guillaume in the VIIe arrondissement of the Left Bank. Professor Richard Ross, the co-director of the College's Program in Legal History and the Thomas Mengler Faculty Scholar, will be presenting "Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of 'Intensity'" on March 10 at the Oxford Legal History Forum for the Oxford University Faculty of Law. He presented "Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of 'Intensity'" at the British History in the Seventeenth Century Workshop, Institute for Historical Research, London, England in October. His article, "Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of 'Intensity'" has been accepted for publication in the American Historical Review, the leading peer-reviewed journal in the history profession in the English language. Professor Ross presented "Legal Communications and Imperial Governance in Colonial British and Spanish America" at the London Legal History Seminar, University College in London in December, the Imperial History workshop, Institute for Historical Research in London in November, and the USC Legal History Workshop in October. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Professor Ross has been an Associated Researcher, Institut D'Études Politiques de Paris [Sciences-Po]. Professor Lawrence Solum, the John E. Cribbet Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, was named the inaugural Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the College of Law. Professor Solum will oversee mentoring and faculty development, coordinate the lectures, symposia, and workshops held at the College, assist with the activities of the College's Scholarly Programs, and serve on the Promotion and Tenure and Appointments committees. Professor Solum is an internationally recognized expert on Legal Theory, who works on general jurisprudence, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Internet Governance, and a variety of other topics. He is the author of Legal Theory Blog, and recently edited the first anthology on the relationship between virtue theory and the law, Virtue Jurisprudence, with Dr. Colin Farrelly. His current projects include Civil Procedure: Principles and Theory, under contract with Oxford University Press, Semantic Originalism, to be published in the Northwestern University Law Review, and Virtue Jurisprudence: An Aretaic Theory of Law. At the AALS Conference in January, Professor Solum participated in the Section on Constitutional Law's panel on the "New Originalism and Its Critics" and presented a paper entitled "Zombies," for the panel on legal personhood organized by the Section on Jurisprudence. His recent conference appearances include the annual conferences of the American Political Science Association, the Law and Society Association, and presentations at Harvard University, the Sorbonne, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Calendar of College of Law Events March 3, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Max L. Rowe Auditorium: Ann F. Baum Elder Law Lecture. The Ann F. Baum Memorial Lecture on Elder Law is an endowed annual lecture series on issues relating to Elder Law. Professor Jon Pynoos, the UPS Foundation Professor of Gerontology, Policy, Planning & Development, Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California will present the topic, "Aging in Place, Housing, and the Law." Reception to follow in the Pedersen Pavilion. March 7, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Pedersen Pavilion: Class of 2011 Open House. March 12, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Max L Rowe Auditorium: David C. Baum Memorial Lecture. The David C. Baum Memorial Lecture Series on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights is an endowed biannual lecture series named in memory of University of Illinois College of Law Professor David C. Baum. Stanford Law School Professor and former Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan will present the topic, "Who is Free Speech For? Who is For Free Speech?." Reception to follow in the Pedersen Pavilion. March 13, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Room C: Great American Cities Program. Students are invited to have lunch with visiting alumni for an informal discussion about career opportunities in the Washington, D.C. legal market. Lunch and drinks will be provided to the first 50 students. For more information contact Sunda Wells at 217-265-5345 or sunda@law.uiuc.edu. March 13, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Pedersen Pavilion: Peer's Pub: Great American Cities Program featuring Washington, D.C. Students have the opportunity to introduce themselves to visiting alumni and enjoy delicious food and beverages from the Washington, D.C. area. For more information contact Sunda Wells at 217-265-5345 or sunda@law.uiuc.edu. March 28, 12:00-1:00 p.m., Pedersen Pavilion: Class of 2011 Open House.
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