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Professor Derrick Bell, a leading scholar on issues of race and constitutional law in America, will be the keynote speaker for "Accepting Extinction: Will Christian Doctrine Prove Our Enemy Rather Than Our Salvation?" at 2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 13, at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Bell, a visiting professor of law at New York University School of Law, will offer his perspective on the issue in honor of his 75th birthday.
This 2006 Belle R. and Joseph H. Braun Memorial Lecture Series event will also feature panelists Linda R. Crane, associate dean and professor at John Marshall; Kevin Hopkins, professor and director of Asian Alliances at John Marshall; Alfreda Robinson, associate dean and lecturer of law at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.; George Taylor, associate professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Rev. Dr. Richard L. Tolliver, rector of St. Edmond Episcopal Church in Chicago.
The Belle R. and Joseph H. Braun Memorial Lecture Series honors and celebrates the distinguished accomplishments of John Marshall alumnus Joseph H. Braun. Since 1989, the lecture series has covered a broad array of topics ranging from discussions of legal issues such as genocide to the ethics of the death penalty.
For additional information, or to register for the program, contact the Department of Event Management at 312.987.1420 or e-mail events@jmls.edu.
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People who have witnessed state executions will talk about their experiences when the Amnesty International student chapter at The John Marshall Law School presents the program "Witness to an Execution" at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 11, in Room 1102.
Among the speakers will be Barbara Becnel who witnessed the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams in December 2005. A former Los Angeles Crips gang member, Williams was convicted of murdering four people in 1979. He continued to argue he was innocent, and in the 1990s he changed his stance on gangs, wrote children's books and worked from behind bars to convince young adults that gang affiliation was not a positive option.
"Witnessing the state-sponsored murder of Stanley Tookie Williams was the most horrific experience of my life. Though I could not stop his execution, I intend to recount the horror I saw to every audience I face for the rest of my life," she has said.
The program is sponsored nationally by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. For information on the presentation at John Marshall, contact Amnesty International president, Sarah Simonson, at 5simonso@stu.jmls.edu.
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The John Marshall Law School's Middle Eastern Law Student Association sponsored the program "The Impact of Mass Media on Public Perceptions of Islam." John Marshall students David Sweis (left) and Alén Takhsh (right) welcomed guest speakers Sultan Muhammad (second from left), communications coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations; and Simon Cohen (third from left), director of global tolerance limited.
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"Guantanamo: How Do We Respond?" a day-long program on Thursday, Oct. 5, will examine issues raised by the U.S. government's detention policy in the "war on terror." The program, in Room 1105, is co-hosted by the student chapters of Amnesty International and the American Constitution Society.
The all-day simulcasts will begin with an opening program at 9 a.m. given by Joseph Margulies, clinical professor at Northwestern University School of Law, who will deliver "Guantanamo: A Primer." Journalists from the New Yorker, Miami Herald and Time magazine will share journalists' perspectives from Guantanamo from 9:45 to 11 a.m.
"Habeas Interlude: Force Feeding" will be addressed from 11 to 11:15 a.m. followed by "First, Do No Harm: Medical Professionals and Guantanamo" will be addressed from 11:15 to 12:30 p.m. by a retired military doctor, and a representative of the Physicians for Human Rights, and the American Psychological Association.
A look at "Insults to Religion" from 12:30 to 12:45 p.m. will be followed by "Matters of Faith: Guantanamo and Religious Communities: from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. The speakers will include James Yee, a former military translator who has written "For God and Country."
"Habeas Interlude: Suicide" will be addressed from 1:45 to 2 p.m. followed by concurrent sessions "History of Torture in the Modern World" and "American Detention Policy: The Next Frontier" will be examined by leading law school scholars.
"Habeas Interlude: Military in Civil Society" will be addressed from 3:15 to 3:30 p.m. followed by a 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. discussion of "The Military and the Commander-In-Chief" given by members of the military.
The final program will be "Habeas Interlude: Voices of Guantanamo" from 4:45 to 5 p.m., followed by remarks on "Guantanamo and American Foreign Relations from 5 to 6 p.m. delivered by attorney William H. Taft, former legal advisor, U.S. State Department.
For information on this program, contact American International student chapter president Sarah Simonson at 5simonso@stu.jmls.edu.
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Students at The John Marshall Law School are hosting a New Orleans-style dinner on Oct. 13 to raise funds for their efforts over the winter break to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The program, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the Student Lounge will feature New Orleans food and music. The event will include a discussion of the criminal justice issues that still plague New Orleans and its residents.
For more information, contact Sarah Simonson at 5simonso@stu.jmls.edu.
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The John Marshall Law School's Constitution Day program, "Judicial Independence & Emerging Democracies" featured (from left) Professor Kevin Hopkins; guest presenter Professor Thomas Ginsburg of the University of Illinois College of Law; moderator Hon. Sheila Murphy, retired Cook County judge and of counsel at Rothschild, Barry & Myers; Acting Dean John Corkery; Professor Molly Lien, Professor Michael Seng and program organizer Professor Walter Kendall.
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The Gay and Lesbian Legal Alliance (GALLA) at The John Marshall Law School will be staffing a table in the main lobby on Oct. 6 and 11 to share information and materials that protest the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policies that ban gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the military.
GALLA members will be able to inform students about the military's policy and offer their suggestions on how to help lift the ban on gays in the military and support this cause.
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Barry Kozak
Associate Director, Employee Benefits Program
Activities
He recently presented at the College of Pension Actuaries Advanced Actuarial Conference and at the Relius Advanced Pension Conference, and was a guest lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law's LL.M. Tax Program for an executive compensation class on Sept. 19 and 26.
He will present "Other Defined Benefit Issues in the Pension Protection Act of 2006" and "Disclosure of Relative Values for Benefit Distributions" at the upcoming IRS TE/GE Advisory Council meeting, and will be a panelist at a Chicago Bar Association CLE program on Oct. 9, titled "An Overview of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 _ Its Implications for Employers of Single Employer and Multi-Employer Pension and Profit Sharing (including 401(k)) Plans."
Kozak also will present at the Annual ASPPA Conference in October on Required Minimum Distributions from Qualified Defined Benefit Plans, and he is organizing, moderating and presenting at "Public Sector Pension Plans in Illinois: Will the Promises Be Kept," a special John Marshall public policy discussion program on Oct. 27.
Kozak has been invited to address the 2007 NIPA Annual Forum in May 2007 as a panelist on "Reporting and Disclosure Rules After the Pension Protection Act of 2006," and will lead a discussion on the "New Funding Rules for Defined Benefit Plans After PPA 2006."
Publications
Kozak completed a rewrite for Chapter 5, Vesting and Accruals, V. Regulation of Qualified Retirement Income Plans Generally, "Employee Benefits Law," 3rd ed. ABA Section Of Labor & Employment Law (2006). He is nearing completion of several research articles, including: "Cash Balance Plans Do Not Unfairly Discriminate Based on Age, and Congress Ensures that Conversions After the Pension Protection Act of 2006 Will Provide Certain Protections to Older Employees" (submitted for publication in the Spring 2007 Employee Benefits symposium edition of The John Marshall Law Review); "Legal Status of Cash Balance Plans after the IBM Decision" (scheduled to be the lead article in the Winter 2006 edition of the Journal of Pension Benefits); "Using Cash Balance Plans as Part of a DB/DC Combo After the Pension Protection Act of 2006" (scheduled to be published in the Winter 2006 edition of the Journal of Pension Benefits); "What a non-ERISA Attorney Needs to Know About the Pension Protection Act of 2006" (scheduled for publication in the upcoming edition of The Practical Tax Lawyer); "The Elimination of Redundant, Non-Core, and Under Utilized Optional Forms of Benefits. The Definition of Early Retirement Benefits and Retirement-Type Subsidies. What Does It All Mean? - An analysis of Treasury Regulations Published Under IRC §411(d)(6)" (scheduled for publication in the upcoming November/December 2006 edition of The ASPPA Journal); and a white paper on "Using a Target Benefit Approach to Adequately Fund Individual Account Plans."
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The Decalogue Society gave a surprise birthday party for Dean Emeritus Fred Herzog (seated, second from left) who turned 99. The organization also showed a film about the town of Graz, Austria, Dean Herzog's home town. The film focused on the persecution of the Jewish community there during World War II, including Herzog's family and his father, the Rabbi of the town's temple. Joining in the celebration were (seated from left) Acting Dean John Corkery, and friends Howard Ehrhart and Herbert Glieberman, and (standing from left) Marilyn Criss, administrative assistant in Student Affairs; Professor Ann Lousin, and co-chairs of the Decalogue Society James Hausler and Farnaz Hakimian.
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Four John Marshall students interested in intellectual property law got first-hand international experience this past summer when they worked for a Taiwan company and a Chinese law firm.
These placements were arranged by Dorothy Li, co-director of the Asian Alliances Program, who said this first group of students made such wonderful impressions on their bosses that she hopes to continue the overseas work program for summer 2007.
"We have had dozens of Chinese students come to John Marshall, but we haven't had many of ours go to Asia," Li said. "This was a wonderful program. I commend the students for making great impressions on their employers."
Third-year student Simon Booth worked for two months at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the largest semiconductor manufacturing company in the world. Among his projects was work on joint development agreements. Although he was in the Science-Based Industrial Park in Hsin-Chi, a suburban area of Taipei, he did get into the city on several occasions. Booth has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.
Steven Schuetz, a third-year student, split his time between serving working at a law firm and as a teaching assistant to Professor Debra Stark who was teaching "Introduction to the American Legal System" to Chinese attorneys at the State Intellectual Property Training Center in Beijing in preparation for their work on LL.M. degrees in intellectual property law at John Marshall. He also worked with Dr. Lulin Gao, the former commissioner of China's State Intellectual Property Office and founder of the East IP Law Firm in Beijing. Schuetz was reading through Chinese law and helping staff with their legal writing.
Schuetz earned a Ph.D. in synthetic inorganic chemistry from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry with concentrations in pre-med and gerontology from The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
Bryan Jones worked for a month at Liu, Shen & Associates in Beijing. The firm does patent filings and prosecution, mostly for pharmaceuticals. China's patent office doesn't allow for re-filings. In the United States, corrections are allowed, but in China, patents that are rejected can not be re-filed. Jones was helping with reviews of materials for clients and examiners that were to be presented in English.
He has a master's degree in neurobiology and physiology from Northwestern University.
Anthony Anderson, a third-year student, worked for a month at the Taipei office of Baker & McKenzie. 
At a review session on their work in China, third-year students Bryan Jones (left), Simon Booth (back), and Steven Schuetz (third from left) met with co-directors of the Asian Alliance Program Dorothy Li (front) and Professor Kevin Hopkins (right).
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Professor Mark E. Wojcik
Activities 
He spoke at the American Bar Association Law Student Division (ABA/LSD) Career Program at DePaul University College of Law on Thursday, Sept. 14. He and his co-panelists addressed the topic of "What I Wish I Had Known When I Was in Law School." The program was attended by local area law students and ABA/LSD Representatives from states as widespread as California, Florida and Rhode Island.
He served as moderator at a John Marshall Career Service Program, "Working Out: A Panel Discussion About Disclosing Sexual Orientation in the Legal Workplace," on Sept. 25. Panelists included Judge Thomas Chiola from the Circuit Court of Cook County, Mike McHale from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Robert Ollis from Chapman and Cutler, and Jeremy Gottschalk from Bell, Boyd & Lloyd.
He also has been appointed as a "Permanent Guest Professor for Comparative Law and Anglo-American Law" at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, effective as of Oct. 1, 2006.
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October 2
Yom Kippur
October 3
The American Constitutional Society will present Spencer Overton, who will speak about voter rights at noon in room 200.
The Masaryk Society will meet at 12:30 p.m. in room 532.
The Corporate Law Association will meet at 1 p.m. in room 403.
October 4
Phi Alpha Delta will meet at noon in 1105 and at 5 p.m. in room 527
The second Student Bar Association Workshop will be held at 5 p.m. in room 1102.
The Asian Pacific American Law Students Association will present Edmond Chang, the hiring attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, at noon in room 201
The John Marshall Law School Security Law Group will meet at noon in room 528.
October 5
Phi Alpha Delta will meet at noon and at 5:30 p.m. in room 217.
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October 2
October 3
- Insights I Program, Room 503, noon.
- Masaryk Society Meeting, Room 532, 12:30 p.m.
- Corporate Law Society Meeting, Room 403, 1 p.m.
October 4
- Christian Legal Society Meeting, Room 1101, noon.
- Asian Pacific American Law Student Association Meeting, Room 201, noon.
- Career Services Office (CSO): Opportunities for Getting Legal Experience at John Marshall, Room 1102, noon.
- Phi Alpha Delta Meeting, Room 428, noon.
October 5
- Amnesty/ American Constitution Society Simulcast, Room 1105, All Day
- Center for International Business and Trade Law Video Conference with the American Bar Association and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Room 1102, 11 a.m.
October 6
- Employee Benefits Advisory Board and Faculty Meeting, Room 528, noon.
- Chinese Language Class, Room 503, 4 p.m.
October 7
- Admissions Open House, Room 200, 8:30 a.m.
- Law Preview, Room 503, 9 a.m.
- Black Law Students Association Meeting, Room 1101, 11 a.m.
- Insights I Program, Room 409, 1 p.m.
October 8
- BEST Program, Room 1103, 10 a.m.
October 9
- Dean's Search Committee Meeting, Courtroom, 9 a.m.
- Dean's Meeting, Room 217, 10 a.m.
- Bar Essay Exam Program (BEEP), Room 201, 11:30 a.m.
- Faculty Assembly, Room 503, 12:15 p.m.
- Insights II Program, Room 1103, 4:15 p.m.
- Trial Advocacy Honors Board Meeting, Room 413, 5 p.m.
- Phi Alpha Delta Meeting, Room 217, 5:30 p.m.
October 10
- American Constitutional Society Meeting, Room 300, noon.
- Insights I Program, Room 503, noon.
- Insights II Program, Room 403, noon.
- CSO: Careers in International Business Transactions, Room 1200, noon.
- Women's Law Caucus Meeting, Room 1102, noon.
- CSO: Evening Student Alumni & CSO Mixer, Room 3East, 5 p.m.
October 11
- BEEP, Room 1200, 11:30 a.m.
- Amnesty Society Meeting, Room 1102, noon.
- International Business and Trade Law (IBT) Joint J.D./LL.M. Info Session, Room 403, 12:45 p.m.
- Trial Advocacy ADR & Trial Team Try-Outs, Room 1202, 1 p.m.
- Board of Trustees Meeting, Courtroom, 2 p.m.
- CSO: Meet the Public Service Employers Reception, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 4:30 p.m.
- Student Bar Association Meeting, Room 1102, 5 p.m.
- IBT Joint J.D./LL.M. Info Session, Room 413, 5 p.m.
October 12
- Delta Theta Phi Initiation, Room 3East, 5 p.m.
October 13
- BEEP, Room 528, 9:30 a.m.
- Tax Advisory Board and Faculty Meeting, Room 413, noon.
- Braun Lecture with Professor Derrick Bell's Perspective - "Accepting Extinction: Will Christian Doctrine Prove Our Enemy Rather Than Our Salvation", Room 1200, 2 p.m.
- Chinese Language Class, Room 503, 4 p.m.
October 14
- BEEP, Room 200, 9:30 a.m.
- BLSA Meeting, Room 1101, 11 a.m.
- Insights I Program, Room 409, 1 p.m.
- Insights II Program, Room 403, 1 p.m.
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In the Loop is published by The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Copyright 2006
Editor: Assistant Dean John M. McNamara; Contributors: Marilyn Thomas, Director, Public Relations and Advertising; Andrea Koklys, Assistant Director, Public Relations and Advertising
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