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April 15 - 21, 2007 |
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Lisa Madigan, Dean Herzog, Five Alumni Honored at Freedom Award Luncheon |
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The John Marshall Law School Alumni Association will be honoring Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan with its Freedom Award at the annual Freedom Award Luncheon May 4 at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel.
The alumni association will be a presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to John Marshall Law School Dean Emeritus Fred Herzog, and Distinguished Service Awards to Daniel Cotter (J.D. '95); Rep. James Durkin (J.D. '88); Jessica Arong O'Brien (J.D./LL.M. '98, LL.M. `02); Letitia Spunar Sheats (J.D. '71); and 1st Appellate Court Judge James Fitzgerald Smith (J.D. '75).
Madigan, the first woman to serve as the state's chief legal officer, is being recognized for her numerous achievements, including her work to pass legislation that improved the Sex Offender Registry, mandating lifetime supervision for sexual predators. Madigan has worked with law enforcement across the state to crack down on sex offenders who fail to register.
Another of her top law enforcement priorities was to stop the spread of highly-addictive methamphetamine. She worked with legislators to develop laws to crack down on meth makers and reduce their ability to acquire ingredients by limiting access to over-the-counter drugs needed for methamphetamine.
As the state's chief consumer advocate, Madigan has worked to protect consumers, especially seniors who often are the target of fraud, by filing lawsuits to stop fraudulent practices and recover money on behalf of Illinois consumers. Madigan also created the Public Access Counselor (PAC) position. The PAC ensures that public bodies conduct their business openly and that the public has access to governmental information.
Dean Herzog is credited with moving the law school into the mainstream of 20th century legal education. It was under his direction from 1976 to 1983 that the law school became a member of the Association of American Law Schools, added to its full-time faculty to reduce the student-faculty ratio, upgraded its library facilities and holdings, and acquired the building at State and Jackson that doubled the size of the law school.
In 1983, Herzog retired and accepted the title of dean emeritus. He was called back from 1990 to 1991 to again lead the law school while it searched for a permanent dean.
Cotter is assistant vice president and deputy general counsel of Regulatory Affairs and general counsel for Argonaut Select Markets. He is responsible for all legal matters related to the state insurance departments and regulatory compliance and negotiating enterprise-wide information technology agreements.
In addition to his volunteer work for The John Marshall Law School Alumni Association, Cotter is an avid power-lifter who has raised more than $50,000 for the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program, a joint program of the Chicago Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Foundation. He also volunteers with Edgebrook School Local School Council and the Edgebrook School Foundation.
Durkin represents the 82nd District in the Illinois House of Representatives. He served in the House from 1995 to 2002. He was Illinois' Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2002. After that defeat, he won re-election to the Illinois House in November 2006. He is a member of the House Appropriations Elementary and Secondary Education Committee; is the Republican spokesperson on the Elections & Campaign Reform Committee; and serves on the Judiciary II-Criminal Law Committee.
A former Illinois assistant attorney general and former Cook County assistant state's attorney, Durkin wrote and sponsored legislation that led to hard-hitting and innovative anti-crime initiatives. He also chaired the House Special Committee on Prosecutorial Misconduct established in 2001 to investigate the number of death penalty cases being reversed by the Illinois Supreme Court. The committee recommended changes to the state's Code of Criminal Procedure.
Arong O'Brien is special assistant attorney general with the Illinois Department of Revenue litigating cases that involve corporate, partnership and individual taxation, as well as property and sales taxation.
She has been responsible for the annual Diversity Program, co-hosted by the law school, which brings together representatives from the various bar groups. This program has grown in scope each year since its first meeting in 2003 when Arong O'Brien directed it as president of the Filipino American Bar Association. In 2006, representatives of 36 bar associations were represented at the dinner.
Arong O'Brien is a member of The John Marshall Law School Alumni Association; a member of the Board of Directors of the Filipino American Bar Association and the Women's Bar Association of Illinois; the treasurer of the Asian American Bar Association, and co-chair of its Judicial Evaluation Committee, and volunteers with Lend-A-Hand and Women Everywhere programs.
Justice James Fitzgerald Smith is the presiding justice of the Sixth Division of Illinois' First District Appellate Court. He serves as a member of the court's Executive Committee, the Settlement Committee and the Education Committee. He was a judge on the Cook County Circuit Court bench from 1989 through 2002. A graduate of Marquette University, Smith earned a J.D. in 1975 from The John Marshall Law School. He was legal director for Rockford, Ill., from 1975 to 1977, and city attorney and prosecutor for Des Plaines, Ill., from 1979 until his appointment to the bench in 1989. He also is a retired colonel with 27 years service with the U.S. Army Reserves.
Smith is a member of the Executive Board of The John Marshall Law School Alumni Association, and a member of the Chicago Bar Association, the Northwest Suburban Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He is a past president and trustee of the Glenbrook Fire Protection District, and a past president and current board member of the not-for-profit corporation "Little Mexico," which helps Hispanic families obtain loans for their first homes.
Tickets are $75 and can be purchased from the Office of Alumni Relations. For additional information, contact Sherri Berendt, director of Alumni Relations, on extension 343.
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Scott Kruger to Direct New John Marshall Foundation |
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The Board of Directors of The John Marshall Law School Foundation, Inc. has announced the appointment of Scott M. Kruger as its director.
Kruger started in his position on April 1. He is responsible for the management and oversight of all foundation-related activities. The foundation is responsible for all fundraising activities for The John Marshall Law School, a task that, in the past, has been performed internally by school personnel.
Kruger has been working in development for more than eight years. His last position was director of Development and an associate director of Institutional Advancement at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Law in Carbondale, Ill. Kruger has developed strategic plans for endowment funding for legal clinics, scholarships, faculty development, facility improvements and various academic programs.
During his five-year tenure at SIU, Kruger was instrumental in increasing the law school's endowment by 32 percent and directed all fundraising activities involving the university's first comprehensive fundraising campaign which raised more than $3 million in gifts and $1 million in deferred gifts to the law school. Kruger also oversaw the law school's Alumni Affairs and Annual Giving departments where he managed the annual appeal and planned alumni events.
Kruger's previous work experience includes positions as director of Development at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and assistant director of Development at Mankato State University in Mankato, Minn.
Kruger received a bachelor's degree in communication studies from the University of Iowa and a J.D. degree from the University of Iowa, College of Law. He is currently completing a master's degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Iowa.
Kruger is a member of several professional organizations, including the Counsel for Advancement and Support of Education, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools.
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John Marshall Students Honored for Work on Prague Law Journal |
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Sara Naughton, Brad Schweiger, Adam Reid, Rachael Harris, Jill Eckhaus and Jessica Dixon were honored by the Common Law Society of the Charles University Faculty of Law in Prague, Czech Republic, for their work in editing a recent edition of the Common Law Review.
In June 2006, students from The John Marshall Law School participated in the summer program on European Community Law in Prague. During the program, they attended a lecture by Kevin Gibbons, a faculty advisor to the Common Law Review. The Common Law Review is published regularly by the Common Law Society, an organization of Charles University students who are interested in British and American law. Gibbons invited interested students from John Marshall to assist in editing the journal.
The six students volunteered to serve as editors, and their efforts helped produce the Spring 2007 issue devoted to the law of Contracts. The students have been given special recognition in the journal. The Common Law Society held a reception on Thursday, March 8, in Prague to celebrate the publication. Professor Michael Seng, director of the Czech Exchange Program, attended the reception. The Charles University students praised the excellent and dedicated work that was done by the John Marshall students and expressed hope that students from the two institutions would continue with this cooperative venture.
"I was so proud of our John Marshall students, and the enthusiasm that they brought to the project," Seng said. "I think the Charles students were truly inspired by the work done by their counterparts in Chicago and hoped that similar collaborations continue in the future."
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John Marshall Clinic Participates In State's "Fair Housing" Program |
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More than 100 people had their questions on civil rights related to housing answered by staff of The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Clinic during an April 10 program sponsored by the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR).
The day-long event April 10 was held at the Thompson Center.
Working at the clinic's information table throughout the day were Professor F. Willis Caruso, Clinical Professors Damian Ortiz and Kevin Kijewski, and Lillian Seymore, director of Testing and Investigation.
In addition to the clinic's volunteer efforts, representatives also attended a program that included remarks by Rocco Claps, director of IDHR; Illinois Lt. Gov. Patrick Quinn; Barbara Knox, director, Region 5, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); and Kim Kendrick, assistant secretary of HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
Clinic representatives attended a luncheon with Assistant Secretary Kendrick, Director Clapps, and Director Knox and were joined by representatives from the Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance, Access Living, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under the Law; the Realist Board of Chicago. Afterward, they attended a program on fair housing issues.
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Peru Trip Instills New Insights Into Human Rights Issues |
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Students from The John Marshall Law School gained new insights into Peruvian government directives and their impact on the citizens during a spring break human rights fact-finding trip.
The 20 students from the International Human Rights class spent time in Lima, Peru's capital, and in Cuzco, once the biggest city and capital of the Inca Empire. Professors Ralph Ruebner and Ardath Hamann accompanied the group.
The John Marshall delegation met with Congressman Raul Eduardo Castro, president of Peru's Congress Justice and Human Rights Commission, and the Honorable Cesar Landa Arroyo, president of the Constitutional Tribunal, Peru's highest court. Students also met with representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Peru is coming off of a 20-year internal armed struggle with the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla force that fought Peru's army from 1980 to 2000. Many in the government consider Peruvians outside of Lima "terrorists" because they are believed to have supported the Shining Path. To compensate the families of the nearly 70,000 people who were killed during the fighting, the government established a compensation program, but NGOs representatives told John Marshall students that little of the money has reached the very people it's meant to assist.
Peru is facing numerous problems with corruption, and government officials, in their meetings with John Marshall students, insisted that they are dealing with the problems head-on. However, NGO representatives argued Peru's peasants are treated as second-class citizens who are losing their lands, and consequently their way of life, to business conglomerates that have the blessing of the government.
"Although the government insists its working for those outside Lima, and established the National Association for Indian, Native and Afro-Peruvian Culture (INDEPA), there's nothing to show that INDEPA works for the people," said 2L Michael Cannon. "Representatives of NGOs that represent women, miners, environmental issues and indigenous people say their actions are stifled because contracts are going to the companies that will pay the most (to the government) but none of the money actually goes to the people most affected."
Cannon said this trip was inspirational. This summer he will be doing research on topics he uncovered during this trip.
"I got a great awareness of the issues facing these people, and a passion to go and do something for them. Since I left there all I have wanted to do is go back there and throw myself into some of the legal issues that they are currently struggling with," he said.
Elizabeth Bartels, a third-year student, found that "for something as powerful as human rights law, to get the opportunity to go and see it at work makes a profound difference."
Learning about a new culture, and another government's operations, added to the trip's benefits. "The human rights issues we see from an `outsider' perspective, to them are just aspects of how the world works," she said. "Being there helped me to keep an open mind in trying to better understand their issues and solutions."
Congressman Raul Eduardo Castro (center), president of Peru's Congress, met with John Marshall students (from left) Colleen Gorman, Jillian Anselmo, Amber Zitzman, Elizabeth Schutte, interpreter Ruth Luna, Professor Ralph Ruebner, and students Eva Imrem and Oren Graupe. 
The John Marshall delegation gathered on the steps of Peru's capitol building. 
Students took in the sites of Cuzco, once the capital of the Inca Empire.
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John Marshall Wins Second Place at Mediation Tournament |
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The John Marshall Law School team took second place mediation honors at the Sixth Annual Law School Mediation Tournament, March 30-31, 2007, in Chicago.
Team members were Yevgenia Baranov, Teresa Do, Lindsay Faulkenberg, Alfred Murray, Francella Ochillo and Nicole Wiza.
John Marshall advanced to the final round, out of a field of 42 contestants. For the final round, each team selected one of its members to compete. Do won second place mediation honors for the entire team.
John Marshall's team also won 38 percent of the individual mediation awards, the highest number of any law school. Honorees were Do placing second; Murray placing fourth; and Baranov placing eighth.
Team captains were Ian Bucciarelli and Curtis Vosti, and coaches were Professor Joanne Hodge and Adjunct Professors Dawn Bode and Elizabeth Simon.
The competition was jointly sponsored by the International Academy of Dispute Resolution and the Chicago Bar Association.
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John Marshall Students Take Honors at Vienna Competition |
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Four John Marshall Law School students competing in the Wilhelm C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition in Vienna the week of April 2, 2007, won team and individual honors as they advanced to the top 16 teams.
Adrienne Detanico, Leonard Hudson, Alen Takhsh and Rebecca Ptaszynski advanced to the round of 16 teams, but unfortunately lost in that match to the Munich team. John Marshall, Harvard Law School and New York University Law School were the only three teams from the United States to make it into that round. Organizers had 173 teams entered in the competition.
Hudson received the "Honorable Mention Best Oralist" award. He was selected from the estimate 800 competition participants. The team received the "Honorable Mention Respondent's Memorandum" award. The team's brief was selected one of the top 25 submissions from the 173 entered. This is the first time a John Marshall team has won honors in the Vis competition's writing category.
The team was coached by Professors Kenneth Kandaras and Karen Halverson Cross who traveled to Vienna with the students.
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Faculty Activities and Publications |
Professor William Ford
Activities 
He led a discussion on April 5 at The John Marshall Law School on the "iParadigms Case: What is the status of Copyright Protection of Student Work?" It was an examination of Turnitin and Fair Use. His discussion included the issue of whether the potentially unauthorized use of student papers violates the 13th Amendment's prohibition against involuntary servitude.
Professor Alicia Hilton
Publications 
Her article about managing undercover officer stress, "Losing Yourself in the Job," is the cover story in the April 2007 issue of Police Magazine. Police Magazine has the largest circulation of any U.S. law enforcement periodical. Her biographical notes at the end of the article mention that she is a visiting professor at John Marshall.
Professor John D. Ingram
Publications 
His article, "Racial and Ethnic Profiling," was cited recently in 38 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 609.
Professor Rogelio Lasso
Activities 
He is an invited speaker for the 2007 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference in Sydney, Australia July 2-5. His topic will be Expert Learning for Law Students.
He will be teaching an "Introduction to American Law" course at the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey, June 20-22.
He will serve as a moderator for the session on "Legal Spanish" at the Global Legal Skills Conference at The John Marshall Law School May 4-5.
He taught the "Introduction to Tort Law" mock class to Latino college and high school students during the 4th Annual Illinois Latino Law Student Association's Law Forum for High School and College Students, held at the Chicago-Kent College of Law on Feb. 24, 2007.
He was asked by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) President Nancy Rogers to be a member of the AALS Committee on Bar Admission & Lawyer Performance. The committee met for the first time during the 2007 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. in January, and will meet again April 24-25 at the AALS meeting in Washington, D.C.
He presented a short paper, "The Future of Affirmative Action," during the American Constitution Society's Affirmative Action Debate held at DePaul University School of Law on Oct. 30, 2006.
He taught an "Introduction to Law School and Mock Class" during the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois Law School Crawl, at The John Marshall Law School on Oct. 28, 2006.
Publications
He co-authored several chapters of Illinois Tort Law, with Professor Bruce Ottley of the DePaul University College of Law. The book, published yearly, is due out in Spring 2007.
Professor Doris Long
Activities 
She presented the paper "Branding the Land: Geographic Indications and the Limits of Territoriality," at the International IP: Intellectual Property for the Global Marketplace Conference, Georgia State University Law School on March 24. Long suggests a modified international protection system for geographic indications that would resolve the hegemonic battle between the U.S. and the European Union over the basis and scope of protection.
"What if Dickens Had Succeeded? International Copyright, `Creative Adaptations' and Ebenezer Scrooge," a contrafactual analysis, was given at the What Ifs and Other Alternative Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Stories Conference, Michigan State University College of Law on March 30. In the paper, Long discusses the impact which the U.S. accession to international copyright regimes of the 1840s would have had on the development of international copyright doctrines, with a particular focus on derivative and adaptation rights.
"Strategies for Securing The CyberSafety Net from Terrorists: A Multidisciplinary Approach," at the Oxford Roundtable on Criminal Law and Justice at Lincoln College, Oxford, England, on April 2. Long explored the growing evidence that such "personal" crimes as digital piracy, counterfeiting, phishing and digital fraud are being used to fund terrorists' activities. She also examined the digital safety net in which these crimes exist, created by a mix of cultural and economic factors that have undervalued the global security threat of these crimes, and suggested a multidisciplinary, transborder approach for reducing this safety net and enhancing global security within the context of broader counter-terrorist efforts.
Long has agreed to co-author an Intellectual Property Law survey textbook with a global issues perspective.
Professor David Schwartz
Activities 
He led the discussion on April 5 at The John Marshall Law School on "Genomic Research and Accessibility Act" (proposal). He examined the issue of whether Congress should outlaw gene patents by addressing whether gene patents are morally reprehensible; do gene patents present a problem with respect to medical research and testing, and should Congress step in.
Professor Mark E. Wojcik
Activities 
On March 14, 2007, he testified before the International Trade and Commerce Committee of the Illinois House of Representatives in opposition to proposed House Joint Resolution 29, which urged the U.S. Congress to withdraw from any further efforts to promote the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Wojcik testified that passage of the resolution would send the wrong message to Canada, our country's largest trading partner and the single largest export market for Illinois, and that there was nothing to substantiate the fears of a secret plot to combine the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States into a single trilateral government or North American Union. The proponent of HJR29 withdrew the proposed legislation before the International Trade and Commerce Committee could vote on it.
Wojcik also submitted his support for HB1447, which would create the Illinois Trade and Tourism Study Commission Act.
Wojcik was re-elected for an additional year as co-chair of the American Society of International Law's Interest Group in Teaching International Law. Because the Teaching Interest Group has become one of the most active and most visible within the American Society of International Law, he was also invited to speak at a special panel on interest groups.
On Friday, March 30, 2007, he served as panel moderator at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law for a panel that discussed the question "Are We Teaching International Law or U.S. Foreign Relations Law?" The panelists included Professors Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Craig Jackson of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Ved Nanda of the University of Denver School of Law, and Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School.
On April 12 and 13, 2007, Wojcik will serve on three panels at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago. The conference is one of the largest and most important political science conferences held in the United States.
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Student Activities |
April 15
The Corporate Law Association Cubs Rooftop Party
April 16
The Hellenic Law Student Association will meet at noon in room 216. George Berbas, president of the Chicago Hellenic Bar Association, will speak about employment opportunities.
April 17
The Employee Benefits Law Student Association will meet at noon in room 217. Pizza will be served.
April 18
A very important meeting is scheduled at 5 p.m. in room 216 with the John Marshall Board of Trustees, the governing body of the school. This is an opportunity for students to meet and express their concerns.
The Environmental Law Society will meet at noon on 3east.
The Entertainment Law Society will meet at 5 p.m. in room 3east.
April 19
Phi Alpha Delta will meet at 5 p.m. in room 201.
The Criminal Law Society will meet at 12:30 p.m. in room 216.
The Annual Latino Luncheon will be held at noon in room 3east.
April 20
The Annual Black Law Students Association Spring Reception will be held at 6 p.m. in room 200.
April 21
Phi Alpha Delta flag football tournament will be held in Grant Park.
The Black Law Students Association will meet at 11 a.m. in room 1105.
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Schedule of Events |
April 16
- Faculty Works-In-Progress by Professor Stark - "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Kelo?" Room 522, 12:15 p.m.
- Career Services Office - Prepare for Fall Recruiting, Room 200, 12:30 p.m.
April 17
- Career Services Office - Prepare for Fall Recruiting, Room 1200A, 5 p.m.
April 18
- Deans' Meeting, Courtroom, 10 a.m.
- Lunch and Learn: Nuts and Bolts of Hot Topics In Employee Benefits Law, Room 503, 11:30 a.m.
- Career Services Office - How to be a Successful Summer Clerk, Room 522, 12:30 p.m.
April 19
- Insights II, Room 530, noon
- Training for Human Rights Commissioners and Hearing Officers on Fair Housing Law, CBA Room 800, 8 a.m.
April 20
- Training for Human Rights Commissioners and Hearing Officers on Fair Housing Law, CBA Room 800, 8 a.m.
- Board of Visitors, Room 217, 8:30 a.m.
April 21
- Board of Visitors, Room 217, 8:30 a.m.
- Multistate Diagnostic Exam, Room 200, 9 a.m.
- Insights II, Room 503, 2:30 p.m.
- Moot Court Banquet, Room 1200. 6 p.m.
April 22
- Multistate Diagnostic Exam, Room 1200, 9 a.m.
April 24
- Faculty Works-In-Progress - Professor Scheid, Room 522, 12:15 p.m.
April 25
- 5th Annual Employee Benefits Law Review Symposium, CBA Room 800, 9 a.m.
- Deans' Meeting, Room 217, 10 a.m.
- Center for Real Estate Law Reception, CBA President's Room, 4:30 p.m.
April 26
- Insights II, Room 530, noon
- Very Current Cases Discussion Series, Room 217, 12:15 p.m.
April 27
- Honors Program Banquet, Room 200, 5:15 p.m.
April 28
- Multistate Diagnostic Review, Room 409, 10 a.m.
- Insights II, Room 300, 2:30 p.m.
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Editor's Note
In the Loop is published by The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Copyright 2007
Editor: Assistant Dean John M. McNamara; Contributors: Marilyn Thomas, Director, Public Relations and Advertising; Andrea Koklys, Assistant Director, Public Relations and Advertising
All information to be included in In the Loop must be placed in the INTHELOOP folder on the H drive of the law school's computer network by 12 p.m. each Wednesday. When the volume of submissions exceeds the available space in the printed version of In the Loop, additonal material will appear only in the online version of the Newsletter, which can be found on the law school's website at www.jmls.edu. 
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