John Marshall Law Review Plans Program on Criminal Code Revisions
On April 18, The John Marshall Law Review will host a day-long CLEAR Initiative Symposium on the comprehensive revisions for codification in Illinois' Criminal Code.
The program, "The Criminal Law Edit, Alignment, and Reform Initiative: A Symposium on the Amendments to the Illinois Criminal Code," will be presented as the 2008 Belle R. and Joseph H. Braun Memorial Lecture.
Illinois' Criminal Code was last rewritten 45 years ago. Those using the code today recognize its redundancies, inconsistencies and confusing language. Through the Criminal Law Edit, Align and Reform (CLEAR) Initiative, the state is working on a new Criminal Code that is less complex, easier to comprehend and includes the same crimes and punishments enacted by past legislatures.
The John Marshall Law Review will publish its spring 2008 issue as a symposium issue that will contain legal analysis of the new code by Professor Timothy O'Neill and other criminal law experts from academe, as well as public officials and members of the bench and bar. That issue will become the official report for the code's commentary and future court decisions will cite to it.
Members of The John Marshall Law Review coordinating the CLEAR Initiative Symposium are Nancee Barth-Cassirer, Amy Keller, Daniel Saeedi and William Everding.
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52nd Annual IP Program Speakers Gather
The John Marshall Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law recently hosted its 52nd Annual Conference on Developments in Intellectual Property Law. Guests and speakers for the program were (seated, from left) William McGrath, associate director of the center; Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit; Professor Richard Gruner, director of the center; U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Holderman; attorney R. Mark Halligan of Lovells, Inc. and an adjunct professor at John Marshall; (standing, from left) Professor David Schwartz; attorney Thomas Smegal Jr. of Smegal Law in San Francisco; attorney Patrick Burns of Greer Burns & Crain Ltd.; attorney Meredith Martin Addy, of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione and an adjunct professor at John Marshall; program chairman Charles Shifley of Banner & Witcoff Ltd.; and John Marshall Dean John Corkery.
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Library Brown Bag Lunch Series Schedule
The Louis L. Biro Law Library will renew its series of research training sessions beginning at noon, Wednesday, March 26, in room 1102. These "Brown Bag Lunch Series" sessions will occur every Wednesday through April 23. Each session is free and will last approximately 45 minutes. Beverages will be provided.
The first session will feature "Forms for Civil Practice." The April 2 session will be "Introduction to Foreign Legal Research." "Using Blogs for Legal Research and Practice Development" will be the topic on April 9. The April 16 session will feature "Legal Research Using Hein Online," and the final session, "Tracking and Updating Your Legal Research," will be held on April 23.
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John Marshall Students Travel to Israel
Students in the International Human Rights class gathered for a photo before leaving for a 10-day trip to Israel and the West Bank. The students are traveling with (top row from fourth left) Professor Cecil Hunt, Professor Leslie Reis and Professor Ralph Ruebner who co-teach the class.
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Guest Lecturer Discusses VA Hospitals During Veterans Advocacy Class
Joseph B. Topinka (third from left), an LL.M. student in healthcare law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy, was the guest speaker during a session of the Veterans Advocacy course at The John Marshall Law School. His lecture focused on health care in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals. Welcoming him were (from left) third-year student Nicholas Henry, director of The John Marshall Veterans Legal Support Center and Clinic (VLSC), Professor Joseph Butler, co-executive director of VLSC, who teaches the course, and third-year student Michael Barnicle, lead research and new project assistant of VLSC.
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Human Rights Discussed by Guest Speaker
Students welcomed Jess Heyman (center) to The John Marshall Law School in February for her presentation on human rights issues. Joining her are (from left) David Lipshutz of the Decalogue Society; Tahani Afaneh of the Middle Eastern Law Society; Associate Dean Ralph Ruebner; Sarah Knight, president of the Criminal Law Society; and Phil Brandt. Heyman traveled through Africa doing research on peace and conflict studies while a student at Yale. She is now a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina studying retributive and restorative justice.
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Professor William K. Ford
Activities
He was a presenter at the John Marshall 52nd Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, "Gaming the Right of Publicity, Chicago, Illinois, February 29, 2008.
Professor Jason Kilborn
Publications
He recently published a solicited article in the Italian equivalent of the Wall Street Journal, called Il Sole 24 Ore. The article, entitled "The Gathering Storm of Consumer Debt," was translated into Italian as "Italia attenta alla tempesta-debiti" and appeared in the March 9, 2008 issue. The article concerned recent developments in consumer debt in Italy and what Italy can expect by way of problems and solutions in coming years in light of practice in neighboring European nations.
Professor Steven D. Schwinn
Activities
He presented his work and a paper related to learning theory and clinical legal education in the first-year law curriculum at the International Conference on the Future of Legal Education on February 23, 2008, at the Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta. The Conference addressed the findings and recommendations in the recent study from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, titled "Educating Lawyers," and included members of the bench, the bar, and academia from around the world.
Professor Julie Spanbauer
Honors
She was recently named a Fulbright Senior Specialist Project recipient for the summer, 2008. She will teach at National Chiao Tung University in Taipei, Taiwan a course she designed entitled, "A Survey of Business Law and Skills in the U.S. Legal System." The course is intended to illustrate various aspects of the U.S. legal system while focusing on business law concepts. It will also include a skills component in which students will be exposed to and have limited opportunities to practice drafting common documents.
Professor Mark E. Wojcik
Activities
He was Co-Chair of the third Global Legal Skills Conference, held in Monterrey Mexico. More than 180 persons from 11 countries took part in the conference. He spoke during the plenary session, which also included remarks by the U.S. Consul General, the president of the state Supreme Court, and a representative of the Governor of Nuevo Leon. The next Global Legal Skills Conference will be held at Georgetown University Law Center in June 2009. The first two Global Legal Skills Conferences were held at The John Marshall Law School.
He presented an update on Same-Sex Marriage on March 4, 2008 for the Chicago Bar Association Committee on the Legal Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men. The session included a discussion of a recent New York appellate decision requiring recognition of a lawful same-sex marriage performed in Canada, and an update on proposed Civil Union legislation in Illinois that would create civil unions for same-sex and opposite-sex couples.
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Donations Collected for Animal Shelter
Julie Yriart, president of John Marshall's Animal Law Society, sorted through the collection of towels, sheets and blankets donated in February for the West Hancock Canine Rescue, an Illinois non-profit organization that cares for dogs rescued from high-kill shelters.
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Student ABA/LSD Chapter Wins Awards
Third-year student Lauren Trubow (left), 7th Circuit governor of the American Bar Association Law Student Division (ABA/LSD), and Caitlyn Groh (right), ABA representative to The John Marshall Law School Student Bar Association Executive Board, proudly display the latest honors won by John Marshall's chapter of the ABA/LSD. John Marshall was presented two Bronze Key Awards for the highest number of members in the 7th Circuit and the highest percentage of members overall.
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Staff Activity
Lurene Contento
Director, Writing Resource Center
Activities
She will be a panelist for the Section on Legal Writing, Research and Reasoning at the 2009 American Association of Law Schools (AALS) meeting in San Diego. Contento will join with writing specialists, clinical and legal skills faculty and a legal practitioner for the panel "Forbidden-Risky-Best Practices: Assessing Acts of Collaboration and Plagiarism and Exploring Techniques that Move Students from Forbidden to Extolled." The panel plans a highly interactive session that will use a series of hypothetical videos, dramatizations and descriptions to foster a conversation with the audience about collaboration, plagiarism, consultation and the competing concerns behind preparing a student for the practice of law.
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Schedule of Events
March 16-23
- Spring Break - No Classes
March 16
- Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition, Courtroom, 9 a.m.
March 19
- Center for International Business and Trade Law Lunch and Learn, Room 1200, noon
March 24
- Career Services Office: Judicial Clerkship Info Session - Part I: What is a Judicial Clerkship?, Room 529, noon
March 25
- Seattle Area Alumni Reception, Tulio Ristorante, 5 p.m.
March 26
- Tax Lunch and Learn, Room 1200, 11:30 a.m.
- Brown Bag: Forms for Civil Practice, Room 1102, noon
- SCALES Meeting, Room 216, 12:15 p.m.
- Career Services Office: Alternative Careers, Room 201, 5 p.m.
- Center for International Business and Trade Law Joint JD/LLM Degree Information Session, Room 1102, 5 p.m.
March 27
- National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition, Room 3East, 9 a.m.
- Insights II, Room 503, noon
- In-House Faculty Works-In-Progress Scholarship Roundtable, Room 1200A, 12:15 p.m.
March 28
- National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition, Room 3East, 9 a.m.
- Center for Real Estate Law Advisory Board Meeting, Room 1103, noon
- Real Estate Auctions - What Attorneys Need to Know - Organized by the Center for Real Estate Law, Room 503, 3 p.m.
March 29
- Wordfast Workshop, Room 503, 8 a.m.
- National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition, Room 3East, 9 a.m.
- Kaplan PMBR, Room 1200 and 1102, 9:30 a.m.
- Insights I, Room 216, 1:30 p.m.
- Insights II, Room 532, 3:30 p.m.
March 30
- Kaplan PMBR, Room 1200 and 1102, 9:30 a.m.
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