National Conference on Privacy and Information Security Held at John Marshall
The John Marshall Law School Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law hosted "SecureChicago," a leadership seminar that brought together the privacy, information security and legal communities to discuss current and pressing issues in corporation infringement management. The May 15 program was jointly presented by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2.
Several topics were presented throughout the day, including "Creating the CISO/CPO Dialogue," "Information-centric Protection _ The Answer to Your Security Woes," "The 45-Day Plan: Coordinating Privacy and Infosecurity for Data Breach Prevention and Response," "The Insider Threat Addressing Computer Crime & Abuse By Corporate Insiders" and "IAPP Privacy Certification Examinations (CIPP, CIPP/G and CIPP/C)."
Professor Leslie Ann Reis, director of the center, presented on the panel, "Personal Data Protection: Where Are Regulations Headed?" She addressed global privacy and attempts to create a global standard for privacy protection.
In addition to her role on the panel, Reis believes hosting the conference at John Marshall, which drew more than 125 participants, provided a tremendous opportunity for the school and the students.
"This was wonderful exposure for the law school, and afforded our students a great occasion to network with attorneys and non-attorney professionals in the field," Reis said. "Programs like this also further a core mission of the center: to create awareness and educate the general public as well as our students about important legal and policy issues involving information technology and privacy that affect virtually all aspects of law and business today."
IAPP is the world's largest association representing the privacy profession with more than 4,500 members in 32 countries. It is considered the preeminent trade organization for privacy professions, offering education, networking and the most recognized certification for both the public and private sector.
(ISC)2 is the largest certifying entity in the information security profession with more than 50,000 certified information systems security professionals in the world.
Professor Leslie Ann Reis (right), director of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law, presented on an afternoon panel during "SecureChicago," a leadership seminar that brought together the privacy, information security and legal communities to discuss current and pressing issues in corporation infringement management. Other panelists included (from left) moderator Peter Kosmala, assistant director of the International Association of Privacy Professionals; Ruth Hill Bro of Baker & McKenzie; and James Shreve, from the Washington, D.C. office of Goodwin Proctor LLP.
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John Marshall Students Continue Partnership on Charles University's Law Review
Students at The John Marshall Law School are continuing the partnership with students of the Charles University Faculty of Law in Prague, Czech Republic, in publishing the Common Law Review, a periodical that promotes the study of the common law in the Czech Republic. The latest issue of the Common Law Review focuses on Company Law.
John Marshall students Brad Schweiger, Adam Reid, Jill Eckhaus, Dale Hauser, Joseph Dvorak, Carissa Meyer, Omar Bartos, Henry Rawner and Prashant Vallury served as article editors for this latest edition.
The work of these students was highlighted at a Prague reception celebrating the publication of the Common Law Review. The reception was attended by 10 John Marshall students who participated in the course on European Law offered May 25 through June 6 in the Czech Republic by The John Marshall Law School. The trip was organized by Professor Michael Seng. Several of the students volunteered to serve as editors and writers for upcoming issues.
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Comparative Law Demonstration Highlights China Law Study Tour
In the world of global commerce between China and the United States, enforcement of intellectual property (IP) protections is a major issue.
How each side resolves those IP issues was demonstrated in a day-long patent litigation session in Beijing, China, specially-designed for Chinese and United States judges, attorneys and law students interested in learning the intricacies from both sides.
The program, co-hosted by The John Marshall Law School, Peking University Law School and China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), included a mock trial that gave insights on how the same patent infringement case would be litigated in Chinese and American courts.
Serving on the U.S. presentation team were Chief Judge James Holderman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and attorneys Glen P. Belvis and David S. Fleming of Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione's Chicago office who acted as opposing counsel in the simulated case.
Overseeing the Chinese litigation portion of the program was Guangliang Zhang, a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, and former acting chief judge of the Intellectual Property Tribunal, Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court.
The comparative mock trial proceedings illuminated several key differences in the American and Chinese proceedings. For example, cross-examination of numerous witnesses and the presentation of factual evidence to a jury were key portions of the American proceedings but not the Chinese counterparts. Unlike the American proceedings which were overseen by a district court with general jurisdiction, the Chinese proceedings involved specialized IP judges with particularly extensive experience in the trial of IP cases and in the substantive law issues in the IP field.
The litigation demonstration was part of John Marshall's Center for Intellectual Property Law 10-day visit to China. The trip was the culmination of its 2008 Chinese Law Study Tour program.
The first part of the program began with a law course at John Marshall taught by the Center's Director, Professor Richard Gruner. The course examined Chinese and American intellectual property laws and emphasized the means that U.S. concerns are using to protect their intellectual property interests in China. Gruner had nine students in the class who then traveled to China for the comparative law instruction in Beijing.
This China trip was organized by Dorothy Li, co-director of The John Marshall Law School Asian Alliance, and led by Gruner. Chinese hosts for the group during its visit to Beijing included Guoliang Lu, director general of the International Cooperation Department of SIPO, and Dr. Lulin Gao, the founding commissioner of SIPO and now the chairman of one of the leading IP firms in China.
The Center for Intellectual Property Law is proud to have Gao serving on its advisory board and as an adjunct professor at the John Marshall Law School, and to have awarded LL.M. in intellectual property law degrees to Zhang in 2001 and Lu in 2002.
The John Marshall Law School delegation gathered at China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) in Beijing as part of the Chinese Law Study Tour. The group included: Professor Kenneth Kandaras (left), director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution (who is teaching Chinese patent examiners at the SIPO this summer); Professor Richard Gruner (second from left), director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law; and Chief Judge James Holderman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Students from The John Marshall Law School who participated in the 2008 Chinese Law Study Tour take a brief break from their studies at the Peking University Law School. They are joined by Professor Richard Gruner (kneeling, second from left), director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law who served as study tour leader, with John Marshall alumnus Professor Guangliang Zhang (kneeling, center) of the China University of Political Science and Law and an adjunct professor at Peking University and The John Marshall Law School.
John Marshall Law School students Gregory Royal (left) and Andrew Cook reach the top of their climb on the Great Wall of China as part of the law school's 2008 Chinese Law Study Tour. After their lectures, the students got to enjoy various sightseeing venues.
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Adjunct Professor Dan Cotter (JD '95)
Activities
He is participating in a powerlifting competition that raises funds for the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-A-Hand Program, which focuses on one-on-one mentoring for inner city youth. The competition will be Saturday, June 28, at the AAPF Summer Bash 5 in Willowbrook.
Donations can be made by flat pledge or amount per pound lifted. In the past, Cotter has lifted between 1,400 to 1,603 pounds, and this year he anticipates being somewhere in between those two numbers. To date, Cotter has raised more than $75,000 for the program. To help him get over the $100,000 cumulative total this year, contact him at DCotter@Argogroupus.com or (312) 201-7512.
Professor Doris Estelle Long
Activities
She presented two papers at the Placing Law Conference May 29 through June 1. The conference in Montreal was part of the Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association.
On May 29, Long presented the paper "Fair Trade and the Pirate Economy" advocating the application of fair trade principles to pirate economies. She contends that an unforeseen price in today's global economy is the cost of corruption and the human rights violations that form the basis of certain pirate practices in Europe and Asia.
On May 31, Long presented the paper "Landed Traditions and the Rights of the Cultural Diaspora." This paper concerns the rights of the conflicts that arise between the Diaspora and emerging trends toward "Branding the Land" to enhance the economic desirability of home-grown goods, including those that reflect "traditional" crafts of indigenous and other groups. It is part of Long's continuing focus on the intersection between geographic indications, cultural rights and the Diaspora.
Professor Michael P. Seng
Activities
He accompanied 10 John Marshall Students to the Czech Republic where they studied the law of the European Union and its effect on the newly emerging democracies in Central Europe. The students attended lectures in Prague and Brno by Czech professors and attorneys and visited with Justice Ludvik David at the Czech Supreme Court. The students also had the opportunity to visit Kutná Hora, an old mining town; Cesky Krumlov, known as the "Castle City"; and the town of Znojmo, founded before 1226. After the summer session class, the students visited Krakow, Poland, and the concentration camp at Auschwitz.
While in the Czech Republic, Seng gave a lecture to the Comparative Law Society on judicial independence, and a short talk about the importance of law reviews in the United States to the Common Law Society of the Charles University Faculty of Law. He was re-elected chair of the Academic Council, which consists of professors and attorneys who serve as advisors to the Common Law Society.
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Schedule of Events
June 24
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Kick the Bar in the Butt, Room 300, 12:00 p.m.
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Domestic & Foreign Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret & Copyright Documentation, Room 1102, 6:00 p.m.
June 27
July 1
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Kick the Bar in the Butt, Room 300, 12:00 p.m.
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Domestic & Foreign Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret & Copyright Documentation, Room 1102, 6:00 p.m.
July 4
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Board of Trustees Promotes Needham to Assistant Dean
Jodie Panariello Needham has been promoted to assistant dean for Academic Services at The John Marshall Law School. Her new position was approved by the law school's Board of Trustees at its meeting June 11.
"I want to thank our board and Dean (John) Corkery for this promotion. I appreciate their confidence in me to run a department that has an impact on just about every segment of the law school," Needham said.
A 20-year employee, Needham has been working in Academic Services most of that time. She originally came to John Marshall as an administrative assistant to Assistant Dean for Admission David Neely, but "within two months, I accepted a position in Academic Services because Jane Oswald Johnston, who was the registrar, encouraged me to work for her. I found her to be a wonderful mentor who helped me every day and gave me additional responsibilities so that I could learn each position and each function of the office.
"I've worked every job in the office. I was promoted to recorder within a year of my moving into the department," she explained. "About seven years later, I was named assistant registrar and then registrar. The past three years, I've been director of Academic Services, since Jane's retirement."
Needham's responsibilities as supervisor of Academic Services include handling all exams, grades, registration, and academic reporting and preparing for commencement twice a year.
"We also are responsible for much of the academic counseling of students throughout their law school education," she added. "Sometimes it's as simple as changing a schedule; other times it requires a serious review of their grades. I will listen to students' concerns and problems to help make a determination of how the law school can best help them complete a law degree."
Needham received her undergraduate degree from Illinois State University, and a master's degree in leadership from Lewis University. She is married to Joe Needham (JD '99).
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