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Seven Join Faculty, Two Visiting Professors Come to The John Marshall Law School
This fall 2008 semester, The John Marshall Law School is welcoming seven new faculty members and two visiting professors.
New to the faculty are Allison Bethel, clinical professor and director of the Fair Housing Legal Clinic, and Kim D. Chanbonpin and Shahram Dana, assistant professors.
Leslie Reis, director of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law, joins as an assistant professor and Susann Maclachlan as a clinical professor and associate director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. Maureen Collins and Mary Jean Dolan, who joined the faculty in 2007 as visiting professors, were promoted to assistant professors on the tenure track.
Dawn Bode is a visiting clinical professor. Juli Campagna is a visiting professor.
"We are extremely fortunate to welcome such a talented group of teachers and scholars," said Dean John E. Corkery. "They will complement the excellent faculty that has served us so well for many years."
Allison Bethel
 Bethel joined the faculty in April and is working with Clinical Professor Damian Ortiz and Clinical Instructor James Whiteside in supervising students as they litigate fair housing cases.
She started her legal career in the private sector, specializing in civil trial work, including personal injury, commercial litigation and condominium issues. In 1996, she joined the Florida Attorney General's Eminent Domain Division representing the Florida Department of Transportation in million dollar property acquisitions.
In 1998, then Attorney General Robert Butterworth appointed Bethel assistant director of the Civil Rights Division and promoted her to director in 2000. In that capacity, Bethel litigated civil rights cases of first impression throughout Florida, drafted and successfully lobbied for legislative initiatives and developed education and training programs. She remained in that position, serving both Republican and Democratic administrations, until joining John Marshall.
Bethel has been active in the Florida Bar and was president of its National Bar Association affiliate. She was elected to the Florida Bar Board of Governors, the governing board for the state's mandatory bar association, in 2006, and is completing her second two-year term. Bethel served as an officer and director of the local African American bar associations in West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
Bethel, a Chicago native and graduate of Northwestern University, received a J.D. degree from the University of Florida in 1984. While in law school, she received numerous awards for advocacy, including Best Oral Advocate and Presidential Recognition Award.
 Chanbonpin will be teaching Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Legal Writing. Before coming to John Marshall, she was a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law where she taught Legal Research and Writing, Moot Court and a seminar in National Security and Civil Liberties.
In 2006, Chanbonpin was a Global Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center instructing students on transnational tort issues. She advised individual students on litigation strategies and on developing oral advocacy skills.
She has been a short term consultant to the World Bank, Department of Institutional Integrity at its Washington, D.C. offices and a law clerk to Judge John S.W. Lim, Intermediate Court of Appeals in Honolulu. Chanbonpin worked at the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law on a project with the Mexican government for the benefit of domestic violence survivors.
Chanbonpin received a bachelor's degree from the University of California-Berkeley and a J.D. degree cum laude from the University of Hawai'i, William S. Richardson School of Law in 2003. She was a teaching fellow during her last semester of law school teaching Appellate Advocacy and coaching students who went on to win in various moot court competitions.
While in law school, Chanbonpin was the outside articles editor for the Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal, president of the Filipino Law Students Association and was a senior member of the Moot Court Board. She competed in the National Native American Bar Law Student Association Moot Court; Hispanic Bar Association Moot Court; Stetson University College of Law International Environmental Law Moot Court where the team won the national championship; and the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court where she was presented with best oralist and best brief awards. She also took first place in the University of Hawai'i intramural Susan McKay Moot Court Competition.
In 2006, Chanbonpin received an LL.M. degree with distinction from Georgetown University Law Center with a national security law certificate.
Shahram Dana
 Formerly a lawyer at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Dana will be teaching Criminal Law, Human Rights and International Criminal Law.
Dana brings both academic and law practice experience to the classroom. Before coming to John Marshall, Dana was a lecturer at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law in the Netherlands teaching a variety of classes, including Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Comparative Criminal Law and European Law.
Dana's scholarly research interests are in the areas of public international law and international criminal justice with particular focus on post-conflict responses to mass atrocities, sovereignty and international legal theory.
He is completing work on his first book, International Crime and Punishment: A Theory for International Sentencing and wrote a chapter on "Genocide, Reconciliation & Sentencing in the Jurisprudence of the ICTY" for the book The Criminal Law of Genocide: International, Comparative, and Contextual Aspects in 2007.
Dana lectured at The Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise addressing judges, prosecutors and senior government officials from various countries on international crimes, international criminal law, human rights and the International Criminal Court. At the ICTY, Dana participated in the prosecution of Slobodan Miloševic and Biljana Plavšic. In the United States, Dana is licensed in California and Colorado, and held positions as a litigation associate and a deputy public defender.
Dana has studied law in three different countries: Leiden University in the Netherlands, Oxford University in England, and Boston University School of Law. He received an LL.M. degree cum laude (the highest award given in the program) in Public International Law from Leiden University, Faculty of Law in 2002, and ranked first in the program's International Humanitarian and Criminal Law specialization. Dana received a J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law in 1997, and received the G. Joseph Tauro Scholar distinction for academic achievement. He also completed a certificate in International and Comparative Law and served as an editor on the Boston University International Law Journal. Dana received a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunications. He is completing a Ph.D. at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law.
 Reis will be adding Professional Responsibility to her information technology and privacy teaching interests, in addition to her work as director of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law.
Reis has been an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School since 1998. Her areas of expertise include privacy, information technology, information policy and theory, First Amendment, entertainment law, new media technology and Internet law and policy. As center director, she has been responsible for developing and implementing the curriculum and the supervision of the adjunct faculty for the LL.M. program, as well as the development of the M.S. degree and the center's extra-curricular activities, including the annual International Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law. She also serves as faculty editor for the John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law.
Her research and writing have focused on such varied privacy-oriented topics as government use of personal information, social networking, e-voting, physician-patient information sharing under HIPAA, Internet and news media use of copyrighted materials and Freedom of Information Act requests. She produced Protecting Your Personal Privacy: A Self-Help Guide for Judges and Their Families in conjunction with the Chicago Bar Association that was circulated to judges across the country.
From 2002 through 2007, Reis served on the Federal Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. The board offers advice to Congress and the U.S. Department of Commerce about issues affecting security and privacy of government-held information.
Reis also served on the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Privacy Policy Subcommittee helping develop privacy and security policies in state, county and local justice information systems. She was a participant at the 2005 Internet Law Program at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Before joining John Marshall, Reis was director of the Center for Judicial Independence at the American Judicature Society serving as in-house counsel and department director for the national nonprofit court reform organization. She also was a legal fellow at Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press working as in-house counsel for the nonprofit journalists' advocacy organization.
Reis had a successful career in television before her legal career. She is an Emmy Award winner and received numerous honors for her work as producer and editor of news and public affairs programming.
Reis received a J.D. degree from The John Marshall Law School in 1996. She received her bachelor's degree cum laude from Syracuse University-S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
 Susann MacLachlan will be teaching and supervising the John Marshall Externship Program as a clinical professor, in addition to her work as the associate director of the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution.
As associate director for the past six years, she was instrumental in establishing a Trial Advocacy Honors Program with its own Barristers Board. MacLachlan has increased the number of attorneys and judges who coach the eight trial competition and five negotiation teams as they prepare for competition regionally, nationally and abroad.
Under her leadership, the John Marshall Externship Program has been recognized as one of the top programs in the nation. She has created a judicial externship that allows students to assist trial, appellate and state supreme court judges and, federal district and immigration courts.
She designed and teaches the Animal Law course and is the faculty sponsor for the students' Animal Law Society. In February, 2008, the John Marshall team, coached by MacLachlan, took first and second place honors in the Animal Law Closing Argument Competition at Harvard Law School.
MacLachlan also is the faculty sponsor for the Law Enforcement Student Organization, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Society and the American Association for Justice.
Before joining the faculty at John Marshall, MacLachlan was a supervising attorney with the City of Chicago Corporation Counsel in the Municipal Prosecutions Division. During her nearly 10 years with the office, she was a founding member of Chicago's highly touted Drug and Gang House Enforcement Section.
MacLachlan graduated cum laude from The John Marshall Law School in 1994 where she was a Dean's Scholar, a member of the Order of John Marshall, and the recipient of The John Marshall Law School Award for Public Service. She was the student representative to the Chicago Inn of Court, a membership she still holds. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
 Before coming to John Marshall in 2007 as a visiting professor, Dolan was a special counsel for the City of Chicago, advising and drafting laws and policies. Prior to that, she taught at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law and the University of Florida Law School.
Her specialty areas are the First Amendment and Family Law. During the past year, Dolan's article, "Government-Sponsored Chaplains and Crisis: Walking the Fine Line in Disaster Responses and Daily Life," was published in the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, and her article on Establishment Clause guidelines appeared in the Municipal Lawyer. She authored an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court this summer, and her article, "Why Donated Monuments Are Government Speech - the Hard Case of Pleasant Grove v. Summum" is forthcoming in the Catholic University Law Review.
Dolan received a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. degree cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law in 1984, and was notes editor for the Northwestern University Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for Judge Ilana Rovner, then in the U.S. District Court, and worked as an associate at Mayer Brown.
 Maureen Collins has been a member of the Lawyering Skills faculty since 2005. She also created and has been teaching a first-year writing course for students interested in intellectual property law.
Collins previously was the director of the Legal Writing Program at DePaul University College of Law where she designed and implemented the first-year and upper-level writing curriculum, and supervised the full-time and adjunct writing faculty.
Before her career in academia, Collins was an attorney for five years at Sidley Austin LLP practicing trademark, copyright and advertising law. She returned to the firm each summer for 15 years as a `Professor in Residence' working with summer associates on research and writing issues.
Collins authored a legal writing manual, and wrote the "Legal Communications" column for the Illinois Bar Journal from 1995 through 2004. She has developed a specialty of protecting as intellectual property designs that are used in textile art and has written and lectured on this topic.
Collins received a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and a J.D. degree with high honors from DePaul University College of Law in 1985. She was an editor of the DePaul Law Review, recipient of the Illinois Women's Bar Foundation Scholarship, and a member of the Student Bar Association and the Dean's Advisory Council.
 Dawn Bode has been working with John Marshall students since 2004 as a classroom instructor and trial team coach. This academic year, she will be a visiting clinical professor for the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, Bode co-coached the Negotiation Team that placed second at the American Bar Association (ABA) regional competition and second place at the national ABA Law Student Division's Negotiation Competition from an initial field of 220 teams. That John Marshall team went on as the United States representative in the 2007 International Negotiation Competition for Law Students in Singapore, where the team won sixth place. Bode also coached the ABA Advocacy Mediation team, which won second place at the regional competition.
In 2007-2008, John Marshall's negotiation team that she co-coached placed second at the ABA regional competition, and third place nationally at the ABA Law Student Division's Negotiation Competition out of an initial field of 216 teams.
For 16 years prior to coming to The John Marshall Law School, Bode was an attorney with the City of Chicago Corporation Counsel where she worked in numerous divisions prosecuting on behalf of the City of Chicago, as well as defending the city and its employees. For four years, she was a trial supervisor with the Drug and Gang House Unit working with the Chicago Police Department and community groups to identify and abate nuisances throughout Chicago. For her last six years at the Corporation Counsel, Bode was a special assistant defending civil rights and tort actions in federal and state courts.
Since 2003, Bode has served as an appointed member of the Committee on Character and Fitness and was recently re-elected to the Illinois State Bar Association's General Assembly. She is a past president of the Advocates' Society.
Bode received a J.D. degree with honors from Illinois Institute of Technology/ Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1988. When in law school she served as a student member on the Kent Ethics and Discipline Tribunal. She received the Bar and Gavel Award for her contributions to the community.
Juli Campagna
 Juli Campagna, who has been an adjunct professor at John Marshall since 2006, will be teaching as a visiting professor in the Lawyering Skills Program.
She was a guest professor for a 2008 Seminar in U.S. and International Trade Law in Mexico. Campagna has been a visiting guest professor of Legal English at the International Law Institute since 2006 teaching in Mexico and Chile, as well as a guest professor teaching at the Central University of Finance and Economics, School of Law in Beijing, China. She has been an adjunct professor teaching U.S. Law and Legal English in Southeast Asia for Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Campagna, whose practice concentrates on business and tax advice, tax litigation and cross-border deals, also works extensively in international legal research and writing projects, both for business and academia. Her legal research work concentrates on law of the sea. She has been the e-manager of a risk management project for a Norwegian oil company since 2004, and is also a research assistant for a Norwegian professor who is a visiting professor at the European Union Law Institute at Harvard Law School.
Campagna has been hired by the Norwegian government agency NOFIMA as a consultant on a legislative drafting program for Vietnamese fisheries.
As a pro bono attorney, Campagna co-drafted the "Convention to Assist Families Who Have Been Incidentially or Intentionally Separated as a Result of Armed Conflict." The treaty is under study by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Campagna serves as executive secretary/legal counsel to Illinois TESOL/BE, the professional organization of Teachers of English as a Second Language and Bilingual Education. She is serving her second term as chair of the International and Foreign Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association.
Campagna's first career focused on languages. She received a bachelor's degree in Spanish and Church History from Mundelein College and a master's degree in French and a master's degree in Linguistics with a specialization in teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She studied Italian as a Carnegie Fellow at the University of Chicago and completed all coursework for a Ph.D.
She worked as an instructional designer and trainer for the Business English Immersion Training Program at Arthur Andersen and Andersen Worldwide. She also taught French, Spanish, Italian and English as a Second Language in colleges and universities in the Chicago area.
Campagna teaches U.S. legal research and legal writing at law firms around the world. She recently returned from Colombia, where she gave an intensive seminar in legal writing to associates and partners at the Bogota office of Prieto & Carrizosa, S.A., one of South America's top law firms.
Campagna received a J.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2003 where she was the CALI Award recipient for advanced research and drafting for international business law. She received an LL.M. degree with high honors in International Business and Trade Law from The John Marshall Law School in 2006.
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New Staff Join John Marshall
The John Marshall Law School has welcomed several new employees the past few months.
Stephanie Hill is the new administrative assistant for the Center for Real Estate Law.
Hill comes to John Marshall with a varied background. Her  father served in the military, so Hill got to see much of the country. She came to Illinois to attend the University of Illinois. Outside of work, Hill's passion is the arts. She started doing photography while in high school, and one of her pieces was accepted by the United Nations for its "Year of the Child" exhibit. Hill has had numerous showings of her photography and has donated pieces for various auctions.
Gary Watson returns to the law school after a two-year break. He is serving as the administration assistant for the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. He previously was the director of the Event Management department and later was Director of Institutional Research. Watson will be handling the day-to-day operations of the center. His first project has been to develop and program an operations platform for use in managing the workflow for the Center.
Gregg Mandel is new to the Business Office. He handles  accounts payable and student refunds. Mandel spent six years doing similar work at Aon Insurance before his job was outsourced. He has a bachelor's degree in music composition and performance from Columbia College-Chicago and was part of a musical group for about five years. He lives on the northwest side of Chicago.
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law
Activities
He was interviewed by a reporter for the on-line journal IP Law 360 on the question of whether the establishment of a specialized patent trial court would be a good thing. Gruner doesn't believe it is necessary.
Publications
His article, "Eminent Domain After Kelo" has been published by Capital University Law Review.
His article, "Medical Use of Marijuana" has been accepted for publication by Oklahoma City University Law Review.
Activities
He has accepted an invitation from the Hungarian Ministry of Justice to consult with the staff on the development of a new consumer bankruptcy law.
Activities
He recently spoke at the 2008 SEALS Annual Meeting, where he was on the panel that discussed "How to Internationalize Your Law School." For the past year, Mock has served as a member of the Internationalization Committee for SEALS. In addition, he has been appointed the secretary of the International & Immigration Law Section Council for 2008-09.
His scholarship, available on SSRN, has recently exceeded 500 downloads.
Activities
He presented his article, "From Apprenticeship to Clinical Education: Preparing our Students for the Practice of Law," at the 5th International Conference on Law July 17 through 20, 2008, at the Athens Institute for Education and Research in Athens, Greece. The conference was attended by legal scholars, attorneys and others from related disciplines from more than 20 countries. Based on Ortiz's presentation and the substance of his paper, he was selected to submit his article for publication for the institute's special volume book series.
Activities
He was interviewed by a reporter for the on-line journal IP Law 360 on his research of whether a proposal for special patent courts is valid. He found that more experienced federal judges get overturned at about the same rate as less experienced judges on claims construction, but said specialized courts may give quicker and more accurate decisions.
Activities
He has been asked to speak at the Section Officer's Breakfast during the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in January 2009. He will speak on effective organization of an AALS Section. He is a past chair of the AALS Section on International Legal Exchange, the AALS Section on North American Cooperation, the AALS Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers and the AALS Section on International Human Rights Law. He is currently chair of the AALS Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, and is an officer of the AALS Section on International Law.
Professor Wojcik was reappointed as a vice chair of the International Committee of the American Bar Association's Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section.
Publications
His book, Introduction to Legal English, is now being published in the United States, Mexico, and the People's Republic of China. It is the first title from the International Law Institute to be published in three countries.
His article "International Child Visitation, "was published in 45:9 The Globe 2 (June 2008) (newsletter of the Illinois State Bar Association Section on International and Immigration Law).
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Student Activities
September 1
Labor Day - no classes
September 2
The Children and Family Law Society will meet at 4:30 p.m. in room 201.
The Latino Law Students Association will meet at 5 p.m. in room 1101.
September 3
The Black Law Student Association will meet at 4:30 p.m. in room 201.
Phi Alpha Delta will meet at 5 p.m. in room 1103.
September 4
The Student Bar Association will meet at 5:20 p.m. in room 403.
All are welcome at the "Back to School" party to be held at Plan B from 8 to 11 p.m.
September 6
The Black Law Students academic skills session will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. in room 1101.
Important dates to remember:
September 11 - Student Organization Day
September 25 - Student/Alumni Exchange at the Union League Club
March 6 - Barrister's Ball at the Knickerbocker Hotel
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Schedule of Events
September 1
September 2
September 3
September 4
September 5
- National Fair Housing Conference, Room 1200, 1202 and 3East, 8 a.m.
- Master Class on Patent Law and Practice in China, Room 1103, 8:30 a.m.
- Board of Trustees Meeting, Courtroom, 9 a.m.
- Dealing with Suppliers in China, Room 200, 9 a.m.
- Mock Trial Team Tryouts, Room 527, noon
- Faculty Scholarship Roundtable Series with John McGinnis-A New Theory of Originalism, Room 529, 12:15 p.m.
September 6
September 7
- BYOB Multi-state Bar Practice Exam, Room 428, 10 a.m.
September 8
- Faculty Assembly Meeting, Room 503, 12:15 p.m.
September 9
- AIDS Foundation Committee Meeting, Room 1103, 8 a.m.
- IICLE Book Launch Reception, Room 3East, noon
September 10
- AIDS Foundation Forum, Room 200, 9 a.m.
September 11
- Faculty Works-in-Progress Presentation, Room 3East, noon
- New Faculty Reception, 3East, 4 p.m.
September 12
- 4th Annual Cook County State's Attorney's Office Minority Student Reception,
- Room 3East, 5:30 p.m.
September 13
- 12th Annual Prosecutorial Opportunities Symposium, Room 1200A&B, 8:30 a.m.
- BEST (Bar Exam Savvy Test), Room 1103, 10 a.m.
- Insights I, Room 409, 1:30 p.m.
September 14
- BEST (Bar Exam Savvy Test), Room 1103, 10 a.m.
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