Contents

Schedule of Events

Career Services Office

Fair Housing Center/Clinic

Faculty Activity and Publications

Editor: Assistant Dean John M. McNamara, room 400, ext. 393, 6mcnamar@jmls.edu.

All information to be published in Up & Coming must be placed in the UPCOMING directory on the H drive of the Law School's computer network by each Tuesday at 12 p.m.

December 22, 1997 - January 11, 1998

Career Services Office

The Career Services Office will be open through the Winter Break. Please note our hours:

M, T, TH: 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

W: 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

F: 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

We will close at 5 p.m. on December 22, 23, 29 and 30.

We will be closed December 24 - 26 and December 31 - January 2.

First year students interested in the City of Chicago's Summer Associate Program should submit a resume and cover letter directly to the City as soon as possible. Please see the CSO for more information.

Students please fill out a CSO survey, copies are available in the CSO office.

We are busy planning an eventful spring semester, among the programs coming up are: Job Hunting Outside of Chicago; Managing Law School Debt; Handling Diversity in a Job Search; Women in the Law; Mock Interviews with the CBA; and career panels on Government, Entertainment, Environmental, Criminal Law and more!

Students who have not yet done so should pick up their bar applications or graduation tickets from the CSO.

Fair Housing Center/Clinic

Fair Housing Clinic Students Go to Trial

Law students Ray Sanguinetti and Evelyn Pacino recently represented a client of the Fair Housing Clinic in a hearing before The City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations. The case involves a woman who was denied the opportunity to purchase a home because of her source of income. Under the supervision of Joseph Butler, Evelyn and Ray questioned witnesses and had documentary evidence admitted. The Client and the Clinic are awaiting the Hearing Officer's written ruling. The case could set important precedent in that the Commission has not yet awarded damages for source of income in a fair housing case.

Faculty Activity and Publications

Adjunct Professor F. Willis Caruso

Activities

He and Lillian Seymore of The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center and Clinic trained the staff of the City of Bakersfield, California and Kern County, California on December 4, 5 & 6, 1997 at Bakersfield, California. These FHAP agencies are starting a major testing program using materials developed by the Fair Housing Center and the Fair Housing Clinic. It is expected the Clinic and the Center will provide continuing support, training and advice for these important programs.

Professor Caruso was a member of the panel for a December 10, 1997 Community Development Program Satellite Broadcast at the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C. The broadcast was received by approximately 650 HUD management and supervisory personnel throughout the 50 states. Professor Caruso's presentation, which opened the session, detailed the history of The Fair Housing Act and culminated in a discussion of case law decisions. Questions with respect to particular issues were telephoned in from HUD offices around the country.

Professor Michael J. Polelle

Activities

On November 10, the 10th Annual Media Law Symposium was organized by Professor Michael J. Polelle, with the assistance of Professors Doris Long and Alberto Bernabe. The topic was "All's Fair in Love, War and Newsreporting?" The speakers included: Professor Polelle; Bernard Judge, editor of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin; Professor Sandra Davidson, University of Missouri School of Journalism and Law School; and Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Sun Times.

Professor Ralph Ruebner

Professor Mark Wojcik

Activities

Professor Ralph Ruebner and Assistant Professor Mark Wojcik filed a complaint on December 10, 1997 against the Republic of Peru in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The pro bono case was filed on International Human Rights Day on behalf of Jennifer Davis and Krista Barnes, two U.S. citizens presently in prison in Peru. Zoe Biel and Lisa Carroll assisted the professors in drafting the complaint and assembling the supporting documentation; they were both students in the International Human Rights Law Seminar taught by Professors Ruebner and Wojcik. The professors were interviewed about the case by a number of media sources, including the Voice of America and the Associated Press on December 10, 1997 and WBEZ radio on December 15, 1997. The complaint charges various violations of the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights and other international human rights treaties and documents.

Professor George B. Trubow

Activities

On January 7 - 10, he will attend the annual meeting of the AALS in San Francisco. On January 14 - 16, he will attend the meeting of Federal Task Force on Criminal Records Legislation in Sacramento, CA. On January 30 - 31, he will attend the mid-year meeting of ABA Section on Sci-Tech in Nashville, TN.

Professor Mark E. Wojcik

Activities

He will speak on Wednesday, January 7, 1998 at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools on the subject of "Legal Skills Training for Foreign Law Students."

He was interviewed by Life on Monday, December 15, 1997 about the conflicts between AIDS confidentiality statutes and AIDS criminal transmission statutes.