Schedule of Events

January 28

Career Services Program - Careers in Intellectual Property, Room 1200A, 12:30 p.m.

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January 26 - February 1, 1998

Student Activities

Children's Law Society Thanks You

Children's Law Society sends a big thanks to all who donated their spare change and books for the change/book drive. They collected 40 books and $200 which was donated to the South Loop Elementary School. The proceeds will be used to buy new books for the children's library.

Can You Spare a Coat?

Winter is still with us and winter coats are still in need for those without. The Environmental Law Society is sponsoring a coat drive so, if possible, please donate a coat or heavy garment. Coats will be accepted in the student lounge until Friday, February 6.

Hellenic Law Students Association

The Hellenic Association will be having their first meeting this semester Monday, January 26 at 5:00 p.m. in room 201.

Fair Housing Association Elections

Elections will be held for the Fair Housing Association on Tuesday, January 27 at 5:00 p.m. in room 530. Decisions need to be made regarding the approaching administrative judge's reception. If you are interested, please make every effort to be in attendance.

Justinian Society

The Justinians will be holding their first meeting on Wednesday, January 28 at 5:00 p.m. in room 201.

Chief Officers Meeting

Dean Power's Student Advisory Committee will meet on Thursday, January 29 at 12:15 p.m. in room 216. All chief officers or a representative from your organization must be in attendance. Please advise Miss Criss or Maria if you absolutely cannot attend.

Computer Law Society

The Computer Law will be holding their first meeting on Thursday, January 29 at 5:00 p.m. in room 201.

Write for Money

Everyone needs extra money, right? Why not attempt to compete for a writing competition? You can win up to $3,000. Information is posted outside Miss Criss's office (room 212).

Faculty Activity and Publications

Professor Michael Closen

Publications

He has been quoted extensively in the December 26, 1997 issue of AIDS Policy & Law, the reporter on legislation, regulation and litigation about HIV-AIDS. The subject of the article was the fact that the United States Supreme court has finally granted certiorari to hear a case involving a substantive issue about HIV-AIDS (after denying 28 such petitions since 1987). Professor Closen has written about the Supreme Court's failure to hear an HIV-AIDS case in both the New York Times and USA Today Magazine, and his law review article on the subject is forthcoming in the Spring 1998 issue of the Albany Law Review.

His article, co-authored with JMLS senior Clint Bruno (an Illinois notary public), entitled "To Judge, Or Not To Judge, Competence and Willingness," has been published in the American Notary (newsletter of the American Society of Notaries), First Quarter, 1998.

Professor Doris E. Long

Activities

On January 10, 1998, she was a speaker on a panel entitled: "International Protection for Computer Software and Digital Information" at the AALS Annual Conference. Her topic was "International Internet Trademark Issues." In her speech, Professor Long criticized current efforts to resolve the present international debate over domain name registration and protection. She contended that the current focus on developing more generic top level domain names would not resolve the problem. Instead, Professor Long recommended that attention be focused on developing a harmonized international law regarding domain name registration and protection that focuses on the true source of the problem -- second level domain names. She also argued that application of dilution principles to the problem of domain names ignores the territorial nature of trademark rights and their necessary relationship to public protection principles. Professor Long concluded her speech by suggesting areas for future discussion regarding protection of trademark rights in the digitized, global environment of the Internet, including the role of registration and distinctiveness in assigning domain names and the requirement of greater specificity in second level domain names.

Professors F. Willis Caruso and Michael P. Seng

Publications

With Sharon K. Legenza, from the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, they have co-authored an article about Discrimination in Rental Housing, published by IICLE in its 1998 Practice Handbook, Representing Residential Tenants.