He addressed members of the Law Program for Community Developers and Social Workers at John Marshall on Saturday, March 14. His presentation covered the history of the Fair Housing Act, the impact the Act has on community development and social work, and the proposed amendments to the Act presently before Congress.
He has been appointed a Professor-Reporter for an Illinois Judicial Conference Program on Strict Liability for May of 1999. This will be his 15th Illinois Judicial Conference presentation since 1981.
He has been selected as one of several individuals who will receive the "5 Year Award for Distinguished Service to the Community" from Illinois Politics Magazine. The award letter reads in part: "For years, you have devoted your time to educating your students and the public about a number of complex legal and social issues. You have reached out to help people who have endured unfairness and injustice, recognizing that discrimination against one segment is harmful to all." Other 5 year achievement honorees at the April 3 awards luncheon will include former Senator Paul Simon, former state Controller Dawn Clark Netsch, and others.
His teaching effectiveness technique of conducting classes without casebook or lecture notes [discussed in the article "Working Without A Net To Improve Your Classes," The Law Teacher, Fall 1994, p. 10] is being published in the book Techniques for Teaching Law, forthcoming from Carolina Academic Press.
His article (co-authored with John Marshall alum Carol Heise) about interstate recognition of same-sex marriage [16 Nova Law Review 809 (1992)] has been cited in 31 Family Law Quarterly at 574 (1997) and in 8 Regent University Law Review at 233 (1997).
Two of his HIV-AIDS articles have been cited in the newly released law school casebook Health Care Law and Ethics at 973, 976 (1998). Those articles are (1) his piece with John Marshall alums Robert Gamrath and Dem Hopkins on mandatory premarital HIV testing [69 Tulane Law Review 71 (1994)], and (2) his co-authored piece on criminalization of the HIV-AIDS epidemic [46 Arkansas Law Review 921 (1994)].
His article (co-authored with John Marshall alum Donald Weiland) about the construction industry bidding cases [13 John Marshall Law Review 565 (1980)] has been cited in 65 University of Cincinnati Law Review at 1242 (1997).
His article arguing for a right not to be informed of mandatory HIV test results [22 Loyola University (Chicago) Law Review 445 (1991)] has been cited in 31 University of California (Davis) Law Review at 502 (1998).
His article, "In Vitro Fertilization: Problems and Solutions," 98 Dickinson Law Review 67 (1993), was cited in 25 Hofstra Law Review 1221 (1997).
His article, "Insurance Coverage Problems in Latent Disease and Injury Cases", 12 Envir. L. J. 317 (1982), was cited in 64 Tenn. L. Rev. 793 (1997).
On the subject of his and Professor Mark E. Wojcik's work on the Jennifer Davis case, on March 12 & 13, 1998 he was interviewed by WBBM Radio in Chicago, Illinois Radio, The Chicago Tribune and the Danville Commercial News. He and Professor Wojcik were also interviewed by WBEZ Radio and the Voice of America, and when recently in Washington, D.C. conducted two additional interviews about the case.
He spoke about family law issues at the DePaul University School of Law on March 10, 1998 as part of the school's diversity week program. His topic was adoption by gay and lesbian parents, including new developments in second-parent adoptions when the second parent is of the same gender as the first parent. Attorney Roger V. McCaffrey joined him in making the presentation, which was sponsored by the Women's Law Caucus at DePaul University and which was attend ed by several faculty members from DePaul University School of Law.
He spoke on March 4 at a reception for 43 judges and judicial candidates co-sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association Committee on the Legal Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men and the Lesbian and Gay Association of Chicago. He also moderated a political rally held on February 16 in Oak Park on a local referendum to repeal the first domestic partnership registry in Illinois.
He became the first member of the Society of Gay and Lesbian Anthropologists, a new section of the American Association of Anthropologists. Professor Wojcik is also a member of the Society for Political and Legal Anthropology.
His essay will appear in Techniques for Teaching Law, a book on law teaching by Professor Steve Friedland of Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center and Professor Gerald F. Hess of Gonzaga University School of Law. The essay describes a mock trial program that Professor Wojcik created for high school students in the Republic of Palau, the small island nation in the Western Pacific Ocean where he worked in 1994 and 1995. The mock trial program placed a traditional Palauan legend in the contemporary context of a court room. The book will be published by the Carolina Academic Press.
He submitted a copy of his manuscript, "Teaching Tips for Quiet Classrooms," to the Journal of Legal Education.
