Fall Semester Date Change

Classes for the Fall 1998 semester will begin on Thursday, August 20. This is a change from the previously scheduled date of August 24.

Contents

Fall Semester Date Change

Schedule of Events

Leo Melamed, Former Merc Chairman, Addresses Graduates

Clinic Students Win Major Fair Housing Case

Pavey Named Best Oralist in All-Illinois Moot Court Competition

Walsh, Grayson Earn Top Honors At Moot Court Competition

Faculty Activity and Publications

Berek Wins CBA Essay Contest

Schedule of Events

May 25

Memorial Day (observed)

May 26

Conditional Program Orientation, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Cook County Bar Association/ Metro Life Insurance, Insurance Planning Seminar, Room 1200, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

May 29

Opportunities in Real Estate Law in the Next Century, Room 1200

Pavey Named Best Oralist in All-Illinois Moot Court Competition

Ericka Bree Pavey (left) was named Best Oralist at the 1998 14^th Annual All-Illinois Moot Court Competition sponsored by the Illinois State Bar Association and the Illinois Appellate Lawyers Association. She shares her trophy with Professor Ardath Hamann, director of the Moot Court Program. Nelson Nolte also represented John Marshall at the competition.

Walsh, Grayson Earn Top Honors At Moot Court Competition

The John Marshall team of Allison Walsh (center) and Clarissa Grayson (right) won First Place in the 1998 BMI/Cardozo Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition. The team also won Best Brief. Grayson was named Best Oralist and Walsh was named Second Best Oralist in the final round. The pair competed against more than 20 other teams in the competition held in New York. Their topics were personal jurisdiction over the Internet and copyright ability of accompilation. They are congratulated by Professor Ardath Hamann (left), director of the Moot Court Program.

Leo Melamed, Former Merc Chairman, Addresses Graduates Contents

Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), will address the June 1998 graduating class of The John Marshall Law School during commencement ceremonies June 7 at McCormick Place.

The law school will award 189 J.D. and 41 LL.M. degrees during the 3 p.m. ceremonies.

Melamed received his J.D. degree from John Marshall in 1955 and went on to gain an international reputation as chairman and then leader of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1969 to 1990. During his tenure, and as chief spokesman for the futures industry, he set three milestones.

First, as CME chairman, Melamed was responsible for the introduction of financial futures at the CME in 1972 with the opening of the International Monetary Market, a dramatic departure from futures' traditional century-old agricultural base. This move revolutionized modern finance.

Secondly, he is credited with leading the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the futures industry to the introduction of cash settlement of futures contracts, breaking from the traditional requirement of physical delivery. This innovation made possible the trading of interest rate and stock index futures products.

Thirdly, Melamed set the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ahead of its competitors by launching Globex, the first futures global electronic 24-hour trading system.

While in law school, Melamed worked as a runner for Merrill Lynch on the floor of the CME. Trading so fascinated him that, much to his parents' chagrin, Melamed ultimately gave up the practice of law and became a full-time trader. Elected to the Merc's board in 1968, Melamed set out to change the CME's outdated rule book, diversify its product line, and change its image.

Today Melamed is chairman and chief executive officer of Sakura Dellsher, Inc., a global futures brokerage firm. Melamed, whose family escaped the Nazis, was appointed by President Bush, and reappointed by President Clinton, to be a council member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

He has written and lectured extensively on derivatives, assists governments in the establishment of futures exchanges, and has authored an autobiography, Escape to the Futures, published in 1996.

Clinic Students Win Major Fair Housing Case

The Illinois Appellate Court on Wednesday, May 13th, issued a decision in favor of one of the Fair Housing Clinic's clients.

The case involved a blind man who was denied housing because the landlords' "no pet" policy would not allow him to live there with his seeing-eye dog. John Marshall Student Jeff Harkin (who is now in private practice in Indiana) tried the case before the City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations.

The Commission awarded Mr. Hall $2,750.00 in compensatory damages and more than $14,000.00 in attorney's fees. The landlords paid the damage award, but appealed award of attorney's fees to the Chancery Division. Students John Schmidt and Holly Petik represented Mr. Hall before the Chancery Division. The court upheld the award of fees, and the landlord appealed to the Appellate Court.

The Appellate Court's opinion directly addressed the issue of the quality of work performed by law students: "[A] policy [of utilizing law students] encourages cost-effective delivery of legal services and, by reducing the spiraling cost of civil rights litigation, furthers the policies underlying civil rights statutes." (quoting Littlefield v. Mack, 789 F.Supp. 914, 919 (N.D.Ill. 1992).

The case was also significant for civil rights plaintiffs because it upheld an award of fees that was much greater than the damages.

Adjunct Clinical Professor Joseph Butler supervised the clinic students throughout the appeals process. The full text of the decision is available on Westlaw, 1998 WL 221090.

Berek Wins CBA Essay Contest

John Marshall student David Berek (center) receives congratulations from Professor Paul Faherty (left), director of the Center for Tax Law & Employee Benefits, and attorney Steven Conlon (right), chairman of the Federal Tax Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, on winning the CBA committee's essay contest. Berek's topic, "Two Recent Tax Court Decisions Highlight the Importance of Material Participation Documentation in Passive Activities," earned him a $250 cash award.

Faculty Activity and Publications

Professor Jessie Grearson

Activities

She was awarded a $5,000 Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council for creative prose. She is using the grant to begin work on a second book examining intercultural relationships.

She also spent 10 days participating in a residency program at Ragdale Foundation, an internationally acclaimed artists' community in Lake Forest. She was selected as one of more than 150 artists, writers and composers for a residency this year.

On April 3, she presented her work, "A Brief History of Writing Advisors at Law Schools" at the national meeting of writing teachers, the College Conference on Composition and Communication, in Chicago. She teamed with Anne Enquist of Seattle University School of Law in presenting research on the work writing advisors perform at different law schools in the U.S.

She was a May 3 guest on the "City Voices" program on WNUA-FM Radio, speaking with host Stan West about her book, SWAYING: Essays on Intercultural Love. Grearson served as co-editor on the book, a compilation of essays on intercultural relationships.

Professor Celeste M. Hammond

Activity

She was a speaker at the Midyear Meeting of the ABA Section on Real Property, Probate & Trust Law in San Antonio Texas. Her topic of Alternative Dispute Resolution Clauses in Real Estate Documents was part of a program: "Ticking Time Bombs: A Litigator's Perspective" that considered a number of boilerplate provisions in typical real estate documents that may end up in litigation. Speakers identified the problems and gave drafting suggestions.

Also, she was appointed as co-editor of a book of Commercial Leasing Forms that will be published by the ABA Real Property Probate & Trust Law Section. Mead Data will make the book available on the Internet.

Professor Kathryn J. Kennedy

Activity

Along with Professor Seng, she met with a delegation of Mexican officials, who were hosted by the International Visitors Center of the U.S. Information Agency, on May 19, 1998. The delegation of officials was in the United States to gain insight into U.S. fair housing programs, and retirement policies and systems.

Professor Michael P. Seng

Activity

He was the keynote speaker at a fair housing conference in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, May 18. The conference was sponsored by the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, The Greater Nashville Association of Realtors, the Tennessee Fair Housing Council, and related groups. The conference was attended by human rights workers, housing consumers, realtors, mortgage bankers, and members of the public.

He discussed the history of the Fair Housing Act and its impact on removing housing impediments caused by discrimination.

Along with Professor Kennedy, he met with a delegation of Mexican officials, who were hosted by the International Visitors Center of the U.S. Information Agency, on May 19, 1998. The delegation of officials was in the United States to gain insight into U.S. fair housing programs, and retirement policies and systems.

Adjunct Professor F. Willis Caruso

Activity

Adjunct Professor F. Willis Caruso attended the Association of American Law Schools conference on Clinical Legal Education in Portland, Oregon, May 5 - 9, 1998. The theme was "Teaching Values." This conference was very valuable in providing us with some good ideas and specific program suggestions. A complete report of the conference is available from the Fair Housing Center to anyone interested in his observations.