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

Schedule of Events

Fall Semester Date Change

Corboy Receives Alumni Association Freedom Award

Center for Real Estate Law

Faculty Activity and Publications

Schedule of Events

June 2

Accelerated Trial Advocacy, Room 1200, 11:00 a.m.

Roundtable Discussion with China Supreme Court Justice Richard Jiang, Room 1200, 12:15 p.m.

June 3

Accelerated Trial Advocacy

June 4

Accelerated Trial Advocacy

Graduation Photo Shoot, Room 1200, 12:00 p.m.

June 5

Alumni Association Reunion Committee Meeting, Room 1200, 12:00 p.m.

June 6

Accelerated Trial Advocacy

Law Program for Community Developers & Social Workers, Room 300, 10:00 a.m.

June 7

Commencement, McCormick Place

Corboy Receives Alumni Association Freedom Award

Attorney Philip Corboy (left), of Corboy and Demetrio, receives the 1998 Freedom Award from John Marshall Alumni Association President Jesse Reyes (right), at the alumni association's annual luncheon May 15. Corboy was recognized for his continued efforts at advocacy, both for his clients and the legal profession.

Center for Real Estate Law

Celeste Hammond 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.

Virginia Harding, Gould & Ratner, is a member of the Advisory Committee and an Adjunct in the Real Estate Law LL.M. program. On April 3, 1998, she was a panelist at the Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyer Section Program, "Real Estate Negotiations & Bargaining Issues." She addressed developer's concerns- zoning, building & neighborhood groups; investors, partners, lenders and contractors; and speculative development and preconstruction commitments.

Faculty Activity and Publications

Professor Michael L. Closen

Activities

He lectured to trial and appellate court judges on the subjects of contract defenses and contract interpretation during an Illinois Judicial Conference program on commercial law held May 14-16.

He argued the plaintiff-dental patients' theory for a cause of action for fear of AIDS against Northwestern University Dental Clinic before the Illinois Supreme Court on May 19. Doe v. Northwestern University, No. 83886 (consolidated with No. 83677). His co-counsel in the case is John Marshall alum Donald Weiland.

Publications

His article (co-authored with John Marshall alum Elliott Weissbluth) on shallow water diving accidents [Trial Magazine, June 1994, p. 62] has been cited in 55 ALR 5th at 463 (1998).

His article (co-authored with John Marshall alum Robert Dzielak) "The History and Influence of the Law Review Institution" [30 Akron Law Review 15 (1996)] has been cited in 30 Arizona State Law Journal at 19 (1998).

His article (co-authored with John Marshall alum Carol Heise) on interstate recognition of same-sex marriages [16 Nova Law Review 809 (1992)] has been cited in 47 American University Law Review at 165 (1998) and in 7 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy at 203 (1998).

Professor Doris Estelle Long

Activities

She is currently a Fulbright Professor at Jiao Tung University in Shanghai, PRC presented a paper entitled "Teaching Practical Skills and Professional Values" at the China-US Conference on the Reform and Development of Legal Education" co-sponsored by Tsinghua University and the US Fulbright Program in China. She also chaired a panel discussion on Practical Experience at the same conference. In her paper, Professor Long examined the impact of the MacCrate Report on US legal education. She explored the skills and values identified in the report and provided for concrete examples of methods for integrating skills and ethics training into the curriculum through the use of specialized courses and modified Socratic teaching techniques. Her paper will be published by Tsinghua. While in Beijing, Professor Long also gave two lectures at the China School of Journalism. Her first, entitled "A Lazy Journalist is a Lawyer's Best Friend" examined the American legal system and used the recently widely reported legal issues involving the Paula Jones case and the Special Prosecutor as an example of the problems journalists face when they do not fully understand the nature of the legal proceedings surrounding such events. In her second speech, entitled "Pirates, Counterfeits and the WTO" Professor Long examined the role of intellectual property law in developing countries and discussed the reasons why a strong enforcement program is in China's best interests given its burgeoning computer industry.