Building Hours for 4th of July Holiday

To celebrate Independence Day, The John Marshall Law School (including the library) will be closed on Friday, July 3, and Saturday, July 4. No access to the Law School will be possible on those days. Regular hours will resume at 9 a.m. on Sunday, July 5.

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.

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Schedule of Events

Building Hours for 4^th of July Holiday 1

Fall Semester Date Change

Courts Building Named for Markey

Czech Ambassador Honored at John Marshall

Faculty Activity and Publications

Board of Trustees

John Marshall Represented in Ireland

Schedule of Events

June 15

Center Directors' Meeting, Room 1200A, 12:15 a.m.

June 17

Alumni Association Annual Meeting, Room 1200, 5:00 p.m.

Faculty Activity and Publications

Professor David E. Sorkin

Activities

On June 2 he appeared on a call-in show on WWL Radio in New Orleans, discussing privacy issues.

Professor Mark E. Wojcik

Publications

He has completed a 400+ page draft of the first legal writing text specifically designed for lawyers and law students who do not speak English as a first language. The International Law Institute in Washington, D.C will publish the book this fall. Advance copies of the book are currently being reviewed in the United States and Vietnam.

Courts Building Named for Markey

The National Courts Building in Washington will be renamed the Howard T. Markey National Courts Building. Legislation awaits the President's signature after the House approved the measure June 3, acting on a Senate bill that had passed in September 1997.

Markey, dean emeritus of The John Marshall Law School, served as chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1982 to 1990, and was an active judge on this court after his resignation as chief judge. Prior to his appointment to the Federal Court of Appeals, Markey served for 10 years as chief judge for the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

Markey was the first active judge to have sat with every Federal Court of Appeals. He sat in more than 1,400 cases and wrote more than 250 opinions for the Regional Circuit Courts in every field of law, in addition to 5,000 cases and 800 opinions for the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Czech Ambassador Honored at John Marshall

The Ambassador of the Czech Republic, Alexandr Vondra (second from left) was honored at a reception at The John Marshall Law School. Joining him were (from left) Joseph Vosicky, John Drost and George Drost, alumni who have been active in the sister school relationship between John Marshall and Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.

John Marshall Represented in Ireland

The John Marshall Law School was well represented on the recent visit of the Chicago-Galway Sister Cities Program. Enjoying the international mission were (from left) Professor Frank Morrissey; alumna Mary Colleen Grace, vice chair of the Chicago-Galway Sister Cities Committee, presenting the seal of the City of Chicago to the Honorable Michael Leahy, mayor of Galway; and Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston. Also accompanying them was Prof. Ron Smith.

Board of Trustees

John Marshall Trustee G. A. Pecoraro, Special Assistant for Public Safety to the Secretary of State, was awarded the Governor's Award for Excellence in Training by Governor Jim Edgar on June 10, 1998. His colleagues in law enforcement throughout Illinois had nominated him for the award. He has been instructing judges, state's attorneys, chiefs, sheriffs and rank-and-file members of the criminal justice community, both in the U.S. in Illinois, and internationally, for more than 25 years.