Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston presents a plaque to Judge Jiang Zhipei of the People's Republic of China marking the three months he spent at The John Marshall Law School as a scholar at large. Judge Zhipei is deputy chief judge of the Intellectual Property Trial Chamber of the Supreme People's Court in China. He also is completing a doctorate in civil law at the People's University of China.

Members of the Government Ethics Law and Its Practice Research Group from the Control Yuan of the Republic of China on Taiwan recently met at The John Marshall Law School for a meeting. Gathering were (front row from left) Mei-yen Chen, section chief; Liao Lin Lih-jen, director general of the Department of Investigation; Dorothy Li, director of the law school's library; Caroline Kiang, and JMLS Professor Marie Monahan. In the back row are (from left) Philip Lee of the Taipei office; Shun-lung Hung, section chief' Zong-tong Hong, chief secretary of the Justice and Prison Administration Commission; Sheng-tsung Yang, director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago; Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston; G.A. Pecoraro, JMLS board of trustees member; Professor Michael Seng.

Adjunct Professor George Drost

Activities

A director for CoVest Banc, he has been appointed to the planning commission of the Village of Arlington Heights. The planning commission is expected to act on a redevelopment project for the downtown business district.

Professor Ralph Ruebner

Activities

He lectured at The Decalogue Society of Lawyers' C.L.E. programs on May 6 and May 13, 1998. His topics were "Developments in Evidence, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure - A Perspective from the United States Supreme Court."

Professor Debra Stark

Publications

Her book, Consensual Transfers of Distressed Real Estate, was published by the American Bar Association. The book provides a comprehensive approach to negotiating, structuring and documenting this type of transaction. It analyzes from the perspective of the borrower, lender and guarantor, the myriad of issues, problems and strategies they should consider including: reducing the tax consequences of the disposition, the use of executory deed transactions and/or pre-packaged bankruptcies, and reducing exposure to environmental liability. The book also contains a comprehensive set of documentation, many of it annotated. Professor Stark was the editor of the book and authored one of the chapters of the book. Her co-authors are experts in real estate law from around the country, including, John C. Murray, who is a member of the Board of Advisors of The John Marshall Law School's LL.M. in Real Estate.

Professor Mark E. Wojcik

Activities

He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Legal Writing Institute, a national organization with membership of more than 1,000 professors, judges, legislators, and other writing professionals.

He was installed on June 25, 1998 as a new member of the Board of Managers of the 22,000-member Chicago Bar Association during the Association's Annual Luncheon Meeting. He also received two committee awards for his service as Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Committee on Military Law and Veterans Affairs (1996-97 and 1997-98) and as the Founding Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Committee on the Legal Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men.