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

Fair Housing Center/Clinic

Fall Semester Date Change

John Marshall Takes Trial Advocacy, Negotiations Courses to Dublin

Faculty Activity and Publications

Schedule of Events

July 22

Legal Writing Workshop, Room 1200B, 3:00 p.m.

July 23

CREW Breakfast Meeting, Room 1200, 7:30 a.m.

Fair Housing Center/Clinic

The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center conducted a HUD training program for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Atlanta Georgia on July 6-10. In attendance were more than 100 Equal Opportunity Specialists from the Regions of New York/New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast/Caribbean, Midwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Pacific/Hawaii and the Northwest/Alaska states. The course addressed the substantive law that every investigator should know in order to effectively conduct an investigation. The instructors for the training were Professors Michael P. Seng, F. Willis Caruso, Ardath Hamann and Julie Spanbauer, and Clinical Adjunct Professors Joseph Butler and J. Damian Ortiz. The next program in this series of HUD trainings will take place on July 27-30 in Atlanta Georgia.

John Marshall Takes Trial Advocacy, Negotiations Courses to Dublin

In June 1998, The John Marshall Law School initiated a new two-week Irish program in Transnational Legal Negotiations and Comparative Trial Advocacy and Litigation.

The program is under the direction of Professors Kenneth Kandaras and Peter McGovern joined by Adjunct Professor Kenneth Cunniff. The three selected trial advocacy and litigation because no other school is offering a skills training course of this magnitude. The negotiations course offers students the opportunity to work on international legal issues that impact trade and business.

The trial advocacy and litigation program at The King's Inn Dublin had John Marshall students paired with Irish law students to litigate a theft case. Justice Kevin O'Higgins, a member of the Irish High Court, presided at the mock trial. The proceedings were conducted in the Ireland Supreme Court Chambers in Dublin.

"It proved to be very interesting," said Prof. Kandaras. "The case was decided by a jury, and the first trial resulted in an acquittal, while the second trial resulted in a conviction."

Students spent time with Irish solicitors on trial preparation. They also spent three hours with Irish Supreme Court Chief Justice Liam Hamilton, co-director of the course, who spent time outlining Irish Constitutional Law, and fair trials and due process procedures under Irish law.

"That proved to be an incredible experience for our students," said Prof. Kandaras. "The give and take and free-flow dialogue was wonderful."

The John Marshall students, Anginetti Urch, Timothy McCarthy and Tia Glass, also were feted at a reception in The King's Inn Library hosted by Justice Hamilton.

The second week of the program, students prepared and negotiated two business deals and settled one business dispute that would otherwise have gone to litigation. "This was an accelerated transnational negotiations course. The students met several times at John Marshall before we went to Ireland. The course work focused on payment, customs duties, basic contract formation and negotiations," Prof. McGovern explained.

Once in Ireland, the four John Marshall students Mark Herrick, Anginetti Urch, Kate McGovern and Bill Piggot joined with six Irish barrister students for two days of intensive classroom work before they were asked to deal with three problems - one was a breach of contract on the sale of goods, and the others dealt with negotiated sales of goods with an emphasis on dispute resolution. The coursework was conducted at the new International Arbitration Offices of the Irish Bar in Dublin.

Professor Kandaras said the John Marshall-Dublin partnership will continue. In August, four Irish barristers have been selected to come to The John Marshall Law School and participate in the Accelerated Trial Advocacy course he teaches.

Plans are being formulated for a similar series of courses in Dublin next year.

Members of the transnational negotiations program The John Marshall Law School presented in Ireland were (from left) Adjunct Professor Ken Cunniff of John Marshall; Cian Ferriter, an Irish student from King's Inn; John Marshall student Kate McGovern and Professor Peter McGovern; Mark Dunne and Nessa Cahill, Irish students from King's Inn; John Marshall students Bill Pigott, Anginetti Urch and Mark Herrick; and Sinead O'Shea and Douglas Clarke, Irish students from King's Inn. The group worked in the King's Inn lecture classroom in Dublin.

Mrs. Anne Bunni, (third from right) an Irish barrister and past president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Irish Branch, met with John Marshall Law School representatives during their week-long transnational negotiations program. Representing John Marshall are (from left) Anginetti Urch, Mark Herrick, Bill Pigott, Professor Peter McGovern and Kate McGovern. They met at the Council of the Bar of Ireland, Dublin.

Faculty Activity and Publications

Professor Michael Closen

Activities

He concluded a six-week series of bar review teaching in June-July for BAR/BRI, traveling throughout the Mid-West (including Tulsa, Little Rock, Kansas City, St. Louis, Louisville, Covington (KY), and Lexington), where he lectured on agency, conflict of laws, partnership, and essay exam writing. Professor Closen was interviewed and quoted several times in a series of pieces on the subject of the HIV-AIDS case accepted for hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court (Bragdon v. Abbott) in the Disability Compliance Bulletin, January 15, 1998. The employment discrimination case which Professor Closen and John Marshall alum Donald Weiland argued to the U.S. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit) was the subject of an article in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, April 16, 1998, at 5.

Publications

His article about the history and influence of the law review institution [30 Akron Law Review 15 (1996), co-authored with John Marshall alum Robert Dzielak] has been cited in 75 Denver University Law Review at 661 (1998) and in 82 Minnesota Law Review at 1261 (1998).

Professor Ronald C. Smith

Activities

He participated in the Worldwide Advocacy Conference held at the Inns of Court School of Law, London, England, in late June. The aim of the conference was to bring together practitioners, teachers, judges, and researchers in all aspects of advocacy from all over the world, to share and develop their ideas about the practice and learning of advocacy. Over 150 attended, from 17 countries. Many of those in attendance expressed great interest in John Marshall Law School's National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition (co-sponsored with the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association), and at least one foreign school sought an invitation. He attended the Conference in connection with his recent appointment to the advisory council of the International Criminal Justice Resource Center, to recruit faculty for the training of prosecutors for international criminal tribunals

Professor George B. Trubow

Activities

On July 19 _ 22, 1998 he attended the annual Board of Directors and Group meeting of SEARCH in Burlington, Vermont. A principal task on the agenda was working with the U.S. Dept. of Justice on its initiative for a Global Criminal Justice Information Network.

On July 30 - August 3 he attended the ABA annual meeting in Toronto, Canada, participating in the Council meeting for the Section on Science and Technology. Will also spoke on a Presidential Showcase Program of the Section of General Practice, discussing "Big Brother vs. The Right to Privacy: Surveillance of Citizens."