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John Marshall-Trinity College Exchange Continues
Professor Susan Connor (left) and Professor John Scheid (right) welcomed Prof. Neville Cox of Trinity College-Dublin School of Law who was a guest presenter at John Marshall, and Fiona Flood, vice counsel for the Irish Consulate in Chicago.The John Marshall Law School continued its Chicago-Ireland exchanges when it welcomed Professor Neville Cox to the law school in September. The exchange dates back to the 1970s when William Binchy, now dean of Ireland's Trinity College-Dublin School of Law, was a guest lecturer and later a John Marshall visiting professor in tort law. Among his many friends at John Marshall is Prof. John Scheid who has been a conduit in establishing the current faculty exchanges between the two law schools. Trinity College-Dublin School of Law professors who have presented Fall lectures for The John Marshall Law School Distinguished Speaker Series have been Gerard Whyte on "Religion Under the Irish Constitution: A Comparison with the United States Experience" in 1996; Ivana Bacik on "The Constitutional & Legal Position of Women in Ireland" in 1997; and Cox on "Reforming the Unreformable: Abortion and the Law in Ireland, 1983-1998." John Marshall professors have been guest presenters in the Spring at Trinity College as part of the exchange. Prof. Julie Spanbauer presented on "The Law of Sex Discrimination in Employment in the United States" in 1997, and Prof. Tim O'Neill on "Pre-Text Arrests" in 1998. Prof. John Corkery will be presenting in 1999. John Marshall also has initiated a two-week program in Transnational Legal Negotiations and Comparative Trial Advocacy and Litigation at the Kings Inn in Dublin. The program is under the direction of Professors Peter McGovern and Ken Kandaras. "Sharing our expertise and learning from others is the goal behind these exchanges," Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston said. "The success of our Irish program is due to the dedicated work of our faculty. I want to thank those who have worked at developing and fostering this relationship which I hope will continue to benefit them, the students and the law school for many years to come."  John Marshall Student Receives Women's Bar Scholarship
Congratulations were extended to John Marshall Student Shanin Farmer (center, left) who received a $5,000 scholarship from the Women's Bar Association of Illinois Foundation. Joining Farmer at the awards luncheon were (from left) Sharon King, vice president of the WBAI Foundation; Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston; Esther Rothstein, president of the WBAI Foundation; Prof. Leonard Schrager, president of the Chicago Bar Association; and Debra B. Walker, president of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois. Illinois Historical Society Honors John Marshall on Its AnniversaryThe John Marshall Law School was recognized as a Centennial Business by the Illinois State Historical Society at its 14th annual awards dinner Oct. 2. The award was presented to Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston. The Centennial Business Program honors Illinois enterprises that have either achieved or surpassed a century of operation. Robert McColley, president of the Illinois State Historical Society, said the honor recognizes John Marshall's contributions to Illinois since its founding in 1899 serving three students. Today it enrolls nearly 1,300 students. The law school began an evening curriculum in 1900 enabling those holding down full-time jobs to study the law. It wasn't until 1922 that the American Bar Association stopped its attempts to prohibit the study of law in the evening division. The John Marshall Law School also takes great pride in its early enrollment of women and minorities at a time when other law schools frowned upon the practice. Miss Jessie Cook was the first John Marshall alumna to be admitted to the bar in 1903, and James A. Randle, the first African-American alumnus, was admitted to the bar in 1916. Today John Marshall alumni are statesmen, judges, practicing attorneys, company owners and government officials. Others work in a variety of businesses in Illinois and across the country. While the law school has retained a Chicago address the past 100 years, it has continued to extend its programs and services around the globe. Today John Marshall has established cooperative ties with the People's Republic of China, the Czech Republic, Taiwan, Lithuania, Ireland and South Africa. The law school attracts students from more than 30 states and 16 foreign countries. LibraryAnne AbramsonPublicationsHer annotated bibliography "Establishing a Distribution System in the European Union: Selected Sources" is scheduled to be published in the 1997 issue of the William Mitchell Law Review, volume 23. Also, her book review of the International Guide to Nonprofit Law by Lester Salamon is scheduled to be published in the October issue of the Legal Information Alert newsletter. By the way, we have this title in our collection, if anyone is interested. Faculty Activity and PublicationsProfessor Michael P. SengActivitiesOn September 25 he presented a fair housing workshop entitled "Current Occupancy Standards and Their Effect on Families" for participants attending "A National Working Conference of Practitioners, Community Activists, and Public Officials on Homes For Our Children In The 21st Century: Removing the Barriers to Housing for Women and Their Children." The workshop took place at Northwestern Law School. The Conference was sponsored by The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing, Inc. Also on September 25 he participated on a panel at Roosevelt University to address a national conference, "Colorlines In The 21st Century: Multiracialism In A Racially Divided World." Other panelists included Aurie Pennick' 86, President, Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, and Bobbie Raymond of the Oak Park Housing Center. John Lukehart of The Leadership Council was the moderator of the panel entitled "Segregated Housing." Professor Seng addressed the issue of how the law can be used to achieve a multiracial neighborhood. He presented a four-hour program about "How To Develop A Fair Housing Practice" to the Iowa Bar Association on October 2. The program was sponsored by the Legal Services Corporation of Iowa Volunteer Lawyers Project. The instruction was given over the Iowa Communications Network, which originated at Scott Community College in Bettendorf, and was broadcast to 10 sites across the state. Sixty-five Iowa lawyers participated in the training. Professor Seng discussed the background and coverage of the Fair Housing Act, special issues concerning families with children and disabled persons, and remedies. Rick Autry of the Iowa Civil Rights Commissions discussed testing. This was Professor Seng's first experience doing long distance teaching. The only difficulty he encountered was not being able to mention how to collect attorneys' fees under the Fair Housing Act. This restriction was not due to mechanical problems but due to rules of the National Legal Services Corporation that prohibit the mention of attorneys' fees when training lawyers. On September 23 he presented a workshop for The Chicago Association of Resident Management Corporations (CARMC) in Chicago. The program was the First Annual Housing In Action Conference and Vendor Fair for CARMC. Public housing residents from all over the country were in attendance. He conducted a standing-room-only workshop about the fair housing rights of residents of public and subsidized housing. Participants were primarily concerned about landlords who discriminate against Section 8 recipients and the effect of current public housing policies on residential segregation. He repeated the workshop again in the afternoon to another SRO group of participants. The Fair Housing Legal Center's brochures, as well as its new Consumer's Guide to Fair Housing, were distributed to the participants. Professor Mark E. WojcikActivitiesHe has joined the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. He is already a member of the American Anthropological Association and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. Fair Housing Center/ClinicProfessor Michael Seng was invited to the U.S. Department of HUD on September 28 to meet with Eva M. Plaza, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, and other senior members of the staff, to discuss matters of mutual interest and to establish a strategy for HUD, the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP), and the Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) to work together to achieve their joint enforcement goals. More specifically, they discussed HUD and its fair housing partners in a range of enforcement actions which provide significant remedies for violations of the Fair Housing Act and developed specific steps to achieve HUD's enforcement objectives to double the number of cases, both for the FHIP and FHAP agencies. In attendance were the ten national HUD HUB directors. Michael Seng and F. Willis Caruso have co-authored a publication for the Fair Housing Legal Support Center, A Consumer's Guide to the Fair Housing Laws. It is a revision of the 1994 edition of the Layperson's Guide. Consumers deal with the law on a daily basis and need to understand its implications. This guide is meant to explain the fair housing laws in everyday language. It does so in a question and answer format. What Federal, State and Local Laws Prohibit Housing Discrimination, What Kind of Discrimination and What Kinds of Activities are Prohibited Under the Law, and What Remedies Are Available Under the Law are a few of the topics covered in this booklet. The booklet is available through the Center. Center for Advocacy and Dispute ResolutionThe Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution is pleased to announce that the following students have been selected for the Center `s Competition teams: Peter Blasi - Negotiations
Registrar/Records OfficeTake Exams on Your LaptopThe Office of the Registrar is pleased to announce a new way for you to take Law School exams. We have recently contracted with a software company that has developed a program ExamSoft that will enable students to take in-class exams on their personal laptop computers. Your computer must have a single battery that will last throughout the examination. The program provides a simple but robust word processor, which has been designed to be familiar to users of WordPerfect or Microsoft Word. It blocks access to any stored files during the exam administration, which means that you would still need to bring your books and notes to open and limited book exams. It also prevents students from taking out of the exam room any information about the exam. However, ExamSoft will not alter your computers' settings. ExamSoft is currently available for IBM and compatible equipment, and requires Windows 3.1 or higher. If you wish to use your laptop for your fall exams, you will need to install certain program files on your computer ahead of time. The installation process takes three minutes, and checks your computer to be sure it is fully capable of running the software. This will also give you an opportunity to test the word processor and be sure you are comfortable with how it works. Then, on the day of the exam, you will be handed a diskette rather than exam books, and will be able to take your exam without further training. The installation files will be distributed during the semester and available at www.examsoft.com. You may call their technical support line at 1-888-SWA-Exam with questions or send e-mail to support@examsoft.com We are mandating the use of ExamSoft for computer exams because 1) ExamSoft allows students to retain all files on their hard drive but prevents students from having access to them during the actual exam and 2) ExamSoft makes an encrypted copy of the exam on your hard drive that we can retrieve in cases of equipment failure. 3) At the end of your exam, ExamSoft will permit you to make an encrypted copy of your answer on another floppy disk. If you are using a computer you borrowed or rented, you should bring an extra blank formatted floppy disk to make a back-up copy of your answer. You must sign-up to take computer exams in the Records Office; no later than December 1st. If you do not meet this sign-up deadline, you will not be permitted to take computer exams. We use these sign-up sheets for planning and to determine space availability. If more students sign up for computer exams for a given exam day and period than we can accommodate, we will choose those students who may take computer exams by lottery. We will notify students if they lose on the space lottery and must take their exams by hand. Computers obviously may not be used on objective examinations. Please check with your professor if you have questions. You should know that although the general perception may be that computer users have an advantage over students who hand-write their exams, several of my colleagues have commented that the exams are no better than hand-written exams (even if they are somewhat easier to read). You must install this software on your computer before you take the examination. If you do not install the program on to your computer prior to the exam day and time you will not be allowed to take the exam by computer. The proctors will supply you with the ExamSoft floppy disk on the day of the exam. After you complete your exam, you will give the ExamSoft disk to the proctors and they will print out your exam for your professor. The option of taking your exams via computer is offered to you as a convenience and privilege, not as a right. This means (1) save your document regularly as you type (2) make sure you have a well-charged battery as an emergency power source; and (3) bring a pen with you so that you may continue to write your examination if there is a power failure or other technical difficulty that cannot be corrected. Making sure your equipment is in good order and that you know how to use it is your responsibility. Any attempt to disable or tamper with the security features of ExamSoft will be prosecuted as a violation of the Code of Responsibility. It is your responsibility to be familiar with your equipment and the ExamSoft software at the time of the exam. Please allow yourself sufficient time, especially if you intend to borrow or rent a laptop computer. You cannot delay the start of an exam if you experience computer problems. System and Preliminary Set Up Requirements· 486 50 DX (recommended) · 10 Megabytes of Free Hard Disk Space · 5 Megabytes Required (8 Megabytes Strongly Recommended) · Software will not run under Norton Desktop · Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98. Crash Guard ProgramsExamSoft uses their own crashguard technology, which will not run properly if running simultaneously with other crashguard programs. If your computer is equipped with a crashguard program it must be disabled prior to the exam. The most common crash guard programs are First Aid, Norton CrashGuard, Nuts & Bolts CrashGuard, or Microsoft System Agent. If you do not know how to disable these programs, please call the software manufacturer or ExamSoft technical Support at 1-888-792-Exambears no responsibility for the failure of the ExamSoft program or consequential damages resulting from the use of the ExamSoft program including the inability to retrieve an exam file created by ExamSoft. |
ContentsJohn Marshall-Trinity College Exchange ContinuesJohn Marshall Student Receives Women's Bar ScholarshipIllinois Historical Society Honors John Marshall on Its AnniversaryStudent Bar AssociationCenter for Real Estate LawLibraryFaculty Activity and PublicationsCenter for Advocacy and Dispute ResolutionFair Housing Center/ClinicCareer Services OfficeRegistrar/Records Office - Take Exams on Your LaptopSchedule of Events
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