The Women's Bar Association of Illinois Foundation awarded a $5,000 scholarship to Anne Ryan, a third-year student at The John Marshall Law School.

The Cary Ann Bechly Scholarship was presented to Ryan at the association's annual scholarship luncheon Sept. 13. The scholarship was established in memory of Bechly, a former foundation treasurer and former partner at Kirkland & Ellis.

Ryan, a 1990 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, enrolled at The John Marshall Law School after a nine-year career with the Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois at a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children. She was a childcare supervisor at the Evanston facility.

At The John Marshall Law School, Ryan ranks in the top 10 of her class. She is a Dean's Scholar and winner of the Fred Herzog Scholarship. She serves on Law Review and The John Marshall Law School Ethics Case Notes and Comments. Ryan also has worked part-time in the Office of Admission and the Development Office.

Ryan is the daughter of Donald and Marion Ryan of Summit, N.J.

The John Marshall Law School Center for International Business and Trade Law is presenting “Beyond Retribution: Towards a New Middle East,” from 12:30 to 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 15, at the law school, 315 S. Plymouth Ct., Chicago.

Featured speaker will be Uri Avnery, an Israeli journalist, writer and peace activist.

Avnery has been advocating for a Palestinian state alongside Israel since 1948. He was the first Israeli to establish contact with the PLO leadership. He organized the “Shelli” peace party in the Israeli Knesset in 1977. Avnery created a world sensation when he crossed the lines during the battle of Beirut and met Yassir Arafat in July 1982. It was the first time the Palestinian leader had ever met with an Israeli. Avnery’s actions were suspect, and several Israeli cabinet ministers call for his indictment for high treason. Undaunted, Avnery has continued to work for peace. He has been awarded several recognitions for his work, though none has been from an official Israeli body. In 1953, he was awarded honorary citizenship of Abu-Ghosh near Jerusalem for helping prevent the eviction of the village. He was awarded the Erich-Maria-Remarque Peace Prize of Germany in 1995. He was awarded honorary citizenship of Kfar Kassem, Israel, for his role in exposing the 1956 massacre of 51 men, women and children in the village. In 1997, he was awarded both the Aachen Peace Prize and the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award. In 1998, Avnery received a Palestinian award for human rights, awarded by “LAW,” a Palestinian society for human rights in Jerusalem. The same year, he received the Lower Saxony Prize for Human Rights.

The program is free and open to the public. For information, contact the Department of Event Management at (312) 987-1420 or e-mail events@jmls.edu.

The John Marshall Law School Center for International Business and Trade Law is hosting a luncheon lecture, "The Economic Effects of Sea Piracy," from noon to 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 18, in room 1200(a) of the law school.

Guest lecturer will be Dr. Barry Hart Dubner, a professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan, who will discuss the basic jurisdictional areas of sea law; give a history of the law of sea piracy; and explain its effect in the international commercial scene. A question and answer period will follow Dubner's lecture.

Dubner has a B.A. degree from Hunter College in economics and geography, a J.D. degree from New York Law School, an LL.M. degree in International Ocean and Coastal Law from the University of Miami Graduate School of Law, a general LL.M. and a J.S.D. degree from New York University.

Attendance to the free luncheon is limited. Registration is being taken by Gretchen Hess at 312-360-2659.

This program is being offered in cooperation with the Chicago Bar Association International and Foreign Law Committee and the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice.

Monday, October 8^th

The Christian Legal Society will meet at 10:45 a.m. in room 1105. All are welcome.

Tuesday, October 9^th

The Children's Law Society will meet at 12:00 in room TBA.

Wednesday, October 10^th

The Latter Day Saint Student Association will meet at 3:00 p.m. in room 428.

The Women's Law Caucus and the Career Services office will sponsor a program focusing on interviewing attire and body language. Noon and watch for the room assignment.

Thursday, October 11^th

The Hellenic Association will meet at 5:30 p.m. in room 526. Pizza will be served.

Plan to attend the Annual Asian Octoberfest on October 19^th.

The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center last week completed the second of two programs to train HUD personnel, state and local agency personnel, and personnel from private fair housing organizations. In August, the Center put on a four-day program at the Double Tree Hotel in Philadelphia for the four Eastern HUD regions. Approximately 500 persons attended this conference. The Conference covered two days of skills training and two days of training in substantive law.

Beginning on September 25, the Legal Support Center put on a four-day program for the six western regions of HUD at the Palmer House in Chicago. Again, approximately 500 persons attended. This program similarly focused on skills training as well as training in fair housing law. Participating in both programs from The John Marshall Law School were F. W. Caruso, Michael Seng, Lillian Seymore, Joseph Butler, Lewis Powell, Maureen Kordesh, and Ardath Hamann. Merilyn Brown and Kevin Hopkins participated in the August training in Philadelphia, and Damian Ortiz, Susan Connor and Julie Spanbauer participated in the October training in Chicago. A large number of private and public fair housing experts from around the country also served as trainers. RoseMarie Knight and Elaine Morey coordinated both conferences.

Professor Susan Marie Connor

Activities

She spoke to a group of Illinois Bar Association downstate lawyers in Springfield on September 27, 2001. She addressed the audience on "Land Use and Zoning Issues Affecting Agricultural Land." The daylong conference was co-sponsored by IICLE, which has just published Illinois Law and Agribusiness for which Professor Connor wrote a Chapter entitled "Zoning and Land Use."

Professor Celeste M. Hammond

Activities

She has been reappointed as Section Liaison to the Mortgage Industry Reform Group for the 2001-2001 bar year by David K.Y. Tang chair of the Section of Real Property Probate and Trust Law.

Professor Hammond served as a pro bono consultant to the Cook County Public Guardian's Office recently about a real estate transaction dealing with Predatory Lending and a possible conflict of interest by an attorney who supervised the transaction.

Professor Hammond who is chair of the Commercial Leasing Publications subcommittee of the American Bar Association Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section participated in a panel on This Year's New Developments in Real Estate Law at the ABA's annual meeting on August 5, 2001. She joined three other law professors and reported on the recent cases in commercial leasing. Michael Pfister her research assistant on this project also attended the session.

Professor Hammond was interviewed by Marilyn Kennedy Melia for an article that appeared July 1, 2001, in the Chicago Tribune, Sunday real estate section on " Don't Let Mortgage Problem Reach the Foreclosure Stage," that advised homeowners on the steps to take if they are about to default on their mortgages. Of course, her advice included retaining an attorney, perhaps through the Chicago Bar Association's Lawyer Referral Panel program.

A reporter from Newsweek interviewed Professor Hammond for an article, "The New Normal," that will address how the lives of ordinary citizens will change as a result of the September 11^th Terrorism. Professor Hammond commented on the need for estate planning including durable powers of attorney for property and health care and arrangements for the care of minor children and elderly relatives. She predicted that this might affect the revitalization of downtowns because people may have more fear of living and working in the shadow of profile buildings like the Sears Tower in Chicago. She advised people to make sure they have copies of important documents, including medical records, in several locations. Moreover, she indicated that the rights of employees may need to be reconsidered on issues ranging from workplace security efforts to rights to decline travel assignments to evacuation procedures. Indeed, something like the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act that protects those on active duty from their creditors might need to be enacted for the various victims of terrorist attacks.

Publications

Professor Hammond's article "Predatory Lending- A Perspective for the Mortgage Attorney" that was delivered as a presentation to the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, has been re published in the July 2001 issue of The Corporate Lawyer and will be published in the ISBA Commercial Banking & Bankruptcy Section Newsletter this Fall.

Professor John D. Ingram

Publications

His article, "A Constitutional Critique of Restrictions on the Right to Marry - Why Can't Fred Marry George, or Mary and Alice at the Same Time?" 10 J. Contemp. L. 33 1984), was cited recently in 23 Harv. Women's L.J.1.

October 9, 2001

AIDS Foundation Program, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.

Faculty Advisor lunch with Students, Room 3-East, 12:30 p.m.

ISBA Tuesday Topic Series, Room 1200 (b), 4:00 p.m.

October 10, 2001

Faculty Advisor lunch with Students, Room 3-East, 12:30 p.m.

Center for Information Technology Law Open House, CBA Building - 16th Floor - IT Center Office, 4:00 p.m.

Board of Trustees Meeting, Room 1200 (b), 4:00 p.m.

Faculty Advisor lunch with Students, Room 3-East, 4:30 p.m.

October 11, 2001

Annual Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law, 3-East and various rooms, 8:00 a.m.

October 12, 2001

Annual Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law, 3-East and various rooms, 8:00 a.m.

LAMBDA Briefing, Room 1200 (b), 11:00 a.m.

October 13, 2001

Annual Moot Court Competition in Information Technology and Privacy Law, 3-East and various rooms, 8:00 a.m.

Open House, Room 200, 10:00 a.m.

October 15, 2001

History Channel Taping, Room 3-East, 8:30 a.m.

Beyond Retribution Towards a New Middle East - Guest Speaker: Uri Avnery, Room 1200, 12:00 p.m.

Center for Real Estate Law Program, Room 1200 (b), 12:30 p.m.

October 16, 2001

Center for Real Estate Law Program, Room 1200 (b), 5:00 p.m.

October 17, 2001

Joint Institutional Affairs/Institutional Development Staff Meeting, Room TBD, 12:00 p.m.

Decalogue Lunch and Learn - Jewish Law, Room 529, 12:30 p.m.

The Beverly W. Pattishall Distinguished Lecture in Trademark Law, featuring Justice John Paul Stevens, Room 1200, 2:00 p.m. - Reception, Room 3-East, 3:00 p.m.

LEAP Mentor Program II, Room 1200 (b), 6:00 p.m.

October 18, 2001

New Developments in the Law of the Sea with Visiting Scholar Professor Gary Hart Dubner, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI, Room 1200 (b), 12:00 p.m.

Employee Benefit Alumni/Student Luncheon, Room 1200 (a), 12:00 p.m.

Road to Justice - BLSA/CSO Program, Room 403, 12:15 p.m.

October 19, 2001

Board of Visitors Meeting, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.

Alumni Mentor Lunch, Room 3-East, 12:30 p.m.

October 20, 2001

Board of Visitors Meeting, Room 1200 (a), 9:00 a.m.

Center's Advisory Board Meeting, Room 1200 (b), 9:00 a.m.