John Marshall Professors Assist Taiwan's Web Crime Investigator

A farewell luncheon for visiting scholar "Eric" Hsang-Chen Lee (center) included special guests (from left) Don Svendon, a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP; Associate Dean Jane Oswald; Professor Tsay Jeun-Rong from Central Police University; Professor Dorothy Li, director of John Marshall's Biro Library; and Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston.

Expertise garnered during a stay at The John Marshall Law School will help visiting scholar "Eric" Hsang-Chen Lee write new Taiwanese legislation against computer crime perpetrators.

Lee is director of the Information System Office and Computer Crime Squad, Criminal Investigation Bureau in Taiwan. He's also in charge of the emergency 9-1-1 system in Taiwan. Lee also is a member of the faculty at the Central Police University.

In Taiwan, with a population of more than 22 million, an estimated six million people have Internet access. Lee said 80 percent of the correspondence on the net is between the U.S. and Taiwan, and American companies last year faced $100 million in debt from fraudulent sales.

Lee hopes to thwart the theft through greater monitoring and a change in Taiwanese law, which he will help to write as the lead author of a 12-member committee. After more than two months at John Marshall, Lee said he had useful information from faculty members that would help him in his work. He also spent time with members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Don Svendson with Deloitte & Touche LLP who is a former government website crime prevention expert; and members of the Illinois State Police and the Chicago Police Department's 9-1-1 and Website crime staffs.

"In Taiwan, we modified our law five years ago for heavy penalties, but technology advanced, so we need to add new laws," he said.

Lee, who is not an attorney, came to The John Marshall Law School after a friend recommended he check out the school's website for information on its information technology program. For the 2001-2002 academic year, Lee will recommend that two members of his staff visit John Marshall.

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Usefulness of Labor Strikes Examined at The John Marshall Law School

Labor's one serious bargaining chit—the strike—will be examined Dec. 12 when The John Marshall Law School hosts the 4^th Annual Arthur J. Goldberg Conference, "The Labor Strike: Is It Still a Useful Economic Weapon for Unions?"

This 2 to 4:30 p.m. program will feature David Moberg, senior editor of "In These Times," and Stephen Franklin, labor writer and reporter for the Chicago Tribune. The moderator will be John Marshall Professor Gerald E. Berendt.

It has been 200 years since American workers staged their first strike in Philadelphia. America's unions relied on the strike, the threat to strike and appeals for public support through picketing and other publicity as primary weapons in the lawful resort to economic self-help. Since the failed air traffic controllers' strike 20 years ago, fewer and less effective strikes have been staged in organized labor's attempts to achieve its collective bargaining objectives.

Moberg and Franklin will assess the recent effectiveness and relevance of the labor strike as a method for American unions to obtain their objectives. The writers also will assess the future of the strike and the other economic weapons in the lawful resort to self-help under our American labor laws and collective bargaining model.

Reservations for this free program are being accepted by the John Marshall Department of Event Management at (312) 987-1420, ext. 578, or at events@jmls.edu.

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John Marshall Student Volunteers Spruce Up Chicago School

More than a dozen students from The John Marshall Law School spent Saturday, Oct. 27, painting and organizing at the Mama Hawk School on Chicago's west side.

The volunteer efforts, part of "Make A Difference Day" sponsored in part by the American Bar Association, made a tremendous difference to a school that, because of budget constraints, doesn't have regular janitorial service. The Mama Hawk School serves 500 students who feed into the school from four smaller schools - Retrieving the Gifted Child, New Beginnings, The Learning Tree and Young Leaders.

John Marshall volunteers spent the day giving new life to a drab and dreary first floor hallway. Once the new coat of paint was added, student Anita Oak dressed up the entryway space with a colorful free-hand mural she created.

The volunteers also spent time organizing the schools educational and artistic supplies.

"When we finished there that day, the Mama Hawk School looked so much brighter and alive," said volunteer Jodie Gaspard, John Marshall's ABA student representative. "Ultimately, we hope that we were able to spread a little hope to this school where little attention of funding is available."

John Marshall students Sara Busche (left), ABA 7th Circuit Governor, and Jodi Gaspard (right), ABA 7th Circuit Lt. Governor for Public Interest, were volunteers at the American Bar Association-sponsored Work-A-Day project.	Principal Mama Hawk (standing center) thanks the John Marshall students and Mama Hawk School volunteers who spent a Saturday painting and cleaning the west side school.
Anita Oak poses before a mural she designed and painted at Mama Hawk School.	Nathan Eckley (left) and Daisy Denizard (right) get ready to roll out the paint at the ABA Work-A-Day site.
Student Ronak Joshi (left), Lubaina Doriwala (center) and Leanne Conn (right) were volunteer painters for the day.	Ronak Joshi (left) and Leanne Conn (right) add paint to an otherwise dull wall.