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March 14 -20, 2004 |
Three New Professors Added to Faculty Ranks at The John Marshall Law School
The John Marshall Law School is adding three new faculty to its ranks in the 2004-2005 academic year.
Cecil J. Hunt II, Tayyab Mahmud and Alice Martin Thomas will be full-time faculty.
Hunt will teach Property I and II and Secured Transactions. He comes to John Marshall from Suffolk University Law School in Boston where he is an associate professor and has been on the faculty since 1997. At Suffolk he was founder and director of the STRIVE Program, a summer law school preparatory program aimed at minority and other non-traditional entering first-year students. He also was director of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) Institute, and directed a four-week residential summer program for minority, low-income and disadvantaged students sponsored by CLEO.
Before joining the Suffolk staff, Hunt was an associate professor at Touro Law School from 1991 to 1997, and was an assistant professor at the University of Puget Sound Law School (now Seattle University School of Law).
Hunt received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1975 and a J.D. degree in 1980 from Boston College Law School.
Mahmud will teach Contracts I and II and Sales Transactions. He now is a visiting professor at Seattle University School of Law, and has been on the faculty of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law since 1989. He also was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School in the 1997-98 academic year.
Mahmud received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of the Punjab in Pakistan in 1973 and 1975, and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu in 1977 and 1981. He received a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1987.
He has published numerous papers dealing with issues of colonialism. Before becoming a law school professor, Mahmud was a lecturer of international relations at the University of Islamabad from 1975 to 1982.
Martin will teach Contracts I and II, Sales Transactions and Income Tax. She is coming to John Marshall from the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law in Washington, D.C. where she has been on the faculty since 1996. She also served as a legal writing instructor at Howard University Law School from 1993 to 1996.
Martin received a bachelor's degree from Washington University in 1985, and an M.B.A. from Howard University Graduate School of Business in 1989, and a J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 1989.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement in Teaching has named Martin a Carnegie Lead Scholar. She presents scholarship on teaching and learning issues and does group facilitation and mentoring of future Carnegie Scholars. Martin was named the 2004 Outstanding Teacher of the Year at the American Association of Law Schools winter 2004 meeting.
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Patriot Act Examined at The John Marshall Law School
The Criminal Law Society and Law Enforcement Student Organization recently co- hosted a luncheon program, "The Patriot Act: Law & Politics," featuring Thomas A. Gauza (third from left), director of Constituent Services and legal counsel to U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald. Welcoming Gauza to the law school were students (from left) John Garrido, Todd Scalzo and Anthony Amelio.
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Schedule of Events
March 14
- PLI - Patent Bar Review Course, Room 1200, 8:30 a.m.
March 16
- Career Services - Resume & Cover Letter Writing Workshop, Room 200, 5:00 p.m.
- Domestic & Foreign Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret & Copyright Documentation, Room 402, 6:00 p.m.
March 17
- Morning Bakery with the Deans, Student Lounge, 8:15 a.m.
- Faculty Works in Progress, Room 402, 3:00 p.m.
- ACE Exam Award Reception, Sargis-Miner Student Lounge, 5:00 p.m.
March 18
- CBA Employee Benefits Committee IRS Liaison Program, Room 1101, 11:30 a.m.
- Real Estate Law Information Session, Room 1200B, 12:00 p.m.
- Career Services - How to Get a Job?, Room 1200B, 5:00 p.m.
- Real Estate Law Information Session, Room 527, 5:00 p.m.
- Milwaukee Area Alumni Reception, Milwaukee Athletic Club, 5:30 p.m.
March 19
- Woodstock Institute, Room 1200A&B, 8:00 a.m.
- FAST Start, Room 300, 12:00 p.m.
- Career Services - Alumni Mentor Lunch, Room 1200B, 12:30 p.m.
- FAST Start II, Room 300, 2:00 p.m.
- Philippine Bar Association Program, Room 1200A&B, 4:00 p.m.
March 20
- PMBR, Room 1200, 9:30 a.m.
- Trademark Law Lecture, Room 428, 10:00 a.m.
- FAST Start II, Room 409, 10:30 a.m.
- FAST Start, Room 409, 1:30 p.m.
March 21
- PMBR, Room 1200, 9:30 a.m.
- Giles Rich Sutherland Moot Court Competition, Moot Courtroom, 1:00 p.m.
March 23
- Intellectual Property Challenges and Perspectives: Brazil & Latin America Seminar, Room 1200A&B, 3East, 8:00 a.m.
- Lawyering Skills Faculty Lunch, Room 1101, 12:00 p.m.
- Career Services - What is a Judicial Clerkship?, Room 200, 12:45 p.m.
- Domestic & Foreign Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret & Copyright Documentation, Room 402, 6:00 p.m.
March 24
- Springfield Trip, 7:00 a.m.
- Foreign Study Opportunities, Room 216, 5:00 p.m.
A complete online listing of events scheduled at The John Marshall Law School can be found at the following URL: http://www.jmls.edu/calendar.htm
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Student Activities
March 15
The Women's Law Caucus will be accepting donations for its Annual "Glass Slipper" project. Donations of evening dresses, shoes and evening bags will be given to high school girls who might not otherwise be able to purchase them for their proms. Donations will be received on the second floor near the Sargis-Miner Lounge.
March 16
The Hispanic Law Student Association will meet at 5:00 p.m. in room 201.
Judge Gerald Bender will speak to the Decalogue Society regarding Decalogue in the community and domestic relations law at 12:15 p.m., room 1200A. Refreshments will be served.
The Scalia Society will meet at 5:00 p.m. in room 503.
March 17
Delta Theta Phi will meet at 5:00 p.m. in room 201.
ACE reception in the Sargis-Miner Student Lounge at 5:00 p.m.
March 18
The Christian Legal Society and the Career Services Office are sponsoring a networking program at
5:00 p.m. in 3 East. Watch for more information.
The Law Enforcement Students Organization will be selling "Krispy Kremes" in the Sargis-Miner Student Lounge.
The John Marshall Graduate Tax Society has been reactivated. As we have many LL.M. Taxation students enrolled in both the J.D. and LL.M. programs, they feel that the society will allow students to learn about specific tax issues, assist in preparing them to seek a career in taxation and the opportunity to meet outside the classroom. For more information, please see Miss Criss in room 212.
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John Marshall April Celebrations Mark Civil Rights Movement
The public is invited to the 2 p.m. segment of the April 26 program for a debate on "Is Affirmative Action Consistent with the Supreme Court's Decision in Brown?"
For additional information on these programs, contact the Office
of Event Management at 312.987.1420, or e-mail events@jmls.edu.
The
John Marshall Law School will present four programs in April to mark the Civil
Rights Movement, and the 100th anniversary of its first
African-American graduate, James Randle.
The events are free and will be presented at the law school, 315 S. Plymouth Ct., Chicago.
The celebration opens with the April 7 "Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education: Civil Rights—Past, Present & Future." The day-long program, hosted by John Marshall's student organizations, opens at 9 a.m. Throughout the day, speakers will examine civil rights issues revolving around sexual orientation, religion in society, children's rights, and ethnic minorities. Lunch will be provided, and there will be a closing reception at 5 p.m.
At 12:15 p.m. on April 14, attorneys will meet for "Escobedo v. Illinois: A 40- Year Retrospective" of the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision guaranteeing the right to counsel for persons being interrogated by the police. Panelists will be Warren Wolfson, who served as Danny Escobedo's attorney; Barry Kroll, who represented Escobedo on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court; and Benjamin S. Mackoff, who worked on the case as a Cook County assistant state's attorney. The moderator will be John Marshall's Professor Ronald C. Smith.
John Marshall professors will share their personal insights of the Civil Rights Movement at 12:15 p.m. on April 21. Presenters will be Professor Michael Seng, who worked on school desegregation and public welfare issues for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense Fund in Mississippi in the summer of 1966; Professor William Carroll who worked with groups in March 1965 trying to walk from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., demanding voting rights; Professor Craig Peterson who volunteered as law student support during the "Mississippi Freedom Summer," which became the subject of the movie "Mississippi Burning," and subsequently volunteered during the presidential election of 1964; and Professor Diane Kaplan, who worked on an Indian reservation.
The law school has paired with the Chicago Public Schools for a program on April 26 that will give honors high school students the chance to re-enact the closing arguments of Brown v. Board of Education in the John Marshall courtroom.
This is a specially-designed program to give the students an opportunity to learn how arguments are formulated and persuasively presented. The students will make their mock trial presentations before foursitting Cook County Circuit Court judges, Gerald Bender, Arnette Hubbard, Cheryl Ingram and Jesse Reyes.
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Learn the Details of Real Estate Law Program
The Center for Real Estate Law invites students to learn how the real estate law programs can help their careers.
Professor Celeste M. Hammond, director of the center, will welcome all students, especially first-years, to find out what is included in the real estate law curriculum and what to consider for a joint J.D./LL.M. degree. Sessions will be from noon to 12:50 p.m., or 5 to 5:50 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in Room 1200B. Pizza will be served.
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Law Review Authors Discuss Current Trends in Employee Benefits Law at The John Marshall Law School
The John Marshall Law Review and the Center for Tax Law and Employee Benefits at The John Marshall Law School are co-hosting a special program, "Symposium on the Future of Employee Benefits Law," on Friday, April 2, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the law school, 315 S. Plymouth Ct.
Authors of the Spring 2004 edition of the Law Review will present their articles from the upcoming issue, which was devoted to articles about employee benefits law. The topics that will be discussed include judicial standards of review for ERISA cases; the future of cash-balance pension plans; how plan administrators can locate lost beneficiaries; the use of employee benefits in an individual's estate planning program; a critique of the court's use of administrative law in ERISA benefit claims; and an analysis of the IRS' final regulations regarding golden parachute payments.
Featured authors include Donald T. Bogan, director of Clinical Education and an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law; Ellen A. Bruce, professor with the Pension Action Center at the Gerontology Institute at the University of Massachusetts _ Boston; John Turner, senior policy advisor for the Public Policy Institute with the AARP; Mark D. DeBofsky, partner with Daley, DeBofsky & Bryant, and adjunct professor at John Marshall; Alan L. Kennard, partner with Ungaretti & Harris.
Also, Barry Kozak, associate director of the center and adjunct professor at John Marshall; Steven Lifson, partner with Seyfarth Shaw LLP, and adjunct professor at John Marshall; and Dana M. Muir, Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law and associate professor of business law at the University of Michigan Business School.
The program will be moderated by David L. Wray, president of the Profit Sharing/401 (k) Council of America. Each speaker will have 25 minutes to present the topic, followed by 20 minutes for a discussion and question and answer period relating to each article.
The symposium is free and open to the public. There will be a complimentary continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m., lunch at 12:30 p.m., and refreshments for the afternoon sessions. To request additional information, contact the Department of Event Management at 312.987.1420 or e-mail events@ jmls.edu.
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John Marshall's Walton Offered Externship with U.S. Treasury
Jennifer R. Walton, an LL.M. student at The John Marshall Law School, has been selected for a summer externship with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Tax Policy.
Walton is earning her LL.M. in employee benefits law through the Center for Tax Law and Employee Benefits. She is the second John Marshall student in the LL.M. program in employee benefits to be offered the externship.
Walton will work in the Treasury's Office of the Benefits Tax Counsel with William F. Sweetman Jr., benefits tax counsel, and his team of attorneys. The office advises the secretary of the Treasury and the assistant secretary for tax policy on legislative and regulatory matters regarding employee benefits programs. These include group health care plans, health savings accounts, qualified employer-sponsored retirement plans and executive compensation programs.
Paul Faherty, a former director of the law school's Center for Tax Law and Employee Benefits, has agreed to help finance the travel and lodging expenses associated with this unique externship.
During the spring semester, Walton is working in the pension enforcement division of the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration. She attended on scholarship the 2003 ERISA Benefits Litigation Institute of the American Bar Association's Joint Committee on Employee Benefits.
A graduate of Tulane University School of Law, Walton had several legal research positions before deciding to concentrate her legal career on employee benefits law.
"Jennifer has demonstrated a unique understanding of this complicated area of law and she has an outstanding academic record," said Professor Kathryn Kennedy, director of the Center for Tax and Employee Benefits. "This upcoming externship with the public policy group at the Treasury will certainly add value to her overall understanding of employee benefits law. I believe her own impressive background will add value to the Treasury team."
The John Marshall Law School offers the country's only master of laws program devoted to employee benefits law. Students select from a curriculum of 18 classes, and have opportunities to work with government agencies and seasoned practitioners, and they are encouraged to write for professionals journals.
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Professor Paul Lewis
Publications
He recently published the following articles: "The Supremacy of the Bankruptcy Code: NextWave Personal Communications and the Limitations on American Governmental Agencies' Ability to Act Against Bankrupts," 4 Insolvency Law Bulletin 58 (2003), and "Insolvency in Common Law Countries," 6 Common Law Review (2004).
Professor Michael Polelle
Activities
He sponsored a showing and discussion of "Reconstruction: The Second Civil War," an award-winning PBS video presentation, on March 3 and March 5 at the law school. The showing, part of his civil rights seminar, was open to the student body and faculty.
Professor David E. Sorkin
Activities
On February 17, he spoke about spam legislation at a meeting of the Computer Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association.
On February 26, he participated in a symposium on spam at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, speaking on the topic of "Legislative Responses to Spam."