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May 2 - 8, 2004 |
John Marshall Law School's Lin Will Use Skills in Cambodia as Legal Intern
Joseph K. Lin went to Cambodia in summer 2003 to teach English, but he walked away with insights into the Asian sex trade. The experience helped him decide to work for the betterment of the young girls who find themselves trapped in the growing illegal commerce.
Lin has made a commitment to use his legal skills to help fight for the girls' rights and protection, and will be returning to Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, for three months this summer as a legal intern with International Justice Mission (IJM). Lin, who will be a second-year student at The John Marshall Law School in fall 2004, will be helping collect evidence and assisting other lawyer volunteers as they develop legal cases on the burgeoning sex trade in Southeast Asia.
International Justice Mission was already in Cambodia when Lin was first there, and he decided its mission of working on compelling cases of abuse, oppression and injustice was something he wanted to focus on.
"These young girls, 13 and 14 years old and some younger, come from throughout Southeast Asia, especially Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and southern China," Lin said. "I would be teaching them English by day, and then at night I would see them out in town with European men.
"Some of these girls from the rural areas have been sold by their families. Virginity is worth about $160 in Southeast Asia. When Thailand started cracking down, the sex trade moved to Cambodia because it is not being scrutinized as a member of the World Trade Organization like Thailand is now," Lin explained.
He will be working with IJM to develop a case through factual information that can be used to persuade a legitimate authority within Cambodia to act on behalf of the victims. IJM works to keep the government accountability using its own laws, Lin said.
After earning a B.A. in psychology from Boston College, Lin spent a year working for a speech recognition computer consulting company and as an associate chaplain for an inter-denominational program at Boston College before beginning his legal studies at John Marshall.
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Peruvian Attorney Discusses Human Rights at John Marshall Presentation
The Center for International Business and Trade Law recently hosted a discussion on human rights featuring Jose Ugaz (center), senior partner in a Peruvian law firm, a professor of law at Pontisica Universidad Catolica of Peru, and president of Proteieca, the Peruvian chapter of Transparency International. Welcoming Ugaz to the law school were Professor Ralph Ruebner (left) and Virginia Russell, associate director of the center.
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Hispanic Law Sstudent Association Sponsors Fiesta
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Jesse Reyes (J.D. '82) accepts his award as Outstanding Hispanic Alumnus from Carol Sales.
Welcoming guest of honor Cook County Circuit Court Judge Jesse Reyes (center) to the annual Hispanic Law Students Association fiesta are (from left) Aleida Barrera, Sharon Aguilera, Rafael Guzman and Carol Sales.
The colorful costumes made for a spectacular show presented by the Folkloric Dancers from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at the Hispanic Law Students Association's annual fiesta party.
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Careers in Tax Law Examined at The John Marshall Law School
The Graduate Tax Law Society recently hosted a program on career choices for students studying tax law. Welcoming panelists to the law school was third-year student Shamequa Smith (third from left), president of the society and a joint J.D./LL.M. student in the tax law program. Panelists were (from left) practitioners Paul Hoelschen, James Flaherty and James L. Greene.
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Staff Activities
Thomas Keefe
Reference Librarian and Adjunct Professor
His feature article, "ResultsPlus: A Perfect Marriage Between Technology and Tradition" appears in the March, 2004 issue of Legal Information Alert.
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Professor Doris Long
Activities
She presented her paper "A Post Structural Analysis of Folklore, Authorship and the Marginalization of Indigenous Creativity" on March 26 at the interdisciplinary conference on Intellectual Property, Sustainable Development and Endangered Species: Understanding the Dynamics of the Information Ecosystem, sponsored by the Michigan State University, DCL College of Law.
In December 2003, Professor Long traveled through out India on a Specialist and Speaker's Grant from the US State Department where she met with people from a diverse range of professions and interests, including police, movie producers and directors, software and high tech company managers and employees, lawyers, students, businessmen, industry executives, information and security experts, researchers, and government personnel. While in India she traveled to 10 different cities: Hyderabad, Chennai, New Delhi, Dehradun, Mussouri, Bubaneshwar, Cuttak, Kolkata, Pune and Mumbai. She spoke on a wide range of topics, including intellectual property protection, geographic indications, traditional knowledge, databases, and cybercrime which gave her a chance to interface with a broad based audience on a wide variety of issues. Among the speeches which she gave were: "The US Experience in Combating Cybercrimes," at the Technology Law Forum, sponsored by the National Association for Software & Services Companies (NASCOM) in Mumbai, India. and at the Conference on the Impact of IPR Regime on Indo-US Bilateral Trade co-sponsored by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, Hyderabad Software Exporters Association, and the American Chamber of Commerce in Hyderabad, India; "Copyright Issues in Academic Institutions and Cybercrimes," at The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai, India; "Piracy and Intellectual Property Protection in Software," at I2IT in Pune, India; "Self-Help Remedies for Protecting Your Intellectual Property Rights," co-sponsored by The Science and Technology Park (SCITECH PARK) and the University of Pune in Pune, India. She also gave a similar lecture on self help remedies at a conference sponsored by the Utkal Chamber of Commerce in Bhubaneswar, India; "Cybercrimes: On-Line Fraud, Piracy, Invasion of Privacy, Denial of Services and Other Intrusions," co-sponsored by The Science and Technology Park (SCITECH PARK) and University of Pune in Pune, India. She also spoke on cybercrime detection and prevention at the Management Development Institute (Centre for Excellence in Information Management), in Chennai, India; "Intellectual Property Protection: Why Does It Matter?" at the Orissa Development Forum, in Cuttack, India. She also gave a similar speech as part of the intellectual property training program for Indian civil service students at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, in Mussourie, India and spoke on the importance of Intellectual Property Protection in developing countries at the IPR/Patenting, Trademarks, and Licensing Seminar, sponsored by the National Association for Software & Services Companies (NASCOM) in New Delhi, India; "Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights: Civil Remedies and Their Limits," at the American Center Lecture Series, Kolkatta, India; "Creating Investment Opportunities through Intellectual Property Protection," at the Young Entrepreneurs Society in New Delhi, India. She also spoke on investment opportunities at the conference on Global Business Solutions sponsored by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce in Chennai, India; Professor Long also gave guest lectures at various universities throughout India. At the National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkatta, India, she spoke on "New Forms of Intellectual Property _ Databases, Domain Names and Traditional Knowledge." At Utkal University in Bhubanswar, India she gave a lecture to over 300 students and faculty on "The Role of the WTO in Intellectual Property Protection."
In addition Professor Long conducted workshops on intellectual property enforcement with the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce in Chennai, India and with the Andhra Pradesh Film Federation and Society, Hyderabad, India. She also met with Mumbai Cybercrime Unit in Mumbai to share experiences in cybercrime detection and prosecution. While in New Delhi she was a panelist at a conference sponsored by the Research and Information System for Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (RIS), and debated the scope of protection which should be extended to geographic indications (such as "champagne" for wine, and "basmati" for rice) and to traditional knowledge, including traditional cultural expressions such as folklore and folk art.
Professor Long has also continued to work with the U.S. Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program on creating train the trainer materials and in January in Washington, updated her previously created materials and instructor's manual so they could be used to train officials through out the globe regarding intellectual property protection. These materials will be published later this year in the CLDP website.
In February 2004, Professor Long spoke on Internet Piracy: Where Do We Go From Here? at the IP Developments Conference. In her speech she discussed the current status of "facilitator liability" after Grokster, the future of the SONY doctrine and the privacy/protection debates regarding subpoenas for P2P file traders.
Publications
Her article, "E:Business Solutions to P2P Piracy: A Practical Guide," will be published in Handling IP Issues in Business Transactions 2004 by PLI this year.
Professors Michael P. Seng and Joseph R. Butler
Activities
They presented a two-day continuing legal education program at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida on April 22 and 23. The Palm Beach County Office of Equal Opportunity and the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County sponsored the program, Fair Housing Laws 2004 Update. Their presentations included a basic overview of the fair housing laws with extended discussions on specific topics such as reasonable accommodations and modifications and accessible housing for disabled persons, housing problems of seniors, and lending and insurance discrimination. Luncheon speakers for the two days were Professor Okianer Christian Dark of Howard University and Allison Bethel, Chief, Office of Civil Rights of the Office of the Florida Attorney General.
Professor Julie Spanbauer
Activities
She received one of five scholarship grants awarded this year from the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD). Each year, the ALWD Scholarship Committee selects recipients from legal writing faculty across the nation to help fund research for their scholarly work. The decision is based upon a five-page synopsis of Spanbauer's proposal "Translating the Transition in the Legal Writing Classroom." Her research will compare the first-semester J.D. classroom with legal writing courses, pedagogy, etc. for International LL.M. students for whom English is a second language. The ALWD committee's criteria for awarding the grant are: how well thought-out the proposal is; whether the proposed project will add to the literature in the field; and whether the proposed topic addresses an important issue in the field of legal writing.
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New Zealanders Learn U.S. Style of Law
Two student attorneys from New Zealand did their best to learn American law in less than a week as they competed in the 14th Annual National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition April 1-3 hosted by The John Marshall Law School and the American Bar Association.
Phillip Cornege and ChelseaPayne, students at Victoria University of Wellington, were the foreign team in this year's competition. They traveled to Chicago with Les Taylor, a litigation partner with the New Zealand firm Minter Ellison. The firm underwrote travel expenses. The team also was supported by the Victoria University law faculty, the New Zealand Law Society, the Wellington District Law Society and the Auckland District Law Society.
At John Marshall the team worked with student coaches Carlton Owens and Guy DiTuri, and attorneys Patrick Reardon and Brendan Schiller.
The courtroom presentation was a challenge to the pair. In New Zealand, attorneys present from behind a desk. Attorneys don't walk around the courtroom, and they don't address the jury. Their main focus is the judge. The attorneys also wear robes, although they don't wear the wigs as attorneys do in the British system.
Cornege and Payne also had to learn U.S. court procedure and grasp what is admissible in U.S. courts. "The magnitude of the (attorney's) task is quite a bit different," Cornege said.
Although they didn't make it to the final round, both students declared the experience exceptional.
"We especially want to thank Professor (Ron) Smith for extending the invitation and his work on accommodations and coaches for our team," Payne added.
Professor Ronald C. Smith (center), host of the 14th Annual National Criminal Justice Trial Competition, welcomed the New Zealand team and supporters. Joining Smith are (from left) John Marshall students Carlton Owens and Guy DiTuri who were witnesses for the team; Les Taylor, the team's New Zealand advisor; Victoria University law students Chelsea Payne and Phillip Cornege; and attorney Patrick Reardon, one of the team's American advisors.
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Latvian Delegation Visits John Marshall
The John Marshall Law School recently welcomed a delegation of attorneys from Latvia, who are members of the country's Judicial Watch Project. They met with John Marshall faculty members and reviewed the rule of law in the United States. Members of the delegation were (second from left) Peteris Ersts, legal advisor for Transparency International Latvia and the chief of the Procurements Committee and legal advisor for the State Joint Stock Company and State Information Network Agency; Andris Kaneps, a legal expert with Transparency International Latvia and an attorney with Law Firm Liepa in Skopina/Borenius; Baiba Broka, a professor of law at the University of Latvia; and Linda Austere, legal project manager for Transparency International Latvia and a member of the Advisory Council under the Ministry of Interior. Welcoming the delegation to the law school were (left) Dorothy Li, associate dean for Library and Information Services; (second from right) Professor Mark Wojcik, director of Global Legal Studies; and (right) Professor Gerald Berendt, incoming associate dean for advanced studies and research.
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Faculty Authors Saluted at The John Marshall Law School
The staff of the Louis Biro Library at The John Marshall Law School marked National Library Week, April 19 through 23, with a celebration honoring John Marshall's faculty authors.
Faculty members credited with publications in the 2003-2004 academic year include Professors Gerald E. Berendt, Alberto Bernabe, William K. Carroll, Susan Marie Connor, Karen Halverson, Michael Gerald Heyman and John Dwight Ingram.
Also, Professors Robert Gilbert Johnston, Diane S. Kaplan, Walter J. Kendall III, Kathryn J. Kennedy, Paul B. Lewis, Doris Estelle Long, Ann M. Lousin, William Mock and Janice M. Mueller.
And Professors Robert Jay Nye, Timothy P. O'Neill, Michael J. Polelle, Ralph Ruebner, Arthur J. Sabin, Michael P. Seng, Julie Spanbauer, David E. Sorkin, Debra Pogrund Stark and Mark E. Wojcik.
In celebration of National Library Week, The John Marshall Law School congratulated the faculty members who authored publications in the 2003-2004 academic year. Joining with Dorothy Li (far right), associate dean for Library and Information Services, were Professors (from left) Robert J. Nye, Julie M. Spanbauer, John D. Ingram, Gerald Berendt, Ann M. Lousin, and Michael P. Seng.
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Schedule of Events
May 3
- Special Faculty Assembly, Union League Club, 10:00 a.m.
- Faculty Luncheon, Union League Club, 12:00 p.m.
May 4
- Swift School Meeting, Room 1101, 12:00 p.m.
- Judge Leighton Reception, Room 3East, 5:00 p.m.
- Domestic & Foreign Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret & Copyright Documentation, Room 402, 6:00 p.m.
May 5
- Board of Trustees Executive Committee Meeting, Albert Hofeld Room of the CBA, 2:00 p.m.
- Board of Trustees Meeting, Albert Hofeld Room of the CBA, 4:00 p.m.
May 6 - May 19
- Exams
May 6
- Alumni Reunion Committee Meeting, Room 1200, 12:45 p.m.
May 7
- SCALES Program Meeting, Room 527, 12:00 p.m.
- Building Closed starting at 9:00 p.m.
May 8
- Accelerated Bar Exam Lectures and Examples Program, Room 1200, 9:30 a.m.
May 12
- Alumni Scholarship Meeting, Room 1200B, 12:00 p.m.
- Domestic & Foreign Patent, Trademark, Trade Secret & Copyright Documentation, Room 402, 6:00 p.m.
May 13
- International Trade Club of Chicago Networking Event, Room 1200A, 5:00 p.m.
May 15
- Council of Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology Meeting, Room 1200 & 1202, 11:00 a.m.
- Bar Exam Workshop, Room 300, 1:00 p.m.