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August 29 - September 4, 2004 |
Fall Semester Is Start for Nine New Faculty
The John Marshall Law School is welcoming not only a new class of students, but also nine new faculty members. Joining the faculty ranks are Cynthia Bond, Stephen Gilles, Joanne Hodge, Cecil Hunt, Howard Knopf, Rogelio Lasso, Molly Warner Lien, Tayyab Mahmud, and Alice Martin Thomas.
Bond has joined the Lawyering Skills faculty as a visiting professor. She will be teaching lawyering skills and "Law and Film." She comes to John Marshall from Cornell Law School where from 1999 through June 2004 she taught first-year legal analysis, writing and research, and also an upper-class interdisciplinary seminar "Theories of Law, Theories of Film" which addressed cultural representations of law and lawyers from various critical perspectives.
Gilles is a visiting professor teaching Torts I and II, and Law and Economics. He comes to John Marshall from Quinnipiac University School of Law where he has been a professor since 1995. He also was an assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1989 to 1995. Gilles was a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law in 1997, and the John M. Olin Visiting Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Virginia Law School in 1993.
Joanne Simboli Hodge has joined the Lawyering Skills faculty as a visiting assistant professor teaching LS-I courses, along with a doctrinal class in the spring.
She was a writing specialist at DePaul University College of Law and recruited and mentored students for judicial externships and clerkships. She has been an adjunct professor teaching advanced legal drafting and appellate writing at DePaul and employment discrimination law at Loyola's human resource and industrial relations graduate program.
Hunt will teach Property I and II and Secured Transactions. He comes to John Marshall from Suffolk University Law School in Boston where he was 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.
Knopf is a professor and director for the Center for Intellectual Property Law, and chairman of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law. Knopf, of Canada, practiced and is now of counsel with the Ottawa IP firm of Macera & Jarzyna LLP. He was the founding executive director of the Canadian Intellectual Property Institution at the University of Ottawa, and a senior advisor to the Canadian government on intellectual property and competition matters.
Lasso, a visiting professor, will teach Torts I and II, and Current Legal Issues which in 2004-2005 will be "Current Legal Issues in Complex Litigation." Lasso comes to John Marshall from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He was a visiting professor at Santa Clara University School of Law in spring 2003; was on the faculty at Washburn University School of Law from 1991 to 2003; and was a visiting professor at DePaul University School of Law in fall 2001.
Lien has been named the director of the Lawyering Skills Program and associate professor of law after serving as a visiting professor for a year. After several years of practice, she started teaching legal writing as a Bigelow Fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School for the 1985-86 academic year. She was a visiting assistant professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and served as director of the Chicago-Kent Legal Research, Writing & Analysis Program from 1993-2001. After leaving Kent, she was a consultant to the law faculty of the National University of Singapore in 2001-2002, where she established the framework for Singapore's legal writing curriculum.
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.
Thomas 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.
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Fair Housing Center and Clinic
The John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Clinic won an important case on source of income discrimination in the Illinois Appellate Court. The case was argued on Oct. 21, 2003, by Clinical Professor Damian Ortiz on behalf of the clinic's client June Sullivan-Lackey. The primary issue before the court was whether the federal housing assistance program Section 8 is a lawful "source of income" as defined by the ordinance and interpreted by the Chicago Commission on Human Relations. The Chicago Commission has repeatedly held that Section 8 certificates are considered a "source of income" under the Chicago Fair Housing Ordinance.
On Aug. 20, 2004, the Appellate Court rendered its decision in
favor of the clinic's client. The court clarified the Chicago Housing
Ordinance. The decision will continue to provide the people of Chicago who
participate in the Section 8 program to seek housing without discrimination
solely because of their "source of income." The Appellate Court stated, "[t]he
circuit court erred in reversing the holding of the commission. The term
`" source of income" ' under
the Fair Housing Ordinance refers only to the lawful manner in which one
supports oneself and does not elaborate on what means are included within the
lawful manner of support. Therefore, it is logical and reasonable to consider
Section 8 vouchers part of the lawful manner for one's support. Our
interpretation is consistent with the policy of the Fair Housing
Ordinance *** ….(`" the
policy of the city of Chicago is to assure a full and equal opportunity to all
residents of the city to obtain fair and adequate housing for
themselves… * * * without discrimination against
them because of their * * * …
source of income.'" )." Godinez v.
Lackey, 1-02-2101, First Appellate District, (5th Div.).
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John Marshall Fact-finding Team Visits Peru
Students from The John Marshall Law School were joined by Professor Ralph Ruebner on a fact-finding visit to Peru. Gathered at a meeting at the Constitutional Court were (from left) students Linda Burns, Phillip Oliver, Mario Sullivan and Joel Stopka with Dr. Javier Alva Orlandini, president of the Constitutional Court; alumna Maryann Leuthner; Professor Ruebner, and Dr. Carlos Pelaez, secretary general at the Constitutional Court.
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Student Activities
August 30
The Employee Benefit Association and the Graduate Tax Association are meeting jointly at 12:00 p.m. in room 201 to have an election and share ideas for this semester. All are welcome. Pizza will be served.
August 31
The Corporation Law Association will meet at 12 and 5 p.m. in room 201. Pizza will be served.
The Christian Legal Society will meet at 12:35 p.m. in room 1105.
September 1
Interest has been renewed in the Alternative Dispute Resolution Society. If you are interested in this area of law, you are welcome to attend a meeting at 12 or 5 p.m. in room 216. Elections will be held.
September 2
Delta Theta Phi will meet at 12 and 5 p.m. in room 216.
The Corporate Law Association will meet at 12:00 p.m. in room 201.
Phi Alpha Delta will meet at 5:00 p.m. in room 201.
September 3
Attorney Shereef Akeel will discuss his attempts to win compensation for abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison at 3 p.m. in room 200.
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Supreme Court Justice Administers Ethics Oath
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Charles Freeman (J.D. '62) returned to The John Marshall Law School on Aug. 18 to administer the Oath of Professionalism to incoming students.
This is the second year members of the Illinois Supreme Court have visited law schools as part of new student orientation programs. The Oath of Professionalism was recommended by the Special Supreme Court Committee on Professionalism as a way to promote respectful conduct within the profession. It is hoped that sharing the message with law students early will help them set a high standard that will serve them through law school and into their professional lives.
Freeman reminded the students that their conduct "will not only lead to success and satisfaction, but also shape your reputation."
Freeman told the John Marshall students that when they become members of the bar, they join a very elite and close-knit community.
"Each day here at John Marshall you will make decisions. Will you be a person of your word, or will you be an obstacle? I hope you will be someone who is quiet and respectful, courteous and civil," he told the students.
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Schedule of Events
August 30
- Career Services - Interviewing Skills Program, Room 1200, 12:45 p.m.
September 1
- Christian Legal Society, Room 402, 12:00 p.m.
- Career Services - Panel Discussion on Fall OCI, Room 1200, 12:45 p.m.
- Careers Services - Interviewing Skills, Room 201, 5:00 p.m.
- Zimmerman Scholarship Reception, Room 3East, 5:00 p.m.
September 2
- LS Civil Litigation Instructors Meeting, Room 402, 12:00 p.m.
- Career Services - United States Department of Justice Honors Program Information Session, Room 1102, 5:00 p.m.
September 6
- Labor Day Holiday
September 7
- Alumni Reunion Committee Meeting, Room 1200B, 12:00 p.m.
- Visiting Sri Lanka IP Delegation, Room 1101, 3:00 p.m.
September 8
- Career Services - Meet the Employers Night, Room 3East, 5:30 p.m.
September 9
- ABA Law Student Division Meeting, Room 3East, 12:00 p.m.
- Filipino Bar Association Building Bridges Program, Room 3East, 5:30 p.m.
September 10
- CIBTL: U.S. - Mexico Chamber of Commerce Seminar, Room 3East, 8:00 a.m.
- Fair Housing Conference, Room 1200, 8:45 a.m.
- Fair Housing Conference Reception, Room 3East, 5:00 p.m.
September 11
- Fair Housing Conference, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Professor Celeste Hammond
Activities
As director of the Center for Real Estate Law, has been invited to speak at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Sept. 30 through Oct. 2, 2004, in Whistler, British Columbia. This year's program theme is "Revitalized Real Estate Lending." Hammond will address "Unauthorized Practice of the Law" in conjunction with a workshop that she and Brian S. Levy, senior vice president and general counsel for Guaranty Bank, FSB of Milwaukee, are presenting at the meeting.
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Phi Alpha Delta Schedules Cruise
The Annual Phi Alpha Delta Boat Cruise will be held on Saturday, Sept. 11th, from 9:30 p.m.- 12:30 a.m. at the Wendella Boats dock beside the Wrigley Building on Michigan Avenue. There will be an open bar, finger food, music and dancing at a cost of $35 for members and $40 for nonmembers. Tickets will be sold in the Sargis-Miner Student Lounge from Monday, August 30, through Friday, Sept. 3.