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September 5 - 11, 2004 |
Taiwanese Guests Welcomed As John Marshall Starts Joint Program
The John Marshall Law School welcomed a delegation from the Republic of China as the law school initiates a new partnership for LL.M. training in East Asia. Guests at the lunch were (from left) Thomas Cheng, director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office; Dr. S.J. Liu, director of the Institute of Technology Law at Chiao Tung University; John Marshall's Dean Patricia Mell; Al Gallo, president of John Marshall's Board of Trustees; Dorothy Li, co-director, Asian Alliances; Huei-wen Hsu, director of the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office; and John Marshall Professor Kevin Hopkins, co-director, Asian Alliances.
A delegation from the Republic of China (Taiwan) were luncheon guests of The John Marshall Law School at a welcoming program as the law school initiates a partnership with the Institute of Technology Law at Chiao Tung University in Taipei, Taiwan.
Students from the university will spend the spring 2005 semester at John Marshall as LL.M. candidates. This past summer, Professors Michael Seng and Ronald Smith taught introductory U.S. law courses in legal ethnics and U.S. criminal law to prepare this group of students.
John Marshall currently has enrolled Grace Tsai, a Taipei district judge, in its Information Technology and Privacy Law LL.M. program.
This new initiative is part of the law school's continuing outreach to East Asia. John Marshall recently celebrated its 10th anniversary of a joint working relationship with the People's Republic of China State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). Over the past decade, more than 100 SIPO attorneys have taken courses or received LL.M. degrees from John Marshall.
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Intellectual Property Practice Between Europe and U.S. Examined at John Marshall
The Center for Intellectual Property Law at The John Marshall Law School is presenting "Intellectual Property Europe: A Comparative Overview of Recent Developments in European Intellectual Property Law," from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 23, at the law school.
The seminar is hosted by the European Legal Alliance under the sponsorship of The John Marshall Law School and the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago. Panelists will discuss the substantial divergences which are developing throughout the intellectual property practice between Europe and the United States. Topics will include trademarks, patents, copyright, and privilege and data protection.
The fee to attend is $95, and includes admission, continental breakfast, lunch and all course materials. The program offers approximately six hours of CLE credit. For more information about the program, contact the Department of Event Management at 312.987.1420 or e-mail events@jmls.edu.
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Student Activities
September 6
Labor Day-no school
September 7
The Christian Legal Society will meet at 12:35 p.m. in room 1105.
September 8
The Health Law Society will meet at 12:00 p.m. in room 201.
The Decalogue Society will meet at 12:30 p.m. in room 403.
The Women's Law Caucus will meet at 12:30 p.m. in room 216.
The Public Interest Law Council will meet at 12:30 p.m. in room 402.
September 9
The ABA/LSD Section will meet at 12 p.m. in room 3East.
The Intellectual Property Society will meet at 2:00 p.m. in room 201.
September 11
Phi Alpha Delta boat cruise.
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Schedule of Events
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, 11 a.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.
September 13
- Tax Students Reception, Room 3East, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
- Faculty Assembly, Room 1200A, 12:15 p.m.
September 14
- Gold Council Meeting, Room 1200B, 12:00 p.m.
- Employee Benefits Students Reception, Room 3East, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
- Student Organization Day, Student Lounge, 4:00 p.m.
September 15
- Career Services Resume and Cover Letter Writing, Room 1200, 12:45 p.m.
September 16
- Career Services - Lunch and Conversations with Alumni, Room 1200B, 12:45 p.m.
September 17
- CIBTL Lecture on International Trade Treaties: The Canadian & American Experiences, Room 3East, 12:15 p.m.
September 18
- Armenian Bar Association Meeting, Room 300, 8:00 a.m.
- 8th Annual Prosecutorial Opportunities Symposium, Room 1200, 8:30 a.m.
- Alumni Reunion CLE Seminar, Room 200, 11:00 a.m.
- Alumni Reunion, Hard Rock Hotel, 6:30 p.m.
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Global Legal Studies Program Welcomes Six IP Visitors from Sri Lanka
In 2003, Sri Lanka adopted a new, stronger intellectual property law. Six professionals charged with enforcing that new law will visit The John Marshall Law School on Tuesday, Sept. 7, to share news of the IP developments in Sri Lanka and to learn something about the U.S. experience with developing and enforcing intellectual property rights.
The visitors coming to John Marshall - a judge, a senior official in the Attorney General's office, and several attorneys in private practice _ are specialists in intellectual property rights issues in Sri Lanka with responsibilities for enforcing the new law.
The delegation includes Judge Kankani Tantri Chitrasiri, the Commercial High Court judge of Colombo, Sri Lanka; Susantha Nandadeva Balapatabendi, state counsel in the Attorney General's Department; Gayani Tharanga de Silva, an intellectual property attorney and consultant, responsible for the first Sri Lankan inventor to obtain a patent under the Patent Cooperation Treaty; Ranil S.S. Buddhike Illangatillake, an attorney in one of Sri Lanka's leading commercial law chambers; A.B. Ayesha Jinasena, state counsel in the Attorney General's Department; and A.A. Patrine Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe, state counsel in the Attorney General's Department and a visiting lecturer in contract law at the University of Moratuwa.
They are in the United States to study approaches to protect intellectual property rights and to learn how cases are prosecuted and adjudicated in the United States.
The John Marshall Law School has one of the strongest IP programs in the United States, and it is recognized as an international training center for legal professionals to learn about intellectual property law. For example, the law school is currently hosting a delegation of visiting IP professionals from the People's Republic of China, part of the law school's 10-year program with the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China.
John Marshall is also recognized as an international leader in the field of Information Technology and Privacy Law, a field of law closely related to many of the technical and legal issues involved in intellectual property law.
The Sri Lanka visitors will have an opportunity to meet Professor Leslie Reis, director of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law, and with other intellectual property, information technology, and international law professors at John Marshall, including William T. McGrath, associate director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law; Professor Doris Long, an internationally-recognized expert in international intellectual property law; Professor Tayyab Mahmud, chair of the John Marshall Global Perspectives Group; and Professor Gerald Berendt, associate dean for Advanced Studies and Research.
Students board and staff members from the Journal of Computer and Information Law and the Review of Intellectual Property Law, and members of the Intellectual Property Law Association and the International Law Society are invited to attend the session from 3 to 5 p.m. on 3-East.
The visit to John Marshall was organized by Professor Mark Wojcik, Director of John Marshall's Global Legal Studies Program, which is sponsoring the visit. Professor Wojcik worked with the International Visitors' Center in Chicago, which organizes international visits through the U.S. Department of State and its Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Among other positions that he holds, Professor Wojcik is also the current Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association's Section on International and Immigration Law.
For more information on attending the program, contact Wojcik at 7wojcik@jmls.edu.
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Faculty Activity and Publications
Professor John D. Ingram
Publications
He has accepted an offer of publication from the Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal for his article, "The Genericide of Trademarks." Also, two of his articles were published recently in the Fla. St. U. Bus. Rev.: "An Insurer's Duty to Investigate" and "Covenants Not to Compete in the Professions."
Professor Timothy P. O'Neill
Publications
The 2004 Supplement to Cook and Marcus's Criminal Procedure (5th ed.) cites two of his articles: "Rethinking Miranda: Custodial Interrogation as a Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure," 37 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1109 (2004) and "Why Miranda Does Not Prevent Confessions: Some Lessons from Albert Camus, Arthur Miller, and Oprah Winfrey," 51 Syracuse L. Rev. 863 (2001).
Professor Debra Stark
Activities
She has been re-appointed the vice-chairperson of the B-4 Pro Bono Committee of the Real Property Section of the American Bar Association for the 2004/2005 year. The committee is comprised of close to 300 members of the Section with a goal of serving the real property needs of low income citizens and to educate the general public on common real property law issues. Professor Stark was first appointed to the vice-chair position in 2003/2004 and in that capacity organized and participated in two ABA conferences on predatory lending and barriers to affordable housing.
This year she was also appointed chair of its predatory lending subcommittee and, in such capacity, she is coordinating the creation of both a model mortgage counseling law and the mortgage loan counseling training materials. Her subcommittee has doubled in size in reaction to her article "Become a Hero to a Family In Need: Predatory Lenders Beware," published in the July issue of Probate and Property, in which she explained how timely mortgage counseling can prevent predatory lending. In her article, she highlighted The John Marshall Law School's Predatory Lending Law seminar organized by Professor Michael Seng and the counseling performed by John Marshall students who took the course.
Professor Stark has also been reappointed to the Board of Directors of The Lawyer's Committee for Better Housing ("LCBH") for the 2004/2005 year and has been appointed chairperson of its Program Committee. The Lawyer's Committee for Better Housing represents low-income families who need legal representation to avoid eviction and to sue slum landlords to improve the conditions in their buildings (some of the buildings have no heat or hot water or are in a dangerous or seriously defective condition). In the past, students from Professor Stark's Property II class have participated in a court monitoring project with the Lawyer's Committee and Professor Stark hopes to continue this. As program committee chair, Professor Stark is assisting in evaluating the committee's newest program, the "Home Sharing Program," which matches financially-strapped homeowners with lower-income tenants to share the expenses and responsibilities of home ownership and maintenance.
Professor Mark E. Wojcik
Activities
He will be a speaker at an Illinois State Bar Association CLE program on Friday, Sept. 17, 2004 in East Peoria, on the subject of Criminal Dispositions and Collateral Consequences. His presentation, "The Rights of Non-Citizens When Arrested: Enforcing the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations After Avena," discusses implications of the Avena decision from the International Court of Justice.