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Dean Patricia Mell of The John Marshall Law School
has announced the appointment of Professor Paul Lewis as director of the Center
for International Business and Trade Law. 
Lewis is an internationally recognized expert in
common law bankruptcy and insolvency systems. His articles regularly appear on
three continents, and he has spoken on bankruptcy and insolvency issues
throughout the world. He also is a member of the editorial board for
Australia's "Insolvency Law Journal." He has been a visiting professor at the
University of Western Sydney in Australia.
Lewis, a graduate of Yale Law School, clerked for
Justice David Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and later worked on
transactions on six continents as a staff attorney at Mayer, Brown & Platt.
Lewis was a faculty member at Mercer University
School of Law before joining the John Marshall faculty in 2001. He teaches
Bankruptcy, Secured Transactions, and Property I and II.
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Michael Poland (J.D. '05) (left), an
LL.M. student in the tax law program, accepts an award from Timothy Hughes
(right) of Lavelle Legal Services, Ltd., who represented the Chicago Bar
Association's Federal Taxation Committee. Poland was selected for the CBA honor
as John Marshall's outstanding student in tax law from his class.
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Professor Ann Lousin
Activities 
She spoke to the class on Genocide at North Park
University on March 15, 2005. Her topic was "the Aftermath of
Genocide—The Search for Justice, Revenge, or Reparations?" She
played a videotape of two presentations made at John Marshall's Braun
Conference on April 18, 2000, "The International Crime of Genocide," before
making her presentation and leading the discussion.
She attended the annual meeting of The Armenian Bar
Association in San Diego, CA, on April 1-3, 2005. The Board of the
association re-appointed her as Chair of the Genocide Research Project
Committee.
On April 28-30, 2005, she attended the 38th Annual
Uniform Commercial Code Institute at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Dickinson Law
School of Pennsylvania State University sponsors this annual conference, at
which practitioners and professors meet to learn about the latest statutory,
regulatory, and case law developments in commercial law, especially The Uniform
Commercial Code.
Professors Ann Lousin and Mark Wojcik
Activities 
They hosted a delegation of three justices of the
Supreme Court of Buryatia (Siberia, Russian Federation) who visited The John
Marshall Law School on March 22, 2005. Professors Molly Lien, Sonia
Bychkov Green, Robert J. Nye, Tayyab Mahmud and Associate Dean Gerald E.
Berendt joined them in holding a discussion with the justices. Alumna
Violeta Balan, an Associate at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, also joined the
group.
The justices deal with issues of adoption of
Siberian children by American families. Lutheran Family Services of
Wisconsin sponsored their trip to learn about the U.S. legal system, especially
family law. One of the focal points of their discussion with the John
Marshall professors was the role of juries in criminal and civil trials in the
U.S. Juries are a new phenomenon in Siberia.
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May 23
- Deans Meeting, Courtroom, 12:00 p.m.
May 24
- IPLAC Paralegal and Patent Agent Committee
Meeting, Room 216, 11:00 a.m.
May 26
- City of Chicago Training, Room 1200, 9:00 a.m.
- Staff Appreciation Lunch, Room 3East, 12:00 p.m.
- ITCC Networking Event, Room 200, 5:00 p.m.
May 27
- SE MO State Visit, Room 3East, 8:00 a.m.
May 30
- Memorial Day Holiday - Building Closed
June 1
- Christian Legal Society Meeting, Room 402, 12:00
p.m.
June 3
- John Marshall Sluggers 1st Softball Game, Grant
Park - Field 7, 5:00 p.m.
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In the
Loop is published by The John Marshall Law School, Chicago,
Copyright 2005
Editor: Assistant Dean John M. McNamara; Contributors:
Marilyn Thomas, Director, Public Relations and Advertising; Andrea Koklys,
Assistant Director, Public Relations and Advertising
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