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The John Marshall Law School's Center
for International Business and Trade Law is pleased to announce that Zubaida
Qazi (J.D. `05) has been named the 2005-2006 recipient of the Melamed
Fellowship. The Melamed Fellowship supports
 advanced study in the field of
international business and trade law. The Melamed Fellowship in International
Business and Trade Law has been made possible through a gift from Leo Melamed.
Mr. Melamed, a 1955 graduate of The John Marshall Law School and current member
of The John Marshall Board of Trustees, is chairman emeritus and senior policy
advisor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The fellowship was first offered in
2001-2002. Ms. Qazi is the third recipient of the Melamed Fellowship.
Ms. Qazi received her B.A. in
Psychology from the University of Chicago and is a 2005 graduate of The John
Marshall Law School's J.D. program. As a J.D. student, Ms. Qazi participated in
the Stetson International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, the Jessup
International Law Moot Court Competition and, most recently, served as
President of the International Law Society. Ms. Qazi has worked as a research
assistant at JMLS and clerked for the City of Chicago. Currently, Ms. Qazi is
working on a textbook on import and export law with the Center Adjunct
Professors Marianne Rowden and Tammie Krauskopf. She plans to practice customs
and international trade law.
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The John Marshall Law School welcomes
Matthew A. Doscotch as a distinguished visiting practitioner, teaching patent
law in the Center for Intellectual Property Law for the academic year
2005-2006.
Doscotch has been a practicing attorney
with Merchant & Gould P.C. in Minneapolis since 2000. He is registered to
practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Minnesota Bar, and
is admitted to practice before several federal courts, including the Federal
Court of Appeals. 
He has represented clients in patent
prosecution and litigation matters. He has drafted more than 50 patent
applications, both utility and design, and represented clients in chemical and
mechanical fields before the U.S. Patent Office.
Doscotch has also worked on cases
involving Internet domain name disputes, patent infringement investigations and
the drafting of patentability and non-infringement clearance opinions.
Before visiting John Marshall, Doscotch
taught as an adjunct professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul
where he developed a patent litigation course, and at the University of
Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis where he taught legal writing and oral
advocacy skills, and worked as the advisor to the Giles Rich Moot Court team.
He also has published articles in legal journals developed to intellectual
property and patent law, and in scientific journals.
Doscotch received a J.D. degree cum
laude from The John Marshall Law School in 2000. He was a board editor on
the John Marshall Law Review, was a member of a moot court team in 1999
and a member of the John Marshall Intellectual Property Law Association and the
John Marshall Patent Clinic.
He was awarded a Master of Science
degree from the University of Minnesota in 1996, and a Bachelor of Science
degree in chemistry from Knox College in 1994.
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The American Bar Association's
Strategic Communication and Planning Office asked the Center for Real Estate
Law to provide interviews to one of only nine Chinese TV Channels permitted to
produce shows about politics and law. A group from Changsha Province consisting
of Li Li, the editor of the Channel, Liu Jia, the anchor and their cameraman
came to Chicago with Sinclair Ke, a representative of the US State Department
on July 14th. They had already visited Washington D.C. and New York City to
learn about our jury system. They came to Chicago to visit with Professor Shari
Diamond at Northwestern Law School and the American Bar Foundation because of
her empirical scholarship on our Tort system. Subsequently to their Chicago
visit, they were producing part of their show at Stanford University Law
School, again on the topic of the American trial system. 
They interviewed several of the John
Marshall students who had gone to Beijing in the summer 2004 as part of the
International Aspects of Real Estate Law: Focus on China course taught by James
Hagy of Jones Day. Janet Johnson of Schiff Hardin LLP, a member of the Center's
Board of Advisors and an adjunct for the LLM program, shared her significant
practice perspective with the Chinese team. Stacey Robinson, LL.M. '04, an
associate at Seyfarth Shaw, was able to speak both from her professional
perspective as an engineer and as a lawyer in reflecting on the major real
estate development she had seen. Professor Dorothy Li, director of the John
Marshall Law School Library, who had led the Beijing part of the course,
provided a tour of our library, a unique event for the team because distinct,
law libraries do not exist in China. Professor Celeste Hammond answered many
questions about the American private property system and its relationship to
goals of Freedom and Democracy. She provided a history of the property system
in the United States, including the protections of owners from the government
as part of the United States Constitution. Liu Jia was most curious about the
absence of a mention of `private property' rights in the Constitution and the
restrictions on ownership that is part of the definition of property rights in
our system. 
Dean Patricia Mell welcomed the
television team to John Marshall and was interviewed about American legal
education. Dean Mell has made several trips to China to enhance the law
school's ten year relationship there and on the Chicago campus in teaching
lawyers and judges. Dean Mell and the Changsha TV Channel look forward to a
continuing relationship.
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Michael Pasano (left), the 2005-2006 chair of the
American Bar Association (ABA) Criminal Justice Section, accepts a copy of a
commemorative banner from Professor Ronald Smith at the John Marshall reception
for Criminal Justice Section members. Dean Patricia Mell welcomed guests to the
reception hosted as part of the ABA's annual convention in Chicago.
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Professor Mark Wojcik
Activities 
He was named to the editorial advisory
panel for The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style.
He has been invited to serve on the
International Advisory Committee of the International Journal of Environmental
Consumerism, published in New Delhi, India. The journal will include
articles relating to the environment, environmental health, and teaching
international environmental law.
Publications
More than 2,200 copies of his
book, Introduction to Legal English, have now been sold in countries
throughout the world. The book, published by the International Law
Institute in Washington, D.C., was the first coursebook in the United States
for lawyers and law students who speak English as a second language. The
law school hosted a special Global Legal Skills conference in May of this year
to bring together the leading scholars and teachers who are active in ESL
education for lawyers.
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August 22
- Classes Convene
- Development Meetings, Room 1200B, 10:00 a.m. and
2:00 p.m.
August 24
- Deans Meeting, Courtroom 12:00 p.m.
- Publications Meeting, Room 1202, 3:00 p.m.
August 25
- Institutional Advancement Meeting, Room 529,
12:00 p.m.
- Development Meeting, Room 1200B, 2:00 p.m.
August 26
- Faculty & Staff Welcome Back Event, Navy
Pier, 11:45 a.m.
- Alumni Freedom Award Committee Meeting, Room
1101, 3:00 p.m.
- Hot Topics in IP Law: The Grokster Decision, Room
1200, 4:00 p.m.
August 29
- Development Meeting, Room 402, 10:30 a.m.
- Dean's Meeting with the Staff, Room 1200, 12:00
p.m.
August 30
- Welcome Back Receptions for Employee Benefits
Students, Room 529, 12:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
- Adjunct Faculty Orientation, Room 1200, 4:00 p.m.
- Adjunct Faculty Reception, Room 3East, 5:30 p.m.
August 31
- CIBTL Adjunct Faculty Luncheon Meeting, Room 800
of the CBA, 12:00 p.m.
- CREL & YREP Program, Room 200, 12:00 p.m.
- Deans Meeting, Room 402, 12:00 p.m.
- Welcome Back Reception for Tax Law Students, Room
1105, 12:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
September 1
- Development Meeting, Room 428, 10:00 a.m.
- Career Services - Meet the Employers Night, Room
3East, 5:30 p.m.
September 5
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Loop is published by The John Marshall Law School, Chicago,
Copyright 2005
Editor: Assistant Dean John M. McNamara; Contributors:
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