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Boston College Law School Magazine Fall 1999 Boston College Law School Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Boston College Law School Magazine 10-1-1999 Boston College Law School Magazine Fall 1999 Boston College Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation Boston College Law School, "Boston College Law School Magazine Fall 1999" (1999). Boston College Law School Magazine. Book 14. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm/14 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Boston College Law School Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. P UBLICATI ON NOTE BOSION COLLEGE lAW SCHOOL DEAN John H . Garvey DIRECroR Of INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEM£Nl Alfred A. Blum Jr. EDITOR IN CHIEF Vicki Sanders CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Deborah J. W . Coakley Melinda Eakin Meday Ouellette Deborah Smith Anna Snow CO"TRIBUTING WRITERS Andreae Downs Maria Karagianis Dan Kennedy On the Cover: Julie Michaels Jeri Zeder The longest-serving professor in the history Boston College Law School Magazine of Boston College Law School, Emil Slizewski welcomes readers' commencs. You may conran is honored in retirement. liS by phone at 617-552-2873; by mail at Boston College Law School, Bafar HOLlse, Photo by Patrick O'Connor. 885 Centre Street, Newton. MA 02459-1163; or by e-rnJil at [email protected]. Copyright 1999, Boston Coll ege Law School. All publication ri ghts reserved. Opinions t..'xpressed in Boston College Law Schoo! Magazine do not necessarily rcflecr th e views of Iloston College Law School or BostOn Coll ege. FALL 1 999 VOLUME 8 NUMBER I Telling Tales Out of School Emil "The Slew" Slizewski recalls his halfcentury at Boston College Law School By Dan Kennedy The Exile Nation 18 In the Kafkaesque world ofimmigration law, a clinical program offers hope By Andreae Downs Judy Willis: Barbie's Own Dream Lawyer 22 Law School alumna is no babe in toyland. She's one ofMattei's hottest assets. By Vicki Sanders SPECIAL SECTION Annual Giving Report 43 6 10 22 35 DEPARTMENTS IN BRIEF 2 FACULTY NEWS AND NOTES 34 ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES 26 HAPPENINGS al public, he is widely rec­ mote opportunities for ognized as the founder of furthering social justice the consumer rights and civil liberties. The movement. Nader was focus of this year's Octo­ introduced by Dean John ber event-which coin­ c,a'!lpus lecture~, Garvey and Professor cided with the opening of vtsttors, symposza Kent Greenfield. the new term of the Unit­ ed States Supreme Rebels with a Cause Court-was on housing and homelessness in the Compiled by Melinda Eakin The International Law US, with special emphasis and Meday Ouellette Society and Professor on continuing discrimina­ Anthony Paul Farley host­ tion and segregation Nader Never Rests ed a screening of the doc­ despite the passage of umentary Zapatista in the Fair Housing Act. The Dean's Office, the September with filmmak­ Events included a talk by Environmental Law Soci­ ers Benjamin Eichen, David Godkin of the ety, and the Public Inter­ Richard Rowley, and Stale Boston firm of Testa, est Law Foundation spon­ Sandberg as special guests. Hurwitz & Thibeault and sored a talk in October by The film deals with the Barbara Dougan of the consumer advocate Ralph 1994 uprising in Chiapas, Boston Bar Association's Nader. His speech, "No Mexico's poorest state, Contest: Corporations, and the fight of the Zap­ Lawyers, and Injustice in atista National Liberation America," was based on Army for autonomy on his 1996 book abour the the heels of the signing of ethical and criminal abuses the North American Free committed by many cor­ Trade Agreement. porate law firms in the United States. Considered Keeping the among America's most renowned and effective Home Fires Burning crusaders for the rights of The Public Interest Law consumers and the gener- Foundation and the Owen M. Kupferschmid Holocaust/Human Rights Project sponsored a "First Monday Celebration" to Boston lawyer David Godkin stress the value of public spoke on housing discnmination interest work and pro- and segregation issues. Ralph Nade r, pro tector of consumer rights Frederick M. Enman Jr, Sj., '78 participated in th e Public Interest Law Foundation's discussion on housing. 2 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL rvtAGAZI NE / FALL 1999 erator David A. Mills '67 shared their personal sto­ ries about coming out in their respective fields of legal employment. Hon. Linda Giles, the first openly lesbian judge appointed in Massachu­ setts, was presented LAMBDA's "Courage in Coming Out" award. john R Hallal '91 of Gadsby & on Fair Housing Act issues. Ha nnah LLP attended this year's meeting of Law Lib rarians Lawyers' Committee for of New England. Civil Rights. They repre­ sented the plaintiffs in the Librarians Talk Web recen tly settled case against the Boston Hous­ Taro Twom ey '98 spoke about community economic development as The Law Library hosted ing Authority for alleged port of the Public Interest Law Foundation Breakfast Series the annual spring meeting racial harassment in his­ of Law Librarians of New tor at the center, also sentence was commuted torically white South England in May. About hosted an October tour of in 1990 to life. Moore Boston and Charlestown 100 attended this year's Jamaica Plain ro highlight was paroled in 1991 Linda B. Port '88 shared her sto­ developments. Other discussion, "Ethics and the areas in the racially and and is now an otdained ry at the First Annual Coming activities included a show­ Out Day Ceremony at the Law Internet," including John economically diverse minister. ing of the film Bringing School R. Hallal '91 and David neighborhood that the Justice Home by the Watson of Gadsby & center has worked to Alliance for Justice; a dis­ Hannah LLP in Boston improve with the help cussion on housing issues Crossing the Line and Janis L. Johnston of of progressive citizen led by Frederick M. The Law School chapter the American Association involvement. Enman Jr., S.]., '78, of the National Lawyers of Law Libraries' executive director of an affordable Guild sponsored an Octo­ board. The keynote speak­ housing project known as ber talk by Sarah Wunsch er was 1. Trotter Hardy Matthew 25; and a pre­ Knocking on of the American Civil Jr., professor and associate sentation by the staff of Death's Door Liberties Union of Massa­ dean of computing at the the Legal Assistance chusetts. Her topic was Bureau, on issues of hous­ As part of her Death entitled "Hate Speech and ing and homelessness Penalty Seminar in Octo­ Hate Crimes: There Real­ dealt with by the bureau. ber, Professor Phyllis ly Is a Difference." Goldfarb hosted a panel discussion with guests Bil­ Making Communities ly Neal Moore, former Coming Out Day panel modera­ tor David A Mills Work Better Georgia Death Row pris­ oner; his attorney Dan Out and About In the Public Interest Law Givelber, professor and Foundation Breakfast former dean at Northeast­ The First Annual Coming Series, Arthur Johnson ern Law School; and Out Day Ceremony for and Tara Twomey '98 of Suzanne Belote Shanley, the Boston Legal Com­ the Community Enter­ cofounder of Agape, a munity was hosted by the prise Project Division, Catholic retreat commu­ Law School's LAMBDA part of the Hale & Dorr nity in Ware, Massachu­ Students Association in Legal Services Center in setts. Moore was sen­ October. Attorneys Joseph Jamaica Plain, spoke to tenced to death in 1974 Barri, Lisa Cukier, Robert Professor I. Trotter Ha rdy jr was students about community for murder, but due in Quinan, Linda B. Port Sarah Wunsch of the American the keynote speaker at the economic development part to the efforts of reli­ '88, State Representative Civil Liberties Union vIsited the meeting of the Law Librorians law. Johnson, an instruc- gious communities, his Jarrett Barrios, and mod- Law School In October of New England In May. FALL 1999 / BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL MAGAZ1N£ 3 College of William and STEPPING Up demic Services upon Mary, Marshall-Wythe the departure of Mary School of Law. Stuart Sut­ Squiers last summer. ton, then a director at Recent hires, Agar's position as the Law Syracuse University's promotions, School's clinical coordina­ School of Information and departures tor has been merged Studies, talked about the into Academic Services. First Amendment. Boston Squiers, who previously College Law School Pro­ Compiled by Meday Ouellette had been director of the fessors Pamela Smith and US Judicial Conference's Alfred Yen discussed barri­ Mary Ann Chirba-Martin Local Rules Project, was ers to internet entry, and has joined the permanent asked by the Standing intellectual property and faculty as assistant profes­ Committee on Rules of the internet, respectively. sor of Legal Reasoning, Practice and Procedure Research, and Writing, to head a comprehensive replacing Jean McEwen. Comm unications Manager new review. At the Dean's Table Chirba-Martin taught in Nathani el Kenyon Former Boston Bar Association the program in the 1980s In Ocrober, the Dean's President Lauro Stiller Rikleen Meg Thomsen has joined and has been teaching Luncheon Series, which 79 JOin ed Dean john H. Garvey necticut, where he majored the Law Library as an upper-level writing cours­ gives students the oppor­ and students for a lunchti me in creative writing. assistant in the Access and discussion. es on an adjunct basis for tunity to join Dean John Organization Depart­ several years. McEwen left Garvey and distinguished Linda Glennon, who has ment. She serves as Sun­ for the National Institutes graduates for informal law students and outgoing been Associate Direcror of day circulation supervisor of Health, where she is discussions on topical law clerks nationwide Alumni Relations since and, among other things, program director of the subjects, hosted former each year.
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