IN NEWS the Senator John Edwards Speaks at Luvera Lecture

Former Democratic vice-presidential candidate, and former North Mr. Edwards told the 150-plus audience that poverty Carolina Senator, John Edwards, delivered the Gonzaga University is a great moral issue facing our country and Americans have an School of Law’s annual Luvera Lecture on Tuesday, January 10, 2006, obligation to address this need. Edwards, the son of a mill worker, at the Columbia was the first in his family to attend college. He is now the director Tower Club in Seattle. of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of The Luvera Lecture North Carolina, and has been traveling the country speaking about Series, established the need for Americans to launch a grass roots movement to tackle in 1990, is an annual the issue. He calls this his life’s work. event designed to inspire Gonzaga University Law School students and alumni by bringing many of the nation’s brightest minds to speak on a range of subjects. The Luvera Lecture series is underwritten by Seattle attorneys Paul and Lita Luvera, Above: Senator Edwards with Dean Gonzaga Law School Martin. Left: Lita Luvera with John graduates and Edwards and Hanna Welch partners in the Luvera law firm.

Above: Paul Luvera Right (l–r): Ronna Washines, Aisha Brooks, Maria Garcia, Steve Giaier, John Ed- wards, Jon Morrone, Scott Bradford, Anne John Edwards takes a question at the Bernhard and Chrissy Luvera Lecture podium Anderson

Bob and Ginny Kane, John Edwards, and Bill Lindberg

11 Amy received her Juris Doctor from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1977, and her B.A. from the College IN NEWS of St. Catherine in 1974. She was previously a visiting the professor at the University of , University of San Diego, and University of San Francisco Schools of Law. Professor Kelley brings experience to the position, having served as 9th Circuit Court Hears Cases at Gonzaga Law 2005. Judge Kurtz, who is a 1974 Gonzaga University School of Law Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from 1999 to 2003. alumni, vacated the position to accept an appointment to the United Dean Martin and the law school faculty and staff are looking On Wednesday, April 12, the School of Law hosted the 9th States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of . forward to working with Amy as we move into a new school United States Circuit Court of Appeals as it heard oral arguments in Over fifty alumni and friends attended the reception at Gonzaga year. Spokane. Senior Circuit Judge Jerome Farris, Circuit Judge Sidney Law, where Dean Earl Martin and Ashley Richards, president of Thomas, and Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown presided. The court Washington Women Lawyers, Spokane Chapter, honored Judge heard two cases; Rogers vs. City of Kennewick, and Stuter vs. Women’s Law Caucus Recognizes Kulik for her professionalism and commitment to service. Governor Stevens County Sheriff’s Department. Cheryl Wolfe was unable to attend, but sent a letter of The hearings were held in the Barbieri Courtroom, to a capacity congratulations that was read by Dean Martin. Gonzaga University School of Law Women’s Law audience. Following the hearings, students had the opportunity to Caucus presented the 14th Annual Myra Bradwell Award to Cheryl Wolfe of the Spokane Attorney General’s Office. Changes in Leadership A ceremony and reception was held April 13 in the Barbieri Welcome Amy Kelley Courtroom at the law school, recognizing Ms. Wolfe’s Thank you Helen Donigan achievements in her legal career. The award is presented Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Helen annually to an outstanding alumna of Gonzaga Law School in Donigan will relinquish her position and return honor of Myra Bradwell who, in 1872, was denied the right to the faculty at the end of May, 2006. For the to practice law on the basis of her gender. It is presented to past three years, Professor Donigan has been a tireless worker, always putting the best interest of the law school first. With the announcement of Helen’s departure as Associate Dean, Dean Chrissy Anderson, Cheryl Wolfe and Karen Earl Martin stated, “I am personally very grateful Riley to Helen for all of the help she has given me in my first year as dean. She has been a wonderful source of advice and someone that I can count on paralegals, eight legal assistants, and three to get the job done.” law clerks. She represents the department in Professor Amy Kelley, a member of the dependency, termination, and guardianship proceedings in the superior and appellate courts. She also handles administrative law matters including day care, foster care, and adult family home cases. She oversees 9th Circuit Court Lunch paternity and child support cases, and handles guardianship and protection order cases involving vulnerable adults. ask questions directly of the judges. After the question and answer Ms. Wolfe’s career has been recognized session, the judges, Dean Martin and a small group of students in the community and across the state. Awards discussed clerkships and issues over lunch she has received include Government Attorney Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year from the Spokane Teresa Kulik Appointed to Division III, Bar Association, a Community Service Award Judge Brown, Dean Earl Martin, Teresa Kulik, and Frank Kurtz from the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Court of Appeals Council, an Outstanding Leader Award, and On March 23, 2006, the Washington Women Lawyers, Spokane someone who has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to women’s most recently, the Governor’s Distinguished Chapter, and the Gonzaga University School of Law hosted a and children’s issues through the law. Management Leadership Award. The Gonzaga University School of reception honoring Teresa Kulik, recently appointed to the Division III, Wolfe, who graduated from GU School of Law in 1985, has Law Women’s Law Caucus is proud to recognize Cheryl Wolfe with Court of Appeals. Judge Kulik is the first woman to hold this position Amy Kelley, left, and Helen Donigan spent twenty years as an attorney for the Spokane Division of the 2006 Myra Bradwell Award. for the Eastern Washington region of Division III. the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. She is currently Governor Chris Gregoire made the appointment of Judge Kulik Gonzaga University School of Law faculty since 1979, assumes the section chief and lead counsel for the Division of Children and when the seat was vacated by Judge Frank L. Kurtz on November 1, position of Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in June, 2006. Family Services for DSHS, supervising a unit of ten attorneys, two

12 13 IN NEWS life library the Ode to the Student Worker was best known regionally and nationally for his civil rights by June Stewart in the advocacy. He took on hundreds of pro bono cases for members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored The library has many staff the circulation desk People (NAACP). Following Maxey’s death in 1997, Gonzaga accomplishments to boast of early in the morning or late at University School of Law established a scholarship fund for this year. We passed the ABA night, we look to our student minority students in his name. inspection with flying colors. workers. When we have a We celebrated, with sadness, special project where 10,000 How Sweet It Was the retirement of Elizabeth books have to be bar-coded in Thweatt, who worked at the three months, we look to our Gonzaga junior Adam Morrison, a consensus All-American library for over twenty-five student workers. When we and the nation’s leading scorer, led the Bulldogs this year to years. We began strategic need to install new computers the “Sweet 16” of the NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs swept planning for the library in all the staff and faculty through the West Coast Conference regular season with a and participated in the law offices over the summer, we perfect (14-0) record, captured the WCC Tournament (held school strategic planning. We look to our student workers. at Gonzaga) also without a loss, and advanced to the NCAA instituted Terminal Services When we need coverage of Tournament for the eighth-straight time (1999 through 2006) and for all student computer the Reference Desk during ninth (1995) overall. Rob McKenna and Dean Martin with former 3L students Sam workstations in the labs, times the librarians are not A No. 3 seed into the tournament, the Zags whipped No. Gordon and Angela Richardson clinic, and law reviews, available, we look to our law 14-seed Xavier 79-75 on March 16 and defeated the No. 6 seed providing students with faster student workers. There is no Indiana Hoosiers computing capability than limit to the tasks that we ask 90-80 two days they had previously. Finally, our student workers to tackle. later, before falling Attorney General Rob McKenna visits Gonzaga Law we instituted a Law Student Students often come to to UCLA 73-71 at On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, Attorney Rob McKenna spoke Help Desk to provide laptop us as callow youths with the Oakland Arena to GU School of Law students about life as the Attorney General support for students using no experience. Then, right on March 23 in for the state of Washington. He shared unique cases the AG’s their personal laptops at before our eyes, they grow a heartbreaking office has been involved in, and offered ideas on employment school. While doing all of into poised young men and ending to a opportunities at the Attorney General’s office. this, we continued to provide women who can effortlessly wonderful season. warm, personal service to cover the circulation desk, In April, Morrison our students, faculty, staff, process materials for announced he alumni, and other users. shelving, and handle any of Spokane Interplayers Theater Donates to the Maxey would forego As I look back over this the other myriad tasks we Scholarship Fund his senior year year, I am struck by how ask them to perform. We at Gonzaga and Spokane’s Interplayer’s Theatre donated $1,300 to the Carl much we have accomplished. are pleased to enjoy their declared himself R. Maxey Scholarship Fund at Gonzaga University School of Law, I am reminded yet again While our student workers presence while they are here, eligible for the alma mater of the late Spokane attorney and nationally prominent how dedicated the staff is to and we send them off to their upcoming NBA human rights advocate. Mary Ann McCurdy, executive director their work and to serving our new lives with our heartfelt draft. of Interplayer’s Theatre, presented the check to Dean Earl Martin users. While I am grateful to may be anonymous faces to the appreciation and high hopes at a ceremony held on February 1, each member of the library for their future endeavors. 2006, near Maxey’s bronze statue staff, I want to take a moment If you were one of those in the School of Law’s Chastek to acknowledge a group masses of library users, to us fortunate people who had Library. The money was raised at of workers that often gets a work-study position in a matinee benefit performance of overlooked – our student the library while you were Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mocking employees. they are the sinew and muscle in school, we salute you. If Bird” on January 16, 2006. Adam Morrison gets one past While our student you never had that honor, The performance was part of UCLA. workers may be anonymous but have been a library user, Spokane’s city-wide celebration of faces to the masses of of library operations. Their take a moment to appreciate the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Mary Ann McCurdy presents a library users, to us they the service these students Maxey, a 1951 graduate of check to Dean Earl Martin, left are the sinew and muscle have provided to maintain the GU Law, worked tirelessly to of library operations. Their contributions are legion. smooth library services you represent the disenfranchised and contributions are legion. enjoy. the victims of discrimination. A When we need someone to well-respected trial lawyer, Maxey

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Professor Upendra Acharya clauses at Flathead Valley Community College. Professor Gerry Hess Professor Brooks Holland On May 5, he was part of a panel discussion Presentations taped for cable broadcast by the Massachusetts Publications Presentations Professor Upendra Acharya participated in a School of Law on evolution and intelligent design. Gerry Hess, Improving Teaching and Learning Professor Brooks Holland participated in an on-line panel discussion at the University of Montana On May 9, he participated in a panel sponsored in Law School: Faculty Development Research, symposium sponsored by the Journal of Law & School of Law on April 14, 2006. The topic was by Spokane Community College debating gay Principles, and Programs, 12 Wi d e n e r L. Re v . Liberty at the New York University School of Law, Can the U.N., or Anyone Else, Stop Genocide & marriage. (2006). on the topic of Anticipatory Search Warrants in the Crimes Against Humanity? The panel was part of Gerry Hess, The Trail Smelter, the Columbia Federal Courts (February 10, 2006). a conference sponsored by the International Law River and the Extraterritorial Application of Society at the law school. Professor Helen Donigan CERCLA 18 Ge o . In t ’l. En v t ’l. L. Re v . 1 (2005). Professor Amy Kelley Presentations Etc. Professor Lynn Daggett Associate Dean Helen Donigan has been Presentations Presentations asked to speak at a University of Oxford “Using Active Learning to Engage Students,” Professor Amy Kelley has been designated as the Roundtable on Women’s Leadership to be Capital University Law School (March, 2006). “Public Lands Chair” on the program committee Professor Lynn Daggett presented The Case for held at Harris Manchester College, England in for the 52nd Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral “Study Tour for Afghan Legal Educators State Protection of Private School Students from August, 2006. Her topic is Gender and Justice Law Foundation Institute to be held July 2006, in – Curriculum Development and Interactive Discrimination, to the American Association of in the Washington State Courts: A Decade of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Each chair is instrumental Teaching Methods,” United States Agency for Law Schools, Education Law Panel. Leadership by a Supreme Court Commission. in identifying topics and speakers, and also for International Development (February, 2006). insuring that each speaker produces a law review- “Teaching and Learning Values,” AALS Annual quality article to be published in the Institute Meeting (January 2006). Professor David K. DeWolf Professor Sheri Engelken Proceedings. Publications “Law School Survey of Student Engagement: Presentations From Anecdote to Analysis,” AALS Annual David K. DeWolf, Waiting for Scopes: The Future Meeting (January 2006). In November, 2005, Professor Sheri Engelken of Intelligent Design, op-ed in the Jurist magazine presented Democracy in a Federalist System: “Designing, Preparing, and Presenting Effective Dean Earl Martin (November 7, 2005). The Late Chief Justice Rehnquist and the First Learning Activities,” National Judicial College Publication David K. DeWolf (with Casey Luskin, John West Amendment to Gonzaga Law School’s William (December, 2005). and Jonathan Witt), Traipsing into Evolution: O. Douglas Committee. The lecture addressed Dean Martin’s article America’s Anti-Standing Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller vs. Dover the underlying pillars of Justice Rehnquist’s First Army Tradition and the Separate Community Decision, Discovery Institute (2006). Amendment jurisprudence. Doctrine was accepted for publication by the Professor Joe Hnylka Mississippi Law Journal. Presentations Presentations Professor Gail Hammer Professor Joe Hnylka gave a presentation titled Presentation Professor David DeWolf participated in a panel ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­“Co-participant tort liability in sports”at the Tort Etc. Dean Earl Martin participated in a panel discussion discussion that preceded the re-enactment of the and Workers’ Compensation Issues in Sports at the 35th Annual Deans’ Workshop in association Scopes trial by the L.A. Theatre Works, in York, In November, Law Clinic Professor Gail Hammer conference sponsored by Loyola Sports Law with the ABA mid-winter meeting in Chicago Pennsylvania, January 2006. He was also on a took her third and final trip to Serbia as part of Institute, Los Angeles, California (February 10, in February. His topic was The Future of the panel discussing the Kitzmiller case at Boston her consulting work with the National Center 2006). College in January. In February, he was part of for State Courts on the Serbia Rule of Law Profession: Fostering Professionalism, Integrity, a panel discussion airing on C-Span 2, called project. Professor Hammer’s efforts have been and a Commitment to Pro Bono in Our Students. Evolution and Intelligent Design, sponsored focused on reforming Serbian legal education Dean Martin also spoke on November 4 to the by the Close Up Foundation. On April 13, he and improving teaching methods. She consulted Spokane County Bar Association on the topic of delivered a lecture on “Darwinian Orthodoxy individually with Serbian law professors and The Past, Present, and Future of Legal Education. and Intelligent Design: Was Justice Jackson deans and conducted intensive workshops on Wrong?” as part of a series on the religion teaching methods.

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Professor Jim McCurdy Professor Linda Rusch The UCC and Revenue Recognition: How to Avoid ‘Why’ Problems, The Law Teacher, Fall 2005. Having Your Terms and Conditions Mess up Your Publications Awards and Acknowledgements Stephen L. Sepinuck, Robyn L. Meadows & Client’s Financials, a CLE presentation sponsored Russell A. Hakes,The Uniform Commercial Code by the American Bar Association Business Law Professor McCurdy is completing the manuscript On March 15, 2006, Linda J. Rusch was honored Survey, 60 Bu s . La w . 1635 (2005) (editors). for the 6th edition of Sports Law: Cases & as the 2005-06 Outstanding Alumni at Augustana Section (November 2005). Materials (Lexis Nexis 2006). College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. During On March 14, 2006, Professor Rusch spoke her time at Augustana, Professor Rusch spoke at Hamline University Law School regarding Presentations Etc. with the men’s basketball team regarding life Practicing Leadership as a Way of Life. On April 6, Professor Stephen Sepinuck Professor Jim McCurdy completed his three-year after sports, at a college-wide convocation on presented a two-hour program titled Avoiding term as Washington’s commissioner on the Basin Practicing Leadership as a Way of Life, and at the Pitfalls of UCC Practice, at the spring meeting Environmental Improvement Project Commission, a luncheon of lawyers and business people in Etc. of the Business Law Section of the ABA. He a collaborative body charged with implementing Sioux Falls on Current Issues in E-Commerce. Professor Rusch recently commenced a two year also presented two CLE programs to the law the Superfund clean-up of the Coeur d’Alene term as treasurer for the American College of firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker River basin. Publications Commercial Finance Lawyers. LLP in Greenwich, Connecticut, one titled The She attended the September meeting in Basics of Secured Transactions, and the other Linda J. Rusch, Hawkland’s Uniform Commercial Professor McCurdy performed as the sole Philadelphia of the American Law Institute covering Recent Developments in Commercial Code Series: 2006 Supplement to Volume on UCC expert witness for the Carolina League during Members Consultative Group discussion of a Law. Article 2. arbitration concerning the compensation owed draft of several sections of the Restatement of by the Washington Nationals in relocating to Linda J. Rusch, Hawkland’s Uniform Commercial Restitution. Washington, D. C. Code Series: 2006 Supplement to UCC Article 7. Etc. In November Professor Rusch attended the Professor Sepinuck was recently elected to Linda J. Rusch, Hawkland’s Uniform Commercial meeting of the Permanent Editorial Board of the the American College of Commercial Finance Code Series: New 2006 volume on Revised UCC Uniform Commercial Code in Chicago as a member Lawyers. Professor Dan Morrissey Article 7. of the American Law Institute. Presentations Linda J. Rusch, faculty editor, The Business She also participated in the American Bar Lawyer, August 2005, American Bar Association, Professor Dan Morrissey gave his presentation Association Business Law Section Council Business Law Section. Piercing the Corporate Veil, to the Washington midwinter meeting as a member of the Council. Professor Vickie Williams State Trial Lawyers Association roundtable in Linda J. Rusch, faculty editor, The Business In February 2005, she was part of the American Spokane, Washington (January 2006). Lawyer, November 2005, American Bar Bar Association site inspection team conducting a Awards and Acknowledgements Association, Business Law Section. sabbatical inspection of the University of Kentucky Professor Vickie Williams was awarded the Linda J. Rusch & Stephen L. Sepinuck, Problems College of Law in Lexington, Kentucky. “Orland 1L Professor of the Year” award at the Heidelberg celebration (April 2, 2006). Professor Ann Murphy and Materials on Secured Transactions She was recently appointed as Chair of the (Thomson/West 2006), with Teacher’s Manual. Awards & Acknowledgements Council Committee on Member Services, for the Linda J. Rusch, Secured Transactions, Black American Bar Association Section of Business Presentations Professor Ann Murphy was named the “Orland Letter Series (Thomson/West 2006). Law for a term commencing August 2006. Professor of the Year” by the student body at the Professor Vickie Williams will present a talk In May 2006, she attended the annual meeting annual Heidelberg celebration (April 2, 2006). titled Fluconomics—Preparing Our Hospitals of the American Law Institute in Philadelphia for the Economic Impact of Pandemic Disease, Presentations to participate in discussion of several draft at the Health Law Teachers’ Conference, Health Professor Linda J. Rusch gave several restatement projects. Professor Rosanna Peterson Care Law and the Taking Clause scholars’ panel, presentations over the last few months: University of Maryland School of Law. This Presentations The Effect of Failure to Enact Amendments to conference is scheduled for June 2006. Ms. Articles 2 and 2A: Scope, Formation, and Battle Professor Stephen Sepinuck Williams has also been invited to speak to the Professor Rosanna Peterson presented of the Forms, Etc., to the American Law Institute Washington/Alaska chapter of the Healthcare “Improving Your Speaking Skills” at a Spokane Publications and American Bar Association conference in Financial Managers’ Association (HFMA) in County Bar Association Trial Skills CLE (January Washington, D.C. (December 2005). Linda J. Rusch & Stephen L. Sepinuck, Problems Spokane on May 18, 2006, regarding hospital 2006). and Materials on Secured Transactions economics and pandemic disease. The title of her Current Issues in the International Sale of Goods, (Thomson/West 2006), with Teacher’s Manual. to the American Law Institute and American presentation is, “The Takings Clause and Public Bar Association conference in Washington, D.C. Stephen L. Sepinuck, Teaching Statutory Health.” (December 2005). Construction Through Reverse Problems and

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