NORTHWESTERN LAW REPORTER Spring 2014, Volume II, Number 2
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THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW VOLUME II NUMBER 2 SPRING 2014 NORTHWESTERN LAW REPORTER Spring 2014, Volume II, Number 2 DEAN AND HAROLD WASHINGTON PROFESSOR Daniel B. Rodriguez ASSOCIATE DEAN OF ENROLLMENT, CAREER STRATEGY, AND MARKETING Donald L. Rebstock ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS Jaci Thiede ASSISTANT DEAN OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Kirston Fortune DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS Julie Chin DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS Kathleen Gleeson SENIOR DESIGNER Mary Kate Radelet CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Kirston Fortune, Kathleen Gleeson, Tracy Marks, Jennifer West CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Randy Belice, Jim Block, Rajah Bose, Teresa Crawford, Patrick Ray Dunn, Lloyd DeGrane, Evanston Photographic Studios, Brad Meese, Michael Paras, Bill Petros, Bruce Powell, Jasmin Shah Photo on page 41 by Natalie Battaglia. Copyright 2014 Law Bulletin Publishing Co. Reprinted with permission. Art on cover and pages 16–17 visualized by Ink Factory – inkfactorystudio.com The editors thank the faculty, staff, students, and alumni of Northwestern University School of Law for their cooperation in this publication. Opinions expressed in the Northwestern Law Reporter do not necessarily reflect the views of Northwestern University School of Law or Northwestern University. Update Your Address EMAIL [email protected] WEB law.alumni.northwestern.edu PHONE 312.503.7609 US MAIL Northwestern University School of Law Office of Alumni Relations and Development 375 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 Find us online at www.law.northwestern.edu Copyright ©2014. Northwestern University School of Law. All rights reserved. 5-14/16M THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW VOLUME II NUMBER 2 SPRING 2014 6 12 16 44 FEATURES 6 Neil Bluhm Gives $15 Million 10 Neil G. Bluhm (JD ’62) gives $15 million to Northwestern Law — the largest charitable gift in the Law School’s history. 8 10 New Public Interest Fellows DEPARTMENTS A coalition of alumni and faculty created 10 new, post-graduate public interest fellowships for members of the Class of 2014, and plans are in 2 From the Dean the works for more in the years to come. 3 Noteworthy 24 Clinic News 12 Bangladesh Justice Audit Offers Intensive Research Opportunity 30 Faculty Focus Four students worked with Professor Thomas F. Geraghty (JD ’69) 36 Alumni Notes on a research project that could promote change in the Bangladeshi 40 Alumni Profiles criminal justice system. 48 Class Notes 51 In Memoriam 16 Law and Entrepreneurship 52 Closing Remarks Innovative interdisciplinary programs prepare students to represent a variety of business enterprises including, in some cases, their own. FROM THE DEAN ith this issue of the Northwestern Law Reporter, we describe several of the Wgreat accomplishments of our com- munity members – students, faculty, and alumni. To be sure, this Reporter is not an encyclopedia. For a comprehensive depiction of the vital contri- butions and activities of Northwestern Law, you would do well to cast your gaze widely. Mainstream and social media (including my blog, Word on the Streeterville, and the various Twitter feeds highlighting Northwestern Law initiatives) paint a fuller picture. Two themes emerge from a close reading of this issue: One is the extra- ordinary global reach of our faculty and students. The globalization of legal practice and the justice imperatives across the developing world call upon creative energy and institutional commitment. You will see in the pages that follow myriad examples of Northwestern Law community members hard at work at significant educational and public service ventures around the world. As we continue to develop our strategic plan, and craft specific steps to implement its bold objectives, you can be assured that the global reach and impact of our law school will grow and take a richer shape. Another theme is reflected in the fun artwork on the cover and the sto- ries within, and that is the great programs and initiatives involving law and entrepreneurship. Our students are inventors and creators, visionaries and risk-takers. Built into the culture of our innovative Law School is a distinctly entrepreneurial spirit. With established and new programs in the entrepre- neurial space, we are leveraging the assets of our gifted, diverse, experi- enced students and also the ingenuity of our talented faculty to map out a distinctive place in the world of top law schools. Our curriculum, projects, and institutional culture will reinforce this identity – indeed, it will become a clear aspect of the Northwestern Law Difference. Communication with our alumni and friends will continue to take many forms. This Reporter is one contribution to this engagement. But com- munication is, of course, a two-way street. I look forward to hearing your input and advice. Please reach out whenever and however you wish. Northwestern Law School is moving ahead with vigor and vision. And I am ever grateful for your support. Daniel B. Rodriguez Dean and Harold Washington Professor 2 | NORTHWESTERN LAW REPORTER NOTEWORTHY Honoring a Legend Friends, Colleagues, and Fellow Alumni Establish Endowment to Create Newton N. Minow Professorship Wanting to do something nice for a man the professorship, they had enough to also like Newton N. Minow (JD ’50) is one thing, create the Newton N. Minow Debates, but figuring out what it should be is more which will bring together outside experts, complicated. Or so a group of his friends law school faculty, and students to debate and associates thought, until they realized important and timely legal topics. that he didn’t have an endowed chair at On the evening of April 9, 2014, Minow his alma mater, Northwestern University and his wife, Jo Minow, headed to Sidley School of Law. So a small cadre of friends Austin’s Chicago office for what they Carter Phillips (JD ’77) presenting Minow with an endowed professor medal like the one faculty members and partners from his law firm set out to thought was a reception for Sidley part- wear on ceremonial occasions. make it happen. Within weeks they not ners, but when they arrived and saw so only had the gifts they needed to establish many of their close friends and his fellow Northwestern Trustees, Appointed by President John F. they quickly realized Kennedy to the Federal Communications Newton (JD ’50) and Jo Minow at the Chicago office of Sidley Austin on the evening of April 9, 2014, surprised by the news that friends and colleagues raised that this event was Commission in the early 1960s, Minow $4 million to establish an endowed chair and a debate series at Northwestern something different. drafted legislation that expanded the School of Law in his honor. Then Charles Douglas broadcast spectrum and promoted the (BA ’70) rose and implementation of communication satel- addressed the group, lite technology. In 1961, while serving as thanking Minow for Federal Communications Commission his many contributions chairman, Minow referred to television as to legal education and a “vast wasteland” in a landmark speech practice, and announc- still remembered today. ing the creation of the Minow is a former chair of the Public Newton N. Minow Broadcasting Service, past co-chair of the Professorship at 1976 and 1980 presidential debates, and vice Northwestern Law. chair of the Commission on Presidential Minow earned his Debates. He is one of the originators of the bachelor’s degree televised presidential debates, which inspired in 1949 and his JD the idea to honor his legacy with a perma- in 1950, both from nent debate program at his alma mater. Northwestern. He “Newt’s contributions to public and civic joined the University’s life in the United States, the practice of law Board of Trustees in and the intellectual life of the law school 1975, became a Life are beyond measure,” said Dean Daniel Trustee in 1987, and B. Rodriguez. “He is also a friend and currently is the Walter mentor to many generations of lawyers. I Annenberg Professor am delighted that his friends, fellow alumni, Emeritus. Minow is and Sidley colleagues have chosen to honor also senior counsel at him with a named professorship here at Sidley Austin, where Northwestern Law, and that we are able he was partner from to recognize Newt’s legacy by hosting the 1965 to 1991. Minow Debates for years to come.”Q SPRING 2014 | 3 NOTEWORTHY Former US Attorney Delivers Pope & John Lecture Students, faculty, and alumni gathered as the US attorney for the Northern District in Lincoln Hall last September 17 to hear of Illinois for more than a decade—the esteemed trial lawyer, investigator, and longest-serving US attorney in Chicago. former US attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald As US attorney, Fitzgerald led many high- discuss the complex issues prosecutors face profile investigations and prosecutions, when questioning terror suspects in situa- including the corruption convictions of tions of perceived imminent threat. former Illinois governors George Ryan and Fitzgerald delivered his lecture, “The Rod Blagojevich and the fraud conviction of Perils of Prosecutors Facing Ticking Time media mogul Conrad Black. He also led the Bombs,” as featured speaker of the Law investigation in the Valerie Plame matter School’s annual Pope & John Lecture on and tried the case of United States v. Lewis Patrick J. Fitzgerald Professionalism. “Scooter” Libby. Currently a partner at Skadden, Arps, The 2013 Pope & John Lecture was lectures focus on the many dimensions of a Slate, Meagher & Flom, Fitzgerald special- the 23rd since the Chicago firm Pope & lawyer’s professional responsibility, includ- izes in internal investigations, government John Ltd. established the lecture series at ing legal ethics, public service, professional enforcement matters, and civil litigation. Northwestern Law in 1991. Administered by civility, pro bono representation, and stan- Prior to joining Skadden in 2012, he served the Bartlit Center for Trial Advocacy, these dards of conduct.Q Durbin Delivers Keynote at ‘Guns in America’ Symposium Durbin talked about the gun lobby’s opposition to new and existing firearms regulations and about efforts to curb gun violence since the Sandy Hook tragedy.