FALL 2007 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF UTLAW LAW 2007 CONTRIBUTORS’ REPORT Defending Habeas: the Nationalational Security and Human Rights CCliniclinic ggoesoes ttoo tthehe United States SuSupremepreme CCourtourt THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION, 727 E. DEAN KEETON STREET, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78705 UTLawCover1_FIN.indd 2 11/14/07 8:07:37 PM 22 UTLAW Fall 2007 UTLaw01_FINAL.indd 22 11/14/07 7:46:29 PM InCamera Immigration Clinic works for families detained in Taylor, Texas The T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility in Taylor, Texas currently detains more than one hundred immigrant families at the behest of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The facility, a former medium security prison, is the subject of considerable controversy regarding the way detainees are treated. For the past year, UT Law’s Immigration Clinic has worked to improve the conditions at Hutto. In this photograph, (left to right) Farheen Jan,’08, Elise Harriger,’08, Immigration Clinic Director and Clinical Professor Barbara Hines, Matt Pizzo,’08, Clinic Administrator Eduardo A Maraboto, and Kate Lincoln-Goldfi nch, ’08, stand outside the Hutto facility. Full story on page 16. Photo: Christina S. Murrey FallFall 2007 2007 UT UTLAWLAW 23 1 UTLaw01_FINAL.indd 23 11/14/07 7:46:50 PM 6 16 10 4 Home to Texas 10 Legal Memory: 16 Litigation, Activism, In the Class of 2010—students who Learning the Law in and Advocacy: entered the Law School in fall 2007— thirty-eight percent are Texas residents 17th-Century Germany Immigration Clinic works who left the state for their undergradu- ate educations and then returned for One of the remarkable books in the for detained families law school. Meet four of them. Tarlton Law Library is the Memoriale institutionum juris [Memory Book of the UT Law’s Immigration Clinic spent the Institutes of Law], the fi rst volume in last year working to change life for resi- 6 Defending Habeas: a series of three books by Johannes dents at a controversial family detention Buno. The Memoriale uses complex facility in Taylor, Texas. The National Security and pictorial mnemonics to help students memorize the content of the entire Human Rights Clinic medieval corpus of the Roman law. 20 Other Georges Professor Emily Kadens explains. The Law School’s newest—and largest— Commissioned for the recently con- legal clinic, the National Security and structed George’s Café at the Law Human Rights Clinic, is one of a handful School, Margot Herster spent some time of law school clinics that directly rep- traveling through Texas photograph- resent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, ing other establishments that share the Cuba. On December 5, 2007, arguments name “George.” This photo essay reveals they created will be presented before the a fascinating bit of Texana. United States Supreme Court as part of the the Al Odah litigation. 2 UTLAW Fall 2007 UTLaw_2-3FIN.indd 2 11/14/07 8:24:15 PM UT SCHOOL OF LAW Dean LAWRENCE SAGER University of Texas Law School Foundation President, Board of Trustees ROBERT C. GRABLE, ’71 The 2007 UT Law School Alumni Association President BRYAN GOOLSBY, ’77 Contributors’ UT LAW MAGAZINE Editor Report KIRSTON FORTUNE Contributing Editor TOM HENNINGER, ’92 20 34 Major Gifts Contributing Writers JOHN EGAN JERRY DE JAAGER 38 Keeton Fellows Class Notes Editor 24 Faculty News CHRISTINA DUNGER Daniel B. Rodriguez 40 Annual Fund Design MARYBETH DAIGLE Harrington Fellows: Niko Cover photos Matouschek and Mark Greenberg 56 Friends of the Law MARSHA MILLER 2007–2009 Emerging Scholars: School Cover photo illustration Stuart Chinn and Ian Farrell KRISTINE BRUINSSLOT COMMENTS? 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Fall 2007 UTLAW 3 UTLaw_2-3FIN.indd 3 11/14/07 8:24:23 PM HOME to TEXAS by Tom Henninger, ’92 Marsha MillerMarsha ONE OF THE GREAT options for their legal educations, but strengths of UT Law is its they chose UT. In conversation with these diverse and accomplished students, we discovered why they came student body. Women home to Texas. Oand men from across the country and Michael Addison is from San Antonio, around the world come to Texas to where he graduated from St. Mary’s Hall. study. Over 250 undergraduate institu- After graduation, Addison left Texas for tions, forty-fi ve states plus the District of Yale University. “Two Yale professors had Columbia, and seventeen foreign coun- co-authored the textbook for my high tries are represented among the students. school European History class, and I In the Class of 2010—students who thought both the class and the textbook entered the Law School in fall 2007— were great. I was interested in ultimately thirty-eight percent are Texas residents taking the professors’ classes and became who left the state for their undergradu- curious about Yale’s History department,” ate educations and then returned for law Addison said. After earning his degree in school. As the saying goes, Texas has a History, Addison returned to Texas for way of reclaiming her own. All had other law school. When asked why he chose 4 UTLAW Fall 2007 UTLaw4-5_FINAL.indd 4 11/14/07 8:35:42 PM Michael Addison, Daniel Aguilar, Priscilla Noriega, and Cole Evans Michael Addison, Daniel Aguilar, Priscilla Noriega, and Cole Evans UT, he said “It’s a fi rst-rate legal educa- Priscilla Noriega grew up in Browns- familiar, Evans attended the University tion, and it’s nice to come home.” ville and graduated from Gladys Porter of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where Daniel Aguilar spent his early years in High School. She majored in English he majored in Business Administration. El Paso, then his family moved to Plano Language and Literature at Yale Uni- “Leaving Texas to go to UNC was one where he graduated from Plano Senior versity. Noriega thoroughly enjoyed her of the best decisions I ever made,” said High School. He earned his under- undergraduate experience in the North- Evans. “I was blessed with great friends graduate degree in Economics from the east, but service in Teach for America and experiences, and I gained much University of Chicago. “Chicago is a great brought her—happily—back to Texas. “I from my classes and professors.” Evans city: the lake, the people, the sports, the knew I wanted to stay in Texas after teach- feels the same way about returning to food, the arts…I could go on,” said Agui- ing to be near my family,” said Noriega. Texas and to UT for law school. “While lar. “And the students and professors at “Based on that and the fact that UT the school’s elite faculty and top-tier the school were outstanding.” When Law is simply a great school with many reputation were reasons enough, I asked what brought him back to Texas, opportunities to learn the law through its wanted to study the law in my home he said “Cost was a factor. Texas is a good clinics, I knew I had to come here.” state,” he said. value compared to any other school of Cole Evans grew up in Dallas and It is indeed nice to come home, and the same caliber. And I knew I would get attended Highland Park High School. UT Law School is a beacon for many a great legal education here.” Desiring an experience outside of the young Texans. Fall 2007 UTLAW 5 UTLaw4-5_FINAL.indd 5 11/14/07 8:35:44 PM Defending Habeas: The National Security and Human Rights Clinic by john Egan UT Law’s new National Security and Human challenging the legality of the Detainee Treatment Act and the Rights Clinic is one of a handful of law school Military Commissions Act; directly representing some of the more than 300 “enemy combatants” detained at the U.S. mili- clinics that directly represent detainees at Guan- tary base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; and assembling briefs and tánamo Bay, Cuba. On December 5, 2007, other documents in cases related to the war on terrorism. arguments they created will be presented before AL ODAH ET AL. the United States Supreme Court in the Al Odah On December 5, 2007, the United States Supreme Court will litigation, which will determine if detainees hear oral arguments in the consolidated cases of Al Odah et al. At the heart of the litigation are two questions: are Guan- at Guantánamo have the right to present their tánamo detainees entitled to due process under United Geneva Conventions claims in federal court. States law and the Geneva Conventions, and does the Military Commissions Act validly strip courts of jurisdiction over detainees’ habeas corpus petitions? IF THE NEW NATIONAL Security and The Military Commissions Act was authorized last year by Human Rights Clinic at UT Law adopted a slo- Congress in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling last year in gan, it might borrow the closing phrase from Hamdan v.