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Notre Dame Law School NDLScholarship Notre Dame Lawyer Law School Publications 4-1-2001 Notre Dame Lawyer - Spring 2001 Notre Dame Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/nd_lawyer Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Notre Dame Law School, "Notre Dame Lawyer - Spring 2001" (2001). Notre Dame Lawyer. Book 16. http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/nd_lawyer/16 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at NDLScholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Notre Dame Lawyer by an authorized administrator of NDLScholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Dear Notre Dame Lawyer, IN THIS ISSUE, we're taking a look at some of the ways in which international law issues have had an increasing impact on our faculty scholarship and, in turn, on our curriculum and on our students. In 1994-95, my final year as a student in this law school, our curriculum - outside of the interna- tional human rights offerings of our Center for Civil and Human Rights and the international law courses taught through the London program - included two courses in 2001 CALENDAR OF EVENTS international law, and the subject rarely came up in other courses except for brief references to various treaties that might have an impact on subjects such as intellectual prop- May 20,2001 September 22, 200 I erty and admiralty law. Commencement Home Football: ND v. Michigan State In just a few short years, however, things have changed CLE Program dramatically. Today, not only has the Law School expanded June 7-10,2001 Post-Game Reception, Student Lounge its curriculum offerings in the international law area through University Reunion 200 I courses like International and Comparative Labor Law, October 6, 200 I International Business Transactions and International June 14, 200 I Home Football: ND v. Pittsburgh Environmental Law, bur courses in more traditional disci- Notre Dame Law Association Reception Post-Game Reception, Student Lounge State Bar of Arizona Annual Meeting plines such as criminal law now incorporate international The Phoenician, Scottsdale, Arizona October 13,200 I law components to reflect the reality that much of what 5 to 6:30 p.m. Home Football: ND vWest Virginia occurs abroad has implications at home, and vice versa. CLE Program Other new courses, such as Cyberspace and the Law, expose June 15, 200 I Post-Game Reception, Student Lounge students to a field in which the law is developing daily to Submission deadline for Notre Dame Lawyer, deal with the complexities of the global Internet. summer issue October 19,200 I For some students, the Immigration Clinic at the Notre Notre Dame Law Association Dame Legal Aid Clinic gives them the opportunity to learn June 29,200 I Board of Directors Fall Meeting about legal issues abroad that affect the ability of citizens of "European Union Charter of Fundamental other nations to legally emigrate to the United States. For Rights:' a conference sponsored by the October 20, 200 I others, internship and service opportunities abroad provide a Human Rights Centre at the University of Home Football: ND v. Southern Cal way to experience firsthand the international law principles Essex, the Notre Dame London Law Centre Post-Game Reception, Student Lounge learned through course work. and the NDLS Center for Civil and Human After you read the articles in this issue, I'm sure you Rights October 20-28,200 I will agree that the increased emphasis on international law Notre Dame London Law Centre, Marian Fall Midsemester Break within faculty scholarship and teaching, as well as within Kennedy Fischer Hall, London faculty and student service, is more than either an interest- November 3, 200 I ing academic exercise or a response to globalization of busi- August 6, 200 I Home Football: ND v.Tennessee ness, crime and orher legal issues. Rather, I hope you will Notre Dame Law Association Reception CLE Program see that international legal issues have become an integral American Bar Association Annual Meeting Post -Game Reception, Student Lounge part of our mission of teaching, scholarship and service, Chicago, Illinois (Location and time TBA) November 17,200 I strengthening the reputation of NDLS both at home and Home Football: ND v. Navy abroad. August 27,2001 Post-Game Reception, Student Lounge Fall 200 I Semester Begins November 22-25, 200 I Yours in Notre Dame, September 15, 200 I Thanksgiving Break NDLA Board - Elections 2002 Deadline for Nominations December 15,200 I Fall Semester Ends September 20-21,200 I Christmas Break Begins 27th Annual Estate and Tax Planning Institute (University and Law School offices closed Century Center, South Bend, Indiana December 22, 200 I, through January I, Cathy Pieronek, Editor 2002) 102 Law School Law School Advisory Council Fall Meeting Notre Dame, IN 46556 For more information on Law School or phone: (219) 631-6891 University events, please contact Cathy fax: (219) 631-9299 Pieronek at the Law School Relations e-rnail: catherine.f. [email protected] Office. or: [email protected] N o li R IE ID A M\ IL A w y IE R 200 1 S P r n g LAW SCHOO FOCUS International Impact 4 From Comity to Complexity: American Law Adapts to the Global Community Student Service Student Scholarship FROM THE DEAN 34 STUDENT NOTES FACULTY NOTES Journals Jimmy Gurule Nominated to - Student Service Bush Administration 35 - Trial Teams Editor: Cathy Pieronek 15 Faculty Resources -School Vouchers 38 IRISHLAW SPORTS REPORT 16 Professor Rice Announces Retirement 40 LAW SCHOOL BRIEFS Contributing Authors: 17 Faculty Resource - Faith-Based Seventh Circuit Sits at ND LS James Arrowood, Heather Service Initiatives NDLS Hosts Distinguished Speakers Moriconi, Sean O'Brien, 19 Faculty Resource - Technology and Natural Law Institute Receives Patricia A. O'Hara, Lucy Privacy Support from Olin Foundation Salsbury Payne, Glenn]. 20 Eileen Doran '86 J.D. Honored 41 Indiana Court of Appeals Visits R05swurm Faculty Resource - NDLS Pan Am Flight 103 Trial New Course in Medical Malpractice Principal Photographer: Matt Cashore 21 New Faculty Law for Spring 2001 21 ADMINISTRATOR AND 14th Annual Fr. Mike Talent Show Supplemental Photography: STAFF NOTES 42 News from the Admissions Office Susan Good 22 ALUMNI NOTES 43 News from the Career Services Office 23 In Memoriam 45 News from the Center for Civil and Supplemental Artwork: 24 Ann Claire Williams '75 J.D. - Human Rights u.K. House of Lords Chicago Lawyer Person of the Year 47 News from Law School Relations 27 New Additions 48 News from Law School Advancement Norre Dame Lawyer is 31 REUNION 2001 published for the alumni and 32 NOTRE DAME LAW ASSOCIATION friends of the University of NDLA Business Law Section Notre Dame Law School, Election 2001 Results Notre Dame, Indiana. Election 2002 - Become a Candidate 33 Alumni Support Student Service Address correspondence to: Notre Dame Lawyer 102 Law School Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 Telephone (219) 631·6891 Ion the cover: A sample of the international law Fax (219) 631·9299 scholarship of the NDLS faculty in front of the map of the North Atlantic from the entrance area of Hurley Spring 2001 Hall, which once housed the University's commerce program. • 3 IF R o M T H E ID A N ecendy, I received a letter from rhe son of Dean Thomas Konop, who served as dean of Norre Dame Law School from 1923 ro 1941, an 18-year period rhar saw the original consrrucrion of our current building, the establishment of the LAW REVIEW and the formation of the Student Bar Associarion. Dean Konop's son is now 91 years old himself and wrote to share a few reflections abour his father, including the recollection that his father, an immigrant from Czechoslovakia who served three terms in Congress prior to his tenure as dean, was frequendy reprimanded in his Wisconsin grade school for speaking in his native tongue. Dean Konop mighr rake particular pleasure in this issue of rhe NOTRE DAME LAWYER,which highlights the grow- ing international focus of the Law School. Our commitment to internationalizing the study of law precedes rhar of many American law schools - dating at least from the esrablishment of our year-long program in London in 1968. In the decades that have followed, we have strengrhened our internarional programs, adding a summer program in London, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, as well as graduare programs offering both rhe LL.M. and the J.S.D. degrees in international human righrs and the LL.M. degree in international and comparative law. This growth can also be seen in the work of our faculty. Fully a quarter of our faculry now reach and write in the field of international law. Some faculty, such as Professors Paolo Carozza, Juan Mendez, and Dinah Shelton, have devoted their careers to the study of international law. Professor Carozza's reaching and wriring focuses on the European Union; and he serves as a fellow of the Nanovic Institute, which seeks to enhance European studies at Notre Dame by providing a forum for the interdisciplinary discussion and research of key issues in Europe. Drawing on his background as former general counsel of Human Rights Watch and executive director of rhe Inter-American Insritute of Human Rights, Professor Mendez now directs rhe Notre Dame Center for Civil and Human Rights, while also serving on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of rhe Organization of American States. Under his leadership, the center recendy obtained a $750,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for research and advocacy on issues relating ro accountability for gross human-rights abuses.