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UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Alumni Publications 6-1-2004 Hastings Community (Summer 2004) Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag Recommended Citation Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association, "Hastings Community (Summer 2004)" (2004). Hastings Alumni Publications. 117. http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag/117 This is brought to you for free and open access by UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. HASTING S HASTINGS II LETTER TO A L UMN I NEWS OF HASTINGS' CENTERS ALUMNI/STUDENT PICTURE GALLERY Chancellor Mary Kay Kane • Negotiation and Dispute Resolution • New Bar Admittees Receptions On Opportunities for A lumni • A Busy Conference Calendar And Students to Come Together • San Francisco Chapter Holiday Party • ADR Course Offerings Expand • Hawaii Chapter • Competition Teams' Most Successful Season • Los Angeles Chapter, Century City n • Gender and Refugee Studies • Los Angeles Chapter, Downtown • Women's Rights in Asia CAMPUS NOTES • Alumnus-of-the-Year Celebrations • MoFo Partner West Joins Board • State and Local Government Law • San Diego Chapter Dinner • Visitors • Legislati.on Clinic Completes First Semester • Alumni Events • Japanese Explore US. Legal Education • Praise for 50-State Environmental Justice Models Study • Fresno Reception • Chinese Focus on Judicial Appointment • Colorado Chancellor's Reception Procedures • Los Angeles Judges' Reception • Speakers • San Diego Reception • Federalist Society Hosts Libertarian FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COLLEGE • Constitution-Making Processes • Testamentary Charitable Transfers of • Fighting Terror in the Federal Courts m Retirement Plan Assets FACULTY NOTES • Ten Lucky Numbers: The Alumni Legacy • The Miller Professorship Dinner • Professor Mattei Receives Tartufari Award • Hastings Women's Law Journal Marks • Professor Rappaport Granted Tenure 15th Year m • Faculty in the News • AtAALS • US. District Court Honors Chancellor Kane FOUNDER'S DAY 2004 • Meetings, Conferences, and Symposia • Alumnus of the Year: Deborah Ballati ('75) • The Future of Force: Waging War in the 21 st Century • Hastings Medal of Achievement: Hon. Willie L. Brown, Jr. ('58) • Well-Founded Fears: Gender Asylum and the Law CLASS NOTES • Music Law Meets the Digital Age • McAllister Tower Renovation Progresses m • Hastings Graduates Win Judicial Clerkships THE ANDERSON LECTURE ON THE COVER : • Author and Syndicated Columnist Richard • Business Journal in Planning Standing, Anderson Lecturer Richard Reeves and Reeves 2002-03 Alumni Association President Fred • "Modern Presidential Leadership From Butler ('86). Seated, 2004 Alumnus of the Year Kennedy to the Bushes" Deborah Ballati ('75) and 2004-05 Alumni Association President Hon. Brad Hill ('83). (Photo: Bruce Cook) 1066 FOUNDATION' S FOUNDER' S DAY CELEBRATION ···· H AS TI NGS · LETTE R TO ALUMN I SUMMER 2004 astings instituted a new alumni judges and coaches for our in creasingly H student program this spring successful Moot Court teams, offering their called "Legacy Dinners." The idea skills and advice in many late night and came from our current student body weekend sessions. And others volunteer to President, Steven Ngo ('04), who noted do "mock interviews" for upper class how impressed he was with the students so that they can practice their accomplishments of our alumni when he marketing skills before actuall y haVing a read about them in our alumni formal job interview. This kind of training publications and in our special 125th cannot be duplicated and is an invaluable Anniversary newsmagazine article. Steve, resource fo r our students. who as President sits on the Alumni Board And after graduation, it is alumni, of Governors to provide them with again, who gather in special chapter events insights into student life and issues, thus to welcome the new bar admittees into proposed to the Alumni Board that it fund their fo ld and to celebrate with them the a new series on campus-Legacy Dinners excitement of finally becoming licensed -and the Board endorsed the idea attorneys. enthusiastically. There will be about two These brief sketches mention merely dinners each semester. At each, two to some of the more visible and formal three prominent alumni will be invited to programs that exist in which students and have cocktails and dinner with 10 students Student mentoring begins early and at alumni come together. Countless less in our Skyroom on the 24th floor of the local chapter level in many cities. In visible, but extremely important, informal McAllister Tower. Interested students enter the spring and summer before a new class exchanges also take place. Thus, I think a lottery to get one of the 10 seats. enrolls, several chapters (Los Angeles, that it is very appropriate that we Judge Brad Hill ('83), the Board's Orange County, San Diego, Seattle, New celebrate the efforts of the m any alumni President, then embarked on setting up the York City, Washington, D.C., Latino, and who, over the years, have been actively first dinner, which took place on February BALSA) sponsor regular "new admittees" engaged in helping the College mentor and 2, 2004. At that dinner, Judge Hill, Steve receptions to welcome and encourage the ease our graduates into the legal Ngo, and 10 excited students spent the students who will be starting at Hastings in profession. They really have m ade a evening with Justice Marvin Baxter ('66) the upcoming term . For many students, difference to generations of students. And I of the California Supreme Court, Justice this may provide their first opportunity to hope that some reading this column, who Carol Corrigan ('75) of the California mingle with lawyers and as k questions may not have known of these activities, Court of Appeal, 1s t Appellate District, about the profession and about law school. will be inspired to find out more and join and Kevin Shelley ('83), the California Since 1996, a more formal alumni in the effort. As I have often said, it is the Secretary of State. Great fun was had by mentoring program has existed for the Hastings people who m ake Hastings great, all, and now other students wait with students while they are in school. Run and by drawing together and helping each anticipation for the next Legacy Dinner through the Career Services Office and other we form an invincible force1 later this year. with a full-time alumni-mentor director, I joined the group for cocktails before Phil Marshall (, 92), the program now has dinner and witnessed the enthusias m of 575 alumni around the world who have our students for this opportunity to meet signed up to be mentors. Students are able and relax with our alumni, whom they to match interests in areas such as career regard as outstanding role models. And paths, geography, or fa mily and find one Mary Kay Kane that evening started me refl ecting on all (or in some instances more than one) Chancellor and Dean the many ways in which alumni have mentor to answer their questions, give reached out and helped our students. It is a advice, and become friends with while remarkable story and one that I thought I they are in law school. would share with you. Volunteer alumni also serve as practice HASTINGS , CAMPUS NOTES MoFo PARTNER TONY WEST 1994, West returned to California to accept an appointment as an IS HASTINGS' NEWEST Assistant US. Attorney for the Northern District of California, BOARD OF D IRECTORS where he prosecuted high-tech crime, child pornography, MEMBER economic espionage, financial fraud, firearms violations, tax In one of the last series of appointments offenses, drug crimes, and government fraud. In 1999, West was made by Governor Gray Davis before he appointed Special Assistant Attorney General for California by left office at the end of the year, Attorney General Bill Lockyer. In that capacity, he advised the Morrison & Foerster partner Tony West Attorney General on high-tech crime, civil rights, and Internet was appointed to Hastings' Board of privacy and was part of the state's legal team responsible for Directors, the College's governing body. conducting California's Microsoft antitrust litigation. A former federal prosecutor, he served as West is a member of the Earl Warren Inn of Court and the California Special Assistant Attorney General, an Assistant US. Bar Association of San Francisco, where he serves on the Attorney, and a senior US. Department of Justice aide prior to Executive Committee of the Litigation Section. A frequent public joining Morrison & Foerster in 2001 . speaker, he is also a legal analyst for ESPNews and has been a A 1987 honors graduate of Harvard, he graduated from featured legal commentator on various media networks, including Stanford Law School in 1992. At Stanford, he was elected MSNBC, BBC, NPR, the Washington Post Online, and the San Jose President of the Stanford Law Review. After a year of private Mercury News. practice, he joined the Clinton Administration and, as Special Hastings Board members are appointed by the Governor, Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General, participated in the confirmed by the State Senate, elected by the Board, and serve development of national law enforcement policy, including the for 12 years. West's appointment brings Board membership to 10, successful effort to pass the landmark 1994 Crime Bill. In late with one vacancy remaining on the II-member board. Campus Visitors T H E HASTINGS MODEL JUDICIAL ApPOINTMENT PROCESSES A group of business executives from Iizuka, Japan, were guests of In December, Hastings Academic Dean Leo Martinez ('78), Academic Dean Leo Martinez ('78) in November. Japanese legal seated center, hosted a delegation from the Ministry of the education is undergoing a transformation to align it with the People's Republic of China focusing on procedures for judicial American system, to provide for a graduate law degree.