Kentucky Lawyer, 1993

KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF LAW-1993 APANTHEON OF DEANS: Tom Lewis, Bob Lawson, David Shipley and Bill' Campbell Ci David Shipley becomes Dean of the College of Law he College of Law welcomes David E. fall. His areas of legal expertise are copyright and ad Shipley as its new dean, effective July 1, ministrative law. His most recent publication is a 1993. Dean Shipley comes to us from the casebook, Copyright Law: Cases and Materials, West ~---~ University of Mississippi School of Law, Publishing 1992, with co-authors Howard Abrams of the where he served as Dean and Director of the Law Center University of Detroit School of Law and Sheldon for the last three years. Halpern of Ohio State University. Shipley also has Dean Shipley was raised in Champaign, Illinois, and published two editions of a treatise on administrative was graduated from University High School at the Uni procedure in South Carolina entitled South Carolina versity of Illinois. He received his B.A. degree with Administrative Law. He has taught Civil Procedure, Highest Honors in American History from Oberlin Col- Remedies, Domestic Relations and Intellectual Property lege in 1972, and is as well as Copyright and Administrative Law. In addi a 1975 graduate of tion, he has participated in a wide variety of activities the University of and functions sponsored by the South Carolina and Mis Chicago Law sissippi bars. School, where he Dean Shipley enjoys reading best-selling novels by was Executive authors such as Grisham, Crichton, Turow and Clancy as Editor of the Uni well as history books about the Civil War. He runs versity of Chicago regularly and likes yard and garden work. He and his Law Review in family are SEC sports fans, and they look forward to J 974-75. After attending football and basketball games at Kentucky. practicing law in the firm of Tillinghast, Collins & Graham in Providence, Rhode Island, he began teaching at the University of South About this Issue Dean David E. Shipley Carolina School of This issue was published in cooperation with the UK Law in 1977. He became a full professor there in 1985 Publications Bureau/Public Relations, UK Photographic and then Associate Dean for Administration in 1989. Services and UK Publishing Services. Dean Shipley also held visiting appointments at William Editor, Kentucky Lawyer magazine: & Mary' s Marshall-Wythe School of Law in 1983-84, Drusilla V. Bakert and at the Ohio State University College of Law in 1986-87. He received both the Faculty Scholarship Editor, Development Report: Prize and the Teacher of the Year A ward at South Caro- Deborah A. Wells 1ina in 1989-90. All applicants meeting the appropriate requirements and technical Deau Shipley is married to Jenny Coleman, origi standards shall be considered equally for admission to any aca demic program regardless of race, color, religion , sex, marital nally from South Carolina, and they have a daughter, status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, beliefs, or disability. Shannon, age 11 , who is starting seventh grade in the THE DEAN Dear Alumni and Friends: It's a great honor for me to have been selected In March I learned I had made the College of as the new dean at the University of Kentucky Col Law's version of the final four: the Dean Search lege of Law. This is an outstanding law school Committee wanted me to come to campus for inter which is a vital part of a dynamic university. I am views. excited about my new position, and my family and I are pleased to make Lexington our new home. We look forward to meeting all of the law school's alumni and friends. I will have been on the job a little more than a month when this edition of the Ken tucky Lawyer reaches you. This new office is a major change for me after three very good years as dean of the Uni versity of Mississippi School of Law and thirteen years as a faculty member at the Univer sity of South Carolina School of Law. My arrival at UK also represents a major change Ed Glasscock '69 {left) and Charles Cassis '63 {center), both from Louisville, with for the College of Law as well, Dean Shipley at the June KBA meeting. as the culmination of a national dean search which I visited Lexington on April 7, 8 and 9 of this started last winter. In the words of radio personal year. Although it is exhausting to keep smiling and ity Paul Harvey, "and now, the rest of the story" to be simultaneously witty, charming, thoughtful, about my decision to make this career change and polite, and enthusiastic from breakfast at 7:00 a.m. move my family to Lexington, Kentucky from all the way through a full day of interviews and a Oxford, Mississippi. late dinner at Spindletop, I thoroughly enjoyed my It all started when I received a telephone call time with faculty, staff, students and alumni. My from Professor Gene Gaetke, Chair of the Dean interviews must have gone well because several Search Committee. He said I had been nominated weeks later, on April 21, 1993, I received an offer I as a potential candidate, and he asked me to send a could not refuse. I returned to Lexington with my vita as quickly as possible. I used the fax machine wife Jenny Coleman in early May to look for a and before long Professor Sarah Welling, another house (we were successful); ·we put our home in member of the search committee, told me they had Oxford on the market (I have had nightmares about been screening candidates and wanted to check on paying mortgages on two homes); we went to the me with some of my colleagues at Ole Miss and Kentucky Bar Convention in June; I loaded my elsewhere. I said yes and the screening continued. wife's Ford Explorer, drove to Lexington.and 2 legal education. For instance, there is increasing demand for law schools to offer more classes which focus on interviewing, counseling, and nego tiation skills. There is interest in expanding clini cal programs. We are being asked to do much more to improve our students' writing skills. Law school libraries need to keep pace with changes in information technology. These developments have an impact on law school curriculums and faculties as well as on how law schools decide to allocate their resources. Dean Shipley converses with Mike Livingston '66 from Paducah at the alumni dinner honoring Deans Campbell The fundamental strength of any law school lies and Shipley held during the June KBA meeting. in its faculty, staff, students, library and alumni. In moved into UK's graduate student housing at the my opinion, the University of Kentucky College of end of June; I became official as dean on July 1; Law is very healthy and strong. We are well pre and, my wife and daughter Shannon joined me in pared to meet all of these challenges. I look for our new home in early August. There are still a ward to working with all of you to make the Col few boxes left to unpack. Fortunately, the adrena lege of Law even stronger. line is still pumping! There are many reasons why I was eager to . accept the offer to become dean of the College of Law. First of all, the law school is in great shape. ~~d E~~~1fl('::) It enjoys a fine reputation. Its graduates are leaders Dean in the bar, the judiciary, the world of business, and in politics and public affairs. The school has a very strong and diverse student body. There is an excel lent faculty of dedicated teachers and productive scholars who actively serve the profession. The College's alumni are loyal and very generous. The University's administration is very supportive of the law school's mission and its ambitious goals for the future. In addition, the school has benefited from many years of strong leadership in the Dean's office. I inherit from Biff Campbell and his prede cessors, Bob Lawson and Tom Lewis, the enviable job of leading a strong law school which is on the nse. There are challenges for me and my colleagues but the issues and questions facing the College of Dean Shipley shares a joke with Associate Professor Steve Vasek and his wife Meg at the Law Alumni Association Law are no different from those confronting all of dinner. 3 A Farewell from Dean Campbell This is my last Dean's Letter, and so I claim my getting to know my home state better. The people have right to ramble on a bit. been marvelous. I have made new friends from the The most important part of our law school is not the banks of the Big Sandy to the Mississippi and from New law building or the law library, nor is it our students, York to Los Angeles. I have seen the best sides of faculty or alumni. Instead, the most important part of people. I have seen generosity, magnanimity and true our law school is our dreams. I realize this sounds like compassion. Our alumni and friends care about educa someone who grew up in the Camelot era and never tion, the law school and our state, and it has been in recovered, but, in fact, the statement is true and has vigorating and reassuring to work with such fine people. monumental pragmatic ramifications. It also has been tremendously enjoyable to travel The pragmatic significance of dreams is fairly obvi Kentucky. I have rambled the backroads and driven the ous.

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