Director's 2015-2016 Annual Report
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2015-16 ANNUAL REPORT As its primary focus, the Center for Law and Government provides superior legal education to prepare highly qualifi ed public servants for a broad range of careers associated with local, state, and federal government. DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE WASHBURN LAW NAMED #2 IN David NATION FOR GOVERNMENT LAW Rubenstein Professor of Law Washburn University School of Law has been named the #2 law school in the nation for government jobs by Th e Center preLaw magazine in its Winter 2016 issue. Th e magazine for Law and evaluated law schools to see which do the best job of Government preparing students for careers in public service, by at Washburn Law off ers cutting- analyzing job placement data, school curricula, debt, edge programming and student salary, and loan repayment options. Read the story at: opportunities across many facets of nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/prelaw_2016winter/#/28. public law and administration. As one of six centers at our Law School, ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM the Center for Law and Government connects our students to federal, state, Election Law – Today and Beyond and local government. Th e Center campaign fi nance law and proposals for Law and for reform. Part of the Center’s mission is to Government • Panelists: Michael T. Morley, assistant educate our students on government co-sponsored professor of law, Barry University a symposium Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law; systems, which are constantly churning with the Mary R. O'Grady, attorney, Osborn in new ways and directions. Today’s Washburn Law Maledon, P.A. (Phoenix, Ariz.); Stephen intense political polarization is, for Journal titled R. Klein, attorney, Pillar of Law Institute many students, the only politics they “Election Law (Washington, D.C.); and Scott Gessler, have experienced. It is crucial that – Today and adjunct professor, University of Denver students understand the context Bruce E. Cain Beyond.” Th e Sturm College of Law. for today’s political climate, how symposium • Moderator: William Rich, James R. government institutions are aff ected brought together distinguished academics Ahrens Chair in Torts and Constitutional by it, and the complicated relationship and practitioners to explore developments Law and professor of law, Washburn between law and politics. in American election law, with a focus on University School of Law. the 2016 Presidential election. Panel 2 focused on issues of election law Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing Th e keynote address was delivered by Bruce federalism, including voter ID laws and earlier this year, and the ongoing saga E. Cain, professor of Political Science at Congress’s authority to regulate voter surrounding his eventual replacement Stanford University and the Spence and registration requirements. on the Supreme Court, off ered a Cleone Eccles Family Director of the Bill • Panelists: Joshua A. Douglas, Robert window to refl ect on his legacy and a Lane Center for the American West. G. Lawson & William H. Fortune number of issues of national concern associate professor of law, University that hang in the balance. As refl ected In addition, the symposium consisted of of Kentucky College of Law; Derek - Director’s Message continued on page 2 - three panels. Panel 1 addressed trends in - Symposium continued on page 2 - WASHBURNLAW.EDU/GOVERNMENT 2 WASHBURN LAW - CENTER FOR LAW AND GOVERNMENT SYMPOSIUM DELANO LEWIS, ’63, - continued from page 1 - TALKS ABOUT LIFE Washburn Law’s Center for Law are andpleased Go to host the and the Washburn Law Journal AND HIS MEMOIR ELECTION LAW and Beyond Today SYMPOSIUM THURSDAY,Washburn FEBRUARY Room, Washburn 25, University 2016 T.TMll Muller, associate i professor f of fl law, Pepperdine University School of Law; Symposium Panel 1 and Atiba R. Ellis, professor of law, West Virginia University School of Law. • Moderator: Myrl L. Duncan, professor of law, Washburn University School of Law. On September 22, 2015, Delano Panel 3 explored modern-era applications Lewis, ’63, addressed a crowded student of the Voting Rights Act, redistricting, audience regarding his career and “weighted voting,” and the implications experiences as an ambassador to South of Shelby County v. Holder. Africa. Delano’s presentation drew • Panelists: Ashira Ostrow, professor of Symposium Panel 2 from his recently released memoir, It All law, Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane Begins with Self: How to Discover Your School of Law; Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Passion, Connect with People, and Succeed assistant professor of law, University of in Life. Th e memoir was an Amazon #1 Chicago Law School; Patty Ferguson- best seller across several categories just Bohnee, clinical professor of law, Arizona days after its launch. State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. • Moderator: David Rubenstein, Delano received the Washburn University professor of law, Washburn University School of Law Lifetime Achievement School of Law Symposium Panel 3 Award in 2007. He is a member of Colgate-Palmolive’s Board of Directors. PILGRIM NAMED A DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE STUDENT OF THE YEAR - continued from page 1 - Robert “Joe” on page 3 this report, “Lunch & with the presidential election still Pilgrim, ’16, Learn” programs are a staple of the unfolding, this symposium (described was named a Center’s off erings. One such program, in more detail starting on page 1) hit “National Law titled “Scalia’s Legacy — and Now upon some of the most challenging Student of the What?,” off ered students a forum to and controversial developments in Year” by Th e consider and address some of these election law, at all levels of government. National Jurist issues. Th e diff erence that one vote magazine in its Spring 2016 issue. can make on the Court says quite Other programing involved a lot about all of our government presentations regarding U.S.-Iran Pilgrim, a Navy veteran, was described institutions, and what might be nuclear negotiations, the implications by faculty as “one in a million.” His expected of them (for better and of Obergefell, and the rule of law exceptional understanding of veterans’ worse) moving forward. during the Holocaust. needs made him instrumental in organizing the Veterans Legal Th is past year, the Center also helped I welcome your suggestions for Assistance Clinic. Read the complete to organize a symposium on election programs or work opportunities article at: nationaljurist.com/content/ law. With voter ID laws across the for our students in the upcoming law-students-year. nation under intense scrutiny, and academic year. WASHBURNLAW.EDU/GOVERNMENT 3 Additional 2015-16 Center Events Jim Slattery, ’75 Pedro Irigonegaray, ’73 Dr. Kimberly Honeycutt, ’10 August 31, 2015 – Lunch & Learn hosted with Women’s Legal Forum, on Iran, presented by former U.S. Black Law Student Association, and Congressman Jim Slattery, ’75 Hispanic American Law Student Association October 15, 2015 – Lunch & Learn: “Obergefell and Beyond” presented by February 25, 2016 - Lunch & Learn Pedro Irigonegaray, ’73, hosted jointly on the listing of the Lesser Prairie with the Washburn Law Democrats Chicken and Waters of the United States Final Rule, presented by Mike October 28, 2015 – Lunch & Learn: Irvin, ’86, director and legislative “In-House Bayer Counsel” presented by Counsel of Kansas Farm Bureau’s Judge Eric Melgren, ’85 (left) Dr. Kimberly Honeycutt, ’10, hosted Legal Foundation, hosted by the with the Intellectual Property Society Washburn Agricultural Law Society November 19, 2015 – Lunch & Learn: March 22, 2016 – Lunch & Learn: “Waters of the United States Update” “Professional Responsibility and the presented jointly with the Washburn Internet” presented by Penny Agricultural Law Society Moylan, ’95 January 28, 2016 – Lunch & Learn: April 6, 2016 – Lunch & Learn: Student Chapter of the Federal Bar “Scalia’s Legacy—and Now What?” Association Information Meeting with presented by Professors David Th e Honorable Eric Melgren, ’85, a Rubenstein, Craig Martin, and Penny Moylan, ’95 Federal Judge for the District of Kansas Jeff Jackson February 2, 2016 – Lunch & Learn: April 20, 2016 – Lunch & Learn: Judicial Internship Information Session “Rule of Law during the Holocaust” presented by Dr. William Meincke, Jr. February 4, 2016 – Lunch & Learn: “Legislative Policy Analysis” presented by Reed Howlegner February 9, 2016 – Judges Panel Lunch led by Judge Rebecca Crotty, Dr. William Meincke, Jr. 4 WASHBURN LAW - CENTER FOR LAW AND GOVERNMENT Faculty Scholarship and Activities David Alex Joe Rubenstein Glashausser Mastrosimone Professor of Law Professor of Law Associate Professor Center for Law and of Law Government Director ARTICLES IN LAW REVIEWS LEGAL COMMENTARIES PRESENTATIONS “Black-Box Immigration Federalism,” 114 “Th e Same-Sex Marriage Decision Had “Everything Employment Lawyers Need Michigan Law Review 983 (2016). Everything to Do With the Constitution,” to Know About the NLRA, But are Afraid Th e Huffi ngton Post, July 16, 2015. to Ask,” 2015 Employment Law CLE, “Self-Help Structuralism,” 95 Boston Kansas Bar Association, Topeka, October University Law Review 1619 (2015). “Th ree Heads (of Government) Are 2, 2015 (with Julie Covel). Better Th an One,” Th e Huffi ngton Post, OTHER PUBLICATIONS July 6, 2015. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE “Rethinking Immigration Secretary, Section on Labor Relations Exceptionalism(s),” Notice & Comment L. Ali and Employment Law, Association of Blog, February 11, 2016. Khan American Law Schools, January 2016 - Professor of Law January 2017. PRESENTATIONS “Immigrations Exceptionalism,” Editor, Employment Law Handbook, 3rd Association of American Law Schools Edition (Kansas Bar Association, 2016), (AALS) 110th Annual Meeting, New York LEGAL COMMENTARIES 2015-2016. City, January 7, 2016. “Trump’s Realism about the “Mexican” Lori Judge is Legal,” Th e Huffi ngton Post, McMillan “Immigration Exceptionalism,” University June 8, 2016. Professor of Law of California Davis Faculty Workshop Series, Davis, Calif., January 2016 (with “American Muslims ‘Sue the Bastards,’” Deep Gulasekaram). Th e Huffi ngton Post, December 22, 2015. PRESENTATIONS “Immigrations Exceptionalism,” LatCrit “World Is Inchoate Without Iran: A Plea “Taxation Myths and Realities: What’s 2015: Twentieth Anniversary Conference, to U.S.