SPRING 2008 INTHISISSUE Faculty, Student, and Alumni Profiles • Walter F. Mondale Celebration • Women in Section E

A New Dean For a New Era

The Law School Welcomes David Wippman. INTERIM DEANS Guy-Uriel E. Charles Fred L. Morrison

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Cynthia Huff

SENIOR EDITOR Corrine Charais

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Scotty Mann

DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS AND ANNUAL GIVING Anita C. Foster

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Corrine Charais Brad Clary Anita Foster Susan Gainen Evan Johnson Sara Jones Frank Jossi Erin Keyes Muria Kruger Scotty Mann Steve Marchese Todd Melby Kit Naylor Mark Peña Bryan Seiler Pamela Tabar Jenna Zakrajsek

COVER PHOTOGRAPHER Tim Rummelhoff

PHOTOGRAPHERS: Anthony Brandenburg Trey Fortner Jayme Halbritter Perspectives is a general interest magazine published throughout the academic year for Dan Kieffer the University of Minnesota Law School community of alumni, friends, and supporters. Josh Kohanek Letters to the editor or any other communication regarding content should be sent Mark Luinenburg to Cynthia Huff ([email protected]), Director of Communications, University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue South, N225, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Dan Marshall Mike Minehart The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal Tony Nelson access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, Tim Rummelhoff veteran status, or sexual orientation. DESIGNER ©2008 by University of Minnesota Law School. Carr Creatives Lending a Helping Hand

hen Fred and I talk to students we are trying to attract to the Law School, we tell them that one of the best ways to judge a law school is by the participation of its Walumni in the life of the school. Are alums willing to offer their time to counsel students in their career choices? Are alums willing to share their knowledge by teaching a class? Are alums willing to present their ideas on strengthening their institution in an increasingly competitive environment? Are alums willing to give of their finances to support the school that made their career possible? These factors are some of the best indicators of the vitality, health, and strength of the institution. On the basis of these criteria, the Law School is strong. Increasing numbers of alumni are using their connections on behalf of our students. Many of our graduates, from big and small firms, the public and private sector, the business and corporate world, return to the Law School to serve on our boards, participate on our panels, or otherwise involve themselves in the life of the Law School. Equally important, the amount alumni are contributing to their school has risen. This year’s annual contributions are up 43% over last year’s on this date, and last year’s were up 32% over the previous year’s. We are grateful to those of you who have heard our message and contribute annually. Unfortunately, this group is made up of only 16% of our alumni.Your Law School needs the support, in whatever capacity you choose, of everyone to achieve its full potential. The state provides only 5% of our operating budget. Consequently, 95% of the Law School is privately funded, with tuition revenue accounting for more than half of our total budget. More than 80% of our students finance their education with loans; on average, their Law School debt alone exceeds $83,000. GUY-URIEL E. CHARLES In every cultural tradition, individuals are taught to not pull up the ladder behind themselves once they have climbed to the top, but rather, to help those who come after. Individuals are taught to give back to the people and groups who gave to and provided for them. The truth is that many of you received your first-class education at taxpayers’ expense. Taxpayers are no longer willing to subsidize the education of lawyers. Now it is time to reinvest in the institution that invested in you. Fred and I have been extremely fortunate in the support we received during our two years as the Law School’s interim deans and are grateful to have President Robert H. Bruininks and Provost E. Thomas Sullivan as leaders of the University. The Law School is privileged to have David Wippman as its new permanent dean, and we are excited about the future. All of us will do our best to ensure that future students will be ethical individuals who go forth to make a difference in this world. We are all dedicated to the highest values of public legal education. Dean Wippman is committed to the faculty and curriculum excellence that will keep the Law School one of the absolute best legal institutions in this country. As the Law School begins a new chapter with Dean Wippman, we beseech you to partner with him. We remind you to assist those coming up the ladder behind you, as you were helped along the way. As your deans, this is our final request. Thank you for allowing us to serve you.

Sincerely,

Guy-Uriel E. Charles Interim Co-Dean www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 1 Contents

COVER STORY

16 A New Dean for a New Era

Twin Cities native David Wippman returns to lead the Law School. by Frank Jossi Photos by Tim Rummelhoff

2 Perspectives SPRING 2008 www.law.umn.edu 1 Dean’s Perspective Lending a Helping Hand 4 Faculty Perspective 5 Faculty Research & Development 10 Faculty News 11 April Lectures 12 Faculty Works in Progress Spring 2008 14 New Faculty Nancy Cook, Perry Moriearty, Stephen Meili, Amy Monahan, Meghan Ryan, Laura Thomas 7 15 Faculty Profile: Laura J. Cooper 20 At the Law School 21 Symposium on Low-Wage Worker 22 Law School Selected to Host Humphrey Fellows 23 Clinics Professor Helps Change Lending Laws 24 CLE Seminars Walter F. Mondale Celebration Insert 25 Intercollegiate Moot Courts Competition 26 Gifts, Support Scholarships, Research, and the Library Dennis and Gail Mathisen, Edith P. Wargo, Michael R. Sieben 28 Navigating the Career Path 27 28 Staff News 29 Professor Landsman Retires 30 Student Perspective 31 What Do a Disc Jockey, Two Literature Students, and a Firefighter Have in Common? Ziad Kays, Leaf Dilts McGregor, Kyle Hawkins, Jen Cornell 33 The Merry Band of Tort Heroes 34 Bitzan on Sweden’s Team in International Moot Court 34 Raise the Bar’s Day of Service 35 Race for Justice

33 36 Alumni Perspective 37 The Women of Section E (Class of 1983) 38 Law School Celebrates Women in Law 39 Annual Giving by Class 40 Protecting Ordinary Americans Charles S. “Bucky” Zimmerman 42 Spring Alumni Weekend 44 Distinguished Alumni Profiles Dianne Heins, Cliff Wardlaw, Yolanda Redero, Michael Kaplan 45 Recent Grads Meet for Happy Hour 46 Class Notes 47 Alumni Receptions, Los Angeles and Milwaukee 51 Alumni Receptions, New York and Philadelphia 37 PHOTO BY LARRY FOSTER 52 Alumni Receptions, Anchorage and Chicago 55 In Memoriam

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Faculty Perspective

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Associate Dean Joan S. Howland and Professor Oren Gross

Professors Susan M. Wolf and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Deborah Roberts of ABC television’s “20/20” interviews U Professor William McGeveran on Facebook privacy issues. U U

Dean Guy Charles, Dean-Designate David Wippman, Dean Emeritus and Professor Robert A. Stein (’61),

and Dean Fred L. Morrison

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Professor Brad Clary (’75), Assistant U Vice President Thomas M. Crosby Jr., Dean Guy Charles, for Academic Professor Susan Wolf, Winthrop Rockwell, Affairs/Provost’s and Dean Fred Morrison at reception following Office Sharon R. Susan Wolf’s Faegre & Benson Professorship Paulsen, and in Law Reappointment Lecture Professor Maury Landsman

U Professor Robert A. Stein (’61)

addressing students.

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Dean Guy Charles and Professor Susanna Blumenthal

4 Perspectives SPRING 2008 www.law.umn.edu Faculty R&D Publications, presentations, honors and awards, works in progress, September 1, 2007 to February 1, 2008

Beverly Balos Stephen F. Befort Brian Bix Ann M. Burkhart Dale Carpenter Bradley G. Clary

BEVERLY BALOS Employment Law and Practice (West Group); In November, she spoke at the Minnesota Professor Balos has been involved in sev - the article “How and Why Labor Arbitra - State Bar Association Real Estate Institute eral projects concerning domestic vio - tors Decide Discipline and Discharge on the real estate and professional ethics lence. She recently appeared before the Cases: An Empirical Examination,” co- aspects of the Servicemembers’ Civil Minnesota Supreme Court arguing a case authored with Laura Cooper and Mario Relief Act. She is a member of the Min - for an appellant concerning statutory con - Bognanno, in Proceedings of the Sixtieth nesota Legislature’s Foreclosure Remedies struction involving the domestic abuse Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Working Group, which has proposed leg - act, the parentage act, and the statute that Arbitrators ; and a professional education islative reforms to the foreclosure laws. creates recognition of parentage. She co- article, “Public Sector Update,” for Min - Recently, Professor Robert Stein and she taught a series of trainings in advanced nesota Continuing Legal Education. submitted the manuscript for the second advocacy strategies to advocates of domes - edition of Law School Success in a Nutshell tic-violence victims. As part of the Min - to Thomson/West Publishing. Her article nesota Justice Foundation’s 25th anniver - BRIAN BIX “Takings and Trespass: Trespass Liability sary celebration, Professor Balos argued, in In October, Professor Bix presented a for Precondemnation Entries” will be a CLE-credit presentation, for the right to paper titled “Contract Law Theory” at a published in the Drake Law Review this appointed counsel in protective order pro - faculty workshop at William & Mary’s spring. She is currently working on an ceedings. She has compiled promising Marshall-Wythe School of Law. In article concerning security interests in practices for prosecutors in domestic November, he presented “Pluralism and manufactured housing. assault cases into a guide and is currently Decentralization in Marriage Regulation” updating A Prosecutor’s Guide to Full Faith as part of the Conference on Multi- and Credit for Protection Orders: Protecting Tiered Marriage held at the University of DALE CARPENTER Victims of Domestic Violence. She continues St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis. Professor Carpenter organized the sympo - her work as a consultant on both legal In January, he presented “The Role of sium “Is Gay Marriage Conservative?,” and legislative issues for the Minnesota Legal Theory in Law and Justice” at the which was held Feb. 15, 2008, at the Coalition for Battered Women. 2008 International Law Congress in South Texas College of Law, Houston, and Ankara, Turkey. Two of his books have brought together eight prominent conser - recently appeared in translation: Jurispru - vative intellectuals and gay-marriage STEPHEN F. BEFORT dence: Theory and Context was published in experts. He has spoken at several law Over the past several months, Professor Greek by Kritiki Publications; and Law, schools on the subject of traditionalism Befort has made presentations at three Language and Legal Determinacy was pub - and gay marriage. He is publishing an conferences and was elected to member - lished in Chinese by Law Press (China). article entitled “Straight Acting” in the ship in the Labor Law Group, an associa - Forthcoming publications by Professor Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technol - tion of leading academics responsible for Bix include “Analytical Legal Philosophy” ogy that was part of a law and identity authorship of teaching materials in the in On Philosophy in American Law (Francis symposium held at the Law School. He is labor and employment law field. A book J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge University continuing work on his book on the he co-authored with affiliated faculty Press), an introduction to a new edition of background of Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 member John Budd, Invisible Hands, Invisi - Jerome Frank’s Law and the Modern Mind decision by the Supreme Court declaring ble Objectives: Bringing Workplace Law and (Transaction Publishers), and “Best Inter - state sodomy laws unconstitutional. Public Policy Into Focus, has been accepted ests of the Child” in The Chicago Compan - for publication by Stanford University ion to the Child (Anne Dailey, ed., Univer - Press. In addition, he has published or sity of Chicago Press). BRADLEY G. CLARY completed work on the following writing Professor Clary and co-authors Sharon projects: Arbitration 2006: Taking Stock in a Reich Paulsen and MichaelVanselow New Century: Proceedings of the Fifty-Ninth ANN M. BURKHART completed work on the third edition of Annual Meeting of the National Academy of In October, Professor Burkhart spoke at a their Advocacy on Appeal text, which is Arbitrators with Paul Gerhart, ed. (BNA Federal Reserve Bank workshop on scheduled for publication by Thom - 2007); a 2007 –08 supplement to his book reforming the mortgage foreclosure laws. son/West in March 2008. In addition, www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 5 Faculty R&D

Laura J. Cooper Thomas F. Cotter Stephen Cribari Barry Feld

Professor Clary is working with co- Commission’s Report and Recommenda - authors E. Thomas Sullivan, Richard tions, a proposal for a casebook on the law Freer, and Douglas Floyd on three books of unfair competition and business torts, on the subject of complex litigation. The and a paper on cognizability and reparabil - first of those, the casebook, is due at Lexis ity in copyright and trademark law. S. WALTER RICHEY PROFESSORSHIP IN in the spring of 2009. CORPORATE LAW APPOINTMENT LECTURE STEPHEN CRIBARI On February 5, 2008, Richard W. Painter commemo - LAURA J. COOPER Recently, Professor Cribari participated in rated his appointment to the S. Walter Richey Profes - In September, Professor Cooper presented a program entitled “Is Justice Just Ice? sorship in Corporate Law with the lecture “Financial a paper on the overlapping jurisdiction of Reflections on Death and the Death Conflicts of Interest and Securities Law Issues in Gov - labor arbitrators and the National Labor Penalty,” co-sponsored by the Criminal ernment Ethics.” From early 2005 to mid-2007, Painter Relations Board at a conference of the Justice Working Group of the Sisters of St. was Associate Counsel to the President in theWhite National Academy of Arbitrators in Joseph, St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, and Miami. In November, she was inducted as Federal FORUM (Females Organizing House Counsel's office, serving as chief ethics lawyer. a Fellow into the College of Labor and and Restoring Unity for Mothers), Faith In his lecture on current government ethics regu - Employment Lawyers in Philadelphia, Based CALL, at the College of St. Cath- lation, he focused on financial conflicts of interest, served as a moderator and organizer for erine, St. Paul. His work as a playwright particularly government employees’ personal invest - the Minnesota Law Review ’s symposium, was featured in the article “All the World’s ments, and misuse of government information (e.g., “The Low Wage Worker: Legal Rights— a Courtroom” in Minnesota Law & Politics. for securities trading). He described how conflicts of Legal Realities,” and delivered the William His latest play, “Radio Traffic,” is scheduled interest may be overregulated or underregulated by R. Stewart lecture at Indiana University, for performance in May at the Center for Bloomington: “Privatizing Labor Law: Independent Artists, Minneapolis. government rules, depending on the subject area, Neutrality/Card Check Agreements and and how regulation systems can conflict. He empha - the Role of the Arbitrator.” sized systemic corruption by outside forces (e.g., lob - BARRY FELD byists, special interests), proposed methods to deal Professor Feld continues his studies of with it, and called for renewed attention to campaign THOMAS F. COTTER how police interrogate older juveniles finance reform. Professor Cotter recently presented “Trips charged with felony offenses, only the Painter received his B.A. in history from Harvard and Essential Medicines” at a global policy second empirical study of police interro - workshop at the Humphrey Institute of gation in 60 years and the first involving and his J.D. from Yale. He clerked for Judge John T. Public Affairs and was a commenter on juveniles. At the end of 2006, he pub - Noonan Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth junior scholars’ papers at an IP scholars lished two articles analyzing 66 interroga - Circuit, practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, workshop at Michigan State University tions conducted in Ramsey County. Since and held a tenured professorship at the University of College of Law. He also participated as a then he has amassed, with the cooperation Oregon School of Law and an endowed professorship Conference Fellow at the symposium on of the county attorneys, 340 interrogation at the University of Illinois College of Law before Meurer and Bessen’s “Patent Failure: How files from Anoka, Dakota, Hennepin, and coming to Minnesota. He teaches securities law and Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Washington counties—the largest aggre - Innovators at Risk” at the University of gation of routine interrogations in crimi - regulation and corporate governance. He has testified Georgia Law School. His article “Misuse” nological research. The files contain tapes before U.S. Congressional committees on private was published in the 2008 “Copyright in or transcripts, police reports, juvenile securities litigation and lectures often on the Sarbanes- Context” symposium issue of Houston court filings, pre-sentence reports, and Oxley Act, corporate ethics, and securities fraud. Law Review. Three additional publications sentences. Professor Feld will spend the The S. Walter Richey Professorship in Corporate are forthcoming in 2008: “Fair Use and next year coding and analyzing that data, Law was established in 1991 by the Lee and Rose Copyright Overenforcement” in the Iowa ascertaining how police obtain Miranda Warner Foundation (and its chair, Donald McNeely) as Law Review, “Toward a Functional Defini - waivers, how they question youths who tion of Publication in Copyright Law” in waive their rights, the effectiveness of a tribute to the distinguished career of S. Walter the Minnesota Law Review, and the chapter their tactics, and the frequency of coercive Richey (‘63). It supports activities that enrich and “Essential Facilities” in a book on the law techniques. Because some interrogations expand teaching, research, and scholarship in corpo - and economics of antitrust (Keith Hylton, were conducted in urban and suburban rate law. Painter said everything he has heard about ed., Edward Elgar Publishing). He is counties or by juvenile officers or detec - Mr. Richey “reinforces his reputation as a successful working on an article regarding the inter - tives from other divisions, he will conduct businessman with a very sound sense of business face of antitrust and intellectual property the first-ever comparative analyses of ethics.” law for an Antitrust Bulletin volume police interrogation practices in different devoted to the Antitrust Modernization contexts (e.g., white, black, Asian, Hispanic

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Mary Louise Fellows Richard S. Frase Thomas P. Gallanis Daniel J. Gifford youths; boys versus girls). He will study ated justice, the role of criminal defense how youths’ decision to invoke versus attorneys in the United States, and sen - waive their rights affects subsequent case- tencing variations in western nations— processing, pleas, trials, and sentences. will appear in two books. Professor Frase recently completed an article on race and criminal justice in Minnesota, and he is HOWARD E. BUHSE PROFESSORSHIP MARY LOUISE FELLOWS currently working on papers examining IN FINANCE AND LAW REAPPOINTMENT Professor Fellows has had several opportu - the history of Minnesota’s sen tencing LECTURE nities to present her numerous and far- guidelines and punishment theory. ranging scholarly projects. At the Univer - On March 11, 2008, Edward S. Adams presented sity of Iowa Law School, she talked about “The Unintended Consequences of Law: Problematic her work on a late tenth century Old THOMAS P. GALLANIS Developments in the Financial Markets” to commemo - English will written by the wealthy Professor Gallanis has been active in law rate his reappointment as Howard E. Buhse Professor widow, Æthelgifu. At the annual meeting reform in trusts and estates, serving as of Finance and Law. Adams teaches commercial, of the Association of American Law reporter for the Uniform Real Property bankruptcy, and corporate law and has been Associate Schools, she and co-author Gary Spitko, Transfer on Death Act, which will have its University of Santa Clara Law School, first reading at the Uniform Law Com - Dean for Academic Affairs (1997 –2000), a co-holder presented the preliminary results of an mission’s 2008 annual meeting. He also of the Julius E. Davis Chair in Law (1999 –2000), a empirical study concerning public atti - serves on the Joint Editorial Board for Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar (1998), and a tudes on inheritance and will substitutes Uniform Trust and Estate Acts, the official recipient of the Stanley V. KinyonTeaching and (e.g., life insurance policies, retirement body monitoring all uniform legislation Counseling Award (1994 and 1996). plans, joint tenancies with right of sur - in the field, and was the 2007 chair of the Adams spoke on his conviction that policy making vivorship). At the same meeting, she pre - AALS Section on Donative Transfers. He and legislative methods can promote efficient markets, sented “Eighteenth Century Moral Senti - is active in legal history, serving as secre - ments in Defense of the Twenty-First tary of the American Society for Legal but courts are better positioned to determine solutions Century Estate Tax: What Adam Smith History, on the editorial boards of the for such issues as today’s subprime fallout. Unintended and Jane Austen Teach Us,” which will be Journal of Legal History and Law and History consequences of hastily decided legislative action can published in an upcoming anthology on Review, and on the advisory board for the “ripple for years across the marketplace,” he said, some - progressive taxation policy. Most recently, book series Studies in the History of Private times creating more problems than remedies. The judi - she commented on a panel on succession Law, published by Brill (Netherlands). He cial system, in comparison, typically takes a measured law and the changing family at the con - has presented papers at the American Bar approach and“slowly evolves rules” to fix problems. ference “The Law of Succession in the Foundation and the Minnesota Center for 21st Century,” which was sponsored by Medieval Studies. Among his forthcoming Adams was pleased to have his wife, mother, and son the American College of Trust and Estate publications are “Victorian Reform of in attendance. Counsel and hosted by UCLA. Civil Litigation” and “Death by Disaster: Adams received his B.A. from Knox College, was a Anglo-American Presumptions” (in vol - European Studies and NATO Conference Scholar for a umes in the Comparative Studies in Conti - year, and completed his J.D. in 1988 at the University RICHARD S. FRASE nental and Anglo-American Legal History of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge J. Harvie Professor Frase recently presented two series). His article “The Rise of Modern Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, papers, one on punishment theory and Evidence Law” has been translated for one on the Eighth Amendment, at con - publication in Chinese as “Xian dai zheng practiced law in Chicago, and was a visiting professor at ferences held in the Netherlands’ Univer - ju fa de xing qi.” Albany Law School of Union University before coming sity of Leiden and at the University of to Minnesota in 1992. In 1997, he earned an M.B.A. Pennsylvania. His essay on the role of the from the University’s Carlson School of Management. public in sentencing policy development DANIEL J. GIFFORD The Howard E. Buhse Professorship in Finance and under Minnesota’s sentencing guidelines Professor Gifford’s article, “The Emerging Law was established by a gift from Mr. Buhse (‘29) to was included in Penal Populism, Sentencing Outlines of a Revised Chevron Doctrine: enhance teaching and scholarship in finance law by Councils and Sentencing Policy (Arie Congressional Intent, Judicial Judgment, Freiberg and Karen Gelb, eds, Willan Pub - and Administrative Autonomy,” was enabling the Law School to attract or retain a nation - lications, 2008). Later this year, Proportion - recently published in Administrative Law ally renowned legal scholar. Mr. Buhse’s distinguished ality Principles in American Law: Controlling Review, and another, “The Roberts career included terms as president of the Bond Club of Excessive Government Actions co-authored Antitrust Court: A Transformative Begin - New York, governor of the New York Stock Exchange, with Provost Tom Sullivan, will be pub - ning,” will soon appear in The Antitrust and chair of the Board of Governors of the National lished by Oxford University Press. Also, Bulletin. He and Humphrey Institute Pro - Association of Securities Dealers. three comparative law essays—on negoti - fessor Robert Kudrle are completing an www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 7 Faculty R&D

Ralph F. Hall Claire A. Hill Joan S. Howland Brad Karkkainen

article on comparative approaches to price School in October. Professor Hill pre - discrimination. Professor Gifford is cur - sented “Evolution, First Movers and rently writing an article on the Antitrust Herding” at the Society for Evolutionary Modernization Commission’s recommen - Analysis of Law in October. In January, dation for repeal of the Robinson-Patman she and Professor McDonnell presented WILLIAM B. LOCKHART LECTURE Act, which will be published in a sympo - Stone v. Ritter at the Law and Economics sium on the Commission in The Antitrust Workshop on Corporate Governance at On March 25, 2008, Professor Heather K. Gerken of Bulletin. the Law School. In February, Professor Yale Law School presented the William B. Lockhart Hill spoke on intellectual property issues Lecture,“Toward a New Vision of Minority Empower - associated with tax shelters at the McGill ment: Federalism All the Way Down.” She teaches RALPH F. HALL Faculty of Law. Her commentary, “Tax election law, constitutional law, and civil procedure Professor Hall has commenced his service Lawyers are People Too,” originally pub - and is a leading expert on election law, the demo - on the national Board of Directors of the lished in the Virginia Tax Review, was cratic process, and the relationship between diversity nonprofit Food and Drug Law Institute selected for inclusion in the December (FDLI), which offers education and com - 2007 Monthly Digest of Tax Articles. Her and democracy. Her proposal to establish a“Democ - munication on FDA law and policy. He review essay, “The Myth of Discovery,” racy Index,” a ranking of states by how well they run has authored articles on the Abigail will be published in the Minnesota Journal their election systems, has been incorporated into Alliance case and its impact on healthcare of Law, Science & Technology. two separate bills before Congress. professionals, including an article on Her lecture focused on ways to expand minority development and access to pediatric drugs representation and leadership, especially at local and devices in which he assessed recent JOAN S. HOWLAND levels. Acceptance of minority dominance does not Congressional enactments intended to Professor Howland continues to serve on promote their development. Recently, he the ABA Council of the Section on Legal carry down to local levels of governance, nor does it co-chaired the first-ever FDLI conference Education and Admission to the Bar and include all minority groups, she said. She urged race on FDA and nanotechnology, which currently is also on a Council subcommit - and federalism scholars to find vocabulary that assembled scientists, lawyers, industry lead - tee charged with studying the consistent speaks beyond the“segregation-integration para - ers, public advocates, and regulators to application of ABA standards throughout digm,” since governance by“statistical mirroring” or identify and begin addressing issues relat - the accreditation process. She chaired the “token representation” does not convey the true ing to nanotechnology use in drugs, ABA Sabbatical Accreditation team that essence of democracy. She encouraged a harder look devices, food, and cosmetics. Topics of visited the Pontifical Catholic University Professor Hall’s frequent talks at legal and of Puerto Rico. She co-chairs the pro - at the connections between constitutional structure industry events have included the FDA gram committee for the China-U.S. Con - and the rights-based approach, noting that once all Administrative Amendment Act of 2007, ference on Legal Information and Law governance levels and all minorities are included in new post-market FDA initiatives, clinical Libraries and is treasurer and a member of the federalism discussion,“we might find we have trial issues, FDA issues for venture capital - the Executive Board of the American something new to say about the deep and hard ques - ist and start-up companies, FDA enforce - Indian Library Association. She continues tion of minority empowerment.” ment, and interactions with FDA district to work closely with several remote Prior to her 2006 Yale appointment, Gerken offices. In addition, he is involved in indigenous communities in Argentina and research and writing on FDA and preemp - Uruguay in developing their libraries and graduated from Princeton with an A.B. and the Uni - tion issues, including the recent decision in technological capabilities. At the 2008 versity of Michigan Law School with a J.D. She joined Reigel v. Medtronic, and in educational American Association of Law Libraries the Harvard faculty in 2000, was the Eugene P. Beard activities with several trade associations. Annual Meeting, Professor Howland will Faculty Fellow in Ethics at the Harvard University Cen - speak on the programs “Energizing Per - ter for Ethics and the Profession, and was the first sonnel in the Library” and “How to Pro - junior professor to receive the Sacks-Freund Award CLAIRE A. HILL duce a Legal Bibliography Play.” She is for Teaching Excellence. In September, Professor Hill presented co-authoring a book entitled Ethics in “Stone v. Ritter : The Expanding Duty of Libraries—A Theoretical and Practical This annual lecture honors William B. Lockhart, a Loyalty” (with Professor McDonnell) and Approach as well as an article on evolving Law School professor from 1946 to 1974 and dean “Is a Coherent Definition of Tax Shelter approaches to marketing library services from 1956 to 1972. During his tenure, he helped Impossible?” (with Professor Hickman) at in the electronic age. increase the core of excellence among the faculty and the Canadian Law and Economics Associ - worked to establish strong bonds between the Law ation meeting. She and Professor Hick - School and the Minnesota Bar Association. man also presented the tax shelter paper at BRAD KARKKAINEN the Midwestern Law and Economics In September, Professor Karkkainen wrote Association meetings held at the Law a chapter outlining the history of U.S.

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Heidi Kitrosser Alexandra B. Klass John H. Matheson William McGeveran environmental impact assessment for a Preemption: Lessons from Environmental collection entitled Taking Stock of Environ - Law.” It will be published in the Loyola of mental Assessment: Law, Policy, and Practice Los Angeles Law Review later this year. At (Jane Holder and Donald McGillivray, present, Professor Klass and Professor Eliz - eds). The book compares developments in abeth Wilson of the Humphrey Institute the United States, the United Kingdom, of Public Affairs are working on an article FAEGRE & BENSON PROFESSORSHIP IN and Europe. At the NewYork University entitled “Climate Change and Carbon LAW REAPPOINTMENT LECTURE Law School, he presented “Framing Sequestration: Assessing a Liability Rules: Breaking the Information Bottle - Regime for the Long-term Storage of On April 1, 2008, Susan M. Wolf presented“Incidental neck,” which will be published in a forth - Carbon Dioxide,” which they will present Findings in Human Subjects Research: A Fundamen - coming issue of the NewYork University at a Law School faculty works-in-progress tal Challenge to the Clinician/Researcher Divide” Environmental Law Journal. In October, he session in March 2008. to commemorate her reappointment as Faegre & presented “Getting to ‘Let’s Talk’: Legal Benson Professor of Law. She joined the Law School and Natural Destabilizations and the faculty in 1993 and is also the McKnight Presidential Future of Regional Collaboration” at a JOHN H. MATHESON Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy; a profes - conference on collaboration and the Col - Professor Matheson received the 2007- orado River at the University of Nevada, 08 Award for Outstanding Contributions sor at the Center for Bioethics; and founding director LasVegas, School of Law. The paper will to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and of the University’s Consortium on Law and Values in be published in a forthcoming issue of the Professional Education, the first law Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and Joint Nevada Law Review. In January, at the faculty member to be so honored by Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences. University of Texas in Austin, he presented the University. Receipt of the award In her lecture, Wolf explored the ethical duties of “Bottlenecks and Baselines: Tackling confers membership in the Academy of researchers who may discover“incidental findings” Information Deficits in Environmental Distinguished Teachers and the title of during human subjects research that are unrelated to Regulation” at a Texas Law Review sym - “Distinguished University Teaching posium entitled “Harnessing the Power of Professor.” Matheson’s article “A Simple the study but may have clinical or reproductive signif - Information for the Next Generation of Statutory Solution to Minority Oppres - icance for the research participant. Incidental findings Environmental Law.” The paper will be sion in the Closely Held Business,” can range from a tumor or unexpected genetic muta - published in a forthcoming symposium published in the Minnesota Law Review, tion to misidentified parentage, she said. Citing a issue of Texas Law Review. was selected for reprinting in volume 49 grave lack of ethical and procedural standards for (2007) of Corporate Practice Commentator. managing such findings, Wolf urged an overhaul of HEIDI KITROSSER the way law and ethics are addressing the duties of Professor Kitrosser recently published WILLIAM MCGEVERAN researchers. Rapid technological advancements in “Classified Information Leaks and Free This fall and winter, Professor McGeveran research are making this an urgent problem, she said. Speech” in the Illinois Law Review, and presented his scholarly work atYale Law ProfessorWolf received her A.B. from Princeton “Congressional Oversight of National School, Fordham Law School, and Drake University and her J.D. from Yale. She clerked in the Security Activities: Improving Information University Law School. In addition to U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New Funnels” in the Cardozo Law Review. continuing research on free speech and York, practiced at a New York law firm from 1981 to trademark law, he has begun analyzing the 1984, and was a National Endowment for the implications of advertising within social ALEXANDRA B. KLASS networking environments such as Face - Humanities Fellow at The Hastings Center in New An article by Professor Klass, “Punitive book and MySpace for both data privacy York in 1984 –85, then the Center’s Associate for Law. Damages andValuing Harm,” was pub - law and trademark law. He also continues She was a Fellow at Harvard University in the Pro - lished in the Minnesota Law Review in to blog at Info/Law (http://blogs.law. gram in Ethics and the Professions in 1992 –93 and November 2007. Another article, “The harvard.edu/infolaw). Along with the has received numerous grants to support her work. Frontier of Eminent Domain,” will be first-year civil procedure course, Professor The Faegre & Benson Professorship in Law was published in the University of Colorado McGeveran again taught a full course on established in 1987 by the law firm of Faegre & Law Review in the spring of 2008, and data privacy law, in which students she will present it as part of a panel at explore multiple topics, including Benson in honor of John B. Faegre Sr. (‘13) and John the Law and Society Association’s annual National Security Agency surveillance, C. Benson ( ‘12). The Faegre & Benson Professorship in meeting in Montreal in May. She was medical records, and supermarket Law enriches and expands teaching, research, and invited to participate in the symposium bargain cards. scholarship by permitting the Law School to attract “Frontiers of Tort Law” at Loyola Law and retain a legal scholar of international renown School Los Angeles in January and pre - and reputation. sented her paper “State Innovation and www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 9 Faculty R&D

FACULTY NEWS

Professor Stephen F. Befort was elected to the Labor Law Group, which works to improve training and teaching materials in labor and employment law. He is collaborating with the ABA’s labor and employment section on a Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Myron W. Orfield Daniel Schwarcz Robert A. Stein nationwide“capstone” course. FIONNUALA Ní AOL ÁIN and the invited essay “Beyond Segrega - Professor Laura J. Cooper was honored at the Professor Ní Aoláin recently published tion: Toward a SharedVision” in Building annual Law Day Testimonial Dinner, co-spon - “Hamdan and Common Article 3: Did Sustainable Metropolitan Communities: Break - sored by the Fund for the Legal Aid Society and the Supreme Court Get it Right?” in vol - through Stories (M. Paloma Pavel, ed., MIT the Hennepin County Bar Association, for her ume 91 of the Minnesota Law Review and Press, forthcoming 2008). He continues “The No-Gaps Approach to Parallel his work on The Struggle to Grow Equi - public service and contributions over her career. Application” in Israel Law Review. In addi - tably: Sprawl, Taxes and Race in America’s tion, the essay, “The Individual Right of Regions (with Thomas Luce), to be pub - Professor Prentiss Cox received the University Access to Justice in Times of Crisis: Emer - lished by the Brookings Institution Press. of Minnesota’s 2008 Outstanding Community gencies, Armed Conflict and Terrorism” The national research project compares Service Award for his work to educate the public appeared in Access to Justice as a Human the 150 largest U.S. metropolitan regions and his service as a community and national Right (Francesco Francioni, ed., Oxford for racial and fiscal disparities, relative tax University Press, 2007), a compilation of capacity, urban land consumption rates, resource during the country’s recent mortgage invited speakers’ contributions at the 2005 diversity of community types, racial justice, crisis. For more on how he used his expertise in European University Institute’s summer geography of growth patterns, and political foreclosure, fraud, and predatory lending to pro - school in international law in Florence. implications of regional fragmentation. tect the public, see the article on page 23. Another essay, “Enforcing Social and Eco - nomic Rights at the Domestic Level—A Professor John H. Matheson received the Proposal,” was published in Poverty: Rights, DANIEL SCHWARCZ University’s 2007-2008 Award for Outstanding Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism (M. Professor Schwarcz is currently investigat - Young, S.B. Boyd, G. Brodsky, S. Day, eds., ing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, University of British Columbia Press, mechanisms for consumer insurance dis - and Professional Education and the title“Distin - 2007). In October 2007, Law in Times of putes. His research explores factors that guished University Teaching Professor” for Crisis by Professors Ní Aoláin and Oren have led lawmakers to facilitate, or even upholding and advancing a commitment to Gross was featured at book events hosted mandate, ADR in particular insurance dis - by the University of Wisconsin Law putes, such as medical necessity determi - quality education. School and the Center for Human Rights nations in health insurance and appraisal at the University of Minnesota Law decisions in property insurance. He is Professor Ruth Okediji was elected to the School. In November 2007, Ní Aoláin comparing this patchwork approach to American Law Institute, an honor that is limited was one of several invited international ADR in consumer insurance disputes to 3,000 recipients worldwide. New members participants at the conference “Constitu - with a “private ombudsman” scheme that are recommended by current members on the tional Rights and International Human has flourished in England. The private Rights: Separate but Equal?” in Jerusalem. ombudsman method creates a single, pub - basis of their character, ability, and professional lic entity that relies on arbitration and standing. mediation to resolve insurance disputes, MYRON W. ORFIELD relieving consumers of the need to hire Associate Professor Myron W. Orfield During the fall semester, Professor Orfield attorneys, pay fees, or give up the right to participated as an expert source in a six-part taught the seminar “Cities and Suburbs: seek legal redress in the future. documentary onTwin Cities Public Television, Race, Taxes and Development in the produced in collaboration with the Itasca American Metropolis,” and in spring 2008, he is teaching land use planning. He ROBERT A. STEIN Project, that explored race, place, and class has completed the following articles: Professor Stein’s article “Causes of Popular disparities in the region and potential solutions. “When the Feds Won’t Act: School Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Desegregation, State Courts, and Min - Justice in the 21st Century,” which Professor David Weissbrodt received the nesota’s ‘The Choice isYours’ Program” marked the centennial of the Dean annual Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award for (with Baris Gumus-Dawes) for the Janu - Roscoe Pound speech, was published outstanding contributions to international law ary/February issue of the Poverty & Race recently in the Hamline Law Review. He Research Action Council Newsletter ; “Gov - delivered remarks at a memorial service from his alma mater, the University of California- erning American Metropolitan Areas: for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Berkeley School of Law. Spatial Policy and Regional Governance” Donald P. Lay at a sitting of the Court (with Institute on Race & Poverty and wrote a tribute that was published in To read more about these stories, Research Director Thomas Luce) in Met - the Iowa Law Review. He also authored a go to the Law School News archives at ropolitan Areas, Megaregions, and Spatial Plan - tribute to Professor Robert C. McClure www.law.umn.edu/news/archive.html. ning (Catherine Ross and Cheryl Con - that will appear in the publication of the tant, eds, MIT Press, forthcoming 2008); Hennepin County Bar Association’s Bar

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8 Professor Robert A. Stein , University of Minnesota Law School, Everett Fraser Professor of Law Appointment Lecture,“The Rule of Law” 15 Professor Angela P. Harris , University of E. Thomas Sullivan Michael Tonry Kevin K. Washburn David Weissbrodt California School of Law, Berkeley, John Dewey Memorial Session in April. Along with Justice in the Nordic Countries” in Lecture in the Philosophy of Law,“The ‘L’ Word: Professor Ann Burkhart, he recently sub - Stockholm, Sweden, in December. In Jan - Love in the Restorative Justice Movement and in mitted the manuscript for the second edi - uary he organized two forums in Leiden: Legal Theory” tion of Law School Success in a Nutshell: A “Paradigm Shifts in the Philosophy of Guide to Studying Law and Taking Law Punishment” and “The Effects of Impris - 22 Professor Linda K. Kerber , Department Exams to Thomson/West Publishing. This onment on Former Prisoners’ Later Lives, of History, University of Iowa, Inaugural Ronald year he was elected delegate-at-large to Their Families, and Their Communities.” A. and Kristine S. Erickson Legal History Lecture, the American Bar Association’s House of His book, Crime, Punishment, and Politics in Delegates and vice chair of the Interna - Comparative Perspective, was published by “Stateless in America” tional Bar Association’s Professional and the University of Chicago Press in Octo - Public Interest Division. He was also ber, and in January he submitted a com - Watch our Web site for the 2008 –2009 Lecture appointed to the Executive Board of the missioned report to the government of Series announcement. Most lectures offer CLE ABA Human Rights Center and chair of the Netherlands titled “Deterrence: The credit. the National Conference of Commission - Legal Threat in Crime Control.” ers on Uniform State Laws’ Executive Committee and awarded the University of Minnesota Alumni Service Award by the KEVIN K. WASHBURN Board of Regents. In 2007 –08, Professor Washburn is visiting at Harvard Law School and taught its first-ever course in gaming law. He has E. THOMAS SULLIVAN recently presented faculty workshops at Provost Sullivan published the op-ed Harvard;Vanderbilt; Roger Williams Uni - piece “Universities as Places and Spaces of versity; the Universities ofVirginia, Ari - Imagination” in the Nov. 1, 2007, issue of zona, and Colorado; and Arizona State Minnesota Daily, and co-authored, with University. As the inaugural William C. ten other provosts, the op-ed piece “Edu - Canby Distinguished Scholar in Resi - cational Excellence, Without Ivy” in the dence at Arizona State, he gave a public Jan. 3, 2008, issue of Business Week. In lecture on criminal justice in Indian February, as chair of the Ad Hoc Advisory country. With alumnus Reid LeBeau, he Committee to Review the Code of Judi - also recently presented a tribal leadership cial Conduct, he presented the recommen - development course in Minnesota for dation of the Committee in open court newly elected tribal leaders. Professor before the Minnesota Supreme Court. Washburn recently testified before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources on federal land-into-trust issues MICHAEL TONRY involving off-reservation Indian lands, and In September, Professor Tonry presented he is informally advising the U.S. Senate two public lectures: “Crime and Justice in on reform of criminal justice in Indian the Netherlands” in Leiden, the Nether - country. His criminal justice work was the lands, and “Crime by Legal and Illegal backbone of a recent four-part series of Immigrants in Europe” in Bologna, Italy. Pulitzer-nominated articles in the Denver In November, he organized and presided Post, and he was profiled in High Country over the 2007 annual meeting of the News. He has an article forthcoming in American Society of Criminology (ASC) the Fordham Law Review on grand juries in Atlanta, at which former President and one on Bryan v. Itasca County in the Jimmy Carter was a plenary-session Minnesota Law Review. He recently signed speaker. Professor Tonry gave the public with Aspen Books to write a casebook on lecture “Crime and Human Rights— gaming and gambling law, and he will join How Political Paranoia, Religious Funda - a panel of authors of an existing casebook mentalism, and Constitutional Obsoles - on American Indian law. cence Combined to Devastate Black America” at the ASC meeting. He organ - ized a meeting of the Crime and Justice DAVID WEISSBRODT editorial board in Minnesota in October In recent months, Professor Weissbrodt has and the conference “Crime and Criminal spoken on interdisciplinary approaches to www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 11 Faculty R&D FACULTY WORKS IN PROGRESS SPRING 2008

January 31 Professor Tim Johnson Barbara Y. Welke Susan M. Wolf Judith T. Younger University of Minnesota Department of Political Science and Law School international human rights at the SUSAN M. WOLF Professor Jason Roberts American Political Science Association’s Professor Wolf continues to direct the University of Minnesota Department of annual meeting in Chicago; on human Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & rights and tobacco at the National the Life Sciences and to chair the Univer - Political Science and Law School Conference on Tobacco and Health sity’s Consortium on Law andValues in The Will of the Minority: The Rule of 4 on the in Minneapolis; and on remedies for Health, Environment & the Life Sciences. U.S. Supreme Court undocumented non-citizen workers at As principal investigator (PI) on the NIH- the Minnesota Law Review ’s Conference funded project “Managing Incidental February on the Law and the Low-wage Worker. Findings in Human Subjects Research,” 8 Professor Rick Bascuas In Williamsburg,Virginia, he helped train she has led publication of various articles defense counsel for Guantanamo detainees and preparation of a forthcoming sympo - University of Miami School of Law who are being prosecuted in the military sium in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Federal Sentencing: The American Inquisition commissions, and he put together a team Ethics. As PI on a four-year NSF project, of lawyers and law students to assist in she co-authored “Developing Oversight 14 Professor Paul Schwartz their defense. The book he wrote with Frameworks for Nanobiotechnology” University of California at Berkeley, Professor Connie de laVega, International (forthcoming in the Minnesota Journal of Boalt Hall School of Law Human Rights Law: An Introduction, was Law, Science & Technology ) and “An Inte - The Future of Tax Privacy published by the University of Pennsylva - grated Approach to Oversight Assessment nia Press. Two articles co-authored with for Emerging Technologies.” She is PI on 21 Professor Allan Erbsen Amy Bergquist have been published: a new Greenwall Foundation grant on University of Minnesota Law School one on the prohibition of extraordinary ethical, legal, and policy questions raised rendition by the Geneva Conventions by neurogenomics and is collaborating on Horizontal Federalism in the Virginia Journal of International Law another funded project on end-of-life care 28 Professor David Kennedy and one on methods in the war on terror with a national team based at NewYork’s in the Minnesota Journal of International Hastings Center. She is also participating Harvard Law School Law. He wrote a book review for the in a Stanford University project on The Mystery of Global Governance American Journal of International Law genomics and a national project on law and chapters for the books Implementing and neuroscience funded by the March Human Rights and International Migration MacArthur Foundation. Professor Wolf’s 6 Professor Alexandra B. Klass Law: Developing Paradigms and Key “Neurolaw: The Big Question” was pub - University of Minnesota Law School Challenges. lished in the American Journal of Bioethics- Neuroscience, and a co-authored article on Professor Elizabeth Wilson practical approaches to incidental findings University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute BARBARA Y. WELKE in brain imaging research was published in of Public Affairs Professor Welke splits her teaching time Neurology. between the history department and the Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration: Law School as part of an interdisciplinary A Consideration of Tort and Property Law initiative to build a program in legal his - JUDITH T. YOUNGER tory. In the fall semester, she taught an In the fall of 2007, ProfessorYounger 13 Professor Miranda McGowan undergraduate survey of early American taught a large group of students in wills University of San Diego School of Law legal history. She also taught an interdisci - and trusts. She spoke to Students for Do as I Do, Not as I Say: An Empirical plinary graduate course featuring distin - Reproductive Justice on Gonzales v. Investigation of Justice Scalia’s Ordinary guished guest scholars who presented legal Carhart. At present, she is teaching first- history work-in-progress, which drew stu - year property and family law, as well as Meaning Method of Statutory Interpretation dents and faculty from the Law School as supervising a group of students in inde - 20 No FWIP – Spring Break well as such liberal arts departments as pendent study on reproductive rights. She history, American studies, and political sci - is working on a course called “Choice: 27 Professor Elizabeth Beaumont ence. She is currently finishing the manu - The Law of Reproductive Rights,” which University of Minnesota Department script for a book titled The Borders of she expects to teach for the first time in of Political Science Belonging: Law, Personhood and Citizenship September 2008. Her piece “Across Cur - in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789 –1929 ricular Boundaries: Searching for a Con - Reviving the Republican Face of Constitutional and is working on a longer-term archival fluence Between Marital Agreements and Rights: Abolition as a Constitutional Project project on the history of product liability. Indian Land Transactions” is slated to appear in the spring issue of Law and Inequality.

12 Perspectives SPRING 2008 www.law.umn.edu Faculty Works in Progress, cont. April 3 Professor Geoffrey Miller New York University School of Law Golden Calves, Stone Tablets, and Fundamental Law Eugene Borgida Elizabeth Heger Boyle Jane E. Kirtley Robert T. Kudrle 10 Professor Jessica Litman Affiliated Faculty series Contemporary Perspectives on Immigra - University of Michigan Law School tion, to be reprinted in Opposing Views: Rethinking Copyright Poverty (V. Wagner, ed.). Chair of the Soci - EUGENE BORGIDA ology of Law Section of the American 17 Professor Ed McCaffrey In fall 2007, Professor Borgida co-taught Sociological Association, she published University of Southern California Law (with Guy Charles) the interdisciplinary “Rethinking Election Rules” in Amici: seminar “Law, Race, and Social Psychol - Newsletter of the American Sociological Associ - School ogy.” He participated in the symposia ation Sociology of Law Section. She recently Toward a Unified Theory of Tax “Implicit Bias Claims: How to Prove, or ended her four-year tenure as book and Property Defend Against, This Type of Claim” at review editor of Law & Society Review. the Labor & Employment Law Institute 24 Professor Heidi Kitrosser and “The Dynamic of Race in the Jury University of Minnesota Law School Selection Process” sponsored by the JANE E. KIRTLEY The Reality-Based Constitution McGee Civil Rights Moot Court. With Professor Kirtley delivered the lectures Professor Susan Fiske, he published the “Windows on the World: A Global Per - May edited volume Beyond Common Sense: Psy - spective on FOI” at the FOI Summit at chological Science in the Courtroom (Wiley- the University of Florida in September 1 Professor Barry Friedman Blackwell Publishers). An article by Pro - and “Still More Threats to the First New York University School of Law fessors Borgida and Charles and their Amendment, At Home and Abroad” at Judicial Activism and Popular Opinion graduate student colleagues, “Race and the Scripps Howard Foundation’s First Redistricting: What the Print Media Amendment Center Directors Confer - 7 Professor Lukas Meyer Conveys to the Public About the Role of ence in Washington, D.C., in October. University of Bern Institute of Philosophy Race,” is forthcoming in the Journal of She was a panelist on “Applying Old-Age To be determined Social Issues. He is working on “Providing Laws to a New Age Internet” at the Cali - Expert Knowledge for the Legal System” fornia First Amendment Coalition’s Free (with Fiske) for the Annual Review of Law Speech and Open Government Assembly and Social Science; “What Does Expert Tes - in Los Angeles in October. In November, timony on Stereotyping Research Have to she appeared on a panel discussing news - Offer Lawyers in Discrimination Cases?” gathering and privacy at the Practising (with Alice Eagly and Grace Deason) for Law Institute’s Communications Law the Hastings Law Review; and “Social Psy - conference in NewYork and on a panel chology and Law” (with Margaret Bull examining international media law Kovera) for the updated Handbook of Social developments at the Ad IDEM/Canadian Psychology. Media Lawyers Association conference in Toronto. She conducted the workshop “Rights and Responsibilities Online” for ELIZABETH HEGER BOYLE the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits in Professor Boyle, who has a joint appoint - November. ment in the Sociology Department, Institute for Global Studies, continues to study immigration, human rights, ROBERT T. KUDRLE and international law. She co-authored Professor Kudrle, with Professor Daniel “Culture, Structure, and the Refugee Gifford, completed a book chapter on the Experience in Somali Immigrant Family possible role of the WTO in competition Transformation” (with Ahmed Ali) for policy, with a focus on the stake of low- International Migration ; wrote the chapter income countries. They are now writing “Refugees” for The International Handbook on the law and economics of price dis - onYouth andYoung Adulthood (Andy Fur - crimination in the United States, Canada, long, ed.); and wrote encyclopedia entries and Europe. Professor Kudrle is finishing a on female genital cutting and legislative study of the OECD’s role in international processes in globalization. A member of tax cooperation. His article, “The OECD’s the University’s Immigration History Harmful Tax Competition Initiative and Research Center Advisory Board, she the Tax Havens: From Bombshell to published “Migrants Solving Global Damp Squib,” was published in the Global Poverty? A Nice Idea, But...” in the online Economy Journal. www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 13 Faculty Perspective

New Faculty The following paragraphs briefly introduce the newest members of the faculty, but please welcome and get to know them personally. Each has unique abilities and concentrations that greatly strengthen the overall learning experience at the Law School.

NEW DIRECTOR OF SIMULATION Defense Network program associate, adjunct assistant professor teaching legal PROGRAMS and instructed a Juvenile Justice Clinic at writing and a visiting scholar at the Uni- Suffolk University.She comes to the Law versity’s Center for Ethics and Culture. School from the University of Denver, She has been an associate professor at the Nancy Cook where she was a visiting professor in the University of Missouri School of Law in will put her Civil Litigation Clinic since 2007. She Columbia since 2004, teaching employee more than 20 will teach in the Law School’s Civil benefits and tax law.As a visiting professor years of law Practice and Child Advocacy Clinics. at Minnesota, she will teach Tax I, school admin- employee benefits, and partnership tax. istrative expe- rience to good use as Director Stephen Meili of Simulation Programs. In this new posi- has taught civil Meghan Ryan tion, she will create, teach, and oversee procedure, is a graduate the Work of the Lawyer course and aid in pre-trial of the Law creating and developing third-year cap- advocacy,and School, class stone courses. Since receiving her M.F.A. consumer and of 2005.As a in creative writing from American Uni- immigration student, she versity and her J.D. from Georgetown law and worked on the University,she has taught law at Cornell, directed the Consumer Law Clinic at Minnesota Law the University of New Mexico,American the University of Wisconsin since 1991. Review and the Minnesota Journal of Global University,the University ofVirginia, and After receiving his J.D. from NewYork Trade, and received the American Law most recently,Roger Williams University, University in 1983 and his LL.M. from Institute-American Bar Association Schol- where she also directed the Community Georgetown University in 1985, he arship and Leadership Award. She was an Justice and Legal Assistance Clinic. She has worked as an associate in a New Haven, associate in Dorsey & Whitney’s trial also taught criminal and civil law to Conn., firm for a year, then was a partner group before joining the faculty in the inmates at a correctional facility,as well as at a plaintiffs’- side labor and employment spring semester as a visiting assistant pro- composition and creative writing at uni- firm in Hartford, Conn., before switching fessor teaching sales. Her undergraduate versities and youth centers. to academics. He received his B.A. in gov- degree, received from Harvard in 2002, is ernment from Dartmouth College in in chemistry.She will teach criminal law, 1978 and his M.A. in inner city develop- criminal process, and a seminar on the NEW CLINICAL PROFESSORS ment at NewYork University in 1980. death penalty. He will join Prentiss Cox in teaching the Consumer Protection Clinic. Perry Moriearty Laura Thomas received her VISITING FACULTY has worked at undergraduate the Minnea- degree from polis office of Brown in Amy Monahan a national 1991, in Eng- received her products liabil- lish and Amer- B.A. in ity defense ican literature, but the job she found after International firm and at college was as a legal assistant. By 1994, Studies from Rider, Bennett in general civil litigation, she had become a J.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins insurance defense, and family law.In 2002, Northwestern University,and in 1997 she University in she started a solo family law practice. She completed her degree at NewYork Uni- 1996, after received her B.A. from the University of versity. She worked as a litigation associate spending 1994–95 at Ireland’s University St.Thomas and her J.D. from Loyola Uni- in Boston until 2002. During the next College Cork. In 1999, she completed her versity Chicago School of Law.She was a five years, she was an independent fact J.D. at Duke University.She worked at a visiting associate professor on the clinical finder at Harvard, taught a summer course firm in Chicago until joining the Univer- faculty in 2007–08 and will continue that at Cambridge College, was a Juvenile sity of Notre Dame in 2003–04 as an role for another year.

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U Faculty Profile

Laura J. Cooper Professor of Law

Laura Cooper joined the Law School faculty in 1975. She is the J. Stewart and Mario Thomas McClendon Professor in Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution and a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

n ninth grade, Laura Cooper and Law School faculty for 2007-2008, her classmates were required to 42% are women). Inclusion of women research two careers. Her in the legal field broadens perspectives choices, lawyer and teacher, and ensures fairer laws. “There’s no could not have more accurately question that the substance of the law pIredicted her future. She has been a has changed since women have been law professor for 38 years and has co- involved as lawyers and judges and authored or co-edited six books and legal educators,” she says. On the per - written numerous articles on labor sonal side, as the first tenured woman law, arbitration, welfare law, and con - professor, Cooper says she was “ the flicts of law from historical, empirical, woman, with everybody’s expectations.” and analytical perspectives. With her Having a lot of women on the faculty expertise, Cooper has not only trained “makes it a lot easier for women to be numerous students in labor law and lots of different things.” workplace dispute, she has contributed Variety is important to Cooper. to women’s presence and excellence in She comments that part of what she the legal field. likes most about being a professor is “the diversity of what you’re allowed Women and the law to do...what you’re encouraged and Her mother kindled Cooper’s interest supported to do.” ies, and membership on various in the law by searching newspapers for In 2005, for example, she and Pro - boards. She was a member of the interesting cases and taking the family fessor Stephen F. Befort proposed the Board of Directors of the Fund for to watch them in downtown L.A. Law School’s first concentration: Labor the Legal Aid Society for 27 years; of courtrooms. “I was probably an adult and Employment Law. Students the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis before I realized that other people demonstrating mastery in the subject for 24 years (3 of them as president); didn’t grow up spending their vaca - receive a certificate and a notation on of Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance tions in court,” she says. their transcripts. (MMLA), the umbrella organization An interest in teaching became Her newest project is chairing a for Legal Aid components, for 15 apparent during law school at Indiana committee to create the first national years (1 of them as president); and of University. Students taking a course “capstone” course for third-year stu - Central Minnesota Legal Services for taught by a visiting professor reported dents on the realities of practicing 3 years. feeling ill-prepared, so she and several labor and employment law. A collabo - Cooper’s dedication and contribu - other students taught the subject “on ration between the Labor Law Group tions throughout her long career have the side,” Cooper says, helping the stu - and the American Bar Association’s not gone unnoticed. The Fund for the dents pass. Section on Labor and Employment Legal Aid Society honored her at its Given her interests, law professor Law, the course will integrate the doc - 27th Annual Law Day Testimonial seems like the obvious career choice. trinal components of labor and Dinner on May 1, 2008. The event At that point, though, few women employment law with the clinical skills serves to acknowledge honorees as an held the position. But Cooper’s timing needed in practice. The committee example to their peers and to thank was perfect. She started her job search hopes to have a test course ready by them for helping improve the world. just when law schools “were deliber - the summer of 2009. Says MMLA Executive Director ately looking for women,” she says. She Jeremy Lane, Cooper “has been proba - was one of three women hired by the Making a difference bly the best example over many years Law School in 1975. In 1979, she Cooper has done vast amounts of pub - of what a law professor can do to help became the Law School’s first tenured lic service over the years, including a poor people.” female professor. decade enforcing a consent decree for The rising number of women since equal opportunity for women faculty By Jenna Zakrajsek, a Law School communi - then has benefited both law and at the University, participation in state cations assistant and an English and journal - women, Cooper says. (Of 64 full-time and federal court gender-fairness stud - ism student at the University of Minnesota. www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 15 A New Dean for a New Era

Twin Cities native David Wippman returns to lead the Law School.

BY FRANK JOSSI

n initial impression, David Wippman seems to be a scholarly, affable man who would be as cOomfortable scouring the library for legal reviews as he would be lecturing a group of fellow professors. But typically, first impressions are incomplete, and such is the case with the University of Minnesota’s new Law School dean. True, Wippman has been a well-regarded academician at Cornell University Law School for 16 years, but he has also worked on cases involving international law that had him traveling to dangerous places. For example, he recalls a 1990 flight into Monrovia on a Nigerian military helicopter because Liberia was in the midst of a civil war pitting the guerrilla warlord Charles Taylor against government forces.

16 Perspectives SPRING 2008 www.law.umn.edu “There were no commercial flights, no security, no oper - tent with our mission as a public law school, which will ating hotels or restaurants, so we packed in our own food give it a little different direction than some other law and water,” he says. “It was a fascinating experience. We were schools might have.” able to meet with the most-senior officials of the interim government and advise them on legal and political issues.” An A-team choice And he relishes telling of representing Liberia in a case After an international exploration for candidates that before a district court in NewYork City. The judge asked started last May, the dean search committee reached a Wippman if his client was part of a faction that had lopped consensus quite readily once Wippman visited. Clearly, he off both ears of Samuel Doe, once Liberia’s president. “I had come prepared. He had researched the University and was able to respond, ‘Your honor, it was just one ear. And arrived armed with specific ideas for improving the Law it wasn’t my client,’” Wippman says. School, attracting a diverse student body, raising money, After an extensive career at D.C. law firms, and at and elevating the national ranking. Cornell University in Ithaca, NewYork, the dean arrives at “He started out by saying he enjoyed the opportunity an important point in the Law School’s history. He replaces to come to a great law school and he wanted to make it an interim co-deans Fred L. Morrison and Guy-Uriel E. even greater law school,” recalls Judy Oakes (class of ’69), a Charles and faces the task of making change happen: from selection committee member. “How can you not like that?” implementing and further developing an innovative new Jon Binks, an assistant to Provost E. Thomas Sullivan curriculum to raising funds and boosting the school’s who coordinated the search committee, says Wippman national reputation. He can’t wait to get started. brings a “trifecta” of experience as a scholar, a practitioner, f

f “The University of Minnesota has a terrific Law and a former public servant. Plus, Wippman has managerial o h l School, and in keeping with the University’s strategic plan, experience gleaned from his three-year tenure as Cornell’s e m my goal is to raise the Law School to the next level, to vice provost for international relations and an understanding m u

R make it one of the top few public law schools in the of the importance of the University’s vision for itself and m i

T country,” he says. “I want to do it in a way that is consis - the Law School, Binks says.

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Wippman has a keen sense of collegiality and an the prestigious Yale Law Journal, a responsibility that taught ability to listen while explaining his vision for the future, him to “think through the logical structure of an Binks says. “He’s unflappable, he’s a good listener, he has a argument and analyze what makes for effective writing,” wonderful sense of humor, and he has great people skills. he says. A clerkship followed in NewYork with Judge I think the dean has a combination of strengths that are Wilfred Feinberg, chief judge for the U.S. Court of rarely found in one individual: He’s an exceptional scholar, Appeals, Second Circuit. he’s also had experience under the Clinton Administration, Wippman returned to Washington to work briefly at he’s done some important international rights works, and the Washington, D.C., office of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & he was a managing partner of a Washington law firm.” Murphy, an office led by several Carter Administration Binks concludes, “I’m extremely positive about his selec - alumni. A dullish corporate caseload had started him tion, and that isn’t hyperbole.” thinking about other employment when a serendipitous Binks’ boss is just as enthusiastic. “In this period of event sent him on the way to becoming an international transformative change and high aspirations,” says University litigator and transformed his life. President Robert H. Bruininks, “the Law School needs an Two attorneys at the firm, Paul Reichler and Judy exceptional leader who cherishes the historic mission and Appelbaum, had begun working for the Nicaraguan gov - critical contribution of a public law school in the 21st cen - ernment in a case against the United States and its support tury. Dean Wippman will be that outstanding and inspiring of the Contras, a guerrilla group sponsored by the Reagan leader.” Administration. With the firm uncomfortable at the prospect of some of its top attorneys litigating against the The training of a dean U.S. government in the International Court of Justice in Wippman spent his first decade in St. Louis Park, The Hague, Reichler and Appelbaum split off and started Minnesota, before his family moved to nearby Edina. His their own firm. They invited Wippman to join them, and father, Harold, graduated from the Law School in 1949 the firm of Reichler, Appelbaum, and Wippman was born. but worked in the insurance industry. His mother, It specialized in representing developing countries, and Gertrude, taught Latin and French in a local Catholic high Nicaragua was its first client. school. His sister, Judy, is a clinical psychologist in Chicago. The firm won the jurisdictional phase of the case Wippman attended the University of Minnesota against the United States, which withdrew before the for a year before applying to several Ivy League schools. merits phase. It won again in The Hague, but as the dam - Princeton accepted him and he went off to New Jersey to ages phase wore on, Nicaragua’s president, Daniel Ortega, earn a bachelor of arts, summa cum laude, in English. He intended to pursue graduate school in English but decided to take a year off, in 1977. Half of the time he spent in the “The Law School needs an Twin Cities driving a taxi and the other half as “a ski bum” and cook inVail, Colorado. The ski community was exceptional leader” for the 21st experiencing the worst drought in a generation, but he hit century. “Dean Wippman will be that the not-very-snowy slopes as often as possible and also learned the art of making a good pancake. outstanding and inspiring leader .” With aspirations to become an English professor, –Robert H. Bruininks, U of M President Wippman traveled next toYale, where he entered the English literature program on a fellowship. By year’s end, he joined 11 other students who dropped out of the pro - lost the 1990 presidential election, and the firm lost a gram. “I would have loved to write the great American client. Regarding the irony that Ortega is the country’s novel, but I knew early that wasn’t in the cards,” he says. president again, the dean notes: “His politics have evolved.” “My plan was to get a degree and teach at the college In Liberia, the firm defended the interim government level. Even though I thoroughly enjoyed what I was doing, against plaintiffs seeking default judgments in the United I didn’t have the commitment that was required.” States and execution of those judgments on Liberian assets held in U.S. banks. The amount at stake was substantial. Off to Washington Shipping companies from around the world were regis - Just when Wippman was wondering what to do next, a tered with and paid dues to the Liberian Maritime friend planning to work in Washington at Arnold & Porter, Registry, and that money was held in the United States. one of the District’s larger and better-known law firms, Much legal wrangling ensued as the country fell into a suggested Wippman join him. The year-long job gave brutal, chaotic civil war that left thousands dead and more Wippman a glimpse of precisely what he was looking for: than 200,000 displaced. But even failed states can litigate. a profession where he could exercise his writing and ana - “It was possible, even though the Liberian government lytical talents while pursuing his personal goal of a life in had collapsed and there was no effective authority in academia. It would take another decade to get there, but control of the country as a whole, to have an almost he was on the right track. ordinary litigation against Liberia go forward in the Accepted atYale Law, he served as editor-in-chief of United States,” says Wippman.

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Customary billable hours were not always possible in tinue the trend toward multidisciplinary scholarship and working with developing countries. The firm had an expand collaboration with other units of the University. annual retainer with Nicaragua and special arrangements Wippman is enthusiastic about curriculum changes. with other clients, including Guatemala and the “I’ve heard of other schools reforming their curricula, but Philippines. In one instance, Wippman recalls, a client from few are this far along or as comprehensive in their approach Nigeria “sent over a guy who brought money in a brown as Minnesota,” he says. “Minnesota is positioned to be a paper bag, in cash, and said we could get all the legal work leader in the revitalization of the law school curriculum.” we wanted if we were prepared to inflate our invoices by What are these changes? First-year students will be 30%.” When Wippman said no, “the person saw it as a able to choose one of four electives (e.g., international law, chance for a counteroffer. We had no further work from corporate law), find professional responsibility topics built that client.” into a variety of courses, and benefit from greater emphasis on statutory interpretation, legal ethics, and “law as a form Back to academics of problem solving,” says Wippman. A decade of practicing law did not diminish Wippman’s desire for academia. When he heard about the Cornell opening, he applied and received a professorship. The dean The Law School is “poised to make at the time noted that Wippman had more experience in professional practice than any other law professor at the important contributions to policy school. But he had teaching experience, too, having been debates that are ongoing and to support an adjunct professor at American University’s law school. At Cornell he taught courses in international law and creative and real-world solutions to human rights and seminars in ethnic conflicts. Without the difficult social and economic problems.” pressures of a law practice, he could devote time to his favorite craft, legal writing, and assisted in the authorship –David Wippman of three books on international law and the rule of law in the wake of military interventions. He has also written or co-written dozens of law review articles and book reviews. A new course, “The Work of the Lawyer,” will con - A highlight of his tenure at Cornell was a one-year tinue training students to be problem solvers, and third- appointment (1998-1999) as a director in the Office of year “capstone” courses will feature a lead professor and Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National faculty from other disciplines working with small groups Security Council (NSC) in Washington. The NSC provides of students for a full year on complex issues, such as global a channel of advice (outside the State Department) to the warming, healthcare, or other major social problems. The president and the executive staff. Wippman loved the goal of the capstone program, still being created, is to give chance to be a “policy person” and, in his year of service, budding attorneys a chance to exercise talents other than to dig into the details of creating the United Nations’ legal analysis and to understand problems “in a larger con - International Criminal Court in Rome. One cherished text,” says Wippman. It will not only give students a much memory is a visit to Kosovo with human rights advocate broader view of law, it will contribute valuable information and author Elie Wiesel to witness the aftermath of the war through important debates over critical, current topics. between NATO and Serbian forces. Wippman recognizes that the Law School faces three In a move that still upsets many human rights immediate priorities: faculty, funding, and facilities. He activists, the United States decided not to support the wants to begin building an endowment within the next International Criminal Court, voting in Rome against its five years for a possible addition to the existing Law School creation. Wippman says the U.S. delegation was “terrific,” building, which is almost at capacity. The privately raised but “there were some internal divisions in the policy appa - money would also help recruit nationally known faculty. ratus in Washington. It made it hard for our delegation to be as effective as it could have been. If we had been more Ties that bind flexible early on, we might have had a different result.” “Minneapolis is my hometown. My mother lives here, I have other family here, so I am excited to return,” Agenda for the future Wippman says. For now, his family will remain in Ithaca so The dean expects exciting results as he and the Law his younger daughter, Lauren, can finish high school. His School embark on a new era. He wants to continue to older daughter, Brianna, is a sophomore at Cornell. His build on its many strengths, which include his own areas, wife, Meredith, an independent art consultant, will later international law and human rights, as well as criminal jus - join him in what they anticipate will be a new adventure tice, intellectual property, science and technology, and legal in the region where he grew up. “As for the weather,” history, among others. “We’re poised to make important Wippman says, “it’s colder here than in Ithaca, but sunnier, contributions to policy debates that are ongoing and to so it balances out.” support creative and real-world solutions to difficult social and economic problems,” he says. He also wants to con - By Frank Jossi, a freelance writer based in St. Paul. www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 19

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Far left: Vice President Walter F. (’56), Joan, and Ted Mondale; Top: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar;

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Dean Fred L. Morrison with Heather Gerken, speaker at William B. Lockhart lecture

Assistant Dean Erin

Keyes (’00) gives last- U minute instructions before the start Dean Guy-Uriel E. Charles with The Twenty-Third Annual William E. of the 6th Annual Angela P. Harris, speaker McGee National Civil Rights Moot Race for Justice. at the John Dewey lecture Court Competition banquet U U

Stephen F. Befort (’74), John H. Matheson, and Ann M. Burkhart, recognized for their 25 years of teaching, with Co-Deans Charles and Morrison. U

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Presented by Minnesota Law Review and Labor Law Group Symposium on Low-Wage Worker

Angela M. Ring and Richard A. Williams Jr. (’70) listen A few words from Bryan Seiler (’08) to symposium speakers.

n November 2, 2007, the The second panel, on the role of The final panel, moderated by Minnesota Law Review hosted organizing in protecting low-wage Professor Jill Hasday, explored the Othe empirical, interdisciplinary workers’ legal rights, moderated by history of employment practices and symposium, “The Low-Wage Worker: Professor Cooper, featured a discussion recent state and local attempts to regu - Legal Rights—Legal Realities.” It was among law professors Ellen Dannin late “big-box” retailers. Renowned co-sponsored by the Labor Law (Penn State), Jennifer Gordon Wal-Mart and labor historian Nelson Group, an international nonprofit (Fordham), and Peggie Smith (Iowa) Lichtenstein (University of California- organization of labor and employment regarding privatization of federal gov - Santa Barbara) identified practices law scholars. Interim Co-Dean Guy- ernment services, immigrant workers’ prompting the regulatory efforts, and Uriel Charles welcomed guests, and centers, and legal structures adopted by professor Catherine Fisk and Michael professors Laura J. Cooper, Catherine states to protect home care workers in Oswalt (Duke) offered legal and socio - L. Fisk (Duke), and Kenneth G. Dau- the absence of a traditional employer- logical critiques of the use of federal Schmidt (Indiana) gave introductory employee relationship. preemption to thwart state and local presentations on behalf of the Labor The third panel examined special initiatives. Law Group. challenges in enforcing immigrant Symposium articles will be pub - In the first panel, moderated by workers’ legal rights in today’s global lished in the May 2008 issue of the Professor Stephen F. Befort, economist economy. Associate Professor Lisa Minnesota Law Review . For archived William L. Wascher (Federal Reserve Stratton moderated a discussion by video of the presentations, copies of Board) and labor lawyer Paul Strauss law professors David Weissbrodt, Scott the articles, and subscribing informa - (Miner, Barnhill & Galland) challenged Cummings (UCLA), and Michael tion, visit www.law.umn.edu/ two key assumptions underlying the Wishnie (Yale) on the intersection lawreview/symposium.html. Fair Labor Standards Act: that min - of labor organization, globalization, imum wage laws improve low-wage and international human rights, and By Bryan Seiler (‘08), Minnesota Law Review workers’ economic circumstances, the potential legal challenges once Symposium Articles Editor, Volume 92. and the statute can effectively remedy current immigration reform proposals violations. are enacted. www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 21 At the Law School

Law School Selected to Host Humphrey Fellows NEW LOOK FOR LAW SCHOOL

he Bureau of Educational Minnesota legal community. and Cultural Affairs of the Additionally, the Law School will TU.S. Department of State and facilitate connections between Institute of International Education Humphrey Fellows and other colleges have selected the University of and departments on campus, including Minnesota Law School to host the the Humphrey Institute, which was Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows in also selected to host the Humphrey Law and Related Fields for the next Program in the field of Public Policy five years. for the next five years. Humphrey Fellows are accom - The Hubert H. Humphrey plished mid-career professionals from Fellowship Program was initiated in In March, the Law School launched Phase I of designated developing countries who 1978 to honor the late Senator and itsWeb site redesign to improve updating and are hosted by U.S. universities for 10 Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey months of professional development, and his lifelong commitment to access to Law School news and events, CLE non-degree academic study, and international cooperation and public offerings, and much more. Phase II, to be cultural exchange. service. Fellowships are granted launched over the summer will continue transi - As members of the Law School competitively to professional candidates tion of pages into the new design, plus other community, Humphrey Fellows will with a commitment to public service. enhancements. have access to a focused program that The program is sponsored by the Please send questions or comments to Cynthia takes full advantage of the Law U.S. Department of State and is Huff at [email protected]. School’s faculty, curriculum, research administered by the Institute of institutes, and connections to the International Education.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the law exchange program between the University of Minnesota Law School and Uppsala University Faculty of Law, we invite you to attend a symposium featuring five topics of American and Scandinavian/European legal comparative interest: SAVE THE DATES: • American and Scandinavian Legal Realism: Torben Spaak (Uppsala) and SEPTEMBER 26 & 27, 2008 Brian Bix (Minnesota) • Freedom of Expression as a Human Right: Thomas Bull (Uppsala) and Fred Morrison (Minnesota) • Families Across National and Cultural Boundaries: Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg (Uppsala) and Jean Sanderson (Minnesota) • Terrorism and Legal Security: Iain Cameron & Petter Asp (Uppsala) and Oren Gross (Minnesota) • Environmental Law: Jan Darpö & Charlotta Zetterberg (Uppsala) and Brad Karkkainen (Minnesota)

Symposium: Friday, 1:00 –4:00 p.m., University of Minnesota Law School, Room 25, and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. –3:00 p.m. (same location). There will be a reception on Friday at 4:00 p.m. and a banquet on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. Please contact Muria Kruger, Director of International and Graduate Programs at the University of Minnesota Law School, with any questions at 612-624-9968 or [email protected].

This program will be presented again on October 24 & 25, 2008, at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

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Clinics Professor Helps Change Lending Laws

ew recent news stories have been more pervasive than the Fmortgage crisis. When Minnesota decided to do something, the state looked for an expert in lending law and found Professor Prentiss Cox (’90). Foreclosure rates in Minnesota had been relatively steady for nearly two decades, but they began to skyrocket three years ago. Rates for 2008 are projected to be five times higher than rates in 2005. Hennepin County accounts for nearly 25% of all foreclo - sures in Minnesota. Minnesota Attor- ney General Lori Swanson realized she needed someone with expertise in consumer and lending law to explore the crisis and appointed Prentiss Cox, Associate Professor of Clinical Law, as Professor Cox with some of his students. Back row left to right: Zach Biesanz chair of the Predatory Lending Study (’08), Mark Wagner (’09), John Baldrica (’08), Peter Thomas (’08); Center: Group. She charged the group with Anne Taff (’09), Professor Prentiss Cox, Julie Strother (’08); Front row: Abigail unearthing the realities of the problem Richey-Allen (’08), Kari Rudd (’09) and proposing possible solutions. Cox joined the Law School in 2005 after serving as an Assistant ments don’t cover the interest on the explaining the mortgage crisis, lending Attorney General and manager of the loan, thus eroding the home’s equity. practices, and foreclosure issues to local Consumer Enforcement Division in Since then, other states have used the prevention counselors, attorneys, com - the Minnesota Attorney General’s Minnesota law as a model for their munity groups, and the general public. Office. He brought plenty of mortgage own legislation. It’s no surprise that Cox was among lending insight to the Predatory Lending But Cox didn’t stop there. In the 2008 recipients of the University Study Group—not only because of his January 2008, he and three students in of Minnesota Outstanding Com- job as a clinical law professor, but also his Consumer Protection Law Clinic— munity Service Award, noted Maury because he was a leader in numerous John Baldrica, Peter Thomas, and Mark Landsman, who held the directorships national cases brought by state attor - Wagner—proposed further legislation of the clinics and lawyering skills pro - neys general against predatory lenders. that would give borrowers with sub - grams at the Law School from 2003 –07. The Study Group determined that prime mortgages more options to “The recipients of his service work subprime lending was a key factor in avoid foreclosure. The “Minnesota were homeowners and more generally the predatory lending problem. Once Subprime Foreclosure Deferment Act” citizens of Minnesota and the United a small part of the mortgage loan pic - would allow qualifying homeowners States,” Landsman said. “Individual ture, subprime lending appeared in to pay a percentage of their mortgages homeowners benefited by having addi - more than 20% of new U.S. mortgage and postpone the rest for up to one tional remedies for specific problems loans made in 2005 and 2006. year, thus fending off foreclosure. As of growing out of the housing crisis, and The Study Group also proposed April 15, the bill was being discussed the citizenry generally benefited by key anti-predatory lending legislation, on the floor of both the House having significant knowledge and which was approved by the state legis - (HF3612) and the Senate (SF3396). expertise provided to officials f f lature by an overwhelming margin and Cox has been a tireless educator attempting to craft solutions to the o h l

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24 Perspectives SPRING 2008 www.law.umn.edu De Se na tor an A. Vi ce Wil liam Eme M on e th e “E Pr e Pa t Hi on Mon rit si dal ve n ri fo si gn s H. den us a ck pa ot e, d R M vi t A P i —Judge al e ob e Wal s if i fi r n . am on si o si o Lea r da th e ca nt t ml y el a te r w nar y n F A. le hy, as , w Mo nd F. ( f u o Walte Ke St ein ’9 i as pl po M rs , 0) vi i Wi ant e t ondale n but li n , ale , t (’ 61 r ye al ki Judge M c a h t r F. y ll ar . C a d po i M is ) O han am ( ’R ng ’56 su es pr in o Wil li cy of nda io r ac tic al Po lin ), C. and th e La w li am dan le, Jo o se nse , A f an Asso Ca nby g, wo rl d (’ th e C. th inki ng u n n 08 Mo ndal e, El eano Sc ho cia Canby on e, ), o day. te n Vic e ol , Dea o r Jr hi s wi th f Mo ndal Jr. Pre si . ac tio n.” H The odor l a Walt er n abo wa y. ( Jo e ’56), den an wa s ut e D t S. e Ho s i wland t g n i was “Whe n floor, Uni te d D D a career.” escorted av ea better n i h s i u Walter d Fre and W Klobuchar d ip I St ates way —Senator me L pma wa s . I Mo Mondale can’t to n, d e to r sw or n De ris the Se nato r, begin an on think , Senate Gu e L Vic law Amy the in y- e who thank my law P U immeasu “Your r e r u t c as it doors resi of student r iel —Kevin d students ent E. you, of Ch Walt impact V Se n s—past, ice rable. ar this a les, er Vice P tor r M. F esi den who A . Sena Law M on my On President se i r e S O’Rior on tor t present, Klo have me dal Wa School behalf P b e, atr lte r u and ch a Dea dan ick come F r . n- Mondale.” and J. M the is of Elect (’08) L o through nd a absolutely all eahy many future— le, the “What M t he y to of but t t M Whi why ea m o and u For y v i n Ja — che y I I f yea l r wor pan, Re t l ea La St j om m hone e W ef e rs us ma r a r rne at w H t e t i s l s t ld t not rk er he i e i t he ous and c Sc s t he s d y F e C by and ty . r wa r ho o M e at only ir api a e W e , f re o fina , wit a s de n cha ol frie t n i m l da the s te t m he so et ol, r c l open h e t M ency l nge a ndship H a e n ly Unive me cr gic pr ond a ught a t l he ucia s l far ba es al , d a t o , M on and e d ident le c my C at a be k y l me rs t a ongr t a l my he 17, h r t ho t nd a it e it ning, o life t w d y e ial about e 201. m dor a s d r r l es exa ll i t of oad c b i e idea il ati on fo ca s, of l r ag M s re mple, a mpaign, is er t us r o ine t v .” f o vic y he in. e . r t . he e la sota , w ,

GUTTER FOR BIND IN A C V e i T ce le h e br Pr U i D n u n at i es v i v t s i e e o i r id e r u g n s s n i i t t y y o nt i A o h s o f f p f i r m d e the Wa l n i M l e n , 7 i e L n s n 2 t c t o Li 0 0 e te a t o s a u 8 f r l r e a e w r F. and L l e S i aw b Mo r r a i yr i L e s C r b nd a aree a r y l e r of D P r ea o v man “ of p n- e — “ o has W roud s he st v F E e c e as E lect al om ry ri Se what has . e one whos t T t nat v z D p i e and h e ns r re o a ry Mondal d s m v F. he e or t i as t rv he e i d w hi t ns p Mondal de W ut S Pat i e ri ul t ng ac d. —P i i h c i p i on v liv e on p n hi i nc ma ri humi W t T e l an o W e e of c y i i rov g n, v k ho n s do h e e al e t d e d.” a l Le w he —c os l e t he e wi i t v e g hi t hat t ahy r at oo d y p E t i onv , c as F U h s e h . . w d t our T Mondal , i i n s c p hom dom t re i g on i s re v e as Vi c Ka , nt at and r e and e th e , Sul L P H le and Vic M r aw e e an n s al ay s l humor. e i i B de P i o v l la r f nt Sc r unc .” an t ut es R. T t z i W hool de n y ure ( any al . ’ 8 R t W te r 4) , W y o i b , l e F s al t a i W . k f b are c hous M , er e l h S ral ari e o F e el nda M na . s o ck o e M l t to d y y le o r W i , nd a P n h at r i le tn n i , ey ck e J . t o s L D S ea ea en h n a y W b to G e r e an al uy a P n as L “ - atric t U I t a aw er o t —As a L t u rie h s a i a k F. t e l s e l Li J E a c s a . La e M w t . d L l b a C s g e f ea o r t b o a ha r w c a e h n r e s i y r a rl a i L o t a d , y Li f t e t t Ma a f s i e r M a h l o b i e D n r b n o e rce r . n n i d a n o e V ll o d r a f n r t e i y n h c t a L e r a t e h s e D e n o J o ah e Pr La d t o d i a l y a s e i a y e t n d f w a s i n e i i n n S c d a g i S d a . e n n u c t n H s h t e d i t p h s o t h o i e c M o h r w a e l n a e d r o l a a t e f a n i Le e s o t o n r d u i n w o d a c r o n t t e l f t u h .” l e o l r h t e h a e s De Se na tor an A. Vi ce Wil liam Eme M on e th e “E Pr e Pa t Hi on Mon rit si dal ve n ri fo si gn s H. den us a ck pa ot e, d R M vi t A P i —Judge al e ob e Wal s if i fi r n . am on si o si o Lea r da th e ca nt t ml y el a te r w nar y n F A. le hy, as , w Mo nd F. ( f u o Walte Ke St ein ’9 i as pl po M rs , 0) vi i Wi ant e t ondale n but li n , ale , t (’ 61 r ye al ki Judge M c a h t r F. y ll ar . C a d po i M is ) O han am ( ’R ng ’56 su es pr in o Wil li cy of nda io r ac tic al Po lin ), C. and th e La w li am dan le, Jo o se nse , A f an Asso Ca nby g, wo rl d (’ th e C. th inki ng u n n 08 Mo ndal e, El eano Sc ho cia Canby on e, ), o day. te n Vic e ol , Dea o r Jr hi s wi th f Mo ndal Jr. Pre si . ac tio n.” H The odor l a Walt er n abo wa y. ( Jo e ’56), den an wa s ut e D t S. e Ho s i wland t g n i was “Whe n floor, Uni te d D D a career.” escorted av ea better n i h s i u Walter d Fre and W Klobuchar d ip I St ates way —Senator me L pma wa s . I Mo Mondale can’t to n, d e to r sw or n De ris the Se nato r, begin an on think , Senate Gu e L Vic law Amy the in y- e who thank my law P U immeasu “Your r e r u t c as it doors resi of student r iel —Kevin d students ent E. you, of Ch Walt impact V Se n s—past, ice rable. ar this a les, er Vice P tor r M. F esi den who A . Sena Law M on my On President se i r e S O’Rior on tor t present, Klo have me dal Wa School behalf P b e, atr lte r u and ch a Dea dan ick come F r . n- Mondale.” and J. M the is of Elect (’08) L o through nd a absolutely all eahy many future— le, the “What M t he y to of but t t M Whi why ea m o and u For y v i n Ja — che y I I f yea l r wor pan, Re t l ea La St j om m hone e W ef e rs us ma r a r rne at w H t e t i s l s t ld t not rk er he i e i t he ous and c Sc s t he s d y F e C by and ty . r wa r ho o M e at only ir api a e W e , f re o fina , wit a s de n cha ol frie t n i m l da the s te t m he so et ol, r c l open h e t M ency l nge a ndship H a e n ly Unive me cr gic pr ond a ught a t l he ucia s l far ba es al , d a t o , M on and e d ident le c my C at a be k y l me rs t a ongr t a l my he 17, h r t ho t nd a it e it ning, o life t w d y e ial about e 201. m dor a s d r r l es exa ll i t of oad c b i e idea il ati on fo ca s, of l r ag M s re mple, a mpaign, is er t us r o ine t v .” f o vic y he in. e . r t . he e la sota , w ,

GUTTER FOR BIND IN A C V e i T ce le h e br Pr U i D n u n at i es v i v t s i e e o i r id e r u g n s s n i i t t y y o nt i A o h s o f f p f i r m d e the Wa l n i M l e n , 7 i e L n s n 2 t c t o Li 0 0 e te a t o s a u 8 f r l r e a e w r F. and L l e S i aw b Mo r r a i yr i L e s C r b nd a aree a r y l e r of P D r ea o v man “ of p n- e — “ o has W roud s he st v F E e c e as E lect al om ry ri Se what has . e one whos t T t nat v z D p i e and h e ns r re o a ry Mondal d s m v F. he e or t i as t rv he e i d w hi t ns p Mondal de W ut S Pat i e ri ul t ng ac d. —P i i h c i p i on v liv e on p n hi i nc ma ri humi W t T e l an o W e e of c y i i rov g n, v k ho n s do h e e al e t d e d.” a l Le w he —c os l e t he e wi i t v e g hi t hat t ahy r at oo d y p E t i onv , c as F U h s e h . . w d t our T Mondal , i i n s c p hom dom t re i g on i s re v e as Vi c Ka , nt at and r e and e th e , Sul L P H le and Vic M r aw e e an n s al ay s l humor. e i i B de P i o v l la r f nt Sc r unc .” an t ut es R. T t z i W hool de n y ure ( any al . ’ 8 R t W te r 4) , W y o i b , l e F s al t a i W . k f b are c hous M , er e l h S ral ari e o F e el nda M na . s o ck o e M l t to d y y le o r W i , nd a P n h at r i le tn n i , ey ck e J . t o s L D S ea ea en h n a y W b to G e r e an al uy a P n as L “ - atric t U I t a aw er o t —As a L t u rie h s a i a k F. t e l s e l Li J E a c s a . La e M w t . d L l b a C s g e f ea o r t b o a ha r w c a e h n r e s i y r a rl a i L o t a d , y Li f t e t t Ma a f s i e r M a h l o b i e D n r b n o e rce r . n n i d a n o e V ll o d r a f n r t e i y n h c t a L e r a t e h s e D e n o J o ah e Pr La d t o d i a l y a s e i a y e t n d f w a s i n e i i n n S c d a g i S d a . e n n u c t n H s h t e d i t p h s o t h o i e c M o h r w a e l n a e d r o l a a t e f a n i Le e s o t o n r d u i n w o d a c r o n t t e l f t u h .” l e o l r h t e h a e s De Se na tor an A. Vi ce Wil liam Eme M on e th e “E Pr e Pa t Hi on Mon rit si dal ve n ri fo si gn s H. den us a ck pa ot e, d R M vi t A P i —Judge al e ob e Wal s if i fi r n . am on si o si o Lea r da th e ca nt t ml y el a te r w nar y n F A. le hy, as , w Mo nd F. ( f u o Walte Ke St ein ’9 i as pl po M rs , 0) vi i Wi ant e t ondale n but li n , ale , t (’ 61 r ye al ki Judge M c a h t r F. y ll ar . C a d po i M is ) O han am ( ’R ng ’56 su es pr in o Wil li cy of nda io r ac tic al Po lin ), C. and th e La w li am dan le, Jo o se nse , A f an Asso Ca nby g, wo rl d (’ th e C. th inki ng u n n 08 Mo ndal e, El eano Sc ho cia Canby on e, ), o day. te n Vic e ol , Dea o r Jr hi s wi th f Mo ndal Jr. Pre si . ac tio n.” H The odor l a Walt er n abo wa y. ( Jo e ’56), den an wa s ut e D t S. e Ho s i wland t g n i was “Whe n floor, Uni te d D D a career.” escorted av ea better n i h s i u Walter d Fre and W Klobuchar d ip I St ates way —Senator me L pma wa s . I Mo Mondale can’t to n, d e to r sw or n De ris the Se nato r, begin an on think , Senate Gu e L Vic law Amy the in y- e who thank my law P U immeasu “Your r e r u t c as it doors resi of student r iel —Kevin d students ent E. you, of Ch Walt impact V Se n s—past, ice rable. ar this a les, er Vice P tor r M. F esi den who A . Sena Law M on my On President se i r e S O’Rior on tor t present, Klo have me dal Wa School behalf P b e, atr lte r u and ch a Dea dan ick come F r . n- Mondale.” and J. M the is of Elect (’08) L o through nd a absolutely all eahy many future— le, the “What M t he y to of but t t M Whi why ea m o and u For y v i n Ja — che y I I f yea l r wor pan, Re t l ea La St j om m hone e W ef e rs us ma r a r rne at w H t e t i s l s t ld t not rk er he i e i t he ous and c Sc s t he s d y F e C by and ty . r wa r ho o M e at only ir api a e W e , f re o fina , wit a s de n cha ol frie t n i m l da the s te t m he so et ol, r c l open h e t M ency l nge a ndship H a e n ly Unive me cr gic pr ond a ught a t l he ucia s l far ba es al , d a t o , M on and e d ident le c my C at a be k y l me rs t a ongr t a l my he 17, h r t ho t nd a it e it ning, o life t w d y e ial about e 201. m dor a s d r r l es exa ll i t of oad c b i e idea il ati on fo ca s, of l r ag M s re mple, a mpaign, is er t us r o ine t v .” f o vic y he in. e . r t . he e la sota , w ,

GUTTER FOR BIND IN A C V e i T ce le h e br Pr U i D n u n at i es v i v t s i e e o i r id e r u g n s s n i i t t y y o nt i A o h s o f f p f i r m d e the Wa l n i M l e n , 7 i e L n s n 2 t c t o Li 0 0 e te a t o s a u 8 f r l r e a e w r F. and L l e S i aw b Mo r r a i yr i L e s C r b nd a aree a r y l e r of P D r ea o v man “ of p n- e — “ o has W roud s he st v F E e c e as E lect al om ry ri Se what has . e one whos t T t nat v z D p i e and h e ns r re o a ry Mondal d s m v F. he e or t i as t rv he e i d w hi t ns p Mondal de W ut S Pat i e ri ul t ng ac d. —P i i h c i p i on v liv e on p n hi i nc ma ri humi W t T e l an o W e e of c y i i rov g n, v k ho n s do h e e al e t d e d.” a l Le w he —c os l e t he e wi i t v e g hi t hat t ahy r at oo d y p E t i onv , c as F U h s e h . . w d t our T Mondal , i i n s c p hom dom t re i g on i s re v e as Vi c Ka , nt at and r e and e th e , Sul L P H le and Vic M r aw e e an n s al ay s l humor. e i i B de P i o v l la r f nt Sc r unc .” an t ut es R. T t z i W hool de n y ure ( any al . ’ 8 R t W te r 4) , W y o i b , l e F s al t a i W . k f b are c hous M , er e l h S ral ari e o F e el nda M na . s o ck o e M l t to d y y le o r W i , nd a P n h at r i le tn n i , ey ck e J . t o s L D S ea ea en h n a y W b to G e r e an al uy a P n as L “ - atric t U I t a aw er o t —As a L t u rie h s a i a k F. t e l s e l Li J E a c s a . La e M w t . d L l b a C s g e f ea o r t b o a ha r w c a e h n r e s i y r a rl a i L o t a d , y Li f t e t t Ma a f s i e r M a h l o b i e D n r b n o e rce r . n n i d a n o e V ll o d r a f n r t e i y n h c t a L e r a t e h s e D e n o J o ah e Pr La d t o d i a l y a s e i a y e t n d f w a s i n e i i n n S c d a g i S d a . e n n u c t n H s h t e d i t p h s o t h o i e c M o h r w a e l n a e d r o l a a t e f a n i Le e s o t o n r d u i n w o d a c r o n t t e l f t u h .” l e o l r h t e h a e s Walter F. Mondale: In the Tradition of James Madison by Lawrence R. Jacobs

Walter F. Mondale was born in the small southern In another expansion of individual freedom, Attorney Minnesota town of Ceylon in 1928. He grew up General Mondale brokered a deal at the 1964 Demo - under the influences of the United Methodist cratic Party Convention in Atlantic City that is still church, where his father was a minister, and the controversial. It allowed the all-white delegation from Great Depression. These influences instilled a sense Mississippi to be seated along with two African- of compassion, a bent for public service, and a American Mississippi Democrats as at-large delegates. strong suspicion of self-serving platitudes. Although the Mississippi Democrats protested in 1964, the deal established a commission that prevented future Mr. Mondale attended Macalester College and the discrimination and led to an integrated, non-discrimina - University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in tory southern Democratic Party. Senator Mondale also Senator Walter F. Mondale and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey 1975. political science in 1951. He received a J.D. from the was a leader in enacting civil rights legislation. His Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society University of Minnesota Law School in 1956 after crowning achievement was passing fair housing legisla - serving in the U.S. Army. He began his career of public tion against long odds. Senator Mondale also played a decisive role in balancing the bipartisan resistance to recent governmental policies service as Minnesota Attorney General from 1960 to individual liberties and homeland security. In the after - on domestic surveillance. President and Vice President 1964. He then served as U.S. Senator from 1964 to Within the Senate, Mr. Mondale balanced the deliberative math of the Watergate crisis, an unparalleled bipartisan arriving at Camp David to 1976 before becoming Vice President in 1977. He power of the Upper Chamber against the democratic investigation of American domestic and international Advancing America’s national interest meet about the Iran hostage served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996. principle of majority rule and created the modern security services was conducted by a committee chaired on the world stage Walter F. Mondale, U.S. Ambassador crisis, November 1979. Swearing-in of Walter F. Mondale as Vice President of the United States, January 20, 1977 to Japan, and Joan Mondale, 1993 Courtesy of Library of Congress

“filibuster.” With civil rights legislation stymied by the N by Senator Frank Church. Although widely known as I

Mr. Mondale’s wide-ranging career in public office procedural maneuvering of opponents, Senator Mondale D the “Church Committee,” Senator Mondale assumed We now know from previously top-secret documents N I

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American political history. Weaving through his public majority rule to dictate the body’s decision-making R to the Committee chief counsel Frederick A. O. ization of American military capabilities. Today, we see O n April 7, 2008, Senator Patrick J. Leahy delivered the service are three themes, two of which stretch back to (mirroring the rules in the U.S. House of Representatives). F Schwartz, Jr.—following Senator Church’s decision evidence of the historic shift from mechanized forces to Vice President Mondale’s conviction that human rights was speaking about and proposing policies that re- R

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Distinguished Lecture in honor of the life and career of Vice system: balance between individual freedom and gov - However, over the course of the debate, his appreciation U drones, and many other military capabilities. tated one of the most important peaceful regime promoted programs to expand opportunities to working President Walter F. Mondale (’56). A gala reception followed ernmental authority, promotion of the national interest for deliberation and the Senate’s unique capacity to G The Committee’s findings were staggering, making changes since World War II: the South African transi - Americans. in celebration of the Vice President’s eightieth birthday, which abroad, and reconnection of the Democratic Party with build broad coalitions tempered his drive to establish plain the need for vigilant scrutiny of government. In In his roles as U.S. Senator, Vice President, and tion from apartheid to a democratically elected govern - Owas January 5, 2008. Among the alumni, scholars, and dignitaries offering the working people. majority rule. He created a compromise for terminating addition to revelations of sordid and ill-conceived efforts Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Mondale closely connected ment led by Nelson Mandela. In a series of confidential A consistent pattern emerges from Mr. Mondale’s remarks on the Vice President’s career as a public servant and a friend of the a filibuster that stipulated a clear process and reduced to assassinate foreign leaders, the Mondale-Church America’s practical power to economic and diplomatic 1977 meetings with John Vorster, Prime Minister of career—the scrutiny of apparent contradictions and University of Minnesota were Senator Amy Klobuchar, Judge William C. Canby Individual freedom versus state authority the votes necessary from two-thirds to 60. The filibuster investigations documented F.B.I. plans to undermine relations. Although Presidents Richard Nixon and Apartheid South Africa, that have only recently fully antinomies to find balanced and practical resolutions. Jr. (’56), Provost E. Thomas Sullivan, Associate Dean Joan S. Howland, and was preserved but the barrier it posed to majorities was Martin Luther King, Jr. and engage in wide-ranging Jimmy Carter opened relations with China, Vice come to light, the Vice President announced a new U.S. Civil liberties and protecting homeland security are Kevin M. O’Riordan (’08), Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Law Review . As Minnesota’s Attorney General, Mr. Mondale took a moderated. inappropriate and illegal activities violating the Bill President Mondale’s meeting with Vice Premier Deng policy of encouraging the gradual and peaceful transi - bound together, not inevitable foes. Human rights and Over 400 alumni, family, and friends joined Vice President Walter F. Mondale leading role in a seminal Supreme Court case that would of Rights. Legislative intervention to check executive Xiaoping and other senior leaders in China in 1979 tion to majority rule. national defense support each other rather than feed off on this very special day. The Law Library gratefully acknowledges the support require state courts to supply legal counsel in criminal branch excess was precisely the kind of counterbalancing established the foundation for the economic, cultural, each other. Open government and loyalty are allies of Dorsey & Whitney LLP in helping to make this celebration possible. cases for defendants unable to afford an attorney. that James Madison identified as essential to preventing and security interconnections that define U.S.-China The counter-attack was ferocious. Prime Minister Vorster rather than tools of subversion. Prompted by a hand-written petition to the U.S. tyranny and injustice. Walter Mondale also sought a relations today. warned that the situation in South Africa was not con - In conjunction with the lecture by Senator Leahy, an exhibit opened in the Supreme Court by Clarence Gideon, who had been in workable balance between America’s security against ducive to democratic governance with the black majority, Mr. Mondale’s career demonstrates that blending Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center at the University of Minnesota Law and out of prison for theft and gambling most of his foreign attack and the results of unchecked power Vice President Mondale prepared for his trip by and that the Vice President’s approach was naïvely open - values and beliefs with practicality is a necessity in Library. Entitled “A Voice of Wisdom, Compassion, and Hope: An Exhibition 51-year life, Attorney General Mondale rallied 23 state uncovered by the Mondale-Church investigations. generating from a resistant bureaucracy a host of ing the door to Soviet exploitation, a claim that would politics, not just an “art” form or an ingredient for in Celebration of the Life and Career of Vice President Walter F. Mondale,” attorneys general to fortify a core principle of the Amer - As Senator, and then as Vice President, Mr. Mondale historic commercial and diplomatic packages. Recently be further pressed by officials in the U.S. Government. winning an election. Principle without expediency is the exhibit includes photographs, letters, documents, and memorabilia from ican justice system: that all Americans are entitled to worked both with America’s national security services declassified confidential transcripts of the historic meet - a recipe for irresponsible irrelevance; expediency with - Walter Mondale’s early years in Elmore, Minn., and his years as Minnesota “their day in court,” regardless of income or pedigree. to facilitate intelligence-gathering and with constitu - ings reveal the palpable excitement of Chinese leaders as With the backing of President Carter, the Vice Presi - out principle is a recipe for unthinking recklessness Attorney General, U.S. Senator, Vice President, presidential nominee, and U.S. tional experts to create a judicial process of review. they came to realize the new levels of interdependence dent’s position prevailed. Imagine the situation today and barbarism. Ambassador to Japan. The Law Library appreciates the assistance of the Elmore Attorney General Mondale concluded that the that the Vice President was offering. Looking back without a stable and prosperous South Africa. Historical Society, the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, the constitutional principle of protecting individual liberty The resulting law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance now, the Mondale initiatives shifted U.S.-Sino relations By Lawrence R. Jacobs, Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair Minnesota Historical Society, and the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in without the means to exercise it is a hollow barrier Act (FISA) of 1978, became a cornerstone of American from strictly military and territorial rivalry to complex The first “new” Democrat for Political Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of staging this exhibit. against unjust or arbitrary government action. Later, as governance, recasting the issue of security versus civil interconnections that included extensive trade and Politics and Governance, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute 1984 presidential campaign. a U.S. Senator, he worked to establish the Legal Services Senator Walter F. Mondale, 1966. liberties into a synthesis that advanced both. The FISA diplomatic partners (as recently illustrated by the Two decades before President Bill Clinton’s promotion of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science, Courtesy of Thomas F. Arndt Katherine Hedin, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections Corporation, further widening access to legal assistance. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society process continues to be an important rallying point for coordinated diplomacy regarding North Korea). of a “third way” and a “new Democrat,” Mr. Mondale University of Minnesota. Walter F. Mondale: In the Tradition of James Madison by Lawrence R. Jacobs

Walter F. Mondale was born in the small southern In another expansion of individual freedom, Attorney Minnesota town of Ceylon in 1928. He grew up General Mondale brokered a deal at the 1964 Demo - under the influences of the United Methodist cratic Party Convention in Atlantic City that is still church, where his father was a minister, and the controversial. It allowed the all-white delegation from Great Depression. These influences instilled a sense Mississippi to be seated along with two African- of compassion, a bent for public service, and a American Mississippi Democrats as at-large delegates. strong suspicion of self-serving platitudes. Although the Mississippi Democrats protested in 1964, the deal established a commission that prevented future Mr. Mondale attended Macalester College and the discrimination and led to an integrated, non-discrimina - University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in tory southern Democratic Party. Senator Mondale also Senator Walter F. Mondale and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey 1975. political science in 1951. He received a J.D. from the was a leader in enacting civil rights legislation. His Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society University of Minnesota Law School in 1956 after crowning achievement was passing fair housing legisla - serving in the U.S. Army. He began his career of public tion against long odds. Senator Mondale also played a decisive role in balancing the bipartisan resistance to recent governmental policies service as Minnesota Attorney General from 1960 to individual liberties and homeland security. In the after - on domestic surveillance. President and Vice President 1964. He then served as U.S. Senator from 1964 to Within the Senate, Mr. Mondale balanced the deliberative math of the Watergate crisis, an unparalleled bipartisan arriving at Camp David to 1976 before becoming Vice President in 1977. He power of the Upper Chamber against the democratic investigation of American domestic and international Advancing America’s national interest meet about the Iran hostage served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996. principle of majority rule and created the modern security services was conducted by a committee chaired on the world stage Walter F. Mondale, U.S. Ambassador crisis, November 1979. Swearing-in of Walter F. Mondale as Vice President of the United States, January 20, 1977 to Japan, and Joan Mondale, 1993 Courtesy of Library of Congress

“filibuster.” With civil rights legislation stymied by the N by Senator Frank Church. Although widely known as I

Mr. Mondale’s wide-ranging career in public office procedural maneuvering of opponents, Senator Mondale D the “Church Committee,” Senator Mondale assumed We now know from previously top-secret documents N I

placed him at the center of many decisive episodes in at first supported elimination of the filibuster to allow B operational leadership of the investigation—according that Vice President Mondale contributed to the modern -

American political history. Weaving through his public majority rule to dictate the body’s decision-making R to the Committee chief counsel Frederick A. O. ization of American military capabilities. Today, we see O n April 7, 2008, Senator Patrick J. Leahy delivered the service are three themes, two of which stretch back to (mirroring the rules in the U.S. House of Representatives). F Schwartz, Jr.—following Senator Church’s decision evidence of the historic shift from mechanized forces to Vice President Mondale’s conviction that human rights was speaking about and proposing policies that re- R

fourth annual University of Minnesota Law Library James Madison’s design of the American constitutional E to run for president. digitized forces in cruise missiles, unmanned predator advance and secure American national interests precipi - examined taxes, questioned welfare dependency, and T T

Distinguished Lecture in honor of the life and career of Vice system: balance between individual freedom and gov - However, over the course of the debate, his appreciation U drones, and many other military capabilities. tated one of the most important peaceful regime promoted programs to expand opportunities to working President Walter F. Mondale (’56). A gala reception followed ernmental authority, promotion of the national interest for deliberation and the Senate’s unique capacity to G The Committee’s findings were staggering, making changes since World War II: the South African transi - Americans. in celebration of the Vice President’s eightieth birthday, which abroad, and reconnection of the Democratic Party with build broad coalitions tempered his drive to establish plain the need for vigilant scrutiny of government. In In his roles as U.S. Senator, Vice President, and tion from apartheid to a democratically elected govern - Owas January 5, 2008. Among the alumni, scholars, and dignitaries offering the working people. majority rule. He created a compromise for terminating addition to revelations of sordid and ill-conceived efforts Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Mondale closely connected ment led by Nelson Mandela. In a series of confidential A consistent pattern emerges from Mr. Mondale’s remarks on the Vice President’s career as a public servant and a friend of the a filibuster that stipulated a clear process and reduced to assassinate foreign leaders, the Mondale-Church America’s practical power to economic and diplomatic 1977 meetings with John Vorster, Prime Minister of career—the scrutiny of apparent contradictions and University of Minnesota were Senator Amy Klobuchar, Judge William C. Canby Individual freedom versus state authority the votes necessary from two-thirds to 60. The filibuster investigations documented F.B.I. plans to undermine relations. Although Presidents Richard Nixon and Apartheid South Africa, that have only recently fully antinomies to find balanced and practical resolutions. Jr. (’56), Provost E. Thomas Sullivan, Associate Dean Joan S. Howland, and was preserved but the barrier it posed to majorities was Martin Luther King, Jr. and engage in wide-ranging Jimmy Carter opened relations with China, Vice come to light, the Vice President announced a new U.S. Civil liberties and protecting homeland security are Kevin M. O’Riordan (’08), Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Law Review . As Minnesota’s Attorney General, Mr. Mondale took a moderated. inappropriate and illegal activities violating the Bill President Mondale’s meeting with Vice Premier Deng policy of encouraging the gradual and peaceful transi - bound together, not inevitable foes. Human rights and Over 400 alumni, family, and friends joined Vice President Walter F. Mondale leading role in a seminal Supreme Court case that would of Rights. Legislative intervention to check executive Xiaoping and other senior leaders in China in 1979 tion to majority rule. national defense support each other rather than feed off on this very special day. The Law Library gratefully acknowledges the support require state courts to supply legal counsel in criminal branch excess was precisely the kind of counterbalancing established the foundation for the economic, cultural, each other. Open government and loyalty are allies of Dorsey & Whitney LLP in helping to make this celebration possible. cases for defendants unable to afford an attorney. that James Madison identified as essential to preventing and security interconnections that define U.S.-China The counter-attack was ferocious. Prime Minister Vorster rather than tools of subversion. Prompted by a hand-written petition to the U.S. tyranny and injustice. Walter Mondale also sought a relations today. warned that the situation in South Africa was not con - In conjunction with the lecture by Senator Leahy, an exhibit opened in the Supreme Court by Clarence Gideon, who had been in workable balance between America’s security against ducive to democratic governance with the black majority, Mr. Mondale’s career demonstrates that blending Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center at the University of Minnesota Law and out of prison for theft and gambling most of his foreign attack and the results of unchecked power Vice President Mondale prepared for his trip by and that the Vice President’s approach was naïvely open - values and beliefs with practicality is a necessity in Library. Entitled “A Voice of Wisdom, Compassion, and Hope: An Exhibition 51-year life, Attorney General Mondale rallied 23 state uncovered by the Mondale-Church investigations. generating from a resistant bureaucracy a host of ing the door to Soviet exploitation, a claim that would politics, not just an “art” form or an ingredient for in Celebration of the Life and Career of Vice President Walter F. Mondale,” attorneys general to fortify a core principle of the Amer - As Senator, and then as Vice President, Mr. Mondale historic commercial and diplomatic packages. Recently be further pressed by officials in the U.S. Government. winning an election. Principle without expediency is the exhibit includes photographs, letters, documents, and memorabilia from ican justice system: that all Americans are entitled to worked both with America’s national security services declassified confidential transcripts of the historic meet - a recipe for irresponsible irrelevance; expediency with - Walter Mondale’s early years in Elmore, Minn., and his years as Minnesota “their day in court,” regardless of income or pedigree. to facilitate intelligence-gathering and with constitu - ings reveal the palpable excitement of Chinese leaders as With the backing of President Carter, the Vice Presi - out principle is a recipe for unthinking recklessness Attorney General, U.S. Senator, Vice President, presidential nominee, and U.S. tional experts to create a judicial process of review. they came to realize the new levels of interdependence dent’s position prevailed. Imagine the situation today and barbarism. Ambassador to Japan. The Law Library appreciates the assistance of the Elmore Attorney General Mondale concluded that the that the Vice President was offering. Looking back without a stable and prosperous South Africa. Historical Society, the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, the constitutional principle of protecting individual liberty The resulting law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance now, the Mondale initiatives shifted U.S.-Sino relations By Lawrence R. Jacobs, Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair Minnesota Historical Society, and the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in without the means to exercise it is a hollow barrier Act (FISA) of 1978, became a cornerstone of American from strictly military and territorial rivalry to complex The first “new” Democrat for Political Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of staging this exhibit. against unjust or arbitrary government action. Later, as governance, recasting the issue of security versus civil interconnections that included extensive trade and Politics and Governance, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute 1984 presidential campaign. a U.S. Senator, he worked to establish the Legal Services Senator Walter F. Mondale, 1966. liberties into a synthesis that advanced both. The FISA diplomatic partners (as recently illustrated by the Two decades before President Bill Clinton’s promotion of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science, Courtesy of Thomas F. Arndt Katherine Hedin, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections Corporation, further widening access to legal assistance. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society process continues to be an important rallying point for coordinated diplomacy regarding North Korea). of a “third way” and a “new Democrat,” Mr. Mondale University of Minnesota. Walter F. Mondale: In the Tradition of James Madison by Lawrence R. Jacobs

Walter F. Mondale was born in the small southern In another expansion of individual freedom, Attorney Minnesota town of Ceylon in 1928. He grew up General Mondale brokered a deal at the 1964 Demo - under the influences of the United Methodist cratic Party Convention in Atlantic City that is still church, where his father was a minister, and the controversial. It allowed the all-white delegation from Great Depression. These influences instilled a sense Mississippi to be seated along with two African- of compassion, a bent for public service, and a American Mississippi Democrats as at-large delegates. strong suspicion of self-serving platitudes. Although the Mississippi Democrats protested in 1964, the deal established a commission that prevented future Mr. Mondale attended Macalester College and the discrimination and led to an integrated, non-discrimina - University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in tory southern Democratic Party. Senator Mondale also Senator Walter F. Mondale and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey 1975. political science in 1951. He received a J.D. from the was a leader in enacting civil rights legislation. His Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society University of Minnesota Law School in 1956 after crowning achievement was passing fair housing legisla - serving in the U.S. Army. He began his career of public tion against long odds. Senator Mondale also played a decisive role in balancing the bipartisan resistance to recent governmental policies service as Minnesota Attorney General from 1960 to individual liberties and homeland security. In the after - on domestic surveillance. President and Vice President 1964. He then served as U.S. Senator from 1964 to Within the Senate, Mr. Mondale balanced the deliberative math of the Watergate crisis, an unparalleled bipartisan arriving at Camp David to 1976 before becoming Vice President in 1977. He power of the Upper Chamber against the democratic investigation of American domestic and international Advancing America’s national interest meet about the Iran hostage served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996. principle of majority rule and created the modern security services was conducted by a committee chaired on the world stage Walter F. Mondale, U.S. Ambassador crisis, November 1979. Swearing-in of Walter F. Mondale as Vice President of the United States, January 20, 1977 to Japan, and Joan Mondale, 1993 Courtesy of Library of Congress

“filibuster.” With civil rights legislation stymied by the N by Senator Frank Church. Although widely known as I

Mr. Mondale’s wide-ranging career in public office procedural maneuvering of opponents, Senator Mondale D the “Church Committee,” Senator Mondale assumed We now know from previously top-secret documents N I

placed him at the center of many decisive episodes in at first supported elimination of the filibuster to allow B operational leadership of the investigation—according that Vice President Mondale contributed to the modern -

American political history. Weaving through his public majority rule to dictate the body’s decision-making R to the Committee chief counsel Frederick A. O. ization of American military capabilities. Today, we see O n April 7, 2008, Senator Patrick J. Leahy delivered the service are three themes, two of which stretch back to (mirroring the rules in the U.S. House of Representatives). F Schwartz, Jr.—following Senator Church’s decision evidence of the historic shift from mechanized forces to Vice President Mondale’s conviction that human rights was speaking about and proposing policies that re- R

fourth annual University of Minnesota Law Library James Madison’s design of the American constitutional E to run for president. digitized forces in cruise missiles, unmanned predator advance and secure American national interests precipi - examined taxes, questioned welfare dependency, and T T

Distinguished Lecture in honor of the life and career of Vice system: balance between individual freedom and gov - However, over the course of the debate, his appreciation U drones, and many other military capabilities. tated one of the most important peaceful regime promoted programs to expand opportunities to working President Walter F. Mondale (’56). A gala reception followed ernmental authority, promotion of the national interest for deliberation and the Senate’s unique capacity to G The Committee’s findings were staggering, making changes since World War II: the South African transi - Americans. in celebration of the Vice President’s eightieth birthday, which abroad, and reconnection of the Democratic Party with build broad coalitions tempered his drive to establish plain the need for vigilant scrutiny of government. In In his roles as U.S. Senator, Vice President, and tion from apartheid to a democratically elected govern - Owas January 5, 2008. Among the alumni, scholars, and dignitaries offering the working people. majority rule. He created a compromise for terminating addition to revelations of sordid and ill-conceived efforts Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Mondale closely connected ment led by Nelson Mandela. In a series of confidential A consistent pattern emerges from Mr. Mondale’s remarks on the Vice President’s career as a public servant and a friend of the a filibuster that stipulated a clear process and reduced to assassinate foreign leaders, the Mondale-Church America’s practical power to economic and diplomatic 1977 meetings with John Vorster, Prime Minister of career—the scrutiny of apparent contradictions and University of Minnesota were Senator Amy Klobuchar, Judge William C. Canby Individual freedom versus state authority the votes necessary from two-thirds to 60. The filibuster investigations documented F.B.I. plans to undermine relations. Although Presidents Richard Nixon and Apartheid South Africa, that have only recently fully antinomies to find balanced and practical resolutions. Jr. (’56), Provost E. Thomas Sullivan, Associate Dean Joan S. Howland, and was preserved but the barrier it posed to majorities was Martin Luther King, Jr. and engage in wide-ranging Jimmy Carter opened relations with China, Vice come to light, the Vice President announced a new U.S. Civil liberties and protecting homeland security are Kevin M. O’Riordan (’08), Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Law Review . As Minnesota’s Attorney General, Mr. Mondale took a moderated. inappropriate and illegal activities violating the Bill President Mondale’s meeting with Vice Premier Deng policy of encouraging the gradual and peaceful transi - bound together, not inevitable foes. Human rights and Over 400 alumni, family, and friends joined Vice President Walter F. Mondale leading role in a seminal Supreme Court case that would of Rights. Legislative intervention to check executive Xiaoping and other senior leaders in China in 1979 tion to majority rule. national defense support each other rather than feed off on this very special day. The Law Library gratefully acknowledges the support require state courts to supply legal counsel in criminal branch excess was precisely the kind of counterbalancing established the foundation for the economic, cultural, each other. Open government and loyalty are allies of Dorsey & Whitney LLP in helping to make this celebration possible. cases for defendants unable to afford an attorney. that James Madison identified as essential to preventing and security interconnections that define U.S.-China The counter-attack was ferocious. Prime Minister Vorster rather than tools of subversion. Prompted by a hand-written petition to the U.S. tyranny and injustice. Walter Mondale also sought a relations today. warned that the situation in South Africa was not con - In conjunction with the lecture by Senator Leahy, an exhibit opened in the Supreme Court by Clarence Gideon, who had been in workable balance between America’s security against ducive to democratic governance with the black majority, Mr. Mondale’s career demonstrates that blending Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center at the University of Minnesota Law and out of prison for theft and gambling most of his foreign attack and the results of unchecked power Vice President Mondale prepared for his trip by and that the Vice President’s approach was naïvely open - values and beliefs with practicality is a necessity in Library. Entitled “A Voice of Wisdom, Compassion, and Hope: An Exhibition 51-year life, Attorney General Mondale rallied 23 state uncovered by the Mondale-Church investigations. generating from a resistant bureaucracy a host of ing the door to Soviet exploitation, a claim that would politics, not just an “art” form or an ingredient for in Celebration of the Life and Career of Vice President Walter F. Mondale,” attorneys general to fortify a core principle of the Amer - As Senator, and then as Vice President, Mr. Mondale historic commercial and diplomatic packages. Recently be further pressed by officials in the U.S. Government. winning an election. Principle without expediency is the exhibit includes photographs, letters, documents, and memorabilia from ican justice system: that all Americans are entitled to worked both with America’s national security services declassified confidential transcripts of the historic meet - a recipe for irresponsible irrelevance; expediency with - Walter Mondale’s early years in Elmore, Minn., and his years as Minnesota “their day in court,” regardless of income or pedigree. to facilitate intelligence-gathering and with constitu - ings reveal the palpable excitement of Chinese leaders as With the backing of President Carter, the Vice Presi - out principle is a recipe for unthinking recklessness Attorney General, U.S. Senator, Vice President, presidential nominee, and U.S. tional experts to create a judicial process of review. they came to realize the new levels of interdependence dent’s position prevailed. Imagine the situation today and barbarism. Ambassador to Japan. The Law Library appreciates the assistance of the Elmore Attorney General Mondale concluded that the that the Vice President was offering. Looking back without a stable and prosperous South Africa. Historical Society, the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, the constitutional principle of protecting individual liberty The resulting law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance now, the Mondale initiatives shifted U.S.-Sino relations By Lawrence R. Jacobs, Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair Minnesota Historical Society, and the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in without the means to exercise it is a hollow barrier Act (FISA) of 1978, became a cornerstone of American from strictly military and territorial rivalry to complex The first “new” Democrat for Political Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of staging this exhibit. against unjust or arbitrary government action. Later, as governance, recasting the issue of security versus civil interconnections that included extensive trade and Politics and Governance, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute 1984 presidential campaign. a U.S. Senator, he worked to establish the Legal Services Senator Walter F. Mondale, 1966. liberties into a synthesis that advanced both. The FISA diplomatic partners (as recently illustrated by the Two decades before President Bill Clinton’s promotion of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science, Courtesy of Thomas F. Arndt Katherine Hedin, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections Corporation, further widening access to legal assistance. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society process continues to be an important rallying point for coordinated diplomacy regarding North Korea). of a “third way” and a “new Democrat,” Mr. Mondale University of Minnesota. Walter F. Mondale: In the Tradition of James Madison by Lawrence R. Jacobs

Walter F. Mondale was born in the small southern In another expansion of individual freedom, Attorney Minnesota town of Ceylon in 1928. He grew up General Mondale brokered a deal at the 1964 Demo - under the influences of the United Methodist cratic Party Convention in Atlantic City that is still church, where his father was a minister, and the controversial. It allowed the all-white delegation from Great Depression. These influences instilled a sense Mississippi to be seated along with two African- of compassion, a bent for public service, and a American Mississippi Democrats as at-large delegates. strong suspicion of self-serving platitudes. Although the Mississippi Democrats protested in 1964, the deal established a commission that prevented future Mr. Mondale attended Macalester College and the discrimination and led to an integrated, non-discrimina - University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in tory southern Democratic Party. Senator Mondale also Senator Walter F. Mondale and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey 1975. political science in 1951. He received a J.D. from the was a leader in enacting civil rights legislation. His Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society University of Minnesota Law School in 1956 after crowning achievement was passing fair housing legisla - serving in the U.S. Army. He began his career of public tion against long odds. Senator Mondale also played a decisive role in balancing the bipartisan resistance to recent governmental policies service as Minnesota Attorney General from 1960 to individual liberties and homeland security. In the after - on domestic surveillance. President and Vice President 1964. He then served as U.S. Senator from 1964 to Within the Senate, Mr. Mondale balanced the deliberative math of the Watergate crisis, an unparalleled bipartisan arriving at Camp David to 1976 before becoming Vice President in 1977. He power of the Upper Chamber against the democratic investigation of American domestic and international Advancing America’s national interest meet about the Iran hostage served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996. principle of majority rule and created the modern security services was conducted by a committee chaired on the world stage Walter F. Mondale, U.S. Ambassador crisis, November 1979. Swearing-in of Walter F. Mondale as Vice President of the United States, January 20, 1977 to Japan, and Joan Mondale, 1993 Courtesy of Library of Congress

“filibuster.” With civil rights legislation stymied by the N by Senator Frank Church. Although widely known as I

Mr. Mondale’s wide-ranging career in public office procedural maneuvering of opponents, Senator Mondale D the “Church Committee,” Senator Mondale assumed We now know from previously top-secret documents N I

placed him at the center of many decisive episodes in at first supported elimination of the filibuster to allow B operational leadership of the investigation—according that Vice President Mondale contributed to the modern -

American political history. Weaving through his public majority rule to dictate the body’s decision-making R to the Committee chief counsel Frederick A. O. ization of American military capabilities. Today, we see O n April 7, 2008, Senator Patrick J. Leahy delivered the service are three themes, two of which stretch back to (mirroring the rules in the U.S. House of Representatives). F Schwartz, Jr.—following Senator Church’s decision evidence of the historic shift from mechanized forces to Vice President Mondale’s conviction that human rights was speaking about and proposing policies that re- R

fourth annual University of Minnesota Law Library James Madison’s design of the American constitutional E to run for president. digitized forces in cruise missiles, unmanned predator advance and secure American national interests precipi - examined taxes, questioned welfare dependency, and T T

Distinguished Lecture in honor of the life and career of Vice system: balance between individual freedom and gov - However, over the course of the debate, his appreciation U drones, and many other military capabilities. tated one of the most important peaceful regime promoted programs to expand opportunities to working President Walter F. Mondale (’56). A gala reception followed ernmental authority, promotion of the national interest for deliberation and the Senate’s unique capacity to G The Committee’s findings were staggering, making changes since World War II: the South African transi - Americans. in celebration of the Vice President’s eightieth birthday, which abroad, and reconnection of the Democratic Party with build broad coalitions tempered his drive to establish plain the need for vigilant scrutiny of government. In In his roles as U.S. Senator, Vice President, and tion from apartheid to a democratically elected govern - Owas January 5, 2008. Among the alumni, scholars, and dignitaries offering the working people. majority rule. He created a compromise for terminating addition to revelations of sordid and ill-conceived efforts Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Mondale closely connected ment led by Nelson Mandela. In a series of confidential A consistent pattern emerges from Mr. Mondale’s remarks on the Vice President’s career as a public servant and a friend of the a filibuster that stipulated a clear process and reduced to assassinate foreign leaders, the Mondale-Church America’s practical power to economic and diplomatic 1977 meetings with John Vorster, Prime Minister of career—the scrutiny of apparent contradictions and University of Minnesota were Senator Amy Klobuchar, Judge William C. Canby Individual freedom versus state authority the votes necessary from two-thirds to 60. The filibuster investigations documented F.B.I. plans to undermine relations. Although Presidents Richard Nixon and Apartheid South Africa, that have only recently fully antinomies to find balanced and practical resolutions. Jr. (’56), Provost E. Thomas Sullivan, Associate Dean Joan S. Howland, and was preserved but the barrier it posed to majorities was Martin Luther King, Jr. and engage in wide-ranging Jimmy Carter opened relations with China, Vice come to light, the Vice President announced a new U.S. Civil liberties and protecting homeland security are Kevin M. O’Riordan (’08), Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Law Review . As Minnesota’s Attorney General, Mr. Mondale took a moderated. inappropriate and illegal activities violating the Bill President Mondale’s meeting with Vice Premier Deng policy of encouraging the gradual and peaceful transi - bound together, not inevitable foes. Human rights and Over 400 alumni, family, and friends joined Vice President Walter F. Mondale leading role in a seminal Supreme Court case that would of Rights. Legislative intervention to check executive Xiaoping and other senior leaders in China in 1979 tion to majority rule. national defense support each other rather than feed off on this very special day. The Law Library gratefully acknowledges the support require state courts to supply legal counsel in criminal branch excess was precisely the kind of counterbalancing established the foundation for the economic, cultural, each other. Open government and loyalty are allies of Dorsey & Whitney LLP in helping to make this celebration possible. cases for defendants unable to afford an attorney. that James Madison identified as essential to preventing and security interconnections that define U.S.-China The counter-attack was ferocious. Prime Minister Vorster rather than tools of subversion. Prompted by a hand-written petition to the U.S. tyranny and injustice. Walter Mondale also sought a relations today. warned that the situation in South Africa was not con - In conjunction with the lecture by Senator Leahy, an exhibit opened in the Supreme Court by Clarence Gideon, who had been in workable balance between America’s security against ducive to democratic governance with the black majority, Mr. Mondale’s career demonstrates that blending Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center at the University of Minnesota Law and out of prison for theft and gambling most of his foreign attack and the results of unchecked power Vice President Mondale prepared for his trip by and that the Vice President’s approach was naïvely open - values and beliefs with practicality is a necessity in Library. Entitled “A Voice of Wisdom, Compassion, and Hope: An Exhibition 51-year life, Attorney General Mondale rallied 23 state uncovered by the Mondale-Church investigations. generating from a resistant bureaucracy a host of ing the door to Soviet exploitation, a claim that would politics, not just an “art” form or an ingredient for in Celebration of the Life and Career of Vice President Walter F. Mondale,” attorneys general to fortify a core principle of the Amer - As Senator, and then as Vice President, Mr. Mondale historic commercial and diplomatic packages. Recently be further pressed by officials in the U.S. Government. winning an election. Principle without expediency is the exhibit includes photographs, letters, documents, and memorabilia from ican justice system: that all Americans are entitled to worked both with America’s national security services declassified confidential transcripts of the historic meet - a recipe for irresponsible irrelevance; expediency with - Walter Mondale’s early years in Elmore, Minn., and his years as Minnesota “their day in court,” regardless of income or pedigree. to facilitate intelligence-gathering and with constitu - ings reveal the palpable excitement of Chinese leaders as With the backing of President Carter, the Vice Presi - out principle is a recipe for unthinking recklessness Attorney General, U.S. Senator, Vice President, presidential nominee, and U.S. tional experts to create a judicial process of review. they came to realize the new levels of interdependence dent’s position prevailed. Imagine the situation today and barbarism. Ambassador to Japan. The Law Library appreciates the assistance of the Elmore Attorney General Mondale concluded that the that the Vice President was offering. Looking back without a stable and prosperous South Africa. Historical Society, the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, the constitutional principle of protecting individual liberty The resulting law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance now, the Mondale initiatives shifted U.S.-Sino relations By Lawrence R. Jacobs, Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair Minnesota Historical Society, and the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in without the means to exercise it is a hollow barrier Act (FISA) of 1978, became a cornerstone of American from strictly military and territorial rivalry to complex The first “new” Democrat for Political Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of staging this exhibit. against unjust or arbitrary government action. Later, as governance, recasting the issue of security versus civil interconnections that included extensive trade and Politics and Governance, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute 1984 presidential campaign. a U.S. Senator, he worked to establish the Legal Services Senator Walter F. Mondale, 1966. liberties into a synthesis that advanced both. The FISA diplomatic partners (as recently illustrated by the Two decades before President Bill Clinton’s promotion of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science, Courtesy of Thomas F. Arndt Katherine Hedin, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections Corporation, further widening access to legal assistance. Courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society process continues to be an important rallying point for coordinated diplomacy regarding North Korea). of a “third way” and a “new Democrat,” Mr. Mondale University of Minnesota. De Se na tor an A. 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2007 –2008 Intercollegiate Moot Courts Competition

ABA Moot Court secutive successful year. The initial The ABA appellate advocacy team MIPLA Cup, a new annual competition advanced to the national final eight, between the Giles Rich Intellectual losing in the region championship Property Moot Court teams from the (which determines who goes to the four Twin Cities law schools, sponsored national final-four rounds). In the by the Minnesota Intellectual Property regional competition, second-year stu - Law Association (MIPLA), was held dents Sean Foss and Meridith Socha at William Mitchell College of Law, had a high brief score and went 4-0 St. Paul, on March 10, 2008. into the final championship round, Three-person panels of MIPLA where they lost in a very spirited argu - members, representing both ment. They faced six of the competi - private law firms and tion’s top ten oralists in their rounds. in-house counsel, judged Third-year students Randy Hagedorn each argument. Six teams and Steve Noess were 1-1 but lost participated. Third-year their third argument by a single point, U of M students Erik Birkeneder thereby missing advancement to the and Pratin Vallabhaneni won both final-two championship rounds. rounds of arguments and first place in Adjunct advisor Michael Vanselow the MIPLA Cup competition, thereby coached the teams. earning a $5,000 scholarship graciously provided by MIPLA to promote the Environmental Moot Court continued strength of intellectual the second place oral argument trophy. On Feb. 20 –24, the Environmental property programs in area law schools. The best brief trophy and Dorothy O. Moot Court team traveled to White In mid-March, Birkeneder and Lareau Award went to second-year stu - Plains, N.J., for the Pace University Vallabhaneni went on to the Boston dent Heather Robertson , and the Law School Environmental Moot regional competition, where they second-place trophy went to second- Court Competition. The 2008 team of finished second. They were invited to year student Matt Rivard . third-year students Jim Gessford and return to the national final rounds in Daniel Weaver and second-year stu - Washington on April 15-19 to defend National Moot Court dent Michael Schmidt was one of 27 our 2007 national championship. Team The National Moot Court teams to reach the quarter-final round coaches were adjunct advisors Todd Respondent’s Team, consisting of out of about 70 teams overall. Schmidt Werner and Heather Kliebenstein . third-year students Logan Drew , Jesse won best oralist for the team’s first pre - Mondry , and Ryan Myers , advanced liminary oral argument. Adjunct advi - International Moot Court to the quarter-finals at the final rounds sors Sanne Knudsen and Elizabeth Third-year student Matt Ramage- of the National Moot Court Schmiesing coached the team. White and second-year students Competition at the NewYork City Jared Cook , Amber Fasching , Brett Bar Association the last week of Evans Constitutional Law Gilbert , and Monica Miller competed January 2008. The team’s brief received Moot Court in the Phillip C. Jessup International the third-highest score among the Third-year students Mark Lazar , Law Moot Court Regional Compe- national finals teams. The top two Sara Payne , Julie Strother , and Carl tition in Chicago. Adjunct advisor Bob teams from each of the country’s 14 Tvedten competed in the Evans DeMay coached the teams. regions advance to the National Moot Constitutional Law Competition spon - Court Competition finals. Last fall, 189 sored by the University of Wisconsin Maynard Pirsig Moot Court teams from the nation’s law schools Law School. Team coaches were In the Law School’s Maynard Pirsig competed in the regional rounds. A adjunct advisors Mark Thompson Moot Court Competition, second-year second U of M team, consisting of and Jody Ward . student Grant Collins , who argued as third-year students Chris Amundsen , appellant in the final championship David Hansen , and Peter Shaw , also Intellectual Property Moot round, won the Harold Will Cox oral competed in the regional rounds. Court argument prize. Second-year student Clinical Professor Brad Clary and The Intellectual Property Moot Court Jeremy Jones , arguing as respondent adjunct co-advisor Kristin Sankovitz competition team had its fourth con - in the final championship round, won coached the teams. www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 25 At the Law School

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Wagner Moot Court ACTL National Trial Ben Kennedy , Dan Hammer , Eric Third-year students Bonnie Competition Chad , Eugene Tagle , Manish Kumar , Hungerford , Annie Raupp , and For the third year, a National Mock and Sandy Roth and second-year stu - Reva Tevaarwerk represented the Law Trial Team took part in the regional dent Mark Wagner . The team of Eric School at the Robert F. Wagner competition of the American College Chad , Manish Kumar , and Sandy National Labor and Employment Law of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) National Roth went undefeated in the prelimi - Moot Court Competition at the New Mock Trial Competition sponsored by nary rounds and ranked third going York Law School. Adjunct advisor the TexasYoung Lawyers Association. into elimination rounds. In the quarter- Tom Trachsel coached the team. Teams consisted of third-year students final elimination round, the team was

Gifts, Support Scholarships, Research, and the Library

he Law School’s success is spirit prompted him and his wife Gail then bought banks in Hallock, forged by the hard work of our to create a $1 million endowment fund Minnesota, and Sioux Falls, South Tcommunity of students, faculty, at the Law School. Dakota. Those components now staff, alumni, and friends. Private phil - The Dennis and Gail Mathisen comprise the Marshall BankFirst anthropic support has always been Scholarship Fund will assist high- Corporation. essential in sustaining our excellence. achieving new students in need of Dennis and Gail have been long- Now, with the near elimination of state financial aid. Recipients can apply for time and unstinting supporters of the funding for public legal education, gifts scholarship renewal for their second University of Minnesota, Minneapolis from our alumni and friends are critical and third years of law school. In addi - Art Institute, Minneapolis Symphony for our continued strength and future tion, the University will match, dollar Orchestra, Children’s Theatre success. The following paragraphs high - for dollar, the payout of the Mathisens’ Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota light the generosity, fore sight, and endowment, through the President’s Medical Foundation, Minnesota dedication of some of our strongest Scholarship Match Program. Humanities Commission, and other supporters. We thank them, and all “The U of M Law School pro - organizations. They now live in of our donors, for helping the Law vided me with a wonderful and irre - Nevada but also spend time in School remain among the very best. placeable education,” says Dennis. “Any Colorado and Arizona. They have two contribution I make to the Law sons, one living in NewYork and one School is a very small recompense for in Minneapolis. the benefits that I received.” After completing his B.S. and J.D. Wargo Estate Gift Boosts at Minnesota, Dennis moved to Research and Technology Washington, D.C., to work as a tax attorney in the Office of the Chief he Law School recently was Counsel of the Internal Revenue the grateful recipient of $425,000 Service. A position with Lindquist & Tfrom the estate of Edith Powers Vennum brought him back to the Wargo (’38). “Throughout her life, Twin Cities. He worked with investor Edith had a keen interest in learning Irwin Jacobs on numerous mergers and across a wide spectrum of areas, acquisitions and began his own including the law,” said Linda Irwin Dennis and Gail Mathisen banking activities by purchasing some Workman, Edith Wargo’s niece and small community banks in Minnesota. representative of her estate. In 1988, he established his own bank One of the provisions of Edith Mathisens Fund management and consulting firm. He Wargo’s will created a $250,000 Student Scholarship served as chair and CEO of Mountain endowment that will support a Joseph Park Financial Corp. throughout its E. Wargo and Edith P. Wargo Research ennis Mathisen (‘66) had expansion, merger, and acquisition by Scholar focused on international law. first-hand experience with Bank of the West. Edith, who passed away in 2006 at age Dstruggling to pay for his educa - In 2001, Dennis started a financial 92, was preceded in death by her tion. Those memories and a generous services company, The Marshall Group, husband, Joseph E. Wargo (also ’38), a

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defeated on a close ballot. The second and Emily VanVliet competed in sent its first team to the Duberstein team also narrowly missed advancing the regional rounds of the ABA Bankruptcy Competition this year. to the elimination round. Team coaches Negotiation Competition. Clinical Third-year students Bryan Browning , were adjunct advisor Mark Olson and professor Mary Alton coached the teams. Joe Bueche , and Mary Kaczorek colleague Dennis Hansen . participated. They were coached by Duberstein Bankruptcy co-advisors Megan Brennan and ABA Negotiation Competition Competition Steven Prince . Third-year students David Jenson , As a pilot project through the Samuel Miller , Matt Ramage-White , Bankruptcy Clinic, the Law School By Professor Brad Clary (’75).

Associate Dean for Information and Dean Guy Charles, Harry A. Sieben Jr. (’68), Michael R. Sieben (’72), Technology Joan Howland and Linda I. Anne Sieben Wolsfeld (’00), and John P. Sieben (’86) Workman in front of Edith P. Wargo portrait municipal court judge and District drew her back for her undergraduate scholarship fund. Judge of Anoka County for many degree (from Carlton College) and her In keeping with the Sieben family’s years. M.A. in public affairs (from the commitment to serve society, the Another generous provision of University). After earning her J.D. at Sieben Family Scholarship will be $175,000 established the Edith P. Lewis & Clark in Portland, she worked preferentially awarded to students who Wargo and Linda I. Workman Law in civil rights enforcement and held are interested in public service and/or Library Research Technology endow - several top corporate positions. participating in the Law School’s clin - ment fund to support leading-edge Now, Workman is conscientiously ical programs. The scholarship is technology tools at the library. overseeing her aunt’s wishes to fund awarded to first-year law students and “Edith’s strong belief in the impor - significant, progressive programs. She is renewable during the second and tance of education and her love of visited the Law School in January third years. Under the President’s books came from her mother, who was 2008, toured the Law Library, and was Scholarship Match program, the a graduate of St. Cloud Teachers delighted to see a portrait of Edith University will match the endowment College [now St. Cloud State Wargo hanging in the dean’s suite. payout of the scholarship fund dollar University] and a first grade teacher,” for dollar. Workman explained. “Her gift reflects Sieben Family Endows The Sieben family has a distin - her wish to contribute in a personal Scholarship Fund guished history of leadership in law and meaningful way to the school’s and public service. Michael and Harry commitment to excellence in education.” arlier this year, Michael R. have served in the Minnesota House of Edith Wargo was a devoted Sieben (’72), a long-time sup - Representatives (Michael, 1973 –82; Minnesota supporter. In 1981, she Eporter of the Law School and its Harry, 1971 –85, as Speaker from founded Lex Alumnae for women clinical programs, made a lead gift to 1981 –85). Michael and John are part - graduates of the Law School—now endow the Sieben Family Scholarship ners at Sieben Polk PA, and Harry the largest organization of its kind Fund to assist outstanding students practices with Sieben, Grose,Von nationwide. in need of financial aid. Michael’s Holtum & Carey Ltd. Harry served as Workman grew up in Portland, brothers, Harry A. Sieben Jr. (’68) and a major general in the Minnesota Air Oregon, but she frequently visited John P. Sieben (’86), and his daughter, National Guard, while Anne reports Minneapolis—her mother’s former and Anne Sieben Wolsfeld (’00), also for duty at the Law School, where she her aunt’s lifelong hometown. The state made generous contributions to the serves on the Admissions staff. www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 27 At the Law School Navigating the Career Path From 1Ls to alumni, legal professionals find expert guidance at CPDC.

he Law School’s Career and public interest interviews, summer to explore career paths and opportuni - Professional Development Center funding opportunities, commercial liti - ties during an evening of conversation T(CPDC) maintains an active pro - gation, intellectual property litigation, with alumni and others. Alumni have gramming and recruiting-events corporate transactions, small firm prac - offered to host 23 Spring Break schedule, designed to engage the tice, healthcare practice, real estate Shadows programs this year in law broadest range of students, introduce practice, tax practice, family law, lob - firms, public agencies, human resources them to the opportunities available bying, alternative legal careers, second offices, and courts in Minnesota, with a law degree, and equip them to career lawyers, life in a branch office, Michigan, California, New Jersey, and successfully direct their careers. information on the Minnesota bar Washington, D.C. Spring 2008 was one of the busiest exam, an introduction to clerkships, Alumni also helped expand the semesters in CPDC history as we the value of mentoring, and Kimm number and range of employers hosted more than 65 programs. In our Walton’s “Guerilla Tactics for Getting recruiting in our on-campus interview Nuts & Bolts track, students met the Legal Job of Your Dreams.” program in the fall of 2007. (On- lawyers in public and private practice Resume workshops, 3L job search campus interviews for fall 2008 begin and in alternative careers from around strategy sessions, and mock interview Aug. 25.) This summer, CPDC will the country. Our Career Exploration opportunities were also presented. host off-campus interview programs in track included practice-related and Our program supporting students, Los Angeles (Aug. 15); Chicago (Aug. geographic-specific programs, such as through federal and state work study 18); Washington, D.C. (Aug. 20); and the Life in Practice series that featured funds, who are interested in public NewYork (Aug. 22). CPDC will host representatives (including alumni) from service careers has increased—in both an alumni-student happy hour the Milwaukee, NewYork, California, and the number of students and the range evening before the interview program Chicago speaking to students about of public service employers partici - in each city except Chicago. working in their firms and their cities. pating. Started in the summer of 2006, We value alumni participation in In our Paths to Professionalism track, a the program has enabled more than 35 our programs and alumni efforts to group of lawyers who thrived in the students to gain experience with such raise awareness of the Law School with shaky economy of the early 1990s organizations as the Ramsey County employers. For information on any of shared their advice, and other career- Public Defender’s Office and Legal Aid our programs or to post a job with our enhancing concepts were introduced, of Minneapolis. office, please contact the CPDC at including managing your electronic Alumni support is a vital compo - (612) 625-1866 or [email protected]. persona and communicating across nent of our programming and our generations. employer outreach efforts. Alumni are By Susan Gainen and Steve Marchese, co- A sampling of spring and fall topics the core of Career Options Night, an directors, Career & Professional Development includes professional interview skills, annual November event allowing 1Ls Center.

Staff News

Nora Klaphake (‘94) is chief of Patrice Schaus is assistant dean for staff at the dean’s office, effective administration and finance, effective March 31, 2008, and will work March 17, 2008, and will be respon - closely with Deans Guy Charles, sible for coordinating management Fred Morrison, and David of budget and financial affairs and Wippman as a member of the overseeing the non-academic/ Law School’s senior leadership team administrative activities of the Law to develop and implement administrative policies. She School, including facilities and human resources. She has was director of employer relations and outreach and assistant worked at the University since 1980 in various finance and director in career services at the Law School before going to administrative positions, for the past ten years as finance work with Maslon Edelman Borman and Brand as director of manager in the medicine, emergency medicine, neurology, recruiting and professional development. An active and and dermatology departments. Patrice brings, in addition to engaged alumna, Nora brings experience in legal practice, her extensive finance background, experience in managing higher education administration, legal instruction, student sponsored projects and supervising human resources, payroll, development, and legal recruiting back to her school. and space management.

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U Faculty Retirement

Professor Landsman Retires

Professor Maury Landsman joined the clinical faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School in 1986. He became the first director of the lawyering skills program in 1997 and served as director of the clinical and lawyering skills programs from 2003 –2007. He has taught theWorkers' Rights Clinic, the Civil Practice Clinic, courses on pre-trial skills and professional responsibility, and more. Now he is ready to take some time for himself. Following are the thoughts of some of Professor Landsman’s many friends and colleagues on the occasion of his retirement.

“Maury and I worked together in the words and actions, he has been a Law Clinics for about 15 years. When significant force in our organization.” I was doing the background reference —Julie Ann Jonas : Managing Attorney, check that led to his initial appoint - Innocence Project of Minnesota ment, one of people I spoke with said we would be lucky to hire him since “My husband, Bill Kampf, was a ‘everyone loves Maury.’ And she was partner of Maury Landsman’s and was right. One of Maury’s talents is his about to try the case of Mueller vs. ability to get along with people of Ellen at the U.S. Supreme Court. The different opinions and temperaments. national TV people had called Bill, In fact, that is why I recommended to and Maury looked at Bill and said, Dean Johnson that Maury should suc - ‘You’re not really important until Nina ceed me as clinic director. His ability Totenberg calls,’ at which point she did.” to interact with others helped him to — Janet Kampf be a good leader within the clinic and a good cheerleader for the clinic with “The Clinic has a friendly, open, the rest of the Law School community.” and supportive feel to it, and Maury — Stephen F. Befort (’74) : Gray, Plant, Mooty, Landsman is the most important Mooty, & Bennett; Professor of Law reason for that. He makes people feel good about themselves, accepted, and “Maury Landsman gave his students appreciated.” not only the skill to do things but also — Prentiss Cox (’90) : Associate Clinical an understanding of why they were Professor of Law doing them.” — Fred L. Morrison : Popham, Haik, Lindquist “Maury epitomizes the concepts of & Vennum Professor of Law and Interim collegiality, inclusiveness, intellectual Co-dean dialogue, and commitment to the Program, highlighted while I was a professionalism of the practice of law. student by his support in creating and “Maury has been on the board of He literally roamed the halls of the maintaining the new Workers’ Rights directors for the Innocence Project of Law School seeking out students and Clinic, is just one measure of his influ - Minnesota since 2004, and I have been faculty members to engage in conver - ence. He shared his knowledge both honored to work with him. His strong sation about the Law School and the within and outside of the classroom, commitment to issues of fairness and practice of law. He brought positive and his generosity with his time justice shows through his hard work energy to the clinical program here as extended from his support of student on behalf of the organization. He has well as to the entire Law School.” organizations to individual advice and been a tireless advocate for our cause — Stephen M. Simon (’71) : Professor of Clinical mentoring. I take this opportunity to by speaking at numerous events Instruction extend a heartfelt thank you to involving members of the legal profes - Professor Landsman. He educated with sion and the public at large. He was “Professor Maury Landsman’s teachings patience and humor and inspired us to also instrumental in helping the on law in public service constantly achieve more than we thought pos - Innocence Project give law students inform my work and remain a stellar sible. He will remain an influence and the opportunity to work on potential example of the joining of avocation his actions will remain a great standard innocence cases and to educating them with vocation. His personal commit - of commitment and service for us all.” about wrongful convictions. By his ment to the Law School Clinics — Tovah Flygare (’06)

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Student Perspective U

Kevin M. O’Riordan (’08) and Vice President Walter F. Mondale (’56) react to birthday cake presentation.

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Picnic luncheon at the Student Legal Writing Award event

U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison (’90) speaks with Sarah Corris Riskin (’08), Rishi Gupta (’08), Yeerik Moy (’09) prior to MLK Raise the Bar lecture. U U TORT heroes present Robin Hood, Esq.

U U Participants in the Winners of 2008 2008 Race for Justice Student Legal Writing Award

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UStudent Profiles

What Do a Disc Jockey, Two Literature Students, and a Firefighter Have in Common?

ZIAD KAYS externship in federal court with Judge words,” he says. “So is English. CLASS OF 2008 Susan Nelson. She is “a great judge,” Both disciplines involve analysis he says. “I am observing the court and and debate.” really enjoying this because I can see the McGregor chose the Law School differences between your trials and ours.” for several reasons. “When I called my He’s not sure what he will do next then-girlfriend, now-wife after my year. “I don’t know whether I will interview here, she could tell by the continue my studies here to get an tone of my voice that this was the S.J.D. or Ph.D. in international business school for me,” he says. “I was law, or go back to Beirut to work in impressed with the clinic program, and my family’s law practice, or find a posi - like everyone else, I paid attention to tion in an international or multina - the U.S. News & World Report ranking” tional law firm,” he says. “The political of the Law School. Plus, he says, “I situation is not good in Lebanon, so happened to see a copy of the perhaps I would work in Dubai or Minnesota Bar Review that day I was Qatar.” here to interview. That, combined with ike Prince or Duke, Kays hopes to enter politics and TORT, convinced me that people here “el Cheikh” is a title of nobility. become a member of the Lebanese manage not to take themselves too LHis family earned it hundreds of parliament eventually. Or he may terribly seriously.” years ago through service in conflicts pursue other options: “I adore music. McGregor was also excited about with the Ottoman Empire, explains I have this dream one day to start my “the culture among students here,” LL.M. student Ziad Kays. Every own radio station.” he says. “Former Dean Alex M. member of the Kays family is a Johnson Jr. said in the orientation ses - Cheikh. sion that “one of the best advantages of The former officer at the military LEAF DILTS McGREGOR attending this school was the quality of court in Lebanon earned his LL.B. CLASS OF 2008 your classmates. That struck me.” from Sagesse University and his Location was another draw. M.B.A. from the Lebanese American McGregor moved from Chicago and School of Business, both in Beirut. says he loves “the greenness and liv - Kays has been a consultant, taught uni - ability of Minneapolis.” He also liked versity-level business courses, and the job market. “I knew that I could admits to being something of a jack- live here, and I liked the idea of going of-all-trades. Fluent in Arabic, French, to the only first-tier school in the region. and English, he worked as a disc jockey I wanted to be located in a decently for 14 years at Lebanon’s top five radio sized city, but not a megalopolis.” stations, playing ’90s-era American and He has enjoyed volunteering European music. through the Legal Rights Center and A lawyer since 2002, Kays is fasci - Southern Minnesota Regional Legal nated by the differences between U.S. Services. After the bar exam, he will and European jurisprudence. “Our work for Fulbright & Jaworski, a large legal system in Lebanon is based on n English major as an private firm with offices around the the Napoleonic codes,” he says. “Here I undergraduate, Leaf McGregor world. “They have a strong tradition of believe that judges and lawyers inter - Ais used to doing a lot of reading doing pro bono work,” McGregor says, pret the laws, while we rely more on and writing. “Professor Cribari is fond “and I plan to continue volunteering law codes.” He is presently doing an of saying that the law is all about throughout my legal career.”

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KYLE HAWKINS plined and really understood why I environment lacks a certain intellectual CLASS OF 2009 wanted to go to law school.When I component that I crave.” started out as a 1L, I was really excited She turned down offers from sev- to go back to school, and I think I eral east coast schools and chose the studied harder as a result.” Law School for many reasons, she says: Starting in May,Hawkins will be academic reputation, convenience, cost, working as a summer associate at the “but mainly because it’s such a collab- international law firm of Latham & orative environment.The students are Watkins, splitting his time between the helpful. If you have to miss a class, firm’s Los Angeles and Singapore they’ll share their notes. I’d heard that offices. He expects the experience to the schools back east are so cutthroat,” give him a better sense of the area of she says, citing 1L and The Paper Chase law he wants to go into: litigation or as examples.“People here are so much international law.“After graduation,” more civilized.” he says,“I hope to clerk for a judge for Scholarships were another factor. a year before I start working for a Cornell was awarded scholarships from he newly elected editor-in- firm.” theVincent L. Hawkinson Foundation chief of the Minnesota Law Review for Peace and Justice, the gay and les- Tgrew up in Edina, Minnesota, bian graduate programs office at the and graduated from Edina High JEN CORNELL University,and the Law School. School in 1998. He spent the next CLASS OF 2010 “Scholarships make all the difference; eight years away: four years at Harvard they’ve been really helpful,”she says. University in Cambridge, Massachu- Plus, by staying here she could setts; two years in Chicago, where he avoid uprooting her family (her worked in management consulting; partner, 13-year-old daughter, and 9- and two years teaching English in year-old son).“I was ready to move, Hiroshima, Japan. but Minneapolis combines all the ben- Hawkins says,“I came to the Law efits of a cosmopolitan city with a School partly to reconnect with family nice, easy pace of living.” and friends after living abroad, but As for using her law degree, mainly because I loved the atmosphere Cornell says,“I have an affinity for here.The Minnesota professors and labor and employment because I have students I met were friendly and a master’s in labor policy as well as collegial. I knew I would have a great being a member of a union and experience.”And so far, he has, working in labor circles. It’s a natural Hawkins says. en Cornell is probably the only fit, but I find myself really drawn As an undergraduate, Hawkins entry in theVassar College Alumni toward international human rights as chose very reading- and writing-inten- JDirectory under the occupation well.”One big concern, though, is the sive majors: history and literature. “firefighter.”She joined the Minnea- lack of physical activity.“I need to find “That definitely helped me with the polis Fire Department in 1994 and an employer who will let me have a thousands of pages of law school advanced to the rank of battalion chief treadmill in my office. I don’t want to reading,”he says.“However, I think before leaving to attend the Law sit all day.It’s not in my blood.” what prepared me best for law school School.“I loved firefighting.There’s an was actually working for a few years adrenaline, emotional, physical thrill to By Kit Naylor, principal, Kittridge after college. I became more disci- it,”she says.“But the day-to-day work Communications, Minneapolis.

Student Journal News Emily C. Melvin, lead articles editor for Volume 92 of Minnesota Law Review, won a 2008 Burton Award for her article “An Unacceptable Exception: The Ramifications of Physician The following students will serve as 2008–2009 Immunity from Medical Procedure Patent Infringement editors-in-chief of the Law School’s student-run journals: Liability,”published in the April 2007 issue. She was one of Journal of Law and Inequality, Joseph W. Steinberg only 15 students from law schools across the country to receive Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Caroline Crenshaw the award, given for concise, effective writing skills. Melvin’s Minnesota Journal of International Law, Brian Clark and selection marks the third consecutive year that Minnesota Yaffa Epstein Law Review student writers have won a Burton Award. Minnesota Law Review, Kyle Hawkins Dan Robinson won in 2007 and David Leishman won in 2006.

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The Merry Band of Tort Heroes Justice and freedom prevail in student script. Seeking truth, justice, and free appetizers, nearly 1,400 Law School alumni, students, and friends attended the March 7 and 8 performances of the Theatre of the Relatively Talentless (TORT). This year’s musical, Robin Hood, Esq. , depicted the gallant folk hero and his “Persons of Merriment” battling the rogue Interim Dean John and his nefarious henchmen, the Fighting Mondales Hockey Team, in their efforts to raise tuition and dominate students of the Sherwood Rare Books Room. Continuing its tradition, the musical featured Law School staff, professors, and distinguished guests, including Mike Ciresi (’71), Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justices Paul H. Anderson (’68) and Lorie Skjerven Gildea, and Chief Federal District Court Judge James M. Rosenbaum (’69). New this year were appearances by TORT alumni: Trevor Helmers (‘07) and Kirby Petersen (‘07). Productions of the student-run group are generously sponsored by Twin Cities and Chicago law firms. About 100 students participated on stage and behind the scenes to write and produce the original show, TORT’s sixth production. Georges Tippens (‘10) and Mike Pangborn (‘10) are in charge of 2009’s spectacular.

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Bitzan on Sweden’s Team in International Moot Court

at the 31st annual Telders International something I will always remember.” Law Moot Court Competition April Funding from the Minnesota Bar 10 –12, 2008. Arguments take place in Association’s International Business the International Court of Justice Law Section helped her attend the (ICJ)—the principal judicial body of event. the United Nations housed in the The Telders Competition is consid - impressive Peace Palace. ered the most prestigious international “Only four students from Uppsala moot court competition in Europe. It were invited to participate, so it was a is named for Benjamin Marius Telders, great honor that Catie was chosen,” a professor of international law at says Muria Kruger, Director of Leiden University, Netherlands, who International and Graduate Programs died in the Bergen-Belsen concentra - at the Law School. tion camp in 1945. For the competition, a fictitious dispute between two nations or gov - Sweden’s Telders Moot Court team ernments is created, and teams com - (left to right): Catie Bitzan, Anna Smitt, posed of four students must defend and Student Ola Hjerpe, and Fiona Lord. represent the two entities through both written and oral arguments. Cases are News presented before three-judge panels Jared Shepherd hen Catherine M. Bitzan composed of ICJ judges, international (’08) was selected (’08) left to spend last fall law scholars and adjudicators, and to attend the Wsemester at Sweden’s other experts. Sweden’s team placed International University of Uppsala on the study sixth among the 31 countries partici - Humanitarian abroad exchange program, she didn’t pating this year. Law Conference Feb. 15 –18, 2008, at know it would lead to a trip to The “We had the best time interacting Santa Clara University School of Law, Hague, Netherlands. But in late with the judges, delivering our plead - sponsored by the International November, Uppsala’s faculty of law ings, and meeting teams from across Committee of the Red Cross. invited her to be on its student team Europe and Asia,” says Bitzan. “It is

Raise the Bar’s Day of Service The winter 2008 Weekend of Service was a satisfying, productive experience for the 100 volunteers who reported ready to work, say student co-organizers Yeerik Moy (‘09) and Rishi Gupta (‘08). The event, held February 2 –4 this year, is sponsored by the Law School’s Raise the Bar, an organization founded by Law School students to commemorate Martin Luther King and his legacy through community volunteerism.

The Law School students, faculty, staff, family, and friends who volunteered their time and service worked on projects at eight nonprofit organizations across the Twin Cities: Blastoff to Kindergarten, Feed My Starving Children, Family & Children Services, Genesis II, Habitat for Humanity, Our Savior's Housing, St. Paul Public Library, and Value Village. Abderrahim Alem (’09) and Among the tasks accomplished at this year’s Day of Service were cleaning and Angela Lam (’09) sort donations painting rooms at some of the organizations’ facilities, packing supplies in back - at Value Village. packs for kindergarteners, preparing craft activities for children, organizing shipments of dried foods, providing tax assistance online, and sorting donated clothing and other materials.

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NOT JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT. LEGAL COMMUNITY SUPPORTS PUBLIC INTEREST PRACTICE 2

The Law School’s Sixth Annual Race for Justice, a 5K Run and Walk, saw members of the Law School and local legal communities, as well as the general public, enjoy an event to the utmost. The Race for Justice benefits the Loan Repayment Assistance Program of Minnesota (LRAP). Thanks to the wonderful efforts of nearly 1,000 registrants, donors, sponsors, and volunteers, an estimated $20,000 was raised for LRAP. By subsidizing education loan payments, LRAP helps dedicated graduates of 3 the University of Minnesota and other local law schools provide much-needed representation to low-income litigants. Race Day, April 13, was a chilly but sunny spring day, a welcome relief following three days of cold and snow in the Twin Cities. Participants ran, walked, and meandered around Nicollet Island, across the Mississippi on the Hennepin Avenue bridge, back over the Stone Arch Bridge, and down the home stretch past St. Anthony Main. Incoming Dean David Wippman served as ceremonial race starter. Also, a new Kids Dash let little ones join in the fun, with Goldy Gopher 4 appearing as a cheerleader. All race participants and volunteers received Race for Justice race packets. The 1. Incoming Dean David Wippman, who will join the program had great support from 23 sponsors, including Westlaw, an underwriter Law School in July, begins his duties early as the for several years, and Dorsey & Whitney, which also convened the largest team. Ceremonial Starter of the 6th Annual Race for Justice. After years of high participation, Meagher & Geer joined as Champion sponsor. 2. A triumphant Professor Robert Stein (’61) celebrates as he cruises into the finish line. The Dean of Students Office wishes to thank the many race volunteers, 3. Participants in the first-ever Race for Justice Kids participants, donors, and sponsors, who helped make the Race for Justice a Dash are cheered on by the University of Minnesota’s great success, thus ensuring that a public-interest lawyer will be available when Goldy Gopher. low-income Minnesotans need legal services. 4. Members of the Law School Cross Country Club. r e n From left: Ben Ho (medical student), Matt Gehring (‘06), t Special thanks to sponsor Giant Squid Industries for designing the new Race r o

F for Justice Web site. Visit www.raceforjustice.org to view results and photos Kristin Zinsmaster (1L), Ross Rankin (1L), Dan Church y e r (Hamline teaching program grad school), Chris Lundberg T of the race. (3L). Not pictured is Betsy Flanagan (3L).

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Mary Elllen Hennessey, U Bob Hennessey (’68), Warren Spannaus (’63) talking with Honorable James Blanchard Former Minnesota Secretary of State (’68), and Janet Blanchard Joan Growe and others at the class of 1968 Reunion held at The Minneapolis Club U U

Marcelle Leahy and others at the Mondale celebration

Professor Linda K. Keber (center) with Kristine S. and Ronald A. Erickson, namesakes U of the new Legal History lecture

Kenneth Levitt (’93), Bard Borkon (’93), U and Eric Rucker (’93) trade stories at the class of 1993 Reunion held at M&S Grill in downtown Minneapolis. U Ellen Anderson, Steven Anderson (’88), Sarah Ledoux (’88), and Andrea Walsh (’88)

U share some memories at the class of 1988 The Meagher & Geer team enjoys some Reunion held at the Guthrie Theater. refreshments at the Nicollet Island Pavilion Alumni Breakfast after the Race for Justice.

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The Women of Section E Law School friendships still strong in class of 1983

hey met as first-year Law School students, assigned that fall Tof 1980 to Section E. Over the 28 years that followed, they’ve gath - ered each month or so for dinner and conversation. “We’re a diverse group of great friends who happen to have met at law school and have been with each other ever since, from the early days when we didn’t know anything to today when new lawyers ask us how it all works, and everything in between,” explains Tammy Pust, an employment and education law attorney with Parker Rosen. Marcia Kimball was pregnant on the first day of law school, but Deb Page remembers her saying, “No problem. I’m going to have this baby over Thanksgiving weekend.” Page, today a partner at Lindquist &Vennum focusing on real estate, went home and Top: Section E during Law School days. told her husband, “You are not going Bottom (clockwise, from bottom left): Debra Page, Sharon Freier, to believe this.” Susan Vandenberg, Marikay Canaga Litzau, Barb Shiels, Elizabeth Thompson, Sure enough, Kimball, who repre - Laura Fretland, Tammy Pust, Dorian (Samskar) Jordan, Marcia Kimball sents the BIA for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of the Solicitor, because they all “needed professional to do to be all those things.” went into labor the day before clothes.” All the women laughed about They did what had to be done in Thanksgiving and missed only six days pumping breast milk at the office. the bad times, too. “My Mom died of class. She recalls former Professor Elizabeth Thompson, co-founder of when I was only 30,” says Marikay David P. Bryden joking that everyone Minneapolis immigration law practice Canaga Litzau, a due process specialist in class had been “laboring” with their Myers Thompson, recounts partici - in student discipline and special educa - studies, some more than others. pating in a board meeting via her tion compliance at Minnesota’s During law school, the friends home phone—while cooking and Department of Education. “This group discussed classes and finding jobs. As holding a baby on her hip. “I decided was very helpful through that.” their lives changed, so did the topics: to go to the grocery store with the Two of the group had infertility to work and partnerships, pregnancy baby and continue the call in the car... problems, another became pregnant and childcare, health and aging parents. I was sure I could fit that in.” and was reluctant to tell her partners, g

r And they kept talking. “We didn’t feel like we were two faced cancer. They all found sup - u b Pust remembers when seven blazing a trail,” Pust says of the group’s port among Section E friends. n e n i members were pregnant at the same drive and commitment. “We did it Section E is also the first place they u L k time. Kimball recalls everyone sharing because we were women and moms turn with professional questions. All r a

M maternity clothes and old outfits, and lawyers, and we did what we had types of legal practice are represented

www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 37 Alumni Perspective in the group. Laura Fretland practices jobs, helped each other draft firm special community for us.” family law at the firm now called policies by sharing templates, and A little thing like relocating has no Anderson, Dove, Fretland andVan compared partnership compensation effect on Section E bonds, says Dorian Valkenburg. Barb Shiels practices in structures.” They’ve offered each other (Samskar) Jordan. Despite moving to research regulation, health law, data information and advice on mentoring, Appleton, Wisc., where her husband privacy, faculty employment, and recruiting, growth and development— runs Air Wisconsin and both are student affairs issues at the University and changing career paths when that aviation gurus, her friendships remain of Minnesota. SusanVandenberg was the only way to accommodate as close as ever. focuses on business law and complex all the responsibilities these women Pust sums it up: “Our friendships commercial transactions at Henson hold important. have helped each of us in different & Efron. Sharon Freier, a partner at The kinship formed in law school ways through all the phases we’ve Fredrikson & Byron, specializes in has supported them throughout their traveled, which is what good friends commercial, corporate, and interna - professional and personal lives, Litzau do for each other.” tional areas. says. “Besides our shared history of “Over the years,” says Pust, “we’ve being women lawyers during that time By Kit Naylor, principal, Kittridge traded resumes of people looking for period, this group has been a very Communications, Minneapolis.

Law School Celebrates Women in Law

he Law School’s first Women in Law Celebration to honor the strengths and achievements of women Tin the legal profession drew nearly 100 alumna, 1 women students, and women faculty. The January 31, 2008, event also kicked off a new initiative designed to present programs of professional interest to women; provide net - working opportunities for women law students, graduates, and faculty; and build support and engagement among par - ticipants and with the Law School. After a lively reception, Professor Carol Chomsky opened the elimination-of-bias CLE credit portion of the evening with a historical overview of women in law—at 2 the University of Minnesota and beyond. A panel of leading Law School alumna then discussed their career paths, including challenges and high points as women lawyers, and offered advice for enjoying and succeeding in professional life. Panel members were Jeanette Bazis (’92), Sara Peterson (’00), Michelle Miller (’86), Amy Seidel (’98), and Judge Natalie Hudson (’82). Special thanks go to Dorsey & Whitney for hosting the celebration and to the planning committee: Professor Carol Chomsky, Barbara D’Aquila (’79), Brita Johnson De Malignon (’07), Kathleen DiGiorno (’88), Judith Oakes 3 (’69), Nena Street (’06), Susan Thomas (’85), and students Erin Hooper (’09) and Meghan Moriarty (’08). The Law School is eager to expand this initiative and offer future programs and events that address the range of practice areas, sectors, and experiences of women in the legal community. If you would like to become a member 1. Honorable Natalie Hudson (’82), Michelle Miller (’86), of the planning committee or offer ideas for future pro - and Professor Carol Chomsky gramming, please contact Sara Jones (’88) at 612-626-1888 2. Cathy Gorlin (’78) and Kitty Taylor (’78) or [email protected]. 3. L-R, Lindsay Eastman (’10), Laurie Bardenwerper (’10), Audrey Lin (’10), Becca Stark (’10), Deirdre Baskin (’10) By Sara Jones (’88), senior major gifts officer, Law School.

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CLASS OF 1974 CLASS OF 1986 CLASS OF 1998 2008 ANNUAL GIVING BY CLASS Alumni: 191 Alumni: 223 10TH REUNION Donors: 35 Donors: 35 Alumni: 267 Our alumni play an essential role in the Law School’s Participation: 18% Participation: 16% Donors: 33 success. Annual giving strengthens our quality, access, and Total Giving: $46,445 Total Giving: $9,620 Participation: 12% reputation. Large gifts are both welcome and necessary, CLASS OF 1975 CLASS OF 1987 Total Giving: $12,080 but the power of the Partners in Excellence annual fund Alumni: 202 Alumni: 230 CLASS OF 1999 comes not from a handful of large gifts but from the Donors: 34 Donors: 21 Alumni: 247 thousands of modest gifts that add up to make a big Participation: 17% Participation: 9% Donors: 23 impact on our school and our students. More than half Total Giving: $6,555 Total Giving: $3,410 Participation: 9% of the gifts received thus far this fiscal year have been CLASS OF 1976 CLASS OF 1988 Total Giving: $2,795 $100 or less. Gifts of any amount help. Help make an Alumni: 215 20TH REUNION CLASS OF 2000 immediate impact by giving before June 30, 2008, at Donors: 37 Alumni: 237 Alumni: 249 www.giving.umn.edu/law. Participation: 17% Donors: 37 Donors: 18 Total Giving: $17,725 Participation: 16% Participation: 7% CLASS OF 1977 Total Giving: $28,724 Total Giving: $3,250 CLASS OF PRE-48 CLASS OF 1956 CLASS OF 1965 Alumni: 199 CLASS OF 1989 CLASS OF 2001 Alumni: 104 Alumni: 55 Alumni: 117 Donors: 27 Alumni: 221 Alumni: 256 Donors: 23 Donors: 20 Donors: 23 Participation: 14% Donors: 35 Donors: 17 Participation: 22% Participation: 36% Participation: 20% Total Giving: $11,713 Participation: 16% Participation: 7% Total Giving: $87,083 Total Giving: $9,863 Total Giving: $111,005 CLASS OF 1978 Total Giving: $6,631 Total Giving: $6,655 CLASS OF 1948 CLASS OF 1957 CLASS OF 1966 30TH REUNION CLASS OF 1990 CLASS OF 2002 Alumni: 49 Alumni: 59 Alumni: 150 Alumni: 205 Alumni: 249 Alumni: 219 Donors: 6 Donors: 15 Donors: 23 Donors: 61 Donors: 29 Donors: 17 Participation: 12% Participation: 25% Participation: 15% Participation: 30% Participation: 12% Participation: 8% Total Giving: $800 Total Giving: $23,351 Total Giving: $5,025 Total Giving: $27,814 Total Giving: $4,349 Total Giving: $1,145 CLASS OF 1949 CLASS OF 1958 CLASS OF 1967 CLASS OF 1979 CLASS OF 1991 CLASS OF 2003 Alumni: 51 50TH REUNION Alumni: 155 Alumni: 218 Alumni: 219 5TH REUNION Donors: 7 Alumni: 77 Donors: 38 Donors: 39 Donors: 25 Alumni: 240 Participation: 14% Donors: 8 Participation: 25% Participation: 18% Participation: 11% Donors: 29 Total Giving: $3,500 Participation: 10% Total Giving: $36,211 Total Giving: $15,290 Total Giving: $4,200 Participation: 12% Total Giving: $2,960 CLASS OF 1950 Total Giving: $3,037 CLASS OF 1968 CLASS OF 1980 CLASS OF 1992 Alumni: 78 CLASS OF 1959 40TH REUNION Alumni: 191 Alumni: 260 CLASS OF 2004 Donors: 15 Alumni: 70 Alumni: 141 Donors: 38 Donors: 33 Alumni: 221 Participation: 19% Donors: 4 Donors: 36 Participation: 20% Participation: 13% Donors: 23 Total Giving: $7,720 Participation: 6% Participation: 26% Total Giving: $31,905 Total Giving: $13,820 Participation: 10% Total Giving: $3,751 CLASS OF 1951 Total Giving: $270 Total Giving: $35,185 CLASS OF 1981 CLASS OF 1993 Alumni: 66 CLASS OF 1960 CLASS OF 1969 Alumni: 220 15TH REUNION CLASS OF 2005 Donors: 15 Alumni: 57 Alumni: 155 Donors: 35 Alumni: 246 Alumni: 264 Participation: 23% Donors: 8 Donors: 43 Participation: 16% Donors: 22 Donors: 23 Total Giving: $2,390 Participation: 14% Participation: 28% Total Giving: $33,325 Participation: 9% Participation: 9% Total Giving: $6,090 Total Giving: $3,001 CLASS OF 1952 Total Giving: $18,925 Total Giving: $120,625 CLASS OF 1982 Alumni: 79 CLASS OF 1961 CLASS OF 1970 Alumni: 215 CLASS OF 1994 CLASS OF 2006 Donors: 11 Alumni: 66 Alumni: 121 Donors: 34 Alumni: 221 Alumni: 271 Participation: 14% Donors: 16 Donors: 20 Participation: 16% Donors: 16 Donors: 16 Total Giving: $8,670 Participation: 24% Participation: 17% Total Giving: $7,148 Participation: 7% Participation: 6% Total Giving: $1,835 Total Giving: $975 CLASS OF 1953 Total Giving: $6,150 Total Giving: $14,590 CLASS OF 1983 Alumni: 46 CLASS OF 1962 CLASS OF 1971 25TH REUNION CLASS OF 1995 CLASS OF 2007 Donors: 12 Alumni: 47 Alumni: 136 Alumni: 222 Alumni: 251 Alumni: 278 Participation: 26% Donors: 7 Donors: 26 Donors: 32 Donors: 16 Donors: 14 Total Giving: $17,849 Participation: 19% Participation: 19% Participation: 14% Participation: 6% Participation: 5% Total Giving: $9,190 Total Giving: $3,075 Total Giving: $1,140 CLASS OF 1954 Total Giving: $7,421 Total Giving: $43,025 Alumni: 54 CLASS OF 1963 CLASS OF 1972 CLASS OF 1984 CLASS OF 1996 Donors: 10 Alumni: 82 Alumni: 202 Alumni: 211 Alumni: 278 Participation: 19% Donors: 17 Donors: 32 Donors: 22 Donors: 29 Total Giving: $7,950 Participation: 21% Participation: 16% Participation: 10% Participation: 10% Total Giving: $9,205 Total Giving: $6,265 CLASS OF 1955 Total Giving: $24,343 Total Giving: $13,400 Alumni: 66 CLASS OF 1964 CLASS OF 1973 CLASS OF 1985 CLASS OF 1997 July 1, 2007 – Donors: 19 Alumni: 91 35TH REUNION Alumni: 222 Alumni: 265 April 20, 2008 Participation: 29% Donors: 17 Alumni: 249 Donors: 37 Donors: 27 Total Giving: $16,555 Participation: 19% Donors: 40 Participation: 17% Participation: 10% Total Giving: $5,147 Participation: 16% Total Giving: $8,769 Total Giving: $3,675 Total Giving: $47,963 www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 39 Alumni Perspective

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Protecting Ordinary Americans Bucky Zimmerman sees that corporations are held accountable.

Minnesota Law & Politics five times since 2003 and has wrangled big settle - ments from gigantic companies. But there’s more to winning cases than intimidating the opposition, he says. Plaintiffs’ lawyers should be making better use of one simple, underrated tool: listening. Representing plaintiffs is “not all about how smart you are and what you’re going to tell them,” Zimmerman says. “It’s about what they are going to tell you. That’s really where the connection is.” Taking class action Zimmerman made good use of his listening skills while serving as lead counsel against Guidant, a company accused of making defective heart defibrillators. Although many technical issues were under debate, Guidant seemed most concerned with pre - serving its reputation as an honorable manufacturer of life-saving devices. Guidant viewed itself as “good people trying to do the right thing,” Zimmerman says. “If they had to give up their reputation, the money meant nothing.” With that in mind, Zimmerman says he explained to Guidant that “People will continue to believe in you if you step up…and do the right thing.” Now part of Boston Scientific, any trial lawyers see companies believe plaintiffs’ lawyers the company eventually agreed to pay themselves as right - are going to destroy them, “they will $240 million in damages. eous warriors bat - pay us money to go away.” Zimmerman also won huge awards tling for the little A partner at Zimmerman Reed, in recent years against Medtronic guy against the giant the Minneapolis firm he opened with ($114 million for faulty defibrillators) k

corporation and slaying the powerful Barry G. Reed and another attorney, and Bayer AG ($136 million for a cho - e

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beast using evidence of its evil ways. Zimmerman is one of the most suc - lesterol drug with severe side effects). h o The idea, says civil litigator Charles S. cessful trial lawyers in the country. He In 2006, Thomson/West published his K h s o

“Bucky” Zimmerman (’72), is that if has been named a Super Lawyer by discussion of strategies and techniques J

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Litigation Highlights Examples of Zimmerman’s leadership in class action litigation include: • Lead counsel by State of Illinois Supreme Court in Sara Lee meat contamination litigation (Cress et al v. Sara Lee Corp.) in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device by the late Frank Remington, and the • Class counsel in numerous cases against var - Litigation . two often played tennis together. “He ious mortgage servicers in mortgage escrow For decades, Zimmerman was so was just OK, but he was passionate deposit litigation certified as class action by prolific that Jonathan Lebedoff (’63), a about it,” Zimmerman says. “And I Judge James B. Zagel former Minnesota judge and U.S. became passionate about criminal law • Lead counsel by Judge Michael J. Davis magistrate, says, “It was an unusual and civil procedure.” class action suit that didn’t have He honed his listening skills in a in Baycol Products liability litigation [Zimmerman] involved in it.” Now a third-year course on divorce coun - • To seven-person Lead Counsel Committee by mediator, Lebedoff has seen seling. Professor Robert J. Levy taught U.S. District Judge Carl Rubin in nationwide Zimmerman’s negotiating skills up students the importance of relating to class action involving silicone gel close. “Bucky is a very genial, friendly people. “He showed me the softer side breast implants person,” Lebedoff says. “He’s more of law, the people side,” Zimmerman • To Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee by Judge interested in settling cases than other says. “He believed you could make a Richard Schell, U.S. District Court for the class action attorneys.” difference in one person’s life. It had a Eastern District of Texas, in Norplant While that is true when profound impact on me.” contraceptive products liability litigation Zimmerman believes a product helps • To Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee by Judge people, it isn’t always the case. Big Entering the legal ring John Tunheim in St. Jude Medical Silzone Heart Tobacco, for example, marketed ciga - Just weeks after Zimmerman passed rettes to children and deserved a the bar, a high school friend asked him Valves products liability litigation tougher approach. Zimmerman was to handle her divorce. He suggested a • To Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee by Judge S. on the Castano Tobacco Settlement meeting the following week, then Arthur Spiegel, U.S. District Court for the Negotiating Team (private attorneys asked the name of her spouse. “George Southern District of Ohio, in Telectronics Pacing representing injured smokers) that Foreman,” she replied. Said Zim- Systems products liability litigation worked with attorneys general from merman: “I’ll be right over.” several states in lawsuits against ciga - Foreman, heavyweight boxing rette manufacturers in the 1990s. He champion at the time, had recently was one of six negotiators who ham - signed a $5 million contract to fight at a case from a 360-degree perspec - mered out the final settlement. Muhammad Ali. At issue was whether tive. He can step back and look at “With tobacco, you had to show Zimmerman’s client should receive things from the opponent’s point of the villainous act,” he says. “They pro - proceeds from the upcoming match. view.” At the same time, he’s focused duced a product that, when used the He secured a percentage of the purse and competitive, adds Rudd. “He can way it was intended to be used, kills for his client, achieved a small degree drive at people’s weaknesses. He’s a people.” of fame, and launched a legal career. very formidable adversary.” Zimmerman’s first major success This year marks Zimmerman Following a passion was his 1981 –1982 challenge of a Reed’s 25th anniversary. On its first A tennis state champion in high school Minnesota law allowing strip searches anniversary, the tiny firm celebrated and team captain as an undergraduate in misdemeanor arrests. A couple years with White Castle hamburgers. This at Minnesota, Zimmerman wasn’t sure earlier, he had begun dating Min- time, refreshments will be fancier. what to do with his life after finishing neapolis TV news anchor Pat Miles. But it’s unlikely that a firm quoting a B.A. in history and political science. “Between George Foreman, Pat Miles, Margaret Mead on its home page So, in the late 1960s, he took to the and my tennis, I became kind of a (“Never doubt, that a small group of pro tennis circuit. “I was good enough person that people knew by reputation thoughtful, committed citizens can to play, but not good enough to win,” or face or something,” he says. “My change the world.”) will forget its he says. career became sort of that.” underdog roots. He needed an alternative but didn’t Says Zimmerman, “The thing I’m like accounting, business, or finance. Law firm with a heart most proud of is this law firm. We do Just before the deadline, he applied to When working on a complex case, important things that matter for the Law School. It turned out to be many lawyers get bogged down in people.” the right decision. details. But not Zimmerman, says Zimmerman enjoyed a criminal Gordon Rudd, a partner at By Todd Melby, a freelance writer and radio law and civil procedure course taught Zimmerman Reed. “Bucky can look producer based in Minneapolis.

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ore than 850 alumni Club Luncheon at Mondale Hall. The classmate. The class of 1973 also held and guests attended the Law class of 1958, poised to join that august its own reunion. MSchool’s third annual Spring club next year, held its 50th reunion at The weekend also included a pop - Alumni Weekend April 11 –13, 2008, the University of Minnesota’s Campus ular CLE program, “Law, Elections, and which was kicked off with a cocktail Club. the 21st Century Political Machine,” reception generously sponsored and In addition, the classes of 1968, presented by Law School Co-Dean catered by the Saint Paul Hotel. A 1978, 1983, 1988, and 1998 held indi - Guy-Uriel Charles. A Sunday brunch cocktail reception for the class of 1993 vidual reunions at venues throughout in conjunction with the Law School’s at M&S Grill, Minneapolis, led off the the Twin Cities, and endowed scholar - annual Race for Justice concluded the reunions, and a reception for the class ships in honor of their graduation year. events. of 2003 at Brit’s soon followed. All Members of the class of 1978 created alumni graduating more than 50 years the George O. Ludcke Public Service By Marc Peña, assistant director of alumni ago gathered for the Half Century Fellowship to memorialize the life of a relations and annual giving, Law School.

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UDistinguished Alumni Profiles

DIANNE HEINS Evacuees.” The firm leads the Liberian years before landing a job at the U.S. CLASS OF 1973 Truth & Reconciliation Commission Attorney’s Office in 1997. Pro Bono Project to document human He credits the Law School with rights violations during Liberia’s vio - helping launch his career. Internships at lent conflict, and Heins organized the local public defender’s office and training so firm attorneys could take county attorney’s office helped him refugees’ statements. land his first job. And a professor, Philip “What happened there was so Frickey, sparked an interest in Amer- unjust,” she says, referring to the thou - ican Indian law. At Hennepin County, sands killed in 1979 –2003. “Without Wardlaw specialized in juvenile and volunteer lawyers, the experiences of child protection cases involving ianne Heins didn’t become Liberians living in Minnesota wouldn’t American Indians, and as an assistant an attorney for prestige or be included.” U.S. attorney, he continues working on Dmoney. She’s a 60s-generation cases in Indian Country, including idealist who wanted to make a differ - prosecuting crimes on reservations. ence in the world. “It seemed like I CLIFF WARDLAW Today, Wardlaw is far from home could play a role in bringing about CLASS OF 1987 again, working on another special social change by becoming a lawyer,” assignment for the justice department. she says. He’s in Islamabad, attempting to mod - When Heins entered the Law ernize the Pakistani judiciary and School in 1970, she was one of just 20 teaching lawyers how to improve pros - women in her class—double the ecutions of suspected terrorists. Despite number from the previous year but still the dangers, Wardlaw doesn’t hesitate a tiny fraction of the student body. to volunteer for unusual legal duties. After graduation, she was hired by the “People who know me understand Minnesota Legislature’s Office of why I’m here,” he says. Senate Counsel, its first female staffer. uring the first Gulf War, Between 1988 and 1998, Heins Cliff Wardlaw, an assistant U.S. stayed home to care for her kids, but Dattorney in Minneapolis, stayed YOLANDA REDERO she found time to volunteer: as a home. But he didn’t miss a second CLASS OF 1999 guardian ad litem for abused and neg - chance to go to Iraq. In 2004, he lected children in Hennepin County trained judges and helped improve Juvenile Court. What she discovered Iraq’s legal system while on special surprised her. “The cases were heart - assignment for the Department of breaking,” she says. “I was home raising Justice. “I volunteered for Iraq because children in prosperity and safety. Yet of my personal support of the presi - many of the kids I saw in court suf - dent’s decision,” he says. “I thought I fered grim outcomes.” had missed everything in 1991.” Soon, she found a niche. In 1998, Wardlaw’s wanderlust started at a Faegre & Benson in Minneapolis hired young age. Both of his parents were fter her 18-year-old her as a consultant on JUSTice for U.S. Marines, so he grew up in the daughter was killed in a car KIDS, a project encouraging firm Panama Canal Zone, both Carolinas, Aaccident,Yolanda Redero ques - attorneys to provide pro bono repre - Virginia, Colorado, and Iowa. For col - tioned everything in her life. She shut - sentation of children in similar cases. lege, he stuck close to his last home, tered the construction firm she owned, Two years later, Heins became the earning a bachelor’s degree in history worked as a second-grade teacher, and firm’s first pro bono counsel. from Iowa’s Wartburg College in 1982. mulled over the possibility of law She has led several additional pro For the next two years he stayed in school. But she worried that she might bono initiatives at the firm, including Iowa, teaching special education classes be too old. “Once you get into middle the 2006 report documenting the and working as a public assistance case - age, you think it’s not possible,” says the needs of displaced New Orleans citi - worker. After graduating from the Law Cuban-American, who grew up in zens, “Continuing Storm: The On- School, he worked as a Hennepin Miami. Then she read about a man in going Struggles of Hurricane Katrina County assistant prosecutor for 10 his 60s who had just embarked on a

44 Perspectives SPRING 2008 www.law.umn.edu Alumni Perspective legal career. “Whoa,” she thought. co-wrote an academic paper on bat - talking on her cell phone while typing “OK. We’re going.” tling domestic violence among furiously on a laptop. “I didn’t want to By the time she started at the Law Ecuador’s indigenous go that route,” Kaplan says. “I didn’t School, Redero was 45. Trained as a population. want the two car payments, the 2.5 civil engineer and still interested in children, the dog, the house in the construction, she favored real estate suburbs.” and commercial law courses until a MICHAEL KAPLAN To avoid that fate, he decided to course taught by Jean Sanderson, a CLASS OF 2007 become an entrepreneur. Rather than child advocacy professor, altered business school, he chose law school her plan. Redero loved the course’s because it offered critical thinking skills clinical work and spent a summer as and practical courses. “It made sense,” student director of the Civil Practice he says. “I didn’t want to be stuck in a Clinic, sweating out the details of class learning how to write an effective about 60 cases. marketing plan.” After graduation Redero returned Just before his third year at the Law to Miami to take a job as an assistant School, an opportunity popped up. prosecutor with the Miami-Dade Zerorez, an enviro-carpet cleaning County State Attorney’s Office. She hen Michael Kaplan was company in Minneapolis, went on the soon developed a specialty in domestic an undergraduate at Colby market. He and two other investors violence cases and had a real passion WCollege majoring in philos - bought it. Sales jumped 128% in the for the work, in part because a friend’s ophy and economics, he considered first year, and the firm now has 13 mother had been killed by an abusive becoming a philosophy professor. A employees and four trucks. As for run - husband. Soon she was promoted to philosophy professor talked him out ning a business during the third year of assistant chief of the domestic violence of that notion. After graduation, he law school, Kaplan says, “I don’t rec - misdemeanor unit, supervising more hung out in Boston with his brother, ommend it.” than a dozen attorneys. “It was the making lattes at a coffee shop on He hasn’t taken the bar exam and most exciting job,” she says. Cambridge Square. Next he hit the doesn’t plan to, because practicing law Today, Redero directs the Domestic road southbound, judging BBQ in was never in his business plan.You have Violence Clinic atVanderbilt Uni- Memphis, then working a dead-end to have a passion for the law to prac - versity Law School. She tries to give job in Atlanta. He wasn’t sure what tice it, he says. “I’d probably go back to her students independence in their to do next. being a BBQ judge before I did that.” work but admits, “I like to keep my His epiphany came as he waited in finger on cases.” She recently directed an airport. He noticed a woman, By Todd Melby, a freelance writer and radio her expertise beyond U.S. borders and hauling boxes of corporate documents, producer based in Minneapolis.

Recent Grads Meet for Happy Hour 1

November 9, 2007 1. Peter Carlson (’05) and Laurence Reszetar (’06) enjoy happy hour at Brit’s Pub, Minneapolis, generously hosted by Larkin Hoffman. 2

February 28, 2008 2. Nick Wallace (’05), Ryan Strom (’03), and Marshall Lichty (’02) trade stories at Martini Blu, Minneapolis. 3. Jayna Paquin (’03), Rhona Shwaid (’03), and Kristina Carlson (’02) catch up at Martini Blu. 3

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Richard P. Moe was awarded the Vincent J. Scully prize by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., for his leadership in educating the public on the importance of protecting and cele - brating America’s heritage and in moving historic preservation into mainstream American life. The award recognizes exemplary practice, scholarship, or Class Notes criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design. Moe has been president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation since 1993. Send us your news 1967 Tell us about the important things that happen in your life! We welcome your submission for the Class Notes section of Perspectives . To be included in the next issue, your submission must reach us by October 1, 2008.

Submit your news via our Web site at www.law.umn.edu/alumni/ updates.html; via e-mail to Anita Foster at [email protected]; via regular Thomas R. Thibodeau was mail at N160 Walter F. Mondale Hall, 229 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455; selected for inclusion in the or via fax at (612) 626-2002. referral guide, The Best Lawyers in America, in the personal injury litigation Anyone interested in serving as a class reporter, please contact Anita Foster. specialty. Thank you for keeping in touch! 1968

Bruce W. Burton and his son, Jeffery Burton, have 1944 Harold Kalina received the Civil Justice Award from co-authored a murder mystery, Shadow Play. Bruce the National Arbitration Forum on December 5, is a semiretired visiting professor at several law John W. Mooty, a senior partner with Gray Plant 2007, in Minneapolis. schools and a former partner at Dorsey & Whitney. Mooty, was recently honored with the Marty Baskerville Philanthropy Award from the 1962 Minneapolis Rotary Community Service Foundation. In 2007, the Honorable Allen Oleisky received the 1950 Golden Gavel Award for District Court Judge of the Fourth Judicial District, given by Minnesota District Kenneth E. Tilsen received a lifetime achievement Judges Association for outstanding contributions to James R. Schwebel has award from the American Civil Liberties Union of improvement of the judicial system. He also been named a Fellow of the Minnesota. received the Sidney Barrows Lifetime Commitment American College of Trial Award from the Twin Cities Cardozo Society, created Lawyers. 1952 in memory of a founding chair of the Society, Sidney Barrows. It is given annually to a senior attorney or Robert J. Tennessen has founded a solo practice, Roger G. Kennedy, director emeritus of the judge in theTwin Cities who exemplifies excellence Tennessen Law PLC, focusing on representing clients Smithsonian National Museum of American History, in practice, service to the Jewish and general com - before the state legislature, state agencies, cities, is being honored with the 2008 Henry Hope Reed munity, and life-long learning. and counties. He previously served as DFL State Award. Senator from Minneapolis and as a partner at Gray 1963 Plant Mooty. 1953 Jerome J. Segal recently retired after practicing law for 44 years, including service as Assistant City Attorney for St. Paul. 1965 Stanley Efron was selected Edward L. Winer was for inclusion in the 2008 James Krieger was named a 2007 Attorney of named one of the country’s edition of the referral guide, the Year by Minnesota Lawyer for his assistance “Top 100 Attorneys” by the The Best Lawyers in America. to the poor and disadvantaged in the Hennepin editors of Worth magazine in its December 2007 County Public Defender’s Office over the past four issue. The listing focuses on attorneys who spe - decades. cialize in trusts and estates, philanthropy, elder care,

46 Perspectives SPRING 2008 www.law.umn.edu Alumni Perspective matrimonial, and other private practice areas. He is 1971 had conducted and supervised many complex inves - currently co-chair of Moss & Barnett’s family law tigations in the FBI. practice group. Michael R. Dean was awarded the Douglas K. Amdahl Public Attorney Career Achievement Award Jeffrey R. Schmidt joined Lommen, Abdo, Cole, 1969 by the Minnesota State Bar Association. He joined King & Stageberg PA in Minneapolis, where he the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office in 1971 and focuses his practice on representing injured railroad Bruce Beneke was named a 2007 Attorney of the served until retiring in 2006. employees. Year by Minnesota Lawyer for his 30-year leadership as executive director of Southern Minnesota Legal 1974 Regional Services. James B. Wieland was been appointed by Thomas E. Chomicz has been re-elected to a two- Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich, and subse - year term as board chair of St. Xavier University in quently designated lead person, to theTask Force to Chicago. He is also a partner at Quarles & Brady LLP William F. Forsyth was Study Electronic Health Records, a blue-ribbon in the tax-exempt organizations practice. selected for inclusion in the panel reporting directly to the Maryland legislature referral guide, The Best on electronic health records, e-prescribing, and Lawyers in America. He is a partner at Henson & regional health information organizations. He is a Efron PA. shareholder in the health law group at the Baltimore law firm of Ober|Kaler. 1973 1975 Joseph T. Dixon was selected for inclusion in the Randy Abbott was recently named Sam Walton referral guide, The Best Fellow of the Year at the Students in Free Enterprise Lawyers in America. He is president of Henson & (SIFE) National Competition for his time and service Efron PA. Alan C. Eidsness was commitments to SIFE participants at Southwest selected for inclusion in the Minnesota State University, where he spent 25 years 1970 referral guide, The Best as a professor, Vice President of Academic and Lawyers in America. He is a partner at Henson & Student Affairs, and University provost. He is Michael A. Wolff was selected as this year’s Efron PA. currently president of Schwan’s University, a division lecturer for the New York University School of Law of the Schwan Food Company. and the Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial John Kaul has joined WayPoint Inc., a group of Administration’s JusticeWilliam J. Brennan Jr. retired FBI and IRS agents specializing in white Douglas P. Anderson was appointed by Minnesota Lecture Series on State Courts and Social Justice. collar crime and fraud investigations, due diligence, GovernorTim Pawlenty as a Morrison County judge. He is Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court. corporate investigations, and criminal defense work. Previously, he was a partner with Rosenmeier, Previously, he had formed Gold Shield Associates, an Anderson and Vogel since 1975. investigative and consulting firm, and for 27 years

Alumni Receptions Los Angeles: November 5, 2007 Milwaukee: December 3, 2007

Dean Guy Charles with host Maura O’ Connor (’88) Top row: Paul E. Benson (’90) and K. Thor Lundgren (’74); at a reception generously hosted by McKenna Long Bottom row: Mitchell W. Quick (’90) and Grant C. Killoran & Aldridge (’89) at a reception generously hosted by Michael Best & Friedrich

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Robert Bennett was named a 2007 Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer for obtaining a $4.5 million settlement against the Minneapolis Police Department. Arne M. Sorenson has been Kevin M. Busch was elected named to the Luther College to a three-year term on the Board of Regents by its board of directors of Moss & president, Richard Torgerson. Barnett PA. A member of the business and banking and commercial transactions practice groups, he 1984 also chairs the commercial department. Stuart Gibson was recently Debra A. Baker was nominated for the 2007 Media elected president of the Darrell J. Davis has been named Assistant Dean of and Entertainment Counsel of theYear Award. She is Virginia School Boards Hamline University School of Law. Previously, he currently executive vice president and general Association and also to his fourth four-year term on was a senior attorney at Honeywell Inc., Assistant counsel ofWarner Brothers Entertainment Inc. the Fairfax County School Board. Attorney General for the state of Minnesota, and a professor at William Mitchell College of Law. 1985 Terry Wade was named a 2007 Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer for his successful argu - Elizabeth K. Bransdorfer was selected a ment that the Supreme Court of Minnesota should Michigan 2007 Super Lawyer by Michigan Law & recognize a new cause of action for negligent Politics. credentialing. Richard Gibson has become a shareholder at 1977 Ronald J. Schutz, a partner Leonard Street and Deinard, where he focuses on at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & corporate and tax law. The Honorable Pamela Alexander, the first Ciresi LLP, has been named a African-American female and the youngest judge in Fellow of the American College ofTrial Lawyers. Robert C. Long has joined Lockridge Grindal Hennepin County when Governor Rudy Perpich Nauen PLLP as a partner practicing in the area of appointed her 25 years ago, continues a career of 1982 commercial litigation. commitment to equality and justice. Recently, the U.S. Sentencing Commission took a position similar Ronald D. Ousky was recently named President of David Ryden is professor and chair, Department of to her 1990 ruling, upheld by the Minnesota the International Academy of Collaborative Law, a Political Science, Hope College, and specializes in Supreme Court, to dismiss a defendant’s crack- professional organization composed of attorneys, religion and politics, American constitutionalism, possession charges because of unfair and racially financial experts, and mental health professionals. and parties and elections. He has been speaking on biased sentencing. As a result, sentences will be He also co-authored The Collaborative Way to the dynamics of the 2008 political election. reduced for some 19,000 federal inmates. Divorce, published by Hudson Street Press in 2006. Timothy Scallen was named a 2007 Attorney of 1978 Naomi Williamson recently opened the Sanctuary theYear by Minnesota Lawyer for managing more Restaurant, which is located between the Guthrie than a dozen substantial merger and acquisition Kevin C. Jones has been named Director of Investor Theater and the Metrodome; the restaurant was transactions. Relations at Hormel Foods, where he has been senior named one of“The Hot Five” in January 2008 by the attorney and assistant secretary since 1990. Star Tribune’s Rick Nelson. 1986 1980 1983

Catherine A. Polasky was named Director of Gretchen Hurr has joined the American Red Cross Economic Development for the city of Minneapolis’ as its regional disaster specialist and will be respon - Community Planning and Economic Development sible for maintaining relationships with its partner Sheila A. Engelmeier was Department. Previously, she was senior vice agencies in theTwin Cities, Central Minnesota, and elected shareholder at Moss & president at Bank of America. the St. Croix Valley and for coordinating disaster Barnett PA. planning activities. Previously, she was deputy fire chief for the city of Plymouth, Minnesota. 1987

Cynthia A. Adamson Boeh joined USA Baby Inc. as its general counsel.

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partner. He will focus on banks, trust companies, James Gallegos was recognized by Hispanic and specialty lenders, such as commercial and resi - Business Magazine as one of its“100 Most Influential dential mortgage brokers and asset-based lenders. Hispanics” for 2007. He is vice president and general counsel of BNSF Railway. 1989 John P. Boyle was elected shareholder at Moss & Barnett A. Robert D. Bailey has been named corporate PA. vice president and general counsel at Bausch & Lomb.

Carolyn K. Gerwin is vying for an elected seat on Carl P. Luckadoo has joined Patrick Harper & Dixon the Livingston County Board in Illinois. LLP. Jack Y. Perry has been elected director at Briggs and Clifford Wardlaw is the resident legal advisor to 1990 Morgan PA. the U.S. Embassy-Islamabad, Pakistan, after serving at the U.S. Embassy-Baghdad, Iraq. Pieter Teeuwissen has been reappointed by the Mississippi Supreme Court to the nine-member 1988 Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions, where he continues to serve as vice-chair. He was recently Alaska resident Sarah Armstrong died on Sarah L. Brew has been elected to the board of directors of the Jackson December 24, 2007 when her truck skittered off an elected to the American Law Capitol Club. icy road. She was a lawyer, setnetter and dog Institute. musher, much loved by her husband Dean Osmar 1991 and her family. Donations in Sarah's memory may Prentiss Cox is now an associate professor at the be made to the Foundation for Minneapolis Parks. Law School teaching a Consumer Protection Clinic, Chad Baruch was named a partner at Warmbrodt consumer laws, and pretrial skills. In 2008 –2009 he Baruch Ray, Plano, Texas, where he focuses on Renee Brown has been named a 2007 Top Woman will be teaching first year civil procedure. He has appellate law. He is the assistant principal and in Finance by Finance & Commerce, a daily financial drafted laws enacted by the Minnesota legislature basketball coach at Yavneh Academy of Dallas. newspaper. She is a principal in Wildwood Wealth in the area of predatory lending and mortgage fore - Management LLC of Minneapolis, a co-founder of closure that have become national models for state Brian D. Johnson has been appointed corporate FactRight LLC, and serves on the board of directors legislation. This year he drafted and has been testi - secretary at Hormel Foods, where he has served as a of the national Tenant-in-Common Association. fying on behalf of a bill to provide foreclosure defer - corporate attorney, then senior legal counsel, since ments to as many as 15,000 Minnesota 1995. Previously, he practiced at Doherty, Rumble & Jay L. Kim has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as a homeowners. Butler PA in St. Paul.

Law Alumni Luncheon for those attending the Republican National Convention Tuesday, September 2, 2008 12 noon - 2pm Auerbach Commons at The University of Minnesota Law School Hosted by the Office of Alumni Relations

To RSVP or for questions, contact Marc Peña at [email protected] (612-624-2176).

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1992 has earned her a reputation as a foremost human liability cases for the past ten years, and Robert has rights practitioner in the socially responsible run his own personal injury firm since 2001. Kimberly Hewitt Boyd has joined the University investing community. She currently serves on the of Minnesota as director of equal opportunity and steering committee of the International Working Mary Alice Fleming has opened The Law Office of affirmative action. Group of the Social Investment Forum. Mary Alice Fleming. Previously, she was a member of the estate planning departments at Lindquist & Dev Kayal was named a“Top Lawyer” in Vennum and Winthrop & Weinstine. Washington, D.C., in the Washingtonian magazine. Dev is a partner with Kayal & Ghosal in Silver Springs, Maryland, and focuses primarily on immi - gration and civil litigation. Ben M. Henschel was appointed an adjunct director Vanya S. Hogen recently joined Jacobson, Buffalo, at Moss & Barnett PA. Magnuson, Anderson & Hogen PC, where she repre - Nadeem A. Siddiq has com - sents tribal governments and their business part - pleted Women and Gender Patricia A. Huna-Jines recently starting working ners, focusing primarily on Indian gaming and tribal Equality in Islam, which is due for the state of Alaska as a Medicaid rate review and financing. for publication in 2008. He received his Master of public assistance administrative hearings examiner. Law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School of York Meredith Manning was named a“Top Lawyer” in University in 2007 and currently is senior legal Daniel Oberdorfer was named a 2007 Attorney of Washington, D.C., in the Washingtonian magazine. counsel for the Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto. the Year by Minnesota Lawyer for his participation Meredith is a partner with Hogan Hartson and pri - on the team that successfully represented the marily counsels pharmaceutical and biotechnology Keiko Sugisaka joined Maslon Edelman Borman & Pioneer Press in its confidentiality and non-compete industry companies and trade associations on issues Brand LLP. case against the Star Tribune and its former pub - surrounding the U.S. Food and Drug Administra- lisher, Par Ridder. tion’s review, approval, and oversight. 1997

Dan Simon has become Minnesota’s first certified 1994 Amy Erskine, recently married, is now Amy transformative mediator. He mediates divorces and Mitchell. She is a shareholder at Briggs and Morgan. business disputes and conducts training in Lisa A. Atty was named a partner at Minneapolis on the new conflict-management McGuireWoods LLP, focusing on commercial leasing Neil K. Fulton has been appointed chief of staff for approach, selected by the U.S. Postal Service and and the acquisition and disposition of commercial South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds. Previously, he the Transportation Security Administration as the properties. was a partner at May, Adam, Gerdes & Thompson in exclusive method of mediating employment Pierre, South Dakota. discrimination claims. 1995

Kenneth N. Sortedahl is vying for an elected seat Michele Brandt is director of the Constitution on the St. Croix County circuit court bench. Building Project, working to prepare the first guide - book and Web site on constitution building 1993 processes in post-conflict and conflict settings, at Interpeace. An international peace-building Joseph F. Henderson has Ann M. Anaya is a finalist for the First Judicial alliance, Interpeace works with local peoples in started his own firm, J.F. District trial court bench vacancy, as announced by divided societies to help build lasting peace. Henderson Law PLLC. Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. She is currently Previously, he worked at the financial services an Assistant U.S. Attorney. Sarnata Reynolds recently joined Amnesty company Moneygram International. In the fall of International as its refugee program director and 2007, he and Jill Rackiewicz were married. has been conducting fact-finding missions and pro - viding briefings and reports to the United Nations, Elizabeth Hwang has co-founded the woman- the U.S. government, media organizations, and and minority-owned real estate law firm of Timken other groups. Johnson Hwang LLP in northern California. Previously, she and the co-founders practiced at Alya Kayal was promoted to 1996 California’s pioneering real estate law firm, Miller vice president at investment Starr Regalia. management firm Calvert Katheryn A. Andresen authored Law and Business Asset Management Company and will direct overall of Computer Software, ed. 2, published by West- William J. Otteson recently joined the U.S. company research and analysis on environmental, Thomson in 2007. Attorney’s Office as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. social, and governance issues. She joined Calvert in 1994 and has focused on human rights and labor In January 2008, Nate Bjerke and Robert Roe Stephen P. Safranski has been named a partner rights in the global supply chains of key retail sec - created Champion Law LLC, which will focus on at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP. tors and on corporate impact on the rights of plaintiffs’ product liability cases, personal injury, indigenous peoples around the world. Her expertise and business litigation. Nate has handled product

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Alumni Receptions NewYork City: January 3, 2008 Philadelphia: January 4, 2008

Left: Clara Ohr (’98) talks with host James Cho (’99) Alumni gathering at a Philadelphia reception generously at a reception generously hosted by Seyfarth Shaw hosted by William Stock ('93) (first left) and Klasko, Rulon, Right: Dean Guy Charles and Richard Berney (’85) Stock & Seltzer

1998 1999 Brian C. Stegeman was named a 2008 Rising Star by Minnesota Law & Politics. He is with Henson & Andrew Baese was named a 2008 Up and Coming Aaron J. Crandall was named a 2008 Rising Star Efron PA, where he represents clients before the Attorney by Minnesota Lawyer. by Minnesota Law & Politics. He is a shareholder at Internal Revenue Service and advises individuals Leonard, Street and Deinard PA. and businesses on a variety of tax matters. Robert J. Pechman recently joined Crawford Maunu PLLC, an intellectual property firm located in Ryan G. Miest has been named a partner at Omar A. Syed has joined the University of Texas Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Previously, he worked Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP. Office of General Counsel in Austin, where he will in the 3M legal department. practice employment, civil rights, and higher educa - Meghan L. Riley has accepted the position of tion law. Yolanda L. Ricks is an adjunct professor at John assistant city attorney with the City of Austin, Texas, Marshall Law School and teaches in the legal Legal Department. 2000 writing program. She is a frequent judge for Moot Court and ABA Client Counseling competitions at Anie K. Roche has been elected partner at Wilson John Marshall and Loyola Law School, Chicago. In Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in the San Francisco Bay 2007, she was appointed a commissioner of the area. Illinois Supreme Court, to serve on the hearing board and oversight board of the Illinois Attorney Elizabeth M. Brama was Registration and Disciplinary Commission. elected assistant treasurer at Briggs and Morgan PA. Marya P. Robben recently joined Lindquist & Vennum, where she practices in the areas of estate Rebecca A. Chaffee was elected a partner at Best planning, guardianship and conservatorship law, Robert L. Schumann has & Flanagan LLP. probate administration, and trust law. been elected a shareholder at Leonard, Street and Patrick D. Robben recently joined Morrison Fenske Deinard PA. & Sund, where he practices in the areas of commer - cial disputes, trade secrets and intellectual property Adam K. Simpson has been named vice president, law, and employment law. general counsel, and secretary ofVerus Pharmaceuticals, which was founded in 2002. Tracey Holmes Donesky Shane Swanson was named a shareholder at Previously, he was counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP was elected a shareholder at Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb PA, where in San Diego. Leonard, Street and Deinard he practices on the personal legal and estate PA and was named a 2008 Up and Coming Attorney planning team. by Minnesota Lawyer. www.law.umn.edu Perspectives SPRING 2008 51 Alumni Perspective

Alumni Receptions Anchorage: February 29, 2008 Chicago: March 12, 2008

The Honorable Peter Michalski (’71), Dean Fred Left: Patrick Stura (’05), host Ross Docksey (’81), and Morrison, host Matthew Peterson (’79), and Marilyn Dean Fred Morrison at a reception generously hosted May (’84) at a reception generously hosted by Clapp, by Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & Thorsness Right: Hosts Ethan Rii (’02) and Mark Hanover (’93)

Saleh M. Nobani has joined Arab Bank Group as legal counsel.

Mike Skoglund has accepted a position in the law Timothy M. Kelley Jill R. Radloff was elected a department at Cargill Inc. was elected a shareholder shareholder at Leonard, Street at Leonard, Street and and Deinard PA. 2002 Deinard PA. Marisa Hesse, a standout basketball player as an Theodore A. Kittila has joined Morris Nichols undergraduate at Austin College, is returning to the Arsht & Tunnell LLP. Previously, he was an associate school as an assistant coach for the women’s with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in New basketball team. York City. Christopher Stall was Saumil S. Mehta has joined Kirkland & Ellis LLP, elected a shareholder at Moss where he will focus on intellectual property and & Barnett PA. technology issues that arise in mergers, acquisitions, private equity and venture capital financing, and other forms of corporate and financing transactions.

Elizabeth A. Larsen Brittney L. Turner has joined the business litiga - was elected a shareholder tion team at Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb. at Leonard, Street and Deinard PA. Ryan M. Vandewiele 2003 was elected a shareholder Ryan Nilsen was named a 2008 Up and Coming at Leonard, Street and Kathleen Austin was named a 2008 Up and Attorney by Minnesota Lawyer. Deinard PA. Coming Attorney by Minnesota Lawyer.

Tara C. Norgard was named a partner at Carlson, 2001 Melanie Kleiss Boerger accepted a position as a Caspers,Vandenburgh & Lindquist. fellow and staff attorney with the Institute for Benjamin Butler was named a 2008 Up and Public Representation at the Georgetown University Coming Attorney by Minnesota Lawyer. Law Center. Previously, she was a clerk for Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Robert R. Beezer.

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Rachel Hughey was named a 2008 Up and Coming 2005 Ivory L. Ruud recently joined Thomsen & Nybeck Attorney by Minnesota Lawyer. PA and will focus on estate planning, real estate law, business law, and taxation. Kristi A. Nielsen is an Assistant County Attorney for Wadena County, Minnesota. John L. Steele founded Steele Law Firm LLC, a boutique Chicago-area firm that focuses on estate Joseph Anthony Rotondi is a Republican candi - Anne L. Bjerken has been planning and family law. date for District 56B of the Minnesota House of named a 2008 Up and Coming Representatives, with a focus on stemming the tide Attorney by Minnesota Amy S. York has joined Nichols Kaster & Anderson of state government and maximizing individual Lawyer. She is an associate in the trust, estate, and PLLP in Minneapolis, where she practices plaintiff- freedom and free markets. charitable planning group at Gray Plant Mooty, side employment law. Minneapolis. Todd S. Werner has joined Carlson, Caspers, 2007 Vandenburgh & Lindquist in its new pharmaceutical Katharine Woomer Deters was named the 2007 practice. Outstanding Victim Advocate by the North Carolina Advocate Network. She is an attorney with Legal Aid 2004 of North Carolina.

Scott J. Bukstein joined Faegre & Benson LLP, where he practices corporate trans - actional matters, including public and private Lori A. Buchheim and Chad mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and Luze recently became Collette Adkins Giese joined securities, and general corporate counseling. engaged. She is employed Faegre & Benson LLP, where with Quarnstrom & Doering PA. she will focus on regulatory litigation, particularly environmental matters. Jeffrey C. DeBruin joined the corporate and secu - rities group at DLA Piper. Justin Meyer has joined U.S. Bank as an estate tax administrator in its national office in St. Louis. Intesar A. Elder recently joined Butzel Long at its Joshua Colburn joined Bloomfield Hills office, focusing on real estate law, Sarah Ruter was named a 2008 Up and Coming Faegre & Benson LLP, corporate law, and banking. Previously, she was Attorney by Minnesota Lawyer. where he will focus his assistant vice president and associate counsel for practice on corporate law. Comerica Bank. Margaux Coady Soeffker recently joined Walling, Berg & Debele PA, where she practices family law. She and Reed Soeffker were married at a private ceremony in January and reside in Plymouth, Minnesota, with their two dogs.

Julian Zegelman recently joined Hoge Fenton Calvin Ding has joined Daniel J. Herber has joined Jones & Appel Inc. and will practice in the business Baker & Daniels LLP as an Faegre & Benson LLP, where and tax and intellectual property groups. associate lawyer and he will practice environ - practices international law. mental and agribusiness litigation. 2006

Ian Alexander has accepted an assignment as deputy director at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Nicola K. Kieves has joined Excelsior Energy as Monica M. Downs joined Laura E. Meyer joined counsel, focusing on local, state, and federal legisla - Faegre & Benson LLP. Faegre & Benson LLP in its tive affairs; regulatory work before the Public finance and restructuring Utilities Commission; and the company’s policy on practice. She advises banks and other organizations carbon capture and sequestration. Christopher Grecian accepted a position as an on issues related to regulatory compliance and legal associate with Foley & Mansfield PLLP. He will matters affecting financial products and services. Bryan J. Lazarski recently joined Greenberg Traurig practice in the commercial litigation and product LLP in its labor and employment department. liability groups.

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Joshua M. Greenfield has joined Riker Danzig Zeviel T. Simpser joined Briggs and Morgan in its Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP in its real estate group. business litigation section and energy law group, where he practices energy law and litigation, and Sarah A. Horstmann has joined Maslon Edelman business litigation. Borman & Brand LLP as an associate in its litigation group. Irina Palchuk joined Faegre Marie van Uitert has joined Oppenheimer Wolff & & Benson LLP. Donnelly LLP as a new associate. Tara M. Iversen has joined OppenheimerWolff & Donnelly LLP as a new associate. Amanda B. Parker joined Briggs and Morgan, Denis Volkov has accepted a position as an asso - where she practices franchising, financing, general ciate with McNair Attorneys in its Charlotte office. Peihuan B. Kao has been appointed by the commercial and corporate law, and corporate Taiwanese government to serve as the legal advisor restructuring. to the Permanent Mission of Taiwan to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Ajmel Queresh i has received a Skadden Fellowship for his public-interest work at the ACLU of Maryland to combat initiatives depriving undocumented immigrants of social services and job opportunities.

Lindsey D. Saunders recently became a member of Briggs and Morgan’s trade regulation section, Annie O’Neill joined Faegre where she primarily practices trade regulation and & Benson LLP. intellectual property law.

U Patrick Diamond (’86) (left) and Benjamin Butler (’01) shared their U.S. Supreme Court case experience with the Law School.

Excellence in Legal Education luncheon with Arthur Danforth v. Minnesota Miller, made possible by the Jim and Sharon Hale Excellence in Legal Education fund. Left to right, back On March 11, Deputy Hennepin County Attorney Patrick Diamond (‘86) and Assistant State Public row: Tom King (’65), James Hale (’65), Jack Windhort Defender Benjamin Butler (‘01) returned to the Law School to present the opposing sides of a case they (’65), NYU University Professor Arthur Miller, had argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in October. It involved the appeal of a man convicted in 1996 Law School Professor Emeritus John Cound, Jon of first-degree criminal sexual conduct against a 6-year-old boy, whose testimony was presented via Albrightson (’65). Front row: Kent Gernander (’66), videotape. In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court placed restrictions on out-of-court statements. State courts Tom Ma cIntosh (’65), Barry Lazarus (’65), differ on whether federal rules on retroactivity must be followed. Diamond contended that all states Bill Beadie (’65). should go by the same federal rule. Butler cited the right of the accused to cross-examine the accuser. On Feb. 21, 2008, the U.S. Supreme court ruled that states may apply its 2004 ruling retroactively.

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UIn Memoriam

ALUMNI TRIBUTES daughter Anne Somsen of New York, NY; intending to make his gift anonymously, son Stephen Duncan Somsen of Thorson was persuaded that by sharing Henry Northrup Somsen Edmonds, Washington; grandchildren his name his gift would help to inspire CLASS OF 1934 Sara Diel, Brendan Huhn, Vanessa others. The Mackall, Crounse & Moore Henry Northrup Somsen , formerly of Cooney, Kelsey Somsen, and Jay Somsen; Scholarship benefits high-achieving stu - New Ulm, died Jan. 22, 2008, at Charter and great grandchildren Duncan Diel and dents with financial need. House in Rochester, Minn. He was 98. Grace Diel. A dedicated supporter of the Law School, Thorson was a longtime supporter of Somsen served terms on both the Law The Law School is grateful to Somsen for Courage Center, where he served as School’s Board of Visitors and the Law his service and generosity and for president, and Hennepin Avenue United Alumni Association Board of Directors. setting an example through his enduring Methodist Church, where he served as a In addition to giving his time and energy contributions to his community and trustee and member of the foundation to the Law School, he was a generous Minnesota. board. He contributed the church’s supporter of the Partners in Excellence chapel organ in honor of Robert Crounse. Annual Fund. Somsen received a B.A. Frederick L. Thorson At the time of his gift to the Law School, from the College of Liberal Arts in 1932 CLASS OF 1943 he referred to his participation in and a J.D. from the Law School in 1934. Frederick L. Thorson died March 15, Republican politics as an all-consuming 2008, in Minneapolis, at age 89 after bat - passion and “great sport.” The son of Henry N. Somsen Sr. and Meta tling Parkinson's disease for many years. (Koch) Somsen, Somsen was born at his Thorson, born in Minneapolis in 1918, The Law School is proud of Thorson’s parents’ home in New Ulm on Aug. 12, was a self-described “city boy.” He exemplary career in the law and grateful 1909. His first job came at age 16, at the received his bachelor of law in 1941 and for his generosity to current and future automobile service garage across the his J.D. in 1943. He joined the Army at the students. street from his home. He graduated from beginning of World War II and served New Ulm High School and attended until he suffered a collapsed lung. He C. Blaine Harstad Shattuck School in Faribault before worked for Minneapolis Abstract CLASS OF 1956 entering the University, where he was a Company (later Minnesota Title), where member of Psi Upsilon. He married Anne his outstanding work in real estate title Elizabeth Duncan Sept. 12, 1936, in examination brought him to the atten - Encino, Calif. Somsen joined the Army Air tion of Robert Crounse (‘16). Thorson Force as a Private during World War II, joined Mackall, Crounse & Moore in 1950, and was eventually honorably discharged when the firm had only 11 members, and with the rank of Captain. He served as Crounse became Thorson’s mentor. secretary to U.S. Senator Joe Ball of Minnesota for three years prior to Thorson developed into a mentor him - returning to New Ulm to join his father's self, and was regarded as the “dean of law practice. real estate specialists.” In his distin - guished career he chaired the Minnesota Although he had a long career in the law, State Bar Association Real Estate Section, Somsen was also a well-known out - Minnesota Title Standards Committee, doorsman and conservationist who and Hennepin County Bar Association enjoyed fishing on Minnesota lakes. He and created the Annual Institute on Real C. Blaine Harstad passed away at his was an avid duck hunter, especially at Estate Law. home in Minneapolis on April 19, 2008, Swan Lake near New Ulm and at Rock after a brave fight with chronic obstruc - Lake near Detroit Lakes. He had a lifelong In 2003 Thorson expressed his support tion pulmonary disease. Born at home on interest in preserving wetlands and for current law students and his gratitude a farm near Harmony, Minn., on Dec. 27, acquiring parks for Minnesota, and many to Mackall, Crounse & Moore by estab - 1928, he attended a one-room school in individuals as well as organizations lishing a scholarship in the firm’s name at Fillmore County and Harmony High benefited from his generosity. the Law School. At the time, Thorson School. He attended Luther College at recalled that “It gets so tough sometimes, Decorah, Iowa, graduating in 1948. In their 50 years together, the Somsens working your way through school,” and Harstad taught high school in Granite traveled to six continents. Anne died he was delighted to be able to assist law Falls before a stint as a radio announcer, June 14, 1987. Somsen is survived by his students with their education. Initially disc jockey, and “everything else” at radio

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station KTRF in Thief River Falls. He was a CLASS OF 1942 FACULTY TRIBUTES sergeant in the U.S. Army-Signal Corps Frank T. Knox during the Korean Conflict, stationed in Feb. 7, 2007 Duncan E. Haynes , age 74, died Washington, Georgia, and California. Fargo, ND Oct. 26, 2007, at his home near Calistoga, After his service he returned to radio at Calif. He taught tax law at the Law School WEAU in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He CLASS OF 1954 from 1967 to 1970, then returned to a law attended the Law School with benefits Thomas E. Wolf practice in San Francisco, his beloved from the GI Bill and graduated in 1956 March 24, 2007 Napa Valley, and a vineyard he had after having served as president of the Rochester, Minn. started in the 60s. In 1983, he and his Minnesota Law Review . wife, Pat, founded Whitford Cellars, which CLASS OF 1961 produced award-winning wines. He is He began his career with Mackall, William F. Brooks, Jr. survived by his wife of 52 years; three Crounse & Moore. He later formed January 2, 2008 children, Barney and Geoffrey Haynes MacLaughlin & Harstad (formerly Minneapolis, Minn. and Lori Bode; and four grandchildren. MacLaughlin & Mondale) and the Minneapolis law firm of Harstad and CLASS OF 1988 Stephen Elmer Gottschalk , an adjunct Rainbow. In 1991, that firm merged into Sarah J. Armstrong professor who taught Introduction to Gray Plant Mooty, where he practiced law Dec. 24, 2007 Employee Benefits at the Law School, until his death. Kenai Peninsula, AK died March 6, 2008, at age 60. He gradu - ated from Valparaiso University School Harstad served on the Law Alumni of Law and was a partner at Dorsey & Association Board of Directors, was a If you would like to contribute to the Whitney for 31 years. Among the class representative, and was a supporter C. Blaine Harstad Scholarship Fund, the numerous recipients of his volunteer of the Partners in Excellence Annual Fund Mackall, Crounse & Moore Scholarship, or work are Habitat for Humanity of and various endowed funds at the Law other scholarships, contact Scotty Mann Minnesota and AMICUS. He is survived School. He was also a founding member at the University of Minnesota Law by his wife, Lorilyn; children Andrew, of the Minnesota Law Review Alumni School, Development Office, 229 19th Stephanie, Lorissa, and Michael; five Advisory Board. In addition to his service Ave. So, Mpls, MN 55455; (612) 626-5899; grandchildren; his parents; two brothers; to the Law School, Harstad served as or [email protected]. and a sister. president of the Hennepin County Bar Association and the Hennepin County Historical Society; as a trustee of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa; and in leader - ship roles in many other organizations. He was a member of Central Lutheran Church.

Harstad is survived by his wife of 46 years, Karyne Quast Harstad, two daugh - ters—Margaret Marie Harstad (Hans Peter Johnson, i.e. “Hansi”) of Carlton, Minn., and Kathryn Kristin Harstad (Mike Elggren) of Salt Lake City, Utah— and many other family members and friends.

Harstad will be remembered as a great father, husband, and friend. The Law School is proud of his successful life, and we will miss his leadership, service, and wonderful sense of humor.

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