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17 4 Update on Partners in Excellence Annual Fund

Dear Law School Alumni: As National Chair of this year’s Partners in Excellence annual fund drive, I have had the privilege of observing the generosity of some very dedicated Law School alumni stewards. Despite what we have come to know as “these tough economic times,” many of you have stepped DEAN ALUMNI BOARD forward to put us on pace to achieve two significant milestones for this David Wippman year's campaign: $1 million and 23% alumni participation. Term ending 2009 DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS James Bender (’81) A record annual fund campaign is more than just a goal: It will enable Cynthia Huff Elizabeth Bransdorfer (’85) (Secretary) the Law School to recruit the best students and retain the best faculty. Judge Natalie Hudson (’82) I want particularly to acknowledge the generosity of this year’s Fraser SENIOR EDITOR AND WRITER Chuck Noerenberg (’82) Scholars Society and Dean’s Circle donors (through April 1, 2009): Corrine Charais Judith Oakes (’69) Patricia O’Gorman (’71) DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS AND ANNUAL GIVING Term ending 2010 > Fraser Scholars Society > Dean’s Circle Anita C. Foster Grant Aldonas (’79) Austin Anderson (’58) James J. Bender Michael J. Adams Richard C. Maxwell CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Justice Paul Anderson (’68) Michael V. Ciresi Hon. Catherine & William J. McGinnis Corrine Charais David Eldred (’02) Terence M. Fruth Edward Anderson Rebecca Egge Moos Anita Foster Dave Kettner (’98) Joan D. Humes Christopher J. Chaput Pati Jo Pofahl & Luke Grundman Rebecca Egge Moos (’77) Gregory P. Joseph Maura O'Connor & Charles Nauen Michael Hannon Judge James Rosenbaum (’69) David V. Lee James B. Clark Michael T. Nilan Evan Johnson Rachna Sullivan (’96) Corrections and Clarifications K. Thor Lundgren Stanley Efron Ronald J. Schutz Frank Jossi James H. Michael Duane E. Joseph George J. Tichy II Cathy Madison Term ending 2011 We regret that the Fall 2008 issue Russell V. Michaletz Martha & David Kadue Todd Melby J. Charles Bruse (’71) incorrectly cited the name of the John W. Mooty John P. Karalis Marc Peña William Drake (’66) Bruce and Tracy Mooty Scholarship Bruce W. Mooty John D. Kelly Joy Petersen Joan Humes (’90) (President) Fund, created to recognize law Dennis L.T. Nguyen Ronald M. Mankoff Sarah Johnson Phillips E. Richard Larson (’69) students who have demonstrated Pamela Tabar Jeannine Lee (’81) leadership, community service, Carl Warren Marshall Lichty (’02) problem-solving skills, academic One gift every year has an exponential impact on the Law School’s resources. For example, Thor Lundgren (’74) excellence, and the promotion of an annual gift of $5,000—from one person or several people combined—is equivalent to the COVER ILLUSTRATION Judge Peter Michalski (’71) justice for all. yearly income from a $100,000 endowment. Please join these stewards in this year’s Partners Stephen Webster Fordam Wara (’03) In the description of the Dobiásˇ In Excellence annual fund campaign by renewing your support—at any level—prior to June 30. PHOTOGRAPHERS Human Rights Fellowship in the Finally, thank you in advance for the gift you are about to make. I know there are many Perspectives is a general interest magazine published in Rick Dublin the fall and spring of the academic year for the University 2007-08 Annual Report, p. 9, Premysl worthy causes in our society requiring our attention. However, as alumni of the Law School, Jayme Halbritter of Minnesota Law School community of alumni, friends, Dobiásˇis incorrectly said to have and supporters. Letters to the editor or any other communi- we have a special responsibility. Johnny Ho remained in Czechoslovakia during cation regarding content should be sent to Cynthia Huff Together we help ensure the Law School’s success with one gift every year. Mike Minehart ([email protected]), Director of Communications, University the Holocaust. In 1938, he joined a Darcie Peifer of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue South, N225, resistance group smuggling Jews to Minneapolis, MN 55455. Cory Ryan the relative safety of Italy. He was Thank you. Stay well. Partner with us. Tim Rummelhoff The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that arrested for these activities and all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, Tricia Schweitzer and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, eventually sent to Mauthausen con- national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assis- centration camp in Austria where he tance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation. DESIGNER was held until Allied forces liberated Carr Creatives ©2009 by University of Minnesota Law School. the prisoners on May 5, 1945. Russell V. Michaletz (’77) 2009 National Chair, Partners in Excellence Annual Fund Contents

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22 Law School Marks 120 Years 24 Tomorrow’s Leaders

A pictorial review of the Law School’s history, Find Common Grounds continued from the fall 2008 issue, shows One student’s idea unites three University ongoing growth, both academically and graduate schools to make a difference. physically. by Cathy Madison

2 Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 www.law.umn.edu Creating a Future of Possibilities

s Alan Kay,a pioneering computer scientist, once observed,“the best way to predict the future is to invent it.”At the Law School, we are working hard to invent a future that integrates scholarship, teaching, and service more deeply and creatively,builds on our strengths, and better prepares our graduates to address the law and public policy problemsA of tomorrow.

Building on the present In many respects, the Law School has never been stronger.This year, we added three outstanding new faculty: John Borrows, perhaps Canada’s leading scholar of indigenous rights and comparative constitutional law; Herbert Kritzer, one of the world’s foremost authorities on empirical legal studies and law and society; and Amy Monahan, a rising star in tax and employee benefits. With the generous support of the Robina Foundation, we launched a new program on Law, Public Policy,and Society.Curriculum reform continues apace with the addition of three electives to the first-year curriculum, new forms of experiential learning, and increased emphasis on statutory interpretation, ethics, and lawyering skills.Applications to the Law School have jumped 29%, even though nationally applications are up only about 6%. Of course, the Law School has not escaped the economic turmoil of the past year and must bear its proportionate share of deep cuts in state funding for the University.Our endowment, like that of law schools across the country,has declined, and our students confront an increasingly tight job market.To meet these immediate challenges, we are working aggressively to sharpen our priorities and streamline our operations.While making workforce reductions elsewhere, we have expanded our Career and Professional Development Center and redoubled our efforts to assist our students in finding rewarding career opportunities.And we are working harder than ever to recruit the faculty and students who will take the Law School to new heights.

Inventing the future Our challenge now is to seek, in President Bruininks’ words,“the bright horizon.” We aim to be one of the country’s leading centers for innovative law teaching and research and a locus for DEAN DAVID WIPPMAN the development of creative solutions to pressing public policy problems.To achieve those objectives, we will need to redefine what it means to be a public law school. In the past, a public law school could be identified by its primary source of support and its corresponding commitment to training state residents for practice within the state. Many older alumni tell me that they paid more for books than for tuition.That model of a public law school is long gone. State funding provides only a modest and declining share of our operating budget; as a result, tuition is high and going higher, and private fund-raising has become central to our success.The best public law schools have already moved in whole (the University of Virginia) or in part (Berkeley and Michigan) to a private-funding model.This is not a transition we have sought, but it is one we must consider if we are to sustain our long-standing commitment to excellence. I hope you will partner with us as we rethink the mission and the meaning of a public law school for the 21st century.Working together, I am confident we can invent a future in which students choose the Law School for an education second to none, faculty come to be part of an extraordinary research culture, and employers, the state, and the nation look to us for tomorrow’s leaders.

Sincerely,

David Wippman Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law

www.law.umn.edu Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 1 1 Dean’s Perspective Creating a Future of Possibilities 4 At the Law School 4 Law School Offers New Concentration in Business Law 5 Update on Curriculum Developments 6 Justice Clarence Thomas Visits Law School 7 New CPDC Staff Members • Law School and SMRLS Host McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court 6 8 The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection 10 Twenty Years of Promoting Human Rights 11 MJIL Symposium: Rule of Law Around the World 12 Law & Inequality Symposium Examines ART 13 Judge Guido Calabresi: William B. Lockhart Lecture • Law School Receives Private Screening of Mondale Film 14 John M. Finnis: John Dewey Lecture in the Philosophy of Law • Asylum Law Project Wins Student Group Award 15 Consortium and Joint Degree Program Celebrate 10 Years 16 Nadine Strossen: Horatio Ellsworth Kellar Distinguished Visitor Lecture • Ways to Give 17 Study in Beijing This Summer 26 Faculty Perspective 26 Faculty Awards, Grants, and News 29 Gregory Shaffer: Melvin C. Steen and Corporate Donors 8 Professorship in Law Lecture • Faculty Works in Progress 30 Michele Goodwin: Everett Fraser Chair in Law Lecture • John Matheson: Law Alumni Distinguished Professor of Law Lecture 31 Public Law Workshops • Thomas Cotter: Briggs and Morgan Chair in Law Lecture 32 Law School Welcomes New Faculty Members • Francesco Parisi: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly Chair in Law Lecture 33 Brian Bix: Frederick W. Thomas Chair for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law and Language Lecture 34 Faculty Profile: Beverly Balos 35 Faculty Profile: Mary Louise Fellows 36 Student Perspective 36 Student Profiles 41 38 Fighting Mondales Do Battle on Ice 39 Moot Court Competitions 40 Race for Justice Sprints Into Seventh Year 41 TORT Squad Brings Ditherer to Her Senses 42 Alumni Perspective 42 Alumni Profiles 44 Partners at Work Challenge 46 Spring Alumni Weekend 48 Class Notes 50 Alumni Receptions 53 Annual Giving Participation by Class 54 30th Annual Summer CLE Program 55 Memorial Tributes 46 56 In Memoriam 57 Update on 2009 Partners in Excellence www.law.umn.edu Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 3 > At the Law

Prof. Nadine Strossen with Don Fraser (’48) at reception following her Kellar Distinguished Visitor lecture Wheelock Whitney, Prof. John Matheson, and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale (’56) at special screening Minn. Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz (’84) of “Fritz” at Law School at reception following Matheson’s Law Alumni Distinguished Professor appointment lecture

Law School Offers New Concentration in Business Law

> The Law School has added business law courses, semi- business law to its existing concentra- nars, and lectures.They can tions in health law and bioethics, select a topic of mutual human rights law,and labor and interest to a faculty member employment law.The business law for a one-to-one independent concentration will help prepare stu- research and writing project. In dents to practice in this widely encom- addition, a corporate externship passing field of mergers & acquisitions, summer program is available, a international business transactions, 150-hour immersion experience white-collar/corporate crime, and in the work and environment of a much more. corporate legal department. The business law concentration is Students also have the under the directorship of Professor opportunity to participate in the John Matheson.Additional Law Multi-Profession Business Law School faculty teaching concentra- Clinic and work on projects that tion courses are Professors Edward replicate the practice of business law. Adams, Mary Alton,Tom Cotter, Experienced business law attorneys Prentiss Cox (’90), Daniel Gifford, supervise teams of students who take Ralph Hall, Kristin Hickman, Claire the lead representing clients. Students Hill, Brett McDonnell, Steve Meili, extensive at both the Law can gain experience in such transac- Richard Painter, Daniel Schwarcz, School and other University tional skills as drafting, problem Kathryn Sedo, and Bruce Shnider. departments. Students can immerse solving, communication, client Business-related offerings are themselves in core and specialized interviewing, negotiation, and ethics.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas talking with students after his Jurist in Residence lecture

Dean David Wippman, Josh Fisher (’11), Joe Cantor (’03), CPDC Director Alan Haynes, Senior VP Toni Rahn (’03), and Prof. Mary Alton of Academic Affairs Sharon R. Paulsen, and Prof. Francesco Parisi

Update on Curriculum Developments

> This spring, as part of the Law prospectively and constructively. A School’s ongoing commitment to curric- creative, preventive, problem-solving ular reform, second-semester 1Ls were (rather than crisis-intervention) approach Students may also participate in the able to choose an elective from a list is emphasized, which complements the Bankruptcy Clinic or the Tax Clinic. including Business Law and International appellate litigation orientation of legal In their second and third years, Law (introductory doctrinal courses), writing and many first-year doctrinal J.D. students are eligible to study Perspectives (team-taught legal analysis courses. abroad through the Law School’s from the interdisciplinary perspectives of The new curriculum strengthens the semester exchange program. Bocconi law and economics, legal history, and link between theory and practice by University in Milan, Italy,and Bucerius critical theory), and the Work of the demonstrating practice norms outside Law School in Hamburg, Germany, Lawyer. In future years, International Law, the classroom. Spring semester 1Ls, have international business law Business Law, and Perspectives also will for example, witnessed arguments in a programs. be offered as upper-level electives. The federal district court case heard at the Concentrations build upon Work of the Lawyer will become part of Law School. The experience sparked and complement the Law School’s the standard first-year curriculum in discussions of doctrinal law in civil standard curriculum through interdis- spring 2010. procedure classes and offered practical ciplinary partnerships with other The Work of the Lawyer covers foun- examples of fact development and the University programs. Completing a dational lawyering skills, issues of profes- relationship between truth and legal concentration can enhance students’ sional identity and role, and legal ethics, relevance to students in the Work of career development, and the notation first in the classroom and then in simu- the Lawyer course. of a concentration on their transcripts lated settings. Under the eye of expert The new lawyering program is can improve employment opportuni- practitioners, students act as lawyers, creating opportunities for local lawyers ties. For more information on the interviewing “clients,” investigating facts, to mentor and share their experiences. business law concentration, go to strategizing, and negotiating solutions. This experiential education in legislative, www.law.umn.edu/current/ Students learn to develop representation litigation, and transactional arenas helps concentrations_businesslaw.html. strategies at the outset of a case, prepare students for the complex chal- focusing on client goals and interests lenges that lie ahead.

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Justice Thomas answers questions from students

Lecture attendees wait for doors to open Justice Thomas meets Coach “Tubby” Smith with Prof. Stras and Dean David Hon. Joan Ericksen (’81), Hon. Donovan Frank, Wippman in the background. Hon. Christopher Dietzen and Justice Thomas

Justice Clarence Thomas Visits Law School

> U.S. Supreme Court Justice Asked about his most difficult case, sive, that the Supreme Court maintains Clarence Thomas led off the Law the Justice replied that any case in its duties and mission as members School’s newly reinstated Jurist-in- which your heart wants something the come and go. Residence program on April 15, 2009, law doesn’t permit is very troublesome. His message to students: Be honest. with “A Conversation with Justice Cases that have significant conse- Judges will see through any attempt to Clarence Thomas” at the University of quences but no easy answer are “a deceive, at the cost of your credibility Minnesota’s west bank Willey Hall.The heavy responsibility,”he said, noting and their trust. first Supreme Court Justice to visit the that the only people who are unlikely Law School in several years,Thomas to tell Justices how to do their job are Extracurricular activities devoted most of his presentation to others who have held the position. In the afternoon before and the answering questions from the audience His transition to the Supreme morning of his lecture,Thomas gave of more than 900 students, faculty,and Court was challenging in the begin- generously of his time. He held “office members of the legal community. ning,Thomas said, since a lot of hours” in the Rottschaefer Lounge, had Earlier in his two-day visit,Thomas reading was needed to get “up to breakfast with student leaders, met with had conducted a Q&A session exclu- speed” on the cases, but being chair Dean Wippman, and talked with a sively for first-year Law School students of the U.S. Equal Employment gathering of students from classes taught and commented that, as students often Opportunity Commission (from by professors Stras,Allan Erbsen, Laura do, they asked questions that made him 1982–1990) was actually a tougher Cooper, and Robert A. Stein.“It’s been think about issues “in a fresh way,” job:“I had a lot more decisions to simply delightful,”he commented. issues he hadn’t considered for years. make, on a daily basis.” Before his lecture,Thomas had Students have not become “totally Thomas said he gives every deci- lunch with local judges, faculty,and contaminated by self-interest” and are sion “his best shot” but he doesn’t rate others from the University.A special “still looking for answers,”he said. them. He continues to think about and treat, the avid sports fan told the audi- try to learn from each case, but “When ence, was meeting University of Sharing his opinions it’s done, it’s done.”The late Justice Minnesota men’s basketball coach Dean David Wippman welcomed Thurgood Marshall was influential in “Tubby” Smith, who autographed a Justice Thomas to the Law School his legal life,Thomas said, and once basketball for him. and Professor David Stras, who clerked told him,“I had to do in my time Thomas graduated fromYale Law for Justice Thomas in 2002-03 and what I had to do.You’ll have to do in School in 1974 and was selected for arranged his visit to Minnesota, intro- your time what you have to do.” the U.S. Supreme Court by President duced his ”mentor and good friend” When asked whether the Court George H.W.Bush in 1991. He to the audience. Stras and political has changed with John Roberts as published a memoir in 2007, My science Professor Timothy R. Johnson Chief Justice,Thomas explained that Grandfather’s Son, describing his joined Thomas up front to lead the the power of the Chief Justice over journey from poverty in segregated Q&A period. others on the Court is largely persua- Georgia to the nation’s highest court.

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New CPDC Staff Members > In February 2009, the University of Minnesota Law School’s Career and Professional Development Center (CPDC) welcomed two additions to its staff.

Dana Bartocci has returned to Stacey M. Tidball (’99) has joined CPDC the Law School as Employer as assistant director. She will provide pro- Relations Coordinator. Her fessional and career development coun- primary responsibility will be seling to students and alumni via direct to develop contacts with small, individual counseling and group pro- medium, and large firms as grams and will plan, organize, and well as public interest and present programs on varying career- government organizations related topics. She will work closely within and outside of with Director Alan Haynes to broaden Minnesota to encourage employers to list and deepen relationships with students, employers, internship, summer, and postgraduate employment staff, and faculty. opportunities with the CPDC. Previously, she was Associate Director of Career Services at Previously, Bartocci served as Professional Development Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, where she coordinated and Pro Bono Coordinator at Maslon Edelman Borman & the school’s on-campus interview program and counseled stu- Brand, Special Assistant to the Dean and career counselor dents. Before joining Southwestern, she was a judicial law clerk at the Law School, and Associate Director of Career Services for the Honorable Thomas J. Kalitowski (’73) of the Minnesota at William Mitchell College of Law. Court of Appeals and a litigation associate with Skadden Arps Bartocci received her J.D. and an M.S. in educational Slate Meagher & Flom, Los Angeles, practicing commercial and administration from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. employment litigation. She has also been a recruiting specialist She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Minnesota at Leonard, Street and Deinard and a legal recruiter in Los Women Lawyers and the Hennepin County Bar Association. Angeles. Most recently, she served as the Pro Bono Develop- She also is active on the Minnesota State Bar Association ment Director for the Minnesota State Bar Association. Professionalism Committee and in the Volunteer Lawyers Tidball completed her undergraduate work, in political Network. science and Spanish, at Augsburg College.

Law School and SMRLS Host McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court

> To commemorate the centennial Kevin G. Ross, and Terri J. Stoneburner To express its appreciation for their of Southern Minnesota Regional Legal of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. service, the Law School and SMRLS Services (SMRLS), the Law School Top honors went to Team 2 of offered the continuing legal and judi- and the legal aid organization teamed Washington University School of cial education program “Unequal up to host the 24th Annual William E. Law,St. Louis.Team 2 of South Texas Educational Outcomes: Is Achievement McGee National Civil Rights Moot College of Law won second place as Tracking a Source or Perpetuator of Court Competition and to present the well as Best Brief honors.Team 1 of Racial Segregation Within Schools?” related continuing legal and judicial William Mitchell College of Law on Feb. 6, 2009. education program. took third place, and BrighamYoung The competition’s missions are to This year, 37 teams from 26 law University,J. Reuben Clark Law provide an opportunity to students to schools nationwide submitted briefs, School took fourth.Allison Lee of develop the oral advocacy and writing then traveled to the Law School on Washington University Team 2 was skills essential to be successful appellate March 5-7, 2009, to argue orally. named Best Oral Advocate, both practitioners, and also to promote This year’s case, Holton v. City of overall and of the preliminary rounds. interest, reflection, and discourse about Thomasville Sch. Dist, addressed Julia Riedel of Chicago-Kent College the substance, procedure, and practice whether racial imbalances created by of Law Team 2 and Rob Creighton of of civil rights law. ability grouping in schools violate the Southern Illinois School of Law Team For more information on the 14th Amendment. 2 won honorable mentions for Best McGee National Civil Rights Moot The competition culminated Oral Advocate of the preliminary Court Competition, go to with a final-round argument before rounds. www.law.umn.edu/mcgeemootcourt/ Chief Justice Eric J. Magnuson of the More than 170 judges and competition.html. Minnesota Supreme Court, and Judges attorneys volunteered their time and Natalie Hudson (’82), David Minge, expertise to judge the competition. By Clinical Professor Carl M. Warren

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First page of unsigned appellate brief in Scopes trial, written by member of defense team

The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection: His Life, Legal Career, and Legacy Michael Hannon (’98) Associate Director for library and educational technology

> In 2004, the University of Minnesota Law Library acquired its millionth volume, The Papers of Clarence Darrow, consisting of hundreds of personal letters written by and to Darrow. To provide global electronic access to this unique Darrow Collection, which also includes photos, trial transcripts, cases, books, articles, newspapers, and narratives, the Library has created the Clarence Darrow Web site. Expected to be available in summer 2009, the site will be accessible by scholars worldwide. The Web site offers a visual tour of Darrow’s extensive legal career spanning 1879 to 1936. Created by Glen Anderson of the Law Library Educational Technology staff, the site enables the Library to share and showcase the vast amount of important, rare, and exciting material it has acquired for its Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center, one of the most important repositories for information on Darrow’s life, legal career, and historic legacy.

Clarence Darrow, 1915

Interesting letters fund-raising effort for the widow of The Jungle was so influential it led Darrow exchanged letters with many John Peter Altgeld, Darrow’s mentor to passage, on the same day in 1906, prominent and fascinating individuals. and a former governor of Illinois. of the federal Meat Inspection Act The Law Library has digitized more Another letter is from Upton and the Pure Food and Drug Act, than 400 such letters and displays a Sinclair, the Pulitzer Prize-winning precursors to the Food and Drug transcription side by side with the author and social activist, who wrote Administration. original, making the handwritten let- to Darrow on Sept. 23, 1905, asking An important aspect of Darrow’s ters easier to read and search by spe- him if he thought the text in The legacy is his fight for racial equality for cific terms. Jungle amounted to libel. Sinclair had African-Americans.The Darrow One example is a letter to Darrow intended to expose the harsh working Collection contains several letters from William Jennings Bryan written conditions of poor immigrants, but written by prominent civil rights March 29, 1902, 23 years before the the public was more shocked by the leaders, including African-American two would meet in a hot Tennessee unsanitary and dangerous food- author and political activist Charles W. courtroom. Bryan offers $100 for a processing practices described. Chesnutt, who wrote to Darrow on

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Feb. 8, 1907:“Surely,so long as the Another historic item is the orig- negro has such fearless advocates as inal typewritten final arguments of yourself, he can go forward hopefully Darrow,his co-counsel, and two state and as patiently as poor human nature attorneys in the 1894 insanity hearing will allow.” William English Walling, a for Patrick Eugene Prendergast, who co-founder and first board chair of the was facing execution for assassinating NAACP,wrote to Darrow on April 11, Chicago Mayor Carter H. Harrison Sr. 1910, on the stationary of the National Negro Committee, thanking him for Educational database accepting an invitation to speak. To enhance the Web site’s educational As Governor of NewYork, Clarence Darrow, 1922 value for users worldwide, the Law Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to Library has partnered with Thomson- Darrow on Feb. 23, 1931, saying:“I to teach evolution and that was Reuters to create a free, publicly wish much that the next time you entered into evidence during the trial. accessible database of case law con- come East you would stop off in Darrow was a controversial figure, taining all the published opinions in Albany to have a talk with me. I should and items of contemporary criticism which Darrow or his law firm is listed like to have your opinion on a number are included. John Wigmore, Dean as counsel during his career. It also of matters for, as you know,we in the of Northwestern Law School, was contains later cases that quote or State of NewYork are facing a decision especially critical of Darrow’s handling refer to Darrow.The database will be on a good many things which will of two important cases. In the 1911 updated periodically. have a definite effect on future policies McNamara case following the Modern cases often refer to throughout the Country.” bombing of the Los Angeles Times, Darrow on legal or social issues, such Wigmore denounced Darrow’s as criminal law or race. Scholars using Wide-ranging photos acceptance of a $200,000 defense the Web site and database will discover The Darrow Web site contains more fund while knowing early on that that Darrow is still relevant today. than 700 photographs, showing many the defendants were guilty.In the of the important figures in Darrow’s 1924 Leopold and Loeb case, most famous trials, such as the 1907 Wigmore sharply criticized the Haywood trial, the 1924 Leopold and use of partisan experts in trials, Loeb case, and the 1925 Scopes trial. specifically the psychiatric It also captures Darrow at various testimony of defense doctors. stages in his life and career, people he debated or who were involved in his Rare, historic items trials, public figures, and various social The Collection contains many and political issues that were of interest additional rare items of special to Darrow. interest and historic importance. Among them are a digitally Significant documents scanned copy,obtained from An especially strong feature of the Web the Ohio Historical Society, site is the full text of more than 800 of the handwritten briefs for important documents. It contains, for the earliest published appellate example, the transcripts of all eight decision from a case litigated days of Darrow’s most famous case, the by Darrow,the case of 1925 Scopes trial over teaching evolu- Brockway v. Jewell (39 N.E. tion in violation of a state statute. 470 [Ohio 1894]). Darrow’s Included are the briefs submitted by client was a boy who both the defense and prosecution for received a harness for Scopes’ appeal before the Tennessee attending to an ill man. Supreme Court. Of particular interest The man failed to pay is a handwritten draft of an appellate for the harness and the brief for the defense. It is unsigned but creditor wanted it back. was probably written by Darrow’s co- The resulting 7-year litiga- counsel,Arthur Garfield Hays. tion involved two trials The Web site contains the full text and three appellate court of many books, including the 1914 decisions.A comparison edition of George William Hunter’s with letters written by Darrow A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems, indicates that one of the briefs was Letter from then New York Governor the edition that Scopes allegedly used handwritten by Darrow. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 23, 1931

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Twenty Years of Promoting Human Rights

“We have the only search device for the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda on the Web,”Weissbrodt says, “and we’re working on similar ones for Sierra Leone and other criminal tri- bunals.”In the past year, the Library has logged more than 3 million users from 150 countries. In addition to English, it contains material in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Among the Center’s real-world contributions are its Guantánamo Co-directors David Weissbrodt and Kristi Rudelius-Palmer Project, which assists in defending detainees, and its Human Rights Education & Training Program, which > The Human Rights Center nity for practical experience like this.” has trained thousands of educators, marked its 20th anniversary in The Center hosts the Upper lawyers, and community leaders in December 2008.To commemorate the Midwest Human Rights Fellowship K–12 schools throughout the commu- event, it hosted a dinner recognizing program and each year trains and edu- nity.The online This Is My Home ini- the Dobiáš Human Rights Fellowship, cates about 25 Fellows, who are then tiative, under Rudelius-Palmer’s direc- established last fall by William E. Drake placed at human rights organizations tion, provides teaching and learning (’66) to honor Pˇremysl (Prem) Josef locally and in more than 70 other resources for students, educators, and Dobiáš and his work helping Slovakian nations for several months of hands-on advocates in formal and nonformal and Hungarian Jews escape to Italy learning and practical experience.To education settings and, she says,“con- during the Holocaust. Prem’s daughter, date, the Center has awarded more tinues to bring human rights language Carolyn Dobiáš, Dean David than $1 million to more than 400 and practices into the daily lives of Wippman, and more than 20 faculty, Fellows from the upper Midwest. people of all ages.” alumni, and friends attended. In addition, with the help of a The Center has accomplished a lot Professor David Weissbrodt $1 million grant from the U.S. State in the 20 years since its first home in founded the Center in 1988 with the Department, the Center hosts, each a small closet.“I think we’ve built an mission “to provide training, educa- year, 10 law fellows from various institution that has made a contribu- tional materials, and assistance to countries through the Humphrey tion to human rights and to the visi- professionals, students, and volunteers International Fellowship Program. bility of this Law School in the world,” working to promote and protect The mid-career professionals spend 10 Weissbrodt says.“We have quite a human rights locally,nationally,and months at the Law School pursuing number of people who come to the internationally.”Kristi Rudelius-Palmer professional development and nonde- Law School because they’re interested joined Weissbrodt as co-director in gree academic study,and they present in human rights.” 1989, and together they continue numerous opportunities for cross-cul- As for the future, judicial education working toward that goal. tural learning and knowledge exchange. and CLE offerings on human rights The Dobiáš Fellowship and other Perhaps the Center’s biggest pro- are needed, as are year-long fellowship such programs play a large part in the ject, and one of its proudest achieve- placements after law school. The Center’s efforts to educate and inspire ments, says Weissbrodt, is creating and Library’s online resources for students.“Kristi and I both had intern- continually enlarging the Human researching country conditions are ships like this in our early days, me Rights Library—located on both the incomplete for many nations.The list in Geneva and Kristi in London,” World Wide Web and the Law School’s goes on.“We have a lot of work to Weissbrodt says.“It inspired both of us. third floor.With more than 60,000 do,”Weissbrodt says. And others that we know of who are core human rights documents, the involved in the human rights field got Library is one of the nation’s largest By Joy Petersen, a communications assistant involved because they had an opportu- resources for human rights research. at the Law School

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MJIL Symposium: Rule of Law Around the World

> Even though the rule of law is a foundation of free, just, and prosperous societies, it is difficult to define. It is even more challenging to create in institutions, cultures, and the hearts and minds of people. On Nov. 14, 2008, Below: Robert A Stein (’61). At right, top: the University of Minnesota Law Sandy D’Alemberte. At right, bottom: School’s Minnesota Journal of Students Patrick Hedren (’10), Luke International Law held a symposium Clayton (’10), and Kendra Magraw (’10) that gathered founders of the rule of law movement, legal scholars, judges, public lawyers, and students to explore the rule of law: its meaning and its value as a framework for international legal reform and development. The symposium’s featured panel was a historic gathering of the founders of CEELI (Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative) and the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative: Florida State University President Emeritus Sandy D’Alemberte, International Bar Association Executive Director Mark Ellis, Homer Moyer of Miller & Chevalier, and Law School Professor Robert Stein (’61) as moderator.The group reflected on the history,legacy, and lessons learned from CEELI, an international legal-assistance project created in the early 1990s to bring the expertise of American lawyers to new democracies.The panel also discussed the future of rule-of-law work and the potential for reviving CEELI’s original “legal peace corps” model. Minnesota is home to strong leaders in rule of law reform work, of an independent judiciary with content in the rule of law,especially including the three judges comprising judges in China, India, and Egypt. for women in transitioning societies, the second panel, moderated by Law A discussion among eminent legal and Professor Stein proposed bringing School Professor Fred Morrison: U.S. scholars on academic and practical the topic into law school curricula. District Judge John Tunheim (’80), applications of the rule of law, Symposium articles, including the Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Paul moderated by Law School Professor CEELI panel discussion, will be pub- H.Anderson (’68), and Minnesota Oren Gross, capped the symposium. lished in the Minnesota Journal of District Court Judge Kevin Burke Professor Jane Stromseth of International Law,Vol. 18, Issue 2. (’75).They offered their perspectives Georgetown Law Center described For more information, visit http:// and described such experiences as on-the-ground challenges in building www.law.umn.edu/mjil/index.html. hosting judges from Kyrgyzstan; the rule of law in post-conflict soci- consulting on a new constitution eties. Law School Professor Fionnuala By Sarah Johnson Phillips (’09), symposium in Kosovo; and conferring on the role Ní Aoláin discussed the importance of editor www.law.umn.edu Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 11 AT THE LAW SCHOOL

Law and Inequality Symposium Examines ART

Top: Professors June Carbone (left) and Dorothy A. of Government at Dartmouth College, Brown (right) converse at Law and Inequality discussed sex selection; Professor symposium. Bottom: Professors José M. Gabilondo Russell Korobkin, University of (left) and Harriet A. Washington (center) listen as California, Los Angeles, School of Law, Lisa Ikemoto (right) speaks on “reproductive tourism” talked on “selling eggs”; and Professor Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law School, considered the emotional and linguistic challenges in markets for reproductive services. The second panel dealt with preimplantation genetics. Professor Kimberly Mutcherson, Rutgers School of Law—Camden, presented an overview of diagnosis and complica- tions. Susan M.Wolf, McKnight Presidential Professor of Law,Medicine & Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, challenged panelists to pri- oritize the interests of ART-conceived children and shared her personal journey with ART. Debora L. Spar provided a riveting written address,“AsYou Like It: Exploring the Limits of Parental Choice in Assisted Reproduction,”that was presented by Professor Goodwin. The afternoon panel attacked the problems ART poses for race, class, and sexuality dynamics. Participating pan- > On April 10, 2009, the Law timely,given the recent birth of elists were Professor Lisa Ikemoto, School and Law & Inequality:A Journal octuplets to California mother Nadya University of California—Davis of Theory and Practice hosted the Suleman and the impact on public School of Law; Professor Dorothy A. symposium “Contested Contours in perception of ART.Increasingly,pan- Brown, Emory Law School; Ethics Assisted Reproduction: Interrogating elists agreed, public attention will force Fellow Harriet Washington, Harvard Law,Race, Class & Sex.”At its conclu- lawmakers to acknowledge the myriad Medical School; and Professor sion, panelist Professor José Gabilondo issues surrounding ART. Gabilondo.Among the questions they of Florida International University Michele Bratcher Goodwin, discussed were whether making ART College of Law commented that he Everett Fraser Professor of Law and less accessible will limit its use to would need two days to himself to joint appointee in the University of mobile, elite consumers, and what dis- think about everything that was dis- Minnesota’s Medical School and parate consequences same-sex couples cussed and how it will affect his work. School of Public Health was host and might experience from future regula- Only a few isolated legal scholars moderator for the conference and gave tions or the arbitrary administration of in the nation comprehensively address introductory remarks. those regulations. the law’s impact on assisted reproduc- A panel discussion followed, inter- Professor June Carbone, University tive technologies (ART).The sympo- rogating the appropriate role (and of Missouri, Kansas City,School of sium brought together 13 of the best, source) of “choice” in the medical Law,tied the day’s discussions, ques- from 12 different institutions, for a day application of ART.Professor Paul tions, and answers together with a of presentations, panels, and dialogue Lombardo, Georgia State University closing commentary. before a crowd of scholars, lawyers, College of Law,assessed use of the students, and medical professionals.The word “eugenics” in the context of By Luke Grundman ('09), symposium editor, topic could not have been more ART.Professor Sonu Bedi, Department Vol. XXVII

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Dean David Wippman and Judge Judge Calabresi speaking on constitutional Guido Calabresi protections Prof. Richard Painter, Prof. Brian Bix, Judge Calabresi and Dean Wippman

William B. Lockhart Lecture

> On Feb. 10, 2009, Judge Guido should share the burden, Calabresi said: degrees and has taught Constitutional Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals “We have to learn that equality is a fun- litigation and torts to innumerable stu- for the Second Circuit presented the damental value of our Constitution but it dents since he joined the faculty of Yale William B. Lockhart lecture entitled must be equality on our backs, in our Law School in 1959. “Equality in the American Constitution?” back yards.” This annual lecture honors William B. People tend to think that equality Calabresi is the Sterling Professor Lockhart, who served as Dean of the entered the Constitution in the 14th Emeritus of Law, a Professorial Lecturer Law School from 1956 until 1972. Amendment, passed after the Civil War in Law, and a former dean of Yale Law Instrumental in enriching the Law School to guarantee citizenship to former School and has been a judge on the curriculum and in attracting highly slaves, Calabresi said. However, the most Second Circuit since 1994. He graduated qualified faculty and students, he also dramatic example of the principle may first in his class from Yale Law School in cultivated a strong relationship with well be the 1st Amendment’s right to 1958, where he served as Note Editor of the Minnesota Bar, which continues to freedom of religion, which grants all citi- the Yale Law Journal, and then clerked provide essential support to the Law zens the right to hold and practice their for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo School. Over the course of his 28 years beliefs, with no need for special protec- Black. In 1959, he completed an M.A. in as a professor at the Law School tions since all religions are considered politics, philosophy, and economics at (1946–1974), Dean Lockhart shared his equal. In contrast, the 14th Amendment Oxford University. He completed a B.S. gifts of teaching excellence and schol- requires states to protect all people in from Yale College in 1953 and a B.A. as a arly leadership with students and faculty. their jurisdiction equally, implying that Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Following his retirement at Minnesota, some groups are not equal and laws Oxford, in 1955. A member of Phi Beta he taught on the faculty of the must be passed to make them equal. Kappa and the Order of the Coif, he has University of California, Hastings College Such laws come at a price, and everyone been awarded numerous honorary of Law, from 1974 to 1994.

Law School Receives Private Screening of Mondale Film

> First-year students and the Law documentary, Jan Selby produced School community were treated to a it, and Chan Poling wrote an orig- screening of the new documentary fea- inal score. It includes family home turing former Vice President Walter videos, recently declassified papers Mondale (’56) on March 25 in the Law from the Vice Presidential years, and School’s lecture hall. Mr. Mondale and his archival footage from Twin Cities Public the Life and Career of Walter F. wife, Joan, were present for the film. Television, the Minnesota Historical Mondale,” continues at the Law School's “FRITZ: The Walter Mondale Story,” Society, and other sources. Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center. narrated by the Mondales’ daughter, The film also includes a few short The film was shown statewide on Eleanor Mondale, premiered at the clips from the Law School’s April 2009 public television stations in December, Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, in celebration of Mr. Mondale’s 80th and DVDs were distributed to libraries October as part of the Moving Pictures birthday. The exhibit prepared for the and schools around the state. It will Film Festival. Independent filmmaker birthday event, “A Voice of Wisdom, become part of the Mondale archives at Melody Gilbert wrote and directed the Compassion, and Hope: A Celebration of the Minnesota Historical Society. www.law.umn.edu Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 13 AT THE LAW SCHOOL

John Dewey Lecture in the Philosophy of Law

Law at Notre Dame. He was the Rhodes Legal philosophy is a “privileged place” Reader in the Laws of the British to work, Finnis said, a place like Commonwealth and the United States lawyering itself, “where all the great at Oxford from 1972-89 and has also questions come to a head and become taught law at the University of California truly practical, a place proximate to Berkeley, Adelaide University, the decisions and actions affecting real University of Malawi, and Boston persons and their lives and fortunes; College. He graduated LL.B. at Adelaide decisions and actions whose rational University in 1961 and was the Rhodes soundness will depend on access, Scholar for South Australia 1962, through culture, insight, or philosophy, completing his Oxford D.Phil. in 1965. to the deepest principles of morality In his lecture, Finnis discussed the and the most strategic truths about equal liberty principle espoused by human beings and their environment.” Eisgruber and Sager and the belief that The John Dewey Lecture in the religion does not merit any special Philosophy of Law is named in honor of John M. Finnis addresses religious expression respect or mention in the Constitution or American philosopher, educator, and and the Constitution Bill of Rights. Finnis, a widely known nat- scholar John Dewey (1859-1952). A ural law theorist, said religion deserves proponent of legal realism, Dewey’s Constitutional mention not because it is philosophy of pragmatism related his > On March 24, 2009, John M. a deep commitment but because it is conception of a moral life to a variety Finnis presented the John Dewey the practical expression of or response of contemporary social, economic, and Lecture in the Philosophy of Law to an important set of philosophically political issues. He spent one year as a entitled “Does Free Exercise of Religion warrantable truths about reality, professor of philosophy at the University Deserve Constitutional Mention?” Finnis including human societies and their of Minnesota. The John Dewey lecture is has taught law at the University of members. Even misguided religions funded by a grant from the John Dewey Oxford since 1966 and has been the tell more truth about the ultimate Foundation and is sponsored by the Law Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy foundation of the Constitution and the School to provide a forum for significant there since 1989; since 1995 he has also conditions for good government than scholarly contributions to the develop- been the Biolchini Family Professor of can atheism or agnosticism, he said. ment of jurisprudence.

Asylum Law Project Wins Student Group Award

> The Law School’s Asylum Law had nominated the group. Project (ALP) was selected to receive a Through ALP,1L students volun- University of Minnesota Tony Diggs teer to work over their winter and Excellence Award for Outstanding spring breaks with nonprofit organiza- Graduate or Professional Student tions, representing immigrants and Group of 2008.The award, given by asylum-seekers on legal issues at U.S.

Student Unions & Activities, recog- points of entry.During 2008-09, Photo: Tricia Schweitzer nizes demonstrated significant success almost 100 students (nearly 40% of Presentation of Tony Diggs Excellence Award to ALP and development in following the 1Ls) volunteered in Minneapolis, student leaders. Left to right: Vice Provost and Dean mission and goals of the group. Miami, LasVegas, Nashville, El Paso, of Undergraduate Education Robert McMaster, Leaders Jordan Shepherd (’11) and Florence,Ariz. Jordan Shepherd (’11), Brianna Mooty (’10), and Vice and Brianna Mooty (’10) accepted a ALP is led by 1Ls and is one of Provost for Student Affairs Jerry Rinehart plaque at the awards ceremony on few organizations that allow 1Ls to April 16, 2009, on behalf of the ALP, participate in actual legal work, usually 70 ALP volunteers contributed its student board, and its volunteers. available only to 2Ls and 3Ls.Through approximately 2,800 hours conducting “We are very grateful for the support these volunteer projects, 1Ls experi- client interviews, carrying out legal that we have received from all of you ence the field of immigration while research, and compiling case briefs for in the Law School,”Shepherd said. also filling a critical need for legal assis- Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Professor David Weissbrodt and tance among people seeking asylum. Center,Texas Rural Legal Aid, and Amber Fox of Student Programs In January in El Paso, for example, other organizations.

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Consortium and Joint Degree Program Celebrate 10 Years

John Sheenhan, Dr. Robert Bullard, and Dr. Deborah Swackhamer present panel discussion Regent Patricia Simmons and Professors at 10th Anniversary Conference Barbara Koenig and Susan M. Wolf at gala dinner

University of Minnesota President Robert H. Bruininks delivers welcome address at gala dinner

> The University of Minnesota’s Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1999 to recruit exceptional Consortium on Law andValues in gave the keynote address,“Conflict of students seeking to combine a law Health, Environment & the Life Interest on Peer Review:What Ought degree with a graduate or professional Sciences and the Joint Degree Program to Be Done?” He called the Consor- degree in biomedicine or the life sci- in Law,Health & the Life Sciences tium a “leading program in the ences, now offers 22 degree combina- celebrated their 10th Anniversary with country on the societal implications tions and is training 34 students. Its 21 a March 5, 2009, gala dinner at the of biomedicine and life sciences” graduates have found positions in Frederick R.Weisman Art Museum and congratulated the Joint Degree leading national law firms and the life and a March 6 conference entitled Program for “producing the next sciences and healthcare industries “What’s Next in Law,Health & the generation of leaders at the interface across the nation and have become Life Sciences? Debating Openness, of law,science, and medicine.” leaders in law and science. Access & Accountability.”The confer- Law School Dean David Wippman The Consortium, founded in 2000 ence explored trends expected in offered the conference welcome the to link top centers and programs at the the next 10 years, such as greater next morning. Speakers included University that address the societal accountability for research participants, Professors Isaac Kohane, M.D., Ph.D. implications of the life sciences, now increased access to research data, and (Harvard Medical School); Ellen has 17 member centers across every new forms of science oversight, and Wright Clayton, M.D., J.D. (Vanderbilt college at the University.It secures included presentations by winners of University); R.Alta Charo, J.D. grants from the National Institutes of a competitive call for papers.Top (University of Wisconsin Law School); Health, National Science Foundation, national speakers addressed emerging Robert Bullard, Ph.D. (Clark Atlanta and private foundations for original issues in genomics, neurosciences, University); Stephen Morse, J.D., Ph.D. research; sponsors events bringing healthcare, biomedicine and the life (University of Pennsylvania); Jonathan leading national thinkers to campus; sciences, environmental research, and Moreno, Ph.D. (University of publishes the multidisciplinary science oversight. Pennsylvania); and Cary Coglianese, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & In his welcome at the dinner, J.D., Ph.D., M.P.P.(University of Technology; and awards intramural University President Robert Bruininks Pennsylvania). Professor Lawrence grants to catalyze work on law, reflected on the Consortium’s decade Gostin, J.D., director of the O’Neill bioethics, policy,science, and medicine. of achievements. Consortium founding Center for National and Global Health In 2003, President Bruininks named chair and Joint Degree Program Law (Georgetown Law/Johns Hopkins the Consortium a Presidential founding director Professor Susan M. University), presented the lunch Interdisciplinary Academic Initiative. Wolf summarized the Consortium’s keynote address,“The Challenges of For more information on the history.Professor Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., Global Health:What the Next Decade Consortium and Joint Degree Program, chair of the Department of Medical Will Bring.” visit www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu Ethics and director of the Center for The Joint Degree Program, or www.jointdegree.umn.edu.

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Horatio Ellsworth Kellar Distinguished Visitor Lecture

no exception regarding sexually oriented Strossen graduated magna cum expression, yet it always has been the laude from Harvard Law School in 1975 “most embattled expression in our and practiced law for nine years in society.” A recent example of that Minneapolis and New York City before “ongoing assault” is the FCC’s becoming a law professor. In 1991 she overzealous crackdown on broadcasters became the first woman president of following the 2004 Super Bowl halftime the ACLU, an office she held until 2008. “wardrobe malfunction.” The possibility She continues her service with the ACLU of incurring huge FCC fines has led to as a member of its National Advisory such extreme self-censorship among Council and co-chair of its Campaign companies, she said, that “it’s amusing for the Future. but really is no laughing matter.” The The Horatio Ellsworth Kellar Child Online Protection Act of 1998, Distinguished Visitors Program was intended to reduce access by minors to established in 1996 by Curtis B. Kellar “harmful” material on the Internet, (’40) in memory of his father, Horatio endangered any online expression with Ellsworth Kellar, a banker in Albert Lea, any sexual content. The broad, vague, Minn., for many years. In keeping with Nadine Strossen describes assaults on free speech subjective definition of what is harmful his father’s many interests, Curtis or offensive and the lack of guidelines Kellar’s desire was to support an inter- may result in enforcement patterns that disciplinary lecture series at the Law > On April 14, 2009, New York Law are “arbitrary at best, discriminatory at School that would connect emerging School Professor Nadine Strossen pre- worst,” she said. Neverthless, her prog- issues in the law with other disciplines, sented the Horatio Ellsworth Kellar nosis for the future was positive. For such as art, drama, and literature. Distinguished Visitor lecture “Current example, the Supreme Court has sup- Mr. Kellar, a former member of the Challenges to Free Speech.” It can be ported the protective principle of con- Board of Directors of the Law Alumni viewed at http://www.law.umn.edu/cle/ tent neutrality in the past and can be Association and the Board of Visitors 08_09lectureseries.html. expected to uphold it again, even in of the Law School, retired as an asso- Strossen noted that the First cases of broadcast regulations and ciate general counsel of Mobil Oil Corp. Amendment free-speech clause made sexual expression. in 1981.

Ways to give >

> The Law School owes its success years. Included among his many com- Goetz’s to the generosity,foresight, and dedica- munity philanthropic efforts and vol- wishes. He tion of its community of students, fac- unteer services for environmental, civil said he was ulty,staff, alumni, and friends. Private rights, and other organizations is a pas- inspired by giving provides the resources needed sion for making educational opportu- his class year, to ensure the world-class legal educa- nities at the Law School available for the U.S. Bicentennial year of 1976, and tion and legal research for which the all who seek them. In the past, he has the freedom it commemorates. Law School is known.We highlight a funded several annual fund scholarships Moreover, he was moved by the desire recent major gift commitment below at the Law School. to provide others with the educational and, as always, are grateful for each and Mr. Goetz endowed the John opportunities he had. He hopes that every gift. Goetz Bicentennial Freedom this scholarship will inspire other Scholarship fund to help provide alumni to consider how they can give John Goetz Bicentennial deserving students with the financial back to the Law School in support Freedom Scholarship freedom to attend the Law School.The of the students who follow in their John C. Goetz (’76) has been a strong scholarship provides a plus factor for footsteps without the state financial supporter of the Law School over the students of color, in keeping with Mr. support earlier graduates received.

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> STUDY IN BEIJING THIS SUMMER JUNE 20–JULY 25, 2009: FIVE-WEEK STUDY PROGRAM

> Increasingly, China is becoming and Chinese Criminal Procedures and Chinese natives will also participate in a force in the global economy,and the Judicial System. discussions and activities surrounding demand for experts familiar with its In addition, interested students will Chinese culture. systems to provide advisory services have the option of taking Mandarin On weekends, students may take to businesses and policy makers is Chinese courses taught by professors advantage of optional visits to impor- increasing as well.The Law School from the University of Minnesota’s tant historical sites, including the recognizes these needs and is offering Department of Asian Languages & Great Wall, Forbidden City,Tiananmen students an opportunity to learn about Literature—an opportunity distinct Square, and Summer Palace.The and experience China through a to this program. program also offers an optional trip summer study-abroad program. The Law School administers the to Shanghai (July 9-12), China’s com- Together with Renmin University program, its academic content, and mercial center.The Shanghai trip will (People’s University) of China School credit determinations. Renmin pro- include meetings with lawyers and of Law in Beijing, the Law School is vides cultural expertise and assistance business people as well as visits to offering a five-week, six-credit summer with instruction and planning of cultural sights in the area. program (June 20-July 25, 2009) taught educational and cultural trips. by world-class faculty from both insti- The setting tutions.The program focuses on com- Field trips and other activities Classes will be held in the Renmin parative law,allowing law students to Field trips to legal institutions in University law school, on the Renmin study the Chinese economic, legal, Beijing are part of the classwork with University campus, which is located and political systems. particular courses, but all students in in the Haidian District of Beijing, the program are welcome to partici- near other major universities and Classwork and faculty pate. Planned visits include the educational centers. Housing is at the Professor Brett McDonnell, associate Supreme People’s Court, National Huixian Hotel on campus, just yards dean of the Law School, will be the People’s Congress, and Beijing from the law school building. Students on-site Program Director and will Municipal Institute of City Planning will have access to Renmin’s law teach Comparative Business Entities. and Design. library and its 500,000 volumes, Professor Ann Burkhart, an expert in In addition, the program will host including a collection of American and real estate law,will teach Comparative several professional development and other treatises and journals.The library Land Use and Control. Members of cultural evenings. Practicing lawyers offers access to Lexis and WestLaw the Renmin faculty will teach the from international and local law firms through a high-speed Internet system. mandatory Introduction to Chinese and government agencies will share For more information, go to Law course and Chinese Civil Law, insights gained from their experiences www.law.umn.edu or contact Paul Chinese Intellectual Property Rights, in the legal profession in China. Zhang at [email protected].

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BY FRANK JOSSI

fter receiving his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2007, Peihuan KaoAbegan looking for a full-time job.With his Law School credentials, a distinguished work history,LL.M. degrees from Columbia Law School and Soochow Law School in Taipei, and an M.S. in medical technology from National Taiwan University,he was unlikely to struggle very long to land a partner-track position at a high-dollar law firm.

But ever since childhood, Kao had wanted to somehow As law and business progressively intermingle in today’s contribute to ameliorating Taiwan’s isolation in the inter- global marketplace, educating students to practice multinational community,to assist in removing its status as an nationally has become a focus of Dean Wippman, who has outlier that would eventually become part of mainland begun changing the curriculum to feature more interna- China.As luck would have it, he heard about an opening tional courses, even for first-year students.“We have a as a legal adviser to the Permanent Mission of Taiwan at panoply of courses and programs in place to train U.S. stu- the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He got the job. dents in international law and to welcome and teach inter- “The Law School provided a fascinating spectrum of national attorneys,”says Wippman.“Being able to function courses and opportunities in nearly all areas of interna- in a global legal community is an increasingly important tional law,”says Kao.“It laid a solid basis of the legal facet of a legal education.” knowledge and skills that are required to serve as a legal Of course, it’s a two-way street. Foreign students offer adviser to Taiwan's Permanent Mission to the WTO.” the Law School a level of diversity and connection to a larger world that benefit all students, faculty,and staff. In an The big world of law effort to attract more students from abroad, the school The Law school has been preparing American and foreign- established a one-year LL.M. (master of law) program in born students to work in international law and business for 1994 that has conferred degrees on 365 graduates from 62 decades. Several full-time faculty members, including the countries over the last 14 years, says Muria J. Kruger, Law School’s dean, David Wippman, teach international director of international and graduate programs.A handful law.In addition, between 5 and 10 foreign educators typi- of those students will stay on at the Law School and, after cally teach J.D. classes each year as visiting scholars and improving their English and taking the LSATs, earn a J.D.

Photo Illustration: Stephen Webster affiliated and adjunct faculty. degree, which allows them greater flexibility and the ability

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Peihuan Kao Woodrow Byun Yanhang Helen Hu Frank DeLeon Yu (Rose) Li Fernando Orrantia Dennis L.T. Nguyen Dworak to take U.S. state bar exams, she says. LL.M. students bring system in the U.S.”At the Law School, he gained an not only an international perspective but a professional understanding of the “common law”American system and one, too, since to even gain admittance to the program, now is better able to explain to clients how Germany’s applicants must have graduated from law school in their “codified” law differs. German attorneys can largely rely home countries. on statutes, Narten says, while American attorneys have to South Korea native and Twin Cities attorney “check and check and check” case law to see how the Woodrow Byun (’93) initially advocated creating an courts view a legal situation. LL.M. program when he was a J.D. student and has hosted ”I learned the language, the terminology,the way of dinners and events for Asian students over the years. legal thinking in America,”says Narten, who attended high “Having foreign students really diversifies the Law School,” school in the United States for one year.“Other programs Byun says.“It’s fine to have American-born students with a I looked at were more about getting foreigners in and Chinese or Korean origin who bring diversity,but that’s having them pay huge fees and not really offering them not the same as having someone in the LL.M. program something. Here we were allowed to participate in nearly who works as an attorney for Samsung and who has years all classes.”In addition, he says, an LL.M., which he com- of working experience.Those students give the school a pleted in 2001, was practically a prerequisite for working truly global perspective.” internationally for a large law firm or corporation. Yu (Rose) Li, another LL.M. graduate (’06), received a A diversity of people and careers $10,000 scholarship to attend the Law School.When she What happens to students once they graduate with a J.D. reflects on her year at Minnesota she recognizes the or an LL.M.? Some return to their home countries and importance of acquiring practical tools, such as how to practice law in firms with global practices. Others find research legal opinions and how to solve problems within positions in legal departments of multinational corpora- the judiciary system. Now working for Best Buy in China, tions.A handful find their calling in business, too, since a she says she feels much more knowledgeable when her law degree prepares graduates for positions in finance and American colleagues ask,“Rose, this is a new law.How in other sectors. does it impact our work in China?” Yanhang Helen Hu, for example, who completed her The practice of devoting extensive time to legal J.D. in 2005, is an associate at Fulbright & Jaworski in research left an indelible and long-lasting impression on Minneapolis. Before coming to Minnesota, she was an many foreign-born graduates, who say that learning those attorney for four years in the largest private practice in skills has made them better attorneys. Fernando Orrantia Shanghai.“I came because I heard it was a good law Dworak (’95), a partner in a Mexico City law firm, says school” and “affordable,”she says.“I didn’t care about the learning the habits of American law was “a very important weather. I knew it was cold.” part of my legal education. I was exposed to much more Guatemala native Frank DeLeon, a transfer and detailed legal research, which is not customary in Mexico. pricing consultant with Ernst &Young in Minneapolis, My legal research has that detail and insight that would not who completed his J.D. in 2007, came to the Law School be found in Mexican colleagues who have not been after working for an international program in Washington, exposed to the American legal education system.” D.C.The Law School gave him a framework for “the application of analytical skills,”he says.“People tend to Clear writing welcome worldwide forget that law school prepares you for different jobs that One of the Law School’s particular strengths has been its require you to use the application of skills you learned in devotion to strong legal writing, a point many foreign- law school rather than the knowledge you gained from born graduates who work internationally applaud and say that experience.” they found lacking in their legal educations back home.“In An American legal education has various advantages, Mexican law schools, there’s not much on writing,”says alumni say. Christoph Narten, an attorney in the Dworak.“I think basically a Mexican lawyer has to learn Wiesbaden, Germany,office of a global automotive sup- to write after finishing law school.That was something I plier, came to the Law School intending to improve his really liked.There was a very strong focus on legal writing English legal vernacular and “get an insight on the legal in my first two years of the J.D. program.”

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An education in law and legal writing expertise come in useful even for graduates who did not stay in law. Californian Dennis L.T. Nguyen received his J.D. in 1998 and now co-chairs New Asia Partners in Shanghai. He has invested in many Chinese start-up companies that have had successful public offerings, among them one firm that returned 1,000%.“In private equity and banking, every single day we encounter legal issues,”he says, com- menting that he spends about one-third of his time working on contracts—investment agreements, agreements with law firms, agreements with accounting firms, and the like.“We write tremendously in our jobs,”Nguyen says, “to investors, to outside professionals, or to companies we’ve invested in. Even within our company,New Asia Partners, we’re interacting through writing.” The Law School offers experience with writing from the other side of the desk, too: as a staff member on a student-edited scholarly journal. Kao and DeLeon served as outside articles editor of Law and Inequality:A Journal of INTERNATIONAL Theory and Practice.The editing opportunity “drastically improved my writing skills,”says Kao, while for DeLeon PROGRAMS the position offered a chance to hear and participate in passionate debates among colleagues to determine which The Law School sponsors a number of articles would be published. programs with a global scope for both native and foreign-born students. Intangible benefits Those interested in promoting and protecting human The Law School gives attorneys who work globally mul- rights, for example, can take advantage of the Law tiple opportunities while at the University to broaden their School’s concentration in human rights program and skills, as well as their personal and professional networks. immerse themselves in courses University-wide to pre- DeLeon, for example, served as head of the Latino student pare for work in the field. The Human Rights Center, organization, where he honed his leadership skills. Kao located in the Law School, just celebrated its 30th served as vice-president of the International Law Student anniversary and has an international reputation for Association and volunteered with Amnesty International offering training, educational materials, and opportunities on a case involving religious freedom in China. in the human rights community. Graduates say the Law School also offers skills, knowl- The Law School also offers opportunities to learn at edge, and relationships outside the classroom that have campuses outside U.S. borders. Semester-abroad pro- proved important in their education and careers. Hu recalls grams are available in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the helpful seminars on finding jobs and interviewing with Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, and Uruguay. Six-week firms.“The Law School showed me how to market myself summer programs in Beijing, China, and student-initiated and to increase my confidence and show me the way,”she study abroad programs also are available. says.Additionally,friendships she developed have collec- Why go abroad? “If a student plans to practice in tively formed a great personal network of colleagues in international or comparative law of some type, a study- Taiwan, Europe, and Japan.“Before, when I lived in abroad experience is almost an imperative,” says Director Shanghai, I didn’t know anyone who wasn’t Chinese,”Hu of International and Graduate Programs Muria Kruger. says.“Since I went to the United States, I’ve gotten friends “Also, students wishing to practice in areas such as busi- who live in all corners of the world.The exchange of ness law and intellectual property law particularly benefit information with them is a real benefit.” from studying abroad, as these areas of law are increas- Then there’s a basic sense of belonging, and care, that ingly becoming international in scope.” And some stu- the faculty,staff, and students provide one another, espe- dents, she suggests, study abroad to reflect and learn cially in challenging times. In his second year of Law about themselves in a setting, language, and classroom School, Kao experienced a life-shifting event: His wife had experience that are all new. a child.“I managed the whole year, I think, smoothly,”he Time abroad gives students a chance to learn how says.“The faculty was so supportive. My friends and other American law differs from law in the country they are students there were so supportive, too. I didn’t feel the visiting, notes Kruger. Students can begin to see where competitiveness. I only got help, understanding, and assis- the American system of justice delivers well and where tance.This is an important factor of why I love my alma it could be improved. “These are insights that turn an mater so much.” average lawyer into a superb one,” she says. —F.J. By Frank Jossi, a freelance writer based in St. Paul

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Study group in 1930 assembles notes with fountain pens and typewriters

New law building, Fraser Hall, awaiting final touches in 1928 Faculty members taking a break in 1948: Henry Rottschaeffer (on faculty for 45 years, until 1957); William E. Mussman; and Stanley V. Kinyon (on faculty for 40 years, until 1974)

SECOND IN A TWO-PART SERIES Law School Marks 120 Years Pursing excellence into the 21st century

In the fall 2008 issue of Perspectives, we began a brief optimistically estimated that the Law School’s needs would photo tour of the Law School since its birth in 1888 that is be satisfied for 15 years. continued here. A more inclusive historical timeline of deans, But only six years later, planners had to look to the changes, and accomplishments is available on our Web site West Bank campus for space to build.The Law School’s (www.law.umn.edu) under About the Law School. third residence was completed in 1978. In 2001, a second Growth, both academic and physical, has characterized phase of construction was finished and the building was the Law School over its 120-year history.Its first home, dedicated Walter F.Mondale Hall.Today,Mondale Hall Pattee Hall, required renovation to double its capacity only houses 18 clinics, 10 research institutes, 7 journals, and a six years after it was built in 1889. Sixteen years later, Dean world-class library that acquired its millionth volume in Everett Fraser was talking about crowding and shelving 2004. Under the leadership of its 10th dean, David inadequacies, but not until 1928 was the second Law Wippman, the Law School is undergoing a curriculum School building, Fraser Hall, completed. transformation to focus on the legal and social challenges Fraser Hall would be the Law School’s home for the of the 21st century.More change is in store.And, true to next 50 years, despite expansion of departments and pro- its history,the Law School is straining the seams of its grams.The library,for example, contained 185,000 volumes current building. by 1952 but was squeezed into an area designed to hold Professor Robert A. Stein (’61) and Rare Books & Special Collections 100,000.When additions to the west and south sides of Curator Katherine Hedin shared and helped identify material from Fraser Hall opened in 1956, Dean William B. Lockhart the Law School archives.

22 Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 www.law.umn.edu Law School faculty in 1980. Front row: Allison Dunham, Robert C. McClure, Carl A. Auerbach, then-Dean Robert A. Stein, Thomas L. Waterbury, John J. Cound, and Ferdinand P. Schoettle Jr. Middle row: Leo J. Raskind, Susan A. Short, Kathryn J. Sedo, David S. Weissbrodt, Laura J. Cooper, Alan D. Freeman, M. Kathleen Price, Barry C. Feld, Arlette M. Soderberg, Vera L. Carlsson, Joseph Levstik, Alex M. Johnson Jr., and Charles W. Wolfram. Back row: Robert F. Grabb, Jane M. Kammerman, Thomas L. Hamlin, Jon M. Hopeman, Richard S. Frase, Steven S. Nemerson, Fred L. Morrison, Donald G. Marshall, Roger C. Park, Bart Koeppen, Stephen S. Dunham, and Robert J. Levy

Dean Carl Auerbach, Peter Dorsey, and Julius E. Davis (‘36) watch progress of new West Bank Law School building, Law School’s third dean Everett Fraser (1920-48), Walter F. Mondale Hall, in 1977, one year from completion with son Donald M. Fraser (’48), in front of Fraser Hall in 1962

Students taking exams in Fraser Hall classroom, 1969

Dean Robert A. Stein (’61) gives a toast on the occasion of the Law School’s Centennial Celebration, October 1988

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Law School Humphrey Institute Carlson School

Tomorrow’s Leaders Find Common Grounds

One cold January night in 2004, Lars Leafblad was walking through the 50-foot underground West Bank tunnel when he realized something that disturbed him. Three prominent University of Minnesota graduate schools—the Law School, the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, and the Carlson School of Management—were situated within a stone’s throw of each other, yet interaction among their students was minimal. When he reached his Carlson strategic management class, he recalls, “I looked around at the room full of talented fellow students and thought, ‘What a bummer.’”

The seed for Common Grounds, an ambitious, evolving, find those sorts of relationships just within the walls of cross-disciplinary group designed to “engage and develop your own school,”he says.“If you had at least some emerging leaders” from all three schools, had been planted. common ground from your time as a student, you’d have a At the time, Leafblad had connections to both the new social capital currency that wasn’t there before.” Humphrey Institute, where he was employed as associate The networking benefit was obvious. But it didn’t take development officer, and Carlson, where he’d just enrolled long for the group to realize that while sharing coffee and as a part-time M.B.A. student. Reasoning that the issues of discussing outside speakers boosted social interaction, the day emanate from the intersection of law,business, and pooling their talents for joint projects would reap two public policy,he invoked the wisdom of friend and mentor additional rewards: delivering value to clients and making a Nate Garvis, vice president of government affairs and difference in the community. senior public affairs officer at Target; the support of Humphrey Institute Dean Brian Atwood; and the coopera- Helping hands cross disciplines tion of representative student leaders to come up with a “You get to know each other better if you work together,” way to enhance collaboration among the three schools. By says Elizabeth Neils, current chair of Common Grounds’ the end of spring semester, all had blessed the Common steering committee.This is her third and final year with Grounds concept, and by fall semester, recruiting had begun. the group; she completes her M.P.P.from the Humphrey Institute and M.B.A. from Carlson in May.“For me per- Networking and more sonally,this is a place where alumni and students from all Since its inception, Common Grounds has grown and three schools can come together and learn to rely on each prospered far beyond the networking expectations of those other. I think having relationships outside my own law or who launched its first program in January 2005. Every business community will pay big dividends in my profes- year, each school selects up to 10 students, who commit sional life,”she says.“I don’t know what the future will not only to a monthly breakfast with a guest speaker—at bring, but it’s fun to think about what an organization the unlikely hour of 7:30 a.m. on Mondays—but also to with this amount of talent could do.” participation in a joint project for a selected client. Neils has been instrumental in developing the client- Students who serve on the steering committee also meet selection process, whereby a growing number of nonprofit twice a month, and sometimes more often, to ensure cur- organizations apply for intellectual aid from Common rent progress and noodle future visions. Once Common Grounds students by submitting a request for proposal. In Grounds members graduate, they flock back to alumni fall 2008, the group tackled foreclosure issues for the events sponsored by law firms such as Maslon and Dorsey Minnesota Home Ownership Center, focusing on the & Whitney. impact of short sales on sellers. When Leafblad, now a vice-president at executive This spring, after whittling 10 applicants down to five placement firm KeyStone Search, looks back, the initial and then two, the group chose Children’s HeartLink, a goals seem relatively modest.“I viewed Common Grounds nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the lives of chil- as a catalyst to a broader conversation with the U. of M. dren with heart disease worldwide. For this client, and beyond. It was an opportunity to build relationships as Common Grounds will research and deliver specific infor- early as possible in one’s career with people from different mation about how to grow and sustain pediatric cardiology sectors and different vantage points.You’re not going to programs in China.

24 Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 www.law.umn.edu Meeting of Common Grounds Steering Committee (clockwise from upper left): Ben Marcy (Carlson ’08), Graham Arntzen (Humphrey-Carlson), Elizabeth Neils (Humphrey-Carlson ’09), Adam Faitek (Humphrey), Heather R. Abraham (Law School ’11), Steve Kapfer (Law School ’11), Chris Hamsher (Law School ’11)

“We’ve been exceptionally impressed with this group Investing in civic culture of students and the concept behind them. It’s more than an Corporate sponsor and mentor Nate Garvis points out academic exercise; they’re genuinely interested in making a that Common Grounds grew out of conversations that difference,”says HeartLink Director of Medical Diplomacy are still taking place about how society’s issues need to be Mary Pawlenty,adding that she thinks Common Grounds tackled by people who not only have literacy from a is an idea bordering on genius.“We’ll have our delivery variety of different institutional settings but also have model analyzed in a cross-disciplinary way,and their good personal bonds.“Relationships are better served when thinking will help us get to the next level.” people meet as friends and neighbors first, rather than According to Heather Abraham, a 1L serving on the as professionals,”he says. steering committee, HeartLink was chosen for its strong His goal, in addition to providing the much-needed mission and well-established identity,the passion and coffee at those early-morning meetings, is to be a seed resources of its staff, and its clear vision of how best to tap investor in tomorrow’s civic culture. He hopes that organi- the students’ strategic thinking skills. zations such as Common Grounds will help create truthful It’s not surprising that the two organizations seem to relationships that can survive the conflict that too often make such a good fit. HeartLink’s mission of waging peace politicizes the challenges facing communities. through healthcare is also based on building relationships. “You can have the most beautiful tube of oil paint, As Pawlenty explains,“When you touch people’s lives in but if you lay it on a bad canvas, you’re not going to make a personal and tangible way,you form relationships that good art,”he says.“I spend a lot of time focusing on that last a lifetime.” canvas.” Abraham said she is excited not only about the China Students say they find the message he delivers every fall project but also by the “mini-Common Grounds” scenario to kick off the year both inspiring and relevant.“I love the that the backgrounds of the HeartLink leaders represent. opportunity to frame my vision of civic life and explain President Elizabeth Perlich Bickel has a U. of M. School of what public policy is all about,”Garvis admits, although he Business degree,Vice President and Director of downplays his overall role in the group’s ongoing opera- International Programs Estelle Brouwer has an M.P.P., and tions.“On occasion I’ve been asked to help line up other former judge Pawlenty is a Law School graduate (’86). people to come in and speak, but for the most part, the Despite being a Common Grounds rookie,Abraham group has done a phenomenal job of being self-directed.” already embodies the enthusiastic optimism that seems to That self-direction includes the focus on serving out- pervade members, clients, and alumni.A former campaign side clients, an activity that neither Garvis nor Leafblad worker and ad hoc historian for Senator Amy Klobuchar, considered when they conceived Common Grounds.“To she spotted the possibilities almost immediately after be honest, I didn’t have a lot of expectations,”Garvis says, starting Law School. “but I did trust that when you take smart people who have “We were presented with 100 different organizations good intentions and rub them together, good things will that we could join—we were inundated with information happen. I can’t say I’m terribly surprised that this group and posters. But I thought that bringing people together has turned into something with this kind of impact and from three different perspectives sounded really interesting, focused purpose.” so I contacted Common Grounds right away,”she says. Selection was not automatic. Only about half of those who Beyond expectations apply are accepted, based on essays they write about the Leafblad says he is delighted with the organization’s issues they want to pursue, how they see members working accomplishments.“When all of us started together, we all together to solve complex problems, and what strengths had the hope that if we invested our energy in these rela- they bring to the group. tionships, it would be worth it,”he says.“Now,when I Abraham was accepted but didn’t stop her cross- hear about the work that the group is doing with actual training there. She also applied to and was accepted by the clients, I think it’s incredibly rewarding to see that those Humphrey Institute and is now earning her M.P.P.along who are following in our footsteps are leaving even bigger with her J.D.“I love going over there and sitting in the imprints. I’m so grateful that the deans and Nate said ‘Let’s classroom,”she says of her time at the Humphrey Institute. do this thing.’Now it’s just fun to watch.” “Speaking with the students there has a different meaning than just knowing the school exists.” By Cathy Madison, a freelance writer/editor based in the Twin Cities www.law.umn.edu Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 25 > Faculty Pers

Professors Michele Goodwin and Gregory Shaffer

Professors Daniel Gifford, Brad Karkkainen, Thomas Retired Dist. Court Judge Lawrence Collins (’68) and MN Court Gallanis, and Thomas Cotter at reception after Cotter’s of Appeals Judge Gordon W. Shumaker with Prof. Fred Morrison, Briggs and Morgan chair appointment lecture Prof. Brett McDonnell, Prof. Brad Clary (’75), and Chief Judge Edward Toussaint Jr.

Faculty Awards, Grants, and News

Labor Lawyer.The Innovation:The Proper Balance of Professor Stephen journal, with a cir- Competition and Patent Law and F.Befort (’74), was culation of 25,000, Policy.”He also was quoted in a selected the 2008 publishes practice- March 10, 2009, hearing before the recipient of the oriented scholarship Committee on Senate Judiciary’s Minnesota Justice in labor and Subcommittee on Antitrust, Foundation employment law. Competition Policy and Consumer Outstanding Service Award in the Law The professors will edit the journal Rights by Chair and CEO of Micron Professor category,an honor that goes collaboratively with an editorial board Technology Steven R.Appleton, who to faculty members who are public of six 3Ls and a staff of eight 2Ls. proposed overhaul of U.S. patent law. interest advocates both inside and outside the classroom. Recipients must demonstrate advocacy through such activities as building public interest law Professor Thomas Associate into their coursework or creating Cotter spoke on Clinical Professor extracurricular pro bono opportunities remedies for patent Prentiss Cox for students. infringement in testified before public hearings on the U.S. Senate Professor Laura J. Cooper and Dec. 5, 2008, and Committee on Professor Stephen F.Befort (’74) Feb. 10, 2009, in Washington, D.C., Commerce, Science and Transportation (above) have been selected, following in the Federal Trade Commission’s on Feb. 26, 2009, at a hearing on a national competition, by the series “The Evolving Intellectual consumer protection and the credit American Bar Association, Labor and Property Marketplace.”The series crisis.A former assistant attorney gen- Employment Law Section, as the was organized to examine changes eral and manager of the Consumer new co-editors of its journal, The since its 2003 report,“To Promote Enforcement Division in the

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Prof. Robert Stein (’61), Dean David Wippman, Prof. Claire Hill, and Prof. Brian Bix after Bix’s Thomas Professorship for Interdisciplinary Study Prof. Myron Orfield, Judge Myron Bright (‘47) and Dean of Law and Language lecture Wippman at the Judge Bright Scholarship reception Professors Richard Frase, Dale Carpenter, Jill Hasday, and Alan Erbsen wait for Prof. Brian Bix’s lecture to begin

Minnesota Attorney General's Office, retirees, sponsored by the Graduate Cox has drafted and testified for School and the University of numerous consumer-protection laws Minnesota Retirees Association, for FACULTY R&D HAS MOVED related to mortgage lending, foreclo- her project,“Spiritual Wills and Worthy The R&D section, which contains faculty sure fraud, and other matters. Women.” members’ most recent research, writing, and presentations, has been moved to the Law School’s Web site to enable up-to-date information and access for a larger audience. Professor Barry Professor Thomas To see a faculty member’s latest work, C. Feld (‘69) was P.Gallanis was go to www.law.umn.edu/faculty/directory.html, cited by three state appointed Associate click on the person’s name, then click on courts in recent Reporter for the “Research and Development” at the bottom months for his Restatement of the page. research on juvenile (Third) of Trusts by justice administration: in re Andrew,-- the American Law Institute, where he N.E.2d--, 2008 WL 4367288 also serves on consultative groups for (Ohio,2008); in re Richard A., 946 the Restatement (Third) of Property: A.2d 204 (R.I.,2008); and in re H.V., Wills and Other Donative Transfers 252 S.W.3d 319 (Tex.,2008). and the Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. Distinguished Visiting Professor Professor Mary Ralph F.Hall co- Louise Fellows chaired the Food received one of the Professor Oren and Drug Law first awards under Gross was elected a Institute’s 2nd Annual the new experi- member of the Conference on Nanotechnology Law, mental program of American Law Regulation and Policy in Washington, professional development grants for Institute. D.C., on Feb. 18 and 19, 2009.

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Professor Stephen of 1968.The Commission’s report, affiliated associate Meili coordinated “Executive Summary of the Future professor in the the May symposium of Fair Housing,”indicates that unfair University of “Financial Quick- housing practices continue nationwide Minnesota’s sand: Understanding and might be contributing to the Department of Payday Lending foreclosure crisis. Political Science. in Minnesota,” Orfield oversaw a February 2009 He was co-sponsored by report,“Communities in Crisis,” appointed to the the Consumer Protection Clinic and detailing the racial disparities in Executive Committee of the practice Lutheran Social Service (LLS) Financial subprime lending and foreclosure group on Federalism and Separation of Counseling. Minn.Attorney General rates in the Twin Cities. It issues rec- Powers of the Federalist Society for Lori Swanson, Dan Williams of LSS ommendations on ensuring equal Law and Public Policy Studies, and also Financial,Angie Miller of Community access to credit through enforcement was elected to the Executive Action Duluth, and Lisa Hesslegrave of civil rights laws, expansion of the Committee of the Association of of Superior Choice Credit Union Community Reinvestment Act, and American Law Schools’ Section on spoke on dangers of “fringe banking,” establishment of a Regional Fair Federal Courts. particularly Internet lending. Housing Center. In the national public television documentary “The New Metropolis,” Orfield provided expert commentary Professor David Professor on the decline of urban and inner-ring W.Weissbrodt and Fionnuala D. suburban communities in the Midwest the Human Rights Ní Aoláin was and Northeast and the ongoing work Center have received appointed an expert to reinvent aging communities. a $150,000 grant on the U.N. from the MacArthur Counter-Terrorism Foundation to support the Center’s Implementation Task Force’sWorking Russian Human Rights Library. Group, Protecting Human Rights Clinical Professor While Countering Terrorism.The Kathryn J. Sedo Working Group’s objective is to sup- will become chair port member states’ effort to ensure of the ABA’s Professor Susan protection of human rights in the Committee on Low M.Wolf was context of counterterrorism. Income Taxpayers elected a 2008 on July 1, 2009.The Committee Fellow of the addresses both broad and day-to-day American matters that affect low-income tax- Association for the Professor Myron payers. Sedo will manage the Advancement of Science for her con- Orfield was pro- Committee and its programs, projects, tributions to the fields of law and sci- moted to full pro- and CLE activities. ence, law and medicine, bioethics and, fessor for his excep- particularly,genomics research and tional scholarship, end-of-life care. In addition, she teaching, and received a one-year grant from the service, according to Dean David Professor Robert John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Wippman. A. Stein (’61) has Foundation’s Law and Neuroscience In November, the Institute on been named chair Project, formed to study and formulate Race & Poverty,under Orfield’s execu- of the International recommendations on how courts tive directorship, received a one-year Bar Association’s should deal with such matters as $100,000 general project grant from (IBA) Public and assessing guilt and innocence in light the Open Society Institute and Soros Professional Interest Division for a of recent breakthroughs in neuro- Foundation Network. term running through 2010. He was science.The grant supports her study Orfield has been a member of vice-chair of the Division in 2007-08 “How Should Neuroscience Change the National Commission on Fair and served as the IBA’s assistant treas- Law? Lessons from the Impact of Housing and Equal Opportunity, urer (2004-06) and deputy secretary- Genetics and Emerging Convergence co-chaired by Henry Cisneros and general, North America (1994-2004). of Genomics and Neuroscience,” Jack Kemp, investigating the state of which is examining the use of neuro- fair housing on the 40th anniversary of Professor David R. Stras has scientific and behavioral genetics evi- TitleVII of the Civil Rights Act received a joint appointment as an dence in the criminal courtroom.

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Melvin C. Steen and Corporate Donors Professorship in Law Appointment Lecture

> On Nov. 11, 2008, Professor Part of today’s “new” legal realism schol- Gregory Shaffer commemorated his arship is empirical analysis and self- appointment as the Melvin C. Steen and reflection to examine the framework— Corporate Donors Professor of Law with context, assumptions, and biases—that the lecture “A Call for a New Legal shape what we see. Another part is Realism in International Law.” The signifi- translating these findings into practical cance of international law, he said, “is tools. Today’s scholars work “to uncover increasingly being recognized, not only issues to which otherwise we are igno- Gregory Shaffer presenting lecture on new legal realism within the legal academy but across the rant, to which otherwise we are blind,” social science disciplines of economics, Professor Shaffer explained. “That is the anthropology, sociology, and political art in new legal realism. Those engaged College in 1980 and his J.D. from science,” and the best way to understand in work involving race and gender have Stanford Law School in 1988. the world in which law operates is been at the forefront in exposing the The Melvin C. Steen and Corporate through legal realism. questions that were never asked.” Donors Professorship supports extraor- Professor Shaffer based his lecture Professor Shaffer joined the Law dinary teaching and scholarly achieve- on themes expressed by Anton Chekhov, School in 2008 from Loyola University, ment at the Law School. The professor- “First say what is, and only then will I where he was the first Wing-Tat Lee ship honors Melvin C. Steen (’29) and listen to what we can and should do,” Chair of International Law. Previously he the generous donors who make its and by James Baldwin, “The purpose of was a professor of law at the University establishment possible: The Sherman art is to lay bare the questions which of Wisconsin as well as director of the Fairchild Foundation, Cargill Foundation, have been hidden by the answers.” European Union Center of Excellence 3M Company Foundation and its Popular in the 1920s and 1930s, legal and co-director of the Center on World employees, Northwestern National Life realism considers the social context of Affairs and the Global Economy. He Insurance, and West Publishing law and how it operates in the world. received his B.A. from Dartmouth Company and its employees.

FACULTY February 12 Assistant Professor Brian T. 5 Professor Kathryn A. Sikkink Fitzpatrick WORKS IN University of Minnesota Department of Vanderbilt University Law School Political Science Class Action Settlements and Their PROGRESS Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference? Fee Awards 12 Professor William McGeveran 26 Professor Richard Brooks Winter/Spring University of Minnesota Law School Yale Law School A Free Speech Amendment for the Groups and Individuals 2009 > Lanham Act Work in progress at the Law School and other 19 Professor Gregory S. Alexander April institutions is presented every Thursday over Cornell University Law School 4 Professor David L. Faigman the noonhour. The schedule is available at The Social Obligation Norm in American University of California Hastings www.law.umn.edu/faculty/worksinprogress.html. Property Law College of Law 26 Associate Professor Susanna L. Frames of Reference: Can Constitutionality January Blumenthal Really Be Measured One Case at a Time? 22 Professor Catherine Sharkey University of Minnesota Law School 10 Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui New York University School of Law The Apprehension of Fraud in 19th Century University of Virginia School of Law Agency Accountability: Federal American Law Tradition as a Suspect Justification: Preemption’s Future The Case of Different-Sex Marriage 29 Professor Leo Katz March 16 Professor Susan Haack University of Pennsylvania Law School 5 Professor Patrick Keenan University of Miami School of Law Why the Law is so Perverse University of Illinois College of Law Proving Causation: The Holism of Warrant Conflict Commerce and the Atomism of Daubert www.law.umn.edu Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 29 FACULTY PERSPECTIVE

Everett Fraser Chair in Law Appointment Lecture

nology and bioethics, she also holds Wicklander Chair in Ethics, directed the appointments at the University’s schools Health Law Institute, and founded the of medicine and public health. Center for Study of Race and Bioethics. Law in the United States confronts She was a visiting scholar at the three major demands for the future, she University of California Law School’s said: reconciliation with the past, respon- Center for Law & Society and a Gilder- siveness to gaps that allow social injus- Lehrman postdoctoral fellow at Yale. In tices, and responsibility to anticipate the 2007-08, she was a visiting professor at needs to come. The law can be used as the University of Chicago Law School. “a veil protecting those who have the The Everett Fraser Chair in Law was least power” but also as “a sword to established through the generosity of keep people apart,” she said. Today’s James H. Binger (’41), a former CEO of students face the challenge of moving Honeywell Inc., Broadway theater owner, beyond casebook and classroom educa- and widely recognized philanthropist. Michele Goodwin lecturing on law in the 21st century tion to learn how real-world law works The Chair honors Everett Fraser, the and affects the broader society. Students third dean of the Law School (1920-48), need to become globally engaged, “to who guided the Law School to academic > On Nov. 25, 2008, Michele B. test the depths of our reasoning and to excellence and national leadership. Many Goodwin commemorated her appoint- respond with not only more questions of the innovative programs established ment to the Everett Fraser Chair in but some answers as well,” she said. under Fraser’s long service fostered Law with the lecture, “Law in the 21st Formerly, Professor Goodwin taught curricular change in legal education Century.” A leading scholar in biotech- law at DePaul College of Law, held the nationwide.

Law Alumni Distinguished Professor of Law Appointment Lecture

Corporations should scrutinize their increase corporate offerings, such as the role as global actors, Matheson said, Multi-Profession Business Law Clinic and because today, “there is no separation of corporate externship. Wall Street from Main Street.” He offered Matheson received his J.D. from 10 ways publicly held corporations can Northwestern University and joined the help themselves: Redefine the mission of Law School in 1982. He is a five-time the Board of Directors, from managing recipient of its annual Stanley V. Kinyon to supervising; make the Board fully Outstanding Teaching and Counseling independent from the executive function, Award. In 2008 he was the first Law with the CEO not serving on the Board; School professor to receive the broaden the Board’s perspective with a University’s Award for Outstanding wide spectrum of viewpoints and experi- Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, ences; expand shareholder access to the Graduate and Professional Education Board through a nomination advisory and was inducted into the Academy of John Matheson delivering “Top Ten” lecture committee; include representation from Distinguished Teachers. institutional shareholders on the Board; The Law Alumni Distinguished enhance Board function with a risk- Professorship honors Law School faculty > On Feb. 3, 2009, John H. assessment or audit committee; improve who excel in the art of teaching and cel- Matheson commemorated his appoint- corporate transparency with enhanced ebrates the significant impact that out- ment as Law Alumni Distinguished disclosure of related-party transactions standing teaching has on the quality of Professor of Law with the lecture “The and the like; embrace corporate citizen- legal education at the Law School. Lead Top-Ten List: Ways to Improve Corporate ship and responsibility; confirm the role gifts from the law firms of Robins, Governance." He teaches corporate and and boundaries of lawyers in corporate Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi and Dorsey & business law and has taught in China, governance. His final recommendation Whitney, and contributions from many Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and was for the Law School: Create better other donors, have made this award a Lithuania. business lawyers by continuing to reality.

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PUBLIC LAW 19 Assistant Professor Serena Mayeri 26 Professor Richard Brooks University of Pennsylvania Law School Yale Law School WORKSHOPS and Department of History Leisure and Consumption Reasoning from Race: Legal Feminism in Winter/Spring the Civil Rights Era April 2 Professor Michele Goodwin 2009 > March University of Minnesota Law School, In these Workshops, nationally recognized 5 Professor Anne M. Coughlin Medical School, and School of Public scholars present their work in progress on University of Virginia School of Law Health public law topics. Go to www.law.umn.edu/ Interrogation Stories Prosecuting the Womb faculty/publiclaw.html for the full schedule. 12 Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin 9 Professor Jane Schacter University of Minnesota Law School and Stanford Law School February Dr. Michael Hamilton Courts and the Politics of Backlash: 2 Professor Nathaniel Persily Transitional Justice Institute, University Marriage Equality Litigation, Columbia Law School of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland Then and Now Fig Leaves and Tea Leaves in the Supreme Gender and the Rule of Law in Transitional 16 Professor Barry Cushman Court’s Recent Election Law Decisions Societies University of Virginia School of Law 12 Professor Gillian Lester 12 Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin The Aftermath of Hammer v. Dagenhart UC Berkeley School of Law University of Minnesota Law School Targeting, Universalism, and the Formation Women, Security, and the Patriarchy of of Social Preferences Internationalized Transitional Justice

Briggs and Morgan Chair in Law Appointment Lecture

> On Feb. 17, 2009, Thomas F. negotiated in advance of a patent Cotter commemorated his appointment license under the antitrust rule of reason. as Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law Cotter came to the Law School in with the lecture “Patent Holdup, Patent 2006 from Washington and Lee Remedies and Antitrust Responses.” University School of Law. Previously, Traditionally, the interface between he taught at the University of Florida antitrust law and intellectual property College of Law and directed its law has been perceived as antagonistic, Intellectual Property Law Program, and with antitrust condemning monopoly he practiced law in New York City and and intellectual property protecting it, Chicago. Cotter received his J.D. from he said. But that perception is being the University of Wisconsin Law School modified, and the two are often seen in 1987, where he was senior articles as complementary. Today, antitrust law editor of the Wisconsin Law Review, defines monopolization as the willful elected to the Order of the Coif, and acquisition or maintenance of monopoly graduated first in his class. He clerked Thomas Cotter presents Briggs and Morgan lecture power without sufficient pro-competitive for the Honorable Lawrence W. Pierce, benefits. IP law promotes long-run pro- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second competitive benefits. And both bodies Circuit. corporations, mid-size and small of law look to promote consumer and Briggs and Morgan, a leading busi- businesses, government agencies, social welfare over the long term. ness and trial law firm, has more than and individuals. Briggs and Morgan is Cotter proposed methods for standard- 150 attorneys in the Twin Cities, a strong a founding member of Lex Mundi, an setting organizations to prevent patent regional presence, and a substantial association of more than 135 inde- “ambush” (a variety of patent holdup): national practice. Since 1882, it has pendent law firms in 63 countries require organization members to helped many of Minnesota’s leading established in 1989 to improve the ability disclose any relevant pending patent corporations grow and succeed. Its to serve the needs of their individual applications and evaluate any terms diverse client base includes multinational clients in a global marketplace.

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Law School Welcomes New Faculty Members >

grant from the Robina Foundation to academic honor: fellowship in the support the Law School’s agenda of Canadian Society of Arts, Humanities, transforming legal education and and Sciences. He also has received a research through its new Program on Trudeau fellowship for research achieve- Law, Public Policy, and Society. ments, creativity, and social commitment Borrows comes from the University and an achievement award from the of Victoria, where he was appointed pro- National Aboriginal Achievement fessor and Law Foundation Chair of Foundation for outstanding accomplish- Aboriginal Justice and Governance in ment in the field of law and justice. 2001. Previously, he taught law at the Borrows received a Ph.D. in 1994 University of Toronto (1998–2001); the from Osgoode Hall Law School and an University of British Columbia in LL.M. in 1991 and a J.D. in 1990 from the John Borrows Vancouver (1992–98), where he was University of Toronto. He also holds an director of the First Nations Law M.Sc. from the Department of Program; and Osgoode Hall Law School Geography and Planning and a B.A. in John Borrows joins the faculty in the fall of York University, Toronto (1994–96), political science and history from the of 2009 as a professor in international where he was founder and director of University of Toronto. law and human rights. He is the first to the Lands, Resources, and Indigenous A member of Ontario’s Chippewas of hold one of the new chairs in Law, Public Governance Program. Nawash First Nation and Anishinabe, he Policy, and Society, made possible by a In 2007, he received Canada’s highest is a leading scholar in indigenous law

Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly Chair in Law Appointment Lecture

Traditionally, supporting theories have Mason University. He received his D.Jur. separated into demand side (litigants as degree from the University of Rome La key players) and supply side (judges as Sapienza; LL.M., J.S.D., and M.A. degrees key players). Recent literature, including in economics from the University of contributions from Parisi, has combined California, Berkeley; and a Ph.D. in eco- the two sides into “equilibrium” theories nomics from George Mason University. that cast doubt on the efficiency He is editor-in-chief of the Review of hypothesis and open new grounds of Law and Economics and was editor of discussion on the merits of alternative the Supreme Court Economic Review doctrines of precedent and sources of from 2002-08. Among his numerous law. Examining the proportion of cases books and articles is The Economics of in favor of a rule is one way to evaluate Lawmaking (Oxford University Press, precedent and legal stability, Parisi said. 2009), co-authored with Vincy Fon. He presented findings indicating that Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP win-loss ratios and litigation-stakes sym- is a Minneapolis-based law firm founded Francesco Parisi explaining equilibrium theories metry help predict what areas of law are in 1886. It's a recognized leader in likely to expand or contract over time. providing practical legal counsel to Parisi teaches law and economics, businesses of all sizes—from start-ups > On March 10, 2009, Francesco comparative law, and analytical methods to Fortune 500 corporations. The firm's Parisi marked his appointment to the and was appointed a professor of public core practices include corporate finance, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly Chair in finance at the University of Bologna in mergers and acquisitions, securities, Law with the lecture “Efficiency of the 2006. He has served as Distinguished real estate finance, asset-based lending Common Law Hypothesis—Revisited.” Professor of Private Law, University of and business litigation, with specialty The hypothesis is based on the premise Milan; and a professor, Director of the practices in antitrust, employee benefits, that judge-created law (common law) Law and Economics Program, and health law, intellectual property, interna- results from conscious and unconscious Associate Director of the J.M. Buchanan tional law, labor and employment, and efforts to induce efficient outcomes. Center for Political Economy, George tax planning and controversy.

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and an activist on behalf of First Nations and departmental honors. She received peoples. Barrows’ research interests her J.D. from Duke University School of include aboriginal, constitutional, and Law, where she was the managing editor environmental law; indigenous legal of the Duke Journal of Comparative & rights; and religion and the law. International Law. Following law school, she practiced with Sidley Austin LLP in Amy B. Monahan, who was a visiting Chicago. associate professor during 2008–09, Monahan's scholarship focuses on has joined the faculty as a professor federal tax and employee benefit issues, teaching tax and employee benefits. with a particular emphasis on the regula- She comes from the University of tion of health insurance and retirement Missouri School of Law, where she was plans. She is currently chair of the an associate professor since 2004. She American Association of Law’s Section Amy B. Monahan has also taught at Notre Dame Law on Employee Benefits. School and served as a visiting scholar Monahan says she is thrilled to be at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & joining the Law School, and given her and the Labor and Employment concen- Culture. research interests, she looks forward in tration. Her father-in-law, the Honorable Monahan received her B.A. from particular to working with tax students M. Michael Monahan, is a graduate of the The Johns Hopkins University in as well as students in the Joint Degree Law School, as are several other family International Studies, with university Program in Law, Health & Life Sciences members.

Frederick W. Thomas Professorship for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law and Language Lecture

> On April 7, 2009, Brian Bix a patient’s autonomous choices, even commemorated his re-appointment when the patient has never been compe- as Frederick W. Thomas Professor for tent to make such choices. And in family the Interdisciplinary Study of Law and law, decisions made in the “best interest Language with the lecture “Law and of the child” are often more about pro- Language: How Words Mislead Us.” tecting parental rights or furthering cer- Bix received his J.D. from Harvard Law tain social goals. Labels can make reality School and his doctorate from Balliol look more attractive, but “we need to be College, Oxford University. He has more transparent in our moral and policy taught at Quinnipiac University and arguments, even when this makes us less King’s College, University of London, likely to persuade,” Bix said. “Clarity in and has been a visiting professor at thought and analysis is something Brian Bix describing how words mislead us Georgetown University and George toward which we should struggle con- Washington University. He holds a joint stantly and with determination.” appointment in the University of The Frederick W. Thomas especially remembered for his love of Minnesota Department of Philosophy. Professorship for the Interdisciplinary language. This professorship, which Our world is “full of fictional devices Study of Law and Language was estab- serves both the Law School and the that make people feel better about their lished through the generosity of the College of Liberal Arts, is intended to situation through deception and self- O’Connor & Hannan law firm and the promote interdisciplinary teaching and deception,” he said. Contract law, for friends and colleagues of Frederick W. scholarship as it pertains to the relation- example, speaks of consent to terms Thomas. During his 45 years in the ship between law and language and is even when parties are clearly ignorant practice of law and his 29 years with awarded to scholars with a national of the terms that bind them. In medical O’Connor & Hannan, Thomas was well reputation in law and disciplines in the decision making, we speak of protecting known for his legal expertise and is liberal arts. www.law.umn.edu Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 33 FACULTY PERSPECTIVE

> Faculty Profile

Beverly Balos Vaughan G. Papke Clinical Professor of Law Beverly Balos graduated from the Law School in 1977 and joined its clinical faculty in 1983. In 1997, she became the first to hold the Vaughan G. Papke Chair in Law. She is retiring after the spring 2009 semester.

ictims of domestic violence draft the Minnesota Domestic Abuse in Minnesota can thank Act, the state’s first civil protection Beverly Balos for many of statute for domestic violence victims. their current legislative She also helped litigate a milestone protections.AndV the students who case that challenged the constitution- have taken part in her domestic vio- ality of what was then the state’s Civil lence clinics over her 26-year tenure Commitment Statute.The challenge at the Law School can thank her for was successful and helped change the an educational foundation that will focus of services for mentally ill per- Although her own passions lie sustain them in any facet of legal work. sons to community-based programs. within public interest advocacy for “I’ve always had an interest in women, the Law School’s ethics-based social justice and societal inequality,” Training for the real world curriculum, especially the clinics, Balos says.“That helped to shape what As a professor, Balos expanded the will give all students, whatever their I wanted to do with my own life after offerings of the Law School’s clinics, interests, an advantage when they law school.” including developing the clinics for encounter the “real world” after gradu- domestic violence, domestic assault ation or in their summer fellowships, Serving the underserved prosecution, and domestic felony Balos notes.“Regardless of what our A NewYork native, Balos earned her assault prosecution. She also co-created students go on to do after graduation, B.A. at the State University of New a non-clinic course on law and vio- the value of this critical type of clinical York at Binghamton, then headed to lence against women. education still stands.Asking them to the Law School for her legal degree. The rise of clinic-based education consider the ethical values of the pro- A public interest fellowship after grad- has been a significant shift within law fession, what it means to be a lawyer uation kept her in the Twin Cities, and schools over the past 30 years, Balos in our society and have a relationship she quickly found her niche in family explains.“The clinics allow students to with a client—these are all things that advocacy,both in her private practice integrate the doctrinal theory they’re they take with them to any kind of and in her community activism. getting in the classroom with the real- practice.” “One of my motivations for going life aspects of what it’s like to be a to law school was to look at the lawyer,”she says.“That kind of experi- More advocacy, more study inequality in underserved populations,” ential learning helps students to think Balos plans to continue her efforts in she says.“Then I moved into focusing about and reflect on what it means to community advocacy and activism on violence against women, and on represent a client and how that trans- after her retirement.“I’ve always been gender and inequality and on how lates into actual practice—what it very involved in community-based that’s treated in the legal system. I am means to be a real legal professional, organizations concerning violence interested in how the courts think working within the legal system on against women issues, both nationally about these issues, and in the some- behalf of clients.” and locally,”she says.“I certainly plan times hidden values that underlie the In her own work guiding students to continue that endeavor.” jurisprudence in these areas.” through their clinical education, Balos And when she’s not battling for Two years after receiving her J.D., has come to appreciate the dynamic the rights of the underserved, Balos she took the helm as the director of relationship between scholarship and might be learning a new language. advocacy services at Minnesota Family teaching.“It’s a collaborative journey, “I’m actually interested in Egyptology,” and Children Services. She then where we’re all raising questions and she says.“One of my other goals worked in private practice until she learning to think about them in a new for retirement is to teach myself was hired by the Law School as an way,”she says.“I learn from my stu- hieroglyphs.” associate clinical professor. dents and colleagues, and I hope they During the years before she think about the law differently because By Pamela Tabar, a writer and communications became a law professor, she helped of their work with me.” assistant for the Law School

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> Faculty Profile

Mary Louise Fellows Everett Fraser Professor of Law After a year as a visiting professor, Mary Louise Fellows joined the Law School’s full-time faculty in 1990 and became the first woman to hold a permanent appointment to an endowed chair at the University of Minnesota. She is retiring after the spring 2009 semester.

f Mary Louise Fellows isn’t law and violence against women, and busy researching the latest law and literature. She says that her nuances of tax or trust law, she’s students and colleagues have always probably perusing Anglo-Saxon been her inspiration and have also literature,I looking for legal clues about provided constant challenge.“There’s ancient wills. nothing more invigorating than being Like many law students, Fellows joined with a community of scholars had planned to go into private practice of similar interests,”she says. once she finished her degree at the intends to continue several projects on University of Michigan Law School. Where there’s a will… topics including taxation, violence and But before graduating, she was offered While researching the cultures of pros- the law,and trusts and estates. She also a teaching position at the University of titution and rape, Fellows found herself hopes to increase her weekly volun- Illinois College of Law.“I graduated in constantly confronted by an unfamiliar teering efforts for the Minnesota May,and by September I was a world: literary criticism. She was hesi- Coalition for Battered Women. teacher,”she says. tant to transfer criticism from another But Fellows admits she can’t seem After seven years at Illinois and discipline into the legal field without to stay away from the student side of a visiting position at Harvard Law the needed background and reports the desk, always eager to learn some- School, 1982 brought her to the fac- finally saying to herself,“I’m not going thing new.“I can see myself going ulty of the University of Iowa College to keep grazing in another discipline back to school, but I’m not sure what of Law.She credits this new “spot of and using literary criticism in this it would be for yet,”she says.“For all time,”as poet William Wordsworth untrained way.” I know,it could be a professional would call it, with her feminist awak- Never one to do anything halfway, cooking school.” ening and her introduction to what she pursued a Ph.D. in English from When she looks back on her two would become an ongoing commit- the University of Minnesota. Early on decades of teaching at the Law School, ment to gender and racial equality: she took a Medieval literature seminar Fellows finds herself especially grateful “At Iowa, I met a community of to familiarize herself with the for the sense of community:“For me, women colleagues who were tremen- unknown and suddenly found a new what was important came from dously generous with their time as tie to her previous forte of probate engagement with students, colleagues, I learned the potential of feminist law—specifically in the will of an and staff, working with colleagues on and critical race theory and practice.” Anglo-Saxon woman named curricular initiatives, recruitment of In 1989, Fellows accepted a visiting AEthelgifu, the longest will known faculty,or collaborating on scholar- appointment at the Law School, from the Anglo-Saxon period. ship,”she says.“I looked forward to joining the full-time faculty the fol- Fellows finished her Ph.D. in feeling really great at the end of the lowing year.“One of the attractions English in 2005, but her fascination day about how much we accomplished of the University of Minnesota was with AEthelgifu continues, with a together.” that it had a burgeoning feminist aca- book in progress.“The only thing we Fellows says she got tremendous demic community,”she explains.“It know about this woman is the will she satisfaction from that strong feeling had a Center for Advanced Feminist left,”Fellows says.“What I’m doing is a of kinship.“When I think about Studies, a very vibrant women’s studies cultural study of this document, since leaving, it’s not really going to be department, and they were all busy this is her only ‘footprint in the sand,’ about leaving my office or my profes- getting grants that supported interdis- the only part of her that didn’t get sorship. It’ll be about leaving a com- ciplinary collaboration. I can’t tell you washed away.” munity of people who have enriched how many exciting, intellectual aca- my life enormously.” demic calisthenics were going on.” Community ties As a Law School professor, Fellows Fellows says she views her retirement By Pamela Tabar, a writer and communications has taught courses on taxation, estates, as “an unpaid sabbatical,”since she assistant for the Law School www.law.umn.edu Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 35 > Student Per

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaking with students

Race for Justice participants Eva Stensvad (’11), U.S. Magistrate Judge (left to right): Miao He, Ann Yang, Janie S. Mayeron (’76), and Prof. Alexandra Jian Mu, Xiaojin Zheng, Huei-Ling Tsai, Klass at Federal Bar Association reception at Chien-Chen Huang, Wei-Chen Yen Dorsey & Whitney

Student Profiles

JUNSIK HAN Korea’s third largest company,to pro- Law at Seoul National University.At LL.M. CLASS OF 2009 tect these brand names and others. LG Household & Health Care, he Han, 43, engages in antitrust battles oversees the work of 10 people, with the government, grapples with including four attorneys and outside intellectual property law,and oversees law firms, even though he isn’t a the details of mergers and acquisitions licensed attorney.That’s not unusual, in his position.“Korean laws and regu- since law schools in South Korea lations are evolving at a relatively rapid accept only a tiny fraction of all appli- pace,”he says,“and there are often no cants.After completing his LL.M., Han well-established legal precedents that plans to take the NewYork bar exam squarely address the many issues that and hopes to intern at a U.S. firm have arisen in recent years.”He before returning to his job in Seoul. enrolled in the Law School’s LL.M. Han’s wife and two daughters, ages Program for foreign lawyers to address 10 and 5, accompanied him to these problems. Minnesota.The family lives in a St. “He’s very well-prepared,”says Paul suburb, where the older daughter Professor David Weissbrodt, who attends public school. Han is reminded taught Han in a torts class.“He reads of his own school days, growing up in > Elastine shampoo, Perio tooth- the material and works very hard.” South Korea. During playground dis- paste, and Say soap are some of South Weissbrodt also notes that Han partici- putes, he says he served as a de facto Korea’s most popular brands. It’s Junsik pated in class discussions, which isn’t mediator and often jumped in between Han’s job as head of the legal affairs easy for someone who doesn’t speak the factions during a scuffle, pleading office at LG Household & Health English daily when at home in Seoul. “Wait, wait, what’s the problem?” One Care, a subsidiary of LG Group, South Han graduated from the College of teacher witnessed this and encouraged

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Law School students and friends making up “Team Handsome” prepare for Minnesota Supreme Court hears oral arguments Sarah Johnson Phillips (’09) Race for Justice in case of Bahr v. Boise Cascade Corp. at Law at November 2009 Minnesota National Moot Court team: Mollie Anderson School, with Q&A period following Journal of International Law (’09), Denise Delcore (’09), and Shaun symposium on rule of law Redford (’09)

Han to become a lawyer or judge. intricate workings inside those com- Today,Han is sure that he has chosen plex medical devices.“It is continu- the right occupation.“I love my ously humbling, and even a bit dis- work,”he says. turbing, to know that things I helped design are now responsible for keeping thousands of people alive,”he says. TIM CHRISTMAN Despite receiving a McHale CLASS OF 2009 Scholarship, Christman juggled his Law > Tim Christman, a 3L student, School studies with part-time work at isn’t afraid of hard work. He landed a Minneapolis intellectual property law his first job at age 13, in a print shop firm.“I’m ruthless on time manage- in Stillwater, Minn., after convincing ment,”he says. Now nearing gradua- the owner that hiring him wouldn’t tion, the 32-year-old will soon be a violate child labor laws.A year later, full-time intellectual property lawyer. Christman was building computers When he was doing engineering, at a local manufacturer. Christman loved “messing with stuff,” Minnesota allows talented high master’s degree there as well. Over the taking it apart and putting it back school students to sign up for college summers, Christman kept working together. In his new role, he’ll be inter- classes, so during his junior and senior rather than taking time off to relax. viewing experts on the technical years, Christman knocked off univer- “Working keeps me grounded,”he says. aspects of projects and inventions so he sity-level calculus and physics while After graduation, Christman can write patent applications. His goal also working part-time at a music started at Guidant Corp. (now Boston will be to describe the inventions store. Earning college credits during Scientific) as a test engineer responsible accurately using language that’s broad high school allowed him to finish his for making sure the company’s pace- enough to protect the clients’ interests. undergraduate degree in electrical makers and defibrillators would func- “It needs to be understandable but also engineering at the Missouri University tion flawlessly for years. He was just 23. have the maximum breadth,”he says. of Science and Technology in just Several years later, Christman began It’s a tricky balance, but undoubtedly, three years. He quickly earned his designing flexible circuits—the tiny, Christman is up to the task.

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AMY BAUER Bauer turned to law,knowing that Technology. She recently completed an CLASS OF 2010 clear writing would be just one part of article exploring whether shield laws a bigger job. Now in her second year that protect journalists from revealing at the Law School, Bauer, 24, says,“I’ve confidential sources might also apply been all over the board trying to to bloggers, and in the fall, she decide what to do, but I think I landed becomes lead supervising editor at the in the right place.” journal. At the Law School, she’s still all The Eagan, Minn., native will over the board, enjoying involvement intern at a Minneapolis law firm this in many of the numerous extracurric- summer, where she hopes to learn ular activities at hand. Last semester, for more about employment law and example, she played the role of “Lady intellectual property law—two more Marmalade” in the Theatre of the of her interests. In the fall, she’ll dive Relatively Talentless (TORT) produc- back into her various volunteer and tion “It’s a Wonderful Law School,” extracurricular activities. She’ll take greeted campus newcomers as a stu- part in the next TORT production, dent ambassador, taught a legal writing as both a performer and writer, and class for 1L students, volunteered for she plans to teach legal writing to > Becoming an attorney wasn’t the Women’s Law Student Association 1Ls, intern at the bar association, and Amy Bauer’s first career choice. In high as well as the nonprofit Children’s Law volunteer at a nonprofit organization school, she pursued creative writing. Center, and interned at the Minnesota or two. That seemed impractical, though, so Bar Association. After rattling off her commitments, she switched to journalism, serving as “There are so many fantastic Bauer sighs,“Sometimes I forget all the copy chief on the student newspaper opportunities,”she says.“I wanted to things that I do. I need to take a and earning a bachelor’s degree at make the most of the experience.” break.”For a moment, she considers Marquette University. Bauer also has made use of her what to cut out next year.And what Still uninspired (“I got to make writing and editing skills, working on would she do with the extra time? important decisions about commas”), the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & “I might take on something new.”

Fighting Mondales Do Battle on Ice

The Law School’s hockey team, the Fighting Mondales, competed valiantly this season in 13 University of Minnesota intramural league games at Mariucci Arena, an exhibition game against their archrivals from the Medical School, and the Golden Gavel Tournament featuring the four local law schools. After a narrow loss to William Mitchell’s Fighting Eelpout in the tournament opener, the Mondales fought back to victory against St. Thomas Law School’s Fighting Apostles on April 4, 2009, to take third place and end the Mondales jerseys and t-shirts continues Fighting Mondales at 2009 Golden Gavel Tournament. season on a high note. Dozens of vocal to grow as students recognize this Front row: Kate Crampton (2L), Josephine Schroeder fans chanted and cheered for the unique outlet from the busy life of (3L), Laura Vannelli (1L), and Rygo Foss (3L). Back row: Mondales during their spirited battles a law student and “transplants” Substitute goalie Mark Trudeau, Nate Greene (2L), for the coveted Golden Gavel Trophy. to Minnesota take the opportunity co-captain Ross Trooien (2L), Charles Dickinson (3L), The co-ed team brings together to learn more about the sport. Curt Wells (3L), Mark Wagner (3L), and Jon Simpson players from all classes, including For more information on the (2L). Not pictured: co-captain Ted Bickel (2L), Kyle transfer and LL.M. students, and occa- Fighting Mondales, go to Johnson (3L), Bill Kalweit (3L), Josh Pritzker (2L), sionally alumni. The number of players www.tc.umn.edu/~mondales or Nathan Taran (3L), and Leo Twiggs (1L) and fans proudly wearing Fighting their page on Facebook.

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EMILY NI local office.“I enjoyed working with Vegas had just one nonprofit organiza- CLASS OF 2011 people who were passionate about tion dedicated to helping immigrants what they were doing,”she says. gain legal status in the United States, Ni’s parents moved from and the overwhelmed attorney in Milwaukee to LasVegas when she was charge wasn’t responding to Ni’s an undergraduate, prompting her to overtures. apply for an internship in Senate “I called her every day for 3 Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D- weeks,”Ni says.“I bombarded her.” Nev.) office.After graduation, she She phoned in the morning. She turned that opportunity into a full- phoned in the afternoon.As the days time job at Reid’sWashington, D.C., ticked by,Ni’s voice mails and emails office. Reid’s staff was working on a became more pleading.“I left messages wide range of issues, so Ni requested a saying,‘Please, we’re really desperate,’” foreign affairs position, in line with her she says. Finally,the attorney returned passion for international humanitarian one of Ni’s many calls, thanked her for issues. Ni recalls the response:“You’re being persistent, and agreed to host 30 doing banking.”During the next year one-week internships for Law School on Capitol Hill, she learned a lot about students. > Emily Ni is a political junkie who legislation governing the financial serv- Ni will make good use of that believes in delivering on campaign ices industry.Just before the economic persistence and political savvy after promises.And she knows how to get crisis unfolded, in September 2008, Ni graduation from the Law School. She things done. entered the Law School. plans to return to Washington, D.C., Her interest in political science was Not one to sit on the sidelines, the as a senior staffer working on foreign sparked by an undergraduate course at 1L student ran for a spot on the affairs or banking issues. Or, this time, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Asylum Law Project board of directors, maybe both. where she quickly joined the College promising to find more internship Democrats. Soon she was interning in opportunities for law students in Las By Todd Melby, a freelance writer and radio Senator Russ Feingold’s (D-Wisc.) Vegas. But there was a problem. Las producer based in Minneapolis

Moot Court Competitions

> The 2009 Moot Court activities Kim, Jeff Markowitz,Amy McGowan, Andrea Johnson, and Kathleen Lynott were supervised by Director of Applied and Abby Peterson placed second in (respondent team) advanced to quarter- Legal Instruction Bradley Clary,with the Southwest Super Region of the finals at regionals, and Johnson received assistance from Program Associate ILSA Philip C. Jessup Competition in honorable mention for oral advocacy. Susan Miller. Houston in February and advanced to Coaches: Brad Clary,Kristin Sankovitz • ABA: 2Ls Abigail Cerra, Michael the International rounds. Markowitz • Wagner Labor Law: 3Ls Chad Howard, and Benjamin Skoglund and won a regional oral advocacy prize. Cardon,Ashley Davis-Alteri, and 3Ls Todd Strom and Erin West went to Coaches: Bob DeMay,3L Jared Cook, Natalie Woodward-Kohner competed regionals, Boston, in February.Howard 3L Monica Miller in NewYork in April. Coaches:Tom and West advanced to finals. Coaches: • Mock Trial: 2L Craig Buske and Trachsel, 3L Bonnie Hungerford MikeVanselow,3L Sean Foss, 3L 3Ls Monica Miller and Mark Wagner • Intellectual Property: 3Ls Darcy Meredith Socha were undefeated at the regional Grunwald and Bill Kalweit went to • Civil Rights: 3Ls Rachel Funk, Josh competition in February at Drake New England regional rounds of the Kenny,Nick Manthey,and Emily Des Moines, until finals. Coaches: Giles Sutherland Rich Competition in Mugass went to the Evans Competition Mark Olson, Dennis Hansen March and won best appellee brief. in Madison in April. Coaches: Mark • National: 3Ls Mollie Anderson, Coaches:Todd Werner, James Hietala, Thompson, Jody Ward-Rannow Denise Delcore, and Shaun Redford Heather Kliebenstein • Environmental: 3Ls Andrea Wells (petitioner team) won the Region 14 • Maynard Pirsig: 2L Paul Dworak Keller and Kari Rudd and 2L Adam championship with a perfect record, took first in oral argument and David Petras advanced to quarter-finals in the plus best petitioner brief, and advanced Gutierrez (’10) took second. Dworak national competition in February,Pace to national finals in NewYork in won best brief and Tyler Siewert (’10) University,White Plains, N.Y.Coaches: February.Delcore and Redford took second. Dworak also won the Elizabeth Schmiesing, Sanne Knudsen received honorable mentions for Harold Will Cox and Dorothy O. • International: 2Ls Christopher regional oral advocacy.3Ls Dave Clark, Lareau awards.

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Despite clouds and showers, about 700 members of the legal and general community joined in the 2009 Annual Race for Justice 5K Fun Run and Walk on April 19. More than 100 volunteers made the event run smoothly. Costs of the race (nearly $15,000) are all paid through sponsorships from law firms, businesses, and the Law School. Our thanks go to all our participants, volunteers, and sponsors.

1. Prof. David Weissbrodt (front row, left) and the LL.M. team 2. CPDC career advisor Vic Massaglia (left) gets tips from Reference and Collection Development Librarian Vic Garces (right) 2 3. April showers can’t dampen spirits as 3 Race for Justice gets under way

> Seven years ago, when the Law crowd that is there to support LRAP,” on their loans each year. School’s Public Interest Law Student he says.The money raised “goes to a Paying off the loans on their own Association wanted to raise money good cause, and you get a great t-shirt.” would be very difficult for those in for attorneys going into the field, public interest law,says Rastorfer Meredith McQuaid, then dean of Giving that makes a difference Vlieger.“Education debt is quite students, suggested a 5K run.“We were LRAP was formed in 1991 by the Law staggering when someone exits law looking for a kind of community event School,William Mitchell College of school, so without our loan repayment at the Law School but that we could Law,Minnesota Justice Foundation assistance, most attorneys would be extend out to the legal community (MJF), and Minnesota State Bar unable to financially afford to accept or and beyond,”says Amber Fox, director Association. It helps support new remain in public interest placement.” of the event. Its first year, the Race for public interest attorneys by subsidizing Andrea Nordick, who works for Justice drew 200 participants. By 2007, their school loans. In 2008, the Race MJF,applied for LRAP assistance after it had grown to more than 1,000 for Justice raised more than $22,000 graduating from Hamline University runners, walkers, and supporters. for the program, which currently helps School of Law in 2008.The $4,400 All donations and registration fees about 65 Minnesota attorneys. she receives each year “helps a lot,”she raised by the event go to the Loan Heather RastorferVlieger, director says.“It definitely decreases the stress Repayment Assistance Program of the Loan Repayment Association level. I think the thing I’ve noticed the (LRAP) of Minnesota. of Minnesota, says the average debt at most is it has allowed me to put a little Michael Schmidt (’09) has volun- graduation of those applying for the away in savings…and just having sav- teered for the past three years and program is about $95,000.The annual ings is a huge help.” enjoys the gathering of the law com- base award from LRAP is $4,000, munity,the excitement, and the diverse which covers nearly half of what By Joy Petersen, a communications assistant

turnout.“It’s just fun to be with the new attorneys are expected to pay at the Law School Photos: Darcie Peifer

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TORT Squad Brings Ditherer to Her Senses

“It’s a Wonderful Law School,” the seventh production of the University of Minnesota Law School’s Theatre of the Relatively Talentless (TORT), drew a crowd of more than 1,300 for its March 6 and 7 performances at Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis. Producers Michael Pangborn (’10) and Georges Tippens (’09) say total ticket sales were comparable with last year.

> The musical told the story of 3L “Georgie” (played by Laura Vannelli), who was considering a transfer to Carlson School of Management, and the efforts of Professor “Clarice” (played by Holly Overgaard) to curb those thoughts by revealing the state of the Law School without Georgie. The full-length musical- Above: Lauren comedy parody with a Law School Frank (’09) singing twist was, like all TORT productions, “You Will Imbibe” written and performed entirely by At Left: John Law School students. Kvinge (’11) and More than 85 actors, singers, cast singing dancers, band members, and behind- “TORT Theme” the-scenes crew members brought to the stage the eternal struggle of good versus evil, or Georgie v. Dean Potter (played by Lauren Frank), through such timeless compositions as “Do You Hear the Students Gripe?” and “First Week play cameo roles in TORT musicals. by the Graduate and Professional of Law.” Nonlegal minds in the audience Accepting the challenge to their dignity Student Assembly Social Event Fund followed the story with the aid of a this year were former Vice President Grant, Student Activities Administrative program-insert glossary (e.g., Gunners: Walter F. Mondale (‘56), U.S. District Grant, and Coco-Cola Activity Initiative students who “consistently raise their Court Judge John R. Tunheim (’80), Grant. hands, answer rhetorical questions, Minnesota Supreme Court Justices Paul Producers Pangborn and Tippens and hound the professors after class”). H. Anderson (’68) and Lorie Skjerven extend special thanks to Steven Olson Professors Brad Clary (’75), Laura J. Gildea, and Chief Justice Eric J. and the crew at Pantages Theatre; the Cooper, Stephen J. Cribari, Heidi Magnuson. Law Council; Dean Wippman and the Kitrosser, William McGeveran, David Cast and crew of the 2009 TORT Law School; Assistant Dean of Students Stras, and Judith T. Younger and Law production send their sincere thanks to Erin Keyes; the CPDC; and the Offices of School Dean David Wippman played corporate sponsors Faegre & Benson; Admissions, Communications, themselves. Staff members contributing Fredrikson & Byron; Gray Plant Mooty; Development and Alumni Relations, and their expertise to keep Georgie at the Leonard, Street and Deinard; Lindquist & Information Technology. Law School were Student Services Vennum; Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi; Next year’s offering is already Activities Director Amber Fox, Career Dorsey & Whitney; Kaplan, Strangis and forming in the imaginations of 2010 and Professional Development Center Kaplan; Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly; Producers Anthea Dexter-Cooper (’10), Director Alan Haynes, and career advi- Shumaker & Sieffert; All Star Sportswear; Mike Pangborn, and the rest of the sors Susan Gainen and Vic Massaglia. Felhaber Larson Felon & Vogt; Lexis newly elected Board. Information about Prominent members of the legal Nexis; and the University of Minnesota TORT productions and purchasing a community are traditionally invited to Bookstore. Support was also provided DVD is available at www.umn.edu/~tort.

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Chuck Norenberg (’82), Naomi Williamson (82), Michael Ross (’99)

M. Gregory Simpson (‘89)

Linda and Allen Saeks ('56), Stan ('53) and Sue Efron and Jeffrey Eyres and Tracy Smith ('89) at the annual Scholarship Dinner

Alumni Profiles

ELIE HALPERN then, he has volunteered answers and on with his volunteer passion full time. CLASS OF 1967 action nonstop. Through American Jewish World The Law School’s legal services Service, Elie and his wife, Beth requirement introduced Halpern to Halpern, a retired teacher, have twice working with poor people, work he worked on Burmese issues in Thailand. found that he loved.“A socially con- “Burma is rated the second most cor- scionable job was important,”he says. rupt country in the world and one of “Making money was not something I the worst dictatorships,”he says.“There was good at, and it wasn’t a goal.”He is murder and rape…and people live in was aVista volunteer in Washington fear.”In 2006 the couple volunteered state and twice worked for Micro- with EarthRights International, a nesian Legal Services. In the 1980s human rights and environmental pro- he assisted in getting people out of tection agency.In 2009 Beth worked Ethiopia “by hook or by crook.” for the Karin Education Department Although at school he dropped the while Elie joined Karin Rivers Watch Social Security class, Halpern ended up in opposing a Salween River dam that specializing in Social Security disability will divert power to Thailand and dis- and veterans’ disability law.He and a place people without compensation for > When he attended the Law partner established Halpern & Oliver, their land. School, Elie Halpern recalls,“I was with offices in Olympia,Tacoma, and Inspired by expats working in Asia, very impressed with the teaching and Seattle. Now,at 65, Halpern practices Halpern enrolled in the Law of the Socratic method, and I don’t think part time, but the plight of millions of Sustainable International Development I ever volunteered an answer.”Since refugees has hastened his desire to get master’s program at the University of

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Kristin Sankovitz (’99) Cathy Ludden ('79) and Mike Nilan ('79) encourage their classmates to participate in the scholarship fund

Tim Colon (’08), Matt Melewski (’08) and Andrew Borene (’07)

Washington and recently wrote a paper opposition, as many litigants wanted, entitled “The Hat Gyi Dam Project on was not his style. the Salween River in Burma: Lifting A $5 million referral he made theVeil of Secrecy on Egat’s turned into a trust for First Union Complicity” for a class and for the Bank and a vice presidency forVigen. International Day of Action Against That job disappeared when Wachovia Dams in Burma.“You see how most bought First Union, butVigen soon people live and how little they have landed another, this time at U.S. and what makes them happy,”Halpern Trust in NewYork City.Before long, explains.“What we whine about is Vigen won a spot in the NewYork absolutely nothing. I feel fortunate that Choral Society,and Carnegie Hall was we can go and do these things.” within sight. Now,he has sung there 15 times, and also at Lincoln Center and ERIC VIGEN Madison Square Garden. He has CLASS OF 1983 backed up Andrea Bocelli and Peter, > How does a South Dakota native City,Iowa, and gained the broad expe- Paul and Mary.With The Dessoff with a Law School degree get to rience that helped him move to a Choirs, he has performed with Carnegie Hall? Practice, of course. larger market. He passed the Florida Michael Tilson Thomas,Vladimir Singing “makes me happy,”says Eric Bar in 1988 and became a prosecutor Ashkenazy,the St. Petersburg Vigen, a preacher’s kid who learned to with the state attorney.That led to a Philharmonic Orchestra, and the San sing in the church choir and dreamed position at Icard, Merrill in Sarasota. Francisco Symphony.He attends of singing on stage.And eventually,that With six-figure verdicts to his credit, rehearsals at least twice a week after dream came true. Vigen was on track to become a full long days at the office.“Sight-singing After law school,Vigen worked in partner. But he was unhappy.Family at 9:45 p.m. leaves something to be the county attorney’s office in Mason law was wrenching, and burying the desired,”he says.“But singing at

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Carnegie Hall has not gotten old. It’s was fielding press calls about a com- like a runner’s high.” plaint his office had filed against a Vigen also sings in a church choir California company accused of run- again, something he missed in New ning a Ponzi scheme. It was no coinci- York, where choirs at the prestigious dence.“If we find a particular scheme, churches are professional. But he kept it’s pretty likely that another company auditioning and now sings with St. or individual is committing the same Michael’s Episcopal Church choir. scheme.”Increasingly,fraud and the In addition, he loves his work. In SEC cross borders. Dicke’s team 1999, he was U.S.Trust’s No. 1 trust- recently froze $11 million in a penny selling officer. In 2008, he cancelled stocks case.The promoter was in vacations to be available when clients Spain, the victims in the United States, called with worries about the financial and the money in Andorra. crisis.“They’re not mad,”he says. Of Dicke’s promotion to his cur- “They’re scared. I speak the truth rent position in September 2008, SEC even if it’s difficult, and I think they ernment work was the attraction, and regional director Marc Fagel wrote, find comfort and assurance. Maybe San Francisco, where weather tri- “Mike enjoys tackling cutting-edge it’s my voice from singing.” umphed.After Law School, he worked legal issues, and is tenacious but even- at Morrison & Foerster in San handed in pursuing wrongdoers.”In Francisco for five years, doing securi- fact, righting wrongs for individuals MICHAEL DICKE ties and intellectual property litigation. particularly gratifies Dicke.“We also CLASS OF 1990 His biggest pro bono cases were a bring cases against non-household > Mike Dicke is surrounded by death penalty appeal and a school names who have stolen a lot of money some 500 CDs and fond memories of desegregation case. and really wrecked people’s lives.We Grateful Dead concerts.That’s not sur- At the SEC since 1996, Dicke has hope to hold them accountable and prising for a guy in his San Francisco investigated, litigated, and supervised recover assets for investors.”He traces office.What is unexpected is that the high-profile cases involving stock some of his investigational skills to the avid collector is associate regional option backdating, fraud by public Law School’s emphasis on analytical director for enforcement for the companies, adviser and mutual fund thinking, which taught him “that the Securities and Exchange Commission. misconduct, and penny stock fraud. law has many possible correct answers Dicke split a Law School summer On March 11, 2009, the day before to intractable problems.” between Washington, D.C., where gov- Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty,Dicke Devoted to his wife and two

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44 Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 www.law.umn.edu ALUMNI PERSPECTIVE young sons, Dicke still makes time for an associate job in Minneapolis. But public service.The joint program in concerts. He may be out late listening early and often, Michelle Weinberg law and public policy was a natural fit. to jam bands, indie or classic rock, jazz, went far afield.“Any time you travel, She concentrated on science tech- or his favorite band, My Morning you get a sense of perspective,”she nology and environmental policy at Jacket. But, early the next day,he’s back says.“As an attorney,as in life, it’s the Humphrey Institute, doing field on the case.“What we do is in the important to think about things from work on wind power. public interest,”he says.“It does all many different perspectives.” After the bar exam, travel beck- kind of come together: financial, Weinberg started broadening her oned. In Uganda,Weinberg encoun- investigative, pro bono.” perspectives in high school, when she tered mountain gorillas and worked attended Alexander Muss High School beside students painting classrooms in Israel.“Having my first overseas travel equipped with only the most basic MICHELLE WEINBERG experience involve extensive learning desks and chalkboards. She climbed CLASS OF 2007 about the people, history,and culture Mount Kilimanjaro with a group made me very interested in trying to assisted by local Africans who not only do that elsewhere,”she says. Next came carried packs and cooked but also a stint with the Peace Corps in shared their stories. Slovakia, where Weinberg worked with An associate with Faegre & Benson an NGO on environmental education since August 2008, Weinberg is grateful and cultural development projects in a to the Law School for emphasizing small community.While teaching the research and writing skills she finds English on the side, she met four essential in litigation. In addition to teenage boys who wanted a skateboard environmental litigation, she has worked park. Her favorite project was working on an asylum case and found it “nice with them on developing goals, talking to be able to help an individual change with local government, and ultimately her life.” receiving funding from the EU. She Weinberg has no desire to change also spent six months in New Zealand her life. Focused on legal work, her before attending the Law School. new house, and playing soccer, she says, Part of the appeal of a law career “It’s good to be home and settled.” > It’s a well-trodden path. A smart for Weinberg is pro bono work, and young woman from the Twin Cities she values the Law School’s volunteer By Karen K. Hansen, a Minneapolis-based area goes to the Law School and lands opportunities and commitment to freelance writer and clarinetist

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4th Annual

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The Law School’s 4th Annual Spring Alumni Weekend festivities kicked off Friday,April 17, 2009, with an all-alumni cocktail reception featuring great food and drink, a live jazz band, and a special encore performance from the TORT group.The evening continued with reunions for the class of 1969 and the class of 1994.The class

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of 1969 had almost 100 attendees and classes of 1959 and earlier followed. reunion! Special thanks to the classes graciously announced its intent to On Saturday night, the classes of of 1974, 1979, and 1984 for endowing establish a full scholarship in honor of 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1999, and class scholarships in honor of their its 40th reunion. 2004 celebrated with special reunion reunions.To see all pictures from Alumni returned to campus on receptions. Highlights included the Spring Alumni Weekend, please go to Saturday morning for a casual breakfast class of 1979’s accurate recreation of www.umnlawreunions.com. and two engaging CLE programs: its class Zoobook photo and atten- MediaSpeak and Citizen Lawyer.A dance by Alex Zhang, all the way By Evan Johnson, Alumni Relations and lively luncheon for alumni from the from Shanghai, China, for his 20-year Annual Giving Program Officer

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Allen Saeks of Leonard, Street and Deinard received Philip S. Garon of Faegre & Benson was named Robert Bennett was named one of Minnesota a 2008 Outstanding Service to the Profession award Minnesota Corporate Lawyer of the Year for 2009 by Lawyer's Attorneys of the Year for the second from Minnesota Lawyer for his longtime service to Best Lawyers in America. consecutive year. He was selected for his leadership the local legal community and his years of distin- in the profession, involvement in major cases, guished work as a commercial litigator. excellence in corporate and transactional services, and public service. 1968 Fred Soucie was named a Super Lawyer by Justice Paul Anderson was re-elected to the Minnesota Law & Politics in 2008, for the 15th Minnesota Supreme Court, where he has served consecutive year dating back to 1994. Also, since 1994. Minnesota Lawyer selected him as an Attorney of the Year for 2008 for his work in obtaining John Hutson was invited to the Oval Office for the multi-million dollar settlements for several injury signing of President Obama’s executive order and wrongful death cases. closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. An Edward Winer was named one outspoken opponent of policies at the Cuba base, Tom Wheeler of Wheeler & Engelhart continues of the Top 100 Attorneys in the Hutson and 15 other retired admirals and generals an active private practice in the areas of estate U.S. by Worth Magazine for the who have lobbied for change through human rights planning and estate and trust administration. He third time. were invited to attend the ceremony. enjoys teaching others about estate planning and is going into his second year as an adjunct professor 1969 Charles Parsons Jr. was named one of the Top 100 at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Attorneys in the U.S. by Worth Magazine. downtown Minneapolis, teaching estate planning and taxation of gifts. He is married and has six 1973 children. He invites former Law School classmates and attorney colleagues to get together any time Thomas Chomicz has been rec- John DeSanto was appointed to a Sixth Judicial to catch up. ognized in Best Lawyers in District trial court bench vacancy in the city of America 2009 for non- Duluth, Minn., by Governor Tim Pawlenty. 1977 profit/charities law. Alan C. Eidsness of Henson & Efron was named Judge Edward Cleary was appointed by the 1970 Minnesota Family Lawyer of the Year for 2009 by Secretary of State to serve on the State Canvassing Best Lawyers in America. Board for the Senate recount. Thomas Johnson of Gray Plant Mooty received a 2008 Outstanding Service to the Profession award 1974 George Eck, a partner in Dorsey and Whitney’s from Minnesota Lawyer for his years of service in the Minneapolis trial group, has been admitted to the public and private sectors, including his nine-year Donan McAuley has retired from her work as a American College of Trial Lawyers. leadership of the Council for Crime and Justice and solo practitioner, effective February 2009. She his involvement in the investigation of the I-35W recently published a mystery novel, A Body to Judge Kurt Marben was appointed by Justice Alan bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Bones (www.abodytobones.com), using the pen Page to serve on the three-judge panel hearing the name, Donan Berg. election contest that followed the Board's certifica- 1971 tion of results of the Senate recount. Brad Thorsen accepted a position as executive Michael V. Ciresi of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi director of We Can Ride, an organization committed Tom Shroyer was awarded the Minnesota Society of was named Minnesota Personal Injury Litigator of to providing therapy through horseback riding for Certified Public Accountants’ 2007–2008 Friend of the Year for 2009 by Best Lawyers in America. individuals living with disabilities. the Profession Award, which recognizes individuals

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Ron Schutz was recently named to the National Law Journal’s annual list of Top Ten Winning Litigators nationwide. who go above and beyond Derek Sorenson has been average in their contributions 1982 recognized in the Best to further the goals of the Lawyers in America 2009 Society. William Hicks has been re-elected to the board of for real estate law. directors of Messerli & Kramer, with offices in 1978 Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Plymouth, Minn. 1987

William Patberg, a partner at Shumaker, Loop & Jeff Ross is now with Ross & Orenstein. Barbara Bombaci is now with Northwestern Mutual Kendrick, has been named among the Leaders in Life Insurance Co. Their Field by Chambers USA. 1983 1988 1979 David Bolt was named a Super Lawyer by Minnesota Law and Politics for 2008, his 12th consecutive nom- 1988 Tom Lujan is proud to announce that he’s a grandfa- ination dating back to 1997. ther! His first grandchild, Cecilia Madrona Lujan, was Karen Clauson, who heads born on Feb. 25, 2009. She weighed 6 lb and was 19 Jeffrey Upin was named chief operating officer at Integra Telecom’s law and in. long. Despatch Industries, a process technology provider policy group in Minneapolis, for the clean technology and thermal processing was promoted to the company’s Kevin Roche was appointed to Virtual Radiologic industries. He will oversee operation of the solar, vice president of law and policy. Corp.’s board of directors, effective Nov. 14, 2008. carbon fiber, and thermal technology business units and corporate marketing. 1980 1985 Jan Conlin, new chair of Susan Gaertner, Ramsey County Attorney, has been Robins Kaplan Miller & inducted as a fellow in the American College of Trial Louise Dovre Bjorkman was appointed to the Ciresi’s business litigation Lawyers. Minnesota Court of Appeals by Governor Tim practice group, received a Pawlenty. 2008 Attorney of the Year 1981 award from Minnesota Lawyer for obtaining a Christina Clark is the new executive director of the defense verdict in a $100 million international arbi- Matthew Cohen was awarded the Public Education Minnesota School Employees Association, a public- tration breach-of-trademark proceeding. A nation- Award for 2009 by the Greater Chicago Chapter of sector union representing classified school district ally respected trial attorney, she has amassed an the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. In addition employees across Minnesota. She is also president of impressive record of results in her career in interna- his book, A Guide to Special Education Advocacy— COMPAS, a nonprofit organization that engages tional arbitration, patent issues, trademark, leasing What Parents, Advocates and Clinicians Need to communities in the arts. and financing, and class action. She is the incoming Know, was released in January 2009. president of the Law School’s Board of Visitors. Gail Kulick Jackson was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives for District 16A. Thomas Gallagher is now with Gallagher Criminal Defense Services. William Habicht has been Andrea Kaufman, chair of the board of directors of re-elected president and a the Fund for the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis, Vince Louwagie of Anthony, Ostlund, Baer, Louwagie member of the board of was named one of the Top Women in Finance. & Ross received a 2008 Attorney of the Year award directors of Messerli & from Minnesota Lawyer for winning a $1.6 million Kramer, with offices in verdict for his client, an attorney who accused his Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Plymouth, Minn. former firm of fraudulently distributing fees deriving from a class-action settlement.

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1990 Carol Klaphake has been granted a fellowship to entertainment, and other areas involving standard and Gray Plant Mooty by the American Academy of complex litigation in both state and federal courts. Linda Benjamin recently accepted the position of Matrimonial Lawyers. Fellowship is by invitation only executive vice president of business and legal affairs and requires national and state examinations. It rep- Chris Lee has been selected as a Rising Star (2007, at Relativity Media. resents recognition of achievements in family law 2008) by Washington Law & Politics. plus a commitment to the highest standards of prac- Keith Ellison, Representative of Minnesota’s Fifth tice in the field. Michael Pape was named a principal in the litigation District in the U.S. House, was appointed to the group at Fish & Richardson, one of three Law School Subcommittee on International Organizations, Joe Moore started his own firm in Washington, D.C., alumni named principles at the firm. He will continue Human Rights, and Oversight and the Subcommittee Bergmann & Moore, specializing in securing VA ben- to focus his practice on patent litigation in the area on the Middle East and South Asia, both subcomit- efits for disabled veterans and their dependents. of electrical engineering. tees of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Todd Norris was named a partner at Bullivant 1997 Linda Mealey-Lohmann received the Martin Blum Houser Bailey. He was been recognized for his supe- Community Mediation Award from the Dispute rior level of professionalism and demonstrated skill Andrew Chiu is now special counsel for Baker & Resolution Center in St. Paul in recognition of her in his fields of specialization: complex commercial McKenzie in Hong Kong. inspiring volunteerism and her pioneering field work litigation, franchise disputes, and intellectual prop- with students. erty claims, including trademark, copyright, trade secret, and patent disputes. 1992 Joe Scott Wolfson has joined Bush Seyferth & Paige as a Henderson Jay Larry, an associate in the Skadden Arps partner, leading the firm’s bankruptcy and creditors’ and his wife corporate restructuring group, received the Lawyers rights practice area. Jill are pleased Alliance for New York’s 2008 Cornerstone Award to announce the birth of their identical twin boys, honoring outstanding pro bono legal services to 1996 Emmett Joseph and Edwin Louis, on Nov. 14, 2008. nonprofit organizations. Eric James Eden has accepted the position of assis- Hoyt Stastney has been recognized in the Best Kwon Lee was selected as the leading real estate tant dean for admission and financial aid at the Lawyers in America 2009 for banking law and lawyer in the Chambers and Partners 2009 Asia University of Arizona Rogers College of Law. securities law. edition. Bart Gernander was named a partner at Hellmuth & 1998 1995 Johnson. He is a member of the firm's litigation and employment law practice groups and primarily rep- Robert Ballieu was promoted to supervisory John Benson is now at Tonkawa in Minnetonka, Minn. resents clients in banking, construction, real estate, attorney advisor at the Social Security

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Mary Lee Wegner (’96), Eissa Villaseñor (’08), Kirk A. Patrick (’74), Dean David Ruby Alexander (’01), Jared Hager (’04), and Todd Rosencrans (’95) at Seattle area Wippman, and Mark Boelke (’01) at Los Angeles area alumni reception alumni reception generously hosted by Hager, Rosencrans, Paul Parker (’93) (not generously hosted by Patrick and by Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP pictured), Chian Wu (’07) (not pictured), and Perkins Coie LLP

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Administration’s Office of Disability Adjudication office, joined the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Omar Syed practices in the general law section of and Review, where he also manages the senior Eastern District of New York as an assistant U.S. the University of Texas System’s Office of General attorney program. attorney. Counsel. He and his wife, Meghan Riley, had a new addition to the family with the birth of their son, Chris Goodman, for the fifth consecutive year, is Todd Culyba recently joined Salan’s Moscow office. Gabriel. among the top 2.5% of young attorneys in the state He is a partner in the corporate department, where named a Rising Star by Minnesota Law & Politics for his practice focuses on representing public and pri- 2000 2009. He is a partner in Foley & Mansfield’s vate companies (including private equity funds) in Minneapolis office. acquisition and divestiture efforts. He also advises Clayton Chan has been named a shareholder at clients on joint ventures and financing matters. Winthrop & Weinstine, Minneapolis. He practices Rinky Parwani was appointed a special magistrate in the business succession and estate planning for the Value Adjustment Board for Hillsborough Patryk Drescher has joined the U.S. Department of department. County, Fla., for 2008. Justice as a trial attorney in the commercial litigation branch in Washington D.C. Tip Depp was named a partner at Dinsmore & Shohl in Louisville, Ky. He practices in the litigation Thomas McClenahan was named a principal in the and corporate departments, focusing on commercial litigation group at Fish & Richardson, one of three litigation and administrative law with an emphasis Marian Saksena has been Law School alumni named principles at the firm. He on telecommunications and public utility law. named a shareholder and will continue to focus his practice on patent litiga- member of the board of direction in the mechanical, semiconductor, software, and Susan Reed joined the Michigan Poverty Law tors at Walling, Berg & Debele. biotechnology fields. Program as an immigration attorney providing support and training to legal services programs Aaron Scow was named a partner at Akin Gump Victor Mokrousov was named a partner at the inter- and poverty law advocates. Strauss Hauer & Feld. He is a member of the firm’s national law firm of Chadbourne & Parke. He joined corporate practice and represents domestic and the firm's Almaty, Kazakhstan, office in 2005 and international clients in a wide variety of corporate has been featured among the recommended lawyers and securities matters. for Kazakhstan in Chambers Global, a directory of Dave Scouton was named a lawyers with an international practice. He is active in partner at Foley & Mansfield. Shane Swanson has joined Leonard, Street and the corporate, financial, merger & acquisition, For the fourth consecutive year, Deinard as a shareholder. energy, and oil and gas practices in Kazakhstan. he is among the top 2.5% of young attorneys in the state 1999 Meghan Riley practices labor and employment law named a Rising Star by Minnesota Law & Politics. as an assistant city attorney for Austin, Texas. She James Cho, formerly in Seyfarth Shaw’s New York recently gave birth to a son, Gabriel.

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Prof. Brad Karkkainen, Lisa Hurd Chung (’06), Lesli Rawles (’06), and Luke Kendal Tyre (’92), Joseph Windsor (’99), Dean David Wippman, and Aaron Hernandez Gallagher at San Diego area/Association of American Law Schools alumni (’08) at alumni reception, hosted by Office of Alumni Relations, in Washington, D.C. reception hosted by Office of Alumni Relations (home of largest community of Law School alumni outside of Twin Cities)

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professional practices, hospitals and health systems, interagency legal team of the U.S. Department of and various ancillary service providers. Defense, representing the Department in habeas Alysia Zens and her corpus matters originating from war on terrorism husband, Jason, are proud Greta Tackebury is director of career services and detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. to announce the birth of outreach at the University of Detroit Mercy Law their daughter, Alexis School. Archana Nath has joined the Minneapolis office of Katherine Zens, on Feb. 27, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly as a member of the 2009. She weighed 7 lb., 1.6 oz. and was 19.5 in. 2003 business litigation team. long. Alexis joins big brothers Justin and Caden at home in Buffalo, Minn. Proud grandparents are Ellen Dahl received the 2008 Arizona Narcotics Rosalie Strommen has formed the law firm of Dan and Sheryl Hensley of Buffalo, Minn.; Steve Officer Association’s Prosecutor of the Year Award. Berg & Strommen, which specializes in family law and Kathy Zens of Currie, Minn.; and Bill and and landlord-tenant law. Cyndi Dendinger of Vermillion, S.D. Cheree Haswell Johnson accepted a position as chief innovation counsel for the HJ Heinz Corp. in Elizabeth Temple just completed a year-long clerk- 2001 Pittsburgh, Penn. Previously, Cheree has held roles ship for the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme with 3M and Cargill as a patent attorney. Court. She is now an associate in the financing and Anna Burgett has joined the Parsinen law firm. restructuring department at Dorsey & Whitney. Her clients include real estate developers and Margaret Kaplan recently joined the Center for investors, construction companies, businesses, Urban and Regional Affairs as its operations director. 2008 and landlords. She maintains a hybrid practice of transactional and litigation matters. Jayna Paquin is now at Target Corp. in Minneapolis. Rebekah Bailey joined the firm of Nichols Kaster as an associate. She will represent employees on a Jessica Durbin, an associate with Johnson, Killen Dean Willer is among the top 2.5% of young variety of employment issues. & Seiler in Duluth, Minn., has received St. attorneys in the state named a Rising Star by Scholastica’s first Young Alumni Achievement Minnesota Law & Politics for 2009. Steve Barrows recently joined Leonard, Street and Award, presented Oct. 5 during the college's Deinard as a practicing attorney focusing on con- homecoming weekend. Naoya Yoshida has joined Mitsubishi Heavy struction litigation. Industries Europe. Matthew Franken has joined Hellmuth & Johnson as Daniel Buechler has joined the Minneapolis office of a member of the firm’s litigation practice group, 2004 Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly and is a member of where he represents businesses and individuals in the corporate finance and transactions team. commercial, real estate, and construction litigation. Aaron Street is the new publisher of Lawyerist.com, In addition, he is among the top 2.5% of young an online “lawyering survival guide” that provides Jodi Collova joined the firm of Nichols Kaster as an attorneys in the state named a Rising Star by tips and tools on topics of lawyer marketing, tech- associate. She will represent employees on a variety Minnesota Law & Politics. nology, ethics, careers, and practice management. of employment issues.

Joshua Randall has relocated to Salt Lake City and David Zucco has joined the legal department of David Jenson joined the Minneapolis office of joined the regional firm Holland & Hart as a patent General Mills Inc. Leonard, Street and Deinard as a practicing attorney attorney. focusing on general corporate law. 2005 Angela Hall Slaughter is associate general counsel Emily Kraack is clerking for Judge Holmes and the at UnitedHealth Group in the public and senior Valerie Ruth Aggerbeck is at the University of U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C. markets group. She was married in June. St. Thomas Law School Schoenecker Law Library. John Lassetter recently joined Leonard, Street and 2002 Amanda Basri is with Legal Aid of Western Missouri Deinard as a practicing attorney focusing on in Kansas City and recently joined its recruitment employment and labor law. Teresa Lavoie was named a principal in the patent committee, working to recruit and retain attorneys prosecution group at Fish & Richardson, one of three interested in public service. Jeff Lin is now a member of Moss & Barnett's energy Law School alumni named principals at the firm. She regulation and communications practice groups. will continue to focus her practice on client coun- 2006 seling and strategic portfolio development, patent Nicole Mazzocco has joined Warner Norcross & Judd opinions, due diligence and freedom-to-operate Carl Erik Heiberg joined the Shanghai office of in Grand Rapids, Mich., as an associate. studies, and patent prosecution in the chemical arts, O'Melveny & Myers as an associate in September 2008. with an emphasis on early to mid-stage companies. Emily Melvin is a law clerk with the U.S. Court of 2007 Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Ethan Rii has joined Katten Muchin Rosenman in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice on Andrew Borene published Blood, Sweat & Fury in Hillary Tabor is a Presidential Management Fellow in healthcare matters, counseling clients in a wide 2009, his first collection of poems, which draw from the Office of Special Education Programs for the range of business and regulatory issues pertaining to his experiences. He works as agency counsel on an U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C.

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CLASSES CLASS OF 1958 CLASS OF 1968 CLASS OF 1978 CLASS OF 1988 CLASS OF 1998 PRE-1949 Alumni: 78 Alumni: 145 Alumni: 210 Alumni: 253 Alumni: 286 Alumni: 137 Donors: 8 Donors: 26 Donors: 30 Donors: 28 Donors: 15 Donors: 21 Participation: 10% Participation: 18% Participation: 14% Participation: 11% Participation: 5% 2009 Giving: $30,910 Participation: 15% 2009 Giving: $1,915 2009 Giving: $15,815 2009 Giving: $13,290 2009 Giving: $17,100 CLASS OF 1999 2009 Giving: $169,858 CLASS OF 1969 CLASS OF 1979 CLASS OF 1989 CLASS OF 1959 10TH REUNION CLASS OF 1949 Alumni: 67 40TH REUNION 30TH REUNION 20TH REUNION Alumni: 282 Alumni: 58 Donors: 2 Alumni: 164 Alumni: 229 Alumni: 233 Donors: 22 Donors: 8 Participation: 3% Donors: 34 Donors: 33 Donors: 27 Participation: 8% Participation: 14% 2009 Giving: $120 Participation: 21% Participation: 14% Participation: 12% 2009 Giving: $6,870 2009 Giving: $4,375 2009 Giving: $23,015 2009 Giving: $16,520 2009 Giving: $5,817 CLASS OF 2000 CLASS OF 1960 CLASS OF 1970 CLASS OF 1980 CLASS OF 1990 Alumni: 268 CLASS OF 1950 Alumni: 60 Alumni: 128 Alumni: 198 Alumni: 259 Donors: 14 Alumni: 88 Donors: 7 Donors: 16 Donors: 32 Donors: 17 Participation: 5% Donors: 10 Participation: 12% 2009 Giving: $2,425 Participation: 13% Participation: 16% Participation: 7% Participation: 11% 2009 Giving: $1,875 2009 Giving: $14,045 2009 Giving: $135,620 2009 Giving: $12,965 CLASS OF 2001 2009 Giving: $6,720 Alumni: 275 CLASS OF 1961 CLASS OF 1971 CLASS OF 1981 CLASS OF 1991 CLASS OF 1951 Alumni: 68 Donors: 14 Alumni: 72 Alumni: 143 Alumni: 232 Alumni: 240 Participation: 5% Donors: 13 Donors: 15 Donors: 24 Donors: 17 2009 Giving: $4,095 Donors: 13 Participation: 19% Participation: 10% Participation: 10% Participation: 7% CLASS OF 2002 Participation: 18% 2009 Giving: $4,450 2009 Giving: $3,265 2009 Giving: $40,675 2009 Giving: $29,860 2009 Giving: $2,875 Alumni: 237 CLASS OF 1962 CLASS OF 1972 CLASS OF 1982 CLASS OF 1992 Donors: 12 CLASS OF 1952 Alumni: 49 Alumni: 201 Alumni: 223 Alumni: 274 Participation: 5% Alumni: 87 Donors: 5 Donors: 29 Donors: 33 Donors: 19 2009 Giving: $2,017 Donors: 10 Participation: 10% Participation: 14% Participation: 15% Participation: 7% CLASS OF 2003 Participation: 11% 2009 Giving: $1,450 2009 Giving: $36,375 2009 Giving: $8,694 2009 Giving: $2,625 Alumni: 282 2009 Giving: $3,800 Donors: 12 CLASS OF 1963 CLASS OF 1973 CLASS OF 1983 CLASS OF 1993 CLASS OF 1953 Participation: 4% Alumni: 83 Alumni: 256 Alumni: 230 Alumni: 253 Alumni: 50 2009 Giving: $1,665 Donors: 17 Donors: 31 Donors: 18 Donors: 15 Donors: 11 CLASS OF 2004 Participation: 20% Participation: 12% Participation: 8% Participation: 6% Participation: 22% 5TH REUNION 2009 Giving: $26,793 2009 Giving: $14,257 2009 Giving: $5,800 2009 Giving: $2,676 2009 Giving: $17,518 Alumni: 251 CLASS OF 1974 CLASS OF 1984 CLASS OF 1994 Donors: 23 CLASS OF 1954 CLASS OF 1964 35TH REUNION 25TH REUNION 15TH REUNION Participation: 9% Alumni: 56 Alumni: 92 2009 Giving: $4,086 Donors: 12 Alumni: 200 Alumni: 219 Alumni: 247 Donors: 7 Donors: 30 Donors: 21 Donors: 10 CLASS OF 2005 Participation: 13% Participation: 13% Alumni: 293 2009 Giving: $5,475 Participation: 15% Participation: 10% Participation: 4% 2009 Giving: $6,800 2009 Giving: $42,490 2009 Giving: $9,785 2009 Giving: $995 Donors: 20 CLASS OF 1965 Participation: 7% CLASS OF 1955 CLASS OF 1975 CLASS OF 1985 CLASS OF 1995 Alumni: 122 2009 Giving: $3,335 Alumni: 69 Alumni: 207 Alumni: 224 Alumni: 276 Donors: 20 CLASS OF 2006 Donors: 13 Donors: 34 Donors: 30 Donors: 15 Participation: 16% Alumni: 305 Participation: 19% Participation: 16% Participation: 13% Participation: 5% Donors: 15 2009 Giving: $103,709 2009 Giving: $4,055 2009 Giving: $17,490 2009 Giving: $11,875 2009 Giving: $3,300 Participation: 5% CLASS OF 1956 CLASS OF 1966 CLASS OF 1976 CLASS OF 1986 CLASS OF 1996 2009 Giving: $1,215 Alumni: 56 Alumni: 153 Alumni: 222 Alumni: 227 Alumni: 296 CLASS OF 2007 Donors: 10 Donors: 23 Donors: 38 Donors: 25 Donors: 18 Alumni: 286 Participation: 18% Participation: 15% Participation: 17% Participation: 11% Participation: 6% Donors: 21 Participation: 7% 2009 Giving: $7,117 2009 Giving: $107,495 2009 Giving: $50,262 2009 Giving: $10,505 2009 Giving: $4,277 2009 Giving: $2,295 CLASS OF 1957 CLASS OF 1967 CLASS OF 1977 CLASS OF 1987 CLASS OF 1997 CLASS OF 2008 Alumni: 60 Alumni: 159 Alumni: 208 Alumni: 242 Alumni: 291 Alumni: 275 Donors: 6 Donors: 33 Donors: 26 Donors: 19 Donors: 20 Donors: 7 Participation: 10% Participation: 21% Participation: 13% Participation: 8% Participation: 7% Participation: 3% 2009 Giving: $8,200 2009 Giving: $22,235 2009 Giving: $25,765 2009 Giving: $3,760 2009 Giving: $2,480 2009 Giving: $720 www.law.umn.edu Perspectives S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 53 CLE•CLE•CLE•CLE•CLE•CLE•CLE•CLE•CLE•CLE•CLE

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Monday, May 25 Tuesday, June 2 Administrative Law Review and Update International Law in the United States 8:30-4:30 with Kristin E. Hickman 8:30-4:30 with Oren Gross

Tuesday, May 26 Wednesday, June 3 Contemporary Issues in Law and Politics Taking the Mystery Out of the Mortgage Mess 8:30-4:30 with Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Developments in the Law of Mortgage Lending Wednesday, May 27 8:30-4:30 with Prentiss Cox Digital Evidence: Implications for Criminal Law and Civil Practice Thursday, June 4 8:30-4:30 with Michael J. Hannon Proof of Disparate Treatment After Desert Palace and Gross: New? Improved? Thursday, May 28 8:30-4:30 with Lisa Stratton and Jill Gaulding MBA Concepts for Lawyers in the Context of the Second Great Depression Friday, June 5 8:30-4:30 with Edward S. Adams Conflicts of Interest and Other Professional Responsibility Issues for Lawyers In Business Friday, May 29 Transactions and Commercial Litigation Hot Topics In Corporate Governance 8:30-4:30 with Richard W. Painter 8:30-4:30 with Claire A. Hill Saturday, June 6 Saturday, May 30 The Constitution in a Conservative Court: Ethical Implications and Requirements Two Decades and Counting Concerning the Representation of Individuals 8:30-4:30 with Dale Carpenter with Mental Disabilities (morning) and Overcoming Bias in the Representation of Monday, June 8 Individuals with Mental Disabilities (afternoon) National Trends In Family Law 9:00-3:00 with Carl M. Warren 8:30-4:30 with Brian Bix

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> Memorial Tributes

MELVIN S. COHEN Carlson, a longtime friend and Rudy Perpich, he began his career as a CLASS OF 1941 squash partner, who called Dickinson District Court Judge. He served on the Melvin S. Cohen of Eau Claire, Wisc., ”immensely fair, a good listener.” Tenth District bench, predominantly in died Dec. 16, 2008, at age 90. He Dickinson was re-elected in 1998 and Stillwater, Minn., from January 1986 retired from National Presto Industries 2004. In July 2008, he was appointed until declining health forced his retire- in 2002 but continued to serve as a to serve as a senior judge on state ment at the end of 2008. In 2004, consultant for the company where he courts across Minnesota. he went on leave from Minnesota to had been a board member for 57 After earning his undergraduate accept an appointment as a judge years. degree from Union College, for the United Nations in Kosovo. After graduating from the Law Schenectady, N.Y., in 1962, Dickinson School in 1941, Cohen worked as an returned to Minnesota to attend attorney at the Office of Price the Law School. He clerked on the CARLTON A. VARNER Administration and the Civil Minnesota Supreme Court. He had a CLASS OF 1972 Aeronautics Board. In 1944, he joined general practice and was a civil trial Carlton A. Varner, a partner at National Presto Industries as a service attorney with Stringer & Rohleder Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton manager. Soon he had become house for 31 years (1966–97). in Los Angeles, died Nov. 21, 2008, of counsel and export manager. By 1950 He served as governor for the ALS. He was 61. He served as editor of he was assistant treasurer and secre- Minnesota State Bar Association, the the Minnesota Law Review and gradu- tary, and a year later he was vice presi- Ramsey County Bar Association, and ated from the Law School, magna cum dent and treasurer. He rose to become the Ramsey County Bar Foundation laude and Order of the Coif, in 1972. executive vice president in 1955, Board; was a member of the Law The same year, he started at Sheppard president in 1960, and chairman of School’s Alumni Board; was director Mullin and went on to hold many man- the board in 1976. and secretary of Minnesota Landmarks agement positions, among them chair Cohen contributed generously Inc. (1976–97), and was active in many of the executive committee (1991-98). to the company and his community, other professional organizations. He was a member of the executive providing funding for many community committee until 2006. activities and programs. In 1974, he Varner specialized in antitrust created the Melvin S. Cohen Law THE HONORABLE cases, under both state and federal School Scholarship Fund, which has DAVID E. DOYSCHER antitrust laws. He represented clients been awarded annually, based on past CLASS OF 1971 in intellectual property rights, price civic and scholastic performance, that Retired Judge David E. Doyscher, who fixing, monopolization, merger, price recipients will be good citizens in the served on Minnesota’s Tenth Judicial discrimination matters, and other future. District Court for 23 years, died Feb. 2, complex business litigation across a 2009, in Forest Lake, Minn., at age 69 wide range of industries. Colleagues of colon cancer. He grew up in Jackson, remember him as both a practical THE HONORABLE Minn., and received his undergraduate and scholarly attorney, known for A. JAMES DICKINSON degree from Maryville College in his intellect, integrity, and judgment. CLASS OF 1965 Maryville, Tenn., in 1961. After three He was chair of the State Bar Retired Judge A. James Dickinson years in the Army and three years of California’s Antitrust and Unfair died Nov. 21, 2008, at age 67 at his working as an insurance adjuster, he Competition Section in 2003–04, home in St. Paul. In facing his battle entered the Law School. chair of the Los Angeles County Bar with pancreatic cancer, he said that In 1971, shortly after graduation, Association’s Antitrust Section, vice every day since his birth at less than Doyscher went to work for a Twin president of the Constitutional Rights 2 pounds had been a gift. Cities law firm and was sent to Forest Foundation, and actively involved in Dickinson retired Jan. 1, 2008, after Lake to manage a one-person law the Chancery Club, a Los Angeles serving with distinction for more than office. In 1977, he joined Jergens Law organization composed of distin- 11 years as a Ramsey County District (now Hebert and Welch) in Forest guished lawyers who are active in Judge. He was appointed to the dis- Lake as a partner. professional, civic, and philanthropic trict bench in 1997 by Governor Arne With his appointment by Governor activities.

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CLASS OF 1935 CLASS OF 1954 CLASS OF 1963 CLASS OF 1970 Robert Clinite James Garvey Larry J. Reitz Thomas R. Mahler Dec. 9, 2008 Feb. 12, 2009 Dec. 30, 2008 Dec. 16, 2008 Chanhassen, Minn. Eau Claire, Wisc. Owatonna, Minn. Edina, Minn.

CLASS OF 1948 CLASS OF 1955 CLASS OF 1964 CLASS OF 1983 John Person Bruce N. Reuther John M. Roue George (Mike) Mihelick Jan. 13, 2009 Jan. 26, 2009 Jan. 11, 2009 March 13, 2009 McFarland, Wisc. Ottertail, Minn. Crookston, Minn. Eagan, Minn.

CLASS OF 1950 CLASS OF 1956 CLASS OF 1969 Charles Clay Robert A. Johnson Kerry Bruce Olson March 1, 2009 Jan. 19, 2009 Jan. 28, 2009 Edina, Minn. Edina, Minn. Glencoe, Minn.

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