Working for Justice in Cambodia Library's Rare Book Collection

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Working for Justice in Cambodia Library's Rare Book Collection THE MAGA ZINE OF NORTHWESTER N UNIVERSIT Y SCH OOL O F LAW VOLUME II NUMBER 1 FALL 2013 Working for Justice in Cambodia Library’s Rare Book Collection Martins Make $10 Million Gift Chapmans Fund Chaired Professorship NORTHWESTERN LAW REPORTER Fall 2013, Volume II, Number 1 DEAN AND HAROld WASHINgtON PROFESSOR Daniel B. Rodriguez ASSOCIATE DEAN OF ENROllMENT, CAREER StRATEGY, AND MARKETING Donald L. Rebstock ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR DEVELOpmENT AND AlumNI RELATIONS Jaci Thiede ASSISTANT DEAN OF MARKETING AND COmmuNICATIONS Kirston Fortune DIREctOR OF AlumNI RELATIONS Julie Chin DIREctOR OF MARKETING AND COmmuNICATIONS Kathleen Gleeson SENIOR DESIGNER Mary Kate Radelet CONTRIbutING WRITERS Jerry de Jaager, Kirston Fortune, Kathleen Gleeson, Tracy Marks, Jennifer West CONtrIbutING PHOTOgrAPHERS Randy Belice, Andrew Campbell, Teresa Crawford, Lloyd DeGrane, Evanston Photographic Studios, Jennifer Linzer, Marc Piscotty Photography, Mary Kate Radelet, Sally Ryan, Jasmin Shah, Juliet Sorensen, Tim Weng Cover photo and photos on pages 24-29 courtesy of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Photo on page 20 from Associated Press (AP Photo/ Belleville News-Democrat, Derik Holtmann, File). Photo on page 26 from Associated Press (AP Photo/Scott Eisen). The editors thank the faculty, staff, students, and alumni of Northwestern University School of Law for their cooperation in this publication. Opinions expressed in the Northwestern Law Reporter do not necessarily reflect the views of Northwestern University School of Law or Northwestern University. Update Your Address EmAIL [email protected] WEB www.law.northwestern.edu/alumni PHONE 312.503.7609 US MAIL Northwestern University School of Law Office of Alumni Relations and Development 375 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 Find us online at www.law.northwestern.edu Copyright ©2013. Northwestern University School of Law. All rights reserved. 9-13/16M THE MAGA ZINE OF NORTHWESTER N UNIVERSIT Y SCH OOL O F LAW VOLUME II NUMBER 1 FALL 2013 4 6 10 26 FEATURES 4 Martins Make $10 Million Gift 22 J. Landis “Lanny” Martin (JD ’) and his wife, Sharon, make a million unrestricted gi to help the Law School implement innovative strategies. DEPARTMENTS 6 Paying It Forward Howard (JD ’) and Betsy Chapman establish a professorship focused 2 From the Dean in business law, trial advocacy, or trust and estate law. 3 Noteworthy 18 Clinic News 8 Searle’s New Direction 30 Faculty Focus Under the leadership of new director, the Searle Center on Law, Faculty News Regulation, and Economic Growth launches a series of new New Faculty research initiatives. Faculty Publications 46 Alumni Notes 10 A Hidden Treasure Alumni News Professor Emily Kadens examines a few of the gems in the Pritzker Alumni Proles Legal Research Center’s rare book collection. Class Notes In Memoriam 26 Justice for Cambodia 60 Closing Remarks Professor David Scheer and his students work year-round to bring justice to the people of Cambodia. FROM THE DEAN am pleased to present to you the latest issue of the Northwestern Law Reporter. This third issue highlights the extraordinary work of our students, faculty, and alumni. Covering a wide subject terrain, you can see the breadth of the work of our law school community. INorthwestern Law School is engaged in a remarkably diverse body of activities and we are delighted to share some of this work with you. I hope you will take special note of the impressive work of our faculty, some description of which is contained in this issue of the Reporter. Through its distinguished scholarship, exemplary teaching, and public service, our faculty is carrying the ag for Northwestern Law and, more to the point, is setting just the right example for our remarkable students. These law teachers are contributing in meaningful ways to the legal profession and we are proud of their superb service. To say that the legal profession is facing difcult challenges is rapidly becoming a trite phrase. A more nuanced, and certainly more helpful, way to put the point is to say that the legal profession and legal educa- tion share in common the essential responsibility to reect candidly upon what changes should be made to improve the way we respectively do business. Stakeholders expect change; and change requires careful thought and deliberate strategies. Such strategies require that we in law schools put our heads together to consider how best to advance the objective of a high-quality, efcient legal education. We should attend to both curriculum and cost. At Northwestern Law School, we are doing our part in this endeavor. We are looking anew at our academic program and, with the develop- ment of our strategic plan (the details of which will be featured in the next issue of this magazine), at ways to educate our students to be ethical, professional sophisticated lawyers—and, indeed, leaders—in this dynamic, evolving profession. We are also looking closely at our economic model and our enrollment structure to ensure that we are providing exemplary instruction to students at the most efcient level and with due attention to student debt load and its impact on gradu- ates’ well-being. We do not expect to nd a panacea; and the kind of radical critique of current legal education that often frames the debate about whether legal education is “worth it,” more often obscures than illuminates. But we should come to agreement on this central point: The nation’s great law schools—and Northwestern Law is one of those great law schools—must adapt in order to improve and must strive to excellence by cogent planning and honest self-reection. I welcome our many stakeholders into this vital discussion. I welcome your advice and your input. You can reach out to me at daniel.rodriguez@ law.northwestern.edu. I also encourage you to read my blog, Word on the Streeterville, which can be found at deansblog.law.northwestern.edu. Daniel B. Rodriguez Dean and Harold Washington Professor 2 | NORTHWESTERN LAW REPORTER NOTEWORTHY Law School Launching Master of Science in Law Degree Program e legal marketplace is in a period of students will be able to complete the degree patenting inventions, assessing patent transition, and legal education is evolving in nine months of full-time study or – eligibility, intellectual property portfolio as well. As an innovator in the delivery of months of part-time study. management, and the choice between legal education, Northwestern Law is deeply “ese individuals are not interested trade secrets and patents; and seriously engaged in developing cur- in practicing law,” said Leslie Oster, • law and entrepreneurship, which will clinical associate professor focus on the issues and opportunities of law. “e legal and busi- involved in bringing an idea from ness training they receive conception to market, including law will help them be better at and the entrepreneur, project finance, what they are doing with employment law, issues in business for- their technical training. mation, business strategy, and business e MSL will impart tools analytics; and and skills that will allow students to navigate the • regulatory strategy and standard-setting, unique legal, business, and which examines regulatory strategy, stat- regulatory contexts in which utory interpretation, federal regulatory they operate.” agencies, standard setting, regulatory Program curriculum analytics, and data security and privacy. Emerson Tiller will consist of courses designed specically for “Science, engineering, and medicine are ricular enhancements to our traditional JD MSL students—a core of basic classes that key drivers of the United States and world and LLM programs, as well as creating new includes contract law and design; liability, economies,” said Emerson Tiller, J. Landis initiatives to meet emerging needs. risk, and insurance; business associations Martin Professor of Law and Business Professionals with scientic, engineer- ing, and medical backgrounds work in an increasingly complex legal and regulatory “Skills acquired in the Master of Science in Law program will landscape. Success in this environment requires more than just technological allow professionals to communicate and interact across disciplines knowledge—leaders must understand how and professions, to recognize obstacles and risks, and to visualize the pieces t together across the enterprise to facilitate work ows and avoid potential opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship.” legal and regulatory problems. —EMERSON TILLER Entrepreneurs with training in the sci- ence, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines benet from gaining and tax; negotiations; alternative dispute and associate dean of academic initiatives. an understanding of elements of busi- resolution; writing, communication, nan- “Skills acquired in the MSL program will ness law as well. For example, they oen cial and presentation skills; and regulation allow professionals to communicate and must develop and protect their intellectual and legislation. interact across disciplines and professions, property in order to successfully bring their Building upon the core will be special- to recognize obstacles and risks, and to products to market. ized elective classes and experiential activi- visualize opportunities for innovation and To meet this need Northwestern Law ties in three interrelated concentrations entrepreneurship.” n School will establish the Master of Science that will allow students to tailor a course of in Law (MSL) degree to provide practical study that meets
Recommended publications
  • Dean William Trickett
    Dean William Trickett By MARK W. PODVIA, 1 West Virginia University College of Law Member of the Pennsylvania Bar TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EARLY LIFE AND CAREERS . 192 IV. DEATH AND LEGACY . 199 II. LEGAL CAREER AND APPENDIX: TRICKETT ARTICLES SCHOLARSHIP . 193 APPEARING IN THE FORUM AND III. EDUCATOR AND DICKINSON LAW REVIEW . 200 ADMINISTRATOR . 195 ABSTRACT William Trickett, Dean of the Dickinson School of Law from 1890 until his death in 1928, is remembered today as a noted educator, the man for whom the Law School’s Trickett Hall was named in 1918. Sometimes forgotten is his role as a legal author who wrote and published numerous articles and treatises. All of his treatises and many of the more than 100 articles he authored specifically focus on Pennsyl- vania law. His works are still occasionally referenced by courts, a century or more after they were written. This article reexamines his life and legacy. I. EARLY LIFE AND CAREERS William Trickett was born in Leicester, England, on June 9, 1840. 2 His family moved to the United States when he was two years old, settling in Philadelphia. 3 Trickett grew up there, graduating from Philadelphia Central High School at the age of 17. 4 Trickett’s first career was in the ministry. In March 1859, he was admitted as a preacher in the Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 5 In 1. M.A., The Pennsylvania State University, 2006; M.S.L.S., Clarion University of Pennsylvania, 1993; J.D., The Dickinson School of Law, 1986; A.B., Grove City College, 1983.
    [Show full text]
  • Dean Attanasio
    SMU Law Review Volume 52 Issue 1 Article 20 1999 Welcome, Dean Attanasio Hideo Chikusa Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.smu.edu/smulr Recommended Citation Hideo Chikusa, Welcome, Dean Attanasio, 52 SMU L. REV. 267 (1999) https://scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol52/iss1/20 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at SMU Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in SMU Law Review by an authorized administrator of SMU Scholar. For more information, please visit http://digitalrepository.smu.edu. WELCOME, DEAN ATTANASIO Judge Hideo Chikusa* ** ROFESSOR John Attanasio, guests from the United States, and friends, to all of you, I wish to extend my hearty greetings and welcome. Allow me to represent my colleagues by saying that all of us welcome Professor Attanasio, congratulate his joining the SMU Law School faculty to take up the position of the new dean, and wish him a happy and bright future. By request of Mr. Matsumuro, President of SMU Japanese Alumni, I will speak a few minutes. Being a judge, it would have been appropriate to speak about a current aspect of the court practice in this country. I must confess, however, that I have failed to prepare something intelligible for the topic, due to the extremely tight schedule I have had to face. In the Supreme Court, today is the last day for the deliberation before summer vacation, which begins July 20, just next week, and lasts through August. As an alternative, I wish to deal with a topic in another area somewhat related to comparative law which happens to be the major field of Profes- sor Attanasio.
    [Show full text]
  • Frequently Asked Questions About AALL's First Hundred Years Frank G
    Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC Publications School of Law Winter 2006 Frequently Asked Questions About AALL's First Hundred Years Frank G. Houdek Southern Illinois University Carbondale Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/law_pubs Part of the Legal Writing and Research Commons © 2006 by the American Association of Law Libraries. Published in Law Library Journal, Vol. 98, No. 1, Winter 2006 Recommended Citation Houdek, Frank G. "Frequently Asked Questions About AALL's First Hundred Years." (Winter 2006). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Publications by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. AALL Centennial Feature* Frequently Asked Questions about AALL’s First Hundred Years** Frank G. Houdek*** To kick off the yearlong celebration of the centennial of the American Association of Law Libraries in 2006, Professor Houdek answers some basic questions about the history of AALL. Contents Why Will AALL Celebrate Its Centennial at the Association’s 99th Annual Meeting? . 158 When and Where Was AALL’s First Annual Meeting? . 158 Who Was A. J. Small and Why Is He Important in AALL History? . 159 When and How Was Law Library Journal Created? . 160 What Was the Roalfe Plan? . 160 Who Was William R. Roalfe and Why Is He Important in AALL History? . 161 Why Didn’t AALL Meet in 1943 and 1944? . 162 When and How Were AALL’s Chapters First Developed? . 163 When and How Were Special Interest Sections First Developed? .
    [Show full text]
  • John Henry Wigmore (1863-1943)
    LH&RB Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries Volume 19 Number 2 Fall 2013 A legal scholar of exceptional status and John Henry Wigmore (1863-1943): unique insight, John Henry Wigmore quite A Sesquicentennial Appreciation literally wrote the book on evidence as commonly understood in and beyond his time, Joel Fishman, Ph.D. and Joshua Boston titled Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law or Wigmore on Evidence. He is also known for being one of the founding members of Harvard Law Review, 1 and a professor and dean of the Northwestern University Law School. With a bibliography of over 900 works, including many addresses, law review articles, books, pamphlets and translations, his contributions to the study of law are simply numerous as he dedicated himself to the writing of 2 Contmany publications that continue to be relevant long after his death. The 150th anniversary of Wigmore’s birth this year makes it appropriate to explore and commemorate these achievements and contributions to the legal field. Continued on page 4 Wigmore 1 William R. Roalfe, John Henry Wigmore Scholar and Reformer (1977) (hereafter Wigmore); Nathan William MacChesney, John Henry Wigmore: On behalf of the Board of Trustees, 38 Ill. L. Rev. 1, 6 (1943-1944); William R. Roalfe, John Henry Wigmore—1863-1943, 58 Nw. U. L. Rev. 445 (1963-1964). William R. Roalfe is known to the law librarians as one of the leading law librarians of the mid-twentieth century and an important leader of the American Association of Law Libraries; he was the librarian at Northwestern University Law School from 1946-64; see William R.
    [Show full text]
  • Privacy As Privilege: the Stored Communications Act and Internet Evidence Contents
    PRIVACY AS PRIVILEGE: THE STORED COMMUNICATIONS ACT AND INTERNET EVIDENCE Rebecca Wexler CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 2723 I. THE INTERNET AND THE TELEGRAPH ....................................................................... 2730 A. The Puzzle ........................................................................................................................ 2731 B. The Stored Communications Act .................................................................................. 2735 C. Telegraph Privacy Statutes ............................................................................................. 2741 II. PRIVACY AS PRIVILEGE .................................................................................................... 2745 A. Statutory Privileges ........................................................................................................ 2745 1. Defining Statutory Privileges ................................................................................... 2745 2. Common Features of Privileges ............................................................................... 2748 3. Confidentiality Without Privilege ........................................................................... 2750 4. The Current Stored Communications Act Privilege ............................................. 2753 B. The Rules that Govern Statutory Privilege Construction .........................................
    [Show full text]
  • SCT RDA Record Examples April 24, 2012
    About the SCT RDA Record Examples April 24, 2012 The PCC SCT RDA Records Task Group collected and reviewed 138 records (8 authority records and 130 bibliographic records, including 3 that were non‐MARC). To the best of our knowledge, the records are consistent with revisions made to RDA that were included in the April 10, 2012 release of the RDA Toolkit. The task group received invaluable assistance from many individuals, whose contributions are acknowledged in the group’s Final Report. Needless to say, we are responsible for any and all errors in the records. To report errors in these records, please refer to contact information given in the last section of this introduction. The organization of the records reflects in part how and where they were collected. Please note that there is some overlap of categories. (e.g., Records for law resources include primarily textual monographs, but also a few online resources and a rare book). Policy decisions. The task group was faced with several thorny policy decisions, most notably: • Show a variety of practices acceptable under RDA, or follow the same RDA options and alternatives consistently? Adhere to LC practice in LCPSs? RDA allows a variety of practices: Bibliographic records can be entered at a core level, LC core level, or fuller level. Additionally, RDA often offers a choice of various other options and alternatives. LCPSs reflect LC practice, but there are no equivalent PCC policy statements. Relationship designators are optional, as are all note fields and most access points beyond the one for the primary work manifested.
    [Show full text]
  • John Henry Wigmore
    University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Book Chapters Faculty Scholarship 2009 John Henry Wigmore Richard D. Friedman University of Michigan Law School, [email protected] Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/book_chapters/62 Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/book_chapters Part of the Evidence Commons, Legal Biography Commons, and the Legal Education Commons Publication Information & Recommended Citation Friedman, Richard D. "John Henry Wigmore." In Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, edited by R. K. Newman, 587-9. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 2009. This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Book Chapters by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wigmore, John Henry 587 Wigmore, John Henry (I863-I943). Law profes­ sor and dean. Wigmore was born and reared in San Francisco. His parents were both immigrants, his mother from England and his fa­ ther, of English heritage, from Ireland. Harry, as he was known familiarly, was John Henry Wigmore the oldest and most favored of his extraordinarily doting mother's seven children. The family was prosper­ ous-his father had an importing business-and Harry was educated principally in private schools. He then attended Harvard College, prompting the mother to move the family to Massachusetts to be close to him. After graduating in I883, he spent a brief interlude in San Francisco, but then returned, alone, to Cambridge to attend Harvard Law School.
    [Show full text]
  • A National Call to Action
    A National Call to Action Access to Justice for Limited English Proficient Litigants: Creating Solutions to Language Barriers in State Courts July 2013 For further information contact: Konstantina Vagenas, Director/Chief Counsel Language and Access to Justice Initiatives National Center for State Courts 2425 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 350 Arlington, VA 22201-3326 [email protected] Additional Resources can be found at: www.ncsc.org Copyright 2013 National Center for State Courts 300 Newport Avenue Williamsburg, VA 23185-4147 ISBN 978-0-89656-287-5 This document has been prepared with support from a State Justice Institute grant. The points of view and opinions offered in this call to action are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official policies or position of the State Justice Institute or the National Center for State Courts. Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments i Executive Summary ii Introduction iv Chapter 1: Pre-Summit Assessment 1 Chapter 2: The Summit 11 Plenary Sessions 12 Workshops 13 Team Exercises: Identifying Priorities and Developing Action Plans 16 Chapter 3: Action Steps: A Road Map to a Successful Language Access Program 17 Step 1: Identifying the Need for Language Assistance 19 Step 2: Establishing and Maintaining Oversight 22 Step 3: Implementing Monitoring Procedures 25 Step 4: Training and Educating Court Staff and Stakeholders 27 Step 5: Training and Certifying Interpreters 30 Step 6: Enhancing Collaboration and Information Sharing 33 Step 7: Utilizing Remote Interpreting Technology 35 Step 8: Ensuring Compliance with Legal Requirements 38 Step 9: Exploring Strategies to Obtain Funding 40 Appendix A: Summit Agenda 44 Appendix B: List of Summit Attendees/State Delegations 50 Preface and Acknowledgments Our American system of justice cannot function if it is not designed to adequately address the constitutional rights of a very large and ever-growing portion of its population, namely litigants with limited English proficiency (LEP).
    [Show full text]
  • The Demoiselles D'evanston: on the Aesthetics of the Wigmore Chart
    The Demoiselles d'Evanston: On the Aesthetics of the Wigmore Chart The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Bruce L. Hay, The Demoiselles d'Evanston: On the Aesthetics of the Wigmore Chart, 73 Law, Probability & Risk 211 (2008). Published Version doi: 10.1093/lpr/mgn003 Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11998341 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Open Access Policy Articles, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#OAP Les Demoiselles d’Evanston: On the Aesthetics of the Wigmore Chart Bruce L. Hay Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA† Forthcoming, Law, Probability and Risk (fall 2008) There is an old adage that the Investigating Officer can often remember to good purpose, namely, “Cherchez la femme,” “Seek for the woman.”1 I The International Exhibition of Modern Art arrived arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago in March 1913, a few months before John Wigmore of Northwestern University published the The Problem of Judicial Proof, in which he introduced his “chart method” of analyzing and evidence.2 Known as the Armory Show, the exhibition was billed as America’s first big introduction to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, and the other fashionable isms of the contemporary European art scene.3 (“Splash! Splotch! Cubist Art Here,” one Chicago newspaper headline † Email: [email protected]. AUTHOR’S NOTE: This paper was originally presented at a conference on Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence at Cardozo Law School, most papers from which were published in a special issue of Law, Probability & Risk in December 2007.
    [Show full text]
  • PAPERS, 1868-2006 Series 17/20 Boxes 1-245 Biography John Henry Wigmore Was Born March 4, 1863, A
    Northwestern University Archives ∙ Evanston, Illinois JOHN HENRY WIGMORE (1863-1943) PAPERS, 1868-2006 Series 17/20 Boxes 1-245 Biography John Henry Wigmore was born March 4, 1863, at San Francisco, California, one of several children of John and Harriet (Joyner) Wigmore. John Henry Wigmore, called Harry by his parents, received his early education at San Francisco’s private and highly regarded Urban Academy. From there he attended Harvard where he took A.B. (1883), A.M. (1884), and LL.B. (1887) degrees. Wigmore practiced law in Boston for two years following his graduation from law school. Subsequently he embarked on an academic career, his first appointment was as professor of Anglo-American law at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. While at Keio Wigmore became immersed in the study of comparative law and a distinguished student of Japanese law. A major legacy of his tenure at Keio was his research into Tokugawa era law and a resultant series of publications he edited and issued under the collective title Materials for the Study of Private Law in Old Japan. Wigmore accepted an offer to teach at Northwestern University and joined the faculty of its School of Law in 1893. He remained affiliated with Northwestern for the rest of his life, serving as the School of Law’s dean from 1901 to 1929. In this capacity Wigmore transformed a relatively modest institution into one of the leading law schools in the United States. He assembled a distinguished faculty, reformed and added breadth to the curriculum, promoted research into developing areas of legal scholarship, expanded the School’s library holdings, and founded or strongly supported the Illinois Law Review (now the Northwestern University Law Review), the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the Journal of Air Law.
    [Show full text]
  • CURRICULUM VITAE Ronald J. Allen John Henry Wigmore Professor
    CURRICULUM VITAE Ronald J. Allen John Henry Wigmore Professor 1811 N. Cleveland Ave. Northwestern University School of Law Chicago, Illinois 60614 357 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 TELEPHONE: 312-503-8372 (Office) E-MAIL: [email protected] 312-208-6045 (cell) EDUCATION: Undergraduate: Marshall University, Huntington, W. Va., B.S. (Mathematics), magna cum laude. Law School: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif. EMPLOYMENT: The John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law, Northwestern University (since 1992). Professor of Law, Northwestern University (since 1984). Visiting Professor of Law, Northwestern University (winter 1984). Professor of Law, Duke University (winter, 1983). Professor of Law, University of Iowa (1979-84). Visiting Professor of Law, University of Michigan (summer, 1982). Visiting Professor of Law, University of Iowa (1978-79). Assistant Professor of Law, State University of New York at Buffalo (1974-77); Associate Professor (1977-79). Visiting Professor of Law, University of Nebraska (1973-74). CONSULTING: Strategic and tactical advice on complex civil litigation ranging from discrete evidentiary and procedural issues to global management of nationwide litigation, with a special emphasize on scientific or otherwise complex evidentiary/procedural problems, and on managing sprawling litigation, such as the IUD, tobacco, and asbestos litigation. Clients include many 2 Fortune 500 businesses, such as Sears, Ford, Koch Industries, Citgo, Philip Morris, and Smithfield Foods. Recent work has focused on identifying experts, helping to construct their models (such as damage models) and reports, preparing them to testify, and responding to opposing experts. EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY: 1. ICC ARBITRATION #13834/cco-SEARLE LTD.
    [Show full text]
  • Beyond Black Ink: from Langdell to the Oyez Project-The Voice of the Past
    BEYOND BLACK INK: FROM LANGDELL TO THE OYEZ PROJECT-THE VOICE OF THE PAST Paul R. Baier* [T]he law is a science; . all the available materials of that science are containedin printed books.--Christopher Columbus Langdell, ca. 18861 I am the Edison Phonograph created by the Great Wizard of the new world to delight those who would have melody or be amused. I can sing you tender songs of love. I can give you merry tales andjoyous laughter. I can transform you to the realms of music. I can call you to join in the rhythmic dance.. .- Sound recording, ca. 19062 Beyond Langdell's black ink, lies the Oyez Project. It adds the human voice to our pedagogy: * George M. Armstrong, Jr., Professor of Law, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University. Judicial Fellow, Supreme Court of the United States, 1975-76. This was the year of my discovery of "The Supreme Court Tapes: Lively Conversations for the Classroom," as I captioned my archeological diggings in the Sound Recordings Division of the National Archives for a joint program of the Sections on Constitutional Law and Teaching Methods at the 1980 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Phoenix, Arizona-a pretty good place to launch a contemporary nova methodus, following Leipnitz (1667) and echoing Coke (1600): "Reading without hearing is dark and irksome." I owe thanks to Yale Kamisar, whose booming voice I first heard as a lowly Instructor in Law at Michigan Law School and whose loud objection at Phoenix to using the sound effects of Supreme Court tapes in teaching ("Why tapes, why not transcripts?") inspired me to keep at it for another quarter of a century, culminating of late in a reprise of sorts: "The Palm Beach Sound Machine," for the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Fla., July 2008, with thanks to Russell Weaver for inviting me to join his coterie of SEALS friends.
    [Show full text]