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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