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SPRING 2004

All Too Human

The Chicago Judges Project, the inaugural Chicago Policy Initiative, has released its and Lisa '04 first set of findings. Dean Levmore, Professor Cass Sunstein, Ellman, explain how appellate judges' findings appear to be influenced, and how the Policy ideas. Initiatives will bring to the world the power of the Law School's

6 Building the Rule of Law

The fall of the Soviet Union didn't immediately deliver on its promise of freedom and justice for the former Soviet bloc. A surprising number of Law School alumni are a rule-of-law struggling there to create the infrastructure and mindset that underlay regime, something that most Central European and Eurasian nations have never known.

14 Student Life

Students find that their study of the law takes them places they would never have expected. These student-written articles highlight the Greenberg Seminars, informal and a discussion groups which meet in professors' living rooms, Streetlaw, program that finds law students in high school classrooms teaching some of the same cases they have trained with.

2 Message from the Dean

18 Alumni News Steve Lipscomb, '88 Diana Eagon, '60 Truman Gibson, '35 Robin Steans, '92 Steven Krone, '92 Heidi Rummel, '93

23 Alumni In Memoriam

27 Alumni Class Notes Message fro m the o ea n

I wish you could all have been at the tribute we held in memory Another event of recent note was our Admitted Students of Norval Morris at the end of March. The weather was mild Weekend, held at the start of April, and now a fixture in law (although the fountain, as is not uncommon on windy days, schools' admissions cycles. One hundred and fifty admitted gave a few of our guests a refreshing shower), and the Law students arrived and met one another, though many had earlier School was nicely decorated in preparation for the event. The encounters at other schools' competing programs. They Green Lounge-busy these days as our auditorium pavilion attended a town hall meeting with the dean (Why is Chicago undergoes reconstruction-was filled with Norval's family, different? Is it more conservative than other schools? Convince many friends, and admirers sharing stories and remembrances us to come here in ten minutes); watched and laughed at a of an important life and body of trivia contest, where the faculty always seems to lose by two work. The speakers shared warm, points and where some students seem to know everything, funny, and meaningful stories or at least everything about popular culture; attended a faculty about their mentor, friend, teacher, panel and a student panel; participated in real classes and then in and inspiration. When we heard a mock class with Socratic dialogue; breakfasted with Professor that Norval often slept in the Emily Buss; and mingled at a downtown gathering spot. maximum security prisons he By Saturday afternoon I was reasonably sure that we had visited and monitored (in order to provided an excellent, if exhausting, experience and that a better understand them), our very large percentage of these admitted applicants would attention was focused on what it come our way. Success should be measured not in terms of was that made Norval not only a high yield, or high yield alone. It is instead a question of significant scholar and teacher, but also a successful reformer. whether we did a good job describing our unique character While the tribute honored our friend and colleague, it also and values, and in turn attracting those students who will served as a reminder of the importance of community. It thrive here. I will let you know in due course. But judging by made me think hard about the wonderful community we the questions we were asked over the weekend about our have at the Law School. While we can not all be so lucky to clinical programs, the seriousness with which we take the live in Kenwood next door to the Neals and Meltzers, all of classroom experience, and our new Hormel Public Interest

us, here at the Law School and wherever our graduates go, Program, I think that Norval Morris would have been proud of

can engage with our students, associates, partners, and all that will follow him at this great place. clinical colleagues more than we do and to good effect. Norval stopped to smell the roses, and did so in a way that enriched those around him.

I am committed to finding ways to strengthen the Law School community even further. Our new seminars and programs and attention to student life are first steps. Our investment in the revitalization of our building is another; we are constructing attractive spaces that will in turn encourage student-student and student-faculty engagement. Similarly, our Chicago Policy Initiatives, a new set of programs you can read about in the

pages of this Record, will build upon our already enviable record of fostering collaboration between our students and faculty. Going forward, I will continue to try to find ways to make sure that our extended family of alumni and friends

are included in the life of the Law School; I welcome your suggestions on how to best accomplish this.

2 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL. SPRING 2004 ALL TOO HUMAN

The Chicago Judges Project The Chicago Judges finds that judges work in a year, in such areas as Project-a comprehensive health care, immigration, and child welfare. We will commit to survey of the voting patterns of surpnsmg ways federal judges-recently compiled an developing a new approach or proposed a At the end of that time we initial set of findings. The project is the first of a planned solution in two-year period. series of Chicago Policy Initiatives, research efforts led will offer a plan, or a suggestion for experimentation. Chicago's by Law School faculty, supported by student research ideas will in this way be applied to important problems assistants, and dedicated to finding practical solutions to and broadcast to the nation and to relevant policyrnakers, difficult social problems. Three of the key players behind Lisa Ellman: I'm interested in making the law work better. the Judges Project spoke recently about their work. Saul Professor Sunstein's research really works toward that, as he Levmore is Dean of the Law School and William B. Graham works at the intersection of law and policy. The Judges

an wrote with him and Professor of Law. Lisa Ellman, the project coordinator, is Project grew in part out of article I Professor David Schkade at the of Texas a law student in her third year of a joint ].D.lM.P.P. University [who will be here next a mini-course in Statistics and program with the Harris School of Public Policy Studies. year teaching Cass Sunstein, the principal investigator in the Judges Law]. Professor Sunstein had hired me as a research assistant. Project, is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service We studied judges and how they voted in environmental Professor in the Law School. Their comments have been cases. The article that came out of our work reported on

our it serves as a for assembled into a loose conversation. findings, and preliminary investigation Saul Levmore: The idea behind the Chicago Policy the Judges Project. Now we've got a larger group of students cases in a of areas of law in Initiatives is that we have assembled here in and around this looking into relevant variety smart to assess the of one Law School a significant number ofvery people­ order voting patterns judges. The fits into work students, faculty, and alumni. And while many are known for Cass Sunstein: project my ongoing on and deliberation. Last I a theoretical work, they actually have very practical ideas. The democracy year published Need that the plan is to pick a project with social implications, about once book, Why Societies Dissent, emphasizes pressure to conform and the risk that like-minded people Further about the including information Chicago Judges Project, will go to unjustified extremes. The Judges Project grows downloadable versions the the has can be of papers project produced, out of that general topic. found at http://www.law. uchicago. edulpolicyljudges/index. btml

3 SPRING 2004. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL Levmore: This is a great project, and I've enjoyed the way these cases, go through all these votes-and received Cass Sunstein has inspired student interest-and shown all something of an education in the cognitive sciences. But of us that there are surprising lessons to be extracted from I'm also seeing how we can make the law better, how we the available data about judicial voting patterns. This is can make the system work. You're forced to come up with something one might not initially think of as a "social � solutions. You look at the data you find, the empirical problem" but it is precisely that if only because our fellow findings, and then you wonder where we go from here. citizens and our politicians talk a great deal about the Sunstein: The most interesting finding, for me, is that perception that the judiciary is far more politicized than in judges get much more extreme when they're sitting with days past. The first question is whether this is demonstrably judges appointed by the president of the same political true-in terms of actual judicial decisions or votes rather The affiliation of the than pre-confirmation perceptions. The second question, political as least as framed Professor is presently by Sunstein, appointing president is a whether this might be true in some areas of law and then not in others. A third question is about group effects; if pretty good predictor ofjudicial panels of judges with mixed political backgrounds behave votes, but the political very differently from unmixed panels or individuals, then that is something we ought to know and perhaps something affiliation of the other judges that the political and legal system can exploit to good on the is an effect. In terms of our Chicago Policy Initiatives, this stands panel equally

as an a is for example of pressing issue that ripe inquiry by good predictor ofjudicial votes some of the best minds in the nation. I predict that Cass an action will come up with a terrific and provocative idea for party. If you're challenging affirmative program, improvement-even apart from the better understanding you're in great shape if the court consists of three Republican we will all have because of the work his group is engaged in. appointees-and in terrible shape if it's three Democratic Sunstein: We've analyzed about 16,000 judicial votes so appointees. This finding creates a real problem for the rule far, focusing on areas such as affirmative action, disability, of law; it suggests that legal outcomes are much affected environmental regulation, campaign finance, abortion, by personnel. Also, it's real-world evidence that like-minded capital punishment, property rights, gay rights, criminal people go to extremes. appeals, and more. We have found a large difference Ellman: What we want to do is apply the findings to between Republican appointees and Democratic questions of politics and jurisprudence. We aim to see how appointees (the biggest on gay rights)-and also some judges apply the law in practice. surprising commonalities (we see no difference in results, Sunstein: The United States debates many questions about for example, as between property rights cases and criminal judicial behavior, as we have seen in recent confirmation appeals). We also find that judges are much influenced by fights between Bush and the Senate Democrats. Those whom they're sitting with. As a result, the political affiliation debates have been empirically uninformed. We think we can of the appointing president is a pretty good predictor of inform them. Also, there have been countless discussions judicial votes, but the political affiliation of the other about legal reasoning and whether and how it's "political." judges on the panel is an equally good predictor of judicial We think we can inform those discussions too. More votes. There are big conformity effects. When a Republican broadly, there are discussions, in many fields of the appointee sits with two Democrats, the Republican gets humanities and social sciences, of social influences on human pretty liberal. behavior. We can study these issues in a real-world setting Ellman: What we're really doing is observing human and show what happens. a set. The behavior. And you learn that all law is human. Last year, Ellman: We're coming up with great data when I started working on the project, I got to read all senators I've spoken to-Carl Levin and Richard Durbin, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee-have been really excited about it. And our first paper was already cited in House Judiciary Committee hearings. Sunstein: At a minimum, the data suggest that it's foolish to say that judges just follow the law. We have clear evidence

4 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL. SPRING 2004 that this idea is unhelpful. Also, they suggest that the law WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: imposes some discipline. Republican appointees often ones. of agree with Democratic So the crudest picture The project before the Judges Project ideology-Republicans give conservative votes, Democrats we School has a tradition of research liberal-is quite wrong. Ifyou care about particular issues, The Law conducting practical In the model for the can show where political party matters. More ambitiously, that addresses social problems. fact, Initiatives-is I think that our data demonstrate the importance of Judges Project-and for the Chicago Policy in 1953 having a range of views on the federal bench. If you have the groundbreaking Chicago Jury Project, begun by mostly Democrats, or mostly Republicans, unjustified Law School Professors Harry Kalven and Hans Zeisel. was Dean movements in the law should be expected. "People thought that the jury sacrosanct," says Ellman: We have all of this information about Republicans Levmore. Kalven and Zeisel treated it as a human institution, and Democrats-but what about the appointing presidents? and they subjected it to rigorous scrutiny. "They asked: How do they differ from each other? That's our next step. What does a jury do? What happens when it deliberates? result of their Sunstein: In time, we hope to have a far more complete Does the judge agree with its decision?" One picture of how judges have voted, in order to see, for example, research, The American Jury, was a landmark effort to the different behavior of Roosevelt nominees, Reagan bridge the gap between social science and legal scholar­ nominees, Bush I nominees, Bush II nominees, Clinton ship-and to bring academic research into public debate. nominees, Johnson nominees, and so forth. We should "It was a pathbreaking social science and law research Levmore. "Now we're accustomed to that also be able to tell you which judges are conservative and project," says ask like liberal on particular issues-and which judges are most kind of thing. We regularly questions why teenagers susceptible, and least susceptible, to other judges' influences, have guns, what causes crime spikes and declines, and what and exactly when. causes bankruptcies. And we use social science to answer and fashion Levmore: I'd predict a practical result at the end of two these questions and then to understand legal an idea how rules." Not so in the of the years, perhaps in the form of interesting about long ago, days Chicago Jury judges ought to be nominated. It is after all our goal to Project, this way of going about things was revolutionary." who studied here produce not only great research but also concrete proposals. Levmore notes that graduates during it-both as work Ellman: It's one thing to sit in class and learn about the Jury Project still remember important as a That is the model for the law-though I admit to loving my classes. But it's quite and part of great education. another thing to study law as it happens, so to speak, and present initiatives; "work as a group on a specific problem that lend itself to solutions and to better to work on ways to change it-hopefully for the better. might practical yet Levmore: This Law School, perhaps more than any education." -R.M. other, is associated with ideas. "One hundred years of ideas and action" is an accurate description. We are also associated, correctly I think, with critical thinking. For every decent Chicago idea, there are several good Chicago-trained lawyers who will puncture the idea. Critics might say "Oh, there are a lot of eggheads in Hyde Park, and what do they have to do with my world?" Others might ask why our small Law School is not even more evident in newspapers and in public discourse. The truth is that we are involved in public debates. I've never seen a faculty work so hard on so Initiatives­ many interesting things. The Chicago Policy and the Judges Project-will help us show that we have important ideas that have legs of their own. We can develop ideas that lead to concrete suggestions. We will influence the design of legal institutions even as we continue our famous thinking (and criticizing). Our brilliant, hard-working faculty have ideas worth talking about and worth putting into action.-R.M.

SPRING 2004. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL 5 ------. ------BUILDING THE RULE of

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When future historians look back on the development crumbling of the Soviet Union into seventeen independent states, the fragmentation ofYugoslavia of rule of law in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, they Theinto five new nations, and the democratization of former absolutist regimes in Eastern Europe have will note the names of a diverse group of University introduced new possibilities and new dangers across a vast, strategically vital, and often inflammatory area of the of Chicago alumni who were there at the beginning, world, from the Balkans to the Chinese border. Success or failure at establishing and sustaining the rule of law and who applied their knowledge, wisdom, and within that region may well determine not only the fates of individual nations, but the durability of regional and training-and their hearts-to improve the lives of even global stability. Graduates of the Law School are lending their knowledge others and to strengthen the present stability and and experience to the challenging task of creating enduring legal institutions in many of those countries, through a future prospects of the world we all live in. widely lauded project of the American Bar Association: the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, CEELI for short. Alumni working with this group are helping to reconstitute judicial systems and eradicate judicial corruption, to revamp dysfunctional commercial and administrative laws, to combat human rights violations, and to change perceptions about rule of law within the legal profession and among entire citizenries.

6 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL. SPRING 2004 John Phillips, '73 arrived in Serbia in 2001 as CEELI's some of that progress undone by the fragility of Serbia's rule of law liaison only months after Slobodan Milosevic democracy. After Milosevic's removal, a persistent opponent had been arrested and extradited to The Hague to be tried of that regime's despotism, Leposava Karamarkovic, was

as of Serbia's Court. for war crimes. Phillips describes his mandate liaison in named president Supreme Phillips on efforts to terms similar to those used by others who have filled that worked with her several projects and calls her position, whatever country they were serving in: "Real invigorate the judiciary "as inspiring and courageous as reform must be driven by the people of the host country. anything I've ever witnessed." (Karamarkovic received Award in 2002 at a Working within approved areas of focus, you look for CEELI's inaugural Reformer's ceremony in Moscow.) However, during the state of emergency declared after the assassination of Serbia's prime minister Ten years ago Siobodan Milosevic closed the in 2003, Judge Karamarkovic and other reformers in the only law school in Kosovo, removed ethnic judiciary were unlawfully replaced by political appointees. Albanians from their jobs as judges, and barred Tom Jersild, '61 has served Serbia and many other nations. them from most work as lawyers. Now that they are able to go Last year Jersild helped Serbians draft a new company law, back to work, they must address the legal issues remaining applying skills he had honed during thirty-eight years at from an ugly history of ethnic conflict; they must help to Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw and had previously utilized revise the laws and train new lawyers; and they must do this with CEELI as the only American on a team that drafted in a homeland governed by a United Nations representative a new company law for Macedonia. Jersild observes that with the power to veto legislation and vacate court decisions. the previous codes were "very lengthy and wordy and The lawyers that we saw here in Prague are not just industrious formalistic," and that they impeded commercial transactions and dedicated; in the face of enormous challenges, they are rather than furthering them. "You can tell they weren't optimistic.-Joel Martin, '77 written by people who have actually done deals," he says. As opportunities to make a difference. Then you figure out I had the privilege of helping create and administer together with the host country's reform leaders how you Armenia's first-ever judicial qualification exam. can be most helpful, and plunge in with your sleeves rolled In accordance with its new constitution, Armenia up." Joel Martin, '77, who was liaison in Moldova and was creating a new court system and appointing new judges. now heads the CEELI Institute in Prague, adds this When the Minister of Justice requested our assistance, we description of the overall mission: "CEELI exists to respond provided copies of U.S. bar exam questions as samples, and to the needs and requests of countries, not the objectives I went with a deputy minister to Tbilisi, Georgia to observe of American lawyers; to provide technical legal service, not that country's judicial qualification exam. We brought in a prescriptive; and to be a pro bono public service project, testing expert to meet with the minister and ultimately we not a means for developing private business." observed the administration of the exam. Although aspects Collaborating with an array of Serbian government of the process were problematic, it nonetheless represented entities and legal associations and with international an important step toward incorporating objective criteria into governmental and non-governmental organizations, Phillips judicial appointments. -Gahmk Markarian, '91 worked to increase the transparency of legislative processes, strengthen judicial ethics, and create a judicial training center. To help fend off corruption, he assisted judicial and an example, he explains that in some countries incorporating to a business take to six months because of government leaders in a successful drive double judges' could up highly salaries, which raised them from a starting point below detailed requirements and extensive involvement of courts. Serbia's subsistence income level and made them more "When things are so complex and susceptible to corruption," comparable to officials in other branches of government. Jersild says, "many people don't have a private property without can't Phillips has seen significant progress, but he has also seen interest in society, and that, you really

SPRING 2004. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL 7 develop all the other aspects of rule of law." At the other end of CEELI's territory, Inge Fryklund, '79 served as rule of law liaison in Tajikistan. On the 2003 corruption index created by Transparency International, Tajikistan ranks 128th out of 133 countries. Fryklund describes a country once held together by authoritarian systems now struggling for identity and survival: "Under the Russians, infrastructure functioned; education was free; women were promoted; the legal system didn't require bribes. Russia connected the region with the outside world and Russian was the lingua franca. Now, as local rulers promote local languages and new borders impede movement, this commonality is breaking down

o

:Kladani 0 Law school in Tajikistan is enti_rely theoretical: no moot court, no mock trial, no legal clinic-not even class discussion. Many clients feel that it

is a better investment to bribe the judge than to hire an advocate. CEEL! conducted a ten-day mock trial boot camp for thirty-two students. The students got so wrapped up in the final domestic violence murder case, and so competitive, that all of them worked through the night before their final trials. It was their first glimpse of what an attorney can do, and of the excitement of doing whatever preparation is

necessary to fight and win a case. -Inge Fryklund, '79

and Central Asia is turning inward. It's the Tower of Babel collapsing in slow motion." Fryklund has focused her efforts primarily on working in what she calls a "bottom-up" or demand-side way to train and inspire Tajik law students, practicing lawyers, and judges, instilling not just knowledge of national laws and international covenants but also a passion for independent thought and forceful advocacy. "The hardest thing to change here-and in my view the most important-is the mindset," she says. "The amazing and inspiring degree of hard work and activity in the personal lives ofTajiks is matched only by the degree of passivity and helplessness toward governmental institutions." She recounts the of a discussion she facilitated with o aftermath planning y;, '¢ judges, advocates, and prosecutors from Uzbekistan, "That over 0 Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan: night, many cups Q of tea, an impromptu group of legal professionals, joined p an held an by my Kyrgyz driver and Uzbek border guard, � impassioned discussion about their visions, with ideas I o N LA. ranging from a Central Asian E. U. to stopping border guard harassment. It was a totally new idea that they could have dreams and choices instead of the latest passively accepting SEA

8 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL. SPRING 2004 directive from the khan, Soviet, or president." Tony Barash, '68 is Fryklund's geographic next-door neighbor, serving as liaison in Uzbekistan, another country where rule of law has yet to fully take hold-Freedom House ranked it last year as one of the world's fifteen most oppressive nations. The United States used its airbase there, acquired in October 2001, as a staging area for troops bound for Afghanistan and Iraq.

"Judiuial independenue may not be natural, but it uan be learned." -Joel C. Martin, '77

Barash's focus is more "top-down" than Fryklund's-he's working with the country's Supreme Court and its association ofjudges on judicial reform, facilitating training throughout the country on human rights, judicial ethics, and other pertinent topics. Last year he accompanied eight Uzbek judges to Washington, D.C. for a weeklong class on ethics that kicked off a project to revise and reform the Uzbekistan Rules ofJudicial

After laboring unsuccessfully with = Kazakh legislative drafters in preparing amendments to their administrative code in the early months of 1993, I was better prepared to

evaluate numerous draft constitutional and government administrative legislation proposals prepared over the next

seven years for countries assisted by CEELI. During the past

four years I have been providing constitutional and administrative law training for graduate law students and civil servants in the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and have conducted ongoing study and writing concerning how

transitions away from the old Prokuratura-moderated control

of administration toward a more neutral rule-of-law mode of administration might most effectively be implemented in several formerly Communist European countries. -Charles Marvin, J.D. '68, M.C.L. '70

Ethics. He calls that trip "one ofthe most fulfilling experiences have been of my life," and reports that the results gratifying: "Since returning, we have had the opportunity to speak about ethics to more than eighty percent of the 944 judges in Uzbekistan. I believe that the majority of judges accept

9 SPRING 2004. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL They want to break the cycle of corruption. I am not Judicial ethics reform in Uzbekistan is controversial. relying on promises or inferred intentions. Recently, there no indication There are powerful forces that prefer the system have been some very positive results, and I have as it is, because they believe they can control that that this positive direction will reverse." it. Judges in this country are in constant jeopardy; they are Earlier this year, Barash helped organize an unprece­ the under enormous pressure; they are grossly underpaid, and dented seminar on relations between the judiciary and thus vulnerable to corruption; they have little or no job security; media. The seminar was attended by over ninety judges, included their working conditions are poor, and in some cases abysmal. journalists, and advocates from countries that Ethics training gives confidence to judges who want to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, and judge honestly; it shows them they are not alone, and Georgia. Barash describes the discussions at the seminar as allows them to point to international standards as a reason "open and candid," and notes that they were later broadcast why they have to follow certain norms.-Tony Barash, '68 on national television in Uzbekistan. "This was a real sign of demonstrable progress toward improved media and Barash the fundamental premise that a truly independent, ethically public access to the country's courts," says. School with informed judiciary is imperative, both on paper and in Of all the Law graduates serving CEELI, a reason for than practice. They want change; they want professionalism; they perhaps none had deeper personal joining ''I'm ofArmenian he want international acceptance; and they want independence. Gahmk Markarian, '91. descent,"

10 THE U N I V E R SIT Y 0 F CHI C AGO LAW S C H 0 0 L • SP R I N G 2 0 04 when communism started onto a Web searchable in Armenian. says, "and I was in law school judicial page, create Armenia's first collapsing in Eastern Europe. Armenia, once a Soviet state, Francis also helped judicial training after I which holds sessions that are became an independent country a few months center, twice-monthly training are of the Bar graduated. I knew I wanted to become involved." After also videotaped. These tapes part Bulgarian at a New York the Association's video which are available to of the several years as a rising associate firm, library, any country's 10,000 attorneys. ''A lot of what we help create would be nothing new to an American lawyer," he says. "It's these things we just take for granted in the U.S. But without basics, there's no way to have a vital and trusted legal system." Most of the Law School graduates came to CEELI from firms or corporate practices, but Charles Marvin's work with CEELI continues a highly accomplished career in the field of law and development. A 1968 J.D. who earned a master's degree in 1970 from the Law School's trailblazing comparative law program, Marvin found himself in Kazakhstan just a year after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, helping to revise that fledgling country's call of CEELI's opening for a rule of law liaison in Armenia was too for him to resist. great I arrived in Serbia shortly after Milosevic left Armenia has the potential of becoming an international power. The judiciary was undertrained, underpaid Its of conflict with Azerbaijan over flashpoint. long history (so they would depend on the regime to the for threatens to Nagorno-Karabakh region, example, their and often I the , supplement salaries), corrupt. helped involve such as Russia and Turkey, and has large powers judges association and ministry of justice establish a judicial been called "the tiny knot at the center of a big international training center, trained experienced judges to be instructors security tangle." in it, helped organize initial courses, and served as an advisor From 1997 to 1999 Markarian helped solidify the to the training center. I worked with the leaders of the judiciary, association that had been established just before judges' ministry of justice, and ministry of finance to increase his arrival, to establish a bar association and expand the judicial salaries. I helped the judiciary develop standards of conduct and a disciplinary system for judges to meet inter­ "The majority of judges want change; national standards of integrity. -john Phillips, '89 want professionalism; they they administrative code. "It was probably too early for our want international acceptance; and work; the difference in systems was too great," he says. "It didn't work out as well as we had hoped." However, armed want independence. They want with what he had learned from that experience he went on they to provide assessments of constitutions and statutes in to break the cycle of corruption." Albania and M�ldova and to teach administrative law in Bulgaria. In the last three years he has been active as a -Tony Barash, '68 teacher and adviser in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. He co-chairs the ABA's Central European Law Committee. to render its services as host services it provided to its members, and to implement CEELI aims unnecessary Armenia's first-ever judicial qualification exam. He countries increase their capacity to direct their own legal closed its offices in remained in Armenia as a contractor for three more years. affairs; the organization has already and Slovakia. The During that time fellow alumnus Doug Francis, '66 assumed countries that include Poland, Hungary, the rule of law liaison position in Armenia. Their efforts one CEELI entity designed to last in perpetuity is the in and led sometimes intersected as they worked on the daunting CEELI Institute, headquartered Prague by Joel a of courses for project of putting all the country's appellate and economic Martin. The Institute offers range judges, and reformers. Its first was court decisions, never before available in a single place, lawyers, legal offering "Judging

11 SPRING 2004. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL in a Democratic Society." That workshop, Martin says, "proceeds from the assumption that judicial independence may not be natural, but it can be learned." Other courses include "Justice in a Market Economy," which is a two­ week study of commercial law, and "Protecting Human Rights in Democratic Societies." Acknowledging that changes in fundamental practices do not come easily, Martin says, "We generally invite three

"A lot of what we help create would be nothing new to an American lawyer; it's things we just take for granted in the U.8. But without these basics, there's no way to have a vital and trusted legal system." - Doug Franuis, '66

people at a time from any country so they'll have someone back home who shares their knowledge, someone they can talk with, network with. It can be mighty lonely out there for reformers." Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has said, "CEELI volunteers are an inspiring example of global community service. These splendid, dedicated, talented, and selfless lawyers have interrupted their lives and careers to make a difference in the world." Abner Mikva, '51, senior director of the Edwin F. Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, and calls serves on CEELI's eight-member executive board CEELI "the best thing the ABA has ever done," According to many of the graduates involved, the Law School can take some of the credit for the quality of the difference they are making in the world. Charles Marvin lauds the breadth and intensity of the Law School's pio­ neering comparative law program, which was led by Max Rheinstein. "It was a time when old colonial empires were breaking up and people were starting anew," Marvin says. "What I learned then has informed everything I've done since, and is highly relevant to the work I'm doing in Central Europe and Eurasia." Gahmk Markarian says that he found the big-picture thinking at the Law School "indispensable for deciding what to do and how to go about it in a situation where so

12 THE U N I V E R SIT Y 0 F CHI C AGO LAW S C H 0 0 L • S P R I N G 2004 had practiced law and taught part-time in Albuquerque for almost thirty-five years. My Gillsons were grown. I thought I should do something interesting and fun for the next thirty-five years. But, like most people I know, I probably would never have done anything about it. Why give up a comfortable life? What really happened is that I became too deaf to go to court. I was becoming a walking malpractice case. I had to quit my court-driven bankruptcy practice and was unable, or unwilling, to make anything else work. A good friend of mine was with CEEL! in Azerbaijan. A liaison had to go home early and I agreed to finish the last six months of her tour. Two months after I finished in Azerbaijan, CEEL! needed someone in Armenia; from Armenia, I went straight to Bulgaria. Now I'm in Serbia and Montenegro. My wife joins me for long visits. And my deafness is not a problem, because I have an interpreter and some great hearing devices.

What could have been a disaster has turned into a most interesting, entertaining, and satisfying life! "-Doug Francis, '66

"When I was in Law School they taught an old-fashioned

reverence for 'The Law' as such-as a somehow rocklike and objective thing that had formed us and made us different and better. The slant was even slightly religious although no

one would have used that word for it. We heard it especially from Karl Llewellyn but, really, the whole faculty rubbed it into us whether they knew they were doing it or not. Anyway, that old attitude stuck and it is what pulled me into CEEL! after I 'retired' and what kept me going inside CEEL!-and still does."-Tom Jersild, '61

much was so fluid and there was so much to be done."

Inge Fryklund says her friends kid her that the demand-side approach she's taking in Tajikistan is "pure University of Chicago." She proudly agrees: "I find that I am looking at things in economic terms-in terms of incentives and interests. This helps greatly in analyzing a very different and exotic-seeming system. Political decisions and the endemic corruption seem inexplicable on the surface, but a focus on the incentives and interests at work cuts through the surface differences to show the motivations and interests at stake. With these identified, it is much easier to identify leverage points and see how change might be effected." "In the long run," Fryklund adds, "I'm hoping that my work may lead to indigenous initiatives that can transform the Central Asian mindset. Outsiders cannot simply promote the adoption of Western institutions and expect them to take root."-G. de J.

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by Richard Hess, '04

Law the Law School one credit toward fulfilling The Greenberg Seminars encourage a rigorous yet provides School graduation requirements. These "informal seminars" also students the to get to know their informal exploration of ethical questions, professional give opportunity professors on a more individual basis. and often Small The selected themselves responsibilities, and current ideas or disputes. topics, by professors reveal a remarkable presented by a pair of faculty members, Levmore and Professor Roin their homes of interests. Dean Julie groups of students meet in professors' range ethical join with visiting faculty to engage students in that surround the themes of "Sharing for the wide-ranging discussions. Susan Steinhauser quandaries loosely and Disclosure." Professor Eric Posner and Visiting Professor Yoo discuss American This year, and Dan Greenberg, '65, provided the seed money John foreign policy. Professor Martha Nussbaum and Judge Richard Posner switched from to those of George for this important and popular intellectual program, Shakespeare's plays Bernard Shaw. Professors Cass Sunstein and Douglas

Lichtman lead one called Novels. which was launched last year. group Graphic to have Students have welcomed the new offerings. "It's nice said with interaction on an equal level," to acquaint themselves personally Marcus Fruchter, '04. "It's to members of the Law School faculty met with good to talk to and were be able professors Attemptsunexpected results for law students: several other students in an environment confronted by a four-foot-tall anti-globalization protester not were where talking strictly and his three-foot penguin sidekick; others surprised you're law." Second- and third­ for which about the to discover a professorial passion graphic novels, have embraced comic books. year law students to the uninitiated appear to be bound and Law School both the free-ranging discussion, Starting in the 2002-2003 academic year, the the to to know one that opportunity get offered a new opportunity for students, many teachers in academic life. Six classmates and professors' consider a significant improvement to rooms homes to talk living (a requirement). to fifteen participants meetin professors' to The substance of the discussion groups gives participants about topics ranging from economic constitutionalism casebooks the chance to read and discuss material far beyond comic books. Participants are selected by lot, and while. and aids. The and Disclosure group focused students must attend each of the five evening sessions, study Sharing

LAW SCHOOL. SPRING 2004 14 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Todd and Robin on short hypothetical ethical quandaries. Later the group including Yoo, Derek Jinks, Henderson, branched into dilemmas presented in Ian McEwan's Lenhardt. But by far the most popular and reliable cameos Amsterdam, J .M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, and T.C. Boyle's were turned in by Levmore and Rein's charming and read who amused students Drop City. Last year, the Shakespeare group staples precocious children, by literally their like Hamlet and King Lear, as well as Measurefor Measure parading around one evening and distributing candy in and Julius Caesar. Members of the Sunstein-Lichtman group Halloween costumes: the younger son wore a Rein-created to and the other dressed as an on graphic novels explored a medium where, according penguin suit, anti-globalization are to an with a "More Grants for the course description, "talented writers drawn protester, complete Iraq" placard. expressive form that combines art with dialogue, captions Since the discussion groups' inaugural year, the variety and narration." Said Melanie Rowen, '04, "I was reading of topics offered this year has doubled to eight, and the graphic novels before I joined the group. I was floored that number of students participating has tripled to nearly seventy. course life Sunstein and Lichtman were reading them, too." Even students who criticize offerings and student discussion One calls the an While some seminar topics are obvious from their titles, praise the groups. seminars like Professors Richard Helmholz and Albert Alschuler's "obviously great thing Levmore has done" for the school. Natural Law seminar, others are less obvious. Professor The student added that the reading groups enhance the Bernard Harcourt, along with a University sociology Law School's "reputation for professors' accessibility and office hours several farther professor, led a seminar titled "The Law and the Past Self." takes the open door policy steps than any law school I The substance of the discussion know of." groups gives participants the chance to read and discuss material far beyond casebooks and study aids.

one's The popular group examines how the law shapes identity, and whether individuals can still control that records identity in an era of permanent government electronic and Google searches. Students discussed topics and materials from the witness protection program to the Return ofMartin Guerre. out of a The seminar on Sharing and Disclosure grew "The Ethicist" similar group last year that began with columns in the New York Times. The participants' Sunday THE NEW 0 PENGUIN best efforts couldn't keep Levmore's wit submerged for long. (For those unfamiliar, the dean's sarcastic style often resembles the abuse dished out by Dr. Romano from the Chicago television drama ER.) During a talk on the theme JULIUS CAESAR of disclosure, the dean drolly responded to one student's personal revelation that in high school she had publicly exposed a higher-up's ethical improprieties. "Let me guess­ and I mean this in the nicest possible way-you then wrote your college admission essay about it, right?" Levmore and Roin also kept discussion lively by inviting various visiting professors to join in the discussions,

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by Rebecca Silver, '06

Streetlaw, a student group that sends Law School students to Chicago classrooms, is a practical

school program of legal education that allows high students to confront legal issues that affect their

lives. Rebecca Silver is one of sixteen students who, working in mentor groups of four, bring their knowledge to Chicago youth through Streetlaw. Professor Emily Buss and a group of Gage Park High School students

conduct a mock appellate argument at the Law School. She reports on her time in the program so far.

of is both and The of On Tuesday mornings I wake up before sunrise and pile exciting daunting. process creating a lesson has me a for the into a car with three other members of Streetlaw. We arrive certainly given heightened respect the work of who make it seem effortless. at Hubbard High School at 6:55 a.m., walk through my professors, into Mr. Fitz's The students in Mr. Firz's class are filled metal detector, up three flights of stairs, and high-school with common sense and Their common sense leads law class. Twenty students sit in a classroom set up to look energy. case or their to about the formal them reach to a decision in each hypothetical; like a courtroom. Our challenge is talk allows them to turn their common sense on its head structure of the law-and to make the law real and relevant. energy the and see a different outcome. There is something Our mentor group plans for each class by studying intelligent come alive for remarkable about the look on a student's face assigned topic and finding ways to make it the students. We bounce ideas off each other, search in when she reconsiders her gut reaction and has Lexis, and think back to our courses to find cases Mr. Fitz's students can compare to their own lives. Whether we wind up introducing a case about drag racing or spilled coffee, the challenge of finding a link the students will grab hold There is were filled with about home, to say why it may not be the proper judgment. questions college, leaving on face when and careers. When one asked an equally remarkable look that appears her leaving friends, choosing girl whether care about "cool" after school, I tell her that her argument was the crux of a powerful people being high to even in law Supreme Court opinion. I really had think. I finally said that school, care about what others think of but the Class ends at 7:50 a.m. and we drive back to Hyde Park. people them, meaning I'm to return to of "cool" can on environment. I told In my first class at the Law School, ready change depending your to "Here at the of Law School, the role of a student, happy to be the one forced question her, University Chicago people it be can be cool because in class." my gut reaction and articulate why might wrong. they say interesting things One day this winter, dozens of Streetlaw students came When I joined Streetlaw, I was expecting to help people lives of their and back to new The for to the Law School for a peek into the daily give my community. surprise, a mock is how much students to me. mentors. They toured the school, watched appellate me, my give in argument in which law students debated drug testing schools, and asked questions to a panel of law students. to come to law Streetlaw in 1972, when Georgetown University Law They asked us how we chose school, began Center students initiated an outreach whether it was hard to leave our families, and what experimental program I'm for D.C. students. Their difficulties we had to overcome to get to this point. inner-city Washington, high-school fellow curriculum and a text, Street Law: A Course in Practical Law, not sure which was more refreshing, hearing my since been students at law schools nationwide students tell their tales or watching the high school have taught by

we have all missed for academic credit, for or as the objective of a student students' faces as they learned that pay, home and struggled with obstacles similar to their own. organization. Some form of Streetlaw currently exists at more The day ended with lunch in the Green Lounge, where than sixty American law schools. sat with mentors and students talked over pizza. The girls I

Daniel Richard Basil Cherian, '06, Esser, The students of Streetlaw. Top: Kathryn Wycoff, '06, Ranjit Hakim, '05, Levine, '05, Fields, '06, Philipp Sheila '05, LL.M. '04, Sarah Horvitz, '05. Bottom: Benjamin Wimmer, '06, Katherine Myers, '06, Shaudy Danaye-Elmi, '05, Kadagathur, Felicia Ellsworth, '05, Rebecca Silver, '06, Emma Rodriguez, '06

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Holding all the Cards show found a home on the Travel Channel and Classmates of Steve Lipscomb, '88, should watch Slut when The became the outlet's series ever, he invites them to playa little poker. Lipscomb is founder immediately highest-rated to million viewers a week out of the with and CEO of the World Poker Tour, a groundbreaking drawing 3 5 gate, increase over their television show that brings both professionals and amateurs re-runs enjoying a 27 percent original is the em. is Part of the excitement by placement to the table for high stakes Hold-' It surprisingly ratings. generated the table that compelling viewing. of "WPT Cams"-tiny cameras embedded in hole cards. These cameras viewers In its two years on reveal the players' help and the air, WPT has follow the action. Interest has grown exponentially, airwaves. After spawned several several other poker shows have since hit the is about to and imitators, spun off a two years, Lipscomb's enterprise go public, number of related he sees it as the next PGA or NASCAR.

an idea in the ether of entertainment "Two years ago, this was just my "Now it is a million business ventures, and made brain," Lipscomb laughs. $115 like This is not to poker one of the and growing crazy. just supposed happen." fastest-growing Lipscomb, who earned his undergraduate degree at credit to the Law School for spectator sports in Dartmouth, gives making to do that. "I to the country. If you what is not supposed happen just planned intellectual Law don't know what be an attorney and was looking for a truly I When I look back Texas Hold-'em is School, which is why chose Chicago. I remember how I loved the the mental now, you will soon. now, experience, with a Posner or a Sunstein. I "It's really been an gymnastics of locking up Steve Lipscomb, '88 unbelievable ride," don't think there is anyplace else in the world where one to think and to left with a law firm learns so well how process information, says Lipscomb, who his job major of situation and think about it on shortly after paying off his student loans to produce a look at all aspects any from the theoretical to the documentary film, Battlefor the Minds, on the role of multiple levels, highly utterly of work."-c.A. The film received a human. Those assets in any line women in Baptist denominations. arc;. number of awards and was selected for broadcast on PBS's P.O.V That prestigious documentary series, exposure got From Advocate to Arbiter and created him a meeting with Norman Lear, Lipscomb Burton. While Diana '60, was the woman with her a show with Lear and television luminary AI Eagon, only starting he class to with her Law School class. ''A few women producing a Comedy Central show with Mr. Burton, graduate all out. As Channel on a started with me," she recalls, "but they dropped produced a documentary for the Discovery a certain sense of isolation set in, but I was committed championship poker tournament. they did, "I found it utterly compelling," he says, "Not so much to getting through." and determination drama so Get she did, and strength for the game itself, but for the human clearly played through Eagon's to are evident her career and life. "I wanted out in the course of a game. Like all great film or television, throughout for as as I can remember," she In fact, it's really about storytelling. I felt there was huge potential, be lawyer long says. she finished her undergraduate studies and law degree in just a huge untapped audience." a five thanks to scores on her placement Lipscomb immediately set to work on drawing up years, good college She also married and business plan for WPT. "I took it around to all of the major exams and a joint A.BI].D. program. had her first child while in law school. TV networks, and they all looked at me like I was insane. is a in the District Court of Hennepin 'Poker on TV?' they would ask." Lipscomb's breakthrough Today, Eagon judge casinos in in Minnesota and received the Professional was to affiliate with some of the major gambling County recently Minnesota Bar Association for to his televised Their Excellence Award from the the country, to open their houses games. her "substantial contributions to advance the profession." commitment to the project didn't hurt. legal

H 0 0 L • S P R I N G 2 0 0 4 18 THE UN I V E R SIT Y 0 F CHI C AGO LAW S C Eagon credits the Law School with providing the legal skills are the sorts of situations that tear at the fabric of individual and intellectual foundation needed on the bench. "The lives and community," she says, "and if we can find a way to whole to deal better and earlier with domestic violence, it can at least faculty encouraged you to look at the picture, argue done have benefit a case from both sides, to understand the interests and reduce the damage and perhaps positive is the line. If we can address violent households in a perspectives of all parties in a dispute," she says. "There down as one constructive I won't see the children who a kind of natural progression in this sort of analysis way, perhaps grow must all in those households later in criminal court." moves from an advocate to a jurist who respect up husband is a retired of mathematics at points of view and render a fair ruling." Eagon's professor have three sons. She After post-degree studies at Sheffield University in England, the University of Minnesota. They is an skier and has won a number of Eagon spent the next twenty years in private practice expert age group handling civil and family law, bankruptcy, real estate, and championships in NASTAR giant slalom competitions. She in as an also sailboat These activities her to fit criminal work. She also spent several years the 1970s enjoys racing. help stay elected city council member in New Brighton, Minnesota, and active, she says, and also help her avoid professional In she burnout. "I not to work and served on several municipal commissions. 1982, try bring my home," says Eagon, In "and I think that's I look forward to to work became a referee in Family Court in Hennepin County. why going then­ I think the reason I wanted to be a 1995, she was appointed District Court judge by every day. always lawyer Governor Arne Carlson. is I saw it ultimately as a form of public service, as a way to block others. As a I that I have made the Her current case load focuses on criminal and civil help judge, really hope has a most of the to me to make cases, but in her years on the bench she developed opportunities given my special interest in family law and domestic violence. "These community better."-c.A.

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Diana Eagon, '60

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Politics, Sports, and Culture: regulations and subsequently disbanded. Its regulatory A Life in Law and but functions can be found today in the WBA WBC, a Don has as He has been an attorney, an advisor to presidents, boxing Gibson jokes, "heck, you could say that King He has to the on as we did." promoter, and a music mogul. helped shape much of a monopoly fight promotion civil rights agenda ofAmerica. To talk with Truman Gibson, '35, Gibson assisted in forming J & D Records in Jamaica in tour of some of the twentieth was first to record a Bob is to take a personally guided the late 1950s. This label the young for the century's cultural and social landmarks. Marley, who was at the time a backup singer company's His moved He has Gibson was born in Atlanta in 1912. family biggest star, Johnny Nash ("I Can See Clearly Now"). to avoid member of to Columbus, Ohio, in the early 1920s racially remained an active and respected Chicago's legal He served directed violence in the South. community since, works in his office every day and has a Ph.B. from the and boards. received College over the years on countless corporate charity in all of the University of Chicago "The Law School really taught you to think through went on to the Law Gibson. "It never 1932, and aspects of any situation," says taught you

his as and never to fairness School, working way through to regard any problem simple, regard as a researcher on both Chicago and justice as unattainable."-c.A. sociologist's Harold Gosnell's pioneering study Negro Politicians: The Rise ofNegro Politics in Investing in Education, Building Chicago. He played football for Amos Alonzo Stagg and roomed with Benjamin O. Davis, Community black in the leaders in school who would go on to become the first general Robin Steans, '92, is one of Chicago's young U.S. Air Force. Edward Levi was a member of Gibson's Law reform and educational innovation, bringing new approaches friend. School class and would become a good to some of Chicago's most disadvantaged neighborhoods was an in there. Following graduation, Gibson attorney Chicago, and new hope to young people case filed leads the work where he worked on a landmark open housing Steans, along with other family members, by the father ofA Raisin in the Sun playwright Lorraine of the Steans Family Foundation to Lawndale Hansberry. In 1940, he was called to Washington in Chicago's North War have become an assistant civilian aide to Secretary of Henry neighborhood. They developed Stimson, becoming the civilian aide in 1943 specifically a novel and holistic approach to assigned to investigate issues related to black troops serving community development, one in World War II. Following the war, Gibson was appointed that places particular emphasis on Committee on the schools to President Harry Truman's Advisory strengthening public assisted Universal Military Training. As part of that work, he in that West Side neighborhood. in drafting the document that would become Truman's Steans, who describes herself as a also landmark order to desegregate the military, in many ways "teacher at heart," has civil and to a charter the incipient event of subsequent rights rulings devoted a great deal of energy establishing legislation. In 1947, Gibson became the first African American school there, the North Lawndale College Prep. for Civilians. Brown Steans to receive the Medal of Merit Award Following graduation from University, Louis in and then received a Two years later, Gibson helped boxing champion Joe became a high-school teacher Boston, on the of from Stanford. She returned to with some tax problems and took management master's degree in education formed she made Joe Louis Enterprises. He and business partners Chicago to teach at Sullivan High School. Once which became the official she was attracted the International Boxing Club, the decision to go to law school, immediately for the knew the School's worldwide promotional and regulatory agency sport. to the University of Chicago. "I reputation on the that it and I found that So far-reaching was the organization's hold sport for rigor and intense intellectual activity, declared to be in violation of antitrust Plus I had to work in and would eventually be very compelling. begun Chicago,

S C H 0 0 L • S P R I N G 2 0 0 4 20 THE UN I V E R SIT Y 0 F CHI C AGO LAW to for I wanted to stay here to continue work change." L.A. Lawyers: Show Business and In 1986 Steans began working with the I Have A Dream low-income Civil foundation, in which a family "adopts" a class of Rights them to Robin and students in the hope of getting college. Their relationship has had some twists and turns that, became involved her two sisters, Heather and Jennifer, very appropriately enough, would not be out of place in a the same their father, with the program. At about time, light-comedy screenplay. banker Harrison Steans, had begun talking to the University Steven Krone, '92 is president and chief operating officer at the of Chicago about the family endowing a project ofVillage Roadshow Pictures, a company that produces the latest social science research University that would bring about eight feature films per year. Those films have included communities in to bear in practical ways to improve Chicago. the Matrix trilogy, Three Kings, Training Day, Analyze This, in the Steans Initiative for That project came to fruition and the recent Oscar-winning Mystic River. Heidi Rummel, Urban Policy Development. '93 is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Rights Even though she pictured herself going to work for the Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's U.S. Attorney's Office following Law School, her family's Office in Los Angeles. and the students she met commitment to the community, Krone's path to the Law School was a bit unconventional, drew her back toward through the I Have A Dream program though given his current job, it appears to be part of a communities. The improving individual lives and family well-planned career. A native of Florida, he went to the concentrate efforts and resources in North decided to their University of Chicago as an undergraduate for one year, then one area with Lawndale because "by focusing on great needs, transferred to the of action yet where there was already a foundation community University of Steans going on, we could have the greatest result," says. Southern California for She also worked with a group called Leadership Quality to study film. He has a Education, a nonprofit organization that developed worked during that number of charter schools throughout the city. Bringing college to finance on the charter experience to North Lawndale, she focuses his studies, then school, while other family members work on such issues as worked in adver­ "School is not social services and economic development. tising for a couple Steans "There is a the only issue in these kids' lives," says. of years before issues that affect a whole range of social and economic deciding to attend student's performance in school, or even their ability to just law school. get to school every day." Rummel knew has a Accordingly, North Lawndale College Prep challenging from an early age and effort into curriculum, but also puts much thought she wanted to Steans is committed counseling, mentoring, and internships. be a trial lawyer. . about student to keeping the per-pupil cost low, $8,500 per She had grown up and scalable per year, so that the school becomes a realistic in the Midwest model for others. She has worked intensively to refine the and pursued her school's approach and improve its results. Heidi Rummel, '93 and Steven Krone, '92 at undergraduate in the field, the 2004 Golden Globe Awards "Even though I am not working directly legal studies at the valuable to my Law School education has been immensely University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, before applying "The of me in pursuing this work," Steans says. University to the Law School. She found the Law School challenging, the situation Chicago Law School teaches you to see beyond but she excelled. And, she adds, "I got to be a part of a lot and how at hand, to look for the broader connections they of Steve's fun-he brings his own fun wherever he goes."

an on issues. Once are able to ask a to have impact other you "For me, Law School was lot like college is supposed answers and actions follow."-c.A. the right questions, be," Krone says. "I did have fun. In college, I had always

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for use as This was crime young worked, and I worked when I got out of college. organized syndicates importing girls sex She has handled a number of the first time I had been able to just concentrate on my slaves. recently high-profile time to forced and human prosecutions. studies, and as a result it felt like I had much mo�e prostitution trafficking firm of the Law Krone was an at the Hills law do other things." He was a part ofWine Mess and attorney Beverly Ramer & Brown, where he represented a Review, and produced the 1992 Third Year Show. Gang, Tyre, number of film directors, actors, writers, and Krone and Rummel met at an Over the Hump Party. He producers, executives before to Roadshow as executive was headed to Mardi Gras-later that night-with friends, moving Village New Orleans and her vice for business & affairs. and ended up calling her from asking president legal their on their first The lives in Studio with children, out when he returned. They agreed to go out couple City and two. date the following Thursday. What neither of them realized Jonathan, four, Charlotte, the was Valentine's "Even career has been totally unplanned, at the time was that the following Thursday though my what Steve Law School me with background to do Day. "It didn't hit me until the day of the date," provided great I do Steve "It is the combination. recalls. "I scrambled and got some Bowers." now," says. really perfect and had- no which In I had experience actually writing making "I picked him up, because he car, pretty college which me some Heidi teases. "We had then I worked in gave much set the pattern for our dating," films, advertising, into and the Law School provided the a very nice first date." insight marketing, legal and business background. More importantly, it taught write and how to IIWe each got our dream jobs at the same me how to think clearly and to clearly, approach any situation analytically. times as an time-except on opposite coasts" Krone has returned to the Law School several instructor, teaching entertainment law. He adds that also him a kind of confidence in his abilities. "We had dinner at the Frontera Grill, then went to John Chicago gave ''A "Since I worked full-time in my grades were Barleycorn and Kingston Mines," Steve says, very always college, . The Law School was a kind of academic Chicago first date." not very good. I could Steve clerked for me, a chance to show myself that After he was graduated from the Law School, redemption Court of do well. And, I met Heidi." for Abner J. Mikva, '51 on the United States really then for Heidi that the Law School "was absolutely critical to my Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and says While he career and life. I received great legal training there, Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. my really Heidi clerked for U.S. had the to do a clerkship and work as an was clerking at the Supreme Court, opportunity and then and the of a law degree is really District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson AUSA, credibility Chicago office in without And, of course, I met Steve." -c.A. landed a job in the United States Attorney's parallel. Washington, D.C. wanted "It worked out perfectly," she recalls now. "I always could Steve there." to be lawyer in Washington, and I join "Then," Steve laughs, "I got my dream job in Los Angeles." at the same Adds Heidi: "We each got our dream jobs time-except on opposite coasts." where Rummel's lives, They were married in Ohio, family months in a commuter then spent the next eighteen marriage United before she was able to transfer to the Los Angeles States Attorney's Office. Now, in the Civil Rights Section of the Criminal Division, involved in human Rummel focuses on prosecuting those into the trafficking. Some cases involve women brought United States to work as domestic servants, for which they

other cases involve are paid very little or nothing at all;

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Norval Morris Remembered Norval Morris, Julius Kreeger Professor ofLaw and Criminology and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Emeritus, former dean of the Law School, and founding Sentencing System (1990) with Michael Tonry. director of the Law School's Center for Studies in Criminal Albert Alschuler, the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Justice, died February 21 in Mercy Hospital in Chicago at Criminology, said Morris's 1990 book with Tonry is "perhaps the most cited work in criminal the age of eighty. Morris was an internationally recognized scholarly justice." reform. He Morris's 1974 Lecture at the of expert on the criminal justice system and prison Cooley University Michigan since offered a vision of reform and described how had been a member of the Law School faculty 1964 scholarly prison an ideal for serious offenders be structured. His and was a resident of Hyde Park. prison might was thereafter the Federal Morris was born in Auckland, proposal implemented shortly by New Zealand, in 1923. Following Bureau of Prisons at a new penitentiary at Butner, N.C., and a for humane service in the Australian army in other facilities, and remains model confinement. World War II, he completed LL.B. Among many professional affiliations, Morris was a member and LL.M. degrees at the University of the American Academy ofArts and Sciences, a Fellow of of Melbourne. In 1949, he received the American Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the American of and a board member of the a Ph.D. in law and criminology Society Criminology, Chicago to Bar Foundation from 1982 to 1988, and he had received and was appointed the Faculty of Law at the London School of numerous honors and honorary degrees. He also was a chairman of the board and board member of the National Economics. Subsequently he practiced law as a barrister in and his career was Australia and held academic appointments at the University Institute of Corrections, throughout invited Professor and to on national and international bodies related of Adelaide, where he was the Bonython participate and service on the Dean of the Faculty of Law, from 1958 to 1962, and at the criminal justice public policy, including from to University of Melbourne, in the Department of Criminology, Police Board of the City of Chicago 1979 1987. from "With Norval's incarcerated individuals around where he was Secretary and Foundation Member, passing, the world lost a friend and a said 1951 to 1958, and Associate Professor of Criminology, from powerful advocate," James to of the Howard Association, a 1955 to 1958, as well as Senior Lecturer in Law, from 1950 Coldren, president John reform based in Morris had 1958. He later taught in the United States at Harvard University, prison organization Chicago. on the Board of Directors and the Council the University of Utah, the University of Colorado, and New served Advisory for "He to the in York University. From 1962 to 1964, he was founding twenty years. appealed humanity everyone, the There no to director of the United Nations Institute for the Prevention including both the jailed and jailers. is way of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (Asia and Far East) in tally the immense positive impact he had on so many lives." "For all his wonderful his brilliance, his wit, his Tokyo, and for his service the Japanese government awarded gifts, was his for said Locke him the Japanese Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class. greatest quality capacity friendship," academic Bowman, '82, Director of the MacArthur Center at As dedicated and accomplished as he was in his Justice was at the of Law School. "He was a wonderful career and in his advocacy for prison reform, Morris University Chicago friend. And he shared this with all kinds of world various times in his life also the publisher of a small weekly gift people: a leaders, scholars, and activists allover newspaper in Maine, a fierce amateur tennis player, private aspiring lawyers, Chicago around and the world, and, of course, with pilot, a lifelong devotee of chess with playing partners lonely prisoners." ventures. Abner Mikva, '51, who had known Morris for the world, and a participant in entrepreneurial forty years, never met He was a most influential writers in said, "I have anyone like him. Morris, regarded as among the rigorously thinker a decent and soul." the field of criminal justice, was the author, co-author, or tough legal yet totally gentle editor of fifteen books and hundreds of articles during his Morris is survived by his wife, Elaine Richardson Morris; books are three sons, Gareth Morris, married to Elizabeth Morris; fifty-five-year academic career. Among his recent is Scott Harms and Maconochie's Gentlemen: The. Story ofNorfolk Island and the Malcolm Morris, whose partner Rose; to Ann Elizabeth and Roots ofModern Prison Reform (2003); The Oxford History Christopher Morris, married Morris; Morris and ofthe Prison (1995) with David Rothman; The Brothel Boy three grandchildren, Madelyn Morris, Emily to Sarah Morris.-Ps. and Other Parables ofthe Law (1992); and Between Prison Gregory Morris, married

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Spencer W. Kimball Jr. dean of Emeritus Law School. He moved on to become Spencer W Kimball Jr., the Seymour Logan Professor Michigan the ofWisconsin Law School, serving until 1972. of Law, died October 26, 2003, in Salt Lake City at the University executive director In the summer of 1972, Kimball became age of eighty-five. at the Law of ofAmerican Bar Foundation, and a professor Kimball was a strong, but pragmatic, proponent resumed full-time and was He said in 1984 that state School. In 1978, he teaching state regulation of insurance. Professor of Law. He .. stepped regulation "works tolerably well. named the Seymour Logan down from the Foundation director in 1982. Kimball and there is not the slightest post retired from the Law School in 1988. assurance that a federal system Insurance From 1966 to 1978 Kimball was staffdirector ofthe would work any better." Laws Revision Committee of the Wisconsin Legislative Kimball, the son of a president revised Wisconsin insurance of the Church ofJesus Christ of Council, which systematically revision law. it was the first comprehensive Latter-day Saints, received his B.S. Widely copied, laws in He later headed a in mathematics from the University of state insurance forty years. insurance laws. ofArizona in 1940. He served as revision of Utah's winner the In 1960, Kimball wrote Insurance and Public Policy, a Japanese linguist in navy of the Elizur Award for the most significant during World War II. Wright about insurance in that as a Rhodes contribution to the literature year. After obtaining a B.C.L. from Oxford University were collected and His articles on insurance regulation Scholar, he joined the faculty of the University ofUtah College major in 1966 as in Insurance Regulation. of Law in 1949. He became its dean in 1950. From 1957 published Essays

at the of to 1968, Kimball served as a professor University

Kenneth C. Davis law in both as the in 1934. After few years of practicing private Kenneth Culp Davis, a legal scholar generally recognized � he became a law p. Wilson and with the federal government, creator ofthe field ofadministrative law and the John practice ofWest on He law at the University Virginia, Professor at the Law School from 1961 to 1976, died professor. taught of the of Minnesota, and August 30, 2003 in San Diego. He the University Texas, University Harvard before the University of Chicago. After was ninety-four. joining of the text the Law School, he the University Prior to Davis's publishing his leaving joined faculty until 1994. He was voted Administrative Law in 1951 and of San Diego, where he taught of Arts and Sciences in 1979. then his multi-volume treatise on into the American Academy administrative law extended to his the subject in 1958, administrative Davis's influence on of the terms facts" and "legislative law as such did not exist. As Davis's coining "adjudicative describe the difference between facts the government longtime friend, colleague, and facts" to existence of at trial and those that fellow administrative law scholar must establish the may be and the of DiscretionaryJustice in Carl Auerbach put it: "Ken's assumed, publication for officials treatise created the field." 1969, where he argued passionately controlling rules rather than Missouri. He received through Davis was born in 1908 in Leeton, through highly constraining legal and his law standards that permitted them to make policy his undergraduate degree from Whitman College vague choices.-Courtesy of the University of San Diego School of Law degree from Harvard Law School, from which he graduated

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James Van Santen 1937 1939 1947 1931 December 2003 Carlson William White Robert Isbell Jane Francis Berniece Pollock Taylor Sylvester Van Santen a December 2003 joined 2004 16,2004 February 2, 2003 29, January 5, February Chicago law firm, eventually resident of New Carlson Taylor practiced law for White served in the Navy A Jersey, began practicing called Hill, Van Santen, in World War Isbell was of Mills law in Greeley, Colorado many years, including during II, president Steadman & Simpson, where Inc. for the one of the in where he was in the Co. ofNew Jersey, early 1950s, twenty-five years group he spent his entire legal first woman in Weld of the first thirteen African- many years. lawyers Flossmoor, Illinois. In career practicing intellectual American commissioned County. She continued addition, she was a property law. In addition to until 2003. She dramatic book reviewer officers, known as the 1940 practicing being active in several bar in real estate law, an Golden Thirteen. He then specialized and artist. Leonard Hoffman associations, he was active where law, and bankruptcy returned to Chicago January 24, 2004 general in the Geneva, Illinois cases. In addition to he worked as an assistant 1934 After Hoffman community where he lived. graduation, law and a US. and as a Cook practicing raising attorney served in the US. He served on the boards of Benjamin Ordower Army, Carlson and her state's attorney. In family, the Geneva Public August 29,2003 County in the D-Day Schools, participating husband a larm and 1955, he became deputy managed Citizen's Council Ordower real landings. After the war, he Advisory practiced commissioner of ranch southeast of Greeley. Chicago's returned to central ofGeneva, and estate law for in Illinois, Community many years of Department Investigation. and of Geneva. with the firm of where he practiced law Hospital Chicago He then served as the director 1948 Ordower and Ordower. served as the city attorney ofIllinois's of Department for Illinois. He Sanford Cohn 1951 Survivors include his sons Morris, and Education. 14, 2003 Registration then became a first August Mark Ordower, '66 and judge, Gerald Specter White was elected to the of the After law for a '75, and his as a circuit judge practicing February 1, 2004 Henry Ordower, Cook Circuit County Thirteenth Circuit, few after Peter Ordower, '80. Judicial years graduation, worked for nephew Court in 1964 and became Specter many then as an court Cohn appellate joined Superior in for Acacia the of the years Chicago presiding judge as well as Coffee and Tea Co., the judge presiding Mutual Life Insurance 1936 Court in 1968, Juvenile for the (then) Fourth business founded judge Chicago first as an Bernard Wolf twelve in that Company, agent- serving years District. by his father more than Appellate By counselor and then as the January 5, 2004 He was sworn in position. of the Illinois four decades earlier. He was appointment of their as an Illinois general manager Wolfwas deeply involved Appellate he sat at of the Supreme Court, president company offices in Illinois and with real estate Court for the First development justice various times his when it was purchased in during northern Indiana. He was in the not District in 1980 and served Chicago area, career on all five 1979. After the sale of the judicial very active in the North until 2002. He was on the Court until his retiring courts, the only company, he and his wife appellate River Commission, a a in Gilbert & WolE retirement in 1991. partner judge in Illinois to have moved to San Diego, where Wolf in the community organization participated done so. After retirement he volunteered with on the Northwest Side of of development housing 1938 from the bench, he was numerous civic and Chicago. He served as complexes, high-rise Charles Baker active in the First National charitable organizations. president of the group, condominiums, apartment 27, 2003 Bank of as, Survivors include his son, September Dwight, serving which focuses on affordable buildings, industrial parks, other the Stuart Cohn, '80. Baker worked for many years among things, housing, economic and shopping centers. chairman of the board. for US. Steel Corporation. development, quality Survivors include his son- then worked in Brussels, He education, and open spaces. in-law David/Allen, '75. Belgium as the Secretary General for the International Iron & Steel Institute. He retired in 1979 and returned

to New York to live.

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Kenneth Tollett 1957 1958 1953 George Joseph 2003 September 22, 2003 June 23, Alexander Castles William Fulmer John Bowden law in November 2003 Joseph clerked with the Tollett practiced December 1,2003 13, 21,2003 September for several He California Oregon Supreme Court foe Chicago years. After receiving his LL.M. Fulmer lived in his entire where Bowden spent the next then moved to Texas worked as Securities a year. He spent from the Law School, and career at the Chicago law at he his academic career Counsel at legal seven years teaching began Castles returned to his Regulation & firm ofDefrees Fiske, as the dean of Richfield until his various schools including founding native Australia as a Senior Atlantic tax law. where he practiced Northern Texas Southern University's retirement in 1986. Ohio University Lecturer at the University School of Law School. After ofLaw, Dickinson teaching ofAdelaide. He became a 1955 law at the University of Law, New York University professor of law there in 1964 Colorado, he moved to Gordon School of Law, and served as Dean Michael 1967 and Nicholas Monsour D.C. in 2004 ofArkansas Washington, 1969, Head of February 1, University of Law and July 12, 2003 and a the of Law. He then began thirty-year in the 1970s. Gordon worked for College Department Monsour law in affiliation with Howard practiced moved to Portland, was U.S. of Labor Oregon, His academic specialty Florida for Department time of Jacksonville, was a Multnomah At the was where he University. Australian and until 1970. He then legal history several before moving district his retirement in 2000, he years counsel to the Senate Labor County deputy he wrote several books on to Georgia where he was a for three years was a distinguished professor An Committee, where he played attorney the subject, including financial consultant and of education and the before into private higher Australian a major role in writing going LegalHistory stock broker with several director of Howard's Retirement practice. Joseph was (1982), which questioned the Employee of companies including to the Institute for the Study Income Act appointed Oregon orthodox view of the legal and Security Tollett Lehman Brothers Court of in 1977 Educational Policy. a reform Appeals foundation ofthe (ERISA), pension European Merrill Lynch. and became of wrote and spoke extensively He bill. After ERISA was ChiefJudge occupation in Australia. in 1981. A on affirmative action, enacted, he entered private the Court also served on the Australian and 1978 member of the desegregation, Commission practice, representing founding Law Reform Association of black colleges. DeBrosse Scott benefit plan Oregon historically and South Australian Com- Mary employee role in 2003 Defense Counsel, He played a key Discrimination September 25, participants and advising Joseph mittee on fend off makers in Aid helping attempts DeBrosse was living in government policy participated Legal in Employment. federal and served on both the to abolish funding Iowa with her on law. He also Burlington, pension black Daniel Johnson and National to predominantly husband at the time ofher served as board chairman of Oregon June 23, 2003 Examiners. He was twice a Before to Pension Center Board of Bar colleges. death. moving the Rights After fellow at the Center graduation, Johnson a trustee ofReed with her husband in and board chairman He was visiting Iowa advisory Democratic the Indianapolis served on the for the of joined had lived in Bureau ofNational and Study 1993, she of the College firm of Baker & Daniels, Institutions in Santa Barbara, Ohio. Inc.'s Pension & Oriental Institute's Visiting Texas and Affairs where he practiced until he Committee. California. Benefits Reporter. retired as a partner in 1989. He served on the National Alumni Fund Board of the University during the 1970s.

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Hoffman a news item, I of editor for a textbook publishing requesting always as successful in the "battle being received the his sudden 1940 for some obituary noting knees." he enjoys company years. his Mostly, regularly his CORRESPONDENT death. The words of August Black, CLASS tours the home. the concert arranged by Harsha enjoys Wilmette, Thelma Brook Simon "Hughie" long time devoted attorney friend, strolling along Lake Michigan Leonard's loss 3119 Wilmette Ave. Bryson Burnham reports from "heavenly" especially expressed succinctly: when the weather is he and his shores, and, was the most I ever Wilmette, IL 60091 Durango, Colorado, that "He capable judge the waves from the their inclement, watching before .... he knew the law, [email protected] Frances celebrated sixty-third appeared windows of his apartment. Hugh holds The multitude of anniversary on February 8. Bryson added, and how to apply it." with with the the class record for travel this year are summarized in In phone conversations "wonderful years, indeed." tributes to "Lennie" to San at the EI octogenarians of our class of '40 to elicit two trips Juan, staying the opening lines of the article on his similar Gene Grossman expressed and a trip to Herold more news, certain recurring phrases Conquistador, taking life by the editor of the Community that he is the emotion when he reported southern France with his daughter and were revealing, such as: "I'm really mobile, Newspaper. "One of the greatest judges who has caregiver for his wife, Glad, son-in-law. with others, he asked died just use the cane once in a while." Along in the history of Grundy County their dementia. They, too, celebrated Smith. "Guess I'm slowing down a little, but about Dan Saturday, January 24th." It is especially Anniversary on February 8, don't need more unsolicited sixty-third to our class that the obituary certainly any reached significant but Gene adds that they dated for ten Your Correspondent luckily health articles." "Must check the calendar provided, "in lieu of flowers memorial loved each Dan in Tacoma, Washington, before that, and "have by phone of for this week's doctors' appointments." years can be directed to the University where he is a retiree after giving at gifts other so that it is a joy to take care "Not another great-grandchild!!" Now long Law School, 1111 East 60th to Weyerhauser. Chicago her." and he will have' least twenty-five years notes. of hopes they II. 60637." onto the personal but still has his Street, Chicago, What a He misses old friends, quite a few years together. sense of humor. When I commended his Bernie Moritz confessed he managed precious accolade from a man almost Eve '04 luck in two of his daughters help to stay awake during New Year's ninety to his wife who is just months having 1942 The De Vinci Code and him move, rid "mountains of papers," by reading younger. Aronson writes: Am retired. his even recreate the ambience of his Bud refreshing on classical history, while and " Seymour Tabin and his Frances seem he With Never practiced law in the usual sense. grandchildren cavorted on their Caribbean original home, responded, the U.S. to be on the same track of a long, there is bound to be Was a minority counsel in cruise. He can also boast "an occasional eight children remember their on the Small devoted marriage. (We someone around to or perhaps House of Representative win at duplicate bridge." help, Carter romance in law schcol.) Although they Business Committee during the even just to be under foot." he is often a winner time now Bob Cook admits that have given up their annual trip to Florida, Administration. Spend my Evanston The sad part of my report is that just a Idaho at bridge at the Presbyterian they seem to be in "good working order," between Chicago and Sun Valley, but he is not few after I phoned Judge Leonard Home where he resides, and take pride in their granddaughter's days both summer and winter teaching English "lit" at a university, after

for Service to the Jorgensen Elected to the Order of the Coif Law School during WWII there were forty-seven students. of Law School fell to record lows. By 1943, only During World War II, enrollment at the University Chicago Review. But one dedicated student who was the of Chicago Law highly One of the near-casualties of this difficult period University Coif. honored last fall with election to the Order of the almost single-handedly kept the publication going, was students also left mid-year of students to produce the Law Review. Many The 1942-1943 school year saw a very small group struggling tenth volume be marred an was determined not to let the Law Reviews by for military service. Editor-in-chief, Norman E. Jorgensen, academic Jorgensen managed Herculean and to the neglect of his senior year obligations, interruption of publication. Through an effort, 11 and 12-were before he (The following two years-volumes to shepherd the volume to completion graduated. in Puttkammer edited the Law Review until enrollment picked up again not student edited. Professor Ernst the fall of 1945.) the war and served in Korea during World War II. Following After graduation, Jorgensen entered the Navy where he held several positions including assistant he worked at the Federal Communications Commission, A few after that he went into private practice, specializing general counsel to the Chairman of the FCC. years in 1987 at the of seventy-nine. in communications law, until he retired from practice age Dean Saul Levmore '43 went unheralded for decades, until finally Norman E. Jorgensen, Jorgensen's efforts on behalf of the Law Review Coif in and he was elected to the Order of the on his behalf. Levmore set the wheels motion, reviewed the case and decided to intervene near his only son Rick. now lives with his wife Marguerite in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on October 3, 2003. Jorgensen, 95, Levmore "No one would know the challenges in our Law Review during the war," said, "In looking back at the exemplary work published in hands." that The home front was in good shape Jorgensen's to production were so significant during singular period.

4 H 0 0 L • S P R I N G 2 0 0 0 F CHI C AGO LAW S C 28 THE U N I V E R SIT Y international TJ Issues in Insurance, number 5(Paris, news is On the front, Anthony serious-whatever. We all want to Phil Kushner's professional Connie Marshall. and DECO 2003, 250 Pages). The only reason and five other reports: "My wife, know where are and what that, this past year, he you you're mention this is that all the wisdom I I live in Tokyo with our eleven-month-old, to So, e-mail. Think of lawyers started a new law firm, dOing. write, call, in that is of course We met in New York in try to present report & Rendon, a litigation Jack. City it like in Chicago-send in your Schwartz Kushner voting in the result of the I required during of November 1999 and were married April insights news and often! boutique that does a wide range early in Meanwhile I am 2001. Connie, who is fluent in Japanese, my year Chicago. trying including complex civil and litigation, the law and economics Chris Gair isn't ballot boxes heads the communications to spread message stuffing (at white-collar criminal matters. Phil and corporate in also to other continents. We are working least, that I know of) but he's keeping group, and I am a general manager partners have also built new offices, West Africa and and another tradition alive the markets division of the on (Togo Benin) Chicago by his wife, an interior capital designed by some contacts with Asia defending the rooftops in the lawsuit call Institutional Banking Group (the modestly trying If anyone is in Cleveland, designer. and So lots of brought by the Chicago Cubs for unjust investment-banking side) of Shinsei Bank. (China Indonesia). traveling, and get the office tour! I never returned to enrichment and misappropriation. Chris We're lucky to be in Japan at a very but unfortunately Sharon since 1985!" also reports that. "on the plaintiffs side, In other professional news, interesting time, and over the past few Chicago counsel here." we've had some terrific Heaton recently became general we've made many friends price-fixing years This Old House may find an episode worth Inc., the nation's first cases-the sorbates and bulk vitamins of Trans-elect, '85-er- I Faure at Maastricht filming with a class of Andy transmission And Michael antitrust cases-on behalf of some independent electric provider. for Heaton and his wife own a University writes: "I did a small report Charity major opt-outs. Both settled-what a term of a Amy Klobuchar is in her second the DECO (together with my Maastricht piece history-they just bought surprise-shortly before trial. Bill in on 'Insurance 120-year-old Victorian house in Charles as the Hennepin County Attorney colleague, Ton Hartlief) Landes was our on damages expert a life West Virginia-about miles Minneapolis, Minnesota and has and expanding systemic risks' which is Town, twenty both. I'm still involved in white-collar tasks as from their current home in Leesburg, filled with such disparate studying published as an DECO report, Policy criminal defense as well." husband The house was built a murder cases and, along with her Virginia. by descendant of one of John Bessler. defending a forgetful tooth George Washington's brothers (Charles Town was founded fairy to eight-year-old daughter Abigail. by,

State Attorney General Class of 1985 versus Class of 1988 for Washington was thrown out by a First, the state's seventy-year-old primary system It has been an interesting year for Washington state politics. Democratic of State, 03-801), state the case (Reed v. Party Washington federal judge. Then, when the Supreme Court declined to hear a veto, a new primary system is much wrangling, including gubernatorial lawmakers were left to devise a new system. After political of Law School alumni will square midst of all of this, two University Chicago in place and further legal challenges are expected. In the off in the race for state attorney general. both have their sights set on this Rob McKenna, '88, and Mike Vaska, '85, other in the primary for the GOP nomination. office. They will face each September on the Council. Former Washington Robert McKenna currently serves King County Senator Slade Gorton has "concluded that Rob McKenna Attorney General and U.S. General. His background, which combines is the best choice for Attorney unique and office, has prepared him well to serve experience in the private sector public be officer." Mckanna's goals as attorney general would as the state's chief legal lawsuits against the state as well as law enforcement; taxpayers by reducing to protect families by serving as the chief advocate for businesses of all lawsuit abuse. He exceed their authority; and types against reining in state agencies and overreaching regulators who with liability reform." much-needed legal reform in this state, starting plans to use the office as a "bully pulpit to push for for attorney general around his career as & Shefelman, is building his campaign Mike Vaska, a partner in the Seattle firm Foster Pepper as "a civic leader with.a proven to Senator Evans praised Mike ability a complex and civic activist. Former Governor and U.S. Dar litigator the to the rising tide of litigation against use the office of attorney general "fight get things done on a bipartisan basis." Mike would to citizens from unscrupulous practices." and consumer protection lawyer protect state and would build on his experience as an antitrust not a politician, to head an needs a professional attorney, professional He was quoted by the Post-/nte//igencer as saying "The state what we value as citizens." office that is in court every day advocating for The Recordwishes both McKenna and Vaska the best of luck.

LAW S C H 0 0 L 45 SIT Y 0 F CHI C AGO • THE U N I V E R S P R I N G 2 0 0 4 with The at Latham Square in Oakland antitrust for When Lynn Pace recently helped Quarterly Weyermann writes: "Anti-immigration will handle IP litigation and I learned that featured a solo exhibit of Kristen Jensen's of Austin, a Salt Lake City referral, groups, racist hatemongers and even the Chicago office Sidley, in the this past fall. will he is now the deputy city attorney paintings local figures with specialized agendas Brown & Wood. His wife, Stacey, is of Salt Lake City Attorney's Office, which rise and fall throughout the telling of the serve as deputy dean at the University On the political front, Mike Faber has of a second VP position. School of Business. the equivalent Edwards's Farmingville tale. More than a story about Chicago's Graduate been very active in John handles mostly land use, zoning Lynn presidential campaign. suburbs, property values, immigration, of Maureen Sheehy and the majority and planning, and real property issues, and racism, Farmingville is ultimately from who had her M.D. before her Legal Strategies Group colleagues as well as any litigation resulting Lois Nora, about the conflicted of what concept intellectual moved their successful those decisions. He recently began a studying for her J.D. with us, is now the American means." Also learned a little Northeastern property and complex litigation practice term on the Holladay City Council president and dean of the more about Carlos from the Sundance four-year Francisco-based law firm of serves of Medicine in to the San (Holladay is a SLC suburb) and also Ohio Universities College site; he has also authored a play (The Townsend and Crew on In addition to her academic Townsend and as scoutmaster to a local Boy Scout troop. Rootstown, Ohio. Wolfman and his Wife) and a screenplay March 1,2004. and administrative responsibilities, Lois (Twenty-Nine Palms) in addition to having Mazel tov to Rachelle and Larry continues with her research, which Worked on continues to head immigration and refugee Myron Orfield on the birth of their daughter, Benjamin, focuses (not surprisingly) on the interfaces ISsues as a also teaches I delegate to the United Nations. Ameregis Corporation and Devorah Leah, on September 7, 2003. of law and medicine, as well as legal law at the University of Minnesota. The also to David Sales; Congratulations go medical education. Jim Kole is "excited to report that we and serves as a China Brookings Institution, where he little Adele Mae emigrated from are escaping Western New York after nonresident senior fellow, published his in 2003. She After sitting through law firm presentation our to join his family September thirteen-year sentence, and we are book, American Metropolitics: The New brothers Declan, eight, Rowan, after law firm presentation, Becky the back to Park." joins big �oving family Hyde has when Suburban Reality in 2002. Myron six, and Ethan, four. Adele's orphanage Owen was pleasantly surprised jim will return to his roots and Sidley on to lead the Neal become a widely recognized expert nicknamed her "Mei Mei" ("little sister"), Doug Lubelchek arrived of fiscal and far. team for the the political implications which seems to be sticking so Gerber & Eisenberg vying social disparities in the U.S.

Sundance Film Festival Lawyer Turned Filmmaker Wins Special Jury Prize at them work. It was the latest in and beaten by men who promised In September of 2001, two Mexican day laborers were attacked badly Latino to the residents of Farmingville, NY and recent immigrants an escalating series of confrontations between the primarily Caucasian small village. for over a year and planned to write about the hostilities on Long Island just Carlos Sandoval, '87, was horrified. He had been reading Rican and Mexican­ Sandoval, whose heritage is Puerto an article about it, but this event made him realize a bolder plan was required. "No Mexicans or dogs allowed" California, at a time when signs saying American, grew up in pre-Civil Rights suburb not too different His family lived in a small working-class were still posted at some swimming pools. with he decided to make a no experience filmmaking, from Farmingville. So although he had previous has been a remarkable success. crisis there. The result, Farmingville, documentary that would illuminate the include the Award Catherine Tambini, whose credits Academy Working closely with veteran producer the of trust Elusive Muse, Sandoval began lengthy process building nominated documentary Suzanne Farrell: of the he moved there. to a deeper understanding community, with the people of Farmingville. In an effort gain information and needed hostile environment to gather the images they He and Tambini worked for months in a Sandoval says. the harsh rhetoric of extremist organizations," to complete the project. "The most difficult part was listening to the edit." ourselves from our emotions until we got through "1 didn't understand how much I had to-we all had to-distance Sandoval "Farmingville can be seen as the sides of the immigration issue. says, The result is an extraordinary portrait of people on both had with Mexico since the establishment the 'swinging-door' policy we've inevitable outcome of our current immigration policies-that is, and close it in the bad. Because it's an implied policy, of we need them in the good times, the border. We open the door for workers when can be used to mask build in Farmingville, where the term 'illegal' it's unregulated. The result is the kind of mischief, the tension you see won't the that if don't get the analysis right, you get Over former analyst, I know you many deeper sentiments ... as a lawyer and policy of the in the hope that this character and story, the complexity problem, solution right. Farmingville is an attempt to analyze, through

human hue will lead to some practical solutions." for to affirming Sandoval's aspirations awarded a Jury Prize Farmingville, On January 25, 2004, the Sundance Documentary Jury Special June 2004. PBS's documentary series, PO.v, on 22, his film. Widely praised by critics, Farmingville will be broadcast on

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fourteen of whom misunderstood the start with the class of '73. Congenial? unusual music our children to new and 1992 nature of the show and used their three Judge Frank Easterbrook? Enough said. assure their alienation from favor of that will CLASS CORRESPONDENT the minutes on stage to argue in Moving on to the second-runner-up, their classroom peers." I am sure your Sandy Raitt child-sacrifice to Molech (worse, the class of '84, it turns out that they are not children are grateful. Gunther Group LLC allied to other three sang Celine Dian songs). as accomplished as we were Civic Building Clark made an impressive Janie and Opera believe. To a recent expose in the True, Philip Things are quiet in Nashville, quote Suite 1920 Wants To Be A 20 North Wacker Drive, "Neither Richard showing on Who I moved back into our house after a long New York Times, lost I think, for Chicago, IL 60606 Delano Roosevelt, nor Millionaire? but points, renovation, but things are otherwise fine. Epstein, Franklin the mouth. ever students Regis in [email protected] Margaret Thatcher were punching On a note, I had occasion professional at the of Chicago Law University But we shouldn't win based on our "Mad us, it is time to the services of David With an election year upon of the engage School-much less graduates Read '92 competition's failure alone. on, Chizewer in a of complex to remind the voters why the class of Dog" piece class of '84." That leaves us with the "All-Time and judge for yourself ... I sat in while David defended should retai�its hold on the litigation. first-runner-up, the class of '91. Since was Ever" title. In of some and alii can say Greatest Class point life in Boston is depositions the last election, can you name the class For Jeff Anderson, counsel left gently weeping. fact, recent events have widened the and CEO that opposing whose graduates (or, as the class of '91 really busy. He is still president is between our class and the David's partner, Drew Cardonick, '92, distance Turbine Entertainment www.turbine pronounces it. "grajee-ehts") appeared of maniacal. and the also on the case and is equally first- and second runners-up, which he believes is the the most frequently on TV "reality" games.com, Let's would not believe the bills we get "Miss Congeniality" class of '73. and You shows? That's right: the class of '91. For oldest and largest developer for raw meat each month. of its example, no less than seventeen members appeared on American Idol, Anyway. that's all for now. Have a good spring.

Dean Cosgrove. Departs for Harvard and friend, Ellen Cosgrove, '91, who accepted that the Law School bid adieu to an admired colleague It was with sadness earlier this year students at the Harvard Law School. the position of associate dean and dean of made every effort to improve Law School in 1995. In her role as dean of students, Cosgrove Cosgrove joined the administration of the faced students, and she was committed the Law School, she well understood the challenges by the quality of student life. As a graduate of the Law School is about you, the student," wrote and experience. "With Dean Cosgrove, to assuring that students had a happy productive "It is not about the Socratic in the student newspaper, The Phoenix. Melanie Rowen, '04, in a tribute published what need to the most not even about the law. It is about you get method, it is not about rationality, and it is

out of your time here." a a of students came to her with specific request: During Cosgrove's first year at the Law School, group academic attire The hood, which has dual significance as they wanted to add a hooding ceremony to graduation. learned of the of law and the entrance into a profession. and legal dress, represents the completion study students administrators to get it done, and now graduating Cosgrove worked with Law School and University Rockefeller Chapel. enjoy their hooding ceremony in the magnificent herself to student for students at the Law School and devoted nurturing She focused on creating a friendlier, more open atmosphere Because she knew that students sometimes tenure. She was a tireless counselor. which more than doubled during her groups, the number of for social interaction. Cosgrove was an avid supporter and went into creating opportunities feel isolated, a great deal of her time energy students and to enjoy coffee, carbohydrates, and Coffee Mess, a weekly gathering for faculty of Wine Mess (with its new rolling bar) resolve their concerns and questions. sessions in which students could share and and conversation; she also organized smaller-group committed to our students and advocated tirelessly and former dean Geoffrey Stone. "She was deeply "Ellen is a jewel," says professor will miss her." loser at the law school poker game. We on their behalf. She was also a regular to the one hundredth anniversary. Working closely the Law School's history: the years leading up Cosgrove served at a unique time in celebrations to commemorate the developed and coordinated a series of with people across the Law School community, Cosgrove culminated in the spectacular Centennial Gala, the Law School's accomplishments Centennial. An eventful and busy year honoring many in of 2003. held at the Field Museum of Natural History May enthusiasm of her life as a student without Ellen who brought an amazing every day "The Law School will not be the same Cosgrove, best sense Levmore. "She after all, very Chicago-in the to its students," said Dean Saul is, and then as the face of the Law School of that expression."

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work in Contributions to the Annual Fund support the Law Schoolls progress: as renovation of our facility. ongoing intellectual activities as well the physical Fund June 30, 2004. Please make your gift to the 2004 Annual by