2016-17 ANNUAL REPORT

As its primary focus, the Center for Law and Government provides superiorWa shlegalburn Universi ty School of Law and the Washburn Law Journal proudly present: education to prepare highly qualified public servants for a broad range of 40th careers associated with local, state, and federal government. FOULSTON SIEFKIN LECTURE Friday, March 31, 2017, 12:10 p.m DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE component of their best public interest tion and law school rankings. Interna- “ e Trump Administration and International Law” David tional Law,” Washburn Law is fortunate to have a HAROLD HONGJU KOH Rubenstein and his STERLING PROFESSOR OF student body and faculty with diverse INTERNATIONAL LAW Professor of Law article YALE LAW SCHOOL viewpoints to share, and a culture anchored that facilitates honest, informed, the Fall and respectful dialogue. We have 2017 issue The Robert J. Dole Center for Law also been privileged to host many of the and Government at Washburn Law distinguished speakers from around Washburn offers cutting-edge programming the country and within , Law Journal. and student opportunities in public who meaningfully contribute to our law and administration. As one of students’ intellectual growth. Other major events included a robust six centers at our Law Q&A session with Kansas Governor School, the Center for Among many highlights of Sam Brownback, and a symposium on the 2016-2017 academic Law and Government RANKED labor and employment law. I welcome PUBLIC INTEREST connects our students year, Professor Harold your suggestions for programs or work LAW SCHOOL to federal, state, and Koh (Yale Law School) opportunities for our students in the 2018 visited Washburn Law local government. In by preLaw Magazine upcoming academic year. 2018, preLaw Magazine to deliver the annual ranked Washburn Law Foulston Siefkin Lecture. #3 in the nation for Professor Koh spoke to a government law, which is a standing-room only audi- ence on “The Trump Administra-

SYMPOSIUM Future of Labor & Employment Law Symposium keynote speaker Richard F. Griffin, Jr. The Center for Law and Government employment law, focusing on the co-sponsored a symposium with the role played by federal agencies. Washburn Law Journal, “Future of Labor and Employment Law: Power, The keynote address was delivered Policies, and Politics,” on February by Richard F. Griffin, Jr., General 23, 2017, at Washburn University’s Counsel for the National Labor Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center. Relations Board. The symposium brought together In addition, the symposium distinguished experts in the field to consisted of three panels. Panel 1 explore developments in labor and addressed the EEOC’s decision to Symposium Panel 1 speakers - Symposium continued on page 2 - 2 WASHBURN LAW - CENTER FOR LAW AND GOVERNMENT SYMPOSIUM - continued from page 1 -

Panel 2 speakers Panel 3 speakers extend Title VII protection for gender workplace, in response to actions taken by administrative solutions for each. identity and sexual orientation. the EEOC and the NLRB. • Panelists: Leticia Saucedo, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis • Panelists: Naomi Schoenbaum, • Panelists: Dwayne Leslie, Associate School of Law; Juliet Stumpf, Robert E. Associate Professor of Law, The George Director, Department of Public Affairs Jones Professor of Advocacy and Ethics, Washington University Law School; and Religious Liberty, and Director of Lewis & Clark Law School; Sachin S. Cynthia A. Brown, Brown and Legislative Affairs, General Conference Pandya, Professor of Law, University of Associates, PLLC (Orlando, Florida); of Seventh-day Adventists; Marcia L. Connecticut School of Law; Charlotte Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato McCormick, Professor, Center for Alexander, Assistant Professor of Law, Institute; and E. Pierce Blue, Attorney Employment Law, Saint Louis University Georgia State University College of Law. Advisor to Commissioner Chai R. School of Law; Joseph Mastrosimone, • Moderator: Aïda M. Alaka, Associate Feldblum, U.S. Equal Employment Associate Professor of Law, Washburn Law. Dean for Academic Affairs and Opportunity Commission. • Moderator: Julie M. Covel, General Professor of Law, Washburn University • Moderator: Thomas Witt, Executive Attorney, National Labor Relations Board. School of Law. Director, Equality Kansas. Panel 3 explored issues surrounding unpaid Panel 2 focused on issues of religious labor, illegal labor, and unregulated labor, freedom and accommodation in the and discussed potential legislative or Additional 2016-17 Center Events

September 15, 2016 - “A Discussion moderated by Professor Tonya Kowalski. Election’s Impact” presented by Professor Concerning DACA/DAPA” presented by November 11, 2016 - “From Washburn Rich Duncan, University of Nebraska Savana Servantez and Arely Navarrete. Law to Governmental Relations - An Law School. Interesting Path of Practice” presented by October 4, 2016 - “The Importance Troy Stremming, ‘94. March 2, 2017 - “How the United States of Writing and Advocacy” presented Marshal’s Office Works” presented by by The Honorable Melissa Standridge, November 21, 2016 - “Current Legal Ron Miller. hosted by BLSA. Topics in Kansas State Government” presented by Governor Sam Brownback. April 19, 2017 - “Top Developments in October 17, 2016 - “The Power of Now: Ag Law and Taxation in 2016 and a Look Voting Rights and Voter Suppression” February 8, 2017 - “Executive Orders” at the Future” presented by Professor presented by Janai Nelson. presented by professors Gillian Roger McEowen. Chadwick, Jeff Jackson, Craig Martin, October 28, 2016 - “Native American Bill Rich, David Rubenstein, and April 20, 2017 - “Practicing before the Sacred Sites and the Dakota Pipeline Freddy Sourgens. United States Tax Court” presented by Controversy” presented by Professor Judge Elizabeth Paris. Michael Stewart and Alan Metzger; February 27, 2017 - “Trump and this WASHBURNLAW.EDU/GOVERNMENT 3 Faculty Scholarship and Activities David Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, PRESENTATIONS September 30, 2016. “Discrimination Against Citizen Rubenstein Children,” Implementation of the UN Professor of Law Panelist/Discussant “Has Fair Housing Convention on the Rights of the Child Center for Law and Law Gotten Its Groove Back?,” 2016 Conference, University of Bergen, Bergen, Government Director SEALS (Southeastern Association of Law Norway, April 3-6, 2017. Schools) Annual Conference, Amelia ARTICLES IN LAW REVIEWS Island, Florida, August 3, 2016. “Preventing Parental Child Abduction Immigration Exceptionalism, Using the Uniform Child Custody 111 Nw. U. L. Rev. 583 (2017) Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (with Pratheepan Gulasekaram). Gillian (UCCJEA), the Parental Kidnapping Chadwick Prevention Act (PKPA) and the PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Associate Professor of Law Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Editor-in-Chief, Administrative & Act (UCAPA),” Cross-Border Family Regulatory Law News, American Bar Law Issues CLE at the American Bar Association, 2016-. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Association Family Law Section Fall Meeting, Predator In Chief: President Trump and Quebec, Canada, October 22, 2016. PRESENTATIONS the Glorification of Sexual Violence, “Immigration Federalism Cake (Some Huffington Post, November 30, 2016. Thoughts on Having It and Eating Burke Griggs PRESENTATIONS Associate Professor It Too),” Immigration Federalism of Law Conference, University of Arizona Co-presenter “Immigration Panel: James E. Rogers College of Law, Tucson, Resources & Supports for Immigrant Arizona, February 24, 2017. Students,” Topeka Public Schools USD 501 district-wide teacher training, Panelist, “Security, Presidential Powers Topeka, Kansas, April 28, 2017. ARTICLES IN LAW REVIEWS and the Bill of Rights: A Conversation The Political Cultures of Irrigation and the about the President’s Executive Order,” Proxy Battles of Interstate Water Litigation, University of Kansas School of Law, James M. 57 Nat. Resources J. 1 (2017). Lawrence, Kansas, February 16, 2017. Concannon Senator Robert J. Dole PRESENTATIONS Distinguished Professor “Cooperative Federalism in Water: A Tale Andrea Boyack of Law of Two Western River Basins,” Governor’s Professor of Law Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas, Manhattan, Kansas, November 15, 2016. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Editor with other Uniform Law Commission Style Committee members, Janet PRESENTATIONS of Bryan A. Garner, Guidelines for Thompson “Sustainable Affordability,” Sustainable Drafting and Editing Legislation (2016), Housing panel program, Association for Jackson a joint project of LawProse, Inc. and the Professor of Law Law, Property and Society (ALPS) 8th Uniform Law Commission. Annual Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 19, 2017. PRESENTATIONS “Residential Segregation, Rental Linda Henry Panelist, “Voting Rights, Voter Unaffordability, and Neighborhood Registration, and Voter Participation,” Elrod Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, Decline: Taming the Three-Headed Richard S. Righter September 20, 2016. Housing Hellhound,” Association of Distinguished Professor American Law Schools, 111th Annual of Law Meeting, San Francisco, California, January 5, 2017. Midwestern Bankruptcy - Faculty Scholarship continued on page 4 - 4 WASHBURN LAW - CENTER FOR LAW AND GOVERNMENT FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP AND ACTIVITIES - continued from page 3 - Joseph Jeffrey D. Tonya Mastrosimone Jackson Kowalski Associate Dean for Professor of Law Professor of Law Academic Affairs and Professor of Law

ARTICLES IN LAW REVIEWS PRESENTATIONS “Friends, Feasts, and the Rule of Law in ARTICLES IN LAW REVIEWS Classical Rational Basis and the Right to be Benchslaps, 2017 Utah L. Rev. 331. Free of Arbitrary Legislation, 14 Geo. J.L. Georgia,” Washburn University Brown Bag International Lecture, Topeka, & Pub. Pol’y 493 (2016). BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Kansas, February 8, 2017. Kansas Employment Law Handbook, PRESENTATIONS (3rd ed. 2016) (editor). “The Fourteenth Amendment: From the Federal Constitution to a Constitution Craig Martin CHAPTERS IN BOOKS for All,” 2017 Law Day CLE program, 1st Professor of Law Kansas Statutory Fair Employment Laws in Infantry Division and Office of the Staff Kansas Employment Law Handbook, Judge Advocate, Fort Riley, Kansas, May (3rd ed. 2016). 1, 2017. ESSAYS AND OTHER SHORT WORKS PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ARTICLES IN LAW REVIEWS Beyond Bargaining: Consequences of Participated in Symposium entitled Change It to Save It: Why and How to NLRB’s Graduate Students Decision, “Who’s Afraid of Substantive Due Amend Article 9, 18 Ritsumeikan J. Huffington Post, August 29, 2016. Process,” James Wilson Institute, Peace Stud. (2017). Washington, D.C., April 21, 2017. PRESENTATIONS The Legitimacy of Informal Constitutional Keynote Address, “The Policy, Power, and Amendment and the ‘Reinterpretation’ of Politics of Labor and Employment Law,” Japan’s War Powers, 40 FORDHAM INT’L Symposium, Washburn Law, Topeka, L. Ali Khan L.J. 427 (2017). Kansas, February 23, 2017. Professor of Law BOOK CHAPTERS A Means-Methods Paradox and the Legality Roger of Drone Strikes in Armed Conflict, in LEGAL COMMENTARIES McEowen Legal and Ethical Implications of Kansas Farm Bureau Trump Declares Holy War Against Radical Drone Warfare (Michael J. Boyle, Professor of Agricultural Islamic Terrorism, Huffington Post, ed.) (2017). Law and Taxation January 21, 2017. OPINIONS/EDITORIALS AND PRESENTATIONS Picking an American Muslim for the BLOG ARTICLES “Agricultural Law and Related Tax Issues Trump Cabinet, Huffington Post, Canada’s Support for U.S. Strikes on Syria Update,” Washburn Law Out West CLE, November 26, 2016. Harms International Law, Huffington Rebein Brothers Trial Lawyers, Dodge Gingrich Is Mistaken On Shariah Post, May 1, 2017. City, Kansas, May 11, 2017. Deportations, Huffington Post, PRESENTATIONS “Basic Financial Distress Tax Issues” and July 17, 2016. “Informal Constitutional Amendment “The 11 U.S.C. 1222(a)(2)(A) Issue,” and the ‘Reinterpretation’ of Japan’s Common Problems Faced by Farmers and PRESENTATIONS War Powers,” conference on “Japan’s Ranchers in Difficult Financial Times “Treatment of Shariah and American Constitutional Moment,” University of CLE, Washburn Law, Topeka, Kansas, Muslims under the U.S. Constitution New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, February 1, 2017. and Laws CLE,” Washburn Law, Topeka, August 12, 2016. Kansas, September 16, 2016. WASHBURNLAW.EDU/GOVERNMENT 5

Lori Freddy EXTERNSHIP McMillan Sourgens BUSINESS PARTNERS Professor of Law Professor of Law Most State Agencies, Entities, and Boards Banking Entities and Corporations Chevron U.S.A. PRESENTATIONS ARTICLES IN LAW REVIEWS Children and Family Guidance Center “Ethical Practice Before the IRS - IRS Supernational Law, 50 Vand. J. Disability Rights Center Circular 230 Rules Application,” Tax Law Transnat’l L. 155 (2017). Environmental Protection Agency Practice Ethics CLE, Washburn Law, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Topeka, Kansas, December 16, 2016. PRESENTATIONS Internal Revenue Service “A Global Faith - Good Faith and the Kansas Association of Counties Unity of Difference in Transnational Kansas Association of School Boards David Pierce Law,” Institute for Transnational ’s Office Norman R. Pozez Arbitration Academic Council Winter Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Chair in Business and Meeting, Washington, D.C., January Domestic Violence Transactional Law, 28, 2017. Kansas Corporation Commission Professor of Law Oil and Gas Conservation Division “Supernational Law – How Investment Kansas Court of Tax Appeals PRESENTATIONS Tribunals Avoid Favoring the Interests Kansas Department for Children and Families Panelist, “The Future of Domestic Oil of Multinationals Over the Public Policy and Gas Law & Policy,” Oil and Gas, Kansas Department of Agriculture Concerns of Host States,” Columbia Kansas Department of Commerce Natural Resources, and Energy Journal Center on Sustainable Investment, Fall (ONE J) Symposium, University of Kansas Department of Health and 2016 International Investment Law and Environment Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Policy Speaker Series, Columbia Law Kansas Department of Revenue Oklahoma, April 7, 2017. School, September 26, 2016. Kansas Department of Revenue - Alcoholic Beverage Control Kansas Insurance Department Mary Kreiner Kansas Legal Services Ramirez Kansas Soybean Association Professor of Law Kansas State Bankers Association League of Kansas Municipalities Local Corporations BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Midwest Innocence Project Non-profit Organizations The Case for the Corporate Death Office of the Kansas Securities Penalty: Restoring Law and Order Commissioner on Wall Street (2017) (co-author with Payless ShoeSource Steven A. Ramirez). Prairie Band Potawatomi Court System Regional Federal Agencies PRESENTATIONS Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office “Financial Crimes on Wall Street: The State and Federal Courts Extent of Immunity and the Possibility Statewide and Nationwide Courts and of Restoring the Rule of Law,” Annual Prosecutors/Defenders Offices Institute for Investor Protection Statewide Board of Indigents’ Defense Conference, The New Normal of Services Topeka Metropolitan Transit Authority Financial Fraud: The Role of Lawyers, YWCA Center for Safety and Regulation and Litigation, Loyola Empowerment University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, October 7, 2016. Placement opportunities vary annually. Non-exhaustive list. FOR A COMPLETE FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP LISTING, VISIT: washburnlaw.edu/facultyscholarship 6 WASHBURN LAW - CENTER FOR LAW AND GOVERNMENT Certificate Program

Matthew David Edna Glen Elizabeth Langworthy ‘17 Platt, ‘17 Reyes, ‘17 Reynolds, ‘17 Skym, ‘16

Five Washburn Law graduates earned his or her skill and knowledge in law Students are also strongly encouraged a Certificate in Law and Government and government. To earn a certificate, to—and most often do—take this past academic year: Matthew students must successfully complete advantage of a broad range of Langworthy, David Platt, Edna at least 15 credit hours of Law and externship opportunities in law and Reyes, Glen Reynolds, and Government course work; 500 minutes government, which can be used as Elizabeth Skym. of participation in programming aimed credit toward their Certificate. at enhancing student understanding The Law and Government Certificate is of important issues in the realm of law Externship business partners are an acknowledgment by the faculty that and government; and an upper-level listed on page 5; student externships the student has successfully completed writing requirement on a public from this past academic year are a focused course of study to expand law topic. shown below.

LAW AND GOVERNMENT EXTERNSHIPS

Washburn Law boasts a student body deeply committed to public service, which is complemented by a dedicated alumni base that offers mentorship and experience opportunities to these students.

EXTERNSHIPS - FALL 2016 TO SUMMER 2017 (38 TOTAL)

Student Name Externship Institution Semester

Sarah Balderas Kansas Federal District Court - Wichita Fall 2016 Gregory Casey Kansas League of Municipalities Fall 2016 Courtney Cyzman - Hill Fall 2016 Christopher Helt Kansas Federal District Court - KC Fall 2016 Claire Hillman Johnson County District Attorney Fall 2016 Mackenzie Maki Shawnee County District Attorney Fall 2016 Corey Moomaw Kansas Court of Appeals - Pierron Fall 2016 Hayley Sipes Kansas Federal District Court - Wichita Fall 2016 Hannah Woofter Kansas Federal District Court - Topeka Fall 2016 WASHBURNLAW.EDU/GOVERNMENT 7 Student Name Externship Institution Semester

Brock Baxter Kansas Department of Revenue Spring 2017 Kaitlin Jaeger Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Spring 2017 Elizabeth Kelly Kansas Statehouse - Revisor of Statutes Project Spring 2017 Teresa Offerman Shawnee County District Court - Ossman Spring 2017 Curry Sexton Kansas Court of Appeals - Hill Spring 2017 Benjamin Thomas Third Judicial District Public Defender Spring 2017 Rebecca Bergkamp United States Attorney for Kansas Summer 2017 Cameron Bernard Jefferson County Attorney Summer 2017 Caitlyn Berry Immigration and Customs Enforcement - KC Summer 2017 Jacob Cantwell United States Attorney for Kansas Summer 2017 Dominic Cavicchia Kansas Federal District Court - Topeka Summer 2017 Rebecca Craig Wyandotte County Special Prosecutor - Spies Summer 2017 Justin Crawford Missouri Court of Appeals Summer 2017 Heather Davis Jackson County Missouri Prosecutor Summer 2017 Sydney Dickson First Judicial District Court - Golden, CO Summer 2017 Sarah Gunkel Colorado Attorney General Summer 2017 Reginald Hernandez Kansas Federal Court, ADR Project - Vratil Summer 2017 Kaitlin Jaeger - Luckert Summer 2017 Dennis Kirk Kansas Federal District Court - KC Summer 2017 Isaac Le Blanc Missouri Public Defender Summer 2017 Clara Melero United States Attorney for Kansas Summer 2017 Alex Moorhead Third Judicial District Public Defender Summer 2017 Kristin Moorhead Kansas Legal Services Summer 2017 Jacob Provo Kansas Federal District Court - Wichita Summer 2017 Jordan Raye Kansas Department of Revenue Summer 2017 Laura Riggs-Johnson Cowley County District Court Summer 2017 Jennifer Salva Kansas Federal District Court - KC Summer 2017 Adam Tahirkheli Missouri Public Defender Area 7 Summer 2017 Alan Vester Kansas Supreme Court - Stegall Summer 2017 8 WASHBURN LAW - CENTER FOR LAW AND GOVERNMENT

About Us

The Robert J. Dole Center for Law and Government provides our students expanded opportunities for public service. Washburn Law is ideally situated to offer law students unique and varied opportunities to learn about lawmaking, judicial decision-making, administrative law, and the regulatory process, given its proximity to the State capitol, the Kansas Judicial Center, the Frank Carlson Federal Courthouse, and numerous state agencies.

As its primary focus, the Center provides superior legal education to prepare Washburn University highly qualified public servants for a broad range of careers associated with local, School of Law state, and federal government. Courses such as Legislation, Administrative Law, Robert J. Dole Center for Law and Local Government serve as the Center’s initial core curriculum. and Government 1700 SW College • Topeka, KS 66221 785.670.1682 [email protected] David Rubenstein Director Robert J. Dole Center for Law and Government and Professor of Law 785.670.1682 [email protected]

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