Oregon Lawyer 2006 POW! ZAP! It’s a comic book on copyright! Since 1884, Oregon’s Public Law School • www.law.uoregon.edu Oregon Lawyer 2006 This year, Oregon Lawyer Writer and Editor Assistant Director, Communications Eliza Schmidkunz Designer Mike Lee www.MikeLeeAndMe.com Photography Jack Liu Brett Patterson Kelly J. James 643alumni and friends Ian McDermott made a lot of good people University Of Oregon very, very happy. SChool Of Law Margaret L. Paris Philip H. Knight Dean You gave $1.3 million to 12 Taking Charge Jane gordon For the first time in 122 years, Associate Dean for scholarships, the Loan Repayment Assistance Program, the Dean’s Fund, Student/Program Affairs women fill senior leadership positions at the law school and Communications Oregon Tribes Professorship, student outdoor activities, law library collections, Alumni and Development Matt Roberts the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center staffing, 14 Pulp Justice Assistant Dean Keith Aoki’s copyright comic book Rachel Johnson draws out the details of Fair Use Oregon Child Advocacy Project, class reunion gifts, Development Events Coordinator Knight Law Center artwork, and more. Denise Kimberlin 16 Beyond the Walls Administrative Assistant Preparing the next generation (541) 346-3800 of public interest environmental attorneys William W. Knight Law Center You’re glad you did it. 2 NEWS 1515 Agate Street Commencement 2006 1221 University of Oregon And best of all, there’s still time Eugene, Oregon 97403 Clifford Freeman ’76 receives Frohnmayer Award U.S.A. for your 5,128 classmates to join in! Thailand’s lawyer princess visits law school Loan Repayment Assistance Program helps juvenile court clerk Morse Professor Rick West: A new vision for museums Portland lawyers teach deal-making skills Conflict resolution master’s program welcomes new director Students win Pro Bono Challenge again! Legal Research and Writing Program in top 15 percent New life for Domestic Violence Clinic www.law.uoregon.edu ...and more. © 2006 University of Oregon 10 DOCKET 18 TRANSITIONS 2006 Rennard Strickland and Hari Osofsky 20 C lass N otes Honor Roll Martha Walters ’77 appointed to Oregon Supreme Court Cass SkinnerLopata ’06 appointed to domestic violence council and Campaign Report Five Thomas Tongues — all Oregon lawyers Rachel Kastenberg ’06 observes UN environmental treaty meeting University of Oregon School of Law Fred Risser ’52, the nation’s longest serving state lawmaker coming to your mailbox soon. 28 partin g T h O u g h ts Student Hurricane Network typifies law student volunteers UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER 2006 NEWS Commencement Marshall Tom Lininger Meritorious Service Award recipient Phyllis Barkhurst The family of Dana Lyons ’06 Joe Metcalfe Pam hardy, Krischele hampton, and friends Coming right up… 2006 Commencement Law Class Two law professors win teaching awards, Oregon Supreme Court Justice of 2009 and domestic-violence activist honored, Portland congressman speaks This fall, the law school welcomed its 122nd entering One hundred and seventy-seven University of Oregon — the Ersted Award — one of the university’s highest class — including two law graduates celebrated three years of hard work on awards for teaching. He teaches evidence and ethics, new students who were Sunday, May 14, at the Hult Center for the Performing chairs the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, and contestants on “The Price is Arts in downtown Eugene. directs the law school’s Public Interest/Public Service Right”! United States Congressman Earl Blumenauer, a Lewis Program. Of the 178 1L’s, thirty- and Clark law school graduate, delivered the com- The faculty selected Assistant Professor Joe Metcalfe nine percent are Oregonians, mencement address. for the prized Orlando Hollis Teaching Award. He teach- forty-two percent are women, The 2006 Meritorious Service Awards were given to es criminal law and procedure and trial practice, leads and twenty percent are ethnic outgoing Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace the law school’s clinical programs, and spearheaded the The family of Joylynn Nair ’06 minorities (compared to P. Carson, a Willamette law graduate, and to Phyllis new Oregon Innocence Project, the first in the state. 13.6 percent for the UO as a Barkhurst, an Oregon Al Kim was selected whole). leader on issues of vio- by the Class of 2006 to “Applications to our lence against women. give the class speech. law school went up four The awards are given The Lancaster, California, percent, even though they by the law school each native clerked for the were down at law schools all year to recipients who Oregon Department over the country,” said Larry have made extraordinary of Justice Family Law Seno, assistant dean of contributions to legal Section; learned Muay law admissions. “As always, education and the law. Thai boxing, the Thai na- the entering class shows a The graduating class tional sport; and had his distinct personality — they elected Assistant — now first fight while he was in are strong academically, and Associate — Professor law school. they seem to be cohesive and Tom Lininger to lead the The top student was civic-minded, a group that procession as their com- Caleb William Langston, understands the importance mencement marshal. In who now clerks for Ninth of working for the good of the 2006, Lininger won the Circuit Court Senior community.” coveted Crystal Apple Judge Ted goodwin. The family of Annette McGee ’06 2 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SCHOOL OF LAW OREGON LAWYER 2006 news Associate Dean Jamie Moffitt talks to United Nations Ambassador Laxanachantorn Laohaphan and Royal Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol Julie haggerty during the Thai delegation’s visit to the law school in July. Red Carpet Treatment Lawyer princess visits the law school Red carpets spangled with culture from law — that, in yellow rose petals greeted reading law, you naturally learn Royal Princess Bajrakitiyabha the culture of another nation,” Mahidol* of Thailand at every said Rowe. turn on the occasion of the first In a smaller side conversa- visit of royalty to the University tion, said Rowe, the princess “Warm and upbeat” event of Oregon in over forty years. “made clear she had not liked One of those red carpets led the Socratic method in law honors Clifford Freeman ’76 from Agate Street to the Knight school! A common idea from a The judge receives the 2006 frohnmayer Award The hon. Ancer haggerty Law Center, where the princess royal princess!” shortly before his death was welcomed in a formal re- The princess was visiting as ceiving line by local judges and part of the celebration of her Multnomah County Circuit Court three degrees from the University of law school faculty and staff on grandfather’s 60th anniversary Judge Clifford freeman was honored Oregon, in economics, education, and Saturday, July 15. on the throne. She donated by 225 Oregon judges, attorneys, and law. A circuit court judge since 1996, The princess, who holds 1,700 books to the UO library. friends from his 1976 law class at the he was in at the beginning of Portland’s two law degrees from Cornell One is a rare volume of nine- Frohnmayer Award banquet held last Community Courts and presided over University and is interested in teenth century photographs tak- April 21 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in them from 1998 until 2002. During his becoming a judge, took time out en by King Chulalongkorn with Portland. career, he defended the poor and men- from her official state visit to his handwritten comments. Freeman, who had been seriously tally ill; developed education policy for meet privately with law faculty. The revered Chulalongkorn ill, managed to attend the banquet and the state; advocated for minority-owned, Law professor Suzanne (1853–1910), the princess’ great hear colleagues sing his praises. He died women-owned, and small business; Rowe, who attended the recep- great grandfather, abolished August 21 at age 62 from complications and advanced the welfare of Oregon tion, said they talked about slavery, founded the country’s of cancer. youth. He was a member of many local, trends in legal education, first university, and introduced “Judge Freeman was just home from state, and national boards and commis- nuances of Thai and American Siam to the West while protect- Joyce Benjamin ’74 the hospital and quite nervous about sions. At the time of his death, he was legal systems, and how culture ing it from colonization. the event,” said event organizer Colleen Oregon’s only African-American state influences law. “The princess * POT Cha RA-GIT TEE-YA PA, McKillip. “But the mood was warm and judge. said it is impossible to separate MA-hee-DOAN upbeat, and he was overcome by emo- Each year, the UO law alumni as- tion. The Oregon bench lost a great deal sociation selects a Frohnmayer Award when they lost Clifford.” recipient whose public service brings Oregon Child Advocacy Project His high school classmate and college honor to the school. Past recipients Duncan Campbell ’73 shares a moment with 2005-6 Campbell roommate Ancer haggerty, Chief Judge include University of Oregon President Fellows Tehan Wittemyer ’06 and Molly Allen ’06. Campbell for the District of Oregon, spoke at the Dave frohnmayer, Oregon Attorney funded the project in 2005. It gives law students the chance to banquet, as did Haggerty’s wife, Julie. General hardy Myers, Ninth Circuit work with lawyers and policymakers on complicated cases in Joyce Benjamin ’74 of Eugene, a law Court of Appeals Senior Judge Alfred which the child’s interests have fallen between the cracks. classmate of Freeman’s who retired from “Ted” goodwin, and Lare Aschenbrenner, “Nobody says they’re against children,” says law professor Leslie the Oregon Department of Education, Oregon’s first public defender. harris, the project director.