Non-profi t THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAW Organization CAROLINA LAW U.S. Postage Van Hecke-Wettach Hall PAID PERMIT # 177 160 Ridge Road, CB # 3380 Chapel Hill, N.C. Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380 www.law.unc.edu CAROLINA LAW twitter.com/unc_law Alumni, update your contact info at www.law.unc.edu/alumni. ON Save the JUNE 20 Alumni Reception at the dates! N.C. State Bar Meeting, Wilmington MAY 15 THE Alumni Night at the AUGUST 20 Durham Bulls Game New Student Orientation Alumni Community JUNE 13 Welcome Event, Alumni Luncheon at Chapel Hill NCADA Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, S.C. SEPTEMBER 5 MAP Alumni Association Golf JUNE 17 Classic, Chapel Hill Alumni Breakfast at making a difference NCAJ Annual Meeting, SEPTEMBER 6 Wilmington Bluegrass and BBQ, Chapel Hill across the nation founded in 1845 PAGE 18 VOLUME 38, ISSUE ONE SPRING-SUMMER 2014 UNC Law Alumni Association Board of Directors DEAN’S MESSAGE Executive Officers Craig T. Lynch ’86, president Leslie C. Packer ’86, vice president Dear Friends: Walter D. Fisher ‘86, second vice president Last fall, Carolina Law highlighted students, faculty and alumni John Charles Boger ’74, secretary-treasurer who are making daily contributions to communities and Harriett J. Smalls ’99, Law Foundation chair individuals all across North Carolina. By helping a nonprofit Marion A. Cowell Jr. ’64, past campaign chair hunger relief corporation navigate its growth, assisting a commu- nity to create an economic development plan, and lobbying the John S. Willardson ’72, past president (2008-09) General Assembly to preserve the Governor’s School program for Norma R. Houston ’89, past president (2009-10) gifted high school students, the generous actions of Carolina Law Ann Reed ’71, past president (2010-11) alumni, faculty, and students are building, year in and year out, a Robert A. Wicker ‘69, past president (2011-12) stronger, more inclusive and more prosperous North Carolina. Yet as this spring’s issue will underscore, the influence of Thomas F. Taft ‘72, past president (2012-13) EXUM STEVE John Charles “Jack” Boger Carolina Law extends far beyond the borders of the Old North State. From the elegant offices of asset management firms in San Francisco to the handsome boardrooms of major corporate headquarters in Atlanta to the Committee Chairs conference tables at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., to partners’ Campaign Committee, John Jernigan ‘67 offices high above the Manhattan harbor in New York’s finest corporate law firms, Carolina Law Advancement Committee, Scott P. Vaughn ‘86 graduates are at home, welcomed, working hard. Long-Range Planning Committee, Indeed, in every major city and center of power across the nation, and in unexpectedly remote Marion A. Cowell Jr. ’64 and interesting settings, lawyers with Carolina blue diplomas on their walls are daily applying their Alumni Engagement Committee, Kelly Podger Smith ’02 strong analytical skills, first honed in Chapel Hill classrooms, to meet the needs of demanding Nominations Committee, Alice N. Mine ‘85 clients and help shape the nation’s future. That transformative work is shouldered, in part, by our faculty, including a rising generation of younger scholars whose voices are reported in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, whose ideas help shape federal judicial decisions and whose presence is sought in committee rooms of Congress and federal agencies in Washington. On issues UNC Law Foundation Officers of banking law and finance, bankruptcy, civil rights, corporate and securities law, environmental Harriett J. Smalls ’99, president and chair policy, health care reform, intellectual property, international trade, media law, privacy, and tax Edwin Jasper “Jack” Walker Jr. ’69, vice president policy, Carolina Law professors are playing important roles in ongoing national debates. and chair, audit committee One of Carolina Law’s most distinctive features is the amplitude of its reach. Dedicated private John Charles Boger ’74, secretary-treasurer lawyers and public servants extend their lives and their influence into hundreds of towns and small cities across North Carolina, from the Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks. At the same time, the school propels hundreds of its graduates into meaningful careers across the United States UNC School of Law Office and beyond. That is what truly great law schools do. What sets Carolina Law apart is an ongoing of Advancement commitment to stay true both to its state mission, annually recruiting promising young North Carolina students from every background, and to educate highly competent graduates who Kris Jensen, associate dean for advancement aspire to become distinguished judges of federal circuits, manage major law firms, or advise key T. Brandon Wright, assistant dean for advancement governmental agencies. We’re about that work every day here in Van Hecke-Wettach Hall. Louise Harris, regional director of advancement Your strong financial support as alumni, your active participation in alumni affairs and your Dana Dubis, director of annual giving exceptional willingness to mentor and employ Carolina Law students and graduates are indispens- Susan McLean, director of alumni and donor relations able elements in making this continuing miracle possible. Thank you for your faithful support. Kelly Mann, alumni and donor relations coordinator Sincerely, Rory Moore, executive assistant Jamie Frampton, administrative assistant UNC School of Law Office of Communications Allison Reid, assistant dean for communications JOHN CHARLES “JACK” BOGER’74 Katherine Kershaw, communications manager Dean and Wade Edwards Distinguished Professor of Law Student Bar Association J.M. Durnovich, 2013-2014 president PUBLICATION Carolina Law is published twice per year by the Office of CAROLINA LAW Communications at UNC School of Law. It is distributed to alumni and colleagues. Please update your information at www. Co-Editors ALLISON REID, KATHERINE KERSHAW law.unc.edu/alumni. Copyeditor CHRIS NELSON We continually seek content for publication. Please submit Contributing Writers JESSICA CLARKE, MICHELE LYNN, NANCY OATES AND MARK TOSCZAK alumni class notes to [email protected]. Submit stories and press releases to [email protected] or Carolina Law editor, Designer SARAH CHESNUTT UNC School of Law, 160 Ridge Rd., CB #3380, Chapel Hill, Photographers JEREMY BALES, TODD BENNETT, STEVE EXUM, GARRETT HUBBARD, ALISON YIN, DONN YOUNG NC 27599. For more information, call 919.962.5106. Research Assistant NEAL INMAN 12,500 copies of the magazine have been printed at a cost of $10,845. 2 SPRING-SUMMER 2013 CAROLINA LAW CONTENTS VOLUME 38, ISSUE ONE SPRING-SUMMER 2014 School News 2 Faculty & Research 9 Center News 12 Alumni News 15 Donor Profile 28 ALISON YIN ALISON Class Notes 29 COVER STORY ON THE MAP 18 Faculty Books 34 Faculty and alumni make an impact across the nation. Above: Deepa Damre ’00, managing director at BlackRock Inc. in San Francisco. Cover photo by Steve Exum Parting Shots 35 FACULTY & RESEARCH 9 Lau research finds support for same-sex marriage in Hong Kong. MARK YOUR CALENDARS! UNC Law Alumni Association Scholarship CENTER NEWS 12 Ted Shaw appointed director of UNC Center for Civil Rights. GOLF CLASSIC LOOKING BACK 26 Students learn legal history, critical thinking and research skills Friday, in Professor Al Brophy’s seminar. Sept. 5, 2014 VOICES 36 Richard E. Myers II ’98 shares how defending Wen Ho Lee made him a better prosecutor and teacher. SCHOOL NEWS CDO Program Helps Students Connect with Alumni IT’S ONE THING TO GET A JOB Students who have participated say it gave them new insights straight out of law school, into how they might build a career in a specialty area that but another thing to build a interests them. Valerie M. Hughes 2L met with Richard Minor meaningful legal career. ’88. “He has a background in international tax, and that’s UNC School of Law’s Career something that I’m interested in,” she says. Development Office (CDO) His experiences and career path helped her understand the has launched a program that differences between working at a firm and working in-house, pairs students with practicing and also helped her think about her career from a different attorneys to give them a head perspective. start on that career building. “It’s good to sort of take some time to think longer term about “A lot of (our) career pro- general career path opportunities,” she says. grams are necessarily geared McKenna says another of the benefits for students is a chance to large audiences,” says to start to build a network of legal contacts outside the law school. Shawn McKenna, director of In Hughes’ case, her contact with Minor has even led to an idea Edward Marshall ’02, chief counsel employer outreach. “This is an for a potential summer project on a particular area of tax law. and compliance officer at Developing attempt to provide students Participating attorneys say the program is a chance for them World Markets, met with students as part of a new CDO program. with an opportunity to really to reconnect to the School and connect to law students who are have a one-on-one interaction still figuring out what kind of career they want. with an attorney in a practice area that might interest them.” “One of the things that attracted me about this idea was A small group of students — typically 20 or fewer — gets a to offer students a different perspective from someone who chance to have lunch with the attorney. Then, six students each pursued a legal career in international law,” says Edward have opportunities to spend 30 minutes one-on-one with the at- Marshall ’02, chief counsel and compliance officer at Developing torney after that, during which they can learn how that particular World Markets. attorney’s career developed. Marshall said all of the students he met with followed up with “We basically sell it to the students as an opportunity to listen him afterward, and in one case he was able to help connect a to this person’s story and an opportunity to pick their brain,” student with a law firm for a summer associate’s position.