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CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW | WINTER 2021 CHASE An Ambassador’s Gift Patricia and Robert Herbold link her experience at Chase to service as a U.S. ambassador and champion for the future of the law school ALSO Chase Takes on the Pandemic | Alumni Endow Student Scholarships CONTENTS In this issue --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- Cover Story | 8 - Alumni Patricia Herbold, former United States ambassador, and her husband, Recently elected Justice of the Supreme Court of Dr. Robert Herbold, establish the largest endowment in Chase history, Kentucky Robert Conley is the second Chase graduate to support the work of the dean currently serving on the -------------------- -------------------- ——— seven-member court Alumni facing a pandemic- 25 Dean’s message Education weakened economy can look Chase is expanding its ——— The Master of Legal to strategies developed out programs and offering new Alumni – Kenneth Kinder II, Studies degree program is of the Great Recession to opportunities Daniel Mecklenborg, W. expanding with an entirely overcome uncertainty Lee Scheben, Kenneth 1 online Digital Law and 19 Peller and Sara Peller – Technology track --------------------- --------------------- have endowed student News from Chase 6 Faculty scholarships ——— 26 Three new professors join Professor John Bickers Professor Anthony Chavez the faculty, the Alumni engages students in has taken on a global ——— Council has new leaders, Constitutional Law through mission to show how lawyers Alumni and friends of Chase headlines an insights … and bits of can help develop policies Chase help support the American Bar Association whimsy to combat global warming college through lifetime and annual gifts event and a professor 7 20 influences a landmark 28 decision by the Supreme ——— ——— ——— Court of the United States Dean Judith Daar looks Professor Jennifer Kinsley back on her first year, which explains how a childhood Class Action 2 includes the in-perpetuum experience at a minor league 32 ——— endowment of the dean- baseball game set her on a ——— The newly created Center ship as the Ambassador course for social justice In Memoriam on Addiction Law & Policy Patricia L. Herbold Dean of 22 will focus on solutions for a Chase College of Law 36 ——— vexing problem 13 --------------------- Faculty Scholarship & 4 ——— Activities CHASE is published by Salmon P. Chase ——— Chase navigates the College of Law, through the Office of 37 Communications in the Office of the The Law + Informatics Covid-19 pandemic with Dean. Please send change of mailing ——— address and alumni news to CHASE Institute has a new focus, on planning and nimbly magazine, Salmon P. Chase College of legal issues of privacy and shifting from in-person to Professor Steve Stephens Law, Northern Kentucky University, 100 Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41099 data protection online instruction and reflects on the life of Dean or by email to [email protected]. Emeritus William Jones, in 5 programming CHASE is edited by Kerry Klumpe, an appreciation Chase director of communications, 14 and designed by Paul Neff of 41 Paul Neff Design. CHASE MAGAZINE From Dean Daar In Challenging Time, Chase Continues on Course AS PROGRAMS Greetings Chase Alumni and Friends, HAVE ADAPTED This issue of our biannual Chase happenings TO A PANDEMIC, reaches you at a most unusual time in all of our NEW INITIATIVES lives. I hope you are faring well, and finding HAVE ADDED TO pockets of joy during this elongated period of THE COLLEGE’S global pandemic. While not devoting the entire SUCCESSES issue to Covid, we do preview a few ways in which we are responding to the limitation on in-person gatherings, including in the class- room, to apprise you of how we have responded to meet the challenges of the time. Our chief purpose remains one of celebration. In the pages that follow, we celebrate the transfor- mative gift bestowed upon the law school by Patricia and Robert Herbold with the establish- ment of the Ambassador Patricia L. Herbold Dean of Chase College of Law. As you learn We also began a new chapter in Chase’s emerging more about her background and accomplish- focus on health law and policy with the opening ments, I know you will be as impressed as I am of the Center on Addiction Law & Policy. Ably with her gracious manner, impactful service and headed by our newest faculty member, Professor intelligent perspective on the role of law in Alex Kreit, the center will convene leaders and today’s society. Her storied career and philan- thinkers from across campus, the region and the thropic devotion are an inspiration to all who nation to educate and advocate around the public have passed through in Nunn Hall and its health scourge of addiction that continues to predecessor Chase spaces. afflict too many lives. This academic year we also celebrate the arrival Our ambitious agenda for the academic year of an impressive cadre of new learners. The 2020 includes continued focus on our core competen- entering class once again elevates our school’s cy of preparing Chase students for productive, LSAT and GPA credentials for the fourth year in fulfilling and successful careers in law. Your a row, while bringing creativity and adaptive continuing support and hallowed pathways lead skills to the hybrid learning environment we are the way for the newest members of our commu- now embracing. While just under half of our nity who will shape our bright future for years to classes have been face-to-face, every student come. could elect to join any class remotely to accom- With warmest wishes, modate their personal circumstances. Over the past year, we have made enhancements to our curriculum to position our graduates for success in a variety of emerging legal specialty areas. This year, we will launch our fully online Master of Legal Studies in Digital Law and Judith Daar Technology, breaking new ground in the law AMBASSADOR PATRICIA L. HERBOLD DEAN school arena with this unique specialized degree. OF CHASE COLLEGE OF LAW WINTER 2021 1 Briefs New Faculty Members Bring Teaching, Publishing Experience to Chase Chase College of Law has three new faculty members this academic year: Alex Kreit is assistant professor of law and director of the newly created Center on Addiction Law & Policy, Tan Boston is visiting assistant professor of law and Tobe Liebert is law library assistant director for user services and assistant professor of law library services. Professor Kreit is Professor Professor a recognized Boston was an Liebert returned expert in areas of assistant profes- to Kentucky from law involving sor of law and positions at law illegal drugs and director of the school libraries in marijuana. He has Master of Law Chicago, Los written case- and Master in the Angeles and books and law Study of Law Austin, Texas. In review articles on programs at the Chicago, he was the subjects, and speaks regularly at University of Dayton (Ohio) School of with Chicago-Kent School of Law and related symposia. At Chase, he teaches Law prior to joining the Chase faculty to the University of Illinois at Chicago Criminal Law and Healthcare and the teach Property and Uniform Commer- John Marshall Law School; in Los Law and he is establishing the center cial Code courses. She had previously Angeles, Loyola Marymount University that focuses on how law and policy can worked in the governance and general Loyola Law School and the University of help reduce the human toll of addiction. counsel departments of the National Southern California Gould School of Collegiate Athletic Association and at Law; and in Austin, the University of Prior to joining Chase, he was a visiting Wyndham Worldwide, a hotel and Texas at Austin School of Law. professor at The Ohio State University resort operator, where she was involved Moritz College of Law, in affiliation with Following graduation from the University in matters such as privacy and informa- the Drug Enforcement and Policy of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law, tion security and information technolo- Center. Before that, he was a professor he was a lawyer in a Louisville, Kentucky, gy litigation. at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San law firm where he conducted research in Diego, and director of the school’s Her most recent law review article, “As areas such as products liability, Center for Law and Social Justice and California Goes, So Goes the Nation? A employment law, workers’ compensa- co-director of its Center for Criminal Title IX Analysis of the Fair Pay to Play tion and labor law. He subsequently Law and Policy. Act,” is being published this year in the earned a Master of Library Science Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil degree at Indiana University. He holds a He wrote the books Criminal Law in Liberties. It examines the significance Bachelor of Arts from Centre College. Focus and Illegal Drug and Marijuana for female student-athletes of California Law and co-wrote the books Marijuana His most recently published book is legislation that allows student-athletes Law and Policy and Drug Abuse and the Texas Water Law: A Research Guide. His to be compensated for use of their Law Sourcebook. His numerous law other published works include accounts names and likenesses. review articles have appeared in of recent United States Supreme Court journals such as Boston College Law Professor Boston holds a Master of confirmation hearings and articles on Review, Ohio State Law Journal and UC Laws from the University of Dayton electronic court filings and online Davis Law Review. School of Law, a Juris Doctor from the digital verification of case citations in University of Virginia School of Law and legal briefs and research. Professor Kreit holds a Juris Doctor a Bachelor of Arts from Florida Atlantic from the University of Pennsylvania As assistant law library director he assists University.