THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF LAW CAROLINA LAW Health Care Law in America Carolina Law Experts Weigh in on Health Care Reform Legislation VOLUME 35, ISSUE ONE SPRING-SUMMER 2011 DEAN’S MESSAGE UNC Law Alumni Association Dear Friends, Board of Directors Executive Officers Spring can be a time of relaxed walks along Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Yet, faced with a continuing economic recession Ann Reed ’71, president that has challenged law firms nationwide, threatened our state’s Robert A. Wicker ’69, vice president budgetary future and dimmed the job prospects of our graduating Thomas F. Taft ’72, second vice president students, we’ve opted to spend this season working hard to John Charles Boger ’74, secretary-treasurer strengthen programs that will serve our students and the profession. R. Scott Tobin ’81, Law Foundation chair For the past three years, listening closely to alumni, we have Marion A. Cowell Jr. ’64, past campaign chair SEARS DAN planned major curriculum reform to make our students more John Charles Boger Donna R. Rascoe ’93, past president (2005-06) practice-ready. Beginning in the fall of 2011, these reforms will John B. McMillan ’67, past president (2006-07) bring a far more intensive writing experience to entering students with the help of new, full-time writing faculty. In addition, second and third-year students will find a welcome new series of David M. Moore II ’69, past president (2007-08) applied and simulation courses, taught by some of Carolina Law’s finest professors. John S. Willardson ’72, past president (2008-09) Our success in faculty hiring continues, and four outstanding new faculty members will arrive Norma R. Houston ’89, past president (2009-10) in Chapel Hill by next fall – experts in employment and labor law, media law, professional Committee Chairs responsibility, and the civil clinic. Each will bring valuable real-world legal experience that Advancement Committee, Michael A. DeMayo ’90, should help students become more practice-ready. Beth R. Fleishman ’77 Despite promising curricular changes and new faculty, the job prospects for present students Audit Committee, Maria M. Lynch ’79 continue to be difficult. We are grateful to alumni who have responded to our calls for assistance. Together, we’ve done quite well. Despite the worst legal market since the Great Depression, we’re Facilities Committee, Thomas F. Taft ’72 pleased that 96 percent of the class of May 2009 and nearly 92 percent of the class of 2010 have Long-Range Planning Committee, found themselves employed nine months after graduation. Marion A. Cowell Jr. ’64, Ann Reed ’71 The most difficult decision we’ve recently faced has been to support tuition increases in this Student Affairs Committee, Craig T. Lynch ’86 time of financial uncertainty. Yet $1,500 tuition increases in both 2011 and 2012 will be necessary to fund our curriculum and related reforms after repeated state cuts in the school’s budget. We did UNC Law Foundation Officers not reach this conclusion lightly. We have always valued low tuition as the principal means to assure R. Scott Tobin ’81, president and chair broad access to legal education and to the widest array of career choices for our graduates. Edwin Jasper “Jack” Walker Jr. ’69, vice-president As we ask our future students to accept these necessary tuition increases, we intend to launch John Charles Boger ’74, secretary-treasurer a major scholarship initiative, with a target of at least $5 million, asking you, our alumni, for your help. 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Fullington’s name was misspelled in the Fall/Winter 2010 issue. Editors regret the error. UNC School of Law, 160 Ridge Rd., CB #3380, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. For more information, call 919.962.5106. 12,000 copies of the magazine have been printed at a cost of $10,065. This includes 10,500 insert envelopes. 2 SPRING-SUMMER 2011 VOLUME 35, ISSUE ONE SPRING-SUMMER 2011 CONTENTS Cover Story 18 HEALTH CARE LAW IN AMERICA Carolina Law Experts Weigh in on Health Care Reform Legislation CLINICS 6 HISTORY 14 Community Development Faculty Through Law Clinic Students Assist the Years Carolina for Kibera Departments SCHOOL NEWS 2 DONOR PROFILE 27 CENTER NEWS 28 10 Faculty & Research UNC Launches LL.M. Program, Hate Crime Research Conference Honors Julius 30 Class Notes ABA Grants “Acquiescence” Scholarship from Aaron Chambers ’62, Banking Center 33 Parting Shots Richard Golub ’67 Presents Lecture Series 34 Faculty Books 35 Staff Profile 36 Voices CAROLINA LAW Cover illustration by Rebecca Carr SCHOOL NEWS UNC Launches LL.M. Program, ABA Grants “Acquiescence” UNC SCHOOL OF LAW now offers foreign lawyers an opportunity to himself as a leading international scholar on adversarial systems improve their knowledge of U.S. law and legal process through its worldwide. Corrado has also recently earned a Fulbright Distin- one-year master of laws degree (LL.M.) program. On Jan. 25, the guished Chair in Law at the University of Trento in northern Italy, American Bar Association gave its “acquiescence” to the school’s where he will teach a seminar on U.S. criminal law while research- new LL.M. degree program in United States Law for foreign lawyers. ing Italian and European approaches to criminal law issues this Applications for fall 2011 will be accepted until April 30. spring. The LL.M. program has also been developed with the as- LL.M. students will have opportunities to study in all fields in sistance of associate dean Robert Mosteller and former associate the UNC law curriculum, but are expected to concentrate in the dean Laura N. “Lolly” Gasaway. law school’s areas of particular strength. These areas include Boger emphasizes that the school’s domestic law students and corporate and commercial law, banking law, environmental law, professors who work primarily within the United States will benefit intellectual property rights, civil rights law, health care law, human from learning alongside foreign-trained lawyers and forging inter- rights, international and comparative law, and public law and national connections. The program builds on the school’s existing regulation. In addition, students will benefit from studying law programs of international study abroad and student exchange, at a leading university in a globally prominent research and as well as visiting scholar programs for academics, judges and development area. prosecutors. It will also benefit from UNC School of Law faculty Michael L. Corrado, Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professor of Law, expertise in U.S. and international law and other fields of global who is the faculty director of the program, expects to welcome an legal scholarship. initial class of three to seven students next fall and an eventual “We live in an era in which significant shifts are occurring in LL.M. student population of 25. ownership of wealth and resources, and American attorneys “Our J.D. and LL.M. students will benefit by studying together must be able to compete in this new global marketplace,” Boger and by engaging in discussions about comparative legal issues, says. “This degree program will help us to attract and develop a policies and judicial processes,” John Charles “Jack” Boger, dean network of alumni worldwide – many of them leaders in their own and Wade Edwards Distinguished Professor of Law, says. nations – who will assist our U.S.-trained alumni in establishing Boger has supported the development of the LL.M. program as global connections, whether they eventually practice in Charlotte, part of an ongoing effort to help train lawyers who will practice Raleigh, New York City, or Seoul, South Korea.” in the global economy. More than 100 American law schools cur- To be eligible for the program, foreign lawyers must have earned rently offer an LL.M., including many of the most elite public and a primary law degree from universities in their home countries. private law schools. “We live in a time of rapid global changes, Preference will be given to foreign lawyers who have practiced law when legal issues involving banking and investment law, environ- for at least two years. Applications are available online, and admis- mental law, intellectual property protection, and human rights sions will be made on a rolling basis.