SUMMER 2009 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF UTLAW LAW ENERGY LAW EVOLVES The Law School’s new Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law meets the challenges of the new century Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long help launch young lawyers’ careers Twenty years of the Capital Punishment Clinic Texas Law Veterans Association organizes legal clinics for Central Texas veterans THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION, 727 E. DEAN KEETON STREET, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78705 The Long Career Launch Program Through a very generous gift to the School of Law, Joe R. Long, ’58, and Teresa Lozano Long created the Long Career Launch Program. The Program makes it financially possible for recent TU Law graduates to obtain legal work experience in unpaid internships while they await bar results. Participating graduates in the Long Career Launch Program have worked with a wide variety of public service employers, E P WO from the Office of the Attorney General ofT exas to the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. Full story on page 32. S H P TE S HOTO BY HOTO P InCamera PHOTO BY MARK RUTKOWSKI InCamera Texas Law Veterans Association helps Central Texas veterans navigate the legal landscape Bridgett Mayeux, ’10, cofounded the Texas Law Veterans Association with Sam Denton, ’10, in 2007 to help Central Texas veterans learn about their rights, apply for benefits, and find attorneys. Mayeux is pictured here consulting with a veteran at a free legal advice clinic for veterans the student group organized with the Law School’s William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas, the Texas Veterans Commission, and Travis County Veterans Services. Mayeux is a U.S. Air Force veteran and served in Iraq. Full story on page 16. SUMMER 2009 VOL 8 ISSUE 1 12 22 AT THE LAW ScHOOL The Capital Punishment Clinic turns twenty. Conferences and symposia at the Law School over the past year. 29 NeW FACULTY BOOKS 31 CLINIC NeWS 6 The Law School welcomes a new clinic, the Human Rights Clinic. 20 22 32 SeIZE THE DAY: THE CAMPAIGN FOR UT LAW UT Law has set an ambitious goal of raising $200 million over the next five years.T he money raised during the campaign will be used for support in three broad categories— faculty recruitment and retention, student recruitment and support, and support for new and expanded programs at the Law School. 32 THE LONG CAReeR LAUNCH PROGRAM 36 THE JAMES A. BAKER III CHAIR IN THE RUle OF LAW AND WORLD 6 ENERGY LAW EVOLVES 14 A FORce FOR JUSTIce AffAIRS In fall 2009, the Law School will inaugurate Three members of the Class of 2009 will a new Center for Global Energy, International form the advance guard of the Justice Corps, 38 AlUMNI FOCUS Arbitration, and Environmental Law, a fellowship program designed to increase KATHRYN FULLER a multidisciplinary center that will capitalize access to legal assistance nationwide and RODNEY ELLIS on UT Law’s strengths in the areas and allow young alumni to gain experience in BRYAN GARNER Texas’s centrality as a producer of oil, gas, public-interest law practice. and wind energy. 44 CLASS NOTES 16 HelP ON THE HOMefRONT GEORGE C. CHAPMAN Lifetime Achievement Award 12 “CONSENT” TO ARBITRAL Law students organize free legal clinics JURISDICTION: DISPUTES WITH for Central Texas veterans THE HONORABLE ROYCE C. LAMBERTH NON-SIGNATORIES Outstanding Alumnus Award Burg Family Professor Alan Scott Rau 19 ReSIDING JUDGES CATHERINE LAMBOLEY discusses the question of how to demarcate The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard Distinguished Alumnus Award the respective roles of courts and arbitrators oral arguments in the Eidman Courtroom for Community Service in an excerpt from Multiple Party Actions March 30–31, 2009. MAX SHERMAN in International Arbitrations, a recently Honorary Order of the Coif published collection of essays by participants 20 OUT OF THE PAST in a 2007 arbitration conference held in Second-year law student Andrés Durá 61 IN MeMORIAM The Hague, Netherlands, and sponsored by earned a Law School grant to carry out the Law School, the Houston International original historical research in the United 65 IN CLOSING Arbitration Club, and the Permanent Court Kingdom on an 1813 execution for Hannah Miller, ’09, is already making an of Arbitration. fraudulent bankruptcy. impact on Texas juvenile-justice policy. 4 UTLAW Summer 2009 LETTERS UT SCHOOL OF LAW From Bill F. Bogle, ’58, Fort Worth: Talk about identity theft! I don't know who the old guys on page 56 are, but they Dean LAWRENCE SAGER aren’t who they claim to be. Wayne and Bill are on p. 69. University of Texas Law School Foundation In the Winter 2008 issue of UT Law, two captions were switched. The gentlemen on page 56 President, Board of Trustees ROBERT C. GRABLe, ’71 were wrongly identified as Wayne Rohne, ’58, and Bill Bogle, ’58, when they are actually Wales Madden Jr., ’52, and Mike A. Myers, ’63. As Mr. Bogle writes, he and Mr. Rohne are UT Law School Alumni Association President indeed on page 69. I sincerely regret the error. —Kirston NINA CORTELL, ’76 From Michael J. Piuze, ’71, Los Angeles, California: UT LAW MAGAZINE Although I have never had the pleasure of meeting him, I am sure that Joe Jamail Editor deserves all the accolades in your recent article (“Joe Jamail Breaks Another Record,” KIRSTON FORTUNE Summer 2008)—except one: his $11 billion verdict in Pennzoil v. Texaco is not the Managing Editor largest ever. It is not even the largest for a UT Law grad, as a look at a copy of the JULIEN N. DEVEREUX $28 billion verdict form and judgment in Bullock v. Philip Morris will show. Contributing Writers MIKE AGRESTA BRENNA BURKARTH From Martaine J.L. “Mart” Lapin, ’56, Orono, Maine: LAURA CAStro, ’97 I read the article about the Center for Women in Law (“The Center for Women in JULIEN N. DEVEREUX KIRSTON FORTUNE Law,” Winter 2008) and I am very pleased that a group of women lawyers has started TOM GERROW such an organization. SPIKE GILLESPIE The following statement [by Nina Cortell, ’76] really stood out: “Most of us—the TOM Henninger, ’92 women who came out of the Law School in the seventies—found ourselves being Contributing Photographers the first at almost anything we did.” Some of these ladies should have been around BRUCE BENNETT when my mother received her law license in 1927. (Unfortunately, she was not a UT BRIAN BIRZER JAY BROUSSEAU Law graduate, although she did some undergraduate.) For three years she tried to DON COUCH find a job as an attorney, both inH ouston and in Dallas. The best she could do was BRET GERBE MARSHA MILLER a secretary position. CHRISTINA MURREY Finally, in 1930, she got a job as the secretary to the Chamber of Commerce in MARK RUTKOWSKI Grand Saline, with the proviso that she could practice law on the side. STEPH SWOPE She was the first lawyer to arrive in Kilgore at the beginning of the East Texas Photo Editor Oil Field boom in 1930, but even then she had to be careful and not disclose she STEPH SWOPE was a woman. Her business cards said “O.G. Herrmann,” giving no indication of Intern her gender. At least one judge refused to allow her to practice in his court, and on BRENNA BURKARTH several occasions she had to associate counsel in order to get her cases tried. Thank goodness for people like Angus G. Wynne, who recognized her ability and worked Design MARYBETH DAIGLE with her for many years. Even though my father died when I was twelve, she went on to make a home Cover Illustration for us, have a very successful law practice and won the respect of the community. JUSTIN DAVID COX Some unusual things about her practice were that she never had a secretary and she COMMENTS? never sent a client a bill, depending on their honesty to come in and pay her fee. We welcome your letters. Please email She became the first woman on the school board and its first woman president. In Kirston Fortune at [email protected] or write care of: 1948 she was the first woman in Kilgore to be honored byB eta Sigma Phi sorority The University of Texas School of Law as “First Lady of Kilgore.” 727 East Dean Keeton Street She retired at age eighty-two and lived to be eighty-four. Austin, Texas 78705 I learned more about the true reasons for practicing law from her than anywhere. TO CHANGE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Phone: (512) 471-6314 Email: [email protected] On the cover: Oil pumps tap Texas’s traditional energy source, oil, but the state’s future energy Online: http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/ needs might be met by wind and solar power. The Law School’s new Center for Global Energy, alumni/form.html International Arbitration, and Environmental Law will address the challenges faced by Texas and UTLAW Magazine is published twice a year by the the rest of the world as energy supplies, regulation, and environmental impacts become more University of Texas Law School Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, Texas, 78705. varied and international. Illustration by Justin David Cox. ©2009 University of Texas Law School Foundation Summer 2009 UTLAW 5 Energy Law Evolves by JULIEN N. DEVEREUX ilustrations by JUSTIN DAVID COX In fall 2009, the Law School will launch the Center for Global Energy, International Arbitration, and Environmental Law to help create a new generation of lawyers and scholars to navigate the legal terrain between these three vital fields in a changing world.