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FACULTY NewsProfessional ActivitiesProfessors Margaret Barry, CatherineKlein and Faith Mullen all played prominentroles as panelists and presenters at theAALS Conference on Clinical LegalEducation in Tucson, Ariz., May 4–7, 2008.The three Columbus Community LegalServices professors addressed various aspectsof the conference’s theme, “Reflecting onOur Work and Vision: Risks, Mistakes andOpportunities.” The concurrent sessionsbrought together many clinical legal educatorsfrom D.C.-area law schools, to join colleaguesin examining such topics as “FindingCommon Ground between DomesticViolence and Criminal Defense Clinics” and“Directing? You Must Be Kidding: Leadinga Clinic in Academia.” Klein organized andfacilitated a joint meeting of the AALSInternational Section and the GlobalAlliance for Justice Education. She is helpingto plan its upcoming conference in Manila,Philippines, next December. Klein andBarry also helped to plan the GeorgetownUniversity Summer Institute, designed forless experienced clinical teachers, held June17–20, 2008. Mullen was selected to be asmall group leader at the Tucson meeting.The small groups play a central role in theAALS clinical conferences and meet frequentlythroughout the conference.Professors Margaret Barry and CatherineKlein were the 2008 recipients of the 3 rdAnnual Watts Empowerment Award, presentedby the Washington, D.C.–basedWomen Empowered Against Violence.Created in 2006 to recognize individualswhose work has improved systems, servicesand access to justice for survivors of intimatepartner violence, the WEAVE nominationcited the professors’ “years of dedication tothis cause in the form of the Families and theLaw Clinic, your early vision for outreachand services to teens, and your importantcontributions in training corporate attorneysto do pro bono family law.” The award waspresented on June 16, 2008.Professor Marshall Breger’s opinion essay,“Faith in Diplomacy,” was entered as part ofthe Congressional Record on May 14, 2008, byRep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md). Breger’s articlewas written during his tenure as a formeralternate delegate of the United States to theU.N. Human Rights Commission inGeneva, Switzerland. In it, he discussed theimportance of religion in negotiating peacethrough diplomacy. On February 25, Bregerwas a featured speaker at an academic discussionon the current status and challengesfacing the city of Jerusalem. The discussionwas held at the Nasher Museum of Art onthe campus of Duke University in NorthCarolina.Professor HeatherElliott visited thecountry of Andorra inMarch and gave atalk about the U.S.Supreme Court thatwas sponsored by theAndorran Minister of Culture. In attendanceat her lecture were the president and vicepresident of the nation’s Supreme JudicialCouncil, its attorney general, the clerk of theConstitutional Court and several others.Professor William Kaplin presented hispaper, “The Impact of the U.S. SupremeCourt’s K–12 Racial Diversity Cases onHigher Education,” at the 29 th AnnualNational Conference on Law and HigherEducation, February 2008, in ClearwaterBeach, Fla.Professor Catherine Klein was one of theexperts on clinical legal education invited toparticipate in a workshop with 10 professorsfrom Iran’s Mofid University. The ClinicalLegal Education Workshop: Internationaland Comparative Models was held April 2–7in Istanbul, Turkey, and was sponsored bythe Protection Project at The JohnsHopkins University School of AdvancedInternational Studies.Professor Lisa Lerman was a plenary sessionspeaker at a conference on legal externshipshosted by Seattle University School ofLaw on Feb. 15 and 16. She was part of aprogram titled “The Carnegie Report andExternships: Where the Bridge to PracticeMeets the Road to Identity.” Lerman’sremarks were a critique of the Carnegiereport as it relates to law school externshipprograms. She also served as a member ofthe planning committee for the AmericanBar Association’s 34 th National Conferenceon Professional Responsibility. Lerman continuesto serve as a member of Equal JusticeWorks National Advisory Committee; as amember of the board of directors of D.C.Law Students in Court; and as a member ofCatholic University’s Senate Committee onAppointments and Promotions.Professor David Lipton organized andmoderated four professional talks in his roleas director of the Securities Law Program.He invited Fannie Mae deputy generalcounsel Ramon de Castro to discuss themeltdown of the sub prime lending market;Justice Department investigator and CUAlaw alumnus Mike Missal, 1982, to explainthe accounting practices of mortgagelenders; SEC Director Erik Sirri to speakabout coordinating international marketregulation; and SEC Commissioner PaulAtkins to discuss market-based regulation.Lipton also moderated an alumni luncheondiscussion in New York City that examinedthe coordinated supervisory rules of theNew York Stock Exchange and FINRA. Hecontinues to serve on the fair pricing committeeand the governance committee of themunicipal securities rulemaking board.Professor Suzette Malveaux was invited tospeak at Washington & Lee UniversitySchool of Law on Jan. 11 about her currentscholarship on the impact of compulsorypre-dispute arbitration agreements on thejustice system. She was also an invited36CUALAWYER /Spring–Summer 2008