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FACULTY NewsRecent MediaProfessor Helen Alvaré was quoted in anarticle published Feb. 12, 2008, by the ZenitNews Agency titled “Not Only Men TreatWomen as Objects.” Alvaré’s commentswere made during her attendance at aVatican conference in Rome that dealt with“Woman and Man, the ‘Humanum’ in ItsEntirety.” Decrying today’s atmosphere oframpant consumerism, Alvaré was quotedby Zenit as saying “It was almost inevitablethat human beings would become the ultimateconsumer product.”Professor Margaret Barry was interviewedby Voice of America television on April 9 fora story about the domestic violence and sexualabuse of minors issues involved in theFBI raid on the West Texas compound builtby convicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.Professor Robert Destro was also interviewedand included in the same story.Professor Marshall Breger was quoted inthe online edition of the Jewish Exponent inDecember 2007 for an article titled “Jewsand Evangelicals: Is It Really a MarriageMade in Heaven?” “We have to move awayfrom one-dimensional views of what eachside believes,” said Breger, who formerlyserved as President Reagan’s liaison to theJewish community.Professor Robert Destro was interviewedat length in March for an online video producedby Bridges to Common Ground, aWeb site dedicated to facilitating dialogueand understanding between the Abrahamicfaiths of Christianity, Judaism and Islam.Destro’s multi-part interviews offer commentaryand explains some of the most complexproblems that have historically dividedthe faiths. Destro is director of CatholicUniversity’s Interdisciplinary Program onLaw and Religion.Lecturer Richard Dieter was quoted bythe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Jan. 24, 2008,Community ServiceProfessor Suzette Malveaux conductedinterviews and also videotapedand photographed the 105 th birthdaycruise of her long-time pro bono clientOtis Clark, the oldest living survivor ofthe Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, for documentaryand media coverage. In April,she helped at a fund raiser and organizerfor the High Tea in honor of the120 th anniversary of CrittentonServices of Greater Washington. Theorganization is devoted to empoweringteen women.Dean Veryl V. Miles spoke to a groupof women college students participatingin the Public Leadership EducationNetwork’s “Women, Law & PublicPolicy Conference: A Public LeadershipCareer Conference.” The April 27 conferenceprovided opportunities forwomen college students from acrossthe country to participate in internshipsand programs in the nation’scapital, where they learned moreabout law and public policy fromwomen lawyers who make and influencepublic policy.Professor Faith Mullen trained 50law firm associates, governmentattorneys and staff attorneys forNeighborhood Legal Services on howto draft wills. Offered on Jan. 31, thetutorial was in partnership withfor a story about a Pennsylvania murdersuspect who acted as his own lawyer in hisdeath penalty case. “The brain surgery ofthe legal profession is death penalty cases.It’s not something any lawyer should do,much less a non-lawyer,” said Dieter, whoruns the nonprofit Death PenaltyInformation Center.Neighborhood Legal Services. Mullenrepeated the exercise on April 9. InMarch, she coordinated the D.C. BarPro Bono Child Custody training forlegal practitioners. Mullen designedthe course content, invited speakersand facilitated the training.Approximately 25 lawyers weretrained, and each lawyer who receivedtraining agreed to assist two unrepresentedclients in child custody cases.Professor J.P. “Sandy” Ogilvy traveledto Haiti from May 11 to 15 tomeet with local civic and religiousleaders and representatives of nongovernmentalorganizations operatingin the region to investigate ways inwhich the community of The CatholicUniversity of America might supporttheir work. Ogilvy was hosted by theRev. Jomanas Eustache, a priest withthe diocese of Jeremie and the deanof a private Catholic law school foundedin 1995. The diocese of Jeremie isa sister diocese of the Archdiocese ofWashington. Ogilvy also made a presentationto the students and faculty ofthe law school, L’Ecole SupérieureCatholic de Droit de Jereme.Professor Cara Drinan’s op-ed,“Backlog Death-Penalty Rationale FatallyFlawed,” was published in the AtlantaJournal-Constitution on May 16, 2008. Theessay decried the haste with which statesthat employ capital punishment haveresumed executions in the wake of therecent U.S. Supreme Court that upheld42CUALAWYER /Spring–Summer 2008
FACULTY NewsRecent Mediathe constitutionality of lethal injection.Three weeks later, Georgia became the firststate in the nation to resume use of the deathpenalty when it executed William Earl Lynd—- part of what a spokesman for theGeorgia attorney general’s office called anattempt to clear “the backlog.”Professor Sarah Duggin was interviewedby The New York Times for an article publishedon Feb. 28 that examined how theConstitution’s Article II, which stipulatesonly “natural born” Americans may serve aspresident, might be problematic for GOPcandidate John McCain, born in thePanama Canal Zone. The story quotedDuggin extensively and was widely distributedby other news sources such as theAssociated Press and the Drudge Report. Theseled to follow-up interviews on the same subjectwith BBC World News (radio), WTOPNewsradio in Washington, D.C., andWDEL, a radio station in Delaware. TheWashington Post also pursued the story,interviewing Duggin at length for an articlein the May 2 edition.Professor Clifford Fishman spoke with theLas Vegas Review-Journal in late Januaryabout state and federal laws that requireprosecutors and/or judges to disclose informationabout wiretap requests and interceptions,such as the number of conversationsintercepted, the number of people whoseconversations were intercepted, the manpowerand other costs associated with awiretap, the location of the wiretap andrelated questions. He also spoke with thewriter of the newsletter Private EducationLaw Report Legal Update for Teachers aboutthe legality of having the police bring drugsniffingdogs to check school lockers.Professor Mary Leary was prominentlyfeatured in a story in Virginia Law Weeklyabout her participation in a symposium on“Self-Produced Child Pornography: TheAppropriate Societal Response to JuvenileSelf-Sexual Exploitation,” organized by theUniversity of Virginia in February. Learywas among three panelists who discussedwhat she termed “tomorrow’s epidemic,”minors who produce obscene images ofthemselves for posting on the Internet.Leary was also quoted in a Feb. 25 article bythe Associated Press about the difficultiesprosecutors can face when bringing chargesfor child pornography.Professor Suzette Malveaux establishedherself as the Washington, D.C., legal commentatorfor Art Fennell Reports, aPhiladelphia-based cable television programseen on the Comcast Network. Malveauxappeared on the program at least 10 timesfrom December 2007 to May 2008, discussinga wide range of subjects: from thepresident’s State of the Union address, to thestatus of the Protect America Act and theForeign Intelligence Surveillance Act, tosentencing guidelines for crack and cocainesales, handgun laws, the death penalty, voterI.D. regulations and other legal subjects. InJanuary, Malveaux was interviewed byWTTG-TV, Fox News Channel 5, aboutthe phenomenon of hate crimes amongpersons of the same race. The followingmonth, she was a guest on the Tom JoynerMorning Show speaking about little known“black facts” with her pro bono client OtisClark, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa RaceRiot of 1921.Research Ordinary Professor MichaelNoone was interviewed by The New YorkTimes on April 15 to discuss allegations ofChristian fundamentalist proselytizing in theArmed Forces.Professor Lucia Silecchia was quoted in anApril 17 article for Newsweek online. “TheGreen Pope” explored the Vatican’s beliefthat eco-friendly lifestyles will help protectthe world's poorest communities.Professor Victor Williams published an opedin the National Law Journal on March 10that warned of the danger of the currenthigh number of unfilled governmentappointments. “Averting the Crisis” urgedthe next president to act immediately tofill the more than 200 vacant high-levelfederal jobs. Williams noted that theFederal Election Commission, for example,is minus four of six charter membersand does not even have a quorum to formallymeet.Professor Elizabeth Winston was quotedin an April 28, 2008, article in The NationalLaw Journal titled “Could ConstitutionalFlaw Unravel Eight Years of Patent BoardRulings?” The article explores the ramificationsto the U.S. Patent and TrademarkOffice of the possibly unconstitutionalappointment of nearly two-thirds of itspatent appeals judges. Winston made thepoint that such administrative law judgepositions are very difficult to get and arenow held by “highly qualified and respected”judges, many with experience from insideand outside of the agency as well as clerkshipson the Federal Circuit.Professor Leah Wortham was quoted inthe April 10 edition of the Polish newspaperRzeczpospolita for an article about a speechshe gave in Warsaw two days earlier. Inremarks that were sponsored by theNational Council of the Bar and theJagiellonian American Law Program,Wortham broadly discussed the variousinfluences that affect the development of apractitioner’s legal ethics.Spring–Summer 2008 / C UALAWYER 43
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