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FACULTY NewsProfessional ActivitiesAs co-supervisors of the Families and theLaw Clinic, professors Margaret Barryand Catherine Klein continued to presentits Teen Domestic Violence Curriculum inD.C. public high schools throughout thefall of 2003. Developed at the ColumbusSchool of Law, the model is used nationallyand internationally. The Families and theLaw Clinic is also accompanying teams ofstudents to D.C. Superior Court’s Self HelpCenter. A pilot project of the Family CourtImplementation Project, the center isdesigned to provide limited legal services topro se litigants trying to navigate the courtsystem without representation.Professors Marshall Breger, RobertDestro and adjunct lecturer Dr. AhmadIravani were among the members of anAbrahamic delegation of Americans whojourneyed to Iran in June. Headed byCardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the archbishopof Washington, the delegation ofMuslims, Jews and Christians from theUnited States spent a week there in an effortto develop a religiously-based dialogue withthe Iranian people. The group had audienceswith many high-ranking government officials,including President Mohammad Khatami,Chief Justice Hashemi Shahroodi and otherkey Iranian religious, academic, cultural andpolitical leaders. The group of approximatelyone dozen also traveled to holy cities and metwith various Ayatollahs and academic figuresto learn more about the Shiite Islamic perspectiveon a wide variety of issues.Judge Sylvia Bacon was the honoree at aSupreme Court dinner in June, hosted bythe Georgetown University Law Centerand the National Institute for TrialAdvocacy. In remarks delivered by JusticeStephen Breyer, Georgetown’s Dean JudyAreen and NITA executive directorLaurence Rose, Judge Bacon was laudedfor her contributions to the organization’ssessions in Trial Advocacy Skills.Professor Marshall Breger has beenkeeping the airlines busy. In October, heattended meetings of the Israel FulbrightCommission in Ramat-Gan, Israel, on thenature of the religious university in themodern world. He also spoke on “TheFuture of Jerusalem” at the JerusalemInstitute of Israel Studies. His trip to Israelwas immediately followed by a lectureseries offered through the American LawProgram at the Jagellonian University inKrakow, Poland. In December, Bregerspent time in the Philippines as aDistinguished Fulbright Lecturer. Histopic: “Recent Developments in AdministrativeLaw in the United States.”Visiting professor Matthew P. Harringtonhas been invited to speak at the 2003Federal Court of Claims JudicialConference, where he’ll address the meetingon the topic of takings claims againstthe government.Professor William Kaplin was aleader/mentor at the bi-annual HoustonHigher Education Law Roundtable forConferencesProfessor Helen Alvaré was the U.S.reporter for the International Associationof Procedural Law at a September 2003conference in Mexico City, Mexico. Thetopic of her report was “Types and Stylesof Family Proceedings in the UnitedStates.” It was a summary of all currentprocedures and trends in procedure infamily law cases across the United States.Professor David Lipton presented anall-day lecture in Chicago on Oct. 30 onbroker-dealer supervision. Sponsored bythe Wharton school, it was attended bymembers of the National Association ofSecurities Dealers, and government andindustry regulators.emerging scholars in May 2003. In Juneand July, he taught four sessions of thecourse “Disability Law and Policy: CurrentIssues and Trends,” a CUA master’s-levelcourse. In September, Professor Kaplinpresented a national audio-conference on“Affirmative Action in Admissions Afterthe Michigan Cases,” under the auspices ofMagna Publications, Inc.Professor David Lipton is the director ofthe law school’s Securities RegulationProgram, which recently won universityapproval for certificate status.Professor Peter Rutledge participated inthe Georgetown Supreme Court Institute,preparing lawyers for oral argument beforethe Supreme Court.Professor Lucia Silecchia was a panelist,along with Professor William Wagner,in the CUA Guild of Catholic Lawyers’panel on “Celebrating Our CatholicIdentity” in October 2003.Professor George P. Smith was theParsons Visiting Professor of Law at theProfessor Lucia Silecchia presented“Catholic Social Teaching and Its Impacton American Law: Some Observationson the Past and Reflections on theFuture” at Villanova Law School onOct. 3, 2003. A written version of thepresentation will be published in the inauguralvolume of the Villanova Journal ofCatholic Social Thought.Judge-In-Residence, the Hon. FredUgast was a participant at the jointJudicial and Management Conference ofthe D.C. Court of Appeals and the D.C.Superior Court in Williamsburg, Va., inMay 2003.36CUALAWYER /Winter 2004