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R S V P : W I L L A T T E N D“In the four years from 2001 to 2005, thenation’s immigration courts of appeals werefaced with a 500 percent increase in thenumber of appeals filed to BIA decisions.”— Judge John T. Noonan Jr., United States Court ofAppeals for the Ninth Circuit.8.5. Content Abundance in a Multimedia World:Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-PlatformContent Delivery and RegulationMarch 15, 2007 — If you think that MP3 files or movies thatare downloadable to cell phones are cool right now, youhaven’t seen anything yet. Wireless communication technologiesare enjoying astonishing growth in the UnitedStates, and the majority of them are aimed at mobile devicessuch as phones, Blackberries and other tools. Making surethat regulators keep up with swiftly evolving technologieswas a chief focus of a daylong symposium sponsored byCommLaw Conspectus: Journal of Communications Law &Policy and CUA’s Institute for Communications Law Studies,along with the Federal Communications Bar Association.6. Race and Criminal Justice: The Impact ofFederal Sentencing GuidelinesFebruary 20, 2007 — The overhaul of criminal sentencingguidelines approved by Congress in the mid-1980s has hadthe unintended effect of handcuffing our system of justicetoday by diminishing the power of judges and juries to weighcircumstances and consider extenuating facts. That was thecommon view of the experts invited by CUA’s Black LawStudents Association to assess how such guidelines translateinto served terms of incarceration. Although Congresshas nominally lifted the restrictions of the sentencing guidelinesin recent years, critics say little has actually changed fordefendants. The BLSA students timed the panel discussionto coincide with the same-day argument of two cases beforethe Supreme Court that attempted to clarify its standard ofwhat makes a sentence “reasonable.”7. Women in the Law: D.C. Networking TeaOctober, 2006 — In a first-of-its-kind gathering, hundreds ofwomen law students from all nine of the Washington, D.C.-area law schools gathered at CUA to meet and greet, strikeup new friendships, exchange cards and phone numbersand begin to build the kind of career-sustaining relationshipsthat male attorneys have taken for granted for decades. Thebrainchild of The Catholic University of America’s Women’sLaw Caucus and its president Amanda West, the networkingtea will rotate among area law schools in the years tocome. It was noted that although women are more heavilyrepresented in the ranks of the legal profession than everbefore, they still account for less than one-third of America’sone million attorneys.8. Immigration Appeals and Judicial ReviewJanuary 30, 2006 — Do non-citizens receive fair hearingsbefore the immigration courts and the Board of ImmigrationAppeals? Are the courts of appeals the best forum for BIAappeals, and, if so, how can they handle the drasticallyincreased caseload? With immigration a hot-button issue inAmerican politics today, there was no better time to examinesuch questions than at the all-day symposium sponsored bythe Catholic University Law Review. Students invited leadingimmigration experts from government, the judiciary, academiaand advocacy groups to analyze the implications of importantprocedural changes, adopted 1999 to 2002, to the way immigrationcases are handled by the United States.Fall–Winter 2007 / C UALAWYER19