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FACULTY NewsConferences and Symposiain the annual meeting of the InternationalAssociation of Peacekeeping trainingCenters, held this year in Stockholm. Keepingup a busy conference schedule through thefall, Professor Noone presented his paper,“Friction Points Between Common andCivil Law Military Justice Systems,” at a conferenceon “New Battlefields and Old Laws:from the Hague Conventions to AsymmetricWarfare,” sponsored by SyracuseUniversity’s Institute for National Securityand Counterterrorism. The event was held inWashington, D.C., in October. He alsodelivered “Non-judicial Punishment; a CrossCultural Survey,” a paper presented at theBiennial International Conference of theInter-University Seminar on Armed ForcesCommunity ServiceProfessor Suzette Malveaux continued herpro bono efforts on behalf of the few livingsurvivors of the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921, testifyingat a symposium in Philadelphia on Oct.22 that was meant to bring higher visibility toa nearly forgotten chapter of American history.“Terror in Tulsa,” part two, was the continuationof the Survivor Series Symposiumsponsored by Temple University’s BeasleySchool of Law. The event invited surviving victimsof the riot, academic experts, and the probono litigation team of which Malveaux is apart to retell the story of the racial attacks thatkilled more than 300 people and destroyedGreenwood, Okla., known at the time as the“Negro Wall Street of America.” Malveauxhas been involved for years in a pro bono effortto search for new legal remedies for justice forthe victims and their descendents.Dean Veryl V. Miles spoke to area high schooland middle school students in July about hercareer as a lawyer and as a law school dean.The students were participants in a YouthLeadership Foundation program for girls calledthe Program for Academic and LeadershipSkills. Program Administrator Michael Barvickand Society held in Chicago.Professor Heidi Schooner participated in adiscussion of “The Role of the Corporationin America: How Are the Rules of CorporateGovernance and Antitrust Law Evolving?,”sponsored by the Hudson Institute on May21, 2007. The event was televised live on C-SPAN. She was also a presenter/discussantat two symposia in April 2007 — “Banksand Internet Commerce” at the SixthConference on Portuguese and AmericanLaw, held at the Columbus School of Law;and “Is Excessive Regulation and LitigationEroding U.S. Financial Competitiveness?”,organized by American Enterprise Instituteand the Brookings Institution. Professorextended the invitation and later told the deanthat “your personal and professional journeyis a wonderful example to our girls, and Iknow that your words have inspired them toshoot high and never give up.”Professor J.P. “Sandy” Ogilvy was thechief organizer of a landmark conferencehosted by the Columbus School of Law onOct. 5 and 6, 2007. “The Role of Law Schoolsin Fostering Commitment to Pro BonoPublico” was designed to bolster the dialogueabout the best ways to teach law studentsthat the free provision of legal services tothose who cannot afford representation is anobligation and a commitment to justice. Themeeting provided a forum to investigate innovativeways in which law schools can expandpro bono opportunities for students. It alsoexamined the creation of partnerships withalumni and other legal professionals to makefree and low-cost legal services more availableto those who cannot afford such services.Among the approximately 120 pro bonoexperts from across the country in attendancewere those from law schools, legalclinics and members of the bench and bar.Schooner presented “The Fantasy of Moneyand Banking“ at the Storytelling and the LawConference held in City University, London,on July 20, 2007. In early October, she was adiscussant at the fall 2007 roundtable,“Globalization and International FinancialRegulation,” sponsored by the VanderbiltInternational Legal Studies Program ofVanderbilt University Law School.Professor Lucia Silecchia spoke on Sept.21, 2007, about “The Preferential Option forthe Poor and Environmental Law,” ata conference that addressed Catholicperspectives on environmental law. Theevent was sponsored by St. Thomas LawSchool in Minneapolis. She was also a featuredspeaker at a program held Nov. 1 on“Ecological Guidance for the 21 st Century,”sponsored by Fordham law school’s Instituteon Religion and The Guild of CatholicLawyers of the Archdiocese of New York.Professor Karla Simon spoke at a conferencein Utrecht, Netherlands, in November2007, about “Removing Tax Limitations onCross-border Philanthropy.” The followingmonth, she attended and spoke at an“International Seminar on NonprofitOrganizations,” held Dec. 14–15 in Beijing,China, under the auspices the GermanAssociation for Technical Cooperation’s Ruleof Law Program.Professor George Smith presented a paperin September 2007 titled “God, Caesar, andDarwin: Re-defining the Boundaries of TheTown Square through Law, Religion, andBiotechnology” at a conference on“Pluralism, Politics and God,” hosted byMcGill University, Canada.Professor Elizabeth Winston gave a talktitled “Terminator Licenses: How Licensinghas Changed the Landscape of Agriculture”at the Works in Progress IntellectualProperty Colloquium on Sept. 28, 2007, atAmerican University.36CUALAWYER /Fall–Winter 2007
TOMORROW’S AlumniWhat’s New with CUA Law StudentsFour third-year students, CeciliaCeleiro, Joseph Carlson, MeganGreen and Justin Levenstein, representedCUA at the University of PuertoRico Trial Competition held Oct. 25–28,2007. Pitted against seven other lawschools, the team won the final roundagainst Brooklyn Law School and wasdeclared champion at the award ceremony.The competition was co-sponsoredby the ABA Criminal LawSection, with the winner being offereda spot in the National ABA Competitionin Chicago next spring. At the end ofthe preliminary round, CUA had thehighest point total and received thevote of every evaluator. JustinLevenstein received an individualaward for the Best Closing Argumentin the entire competition. MeganGreen was awarded the Best OverallAdvocate award. “All four studentswere exceptional in their roles,” saidProfessor Lou Barracato, director ofthe National Trial Teams.3L Megan Askew, president of thelaw school’s Federalist Society, waselected in July 2007 to serve as Mid-Atlantic regional coordinator for theFederalist Society Student Division.Her duties involve keeping more thana dozen greater D.C.-area law schoolsin contact with each other and keepingthe national organization aware ofthe events and news of the regionalchapters.3Ls Myung Kim and EmilyLambert were selected for 2007Equal Justice Works Summer CorpsProgram. Summer Corps membersengage with a broad range of issues,including civil rights, communityeconomic development, death penalty,disability rights, housing, domesticviolence, education, public benefitsand workers’ rights. The two studentsspent the summer serving with nonprofitpublic interest law organizationsas a part of the Equal JusticeWorks Summer Corps program.Each student earned a $1,000 educationaward voucher through thisnational AmeriCorps-funded program.They were among 592 applicantsfor 350 participant slots nationwide.Kim served with the AsianPacifica American Legal ResourceCenter and Emily Lambert workedfor The Children’s Law Center.A four-student team from CatholicUniversity competed in the EighthAnnual Quinnipiac UniversityCriminal Justice Trial AdvocacyCompetition in New Haven, Conn.,over the weekend of Oct. 20–21.Annie MacLean, Tyler Van Voorhees,Susan Gibson and Brian Luhman representedthe Columbus School of Law,with Van Vorhees being selected as thecompetition’s Best Overall Advocate. Inthis competition, teams try a criminalcase as the prosecution and as thedefense. Eight moot court teams competed.The final round was presided overby the Hon. Mark Kravitz, United StatesDistrict Court, District of Connecticut.As president of Students for PublicInterest Law, 3L Lisa Franchini was achief organizer of “Welcome to the Stateof Poverty,” a program held at theColumbus School of Law on Oct. 14,2007. It included a “poverty simulation,”an exercise designed to teach what livingin poverty feels like and the daily obstaclesfaced by the indigent.An article by Sean Gard, 4E, has beenselected for publication in the Universityof Baltimore Intellectual Property Journal.The article deals with tax patents and istitled “Revival of the Origination Clausein Patent Law: Old Clause Trumps NewPractice.” Gard is deputy director ofgovernmental affairs for the NationalAssociation of Bond Lawyers.Fall–Winter 2007 / C UALAWYER 37
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