On The Record - Columbus School of Law

FACULTY NewsConferences and SymposiaProfessor Marshall Breger was amongfour panelists invited Oct. 6 to discuss theJerusalem Old City Initiative, a four-yearoldplan to pursue creative governance andmanagement options between Palestiniansand Israelis for Jerusalem's Old City. Thepanel discussion was sponsored by thethe Law School,” an educational seminarsponsored by the Just the BeginningFoundation that is designed to teach studentsabout a potential career as a jurist.Malveaux led a discussion with a panel offour judges about career paths and opportunitiesfor law students and high schoolstudents. She also served during the fall2008 semester as the interim director ofthe law school’s Law and Public Policyprogram.Rev. Raymond O'Brien continued hisservice on the board of trustees of DonBosco Cristo Rey High School in TakomaPark, Md., the newest high school in theArchdiocese of Washington. Founded onthe model of the Cristo Rey network, thehigh school seeks to integrate employmentand college preparation withCatholic education among mostly disadvantagedstudents.Professor Sandy Ogilvy and DeanVeryl Miles donned T-shirts, baseballcaps and paint brushes to pitch in andhelp paint classrooms at St. AnthonyCatholic School in the nearby northeastWashington neighborhood of Brooklandon Aug. 15. The two joined more than 60first-year Catholic University law studentswho donated a day of local volunteerismon the final day of their weeklong orientation.The group spent the morning scraping,cleaning and repainting the walls of atleast four classrooms in the building.Foundation for Middle East Peace and theMiddle East Institute and was held at theCarnegie Endowment for InternationalPeace.Professor Cara Drinan presented a paperat the 61st annual meeting of theSoutheastern Association of Law Schools,a regional association of law schools conference,held from July 27 through August2, 2008, at the Ritz Carlton in Palm Beach,Fla. Her talk, “Litigation Strategies toImprove Indigent Defense,” described thefailure of many state legislatures in recentyears to create and fund adequate indigentdefense systems, forcing advocacy groupsand pro bono lawyers to take the resultingissue of under-representation to court. InJune 2008, Drinan spoke as part of a panelat the AALS New Law TeachersConference. The panel was titled “JuniorFaculty Feedback.”Scholar-in-residence Donna ColemanGregg attended the Progress andFreedom Foundation’s Annual AspenSummit, “Unlocking Innovation,” inColorado, Aug. 17–19, 2008, and participatedin a discussion of child safety andonline privacy.Professor A.G. Harmon attended theSEALS conference in July and presented apaper for a panel on law and literature thatfocused specifically on the depiction of thelaw in Western literature. His discussionresulted in invitations from colleagues tospeak at the law schools of the Universityof South Carolina and Louisiana StateUniversity.Professor Catherine Klein was a commentatorat the “Legal Education at theCrossroads Conference” held at theUniversity of Washington, Seattle, fromSept. 5 to 7, 2008. She also delivered twopresentations at the May 2008 conferenceon clinical education of the AmericanAssociation of Law Schools in Tucson,Ariz. The talks were titled “Why Can’t WeAll Just Get Along? Finding CommonGround between Domestic Violence andCriminal Defense Clinics,” and“Directing? You Must Be Kidding:Leading a Clinic in Academia.” Klein traveledto Kiev, Ukraine, in mid-May to present“Effective Law Teaching: TeachingCritical Thinking and IntegratingDoctrine, Skills and Ethics” at the PublicInterest Law Initiative 2nd AnnualMeeting: Promoting Sustainable Reformof Higher Education. And in late February2008, Klein presented “InternationalCollaboration: The CUA – JagiellonianUniversity Experience” at theInternational Conference on the Future ofLegal Education held at Georgia StateUniversity College of Law in Atlanta.Professor Mary Leary presented“Mulieris Dignitatem, Pornography, andthe Dignity of the Soul: An Exploration ofDignity in a Protected Speech Paradigm,”at the Mulieris Dignitatem conference heldat the Pope John Paul II Cultural Centerin Washington, D.C., on Oct. 3 to 4, 2008.The conference was held in honor of the20th anniversary of the pontiff’s groundbreakingapostolic letter on the dignity ofwomen. Leary was also an invited discussantin December to a conference on thesocial costs of pornography, held at theWitherspoon Institute of PrincetonUniversity.Professor Suzette Malveaux presented“The Privatization of the Justice System”at the American Association of LawSchool’s Dispute Resolution SectionWorks in Progress Conference, held at theSandra Day O’Connor College of Law atArizona State University in October. OnSept. 26, she moderated “Preview of 2008–Fall–Winter 2008 / C UALAWYER 43