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LECTURES SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM SERIES provides great movies and commentary T he Social Justice Film Series, organized by Professor Nina Tarr, served as a means of bringing the College of Law community together to discuss serious social justice issues during 2005-2006. Hosted every two weeks, the Social Justice Film Series included a variety of films, including extremely popular major motion pictures and little-known films, touching on a variety of social issues. The films were shown in a lecture room and included an insightful commentary and discussion led by different members of the College of Law faculty. The films were open to anyone with no admission charge and guests were encouraged to bring supper to enjoy the film and commentary. The Social Justice Film Series resumes in 2006- 2007 under the direction of Assistant Dean Cynthea Geerdes. Pass the popcorn! SPRING, 2006 Films Commentator "The Bicycle Thief" Ekoh Yankah "Once We Were Warriors" Nina W. Tarr "Malcolm X: Make It Plain" BLSA Students "Born into Brothels" Sandra Sperino "This Revolution Will Not Be Televised" Linda Beale "Thin Blue Line" Kit Kinports "Other People's Money" David Hyman "Milagro Beanfield Wars" Eric Freyfogle "Breaker Morant" Richard McAdams FALL, 2006 Filma Commentator Iron Jawed Angels Tina Gunsalus The Castle Student Choice with Doug McMeyer Tsotsi Cyndi Geerdes with Adisa Krupalija Murder, rape, insanity, jailhouse snitches, and jazz . . . The Best FilmEver Made About A Criminal Trial . . .?? Andy Leipold and Richard McAdams Startup.com Christine Hurt Dolores Claiborne Heidi Hurd and Michael Moore (Room D) 12 Windy City Conferences bloom in Spring and Summer The College of Law hosted three significant conferences in Chicago during the spring and summer months, drawing legal scholars, law and business faculty, and business leaders from around the world to the Windy City. In early April, Associate Dean Ralph Brubaker, Professor Charles J. Tabb, the Alice C. Campbell Professor, and Visiting Professor Natalie DeVooght hosted “Consumer Bankruptcy and Credit in the Wake of the 2005 Act” at the Knickerbocker Hotel in downtown Chicago. The Conference featured a dozen leading bankruptcy scholars discussing the aftermath of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), signed into law by President Bush in April, 2005. In late April, Professor Cynthia Williams, the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Faculty Scholar, hosted a two-day conference entitled “Corporate Accountability and Short-Term Influences in the Capital Markets: Examining Similarities in the U.S. and the U.K.” at the University Club in the Chicago Loop. The conference featured faculty members from Oxford, Cambridge, Royal Holloway School of Business, and Nottingham in England, along with law and business faculty from Boston College, UCLA, Cornell, Penn, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Georgetown, and Yale, along with business and industry leaders and a keynote address from Robert A.G. Monks, well-known investor and shareholder activist. In early June, the College's Program in Law and Economics hosted “The Future of the Commons and the Anticommons” in Chicago, led by Professor Thomas S. Ulen, the Swanlund Chair, and Professor Lee Anne Fennell. The conference focused on the well-known tragedy of the commons story (which has the structure of a Prisoner's Dilemma) and its more recently developed counterpart, the tragedy of the anticommons, providing influential focal points for thinking about property regimes and resource allocation. The scholars discussed the continuing vitality of these conceptual templates in real property, natural resource, and intellectual property contexts, addressed possible refinements and theoretical extensions, and discussed potential avenues for further research. Participants included Illinois faculty members Ulen, Fennell, Richard McAdams, Larry Ribstein, Lawrence Solum, and Ekow Yankah.
O ne of the nation's most versatile public servants at the state, national, and international levels, Governor James J. Blanchard presented a highly-entertaining inside look at government service to a standing-room only crowd in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium as part of the fifth annual Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law to kick off Homecoming weekend festivities in early October. Governor Blanchard served as ambassador to Canada from 1993 to 1996, after serving two terms as governor of Michigan (1983- 1991) and four terms as a member of the United States Congress (1975-1983). One of Blanchard's signature achievements as Ambassador to Canada was spearheading the U.S.-Canada Aviation Agreement, known as “Open Skies,” which modernized aviation practices between the two nations and demonstrated how international agreements can promote broad economic growth. Governor Blanchard currently is a Partner with DLA Piper and the Chairman of the firm's Government Affairs Practice Group. On January 1, 1983, he took over what was described as "the toughest governor's job in America." His state faced a $1.7 billion deficit, the threat of bankruptcy, record high unemployment of more than 17 percent, and the worst credit rating in America. Blanchard completed his work as Michigan's 45th governor having balanced eight consecutive state budgets, boosted the state's credit rating to AA, established a $422 million "rainy-day fund," and produced a solvency dividend of more than $1 billion in savings from reduced borrowing costs. His aggressive small business and economic development efforts helped create more than 650,000 net new jobs and made Michigan's economy 35 percent more diversified than it had been a decade earlier. Newsweek credited Governor Blanchard with leading "one of the most dramatic economic turnabouts in the recent history of state government," and national publications such as U.S. News and World Report listed Blanchard among the best governors in America, one of the innovators and energizers who made things work in an era of declining federal aid. He was reelected in 1986 by the largest margin of any Governor in Michigan history. During his four terms in Congress, Jim Blanchard distinguished EVENTS VACKETTA-DLA PIPER LECTURESERIES Featurers Former Michigan Governor Jim Blanchard Governor Jim Blanchard delivers the fifth annual Vacketta DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law to a standing-room only crowd in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium. himself for his work to save the Chrysler Corporation, restore America's economic competitiveness, and oversee financial, monetary, trade, and energy issues. His major assignments included the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, including its subcommittees on Economic Stabilization, Housing and Urban Development, International Trade and Domestic Monetary Policy, and the Science and Technology Committee. He performed oversight of the Federal Reserve Board and participated in meetings of the International Monetary Fund. Governor Blanchard earned his B.A. (1964) and M.B.A. (1965) from Michigan State University and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1968. Prior to his election to Congress, he was assistant attorney general of Michigan (1969- 1974). He remains active in Michigan and in US-Canada relations. In 1997, he authored "Behind the Embassy Door", a book highlighting his experiences as Ambassador. He also serves on the board of directors of several corporations and recently cochaired the American Assembly project on US-Canada relations hosted and sponsored by Columbia University. The Vacketta- DLA Piper Lecture Series is endowed jointly by Carl Vacketta '65, and the firm. Mr. Vacketta, a native of nearby Westville, is a senior partner and former head of the Governor Jim Blanchard discusses career opportunities in politics with College of Law students and faculty in Pedersen Pavilion following his highly-entertaining lecture. firm's government contracts practice and a 1983 Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Illinois College of Law. This lecture series, which focuses on the evolving role of government, is a component of The Marbury Institute, the firm's initiative to promote the highest ideals of the legal profession. Past lecturers include U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, former House Majority Leader U.S. Rep. Dick Armey, DLA Piper Senior Policy Advisor and Co-Chair of the firm's Homeland Security Task Force, General Joseph W. Ralston, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and former Senate Majority Leader U.S. Senator George Mitchell, a partner in the firm, Chairman of the Global Board and Co-Chair of the Government Controversies Practice Group. 13
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