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2004 - 2005
JULY7/25 - 7/28/05 U.S. District Judge Addresses Lawyers at Criminal Law Program
The Honorable Ken Karas, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, delivered the keynote speech at Northwestern Law's annual Short Courses for Defense and Prosectuing Attorneys program. More...
7/20� 7/21/05 Northwestern Law Conference Teaches Lessons to Law Schools
Northwestern Law hosted the first national conference on "Teaching Contract Drafting" to provide law schools with effective tools and lessons to better train students in becoming effective business lawyers. More...
7/20/05 Dean's Summer Wrap Up
Dean David Van Zandt brings you up to date on the changes that have occurred at Northwestern Law over the summer. Read about key developments in this year's Summer Letter, which highlights Orientation Week plans, new faculty members, innovative new courses, and campus improvements. More
7/12/05 ABA Honors Northwestern Law Professor
The American Bar Association will recognize Professor Marshall Shapo with this year's Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award for his commitment to the advancement of justice, scholarship and the legal profession. More...
7/12/05 Professor Shapo Explores Murky Terrain of 9/11 Compensation
In his provocative new book, �Compensation for Victims of Terror,� Professor Marshall Shapo questions the merits of the Victims' Compensation Fund, created by the U.S. government to compensate relatives of 9/11 victims. More...
7/12/05 Professor Heinz's New Book Discovers Big Changes in Character of Legal Professions
Professor John Heinz's new book explores trends in Chicago lawyering during the last quarter of the 20th century. More...
7/7/05 Clinic Center Forum Commemorates Chicago Tragedy
Northwestern Law's Children and Family Justice Center will co-host a forum commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Chicago heat wave that killed 780 people. The event will feature Eric Klinenberg, author of the widely acclaimed book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. More...
JUNE
6/20/05 - 6/24/05 Summer Institute Offers Law School Survival Guide
Northwestern Law and Northwestern University's School of Continuing Studies have teamed up to offer a new Pre-Law Summer Institute that will provide a preview of what it takes to survive law school and come out with the skills to succeed in the legal profession. More...
6/23/05 Faculty Awarded Grants for Research
Congratulations to five Northwestern Law professors who received nearly $400,000 in grants from the Searle Fund for Public Policy to support their research efforts. More...
6/13/05 Welcome LLM/Kellogg Class of 2006
Northwestern Law welcomes 24 accomplished international attorneys from 10 different countries as part of the Graduate Program in Law and Business (LLM/Kellogg) Class of 2006. They bring professional and cultural perspectives from Brazil, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Russia, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Thailand. Many have already arrived for orientation, which begins on June 15. More...
MAY
5/25/05 Sen. Durbin Encourages Graduates to 'Make a Profound Difference'
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois -- the second highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate -- addressed graduates at the Northwestern Law convocation May 15. He congratulated the class on its achievements and advised graduates to bring integrity into the work place and commit to helping society. More...
5/25/05 Class Gift Campaign Most Successful in Law School History
The class of 2005 had an all-time high class gift participation rate of 80 percent, beating the 1989 record of 63 percent and raised nearly $66,000 to help fund Law School programs, a new scholarship, renovations, and the traditional class window. More...
5/17/05 Book's Surprising New Twists Keep McCarthy Era Debate Alive and Kicking
Northwestern University School of Law professor Martin Redish looks through a First Amendment lens to sort through the controversy, commentary and historical revisions surrounding the government's prosecutions and blacklisting of communists in the 1940s and 1950s. More...
5/15/05 Illinois Senator Speaks at Graduation
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's second highest ranking Democrat, addressed graduates, parents, and guests at this year's Northwestern University School of Law graduation convocation Sunday, May 15. More...
APRIL
4/29/05 - 4/30/05 Faculty Conference Ponders Role of Legal Doctrine
Legal scholars and positive theorists from law schools across the country will gather to discuss the role of "legal doctrine" at a Northwestern Law faculty conference. More...
4/22/05 And the Winners Are...
Congratulations to the faculty recipients of the 2004-05 student-voted teaching awards. These awards will be presented to Jim Speta, Martin Redish, Kim Yuracko, and Howard Nagelberg at the graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 15. More...
4/15/05 Symposium Looks at Pressing Issue in International Finance
The move toward global convergence in accounting standards -- one of the most discussed topics in finance -- is the focus of a landmark print symposium published in this month's Northwestern Law Journal of International Law and Business. More...
4/14/05 - 4/15/05 Northwestern Law Brings Senior SEC Officials to Annual Institute
Senior officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission will take part in a rarely offered question and answer session as part of Northwestern Law's continuing legal education program. More...
4/14/05 Former Gov. Thompson Among Alumni Honored for Public Service
Three Northwestern Law alumni, including former Illinois governor Jim Thompson, will be recognized for their outstanding contributions to public service and the legal community at the 2nd Annual SFPIF Public Service Benefit Dinner. More...
4/12/05 - 4/14/05 Prominent Political Philosopher Speaks at Law School Lecture Series
Nationally acclaimed political theorist and social critic Michael Walzer spoke on Judaism, Zionism, and the paradox of national liberation at Northwestern Law's Rosenthal Lecture Series. More...
4/1/05 - 4/2/05 'Spiffs' and 'Suits' Face Off in Law School Parody Production
Two warring law student gangs, the Spiffs and the Suits, duked it out in this year's Wigmore Follies production, "Northwest Side Story," a spoof on the popular Broadway musical 'West Side Story.' More...
MARCH
3/28/05 Welcome Back from Spring Break
Dean David Van Zandt welcomes students back from spring break and gives an update on upcoming events for the remainder of spring semester, including Day at Northwestern Law, the Rosenthal Lecture Series, and convocation. More...
3/25/05 Korean Students Graduate Exec LLM Program
Thirty students will graduate from Northwestern University School of Law's Executive LLM in Korea program on March 25. The students, Korean legal professionals, have spent the past year studying in Seoul with Northwestern Law professors. More...
3/23/05 Bob Barker Gift Endows Animal Rights Law Course
Bob Barker, host of the game show "The Price Is Right" and a longtime proponent of animal welfare, has donated $1 million to Northwestern Law to endow a course in animal rights law. More...
3/8/05 Reno Addresses Law School at Women's Symposium
Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno will deliver the keynote speech for the 2005 Women's Symposium at Northwestern University School of Law. This year's week-long symposium, organized by the Women's Leadership Coalition, is centered on the theme "Women Finding Their Voices." More...
3/7/05 Class Gift Honors Popular Professor
The Northwestern Law class of 2004 has commissioned a portrait to celebrate the career and achievements of Victor G. Rosenblum, Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law Emeritus, as their graduating class gift to the Law School. A portrait unveiling ceremony will take place March 7. More...
2/28/05 - 3/4/05 Northwestern Law Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Week
The Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) hosts a week of panel discussions and events at the Law School that they hope will bring greater awareness and deeper understanding of the political, cultural, historic, and legal roles of Asian Americans. More...
3/3/05 Clinic Efforts Pivotal in Supreme Court Decision
Northwestern Law's Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC) played an integral role in the movement that led to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to end the practice of executing juvenile offenders. More...
3/2/05 Clinic Center Hosts Chicago Premier of Death Penalty Documentary
The Center on Wrongful Convictions will host the Chicago premiere of a new A&E documentary about the capital case of Darnell Williams, "Countdown to an Execution," at 3 p.m. on March 2. More...
3/1/05 Law School Mourns Tragic Death of Alum
Northwestern Law graduate U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow (JD '71) lost her husband, Michael Lefkow (JD '66), and her mother, Donna Grace Humphrey, in a tragic slaying at her home on Monday. More...
FEBRUARY
2/05 Northwestern Law Celebrates Black History Month
The Black Law Students Association (BLSA) has organized a month-long series of panels and events to educate the Law School community on issues affecting law students and the greater communities in which they serve. This year's celebration focuses on the theme "Movement and Progress: Looking Back and Moving Forward." More...
2/24/05 Drizin Named Legal Director of Center on Wrongful Convictions
Steven Drizin, a leading authority on police interrogations, coerced confessions and the juvenile death penalty, has beeen named legal director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions (CWC), part of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern University School of Law. More...
2/23/05 Northwestern Moot Court Team Advances to International Competition
Northwestern Law won the North Central regional round of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition held Feb. 18 to 20 at Indiana University, Bloomington. Individual members also ranked high in the speaking category and the team took fifth place in the brief award. More...
2/22/05 Evans and Holland File for Compensation for Wrongful Convictions
Michael Evans and Dana Holland, both exonerated after long prison sentences because of evidence brought to light by Northwestern Law's Center on Wrongful Convictions, will file complaints Feb. 22 in the Illinois Court of Claims seeking compensation for wrongful incarceration. More...
2/21/05 'Apprentice' Star Omarosa Speaks at Northwestern Law
Omarosa Manigualt Stallworth, famed contestant of the hit reality television series �The Apprentice,� spoke at a panel discussion at noon on Monday, Feb. 21, as part of Northwestern University School of Law's Black History Month Program, organized by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA). More...
2/16/05 � 2/17/05 SEC Chairman Speaks at Mutual Fund Policy Conference
William H. Donaldson, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, gave the keynote address at the Mutual Fund Directors Forum's fifth annual policy conference in Washington, D.C. The conference was presented by the Mutual Fund Directors Forum with the support and cooperation of Northwestern University School of Law. More...
2/16/05 Clinic Center Honors Firms, Individuals for Pro Bono Work
Northwestern University School of Law's Children and Family Justice Center recognized several Chicago law firms, Northwestern Law alumni, and a community leader for their contributions to juvenile justice and education as part of the center's Children's Law Pro Bono Project. More...
2/7/05 Northwestern Trial Team Wins Regional Competition
For the eighth time since 1990, Northwestern Law's National Trial Team has won the Chicago regional championship in the annual National Trial Competition. More...
2/1/05 MLB Exec Speaks at Pope & John Lecture on Professionalism
Robert A. DuPuy, President and Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball, presents a speech titled "Good Sports Make Bad Law" at Northwestern Law's 2005 Pope & John Lecture on Professionalism on Feb. 1. More...
JANUARY
1/25/05 Wrongful Convictions Director to Join Stanford Faculty
Bluhm Legal Clinic professor Larry Marshall, a pioneer in clinical legal education and justice system reform, has accepted an offer to join the faculty of Stanford University's law school as Director of Clinical Programs. More...
1/25/05 Dean Van Zandt Named President-elect of Law Deans Association
Dean David E. Van Zandt has been named president-elect of the American Law Deans Association (ALDA), a membership organization that advocates on behalf of law school deans on issues of accreditation, academics, admissions, and other issues affecting legal education. More...
1/24/05 � 1/25/05 Transatlantic Conference Spotlights UN Reform Proposals
Academics, diplomats, and corporate representatives from the United States and Europe will gather at Northwestern University's Chicago campus on Jan. 24 and 25 for the fourth annual Transatlantic Dialogue conference titled "Reforming the United Nations." More...
1/19/05 - 1/21/05 NYSE Regulatory Official Speaks at 32nd Annual Securities Regulation Institute
Richard Ketchum, chief regulatory officer of the New York Stock Exchange, delivers a luncheon address at Northwestern University School of Law's 32nd Annual Securities Regulation Institute at the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, Calif. More...
1/17/05 Chicago Campus Commemorates King Day
The Northwestern University Chicago campus celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 17, with an interdisciplinary panelist discussion on social justice followed by an evening lecture with Johnnetta Cole, President of Bennett College for Women. More...
1/6/05 Governor Pardons Clinic Clients Based on Innocence
Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich pardoned three clients of Northwestern Law's Center on Wrongful Convictions based on innocence, following the men's earlier release from long prison sentences for crimes they did not commit. More...
1/5/05 Clinic Students and Faculty Report on African Legal Aid Conference
From Nov. 22 through 24, Northwestern law students, along with Professor Tom Geraghty, Amanda Fuchs (JD '02), and Loyola University professor Diane Geraghty (JD '72), traveled to Lilongwe, Malawi to participate in a conference on legal aid in criminal justice in Africa. More...
1/3/05 Dean Welcomes Students Back for Spring Term
Dean David Van Zandt updates the Law School community on upcoming events, faculty news, speaker series, and curricular developments for spring semester. More...
DECEMBER
12/2/04 - 12/3/04 Cisco General Counsel Speaks at 43rd Annual Corporate Counsel Institute
Mark Chandler, general counsel and vice president of legal services at Cisco Systems, Inc. speaks about cutting-edge management strategies for in-house legal departments at Northwestern University School of Law's 43rd Annual Corporate Counsel Institute in San Francisco. More...
NOVEMBER
11/29/04 Northwestern Law Looking to Expand International Degree Program to Europe
Northwestern University School of Law and the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid will partner to develop an executive master of laws degree program for European legal and business professionals. Pending a feasibility study, the program is set to begin in Madrid in 2005. More...
11/8/04 - 11/12/04 Public Interest Law Week
The student-run Public Interest Law Group is hosting it's 12th annual week of panel presentations and events recognizing Chicago's public interest attorneys and their work in public service. More...
11/05/04 George Ryan Speaks at Capital Punishment Symposium
Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan will deliver a keynote address at Northwestern Law during a day-long symposium that will bring together a diverse group of professors and practitioners to discuss the impact of wrongful convictions on the capital punishment debate. More...
OCTOBER
10/29/04 Ceremony Celebrates Endowed Chair Appointments
An appointment to an endowed chair is the highlight of an academic career, and these important positions help us attract and retain faculty who set Northwestern Law apart. This year we will honor with a ceremony and reception the installation of Robert W. Bennett as the Nathaniel L. Nathanson Professor of Law, Shari Seidman Diamond as the Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law, and Dorothy Roberts as the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law. More...
10/29/04 - 10/30/04 Alumni Return to Campus for Reunion Weekend
Northwestern Law will welcome hundreds of alumni from the classes of 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, and 1999 back to campus for Reunion 2004. A variety of activities, designed to reconnect graduates with one another and with the Law School, will take place throughout the weekend. More...
10/19/04 A Provocative New Look At the Legendary Shootout At the O.K. Corral
A new book by Professor Steven Lubet tells the little-known story of the prosecution of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holliday following the famous gunfight. More...
10/05/04 Judge Wilkinson to Address Law School as Trienens Visiting Scholar
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, will deliver a lecture on "Building a Legal Culture of Affection" as part of this year's Howard J. Trienens Visiting Judicial Scholar Program. More...
SEPTEMBER
9/30/04 - 10/01/04 Corporate Governance Leaders Speak at 43rd Annual Corporate Counsel Institute
Two of the country's most influential leaders on corporate governance, Jay W. Lorsch, Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at Harvard Business School, and Martin Lipton of New York firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, will give their insights at the 43rd Annual Corporate Counsel Institute in Chicago. More...
9/28/04 First Death Row Inmate Exonerated By DNA Speaks at Northwestern Law
Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted in 1984 of murdering a 9-year-old girl, but was released from prison nine years later after DNA fingerprinting proved his innocence. Bloodsworth and author Tim Junkin will be featured at a forum on Junkin's new book �Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA,� from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Center on Wrongful Convictions. More...
9/2/04 Congratulations to the 2003-04 Dean's Teaching Awards Recipients
Good teaching is extremely important in our community, and these awards, along with our student-voted teaching awards, recognize those faculty members who have excelled in a given year. The Dean's Teaching Awards honor faculty members for high-quality teaching as measured by student evaluations. More...
AUGUST
8/23/04 New Students' Achievements Go Beyond Academic Excellence
In his orientation welcome, Associate Dean Don Rebstock talks about the wealth of experience among our new students. Their extraordinary achievements, from hiking the Appalachian Trail to producing television shows, are sure to enrich the Law School community this year and for years to come. More...
8/20/04 - 8/27/04 Northwestern Law Welcomes the Incoming Class of 2007 During Orientation Week
The Student Affairs team has planned a week of activities, including community service projects, diversity- and team-building workshops, and fun social events, to welcome the incoming class to Northwestern Law. More...
8/16/04 A Busy and Productive Summer Comes to a Close
Dean David Van Zandt brings you up to date on the changes that have occurred at Northwestern Law over the summer. Read about key developments in this year's Summer Letter, which highlights our outstanding incoming students, new faculty members, innovative new courses, and extensive building renovations. More...
