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Dean Welcomes Students Back for Spring Term
Welcome back for spring semester! I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday break and is ready for an active and productive new term. As I do each semester, I write to bring you up to date on the latest developments, faculty news, and upcoming events and speaker series at Northwestern Law.
New Space for Bluhm Legal Clinic
The Bluhm Legal Clinic has moved to its new space in the Rubloff Building. The 8th floor now houses all of the clinic’s centers and programs in a single location: Children and Family Justice Center, Small Business Opportunity Center, Center for International Human Rights, Center on Wrongful Convictions, MacArthur Justice Center, Investor Protection Center, Fred Bartlit Center for Trial Strategy, Program on Negotiation and Mediation, and the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program.
The 22,000-square foot space includes offices for more than 30 clinical faculty members as well as an improved reception area, a secured file room, a number of meeting and conference rooms, and a training room equipped with smart technology. The new clinic space also features an expansive student work area that overlooks Lake Michigan.
Plans are also underway to improve internal access to the new clinic space. We plan to create a corridor that will make it is possible to enter the Rubloff lobby from the first floor of the Law School without having to go outside. This new corridor space will also include two new 70-seat classrooms. These projects are scheduled to be completed for the Fall 2007 term.
I encourage you to stop by and visit this impressive new space. We will keep you posted on a grand opening event later this spring.
Supreme Court Clerkships
I am thrilled to report that three of our alumni will be clerking for Justices on the United States Supreme Court during the October 2007 term:
- Andrianna Kastanek, JD ’05 (Justice Kennedy)
- Jessica Phillips, JD ’06 (Justice Alito)
- Katherine Shaw, JD ’06 (Justice Stevens, JD ’47)
As a result, one-third of the Supreme Court Justices will now have a Northwestern alum as a clerk. And, since 1996, we rank 6th in the country for placing graduates into Supreme Court clerkships on a per capita basis.
Visiting Faculty
Please join me in welcoming our visiting faculty, who will be here for spring 2007:
Brian Havel joins us as a visiting professor from DePaul University College of Law, where he serves as professor of law, associate dean for centers, institutes, and programs, director of the International Aviation Law Institute, and director of the International and Comparative Law Program. He will teach International Trade.
Jeffrey Shaman also joins us from DePaul, where he is the St. Vincent de Paul Professor of Law. He will teach a Fourteenth Amendment course this semester.
Mark Rosen, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, joins us a visiting professor of law. He will teach Civil Procedure II.
Ken Ayotte, assistant professor of finance and economics at Columbia University, also joins us this spring. His research is in corporate finance, with an emphasis on corporate bankruptcy.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 15
There is much to look forward to this spring beginning with the Chicago campus Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration on Monday, January 15. This year’s celebration includes a full day of programming, including morning and afternoon panels in addition to the commemoration event.
The keynote speaker will be Charles Ogletree, a Harvard Law School professor and noted author. He will discuss his most recent book, From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America. His keynote address will take place at 11 a.m. in Thorne Auditorium.
The morning panel will unite older civil rights activists and youth leaders to discuss the parallels between activism during the height of the civil rights era and contemporary activism. Afternoon panels cover a range of topics: physicians as activists, torture, health care disparities, and the racial aftermath of 9/11. For a complete schedule of the days events, click here.
Winter 2007 On-Campus Interview (OCI) Program, January and February
The Center for Career Strategy and Advancement is sponsoring its Winter OCI program, open to all Northwestern Law students, which will take place January 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31 and February 2, 5, 6 and 7. For details on how to participate, visit the Career Strategy Center web page at http://www.law.northwestern.edu/career/recruitment/oncampus.html. Bidding for Winter 2007 OCI closes at 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 11.
Also, the Career Strategy Center will host its annual Meet the Employers Night on Wednesday, February 28, 2007. This is a great networking opportunity for first-year JD students to learn about employers who recruit on campus prior to bidding for fall on-campus interviews (the Fall 2007 On-Campus Interview program will take place August 13 - 23, 2007). To view a list of employers that attended Meet the Employers Night in 2006 go to http://www.law.northwestern.edu/career/students/#men.
Lawyer as Problem Solver, January 18 and 25
First-year JD, JD-MBA, and LLM students will finish the last two sessions of Lawyer as Problem Solver on January 18 (7-9 p.m.) and 25 (3:30 - 5:30 p.m.). The final session will conclude with a reception for sponsors and students from 5:30 to 7 p.m. View more details on the offered courses.
Global Village, January 19
Join the Northwestern Law community in a celebration of culture, including home-cooked food from all over the world, international music, presentations, national dresses, and drinks! Global Village will take place in the atrium from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, January 19. Presented by International Programs, Diversity Coalition, SBA, APALSA, BLSA, LLSA, SALSA.
44th Annual Julius H. Miner Moot Court Competition, January–March
Preliminary rounds for the 44th Annual Julius H. Miner Moot Court Competition will take place January 30 and February 1, 6, and 8. More than 80 second-year students are expected to compete in this prestigious competition. The final round will take place March 2.
Executive LLM (Seoul) Students Come to Chicago, January–March
Please join me in welcoming 9 Executive LLM (Seoul) students who arrive this month from Seoul, South Korea, to take classes as part of the degree program’s Spring Option. Over spring break in March, they will be joined by the rest of their class, 12 students, to take the last course and attend their graduation ceremony, March 23.
Northwestern Law’s Executive LLM Program commences each February in Seoul . Our faculty traveled to Korea for two-week periods through the ensuing 12 months to teach courses as part of the fixed curriculum.
International Team Projects (ITP)
Students involved in ITP gain firsthand experience in international legal and business environments through a combination of semester-long research, an intense two-week field study abroad, and a final group project. This year's ITP groups will be researching abroad March 10-25 in the following countries: Cambodia, Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Greece, and South Africa.
Day at Northwestern Law, March 31
We will welcome more than 100 admitted students to a Day at Northwestern Law on March 31.
The student admissions committee, chaired by Becca Bradley (JD ’07) and Vanessa LeWinter (JD ’08), has worked with the Admissions and Student Affairs teams to plan special events to introduce admitted students to the Law School. We hope that after spending some time as part of the Northwestern Law community these admitted students choose to join us next fall.
Leadership Retreat, April 5-7
SBA Executive Board members and interested student organization leaders will take part in the fourth annual Leadership Retreat at the Illinois Beach Resort Conference Center in Zion. The weekend’s activities include outdoor challenge courses, team building workshops, event planning sessions, and more.
Spring Law Board Meeting, April 13-14
The Law Board will meet for the second time this year in April. The board is comprised of graduates and friends of the Law School who are distinguished members of the bar, the corporate world, and the government and not-for-profit sectors. The Law Board serves to advise the faculty and administration on the future course of the Law School and helps monitor the implementation of our Strategic Plan.
2007 Graduation Week, May 10-15
The graduation committee, chaired by third-year students Pam Clements and Ashley Levy, is busy working with the Student Affairs team to plan this year's Graduation Convocation, which will take place Sunday, May 13. The graduation committee will have additional activities planned throughout the week, including a barbecue, the Last Lecture, and a dinner and dance.
SPEAKER SERIES
This spring we will welcome four prominent guest lecturers to Northwestern Law, as part of our public lecture series:
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SEC Chairman Cox to Deliver Brodsky JD-MBA Fund Lecture, January 22
Christopher Cox, Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, will deliver the Brodsky Family Northwestern JD-MBA Lecture at 5 p.m. on January 22.
Chief Justice Roberts to Address Law School as Trienens Visiting Scholar, January 31– February 2
John G. Roberts Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, will visit Northwestern Law as the 2006–07 Howard J. Trienens Visiting Judicial Scholar. During his visit, Roberts will meet with students and faculty and guest teach in a few classes. Roberts will also deliver a lecture to the Northwestern Law community on February 1. Seating at this event will be limited. We will keep you posted on how you can reserve a ticket to this event.
Two Prominent Constitutional Scholars to Speak at Rosenthal Lecture Series, March 27–29
Samuel Issacharoff, the Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University, and Pamela Karlan, the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford University, will deliver the spring 2007 Julius Rosenthal Foundation Lecture Series on March 27–29. The two professors are experts in voting rights and election law and are coauthors (along with Richard H. Pildes) of two leading casebooks in the field: The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process and When Elections Go Bad: The Law of Democracy and the 2000 Presidential Election.
To learn more about past and upcoming speaker series, visit www.law.northwestern.edu/publiclectures.
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UPCOMING STUDENT ORGANIZATION EVENTS
Intellectual Property Law Week, January 8–12
Women's Leadership Coalition Week, January 16–20
International Law Society Week, January 22–26
SALSA Heritage Week, January 29–February 2
Black History Month, February 5–23
SBOC Conference, February 17
Federalist Symposium, February 23–24
APALSA Heritage Weeks, February 26–March 9
Sports Law Society Week, March 26–30
Wigmore Follies, March 30–31
American Constitution Society Week, April 2
SFPIF Benefit Dinner, April 10
