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Welcome back for the new term! I hope you all enjoyed the holidays and are ready for an active and productive rest of the academic year.

Please join me in welcoming professors Charles Taylor, Wayne Lewis, and John P. Kelsh.

Charles Taylor, an influential political philosopher, will teach a ten-week course in the winter quarter on Ethical Theory and the Law. Charles joined the Northwestern faculty in January 2002 as a Board of Trustees Professor of Law and Philosophy with a joint appointment at the Law School and the Philosophy Department of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He received his PhD from Oxford University and has taught at McGill University in Montreal since 1961. This is his first quarter teaching at the Law School.

Wayne Lewis, an associate dean and professor of law at Depaul University who visited Northwestern Law in fall 1999 and spring 2001, is visiting again this spring to teach Commercial Law: Sales. Wayne began his legal career as an attorney in the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. In 1978, he was appointed assistant regional director of the FTC’s Chicago Regional Office. In 1980, he began his teaching career at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.

John P. Kelsh, a 1996 graduate of Northwestern Law, joins us this spring as a visiting assistant professor. He will teach Securities Regulation. John clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for the 1996-97 term and Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1997-98 term. He joins us from Sidley Austin Brown & Wood's Chicago office where he has worked as an associate in the corporate and securities group.

I also want to let you know about several important events that will occur this semester. Of course you can also link to EsqwireCentral for more information about upcoming events.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY CELEBRATION, January 20, 2003
Keynote speaker Stevie Wonder will discuss his efforts to make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. Thorne Auditorium doors open at 10:15 a.m. Tickets are required. Ticket distribution information can be found at www.law.northwestern.edu/dream/ or (312) 503-0785. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis with a valid WildCARD or Northwestern University Hospital identification card. A live broadcast will be shown in Rubloff 140 and 150.

LAWYER AS PROBLEM SOLVER CONFERENCE FOR FIRST YEAR STUDENTS, January 27, 2003
Several faculty members have worked with the Student Affairs team to organize the Second Annual Lawyer as Problem Solver Conference. The innovative all-day conference will take place on January 27 at the Hyatt Regency. It is mandatory for all first year students and will cover conflict management, team building, negotiation, creative problem solving, interviewing, counseling, ethics, and written communication skills.

MOOT COURT COMPETITION BEGINS, February 4, 2003
Preliminary rounds for the Julius H. Miner Moot Court Competition begin February 4, 2003. The Competition is held in honor of Judge Miner who received an LLM degree from NU in 1945. We expect more teams than ever to compete this year, which means we need more judges than ever. Any faculty members interested in judging should please e-mail Zachary Freeman or Elizabeth Salinas.

POPE & JOHN LECTURE SERIES ON PROFESSIONALISM, February 11, 2003
Milton Regan, professor of law at Georgetown University, will deliver the 2003 Pope and John Series on Professionalism in February 2003. His lecture series, Bankrupt in Milwaukee: The Story of a Wall Street Lawyer's Fall, will draw on his forthcoming book of the same name about the criminal conviction of a young partner at Milbank Tweed for bankruptcy fraud, based on his failure to reveal that the firm had a potential conflict of interest in a Chapter 11 proceeding.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH, February 3-7, 2003
DIVERSITY WEEK, March 10-14 (tentative)
Each year several student organizations, including the Black Law Students Association and the Diversity Coalition, work with the Student Affairs team and the Office of Minority affairs to plan events and panel discussions to promote dialogue about diversity within the Law School community.

JULIUS ROSENTHAL FOUNDATION LECTURE SERIES, March 4-6, 2003
Danielle S. Allen, associate professor in classical languages and literatures, political science, and the committee on social thought at the University of Chicago, will deliver the next Julius Rosenthal Foundation Lecture Series at the Law School.

DAY AT NORTHWESTERN LAW, April 5, 2003
Each spring more than 100 admitted students attend Day at Northwestern Law, a special event planned by students working with the Admissions and Student Affairs teams. The goal is to introduce admitted students to the Law School and help them make the decision to join our community. For more information click here.

2003 GRADUATION, May 18, 2003
Graduation will once again be held in the Navy Pier Ballroom. I hope you are all looking forward to events that will take place throughout graduation week, including the class picture, the dinner dance, and the student vs. faculty softball game.

I hope you will mark your calendars for these upcoming events!

David E. Van Zandt
Dean
Northwestern University School of Law
357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Phone: 312-503-8460
Fax: 801-650-6873
d-van2@law.northwestern.edu
www.law.northwestern.edu

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