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3/9/2009
… to Professor DALE GOBLE, who recently collaborated with UI colleague Professor Michael Scott (College of Natural Resources) in creating and presenting a breakout session, titled “Conservation Reliant Species,” for the National Council for Science and the Environment’s 9th National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment: Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World. The conference, held in Washington, D.C. , on December 8-10, 2008, was a major policy-oriented event attracting a substantial audience of government employees.
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… to Professor ANNEMARIE BRIDY, who last week made a presentation titled “Why Pirates (Still) Won’t Behave: Regulating P2P after Napster,” at the University of Idaho Computer Science Colloquium.
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… to Professor MICHAEL SATZ (faculty adviser) and to the following students who will comprise the new editorial board of our online critical legal studies journal, the crit:
Editor-in-chief: Sarah Simmons
Executive editor: Dan Records
Managing Editor: Sherine Tabassum
Articles Editor: Grete Schultz
Treasurer: Jeremy Yuill
Business Editors: Travis Wilson and Sarah Schmid
The most recent edition of this student-edited publication is available at www.thecritui.com. It contains articles pertaining to Critical Race Theory, Feminism, Native American Sovereignty, and the government’s response to the global terrorist threat.
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… to Professor ANGELIQUE EAGLEWOMAN (faculty adviser) and to 1L student AMANDA MONTALVO of the Multicultural Law Caucus, for creating and presenting the program, “Diversity in the Legal Profession at the Idaho Law Centennial,” held in the College of Law courtroom on March 2. The program’s speakers included Mark Edwards, UI Director of Diversity and Community; Julie Kane, Managing Attorney, Office of Legal Counsel, Nez Perce Tribe; and Professor D. Michael Pavel, College of Education, Washington State University.
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… to Professor ANGELIQUE EAGLEWOMAN, who has been selected to serve in 2009 as chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Indian Nations & Indigenous Peoples.
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... to Externship Coordinator KATIE BALL, whose article, "A Practical Opportunity," has been published in the February, 2009, issue of "The Advocate" (official periodical of the Idaho State Bar).
The same issue of "The Advocate" also contains an article on the annual professionalism program conducted during the first day of law school at the University of Idaho.
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… to the students named below, who served during the fall semester as the UI editorial team members of the German Law Journal editorial board. Over the past two years, these students contributed to sustaining the success of this global electronic publication. The November 2008 edition, embracing more than 28 assembled and edited works, can be accessed at http://www.germanlawjournal.com/past_issues_archive.php?show=11&volume=9. Although this is the last edition on which UI law students will collaborate, the arrival next fall of our new international law faculty member, Anastasia Telesetsky, will provide a foundation for planning new opportunities for our students.
The UI editors for the German Law Journal are MICHELLE HARVEY, MATTHEW PRENGAMAN, SANJA PRUTINA, and JENNIFER PEREVODCHIKOV.
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… to Visiting Professor NORA O'CALLAGHAN, who helped the media understand the applicability (and limits) of criminal statutes in a tragic case involving a child who died in a snowstorm in southern Idaho. Professor Callaghan was quoted in a news story distributed nationwide by the Associated Press and carried by news outlets including the Central Florida News, FOX News, Guardian (U.K.), Houston Chronicle (Texas), KGW-TV (Portland, Ore.), KTLA-TV (Los Angeles, Calif.), Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Minn.), Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.), San Francisco Chronicle, Twin Falls Times-News and WGN-TV (Chicago, Ill.), among many others.
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... to 3L student JANA GOMEZ, who has received a 2009 Rosa Parks Human Rights Achievement Award from the Latah County Human Rights Task Force.
The award, recognizing her work in the community and her scholarship on "guest worker" legal issues, was bestowed last Saturday during the Task Force's annual Martin Luther King Human Rights Breakfast.
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… to Professor ANGELIQUE EAGLEWOMAN, who has been informed that her law review article, “Tribal Nation Economics: Rebuilding Commercial Prosperity in Spite of U.S. Trade Restraints – Recommendations for Economic Revitalization in Indian Country,” will be published in the forthcoming Spring 2009 edition of the Tulsa Law Review. This edition also will be distributed to the 2009 Federal Bar Association Annual Indian Law Conference on April 1-3 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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… to 1L student DYLAN HEDDEN-NICELY, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, who has earned a Legal Scholar Program Scholarship from the Northwest Indian Bar Association. The scholarships are competitive, with selection based on a demonstrated commitment to academic excellence and to advancing the rights of Pacific Northwest Indian people. Recipients this year came from the University of Washington, Lewis & Clark, Arizona State, and Gonzaga law schools as well as the University of Idaho.
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... to clinic professor PAT COSTELLO, who has returned from a trip to Jordan, where he consulted with leaders in the Jordanian bar, judiciary, and legal education on developing a legal ethics curriculum and a moot court program. Professor Costello undertook the trip on behalf of the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative (Middle East and North Africa Division).
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... to 3L students KIRSTEN EIDENBACH and JANA GOMEZ, each of whom tonight received an Alumni Award for Excellence from the University of Idaho Alumni Association. The awards are based on academic performance, service, and leadership. Recipients of such awards are invited to share recognition with faculty or staff members who have most inspired them.
Ms. Eidenbach has named Professor MICHAEL SATZ and Ms. Gomez named Professor MONICA SCHURTMAN.
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... to the following Cooper & Larsen National Moot Court team members who represented the University of Idaho College of Law at the regional competition in Seattle last month:
ROSE DUFFY, RYAN HOLDAWAY, AND KEVIN GRIFFITHS (LAURIE O'NEAL, faculty
adviser/coach)
MATT SCHELSTRATE, JESSICA MAXWELL, TAYAH RENFRO (DEBORAH McINTOSH, faculty adviser/coach)
The Duffy-Holdaway-Griffiths team advanced to the quarterfinal, winning each of their oral arguments. In that quarterfinal, they argued against a team with the best brief (their own brief was judged #2 in the region) and that tipped the total score in favor of the other team. Ryan Holdaway was named #3 oralist in the competition. The brief submitted by the Schelstrate-Maxwell-Renfro team was scored just 7/10ths of a point behind their colleagues' brief, so both teams made a strong showing.
(Our National Moot Court teams are supported by a generous gift from the firm of Cooper & Larsen in Pocatello.)
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... to Professor MARK ANDERSON, who has been named the 2008-09 Allan G. Shepard Professor of Law. This honor, carrying the name of a former Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, is made by the dean to a faculty member who possesses a "record of distinguished service to legal education, or to his or her area of expertise." Professor Anderson is an authority on business organizations, antitrust and criminal law, trademarks, trade secrets, and public policy issues at the intersection of law and economics. He also is an anchor member of our faculty recruitment and hiring committee, as well as an invaluable member of our "second century" group - a collection of faculty, staff, and students who are shaping the future of the College of Law as we approach our centennial anniversary in 2009.
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... and to Professor BARBARA COSENS, who has received the William F. and Joan L. Boyd Teaching Award for 2008-09. The purpose of this award, made by the dean with financial support from law alumnus William F. Boyd and spouse Joan L. Boyd of Coeur d'Alene, is to recognize excellence and/or innovation in law teaching. Professor Cosens is being recognized for the quality of her classroom teaching and the interdisciplinary innovation reflected in the content of her courses. She is a principal faculty member in the University of Idaho's "Waters of the West" program.
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... to Professor BARBARA COSENS whose quoted remarks and photograph were featured in an article titled "Gulp: Litigation Won't End the Battles over Depleted Water Resources in Several Regions of the United States," which appeared in the September, 2008, issue of the American Bar Association Journal.
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… to Professor/Clinical Programs Director MAUREEN LAFLIN who, on November 20, gave a presentation on Idaho Rule of Evidence 507 (the mediation privilege rule) and the Idaho Uniform Mediation Act. Her presentation was part of the Idaho Law Foundation’s 2008 “Headline News” continuing legal education program in Coeur d’Alene.
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… and to Law Library Serials Assistant TOM IVIE, whose dissertation for his Masters in Public Administration degree at the UI, which he received last spring, has now been accepted for publication in Library Philosophy and Practice (LLP), in its February, 2009, edition. The dissertation is entitled “Recruitment and Retention of Personnel Directing Rural Libraries: A Review of Literature in Preparation of a Study for Idaho.” Library Philosophy and Practice (LLP) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal that publishes articles exploring the connection between library practice and the philosophy and theory behind it. The articles include explorations of current, past, and emerging theories of librarianship and library practice, as well as reports of successful, innovative, or experimental library procedures, methods, or projects in all areas of librarianship, set in the context of applied research.
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… to law instructor and outreach director LEE DILLION, who recently completed workshops in eastern Idaho (Idaho Falls and Pocatello) entitled “The Start-Up Business and Intellectual Property: An Introduction.” The workshops are funded, in part, by a grant from the Idaho National Laboratory and are co-sponsored by the College of Law and the Idaho Small Business Development Center.
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…to clinical instructor TRAPPER STEWART who recently delivered guest lectures to pre-law students in two undergraduate courses – “Law & Justice” and “Jurisprudence” -- at the University of Nevada, Reno, where Professor Stewart was engaged in tax clinic work. Both lectures were entitled "Clinical Legal Education: Fostering Justice and Modern Visions of Liberty," and each was tailored to the course in which it was delivered.
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... to Professor ANGELIQUE EAGLEWOMAN, who this evening (November 18) delivered the keynote address in the Ninth Annual Distinguished American Indian Speakers Series sponsored by the University of Idaho American Indian Studies Program. Professor EagleWoman spoke in the College of Law courtroom on the topic "Fencing off the Eagle and the Condor, Border Politics, and Indigenous Peoples.”
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… to the law school Diversity Committee (Professors SATZ, GREENLEE, MILLER, SEAMON, and EAGLEWOMAN, together with SUSAN TROYANO and STEPHEN PEREZ) on the newly completed upgrade of the “Diversity” link on our Web site:
http://www.law.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=109253. The link also connects to information on the Native Law program initiative: http://www.law.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=109405.
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… to student DIANE PITCHER and colleagues in the Sexual Orientation Diversity Alliance (SODA) for the success of the organization’s T-shirts, worn by faculty, staff, and students, with individualized themes of hope and justice during last week’s “Day Against Hate.”
… and to Multicultural Law Caucus members AMANDA MONTALVO (President) JESSICA YADAO (Vice-President), TARA JALALI, LEON SAMUELS, and JONATHAN WAYAS who assisted in creating an information packet for diverse prospective law students and who, last Saturday, personally signed and mailed nearly 500 of them to recipients throughout Idaho, Utah, and Washington.
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… to Professor BARBARA COSENS, who --
• teamed up last week with UI colleague Dr. Timothy Link (College of Natural Resources) to make law-and-science presentations on “Water Sustainability and the Colorado River” in the Natural Resource Sustainability course taught by CNR instructor Dr. Lauren Sims,
• and spoke last week to the Idaho Water Users Association in Boise on “Adapting Idaho Law to Variable Water Supply and Increasing Water Demand” and on “The Waters of the West Program.”
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… to Visiting Professor WENDY COUTURE, who has been notified that the Association of American Law Schools, Section on Teaching Methods, will display her poster, titled “Using Visual Aids to Demonstrate Legal Analysis,” at the AALS Annual Meeting on January 6-10, 2009. The poster presents examples of how to use flow charts, sentence diagrams, and propositional logic charts in the classroom. A copy of the poster is attached to this message. The examples are visual aids Professor Couture has used in her Conflict of Laws and White Collar Crime classes this semester.
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… and to Director of Admissions/Development Coordinator STEPHEN PEREZ, SBA President LACEY RAMMELL-O’BRIEN, and 2L student SAM THILO for their speaking roles and assistance in preparing for today’s presentations in the law school courtroom to approximately 80 of the Idaho’s 105 state legislators who were visiting the UI campus. The presentations focused on the law school’s “second century” initiative and on an issue of student residency/nonresidency status created by a 2007 Idaho statute.
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… to Professor/Associate Dean LIZ BRANDT, who --
- was one of the organizers and the primary presenter at the Family Law Section CLE at the Idaho State Bar Convention in October at Sun Valley. Her topic was “Grandparents Parenting Grandchildren.”
- and presented a skill-building workshop at the Idaho Summit on Children Exposed to Domestic Violence in Boise last week. The Summit was organized by the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. Professor Brandt’s presentation was entitled “Supervised Visitation: What Should be Considered in Cases Involving Domestic Violence and Child Abuse?”
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... to Professor LAURIE O'NEAL (faculty adviser to the McNichols competition) and to the students named below, all of whom brought talent and effort to the 2008 competition. As noted in the "First Monday" e-newsletter yesterday:
Earning the 2008 best oralist award was 2L student KASSANDRA SLAVEN, who came to law school from Idaho State University. The runner-up award for oral advocacy went to 2L ISAAC WILLIAMSON (University of Idaho), while semifinalist awards were made to 2L students ARCHIBALD HARNER (Washington State University) and BEN ONOSCO (University of Washington). The best brief award was earned by 2L JETTA HATCH (Brigham Young University), and the runner-up award in that category went to 2L SARAH SIMMONS (Saint Louis University). The award recognizing combined excellence in written and oral advocacy was earned by 2L STEVEN FRINSKO (Dartmouth College).
The McNichols competition is sponsored by the Board of Student Advocates. The BSA vice president in charge of oral arguments for 2008 was 3L ERIKA PARSONS (University of Idaho). The author of the moot court problem – framing substantive due process and search/seizure issues – was 3L RACHEL PARISE (University of Arizona).
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... to the Women's Law Caucus (KATE MEYERS, president), and to Career Development Director ANNE-MARIE FULFER, on sponsoring and organizing a panel discussion on the path to the judiciary, featuring Justices Barbara Madsen and Debra Stephens of the Washington Supreme Court. Also instrumental in organizing the program were Professors LAURIE O'NEAL and MONIQUE LILLARD (who served as moderator/introducer). The program, open to all students, was held last Saturday afternoon before the McNichols competition final round.
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… to Professor JERRY LONG, who has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin/Madison. The forthcoming Ph.D. degree, which will be in addition to Professor Long’s J.D. degree from the University of Colorado, is the culmination of Professor Long’s study and teaching as a Distinguished Graduate Fellow in the University of Wisconsin’s interdisciplinary Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, prior to his law faculty appointment at Idaho. Professor Long’s dissertation deals with how local land-use regimes respond to social and cultural change in the rural American West.
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…to Dean Burnett, who spoke on the “Centennial of the ABA Canons of Judicial Ethics” at the Idaho State Bar Annual Meeting in Sun Valley on October 8, 2008
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… to Professor/Clinical Programs Director MAUREEN LAFLIN, founder of the Northwest Institute for Dispute Resolution, who is expanding the statewide outreach of the Institute. This month the Institute, in conjunction with the Conflict Resolution Center (CRC) of Coeur d’Alene, sponsored a two-day program entitled, “Products vs. Process: The Psycho-Legal Approach to Advanced Family Mediation” taught by Tara Fass, a Therapist-Mediator, and by Grace Lee, an Attorney-Mediator. Thirty people attended, including three UI law students.
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… to Professor BARBARA COSENS, who this month spoke to the Moscow chapter of the League of Women Voters on the topic “Water Resources Research at the University of Idaho and Local Impacts,” and to the University of Idaho President’s Sustainability Conference on Water Resources for Sustainable Economies and Ecosystems on the topic “Waters of the West Research Programs.”
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… and to Professor MONICA SCHURTMAN, who made a presentation entitled “Immigration Issues at the Local Level” at a conference called “But They Don’t Come”: Strategies to Increase Latino/a Participation in Extension Programs” at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake on Oct. 22, 2008. Related kudos to 3L student JANA (LEACHMAN) GOMEZ, who spoke at the same conference on issues related to H2A and H2B workers, and who assisted speaker Raul Sanchez with his presentation on Mexican cultural values, dimensions, and considerations.
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... to Professor MICHAEL SATZ, whose article entitled "Situational Prototyping", co-authored with Assistant Professor Roman Montoto in the College of Architecture, has been refereed and accepted for publication in the International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management. The article discusses the theoretical and pedagogical underpinnings, as well as the outcomes, of an innovative interdisciplinary course, Architecture and the Law, taught by Professors Satz and Montoto during the last academic year.
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... and to 3L student JORDAN TAYLOR, who has the unusual distinction, while still in law school, to be designated by the Idaho State Bar to receive the Denise O'Donnell Day Pro Bono Award for Idaho's Second Judicial District. The award ordinarily recognizes exceptional commitment by lawyers to pro bono service. In 2007, as a 1L, Jordan went to New Orleans for a public service project during the inaugural Alternative Spring Break. In 2008, as President of the Public Interest Law Group (PILG), he put together an Alternative Spring Break program that expanded the public interest volunteer opportunities from the New Orleans project to include a project in Washington DC, and placement of a large contingent of volunteers in various Boise sites. The PILG also is working with the J. Reuben Clark Law Society to co-sponsor the landlord/tenant aid program for UI students, and the organization hopes to create an outreach program on domestic violence issues this year.
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... to Professor BARBARA COSENS, who moderated a role-play exercise during last week's Palouse Basin Water Summit (the fourth annual summit). The exercise was designed to illuminate areas of conflict and potential cooperation among local elected officials, developers, and researchers on regional water issues affecting many jurisdictions.
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... and to Professor/Clinical Programs Director MAUREEN LAFLIN who, on Thursday, October 9, presented a CLE program on "The New Idaho Mediation Act" during the Idaho State Bar annual meeting in Sun Valley. Professor Laflin collaborated with Boise attorney Merlyn Clark in the presentation.
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... to Professor DALE GOBLE, who, during this year's sabbatical, has served as lead speaker on a panel in the 2008 Public Land Law Conference at Missoula, Montana. The conference, held on September 22-24, focused on developing and discussing policy recommendations for the next U.S. presidential administration. Professor Goble's panel addressed the topic, "Valuing Species: Is There a Need for Endangered Species Act Reform?"
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... and to Professor BARBARA COSENS, who on September 18, spoke at the fall meeting of the American Bar Association Section on Energy and Environment. Her presentation was titled "The Legacy of Winters v. United States and the Winters Doctrine, One Hundred Year Later." The ABA Section requires submission of a paper by each presenter, and her paper was one of only three receiving a "Best Paper" award.
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… to Professor MAUREEN LAFLIN, whose law review article – “The Mediator as Fugu Chef: Preserving Protections Without Poisoning the Process,” has been published: 49 South Texas L. Rev. 943 (2008).
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…to Professor BARBARA COSENS who, on October 1, spoke at the Idaho Council on Industry and the Environment conference. The conference focused on water. Professor Cosens shared the podium with attorney Norm Semanko, who covered the basics of Water Law while Professor Cosens addressed topical areas in which research at UI shows that Idaho water laws could be changed to meet the demands of the 21st century.
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… to Professor MONICA SCHURTMAN who, on October 2, collaborated with Robert Mather, District Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services of Homeland Security, in presenting a program, “Immigration Law in 90 Minutes,” at the College of Law on October 2. The program provided an overview of immigration basics that current and future criminal and family lawyers ideally should know.
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... and to Professor ANGELIQUE EAGLEWOMAN who, on October 2, was the keynote speaker at the Idaho Indian Education Summit, where she presented on “How Native Education Has Been Impacted by U.S. Indian Law and Policy: Past, Present, and Future.”
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... to Professors MAUREEN LAFLIN and BEN BEARD on their joint presentation to a "Legal Education at the Crossroads" conference" held at the University of Washington School of Law on September 6. The conference, which attracted representatives of law schools across the country, highlighted efforts to incorporate professionalism and professional identity into legal education curricula as recommended by a 2007 report ("Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Practice of Law") issued by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Presentations to the conference were made by invitation only, based on a competitive selection process. The Laflin/Beard presentation focused on opportunities for small law schools, drawing upon Idaho's professionalism programs and ongoing curricular review.
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... to Professor ANNEMARIE BRIDY, who has been notified that her article on trade secrets and high-tech medical devices has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming Winter issue of the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal.
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... to Professor JACK MILLER, who this month was an invited speaker at the Annual Advanced Estate Planning Seminar in Sun Valley, sponsored by the Idaho State Bar. His topic was "Recent Developments in Federal Taxation." (Professor Miller would like to commend 3L student CHELSEA KIDNEY, who compiled and edited 45 pages of material to accompany his presentation -- encompassing more than 100 new statutes, cases, regulations, and rulings from the past 12 months. Professor Miller received several compliments from attendees concerning her work.)
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... to Professor ANGELIQUE EAGLEWOMAN, who has been elected as an At Large Member of the Northwest Indian Bar Association NIBA) Governing Council for a one year term. NIBA is a non-profit organization of Indian attorneys, judges and advocates in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. The organization aspires to improve the legal and political landscape for the Pacific Northwest Indian community.
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... to Director of Admissions STEPHEN PEREZ, who was named to a seven-member Planning Group for the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) Workshop for New Admission Personnel and Faculty Members of Admission Committees, held this month in Philadelphia. In addition to planning the workshop, he was responsible (with a partner) for presenting two sessions: "The Life Cycle of a Law School Applicant" and "Beyond the Numbers: LSAC Statistical Reports." He also led smaller breakout sessions on "Standards of Good Admissions Practices," "The Diversity Mission in Admissions," and a mock applicant review.
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... and to the following students who have been selected, through a competitive process, to comprise the law school's D. Craig Lewis Mock Trial Team this year: BENJAMIN PRATT, DAVID ROBINS, SARAH SCHMID, and HEIDI TOLMAN. The trial team selection process was conducted by the Board of Student Advocates (AMANDA NAVARRO, trial team vice president) under the guidance of (adjunct) faculty adviser SONYALEE NUTSCH.
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... to Professor/Associate Dean LIZ BRANDT on her recent report to the Idaho Supreme Court’s Child Protection Committee on legal issues surrounding Idaho’s implementation of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC). The report was part of a larger report submitted by the Idaho Supreme Court in compliance with the Court’s obligations to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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… to visiting professor WENDY COUTURE, who has been notified that her article, “White Collar Crime’s Gray Area: The Anomaly of Criminalizing Conduct Not Civilly Actionable,” has been accepted for publication in volume 72 of the Albany Law Review.
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… (with thanks in advance for the upcoming service) to law library professor MICHAEL GREENLEE, who has been named co-chair of the University of Idaho’s Borah Symposium Committee for the 2009 symposium. The symposium each year brings to Moscow notable national and international figures to address issues of justice, world peace, and conflict resolution.
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… to Professor ALAN WILLIAMS who recently provided a briefing to staffers of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on legal frameworks for responding to uses of the internet to support terrorist organizations. The Committee’s attention was drawn to Professor Williams by his article, “Prosecuting Internet Website Development Under the Material Support to Terrorism Statutes: Time to Fix What’s Broken,” recently published in the New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy.
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… to Professor BEN BEARD, who has been asked (and has agreed) to serve as Reporter for a Uniform Law Conference Committee to Implement the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.
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… to Professor ANNEMARIE BRIDY who this month delivered a paper entitled “Trade Secret Prices & High Tech Devices: How Medical Device Manufacturers are Seeking to Sustain Profits by Propertizing Prices” at the Eighth Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at Stanford University.
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... to 2L JOLENE HALLADAY, who is one of three nationwide winners of the $2,000 Military and Veterans Benefits Law Scholarship (http://www.lawschoolvets.com/winners.html). Jolene was selected in a competition including an essay competition. Her essay addressed the topic, "Having experienced law school, do you feel that being a veteran of the armed forces will make you a better lawyer?"
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... and to 1L SANDY FLORES, who has been awarded a CHCI (Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute) Scholarship. These prestigious scholarships
($5,000) are highly competitive. Last year's JD winners attended Harvard, UCLA, University of Miami, Northwestern University, DePaul University, and New York University.
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… to Professor ANGELIQUE EAGLEWOMAN on her outreach to the Nez Perce Tribe, as evidenced by the attached article excerpted from the tribal newspaper.
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… to Professor BARBARA COSENS and to the students named below for their work and recognition in connection with the Indian water rights conference entitled "The Winters Centennial: Will Its Commitment to Justice Endure?" The conference, held on June 9-12, 2008, was presented by the the Utton Transboundary Resources Center and the American Indian Law Center, both at the University of New Mexico School of Law. The conference was attended by 150-200 participants representing Indian tribes, states, the federal government, NGO's, and universities across the West. Professor Cosens and the students displayed a University of Idaho "Water of the West" (WoW) program poster and provided WoW flyers and bookmarks. Professor Cosens reports that the handouts "disappeared like hot cakes and we had many inquires."
Professor Cosens, one of the conference organizers, participated on the final plenary panel on "A Post-Winters World," which was both a presentation by and dialog among the following prominent figures:
*Dean David Getches of the University of Colorado Law School
* Regis Pecos, Chief of Staff, Office of the Speaker, New Mexico House of Representatives (former Governor of the Pueblo de Cochiti)
* Michael Bogert (UI law alumnus), counselor to the Secretary of the Interior
* Sam Deloria, Director, American Indian Graduate Center
* John Echohawk, Director, Native American Rights Fund
* John Leshy, UC Hastings, Former Solicitor General
* Jeanne Whiteing, attorney for numerous Native American tribes
* Professor Cosens
UI students served as designated notetakers in the breakout sessions and spent the midnight hours summarizing the notes on flyers. Professor Cosens reports. "They did such an excellent job that they were both recognized at the conference and the summaries will be typed in and posted on the conference website. The students are:
JD/Master of Science concurrent degree students JUSTIN JOLLEY, DENISE CANADY, AND SAUNDRA RICHARTZ; JD student CATHERINE ROBERTS; and WoW Ph.D. student MARK SOLOMON.
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… to Professor/Associate Dean LIZ BRANDT, who recently completed a report to the Idaho Supreme Court’s Child Protection Committee on legal issues surrounding Idaho’s implementation of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC). Her report was part of a larger report submitted by the Idaho Supreme Court in compliance with the Court’s obligations to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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… Professor/Associate Dean LIZ BRANDT on her completion of a report for the Casey Family Program of Idaho entitled KinCare: Idaho Law & Policy. The report makes recommendations for law reform in Idaho in support of grandparents and other relatives parenting grandchildren. Professor Brandt presented the report in June to the Board of the Idaho KinCare Coalition and at “The Idaho Voices for Children KinCare Policy Forum: Grand Families Count” policy forum in Boise. The forum, was sponsored by Idaho Voices for Children, Idaho Kids Count, the Idaho KinCare Coalition and the Casey Family Programs of Idaho, was attended by members of all these organizations and also by several Idaho legislators.
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… to Professor MONICA SCHURTMAN, whose chapter entitled "The Challenges of Evaluating NGO 'Success' in Cross-Border Rights Initiatives," has been published in the book Progress in International Law (2008 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers), edited by former UI law colleagues Russell Miller and Rebecca Bratspies. The book, which grew out of the 2005 Idaho International Law Symposium sponsored by the College of Law, also contains works by Professors Miller and Bratspies as well as works by then-students LUKE DAVIS and KELLY PARKER (both of whom graduated with the class of '05).
Further kudos to Professor SCHURTMAN …
… who, while on sabbatical in the Basque Country of Spain, was an invited participant at the first meeting of the Red interdisciplinar de expertos en Derechos Humanos (which roughly translates as the Interdisciplinary Network of Experts in Human Rights) held in Madrid. The topic was "Theorizing Transitional Justice." The Network was created by and the meeting was sponsored by the Madrid-based Foundation for International Relations and Exterior Dialogue (FRIDE), the Bilbao-based Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute of the University of Deusto, and the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) based in New York City. Professor Schurtman spoke briefly about her research on developing an international human rights juridical framework for Laws of Historical Memory and on Basque law of historical memory initiatives.
… and who, during her sabbatical, also gave a presentation at the University of the Basque Country on "Immigration and Race in the United States: Past and Present." The presentation was sponsored by the University Study Abroad Consortium and the University of Basque Country's Departments of International Relations and International Law.
… to Professor MONICA SCHURTMAN, who on June 19 delivered a presentation to faculty members at the University of the Basque Country School of Law on clinical legal education in the United States, with a focus on the UI College of Law's clinical programs.
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… to Professor ANNEMARIE BRIDY who, as recently noted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, is one of ten American law professors who have filed an amicus brief in support of Jammie Thomas, the first and only defendant to go to trial in a music-sharing case brought by the Recording Industry Association of America. Ms Thomas was found liable by a jury, and assessed damages, in a federal district court in Minnesota. The amicus brief was filed in post-trial proceedings in which the issue is whether the judge incorrectly instructed the jury that the act of making copyrighted songs available for download would be equivalent to infringement, whether or not the songs were actually downloaded.
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… to Professor JACK MILLER, who in June delivered a paper on "Taxation and the Sabbatical" at the Law and Society Association annual meeting in Montreal.
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… to Professor/Clinical Programs Director MAUREEN LAFLIN, who, on July 16, presented a telephonic CLE to the ADR Section of the Idaho State Bar on the Uniform Mediation Act in Idaho.
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… to Law Library staff member TOM IVIE, who this spring received a Master's degree in public administration, having completed the course of study by successfully defending his master's thesis, Salary and Community Size As Potential Factors in the Recruitment and Retention of Rural Public Library Directors in Idaho. It took Tom several years to fulfill the degree requirements by taking courses at night. He achieved a 3.85 GPA and was awarded memberships in Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, and Golden Key International Honour Society which recognizes and encourages scholastic achievement and excellence among college and university students from all academic disciplines.
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...to Professor MONIQUE LILLARD, whose article, "The Standard of Care for Medical Malpractice Claims in Idaho: Time for Reassessment," appears in the current (May, 2008) issue of the Idaho State Bar official publication, "The Advocate." As noted in a previous "kudos" message, Professor Lillard spoke on this topic at the recent Law Review Symposium in Boise, and authored a more detailed article for the symposium edition of the Law Review.
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… to Professor MONICA SCHURTMAN, who, on April 3, presented a paper at a symposium at the Onati Institute of Sociology of Law on "Propects for Denationalized Citizenship in North America: NAFTA and the U.S. Border Wall." The symposium, titled "Democracy with(out) nations?: Old and New Foundations for Politcal Communities in a Changing World," was sponsored by the Onati Institute, the University of the Basque Country Department of Law and International Relations, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of International Law and International Relations, and the University of Colombia, Center for Social and Legal Research. It included participants from Spain, Italy, Colombia, Quebec, France, and the U.K.
AND on April 4, Professor Schurtman gave the "Invited Professor" address at the law school graduation at the University of the Basque Country on the role of law and lawyers in today's globalized society.
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… to Professor/Associate Dean LIZ BRANDT, whose article, “Some Concerns on the Margins of Supervised Visitation, 9 J. L. & Fam. Stud. 201 (2007), was recently published in the Journal of Law and Family
Studies (10 J. L. & Fam. Stud. 201 [2007]). The article grew out of a paper Professor Brandt presented at the Oregon Child Advocacy Conference in March, 2006.
… and further to Professor BRANDT on receiving the Virginia Wolf Distinguished Service Award from the UI Women’s Center this month. The award recognizes long term commitments to activism for gender justice. She was nominated for the award by law student Mike French.
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… to Professor PAT COSTELLO for organizing, and to the students named below for their achievements in, the Negotiation Competition at the College of Law. Out of ten teams competing, the winning teams were::
First Place: Brett Judd & Craig Weaver
Second Place: Liz Schwantor & Chelsea Kidney
Brett and Craig will travel, along with the winning team at last fall's intra school competition, Lacey Rammell-O'Brien and Jennifer Stephens-Perevodchikov, will travel to Edmonton, Alberta, where they will compete in the American Bar Association regional Negotiation Competition. The team of Liz and Chelsea will be alternates for that competition.
Congratulations to them and to all of the other competitors who participated:
Hyrum Hibbert & Jetta Hatch
Steve Frinsko & Ben Pratt
Mellisa Maxwell & Susie Jensen
Dana Johnson & Tahja Jensen
Aaron Contreras & Steve Carpenter
Sarah Simmons & Steve Dallings
McCord Larsen & Aaron Calkins
Paige Nolta & Jolene Halladay
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… to Professor DALE GOBLE, who will be an invited contributor to the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, a two-volume reference title intended to be published in 2008 for a general audience. His entry will focus on the Endangered Species Act.
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… to Professor BARBARA COSENS for making two interdisciplinary presentations in other academic units this month:
“Participatory Modeling and Adaptive Governance of Water Resources in the Palouse Basin,” in collaboration with Dr. Allyson Beall, Washington State University Graduate Environmental Science Seminar (Professor: Dr. Andy Ford), April 17, 2008
“Water Sustainability and the Colorado River,” in collaboration with Dr. Timothy Link, University of Idaho College of Natural Resources, Natural Resource Sustainability (Instructor: Dr. Lauren Sims), March 31 and April 2, 2008.
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… to Professor MONICA SCHURTMAN, and to the present and former students named below, for the commendation received from a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. As reported by Professor Schurtman:
On March 25 the Ninth Circuit granted our petition In Hernandez-Perez v. Mukasey (argued in June 2007) and remanded the case to the Board of Immigration Appeals, finding that the Agency's failure to consider particular evidence constituted a due process violation. Both the majority opinion (Judges Ferguson and Pregerson) and the dissent (Judge Ikuta) included positive statements about the Clinic's handling of the case. The majority noted that "…..Hernandez was ably represented by Monica Schurtman and the Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Idaho College of Law." The dissent commented: "Here, Hernandez was represented by counsel who vigorously argued his case."
The case, which unfolded over several years, involved a number of Clinic students, all of whom did excellent work and demonstrated considerable commitment to our client. CHRIS CHRISTENSEN and SETH GORDON argued at the Ninth Circuit and also wrote the briefs filed with the Court. JAMILA HOLMES and LANCE FUISTING wrote the briefs filed with the Board of Immigration Appeals. MAYLI WALSH and BRIAN TANNER handled the two day hearing in front of the Immigration Judge. MIKELA FRENCH is ready to work on the remand until she graduates in May.
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... to Professor/Associate Dean RICHARD SEAMON, whose article, "Flow Control after Carbone: United Haulers Association, Inc. v. Oeida-Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority," has appeared in the November-December, 2007, issue of the "Municipal Lawyer," published by the International Municipal Lawyers Association. The article (and the underlying Supreme Court case) dealt with the authority of local governments to adopt ordinances or multi-government agreements that limit the places to which solid wastes can be transported for disposal, notwithstanding a contention that such ordinances or agreements place a burden on interstate commerce. Professor Seamon earlier had written an amicus brief supporting the local governments' position, and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the local governments.
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...to (forthcoming) Professor ANGELIQUE EAGLEWOMAN, presently at the University of Kansas, who has been chosen by graduate students at the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies, to receive the 2008 Crystal Eagle Award. This award recognizes "a scholar or community member who is making a significant difference or impact in the Indigenous communities at the local or national level."
We look forward to welcoming Professor Eaglewoman to our law school community this summer.
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... to clinical instructor TRAPPER STEWART, who has received the University of Idaho's 2008 "Supervisor of the Year" award. There were 30 nominees for the award, which was bestowed by President White at a banquet yesterday. Professor Stewart was nominated by clinic students Michelle Gustavson, Brad Weber, Ellaina Laurino, and Aaron Crary, who cited his superior leadership skills in running the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic.
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... to law library faculty member MICHAEL GREENLEE, who has been notified by the President of the University of Idaho that he has been granted tenure, effective in the 2008-09 academic year, and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. These personnel actions were unanimously recommended by a College of Law/University Library committee, by the dean of the College, and by the Provost.
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… to Professor ALAN WILLIAMS and to the students named below for their recent strong showings in the American Association of Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America) regional Mock Trial Competition and in the national Evidence Moot Court competition.
Two teams competed in the AAJ competion. As reported by Professor Williams, these teams competed with fourteen other teams from the Northwest including teams from Seattle University, University of Washington, University of Montana, Willamette University, University of Oregon, and University of Utah. "Both teams performed with extraordinary skill and confidence. The 3L team performed flawlessly …. That team was composed of the following students: ROSS BROWN, SUSANNE KAYE, COURTNEY PETERSON, and JEREMY PITTARD. The 2L team won all three of its qualifying round trials against teams from Seattle University and BYU, but unfortunately was not permitted to advance due to an error on the part of the AAJ Regional Coordinators. The members of the 2L team were: SAM CREASON, RYAN HOLDAWAY, AMANDA NAVARRO, and MATT PRENGAMAN."
Professor Williams further reports that "the Evidence Moot Court Team traveled to New York City to compete in the Prince Evidence Moot Court Competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Law School on 3-6 April 2008. The team composed of 3Ls JOSHUA McCARTHY, SEAN NEAHUSAN, and AMY STACK competed with teams from 38 law schools from all across the United States. The team argued both sides of four complex evidentiary questions in an appellate court setting in two preliminary rounds before distinguished members of the New York Bar."
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… to all of the student editors of "the crit" on-line journal, as well as to their faculty adviser, Professor MICHAEL SATZ, on completion of the first issue of the journal as well as on a communication received by KIRSTEN EIDENBACH from Harvard Law professor Duncan Kennedy, a legendary figure in the critical legal studies movement. Professor Kennedy said, "You should be very very proud, and congratulations to the whole staff. This is really and truly an EVENT. Can’t wait for the next." The journal can be found at www.thecritui.com.
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… to Academic Support Director NANCY LUEBBERT, whose compilation of external financial aid/scholarship opportunities has been cited as a national resource by the Law School Admissions Council in a mailing sent to prospective law students who may be interested in diversity scholarships. It is the only law school-generated resource cited in the LSAC mailing.
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… to Professor BARBARA COSENS who recently guest-lectured in a Natural Resource Law and Policy class at WSU. Her remarks were entitled, "Using Negotiation to Scale Institutional and Legal Solutions to the Natural Resource."
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... to Professor/Associate Dean LIZ BRANDT, whose drafting, consultation and testimony were cited by Idaho legislative leaders during the recently successful efforts to pass H.B. 501. The bill protects abuse victims by allowing them to keep their addresses out of the public domain. It enables them, in effect, to substitute the Secretary of State's Office for their addresses in certain public records. (Law enforcement agencies will still have access to the actual addresses.)
... and again to Dean BRANDT for recent presentations across the campus:
* A guest lecture to the McNair Scholars Program entitled “What is Scholarly Activity in Law?” (Dean Brandt and Professor MAUREEN LAFLIN have agreed to co-mentor one of the McNair Scholars who is interested in law school.)
* Keynoting a workshop for UI employees as part of the Work & Life Resources Program. Her remarks were entitled “Essentials of Estate Planning: Wills, Trusts, Advance Directives, Powers of Attorney & More.”
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...to Professor DALE GOBLE, whose two-volume anthology, THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT AT THIRTY, co-authored and edited with national colleagues including UI College of Natural Resources Professor Michael Scott, received prominent mention and a laudatory review in BIOSCIENCE, published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, in its July-August issue (2007), vol. 57, no. 7, at pp. 626-27. Click here for a copy of the review.
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…to Professor Associate Dean LIZ BRANDT, who has edited a volume of “Statutes and Rules Relevant to Child Protective Act Proceedings,” published by the Idaho Supreme Court Child Protective Act Committee in collaboration with the Casey Family Program. The publication, issued in December 2007, is intended for use by judges, lawyers, social workers and others in the child protective system.
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…to Professor MAUREEN LAFLIN, director of clinical programs and of our Northwest Institute for Dispute Resolution, who on February 13 served as a panelist for a program on representing clients in mediation. The program, entitled "Advocacy Doesn't Equal Adversarial," was featured during the February meeting of the Hon. Ray McNichols Inn of Court at Lewiston.
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… to Professor (and soon-to-be Idaho faculty colleague) ANGELIQUE EAGLEWOMAN, who has been invited to join the Indian Law Section of the AALS as Chair-Elect and, she reports, has "happily accepted the position." She will be a panelist at the 2009 AALS conference for the Indian Law Section program tentatively focusing on the recent adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. After that conference, she will be Chair of the section and will be responsible for organizing the 2010 Indian Law Section program.
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… to Professor DALE GOBLE, who on January 25, presented a paper, " 'Conservation Reliant' Recovery and the Endangered Species Act: What is 'Recovery' -- and Does it Differ for Different Species?" at the 15th Annual American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) Endangered Species Act Conference in Seattle. This annual conference draws speakers and participants from across the country.
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…to clinic professor PAT COSTELLO and to the six students named below for devoting a morning to helping Orofino High School Government students prepare for the statewide “We the People” mock congressional hearing competition:
MARCIA MURDOCH
LACEY RAMMELL-O'BRIEN
HEIDI TOLMAN
BRANDI ARCHER
DANIELLE ALKE
CHRISTOPHER SMITH
The competition involves presentations on constitutional law and history followed by questioning by judges. The law students grilled the OHS students on subjects such as federalism, equal protection, and rights of non-citizens, and then provided detailed critiques of the OHS students’ performances. The OHS students will participate in a statewide “We the People” competition next month in Boise, which will determine which team represents Idaho in the national competition. Three previous OHS teams prepared by College of Law students have won the Idaho statewide competition.
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… to Professor BARBARA COSENS who, on January 18, testified before the Senate Resources and Environment Committee of the Idaho Legislature. Her testimony, given upon invitation from the Committee, addressed the topic "Changes to Idaho Water Law to Adapt to Climate Variability and Population Growth." An article (see below) concerning her testimony appeared recently in the Idaho Business Review.
And further kudos to Professor Cosens on acceptance by the Natural Resource Journal, a peer reviewed journal at the University of New Mexico Law School, of her article entitled "Resolving Conflict in Non-Ideal, Complex Systems: Solutions for the Law-Science Breakdown in Environmental and Natural Resource Law."
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… to Professor BARBARA COSENS, who has received word that she and a UI colleague, Dr. Brian Kennedy, have been awarded $20,000 by the U.S. Geological Survey to fund a UI graduate student for a Lapwai case study connected with the "Water of the West" (WoW) program. This grant will provide a match for two additional graduate students to be supported by WoW Initiative funding. At least one of these additional students expected to come from the JD/MS concurrent degree program. The full title of the approved grant proposal is "Developing Tools To Minimize Jurisdictional Barriers to Achievement of Fishery and Water Resources Goals In Lapwai Creek, Idaho."
… and further to Professor COSENS for her recent presentations to numerous professional and academic audiences:
“The Use of Science and Public Participation to Improve Water Resource Dispute Resolution,” Washington State University, Environmental Engineering Graduate Seminar, Invited lecture, Instructor Dr. David Younge, November 26, 2007.
“Water Sustainability and the Colorado River,” Presentation with Dr. Timothy Link, UI CNR, Natural Resource Sustainability, Invited lecture, Instructor Dr. Lauren Sims, Oct. 19 and 31, 2007.
“Settlement of Indian Water Rights,” BioRegional Planning Seminar, Invited lecture, Instructor Dr. Tamara Laninga, October 9, 2007
… and yet again to Professor COSENS on being asked (and she has agreed) to participate in a group of representatives from Oregon State University, the University of British Columbia, Washington State University, and the University of Idaho, as well as several interest and business groups, to plan a major research effort in anticipation of the re-negotiation of the Columbia River Treaty between the U.S. and Canada beginning in 2014. It is anticipated that the ultimate research will involve a larger number of universities. The focus will be on renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty in the face of climate change and population growth.
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… to Professor ALAN WILLIAMS, who has been informed that his article, "Prosecuting Website Development under the Material Support to Terrorism Statutes: Time to Fix What's Broken," has been accepted for publication by the New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy and will appear in the Spring 2008 issue.
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...to Professor DALE GOBLE, whose article, "Recovery in a Cynical Time
-- with Apologies to Eric Arthur Blair," has been published at 82 Washington Law Review 82 (2007). The article addresses the recovery of at-risk species under the federal Endangered Species Act, and provides a critical analysis of the core-area management approach.
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…to Academic Support Director NANCY LUEBBERT, whose comprehensive website on bar admissions requirements is now attracting national attention and recently has been adopted in substance by the Brooklyn, Chicago-Kent, and Northern Kentucky (Salmon Chase) law schools. Denise Riebe of Brooklyn, co-author of the widely used book "Pass the Bar," has sent a message proclaiming the website as "great."
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…to Professor MICHAEL SATZ, whose article, "Mandatory Binding Arbitration: Our Legal History Demands Balanced Reform," has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of the Idaho Law Review. The article analyzes the controversy surrounding mandatory binding arbitration provisions in common consumer transactions and proposes a legislative response. Research for the article was supported by the Eugene C. Thomas Fund for Scholarly Focus on Improvement to the Law, a fund established at the College of Law by Boise lawyer (and former ABA President) Gene Thomas.
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… to Professor MONICA SCHURTMAN, who recently made two presentations to the "Idaho Summit on Domestic Violence: Creating Safety for Immigrant Victims" in Boise. The Summit, co-sponsored by the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence and the Idaho Partners Against Domestic Violence," attracted an audience of nearly 400 attorneys, members of federal, state, and local enforcement, court personnel, shelter workers, and social services and healthcare providers. Professor Schurtman's presentations addressed: (1) immigration law basics related to self-petition cases and permanent residency under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); and (2) advanced VAWA immigration practice including obtaining VAWA relief for individuals in deportation proceedings, conditional residency waivers, and "U "and "T" visas under recent amendments to VAWA.
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… to Professor/Clinic Director MAUREEN LAFLIN and clinic faculty member PAT COSTELLO, who, on November 14, made a presentation to the Latah County League of Women Voters on clinical programs at the College of Law. The presentation explained what clinical legal education is, what particular clinics we have, what the eligibility standards are for each clinic and how they are all funded. Some of the lawyer members of the LWV commented on how valuable their own clinical experience had been at our College, and several lay members expressed appreciation for the valuable service the College provides to the community.
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… to Professor Associate Dean RICH SEAMON on the publication of his op-ed articlein The Idaho Statesman regarding the Guantanamo detainee case now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The piece, submitted last week, refers to an oral argument "next Monday," which is actually today. The timely article may be found at http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/story/227330.html.
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… to clinical instructor TRAPPER STEWART, who presented a continuing legal education program entitled "Ethics Update," sponsored by the Idaho Law Foundation, at Coeur d'Alene, on November 30.
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… to Professor MIKE SATZ and Professor/Associate Dean LIZ BRANDT, whose jointly authored article, Representing Victims of Domestic Violence in Property Distribution Proceedings After the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, will appear at 40 FAM. L. Q. 275 (2007).
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...to Professor Emeritus DENNIS COLSON, whose article, "Idaho's Founders and Their Mormon Test Oath," appears in the November, 2007, issue of the Idaho State Bar magazine, "The Advocate." The November issue is sponsored by the Idaho Legal History Society.
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... to Professor BEN BEARD, whose co-authored article -- "Virtual Worlds Alongside the Real World: Do You Know Where Your Clients Are?" -- appears in the current (November/December 2007) edition of "Business Law Today," a publication of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law.
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… to Professor/Clinical Programs Director MAUREEN LAFLIN who on November 2 was an invited participant in the South Texas Law Review’s 14th Annual Ethics Symposium on "Ethics in the Expanding World of ADR." Her presentation was entitled “Mediation in the Criminal Justice System: Special Considerations under the Uniform Mediation Act.”
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… to Professor/Associate Dean LIZ BRANDT upon the publication of the second edition of the Idaho Family Law Handbook, which was released on Friday, October 12, at the Idaho State Bar Family Law Section CLE program here in Moscow. The Handbook contains two chapters authored by Dean Brandt: “Grandparents Parenting Grandchildren,” and “Premarital Agreements and Marriage Settlement Agreements.” She made presentations on these chapters during the CLE program, which was attended by more than 30 lawyers and approximately 15-20 UI law students throughout the day. 3L student BRIAN HILVERDA and 2L student MCKINZIE COLE assisted with the CLE program set-up and registration process.
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… to Professor MAUREEN LAFLIN, who co-presented three programs at the Northwest Clinical Conference on October 12-14 at Sunriver, Oregon. She also co-chaired the planning committee for the conference, which was attended by Professor Roy Stuckey (South Carolina), a national leader in clinical education, and by approximately 40 other clinical faculty and staff from the University of California/Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Stanford, Willamette, Lewis and Clark, Seattle University, University of Washington, Idaho, Gonzaga, and Montana. Professor Laflin's presentations were made in the following programs:
– Introductions: Using Sport Images to Define Yourself as a teacher
- Learning to Take Play Seriously: The Pedagogy of Mastery through Play
- The New ABA Skills Requirement (302(a)(4): What Is It? How Are Schools Complying? Ideas on How to Move beyond the Bare Minimum.
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...to Professor DALE GOBLE, whose two-volume, co-edited book set on the federal Endangered Species Act ("The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise," and "The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes") has been favorably reviewed in Bioscience Review, volume 30 (August 2007).
Collaborating co-editors of the books include Professor Michael Scott of the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources.
...and again to Professor GOBLE on the publication of his article, What
*Are* Slugs Good for? Ecosystem Services and the Conservation of Biodiversity, in the Journal of Land Use. The article examines the question of whether "ecosystem services" are a suitable surrogate for biodiversity. It can be found at 22 J. Land Use 411 (2007).
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... to visiting clinical instructor TRAPPER STEWART, who has been named the 2007 recipient of the Idaho State Bar's "Denise O'Donnell Day Pro Bono Award" for the Second Judicial District. This award recognizes Professor Stewart's uncompensated efforts, while he was still in private practice, to present a constitutional challenge to a statute requiring a plaintiff in a civil action against law enforcement officers to obtain and file a bond as a condition precedent to filing the complaint. The challenge to the statute was successful. Professor Stewart will receive the Pro Bono Award at the annual Idaho State Bar Second District "road show" meeting in Lewiston next month.
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...to Professor JACK MILLER, who has accepted a three-year appointment to the Law School Admission Council's (LSAC) Finance and Legal Affairs Committee, and who has been chosen by the American Bar Association to chair an accreditation site inspection team at the Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans.
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... to Professor/Associate Dean RICHARD SEAMON, whose co-authored article, "Policy Formulation versus Policy Implementation under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act: Insight from the North Pacific Crab Rationalization," has been published in volume 34, number 2, of the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (2007).
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...to Professor MONIQUE LILLARD, whose article, "Their Servants' Keepers: Examining Employer Liability for the Crimes and Bad Acts of Employees," now appears in the current issue of the Idaho Law Review: 43 Idaho L. Rev. 709 (2007).
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...to Professor/Associate Dean RICHARD SEAMON who, on September 11 -- the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks -- delivered an address entitled "The New Surveillance Law," to the University of Idaho Interdisciplinary Colloquium. The address provided a history of domestic surveillance issues and described the most recent legislation enacted by the Congress in August.
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...to Professor MAUREEN LAFLIN who, on September 12, was the featured speaker at the Hon. Ray McNichols Inn of Court at Lewiston. Her topic, "Women and the Law: Legal and Professional Hurdles and Milestones," included multimedia materials updated since her presentation on this topic at the annual meeting of the Idaho State Bar this summer.
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Note of other presentations:
September 17 (Dean Burnett): Keynote speaker, along with Idaho Supreme Court Justice Linda Copple Trout, at a Constitution Day forum in Coeur d'Alene entitled "Clouds over the Constitution: Attacks on Judicial Impartiality." Forum sponsors included the Human Rights Education Institute, the University of Idaho/Coeur d'Alene, North Idaho College, and the League of Women Voters of Kootenai County.
August 30 (Dean Burnett): Guest lectured to a combined meeting of several University of Idaho "core discovery" classes on the topic "Science, Law, and Justice: How Should the Legal System Deal with the Paradox of Externalities?"
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