April 11th 2005 • Printer version

News and Events of the University of Oregon School of Law
Life@Law April 11 -24, 2005

HIGHLIGHTS: Environmental and Dispute Resolution law programs rank high, Native American Rights Fund attorney Lare Aschenbrenner receives 2005 Frohnmayer Award, John Coffee on corporate scandals and gatekeepers who failed the investors, David Newman on Israel-Palestine Peace, Breaking the Mold: Women and Big Firm success, All-day filibuster and more  

Monday, April 11    Filibustering For Fun
9:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M., Morse Commons. American Constitution Society conducts an all-day mock filibuster as a gesture of support towards this fine tradition and the old habit of reviewing the executiveís judicial nominees. Note that Sen. Wayne Morse himself once spoke for 22 hours straight in a filibuster to block passage of the Oil Tidelands Act. INFO

Monday, April 11    LECTURE: Israel-Palestine Peace with David Newman
7:30 P.M., Room 175. David Newman is a political geographer whose commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times,International Herald Tribune and others. He will speak on The Israel-Palestine Peace: Process in the Post-Arafat Era. Newman is a professor of political geography at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in southern Israel. Part of the Morse Centerís two-year theme on The Changing Geopolitical Order.
INFO: http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/ 

Tuesday, April 12        LECTURE: The Black Church with Nick Salvatore

Thursday, April 14            PANEL: Oregon Land Use Law
Noon, Room 110. Insidersí perspectives on Oregon land use issues and the practice of land use law with Lane County Commissioner Pete Sorenson, Emily Jerome of Harrang Long, and attorney Bill Kloos. Moderated by law professor Tom Lininger. Sponsored by the ENR Sustainable Land Use Project. INFO

Thursday, April 14    LECTURE: John Coffee    
Gatekeepers: Role (and Reform) of Professionals in Corporate Governance
4:00 P.M., Room 110. Corporate law expert John C. Coffee Jr. will speak about the auditors, attorneys, securities analysts, and other professionals who failed to serve the interests of investors during the corporate scandals of the last several years. Coffee is the Adolf
Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University Law School, the director of its Center on Corporate Governance and the Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor for the 2004-5 academic year.
INFO: business@law.uoregon.edu

Thursday, April 14    PANEL: Breaking the Mold: The Big Firm and Beyond
11:30 A.M. 1:00 P.M., Room 141. Judge Darlene Ortega, Oregon Court of Appeals; Tiffany Harris, Schwabe; Angie Lee , Crabtree & Rahmsdorff; Carol McCoog, Preston Gates and Patricia McGuire, Davis Wright Tremaine
discuss their roles at big firms and how big firm law practice helped their careers. Chicken or vegetarian stir fry lunch available to those who RSVP in plenty of time. Sponsored by the Minority Law Student Association. INFO

Thursday, April 14    LECTURE: Social Change after Liberiaís Civil War
7:00 P.M., Room 175. Jerome Verdier, an attorney with Green Advocates, will speak about Liberiaís past, present and preparations for upcoming elections. Free and open to the public. Reception follows the lecture. Sponsored by Public Interest/Public Service Program (PIPS). INFO

Friday, April 15    MEETINGS: Deanís Advisory Council, Alumni Board
Both groups will meet in Portland before the Frohnmayer Award banquet.

Friday, April 15    BANQUET: Frohnmayer Award for Public Service
6:00 P.M. Reception, 7:00 P.M. Dinner. Embassy Suites Hotel, 319 SW Pine St., Portland. The fourth annual public service award honors civil rights litigator Lawrence A. Aschenbrenner í57. From 1960s Mississippi to 21st century Alaska, he has defended the poor and disenfranchised with energy and zeal. He was Oregonís first public defender, a partner in the stateís first public interest law firm and a litigator who fought for African-Americans during the height of the civil rights movement. Since 1976, he has worked on behalf of Native Americans, retiring as director of the Alaska office of the Native American Rights Fund in 2002. The Frohnmayer Award is sponsored by the UO Law Alumni Association. Tickets cost $75 per person, $40 for attorneys and employees of public service/public interest organizations. INFO: (541) 346-3970 or email alumni@law.uoregon.edu
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Wednesday, April 20    Day Formerly Known As Secretariesí Day
Noon, Lewis Lounge. Although Administrative Professionals Day doesnít have the same zing, itís still time to celebrate all those office support staff who make you look good. Staff will be attended by the dean and faculty, and fed well. INFO

April 22        Last day of spring semester classes

Friday, April 22     LAW FACULTY WORKSHOP: Bernard Harcourt
Noon, Lewis Lounge. The law faculty will meet for lunch and a workshop with Bernard Harcourt, who teaches criminal law at the University of Chicago. His scholarship focuses on issues of crime and punishment from an empirical and social theoretic perspective. INFO.

KUDOS
Building manager and ENR assistant to receive UOís highest honor for classified staff

Jim Horstrup, Knight Law Center building manager and Dianne Bass, administrative assistant for the environmental and coastal law programs, will be honored with top awards at the UO Classified Employee Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, April 26 at 3:30 P.M. in Gerlinger Lounge.

Dianne Bass
Richard Hildreth, one of the law faculty who helped develop the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program two years ago, said Dianne had volunteered to help with the myriad organizational tasks the project would entail. I must admit I wondered if she could pull it off. But, never fear, with her vital help, it was recently made a permanent law school program.

Law professor Mary Wood, who directed the program in its founding year, said, Dianne realizes the broad significance of what we do...Sheís a real strategist, always using the most efficient means to create the highest quality product. Her work is flawless.

Bass has worked at the law school for five years. She holds an associate degree in business technology from Lane Community College and is a member of the Association of Legal Secretaries. Bass served on the UO Classified Staff Training and Development Advisory Committee for three years.

Jim Horstrup
Associate Dean Jane Gordon knew the job of taking care of the new Knight Law Center was  an important one. Jim Horstrup was the second person to hold the position. It is an understatement to say that he has taken this work to a new level, she said.

Assistant Director Eliza Schmidkunz said that when Horstrup arrived, the night crewís efficiency skyrocketed, art shows appeared perfectly hung, building beautification proceeded without reminder, events became smoothly coordinated, public rooms were always deliciously clean...he enables us all to live the fantasy of Eloise at The Plaza.

Horstrup has worked as a skilled craftsman, trades and maintenance worker and supervisor at a number of Lane County companies. He graduated from Sheldon High School, attended Lane Community College and most recently managed facilities at the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. He came to the law school in 2003.

Law Communications Director Shares 2005 CASE Gold Award
Eliza Schmidkunz, assistant director for communications at the law school, shared a Gold Award for promotional copywriting with 7 other UO communications officers. UO Director of Development Communications Ann Mack and Associate Director Ed Dorsch led the yearlong project to create a suite of 10 publications for the $600 million fundraising campaign now underway and accepted the award at the CASE regional conference in Seattle last February.
 
CASE is the professional organization for higher education communications, development, alumni relations and media relations professionals. The UO as a whole swept the regional awards this year with two gold awards, four silvers, three bronzes and a special lifetime achievement honor for former UO publications director George Beltran.

 Public institutions like the UO have to rely heavily on donations, grants, and other private funds today, so marketing communications is ever more critical, Schmidkunz said. Looks like weíre doing a pretty good job.

For copies of the law school campaign case statement, email info@law.uoregon.edu
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Small World
The second PIPS public service day on April 2 was a smashing success (attested to by This Reporter who saw tired sweaty people and their kids enjoying a catered lunch in the Commons after hours of honest labor for local nonprofits.) Law professor Dom Vetri said, Several law students and I joined some Americorps volunteers to do window box planting and general weeding of flower beds at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home. People were very appreciative of our efforts.

Turns out those Americorps volunteers are from a Creswell group who work in the public schools there and are quartered in Jenny Carmichaelís church basement. Carmichael is the Oregon Community Mediation Office administrator, and she told the volunteers about the Public Interest/Public Service Program. Small World . . . and isnít it great?

The Gold Watch
Jared W. Moss is this yearís Outstanding Student in Law and Entrepreneurship. Moss participated in the Technology Entrepreneurship Fellows Program last year and is enrolled in the Small Business Clinic now. Law and Entrepreneurship Center director Barbara Aldave says, We gave him a gold 'Entrepreneur' watch now at the beginning rather than the end of his professional career and his name will be inscribed on a plaque hanging in the reception area of Suite 220. Congratulations!
 
Remembering a Mentor
The third edition of law professor Leslie Harrisí textbook, Family Law, is just out. Associate Dean Margie Paris writes, This Aspen publication is the leading one in the field -used by Mary Ann Glendon at Harvard, Katherine Bartlett at Duke, and other luminaries.

The book is by way of being a tribute to Lee Teitlebaum, Harrisí mentor and coauthor on previous editions, who died shortly after work began on this one. This will be the last edition to bear his name. I knew Lee for 31 years more than half my life, Harris said. He was my favorite professor in law school at the University of New Mexico. As I worked on the book, I kept hearing his voice.

All events are free and open to the public at the Knight Law Center (1515 Agate Street, Eugene), unless otherwise noted. Dates and times are subject to change best to check the contact number or email just to make sure.