The Informant

October 9, 2007
(2007-08 Archives)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Prof. Glenn Reynolds has been named one of the 10 most influential legal scholars in America by the Social Science Research Network. MORE.

The Tennessee Law Review congratulates Joe Ahillen, Rachel Levinson, Kenlyn Foster-Spence, Lane McCarty, and Melanie Prince. They received the Volume 74:4 Excellence in Editing Awards for their exceptional work on the Tennessee Law Review’s first book of the academic year. Also, the Tennessee Law Review would like to remind the faculty that t-shirt and sweatshirt orders are due on Wednesday, Oct. 10. If you would like some law review apparel, e-mail lawreview@libra.law.utk.edu.

In support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Judge Bill Swann will hold the Fourth Ciricuit Court docket at the College of Law on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007. In preparation of Order of Protection Day, Judge Swann will make a presentation on "Domestic Violence and Orders of Protection," on Wednesday, Oct. 10, during the free hour in the Faculty Lounge. All students, faculty and staff are invited to attend. Lunch will be provided.

The Child Law Society will be sponsoring a series of focus groups with a representative of Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge. Four 30-minute sessions will be held. Each session will start with a brief description of what a CASA volunteer does and will then be followed by a question-and-answer type of discussion. Space is limited so sign up for a session by emailing jmille65@utk.edu. Lunch will be served.

The Knoxville Bar Association is sponsoring a series of free LawTalk programs this fall. These educational programs are designed to create better-informed citizens who understand what is involved in estate planning and administration. MORE

The law school community is invited to “Mediation Day in Tennessee,” at which time UT law Prof. Emeritus Grayfred Gray will receive the First Annual Grayfred Gray Public Service Mediation Award in recognition of his original and lasting contribution to the development of mediation awareness in Tennessee. The event will be held Thursday, Oct. 18, in Nashville beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Ezell Center at Lipscomb University. UT Law Prof. Becky Jacobs will make introductory remarks at the ceremony. More information available here.

The UT Office of Equity and Diversity Experience has scheduled its workshops for Fall 2007. The schedule may be found here.

FACULTY

Prof. Glenn Reynolds reviewed Larry Sabato's new book, A More Perfect Constitution, in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer. The review.

The American Bankruptcy Institute has published the CD-ROM edition of the book “Chapter 11 – 101” by Prof. George Kuney and co-authors Prof. Jack Ayer (Emeritus, King Hall, UC Davis), Michael Bernstein, and Jonathan Friedland, a former Visiting Professor in the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law and now a partner in the Chicago office of the Schiff, Hardin firm.

Prof. Maurice E. Stucke participated in the round-table discussions hosted by the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies and the Competition Law Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law Oct. 5. The antitrust roundtable, held in Chicago, focused on single firm dominance from a comparative EU-US perspective.

Profs. Fran Ansley and Dean Rivkin participated in an invitation-only clinical scholarship workshop sponsored by the AALS Committee on Lawyering in the Public Interest (also known as the Gary Bellow Scholars Committee), which Rivkin chairs. The event, held Sept. 27-28 at the University of Maryland, was co-sponsored by Harvard Law School's Bellow/Sacks Access to Civil Justice Project. Clinical law professors and social scientists discussed empirically-based research projects that are designed to increase access to justice and promote the public interest.

STUDENTS

Prof. Ben Barton is seeking four law students for a Spring Semester independent study (“IS”) on working with expert witnesses in litigation. The IS will be held jointly with two statistics grad students who will work as opposing experts. The law students will divide into a pair of litigation teams. Each team will work with one of the statisticians as their expert in a model litigation Prof. Barton is currently designing. The IS will consist of a) working with the expert witness to create a written expert’s report; b) reading the opposing expert’s report, and discussing it with your own expert; c) deposing the opposing expert; and d) running a direct of your own witness at a mock trial and cross-examining the opposing expert. There will also be readings on working with, and litigating against, expert witnesses. The IS will serve as the possible basis for a future class on expert witnesses. If you are interested, please email Prof. Barton (bbarton@utk.edu).

The UT Child Law Society will be sending a team to the 2008 National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare & Adoption Law. The competition will be held in Columbus, Ohio, March 14-15, 2008. The 2008 topic is “Children’s Best Interests & Multicultural Issues in Adoption.” More information here. (Link also available on the Facebook “Wall” of the UT Child Law Society.) The competition problem will be released December 3, 2007, and the brief will be due February 8, 2008.Tryouts for the UT Child Law Moot Court Team will be held Monday, Oct. 15, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 339. Participants should prepare oral arguments of eight to 10 minutes based upon the attached Tryout Problem. A sign-up sheet will be available on the Moot Court Board on Monday, Oct. 8. Participants should also submit a writing sample of five to 10 pages, preferably encompassing one complete argument from an appellate brief. Writing samples based upon the attached Tryout Problem are also welcome. Any questions about the attached Tryout Problem should be directed to Shauna Boyd BY EMAIL at shashbarger@aol.com. Any necessary updates will be provided by email to all participants who have signed up.

Prof. Jennifer Hendricks is looking for a research assistant to work on projects involving sex classifications, abortion, procedural questions, and other topics. Please send a résumé and copy of transcript to jsh@utk.edu.

CAREER SERVICES

Programs/events this coming week:

-- "Career Strategy: The Out of State Job Search," for 3Ls, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 9:40-10:20 a.m., Faculty Lounge.

-- "Interview Preparation & Protocol: The Call-Back or Second Interview," for 2Ls, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 11:10 a.m.-Noon, Faculty Lounge.

-- "Career Strategy: Targeting Larger Law Firms," for 2Ls, Monday, Oct. 15, 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m., Faculty Lounge.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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CONTACT PERSONS

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