The Informant
September 16, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Lecturer Marco Ventoruzzo (left) and UT Profs. Joan Heminway (law),
Joe Carcello (business), and George Kuney (law).
The Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law and the UT Corporate Governance Center sponsored a lecture by Marco Ventoruzzo on European and Italian corporate governance Friday, Sept. 12.
Prof. Ventoruzzo is an Associate Professor of Corporate Law at Bocconi University - Institute of Comparative Law in Milan, Italy. He has also been an International Visiting Professor at Louisiana State University Law School where he taught Comparative Corporate Law. He received a Master of Law degree from Yale University and has taken graduate courses at the Michigan Law School.
Please join the Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law and the Bettye B. Lewis Career Center on Monday, Sept. 22, for "What Do Lawyers Do? Translating Transactional Law Training Into Government Service" during the 12:20 p.m. free hour in Room 135. The speaker will be Betty Thurber, a 2005 UT Law graduate and former Presidential Management Fellow who works with the Veterans Administration in Washington, DC. She will discuss her non-traditional career path and how the law degree and concentration in business transactions helped her achieve it. Lunch will be provided.
The National Tour of Clarence Darrow's Search for Justice comes to Knoxville for one show only Wednesday, Sept. 17, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike. Admission is a $12 donation at the door. Proceeds will benefit the TVUUC Youth Group. MORE POSTER
FACULTY
With unanimous support of the College of Law Governance Committee, Prof. Penny White has been named an Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law. MORE
Prof. Iris Goodwin participated in a Congressional Roundtable sponsored by Senator Charles Grassley and Congressman Peter Welch. Held Sept. 8 in the Senate Finance Committee Hearing Room, the Roundtable explored the relationship between endowment value and college cost, the legal and accounting definitions of what an endowment is, and the potential impact of legislation requiring a mandatory payout from endowment funds for the purpose of making financial aid more readily available to students. Prof. Goodwin spoke on restricted gifts. Other participants included Molly Corbett Broad, former President, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Daniel Fogel, President, University of Vermont; Anthony Marx, President of Amherst College, Michael Klausner, Professor Stanford law School; Henry Hansmann, Professor, Yale Law School; Anthony Marx, President, Amherst College; John Mattie, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Jeff Mechanick, CPA, Financial Accounting Standards Board; Blake Naughton, Congressional Research Service; Shirley Tilghman, President of Princeton University, and John Walda, President, National Association of College and University Business Officers.
Prof. Glenn Reynolds' article "Is Dick Cheney Unconstitutional?" was published this month in the Northwestern University Law Review.
Dean Rivkin is a Visiting Professor at American University in Washington, DC, this semester teaching Environmental Justice and Community Lawyering.
Prof. Joe King has recently published two articles: "The Common Knowledge Exception to the Expert Testimony Requirement for Establishing the Standard of Care in Medical Malpractice," published in 59 Alabama Law Review 51 (2007), and "Deus ex Machina and the Unfulfilled Promise of New York Times v. Sullivan: Applying the Times for All Seasons," published in 95 Kentucky Law Journal 649 (2007).
Prof. Jerry Black and Dean Doug Blaze conducted at day-long training program for the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS) on making and responding to objections at trial. Legal services lawyers from across the state participated in the training held in Manchester, Tenn., during the annual TALS Access to Justice Conference. Dean Blaze and Prof. Black both serve as board members for TALS. Dean Blaze also served as program director for a National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) Motion Practice Program for the Crowell & Moring law firm in Washington, D.C.
Prof. Becky Jacobs' essay, “A Lexical Examination and (Unscientific) Survey of Expanded Clinical Experiences in U.S. Law Schools,” appeared in the Tennessee Law Review as part of its Charles Miller Legal Clinic 60th Anniversary Symposium edition. Following her appearance on a panel addressing Coalition Building, Globally and Locally at the LatCrit VII in Miami in October 2007, Prof. Jacobs contributed an article entitled “Pareto Negativity: The Enemy of My Enemy is Not Necessarily My Friend – Latin Leadership, Coalition Building, and Predatory Globalization” to the collection that will appear in an upcoming symposium edition of the St. Thomas Law Review. Her article “Teaching and Learning Negotiation in a Simulated Environment” will appear in Volume XVIII, Issue 1 of the Widener Law Journal. Prof. Jacobs appeared with Profs. Carol Parker and Judy Cornett at the Legal Writing Institute’s Biennial Conference in Indianapolis in July, and, with Prof. Joan Heminway, she participated in a workshop on Cutting Edge Legal Theory: Jurisprudence in Context at the annual SEALS conference in July 2008. Prof. Jacobs also participated again in the South African Black Lawyers Association Commercial Law training program in August. Her piece "Unbound by Theory and Naming: Survival Feminism and the Women of the South African Victoria Mxenge Housing and Development Association" is scheduled for publication in the UCLA Women's Law Journal.
Prof. Penny White, along with Dr. Mahlia Reddick, published an article detailing the history, constitutionality, and success of the Tennessee Plan entitled "A Response to Professor Fitzpatrick: The Rest of the Story" in 75 Tennessee Law Review 501.
Prof. Joan Heminway wrote a column for the Knoxville Bar Association’s monthly publication Dicta entitled “What it Means to Be a Lawyer: A Sense of Professionalism.” The column can be found here.
Prof. Maurice E. Stucke's most recent article, “ Does the Rule of Reason Violate the Rule of Law?,” will be published May 2009 in the U.C. Davis Law Review (a working copy is available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1267359). The paper, which already has attracted the attention of the OECD, analyzes the significant deficiencies of the Supreme Court's rule-of-reason antitrust standard, and how these deficiencies adversely affect antitrust enforcement and competition policy generally.
STUDENTS
Tryouts are being held for the Robert F. Wagner National Labor & Employment Moot Court Competition, run by the New York Law School Moot Court Association. The competition will take place March 11-15 (right before UT’s Spring Break) in New York City. The fact pattern will be released early in December and the brief is due mid-January; thus, the team will work on the brief over winter break. Because the competition rules allow for some help on the brief, this is a unique opportunity to work closely with a faculty member on appellate brief writing. Tryouts involve submitting a writing sample by Sept. 19, then presenting an brief oral argument on Sept. 22 (alternate times can be arranged if needed). The team has been very successful in recent years and is looking to continue that tradition. For more specific information on the try-outs, please contact Prof. Jeff Hirsch.
CAREER SERVICES
Career Services programs this week:
-- "What Do Lawyers Do? Navy JAG Corps," for all classes, Monday, Sept. 15, 12:20-1:10 p.m., Room 135.
-- "Interview Preparation: The Call-Back or Second Interview" for 2 and 3Ls, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 12:20-1:10 p.m., Room 135.
-- "What Do Lawyers Do? Translating Transactional Law Training to Government Service," for all classes, Monday, Sept. 22, 12:20-1:10 p.m., Room 135.