The Informant

September 23, 2008

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Center for Advocacy & Dispute Resolution is pleased to host a presentation by Bill Ramsey of Neal & Harwell and Phillip Hampton of LogicForce Consulting, LLC on the use of technology in the courtroom. The program will be Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 12:20 until 1:10 p.m. in Room 135. Ramsey graduated first in his class from UT Law in 1981 and is a self-professed "techno-geek." The primary focus of his professional practice is complex civil and criminal litigation and he has lectured extensively on the use of technology in the practice of law, litigation involving computers and technology, and the impact of the Internet on the practice of law. LogicForce Consulting, LLC, specializes in providing technology consulting services for law firms from general network support, systems integration, and software training to specialized litigation support, trial technology support, and computer forensic services.

The Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution continues its fall program series with three upcoming programs. The law school community is invited to each program and lunch will be served afterward. MORE

The Tennessee Law Review welcomes the following new Second-Year Editors to its staff: Katie Atkins, Jamey Ayers, Anthony Bills, Natalie Burton, Christopher Call, Summer Carr, Melissa Carrasco, Kathlyn Castilla, Lesley Foglia, Emily Foster, George Green, Charles Hartman, Bryan Hathorn, Charles Hubbard, Allison Jackson, Drew Justham, Eliot Kerner, Regina Koho, Ryan Lacey, Emily Lay, Joshua Lee, Grant Lewallen, Rachel Lokitz, Julianna Loden, Hannah Lowe, Walter Machnicki, Allison Malone, Morgan Manning, Marisa Mar-Jones, Nathan Mauer, John McGehee, Craig Meredith, Philip Meyer, Jennifer Milam, Cristina Minter, Mitchell Moore, Norene Napper, Katie Parham, Amit Patel, William Payne, Trenton Poynter, Meredith Rambo, Phylinda Ramsey, Jared Renfroe, Alex Rieger, Lindsay Schenk, Eric Shen, Paul Singleton, LeAnne Sumner, Megan Sutton, Jeff Swett, Stephanie Swing, Sara Anne Thomas, Katie Tolliver, Katie Waldrop, Malaka Watson, Thomas Whitworth, S-K Wright.

The Tennessee Law Review announces that the following Second-Year Editors will have their case notes from the 2008 Candidacy Program published in this year's issues: Bryan Hathorn, Regina Koho, Norene Napper, Lindsay Schenk, and S-K Wright. Congratulations on a job well done!

FACULTY

Prof. Mae Quinn was invited to speak to faculty and students at the William and Mary School of Law last week under the auspices of the Kelley Fund for Teaching Excellence.  Prof. Quinn delivered a talk on the subject of teaching social change based upon her forthcoming essay, "A Clinician's Ways of Unknowing: Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget and (Re)constructing Identity," which will be published in the Winter 2009 issue of the Tennessee Law Review.  Prof. Quinn had two other works accepted for publication this month -- a personal essay "Finding Power, Fighting Power (or the Perpetual Motion Machine)," which will appear in the May 2009 issue of the Hasting Women's Law Journal, and an article "Reconstructing Competence: An Appeal," which will appear in the March 2009 issue of Washington and Lee Law Review.  A working draft of "Reconstructing Competence" may be viewed here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1067241.

Prof. Greg Stein’s article, “Mortgage Law in China: Comparing Theory and Practice,” has been republished by the ICFAI Journal of Banking Law, an academic journal that is published by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts in Hyderabad, India. Prof. Stein’s article originally appeared in the Missouri Law Review.

Prof. Carol Collins’ article "Orphans Adopted Eighty-Nine Years after Conception, or, Cataloging Updating Loose-Leaf Publications” will be published later this year in Serials Librarian. Most updating loose-leaf publications are legal titles and are available in print and/or online format(s). In the cataloging realm, print updating loose-leafs and their Web versions are known as integrating resources.  Until 2002, the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules was silent on the cataloging of updating loose-leaf publications. This article chronicles the publication, or lack of practical publication, of cataloging rules for integrating resources and the potential impact of the 2002 revisions on academic libraries.

This year marks the 25th year of the publication of Civil Rights Actions, a multi-volume treatise co-authored by Profs. Joseph Cook and John Sobieski.

Prof. Jennifer Hendricks published an article in the Election Law Journal this summer entitled "Popular Election of the President: Using or Abusing the Electoral College?" Last week she spoke at the Baker Center at the Constitution Day Forum on Faith-Based Initiatives.

Prof. Alex Long will be speaking at the Third Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law in San Diego Oct. 24. He will be presenting a paper entitled "Whistleblowing Attorneys and Ethical Infrastructures." On Nov. 19, he will speak at a Continuing Legal Education seminar sponsored by Lorman Education Services entitled "Legal Ethics."

STUDENTS

Tryouts are being held for the Vanderbilt University Law School First Amendment Moot Court Competition to be held Feb. 19-20, 2009, on the Vanderbilt campus. The fact pattern will be released at the end of October and the brief is due mid-January. Tryouts involve submitting a resume and writing sample by Sept. 29, then presenting a brief oral argument on Oct. 2 or 3. (Vanderbilt requires resumes when registering for the competition.) For the oral argument, please prepare a 10-minute argument for the case of Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, currently pending as docket no. 07-665 in the U.S. Supreme Court. A sign-up sheet for time slots is on the moot court bulletin board; alternative times can be arranged if necessary. You may choose to argue for either Petitioner or Respondent. For more information or questions, please contact Prof. Jennifer Hendricks.

Research Assistant needed to work approximately 15 hours per week. Research will be in the area of immigration and asylum law. Specifically, the research will focus on the recent surge in state and municipal legislation in the area of immigration law and the constitutional implications. Students interested in the position should send a resume, transcript and writing sample to Professor Karla McKanders at mckanders@utk.edu. Any questions regarding the position can be sent by email or telephone at (865) 974-5710.

The Center for Alcohol Policy has launched a national essay contest in an effort to foster debate, analysis and examination on the importance of the 21 st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition and established the modern state-based alcohol regulatory system. MORE

CAREER SERVICES

Career Services programs this week:

-- "Career Strategy: Targeting Public Sector Employers" for 2 and 3Ls, Monday, Sept. 29, 12:20-1:10 p.m., Room 135. Special guest speaker will be Kelly Derryberry (Ut Law '86), chief counsel of the U.S. department of Housing and Urban Development in nashville.