The Informant
September 29, 2009
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1Ls receive UT Athletic Department Awards
The University of Tennessee College of Law awarded UT Athletic Department Graduate Student Awards to five first-year law students who achieved excellence as student-athletes at their respective alma maters before they enrolled in law school for 2009 Fall Semester. MORE
FACULTY
From Greg Stein, Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Prof. George Kuney has been invited to speak at the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 2009 Legislative Symposium at Georgetown University Law Center on the subject of “The Present and Future of ‘One Size Fits All’: Do we Need a Chapter for those ‘Too Big to Fail.’” Prof. Kuney’s presentation will be based on his March 2009 ABI Journal article, “A Proposal for Chapter 10: Reorganization for ‘Too Big to Fail’ Companies,” which he co-authored with Michael St. James from his home town of San Francisco.
Prof. Paula Schaefer has been selected as a 2009 Fellow of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP). In this capacity, she will participate in the NIFTEP annual workshop, to be held in Georgia in November. NIFTEP conducts annual workshops that bring together leading academics and practitioners involved in promoting the teaching of ethics and professionalism. It was formed in 2005 as a consortium of five law schools: Fordham, Mercer, South Carolina, Stanford, and Georgia State, along with the ABA and the Georgia judiciary.
On September 24, Prof. Schaefer presented "Attorney Advertising & Ethics in Today's Competitive Environment" to the Knoxville City Group of the Lawyers Marketing Association's Southeast Chapter.
University of Nebraska Prof. Colleen E. Medill, formerly on the faculty at UT College of Law, has published “Acing Property,” a student study aid. This new book offers a systematic approach to solving problems in property law. More information about the book is available here.
On October 1, Prof. Igal Bursztyn of Tel Aviv University, who is the Schusterman Visiting Israel Professor at UT, will give a lecture at the College of Law. Prof. Bursztyn will speak on “Film and Zionism: Cinema in Jewish Cultural Renewal from 1896-2009.” The lecture will be held in Room 132 at 7PM, with a reception to follow.
Infinite Jest Update. As per the instructions on the Infinite Summer website, which I noted in an earlier column, I read page one on June 21, and page 981 (along with footnote 388 on page 1079) on September 21. The book weighs four pounds and probably tops half-a-million words. I mostly stuck to my allotment of one 12-page chunk per day. To quote one of the IJ bloggers: “If I could write like that, I wouldn’t write that. I’m glad I read it. I would never dream of recommending it to anyone. . . . I can think of edits which in my irrelevant opinion would subtract a few hundred pages without much loss of value but hey, the book’s written and the author’s dead, so what we got is what we got. And the writing is very beautiful.” Did anyone else out there make it through? What did you think of it?
STUDENTS
UT's Global Law School
Do you want to study law and policy in Rio de Janeiro or at Cambridge University? Or would you like to learn about human rights or intellectual property law from an international perspective? If so, come to an informational session on "Global Initiatives at the College of Law" on September 29th, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in the Shiloh Room at the University Center. In this session, students, faculty, and administrators from the College of Law will describe the international and comparative law activities of College of Law students and faculty in the classroom and around the world. The presentation will include pictures from a variety of countries and situations involving student and faculty experiences abroad.
Student Papers Sought
The Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni (ASECA) is seeking law student papers for its annual writing competition. Qualifying papers may address any subject in the field of securities law. Cash prizes will be awarded and the deadline for entries is Nov. 13. MORE
Environmental writing competition underway
The TBA Environmental Law Section has announced the 2010 Jon E. Hastings Memorial Award writing competition for law student members of the section. The competition is held each year in memory of one of the section's most outstanding founding members and has a cash prize pool of $1,200. It is a juried competition for the best legal writing on a topic related to Tennessee or federal environmental law. Entries are due March 27.
Learn more about the contest.
ABI announces Bankruptcy Law Student Writing competition
ABI’s Bankruptcy Litigation Committee announces the Second Annual ABI Bankruptcy Law Student Writing Competition. Students from participating law schools will be eligible to submit a paper from Jan. 1 - March 1, 2010. Entries for the competition, which must be reviewed by a law professor prior to submission, must focus on current issues regarding bankruptcy jurisdiction, bankruptcy litigation or evidence in bankruptcy cases or proceedings. The paper may address business or consumer cases and may include matters such as bankruptcy sales, plan confirmation and other topics that involve jurisdiction, litigation or evidence in the bankruptcy courts. Winners of the competition will be announced on May 1, 2010. The first-place writer will receive $1,000 cash, publication of the paper in the ABI Journal and a one-year membership in ABI. The second-place writer will receive a cash award of $750, publication of the paper in the ABI Bankruptcy Litigation Committee’s quarterly newsletter and a one-year membership in ABI. The third-place writer will receive a cash award of $500, publication of the paper in the ABI Bankruptcy Litigation Committee’s quarterly newsletter and a one-year membership in ABI. Contact papers@abiworld.org for more information. Prof. George Kuney is willing to review student papers and provide feedback before they are submitted to the ABI, if desired.
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"Law Stories" competition announced
The University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review devotes part of one issue each year to a collection of “Law Stories” – short tales about various aspects of the legal world. For the next edition, the theme will be 1L Revisited. An introduction by Scott Turow, author of the classic account of the 1L experience, will lead off this collection of true stories about being a new law student. Current law students and recent graduates (2006 or later) are invited to submit stories. Winning submission(s) will be published in the Spring 2010 issue of the UMKC Law Review, and the first place winner will receive a $500 prize.
Details:
· Non-fiction stories about the first year experience
· 1,000 - 5,000 words, including footnotes
· Footnotes are discouraged—we are looking for stories, not conventional law review articles or notes
· Open to current law student s and recently graduated law students (2006 or after)
· Send to lawstories@umkc.edu with “Law Stories Submission” in subject line
· MS Word or PDF formats only
· Submission deadline October 23, 2009
UMKC School of Law
5100 Rockhill Road, Law 1-200
Kansas City, MO 64110
lawstories@umkc.edu
Lynn Herdon, Editor-In-Chief
lynn.herndon@umkc.edu
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