The Informant
August 26, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The University of Tennessee College of Law Center for Advocacy & Dispute Resolution will host Chief Justice Janice M. Holder of the Tennessee Supreme Court Wednesday, Sept. 3, beginning at 12:10 p.m. in Room 132. Please note the early starting time. Chief Justice Holder is Tennessee's first female Chief Justice and has been a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court since 1996. Before being appointed to the Court, she served as a Circuit Court Judge for the Thirtieth Judicial District, Shelby County, Tennessee.
The Clayton Center for Entrepreneurial Law and the UT Corporate Governance Center will sponsor a lecture by Marco Ventoruzzo on European and Italian corporate governance Friday, Sept. 12, from 12:20 until 1:10 p.m. in Room 136. 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. The title of his lecture is “European Corporate Governance and the EU Takeover Directive.”
FACULTY
Prof. Robert Blitt's most recent paper, “How to Entrench a De Facto State Church in Russia: A Guide in Progress” will be published in the upcoming volume of the Brigham Young University Law Review. This essay makes the case that the Russian Orthodox Church's (ROC) assertion of a constitutionally inappropriate role in affairs of state has severely compromised Russia's secular constitutional framework. Disturbingly, this gradual but steady erosion of the barrier between church and state has been facilitated by each successive post-communist regime, with no indication that the political transition from President Vladimir Putin to his hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, will change anything. Ultimately, the collusion between the ROC and Russian government presents a serious challenge to the country's constitutional order and to its regional and international human rights commitments—chief among these being the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief.
STUDENTS
Try outs for the College of Law’s 2008-09 National Environmental Law Moot Court Team are open. Background information and details on obtaining an application packet from the Records Office is available here.
Prof. Penny White is looking for students with an interest in criminal law and the death penalty to work with her on a project funded by the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The project involves researching, writing, and editing a Manual for Capital Defense Lawyers. Students may work as little as 10 or as many as 20 hours per week. If you are interested and willing to help with this important project (and still get paid for your work!), please email pwhite4@utk.edu. The project will be completed by the end of the semester.
Prof. George Kuney seeks a student interested in the tort/corporate doctrine of successor liability for a research project involving the date down of an existing compilation of research on the subject. Interested students should send him an expression of interest and a resume by e-mail to gkuney@utk.edu.
The AARP Foundation invites UT 2Ls to apply for the AARP Foundation Litigation Fellowship. The Fellowship offers a 12-week paid summer experience in Washington, D.C., and a $10,000 scholarship. A research and writing requirement will be fulfilled in the recipient's 3L year. Applicants should have a research interest in elder law issues. Applications are due Nov. 7, 2008. Application materials are available from Janet Hatcher in the Admissions office.
Prof. Jennifer Hendricks needs one or more research assistants to work on projects involving constitutional law, equal protection, employment discrimination, regulation of pornography, the Freedom of Information Act, and other topics. Please send your resume and transcript to jsh@utk.edu.
CAREER SERVICES
Career Services programs this week:
“Job Market Update” – Wednesday, Aug. 27, 12:20-1:10 p.m., Room 132.