Courts? The Case of the East African
Court of Justice”at the Conference on
International Courts in their Social and
Political Context hosted by the Center
for Excellence in International Courts,
Copenhagen, Denmark;“Kenya Under
the 2010 ConstitutionWith a Focus on
the New Judiciary”at the University of
Chicago School of Law;“Implications
of theWTO’s Dispute Settlement
System for African RTAs Dispute
Settlement Process”at the conference
“Boosting Intra-African Trade: The Role
of Regulation and Policy”in Arusha,
Tanzania; and“Challenges of the East
African Court of Justice’s Human
Rights Strategy”at the International
Law Colloquium, S.J. Quinney College
of Law, University of Utah.
Zelda Harris
recently served as a
member of the faculty for Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law’s Intensive
Trial Advocacy Program and Emory
School of Law’s Trial Techniques
Program, and faculty member and
team leader for the National Institute
for Trial Advocacy’s Building Trial
Skills-Chicago. She also participated
in the New Jersey Public Defender
Association’s trial advocacy training
program for child welfare attorneys;
the National Council of Juvenile
and Family Court Judges Enhancing
Judicial Skills in Domestic Violence
program; and the American Judges
Association online training module
on evidentiary issues in domestic
violence cases.
Cynthia Ho
presented her
forthcoming article“Drugged
Out: How Cognitive Bias Hurts
Innovation”at the IP and Public
Health Symposium hosted by John
Marshall Law School this past fall.
This spring, she presented“Should All
Drugs Be Patentable Subject Matter?
A Comparative and Cognitive Bias
Approach”at the symposium“Patents
101: Eligibility from Computer Code to
Genetic Codes,”hosted by Vanderbilt
School of Law;“The Human Right
to Health and Medicine: IP Issues”
at the Loyola University Chicago
International Law Review Symposium
“Assessing the New Generation of
Human Rights Provisions in Free Trade
Agreements”; and“Should All Drugs
Be Patentable”at the Cardozo IP and
Information Law Colloquium held at
Cardozo Law School.
J
effrey Kwall
presented“Tax Reform
of Pass-Through Entities: TheWays
& Means Staff Proposals and Other
Tax Reform Options”to the Federal
Tax Committee of the Chicago Bar
Association last April.
Margaret Moses
participated on an
international arbitration panel this
fall at the Chicago law firm Jenner
and Block. This spring she gave an
online lecture,“Cross-Examination in
International Commercial Arbitration,”
for Pace Law School; the lecture was
viewed in 21 countries. She drafted a
manuscript evaluation for a book on
international investment arbitration
for Cambridge University Press.
Charles Murdock
recently presented
a lecture,“Emerging Issues with
Dissolutions,”at the Chicago Bar
Association seminar“Having a
Business in Illinois: Important Issues
from Beginning to End.”
Nanette Norton
served as a
copresenter with coauthor Mary
Squyres on“Getting Through a
Trademark Office—Anywhere in the
World”at theWest LegalEdcenter
webinar in October.
Juan Perea
’s paper“Doctrines
of Delusion”was selected for
presentation at the 2014 AALS
Annual Meeting as part of the panel
commemorating the 50th Anniversary
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Perea
presented“Doctrines of Delusion”
at Loyola University Chicago School
of Law’s 2013 Constitutional Law
Colloquium last fall and at Loyola’s
Race and the Law Symposium this
spring. He also presented the paper
at a conference commemorating the
60th Anniversary of
Brown v. Board of
Education
held at Washburn University
School of Law, and at a symposium
honoring Derrick Bell held at the
University of Pittsburgh.
Anne-Marie Rhodes
was elected
to a second term as a director of the
ACTEC Foundation Board, effective
in March. She recently presented
her paper“NotarizedWills”at the
Oklahoma City University School
of Law’s inaugural conference
for Progressive Trusts and Estates
Scholars,“Wills, Trusts, & Estates
Meets Gender, Race, & Class.”She also
presented“How Art Transforms Law:
FromWhistler to Rauschenberg”at the
2013 Helen Farr Sloan Legacy Society
Lecture at the Delaware Art Museum.
Nadia Sawicki
presented the
following papers this fall:“PACA,
Medicaid, and Reproductive Care:
Unresolved Issues”at the Loyola
University Chicago Public Interest Law
Reporter Symposium;“Compelling
Images: The Constitutionality of
Emotionally Persuasive Health
Campaigns”at the Loyola University
Chicago Constitutional Law
Colloquium;“The Ethics of Arational
Persuasion”at the American Bar
Foundation; and“Strong of Spirit,
Weak of Will: An Alternate Account of
Conscience Claims”at the American
Society for Bioethics and the
Humanities Conference.
Allen Shoenberger
spoke on the
topic of evidence in administrative
hearings at the Annual Meeting of the
National Association of Administrative
Law Judiciary Conference held in
Chicago in September.
Joseph Stone
was honored in
December by the Chicago Bar
Association for his long-standing
roles in its annual CBA Christmas
Spirits Bar Show. Stone appeared in
the show for 51 years.
Barry Sullivan
participated as a
final-round judge this spring at the
Northern Illinois University 32nd
Annual Lenny Mandell Moot Court
Competition. The other final-round
judges were Judge James Holderman
of the United States District Court for
the Northern District of Illinois and
Justice Thomas Kilbride of the Illinois
Supreme Court. Sullivan served on
the panel“Productively Participating
in Institutional Governance”at the
AALS annual meeting in January. The
panel was part of the Presidential
Workshop on Tomorrow’s Law
Schools: Economics, Governance and
Justice. Last fall, Sullivan presented
his paper“Economic Analysis and
the Administrative State”at Bocconi
University in Milan. He also presented
“
Hunter v. Erickson
,
Washington v.
Seattle School District No. 1
, and
Schuette v. Board of Regents:
The
Political Re-Structuring Theory of the
Equal Protection Clause”to the Loyola
Chapter of the American Constitution
Society, and served as moderator for
the Corboy Lecture in Trial Advocacy
panel discussion titled“Civil Rights
Litigation in the New Millennium:
Progress Made and Challenges Ahead.”
Alexander Tsesis
presented his
paper“Constitutional Maxims”at the
Cornell University School of Law, and
“Constitutional Foundations”at Loyola
University Chicago School of Law’s
Annual Constitutional Colloquium. He
is a member of the editorial board of
Law and History Review.
SpencerWaller
recently presented
“Promoting Innovation”at the third
annual Loyola-Haifa Competition
Workshop in Haifa, Israel. In March
he served as a visiting professor at
Pázmány Péter Catholic University in
Budapest, Hungary.
AnitaWeinberg
was honored this
spring by the Metropolitan Tenants
Organization with the Healthy Homes
Champion Award for her tireless
efforts to eliminate childhood lead
poisoning in Chicago, as well as her
work to engage Loyola University
Chicago in a broader partnership
that focuses on healthy homes and
healthy communities. She served
as a context panelist at Chicago’s
Goodman Theatre to discuss Illinois’s
child welfare system and the systems
designed to respond to children
and families. The panel discussion
took place during the production
of
Luna Gale
, which focuses on the
child welfare system. Weinberg
was a plenary session speaker at
the National Lead and Healthy
Housing Conference, where she
discussed Loyola University Chicago’s
Advancing Healthy Homes and
Healthy Communities Initiative—A
Model for Public-Private-University-
Community Partnership, an effort
she is spearheading with an
interdisciplinary steering committee
within the University. She copresented
“Do No Harm: Intervening Effectively
with Youth Adjudicated Delinquent
for Sexual Offenses—Educating
Legislators and Policy Makers”at the
national conference of the Association
for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers.
The presentation was based on work
Weinberg and her students completed
for a study that will be published
by the Illinois Juvenile Justice
Commission this spring.
David Yellen
was named one of
2013’s Most Influential People in Legal
Education by the
National Jurist
. Yellen
was 17th on the list of 25. He recently
spoke at the symposium“Response
to the ABA Task Force Report on the
Future of Legal Education”at the
University of South Carolina School
of Law. This past fall he spoke at the
programs“Legal Education: Crisis
and Transformation,”hosted by the
Niagara Foundation in Chicago, and
“Re-imagining the Legal Workforce”
at the 2013 Lawyer Development
Institute, cosponsored by the National
Association for Law Placement and the
American Law Institute for Continuing
Legal Education, NewYork City.
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Samuel Brunson (right), shown here at the Tax Law Reception, researches and teaches tax law.
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IN MEMORIAM
FACULTY EXCELLENCE
Michael Howlett,
popular professor and
respected judge
M
ichael J. Howlett Jr., a respected lawyer,
educator, and judge, died March 16 at age 65
of complications from prostate cancer. Howlett
joined Loyola University Chicago’s law faculty in 2001 as a
professor in residence and associate director of the Center
for Advocacy. In 2004, he was honored by the Loyola Chapter
of the Black Law Students Association with the Norman C.
Amaker Award of Excellence for his invaluable contributions
to the legal profession as an educator and his dedicated
service to his community. He was a popular professor and a
lively presence at the School of Law until 2005, when he left
teaching to accept an appointment to be a Cook County
judge. His wife, Kathleen Howlett (JD ’85, LLM ’94), and his
three daughters, Beth (JD ’99), Melissa (JD ’03), and Catherine
(JD ’11), are all graduates of the School of Law.
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