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Law students took on the Big Apple with their 95th production of the Libel Show, a spoof of Law School professors, classes and students that ran March 19-21.

Markets for distributing water in the eastern United States are unlikely, a panel of experts at the John M. Olin Conference on Watershed Management March 20 agreed, because water shortages here are not chronic enough to cause markets to form.

The Elizabeth Smart case and a rash of other national media-reported crimes against children have drawn attention to how law enforcement responds to child sex crimes, the focus of a Conference on Public Service and the Law panel March 15.

Two weeks before they meet at the U.S. Supreme Court for a fateful showdown on affirmative action admissions policies at the nation's public universities, the opposing sides in Grutter v. Bollinger held a pretrial scrimmage at the Law School March 15 as the main event of the 4th annual Conference on Public Service and the Law.

With politicians playing fast and loose with public funds and the accounting industry severely weakened by Enron and other scandals, the world will increasingly turn to lawyers to deal with issues presented by globalization because of the foundation in ethics and problem-solving they receive in law school, said American Bar Association president-elect nominee Robert L. Grey Jr. at a rescheduled Black Law Students Association Black History Month event held March 11 at the Law School.

The Brady Bill, the most important piece of federal gun control legislation in recent decades, has had no statistically discernable effect on reducing gun deaths, according to a study by Philip J. Cook, a Duke University professor of public policy, economics and sociology.

The national debate over taking action against Iraq played out among students at the Law School Jan. 28 on the eve of the State of the Union address, as members of the Virginia Law Veterans deliberated a potential war and then opened the discussion to the audience.

The next war will have reporters living with armed forces units as the military returns to a media policy it felt burned by in Vietnam. Reporters, editors, commanders and lawyers hashed out the ramifications of having "embedded" reporters on the front lines as well as "pooled" at headquarters, along

Traditional ideas and laws about nationality and citizenship may need to be relaxed or reformed as world globalization increasingly raises questions about citizenship based on nation-state connections, according to Kim Rubenstein, a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne and visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center.

"The Media and the War for the Fourth Freedom: Covering the War on Terror" will focus on the near-term military prospects from a national security viewpoint, a media assessment of the challenges anticipated in covering and reporting such events, and the appropriate balance between media access and the needs of national security in perilous times.

Armed with statistics suggesting that juveniles and families are suffering from state government policies, a mixed bag of concerned citizens, law students, and community workers pleaded with Virginia lawmakers to improve funding for education and other programs designed to help families.

The total amount of funds raised from the 14th Annual PILA Benefit Auction, held Oct. 18, is expected to be $39,253 — about $10,000 more than last year's total, according to auction director Patrice Gay. The live auction alone raised $19,480, with students bidding on such goodies as a basketball

Humble submission to duty was a main theme of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's in his only public remarks as the John A. Ewald Visiting Professor at the Law School September 9 and 10.