News Archive

Indiana Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, a 1981 graduate of the School of Law, will address the graduating Class of 2005 Sunday, May 22, at 1 p.m., at commencement ceremonies on Holcombe Green Lawn.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit owes its role as an authority on administrative law to its unique history, said Judge John G. Roberts at the Ola B. Smith Lecture April 20, an event hosted by the Student Legal Forum and the Virginia Law Review.

Senate Republicans believe they are clearing obstacles from the path of future Supreme Court candidates by ending the Senate's traditional filibuster rule, said William & Mary Law School professor Michael J. Gerhardt April 19 in a talk that discussed the history and use of the filibuster.

International tribunals for trying war crimes and crimes against humanity are likely to evolve toward "hybrid" courts in which international judges sit on panels with national judges in the affected country, said Patricia M. Wald, recipient of the 2005 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law in a speech at the Law School April 12.

Paul Pillar, National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia, and Ambassador W. Robert Pearson, Director General of the U.S. Foreign Service and former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, will headline a two-day symposium at the Law School designed to compare different countries' legal response to terrorism.

With scientific studies showing that juvenile brains are not fully developed and youth crimes being punished more harshly than ever before, children need more protections when police interview them, said panelists in the Conference on Public Service & the Law's juvenile law panel Feb. 12.

The next generation of lawyers must continue to fight for the constitutional rights of all citizens, especially considering the challenges posed to civil liberties by government security measures established after September 11, said ACLU President Nadine Strossen in her keynote address to the sixth annual Conference on Public Service & the Law Feb. 12.

Nadine Strossen, the President of the American Civil Liberties Union and a New York Law School professor, will deliver the keynote address at this year's Conference on Public Service & the Law, to be held Friday and Saturday, February 11-12.

The structural soundness of America's local government law will be examined at a conference at the Law School Saturday, January 29 in Caplin Pavilion.

Having independent directors with equity in the company decreases the potential for a business to go astray, according to Charles M. Elson '85, Director of the University of Delaware's Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and Woolard Chair in Corporate Governance.

Professors David Martin, Anne Coughlin, and Dean John Jeffries summarized decisions from the Supreme Court's last session to a packed and appreciative crowd at Caplin Pavilion Sept. 9 in a review of key rulings that traditionally starts the Law School's new academic year.

The seventh annual law library art show features 15 artists with ties to the Law School, including faculty spouses and relatives, alumni, and friends of the Law School, in a show titled "Family of Law."

Former head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Elaine Jones, a 1970 graduate of the Law School, told the members of the Class of 2004 gathered on Holcombe Green Lawn May 16 that they have a special reason to be proud of the school's contribution to the ruling, and a high moral example to uphold as well.

John Marshall, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, assembled his court over glasses of Madeira wine and arranged for his colleagues to live at the same hotel.

The rapidly increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, one of the 20th century's wonder drugs, is happening because neither users nor makers have incentives to care about the problem, according to Ramanan Laxminarayan, a natural resources economist with Resources for the Future.

Although law firms are increasingly forming diversity committees and other initiatives to help cope with minority retention and recruitment, and clients are progressively demanding more diverse law firms, minority lawyers should realize they may need to be aggressive in seeking work and networking in their first years out of law school, according to a panel of attorneys who spoke at the Law School March 24 as part of Diversity Week.

The war on terror defies conventional legal structures for protecting individual rights and requires a new procedure for holding suspected terrorists that finds a middle ground between customary criminal justice and prisoner-of-war rules, according to a panel of professors and lawyers speaking at the J.B. Moore Society's conference on International Law and Practice in American Constitutionalism at the Law School.

The death penalty is a prime target for efforts to incorporate international law into American constitutional interpretation, said law professor Curtis Bradley in his opening remarks to the Cruel and Unusual Punishment panel at the J.B. Moore Society of International Law's March 20 symposium, "International Law and Practice in American Constitutionalism."

It's now conventional wisdom that Brown vs. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that demolished the legal basis for segregated schools, is the Court's most important ruling of the 20th century.

As part of an American Bar Association project to help draft a commercial code for the transitional Afghan government, attorney Mike Smith and law professor Rip Verkerke worked to craft the nation's new employment and labor code.