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News and Events UDSL Students Study Comparative Law in Italy Imagine sitting through a half-day law lecture during a beautiful, sunny summer afternoon. Doesn’t sound so ideal? Well, imagine sitting through a half-day law lecture during a beautiful, sunny summer afternoon while outside, perched on top of Mount Solero, on the isle of Capri in Italy, learning comparative human rights law against a backdrop of the Mediterranean Sea, Mt. Vesuvius, and the limestone cliffs of the Italian coastline. Now that’s more like it. Read this story Spotlight on Externships: Erica Caudill Even though she hasn’t graduated from law school yet, UDSL student Erica Caudill has spent her summer in Alaska investigating cases, meeting with clients, appearing in court, negotiating offers, and before she returns to class this fall she may have even conducted her own trial. Read this story Spotlight on Externships: Tom Doyle UDSL student Tom Doyle’s externship has provided him with a “big picture” view of the law in action. Working in a Judge’s office, he has seen multiple sides of the law convene, and had the change to think about how law school lessons really impact people’s lives. Read this story UDSL Student Profile: Dustin Hughes “Balancing isn't the most appropriate word in regard to being a law school student and parenting four 2 year olds. It feels more like skipping through a mine field while reading a book,” says Dustin Hughes, a UDSL summer start student who is experiencing a very big learning curve, both as a law student and as a father. Read this story Teams Forming Now for Dean’s Classic 2007 The Dean’s Classic Softball Tournament and the 18th Annual Honorable Carl D. Kessler Scholarship Golf Tournament are the weekend of September 28, 2007, but alumni, students, and faculty should start forming teams now to enter to compete in this year’s play. Read this story New IP Writing Contest Gives Law Students Chance for Publication Technology law has become a broad field with related subjects such as patent, copyright, trade secret, intellectual property, privacy, telecommunications, biotechnology, venture capital, and similar topics relevant to the technology industries. Such broad topics make for countless opportunities for UDSL students to enter a new writing contest and earn some recognition for their interests and studies. Read this story UDSL Alumni Events Bring Alums Together Across the Country UDSL alumni have settled far and wide, bringing the training and passion that began in UDSL classrooms to their diverse careers all over the country. According to January, 2007 data, the Dayton UDSL alumni chapter boasts the biggest pocket of law grads, nearly 1,100 (25% of all UDSL graduates). But there are also about 400 UDSL alums in Cincinnati, 200 in New York, 160 in the D.C. area, and just over 100 in Philadelphia. Read this story  Some of the alumni and friends who gathered for dinner in Pittsburgh in June. Front row (L-R) Hon. Katherine Emery, Hon. Judge Walter Rice, Dean Lisa Kloppenberg, Rob Pritchard. Back row (L-R) Roy Leonard, guest, Adam Komorowski, Jennifer Williams, Deborah J. Adler. |
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Brief Mentions  Professor Saphire and UDSL students enjoy a 10-course lunch at an agritourism farm in Sorrento.  The view is from the top of Mt. Solero on the Isle of Capri, where UDSL students enjoyed an outdoor class. Don’t forget to fill out and send in the recently-mailed Alumni Survey. In addition to helping UDSL improve its programming and communications, you will also receive a $5 coupon to use at the UD bookstore. Professors Becky Cochran and Maria Crist recently presented “The ABA Site Visit: A Tale of Two Perspectives” at the 2007 Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) Conference in Denver, Colorado (June 14-17). “We had a great turn out and much audience participation,” they said. The ThinkTV (Dayton’s PBS station) production Justice For All? won a regional Emmy award as best Interview/ Discussion program for 2006. More than 60 commercial and public broadcasting stations competed from a four-state region for the honor. Dean Lisa Kloppenberg and other members of the UDSL faculty consulted with ThinkTV to develop the content of the program. The University of Dayton School of Law recently was invited to be one of ten law schools (including Harvard and Vanderbilt) working on the next phase of the Carnegie Foundation's project on legal education. The School was honored with the invitation from Stanford Law School and the Carnegie Foundation to work on the future of law school curricula because it has been "in the vanguard" of recent curricular reforms with its Lawyer as Problem Solver program. UDSL alumna Janice Paulus (c/o ’85) passed away Friday, July 20, 2007 of complications from lung cancer. Janice practiced law in Sidney, OH from 1985-1987 after working as a law clerk in Sidney for four years. In 1987, she joined the Dayton, OH law firm of Coolidge, Wall, Womsley & Lombard Co., L.P.A. as an associate. She became a partner in 1991. The senior woman partner at Coolidge since 1992, Janice practiced commercial litigation law. UDSL alumnus Michael Joseph Guerra (c/o ’80), of Louisville, passed away Friday, June 29, 2007. He is survived by his wife Tracy (Rigsby) and three children. Michael led a rewarding career within the restaurant industry and spent the latter part as a successful entrepreneur. |
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