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SPRING
2007 CONTENTS
CLASS ACTION, YOUR UB LAW NETWORK
KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOUR FORMER CLASSMATES, PROFESSORS AND FRIENDS:
Send us your personal and professional news, including marriages, births and deaths.
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LAW
SCHOOL REPORT
NILS
OLSEN TO STEP DOWN AS LAW SCHOOL DEAN FOR PERSONAL AND FAMILY HEALTH
REASONS: Nils Olsen will step down in December as dean of the University
at Buffalo Law School to attend to personal and family health issues.
Olsen has served since 1998 as the 18th dean of the UB Law School. He
has overseen several innovations and successes at the school, including
significantly improving the law school's classroom and student facilities
and increasing student enrollment by 25 percent.
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QUO
VADIS HABEAS CORPUS?: A DISTINGUISHED JURIST EXAMINES THE STATE OF THE
GREAT WRIT: One of UB Law School's longest-standing traditions,
the annual Mitchell Lecture, had a historical tenor of its own when
Hon. James Robertson, U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia,
delivered the 2007 address on March 21. Robertson, a former Mississippi
civil rights lawyer, was appointed to the bench in 1994. In November
2004, he issued the initial decision in a case granting a Guantanamo
Bay detainee's petition for a writ of habeas corpus, a decision that
was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. He also served on the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court for more than three years, stepping
down in December 2005 after the Bush administration disclosed the National
Security Administration's warrantless surveillance program.
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AUTHOR MARC GUNTHER ARGUES THAT CORPORATE AMERICA IS A FORCE FOR GOOD:
A book author and Fortune magazine writer came to the University
to make a provocative argument: that corporate America is changing for
the better, and making a better world in the process. The appearance
by Marc Gunther, author of "Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate
Capitalism Is Transforming American Business," drew an enthusiastic
crowd to the Center for the Arts on March 27. The lecture was the second
annual event in the Gerald S. Lippes Speaker Series, a joint venture
of UB Law School and UB's School of Management. It is funded by Buffalo
attorney Lippes, a 1964 graduate of the Law School.
LAW
AND PUBLIC HEALTH CLASS ADDRESSES ACCESS TO EXPERIMENTAL DRUGS:
A medical case that turned tragic, but need not have, formed the basis
of a wide-ranging student presentation on the issue of access to experimental
medicine by terminally ill persons. The April 4 forum in O'Brian Hall
grew out of Research Associate Professor Sheila R. Shulman's course
"Human Subject Research: Issues in Law, Science & Public Health."
In a presentation titled "Access to Experimental Drugs: A New Right
to Life?," 13 students reported on a 2006 case in the Circuit Court
of the District of Columbia - a case that involved the terminal illness
of a college-age woman, 19-year-old Abigail Burroughs.
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LAW
REVIEW DINNER MARKS COMMUNITY INITIATIVES AND SCHOLARLY WORK:
A year of accomplishment and outreach for the staff of the Buffalo
Law Review was celebrated at the journal's 18th annual year-end
dinner held in the elegant Buffalo Club on April 17. Anshu S.K. Pasricha,
editor in chief, noted that five issues of the Law Review were
published in 2006-07. The Class of '07, he noted, was the first to publish
10 issues of the journal over two years. Pasricha also said that the
Buffalo Law Review has improved its rankings among the nation's
law reviews, and that upcoming issues will include a tribute to the
late UB Law Professor Lou Del Cotto and the text of the 2008 Mitchell
Lecture, a scholarly examination of the writ of habeas corpus, by U.S.
District Court Judge James Robertson.
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FACULTY
FORMER
LAW DEAN JACOB D. HYMAN DIES IN FLORIDA: Jacob D. Hyman, former
Dean of the University at Buffalo Law School and long-time faculty member,
died at his home in Edgewater, Florida, on April 8, 2007. He was 97.
Known to his friends as Jack and to former students as Dean Hyman, he
was born in Boston. He attended public schools in that city and in Brookline,
before earning his bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Harvard
College in 1931 and his law degree cum laude from Harvard Law
School in 1934.
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PROFESSOR
AVERY'S REMARKS AT THE STUDENTS OF COLOR DINNER UPON RECEIVING THE JACOB
D. HYMAN PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR AWARD: If you will indulge me just
for a minute, I want to say a word about the person for whom the award
is named, for that person, Jack Hyman, was a pivotal role model for
me in my teaching career.
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PODCASTING: PROFESSOR MILLES BRINGS SCHOLARSHIP 'OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY':
Every law school records for posterity faculty conferences, workshops
and long-winded lectures from visiting scholars, but few campus officials
approach the task quite like Professor James G. Milles, associate dean
for information services and director of the law library at the University
at Buffalo Law School. By Thomas Adcock, Reprinted from tthe New York
Law Journal.
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MAKAU
MUTUA APPOINTED SUNY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR: The State University
of New York Board of Trustees appointed 11 faculty members from six
SUNY campuses to Distinguished Professorship, a tenured University ranking
that is conferred for consistently extraordinary accomplishment. Among
the SUNY appointments was Floyd & Hilda Hurst Faculty Scholar and
Professor of Law Makau Mutua, an internationally renowned scholar and
human rights activist. Mutua was cited for his impact being "truly
global in scope, shaping human rights study and political practice throughout
the world."
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OPINION:
NEW YORK'S JUDICIAL SELECTION PROCESS IS FINE -- IT'S THE PARTY SYSTEM
THAT NEEDS FIXING, by Professor James A. Gardner New Yorkers have
long been dissatisfied with their system for electing judges. By 2003,
Chief Judge Judith Kaye thought the problem serious enough to appoint
a commission to study the issues and recommend reforms. The federal
District Court in Brooklyn, however, short-circuited this process last
year with its decision in López Torres v. New York State Board
of Elections, in which it struck down the current system on federal
constitutional grounds. As a result, the state must now replace the
invalidated system or face judicial imposition of open primaries for
elective judicial offices.
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ALUMNI
DENISE
O'DONNELL CONFIRMED AS COMMISSIONER OF THE STATE'S DIVISION OF CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SERVICES: The New York State Senate unanimously confirmed
Denise E. O'Donnell of Buffalo (March 21) as commissioner of the Division
of Criminal Justice Services. O'Donnell is a former federal prosecutor
and former partner with Hodgson Russ LLP, a major Buffalo law firm.
"As the Commissioner of the Division of Criminal Justice Services,
Denise O'Donnell will lead an agency that is focused on ensuring that
the state's law enforcement community and its network of prosecutors
are provided with the tools and technologies they need to keep our communities
safe," Governor Eliot Spitzer said.
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DISTINGUISHED
ALUMNI AWARD WINNERS ACCEPT THEIR HONORS WITH GRATITUDE AND HUMILITY:
Law School stories past and present were the focus as members of
the UB Law Alumni Association gathered for their 45th annual meeting
and dinner. Highlighting the May 3 gathering at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo
was a special presentation of the Harry Rachlin '26 Oral History Project,
a massive effort to collect and archive the voices and wisdom of dozens
of Law School alumni and faculty to make them available to the generations
that follow them.
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Scan the keepsake dinner program and read the remarks of Judge Thomas
M. Van Strydonck '73, Margaret W. Wong '76, Richard Lipsitz '43, Alan
S. Carrel '67, William E. Mathias II '71 and Frederick G. Attea.
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