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JÉjUjm On the Cover: Dean Gregory

H. Williams' life story bringsnational attention to Ohio State.

OSU Law Record is published by OSU College of Law Officersthe College of Law, The Ohio Gregory H. Williams, DeanState University, as part of its Nancy H. Rogers, Associate Dean

Alumni Services program. Karen B. Cutright, Associate DeanJoanne Wharton Murphy,

Co-Editors Assistant DeanJoanne Wharton Murphy ’58 Bruce S. Johnson, Law Library Director

Pamela H. Lombardi David B. Goldberger,Clinical Program Director

Contributors Philip C. Sorensen,Mary Beth Beazley Socio-Legal Center Director

Susan Borgers Thomas G. Hoffman, II,Karen B. Cutright Development DirectorL. Camille Hébert Pamela H. Lombardi, Placement Director

Thomas G. Hoffman, IIBeth Lindsmith OSU College of Law Alumni

Pamela H. Lombardi Association OfficersJoanne Wharton Murphy ’58 Hon. William T. Bodoh ’64, President

Jenifer Bernard Rasor ’87 Terry L. Overby ’75, President-ElectBarbara R. SnyderRobert L. Solomon Council OfficersGregory Travalio Benjamin L. Zox ’62, Chair

Dean Gregory H. Williams Jolynn Berry Butler ’76, Vice ChairCharles E. Wilson Joanne Wharton Murphy ’58, Secretary

Photographers OSU College of Law NationalJo McCulty/Quest Council Executive Committee

Linda J. Berry Benjamin L. Zox ’62, ChairChris Borgers Jolynn Barry Butler ’76, Vice-Chair

Tom Watson/Watson Photography Joanne Wharton Murphy ’58, SecretaryRobert J. Watkins ’53, Past-Chair

Send address changes and William T. Bodoh ’64, President, LawAlumnote information to Alumni AssociationSusan Borgers, Law Record Terry L. Overby ’75, President-Bect, Law

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H H s the 1994-1995 academic year t t f l ends, I am amazed at the myriad activities that have taken place since I first arrived at the Ohio State Univer­sity College of Law. Some of our profes­sional highlights have been the 1994 Schwartz Lecture, which featured Judith Resnik, the Orrin B. Evans Pro­fessor of Law at the University of Southern California Law Center, and the 1995 Schwartz Lecture, featuring Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York; the first gathering of the Black Alumni So­ciety, with Bob Duncan ’52, being elected as president; the establishment of the Pro Bono Project for law students by the National Alumni Council; the visit of the judges from the Ukraine to the College of Law; and the selection of the Journal on Dispute Resolution as the official American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Journal.

I am pleased to report that the Col­lege of Law continues to maintain its reputation as a national law school. As you may know, we consistently rank in the top 20% of approximately 177 ac­credited law schools. The recent U.S.News and World Report survey ranks the College of Law 38 out of 177 accredited law schools, with a ranking of 31 by repu­tation among academics. The Ohio State Law Journal is the 12th most-cited Journal in the country. Our library is 14th in the nation in size of collection. We receive al­most 9 applications for each seat in our first-year class, and the median under­graduate GPA has been 3.5 on a 4.0 scale in recent years. Our graduation rate over the past decade has been better than 95%, and our graduates’ success rate on bar ex­ams in Ohio and other states is remark­able, averaging 92% over the past five years. Our final placement rate is 91%, well above the national average of 86%. Our goal is to become one of the top ten public law schools in the country.

As we strive for our goal, many exciting plans have been implemented, and many

our two National Trial Teams sweep­ing the Regional Rounds of the Na­tional Trial Competition and representing the Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan region at the National Competition.

Of course, as we look toward our goal, we face obstacles. We have made some progress on the very diffi­cult financial challenges we have been facing. As you probably know, we have had to make some sacrifices to meet the University’s budget con­straints, and we increased tuition a modest amount. However, we are re­solving most of the budget issues, and I am optimistic about the out­come. University administrators have pledged their support for the College of Law and the excellent work we do here. Last year we were able to in­crease private giving by 29%, al­though we still hold the bottom spot in the Big Ten, with only 20% of our alumni giving to the College.

I have high hopes for the future of the College of Law, hopes which to a large extent depend upon you for

their fulfillment. Your support and gener­osity in the past have been instrumental in making this law school a great institution. Your continued support in the future will help prepare us to move into the 21st cen­tury and to become one of the top ten public law schools in the country. You are an integral part of our past, our present, and our future.

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Dean Gregory H. Williams

more are in store. To enhance the quality of student life, we have formed an environ­ment committee, made up of students and faculty, to address concerns students or faculty may have related to the law school environment. The presidents of all the stu­dent organizations meet with members of the administration on a regular basis to share their thoughts and ideas. Our first- year law student course offerings have been changed to include criminal law and a new course on legislation. More impor­tantly in my view, we have developed a much more concentrated legal writing and analysis course taught exclusively by full­time law faculty to classes of no more than twenty students. There are also more stu­dent course offerings in all of the litigation clinics in keeping with the ABA MacCrate Report’s calling for inclusion of lawyering skills in legal education. We are restructur­ing our entire inter-school competitions program, which thus far has resulted in

Greetings From The Dean

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Dean’s Story Draws National AttentionB ife on the Color Line: The True Story of

a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black is Dean Gregory H. Williams’ ac­count of his journey through racism and prejudice to recover the dignity that was his birthright. Published by Dutton in February, the book has captured national attention for both the Dean and Ohio State through TV appearances on Larry King Live and Dateline NBC with Tom Brokaw, several radio interviews on National Public Radio, and a fifteen-city book tour. Movie rights are currently being negotiated..

“‘In Virginia, you were white boys. In Indiana, you’re gonna be colored boys,’ my father whispered to me and my younger brother as he leaned across the aisle of the lumbering Greyhound bus crossing frigid central Ohio in January, 1954. ‘You’re the same today as you were

yesterday, but people will treat you differ­ently.’” So begins Williams’ incredible story.

Williams and his brother were raised in suburban Washington, D.C., on the white side of the color line. Their enterprising and light-skinned father passed for Italian; the Williams boys lived in a comfortable world of all-white schools and swimming pools. As their affluence increased, so did their father’s drinking and abuse. Williams’ mother escaped the violent marriage with two younger children. She left Williams and his brother Mike to be raised by their father, who drank more and cared less about everything, including business.

The descent continued. Businesses lost, and broke, the elder Williams decided to move the boys to Muncie, Indiana, where they could be raised by their extended

black family. On the long bus trip to their new home, the boys learned the truth about their racial identity. Disbelieving at first, Williams studied his father’s features. As the truth sank in, he began to see his fa­ther transformed, in Williams’ words, from “a swarthy Italian to his true self—a high- yellow mulatto.” Life on the black side of the color line had begun.

First left in the care of his alcoholic grandmother, Williams learned to fend for himself. The regular meals, clean clothes,

and bed of his own once taken for granted in Virginia became luxuries out of reach in Indiana. Abandoned by his mother’s departure and his father’s drinking, ostracized by black children for his “pasty skin” and by whites for his black heritage, Will­iams’ isolation was complete. Huddled with his brother on a cot at bedtime, Williams prayed for his mother to re­turn and rescue them. Rescue came, but in another form.

Miss Dora Terry, a widow from the neighborhood, knew of the boys’ plight. Earning just $25.00 a week as a domestic, she reasoned she could take only one of the Williams boys. In the end though, she opened her home to both. A devout Christian, she could not stand by and watch as Williams and his brother be­came the objects of hate and prejudice from whites and begrudging tolerance from blacks. The 52-year-old “Miss Dora” raised them as her own.

Despite being barred from certain courses and honors because he was classi­fied as black on school records, Williams was a high achiever. Both Miss Dora and Williams’ father supported his dream of becoming a lawyer. The elder Williams had once dreamed of becoming a lawyer himself, attending Howard University for a year before deciding to drop out to assume the identity of a white businessman. His faith in his son’s academic ability was abso­lute. He encouraged Williams to study and fought for his right to take college prep courses.

Williams excelled in sports as well. He played forward on the basketball team and

Left: Williams’ grand­mother and father, around 1918.

Below: In Muncie, Indi­ana, at a 1992 family re­union, Greg (far right) enjoys a day with his brother, Mike (far left) and other relatives.

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mother’s real name in the book.Graduating from Ball State, Williams

moved to Washington, D.C. Working this time as a history teacher, he financed a master’s degree in government and politics from the University of Maryland. His edu­cation continued at George Washington University, where he earned at last the long-coveted J.D., plus another M.A., and finally a Ph.D. In the academic career that followed, he held both administrative and teaching positions, Concentrating scholarly writing in the area of criminal law. Will­iams became Law Dean at Ohio State in May, 1993.

Williams’ brother, Mike, eventually earned his high school diploma and is cur­rently attending college. With the help of the Adult Children of Alcoholics, he is re­building his life. Miss Dora died in 1975, but not without passing along her legacy of love.

In 1991, Williams’ wife, Sara, returned home from a summer of volunteer work in El Progresso, Honduras and told Greg about twin seven-year-old boys she had met who needed a home. The Williamses and their children, Zach and Natalia, wel­comed Anthony and Carlos into their fam­ily the way Miss Dora had welcomed Greg and his brother, Mike, so many years ago.

Williams’ father never lived to see the book’s completion. He died at age 61. Al­though years of hard drinking had taken their toll, he did see two of his life’s goals realized: he died sober, and he saw his son

become a lawyer. Dean Williams believes that the great tragedy in his father’s life was the shame he felt at denying his true iden­tity. Ironically, Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black is Dean Williams’ public testi­mony to the same racial heritage and its inherent dignity.

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had visited relatives in Muncie many times. Her family had shunned the boys once the truth of their racial identity be­came public. In twelve years, she had never attempted to contact her sons. Now she was remarried to a white man who had agreed to adopt the 21-year-old Williams and whisk him away from Muncie, poverty, and the people who had supported him over the years. A tearful Williams declined the offer, made too late. He chose not to reveal his

The Williams family (from left) Greg, Carlos, Sara, Natalia, Zachary, and Anthony

was starting quarterback for the Muncie Central High School football team. The academic and athletic accomplishments didn’t exempt him from prejudice, hostil­ity and at times, racial violence. Un­daunted, he made plans to attend college.

For Williams’ brother, school was no haven. Mike, who had always struggled in school, could not overcome his own diffi­culties, a growing sense of isolation, and the racial tension of Muncie schools. Like his father before him, Mike eventually dropped out of school. He was blinded in an Indianapolis bar shooting in 1974.

Upon high school graduation, Williams entered Ball State University in Muncie. Working as a deputy sheriff, he learned about criminal law in the trenches and earned enough to finance his college edu­cation. During this time, Williams’ mother reappeared. She called him at work one day, requesting a meeting.

Unbeknownst to Williams, his mother

Dean Williams (left) is inter­viewed by NBC correspondent Tom Brokaw on campus.

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College Adopts New First-Year CurriculumB S urricular revision is often discussed but R 9 not entertained without serious consid­eration of objectives and consequences. Fac­ulty action taken in December, 1994 to adopt a new first-year curriculum brought to fruition a review process begun in 1991. Gregory Travalio chaired the Academic Af­fairs Committee assigned curriculum review.

Curriculum Review The Academic Affairs Committee began by reviewing in depth the curriculum review processes in more than 20 law schools na­tionwide. Discussions about whether cur­riculum change was indicated at Ohio State and what directions such change might take focused attention on the first- year curriculum.

Over the next two academic years the entire College of Law community became involved in the review process. Refined al­ternatives were evaluated in a half-day re­treat. Discussions were lively and informed. The Committee integrated the faculty’s views into its ultimate proposal which was adopted by a wide margin in December,1994.

The New Curriculum In adding Crimi­nal Law to the first year curricu­lum, Ohio State aligns itself with the majority of law schools na­tionwide. Staffing decisions and the desirability of a public law course in the first year also supported this change.

A course in legislation was added because of wide­spread faculty sentiment that statutes and statutory interpretation instruction was in­adequate given changes that have occurred during the past 30 years. Early instruction in legislation will enhance students’ under­standing of statutes in upper-level courses.

In order to accommodate the new courses, Civil Procedure will be the only year-long course. In addition, each of the

traditional first-year courses has been re­duced by one semester hour.

The other major change is a fully graded, revised legal writing course taught in small sections by full-time, tenure track faculty. The second semester, two hour course will cover fundamentals of legal writing and analysis.

The New Curriculum Beginning in the fall of 1995, first-year students will enroll in the following:

Fall SemesterCivil Procedure - 3 hoursContracts - 5 hoursCriminal Law - 4 hoursTorts-4 hoursLegal Research -1 hour

Spring Semester Civil Procedure - 2 hours Property - 5 hours Constitutional Law - 4 hours Legislation - 3 hours Writing and Analysis - 2 hours

Professor Travalio chaired the Academic Affairs committee charged with curriculum review.

R H ith the help of modem technology, III alumni, friends and prospective stu­dents miles from 12th Avenue & High Street can now visit the College of Law. With a snap of the VCR, the remote visitor approaches the impressive entrance of the Law Building and experiences the drama of the foyer, the spacious Law Library and other vistas waiting within the new and renovated facilities. The tour guide is na­tionally recognized Erin Moriarty, CBS News correspondent and anchor for “48 Hours.”

Moriarty ‘77 takes a break from her more hectic journalist’s life to return to her days as a law student at Ohio State. She takes the viewer on a brief, but intriguing visit. The College is grateful to Erin Moriarty, CBS, and University Communica-

Video Showcases Collegetions for their contribu­tions. The video was one of the last major projects coordinated by Jenifer Rasor before leaving her position as Director of Communications of the College.

To check out a copy of the video, call Susan Borgers at (614) 292- 2937.

Erin Moriarty ’77, CBS News correspondent and anchor for “48 Hours," donated her time and talent to the video showcasing the College of Law.

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n he College has not only been in the H f l forefront of alternative dispute reso­lution as course and skill offerings, but has played a major role in develop­ments in this in­creasingly important field.Each year, the Schwartz Lecture brings an outstand­ing scholar to Ohio State to discuss ADR developments.

Professor Judith Resnick, Orrin B.Evans Professor,University of Southern California Law Center, pre­sented the 1994 Schwartz Lecture.Students, faculty and guests were provided a compre­hensive compara­

tive analysis of alternative dispute resolu­tion methods to traditional litigation.

In the early years, alternative dispute

S ch w a rtz Lec turer J u d ith R esn ick, second fr o m righ t, is w elcom ed by (from le ft) Yvonne Schlosberg ’94, A ssoc ia te D ean N ancy R ogers, D ean G regory H. W illiam s, and B abak S am in i ’95.

methods were received with suspicion, if not hostility, stated Resnick. The shift over the past two decades to increased use of

ADR is justified in her judgement, when measured in terms of access, expediency, costs, and results. She encouraged students to acquire the skills and insights involved in ADR as they prepare for practice in the 21st century.

Professor Resnick has been a member of the U.S.C. Law Center faculty since 1980 and a visiting professor at Chicago, Yale, and Harvard law schools. She teaches civil procedure, federal courts, and litigation, and she is a highly re­spected scholar. In recent years she has worked on issues of gender. At the spring, 1994 Law Journal Ban­quet, at which she was the guest speaker, she discussed her work as a member of the Special Commit­tee on Gender Bias established by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

ADR Gains Acceptance

Mediation Training Goes International__________D;I eacher and former student have

teamed up to organize training ses­sions in mediation skills in Barcelona, Spain this coming summer. Dean Nancy H. Rogers and alumna Thelma Butts Griggs ’94 have been working to organize mediation training for Spanish nationals. Butts, who resides part of the year in her native Spain, has played an instrumental role in coordinating the project.

Under the sponsorship of the Socio- Legal Center, the College of Law Institute on Mediation will offer four training ses­sions from June 10 through July 2,1995. Faculty from Ohio State will include Dean Nancy Rogers and Professor Charles Wilson from the College of Law, and Professor An­drew Schwebel, Clinical Psychology. Other

faculty will include Professor Craig McEwen, Bowdoin College and former visiting professor at the College and alumna Terry Wheeler ’85, lawyer and Deputy Director, Ohio Dispute Resolution and Conflict Man­agement Commission.

The programs will range from introductory training to advanced approaches to prob­lem-solving, management of problem behaviors, and nego­tiation. The program is being supported by a grant from the Instituto de Mediación. The faculty will evaluate the prospects for further interna tional programs.

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p i obert Solomon ’87 has returned to ■ ■ I Ohio State as Assistant to Dean Gre­gory Williams. Solomon joined the Ohio Attorney General’s office upon graduation and rose to the posi­tion of Assistant Sec­tion Chief, Child Protection Division, before moving to Co­lumbus Municipal Court as a Referee Magistrate. At Ohio State, he serves as a liaison between the Dean and student groups, works on a wide variety of spe­cial projects and teaches trial advo­cacy. He replaces R obert Solom onMary Ellen Jenkins ------------------------’85, who returned to University College as an Assistant Dean.

Nancy Armstrong is a new Reference Librarian. She comes to Ohio State from George Mason University, where she served as head of the law library’s public services. She is a graduate of the Boston College Law School and the Drexel Univer­sity College of Information Studies. Armstrong fills the vacancy created when Cory Skurdal accepted a Technology In­structor and Reference Librarian post with Boston College School of Law,

Thomas G. Hoffman, II has replaced Tom Hof as Director of Development. Hoffman comes to the College from Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, where he spent the last five years managing a comprehen­sive advancement program, including a $ 10-million capital campaign. He has also worked in development positions at Bucknell University and Bowling Green. Tom Hof assumed the post of Associate Athletic Director for Development at Ohio State. Hof will oversee the Department’s development activities, devoting much of his time to raising funds for the new multi­purpose sports arena.

After nearly 17 years of invaluable ser­

Comings and Goings

Laura W illiam s

fairs. Members of BLSA gave a special tribute to Rich in recognition of her professionalism and personal commitment to student wel­fare at a fall program honoring Black women. The recruitment process to name a successor is underway. In her new position, Rich will work with Leroy Pernell ’74, Vice Provost for Minority Affairs. Upon Pemell’s promotion in 1994, President Gee said of him: “He has been steadfast in his commit­

Susan Bogers

In addition, she played an important role in a wide variety of alumni activities. A re­placement has not been appointed.

Anne Doyle, B.A., New York University and J.D., Georgetown University Law Cen­ter, joined Ohio State in June 1994 as staff attorney, Clinical Programs. Previously, she served as counsel to the Chairman, Na­tional Labor Relations Board in Washing­ton, D.C. Doyle’s background also includes

ment to the issues and concerns of the Of­fice of Minority Affairs, and I know that he will continue to do an outstanding job.” Pernell retains his appointment as a mem­

ber of the law faculty.Another long-term employee,

Diane Kaiser, has left the Col­lege of Law’s busy receptionist post to accept a position in the College of Education. There she supervises a clerical staff. Her replacement, David Bradford, joined the College in January.

Jenifer Rasor ’87, resigned as Director of Communications at the end of the 1993-1994 academic year to devote her en­ergies exclusively to son Philip and new arrival Madeleine Eva, bom October 9, 1994. Rasor was the editor of the Law Record and other publications.

A n n e D oyle

vice, Barbara Rich left her position as Asso­ciate Director of Admissions and Financial Aid to become Director of Recruitment and Development in OSU’s Office of Minority Af-

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legal services and private labor law prac­tice. As staff attorney, she supervises stu­dents in the civil law practicum and co-teaches pretrial litigation and practice. She replaces Carol King, now Assistant Professor of Law at the newly established Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island. In addition to teaching, King will open the University’s family law clinic in Providence this fall.

Laura Williams has been promoted from adjunct professor of legal writing to Coordinator of Mediation Studies, a posi­

tion funded by a William and Flora Hewlett Grant renewal. Williams orga­nized the spring Court Reform Implica­tions of Dispute Resolution Conference and will provide guidance to organizations initiating mediation programs throughout Ohio. She is a Yale law graduate and former associate with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Washington, D.C. and Irell & Manella in Los Angeles.

Susan Borgers is the new Alumni and Development secretary. Susan joined the law school in early 1991 as Placement Of­

fice secretary, and during her tenure there contributed significantly to streamlining office procedures and automating the on- campus interviewing management system. In addition, Susan is a Senior honor stu­dent at Ohio State majoring in Human Ecology. She replaces Sheree Lattimore who left to pursue graduate studies at Ohio State full time. Replacing Borgers is Donna Shea, an Oberlin graduate and former PM Magazine producer for WJW- TV in Cleveland.

R etirem ents

Joanne W h a rto n M u rp h y ’58

V H al Bolen, Foreign and International H i Law Librarian, will retire June 30,1995. Bolen, who was bom in the Ukraine, came to the states in 1949. He re­ceived both a B.A. and J.D. from Wayne State University, a Ph.D. from the Univer­sity of Michigan, and his Library Science degree from Kent State University. His for­eign language skills aided in library acqui­sitions. Bolen joined the Law Library staff in 1985. He is maintaining an open sched­ule for retirement activities.

Outstanding Staff Awara

nudile Burk, secretary to Associate Dean Nancy H, Rogers, was pre­sented the 1993-94 Outstanding Staff

Award by Dean Gregory Williams.Burk plays an important role in coordi­nating the Associate Dean’s oversight of academic affairs and contacts with stu­dents. Burk’s loyal and effective service was applauded by the College commu­nity, which she has served for over thir­teen years, the last nine as secretary to the Associate Dean.

Joanne Wharton Murphy, Assistant Dean, will end her administra­tive relationship with the College of Law as of June 30,1995 under the University’s early retire­ment incentive program.

Murphy, a 1958 graduate of the College, returned to the College as Assistant Dean in 1965, and she has been associ­ated with the College of Law for over 25 years. In addition to her adminis­trative duties, which have been wide-ranging, she has been an adjunct pro­fessor teaching in the ar­eas of regulation of financial institutions and international finance.

During her career,Dean Murphy has been a trust officer, as­sistant attorney general, associate dean and associate law professor at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University Ombudsman, and director, Columbus Area Leadership Program. She will return under special contract to teach next fall.

Dean Murphy has been selected as one of two recipients to receive the first Nettie

Cronise Lutes Award from The Ohio State Bar Association Section on Women in the Profession. The award was established to recognize women lawyers who have im­proved the legal profession through their professionalism and commitment to open doors for women. Murphy received the award at the annual meeting May 18 in Toledo.

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Admission TrendsH I ationally, applications to ABA-ap- ■ li l proved law schools have been declin­ing since the record year of 1991. Applications to the College of Law have de­clined since 1991, which was also our record year. How­ever, applications for our 1994 enter­ing class ran counter to the na­tional trend; they represented a 5.5% increase over appli­cations in 1993 or more than eight applicants for each slot in the entering class. Factoring in a new calculation for counting appli­cants, the 1994 en­tering class was the second largest number of applicants ever. Both the entering classes of 1993 and 1994 presented many of the same credentials of their predecessor

classes. The median LSAT remained at the 87th percentile. The undergraduate grade point average edged up from 3.47 in 1993 to 3.52 in 1994. The percentages of women and students of color remained at approxi­

mately 45 and 18 percent, respec­tively

Both entering classes were large: 235 in 1993 and 233 in1994. Many of the members of these two classes earned graduate or other profes­sional degrees before they be­gan law school. Forty-five hold

master’s degrees in arts or sciences, eight hold master’s degrees in business adminis­tration, two hold Ph.D. degrees, and one is a physician.

“Traditional” majors for law school stu­dents (i.e., Political Science, History and English) continue to dominate the training of the members of the entering classes. However, more than a dozen engineers are now students at the College; there are as many CPA’s, and several with degrees in health-related fields.

The student body includes a Rhodes Scholar, a senior administrator from a large university, a college professor, a woman contractor, and a number of military offic­ers of both sexes. In short, they are a very talented group of people, much like their predecessors. What will their successors be like?

It is too early to tell. The concern for this law school is whether the credentials of enrolled students remain close to those who have gone before them, as they did in the 1980s. Although it is too early in the 1995 admissions year to know exactly what the next class will look like, at the moment, the credentials of those in our applicant pool remain strong.

S tu d en ts g a th er ou tside the C ollege o f Law to enjoy spring weather.

Placement Pointst long last, the legal job market is im-

E U proving and the Ohio State students are thriving in an atmosphere of expand­ing employment opportunities. Results from the class of 1994 indicate that 59% of graduates were employed at graduation compared to 50% in 1993. Six months fol­lowing graduation, the number employed increased to 77%, compared to 72% in1993. A final placement rate of 91%, well above national averages, was achieved. Median salary for graduates employed in the private sector was $52,000, and $32,000 for those joining public sector employers. The salary average for all 1994 graduates combined was $42,000, up from $39,000 in 1993.

Ohio State students continued to do well in the highly competitive judicial clerkship market. Graduates accepted ap­pointments in the U.S. Tax Court, Federal

Appellate Courts and U.S. District Courts in California, Maryland, Indiana and Ohio. The Supreme Courts of Colorado and

W yn d ee P arker ’9 5 v is its w ith a recru iter ou t­side a p la cem en t office in terv iew ing suite.

Ohio have also employed 1994 graduates, and one alumna is currently serving in the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals in Wash­ington, D.C.

The variety of legal positions and geo­graphic locations students reported con­tinue to expand. An increasing number of graduates pursued alternative careers that utilize skills developed in law school, but that do not involve the practice of law. As more students pursue dual degrees, this trend is likely to continue.

Alumni have. served as an important link between graduates and employers. Many have contributed their respective bar association directories to the Placement Li­brary, giving students an important re­source tool. Others have included their names in a networking list published in the Placement Manual so students can contact them for informational interviews.

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Three Ohio S ta te Law Journa l editors-in-chief, cam e fr o m the sam e sm all O hio tow n o f Hillsboro: W illia m R. H ap n er ’53 and Ja m es E. C hapm an ’5 4 (bo th deceased) and D avid W C arroll ’54. Present a t the luncheon com m em orating th is unique h istory and u nd erw ritten through the generosity o f John D. D rin ko ’44 are D ean W illia m s and C hapm an fa m ily m em bers. The Jam es E. C h a p m an-B aker & H o ste tle r L ibrary Fund provides sign ifican t support fo r research services.

The Law LibraryOn August, 1994, the Law Library in­

augurated OSCAR, a new online cata­log that is shared with the University and Health Sciences Libraries at Ohio State. OSCAR replaces LCS (the computer cata­log of The Ohio State University libraries for the past twenty-four years) and is as noteworthy a development in the history of the Law Library as the recent expansion and renovation of the Law Building. The most striking of OSCAR’s many features (which include automated circulation, book ordering and journal check-in sys­tems) is the flexibility and speed it gives our faculty and students in searching the catalogs of the Law Library, the other li­braries at Ohio State, most of the research libraries in Ohio, the Internet, and an as­sortment of other electronic databases.

The faculty and students of the College of Law can use OSCAR in ways well be­yond looking for material through the tra­ditional categories of author, title, or subject. The results of a search through the catalog can be refined by factors such as language, years of publication, pub­lisher, or a particular library within the system. A law student who locates a po­

tentially useful book in the online catalog can instruct OSCAR to find other items with the same subject heading. Thus, a simple search can quickly branch out into related areas, allowing a patron to elec­tronically “see” the multifaceted holdings of the University’s libraries.

OSCAR also serves as a gateway to OhioLINK, a network linking the research libraries of Ohio in a single, online catalog. By using OhioLINK, a faculty member at the College of Law can search, at one time, the combined library catalogs of over forty institutions.

One other aspect of the OhioLINK project that has benefited the Law Library is the allocation of funds by the Board of Re­gents for the retrospective conversion of bibliographic records. Retrospective conver­sion is the process of “translating” into com­puter readable form the information found on catalog cards. Since the records for much of the Law Library’s collection were found only in the card catalog and not the old online catalog, this support has enabled the staff to make significant progress to­wards the goal of having all of the Law Li­braries’ holdings reflected in OSCAR.

DevelopmentNew Scholarship Funds EstablishedE 9 he College has been the beneficiary of H S twenty-five endowed funds to aid stu­dents. The most recent endowments have come from David Zendell ’66 and his wife, Randy, and the family of Robert R. Weiland ’60, established as a memorial fund following Weiland’s unexpected death last August.

They are among the increasing number of Ohio State alumni and friends who are integrating individual financial planning with philanthropic goals.

Since graduation, David Zendell has built a personal injury, products liability and workers’ compensation practice in New Jersey. He is active in public service and was recently elected to the National Council of alumni advisors. He expressed his motivation for the scholarship fund “to give something back to the school which inspired and trained me to become a suc­cessful lawyer.” The first scholarship was granted this academic year.

Robert Weiland retired last July 1 from his position as vice president and chief ad­ministrative officer and corporate secretary of Huffy Corporation, Dayton, Ohio. Over his professional career, he served as corpo­rate counsel to four major corporations before joining Huffy in 1976. He was ac­tively involved in community charitable fund raising, the arts, and service organi­zations. “The law school was important to Bob; my son Chris and I are pleased to es­tablish a scholarship fund in his memory,” writes Sara Weiland. Contributions were also designated to the College by friends and family.

Linking the Past to the FutureAlumni touch the lives of students each

day as their gifts work to make a legal educa­tion possible and this law school responsive to student needs. “Careful individual atten­tion is important when planning a gift to Ohio State,” says the College’s new Develop­ment Director, Thomas G. Hoffman II. He can be reached at (614) 292-0601.

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Socio-Legal Center Sponsors Broad-Ranging Research________ ________________Umbrella Organization for Grants, Programs & Institutes

Ohe Socio-Legal Center links the Col­lege of Law with Oxford University

through a partnership between the two in­stitutions’ Socio-Legal Centers. The College’s Center is on the fourth floor of the Law Building, but its heart and soul are the exciting research projects of faculty.

The Center has opened the opportunity for faculty to incorporate social science empirical models into traditional legal re­search. Collaboration with faculty in law and other disciplines from around the country and the globe stimulates new ideas for research.

Projects of the Center are diversified, and faculty in increasing numbers are be­coming involved. Their research contrib­utes to the legal literature and assists policy decision-makers and practitioners.

• Hewlett Foundation grants have spon­sored visiting faculty, joint research projects, a summer institute to train educators in the teaching of mediation, and special conferences, such as the mediation and court reform conference held in late March, 1995.

• Ohio Dispute Resolution Database Study, sponsored by the Ohio Supreme Court and grants, will develop a source of readily available data on many issues related to dispute resolution, will de­sign quality monitoring mechanisms, and will create a record of achievements for further research.

• Business Dispute Data Project is founded with a grant from the National Science Foundation for an interdiscipli­nary team of faculty, including Profes­sors Nancy Rogers and Philip Sorensen, to study the quality of business dispute resolution practices. Additional funding provides for students to be on site for data collection.

Grants help sponsor a Center for Children’s Rights and an Institute for Continuing Judicial Education.

A grant from the Labor Relations Stud­ies Fund and the University will sup­port Professor James Brudney in collaborative research to review federal court decisions and opinions of the NLRB and evaluate various tensions re­garding the courts’ lack of deference to agency actions and the implications.

Professor Sanford Caust-Ellenbogen is leading a collaborative study of regulatory law enforcement and the factors shaping sanc­tion selection.

Visits of Professor Timothy Jost as a fel­low to the Oxford Center and European Fulbright Research Scholar led to publica­tions on comparative health care and related

projects dealing with the development of consumer law and regulation of pyramid schemes in Korea.

Professor Dan Chow has established re­lationships with law faculty at Wuhan University in China. He has made vari­ous visits for lectures. The dean of Wuhan School of Law will be a visiting professor during 1995-96.

The inter-disciplinary work of Professor Stanley Laughlin in col­laboration with faculty in anthropology led to the publication of his treatise on The Law of United States Territories and Affiliated Ju­risdictions. With his help, the Center will be co-spon­soring a 1996 conference in Cairo, Egypt on the trans­ferability of the law and le­gal mechanisms across international boarders.

N ew Socio-Legal C en ter D irector B arbara Snyder

A grant from the Max Planck Institute will support the work of Professor Jost on utilization review and malpractice dispute arbitration in Germany. An­other project is collaborative research with a professor in Wales for a com­parative study of health care systems.

Professor Braunstein’s research with fac­ulty at the Oxford Center led to a study of interprofessional competition in the home purchase market in England and the United State.

Visit of Professors James Meeks and Gregory Travalio as guests at Pai Chai University in Korea and its Institute for Social Research resulted in collaborative

The College has ap­proved an international

---------------- law certification pro­gram in conjunction

with the University’s National Resource Center to certify students enrolled in specialized law courses and cross-disci­plinary study of language, culture and history.

• College sponsors pre-law and law pro­grams at Oxford University.

Professor Barbara Snyder will succeed Professor Philip Sorensen as Director of the Socio-Legal Center on July 1, 1995. “We are grateful to Professor Sorensen and the faculty, who together have made this Center a reality,” says Snyder. She reflects that “with both private and university sup­port, the Center can aspire to a position of national leadership.”

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by Beth Lindsmith prepare for competition in the labor mar-excerptedfrom Quest ket. But, Foley points out, we cannot possi­

bly achieve equal opportunity as long as we BVI ed Foley believes that the very health are committed to the right of parents to giveUkM of our democracy depends on the extra advantages to their own children,treatment of our children. That commitment is good news for kids

“The idea of democracy is that citizens in stable and affluent families—their par-must be able to govern themselves,” says ents pass on to them advantages like goodFoley, an assistant professor of law,“but for true self-governance, all of society must be included. A basic prerequisite for having a democratic system is making sure that children are cared for and treated fairly so they can become equal citizens. Un­fortunately, looking at our society now, I would be hard pressed to say that we are being fair to all our chil­dren,” reflects Foley.

Foley, a constitutional law expert and former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, be­lieves there is untapped potential in the law to protect the rights of chil­dren. To that end, he and col­leagues at Ohio State’s College of Law and the Center for Socio-Legal Studies have formed a new pro­gram called the Justice for Children Project—one of the first of its kind in the country. There are several components to the project: sup­porting scholarly research in the field of children’s rights, holding conferences to bring together aca­demics and practitioners, founding a journal, developing course mate­rials for law schools nationwide, and establishing a clinic that will allow law students to get real-world experience in children’s advocacy. professor Ngd Folgy

The need for the project, Foley ex- _____________ ___________________________plains, stems from the fact that our legal system has not yet acknowl­edged a conflict between two deeply en- educations, safe neighborhoods, and ad-trenched values in our society. On the one equate nutrition. But our system is disas-hand, we strongly believe in the rights of trous for children trapped in conditions of parents to spend their hard-earned dollars extreme deprivation or poverty,for the benefit of their children. On the How do we reconcile the conflict be-other, we also believe that the fairness of tween parental rights and equal opportu-our free-market economy depends upon all nity? “Unfortunately,” says Foley, ‘no onechildren having an equal opportunity to yet knows. We need to come up with a

standard by which to judge our treatment of all children. What kind of law would exist in a just society?”

The notion of justice for children is relatively new in the study of law. In fact, Foley has found himself to be a pioneer in the field. While doing research for a new class he is developing, he found that there

was almost no material on the subject. The work that has been done is mostly in education law.In Ohio, for example, a coalition of poorer school districts recently filed suit against the state, charg­ing that Ohio’s system of educa­tion funding was inequitable and therefore unconstitutional.“But equality for kids encompasses more than just schools,” says Foley Most people in education realize that you’ve got to start before a kid goes to kindergarten. We need to pay attention to prenatal health, children’s nutrition, preschool pro­grams, and family issues like child abuse and neglect.”Many areas of law that we don’t usually associate with children could be used to improve child­hood in the United States. Tax laws, for example, could be re­structured to provide a child-care allowance so that working families can afford truly adequate day care. “And civil procedure could also be used in children’s behalf,” com-

"s ments Foley. “Perhaps we can ^ make it easier to collect and en-

force child-support payments, for J instance. That’s an excellent ex­

ample of using an established area of law to design procedures that are more child-friendly. Or take health law. Regardless of what

your opinion is on the health-care system as a whole, at the very least, everyone should be concerned about whether kids in this country are healthy.”

Foley sees the Justice for Children Project as a valuable way to link up the “big thinkers of the university with the real world beyond the confines of academia.”

And Justice for All

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Clinic Case Reaches U.S. Supreme CourtLegalO.S.U. Professor Argues and Wins First Amendment Rights Against Former Student■ S or more than 20 years, David U Goldberger has been fighting to protect the First Amendment. The most recent battle took him to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Oc­tober, 1994, he argued on behalf of a Westerville woman fined $100 by the Ohio Election Commission for distributing cam­paign literature that did not contain her name and address. Anonymity, Goldberger

College of Law Sponsors Court Reform ConferenceQ he Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, Se­

nior Judge of the United States Dis­trict Court for the Eastern District of New York, opened a day and a half conference on “Court Reform Implications of Dispute Resolution” held at the College of Law on March 30-31. The conference focused on the transferability of ADR’s distinctive fea­tures to court processes and the role of dis­pute resolution in court reform.

The conference brought together schol­ars from the United States, University of Oxford, England, and the University of Genoa, Italy. Guests included students, faculty, the OSU community and the gen­eral public.

The Schwartz lecture was established through the generosity of the late Stanley Schwartz, Jr. and his family. Sponsors of the conference included the College of Law’s Socio-Legal Center, the ABA-Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Mershon Center, Ohio Commission of Dis­pute Resolution and Conflict Management, and the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution. A Hewlett Founda­tion grant provided important underwrit­ing for the conference.

argued, is fundamental to the Constitution’s free speech guarantee. Historically, those fearing persecution for their views have op­posed oppressive practices either anony­mously or not at all. The State, on the other hand, argued that the statute deters those who would use anonymity for fraudulent or misleading purposes. Goldberger’s client dis­tributed leaflets opposing a Westerville,Ohio School Board tax levy. An Assistant Su­perintendent filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission, which in turn fined her $100 in March 1989. The action was challenged in Common Pleas Court in the rasp Mclntire v. Ohio Election Commission. The court found the statute unconstitu­tional, but a State appeals court reversed the decision. The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the reversal, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case in its October, 1994

term. The case was decided in April, 1995. The Supreme Court invalidated the Ohio statute in a 7-2 decision. “It’s a triumph for the First Amendment.” says Goldberger.

Goldberger accepted the case through the College of Law’s Clinical Program, which he heads. Students receive legal skills training by working on actual cases under the supervision of clinic staff. Various students enrolled in the Clinic worked on the McIntyre brief, and sev­eral students traveled to Washington to hear Professor Goldberger’s oral argument. The As­sistant Attorney General arguing on behalf of the State of Ohio was Andrew I. Sutter ’83. Coincidentally, Sutter took Goldberger’s First Amendment Law Seminar during his third year. Acknowledging Sutter’s skills, Goldberger said, “He’s a great lawyer and a terrific advocate. He made this a very hard case to win.”

Judge to Judge:College Sponsors Judicial Education

J ohn W McCormac combined his dual career in legal education and the judi­

ciary to develop and teach three 20-credit hour seminars for trial judges over the spring and fall of 1994. The program, underwritten in part by a grant from the State Justice Institute (SJI), was a proto­type to assess the effective­ness of law school involvement in continuing judicial education.

The courses included Judging, Management of Complex Litigation, and Expedited Civil Jury Trials.Practicing lawyers were in­vited to participate in all three seminars to stimulate exchange of ideas and per­spectives.

Participants highly valued the learning ex­perience, which was intensive and interactive.

Education was not the only benefit of the SJI project. Course development and recom­mended guidelines forjudges in the manage­ment of trials were important by-products.

“The commitment of John McCormac to this program was extraordi­nary,” stated Dean Joanne Murphy, coordinator of CLE. “We are fortunate to have a person of his experi­ence and commitment spearhead the project.” McCormac has been teach­ing the past two years at the College of Law as dis­tinguished visiting profes­sor. He retired from the Court of Appeals bench in 1993, following 18 years of service.

The success of these pro­grams has led to the estab­lishment of the Institute for

Judicial Education under the College’s Socio- Legal Center. Plans are in progress for 1995- 96 programs.

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Quigley Named OSU Distinguished Scholar■ ■ t’s not everyday that OSU U President E. Gordon Gee brings an apple to the teacher, but that’s exactly what he did in a surprise visit to John Quigley’s Criminal Law class on March 2,1995. Gee was there to present Quigley with a coveted OSU Distinguished Scholar Award.At Gee’s invitation, Quigley’s family, including his 18 month old twin sons, and OSU faculty and staff were on hand to offer congratulations. Since joining OSU in 1969, Quigley has gained an international reputa­tion as an expert in Soviet and African law, and as a human rights advocate.Quigley is best known for his work in comparative law, prin­cipally as it relates to Soviet law. Graduating from Harvard Col­lege with honors, Quigley went on to earn both a master’s de­gree in Regional Studies with concentration in Soviet studies and an LL.B. from Harvard Uni­versity in 1966. In a selective academic exchange program, he did research in law at the University of Moscow and re­turned to Harvard as a research associate in Soviet Law from 1967 to 1969.

In 1969 he published, with Professor Harold J. Berman of the Harvard Law School, Basic Laws on the Structure of the Soviet State. For a number of years the only collection of Soviet legislation in En­glish translation, the book was widely used in university and law school courses in Soviet politics and law. In The Soviet Foreign Trade Monopoly: Institutions and Laws, published in 1974, Quigley criti­cized the over-centralization of the Soviet foreign trade system. The book gained the attention of Soviet academics; in the late 1980’s the U.S.S.R. de-centralized export- import along the lines suggested by Quigley.

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Professor Quigley has become a

much sought-after consultant on east Eu­ropean law reform, in connection with United States programs to promote the rule of law. Quigley speaks Russian, Span­ish, French, Swahili, Italian, German and Latin.

Quigley is an international advocate for human rights. In 1989 he wrote “Territo­rial Application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,” New York Law School Journal of Human Rights, in which he addressed what he considered a flaw in the draft of the Con­vention. The drafters agreed with his criti­cism and amended the Convention. In addition to writing widely on the topic, Quigley has intervened in a number of hu­man rights situations abroad including El Salavador, Iran, and Iraq. He has drafted several petitions to the Inter-American

Human Rights commission on behalf of persons alleging violations of their rights.

Quigley is also recognized for his work on African law. His writings in African law include “Africa Human Rights Treaty: A Step Forward,” in Global Studies: Africa, 1984 and “Cases on Preventive Detention Acts,” Eastern Africa Law Review, 1978.This year he is teaching an undergraduate course on law and human rights in Africa under a title VI grant received by the Cen­ter for African Studies. As a result of his expertise in African law, Professor Quigley was asked to serve as External Examiner for the examinations in law at the National University of Lesotho in 1992 and 1993.

Quigley is one of six faculty named Dis­tinguished Scholar for 1994-95. The award includes an honorarium and a re­search grant.

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■ ■ n the spring of 1994, 14 of the U College’s 31 faculty members re­ceived word that they were eligible for the University’s retirement incentive program.

As the months have passed, five mem­bers of the faculty have announced that they would accept retirement as of the end of the current academic year. Each retiring faculty member represents a loss of talent and valued contributions to the College over many years of service. Retirement, nevertheless, offers to each the opportu-

ministration of the College as associate dean, chair of the Dean Search Committee, and work with the Socio-Legal Center. He will be teaching under special contract during part of the 1995-96 academic year.

Michael J. Kindred will retire at the end of the academic year after twenty six years of service. Upon completing a post J.D. degree, Faculté de Droit, Université de Grenoble in 1964, he served on the law faculty of Haile Sellassie University, Ethio­pia. In 1969, he was appointed to the OSU

law faculty. Over the years he has taught contracts, torts, criminal law, mental dis­ability and the law, and comparative law. He has served the College as associate dean and has provided valuable contribu­tions as a member for many years of the College’s admissions committee. Professor Kindred will be teaching under special contract next year.

P. John Kozyris will retire from the fac­ulty in June to assume a new position as Chair of Comparative Law at the Univer-

Faculty Elect Early Retirement Program

A lb e rt M. C lovis

nity, deservedly earned, to realize other professional and personal goals.

Albert M. Clovis, Joseph S. Platt-Por- ter, Wright, Morris & Arthur Professor, will retire as of June 30 after 30 years of service. Professor Clovis joined the faculty in 1965 following three years of private practice. He has taught contracts, secured transactions, and debtor-creditor law to countless students. He has been the recipi­ent of multiple Outstanding Professor Awards, the last presented by the Class of 1994. His jointly-authored texts in com­mercial paper, sales, and secured transac­tions, have been used throughout the country. In recent years, Professor Clovis has contributed valued service to the ad- '

R honda R. R ivera Philip C. Sorensen

M ichael J. K indred P. Jo h n K o zyris

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sity of Thessaloniki, Greece. This appoint­ment will bring Professor Kozyris full circle to the institution from which he re­ceived his first law degree. Upon coming to the United States, he received his J.D. from Cornell University and began prac­tice with a major New York law firm in its Paris office. In 1969 he joined the faculty of the College. He has taught conflicts, ju­risprudence, business associations, inter­national transactions and european community law. In addition to his activi­ties as an author and teacher, Professor Kozyris earned the highest law degree, the J.S.D., from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He has been active in interna­tional organizations and will continue his work and research in his new position.

Rhonda R. Rivera will leave the Col­lege and Ohio to begin new personal and professional activities in Tucson, Arizona. Professor Rivera joined the faculty in 1976 following an appointment as assistant dean at the University of Michigan. Professor Rivera has taught contracts, commercial law, insurance, sexual orientation and AIDS law. She has made significant contri­butions to the College, serving as chair and member of many faculty committees, director and designer of the College’s first legal writing program, and associate dean for Clinical Programs. She has also con­tributed to numerous University-wide committees and national organizations.

She is a member of the American Acad­emy of Arbitrators and an arbitrator for FCMS, OCSEA/State panel, and labor panel, American Arbitration Association. Professor Rivera has been supportive of many organizations to which she has con­tributed countless hours of service. She is an invited speaker to many programs throughout the country and author of vari­ous publications, the most recent a book on sexual orientation. In 1994, Professor Rivera was recipient of The Columbus Bar Association’s Harry A. Blackmun Bill of Rights Award. On May 13, over 300 ad­mirers turned out to honor Professor Rivera at a dinner at The Hyatt on Capitol Square. In recognition of her many contri­butions, a Rhonda R. Rivera Lectureship is being created to support an annual lecture at the College of Law. Those interested in

contributing can contact Thomas G. Hoffman, II at (614) 292-0601.

Philip C. Sorensen, President’s Club Professor and Director of the Socio-Legal Center, will retire at the conclusion of the school year. Professor Sorensen brought considerable experience to the College upon his appointment to the regular fac­ulty in 1975. He had served as a judicial clerk, partner in a Nebraska law firm, Lt. Governor of Nebraska, executive director of a foundation, chair of the Project on Corporate Responsibility, Washington,D.C., and as a college trustee. His teaching has included the subjects of torts, federal income taxation, business associations, legislation and non-profit organizations.

He has contributed to the administra-

Q hree new faculty members will be joining the faculty of the College of

Law in the fall of 1995. Sharon L. Davies is a 1987 graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Notes and Com­ments Editor of the Columbia Law Review. She has most recently been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Di­vision of the United States Attorney’s Of­fice for the Southern District of New York. Professor Davies will teach Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Writing and Analysis.

Alan C. Michaels is a 1986 graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Notes and Comments Edi­tor of the Columbia Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. He worked as outside counsel to the Major League Baseball Players Association and most re­cently has been an Assistant District Attor­ney with the Career Criminal Bureau of the New York County District Attorney’s Of­fice. Professor Michaels will teach Criminal

tion of the College as associate dean, and he has been director of the Socio-legal Center since its inception in 1990. Under his leadership, the Center has sponsored special programs, developed joint interdis­ciplinary research projects, and fostered cooperative relationships.

Individually and collectively, these pro­fessors will be missed from the ranks of the faculty. Each has made special contri­butions and leaves behind lasting legacies. “Retirements are part of organizational life, but individuals are not replaceable,” states Dean Williams. “New people will come and will make their mark. But to those re­tiring, this institution is thè grateful benefi­ciary of extraordinary talents and service. We wish them well.”

Law, Criminal Procedure, and Writing and Analysis.

Professor Deborah Jones Merritt has been appointed to the John Deaver Drinko-Baker and Hostetler Chair in Law. Professor Merritt is presently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Law, and Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign College of Law. Professor Merritt received her law degree from the Columbia University, where she was man­aging editor of the Columbia Law Review, a James Kent Scholar, and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received her under­graduate degree in history from Harvard College. After law school, Professor Merritt served as a law clerk to now-Associate Jus­tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was then serving on the United States Court of Ap­peals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and to Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. She also was a litigation associ­ate at Bondurant, Miller, Hishon and Stephenson in Atlanta, Georgia, prior to joining the Illinois law faculty. Professor Merritt will teach Torts and Social Science law and seminars in Women in the Law, and in Law, Public Policy, and Poverty.

New Appointments

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David Goldberger spent part of his sum­mer conducting the College’s Oxford Law Program, Oxford University, England. The program had full enrollment. During the year; he appeared before the United States Supreme Court to argue a case generated by the OSU law clinic.

Arthur F. Greenbaum continues his schol­arship focus on Ohio law. His most recent treatise, Ohio Lawyer’s Guide to the Code of Professional Responsibility, is being pub­lished by Banks Baldwin this spring.

Sheldon W. Halpern’s casebook on the Law of Defamation, Privacy, Publicity, and Moral Right is now in its second edition.In 1994 Professor Halpern was a presenter and panelist at the Intellectual Property Committee Program on the Right of Pub­licity at the Annual Meeting of the Ameri­can Bar Association; he was a principal presenter at a two-day Symposium on Pri­vacy and Intelligent Transportation Sys­tems at Santa Clara University; he spoke on privacy interests and technology at the 48th Ohio Transportation Conference; and he spoke on the right of publicity at the invitation of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

L. Camille Hébert received a grant from the Center for Labor Research to fund her project on judicial attitudes toward sexual harassment in the workplace. She has also published a book chapter titled “Toward the Comprehensive Regulation of Em­ployee Privacy Rights” in Contemporary Issues in Labor and Employment Law: Proceedings of New York University 46th Annual National Conference on Labor in January 1994. That article addresses the need for federal regulation of the law per­taining to employee privacy. In May 1994,

Faculty NewsFrancis X. Beytagh spent the 1994 spring semester as a Fulbright Fellow at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. This visit to further his comparative research on the Irish Constitution for a forthcoming book, occurred during his sabbatical following retirement from the deanship of the College. During his visit, he presented a paper for publica­tion: “Civil Liber­ties and the Constitution...American Style” at the University of Ulster in Belfast, and visited with Mary Robinson,President of the Re­public of Ireland.Beytagh returned to full-time teaching responsibillities fall semester, 1994.Professor Beytagh has been appointedchair of a special ----OSBA statewide committee on tort reform.

Michael Braunstein and Sanford Caust- Ellenbogen attended a conference in Onati, Spain in late June under the auspices of the Law and Society Association and the National Science Foundation. Professor Braunstein presented a paper on compara­tive transaction costs under different legal systems. Professor Caust-Ellenbogen spoke on enforcement decision-making in the regulatory arena. The genesis of this work was a workshop on regulatory enforcement held at the College in the spring of 1993, part of which was to explore the uses of so­cial science in addressing important legal and policy issues.

James J. Brudney and Nancy B.Rapoport were selected to attend the Summer Institute for Socio-Legal Studies held at Wellesley College July 13 to 17. It is unusual for two professors from the same institution to compete successfully

for admission in this program. Professor Brudney re­ceived a grant from the Univer­sity of Michigan Fund for Labor Relations Stud­ies to support his current re­search regarding the National La­bor Relations Board.

P rofessor B ey tagh and w ife D iane v is it w ith M ary R ob in son (m iddle) P resident o f the R epublic o f Ireland.

Howard P.Fink, Arthur F.

----------------------- — Greenbaum,and Charles E.

Wilson are co-authors of a two volume treatise, Ohio Rules and Civil Procedure Law with Commentary, Anderson Publish­ing Company, and have completed the 1995 cummulative supplement.

Howard P. Fink was a visiting professor at Wake Forest University School of Law for the fall semester, 1994. He represented the University’s Melton Center at a coordinat­ing conference at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, in June. He is currently working on a new text in Federal Courts and on the revision of his co-authored text in Civil Procedure, 2nd edition.

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her article titled “The Economic Implica­tions of Sexual Harassment of Women” was published in the Symposium Issue of The Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, which looks at issues of the working poor. Her ar­ticle addresses the eco­nomic causes and effects of sexual harassment of women. In July 1994, the first supplement to Pro­fessor Hébert’s treatise on Employee Privacy Law was published.

Professor Hébert has also given a number of presentations focusing on issues of employment discrimination and sexual harassment. In October 1994, she gave a presentation titled “Up­date on Court Decisions: Employment De­cisions Affecting Women” at the Third Annual Ohio Women in the Legal Profes­sion Conference. In February 1995, she moderated a panel discussion addressing issues of sexual harassment in academia, titled “Sexual Harassment: Is it Aca­demic?” sponsored by The Ohio State University Wexner Center for the Arts.

Lawrence Herman, Professor Emeritus, has continued to teach Criminal Proce­dure. Long an opponent of the death pen­alty, he testified before Ohio House and Senate committees against a proposal to expedite capital appeals by depriving in­termediate appellate courts of jurisdiction.

With Professor Floyd E Feeney of the University of California at Davis, Professor Herman co-wrote a paper entitled “Sum­mary Proceedings in Penal Matters in the United States.” The paper was written for the Fourteenth International Congress of

. Comparative Law and was published in the American Journal of Comparative Law.

Timothy Jost has been appointed to the University Ad Hoc Committee on applied Social and Public Policy and as a legal con­

sultant for the American Heritage College Dictio­nary, 3rd edition. This summer he ran the College’s Pre-Law Oxford Program at Oxford Uni­versity, England. He con­tinues his publication productivity with “Wait­ing for Reform: Develop­ments in the Law of Health Care Access and Finance: 1992-1993,”The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, spring 1994; “Health Sys­tem Reform, Forward or Backward with Quality?” JAMA, May, 1994. Professor Jost is cur­

rently serving as acting Director of Ohio State’s newly formed Center for Health Policy Studies. Health Law, a two-volume treatise coauthored by Professor Jost, was published by West Publishing Company in November 1994. Pro­fessor Jost also coau­thored a monograph on American health law that will be part of the International Encyclo­pedia of Medical Law published by Kluwer in the Netherlands.

Two articles by Pro­fessor Jost will appear in a Law and Contem­porary Problems sym­posium on accredita­tion and certification.Another article on Medicare and Medicaid false claims appeared in the Annals of Health Law. An article on ad­ministrative adjudica­tion issues in health care reform, based on a

presentation that Professor Jost gave as part of an Administrative Conference of the United States seminar for Congres­sional Staff in the Spring of 1994, will ap­pear in the Administrative Law Review.

This summer he will spend a month at the Max Planck Institute fur Gesellschafts- forschung in Germany examining self-gov­ernance in the German medical profession. He is also working on a book on medical licensure, the third edition of the Health Law casebook, and a book on Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse.

R John Kozyris has authored and edited a book entitled Corporate Takeovers Through the Public Markets: A Comparative Study, which will be published in 1995 by Martinus Nijhof of the Netherlands.

On February 23-25,1995, Professor Kozyris gave a six-hour series of lectures to Mexican lawyers in Mexico City on themes of U.S. corporate law. The program was or­ganized by the National Law Center for In­ter-American Free Trade. The Center is

also publishing a ma­jor compendium on the U.S. legal system in Spanish, and Kozyris has authored the chap­ter on business asso­ciations.

The University of Cincinnati Law Review has organized a sym­posium on the “New Limited Liability Com­pany Laws” that have mushroomed through­out the U.S. The pre­sentations were published in a special issue of the Review. Professor Kozyris’ con­tribution focused on “The New Limited Li­ability Company: Does it Exist Out of State? What Law Governs It?”

P rofessor Jo a n K ra u sko p f en joyed a side trip to the G reat W all o f C hina during her v is it to D engbei U niversity in D alien , C h ina w here sh e gave three m a jo r lectures.

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Joan M. Krauskopf is now president of the National Order of the Coif. She attends an annual meeting, reviews applications for new Coif chapters and for Coif-funded lectures, and performs various ceremonial functions in connection with granting honorary Coif membership.

West Publishing Company has printed her co-authored book, Elderlaw: Advocacy for the Aging and is now processing the first supplement. She is currently compil­ing chapters for a casebook on Elderlaw. The Journal of Legal Education is publish­ing her article titled “Touching the El­ephant: Perceptions of Gender Issues in Nine Law Schools.”

Professor Krauskopf continues her in­terdisciplinary work with a family econo­mist on a pilot study of power as a factor in the division of pension benefits at di­vorce. They made presentations at the Conference on Collaborative Approaches — Disability, Aging and Dispute Resolution on March 31 in Washington,D.C.

Stanley K. Laughlin, Jr. has published his book,The Law of United States Territories and Affiliated Jurisdictions by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company in February of this year. In February, he also participated in the annual meeting of the As­sociation for Social An­thropology in Oceania.

“The Constitution and the Insular Ar­eas” was published in A Time of Change (Universities of Guam and the Virgin Is­lands, 1994).

James E. Meeks has been appointed spe­cial prosecutor by Franklin County Pros­ecutor Michael Miller ’63 to investigate allegations against state legislators who ac­cepted pay for speaking engagements. In July, Professor Meeks and Professor Gregory

Professor S tan ley K. Laughlin, Jr.

Travalio were guest law lecturers at Pai Chai University in Taejon, South Korea.

Earl Finbar Murphy published in Decem­ber 1994 his “Survey of Ohio Water Law,” in Replacement Vol. 6, River Basin and State Surveys, pp. 565-685, in Waters and Water Rights 1991 Edition, Robert Beck, ed., The Michie Company. This book is a comprehensive overview of Ohio stream water, groundwater, and runoff water law.

He served during Winter Quarter on the University Fellowship Committee to select the University’s candidates for the Ohio Board of Regents’ program for post­graduate fellowships. Within the College, he served in the Spring and Autumn Se­mesters, along with Professor Kathy Northern and environmental practitioners, on the trial competition panels of the

College’s Environmental Law Association. He re­mains an advisor of the Environmental Law Asso­ciation and has been working with them to de­velop an intracollege en­vironmental law specialty certificate.Professor Murphy serves

on the Members’ Consul­tative Group of the American Law Institute on the Restatement of the Law, Property (Servi­tudes). He attended the May 1994 meeting of the ALI in Washington, D.C., and participated in the

discussion on the draft. He remains, as he has been for several years, an advisor of the Water Regulatory Standards Commit­tee of the American Society of Civil Engi­neers. In July 1994, he attended meetings at the Athens (Greece) Center of Ekistics concerning the World Society of Ekistics, of which he is a past president. In August 1994, he attended the XlVth International Congress on Comparative Law in Athens, Greece.

He attended two meetings during the year of the Board of Visitors of the India­

napolis Law School of Indiana University (his alma mater for law) of which he has been a member since 1989. He was reap­pointed to another five year term. He has served throughout the year on the Nichols Memorial Lecture Committee within the School. He remains a member of the fac­ulty of the University’s Atmospheric Sci­ences Program.

Professor Murphy was honored by be­ing asked by Chief Justice Thomas Moyer to speak on environmental law to a delega­tion of judges from Ukraine on December 16th at the College and to attend a lun­cheon given for them by the Ohio Su­preme Court.

John B. Quigley has published a series of articles on the implications in United States domestic law of the ratification by the United States in 1992 of the Interna­tional Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. These articles include: “Criminal Law and Human Rights: Implications of United States Ratification of the Interna­tional Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” 6 Harvard Human Rights Journal 59 (1993); “Little-Known Treaty May Af­ford Greater Rights,” Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, May 5, 1993; “Congress Didn’t Pass It, But It’s the Law,” 20(3) Human Rights (American Bar Association, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibili- ties)(1993); “Judge Bork Is Wrong: The Covenant Is the Law,” 71 Washington Uni­versity Law Quarterly 1087 (1993-); “The International Covenant on Civil and Politi­cal Rights and the Supremacy Clause,” 42 De Paul Law Review 1287 (1993).

Professor Quigley also published several articles on current legal issues in the Middle East: “Missiles with a Message: The Legality of the United States Raid on Iraq’s Intelli­gence Headquarters,” 17 Hastings Interna­tional and Comparative Law Review 1 (1994); “Israel’s 45-Year Emergency: Are There Time Limits to Derogations from Hu­man Rights Obligations?” 15 Michigan Jour­nal of International Law 491 (1994); “Legal Consequences of the Demolition of Houses by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” Al-Haq, West Bank Affiliate of the Intema-

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Professor N ancy B. R apoport

tional Commission of Jurists, 1994.Professor Quigley also published an ar­

ticle on recent developments in Russian law: “The Presumption of Innocence in the Russian Constitution,” 1 Parker School Journal of East European Law 327(1994).

Professor Quigley con­sulted, through the United States Agency for International Develop­ment, with judges in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, re­garding international standards applicable to ongoing war crime pros­ecutions in the Ethiopian courts against officials of the former government of Ethiopia.

Professor Quigley was appointed by the Confer­ence on Security and Cooperation in Eu­rope and by the United States Department of State as one of three international ex­perts to make recommendations to the governments of Ukraine and Crimea on the status of Crimea.

Nancy B. Rapoport published “Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre: The Problem of Potential Conflicts of Interest in Bankruptcy,” 26 Conn. L. Rev. 913(1994). She also published a book review in the Turnarounds and Workouts News­letter (January 15,1995) and completed her oral history of Judge Joseph T. Sneed (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit). Her latest article, “Seeing the Forest and The Trees: The Proper Role of the Bankruptcy Attorney,” will appear in volume 70 of the Indiana Law Journal(1995).

In addition to her publishing activities, Professor Rapoport spoke on a variety of ■bankruptcy, ethics, and education topics at several locations, and she participated (along with Professor Brudney) in the 1994 Summer Institute of the Law and So­ciety Association. She is a member of two committees of the Ohio CLE Institute: the

Young Lawyer Education Curriculum Committee and the Bankruptcy Curricu­lum Committee.

Rhonda R. Rivera was recently honored by the Columbus Bar Associa­tion and the Anti-Defa­mation League of Ohio. In January of 1995, these two organizations pre­sented her with the Jus­tice Harry A. Blackmun

| Bill of Rights Award.Over the past year and one half, Professor Rivera

I has had six arbitration awards published: OCSEA, Local 11, AFSCME, AFL-CIO and State of Ohio, Depart­

ment of Transportation, 92-2 ARB T 8415; Carpenters, Local 2323 and Monon Corp., 93-1 ARB T 3112; State, County and Muncipal Employees, Ohio Council 8, Lo­cal 1945 and Fostoria City Schools, 93-2 ARB % 3394; State of Ohio and OCSEA, Local 11, AFSCME, AFL-CIO,101 LA 233; OCSEA, Lo­cal 11, State, County and Muncipal Employees and State of Ohio, Depart­ment of Rehabilitation and Corrections, 94-1 ARB T 4010; and In re State of Ohio Department of Transportation [Wood County, Ohio] and OCSEA, LOCAL 11,AFSCME, AFL-CIO, 103 LA 225.

In Volume 55, the __________Ohio State Law Journal published ProfessorRivera’s most recent article entitled Where Are We? Anti-Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Ballot Attacks Today. Nationally known for her expertise in sexual orientation law, she has spoken to various church groups on the is­sues surrounding gay and lesbian rights. She was a principal lecturer at the Univer­

Professor M organ E. Sh ipm an

sity of North Carolina’s program entitled “Diversity by Design” and she has given Continuing Legal Education lectures at Case Western Reserve Law School and at the Second Annual Ohio Women in the Legal Profession Conference. At the Ameri­can Association of Law Schools annual ■meeting in January 1994, she was a panel­ist on “Innovation in Contract Teaching” and on Sexual Orientation Law. She has participated in three training sessions on labor issues, one for arbitrators, one for union stewards, and one for management advocates. She has also spoken extensively on AIDS issues to both religious groups and legal groups. Last spring, she was the keynote speaker for the conference entitled “Stonewall at 25... and Beyond” sponsored by the Harvard Journal of Civil Rights at Harvard Law School.

Nancy H. Rogers and her co-author, Bowdoin College sociology professor Craig McEwen, completed a two-volume Second Edition of Mediation: Law, Policy, Practice, published in December 1994 by Clark

Boardman Callaghan. Their article, written with University of Maine po­litical science professor Richard Maiman, entitled “Bring in the Lawyers: Challenging the Domi­nant Approaches to En­suring Fairness in Divorce Mediation,” was published in the Minne­sota Law Review this spring.She serves with Harvard

law professor Frank Sander as co-chair of the Editorial Committee of the new magazine pub­lished by the ABA Section

of Dispute Resolution and is Vice Chair of the Ohio Supreme Court Committee on Dispute Resolution.

She moderated a plenary session on emerging issues at the ABA Dispute Reso­lution Symposium in Miami in February 1995 and presented a session on teaching

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about mediation at the Association of American Law Schools Conference for Clinical Legal Education in Newport Beach, California, in June 1994. She gave talks on legal issues for Ohio appellate court mediators in September 1994; for State Employee Relations Board mediators in December 1994; and for the Ohio Dis­pute Resolution and Conflict Management Commission in January 1995.

Allan J. Samansky has published a book on Charitable Contributions and the Fed­eral Taxes, The Michie Co., 1993. His monograph, Law: Choice of Entity, Tax Advisors Planning Series, Research Insti­tute of America, was published in May1994. Professor Samansky has also com­pleted a three-disc computer-assisted tuto­rial for his partnership taxation course.

Morgan E. Shipman published “The Li­abilities of Lawyers in Corporations and Securities Work” in the University of Cin­cinnati Law Review (1994). He has contin­ued work as an active member of the Corporate Law Committee of the Ohio State Bar Association. In 1994, the Ohio General Assembly passed a massive Busi­ness Associations Act based upon the work of that Committee. In the Autumn of 1994, he spoke to the Securities Law Sub­committee of the Columbus Bar Associa­tion concerning the “Duties and Liabilities of Lawyers In Corporations and Securities Work.” During the summer of 1994, he taught Torts in the College’s Law Skills Program for minority students.

Barbara Rook Snyder became Associate Director of the Center for Socio-Legal Studies on July 1, 1994. She is also con­tributing to the second edition of the Ohio Evidence Manual. For the University, she serves on the NCAA Certification Steering Committee and as chair of the Equity Sub­committee. She was appointed by Presi­

dent Gee to the Athletic Council, where she will serve a four-year term. In January, she spoke to the Sports Law Section at the Association of American Law Schools An­nual Meeting in New Orleans on “Volun­tary Compliance with Title IX in Intercollegiate Athletics.” She also spoke about new court decisions on reproductive rights at the Third Annual Women in the Legal Profession Conference at the OSU Fawcett Center.

Gregory M. Travalio delivered a paper in August 1994 at Pai Chai University in Taejon, South Korea. The topic of the pa­per was “Development of Consumer Pro­tection in the United States and the Implications for Economically Emergent Countries.” The paper will be published in the Journal of the Social Research Institute in Korea. As a result of the trip and discussions with Korean law faculty,Professor Travalio is working on a joint re­search project in con­sumer law with a number of Korean professors.

Professor Travalio re­ceived an award from Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer on behalf of the Ohio Judicial College for his work on the Ohio Jury Instruction Commit­tee. He and Professor Emeritus Robert Nordstrom drafted jury instructions for Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code, which have been pub­lished in Volume 3 of Ohio Jury Instruc­tions. Professor Travalio has recently completed instructions for Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, which have been approved by the Editorial Board and will be published soon. Professor Travalio also serves as the Editorial Advisor to the Jury Instruction Committee.

Professor Travalio recently returned from a week-long trip to Ukraine. At the

request of the Ohio Judicial College, Pro­fessor Travalio and three Ohio judges spent a week with judges from the Ukraine Commercial Arbitration Court. Professor Travalio lectured on American commercial law.

Professor Travalio has been Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee for the past two years. He currently is working on a treatise on Sales Law with Professor A1 Clovis and Professor Emeritus Robert Nordstrom. The book will be published by Little, Brown & Company, and the manuscript is expected to be completed in January, 1996.

Douglas J. Whaley has returned to the classroom after taking a sabbatical in the Fall of 1994, during which he worked on his mega-treatise The Law of Commerce,

which will cover all of the issues raised in the courses on Contracts, Consumer Law, Debtor- Creditor, and the Uni­form Commercial Code. The work will be pub­lished as a CD-ROM only by Little, Brown & Com­pany; .completion of the project is expected by the end of 1996. In February, Little, Brown published the fourth editions of Whaley’s popular casebooks on payment law and commercial law. In January, Whaley spoke to the Franklin County

Trial Lawyers Association on the topic “What I Wish Trial Lawyers Knew About Consumer Law.” This spring he gave a se­ries of seminars around the country to bankers and bank attorneys on “The Law of Checking Accounts.” Professor Whaley recently had published the 4th edition of his book, Problems and Materials on Pay­ment Law.

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David Williams II, presently serving as Vice President for Student Affairs for the University, continues to teach at least one course per semester. Professor Williams served as Chair of the AALS section on Sports and Law and was recently selected to serve on the University’s Professional Sports Liaison Advisory panel. Professor Williams served as a presenter at the DePaul Conference on “Legal Issues in In­tercollegiate Athletics,” the Journal of Col­lege and University Law’s Symposium of “College Athletic Reform,” the Ohio Bar Association’s seminar on “Sports Law,” as well as the Howard University and Will­iam and Mary University conferences on “Brown v. The Board of Education.” In ad­dition, Professor Williams’ article, “For­

eign Students and Scholars and the United States Tax System” was published by the Journal of Law and Education. Finally, Professor Williams will teach and direct the Oxford/Ohio State Summer Law Pro­gram during the summer of 1995.

Charles E. Wilson. On March 31, 1995, Professor Wilson presented a paper at a conference on “The Court Reform Implica­tions of Dispute Resolution." The paper discusses a study that he and Professor Philip Sorensen are conducting that exam­ines the suitability of splitting-the-differ- ence as an outcome in disputes resolved by third party adjudicators.

During the last academic year, Professor Wilson was a distinguished visiting profes­sor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he taught Advanced Legal Negotia­tions. During the past year he was a faculty member for the NITA Negotiation Program at the University of North Carolina School •of Law. He has also recently conducted several negotiation workshops for bar as­sociations, law firms, and corporations.

Professor Wilson recently completed his tenth year as Faculty Advisor for The Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. He is also a Faculty Associate for the University’s Socio-Legal Program on Dis­pute Resolution, Chair of the College’s Special Programs Committee, and member of the College’s Planning Committee.

M | ssociate Dean Nancy H. Rogers was ■ H appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate to serve oh the Legal Services Corporation Board of Direc­tors. She was sworn in last November by Chief Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Preceding the swearing-in ceremony, the Board at­tended a private White House breakfast in its honor hosted by First Lady Hillary Clinton. At the first meeting of the Board, Dean Rogers was elected Vice Chair.

The Legal Services Corporation is a pri­vate, non-profit, non-membership corpo­ration that was created in 1974 to provide legal assistance to the poor in civil matters. The Board of Directors authorizes federal funding to legal aid programs throughout the country, exercises general oversight re­sponsibilities and sets policy.

Dean Rogers, who early in her career was a Legal Aid lawyer in Cleveland, has an understanding of the need for legal aid services and a strong commitment to rep­resentation of the poor in the justice sys­tem. Dean Rogers continues her administration position and her teaching in the area of mediation, a field in which she is nationally recognized.

Rogers Receives Presidential Appointment

A ssocia te D ean N ancy Rogers is sw orn in b y thè H onorable A b n er M ikva , C h ie fju d g e , U.S. C o u rt o f A p p e a ls fo r thè D .C . Circuit.

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Recent Graduates Making their Mark on Legal Landscape______________________________Q here is no mistaking the emotion of

Hooding at Ohio State. Amid hand­shakes and tears, students mark the end of their education and the beginning of their professional lives. Such was the case May 14th as Dean Gregory H. Williams pre­sided over the Hooding Ceremony at the College of Law. Although some graduates an­ticipate uncertainty in the year ahead, a look back at the class of 1994 is re­assuring. Within nine months of graduation, 91 per­cent of the class of 1994 found profes­sional employment.We share a few of their stories with considerable pride.

John Wells came to Ohio State with one goal - a solo practice in a small community. Today he is in an office shar­ing arrangement with a lawyer of 20 years who mentors Wells and refers cases.. “I al­ready have a busy schedule,” says Wells, “My caseload has been diverse. In the past four months, I have handled an estate, a guardianship, a withdrawal of life support, a few wills, one trust, several divorces, and dozens of criminal and juvenile cases.” Wells characterized the community as “Mayberry-like” and says “everyone here knows each other, which means that things happen in a friendly and informal manner which is helping both in my prac­tice and in my efforts to become a part of the community.”

Ron Bell’s story is typical of those who change course in law school. Fearing a lay­off in the shrinking defense industry, this B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering

came to Ohio State to pursue a career in patent law. Bell dis­covered that Aerospace Engi­neering was not in high demand among patent employ­ers, so he switched to tax. Bell

is a new associate with Jones, Day,Reavis <Sr Pogue’s Co­lumbus office. His tax practice involves advising national re­tailers on their sales, use, and income tax obligations to vari­ous state tax authori­ties. Enjoying the challenge and com­plexity of his practice, Bell says of his new found job security, . “Remember, you can count on two things in life: death and taxes.”

Upon bar passage, Brian Miller was sworn in as an As­sistant Prosecuting Attorney in

the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office. He is assigned to the juvenile office of the

B rian M iller ’94 (righ t) is sw orn in by F ranklin C oun ty P rosecuting A tto rn e y M ichael M iller ’63.

criminal division. Miller already has eight trials to his credit, including charges from mis­demeanor assault and criminal tres­pass to aggravated burglary and felo­nious assault. He finds the job re­warding, but at times frustrating given lenient sen­tencing for juve­niles.

Graduates also have faced serious

challenges and unusual obstacles. Cynthia Butler knows both first hand. Set on relo­cating to the West Coast, she arrived in Los Angeles days in advance of the January 1994 earthquake ready to begin her final semester as a visiting student at Loyola. Badly shaken by the earthmoving experi­ence, she immediately drove her car non­stop back to Columbus, arriving in time to enroll for spring semester classes. Follow­ing graduation, she headed east and settled in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, where she works as an Assistant District Attorney. Butler tries up to 30 cases per day, ranging from traffic to capital cases. Because she is employed by an elected of­ficial, Butler maintains a high profile in the District. She says, “I spend time at com­munity festivals, barbecues and banquets, meeting the people who make up my dis­trict. In a small community like the one where I am, it doesn’t take long to be rec­ognized by most of the people wherever one goes.”

There are as many stories as there are graduates. Each one reflects Dean Will­iams’ Hooding challenge “to make lasting, positive contributions to the legal commu­nity and the world at large.”

A ssista n t D istric t A tto rn e y C yn th ia B u tler ’94

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Professionalism: More than Rulesnlike other professions, the lawyer is responsible to multi-constituents...

clients, the court, the profession, and the public.” This was the message of Norton R. Webster, ’50, who was one of eight distin­guished lawyers serving on the Columbus Bar Association’s Professionalism Commit­tee who shared with students and faculty “What’s It Like in the Real World.” The pro­fessionalism panel was sponsored at the College by the Student Bar Association and LINK on February 21,1995. (LINK is an organization for non-traditional students who share previous professional experi­ences, who are older, often married with ac­companying parenting responsibilities.)

The guest panelists illustrated from

their personal experiences unacceptable conduct of lawyers as they stressed the im­portance of civility and moral conviction, beyond the literal rules of professional code of responsibility. “The lawyer is an educator,” said Judge Michael Close, and must often be lead by his or her own stan­dards of appropriate or moral behavior in representation. “We are not hired guns,” followed Anne Marie Sferra ’80, “we are counselors in its fullest meaning.”

Elizabeth Watters ’90 stated that “Lawyering is a term of art.” For her, lawyering is “attitude and approach”... to your work, your clients, associates and of­fice staff. She counseled students to be good technicians, enthusiastic about their work,

and good communicators with their clients.Others bringing insightful comments

and thoughts to the program were Douglas R. Jennings ’88, Mark M. Kitrick, Anto­nio B. Paat, Jr. ’88 and Vivian B. Tate. Kristen J. Brown chaired the panel. The panel recognized that the contemporary practice of law places stress on conduct, yet each speaker emphasized that it is the lawyer’s conduct that reflects one’s character and ultimately determines one’s reputation at the bar. Students were admonished that “professionalism” begins in law school. Think of the root word ‘profess’ and then apply that to the oath you will take as a law­yer,” counseled Antonio Paat.

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Journal on Dispute Resolution and AB A Launch Cooperative Publication---------

B he Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution successfully concluded

negotiations to publish Volume 10,1994, in cooperation with the American Bar Association’s Section on Dispute Resolution. As a result, the Journal was circulated to the ABAs 6,500 members in addition to the College’s 500 subscribers. The publication brought Ohio State’s ADR program much-deserved national recognition.

In acknowledgment of its tenth anniver­sary and affiliation with the ABA, the Jour­nal proudly added five new members to its Board of National Advisors. Accepting the Journal’s invitation were: The Honorable Resa L. Harris, Judge in the 26th District, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; James J. Alfini, Dean of the College of Law at Northern Illinois University; John R. Van Winkle, of Bingham, Summers, Welsh & Spilman in Indianapolis, Indiana; Kimberlee K. Kovach, Assistant Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law; and J. Michael McWilliams, of Tydings &

Rosenburg in Baltimore, Maryland.In ten years since its establishment, the

Journal on Dispute Resolution has established a national reputation in an ever expanding legal spe­cialty. The cooperative venture with the ABA, an expanded na­tional Board of Advisors and tech­nological advancements, including state-of-the-art computerized pub­lishing capability, guarantee an even brighter future.

This year’s editor-in-chief Babak Samini ’95 has turned leadership of the Journal over to his successor,Karen Weeks Frees ’96. Karen’s prior career in arts administration and a B.A in English, cum laude from the Univer­sity of North Dakota will be well uti­lized in her new position.

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Legal Services Programs Growing in Number ana Quality_____________________________■ 9 tudents, alumni and the Columbus B A legal community are all involved in programs designed to provide services to those who might otherwise go without le­gal representation. These projects are con­tributing to Ohio State’s national reputation as a school that takes its com­mitment to public service seriously.

In 1994, the College of Law’s National Council, in cooperation with the Colum­bus Bar Association and the Legal Aid So­ciety of Columbus, created a pro bono program to pro­vide legal ser­vices to those unable to afford legal representa­tion in the Co­lumbuscommunity. Stu­dents working under the super­vision of li­censed attorneys work directly with clients to resolve problems in a variety of substantive ar­eas, including housing rights, domestic vio­lence, child cus­tody and ----------------------------visitation rights.

Public Service Fellow Students work a minimum of 50 hours during a ten-week period. They build legal skills, explore public interest career op­tions, and earn a “Public Service Fellow” designation on their law diplomas. Stu­dents may volunteer with the Columbus Bar Association’s “Lawyers for Justice” or “Homeless” projects or may be assigned to work with Legal Aid attorneys or with pri­vate practitioners in one of many partici­pating Columbus firms.

S a rah M cFarlane ’9 6 w o rked w ith v ic tim s o f dom es­tic v io lence during her v o lu n teer s tin t a t the Legal A id Socie ty o f C olum bus.

Student Funded Fellowship While the pro bono program is new, the Student Funded Fellowship (SFF) Program has been encouraging work in the public interest for ten years. Last summer Donald Simon used his SFF grant to make Colo­rado cleaner as an Environmental Defense Fund volunteer. Wesley T. Bishop used his grant to give something back to his home­town as a legal intern with the New Or­leans Legal Assistance Corporation. These are among two of the most recent students

to receive SFF grants to fund summer clerkships. Throughout the year, SFF en­courages law students to get involved with the newly cre­ated pro bono .programs.SFF raises

funds to support summer grants through contri­butions. Each spring students with paying jobs are asked to pledge one day’s

------------------------------ pay to SFE Fac­ulty, students

and staff support a wide range of fund rais­ing activities throughout the year. Over the past ten years, SFF has enabled at least 40 OSU students to work in many public in­terest settings.

SB A ProjectsThis spirit of community service extends to the Student Bar Association, which in­vited students, alumni and family mem­bers to participate in the ABA-sponsored “Work-A-Day” project on Saturday, Janu­ary 28. College of Law volunteers sorted,

Paul R obinson ’9 5 w o rked in the H ousing D i­vis ion Legal A id Socie ty o f C olum bus through th e C ollege’s pro bono program .

cleaned and distributed clothing and per­formed administrative tasks for a number of social service agencies operating in Franklin County. “Taking time to care is a valuable experience,” said event organizer and SBA president Laura Arnold. SBA has been involved in an increasing number of community projects in recent years. The Volunteer Income Tax Asssistance (VITA) program enlists students to help individu­als, including foreign students, work through tax reporting forms.

These programs all have a single com­mon denominator. They provide a vehicle for OSU law students to make a significant difference in the lives of people who des­perately need their assistance. As students refine their legal skills, they are exercising competence and compassion.

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Lawyering Skills Program Establishedby Professor Charles E. Wilson

■5V n March 1, 1995, the faculty voted BSfl unanimously to establish a Lawyering Skills Competitions Program with a Pro­gram Director appointed by the Dean and an Executive Committee consisting of seven third-year students to be selected by the Program Director. Dean Williams has appointed Professor Charles Wilson as Di­rector of the Lawyering Skills Competi­tions Program. The Executive Committee members were selected in April.

The Lawyering Skills Competitions Pro­gram will administer participation by Col­lege of Law students in intramural and interscholastic competitions. The Program will ensure quality and consistency in the selection, supervision, and training of those participating in interscholastic lawyering skills competitions. In its first year, the Program will conduct the Herman Appellate Advocacy Competition for second-year students, the Trial Advo­cacy Competition for third-year students, and the Legal Negotiation Competition for second- and third-year students.

1994-1995 Competitions During the 1994-95 academic year, the College of Law fielded a wide variety of in­terscholastic lawyering skills competition teams. The College of Law sent two teams to the National Mock Trial Competition Regional in Lansing, Michigan. Each team cpnducted five trials lasting more than three hours each. The team of Laura Arnold, Joanne Nielsen, and Angelique Strong won the Regional Competition by defeating the other College of Law team of Scott Marlow, Garrett Worchell, and Connie Pierce in the finals. Laura Arnold was runner-up for Outstanding Advocate and Scott Marlow tied for third for Out­standing Advocate. Both teams qualified for the National Competition in March in Dallas, Texas. Upon conclusion of the Dal­las competition, the team of Marlowe, Worchell and Pierce ranked eighth in the field of 120 teams in the overall competi­tion. The teams were coached by Clinical Staff Attorney Robert Krivoshey. “Few stu-

Professor C harles E. W ilson

dents begin the practice of law with as much experience and self-confidence in the courtroom as these student competi­tors,” comments Krivoshey. The students had over 140 hours of courtroom prepara­tion for the competition.

The College sent two teams to the Na­tional Moot Court Competition Regional in Detroit. Third-year students Paul Giorgianni, Jim Hermon, Dave Rudolph, Samantha Shuler, Naima Clarke, and Tricia Landthom represented the College. Direc­tor of Legal Writing Mary Beth Beazley coached the student competitors.

The two ABA National Appellate Advo­cacy Competition teams consisting of Marc Wolfe, Steve Swedlow, Kelli Tyrell, and Kevin Hughes competed in late March at the Regional Competition in Houston. They were coached by Professor Charles Wilson.

Two teams consisting of Kevin Hughes, Courtney Wiesenmayer, Chris Wasson, Art Hernandez, Kirsten Davis, and Amy Elliott represented the College at the National Health Law Moot Court Competition in Carbondale, Illinois. They were coached by Professor Timothy Jost.

Lisa Fields, Imani Chiphe, Wyndee

Parker, and Darrel Pierre represented the College of Law at the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition. Professor Vincene Verdun coached the students.

The National Environmental Law Moot team, consisting of Donald Simon, Evelyn Ortiz, and Marc Pera, went to White Plains, New York in late February. The team was coached by Professor Kathy Northern.

John Hyre, Melanie Flamenbaum, Jeff Wilson, Marty Karamon, and Laura Brady represented the College of Law at the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Cleveland. They were coached by Professors John Kozyris and John Quigley.

The College was represented at the ATLA National Student Trial Advocacy Re­gional Competition in Louisville by Brenda Redmond, Jon Tyack, Darius Kandawalla, and Elizabeth Sherowski. Col­lege of Law graduates Mark Serrott and Marcia Zand coached them.

1995-1996 Teams A partial listing of teams that will rep­resent OSU in upcoming competitions include:

Frederick Douglass Moot Court Team Darrell Pierre LaTonya Dilligard Imani Chiphe Merlyn Williams

Environmental Law Moot Court Team April Bott Colin MatthewsKate Doggett

ABA-National Appellate Advocacy Team Rebecca Anaya Darius Kandawalla Erica Armbrust Heather Robinson

NYC BA-National Moot Court Team Jon Tyack Dave ScottHeather Guthrie Judy Neus

National Health Law Moot Court Team Phil Westerman Craig Smith Kathryn Loebs Bonnie Greenball

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Alumni and Friends Recognized for Service■ ■ t a recent December University con- b l vocation, two alumni of the College of Law were recognized by the award of an honorary doctor of laws degree. Senator Howard M.Metzenbaum ’42, was honored for his service as an Ohio Senator to the United States Congress for 19 years. During his terms, he champi­oned many causes upon behalf of work­ers, consumers, and the State of Ohio.

Chief Justice Tho­mas J. Moyer ’64, S|The Supreme Court of Ohio, was recog­nized for the outstanding leadership he has given to the legal profession and for his extensive record of public service. He has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of the Ohio State University Alumni Association.

At the May 21,1994 annual dinner of the University Presidents Club, the Everett D. Reese Award for philan­thropy was given posthumously to MelvinSchottenstein ’58 in recognition of his extraordinay life of public service to his community. Accept­ing the award was his wife, Lenore Schottenstein.

The University Alumni Association in­cluded among its honorees at the fall 1994 awards banquet two alumni of the College. Yvette McGee Brown ’85, Judge, Franklin County Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court, was the recipient of the William Oxley Thompson Award, recognizing

graduates under the age of 36 who have al­ready achieved distinction in career and in public service. Judge Brown is the young­

est person and first Af­rican-American woman to be elected to the Common Pleas Court and is recognized as an outstanding community leader.

Carl M. Smallwood ’80, partner with Vorys,Sater, Seymour &Pease, was the recipient of the Josephine Sitterle Failer Award for contri­butions to student life. Smallwood’s work with the College of Law mi­nority recruitment, and the CBA minority clerkship pro­

grams and his support of special spon­sored programs have been greatly appreciated by students and staff. He has recently been elected to the College’s Na­

tional Council of alumni advisors. In 1993, William E.Arthur ’53 and FrankE. Bazler ’53 received the Alumni Association’s Alumni Citizenship Award for exemplary community service adding to a large list of recognitions.

Judge William K. Thomas ’35, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and John M.Adams ’54, partner,

Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Colum­bus, were awarded the Ohio State Bar Association’s highest honor, the Ohio Bar Medal for meritorious service, at the 1994 annual meeting.

Judge Thomas has earned the highest respect as a jurist for his fairness, indepen­dent judgment and tireless research in 28 years as federal judge.

John Adams has never been too busy to

honor his commitment to the legal profes­sion through service to the organized bar.He has served as a member of the board

and president of both the Columbus and Ohio State Bar Associations. He pro­vided critical leader­ship in the creation of the OSBA Lawyer Assistance Program and played an instru­mental role in capi­talizing the Ohio Bar Liability Insurance Company.

The College is proud of the many recognitions received by its graduates for

professional and public service achieve­ments, not all of which are reported. Con­gratulations to all.

Elizabeth Gibson Drinko received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree

from Marshall Uni­versity at the annual Honors Convocation on April 7. She is recognized for her civic activities and services as officer and trustee of the John D. anil Eliza­beth G. Drinko Charitable Founda­tion, The Mellon Foundation and the Hostetler Founda­tion. Elizabeth and John D, Drinko ’44, have been very gen­

erous to the College of Law over the years, providing support for the John D. Drinko- Baker and Hostetler Chair in law (which has recently been accepted by ProfesSor Deborah Jones Merritt), the Newton D. Baker-Baker and Hostetler Chair in Law held by Professor Timothy Jost, the JamesE. Chapman-Baker and Hostetler Law Li­brary Fund, and many other activities.

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Law Journal to Create Alumni Network■ ■ n an effort to maintain better com- U munication with alumni, the Journal is currently establishing an alumni net­work. Once names and addresses of alumni are collected, the Journal hopes to publish an annual newsletter, organize a reception or reunion weekend, and possi­bly form an alumni Advisory Board. If you served on the Journal, and have an interest in becoming involved in the Journal Alumni network, fax your name and a short note to the Ohio State Law Journal (614) 292-3202.

Journal on Leading Edge of ScholarshipThe Ohio State Law Journal continues its tradition of timely examination of provoca­tive and controversial topics at the leading edge of legal theory The Journal recently published papers presented at an OSU sym­posium exploring the constitutionality of anti-gay ballot initiatives. The topic is par­ticularly timely with further-reaching impli­

cations given the re­cent ballot initiative in Cincinnati and the United State Su­preme Court grant­ing of certiorari on one of the focal cases discussed at the symposium.Ohio State is proud to have been at the forefront of scholar­ship in this area.

On a topic of similar significance, the Law Journal has agreed to publish an upcoming sym­posium examiningthe constitutional _____________ __implications of en­titlement to pre-school care for children. Organized by Professor Edward Foley, the symposium is scheduled for November,

It w as an O SU fa m ily a ffa ir f o r the ded ica tion o f the W ebb I. Vorys ’1 7 C entenn ia l C am paign p laque acknow ledging the generous g ift o f the fa m ily and f ir m m em bers fo r the renovation o f the Law Jo u rn a l Suite . L eft to righ t are C harels W. H aubiel, II ’92, L iz F lynn Vorys ’85 , L isa H aubiel ’91, A r th u r I. Vorys ’4 9 , a nd W ebb t Vorys ’85.

1995. Foley’s publications and emerging reputation as an advocate for children are drawing national attention to Ohio State.

AlumnotesKYI Karl H. Weaner’s E l l lifetime dedication to his undergraduate institu­tion was honored with the renaming of Defiance College’s gymnasium as the Karl H. Weaner Commu­nity Center in September1993. He served on the Defiance College Board of Trustees for more than 30 years, including eight as chairman and forty-five years as the College’sGeneral Counsel. He is a ----------senior partner in theDefiance firm of Weaner, Zimmerman,Bacon, Yoder & Hubbard.

KVg] James W. Phillips received the ■ I bI 1993 Ralph Davenport Mershon Award at the Ohio State University

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Alumni Association, Inc. for his outstanding service and leadership to The Ohio State University. A life member of the OSU Alumni Association, Inc., Phillips has served as treasurer, president and member of the board of directors of the association. In 1980, he was awarded the Ohio State University Distinguished Service Award.

KRI Lloyd E. Fisher, Jr.I B was awarded the Earl

E Morris Professionalism Award at the Columbus Bar Association’s Annual Meeting June 3,1994. Fisher was honored for his extraordinary professionalism, integrity and humanitarian concern in the

practice of law. The award is named for Earl E Morris, a former partner of Fisher’s at the law firm of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur.

KEI Norton R. Webster was awarded the Bar Service Medal by the Columbus

Bar Association at its Annual Meeting June3,1994. The Bar Service Medal is the highest honor the CBA bestows upon any individual. Mr. Webster was recognized for his distinguished service and dedication to the legal profession and the public throughout his entire career.

B | Frank E. Bazler was a recipient of B fi] the 1994 Community Service Award by the Troy, Ohio Jaycees. He was selected for his continued leadership and service to the community.

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KVgl David A. Ward was the 1994 E ld recipient of the Toledo Legal Aid Society’s coveted “Distinguished Service to Justice” award. TLAS recognized his contributions to its client community, among which is long-term personal support of TLAS as Chairman for the past four years of TLAS’ Annual Fund Campaign.

M l John G. Lancione has been elected E f il Secretary-Treasurer of the Interna­tional Society of Barristers and will serve as chair of the 1996 Annual Convention/ Seminar.

Edward F. Whipps and Robert N. Wistner have formed Whipps &

Wistner, Attorneys and Counselors at Law. Their practice is concentrated on domestic relations law and divorce taxation. Their two office sites are Suite 860, 500 South Front Street, Columbus, and 425 Metro Place North in Dublin.

HBI John D. Liber has been elected to lafii the Board of Governors of the International Society of Barristers.

Sidney Nudelman, a partner with Hahn Loeser & Parks, has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America in a nation­wide survey of attorneys conducted by Woodward/White, Inc., publishers of the biennial Best Lawyers in America Directory. Nudelman concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, probate and elder law.

H9H William T. Bodoh, United States lifil Bankruptcy Judge, was inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy. The American College of Bankruptcy was formed in 1983, and its purpose is to honor and recognize bankruptcy profes­sionals who have distinguished themselves both in their practice and in their contri­bution to the insolvency process.

H99 Joel H. Mirman joined the Columbus l i l i l office of Buckingham Doolittle & Burroughs as shareholder. Mr. Mirman is co-chairman of the firm’s Columbus litigation practice group, and is chairman of the Family Law Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA). As an

advocate for men’s rights, Mirman has been published in Trial Magazine, and he was profiled by Lawyers Weekly, U.S.A., a national publication for the legal profes­sion.

Paul E. Pfeifer, Ohio Supreme Court Justice, accepted the College’s invitation to be the 1994 Hooding Ceremony Speaker. He challenged students to “Think back to thosé decisions to undertake law as a career...to those lofty goals...and see if you are really on track.”

B H Kenneth A. Bravo l a d has become Of Counsel to Ulmer &r Berne,Cleveland. He was formerly with Benesch,Friedlander, Coplan andAronoff. His practice is _________concentrated in business litigation, the defense of white collar crime and aviation law.

M B Kenneth C. Wolfe of Fort Collins, lif iJ Colorado, has been-engaged in the private practice of law'since 1968. His practice is concentrated on corporate law and securities law, tax law, real estate law, and estate planning and administration.

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He has successfully handled over 15 appellate cases. In addition, Mr. Wolfe has taught at Colorado State University, University of Denver College of Law, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and The University of Nebraska.

Ron Perey was elected by the Washington State Bar Association to its Board of Governors. Perey serves as King County-at- large representative to the20,000-member associa­tion.

R9!l ThomasJ. Riley, lifil managing partner of Hahn Loeser & Parks, has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America in a nationwide survey of Attorneys conducted by Woodward/White, Inc., publishers of the biennial Best Lawyers in America Directory. This publication

identifies the “best and brightest” in the legal profession and is based on an extensive, year-long poll of tens of thousands of lawyers across the country.

M l Charles F. Freiburger has become a I n i partner with Baker & Hostetler in its Columbus, Ohio office. He was formerly

D e a n G regory H. W illia m s and 1994 H ooding C erem ony speaker, the H onorable Paul E. P fe ifer ’66, O hio Suprem e C ourt Justice.

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William I. Kohn has been named to head the new Chicago office of

Barnes & Thornburg, an Indianapolis- based law firm. He practices in commercial transactions, debt restructuring and bankruptcy.

HM James R. Fox, Associate Dean of the H U Dickinson School of Law, has compiled a Dictionary of International and

m James S. Oliphant has been elected H I president of the 19,500-member Defense Research Institute, the nation’s largest association of defense lawyers. He is managing partner of the litigation department of the law firm Porter,Wright, Morris &Arthur in Colum­bus, Ohio, where he specializes in defending clients in the areas of medical F rank R ay ’73

malpractice, product liabilityand environmental/toxic substances liability. He has also been recognized with a listing in The Best Lawyers in America and has served as an adjunct professor at the Ohio State University College of Law.

M Craig D. Barclay has joined the law B u firm of Wolske & Blue in Columbus, Ohio, where he practices medical malprac­tice.

Comparative Law which has been chosen by Choice magazine as an “Outstanding Academic Book” of 1993. Choice is a monthly review service published by the Association of College and Research Libraries prima­rily to support under­graduate library collec­tions. Dean Fox is a professor as well as associate dean in charge of the library and of graduate programs at the Dickinson School of Law.

Eugene P. Whetzel has joined the staff of the Ohio State Bar Association as legal counsel, assisting in administering the Association’s ethics counseling and disciplinary programs and providing legal advice and services to the OSBA Board of Governors and executive staff.

Robert P. Ellis, Jr. has been ap­pointed to the Lorain Public Library

System board of trustees. He practices with Wickens, Herzer and Panza.

Douglas S. Roberts, partner in the law firm Clark, Perdue, Roberts & Scott, was honored with the Urie C. Felty Award in recognition of his role in the passage of

stringent drunk driving legislation. The Ohio Department of Public Safety gives this award to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to highway safety. His practice areas include personal injury, wrongful death and insurance litigation.

Stephen E. Chappelear will

becmome president of the Columbus Bar Association on June 9, 1995. He is a

partner with the law firm of Chester, Willcox & Saxbe, where he specializes in commercial and other civil litigation.

Patrick J. Goebel has become a partner with the law firm of Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was formerly a shareholder with the Milwaukee firm of Minahan & Peterson.

J ill O rizondo ’78

with Bricker & Eckler. His professional experience is in a broad range of practice areas, with particular emphasis on environmental law.

Michael G. Dane was named the new federal public defender for Northern Ohio. He will direct an office of six lawyers who represent indigent defendants in federal criminal cases in the U.S. courts in Cleveland, Akron and Youngstown.

Stephen C. Fitch is completing his term as the 125th president of the Columbus Bar Association. He is a partner with the law firm of Chester, Willcox & Saxbe.

Frank A. Ray has been inducted into the International Society of Barristers at the Society’s annual meeting on March 14,1994. Membership in the Society is limited to six hundred lawyers worldwide who are “outstanding in the field of advocacy.” He is the senior principal in the

law firm of Ray, Todaro & Alton, practic­ing products liability, toxic tort, and wrongful death litigation.

E ugene W h etze l ’74 W illia m K ohn ’76

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T hom as S igm und ’78

K9S1 Jill A. Orizondo,■ lal Assistant Vice President & General Counsel for AAA Michigan, was elected 1994 Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Corporate Counsel Associa­tion. She was also elected to a second term as Secretary to the American Corporate Counsel Association.

Thomas J. Sigmund has joined the firm of Hahn, Loeser & Parks in Columbus, Ohio. He is also the author of “Internal Revenue Code § 4980A/Grandfather Election,” included in Business Organization-Pension and Profit-Sharing Plans, Matthew Bender & Co., 1989.

Ramsay H. Slugg has become the Vice President of Private Trust Consulting with NationsBank Trust in Fort Worth, Texas. He was formerly a partner with Gandy, Michener, Swindle & Whitaker. His new position will involve working with existing and prospective customers of the Bank, assisting with income, estate and gift, and retirement planning.

KKI Steven Kestner has been named ■El firmwide head of the Business Law Group for the law firm of Baker & Hostetler. His practice concentrates in mergers and acquisitions, financings and securities law.

Gerald S. Leeseberg, formerly of Wolske & Blue, has formed the new law firm of Leeseberg, Maloon, Schulman & Valentine in Columbus, Ohio. His new firm special­izes in personal injury, medical malprac­tice, product liability, and professional negligence.

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RVN Marsha Rockey Schermer was BflSI named Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for Time Warner Communications’ Midwest region. She will be working to clear regulatory and legislative roadblocks to opening the information/entertainment network to competition. Schermer formerly was a partner with Arter & Hadden, where she practiced energy and telecommunications law.

Jo h n C arlin ‘85

D eborah H am m itt L ittle ’85

RX1 Mark R. Wilson has joined the law KS23 firm of Wolske & Blue in Columbus, Ohio, where he practices personal injury law.

RVI Guy R. Humphrey has become a Kill partner with the law firm of Chester, Willcox & Saxbe, where he practices commercial debtor/creditor representation, including bankruptcy and litigation.

Sharon Sobol- Jordan has become law director of the City of Cleveland, Ohio.

Michael J.Thacker was named Assistant Vice President of Document Review and Compliance for Society Bank’s Southern Region Investment Management and Trust Division. He

Ja m es U nderw ood ’87

RVI Guy L. Reece, II, received the John K!U Mercer Langston Award at the Langston Scholarship Fund Barrister’s Ball in Columbus on April 8. He has resigned from the Franklin County Common Pleas Court to reside for several years in Indonesia, where he and his wife are pursuing professional work.

is responsible for document review, compliance and the coordination of legal issues for the region which includes Dayton, Columbus, and Cincinnati.

ffifS John S. Carlin has been selected as ISfil one of two judges honored as “Florida Judge of the Year” by the Florida Law Related Education Association.

Kenneth J. Kies has been named the Chief of Staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress. He formerly was Chair of Tax and Personal Planning with Baker & Hostetler, Washington,D.C.

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M ary C. Berger

Carl Bernard Grant has formed a two- office law firm in Dorchester, South Carolina.

Deborah Hammitt Little has become a shareholder in the law firm of Buchanan, Ingersoll in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she practices in the area of litigation.

Stephen King has become a partner of the law firm of Thompson,Hine and Flory, where he practices real estate and corporate law.

R H Kenneth A.Hial Golonka, Jr. has been named a partner with the law firm of Vorys,Sater, Seymour and Pease in Columbus, Ohio.

James M. Snyder has been named partner with the law firm of Holleb & Coffin Chicago, Illinois, where -----------------he practices in the areas oftaxation, public finance and corporate law.

H R Guy M. Moreau has become a Is ll contract specialist and contracting officer with the Army Directorate of Contracting in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Kurtis A. Tunnell has rejoined the law firm of Bricker & Eckler after serving as Chief Legal Counsel to Ohio Governor George V Voinovich ’61. He practices in the areas of administrative law, legislative practice, and election law.

James M. Underwood has been named a ' shareholder of the law firm Thompson & knight in Dallas, Texas, where he practices in the litigation department.

RRI Judith L. French-Berry has been lils l named the Ohio EPAs deputy director for legal affairs. She will oversee all the EPAs legal activities, including writing legislation, taking action to enforce laws and regulations and working with the attorney general. She was formerly corporate counsel for Steelcase in Grand Rapids, Michigan. French-Berry was an

associate with the law firm of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in Columbus, where she advised clients on environmen­tal matters.

John W. Kennedy has joined the law firm of Martin, Pergram & Browning

practicing in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights and assisting in the general business and real estate areas. He

will work in the firm’s Delaware and Worthington offices.

K fil R. Scott Harvey has B iil joined the law firm of Brouse & McDowell in Akron, Ohio, practicing in litigation and labor law.

Steven H. Sneiderman has

joined the law firm of Hahn, Loeser & Parks in Cleveland, Ohio, practic­ing in the business and corporate areas.

I Timothy J. Horner has joined the I law firm of Brouse & McDowell in

Cleveland, Ohio, practicing in the areas of litigation and environmental law.

I Mary C. Berger has joined the law I firm of Locke Reynolds in India­

napolis, Indiana.

Stephen Intihar, formerly with Fitch, Davis and Humphrey, has become an associate with Chester, Willcox & Saxbe, where he practices commercial litigation and commercial debtor/creditor represen­tation.

■Lisa Hammond Johnson has joined the law firm of Baker & Hostetler in Cleve­land, Ohio.

| Judy A. Fani has become a planner with the engineering, planning and

architectural firm of Bucher, Willis & Ratliff in Seattle, Washington. She works with law firms designing or renovating office space.

Alumni Directory The Directory, prepared in cooperation with Harris Publishing Company, will be available by late June. To order, call 800-877-6554. Cooperation from alumni made this project possible. We regret any inconvenience from process­ing procedures.

Alumni Survey Nearly 700 alumni responded to the Alumni Survey mailed last summer. The responses are helpful to the réévaluation of the organization of the Alumni Asso­ciation and services provided to alumni. Thanks to all who responded.

College of Law Saddened by Losses ----------------------Grace Fern Heck Faust, ’30, charted new ground for women in a distinguished legal career that spanned seven decades. Following her summa cum laude gradua­tion, she became a researcher for the Wickersham Commission under the supervision of Yale Professor and later U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. In the years that followed, she was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Champaign County and Springfield Municipal Court Judge. In addition to

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these accomplishments, she developed a thriving private practice and participated in civic affairs both locally and nationally. In addition to receiving the College’s highest honor, the Distinguished Alumna Award, Faust was recognized for outstand­ing service by both the University Board of Trustees and the University Alumni Association. She died in Urbana on May15,1994, and is survived by her husband, Leo Faust.

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J. Paul McNamara ’32, was recognized for his more than thirty years of service to the College of Law in a special memorial service held in conjunction with the Fall 1994 National Council meeting.. Through­out those years, his leadership, generous support and wise counsel guided the College. McNamara served as President of the Law Alumni Association, chaired the National Council from 1975 to 1978 and was a charter member of the Henry Folsom Page Society. In recognition of these and other contributions, he received the College’s highest honor, the Distin­guished Alumnus Award. Equally commit­ted to community and profession, he served as International President of Delta Upsilon Fraternity, Trustee of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, and Chairman of the ABA Fidelity and Surety Committee, which he helped create. Paul McNamara died suddenly on July 20,1994, while on vacation in Canada. He is survived by his wife, Mary Johnston, and a daughter,Lanah Miller.

William H. Natcher ’33, a forty-year Kentucky congressman, remembered for his decency and unmatched record of 18,401 consecutive House votes, died of heart failure on March 29, 1994. “In an age when many view politics cynically, he never ceased to honor the people who sent him to Washington by honoring the institution in which he served,” said then- House Speaker Thomas Foley. Days before Mr. Natcher’s death, President Clinton presented him the nation’s second highest civilian award, the Presidential Citizens’ Medal. At the time of his death he was serving as chair of the House Appropria­tions Committee, which controls one-third of the federal budget. In recognition of his life interest and support, the National Institutes of Health named the William H. Natcher Building at the Bethesda campus in his honor.

Melvin L. Schottenstein ’58 was a community leader of the highest order. Be it as founder of the Schottenstein, Zox and Dunn law firm, director of M/I Schottenstein Homes, chairman of the Columbus Orchestra’s annual fund, moving force in creation of the Columbus Munici­pal Airport Authority or chairman of the United Jewish Fund and Council, the result was always the same — successful. His lifetime contributions were widely recog­nized and include an honorary doctorate from Ohio Dominican College, the George Meany Award for public service by the AFL- CIO and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce “Columbus Award” for commu­nity leadership. Eulogizing his friend and

Addison, Richard C. ’36

Baggott, Horace Worman Jr. ’60

Bernard, Michael E. ’73

Burtch, James Michael Jr. ’48

Cantlon, David Allen ’72

Cartwright, Herman G. Jr. ’58

Daugherty, Robert C. ’56

DeBruin, Walter Edwin ’28

De Victor, Robert L. ’49

Farrell, Henry L. ’52

Francis, John Lewis ’50

Gall, Homer Bernard Jr. ’55

George, Frederick Charles ’52

Hitchcock, John Gareth ’76

Homig, Richard Gilbert ’84

Justice, James C. ’53

Kelley, Joseph Paul ’68

Knerr, Thomas B. ’49

Knouff, Lorentz B. ’32

partner of 30 years in the CBA Daily Reporter, Ben Zox ’62 said, “Mel always did the right thing, and often directly for individuals that he hardly knew, quietly and without fanfare.” Schottenstein lost his battle with cancer on September 12,1993. He is survived by his wife, Lenore, daugh­ters Holly, Amy, and Julie, and a son, Eric.

Former Dean Jefferson Fordham died on June 24, 1994. He served as dean of the College from 1948 to 1952 and continued his career as dean at The University of Pennsylvania Law School, president of The Association of American Law Schools and member of the law faculty at The Univer­sity of Utah.

Lowther, J ohn J . ’61

Meade, David Harvey ’82

Mettler, Harry A. ’33

O’Brien, Charles Frederick ’51

Parker, Charles Lionel ’53

Phillips, Lloyd D. ’59

Rankin, Lewis Allen ’48

Robinson, Joseph C. ’35

Robinson, Lillian Luthanen '37

Schaffter, Marie Suppes ’31

Shenk, Sol A. ’37

Siparo, Orazio ’48

Skilken, Ralph A. ’27

Stem, Joseph ’36

Terrell, Seymour A. ’36

Toler, William A. ’48

Turrell, Rogert Barrett ’52

Weiland, Robert Richard ’60

In Memoriam

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June 12 OSU group admission to U.S. Su­preme Court, Washington, D.C.

June 16 Estate Planning CLE Seminar, Fawcett Center, call 292-4230

June 29-30 OSU College of Law Institute on Mediation, Barcelona, Spain

July 29 1935 Class Reunion (tentative)

August 18 First-Year Student Orientation

September 8 Fall On-Campus Interviewing be­gins: Call (614) 292-0087 to sched­ule your organization’s visit

September 15-16 Annual Alumni Return*

September 16 OSU v. Washington at home

September 29 Fall National Council Meeting University Capital Campaign Kick- Off

September 30 OSU v. Notre Dame at home

October 9-13 Autumn Break

October 21 OSU v. Purdue - Homecoming 1960 Class Reunion

October 28 OSU v. Iowa at home

November 11 OSU v. Illinois at home

November 18 OSU v. Indiana at home

November 23-24 Thanksgiving Break

December 1, 8, and 15 Institute for Judicial Education, 18 hours CJE “Managing Complex Liti­gation.” Call (614) 292-2631.

December 21 Fall Semester ends

* Reunions for the classes of 1990,1985,1980,1975,1970,1965, 1960,1955,1950, and 1940 are planned for this weekend.