School of Law / Faculty Hearsay
August 22, 2005Fall 2005 #1
School Wide News
Milestones
- New Faculty
- Transitions
- Recent Publications
- Lectures & Presentations
- Miscellaneous
Upcoming Events
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School Wide News
Hispanic Business Reviewranked the University of Miami School of Law as the number one law school in the country for Hispanic students for 2005.The H.O.P.E. Public Interest Resource Center was one of twenty-one law school public interest programs in the nation nominated for the American Bar Association Law Student Division Judy M. Weightman Memorial Public Interest Award. Congratulations to Dean Lennon and the many students who have worked with H.O.P.E. for this recognition of their hard work and dedication.
Classrooms 216B, 265 and 352 were refurbished over the summer. More up-to-date technology combined with some restructuring and redecoration should make these rooms more comfortable and more versatile places to learn.
CopyCenter Hours: M-F 8 a.m. – 8 p.m
Sat 10 a.m. – 6 p.m
Sun Noon-6:00 p.m.
The Fall 2005 Exam Schedules are now available on the website at: on MyUM (formerly EASY) on your faculty page. If the students raise any questions about exam conflicts or exam accommodations, please refer them to the Dean of Students’ Office.
Technology & Facilities Split into Separate Departments:
- Felix Armas will continue to be the Coordinator for the Facilities and Security Department, which includes the copy center and mail service.Raquel Matas is the Associate Dean responsible for facilities, security, and emergency planning.
- Ellen Greenfield will continue to be the Director for the Information and Technology Department, which includes audio visual. Donna Coker is the Associate Dean responsible for information and technology.
- The HELP Desk(available at x3000 and ) will continue to field calls for BOTH Departments until further notice.
Leipzig Exchange Program: In May, Professors David Abraham and Richard Williamson once again led a group of students to Leipzig, Germany for a continuation of the exchange program between the UM Law School and the Faculty of Law at the University of Leipzig, in the former East Germany. Miami had hosted a group of two professors and eight students from Leipzig in September, right in the middle of the most active hurricane season in memory. The UM contingent, including eight competitively selected UM students returned the visit at the close of the spring semester.
The visit consisted of intensive formal presentations and subsequent discussions on international law topics such as “Is there ever a right to undertake humanitarian intervention without U.N. Security Council approval? If so, with what limitations?” and such comparative law topics as ”The comparative law of punitive damages and the resulting conflict in transnational cases.” But there was also time for fun: a concert in the world-famous Gewandhaus, a walking tour of historic Dresden, and dinner and a wine tasting at a small winery along the ElbeRiver.
The program has proven to be exceptionally popular with both the German and American students, several of whom said it was their best experience in law school. Now starting its fifth year, the program helps students on both sides of the Atlantic better understand each other’s points of view, and better understand their own legal system by seeing it from a comparative perspective.
After another stringent competition, the team for this coming year’s exchange has been selected, and will be receiving the topics for the first round shortly. This time, however, the Germans agreed that it might not be a good idea to come to Miami again in the hurricane season, and will come instead in January.
Milestones
New Faculty (Click on the names to access biographical info & websites.)
Full-Time Faculty
Zanita Fenton, Professor of Law (Room G384 x4275). This year, Professor Fenton will teach Torts in the Fall and Family Law in the Spring.
JoNel Newman, Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Education (Room D238 x4125). Professor Newman teaches in the Community Health Rights Education Clinic.
Stephen I. Vladeck, Associate Professor of Law (Room G385 x5837) This year, Professor Vladeck will teach Civil Procedure I and Federal Courts in the Fall and National Security Law in the Spring.
Kele S. Williams, Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Education (Room F305 x8827). Professor Williams teaches in the Children & Youth Law Clinic.
Visiting Faculty: Fall Semester
Attila de Souza Leão Andrade, Junior, Visiting Professor of Law (G372 x5345). This Fall, Professor Andrade will teach Doing Business in Latin America and Transnational Transactions Workshop (E.C., U.S., and Brazil).
Nicolò Trocker, Visiting Professor of Law (G386 x1524). During the first seven weeks of the Fall Semester, Professor Trocker will teach an accelerated course in Transnational Litigation.
Full-Time LRW Instructors:
Lindsay Harrison, Lecturer in Law (C420 x1373). In addition to LRW, this Fall she is teaching a seminar in Civil Rights Litigation Strategies.
Stephanie C. Haun, Lecturer in Law (C417 x6768). She returns to the School of Law after some time away and, in addition to LRW, will teach an upper-level course in the Spring.
Erik Scharf, Lecturer in Law (C419 x6118). In addition to LRW, in the Spring, he will teach a Seminar on Florida’s Appellate Courts.
Transitions
Mercy Hernandez, Duplication and Distribution Manager, is on medical leave for the next several weeks recovering from a successful operation. We all wish her continued health and speedy recovery.
Carol Kennedy, Director of Financial Aid, is retiring as of August 31, 2005. Brenda Brown will become Acting Director of Financial Aid. We are holding a party in honor of Carol’s retirement on Monday August 29 (See Events below).
JoAnne Harvest Koren, director of the Academic Achievement Program, was named Chair of the Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board.
Jose Marcos is the new Computer Support Administrator. (C117 x8053) Jose will manage our Help Desk operation and will work closely with our new Assistant Director for Faculty Technology to coordinate expanded technology support and services for the faculty. He will also work directly with senior administrators to design and provide technology support for administrative computing.
Jose worked for the past ten years at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Most recently, he managed the data center, overseeing technical and user support activities for a facility comprised of more than 100 network servers. He received very strong references from his co-workers at the School of Medicine, and more importantly, from faculty and staff for whom he provided technology support.
Chana Wilkerson is the new Assistant Director for Faculty Technology (G177 x8563). She will assist the faculty with using technology in all aspects of our jobs, including communications, research, and in the classroom. Chana is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars and has served as in-house counsel for MCI and Sprint Communications Co. and as the Deputy Staff Counsel and an Assistant Staff Counsel for the Maryland Public Service Commission. Prior to receiving her J.D., she worked for the TechnologyAssistedLearningCenter at the University of Maryland School of Law.
Faculty News
In response to my request for information about your recent work, I am getting a wide range of interesting information that I will be sharing with Deans Coker and Lynch. However, for the purposes of this section of the newsletter, I am limiting announcements to completed presentations and published writing. For those of you who have not yet had a chance to respond, I will be happy to include information about your work in later newsletters as it is received. – Marc Fajer
Recent Publications
Ken Casebeer
Teacher’s Manual for K. Casebeer and G. Minda, Work Law in American Society
Susan Haack
Epistemology Legalized: Or, Truth, Justice, and the American Way, 49 Am. J. of Jurisprudence, 43-61 (cover date 2004, actually appeared June 2005).
Fallibilism and Faith, Naturalism and the Supernatural, Science and Religion, in Stefano Moriggi and Elio Sindoni, eds., Dio, Natura E Legge 143-54 (July 2005).
Trial and Error: The Supreme Court's Philosophy of Science, 95 Am. J. of Public Health S66-73 (July 2005).
Not Cynicism but Synechism: Lessons from Classical Pragmatism, 61 Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 239-54 (July 2005)
William Twining
Have Concepts, Will Travel: Analytical Jurisprudence in a Global Context, 1 Int. J. Law in Context 5-40 (2005)
Social Science and Diffusion of Law, 32 J. Law and Society 203-40 (2005)
Lectures and Publications
Caroline Bradley
“Private International Law-Making for the Financial Markets,” Law and Society Conference, Las Vegas (June 2005)
Patrick Gudridge
“After Schaivo,” Presentation/CLE Lecture for U.M. Law Alumni Ass’n, Chicago
(April 2005)
Susan Haack
Three Lectures in the Departamento de Filosofia at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico City (June 2005): ("Defending Science: Pragmatist Themes and Variations"; "Evidence and Method in the Sciences"; "Philosophical Skepticism and Scientific Fallibilism")
"Epistemology Legalized: Or, Truth, Justice, and the American Way" at the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, Mexico City (June 2005).
"Science, Economics, 'Vision'," at plenary session in honor of Robert Heilbroner, International Conference of the History of Economics Society, Tacoma (June 2005).
"The Unity of Truth and the Plurality of Truths," Opening Lecture at an international conference on Logic, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science at the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina, Florianopolis, Brazil (August 2005).
Lili Levi
Panelist, "The Florida Bar's Annual Review of First Amendment Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, October Term 2004.” Florida Bar Meeting, Orlando (June 2005)
Bernard Oxman
“Teaching Customary International Law,” Address to the ColumbiaLawSchool Class of 1965 Reunion, New York (May 2005)
Alan Swan
Panel Chair, Competition Policy in the WTO, Steel, Hector/UM Roundtable on Competition Policy in the Western Hemisphere (April 2005)
“Investor-State Arbitrations Under NAFTA”, International Trade Law Committee of the International Law Association, Geneva, Switzerland (Summer 2005)
William Twining
“General Jurisprudence,” World Congress on Legal Philosophy, Granada (May 2005)
Bruce Winick
“Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Unified Family Court”, Presidential Showcase Panel on ‘The New Court is Here!’ Unified Family Court’s Holistic Approach, Florida Bar Meeting, Orlando (June 2005).
“Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Bridging the Gap Between Law and Psychology,” International Law & Psychology Colloquium, University College of London, United Kingdom (July 2005)
“Offender Reentry Courts: A Cost-Effective Proposal for Managing Sex Offender Risk in the Community,” 29th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Paris, France.
Miscellaneous
Mary Coombs
Affidavit on Florida Marriage Law for the National Center on Lesbian Rights, for use in Higgs v. Kolhage, a lawsuit in Monroe County Circuit Court seeking marriage equality for same-sex couples in Florida.
Bernard Oxman
“Brief of Amici Curiae International Law Experts” in Ex Parte Medellin in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (one of nine co-signers; July 2005). The brief treats President Bush's public determination that the ICJ decision in Avena is to be executed by the state courts as confirming the obligation of the state courts to give effect to the proceduralrights of the defendant under the Vienna Convention as articulated by the ICJ.
Administrative Memos
Currently, the memos described in this section are found on the G Drive in the “Faculty Administration & Staff” folder in a subfolder entitled “Fall 05 Faculty Memos.” Thus, the links below may not work from off-network computers. However, we will be establishing a password-protected section of the website and eventually these memos and an archive of the Faculty Hearsay newsletters will be placed on the web for easier access.
Available Class Minutes: For each of our non-clinical courses, the ABA requires us to teach 700 classroom minutes per unit of credit earned. Under the clever and innovative Schnably scheduling,[1] all of us start out with more minutes than we need, allowing us to cancel some classes without the need for make-ups. The spreadsheet here lists all non-clinical courses alphabetically by instructor and indicates, for each, the number of minutes the ABA requires and the number actually scheduled for you this semester.
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Beginning of Semester Announcements: This catch-all memo contains information on the following topics:
- Submission of Syllabi/Course Requirements
- Faculty Review of Adjunct Teaching
- Law Review Survey of Faculty Interests
- Religious Holidays
- Class Cancellations and Make-Ups
- Classroom AV Equipment & Microphones
- Timely Transitions Between Classes
- Mid-Semester Exams; First-Year Practice Exam
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Group E-Mail Lists: This is a list of the addresses you would use to contact all faculty, all staff, all first-year students etc. You should be aware that the “fac01” list includes tenured, tenure-track, clinical and full-time and part time LRW instructors, lecturers, visiting assistant professors, and visiting faculty, so it should not be used for communication intended only for tenured or tenure-track faculty.
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Updated Information on Judicial Clerkship Recommendation Letters: This memo from Liz Stack, Director of Judicial Clerkships, provides information on relevant deadlines (most local judges are adhering to September 6); on the mail merge process; and on the online application process. Third-year students are already approaching faculty about writing letters, so you or your assistant may wish to become familiar with this information.
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Upcoming Events
(Monday August 22- Sunday September 18)
Please send to Dean Fajer information on other events to which faculty are invited that you think merit inclusion on this list.
THU 8/25 Reception for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Students
(5:30 p.m. Faculty Meeting Room)
FRI 8/26Faculty Lunch (Noon: Faculty Meeting Room)
Party Honoring Steve Schnably (4:00 p.m. Student Lounge)
MON 8/29Add/Drop Deadline for Courses
Retirement Party for Carol Kennedy (3:00 p.m. Faculty Meeting Room)
MON 9/5Labor Day (No Classes)
UM Football @ FloridaState
TUE 9/6Add/Drop Deadline for Seminars, Workshops & Independent Writing
THU 9/8Beer at the Rat (4:30-7:00 p.m. Rathskeller)
Hate Crimes Panel Discussion sponsored by No Place for Hate
(6:30 PM-8:30 p.m. Student Lounge)
TUE 9/13. Leadership Luncheon: “Starting Your Own Law Firm”
Jeffrey Kaplan of Dimond, Kaplan & Rothstein (12:30 – 2:00 p.m Faculty Meeting Room)
FRI 9/16Faculty Meeting (Lunch at Noon; Meeting at 12:30 p.m.;
Faculty Meeting Room)
SAT 9/17 UM Football @ Clemson
[1] Pronounced “said-you-ling”