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Drexel
College of Law will welcome four new faculty who
will be joining us in the 2008/09 academic year:
- Adam Benforado—B.A. summa
cum laude from Yale and J.D.
cum laude from Harvard Law. Adam
clerked for Judge Judith W. Rogers,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia. His scholarship
involves applying the lessons
of social psychology and related
fields to law and legal theory.
- Richard Frankel—Professor
Frankel will be coming to us from
the very highly regarded Appellate
Litigation Clinic at Georgetown
University. He received his J.D.
from Yale Law School and clerked
for the Ninth Circuit. He will
be teaching in our legal methods
program and begin working with
Susan Brooks to establish our live
client clinic for operation in
AY 2008-2009.
- Anil Kalhan—A.B. magna
cum laude from Brown, M.P.P.M
(Master’s in Public and
Private Management) from Yale
School of Management, and J.D.
from Yale Law. Anil, who has
taught at Columbia and Fordham
Law Schools, clerked for the
Second Circuit. He practiced
as a litigator at Cleary, Gottlieb,
Steen & Hamilton where he
was also the co-coordinator of
the firm's immigration and international
human rights pro bono practice
group. Before attending law school,
he worked for Cable News Network
and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.
Anil will be teaching Criminal
Law, Immigration Law and a Constitutional
Law course.
- Donald Tibbs—B.S.
from Georgia State Univ., J.D.
from Univ. of Pittsburgh School
of Law, Ph.D. from Arizona State
Univ. and LLM from Univ. of Wisconsin
Law School. Donald is currently
an Assistant Professor of Law and
Director of the Institute for Civil
Rights and Justice at Southern
University Law Center in Baton
Rouge, LA. His research interests
include the legal history of civil
rights and black power, law and
liberation, critical race theory,
and race and punishment.
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Faculty
Presentations: 2007/2008
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Presentations: Keep checking back - addtional
presentations will be added in the near future. |
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| June
2008 (upcoming) |
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2008
Association of American Law Schools Conference
on Evidence. Will present on how I
use YouTube to create Evidence exercises. |
| April
2008 |
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Speaker
at Pennsylvania Bar Institute Law Forum, “The
Rule of Law Today: The War on Terror; Immigration
Reform” April 3, 2008, Philadelphia,
PA
http://www.legalspan.com/pbi/catalog.asp?ItemID=20080130-150226-102646 |
| March
1, 2008 |
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The
Nature of U.S. Imperialism”, Deerfield
Beach, FL Progressive Forum, Deerfield
Beach, FL. http://www.thenation.com/events/2008-03-01 |
| February
11 – 12, 2008 |
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Invited
Participant in two-day national strategy
session to develop ways to combat juvenile
life-without-possibilty-of-parole sentences,
Open Society Institute, New York, NY |
| January
2008 |
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“This
is an Emergency: Re-seeing the Jus ad Bellum
Through a Human Rights Lens,” presented
at 2008 Association of American
Law Schools Annual Meeting as part of “New
Voices in Human Rights Panel” co-sponsored
by the Section on International Human Rights
and the Section on New Law Teachers. http://www.aals.org/am2008/sunday/index.html |
| December
2007 |
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“International
Law and the Use of Force – Some Ideas
for Reform,” Presentation to
the Earle Mack School of Law International
Law Society. |
| September
11, 2007 |
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“9/11
and the Road Not Taken,” Professor
Foley published in JURIST,
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/09/911-and-road-not-taken.php |
| August
28, 2007 |
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Professor
Foley’s writing was quoted in an op
ed, “Goodbye Gonzales,” in
a large Mexico City newspaper, La Jornada: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/08/28/index.php?section=opinion&article=030a1mun |
| July
23, 2007 |
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“Policy
in Guantanamo Won’t Thwart Terrorism,” Professor
Foley published in THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER |
| July
18 - 20, 2007 |
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“What’s
Going on Here? Is Applied Legal Storytelling
Political?” Professor Foley was
a co-organizer of this first-ever “Applied
Legal Storytelling” conference. Presented
at City Law School, Gray’s Inn, London,
England, Once Upon a Legal Time: Developing
the Skills of Storytelling in Law Conference,
July 18-20, 2007. There were almost 90
participants representing 11 countries.
Link: http://www.city.ac.uk/law/vocational/storytelling_in_law_.html |
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Brian
J. Foley, Visiting Associate Professor of Law |
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| February
22 - 26, 2008 |
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Gwen
Roseman Stern, director and auxiliary professor
of trial advocacy at Drexel Law School, served
on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial
Advocacy's Florida regional trial skills program
at Nova Law School in Ft. Lauderdale from Feb.
22 to Feb. 26, 2008. She gave the program's demonstration
of an opening statement and critiqued the participating
lawyers on their trial advocacy skills. |
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Director
of Trial Advocacy and Auxiliary Professor of Law,
Gwen Roseman Stern |
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February
2008
October 7, 2007 |
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Online
Symposium on Andrew Guzman’s “How
International Law Works,” Opinio Juris
Symposium on Federalism and the States as Laboratories of Social
Change, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, Temple
University |
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| June
6, 2008 (upcoming) |
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“Patient
Safety, Medical Errors, and Liability:
An Update”, 31st Annual Health
Law Professors Conference, Drexel University
College of Law, Philadelphia, PA |
| March
24, 2008 |
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“Hospitals
At the Center of Liability: Tracking Convergence
of Storm Fronts”, The Future
of Health Law, Fourth Annual Health Law
Program Conference, Boston University Schools
of Law and Public Health, Boston, MA |
| March
17, 2008 |
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“Health
Law and Medical Practice: A Positive Connection?”,
Graduation Address , Drexel College of
Medicine Class, Philadelphia, PA |
| March
11, 2008 |
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“Patient
Safety–New Efforts”, 14th
Annual Health Law Institute, PBI, Philadelphia,
PA |
| March
4, 2008 |
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“Health
Law – What Lawyers Do”,
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Program,
Drexel University College of Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA |
| February
22, 2008 |
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“The
Problem of Medical Errors”, 2008
Symposium - Shaping the Future of Medical
Practice: Legal and Ethical Considerations,
Temple Journal of Science, Technology & Environmental
Law, Philadelphia, PA |
| June
2, 2007 |
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"Global
Health Law” - 30th Annual Health
Law Teachers Conference, Boston, MA |
| December
12, 2007 |
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“Universal
Health Care”, Panel Discussion,
Earle Mack School of Law, Philadelphia,
PA |
| December
11, 2007 |
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“Regulating
the Practice of Medicine”, moderated
by Professor Barry R. Furrow, director
of the health law concentration at the
Earle Mack School of Law, at the
National Constitution Center, Philadelphia,
PA |
| March
14, 2007 |
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“The
Evolution of Patient Safety Regulation
in the United States: From Liability to
Payment Systems”, National
Taiwan University Medical School, Taipei,
Taiwan |
| March
9, 2007 |
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“Representing
the Childrens' Book Author: What to Worry
About in Dealing with Publishers”, Presentation,
Society of Childrens' Book Authors and
Illustrators, Tokyo, Japan |
| February
23, 2007 |
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“Living
Wills as Struggle Between Uncertainty and
Control: The Lessons of Terry Schiavo” -
A presentation at the Midyear Meeting of
Pennsylvania Trial Judges, Pittsburgh,
PA |
| February
3, 2007 |
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“Reducing
Patient Injury”, Symposium
- A presentation at Drexel University
College of Medicine, East Falls, PA |
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Professor
Barry Furrow  |
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February
24, 2007
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“Alternatives
to Traditional Practice” - Invited
speaker at Rutgers School of Law at the Camden
Professional Development Symposium for Law Students
and Attorneys, Camden, NJ |
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Professor
Patricia Legge |
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August
6, 2007
March 3, 2007
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"Post-Conviction
Residency Restrictions" - held at the
annual meeting of the National Association of
Sentencing Commissions, Oklahoma City, OK
“Life and Death Decisions: Prosecutorial
Discretion and Capital Punishment in
Missouri” - Sponsored by Washington
University in St. Louis and St. Louis
University, St. Louis, MO |
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Professor
Daniel M. Filler  |
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July
15, 2008 (upcoming)
March
1, 2008
January
24, 2008
December 6-8, 2007
October 20, 2007
May
31, 2007
March 15-17, 2007 |
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We’re
Quacking as Fast as We Can: Building a Tenure-Track
Legal Writing Program from the Ground Up,
13th
Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute
(with Kevin Oates and Terry Jean Seligmann)(upcoming).
After
the Conference: Maintaining and Developing
Connections Made at International Conferences,
Global Legal Skills Conference III, Facultad
Libre de Derecho de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico,
(with Edwin Abuya, Laurel Oates, and Mimi Samuel).
Top
Ten Tips for Writing Legal Briefs, New
Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education,
(with Libby White).
Seminar on Methodology of Teaching Law: Legal Research, Writing,
and Advocacy Seminar for Law Professors, American Bar Association
Rule of Law Initiative – Ukraine, Pidgirtsi, Ukraine, (primary
faculty, with Deborah McGregor, of three day seminar for Ukrainian
law professors).
Promoting
the Enthusiasm of First-Year Law Students,
Humanizing Legal Education Conference/Symposium,
Washburn University School of Law.
Legal
Writing for Lawyers and Paralegals, New
Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education
(with Sarah Ricks and Libby White).
"Conference on the Pedagogy of Legal Writing for Academics in Africa" -
Nairobi, Kenya
http://legalwritingconference.googlepages.com
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Professor
Emily Zimmerman
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| March
16, 2007 |
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"Progress
in Science and Useful Arts: 20 Years of Changes
and Experience" - Sponsored by the Harvard
Journal of Law and Technology" - Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA |
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Professor
Dana Irwin
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March
27, 2007
March 23, 2007
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"Efficient
Breach vs. Sincerity of Promising: A Collision
of Law, Economics, and Business Norms" -
A talk presented to Drexel University Alumni,
Radnor, PA
"Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities" -
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
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Professor
Chapin Cody
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February
29, 2008
April 2007 |
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“Justice
Kennedy’s Gendered World” presented
at the South Carolina Law Review symposium, “The
Roberts Court & Equal Protection: Gender,
Race, and Class”
Panel Discussion - Professor Cohen organized and participated
on a panel about abortion rights in the aftermath of "Gonzalez
v. Carhart."
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Professor
David S. Cohen |
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| April
12, 2008 |
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Presenter, "Legal
Implications of the Human Genome Project" -
at the New Jersey Law Center in New Brunswick.
StoryLink: www.princetoninfo.com
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Senior
Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor
of Law, Jennifer L. Rosato  |
| June
2007 |
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Presenter, "Different
Ways to Teach Family Law" - AALS Workshop
on Family Law, Vancouver, Canada
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| May
2007 |
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" Professional
Ethics and Responsibility in the ARTS Realm," American
Academy of Adoption Attorneys 2007 Annual Meeting,
Williamsburg, VA
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| April
2007 |
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Speaker, " The
Human Genome," Massachusetts Judicial
Conference of the Probate and Family Law Department
Judicial Conference
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March
8, 2007
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Panelist, " Women'
s Health Research at a Crossroads, "Drexel
University College of Medicine' s Institute
for Women' s Health, Philadelphia, PA
(l. to rt.) - Gerianne Tringali DiPiano, CEO, FemmePharma Global
Healthcare, Inc.; Katherine Sherif, M.D., Director, Center for
Women's Health; Drexel University College of Medicine, Anne-Marie
Corner, Vice President for Women's Health - Cellergy Pharmaceuticals;
Acting Dean of Drexel University College of Law, Jennifer L.
Rosato; and Lynne Yeakel, Director, Institute for Women's Health
and Leadership (moderator).
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| June
2007 |
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"Directing
a Tenure Track Legal Writing Program: An Oxymoron?" (moderator
of roundtable discussion), Association of Legal
Writing Directors Conference, Denver, Colorado
ABA
Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs, Break-out
Session on Tenure Track Faculty, Association
of Legal Writing Directors Conference, Denver,
Colorado
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Terry
Jean Seligmann, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Legal
Writing and Director of Drexel Law Legal Writing
Program |
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