UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT FAYETTVILLE SCHOOL OF LAW By Paula Casey, Professor of Law Groundbreaking ceremonies for
the new UALR Law School building were held on ovember 15, 1989. Speakers for the ceremony included UALR Chancellor James H. Young, University of Arkansas Interim
President Gary Chamberlin, University of Arkansas Board of Trustees
Chairman Sykes Harris, UALR Board of Visitors Chairman Herschel Friday,
will be published in The George Washington JOllmol of In/emotional Law and Ecollomics. Professor Robert R. Wright attended the Fall Council Meeting of the American
Bar Association's
General Practice Section in Naples, Florida, in October. Professor Wright's term on the Council began in August, 1989, and will continue until August, 1993. He is also Chairman of the General Practice Section's Publications Board. Professor Wright attended the Arkansas Bar Association's House of
Delegates meeting in Fayetteville in October as a tenure delegate. Visiting Professor John M.A. DiPippa spoke to the Federal Practice Committee for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas at the
Chief Justice Jack Holt, Jr. of the Arkansas Supreme Court, and UALR Law School Acting Dean Fenton Adams. Also participating in the ceremony were State Senator Max Howell; State Representative Mike Wilson; Buddy Raines, President of the UALR Law Schuol AÂťociatiun; and Carolyn Witherspoon, President of the Pulaski County Bar Association. Following the groundbreaking ceremony, the UALR Law School Association and the Pulaski County
Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference on "The Future of Alternative Dispute Resolution." Professor DiPippa also spoke to the Arkansas Municipal Judges Association about recent
Bar Association co-hosted a reception
symposium on law and reLigion in St. Paul, Minnesota, in October. Professor
at the Villa Marre. The UALR Law School will move to the new building in the Fall of 1991.
decisions on criminal procedure. In
October, Professor DiPippa delivered three presentations at the Legal
Services Statewide Conference: (1) The Lawyers' Professional Responsibility to the Impaired Client; (2) Ethics for on-lawyers; (3) Ethical Issues in Legal Services Practice.
Professor
DiPippa
attended
a
DiPippa is currently working with the UCA Honors College to develop a spea kers series.
FACULTY NEWS: Dean Fenton Adams and Professors Kenneth S. Gould, Andrew J. McClurg, Robert R. Wright, and L. Scott Stafford attended the Association of American Law Schools Conference on Faculty Recruitment in Washington, D.C, in November. Professor Arthur G. Murphey's article, "Consequential Damages in Contracts for the International Sale of
Goods and the Legacy of Hadley", 4 8
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Professor Kenneth S. Gould attended a Roundtable Conference sponsored by the U.s. Trademark Association in Dallas, Texas, in October.
University School of Law in 1981 and a B.A. from Tennessee State University
in 1978. She was associated with Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone in Detroit, Michigan, from 1981-82, and clerked in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Alabama from 1982-83. In 1983, she began a clerkship with Judge Richard S. Arnold of the U.s. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She left that clerkship in 1985 to assume her duties as Assistant .S. Attorney for the Eastern
District
of
ew
York.
Professor Hill is teaching Criminal Law and Trial Advocacy. Professor Hill attended a meeting of the Northeast Corridor of Black Women Law Professors in New York City in October. Professor Eugene Mullins attended the Fourth Annual Workers Compensation Seminar in Little Rock in
ovember.
Associate Dean Paula Casey has taken a leave of absence from the Law School to work as Chief Counsel for United States Senator Dale Bumpers
in Washington, D.C Professor Tanya Hill and Associate Dean Paula Casey attended a conference on minorities in the legal
profession sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools in
Washington, D.C Professor Ranko Shiraki Oliver will be a visiting professor at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, during the Spring 1990 semester.
STUDENT NEWS
Professor Dennis Hansen attended
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity sponsored "Immunity Day" at the Law Schuul. Stuuents who placed a nonperishable food item on the table
the American Society for Legal
in front of them during class were
History meeting in San Francisco,
immunized from being called on to answer questions by the professor. At the end of each class, PAD members collected the food items, which were donated to a local food bank.
California, in October. Professor Tanya Hill has joined the UALR Law School faculty. Professor Hill received a J.D. from Howard
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JANUARY
1990