LAW been elected President of the Federalist Society of Arkansas, Lawyers' Division. Professor Oliver participated in a panel sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity on the legalization of drugs....Ms. Ranko Oliver has been elected to participate in the Family Leadership Project sponsored by the Arkansas Governor's Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. She also serves as project director for a program to develop a Disability Law course and CLE program, both of which will be presented this summer. The project is funded by the Planning Council. ...Professor Frances Rosenzweig will have her article on securities law published in Poland later this year. She attended a February conference on Privatization in Eastern Europe at the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia University in New York. Professor Rosenzweig hopes to spend the spring, 1994 semester teaching in Poland ....Professor J. Thomas Sullivan has had two articles published recently. One, "Teaching Appellate Advocacy in an Appellate Clinical Law Program" appears in the Seto" Hall Law Review, while his article"An Overview of the Law of jury Selection for Arkansas Criminal Trial lawyers" appears in volume 15 of the UALR Law Review. Professor Sullivan presented a program for federal magistrate judges at the August Eighth Circuit Conference in Minneapolis. He presented a similar program in September as part of the Bar Association's CLE program....Professor Robert R. Wright III has been nominated to be Secretary of the General Practice Section of the American Bar Association. Professor Wright is a
member of the Section's council as well as serving as Chairman of the Section's Advocacy Committee. He serves as chair of the Arkansas Bar Association's General Practice Committee. Professor Wright has agreed to write a history of the Arkansas Bench and Bar. SCULPTURE DEDICATED: In January the final completion of the new Law School was marked by the dedication of the major sculpture in front of the building. The sculpture, which looks like a large green "W" held up by granite pillars, is the work of well known Chicago sculptor Barry Tinsley. The work, entitled
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"Res Imobiles" includes the two rough granite pillars intended to symbolize law students being honed into lawyers. The granite was selected because it matches the type of granite in the Old Federal Building, the former home of the Law School. The large bronze "W" actually reflects the design of the art deco arches over the front and rear doors of the Law
School building, originally constructed in the early 1930's.
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT FAYETIEVILLE SCHOOL OF LAW This fall, Professor Jan Levine and the staff of the Legal Research and Writing Program invited alumni to return to the
School of Law and judge the class of 1994 deliver oral arguments for the Appellate Advocacy course. Over fifty alumni participated in the fall program, and by all accounts the experiment was successful. Approximately seventy alumni volunteers have been scheduled to come back to the School of Law this spring and will judge members of the class of 1995 in the delivery of their oral arguments, which will be based on briefs prepared for the new Legal Research and Writing IT course. This fall, the faculty approved Professor Levine's request to modify the courses in the LR&W Program. The firstyear students will receive a five-credithours on instruction in two courses tha t integrate analysis, traditional hard-copy research, drafting of objective memoranda and persuasive briefs, and appellate oral advocacy. In their second year of school, the students will take a two-credit-hour course addressing advanced legal writing and research techniques, also in an integrated format. The advanced course will deal with letter writing, statutory history and interpretation, regulatory drafting, advanced computer-assisted legal research, and other similar techniques. Professor Levine is also the faculty advisor to a new student organization, the Arkansas Coalition for Public lnterest Law. The students hope to develop
various projects in areas such as environmental law and child protective services. Professor John Watkins is a visiting professor at the UALR School of Law for Spring 1993 and his article, "Summary Judgement Practice in Arkansas" was published in Vol. 15, #1 of the UALR Law Jounral. Professor john Steinkamp presented "The Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax" at the recent Arvest Trust Company's quarterly Estate Planning CLE. Professor Robert Laurence taught a two-week course in Business Law and Communications last faIl at the College for Foreign Trade in Budapest, Hungary and will return for another two-week session this spring. As a spin-off to this teaching experience, Professor Laurence and Katalin Kollath, a member of the English Department at the college, are writing a book, Commercial Law and the Language of Commerce, simultaneously. Former Dean Jake Looney and Professor Paul Schwartz both spoke at the Conference on the Force of Law, I' Association Juristia and the City of Nantes, at Nantes, France in November of 1992. Professor Schwartz delivered a paper, Paradigms of Privacy and Data Protection Law, at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Professors, Panel on Defamation and Privacy, in january 1993. Professor Schwartz has had published Data Processing and Government Administration: The Failure of the American Legal Response to the Computer, 4J Hastings Law journal 1321 (1992). Former Dean jake Looney has been a speaker on Agricultural Law issues to the Arkansas Bankers Association, the Pork Producers Conference in orth Carolina, in Zaragoza, Spain and Costa Rica. He has also published "The Changing Focus of Government Reguwtion of Agriculture in the United States, 44 Mercer Law Review 1 (1993). Dean Leonard P. Strickman made a presentation on 'The Ethics of Deaning " at the American Bar Association New Dean's Workshop held in Boston in February of 1993. H