Legal education has changed for the better during his career, Hines said, especially with regard to larger numbers of women and people of color filling law classrooms. And the fundamental teaching of legal analysis has been improved through the injection of ideas and research techniques from the social sciences, he said. “I still think a legal education is the best general graduate-level training available to young people in U.S. higher education,” he said. “Completion of a J.D. prepares law graduates to tackle almost any type of intellectually demanding work confident that they know how to systematically work through information, solve problems and effectively communicate their conclusions.” Hines encouraged all three of his daughters to go to law school for that reason, including Laura Hines, who has taught at KU Law since 1997 and is currently co-writing an article with her father on the constitutionalization of punitive damages law. “All three of us have had unique opportunities to appreciate my dad’s tremendous contributions to legal education,” said Laura Hines. “My sister Lisa went to law school at Iowa during his tenure as dean. My sister Linda, a lawyer in the Iowa Attorney General’s office and a former Iowa Supreme Court clerk, has worked with many former students of his. And as a law professor, I’ve heard countless stories from his fellow deans and colleagues about his commitment to academic excellence both at Iowa and to the legal academy as a whole. It has been a wonderful experience to share his love of teaching the next generation of lawyers.” n
Ahmed Alzaabi, L’11 SJD United Arab Emirates University Pat Baude, L’66 Indiana-Bloomington, deceased Surendra Bhandari, L’10 SJD Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan Chuck Briscoe, L’75 Kansas, retired Elizabeth Cateforis, L’94 Kansas
James May, L’89 Widener Steve McAllister, L’88 Kansas Colleen Medill, L’89 Nebraska C. Douglas Miller, L’65 Florida Stefan Padfield, L’01 Akron Deana Peck, L’75 Arizona State John Peck, L’74 Kansas
Eugenia Charles-Newton, L’08 Texas Tech, Librarian Shelley Hickman Clark, L’76 Kansas James Concannon, L’71 Washburn Robert Correales, L’91 UNLV Sarah Deer, L’99 William Mitchell Daniel Dye, L’03 Phoenix David Engdahl, L’64 Seattle Kenneth Gaines, L’76 South Carolina Peter Gopelrud, L’74 Florida Coastal, Dean Stephen Griffin, L’83 Tulane David Hague, L’07 South Texas Chelsi Hayden, L’01 Kansas L. Camille Hébert, L’82 Ohio State Bill Hines, L’61 Iowa Robert Hockett, L’99 Cornell Pam Keller, L’93 Kansas Nicholas Kittrie, L’50 American Nancy Levit, L’84 Missouri-KC Dennis Mandsager, L’76 U.S. Naval War College
Jean Gilles Phillips, L’90 Kansas Dennis Prater, L’73 Kansas Bernard Reams, L’72 St. Mary’s Sheila Reynolds, L’71 Washburn, retired Reginald Robinson, L’87 Washburn Shannon Roesler, L’00 Oklahoma City Joyce Rosenberg, L’96 Kansas Irma Russell, L’80 Montana, Dean Ann Scarlett, L’98 Saint Louis Jan Sheldon, L’77 Kansas Justice David Stras, L’99 Minnesota, until appointed to Minn. Supreme Court Wanda Temm, L’88 Missouri-KC Suzanne Valdez, L’96 Kansas Larry Ward, L’69 Iowa, retired Daniel Weddle, L’95 Missouri-KC Lijuan Xing, L’12 SJD City University of Hong Kong Larry Yackle, L’73 Boston Candace Zierdt, L’77 Stetson
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