News Briefs
Paul Dassenko, ’82, at Commencement 2017
Alumnus Elected to Board of Regents
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aul Dassenko, ’82, an international arbitrator, has
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been elected to the University of the Pacific’s Board of Regents. His term began July 1. Dassenko is the CEO and president of Risk Transfer Underwriting Inc., which he founded in 2011. He has been appointed to more than 250 arbitrations in the United States, South America, the United Kingdom, Bermuda, Singapore and Dubai. In 1989, he was tapped to oversee asset recovery of more than
$4.5 billion in the largest property-casualty insurance company insolvency of the 1980s. Dassenko also serves on the law school’s International Board of Advisors and attended a July gathering to introduce new Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz to European alumni and visit with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and his wife, Mary. Dassenko gave the McGeorge commencement address in May.
Law Review Symposium Discusses Water Rights The University of the Pacific Law Review Symposium was held on Nov. 3, 2017, on the McGeorge campus. Dr. Peter Gleick, president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, was the keynote speaker at the event, which dealt with the topic “The Human Right to Water: Turning Principles Into Action.” Professor Jennifer Harder organized the symposium. Watch videos of the panel presentations and learn more at go.mcgeorge.edu/lawreview.
Professor Jennifer Harder
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