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Fall 2008

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Dear Alumni and Friends, Recollections of law school usually include memories of the examination process and blue books. While the basic elements of examinations remain the same, the method by which we administer them has changed greatly. These changes mark a more significant substantive development at your law school. Let me explain: Two years ago, we adopted a new honor system for the School of Law. This followed a year of deliberation, cooperation and decision-making by the faculty and the student body, all of which culminated in a faculty and student vote to adopt a new Honor Code.

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The philosophy of the Honor Code is instructive: Acceptance to Saint Louis University School of Law represents the first step toward participation in the legal profession.

Membership in the student body, and ultimately in the legal profession, entails a unique set of responsibilities to fellow students, to the law school, to the legal profession and to the public at large. The legal profession demands the highest degree of trustworthiness, honesty and integrity. As future members of that profession, students of the Saint Louis University School of Law are bound to observe the principles that reflect the same high standards that govern the practice of law.

This Honor Code sets forth the minimum standards by which the conduct of all students of the Saint Louis University School of Law shall be governed.

The procedural system instituted by the new Honor Code gives students the responsibility of self-governance and self-discipline. Through the leadership of the student Honor Council, and with support of the Executive Board of the Student Bar Association, our students now administer the academic honor system for the School of Law. The assumption of this great responsibility by law students marks an important step in the development of professionalism. I am very proud of our students. They have earned our trust and they have shouldered a most important responsibility.

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The implementation of a studentadministered Honor Code made it possible to take another step: self-scheduled examinations after the first year.

Within the constraints of the examination period, our upper-class students now have the freedom to construct their own examination schedules. Selfscheduled examinations require honor, integrity and responsibility — principals that will define our students as they enter the legal profession.

This process promotes an atmosphere of trustworthiness and integrity — and holds our students to the highest ethical standards. It is another fine example of the faculty’s confidence in our students; it is also a fine example of our student’s willingness to accept responsibility.

I mentioned above memories of blue books, long the signature symbol of the exam process. As technology and education intersect, the days of blue books fade into history. Most students now take their examinations on laptops.

When they finish, they send their answers electronically to our Student Services Office. The examinations are then downloaded and delivered to the faculty. I could not have imagined such a procedure when I attended law school in the 1960s.

Welcome to the modern law school!

This message would not be complete without my expression of gratitude for the wonderful support we continue to receive from our alumni and friends.

Every aspect of our students’ educational experience is enhanced by your support.

Your willingness to advise our students, to hire our students and to support their education with generous monetary gifts is greatly appreciated.

With hopes and wishes that the year 2009 will be good to you, Yours sincerely,

Jeffrey E. Lewis Dean and Professor of Law

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School of Law professors advance their academic pursuits into real-world applications.

Reporters around the world seek Professor Joel K. Goldstein’s expertise on the vice presidency.

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The School of Law Welcomes Five New Faculty

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Law students travel across the globe for public interest fellowships.

Lifelong Achievements

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The School of Law celebrates the accomplishments of John E. Dunsford and Sandra H. Johnson

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For the Global Good

Reunion 2008

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Take a peek at the highlights from this past Law Reunion weekend, and don’t forget to mark your calendars for Reunion 2009.

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Terry Schnuck, ’80, shares the story behind his transition from barrister to Broadway producer.

Corrections from Spring 2008 Brief: The date of the formation of BLSA is the fall of 1970, not 1973; Law Briefs item on Missouri Court of Appeals; p. 7: Judge Odenwald’s graduation year is 1979, not ’74; Alumni events photos, p. 28: The man identified as Joel Poole is Joseph Porter, ’79.

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Food for Thought Speakers Engage Students The “Food for Thought Speaker Series,” hosted by the Alumni Relations Office, provided two opportunities last fall for law school alumni to share their insights and practical experience with a small group of law students over lunch.

Attorney Eric S. Christensen, ’98, an associate at Lashly & Baer, shared his experience representing employers and insurers in workers’ compensation defense matters on Oct. 8. He offered insight about representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety

The School of Law Sponsors Largest Naturalization in Missouri Nearly 1,000 immigrants from 180 countries across the globe celebrated their U.S. citizenship at the largest naturalization ceremony ever held in Missouri on Sept.

19. The ceremony, co-sponsored by the School of Law, was held in the Chaifetz Arena. The Public Interest Law Group organized the historic event that was spearheaded by law student Meggie Biesenthal, ’09. School of Law Professor Amany Ragab Hacking, ’97, a native of Egypt who became a U.S. citizen in 1984, delivered the keynote address.

For highlights of her speech, turn to page 20.

Professor Griesbach Receives Shared Governance Award John M. Griesbach was honored as the recipient of the 2008 John A. Slosar Shared Governance Award at the Faculty Senate’s “kick-off” dinner this fall. The annual award honors and recognizes a faculty member who has made outstanding contributions to the advancement of shared governance at the University. The award is named after John Slosar, who served as the first president of the Faculty Senate.

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Health Law Distinguished Speaker Series Practitioner-in-Residence Focuses on the Law and Psychiatric Crisis

The Center for Health Law Studies’ annual Practitionerin-Residence program offers working attorneys the chance to reflect on the law while offering students and faculty insight into the realities of practicing health law.

In September, Susan Stefan, a staff attorney at the Center for Public Representation, participated in several student and faculty roundtable discussions and presented a keynote lecture, “Responding to People in Psychiatric Crisis: Paradoxes of Policy and Law.” Prior to working for the center, Stefan was a law professor at the University of Miami School of Law, where she taught disability and mental health law and litigated cases applying the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Politics and Health Policy Focus of Election Forum The intersection of politics and health

of litigation and discussed a lawsuit involving a large group of Missouri hospitals against the tobacco industry.

Bankruptcy, commercial transactions and environmental law highlighted the Nov. 5 talk with attorney David G. Asmus, ’79, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP. Throughout his 30-year career, Asmus has represented national, regional and local banks; brokerage and financial services companies; and mortgage banks.

He also talked about his community service work and his experience as a member and director of many civic and arts organizations.

policy set the stage for the Center for Health Law Studies Distinguished Speaker Series lecture, “Pre-Election Health Policy and Politics Forum.” The 2008 Election forum featured Katherine Hayes, vice president of health policy at Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc. (who helped Sen. Hillary Clinton develop her health reform plan) and her husband, Mark Hayes, staff director of the Senate Finance Committee Health Subcommittee. Professor Thomas L. Greaney moderated the Oct. 27 forum, which focused on the need for health care reform and the potential for change under a new presidency.

A Kidney for Sale?

Should there be a legal market for selling human organs? Mark J. Cherry, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy at St. Edward’s University, examined this highly controversial topic in “Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation and the Market” on Oct. 5.

Cherry, the editor-in-chief of the HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum, addressed the danger of buying organs on the black market and argued for the legalization of organ buying to provide regulation and oversight as well as to increase the supply of available organs.

Balancing the right to privacy, safety and exploitation concerns rested at the heart of the discussion.

Employment Law Lectures Cover Genetics, Labor Law and Online Personal Information Recent national labor decisions, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act and online personal information and employment issues set the stage for the Wefel Center for Employment Law Speaker Series last semester.

A recent series of cases decided by the National Labor Relations Board has dramatically changed labor-management relations and protections. Ralph R. Tremain, the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, discussed the impact of those cases during a lecture titled “Recent Developments at the National Labor Relations Board” on Oct. 15.

The Genetic Information Nondis Crimination Act was the focus of a lecture by Professor Elizabeth Pendo on Oct. 29. She

discussed how the 2007 act provides basic protections that permit and encourage lifesaving genetic screening, counseling, testing and new therapies without fear of job

or health insurance loss.

Do you have a Facebook account, Web site or blog? George L. Lenard, a partner with Harris Dowell Fisher & Harris, LC, offered insight on how employers and recruiters can use personal information in hiring and employment decisions. The Nov. 12 lecture, “The Use of Personal Information in Employment Decisions,” addressed the benefits of online technology to employers, job applicants and self-employed professionals while discussing discrimination laws and privacy issues.

From left: Raumesh Akbari, ’09; Stessie Bill, ’09; Doreen Dodson, ’74; Mavis Thompson and Sandra H. Johnson

In 1908, five women made history at the School of Law when they became the first female students at the University. The law school continues the celebration of “The First 100 Years: Women at Saint Louis University” with a series of centennial events. The 2008-2009 Speaker Series honors those groundbreaking women and the generations of women who have followed in their footsteps.

The 100 Years of Women fall lectures:

International Speaker Series Spotlights African and Polish Criminal Law Professors Law professors from Poland and Nigeria focused on international criminal law issues at the Center for International and Comparative Law Speaker Series in November.

“Democratic Transformation and Crime Control in Central Europe” was presented by Professor Emil W. Plywaczewski (photo: left), a law and criminology professor and chair of the Institute of Criminal Law at the University of Poland, on Nov. 12. Professor Eric J. Miller was the commentator of the lecture.

Plywaczewski is the chief coordinator of the Polish Platform for Homeland Security.

He is also the first Polish author to publish monographs on organized crime and money laundering, and his articles have been featured in more than 290 publications.

“Privatization of the Prison System: A Panacea for Nigeria?” was hosted by Oluyemisi Bamgbose, a professor of law and head of the Department of Public

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and International Law at the University of Ibadan-Nigeria, on Nov. 24. The commentator for the lecture was Professor Susan W. McGraugh.

Bamgbose served as the chairperson of the Study Group on the Death Penalty for the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and is a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Her scholarly work has focused on the high-tech work demands on women’s reproductive behavior, teenage prostitution in Nigeria and euthanasia. She also was a visiting professor at Saint Louis University School of Law and taught International Criminal Procedure in the spring of 2008.

Balancing work and life is a lifelong battle. Nicole B. Porter, assistant professor at Toledo School of Law, offered insight on how female attorneys can strike a better balance of work, family and life in “Work-Life Balance and Its Challenges” on Sept. 25. Alumnae panelists included attorneys Christi Flaherty, ’01; Mary Anne Sedey, ’75; and Joan Swartz, ’87. Professor Susan A. FitzGibbon moderated the discussion.

Shari Seidman Diamond, the Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and professor of psychology at Northwestern University School of Law, explored “Psychology of Juries: Does Gender Matter?” The answer: not as much as one might think. Alumnae panelists St. Louis City Public Defender Mary Dames Fox, ’80, and Associate Circuit Judge Mary Ott, ’85, also shared their experiences in the courtroom and offered invaluable insight. Professor Molly Walker Wilson was the faculty moderator.

Mavis Thompson, president-elect of the National Bar Association discussed “Women in Public Service” on Nov. 18. Alumnae panelists included Doreen Dodson, ’74, and Colleen Lavelle Wasinger, ’01. Emerita Professor Sandra H. Johnson served as the faculty moderator.

Go to the School of Law web site at law.slu.edu for Spring 2009 lectures.

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Author Gail Grant Speaks on Civil Rights

Benton Serves as Fall Jurist-in-Residence The Honorable Judge William “Duane” Benton of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and former Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court was the featured Jurist-inResidence on Sept. 25. He spoke about the federal courts and the differences between the circuit court and the Missouri Supreme Court. Benton, who also teaches undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence at Westminster College, fielded questions about how judges are appointed and how young attorneys can make the best impression when appearing before the court.

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From left: Prof. Eric J. Miller, Robert Kenney, ’99, Gail Milissa Grant and Prof. John J. Ammann

Author Gail Milissa Grant discussed her book, At the Elbows of My Elders, One Family’s Journey Toward Civil Rights, and explained that she was compelled to write about her childhood experiences and the lessons she learned from her family, who helped paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement.

Gail is the daughter of David Grant, a prominent African-American lawyer and civil rights leader. He served on the National Democratic Committee in 1960 and helped write the Kennedy-Johnson civil rights campaign platform. In the 1950s, the Grant family home on the predominantly white south side of St. Louis provided a refuge for many celebrated African-American entertainers and political leaders who were refused accommodations by major hotels. Josephine Baker, Thurgood Marshall and Grant’s godfather, Cab Calloway, are just a few of the people who stayed at the Grant home.

Each year, the David Grant Clinic Student Award is given to a third-year law student who has served as an advocate for social justice.

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the court’s decision to strike down as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment a Louisiana law that The law school faculty celebrated permitted capital punishment for the rape Constitution Day on Sept. 17 by of a child that did not result in death. examining the most influential decisions of Professor Ann M. Scarlett examined the U.S. Supreme Court’s past term while the court’s decision to limit punitive looking forward to the impact the new damages in the Exxon Valdez oil spill president will have on the High Court. to the amount of actual damages, and Several members of the law school Professor Elizabeth Pendo offered her faculty spotlighted national cases analysis of some of the employment along with lesser-known ones that had discrimination cases decided by the court. significant legal impact to honor the Professor Eric J. Miller discussed decisions 221st birthday of the Constitution. related to America’s drug policies. And Professor Alan J. Howard addressed the political science Professor Steven Puro Washington, D.C. gun-control case while talked about the potential impact the new Professor Susan W. McGraugh discussed president may have on the court.

Prof. John J. Ammann nominated for Lawyer of the Year Missouri Lawyers Weekly recently nominated Professor John J. Ammann as one of five finalists for the 2008 “Lawyer of the Year.” The publication honored Ammann for championing the cause of 80 Bosnians whose applications for citizenship were repeatedly delayed. Under Ammann’s leadership, the School of Law Legal Clinics persuaded the government to accelerate the naturalization process. Ammann was also recognized for his lifelong devotion to advocating for the disadvantaged.

Light the Night For the first time, alumni teamed up with the School of Law and the law library for the “Light the Night Walk” on Sept. 12 in Forest Park. Nearly 50 law students, faculty and staff raised more than $6,000 at the annual event, which raises funds to support research and treatment for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s Disease and other cancers. Public Interest Law Group chairs Lauren Groebe, ’10, and Abby Bonjean, ’10, together with law school co-captains Liz Glankler, ’09, and Mike Mee, raised sizable donations.

New Criminal Justice Speaker Series The School of Law introduced “The Criminal Justice Speaker Series” this fall to provide law students with the opportunity to learn and discuss current issues in criminal justice from leading attorneys and law professors.

Prosecutorial Discretion photo by Carlton Hathcoat

Childress Lecture Addresses Issues at the Intersection of Medicine and Health Law

members who gathered in the William H. Kniep Courtroom on Oct. 17. Malcom J. Harkins III, ’76 (photo: left), delivered the introduction to Johnson’s lecture. The The Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture, panel discussions featured the following law sponsored by the School of Law and the professors from leading universities across Saint Louis University Law Journal, serves the country: as one of the law school’s premier academic • William Sage, Vice Provost for Health events. The 2008 Childress Memorial Affairs and the James R. Dougherty Chair Lecture, “Still Crazy After All These Years: for Faculty Excellence at University of Is Regulating Physician Practice an Exercise Texas School of Law in Futility?” was especially significant as it featured keynote speaker Emerita Professor Sandra H. Johnson (photo: center) — who helped form the field of health law and recently retired after a 30-year career at the law school.

As the keynote speaker, Johnson explored the rocky relationship among law, medicine and ethics. By drawing on her experience and studies involving pain management issues, responses to managed care and the regulation of human research, Johnson offered compelling examples of how medicine, ethics and the law can clash.

The lecture also examined issues arising from attempts to regulate physician behavior and discussed how physicians react to legal risk.

Professor Thomas L. Greaney (photo: right), Director for the Center of Health Law Studies, welcomed the crowd of more than 100 students, alumni and community

• Diane Hoffmann, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Director of Law and Health Care Program and Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law • Scott Buris, Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law • Robert L. Schwartz, Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law • Robert A. Burt, the Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law at Yale Law School • Thomas. L. Greaney, Chester Meyers Professor of Law and Director for the Center of Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law • Jesse A. Goldner, John D. Valentine Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law

Reaching Out to Local Vets School of Law faculty, alumni and students joined forces with attorneys and staff from SimmonsCooper LLC to assist more than 100 homeless veterans with their legal needs at the annual Stand Down for Homeless Veterans event at St. Patrick’s Center on Sept.

20. The veterans received a range of services from job counseling and legal assistance with minor criminal matters to haircuts, medical checkups and hot meals.

Last Thanksgiving, students from the Public Interest Law Group and Veteran’s Law Student Association served a traditional turkey dinner to more than a 100 veterans at St. Nicholas Church on Nov. 22. The students also distributed new clothing and toiletries, which were raised during the fall “Sweats for Vets” campaign at the annual Homeless Veterans Thanksgiving Dinner.

The new criminal law speaker series was inaugurated by Catherine Hanaway, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, who presented “Priority Prosecutions of the United States Attorney’s Office” on Sept. 18.

Hanaway, who was the first woman to serve as speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, addressed the devastating impact child pornography has on children. She explained that people caught for child pornography were rarely first offenders, but often had committed child and sexual abuse for years before being caught. She also discussed issues related to child pornography and the Internet.

From Death Row

Bobby Johnson was not a typical law school visiting lecturer. As a former death row inmate, he gave students an unvarnished account of the criminal justice system, from his time as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood in California prisons to conducting legal research for his appeals on death row in Missouri.

With the assistance of defense attorneys Brad Kessler and David Bruns, who also spoke at the event, Johnson was awarded another trial after his first murder conviction was overturned and the sentence was reduced to time served.

Law students asked Johnson questions about the justice system, his ability to conduct legal research with limited prison resources and how his childhood played a role in the fact that he had lived most of his 61 years in prison.

A Case of a Lifetime

Acclaimed author and criminal attorney Abbe Smith discussed her book, Case of a Lifetime, a captivating story that chronicles her decades-long fight to free a woman who was wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 30 years because of mistaken identity.

Smith met Kelly Jarrett when Smith was a secondyear law student in 1980, three years after Jarrett was sentenced to life in prison for driving the getaway car in a felony murder.

Smith discussed what it is like to champion the rights of the accused and offered an unsettling look at how the system really works and the weighty burden of fighting for both the innocent and the not-so innocent.

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bioethics and public health law. He teaches Health Care Law, Public Health Law and Administrative Law. Before joining Saint Louis University, Gatter taught at Dickinson School of Law at Penn State University. He was also a visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology and was a fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Gatter is a former chair and current executive committee member of the AALS section for Law, Medicine & Health Care. He is also a member of the Links with Academia Advisory Group for the American Health Lawyers Association.

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Jeff A. Redding Assistant Professor of Law Harvard University, B.A.; The University of Chicago Law School, J.D. Professor Redding’s research focuses on the intersection of law and religion, including comparative secularism, the theory of multiculturalism and family law. He teaches Civil Procedure and Comparative Law. Prior to joining the faculty, Redding was an Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale Law School.

He also served as a legal consultant for Lawyers Collective in Mumbai, India, where he designed training and provided expert advice for human rights litigation pertaining to religious and sexual minority rights.

He also taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Islamic law, international human rights law, constitutional law and global political economy as an assistant professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

During law school, Redding received several prestigious awards for his work on human rights and gay and lesbian civil rights issues.

Elizabeth Pendo Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.; Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, J.D. After a year long visit, Professor Pendo joined the law faculty and the Center for Health Law Studies.

Issues and litigation involving gender, race and disability with health insurance law and health policy mark her scholarship.

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She teaches Civil Procedure,Disability Discrimination Law, Bioethics and Health Care Ethics.

Professor Pendo has published in the UC Davis Law Review, St. John’s Law Review, Journal of Health Law, The Journal of Legal Medicine, Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal and The Harvard Women’s Law Journal, among others.

Before joining Saint Louis University, she taught at Saint Thomas University School of Law in Miami and also taught health law and bioethics-related courses at the Shepard Broad Law Center at the Nova Southeastern University and at the Royal College University Escorial Maria Cristina in Spain.

Before entering academia, Pendo severed as a pro se law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and also practiced as an ERISA litigation specialist in the law department of MetLife in New York.

Robert Gatter Professor of Law Johns Hopkins University, B.A.; Medical College of Wisconsin, M.A.; University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D. Professor Gatter joined the law faculty and the Center for Health Law Studies in the fall. He writes on a range of health law topics, including informed consent, endof-life treatment disputes, medical mediation, conflicts of interest in drug development and the role of trust in health regulation. His work has been published in Boston University Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review and Wake Forest Law Review, among others.

His expertise spans the fields of health law, regulatory theory in health law, informed consent law,

Yvette Joy Liebesman Assistant Professor of Law Georgetown University, B.A.; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, B.A.; University of California, San Diego, M.S.; Georgetown Law, J.D. Professor Liebesman’s research focuses on copyright and trademark law and their intersection with science and technology. She teaches Intellectual Property Law and the first-year property course.

Prior to joining Saint Louis University, Liebesman practiced in the intellectual property transactional group at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston. After graduating Georgetown Law, she clerked for the Honorable Helen E. Hoens of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

While at Georgetown Law, Liebesman served as executive editor of the The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics and also received numerous notable awards, including the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in Intellectual Property Law and for her work organizing the Hurricane Katrina Relief Committee.

Karen Petroski Assistant Professor of Law Duke University, A.B.; Columbia University, M.A., M.Phil. & Ph.D.; Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, J.D. Before joining Saint Louis University last year, Karen Petroski was a litigation associate with Morrison & Foerster LLP and at Cooper, White & Cooper LLP, both in San Francisco. After law school, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable William W. Schwarzer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

During law school at the University of California, Berkeley, Petroski served as a supervising editor on the California Law Review and as associate editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law. She also received several jurisprudence awards and was elected to Order of the Coif. She earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and comparative literature from Duke University and a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University.

Petroski teaches Civil Procedure and Legislation.

The School of Law Celebrates the Works and Achievements of John E. Dunsford & Sandra H. Johnson As one of the nation’s foremost arbitrators and labor law scholars, labor unions and companies have entrusted John E. Dunsford to settle their differences for the past four decades.

Dunsford was a young college professor when the legendary scholar and arbitrator Leo Brown, S.J., tapped him in the early 1960s to be an apprentice. Over the span of his career, Dunsford has arbitrated nearly 1,000 disputes for groups such as U.S. Steel and the United Steelworkers of America; the National Football League and the Bert Bell Retirement and Pension Plan; Southwestern Bell and the Communications Workers of America; and the Internal Revenue Service and the National Treasury Employees Union.

Dunsford has arbitrated for virtually all of the U.S. airlines and their unions. Most recently, he participated in an interest arbitration between Alaska Airlines and the Transport Workers Union to set rates during the difficult economic times following 9/11.

Professor Dunsford has held several leadership positions with the prestigious National Academy of Arbitrators, including serving as president. In 2000, he was named a fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

He directed the School’s Wefel Center for Employment Law from 1987-1994 and remains a senior consultant. He also served as the McDonnell Professor of Justice in American Society from 1982-1987.

Except for a two-year break in the late 1970s when he practiced arbitration full time, Professor Dunsford has taught labor law at the School of Law since the early 1960s. In addition to a book, Individuals and Unions, he has written numerous articles and chapters on labor law, arbitration and the U.S. Constitution and personal freedom.

Most recently his scholarship has focused on churchstate relations, specifically tuition vouchers that allow parents the option of using state money to send their children to the schools of their choice.

After helping form the field of health care law, Professor Sandra H. Johnson recently retired after a 30-year career at the School of Law. For decades, Johnson’s work on regulatory issues has significantly impacted pain management research and public policy. The casebook she co-authored with fellow faculty member Thomas L. Greaney in 1987, Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, was literally the first to feature the title of “health law.” Now in its sixth edition, the book has been studied in more than 150 universities across the United States and has been cited more than 500 times in scholarly articles and court opinions.

Johnson is also the co-author with Professor Thomas L. Greaney of the treatise, Health Law, which the U.S. Supreme Court has cited three times — a rarity for such publications.

A prolific writer, her work has been published in prestigious journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association. She is also the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics and a fellow of the Hastings Center.

In collaboration with other scholars at the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Professor Johnson helped draft the Model Pain Relief Act that has been adopted by some state legislatures, and she has consulted with the Federation of State Medical Boards in developing standards used by many state medical boards. She also helped develop the Mayday Scholars Program, which encourages legal scholars to turn their talent and time toward the issue of improving pain management.

Last fall, Johnson served as the keynote speaker of the 2008 Childress Memorial Lecture, “Still Crazy After All These Years: Is Regulating Physician Practice an Exercise in Futility?” She was honored as Woman of the Year by the St. Louis Daily Record in 2002; Woman of the Year by Saint Louis University in 1997; and received the Distinguished Health Law Teacher Award from the American Society of Law & Medicine in 1991.

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MAKING headlines Reporters across the globe repeatedly seek Professor Joel K. Goldstein’s renowned expertise on the vice presidency election after election

By Kim Gordon & Melody Walker He’s been called “the nation’s No. 1 expert on the No. 2 job,” and he gets hounded by reporters hot on the campaign trail every four years. This quadrennial media authority is none other than Saint Louis University School of Law’s very own Joel K. Goldstein, the Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law and internationally renowned expert on the vice presidency.

During the lengthy presidential election season, Goldstein is up at 6 a.m. and on his computer searching everything vice presidential. Not content with mere food, he consumes The New York Times, The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Politico.com and TheHill.com for breakfast. A daily diet rich in punditry, political gossip and solid campaign trail reporting is essential for Professor Goldstein, who fields calls from many of those same media outlets before lunchtime.

More than 100 reporters from around the world have interviewed Professor Goldstein since the first day of classes in August. In the weeks leading up to the election, he often responded to dozens of media requests weekly from reporters at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, NPR, The Associated Press and USA Today. Goldstein was even quoted twice by

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The New York Times and The Washington Post in one weekend.

“I enjoy the entire interviewing process,” Goldstein says. “I also really find it to be a two-way street: Hopefully, I have something interesting to say that is useful to the media, but I also learn from their questions. Talking with reporters really makes me think about the issues. It’s a treat to find that others want to talk about a subject of such interest to me.”

When he’s not being interviewed, Goldstein is conducting his own interviews for a new book that will focus on how former Vice President Walter Mondale transformed the once ridiculed office into one of the most substantial positions in U.S. government.

Goldstein’s first book, The Modern American Vice Presidency: The Transformation of a Political Institution, helped establish Goldstein as the world’s foremost authority on the vice president — and it’s still considered the consummate book on the American vice presidency.

Goldstein’s new book will trace the development of the vice presidency from Mondale’s term onward, looking at the selection process, election and duties of vice presidents. It will feature extensive interviews with Mondale, whom Goldstein considers the “model modern vice president.”

“I have spent a lot of time with Mondale and with many people who worked on his and former President Carter’s staff,” he says. “It is fascinating to learn about how they approached American politics.

I am trying to capture some of those lessons and discuss what those developments can teach us about American government in general.”

Goldstein explains that he views Mondale’s vice presidency as a major turning point in the history of the office and the two terms of Vice President Dick Cheney as the most influential. He also predicts that Vice President Joe Biden will play a role parallel to Mondale’s by serving as a senior advisor and troubleshooter across the board. He also adds it’s unlikely that vice presidential power will ever expand to the level it did under Cheney.

“Cheney used his knowledge of government to stretch the power of the office to new dimensions,” Goldstein explains. “I would be shocked if that ever happens again because I can’t imagine a president delegating that much power to a vice president.”

Analyzing the roles of American vice presidents is fertile historical ground for this former Rhodes Scholar whose “veep” passion began as a subject for an undergraduate research paper at Princeton University.

Spiro Agnew’s resignation sparked Goldstein’s interest in presidential succession more than three decades ago.

With President Nixon’s resignation, the issue of succession was national news; voters and the media began to realize what Joel Goldstein already knew: The vice president was worth watching.

“The vice presidency is now worth far more than a warm bucket of spit,” Goldstein told Congressional Quarterly. Franklin Roosevelt’s first vice president, John Nance Garner, famously compared his office to that derogatory bucket, but times have changed as Goldstein explained to the publication:

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“Here’s an office in which there’s just a long list of disparaging comments from John Adams on … and yet I think that it has become an office in which the ongoing responsibility has really become significant. The office has gone from being something of a nothing office to one that is sometimes described as imperial.”

Reporters repeatedly ask Goldstein: What makes a good vice president? They’ve got to be presidential is Goldstein’s short answer.

“There are so many incoming missiles that the president is really going to need help no matter how he structures his presidency,” he explained more extensively to The New York Times. “We need to know whether the vice president is ready to occupy the highest office, can handle a crisis and be trusted with the nuclear codes. But, equally important, do they have something to offer that will be meaningful in helping the next administration succeed?”

Improved stature and heightened visibility of the “No. 2 job in the land” has led to increased scrutiny when it comes to choosing vice presidential candidates. In his new book, Goldstein plans to devote an entire chapter to the selection process of choosing running mates.

Sen. John McCain’s unconventional choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate, backed by Cheney’s unprecedented expansion of the office, set the stage for the 2008 debate at Washington University in October to be the most highly anticipated vice presidential debate in U.S. history. Media outlets around the world flocked to St. Louis to cover the landmark debate.

As the debate drew closer, Goldstein was fielding numerous media queries daily, but he still found time to hold several lectures and discussions on the vice presidency at Saint Louis University and Washington University to better prepare audiences for the upcoming VP debate.

Media interest in the vice presidential candidates further intensified after both Sarah Palin and Joe Biden misstated the role of the vice president in the Senate at the St. Louis debate.

Those comments, fueled by Cheney’s ongoing argument that the vice president is not an entity within the executive branch because of his role in the Senate, soon stirred heated national debate about the constitutional power and authority afforded to the vice president.

And once again reporters around the nation looked to Goldstein’s expert opinion and scholarly analysis on the role of the vice president.

“Vice presidents, particularly beginning with Walter Mondale, have made important contributions as senior advisers to and troubleshooters for their presidents,” he explains in

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an editorial he penned for The New York Times. “It would be folly to abandon that function, which represents a positive development in our political institutions.”

But neither the heightened interest in the 2008 vice presidential candidates nor the ensuing debate over the power of the office are what truly made November’s landmark election monumental for Goldstein.

“The 2008 vote ranks in the top five elections, certainly,” he explained to The Associated Press. “The combination of Obama being African-American, possessing unusual gifts as a speaker and leader, and enormous challenges coming from a number of different directions — the elements are all lined up for this to be one of the most significant elections we’ve ever had.”

Achieving expert status requires judicious observation and acute analysis of the issues — skills Professor Goldstein has perfected over years of talking to the press. But all the international media attention hasn’t gone to Professor Goldstein’s head. He remains a curious student of the law and of

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politics and never strays far from his scholarly roots.

Last semester, Goldstein conducted research at the Edmund Muskie archives in Maine for a biography he is writing on the former senator, secretary of state and one-time presidential candidate. He’s also working on a project about Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and will be teaching a seminar on Brandeis next spring.

Over the years, Goldstein has written books as well as numerous chapters and articles on the executive branch, constitutional law and admiralty law for prestigious legal journals.

On the first day of classes at the law school last fall, Goldstein managed to squeeze in a radio interview with CBS and interviews with the National Journal, Los Angeles Times and Gannett Newspapers before facing a live audience of third-year law students.

“There has been a lot of interest in the vice presidency this year,” he explains. “It’s fun to talk to the media and to students about this race. It’s another way to shape the public’s insights into the office. It’s like teaching to a larger classroom in a way.

It makes you think about things from a different angle, and explaining the issues to both students and to reporters really sharpens your thoughts.”

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Scholarship in Action

he synthesis of scholarship and action conjures up a formidable force — it’s a combination that serves as a commanding catalyst for exploring new depths of knowledge and then advancing those discoveries into the world.

The School of Law boasts an impressive faculty, whose scholarly achievements and dedication to the field of law exemplify “Scholarship in Action.”

Professors at the law school repeatedly supersede scholastic expectations by intertwining academic excellence with enterprising advocacy to advance academic research into real-world applications.

From educating society about America’s most pressing legal issues to urging state legislators to enact groundbreaking laws to advocating for the rights of those in need, the scope of scholarship at the School of Law is both expansive and enterprising.

Our faculty consists of superb scholars who embark on wide-ranging academic pursuits from an array of vantage points to catalyze discovery and inspire change. Even the most theoretical scholarship, with no immediate apparent application, can yield far-reaching consequences.

The following stories serve as snapshots, chosen from the School of Law’s collection of consequential scholarship, showcasing the tangible impact that can result from the combination of scholarship and action. Here is an inside look at four of the many law school professors whose latest and lifelong research exemplify “Scholarship in Action.”

As a nationally renowned expert on health care law, Professor Thomas L. Greaney has devoted the past two decades to examining the evolution of health care antitrust law and to serving as an advocate for consumers. He directly impacts national

By Kim Gordon

School of Law professors advance their academic pursuits into real-world applications policy and legislation by frequently providing expert testimony to the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice on how competition, law and policy impact health care markets. Most recently, he offered his expert advice — backed with a comprehensive plan of action — to the next President of the United States about America’s most pressing health care issues.

Thirty years ago, Professor Roger L. Goldman — the nation’s foremost expert on police licensing and decertification laws — began his “crusade” to help states write and adopt laws that remove the license or certificate of police officers who engage in serious misconduct. Back then, 15 states were without decertification laws. Now only six states remain. Most recently, his efforts have been focused on fighting for a national databank to track repeated incidents of misconduct to prevent bad officers from moving state to state.

Professor Eric J. Miller’s legal career has been devoted to understanding the real-life application of criminal law by studying how race and economic status affect criminal law in urban communities.

Recently, he has been focused on raising awareness and educating the media about the downside of drug courts and how these therapeutic courts over-criminalize urban and minority communities.

Professor Sidney D. Watson advocates for affordable health care for Missouri farmers and ranchers. Throughout her career, Watson’s community-based research has directly impacted state and federal legislation by offering solid solutions to pressing health care issues, from improved access to Medicaid services for people with disabilities to advocating health care access for the homeless.

Whether it’s impacting national health care legislation that affects all Americans or advocating for affordable access to health care for small Missouri farmers, these four professors showcase “Scholarship in Action” by exemplifying how scholarly pursuits can positively impact society.

Advancing Antitrust Health Care Reform

Professor Thomas L. Greaney explains that one of the benefits of working as a law professor is the ability to always assert what you believe and to unequivocally express where you think the law should stand on the most pressing legal issues of our time.

“I entered academia because I believe that as a law professor, I can be an even stronger voice for consumers,” says Greaney, Chester A. Myers Professor of Law and director of the Center for Health Law

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Studies. “Health care antitrust policy and health reform issues have a direct impact on people’s lives and well being. As a law professor, I have the opportunity to write about and advocate for the causes I truly believe in.”

Advocating for consumers on some of America’s most pressing health care legislation — including hospital mergers, physician network arrangements and pharmaceutical and intellectual property issues — has long marked Professor Greaney’s legal career.

Greaney — a nationally renowned expert on health care law — has devoted the past two decades to examining the evolution of health care antitrust law. He frequently provides expert testimony to the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice on how competition, law and policy impact health care markets. He has also served as a consultant for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and has testified at legislative hearings in Jefferson City.

Most recently, he’s offered his expert advice, backed by

and non-existent enforcement have resulted in high concentrations or cartelization in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, hospitals and health insurance.

“The next administration should pay particular attention to preventing further erosion of competition in those areas while improving effectiveness in detecting, litigating and obtaining remedies involving abuses by providers of health services,” he recommends.

Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, Greaney also organized a group of law professors and scholarly experts who wrote editorials addressing health care reform issues for some of the nation’s most influential newspapers.

Greaney will head back to Washington, D.C. for the spring semester to continue his scholarly pursuits by embarking on a sabbatical to analyze the new infrastructure of Medicare and congressional efforts to reform the health care system. This research will examine the sweeping changes to the nation’s 50-year-old health care program by the landmark Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and the fundamental changes that

markets and the services they supply while shouldering much of the burden of monitoring our health care system for fraud and quality problems,” he says.

Greaney’s research on health care reform will take him back to Capitol Hill, where he began his career as a consumer advocate in the early 1970s when he took his first job as a legislative assistant. He went on to work as a law clerk for the Federal Communications Commission from 1976-1978. He was then hired as a senior trial attorney and finally served as an assistant chief in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, in which he spent a decade supervising civil and criminal antitrust health care litigation and assisted in policy formulation and legislative issues.

Professor Greaney’s extensive body of scholarly work includes articles published in some of the nation’s most prestigious legal and medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Law and Medicine and the Cornell Law Journal.

“Health care antitrust policy and health reform issues have a direct impact on people’s lives and well being.” a comprehensive plan of action, to the next President of the United States about America’s leading antitrust health care issues — an effort which undoubtedly serves as the ultimate example of “Scholarship in Action.”

Greaney partnered with a handful of the nation’s leading antitrust experts to author The Next Antitrust Agenda, which offers an indepth look at the state of enforcement of the country’s antitrust laws. The book, published by the American Antitrust Institute, will serve as a transition report to President Barack Obama by detailing steps on how to improve and vigorously reform a variety of antitrust issues that the institute asserts were neglected by previous administrations.

In the book and at presentations in Washington, D.C., Greaney explains that although the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice have appropriately dedicated substantial resources to health care antitrust enforcement, lax

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resulted from the move to a more private market approach to health care.

Greaney plans to investigate how, in attempting to restructure the health system, Congress plans to deal with the recent lessons of competition in health markets when it seeks to impose fundamental changes in how care is paid for and delivered.

“My goal is to harness multi-disciplinary approaches to critically examine health care issues of vital concern to the legal, medical and public policy communities,” he says.

“Examining Medicare — the central nervous system of America’s health care system — fits the bill perfectly.”

The program covers 35 million elderly and disabled citizens, provides 30 percent of hospital revenues, finances medical education and research and supports indigent care.

“As the dominant player in the health care market place, Medicare policy strongly influences the structure of provider

Greaney is repeatedly sought by reporters at leading news publications — such as The New York Times and The Washington Post — as well as regional and local newspapers and radio and television stations to comment on health care reform and legislation.

He recently explained in an editorial featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch “the nation is in the process of learning — the hard way — that blind reliance on marketplace forces to protect consumers and advance the public interest is risky business.”

The bottom line: Competition in health care requires regulation.

“The deregulatory fervor that led Congress to exempt derivatives and baskets full of other complicated investment vehicles from oversight and to regulate investment banks lightly has produced catastrophic results,” he explains.

Greaney has long argued for competition policy and has seen plenty of evidence

that competition can produce lower-cost, higher-quality results. But he explains that the market also requires standards and supervision to counteract the peculiarities of health care insurance and delivery and to allow consumers to make choices that give insurers and providers the incentive to offer the best mix of price, quality and innovation.

“As a law professor, my main contribution is to provide analysis on why America’s health care system has failed in the past,” Greaney says. “By analyzing the failures and successes of past health care reform, I can offer expert knowledge and constructive advice to Congress and other government agencies to improve health care for all Americans.”

Preventing Police Misconduct

Professor Roger L. Goldman will never know how many victims he has protected.

For the past three decades, Goldman — the nation’s foremost expert on police licensing and license revocation laws — has

In the late 1970s, Goldman became increasingly frustrated with traditional methods of dealing with police misconduct and began advocating for the need for a statewide system to track police misconduct in Missouri.

Goldman began working closely with Clarence Harmon, then Commander of Internal Affairs of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, to support a licensing revocation law in Missouri. Harmon testified at legislative hearings in Jefferson City that in 90 percent of the cases when an officer was fired or resigned for misconduct in St. Louis City, the officer would apply to a department in St. Louis County, sometimes literally just days later.

Backed with the support of the police departments in St. Louis and Kansas City, Goldman quarterbacked the efforts to pass a decertification law in Missouri and began educating key community leaders and state legislators about the state’s inability to keep bad officers off the streets. He contacted everyone from leaders at the ACLU to officials at police departments to reporters at

in Webster Groves were fired from the force in 2002. Two of those officers got hired in neighboring communities. But the decertification law in Missouri allowed the Department of Public Safety to revoke their licenses and remove the two remaining officers from the force.

When Goldman began his “crusade” nearly 30 years ago, 15 states were without decertification laws. Now only six states remain. He is currently working with state legislators and community leaders in Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York to adopt revocation laws in those states, all of which have strong union support against police licensing.

Goldman regularly speaks at national conferences, including the Congressional Black Caucus and the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training.

He is also frequently asked to speak at the U.S. Department of Justice and before state legislative committees about police misconduct and decertification.

“It’s simply holding police officers to the same standards we place on other professions.” been helping states write and adopt laws that remove the license or certificate of officers who engage in serious misconduct.

“I represent the unknown client,” he explains. “I am looking to stop a police officer who has done something wrong from doing it again. There isn’t a victim yet. Unlike a lawyer, who represents a client seeking damages for misconduct, my work doesn’t focus on past problems — it focuses on righting future wrongs. I will never know whom I’ve protected.”

Goldman, the Callis Family Professor of Law, explains decertification treats the police like any other professionals — doctors, lawyers or teachers. If minimum standards of performance are not met, the person loses the privilege of continuing in the profession.

“If a barber cuts someone’s ear off, he’s out,” Goldman explains. “It’s simply holding police officers to the same standards we place on other professions.”

the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Goldman served as the catalyst behind the passage of Missouri’s statutory revocation law in 1988. The new law allowed the Missouri Department of Public Safety to revoke the license of 45 bad officers over the course of one year. Goldman was also instrumental in the passage of similar laws in Illinois, Indiana and Washington state.

Over the years, Goldman’s research has indicated that sexual misconduct is the leading reason for loss of police licenses, more prevalent than thefts or beatings. Goldman offers a landmark series of cases as disturbing examples of this trend. The outcome of these cases truly epitomizes “Scholarship in Action,” as it demonstrates how the Missouri decertification law Goldman helped get on the books directly resulted in the removal of bad police officers.

After having sexual encounters with teenage girls in hot tubs, four police officers

Over the years, Goldman has cultivated relationships with reporters, updating and informing them about important cases and violations, because he believes the media play a leading role in educating society about these issues.

But often it takes a staggering story, like the one that unfolded on a November night in Florida, to put the issue under the national spotlight.

In 1990, two West Palm Beach undercover police officers stopped a young man on a busy highway for hitchhiking. The officers killed the man by crushing his throat and breaking most of ribs. The two officers were tried on charges of police brutality, but were found not guilty on all counts.

Goldman served as an expert source in an acclaimed “Dateline NBC” investigation that tracked the backgrounds of the two officers through four states and eight different law enforcement agencies. One

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worked in five departments in six years, until a sketchy history of drug abuse and brutality complaints led to his dismissal from the force in Tennessee.

The other officer had an even more troubling record of violence in the nearby Florida town of Riviera Beach. Just five months before joining the West Palm Beach force, the officer beat and blinded a man after arresting him for a small amount of cocaine.

No action was ever taken against the officer.

“The tragedy to me is [these officers] have been shown to be unfit in Riviera Beach and Chattanooga, and the fact that they will continue to be allowed to serve as police officers again is a real tragedy,” Goldman explained to “Dateline NBC.” “It was avoidable, and I’m afraid we are going to have many more avoidable deaths like this until we as a society say it’s time to take this problem seriously.”

Since that notorious Florida case, Goldman has been actively working with journalists at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Los Angeles Times, The

law professor to educate society about these troubling issues.”

Researching How Race Impacts Criminal Law in Urban Communities

A young African-American man is sentenced to a lengthy prison term for possessing a small amount of crack while a white college student receives a non-custodial sentence for possessing the same weight of powder cocaine. A homeless veteran spends a holiday weekend locked behind bars for sleeping in the streets to keep him from disturbing the beauty of the downtown business district.

“Criminal law offers endless examples in which different economic and ethnic groups receive disparate treatment,” explains Associate Professor Eric J. Miller.

“Understanding the real-world application of criminal law raises important and difficult questions about the values that underline our system of criminal justice.”

Miller has dedicated his legal career to studying how race and economic status

of the ways we can use sociological and criminal data to look at criminal procedure.”

Miller’s main objection to drug courts is that they actually channel non-addicts and low-level users into the criminal justice system rather than diverting offenders out of the system.

“Before, low-level users often were not charged on the front end; the police would let them go because they knew low-level possession cases would not be prosecuted,” he says.

Miller explains that educating society about the downside of drug courts is more important than ever as these courts continue to receive millions of dollars in federal funding. “At the bare minimum, we need to be questioning if the government is using all of this money wisely,” Miller offers. “And the answer is we could do a lot better.”

According to Miller, the other troubling aspect of drug courts is that the judge takes on multiple roles as a confessor, parole officer, cheerleader and mentor. The judge — not the probation officer or treatment center — becomes the focal point of the

“We need to offer solutions that address the real-world racial and ethnic disparities that underline our system of criminal justice.”

Associated Press and NPR as well as major dailies across the country to keep national attention focused on police misconduct.

He also recently spoke at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference.

But the notion that those Florida officers could move to another state and still work in law enforcement is fueling Goldman’s latest research. His ultimate goal is to help create a federally mandated national databank that tracks repeated incidents of police misconduct to prevent bad police officers from moving to departments in different states. Currently, 26 states are contributing to a national registry that contains more than 10,000 police officers who have been stripped of their law enforcement licenses.

“There are incidents of police officers going to 14 different departments,” Goldman says. “Most people don’t realize that these issues exist in their state. I see my work as preventive, and it’s my role as a

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influence criminal law in urban communities.

Most recently, his research has focused on how criminal law affects urban communities through the War on Drugs. By the end of the 1980s, the War on Drugs was the primary cause of increased incarceration in America.

Drug courts were created as a response to the cycle of incarceration-release-recidivism that filled prisons with low-level drug users.

Miller advances his scholarly work into action by raising important questions about the effectiveness of drug courts in a variety of articles as well as to judges and legislators.

He aims to increase awareness about the drawbacks of drug courts, especially how these courts tend to further criminalize urban communities.

“Drug courts were an attempt to rethink the War on Drugs, but they do it with judicial guerilla tactics that over criminalize urban and minority communities,” Miller explains.

“Drug courts represent a real-world example

treatment process.

“The judges play the role of super nanny,” Miller says. “They literally give the drug addicts time-outs by sending them to jail, or if they do well they get candy, gold stars and hugs at their graduation ceremony.

It creates a very weird dynamic between the judge and the offender.”

Drug courts, like re-entry and other problem-solving courts, result in a massive expansion of judicial influence on drug policy and social regulation.

“Drug courts don’t address the central problem facing drug addicts in segregated urban areas: The failure of the government to adequately provide access to medical, educational, housing and other social services,” Miller explains. “The therapeutic model attempts to convince offenders that these social failings are of little consequence, instead the problem is simply their life choices.”

Miller is addressing similar concerns with the recent expansion of re-entry courts, which have built upon the claimed success of the problem-solving approach used in drug courts, by educating the media, judges and the legislators on these issues.

“We need to actively include more partners in the discussion of urban drug policy,” Miller says.” And we need to offer solutions that address the real-world racial and ethnic disparities that underline our system of criminal justice.”

Championing Health Care in the Heartland

It is stories like Richard Williams, a cattle rancher from Tipton, a small rural town in central Missouri that stir Professor Sidney D. Watson’s passion for community-driven research.

The Williams family spends 15 percent of their annual income on a bare-bones emergency health care plan, but Richard hasn’t seen a doctor for 28 years, and his wife, Kate, rarely receives medical treatment either.

has been conducting community-based research and then advancing those scholarly findings into action by educating the media, state legislators and community and academic groups with solutions to pressing health care issues, ranging from improved access to Medicaid services for people with disabilities to advocating access to health care services for the homeless.

Professor Watson’s latest research focuses on affordable health care for Missouri farmers and ranchers. “Missouri has a completely unrestrained, unfettered, unregulated individual insurance market, which allows insurance companies to charge whatever they want, exclude pre-existing conditions and refuse to insure anyone, leaving people holding the bag,” she explains.

Farmers and ranchers are an important part of Missouri’s population and state’s economy — Missouri has 104,500 farms more than any other state besides Texas. But many of them are drowning in debt due to high insurance deductibles and premiums; some families spend more than 15 percent of their income on health care costs.

Jefferson City to holding press conferences, Watson truly exemplifies “Scholarship in Action.”

She not only educates Missouri legislators and the media about how the private insurance markets is failing Missouri farmers and ranchers, but she also makes expert recommendations regarding solutions, such as increasing access to public insurance and allowing farmers and ranchers to benefit from health insurance pools.

“Missouri policy makers must realize that reliance on private, individual insurance alone cannot provide a solution to the challenge of ensuring access to affordable comprehensive care,” she explains. “The private market is not working for Missouri farm and ranch families.”

The findings in “Health Care in the Heartland” reveal that family farmers are hit harder by health-care costs than most other professions. One out of five Missouri ranchers and farmers report that health care costs contribute to their financial problems, including difficulty

“It’s important to provide policy solutions that can effectively make health care more affordable and accessible.”

“Health-care expenses are tearing at the fabric of rural America,” explains Watson, who has spent her legal career specializing in health law and health care access for the poor. In addition to extensively writing on racial and ethnic health care disparities and health care access for the poor, she advocates on behalf of low-income people as both a law school professor and as a lawyer.

In order to obtain health insurance, many Missouri families like the Williams, are forced to have family members take jobs off the farm or ranch, which are often far away and require long commutes, to places such as convenience stores, Wal-Mart or even state prisons.

“This takes time away from their families,” Watson says. “They spend less time in their schools, churches and community — it tears at the very heart of what makes a rural community a rural community.”

Throughout her legal career, Watson

The Access Project, a national resource center for local communities working to improve health care access, partnered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2007 to survey non-corporate farm and ranch operators in seven Great Plains states.

Under Watson’s direction, the Center for Health Law Studies joined forces with the Missouri Rural Crisis Center and Missouri Jobs with Justice to urge The Access Project to analyze the Great Plains survey results for Missouri.

The collaborative effort resulted in the 2007 report, “Health Care in the Heartland,” co-authored by Watson. The findings underscore the devastating effect high health care costs impose on Missouri farmers and ranchers, including how those costs play a major role in forcing them off their land.

From speaking at town hall meetings in rural communities across Missouri to meeting face-to-face with legislators in

paying off loans and delays in business investments. Even worse, nearly 15 percent of Missouri farmers and ranchers report outstanding debt caused by medical bills and at least 10 percent have delayed care because of costs.

To help raise awareness and educate society about these issues, Watson spoke, alongside the Williams family, at a crowded press conference last fall in Columbia, Mo., to promote the findings in “Health Care in the Heartland.”

“This report shows how critical good health care policies are for rural communities,” Watson told reporters.

“It’s important to provide policy solutions that can effectively make health care more affordable and accessible. By sharing the stories we hear everyday and by raising awareness about these issues, we can help control costs and protect rural families in Missouri.”

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global good

By Kim Gordon & Catherine Dumuchovsky

Education is about expanding the boundaries of personal knowledge and embarking on new experiences. Last year, 51 School of Law students received Irvin and Maggie Dagen Public Interest Fellowships.

The following stories highlight the experiences of five law students who embarked on journeys — crossing remote borders and overcoming cultural barriers — to add to the richness of their legal education at Saint Louis University.

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Eye on India “You step off the plane and it’s chaos immediately,” says Michael Kibbe, ’09, of Mumbai, India, where he worked as an economic and political intern for the U.S. Consulate.

“There’s rubble everywhere, people sleeping and animals wandering in the streets. Overwhelming is almost an understatement.”

Kibbe’s interest in working for the U.S. government overseas, specifically Pakistan and India, came to fruition during a previous spring internship at the State Department in Washington, D.C. while working in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. His colleagues at the department described Mumbai as one of the most difficult cities to acclimate to — especially for someone who has never traveled outside the United States.

“If you want to do this type of work, you’re going to live in some pretty nasty and dangerous places,” he explains. “If you’re not prepared to live here, Mumbai will take you down fast. I looked at the experience as a challenge and as an adventure. It was a mad rush.”

At the consulate, Kibbe contributed to several reports on violent protests and acts of terrorism that occurred throughout western India during the summer. More than 1,000 people in India died from bombings, which were perpetrated by various fundamentalist groups aiming to spark violence between the Muslim and Hindu populations. A major security threat also exists within the interior of the country, where separatist insurgent forces actively recruit villagers to install a Maoist form of government.

“We are the eyes and ears for the government in that area,” Kibbe explains. “How the Indian government responds to terrorist attacks and insurgent bombings and how to prepare in case the city is hit are top priorities for both the U.S. and Indian governments.”

In addition to reporting, Kibbe was also responsible for investigating a new project to redevelop the Mumbai slums, specifically Dharavi, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in Asia. The project aims to do more than just rebuild the dilapidated area; the goal is to view the residents as economic resources, educating and training them with job skills.

In addition to working with the U.S. architect who designed the redevelopment plan, Kibbe consulted Indian government officials and various non-governmental organizations working

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within the slums to ascertain the political environment, the program’s potential challenges and how corruption and political instability might stifle the project.

By working at the consulate in Mumbai, Kibbe explains that he gained an invaluable understanding of the observational role the U.S. government plays in foreign affairs as well as real-world knowledge of how laws and U.S. foreign policy play out in people’s everyday lives.

“I learned the importance of not just having laws on the books but having the rule of law,” he says. “The law means something other than words.”

The fellowship was one of the most exciting experiences of Kibbe’s life. “People in Mumbai helped you on the streets and were so accommodating,” he says. “In an overcrowded city of 25 million people, it was truly amazing how friendly and gracious the people were.”

Kibbe explains that participating in a U.S. mission overseas was inspiring and that it was fascinating to watch the everyday aspects of foreign policy in motion.

“It makes you feel like you’re doing something for the greater good,” he says. “But you have to put aside your comforts and be willing to dive into the mud!”

and acquired a taste for international issues back then.

As an undergraduate, Kaiser studied both Latin American and international studies. His strong international background, coupled with his command of Spanish, primed him for a fellowship with La Fundación Gota de Leche, an independent foundation sponsored by the Spanish government that helps at-risk children.

The fellowship began in Seville where he worked closely with the impoverished Gypsy population, implementing programs such as vocational rehabilitation, nutritional reform for children and educational workshops for women.

“The foundation’s mission is to provide children a safe haven and a good start at life through educational reform,” he explains.

“The Gypsy population is underprivileged and impoverished. Their lifestyle is very alternative, so educational reform begins at a grassroots level — it’s as basic as helping the schools serve breakfast.”

After working with the Gypsies in the educational centers, Kaiser moved to a Spanish government office in Seville to research mistreatment complaints of underage immigrants and other illegal practices at government education centers.

“Spain has a problem with North Africans

Spanish Lessons For Ryan Kaiser, ’10, embarking on a fellowship in southern Spain felt like a homecoming.

As a teenager, he lived in Spain for two years

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crossing its borders,” he explains. “These immigrants can’t work legally and don’t have steady incomes, which often forces them into extreme poverty.”

Many of the adults wind up living in shantytowns, makeshift neighborhoods with homes created from trailers, sheets of metal and wood and furnished with items found on the streets. “They steal electricity and water,” he says. “And in those conditions, children are often mistreated.”

Those experiences exposed Kaiser to several Spanish immigrant populations and broadened his perspective of international law.

“Now I can compare and contrast Spanish and American immigration law, and how both governments react to the issues immigrants face,” he says. “This experience has given me a much deeper perspective of both immigration and international law.”

After spending several weeks in Seville, Kaiser moved south to Málaga, a port city on the Mediterranean coast, where he interned with a technological innovation firm. The program aims to create a knowledge-based educational system that would allow juvenile centers in Costa Rica and Central America to better prepare juvenile offenders to re-enter society.

“I’m very interested in children’s rights and more broadly human rights,” Kaiser offers. “I want to continue working in public service and plan to work in legal clinics doing child advocacy.”

He loves experiencing the legal system from the perspective of different countries. “Given the opportunity I’d jump right back on a plane,” says Kaiser, who currently serves as president of the International Law Students’ Association.

South America, Chile, Costa Rica, all call his name. And don’t be surprised at graduation if Kaiser holds his diploma in one hand and a plane ticket in the other.

the school children Kaiser worked with at La Fundación Gota de Leche

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Katherine Mortensen, ’10 Claudia Mallon, ’10 (center)

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Teaching in Thailand Claudia Mallon, ’10, has always possessed a strong interest in international law, but she was eager for the opportunity to live the law rather than to study it.

The summer before she began law school, Mallon worked in the state’s attorney’s office in Chicago, but she wanted her next fellowship to be “something more than just working in an office.” So, she went halfway around the world to find a new “office” at Bridges Across Borders in Thailand.

She was drawn to Bridges Across Borders because it offered both a service component and a great legal experience.

Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia is an international grassroots organization that unites people to overcome poverty, injustice and inequity in Southeast Asia by raising global awareness about the area’s pressing issues. The program supports local struggles for social justice, equitable development and the protection of human rights by teaching creative, non-violent methods of resolving conflict and redressing injustice.

“The program has a holistic approach to human rights,” she says. “I volunteered in women’s prisons, schools and an orphanage and helped teach monks.”

Mallon gained valuable legal experience by laying the groundwork for Asian universities to establish legal clinics in Southeast Asia. The Community Legal

Education program teaches law at various community settings while growing its existing in-house consultation clinic center. Students teach the law to the less educated, including female prisoners, juvenile offenders and people living poverty.

The clinics aim to provide legal education to the community, and Mallon and other volunteers wrote the manuals for the clinic’s legal education efforts.

Mallon handled the Thai criminal code, always careful not to impose her understanding of Western criminal law onto the Thai code. In a truly international collaboration, a volunteer lawyer from London edited their work, and Thai law students made sure the translations were accurate.

While adjusting to life in Thailand was easier than she thought, the immersion week spent living with a Thai family proved more problematic. Mallon doesn’t speak Thai and communicating with her family was very difficult. “There was lots of pointing and miming,” she admits.

But the service aspects of her fellowship were so rewarding that the language barrier proved only a minor frustration.

Mallon is already looking into another international internship next summer to continue her interest in international law and human rights issues. She also recently wrote a seminar paper on special issues in international aid organizations.

Mallon explains that when she graduates she will face tough choices as she tries to balance law school debt with her desire to work for a nongovernmental organization.

“This fellowship gave me invaluable insight into how to analyze a nongovernmental organization to ensure it’s a strong, stable organization,” she says. “My experience at Bridges Across Borders has given me the foundation to continue building a career that I love.”

Connecting in the Campos Some students start law school knowing exactly what they want to do with their degree. Emily Hanson, ’10, is one of those students.

Hanson came to law school with the goal of working as an immigration lawyer in the United States, but her fellowship as a public-service coordinator for the Institute for Latin American Concern in the Dominican Republic opened her eyes to immigration law on an international level.

“Eventually, I would love the opportunity to work in the Caribbean on immigration issues concerning that region,” she says.

The Institute for Latin American Concern is an international Catholic organization that provides medical, educational and economic development programs to underprivileged people in rural areas of Santiago.

Hanson served as the coordinator of many of the institute’s public-service projects, which ranged from building a new school to overseeing educational programs on sustainable housing to teaching job training skills. She also was a translator and liaison between the students and their host families.

The isolation of the campos can be alarming for Americans. People generally don’t travel anywhere they can’t walk, and

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rainstorms often cause rivers and streams to overflow, cutting off the rural communities from the larger towns.

Hanson says she was struck by how the campo communities graciously accepted the volunteers. “Our host families immediately accepted us as sons and daughters — the Dominican culture is very welcoming,” she says. “It was amazing how the students, despite language barriers, connected, communicated and developed strong bonds with their host families.”

While the graciousness of the Dominican culture offered a wonderful cultural experience, witnessing the living and working conditions of the immigrants gave Hanson a disturbing look at the human rights violations and unfair labor practices that occur in less developed countries.

She learned about these violations firsthand at the hospital, banana plantation and sprinkler factory she toured. “People should not be treated like criminals and be forced to live in appalling conditions,” she explains. “Everyone should have the opportunity to become a citizen.”

The lack of business regulation in the Dominican Republic often results in unfair wages, horrible working conditions and frequent border raids. “Undocumented Haitians work the undesirable jobs and have poor living conditions,” Hanson explains. “Families live in houses made out of cardboard and tin. There’s no sewer system and limited access to clean water.

Children have to walk at least three miles to school everyday. It’s a very difficult way of life.”

The eyewitness accounts and the realization that the pervasiveness and severity of human rights violations and unfair labor practices are even more extreme in underdeveloped countries left a profound impression on Hanson. The fellowship allowed her to discern parallels between the Dominican Republic’s immigration situation and that of the United States.

“In less developed countries the working and living conditions are much worse, and there’s more discrimination than what we see in the United States,” she explains.

“This fellowship renewed my dedication to human rights work and elevated my interest in immigration law to an international level.”

The public-service fellowship also provided some much-needed perspective.

“When I get bogged down with going to class, searching for a job and start stressing myself out,” she explains, “I remember my summer experience and realize the reason I am in law school.”

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Out of Africa Katherine Mortensen, ’10, is not a novice traveler by any means. But never before had she heard a lawyer refer to a magistrate as “your worship” or heard members of a racially diverse population refer to themselves as “colored.” During her fellowship at the Legal Aid Board of Durban, South Africa, Mortensen witnessed both.

But embracing these cultural differences were exactly what she was looking for in a fellowship. “I wanted an opportunity to go outside my comfort zone and live in a different country and work in public service,” she says.

Mortensen’s legal work took her to the remote area of Lesotho, where there is no electricity or running water and no exposure to Western life. “They were shepherds and farmed all of their own food,” she says. “It was unreal. Seeing that kind of poverty was profound considering many poor Americans still have refrigerators and cable TV.” Mortensen’s work at the Legal Aid Board was split between civil and criminal cases. During the criminal work, she focused on appeals and mitigation of sentences for convicted offenders. Her work ranged from reviewing personal histories and analyzing details of the crime to constructing arguments aimed at reducing maximum sentences to visiting the accused in prison.

The civil work included researching medical malpractice, landlord/tenant, negligence and child custody cases.

Mortensen researched relevant law through online and print resources and drafted theories of the cases. She also analyzed transcripts, judgments and depositions to find inconsistencies and theories of appeal.

“Research was difficult because South African law is not as clearly available as U.S. law,” she explains. “In America, we would

just look up ‘elements of negligence’, but in South Africa it was difficult to pin down the prima facie elements of many of the cases.”

Mortensen was particularly interested in the South African Constitution because “it is much longer and much more inclusive than ours — and it guarantees housing.”

The constitutional “right to housing” was the crux of one of her cases. She brought an action against a landlord by arguing that a tenant cannot be evicted under the Prevention of Illegal Evictions Act, which goes into effect when there are no other reasonable housing alternatives available for the individual.

“I was surprised that I was given so much responsibility and how capable I felt,” she says. “It was my first real legal experience, and it was strange to think I had these people’s fate in my hands.”

Mortensen reports that her biggest success story was reducing a sentence from the mandatory 15-year minimum down to 10 years because of mitigating circumstances.

“While I could not argue the case, I did all of the legwork used in court,” she says.

“The sense of pride was just amazing.”

Mortensen hopes to continue public service work by focusing on sustainable urban development and environmental law.

“I would love to work in an area of law that addresses housing issues and problems,” she says. “I want to feel like I’m helping my community and making a difference.”

volunteers help build a school in the campos

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Coming to America Professor Amany Ragab Hacking addresses hundreds of immigrants at the largest naturalization ceremony in Missouri history.

Amany Ragab Hacking Assistant Clinical Professor of Law After graduating cum laude from Saint Louis University School of Law, Hacking served as a law clerk to the Honorable Mary K. Hoff of the Missouri Court of the Appeals, Eastern District.

She subsequently practiced at two law firms in St. Louis focusing on complex civil litigation and appellate advocacy. While in private practice she received a David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award from the Missouri Bar.

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As a lawyer, a teacher and — most significantly — as an immigrant and fellow American, Professor Amany Ragab Hacking, ’97, welcomed nearly 1,000 new U.S. citizens from 180 countries across the globe at the largest naturalization ceremony ever held in Missouri.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services transformed the University’s Chaifetz Arena into a crowded courtroom on Sept. 19 for the historic naturalization ceremony, which was sponsored by the School of Law and organized by the Public Interest Law Group.

As the ceremony’s keynote speaker, Hacking, an Egyptian native who became a U.S. citizen in 1984, shared the story that chronicles her American citizenship while stressing to the new citizens the importance of knowing and asserting their constitutional rights.

The following is an edited version of Professor Hacking’s keynote address: Like all law students, I studied the Constitution, but I did not truly appreciate its words and impact until I took a class called “Constitution-making in South Africa” taught by Judge Albie Sachs. On the first day of class, Justice Sachs explained why he only has one arm. “I lost this arm because I openly challenged apartheid, that racist and segregated system that once governed South Africa,” he explained.

He was a social activist and a judge who fought for justice and equality in a country where not everyone agreed with him. One day, he got into his car and it exploded. Someone had planted a bomb.

Justice Sachs says that he thanks God that those who disagreed with his beliefs only got his arm — not his mind, heart or spirit.

He was not afraid of those who tried and did hurt him. He was afraid, however, for his country and what it would become if he

and others like him did not bring about the necessary changes.

He continued to work for social justice and equality in South Africa, bringing constitutional scholars from America to South Africa to draft a constitution. The South Africans wanted a document that would withstand the test of time, bridge racial divides, create gender equality and serve as the rule of law.

They wanted a Constitution like ours.

You see, in a way they wanted to be like us.

This class, like no other, gave me perspective and a new appreciation for what we Americans take for granted every day and the protections and rights our Constitution provides to each and every one of us.

This class made me proud to be an American.

The American Dream

Like you, though, I was not always an American. In fact, I almost did not make it to America.

Recently I was snooping around my parents’ apartment and found some letters written in 1978 by my mom and dad after my father left Egypt for America.

“I can’t tell you how difficult it is to raise these children alone,” my mother wrote.

“It is hard for me to feed them on my small government paycheck. Times are tough here.

Please send money for our tickets so we can all be together in America.”

My father replied: “My beloved, I am a stranger in a foreign land. I am trying to make ends meet. I work day and night and study for my medical board exams in between. Please be patient. I am trying to save money and will send for you soon, “Insha Allah” — God willing.

My mother grew restless. She was impatient, hardheaded and never gave up. These letters went on for months until one day our papers to America arrived. There was no money

for our tickets. My mother sold her gold and anything else she could find to pay for our one-way tickets to America. I was a couple weeks shy of my 7th birthday; my brother Ahmed, 11; and my brother Khaled, 13.

We arrived in Chicago to a blizzard in January of 1979. My father was not entirely prepared for our arrival. Even as a doctor, he could barely afford to pay rent for his little apartment or feed four other people.

We struggled for several years. My father worked long hours every day. He went to any hospital that needed him and worked any shift he could get. I barely saw him.

My mother, with business and law degrees from Cairo University, worked various jobs, from office manager to nanny to real estate agent. Eventually, my father opened his own practice and we bought a house.

This may seem like a remarkable story —

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father worked nights at an electrical plant near their house for more than 25 years until their oldest son joined the company as an engineer.

On the surface, we were all different, coming from different parts of the world to this country. We spoke different languages and ate different foods. We practiced different religions. But we lived just blocks from each other, and when we were together, we were family.

We shared the same struggles as immigrants, trying to fit in while still holding on to our culture, language and religion. We grew up together, confided in each other and shared our fears and dreams.

You see, we are all more alike than different, our stories more ordinary than extraordinary. We are all immigrants, each with our own stories.

And we are all American. That is what

We shared the same struggles as immigrants, trying to fit in while still holding on to our culture, language and religion. We grew up together, confided in each other and shared our fears and dreams.

a family divided, then coming to America for a better life. But in my Chicago neighborhood this was really just ordinary. There were many others just like us.

Take my friend Carrie. Her parents came here from China. They worked days at a poultry shop and nights at a Chinese restaurant for years until her dad had enough money to buy his own poultry shop and restaurant.

There is also my friend Karina from Peru.

Her father, a chiropractor, and her mother, a teacher, raised four children in a small apartment in Chicago. Their oldest child, Larina, went to The University of Chicago and got her doctorate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Maral’s parents were from Armenia. Her

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America is made of: immigrants like you and me.

Life Lessons

I was a little girl when I became a U.S. citizen, but I did not participate in any ceremony or celebration. There was no real recognition of that moment in my life even though it was one of the most significant.

What I remember about those early years is getting my American passport and returning to Egypt for the first time — this time as an American. I went to the store by myself to buy sugar cane juice, “aeseer aeseb,” with my own money. The salesman asked me where I was from.

I responded, “What do you mean? I am from here, Egypt.”

He said, “Well, where have you been living? You have been living somewhere else for some time.”

At an early age, I knew I would have these two identities — Egyptian and American — for the rest of my life. I learned an important lesson that day: Never forget where you came from and don’t stay away too long.

Another lesson I learned in those early years in America is never forget your native tongue and don’t take it for granted. My mother used to say “use it or lose it.” I began speaking my native language more and more and even studied it in college.

It’s something that I hope to pass on to my children so they can go to Egypt and order their own aeseer aeseb and better understand their family’s stories.

Constitutional Rights

As American citizens, you have many rights guaranteed to you by the Constitution.

People may assume because of your accent, your name or the color of your skin that you don’t know your rights as an American citizen.

Don’t be taken advantage of. Read the Constitution and learn your rights. You have the right to speak your mind in this country, not to speak to the police, the right to an attorney, the right to privacy, the right to practice your religion, the right not to be discriminated against at work or in housing.

If you don’t know these rights, they can’t protect you.

As with all rights come obligations as citizens. The first one to come to mind is voting, especially this year. It is your American right and obligation. Get involved in the democratic political process; put up a yard sign, donate to candidates, pass out flyers. Be a part of the system and process — it means more.

Serve on a jury. You are serving your country when you fulfill this obligation.

Go and learn about the legal system.

Be a part of this community. Embrace this culture and society to its fullest, with all its beauty and imperfections.

Meet your neighbors. Teach us about your culture, your religion and your way of life.

That is what makes America great.

And when you return to visit your native country, tell them about America — now as an American.

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Nicolas P. Terry, Chester A. Myers Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promoting Scholarship

photo by Jay Fram

Nicolas P. Terry Terry is enjoying the transition to his new role ...

But he never forgets his or the school’s primary responsibility to its students.

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Graduates and friends of the School of Law have long known that the school’s commitment to teaching excellence, public service and student mentoring is what sets Saint Louis University apart from other law schools.

The School of Law takes particular pride in the relationships between professors and students, from navigating students through legal theory to arming them with the knowledge, tools and skills needed to thrive in the legal community. Yet, to effectively shepherd student development at this level of commitment, professors often need their own support system.

Nicolas P. Terry, Chester A. Myers Professor of Law, is now charged with providing that allimportant support for faculty in his new role as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty.

In this position, he must ensure that the School of Law attracts, retains and promotes outstanding faculty members. Accomplishing these goals means mentoring new faculty members as well as acknowledging their accomplishments and providing resources and scholarly opportunities for faculty members at all levels.

Terry keeps his door open, literally and figuratively, so that faculty can drop by with questions about teaching, publication opportunities or research support.

By working closely with senior faculty, Terry highlights outstanding work in the classroom and in scholarly research. To further faculty opportunities, Terry seeks out publishing and speaking opportunities for the faculty and strives to make other law schools, law firms, alumni and friends of the School of Law aware of the faculty’s impressive contributions to the national terrain of legal scholarship.

School Commitment A long-time member of the School of Law faculty, Terry served as co-director of the nationally recognized Center for Health Law Studies for seven years. He also brings to the Dean’s office his international reputation

as a health law scholar, including his work in the area of health information technologies.

Dean Terry views his new position as another example of a series of overwhelmingly positive steps taken by Dean Jeffrey E. Lewis (and his predecessor Associate Deans Joel Goldstein and Alan Weinberger); steps that have encouraged research and fostered a more scholarly environment while maintaining the commitment to teaching and student support.

He credits Dean Lewis with facilitating a vigorous faculty workshop series, in which faculty members present their research to colleagues for critical yet collegial feedback and for increasing the school’s commitment to faculty research. The sustained, concerted effort of faculty development, coupled with the School of Law’s collegial atmosphere, has improved the school’s ability to attract junior faculty members and to make strategic lateral hires, even in the increasingly competitive academic marketplace.

Terry is enjoying the transition to his new role, and he is optimistic about advancing the law school on regional and national fronts. But he never forgets his or the school’s primary responsibility to its students — something that would be clear to anyone observing the smile on his face as he heads off to teach his 1L Torts class.

Career Highlights • Chester A. Myers Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law, 2005-Present • Law Faculty Member, Saint Louis University School of Law, 1980-Present • Co-Director, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law, 2000-2008 • Professor of Health Management & Policy, Saint Louis University School of Public Health (Secondary Appointment), 2003-Present • Director of Legal Education, LEXIS-NEXIS, 1996-1997 • Lecturer in Law, University of Exeter, Devon, England, 1977-1980

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Reunion September 25 to 28, 2008 Trivia Night PILG Ambulance Chase Reunion Class Dinners St. Louis Cardinals Game

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The U.S. Russia Foundation for Economic Advancement and Rule of Law appointed Michael Mihm to its Board of Directors and elected him to serve as Chair of the Rule of Law Advisory Committee. The U.S. State Department recommended that the new foundation be created in 2006 to provide grants to Russian and U.S. organizations as well as training opportunities and a series of exchanges and partnerships between Russians and Americans.

The Honorable Michael Shay recently published The Yankee Division in the First World War and was reappointed for a second eight-year term as Superior Court judge in Connecticut.

1968 The Best Lawyers in America ranked Thomas Kummer No. 1 in Nevada in the fields of corporate law, energy law, government relations law, land use, zoning law and mergers and acquisitions for its 2009 edition.

Stephen Lambright recently retired from Williams Venker & Sanders LLC to spend more time with his wife, Gail, and their children and grandchildren.

Lambright formerly served as general counsel of AnheuserBusch. He is also a founder of the Law Class of 1968 Endowed Scholarship at the School of Law. 2008 Super Lawyers reported that Robert Ritter is among the top 5 percent of lawyers in Missouri and Kansas. He was also named as one of the top 50 attorneys in St. Louis and top 100 in Missouri and Kansas. photos by Dolan & Associates Photography and Special Events Photography

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1969 Classes Years Ending in 4s & 9s

The Big Game Hunters Inc. elected Charles Steib as its vice president.

1973 The Best Lawyers in America named Peter von Gontard as one of the nation’s best trial attorneys in the areas of medical malpractice law, personal injury litigation and product liability litigation for its 2009 edition.

1974 The Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) recently installed Jack Carey as its president at the organization’s annual meeting. Carey’s private practice concentrates in general trial work, labor law and personal injury law. Carey was elected in 2000 to the Board of Governors and has been a member of the ISBA Assembly for 16 years.

The Honorable Patrick McLaughlin is the vice president of Aegen 4 of the Association of Administrative Law Judges. He also recently served as conference chairman of the Association of Administrative Law Judges Conference.

The Pennsylvania Bar Association elected Francis O’Connor as treasurer in June. He is the first state officer elected from Susquehanna City, Pa. The Best Lawyers in America named G. Keith Phoenix as one of the nation’s best trial attorneys in the areas of commercial litigation, medical

class notes malpractice law, personal injury litigation and product liability litigation for its 2009 edition.

business, estate wills, probate and family law.

The Clayton Board of Aldermen reappointed attorney Gary Soule to a second five-year term on the Clayton Board of Adjustment. For the past two years, Soule has served as chairman of the Board of Adjustment. A longtime Clayton resident, Soule is also a founding member of the Carter Bauer Soule LLC law firm in Clayton.

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After 20 years as an administrative law judge with the Utah Department of Workforce Services, Suzanne Mellor retired. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, John K. Fife.

The Best Lawyers in America named Scott S. Brinkmeyer as a top attorney in its 2009 edition.

The Missouri Bar honored Janet Whitaker Brown with a Pro Bono Award at its annual meeting to acknowledge her outstanding pro bono work.

The Honorable Michael P. McCuskey was elected as chair of the Illinois State University’s Board of Trustees. McCuskey is a chief U.S. district judge for the Central District of Illinois and was appointed to the board in 2005.

John J. Temporiti was elected Chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party and has joined Gallop, Johnson & Neuman as counsel.

1976 Attorney Lawrence Altman has been spent more than half of his 30-year legal career practicing special education law as applied through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and 504 legislation. His private practice also handles small

Joseph A. McCormick, a partner and shareholder at Weinberg & McCormick, PA in Haddonfield, N.J., was sworn in as the 82nd President of the Camden County Bar Association.

1978

1979 James Foster Jr. of McMahon Berger in St. Louis was named to the Labor Relations Institute Inc.’s 2008 Top 100 list of labor attorneys, placing the firm in the top 1 percent of labor attorneys in the country.

The Boys and Girls Town of Missouri honored Robert Keefe for outstanding service to the agency as a member of the statewide board of directors.

1980 Mary Coffey received the Lawyer’s Lawyer Award by the St. Louis Daily Record at the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards 2008.

Kevin Galley is serving as a presiding judge in Civil Law Court in the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, Peoria County.

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Tom Burke is the president-elect of the Missouri Bar Association.

The Best Lawyers in America and 2008 Super Lawyers named Bruce Friedman as a top attorney in family law.

1982 John Cooney was named a principal at Danna McKitrick, P.C. in St. Louis.

Class of 1980

Musical theater has always been Terry Schnuck’s lifelong passion. After a 22-year legal career, he made that dream a reality in 2002 when he resigned as general counsel of Schnuck Markets, Inc. and left the family grocery business to head for the bright lights of Broadway.

“In my mid-forties I thought if I died without exercising the creative side of my brain, I was not going to die a happy person,” he explains.

Over the past six years, Schnuck has been taking show business by storm. He’s one of the Tony Award-winning producers of Spring Awakening, which is coming to St. Louis Feb. 1022 at the Fox Theatre.

His credits also include Enchanted April; ’night, Mother; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and Ministry of Progress, among others. He’s the executive producer of “The Manhattan Monologue Slam,” recently chaired the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis and serves on the Board of Directors for the Muny and the Professional Theatre Awards Council, which annually bestows the Kevin Kline Awards.

Recently, he inked a deal with Merv Griffin Entertainment to pitch a television show about the New York Reality TV School, which trains people how to successfully audition for reality television and navigates them throughout the process.

In the following interview, Schnuck takes a look back at some of the highlights of his legal career and shares the story behind his transition from barrister to Broadway producer: What was most challenging about transitioning from the law to Broadway?

There really is no way to learn about how to be a producer other than by doing it. I had to rely a lot on others in the business to help mentor

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me. I continue to choose what shows I get involved in by what I might learn from the experience. In one sense, it is similar to the move from law school to the legal profession: Law school generally teaches you how to think and how to research, but you can’t be a good lawyer unless you get out there and do it.

What makes Spring Awakening so special?

The way that the music and the choreography all contribute to expressing the emotions and difficulties teenagers face is fabulous. The subject matter is timeless in ways that all young people can connect to it. This is the show I am most proud of.

You won the Tony Award for Best Musical for Spring Awakening. What would be a parallel defining moment in your legal career?

Being part of the legal team that gained the Federal Trade Commission approval for the 1995 acquisition by Schnuck Markets of National Supermarkets. A close second would be winning the arbitration brought against Schnucks by the company that purchased the stores we were required to sell in order to get FTC approval. The party who sued us is currently in prison.

What do you miss most about working as an attorney?

As general counsel for Schnuck Markets, Inc., I had contact with many internal clients and was exposed to numerous aspects of the supermarket business. I always thought it was the best job in the company because I got to have contact with about every part of the business.

After serving more than 25 years of active duty in the United States Air Force, Mark A. Presson retired.

photo courtesy of Terry Schnuck

If theater has always been your true passion, what motivated you to pursue a legal career?

I seriously thought about becoming an actor after college and moving to New York. Aren’t a lot of lawyers just frustrated actors? I wanted to raise a family, and at that time, I did not think that you could excel as an actor and excel in family life, so I put the whole theater thing aside and decided to go to law school and business school.

How has your legal background benefited your new career?

It’s helped to the extent that I sometimes take on the responsibility for the legal review of some of the contracts. However, I know enough to know what I don’t know, so I use counsel who are well versed in entertainment law. But that’s part of the fun — I’m always learning. And I’m always reminded of the adage: “A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.”

The fields of law and musical theater seem like disparate worlds — but do they have more in common than people might think?

They are totally different. However, there is some similarity between the theatre business and the grocery business: They both have lousy margins!

The Defense Research Institute’s Trucking Law Committee recently named Michael Reda as a member.

Reda is a partner at Hepler, Broom, MacDonald, Hebrank, True & Noce, LLC and is a member of its trucking and transportation practice area.

1983 The Honorable Paula Perkins Bryant was nominated by the Twenty-Second Judicial Commission to fill the vacancy on the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. In 2004, she was appointed to the bench as an associate circuit judge.

1984 Mary Berry is a partner at Kaestner & Berry Professional Insurance Services, a specialty insurance broker for lawyers.

1985 Donna M. Goelz has joined the firm of Howard & Howard.

She works in the Business & Corporate practice group and

practices out of the firm’s office in Peoria, Ill. The Best Lawyers in America named Patrick J. Hagerty a leading attorney in the area of personal injury litigation in its 2009 edition.

in Detroit recently swore in Stephen J. Murphy at a ceremony in October.

Daniel Seiden was named as the most recent city circuit judge in Binghamton, N.Y.

Ames & Gough, a specialty design and construction insurance brokerage firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., recently selected Robert Staed to open the firm’s Midwest office.

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1988

Jennifer Borron Furla, executive vice-president of Kansas City-based Jeffrey Byrne & Associates Inc., has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Giving USA Foundation.

The Commercial Law League of America elected David Gamache as president for the league’s 2008-2009 term.

The league is the nation’s oldest organization of attorneys, judges and other financial experts actively engaged in the field of commercial law, bankruptcy and insolvency.

The Best Lawyers in America named Stephen R. Woodley a leading attorney in the area of personal injury litigation in its 2009 edition.

1987 Matthew Geekie was recently promoted to senior vice president, secretary and general counsel of Graybar. Prior to joining Graybar, Geekie served as general counsel and secretary at XTRA Corp. He also was assistant general counsel at Emerson Process Management.

Arch Coal Inc. recently elected Robert Jones as senior vice president-law, general counsel and secretary.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Former Gov. Matt Blunt appointed Theresa Counts Burke to the Office of Associate Circuit Judge of the TwentySecond Judicial Circuit. Burke is a municipal judge for the City of St. Louis.

James P. Carmody, a principal at Carmody MacDonald P.C., was one of two Missouri lawyers accepted this year as a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Former state representative Margaret Donnelly was recently named head of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services by Gov. Jay Nixon.

1989 Fox Galvin, LLC announced that Ted Lucas has joined the firm as a partner. Lucas offers 18 years of experience as a trial attorney specializing in admiralty, commercial and zoning law.

1991 Francis J. Murphy III has been named a partner at Cordell & Cordell, P.C., a nationally recognized family law firm focusing on men facing domestic relations issues.

Hebrank, True & Noce, LLC in Edwardsville, Ill., earned his Master of Laws in Taxation from Washington University School of Law in May of 2008.

1992 The Labor Relations Institute Inc. named Geoffrey M. Gilbert Jr. of McMahon Berger PC as a 2008 Top 100 labor attorney, placing the law firm in the top 1 percent of labor attorneys in the nation.

Debra Stachowski Pierce was promoted to vice president of compliance and associate general counsel of healthcare for Golden Living, a multistate, long-term care company based in Fort Smith, Ark. Patricia Reed Zimmer, a partner at Ripplinger & Zimmer L.L.C., has been appointed chair of the Insurance Law Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association.

1993 The 2008 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business recognized Bret Cohen as a leader in labor and employment law in Massachusetts. Cohen is with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. On Sept. 18, Jennifer Getz and husband, Patrick, welcomed a baby boy, Jacob Henry Getz. Jacob joins big brothers, Sam and Charlie, 8; and Louie, 2.

The St. Louis Daily Record honored Joan Galli Lockwood with the Rising Star Award at the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards 2008.

Gary True, a partner at Hepler, Broom, MacDonald,

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1999

Roy Anderson joined Amelung, Wulff, Willenbrock & Pankowski, P.C. as a principal. He specializes in insurance defense litigation with an emphasis in workers’ compensation defense, particularly in Illinois.

Robert Kenney made history at the Missouri Attorney General’s Office with his recent appointment as chief of staff — elevating Kenney to the highest position an African-American lawyer has ever held in that office.

Kenney’s recent appointment, quick rise to partner at Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC, his leadership at the Mound City Bar Association and his volunteer work with numerous community organizations were the focus of a recent St. Louis Beacon article.

The Fourth Judicial Circuit of Christian County, Ill., appointed Bradley Paisley as an associate judge. He was elected Christian County state’s attorney in 2004.

1995 Don Fritschie continues to work as a partner and shareholder at Wallace Saunders in Overland Park, Kan. He and his wife, Laura, have three children: Emily, 9; Jack, 6; and new baby, Grace, who just turned 1.

The Missouri Bar honored Joy L. Holley with the Pro Bono Award at their annual meeting to acknowledge her outstanding pro bono work.

1998 The St. Louis Daily Record honored Heather Hays with the Rising Star Award at the 10th Annual Women’s Justice Awards 2008.

The Missouri Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers awarded Travis Noble the 2008 Charles Shaw Trial Advocacy Award.

Timothy Sansone is chairing the Sandberg, Phoenix and von Gontard Charitable Foundation and practices in the areas of product liability, business litigation and appellate law.

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Antonia M. Ponder recently joined Gallop, Johnson & Neuman in the firm’s Business and Law Services department.

The Intellectual Property Services Group at Armstrong Teasdale announced Richard A. Schuth as a partner.

He specializes in U.S. and worldwide patent preparation and prosecution, invalidity and non-infringement opinions and patent portfolio development and management, especially as it relates to the chemical and chemical engineering sciences.

2000 Fox Galvin announced John M. Allen as partner.

Throughout his career, Allen has represented a wide variety of clients in product liability, employment, toxic tort, maritime, environmental and general commercial litigation matters.

The Board of Directors for the Chicago Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law Firms announced the election of Amy Gulinson Enloe to its board.

Enloe is an attorney in Quarles & Brady’s Corporate Services Group in Chicago.

Katherine M. Fowler has also been announced as a partner at Fox Galvin. She concentrates on commercial litigation matters, commercial lease disputes, defending product liability actions and environmental litigation. She is a member of Commercial Real Estate Women-St. Louis, the Defense Research Institute and the St. Louis Women Lawyers’ Association. She is also a board member of Let’s Start, a non-profit organization at St. Vincent’s Church that provides the caregivers of children whose mothers are in prison or on drugs a range of support services.

The Intellectual Property Services Group at Armstrong Teasdale named Daniel S. Kasten as counsel. He has experience working in the chemical and biological fields, including pharmaceutical compositions and formulations, biological therapeutics and genetically engineered organisms.

Colonel Samuel Mahaney of the United States Air Force is just finishing up a yearlong National Security Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Afterward, he will be stationed at the Pentagon.

He will also be an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. Daniel Welsh has become a shareholder at Copeland Thompson Farris PC. Welsh specializes in civil litigation, commercial landlord-tenant law, construction law, real estate law, corporate law, bankruptcy law and sports law.

2001 Justin Carver, head of the Fulton District Office of the Missouri State Public Defender,

has been selected as a 2008 recipient of the Lon Hocker Award, an honor given annually to a Missouri attorney who has demonstrated exceptional courtroom skills and talent as a litigator.

Dora Schriro received Harvard University’s Ash Institute Innovations in American Government Award.

Jennifer Elliott of Stites & Harbison, PLLC has been elected as a member of the firm’s Health Care Service Group in Louisville, Ky. She focuses her practice on regulatory and transactional health care law and is a frequent author and lecturer on health care topics for both national and local organizations.

Kevin E. Myers joined Danna McKitrick, P.C. as an associate in the firm’s litigation department.

He focuses on commercial and civil litigation matters, specializing in insurance defense.

Allison Orlina moved to Washington, D.C. to get married and is working as a contract services coordinator at George Washington University Hospital, where she works in house operations, clinical policy advising and contracts supervision.

2002 Suzanne Swacker Leiteritz, an associate at Carmody MacDonald P.C., was elected to the Board of Directors for the Women’s Safe House, which provides safe shelter and support services to battered women and their children. Leiteritz has been with Carmody MacDonald since 2006 and concentrates her practice in medical professional defense litigation. She has legal experience in both private practice and with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and is a registered nurse.

The American Bar Association named Captain Jennifer S. Parker of the United States Marine Corps as the 2007-2008 Outstanding Young Service Lawyer. She is currently a platoon commander at Officer Candidate’s School.

2002

2003 Missouri Lawyers Weekly named Dawn M. Mefford as the 2008 Up and Coming Lawyer.

2004 Jennifer Collins Hansen joined Williams Venker & Sanders LLC as an associate.

She will focus her practice on defending against medical malpractice actions and representing companies involved with employment discrimination and personal injury claims.

Copeland Thompson Farris PC announced Rachel Jeep as an associate. She specializes in business litigation, federal civil litigation, business law, corporate law, labor and employment law, health law, physician contracts and commercial landlord and tenant law.

Reiad Khouri joined Casey & Devoti and is concentrating in the fields of personal injury law and commercial litigation.

2005 James M. Heffner is the new treasurer of the Young Lawyers Division of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. He

is an attorney with Danna McKitrick, P.C. Missouri Lawyers Weekly named Brian E. Kaveney of Armstrong Teasdale as one of Missouri’s Rising Stars in its 2008 Up and Coming Lawyers list. Kaveney successfully launched the firm’s Security Clearance Task Force, which consists of Armstrong Teasdale attorneys who serve companies and individuals seeking facility and security clearances.

Brendan Kelly was elected as the St. Clair County Illinois Circuit Clerk. He won against Republican challenger, Terry Wright, by a margin of 64 percent to 36 percent.

As an associate at Williams Venker & Sanders LLC, Bryan Mauller concentrates in the areas of product liability, toxic tort and personal injury defense while also working on cases involving insurance law and medical malpractice.

2006 Annie Ewing is working primarily in real estate foreclosures, eviction and bankruptcy at Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. In her free time, she serves as the assistant varsity basketball coach at Lutheran High School South and tutors at Matthews-Dickey Boys’ and Girls’ Club.

2007 In September 2007, Gregory Kelly married Melissa Sestak (Public Service ’03) at St. Francis Xavier College Church. Greg is an attorney and runs his own law firm in St. Louis. The couple is moving to Cozumel, Mexico.

Katherine Fansler Moore is an associate attorney at the Gilroy Law Firm, specializing in eminent domain law, real estate law and business litigation.

She married Thomas Moore last March.

David Pfeffer has accepted a clerkship with Judge Michael Murphy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

He will be moving to Salt Lake City for the 2009-2010 term, after which he intends to return to St. Louis to practice.

2008 Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, P.C. welcomed Raven J. Akram.

John R. Ashcroft joined Armstrong Teasdale as a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.

The Kansas City office of Bryan Cave LLP welcomed Andrew Brummel to its Transactions Client Service Group.

Danna McKitrick P.C. recently announced Jennifer Doering as an associate. She specializes in bankruptcy and civil and commercial litigation.

Mark G. Jacobs joined Armstrong Teasdale as an associate in the firm’s Employment and Labor Practice Group, in which he primarily focuses on discrimination under Title VII.

in memoriam Abraham Rush, 1933 William Weiss, 1937 The Honorable John Rickhoff, 1940 Richard Daly, 1950 The Honorable John Bardgett, 1951 A. Robert Belscher, 1951 Frank Green, 1952 The Honorable James Harrison, 1953 William Staab, 1954 David Costello, 1956 John Fitzgibbon, 1956 Leonard Mirtsching, 1956 William Murphy Jr., 1956 Donald Peterson, 1957 The Honorable James Darst, 1958 George Meisel, 1958 Arthur Herder Jr., 1959 Luvern Phegley, 1961 Constantine Pulos, 1961 David Spitznagel, 1965 Donald Weyerich, 1967 James Meno, 1973 Ted Noel, 1974 John Sander, 1977 Vincent Venker II, 1981 Melinda Wallach, 1981 Allen Collins, 1984 Vernon Dudas, 1986 Daniel Mohs, 1993 Eutha Ochoa, 1999

Armstrong Teasdale also welcomed Timmi Kloster as a member of the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.

Sandra Kimbrell, 2000

Paul Woody is practicing civil litigation as an associate at Klar, Izsak & Stenger. Paul and his wife, Christine (Shine) Woody (A&S ’02), are expecting their first child in January.

Saint Louis University extends our most sincere apology for inaccurately announcing the death of Elbert G. Luh, ’88, in the spring 2008 issue of the Saint Louis Brief.

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March

Women Speaker Series: Stress, Professional Obligations and Caregiving: Maintaining a Healthy Law Practice Health Law Distinguished Speaker Eleanor DeArman Kinney Women Speaker Series: Intersection of Race and Gender Public Law Review Symposium: Property Ownership & Economic Stability Downtown St. Louis Alumni Luncheon

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Health Law Symposium: Living in the Genetic Age

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Women Speaker Series: Building a Business: Client Development

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Adler-Rosecan Lecture and Moot Court Finals

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Scribes Event: Legal-Writing Tips from Top Experts

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Annual Public Interest Fellowship Auction

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Health Law Distinguished Speaker Michele Bratcher Goodwin

April 3

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Millstone Lecture: Scott Simon from “NPR Weekend Edition”

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Belleville, IL Alumni Luncheon

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Academic Excellence Awards

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Clayton, MO Alumni Luncheon

May 14

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Health Law Distinguished Speaker Tim Westmoreland

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Saint Louis University Law Journal Symposium

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