December 15, 2004
LIFE@LAW: Good Things Ahead in 2005!
News and Events of the University of Oregon School of Law
Life@Law: LOOKING AHEAD TO 2005
HIGHLIGHTS: It’s the holidays. You’re busy. But as you study for finals, wait in line at the airport, or check your email in the middle of family celebrations, take a look at what’s coming up this winter and spring …
January 5-8, 2005 BASIC MEDIATION TRAINING
30 hour basic mediation training focusing on communication, uncovering disputants’ interests and helping the participants find their own solutions. Open to students and the public. Sponsored by the Appropriate Dispute Resolution program. Cost is $175.00. Preregistration required. INFO
January 5-8 SAN FRANCISCO: AALS Annual Meeting
Exhibits and registration at the Hilton San Francisco, 333 O’Farrell Street. On Thursday, law professor Michael Moffitt presents on Streaming Video for Assessment in Negotiation Classes, and Steve Bender participates in a panel on the Impact of the UCC on Real Estate Transactions. Susan Gary is part of a panel discussing intestacy and the issue of posthumously conceived children. Bender and law professor Keith Aoki are also members of organizing committees for the conference. INFO: www.aals.org/
Wednesday, January 5 ALUMNI RECEPTION
6:00 P.M, Hotel Nikko, Mendocino II Room, 222 Mason St., San Francisco. Law school alumni and friends are invited to join Dean Laird Kirkpatrick at an evening reception during the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting. INFO: (541) 346-3970 or email law external relations.
Jan. 8 Feb. 4 MORSE CHAIR PROFESSOR: Hilary Charlesworth
Hilary Charlesworth directs the Centre for International and Public Law at Australian National University in Canberra. She is the twenty-fourth occupant of the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics. INFO: http://www.uoregon.edu/~morse/morsechairs.html
Monday, January 10 FIRST DAY OF SPRING SEMESTER CLASSES
Tuesday, January 11 DEDICATION: Many Nations Longhouse
Following a series of private ceremonies for Native groups, the public dedication of the long-awaited longhouse behind the Knight Law Center will take place on Tuesday, January 11 at 11:30 a.m., followed by a salmon feast sponsored by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Law professors Rennard Strickland and Mary Wood are interviewed about the project in the December 6 Inside Oregon newsletter. STORY:
Rennard Strickland
Mary Wood
The longhouse story
4:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M., Room 175. Organized by law professor and Morse Center Resident Scholar Ibrahim Gassama. Featuring Morse professor Hilary Charlesworth, University of Texas law professor Karen Engle and Ileana Porros, Boston College School of Law. INFO: (541) 346-3700.
Wednesday, January 12 Community Conversations: Marijuana
7:30 P.M., Dyment Lounge, Walton Complex across from Knight Law Center. This discussion, part of an ongoing series for dorm residents and community members, features criminal law professor and associate dean Margie Paris as well as Eugene attorney Brian Michaels . Other panelists are David McKula, drug and alcohol counselor, internist Alan Cohn, Chris O’Neill of WorkDrugFree, Kevin Lively from the Compassion Center and moderator Dan Close, UO counseling services. INFO
Tuesday, January 18 Community Conversations: Political Satire
7:30 P.M., Dunn Lounge Hamilton complex. Political Satire: The Daily Show and South Park” features law professor, artist and musician Keith Aoki plus journalism professor Al Stavitsky, political scientist Eric McGhee and UO students Abram Goodstein, Haley Dillan and Cate Dance. INFO
Friday, January 21 VISITOR: Governor Ted Kulongoski
10:30 A.M. The governor will talk informally about public service careers, tour the Knight Law Center, and meet with the faculty. INFO
Sunday, January 23 OPENING: UO Art Museum
11 A.M. 5:00 P.M. UO’s art museum reopens with a new name after a major remodel – Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. INFO: http://uoma.uoregon.edu
Wednesday, January 26 LECTURE: The Missing Voice
7:30 P.M., Room 175. Morse Professor Hilary Charlesworth speaks on women and the war in Iraq. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Wayne Morse Center. INFO: (541) 346-3700. http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/
Networking for law students with Portland alumni and friends. (Time and place TBA) INFO
Saturday, February 12 SYMPOSIUM: Day of Remembrance
All day at the Knight Law Center. “Forging Links to Resist Racism and Discrimination with lessons from the Japanese American internment during WWII and Latino immigration in the new world order. INFO: http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/
Friday, February 25 OLSPIF AUCTION
6 P.M.-10 P.M. in the Wayne Morse Commons. Annual fundraiser and party for Oregon Law Students Public Interest Fund, with legendary auctioneer, Assistant Professor Tom Lininger. INFO
Monday, February 28 LECTURE: Rising Inequality
7:30 P.M., Room 175. University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith speaks on “Rising Inequality: Facts and Consequences.” He is a Morse Center Distinguished Lecturer. Free and open to the public. Reception follows. INFO: (541) 346-3700. http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/
Friday, March 11 OREGON SUPREME COURT VISIT
March 21-25 SPRING BREAK
Wednesday, March 30 PRO BONO OPEN HOUSE
Noon, Room 141. INFO
March 31 – April 1 PATRIOT ACT CONFERENCE
Room 175. Begins 3 P.M. Thursday, All day Friday. Cosponsored by Wayne Morse Center http://www.morsechair.uoregon.edu/ (541) 346-3700
Friday, April 1 OREGON LAW REVIEW BANQUET
6:00 P.M., Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Guest speaker: Oregon Supreme Court Justice Paul DeMuniz. INFO
Thursday, April 7 PRO BONO AWARDS
5:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M., Wayne Morse Commons INFO
Friday, April 15
Both groups will meet in Portland before the Frohnmayer Award banquet. INFO
Friday, April 15
6:00 P.M. Reception, 7:00 P.M. Dinner. Embassy Suites Hotel, Portland. The fourth annual public service award honors Lawrence A. Aschenbrenner ’57. From 1960s Mississippi to 21st century Alaska, he has defended the poor and disenfranchised with energy and zeal. Aschenbrenner was Oregon’s first public defender in the early 1960s, first director of the Mississippi office of the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights in 1968 and a partner in Oregon’s first public interest law firm in the 1970s. An expert in Indian law, he spent the last twenty years as head of the Native American Rights Fund in Anchorage, Alaska. Lare Aschenbrenner was born in Baker, Oregon and graduated from the law school in 1957. The Frohnmayer Award is sponsored by the UO Law Alumni Association. INFO
April 22 LAST DAY OF SPRING SEMESTER CLASSES
April 25-May 9 FINAL EXAMS
Sunday, May 15 COMMENCEMENT: Class of 2005
1:00 P.M., Hult Center, 6th and Willamette in downtown Eugene, followed by a reception in the Commons. INFO
All events are free and open to the public at the Knight Law Center (1515 Agate Street, Eugene), unless otherwise noted. Dates and times are subject to change best to check the contact number or email just to make sure.
