TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • FALL 2007periods when there has been no intervening change in the law. The variation is particularly striking whenone controls for both the nationality and current areaof residence of applicants and examines the asylumgrant rates of the different asylum officers who work inthe same regional building, or immigration judges whosit in adjacent court rooms of the same immigrationcourt. … The arguably arbitrary factors of place andtime are particularly discomfiting in asylum cases,because the result of an erroneous decision that isunfavorable to the bona fide applicant is an order ofdeportation to a nation where she is in grave danger.The authors acknowledge that law’s human elementcannot be scrubbed from the system—nor should it be. But what is happening now, they argue, is beyond the pale.“Our claim is not that there should be zero disparity,”says Ramji-Nogales, who is in her second year on TempleLaw’s faculty after teaching for two years at Georgetown. “We don’t recommend quotas or guidelines—we saw severeproblems with sentencing guidelines, and judges have tohave some discretion. But there does have to be some effortThe law is a human endeavor, and so variation in itsapplication is not surprising. After all, its practitioners andadjudicators, including attorneys, judges, and administrativeofficials, approach the law with different worldviews, differentcultural backgrounds, and different experiences. But when two judges in the same courthouse hearingsimilar cases with the same type of claimant vary in theirdecisions by nearly 2,000%, it is time to take notice.In a comprehensive and unprecedented statistical reviewof the United States asylum system, Assistant Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales and a pair of colleagues unearth somestartling findings. Their research, to be published in theStanford Law Reviewthis fall, reveals vast disparities in the adjudication of asylum cases. An applicant’s success in winning relief from the system, they find, depends heavily on who is making the decision, instead of on themerits of the case. The results of this ground-breaking studywere featured on the front page of the New York TimesinMay 2007.In their paper, Ramji-Nogales and Georgetown University’sAndrew Schoenholtz and Philip Schrag crunch a wealth of numbers from all four levels of the asylum adjudicationprocess: 133,000 decisions involving nationals from 11 keycountries rendered by 884 asylum officers over a seven-yearperiod; 140,000 decisions of 225 immigration judges over afour-and-a-half-year period; 76,000 decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals over six years; and 4,215 decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals during 2004 and 2005. Theiranalysis turns up wild inconsistencies in grant rates— even incases from the same countries heard during the same timeframe by asylum officers in a single office or by judges in thesame courthouse. To cite just one example, from January2000 to August 2004 in the New York Immigration Court, onejudge granted 5 percent of the Albanian asylum cases heheard, while another granted 96 percent.Given the very serious circumstances that asylum seekersface in their countries of origin, such disparity in decision-making in the asylum process is seriously troubling. As theauthors explain in their paper:[I]n the very large volume of adjudications involvingforeign nationals’ applications for protection frompersecution and torture in their home countries, we seea great deal of statistical variation in the outcomespronounced by decision-makers … [T]here isremarkable variation in decision-making from oneofficial to the next, from one office to the next, fromone region to the next, from one judicial circuit to thenext, and from one year to the next, even duringTHREE NEW PROFSJOIN FACULTYAUGUST 2007The law school welcomes three new faculty members with extensivelegal knowledge in the areas of internationalfinance, civil rights, intellectual property and the environment. “We are delighted tohave these exceptionally qualified professorsjoin our Temple Law faculty. Their experienceand their reputations will further solidify ourprofile within the academic and legalcommunities, enabling us to enrich andbroaden key areas of our curriculum,” saysDean Robert J. Reinstein.PROFESSOR WILLIAM M. CARTER JR.willteach in the areas of constitutional law, civilrights, and civil procedure. Previously, he wasa professor of law at Case Western ReserveUniversity School of Law, where he receivedmultiple awards forteaching excellence.Before Case Western,Carter held consecutivepositions as a litigationassociate with theWashington, D.C. offices ofRopes & Gray and Squire,Sanders & Dempsey.Professor Carter was also alaw clerk for the U.S.Department of Justice’sINS division. He haswritten several notablearticles on constitutionallaw and human rights forpublications such as theHarvard Civil Rights-CivilLiberties Law Review,theUniversity of California-Davis Law Review,and theBerkeley Journal ofInternational Law.He iswidely regarded as one ofthe leading scholars on theThirteenth Amendment.Carter earned a B.S. in1994 from Bowling GreenState University, and a J.D.in 1998 from Case WesternReserve University Schoolof Law, where hegraduated magna cumlaude,Order of the Coif.PROFESSOR GREGORYMANDEL,a noted patentlaw scholar, was previouslyassociate dean for researchand scholarship andprofessor of law at AlbanyLaw School of UnionUniversity. He taughtcourses in patents andtrade secrets; property; technology, scienceand the law; and natural resources. Mandelserves on the ABA’s nanotechnology taskforce,briefing the EPA on arising nanotechnology issues. He also has been consulted by members of Congresson diverse matters concerning technology,pharmaceutical and immigration legislation. The author of numerous law review articlesand book chapters, Mandel’s recent empiricalJaya Ramji-nogalesAsylum adjudication:Too human an endeavor?PROFESSOR JAYARAMJI-NOGALESWILLIAM CARTER JR.GREGORY MANDELSOPHIE SMYTHcontinued on page threecontinued on page two21105_TLS 9/6/07 3:54 PM Page 12 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2007procedure. Shellenberger directed the law school’sprogram in Rome, Italy in summer 2004 and 2006, andhas also taught in the Temple Law Japan program. Inaddition to teaching, Shellenberger served two years asassistant dean for student affairs and three years asdirector of the writing program. During the 2007-08academic year, he will be directing a new academic coreenrichment program for first year students. Shellenberger is currently co-reporter for the modelcriminal jury instruction committee of the US Court ofAppeals for the Third Circuit, which will soon complete a comprehensive set of model jury instructions for criminal cases in the third circuit courts. His most recentlaw review publication, “The Lesser Included OffenseDoctrine and the Constitution,” (written with ProfessorJames Strazzella) was published in Marquette Law Reviewin 1995. Before joining the faculty in 1983, Shellenbergerprosecuted criminal cases as an assistant district attorneyin Philadelphia from 1972 to 1977. He then practiced inthe litigation department of Schnader, Harrison, Segal &Lewis for three years before becoming chief staff counselALICE G. ABREU, JAMES E. BEASLEYPROFESSOR OF LAW,was recognizedfor her classroom skills with the 2007Lindback Award for DistinguishedTeaching at Temple University. Abreuteaches a variety of tax courses,including taxation, corporate taxation,international tax, and tax policy, aswell as contracts. Abreu’s expertise in teaching taxlaw has attracted the interest of otherlaw schools, and in spring 2004,Abreu was the William K. Jacobs, Jr.Visiting Professor of Law at theHarvard Law School. She has alsotaught corporate tax at Yale; shetaught as a visiting professor at theUniversity of Pennsyl-vania in fall1998; and she was the Howard H.Rolapp Distinguished Visiting Scholarat the University of Utah in 1999.Abreu has served as chair of the tax section of the Association ofAmerican Law Schools, is a fellow of the American College ofTax Counsel, and a member of theAmerican Law Institute. She haswritten numerous scholarly articlesand, with McDaniel, McMahon andSimmons, worked on Federal IncomeTaxation Cases and Materials.Abreuis also the supervising editor of theABA tax section’sNewsQuarterly. Before joining the Temple faculty in 1985, Abreupracticed law with Dechert Price & Rhoads in Philadelphiaand clerked for Judge Chan in the Eastern District ofPennsylvania. Abreu graduated magna cum laudefromCornell University in 1973, and from its law school in 1978.JAMES A. SHELLENBERGER, JAMES E. BEASLEY PROFESSOR OF LAW,joined the Temple faculty in fall 1983. Since then,graduating classes have four times selected him as therecipient of the Williams Award for the OutstandingProfessor of the Year—in 1986, 1995, 2004, and 2006. In 1996, he received the Lindback Award for DistinguishedTeaching at Temple University. Shellenberger’s teaching and scholarship focus oncriminal law and criminal procedure, including internationalcriminal law and comparative criminal procedure. He alsoteaches litigation basics, torts, and has taught civilAbreu, Shellenberger, and Baron awarded faculty chairsfor the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s criminal proceduralrules committee. Shellenberger graduated from LafayetteCollege in 1969, and Villanova University School of Law,magna cum laude,in 1972. Baron named to chair for excellencein researchJANE B. BARON, THE I. HERMAN STERN PROFESSOR OF LAW,has taught at Temple since 1984 and also serves as thelaw school’s associate dean for research. Baron’sadministrative position was created in 2005 in order, saysDean Robert J. Reinstein, “to have a senior, productivemember of the faculty concentrate on enhancingscholarship at the law school.” In that capacity, Baron ischarged with promoting faculty productivity and increasingthe visibility of the faculty’s scholarship in the greateracademic and legal community. Baron, who from 1993 to 1995 was the inauguralholder of the Peter J. Liacouras Chair of Law, teachesprimarily in the areas of property and trusts and estates.Baron publishes widely and, in 2006, she was the recipientof the Friel/Scanlan award for a series of three papers onhomelessness, appearing in the Michigan Law Review,theUrban Lawyer,and the Houston Law Review. She iscurrently researching a paper exploring the boundariesbetween the legal concepts of property and privacy.Baron graduated magna cum laudefrom RadcliffeCollege in 1975 and cum laudefrom Harvard Law Schoolin 1978. Immediately following law school, she practicedfor three years as a litigator at the New York law firm ofSullivan & Cromwell. ALICE ABREUJAMESSHELLENBERGERJANE BARONNEW PROFS JOIN FACULTY…continued from page onescholarship on the hindsight bias in patent law was cited inbriefs submitted to the US Supreme Court in the recentcase of KSR v. Teleflex(2007), and one of his articles wasselected by Thomson West as a top intellectual propertyarticle of 2006. He has presented his work internationallyat many law schools and other institutions, including forthe UN. He teaches intellectual property, technology andlaw, and property.Mandel earned a B.A. in 1991 from WesleyanUniversity, and a J.D. in 1996 from Stanford Law School,where he was editor-in-chief of the Stanford EnvironmentalLaw Journaland a founding member of the StanfordEnvironmental Law Clinic. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SOPHIE E. SMYTHadds breadthto Temple Law’s international law and business faculty fromher 16 years at The World Bank, where most recently sheserved as senior counsel for co-financing and projectfinance. She focused on the legal and policy issuespresented by the creation of major international trust funds,public/private partnerships and innovative financingCLASS OF 2006—WHERE ARE THEY NOW?Temple University Beasley School of Law continues to have great placement success:94% of the Class of 2006 was employed within 9 months after graduation in a widevariety of settings:•Members of the class of 2006 are working in at least 24 states: California,Connecticut, Colorado, D.C., Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana,Massachusetts, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York,Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming. •Average salary is $73,151; average for private practice is $89,579.•8% (22) of the class of 2006 are prosecutors.•Of the members of the class of 2006 serving as clerks, 49% (18) are clerking in federalcourt and 51% (19) are clerking in various state trial and appellate courts.•Of the 20 students in the class of 2006 in public interest jobs, 55% (11) are publicdefenders and 45% (9) are providing direct legal services for indigent clients or fornon-profit organizations. ACADEMIA3%PUBLIC INTEREST7%BUSINESS19%JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP12%GOVERNMENT10%PRIVATE LAW FIRM49%EMPLOYMENT BY SECTOR, CLASS OF 2006•••••mechanisms designed to address global problems (such as HIV Aids and global warming) and other needs in thedeveloping world. In prior years, she specialized inderivatives, emerging markets and global offerings.Beginning in 2005, Smyth was a visiting professor atAmerican University, Washington College of Law, where she taught contracts, international business transactions,international financial law and international developmentlaw and policy. Before joining The World Bank, Smyth held severalpositions within the U.S. Department of Justice’s civildivision honors program. She was a trial attorney on thebanking litigation defense team, a lecturer and instructorfor the Trial Advocacy Institute, and a member of the WhiteHouse’s “Thousand Points of Light Initiative” taskforce. A frequent lecturer, Smyth has written articles andchapters in the field of private international law forpublications including Rutgers Law Review, SustainableDevelopment Law & Policyand The Conveyancer andProperty Lawyer, Multilateral Concessional Financing:Organization, Decision-Making, Modalities(published bythe Asian Development Bank). Smyth earned a B.A. in 1980 from Trinity College,Dublin, Ireland, and law degrees from Oxford University(B.C.L., 1982), and Georgetown University Law School (L.L.M., 1984). Abreu and Shellenberger named Beasley Professors of Law21105_TLS 9/6/07 3:54 PM Page 2TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2007 • 3We Americans love the idea of “equal justice underlaw,” the words inscribed above the main entrance tothe Supreme Court building. We want like cases tocome out alike. We publish tens of thousands ofjudicial decisions and have enshrined the concept ofstare decisisin order to reduce the likelihood thatJane’s case, adjudicated in December, 2006, willcome out very differently from Joe’s very similar case adjudicated in January, 2007. We have adoptedsentencing guidelines so that the punishment meted out to offenders depends on their offenses andprior records rather than on the whims, personalities, or ideologies of the sentencing judge. We usepattern jury instructions in both civil and criminal cases to guide lay adjudicators to apply the same lawto similar disputes. . . . We also like the predictability that stare decisisoffers. Most disputes can be settled without all-outlitigation when the results of formal adjudication can be predicted in advance with reasonable certainty.In addition, and perhaps most pertinent, we don’t like the idea that litigants’ lives, liberty, or propertycould be determined by the predilections or personal preferences of the individual men and womenwho happen to judge their cases. . . . In recent years, however, the public and the press have become skeptical about the extent to whichAmerican judging reflects only the law and not the predilections of the adjudicators. Judges (and entirecourts) are commonly referred to in the press as liberal or conservative, and many lawyers believe thatalthough they can not predict the outcome of a trial-level case on the day before it is filed, or theoutcome of an appeal on the day before it is docketed, they can do so once they know what judge orjudges have been assigned to decide it. . . . But [H]ow about a situation in which one judge is 1820% more likely to grant an application forimportant relief than another judge in the same court house? Or where one U.S. Court of Appeals is1148% more likely to rule in favor of a petitioner than another U.S. Court of Appeals consideringsimilar cases?Welcome to the world of asylum law.Collectively, asylum officers, immigration judges, members of the Board of Immigration Appeals,and judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals render about 77,000 asylum decisions annually. Almost all ofthem involve claims that an applicant for asylum reasonably fears imprisonment, torture, or death ifforced to return to her home country. Given our national desire for equal treatment in adjudication, onewould expect to find in this system for the mass production of justice many indicators demonstrating astrong degree of uniformity of decision-making over place and time. Yet in the very large volume ofadjudications involving foreign nationals’ applications for protection from persecution and torture intheir home countries, we see a great deal of statistical variation in the outcomes pronounced bydecision-makers. The statistics that we have collected and analyzed in this article suggest that in theworld of asylum adjudication, there is remarkable variation in decision-making from one official to thenext, from one office to the next, from one region to the next, from one judicial circuit to the next, andfrom one year to the next, even during periods when there has been no intervening change in the law.. . . When an asylum seeker stands before an official or court who will decide whether she will bedeported or can remain in the United States, the result may be determined as much or more by whothat official is, or where the court is located, as it is by the facts and law of the case. . . . We can not prove that the variations in outcomes based on the locations or personalities of theadjudicators are greater in asylum cases than in criminal, civil, or other administrative adjudications.Only a few scholars . . . have attempted to analyze similarities or differences in adjudication in a largedatabase of cases that involve particular subject matters and were governed by a single body of law. Inthis article, however, we report and analyze new statistical data that suggest to us that very significantdifferences from one decision-maker to the next in the adjudication of asylum cases should be amatter of serious concern to federal policy-makers. . . . Human judgment can never be eliminated from any system of justice. But we believe that theoutcome of a refugee’s quest for safety in America should be influenced more by law and less by aspin of the wheel of fate that assigns her case to a particular government official.RAMJI-NOGALES…continued from page oneSTUDENTS GET FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE IN IMMIGRATION LAWSUMMER 2007Summer interns Liz Yaeger (left) and Katie Morris (center) spent thesummer following the first year of law school at the Nationalities Services Center,under the supervision of NSC legal director and adjunct professor Dennis Mulligan.Mulligan also directs a yearlong immigration clinical course, during which studentsideally are able to handle a matter from the initial client meeting throughresolution. Students working at the NSC routinely handle applications forpermanent residence based on family relationship, asylum applications, applications for permanent residence for victims of domestic abuse, citizenshipapplications, and general deportation cases. “During my third-year clinic at the NSC, I was able to place into action all thelegal analytical tools I developed at Temple Law,” says Inez McGowan ’07, whoparticipated in the immigration clinical and is now at Blank Rome. “Moreover, forthe first time in my legal career I was afforded the opportunity to interact with anddevelop relationships with clients.” to decide fairly and to put your personal predilections asideas much as possible in order to judge the case based onthe law and the facts presented to you. Most peoplelooking at our study would agree that what’s happeningnow is beyond an acceptable level of difference.” Her status as a daughter of immigrants led Ramji-Nogales to her interest in immigration law, an area shefound to be understudied when she first took it up.“No one was interested in it,” she recalls. “But it’s reallybecome the field of the future. In the wake of 9/11, peoplehave become much more interested, and we’re going tosee continued immigration to the United States. Now thereis a big tension between national security and fair process,and that’s going to continue in the foreseeable future.”Ramji-Nogales and her colleagues do offer recom-mendations at the end of their paper to improve thecurrent system: greater communication among the various players at all levels in the process; better training of judges and asylum officers in asylum law and culturalcompetence; more rigorous hiring standards focused onjudicial integrity and the ability of judges to make fairdecisions; more resources for the immigration courts andthe Board of Immigration Appeals; the appointment ofgovernment-paid counsel for indigent asylum seekers; and a shift of the immigration courts and the Board ofImmigration Appeals from the Department of Justice to an independent agency.“The obvious thing that appeals to me is we’re a country of immigrants,” she says. “We don’t seem to learnfrom history about the way we treat the various immigrants,starting with Irish and Italians, Chinese, South Asians,Latinos. I also teach civil procedures and evidence, so I’m really interested in procedural due process, or fairproceedings. This study illustrates that immigrationproceedings are currently not fair.” Ramji-Nogales’s other scholarly interests includeinternational human rights law as well as transitionaljustice, a field that investigates questions of accountabilityin the wake of mass violence. She is currently working on a paper that examines, from an international human rightsperspective, the use of secret evidence in immigrationproceedings. She is also researching “hybrid courts,” inwhich local and international judges work together to trymass-violence cases; the phenomenon is fairly new andhas been seen in East Timor, Sierra Leone and, mostrecently, Cambodia. Additionally, she and her coauthors of the Stanford Law Reviewpaper are discussing follow-upresearch using more recent data.“We’ve gotten a lot of e-mails from people giving uscomments and thoughts on our paper,” she says. “That’sbeen really wonderful. There’s been a lot of criticism oflegal scholarship as being irrelevant to the real world, so it’s been gratifying to see that this piece of scholarship ishaving an impact and that people feel really able to engage with it.” —Thomas W. DursoEXCERPT FROM “Refugee Roulette:Disparities in AsylumAdjudication”BY JAYA RAMJI-NOGALES WITH ANDREW SCHOENHOLTZAND PHILIP SCHRAG21105_TLS 9/6/07 3:54 PM Page 3MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT JUDGE FRED A. PERANTONI III, whohas served on the district court of Luzerne County since1992, was elected president of the Special Court JudgesAssociation of Pennsylvania. The oath of office wasadministered by JUDGE GUIDO A. DEANGELIS ’84,of theAllegheny County Court of Common Pleas. JEFFREY S. SHOSKIN,a member of FrostBrown Todd’s labor and employmentdepartment, has been installed as thepresident of the Cincinnati BarAssociation. 1984MARC S. RASPANTI,a founding partner of Miller, Alfano & Raspanti, co-authoredupdates to a chapter in the 2007 edition of Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse.Raspanti’s chapter,“Investigations,” was co-authored with his partner, Kevin E. Raphael. DANIEL C. THEVENY,a member of Cozen O’Connor, spokeat the annual Insurance Institute hosted by thePennsylvania Bar Institute on the subject of large propertyloss subrogation. Theveny focuses his practice oninsurance defense, insurance coverage and insurancesubrogation matters. 1985RACHEAL DECICCO BOGINA,senior staff counsel for theHartford Insurance Group, spoke at a continuing legaleducation seminar, “Winning Your First Civil Trial,”sponsored by the National Business Institute in May 2007.Pepper Hamilton has announced that JAN P. LEVINEhas joined the firm as apartner in the Philadelphia office. Levinewas previously at Dechert, where she wasa litigation partner and chair of that firm’shealth law group. BARRY L. KLEINhas joined Blank Rome asa partner in the employment, benefits and labor group.Prior to joining Blank Rome, Klein was a partner of BallardSpahr Andrews & Ingersoll.KEITH E. SEALINGis the new assistant dean for studentaffairs at the University of Louisville’s Louis D. BrandeisSchool of Law. ROSEANN B. TERMINIhas just published the third edition of her book Life Sciences Law: Federal Regulation ofDrugs, Biologics, Medical Devices, Foods and DietarySupplementswith a companion cd-searchable electronicstatutory book.1980STEWART J. EISENBERGwas a course planner andpresenter at the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associationseminar entitled “Strategies to Overcome Jury Bias” held in Philadelphia. Eisenberg is a partner in the firm ofEisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck and a past president of the Pennsylvania Trial LawyersAssociation. JAY BARRY HARRIS,a partner at FinemanKrekstein & Harris, spoke at the PropertyLoss Research Bureau/Liability InsuranceResearch Bureau conference in Orlando,Florida in March 2007. His presentationaddressed whether criminal actscommitted by an insured are coveredunder homeowner’s policies.BARRY W. SMILEYhas joined Wagenfeld Levine, a regionalfirm focused on general liability and workers compensation.Smiley, previously with the firm of Kennedy, Lipski &McDade, is a senior trial attorney. 1981 CHERYL J. BAFFAhas founded her own firm, where she and her associates focus on Pennsylvania workerscompensation law. They represent employees anduninsured employers in Southeastern Pennsylvania, as well as practice personal injury law. Baffa was formerly apartner at DiGiacomo and Baffa from 1990 to 2006.1983LEONARD A. BERNSTEIN,a partner in the Philadelphia officeof Reed Smith, was elected board president of the SupportCenter for Child Advocates, Philadelphia’s lawyer-volunteerprogram for abused and neglected children.1957E. HARRIS BAUMaccepted a $1.2 million grant from MAYOR JOHN F. STREET ’75on behalf of the Civil War andUnderground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia. Baum isthe chair of the museum’s board of governors. The grantwill support the redevelopment of the museum’s proposednew home at the First Bank of the United States building inIndependence Hall Park. 1968ROBERT A. ROVNER,a member of TempleUniversity’s board of trustees, has beenhonored as the 2007 recipient of the“Spirit of Life” award by the City of Hope,an organization that works with doctors ona cure for cancer, and which also helpsprovide treatment for those in need.1971EDWARD L. BAXTERhas been appointed to the first everboard of directors at Cozen O’Connor. Resident in thePhiladelphia office, Baxter is a past chair of its businesslaw department. STEPHEN H. FRISHBERG, J.D. ’71, LL.M. ’96of Frey,Petrakis, Deeb, Blum & Briggs, spoke at the NationalBusiness Institute in April 2007 at a seminar on limitedliability companies use as a framework for success.Frishberg also spoke on drafting effective wills and trusts.1972THOMAS MCKAY IIIhas been appointed to the first everboard of directors at Cozen O’Connor. Baxter is the officemanaging partner in the Cherry Hill office, where hepractices with the insurance department. 1973THOMAS R. BOND,a director andshareholder at Marshall, Dennehey,Warner, Coleman & Goggin, has beenelected secretary of the Arizona CaptiveInsurance Association (AzCIA) board ofdirectors for 2007. 1974In July 2007 Governor Edward G. Rendell announced theappointment of MARY DIGIACOMO COLINS, J.D. ’74, LL.M. ’80as chair of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB).Colins, a former Philadelphia Court of Common Pleasjudge, has been a member of the PGCB board since 2004. 4 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2007NOTESClassInvest Wisely . . . WINTER 2006John R. Warner ’60 and his wife Suzanne Warner established a charitable giftannuity supporting international law scholarships at Temple. Warner takes pride in theleading role Temple Law has taken in developing international law and study abroadprograms. Reflecting his interest, he directed his annuity to provide financial assistance forlaw students studying in Rome, Tokyo, Beijing, or one of Temple’s other exchange programs. The John R. and Suzanne WarnerCharitable Gift Annuity21105_TLS 9/6/07 3:54 PM Page 4TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2007 • 51986Cozen O’Connor memberCATHERINE B. SLAVINrecentlywas a panelist for an American Bar Association aviationlitigation committee seminar. Slavin’s panel, “‘If Only I HadKnown…’ Lawyers Who Have Changed Hats,” focused onaviation practitioners who have taken “in-house” positionsor moved to or from the insurance industry. 1988 DONNA ADELSBERGERreceived a pro bonoaward at thePennsylvania Bar Association’s Childrens’ Summit in May2007. The award was for her work as a child advocatethrough the Montgomery Child Advocacy Project (MCAP).Adelsberger has been a pro bono child advocate for 18years, working with MCAP and the Support Center for ChildAdvocates. 1989MARGARET G. THOMPSON,a CozenO’Connor member, has been appointed tothe Pennsylvania Supreme Courtprocedural rules committee for theOrphans’ Court. Thompson is resident inthe Philadelphia office and chair of thefirm’s trusts and estates group. 1990MARK W. TANNER,a partner at Feldman ShepherdWohlgelernter Tanner & Weinstock, was recently elected to the board of directors for the Support Center for ChildAdvocates, Philadelphia’s lawyer-volunteer program forabused and neglected children.1991DAVID M. LAIGAIE,chair of Dilworth’s corporateinvestigations and white collar group, participated in thePennsylvania Bar Institute’s health law seminar, leading apanel discussion, “The False Claims Act Year in Review.”Laigaie also gave a presentation, “Hospitals and Physicianson the Firing Line: Recent Enforcement of the False ClaimsAct,” to the medical staff at Mercy Hospital in Scranton,Pennsylvania. 1992JOHN JOERGENSEN,a librarian at the Rutgers UniversitySchool of Law-Camden, has been named the recipient ofthe 2007 Public Access to Government Information Awardfrom the American Association of Law Libraries.Joergensen was chosen for this national honor on the basisof his efforts to provide free online access to key NewJersey and federal documents (accessible athttp://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu).TAMARA TRAYNORresigned from her shareholder positionat Miller Alfano & Raspanti to become assistant generalcounsel for the WolfBlock law firm in December 2006.1993GREGORY S. HYMANrecently served as a presenter at aseminar on the topic of “Employment Law A to Z” inPhiladelphia. Hyman, a senior attorney with Spector Gadon& Rosen in Moorestown, New Jersey, is also the secretaryand a trustee of the Burlington County Bar Foundation.1995 JONATHAN A. CASShas joined Cohen Seglias PallasGreenhall & Furman as a member of their business practicedepartment in its Philadelphia office, where he willcontinue his litigation practice of commercial disputes.1996KELLY G. (MONACELLA) HULLERis now the director of legalaffairs at Globus Medical, Inc., a medical device companylocated in Audubon, Pennsylvania. Kelly and her husbandDan also recently celebrated the birth of their threedaughters: Ava, Olivia, and Leah.JEFFREY ALAN BARRACK,a partner at Barrack, Rodos &Bacine, has been elected to the board of directors for theSupport Center for Child Advocates, Philadelphia’s lawyer-volunteer program for abused and neglected children.STEVEN A. HEFFERNEN, J.D. ’97, LL.M. ’98was electedpartner at PricewaterhouseCooper’s national consulting andaccounting firm in June 2007. Heffernen joined the firm’smergers and acquisitions department in 1997, and he isone of only two new mergers and acquisitions tax partnersin the country.1998MICHAEL P. FLOWERSreturned from Iraq in December2006 and in February 2007 was appointed counsel to theSenate permanent subcommittee on investigations, withresponsibility for matters involving Homeland Security andinternational organizations funded in whole or in part bythe U.S. government. HEATHER GIORDANELLAof Miller, Alfano & Raspantireceived an award at the National Association of WomenLawyers luncheon in New York in August 2007. ELENA PARKrecently received two awards:the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s 2007pro bonoaward for her work on behalf ofpro bonoclients, many of whose casesfocus on matters of immigration andasylum, and the Philadelphia BarAssociation Gomez Award for PublicService. Park practices from Cozen O’Connor’s WestConshohocken and Philadelphia offices, and heads thefirm’s immigration practice.RANDI L. RUBINhas returned to Klehr,Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg & Ellers asan associate in the real estate and financedepartment. Prior to rejoining KlehrHarrison, Rubin was general counsel of anartificial turf company. From 1998 to2005, Rubin was a member of Klehr’slitigation department.1999PYONG YOONhas joined Fish & Richardson’s Washington,D.C. office as an associate in its litigation group. Yoon willfocus his practice in the area of electricalengineering. Before joining Fish, he served as the attorney-advisor to the U.S. International Trade Commission.2000ELIZABETH M. GARCIAhas been promotedto counsel at the Marlton, New Jersey-based firm of Parker McCay. Sheconcentrates her practice in the areas ofcivil rights and government liability, laborand employment, and municipal andgovernment relations. Garcia was alsoappointed as a trustee for the Burlington County BarAssociation’s for 2007 to 2010.JOSEPH A. MALFITANOhas joined HilcoTrading in Northbrook, Illinois as vicepresident and assistant general counsel.For the past seven years, Malfitanoworked in Young Conaway Stargatt &Taylor’s bankruptcy and corporaterestructuring section in Wilmington,Delaware.MARIA GRECHISHKINA, LL.M.is an attorney in thePhiladelphia office of Marks & Sokolov where shespecializes in Russian law, international business law,corporate law, corporate finance, and international litigationand arbitration.2002REBECCA A. KOPPhas joined Wickens,Herzer, Panza, Cook & Batista in theirlitigation workers’ compensationdepartment. 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Please include: Fullname, Class, Degree, and a way to reachyou if we need to confirm information.Send to:Janet GoldwaterTemple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122Email:janet.goldwater@temple.eduAlvin H. Frankel Class of 1946H. Barry MoyermanClass of 1953James C. BuckleyClass of 1956A. Arthur Hanamirian Class of 1957Howard Blum Class of 1958Robert F. SimoneClass of 1958Joseph J. Tafe Class of 1965Martin J. Abramson Class of 1972IN MEMORIAMSudan, often represent victims of the Darfur crisis inseeking redress within the Sudanese legal system. TheLondon training was to equip these lawyers to assist victimsin asserting claims and obtaining redress before inter-national tribunals, including the International CriminalCourt in The Hague. Epps was the only law professoramong nine legal professionals from across the countryhand-picked to teach the week-long course, jointlysponsored by the ABA’s litigation section, of which Epps is an officer, and by the MacArthur Foundation.In addition to Epps, the U.S. legal team consisted of a member of the judiciary and seven lawyers in privatepractice, including several with experience in internationalcriminal law. The focus of the curriculum was oninternational criminal law. It incorporated information aboutthe International Criminal Court, jurisdiction, internationalcriminal practice, and exploration of relationships betweenSudanese courts and the government. Laying the foundation for ensuring that victims of theDarfur crisis have meaningful and effective representation,particularly in the International Criminal Court, the programsupports the ABA’s goal of advancing the rule of lawworldwide. It also supports Epps’ personal and professionalgoals for global justice.As an educator intent on making a difference, Epps hasspent her career advocating for criminal justice and theunderserved. Before joining Temple Law, she was deputycity attorney for Los Angeles, and assistant U.S. attorneyfor the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In 2003, Eppsprovided training in international criminal law as part of theUnited Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.She has also taught trial advocacy to Chinese legalprofessionals enrolled in the law school’s pioneering LL.M.program in Beijing, and to the Beijing Supreme People’sProcuratorate (the Chinese prosecutor’s office). Along withProfessor Edward Ohlbaum, Epps also was invited by theJapanese Bar Association in 2006 to conduct a jury trialadvocacy training seminar in anticipation of the 2009 re-institution of jury trials for criminal cases in Japan. “The most profound impact of the experience was areminder of how much we take for granted our freedomsand security, and the need for us to be far more aware of the sufferings of others around the world,” said Epps.“On a professional level, this was a teacher’s dream.The Sudanese lawyers were thirsty for the training andnever missed an opportunity to pick our brains forinformation, advice and encouragement. And on aneducational level, it was reassuring to realize that principlesof advocacy and persuasion transcend countries,languages, and judicial systems, and that at the corelawyering has hosts of aspects in common. One of my mostenduring desires is that these nine lawyers could come toAmerica for a series of town meetings for Americans of allbackgrounds. These Sudanese lawyers are impressive.They are smart, they are very well-educated, they are kind,sensitive, and funny. They are also instigators of change.As such, they are an inspiration to anyone who believesthat individuals can make a difference, that injustice mustbe resisted and that even small individual bits of effort canbuild momentum. “If everybody in this country could be exposed to theselawyers’ sense of personal responsibility, commitment, and unquenchable sense of optimism, it would change usdramatically. We would remind ourselves that the events inDarfur are a crisis and that our country should continue tosay so, and that every one of us must do something, evenif it is just keeping Darfur in our collective conscious.”—Laura Feragen with JoAnne EppsBRINGING TRIAL ADVOCACY TO THE WORLD…continued from page eightawarded her the Friel/Scanlan Award for legal scholarship,and the same year Little was named to a James E. BeasleyProfessorship of Law. In addition to her acclaim as a legalscholar, Little has distinguished herself in the classroom. In2004, she received the Great Teacher of Temple Universityaward, presented each year to only three faculty membersuniversity-wide.Little, a 1985 graduate of Temple Law, joined the facultyin 1990 after clerking for Judge James Hunter on the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and for SupremeCourt Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and practicing lawin Philadelphia. She teaches popular courses in federalcourts and jurisdiction, constitutional law, conflict of laws,civil procedure, remedies, and international criminal law. 2003NOEL A. FLEMING, J.D. ’03, LL.M. INTAXATION ’07,an associate with LundyZateeny Loftus, was a panelist at thePennsylvania Bar Institute’s annualNonprofit Institute in Philadelphia in May2007. Fleming also spoke at Penn State’sannual tax conference in May 2007.BETSY A. GERBER,of Cozen O’Connor, was honored withthe Pennsylvania Bar Association 2007 pro bonoaward foroutstanding contributions to improving civil legal aid inPennsylvania for her commitment to representing childrenand families in adoption and guardianship matters. Gerberjoined the Philadelphia office of Cozen O’Connor in 2004as an associate in the general litigation department. WILLIAM SYLIANTENG,an associate inBennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg’s Blue Bell,Pennsylvania office, has been appointedchair of the subrogation committee of thePennsylvania Defense Institute.2004 ELWALEED AHMED, LL.M.is a legalconsultant at the Kuwaiti Lawyer Firm and served as panelist at the third annualWorld Islamic Funds and Capital Marketsconference in Bahrain. 2006EDGAR ARANDA, LL.M.has left the Inter AmericanDevelopment Bank and accepted a position with theVirginia Justice Center as a community organizer forimmigration issues.EMILY B. MARKShas joined Kolsby, Gordon, Robin, Shore& Bezar where her practice concentrates on representingcatastrophically injured persons in complex medicalmalpractice and tort litigation.2007JAMES MAYSON, LL.M.is in Liberia as senior legal counselat the foreign ministry, where he is working on a legaleducation project through the University of Liberia.FEDERAL COURTS…continued from page eightGRADUATION 200721105_TLS 9/6/07 3:54 PM Page 6TEMPLE ESQ.Published by the Temple University BeasleySchool of Law for alumni and friends.ROBERT J. REINSTEIN, DEANPublications Director: Janet Goldwater Art Director: Gene GilroyPhotography: Joseph Labolito, Kelly & Massa Send letters and comments to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq. Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law1719 N. Broad Street, Room 510Philadelphia, PA 19122Email: janet.goldwater@temple.edu Fax: (215) 204-1185Change of address: (215) 204-1187TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2007 • 7REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROMTHE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER.JUNE 2, 2007Senior U.S. DistrictCourt Judge Clifford Scott Green,84, a pioneering Philadelphialawyer who became a nationallyrecognized jurist, died Thursday.Judge Green had been ingood health but suffered acerebral hemorrhage lastweekend, said a familyspokeswoman. He underwent emergency surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and diedof pneumonia, said the spokeswoman, StephanieFranklin-Suber, a lawyer and a former law clerkDuring the 1950s, Judge Green was a prominentmember of the city’s first African American law firm. He spent most of the 1960s as a juvenile and CommonPleas Court judge, and most of the 1970s and 1980s asa federal judge. He went to semi-retired status in 1988.“He was a remarkable figure,” said Senior U.S.District Judge Louis H. Pollak “I cannot overstate howgood a judge Clifford Green was. There was a serenityabout him. He understood the human context of thecases that he handled, but he was not sentimental.’His longtime law clerk, Leslie Marant, said JudgeGreen “was a scholar and a distinguished jurist, butcertainly not self-important.”“He was a very patient, measured man—slow tospeak but quick to listen,” she said.Theodore McKee, a judge on the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Third Circuit and a friend, said that he admired Judge Green’s humanity as much as hislegal acumen.“He never allowed the paper, the complaints, theindictment, the motions — to obscure the people,”McKee said. “He had incredible sensitivity, particularlyfor a Judge. . . . Cliff never got hardened; he was able tomaintain a sensitivity in a way that I always admired.”Judge Green handled a wide range of cases. In1975, for example, he ordered the Pennsylvania StatePolice to hire one minority trooper for every whitetrooper; set a blind heroin dealer free because theprison system had no services for the sightless; andwrote an opinion that struck down a state law requiring a married woman to get a husband’s consent for an abortion.“He was a fundamentally decent man—I don’t knowhow to put it better than that,” said Michael Levy, aveteran federal prosecutor in Philadelphia. “There weretimes when I disagreed with him because he was moredefense-oriented than I would have liked, but he wasalways fair.”Judge Green was born in1923 in Philadelphia after hisfather moved here from the U.S.Virgin Islands. According to abiography prepared by his lawclerks, Judge Green’s parentsand siblings left school tosupport the family, but hegraduated from high school.During World War II, heserved as a sergeant in theArmy Air Corps. He graduatedfrom Temple University in 1948. He expected tobecome a certified public accountant, but when afaculty adviser explained that there were no jobs forblack accountants, he enrolled in Temple’s law school.He won numerous academic awards in law school and received the highest grade on the 1951Pennsylvania bar exam, said his friend William T.Coleman Jr., a former U.S. secretary of transportation.Judge Green worked in private practice from 1952to 1984 at Norris, Schmidt, Green, Harris &Higginbotham, the city’s only African American lawfirm. The future success of the firm’s lawyers—Green,A. Leon Higginbotham, Doris Mae Harris and HarveySchmidt were among those who became Judges—opened doors for scores of other African Americanlawyers, several contemporaries said.“They helped a lot of us break through to major lawfirms,” Coleman said.Judge Green served as a judge of the Court ofCommon Pleas from 1964 to 1972. There, hevolunteered to hear juvenile cases.“He was an inspirer, a strong man with a quiet andgentle manner whose wisdom and humanity touchedthe lives of many,” said Acel Moore, associate editoremeritus of The Inquirer,who covered Judge Green asa court reporter for the newspaper in the 1970s.Judge Green was nominated to the federal bench byPresident Richard M. Nixon in 1971.In 1985, Judge Green became the first recipient ofthe Judge William Hastie Award from the NAACP. In2002, the American Bar Association gave him its Spiritof Excellence Award.Judge Green is survived by his wife, Carole ChewWilliams Green; daughter, Terri; a stepdaughter LisaDawn Smith, and stepsons State Sen. Anthony H.Williams and Clifford Kelly Williams; and a grand-daughter. His son, David Scott Green, and first wife,Mabel Louise Green, died earlier.Donations may be made to the Oxford PresbyterianChurch scholarship fund or to the Temple Law SchoolClifford Scott Green Lectureship.— John Shiffman, Philadelphia Inquirer staff writerMARCH 3, 2006 JUDGE CLIFFORDGREEN AT THEANNUAL GREENLECTURE.In June 2007, we lost one of our most distinguishedgraduates, Judge Clifford Scott Green ’51, who had a life-long relationship with Temple Law School.Cliff was an outstanding law student. He was an editorof the Temple Law Reviewand a member of our first mootcourt team. He received the highest score on the 1951Pennsylvania bar exam. With opportunities in large lawfirms then closed to African-Americans, he wound upjoining what would become the legendary law firm headedby Austin Norris.Cliff Green was a long-time adjunct professor at thelaw school, teaching evidence, criminal law and criminalprocedure. In the early 1970’s, he was instrumental increating the Temple-LEAP city-wide mock trial competitionfor high school students and supported that programthroughout his career. He was a founding member of thelaw school board of visitors and a member of theUniversity’s board of trustees. In 1997, he was awardedan honorary doctor of laws degree by Temple University. Judge Green possessed a unique combination ofbrilliance, wisdom, modesty and loyalty. He had aprofound understanding of people and of the humancondition. The world is a lesser place with his passing.—Dean Robert J. ReinsteinRevered Jurist CliffordScott Green ’511923-2007JUDGE CLIFFORD SCOTTGREEN DIES AT 84From Philadelphia’s first African American law firm, he became a nationally recognized jurist instate and federal courts.PHYLLIS BECK ’67 NAMED COUNSEL FOR BARNES FOUNDATIONJULY 2007Judge Phyllis W. Beck ’67 has been chosen to serve ascounsel to a leading Philadelphia cultural institution: the BarnesFoundation. Beck stepped down from the Pennsylvania SuperiorCourt two years ago and joined Pepper Hamilton. Now Beck takesover as the first in-house legal counsel and secretary to the boardof trustees of the Barnes Foundation. The world famous museum,developed by art collector Alfred Barnes, is planning a move to theBen Franklin Parkway in the city. An official move date has not beenset, but Beck says the foundation is talking with several architectsto narrow down who will build the new 120,000 square-foot facility. 21105_TLS 9/6/07 3:54 PM Page 7TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • FALL 2007NON-PROFITORGANIZATIONU.S. POSTAGE PAIDPHILADELPHIA, PAPERMIT NO. 1044TEMPLE UNIVERSITYJAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.law.temple.eduWRITE TO US: lawalum@temple.eduNEW BOOK ON FEDERAL COURTS IS “BRILLIANT”Laura Little authors Federal Courts: Examples and Explanations Professor Laura Little had a goodheadstart on becoming a leadingscholar on the subject of the federalcourts when she was selected straightout of Temple Law School to clerk for Supreme Court Justice WilliamRehnquist. This year, AspenPublishing released a new book byProfessor Little, Federal Courts:Examples and Explanations. Thistreatise—the culmination of manyyears of study—is part of Aspen’sestablishedExamples andExplanationsseries.A comprehensive guide to what isoften considered a challenging andabstract subject, Federal Courtsprovides readers—students, judges,academics, and practitioners—withtextual descriptions of doctrines, as well as hypotheticalexamples and analytical answers. Little drew on nearly twodecades of experience in the classroom to organize thebook as a flexible tool, designed to adapt to a variety oflearning styles. Recent legal developments included in Little’s bookmake it the most up-to-date book available. Currentsubjects explored are terrorism cases, military tribunalcases, the Class Action Fairness Act, the Terri Schiavolitigation, and habeas corpus cases from most recentSupreme Court terms.Before going to press, Little’s book was subject to twelveseparate reviews by other federal courts scholars to ensure accuracy and quality. Reviewers unanimouslyadmired themanuscript’s polishedand appealing writingstyle, as well as its“success in makingdifficult subjectsaccessible.” Onereviewer praised “thetruly outstanding andnuanced discussions”that “capture competingstrands of authority”without sacrificingaccuracy. Anotherdescribed the chapteron lower federal courtpower as “brilliant,”presenting “the mosteffective treatment ofhabeasfor students” that he had ever encountered. Federal Courtsis Little’s second book on litigation-related issues. She has also established herself as ascholar in a variety of fields. Her most recent article,“Transnational Guidance in Terrorism Cases,” appeared in the George Washington International Law Reviewin2006. Little also recently co-authored a Minnesota LawReviewarticle with her husband, Rich Barrett ’85, on warcrimes tribunals. She has written a broad range of articlesdealing with law and emotion, and is presently working ona study of how legal doctrine regulates humor.Little’s accomplishments have been recognized by boththe law school and the university. In 2002, the law schoolCALENDAR OF EVENTSTuesday, October 2, 2007ARLIN AND NEYSA ADAMS LECTUREPRESENTED BY PULITZER PRIZE-WINNINGAUTHOR ANTHONY LEWISDuane Morris LLP Moot Courtroom, 4 pmFriday, October 5, 2007TEMPLE UNIVERSITY GALLERY OFSUCCESS LUNCHEON HONORINGBONNIE BARNETT ’82ALPHONSO B. DAVID ’00 Mitten Hall, noonTuesday, October 9, 2007POLSKY MOOT COURT COMPETITIONDuane Morris LLP Moot Courtroom, 4 pmMonday, October 15, 2007PA BAR ADMISSIONS CEREMONYSaturday, October 20, 2007STATES AS LABORATORIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGEA symposium sponsored by The TemplePolitical & Civil Rights Law ReviewShusterman Hall, 9 am to 5 pmMonday, October 22, 2007TULSA RACE RIOTS: SURVIVORSPRESENTATIONDuane Morris LLP Moot CourtroomBRINGING TRIAL ADVOCACYTO THE WORLDTemple Law’s JoAnne A. Epps works with lawyers from SudanJUNE 2007Sudanese lawyers are preparing forthe day when they will be able to seek justice for clients who have suffered unspeakable crimes against humanity and human rights in the country’s Darfur region. Temple Law’sAssociate Dean and Professor JoAnne Epps wants to be sure they’re ready. That’s why she traveled to London in June to help provide substantive education andadvocacy training to nine Sudanese lawyers. The nine lawyers, from various regions of thecontinued on page sixcontinued on page six21105_TLS 9/6/07 3:54 PM Page 8Next >