TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • FALL 2011Mayor selects dean as independentauditor of ‘stop and frisk’ Epps will enlist students to aid in developing new city policiesJUNE 21, 2011In the wake of thesettlement of a class action lawsuitconcerning the use of investigativedetentions—or “stop and frisk”—byPhiladelphia police, the mayor hasselected Dean JoAnne A. Epps to lead an independent outside audit ofpolicies and practices. Mayor MichaelNutter’s announcement followed the settlement of Bailey v. City of Phila-delphia,a case in which the AmericanCivil Liberties Union sued the city overallegations that police officers usedracial profiling to determine whom to stop, and that the stops wereconducted with little or no justification.“We do not want anyone in this city to feel in any way,shape, or form that their rights are being trampled on,”Nutter said. “Every Philadelphian, every American, deservesto be treated with dignity and respect.”Epps shares Nutter’s sentiment: “For many people—particularly given the array of shows on television today—their first encounter with our legal system is with our criminaljustice system. It’s crucial that our system be, and beperceived to be, fair.”As an independent auditor, Epps is charged withanalyzing existing proposals and procedures surrounding this controversial crime-fighting tactic, and will have theauthority to recommend additional policies, practices, andINT’L LAW PROFAWARDED ENDOWEDUNIVERSITY CHAIRThe founding director of Temple Law’s Institutefor International Law and Public Policy and the Law School’s LL.M. in Transnational LawProgram, Professor of Law Jeffrey L. Dunoff wasrecently named the Laura H. Carnell Professorof Law. The endowed chair is awarded by theuniversity to outstanding faculty in a variety ofschools and disciplines. Since coming to the law school in 1992,Dunoff has taught popular classes in variousaspects of international law. His scholarshipfocuses on public international law, internationalregulatory regimes, and interdisciplinaryapproaches to international law. Dunoff held the Charles Klein Professorship of Law andGovernment from 2002 to 2008. Since joiningthe Temple faculty, he has accepted invitationsto teach as a visiting professor at the WoodrowWilson School at Princeton University andHarvard Law School. He also served for a yearas a Law and Public Affairs Fellow at PrincetonUniversity and spent a semester as a fellow atCambridge University. Among Dunoff’s other activities, he hasserved as the only American member of theWarwick Commission on the Future of the Trade System, a consultant for the World Bank,and a member of the editorial board of theYearbook of International Environmental Law.His publications include a leading casebook,International Law: Actors, Norms, Process (with Steven Ratner and David Wippman) and an edited volume Ruling the World?Constitutionalism, International Law and GlobalGovernance(with Joel Trachtman). His writingshave appeared in the American Journal ofInternational Law, European Journal ofInternational Law, Journal of InternationalEconomic Lawand other leading publications. Before joining Temple faculty, Dunoff clerkedfor a federal court judge and practiced law inWashington, DC, where he specialized in therepresentation of developing state governmentsin international and domestic litigations andarbitrations. He earned a B.A., magna cumlaude, from Haverford College; a J.D., cumlaude,from NYU School of Law; and an LL.M.,with distinction, from Georgetown UniversityLaw Center, where he served as a FordFoundation Fellow in Public International Lawand received the Thomas Chetwood Prize fordistinguished academic performance.procedures to ensure compliance.Epps’ recommendations will go directly to U.S. District Judge StewartDalzell, who approved the settlementin the lawsuit.Epps plans to recruit Temple Lawstudents to engage directly in theextensive research required for thistask, and says that is a large part of what appealed to her in theassignment. “In addition to the pull of a call from the Mayor—whom I am honored to serve—what reallyinclined me to accept this assignmentwas the potential for law students to have an opportunity to see law in action, and in a setting directly at the heart of fairness andjustice,” she says. “Together, law students and I can havehands-on involvement in the realities of law enforcement.”The resulting audit is one component of a multi-tieredsystem of oversight that will be in effect by next year. ThePolice Department will create an electronic database intowhich stop-and-frisk reports will be entered. The databasewill track the searches, and allow others to analyze the dataand audit the process regularly, to ensure that officers areconducting the searches legally. That data will be monitoredby the Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau and theplaintiffs’ attorneys in the case.DEAN JOANNE A. EPPSJEFFREY L. DUNOFF, LAURA H. CARNELLPROFESSOR OF LAWDuring the last thirty years, Temple Law’s summer abroadprogram and maintenance of a campus in Rome, Italy hasresulted in a rich relationship between Temple Law and the Italian legal community. For the last two years, the Officeof Graduate and International Programs has expanded itsprogram in Rome by conducting the Head Start program, in which Professors Rafael Porrata-Doria and DavidSonenshein teach Introduction to American Law to bothItalian law students and licensed attorneys with the purposeof attracting Italian applicants to Temple’s LL.M. program.Connections made through Head Start have provedbeneficial to Temple students as well, as they seekinternships with Italian firms and European non-governmental organizations. Int’l Internships Span the GlobeNew Head Start Program opens doors to work opportunities for students in Rome. Continued on page threeJOHN IANNACONE ’13AT THEWORLD FOOD PROGRAMME31841 Temple_ESQ_Sept06/f 9/22/11 8:10 AM Page 12 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2011BRETSCHNEIDER TO HEAD CLINICAL PROGRAMSProsecutor joins Temple after more than a decade of service at the Philly DA’s OfficeJUNE 16, 2011The Philadelphia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division (YLD) awarded two Temple Lawstudentsand a recent graduatewith diversity scholarshipsat its sixth annual diversity scholarship reception. Thoseselected were Temple Law students Sean-Tamba Matthew’13 and Muthuramanan “Ramana” Rameswaran ’13, andrecent graduate Sammetria L. Goodson ’11. The diversity scholarships recognize excellence inacademic performance, involvement in community service,and significant commitment to the Philadelphia area,according to YLD chair Carolyn Chopko, an attorney atFeldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock &Dodig. Successful scholarship recipients are originallynominated by an “affinity bar.”Goodson, who has accepted a position working forPhiladelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Leon Tucker, was nominated for the scholarship by the Philadelphiachapter of the National Bar Association’s Women LawyersDivision. “It is tremendously encouraging to receive theDOES WTO AGREEMENTADVERSELY AFFECT PUBLIC HEALTH?In award-winning paper, Amy Sfara ’11 explores TRIPS effect on access to drugs in developing nationsJUNE 3, 2011Amy Sfara ’11 won the Santa ClaraCentennial Writing Competition for her paper “The TRIPSAgreement and Its Implication on Access to Medicines inDeveloping Countries.” The award is accompanied by a$1000 prize and an invitation to present the paper as partof a panel on legal ethical issues in September 2011. In announcing the award, the competition judgeslauded Sfara’s work for its “originality, clarity, and analysis.”Professor Sophie Smyth, Sfara’s faculty advisor, concurred.“Amy’s paper, which analyzes the implications of the TRIPsagreement on the developing world’s access to life-savingpharmaceuticals, pulls no punches.”TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual PropertyRights) is an agreement governing the behavior ofmembers of the World Trade Organization. In her paper,Sfara explores how the provisions of TRIPS—asimplemented—have failed to draw a reasonable balancebetween the corporate interests of the developed nations’pharmaceutical companies, and the survival needs of thedeveloping nations’ citizens. Sfara also explores how theTRIPS’ failure to strike that balance undermines the sharedpublic health goals of developed countries’ developmentaid policies. Sfara writes that a globalized world and aglobalized market have the potential to “exacerbate thedistributional inequalities of the world” if inter-countrydisparities, capacities and needs are not adequatelyaddressed in formal provisions that can be effectively andpractically implemented.EU LAW EXPERT JOINS FACULTYAUGUST 2011Beginning thisfall, Fernanda Giorgia Nicolajoins the faculty at Temple LawSchool, where she will teachtorts and European Union (EU) law in her first semester.Nicola comes to Temple fromWashington College of Law atAmerican University, where shewas an associate professor.Nicola, a native Italianspeaker, is a natural forfocusing on comparative EU-U.S. legal systems. She isalso fluent in English, French, Spanish, and has a workingknowledge of Portuguese. Her legal education has takenher back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. Herundergraduate degree in political science as well as herlaw degree were earned at Turin University in Italy. In2002, she completed an LL.M. at Harvard, then back toItaly (Trento University) for a Ph.D. in Comparative Private Law in 2006. In 2009,Nicola earned the highest degree available in the law, anS.J.D. degree, from Harvard. Prior to teaching at American, Fernanda was an adjunctprofessor at the New England School of Law. She has alsotaught at Harvard Law School and the University of TurinLaw School at the ILO Training Center of Turin. Nicola’sbroad-ranging areas of study include European andcomparative law, the law of the EU, contracts and torts.Her thesis topic for her Harvard S.J.D. was “Decentrali-zation and Harmonization in the Construction of Europe.”She is currently completing publications that range from“The False Promise of Decentralization in EU CohesionPolicy” to “Liability in the Bedroom: Common Law Tortsand Civil Law Crimes.” YLD AWARDS DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPSThree at Temple are chosen for academics and community serviceaward because law studentsdo a lot of work that is notreflected in their grades or intheir GPAs,” says Goodson,who has volunteered with theNorth Philadelphia Arts andCulture Alliance and SharonBaptist Church Legal Ministry.“The scholarship really reflectsthis absolute passion thatmany of us have for servingthe community.”Matthew, who wasnominated by the Barristers’Association of Philadelphia,says his interest in educationand public service dates back to his undergraduate years atthe University of Pennsylvania, when he co-developed theFinancial Literacy Program for Big Brothers Big Sisters ofSoutheastern Pennsylvania. Matthew, who just completed asummer law clerkship for Regional Housing Legal Services,is particularly interested in transactional law and hopes tocounsel clients outside of the courtroom.The South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphianominated Rameswaran, who spent summer 2011 as anassociate with Page Wolfberg & Wirth in Mechanicsburg,PA. He is interested in health care and intellectual propertylaw and serves on the executive boards of the South AsianLaw Student Association and the Health Law Society atTemple Law. An active member of his local ambulancesquad in suburban Philadelphia, Rameswaran is also anEagle Scout, who continues to serve as a merit badgecounselor for his old Boy Scout troop.Rameswaran says the scholarship is motivating: “It’smore of a drive. You want to be a part of the community, apart of the YLD, and a part of what the city has to offer.”FERNANDA G. NICOLASEPTEMBER 2011 JenniferBretschneider joins TempleLaw on a leave of absencefrom the Philadelphia DistrictAttorney’s Office, where she has spent more than a decadeas a prosecutor. At Temple, she will serve as ActingDirector of Clinical Programsfor the coming year.Bretschneider began her career as an assistantdistrict attorney assigned tothe appeals unit, where shewrote briefs submitted to the Superior Court of Penn-sylvania and had the opportunity to argue before an en bancpanel of the Superior Court. She then moved tothe trial division, where she spent eight years in the familyviolence and sexual assault unit before joining homicide.Over the course of her career, Bretschneider has triedcountless high-profile sexual assault and homicide cases to verdict. She also co-administered the Elder JusticeProject and frequently lectured on issues of domesticviolence and child abuse.Bretschneider and Temple Law are already wellacquainted with one another. Since 2005, she has coached Temple’s award-winning trial teams and hastaught as an adjunct in the Integrated Trial AdvocacyProgram. She has also served as a judge for the SternMoot Court Competition and participated in Women’s Law Caucus activities.Today, as Director of Clinical Programs and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Bretschneider’s busyschedule includes overseeing all of the law school’sexternal clinical programs. The cinicals are taught by 35adjunct instructors and offer more than 350 student slotsevery year. Bretschneider will also teach Integrated TrialAdvocacy and Ethics in Practice and coach a trial team. Bretschneider earned both her undergraduate and lawdegree from University of Pittsburgh. Her undergraduatedegree was in communications and rhetoric, laying a solidfoundation for her success in the courtroom—and now inthe classroom. JENNIFER BRETSCHNEIDERSAMMETRIA GOODSON ’11SEAN-TAMBA MATTHEW ’13 (LEFT) ANDMUTHURAMANAN RAMESWARAN ’1331841 Temple_ESQ_Sept06/f 9/27/11 6:42 AM Page 23 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2011BRANDON BRUCE ’12, TRANSNATIONAL LL.M.STUDENT, WITH RAFFAELLA ARISTA OF STUDIO LEGAL IMPRODA IN ROMEPA INNOCENCE PROJECTMARKS SECOND ANNIVERSARYTemple-based nonprofit celebrates at Eastern State PenitentiaryNINE U.S. LAW DEANSTRAVEL TO CHINAUS-China legal education conference convenes in BeijingJUNE 2011The group of nine law school deans thatarrived in Beijing, China for the Sino-U.S. Deans’ Summit represented the law schools of Temple, Berkeley,Chicago, Georgetown, Michigan, Penn, Stanford, Virginiaand Yale. Organized by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, TsinghuaUniversity Law School and University of PennsylvaniaSchool of Law, the two-day summit was a uniqueopportunity for deans of U.S. law schools to meet withdeans of ten top Chinese law schools to discuss the need for expanded cooperation as well as how lawschools can be leveraged to improve the rule of law. Temple, which began a formal partnership agreementwith Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1997, has a longand deep history of rule of law programs in China. Inaddition to offering an LL.M. to Chinese attorneys andjudges in partnership with Tsinghua, Temple has amemorandum of understanding with China University ofPolitics and Law in Beijing and with East China Universityof Politics and Law in Shanghai, and has hostednumerous U.S.-China legal roundtables. Three of the ten Chinese deans at the conference had previouslyparticipated in Temple Law programs, either in Beijing or in Philadelphia. At the Beijing conference, Temple’s Dean Joanne A.Epps presented models for Sino-U.S. collaboration inlegal education, citing Temple’s LL.M. degree for Chineselawyers, as well as the non-degree Judicial EducationProgram and scholarly roundtables on critical areas ofChinese law and legal education. “Having the opportunity to join other U.S. law schools in thinking about the future of international legaleducation reaffirmed the importance of the breadth andimpact of Temple’s programs,” says Epps. “It was clearthat our efforts in China are widely known and highlyregarded, and that China is now seeking additionalcollaborations to maximize the synergies that flow frominternational partnerships.”At the conference’s conclusion, a joint committee wasformed to find ways to collaborate. According to a writtenstatement issued by the University of PennsylvaniaSchool of Law, a working group of five deans from each country will look for ways to foster “multilateralexchanges between law schools, and to explore newinitiatives that focus on substantial areas of law such as public health, the environment, and leadership.” SUMMER 2011 AT TEMPLE LAWDEAN JOANNE EPPS WITH XU CHONGLI, DEAN OFXIAMEN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, AND CAILIDONG, ASSOCIATE DEAN OF JILIN UNIVERSITYDuring summer 2011, students studying in Rome wereable to broaden their classroom experience through a widerange of internships:•MATTHEW PACKARD ’13sampled both the Italian civilcode and international law at Petrucci e Petrucci, wherehe had the opportunity to attend civil hearings, observeat the Criminal Tribunale, and assist in preparing cross-border contracts for Petrucci’s internationally-basedtheme park clients. •FIAMMA RAGO ’12interned at Corrada Ferrari MainieriPedeferri Societa, a law firm with offices in Rome and Milan. •At the international law firm of Vitale & Partners, JOSH GALVAN ’12had the opportunity to research arange of international finance issues.•As an intern at Studio Legale Improda, TransnationalLL.M. student BRANDON BRUCE ’12attended patent and trademark prosecution hearings, researched EU regulations, and wrote an article on a recent Ninth Circuit trademark case that he plans to submit for publication. STUDENTS INTERN FOR NGOS IN EUROPE, ASIA,AFRICA, AND SOUTH AMERICA.Temple Law students also interned at several internationalpublic interest and public service organizations abroad thissummer. •JOHN IANNACONE ’13,who went to Rome with a specificinterest in international public law, obtained aninternship with the United Nations’ World FoodProgramme.•CAMILO RINCÓN CAMACHO ’13interned at theInternational Center for Transitional Justice in Colombia.•AIMEE HAYNES ’12divided her summer between theAfrican Center for Legal Excellence in Kampala, Ugandaand the U.S. Department of State Consular Section inShenyang, China.•RACHAEL STEENHOLDT ’12investigated farmer suicidesfor the Human Rights Law Network’s Right to FoodInitiative in New Delhi, India.•AMY DRAPKIN ’12interned at the International LawInstitute - African Centre for Legal Excellence, based inKampala, Uganda.•XIMENA FLORES-CARVAJAL ’13interned at theDocumentation Center of Cambodia, based in PhnomPenh, Cambodia.INT’L INTERNSHIPScontinued from page oneMARISSA BOYERS BLUESTINE ’95RICHARD GLAZER ’69 (RIGHT) WITH DAVID RICHMANMAY 24, 2011In June 2010, Kenneth Granger wasreleased from the custody of the Pennsylvania Departmentof Corrections after serving 30 years in prison for a murderhe did not commit. In May 2011, supporters of thePennsylvania Innocence Project attending the group’ssecond anniversary at Eastern State Penitentiary gatheredto hear the story of Granger’s release first-hand. ThePennsylvania Innocence Project brings together volunteerattorneys and students to identify and help exonerateindividuals like Granger. In addition to hearing the tragic details of Granger’swrongful conviction and the inspiring events surroundinghis release, guests had a rare after-hours opportunity toexplore Eastern State, once home to such notoriousoffenders as Al Capone and escape artist “Slick Willie”Sutton. They were treated to refreshments from Jack’sFirehouse, private tours of the infamous cell blocks and the newly renovated Jewish synagogue, an inmate art show presented by the City of Philadelphia’s Mural ArtsRestorative Justice Program, and a customized scavengerhunt—the Innocence Puzzle.Housed at Temple University and made possible byBeasley School of Law, the Pennsylvania Innocence Projectcenter is headed by Executive Director Richard C. Glazer’69, who also chairs the city’s ethics board, and LegalDirector Marissa Boyers Bluestine ’95, who left theDefender Association of Philadelphia to join the project.Under the supervision of these two Temple Law alumni andother volunteer attorneys, students from Temple and otherarea law schools strive to prove the innocence ofPennsylvania inmates who have been wrongfully convicted.Some cases involve new DNA testing, while others areinvestigated through more traditional methods. 31841 Temple_ESQ_Sept06/f 9/27/11 6:42 AM Page 3FacultyON THERecord4 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2011REINSTEIN QUESTIONS SCOPE OF PRESIDENT'S POWER TORECOGNIZE FOREIGN STATESAt issue in the Supreme Court case MBZ v. Clintonis whether a 2002 lawdirecting the State Department to record Israel as the place of birth forAmerican children born in Jerusalem has Congress stepping too far intoexecutive branch territory. The justices “directed the two sides to addressthe broad question of whether the law ‘impermissibly infringes thepresident’s power to recognize foreign sovereigns.’ That power is rooted inthe constitutional text, but not in an especially obvious way. The courts havesaid the president’s authority to ‘receive ambassadors and other publicministers’ implies the power to recognize foreign governments. A recentarticle in the University of Richmond Law Reviewargued that the originalunderstanding of the clause concerning ambassadors did not support thatleap. ‘The Constitution, by its terms, does not give the president the powerto recognize foreign states or governments,’ wrote ROBERT J. REINSTEIN,a law professor at Temple University.” —July 26, 2011, New York TimesKNAUER COMMENTS ON HOMOSEXUALITY AS “CONTAGION”Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann’s views on homosexuality arecoming under scrutiny. Past statements imply that a gay lifestyle is a choiceor contagion. “The belief that homosexuality is highly contagious is at theheart of the perspective. . . shared by the Bachmanns and many otherconservative Christians, but it is not new. As NANCY KNAUER,a TempleUniversity law professor, has written, the notion of homosexuality as acontagion has been a staple of American culture for almost 100 years, if notlonger. Among the tenets of the contagion model Knauer describes are theideas that homosexuality is a choice, that homosexuals target children, andthat ‘everyone in society is potentially at risk because homosexuality is veryseductive and, apparently, has universal appeal.’” —July 20, 2011, Slate RAMJI-NOGALES SAYS IMMIGRATION CASES ARE CLOGGINGFEDERAL COURTS“Despite the nationwide hiring of more than 40 additional judges in the past year, the number of deportation cases, asylum claims, and green-cardfraud prosecutions in America’s 59 immigration courts is at an all-time high:275,000, and climbing.. . . There is money for ‘night vision goggles forborder patrols,’ said Temple University law professor JAYA RAMJI-NOGALES,coauthor of the book Refugee Roulette, but ‘next to nothing to fix theproblems of the courts.’” —July 18, 2011, Philadelphia InquirerURBAN AREAS MORE FAVORABLE FOR PLAINTIFFS, SAYS OHLBAUM“The parents of an 11-year-old girl who died after falling off a Ferris wheel inWildwood last month have sued the amusement park.. . . The filing of thesuit in Philadelphia likely represents a strategic move on the part of theplaintiffs. The [parents’] attorneys have argued that Pennsylvania is theappropriate jurisdiction because the amusement park does business andmarkets itself there. Philadelphia is widely considered a favorable venue forplaintiffs’ suits. ‘The jury verdicts are substantially larger and morefrequently returned in Philadelphia than they are, for example, in thecounties,’ saidEDWARD D. OHLBAUM,a Temple University law professor.‘That’s not inconsistent with most major urban areas.’” —July 9, 2011,Philadelphia InquirerDEAN PRAISES PROSECUTOR APPOINTMENTTemple Law School graduate Kevin Harden, Jr. ’10 is among Philadelphia’snewest city prosecutors. “Harden is a rarity among city prosecutors—someone who lived both sides of the law, went straight, and now prosecutes people for doing the kinds of things he once did. . . [Temple Law DEAN JOANNE] EPPS,who recommended Harden for an internship with Common Pleas Court Judge Leon Tucker, calls Harden a ‘real special guy. . . engaging, smart, and thoughtful.’” —July 4, 2011, Philadelphia InquirerSLATE REPORTER DEFINES ‘GIFT’ WITH ASSIST FROM BARONIn response to the news that Charlie Sheen hadasked his ex-girlfriend to return an expensive carafter the couple broke up, Slate’s“Explainer”explored whether recipients must respond whenpeople demand the return of gifts, and thankedJANE BARONof Temple’s Beasley School of Law for her help in providing the answer: “As all lawstudents know, there are three elements—that’slawyer-talk for requirements—in gift-giving:donative intent, delivery, and acceptance. In otherwords, the giver must intend to give the thingaway, it must actually change hands, and therecipient has to take it. (Acceptance is rarely an issue in legal disputes.)Without all three, the original owner can demand his property back.” —July 29, 2011, Slate KAIRYS CALLS COVENANTS BANNING UNION-ORGANIZING ‘UN-AMERICAN’When Sands Casino sold land toBethlehem development partners, thedeeds banned union organizing andactivities that a reasonable casino operator would consider offensive . . .“DAVID KAIRYS,a constitutional lawprofessor at Temple University, said case law dating to the 1940s shows thatcovenants such as deed restrictions haveconstitutional limitations. For example,covenants can’t be used for racialdiscrimination, even on private property. After reviewing the Sands’restrictions, Kairys said he expected courts would extend that reasoning to the First Amendment as well. He said free speech, with some restrictions,is guaranteed on public sidewalks, streets and parks. ‘It’s un-American andso clearly wrong,’ Kairys said, referring to the restrictions. ‘Justices—liberalor conservative—would invalidate these restrictions.’” —June 28, 2011,Allentown Morning CallPRESIDENT GETS MIXED MESSAGES ON LIBYA FROM HOUSE, SAYS SPIRO“The House voted to reject President Obama’s introduction of U.S. forcesinto the conflict in Libya, defeating a resolution that would have officiallyauthorized that operation.. . . The House then voted on an even moreaggressive rebuke of Obama: a proposal to strip away part of the funding for the Libyan campaign. The House’s surprising mixed decision could easecongressional pressure on Obama, at least for now.. . . ‘It shows Congress’stendency towards indecision on these kinds of questions,’ said PETER SPIRO,a law professor at Temple University. ‘The White House will look at this asbusiness as usual.’” —June 24, 2011, Washington PostTING IS COMMENTATOR ON LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWSTemple Law professor JAN TINGappearedon a roundtable which consideredPhiladelphia Council redistricting, teacherratings, Phillystat and the federal debtceiling. Commenting on PresidentObama’s press conference on raising thedebt ceiling, Ting said Obama had notdone a good job at convincing the public:“We’re absolutely running out of time. . .all the polls say that the American peopledo not believe we need to raise the debt ceiling.” —July 10, 2011, 6ABC-TV’s Inside Story31841 Temple_ESQ_Sept06/f 9/22/11 8:10 AM Page 45 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2011CELL PHONE LEGISLATION—DOES IT WORK?Scott Burris joins in cross-disciplinary study to see which ‘distracted driver’ laws save livesJUNE 2011 Cell phone distractions account for more than300,000 car crashes annually. Not surprisingly, more andmore states are scrambling to crack down on the use ofmobile devices while driving. But a recently-released study, led by a Temple University team from the law schooland the public health department, found a widening gapbetween the evidence on distracted driving and the lawsbeing passed to address the problem. Professor of Law Scott Burris and public health lawresearcher Evan Anderson ’07 joined with a professor ofpublic health at Temple, Jennifer Ibrahim, to research and publish a hard-hitting article in the June 2011 issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.The articlefeatured a study funded by the Robert Wood JohnsonFoundation, which documented how distracted driving lawsvary across states and how they have evolved over time,and demonstrated a method that successfully measuresthe relationship between laws and health outcomes for use in scientific studies. The resulting dataset, accessibleonline, reflects differences in the state laws that includerestricted activities, regulated devices, classes of driversand fine amounts. The team’s conclusion: Despite the increase indistracted driving laws, it is unclear whether any will havetheir desired effect, and there is evidence that driver use of mobile devices is increasing. “There is considerableevidence,” says Anderson, “that most of the risk of usingcommunication devices while driving comes from thecognitive strain of doing both things at once and not themanual manipulation of the device.” Currently, all states that prohibit cell phone use by all drivers provideexceptions for hands-free use. Yet, the authors remainconfident that continuing innovation by states andsubsequent evaluation by researchers will eventually yield effective policy. “By capturing variation in these laws in the laboratoriesof the states in a form that scientists can use in empiricalanalyses, our study is the first step toward understandingwhich laws really do reduce distracted driving, and thuscan reduce related crashes and associated injuries andfatalities,” says Burris. Burris began his career in public health law during theearly days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and edited the firstsystematic legal analysis of HIV in the U.S., AIDS and theLaw.“This work is an extension of my efforts to promoteresearch that pushes the boundaries of what we knowabout the relationship between law and population health.” Burris has been on the faculty of Temple Law since1994, and directs Temple’s Center for Health Law, Policyand Practice, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’sPublic Health Law Research program. He is also associatedirector of the Centers for Law and the Public’s Health: A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and GeorgetownUniversities. Anderson, who collaborated on the paper, is a researcher at the Public Health Law Research Programhoused at Temple Law, and a doctoral student in publichealth whoseinterests includesocial epidemiologyand empirical legal studies. The Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority has electedGREGORY J. FOX ’79as its new chairman. Fox, a partner at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads, replacesThomas Riley, who resigned in May 2011. SUSAN KATZ RICHMAN ’79,principal courtattorney for Nassau County, NY Courts,was installed as the president of theNassau County Bar Association. Richmanis also a village justice in Sea Cliff andPlandome Manor, the first woman to holdthese positions, and has served as actingcity court judge for Glen Cove and Long Beach.SHERYL SANTERIAN ’79recently returned to TempleUniversity to work in the Office of the University Counselwhere she will focus on transactional matters. Previously,Santerian was a vice president and associate counsel ofFranklin Realty Group, a Philadelphia-based real estateinvestment company, and general counsel of Prime Bank,a federal savings bank.1980sSUSAN SCHNEIDER THOMAS ’80,a partner at Berger & Montague in Philadelphia, and DAVID B. ZLOTNICK ’80,of counsel at Krause Kalfayan Benink & Slavens in San Diego, CA, were part of a national team of lawyers who represented Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, a whistle blower. In the last several years, they have helpedVen-A-Care recovered more than $1 billion for the U.S. and various states in Medicare and Medicaid fraud actionsagainst a number of major pharmaceutical companies.CYNTHIA B. BATT ’81has left her position as Director of Clinical Programs at Temple Law to join the faculty ofStetson University College of Law in Tampa, FL, where shewill teach and direct the clinical program.BRIAN D. SPECTOR ’81has been electedpresident of the Syracuse UniversityAlumni Association. He also serves on the Syracuse University Board ofTrustees. Spector is a foundingshareholder of Spector & Ehrenworth in Florham Park, NJ.KEVIN C. O’MALLEY ’82has joined Butzel Long as a shareholder in the firm’sLansing, MI office, where he concentrateshis practice on banking, corporate, andcommercial real estate matters.LEONARD BERNSTEIN ’83,a partner inReed Smith’s Philadelphia office, receivedthe 2011 Sean Halpin Award for his probonowork with Big Brothers Big Sisters(BBBS) and leadership in communitypublic interest work. The recognitionincludes a $10,000 donation from ReedSmith to a nonprofit organization designated by the winner.Bernstein plans to divide the money between BBBS andthe Support Center for Child Advocates, where he is chairof the board. CLAIRE J. RAUSCHER ’83has joinedWomble Carlyle’s white collar criminaldefense team based in Charlotte, NC.Rauscher joins the firm after serving sixyears with the Federal Defenders ofWestern North Carolina, where she wasthe organization’s first executive director.Reed Smith announced the return of litigator MARILYNHEFFLEY ’84to the firm. She will be of counsel in thefinancial industry group in the Philadelphia office. Heffleyrejoins Reed Smith from Sunoco, where she was chieflitigation counsel. 1960sFREDERIC M. WENTZ ’66has again been nominated andconfirmed as a commissioner on the State TransportationCommission where he will continue as the vice-chairman.He was first appointed in 1992 by Governor Casey,reappointed by Governors Ridge and Rendell, and now by Governor Corbett. Wentz is a senior partner in theMontgomery County law firm of McGrory Wentz.1970sMARCEL L. GROEN ’70was recently appointed by theSupreme Court of Pennsylvania to serve as a hearingcommittee member in the District II disciplinary district.Groen, a partner in the Blue Bell, PA office of FoxRothschild, is also a member of the PennsylvaniaDemocratic State Committee and one of eightPennsylvanians on the Democratic National Committee.In March 2011, MARC ROBERT STEINBERG’73,managing partner of Rubin,Glickman, Steinberg and Gifford inLansdale, PA, spoke at the Criminal Lawand Forensics Conference hosted byLancaster Area Paralegal Association.Steinberg’s topic was “Internet ChildPornography and Sex Crimes: Defending the Seemingly Indefensible.” THEODORE SIMON ’74was sworn in assecond vice-president of the NationalAssociation of Criminal Defense Lawyersin August. Simon has been in privatepractice in Philadelphia for the last 37 years. BRIAN R. HAUSER ’77recently retired from the bench of the Superior Court inMaricopa County, AZ afterserving since 1991. He is now of counsel at The Doyle Law Firm inPhoenix, working as anarbitrator, mediator and discovery master.SETH WEBER ’78retired after 26 years as a federal prosecutor. Weber, whoheaded the Allentown branch of the U.S. attorney’s office since 2002, retired in June after 26 years as an assistant U.S. attorney.NOTESClassSCOTT BURRIS ANDEVAN ANDERSON ’0731841 Temple_ESQ_Sept06/f 9/22/11 8:10 AM Page 56 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2011MARC S. RASPANTI ’84was the featuredspeaker at the American Health LawyersAssociation’s Healthcare Liability andLitigation and Labor and EmploymentJoint Practice Groups annual luncheon in June 2011. ERIC P. ROTHBERG ’84presented aneducational seminar in June 2011 forinjured workers. The program reviewedthe Workers’ Compensation Act and how itaffects an injured worker already receivingbenefits. Rothberg limits his practice torepresentation of injured workers atRothberg & Federman in Bensalem, PA.SUSAN M. ERLICHMAN ’86,executive director of theMaryland Legal Services Corporation, has been appointedto the American Bar Association’s Interest on Lawyers’Trust Accounts Commission. RidgeWorth Investments announced thatJOSEPH M. O’DONNELL ’86was appointedmanaging director of the Atlanta, GA firm.In addition, he was elected by the Boardof Trustees of RidgeWorth Funds asexecutive vice president and chiefcompliance officer. O’Donnell previouslyserved as RidgeWorth Fund’s chief compliance officer.Solo practitioner KENNETH H. RYESKY ’86teaches at Queens College CUNY and wasa panelist at a continuing professionaleducation seminar, “How to Keep Tax-Exempt Organizations in Compliance.” LORI K. SHEMTOB ’87spoke to thePhiladelphia Society of ClinicalPsychologists regarding recent changes in the custodystatute. Shemtob, of Shemtob Law, is former chair of thefamily law section of the Montgomery Bar Association, andcurrently serves on the Council of the Pennsylvania BarAssociation’s family law section and the Montgomery BarAssociation’s judiciary committee. NANCY WINKLER ’87,of EisenbergRothweiler Winkler Eisenberg & Jeck, hasbeen elected vice president of thePhiladelphia Trial Lawyers Association andwill be president next year. Winkler alsorecently spoke at the PennsylvaniaAssociation for Justice seminar, “HistoricChanges: New Joint and Several Liability Laws.”STUART M. BROWN ’88has been selected to act asmanaging partner of DLA Piper’s new Wilmington, DEoffice. ROBERT M. CAPLAN ’88recently joined White and Williamsas an associate in the firm’s subrogation practice group. Hepractices exclusively in the field of insurance subrogation.He will reside in the firm’s Philadelphia office. OTTO O. MEYERS III ’88was recentlynamed Corporate Executive of the Year bythe Houston Chapter of the National BlackMBA Association. He also received aCongressional Citation fromCongresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee.Meyers is in-house counsel with Shell Oil,where he is the general manager of North America Fuels Operations Support. He recently completed a term as an international trade adviser to the U.S. Department of Commerce.DIANA BOYAR ’89was recently sworn in as a judge in theCriminal Court of the City of New York. Prior to becoming a judge, she worked at Bronx Defender Services.WOMEN’S WORLD CUPFINALISTS REPRESENTED BYJOHN LANGEL ’74JULY 17, 2011When the U.S.women’s national soccer team metJapan in the final round of the WorldCup in Frankfurt, Germany, BallardSpahr partner John Langel ’74 was inthe stands. He was there not only asa fan, but as the team’s lawyer.Langel, who chairs Ballard Spahr’slabor and employment practice, hasrepresented athletes for years,including 76ers coach Doug Collins and former Eaglesquarterback Ron Jaworski.Langel took on the women’s soccer team in 1998, oneyear before Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy’s team capturedthe World Cup. Although this summer’s final match endedin a heartbreaking loss to Japan decided by penalty kicks,Langel remains an ardent fan and advocate. When the women selected Langel to represent them,the team had a contract with U.S. Soccer and the playersfelt they were not receiving benefits equal to the U.S.men’s team, such as quality hotels and travel accommo-dations and additional staff like a massage therapist,equipment managers and trainers. In late 1998, Langelhelped settle those issues with U.S. Soccer. He hasnegotiated two employment contracts with U.S. Soccer, the latest of which expires at the end of 2012. He alsonegotiated their participation in two professional soccerleagues, the latest being Women’s Professional Soccer thatincludes the Philadelphia Independence. PRESIDENT OF WOMEN’SLAW GROUP CITES ‘PLATEAU’ IN GAINS JULY 2011Heather Giordanella ’98,counsel at Drinker Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia, was sworn in aspresident of the National Associationof Women Lawyers (NAWL). In heracceptance speech, she quotedstatistics showing that some ofwomen’s gains in the law haveleveled off. In the decade that NAWLhas been surveying the profession,women continue to constitute about 15 percent of equitypartners in firms and make about 85 percent of what theirmale counterparts earn. Since its founding in 1899, NAWL has been involved inmany of the critical campaigns for the advancement ofwomen in and out of the legal sector. The organizationsupported suffrage, helped women lawyers earn the abilityto work independently, advocated for the first female U.S.Supreme Court justice and helped women have more of an equal footing in the military. But when it comes toprofessional endeavors of female lawyers, that collectivesuccess has hit a plateau.Giordanella, who practices in the areas of commerciallitigation and employment law, said, “What’s frustrating forme is that we’ve plateaued. What is the cause of theplateau? Why can’t we get over that hurdle?”A few years ago, NAWL challenged all sectors of thelegal profession to get the number of women in theirorganizations to 30 percent by 2015.“We need to continue to advocate for women to be in leadership positions in law firms,” says Giordanella,“because giving women those opportunities definitely helps overall in the retention and promotion of women.”JUNE 8, 2011Murray Shusterman’36 was feted at the biannualmeeting of the Law Foundation, ashe stepped down after leading theorganization since 1992. He issucceeded as president of the lawschool’s major fund-raisingorganization by Grant Rawdin ’87. Rawdin has long been anactive and supportive alumnuswho joined the Law FoundationBoard of Directors in 2008. He iswell-prepared and eager to take over the helm. “I amhonored to follow in the esteemed footsteps of MurrayShusterman. The foundation has an important purposeand, with continued alumni support, will help keep the lawschool in the forefront of legal education. I look forward toworking with Dean Epps, her colleagues and the membersof the Foundation in our exciting visions for the future.”Rawdin is president and CEO of Wescott FinancialAdvisory Group LLC. He founded the firm in 1987 together with the law firm of Duane Morris. In addition tobeing an attorney, Rawdin is an accountant and a certified financial planner who has been named annuallyby Barron’s Magazineas one of the nation’s “Top 100Financial Advisors.”The departing president, a senior counsel at FoxRothschild in Philadelphia, has long been known for hiscommitment—and generosity—to the law school. In 1997,Shusterman Hall was named in recognition of a $1 milliongift that supported the renovation of the law school’sconference hall. Shusterman has also shared his legalexpertise with Temple Law students by teaching corporateand real estate law as an adjunct professor for 32 years.He continues to sit on the law school’s Board of Visitorsand is an Honorary Life Trustee of Temple University.Before joining Fox Rothschild, he was a deputy city solicitorin Philadelphia and counsel for the Commission on HumanRelations and for City Council, and also served as vicepresident for the City Board of Health.THE LAW FOUNDATIONThe Temple University Law Foundation was formed in1959 to consolidate and bolster the school’s fundraisingefforts. Shusterman helped found the leadership groupalong with other distinguished alumni including JudgeCharles Klein ’21, Samuel Lander ’31, and Judge EthanAllen Doty ’31. The founders envisioned a body that wouldassist law students through scholarships and financial aid,provide funds for legal research, improve the operation oflegal services, attract outstanding scholars to the facultyand support distinguished guest lecturers.Years of dedication and diligent fundraising by the LawFoundation increased the school’s endowment enormously.Income from this fund is distributed annually for suchthings as student scholarships, loan forgiveness forstudents working in public interest, and research grants forprofessors. The law school’s physical plant has grown toinclude two new buildings, Shusterman Hall ConferenceCenter and Barrack Hall in addition to Klein Hall. Today,the full-time faculty totals over 70, and the school nowoffers four LL.M. degrees in Philadelphia and one in China. New Leadership in Place for Law FoundationGrant Rawdin ’87 is new president, Murray Shusterman ’36 steps down after 19 years of service GRANT RAWDIN ’8731841 Temple_ESQ_Sept06/f 9/22/11 8:10 AM Page 6PETER DUTZ MANDA ’89received a Masters in PublicAdministration and Politics from the Bloustein School atRutgers in 2010 and a Certificate of Study in Law from theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School in May 2011. Nowhe is pursuing studies in public administration and publicfinance through the Fels Institute of the University ofPennsylvania.1990sKATHLEEN DELANEY ’90 was sworn in as a New JerseySuperior Court judge in July 2011 after working as anassistant prosecutor for Camden County, NJ for the pasttwenty years. Family law attorney DAVID J. DRAGANOSKY ’90authored achapter entitled “Effectuating the Distribution Agreement/Award” in Slicing Up the Pie: Property Distribution inPennsylvania,published by the Pennsylvania Bar Institutein 2010. Draganosky is a partner of Shemtob Law, locatedin Blue Bell, PA.MARK W. SHEM ’90was recently elected to representDistrict 6 (encompassing Santa Clara County) to theCalifornia State Bar Board of Governors for a three-yearterm. Shem is a partner in the San Jose, CA office ofBorton, Petrini. In June, HARRY SOKHI ’93was promoted to assistantgeneral counsel of Nationwide Insurance, where he hasbeen since 2002.The intellectual property firm Volpe and Koenigannounced that LINA GENOVESI ’94has joined the firm’sPrinceton, NJ office as of counsel. Prior to joining Volpeand Koenig, Genovesi was a senior attorney with aninternational law firm and director of legal affairs at Keryx Biopharmaceuticals. JEFFREY T. MCGUIRE ’94,of Caldwell & Kearns inHarrisburg, PA is now certified in both arbitration and mediation. In June 2011, REID I. HOWELL ’96joinedRawle & Henderson’s Philadelphia officeas an associate. He will concentrate hispractice in the areas of casualty andpremises liability litigation. Litigator JANELLE E. FULTON ’97has joinedthe law firm of Rubin, Fortunato &Harbison as a shareholder. Fulton wasmost recently of counsel with the WestChester, PA firm of Lamb McErlane.KEITH A. WALTER, JR. ’98is a new partnerat Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz inWilmington, DE, where he practices in the firm’s intellectual property group. INEZ M. MARKOVICH ’99,a partner atDeeb, Petrakis, Blum & Murphy, is a co-founder and member of the board ofdirectors of the Russian-SpeakingProfessionals Network of GreaterPhiladelphia, and is a member of theTurnaround Management Association and the Forum of Executive Women. 2000sShortly after legislation establishing same-sex marriage was passed in New York State, ALPHONSO B. DAVID ’00participated in a forum with Brian Ellner, a senior strategistat Human Rights Campaign, the group which led thesuccessful campaign. David and Ellner provided a behind-the-scenes look at the coalition-building strategies ofGovernor Cuomo’s Administration and of the Human RightsCampaign that resulted in the passage of the law in June2011. David is a special advisor to the Commissioner forNew York State Division of Human Rights.7 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2011Steven B. SilvermanClass of 1957Michael J. Stief Jr.Class of 1967Albert W. Sheppard Jr.Class of 1968Richard FuriaClass of 1971James M. L. FerberClass of 1973Howard SofferClass of 1987Sharon B. OrtzmanClass of 1994IN MEMORIAMKASSEM LUCAS ’00has been named partner in charge ofdiversity at Pepper Hamilton, where his practice focuses oncommercial litigation.JOAN V. METZLER ’00has been promoted to director ofadmissions at Quinnipiac University School of Law inHamden, CT. She has worked at Quinnipiac since 2007. TODD M. SAILER ’00was elected partner at Begley Carlin & Mandio in Langhorne, PA. STEVEN B. WITTENBERG, J.D. ’01, LL.M.’09,has joined the SEI Wealth Network inOaks, PA as the director of legacyplanning. In 2012, NIKKI JOHNSON-HUSTON ’04,a tax attorney for the City of PhiladelphiaLaw Department, will be going to India forfour to six weeks as an Eisenhower Fellow.The Eisenhower Fellowship programselects eight to ten high-achieving mid-career U.S. citizens or legal permanentresidents for an individually-designedprogram in the country of their choice. InIndia, Johnson-Huston plans to work with the homelessand children living in poverty. KAREN M. SANCHEZ, J.D./M.B.A ’04is now an associate inthe commercial, real estate and public finance group in the Philadelphia office of Thorp Reed & Armstrong.ROYCE W. SMITH ’04, LL.M. ’08of the personal injury lawfirm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock &Dodig has been re-elected minority caucus delegate to theAmerican Association for Justice. He is also an adjunctprofessor of trial advocacy at Drexel University’s Earl MackSchool of Law. RICHARD L. FRANKEL ’05has been named a partner at theCherry Hill, NJ firm of Bross & Group, where he overseesthe veterans disability benefits practice. Frankel joinedBross & Group as an associate in 2006.DARIO PACE ’06is currently living in Bangkok, Thailand,where he is spending three monthsstudying violence prevention, mediation, compromisebuilding and the philosophy of peace building atChulalongkorn University. Pace, a member of thePhiladelphia Police Department, was sponsored by aPeace Fellowship Scholarship from Rotary International. MICHAEL P. ALFORD ’08recently joined Begley Carlin, aBucks County, PA law firm, as an associate in the areasof appellate and school law. Alford was previously a lawclerk to Judge Albert J. Cepparulo in the Bucks CountyCourt of Common Pleas. TEMPLE ESQ. welcomes news and photos ofour alumni/ae. Please include: Full name,class, degree, and a way to reach you if weneed to confirm information.Send to:Janet GoldwaterTemple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122Email:janet.goldwater@temple.eduSEND US YOUR NEWS!In addition to keynote speaker Professor Kohn, thefollowing experts will be featured: •Eric Carlson, National Senior Citizens Law Center•Kim Dayton, Center for Elder Justice and Policy, William Mitchell Law School•Carolyn Dessin, University of Akron Law School •Larry Frolik, University of Pittsburgh Law School•Alicia Kelly, Widener Law School•Nancy J. Knauer, Temple Law School •Debra Kroll, Temple Elderly Law Project •Elizabeth Loewy, Elder Abuse Unit, New York CountyDistrict Attorney’s OfficeSYMPOSIUMcontinued from back cover•Michele Mathes, Center for Advocacy and the Rights and Interests of the Elderly•Hilary Meyer, National Resource Center on LGBT Aging•Daniel Redman, Del Martin Memorial LGBT ElderAdvocacy Initiative•Lois Shepherd, University of Virginia Law School andCenter for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities•Peggie R. Smith, Washington University in St Louis •Barbara A. Soniat, Catholic University Center for Global Aging•Evelyn Tenenbaum, Albany Law School and AlbanyMedical College2010sMARIAJOSÉ DELGADO ’10has joined the Blue Bell, PA full service family law firm, Shemtob Law.In October, MARY ARNOLD ’11joins the Bronx County (NY)District Attorney’s Office as an assistant district attorney.JACOB GINSBURG ’11is working for the consumerprotection firm of Kimmel & Silverman in Ambler, PA. Hewill be doing financial/credit law, as well as representingemployees in employment discrimination cases.LAURA E. HUGHES ’11is an associate in Morgan Lewis’slitigation practice. Hughes earned a master’s degree ineconomics from Temple University concurrent with her law degree.JEFFREY L. VAGLE ’11has joined the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton where he will practice commerciallitigation.This month, KATRINA YOUNG ’11begins a three-yearcommitment as an assistant defender at the DefenderAssociation of Philadelphia, where she will representindigent criminal defendants at the trial level. To learn more about the symposium, go to www.law.temple.edu/aging31841 Temple_ESQ_Sept06/f 9/22/11 8:10 AM Page 7TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSFALL 2011VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.law.temple.eduWRITE TO US: lawalum@temple.eduNON-PROFITORGANIZATIONU.S. POSTAGE PAIDPHILADELPHIA, PAPERMIT NO. 1044TEMPLE UNIVERSITYJAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122JUNE 2011An ambitiousgroup of Temple Law studentsconceived of Students forStudents as a response towhat they describe as the“school to prison pipeline,” inwhich zero tolerance policiespush children out of school,often for issues like wardrobeor tardiness, depriving them ofthe opportunities that accessto a basic education affords. Students for Students, led by Julia Melle ’13 andDiane Akerman ’13, proposesa three-pronged solution tointerrupt what they see as avicious cycle: direct advocacyby representing students atschool disciplinary hearings (a right many families do not know they have);empowerment through “knowyour rights” materials and community education sessions; and organizing with a toolkit for other lawstudents seeking to create similar groups in Philadelphiaand across the country.The initiative is one of three student projects nationally selected to receive funding from the ABA section of litigation’s annual Good Works Project. Thewinning projects receive funding and support over thefollowing year. Students Win ABA FundingProject aims to interrupt ‘school to prison pipeline’Tuesday, October 4, 2011PA SUPERIOR COURT SESSION Duane Morris LLP Moot Court Room, 9:30 amWednesday, October 5, 2011DEAN’S ALUMNI RECEPTIONWashington, DC, 6-8 pmThursday, October 6, 2011TLAA GOLF CLASSICHuntingdon Valley Country Club For more information visitwww.mytlawconnection.com/TLAAgolf8 am-1:30 pmMonday October 17, 2011DEAN’S ALUMNI RECEPTIONNew York City, 6-8 pmTuesday, October 18, 2011POLSKY MOOT COURT COMPETITION FINAL ROUNDDuane Morris LLP Moot Court Room, 4-6 pmSaturday, October 22, 2011SYMPOSIUM Aging in the US: The Next Civil Rights Movement Klein Hall, Room 2B, 8:30 am-5:30 pmSee article this pagecalendar of eventsAGING IN THE US: THE NEXTCIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?Symposium will explore elder law todayA one-day symposium Saturday, October 22, 2011Klein Hall, Room 2B 8:30 am-5:30 pmIs it possible—as thesymposium’s keynote speakerProfessor Nina Kohnsuggests—that we all run the risk of “outliving” our civil rights? Over the nextthirty years, the seniorpopulation of the U.S. willincrease dramatically. The number of individuals aged65 and older will double, and the number of individualsaged 85 and older will nearly triple. By 2040, one out of every five Americans will be 65 or older.This one-day symposium, organized by I. HermanStern Professor of Law Nancy J. Knauer, will exploreelder law and aging policy from a civil rights perspectiveand begin the important task of rethinking equalityacross the lifespan. More than twenty leading scholarsand advocates will engage cutting edge public policyissues regarding health care, guardianships, caregiving,institutionalized elders, and the special needs ofminority populations. The symposium seeks to move the conversation beyond the traditional elder law topicsof estate planning, benefit eligibility, and health carefinancing and ask whether it is time for a new civil rights movement. STUDENT FOR STUDENTS TEAM, FRONT ROW FROM LEFT: DIANE AKERMAN ’13, DEAN JOANNE A. EPPS, JULIA MELLE ’13,KATRINA LIU ’13, ANDREW KELSER ’12, NICHOLAS SOLOMON ’12;BACK ROW FROM LEFT: DEREK KANE ’13, TIMOTHY RYAN ’13,JAMES PRICE ’13. MISSING FROM PHOTO: JAMES CLARK ’13,JOHN-PETER MELLE ’13, AND SARAH COBURN ’11 continued on page sevenNINA KOHNTEMPLE ESQ.Published by the Temple University Beasley School of Law for alumni and friends.JOANNE A. EPPS, DEANPublications Director: Janet GoldwaterArt Director: Gene GilroyPhotography: Joseph Labolito, Kelly & Massa, Ryan Brandenburg, Janet Goldwater 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) 204-1187Tuesday, October 25, 2011PA BAR ADMISSIONS CEREMONY Philadelphia City Hall, 4 pm Thursday, November 17, 2011DEAN’S ALUMNI RECEPTIONBoston, MA, 6-8 pm31841 Temple_ESQ_Sept06/f 9/27/11 6:42 AM Page 8Next >