TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • FALL 2013The law school’s rapidly expanding business law curriculum received a substantial boost when a prominent Philadelphia business attorney and longtime Temple Law supporter decided to make a gift to underwrite an endowed chair in the area of law he practiced with demonstrable success in his long career. The $1.1 million gift came from distinguished Philadelphia lawyer and senior counsel at Fox Rothschild, Murray H. Shusterman. Shusterman has practiced, taught, andexcelled in the field of business and real estate law since graduating fromTemple Law in 1936. This expression of Shusterman’s commitment to the law school is only the most recent in along list of contributions.“It is not an exaggeration to say that,without Murray Shusterman, Temple Law School could not have achieved itscurrent level of excellence,” says DeanJoAnne A. Epps. “His commitment and generosity have been an inspirationto all of us.” Shusterman’s contributions to the law school are not only inspiring, they are unparalleled. For more than seventyyears, Shusterman has been an integralpart of Temple University and its lawschool. He began his long association with Temple as anundergraduate, graduating with honors in 1933. He went on to become a member of the law school’s first day division class, where he edited the Temple Law Quarterlyand graduated with honors in 1936. He left the Temple foldonly briefly, to secure an M.A. in Political Science from theUniversity of Pennsylvania.Before joining Fox Rothschild, Shusterman was a deputycity solicitor in Philadelphia and counsel for the Commissionon Human Relations and for the City Council. He also servedas vice president for the Philadelphia City Board of Health.HOW ONE ALUMNUS MAKES A DIFFERENCEMurray Shusterman’s contribution to Temple Law includesmany years as an adjunct professor, teaching corporate andreal estate law. He also served as president of the alumniassociation, as a member of the Law School Board of Visitors,and as a member of the University Board of Trustees.In 1959, the law school’s first major fund-raisingorganization was founded. Murray Shusterman joined with ahigh-powered and determined group of Temple Law alumnithat included Judge Charles Klein ’21, Samuel Lander ’31,and Judge Ethan Allen Doty ’31 to form the Temple UniversityLaw Foundation. Years of dedication and diligent fundraisingby the Law Foundation have increased its initial endowmentof $50,000 to one currently worth nearly $3 million.FORZA GUFI!*Temple Law Global Scholars get new ‘Perspectives’ in summer program in Rome.JUNE 2013For more than 30 years, lawstudents seeking insights into international lawcombined with the adventure of living in aforeign culture have traveled to Italy to study inTemple Law’s four-week program based atTemple University’s campus in Rome. There, students—known as Temple LawGlobal Scholars—take classes in the historicVilla Caproni on the banks of the Tiber, journeyto ancient sites, meet Italian lawyers and lawprofessors and visit law firms. They rent and livein apartments in and around various parts ofthe city, including Piazza Navona andTrastevere. On weekends, they explore the city’s neighborhoods or hop on trains to go toFlorence, Venice, or the Amalfi Coast. Several of them intern at international law firms. To bolster the richness of the experience, the 2013 program co-directors Professors AliceAbreu and Eleanor Myers piloted a new course,Perspectives on Law Abroad.Perspectivesaugments the coursework in international lawwith material that gives context for theexperience of living in Italy and encouragesstudents to think about the ways thatdifferences in laws produce and reflectdifferences in everyday life.Summer 2013’s Perspectivescourseconsisted of a lively combination of classroompresentations and field trips that introducedstudents to the structure and practice of law in Italy, and helped them interpret their livedexperiences in Italy’s ancient capital city. Topicsranged from the tradition of civil law to thehistory of Italy and its evolution from a series of individual towns and states into the unifiedcountry we recognize now. Professor DavidPost, in a visit to the Rome program, presentedtwo lectures which provide a good example ofthe broad range of topics the course addressed:in one class, he explored the history of ancientRome, with an emphasis on law and govern-ment; in another, he explained the developmentof the use of perspective in Italian art. A lawprofessor from the University of Terramolectured on the development and structure ofthe European Union and the role of theEuropean Court of Justice. A journalist whocovered the Amanda Knox murder trial gave aninsider description of the sensational trial as itunfolded day-to-day in the Italian courts. continued on page threeMurray H. Shusterman ’36 donates $1.1 million Gift endows Shusterman Professorship in Transactional and Business LawDEAN JOANNE A. EPPS WITH MURRAYSHUSTERMAN ’36* Go Owls! In 1981, when Temple Law faculty and students showedincreasing interest in international study and research,Shusterman established The Murray H. Shusterman Israel-Temple Law School Exchange Program Fund. For 27 years,Temple Law conducted a summer study abroad program inTel Aviv. Today, the fund enables students to spend asemester at Tel Aviv University.By the mid-90s, the law school was expanding andneeded to enlarge its physical space beyond Klein Hall. In1994, as tangible evidence of his devotion to the law schooland to Temple University, Shusterman and his family gaveone of the largest gifts to the law school at that time, a onemillion dollar gift towards the renovation of Park Hall, ahistorically certified English Gothic church located a blockfrom the law school on Park Mall. The meticulously restoredbuilding opened officially in 1997 as Murray H. ShustermanHall. Today the architecturally unique facility hostsconferences, symposia, and other formal gatherings.In 2013, Shusterman’s generosity took a new and creativeturn when he announced his desire to contribute to theflourishing business law curriculum by endowing a chair. Heexplains it this way: “Lord Francis Bacon three centuries agosaid, ‘I hold every man a debtor to his profession.’ Whateverprogress I've made personally and professionally, I owe to alarge extent to the excellent education I received at Templeundergraduate and law school.”FORMER DEAN ROBERT J. REINSTEIN WITH MURRAYSHUSTERMAN ‘36 AT THE 1997 RIBBON-CUTTINGOF SHUSTERMAN HALL38392 Temple Law_ESQ_Sept06/f 8/23/13 5:05 PM Page 12 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2013Why an advanced degree in Asian Law at Temple?Temple Law School has long regarded its international lawprograms as a core center of excellence, and has deeproots in legal education in Asia. The law school has all thenecessary components to ensure the program’s success: •Temple boasts a faculty with experts in Chinese Law, Japanese Law, and legal issues in Asia, including Professors Salil K. Mehra, John Smagula, and Mo Zhang. •In 1994, Temple became the only U.S. law school to offer a full semester of study for J.D. students and a full academic year for LL.M. students in Asia at Temple University Japan. •In 1999, Temple expanded into China in a groundbreaking program to train Chinese lawyers, judges, and professors. Every year, J.D. students travel to Tsinghua University to study Chinese law.•In 2011, Temple entered into an exchange partnership with Jindal Global Law School in Delhi, India.AUGUST 2013“As U.S. trade acrossthe Pacific—and related legalpractice—has grown, a consensus has arisen in the legal profession thatAmerican legal education shouldprovide relevant training,” says AsianLaw expert and James E. BeasleyProfessor of Law Salil K. Mehra.“Nevertheless, there are still only a limited number of academicprograms in the United States thatprovide specialized education aboutlaw in Asia.” Today, Temple Law is drawing on itsstrength as a center of internationallaw to become the second school inthe U.S. to offer an advanced degreein Asian Law. Professor Mehra has been named to directthis latest expansion of Temple’s international offerings. Mehra is well equipped to run the program. He joinedthe Temple Law faculty in 2000 and teaches variouscourses, including Japanese Law and Law in Asia, as wellas Antitrust, Comparative Competition Law, Contracts, andCorporations. He is a former Abe Fellow of Japan's Centerfor Global Partnership and the Social Science ResearchCenter and co-edits the casebook Comparative Law: Lawand the Legal Process in Japan. In addition, Mehra, whohas taught at both Keio University School of Law andTemple University Japan, speaks and reads Japanese andis proficient in Mandarin. “The growing number of commercial Asia-U.S.transactions continues to fuel both domestic and foreigndemand for U.S. lawyers who specialize in Asian law,” saysMehra. “Our new degree program is a very timelydevelopment for attorneys pursuing careers in the Asianarena, and Temple is well-situated and highly prepared tocapitalize on this underserved market.” In announcing this degree, Temple Law becomes theonly law school on the East Coast, and currently one ofonly two in the country, to offer an LL.M. concentrating onAsian Law. (The University of Washington at Seattle alsooffers a stand-alone Asian Law LL.M. degree.) The programcombines the law school’s academic strengths inInternational and Comparative Law with its global reach. Inaddition to the new LL.M. degree, Temple offers an LL.M.degree in Transnational Law; dozens of internationalstudents travel annually to Temple to earn advanceddegrees; and Temple’s Institute for International Law andPublic Policy, founded in 2001, makes the school adynamic center for the study of international law.Temple’s program will be unique in requiring itscandidates to spend a semester studying at a law school inAsia, following a fall semester inPhiladelphia studying international law.“This [study abroad] requirement willensure that graduates of the programare exposed not just to substantiveaspects of the law, but to theimportant economic, social, andcultural background in which the lawoperates,” explains Mehra. Temple Law’s faculty has a depthof expertise in Asian law. Heading theprogram in Beijing is Professor John Smagula, a leading expert indeveloping, directing, and teaching inlegal education programs for Chinesegovernment officials and commerciallawyers. Since 2003, Smagula hasworked as Director of Asian Programs atTemple Law, where he directs and teaches inTemple’s LL.M. program in collaboration withTsinghua University and works closely withTemple Law students who study abroad atTsinghua. Before coming to Temple Law,Smagula was a three-year teaching fellow inChina with the Ford Foundation and theYale-China Association, as well as acorporate associate in the New York andHong Kong offices of Paul Weiss. He isproficient in Mandarin Chinese. “Students who study at Tsinghua regularly report that their time in China isinstrumental in helping them learn aboutChinese law, language, and culture,” saysSmagula. “Given the complexities of Chinese law, an immersion experience in China isnecessary to gain a foothold in the field, and our programoffers a unique opportunity.” Chinese law expert Professor Mo Zhang has taught at Temple Law since 1998, and served as the director ofTemple’s law program in China for more than a decade.Specializing in conflict of laws, contract law, Chinese law and comparative law, Zhang has published widely inAmerican and Chinese law journals. He joined the faculty after several years of legal practice.“Temple Law’s strong and steady presence in Japanand China not only demonstrates Temple’s success ininternational legal education, but also enables us to havetruly developed expertise that encompasses all of Asianlaw,” says Zhang. “Temple’s law program in China is highlyrespected in the Chinese legal community, and todayhundreds of graduates from the program provide greatresources for in-depth research and study in Chinese law.” In addition, many Temple Law faculty have taught andlectured extensively in Asia and participated in internationalconferences exploring Asian law. Professor FinbarrMcCarthy is the resident faculty member at TempleUniversity Japan. The LL.M. in Asian Law, like Temple’s other LL.M.programs, can be completed in two semesters of full-timestudy or over the course of four years when done part-time.Full-time students will study on Temple’s main campus inthe fall, and in the spring the full-time students will studyabroad at one of three Asian campuses: TsinghuaUniversity in Beijing, China; Jindal Global Law School inDelhi, India; or Temple University Japan in Tokyo. These Asian partner institutions give Temple a physicalpresence in the capitals of the nations with the threelargest economies in Asia. Each of the schools ranksamong the top law schools in its respective country. Living in these cities is intended to encourage students to improve their foreign language skills, but all courseworkis offered in English.“We know there is no substitute for the experience ofexploring international law while living abroad,” explainsMehra. “It gives students the context to deepen theirunderstanding of law, society, culture and the economy inthese critical nations, while living in their increasinglyglobalized nerve centers.”Mehra says the program is designed to be small toensure the quality of the students, admitting no more thansix LL.M. students per year in the first five years. J.D.students can pursue a dual J.D./LL.M. option that willpermit them to earn credits towards the LL.M. whileearning their J.D.Law school meets demand for study of Asian LawJapanese Law scholar Salil Mehra will direct new LL.M. in Asian Law program. SALIL K. MEHRAASSISTANT DEAN FORGRADUATE ANDINTERNATIONALPROGRAMS LOUISTHOMPSON ANDPROFESSOR MO ZHANGDIRECTOR OFASIAN PROGRAMSJOHN SMAGULAJINDAL GLOBALLAW SCHOOL,DELHITemple Law's Partners in AsiaTSINGHUAUNIVERSITY,BEIJINGTEMPLEUNIVERSITYJAPAN, TOKYO•••38392 Temple Law_ESQ_Sept06/f 8/23/13 5:06 PM Page 2At Temple Law, Professor Nancy J. Knauer’s talents in the classroom, skillful research and writing, and caring mentorshiphave won her all the law school and university-wide teaching prizes available. Knauer is widely admired by students whooften express an initial disinterest, or even trepidation, about studying tax law. Now, readers of Harvard University Press’new book What the Best Law Teachers Dowill discover what her students and colleagues at Temple have long known. Knauer was one of only 26 carefully selected law professors from around the country whose pedagogy was examined—in depth—by the book’s authors Michael H. Schwartz, Gerald F. Hess, and Sophie M. Sparrow. Selections were made from more than 250 nominees teaching at approximately 100 law schools. Nominations came from deans, associatedeans, faculty colleagues, students, and alumni, and nominees had to submit evidence that they produce extraordinary,long-term learning. All law teachers themselves, the authors probe their craft, asking: “What makes a great law professor?” The first study of its kind, What theBest Law Teachers Doidentifies the methods, strategies, and personal traits of professors whose students achieve exceptional learning. The authors found some commonalities among the instructors profiled in the book. First of all, the best teachers reject the distinction betweenteaching and scholarship, and as a group are productive scholars whopublish extensively, contribute to their field of legal inquiry, and work todevelop new legal curricula. Knauer, for example, has won awards for herinternationally recognized scholarship in the areas of identity, sexuality, and gender. She is also the co-founder of the Aging, Law and SocietyCollaborative Research Network of the Law and Society Association andserves on the Executive Committee of the Family Law Institute of theNational LGBT Bar Association. In 2012 she created the Temple Law andPublic Policy Program, an opportunity for students to work and study for a summer in Washington, DC. The teachers in the book are uniformly renowned for their exactingstandards: They set expectations high, while also making courserequirements—and their belief that their students canmeet them—clear from the outset. They demonstrateprofessional behavior and tell students to approach classas they would their future professional life: by being asprepared, polished, and gracious as possible. Theyprepare extensively for each class, even when they havetaught the course for years.And, the authors of What the Best Law Teachers Doconclude, the best law professors understand that the littlethings matter. They start class on time and stay afterwardto answer questions. They learn their students’ names andrespond promptly to emails. These instructors are alltough—but they are also committed, creative, andcompassionate mentors. 3 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2013What the Best Law Teachers Do Harvard Press book features Temple Law Professor Nancy J. KnauerROME ‘PERSPECTIVES’continued from page oneTemple Global Scholars were also briefed on networkingin the international arena. They were received asprofessionals and participated in small group discussionsin visits to Italian law firms, to the Italian Court of Cassation(Supreme Court), and to the Italian Bar Association.InPerspectives,students were encouraged to examinethe city through the lens of new information presented inthe classroom. They capped off the course withpresentations and papers unraveling some of the mysteriesabout what intrigued them most during their time in Rome, and the ways in which law and legal institutionscontributed to what they experienced: the importation ofcoffee; wildcat strikes; traffic accidents and the tort system;traffic congestion control; scooters; immigration; criminallaw; organized crime; graffiti; performance street art; andcreative reuse of old buildings. Their papers developedsome of those topics further and also delved into recycling,the apparent absence of safety regulations in Rome, andthe laws governing tourists. Abreu and Myers were joined in Rome by ProfessorDonald Harris and Adjunct Professor John Myers, whotaught courses and offered expertise to the students ontheirPerspectivestopics.ELEANOR MYERS AND ALICE ABREU CO-DIRECTED THE 2013SUMMER PROGRAM IN ROME. PATRICK O’CONNOR AWARDEDHONORARY DEGREE ‘I didn’t graduate from Temple, but … I fell in love with it,’ says chair of Temple’s Board of Trustees.MAY 16, 2013Temple University Board of Trustees Chair Patrick J. O’Connor was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Temple University’s 2013commencement. An esteemed trial attorney, O’Connor is vice chair and formerpresident and CEO of the Philadelphia-based firm of Cozen O’Connor.O’Connor has served as chair of Temple’s Board of Trustees since 2009. When he was appointed to the board in 1971, the 28-year-old O’Connor becamethe youngest trustee in the university’s history. He then served Temple for 13years, during that time rising to leadership roles on the budget and finance andinvestment committees. After taking time off to serve on other academic boards,he was re-appointed to the board by the speaker of the state House ofRepresentatives in 2001.O’Connor is as passionate about his work leading the board as he is about Temple’s unique place in the academicworld. “I didn’t graduate from Temple, but in my time as a state-appointed trustee, I fell in love with it. It’s elite withoutbeing elitist,” he says. O’Connor earned his B.A. at King's College and his law degree from Villanova.“Education is a great leveler. And at Temple, it doesn’t matter what your name is, where you come from, or how much money you have. If you have a fertile mind, you can succeed here.” O’Connor’s respect for a Temple education is reflected at his law firm, where 50 Temple Law alumni are currentlyemployed. Cozen O’Connor is among the 100 largest U.S. firms, with 575 attorneys in 22 cities on two continents.O’Connor is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers and theAmerican Bar Foundation, and is a board member of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is also chair of the board of BNY Mellon Funds Trusts and Franklin Security Bank, a memberof the board of Crowley Chemical Company of New York City, a member and past chair of the board of consultors for the Villanova University School of Law and a member of the advisory board of the Litigation Counsel of America. NANCY KNAUERPATRICK J. O’CONNORExcerpts from “What the BestLaw Teachers Do”“Well, what I like the best about law school is thatthere is a degree of empowerment that shouldhappen here and I want my students to read thenewspaper differently and to listen to the newsdifferently and to understand their place in theworld differently.”(Nancy Knauer)“She was very genuine and it was motivating, Imean it wasn’t an act and it wasn’t something shehad to do. She wanted to be there and that came off to us and it made you care about a subject [tax] that clearly none of us really cared all thatmuch about . . . It wasn’t fake or wasn’t pompous.”(student of Nancy Knauer)“I have a fiduciary responsibility to enable mystudents to pass the bar exam and hit the groundrunning when they enter practice.” (Nancy Knauer)“She imparts a sense of confidence in approachingthe law, [that] you can sort of reason through ityourself and understand it.” (student of Nancy Knauer)38392 Temple Law_ESQ_Sept06/f 8/23/13 5:06 PM Page 34 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2013STUDENT SCHOLARSPRESENT AT LAW ANDSOCIETY MEETINGTemple Law and Public Policy Program yields concrete results.JUNE 3, 2013Five students—introduced as Temple Lawand Public Policy Scholars—presented papers on topicsranging from LGBT elder issues to Armenian genocide atthe annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, aninternational gathering convened in Boston in June. There,students sat on panels with accomplished scholars fromaround the world whose disciplines include law, politicalscience, sociology, and psychology.The students’ papers originated from research donewhile participating in Temple Law’s innovative Law andPublic Policy Program, now in its second year. Studentswho participate in the Law and Public Policy Program, anintensive summer program in Washington, DC directed byProfessor Nancy Knauer, are designated Law and PublicPolicy Scholars. In addition to completing policy-orientedinternships and receiving mentoring from professionals inrelevant areas, the scholars are charged with conductingresearch and writing substantive “white papers.” The group of 2012 student scholars’ research yieldedfive papers that were accepted for presentation at theannual meeting of the Law and Society Association, whichpublishes theJournal of Law and Society.The presentingscholars and their topics were:JASON LAMB ’13 AND MARYJONES ’14 WERE TWO OF THETEMPLE LAW AND PUBLICPOLICY SCHOLARS WHOPRESENTED WHITE PAPERS ATTHE CONFERENCE IN BOSTON. JENNIFER LEERACHEL REBOUCHÉTOM LINTemple Law Welcomesthree New facultyANDREA ANASTASI ’14“Aging in Health, Honor,and Dignity: LGBT Eldersand the Older AmericansAct”CHRISTINA GILFILLAN ’14“Victim Protection: AComprehensive LegislativeApproach to CombatingSexual Trafficking in theUnited States”MARY JONES ’14“Regulating for the PublicHealth: The Sage DrinkingWater Act, Perchlorate,and the Constitution”JASON LAMB ’13“The Digital Divide: FreeExpression, Technology,and Democracy”ADRIAN STEPANIAN ’14“U.S. Recognition of theArmenian Genocide”JENNIFER JUNG WUK LEETemple Law Assistant Clinical Professor Jennifer Jung WukLee has a strong and varied background in the practice ofpublic interest law. Until recently, she was the managingattorney for the migrant farm worker division of ColoradoLegal Services. Before holding that position for seven years,Lee held staff attorney positions for the ACLU of Colorado,the farmworker unit of Legal Aid of North Carolina, and thehousing unit of Brooklyn Legal Services. At Temple, Lee will teach and supervise students at the law school’s new Stephen and Sandra Sheller Center for Social Justice. There she will encouragestudents to engage in social justice through a multi-facetedapproach, which includes litigation, policy advocacy, andcommunity education.Lee’s research interests include legal problems thatarise from the intersection of employment and immigrationlaw, and the advancement of the rights of noncitizensworking in the U.S. through the legal system. Among her publications are Private Civil Remedies: A Viable Tool for Guest Worker Empowerment(Loyola L.A. LawReview, 2012); and The Sheepherder Project: DevisingSystemic Change for Marginalized Workers(ClearinghouseReview, 2012).Lee received a B.S. from MIT and a J.D. from ColumbiaLaw School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholarand a Human Rights Fellow. Following law school, sheclerked in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for Templealumnus Hon. Franklin Van Antwerpen ’67.TOM C.W. LINTom C.W. Lin joins Temple Law School as an associateprofessor. Professor Lin was previously a faculty member ofthe University of Florida Levin College of Law, where hewas also an assistant director of the University of FloridaCriminal Justice Center.Lin’s teaching and research interests focus oncorporations, securities regulation, business organizations,privacy, and behavioral law and economics. Among hisrecent publications are: The New Investor(UCLA LawReview, 2013);Executive Trade Secrets(Notre Dame LawReview, 2012); The Corporate Governance of IconicExecutives(Notre Dame Law Review, 2011); and ABehavioral Framework for Securities Risk(SeattleUniversity Law Review, 2011).Prior to entering academia, Lin practiced law at the NewYork State Office of the Attorney General and the law firmof Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. He holds aB.A., magna cum laude,from New York University and aJ.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, wherehe was an Arthur Littleton Fellow.RACHEL REBOUCHÉ Rachel Rebouché is an associate professor of law, atTemple, where she will teach family law, health law, andcomparative family law. Like Lin, Rebouché previouslytaught at the University of Florida Levin College of Law,where she was an assistant professor of law and anassociate director of the Center for Children & Families.Rebouché’s current research examines the intersectionof genetic testing and family law doctrines, comparativeapproaches in reproductive health law, and governancefeminism. Her recent publications include ComparativePragmatism(Maryland Law Review, 2013); MixedMessages: The Intersection of Prenatal Genetic Testing andAbortion(Howard Law Journal, 2012); and The Limits ofReproductive Rights in Improving Women’s Health(Alabama Law Review, 2011).Rebouché received a B.A. from Trinity University and anLL.M. from Queen’s University, Belfast before earning aJ.D. from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, she was theeditor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Genderanda research assistant to Professors Lani Guinier and MarthaMinow. Following law school, Rebouché was an associatedirector of adolescent health programs at the NationalPartnership for Women & Families (formerly, the Women’sLegal Defense Fund) and a Women’s Law and PublicPolicy Fellow at the National Women’s Law Center. She alsoclerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.WARREN McELROY BALLARD1911~2013JULY 18, 2013 Temple Law Professor Emeritus WarrenMcElroy Ballard died at his home in Catonsville, MD. Anative of St. Louis, Professor Ballard earned both abachelor's degree and a law degree from the University ofVirginia. After a brief career practicing law, Ballard enrolledin a postgraduate program for aspiring law professors at YaleUniversity. In 1940, he joined the faculty of Temple Law,where he was a popular teacher until his official retirementin 1978.Contributions may be made inProfessor Ballard’s honor toTemple University BeasleySchool of Law, c/o director ofthe Office of Development,1719 N. Broad St.,Philadelphia 19122.38392 Temple Law_ESQ_Sept06/f 8/23/13 5:06 PM Page 45 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 20131970sWolters Kluwer Law & Business, a legalpublishing firm, has named ChamberlainHrdlicka shareholder STEWART M.WEINTRAUB ’71to its newly-created legaltax advisory board. Weintraub was alsorecently elected council director of theAmerican Bar Association tax section.TERRY D. WEILER ’73,a partner in theBerks County, PA law firm of Huckabee,Weiler & Levengood, will serve a three-year term on the Pennsylvania BarAssociation’s board of governors. One oftwelve zone governors who serve on theboard, Weiler will represent Berks,Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton and Schuylkill Countylawyers. Weiler is a former president and director of theBerks County Bar Association and president of the LawFoundation of Berks County. Pennsylvania State Senator LAWRENCE FARNESE ’74hasjoined the firm of Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan SchaerToddy as of counsel. Farnese, the Democratic chair of thecommunications and technology committee, has been inoffice since 2008. Philadelphia criminal defense lawyerTHEODORE SIMON ’74has been appointedto the board of directors of the TheodoreF. Jenkins Memorial Law Library. Simonalso serves on the board of directors andas first vice-president and president-electof the National Association of CriminalDefense Lawyers. DEBORAH R. WILLIG ’75has been named to serve on theboard of the Juvenile Law Center. The Juvenile Law Center,a Philadelphia-based national advocate for children’srights, was co-founded by Willig’s law school classmateRobert Schwartz ’75, and Marsha Levick ’76. Willig ismanaging partner of Willig, Williams & Davidson, aPhiladelphia union-side labor law firm.President of Southern Vermont College KAREN GROSS ’77has been reappointed to the New England Board of Higher Education by Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin for a six-year term. Gross assumed the presidency of SouthernVermont College after teaching law for two decades. Last year, she took a leave from the college to work inWashington as a senior policy advisor at the Department of Education.NOTESClassGILBERT L. HAMBERG ’77,a sole practitioner in Yardley, PA,presented a lecture at the annual conference of the FloridaMunicipal Electric Association about innovative ways toreduce bad debt expense from commercial customers priorto filing for bankruptcy. GUALBERTO MEDINA ’77is leaving Cushman & Wakefield tojoin CBRE Group, New Jersey's largest commercial realestate brokerage firm. Medina, who served as statesecretary of commerce under New Jersey’s GovernorChristine Whitman, will be based in CBRE’s Saddle Brookoffice, which has about 60 brokers.NEIL A. MORRIS ’79,a partner with Archer& Greiner in Philadelphia, has beenappointed special labor counsel for thePocono Mountain Regional PoliceDepartment, which serves fourmunicipalities in Monroe County, PA.Morris specializes in management-sidelabor and employment law and has representedgovernment agencies in Pennsylvania for more than 25 years.BARBARA A. POTTS ’79has joined thePhiladelphia firm of Griesing Law as senior counsel. Potts has worked for theDepartment of Housing and UrbanDevelopment since 2010, first as deputyregional counsel for Region III and later at HUD headquarters in Washington, DC. 1980sSTEWART J. EISENBERG ’80,co-founder and senior partnerof Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg, & Jeck, wasrecently elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates,an invitation-only association that seeks trial lawyers andjudges with “high personal character and honorablereputations.” Eisenberg is a past president of thePennsylvania Association for Justice (formerly thePennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association) as well as pastpresident of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. He is currently a representative from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the Board of Governors of the AmericanAssociation for Justice.ANNA MARIA FARIAS ’80was nominatedby Texas Governor Rick Perry to a six-yearterm as Board Regent at the TexasWoman’s University. Farias, who iscurrently in private practice, is the formerdirector of the Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment Center for Faith-Based and CommunityInitiatives. She was inducted into the Texas Women’s Hallof Fame in 2000. Trial attorney RICHARD RUSSO ’80was recently named tothe Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, limited toattorneys who have won multi-million dollar verdicts,awards and settlements for their clients. Russo is a partner at the Wilkes Barre, PA firm of Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald. A past president of the NortheasternPennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Russo is also vice president of the Committee for Justice for All and on the board of the Kevin Kitchnefsky Foundation forSpinal Cord Research. The Central Bucks Chamber of Commercerecently honored BARBARA N. LYONS ’81with the Village Improvement Associationof Doylestown Women in BusinessLeadership Award. Lyons is the founder ofBucks County Mediation and ArbitrationCenter, chair of the Doylestown Townshipboard of supervisors and has served as chair ofDoylestown’s parks and recreation board. She is alsopresident of CB Cares Educational Foundation and acounselor to women and families in transition. In May 2013, DAVID E. TROYER ’82,asenior litigation counsel for the organizedcrime strike force in the U.S. Attorney’sOffice for the Eastern District ofPennsylvania, secured convictions againstall four defendants in the federalracketeering case of United States v.Kaboni Savage, et al. The case involvedtwelve murders in 2004, including the murder of a witness, and the murders of six family members of another witness. After a four-month trial, the jury returneddeath sentences as to all twelve victims against thedefendant, marking the first time in the history of theEastern District of Pennsylvania that a federal death penalty verdict was imposed. RAY OSTROSKI ’83was recently appointedvice president and general counsel ofShentel Telecommunications Company, apublicly traded company headquarteredin Edinburg, VA. Ostroski previously heldpositions at One Communications,Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises,and C-TEC and RCN corporations.MARSHA LEVICK ’76 CHOSEN FORFIRST ARLEN SPECTER AWARD JUNE 27, 2013Temple Lawwas well represented at TheLegal Intelligencer’s 170thanniversary celebration,where two of the threefinalists for the new ArlenSpecter award were TempleLaw graduates. The winner, MarshaLevick ’76 of the JuvenileLaw Center, was one ofthree finalists for a newaward named in memory ofthe longtime U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania who died in2012. Levick was honored for her work as chief counsel ofthe Juvenile Law Center, an organization she co-founded in 1975 with Temple alumnus Robert Schwartz ’75. Among Levick’s many accomplishments for which she was honored was her recent role in uncovering the kids-for-cash scandal in Luzerne County. Also nominated for the award were Temple Law alumnusJoe H. Tucker Jr. ’89 of the Tucker Law Group and John M.Cleland, senior judge of the Pennsylvania Superior Courtand McKean County Court of Common Pleas. LEGAL INTELLIGENCERPRESENTS LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENT AWARDS TO FIVE FROM TEMPLEFive Temple Law alums were also among those selected byThe Legalto receive Lifetime Achievement Awards: •Hon. Phyllis W. Beck '67, chair and chief financial officer of the Independence Foundation, former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge•Hon. Albert S. Dandridge III '78, partner at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis •Hon. Nelson A. Diaz '72, partner at Dilworth Paxson, former Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge•Charisse R. Lillie '76, vice president, community investment, for cable titan Comcast and president of the Comcast Foundation.•Deborah R. Willig '75, founder and managing partner at Willig, Williams & Davidson.38392 Temple Law_ESQ_Sept06/f 8/23/13 5:06 PM Page 56 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2013JERRY KLEIN ’80 MEDALS IN SENIOR WORLD ICE HOCKEYFor the second straight year, Gerhart L. (Jerry) Klein’80 won a silver medal at the annual Snoopy SeniorWorld Ice Hockey Tournament in Santa Rosa, CA.Klein, a goaltender, backstopped his team in the age60 and over division to wins over two other teams,and lost by just one goal in the final match. Klein,who lives in Medford, NJ, has played men’s leaguehockey for more than 30 years. Klein is executive vice president, general counseland chief technology officer of Anne KleinCommunications Group, a public relations firm basedin the Philadelphia region. Before joining the firm, hewas a trial attorney with Montgomery, McCracken,Walker & Rhoads.DANIEL JT MCKENNA ’04 RECEIVES NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARDDaniel JT McKenna ’04, anassociate in the litigationdepartment at BallardSpahr in Philadelphia, hasbeen selected to receivethe Sandra Day O’ConnorAward for ProfessionalService by the AmericanInns of Court. The award,honoring an American Inn of Court member inpractice for ten or feweryears for excellence inpublic interest or probono activities, will bepresented at the Supreme Court in October 2013 at an event hosted by Associate Justice Elena Kagan. As the public service coordinator for the YoungLawyers Division of the American Bar Association,McKenna oversees the nationwide Wills for Heroesprogram, in which volunteer lawyers and legalprofessionals provide estate-planning documents for first responders and emergency personnel. Withhis wife and Temple Law classmate, Kristen KennyMcKenna ’04, he is planning to launch Law-Suits, anonprofit organization that provides mock trial team members with courtroom attire. McKenna alsovolunteers his time as coach of the mock trial team at Philadelphia's Constitution High School. CAROL ANN SHORT ’83is the new CEO of the New JerseyBuilders Association, after serving briefly as acting CEO. Short was previously the association’s chief operating officer. ELAINE C. GREENBERG ’86is stepping down as chief of theSecurities and Exchange Commission’s enforcementdivision’s municipal securities and public pensions unit and associate director of the agency’s Philadelphia regionaloffice. Greenberg leaves after 25 years with the SEC toaccept a position in the private sector.A short story written by JANIS WILSON ’86,“The Devil’s Triangle,” was published inan anthology entitled Death Knell V.Wilson is a consultant to Deadly Affairs,a program on the Investigation Discovery Channel.STEFANIE A. LINDQUIST ’88has beennamed dean of the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs. Lindquist, who began heracademic career nearly 20 years ago at the University ofGeorgia, was previously the Charles Alan Wright Chair inFederal Courts and associate dean for external affairs atthe University of Texas School of Law. She is the author orco-author of more than 50 journal articles, book chapters,essays and legal notes, as well as two books: MeasuringJudicial Activismand Judging on a Collegial Court:Influences on Appellate Court Decision Making.Harrisburg attorney NORRIS E. BENNS JR. ’89has beenelected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Benns is the director of regulatory affairs with Blue Cross of NortheasternPennsylvania. He previously was a senior attorney for thePennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s Office ofGeneral Counsel, and also as the director of theDepartment’s Bureau of Program Integrity. 1990sMICHAEL STUTMAN ’90joined thePhiladelphia office of Chamberlain,Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry inApril 2013 as senior counsel in the realestate and corporate departments. White and Williams attorney RANDYMANILOFF ’91published “I Paid for ThatRooftop Seat” in The Wall Street Journalthis past April.The article examined the legal issues surrounding apossible suit between the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field’sneighbors over views of the stadium from their rooftops. JOSEPH MCDERMOTT ’91retired from the Department of the Navy after 34 years of federal government service.McDermott writes that his “immediate plans now are to lay on the beach in Brigantine, NJ, watch the waves, and read books.” KENDALL S. ZYLSTRA ’91has joined Rust Consulting asdirector of business development, and will focus his workin the antitrust practice area. Previously, he was a partnerat Faruqi & Faruqi, where he chaired the antitrust litigationdepartment. Zylstra was appointed to the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute in 2013. The Philadelphia labor firm of Willig, Williams & Davidsonannounced that MICHAEL G. DRYDEN ’92has been certifiedas a specialist in the practice of workers’ compensation law by the Pennsylvania Bar Association workers’compensation law section. Dryden, who chairs his firm’sworkers’ compensation department, is one of only 38lawyers in Philadelphia to have earned this certification.Compliance, a legal staffing and project management firm headquartered in Arlington, VA, has named MARCZAMSKY ’92as chief operating officer. EDWARD KENNETT ’93has left the Lancaster County districtattorney’s office to practice injury law at the York, PA firmof Kathermine Briggs & Greenberg.JAMIE PAUL YADGAROFF ’93has joinedThe Odell Studner Group, a Radnor, PA-based boutique insurance and riskmanagement consulting firm, as generalcounsel. The law firm of Stites & Harbison hasnamed ELIZABETH JOHNSON ’94chair of the firm’s health care service group. Johnson is apartner based in the firm’s Lexington, KY office. PATRICIA M. MAYER ’97,who practicesbankruptcy law at Belknap & Mayer inBucks County, PA, recently spoke at thenational conference for the NationalAssociation of Consumer BankruptcyAttorneys on the topic of student loandebt and bankruptcy. Mayer, a frequentlecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, is on the courseplanning team and a presenter for the annual BankruptcyInstitute to be held at PBI in October 2013.WILLIAM MCDEVITT ’97has moved to Wilson ElserMoskowitz Edelman & Dicker’s Philadelphia office as a partner. DENISE M. BOWMAN ’98,an attorney inHill Wallack’s Yardley, PA office, recentlyreceived the Outstanding Service Awardfrom the Lower Bucks County Chamber ofCommerce for her work as counsel to theorganization during the past fiscal year.Most recently, the Chamber’s board ofdirectors elected her to the position of chair. Bowman is a member of Hill Wallack’s litigation division andbusiness and commercial practice group. JONATHAN D. PAVLOVCAK ’99,an attorneyin Hill Wallack’s Yardley, PA office, wasrecently appointed as counsel to theboard of directors for the Lower BucksCounty Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of Hill Wallack’s trial andinsurance defense, insurance coverage,complex litigation and construction industry practice groups.The Conshohocken, PA firm of Royer Cooper CohenBraunfeld announced the addition of LISA A. LORI, JD ’99,LLM IN TRIAL ADVOCACY ’05,as a partner. Lori is memberof the Solebury Township zoning hearing board as well as a board member and the regional director for thePhiladelphia region of Fashion Group International.2000sShareholder ELIZABETH GARCIA ’00hasbeen appointed chair of the labor andemployment practice group at the MountLaurel, NJ firm of Parker McCay. Garcia isassociation treasurer of the BurlingtonCounty Bar, and served as president ofthe Burlington County Bar’s Foundation.NIKI ARBITTIER TRUNK, JD/MBA ’00recently won theRepublican Party nomination to run for New Jersey StateSenate in the Third Legislative District. Prior to hernomination, Trunk was the deputy chief of staff for the NewJersey Office of the State Comptroller. Avangard Capital Group has appointed ERIC RAYZ ’01tojoin its board of directors. Rayz is a co-managing memberof Kalikhman & Rayz in Huntingdon Valley, PA, where headvises clients on transactional and litigation matters.STEPHEN J. ALEXANDER ’02has been elected a full equityshareholder of the law firm of Capehart Scatchard.Alexander practices in the litigation department of the Mt.Laurel, NJ office. He is also active in politics as a fourthterm committeeman of Upper Freehold Township, andcurrently serves as the deputy mayor. Alexander has served21 years in the Air Force including 8 years of active duty.His current rank is Lieutenant Colonel in the New JerseyAir National Guard and he holds a position as a State AirStaff Judge.JERRY KLEIN ’80, WITH HIS WIFE, ANNE, AT THE 2013 SNOOPYSENIOR WORLD ICE HOCKEY TOURNAMENT.38392 Temple Law_ESQ_Sept06/f 8/23/13 5:06 PM Page 67 • TEMPLE ESQ. FALL 2013James M. Coate Sr.Class of 1955Carl W. Slemmer Jr.Class of 1963Mark S. Refowich Class of 1965Albert J. Marcellino Class of 1990Christian MattioliClass of 2006IN MEMORIAMTEMPLE ESQ. welcomes news and photos of our alumni/ae. Pleaseinclude: Full name, class, degree, and a way to reach you if weneed to confirm information.SEND USYOURNEWS!LGBT ACTIVIST GIAMPOLO ’07EXPLAINS DOMA IMPLICATIONS FOR TRI-STATE AREAAttorney Angela D. Giampolo ’07, president of theboard of Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphiaand a vocal advocate for the lesbian and gay community in Philadelphia, was in widedemand following the Supreme Court’s July ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Interviewswith Giampolo appeared on Pennsylvania CableNetwork, PA’s CSPAN, and WHYY’s Newsworks, inwhich she expressed her views on the ruling’simplications for same-sex couples in Pennsylvania,Delaware and New Jersey. Giampolo is a contributing columnist to thePhiladelphia Gay News, Philadelphia Business Journal,Echeleon, Dot429, and Lezgetreal.com and maintainstwo blogs on her firm’s website: phillygaylawyer.comand lifeinhouse.com. She is principal of theinternational boutique firm, Giampolo Law Group,which she founded in 2008 “to provide a safe placefor the LGBT community to service their legal needsand have their business and entrepreneurialquestions answered.”MARC D. PORTLOCK ’02has joined Lowe & Associates as a senior associate.Portlock’s practice will focus on riskmanagement and corporate compliance.PETER CATALANOTTI ’03was recentlymade partner at the San Francisco firm ofManning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester,where he practices professional indemnity insurancedefense. This past summer, he received his real estatebroker's license as well. MAJOR JACYLN GRIESER ’04,of the US Army JAG Corps,was awarded the 2013 Burton Award for Public Service inrecognition of her work on behalf of victims of sexual assault. Grieser is an initial special victim's prosecutor inthe Army JAG Corps. As the first-ever active military servicemember to receive a Burton Award, she was the onlywinner (besides Justice Sonia Sotomayor) asked to speakat the presentation. GAETANO P. PICCIRILLI ’04,an associate in the real estate group at Dilworth Paxson, was elected chair of the Pennsylvania State Real Estate Commission. Thecommission is the regulatory body responsible forregulation, licensure and discipline of 50,000 real estateprofessionals in the Commonwealth.AMY T. BROOKS ’05has been elected to athree-year term on the Haverford Collegeboard of managers. Brooks practiceseducation law at the Blue Bell, PA firm ofWisler Pearlstine. A class of 1992graduate of Haverford College and anathlete who excelled in volleyball,basketball and lacrosse, Brooks was inducted intoHaverford’s Athletic Hall of Achievement in 2010.KEITH J. COYLE ’05,former attorney in the U.S. Departmentof Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials SafetyAdministration, joined the Pittsburgh law firm of BabstCalland in their energy and natural resources group, wherehe focuses on matters affecting the oil and natural gaspipeline industries. (Note from editor: The name of Coyle’slaw firm was incorrectly identified in the June 2013 issue of Temple Esq.)MARSHAL H. DAVIS JD/MBA ’05, LLM ’09was appointed to coach Team USAFencing at the World Maccabiah Gamesin Israel this past July. Marshal is the CEOof Davis Law and practices inPennsylvania and New Jersey. He and hiswife also own Liberty Fencing Club inBucks County and coach the men’s and women’s fencingteams at Swarthmore College. They just welcomed adaughter, Maya, into the world this past February. USClaims has hired Philadelphia personal injury trialattorney DONNA LEE JONES, LLM IN TRIAL ADVOCACY ’05,as a litigation funding senior underwriter. Prior to joiningUSClaims, Jones was a partner at Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett& Bendesky.AMY MCCULLOUGH ’05has joined theAtlanta, GA firm of Kilpatrick Townsend &Stockton as an associate focusing herpractice on federal and state healthcarestatutory and regulatory issues.The insurance law firm of Nelson Levinehas named CHRISTOPHER J. DIIENNO ’07apartner. The former president of a website developmentand marketing company, DiIenno joined Nelson Levine in2009 and has focused his practice on privacy and datasecurity issues.Community Legal Services attorney RASHEEDAH PHILLIPS’08was honored by City Council as a Rising Star of the 2013Next Generation of Women Leaders. In presenting theaward, Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown describedPhillips as “an outstanding model of a professional womanwho has the courage to lead and the drive to make thingshappen with excellence as your standard.” Phillips iscurrently a staff attorney in CLS’ housing law unit. SHAWN SHIQING LI ’08has joined Dilworth Paxson as apartner in the firm’s intellectual property practice. He waspreviously an associate at Blank Rome. A native ofShanghai, China who speaks fluent Mandarin, Li earned a doctoral degree from New York University School ofMedicine in 2003 and spent three years as a researchscientist at the University of Pennsylvania before attendinglaw school. PETER J. WENKER ’08has joined Brooks Law Firm as anassociate attorney. The firm is based in Rock Island, IL and Davenport, IA. Prior to joining Brooks, Wenker was anassociate with Freehill, Hogan & Mahar in New York Cityspecializing in maritime law.At the 2013 New York City Police Academy graduation,ANDY CHIU ’10 was named class salutatorian when hegraduated second in his class of 781 new police officers.He also earned the Police Commissioner’s Award. Chiu is a former investigator for the New York City Department ofCorrections.EMILY BUSCH JONES ’11has joined White and Williams asan associate in the business department. She will work inthe firm’s Philadelphia office.DANIELLE SPANG ’12is a new associate at theMassachusetts firm of Culik Law, where she practicesconsumer law. Prior to joining Culik, Spang was a solepractitioner advocating for consumers in Massachusettsand Maine. She was recently awarded the Meg ConnollyMVP Award by Senior Partners for Justice.KEITH GREENWALD ’13and LAUREN VOGEL '13have beenoffered internships at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at the Hague. Greenwald willserve in the office of the prosecutor while Vogel will servein the victims and witnesses section. Vogel succeedsRACHAEL STEENHOLD '12,who is currently finishing aninternship in that section. Greenwald and Vogel wereguided in their application process by LIZ TURCHI, LL.M. IN TRANSNATIONAL LAW '11,the former assistant directorof Temple Law's Office of Graduate and InternationalPrograms, who currently works in the victims and witnesses section.Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney JAMES E.PRICE II ’13was awarded the James J. Manderino Awardfor Trial Advocacy by the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers’Association at their annual June meeting. The award wasgiven in recognition of Price’s law school achievements asa two-year member of the trial team: he was 2013champion in the NTC regional competition; 2012 semi-finalist in the William Daniels Atlantic Trial LawyersCompetition; and he won the Barrister Award in 2011.JAMES GOSLEE ’06 AWARDEDO’BRIEN TRIAL AD SCHOLARSHIPJames Goslee ’06, an associate at Cohen, Placitella &Roth, is the first recipient of the William J. O’BrienScholarship in Trial Advocacy. The scholarship wasestablished following the death of trial attorney andtrial advocacy instructor William O’Brien in 2012.O’Brien was an original instructor in Temple’s LL.M. inTrial Advocacy program, and many graduates trainedwith him. The scholarship, endowed by contributionsfrom O’Brien’s firm, Conrad O’Brien, and by hisstudents, friends and professional colleagues, willfund Goslee’s attendance in the LL.M. in TrialAdvocacy degree program. DEAN JOANNE A. EPPS WITH JAMES AND REBECCA GOSLEEEmail: janet.goldwater@temple.eduSend to:Janet GoldwaterTemple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 1912238392 Temple Law_ESQ_Sept06/f 8/23/13 5:06 PM Page 7TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWLAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWSFALL 2013VISIT 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 19122JULY 2013During the past decade, professional sportsleagues have wrestled with increasing awareness of, andlitigation about, the long term health consequences ofsports-related concussions. These national conversationshave led, in part, to similar concerns in youth sportsactivities, as parents, coaches, and schools search forways to address the same health concerns for youngathletes. Their concern has prompted a growing body ofstatewide youth sports laws aimed at reduction of youthsports concussions—which are generally referred to aspart of a category of Traumatic Brain Injuries, or TBIs. When Assistant Professor of Law Hosea H. Harveytook a close look at the youth sports TBI laws that werepassed in 44 states and Washington, DC between 2009 and 2012, this is what he discovered: existingyouth sports TBI laws were not designed to reduce initialTBIs, instead focusing almost exclusively on secondaryrisk-reduction. In his comprehensive examination of existing statelaws and the legislative history behind such laws, Harvey concludes that not one of the laws focuses onprimary prevention. Instead, such laws focus onincreasing coaches’ and parents’ ability to identify andrespond to initial TBIs, and reducing the immediate riskof multiple TBIs.Harvey’s article, “Reducing Traumatic Brain Injuries inYouth Sports: Youth Sports Traumatic Brain Injury StateLaws, January 2009-December 2012,” was published inthe July 2013 issue of The American Journal of PublicHealth,a leading peer-reviewed public health journalwidely read by scientists, medical practitioners, andpublic-health policy makers. Thursday, October 17, 2013RIBBON-CUTTING:STEPHEN AND SANDRA SHELLERCENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Student Center Room 101 North1755 N. 13th Street 5:30–7:00 pm Saturday, October 19, 2013POLITICAL & CIVIL RIGHTS LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM — LGBT YOUTH: RECONCILING PRIDE, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITYKlein Hall9:00 am–4:00 pm Saturday, October 19, 2013CLASS OF 1983 30TH REUNION Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel220 S. 17th Street 7:00 pm calendarof eventsSTATE ATT’Y GENERALADDRESSES CLASS OF 2013Kathleen Granahan Kane ‘93, the firstwoman—and the first Democrat—elected to serve as Attorney General for the Commonwealth ofPennsylvania, was the featuredspeaker at the Class of 2013’sgraduation ceremony. “This article alsodescribes an open-source data set of the constituentcomponents ofcurrent laws, which is part of a largerresearch agendadeveloped by ourown Professor ScottBurris and supportedby a leadingfoundation thatpartners with the lawschool,” says Harvey.“It’s my goal thatthe article and thedata analysis will beused to facilitatefurther researchand help refine existinglegislation. There is still a lot of work to be done to helpreduce the health risks and consequences of TBIs in youth sports.” Harvey has taught at the law school since 2010 and his research focuses on bridging the gap between socialscience and traditional law scholarship. In recognition ofhis cutting-edge scholarship, he was recently named to the“50 Under 50” list by the publication, Lawyers of Color. In addition to teaching at the law school, Harvey, whoearned both his J.D. and a Ph.D. in Political Science fromStanford University, is an assistant professor in the politicalscience department. HOSEA H. HARVEYState-Level youth concussionlaws lack scientific focus,says Hosea HarveyTEMPLE ESQ.Published by the Temple University Beasley School of Law for alumni and friends.JOANNE A. EPPS, DEANPublications Director: JanetGoldwater; Art Director: GeneGilroy; Photography: JosephLabolito, Kelly & Massa, RyanBrandenburg, John Myers. 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