REALWORLD.REALLAW.TEMPLEUNIVERSITYBEASLEYSCHOOLOFLAWTempleLAW SCHOOLANDALUMNINEWS • SPRING 2004continued on page twoChinese officials learnunfamiliar U.S. legal conceptssuch as plea bargainingBy James M. O’Neill, Inquirer Staff WriterThis article was reprinted with permissionof the Philadelphia Inquirer.JANUARY22, 2003 The Chinese have a longmemory when it comes to academic favors—a fact that helped score Temple University aneducational coup.Temple is the only American universitycurrently providing intensive academic trainingin U.S. law for Chinese judges, prosecutors and government officials as China pushes tomodernize its Soviet-era economic and legalsystem.An unusual scene played out in Room 5A inTemple’s law school last week. Several federalprosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office inPhiladelphia and a retired FBI agent talked shopwith 25 Chinese prosecutors about tacklingofficial corruption and organized crime.The group discussed how to cultivateinformants, how to work undercover and how the American system gets witnesses to talk whileprotecting them from violence. (Witnesses arenot expected to appear in Chinese courts.)The Chinese participants heard about thelegendary Abscam influence-peddling case of the1980s and how Philadelphia’s organized crimenetwork was effectively destroyed.“The rule of law has come to China. It isabsolutely clear they are interested in dramaticchanges in their legal system,” said EdwardOhlbaum, a Temple law professor whoestablished a course on American criminal trialadvocacy for the Chinese. “And the country hasrecognized that too much official corruption andbribery have gotten in the way of progress.“Individual rights are no longer a punchlinewhen it comes to China,” Ohlbaum said.The seeds of last week’s unusual gatheringwere planted in the 1970s, when Templeprofessors were among the first to visit Chinaand participate in leader Deng Xiaoping’s effortsto reverse the effects of China’s repressiveCultural Revolution.Temple also became the first Americanuniversity to host Chinese scholars under a 1970spolicy permitting Chinese students to attendAmerican schools. When Deng visited the UnitedStates in 1979, as the two nations formalizedrelations, he chose to accept an honorary degreefrom only one American university—Temple.So as today’s Chinese leaders looked forexpertise to understand America’s legal system,they turned again to Temple. It didn’t hurt thatTemple had been running a program in Tokyo toeducate the Japanese about America’s legalsystem. The interaction with the Chinese, whichbegan in 1998 at China’s request, has been aboon to Temple professors, and indirectly, totheir students.16th consecutive titleTemple’s National Trial Team successfullydefended its regional championship title at theNational Trial Competition in the February 14-15tournament held at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia. The win was Temple’s 16thconsecutive regional championship—anunparalleled national achievement.Temple sends two teams to the competition. In a double-bracketed competition, both teamsemerged victorious and will advance to the nationalcompetition. Temple teams have “swept” theregional competition for eight of the last ten years.In sharing top honors, the winning Templeteams defeated participating teams from the lawschools of Dickinson, Duquesne, Penn, Rutgers-Newark, Villanova, Widener-Delaware, andWidener-Harrisburg. The championship team was coached by (at left) Director of Trial Advocacy Program Cary Bricker, Professor EdwardOhlbaum and (far right) Elizabeth Lippy ’03, RubinGlickman & Steinberg. Team members are (from left) Royce Smith, Angie Halim, Jeneve Mihal and Dan McKenna.Halim and Mihal were both awarded the John J. ScottMemorial Plaque as “Best Advocates in the Final Round.” Chinese prosecutors visiting the law schooltake in a Temple Owls game. The group of 25prosecutors participated in a customized legaltraining program.University NamesLaura Little Great ProfessorTemple Law Professor Laura E.Little was named a 2004 GreatTeacher of Temple University. Each year three faculty membersuniversity-wide are selected toreceive Temple’s top teaching award.When Professor Little wasnominated for the award, her currentand former students and colleagues responded to a requestfor support with a deluge of accolades. Letters attested toher lively presentation and mastery of her subject, as wellas her deep concern for her students. In receiving thehighly selective award, Little joins Temple Law ProfessorsDon Price and Nancy Knauer, who earlier received theaward.Little joined the Temple Law faculty in 1990, afterclerking for Supreme Court Chief Justice WilliamRehnquist and practicing law in Philadelphia. She teachesclasses in federal court jurisdiction, conflict of laws,remedies and civil procedure. Recently she has focused oninternational issues, and is currently teaching in Temple’sTokyo program.While the Great Teacher Award rewards classroomskills, Little has also distinguished herself as a scholar. The law school awarded her theFriel/Scanlan Award forlegal scholarship, and in 2002 she was named to a JamesE. Beasley Professorship of Law. Little is also widelypublished; she recently co-authored a Minnesota LawReviewarticle with her husband, Rich Barrett ’85, on warcrimes tribunals. Her most recent article, “Hairsplitting and Complexity in Conflict of Laws: The Paradox ofFormalism” will appear in the winter 2004 issue of theUniversity of California at Davis Law Review.Little received a B.A. from the University ofPennsylvania in 1979 and a J.D. from Temple Universityin 1985.David Sonenshein Wins Lindback AwardProfessor David A. Sonenshein, who teachespopular courses in trial advocacy, civil andcriminal procedure, and evidence, joined thelaw school faculty in 1983 after practicing andteaching for twelve years. He earned a B.A.from Cornell University in1969, and a J.D. from NewYork University in 1972.Sonenshein, who will beawarded the Lindback Awardat a ceremony in April, hasalso received the WilliamsAward for Excellence inTeaching an unprecedentedfour times, most recently in2003. He is also the recipientof the 2001 Francis RawleAward from the American Law Institute and AmericanBar Association for Outstanding Contributions toPost-Admission Legal Education. In addition to his role at the law school,Sonenshein is regularly invited to teach seminars onthe Federal Rules of Evidence for U.S. district judgesnationwide and for the U.S. Department of Justice.Sonenshein is a member of the American LawInstitute and is active in the National Institute of TrialAdvocacy (NITA). He is the author of numerous lawreview articles published in, among others,Northwestern Law Review, New York University LawReview,and Temple Law Review.He is co-author ofthe Evidence Casebook, Principles of Evidence(withYounger and Goldsmith) and more than a dozen bookson the Federal Rules of Evidence and various statesrules of evidence. He is also the author of aninnovative set of materials for the teaching of evidencewhich involves trial vignettes which simulatecourtroom practice.Janet Goldwater, Publications DirectorGene Gilroy, Art DirectorPhotography on location at Temple Law School by Kelly & MassaSend letters and comments to: Janet Goldwater, Temple Esq. Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law1719 N. Broad Street, Room 313Philadelphia, PA 19122 Fax: (215) 204-1185Change of address: (215) 204-11872 • TEMPLEESQ. SPRING 2004TEMPLEESQ.Published by the Temple University Beasley School of Law for alumni and friends.Robert J. Reinstein, DeanProfessor Jan Ting recently receivedthe 2003 Asian American Law Professorof the Year Award. Professor Ting is thefirst recipient of the award, presented bythe National Asian Pacific AmericanLaw Students Association in recognitionof his outstanding contributions to theAsian and Pacific American community. When he joined Temple Law in 1977,Ting became one of the first AsianAmerican law professors to be appointedin the U.S. During the course of hiscareer, he has made significantcontributions to the Asian Americancommunity as a founding member of theAsian American Bar Association of theDelaware Valley and as the foundingsponsor of the Asian Pacific American Law StudentAssociation at Temple Law. The son of Chineseimmigrants, he was integral in the establishment ofTemple University’s Beijing Masters of Law program,and has taught in that city on many occasions. The LegalIntelligencernamed Ting one of “Pennsylvania’s 50most influential minority attorneys in 2002” for his workthroughout the Philadelphia area and the state. Known as an international authority on immigrationlaw, Ting was one of the highest-ranking AsianAmericans ever to be appointed to the Department ofJustice when he served as assistantcommissioner for refugees, asylumand parole at the U.S. Immigrationand Naturalization Service (INS) from1990-1993. Ting also was chairmanand commissioner of the DelawareState Personnel Commission, and amember of the Civil Rights ReviewingAuthority of the U.S. Department ofEducation.This month, Ting was invited toparticipate on two panels of nationalsignificance. At the Sixth PublicHearing of the National Commissionon Terrorist Attacks Upon the UnitedStates—the 9/11 Commission—hediscussed preventive detention as ameans of combating terrorism. Ting also joined U.S.Court of Appeals Judge Anthony J. Scirica and New YorkTimescolumnist Anthony Lewis in a discussion of thelandmark case Gideon v. Wainwrightat a panel hostedby the National Constitution Center.A nationally respected media source on immigrationpolicy, Ting is a frequent commentator for such outletsas the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, WashingtonPost, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, National PublicRadio,CNN, The Today Show, Dateline, The News Hourwith Jim Lehrer,and more.APOLOGIESThe gift of Mark Swartz ’83was mistakenlyomitted from the Friends (gifts from $2,500 to $4,999)category of the 2003 development report. TRAINING AT TEMPLEcontinued from page one“This is fabulous for our faculty,” said Dean RobertReinstein. “We’re learning about the relationship ofpolitics and culture to the development of a legal system.”Given the growing globalization of the economy, theinteraction will be fruitful for Temple law students too, asprofessors get better acquainted with the laws of a majortrading partner. Reinstein said more Philadelphia busi-nesses will be trading internationally and they will needlawyers who have a familiarity with international andforeign legal systems. He said Temple hoped to set up aprogram for its own law students to study in China.Among those who have already gone through theprogram are Chinese judges, including several fromChina’s supreme court, as well as prosecutors and thechief draftsman of legislation for the People’s Congress.Several Chinese minority lawyers have also been enrolled,including six lawyers from Tibet.Because China wants to open its economy and abide by World Trade Organization guidelines, it realizedit needed a different rule of law. Under communist statecontrol, there had been no need for contracts, propertyrights or bankruptcy laws, because the state ownedeverything.But now, Reinstein said, “they realize that if theywant to lure investors, both domestic and international,those investors will want to know the rules and havesome guarantees about their investments. So they needa legal system.” He said that the Chinese legal systemoverhaul was a work in progress, and that by educatingthe leaders who will write the new rules, Templeprofessors had a chance to affect that change directly.The U.S. State Department and many corporationswith an interest in doing business in China see the valuein the Temple program. So far, the State Department has put up $7 million to cover costs. The STARFoundation, affiliated with the insurance company AIG,has donated $4 million. Other donors have includedGeneral Motors, DuPont, Cigna, United Airlines,Microsoft and the Caterpillar Corp.The interaction between Temple and China hasdeveloped in three ways. The centerpiece has been theMaster of Law degree program, which has about 40Chinese students studying constitutional, criminal andproperty-law issues. Temple faculty visit Beijing toteach the courses under an agreement with TsinghuaUniversity’s law school, and students also attenda summer session on the Temple campus inPhiladelphia.To help China improve fair enforcement oflaws and protect the rights of defendants,Temple has also established programs toprovide intensive education to judges andprosecutors. The 25 prosecutors on campus thismonth participated. Temple also has run a seriesof roundtables and conferences in Beijing andPhiladelphia for Chinese officials who arerevising China’s legal code.Wei Wei, one of the 25 Chinese prosecutorsfrom Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong,who have been on the Temple campus for thelast month, said the group had been particularlyintrigued by such fundamental American legalconcepts as plea bargains and jury trials. “Wedon’t have those at home,” she said.The plea bargain was such a “hot topic,” shesaid, because Chinese prosecutors have “a hugetask of trying to handle all the cases.”Teaching in the fall 2003 program toeducate Chinese prosecutors wereProfessors Edward Ohlbaum, DavidSonenshein, Louis Natali, Laura Little,James Shellenberger, Marcia Mulkey,Charles Rogovin, Dean Robert J.Reinstein, Associate Dean JoAnne Epps,and Assistant Dean Adelaide Ferguson.SUBURBAN SPRAWLTOPIC OF SYMPOSIUMSaving Spaces: SmartGrowth and Beyond,a symposium exploringvarious perspectives inmanaging the environ-mental effects ofsuburban sprawl, wasattended by over 120interested attorneys,scholars andenvironmentalists.Featured speakerswere Kathleen McGinty,Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of EnvironmentalProtection, and Bradley Campbell, Commissioner of theNew Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Theday-long symposium also included several panel discussionsexploring the environmental, social, and economicramifications of suburban sprawl. Held at the law school on Thursday, February 26, the 7-CLE credit symposium was cosponsored by TempleUniversity Environmental Law and Technology Journal,Temple Environmental Law Society, and the American BarAssociation section on environment, energy, and resources’special committee on smart growth and urban policy.Speaker: Professor Jane Baron“LESSONS FROM TWOLAMPLIGHTERS: HASTIE AND HIGGINBOTHAM”The annual Honorable Clifford Scott Green Lecture,entitled “Lessons from two lamplighters: Hastie andHigginbotham,” was presented by the HonorableNathaniel R. Jones on February 24, 2004 in the DuaneMorris LLP Moot Courtroom. An internationally renowned civil rights activist,Judge Jones played an important role in furthering theabolition of apartheid in South Africa. The drafters ofSouth Africa’s new constitution and laws consulted him,and he conferred with Nelson Mandela upon Mandela’srelease after 27 years of imprisonment. The HonorableNathaniel R. Joneswas born inYoungstown, Ohio andattended the publicschools there. Afterservice in the UnitedStates Army Air Corpsin World War II, hewas educated atYoungstown StateUniversity, receivinghis A.B. in 1951 andhis L.L.B. in 1956. Hewas admitted to theOhio Bar in 1957. From 1956 to 1959,Judge Jones wasExecutive Director ofthe Fair EmploymentPractices Commissionof Youngstown, Ohio.He then began privatepractice, and a yearlater was appointed asan Assistant U.S.Attorney for theNorthern District ofOhio in Cleveland. In 1967, he served as AssistantGeneral Counsel to President Johnson’s NationalAdvisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known asthe Kerner Commission. From 1969 to 1979, JudgeJones was invited to assume the responsibility of GeneralCounsel of the NAACP. On May 17, 1979, President Carter appointedNathaniel Jones to the U.S. Court of Appeals for theSixth Circuit. Judge Jones took his oath of office onOctober 15,1979.Following his retirement from the Sixth Circuit inMarch 2002, Judge Jones assumed a position as SeniorCounsel with Blank Rome LLP. He also participates in avariety of activities and serves as co-chairman of theNational Underground Railroad Freedom Center,member of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing, NorthAmerica, Inc. Diversity Advisory Board, member of theKnowledgeWorks Foundation Board of Trustees, andchair of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. He hastaught at several law schools throughout the U.S. and isthe recipient of 16 honorary degrees.THE HONORABLECLIFFORD SCOTT GREEN LECTUREIn 2003, The TempleUniversity Beasley Schoolof Law established theHonorable Clifford ScottGreen Lectureship torecognize this distin-guished member of itsClass of 1951. Thelectureship honors JudgeGreen and acknowledgesthe influence he has hadon the legal communityand the lawyers that havebeen inspired and assistedby him. Drew S. Days III,Professor of Law at YaleUniversity, was theinaugural lectureshipspeaker in February, 2003. The reception followingthe lecture was co-sponsored by the BlackLaw Students Association.During fall 2003, ProfessorAlice G. Abreuspoke at theSouthern Federal Tax Institute in Atlanta, at the University ofTexas Tax Conference in Austinand at a CBiz Conference inTucson, and participated in thePhiladelphia Tax Conference.Abreu continues to serve assupervising editor of the ABA tax section’s NewsQuarterly,inwhich she recently introduced a new humor feature entitled “Tax Bites.”The American Bar AssociationCommission on the Status ofWomen has selected ProfessorMarina Angelto receive theprestigious Margaret Brent Awardat the August, 2004 annual meetingin Atlanta Georgia. (See June, 2004issue of ESQ.for details.)James E. Beasley Professor of LawScott Burriswashonored in September 2003 byPrevention Point Philadelphia, the local needle exchange, for hiscontributions to the harmreduction movement. Burris wasalso a co-convener of a meetingat the Center for InterdisciplinaryResearch on AIDS at Yaledevoted to improvement ofresearch on the health impact oflaw enforcement practices. Arelated paper on the effect ofpolicing on the health of drugTEMPLEESQ. SPRING 2004 • 3users was accepted by the Milbank Quarterly.Professor Richard B. Cappallihas submittedtestimony to the advisory committee of the FederalAppellate Rules. That committee is considering a ruleamendment which would permit citation by lawyers ofthe thousands of federal appellate opinions which havebeen labeled “not for publication” or “not for citation.”Cappalli’s testimony is based on his study, “TheCommon Law’s Case Against Non-PrecedentialOpinions,” published last year in the SouthernCalifornia Law Review.Associate Professor Susan L. DeJarnatt’s articleabout language and the school reform process, “The Philadelphia Story: Rhetoric and School Reform”will appear this spring in the UM-KC Law Review.Inaddition, DeJarnatt served on the faculty for the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania bankruptcy conference’s annualeducation forum in January.Charles Klein Professor of Law and GovernmentJeffrey L. Dunoff,Director of LL.M. in TransnationalLaw and Codirector of the Institute of International Lawand Public Policy, was recently elected to the AmericanLaw Institute, and is a member of the Institute’smembers’consultative group on the principles of tradelaw. Dunoff recently published “The Post-Doha TradeAgenda: Questions about Constituents, Competence andCoherence” in The WTO and the Doha Round: TheChanging Face of World Trade(Buckley, ed.) and “Is theWorld Trade Organization Fair to Developing States?” in the American Society for International LegalProceedings. In November, he presented a talk atPrinceton University entitled “New Trends inInternational Lawmaking: Conflicting Norms and theRule of (International) Law.” Professor JoAnne A. Epps,Associate Dean forAcademic Affairs, was recently named “OutstandingFaculty Athletics Representative of the Year” by the AllAmerican Football Foundation. She was also selected tofinish an unexpired term and was nominated for electionto a full three-year term as one of four ABA section oflitigation delegates to the ABA house of delegates. Associate Professor Theresa Glennonspoke onstrategies for achieving approval of second-parentadoptions by same-sex couples at a conference atAmerican University’s Washington College of Law. Her article, “Walking with Them: Advocating for Parentswith Mental Illnesses in the Child Welfare System,” was published by the Temple Political and Civil RightsLaw Review.Professor Richard K. Greensteinwas one of 17invited participants in a colloquium, “Friedrich Hayek’sLaw, Legislation and Liberty,” sponsored by the Liberty Fund.With other members of the Race and Gender BiasCommittee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,Professor Phoebe A. Haddonwas honored by the ACLUof Pennsylvania at its annual dinner. In October, Haddonparticipated in a Sino-American Forum of Chinese TortLaw at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Haddon alsoplanned and participated in the Temple Political & CivilRights Law ReviewBeck Symposium in November,where she presented “How the Supreme Court’s RecentAffirmative Action Cases Can Help Shape Our ThinkingAbout Jury Selection and Participation.”Assistant Professor Donald P. Harrislectured inFebruary at Loyola of Los Angeles Law School. Thelecture, “TRIPS’Boomerang: How the Agreement onTrade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights(“TRIPS”) Can Ricochet Back Against the United States:A Historical Perspective,” focused on the harm to bothdeveloping countries and the U.S. due to the latest effortto globally harmonize intellectual property rightsworldwide through TRIPS, the international intellectualproperty treaty. James E. Beasley Professor of Law David Kairysgave an address on “Security and Civil Liberties after9/11” and a faculty colloquium on his recent article“Searching for the Rule of Law” at the University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara. He also spoke at the WhiteDog Café on the Patriot Act, and launched his new Law and Current Affairs Masters Serieswith OxfordUniversity Press. Associate Professor Kathy C. Mandelbaum,Director of the Graduate Tax Program, spoke inNovember at PBI’s Estate Law Institute on charitableremainder trusts. She was the course planner for aJanuary PBI program “Drafting the Marital DeductionClause.” Mandelbaum recently began work as co-authorof a Bureau of National Affairs Tax ManagementPortfolio on IRC Section 7520, which concerns thevaluation of split interest transfers.Associate Professor Salil K. Mehra’s article on resaleprice maintenance, price discrimination, and the Japanesecomics industry, entitled “Copyright, Control andComics: Japanese Battles Over Downstream Limits onContent,” was presented this fall at seminars at Harvard,the University of Chicago, and Dickinson, and willappear in Rutgers Law Review.Another work thataddresses access for Japanese antitrust plaintiffs to U.S.courts will also appear this winter in the Japanese journalKokusai shouji houmu(International business law). Inaddition, Mehra discussed lessons from the Japaneseexperience for rational copyright policy in the U.S.before the U.S. Copyright Society’s Philadelphia chapterin December. TEMPLE LAW FACULTY ACTIVITIES CONTINUE TO EXPAND IN ASIA•In October, Dean Robert J. Reinstein,Associate Dean JoAnne Epps,Assistant Dean Adelaide Ferguson,and Professor Edward Ohlbaumtraveled to Japan and China. In Tokyo,the group made a presentation to anaudience who will comprise the facultyat many of Japan’s new American-modeled law schools. •In China, Epps and Ohlbaum madepresentations on “Recent Trends inAmerican Criminal Procedure,” andtogether coordinated the three-weektraining program for Chineseprosecutors that took place betweenThanksgiving and Christmas.In Tokyo the group demonstrated lawteaching techniques to law professors.While in China, they met with groups of prosecutors to help prepare for the special prosecutors’training program conducted at Temple for three weeks in December 2003 (see article on page one). •Professors Scott Burrisand John Smagulatraveledto China in November as part of an effort to organize a roundtable on health law to be held summer 2004.•Frank M. McClellanparticipated in the Sino-U.S.Conference on Chinese Tort Law in Beijing, China,where he made a presentation on the U.S. approach toclaims for emotional distress. Also participating in theOctober, 2003 conference were Professors PhoebeHaddon, Mark Rahdertand William Woodward.continued on page fourFACULTY NEWSI. Herman Stern Professor of Law Frank M.McClellanpresented a lecture, “Practicing Medicine in aSociety With High Expectations: Strategies to Managethe Risks of Lawsuits” to the Student National MedicalAssociation, and published an article, “Tort Reform forMedical Malpractice Cases: Stories v. Statistics,” in Lawand Bioethics Report,published by the University ofLouisville School of Medicine. In December 2003,McClellan served on a Pennsylvania Bar Institute panelthat presented discussions on gender and racial bias inthe justice system in Pennsylvania, focusing on the recentreport of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the court system. Stephen L. Mikochikreceived an M.A. inphilosophy from Temple in January.Visiting Professor Marcia Mulkeyparticipated in the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s week-longpanel of experts on pesticide management in Rome in late October, and delivered a presentation onenvironmental crimes for Temple’s Chinese Prosecutors’Training Program in December. She also spoke onlawyering for international environmental organizationsat the Delaware Valley Environmental American Inn ofCourt in October. During the fall 2003 semester, Jack E. FeinbergProfessor of Litigation Louis M. Natali Jr.participatedin running a program for the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on the use of focus groupsto assist in identifying strong and weak defenseapproaches for a jury trial. Over 100 lawyers fromaround the state participated. Professor Edward D. Ohlbaum,Director of TrialAdvocacy and Clinical Legal Education, taught“Evidence for New Judges” and “Evidence—Beyond theBasics” to Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas Judgesas part of the Supreme Court’s judicial educationprogram. He also offered CLE programs in evidence andadvocacy for PBI and ICLE. Professor Rafael A. Porrata-Doria Jr.was honoredby the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania and theHispanic Bar Association Legal Education Fund forbeing one of its founders and first president. •Visiting Professor Marcia Mulkeydevoted her firstsemester at Temple primarily to work relating toTemple’s China programs, including attendance attwo major environmental law conferences in China inNovember and a series of meetings and presentationsin Shanghai and Beijing relating to China andenvironmental law. November, 2003: Professors Scott Burris and John Smagula (fifth and sixth from left) meet with officials from the Chineseprovincial government of Sichuan Province to discuss issuesrelated to public health law and appropriate legal responses toinfectious diseases. Participants in the meeting pose under abanner for the Sino-American Public Health Law Forum.Law professor to the rescueSmith Playground, oneof Philadelphia’s best-keptsecrets, closed its gates lastyear when the private trustthat funds the facility facessoaring insurance rates andthe need to upgrade oldequipment. Stepping in tosave this urban gem is an 11-member board, headed byTemple Law Professor James Strazella.Tucked into Fairmount Park, behind the ultimatefrisbee course at 33rd and Oxford Streets, the Richardand Sarah Smith Memorial Playground and Playhousewere erected 104 years ago after the Smith’s only child,Stanfield, died at the age of 40.Today the playground is temporarily closed and is inthe final stages of an extensive architectural replanningprocess designed to restore and improve both theplayground and the playhouse. Board president Strazellais confident the new board and Smith’s executivedirector, Hope Zoss, will be able to raise the neededfunds. In addition to interested foundation andcorporations, they expect support from individual donorsamong the generations of Smith’s fans. Strazella has been a member of the Temple Lawfaculty since 1973, where he teaches courses in criminallaw, criminal procedure, and appellate courts. 4 • TEMPLEESQ. SPRING 2004PROFESSOR WILLIAMWOODWARD TEACHES INCHINA PROGRAMFACULTY NEWS continued from page threeProfessor David G. Post’s book, Cyberlaw: Problemsof Jurisprudence and Policy in an Information Age(co-authored with Paul Berman and Patricia Bellia) waspublished by West Publishing in fall 2003. In November,Post was the co-host (with Professors Polk Wagner ofPenn Law School and Dan Hunter of Wharton School ofBusiness) of the second annual Penn-Temple-WhartonColloquium, a small, invitational scholarly colloquiumfocused on internet law and intellectual property issues. Professor Mark C. Rahdertpresented a paper,“Governmental Tort Liability and Immunity: Lessonsfrom the American Experience” at the Temple-TsinghuaUniversity Symposium on Sino-American Tort Law. He also presented “Obstacles on the Road from Brown:Milliken v. Bradleyand the Quest for Racial Diversity in Education” and moderated two panels at the TemplePolitical & Civil Rights Law ReviewBeck Symposium inNovember. Rahdert is co-author of Vandall, Wertheimer& Rahdert, Torts: Cases and Problems(2d ed.),published in January 2004. Assistant Professor Amy Sinden’s article, “TheEconomics of Endangered Species: Why Less is More in the Economic Analysis of Critical HabitatDesignations,” will appear in Harvard EnvironmentalLaw Review.A second article, “Cass Sunstein’s Cost-Benefit Lite: Economics for Liberals” was accepted forpublication in Columbia Journal of Environmental Lawfor spring 2004.Associate Professor Kathryn M. Stanchiparticipatedin a panel discussion, “Occupational Segregation by Sex in the Legal Academy,” presented by the AALS sectionon women in legal education at the AALS annualmeeting in January 2004. Stanchi’s presentation, entitled“Dismantling Hierarchies in Legal Education,” in whichshe applied feminist legal methodology to the problemposed by the clustering of women in low-status legalwriting positions in the legal academy, will be publishedby the University of Missouri Kansas City Law Review.Professor William J. Woodward Jr. taught torts and secured credit to agroup of Chinese lawyers in the fall. In October, he spoke at the Temple-Tsinghua torts conference on “Economic Torts: The CurrentControversy over the Tort ofInterference with Contract,” and lectured a group of law students and faculty at Shanghai’sEast China University of Politics and Law on “The Problems inAmerican Private Legislation: Taking UCITA as an Example.” Below, Professor Woodward remembersthe semester in China:Teaching in China included a daily half-hour tripeach way via bicycle between Tsinghua and theFriendship Hotel, a large, Russian-style hotel andapartment complex in the University quarter of thecity. The cost of a new bicycle is about $30, and Igladly joined the commuting cyclists. Beijing hassome 7 million bicyclists who ride in swarms ofperhaps 50 on bicycle paths on all the major roads. It is a faster way to move at rush hour but can beunnerving at first. As a Westerner, one seldom gets asense of being noticed within the swarm or in mostcrowds. Bicycling elbow to elbow in a pack ofChinese men and women, making virtually no eye contact and giving no signals of anticipatedmovement, yet almost never making physical contactwith anyone, requires a very high level of alertnessthat empties one’s mind and turns out to be bothinvigorating and relaxing. Each of my two classes contained at least a half-dozen judges at different levels in the Chinesesystem, at least that many prosecutors, a handful ofcorporate lawyers, some private law firm lawyers—usually clerks—and a few students continuing theirstudies directly after University. I tried to run theclasses in my own “American style,” which meant, inTorts, having the students brief cases, recite issues,and participate in a discussion. In both classes,sustaining a discussion was a pedagogical challengewith students who have seldom had the opportunityto speak in class. I found that my treatment of my subjects was farbroader than in the U.S. because the students were sohungry for context for the law. So, in Secured Credit,we might have adiscussion ofpredatory lending thatwould be missing inthe U.S. treatment; in Torts, there werescores of occasions todiscuss the historicalcontext for many ofthe older U.S. cases.In both, there was aneed to discuss theAmericanConstitutional systemin far greater detailthan in our classes inPhiladelphia. Thestudents are alsostarved for legalEnglish and I foundmyself teaching American legal-slang and English inthe context of the instruction. Being in Beijing without family allowed me toschedule several dinners a week with groups of eightor ten students from the two classes. We’d traveltogether on bicycle to a nearby restaurant where—given the Chinese menus—the students were incharge of ordering. We ate Chinese style. This meantordering far too much food (you eat until you stop,not until your plate is empty) and dipping one’schopsticks for a mouthful into as many as twentydifferent dishes that go around on a large turntablein the circular table. Though I usually announced a“no bones and no jellyfish” rule, the dishes theyordered often included such delights(!) as jellyfish,tripe, or (very fat) chicken feet. Dinner conversations were wide-ranging, mostlyfocusing on either Chinese or American culture,geography, history, or politics. Very few constraintson conversations were evident; I was told that thecensors worry about published dissent, not aboutoral discussions. The students exhibit great senses ofhumor and a warmth that makes one feel far less“alien” than is actually the case. Chinese people arevery different from Westerners, and the differencesare subtle and run very deep. Their respect for anddeference to authority, elders, and hierarchy isperhaps on the other end of the spectrum from thatof Americans. It penetrates all aspects of theirculture. Whatever this might mean for Chinesepolitical evolution and development, for a teacherthis manifests itself as a substantial fringe benefit:you will never find students who show as muchrespect, deference, and apparently sincere gratitudefor one’s efforts as a teacher as Chinese students.The teaching schedule offered ampleopportunities to travelwithin China and,obviously, there weremany more interestingplaces to visit thanthere was time totravel. The relativelyrural provinces ofYunnan and Tibetproved far moreinteresting to me thanthe cities. As was thecase everywhere inChina, one could godown the darkestalleys with no fear for personal safety,and the people inthese very differentplaces extended greatwarmth and hospitality. Beijing was, by far, the mostinteresting metropolitan area that I visited, perhapsbecause it was never “Westernized,” as wereShanghai, Hong Kong, Tianjin, and many otherplaces. Even with a bicycle it takes at least a weekor two to begin to scratch the surface of thiscomplex, historical place. “Teaching and living in China turned out to be a professional and personal experience of alifetime,” says Professor William Woodward,shown at Dragon’s Gate in Yunnan Province inthe south of China.“We had our classes in the law school building atTsinghua, a very impressive building on a very largeand well-maintained University campus.”James Strazella1968Robert Rovneris hosting a newradio show on WPEN (950 AM)every Saturday at 6:00 pm. Guestson this new show will includeGovernor Rendell and SenatorSpecter. He continues to host“Senator Bob Rovner Talks to theStars” on WNWR (1540 AM).1974In July 2004, Allen K. Easley,LL.M. will be the new presidentand dean of the law school ofWilliam Mitchell College of Lawin St. Paul, Minnesota. Easley iscurrently at Washburn UniversitySchool of Law in Topeka, Kansas,where he is an associate dean andprofessor, teaching in the areas ofcivil procedure, conflict of laws,and federal courts.1975John S. Eoryhas been elected theco-chair of the matrimonial triallawyers section of the Associationof Trial Lawyers of America-NewJersey. Eory is a member of Stark& Stark, a firm with offices inLawrenceville and Cherry Hill,New Jersey, and Philadelphia.1976Michael I. Buterais the newly-elected president of theLuzerne County Bar Association. Butera is in privatepractice in Pittson, Pennsylvania, and has served asattorney for the City Housing Authority since 1980. Andrew S. Hillmanhas formed Specialty AssetsAdvisors, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in assistingparticipants in the secondary market for structuredsettlements, lotteries, and other exotic payment streams.The firm is located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.Louis N. Tetihas been appointed vice chair of theSupreme Court of Pennsylvania disciplinary board. Tetiis a partner in the Chester County, Pennsylvania, firm ofMacElree Harvey.1977Audrey Nagelberg Fingerhoodwas recently named to the Board of Directors of her synagogue, Beth AmIsrael. She was also named “Professional of the Year” byNew Directions of Delaware, a support group for peoplewith depression and bipolar illness, and was recognizedfor her service in lecturing on Social Security Disabilityand successfully representing members before the SocialSecurity Administration.Arline Jolles Lotman,a solo practitioner inPhiladelphia, was appointed by Judge James T. Giles of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District ofPennsylvania to serve on the court’s merit selectionpanel for the reappointment of a magistrate judge, 2003-2004. She is former chair of the Philadelphia BarAssociation’s commission on judicial selection andretention, and is currently chair of the Association’s Bar-News media committee. Lotman was recentlyawarded the Partners Honors Award by the InternationalVisitor’s Council. Lotman served as chair of the Councilin 1995.1979Robert J. Donatonihas been inducted into theAmerican College of Trial Lawyers, a group open toonly one percent of trial lawyers in any state. Donatoniis a solo practitioner in West Chester, Pennsylvania.1980Cozen O’Connor senior member Elliott R. Feldmanreceived the President’s Award from the NationalAssociation of Subrogation Professionals at its 2003conference. Feldman is chair of Cozen O’Connor’snational subrogation and recovery department and co-chair of the firm’s crisis response and managementpractice group, and serves on Cozen O’Connor’sexecutive and management committees. 1983David J. Murphyhas been reelected to his third term asdistrict justice for District 32-2-38 in Delaware County,Pennsylvania.Neil Andrew Stein,a cofounder and principal ofKaplin, Stewart, Meloff, Reiter & Stein in Blue Bell,Pennsylvania, has been appointed solicitor toWhitemarsh Township. Stein has extensive legalexperience in land use, zoning, environmental andbusiness law.Asari E. Youngwrites, “I retired as the chief registrar of Cross River State High Court, Calabar, Nigeria, inNovember 2002. I have a new job as a law teacher in theUNICAL Faculty of Law, Department of Public andInternational Law, University of Calabar, CRS, Nigeria.TEMPLEESQ. SPRING 2004 • 5CLASSNOTESLeslie Anne Miller, whoreceived her LL.M. in TrialAdvocacy from Temple LawSchool in 1994, was appointed byGovernor Edward G. Rendell inJanuary 2003 to the position of General Counsel of theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania.Miller is the first woman ever toserve in this post.A native of Harrisburg,Pennsylvania, Miller received herA.B. cum laudefrom MountHolyoke College in 1973 andwent on to complete an M.A. in American Politicsat Rutgers’Eagleton Institute, where she was afellow. When she graduated from Dickinson Schoolof Law in 1977, her intention was to become apublic servant.Instead Miller ended up taking, as she puts it, “a 23-year detour into private practice.” She spentmost of her professional career in Philadelphiatrying cases as a defense attorney doing civillitigation. Immediately before joining the Rendelladministration in Harrisburg, Miller was a partnerat the Philadelphia firm of McKissock & Hoffman,P.C., where she specialized in the areas of medicalmalpractice defense and appellate litigation. Throughout her years in private practice, Millerwas actively involved in a number of professionalorganizations, including the Philadelphia andPennsylvania Bar Associations. Miller became thefirst female president of the Pennsylvania BarAssociation after having held numerous otheroffices. She has also served on the boards of manyeducational, cultural and community organizations,including WHYY public television, the FreeLibrary of Philadelphia, Mount Holyoke College,and the Pennsylvania Ballet. Already well known in professional circles,Miller received much media attention when she was named co-chair and interim president of theKimmel Center during the critical period leading upto its opening in December 2001. Miller says theKimmel post was “the opportunity for which I hadbeen waiting.” She became Kimmel president at thebehest of then-board chairperson Willard Rouse.The experience of working with him was“tremendous” and she describes her time there as“exciting, terrifying, and exhilarating.” She stressesthe importance of the Kimmel Center not just to theperforming arts, but also to the general community.As Miller was completing her work at Kimmeland pondering her options for future employment,Ed Rendell, then a candidate in the Democraticprimary for governor, asked her to hold off makinga decision until after the primary. He wanted her on his team and she spent the next six monthsworking on his campaign. Once elected, his firstgubernatorial appointment was naming MillerGeneral Counsel of the Commonwealth.During the time she wasworking with the Rendellcampaign, Miller was diagnosedwith breast cancer. Miller considersherself very fortunate. Largely dueto her own aggressiveness, sheobtained the correct diagnosisdespite a “doubting” gynecologistand radiologist. Her cancer wastreated early. She also credits thesupport of family and friends,excellent post-diagnostic medicalcare, and the therapeutic value ofwork and exercise. Miller stressesthat one has to be an advocate for one’s own health.Although her experience is “far from unique,” shechooses to discuss her case openly in order to helpothers learn about breast cancer, which will afflictone in eight women.Traditionally the Commonwealth’s first ladyserves as honorary chair of the Pennsylvania BreastCancer Coalition (PBCC). Since Midge Rendell’sjudicial position prevents her from doing so, Millerholds that position. Miller was also the PBCC’s PinkRibbon Award recipient in 2003.Miller clearly relishes her work with the Rendelladministration, where she is counsel to the governorand oversees the legal work of 32 agencies in theexecutive branch. In that capacity, Miller supervisesa staff of 450 attorneys working on a wide variety ofissues. For her, part of the “thrill of the job” isprecisely that variety.In addition, she says, “I inherited many confidentand dedicated attorneys who teach me a great dealevery day, take their work very seriously, and arevery happy doing what they are doing. This is incontrast to the seemingly rampant dissatisfaction of many lawyers in private practice.” She calls thestate’s lawyers “one of the Commonwealth’s best-kept secrets” and says she can’t recall havingenjoyed working with another group of lawyersas much.Working with Governor Rendell, she says, is“unlike any other opportunity. He’s a very smartlawyer, an extraordinary public servant, and on hisslow days he has the energy of two people.” Sheadmires his stamina and the manner in which hethrives on challenges. And she credits Rendell’senergy and enthusiasm with drawing so manytalented lawyers to Harrisburg to head the legaldepartments of the various state agencies.When asked about hot-button legal issuesconfronting the state, Miller notes that those issueschange from day to day. She mentions Indiangaming and slot machine legislation, confidentialityof criminal records, treatment for drug and alcoholaddiction and—of course—medical malpractice, assome of the issues currently on the radar screen. Butothers could come to the forefront very quickly, shesays, and it’s clear that she relishes the opportunityto tackle them as well. —Christina M. ValenteESQ. SPOTLIGHTGeneral Counsel, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania1985George A. Stamboulidis,a litigation partner at Baker &Hostetler’s New York office, is the president and chiefcounsel of the N.Y. Cops Foundation. This organizationsupports and unites federal, state, and local lawenforcement agencies and provides financial support tothe families of law enforcement officers who experiencetragedies.1986Kenneth H. Ryeskywrites, “I have just published ‘InEmployers We Trust: The Federal Right of Contributionunder Internal Revenue Code Section 6672’in theFordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law. I alsorecently gave a presentation entitled ‘Information &Instructional Technology: Bringing Adjunct Faculty intothe IT Fold’at the City University of New YorkInstructional Technology.”Janis L. Wilsonhas joined Drinker Biddle & Reath in its litigation department, focusing her practice oninsurance issues. Wilson is vice chair of the PennsylvaniaBar Association’s civil litigation section and is a frequentauthor and lecturer on issues in litigation.I am currently working on two books: one on thejudiciary and separation of powers; and the second onjudicial power in Nigeria and the U.S. The latter will bean update on my LL.M. thesis.”1984James C. Fontanahas joined Alion Science andTechnology Corporation, headquartered in McLean,Virginia, as its new senior vice president, generalcounsel, and secretary. Maria Zulick Nucciwrites, “I coordinated the panel‘Airport Laws and Money in a Recovering, EvolvingWorld’at the ABA forum on air and space law annualmeeting in November 2003, in Washington, D.C. I was amember of the program committee for the meeting.”Marc S. Raspanti,a founding shareholder in thePhiladelphia firm of Miller, Alfano & Raspanti, gave apresentation entitled “Whistleblowers: Patriots and theirCauses” at a conference sponsored by the Society forVascular Ultrasound held in November 2003. Raspantidiscussed the nature of the False Claims Act andprovided an overview of qui tam lawsuits in America. William L. ZeitzClass of 1939Alphonsus R. RomeikaClass of 1946I. Harry ChecchioClass of 1948John J. KaneClass of 1977Edward J. WeintraubClass of 1968Danny KhaloufClass of 20016 • TEMPLEESQ. SPRING 2004IN MEMORIAMMARJORIE BRODERICKMarjorie Broderick, who served as AssistantDean for Career Planning from 1972 through1986 and then as Assistant to PresidentLiacouras from 1986 to 1991, passed awayFebruary 18, 2004. COZEN O’CONNOR LECTURE HALL DEDICATEDIn recognition of a $250,000 giftfrom Cozen O’Connorand its partners, the law school hasdedicated a lecturehall in the firm’shonor. Funding for thelecture hall was madepossible in substantialpart by Patrick J.O’Connor, presidentand CEO of CozenO’Connor, and amember of Temple University’s board oftrustees. Other contributors from the firmincluded Arthur Abramowitz, Edward L. Baxter,Neal D. Colton, Elliott R. Feldman, Richard C. Glazer, Thomas McKay, III, E. GeraldRiesenbach and Daniel C. Theveny—all TempleLaw alumni. Associates of Cozen O’Connorwho earned law degrees at Temple also donated. The Cozen O’Connor Lecture Hall seats 150students and offers a full range of technologicalfeatures. At the dedication ceremony, DeanRobert J. Reinstein acknowledged the firm’ssupport for the law school: “The partnership thelaw school has established with CozenO’Connor has furthered the school’s ability toprovide a high quality legal education to talentedstudents at an affordable price.”Added Patrick O’Connor, “We are proud tohave the Cozen O’Connor name visibly linkedwith Temple Law, especially since an essentialgroup of the firm’s partners and associates aregraduates of the law school.”ESQ. PROFILEPresident Bush Names Alum to Appeals CourtPatrick J. O’ConnorThe Hon. Franklin S. VanAntwerpen ’67 has been appointedby President George W. Bush to theThird Circuit Court of Appeals. TheSenate judiciary committeeunanimously recommended hisconfirmation during the first week inMarch and a vote by the entireSenate is anticipated shortly. JudgeVan Antwerpen currently sits on theU. S. District Court for the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania, to which hewas appointed by then-PresidentRonald Reagan.Judge Van Antwerpen came toTemple Law School with a dualdegree in physics and electricalengineering from the University ofMaine. His primary interest in the field of physicswas astrophysics. Asked why he decided to switch tolaw, Judge Van Antwerpen cited “curiosity” as thechief factor: “I wanted to find out exactly whatlawyers did and how they went about discerning whatthe law is.” He says he has never regretted hisdecision, despite the exciting discoveries which havebeen made in the field of astrophysics in recent years.Initially, Van Antwerpen worked as in-housecounsel for Hazeltine Corp., a defense contractorheadquartered in New York City. But his real desirewas to leave the corporate world and do trial work.The opportunity arose in 1970 when, whilesocializing with law school classmates from Easton,Pennsylvania, he learned of an opening for chiefcounsel with the newly-established NorthamptonCounty Legal Aid Society. Van Antwerpen becamethe first full-time chief counsel of that organization,and in two years built the organization into an agencyof full-time lawyers who primarily represented clientsin civil cases. Van Antwerpen credits his Legal AidSociety experience with giving him excellentcourtroom experience and the opportunity to domeaningful probonowork.After leaving the chief counsel position, Van Antwerpen joined the Easton firm of Hemstreetand Smith, which became Hemstreet, Smith, and Van Antwerpen when he was named partner in 1973. In 1979, Van Antwerpen’s judicial career beganwhen he was appointed to the Northampton CountyCourt of Common Pleas to fill a vacancy. His was thefirst judicial appointment of Governor RichardThornburgh’s administration. While on the state bench, Judge Van Antwerpenwas instrumental in rewriting Pennsylvania’sdomestic relations code. The new code instituted astatewide system of uniform charts which judges useto determine the appropriate amounts of spousal andchild support to award. The drafters also codified theexisting practice of common pleas courts requiringthat those subject to orders ofsupport notify the court of anychange of address or employment.Van Antwerpen had the opportunityto use his engineering background tocomputerize the domestic relationssection of the NorthhamptonCommon Pleas Court, one of the first to do so. In 1987, President Reaganappointed Van Antwerpen to the U.S.District Court for the Eastern Districtof Pennsylvania. Shortly thereafter,Judge Van Antwerpen was informedthat he would be handling U.S. v.Scarfo, involving 17 members of aPhiladelphia organized crime family,all of whom were eventuallyconvicted and sentenced to prison. The Scarfo trial,which is the subject of numerous books and movies,presented some unique practical challenges, such asfinding a suitable courtroom space and organizingthe courtroom to hold so many defendants. Deskswere obtained from a local high school to replace the tables at which the parties and their counselusually sit. The witness stand had to be reconstructedso that it would be visible to all parties in thecourtroom. Eighty federal marshals were assigned to provide security. And the jury was anonymous and sequestered during the duration of the four-month trial.After a two-week voir dire,in which twelve jurorsand eight alternates were selected, the court sat sixdays a week for the duration of the trial. Summationsby counsel took two weeks and the jury charge tooktwo whole days. One outcome of the Scarfo trial wasthat an underboss who was a defendant in thePhiladelphia trial agreed to cooperate with federalprosecutors after his sentencing. He gave testimonyin a New York trial which led to the conviction ofJohn Gotti.Perhaps as a legacy of his Legal Aid years, JudgeVan Antwerpen continues to advocate for theindigent. In his current position as chair of thecriminal business committee of the U.S. DistrictCourt, he pushed hard for a reimbursement rate of$90 per hour for Criminal Justice Act attorney inorder to continue to attract qualified attorneys torepresent indigent criminal defendants. He alsorewrote the Local District Court Criminal Rules in1998. Van Antwerpen also serves on the Defenderservices committee of the Judicial Conference of theUnited States. The defender services committee isunique in that it has discretionary authority over the allocation of $500 million a year among thefederal district courts and courts of appeals toprovide representation for indigent defendants in the federal courts. —Christina M. ValenteJudge Van Antwerpen washonored at Temple Law Dayon March 17, 2004.1991David M. Laigaie,a shareholder in the Philadelphiafirm of Miller, Alfano & Raspanti, presented “A LegalPrimer: Introduction to Compliance and Health CareFraud” at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’sannual meeting. Laigaie’s presentation focused on thecompliance pitfalls and potential health care fraudexposure faced by ophthalmologists.1992James L. Johnsonhas been elected as a shareholder of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin,where he is a member of the general liability and theamusements, sports and entertainment, practice groups. Molly Peckman,director of associate development atPepper Hamilton, has been elected editor-in-chief of thePhiladelphia Bar Reporter,the monthly newspaper ofthe Philadelphia Bar Association. Peckman also writes amonthly column for the Legal Intelligencer.Thomas P. Rogers,a former police chief and countysolicitor of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has beenelected as the 21st judge of the Montgomery CountyCourt of Common Pleas.Army JAG Corps reservist Captain Jerome Teresinskiwas sent to Iraq in February 2003, where he worked as ajudge advocate. Teresinski has worked as an assistantdistrict attorney for the City of Philadelphia since 1992. 1993Albert and Jennifer Brooksare proud to announce thebirths of their first children, twin daughters Alexandraand Bailey in September 2003.1994William R. Adamshas joined Dickie, McCamey &Chilcote as an associate in the firm’s Philadelphia office,where he concentrates his practice in toxic tort andinsurance litigation. 1995Maureen G. Kelly,of the Scranton office of Marshall,Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, has been electedas a shareholder. Kelly is a member of the healthcareliability practice group.Michael J. Swopehas been elected to the partnership ofWoodcock, Washburn in Washington state.1996Colleen Bannonhas been elected as a shareholder of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman& Goggin, where she is a member of the employmentlaw practice group and is also the director of legal information resources. Brian C. Newberrywrites, “After seven years at the‘big firm’I and two partners have founded a boutiquelitigation firm in Providence where we handlecommercial cases in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.Going without a net is a bit scary but I can’t imagineworking for someone else again. It’s exhilarating!”Ajay Raju,an associate in Morgan Lewis’real estatepractice, was named by Realcomm as one of the “Top30 People to Watch in 2004.”1997John A. Chionchiohas been named partner ofSynnestvedt & Lechner. Chionchio, a registeredprofessional engineer, specializes in patent prosecutionfor intellectual property matters related to themechanical, aeronautical and aerospace arts.J. Christopher Erbis teaching an employment-basedimmigration course at Temple Law School. The coursehighlights the changes in hiring foreign nationals sincethe events of 9/11.Gary J. Speierwrites, “I have been practicing chemicalpatent law since I graduated. I work at Schwegman,Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth in Minneapolis,Minnesota. In addition to carrying a full docket, I amthe hiring attorney. I recently became a shareholder.”HUEY BURKETT, KLEIN HALL GUARDThe Temple Law community is greatly saddened by theuntimely death of Huey Burkett, who provided security, warmth,and friendship in his position of guard at the front desk of KleinHall for many years.Students, faculty and staff came together on February 17, 2004to honor Huey and his contributions to our lives here. A permanentplaque commemorating Burkett will be mounted on the front deskin Klein Hall. Dean Marylouise Esten says, “In many ways, Huey was theheart of this law school. He had a kind word and a smile for all of us, usually when we especially needed it. We will miss him very much.” TEMPLEESQ. SPRING 2004 • 7Dear Temple Law Graduate, Please send us news of your recent professional accomplishments or contributions to your community.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Name _______________________________________________________________ Phone _____________________________________Address (change of address only) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Firm/agency name and address (change of address only) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Send to:Janet Goldwater Temple Esq.Temple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 To change your mailing address, call (215) 204-1187 or go to the website at http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/. SENDUSYOURNEWS!Date ___________________________Class of ________ Degree _________ALUMNI AFFAIRSDIRECTOR ENTERS PRIVATE PRACTICEMatthew Konchel ’98,director of develop-ment for the lawschool for the past five and a half years,has accepted a position as businessmanager and junior associate with thelaw firm of Kats Jamison VanderVeen and Associates.PETER ROTHWELL ’84 FEATURED AT DEAN’S FORUMHuey Burkett, Klein Hall security guard(right), is presented an award by DeanRobert J. Reinstein. Burkett was honoredby Temple LEAP for his commitment tothe law school community. NEW PHILADELPHIA BAR CHANCELLOR ISTEMPLE GRAD GABRIEL L.I. BEVILACQUAAlan M. Feldman and MichaelAdler also assume leadership rolesGabriel L.I. Bevilacqua ’73,newly-electedchancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, is aPhiladelphia success story. Arriving in Philadelphia fromItaly with his family at age seven, he became a U.S.citizen and worked his way through St. Joseph’sUniversity and Temple Law. His first job was in thePhiladelphia City Solicitor’s Office, where he rose to thepost of chairman of the litigation department. In 1984 Bevilacqua joined the law firm of SaulEwing where he worked in the area of health care lawand began his involvement with the Philadelphia BarAssociation (PBA). A partner at the firm since 1986,Bevilacqua concentrates his practice in therepresentation of medical certifying boards, as well asthe representation of elected officials and state agencies. At the bar association, Bevilacqua was elected to theboard of governors in 1991 and later served as assistanttreasurer and then as treasurer of the association. In2001 he became president of the Philadelphia BarFoundation and was elected vice chancellor for 2002.Last year he served a one-year term as chancellor-elect. Alan M. Feldman ’73will serve as vice chancellorof the PBA for 2004, Feldman is a partner in thePhiladelphia firm Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter &Tanner where he has been a managing partner since thefirm was founded in 1987. Feldman concentrates in theareas of personal injury and other civil litigation.Feldman has served as president of the PhiladelphiaTrial Lawyers Association, lectured and publishedmaterials for numerous programs and seminars, taughttrial advocacy at Temple Law, and served in leadershippositions with the Pennsylvania Trial LawyersAssociation and the Philadelphia Bar Association. He iscertified as a civil trial specialist by the National Boardof Trial Advocacy. Michael E. Adler ’98was elected to serve on theYoung Lawyers’Division Executive Committee. Adler,an associate of Blank Rome, concentrates his practice onlitigation and dispute resolution, e-commerce andtelecommunications issues, and appellate advocacy. Heis co-author (with Henri P. Marcial), of “InternetListservs and Newsgroups: Potential Pitfalls and LegalRamifications.” The featured guest of the February 5, 2004 Dean’sInvitational Forum was Peter Rothwell ’84, an in-house attorney with Dassault Falcon Jet Corporation in Little Ferry,New Jersey. The dean’s forums, which bring illustrious alumnito the law school for lunchtimepresentations, are designed to exposestudents and faculty to diverse areas ofthe law.Rothwell’s principal areas ofpractice include the oversight of civillitigation in the aviation, commercial,corporate, government contracts,immigration, labor, licensing,product liability, trademark, salesdistribution and software legal areas. He serves as corporate secretary andassociate counsel for DFJ, corporatesecretary for Dassault Falcon Jet-Wilmington Corp., and as general counsel for Midway Aircraft Instrument Corporation.A former naval officer and pilot, Rothwell was on active duty in San Diego and the Western Pacificfrom 1972 to 1978. He also served in the Naval Reserve from 1978 to 1998, as a pilot, flight instructorand commanding officer.Peter Rothwell ’84William Wertheimer,Director of Law Student Affairs (left)and Professor Edward S. Ellers ’752002Andrew D. Meadhas established his practice focusingon intellectual property law and matters relating to smallbusinesses in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.2003Brian S. Gocial, Rustin I. Paul, Jessica S. Powers andHeather Sonnenberg have joined Blank Rome asassociates in its Philadelphia, Pennsylvania office.Elizabeth L. Lippyhas been appointed to a four-yearterm on the planning commission of West NorritonTownship. Lippy is an associate with Rubin, Glickman,and Steinberg.1998Michael E. Adler,an associate in the commerciallitigation group of Blank Rome, has been elected to thePhiladelphia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Divisionexecutive committee. Michael Krentzman,legal counsel and marketingmanager for Joe Krentzman & Son, has joined theKishacoquillas Valley National Bank’s regional boardteam. Krentzman is also a solo practitioner and ofcounsel to the firm of Mitinger and DeBoef in StateCollege, Pennsylvania.Barbara R. Gunn Lartey’s recently-published book isentitled Morsels of Sage, Bite-Sized Wisdom to SeasonLife’s Journey.Karen (Longacher) Minatellirecently resigned her position as legislative director for CaliforniaCongresswoman Linda Sanchez. She is now an attorney with the D.C. Employment Justice Center inWashington, D.C. where she coordinates the program on women’s employment rights.2000Rachel Volkman Kushel,an associate of DilworthPaxson’s employment and management labor relationspractice group, participated in the presentation ofDilworth’s seminar titled “Employment Law Issues—Common Sense is Not Enough.” Daniel R. Sulmanwrites, “I have been appointed as amaster in support in the Family Court Division of thePhiladelphia Court of Common Pleas. Previously Iserved as the law clerk to the Honorable Edward R.Summers in Family Court.”2001William Hill, J.D. ’01, LL.M. ’03 has joined TheBeasley firm, where he concentrates his practice incomplex civil litigation.TempleREALWORLD.REALLAW.TEMPLEUNIVERSITYBEASLEYSCHOOLOFLAWCALENDARNON-PROFITORGANIZATIONU.S. POSTAGE PAIDPHILADELPHIA, PAPERMIT NO. 1044JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAWOF TEMPLE UNIVERSITY1719 North Broad StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19122LAW SCHOOLANDALUMNINEWS • SPRING 2004VISIT OUR WEBSITE: http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/WRITE TO US: lawalum@astro.ocis.temple.eduJudge Clifford Scott Green ’51 (left) andJudge Nathaniel R. Jones at the annualHonorable Clifford Scott Green Lecture onFebruary 24, 2004 (see story page two).The Institute forInternational Law andPublic Policy kicked off its spring semesterprogramming with a visit by DistinguishedScholar-in-ResidenceAnne-Marie Slaughter on January 22, 2004. Slaughter, one of thenation’s most prominentinternational legalscholars, is Dean of the Woodrow WilsonSchool at PrincetonUniversity and President of the American Society ofInternational Law. During her visit to Temple Law, Slaughter presented alecture entitled “A New World Order” to faculty, students,and interested alumni in the Moot Court Room. In thislecture, she argued that the international community facesa paradox: given increasing interdependence, cooperationamong states is necessary to solve many of the world’smost pressing problems—such as terrorism, organizedcrime, environmental degradation, money laundering andsecurities fraud. But states resist creating the internationalgoverning bodies necessary to address these problems. Slaughter argues that instead of an internationalgovernment, which is neither feasible nor desirable, statesare creating a “new world order.” In this order, the state is not disappearing, but rather “disaggregating into itsseparate, functionally distinct parts. These parts—courts,regulatory agencies, executives, and even legislatures—CALENDAR OF EVENTSTuesday, April 13, 2004Class of 1973 ReceptionHonoring Chancellor BevilaquaShusterman Hall5 pmWednesday, April 14, 2004Stern Moot Court CompetitionDuane Morris LLP Moot Courtroom 4 pmThursday, April 22, 2004BLSA Annual Banquet6 pmSaturday, April 17, 2004 Founder’s Day ReceptionHonoring Tom Paradise ’88Philadelphia Marriott, Convention Center5:30 pmMonday, April 19, 2004Herbert F. Kolsby DistinguishedLecture in Trial AdvocacySpeaker: David KendallDuane Morris LLP Moot Courtroom 4 pmThursday, May 6, 2004TLAA Recent Graduates ReceptionPepper Hamilton 6 pmWednesday, May 12, 2004Penna. Bar Annual Meeting Hershey Lodge and Convention CenterLaw School Reception 5–7 pmSaturday, May 22, 2004Reunion Classes of 1982, 1983, 1984 Temple Law Library 3–6 pmPrinceton Dean Anne-Marie Slaughter is Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Laware networking with their counterparts abroad, creating a dense web of relations that constitutes a new,transgovernmental order.” Dean Slaughter also led a faculty colloquium on theissues raised by the proliferation of weapons of massdestruction. She argued that current international normsgoverning the use of force, devised in 1945 andembedded in the U.N. Charter, are inadequate to meetcontemporary realities. According to Slaughter, “we livein a world of old rules and new threats.” She called forthe recognition of a new international legal “duty toprevent” the proliferation of weapons of massdestruction. This duty would call upon the internationalcommunity to act early in response to efforts to obtainweapons of mass destruction and to develop a menu ofpotential measures, including the use of force, aimed at particular governments who were in the process ofobtaining such weapons. Slaughter also argued that theduty to prevent should be exercised collectively, throughglobal or regional organizations.NIGHT WITH THE PHILLIES The Temple Law Alumni Association (TLAA)will sponsor a “Night With the Phillies” at Philadelphia’s new stadium:Citizens Bank Park, Home of the PhilliesTuesday, May 18, 7:05 p.m. Game Time Philadelphia Phillies vs. Los Angeles DodgersTickets $16.00 eachTo order tickets by phone, contact Corinnein the Phillies Sales Office at (215) 463-5000 x5104.For more information, contact the Office of Alumni Relations at (215) 204-1187.INSTITUTE TO HOSTUPCOMING EVENTSThe Institute hosts twoadditional distinguishedvisitors in Spring, 2004,His Excellency Hans Corelland Professor Ziba Mir-Hosseini. Corell hasserved for nearly adecade as UnderSecretary General forLegal Affairs and LegalCounsel of the UnitedNations. Mir-Hosseini isan Iranian anthropologistand research associate atthe Centre for Near andMiddle Eastern Studies atthe University of London.She specializes in genderissues, Islam, and lawand development, and is an award-winningdocumentary film maker.TLAA UPCOMINGEVENTSNext >