TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • SPRING 2008In his paper, Dunoff not onlyargues against WTO’s constitutionalstatus but also speculates on whysupporters even make the claim inthe face of what he sees as clearevidence to the contrary. Onepossibility, he says, is that advocatesare describing not what they see butwhat they hope.“A well-functioning constitutiondoes not simply create governinginstitutions and allocate power,”Dunoff explains. “It also has to enjoya level of acceptance among thosewho it would govern. The scholarsadvocating WTO constitutionalism arevery talented advocates; perhaps theyare engaged in a project that is lessdescription than prescription.Perhaps they are trying to persuadetrade officials and citizens that theWTO is properly considered aconstitutional entity. In this sense, I view the scholarship advocating the constitutionalization of the WTO as largely aspirational.More controversially, Dunoff wonders if there is a linkbetween the increased use of constitutional rhetoric and the events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath.International law’s stature and importance grew in the 1990sfollowing the end of the Cold War. But many of these gainshave been undermined in recent years. “Post-9/11, international law has been a discipline under extreme stress,” he says. “So perhaps these fairlygrandiose claims about constitutionalism reflect a deepdisciplinary anxiety. As international lawyers feel the power of international rules and institutions eroding, perhapsthey feel the need to advance constitutional claims becauseif these claims are persuasive then international normswould enjoy the type of authority and power associated with domestic constitutions.”Thus, for Dunoff, the importance of constitutional debateslies in the authority that constitutional status confers uponan entity. Just as domestic constitutional norms are superior to other norms, “so, too, on the international Historically, constitutions areassociated with nation-states. Butconstitutional discourse is increasinglyused in various international sites ofgovernance, such as the EuropeanUnion and the United Nations. Manytrade scholars argue that the WorldTrade Organization (WTO) should beunderstood as a “constitution”governing the world economy. Jeffrey L. Dunoff, the Charles KleinProfessor of Law and Government anddirector of the Institute for InternationalLaw and Public Policy, is deeplyskeptical of that argument. In a paperpublished in the European Journal ofInternational Lawand presented atseveral conferences around the world,Dunoff carefully examines WTO legalinstruments, practices, and disputesettlement reports and concludes thatthe organization should not beconsidered a constitutional entity.“As I read WTO texts and practices,I think they fall well short of what lawyers usually think of as aconstitution,” Dunoff says. “That is, the organization’s legaltexts and practices lack the finality and legal status thatconstitutional norms typically possess.”Within legal systems, constitutional norms arehierarchically superior to, and more firmly entrenched thanordinary law. Dunoff says that if WTO norms truly enjoyedconstitutional status, they would prevail in conflicts between trade norms and other legal norms, such as human rights and environmental norms. Yet when theorganization attempted such muscle-flexing, the result was so negative—think of the chaotic demonstrations at the WTOmeeting in Seattle in 1999—that it quietly backed off insubsequent years.“When conflicts between trade values and non-tradevalues first arose before WTO bodies, the economic valueswould, not surprisingly, virtually always trump the non-economic values. But these decisions triggered an enormouspolitical backlash,” Dunoff says. “Trade officials quicklyrealized that these decisions sparked a crisis of legitimacy,and these issues are now handled in a much more nuancedway. To me, this undermines the constitutionalist argument. Itdemonstrates that trade norms are not hierarchically superiorto other norms. Instead of WTO rules enjoying a constitutionalstatus and therefore trumping other legal rules, the WTO isresponding to much larger political and economic conflictsthat are occurring in many sites of governance and politics.”AFRICAN AMERICANS’STAKE IN INT’L LAW “This magnificent study by ProfessorRichardson deserves the widest possible reading. Such an outstanding jurisprudentialaccount of anti-slavery resistance from theperspective of slavery’s captives fills a crucialgap in the scholarly literature.”—RICHARD FALK, PRINCETON UNIVERSITYThe Origins of African-American Interests inInternational Lawexplores the birth of theAfrican-American international tradition and,particularly, the roots of African Americans’stake in international law. The author, Temple Law Professor Henry J.Richardson III, considers these origins as onlyformally arising about 1619, the date the firstAfricans were landed at Jamestown in theBritish North American colony of Virginia. Inthe book, he looks back to the opening of theEuropean slave trade out of Africa and to the1500s and the first arrival of Africans on theNorth American continent. Moving through the pre-Independence period, the AmericanRevolution, the Constitutional Convention, and the Westward Migration, the book endsaround 1820. The historical period covered inRichardson’s book also roughly corresponds to two other key historical phenomena greatlyaffecting the Atlantic Ocean basin: the rise ofinternational law as a modern legal system(including European states and their Atlanticcolonies), and the rise and flourishing of theinternational slave trade in African slaves tothe Americas by European and New Worldgovernments and merchants. Richardsoncontends that these interests comprise no less than the birth of an African-Americaninternational jurisprudence. Only by placingAfrican slavery in the British North Americancolonies in the context of the internationalslave system encompassing and linking theNew World can the voices, struggles, demands,claims, and decisions of slaves and FreeBlacks in North America towards freedom,relative to their evolving interests underinternational law, be properly understood. The Origins of African-American Interests inInternational Lawwas published by CarolinaAcademic Press early this year.A Closer Look at the WTO. . .Constitutional conceits?continued on page twoJEFFREY L. DUNOFFSpecial International IssueHENRY J. RICHARDSON III22862_TLS 3/24/08 2:13 PM Page 12 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2008Reflecting on revolutionary changes in the international legal orderfollowing World War II and the Holocaust, Louis Henkin famouslyproclaimed ours to be an ‘age of rights’. But perhaps ‘ages’ lackthe staying power that they used to, for we now seem to beentering an ‘age of constitutionalism’ —at least, if international lawscholarship is to be believed. A raft of new books address the topic,and it is hardly possible to pick up a current volume of a leadinginternational legal journal without finding an article devoted todescribing, analysing or debunking various constitutional orderssaid to be found in diverse international legal regimes.The turn to constitutionalism has been particularly pronounced in trade law scholarship, and manyarticles discuss ‘the relationship among the different facets of the WTO constitution’. Framing the discussionin this way presupposes that the trade regime is properly understood as a constitutional polity. However, aswill be demonstrated below, neither WTO texts nor practice supports this understanding.The striking disjunction between trade scholarship and trade practice gives rise to a puzzle: Why wouldprominent trade scholars devote their energies to debating the WTO’s (nonexistent) constitutional features?As developed more fully below, the leading accounts of constitutionalism at the WTO share an impulse tochannel or minimize world trade politics. That is, we can understand the turn to constitutionalism as amechanism for withdrawing controversial and potentially destabilizing issues from the parry and thrust ofordinary politics. Paradoxically, however, the call for constitutionalism has sparked precisely the sort ofcontestation and politics that it seeks to pre-empt. Hence, one goal of this paper is to illuminate the self-defeating nature of the turn to constitutionalism.But this analysis raises an even larger puzzle: If there is no world trade constitution, and if the calls forsuch a constitution trigger the very politics that constitutionalism seeks to avoid, why do international tradescholars continue to engage in the turn to constitutionalism? Exploration of this question will lead us todeeper and more troubling questions about the current status of the discipline of international law.The current geopolitical environment—where the war on terror occupies centre stage and realistapproaches to international relations are ascendant—places severe pressures on the discipline ofinternational law. In a context where international law’s relevance and efficacy is under challenge, the turn toconstitutional discourse among international legal academics can be understood as a response to deepdisciplinary anxieties about the current status and role of international law. In short, the invocation ofconstitutional discourse at the WTO—and elsewhere in international law—may be a rhetorical strategydesigned to invest international law with the power and authority that domestic constitutional structures andnorms possess. However, the constitutional turn may be self-defeating in this respect as well. Criticalevaluation of constitutional claims may simply highlight the lack of constitutional structure, legitimatingfoundations, or popular acceptance of the WTO, and international law more generally.DUNOFF…continued from page oneFERGUSON NAMED UNIVERSITY VP FOR INT’L PROGRAMSMARCH 2008After 18 years at the helm of the law school’s Office of Graduate and International Studies,Assistant Dean Adelaide Ferguson is leaving to become interim vice president for international affairs forthe university as of July 2008. In her new position, Ferguson will oversee the operations of the university’sOffice of International Programs, International Services, Temple Japan and Temple Rome. During Ferguson’s tenure, the law school’s international profile and presence dramatically increased. In1990, the law school had three summer programs and nine international LL.M. students in Philadelphia, and5% of the students studied abroad. Today, 25% of the J.D. students study and do internships abroad inChina, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Hungry, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Rwanda, among othercountries. Temple now has LL.M. students earning degrees in Japan, China and Philadelphia in three newgraduate degree programs. Another new program is Temple’s multi-faceted “rule of law” program in China, which includes the firstlaw degree ever approved by both the Chinese ministry of education and the ABA, as well as non-degreejudicial and prosecutorial education and other human-capacity building programs. Temple Law was recently recognized as one of America’s most globalized law schools by US News andWorld Report.Dunoff’s scholarship in this area has led to aninteresting side project. At a conference in Israel where hedelivered his paper, Dunoff debated Tufts University’s JoelTrachtman, who argued in favor of WTO’s constitutionalism.Thereafter, the two scholars, who have worked together inthe past, decided to join forces to work on a book that isbringing together leading scholars from around the world toexamine constitutional debates across a variety ofinternational legal domains. As part of this project, Dunoffand Trachtman organized an invitation-only book workshopat Temple last December (see page three).Dunoff readily concedes that his immersion in these issues is, in part, a means for satisfying hisintellectual curiosity.“People engage in scholarship for different reasons,” he says. “In many of my academic projects, I undertakescholarship because I hear about an emerging issue andwant to learn about it. When I started reading aboutdebates over the constitutionalization of international law, I didn’t know how I felt about considering human rights orthe United Nations in constitutional terms. But thequestions struck me as interesting and important. I knewthat I wanted to know more about the issues, so at onelevel my scholarship in this area is a mechanism forhelping me reach a deeper understanding of these critical issues.”—Thomas W. DursoEXCERPT FROM“Constitutional Conceits:The WTO’s ‘Constitution’and the Discipline ofInternational Law”by Jeffrey L. DunoffEuropean Journal of International Law, June 2006NEW HEAD OF INT’LAND GRAD PROGRAMSMARCH 2008Temple Law graduate Louis Thompson ’01has been named to the position of Assistant Dean forGraduate and International Programs. Thompson, whopreviously headed the Office of Career Planning, replacesAdelaide Ferguson, who has been named University VicePresident for International Affairs. In accepting this new challenge, Thompson continuesto prove his versatility and breadth of interests. In 2004,when Thompson returned to his alma materto run theOffice of Career Planning, he said, “Law is really my thirdcareer.” His first career was working with persons withlearning disabilities; during his second career—writingquestions for the LSATs—Thompson became intrigued with the law. After graduating from Temple’s eveningdivision magna cum laude in 2001, Thompson worked first at Dechert for two years, and then left to clerk for afederal judge.Thompson has already flown to Tokyo—with a stopoverto visit family in the Philippines—to introduce himself toTemple staff in Japan. In addition to Temple’s diverse J.D.and LL.M. international programs, Thompson will alsooversee the law school’s graduate programs in taxation andtransnational law. ADELAIDE FERGUSON WITH TEMPLE UNIVERSITYPRESIDENT ANN WEAVER HART AT TEMPLEJAPAN GRADUATIONLOUIS THOMPSON ’01 (CENTER) WITH STAFF OF THE OFFICE OFGRADUATE AND INT’L STUDIES (FROM LEFT): KAREN MCMICHAEL,JOHN SMAGULA, LAURA ERIKSON, CELIA STRINO AND FARLISTCITY EL.22862_TLS 3/24/08 2:13 PM Page 2TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2008 • 3LENNON ASSUMES LEADERSHIP OF CAREER PLANNINGTemple Law graduate Melissa Lennon ’96, replaces fellow alum Louis Thompsonas assistant dean of career planning. Lennon came to Temple in 2005 to work incareer planning as a senior director in that office. She was previously atStradley Ronon Stevens & Young, where she practiced law and served as thefirm’s director of associate development. In the Office of Career Planning, Lennon will oversee an ambitious andgrowing schedule of activities. In addition to the critical services the staffprovides to help students explore job options—in the private sector or in publicinterest—they offer focused workshops to develop job search strategies, andhave developed an active support system for students seeking clerkships.Lennon also stresses that counseling benefits current students facing the legaljob market for the first time, but it also provides extensive services to alumswishing to redirect their careers. “Counseling remains the heart of our work,”says Lennnon, “And I will continue to supply a willing ear and a helping handto all students—and alums.” DECEMBER 2007The bookproject developed by Jeffrey L.Dunoff and Joel Trachtman to explore the constitutional-ization of international law began in earnest with a two-day workshop at Temple in December.The book will consist of an integrated series of essays by both constitutional enthusiasts and constitutionalskeptics on various inter-national law fields, includinghuman rights, the EuropeanUnion, the United Nations and the WTO. Contributors include top international lawyers, leading constitutional law and comparative law scholars and prominent political scientists from around the world. The book isdesigned to provide a sophisticated and thoughtful snapshot of current debates overglobal constitutionalism.NOVEMBER2007A panel of current or former J.D.s and foreign LL.M.s spoke to an audience of more than 30 studentsinterested in careers in international law or in non-U.S. locations. The event, organized by the Office of CareerPlanning, was moderated by Professor Duncan B. Hollis (shown at center of photo). Participating alumni/ae were (fromleft): Fernando Trevino-Martinez, LL.M. student and founder of Oficina de Abogados, a Philadelphia law firm forSpanish speaking clients (from Mexico); Brenda Nogales, LL.M. ’03, Nationalities Service Center attorney (from Bolivia);Kelly Heidrich, J.D. ’07, current law clerk who interned at the Documentation Center of Cambodia; and Irem Yasar-Yargici, LL.M. student who previously worked for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (from Turkey). Dunoff expects that the volume will frame futuredebates over global constitutionalism and will enable thoseinterested in these issues to survey the various argumentsfor and against global constitutionalism and reach theirown conclusions. “The reader can decide for himself orherself whether they are persuaded or not,” he says. “Inproviding a rich survey of the field, this book aims toeducated and inform, rather than convince, the reader.”Such a collaborative project, particularly one thatwelcomes competing viewpoints, is a rarity in today’spolarized academic world, but Dunoff says the project isimportant for several reasons.“First, there are substantial bodies of scholarship on, for example, constitutional debates at the EU or at theWTO,” he explains. “My book will be the first to exploreconstitutional debates across a variety of internationalregimes. Just as importantly, unlike some other areaswhere I write, I don’t hold a brief for one side or the otherin these debates. My goal here is to provide a sophisticatedand thoughtful snapshot of the state of the debate overglobal constitutionalism.”Dunoff expects that the book will help to set the termsof debates over global constitutionalism, and will enablethose interested in these issues to survey the variousarguments for and against global constitutionalism so as toreach their own conclusions. “The reader can decide forhimself or herself whether they’re persuaded or not,” hesays. “This is really a different sort of enterprise than manyof the academic books one might see.”The volume, tentatively entitled Ruling the World:Constitutionalism, International Law and GlobalGovernance,will be published by Cambridge UniversityPress. It will include essays on the international legalsystem as a constitution for the global community;constitutional debate at the United Nations, EuropeanUnion and WTO; the democratic legitimacy of globalconstitutionalism; and the interplay of constitutionalism onthe domestic and international planes. — Jodi BenjaminEXPLORINGINT’LCAREERSJEFFREY L. DUNOFF,TEMPLE LAWFROM RIGHT: JOSEPH WEILER, NYU LAW; MARK RAHDERT,TEMPLE LAW; AND STEPHEN GARDBAUM, UCLAANDREAS PAULUS, UNIVERSITY OFGOTTINGEN, GERMANYEminent int’l law scholarsgather to launch book Project22862_TLS 3/24/08 2:13 PM Page 34 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2008RULE OF LAW IN THE NEW MILLENNIUMNOVEMBER 2007In the annual Friel/Scanlan lecture, Professor Mark C. Rahdertdiscussed parallels between Marburyand rule of law issues raised in recentenemy combatant cases. He also explored the spread of Marburystyle judicialreview to countries around the world.The Friel/Scanlan Scholarship Fund, which sponsors the annual lecture, is oneof the first in the nation to provide grants to law faculty engaged in theresearch and preparation of books, articles and other scholarly works. Previousrecipients of the award include Professors Nancy J. Knauer, Jeffrey L. Dunoff,Scott Burris, William J. Woodward Jr., David Kairys, Amelia H. Boss, Frank M.McClellan, Laura E. Little, Henry J. Richardson III, Richard B. Cappalli, EdwardOhlbaum, Michael J. Libonati, and most recently Jane Baron.What does it mean to be American in the transformed context ofglobalization? In his new book, Beyond Citizenship: American IdentityAfter Globalization,Peter J. Spiro uses the lens of citizenship practice toanswer the perennial challenge of defining American identity. Before oneasks what it means to be American, Spiro argues, one must consider whois American. The ways in which citizenship law divides those who areAmerican from those who aren’t tells us a lot about the content of theAmerican national character.Published earlier this year by Oxford University Press, the book isbeing met with acclaim among leading scholars of citizenship theory.“With this much-needed book,” notes Yale Law School’s Peter H.Schuck, “our debate on this vital subject will never be the same.” SaskiaSassen, a leading sociologist at Columbia University, praises the book as“a major contribution tothe issue of politicalmembership in ourunsettled world.”Beyond Citizenshipdescribes howcitizenship law oncereflected and shapedthe American nationalcharacter. Spiro explores the histories of birthright citizenship,naturalization, dual citizenship, and how those legal regimeshelped reinforce an otherwise fragile national identity. But on ashifting global landscape, claims Spiro, citizenship status hasbecome increasingly divorced from any sense of actualcommunity on the ground. According to Peter Schuck, the bookproves “how globalization’s tectonic forces are eroding thecoherence of American citizenship, the supposed bedrock of ournational identity.” The book is aimed at academics and non-academics alike.“This is an issue that should be of interest to all of us–how thestate figures in our identity construct going forward,” observesSpiro. Gerald Neuman of Harvard Law School describes the bookas “lively and accessible . . . Spiro’s account is provocativethroughout and provides rich food for thought.” Spiro joined the Temple Law faculty in 2006 as the inauguralholder of the Charles R. Weiner Professorship, prior to which hewas Rusk Professor of Law at the University of Georgia. He is aformer law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. SupremeCourt, U.S. State Department lawyer, and member of the staff ofthe National Security Council. Globalization’s effect on the American identity explored inBeyond Citizenship“EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION”GOES TO BEIJINGRoundtable lays groundwork forcurriculum for Chinese legal educationJULY 2007For six full days in Beijing’s summer heat, legal scholars and practitioners from the U.S. andChina gathered to participate in a workshopdemonstrating cutting-edge “experiential” teaching,exploring techniques that are increasingly common inAmerican legal education. This roundtable, anoutgrowth of Temple and Tsinghua’s collaborativeLL.M. degree program for Chinese lawyers, wasconceived to encourage the use of more interactivecurricula in Chineselaw schools. Led by TempleLaw ProfessorEleanor Myers andTsinghua ProfessorChen Jianmin,participants practicedstudent simulations,demonstration roleplays, use of writtenproblems, and smallgroup problem-solving exercises. They also witnessedextensive demonstrations of the effective use of newtechnologies, including PowerPoint, videos and dvds.Demonstrations were conducted by a U.S. contingent thatincluded Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Georgetown Law School;Alan Lerner, Penn Law School; John Myers, TempleLaw; Jim Moliterno, William & Mary School of Law; andPaul Tremblay, Boston College Law School. The 25 participants were selected through a competitiveprocess from law school faculties across China. Followingthe roundtable, participants will use their experiences asthe foundation for a book of experiential curricula that willeventually be distributed to all law schools in China.ELEANORMYERS,TEMPLE LAW PETER J. SPIROCHEN JIANMIN, TSINGUA LAW, AND JOHN SMAGULA, TEMPLE LAWWANG CHENGUANG, DEAN OF TSINGHUA LAW22862_TLS 3/24/08 2:14 PM Page 4TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2008 • 5SUMMER 2007Forty-six Chinese judges, prosecutors,commercial and corporate lawyers, legislators and lawprofessors traveled to Philadelphia to continue theirstudies for an LL.M. degree in U.S. and international lawspecially designed for them by Temple Law School. Over the summer, they took courses in criminal trialadvocacy and legal writing. The trial skills class—a firstintroduction to Western-style trials for most of thestudents—culminated in a mock jury trial. Three-person lawyer teams tried the case of State v.Page,a burglary/robbery case in which a neighborhoodteenager is charged with breaking into the home of anelderly woman and stealing her handbag. Temple’s LL.M. degree program in Beijing hasgraduated 265 students since its founding in 1999. The program is carried out in collaborationwith Tsinghua University in Beijing. CHINESE LLM’S practice Western-style trial skillsGUANYUNYUANAND DINGHUILINGCARRIE CINQUANTO, TEMPLE LAWWU XIAOQIU ANDSUN HONGYOUPENG HUIJUAN AND SHEN DONGMEILL.M. STUDENT HONORED FOR PROVIDING LEGALSERVICE TO MEXICAN COMMUNITYMARCH 2008Temple LL.M. candidate Fernando Trevino-Martinez was one of two foreign graduatelaw students to receive the newly-created Philadelphia Bar Association’s International LawCommittee Award. The award, which recognizes achievement in international law or humanrights, was presented at an event hosted by Duane Morris and supported by HSBC Bank US.Before coming to Temple, Fernando Trevino-Martinez worked for the Mexican Ministry ofForeign Affairs as a staff attorney at Mexican consulates in Texas and New Orleans. In 2002, hemoved to Philadelphia to take charge of the consulate’s criminal division. There he helpeddevelop “Legal Assistance on Tuesdays,” which provides free legal assistance to the PhiladelphiaMexican community. In 2007, Trevino-Martinez joined with several local lawyers to form Oficinade Abogados,dedicated to providing legal assistance to the Spanish-speaking population in thetri-state area.SAKATA TO HEAD TEMPLELAW IN JAPANMARCH 2008Sumi Sakatahas been named the newdirector of the law programin Japan and an assistantprofessor of law. Temple’sunique program in Japan,founded over a decadeago, continues to be theonly ABA-approvedsemester abroad lawprogram in Asia. Professor Sakata comesto Temple University fromthe international law firmof Morrison & Foerster,where her practiceincluded international arbitration and a wide range oflitigation matters involving intellectual propertyinfringement, breach of fiduciary duty, civil rights violations,and securities fraud. Sakata, who is fluent in Japanese,earned a B.A. and a J.D. from Columbia University. Whilein law school, she was on the editorial board of the Journalof Asian Law,and was co-chair of the Japanese legalstudies group. She subsequently clerked for Judge LowellA. Reed Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern Districtof Pennsylvania.JUNE 2007DEAN ROBERT REINSTEINAND ASSISTANT DEANADELAIDE FERGUSONATTENDED GRADUATIONAT TEMPLE UNIVERSITYJAPAN (TUJ). ALSOATTENDING WERE TUJASSOCIATE DEAN MATTWILSON AND PROFESSORFINBARR MCCARTHY,WHO IS CURRENTLYTEACHING AT TUJ. THE LAW SCHOOL HASHAD A PROGRAM AT TUJSINCE 1993. FROM LEFT: FERNANDO TREVINO-MARTINEZ, LL.M. '08, MICHAEL SCULLIN,CO-CHAIR OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR ASSOCIATION'S INT'L LAW COMMITTEE,AND FANNY MOINEL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW STUDENT.22862_TLS 3/24/08 2:14 PM Page 56 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2008ADRIAN L. MEYERhas been elected president of the BucksCounty Bar Association.HENRY IAN PASSwas a featured speakeron WWDB’s Executive Leaders radioprogram, where he addressed the types oflegal issues investors might encounter indealing with their securities’ investmentprofessionals. Pass is a transactional andcommercial litigation attorney in BalaCynwyd, PA. He also serves as a director of the PrivateInvestors Forum and the Entrepreneurs Forum of GreaterPhiladelphia, and is the founder and managing director ofPatriot Venture Capital Group.1979BARBARA A. POTTShas been appointed by the PhiladelphiaBar Association to co-chair its public school educationcommittee. The committee has launched a new initiativethat is designed to bring volunteer lawyers and judges intoPhiladelphia public high schools to teach government, lawand dispute resolution. Potts is a partner in the real estatepractice group at Blank Rome. Philadelphia Futures, a nonprofitorganization which helps urban highschool students go to college, hasannounced the election of MADELINE M.SHERRYto its board of directors. Sherry isa director in the law firm of Gibbons inPhiladelphia, where she concentrates herpractice in the areas of products liability litigation,employment law and commercial litigation.1976ROBERT NEEDLEhas joined Endurance Specialty Insurance,a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property andcasualty insurance and reinsurance, as an executive vicepresident. After beginning his career in the legal fieldfocusing on insurance matters, Needle joined Alexander &Alexander and Aon where he served in various seniorexecutive capacities over a 27-year period. Most recentlyNeedle served as an attorney with Gibbons in theinsurance practice group.1983ROSEMARY W. DANNwas elected to the board of directorsof the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters andTranslators. Dann has served on NAJIT’s advocacycommittee and chaired various special commissions. Sheis a full-time interpreter/translator of Spanish, workingprimarily in Massachusetts and New Hampshire courts, aswell as in medical settings and for private clients. When notinterpreting, she can be found on stage or in front of a1975Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge SANDRA MAZER MOSSis the second woman and the second common pleas courtjudge to win the William J. Brennan Sr. Distinguished JurisAward presented by the Philadelphia Bar Association.Moss, the civil division team leader of the judges hearingcomplex medical malpractice and products liability cases,was honored for her role as the founder and firstsupervising judge of the Complex Litigation Center and forstreamlining the case management techniques used formass tort cases, such as cases involving asbestos, breastimplants, and orthopedic bone screws. 1972THOMAS E. BIRONof Blank Rome has been named a fellowin the American College of Bankruptcy. At Blank Rome,Biron represents clients on bankruptcy and insolvencyissues, transactional matters, and litigation. 1973CHARLES C. COYNEhas joined ObermayerRebmann Maxwell & Hippel as of counselin the business and finance department.From 1982 to 2003, Coyne was amember of the Delaware Valley RegionalPlanning Commission. He is a memberand past chairman of the Chester County Health andEducational Facilities Authority, and is a former member ofthe Panel of U.S. Bankruptcy Trustees. 1974ABRAHAM “ABE” C. REICHhas been honored by thePhiladelphia Bar Association with the Wachovia FidelityAward, given to individuals who help improveadministration of justice. Reich said he was donating theaward to the bar association’s Raising the Bar campaign,which is raising funds from Philadelphia lawyers for thecity’s public interest law groups.NOTESClassTRIAL TEAM CAPTURES REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPFEBRUARY 2008Temple’s National Trial Teamsuccessfully defended its regional championship title ofthe National Trial Competition. It was Temple’s 20thconsecutive regional championship—an unparallelednational achievement. The members of the championshipteams are (from left) Jeffrey Goodman, Priya DeSouza,John Aitchison, and Alex Gosfield. Gosfield and Goodmanwere each awarded the John J. Scott Memorial Award forbest advocates in the final round.The team travels to Texas on March 24 to compete forthe National Trial Championship against the twenty-fourwinners and runners-up from the twelve other regions.The teams are coached by Professor Maureen McCartney,Director of Trial Advocacy Programs and Elizabeth Lippy’03, of Rubin, Glickman, Steinberg & Gifford. Thetournament was sponsored by Temple’s LL.M. in TrialAdvocacy Alumni Association, directed by ProfessorBarbara Ashcroft, Director of LL.M. Program andadministrated by Mary Beth Wilson.TEMPLE IS TWO-TIME ABATAX TITLE-HOLDER JANUARY 2008Ryan Smith ’08 (center) and AndreasRingstad ’08 (not shown) were national championsat the ABA Tax Competition in Las Vegas. Smithposes here with Kimberly Houston ’02 (rear), whowon the Tax Challenge in 2002, and Temple law’s“tax team” of educators. Faculty, from left: GraduateTax Program Director, Professor Kathy Mandelbaum,Professor Alice Abreu, Adjunct Professor and TeamCoach Cornelius Shields, and Professors Jan Ting,Robert Bartow and Nancy Knauer. FROM LEFT: JEFFREY GOODMAN, PRIYA DESOUZA, JOHN AITCHISON,AND ALEX GOSFIELD22862_TLS 3/24/08 2:14 PM Page 6BRUCE S. SCHILDKRAUTis back at work at the U.S.Department of Justice, Office of the U.S. Trustees for theCentral District of California, after recovering from doublelung transplant surgery. He holds the position of senior trialattorney.1988CARMEN M. LINEBERGER, J.D. ’88, LL.M. ’98has joined theU.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida asan assistant U.S. Attorney in the criminal division in FortPierce, FL. Previously, she was a homicide prosecutor inPhiladelphia for more than 15 years. Lineberger willcontinue to serve as the National Black ProsecutorAssociation vice president of programs.PAMELA M. TOBINhas joined KaplinStewart as an associate in their Blue Bell,PA office, where she practices in thecommercial litigation department.1989MICHAEL PASTONhas launched the 501 Group, aconsulting firm that will offer strategic referendum planningfor Pennsylvania school districts. Paston is serving hissecond term on Upper Dublin’s board of school directors.JONATHAN RINDE,a partner with Manko,Gold, Katcher & Fox, an environmental,energy and land use law firm, has beenappointed to the Perkiomen WatershedConservancy board of directors. He hasbeen associated with the Partnership forthe Delaware Estuary and recently servedas chair of that board. Rinde is also on the board of theConservancy of Montgomery County and the MontgomeryCounty Agricultural Land Preservation Board.1990THOMAS F. DOYLEhas been appointed vice president ofstrategic initiatives of ViroPharma Incorporated. Doylejoined ViroPharma in 1996. From 1990 until 1996, he waswith the law firm of Pepper, Hamilton.Antheil Maslow & MacMinn, a Bucks County-based lawfirm, announces that partner KRISTA POOL HARPERhasbeen named to the Bucks County Historical Society boardof trustees for the term starting in 2008.DAVID D. WASSON III, J.D. ’90, LL.M. ’96has been selectedas chief deputy court administrator of the First JudicialDistrict of Pennsylvania effective January 2008. Wesson isa major in the Judge Advocate General Corps of the U.S.Army Reserves with varying supervisory and administrativeresponsibilities. JOHN J. HAGGERTYhas been elected toUlmer & Berne’s five-membermanagement committee, which isresponsible for the overall guidance andfiscal responsibility of the firm. Haggerty isthe chair of the firm’s business litigationgroup. BRIAN M. KATZhas been named vicechair of Pepper Hamilton’s corporate andsecurities practice group 1993OTIS V. MAYNARDhas been promoted tovice president and chief compliance officer in theIndividual Life Division of The Hartford InsuranceCompany. Maynard has been managing litigation regionallyAmerican South Asian Bar Association from 2004 to 2005and was a member of NASABA’s original foundingexecutive committee; he is also a former president of theSouth Asian Bar Association of New York and serves as amember of the ABA presidential advisory panel ondiversity.NEIL A. STEIN,a principal of KaplinStewart Meloff Reiter & Stein in Blue Bell,PA, and a member of the land use, zoningand development department, was apresenter of a BPI course entitled “LandUse Approvals for Strange and UnusualProperties.”1984MARC RASPANTI,a founding shareholder of Miller, Alfano & Raspanti, spoke at the annual Society for VascularUltrasound Current Issues Conference. Raspanti’spresentation was entitled, “Fraud and Abuse in theVascular Lab: Prevention of Accidental Fraud and RecentVascular Fraud Cases.” Raspanti also spoke at thePennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’seminar. ELEANOR T. SEGALhas joined the plaintiffs’ firm StamponeD’Angelo Renzi DiPiero in Philadelphia. Segal has beenhandling workers’ compensation and Social Securitymatters for more than twenty years.DANIEL C. THEVENY,a Cozen O’Connormember, participated in an expert witnesstraining course sponsored by New YorkChapter 23 of the InternationalAssociation of Arson Investigators.Resident in Cozen O’Connor’sPhiladelphia office, Theveny concentrateshis practice in insurance defense, insurance coverage andinsurance subrogation matters. 1985JAMES J. KOZUCH,partner in theintellectual property law firm of Caesar,Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, was a panelist at an engineeringsymposium sponsored by the GreaterPhiladelphia sections of The AmericanInstitute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and TheAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers. Kozuchhandles all aspects of intellectual property law, withparticular emphasis on litigation, client counseling, andprosecution of U.S. and international patent applications.1986RICHARD L. FOX,a partner at Dilworth Paxson, was thekeynote speaker at the Planned Giving Council of Houstoninaugural 2007 speakers series held in Houston, TX.KENNETH H. RYESKYis a solo practioner in East Northport,NY, and an adjunct assistant professor at Queens CollegeCUNY, where he teaches business law and taxationcourses. Ryesky is the author of two scholarly articles:“Part Time Soldiers: Deploying Adjunct Faculty in the WarAgainst Student Plagiarism,” in the BYU Education & LawJournal;and “On Solid Legal Ground: Bringing InformationLiteracy to Undergraduate-Level Law Courses,” in theJournal of Effective Teaching.TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2008 • 7DEAN’S INVITATIONAL FORUMS GIVEEXPOSURE TO DIVERSE LEGAL CAREERS Corporate litigator Donald J. Wolfe Jr. ’76, a partner at the firm of PotterAnderson Corroon in Delaware, was the invited speaker at a Dean’sInvitational Forum. Wolfe spoke about his practice, which isconcentrated on corporate litigation in the Court of Chancery and onthe counseling of boards of directors and special board committees ofDelaware corporations with respect to issues of fiduciary duty andinternal corporate governance. John Rafal ’75, is founder, president and CEO of Essex Financial Services,which was named the nation’s top independent firm for 2007 byBarron’s Weekly.At a Dean’s Invitiational Forum, Rafal spoke about hismore than 30 years of experience in financial advisory services.FROM LEFT: DONALD J. WOLFE JR. ’76,PROFESSOR H. HARWELL WELLS, ASSOCIATEDEAN AND PROFESSOR JOANNE EPPS, ANDPROFESSOR JONATHAN LIPSON.JOHN RAFAL ’75 WITH DEAN REINSTEIN22862_TLS 3/24/08 2:14 PM Page 7SHELLY K. HILLYERhas joined RPM International Inc. asassociate general counsel and is responsible for managingits litigation and insurance coverage disputes. In addition,she will coordinate RPM’s legislative tort reform efforts andmonitor compliance with corporate policies. Previously,Hillyer was a litigation partner with the firm of Calfee, Halter& Griswold.JEFFREY L. MOYERhas been appointed tothe position of vice chair of the litigationdepartment of Richards, Layton & Finger. THEODORE MURPHY, J.D. ’94, LL.M. ’97has joined the immigration law firmKlasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer as seniorcounsel. He previously was the assistantchief counsel of the U.S. Immigration and CustomsEnforcement division of the U.S. Department of HomelandSecurity. Murphy has been involved with immigration forthe past 14 years, over a decade with ICE and the formerINS. JOHN STEINERhas opened a law office in Upper Darby, PA,focusing in workers’ compensation litigation. Steiner hasbeen practicing exclusively in workers’ compensationlitigation since graduation.1995LISA A. HANSSENhas joined Tasty Baking Company inPhiladelphia as vice president and assistant generalcounsel. Previously, Hanssen was assistant vice presidentand assistant general counsel of PMA Capital Corporationin Blue Bell, PA. JASMINE MAJIDhas joined Crowe &Dunlevy as a director of the firm. Majidpractices primarily in the area ofimmigration. Prior to joining the firm,Majid served as a managing director forChisam-Majid Immigration Law & Policy.BRIAN MARRIOTT has joined Curtin &Heefner in its municipal and litigation sections where hefocuses his practice primarily on property damagelitigation. PHYLLIS MAZA PARKERhas been named a shareholder inthe firm of Berger & Montague. Parker’s practice isconcentrated in securities class action litigation.1996CHRISTOPHER J. CULLETON,a former partner of KolsbyGordon Robin Shore & Bezar, and Brandon A. Swartz,formerly of The David Itkoff law firm, have teamed up toform Swartz Culleton. The new firm will have offices inNewtown, Philadelphia and Allentown, and will representplaintiffs in all areas of personal injury litigation. DARIN J. STEINBERG,an associate at Duane Morris, hasbeen elected to the Building Industry Association ofPhiladelphia’s board of directors.CHAD WISHCHUKhas been elected to the partnership atMarks, Golia & Finch in San Diego, CA. Wishchuk, whojoined the firm in 2001, represents management in labor,employment, and construction matters. 1997SCOTT H. CASHERhas been named apartner at Edwards Angell Palmer &Dodge. Casher is a member of theinsurance and reinsurance departmentand practices in the firm’s Stamford, CT,and New York offices. ELIZABETH GRZYWACZhas been elected partner atWolfBlock. She is a member of the firm’s financial servicespractice group and is resident in the Philadelphia office.KEITH JONESand his wife Susan announce the birth oftheir first child, Parker Hudson Jones, born in January2008. Jones is general counsel for the National Associationof Clean Water Agencies in Washington, DC. TINA MAZAHERI, J.D. ’93, LL.M. IN TRIAL ADVOCACY ’97is an assistant solicitor for Bucks County and was recentlyelected treasurer of the Bucks County Bar Association. She also continues her real estate business as a real estate broker.STEVEN M. YODER,a bankruptcy and restructuring attorney,has joined Potter Anderson & Corroon in Wilmington, DEas a partner. Yoder leads the firm’s representation ofdebtors and will also represent official committees in largecommercial bankruptcies. He comes to Potter Andersonfrom The Bayard Firm in Wilmington.1998ANDY P. BERGERhas been named ashareholder at Stevens & Lee. Bergerconcentrates his practice on mergers andacquisitions for closely held businesses. SHEILA RAFTERY WIGGINSis now a partnerat Duane Morris, practicing in the area ofcommercial litigation.SCOTT WILLIAMSis the founding member of Williams &Associates in Vermont, a broad litigation practice withcorporate and individual clients. Prior to founding hispractice, Williams was a litigation associate at Rubin,Kidney, Myer and DeWolfe.WILLIAM C. YOUNGBLOOD,a patentattorney with the intellectual property lawfirm of Caesar, Rivise, Cohen, Bernstein &Pokotilow, recently presented a courseentitled “An Intellectual Property ShortCourse” at the national convention of theAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers. 8 • TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 20081999WolfBlock announces that JENNIFER BIDERMANis a newlyelected partner. Biderman is a member of WolfBlock’sbusiness litigation practice group and is resident in thefirm’s Philadelphia office. OLIVER H. (SCOTT) BARBER IIIhas beenelected to membership at Stites &Harbison in its Louisville, KY office. Barberis a member of the business litigationservice group and white-collar crimepractice section. JAMES H. COLEis a shareholder withMarshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin and ischairman of the firm’s property practice group.SETH GOLDBERGis a partner with Duane Morris’ trialpractice group in its Philadelphia office. Goldberg focuseshis practice on commercial litigation and class actionsinvolving securities, healthcare, and antitrust matters.DAVID M. PERRY, a member of the intellectual property and technology group at Blank Rome, is now a partner atthe firm. VALERIE BRAND PIPANOhas been named partner at ReedSmith in commercial litigation. SEAMUS P. MCCAFFERY ’89 SWORN IN TO TOP PENNA COURTThe Honorable Seamus P. McCaffery ’89, a NortheastPhiladelphia Democrat, was the top vote-getter in theNovember statewide judicial election for the PennsylvaniaSupreme Court. A former Philadelphia police officer, McCaffery workedhis way through Temple Law in the evening division. Priorto his election to the Supreme Court, he was a judge onthe Superior Court of Pennsylvania and a municipal courtjudge in Philadelphia. He gained notoriety as the judge at“Eagles Court”, an ad hoccourt created to deal with unrulyfans at Philadelphia Eagles games.TEMPLE LAW REUNIONS IN CHINANOVEMBER 2007The Shanghai chapter of the Temple Law Alumni Associationof China hosted a get-together organized by chapter chief Judge Wang Feiand hosted by Ren Jun. The reunion featured a spirited discussion aboutcareer developments since graduation. The group plans for future Shanghaichapter events. In attendance (back row, from left) were Jiang Yuming (Fiat Group China),Ren Jun (China Hua’er Investment Company), Wang Fei (Shanghai PutuoPeople’s Court), John Smagula (Director of Asian Programs, Temple Law),and Chai Chengxian (Shanghai Haoliwen Law Firm); (front row, from left)Leng Yijia (Carrefour China), Lu Ye (F1 Racing Car Co.), Sun Chenmin(Shanghai High Court), Zhou Yun (AIG), and Song Qing (Shanghai MunicipalPeople’s Congress). JUDGE MCCAFFERY AT A 2008 TEMPLE-LEAP EVENT22862_TLS 3/24/08 2:14 PM Page 8LAWRENCE POCKERSis now a partner with Duane Morris’trial practice group in its Philadelphia office, where herepresents clients in complex commercial litigation.DINA S. RONSAYROhas been elected partner at Astor WeissKaplan & Mandel, where she focuses her practice onfamily law, civil litigation and landlord-tenant matters.WILL SACHSEis a newly-elected partner at Dechert whoworks in the firm’s Philadelphia office, and is a member ofthe product liability and mass torts and antitrust groups. STACY SHOREhas joined Trow & Rahal as a senior attorney,practicing exclusively in the field of immigration law. Shecurrently serves as chair-elect of the Washington, D.C.chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.Shore is married to NUKU OFORI ’99,legislative director forCongressman Chaka Fattah. They have a two-year olddaughter, Anjali. (A previous issue of ESQ. did not note thatboth Shore and Ofori are alumni/ae. —Editor)2000GERARD A. DEVERhas been elected to membership in Fine,Kaplan and Black, where he practices complex commerciallitigation and in particular antitrust law.MICHAEL C. GROSShas been namedpartner at Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox,an environmental, energy and land uselaw firm in Bala Cynwyd, PA. Gross, whobegan his career as a summer associateat MGKF in 1999, focuses his practice onbrownfields redevelopment, andtransactional and regulatory compliancematters. NIKI TRUNKhas joined the firm of Lopez McHugh inMoorestown, NJ as an associate. Trunk was also elected inNovember to the Harrison TownshipCommittee in Gloucester County, NJ. LISA M. LASSOFFhas recently joinedDilworth Paxson’s Philadelphia office. 2002 CHRISTOPHER J. LOWEhas joined StradleyRonon Stevens & Young.JENNIFER SCHERER REYNOLDShas joinedCozen O’Connor’s Philadelphia office asan associate. Reynolds focuses herpractice on corporate law matters.LAURA M. RITZKO, J.D. ’02, LL.M. ’05has joined thecommercial litigation group of the Tampa, FL firm of GlennRasmussen Fogarty & Hooker.MARK WACHLINhas joined Dilworth Paxson in itsPhiladelphia office.TEMPLE ESQ. SPRING 2008 • 9David Roeberg has been a pilot formore than 40 years, thriving on thefreedom, challenge and sense ofaccomplishment it provides. And hehas expected no less from all of hisvaried professional and personalendeavors as an accountant,attorney and real estate investor. After earning a bachelor’s ofscience degree in accounting fromNew York University in 1958, hebecame a CPA and set up shop inWilmington, Delaware, serving thelocal small business community. In 1961, Roeberg, who hadenlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve,was called up to serve. For the nextten months he was stationed at aninfantry training center in FortSmith, Arkansas, first working as amess hall cook, then putting hisaccounting background to usemanaging food supply orders at thesite’s 805th station hospital.When Roeberg decided to pursue a law degree at theage of 27, he chose Temple Law’s evening division, whichoffered him the flexibility and freedom to both work andattend school. “With financial and family responsibilities,Temple Law was my only option to be an attorney.”Unlike many accountants-turned-lawyers who go on topractice tax law, Roeberg wanted the challenge of litigatingcases in court. The classroom was his training ground fordeveloping trial advocacy skills, where he learned the valueof careful observation, a practice that has served him wellin the courtroom. “A fascinating advantage of lawyering is being able tosee how your opponents conduct themselves. Since I never worked for another lawyer, I learned from listeningand watching the other side, and asking them questions,”says Roeberg. NOVEMBER 2007Temple Law alumni gathered for areunion dinner in Guangzhou, a city in the provinceof Guangdong. The Guangdong chapter of theTemple Law Alumni Association is headed by He Wei,who arranged and hosted the event. Attending were (from left) Li Hua, GuangdongHigh Court; Chai Jin, Procter & Gamble; He Wei,Guangdong Guoding Law Firm; Yao Yitang,Guangzhou Intermediate Court; John Smagula,Temple Law Director of Asian Programs, YangJinshun, Guangdong People’s Procuratorate; LinZhenhua, Guangdong High Court; Fan Dongming,Guangdong High Court; and Sun Mingfei, GuangdongHigh Court.After graduation, he became aplaintiff’s attorney, handling personalinjury litigation exclusively in Delaware.At his firm Roeberg, Moore &Friedman, he continues to work withhis long-time partners, who joinedhim fresh out of law school. A memorable point in Roeberg’scareer is his efforts to extenduninsured motorist coverage law inDelaware. While representing aclient whose son had been in aserious accident, Roebergdiscovered that most carriersprovided only minimum uninsuredmotorist coverage for their insuredsin violation of a Delaware statute.His many arguments in courthighlighted deficiencies in thecurrent law and also helpedlegislators craft amendments to theuninsured motorist coverage statute.Over the last couple of years,Roeberg has scaled back his legalwork to devote more time to business and personalinterests. For the past 25 years, he has held investments inseveral apartment and shopping complexes in Delawareand Florida, where he also maintains a home. A member ofthe Lawyer-Pilot’s Bar Association for three decades, heflies his Cessna Citation jet nearly everywhere he wants togo. Father of four and grandfather to five, one of Roeberg’sproudest moments was presenting a diploma to sonKenneth at his graduation from Temple Law in 1988. Of his success, Roeberg says, “It pretty much all startedwith Temple.” In honor of his 40th class reunion, he recently made agift of $100,000 toward the Class of 1968 ScholarshipFund, whose goal is to raise $1 million. “I’ve benefitedtremendously in my lifetime from the law school, and Iwanted to help do the same for a deserving student.”—Laura FeragenALUMNI SPOTLIGHTDAVID ROEBERG ’68Litigation attorney22862_TLS 3/24/08 2:14 PM Page 9Next >