I am happy to report that Volume 86, Issue 2 of the Chicago-Kent Law Review, Symposium on Comparative Jury Systems, is now printing.  The issue should be available in hard copy at your local law library and in electronic form on our website on on WestLaw and LexisNexis by mid-August.  Congratulations to everyone involved!  It looks to be an excellent academic exchange re different approaches to the jury systems and mixed courts spanning the globe.  The symposium editor, Nancy Marder (an ex-SCOTUS clerk herself), believes the issue will allow Justice Breyer and Justice Scalia to continue their debate about whether U.S. courts should look to foreign sources for inspiration.  Although these two Justices have carried on this debate in the realm of constitutional law, she believes the debate could be extended to our jury system as well. 

I am also happy to report that Volume 86, Issue 3 of the Chicago-Kent Law Review, Symposium on Medical Malpractice and Compensation in Global Perspective, Part I, is complete and should begin print production within the next week or so.  It is the first part of a special double issue (the second part will be published this winter as 87:1) that includes comparative analysis of tort law – in the context of medical malpractice and compensation – in 14 countries/regions from around the globe.  Countries appearing in 86:3 include Austria, Germany, France, South Africa, Poland, New Zealand, and Canada.  The issue should be available in hard copy at your local law library and in electronic form on our website and on WestLaw and LexisNexis by the end of summer.  Again, congratulations to all involved!

A huge thank you and pat on the back goes to our current Webmaster and Executive Articles Editor Nick Cordell for putting together a fantastic new Chicago-Kent Law Review Alumni Networking Site.  The Site is in its infant stages, but it is ready to become an effective networking tool for recent Chicago-Kent Law Review grads and practicing partner Law Review alumni alike. 

The site is similar to a C-K Law Review Alumni social networking site.  Some of its features include:

 -  Individual Profiles with an ability to edit information such as (1) Profile picture, (2) Class, (3) Bio Info, (4) Preferred Contact Information, (5) Address/Current City, (6) Employment History, and (7) Practice Area(s);

-  An alphbetical list of all registered alumni; and

-  A search function allowing the user to search any of the fields above and more.

Current staff will receive an email in the near future re registration.  I highly encourage all of you to register. 

Alumni, I will be sending an email to a limited list of emails that I have, asking for participation in the network .  However, if you are reading this post and wish to participate in the network, please email me at cklawreview@gmail.com and include your name, class year, and volume(s) of the Law Review published by your class.  After a quick check that you are actually an alum, someone from our staff will email you the registration information and a link to the site.    

I am excited to get the Chicago-Kent Law Review Alumni directory up and running.  The more people in the network, the better tool it becomes, so please participate!

And again, a huge shout out to Nick Cordell, who really did all the heavy lifting putting the site together.

Brian Langs, EIC, 2010-2011

Law Review Elections were held over the weekend.  Please allow me to introduce and congratulate the 2011-2012 Chicago-Kent Law Review Executive Board:

Margaret Master, Editor-in-Chief

Travis Bayer, Managing Editor

Daaron Kimmel, Executive Notes and Comments Editor

Jeff Blake, Executive Articles Editor

Lauren Emery, Executive Articles Editor

Jacquelyn Hill, Executive Articles Editor

Brian Kebbekus, Executive Articles Editor

Joshua Lurie, Executive Articles Editor

Andrew Medeiros, Executive Articles Editor

Charles Spiekerman, Executive Articles Editor

Grant Swanson, Executive Articles Editor

James Vergara, Executive Articles Editor

On behalf of the rest of the current Executive Board, we are excited to leave the Law Review in such capable hands.

This conference, jointly organized by the Chicago-Kent Law Review and the Institute for European Tort Law, in collaboration with the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, will address liability for medical malpractice and compensation for medical injuries from 14 national and regional perspectives drawn from 6 continents.  It offers a truly global comparative analysis.

Contributors include: Kinga Baczyk-Rozwasowska, Poland; Pieter Carstens, South Africa; Loutjie Coetzee, South Africa; Eduardo Dantas, Brazil; Claudia DiMarzo, Italy; Colleen Flood, Canada; Richard Goldberg, UK; Florence G’Sell-Macrez, France; Mette Hartlez, Denmark; Geneviéve Helleringer, France; David Hyman, USA; Bernhard A. Koch, Austria; Rob Leflar, Japan; Ken Oliphant, Overview; Mårten Schultz, Sweden; Charles Silver, USA; Marc Stauch, Germany; Stephen Todd, New Zealand; Vibe Ulfbeck, Denmark; Zhu Wang, China (PRC); Richard Wright, Overview.

The following students have graded onto the Chicago-Kent Law Review!  You all will have an opportunity to accept an invitation to become a member of the Review.  Please expect an email from me sometime next week.  Congratulations! 

Travis M. Bayer 
Katherine G. Cisneros 
Jeffrey M. Cisowski 
Katherine L. Goyert 
Richard E. Gutierrez 
Jacquelyn M. Hill 
Michael R. Johnson 
David G. Jorgensen 
Brian L. Kebbekus 
John K. Kennedy 
Margaret K. Master 
Diana W. Myers 
Kelly Noonan 
Bradley E. Puklin 
Rachel A. Remke 
Matthew B. Rudolph 
Charles M. Spiekerman 
Caroline A. Teichner 
Jonathan R. Walton 
Jordan E. Wilkow     

- Brian Langs

Hello CK Law Review Community,

My name is Brian Langs, and I will be replacing David Freedman as the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicago-Kent Law Review for the upcoming 2010-2011 academic year.  First off, I want to thank this year’s current executive board, the entire law review staff, and especially David for doing a phenomenal job with Volume 85.  Also, special thanks to Mike Borella for taking the time to create our vastly improved CK Law Review website this past year. 

From what I hear, we will be publishing 85:2 and 85:3 very soon, congratulations on a job well done!  I wish the best of luck to all of our departing 3L and 4L members, wherever post-law school life may take you.   

As for the upcoming academic year, we are already getting the ball rolling.  I am excited to announce that Volume 86:1 – Symposium on Energy Law is in the works.  Professor Fred Bosselman, of our own Chicago-Kent College of Law, will be the Symposium Editor.  We are extremely lucky to have someone so established and recognized in the field on board.     

For all the CK Law Review alumni out there, we have a goal to put together a CK Law Review Alumni Directory this year.  Hopefully, it is something that will be able to be accessed on our brand new website.  If any alumni are interested in joining the directory or participating in CK Law Review networking/social events, please send an email to: cklrexecs@gmail.com.

For those CK law students interested in participating in the Summer Candidacy Program this summer, stay tuned.  We should be posting more information on that in the next month or so.

Finally, I would invite anyone interested in supporting the CK Law Review to join or “like” our CK Law Review Facebook page and follow the CK Law Review on Twitter and on our RSS feed. 

Again, a huge thanks to David and the entire 2009-2010 CK Law Review Staff.  What a success!  I hope everyone is as excited as I am to pick up where they left off.

Best,

Brian Langs