Yesterday, the Executive Board conducted interviews of very qualified and impressive 2L candidates for next year’s Board. After much deliberation, we have finally selected the following students to lead the Chicago-Kent Law Review next year:

Editor-in-Chief
Catherine Cottle

Managing Editor
Cecilia Suh

Executive Notes and Comments Editor
Daniel Hantman

Executive Articles Editors
Teresa Becvar
Qi Chen
Jennifer Nimry Eseed
Kylin Fisher
Kyle Gillen
Eric Michel
Karlin Sangdahl
Vladmir Shuliga
Sylvia St. Clair

We are confident that the new Executive Board will take the Law Review to great heights.

The Institute for Law and the Humanities
at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
and the
Chicago-Kent Law Review
present

A Symposium on Women’s Legal History:
A Global Perspective

Thursday – Friday, October 13 – 14, 2011
Keynote: Thursday, October 13, 5 p.m.

Sarah Barringer Gordon
University of Pennsylvania Law School
“Holy War: Women, Courts and Religion in the 1980s”

Panels: Friday, October 14, 8:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Speakers include:

Barbara Babcock
Stanford University

Lloyd Bonfield
New York Law School

Tracey Jean Boisseau
University of Akron

Lily Chang
Magdalene College,
University of Cambridge

Benedetta Faedi Duramy
Golden Gate University
School of Law

Susan Hinely
SUNY – Stony Brook

Adetoun Ilumoka
University of Western Ontario

Gwen Jordon
University of Illinois – Springfield

Mary Jane Mossman
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Margaret Powers
Illinois Institute of Technology

Carla Spivak
Oklahoma City University
School of Law

Kara Swanson
Northeastern University

Karen Tani
University of Berkeley

Tracy A. Thomas
University of Akron

Deleso Alford Washington
Florida A&M University

Mary Ziegler
St. Louis University

Congratulations to the following candidates who have received an invitation to join the Chicago-Kent Law Review:

Adam Altman
Ali Ammoura
Jennifer Baader
Alex Banzhaf
Teresa Becvar
Chris Bowers
Emily Chase-Sosnoff
Jeffrey Grimyser
Brittany Kaspar
Katryn Newton
Andrew Oppenheimer
Vladimir Shuliga
Phillip Skaggs

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!

Download the problem and materials here.

Download the instructions document here.

Good luck!

Download the 2011 Summer Candidacy Program Instructions here.

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 the Editor-in-Chief, Maggie Master, sometime in the next few days.  Congratulations!

Allison Adams
Dunstan Barnes
Qi Chen
Samuel Cook
Catherine Cottle
Amanda Del Carlo
Yu Di
Patrick Ferrell
Kylin Fisher
Kyle Gillen
Daniel Hantman
Luke Harriman
Joshua Horwitz
Peter Kim
Sarah Marfisi
Michael Mason
Eric Michel
Samuel Mustain
Jennifer Nimry
Cole Richter
Karlin Sangdahl
Sylvia St. Clair
Cecilia Suh

Hi everyone,

Class ranks should be finalized towards the end of June and we’ll be sending out invitations at that time to those students who qualify for Law Review membership based on their grades.  The Summer Candidacy Program (SCP or “write-on” method) is the other way to earn a place on the Law Review, for students demonstrating excellent writing and critical thinking abilities.  This year’s SCP will run from July 5 to July 19.  The problem and materials will be made available for download from this site – no outside research will be permitted.

I’ll be holding an open informational session at school towards the end of June.  More details on that session and the SCP generally will be coming soon.

Cheers,

Daaron Kimmel

Executive Notes and Comments Editor

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