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Con Law Colloquium
Professors Michael Zimmer, Barry Sullivan, and Alexander Tsesis
hosted Loyola’s 5th Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium with more
than 80 constitutional law scholars from across the country discussing
their works in progress on constitutional issues. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean
of the University of California-Irvine School of Law, delivered the keynote
address on his book
The Case Against the Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Kwall,
right, has
been consistently listed
this year on
SSRN’s Top
25 US Tax Professors
in
the “recent downloads”
category. His article
“Backdating” has reached
over 5,300 downloads.
In demand
for down-
loads
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continuing legal education
programs
were offered at the
School of Law in 2014-15.
Conference convener
Professor Alexander Tsesis
organized
three
national conferences
on leading
legal trends for top law journals:
• Columbia Law Review
Thirteenth Amendment
• Texas Law Review
Constitutional interpretation
• Wake Forest Law Review
Internet privacy
3L leads Yale seminar
on bioethics
At Yale University’s Interdisciplinary
Center for Bioethics, Loyola
3L
Sumaya Noush,
below, led a
six-session summer
2015 seminar
on the influence of bioethical
perspectives
on trends in
pharmaceutics and international
patents. Noush presented at Yale’s
Annual Bioethics Symposium and
was a visiting research scholar at the
Hastings Center, where she worked
on legal issues related to Medicare
coverage for end-stage renal disease.
Loyolan claims competitive fellowship
Jessie DeWeese (JD ’15)
was selected for the two-year
Cleveland Clinic
Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics,
one of the most prestigious clinical
ethics fellowships in the country. Cleveland Clinic selects only one fellow
each year from a pool of MDs, JDs, and PhDs.
Significant appointments
•
James Thuo Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law,
joined
the board of editors of the
American Journal of International Law,
the
world’s preeminent peer-reviewed international law journal. Election to
this board of editors is regarded as a signature achievement for scholars
of international law.
•
Barry Sullivan, Cooney & Conway Chair in Advocacy,
was
reappointed to serve on the
Peer Review Panel for Fulbright
Law Awards.
•
John Blum
was appointed to the
Interdisciplinary Health Policy
Consortium’s Committee on Non-Discrimination in the Affordable
Care Act,
and to vice chair of the
American Bar Association’s Health
Law Section, Health Policy Taskforce.
•
Matthew Sag
was appointed a distinguished fellow of the
Searle
Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth.
•
Stacey Platt
was elected to the board of directors of the
Association
of Family and Conciliation Courts.
Faculty
milestones
Jerry Norton
retired this summer
after more than 44 extraordinary
years on the Loyola faculty; he
taught criminal law.
Loyola welcomed
Mary Ann
Becker
last fall as associate
director of writing programs and
academic support.
Fifteen years after he founded
the Business Law Clinic at
Loyola,
Joe Stone
retired
and turned over the clinic’s
leadership to
Codirector
Shelley Dunck (JD ’89), Randy
L. and Melvin R. Berlin Clinical
Professor of Business Law,
and
Mary Hanisch (LLM ’10),
assistant director.
ADVANCING LEGAL
SCHOLARSHIP
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