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Faculty Changes at the School of Law

It's always a pleasure to have the privilege of detailing the changes in our ranks from year to year. Please join me in welcoming the outstanding new members of our law school community and in gratefully acknowleding the many contributions of those who are departing. It's great to be starting a new year.

- Jeremy Paul
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
and Professor of Law

COMINGS AND GOINGS

I. Welcome

This Fall’s new faces will include the on-campus arrival of our newest permanent colleague, Patricia A. McCoy, who will be joining us after her one year stay as a Visiting Scholar in the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor McCoy is one of the nation's foremost experts on the law governing the provision of financial services, an increasingly significant component of business law more generally. She joins our Faculty as Professor of Law after 10 years on the faculty at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where she built a record of outstanding scholarship and teaching excellence. Professor McCoy is the author of the leading treatise: Banking Law Manual: Federal Regulation of Banks, Thrifts, and Financial Holding Companies (2d ed. 2000 & cumulative supplement) and editor of the recently published Financial Modernization after Gramm-Leach-Bliley (2002). Her recent co-authored article in the Texas Law Review identifies and proposes creative solutions for the increasingly prevalent problem of predatory lending in the home mortgage market. As a result, she has become a sought after speaker, delivering lectures on subprime securitizations at a recent Chicago conference sponsored by the Woodstock Institute, the National Consumer Law Center and Fannie Mae, and serving as a panel discussant at Harvard Law School this June concerning Risk-Based Capital in response to papers by Howell Jackson and Phillip Wellons.

Professor McCoy is a member of the Consumer Advisory Council of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and vice-chair of that Council's Consumer Credit Committee. In 2001, she served as Chair of the American Association of Law Schools' Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services. Prior to joining the academy, Professor McCoy was a partner in the well known law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw (formerly Mayer, Brown & Platt) in Washington, D.C. and in 1983-84 she served as law clerk for the late Judge Robert S. Vance of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She holds her B.A. from Oberlin College and her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was editor-in-chief of the Industrial Relations Law Journal. Professor McCoy teaches Business Organizations, Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Banking Law, and Consumer Finance.

Under the astute and tireless leadership of Professor Tom Baker, this year's Faculty Appointments Committee has brought us a rich array of visiting professors who will deeply enrich our 2003-04 curriculum. They will also help ensure that the basic first year subjects are predominantly taught in our customary small classes even as the law school's popularity continues to be reflected in the size of our entering class. Three new visitors from geographically disperse law schools will be with us all year. They are:

• Martha McCluskey - Martha McCluskey is Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a prolific scholar having written widely on issues of workers compensation law and law in the welfare state, including book chapters in books from Oxford and Duke University presses, and articles in the Indiana Law Journal, the Maine Law Review, the Rutgers Law Review and several more specialized journals She has taught courses in constitutional law, many aspects of health care and insurance law, and also in labor and gender issues. She holds her J.D. from Yale Law School where she was an editor on the Yale Law Journal and won the Clifford L. Porter Prize for the best paper in taxation. Professor McCluskey also earned an LL.M. and J.S.D. with distinction from Columbia Law School. Her undergraduate degree in Human Development, magna cum laude, is from Colby College. While visiting with us, Professor McCluskey will teach the basic Health Law course in the Fall, the year-long, introductory Constitutional Law course to the evening division, and a Spring seminar in a labor-related topic.
• Elizabeth Rapaport - Elizabeth Rapaport is the Dickason Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, where she has taught since 1995. She joined that faculty with 17 years of prior experience teaching philosophy and public policy and she has written extensively about and maintains a deep interest in ethics. Her other passion is Criminal Law, and she has published articles about issues such as executive clemency, pardons, the death penalty and gender discrimination upon sentencing in law reviews all across the country. Her seminar on clemency at New Mexico resulted in students winning clemency for a client serving a 25 ½ year prison term, and she serves on the New Mexico Bar’s Task Force to Consider the Administration of the Death Penalty. Professor Rapaport earned her undergraduate degree from City College in 1965, her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Case Western Reserve University in 1971 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1987. She served as law clerk to Justice Harry C. Martin of the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1987-88. Professor Rapaport was a faculty member in the philosophy department at Duke University from 1988-94 and in the philosophy department at Boston University from 1969-81. She has also taught at Duke Law School, North Carolina Central University, Bennington College, the University of Southern California and the University of Sydney. At Connecticut, Professor Rapaport will teach a section of Criminal Law each semester, the required course in the Legal Profession in the Fall and a seminar on gender issues in criminal law in the Spring.
• Adam Scales - Professor Scales was awarded tenure this year by the law faculty at Washington & Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, and will be spending his post-tenure year with us as a Visiting Professor. His creative work on Torts and Insurance Law has been published in the Iowa Law Review and most recently in the Wisconsin Law Review, and he plans to continue his research in these areas. Professor Scales is a 1991 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and he holds his J.D. from the University of Michigan where he graduated in 1993 as the elected valedictorian. Before joining the Faculty of Washington and Lee in 1997, Professor Scales spent two years as an associate at the Minneapolis law firm of Faegre & Benson and then served as law clerk to three U.S. District Judges, Judge Michael J. Davis, Judge David S. Doty and Senior Judge Robert G. Renner, all in the District of Minnesota. Next year, Professor Scales will teach the Principles of Insurance course to the LL.M. students in the Fall and a seminar on Products Liability in the Spring.

In addition to our newcomers, we have the privilege of welcoming Susan R. Schmeiser back to our campus for a second year as a visiting professor. Professor Schmeiser came to us most recently from the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C., where she was an associate doing litigation. Before that Professor Schmeiser was law clerk to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She has taught previously at both Yale University and for five years in the English Department at Brown University, where Professor Schmeiser earned her Ph.D. in English Literature this past May. She holds her J.D. from Yale Law School, 1999 and her A.B. from Princeton University, 1989. Professor Schmeiser will teach Criminal Law this Fall and in the Spring she will tackle Family Law as well as repeating her seminar on mental health law and the legal treatment of social deviance.

Also returning will be Anne Goldstein, who will serve as a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law. No stranger to this community, Professor Goldstein taught in the Civil Rights Clinic in 1996 and in the Lawyering Process program from 1996-2000. She received her A.B. from Radcliffe College in 1978 and her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1984. Following graduation, she served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Ellen Peters and she then joined Livingston, Adler, Pulda, Meiklejohn & Kelly. Since 2000, she has been Of Counsel to that firm. We are pleased that she will be teaching here once again.

We are also delighted that David King, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law has agreed to give of his time to travel up the highway and teach a section of Property for us this Spring. Dean King has more than 25 years of law teaching experience and has published widely in the area of Real Property and Land Use Planning, even braving the waters of The Rule Against Perpetuities. Dean King has been an associate at Garber, Simon & Haiman in Cleveland, Ohio and a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation, and a Voluntary Hearing Officer for the Bridgeport and Norwalk Housing Authorities. We are especially grateful to him for helping out a neighbor to the north.

Also joining our visiting ranks from a sister school to the south will be Robert Charles Ekelund Hockett. Professor Hockett is the Tutor in Law and a Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School where he runs the graduate workshop and co-teaches a course in The Law and Economics of International Finance jointly offered by the Law School and the School of Management. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Hockett holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Philosophy & Mathematical Logic from Oxford University as well as a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Kansas, where he was named by the law faculty as the outstanding student in his class. More recently he has completed an LL.M. at the Yale Law School where he served as both Executive Editor and Articles Editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. His S.J. D. dissertation is titled “Efficient Assurances: Financially Engineering & Publicly Facilitating Distributively Just, Market-Based Income-Risk-Modulation in a Flexible New World Economy. In 1999-2000, Professor Hockett served as law clerk to Judge Deanell R. Tacha of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He has also served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund since 1999. Professor Hockett's interests are wide ranging and he has penned numerous articles on philosophy, on international finance and a monograph detailing the life of a homeless man. Professor Hockett will teach the full year course in Civil Procedure to our Evening Division students and we look forward to welcoming him.

II. Bon Voyage

We will be saying a fond farewell to Mary-Rose Papandrea, who spent this past year with us as a Visiting Professor teaching Civil Procedure and a seminar on Privacy in the aftermath of Sept. 11th. Professor Papandrea's classes were enormously popular with our students and she will be playing to SRO crowds in New York City next year, where she will be teaching as Visiting Professor at the Fordham University Law School. Since she is a Meriden native and daughter of John Papandrea '59, she plans to stay in touch with the Law School where she started what will, no doubt, be a long successful career in law teaching.

Fond goodbyes as well to Robin Cecere who has decided to step down as Director of Career Services. Ms. Cecere's contributions to the law school have been incalculable and include development of the honors program, a dramatic increase in service to students seeking judicial clerkships, the provision of electronic services to students such as the career services newsletter and perhaps above all the contribution of a warm and professional air to the career services office. In addition, this June, to the delight of students, Ms. Cecere found time to venture into the classroom by offering a course in Employment Discrimination. We wish Ms. Cecere well in her future endeavors and express our deepest thanks for her many contributions to the Law School.

The Law School must also bid adieu to Allison Thompson, our crackerjack University Relations professional who has served behind the scenes at Storrs over the last few years assisting individual faculty members in placing articles in the mainstream media and in helping the school as a whole spread its message. Ms. Thompson's splendid efforts have resulted in a substantial increase in our Faculty's ability to publish in periodicals more generally accessible than law reviews, and she has made sure that every reporter in the state and beyond knows whom to contact on our campus when seeking a juicy and informed quote. Our loss is Northwestern's gain, since Ms. Thompson will be enrolling there as a doctoral student in clinical psychology. We extend our deepest thanks and best wishes for what we are sure will be Ms. Thompson's success in her newly chosen field.

III. Adjunct Faculty

As is typically the case, our success in finding talented new instructors for 2003-04 extends well beyond those who will find themselves housed within our walls. The list of folks who will augment our traditionally splendid adjunct faculty includes the following accomplished individuals. Additional Spring instructors will be added this Fall.

• Joseph J. Basile, Jr. - Professor Basile is a former teacher of the year at Western New England College School of Law where he was promoted to full Professor with tenure effective in 1988 only to leave the school to return to full time law practice. He's had a distinguished practice career as well serving as General Counsel and Director of Contracts for International Aero Engines, AG, a United Technologies affiliate from 1988-93, running his own practice from 1993-2000 and then joining the firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP as a partner in the corporate and finance areas in 2000. Prior to joining the WNEC faculty, Professor Basile also practiced law at Cravath, Swaine &Moore for four years full time from 1979-83, remaining as a consultant for seven more years while teaching in Springfield. A 1974 graduate of Stonehill College and 1977 graduate of Harvard Law School, Professor Basile spends time in Bingham McCutchen's Boston and London offices while maintaining a residence in Simsbury. He has published numerous articles in law reviews, particularly in the area of partnership law, and written many articles in practitioner publications on various aspects of commercial and finance law. As a long time teacher of many business law topics, including Secured Transactions, we are grateful that he will be handling that course for us this Fall.
• Richard (Dick) Baxter - Professor Baxter is no stranger to the law school having helped out with the Tax Clinic and the Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative in recent years. We are thus happy to have persuaded him to tackle this Spring's class in Legal Accounting on his own. It's hard to imagine someone better suited to restore this important course to our curriculum. A 1967 Bucknell graduate who holds an MA from Yale, Professor Baxter graduated from Duke University Law School in 1975 and has been actively involved in accounting issues ever since. After a couple of years in the seventies with then highly respected Arthur Andersen & Co., Professor Baxter joined the Aetna in 1977 rising to the post of Senior Tax Counsel and Head of Planning, Strategy and Audits within Corporate Controllers, a post he held from 1999-2001. He was Tax Counsel from 1986-98, and handled accounting issues both internally and as public representative of the company.
• Marcia Canavan - Professor Canavan joins our adjunct faculty after a diverse array of experiences that prepare her well for the course in the Legal Profession, which she'll teach this Fall. She served as a state judge in Colorado from 1987 through 1992 after several years in private practice. From 1990 - 2002, she was a tenured member of the faculty at Metropolitan State College of Denver in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology where she taught many different courses. She has also taught at the University of Colorado, the University of Rhode Island, and most recently as a legal skills instructor at Quinnipiac School of Law. She is the editor of three text books, including Ethics: Readings and Materials published in 2001 by Kendall/Hunt Publishing. In addition to her J.D. degree from Golden Gate Law School, Ms. Canavan holds M.P.H. and B.A. degrees from UCLA.
• P.J. Cimini - Professor Cimini is a founder and principal partner in Capitol Strategies Group, LL.C., a firm providing advice to a host of major Connecticut business enterprises and other institutions concerning matters before the state legislature and administrative agencies. A 1995 graduate of our law school, Mr. Cimini has served as Senior Administrative Assistant to the Speaker of the House in the Connecticut legislature, as Town Councilor to the Town of Newington, and as a Legislative Aide to the House Democrats. He has taught state and local government at Eastern Connecticut State University and Parliamentary Law and Politics at Central Connecticut State University. He also conducts an annual Continuing Legal Education Program for the Connecticut Bar Association on "Lawyer-Lobbying in Connecticut: Government Relations and Policymaking for Attorneys." Mr. Cimini holds degrees in political science from Drew University (B.A.) and Rutgers University (M.A.), where he was awarded a fellowship at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. We are delighted to welcome him back to the campus where he will co-teach a new course in Law and Lobbying with Matt Hallisey. The Law School's location in the state capital and the increased complexity and sophistication of laws governing contact with public officials make this an important new addition to the school's curriculum.
• Danae Dwyer - Professor Dwyer will bring welcome practical experience to the course in Energy Law that she will co-teach with Robert Birmingham this Fall. Professor Dwyer is a graduate of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI and a cum laude graduate of Vermont Law School. She also spent the 2001-02 academic year as a visiting student here at the University of Connecticut. Since graduation she has done innovative work at Environment Northeast, a Hartford-based not-for-profit entity devoted to promoting energy conservation here in our state. We are delighted that she will bring expertise gained there to our classroom.
• Matthew Hallisey - Mr. Hallisey is Director of Governmental Relations and Legislative Counsel for the Connecticut Bar Association where he heads the CBA's membership and recruitment task force, and is the principal representative of the CBA in matters before the Connecticut legislature as well as matters confronting the Executive Branch. He is the Vice-President of the Association of Connecticut Lobbyists and a Board member of the Government Relations Section of the National Association of Bar Executives. Prior to joining the CBA, Mr. Hallisey was a legislative attorney at the Legislative Commissioner's office. He holds his B.A. in history from the College of Holy Cross and his J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center. Mr. Hallisey also serves as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Connecticut Law Tribune and has been an alternate member of the Town Plan and Zoning Commission in Glastonbury, Connecticut. He will be teaching Law and Lobbying this Fall with P.J. Cimini.
• Barbara Quinn - Judge Quinn was named to the Superior Court Bench in 1996 and has been on general civil jury assignment since 2001. From 1997-2001 she was the Presiding Judge in the Child Protection Section. She also served as a judge in the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court from 1992-96. Prior to joining the Superior Court bench, Judge Quinn practiced law in New London with Greenberg, Andrews, Quinn and Steenburg, and then with Andrews, Quinn, Cosgrove & Young, P.C. for nearly 20 years. Judge Quinn has been active throughout the state giving lectures on juvenile law and serving as the Vice-Chair of the Connecticut Bar Examining Committee for over 10 years. She is also a recognized leader in Alternative Dispute Resolution, the course she will be taking over from Judge Thomas Bishop this Fall. Judge Quinn has chaired the ADR committee of the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters, served for 8 years on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Council for Divorce Mediation and since 1984 been a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. We are proud to have her stepping in to fill Judge Bishop's broad shoes and delighted that he too will be among us teaching a brand new seminar in on the history of Judicial Independence.

Not to be outdone, the Insurance Law Center under the continued stellar leadership of Tom Baker has added several new adjunct faculty members:

• Sam S.F. Caligiuri - Professor Caligiuri will be teaching Regulation of Insurance Transactions with his fellow Day, Berry & Howard lawyer, Stephen Middlebrook. Mr. Caligiuri is the former Deputy Counsel to Governor John G. Rowland. He currently practices in the areas of business law, banking law and insurance regulation. He holds a B.A. from Boston College, an M.A.R from Yale University, and received his Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of America.
• Thomas C. Clark - Professor Clark is a partner at the Connecticut office of Litchfield Cavo. Most recently, he served as co-author and lecturer on "Insurance Bad Faith in Connecticut" sponsored by Lorman, 2003. He will join the Center's founding Director, Robert Googins, in teaching Liability Insurance. Mr. Clark attended Dartmouth College (B.A.). and received his J.D. from Cornell University, where he served as Chancellor of the Moot Court Board.
• Charles H. Klippel - Professor Klippel is Deputy General Counsel, Aetna, Inc., and a member of the company's Strategy Council. Since 1981, Mr. Klippel has held legal positions of increasing responsibility at Aetna. Mr. Klippel is responsible for all legal support provided to the company's health operations, including all business segments He has taken over the role of teaching Life Insurance and Healthcare Financing. Mr. Klippel is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A.), Harvard Graduate School of Education (M.Ed), Harvard School of Public Health (M.P.H.) and Harvard Law School.
• Stephen B. Middlebrook - Professor Middlebrook serves as Special Counsel to the firm on state insurance company regulation. He is formerly the General Counsel for Aetna Life and Casualty Companies. Mr. Middlebrook's strong background in insurance law and state regulatory requirements has proved invaluable to those seeking Connecticut domicile. Mr. Middlebrook holds a B.A. from Yale College, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He will be teaching Regulation of Insurance Transactions with Sam S.F. Caligiuri.

IV. Returning and Traveling

Although our students are the principal beneficiaries of having so many wonderful newcomers, let’s not forget the wonderful possibilities created for our own Faculty to shift attention temporarily from teaching to other important endeavors such as research and travel:

Congratulations first to Terry Tondro who has chosen to spend a semester in Rome each year studying new urbanism in only slightly more felicitous environs. Accordingly, after 30 years of distinguished membership on the Faculty, Professor Tondro has taken senior status at the law school, where he will continue to teach each Fall semester. Because he will not be at the law school full-time, he has asked that the Gallivan Chair, which he has held with distinction since its inception in 1990, be awarded to a colleague who will be able to devote full attention to the duties of the position. These responsibilities include organization of major conferences and seminars on issues of interest to both scholars and practitioners in land use, real estate, and other issues of property law. Accordingly, Dean Newton has nominated Associate Dean Jeremy Paul to the Chair and her nomination has been confirmed by the University's Board of Trustees. Dean Paul will begin serving in the 03-04 academic year.

Congratulations as well to Jessica Rubin who will be resuming her duties teaching Lawyering Process after a year's leave occasioned by birth of her now one-year-old daughter Lillian.

Carolyn Jones will spend the 2003-04 academic year as a Visiting Professor at the Michael E. Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University teaching her customary array of tax courses. We aren't surprised that Professor Jones's teaching services are in hot demand and we have reminded her that while Columbus is good for discovery, home is where Hartford is.

Paul Berman has been awarded a Chancellor's Research Fellowship by the University of Connecticut, and as a result of his selection in this competitive process he will be released from teaching during the Spring semester. Professor Berman was chosen on the basis of the excellence of his research proposal and he will be spending his semester moving forward on his ambitious book project Law Without Borders. This book explores the ways that the internet and other technological changes threaten to render obsolete the historic connection between geographic territory and legal sovereignty. Professor Berman has completed another trip as well, having been formally approved this Spring by the University's Board of Trustees as having completed the long journey from associate professor to Professor with academic tenure. He has our hearty congratulations.

Robin Barnes will also be away next Spring working on various scholarly projects and thus she will be unable to devote full attention in this upcoming year to the Street Law program that she has nurtured so successfully following the departure of former Dean George Schatzki. Fortunately, Carolyn Grose has agreed to take on the program for both semesters in addition to her duties teaching Lawyering Process. We are confident that she will continue to build what has become an excellent part of the Law School's program.

Jennifer Mailly will also be on leave during the Fall semester tending to a host of matters that she promises will not prevent her Spring return.

Mark Janis was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist (although we all know he's too young to be "senior"), and this led to his receiving a visiting post at Riga Graduate School of Law, where he has been teaching a course in International Dispute Settlement. Riga's students are graduates of law schools in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania who take an advanced degree to ready them for careers in teaching & government. Fortunately, Professor Janis's European teaching was completed in May/June 03 so we'll have him back before the school year starts.

Kurt Strasser also finds his teaching services in demand overseas. He is teaching Contracts and Antitrust at the Free University of Berlin during Summer '03 and by all accounts is having a marvelous time. He too will be back for the beginning of the school year.

Also returning to the fold will be Professor Peter Lindseth who completed the Spring 2003 term as the Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence. While at the European University Institute, Peter was attached to the "Economy as Polity" project, an interdisciplinary working group including faculty from EUI's law, political science and history departments.

Sabbaticals during the Fall semester will be taken by Lofty Becker and Anne Dailey. Professor Becker is working on an innovative set of materials that he will round into a casebook for the basic constitutional law course. The word casebook, however, may be a misnomer as he plans to publish the materials via CD-ROM in a format that will allow easy student mark-up of materials and instant electronic linkage to any case cited by the cases that Professor Becker has chosen to include. Professor Dailey continues work on her path-breaking study of Freud’s influence on the development of American Law, When Reasonable Minds Differ: Psychoanalysis, Scientific Psychology and the Law. Stephen Utz will be taking his sabbatical in Spring 2004 when he will continue his work on the history of the progressive income tax in both the United States and Great Britain.

V. Our Teaching Partners

We have good news also from the Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative, whose campus activities continue to grow and with them students gain opportunity to try new things. This year CULI has launched the NonProfit Pro Bono Initiative. This Initiative, generously funded by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and Initiative partners United Technologies; Aetna; The Hartford Insurance Group; Hartford Steam Boiler; Northeast Utilities; Phoenix; Travelers; Day, Berry & Howard; Robinson & Cole and CULI itself, will provide services to eligible non-profit organizations in Hartford County who serve low income communities or otherwise serve the public interest. Services offered will include assistance with incorporation, drafting and revision of bylaws, filing for tax exempt status and a full range of advice on transactions necessary to conduct business as a nonprofit organization. In addition to providing some services directly, the Initiative will play a key role in coordinating the pro bono services of private attorneys willing to participate in providing service to eligible organizations.

The NonProfit Pro Bono Initiative will be directed by Attorney Regina M. Hopkins who comes to our campus directly from service as Assistant Commission Counsel for the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. Before that, Ms. Hopkins was an attorney with Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission where she litigated cases involving the state's open records and open meetings law. She has a long and distinguished record of devoting her legal skills to those who need them most, having worked with the National Center For Immigrants' Rights in Los Angeles, the Housing Law Unit and Eviction Defense Center of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and the Homeless Litigation Task Force in Los Angeles. She has also dedicated time to community involvement by serving as Co-Chairperson of the Connecticut Kids' Court Committee, a group that sponsors speaking and court competition for young people. Ms. Hopkins holds her B.A. magna cum laude with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania and she earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1984. It is a pleasure to have her within our walls helping us to build bridges outside them.

The Center for Children's Advocacy also has expansion plans. It has received two new outside grants and thus will soon be adding an additional attorney as part of its successful Medical Legal Partnership project. The new Lawyer will be based at St. Francis Hospital and will cover St. Francis, Burgdorf and the Charter Oak Community Center, providing needed legal services to those already facing difficult medical issues. TeamChild lawyer, Roger Bunker, will be retiring this October and the Center expects to name a successor shortly thereafter.

VI. Transitions

Last but certainly not least, our LL.M. program for foreign students has been and continues to remain a source of pride for the Law School. Much of our success has been due to the dedicated leadership of Mark Janis in both conceiving of and for the last several years taking charge of the program. Mark has now completed a substantial term as director during which time the program made important strides and attracted some extraordinarily talented students to Hartford. We are all deeply grateful for everything Mark has done to build the program and very glad that he will remain involved.

The happy news is that Hugh Macgill has agreed to serve as Director of Graduate Studies for the coming two years. Willajeanne McLean will continue to direct the exchange program for at least another year with the assistance of Blanche Capilos.

Anne Engel, Deputy Director of the Insurance Law Program, will become Graduate Programs Manager at the Law School so that her area of responsibility will now also include the LL.M. program in U.S. Legal Studies for foreign students. Pamela Kent will continue to work on visa compliance issues, an area in which she has built considerable expertise.

That this small law school in Hartford can have such strong international programs is only because of the considerable strength of our faculty and the talents of our dedicated staff. Thanks to all.