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Faculty Changes at the School of Law

This past year was the most exhilarating at the law school since I arrived in 1989. Top billing rightly goes to Justice Ginsburg's informative visit and to the Law, Culture and Humanities annual conference -- twin events orchestrated simultaneously by our own Paul Berman, with plenty of help from many quarters. Next year, however, holds considerable promise of its own, given the impressive array of new faces arriving on campus.

Thanks then to the seasoned eye of chairman, Tom Baker, and the tireless efforts of the 2003-04 Faculty appointments committee for helping to provide us with such wonderful new colleagues. Special congratulations also to Paul Chill, who on July 1 succeeded me as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and to Darcy Kirk, named the same day as Associate Dean for Library and Technology.

We need all this positive energy to help bid adieu to many who have been among us this year, and especially to ease the pain of saying goodbye to Alan Cullison and Carolyn Jones, who have taught here with distinction for so long. Of course, we can't shed too many tears over wishing Cully a wonderful, well-deserved retirement or over Carolyn's triumph in being named the first woman Dean at her alma mater, the University of Iowa College of Law.

Instead, let's take time gratefully to acknowledge the contributions of all those who will be moving on and to extend a hearty welcome to our delightful newcomers. As Hugh Macgill often reminds us, the best is yet to be.

Jeremy Paul        
Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law        
and Associate Dean for Research        

Comings and Goings

Five new members of the faculty bring us 12 degrees from distinguished institutions of higher learning such as Berkeley (2), Brown, Claremont McKenna, Columbia, Harvard (3), Swarthmore and Yale (3). Their diverse backgrounds, interests and experiences range from a peace corps stint in Romania to policy work at a welfare rights organization; from consumer protection work in Iowa to class action litigation in New York; from co-authored work with Nobel prize winners to path-breaking scholarship in leading journals. Above all, they are caring teachers, intrepid researchers and vital contributors to a host of disciplines and enterprises. I have no doubt that we will all grow to relish their presence in our community.

I. Welcome

Peter Siegelman - Our admissions literature sometimes describes the law school as a profoundly humane environment. If so, it's hard to imagine an economist better suited to take up residence than is Peter Siegelman. His extensive writing repeatedly unearths overlooked dimensions of familiar economic problems, re-shaping previously entrenched understandings with an eye toward humanizing the discipline. In one recent scholarly triumph, Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets: An Exaggerated Threat (Yale Law Journal - April 2004) Professor Siegelman demonstrates what we should have always realized - an expert organization with a massive database can better predict an individual's long run health with public information than can an individual with private secrets. Thus, contrary to the well-rehearsed theory of adverse selection, the information imbalance often runs not from consumer to insurance company but the other way around. In another tour-de-force, Professor Siegelman (with Gideon Parchomovsky), shows how the long accepted theory that individual landowners can block large scale economic projects by "holding out" for excessive prices turns out not to be true in practice. Instead, the large actor can force prices down because each owner fears his neighbors will sell thus dragging down the community. See, Selling Mayberry, Individuals and Communities in Law and Economics (January 2004 California Law Review, using Cheshire, Ohio case study).

Professor Siegelman's entire corpus is too voluminous to further recount here, other than to note that he has co-authored pieces with many of the nation's leading economists including a Nobel prize winner. Suffice it to say that our Law School is fortunate he will be returning after we improvidently let him escape to a successful stint on the faculty at Fordham Law School following visits here in the fall of 1998 and 1999. A member of both the American Economics Association and the American Law and Economics Association, Professor Siegelman holds his Ph.D. in Economics (1991) and his Master's in the Studies of Law (1997) from Yale University. He is a Phi Beta Kappa, high honors 1978 graduate of Swarthmore College. Peter Siegelman joins us as a tenured Professor of Law and this year he will be teaching Contracts, Economics of Insurance, Employment Discrimination and Law and Economics.

Kaaryn Gustafson - The Law School prides itself on an expertise in Insurance Law second to none, and, obviously, government is the insurer of last resort in many situations. Thus, we are particularly fortunate to have found a teacher and scholar, Kaaryn Gustafson, with extensive knowledge of the nation's welfare system and a passion for getting beyond rhetoric to study how welfare functions in practice. Her dissertation, The Morality and Rationality of Welfare: Welfare Recipients' Negotiation of the Welfare System, for which she recently earned a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, is a sophisticated demonstration, based on countless personal interviews with welfare recipients, of why the rules placed on the books by welfare lawmakers may often bear little resemblance to the system experienced by those we are trying to help. Although her Ph.D. is new, Professor Gustafson comes to us with considerable experience as an instructor in courses at Berkeley, as a litigator at the San Francisco law firm of Pillsbury, Winthrop and as a policy analyst and advocate at the Welfare Rights Education and Advocacy Project of the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland. She has published writings in the American Journal of Legal History and the Berkeley Women's Law Journal and co-authored (with Linda Burnham) a report to the United Nations on U.S. government policy toward poor women and children. A member of the American Sociological Association and active leader in the Law & Society Association, Professor Gustafson holds her J.D. (1997) from Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley (where she was both solicitations and articles editor of the Berkeley Women's Law Journal) and her A.B. magna cum laude in Sociology (1990) from Harvard University. Kaaryn Gustafson joins us as associate professor of law and this year she will teach Criminal Procedure, Critical Identity Theory and Social Welfare Law.

Alexandra Lahav - Alan Cullison's retirement sent us searching for a professor deeply rooted in courts and procedure, and, although Cully's experience and love of learning are matchless, we could not have found a brighter, more engaging proceduralist than Alexandra Lahav. Professor Lahav comes to us directly from Stanford Law School where she has been a lecturer and teaching fellow focusing on research and writing for first year students. Before that she had a vibrant litigation practice at the New York City law firm now called Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, where she worked on class actions, police misconduct cases, commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation and other issues. Her current writing includes a piercing analysis of the class action governance system soon to be published in the Indiana Law Review and a developing manuscript exploring the history of Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. While at Harvard Law School, from which she graduated magna cum laude in 1998, Professor Lahav was Executive Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review for which she authored a brief review on Legal Liberalism. She clerked for New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Alan Handler in 1998-99. A frequent traveler to Israel, where she did postgraduate studies at Tel Aviv University, Professor Lahav holds her B.A. (1993) with honors in history from Brown University. Alexandra Lahav will join us as associate professor of law and this year will teach civil procedure, a seminar on class actions, and a course or seminar on professional responsibility.

Michelle Caldera - The generosity of William R. Davis '55 has enabled the law school to employ a clinical fellow to teach and supervise students and to help with new programs in our civil clinics. Elizabeth McCormick, the first William R. Davis Fellow, will be continuing her teaching career at Cornell Law School. Two years ago, Professor McCormick and Jon Bauer together launched the stunningly successful Human Rights and Asylum Clinic and competition to succeed Betsy was fierce indeed. The clear winner was Michelle Caldera, veteran advocate for immigrants and speaker of Romanian, Russian and Spanish in addition to English. Michelle Caldera comes to us most recently from the New York Association for New Americans where she was a staff attorney representing immigrants in all levels of administrative proceedings. Before that she represented low-income clients at Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles. From Sept. 1999 - May 2000, she was a visiting lecturer within a Civic Education Project in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and she spent 1993-95 in Craiova, Romania as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching English and leadership training. She has also served as a Sandler Fellow for Human Rights Watch traveling to Texas and Louisiana to study death row inmates and back to Romania to focus on religious freedom. Michelle Caldera holds her (1998) J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and her B.A. (1992) from Claremont McKenna College. Michelle Caldera joins as a Clinical Instructor and the second William R. Davis Fellow. She will be teaching and supervising students this year in the Human Rights and Asylum Clinic.

Peter Kochenburger - As our LL.M. program in Insurance assumed an increasingly global character, we sought a replacement for Anne Engel, as director of graduate studies, who would tackle the insurance and international components of our curriculum with equal relish. We found Peter Kochenburger, an eleven-year veteran of the counsel's office within Travelers Property Casualty (and its predecessors), who has handled legislative and regulatory affairs as well as litigation at the highest levels across a wide spectrum of subjects, including workers compensation, OSHA, antitrust, bad faith cases, and advertising injury. Prior to his work at Travelers, Professor Kochenburger also spent five years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division of Iowa's Department of Justice. And, he has invaluable experience within legal education, having served from 1986-88 as Special Assistant to the Dean of Harvard Law School and having taught consumer protection law at Drake University Law School in Fall 1990. Professor Kochenburger graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School (1986) and holds his A.B. cum laude in history from Yale University (1982) where he won the McClintock Award for his senior essay in American History. Peter Kochenburger joins us as Director of Graduate Studies and Lecturer in Law and he will teach Principles of Insurance to our LL.M. students this fall, having just finished teaching Consumer Law during our 2004 June term.

Not content to rest on the laurels they would have earned for the diverse and talented array of newcomers, Tom Baker and crew also located a fascinating group of visitors who will be joining us next year for the fall semester or the spring semester or both.

René Reich-Graefe - The Law School has had wonderful experiences in recent years welcoming junior lawyers to the teaching profession. This time we face certain success as we bring back one of the best students the school has ever had, Rene Reich-Graefe, who earned his LL.M. (first in his class with a 4.0 GPA) in U.S. Legal Studies here in 1997. Since graduating, Professor Reich-Graefe has served as a law clerk at the Berlin Court of Appeals, in Germany, his native country, and then engaged in a sophisticated corporate and commercial practice at the law firm of Coudert Brothers LLP, from 1998-2000 in Germany and for the last four years in New York City. Professor Reich-Graefe came to Connecticut on a Fulbright Scholarship and a Dean's Scholarship after earning a B.A. (1988) in literature from St. John's College in Lahnstein, Germany and an LL.B. from the Free University of Berlin (1996) where he is now a doctoral candidate in jurisprudence. René Reich-Graefe joins us as a Visiting Professor of Law for the entire 2004-05 academic year, during which he will teach Business Organizations each semester and also the introduction to U.S. law class for this year's LL.M. students.

Stephen Cribari - Our students spoke so highly of last summer's Criminal Procedure course that we were thrilled to arrange a repeat engagement for Stephen Cribari, who is teaching here this July and remaining as a visitor in the fall. Professor Cribari is among the nation's leading experts in Law and Forensics and has built a dynamic career speaking and lecturing across the country on criminal law and evidentiary issues. His home school is the University of Denver College of Law, where he is Director of the Center for Civil Rights and Effective Law Enforcement and a frequent teacher of criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, appellate advocacy, and computer forensics. He has also taught at the University of Minnesota School of Law, the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University, George Washington University's Department of Forensic Sciences and (as the nation's first lay person to receive a Pontifical Degree in Canon Law) at Catholic University's department of canon law. He is an annual instructor at the F.B.I. Computer Analysis and Response Team's Examiner Qualification Training Program and at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Training Academy. His prior posts include 8 years as Deputy Federal Defender (2 as acting defender) in Baltimore (where he argued 2 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and over 40 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Cir.); Founding Executive Director of the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington; and, from 1997-99, Project Manager of a court reform initiative sponsored by the ABA's Standing Committee on Substance Abuse. He writes frequently for popular publications concerning issues of the day, and in a true display of renaissance virtuosity is also an accomplished playwright, poet and author of short stories. For example, his 10 minute, one-act play entitled "Finger Pointing a Corpse: A Forensic Lecture in One Act" will be produced during the 04-05 year at Patrick's Cabaret in Minneapolis. Professor Cribari holds his J.D. (1980) and his J.C.L. (1977) from Catholic University and his B.A. (1969) in English from St. Lawrence University. Stephen Cribari joins us as a Visiting Professor of Law this July teaching evidence and for the fall semester when he will be teaching two sections of Evidence and teaching in the Criminal Clinic with Professors Everett and Fernow.

Richard Michael Fischl - Michael Fischl (as he is known to all) is familiar to our students as co-author (with Jeremy Paul) of Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams. His superlative teaching record and extraordinary depth in labor law combine to make him an ideal visitor to supplement our labor offerings, now that George Schatzki is teaching in Arizona. A Professor of Law, and for the last five years Master of a Residential College at the University of Miami, Professor Fischl has offered the basic labor course and the course in contracts in nearly each of his 21 years on the Miami faculty. He has also taught courses in legal regulation of employment, employment discrimination, public sector labor issues; and seminars in collective bargaining, labor economics, and labor law in an era of globalization. Overseas, he has taught Comparative Labor Law at the University of London (summer courses in 1992 and 2001) and American Labor Law and Political-Economic Structure at the Internationales Zentrum, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (summer 1994). His labor law scholarship includes a lengthy Columbia Law Review article unearthing judicial hostility to truly altruistic worker protests; and a recent Oxford University press book (co-edited with Joanne Conaghan and Karl Klare) on transformative labor law practices across the globe. Professor Fischl contributed a chapter on workplace justice in the shadow of employment-at-will. His current projects include an article surveying the contemporary labor law curriculum and a chapter contrasting privatized child care with publicly provided fire protection for a book he is co-editing on globalization, women, and unpaid labor. Professor Fischl has also written widely on jurisprudential topics for publications such as Law and Social Inquiry, the University of Miami Law Review and Cardozo Law Review. Prior to teaching, Professor Fischl spent six years as a briefing attorney in the National Labor Relations Board's Division of Enforcement Litigation (Appellate and Supreme Court branches), where he successfully argued cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeals and was repeatedly commended for his outstanding work. Professor Fischl is a cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (1975) graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he received the highest distinction in political science, and a 1978 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. Michael Fischl joins us as Visiting Professor of Law for the fall semester when he will be teaching Contracts and Labor Law: Organizing and Collective Bargaining in the Workplace.

Joan Flynn - Bolstering our labor law offerings next spring, will be Joan Flynn, also a veteran of the National Labor Relations Board, and now Associate Professor of Law at Cleveland -Marshall College of Law. Professor Flynn is a prolific labor law scholar, having written major articles in the Ohio State Law Journal, the Boston University Law Review and the Wisconsin Law Review each subtly analyzing decisions and trends within the NLRB. She is also co-author (with Samuel Estreicher and Michael Harper) of the 5th edition of Labor Law: Cases, Materials and Problems published by Aspen Press and used in classrooms throughout the country. In addition to her two stints at the NLRB (1989-91 as field attorney and 1994-96 as staff counsel to member Charles I. Cohen) she spent 1991-93 serving as Assistant Corporation Counsel briefing and arguing appellate cases for the City of Chicago. She is a member of the American Law Institute, a Research Fellow at NYU Law School's Center for Labor and Employment Law and a member of the CCH Labor Law Reports Panel of Experts. She also served as clerk to the Honorable Paul Plunkett, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. Professor Flynn routinely teaches labor law, employment discrimination, administrative law and civil procedure and she has served as a visiting scholar at NYU and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School. She holds her J.D., cum laude, from NYU (1987) where she earned membership in the order of the coif and where she was awarded the Sol D. Kapelshohn Prize for highest excellence in legal writing in the field of labor law. She is a 1982 Phi Beta Kappa graduate, with honors in psychology from Grinnell College where she ranked first in her class. Joan Flynn will join us as a Visiting Professor for the spring semester when she will teach Employment Discrimination and Labor and Employment Law.

Finally, we are delighted also to announce that Neal Feigenson, Professor of Law at Quinnipiac Law School has agreed to add to his Fall 2004 teaching load by driving here Monday evenings to offer a section of Torts. Professor Feigenson, a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Maryland, has been teaching Torts at Quinnipiac for years and he is a pioneer in studying the use of film and other forms of visual persuasion in trials. He is hard at work now on a book (with Christina Spiesel and Richard Sherwin) on Law/Media/Culture: A Rhetorical Handbook for the Digital Age, and his highly-acclaimed 2002 book, Legal Blame, How Jurors Think and Talk about Accidents was published by the American Psychological Association. Professor Feigenson travels far and wide speaking on the rhetoric of blame and on visual persuasion, having spoken in just the last three years in Scottsdale, Atlanta, South Bend, Champaign, Vancouver and Budapest. We are proud to welcome him to our classrooms.

II. Bon Voyage

Of course, the trouble with having so many wonderful visitors is that you often have to say goodbye. Our curriculum and community life was deeply enriched this year, by teachers and scholars in whose accomplishments we will continue to take pride even as they return to their home campuses or on to other things.

Susie Schmeiser completes her two-year visit here having drawn rave reviews from students in classes on criminal law, family law, and mental health law. Starting next fall, she'll be at lecterns in the nation's capital, having accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Law at American University, where she will teach Torts, Family Law and Mental Health Law.

We are indebted to Professors McCluskey, Rapaport and Scales each of whom spent the entire year with us in 2003-04. After a semester's leave, Martha McCluskey is returning in January 2005 to the State University of New York at Buffalo where she is Professor of Law. While at Connecticut she taught the evening section of Constitutional Law, a basic class in Health Law, and a seminar on workplace and gender issues, a topic for which she was a passionate advocate in our community. Elizabeth Rapaport generously extended her stay through June term, when she taught a course in Legal Profession, which she had also taught last Fall. She also taught Criminal Law and a seminar in the National Security State this past spring. Her philosophical training and critical perspective were a vibrant part of our community this year as we struggled for the best lens through which to view the balance between civil liberties and security against terrorism. Professor Rapaport returns to the University of New Mexico where she is Dickason Professor of Law. Adam Scales also stayed on through June, (must be the Hartford weather) teaching an innovative course on relational harms. During the year, he taught Principles of Insurance to our LL.M. students and a spring course in Products Liability. The hearty zest he brings to the academic enterprise will be deeply missed, especially by an Insurance Center that won't be the same without him.

Goodbyes, this year, are not only for visitors. Bethany Berger, an integral member of our community over the past three years, as Research Professor of Indian Law, has accepted a position on the faculty at the Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. Professor Berger is an accomplished contributor to Indian law circles, and has been an invaluable participant in Dean Newton's editing of the forthcoming edition of the Felix Cohen Indian Law Handbook. While here Professor Berger penned two fascinating historical studies involving Indian issues during the America's early development, and she taught Indian Law and Property. She and Richard Pomp also invented and co-taught a class in taxation of American Indians. Before reaching Michigan, Professor Berger is spending the summer teaching property law at the Pre-Law Summer Institute for Native American Students held each summer by the American Indian Law Center at the University of New Mexico. Her future as a teacher and scholar of Indian Law is bright indeed. Carolyn Grose, who has been Assistant Clinical Professor of Law here in our Lawyering Process program since 1999 is also departing. An accomplished teacher and well-published scholar, Professor Grose is thankfully remaining in the educational community, taking up teaching at American University, where she will be Practitioner in Residence at the Washington College of Law. Professor Grose will teach a weekly seminar and co-teach the Women and the Law Clinic, which will involve supervising students in their live client cases. Another light that will be shining elsewhere is that of Elizabeth McCormick, who has completed her tenure as the first William R. Davis Fellow in our clinical program. Professor McCormick played a crucial role in the launching and development of our Human Rights and Asylum clinic, whose success has thrilled us all. Professor McCormick has accepted a visiting position on the faculty at Cornell Law School and she will begin clinical teaching in Ithaca this fall.

Sadly, as noted above, farewells this year also require parting with two longstanding pillars of the Law School community.

Alan Cullison leaves us, after having served most recently as Oliver Ellsworth Research Professor of Law, and since 1970 as a member of our Faculty, formally retiring as Professor of Law in 2001. His distinguished legal career was launched at the University of Iowa, where he earned his J.D., served as Note Editor of the Law Review, and was elected to the Order of Coif. He also holds an LL.M. from Yale and an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. Professor Cullison was law clerk to Judge Martin Van Oosterhout of the U.S. Court of Appeals and an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Iowa. Before coming to Connecticut, Professor Cullison was on the Faculty at the University of Houston and he also has served as Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. Professor Cullison's clear and incisive writing focused most often on untangling conceptual riddles and on big questions such as "the normative structure of positive law." His years of teaching included devotion to the uniform commercial code, contracts, civil procedure and evidence. All who know him understood that his keen intelligence was exceeded only by his entirely unnecessary modesty. Cully, your students and your colleagues will all miss you.

Carolyn Jones, alas, is going home. An Iowa native, 1976 graduate in English from the University of Iowa and 1979 graduate of the University of Iowa's College of Law (with highest honors and Order of the Coif), Carolyn Jones has been named that school's 16th Dean. Dean Jones is the first woman to hold this honor as she succeeds N. William Hines who served before her for 28 years. David Skorton, Iowa's President, expressing delight when Carolyn accepted his offer noted, "Her strong academic legal background, administrative experience and record of teaching excellence make her a superb leader to follow the distinguished path that Bill Hines has blazed." Those of us here at Connecticut know just how right he is. Dean Jones' stellar performance year after year in such courses as Federal Income Tax, Corporate Tax, Estate and Gift Tax, Taxation of Not-for-Profit Organizations and Tax History seminars made her a student favorite and an anchor of our tax certificate program that she helped create. Her wide-ranging scholarship focusing on many aspects of tax and tax history, including especially a focus on how tax law changes affected women's issues, was a model of careful and important work. And her sound judgment and tireless efforts made her a crucial part of every success this school has had in recent years, as she held the various posts of associate dean for academic affairs, chair of the faculty appointments committee, member of the dean search committee, and faculty secretary. Dean Jones, who also holds an LL.M. from Yale (1982) and who taught at Saint Louis University School of Law before coming to Connecticut, was astutely selected from a field of 239 applicants and nominees. Iowa has found a fantastic Dean. Connecticut retains a trusted friend. Good luck, Carolyn!

III. Adjunct Faculty

No year at the Law School would be complete without augmenting the crucial teaching done by those whose professional lives force them to confront the daily challenges of law practice. This year we have already added the following accomplished lawyers to our adjunct faculty. More may come later as Dean Chill rounds out the spring schedule.

• Raymond DeMeo - Raymond DeMeo is Managing Counsel at St.Paul Travelers, where he supervises all commercial lines litigation involving first party property claims. He has spoken and presented papers at numerous professional seminars throughout the country and serves as an arbitrator and fact finder for the Hartford and New Britain courts. Prior to his work at St.Paul Travelers, Professor DeMeo was a litigation attorney at Robinson & Cole in Hartford, where he specialized in commercial litigation. Professor DeMeo is a 1980 graduate, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College and, following a brief career as a newspaper reporter, a member of our own class of 1986, graduating with high honors. He also had the honor and privilege to clerk for Chief Justice Ellen Peters of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Raymond DeMeo will co-teach Property Insurance with Daniel Sullivan next spring.
• Mark Dubois - Mark Dubois is no stranger around here, having served as Assistant Clinical Professor of Law in the Lawyering Process program from July 2002 until this past fall, when he left us to become Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the State of Connecticut's Judicial Branch. In that post, for which Professor Dubois has already been profiled in the Connecticut Law Tribune, Professor Dubois handles grievances filed against Connecticut attorneys on issues including claims of unauthorized practice of law. Professor Dubois received his B.A. from Holy Cross and graduated from the Law School in 1977. Following graduation, he worked in a variety of positions, including as corporation counsel of the City of New Britain, as a member of Glass, Lebovitz & Dubois, and as a member of the Reardon Law Firm. He is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association's Board of Governors and serves as chair of the CBA's Committee on the Resolution of Legal Fee Disputes. Mark Dubois will teach a section of Lawyering Process in the evening this Fall.
• Jamie Fitzgerald - Jamie Fitzgerald is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group at the well-known law firm of Wiggin & Dana, where she has focused on trademarks for over 25 years. With extensive experience in infringement and unfair competition, Professor Fitzgerald's practice includes U.S. and international trademark counseling, prosecution, ex parte and inter partes proceedings before the TTAB and CAFC, Uniform Dispute Resolution proceedings, and related litigation in the federal courts. In addition, to her intensive law practice, Professor Fitzgerald is an accomplished pianist, a published short story writer, and a former Connecticut and U.S. Masters Cycling champion. Her undergraduate degree cum laude with high honors in English is from Middlebury College (1969), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and she holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago (1972) as a National Honor Scholar. Willajeanne McLean will be away next year pursuing a Fulbright Scholar Award. Accordingly, Jamie Fitzgerald will teach Trademarks this Fall.
• Curtis Johnson - The law school has launched a new environmental law clinic that will run both semesters. It will be conducted in conjunction with the Connecticut Fund for the Environment (CFE), the premier non-profit public-interest legal advocate for Connecticut's environment. Students will work directly with CFE attorneys on matters pending before administrative agencies, courts and the legislature. Curtis Johnson, Senior Staff Attorney and Program Director at CFE, will be one of the instructors. Professor Johnson is a member of the class of 1989 and holds an LL.M. summa cum laude in Environmental Law from the University of Vermont. His undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies is from Western Washington University. Professor Johnson's commitment to the environment began long before law school as he served for four years as an urban park ranger in the New Haven Department of Parks and Recreation. He was a general partner at Common Vision Contractors and Limited Partnership in New Haven and spent three years as an environmental lawyer at the Connecticut law firm of Murtha, Collina, Richter and Pinney before joining the Connecticut Fund for the Environment in 1993. His current work there as Program Director includes legal and public outreach to protect Connecticut's land, air and water, and he has represented CFE in a variety of wetlands, land conservation, clean water act and air pollution matters before administrative agencies and courts. The clinic that he will co-teach with Roger Reynolds will run both semesters during 2004-05.
• Mark Kindall - Mark Kindall is an Assistant Attorney General of the State of Connecticut where he served from 1994 to 2003 in the Environment Department and now serves in the Employment Rights Department. While at the AG's office, he has appeared as lead counsel in over 70 cases in Superior Court, ten cases in U.S. District Court and thirty cases before administrative agencies; and he has successfully argued cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Connecticut Supreme Court. Before joining the Connecticut AG's office, Professor Kindall spent 4 years as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. He was also an associate at the D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling for nearly 2 years. A published author on environmental and international issues, Professor Kindall holds his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was Book Review Editor of the California Law Review and a member of Order of the Coif. His A.B. in History with Highest Honors is from the University of California at Riverside. Mark Kindall will teach Administrative Law this fall.
• Deborah Moore - Since April 1996, Deborah Moore has been a staff attorney with the Corporation Counsel for the City of Meriden, where she is responsible for all aspects of litigation of claims brought against and on behalf of a municipality with roughly 60,000 residents. She has extensive trial experience in both state and federal court, and is actively involved in the legal community -- serving from 1999-2003 on the House of Delegates and the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Bar Association, since 1999 as Chair of the Young Lawyers Section of the Meriden-Wallingford-Southington Bar Association and since 1994 as Co-Chair of Law Related Education at the CBA. In this connection she has presented seminars on the "Bill of Rights in Action" to Connecticut high school students. She is also a frequent provider of workshops and seminars in connection with local social service agencies regarding human rights, housing rights, landlord/tenant and eviction matters, employment rights, public accommodation issues and credit transactions. A speaker of both Portuguese and Spanish, and a member of our class of 1994, Professor Moore holds her B.A. with honors from Brown University, where she won the Minnie Helen Kicks Award for Outstanding Achievement in African-American Studies. Deborah Moore will join us this fall to teach and orchestrate the Street Law program, which will be taught in the spring by Robin Barnes.
• Kevin O'Connor - Appointed by President George W. Bush, Kevin J. O'Connor was sworn in on November 22, 2002 as the forty-eighth United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. In January 2004, Attorney General Ashcroft appointed Professor O'Connor to serve a two-year term on the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of US Attorneys. Prior to his appointment as US Attorney, Professor O'Connor was a partner in the law firm of Day, Berry & Howard, where he specialized in securities enforcement, white-collar criminal defense and corporate internal investigations. While with Day, Berry & Howard, Professor O'Connor also served from 1999 to 2001 as Corporation Counsel for the Town of West Hartford. From 1995 to 1997, Professor O'Connor served as a Staff Attorney and Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement of the United States Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. O'Connor was a litigation associate at the law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. From 1992 to 1993, Mr. O'Connor served as a law clerk to the Honorable William H. Timbers of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. No stranger to our community, Professor O'Connor is a member of the class of 1992 when he graduated with high honors, and a former adjunct professor in the Lawyering Process program. He is also a 1989 honors graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Kevin O'Connor has previously served as an Instructor and Adjunct Professor at the National Law Center at George Washington University, and it is an honor to welcome him back to campus to co-teach a seminar on Federal Criminal Law with Professor Leonard Orland.
• Roger Reynolds - Roger Reynolds holds his 1992 J.D. from New York University Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the NYU Environmental Law Journal. His undergraduate degree is from Macalaster College, and he also completed a general course of study on Urban Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Reynolds demonstrated his commitment to environmental issues while still a law student, serving as an intern at the National Environmental Law Center in Boston, at the EPA's New York office and as a clinical student at the Natural Resources Defense Council. He then spent a year as a legal fellow at the Public Citizen Litigation Group, a year as law clerk to Connecticut Supreme Court Justices Robert J. Callahan and Richard Palmer and 8 years as an Assistant Attorney General III for the State of Connecticut working on environmental and other matters. He joined the Connecticut fund for the Environment where he is senior staff attorney in 2003. Roger Reynolds will co-teach our new Environmental Clinic with Curtis Johnson for both semesters next year.
• Michele Strickland - Michele Strickland, now of the Law Offices of Wayne E. Chapple LLC in Hartford, has many years of varied experience in the field of immigration law, which constitutes all of her current law practice. She spent 8 years with the law firm in New Haven (Morrison and Swaine and subsequently the Law Offices of James E. Swaine) that was home to Congressman Bruce Morrison. While there she began her focus on immigration matters. From 2000-2002 she ran her own law practice entirely in immigration law and then from 2002 -2004 she was an immigration lawyer at Robinson and Cole. Professor Strickland is also active on immigration issues throughout the state. She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Connecticut; is pro bono immigration counsel to the Center for Children's Advocacy; and has been Treasurer, Secretary, Vice-Chair and most recently Connecticut Chapter Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Her bar activities also extend to other matters and she has been President of the New Haven Young Lawyers; an Executive Committee Member of the New Haven County Bar Association; and a member of the Women and the Law Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association. Professor Strickland is a 1992 graduate of Quinnipiac Law School where she received both a Fannie Glickstien Public Interest Scholarship and an IOLTA Public Interest Law Scholarship. She holds her undergraduate degree from the University of New Orleans. Michele Strickland will teach Immigration Law this fall.
• John Tannenbaum - A seasoned veteran of all things tax, John Tannenbaum's active private practice now focuses on tax as well as business and estate planning. This follows his many years as a senior tax attorney with the IRS. Professor Tannenbaum is a Vice-Chair of the Closely Held Business Committee of the ABA and a member of the Executive Committee of the Tax Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. He is also past-President of the Tax Club of Hartford and the Hartford County Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Professor Tannenbaum has lectured widely on tax-related subjects before professional organizations such as the Connecticut Bar Association, the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Connecticut Association of Professional Accountants and the University of Connecticut Annual Tax School. He has also taught for many years in the Graduate Tax Program at the University of Hartford. Professor Tannenbaum holds an LL.M. in taxation from Boston University and is a 1971 graduate of Brooklyn Law School. He holds his B.A. in history from Pennsylvania State University. John Tannenbaum began teaching in the tax clinic last spring and it is our pleasure to welcome him back teaching in the tax clinic again for Spring 2005.

IV. Returning and Traveling

Our faculty members do such a good job of staying well-known and making contact with other institutions of higher learning that sometimes one needs a scorecard just to keep up. Next year, two members of the faculty will be away teaching at top U.S. law schools. Angel Oquendo will be at Boalt Hall School of Law of the University of California at Berkeley for the academic year, where he will be teaching Civil Procedure and International Human Rights in the fall and Latin American Law and a seminar with Angela Harris on critical race theory in the spring. Philadelphia will be the one-year home of Sean Griffith as he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, offering courses in Business Organizations, Mergers and Acquisitions and a seminar on economics, policy, and rhetoric in corporate governance. Sean has just come back to us this summer after a lovely stint at Université d'Aix-Marseille, where he delivered, in French, lectures on comparative corporate law. We eagerly anticipate the return of both our colleagues.

Our Faculty's teaching skills are in hot demand not only from coast (Berkeley) to coast (Pennsylvania) but around the globe as well. This year it's Willajeanne McLean who brings honor to our campus as recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award under which she will take up fall residence at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland teaching European Community Law and a seminar on Comparative Intellectual Property focusing on EU and US law. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the Fulbright Program is America's flagship international educational exchange activity sending approximately 800 professionals overseas next year to over 140 countries. Professor McLean is one of only 5 people selected nationwide to go to Poland, a fitting tribute for our own director of International Exchange. While overseas, Professor McLean will also undertake a fascinating research project comparing intellectual property law in Poland prior to and after its accession to the European Union. Professor McLean is slated to return in 2005-06 with what we are sure will be a set of wonderful stories and experiences from her well-earned year abroad.

Mark Janis, as usual, is also on the teaching overseas bandwagon. Once again this May and June, Professor Janis was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Latvia where he taught a course in International Human Rights Law to law graduates from Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. He also commenced preliminary work with faculty members there on joint projects with the USA and advised two young Latvian faculty members on their JSD theses, which they are completing at Lund University in Sweden. In October and November, after teaching an accelerated Conflicts course here, Professor Janis will be interviewing judges and administrators in Strasbourg in connection with preparation of the 3d edition of his text on European Human Rights Law (with Professors Richard Kay and Anthony Bradley) for Oxford University Press. And, to round off a peripatetic year, after completing the Spring term here teaching International Law and European Human Rights Law, Professor Janis will travel to Berlin where he will be a Visiting Professor at the Free University teaching Constitutional Law.

Research as well as far-flung teaching will reduce our on-campus complement next year. The University has honored both Tom Baker and Richard Parker as recipients of the annual Provost's award designed to afford university faculty time to complete important research projects. A University-wide committee made seven selections this year and the law school received two of them. [Professor Berman won one last year for his proposed book exploring the ideas of jurisdiction and globalization, and Professor Dailey was chosen the year before for her book on the history of psychoanalysis and the law.]

Professor Baker was chosen for his well-conceptualized outline of a book in progress illustrating the centrality of liability insurance to America's system of civil justice. His goal is to downplay "what is presently in the foreground (courts and legislatures) so as to highlight what is now deeply in the background (insurance contracts, insurance companies, and insurance regulators)." Professor Baker's book will crystallize much of his prior work and place it in front of a broader audience. He plans to combine the Provost's Award with a regularly scheduled sabbatical, and thus he will be gone all year.

Professor Parker was selected on the basis of his analytically crisp book proposal for a study of cost-benefit analysis in the context of environmental regulation. Also building on earlier work, Professor Parker offers an ambitious scholarly plan that not only thoroughly criticizes much major scholarship in the field but has the considerable virtue of proposing a concrete scheme of reform, something Parker dubs "consultative rulemaking." Parker does a wonderful job of cutting to the chase and showing the emptiness of much contemporary policy discussion. He will be gone in the fall, and will return to teach Administrative Law, and Globalism and the Environment in the spring. Everyone should look forward to reading both books.

Regularly scheduled sabbaticals will also be taken next spring by Richard Kay, Tom Morawetz, and Carol Weisbrod. Professor Kay hopes to incorporate additional research and put the finishing touches on his seven-chapter manuscript "The Glorious Revolution and the Continuity of Law." Professor Morawetz will be working on a sourcebook of materials for courses in law and literature as well as a book of his own original essays on topics in law and literature. He plans also to complete several articles on literary perspectives on judicial interpretation. Professor Weisbrod has embarked on several projects with a book on security being the closest to completion and another on law and humanities already in the works. Stephen Utz will return to us after his spring sabbatical this year, which he spent working on the history of the progressive income tax both here and in Great Britain.

V. Our Teaching Partners

Gladys Nieves - Martha Stone reports the good news from the Center for Children's Advocacy that they have added attorney Gladys Nieves to their offices in the Medical Legal Partnership Project staff. Attorney Nieves graduated from Yale University in 1994 and then spent two years working at the New York County District Attorney's Office in their Family Violence and Child Abuse Bureau. She earned her J.D. in 1999 from NYU Law School, where she was President of the Latino Law Students Association. After two years at the law firm of Pryor, Cashman in NYC, she joined the Legal Aid Society as a staff attorney in the Bronx Family Court before she joined CCA in May. As Senior Staff Attorney at MLPP, based at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Attorney Neives will represent poor children and families in cases where the legal intervention will make a difference in the health outcome of the child. She will also run training programs on legal issues involving poor children for medical practitioners including doctors, nurses, medical residents, social work and nursing staff. Jay Sicklick will stay as Director of the MLP Project and will now be in charge of two offices opened at the two federally qualified health clinics, Community Health Services and Charter Oak Health Clinic.

Priya Morganstern - On behalf of the Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative, Inc. ("CULI"), William Breetz happily announces the arrival on August 28, 2004 of Priya Morganstern as the new director of CULI's Non Profit Pro Bono Initiative. NPBI is funded by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, United Technologies Corporation and a number of Hartford's major insurance companies and law firms. Attorney Morganstern holds a B.S. from the State University of New York and a J.D. from Boston College. Before joining CULI, she served as Counsel to Day, Berry & Howard LLP in Hartford, where she was a member of the firm's Tax-Exempt Organizations Practice Group, its Health Care Practice Group and the firm's Pro Bono Committee. From 1990 to 1995, she served as counsel for Law and Regulatory Affairs at Aetna Life Insurance Company. Attorney Morganstern previously taught a seminar at the Law School as an adjunct professor on "Selected Topics in Law and Medicine".

Natalie Real - Also during the past academic year, CULI expanded to five attorneys when Natalie Real joined the team, fresh from her 2003 graduation from our Law School and her participation in CULI's "Building Urban Communities" seminar. She was also a "dual degree" student, earning her Masters Degree from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work in 2002. Before attending Law School and the School of Social Work, Attorney Real was a social worker in the Department of Children and Families. Attorney Real's work at CULI draws on both her professional degrees; she is principally responsible for the rehabilitation of historic affordable housing structures - and the related community organizing work - in Waterbury and East Hartford. Her enthusiasm and hard work over the last year resulted in substantial funding for the Waterbury project last month from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board in Boston- with a notation that her application earned the highest marks of any application in that round.

VI. Transitions

As noted at the outset, Dean Newton has put in place a new administrative team with which to begin the 2004-05 year. Paul Chill has left the hectic, yet air-conditioned, quarters of the civil clinic to move to Chase 311 where he has assumed the post of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. We couldn't be more fortunate than to have someone with his sound judgment, warm personality and indefatigable spirits agree to take on responsibility for managing the curriculum and everything else that goes with operating the academic affairs of the school. Darcy Kirk, long library director and professor of law, has also assumed a new title. She is now Associate Dean for Library and Technology, a role consistent with the outstanding leadership role she has long played in orchestrating the information needs of the entire campus.

Dean Newton's new team also includes key people in top staff positions. Karen DeMeola, previously Director of Admissions, has been promoted to Assistant Dean for Admissions and Student Finance. Her new post gives her significant additional responsibilities over the crucial area of scholarships and other financial aid. Her considerable success at improving the quality and diversity of our entering classes makes it clear she is up to the challenge.

Ann Crawford - As we move more quickly towards utilizing technology in the classroom, we are fortunate to have gained the expertise of Ann Crawford as our new Associate Director for Information Systems. Ann has a B.A. (cum laude) in Anthropology from Harvard, an M.L.S. from Syracuse University and a M.Ed. (Technology in Education) from Harvard. Her interests lie in the intersection of information, education and technology and they should help us to bring technology into our educational process whether in the classroom, through the website, through distance learning or through library resources. Ann comes to us from Trinity College where she worked in the library as a systems librarian, technology trouble-shooter and participated in web design. Previously, she worked with the Princeton Review as a teacher trainer and supervisor.

Kristina Lentz - Since Ann Merriam left to become Director of Advancement at St Margaret's-McTernan School in Waterbury, we have been looking for just the right person to assume the post of Director of Development at the law school. We have found Kristina Lentz, who will join us in that post beginning August 25. Kristina has a proven history in development at several universities, both public and private. She comes to us from the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, where she served as a Major Gifts Officer (since 2002). Kristina has also worked as a Major Gifts Officer at Colby College, and she has held several positions at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, including Assistant Director of Development for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Kristina graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, achieving her B.A. in History in 1990 and her M.A. in American History in 2002. Kristina's other experience in academia includes work as an admissions counselor at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, and as the Director of the Kentucky College of Business in Pikeville, Kentucky. With her history in development and her diverse experience in higher education, we look forward to the contribution Kristina will make to the UCONN Foundation and to the School of Law.

Kristin Magendantz - Attorney Magendantz was appointed Director of Career Services in December 2003. A member of the Connecticut and Massachusetts bars, Kristin practiced labor and employment law with Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane LLP and with Koppelman and Paige, both Boston-based law firms, before joining us. She is a 1992 graduate of Bates College and earned her J.D. at Northeastern University in 1997. She is also not entirely a newcomer, having served as an adjunct instructor in the Lawyering Process program. Director Magendantz is active in many professional organizations, including the Women's Bar Association, The National Association of Law Placement and the Human Resources Association of Central Connecticut. She hopes one day soon to take another turn in the classroom but for next year she will focus on her primary responsibility of leading students toward career success.

Obviously, I too have experienced a transition, and was honored when Dean Newton asked me to assume the new position of Associate Dean for Research. This shift will begin with renewed emphasis on my own research in property and jurisprudence, and will also permit me the luxury of spending two weeks next March teaching a seminar in American Legal Realism at the University of Haifa in Israel. When I emerge from the library, however, my administrative priorities will include removing unnecessary obstacles hindering productivity of our already prolific scholars, helping faculty members identify potential sources of funding from outside the university, and working with manuscripts from authors eager for a second pair of eyes. Above all, my mission will be to assist my colleagues in projecting their wonderful work into ongoing conversations at the state, national and international level so that each scholar derives maximum intellectual satisfaction from his or her work. I have richly enjoyed my five years as associate dean for academic affairs, and I look forward to the new challenge and continuing to work with all of you.