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This Friday, May 9, 2008, Cleveland Marshall College of Law will host “Improve Your Bottom Line: Attract, Retain and Promote Women and Minority Lawyers” from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The program features nationally renowned speakers, some of whom are from the UC Hastings Center for WorkLife Law. The program will benefit both partners and associates who would like to learn the best practices for promoting work-life balance. The cost is $100 for Cleveland Metro Bar Members, $125 for nonmembers, for 4.75 hours of CLE credit.

Click here to access the brochure and here to register.

You may also want to take a look at these lists of resources the library has available on work-life balance and recruiting/retaining minorities and women attorneys.

Law Professor Paul Butler of George Washington University is the 2008 Friedman & Gilbert Criminal Justice Forum Lecturer, Wed. April 16^th, 5 p.m., in the Moot Court Room. Announcement. His faculty website includes links to a listing of his numerous publications and the BlackProf blog where he is a contributor. Check the following HeinOnline links to a few of his articles. (If you somehow need a brief “Hip-Hop 101” see the Stanford article, p. 989. And for a little on retribution and respect, see p. 1002, same article.)

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Pakistan has been seriously in the news and here’s your opportunity to learn more about its Constitutional crisis and implications. Professor and Associate Dean Tayyab Mahmud of the Seattle University School of Law, and former faculty member at Cleveland-Marshall speaks at 5:30 p.m. (note change in time) Thursday, April 10^th , Moot Court Room, on “Laws, Limits and Exceptions: Lessons of the Constitutional Crisis in Pakistan.” See Announcement . As noted on his Seattle University page links to a number of his law journal articles are available on the SSRN site.

For some background info on Pakistan – New York Times articles; BBC Pakistan page; the CIA World Factbook; Pakistan’s government website; infopak.gov.pk

Ann C. McGinley, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, and William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, speaks on this topic Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at 5 p.m. Moot Court Room. She is the 2008 Littler Mendelson Employment and Labor Law Speaker Series speaker. See Announcement; Her UNLV Faculty Page

So what’s new in Vegas? Especially in the casinos and related to employment law? Here’s our opportunity to find out – starting with several of our speaker’s articles:

▪ Babes and Beefcake: Exclusive Hiring Arrangements and Sexy Dress Codes, 14 Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 257 (2007) via HeinOnline
▪ Harassing “Girls” at the Hard Rock: Masculinities in Sexualized Environments, 2007 University of Illinois Law Review 1229 via HeinOnline
▪ Harassment of Sex(y) Workers: Applying Title VII to Sexualized Industries (Sex for Sale Symposium) 18 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 65 (2006) via HeinOnline
▪ Masculinities at Work, 83 Oregon Law Review 359 (2004) via HeinOnline

Other articles by Dean McGinley include:

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American University, Washington College of Law Professor Angela J. Davis’ lecture on Wed. Feb. 27, 2008, 5 p.m., Moot Court Room, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law provides an opportunity to learn more about this timely topic from a speaker who has had experience both as a staff attorney, and also as director of the Washington, D.C. Public Defender Service. Details.

For information about Prof. Davis’ teaching, writings, organizational involvement, honors, and many presentations, see her Faculty Biography at the American University College of Law site .

Many Law students are likely to already be very familiar with: Basic Criminal Procedure, 4^th ed. (with Stephen Saltzburg & Daniel J. Capra) (Thomson/West 2004) KF 9619.3 .S25 2005

However, to “Read More About” the topic discussed in her lecture, go to her recent book of the same title, Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor (Oxford Univ. Press 2007) KF 9640 .D38 2007 or at least the information at arbitraryjustice.com

For your convenience, click on < More> for links to selected journal articles.

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"Right Star Rising: American Politics and the Limits of Leadership in the 1970s" - A lecture by University of California Santa Barbara History Professor Laura Kalman, Feb. 12, 5:00 p.m., Moot Court Room, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Event Information

Books by Prof. Kalman (and if the Law Library copy is out, you know how to click on OhioLINK to locate other copies):

Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 2005) KF 292 .Y314 A55 2005

The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism (New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr., 1996) KF 4552 .K35 1996

Abe Fortas: A Biography (New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr., 1990). KF 8745 .F65 K35 1990

Legal Realism at Yale, 1927 – 1960 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 1986). KF 292 .Y314 K35 1986

To learn a little more about Prof. Kalman, consider checking a few of her journal articles (available on HeinOnline):

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“Politics and Justice – Politics at Justice?,” an issue of concern across the political spectrum, is being discussed at the Tuesday, Oct. 23rd Cleveland-Marshall Criminal Justice Forum, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. For some background information,

• New York Times Topic Links: United States Attorneys
• Jurist Posts
• Attorney General – Statutory Authority
• U.S. Attorneys Mission Statement
• The first of the series of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings entitled Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys? Senate Hearing 110-161 Feb. 6, 2007, is now available.
• See LexisNexis for summaries or transcripts of the other related hearings. (password required)
• The Joint Statement of the Former United States Attorneys Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, March 6, 2007
• U.S. Attorneys Who Have Served Less than Full Four-year Terms, 1981-2006. CRS Report for Congress, Feb. 22, 2007.

For additional information on Forum Speakers:
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Prof. Brian Z. Tamanaha, the Chief Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law, in Queens, New York, lectures on “The Realism of Judges – Past and Present,” Tuesday, Oct. 9^th at 5 p.m. in the Moot Court Room. Judicial decision-making is a basic matter, worthy of thoughtful consideration by the legal community, including students of the law. For more details, see the CSU Announcement.

Prof.Tamanaha is a graduate of the University of Oregon, Boston University School of Law, and Harvard Law School (S.J.D.) His legal career has even included work as Legal Counsel for the Micronesian Constitutional Convention, Summer, 1990.

For more information about his career, teaching, speaking, and scholarship, please see his Profile , CV, and list of Selected Publications.

For your convenience, click on (More) right below, for links to a selection of his articles, and to two of his blog entries. Some links are to title records in the Law Library collection ( if not ‘available,’ consider an OhioLINK loan.)

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Frederick M. Gittes will speak on mandatory arbitration in employee contracts, “The Assault on the Right to Trial by Jury,” this Wednesday, Oct. 3^rd, at 5 p.m. in the Bartunek Moot Court Room, as part of the Cleveland-Marshall Employment and Labor Law Speakers Series.

A 1975 cum laude graduate of the Ohio State University College of Law, he was a founding member of Gittes & Schulte in Columbus, Ohio, and brings to this lecture several decades of workplace litigation experience. You’ve read about his background in the CSU news release.

For specific information about recent litigation in which he has been involved, see Westlaw’s Litigation History for 2002 – 2007.

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If you missed Prof. Forte's Constitution Day presentation "Homer Plessy and the Living Constitution" on Sept. 17th, you can view his talk through the University Library's Mediasite presentation catalog.

To commemorate CSU Constitution Day 2007, Prof. David Forte will speak at the University Library, 1^st Fl. Rhodes Tower, on Mon. Sept. 17^th from 12 Noon – 1 p.m. His topic is: “Homer Plessy and the Living Constitution” Dean Geoffrey S. Mearns will introduce Prof. Forte. There will also be light refreshments. We would like to encourage the entire CSU Community to attend this lecture by one of our renowned faculty members.

Prof. Forte was the Senior Editor of the Heritage Guide to the Constitution, a title available at both the Law and University Libraries at CSU. To become more acquainted with his numerous books and journal articles, please consult the Law Library’s Faculty Publications Database.

In addition to having taught at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law since 1976, Prof. Forte has also served as chief counsel to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, received a Fulbright and taught in Italy. His career has included speaking engagements throughout the U.S. and in several other countries. See his Biographical information page for additional information.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson can be found at 163 U.S. 537, 16 S. Ct. 1138, 41 L. Ed. 256 (1896).

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