Faculty Docket

Larry Bakken

Instructor: “International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms,” Golden Gate University School of Law, Bangkok, Thailand (summer 2007). Instructor, Norway program (summer 2007). Students had the opportunity to negotiate with 23 international students from law schools in eastern Europe, China, and the European Union. Highlights in this year’s program included visits with the American ambassador, the European Union ambassador, the Chief Judge of the Norwegian Supreme Court and the Director of Ethical Investment Policies for the Norwegian Petroleum Investment Fund, one of the largest investment funds in the world.

Len Biernat

Presenter at the Computer Assisted Legal Instruction Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada: Developing On-Line Courses for Law Students (June 2007). West’s Federal Administrative Practice, Education Funding (2007 Supplement).

 

 

Edwin J. Butterfoss

A Suspicionless Search and Seizure Quagmire: The Supreme Court Revives the Pretext Doctrine and Creates Another Fine Fourth Amend-ment Mess, 39 Creighton L. Rev. 419 (2007). Bright Line Breaking Point: Embracing Justice Scalia’s Call for a Conservative Court to Abandon an Unreasonable Approach to Fourth Amendment Search and Seizure Law, 82 Tulane L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007). Elected to the national board of The Tuition Exchange, a reciprocal scholarship program for children and other family members of faculty and staff employed at more than 580 participating institutions, including Hamline. Elected to the board of directors of Centro Legal, Inc. Professor Tom Romero serves as chair of the board; alumna Gloria Contreras Edin serves as executive director. After completing his six-year term on the ABA Accreditation Committee, which he chaired from 2004–06, Professor Butterfoss was appointed by the chair of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Chief Justice Ruth V. McGregor of the Arizona Supreme Court, to serve an additional year as chair following the resignation of the current chair. Completed his service as chair of the Strategic Planning Team for Hamline University. The new 2007–2012 Strategic Plan was adopted by the Board of Trustees on May 11, 2007.

Jim Coben

Promoted, Professor of Law, spring 2007.

 

 

 

Joseph L. Daly

Instructor: “Advocacy: Theory and Practice” at the University of Montevideo, Uruguay (October 2006). Coach, Hamline’s Far East International Commercial Arbitration Moot Team, Hong Kong (March 2007). Presenter and author: Arbitration: The Law, The Process, Minnesota Trial Lawyers Continuing Legal Education (May 2007). Presenter at the Bar Association of South Dakota Annual Meeting: Arbitration: Theory and Skills (May 2007). Instructor, “Making & Saving Deals: Arbitration Theory and Practice,” Rome, Italy (June 2007). Voted Super Lawyer in Alternative Dispute Resolution, 165 Minnesota Law & Politics 91 (2007). Arbitrator in a number of labor, commercial and insurance cases in Missouri, Kansas, Oregon; and various locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, as well as London, England (January 2007).

Marie Failinger

Recovering the Face-to-Face in American Immigration Law, 23 S. Cal. Rev. Law & Soc. Just. 319 (2007). Conference Report, Religious Americans and Political Choices, 24 Am. J. of Islamic Social Sciences 154 (2007). Co-editor, textbook for Middle Eastern K–12 students in Hamline’s Civic Education Project. Participant, Active Citizenship training of teachers from Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine (July 2007).

 

Dean Jon Garon

Main speaker at the Hennepin County Fourth Judicial District Special Session: Annual Hennepin County Bar Memorial (May 2, 2007). The memorials and Dean Garon’s address are enrolled with the Hennepin County District Court and in the archives of the Minnesota Historical Society.

 

 

Mary Jo Hunter

Moderator, "The Impact of Federal Indian Law on the Tribal Land Base," a National NALSA Moot Court Competition CLE, Hamline University (February 2007).
Presenter at the Indian Child Welfare Act at 30 Years Conference, Michigan State University: Thirty Years on the Cutting Edge of ICWA (March 2007).
Trainer for the 10th District Guardian Ad Litem Program, Anoka County District Court.
Panelist and group moderator for the Indian Law Clinic and Externship Symposium, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Lawyering for Indigenous Peoples (June 2007).

Lucinda Jesson

Presenter at Hamline Dialogues, Hamline Univer-sity: Legal Implications of the Worst Case Pandemic (February 2007).
Presenter at Health Law Professors Conference, Boston University School of Law: Time for a New Sheriff in Town? A Fresh Look at Attorneys' General Enforcement Role in Nonprofit Health Care (June 2007).
Moderator for Minnesota CLE Health Law Institute, Minneapolis: Pay-for-Performance: The Quandaries that Keep Providers, Payers and Lawyers up at Night (June 2007).
Appointed, Chair, Rules of Professional Conduct Committee, Minnesota Bar Association.
Elected, Health Law Governing Council, Minnesota State Bar.

Jonathan Kahn

Promoted, Associate Professor, spring 2007.
Race in a Bottle, 297 Scientific American 40 (2007).
Interviewed by British Broadcasting Corporation for a radio documentary, Ethnic Drugs - the Magic Bullet?
Grant recipient, National Human Genome Research Institute, Principal Investigator: The Place of Race in Gene Patenting and Drug Development.

Invited Presenter at the Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University: The Segregated Genome: Exploring
the Intersections of Law, Commerce, and Race in Biotechnology (October 25, 2007).
Invited Presenter at the Annual Conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Montreal: Ways of Knowing Race and Heart Disease Across Regulatory Regimes (October 11, 2007).

David A. Larson

Presenter at Spring Alumni Symposium, Hamline University School of Law: Protecting Your Clients' Content: The IP Challenges of Music, Media and Business Practice in Cyberspace; Technology Based ADR Distribution Models: Using Technology and Virtual Worlds to Teach; and Employment and Social Networking.

 

 

Robin Magee

Published an opinion article on the topic of racial bias in the Minnesota justice system,
Pioneer Press (April 15, 2007).

 

 

Bobbi McAdoo

Co-director of Making and Saving Deals in the Global Environment, Hamline's Italy program with the University of Rome La Sapienza. She co-taught two courses to a group of about 25 American students from law schools in the United States and 25 young lawyers from Italy, Turkey, Albania and Syria.

 

 

Angela McCaffrey

Co-authored The Value of Interactive Exercises in the Development of Professional Identity: Moldovan Law Students Voice and County Bribery with Ann Juergens, William Mitchell College of Law; accepted for publication in an issue of the Wash. U. J.L . & Pol'y, celebrating the 10th anniversary of Washington University's Access to Justice Speaker Series and the 35th Anniversary of its Clinical Legal Education programs.

 

Mary Jane Morrison

Judge, National Hispanic Bar Association, National Moot Court Competition, Minneapolis (March 2007).
Elected to the Hamline University Faculty Council Committee, which drafted a constitution the faculty of the university then ratified for the university-wide faculty council of Hamline University.
Chair of the Human Rights and Research Committee, The Phoenix Residences (homes for developmentally disabled adults) .
Member of the Board of Directors, Minnesota Lavender Bar Association.

James Morrow

Instructor: Evidence workshop and Judicial Decision Making, National Judicial College, Reno Nevada (March 19–22, 2007).
Instructor: Evidence and Effective Courtroom Management, Minnesota New Judges School (March 26–27, 2007).
Instructor: Seminar on Evidence, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P (May 4–5, 2007).
Group facilitator for the Advanced Evidence seminar, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (May 27–31, 2007).
Instructor: Judicial Decision Making, National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada (July 24–26, 2007).
Instructor: Prosecutorial Misconduct, Minnesota Criminal Justice Institute, Orlando, Florida (August 28, 2007).
Member, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers Education Committee (2006–2007).
Appointed to the Minnesota District Judges Association, Judicial Resources Committee (deals with chemical dependency, stress and mental health issues for judges) (2007).
Member, Minnesota Judges Civil Jig Committee.
Appointed Statewide Commissioner to The Minnesota State Boxing Commission, (2006–2010). Board member, Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, (July 2007–2010)

Tom I. Romero, II

Promoted, Associate Professor, Spring 2007
Invited Speaker: Fourth Annual Gloucester Summer Legal Conference: Law and Justice in the Age Globalization: Multiracial Dissonance, Cold War Containment, and the Law of Municipal Boundaries in the United States, (July 2007). Co-sponsored by the law faculty of the University of Gloucestershire, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, and the Central Gloucester Initiative. His presentation will be published in an upcoming edition of the Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev.

Sharon Sandeen

Received tenure, spring 2007.
Editor, Intellectual Property Deskbook for the Business Lawyer (2007).
Invited discussant: “Italy’s new trade secret law,” Third Annual Workshop on the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property and Information Technology, sponsored by the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London and the Institute of Comparative Law “Angelo Sraffa,” Bocconi University of Milan, London, United Kingdom (July 5–6, 2007).

Peter N. Thompson

Mediation Case Law Review, Part II, 2 World Arb. & Mediation Review (2007) (with James Coben).
Mediation Litigation Trends, 1997–2007,
2 World Arb. & Mediation Review (2007) (with James Coben).
2007 Supplement to Mediation Law Policy & Practice (with Sarah Cole and James Coben).
2007 Supplement to 11 Minnesota Practice, Evidence.
Peter N. Thompson and David F. Herr, Courtroom Handbook of Minnesota Evidence (2007 ed.).
Presenter at the Annual Meeting of the ADR Section of the ABA, Washington, D.C.: Mediation Case Law “Revue” (April 2007).
Accepted member, Academy of Court Appointed Masters.

Stacey Tovino

Presenter at Hamline University: The Visible Brain:Implications of Advances in Functional Neuroimaging.
Presenter at Pennsylvania State University: Implanting Change: The Ethics of Neural Prosthetics, (August 26–28, 2007).

 

Mary B. Trevor

Editor, with DRI senior fellow Giuseppe De Palo, Arbitration and Mediation in the Southern Mediterranean Countries, Wolters Kluwer (forthcoming 2007). This is the second book in the series Global Trends in Dispute Resolution.