Volume 2 Issue 4
May/June 2005

• University of Minnesota Residence Hall to be Renamed for Chancellor Mark Yudof
  
  The University of Minnesota will rename the Riverbend Commons residence hall for Yudof on Sept. 15. Yudof served as president of the University from 1997 to 2002.
  
  Full story: http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5423956.html
• Professors Peroni and Torres Receive Chair Appointments, Effective Sept. 1
  
  Robert J. Peroni will become the James A. Elkins Centennial Chair in Law and Gerald Torres will become the Bryant Smith Chair in Law.
  
  Faculty profiles:
  http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/rperoni/
  http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/gtorres/
• Professor Roy M. Mersky Receives American Association of Law Libraries Award
  
  Mersky, a member of the Law School faculty and the director of its Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library, since 1965, is a recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 2005 Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award.
  
  Full story:
  http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/051305_mersky.html
• Professor Patrick Woolley Wins Robert Murff Excellence Award
  
  The Texas Campus Career Council (TC3) at The University of Texas at Austin honored Professor Patrick Woolley with a 2005 Robert Murff Excellence Award in recognition of outstanding support of career services at UT Law School.
  
  Full story:
  http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/051205_woolley.html
• Bobbitt National Poetry Prize Announced by Library of Congress
  
  This prize was established by Professor Philip Bobbitt and his father in honor of the late Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt of Austin, Texas. It is one of the top prizes awarded by the Library of Congress. The biennial $10,000 award recognizes the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years.
  
  Full story:
  http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/041305_bobbitt.html

In the News

• Professor Philip Bobbitt on France and the EU Constitution in The Guardian, May 26: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/052605_bobbitt.html
• Professor Lino Graglia's "Our Constitution Faces Death by 'Due Process'" in The Wall Street Journal, May 24: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/052405_graglia.html
• Professor Mitch Berman on Democracy, the Filibuster and Iraq in The Dallas Morning News, May 20: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/052005_berman.html
• Professor Linda Mullenix on the Class Action Fairness Act in The New York Law Journal, March 3: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/041105_mullenix.html

Regular columnists:

• Professor Charles Childress is a regular columnist for HEARTBEAT, the quarterly Texas journal for Texas CASA (court appointed special advocates).
• Professor Linda Mullenix for The National Law Journal.
• Professor David Sokolow for the Australian Law Journal.
• Professor Jay Westbrook (with Elizabeth Warren) for The American Bankruptcy Institute Law Journal.

A full list of faculty activities and publications can be found online at: http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/news/.

• UT Law International Programs Guide Two Graduates' Career Paths
  
  Two of the five students profiled in the commencement issue of On Campus, a monthly publication by UT's Office of Public Affairs, are 2005 graduates of UT Law. According to On Campus, the profiles illustrate a few of the special students who have shown how the university experience has transformed them into thinkers, dreamers and leaders of tomorrow.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/051305_oncampus.html
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights Selects Four from UT Law for Clerkship
  
  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica, was established by the Organization of American States in 1979 to hear human rights claims against member states, which include most Latin American countries. UT Law is one of the few schools in the country that has a formal clerkship program with the Court.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/051005_interamerican.html
• UT Law Students Receive UT Co-Op Public Interest Awards and Fellowships
  
  The awards and fellowships were announced by Dean Bill Powers on Thurs., April 21 at a banquet celebrating The Sixth Annual University Co-Op George H. Mitchell Student Awards for Academic Excellence.
  
  Full stories: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/051005_coopfellows.html http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/051005_coopawards.html
• Five UT Law Students Selected for 2005 Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Program
  
  Five students at The University of Texas School of Law will spend the summer interning with nonprofit public interest law organizations across the U.S. as part of the Equal Justice Works Summer Corps Program.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/050305_summercorps.html
• UT Tower Lit in Honor of UT Law's Moot Court National Champions
  
  The University of Texas at Austin lit the Tower on April 29, in honor of the 2005 National Championships won by the Law School's Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Team and the Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Intellectual Property Moot Court Team.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/042605_tower.html
• Bronwyn Blake, '05, Receives First UT Law Faculty Fellowship in Public Interest Law
  
  The Fellowship will provide a stipend to Blake to work full-time for one year on a new project at the Women's Advocacy Project in Austin, Texas. Blake will develop the Teen Justice Initiative, a pilot program providing legal services to victims of teen dating violence.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/041805_fellowship.html
• UT Law's Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Awards First Summer Fellowships
  
  The fellowships will support UT law students interning during the summer with institutions that promote international or transnational human rights. The host institutions include non-profit, governmental, and non-governmental organizations.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/041105_rapoport.html
• Seth Belzley's Paper on Internet Intermediary Liability Presented at Texas and Harvard
  
  Third year student Seth Belzley's paper on Internet intermediary liability was presented at both a UT-Austin colloquium and at Harvard's Internet Law Colloquium. The paper, The Promise of Internet Intermediary Liability, was prepared as part of his work as one of UT's Center for Law, Business, and Economics (CLBE) inaugural student fellows, and was co-authored with CLBE co-director Ronald Mann.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/031805_belzley.html

Editor's Note: Alumni Honors are listed in order by class year.

• David J. Beck, '65, Honored by the Anti-Defamation League
  
  David J. Beck, alumnus of UT Law and partner in the Houston law firm of Beck, Redden & Secrest L.L.P., was presented the 2005 Jurisprudence Award from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on April 12 in Houston. The ADL's Jurisprudence Award is presented each year to legal professionals who demonstrate a devotion to the principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, commitment to the democratic values of the United States, and dedication to fair and equal justice for all. Mr. Beck currently serves as President of the Board of Trustees for The University of Texas Law School Foundation. In 2000, the Law Alumni Association honored him with its Outstanding Alumnus Award.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/050605_beck.html
• Eduardo Rodriguez, '68, to Become the 2005-06 State Bar of Texas President
  
  Eduardo Rodriguez, a senior partner in Rodriguez, Colvin, Chaney and Saenz, L.L.P., will become president of the State Bar of Texas on June 25. He is the first State Bar of Texas president from Brownsville. Rodriguez served as president of the Law Alumni Executive Committee in 2001 and was awarded the Honorary Order of the Coif in 2000.
  
  Both Kelly Frels, '70, the current president, and Martha S. Dickie, '80, the president-elect, are UT Law alumni.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2004/051004_rodriguez.html
• Linda Addison, '76, Presented Paper at Oxford Round Table
  
  Linda L. Addison, alumna of UT Law and partner in the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., presented a paper at the spring session of the Oxford Round Table, which focused this year on women's rights and gender equity in the U.S. workplace. Addison was one of approximately 35 people selected to participate in the five-day forum, which concluded March 25 at Lincoln College, the University of Oxford, in Oxford, England.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/041305_addison.html
• Book signing for 1939: Baseball's Tipping Point by Talmage Boston, '78
  
  Alumnus Talmage Boston will sign copies of 1939: Baseball's Tipping Point this Saturday, June 18 at the Barnes & Noble stores in Round Rock at 1:00 p.m. and in Westlake at 4:00 p.m. The book argues that baseball's centennial year – 1939 – was the game's tipping point when certain, seemingly unrelated, events transformed the game.
• Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Jefferson, '88, Delivered Commencement Address at Sunflower Ceremony, May 21
  
  Speech: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/052405_jefferson.html
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/042805_sunflower.html
• UT Law Alumni Work to Empower Texas Youth through Community Service
  
  Youthlaunch is an Austin-based non profit company that empowers young people through youth-driven service programs, including service-learning, peer education, and leadership development.
  
  UT Law alumni on the Board of Directors of Youthlaunch include Jeff Edwards, '99, Clint Harbour, '00, Duffy Keever, '96, and Tiffany Roper, '91.
  
  Web site: http://www.youthlaunch.org/
• Class Notes: http://utexas.edu/law/news/enewsletter/classnotes/0605_classnotes.pdf

• Wallace H. Scott Jr., '48, a founding partner of the Austin law firm Scott, Douglass and McConnico and legendary Texas football player, died on Monday, April 25, in Austin. He was 84.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/042705_scott.html
• In Memoriam: http://utexas.edu/law/news/enewsletter/inmemoriam/0605_inmemoriam.pdf

• UT Law Dedicates Susman Godfrey Atrium
  
  UT Law dedicated its atrium in Townes Hall in honor of the Houston-based law firm of Susman Godfrey LLP on Saturday, April 16. The noon dedication ceremony of the Susman Godfrey Atrium recognized the firm's $2 million gift to the Law School earlier this year.
  
  Full story: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/041505_susman.html
• The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will Sit at UT Law this Fall
  
  Justices Edward Prado, Will Garwood and Carl Stewart of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit are scheduled to sit in the Eidman Courtroom Nov. 7-10. This is part of the UT Law Advocacy Programs' Judges in Residence Series.
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