preLaw Magazine - Winter 2008 - (Page 6) record FOR THE Awarded ■ The International Association of Criminal Law has awarded Mark Drumbl, a law professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, its Book of the Year Prize for 2007 for his publication, “Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law.” In the book, Drumbl offers a fresh look at how perpetrators of atrocity crimes should be punished — the first study of its kind. ■ Kenneth Starr, dean of Pepperdine University School of Law and the former U.S. special prosecutor involved in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, was honored with a portrait at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Starr served on the court from 1983 to 1989, before accepting the appointment of Solicitor General of the United States. The portrait will remain on view permanently, joining the images of acclaimed judges who have served on that same court. The portrait, painted by artist Chas Fagan, was generously funded through Dean Starr’s former law clerks and legal colleagues. School of Law. The expansion is intended to modernize and relieve overcrowding at the 40-year-old law school. Construction is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2009. ■ Thomas Jefferson School of Law recently purchased property in downtown San Diego’s East Village that could become home to the law school’s proposed eight-story campus. In recent years, the law school has undergone numerous renovations to accommodate the growth of its academic program and student population, which is projected to increase to 1,000. Plans are projected to begin this spring for completion in 2010. Earned ■ A handful of future lawyers at the University of Texas at Austin are earning school credit for defending the rights of terrorism suspects in Guantánamo Bay. The new National Security and Human Rights Clinic at UTAustin focuses on the perceived tension between national security and human rights. This past summer, clinic students worked on a brief for the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases of Al Odah vs. U.S. and Boumediene vs. Bush. Boumediene is considered to be a defining case in the question of whether the U.S. military can hold foreign prisoners without revealing evidence or bringing formal charges. Breaking ground ■ Armed with golden shovels, a crew of current and former state lawmakers, lawyers, professors, deans and school alumni broke ground on a $30 million expansion and renovation project at the University of California Davis Participating ■ The University of Dayton School of Law is among a group of law schools the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has chosen to participate in its next examination of how American law schools educate their students. Other law schools include Georgetown University, Harvard University, Stanford University, New York University, City University of New York, Indiana University, the University of New Mexico, Southwestern University and Vanderbilt University. School representatives were scheduled to meet in December to start the twoyear process. and stay on top of changes in the health care field without the constraints that often accompany a traditional on-site degree program. Concord Law School, which pioneered the development of online legal education, has been providing training in the health law area to non-lawyer professionals since 2001. Renamed ■ Officials at the University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law spent nearly $25,000 on a branding consultant to help them give the school a new name — UC Berkeley School of Law. Dean Christopher Edley Jr. said the money was well-spent because people will now understand that the law school is tied to UC Berkeley. The new name will take affect in January and will informally be called Berkeley Law School. www.preLawInsider.com Partnering ■ Loyola University Chicago School of Law is partnering with Concord Law School to offer its master of jurisprudence in health law degree online beginning May 2008. Loyola Dean David Yellen said the online program will enable students to advance their careers Correction A story in the Fall preLaw issue incorrectly reported that John Marshall Law School in Chicago opened the first law school clinic dedicated to veterans issues in the United States. We apologize for the error. 6 preLaw http://www.preLawInsider.com
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