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Dean Klonoff shares insight about former classmate Sonia Sotomayor
In the wake of President Obama’s selection of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, media reports have explored the judge’s personal and professional history to gain insight into what she might bring to the bench. In that process of assessing Sotomayor, Robert Klonoff, dean of Lewis & Clark Law School, has provided invaluable expertise. A friend and former classmate of Sotomayor, Klonoff has compared the judge to Thurgood Marshall and said that, while classmates at Yale, “she was always willing to speak up and give her point of view.”
Learn more in the following stories:
CNN.com Sotomayor ‘always willing to speak up’ at Yale Law
New York Times Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer
Washington Post For Sotomayor, Humble Beginnings to High Court
The Oregonian Obama’s historic pick for the U.S. Supreme Court
FOX Business News Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?
The Oregonian Classmates remember Sotomayor
FOX News Judicial Philosophy
CBS News Gingrich: Sotomayor is Racist
1190 KBND Reaction to Obama’s Choice for Supreme Court Justice
DailyKos.com Sí, Se Puede!!!
Washington Post N.Y. Federal Judge Likely on Shortlist
Anti-trust expert addresses European Commission ruling against Intel
Law lecturer Geoffrey Manne published commentary at Forbes.com regarding the European Commission’s recent ruling against Intel and the Obama administration’s announcement to pursue more anti-trust cases.
Manne also weighed in on a New York Times story covering the recent European Commission ruling against Intel. Manne’s specialty areas include law and economics, antitrust issues, intellectual property, and corporate and international economic regulation. Manne previously served as a law and economics specialist for Microsoft and currently serves as director of LeCG, a global expert services and consulting firm.
Expert on torture comments on released interrogation memos in LA Times
John Parry, law professor:
In a recent LA Times article about interrogation memos written in 2002 and recently released by the Obama Administration, Parry, offered his views on the legal justifications outlined in the memos. Parry has written extensively about torture, including Understanding Torture: Law, Culture, and State Violence which is soon to be published by University of Michigan Press.
Professor of Chinese Dede earns two research fellowships from Fulbright
Keith Dede, associate professor of Chinese:
Dede received a research award from the Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, which is supported by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). In addition, Dede received an institutional award from the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) program. This latter program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and provides fellowships for faculty members to conduct research overseas in the fields of modern language and area studies for three to 12 months. The terms of the awards stipulate that Dede cannot accept both fellowships, so he is in the enviable position of having to decide between the two.
Dede’s research project is titled “Contact and Change in the Chinese Dialects of Qinghai.” Four months in China will allow Dede to gather naturalistic speech samples from native speakers of Qinghai Chinese dialects, train local researchers in language-gathering and documentation techniques, and work with local scholars on the social history of northeastern Qinghai to further elucidate the historical language-contact scenario and subsequent evolution that created the mixed language phenomenon there today. Generally, this will allow for the testing of theories of language evolution.
Law professor addresses argument of naming victims in environmental abuses
Meg Garvin, law professor:
According to a recent article in The National Law Journal, the national Crime Victims Rights Act is being used more and more frequently in environmental court cases. The growing trend has some legal experts questioning the validity of this legal maneuver, arguing that it is not the established intent of the Crime Victims Rights Act. Garvin, executive director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute, countered that the environment is not the only thing compromised in environmental violations. “Individual victims are suffering greatly from environmental crimes,” Garvin said. “We have to find a way to make them whole. Having that happen in the criminal justice system makes sense because that process is already under way.”
The National Law Journal Is Crime Victims Rights Law Being Misused in Environmental Cases?
Professor defends academic value of Chavez’s controversial gift to Obama
Bruce Podobnik, associate professor of sociology, shared his thoughts with FOXNews.com about the book Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez handed to President Obama at the Summit of the Americas earlier this month. Titled “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent,” the book was published by Eduardo Galeano in 1971 and remains controversial for its critical depiction of the United State’s role in the colonization of Latin America. Podobnik included the book in his course “Latin America in Cultural Perspective” last fall, but notes that the text presents a one-sided analysis, which he offset with Walter Rostow’s “The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto.” According to Podobnik, the importance of such a comparative analysis is that “the students get exposed to a polarized discussion that continues to go on today.”
FOXNews.com (New York, NY) Book Chavez Gave to Obama Is Used as Core Text on Many College Campuses
Professor publishes article on writing program for urban, Latina students
Sara Exposito, assistant professor of education:
Exposito published an article in the April 2009 issue of Educational Leadership: Supporting English Learners titled “Top Notch Supports for Language Learners.” The article describes Exposito’s experience with a group of girls from Bell Gardens Intermediate in Los Angeles for the past two years. The school’s high concentration of immigrant students primarily from Mexico and Central America led Exposito to feel that Latina girls needed a place to discuss their lived, urban realities that sometimes lead to a numbing of the spirit. After working with the principal at the school and two counselors, the group set up a writing club called Girls at Promise. In this club, girls meet for two days a month to write and share their stories as well as read literature that is connected to their urban reality. Exposito’s team led the girls on field trips to the Huntington Library, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and to local colleges. Girls at Promise is currently finishing its second year.
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