REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS
 

1. BEFORE YOU REGISTER

Immunization Hold
If you have an "immunization hold," call Babbette Jenkins at 312/808-7100 (8-7100 from a house phone) and make arrangements to submit your medical records to have the hold released.

Outstanding Balance
If you are indebted to the university, you will have a "Financial Hold" preventing you from registering. Before you can register, you must clear the Financial Hold with the Bursar's office in Room 290. If you are uncertain whether you have an outstanding balance, you can check your account status by logging into the Online Registration System (go to the Student Portal page at http://www.kentlaw.edu/portals/current.html and click on the Online Registration link; then follow the instructions under the Account Holds heading toward the bottom of the page).

If you believe there are unusual circumstances justifying your registration despite an outstanding balance, you should send an e-mail containing a detailed explanation of the unusual circumstances to the Bursar's office (gbooker@kentlaw.edu). Please be advised that such waivers are not routinely granted. (See also the provisions on Financial Delinquency on page 5 of this Bulletin.)

2. SELECTING YOUR COURSES
Using the schedule of classes in this Bulletin, decide which courses you would like to take. Because of enrollment limits, some of your choices of courses or sections may be closed when your registration requests are processed. If you are not admitted into one or more of the courses you select, you may add additional courses or change your schedule in other ways after the initial registration period is complete (see pages 3-4). We do not maintain waiting lists for any course except Intensive Trial Advocacy.

The following courses have low enrollment limits in the Fall 2002 semester:

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mediation, and Negotiations: 24 students.

Advanced Research, Legal Drafting, Legal Drafting & Research, and all seminars: 15 students.

Advice Desk 1: 20 students.

Business Entity Formation: 16 students.

Litigation Technology: 12 students.

Trial Advocacy 1: 12 students; Trial Advocacy 2: 10 students. (There are several sections of Trial Advocacy for each of the 6:00 sections listed on the schedule; you will be assigned to a specific section after registration.)

Degree Requirements
For students who began their law studies in 1998 or later, 87 credits of course work are required to earn the J.D. degree. The following courses must be successfully completed: Contracts, Criminal Law, Torts, Civil Procedure, Justice & the Legal System, Property, Legal Writing 1 and 2, Advanced Research, Legal Drafting (or a combined Drafting/Advanced Research course), Constitutional Law, Professional Responsibility, one seminar, and attendance at Professionalism Day.

In order to satisfy the seminar requirement, you must have completed at least 54 hours of credit, and Advanced Research, prior to beginning the seminar. You may take a seminar before you have earned 54 hours, but it will not satisfy the senior seminar graduation requirement.

Important: All required courses must be taken in the sequence designated in the registration instructions. First-year students may not register for any courses other than the ones identified for their section on the schedule of courses. Second-year Day students must register for Constitutional Law. Second-year Evening students must register for Civil Procedure and Justice & the Legal System. Second-year Day students must register for Advanced Research or Legal Drafting; you must then take the other course in the Spring semester. Alternatively, you may take a combined 3-credit Legal Drafting/Research section, which will satisfy your Advanced Research and Legal Drafting writing requirement. Evening students must complete Advanced Research and Legal Drafting , or a combined 3-credit Legal Drafting/Research section, by the end of their third year.

Exceptions to the Advanced Research/Legal Drafting requirement: Students in the Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (LADR) are exempt from Advanced Research and Legal Drafting. Students in the Labor and Employment Law Certificate Program should not register for either Advanced Research or Legal Drafting in the Fall; you will take a special combined course in the Spring. The Advanced Research requirement (but not the Legal Drafting requirement) is waived for students who complete Appellate Advocacy as part of the Moot Court program and for Law Review members who complete two semesters of Law Review.

Prerequisites
Course prerequisites that are listed on the class schedule must be completed prior to registering for a course. The instructor may waive a prerequisite by signing a Waiver of Prerequisite form, which must be approved by Dean Sowle.

Intensive Trial Advocacy 1
If you wish to take either session of Intensive Trial Advocacy 1 (session 1: August 17-24, 2002; session 2: January 11-18, 2003), you should register for the course as part of Fall registration. Both sessions are considered Fall courses for purposes of tuition and computing the Fall semester grade point averages. However, the credits will not count as part of the Fall semester course load for purposes of minimum or maximum credit limitations. Notice to Evening Division students: If registering for Intensive Trial Advocacy brings your total credit hours for the Fall semester to at least 12 hours, you will automatically be billed for health insurance unless you waive coverage (see waiver instructions on page 4 of this Bulletin.)

If you enroll in either session of Intensive Trial Advocacy, you must enroll in Trial Advocacy 2 in the semester immediately following.

If you enroll in either session and later decide to drop it, you must notify the Registrar by the date indicated below, or you will be charged full tuition for the course unless another student takes your seat.

Session 1: no later than Friday, May 22, 2002.
Session 2: no later than Friday, September 6, 2002.

Credit Hour Limitations
Day students must take at least 12 and not more than 16 credit hours. Evening students must take at least 8 and not more than 11 credit hours. As noted in the preceding section, credits for Intensive Trial Advocacy do not count as part of your Fall semester course load for purposes of minimum or maximum credit hour limitations; but they do count for purposes of determining whether you will be charged for student helath insurance.

Students enrolled in Law Review or Moot Court Honor Society may take one extra credit hour without special permission. Graduating seniors needing fewer than the minimum number of hours to graduate may take fewer credits without special permission, but must comply with the residency requirements in § 1.5 of the Student Handbook. You may request an exception to these limitations by submitting a Petition to Dean Sowle setting forth the extenuating circumstances justifying the exception.

Please be careful to observe the credit hour limitations. Day students who register for more than 16 hours, and Evening students who register for more than 11 hours, may do so only if one of the above exceptions applies, or a Petition approved by Dean Sowle is submitted to the Registrar's office. If you enroll for more than the maximum number of hours without permission, you will have to drop a course when the Registrar discovers it, regardless of how late in the semester the discovery is made.

Residency Requirement
Students must comply with the residency requirement in § 1.5 of the Student Handbook. Please read this section carefully and contact Dean Sowle if you have any questions.

Registering for Courses Not in Your Division
Students must take at least one-half of their credit hours in the division in which they are enrolled. Courses offered only at 4:00 p.m. are considered both Day Division and Evening Division courses. Except for the Saturday sections of Trial Advocacy, all Trial Advocacy courses are considered Evening Division courses.

Day Division courses are indicated by the designation "001" (or "002" if there is more than one Day section of the course) following the course number. Evening Division courses are indicated by the designation "051" (or "052" if there is more than one Evening section of the course) following the course number. If a course is listed on both the Day and Evening Division schedules, it will be listed with the designation "071."

Making Up Incompletes
If you will be making up an Incomplete grade by attending a class in the Fall semester, do not register for the course. You must submit an Incomplete Course Make-up Notice to the Registrar's office by the end of the second week of classes in order to earn credit for the course.

Courses With Exams Scheduled at the Same Time
Please note that you are permittedto register for courses even if their exams are scheduled at the same time; one of your exams will be rescheduled in accordance with the rules stated in § 7.2 of the Student Handbook.

Registering for LL.M. Courses
Students in the joint J.D./LL.M. programs in Taxation or Financial Services must register as joint degree students and consult with the program directors before registering for LL.M. courses. Non-joint degree students may register for graduate Tax courses only with the permission of Professor Gerald Brown. Non-joint degree students may register for Financial Services graduate courses with permission of the program director. The Taxation LL.M. schedule appears after the J.D. schedule later in this Bulletin; contact the Center for Law and Financial Markets for the Financial Services schedule.
 

3. HOW TO REGISTER

Online Registration
We will be conducting Fall registration online. To register, go to the Law School's Student Portal page (http://www.kentlaw.edu/portals/current.html) and click on the Online Registration link. You can use any computer with Internet access, either inside or outside the Law School.

Registration will take place starting Wednesday, May 1 and will continue through Monday, May 6. You may register at any time during that period. After the end of the registration period, the registration requests will be processed according to each student's registration priority (see below). In other words, registration will not be conducted on a first-come, first-served basis; as long as you register during the designated period, you will have an equal chance of being admitted to a class as other students within your registration priority group.

To learn what classes you have been admitted into, you must check the online registration site on or after Wednesday, May 8. Registering for a class during the initial registration period is no guarantee that you will be admitted into the class - you must check the web site on or after Wednesday, May 8 to learn what classes you have been admitted into.

Registration Priority
Day Division students have priority for Day Division classes; Evening Division students have priority for Evening Division classes. For classes in the 4:00 time slot, seats are allocated proportionately between Day Division and Evening Division. Within divisions, registration priority is based on the date a student began law studies, with the earliest graduation date having the highest priority.
 
 
 

ADDING & DROPPING COURSES
You may add open courses or drop courses using the online system beginning Wednesday, May 8. New faculty policy: You may add an open course without special permission until the end of the first week of Spring classes; during the second week, however, you may add an open course only with permission of the instructor. You may not add a course after the second week of the semester. To find out what courses are open, check the Online Registration system.

You may withdraw from any course except a required course, a clinical course, Law Review, Moot Court, or Intensive Trial Advocacy at any time prior to the date of the final exam or final paper (see § 3.10(c) of the Student Handbook.). There is no tuition penalty if you drop a course during the first two weeks of classes. You will not receive a tuition refund, however, if you drop a course after the second week of classes.
 
 
 

JANUARY 2003 GRADUATES
Students who will complete their degree requirements in the Fall 2002 semester must submit an Application for Graduation form to the Registrar as soon as possible after their schedule is finalized. Graduating seniors should read §§ 1.7 and 1.8 of the Student Handbook regarding their degree requirements.
 

TUITION CHARGES AND PAYMENTS

Tuition for the Fall 2002 Semester
Tuition is $890 per credit hour for J.D. students who began their studies in Fall 2001 or earlier and for visiting and special students. A $50 student activity fee is payable each semester by J.D. students. Graduating seniors will be assessed a $75 graduation fee.

Student Health Insurance
All students registered for at least 12 hours in the Fall semester, including Intensive Trial Advocacy (see page 2 of this Bulletin), will automatically be billed for student health insurance (the cost for the 2001-2002 academic year was $566 for the full year; the cost for the 2002-2003 academic year is still being determined). This applies to both Day and Evening Division students. You may waive insurance coverage if you have comparable coverage by filing a waiver form by the end of the first week of Fall classes. If the waiver is not received by then, you will be billed for the insurance. Waiver forms and brochures explaining the insurance coverage are available in the Registrar's office. Completed forms should be addressed to the IIT Student Health Center and dropped in the Main Campus mail slot in the College Service Center on the second floor. If you intend to waive the student insurance coverage, please read the waiver instructions in the insurance brochure carefully.

If you have previously filed a waiver form, you need not file another one as long as you are continuously enrolled in law school, unless your outside insurance carrier changes. In that case, you must notify the Student Health Center.

A student registered for fewer than 12 credit hours, whether in the Day or Evening Division, will not be covered by student insurance, unless the student elects to obtain coverage. If you will be registered for fewer than 12 credit hours in the Fall semester and want student insurance coverage, you must apply for it; applications are available in the Registrar's office.

If you are making up Incompletes, those credits will not count in determining whether you will be automatically enrolled in the health insurance plan.

A more comprehensive health plan than the basic plan offered by the university is available for students at an additional cost. If you are interested in learning about this plan, contact the Student Health Center at 312/808-7100.

Payment of Tuition and Fees
Payments can be made by cash, check, money order, MasterCard, Visa, or Discover, either by mail or in person, at the Bursar's office in Room 290. All tuition payments for the Fall 2002 semester are due by August 1, 2002. You may also pay your tuition online by going to http://ck.kentlaw.edu and clicking on "Online Payment of Tuition."

Financial aid awards are considered credits to the student's tuition account. Students whose financial aid awards do not cover the cost of tuition and fees must select a payment option below. Financial aid scholarships and loans supercede all other forms of tuition payment. Therefore, if anticipated loans and scholarships cover a portion or all of your tuition costs, a student may not use other forms of payment - including credit cards - to participate in a payment option for the amount of tuition cost covered by the anticipated scholarship or loan amount.

1. IIT Semester Payment Plan: The total balance of tuition and fees, minus financial aid (if applicable), is due on August 1, 2002.

Full-Time Students Only:

2. IIT Monthly Payment Plan: The total balance of Fall and Spring semester tuition and fees, minus anticipated financial aid (if applicable), may be divided into nine equal installments. The first installment is due by August 1, 2002. The remaining eight payments are due on the first of each month, beginning September 1, 2002, and ending April 1, 2003. There is a $80 fee associated with this option. You can register online for this payment plan by http:// www.enrollment.iit.edu/stu_accounts.html . See the Bursar for more information.

Financial Delinquency
Any student who fails to meet the required payments will be charged a late penalty. This penalty will be 1% per month of the amount due on the payment due date. The 1% payment penalty will be charged each month until the amount due is paid in full.

Students with delinquent accounts are subject to suspension and exclusion from classes after being notified by the Bursar. These students may not be permitted to take final exams, receive course credits or transcripts, register for a subsequent semester, receive a degree, or be certified to the bar examiners.

Financial Aid
All students who will be attending Chicago-Kent during the Fall 2002 semester are eligible to apply for federal and private loans. In order to apply for any loans, the Financial Aid Office requires that each student submit a 2002-2003 financial aid package with all required applications six to eight weeks before classes start - the sooner, the better.

Federal Stafford Loans: Students interested in applying for federal loans must be enrolled for at least 6 credit hours. To apply for federal financial aid for the Fall 2002 semester, students must submit the following documents to the Financial Aid Office:

• 2002-2003 Student Aid Report (SAR) (note: if Chicago-Kent is listed on your FAFSA, you do not need to submit it; the Financial Aid Office will receive it electronically).
• If requested by the Financial Aid Office: 2001 federal tax returns and Verification Worksheet.
• Any other documents requested by the Financial Aid Office.

Due to limited funds, Federal Perkins Loans will be awarded to students by date priority. Therefore, we strongly encourage all students interested in receiving Federal Perkins Loans to complete the FAFSA as early as possible.

Private Loans: Students interested in applying for private loans must be enrolled in at least 3 credit hours. To apply for private loans for the Fall 2002 semester, students must submit the following documents to the Financial Aid Office:

• 2002-2003 Student Aid Report (SAR) (note: if Chicago-Kent is listed on your FAFSA, you do not need to submit it; the Financial Aid Office will receive it electronically). You must apply directly with a private loan lender.
• Any other documents requested by the Financial Aid Office.

If you have any questions regarding financial aid, please e-mail finaid@kentlaw.edu, stop by Suite 230, or call the Financial Aid Office at 906-5180.
 
 
 

PASS-FAIL ELECTION
A student in good academic standing may elect to take courses on a pass/fail basis except: (1) required courses, including Professional Responsibility; (2) seminars, whether or not being taken to fulfill the seminar degree requirement; (3) courses that have been designated by instructors as ineligible for the pass/fail election; (4) courses that are graded only on a pass/fail basis, such as clinical courses, Moot Court, and Law Review; (5) LL.M. courses; (6) Trial Advocacy and Appellate Advocacy courses; and (7) courses taken to fulfill the requirements of the Environmental Law, International and Comparative Law, Intellectual Property Law, Labor and Employment Law, or LADR certificates.

No more than six credit hours taken under this election will count toward the graduation credit requirement. Fall courses that have been designated as ineligible for the pass/fail election by instructors are indicated on the Schedule of Classes.

Refer to §§2.4-2.7 of the Student Handbook for the procedures for making the pass/fail election; other limitations on the pass/fail election; and limitations on total credit hours you may earn taking certain designated types of courses.

A student taking a course on a pass/fail basis must earn at least a C to receive a grade of P (Pass). If you pass the course but fail to earn at least a C, you will receive a grade of LP (Low Pass).
 
 

EMPLOYMENT LIMITATION
Day Division students may not be employed for more than 20 hours per week during the semester.
 
 
 

RECOMMENDED COURSES FOR UPPER-LEVEL STUDENTS
(adopted by the faculty February 1998)

Courses with an asterisk (*) cover material that is likely to be tested on many states' bar examinations, including that of Illinois. Other subject areas may also be tested; you should review the Illinois Bar Exam Information Statement in the Registration Bulletin - or, if you plan to take another state's bar examination, contact the bar examiners in that state - before deciding which of these and other courses to take.

I. The faculty believes that every student should take:

A. *Business Organizations (4 hours)
B. *Evidence (3 hours)
C. Personal Income Tax (3 hours)
D. *Remedies (3 hours)

II. The faculty believes that every student should take at least 15 hours from the following list of courses, with most courses taken from subsection A and at least one course taken from subsection B. Courses not included in this list should not be thought of as less challenging or unimportant. They may have been left off because they cover advanced or very specialized material, or because they focus on non-traditional legal materials. Students may take some of those courses with their remaining electives.

For those students whose grade point average is in the lower third of the class after they complete their first year of law school (two semesters for day students and three semesters for evening students), we recommend in the strongest terms possible that they take at least 20 hours (rather than 15) from the following list, with a heavy emphasis on courses that cover subject matter that may be tested on the Bar Exam.

A. Courses in major areas of law:

1. Administrative Law (3 hours).
2. Civil Litigation: one of the following: Appellate Courts (3 hours), Civil Procedure 2 (3 hours), Complex Litigation (3 hours), Federal Courts (3 hours), *Illinois Civil Procedure (2 hours).
3. Commercial Law: one or two of the following: *Secured Transactions (3 hours), *Payment Systems (3 hours), *Survey (4 hours).
4. *Conflict of Laws (3 hours)
5. *Constitutional Law: First Amendment (3 hours).
6. Criminal Procedure: *The Adjudicative Process (3 hours), or *The Investigative Process (3 hours).
7. *Estates and Trusts (4 hours).
8. *Family Law (3 hours).
9. International Law (3 hours) or Comparative Law (3 hours).
10. *Products Liability (2 hours).

B. Courses focusing on statutory analysis and/or administrative agencies:

1. Antitrust (3 hours).
2. Bankruptcy (3 hours).
3. Copyright Law (3 hours) or Patent Law (3 hours).
4. Employee Benefits Law (2 or 3 hours).
5. Employment Discrimination (3 hours).
6. Environmental Law & Policy (3 hours).
7. Labor Law (4 hours).
8. Legislation (3 hours).
9. Securities Regulation (3 hours).
10. Taxation of Business Enterprises (4 hours).

III. The faculty believes that every student should take at least one skills or one clinical course from the following list of such courses. Beginning in February 1998, the Illinois Bar Examination began using the Multistate Performance Test to test six fundamental lawyering skills: problem, solving, legal analysis and reasoning, factual analysis, communication, organization and management of a legal task, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas. Each of the courses listed below teaches some of the above-listed skills. You should review the Illinois Bar Exam Information Statement in the registration materials - or, if you plan to take another state's bar examination, contact the bar examiners in that state - before deciding which of these courses to take.

A. Skills courses:

1. Business Entity Formation (3 hours).
2. Business Entity Transactions (3 hours).
3. Employment Litigation (3 hours) (for students in the Labor and Employment Law Certificate Program only).
4. Pretrial Litigation (3 hours) (for students in the LADR Program only).
5. Trial Advocacy (3 hours).

B. Clinical courses:

1. In-House Clinic (3 or 4 hours):
   a. Civil Litigation (3 or 4 hours).
   b. Criminal Defense (3 or 4 hours).
   c. Family Law (3 or 4 hours).
   d. Health Law Litigation (3 or 4 hours).
   e. Mediation and ADR (3 or 4 hours).
   f. Tax Litigation (3 hours).
2. Judicial Externship (4 hours).
3. Legal Externship (4 hours).
4. Labor and Employment Externship (4 hours) (for students in the Labor and Employment Law Certificate Program only).
 
 

BAR EXAM INFORMATION
Illinois does not require students to take any specific courses to be eligible to take the bar exam. However, some states may require specific law courses to be eligible to take the bar exam. In addition, many states - including Illinois -- require students to register with the bar examiners while in law school. If you intend to take an out-of-state bar exam, you should check the state's requirements in the Registrar's office or Dean Sowle's office as soon as possible.

The Illinois Bar Exam
To be admitted to practice in Illinois, you must take the Illinois bar exam and the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE), which is administered separately from the bar exam in March, August, and November each year. The MPRE may be taken before you receive your law degree, so long as you have completed a certain minimum number of credits. Applications are available in the Registrar's office.

Illinois Supreme Court Rule 704 states that the following subjects may be tested on the Illinois bar exam: "administrative law; agency; business organizations; commercial paper; conflict of laws; contracts; criminal law and procedure; domestic relations; equity jurisprudence, including trusts and mortgages; evidence; federal and state constitutional law; federal jurisdiction and procedure; federal taxation; Illinois procedure; personal property, including sales and bailments; real property; secured transactions; suretyship; torts; wills and administration of estates." Not all of these topics are tested regularly on the Illinois bar exam; for example, in recent years, administrative law and federal taxation have not been tested.

The Illinois bar exam is comprised of four parts: the Multistate Essay Exam (3 hours, 6 essay questions); the Illinois Essay Exam (90 minutes, 3 essay questions); the Multistate Bar Exam (two 3-hour sessions, 200 multiple-choice questions); and the Multistate Performance Test (90 minutes, one item). The following subjects have been tested on the Illinois bar exam in recent years or are considered to be reasonably likely to be tested. However, you cannot assume that the composition of the exam will be the same when you take the bar exam.

Multistate Essay Exam: Business Organizations (agency, partnerships, corporations); Commercial Law (sales, secured transactions, commercial paper); Estates & Trusts (future interests, trusts and wills); Conflict of Laws; Family Law; Federal Civil Procedure.

Illinois Essay Exam: All of the above topics, plus Equity (Remedies); Illinois Civil Procedure; and Personal Property.

Multistate Bar Exam: Contracts/Sales, Torts, Evidence, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, and Real Property.

Multistate Performance Test: Skills tested include problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, factual analysis, communication, organization and management of a legal task, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas.
 
 

FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Biographies of most full-time faculty members appear in the publication entitled Faculty Biographies/Course Descriptions: 2000-2002 (available in the Registrar's office, Dean Sowle's office, and the Admissions Office). An updated list of biographies appears on the Chicago-Kent web site at http://www.kentlaw.edu/ faculty. Biographies of new members of the full-time faculty not yet on the web site, as well as biographies of adjunct and visiting faculty members teaching in the Fall 2002 semester, appear below.

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Rakesh Anand
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Professor Anand graduated from Stanford University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in political science (with honors and distinction) and from Yale Law School in 1994 with a J.D. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Justice Aharon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel, and from 1995-2001, he was a litigation associate at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco. Professor Anand teaches legal ethics and criminal law.

James Gillespie
Assistant Professor of Law
Professor Gillespie received his B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990, his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1994, and his M.P.A from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School in 1995. He is also an advanced degree candidate at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. He has served as senior faculty at Cardean University, a leading online educational institution, where he designed courses in collaboration with faculty from Stanford Business School and the London School of Economics. Professor Gillespie's primary areas of interest are corporate law and negotiations.

William D. Henderson
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Professor Henderson received his B.A. in Economics and History, magna cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University in 1997 and his J.D., with Honors, from the University of Chicago Law School in 2001. While in law school, he was comment editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Keith Ann Stiverson
Director of the Library and Senior Lecturer in Law
Professor Stiverson received her law degree from Georgetown University, where she was publications editor for Law and Policy in International Business. She has a Master of Science in Library Science from Catholic University of America. Professor Stiverson is admitted to the District of Columbia and Ohio bars, and was engaged in private practice (municipal bonds) for several years in Cincinnati before leaving to take a position as special assistant to the Law Librarian of the Library of Congress. She also served for several years on a special team designed to improve the Library's relations with the Congress. She came to Chicago-Kent in 2001 from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was Associate Director of the Law Library. In addition to directing all library operations at the Downtown Campus, Professor Stiverson will be teaching an Advanced Research course.

Michael J. Zimmer
Visiting Professor of Law
Professor Zimmer received his A.B. and J.D. from Marquette University and his LL.M from Columbia University. He was law clerk to the Honorable Thomas E. Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and an associate at Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee. He has taught at the law schools of the University of South Carolina, Wayne State University, the University of Illinois, and Michigan State University. Professor Zimmer served as Associate Dean at Seton Hall from 1990 to 1994. He has published in the areas of labor law, constitutional law, and employment discrimination, and he is the co-author of several books in the area of employment law. He is law editor of the Martindale-Hubble Law Digest and a member of the American Law Institute.
 

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Adam Bottner
Government Enforcement of Environmental Laws seminar
Mr. Bottner is currently an associate with Stone, McGuire & Benjamin. He formerly was an Assistant State's Attorney and Supervisor of the Environment & Energy Division for the Cook County State's Attorney. Mr. Bottner received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1987 and his B.A. from the University of Illinois in 1984.

Lawrence H. Brenman
Advanced Tax Transactions seminar
Mr. Brenman received his law degree from the University of Denver in 1982 and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University in 1983. His principal areas of practice are business planning, corporat transactions, partnerships, and federal taxation. He is the author of a multi-volume treatise on limited liability companies and has lectured extensively on the tax aspects of partnerships, limited liability companies, and other topics.

Kelly Brest van Kempen
Legal Drafting
Ms. van Kempen received her B.A. from George Washington University in 1965, her M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Utah in 1974, and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 1981. She is currently engaged in the private practice of law.

Thomas B. Cahill
Legal Drafting
Mr. Cahill received his bachelor's degree from Illinois Benedictine College in 1979 and his law degree from Northern Illinois University College of Law in 1983. He currently practices with Kritzer & Levick, P.C., where he specializes in real estate law.

Martha Clemons
Advanced Research
Ms. Clemons is currently the chief legal officer for Market Liquidity Network, LLC. She was formerly an attorney-adviser in the Investment Company Branch of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She received her B.S. from the University of Arizona in 1987, her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1991, and her M.S. from the Stuart School of Business in 1997.

Frederick H. Cohen
Intellectual Property Litigation
Mr. Cohen received his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Chicago in 1990, and his B.A. in Finance from the University of Illinois in 1987. He is a partner in the litigation group of Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd. in Chicago. He has extensive experience litigating patent and trademark infringement matters, e-commerse issues, and state and local tax disputes. He writes and speaks on topics ranging from general litigation issues to subjects on intellectual property, constitutional limitations on interstate taxation, and the deregulation of the electric industry.

Champ W. Davis, Jr.
Negotiations
Mr. Davis received his law degree in 1966 from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. He is currently a partner with the firm of Davis, Mannix & McGrath, where his practice ranges over a wide variety of subjects, including contract, employment, distribution, trade secret, franchise, antitrust, and other types of business matters. He has served as chair of the Chicago Bar Association Computer Law Committee and currently serves as an arbitrator for NASD and AAA.

Warren E. Eagle
Workers' Compensation
Mr. Eagle received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University in 1958 and his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1961. He is a partner in the firm of Katz, Friedman, Eagle, Eisenstein & Johnson, where he specializes in workers' compensation law. He has written and lectured widely on workers' compensation law and serves on the Labor-Management Task Force on Workers' Compensation.

Bernard J. Farber
Legal Drafting
Mr. Farber received his B.S. from the State University of New York and his law degree from Chicago-Kent. He is engaged in the private practice of law and specializes in real estate law, wills, taxation, personal injury, contracts, and advice to small businesses. He is research counsel and editor-in-chief for the Law Enforcement Legal Center of the Americans for Effective Law Enforcement. He is also the co-author of Protective Security Law (2d edition).

Scott J. Fisher
Advanced Research
Mr. Fisher is a senior associate in the Litigation Department of the Chicago-based law firm of Gardner Carton & Douglas. His practice is concentrated in complex and corporate litigation. He also focuses on in-bound international litigation and counsels clients with respect to corporate governance issues. Mr. Fisher obtained his B.A. from The Ohio State University in 1993 and his J.D. Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1996.

Howard Foster
Civil RICO seminar
Mr. Foster received his B.A. from Brandeis University, with honors, in 1984 and his J.D. from Boston University Law School in 1988. He is a partner with Johnson & Bell, Ltd. in Chicago, where he chairs the firm's Complex Plaintiff Litigation group. The group is currently engaged in litigation against Enron Corp. and its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, under the RICO statute and other high-profile cases, including a class action against Tyson Foods, Inc. for employing a workforce of primarily illegal immigrants at 15 of its poultry processing facilities.

Kenneth L. Gillis
Remedies
Mr. Gillis received his B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1958 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1961. He received his LL.M. in Financial Services Chicago-Kent in 1990. He was, for 19 years, a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County serving in the Chancery and the Law Divisions. He also served as First Assistant State's Attorney in 1991 and 1992. He currently specializes in arbitration and mediation of disputes.

Catherine F. Glenn
Advanced Research
Ms. Glenn received her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 and her J.D. from the Univeristy of Illinois in 1994. She is currently an attorney with the Illinois Pollution Control Board.

Vincent J. Gnoffo
Advanced Research
Mr. Gnoffo received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his J.D., cum laude, in 1998 from The John Marshall Law School. He is currently an associate with Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, where he specializes in all aspects of patent law relating to electrical, mechanical, and computer arts, including litigation, opinions, and prosecution.

Eric F. Greenberg
Legal Drafting and Research
Mr. Greenberg received his B.A. from Northwestern University's College of Arts and Sciences in 1980 and his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1983. He currently is of counsel to Ungaretti & Harris in Chicago, where his practice concentrates on food and drug law, packaging law, and commercial litigation He is the author of Guide to Packaging Law, the first reference book about law for those in the packaging business. Mr. Greenberg is legal editor of Packaging Digest, for which he contribues a monthly column. He is a co-founder of the Greater Chicago Food and Drug Law Association and former chair of the Chicago Bar Association's Food, Drug and Consumer Product Regulatory Law Committee.

Nancy Hablutzel
Legal Rights of Children seminar
Ms. Hablutzel received her B.S. from Northwestern University, her Ph.D. from Loyola University, and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent. She serves as Education Advisor to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and is affiliated with Northern Illinois University.

Keith Harley
Environmental Law Clinic
Mr. Harley received his J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 1988 and holds a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the founder and director of the Environmental Law Program at the Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc., which represents community organizations and poor/minority people on environmental matters, with an emphasis on environmental justice disputes.

Daniel Harris
Agency Law
Mr. Harris received his B.A. in 1972 from The Johns Hopkins University and his J.D. in 1977 from Harvard Law School, where he was Notes Editor for the Harvard Law Review. Since graduation, he has been, among other things, a law clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., a partner with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Mr. Harris now has his own law firm, which concentrates on the representation of consumers in class actions.

Marshall J. Hartman
Capital Punishment and Judicial Process seminar
Mr. Hartman received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1958 and is currently a deputy defender with the Capital Litigation Division of the Illinois State Appellate Defender Office.

Bradley J. Hulbert
Patent Law and Practice Before the Federal Circuit
Mr. Hulbert received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree in 1974 from the University of Minnesota, his J.D. in 1977, and his M.B.A. in 1978. He is a founding partner of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff, a 50-lawyer firm specializing in intellectual property law. He has overseen the development of dozens of extensive patent portfolios and served as lead counsel in a wide range of successful patent lawsuits. Mr. Hulbert is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as well as the bars of the states of Illinois, Minnesota, and Massachusetts. He is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Judith E. Koehler
State Constitutional Law
Judge Koehler received her B.S. in Business Education from Western Illinois University and her J.D. from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law. She has worked in all three branches of Illinois government, including serving as an Illinois State Representative (1980-1986), as an Assistant State's Attorney (1991-1994), as an Illinois States's Attorney's Appellate Prosecutor (1994-1998), and as a Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court (1998-2000). She has taught at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and Midstate College.

Corinne M. Levitz
Mediation
Ms. Levitz received her B.A. from Carleton College in 1974 and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in 1977. She is currently a mediator of family custody and visitation disputes for the Circuit Court of Cook County. Prior to taking her current postion, she was the attorney-administrator for the Illinois Supreme Court Coordinating Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. She has also worked for the Illinois Legislature and for the American Bar Association. In 2001, she received the first annual Volunteer Mediator of the Year award from the National Association for Community Mediation.

Kingsley Martin
Technology and the Practice of Law
Mr. Martin received his B.A. in Jurisprudence in 1981 from Oxford University, Exeter College, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1985. Most recently, he was chief information office for Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago. Prior to that, he was director of legal technology planning for Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Cleveland. He has lectured and written widely on the integration of technology into the practice of law.

Terrence McConville
Legal Drafting
Mr. McConville received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1977 and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in 1982. He currently is assistant general counsel in the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State. He formerly was engaged in the private practice of law.

Ira A. Moltz
Legal Drafting
Mr. Moltz received his B.A..from Northwestern University and his J.D. from American University. He is currently engaged in the private practice of law, specializing in appellate litigation, corporate and taxation law, matrimonial law, and real estate and criminal matters.

Stanley R. Mondala
Juvenile Law
Mr. Mondala graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1979. He is a hearing officer with the Office of the Chief Judge, Circuit Court of Cook County in the Juvenile Courts.

Hal R. Morris
Legal Drafting and Research
Mr. Morris recieved his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1978, his M.B. A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 197, and his J.D., with High Honors, from Chicago-Kent in 1985. He is curently a litigation partner with the law firm of Arnstein & Lehr. He concentrates his practice in civil litigation with particular emphasis on commercial disputes, municipal matters, and various aspects of procedure.

James J. Moylan
Securities Regulation
Mr. Moylan, a graduate of the University of Denver, B.S.B.A. (1969), J.D. (1972), is a partner with Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess in Chicago. Mr. Moylan concentrates his practice in securities and commodities litigation and transactional matters. He has lectured and published extensively on securities, commodities, and ADR topics.

Michael Nathanson
Mediation
Mr. Nathanson received his Ph.D. in population ecology, his B.S. and M.S. in geophysics, and his MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a certified public accountant and a certified environmental professional. For 18 years he has been the president of Cadwallader Corporation, where he is a mediator and arbitrator. He is also a principal, along with a physician mediator, of Medical Mediation Associates. He is on a number of national ADR panels and mediates discrimination/employment, commercial, criminal, civil, financial, family, and community cases. Prior to becoming a mediator/arbitrator, he was a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a scientist at the Canadian Department of Agriculture. He was also on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University, where he taught Pathobiology to physicians. His areas of expertise are science, healthcare, and business.

The Honorable Lee Preston
Illinois Civil Procedure
Judge Preston received his J.D. from DePaul College of Law in 1972. He is currently a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Richard T. Reibman
Futures Regulation
Mr. Reibman received his B.A. from New College and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent. He is currently a partner at Robbins, Salomon & Patt, Ltd. in Chicago, where he practices commercial law, specializing in the regulation of commodity futures and securities and in bankruptcy and creditors' rights law. He also serves as a director of Austin Bank of Chicago and a director of Afficient Corporation. He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Marvin E. Aspen from 1976-1978, and during that time was assistant editor of Police Law Quarterly. He also has extensive business experience in the commodity futures and options industry, having served in various positions, including president of a foreign exchange arbitrage business.

Michael G. Rogers
Litigation Technology
Mr. Rogers received his B.A. from Regis College in 1985 and his J.D. from Chicago-Kent in 1989. He is an Assistant State's Attorney in the Cook County State's Attorney Office.

Jeffrey C. Rubenstein
Advanced Tax Transactions seminar
Mr. Rubenstein received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Michigan in 1963 and 1966, respectively, and his LL.M. from The John Marshall Law School in 1983. He is a principal partner with the firm of Much Shelist Freed Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C. He has over 30 years of experience in tax, corporate, and real estate matters and represents a variety of companies in the venture and middle markets. He lectures widely on taxation, real estate, and securities topics at professional, academic, and industry programs. He has authored and edited a number of books and articles in the fields of taxation, real estate, and corporate law.

Vincent J. Samar
Sexual Orientation and the Law seminar
Mr. Samar received his A.B. from Syracuse University in 1975, his joint J.D./M.P.A. from Syracuse University in 1978, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1986. He currently is Adjunct Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago and Oakton Community College. He is the author of several articles and two books, including Justifying Judgment: Practicing Law and Philosophy (1998) and The Right to Privacy: Gays, Lesbians and the Constitution (1991). He also edited New York Times, 20th Century in Review: Gay Rights Movement (2001). His areas of research are philosophy of law, political philosophy, sexual orientation and the law, and constitutional theory.

Rick M. Schoenfield
Negotiations
Mr. Schoenfield graduated cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law in 1976 and received his B.A from Northwestern in 1973. He is a partner in the law firm of Schoenfield, Swartzman & Massin, where his practice is concentrated in the areas of plaintiff's personal injury, environmental torts, and complex litigation. He is also experienced in commercial litigation for small to medium businesses. Mr. Schoenfield has co-authored two books on negotiations. Rick has taught Negotiations at Chicago-Kent since 1991 and has also taught at the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Public Health. Additionally, he has taught continuing education courses on negotiations for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and DePaul University's Leadership Conference, and has given lectures on negotiations for the Illinois Society of Internal Medicine and for branches of the Chicago Medical Society.

Laurie A. Silvestri
Legal Drafting
Ms. Silvestri received her B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1982 and her J.D., with honors, from Chicago-Kent in 1986. She has her own full-time law practice, concentrating in commercial litigation and general practice. Following law school, she worked as a staff attorney for the Illinois Appellate Court, Second District, and practiced commercial litigation for a Chicago law firm.

Donald F. Spak
Commercial Law: Secured Transactions
Mr. Spak received his A.B. in economics (Omicron Delta Epsilon honor society in economics) from Washington University in St. Louis in 1970, and his J.D. from DePaul University in 1974. Following law school, he was a judicical law clerk for Mr. Justice Thomas A. McGloon of the Illinois Appellate Court (1974-77), and then an associate and partner at Arvey Hodes Costello and Burman (1977-90), until joining Hamblet Oremus & Little in 1991. His practice includes commercial law, chancery practice, copyright law, and real estate title litigation. He also represents victims of white collar crimes.

Richard M. Stanton
Collective Bargaining & Arbitration seminar
Mr. Stanton received his B.A. in 1964 and his J.D. in 1967, both from the University of Illinois. He is currently a partner with Jacobs, Burns, Orlove, Stanton & Hernandez, where he represents labor unions and their members. He also holds positions with a number of nonprofit organizations, including the Irish American Unity Conference, the Hispanic American Labor Coalition, and Lawyers Alliance for Justice in Ireland. After graduating from law school, Mr. Stanton worked as an attorney in the National Labor Relation Board's Peoria and Chicago offices. From 1970 to 1972, he was the senior regional labor counsel for the U.S. Postal Service's 13 State Central Region.

Steven G.M. Stein
Construction Law
Mr. Stein received his law degree from the University of Chicago and is a partner with the firm of Stein, Ray & Harris, where he specializes in construction law. He is the editor-in-chief of the leading treatise on construction law. He has published widely in the area of construction law and is past president of the Chicago Building Congress.

John Strzynski
Legal Drafting and Research
Mr. Strzynski received his law degree from the University of Puget Sound in 1977 and an LL.M. in 1985. He was formerly a law librarian at Chicago-Kent.

Robert Surrette
Legal Drafting and Research
Mr. Surrette graduated with high honors from Chicago-Kent in 1997. He is an associate with the firm of McAndrews, Held & Malloy, where he specializes in intellectual property law.

Adam C. Wit
Advanced Research
Mr. Wit received his B.A. from The George Washington University in 1992 and his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1995. He is currently a shareholder at the law firm of Littler Mendelson, P.C. in Chicago. Before joining Littler Mendelson in 1997, he was an associate in the labor and employment group at the law firm of Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon in Chicago. Mr. Wit specializes in labor and employment law.

Nancy J. Wolfe
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Ms. Wolfe received her B.A. from Rosary College in 1973 and her J.D. from DePaul University in 1980. She is currently the Chief of the Civil Bureau of the DuPage County State's Attorneys Office. Her professional experience includes service as a criminal prosecutor and Public Defender. She has also engaged in the private practice of law, concentrating in insurance defense and contract litigation.

The Honorable Warren D. Wolfson
Advanced Evidence seminar
Justice Wolfson received his LLB from the University of Illinois in 1957. After eighteen years of criminal defense practice, he was appointed to the Circuit Court of Cook County in 1975 and was elected to that position in 1976. He was assigned to the Illinois Appellate Court in 1994, where he now serves. Justice Wolfson is the co-author of Trial Evidence (2d edition) and Materials In Trial Advocacy (5th edition). He has been director of the Trial Advocacy program at Chicago-Kent since 1971. He taught trial advocacy at The University of Chicago Law School from 1985 to 2000, and has taught and lectured for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
 
 

J.D. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Course descriptions appear in the publication entitled Faculty Biographies/Course Descriptions: 2000-2002 and on the Chicago-Kent web site (click on Course Descriptions under the Academic Resources heading on the school's intranet page, http://ck.kentlaw.edu). Fall semester courses not described there, or for which the description has changed, are described below.

Advanced Evidence Seminar
Justice W. Wolfson
This seminar will focus on the topic of burdens of proof and presumptions. These twin ideas are of considerable practical and theoretical importance but tend to get only passing treatment in other courses, including basic Evidence courses. We will examine them in some depth, looking at the factors that determine upon whom a given burden of proof is placed, what it takes to satisfy that burden, and when the burden can be shifted to another party. We will consider both civil and criminal litigation. Two credit hours.

Civil RICO Seminar
Professor Foster
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was enacted a generation ago primarily as a tool for criminal prosecutors to use against organized crime. Its civil provisions were added to the legislation as an afterthought and remained largely dormant for a decade. However, since the early 1980s, civil RICO has become a widely used - many contend overused - tool in the arsenal of the sophisticated commercial litigator. Used effectively, civil RICO's threat of triple damages, attorney's fees, and the stigma of being labeled a "racketeer" can bludgeon the opposition into early settlement of cases that otherwise would linger in state courts for years. This seminar will examine the history of civil RICO, and how the federal courts have both facilitated and circumscribed its vast expansion into general commercial litigation. An understanding of civil RICO can significantly affect the analysis a lawyer applies to many commercial/business cases. Two credit hours.

Commercial Law: Survey
Professor M. Spak
This course provides a survey of the Uniform Commercial Code and is designed for those students who either do not want to take the commercial law sequence (Sales, Payment Systems, and Secured Transactions), or have not decided whether to take these courses. Commercial Law is clearly the most significant substantive subject appearing on the Illinois Bar Examination, appearing on all four parts of the exam (the Multistate Bar Examination, the Multistate Essay Examination, the Illinois Essay Examination, and the Multistate Performance Examination). In light of the above, Professor Spak feels that all students planning to take the Illinois Bar Examination, should have some exposure to the Code. This course is not a prerequisite for any other commercial law course. If you take this course, you will be able to subsequently (or concurrently) take Payment Systems and/or Secured Transactions, but you will not be permitted to take Sales. If you have already taken Sales, or have taken both Payment Systems and Secured Transactions, you may not take this course. Four credit hours.

Emerging Technologies
Professor Piatt
This course explores the ways in which the law and legal system respond to changes in technology. It begins by examining these changes from a historical perspective with innovations such as electricity, the automobile, satellite communications, and radio. It then moves into current technological developments in genetic engineering, surrogate parenting, interactive cable TV, DNA testing, artificial intelligence, and the like. Legal issues involving intellectual property, contractual relationships, constitutional rights of individuals, rules of evidence, negligence, and products liability will be discussed. Questions revolve around the ways in which the legal system responds to changes with analogy to the "known and understood," with fear of the unknown, with conflict between legal and moral issues, with new law, and with the attorney's role in formulating change. Three credit hours.

Environmental Law Clinic
Professors Harley and H. Gordon
The Environmental Law Clinic will help students develop their lawyering skills by giving them the opportunity to represent individuals and community organizations with environmental concerns. Students will interview clients, represent clients in meetings with corporations and government officials, and represent clients in court. Cases range from assisting an individual who discovers she has lead paint in her home to helping communities with problems arising from active facilities, abandoned sites, and proposed facilities. The class sessions will provide an opportunity to observe and practice lawyering skills, develop an understanding of the key substantive environmental law areas involved in the clinic's work, and discuss ongoing cases. Students are required to perform 10 hours a week of fieldwork for the 3-credit version of the clinic, and 12 hours a week of fieldwork for the 4-credit version, in addition to the classroom component. Students are required to perform 5 hours a week of fieldwork for the 1-credit version. Faculty: The director of the clinic, Keith Harley, and a clinic staff attorney, Holly Gordon, will supervise the clinical work. Mr. Harley and Ms. Gordon will co-teach the classroom component. Availability: The clinic is open to 8 students each semester. If a selection process is necessary, you will be notified regarding the interview process after you register for the class. There are no course prerequisites for this clinic. Students must have completed 30 credit hours to take the Clinic. One, three, or four credit hours.

Environmental Law Externship
Professor Gross
Students in the Program in Environmental and Energy Law have the opportunity to explore environmental opportunities in the public and public interest sectors. These externships help students develop their legal research and writing skills and substantive knowledge of environmental law. Externships are currently available at several government agencies and public interest groups: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Office, the Illinois Attorney General's Office (Environmental Division), the City of Chicago Law Department (Environmental Unit), the State's Attorney's office (Environmental Division), the Illinois Pollution Control Board, the Chicago Legal Clinic, the Lake Michigan Federation, the Illinois Commerce Commission, and the Environmental Law and Policy Center for the Midwest. Students should contact Professor Gross for more information about enrolling in this externship. Four credit hours.

Government Enforcement of Environmental LawsSeminar
Professor Bottner
This seminar will give you an understanding of how local, state, and federal governments enforce violations of environmental laws. It will also give you insight into how these levels of government interact in the enforcement of these cases. You will learn how a case proceeds from the time of its discovery, to the investigation, to the decision to proceed administratively, civilly, criminally, or not at all. You will work through case studies of actual air, land and water pollution violations from their discovery through their prosecution. The class will be taught by a veteran environmental prosecutor from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office with guest speakers from all levels of government and private practice, who will share their insights on the investigation and prosecution of environmental violations. Two credit hours.

Intellectual Property Litigation
Professor Cohen
As intellectual property becomes more critical to the success and survival of many businesses, intellectual property disputes become more frequent and more significant. This course explores the life cycle of an intellectual property dispute, including initial client meetings, cease and desist letters, temporary restraining orders/preliminary injunctions, seizures, deposition strategies, experts, summary judgment strategies, settlement negotiations and licensing resolutions, mediations, trials, damages, and enforcement techniques. We will use cutting edge intellectual property issues as a vehicle to explore these issues. Prerequisites: two of the following courses: Copyright Law, Trademarks & Unfair Competition, and Patent Law. Recommended preparation: Remedies. Three credit hours.

International Commercial Arbitration
Professor P. Hablutzel
This new seminar provides an opportunity to learn about a new, developing field in international commercial law. The basic course in International Business Transactions is not a prerequisite. An increasing percentage of all international contracts contain a clause for binding arbitration in cases of dispute. The basic reason is quite simple: In June 1958, the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards was signed and has now been signed by over 100 countries, including all the major commercial countries (except for some in Latin America). This Convention ensures that an arbitral award, rendered anywhere in the world, will be enforced in the courts of the signatory countries. Judgments of courts do not receive this treatment: court awards are very difficult to enforce in other countries.

The seminar students will gain a working knowledge of the various international treaties that provide the structure of international commercial arbitration, including the New York Convention (1958), the European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (1961), the Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (1975), and the Washington Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States 91965), establishing the ICSID in Washington.

The seminar will explore the ways in which arbitrations can be structured: either ad hoc or under the umbrella of an international organization. The seminar will examine several umbrella organizations and their "Rules," including The American Arbitration Association, the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID in Washington), and UNCITRAL's Convention for the International Sale of Goods.

Topics to be covered include: under each regime and each set of rules, how does an arbitration panel obtain jurisdiction, how are the arbitrators chosen, what are the process, the rules and the costs, where does the arbitration take place, which language is used, how evidence is obtained and admitted, etc.

It is expected that four to six students in the seminar will be preparing to represent Chicago-Kent at the VIS International Arbitration Moot in Vienna, April 10-19, 2003 (contact Prof. Hablutzel for details). Two credit hours.

Justice Web Collaboratory Externship
Professors Gross and Staudt
The Justice Web Collaboratory (JWC) Externship provides students the opportunity to explore Access to Justice issues, including the use of technology in legal services, alternative legal services delivery models, e-lawyering, and pro se litigant assistance. Students work in conjunction with the Justice Web Collaboratory and its Illinois Technology Center for Law & the Public Interest (ITC), a statewide collaboration of legal services providers, whose mission is to provide low-income individuals with greater access to the legal system through the use of technology. The externship allows students to acquire direct client service experience and to use that experience to assist in the development and upgrading of innovative web resources for pro se litigants and the public. Students will split their time between these two activities and will have the flexibility to choose opportunities that most appeal to them. Students who have computer and web design skills will have the ability to utilize those skills.

The direct client service portion of the externship provides students with experience in assisting self-represented litigants and/or providing brief legal services to low-income individuals. Examples of these opportunities include the following: Assisting pro se litigants at court-based help desks; providing legal advice over telephone hotlines; and negotiating on behalf of tenants in eviction court.

The development and upgrading of web resources for pro se litigants and the public involves the following activities: working with expert attorneys selected from the Illinois legal aid community to build and maintain the Illinois poverty law web portals (www.itcweb.org); researching, drafting, and editing of web based legal education materials and legal forms with instructions for the public; and developing appropriate user interfaces for web based document assembly.

The classroom component will meet on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 4:55 p.m. and will be taught by Professors Gross and Staudt. The externship requires at least 16 hours per week spent on externship activities. Students can earn additional credit the following semester by arrangement. Four credit hours.

Legal and Economic Transition in Southeastern Europe and the Balkans
Professor D. Gordon
This course is an introduction to the legal systems of Eastern Europe. As such, we will cover an area from Poland to Bulgaria, Romania to Albania. To understand how the current legal systems have come to be what they are, we must discuss related fields that helped create the context in which the law operates, including economics (both Communist and capitalist), history, and culture. Anyone professionally interested in the region should have at least basic familiarity with the forces that shaped it. Specific attention will not be paid to any one country; instead, we will examine broader issues affecting the region as a whole, such as corporate and commercial law, privatization, foreign investment, joint ventures, and property ownership. Given the range of issues that we will cover, in-depth analysis will necessarily be limited. However, examples will be drawn from throughout Eastern Europe, with special attention being given--where possible--to examples from the former Yugoslavia and, in particular, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzogovina. Two credit hours.

Litigation Technology
Professor Rogers
This course will teach law students interested in becoming trial lawyers how to integrate technology into their trial presentations. Students will learn how to apply principles of persuasion to the creation of courtroom visuals which they will then present in the trial advocacy portion of the course. The course will use hypothetical problems and cases to allow students to develop presentations that persuade. The course will include computer lab sections, some lecture, and student participation with instructor critique. Students will try civil cases and criminal cases. Students must have completed Trial Advocacy 1 in order to take the class, and completion of Trial Advocacy 2 will be a definite advantage. Students should own their own laptop computers and be prepared to bring them to class every day. The machine should be Windows-compatible. The class may run longer than three hours when students try their mock trials. Maximum class size is 16 students. Students should contact Mike Rogers at whatumean@msn.com if they have any questions. Three credit hours.

Nonprofit Law
Professor Brody
Nonprofit organizations - including churches, hospitals, universities, cultural institutions, social service charities, advocacy groups, unions, trade associations, and social clubs - make up about 10 percent of the economy. Their operations and role in society raise important and difficult issues that cut across a variety of legal fields. In addition, as "ownerless" enterprises serving the public good, nonprofits present challenges for good governance, public oversight, and appropriate public subsidy. We will study the relevant aspects of constitutional law, trust and property law, corporate law, and tax law. Three credit hours.

Practice Before the Federal Circuit
Professor Hulbert
This unique course will focus on the practice of law before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). The CAFC has exclusive appellate jurisdiction to hear patent cases and appeals from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as well as cases involving several non-patent related issues. The course will be taught by adjunct professor Bradley Hulbert and will be worth two credits. Prerequisites: You must have taken, or presently be taking, Patent Law. The course materials will be geared to students intending to practice intellectual property law and to specialize in patent law. Course Requirements: (1) The course will begin during the Fall semester but will extend into the early part of the Spring semester. Students will be required to attend class on Fridays from 6:00- 7:25 p.m. beginning in early November and running through late January, with breaks for the Thanksgiving holiday and over the inter-semester break. (2) Students will be required to compete in the intramural Giles Rich Moot Court Competition, submitting an appellate brief and arguing both on and off-brief. The intramural moot court problem often involves patent law and occasionally trademark law. Why take this course? This course will teach you appellate advocacy, both with respect to how to identify the issues and write a convincing appellate brief and how to prepare for, and present, a winning oral argument. Top students in the class will be invited (but not required) to represent the school in the National Giles Rich Moot Court Competition. Students taking this course in recent years placed first and third in the Midwest Regional Competition, with the first place team advancing to the National Competition in Washington, D.C. Please note that this course is being offered as a regular course, not as a seminar. Two credit hours.

Refugee & Asylum Law Externship
Professor Gross
Students will interview asylum applicants, previously interviewed and accepted by Heartland alliance's Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center, to prepare their asylum applications. Each student will research and write a legal brief in support of the client's application for asylum. They will research domestic and international law as well as country conditions. Each student will handle at least one asylum case per semester. Asylum applicants either apply for asylum affirmatively to the Immigration and Naturalization Service or apply defensively to the Immigration Court if they are in deportation or removal proceedings. Students will attend the asylum interview with their clients and a supervising attorney before the Asylum Office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Students who elect to represent an asylum applicant in removal proceedings will appear before the Immigration Court with their clients and a supervising attorney. To enroll in the externship, students must submit their resumes to Prof. Gross. Prior immigration law experience is not required. Fluency in a second language is helpful although it is not a requirement for the externship.

State Constitutional Law
Professor Koehler
This course, which may also be taken as a seminar, will address the emerging role of state courts in relation to the federal courts and the increasing importance of state law, especially state constitutional law, in relation to federal constitutional law. Topics will include the advantages of independent use of state constitutions; difficulties with relying on state constitutional provisions in contrast with similar federal constitutional provisions; different methods of interpreting state constitutions; the doctrine of "independent and adequate state grounds";and how to raise, brief, and argue state constitutional rights. Two credit hours.

Technology and the Practice of Law
Professor K. Martin
This course examines the role of technology in the practice and the business of law. The course considers the impact of technology on the profession, its economic value, and the types of technology systems available, offering students an analytical framework to examine information technology platforms and the future of the legal profession. A number of advanced technology systems will be evaluated, including personal productivity systems, knowledge management, and enterprise integration systems, commonly known as "portals." Two credit hours.

Telecommunications Law and Policy
Professor Piatt
This course addresses the legal and policy concerns of all aspects of the communications industries and technologies, including telephony, telegraphy, broadcast, satellite transmissions, internet, and wireless. It addresses the structure of the industries and the legal and policy issues that result from or are embedded in these structures. It also considers content, access, and pricing issues and develops a framework for thinking about the appropriate structures for the future. Three credit hours.
 
 
 

2002-2003 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

FALL 2002 SEMESTER
Orientation begins:  Monday, August 19
Saturday Trial Ad. sections begin:  Saturday, August 24
First day of regular classes:  Monday, August 26
Labor Day (no classes):  Monday, September 2
Yom Kippur (no classes):  Monday, September 16
Thanksgiving vacation (no classes):  Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 28 - Dec. 1
Mon. classes meet:  Monday, December 2
   (Labor Day make-up)
Monday classes meet:  Tuesday, December 3
   (Yom Kippur make-up)
Thursday classes meet:  Wed., December 4
   (Thanksgiving make-up)
Friday classes meet:  Thursday, December 5
   (Thanksgiving make-up)
Last day of classes:  Thursday, December 5
Read period:  December 6 - 10
Final exams:  December 11 - 21

INTERSESSION
Intensive Trial Advocacy:  January 11 - 18, 2003

SPRING 2003 SEMESTER
Dr. King's Birthday:  Monday, January 20
   (no classes)
First day of classes:  Tuesday, January 21
Professionalism Day:  Wed., February 5
   (no classes)
Spring Break:  March 15, 12 noon - March 23
Good Friday (no classes):  Friday, April 18
Monday classes meet:  Monday, May 5
   (King Birthday make-up)
Wednesday classes meet: Tuesday, May 6
   (Prof. Day make-up)
Friday classes meet:  Wednesday, May 7
Last day of classes:  Wednesday, May 7
Read period:  May 8 - May 12
Final exams:  May 13 - 24
Commencement:  Sunday, June 1 (tent.)

2003 SUMMER SESSION
Memorial Day (no classes):  Monday, May 26
First day of classes:  Tuesday, May 27
Monday classes meet:  Friday, May 30
   (Memorial Day make-up)
Last day of classes:  Thursday, July 17
Read period:  July 18 - July 20
Final exams:  July 21 - 23
 

COURSES LIKELY TO BE OFFERED IN THE SPRING 2003 SEMESTER
The courses listed below do not include Advanced Research, Legal Drafting, Trial Advocacy, or clinical courses.

DAY DIVISION
The following courses are likely to be offered in the Day Division in the Spring 2003 semester. There is no guarantee, however, that all of these courses will, in fact, be offered. Additional courses will likely be added. (4:00) indicates courses likely to be offered at 4:00 in the Spring.

Accounting for Lawyers
Administrative Law
Advanced Torts
Alternative Dispute Resolution (4:00)
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy Litigation (4:00)
Business Entity Transactions
Business Organizations
Commercial Law: Payment Systems
Complex Litigation
Conflict of Laws
Consumer Health Benefits (4:00)
Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process
Disability Law (4:00)
Employee Benefits
Employment Discrimination
Environmental Law Clinic
Environmental Law Externship
Energy Law (4:00)
Estates and Trusts
Evidence
Family and Employment-Based Immigration Practice (4:00)
Family Law
First Amendment
Genetics and the Law
Illinois Civil Procedure
Immigration Law & Policy
Insurance Law (4:00)
International Business Transactions
International Intellectual Property
Internet Law
Law of Privacy
Legislative Advocacy
Mediation (4:00)
Medical Malpractice (4:00)
Negotiations (4:00)
Personal Income Tax (4:00)
Professional Responsibility
Remedies
Sports Law (4:00)
Tax Fraud and Related Crimes (4:00)
Tax Planning for International Business (4:00)
Tax Procedure (4:00)
Taxation of Business Enterprises

EVENING DIVISION
The following courses are likely to be offered in the Evening Division in the Spring 2003 semester. There is no guarantee, however, that all of these courses will, in fact, be offered. Additional courses will likely be added. (4:00) indicates courses likely to be offered at 4:00 in the Spring.

Administrative Law
Alternative Dispute Resolution (4:00)
Antitrust
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy Litigation (4:00)
Business Organizations
Commercial Law: Secured Transactions
Conflict of Laws
Consumer Health Benefits (4:00)
Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process
Disability Law (4:00)
Employee Benefits
Employment Relationships
Energy Law (4:00)
Entertainment Law
Environmental Law and Policy 2
Estate Planning
Estates & Trusts
Evidence
Family and Employment-Based Immigration Practice (4:00)
Federal Courts
Gift and Estate Tax
Illinois Civil Procedure
Insurance (4:00)
Intellectual Property for Corporate Lawyers
International Business Transactions
International Human Rights
International Law
Land Use
Law of Trade Secrets
Mediation
Medical Malpractice (4:00)
Negotiations
Patent Office Practice
Personal Income Tax (4:00)
Professional Responsibility
Remedies
Sports Law (4:00)
Tax Fraud and Related Crimes (4:00)
Tax Planning for International Business (4:00)
Tax Procedure (4:00)
Taxation of Business Enterprises
Trademarks and Unfair Competition

SEMINARS

The following seminars are likely to be offered in the Spring 2003 semester. A number of additional seminars will be added to this list; some may be deleted. (E) indicates seminars likely to be offered in the Evening Division in the Spring; some of the seminars not currently listed as Evening seminars may be scheduled in the Evening Division. Most of the rest of the seminars will be offered at 4:00.

Advanced Evidence (E)
Current Issues in Environmental Law
European Union
International Criminal Law
Jurisprudence
Philosophy of the Criminal Justice System (E)
Public Sector Employees
Tax Fraud and Related Crimes
White Collar Crime

LONDON CONSORTIUM
Chicago-Kent is part of a consortium of law schools that sponsors a Spring semester in London each year. See § 1.27 of the Student Handbook or talk to Dean Sowle for details. The following courses will be offered in the Consortium program in the Spring 2003 term:

Arts & Entertainment Law
British Legal Externship Program
Criminal Procedure - Investigations
English Legal System
European Union Law
Federal Courts
International Human Rights
Natural Resources Law
Real Estate Transactions
Secured Transactions - Article 9

CHANGES TO THE PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Additional Courses & Sections

• Legal and Economic Transition in Southeastern Europe and the Balkans: This new course will meet on Wednesdays, 4:00-5:50 p.m. The instructor will be Professor David Gordon.
• Technology and the Practice of Law: This new course will meet Tuesdays, 4:00-5:50 p.m. The instructor will be Professor Kingsley Martin.

• Commercial Law: Secured Transactions: This course will now meet Mon./Wed. 4:00-5:25 p.m. (not 4:25-5:50 p.m.).
• Criminal Procedure: Investigative Process (day section): This course will now meet Mon./Wed./Fri., 11:45-12:40 p.m. (not Tues./Wed./Fri., 10:40-11:35 a.m.). The instructor will be Professor Rudstein, not Professor Greenberg.
• Personal Income Tax (day section): This course will now meet MTTh, 3:00-3:55 p.m. (not TTh, 1:55-3:20 p.m.).

• Commercial Law: Payment Systems: On some copies of the preliminary schedule, this was listed as being offered Mon./Wed., 8:00-9:25 p.m. It actually will be offered Tues./Thurs., 8:00-9:25 p.m.
• Constitutional Law (Prof. Stewart's section): On some copies of the preliminary schedule, this class Law was listed as meeting from 9:15 - 10:30 p.m. on Mon./Wed./Thurs.; the correct time is 9:15-10:30 a.m. on those days.
• Copyright Law (evening section, Prof. Dinwoodie): The pass/fail election is not available for this course.
• Environmental Law Clinic: Students must have completed 30 credit hours to take this clinic.
• Evidence (Prof. Baker's day section): The preliminary schedule listed this class as being worth 4 credits; it is actually worth 3 credits.
• Federal Courts: Constitutional Law is a prerequisite for taking this course.
• Intellectual Property Litigation: Prerequisites: two of the following courses: Coyright Law, Trademarks and Unfair Competition, and Patent Law. Recommended preparation: Remedies.
• Trademarks and Unfair Competition: The pass/fail election is not available for this course.