INDIANA LAW ANNOTATED Vol. 9 No. I August 28, 1995 School of Law — Bloomington INSIDE Competition Winners.......... 1 News from the Faculty......... 1 News from Student Affairs Office ............................2 News from Career Servcices .... 2 News from Student Organizations ............................3 Announcements .............. 3 Events, Lectures.............. 4 Calendar ................... 4 Indiana Law Annotated School of Law — Bloomington Submissions: ILA is published every Monday. Information and articles for ILA should be submitted by Thursday at 1pm for inclusion in Monday's edition. Submissions can be given to Leslie Jackson in Room 240, put in Leslie Jackson's box in the faculty mailroom on the second floor, or placed in the envelope on the bulletin board across from the elevator on the ground floor. In addition, submissions can be sent through campus E-mail to LESLIE JACKSON. Competition Winners Doug Hyman '95 recently won second place in the Food and Drug Institute's 1994-1995 H. Thomas Austern Writing Awards Competition. Doug's article was entitled, "The Regulation of Health Claims in Food Advertising: Have the FTC and FDA Finally Reached a Common Ground?" In addition to the $2,000 prize, the Institute will publish the paper in a forthcoming issue of the Food and Drug Law Journal. Also, Peter Song '95 won the school's Sig Beck Prize for Bankruptcy writing in May, and Douglas Masson (3L) won the school's competition for the Nathan Burkan Copywright competition in June. Both of these winners also received cash awards. Various writing competitions are posted on the "Contest" board across the hallway from Dean Fromm's office. New ones are posted as they are received - nearly every week. NEWS FROM THE FACULTY Welcome to New Faculty We have a number of new and visiting faculty here this year. David Fidler joins the faculty permanently to teach in the international law area. Professor Fidler received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.Phil. in International Relations from University of Oxford. He practiced with Sullivan & Cromwell in London and with Stinson, Mag & Fizzell in Kansas City before joining the faculty. Sophia Goodman joins the writing faculty from the EEOC Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C., where she has been practicing for several years. Ms. Goodman graduated summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve School of Law, then clerked for Judge S. High Dillin and Judge Sarah Evans Barker in Indianapolis. Seth Lahn also joins the writing faculty this year. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1982, he clerked with Judge Cahn at the district court in Philadelphia, Mr. Lahn then went to Webster & Sheffield in N.Y. He came to Indiana in 1989, and has served most recently as Deputy Attorney General in Governmental Litigation at the AG's Office. We have two visiting faculty this fall. Kathy Abrams is visiting this year from Cornell Law School. Professor Abrams received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1984, and clerked for Judge Frank Johnson at the 11th Circuit before joining the law faculty at Boston University. She visited at Harvard before accepting a position at Cornell. Paul Craig returns for the fall from Worchester College, Oxford, where he is a Fellow and Reader. William Kell is visiting for the full year. After graduating from Wayne State University School of Law, he has been practicing in legal services and public interest settings in Massachusetts and New York, where his work has focused on children's rights issues. And Where is.... Professors Baude, Bethel, and Robel are on sabbatical this fall. Professor Lynne Henderson is visiting at University of San Francisco School of Law for the fall semester. Welcome Back We'd also like to welcome back Professor Ann Gellis, who returns from a year visiting at Rutgers, and Professor Ken Dau-Schmidt, who is back from a year at the University of Wisconsin. Faculty News The United States Tax Court recently decided a case which had been tried and briefed for the government by Steve Johnson before he joined the IU faculty. In 1986, Congress attacked tax shelters by providing, in I.R.C. § 469, that "passive losses" (losses from tax shelters) could be deducted only against "passive income". The taxpayers in this case had large, otherwise unusable, passive losses, hi an attempt to circumvent § 469 and use these losses, the taxpayers reported some of their income as passive income. Holding for the government, the Tax Court concluded that the income was not passive income, with the result that the taxpayers were unable to deduct their tax shelter losses. Edelberg v. Commissioner. T.C. Memo. 1995-386,95 TNT 159-8 (Aug. 14, 1995). Roger Dworkin delivered the manuscript of his book, Limits: The Role of the Law in Bioethical Decision Making, to the Indiana University press in June, hi August Dworkin delivered a paper entitled, "Law and Ignorance: Genetic Therapy and the Legal Process," at a conference on Biotechnological Challenges for Law and Ethics in Bellagio, Italy. The paper will appear as an article in volume 4 of Annual Review of Law and Ethics. Professor Dworkin continues to serve as Acting Director of the University's Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. NEWS FROM STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICE London Program Students interested in attending our London Program next semester will find application materials in our office (024). For priority, applications are due by September 11. An important, informational meeting will be held at noon on Wednesday, August 30, in Room 121. Also attending will be students who went to London this past spring. They will share their experiences and answer questions. Paris Program On Tuesday, September 5, at 5:15 p.m. in Room 121, there will be an informational meeting about the SPEA sponsored "Paris" program. The dates are May 19-31, 1996; two or three credits may be earned (P/F basis). Fifteen law students attended last summer, and some will be present at this meeting. The application deadline for this program likely will not be until January 15, but priority will be given by date of application. Student Spouse Meeting On Wednesday evening, August 30, at 6:30 p.m., in the Faculty Lounge (Room 310) there will be an orientation and get acquainted meeting for the "spouses" and "significant others" of new law students. Children are also invited. Presidents/Chairs of Student Organizations There will be a "beginning of the year" meeting for all leaders of student organizations on Thursday, August 31 at noon in Room 124. NEWS FROM CAREER SERVICES Career Services Registration Your 1995-96 CSO Registration Form is located in the last section of your Fall Recruitment Manual. Submit this form and 3 resumes prior to Thursday, August 31st if you plan to drop for the first OCI collection. Otherwise, please register at the earliest date possible. Videotaped Mock Interview Week This week the CSO Graduate Assistant, Brenda McNellan, will be putting upperclass students through their paces in mock interviews. Interviews will be videotaped so you can view it at your leisure and have it critiqued by Dean Townes. It is not too late to register - just bring your resume to CSO and sign-up for a time! (You will need to bring your own blank tape; otherwise see a CSO staff member). Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication: Developing Rapport with an Interviewer. Thursday, August 31,10:00 a.m., Rm 123. Professor Rita Naremore from the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences will make a presentation on the wide variety of ways people communicate and how to make sure you are sending the right message during your interviews! (Skills & Values event) NEWS FROM STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS PILF (Public interest Law Foundation) PILF will be sponsoring a fall Pro Bono Fair in the Law School Lobby on Wednesday, September 6. Several representatives from a variety of both legal and non-legal organizations throughout the Bloomington community will be present in order to answer questions and discuss options for students interested in volunteering throughout the year. The representatives will be available from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on September 6 in the Lobby. Contact Paige Porter (2L) for more information. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Snack Bar will re-open today (August 28) with a new "Coffee Bar" theme. Jessup International Moot Court Competition A reminder that there will be an important meeting conducted by Professor Fidler August 30 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 216 to disucss the new competition in September to select an I.U. Jessup Moot Court team. Course Time Changes —Voting Rights (Abrams) from Thursday and Friday to Thursday only, 8:30-10:30 a.m. -Seminar in the Law and Society of Japan (Hoffinann) from Tuesday and Thursday to Thursday only. 3:15-5:15 p.m. Drop/Add Courses You may drop and add courses with the Recorder's Office through Thursday August 31 without financial penalty. Student Law Association Elections for Its SLA will be taking nominations for three representatives from the first year class starting next week. The nomination ballot box will be placed at the library circulation desk. Ballots will be in your mailslots or may be picked up at the SLA table over the noon hours. You may nominate yourself or others. The election will be held the during the third full week of classes. Clinical Openings Spaces remain for two clinics in Indianapolis for this fall semester: Federal Courts Clinic (see Professor Hoffinann or Dean Fromm by Tuesday); and Department of Environmental Management (see Dean Fromm by Tuesday). Both are for two credits (P/F) and require one day per week in Indianapolis. Course Offered: SPEA V655 Policy Analysis Field Lab I: Childhood Poverty This course offers a multi-disciplinary overview of poverty in America with special emphasis on children who are poor. The course provides information on the measurement, demographics, and persistence of poverty in the U.S. and Indiana. It addresses the cause of poverty, and focuses on education, health, and selected government assistance programs. The course will include professors from many different disciplines including SPEA, Education, Nursing, Social Work and Law (taught by Professor Orenstein). The course also requires each student to volunteer for a minimum of 5 hours during the semester. Opportunities to work with low income people have been prearranged for students through the Bloomington Volunteer Action Center, or the students may choose their own projects. Students will keep a journal of their readings, volunteer work and clippings from the popular press. A syllabus is on file with Dean Fromm. Skills and Values Series Every semester, a number of lectures, discussions, simulations, court appearances, and other events occur outside of the classroom that enrich class work by offering students opportunities to cultivate fundamental lawyering skills and deliberate about fundamental values of the profession. In an effort to emphasize the ways in which this "curriculum outside the classroom" can add practical dimensions to your legal education, the Law School will identify such events as part of the Skills and Values Series. The School will videotape Skills and Values Series events, and make those videotapes available in a systematic way through the library. Students with Children Organization Meeting — Wednesday August 30,1995 at 12:20 p.m. in Room 317 A group of law students will meet to discuss the special challenges of balancing law school and family. The group will share support, resource information, and survival skills. Possibilities include providing information on day-care, forming a babysitting co-op, and planning some kid-oriented events (including a tour of the law school and a model law school class for kids). If this sounds of interest, please contact Professor Orenstein at 855-8736. Non-parents who wish to support fellow law students with kids are also welcome. Internships - Learn to Practice Law The Community Legal Clinic has two slots open for third year students. 3 credit hours. Represent real clients in civil cases. Talk to Earl Singleton in Room 300 or Alex Tanford in Room 257 by August 30th. The Monroe County Prosecuting Attorney needs interns to learn criminal practice. No pay, no credit, but lots of great experience. See Professor Tanford in Room 257 by September 1st. EVENTS, LECTURES Lawrence M. Friedman, Stanford Law faculty During the week of September 18, Lawrence M. Friedman, of the Stanford Law faculty, and the preeminent historian of American law, will be on our campus. On September 19 and 21 he will give Patten Lectures at 7:30 p.m., in Rawles 100, on the history of American criminal law. On September 19 he will also visit Steve Conrad's Legal History class at 3:15 p.m. in Room 120. All law students and faculty are welcome to attend. For more information on Friedman's week-long visit, please call Steve Conrad. CALENDAR Monday, August 28 Tuesday, August 29 Wednesday, August 30 ...London Program Informational Meeting, noon, Room 121 ...Students With Children Organization Meeting, 12:20 p.m., Room 317 ...Jessup International Moot Court Competition informational eeting, 4:00 p.m., Room 216 ...Student Spouse Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Faculty Lounge (Room 310) Thursday, August 31 ...Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication: Developing Rapport with an Interviewer, 10:00 a.m., Room 123. Friday, September I