Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library
    Faculty Current Awareness Bulletin    
    May-June 2003            

The Faculty Current Awareness Bulletin is published periodically by the Cleveland-Marshall Law School Library for the faculty and staff of the Law School.  The Bulletin contains selected announcements of symposia, conferences, requests for articles and requests for research proposals. If you have any questions concerning the material which appears in the Bulletin, or any suggestions on the types of materials you would like to see included in the Bulletin, please contact Michael J. Slinger, Law Library Director at (216) 687-3547, or Leslie A. Pardo, Circulation & Faculty Services Librarian at (216) 687-6885.  Additional information and some registration forms may be obtained by contacting Leslie A. Pardo.
                                            
SYMPOSIA & CONFERENCES    

Inference, Culture, and Ordinary Thinking in Dispute Resolution will be held April 27-29, 2003 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York.  
"Lawyers for Libraries" will be held May 12–13, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois. Sponsored by the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association.

American Health Lawyers Association: Managed Care Law Conference will be held May 14-16, 2003 in Colorado Springs, CO.

American Health Lawyers Association: 2003 Antitrust in the Healthcare Field will be held May 15-16, 2003 in Washington, DC.

Transatlantic Business Transactions:  CHOICE OF LAW, JURISDICTION AND JUDGMENTS will be held June 1-3, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.  Sponsored by ELFA and AALS.

The Law & Society Association's 2003 Annual Meeting will be held June 5-8, 2003 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics: 27th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference will be held  June 6-7, 2003 at the Widener School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware.

Essential Teaching Skills for Adjunct Law Professors: Midwest Regional Conference will be held June 7, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois.  Sponsored by the Institute for Law School Teaching, Gonzaga University School of Law and John Marshall Law School.

Notre Dame Law School Colloquium on Legal Discourse will be held June 15-18, 2003 at the University of Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, Indiana.  Contact Professor Teresa Phelps for more information.

Estate Planning in Depth will be held June 15 - 20, 2003 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.  Co-sponsored by the American Law Institute-American Bar Association and the University of Wisconsin Law School Continuing Education and Outreach.

The Association of American Law Schools Mid-Year Meeting,will be held June 15–20, 2003 in New York, New York. The meeting will offer registrants the opportunity to participate in several concurrent professional development programs. The programs that will be offered include the Conference on Civil Procedure: The Many Faces of Contemporary Civil Procedure, June 17–20; Conference on Torts: The Judge’s New Robe: Rethinking the Judicial Role for 21st Century Torts, June 17–20; and the Joint AALS/ABA Workshop on Taking Stock: Women of All Colors in Law School, June 15–17.

The 2003 North American Regional Conference of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL) will be held  June 26-28, 2003 at the University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon.

American Health Lawyers Association Annual Meeting will be held June 29 – July 2, 2003 in San Antonio, Texas.  

"Professing to Educate... and Educating to Profess": A Symposium on Graduate Legal Education for Academics (Present and Future) July 3-4, 2003 Montreal, Canada, McGill University. Contact: eric.reiter@mail.mcgill.ca

American Association of Law Librarians Annual Meeting will be held July 12-16, 2003 in Seattle, Washington.

Reflecting on Our Teaching - 2003  will be held July 16-19, 2003 in Leavenworth, Washington.  Sponsored by the Institute for Law School Teaching, Gonzaga University School of Law.

Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) Annual Conference will be held July 19-23, 2003 in San Francisco, CA

Tenth Annual Education Law Conference sponsored by Franklin Pierce Law Center will be held July 28-31, 2003. This conference will be held at the University of New England's Portland, Maine Campus. 

The ABA Annual Meeting will be held August 7-13 in San Francisco, California.

The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology: 3rd Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference will be held August 8-9, 2003 in  Berkeley, CA. Conducted in a roundtable format, this conference brings together intellectual property scholars to present their works-in-progress. The roundtable format of this conference is designed to facilitate free-ranging discussion.      
                                       
    CALL FOR PAPERS, PROPOSALS, AND GRANTS   

2003 National Legal Fiction Writing Competition for Lawyers sponsored by SEAK, Inc., Legal and Medical Publishers. The purpose of the competition is to encourage lawyers to become more interested in and adept at writing legal fiction.
 
The Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (JALWD) invites submission of proposals and articles for its Fall 2004 Learning/Thinking/Writing issue.  In this "best practices" issue, the Journal will publish articles relating learning theory and cognitive research to the teaching and practice of professional legal writing. The final deadline for submission of articles is September 15, 2003.  Article selection will be completed by  November 1, 2003.  The Journal  welcomes submissions from legal writing professionals, including law professors, lawyers, and judges, as well as from academics, researchers, and specialists from other disciplines.

Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal is seeking articles for submission.  The journal seeks submissions that analyze the legal ramifications of current developments in computing and technology.  Areas of particular interest include:  biotechnology, constitutional issues, copyright, emerging technology, environmental technology, government regulation, Internet, medical technology, patent protection, privacy rights, telecommunications, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition.

The Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal at the University at Buffalo School of Law is currently accepting notes, comments, articles, essays, book reviews and other works for their 2002-2003 publications.  The Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal publishes papers that focus on social and political issues.

The University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review is pleased to announce a call for papers for its upcoming issue, entitled “New Paradigms for Corporate Governance: Regulation at Home and Abroad in the Post-Enron Era.” The deadline for notification of intent to submit is June 1, 2003. The deadline for paper submission is August 15, 2003. Authors will be notified by Sept. 15, 2003 in writing if their papers are selected for publication. 

Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies (RLAWS) invites professors, practitioners and others in the legal and academic community to submit articles, essays, legal briefs and book reviews that address issues involving the intersection of gender and the law. 

Journal of Internet Law  is seeking article submissions. They are looking for articles that discuss today’s cutting-edge Internet and Technology law issues.

CALL FOR SPEAKERS

13th Annual Conference for Law School Computing: Law School Technology - The Devil is in the Details; June 19-21, 2003 at the Duke University Law School, Durham, NC.  For more information, contact: John Mayer, Executive Director, CALI; jmayer@cali.org; 312-906-5307.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION      
International Calendar of Legal Information Events There you can find themes, venue, dates, and web sites for conferences, courses, and other meetings and events related to law librarianship and legal information, particularly as related to foreign, comparative, and international law topics and resources.  Sponsored by the International Association of Law Libraries.   
FirstGov ™ is an official United States Government website consolidating some 20,000 separate Federal websites FirstGov provides the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government  resources. FirstGov is a Project of the President's Management Council and is managed by the FirstGov Team. For more information contact: FirstGov c/o GSA, 1800 F Street, N.W. Room 5240, Washington, D.C. 20405-0002  

The U. S. Supreme Court web site features biographies of the justices, information about the court's rules and procedures, and opinions from the current term.

The ABA's Supreme Court Preview draws upon expert writers and the official briefs filed with the Court to provide an accurate, plain English explanation of the issues, facts, background and significance of every case before oral argument. 

The National Center For State Courts provides links to state court, federal court and international court web sites. The NCSC Publications Catalog is also listed on its web site.

The University Law Review Project offers full-text searching of law journals on the Internet.

The National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s (NITA) mission is to provide training in legal advocacy skills and techniques for resolving legal disputes and to foster professionally responsible behavior emphasizing ethics, candor, civility, and judicial economy. To achieve its mission, NITA uses various teaching methods, programs, faculty, and materials. They have a web site listing CLE courses they offer and a listing of the types of reference books, case files, and audio/video materials they have available, as well, as information about NITA.

The American Association of Law Schools is a non-profit association of 164 law schools. The purpose of the association is "the improvement of the legal profession through legal education." It serves as the learned society for law teachers and is legal education's principal representative to the federal government and to other national higher education organizations and learned societies. The AALS holds an Annual Meeting every year in January and five or six workshops and conferences throughout the year. The AALS publishes a Directory of Law Teachers and a quarterly newsletter, as well as other publications. Much of the learned society activities are done by the 78 AALS Sections, which plan programs at the Annual Meetings and publish newsletters throughout the year.

The American Bar Association’s Events and Education web site lists a calendar of National Institutes, Satellite Seminars, TeleConferences, and On-Line Seminars and a full range of continuing legal education programs, including live conference-style programs, telephone seminars, national telecasts, online seminars, videotapes, audiotapes, and course materials. 

The American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, ALI-ABA, providers of continuing legal education in the United States since 1947, offers members of the profession a comprehensive curriculum of post-admission legal education -- live courses, course materials, video and audio tapes, satellite broadcasts, books, computer disks, and magazines, etc.

The Ohio CLE Institute, a non-profit organization, was created as a tripartite entity in 1960 by The Ohio State University, the Ohio State Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Foundation "in furthering a joint program of legal research and continuing legal education with the College of Law." The mission statement for the Institute includes: to provide quality educational programs and services to Ohio attorneys, judges and related professionals at the lowest practical cost.

JURIST: “The Law Professors’ Network," collects law professors' web based home pages, course pages, resource pages and online articles (both "pre prints" and "post prints") and for the first time makes them conveniently accessible to other law professors, lawyers, and law students, as well as to the public at large.  JURIST also offers listings for the Web sites of major professional and legal associations, directories of law review and law school home pages, pointers to law listservs, access to a law dedicated search engine, direct email connections to other legal academics in the US and abroad.  JURIST is continually under development, so updated information and suggestions for new links are welcome. Bernard Hibbitts is the web master for JURIST. He is the Dean for Communications & Information Technology and Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Prepared by Leslie A. Pardo, Circulation & Faculty Services Librarian, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library   Please let me know if you have questions, comments, or suggestions.