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.

The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Mid-Winter Institute will be held January 22-25, 2003 in Marco Island, Florida. For more information, please visit the following web site: http://www.aipla.org/html/midwinter/2003/03mw_toc.html

Rounding Up Unusual Suspects: Human Rights in the Wake of September 11 will be held on January 24, 2003 at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. For more information contact Professor Marjorie Cohn at marjorie@tjsl.edu

The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) Winter Convention, will be held February 1-5, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort, Maui, HI. For more information, please visit the following web site: http://www.atlanet.org/cle_con/ma03/main.aspx

The ABA Midyear Meeting will be held in Seattle, WA from February 5-11, 2003. The year 2003 marks the 125th Anniversary of the American Bar Association and the 64th year that the Association has gathered for the Midyear Meeting. For more information, please visit the following web site: http://www.abanet.org/annual/futmeet.htm

Bioterrorism and the Law: Preserving the Rule of Law in Times of Crisis will be held February 6-7 in San Antonio, Texas at St. Mary's University School of Law. For more information, please visit the following web site: http://starview.brooks.af.mil/dcom/bioterrorism/index.html

The American Bar Foundation and Stanford Law School are pleased to announce the upcoming,
interdisciplinary conference: Rights and Realities: Legal and Social Scientific Approaches to Employment Discrimination. The conference will take place on March 24-25, 2003, at Stanford Law School. For more information, please visit the following web site: http://www.abfconference.org/about.html

Inference, Culture, and Ordinary Thinking in Dispute Resolution will be held at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City from April 27-29, 2003. For more information, please visit the following web site: http://tillers.net/inferencebelief.html

The American Society for Legal History 2003 Meeting will be held November 13-15, 2003 in Washington, DC. Deadline for panel and paper proposals: February 1, 2003. For more information, please visit the following web site: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~law/washington2003.htm

The International Society of Family is pleased to announce a call for papers for its upcoming North American conference at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, Oregon June 26-28, 2003. The theme of the conference is Influences on the Development of Family Law. Deadline for proposals is February 15, 2003. Send one-page proposal to: Professor Marygold Melli, University of Wisconsin School of Law, 975 Bascom Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. Ph: (608) 252-1610 Fax: (608) 262-1231 e-mail: msmelli@facstaff.wisc.edu web site: http://www.law.uoregon.edu/isfl/

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. Authors will be notified by September 15, 2003, in writing if their papers are selected for publication. For more information, please visit the following web site: http://currentstudents.law.miami.edu/iclr/call.html

Northern Kentucky Law Review is currently in the process of planning its 2003 Symposium on Wrongful Convictions which includes both a live Symposium and a symposium issue. The Law Review is currently accepting papers on any topic surrounding the issue of Wrongful Convictions including by not limited to: false confessions, faulty eye witness testimony, DNA, and prosecutorial misconduct. If your paper is selected for publication, you may also be asked to present your paper at the live symposium. The deadline is January 13, 2003. Please send papers to: Northern Kentucky Law Review, Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, Nunn Hall, Room 402, Heighland Heights, KY 41099. For more information, please call (859) 572-5444.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has decided upon enhancing the scope of the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice (JPIEEP). To this end, a new section on Legal Affairs will be launched in April 2003. JPIEEP is a peer-reviewed journal and submissions to it are expected to be of the highest scholastic and literary standard. JPIEEP presents issues of broad professional interest and diverse views of engineering education and professional practice. Information on writing style and instructions to authors is available at http://www.pubs.asce.org/authors/index.html

The Urban Lawyer is currently considering articles for publication in upcoming issues for the 2003-04 academic year. This peer-reviewed journal is published by the ABA's Section on State and Local Government and edited at the University of Missouri--Kansas City School of Law. The Urban Lawyer has a subscription base of 6,400 and is carried on the Westlaw and Lexis/Nexis networks. The journal covers a range of topics important to local government, including federalism, civil rights, civil liberties, land use, environmental protection, law enforcement, administrative law, municipal finance, and education. If you are interested in submitting an article for consideration, please mail it to: Professor Julie Cheslik, Editor, Urban Lawyer, University of Missouri--Kansas City School of Law, 5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110. For more information, please visit the following web site: http://www.abanet.org/statelocal/urbanlawyer/home.html or e-mail: umkcurbanlawyer@umkc.edu .

Whittier Law Review invites authors to submit manuscripts of articles and speeches for possible publication. Celebrating its twenty-fourth year, the Whittier Law Review is published four times annually by students of Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California. The law review takes pride in publishing innovative articles by law faculty, practitioners, and law students. Additionally, the editorial board and membership work in tandem to produce finished works of high-quality legal scholarship. This combination of goals emphasizes the general commitment of the law review to providing valuable contribution to the legal community. For submission information, please visit the following web site: http://www.law.whittier.edu/WLSLR/Wlslr.htm

Law Review Submissions information including guidelines, e-mail manuscript submission links and postal addresses for American law reviews with submissions websites may be found at the following web site: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawsub.htm Many of these pages also list telephone numbers for inquiries and requests for expedited review.

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 Please visit their website at: http://www.firstgov.gov/index.html

The U. S. Supreme Court inaugurated a new web site on April 17, 2000. The site's features include biographies of the justices, information about the court's rules and procedures, and opinions from the current term. You may visit their website at the following: www.supremecourtus.gov.

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. You may visit the website at the following: http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/home.html

The National Center For State Courts provides links to state court, federal court and international court web sites at www.ncsc.dni.us 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 at: www.lawreview.org

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. You may visit their web site at: http://www.nita.org/

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. You may visit their web site at the following: http://www.aals.org/

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. You may visit their web site at: http://www.abanet.org/events.html

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. You may visit their web site at: http://www.ali-aba.org/

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. You may visit their web site at: http://www.ohiocle.org/

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. e-mail: Hibbitts@law.pitt.edu web site: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
 

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