Calendar of Special Events 2009-2010
Unless otherwise stated, all lectures begin at 5:00 p.m. in the Moot Court Room of the law school on East 18th and Euclid Avenue and offer one free hour of CLE.
October 30th
A Conference on The State of LGBT Rights: Ohio, America, and the World - (Watch Full Event Video)
A conference organized by CM Allies to consider the legal status of members of the LGBT community in Ohio, nationally and internationally. Invited speakers include lawyers, academics and activists who have been on the front line of the movement at the national, state and local levels. Topics include marriage, domestic partnership, benefits, employment, housing, and adoption.
41st Annual Moot Court Night
6:00 PM; 1.5 hours of free CLE Credit
Every year the Cleveland-Marshall Moot Court Board of Governors sponsors a moot court night in which rival teams of student-lawyers face off against one another in a mock hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court. This lesson in appellate lawyering prepares our moot court team members for national competitions against the moot court teams of law schools from around the country.
In this year’s Moot Court Night, students will argue the fictional case of a young woman sentenced in federal district court to life in prison without possibility of parole for shooting and paralyzing her state’s married governor with whom she was romantically involved.
Lawyers for the young woman will assert that sentencing their client—only 17 at the time of the shooting—to life-long imprisonment is a cruel and inhuman punishment. Lawyers for the government will assert that the finding of the district court was procedurally correct and justifiable.
Students arguing both sides of the issue include Julia Leo, Chelsea Mikula, Chris St. Marie, David Sporar, Andrew Tittle and Andrew Yarger. Lawyers from Jones Day mentored the petitioner’s team, and lawyers from Baker & Hostetler mentored the respondent’s team.
Though the case is fictional and the "lawyers" representing their clients are students, the judges hearing the case are not. They include the Honorable Christopher Boyko, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio; the Honorable Maureen O’Connor, Justice, the Supreme Court of Ohio; and The Honorable James Orenstein, United States Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York.
Details at 216-687-6886
Reorganization in the Fast Lane: Automotive Chapter 11 Cases
The American College of Bankruptcy (ACB) and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law have combined to host a panel of nationally recognized bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers. The ACB Fellows will share their views on the business and legal implications of the recent Chapter 11 cases involving Chrysler, GM and other companies in the automotive sector. Panel participants include practitioners intimately involved in the auto sector’s most recent high-profile reorganization cases, including lawyers who have represented the debtors, creditors committees and dealer groups in both the Chrysler and GM cases.
David G. Heiman
Partner, Jones Day
Cleveland, Ohio
Mr. Heiman has practiced in the bankruptcy and restructuring area for more than 30 years (founding Jones Day's practice in 1984) and has played a key role in many of the largest chapter 11 and out-of-court business restructurings in the United States.
Stephen Karotkin
Business, Finance & Restructuring Partner
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
New York, New York
Mr. Karotkin was one of the lead attorneys representing General Motors in its historical chapter 11 case and is currently representing Aleris International and U.S. Shipping Partners in their chapter 11 cases.
Stephen D. Lerner
Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.
Cincinnati, Ohio; New York, New York
Mr. Lerner has an extensive national restructuring practice in which he represents debtors, committees of unsecured creditors, secured and unsecured creditors, equity interest holders and acquirers of troubled businesses in Chapter 11 reorganization cases and out-of-court restructurings throughout the United States.
Thomas Moers Mayer
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
New York, New York
Mr. Mayer is co-chair of his firm's 40-attorney Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Department, and specializes in representing investors in claims against, and interests in, financially distressed businesses
Moderator:
G. Christopher Meyer
Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.
Cleveland, Ohio
Mr. Meyer concentrates his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency issues. He has significant experience in workouts, restructurings and bankruptcy reorganizations and has represented both debtors and creditors in commercial cases.
The 2009 Journal of Law and Health Lecture
Dena S. Davis, PhD
Cleveland-Marshall Professor of Law
and
Debra S. Grega, PhD
Executive Director, The Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Lines of Communication: Advances in Stem Cell Policy
Among Americans, stem cell research and technology inspire both promise and fear: promise to those suffering from such degenerative diseases as ALS or Diabetes or Alzheimer’s; fear among those who see biotechnology as contrary to religious beliefs or who believe biotechnology threatens to open the door to cloning and other forms of genetic engineering. The Obama administration’s recent expansion of the types of cells available for stem cell research has further energized the debate among advocates and opponents.
Cleveland-Marshall’s Journal of Law and Health presents two experts in the fields of biotechnology and biomedical ethics to discuss policies being developed to safeguard medical/ethical standards and assure scientific integrity in stem cell research.
Cleveland-Marshall Professor of Law Dena S. Davis and Case Western Reserve University’s Director of the Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Dr. Debra S. Grega will discuss these developments in a free public lecture, Lines of Communication: Advances in Stem Cell Policy, on November 17 at 5:00 PM in the Moot Court Room of the law school on East 18th and Euclid Avenue. One free hour of CLE pending.
As a bioethicist and legal scholar Professor Davis has been the recipient of prestigious grants, fellowships and visiting scholar appointments. She has published over 50 articles in the area of law and medicine—from cloning to genetic engineering—and has lectured and taught at universities and biomedical research institutions around the globe. She is the author, most recently, of Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices and Children’s Futures (Oxford 2009). Dr. Davis holds an adjunct appointment at Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Biomedical Ethics and directs the Population Issues Group in CWRU’s Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law. She is a recent appointee to the National Institutes of Health committee that will determine how the NIH supports stem cell research.
Dr. Grega was named CSCRM Executive Director in 2004. She has had a distinguished career in biomedical research, biotechnology business development, program management, e-commerce and global marketing. CSCRM is a multi-institutional center composed of investigators from Northeast Ohio’s major medical and biomedical research centers, including University Hospitals, the Cleveland Clinic and Athersys Inc. The Center provides a comprehensive and coordinated "bench to bedside" approach to regenerative medicine, including basic and clinical research programs, biomedical and tissue engineering programs, and the development and administration of new therapies to patients.
Details at eric.steiger@law.csuohio.edu, stephanie.baker@law.csuohio.edu or Louise Mooney at 216-687-6886.
The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Student Intellectual Property Law Association 2009 Lecture
Chris Coburn
Executive Director, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Innovations
Dealing with Legal Issues that Advances in Medical Technology Present
Please Note: THERE IS NO CLE CREDIT FOR THIS EVENT
According to Chris Coburn, the Executive Director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, excellent technology, medical diagnosis and healthcare are increasingly interdependent features of a world-class health provider. Yet each new advance in technology may bring its own set of legal challenges, calling on attorneys specializing in patent law, licensing agreements, patent infringement and other areas of the law. Mr. Coburn has overseen the creation of hundreds of new inventions and about 20 new companies in the last 4 and ½ years.
On November 18th, he will discuss responses to legal problems that arise with medical inventions and innovations at 5:00 p.m. in the Moot Court Room of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law on East 18th and Euclid Avenue. This is a free public program, sponsored by the law school’s Student Intellectual Property Law Association. There is no CLE credit.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Innovations is the Clinic's technology commercialization arm with a mission to "benefit the sick through the broad and rapid deployment of Cleveland Clinic technology."
Details: 216-687-6886
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