March 16, 2004

For the second consecutive year, a team from the UC College of Law has earned the Midwestern Regional championship in a mediation competition sponsored by the American Bar Association. The team of Tracy Fowkes and Bryan Hawkins beat out nine other teams to earn the title and now will represent the Midwest at the ABA's national competition in New York in April, where last year's UC team also came away victorious.

March 16, 2004

John Yoo from Cal-Berkeley will present "Beyond the Patriot Act: Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism" at the UC College of Law on March 18. The public can attend the lecture in person or watch a live Webcast. Besides his academic position, Yoo is a former Justice Department official who looked at issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers, and he's the author of the forthcoming "War, Peace, and the Constitution."

March 2, 2004

Victory has its price, and after last year, when the UC College of Law s team of Susan Coan and Patricia Foster won the Midwest Regionals and then the National Representation in Mediation Competition, UC will follow the tradition of the winning school hosting its regional competition the following year. This year's Midwest Regional will take place at the College of Law on March 13-14.

March 9, 2004

John M. Rosenberg, whose long career of service includes a role as a Justice Department trial attorney in the case dramatized in the movie "Mississippi Burning," will be speaking at the UC College of Law on March 11 about "The Choice of Public Service Careers."

April 15, 2004

What seemed like a normal class in criminal law procedure turned into a day a UC law student and her UC law-alum boyfriend will never forget.

March 31, 2004

Two more days remain of UC events examining the local and national impact of Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, then and now.

March 10, 2004

The Ohio Innocence Project takes a major step forward this week with the filing of its first legal appeal, introducing important new facts developed in investigation by UC law students into the case of a man serving a nine-year sentence for aggravated vehicular homicide.

March 15, 2005

Want to see a lawyer sweat? Try running next to one in the 2005 Race Judicata 5k Run/Walk, that will be held on the streets around campus on April 2. Pre-registration ends on March 25. The event benefits the Summer Public Interest Fellowship Fund of the college's Public Interest Law Group, allowing UC law students to serve during summer months with agencies working on behalf of the public interest. 

March 28, 2005

Andre Gerolymatos, director of Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University and an international authority on Greece and the Balkans, will be speaking on "Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict" on March 31 at 3 p.m. at the UC College of Law. He is the 2005 distinguished lecturer for the journal "Immigration and Nationality Law Review," which is based at the college.

July 13, 2005

Kristin Brandser of the UC College of Law faculty will help lead a July 19 mock trial program at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center that examines the legal aspects of the historical case of Margaret Garner.