peter spiro: the nature of citizenship - temple university

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY JAMES E. BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW • LAW SCHOOL AND ALUMNI NEWS • SPRING 2007

Amidst ongoing national debatesover immigration and border control,Charles R. Weiner Professor of LawPeter J. Spiro is keeping his eye on aless studied yet increasingly pervasivephenomenon. Post-nationalism, whichhe defines as “the decline of the stateas brought about by a dilution in state-based identity and the rise of non-stateattachments,” is already happening,Spiro contends, and is being fosteredby a rise in the acceptance of dualcitizenship by the United States andother countries.

In “Dual Citizenship: A PostnationalView,” which will appear in the forth-coming Dual Citizenship: Democracy,Rights and Identities Beyond Borders(Faist, ed.), and in his own book,Getting Past Citizenship, due out thisfall from Oxford University Press, Spiroargues that dual citizenship dilutesindividuals’ affiliation with the states ofwhich they are citizens while increasing it with non-stateorganizations, such as religion and ethnicity.

The result, he predicts, will not be “any sort of utopianfuture.” Spiro writes: “Although [the postnational order] mayspell a diminution in the occurrence of interstate violence(the major source of violence over the last three hundredyears), it does not equate to the end of conflict amongcommunities and an undifferentiated global citizenship. Inthe absence of universal, comprehensive community (whichwould seem inconsistent with human nature), conflict willalways be an element of global interaction.”

Spiro traces his interest in citizenship and nationalism tohis time as a law student at the University of Virginia, wherehe studied the role of cities and states in foreign relations.

“It’s increasingly the case that individuals as members ofsubnational political divisions have discrete internationalinterests,” he says. “My entry point was the anti-apartheidmovement of the mid-1980s, which targeted cities and statesto divest from South Africa.”

His recent research into and writings on dual citizenshiphas led Spiro to conclude that while countries previouslyguarded national affiliations jealously, “the law is nowtolerating dual citizenship in almost all instances,” in practiceif not as a matter of formal recognition.

As state affiliations erode, Spiro envisions “other kinds ofcommunity identities playing a more prominent role in bothuniting and dividing people. Race, ethnicity, and religionpresent obvious examples. Gender, age, sexual orientation,disability, environmentalism, human and labor rights

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advocacy, these all define new globalcommunities, which are increasinglyimportant in that identity compositerelative to the nation-state. It’s theculture wars going global. You seethese divisions that we’ve nowconfronted for several decades in thedomestic context going transnational.”

A legal manifestation of thispostnational trend, according to Spiro,is the increasingly formal involvementof NGOs in international institutions.

For instance, he says, “such groups as Amnesty International orGreenpeace are wielding real power at international negotiating tables. Insome cases, they are now given aformal place in those decision-makingprocesses. Transnational corporationsare also at the table. The statemonopoly on international decision-making is being broken. That’s areflection of the fact that individuals

increasingly identify themselves in alternative, non-stateways when it comes to global issues. They say, ‘I’m anenvironmentalist first and an American second when itcomes to a matter of environmental law.’ The legitimacy ofinternational decision-making going forward is dependent on an increased role for these non-state actors.”

This isn’t something that will happen, says Spiro; it ishappening already, in a way that crosses traditional politicalaffiliations. He points to efforts by evangelicals to quell thegenocide in Darfur, “who are working to press aninternational law agenda as Christians rather than asAmericans.”

Spiro came to Temple last fall from the University ofGeorgia Law School, where he was the Rusk Professor of International Law and associate dean for facultydevelopment. He also has taught law at the University of Texas and Hofstra University, and has clerked for U.S.Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and Judge StephenF. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.Spiro has held posts with the U.S. Department of State, the National Security Council, the Carnegie Endowment forInternational Peace, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Spiro’s other major area of concentration is theconstitutional aspects of foreign relations. Over the last five-plus years, that has meant a particular focus on post-9/11 issues and the relationship between U.S.constitutional law and international law.

Peter Spiro: The Nature of Citizenship

19 TIMES IN A ROW: TRIAL TEAM WINSREGIONAL TITLEFEBRUARY 2007 Temple’s national trial team successfully defended its national trialcompetition region III championship title at the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia. It was Temple’s 19th consecutive regionalchampionship—an unparalleled nationalachievement.

Representing Temple were John Aitchison’08 and Alex Gosfield ’08, who defeated teamsfrom Dickinson, Duquesne, Penn, Pitt,Rutgers-Newark, Villanova, Widener-Delaware,and Widener-Harrisburg. Alex Gosfield wasawarded the John J. Scott memorial plaque forbest advocate in the final round. In the doublebracketed competition, a second team ofShaina Jones ’07 and Dan Moore ’08 finishedas regional semi-finalists, losing a closecontest to Widener-Harrisburg.

The team travels next to Texas to competefor the national trial championship against thetwenty-four winners and runners-up from thetwelve other regional contests. Temple has wonthe NTC national championship three timesand finished second twice in the last twelveyears. The teams are coached by ProfessorMaureen McCartney, director of trial advocacyprograms and Elizabeth Lippy ’03, of Rubin,Glickman, Steinberg & Gifford.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: DAN MOORE, SHAINA JONES,ALEX GOSFIELD, AND JOHN AITCHISON.

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Does the dramatic rise of plural citizenship portenda post-national future? Multiple nationality standsamong the most understudied incidents ofglobalization. It may have profound implications for the state as a form of human association. Wherenationality had been long established, normatively and legally, as an exclusive tie, multiple nationalattachments are increasingly tolerated, accepted, even embraced. As transnational migration increases,the number of individuals holding more than onecitizenship will continue to grow. Dual citizenship is well on the way to becoming a commonplace.

But that does not by itself demonstrate its importance. … [P]luralcitizenship both reflects and accelerates postnationalism, in the sense that it undermines state-based identities. … [A]cceptance of plural citizenship is likely to lower the intensity of the citizen-state affiliation, and in turn, the intensity of bonds among citizens. A citizenship regime tolerant of dualcitizenship will count more members who subordinate the attachment to othernational attachments, as an inevitable corollary of the move from an exclusiveto a non-exclusive relationship. …

I … mean to use post-nationality to include the decline of the state asbrought about by a dilution in state-based identity and the rise of non-stateattachments. The dilution of identity causes a decline in the state insofar as the feelings of solidarity and trust (Faist 2001) are contingent on sharedidentity. To the extent that identity is diluted, then, members of any particularcommunity (state or non-state) will be less inclined to share amongthemselves relative to the rest of the world. That goes for resources as well as other forms of protection, including the distribution of rights. As identityweakens, so will the state.

At the same time, I do not believe that postnationalism implies the rise of an undifferentiated global democracy nor of suprastatism (Faist 2001),although in the abstract postnationalism would be consistent with either. Inthis respect, postnationalism is more about the fall of the old order ratherthan the content of the new. In my view … , the postnational era will becharacterized by the rise of non-state communities. State-based communitieswill be persistent, but in a way that is less privileged; the state will remain arobust form of association, but one situated along a scale with other forms ofcommunity rather than standing in a disjunctured category of its own.

Nor do I mean to imply in this discussion that postnationalism promisesany sort of utopian future. Insofar as postnationalism allows for the morecomplete autonomy in the composition of individual identity and associationalattachment, it is normatively preferable to the Westphalian regime in whichsuch autonomy was constrained. However, post-nationalism does not implythat such autonomy will be complete. … Communities are definitionallyexclusionary, more or less. Individuals in the postnational order will not beable to determine their own associational composites. Nor does thepostnational order promise an end to conflict. Although it may spell adiminution in the occurrence of interstate violence (the major source ofviolence over the last three-hundred years), it does not equate to the end of conflict among communities. In the absence of universal, comprehensivecommunity (which would seem inconsistent with human nature), conflict will always be an element of global interaction. Finally, transitions to a post-national order will destabilize the protection of rights. The liberal nation-stateof late modernity has advanced a rights-protection regime, at least within theparameters of the state-based community. Immature post-national structuresare unlikely to emulate the state in this respect for many years to come. …

[T]he growing incidence of plural citizenship doesmore than evidence the decline of citizenship; it willalso contribute to that decline and the decoupling of citizenship status from actual parameters ofcommunity. … Assume that individuals are rationalactors. In a regime intolerant of plural citizenship,individuals would be forced to choose amongcitizenships for which they were eligible. In somecases, instrumental factors might have outweighedsentimental ones, but they would have been weighedin a balance, so that in other (and perhaps most)cases, affective ties would have determined the

citizenship choice. In the wake of prevalent acceptance of plural citizenship,citizenships can be acquired without little or any regard for the affectivefactor, because the citizenship of greatest sentimental attachment ismaintained even as one accumulates additional citizenships. Dual citizenshipthus increases the strategic use of citizenship on the part of individuals. The probability that citizenship will be retained or acquired for instrumentalpurposes has grown with acceptance of multiple citizenship attachments. …

Dual citizenship remains today a status that states may accept or reject at their option consistent with international law. However, there are signs that international norms may come to bear on state practices regarding dualcitizenship. The 1997 European Convention on Nationality requires parties to recognize dual citizenship where it results from mixed-national parentage,and its preambular language, for the first time in any international legalinstrument, frames dual citizenship as a right. Though a regional agreementnot widely acceded to, the convention could mark a shift in the internationalconception of dual citizenship. The discourse shift could be reinforced by thenearly unidirectional trend towards wide acceptance of the status. A clearmajority of states now allows some form of plural citizenship. (Renshon2005: 6) …

Citizenship doesn’t get or give much any more. But to the extent thatcitizenship remains meaningful, that meaning will be further eroded by therise of dual citizenship. Insofar as citizenship comes to reflect less intensivecommunal bonds, the state is less likely to serve as a vehicle for robustredistributionist and rights-protective policies, which in turn will result inwaning institutional power. This is a key link in establishing the causality ofplural citizenship and postnationalism. …

The rise of plural citizenship is a small part of this picture. Dual citizenswill, on average, maintain a less affective connection to the state and tofellow members in the community defined on the basis of citizenship. Dualcitizenship thus incrementally further weakens the solidarity and trust sharedamong citizens in the state, which in turn will deplete the power of the stateitself. As state-based community wanes, identity will migrate to other forms of association whose membership is defined in other ways and is not alwayssubject to exogenous constraint, and which may be less tolerant of dualaffiliations. Religion, race, and ethnicity are increasingly salient to identitycomposites in a global context. These groupings can set the terms ofmembership (formally or non-formally) and do not typically accept alternateties. As a result they may be better positioned to maintain the strongcommunal bonds that are increasingly less evident in the citizenshipconstruct. As individuals seek the strong community that appears inherent tothe human condition, their affective attachments to these non-state entitiesmay become more prominent relative to the attachment to state. …

Excerpt from Professor Peter Spiro’s

“Dual Citizenship: A Postnational View”

FRIEL SCANLAN LECTURE EXPLORES HOMELESSNESSNOVEMBER 16, 2006 In the annual Friel Scanlan lecture, ProfessorJane B. Baron explored the legal category she has called “noproperty” and described how homeless persons occupy not onlya social but a distinct legal status, a status that derives frombeing non-owners in a world of owners. Baron was granted theFriel/Scanlan Award for a series of three articles, “The ‘NoProperty’ Problem: Understanding Poverty by UnderstandingWealth,” published in Michigan Law Review, “Homelessness as aProperty Problem,” published in The Urban Lawyer, and “Propertyand ‘No Property,’” published in Houston Law Review. Baron isthe associate dean for research at Temple Law, where sheteaches primarily in the areas of property and trusts and estates.

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“Notwithstanding an administration that’s openly hostileto [it], international law is making itself felt, even up againstthat hostility. The Bush administration is knuckling underto some international regimes because international lawnow has some real power behind it,” Spiro says. He citeswhat he calls the administration’s “clear” desire to closethe controversial detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba, despite a lack of significant domestic opposition.“Other countries care about U.S. human rights practices,and they’re bringing their opposition to important elementsof our post-9/11 strategy to bear against us.”

International law may be gaining influence, and nationalaffiliations may be getting weaker, Spiro says, but the shiftis largely under the radar screen. That makes it a usefulobject for academic study.

“It won’t result in something cataclysmic,” he assures.“It’s not like global warming, where you get the wavesrising and Manhattan in the sea. There’s no event that’sgoing to be associated with the increasing incidence ofdual citizenship. In more subtle ways, though, it under-mines a sense of national solidarity and of a nationalcommunity distinct from other communities. In thecomposite of an individual’s identity, nationality will be asmaller slice of that composite. But it’s an irreversibleprocess, and points to a world organized along somethingother than national lines.”

—Thomas W. Durso

TRIAL TEAM REPEATS ASNACDL CHAMPSNOVEMBER 2006 Temple’s national trial team won theNational Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’championship at a competition held in Boston before adistinguished panel of criminal trial lawyers. In sevenyears of participation, Temple has won four times andfinished second twice. The team was coached byProfessor Maureen McCartney, director of trialadvocacy programs and Jen Brettschneider, Philadelphiaassistant district attorney.

Classes are taught by veteranfaculty including premierpracticing trial lawyers from area law firms and the DA anddefenders offices. “Theinstructors not only hammer the rules into you, but also share their experiences aboutthe nuances of courtroomdecorum,” says ChesleyLightsey ’05, assistant districtattorney, who chose Temple Law because of its trialadvocacy reputation.

“When you’re literally on trialevery single day—beginning twoweeks after you arrive—knowinghow to handle yourself in thecourtroom, including thinking

like the other side, really makes a difference in your abilityto assess information and situations quickly.”

Becoming an effective trial lawyer takes practice, andTemple offers ample opportunities to do so. Throughclinicals and summer internships at the DA and DAPoffices, students apply classroom knowledge to realsituations, solving problems for real clients. Some studentsgain additional experience competing on the award-winning national trial team.

“We need people who can think on their feet, who can prep for and try cases quickly, and stay on top of thesituation. Temple Law hones these skills by providingstudents with enormous amounts of rehearsal and in-courttime to apply these skills over and over,” says MaryDeFusco, director of training at the defenders’ office.“Seeing them in action, you’d swear you’re looking at asenior trial lawyer.”

DeFusco is referring to individuals like Mia Roberts ’06,who started preparing to be a trial lawyer in high school,where she competed on Masterman’s champion mock trialteam. She went on to Temple Law, continuing her winningstreak on the national trial team, and, like so many beforeher, joined the defenders. “Temple taught me to expect theunexpected, which has given me a real advantage.”

Kathleen McDonnell, chair of the hiring committee andchief of the legislation unit at the DA’s office, couldn’t agreemore. “Temple Law produces high caliber graduates thatmesh well with our needs. They interview profoundly well,they’re confident and persuasive advocates and they havestrong conviction and trial ad skills. Temple grads knowhow to shoot from the lip—and that’s what we want.”

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:ROSS MILLER ’07,TIFFANY GAINER ’07,SHAINA JONES ’07 ANDJOHN AITCHISON ’08,WHO WAS NAMEDBEST ADVOCATE.

The numbers tell the story.Each year, Temple Law is wellrepresented in the freshmanclasses at the DefenderAssociation of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia DistrictAttorney’s office. In fact, 10 of the 19 graduates who joined thedefenders in 2006 came fromTemple Law. And, at the DA’soffice, 15 of the 24 new recruitslast year were law school alumni,with nearly half of the 33openings in the 2007 classalready filled by Temple grads bythe end of January.

What accounts for theseconsistently large numbers ofTemple-trained publicprosecutors and defenders? While both organizations share a long-term, mutually beneficial relationship with the law school, the key reason comes down to one thing: preparation.

“Our grads are able to hit the ground running. Theyshine early on because they’ve been well prepared,” saysProfessor Edward Ohlbaum, director of trial advocacy and

clinical legal education. What sets the nationally top-

ranked trial advocacy program apartis comprehensive training thatdevelops and polishes the skills triallawyers require most: the ability toanalyze and master a trial file;construct a case theory; organize,prepare, and deliver crispexaminations and speeches; make persuasive, interesting pointsin innovative ways; and take controlof the courtroom.

Innovative introductory andadvanced curriculum includes theyearlong integrated trial advocacyprogram, combining evidence, civilprocedure, and trial advocacy. “Ican’t count the number of times inwhich I’ve confronted a situation incourt and knew exactly what I

needed to do because I already did it in trial ad,” saysJamison Koehler ’06, an assistant public defender.

THE VERDICT IS IN Temple’s Trial Advocacy Training Works

TEMPLE ALUMS IN THE PHILADELPHIADISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE: (SEATED FROMLEFT) CHRISTOPHER MALLIOS '87, KATHLEENMCDONNELL '80 (AT PODIUM) CHESLEYLIGHTSEY '05, AND JIMMY YUN '06.

ASSISTANT PUBLIC DEFENDERS FROM TEMPLE'S CLASSOF 2006 (LEFT TO RIGHT): MIA ROBERTS, JAMISONKOEHLER AND BERNICE MELAMUD.

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STUDENTS AWARDED PUBLICINTEREST FELLOWSHIPSRoxane Crowley ’07 has been awarded an IndependenceFellowship to work with SeniorLaw. While there, she willassess and directly address the legal needs of senior citizensreceiving hospice and end-of-life care in Philadelphia.

Rachel Garland ’07 has been awarded an equal justicefellowship to work with community legal services. Garland’sproject addresses the intersection of public housing anddomestic violence.

ROXANECROWLEY ’07

PHILADELPHIA 2007 Jeffrey L.Dunoff, the Charles Klein Professorof Law and Government, wasawarded a prestigious law andpublic affairs (LAPA) fellowshipfrom Princeton University'sWoodrow Wilson School for the2007-2008 academic year.

The LAPA fellowship is awardedannually to only six outstandingfaculty, independent scholars,lawyers, and judges from aroundthe world. LAPA fellows join thePrinceton University community toresearch, teach, and write aboutlaw and public affairs.

At Princeton, Dunoff will focuson the topic “Ruling the World?Constitutionalism, International Lawand Global Governance,” andplans to turn his work into a book.In December, he will host aninvitation-only conference featuringcollaborators on the publication.

Director of Temple Law’s Institute for International Law,and Public Policy, and academic director of Temple’stransnational law program, Dunoff specializes ininternational law, international trade law, internationalenvironmental law, and international transactions.

Before joining the Temple faculty, he practiced law forseveral years in Washington, D.C. where he representedAsian, African and Latin American governments in a varietyof international litigations, arbitrations, and transactions.

He also represented developingnation governments before thelegislative and executive branches of the U.S. government.

Among Dunoff's numerous other activities, he is the onlyAmerican member of the WarwickCommission on the future of thetrade system, and has served as avisiting fellow at the LauterpachtResearch Centre for InternationalLaw at Cambridge University;visiting professor of public andinternational affairs at the PrincetonUniversity’s Woodrow Wilson Schooland visiting fellow at its Center ofInternational Studies; FordFoundation fellow in publicinternational law at GeorgetownUniversity Law Center; member ofthe Environmental ProtectionAgency’s national advisorycommittee; vice chair of the

international economic law group of the American Societyof International Law; and visiting research fellow at theUnited Nations Asia and Far East Institute in Japan.

Dunoff is co-author of International Law: Norms, Actors,Process, a foremost international law textbook. His articleshave appeared in a number of leading journals, includingthe American Journal of International Law, EuropeanJournal of International Law, Journal of InternationalEconomic Law, Yale Journal of International Law, HarvardEnvironmental Law Review, and Columbia Journal ofTransnational Law.

Princeton fellowship Goes to Temple Law professor

Jeffrey Dunoff is 2007-08 Fellow in Law and Public Affairs

RACHEL GARLAND ’07

NOVEMBER 10, 2006 Professor BurtonCaine (left) was invited to atttendthe rabbinic ordination andconvocation conferring upon AharonBarak the degree of Doctor ofHumane Letters honoris causa uponhis retirement as president of theSupreme Court of Israel. Theceremony was held at Hebrew UnionCollege in Jerusalem.

TEMPLE TEAM BUILDS HEALTHLAW INTERNATIONALLYWhen health law expert and advocate Professor ScottBurris first taught in Temple’s LL.M. program in China in2003, he discovered that health law did not exist as a fieldin that country. After interest in public health law surged inthe wake of the SARS epidemic, Burris brought a smallgroup of Chinese law professors and government officials toPhiladelphia for an intensive three-week health law trainingat the law school.

The task was daunting: in three weeks they coveredleading American health law scholars discussed healthcarefinancing, access, provider and facility regulation, patients’rights, discrimination issues, service quality, bioethics, andother core health law concepts. Burris, backed byAssociate Dean Adelaide Ferguson, Dean Reinstein andthe U.S. China Legal Cooperation Fund continue to supportworkshop alumni in their efforts and have collaborated withthem on organizing several seminal conferences andcompiling a book, Emerging Issues in Chinese Health Law,published in 2005 by the Peking University Press.

In July 2005, Burris’ team followed up with a summit onthe state of health law in China and in September, 2005,Burris received support from the Open Society Institute tocontinue his expanding efforts to promote health law andhealth policy capacity internationally.

The success of the model in China inspired Burris toexplore its application elsewhere. Burris' assistant, LeoBeletsky '07, visited Kiev in 2005 to explore the possibilityof working in Ukraine, as well as elsewhere in post-Communist states. At Mohyla Academy, the faculties of public health and law have agreed to develop aninterdisciplinary health law program and clinical module,and have hired a professor to teach a course in patients'rights and the law. With Beletsky's encouragement of clinical education at Mohyla, about 25% of students inthe school's legal aid clinic now specialize in patients'rights and other health law issues. Meanwhile, Wang Qi, an LL.M. graduate from Tsinghua University, is working with Burris as a visiting scholar to plan next steps for theChina program.

PROFESSOR SCOTT BURRIS

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amicus brief filed with the SecondCircuit, and participating on thecenter’s delegation to meetings ofthe U.N. Commission on HumanRights in Geneva.

His focus and impact at the lawschool led to the organization of theTemple Political and Civil Rights LawReview, patterned after a journal hefounded as a law student, and toefforts aimed at increasing pro bono and public interest curriculumofferings to first-year students.

Kairys has consistently producedwidely recognized and citedscholarship (four books and more than 25 articles), including his best known work, The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique(now in its third edition). He is also editor of the Oxford UniversityPress’ law and current affairs

masters series, which he conceived.Kairys is a frequent columnist and commentator on

public interest issues in legal publications, including theAmerican Bar Association Journal, National Law Journaland American Lawyer, and in national and local broadcastand print media, including “Nightline,” “The Today Show,”National Public Radio, CNN, Washington Post and TheNew York Times. The Wall Street Journal and TheChronicle of Higher Education have profiled him.

Active in many community, academic, and nonprofitadvocacy groups, Kairys has served on the advisory boardof the Center for Voting and Democracy; as an adviser forthe Education Fund to Stop Gun Violence; on the editorialadvisory committee of the Law and Society Review; ascontributing editor to JURIST: The Legal Education Network;and on the and advisory committee of The New Press.

“David’s pro bono accomplishments both inside andoutside Temple Law are truly extraordinary,” says DeanRobert J. Reinstein. “Whether in the classroom, courtroomor boardroom, he makes his mark, leaving society, andparticularly those most in need, the better for it.”

THIRD-YEAR STUDENT WINSESSAY COMPETITIONThird-year student Levon Schlichter won first placein the American Judges Association 2006 writingcompetition for a paper entitled “Breaking News:Miller is Distinguishable from Branzburg.”Professor Mark Rahdert advised Schlicter on thepaper. From left: Judge Bruce Campbell, LouiseQuattrone (Levon's mother), Levon Schlichter ’07,Dean of Students Marylouise Esten, and DeanRobert J. Reinstein.

JANUARY 2007 David Kairys,James E. Beasley Professor of Law atTemple University Beasley School ofLaw and one of the country’spreeminent civil rights attorneys, isthe recipient of the 2007 Deborah L.Rhode Award from the Association ofAmerican Law Schools (AALS). Theaward is presented to a full-timefaculty member or dean who hasmade an outstanding contribution toincreasing pro bono and publicservice opportunities in law schoolsthrough scholarship, leadership, orservice. Kairys received theprestigious award at the AALS annualmeeting in January.

A constitutional law scholar, Kairysjoined Temple Law in 1990 after morethan two decades at Kairys,Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg, thefirm he co-founded and where heremains of counsel. During his illustrious career, Kairys haslitigated high profile cases involving first amendment rights,racial discrimination, and police misconduct whichregularly strengthened and heightened civil rights and civilliberties protections. His renowned victories include theleading race discrimination and harassment case againstthe FBI, representing Dr. Benjamin Spock in a free speechcase before the Supreme Court and stopping police sweepsof minority neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Hisaccomplishments previously earned him a civil libertiesaward from the ACLU.

As a member of former Mayor Edward Rendell’staskforce on youth violence in the mid-1990s, Kairysconceived the municipal lawsuits against handgunmanufacturers (since been brought by more than 30cities), and the public nuisance legal theory on which theyare primarily based. This theory provided the framework fora range of cases challenging manufacturers’ practices,including lawsuits against lead paint manufacturers.

In recent years, Kairys has been an adviser and ofcounsel to the Indian Law Resource Center, preparing an

Professor wins national awardfor pro bono work

David Kairys Receives 2007 Deborah L. Rhode Award from AALS

“TRYING TERRORISM CASESIN THE CIVILIAN CRIMINALCOURTS: DOES IT MAKESENSE?” Mary Jo White presents annualKolsby lecture

Mary Jo White, formerU.S. Attorney for thesouthern district of New York, has beenselected to present theannual Herbert F. Kolsbylecture, named in honorof Herbert F. Kolsby. The May 12 lecture istitled “Trying TerrorismCases in the CivilianCriminal Courts: Does ItMake Sense?”

When Mary Jo White,a partner at Debevoise &Plimpton, left her post

as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York inJanuary 2002, she was renowned for her nearly nine yearsas the leader of one of the premier U.S. Attorney’s office inthe nation. In that capacity, White had supervised over200 assistant U.S. attorneys in successfully prosecutingsome of the most important national and internationalmatters, including complex white collar and internationalterrorism cases.

White rejoined the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in2002, and was made chair of the firm’s over 225-lawyerlitigation department. She is a fellow in the AmericanCollege of Trial Lawyers and the International College ofTrial Lawyers. She is the recipient of numerous awards andis regularly ranked as a leading lawyer by directories thatevaluate law firms. In addition, White served as a directorof the Nasdaq stock exchange, and on its executive, auditand policy committees from 2002 to February 2006. She isalso a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The 2006 Herbert F. Kolsby lecture was presented byDavid Boies.

KOLSBY LECTURETHURDSAY, APRIL 12, 2007, 4 PM

DUANE MORRIS LLP MOOT COURTROOM

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THE AVRAM G. ADLER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Avram Adler died 13 yearsago but his spirit lives on. Hiswife, Audrey Feldman Adler,has established a scholarshipin his name to benefit anacademically talented lawstudent in financial need.“Avram was himself once aTemple law student in financialneed,” she explains. “If Templehad not had a night schoolprogram, he couldn’t havebecome a lawyer. And thatwould have been a tragedybecause he loved the law.”

His parents, she relates, were Russian-Jewishimmigrants who settled in North Philadelphia. Adler’sfather died when his mother was 37 and she raised fourchildren on her own as an aide in the occupational therapydepartment at what is now Albert Einstein Medical Center.Despite his family’s lack of financial resources, he wasdetermined to go to college; he dreamed of becoming a lawyer.

But he was also concerned about the unsettling eventsin Europe in the 1930s. He tried to convince his mother toallow him to join the international brigade of volunteers tofight the Fascist-supported army in Spain. His mother hadother ideas; he stayed in school. He paid his way throughthe Wharton School by working in his uncle’s pharmacy.But after Pearl Harbor, he dropped out during his senioryear to join the U.S. Marines.

It was 1941 and he was sent to the Pacific Theaterwhere he took part in the invasions of several Japanese-held islands including Tarawa where serious opposition tothe amphibious landing exacted a heavy toll on theMarines. In July of 1945, his outfit was poised to take partin the invasion of Japan. They believed their chance ofsurvival was practically nil but then on August 6 . . .Hiroshima . . . and he was on his way home.

Four years older and battle weary, he completed hissenior year as an undergraduate at Penn on the G.I Bill.Law school was still his goal but he had to do it the hardway; he held down a full-time job during the day and wentto Temple Law School at night, graduating first in his classin 1953.

“During the time that Avram was in law school and Iwas getting my bachelor’s degree in social work at Temple,we met and married,” says Mrs. Adler. (She later earned amaster’s degree at Bryn Mawr.) “He received a good joboffer in Cleveland and as he was helping to support hismother, he accepted the job.

“But I was unhappy in Cleveland and so with arecommendation from Law School Associate Dean Eldon S.Magaw, Avram joined the Philadelphia law firm ofFreedman & Lorry,” Mrs. Adler recalls. Later he formed hisown firm, Adler & Kops, and later still he was a solopractitioner. She describes him as a natural as a triallawyer because he had “a great command of the languageand was passionate about his cases. He argued before theSupreme Court,” she recalls, and one of his famous caseswas the Griffin v. U.S. that he won against the Food andDrug Administration for approving a polio vaccine that hadfailed safety tests. In the case of an infamous fire at a toxicdumpsite in Chester in the 1980s, Adler represented thefamilies of Chester police and firefighters who were strickenwith cancers and other fatal ailments.

Several years after that case, he was diagnosed withlymphoma but continued to work. “I knew he was nevergoing to retire; he loved what he did too much,” Mrs. Adlersays. “Then a heart ailment was diagnosed and we went toBoston to have surgery done for a valve replacement; hedied in the hospital.” He was 75.

He had lived life fully. “We raised three children in a bigold house in Melrose Park. He read voraciously and had anencyclopedic memory. We loved to travel and when wewere in France or England he would know a great dealabout the history of that site. I called him my RenaissanceMan. He was interested in everything—history, science,math. And music. We attended the Philadelphia Orchestraconcerts and performances of the Metropolitan Opera.”

“TO ADMINISTER JUSTICE” FEBRUARY 5, 2007 The Honorable Louis H. Pollak presented theinaugural Arlin and Neysa Adams Lecture, “To AdministerJustice.” Judge Pollak was appointed to the U.S. District Courtfor the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1978 following adistinguished career in the practice of law and as a professorand scholar of constitutional law. The lecture was establishedby The Honorable Arlin Adams and his wife Neysa. JudgeAdams sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuitfrom 1969 to 1987 and is currently of counsel to Schnader,Harrison, Segal & Lewis.

THE HONORABLE ARLIN ADAMS (AT LEFT) WITH THEHONORABLE LOUIS J. POLLAK.

Endowed scholarships Keep the mission alive

Many students at Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law receive tuition assistance from endowed scholarships made possible by the generosity of those who preceded them.

Scholarships make it possible for the law school to remain faithful to its historical mission of providing exceptional students with a high quality, affordable education.

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTEBRINGS TOP SCHOLARS TOLAW SCHOOL

This semester, the Institute for International Law andPublic Policy's first annual International Law Colloquium,brings the nation's leading scholars to the law school topresent works-in-progress.

Professor Paul Berman, of the University of ConnecticutSchool of Law, presented "Seeing Beyond the Limits ofInternational Law," in which he critiqued the narrowunderstanding of the role of international law held by manyscholars and policy-makers. The discussion was moderatedby Temple Law Professor David Hoffman.

A subsequent session featured "Rethinking the Bargain:Balancing Investor Protections with State Freedom ofAction in BITs," presented by University of PennsylvaniaLaw Professor William Burke-White, with Temple LawProfessor Rafael Porrata-Doria serving as discussant.

Future speakers include Yale University Law ProfessorOona Hathaway and Georgetown Law Center ProfessorDavid Luban.The Institute for International Law and PublicPolicy was founded by co-directors Professors JeffreyDunoff and Amelia Boss to promote the study andunderstanding of the relationship between international lawand public policy.

(FROM LEFT) PROFESSOR PAUL BERMAN, UNIVERSITY OFCONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF LAW, WITH TEMPLE LAW PROFESSORSDAVID HOFFMAN AND JEFFREY DUNOFF.

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“Funding the ever

increasing and unmet

demand for scholarship

support is one of the law

school’s most important

challenges,” says Senior

Director for Development

and Alumni Affairs John

Walker. “Please consider

the tremendous impact that an investment in scholarships

can have on the lives of our students and on the future

of the school.”

SYMPOSIUM FOCUSES ONBUSINESS SUSTAINABILITYFEBRUARY 9, 2007 The Temple Journal of Science, Technology &Environmental Law’s one-day symposium addressed the variouslegal issues encountered by businesses as they develop longterm sustainability strategies. As businesses face ever-increasing pressure to be environmentally aware, many areseeking to create policies which allow them to remainprofitable and responsible. The six-credit CLE program includeddiscussions about changing environmental regulations,corporate disclosure and reporting initiatives, responsibleproduct labeling, and intellectual property issues.

SONIA HAMEL, FROM MASSACHUSETTS’ REGIONALGREENHOUSE GAS INITIATIVE, WAS A KEYNOTE SPEAKER.

Following is a list of recently endowed funds:

THE LAW CLASS OF 1976 ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND

In 2006, the class of 1976 celebrated its thirtiethreunion by endowing a scholarship fund. Ann Bernice Segaland Robert I. Segal, both of whom are members of the classof 1976, led the class’s thirtieth reunion and the campaignto establish the class scholarship. This scholarship fundrepresents the generous commitment of numerous membersof the class “to express their heartfelt thanks to the faculty,staff, and administration of the Beasley School of Law forthe outstanding legal education they received and in gratefulrecognition of the opportunities that their legal educationhas provided to them and their families.”

THE ARTHUR POMERANTZ, ESQ. ’72 ENDOWEDSCHOLARSHIP FUND

Arthur Pomerantz ’72, who practiced law in Pennsylvaniaand the U.S. Virgin Islands, has many ties to Temple. BothPomerantz’s wife and daughter earned degrees at TempleUniversity’s Fox School of Business and Management,Barbara G. Pomerantz in 1978 and Lauren Fay Schulz in2004. By establishing a scholarship fund at the law school,Pomerantz “wishes to commit himself to providingeducational opportunities to qualified evening divisionstudents.” The Pomerantz scholarship will be awardedannually to the third-year evening division law student whodemonstrates the greatest improvement in their GPAbetween first year and second year.

THE JOSEPHINE BARTOLA, ESQ. ’74 ENDOWEDSCHOLARSHIP FUND

Josephine Bartola ’74 established a generous scholarshipfund to support an evening law student with demonstratedfinancial need. After graduating in 1974 from Temple LawSchool’s evening division, Bartola served as a public healthindustry executive. Aware of the challenges of attending lawschool in the evening, Bartola established this scholarship toprovide educational opportunities for others.

THE HONORABLE I. RAYMOND KREMER MEMORIALSCHOLARSHIP FUND

Established after his death by his family, friends, andcolleagues, this fund pays tribute to the Honorable I.Raymond Kremer and his reputation as a knowledgeable,ethical, and highly respected jurist. The Kremer scholarship

For more information aboutscholarships or to discussestablishing a named scholarship,please contact:

John R. Walker, Esq., Senior Director of Development

and Alumni AffairsTemple University Beasley School of Law1719 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19122Phone: 215-204-4754 Toll Free: 800 -864-5386Email: [email protected]

AVRAM ADLER…continued from previous page

His longtime friend, attorney Bob Grodinsky, says, “We met when we were both newlyweds. He told me hehad developed malaria in the Pacific and he battled it forsome years after. He was a fighter, a fighter for the UnitedStates and a fighter in court. As a litigator, he alwaysargued for the plaintiff and he specialized in maritime law.He was a very bright man; he loved music, he hadeducated views on many subjects and loved a gooddiscussion; he was active in the Jewish community andwas a damn good lawyer.”

His son, Dr. Caleb Adler, an associate professor ofpsychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati,says, “My dad combined his intellect with a deepcompassion for others. He remains, even after more than a decade, a dominant influence in my life.”

Audrey Adler says, “I wanted something to bear hisname for posterity. The night school at Temple was therefor him and he fought for its preservation when there wastalk of closing it. I thought that a full scholarship for aPennsylvania resident was an appropriate way of honoringhis memory.”

—Ruth W. Schultz

THE CLASS OF 1976 FUNDED AN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP. ATTENDING THE 30TH REUNION WERE(STANDING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) EDWARD D. OHLBAUM, GEORGE E. MOORE, CYNTHIA J.ROSENTHAL, BARBARA I. BERSCHLER, ARLENE G. SIMOLIKE, JACK L. GRUENSTEIN, TOBI LEANNASCHNEIDER, ANN BERNICE STANKIEWICZ SEGAL, ROBERT I. SEGAL, FRANCES E. DALTON, EDWARD M. WALDMAN, ALAN M. FELDMAN; (SEATED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) PETRESE B. TUCKER,JOAN A. BROWN, CLAREASE R. YATES, BARBARA BONAN ZULICK, DEAN C. BERG, STEVEN H. KITTY,UNKNOWN, JOHN ADAM KERNS, JR. ALSO ATTENDING THE REUNION, BUT NOT PICTURED WEREMICHAEL I. BUTERA, WILLIS W. BERRY, DENISE L. GOREN, LESLIE B. NEUSTADT, LAURENCE J.RAPPAPORT, AND MARK F. SELTZER.

will provide tuition assistance to law students who havedemonstrated financial need. Judge Kremer, who served withdistinction for many years in the Court of Common Pleas inPhiladelphia, was a 1942 graduate of Temple UniversityCollege of Liberal Arts and a 1948 graduate of TempleUniversity Law School.

THE HONORABLE LAWRENCE PRATTIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND

This fund was established by the family, friends,classmates, and colleagues of Honorable Lawrence Prattis’51, in recognition of his commitment to the practice of lawand his distinguished record of public service. Judge Prattismaintained a private practice for many years before enteringpublic service; first as assistant city solicitor, then as anassistant U.S. attorney before becoming regional counsel forthe U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development;and finally as a Common Pleas Court judge for theCommonwealth of Pennsylvania, where he presided for manyyears. The Prattis scholarship provides financial assistanceto law students with demonstrated need.

THE MITCHELL W. AND SHIRLEY S. MILLERCHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITY

Additionally, Mitchell W. Miller, a member of the lawclass of 1954 and his wife Shirley G. Miller, a 1967graduate of Temple’s College of Science and Technologyestablished a charitable gift annuity to benefit the BarrackPublic Interest Fellowship Program. Mitchell Miller has beencommitted to pro bono and public interest law projectsthroughout his career. The Millers chose to support theBarrack Public Interest Fellowship Program because thefellowships provides law student loan debt relief andsubsidies to alumni who work for qualifying public interestlaw entities such as nonprofits and legal aid groups.

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1959HARMON S. SPOLAN, the partner in chargeof marketing for Cozen O’Connor’sbusiness department for the past sevenyears, has been named chair of TheCozen O’Connor Foundation, the firm’scharitable arm. Spolan has also been chair of the firm’scharity committee since 1999. Prior to joining CozenO’Connor in 1999, Spolan was president of Jefferson Bankin Philadelphia.

1961CHARLES M. GOLDEN, a partner andchairman of Obermayer RebmannMaxwell & Hippel’s creditor’s rights,bankruptcy, and financial reorganizationdepartment, has been appointed trusteeof the Meadowlands Country Club for theJ. Wood Platt caddie scholarship trust that provides collegetuition grants to deserving caddies. Golden has been withObermayer since 1988, where his practice focuses oncounseling large corporate Chapter 11 debtors.

1962MORTON KRAUSE, a judge of thePhiladelphia Municipal Court since 1982,is a very active law school alumnus. Hehas been involved in many alumniactivities including membership on theTemple Law alumni executive committee,class representative of 1962 law class, serving as a counciljudge in Temple’s moot court, and serving as a speaker atthe law school’s admission days in City Hall for the pastfour years.

1967PHYLLIS W. BECK, of counsel at Pepper Hamilton, has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to a three-year term as a member of the continuing legal education board. Beck joined the firm in 2006 after retiring from the Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaSuperior Court.

1968ROBERT ROVNER, a Temple University board trustee, wasappointed to the lawyers fund for client security board ofthe Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

1971STEPHEN H. FRISHBERG of Frey, Petrakis, Deeb, Blum &Briggs, was a speaker at the National Business Institute inNovember 2006 at a seminar on real estate for the estateplanning and probate attorney.


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1972CARL E. SINGLEY has joined WolfBlock as counsel, effectiveNovember 2006. Singley was on the law school faculty for30 years, serving as dean of the university’s law school inthe mid-1980s.

1975ELIAS S. COHEN recently published “Social, Economic andPolitical Realities of Cross-Network Partnerships andCoalitions” in Crossing Network Lines, Springer Publishing,2007, and “Response to Quality: Differing Definitions,” inConsumer Voice and Choice in Long Term Care, SpringerPublishing, 2006.

ROBERT S. WEINER, a New Castle County,Delaware councilman, has beenreappointed by the National Association ofCounties as chair of NACo’s sustainabilityleadership team and chair of theassociation’s land use and growthmanagement subcommittee. Weiner wasalso reappointed as a member of NACo’s watershedmanagement advisory committee. Weiner, who practiceslaw in Wilmington, Delaware with Fox Rothschild,sponsored and assisted in rewriting New Castle County’sland use, transportation, and environmental protection lawsas part of the New Castle County unified developmentcode.

1976ROBERT H. LOUIS, a partner at Saul Ewing,and co-chair of its personal wealth,estates, and trusts department, has beenelected director and treasurer of the WorldLink Foundation, an organization thatsupports educational activities and

professional training in the field of mental health in China.Louis is also chair of Saul Ewing’s business successionplanning, estate planning, retirement planning, and specialneeds and guardianship trusts practice groups.

1979ELIZABETH JACKSON, a Common Pleas Court judge, wasrecently awarded The Raymond Pace Alexander Award bythe judicial council of the National Bar Association foroutstanding contributions to judicial advocacy and tohumanity. Jackson also concluded her two-year term aschair of the Clifford Scott Green chapter of the National BarAssociation’s judicial council in September 2006.

1980SCOTT COFFEY has a criminal and juvenile law practice inPittsburgh, PA. In 2006, he obtained exoneration throughDNA testing, of a man serving a life sentence for a murder;this is the second case in Western Pennsylvania in whichan inmate has been exonerated and freed through DNA testing.

ELLIOTT R. FELDMAN, a Cozen O’Connormember, has been installed as presidentof the National Association of SubrogationProfessionals. Feldman is chair of CozenO’Connor’s national and internationalsubrogation and recovery department andalso serves on the firm’s executive andmanagement committees. Feldman concentrates his practice in the prosecution of property damagesubrogation claims.

JAY BARRY HARRIS, a senior partner at Fineman Krekstein& Harris, has been honored by DRI—“The Voice of theDefense Bar”—as its outstanding committee chair at thegroup’s annual meeting in San Francisco. Harris was alsonamed a national director of the 22,000-memberorganization at the meeting. Harris concentrates hispractice in complex civil litigation.

DAVID M. KLEPPINGER has been namedmanaging attorney at McNees Wallace &Nurick. Kleppinger joined the firm in 1980and has chaired its energy, communi-cations, and utility law group since 1990.Kleppinger primarily represents largecommercial and industrial utilityconsumers and has worked on numerous industryrestructuring initiatives.

1983LEONARD A. BERNSTEIN, a partner in thePhiladelphia office of Reed Smith, wasrecently appointed to the executivecommittee of the Support Center for ChildAdvocates in Philadelphia, where he is aboard member. Child Advocates offers free legal and social

BLSA TEAM WINS A SEAT ATNATIONAL COMPETITIONFEBRUARY 2007 Temple’s chapter of of the Black Law StudentsAssociation (BLSA) sent nine students to the Mid-Atlantic BLSAconvention in Pittsburgh, where the teams of Nicole Junior ’07, andDean Owens ’08; and Jamila Fairley ’08 and Samia Hopson ’08competed in the Thurgood Marshall mock trial competition. Bothteams progressed to the semi-finals of the competition and wereselected to participate in the national BLSA competition scheduledfor the end of March. Mark Lee ’04 of Schnader Harrison Segal &Lewis and Royce W. Smith ’04 of Kline & Specter coached the team.

(FROM LEFT): NICOLE S. JUNIOR, SAMIA HOPSON,DEAN OWENS, JAMILA C. FAIRLEY

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TEMPLE HOSTS INTERNATIONAL LAWMOOT COURT REGIONALSTemple team wins in AtlantaFEBRUARY 25, 2007 Temple hosted the 2007 regional competition ofthe Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court competition,judged by (from left) Professor David Hoffman, Dean Robert J.Reinstein, and Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales.

Temple's team, Kimberly Leadford (best oralist), Kelly Heidrich,Christopher Wiedemer, Rupak Shah, and John Risler, competed in theregional competition in Atlanta, where they won second best brief.

services to abused and neglected children. Bernstein wasalso recently named to the executive committee of theAmerican-Israel Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia.

NEIL A. STEIN, a principal of KaplinStewart and member of its land use,zoning, and development department inBlue Bell, Pennsylvania, has beenappointed chairman of the Bucks-Montgomery Counties Home BuildersAssociation political action committee.Stein is the local representative on the state committee.

1984VERA PARENTI-ANCONE has joinedGawthrop Greenwood where sheconcentrates her practice in estateplanning and administration, with anemphasis on business successionplanning, and in assorted businesstransactional matters. Before joining Gawthrop Greenwood,Parenti-Ancone was an associate in the commercialdepartment of the law firm of Elliott, Greenleaf &Siedzikowski in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

MARC S. RASPANTI of Miller, Alfano & Raspanti spoke atthe American Bar Association’s “Health Care FraudEnforcement: Insiders Predict the Future” as a panelist inNovember 2006. Raspanti also published, “Modern FalseClaims Act Liability: Cradle to Grave Liability? Part II” inHealth Lawyers News. Raspanti practices in the areascollar criminal defense, federal and state qui tam litigation,criminal and civil health care fraud defense, professionallicensing litigation, and complex commercial disputes.

1985CARMINA Y. D’AVERSA, an attorney with the InternalRevenue Service in Washington, D.C., was developer andeditor of the desk reference Tax, Estate, and LifetimePlanning for Minors, published by the American Bar Association.

JAMES J. KOZUCH addressed graduatestudents in Cornell University’s Master ofEngineering program on the basics ofintellectual property law. A partner in thePhiladelphia firm of Caesar, Rivise,Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Kozuch isalso a licensed professional engineer anda member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

1986ELAINE CARPEY GREENBERG was appointed associatedistrict administrator for enforcement in the Philadelphiaoffice of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,where she oversees the SEC’s enforcement program in theMid-Atlantic region.

LESLIE A. MARGOLIES has joined TheZucker Berne Lieberman FinancialConsulting Group of Wachovia Securitiesin Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Margoliesbecame a financial advisor after 18 yearsof law practice and is now a registeredinvestment advisor and specializes inretirement planning for attorneys, corporate executives, andbusiness owners.

1987HELEN CAMPBELL has been teaching for the University ofMaryland University College-Europe in Heidelberg,Germany since 1991, in the departments of business andmanagement and social sciences. She has guest lecturedon American contract law at Moscow State University andalso periodically lectures on law-related topics at theTechnologisches Universitaet in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

1988DAVID K. TREVASKIS ‘88 was awarded thesecond annual Compass Award, honoringa leader in civic education. The awardwas presented by Pennsylvania’s FirstLady, Judge Marjorie Rendell, at theNational Constitution Center inPhiladelphia. The inaugural award in 2005 was given toJustice Sandra Day O’Connor. Trevaskis is currently thecoordinator for legal services for the Pennsylvania BarAssociation as well as the association’s coordinator forpublic education about the law.

1990ROBERT G. KATZ has joined Cozen O’Connor’s WestConshohocken office as an associate in the firm’s generallitigation department. Prior to joining the firm, he was chiefstaff attorney to the Hon. Sandra Schultz Newman of theSupreme Court of Pennsylvania. Katz has extensiveexperience in the preparation of drafts of opinions incriminal, civil, administrative, and domestic relationsmatters, including capital cases, contracts, torts, zoningand land use planning, workers’ compensation,governmental and sovereign immunity, and spousal andchild support.

JERRY SEMASEK earned an LL.M. in taxation fromGeorgetown University in 2006, and now is with theInternal Revenue Service in the office of chief counsel,procedure and administration, collections, summonses,and bankruptcy.

1991MICAH U. BUCHDAHL, president ofMoorestown, New Jersey-basedHTMLawyers, Inc., a law marketingconsulting company, has been electedsecretary of the American Bar

Association’s law practice management section. Buchdahlis chair for the ABA’s first national marketing conference, tobe held in November 2007 in Washington, D.C.

DAVID M. LAIGAIE, a Dilworth partner andchair of its corporate investigations/whitecollar group, participated in thePennsylvania Bar Institute’s health lawseminar. Laigaie led a panel discussion,“The False Claims Act Year in Review.”Also, Laigaie and MARIANA ROSSMAN ’00recently gave a presentation, “Hospitals and Physicians onthe Firing Line, Current Trends in False Claims ActEnforcement,” to Riddle Memorial Hospital’s professionalstaff. Laigaie also recently participated in the AmericanHealth Lawyers Association’s national seminar where, with Todd Rodriquez, he presented “Champagne on a Beer Budget: Strategies for Ensuring Compliance,Assessing Voluntary Disclosure and/or Carrier Repayments,and Conducting Internal Investigations without Spending a Fortune.”

1992DAWN M. SCHMIDT has joined the City of Philadelphia as adeputy city solicitor in the major tax unit. Previously, sheworked eight years with Portnoff Law Associates thatdevotes its practice exclusively to representing taxingdistricts in the collection of delinquent municipal claimsand taxes.

DEBORAH WEINSTEIN presented aprogram, “Keys to Preventing UnlawfulHarassment in Your Law Firm” at anaudioconference sponsored by theNational Constitution Center in February2007. Weinstein, who is president of TheWeinstein Firm, is a “lawyer’s lawyer”whose practice includes advising law firms on employment matters.

1994THOMAS B. MALONE announces theopening of the Philadelphia office of Klinkand Company, a risk managementconsulting firm that provides investigativeservices to law firms, corporations, andinvestment funds.

CHRISTIAN SONDERGAARD, JR. was recently hired by thecriminal law division of the Pennsylvania Attorney General’sOffice where he investigates and prosecutes fraudcommitted by medical providers enrolled in the Medicaidprogram, as well as patient abuse and neglect in Medicaid-funded health care facilities.

1995JEFFREY HOROWITZ has been promoted from associate tocounsel at Kaye Scholer’s New York office. Horowitzrecently tried two patent infringement cases to verdict in

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FOUNDER’S DAY RECEPTION HONORSLESLIE ANNE MILLER, LL.M. ’94Leslie Anne Miller is the 2007 honoree at thelaw school Founder’s Day reception. A civillitigator and mediator for 28 years, Miller has represented major insurance companies,health care providers, manufacturers, arts and cultural institutions, regional businesses,individual attorneys and municipal and government authorities in an array of matters ranging from contract negotiations and disputes to employmentand diversity concerns. As chief legal advisor to the Governor until 2005, sheserved as head of the largest legal enterprise in Pennsylvania with a staff ofmore than 450 lawyers in 32 agencies and a budget of $7 million. Miller isalso active in Philadelphia’s not not-for-profit community, having served onnumerous boards throughout the region and acting as Interim President forthe Kimmel Center in 2001 and 2002.

California and in New Jersey, the first involving a medicaldevice and a method of treatment, and the second apharmaceutical ANDA case.

DAVID R. PAYNE has been named ashareholder of Stevens & Lee, where heconcentrates his practice in banking law,securities law, and mergers andacquisitions with an emphasis on therepresentation of financial institutions.Payne is resident in the firm’s ValleyForge, Pennsylvania, office.

THOMAS R. RUTLEDGE, a litigation associate for Branton & Wilson, was elected vice chair for the labor and employment law section for the San Diego County Bar Association.

1996Schering-Plough Corporation recently announced theappointment of BRENT SAUNDERS as senior vice presidentand president for consumer health care. Schering-PloughCorporation is a Kenilworth, New Jersey global science-based health care company with prescription, consumer,and animal health products

ASHLEY B. STITZER was elected director at the Bayard firm,where she is a member of both the bankruptcy andintellectual property practice groups.

ROB C. TONOGBANUA is an associate inDickie, McCamey & Chilcote’s Harrisburg,Pennsylvania office.

White and Williams recently announcedthat RYAN J. UDELL has been admitted tofirm partnership. Udell is a member of thebusiness department.

MAURO M. WOLFE has joined Dickstein Shapiro’s securities,litigation, regulatory, and compliance practice as partner.Prior to joining the firm, Wolfe was assistant U.S. Attorneyfor the securities and health care fraud unit of the U.S.Attorney’s Office of Newark, New Jersey.

1997BRYANT DELGADILLO of Kaye Scholer has been promoted tocounsel in litigation in their Los Angeles, California officewhere he counsels and represents clients in a wide varietyof matters, including antitrust, unfair competition, productliability, and employment cases.

JODEEN M. HOBBS, a shareholder withMiller Alfano & Raspanti, practiceslitigation in matters of white collar criminaldefense, commercial disputes, andemployment disputes.

The November issue of the PhiladelphiaBar Reporter announced that SUNAHPARK ’97 has been elected editor-in-chief. Park replacesanother Temple graduate, MOLLY PECKMAN ’92.

ROBYN F. POLLACK, an associate in thebankruptcy and restructuring departmentof Saul Ewing, has been appointed to theTurnaround Management Association(TMA) Philadelphia chapter’s board ofdirectors. TMA is an international,nonprofit organization that promotescorporate renewal and turnaround management. Pollack isalso co-chair of TMA’s women’s networking subcommitteefor their national diversity committee, as well as chair of thePhiladelphia chapter’s women’s networking group.

MICHAEL E. ROYNAN has been named apartner at Stradley Ronon Stevens &Young. Roynan is based in the firm’sMalvern, Pennsylvania, office and is amember of the business practice group.

1998ANTHONY S. DISANDRO has been named a shareholder ofStevens & Lee, where he represents various financialinstitutions in all aspects of commercial lending.

MICHELLE A. RICK worked in Temple’s LL.M. in TrialAdvocacy program until September 2006, when she joinedthe intellectual property law firm of Woodcock Washburn astheir litigation services supervisor.

Nixon Peabody named syndication attorney SCOTT D.SERGIO to partnership this week. Sergio, who works at thefirm’s Washington, D.C. office, represents equity investorsin the acquisition, development, and syndication ofaffordable housing projects. He also has experience withgeneral real estate matters.

1999 TIMOTHY J. BURKE was recently elected ashareholder at McKissock & Hoffman inits Philadelphia office where his litigationpractice includes professional liability,commercial litigation, and the defense ofmedical malpractice claims.

EVE DELSOLDO has been elected to partnership at SchnaderHarrison Segal & Lewis, where she is a member of itsbusiness service department, specializing in corporatematters, particularly those involving complex commercialfinance transactions.

KIMBERLY RUCH-ALEGANT, an associatewith Brett Tessler & Associates inPhiladelphia, has been named managingdirector of the Buxmont chapter ofeWomenNetwork, an internationalnetworking organization.

ELIZABETH WOLF-CIPPON has joined WislerPearlstine Talone Craig Garrity & Potashas as an associatein its construction and real estate practices department.She most recently served as a law clerk to Judge Albert W.Sheppard, Court of Common Pleas, Commerce Court.

2000MARIANA ROSSMAN has joined the facultyof the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.She recently gave a presentation withfellow Dilworth attorney David M. Laigaie,entitled “Hospitals and Physicians on theFiring Line, Current Trends in FalseClaims Act Enforcement” to Riddle Memorial Hospital’sprofessional staff.

THOMAS G. WHALEN, JR. has been nameda shareholder of Stevens & Lee, where heconcentrates his practice in bankruptcy,restructuring, and other commerciallitigation matters. Whalen was a law clerkfor Judge Thomas M. Twardowski of theU.S. Bankruptcy Court for the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania. Whalen is resident in the firm’sWilmington, Delaware office.

2001SCOTT P. SIGMAN, an associate at Bochetto and Lentz andchair-elect of the Philadelphia Bar Association's younglawyers division, was the cover story of the 2006 issue ofthe "Super Lawyers" edition of Philadelphia Magazine.

ANTHONY D. TANCINI is now an associatein Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote’sPhiladelphia/New Jersey offices, where hefocuses his practice on bankruptcy law,disability, and pension claims.

2002CYNTHIA MASON was featured in Metro discussing her newsinger/songwriter album Quitter’s Claim, her first nationallyreleased album.

2003BRIAN S. GOCIAL, an associate at BlankRome, has been named to the board ofdirectors of the Delaware Valley chapter ofthe National Defense IndustrialAssociation. Gocial is a member of BlankRome’s corporate litigation group, where he focuses onfederal and state government contracting.

JENNIFER WARD SANDO and BLAKE SANDO J.D. ’02, LL.M. ’03were married in July 2006 in Philadelphia. HOLLY SANDORIECK ’00 was a bridesmaid, and RICHARD WILSON ’02was a groomsman. MARK BLOCK ’02, LAUREN BROWN ’03,LURENA LEWIS ’03, MATTHEW KERSTETTER ’01, andCAROLINE MUNLEY ’03 were wedding guests. Both Jenniferand Blake are litigation attorneys in Miami, Florida.

WHITNEY WHISENHUNT has been elected to thePhilagrafika board of directors. Philagrafika is a non-profitthat promotes and sustains printmaking as a vital andvalued art form. Whisenhunt is an associate in Cozen

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O’Connor’s general litigation department in the firm’sPhiladelphia office, where she focuses her practice incommercial litigation.

2004JENIMAE ALMQUIST has joined RaynesMcCarty’s products liability and complexlitigation practice.

HEATHER A. SUYDAM HERRINGTON, aformer clerk to Judge Annette M. Rizzo ofthe Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas,joined Wilson Elser in 2006.

TIMOTHY P. O’GRADY earned an LL.M. in taxation from NewYork University School of Law in 2005, and then clerkedfor Judge Thomas B. Wells of the U.S. Tax Court inWashington, D.C. O’Grady joined the tax department ofThacher Proffitt & Wood in New York City in January 2007.

2005REBECCA E. JOHNSON has joined Kaplin Stewart in BlueBell, Pennsylvania, where she is a member of the land use,zoning and development department.

2006GEOFFREY FORNEY has joined the immigration law firmKlasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer as an associate.

MEGAN GUERNSEY has joined Wisler Pearlstine Talone CraigGarrity & Potash as an associate in its construction andreal estate practices department.

BOB KING, LL.M. IN TRIAL ADVOCACY ’06was named a “super lawyer” in the mid-south by a special supplement ofMemphis Magazine. King, who holds adoctorate in health care law, focuses hispractice on litigation and healthcare.

PARKER V. SHERRY has joined the firm ofKaplin Stewart in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, where he is amember of the commercial litigation department.

MATTHEW VOCCI has joined Ober/Kaler as an associate in its Baltimore, Maryland office.

REUNION WEEKEND, SATURDAY MAY 19, 2007A day full of activities for all alums to enjoy with old classmates has alreadybeen planned!

• Reconnect with old friends.• Earn some CLE’s.• Enjoy lunch with former classmates and current faculty. • Take a tour of the ever-changing law school.

The celebration continues into the night at the Westin Hotel in Center CityPhiladelphia.

• Reunite with your classmates in special cocktail hours.• Join the entire law school community in the main banquet room

to celebrate Alumni Reunion Weekend 2007. • Dine and dance into the wee hours.

SPEND THE NIGHTThe Westin Hotel is offering discounted room rates for Friday, May 18th

and Saturday, May 19th. Contact the Westin directly to make yourreservations:(215) 563-1600 or 1-800-937-8461. Please mention theTemple Law Alumni Association to secure the discounted room rate.

If your graduation year ends in a 2 or a 7, we will celebrateyour class reunion on Saturday evening, May 19, 2007.

You should have received your inviation in the mail, but you can register on-line at www.law.temple.edu/alumni.

Register early to receive a discounted rate: Early bird registration ends on April 13!

Participating in your class reunion celebration will help you awaken those long gone lawschool days! Reunions are a time to rekindle old friendships, share memories, andreflect on all that’s been going on in your life since you graduated from Temple Law.

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Calendar of EventsWednesday, March 21, 2007ANNUAL LAW DAY RECEPTION

Federal Court House 4:30 pm

Friday, March 23, 2007LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM

"Executive Power: Exploring the Limits of Article II"Klein Hall, 9 am-4:30 pm

Saturday, March 24, 2007FOUNDER'S DAY CELEBRATION

honoring Leslie Anne MillerMarriott Hotel, Reception 4:30 pmConvention Center 6 pm

Thursday, March 29, 2007WOMEN'S LAW CAUCUS ALUMNAE RECEPTION

honoring Hon. Annette Rizzo presenting Hon. Evelyn Trommer ScholarshipShusterman Hall 6 pm

Thursday, April 5, 2007HON. CHARLES R. WEINER LECTURE

"The U.S. and Int'l Law: An Optimist's Account"by Peter Spiro, Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law4 pm Duane Morris LLP Moot Courtroom

Monday, April 9, 2007BLSA SCHOLARSHIP RECEPTION

Diamond Club 5:30 pm

Tuesday, April 10, 2007STERN MOOT COURT COMPETITION

Duane Morris LLP Moot Courtroom 4 pm

Wednesday, April 11, 2007RUBIN PRESSER PUBLIC INTERESTSCHOLARSHIP RECEPTION

Saul Ewing 5:30 pm

Thursday, April 12, 2007KOLSBY LECTURE

presented by Mary Jo WhiteDuane Morris LLP Moot Courtroom 4 pm

Thursday, May 17, 2007LAW SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT

Liacouras Center 6 pm

Saturday, May 19, 2007ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND

CLE, Klein Hall 10 amLuncheon, Shusterman Hall, 12 pmReception, Westin Hotel 7 pm

Riverkeepers gives students hands-on environmental litigation

experienceThe Delaware River has played a critical role in

Philadelphia history, serving the city’s commerce,transportation and water needs, as well as receiving itswaste for the last three centuries. And now, Temple lawstudents have an opportunity to play a role in the river’shealth. Since 2002 Temple Law students have worked withthe Delaware Riverkeeper Network’s (DRN) to protect andrestore the Delaware River and its watershed. The studentsparticipate in DRN’s River Resources Law Clinic, whichwas founded by the George and Miriam Martin Foundation.

Delaware Bay is home to the world’s largest populationof horseshoe crabs, whose eggs are a primary food sourcefor the second largest population of migrating shorebirds inNorth America. Overharvesting of the horseshoe crabs hasreduced their populations to the point that a subspecies ofbird is threatened with extinction by 2010. The law clinicfiled a petition to secure endangered species status for thebirds, which would require protecting the crabs, andworked with other organizations and citizens to successfullysecure a two-year moratorium on the bait harvest of thecrabs to allow their numbers to rebound enough to helpthe birds.

“The ability to have Temple law students undertakepractical and meaningful work on our cases helps to levelthe playing field between us and the extremely well-fundeddevelopment interests we fight in court,” says JohnFritschie, DRN Senior Attorney and Clinic Instructor. This past semester, clinic participant James Y. Miles ’07responded to a local citizen’s complaints about two waste-water treatment plants in Monroe County discharging

MARIA MURPHY, LL.M. CANDIDATE (LEFT) AND LINDSAY DENNIS ’07CONDUCT RESEARCH FOR THE RIVERKEEPERS CLINICAL.

pollution into high quality, cold-water fishery streams. Hisreview of the facilities discharge monitoring reports foundhundreds of water pollution violations. Miles draftednotices of violations that were submitted to the stateregulators. One facility was fined $833,000 this Februaryfor its violations. In addition, the clinic won a crucial legalvictory last December when it sued to stop the Army’s planto ship VX nerve gas waste to the DuPont facility inDeepwater, New Jersey for treatment and discharge intothe river. In response to the lawsuit and public opposition,DuPont announced this January that it would not acceptthe waste.

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