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LAWALUMNI NEWS

Fall 2001

Walter F. Mondale, former United States Vice President, and Jimmy Carter,former United States President, were reunited at the Mondale Hall naming ceremony.

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ContentsDEAN

E. Thomas Sullivan

EDITOR

Terri Mische

EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE

Mickelene G. Taylor

CONTRIBUTING WRITERSBrad ClarySusan GainenKatherine HedinMartha MartinLynn NelsonMichael Stokes PaulsenKristi Rudelius-PalmerLinda ShimminAmy StineTricia Baatz Torrey

PHOTOGRAPHERSDan KiefferDoug KnutsonMarc NorbergTim RummelhoffDiane Walters

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DepartmentsThe Dean’s Perspective ......................................................................................1

Faculty News and Events ..................................................................................2

Faculty Research & Development ......................................................................6

Law School News and Events ..........................................................................27

Distinguished Alumni ......................................................................................34

Class Notes....................................................................................................36

In Memoriam Tributes ....................................................................................42

Faculty Essay Paying Our Debts to Our PetsBy Judith T. Younger ....................................................................................................................12New Faculty Add Extra DimensionBy Tricia Baatz Torrey ..................................................................................................................16The Dedication of Walter F. Mondale Hall ........................................................Centerfold

Commencement 2001 ........................................................................................................24

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We still feel the glow of the marvelous dedication of Mondale Hall on May 17.The ded-ication of the building was a wonderful opportunity to gather alumni and friends ofthe Law School in celebration of the remarkable accomplishments of this institution, as

well as the distinguished achievements of Walter Mondale. During the dedication, we were hon-ored to have President Jimmy Carter as the principal speaker.The approximately 1000 alumni,friends, faculty, staff, and students who were in attendance were inspired by President Carter’sremarks. He spoke of how proud he was of the historic transformation of the office of vice presi-dent of the United States while Walter Mondale was the vice president. He commented on theaccomplishments of the Carter-Mondale administration, and he challenged us to make a differ-ence in the lives of people, particularly those who are less fortunate.At the end of his remarks, weall knew why we had gone to law school and the clear responsibilities that flow from being amember of the legal profession. It was a spectacular day, followed by a gala dinner attended byapproximately 450 people.

In dedicating the Law School building in honor of Walter F. Mondale, we recognize him for hiscontributions to the state of Minnesota, the United States, and the world, including his visionaryefforts to ensure equality for all Americans, and to ensure peace and safety by promoting interna-tional dialogue regarding nuclear arms, global trade, environmental responsibility, and diplomacy.

The new addition to the Law School is enabling us to achieve our goal of integrating theory,doctrine, and ethics with skills and practice throughout the curriculum.The new addition is abeautiful complement to the original building that was dedicated in April of 1978.The new facil-ity helps us increase our ability to specialize in skills training. It provides very handsome and com-fortable space for our internationally recognized research centers, and it showcases our pricelessrare books collection in an incomparable facility that will ensure the proper maintenance of theirreplaceable materials. Importantly, the new addition adds significant offices and areas for studentsand faculty, permitting the interaction among faculty, students, and staff in ways that will enable usto do a much better job of mentoring our students.

Elsewhere in this issue we showcase and introduce five new full-time faculty members and ourfive visiting faculty members. It obviously has been a busy and a successful hiring season for us.

We invite you to visit and to see our splendid new facilities in Mondale Hall and to meet ournew faculty.Through the great generosity of our alumni and friends, we have been able toaccomplish a substantial amount as we commence the 114th year of legal education at the Uni-versity of Minnesota. Our appreciation to all of you!

Dean E. Thomas Sullivan

Dean’s Perspective

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Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law

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Faculty News and Events

Professor Daniel Farber, nationally recognized authority onconstitutional law and environment law, delivered his

appointment lecture as the McKnight Presidential Chair inPublic Law entitled “It’s Not Easy Being Green:A Defense ofEco-Pragmatism,” on March 21, 2001. Professor Farber alsohas taught and published widely in several other areas, includ-ing contracts, jurisprudence and legislation. He became thefirst Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law in 1987 and held the1983–84 Julius E. Davis Chair in Law. Professor Farber alsoserves as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development. �

Provost Robert Bruininks presented Professor john powell the University Outstanding Community Service Award during theMay Board of Regents meeting.

University of Minnesota honors Professor john powell with Outreach and Community Service Award

john powell, Professor of Law and Executive Director of theInstitute on Race & Poverty, was recognized by the Univer-

sity of Minnesota at the third annual University OutstandingCommunity Service Awards ceremony during its Board ofRegents meeting on May 11.The award recognizes outstand-ing contributions of faculty, staff and community memberswho have devoted their time and talents to make substantialand enduring contributions to the community.

According to the nomination made by Law School Dean E.Thomas Sullivan,“powell’s community service contributionshave tied together issues of race, poverty, education and hous-ing to identify barriers to success facing communities of col-or. He has established the Institute on Race & Poverty andhas devoted a substantial amount of time to strategicallyreaching out to the community, making a difference in thelives of many people in the Twin Cities. His expertise at thenational level, where racial segregation and poverty intersect,also has had a direct impact on our community.”

Professor powell also has been named the Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law at the Law School. �

Professor Daniel Farber accepting the plaque presented by DeanSullivan and Provost Robert Bruininks.

On April 18, 2001, Professor Edward Adams presented“Concepts in Modern Corporate Finance: Juxtaposing

Agency Costs and Behavioral Finance,” on the occasion of hisappointment as the Howard E. Buhse Professor of FinanceLaw. He specializes in commercial, bankruptcy and corporatelaw and teaches bankruptcy, creditors remedies/secured trans-actions, commercial paper, corporations and corporatefinance. He was co-holder of the 1999–2000 Julius DavisChair in Law and was the 1998 Vance K. OppermanResearch Scholar. �

Professor Edward S. Adams (second from the right) posed withhis parents, Edward C. and June Adams, and his wife, Denise,before his presentation.

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Dan Burk has been namedto the 2001–02 Julius E.Davis Chair in Law. ProfessorBurk is a nationally recog-nized scholar in the areas ofintellectual property, copy-rights, and parents.

Jim Chen has been namedthe inaugural holder of theJames L. Krusemark Profes-sorship in Law. ProfessorChen teaches and writes inthe areas of administrativelaw, agricultural law, consti-tutional law, economic regu-lation, environmental law,industrial policy and legislation.

Joan Howland was pro-moted to Associate Dean forInformation and Technology.She also retains her title asDirector of the Law Library.She supervises all activitiesfor the Law Library and fortechnology at the LawSchool.

John H. Matheson hasbeen named to the MelvinC. Steen and CorporateDonors Professorship in Law.Professor Matheson is anexpert in the area of corpo-rations law.

George Mundstock hasbeen named to the Dorsey& Whitney Professorship ofLaw. He was a Visiting Pro-fessor during the 2000–01academic year and joined theMinnesota faculty in fall2001. Professor Mundstock isa nationally recognizedexpert in taxes and corporatefinance. �

George Mundstock

Dean E.Thomas Sulli-van,William S. Pattee

Professor of Law, was elect-ed Chair-Elect of the Amer-ican Bar Association Sectionof Legal Education andAdmission to the Bar. For-mer Dean Robert Stein alsoserved as Chair of the Sec-tion and this is the first timeone school has had twochairs. He will serve as the2002–03 Chairperson. DeanSullivan has served as Vice-Chair and as Co-Chair of astrategic plan and self-studyfor the of the ABA Council

on Legal Education. Heserves as a member of theABA Committee on theFuture of the Legal Profes-sion. He is a Fellow of theAmerican Bar Foundationand a member of the Amer-ican Law Institute.This isthe seventh academic year ofhis deanship at Minnesota.He is a former dean of theUniversity of Arizona Col-lege of Law and formerAssociate Dean of the Wash-ington University School ofLaw in St. Louis. �

Dean Sullivan Elected to ABA Position

Faculty AppointmentsWith Thanks,KarenKaren C. Burke, Dorsey &Whitney Professor of Law,accepted this fall a position atUniversity of San Diego LawSchool. Professor Burke was amember of the faculty at Min-nesota a total of 14 years. Shetaught individual income taxa-tion, corporate taxation, pension law, partnership taxa-tion, and subchapter S taxation. She held the 1996–97Julius E. Davis Chair in Law, and in 1999 was appointedthe Dorsey & Whitney Professor of Law.

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Professor David Weissbrodtwas elected Chairperson

of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promo-tion and Protection ofHuman Rights on July 30thin Geneva, Switzerland. He isthe first United States citizento head a U.N. human rightsbody since Eleanor Roo-sevelt chaired the U.N.Commission on HumanRights from 1947 to 1950.

The U.N. Sub-Commissionon the Promotion and Pro-tection of Human Rights iscomprised of 26 membersfrom all over the world.Themembership of the Sub-Commission is allocated byregion, so that seven mem-bers always come fromAfrica, six from Latin Ameri-ca, six from Asia, three fromEastern Europe, and theremainder from Europe andNorth America.The Sub-Commission developshuman rights legal standards

and engages in studies aboutpath-breaking subjects. Forexample, members of theSub-Commission arepresently studying minorityrights, terrorism and humanrights, affirmative action, theland rights of indigenouspeoples, discrimination onthe basis of caste, etc.

Professor Weissbrodt hasbeen a member of the Sub-Commission since he waselected by the Sub-Commis-sion's parent body, the U.N.

Commission on HumanRights in April 1996. In1998 he was elected Vice-Chairperson of the Sub-Commission. In April 2000Weissbrodt was re-elected toserve a second four-yearterm as a member of theSub-Commission, togetherwith University of Minneso-ta Adjunct Professor BarbaraFrey. In August 2000 Profes-sor Weissbrodt was alsonamed the U.N. SpecialRapporteur on the rights ofnon-citizens and this year hehas submitted a preliminarystudy on that subject. Healso has been asked to pre-pare draft U.N. human rightsguidelines for companies,which will be discussed thissummer in Geneva by theSub-Commission’s WorkingGroup on the WorkingMethods and Activities ofTransnational Corporations.

Professor Weissbrodt hastaught at the University of

Minnesota Law School since1975 and is now theFredrikson & Byron Profes-sor of Law. He teaches Inter-national Human Rights Law,administrative law, immigra-tion law and torts and hasauthored ten books andmonographs as well as 100articles principally aboutinternational human rights,but also about immigrationlaw and torts.

He helped to establish andcontinues to work with sev-eral international humanrights organizations in Min-nesota, including the Centerfor Victims of Torture, theMinnesota Advocates forHuman Rights, and theUniversity of MinnesotaHuman Rights Center. Healso has served on the Boardof and/or representedAmnesty International, theInternational Commission ofJurists, the InternationalHuman Rights InternshipProgram, and the Interna-tional League for HumanRights. �

University of Minnesota Law School Professor Elected toServe as U.N. Human Rights Chairperson


David Weissbrodt

The second annual Lex Alumnae First-Year Luncheon was held on

Wednesday, September 12, 2001.

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Law School News and Events

Professors Levy and Byrden Celebrate Retirement

Dean Tom Sullivan welcomed colleagues, family, friends and gueststo the Retirement Celebration for Professors Robert J. Levy andDavid P. Bryden on May 9, 2001.

Pictured are (from left to right) Professor Beth Virnig, Jon Levy, Professor Robert Levyand Judge Roberta Levy.

Professor Emeritus John J. Cound.

Sandra Gardebring (’73), Vice President for Institutional Relations. Pictured are Professor David Bryden (right) with his wife Rebecca and

son Daniel (’00).

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Stephen F. Befort continues to be active on a num-ber of projects relating to labor and employment law.This pastsummer he completed work on an article entitled “Labor andEmployment Law at the Millennium:A Historical Reviewand Critical Assessment.” He and co-author Tracey HolmesDonesky also published an article in the Washington & LeeLaw Review entitled “Reassignment Under the AmericansWith Disabilities Act: Reasonable Accommodation,Affirma-tive Action, or Both?”A third article,“The Most DifficultADA Reasonable Accommodation Issues: Reassignment andLeaves,” was published in 2001 Employment Law Handbook andpresented at the Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute.Professor Befort also published a 2000–2001 Supplement tohis Employment Law and Practice book for West Group.Alongwith Emily Hennen (3L), he contributed an article concern-ing “WARN Act Developments” for the most recent issue ofLabor and Employment Law News, a publication of the Min-nesota State Bar Association. On another MSBA project, Pro-fessor Befort is co-chair of a committee that has launched anew employment law web resource site containing contribu-tions from more than fifty experts in the employment lawfield. Professor Befort currently is serving as the Law School’sAssociate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Dan L. Burk has beennamed the Julius E. Davis Pro-fessor of Law for the 2001-2002academic year. He continues tolecture and write on intellectualproperty and high technologyissues for a diverse array ofscholarly, professional, and layaudiences. In late February, Pro-fessor Burk traveled to BostonUniversity School of Law topresent an Intellectual PropertyWorkshop on “Fair Use Infra-structure for Copyright Man-

agement Systems.”This paper, coauthored with Professor JulieCohen of Georgetown University, will appear this fall in theHarvard Journal of Law and Technology. In March, Professor Burktraveled to the University of Bologna in Italy to make a pre-sentation on “Legal Protection for Technological ContentManagement Systems” at the International Meeting on Cul-tural Property and Information Technology. In April, ProfessorBurk returned to Boston University to present his paper on“Bioinformatics Lessons from the Open Source Movement”at a Symposium on Bioinformatics and Intellectual Property.In May, he returned to Italy to present a series of lectures on“Comparative Cyberlaw” at the Universita Cattolica del SacroCuore in Piacenza. During August, he lectured on “Copyrightand the Networked Academy” to faculty from the MinnesotaState Colleges and Universities System at their annual retreat,then presented on “The Brave New World of Digital RightsManagement” to an audience of computer graphics artists at

the annual SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles, Califor-nia. Professor Burk also recently completed work on a paperco-authored with Professor Mark Lemley of University ofCalifornia Berkeley, entitled “Is Patent Law Technology Spe-cific?,” which will be presented at the 29th Annual Confer-ence on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy inWashington, D.C.

Jim Chen completed two articles,“Reconciling Intellec-tual Property with Biological Diversity:A Blueprint for Effac-ing Humanity’s Footprint” and “The Most Dangerous JusticeRides Again: Revisiting the Power Pageant of the Justices.”The former article will appear in the University of Illinois LawReview.The latter, co-written with Professor Paul Edelman ofthe mathematics department and the law school at VanderbiltUniversity, will appear in the Minnesota Law Review.

Brad Clary is working with co-authors Sharon ReichPaulsen and Michael Vanselow on a handbook on depositionsfor West Group, which is scheduled to be published late thisfall. Professor Clary served as site chair for the national con-ference held at the Law School in July on the subject of inte-grating doctrine, skills, and legal writing across the law schoolcurriculum. He is working as a co-editor on the book ofconference proceedings, which West Group intends to publishin 2002. Professor Clary is currently serving a term on thegoverning council of the Minnesota State Bar AssociationAppellate Practice section and is also serving a term on theCommunications Skills Committee of the American BarAssociation Section Of Legal Education.

Laura Cooper has been elected as chair of the LaborLaw Group, an international organization of scholars, foundedin 1953, that authors labor and employment law textbooks.Four of the Group’s books are published by West Group. InMay, she made a presentation to the Hennepin County BarAssociation, Labor and Employment Section, on employmentarbitration.This summer Professor Cooper was a Law FacultyFellow at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pep-perdine University in Malibu, California.

Daniel A. Farber completed work on a book withformer University of Minnesota Professor Suzanna Sherry,entitled “Desperately Seeking Certainty:The MisguidedQuest for Constitutional Foundations.” Chapters from thebook were presented at law school workshops at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania,Texas, Berkeley, Kentucky, Northwestern,and Duke.The book, which critiques leading constitutionaltheorists, will be published by the University of Chicago Presslate this winter. In terms of articles, he is publishing articles oressays on “Rights as Signals” in the Journal of Legal Studies, onfreedom of association in the Minnesota Law Review, and onthe 1937 “switch in time” in the Georgetown Law Journal, aswell as two book reviews in Constitutional Commentary. He hasalso co-authored 2001 Supplements for his environmental law

Faculty Research and Development

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and constitutional law casebooks. Professor Farber is currentlyat work on another book, tentatively titled Mr. Lincoln’s Con-stitution:The Civil War and the Democratic Rule of Law.Thebook explores fundamental issues of constitutional law, asbrought to the forefront during the Civil War.

Barry Feld spoke at the Institute for Legal Policy, Uni-versity of Wisconsin Law School, Madison,Wisconsin,April3, 2001, on the topic of “Race,‘Get Tough’ Politics, and theTransformation of the Juvenile Court.” He also gave two pre-sentations at the Governor’s Conference on Juvenile Justice,Topeka, Kansas, June 5, 2001, on “Juveniles’Waiver of LegalRights: Confessions, Miranda and the Right to Counsel,” and“Extended Jurisdiction Juvenile Prosecution in Theory andPractice.” Several articles and chapters recently appeared orare in press:“The Back-Door to Prison:Waiver Reform,‘Blended Sentencing,’ and the Law of Unintended Conse-quences,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Fall, 2001in press), with Marcy Podkopacz;“The Juvenile Court: Histo-ry and Philosophy” and “Juveniles in the Adult System” inEncyclopedia of Crime and Justice (New York: MacMillan, inpress, 2001);“Race,Youth Violence, and the ChangingJurisprudence of Waiver,” in Behavioral Sciences & Law (2001);“The Juvenile Court,” in Handbook of Justice Research in theLaw (J. Sanders and V.L. Hamilton, eds., Plenum 2001). Feld’srecent book, Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juve-nile Court (New York: Oxford University Press 1999), receivedthe “Outstanding Book Award” from the Academy of Crimi-nal Justice Sciences,April 5, 2001,Washington, D.C., and wascited as “An extraordinary contribution to the study of crimeand criminal justice.” In addition, he has been quoted exten-sively in local and national media in stories about juvenileand criminal justice.

Richard S. Frase helped staff of Minnesota PublicRadio plan a summit on racial bias in Minnesota criminal jus-tice, held on June 14th, and he wrote an essay for the FinalReport of the summit, entitled “Now What? Five Steps forReducing Racial Disparities in the Minnesota Criminal Jus-tice System.” Professor Frase also completed two articles.Thefirst, entitled “Sentencing in Germany and the United States:Comparing Äpfel with Apples,” was published as a mono-graph and on the web by the Max Planck Institute (Freiburg,Germany).The article examines sentencing laws and practicesin the two countries, and concludes that German courts makemuch greater use of fines and other non-custodial sentencesin cases of non-violent crime which would often result in jailor prison terms in the United States. It also examines thesupposed barriers to broader use of non-custodial sanctions inthe U.S., and concludes that they are not insuperable.The sec-ond article, entitled “A County-Level Comparison of thePropensity to Sentence Felons to Prison,” was published inthe International Journal of Comparative Criminology, and was co-authored with criminologist Robert R.Weidner of theLaw School’s Institute on Criminal Justice.This article ana-lyzes 1994 felony sentencing practices in a sample of 203 U.S.counties in 42 states.As expected, several “legal” variables,such as the percent of the county’s caseload that involves serious violent offenses, were significant predictors of the

proportion of felons sentenced to prison in that county. Buttwo extra-legal variables were also independently significantpredictors of higher prison rates: the percent of the countypopulation that is Black, and whether the county is in asouthern state.

Daniel J. Gifford recently submitted a paper entitled“What is Monopolization Anyway? The D.C. Circuit Grappleswith Some Perplexing Issues” for publication in the AntitrustBulletin.The Florida Law Review has just published a paper ongovernment appeal strategies which he had presented at anadministrative law symposium at the University of Florida. Heand Professor Leo Raskind have just sent the manuscript for anew edition of their antitrust casebook to the publisher. Pro-fessor Gifford will present a paper on comparative mergerevaluation at the Canadian Law and Economics Associationmeeting in Toronto in late September. Earlier this year Profes-sor Gifford discussed the monopoly-maintenance issuesinvolved in the Microsoft antitrust litigation at a MinnesotaInstitute for Legal Education. He also lectured on intellectualproperty law at a University of Minnesota continuing legaleducation program.

Joan S. Howland pre-sented a paper entitled,“Coali-tion Building: Drink Long,Drink Deep” at the ChineseAmerican Library AssociationNational Conference in SanFrancisco in June.At the Ameri-can Association of Law Libraries2001 Annual Meeting, ProfessorHowland coordinated and spokeon a program entitled “TheYoung and the Restless:WhatAre the Realities of Professional

Growth?”At the AALL conference she also presented a sec-ond paper “The Digital Divide in the Information Age:Seduction, Delusion, and Hope?” In September ProfessorHowland served as a delegate to the Second InternationalIndigenous Librarians Forum, sponsored by the Saami com-munity in Jokkmokk, Sweden.At this forum she spoke on thetopic,“Ensuring Social Justice, Equal Access, EconomicOpportunity, and Cultural Preservation for Indigenous Popu-lations in Cyberspace.” In January Professor Howland willmoderate the President’s Plenary Session on Technology andScholarship at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Association ofAmerican Law Schools. She also serves as a member of theAALS Nominating Committee, the American Bar AssociationSection on Legal Education and the Admissions to the BarCommittee on Accreditation. Professor Howland is co-editinga book entitled Leadership in Librarianship with Professor Her-bert Cihak of Louisiana State University School of Law. She isco-authoring, with Teresa Neeley of the University of Mary-land, a book entitled Retention and Promotion Of Minorities inAmerica’s Libraries. Professor Howland also is writing an articleon the decisions of the courts of the Confederate States ofAmerica and an article on the trial of Archilla Smith, one ofthe first murder cases brought to trial in Indian Territory.

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William G. Iacono supplements his research on thedevelopment of childhood and adult psychopathology and hisadministrative duties as Director of the Clinical PsychologyTraining Program with work on the use of polygraph tests toidentify criminals and undesirable employees.This year he co-authored a chapter titled “The Case Against Polygraph Test-ing” in Modern Scientific Evidence, a three volume legal refer-ence edited by David Faigman et al. and published by West.He was an invited speaker at the Los Alamos nuclear labora-tories where he lectured on the government’s use of poly-graph screening tests in the wake of the Wen Ho Lee case. Hewas also invited to address the U.S. Senate Judiciary Commit-tee and a National Academy of Science panel, both of whichwere reviewing the government’s use of polygraph tests toscreen government scientists, employees who deal with classi-fied information, and law enforcement agents.

Timothy R. Johnson published an articled titled“Information, Oral Arguments and Supreme Court DecisionMaking” in the July 2001 issue of the American Politics Review.Currently, he is completing a book manuscript titled, The Effi-cacy of Oral Arguments in the United States Supreme Court. InAugust Professor Johnson presented two coauthored papers atthe annual meeting of the American Political Science Associa-tion, including a study of conference discussion dynamics atthe Supreme Court, and an analysis of interplay between thePresident and the Senate during the Supreme Court nomina-tion and confirmation process. His current research focuses onthe relationship between the executive and judicial branches,as well as on decisionmaking in United States district courts.

Sally J. Kenney was awarded an Atlantic Fellowship inPublic Policy. Established by the Foreign and CommonwealthOffice in June 1994 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversaryof D-Day and the U.S. contribution to the liberation ofEurope,Atlantic Fellowships in Public Policy fund mid-careerprofessionals to undertake policy research in Britain.The goalis that they benefit from British ideas and best practice, there-by enhancing their ability to make an innovative contributionto policymaking in the United States, as well as become partof a trans-Atlantic community of policy experts.Approxi-mately 10 awards are made each year, and Fellows spendbetween 6 and 10 months in the U.K. Professor Kenney willspend six months in the U.K. (January–June 2002). She willbe based in the Law Faculty of the London School of Eco-nomics and be researching judicial selection, focusing particu-larly on efforts to appoint more women to the bench. Duringthe summer of 2001, Kenney has been working with theLeague of Women Voters on a national project on judicialindependence. She has produced nine case studies of women’smovement organizations for distribution on the web. She isconducting a training on case teaching for the AmericanSociological Association annual meeting in August.

Jane E. Kirtley’s article,“Enough is Enough,”appeared in the Summer 2001 Media Studies Journal, a sympo-sium issue on military and press relations. Her column,“FirstAmendment Watch,” appears each month in American Journal-ism Review. In January, she co-authored an amicus brief filedin the U.S. Court of Appeals (2d Cir.) in Universal City Studios

v. Reimerdes, as well as preparing comments on “Privacy andPublic Access to Electronic Case Files”for the Judicial Con-ference of the United States. Prof. Kirtley received twoSpeaker and Specialist Grants from the U.S. Department ofState and, in June and July, spent three weeks in the Philip-pines, China, Macau and Hong Kong lecturing on privacyand newsgathering, and, in August, spent one week in Brazillecturing on freedom of information legislation and mediaethics. She delivered speeches in February as part of theImpact Series at the University of Arizona,“International,Legal and Regulatory Pressures on the Free Flow of Informa-tion,” and in March at the Suburban Newspapers of AmericaPublishers’ Conference in Las Vegas,“Protecting Our FirstAmendment Rights.” She was the chief facilitator for a work-shop on “Hot Issues in Ethics” for the ABA Forum Commit-tee on Communications Law annual meeting in Boca Raton,Florida in February, and in April, appeared on two panels atthe Fourteenth Annual Media Law Seminar in Kansas City,Missouri,“Internet Communications III: Data Collection in aTime of Privacy” and “Ethics in Media Law: Situations EveryMedia Lawyer Encounters.” She also organized and moderat-ed two panels at the Association for Education in Journalismand Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual convention inWashington, D.C. in August,“Behind the Scenes at theSupreme Court” and “The Anti-Violence Agenda”, andappeared as a panelist at the Scripps Howard NationalRoundtable,“Collision Course? Business and Journalism” inFebruary in Washington, D.C. Prof. Kirtley designed and led athree-week undergraduate Spring Intersession Global Semi-nar,“Freedom of the Press in the United Kingdom,”in Lon-don and Glasgow during May and June. She served as a judgeat the National First Amendment Moot Court Competitionat Vanderbilt University Law School in April. Professor Kirtleywas interviewed for the National Public Radio “Sound Por-traits” radio special,“The Execution Tapes,” which aired onmore than 25 public radio stations nationwide, and on PublicRadio International’s “To the Point,” both in May, discussingcamera access to executions. She was frequently quotedthroughout the Spring Semester in a variety of news mediaincluding USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Editor & Publisher, the Salt Lake Tribune, MTV Cable’s“Future Tense,”WNYC radio’s “On the Media,” New Hamp-shire Public Radio, BNA’s Media Law Reporter, KARE-11 TV,City Pages and the Freedom Forum’s online newsletter. Pro-fessor Kirtley also appeared on Minnesota Public Radio’s“Midmorning” show in January, discussing the controversyover the St. Paul Pioneer Press editorial cartoon,“Venturaland.”She served as the Professional Freedom and ResponsibilityChair for the Law Division of AEJMC, 2000-2001, and wasappointed to a two-year term on the Division’s PublicationPolicy Committee in August.

Samuel Krislov was Distinguished John Marshall Full-bright Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sci-ence, sharing the chair with his wife, Judith Gillespie. He alsotaught in the Master’s of Law program of the University ofNevada (Reno) program for the National Center of StateCourts. He reviewed Scott Pave’s book The Warren Court forthe Review of Politics and Author and authored an entry on“Governance” for the Oxford Companion To American Law


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(forthcoming).An article on “Federalism and AmorlianExceptionalism” which will appear in the fall issue of Publius.On July 1 he became Professor Emeritus.A symposium onPublic Law has been organized by the Department on Politi-cal Science on October 27.

John H. Matheson was named as the Melvin C.Steen and Corporate Donors Professor of Law effective July1, 2001. He also presented a paper,“Governance Issues in theMultidisciplinary Practice Firm,” at a symposium titled Cor-porate Law Firms in the 21st Century, sponsored by theCincinnati Law Review at the University of Cincinnati Collegeof Law on March 9, 2001.The paper was published in theCincinnati Law Review. He also published annual supplementsto Corporation Law and Practice and his Business Law Deskbook,Volumes 18, 19 and 20 of the Minnesota Practice Series, aswell as an annual supplement to his Publicly Traded CorporationsTreatise. Professor Matheson continued to serve as Director ofContinuing Legal Education Programs for the Law Schooland Co-Director of the Law School’s Kommerstad Center forBusiness Law and Entrepreneurship.

Fred Morrison complet-ed a two year term as chair ofthe University-wide FacultyConsultative Committee, theexecutive committee of theUniversity Senate. During hisperiod of service, the Senate hadto confront the basketball scan-dal, issues relating to academicintegrity, and the rising cost ofhealth insurance.The budgetissues of the University and thepossible construction of a new

stadium were also issues of special interest. Professor Morrisonalso was recognized for his expertise in comparative law byelection to the International Academic of Comparative Law,the primary international comparative law organization. It isbased in Paris.

Sharon Reich Paulsen has been appointed to serveon the Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Perfor-mance of the Association of American Law Schools. She alsogave a plenary address at the biennial conference of the Asso-ciation of Legal Writing Directors in July.

john powell was honored to accept the Earl R. LarsonChair of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law in June of2001. He and other Institute on Race & Poverty staff mem-bers have recently published a book, In Pursuit of a DreamDeferred: Linking Housing and Education Policies, with LangPublishing in New York. Professor powell received the Uni-versity Outstanding Community Service Award during itsBoard of Regents meeting in May of 2001. In February,2001, he delivered the keynote address,“Democracy andEducation in South Africa and the United States: BuildingNations and Transforming Lives through Race ConsciousStrategies,”at the Values, Education and Democracy in the21st Century Conference hosted by the South African Minis-

ter of Education. He also appears in the public televisiondocumentary,“The Sprawling of America,” which is airingthroughout the United States this summer and fall. He con-tinues to direct the Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP),which is becoming a leader on race and poverty issues at thenational and international level. Current research projectsfocus on examining: strategies for promoting education inte-gration, regional equity policies throughout the UnitedStates, disparities in the criminal justice system, public dis-course on issues related to race and poverty, and several topicsrelated to affordable housing. Professor powell accompaniedseveral IRP researchers to the United Nations World Confer-ence against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in September.In December 2000, IRP finished the national report,“Strate-gies to Eliminate Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System,”which was designed to assess and catalogue the efforts of civilrights groups and others committed to addressing racial dis-parities in the criminal justice system.As an outgrowth of thiseffort, the Institute examined traffic stop data for the St. PaulPolice Department.The report is available atwww.umn.edu/irp. In May 2000, IRP hosted a national pre-sentation and panel response,“Education, Human Diversity,and Social Justice,” featuring Dr. Edmund Gordon, John M.Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Yale Universityand senior advisor to the President of the College Board.

Kathryn Sedo is thedirector of the Federal IncomeTax Clinic at the Law School.For the past three years the TaxClinic has received funding fromthe Internal Revenue Service toprovide representation for low-income taxpayers. The grantalso allows the Tax Clinic to hirea student director to continuethe clinic’s operation during thesummer. During the summer of2001, Professor Sedo and thestudent director were very busy

representing taxpayers at audits, appeals with collection issuesand preparing cases on the U.S.Tax Court calendar in St. Paulin October. During the academic year, students enrolled inthe Tax Clinic not only represent taxpayers before the IRSand in U.S.Tax Court, but also receive training in tax proce-dure and lawyering skills.The Tax Clinic will represent over75 taxpayers this year. Professor Sedo serves as co-author ofthe Notes and Trends Tax column in the Bench and Bar and iscurrently the Treasurer of the Tax Council of the MinnesotaState Bar Association.

Stephen M. Simon taught the MisdemeanorDefense and Prosecution Clinic in the spring semester of2001.A student in the Prosecution Clinic researched andwrote an appellate brief for the state in a case appealed to theMinnesota Court of Appeals.The appeal arose from a smallmetropolitan jurisdiction which could not afford to pay forthe research and drafting involved in appealing the trialjudge’s decision in this case.This was a very important caseinvolving the trial judge’s granting a jury trial in a DWI vehi-

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cle forfeiture case. The Court of Appeals reversed the trialjudge who had granted a jury trial in a DWI vehicle forfei-ture case.This is a very significant decision affecting hundredsof DWI vehicle forfeiture cases pending in the Minnesotacourts.The Law School has offered this appeal research anddrafting service to prosecutors in other small Minnesota juris-dictions with limited financial resources.The Defense clinic iscurrently appealing one of it’s cases to the Minnesota Courtof Appeals involving the issue of what is allowable undercoverpolice activity when making an arrest for prostitution.Theconstitutional issue in the clinic case on appeal is an allegeddue process violation based on police conduct which shocksthe conscience. Professor Simon conducted Judicial Trial SkillsTraining Programs at the Law School for newly appointedMinnesota trial judges in January, February, March,April, May,June and July.The Minnesota Supreme Court Office of Con-tinuing Education for State Court Personnel contracts withthe Law School to conduct this program. It is mandatory forall newly appointed or elected trial judges in the State. InJune he conducted a hearing management program for Min-nesota Administrative Law Judges. He conducted a JudicialTrial Skills Program at the National Judicial College in Marchand July.Also in July, Professor Simon, with Judge James Mor-row, taught a new Evidence in the Courtroom course at theJudicial College. Both of these programs were part of theGeneral Jurisdiction Course offered by the National JudicialCollege three times a year for judges from throughout theUnited States. Professor Simon is currently engaged withJames Cleary, a researcher with the research department of theMinnesota House of Representatives, in a research projectinvestigating the relationship, if any, between DWI relatedvehicle forfeiture and recidivism. In 1998 Professor Simon, inhis capacity as Director of the Minnesota Criminal JusticeSystem DWI Task Force, was instrumental in the passage of anew administrative based DWI vehicle forfeiture law.Thisnew law resulted in a very significant increase in the numberof repeat DWI offenders who experienced vehicle forfeiture.

E.Thomas Sullivan completed the revisions for the15th edition for Federal Land Use Law published by West withProfessors Dan Mandelker and Jules Gerard, and also com-pleted the 2001 Supplement for Antitrust Law, Policy and Proce-dure, published by Lexis/Michie with Professor Herbert Hov-enkamp. He also had an article published in United States LawWeek entitled “The History of Antitrust Divestiture: EmpiricalLessons for Microsoft.” In June he was a speaker for the ABADevelopment Conference in Jackson Hole,Wyoming on“Managing Crisis and Development.”At the annual ABAmeeting in Chicago in August he was elected Chair-Elect ofthe ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to theBar. He also was reappointed by the new ABA President tothe ABA Committee on the Future on the Legal Profession.He also has been appointed to the Board of Advisors for theWeisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota.

David Weissbrodt was elected on July 30, 2001Chairperson of the United Nations Sub-Commission on thePromotion and Protection of Human Rights.Weissbrodt isthe first U.S. citizen to head a U.N. human rights body since

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the U.N. Commission onHuman Rights during the period 1947 through 1951.TheU.N. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection ofHuman Rights is comprised of 26 members from all over theworld. During the summer of 2001 the third edition of thecoursebook and documentary supplement on InternationalHuman Rights Law were published by Professor Weissbrodtand his two co-authors. He also co-authored an article oninternational efforts to combat slavery, which was published inthe German Yearbook of International Law. In addition, he pub-lished a chapter on the U.N. Sessional Working Group onTransnational Corporations in a book concerning the Liabilityof Multinational Corporations Under International Law.

David Wilkins gave a presentation at the 15th AnnualIndian Law Students Association at the University of Wiscon-sin/Madison College of Law titled “Tribal-State Affairs:AnExamination of State Constitutional Disclaimers,” Feb. 16-17,2001. Professor Wilkins spoke at a symposium held at ArizonaState University’s College of Law titled “The Reinvigorationof the Doctrine of ‘Implied Repeals:’A Requiem for Indige-nous Treaty Rights,” March 6-8, 2001 and on March 22 atPomona College titled “A Constitutional Confession:ThePermanence of First Nations.” He spoke at the Ralph BuncheSummer Institute held on June 21, 2001 at Duke Universitytitled “Breaking the Chain of Dependency: Becoming Scoutsfor Your Communities.” He will participate in a WorkingGroup at the Harvard University’s Project on American Indi-an Economic Development that is devoted to constitutionaland governmental reform for tribal nations from October 11-13, 2001 to be held at the John F. Kennedy School of Gov-ernment in Cambridge. Professor Wilkins will deliver aspeech titled “First Nations & the American State: In Pursuitof the Indigenous Dream,” at a “Genocide Prevention Con-ference” to be held in Vienna,Austria, November 7-10, 2001.An article, titled “Judicial Definitions:The American Courts & Indigenous Identity,” is slated for publication in the fall of2001 by Western Legal History. His two books: UnevenGround:American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law, co-authored with Tsianina Lamawaima, and American Indian Politics and the American Political System also were published in fall 2001.

Susan M.Wolf drafted an article on genetic testing anddisability insurance for a project she co-directs funded by theNational Human Genome Project at the National Institutesof Health (NIH). She also published a letter in the Journal ofthe American Medical Association (JAMA) on “Negative Out-comes of Infant Home Apnea Monitoring.” She lectured atHarvard on genetics and the law and spoke at University ofMinnesota conferences on physician-assisted suicide and con-flicts of interest in genetic research. She continues to directthe University’s Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & theLife Sciences and to chair the Consortium on Law and Valuesin Health, Environment & the Life Sciences.Those programswill co-sponsor the Faegre & Benson Lectures Series on Law,Health & the Life Sciences and a new Lunch Series on theSocietal Implications of the Life Sciences in 2001–02, offeringseven major speakers on the revolution under way in stem


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cell, genetic, and reproductive technologies.The programs willalso co-sponsor a conference in February 2002 on “Pharma-cogenomics:The Legal, Ethical & Clinical Challenges.” Profes-sor Wolf has joined the Ethics Advisory Board of the Univer-sity’s Stem Cell Institute and the Children’s Hospital EthicsCommittee. In the coming year she will serve as the Brin Vis-iting Professor at Johns Hopkins University and will lecture atthe NIH, St. Louis University Law School, the University ofTexas Southwestern Medical School, and the American Soci-ety for Bioethics and Humanities national meeting inNashville. She recently appeared on MPR to discuss cloningand was quoted in The New York Times Magazine in articles onpreimplantation genetic diagnosis combined with stem celltransplant and on maternal-fetal surgery.

Judith T.Younger wrote “Paying Our Debts to OurPets” which appears in this issue of the Law Alumni News. Shewrote a paper on “Post-Divorce Visitation for Infants andYoung Children:The Myths and the Unknowns,” which shewill present at a Conference on Divorce Custody Law andPractice in honor of Robert J. Levy here at the Law School inSpring 2002.The paper will appear in the Family Law Quarter-ly. She also wrote an article on antenupial agreements to bepresented at a family law symposium at William Mitchell LawSchool in the Spring of 2002 and published in the Novemberissue of that school’s law review.

Mark G.Yudof, president of the University of Min-nesota, was recently inducted into the American Academy ofArts and Sciences. Earlier this year, he accepted a position onthe board of the Education Testing Service (ETS).The fourthedition of his book, Education Policy and the Law, is slated forpublication this year. �


The University of Minnesota Law School

Lectures 2001–2002Professor John H. MathesonMelvin C. Steen & Corporate Donors Professor of Law University of Minnesota Law School“Multidisciplinary Practice: An Opportunity for Entrepreneurial Activity”Tuesday, October 16, 2001, 3:30 p.m.

Professor Thomas C. GreyNelson Bowman Sweitzer & Marie B. Sweitzer Professor ofLaw, Stanford Law SchoolWilliam B. Lockhart Lecture: “The New Formalism”Monday, October 29, 2001, 12:15 p.m.

Professor David L. GoodsteinVice Provost and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, California Institute of TechnologyHoratio Ellsworth Kellar Distinguished Visitor Lecture:“What is Science?”Monday, November 12, 2001, 12:15 p.m.

Professor George MundstockDorsey & Whitney Professor of Law University of Minnesota Law School“The End of Taxation as a Separate Discipline”Tuesday, February 12, 2002, 3:30 p.m.

Professor Jeremy J. WaldronMaurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of LawColumbia University Law SchoolJohn Dewey Lecture in the Philosophy of Law: “Is the Rule of Law a Contested Concept?”Thursday, February 28, 2002, 12:15 p.m.

Professor Jim ChenJames L. Krusemark Professor of LawUniversity of Minnesota Law School“Taxation by Tariffication”Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 3:30 p.m.

Professor Brian BixFrederick W. Thomas Professor for the InterdisciplinaryStudy of Law & LanguageUniversity of Minnesota Law School“The Past and the Future of Legal Positivism”Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 3:30 p.m.

All Lectures will be held in Lockhart Hall, University of Minnesota Law School. One hour of CLE credit has been requested for all Lectures. For more information e-mail to

[email protected] or call 612-625-2023.

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By Judith T.Younger,Joseph E.Wargo and Anoka County Bar AssociationProfessor of Family Law

We humans would be diminishedwithout our animal companionsand pets.They add immeasurably to

the quality of our lives.They love us, obey us,make us healthy, stand by us in good times andbad, and all without complaint or question.Like human children, they depend on us andwe have dominion over them.Therefore, wemust owe them something.At a minimum, it isour duty to care for them well during our livesand to assure their continued care for as long asthey survive us.This is certainly a moral duty,but humans do not always take their moralduties seriously, even when they are owed toother humans. Non-human creditors fare lesswell; conscience-shocking instances of crueltyto animals abound.1 That is why our animalfriends need the protection of the laws.

Theoretically, pets have legal protection fromstate and federal statutes now in effect.2 At theheart of these are state anti-cruelty laws, whichmake cruelty to animals a crime, punishable asa misdemeanor or a felony.3 Like virtually allanimal protection laws, these can be enforcedonly by public officials.There are no statisticson the number of charges made or prosecu-tions undertaken pursuant to these laws, but itis generally thought that penalties are tooweak, and enforcement too infrequent, to dis-courage the widespread abuse. One city attor-ney, speaking of her experience here in Min-nesota, tells the story succinctly:“Animal cruel-ty happens every day but prosecutions are rare.Animals can’t testify.And when cases are prose-cuted successfully, the crime is only a misde-meanor, or, for repeated infractions, a grossmisdemeanor.”Animal anti-cruelty laws maytake on new vigor and importance, however, asrecent studies4 reveal a link between abuse ofanimals and abuse of humans.The man who,unprovoked, burns a cat to death in amicrowave oven, or beats a dog to death with a

baseball bat, may be just a step away from mur-dering his co-workers or firing random shotsinto a crowd of children.5 This discovery hasgiven impetus to a movement to encouragelegislators to increase penalties for animal cru-elty, and to encourage prosecutors to pursueperpetrators more vigorously.At the last legisla-tive session in Minnesota, for example, munici-palities, police departments, women’s groupsand humane societies, joined together to sup-port and lobby for legislation increasing themaximum penalty for cruelty to animals from agross misdemeanor to a felony.6

One form of cruelty not addressed by Min-nesota law or the law of any other state is theabandonment of pets whose owners have died.There is no legal requirement in Minnesota, orin any other state, that an owner provide eithera good substitute caretaker for the animal orfunds for its continued care, when the ownerdies. Neither is there any certainty that provi-sions made by caring owners for their surviv-ing pets will be enforced. Compare the fate ofanimals whose owners die with the fate ofchildren whose parents die: parents can com-pletely disinherit children—even minor chil-dren—in every state except Louisiana.7 Own-ers can similarly “disinherit” their pets in everystate. If, however, a caring parent makes aposthumous provision for a child, the law pro-vides for appointment of a guardian to repre-sent the child if it is a minor, and for enforce-ment of the gift.When it comes to animals,however, the picture changes.Though gifts andtrusts for animal charities are valid and enforce-able in this and other states, gifts and trusts forspecific animals have a more uncertain fate.Depending on the jurisdiction in which thepet owner dies domiciled, gifts for pets will betreated in one of three different ways:8 1) theywill be invalid; 2) they will be tolerated, butunenforceable; 3) they will be valid andenforceable, if they are in trust.The nine statesin group three9 which enforce gifts in trust forspecific animals do so because the legislatures

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Judith T. Younger withher companion, William.

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in those states have enacted validating statuessupporting that result.The states in grouptwo,10 where such gifts are tolerated but areunenforceable, lump such gifts into a categoryof so-called “honorary” trusts like those for theupkeep of gravestones or the recital of masses.Their common characteristics are that they arefor non-charitable purposes and have no bene-ficiaries who can enforce them.They are con-sidered permissive, and bind only the con-science of the trustee. If the trustee fails to carefor the animal, the funds provided by thedeceased owner for that purpose return to thedeceased’s estate. In the states in group one, inwhich such gifts are held to be invalid, thecourts explain their results in a number ofways.They say animals cannot hold title toproperty;11 that such gifts do not benefit thecommunity since they are not charitable butare rather for the benefit of a specific pet;12 andthat because the duration of such gifts is typi-cally for the life of an animal rather than ahuman, the gifts violate the Rule Against Per-petuities.13 Here at work must be what animalrights advocates call “speciesism”14—discrimi-nation against, or exploitation of, animals byhumans based on the assumption of humansuperiority.To those of us who love our petsand know what we owe them, such exploita-tion and discrimination is intensely personal,and even more despicable than if visited on usdirectly. Pets are enormously important to theirowners and there is no acceptable reason forthe law’s refusal to enforce an owner’s posthu-mous provision for a pet’s continued care.

This issue took on enormous importance tome when I faced the prospect of open heartsurgery in summer 2000. My main concernwas for my pet, best friend, companion, andonly remaining dependent. My dog,Williamthe Conqueror,15 is a supremely confidentblack standard poodle. He was characteristicallyunconcerned, but I was frantic. If, instead ofsurviving the operation,“I joined the featheredchoir,” in the euphemistic words of NoelCoward,16 there had to be a plan in place thatwould ensure William’s continued care in thestyle to which he was accustomed.As a teacherof wills and trusts at a national law school, Ishould have known the general state of the lawon posthumous gifts for the care of animals,and I did. I assumed, however, that Minneso-ta—with its large population of hunters andtheir dogs, non-hunters and their dogs, andnon-dog owners and their pets—must haveconsidered the question of enforcing posthu-mous provisions for the care of pets and settledit in favor of the pets. I further assumed thatthe method of settlement had been adoption

of section 2-907(b) of the Uniform ProbateCode17 which makes trusts for pets valid andenforceable. I went off to the Law Library tomake sure.To my surprise I found nothing onthe subject—no case law and no statute.WhileMinnesota is a Uniform Probate Code state,having first adopted the Code in 1974,18 itnever adopted section 2-907(b).

At this point, with only four days to go beforethe scheduled surgery, I remembered the oldadage:“She who represents herself has a foolfor a lawyer.” I decided to consult someoneelse. I called a former student,now practicing in the field.19

“I need to provide for my dog,”I said.“What’s best?”

“Nothing’s much good in a crunch,” she answered.“You name it; its probably unenforceable.”

“This is Minnesota,” I exclaimed.“What about all those huntingdogs?”

“Same as for your dog,” shecalmly replied.

I ran through the gamut of possibilities just to remind herthat I knew something about the subject.

“What about an outright gift to William? Whatabout a gift to some human on condition thathe or she care for William? What about a trustfor William’s benefit?”

“Unenforceable,” she said.

I called another former student, also practicingin the field.20 He agreed with the first.Withoutthe benefit of a validating statute, provisions forspecific pets are at risk.They might be invalidaltogether or, at best, tolerated but unenforce-able. In the latter case, they would depend onthe good will of both the designated caretaker(to care for the pet after the owner’s death) andon the good will of the owner’s next of kin (torefrain from challenging the gift).

I realized that I had two basic options. I couldtrust my family and friends to care for William,or I could move to a state which had a statutespecifically authorizing and validating trusts forthe care of pets.There was no time to move.Thus, I had to trust.

One form of crueltynot addressed by Minnesota law or thelaw of any other state is the abandonment of pets whose owners have died.




I used the remaining days to call a long list offamily and friends; my daughter, Rebecca, inAustralia, and my daughter,Abigail, in Min-nesota, were among them. Both girls assuredme that William would be fine. Rebecca saidthat, if necessary, she would come and takeWilliam home with her to Melbourne.Visionsof obdurate customs officials and William, pin-ing in quarantine, danced through my head.Abigail said that she and her husband, John,would adopt William, walk him, feed him, andtreat him in all respects as I had in my life.Allthis failed to calm me.What if something hap-pened so that the girls couldn’t take the dog? Icontinued my calls, amassing a long list of peo-ple who promised to care for him. I stoppedonly when an old friend said,“Of course, I’lltake William; I’d rather have him than youwhile you’re in this crazy mood!” Finally, Ireduced my instructions to writing, and wentoff to my fate.

Now that I have survived, am repaired, andreunited with my pet, the “inhumanity” of thelaw’s treatment of pets and pet owners whowant to provide for them after death, rankleswithin.There ought to be a law that allows petowners to die, secure in the thought that theirpets are provided for and that provisions forthat purpose will be valid and enforced.“Whyhadn’t Minnesota passed section 2-907(b),” Iwondered. It would be hard to resurrect a pro-vision once considered and rejected. I hopedthat was not the case and began a search forthe history of the section.

Section 2-907 first appeared21 in the 1990 ver-sion of the Uniform Probate Code in ArticleII, which also contained the completelyredesigned spousal elective share provision.Section 2-907 was buried in subpart two, partnine of Article II, immediately following theUniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities.It was called an “optional provision” and titled“Honorary Trusts;Trusts for Pets.” It had twosections: (a) authorizing “honorary trusts”(essentially trusts for lawful non-charitable pur-poses with no beneficiary who can enforcethem) for no longer than 21 years; and (b) vali-dating trusts for pets. It reappeared,22 stilllabeled “optional” with some revisions, in the1993 version of the Code.The revised Codewas then studied in Minnesota by the ByronCommittee.23 The subcommittee of the ByronCommittee which dealt with part nine of Arti-cle II, did not deal with the substance of sec-tion 2-907. It merely suggested, in its report,that if the subject of “honorary trusts” was tobe addressed, it ought to be done in conjunc-tion with a consideration of M.S.A. Chapter

501B, governing trusts.24 Happily, then, validtrusts for pets are still a viable option here in Minnesota. The enactment of section 2-907(b) would be a desirable way of providingfor them.

Minnesota pet owners certainly need a statutevalidating their posthumous provisions for careof their pets. In a nutshell, section 2-907(b)would: 1) make trusts for the care of designatedpets valid and enforceable; 2) allow such truststo continue for the lives of the pets; 3) allowthe pet owners to designate trustees to care fortheir pets and persons to enforce their trusts;and 4) provide that if no one is so designated,or if one so designated fails to serve, the courtcould appoint successors in their stead.

As an interested pet owner, and a disinterestedlaw professor, I say,“There is no time like thepresent; let’s go ahead and make section 2-907(b) a part of Minnesota law!”

FOOTNOTES

1. See, e.g., PAMELA D. FRASCH ET AL.,ANIMAL LAW

612–72 (2000). See also Evelyn Nieves, Driver WhoTossed Dog is Convicted of Cruelty, N.Y.TIMES, June20, 2001, at A12, and Kim Ode, One Saturday, OneDead Dog—And For What?, STAR TRIB. (Min-neapolis), June 30, 2001, at E1.

2. For selected federal and state civil statutes, andsome cases under them, see id. at 455–599. For anoverview of state criminal provisions, see id. at601–12. See also Cass R. Sunstein, Standing forAnimals (With Notes on Animal Rights), 47 UCLAL. REV. 1333, 1337–42 (2000).

3. See FRASCH, supra note 1, at 601.

4. For some examples, see FRASCH, supra note 1, at602 n.e.

5. See FRASCH, supra note 1, at 695–706.

6. Josephine Marcotty, Pet Abuse May Become Felony;The Family Dog or Cat is Often the First Victim inDomestic Violence, Crime Experts Say, STAR TRIB.(Minneapolis),Apr. 27, 2001, at 1A.

7. Louisiana’s forced share for children is called alegitime. It protects children who are under theage of twenty-three, mentally infirm, or physicallydisabled. LA. CIV. CODE ANN. art. 1493–1494(West 2000).

8. See generally Gerry W. Beyer, Pet Animals:WhatHappens When Their Humans Die?, 40 SANTA

CLARA L. REV. 617 (2000).

9.At last count these were Alaska,Arizona, Col-orado, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, NewYork, North Carolina, and Utah. For citations tothese statutes, see id. at 655 nn.297-304, 656n.306.




10. E.g., California, CAL. PROB. CODE § 15212(West, WESTLAW through 1999-2000 Reg. Sess.);See also, e.g., Missouri, MO. STAT.ANN. § 456.055(West, WESTLAW through 2000).

11. See, e.g., In re Estate of Russell, 444 P.2d 353(Cal. 1968).

12. See, e.g., AUSTIN WAKEMAN SCOTT & WILLIAM

FRANKLIN FRATCHER,THE LAW OF TRUSTS 261& n.1 (4th ed. 1987).

13. See, e.g. id. at 263-64.

14. THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE,at http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry_main/00232642?case_id=kmps-10YAiT-3631.

15. Irreverent law students call him “Billy theKonk.”

16. From the words of Noel Coward in the song, Ina Bar on the Piccola Marina.

17. UNIF. PROB. CODE § 2-907(b) (West, WESTLAW

through 2000 Annual Meeting Nat. Conf. ofCommissioners Unif. State Laws).

Alumni and friends gathered in Chicago on August 3, 2001 for the annual Minnesota Law School Alumni Breakfast during the American Bar Association Annual Meeting.

18. Uniform Probate Code, ch. 442, 1974 Minn.Laws 1022.

19. Bronwen L. Cound, ’88, Chair of the EstatePlanning and Trusts Group at Fredrikson &Byron.

20. M. Shane Swanson, ’98, practicing estates andtrusts law at Parsinen, Kaplan, Rosberg & Gotlieb.

21. Unif. Prob. Code § 2-907 (West 1991).

22. Unif. Prob. Code § 2-907 (West 1993).

23. Named after its chairman, John P. Byron, ’52, ofFredrikson & Byron.

24. I am indebted to Andrea Breckner, Olson &Breckner, for this information. She graciouslyunearthed the subcommittee report from herown archives, and read it to me. I am also indebt-ed to Gary McDowell, ’68, Lindquist & Vennum,a member of the subcommittee, for discussing thereport with me. �



By Tricia Baatz Torrey

Last spring a student from New Mexicowho had just been accepted to the Uni-versity of Minnesota Law School came

to visit.“Wow!” he exclaimed,“I knew thatthis was a great school, but just look at thisplace!” His enthusiasm for the beauty of thenew addition with its many aspects and anglesof light was becoming familiar; many visitorsmade such felicitous remarks.The integration

of the established structurewith the new was a definitesuccess.The renovation can befurther analogized, beyond thesurfaces of walls and floors, inthe addition of our new facul-ty. Complementing our distin-guished faculty are our newprofessors, some full-time, oth-ers visiting or affiliated facultywho teach in other areas anddepartments at the University.They bring with them theirown frame of reference, educa-tion and expertise to enhanceand build on the reputation ofthe University of MinnesotaLaw School.

Shayna Sigman

Shayna Sigman first felt an attraction to thelaw at the age of eleven while studying Tal-

mud.“Going to law school wasn’t even ever aquestion for me,” she said,“From the time Iwas in the sixth grade, I was really workinghands-on with legal analysis argument that’s avery Socratic dialogue-oriented, and I was veryhappy with it.” She didn’t care what the subjectmatter was, and remembers an instance whereshe and her classmates studied a very compli-cated legal doctrine,“to get at the nuances andthe purpose of it,” just to be told at the end ofthe portion that this particular situation neveroccurred.“I learned that the point of it was theintellectual exercise, that we’d be much better

at analyzing things that are important by goingthrough the process. It was a process I was veryattracted to.”

Professor Sigman is a new Associate Professorat the Law School; she teaches creditor’s reme-dies/secured transactions, remedies and sportslaw. She graduated from the University ofChicago Law School in June, 2000 and was ajudicial clerk for Judge Richard Posner on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the SeventhCircuit in Chicago.“I’m virtually right out ofschool,” she said, adding that she is excited tobe in a city that supports so many amateurwomen’s hockey clubs.Among her variedexperiences, Sigman coached kids in basketballin an after-school program in Roxbury, Massa-chusetts, and wrote her undergraduate seniorthesis at Boston University on the antitrustexemption in baseball. She earned her under-graduate degree in political science and eco-nomics.Through writing her thesis, she wasexcited to discover that sports “has a legal, his-toric side to it,” and that it was an area inwhich she could merge her love of and partici-pation in sports to her interest in law.

The first lawyer in her family, Professor Sigmanmet with a strange reaction from her parents,both of whom are math teachers, when sheexpressed her intent to study law.“Theythought I should go into engineering, math,the sciences.To them, law is what people didwhen they were unable to get any otherinsight into what they should do. Her parentshave since come around and I think theyappreciate that there is so much you can dowith a law degree.”

Professor Sigman moved from Chicago thispast summer with her husband, Jonathon Sig-man, a structural engineer, and her pet turtle,Tzavi, who has been her companion for thepast fifteen years. In fact, she wrote and signedher first contract when she was ten, promisingto take Tzavi, her pet turtle, wherever she

New Faculty Add Extra Dimension

Shayna Sigman

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

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went. She has honored her contract, and saysthe turtle is well-traveled. Both she and herhusband were happy with their selection ofthe University of Minnesota and the TwinCities for relocation.“We wanted to be at aschool that’s known for its academic reputa-tion and has great people doing great things.Beyond that we wanted to be at a place wherepeople stayed and built a community.When Idid my presentation here, I was so impressedby the fact that the students felt comfortableasking me questions in front of the faculty. Ifelt that this is a student body very alive andinterested in learning about the law.Also, Min-neapolis as a community is everything wewere looking for.We’ve already made friendsin our neighborhood and at the synagogue.”

Jamie Grodsky

Just prior to her appointment as AssociateProfessor at the University of Minnesota Law

School, Jamie Grodsky was the Senior Advisorto the General Counsel of the United StatesEnvironmental Protection Agency, a positionthat called on her education and experience inboth law and the natural sciences.At EPA, sheadvised on such issues as biotechnology, envi-ronmental justice, Everglades restoration, and awide range of legal matters.

Professor Grodsky said she became interestedin the law after pursuing research in the bio-logical sciences and the technology area.“I wasat Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution andthen was an Analyst at the congressional Officeof Technology Assessment (OAT). Increasingly,I became interested in the public policy issuessurrounding the sciences, and then foundmyself gravitating toward the legal aspects. Ithink part of it was an intellectual fascinationand part of it was, as de Tocqueville observed,that many public policy issues resolve them-selves through legal means. It was an evolution-ary process for me.”

Professor Grodsky earned her J.D. as well as herBachelor’s in History and Human Biology/Natural Sciences at Stanford University; andattended the University of California at Berke-ley for her masters degree. She clerked forChief Judge Procter Hug on the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court,served as a Counsel to the United States Sen-ate Judiciary Committee and also as Counselto the Committee on Natural Resources ofthe U.S. House of Representatives.

She cited several reasons for choosing the Uni-versity of Minnesota Law School for her

newest endeavor.“First of all, the faculty is justsuperb, I mean really first-rate.They areextremely talented academically, and also per-sonable, supportive, and genuinely proud ofeach other’s accomplishments. Many of themare Renaissance scholars, involved in severaldifferent areas of the law.The school seems toencourage that; no one is pigeon-holed.Another reason I chose Minnesota is that theschool is committed to interdisciplinary work.When I visited the campus, I was introducednot only to Law School faculty, but also to fac-ulty in the biology and natural resourcesdepartments.There is a unique opportunity totap into these broader resources at the Univer-sity, and it’s important to me that the schoolsupports and encourages interdisciplinary rela-tionships among the faculty. Finally, I met somegreat students—they demonstrated a combina-tion of intellectual ability, poise, and a broadvision of what they wanted to do with theirlaw degrees.”

Teaching environmental law and naturalresources law, Professor Grodsky is also creatinga seminar course called “Science,Technology,and the Constitution.”This course will explorethe constitutional implications of a variety ofnew technologies, with focus on the First andFourth Amendments as well as equal protec-tion issues.

Brian Bix

An accomplished and erudite young schol-ar, Brian Bix is nonetheless self-deprecat-

ing.When asked about a forthcoming article,“How to Plot Love on an IndifferenceCurve,” Bix commented that Law School Pro-fessor Michael Paulsen “is one of my rolemodels on trying to write interesting titles.The problem is, unlike Michael, my texts areoften all downhill after the title.” He did add,however, that this particular article and twoothers he’s writing deal with the use of eco-nomic analysis, which he believes has becomepervasive in legal scholarship and teaching.“It’ssomewhat belatedly coming to family law,”Bix said,“and the reference in the title of myarticle is a discussion on the possibilities andlimits of economic analysis in discussing familylaw matters.”

Professor Bix is the Frederick W.Thomas Asso-ciate Professor for the Interdisciplinary Study ofLaw and Language; he holds a joint appoint-ment with the Law School and the Departmentof Philosophy. He joined the faculty of theUniversity of Minnesota this year, where heteaches contracts and family law, as well as two


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courses for the Philosophy Department,“Criticsof the Enlightenment” and “Temporary MoralProblems.”

As an undergraduate, Professor Bix studiedphilosophy, political science and biology, earn-ing his B.A. summa cum laude from WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis. His J.D. is from HarvardUniversity Law School and he holds a D. Phil.in Law from Balliol College at Oxford Univer-sity. He said he is “interested in the use of lawfor social change and progress and also law as asort of applied ethics or morality; how do weresolve questions of how to live, how to struc-ture society?”

Before coming to the University of Minnesota,Professor Bix taught law most recently atQuinnipiac University School of Law; he wasalso a visiting professor at Georgetown Univer-sity, and a lecturer in Law at both King’s Col-lege, University of London and St. EdmundHall at Oxford University. He was interested incoming to the University of Minnesota LawSchool “partly because it’s a wonderful schoolwith a national reputation, and partly because Igrew up here.” Bix remembered attending ahigh school program at the Law School andcommented that he has been visiting the lawlibrary ever since then.

Professor Bix is married to Karen Helfand Bix,who is finishing her dissertation in EnglishRenaissance Literature at the University ofMaryland. In September of this year their firstchild, David was born.

Gregg Polsky

While every faculty member at the LawSchool seems to share an interest in the

law through sustained academic pursuits, not allof them realized their occupational achieve-ment as a childhood dream.When he was anundergraduate, Gregg Polsky thought he mightpursue medicine since his father was a doctor,but decided instead to choose law, since he“enjoyed analytical things.When I started lawschool I found I really liked it, so it seemedlike a lucky guess. I was twenty-one years oldand didn’t know much of anything at thatpoint, so I feel that I sort of fell into it. I’mglad I chose something I was interested in.”

After earning his B.A. in psychology fromFlorida Atlantic University, Polsky entered lawschool at the University of Florida College ofLaw, where he earned both his J.D. and anLLM. in Taxation. He was also a Visiting Assis-tant Professor at his law school last year, where

he taught tax courses and legal accounting.Polsky said he originally took a tax class in lawschool thinking it would be good backgroundto have and found himself falling in love withthe subject.“I liked both the analytical aspectof it as well as the complexity,” he said,“Ifound I was able to enjoy it more than otherpeople. Other students complained about thevery things I found interesting. I think tax lawis very similar to a puzzle, where you are give acomplex problem and you’re asked to figureout a way to make things work. I reallyenjoyed it. So I took more law classes and real-ized that this is what I wanted to do.”

The prospect of teaching at the University ofMinnesota Law School “was a dream cometrue for me,” Polsky said. He continued,“Thequality of the students and the quality of thescholars here is exactly what I need to be thebest teacher and the best scholar that I can be.My wife and I have a one-year-old child, Hai-ley, and the Twin Cities are a great place toraise children. My wife was astounded at all theplaygrounds, and how immaculate they arehere.” Professor Polsky’s wife, Rina Lyndkim, isan attorney who works for United HealthGroup in Minnetonka.

Visiting FacultyMaja Kirilova Eriksson

The Visiting Professor from Uppsala Univer-sity this year, Maja Kirilova Eriksson, is

actually a native of Bulgaria. She is teaching aseminar fall semester on European HumanRights Law. Eriksson said she was interested invisiting the University of Minnesota because“You have such a great teacher in humanrights, David Weissbrodt, who is one of theleading persons on the topic today.” She addedthat she is impressed by the “advanced ques-tions” the students in her seminar ask. She isalso, however, dismayed at what Americans takefor granted. Professor Eriksson spoke thesewords in late August, before the terrorist attackson the United States:“It is shocking to me tosee Americans take freedom for granted,because you must fight every day for democra-cy. It is not something that is given forever.Youmust fight for it each day, everywhere. Manypeople living in the western world take it forgranted.That way, I think that my teaching rolehere is very important to make them rememberthese values that are so fundamental to us.Youmust be aware of them and fight for them thewhole time. Everything changes, and you haveto be aware, also of the weaknesses of the legalsystem.As we have experienced in the Latin



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American world, changes occur overnight.Undemocratic laws can come slowly, so youhave to be awake to see the signs when certainfreedoms or rights are limited step by step.”

“Maybe I’m much more aware of this problembecause I’m from the Balkans, where we stillhave this situation with religious and ethnicconflicts. Everything changed during the war inYugoslavia. It makes me much more aware ofthe suppression of some group’s rights, limita-tions, great breeches of human rights.Thesethings lead, sooner or later, to such conflicts. It’svery dangerous in the long run.”

In her seminar, Eriksson is covering topics suchas freedom of expression, refugee law and fam-ily law. She also will discuss the humanitarianintervention in Kosovo as well as the currentsituation in the Balkans.

Professor Eriksson earned her German lawdegree in 1975, and an LL.D. from UppsalaUniversity in 1984. She is a Professor of Inter-national Law at the Uppsala University, whereher daughter, Maria, who is also visiting theUniversity of Minnesota Law School, is a lawstudent. She met her Swedish husband, KjellEriksson at the University of Sofia in herhome country of Bulgaria, where he wasteaching Scandinavian language and literature.She speaks Bulgarian, Russian, German,Swedish and English. Of her scholarly interests,she said “I think it is quite logical for a personwho has grown up in a former Communistcountry to have an interest in human rightslaw, where certain rights were limited orrestricted, where you feel that these are impor-tant things, especially freedom of religion, free-dom of speech, of expression, so I think it ismy background that makes me realize thatwithout certain freedoms you cannot have adecent life or a life of dignity”

Calvin Pang

With a background in anesthesiology andgerontology, Calvin Pang seemed an

unlikely candidate for law school, yet is visitingus this year as a Clinic Professor from the Uni-versity of Hawaii School of Law, where he hasbeen teaching since 1994. Professor Pangexplained his academic path as part of his phi-losophy of fate.“I see life as a series of openingdoors. At least I see my life that way. I actuallystarted college thinking I’d be an urban planner.I was a kid who grew up in a rural part ofOwahu. I decided to go to Case WesternReserve University in Ohio partly because noone else in my class was going there, but also

because I had heard that there is snow inOhio.”There he started studying urban plan-ning, found it was not his subject after all, andentered a program Case Western offered inanesthesiology. He did well, graduated, andentered the Peace Corps, and found himself inthe jungles of Africa practicing anesthesiologyin ways that had never been taught to him,looking at a 1950s textbook while he drippedether into a mask.After that experience hedecided he wanted to do something in health,entered graduate school and earned his Mastersin Public Health at the University of Hawaii.He said,“It was there that I understood that theconcept of health had something to do withmedicine per se, but it also came to me thatlaws very much determine the well-being orthe good health of a community, and that’s howI kind of moved from urban planning to thenatural sciences to the law. I never thought I’dbe teaching law, it’s another door that wasopened for me. I feel real blessed, I feel blessedto be here in Minnesota.”

Professor Pang is on a sabbatical from the Uni-versity of Hawaii School of Law. He said hedesired to see the world through different eyes,and Minnesota seemed like a good place to doso. He also wanted to play with his young fam-ily in the snow. He is here with his wife, LianePang, their ten-year-old daughter Hanna andfour-year-old twins Naomi and David. Profes-sor Pang is filling in as a clinical professor forProfessor Maury Landsman who is focusing ondeveloping a course on lawyering skills in aclassroom-learning environment.

Ruth Gana Okediji

Last year, Ruth Okediji, Professor of Law atthe University of Oklahoma, was invited to

present a paper at our law school; the topic wason international fair use, a topic that Okedijiconsiders to be “a quintessentially AmericanDoctrine, an important part, in my perspective,of constitutional mandate, of intellectual prop-erty and copyright.” She was curious to learnthrough her research how the move towardglobalization was going to impact those thingsshe thought of as quintessentially American.Ather presentation in Minnesota, she said,“It israre for me to give a paper and to feel so com-fortable and connected.This was a critical butsafe place for me to present an idea that hasn’treally been written about before. It was a won-derful experience for me.”

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international intellectual property during fallsemester. She describes the subject as “my pas-sion because of the reach of it, it’s not arcane.It touches everything: human rights, trade,cyberspace there is so much about everydayliving that has affected by intellectual property.It’s become like contracts in that it’s aboutpeople and our lives and the affect it has on usevery day.”

Besides intellectual property, Professor Okedijihas a great scholarly passion, both intellectuallyand personally, for issues of racial equality andjustice.“I really was one of those people whocame to law school thinking I was going tochange the world,” she commented. Shelearned the very first day of class that law “isreally not about justice, but how we make thebest of a fallen world in which people are cre-ated with a free will. How do we encouragebehavior that we think is good, right and yetrecognize the limits of that, that we cannotenforce it, so we enforce what little is absolutelynecessary to create order and to maintain basicvalues that has been the backdrop within whichI have viewed all my scholarship. I want tomake an attempt to challenge us to go beyondthe minimum in all areas, while recognizingthat some of this is moral conviction.”Amongother projects, Professor Okediji is working ona paper about affirmative action called “We’veCome This Far by Faith.”About that projectshe said “The area of racial issues I really beganto think about when the debate about affirma-tive action and race issues in general were thetalk of the day. I really began to recognize thatlike every other value that is rooted in some-thing other than efficiency or fairness, that isjust rooted in moral conviction, that there isvery little you can do, that the law can do, tochange the heart of someone who says I chooseto hate you.The paper is being birthed in mygreater calling as a legal scholar to explore howit is that the law can only take us so far if we’vemade progress at all, it’s because there are deep-er moral values that a generation believed in.We can’t reason justice and equality into exis-tence. It’s a piece that comes straight from myheart and my head.”

Friedl Weiss

Visiting us this fall from the University ofAmsterdam, where he teaches international

economic law and organizations, is FriedlWeiss.This semester he is teaching EuropeanLaw and International Trade at the Law School.

Professor Weiss explained his choice to visit theUniversity of Minnesota Law School thus:“In

my days in the law department of the LondonSchool of Economics, the following wisdomwas one shared between law teachers:What isthe difference between American law studentsand those from the United Kingdom? If youenter a classroom with American students andyou say ‘Good morning,’ they answer back with‘Good morning!’ If you enter a classroom withstudents from the United Kingdom and you say‘Good morning,’ they write it down. Since thenI’ve discovered repeatedly—teaching in summerschools for various American law schools—thatthis is not far off the mark, and certainly a goodenough reason to have a stint in one of themore prestigious ones amongst them, such asthe University of Minnesota.”

Professor Weiss studied public international andEuropean Community law at the Universitiesof Vienna, (Dr.iur., 1970), Brussels (Free Uni-versity of Brussels, Licence spéciale en DroitEuropéen, July 1972, grande distinction), andCambridge (Downing College, LL.B, 1974).He also completed the academic stage of theUnited Kingdom Bar examination in Com-mon law.

William Kelley

Visiting the University of Minnesota LawSchool during the fall semester is William

K. Kelley,Associate Professor at Notre DameLaw School, where he teaches ConstitutionalLaw,Administrative Law, Federal Court Juris-diction,Appellate Moot Court and a seminarcalled Statutory Interpretation. He is teaching atimely seminar called “Legal Issues of Election2000” at Minnesota. His most recent article isthe forthcoming “Avoiding ConstitutionalQuestions As a Three-Branch Problem.”

Professor Kelley received his J.D. from HarvardLaw School and his B.A., summa cum laude,from Marquette University. He was a law clerkto Judge Kenneth W. Starr, United States Courtof Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuitfrom 1987 to 1988 and to Justices Warren E.Burger and Antonin Scalia, United StatesSupreme Court from 1988 to 1989.

Affiliated FacultyTimothy Johnson

An Assistant Professor of Political Science atthe University of Minnesota, Professor

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Gustavus Adolphus College, and both his M.A.and Ph. D. from Washington University in St.Louis, all in political science.

“I had a choice to go to law school or gradu-ate school, and at the time, graduate schoolseemed more appealing, it was sort of a toss-up,” Johnson recalls,“But I had this great advi-sor in graduate school, Lee Epstein, whotaught a seminar in Supreme Court decision-making.After I wrote my first research paperfor that seminar I realized I didn’t want to doanything else.”

Johnson combines his interest in the judiciarywith his training as a political-social scientist.“There’s sort of a dichotomy and argumentthat goes on with different aspects of thosewho study the law.The traditional law schoolapproach says that judges just have precedence,and they just have to do what the law says,there’s no interpretation.The law says ‘x’, andyou do x, the law says ‘y’, and you do y, andjust interpret what the law says.What I likeabout his law school is that this is not com-pletely the outlook.There’s some really goodsocial scientists in the law school and somepeople are really interested in the behavioralaspects of decision-making and that’s wheremy interests lie.The premise I base much ofmy arguments on is that judges really are poli-cy makers in some respects.When they ruleon a case, they really are making policy whenthey decide, for example, what the Americanswith Disabilities Act says, they are clearlyinterpreting and making policy about that Act. My research focuses on how it is thatthey get to the policy outcome that they want to have.”

Johnson teaches American Politics, JudicialProcess and a seminar on the Supreme Courtthrough the Political Science department,where he has been teaching for a little over ayear. He is married to Julie Maynard-Johnsonwho is currently working on a master’s inLibrary Science at the College of St. Cather-ine.They have a six-year-old son named Alexi.

William Iacono

Presently holding such notable positions asDistinguished McKnight University Profes-

sor and Director of the Clinical Science andPsychopathology Research Training Programfor the Department of Psychology at the Uni-versity of Minnesota, Professor William Iaconohas this year been invited to be an affiliatedfaculty member at the University of MinnesotaLaw School.

Known for his participation and research in thearea of twin studies on schizophrenia, ProfessorIacono also does work on lie detection, whichis more specifically how he became associatedwith the area of law.

In one of his research studies concerning thereliability of lie detection, Iacono found “Thatif the test is defined by what you get from thepsychological tracing, if you objectively scorethese records, that innocent people only doslightly better than chance on these conven-tional lie detector tests. For guilty people, it’svery hard to use the existing research to deter-mine how well they actually work. One thingwe’ve learned in the last several years and thishas been other people’s research and not myown, is that guilty people can lean to use whatare called counter measures to manipulate theirresponse to the polygraph to affect the out-come.This has led me to conclude that theseconventionally applied polygraph procedureshave serious problems.Their accuracy is greatlyexaggerated by the polygraph professionals.Certainly, in my view, the results of such testsshould not be use in court, and I’ve tried tokeep them out of courtroom proceedings or akind of proceedings where it may be interpret-ed as evidence bearing on a person’s guilt or innocence.”

Professor Iacono has been looking at alterna-tives to conventional lie detection, which mea-sures a subject’s physiological responses. In lab-oratory studies Iacono and others have lookedat an alternative lie detection procedure called“guilty knowledge” that measures a subject’sbrain response instead of autonomic responsessuch as blood pressure, galvanic skin responseand respiratory activity used in conventional liedetection tests.“These latter signals are actuallyeasy to manipulate,” Iacono said,“If you coughor bite your tongue, all the signals change butpeople have a hard time figuring out how tochange their brain response to a stimulus thathas been flashed on a computer screen, becausethe response materializes over a fraction of asecond, and it’s very difficult to process it,decide how to respond, and have that responsetake place before it’s over in your brain.”

Professor Iacono has been on the faculty at theUniversity of Minnesota since 1985. Hereceived his B.S. in Psychology form Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. in Psychologyfrom the University of Minnesota. He is mar-ried to Jane Iacono, with whom he has fourchildren, Krista,Alex, Serina and Narisssa. Hisoffice is literally filled with paintings done byhis children, which include a series of smoking



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animals done by his son.Viewing themthrough the lens of his profession, Iaconoremarked,“Girls like to do more rabbits andhorses. Boys like to paint more aggressive ani-mals and video game characters.”

Jane Kirtley

The director of the Silha Center for theStudy of Media Ethics and Law at the

University of Minnesota Journalism School,Professor Jane Kirtley also is a graduate of Van-derbilt University Law School, and has joinedthe affiliated faculty here at Mondale Hall.

With an active interest in issues concerningfreedom of the press, Professor Kirtley spentseveral weeks in Asia last summer, specificallyin the Philippines and China, lecturing onfreedom of the press.“At the University of thePhilippines, we were discussing the differentroles of journalists and judges and I told themthat in my view, the most significant differencebetween journalists and judges is that journal-ists pursue the truth, and judges pursue justice.I’ve actually used the same line here and havereceived the same reaction, which was extremeanger, you know, how dare you suggest that wedon’t care about the truth! And I explainedthat it’s not that they don’t care about thetruth, but the reality is that when they have atrial, certain evidence is excluded because of awhole variety of reasons, so she jury isn’t get-ting the whole truth, so it’s not the same theyhave very interesting situations in the Philip-

pines.They have a very vibrant press that hasconstitutional guarantees, but they’ve got someethical issues.”

From her tour of the Philippines, ProfessorKirtley lectured in China in Beijing, Shanghaiand Guangzhou.“It’s only a couple hours away,but worlds apart,” Professor Kirtley remarked.There she spoke to a hundred different jour-nalists.“You’re not dealing with a country thatconsiders a free press a very desirable situation,so a lot of things have to be discussed on mul-tiple levels, and you can’t exactly say what youintend to say, but everyone knows what you’retalking about, and I think those journalists arevery concerned about their role, especially asthe Internet is globalizing communications.The Chinese are still blocking a lot of Internetsites, and I was thinking, what in the world isBeijing going to do when it gets the Olympicsin seven years?” Professor Kirtley said she leftChina with mixed feelings, knowing that manyof the journalists in China today are young andrealize there’s something more than “justrepeating the Party line,” but there are still a lotof crackdowns by the government that makesthings difficult for them.

Professor Kirtley’s most recent publicationsinclude “Privacy and the Press in the Millenni-um,” an article published in the University ofArkansas Little Rock Law Review and “Obtain-ing Information Under FOI Laws,” which isforthcoming. �



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Professor Nadine Strossen (pictured here withDean Sullivan), President of the American Civil Lib-erties Union, spoke on “Defending Pornography:Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women'sRights,” at the Law School on April 2, 2001. She isa Professor of Law at New York Law School and isthe first woman and the youngest person to beelected President of the ACLU. She is a native Min-nesotan and practiced law in Minneapolis for nineyears before leaving for New York. ProfessorStrossen publishes in the areas of constitutional lawand civil liberties. The program was sponsored bythe Federalist Society law student organization.


Former President Jimmy Carter. Walter F. Mondale (’56)

The Dedication of Walter F. Mondale HallAlumni, faculty, friends, staff and colleagues attended the dedication ceremony at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 17, 2001.

> > >> > >> > >Dean Sullivan is picturedhere extending a welcome tothe over 1000 guests in atten-dance at the dedication cere-mony. Seated to his left arethe speakers: Saumil Mehta,2001–02 Law CouncilPresident; Elliot Kaplan, LawSchool’s Capital CampaignChair; Mark Yudof,University of MinnesotaPresident;Walter F. Mondale,former U.S.Vice Presidentand guest of honor; JimmyCarter, former U.S. Presidentand Keynote speaker; andPatricia B. Spence, ChairUniversity of MinnesotaBoard of Regents.

Toshiaki “Tag” Taguchi, head of Toyota North America, and WalterMondale toast the occasion.

Carl A. Auerbach, Dean Emeritus, attended the ceremony.

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Katherine Hedin, Curator of the Rare Books and SpecialCollections, shares with former President Jimmy Carter one of thetreasures of the Rare Books Collection: Novellae constitutiones,published in Venice in 1498. This book is the fourth part of theCorpus Juris Civilis, the great system of Roman law compiledunder the direction of the emperor Justinian in the 6th century.

The Stefan A. Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center pro-vides a secure and climate-controlled space for the Arthur C.Pulling Rare Books Collection and assures the preservation ofthese treasures—these “olde bokes,” in Chaucer’s words—forfuture generations. In addition to compact shelving, theCenter includes an attractive and spacious reading room,

hall.

The foundation for the Rare Books Collection was laid dur-ing the tenure of Arthur C. Pulling, Library Director from1912 to 1942. Over the past six decades the collection, whichnow contains 25,000 volumes, has continued to increase bothin size and quality, and is internationally recognized as one ofthe finest legal rare book collections in the United States.The

Reception Room and Exhibit Hall, Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center

For out of olde feldes, as men seyth,

Cometh al this newe corn from yer to yere,

And out of olde bokes, in good feyth,

Cometh al this newe science that men lere.

Riesenfeld Center is designed to provide the finest environ-ment possible for these irreplaceable volumes—including thefirst edition of Sir Edward Coke’s Reports (1600), whereinappears Coke’s memorable paraphrase of Chaucer:

Out of ould fields must spring and grow the new corne.

We invite alumni to visit the Riesenfeld Center.

—Katherine HedinCurator of Rare Books and Special Collections


Commencement 2001

Dean Sullivan, Judge Ann Montgomery, Keynote Speaker and Regent DallasBohnsack.

Professor Ann Burkhartreceived the Stanley V.Kinyon Teaching andCounseling Award.

The Stanley V. Kinyon Clinical Teaching Awardwas awarded to ProfessorBeverly Balos.

Pictured from left to right: Natasha Frost, Excellence in Public Service Award recipient; SarahGreenberg, 2000-01 Law Council President; Amos Cohen, Most Promising Lawyer Award recipient;Heather Mills, J.D. Graduation Address; and Claire Durand, LL.M. Graduation Address.

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The Parliament of Fowles—Geoffrey Chaucer

exhibita preservation lab, and a stunning reception space and

< < <The black-tie dinnerwas held in a tentnext to the LawSchool.As the sunbegan to set, guestsgathered in theRobins KaplanConcourse for areception.

After the dedication ceremony, the stage was set for the Walter F. Mondale Hall Dedication and Lockhart Club Dinner.

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The Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Concourse The Dedication Dinner Program began shortly after dessert was served.

Testimonials were given by Warren Spannaus (’63); Harry MacLaughlin (’56), District Court Judge; andDr. George Millard.

Mark Yudof

Joan Adams Mondale, wife of Mr.Mondale, accepting a gift.

Elliot Kaplan

Walter F. Mondale, Keynote Speaker

E. Thomas Sullivan

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Commencement 2001

Three prestigious alumni received Hon-orary Doctor of Laws degrees from theUniversity of Minnesota May 14th dur-

ing the 2001 Law School CommencementCeremonies.

Russell M. Bennett II is known as the“lawyer’s lawyer” in the legal communitywhere he has been a leader for almost 50 years.He also has been the consummate volunteer tothe University and the community-at-large.

He received his B.S.L. degree and his LL.B.degree from the University of Minnesota in1950 and 1952, respectively. He has been asenior partner at Gray Plant Monty since 1954.In addition to Mr. Bennett’s legal acumen, healso has been an exemplary leader in the com-munity and within the University of Minneso-ta. On two occasions, including the present, hehas served as the Chair of the University ofMinnesota’s Capital Campaign. In 1992 hereceived the University of Minnesota RegentsAward and in 1987 he received the University’sOutstanding Achievement Award. In addition,he has been a member of the Carlson Schoolof Management Board of Overseers and the itsLeadership Gifts Committee.

Mr. Bennett has made other civic contribu-tions including former Director of the: Hen-nepin County United Way, former Director ofthe Minnesota Outward Bound School, JuniorAchievement of Minneapolis, Pillsbury Citi-zen’s Service and Minneapolis War MemorialBlood Bank. He also is the former State Chairof the United Negro College Fund and theMinneapolis Children’s Health Center. Mr.Bennett has served as a trustee for the Min-neapolis Institute of Art, F & M Bank and St.Therese’s Catholic Church. Further, he servedas Chair of The Blake School during the timewhen the Blake School merged with NorthrupAcademy. He is a former Mayor of Deephavenand served as a Trustee of Lakewood CemeteryAssociation.

William D. Hawkland is “a giant in the fieldof commercial law as his legal scholarshipattests and his work on the Uniform Commer-cial Code stands alone as remarkable in itssweep, depth and sophistication,” commentedDean Sullivan in nominating ChancellorHawkland for this honor.

Professor Hawkland earned his B.S. degree in1942 and his J.D. degree in 1947 from theUniversity of Minnesota. He received his

LL.M. degree from Columbia University LawSchool in 1949. Professor Hawkland was theChancellor and Professor of Law at LouisianaState University from 1979 to 1989 and hasheld the title of Professor Emeritus since thattime. He received the university’s highest pro-fessorship when he was awarded the Boyd Pro-fessorship at Louisiana State University. Profes-sor Hawkland also has received the Outstand-ing Teacher of the Year Award at several institu-tions including the University of Illinois andthe University of Minnesota.

He has taught at numerous universities, includ-ing the University of Minnesota, University ofIllinois, New York University, University ofTexas, State University of New York at Buffalo,University of Tennessee and the University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles. Professor Hawklandalso has been a lecturer and visiting facultymember at several universities in France onnumerous occasions.

A.W. Clausen has been called a “renaissanceman.” He is an astute executive and exception-al administrator whose business acumen tookhim to the heights of corporate America.

Mr. A.W. Clausen ('49 ) and Mr. Russell M. Bennett II ('52),Honorary Doctor of Laws degree recipients.

Professor William D. Hawkland ('47), third recipient of Hon-orary Doctor of Laws degree.

Three Outstanding Alumni Receive Awards

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A.W. Clausen received his J.D. degree from theUniversity of Minnesota Law School and is agraduate of the Advanced Management Pro-gram of the Harvard Business School. Mr.Clausen is the former Chairman and ChiefExecutive Officer of Bank of America and for-mer President of World Bank. He is the imme-diate past Chair of the World Affairs Council ofNorthern California; sits on the Board ofDirectors of the University of California SanFrancisco Foundation; and is a member of theAdvisory Board of the Walter A. Hass Schoolof Business at the University of California,Berkeley. He also is a Trustee of his undergrad-uate alma mater, Carthage College. Mr.Clausen has been a long time Trustee of theAsia Foundation, a member of the BrettonWoods Committee, a member of the Board ofDirectors of Population Action International,and a member of the Board of Overseers ofthe International Center for EconomicGrowth. In addition, he is a member of theKorea-United States Wiseman Council and asadvisor to the Japan Foundation’s Center forGlobal Partnership.

He has served as the President of the Interna-tional Monetary Conference and is the recipi-

ent of numerous awards from the governmentsof Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain andVenezuela. He holds honorary degrees fromCarthage College, Gonzaga University, Lewisand Clark College, University of Notre Dame,University of the Pacific and the University ofSanta Clara. He also is the recipient of the pres-tigious University of California San FranciscoMedal. Mr. Clausen has been the recipient ofthe California Industrialist of the Year Award.The University of Minnesota has awarded himthe Outstanding Achievement Award and he isa recipient of the Harvard Business SchoolAlumni Achievement Award. �

LL.M Class of 2001

2001 graduates celebrate with family andfriends.

Commencement 2001

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Career Services in Changing Times:How Alumni Can Help

Before the events of September 11, the job market was unpredictable, and the Career Services Office had stepped up out-reach initiatives in support of our students and graduates in Minnesota and around the country.

Director Susan Gainen and Associate Director Nora Klaphake had visited more than 70 employers in 2000–2001, extendedinvitations to thousands of public and private employers to fall and spring on campus interviews, and to employers inWashington D.C., New York and Chicago for off campus interviews, and urged employers around the country to use ourweb-based job posting system, www.eattorney.com, to advertise jobs for students and alumni.

While these and other activities will continue, the single most reliable constant in a changing market is University of Min-nesota Law School Alumni. It is more important than ever that each of you urge your employers to reach out and hire stu-dents and alumni through the University of Minnesota Law School Career Services Office.

For information about recruiting on or off campus or using our web-based posting system, please contact Susan Gainen (612/624-9881 or [email protected]) or Nora Klaphake (612/626-9467 or [email protected]).


The Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) heldits biennial conference at the University of Minnesota

Law School July 26–28, 2001. Entitled “Erasing Lines,” theconference focused on the subject of integrating doctrine andskills across the American law school curriculum. One hun-dred sixty speakers and attendees explored the reasons to pur-sue integration, the barriers to its achievement, and devices forits implementation.The Law School and West Group were co-sponsors of the dialogue on curriculum innovation.

The distinguished group of presenters included five membersof the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education: DeansJohn Sebert, Steven Smith, and E.Thomas Sullivan, JusticeElizabeth Lacy, and Professor Randy Hertz. Other presentersincluded Deans Nancy Rapoport and Kent Syverud,Associate

A reception was held in the Toyota Courtyard for the conferenceparticipants.

Dean Byron Cooper, Judges Paul Michel and John Tunheim,President David Weisbrot of the Australian Law Reform Com-mission, and Professor Elliott Milstein, among others.

Brad Clary, University of Minnesota Law School Clinical Pro-fessor who served as Site Committee Chair, closed the confer-ence with the thought that,“One view of our mission mightbe to teach students how to think like lawyers, and anothermight be to teach students to think like lawyers to solve prob-lems. In either case, we further our mission when studentsintegrate doctrinal knowledge with a variety of skills.”

West Group has agreed to publish the Conference proceed-ings, including the scholarship that was presented. Copies willbe distributed to AALS law schools in 2002.The Conferenceprogram and other information may be found on ALWD’sweb site (http://www.alwd.org). �

Pictured are: Judge Paul Michel, U.S. Court of Appeals FederalCircuit; Justice Elizabeth Lacy, Virginia Supreme Court; JudgeJohn Tunheim, U.S. District Court of Minnesota; and Adjunct Professor J. Cunyon Gordon, Seattle University School of Law.Erasing Lines

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The first annual Law Council Distinguished Alum-ni Award was presented to Justice Alan Page(’78) at a reception on March 20, 2001. Thenew award was created to honor alumni whohave demonstrated commitment to the legal com-munity and have a heightened sense of civicinvolvement. A plaque for the Law School, thatlisted Justice Page’s name and provided space torecord future recipients of the award, was pre-sented to Dean Sullivan.

On Monday, September 17, 2001 the Law School spon-sored a symposium consisting of a panel of faculty who

specialize in international law that discussed relevant issueswith the Law School community. Pictured (from left to right)are the Professors who participated on the panel: Fred Morri-son, an expert in public international law and treaties; DavidWeissbrodt, an expert in international human rights; RichardFrase, an expert in international and comparative criminallaw; and Ruth Okediji, an expert in international trade andcommerce. Not pic-tured is Dean Tom Sullivan who served asthe panel moderator. �

In response to the September 11, 2001 attack on UnitedStates civilian and military targets and the resulting actions

of Congress and the President in putting the nation on a war

footing, the University of Minnesota Law School added tothe curriculum, a specialized one-credit course in the consti-tutional law governing issues of national security in times ofwar and crisis.The course, entitled “National Security and theConstitution in Times of War and Crisis,” began on Tuesday,October 2, and will run Tuesday and Thursday lunch hoursfor six weeks. Fifty-seven students enrolled in the course,adding to their already scheduled class load.

Michael Stokes Paulsen, Briggs & Morgan Professor of Law, isinstructing the course. Professor Paulsen teaches and writes inthe areas of civil procedure, criminal procedure, legal ethics,constitutional law, and law and religion.This course is anopportunity for students to begin learning about some of themost important legal issues that will be confronting our nationin the upcoming weeks, months and years.The course mayalso be a valuable first step for students whose career choicesmay change as a result of the attack of September 11 and whomay wish to consider options in the areas of law enforcement,security, intelligence, foreign service or the military. �

Terrorism Symposium

Pictured here are Justice Alan Page and members of LawCouncil.

National Security and the Constitutionin Times of War and Crisis—NewCourse Offered

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nersrom Award; NatashaFrost, Excellence in PublicService Award; and AmosCohen, Most PromisingLawyer Award. �

in-Chief Award; KariDahlin, Lee BearmonAward in Legal Ethics andProfessional ResponsibilityAward; SherryBertschinger, Kent Wen-


Two of our 2001 gradu-ates, Amy Jerdee and

Kari Dahlin, were recognizedfor their academic and careerachievements last spring.

Amy Jerdee, who workedat the Mayo Clinic inRochester, Minnesota as acardiac critical care nursebefore entering law school,won the Elaine OsborneJacobson Award. This award,sponsored by the RoscoePound Foundation, is desig-nated for women who havedemonstrated an interest inhealth care advocacy. Whilea law student, Ms. Jerdee ini-tiated a project through theMinnesota Justice Founda-tion called the “MedicareAppeals Project,” in whichlaw students help elderlypeople appeal the denial ofMedicare benefits. Ms. Jerdeealso worked as a law clerkwith the Office of GeneralCounsel, where she focusedprimarily on health careissues. She will continue towork in health care law atthe firm of Reinhart, Boern-er,Van Deuren, Norris &Rieselbach in Milwaukee.

Kari Dahlin, who was oneof ten national recipients ofthe Burton Award for LegalAchievement, was recog-nized for her article “ActionsSpeak Louder thanThoughts: the Constitution-ally Questionable Reach of

the Minnesota CLE Elimi-nation of Bias Require-ment,” which appeared inthe University of MinnesotaLaw Review last year. Ms.Dahlin felt her associationwith the Minnesota LawReview as an editor, and thehelp she received from facul-ty and students was a fortu-nate aspect of her success.

Ms. Dahlin is working as aclerk for Judge Jill Hol-brooks of the MinnesotaCourt of Appeals, and willlater work for Judge Ken-neth Ryskamp of the UnitedStates District Court in WestPalm Beach, Florida.

Other graduates receivingawards for outstandingachievement and scholarshipinclude Kari Jahnke, theSteven M. Block Prize;Amos Cohen, the FederalBar Association Founda-tion’s Judge Edward J.Devitt Award; Abigail E.Crouse, Michael Rosowand Jill Pearson for theLeonard, Street & DeinardLaw Review Award;Katherine A. Moerke,the Sidney J. Kaplan LegalScholarship Fund; KathrynNash, the KommerstadCenter EntrepreneurialGrant; Blong Yang and Jes-sica Richardson, the 2000Albert and Anne MansfieldFellows; Rachel S. Brass,the Ralph M. McCareinsAntitrust Prize and TracyFischer,The John MootyAward.

For the Law Review Vol-umes 35 & 36 MemorialAwards, recipients includedKari Dahlin and RyanWinkler for Excellence inWriting Awards; AmyJerdee, Best All-AroundAchievement Staff Award;Katherine A. Moerke,Dorsey and Whitney Editor

Student Award Winners

Kari Dahlin

Pictured (from left to right) are the winners of the 2000–01National Moot Court Competition, Petitioner’s Regional Best BriefAward: Nick Lewandowski, Lindsey Beck, Professor Brad Clary,coach, and Carrie Smith.

The winners of the 2000–01 ABA Moot Court, Best Brief Awardwere: Anna Restovich and Teresa Lavoie.

Amy Jerdee at the American Trial Lawyers Association conven-tion in Montreal receiving the Elaine Osborne Jacobson awardfor her work in health care law.

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• Entering Class: 235 students• 46% female• 22% students of color• Average age is 25 years.• Age range: 21–53• 33 states and 7 foreign countries

represented• 121 colleges and universities

represented

LSAT 75th/50th/25th percentiles:165/163/160 (the median, which is 163, is at the90th percentile nationally)

GPA 75th/50th/25th percentiles:3.8/3.6/3.4


Rachel S. BrassTheodore M. BuddBenjamin Jon ButlerThomas D. CobbAmos CohenAbigail E. CrouseJennifer DellmuthJulie Anne ErskineTracy FisherMark Andrew HamreHeather Nicole HoeckeLaura JohnsonAllison Michele KohlerChristopher LeffJames R. MayerKatherine A. MoerkeJesse R. OrmanChris PolkingSteven John PurcellHeather Dawn RedmondMichael RosowEric Carl SjodingErin C. SkoldJeffrey R. SprainMichael G.Tierney

Order of theCoif, 2001

Heather Mills (’01) enjoys a visit with herScholarship benefactor, Patricia Johnson, andhusband, Lyle R. Johnson.

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Curtis Kellar (’40) exemplifies qualities the Universityof Minnesota Law School strives to foster in its stu-dents. He is a deeply thoughtful man, an accom-

plished lawyer, a man of keen intellect, integrity, courtesy,charm and compassion. Kellar retains the characteristic Min-nesota lack of pretense, despite being a sophisticated citizen ofthe world. He served his country with distinction as a gun-nery officer in the U. S. Navy during World War II where hewas awarded the Bronze Star and the American DefenseMedal with Fleet Clasp. Following retirement after a legalcareer at Mobil Oil Corporation he engaged in pro bonowork for a charitable foundation.The Law School is pleasedto recognize his long-standing support and to honor him bynaming the Faculty Law Library in his honor.

Born in Albert Lea in 1916,Kellar is a fourth generationMinnesotan, whose great grand-father was a territorial pioneer.His father, Horatio EllsworthKellar, was a banker. In memoryof his father, Curtis Kellar in1996 created The HoratioEllsworth Kellar DistinguishedVisitors Program. Reflecting hisfather’s many interests, the lec-ture series is interdisciplinary,connecting emerging issues inthe law with other disciplines

such as art, drama and literature. Prior to that he had estab-lished a fund in memory of Professor William L. Prosser.

Kellar’s leadership, big-picture thinking and business acumenwere revealed early in life. In 1936 as an undergraduate stu-dent in the College of Liberal Arts at the University, Kellarwas elected unanimously by the All-University Council tohead the Freshman Week Committee that had become heavi-ly in debt. Under Kellar’s management, the Committee wasreorganized, its deficit was paid off and it ended up with a$10,000 surplus. Kellar enjoyed playing clarinet in the concertand marching bands and wrote for the Ski-U-Mah. He gradu-ated from the Law School in 1940 as a member of the Min-nesota Law Review.

Following admission to the bar, Kellar thought it “might be agood idea to have a commission in one’s hip pocket.” Heapplied for and was accepted into an intensive four monthNavy training program leading to a commision in March1941 as Ensign in the Naval Reserve. Kellar volunteered laterfor active duty. He requested assignment to a cruiser in theFar East and typically, Kellar jokes, the Navy ordered him to abattleship in the United States, the U. S. S.Washington, thenunder construction at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. In March1942 the Washington joined the British Home Fleet in ScapaFlow escorting convoys to Murmansk and Archangel. Kellar’s

early days in Minnesota prepared him better than most of hisshipmates for the bitter cold north of the Arctic Circle where,“we wore everything we could find.”

The German super-battleship, the Von Terpitz, a sister ship ofthe Bismarck, had eluded the British in the North Sea andescaped to a Norwegian fjord where she was poised to attackthe convoys. The Washington was the only Allied ship deemeda match for the Von Terpitz and her mission was to engage theenemy ship if it sortied. It never did.

In June 1942 The Washington returned to the states for repairsand then set sail for the South Pacific.“We had very few shipsout there in 1942,” says Kellar,“compared to the Japanesefleet.” Guadalcanal lay ahead.To halt the Japanese advance inthe Pacific, the Americans had to take this tiny island.Theylanded in August 1942 and the occupation was completed inFebruary 1943, after some of the most desperate and savagefighting recorded. In less than two months, the U. S. Navy andthe Imperial Japanese Navy clashed in five major engagementsas the Japanese sought to reinforce its troops.The turningpoint came in a midnight battle on November 13th and 14thwhen the Washington, South Dakota and four destroyers turnedback a major Japanese task force after heavy losses on bothsides.

Following the battle for Guadacanal, Kellar was assigned to a2,100 ton destroyer, then under construction, as gunnery offi-cer. His ship, the Caperton, joined the fast carrier task forces inthe South Pacific in 1943 where U. S. naval power hadincreased dramatically. Kellar recalls that the fleet stretchedover the horizon and was capable of putting 1,200 planes intothe air. Kellar fought in six battles. His understated comment,“We slept very little.”

In July 1944, Kellar received word that his father had died andrequested a month’s emergency leave.The day he left his shipthe Captain summoned him to the bridge. Kellar was read aCitation for Heroic Achievement and awarded the Bronze Star.

The day before his leave expired Kellar received orders trans-ferring him to the Naval Training Station in Norfolk,Vir-ginia, where he became Officer in Charge of the C. I. C.School. Kellar was a Lieutenant Commander at the end ofthe war and, although invited to make the Navy his career,decided to stay with the law. He had served for five years inevery theatre of war.

He returned to Minnesota in 1945 and visited then-DeanEverett Fraser to seek help in finding a job.The Dean invitedhim to lunch at the Faculty Club and mentioned that if hewere interested in teaching he might be able to get him afellowship at the University of Michigan Law School. Kellarwas appreciative but said he felt he first would like someexperience practicing law, if possible with a Wall Street law

Faculty Law Library is Named in Honor of Curtis B. Kellar


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Clinton Schroeder (’55)received the 2001 HennepinCounty Bar Association’sProfessionalism Award onMay 24, 2001 in recognitionof his advocacy for pro bonoefforts by lawyers and hislifelong commitment toproviding personal pro bonorepresentation. Mr.Schroeder, a tax lawyer andpartner with Gray PlantMooty law firm, has spentmore than 30 years directlyrepresenting the poor andleading the legal communi-ty’s efforts to fund legal ser-vices.While Minnesota StateBar Association President, hehelped create and successful-ly promoted the mandatoryInterest on Lawyer’s TrustAccounts (IOLTA) and thefirst legislative funding forcivil legal services.Together,these two programs nowprovide over one-third oflegal services funding annu-ally in Minnesota.

The Association gives theaward annually to a memberof the bench or bar whobest exemplifies the pursuitof the practice of law as aprofession, including a spiritof public service and promo-tion of the highest possiblelevel of competence, integri-ty and ethical conduct.

Richard L. Pemberton(’57) received the MinnesotaState Bar Association Profes-

sional Excellence Award atthe convention luncheon onJune 3, 2001. Recipients ofthe award are selected fortheir substantial efforts toadvance the legal professionand the administration ofjustice. Mr. Pemberton is asenior partner in the lawfirm Pemberton, Sorlie,Rufer & Kershner.

Joyce A. Hughes (’65)received the Honorary Doc-tor of Laws degree fromCarleton College in North-field, Minnesota on June 9,2001. She also was recog-nized for her 30-year careeras a law professor and themany “firsts” in her life dur-ing a Minority Alumni Din-ner at Northwestern Univer-sity School of Law on April13, 2001.

She was the first Blackwoman to: graduate from theUniversity of Minnesota LawSchool; clerk in the UnitedStates District Court in Min-nesota; teach at Northwest-ern University School ofLaw; and the first Blackwoman to achieve tenure inany department at North-western University. ProfessorHughes graduated from theUniversity of Minnesota LawSchool in 1965, where shewas a member of the Min-nesota Law Review. She servedas a clerk to United StatesDistrict Court Judge Earl R.

firm.With Dean Fraser’s support, he got a job with formerSecretary of War Henry L. Stimson’s firm,Winthrop, Stimson,Putnam & Roberts, where he was assigned to the corpora-tion department.

After several years with the Stimson firm and a brief period atW. R. Grace & Co., he joined the Office of General Counselat Mobil Oil Corporation as the corporate and financiallawyer. Later he moved to the international division where heoversaw legal matters in the marketing and refining areas ofMobil’s foreign interests. His responsibilities took him to anumber of interesting places, including Singapore, HongKong, Southern Africa, India,Australia and, of course, Europe.

Curtis Kellar retired from Mobil in 1981 as an Associate Gen-eral Counsel. Following retirement he devoted his time to probono work for the Innovative Design Fund, a charitable foun-dation established by Bonnie Cashin to provide financial assis-tance to talented young designers. Bonnie Cashin, whobecame his close companion, was a ground-breaking fashiondesigner. Her international impact and renown were celebrat-ed by a retrospective of her work mounted by the FashionInstitute of Technology after her death in January 2000.

The Kellar family apparently carries the genes for a renais-sance sensibility and high-level accomplishment. Kellar’s oldestdaughter Lucia is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College andearned her Ph.D. in psychology at Columbia University. Sheis a senior psychologist at Bellvue Hospital where she directsthe Neuropsychology Assessment Service. She also maintains aprivate psychotherapy practice. His son, Bill, former marathonrunner who now does the triathlon, had successful careers inmarketing at Mobil and as a financial adviser at Morgan Stan-ley Dean Witter;At 50 he decided to leave the broker’s lifeand is preparing for a new career in alternative medicine. Hisdaughter, Betsy, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Arizonaand is on the faculty of the University of New Mexico whereshe teaches language, literacy and sociocultural studies in theCollege of Education. His daughter, Martha, went to Mt.Holyoke College where she majored in English and waselected to Phi Beta Kappa. She became Director of theRockefeller University Press where she initiated the Press’smove into book publishing, later resigning to get married. Mr.Kellar’s oldest son, Curtis Jr., is deceased. �


Joyce A. Hughes

Clinton Schroeder

Alumni Recognitions

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Larson following Law Schooland joined the law firm ofHoward, LeFevere, Lefler &Hamilton in 1967. Shebecame an Associate Profes-sor in 1971 at the Universityof Minnesota Law Schooland then joined the facultyof Northwestern UniversitySchool of Law in 1975.

Professor Hughes teachesEvidence, Civil Procedure,Immigration Law and a sem-inar on Refugees and Asy-lum. In addition to herscholarship, she served asGeneral Counsel for theChicago Transit Authorityfrom 1984 to 1988. She alsowas the first Black woman tohold that position.

Judge Diana E. Murphy(’74), United States Court ofAppeals for the Eighth Cir-cuit, was selected as one oftwo joint recipients of the19th Annual Edward J.Devitt Distinguished ServiceAward. Judge Murphy wasappointed to the appellatebench in 1994 by PresidentClinton, having served in thestate and federal trial courtssince 1976. Judge Murphy’sprofessional activities includepast service as an organizerand president of the FederalJudges Association and Chairof the American JudicatureSociety (AJS). She organizedand chaired the Eighth Cir-cuit Gender Fairness TaskForce and currently chairsthe United States SentencingCommission. Under herleadership the SentencingCommission is again func-tioning as designed followinga prolonged period of inac-tivity. Judge Murphy hasbeen described by colleaguesas “brilliant, intellectuallyhonest, and jurisprudentiallyobjective;” in dealing withpeople,“kind, considerate,understanding, and fair;”“inmanner, soft-spoken, solici-tous, and persuasive.”

The Devitt Award, namedfor the late Edward J. Devitt,is made annually and honorsArticle III judges whosecareers have been exemplary,measured by their significantcontributions to the admin-istration of justice, theadvancement of the rule oflaw and the improvement ofsociety as a whole.

Thomas Heffelfinger (’75)was appointed the UnitedStates Attorney for the Dis-trict of Minnesota. He was apartner with Best and Flana-gan when he received theappointment and previouslywas a partner with Bowmanand Brook from 1993 to2000. Mr. Heffelfinger servedas the United States Attorneyfor the District of Minnesota(1991–1993), as AssistantU.S.Attorney (1982–1988),and an Assistant HennepinCounty Attorney(1976–1982).

Married couple GrantAldonas (’79) and PamOlson (’80) both recentlyreceived appointments inthe federal government.

Grant Aldonas was con-firmed as Under Secretaryfor Internal Trade on May10, 2001.As head of theInternational Trade Adminis-tration at the United StatesDepartment for Commerce,he is responsible for manag-ing 2,400 ITA employeesand advising the Secretary ofCommerce on international


Grant Aldonas

trade issues. Mr.Aldonas alsohas been appointed by Presi-dent Bush to serve on theCongressional ExecutiveCommission on the People’sRepublic of China.The pan-el monitors human-rightsabuses in China among otherduties. He recently joined thefaculty of the GeorgetownUniversity Law Center as anAdjunct Professor of Law,teaching courses on the reso-lution of international tradedisputes. Prior to joining theDepartment of Commerce,Mr.Aldonas was Chief Inter-national Trade Counsel tothe Chairman of the SenateFinance Committee and for-merly a partner with theWashington, D.C. law firm ofMiller & Chevalier.

Pam Olson is the DeputyAssistant Secretary (Tax Poli-cy) for the United StatesDepartment of the Treasury.She has supervisory responsi-bility for the legal advice andanalysis provided by theOffice of Tax Policy withregard to all aspects ofdomestic and internationalissues of Federal taxation,including legislation propos-als, regulatory guidance andtax treaties. She also was thefirst woman to chair the TaxSection of the American BarAssociation in 2000. Prior toher appointment as DeputyAssistant Secretary, she was apartner in the Washington,D.C. office of Skadden,Arps,Slate, Meagher & Flom. �

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Kurt V. BlueDogClass of 1977

Kurt V. BlueDog is the Managing Attorney for the lawfirm of BlueDog, Olson & Small and has been in the

active practice of Federal Indian law for the past 24 yearsalmost exclusively on behalf of Indian Tribal governments andthe various instrumentalities of Tribal government.

Mr. BlueDog was born andraised on the Sisseton-WahpetonSioux Indian Reservation inSouth Dakota.After he graduat-ed from the University of SouthDakota in 1972, he served as aCommissioned Officer in theArmy paratroopers. He receivedhis J.D. degree from the Univer-sity of Minnesota Law School in1977. He worked for the non-profit Native American RightsFund (NARF) in Boulder, Col-orado as a Staff Attorney priorto the past fifteen years of pri-

vate practice. BlueDog, Olson & Small law firm is involved inlitigation, administrative and legislative activity and serves asGeneral Counsel to several American Indian tribes.

Mr. BlueDog has served as an adjunct professor at WilliamMitchell College of Law and Hamline University Law Schoolin St. Paul, Minnesota.Additionally, he serves as the ChiefJudge for three different Tribal Court systems. He is a presentand former board member for numerous organizations includ-ing the National Indian Gaming Association,Augsburg Col-lege, the Minnesota Zoo, the Minnesota Innocence Projectand the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Project.

Patrice H. HalbachClass of 1980

Patrice H. Halbach is a Vice President in the Global TaxBusiness Unit of Cargill, Incorporated.

She is responsible for managing tax aspects of acquisitions,dispositions, corporate restructuring and on-going businessoperations. Cargill has 80,000+ employees in 60 countriesand over 500 subsidiaries.

Ms. Halbach received her B.A. in History in 1975 and herjuris doctorate, cum laude, in 1980 from the University ofMinnesota, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.Afterlaw school, she worked as an attorney at Fredrikson & Byronfrom 1980 to 1983. She joined Cargill in 1983 as a Tax Attor-ney. She was selected as the Vice President in the Global Tax

Kurt V. BlueDog

Business Unit in 1998 and hasresponsibly for Cargill’s world-wide tax, planning, audit &compliance and oversees thestaff of 100 tax professionals in20 countries.

Ms. Halbach has served as2000–01 Chairman of the Fed-eral Committee of the TaxExecutives Institute. She is aConference Board ExecutiveCommittee Member for theCouncil of Tax Executives. Sheis a member of the Cargill Uni-

versity of Minnesota Steering Committee and a member ofthe Law Alumni Association Board of Directors.

James T. HaleClass of 1965

James T. Hale is Executive Vice President, General Counseland Corporate Secretary of Target Corporation. He is

responsible for legal and board matters, government affairs,corporate audit and Target Brands, Inc., the Corporation’sbrand management and compliance company. During his 20year tenure at Target he also has had responsibility for corpo-rate real estate and strategic planning as well as geographicand consumer research.

Mr. Hale received his B.A.degree from Dartmouth Col-lege, summa cum laude, and was amember of Phi Beta Kappa andhis J.D. from the University ofMinnesota Law School in 1965,summa cum laude, where he wason the Board of Editors forMinnesota Law Review and is amember of the Order of theCoif. He was law clerk to ChiefJustice Earl Warren, UnitedStates Supreme Court from1965 to 1966. He joined theMinneapolis law firm of Faegre

& Benson in 1966, where he specialized in corporate financ-ing and mergers and acquisitions. In 1979, he became VicePresident and Director of Corporate Growth and later VicePresident-Control and Administration at General Mills, Inc.He joined Target Corporation in 1981.

Mr. Hale is a member of the Board of Directors of the Carl-son School of Business and the Ordway Center for the Per-forming Arts. He is past Chairman of the Board of Twin Cities

James T. Hale

Patrice H. Halbach

Distinguished Alumni

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Public Television and a Past Trustee and member of the Exec-utive Committee of the International Council of ShoppingCenters. He was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the MinnesotaLaw School from 1967 to 1973 and from 1989 to 1991. He isa frequent lecturer on issues relating to retailing.

Thomas E. HolloranClass of 1955

Thomas E. Holloran is a professor of Management in theGraduate School of Business at the University of St.

Thomas in Minneapolis.

Mr. Holloran completed his B.S.degree in 1951 at the Universityof Minnesota and served in theUnited States Navy during theKorean War from 1952 to 1954.He received his J.D. degree fromthe University of MinnesotaLaw School in 1955, where hewas President of the senior classand an Associate Editor of Min-nesota Law Review.After gradua-tion, he was a law clerk for Jus-tice Thomas Gallagher of theMinnesota Supreme Court.

He joined Fredrikson & Byron law firm as an associate in1955 and became a partner in the firm in 1957. In 1967, Mr.Holloran became Executive President, and in 1973 President,of Medtronic, Inc., one of the world’s leading medical tech-nology companies. He was elected the Chairman and ChiefExecutive Officer of Dain Rauscher, Inc. (formerly Inter-Regional Financial Group, Inc.) in 1976. He has served asProfessor of Management at University of St.Thomas, Gradu-ate School of Business since August of 1985.

He sits or has sat on boards of public and privately held cor-porations including Medtronic,ADC Telecommunications,MTS Systems Corporation, National City Bancorporation,Flexsteel Industries and Malt-O-Meal and has served on theboard of numerous not-for-profit organizations including theBush Foundation and Center for Ethical Business Cultures.He has been a trustee for the College of St.Thomas, Collegeof St. Scholastica, and Independent Siberian University inNovosibirsk, Russia. Mr. Holloran also has engaged in publicservice as: Mayor of Shorewood, Minnesota and Chair of theMinneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission. Helectures and consults in the field of corporate governance.

Edward S.WilsonClass of 1974

Edward S.Wilson is a Ramsey County District CourtJudge.

Judge Wilson received his B.A.from Macalester College and hisJ.D. in 1974 from the Universityof Minnesota Law School. Hewas on the 1973–74 Dean’s Listand served on the Black Ameri-can Law Student Association.After graduation, Judge Wilsonworked as a Research Analyst atthe University of Minnesota. Hebecame a Staff Attorney at theLegal Aid Society of Minneapo-lis in 1976, where he represent-ed low-income persons on awide range of civil legal matters.

In 1979 he accepted a Staff Attorney position with theNeighborhood Justice Center in St. Paul.There he represent-ed indigent clients in district, municipal and juvenile courtsapproximately 200 criminal cases per year. Judge Wilson alsotaught Litigation Practice Class at Hamline University Schoolof Law from 1985 to 1987. In 1987, Edward Wilson wasappointed a District Court Judge in Ramsey County.

He is a member of the Minnesota Sentencing GuidelinesCommission, the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers andthe National Bar Association. He is a principal organizer ofthe Summit/University Frogtown Sentencing Circles Initia-tive, which is a collaboration between the African-Americancommunity in St. Paul’s ward and Ramsey County Courts.The project is designed to use innovative methods to sentenceoffenders.

Judge Wilson served as a member of the Board of Directors ofHallie Q. Brown Community Center, Inc. from 1985 to 1996and has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of ProjectRemand, Inc. He volunteered with Save Our Sons, an organi-zation that facilitates mock trials for at-risk youth andthrough the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, SomaliaRefugee Project traveled to Kenya to examine United StatesImmigration and Naturalization Service policies towardSomali refugees in February 1992. In 1994 he was honoredwith the Minnesota Minority Lawyers Association JudicialService Award. �

Thomas E. Holloran

Edward S. Wilson

Distinguished Alumni

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1950C. Paul Jones, Professor ofLaw at William MitchellCollege of Law, retired at theend of the 2000–01 academ-ic year after teaching atWilliam Mitchell College ofLaw for nearly 50 years.Thelaw school Board of Trusteesestablished the C. Paul JonesPublic Service Fund Endow-ment in honor of ProfessorJones. Interest from theendowment will be used tohelp William Mitchell gradu-ates employed in public ser-vice positions repay lawschool loans.

1954Thomas Wolf has beenboard certified as a TrialAdvocate by the NationalBoard of Trial Advocacy(NBTA). NBTA is the onlynational board certificationfor trial attorneys.

1955Clinton Schroederreceived the 2001 Profes-sionalism Award from theHennepin County Bar Asso-ciation.This annual award isgiven to a member who bestexemplifies the pursuit oflaw as a profession, demon-strating a sprit of public ser-vice, competence, integrityand ethical conduct. Mr.Schroeder is a partner at thelaw firm Gray Plant Mooty.

1958William E. Mullin waselected President-elect of theMinnesota Chapter of theAmerican Academy of Mat-rimonial Lawyers.

1961Justin Dingfelder has beenelected President of TheFoundation of the FederalBar Association.

1962

Michael P. Sullivan, formerPresident and Chief Execu-tive Officer, and currentChairman of the Board forInternational Dairy QueenInc., has been appointed OfCounsel to the firm of GrayPlant Mooty.

1963Thomas A. Clure has beenappointed a Duluth SeawayPort Authority Commission-er by the Duluth CityCouncil. Clure is a share-holder of Clure Eaton LawOffice and an active memberof several organizationsincluding the Maritime LawAssociation of the U.S. LakeSuperior Marine Museum,First Witness Child AbuseCenter, Duluth’s PioneerNational Bank, and theAmerican Bar Association.

Stephen E. Lee was nameda partner at Jennings, Strouss& Salmon in Arizona.Stephen has practiced tax,corporate and transactionallaw, most recently withBrown & Bain. He has alsobeen a Professor of Law atArizona State University.

1965James T. Hale,Target Exec-utive Vice President, hasjoined the Tennant Compa-ny’s Board of Directors.Ten-nant Company manufacturesnon-residential floor mainte-nance, outdoor cleaningequipment, and related offerings.

Professor Joyce Hugheswas honored at a minorityalumni dinner held atNorthwestern UniversitySchool of Law with many of her former and currentstudents celebrating her 30-year career and manyachievements.

Rolf Nelson was recertifiedas a Certified Elder LawAttorney (CELA) by theNational Elder Law Founda-tion. Nelson became Min-nesota’s first CELA in April1996, and is one of only 200CELAs in the United States.

1967Ronald Henke has beennamed director of theDepartment of Veteran’sAffairs (VA) National Com-pensation and Pension Ser-vice. He is responsible fordirect management of VAprocedures to provide finan-cial assistance to veterans,their dependents and sur-vivors, and will also keep VAprograms in line withchanges in law, court rulingsand emerging veteran needs.

Class Notes

Michael P. Sullivan

Rolf Nelson

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CENTENARIANS

Our records show the following alumni havereached the golden age of 100 or more years.Best wishes to all of you!

John H. Farley 1918Alfred H. Winter 1924Lewis E. Solomon 1924Reuben G. Lenske 1924Alfred A. Burkhardt 1926Benno F. Wolff 1927

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1968

Harry Sieben was votedone of the Top 100 SuperLawyers by attorneys in aMinnesota statewide survey,and has been listed in theSuper Lawyer survey everyyear since 1996. He is presi-dent of the personal injurylaw firm of Sieben, Grose,Von Holtum & Carey.

1970James Crassweller joinedthe litigation department ofRider, Bennett, Egan &Arundel. He practiced in thelitigation department ofDoherty, Rumble and Butlerfor more than 25 years.

Neil Hamilton has joinedthe University of St.ThomasSchool of Law as Director ofthe Mentor Program andProfessor of Law. He hasserved for 21 years asTrustees Professor of Regu-latory Policy at WilliamMitchell College of Law.

Patrick Hart was namedPresident-elect of the Min-nesota Banker’s Association(MBA) at the annual MBAconvention, held this year atMadden’s Resort on GullLake in the Brainerd LakesArea. Mr. Hart is the presi-dent of Paragon Bank inWells, Minnesota and hasserved his community inmany ways, especially byproviding legal assistance tothe needy.

Allan A. Ryan, Jr. recentlyaccepted the position ofDirector of IntellectualProperty at Harvard BusinessSchool Publishing. He previ-ously served in the Office ofthe General Counsel at Har-vard University.

1971Robert C. Dawes has beenan editor of Social SecurityAdvisory Service, published byJames Publishing, Inc.([email protected]) since 1998.He also continues to main-tain his private practice, spe-cializing in Social Securitydisability law and ColoradoWorkers’ Compensation lawin the Durango, Colorado.

Richard Mark was namedPresident-elect of Briggs andMorgan. He will assume theposition of President in early2002 for a five-year term.He currently chairs thefirm’s litigation departmentand has served on the Boardof Directors, as Vice Presi-dent, and as Business Devel-opment Chair.

1972Philip S. Garon has beennamed one of 15 lawyers inthe nation to receive the2001 Burton Award forexcellence in legal writing.Mr. Garon authored “Maxi-mizing Shareholder Value:The Funco Experience”which reviewed the law of

corporate mergers in thecontext of the 2000 acquisi-tion of Minnesota-basedFunco Inc. by Barnes &Nobles’ Babbage’s unit.

Phyllis Reha was appointedby Governor Jesse Ventura tothe Public Utilities Commis-sion. Reha is an Administra-tive Law Judge with theOffice of AdministrativeHearings, where she special-izes in public utility, trans-portation, and environmentalregulation.

Dennis Verhaagh publishedan article in the WisconsinDefender entitled,“Will Wis-consin Adopt the DaubertRule?”

1973Randall D.B.Tigue, pastPresident and NationalChairman of the FirstAmendment Lawyers Associ-ation received the “Hal Free-man Freedom Isn’t Free”award from the Free SpeechCoalition at their 14th annu-al “Night of the Stars” cere-mony. The honor is awardedto individuals that the Coali-tion believes have waged sig-nificant First Amendmentbattles.The Free SpeechCoalition’s gala honors thosewho have advanced thecause of free speech throughtheir work, communityeffort, or political action.

1974Gary J. Haugen was againelected to the GovernanceCommittee of Maslon Edel-man Borman & Brand.

Diana Murphy, judge forthe United States Court ofAppeals Eighth Circuit, wasthe recipient of this year’sDevitt Award.

1975Thomas Heffelfinger hasbeen nominated and con-firmed for United Statesattorney for the District ofMinnesota.

Lawrence Johnson wasnamed Anoka County Dis-trict Judge by Governor JesseVentura. He is a shareholderin the firm of Barna, Guzyand Steffen and specializes inbusiness law.

1976John B. Blatz has beennamed Vice President ofEnvironment, Health andSafety for the Great LakesChemical Corporation. Inthis position, he will overseethe company’s broad-basedhealth and safety initiativesand lead the company’s envi-ronmental compliance activities.

Fred M. Soucie has beenboard certified as a TrialAdvocate by the NationalBoard of Trial Advocacy(NBTA). NBTA is the onlynational board certificationfor trial attorneys.

1977Aviva Breen is retiringfrom her position as Directorof the Legislative Commis-sion on the Economic Statusof Women.As head of thestate agency responsible forresearching and promotingwomen’s issues at the State

Class Notes

Richard Mark

Philip S. Garon

Harry Sieben



Legislature, she has advocat-ed support for women’sissues including pay equity,domestic violence, parentalleave, child support, andchild care.

Peter Riley was electedVice President of the Min-nesota Trial Lawyer Associa-tion at the Minnesota TrialLawyer Association’s annualconvention in Alexandria,Minnesota. He is with theMinneapolis law firm ofSchwebel, Goetz and Sieben.Mr. Riley has practiced for24 years and specializes incases representing victims ofinjury or wrongful death.

Paul Weingarden wasnamed a Super Lawyer byMinnesota Law and Politicsand Twin Cities BusinessMonthly.

1978

Kareen Ecklund has beenelected chair of the Min-nesota Humanities Commis-sion (MHC). MHC is anon-profit organization pro-viding educational humani-ties programs and resourcesfor all Minnesotans. Shecontinues to work at the lawfirm of Felhabier, Larson,Fenlon and Vogt.

Todd Freeman gave severalpresentations at the 30thAnnual Advanced AmericanLaw Institute-American BarAssociation Course of Study,

“Representing Professionaland Personal Service Orga-nizations: Qualified Plans,Other Employee Benefits,Taxation, Insurance, andHealth Care.” He practices inhealth law.

Charles E. Lundbergreceived the 2001 MinnesotaDefense Lawyers AssociationPresident’s Award in recogni-tion of his leadership andservice on the Amicus Curi-ae Committee and consistentsupport of the MinnesotaDefense Lawyers Association.He is with the firm Bassford,Lockhart,Truesdell & Briggs.

1979Grant Aldonas has beenappointed by President Bushto serve on the Congression-al Executive Commission onthe People’s Republic ofChina, monitoring humanrights abuses in China. Mr.Aldonas is the Undersecre-tary of Commerce for Inter-national Trade.

David R. Cleveland hasbegun his own law practice,in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Mark K. Maher has beenappointed shareholder in thefirm of Smith, Gendler,Shiell, Sheff, Ford & Maher.He serves as a commercialproperty tax litigation attor-ney, and has 20 years experi-ence in the public sector,

most recently with the Hen-nepin County Attorney’soffice.

1981Bradley Forrest, a partnerat Schwegman, Ludberg,Woessner & Kluth, waselected President of theMinnesota Intellectual Prop-erty Law Association. Hespecializes in patent andtrademark protection forelectronic and computerarchitecture, hardware, andsoftware.

Carol Taylor has beennamed Vice President-Coun-sel at the Amerisure Insur-ance Corporate Headquar-ters in Farmington Hills,Michigan.Amerisure Insur-ance is one of the nation’slargest regional property andcasualty insurance groups.

1982William Harvey was elect-ed a partner with Brobeck,Phleger & Harrison.

Steven Thai was named aSuper Lawyer by MinnesotaLaw and Politics and TwinCities Business Monthly.

1983David Bolt was voted oneof the top 25 plaintiff ’s per-sonal injury lawyers by Min-nesota Law and Politics Super-

Lawyer poll, and was one ofthe top 25 Alternative Dis-pute Resolution Lawyerslisted in Law and Politics2001 Guide to Who’s Who inADR. David practices inAnoka, Minnnesota withSoucie, Buchman and Bolt.

B.Todd Jones joined thefirm of Robins, Kaplan,Miller & Ciresi and works incommercial litigation includ-ing the areas of intellectualproperty and electroniccommerce. He was formerlya partner at Greene Espellaw firm and served as Unit-ed States Attorney in Min-nesota from 1997 to 2000.

1984John T. Buchman wasnamed a Super Lawyer byMinnesota Law and Politicsand Twin Cities BusinessMonthly for demonstratedexcellence in his practice oflaw. Mr. Buchman workswith the Soucie, Buchman &Bolt law firm in Anoka,Minnesota.

Brad Keil has beenappointed Chief ExecutiveOfficer of OppenheimerWolff & Donnelly law firm.Mr. Keil specializes inemployee-benefit and execu-tive compensation law.

Sheryl Walter was appoint-ed Acting Assistant AttorneyGeneral for LegislativeAffairs at the United StatesDepartment of Justice.

Clark T.Whitmore wasagain elected to the Gover-nance Committee of MaslonEdelman Borman & Brand.

1986Karim El-Ghazzawy wasnamed a Super Lawyer byMinnesota Law and Politics andTwin Cities Business Monthly.

Class Notes

Carol Taylor

Kareen Ecklund

Mark K. Maher



Elena Ostby has openedthe law firm of Elena L. Ost-by and Associates.The newfirm will concentrate in theareas of labor and employ-ment law, immigration law,and alternative dispute resolution.

Andy Tanick joined thelabor and employment groupof Rider, Bennett, Egan, &Arundel.

Anne Weyandt was namedPresident of Anoka-Hen-nepin Technical College bythe Minnesota State Collegesand Universities Board ofTrustees. She has served asinterim president since May2000.

Z.Alex Zhang will super-vise the Shanghai, Chinaoffice recently opened byDorsey & Whitney. Zhang isa partner with Dorsey &Whitney, a native of Beijing,and holds law degrees fromChina and from the Univer-sity of Minnesota.

1987Jonathan Jay was named apartner with Patterson,The-unte, Skaar & Christense.

1989John M. Dornik has beenelected Treasurer of theHennepin County Bar Asso-ciation. He is a shareholderwith Mackenzie and Halbergand specializes in personalinjury, medical negligenceand product liability litigation.

Jon H. Hoppensteadt wasaccepted for inclusion inMarquis Who’s Who inAmerica, 56th Edition, 2002for his work promoting theacquisition of practical mate-

rials in libraries for the useof survivors of crimes, theiradvocates and their lawyers.He has been successful atgetting materials of thisnature into libraries in Min-nesota, Nevada, Florida andCalifornia and with affectinginformational policy towardsvictims’ rights in many otherstates including New YorkStates, North Carolina andNew Jersey. He submitted308 pieces of his correspon-dence on this issue of accessto practical information tothe Library of Congress fortheir acquisition. He hopesthat these will be used bylegislators, scholars, and thegeneral public for newapproaches to providinginformation to survivors.Atpresent, he is volunteering attwo public libraries, PalmHarbor Library and EastLake Community Library, inPalm Harbor, Florida.

Natalie Tyrrell was electedthe first woman judge forthe North Las Vegas JusticeCourt Department 2. Previ-ously, she served as Justice ofthe Peace pro tempor and asan alternate MunicipalCourt Judge.

1990Eric Cooperstein is nowAssistant Senior Counsel inthe Office of the Monitor ofPigford v.Veneman, a classaction by African-Americanfarmers against the UnitedStates Department of Agri-culture. Cooperstein former-ly served as a Senior AssistantDirector of the Office ofLawyers ProfessionalResponsibility.

1992Hitoshi Hasegawa is a newpartner with Morrison &Forester at their Tokyooffice.Gary O’Connor started theEdward Coke AppellateAmerican Inn of Court inWashington, D.C., the firstInn of Court in the countrythat specializes in appellatepractice. He currently is theSecretary/Treasurer of theInn. Members include someformer Solicitors General ofthe United States, as well asjudges of the D.C. and Fed-eral Circuit Courts ofAppeals. In addition, Mr.O’Connor had two lawreview articles published:“Did Decide or ShouldHave Decided: Issue Exhaus-tion and the Veterans Bene-fits Appeals Process,” inAmerican University LawReview in 2000 and “Ren-dering to Caesar:AResponse to ProfessorO’Reilly,” in AdministrativeLaw Review Spring 2001.

Kevin Wolf was promotedto partner with St. Louis-based Bryan Cave. Mr.Wolfspecializes in corporate com-pliance and defense as well asinternational trade.

1993Gena M. Chapman wasnamed a shareholder of Kin-ney and Lange in January of2001. She continues to prac-tice Intellectual Property liti-gation and related counseling.

Paul P. Kempf was nameda shareholder of Kinney andLange in January of 2001.He continues to practiceIntellectual Property litiga-tion and related counseling.

Timothy Pramas hasjoined the St. Paul office ofthe law firm of Felhaber,Larson, Fenlon & Vogt. Hislitigation focuses on com-mercial disputes, productsliability, insurance and classaction matters.

1994Jane Barton (Jacicmore)currently is an associate withthe law firm Twomey, Lath-am, Shea & Kelley located inEastern Suffolk County,Long Island, New York.

Matt Forsgren has beenelected shareholder in thefirm of Briggs and Morgan.

Class Notes

Matt Forsgren

Timothy Pramas



Mike Moberg has beenelected shareholder in thefirm of Briggs and Morgan.

Timothy Mulrooney hasjoined Henson & Efron ofMinneapolis. He was for-merly an attorney with theHennepin County Attorney’soffice.

Steve Ryan has been elect-ed shareholder in the firm ofBriggs and Morgan.

1995Lisa Montague Ingalls hasbeen appointed GeneralCounsel for Intrepid USAInc., a national home careand supplemental medicalstaffing agency headquar-tered in Edina, Minnesota.

1996Nancy A. Newark hasjoined the firm of Burns &Levinson. She focuses herpractice on employment lawand represents both employ-ers and employees in allaspects of the emplpymentrelationship and litigationprocess.

Nicole (Hendricks) Put-nam joined the law office ofEdward L. Daniels as anassociate in April 2001 and ispracticing litigation with afocus on domestic relations,personal injury, real estateand agricultural law. She wasdeputy district attorney inLinn County, Oregon fortwo years, and married inJune 2000. Ms. Putnam livesin Albany Oregon with herhusband Michael.

Nadeem A. Siddiq andWajeeha G. Siddiq arepleased to announce thebirth of their son, Qasim A.Siddiq. Qasim was born onJuly 13, 2001 with a birthweight of 8 lbs. 6 oz. Inaddition, Nadeem has joinedthe Bank of Montreal Head-office Law Departmentlocated in Toronto, Canadawhere he will practice in theareas of Corporate and Con-sumer Finance. Mr. Siddiqwas formerly of the Torontooffice of Donahue Ernst &Young.

Charles D.Wilson joinedthe law firm of Gray PlantMooty as a member of theReal Estate Practice Group,with litigation experience inrepresenting businesses andindividuals in commercialand residential real estatetransactions.

1997Mark Petersen has beennamed Co-chair of theSecurities Law Section ofthe Hennepin County BarAssociation. He practicessecurities law and mergersand acquisitions.

Roshini Rajkumar becameConsumer Reporter inMarch 2001 at WTVF-TVin Nashville. She joined thestation as General Assign-ment Reporter in Novem-ber 2000.

David M.Walter joined theHouston office of Bracewell& Patterson in the RealEstate, Energy, and FinanceGroup.

1998Andrew M. Baese hasjoined the law firm of Briggs& Morgan in their EstatePlanning section.

Jeffrey A. Ellis has joinedthe law firm of Gray PlantMooty and practices in theareas of taxation, businesstransactions and general cor-porate law.

Sharon English spent thefirst two years after gradua-tion caring for her son afterhe became disabled due to avaccination injury. She isnow a staff attorney for the20th Judicial Circuit inFlorida which encompassesLee, Collier, Charlotte,Glades and Hendry counties.Ms. English also is workingon a masters degree in Infor-mation Studies from FloridaState University.

Lisa R. Gordon has beennamed associate at the lawfirm of Kilpatrick Stocktonin Raleigh, North Carolina.

Rinky (Manson) Parwanihas joined the entertainmentlaw firm of Pierce & Gor-man in Beverly Hills, Cali-fornia.

1999Michael Hellwich joinedthe Minneapolis office ofRobins, Kaplan, Miller &Ciresi as an associate.

Carl H. Johnson wasadmitted to the Alaska Barand recently began work asan associate at Landye Ben-nett Blumstein in Anchor-age. Since his firm representsprimarily Alaska Native cor-porations and Tribal govern-ments, Mr. Johnson will bepracticing primarily in busi-ness law, corporate law, envi-ronmental law and Indianlaw-related issues. He recent-ly published an article in theAlaska Law Review entitled

Lisa R. Gordon

Carl H. Johnson

Class Notes

Mike Moberg

Steve Ryan



“A Comity of Errors:WhyJohn v. Baker is Only a Tenta-tive Step in the Right Direc-tion,” and is serving as theVice President of the YoungLawyers Section of theAnchorage Bar Association.Mr. Johnson also has beenactive in his photography,volunteering as a photogra-pher for the SpecialOlympics World WinterGames, serving on the Boardof Directors for the AlaskaSociety of Outdoor &Nature Photographers andpublishing a photographyweb site at www.carlhjohn-son.com.

Jason Ruedy is working forAllingham Law Offices andalso is pursuing his goal ofowning a hunting and fish-ing resort in Alaska. He spe-cializes in intellectual prop-erty, real estate, and labor lawissues.

Krista Schwarting wasadmitted to the Alaska Barand recently began work asan associate at Jermain Dun-nagan & Owens in Anchor-age, where she will be prac-ticing primarily in educationand employment law. Sheedits the Anchorage BarAssociation page in theAnchorage Journal of Com-merce, is a member of theSoroptimists International ofCook Inlet and has beenserving as an instructor andadvisor for the AnchorageYouth Court. Ms. Schwart-ing recently completed hermaster’s degree in journal-ism, writing her thesis ontelecommunications law. Shealso has been active in theAnchorage theater scene,performing in four plays incommunity and professionaltheaters, and was a reader atthe Edward Albee Last Fron-tier Theater Conference inValdez.

2000Benjamin W. Johnsonjoined Dorsey & Whitney’sBillings, Montana office inthe Tax Department.

Brad Lovelace is workingwith the law firm of WingertGrebing Brubaker & Ryanand practices in the areas of wills, trust and estate litigation.

Roshan Rajkumar hasjoined the Minneapolisoffice Bowman & Brooke.

Eric J. Riensche joined theTwin Cities law firm of Fel-haber, Larson, Fenlon andVogt. He will focus his prac-tice on litigation.

Christina A. Svalstadjoined Hightower & Ruddin Miami, Florida as an asso-ciate in the litigation department. �

Eric J. Riensche

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By Joan S. Howland, Roger F. Noreen Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Information and Technology

The Law School community was very sorry to learn ofthe death in March of Joseph Levstik, the foreign,comparative and international law librarian at the

University of Minnesota Law Library from 1964 to 1986. Mr.Levstik was a superb reference librarian and an equally out-standing collection development librarian.

Born in Yugoslavia in 1916, Mr. Levstik received a classicaleducation, typical for students studying in the elite EasternEuropean institutions prior to World War II.A review of Mr.Levstik’s transcript from the Classical Gymnasium at St.Vidand Ljubljano indicates that he consistently received marks of“Excellent” in a wide range of courses including mathematics,history, religion, astronomy, Latin, Greek, French, German,Slovenian, and Serbo-Croatian. Upon completion of his stud-ies at the Gymnasium in 1937, he entered the Law School atthe University of Ljubljana. He graduated with highest hon-ors in 1943, and began his legal career as a lawyer with theYugoslavian postal department. However when the Commu-nists took control of the government in 1945, Mr. Levstikdecided to move to Austria and eventually to Italy. In 1948 heimmigrated to Canada where he worked initially in the agri-cultural industry and later in business. He came to the UnitedStates in 1962 to attend the graduate program in library sci-ence at Western Michigan University. Upon receiving hismasters’ degree in 1963, he was hired as a cataloger at theHarvard Law Library.

In 1964 Mr. Levstik was recruited by Professor BrunoGreene for the position foreign, comparative, and interna-tional librarian at the University of Minnesota Law Library.Although Mr. Levstik had been employed at Harvard for lessthan a year, Earl Borgeson, the Director of the Harvard LawLibrary, encouraged him to pursue this new professionalopportunity. Professor Borgeson, a 1949 graduate of the Uni-versity of Minnesota Law School, had worked in the LawLibrary as a student and was cognizant of the depth andbreadth of the library’s international collections. He alsoknew that Mr. Levstik, with his legal training and excellentlanguage skills, would be able to successfully meet the chal-lenge of serving a research oriented faculty and student body.Mr. Levstik joined the University of Minnesota Law Librarystaff on March 1, 1964.

During his 22-year tenure at the Law Library, Mr. Levstik wasthe primary selector for international, foreign, and compara-tive law materials. He was particularly astute at identifying

new areas of growth, and was responsible for building theLibrary’s collections of primary and secondary sources fromAfrica, South America, and Asia. He also oversaw the Library’sefforts to purchase statutory materials, case law, and treatisesfrom all major jurisdictions throughout the world.Accordingto the Law Library’s Curator for Rare Books and SpecialCollections Katherine Hedin,“Just as Arthur Pulling shouldbe given credit for developing the Library’s rare book collec-tion, Joseph Levstik should receive credit for developing ourtruly global collection of primary and secondary sources.”

Mr. Levstik’s personnel file at the Law Library contains lettersof appreciation from generations of faculty, students, and visit-ing scholars who benefitted from his reference skills and indepth knowledge of both civil law and common law.The let-ters are replete with comments about Mr. Levstik’s languageabilities, and the ease at which he could translate materialswritten in a wide range of languages including Italian, French,German, Russian, Greek, and Latin.

Professor George Grossman, who was Director of the LawLibrary from 1973 to 1979, commented recently,“The Uni-versity of Minnesota has one of the finest foreign, compara-tive, and international law collections in the country, and formany years Joe Levstik maintained it without any assistance.He carried the burden gracefully, with a row of sharpenedpencils always arrayed on his desk, and the Law School isricher for his efforts.”

The current Law Library staff members, who had the privi-lege of working with and learning from Mr. Levstik, speak ofhim with high praise and great fondness. He is remembered asa dedicated librarian who “knew the collection like the backof his hand” and “dropped everything to help every patronwho came to his office.” Several members of the staff describeMr. Levstik as a “walking encyclopedia” who could answerquestions on law, world history, religion, philosophy, art histo-ry, poetry, and gardening with equal ease. He also is describedas “a true gentleman” who exemplified “’old world’ charmand courtesy.”

Mr. Levstik is survived by his wife Giovanna. He will beremembered by the Law School community with the greatestrespect, fondness, and gratitude. �

In Memoriam TributesJoseph Levstik, Foreign, Comparative and International LawLibrarian from 1964 to 1986.

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In Memoriam Tributes

Hiram S. MendowClass of 1915

Hiram Z. Mendow diedat the age of 107 in San

Diego, California on May 11,2001 after an eight decadecareer as a lawyer. He workedfive days a week in his Min-neapolis office until hisretirement at the age of 100.

Judge Mendow was born inMinneapolis in 1893, the sonof a Romanian fruit andjunk peddler. He graduatedfrom the University of Min-nesota Law School in 1915and, after a brief career as acriminal law attorney, joinedthe United States Army AirCorps in 1917. He returnedto the practice of law duringProhibition. He was appoint-ed a Municipal Court Judgein Anoka County by Gover-nor Preus in 1923, but Judge

Mendow declined reap-pointment because he haddecided he would ratherhelp keep people out of jailthan send them there.Although he returned to aprimarily civil law practicein Minneapolis, over theyears he also representedgangsters and bootleggers,including Al Capone and theKid Cann mob, and litigatedlarge antitrust cases againstcompanies such as GeneralElectric and RCA. He alsowas active in the anti-defamation work of theB’nai B’rith.

In an interview in 1994,Judge Mendow stated thathis most important criminalcase was one in which “hewas assigned by the court torepresent an American Indi-an charged with murderduring the 1935 Minneapo-lis market riots.The defen-dant had been pictured inTime magazine wielding abaseball bat above a pronefigure.” He proved his client’sinnocence by producing the‘victim’ alive and well andalso won a subsequent suitagainst Time magazine.

Mr. Mendow was prede-ceased by his wife Josephineafter 75 years of marriageand is survived by his daugh-ter,Abigail Mendow Sandsof San Diego. �

Hiram S. Mendow

Irving S. ShapiroClass of 1941

Irving S. Shapiro died atthe age of 85 on Thurs-

day, September 13, 2001.

The eldest son of Lithuan-ian-born immigrants whosettled in Minnesota, IrvingShapiro began working inthe family dry-cleaningshop when he was eight.He credits the chance toattend the University with changing his life. Mr. Shapirograduated from the Law School in 1941, and in less than twoyears joined the Department of Justice. He and CharlotteFarsht (Social Work ’38) were married in 1942; they have twochildren, Stuart and Elizabeth.

He went to Washington after law school to practice with theOffice of Price Administration and in 1943, he joined theCriminal Division of the Justice Department. In 1951 IrvingShapiro began his career with E.I. duPont de Nemours &Co., and in 1974 became the first person in the then-173-year history of the world’s largest chemical firm to rise to thetop through a career in law and the first non-family memberto head DuPont.After retiring from DuPont in 1981, Shapirojoined the law firm of Skadden,Arps, Slate, Meagher andFlom and was credited with bringing Skadden Arps into thevanguard of the movement to integrate business practices intothe legal profession. He was still Of Counsel to the firmwhen he died.

Mr. Shapiro was elected chairman of the Business Round-table, a group of well-known chief executives often calledupon for advice from Washington. He also was one of Presi-dent Jimmy Carter’s personal advisers, and was a strategist informing the legislative and political response to the 1977 boy-cott that some of the Arab countries placed on Americancompanies doing business with Israel.

Irving Shapiro has been a lifetime supporter of the LawSchool. He established the Law School’s Irving S. ShapiroFund, which maximizes opportunities to advance teaching,learning and research by providing discretionary funds to thedean of the Law School. In 1998 he made an outright gift of$1,000,000 to create an endowment from which emergencyloans are made to law students in times of crises. His service tothe University includes: National Chairman of the campaignto establish the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of PublicAffairs,Trustee Emeritus, University of Minnesota Foundation,and National Chair for the Law School's annual Partners inExcellence fund drive. He was presented with the Universityof Minnesota’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 1975.

Mr. Shapiro is survived by his wife, Charlotte, of Greenville,Delaware; his son, Stuart, of New York City; his daughter,Elizabeth, of Rockland, Delaware; and four grandchildren. �

Irving S. Shapiro




Stephen F. KeatingClass of 1942

Stephen E. Keating passedaway on August 27, 2001

in Wayzata, Minnesota. Hewas 83.

Mr. Keating earned both hisB.S. and J.D. degrees fromthe University of Minnesota,where he was President ofMinnesota Law Review and amember of the Order of theCoif.After graduation, heworked as an agent for theFederal Bureau of Investiga-tion and served as a Navalcombat intelligence officerin the Pacific during WorldWar II. He entered privatepractice after the war withthe firm of Otis, Faricy andBurger in St. Paul.After a32-year career at Honeywell,he retired in 1981. Followinghis retirement from Honey-well, he became Chairmanof the Executive Committeeat Toro, on whose board hehad served since 1966.

He was a director of Gen-eral Mills, Dayton HudsonCorporation, First BankSystem, PPG Industries,Donaldson Company, andECOLAB, Inc. He wasactive in a number of Min-nesota non-profit organiza-tions: 1968 First Presidentof Urban Coalition ofMinneapolis, Chairman ofthe Board of Trustees ofthe Mayo Foundation,Chairman of the Minneso-ta State Arts Board, Presidentof the United Way of Min-neapolis, and President of theMinnesota Business Partner-ship. He also served as amember of the: Board ofTrustees of University ofMinnesota Foundation,Board of the National Unit-ed Way, Nature Conservancyand Board of McKee Gar-dens in Vero Beach, Florida.

He is survived by his wife,Mary Davis Keating; son,Stephen Keating & wifeIsabel, Long Lake, Minneso-ta; daughter, ElizabethSchroeder & husband FrankBaltimore, Maryland; son,Thomas Keating & wifeKaren, New York City;daughter, Mary Keating,Wayzata, Minnesota; grand-children, Stephen and JessieKeating, Kate, Libby andLuke Schroeder, David andAnne Keating; brother-in-law,Wilson Davis, Keokuk,Iowa; and numerous niecesand nephews. �

William EdwardMussmanClass of 1946

William E.“Bill” Muss-man died on Sunday,

February 11, 2001 at 5:00a.m. at Memorial Hospitalin Modesto, California. Hewas 82.

Bill Mussman served in theU. S. Marine Air Corp.from1942 to 1945, rising tothe rank of Captain, andreceiving many honorsincluding the distinguishedflying cross.After the war, hereturned to the University ofMinnesota, receiving his J.D.in 1946. His Law School dis-tinctions included serving aseditor of the Minnesota LawReview, and being appointedto the Order of the Coif.

William Edward Mussman

Upon receiving his J.D., hewas admitted to the Min-nesota bar, and joined thefaculty of the MinnesotaLaw School as a professor.

In December of 1948 hemarried the former JanetSkittone of Modesto, Cali-fornia and in 1949, he andhis wife moved to San Fran-cisco to begin the practice oflaw. Initially, he became aProfessor at the University ofCalifornia’s Boalt Hall. In1950 he was admitted to theCalifornia bar and joined thelaw firm of Pillsbury, Madi-son & Sutro in San Francis-co, where over the next 25years, he rose to become asenior partner in that firm.In 1975, he left the privatepractice of law to becomeVice President and Directorof Standard Oil Company ofCalifornia (now ChevronCorporation) to head thecompany’s legal department.

Upon his retirement inMarch 1984, he returned toprivate practice in San Fran-cisco, co-founding the firmof Carr & Mussman. His sonWilliam Mussman, III joinedwith him at the firm shortlythereafter.

In 1999, Bill and Janet Muss-man sold their Bay Areahome of 33 years to movewith their entire family toModesto and its rural atmos-phere. Bill Mussman & hisson continued in practicetogether, forming Mussman& Mussman, a business liti-gation law firm.

He is survived by his wife,Janet Jonn; his daughter AnnMussman; his son WilliamMussman, III and daughter-in-law, Carol Lynne; hisbrother, Robert Mussman ofMoraga, California; and threegranddaughters, KatherineAnn, Laura Lynne and Eliza-beth Ashley. �

Melvin J. PetersonClass of 1949

Melvin J. Peterson diedon May 26, 2001 in

Long Beach, California atthe age of 76.

Judge Peterson attended theUniversity of Minnesota LawSchool after he served as aGerman interpreter in theUnited States Army duringWorld War II. He receivedhis law degree in 1949 andlater served as the ChiefCounsel for the State ofMinnesota ConservationDepartment from 1955 to1957. Governor OrvilleFreeman appointed him tothe position of HennepinCounty Probate Judge in1958. Judge Peterson retiredearly from the bench due tocomplications of injuries sus-tained when he was pusheddown an escalator in 1988 atHennepin County Govern-ment Center. He served as aProbate Judge for 31 years.

He is survived by his wife,Olive; son Melvin Jr. ofMaple Grove; daughtersSharon of St Paul and Deb-bie of Long Beach; stepsonsThomas Rowlette of Min-neapolis and GeraldRowlette of Long Lake;brother Lester of St. Cloud;sisters Edith of Milaca andEllen Rasmussen; threegrandchildren and six step-grandchildren. �




By Barbara Neilson

Administrative Law Judge Jon L. Lunde passed away onMarch 31, 2001, after a long struggle with cancer. He

was 58.

Judge Lunde earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from theUniversity of Minnesota in 1967 and went on to graduatecum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in1971. He was a member of the Minnesota Law Review from1969 to 1971.After graduation, he worked for the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development. He leftHUD in 1973 and was in private practice with the firm ofWatson and Lunde until 1975. He then returned to publicservice, becoming an Unemployment Compensation Judgefor the Minnesota Department of Economic Security. In1979, Judge Lunde joined the Minnesota Office of Adminis-trative Hearings (OAH) as an Administrative Law Judge,where he remained for the next 22 years.

Judge Lunde’s extensive experience, quick legal mind, andthoughtful consideration of issues made him an outstandingjudge. He was well respected by his colleagues as well as theattorneys who appeared before him. He was assigned themost complicated cases handled by the OAH, including theSt. Paul firefighters human rights case, lengthy physicianlicense revocation hearings, and nursing home rate cases withcomplicated accounting disputes.After he was diagnosedwith cancer, Judge Lunde dealt with his illness in a remark-able way. He accepted his illness without bitterness, contin-ued to work as long as possible, and maintained his extraor-dinary sense of humor.

At the OAH’s twentieth anniversary celebration in 1995,Judge Lunde received the Award of Judicial Excellencenamed in honor of Administrative Law Judge Bruce D.Campbell, his long-time friend and fellow Law School alum-nus. In 1996, Judge Lunde received the Career AchievementAward from the Public Law Section of the Minnesota StateBar Association.

Judge Lunde is survived by his wife of 36 years, Rochelle; hischildren, Holly (Bill) Lindsey of Egan and Zachary andKristofor of St. Paul; his granddaughter, Cassandra; his mother,J. Helen Hanson of San Diego, California; his sister, Sally Wiseof Phoenix,Arizona; and many other in-laws, nieces,nephews, and friends. �

Jon L. Lunde Class of 1971A Special Tribute to a Classmate and Friend



Class of 1915Honorable Hiram Z.MendowLa Jolla, CAMay 11, 2001

Class of 1931Fred H. HolmstenShreveport, LAFebruary 9, 2001

Class of 1933Waldo F. MarquartMinneapolis, MNAugust 11, 2001

William F.ThielMinneapolis, MNApril 15, 2001

Class of 1934Sheldon S. LarsonWinthrop, MNMay 6, 2001

Class of 1935John J. McBrienFarmington, MNJune 5, 2001

Class of 1936Eileen H. BuckleySt. Petersburg, FLJuly 25, 2001

Class of 1937Leslie A. GrantChevy Chase, MDApril 18, 2001

Class of 1938Karl F. DiessnerEdina, MNSeptember 21, 2001

Class of 1940Robert C. HoltzeSt. Louis Park, MNDecember 31, 2000

Theophil RusterholzSt. Paul, MNAugust 20, 2001

Class of 1941Frank B. KrausePonte Vedra Beach, FLApril 4, 2001

Irving S. ShapiroGreenville, DESeptember 13, 2001

Class of 1942Stephen F. KeatingWayzata, MNAugust 27, 2001

Class of 1947John E.VoldenArlington Heights, ILApril 3, 2001

Class of 1948Michael J.WelshSt. Louis Park, MNMarch 14, 2001

Class of 1949Honorable Ralph J.ErickstadBismarck, NDJuly 12, 2001

Honorable Melvin J.Peterson, Sr.Plymouth, MNMay 26, 2001

Class of 1950Richard C. CrossDunnellon, FLMarch 2, 2001

Roy A. SchwappachHopkins, MNFebruary 21, 2001

Class of 1951Robert W. OelkeEdina, MNMarch 23, 2001

Class of 1952Arthur C.WangaardEdina, MNMay 16, 2001

Class of 1954Perry G.VoldnessBloomington, MNMay 22, 2001

Class of 1955David J. RochefordEdina, MNFebruary 1, 2001

Class of 1958Ross M. MuirRochester, MNSeptember 10, 2001

In MemoriamClass of 1960George S. LivermorePhoenix,AZAugust 6, 2001

Class of 1964James C. CarrollEdina, MNDecember 31, 2000

Class of 1965David A. JohnsonBrooklyn Center, MNJune 11, 2001

Class of 1968Robert L. LoweRoseville, MNAugust 15, 2001

Class of 1971Honorable Jon L. LundeFalcon Heights, MNMarch 31, 2001

Class of 1973Raymond D. RossiniPlymouth, MNJuly 15, 2001


University of MinnesotaLaw Alumni Association

OfficersRobert M. Kommerstad ’52, PresidentStephen F. Befort ’74, Treasurer

DirectorsTerm Ending 2001Catherine L.Anderson ’73, Minneapolis, MNRonald D.Aucutt ’75, McLean,VAWalter A. Bowser ’74, St. Paul, MNDennis R. Homerin ’68, Chicago, ILR.Ann Huntrods ’81, St. Paul, MNChristopher J. Kopka ’98, Minneapolis, MNRobert M. Moore ’69, Rochester, MNThomas M. Newcomb ’76, Vienna,VARonald J. Schutz ’81, Minneapolis, MNMadge S.Thorsen ’77, Minneapolis, MNKenneth R.White ’82, Mankato, MNTimothy Y.Wong ’86, St. Paul, MN

Term Ending 2002Philip C. Carruthers ’79, St. Paul, MNJoseph T. Dixon ’69, Minneapolis, MNR. Hugh Magill ’85, Chicago, ILErica D. McGrady ’96, Washington, D.C.Laura H. Miles ’47, Wayzata, MNMartha A. Mills ’65, Chicago, ILThomas J. Moore ’74, Denver, COLynn M. Roberson ’79, Atlanta, GABrian J. Schoenborn ’95, St. Cloud, MNMichael R. Sieben ’72, Hastings, MNMichael P. Sullivan ’62, Minneapolis, MNDavid L.White ’72, Phoenix,AZ

Term Ending 2003Timothy W. Bellows ’75, Punta Gorda, FLStacy L. Bettison ’99, Chicago, ILChristopher J. Chaput ’85, New York, NYA. James Dickinson ’65, St. Paul, MNNeil Fulton ’97, Pierre, SDPatrice A. Halbach ’80, Minneapolis, MNRonald A. Jacks ’59, Chicago, ILRobert M. Kommerstad ’52, Pasadena, CAEdmundo D. Lijo ’86, St. Paul, MNMitchell W. Quick ’90, Milwaukee,WIMary S. Ranum ’83, Minneapolis, MNJohn R.Tunheim ’80, Minneapolis, MN

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