Author: misty

Summer Exam Accommodation Need

TO:                  Law Student Body

FROM:            Ivy Banks, Director of Student Services

SUBJECT:      Special Exam Accommodations

Please notify me in the Dean’s Office, c/o College Programs Specialist Misty D. Franklin, if it is necessary for you to have any special exam accommodations for exams.  You must notify the Dean’s Office no later than:

Fall Exams – First Week of November
Spring Exams – First week of April
Summer Exams – One week before the end of Session

Please use the form on the next page of this memo.  We will review all special exam accommodations for the term, make exam arrangements and notify students before the last instructional day of room assignments and arrangements.  Please keep in mind that your exams will be held on the same day as the schedule exam, unless otherwise noted.

 REGARDING TEMPORARY DISABILITIES:  

 If you do not already have documentation in the Dean’s Office, please submit a medical excuse from your attending physician with your response/request for a temporary, one-time accommodation. 

REGARDING PERMANENT OR LONG-TERM DISABILITIES: 

Students with permanent disabilities must be registered with the University’s Office of Accessibility.  Contact information for that office may be found at:

 http://www.uakron.edu/access/index.php

 REGARDING ALL TEMPORARY, PERMANENT, OR LONG-TERM DISABILITIES:

 If you require accommodations for special exam assistance, please complete the information on the next page of this document.  Please be specific about the accommodations you will need given a particular exam format (e.g., a reader and time and a half – multiple choice; a computer and double time – essay format).  This specific information, along with the documentation about your disability, which may already be on file in the Dean’s Office, will allow us to make informed decisions about the accommodations you need.

YOU  MUST  FILL  OUT  THIS  FORM  EVEN  IF  YOU  HAVE  RECEIVED  SPECIAL  ACCOMMODATIONS  IN  PREVIOUS  SEMESTERS.    Should we not receive your request by the deadline date, we will assume you have no accommodation needs for this exam period.

c:            Elizabeth A. Reilly, Interim Dean
               William S. Jordan, Associate Dean

 

SPECIAL  EXAM  ACCOMMODATION  REQUEST ~

 (Please return to Law Dean’s Office, c/o College Programs Specialist Misty D. Franklin)

 Student’s Name________________________________________________________________

 Mailbox # ________________          Email address ___________________________________

 Full-time Student ____          Part-time Student ____         Cell Phone:                                       

 My disability is:         _____  Temporary (medical excuse from my attending physician is attached)

                                     -or-

                                     _____  Permanent or Long-Term                                              

                                                            _____  I have registered with UA Office of Accessibility

                                                                        -or-

                                                            _____  I plan to register with UA Office of Accessibility by _________

                                                                                                                                                                  (date)

Accommodations Requested:

 1.   __________________________________________________________________________

 2.   __________________________________________________________________________

 3.   __________________________________________________________________________

 4.__________________________________________________________________

 EXAM INFORMATION: 

Course

Professor

Unaccommodated

Exam Length

Exam Date

and Time

Exam Format
 

 

        
 

 

        
 

 

        
 

 

        
 

 

        

 

Grade Posting Schedule

Students, all grades that were not entered prior to May 14, 2013 will not be viewable until May 29, 2013.  If you have outstanding grades you are waiting for please check back to Zipline on May 29th.  Thank you.

Law Faculty Policy with Respect to Non-take-home-exams

The faculty on April 18, 2013, adopted the following policy with respect to non-take-home exams:

 First, that cell phones (and tablets) must be turned off and put away.

 Second, that headphones may not be used.

 However, it is within the discretion of individual faculty members to deviate from this policy.

Balancing the Impact of Regulation: The Case of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Balancing the Impact of Regulation:
The Case of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Presented by

William D. Mason, Deputy General Counsel
The Lubrizol Corporation

Thursday, April 25, 2013
Student Union, Room 312
The University of Akron

Reception: 4:45-5:15 P.M.
Talk will begin at 5:15 P.M.

The talk is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP to 330.972.5182

Sponsored by:
The Depatment of Economics and The Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics

William Manson is Deputy General Counsel of of The Lubrizol Corporation (Wickliffe, Ohio) and the leader of the Regulatory Practice Section in Legal.  Since joining Lubrizol in 1995, Mr. Manson has provided legal advice in a wide range of matters from questions regarding contracts and product distribution to the resolution of complex commercial and patent disputes.  He is active in providing guidance on export law and competition law questions.

Prior to joining Lubrizol, Mr. Manson spent 10 years in private practice with the law firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue in Cleveland where he was a member of the litigation section.

Mr. Manson received his BA and MA in Economics from Bowling Green State University in 1974 and 1975 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Virigina Tech in 1980.  From 1978 to 1982, Mr. Manson was an economics professor at The Ohio State University, publishing professional articles in the areas of Industrial Organization and Public Choice.  He was an Olin Fellow at the Center for Law and Economics at Emory University from 1982 to 1985 and received his law degree, JD, with distinction, from the Emory University School of Law in 1985, where he was an Articles Editor on the Emory Law Journal.

 

Summer I Intersession Course Opportunity

You have the opportunity to pick up 3 credits of a very interesting course during the Intersession between spring semester and the beginning of Summer I:

Space still available in a fun 2-week biodiversity/climate/energy course this May

Professor Robbins is offering a fun (low-intensity) 3-unit course this May 13-25 that will provide the basics of biodiversity law, the impact of climate change on biodiversity (not covering emissions regulation, which is too complex for a mini-course), and the impact of biodiversity law on the development of renewable energy and hydraulic fracturing. The course is offered M-F 1pm to 5pm for those two weeks, with an 8-hour take-home exam on Saturday the 25th (no more material than a 3-hour exam, just more time to think it through, with word-limits so you don’t feel like you have to race to write the most in all 8 hours). Due to the daily class timing, reading will be constrained to about a 1-1 ratio (hours reading per hours class time, which is traditionally 3-1), and thus far lighter than usual for a 3-unit course. Professor Robbins will cover the readings in a classroom setting (lecture/discussion) in the first half of each day, provide a short break, and then engage the class in practical group exercises for the remainder of the time. Weather permitting, the latter portion will take place outside. The course offers a pleasant, brief, and informative (must-know material in this changing world) way to earn 3 units.

Here is the listed course description:

Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy: Emerging Legal Issues
Professor Kalyani Robbins

What do lawmakers, real estate developers, energy companies, urban planners, land managers, and industrial regulated parties all have in common? They all face a major turning point in our relationship with the planet – changes in the climate, sea level rise, rapidly evolving biodiversity needs, and a boom in renewable energy and natural gas extraction, both of which face conflicts with endangered species protection – a turning point that is beginning to alter the options available to each within their respective fields. This course will cover biodiversity law, climate change law, and the emerging relationship between the two. We will then proceed to review the various areas of renewable energy (which, of course, is a favored avenue toward climate mitigation), as well as the newly revamped hydraulic fracturing technology, all through the lens of conflicts with the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that are hindering development in these areas. We will discuss ways in which the move toward renewable energy might be accomplished without butting heads with the rather fierce ESA. The text for the course is The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management (Foundation Press University Casebook Series, Third Edition, 2013, John Copeland Nagle, J.B. Ruhl & Kalyani Robbins, eds.).