Category: Student Organization Announcements

ACJS/Akron Bar – Criminal Procedure – Getting Better – March 29, 3-6 pm, Akron Bar Association

WHERE:  Akron Bar Association Offices, 57 S. Broadway

WHEN:  Tuesday, March 29, 2:45 –6 p.m.

WHAT:  Professor Mark Godsey, Director of the University of Cincinnati Law School-based Ohio Innocence Project will be speaking about SB 77, Ohio’s best in the country Innocence Protection legislation and the work of the Innocence Project; Former OACDL President Ian Friedman will be speaking about Ohio’s new discovery rule; and finally, our own Professor Jane Moriarty will be speaking about how courts are responding to the National Academy of Sciences Report on Forensics. 

COST:  Free to Akron Law Students

Registration Form: Click here to download

For More Information: Contact Kassim Ahmed, Crystal Kenmuir, or Professor Koosed (mkoosed@uakron.edu)

IPTLA – Open Forum with Paul Michel, Former CAFC Chief Judge – Mar. 23, 12-1, W-210

IPTLA will hold an open forum with Paul Michel, former CAFC Chief Judge on March 23 from 12-1 in W-210. All are welcome. Food will be provided!

Paul Michel was nominated to the Federal Circuit by President Ronald Reagan on December 19, 1987 to fill a seat vacated by Judge Phillip Benjamin Baldwin. The Senate confirmed Michel’s nomination on February 29, 1988, and he assumed the office on March 8, 1988. Judge Michel received a B.A. in 1963 from Williams College and a J.D. in 1966 from the University of Virginia. He was admitted to practice in Pennsylvania in 1967, in U.S. district court in 1968, in U.S. circuit court and before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1969. He was assistant district attorney in the Office of the Deputy District Attorney for Investigations in Philadelphia from 1966 to 1974, as well as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve from 1966 to 1972. From 1974 to 1975 he was the Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and from 1975 to 1976 was assistant counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He then became the deputy chief and Koreagate prosecutor for the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice from 1976 to 1978. He became the associate deputy U.S. attorney general in 1978, and in 1981 became counsel and administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter until his judicial appointment. He has also been adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Law School and John Marshall Law School since 1991.

Fed. Society – Born in the USA: Is it Enough? – March 22, 12:15 pm, L-151

Join The Federalist Society for a debate on the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.  “Born in the USA: Is it Enough?” will be held on March 22nd in Room 151 at 12:15pm. Ken Klukowski, fellow and senior legal analyst at the American Civil Rights Union, and Prof. Richard Aynes, Akron Law’s John F. Seiberling Chair of Constitutional Law and Director of our Constitutional Law Center, will tackle the highly charged question of whether the children of illegal aliens are citizens and other issues surrounding the birthright citizenship debate. 

FREE CHICK-FIL-A WILL BE SERVED!

APILS – Movie Screening: “The Dhamma Brothers” – Mar. 23, 11:15 am and 6:30 pm, L-134

“East Meets West in the Deep South” Akron Public Interest Society will host a screening of The Dhamma Brothers, a 2009 documentary based on a radical meditation-based prison reform project in Alabama. Light snacks provided.

The movie will screen at 11:15 am and 6:30 pm in room L-134 on March 23.

See Trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA8XFEyeMi8

Synopsis: An overcrowded, violent maximum-security prison, the end of the line in Alabama’s prison system, is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence live over 1,500 prisoners, many of whom will never again know life in the outside world. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding program of silent meditation lasting ten days and requiring 100 hours of meditation.

“East Meets West in the Deep South” Akron Public Interest Society will host a screening of The Dhamma Brothers, a 2009 documentary based on a radical meditation-based prison reform project in Alabama. Light snacks provided. See Trailer here: ht“East Meets West in the Deep South” Akron Public Interest Society will host a screening of The Dhamma Brothers, a 2009 documentary based on a radical meditation-based prison reform project in Alabama. Light snacks provided. See Trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA8XFEyeMi8 Synopsis: An overcrowded, violent maximum-security prison, the end of the line in Alabama’s prison system, is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence live over 1,500 prisoners, many of whom will never again know life in the outside world. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding program of silent meditation lasting ten days and requiring 100 hours of meditation.tp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA8XFEyeMi8 Synopsis: An overcrowded, violent maximum-security prison, the end of the line in Alabama’s prison system, is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence live over 1,500 prisoners, many of whom will never again know life in the outside world. But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding program of silent meditation lasting ten days and requiring 100 hours of meditation.