Category: General Announcements

Free Webinar on Making the Most of your summer public interest expereince!

Law Students: Save the date!  On Wednesday, April 14th at 3:00pm EDT, NALP and the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) are presenting “Top Ten Tips for a Successful Summer Internship in a Public Interest Office…and What to Avoid.”  This free webinar will help law students make the most of their summer experiences in civil legal services organizations and public defenders’ offices by offering concrete tips from both public interest attorneys with extensive experience in supervising law students and law school public interest advisors who counsel students on maximizing professional development opportunities.  The webinar will be led by Jennifer Thomas, Director of Legal Recruiting for the D.C. Public Defender Service, and Phyllis Holmen, Executive Director of the Georgia Legal Services Program.   

The webinar will be offered live on April 14th and archived for later viewing.  All students and law school career professionals who are interested in participating on April 14th should e-mail Kevin Mills, Director of Membership at NLADA at membership@nlada.org, and provide your full name, e-mail address, and a phone number.  Please type “Student Webinar” in the email’s subject line.

Albert and Vern Oldham Intellectual Property Law Lecture Series presents:

Professor Michael Meurer, Boston University School of Law

“Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers
Put Innovation at Risk”
Thursday, April 15 at 5 p.m. in Room 152

Recent empirical analysis provides conclusive evidence that the patent system today fails, in general, as a system of property rights. Properly functioning property rights give property owners an incentive to efficiently invest in their property. As recently as the 1980s, the patent system provided positive incentives for patent owners to invest in their inventions. And even today it provides positive incentives in some industries, such as the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, and to some groups of inventors, such as independent inventors. However, for most firms—in particular, those firms who account for the largest share of R&D spending—today’s patent system actually decreases incentives to invest in R&D and commercialization. Professor Meurer will discuss empirical evidence that points to the reasons for this failure.

Reception to immediately follow lecture.

“The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Food”

“The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Food” 
April 13 at 3 p.m. in Room 152

The transatlantic dispute over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has brought into conflict the United States and the European Union. Yet the dispute – pitting a largely acceptant US against an EU deeply suspicious of GMOs – has developed into one of the most bitter and intractable transatlantic and global conflicts, resulting in a contested legal battle before the World Trade Organization (WTO). Professor Greg Shaffer will present a chapter from his new book with Oxford University Press, assessing the choices facing the WTO’s judicial body, and the impacts, and the limits, of international pressures on domestic US and European law, politics and business practice.

Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Is Hiring – Hear About Career Opportunities for Lawyers!

Northwestern Mutual Financial Network is hiring and will be here at Akron Law School today, Thursday, April 8 at 12:15 p.m. to talk to students about their internship program and how other lawyers are using their law degrees as financial representatives.  All students are invited and encouraged to attend. Presentation will be in Room W-214. See you there!