Reminder: Certification of Supervisor forms to report all pro bono and community service hours completed during fall 2012 must be turned in to Professor Joann Sahl or Alisa Benedict O’Brien no later than this Thursday, January 31st!
Class Rankings Update
Class rankings will be posted by this Friday, February 1, at the latest. When class rankings are available, you will receive notification, and they will be posted in the display case in the student lounge, as well as here: http://www.uakron.edu/law/students/studentservices/classrankings.dot
Akron Law students invited and encouraged to attend the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association conference in Cleveland — Feb 22 and 23
The Asian American Bar Association of Northern Ohio is celebrating their twentieth year of existence. In connection with that celebration, they are partnering to hold the APALSA (Asian Pacific American Law Student Association) Midwesten conference at Case Western Reserve Law School on Friday February 22, 2013 and Saturday February 23, 2013. Although the conference is focused toward Asian American law students, non-Asian American law students are welcome and might also profit from the panel sessions and interacting with law students and practicing lawyers that will participate in the conference. Conference organizers have obtained sponsorship from several leading Ohio law firms and the Cleveland Marshall School of Law.
The conference will open on Friday evening with a gala dinner featuring a keynote speech by Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court. Justice Liu’s nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Obama gained much national attention because he was viewed as a potential future nominee to the United States Supreme Court. On Saturday February 23, there will be a variety of panels on various law topics, including a panel featuring Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, Judge Karen Nelson Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit as well Chief Judge Solomon Oliver of the Northern District of Ohio. They will discuss among other topics how law students and lawyers might prepare themselves for a career in the judicial branch and how the profession might increase the representation of minority lawyers, including Asian American lawyers on the judicial bench. Those interested in registering for the conference and the gala dinner can do so at http://law.case.edu/orgs/apalsa/content.asp?id=491
Constitutional Environmental Law Student Writing Competition
The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) would like to remind you about the April 12, 2013 deadline for the eighth annual ELI-ABA-NAELS Constitutional Environmental Law Student Writing Competition. The winner will receive a $2000 cash prize, an offer of publication in ELI’s flagship journal, the Environmental Law Reporter (ELR), and a one-year individual membership to ELI.
An updated copy of the 2012-13 competition notice is pasted below. For more about the competition and past winners, please visit our website: endangeredlaws.org/writingcomp.htm. We look forward to receiving submissions from your law school!
IPTLA – Discussion of IP Mnanagement
The Intellectual Property & Technology Law Association presents: A Discussion of Intellectual Property Management
Come listen to Wayne Watkins, Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Akron and adjunct professor of law, discuss the importance and intricacies of intellectual property management! Food will be provided.
Date: Wednesday, January 30th
Time: 12:15 pm
Where: West Hall, 206