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Faculty Blogs: Trademark Moot Court Team Wins Regionals!

Posted on February 08, 2010
The team of Justin Capps, Mari-Elise Gates and Marilyn Osborn won the Southern Regional competition in the Saul F. Lefkowitz Trademark Moot Court Competition held in Atlanta this weekend. They managed this by being awarded Best Brief and Best Oralists in the region and thus, BEST OVERALL! This year, the teams were coached by Adjunct Professor Jack Wheat, of Stites & Harbison, in preparation for oral arguments...

The Cardinal Lawyer: The third annual Sports and Entertainment Law Society Super Bowl party

Posted on February 05, 2010
tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.law.louisville.edu/cardinallawyer/node/231'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'chenx064'; On behalf of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society, I invite the entire UofL Law community to enjoy Super Bowl LXIV at the third annual SELS Super Bowl party...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Urofsky C-SPAN Interview on Web

Posted on February 01, 2010
Mel Urofsky was interviewed about his Brandeis biography on C-SPAN last October and I completely missed it. (Thanks to Bruce Behney for pointing it out to me.)  Thanks to the magic of the web, it’s now available for viewing.

Faculty Blogs: Kent School Talk

Posted on January 21, 2010
Today I spoke to around 25 students in the psychopathology class in the Kent School of Social Work.  This was my fourth time to address a section of this course, and it was as enjoyable as always.  I was asked many excellent questions by this highly motivated group...

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Faculty Blogs: Cooperation Between Clinical and Legal Writing Professors

Posted on January 21, 2010
Here is the message I sent to my legal writing colleagues today. Colleagues:I'm writing to let you know that the Cooperation Committee has been working on annotating sample student work that has already been annotated by clinical professors.  The goal is to show what types of language legal writing and clinical professors use to explain similar concepts to students, as well as more generally how we tend to comment on student work...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Odds and Ends January 2010

Posted on January 21, 2010
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but I haven’t found of anything to write about.  Here are some brief snippets that I don’t feel like writing whole entries about. The accolades for Mel Urofsky’s biography continue to roll in...

Faculty Blogs: Drafting Effective PowerPoint Slides - Legal Writing Tips

Posted on January 11, 2010
Are you giving a CLE presentation sometime soon?  Thinking about using PowerPoint?  If so, or if you are giving any type of legal training, check out "Drafting Effective PowerPoint Slides," an article by Lars S. Smith and me out this month in Kentucky Bench and Bar...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Congress honors Brandeis

Posted on December 18, 2009
Louis D. Brandeis retired from the Supreme Court on February 13, seventy years ago. To commemorate the occasion, Louisville’s congressman, John Yarmuth, introduced a resolution to the House on the 16th.  It’s a nice resolution–it even managed to sneak in a mention of the Brandeis archives here at the law school...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Law School newsletter, fall semester 2009

Posted on December 09, 2009
tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.law.louisville.edu/cardinallawyer/node/230'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'chenx064'; The Cardinal Lawyer invites you to read the fall 2009 edition of the Law School newsletter. This electronic publication brings you the latest news from all parts of the UofL Law community...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Law School holiday party

Posted on December 08, 2009
tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.law.louisville.edu/cardinallawyer/node/229'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'chenx064'; 'Tis the season to celebrate. The Law School invites you to its annual holiday party. Please join us at the Law School on Friday, December 11, from 5:30 to 7:30 p...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Luke Milligan discusses the Louisville Metro Police Department's use of GPS devices

Posted on December 08, 2009
tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.law.louisville.edu/cardinallawyer/node/228'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'chenx064'; WHAS 11 News recently interviewed Professor Luke Milligan as a source of legal expertise on the the Louisville Metro Police Department's use of GPS devices to track suspects...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Rhapsody in red and black

Posted on December 06, 2009
»  Adapted from the August 2009 issue of Louisville Bar Briefs (Focus on Legal Education)and the September 2009 issue of Kentucky Bench & Bar   « George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, as interpreted in Fantasia 2000...

The Cardinal Lawyer: Law Clinic open house

Posted on November 24, 2009
tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.law.louisville.edu/cardinallawyer/node/226'; tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'chenx064'; The Cardinal Lawyer extends warmest thanks to everyone who attended the University of Louisville Law Clinic's open house on November 19, 2009...

Faculty Blogs: Kudos to the Arbitration Team

Posted on November 19, 2009
Our arbitration team, Lily Chan, Jamie Izlar, Brandon Edwards, and Samantha Thomas, competed in the ABA Student Division National Arbitration Competition regionals at Creighton this past weekend.  Samantha and Brandon competed twice against Chapman. Chapman is known nationally for the competitiveness of its arbitration teams, and one of its teams won the nationals in the arbitration competition last year...

Faculty Blogs: Oral Arguments in Bilski Case

Posted on November 12, 2009
On Monday, November 9, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the Bilski case, which is an appeal dealing with the the question of patentability of business method patents. A friend of mine that is a patent attorney in New York sent me the transcript...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Parallels between Brandeis and Obama

Posted on November 09, 2009
It was Brandeis Day for the Louisville Courier-Journal yesterday (November 8th.) In anticipation of his birthday coming up this Friday, they ran three articles about him. First off, Mel Urofsky excerpted material from his new biography that featured Brandeis’ connection with Louisville...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Harlan and Clarence Thomas? Color-Blind Constitution

Posted on November 05, 2009
I feel like I’ve been neglecting Harlan in this blog lately. There’s actually a technological reason for that. When I started this blog I created 2 Westclip searches: one for Brandeis and another for Harlan.  My email inbox soon started filling up with notices about Brandeis...

Faculty Blogs: The Supreme Court and el Dia de los Muertos

Posted on October 31, 2009
Last year I took a class at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft  on creating shrines for el dia de los muertos, traditionally celebrated November 2 and 3 in Mexico and parts of the U.S.  The class was taught by my friend Suzanne Martino, a gifted assemblage artist...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Urofsky Gives a Talk About His Biography

Posted on October 30, 2009
Mel Urofsky visited Brandeis University on September 29 and gave a speech about his new biography Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. He doesn’t read from the book, but he does do a good job covering all of the themes of the book, while throwing in some good anecdotes...

Faculty Blogs: GeoCities, Dead at 15

Posted on October 27, 2009
Beloved early Internet icon GeoCities died today at the age of 15, slowly smothered by its adoptive parent Yahoo. Web pioneers fondly remember its rich neighborhoods, from the geeky confines of SiliconValley and Area51 to the bohemian districts of Soho, SouthBeach and SunsetCity...

Faculty Blogs: Current Scholarship - Central States Law Schools Association

Posted on October 26, 2009
I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the Central States Law Schools Association's annual conference this past weekend.  Attached are abstract and the slides of the presentation that I gave concerning the application of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to the employment relationship...

Faculty Blogs: Carpe Diem: Privacy Protection in Employment Act

Posted on October 02, 2009
A first draft of my article Carpe Diem: Privacy Protection in Employment Act forthcoming in Akron Law Review is now available.  Here's the abstract.Scholars generally agree that the law in the United States fails to adequately protect employees from technological monitoring by their employers...

Faculty Blogs: Legal Ethics in the Employment Law Context: Who is the Client?

Posted on October 02, 2009
The first draft of my article Legal Ethics in the Employment Law Context: Who is the Client? forthcoming in 37 Northern Kentucky Law Review, Issue 1, is now available.  Here's the abstract.The question is: Who is the client? Many ethical decisions attorneys must make emanate from this basic question...

Faculty Blogs: Industrial Justice: Privacy Protection for the Employed - final draft

Posted on October 02, 2009
The final draft of my article Industrial Justice:  Privacy Protection for the Employed is now available.  Here's the abstract.As the nineteenth century drew to a close, Samuel Warren & Louis D. Brandeis proclaimed that technological change necessitated new protections for the right to privacy...

Faculty Blogs: Review of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Posted on October 02, 2009
The final draft of my book review is now available.  Here's the abstract.Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is a must-read for lawyers and legal scholars in the areas of food law, environmental law, agricultural law, and education law...

Peter Scott Campbell's blog: Brandeis and Insurance Reform

Posted on October 02, 2009
I just finished the chapter in Melvin Urofsky’s biography of Brandeis on Brandeis’ creation of Savings Bank Life Insurance.  What I thought would be a dry chapter instead had a number of interesting parallels to today’s fight over health insurance...

Faculty Blogs: New British Supreme Court Sworn In

Posted on October 01, 2009
 Marking one of the more dramatic reforms in the British legal system, the new Supreme Court was sworn in yesterday.  Replacing the Law Lords on their ridiculously high benches, the new high court is more eye level but no less grand in gold trimmed robes and their £60 million new courtroom in the old Middlesex Guildhall...

Faculty Blogs: Departing Hyphens

Posted on September 30, 2009
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has eliminated thousands of hyphens, Reuters reports.  A new edition of the dictionary has combined some formerly hyphenated words into single words (bumblebee and chickpea) and others into two-word phrases (ice cream and test tube)...

Faculty Blogs: Works In Progress of Interest to Labor and Employment Practitioners

Posted on September 28, 2009
I had the great pleasure of attending the Fourth Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, hosted by Seton Hall University School of Law, this past weekend.  I heard a number of excellent presentations on works in progress...

Faculty Blogs: FREEdom to Read

Posted on September 28, 2009
The American Libraries Association has designated September 26-October 3, 2009 as Banned Books Week. The annual celebration is designed to celebrate and show support for intellectual freedom, the First Amendment, and free and open access to information...

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