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Submissions due by Wednesdays @ 1 p.m. Jessup International Moot Court Information Session Interested in delving into International law research, analysis, writing and oral advocacy? Then try out for the 2009-10 Jessup Moot Court Team. This meeting will explain what the Jessup Competition is and explain the try outs to be held on Monday, March 2nd and Wednesday, March 4th Date/Time/Location: Monday, Feb. 9 @ Noon, Courtroom Next Criminal Justice Speaker is An Internationally Renown Criminologist Richard Wright, Ph.D., Curators Professor, University of Missouri - St. Louis will discuss A Guide to Serious Crime: Studying Active Offenders in St. Louis, Missouri Richard Wright is editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Sociology. He has been studying active urban street criminals, especially residential burglars, armed robbers, carjackers and drug dealers for nearly 20 years. He is the author or co-author of five books and more than 50 scholarly articles and book chapters, including Armed Robbers in Action and Burglars on the Job, which won the 1994-95 Outstanding Scholarship in Crime and Delinquency Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He also is co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Fieldwork. In addition, he has written widely for the popular press, locally, nationally and internationally. He has appeared on numerous nationally broadcast TV news programs in the United States and Great Britain, and he has been interviewed twice on NPR’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross”. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Icelandic Research Council, National Consortium on Violence Research and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His most recent book, co-authored with Bruce Jacobs, Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld, was published by Cambridge University Press in May, 2006. He is researching the influence of respectability on predation and social control among drug dealers in Amsterdam’s red-light district. Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 10 @ 5 p.m., William H. Kniep Courtroom Berlin Summer Program Student Panel Students who attended last summer's program will discuss their experience in Berlin. Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, Feb. 11 @ Noon, Courtroom Legal Research Brown Bag Series European Union Research Learn about the various documents published by the institutions within the European. Union. You will discover how to locate decisions, regulations, directives, and treaties. Has the European Union published a report on the environment, health care, taxation or human rights that might be helpful for a paper you are writing? Come and find out. Sponsored by Omer Poos Law Library. Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, Feb. 11 @ Noon, Room 263 Jessup International Moot Court Dean's Round Do you ever wish you could watch a case in front of the International Court of Justice at the Hague? Dean Lewis, Professor Dore, and Professor Kaufman will form a mock ICJ at a "dress rehearsal" for SLU's Jessup team. Come watch oralists Erin Doyle, David Morin, Osita Onyia and Andrew Wold make their arguments in preparation for the Super Regional Competition in Houston, Texas. Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, Feb. 11 @ 4 to 6 p.m., Courtroom Health Law Distinguished Speaker Eleanor Kinney The Center for Health Law Studies welcomes distinguished speaker Prof. Eleanor Kinney from Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. Professor Kinney is the the Hall Render Professor of Law and the Co-director of the William S. and Chrstine S. Hall Center for Law and Health. Professor Kinney is author or co-author of numerous law review articles, book chapters and book reviews. She recently published Protecting American Health Care Consumers (Duke University Press 2002) and edited the Guide to Medicare Coverage Decision-Making and Appeals (ABA Publishing 2002). Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, Feb. 17 @ Noon, William H. Kniep Courtroom
Candy-Gram Sale! ONLY $1 per candy-gram! Send a treat to your friends and faculty for Valentine's Day! Night at the Blues The Sports and Entertainment Law Association and SBA are hosting a “Night at the Blues.” Come see the Blues take on the Avalanche Feb. 7. There will be pre-game drink specials at Humphrey's at 5 p.m. and Humphrey's will be providing busses to and from the game. Tickets are available for purchase all week in the atrium, or e-mail Amy Johnson (amyrjohnson@sbcglobal.net) or Rob Parker (robertraheparker@gmail.com) with questions or to purchase tickets. BLSA's Valentine's Day Bake Sale A Portion of Proceeds to Benefit Haven of Grace Date/Time/Location: Thursday, Feb. 12 - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Vincent C. Immel Atrium Karaoke Night PAD and PILG Present....KARAOKE NIGHT! at URMOMS BAR Date/Time/Location: Thursday, Feb. 12, Doors open at 7 p.m.., Urmoms Bar - 2500 Ohio (North of Soulard) Phi Delta Phi Welcomes Missouri Supreme Court Justice to Discuss State and Federal Sentencing Reform Featured Speaker Judge Michael A. Wolff from the Missouri Supreme Court Will discuss The Call for State and Federal Sentencing Reform. For more information, contact Phi Delta Phi at pdp@slu.edu Date/Time/Location: Monday, Feb. 16 @ 5 p.m., Rm. 04 Phi Alpha Delta Speaker Series "The Nuts and Bolts of Appellate Practice" Date/Time/Location: Wednesday, Feb. 18 @ Noon, Courtroom
Weekly Mass A weekly mass takes place on Tuesdays. All are welcome to attend this half-hour prayer opportunity. In addition, Campus Ministry sponsors a variety of communal prayer experiences throughout the academic year, including periodic interfaith prayer services. Date/Time/Location: Tuesdays @ 12:05 p.m., Queens Daughters Parlor. Pray-As-You-Go.org Check out pray-as-you-go.org for an excellent 10-minute – downloadable to an iPod or MP3 Player – daily reflection that includes music, scripture and guided reflection. Prayer Room Don’t forget about the Prayer Room next to the Campus Ministry office. It is open and available as a quiet place of reflection (and refuge!) whenever the School of Law building is open. |
issue date: February 6, 2009 Calendar of Events ARCHIVES 08.22.08
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