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Great memories
are made every day at the College of Law.
This month 25
Americans became citizens at the annual naturalization
ceremony held at the College of Law. Their stories were
moving and inspiring. Their presence at the college was
a reminder of the important work done by the Immigration
Law Student Association (ILSA), the immigration
clinic, and our countless alumni -- including the
Hon. Frank R. Zapata ('73) and the Hon. Javier
Chon-Lopez ('82) -- who work with immigrants and
citizens-to-be on the bench, in public service, and in
private practice.
In addition, I
want to give you a nudge to sign up for our two
signature -- but very different -- alumni events of the
spring, the Annual Dinner and Gutter Bowl.
Gutter Bowl is
one of the most popular and fun informal events of the
year. It will be held a week from Friday, on March 4, at
the Scottsdale Bowlmor.
Sign up to bowl here.
The Law College
Association 42nd Annual Appreciation Dinner will be held
on Saturday, April 16, at the Arizona Historical Society
Museum in Tempe. This is one of the highlights of the
college's year, and will honor five new alumni award
winners, spanning graduation years from 1949 to 2006. Sign up for your table here.
Until the footnotes,
Marc
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Congratulations to
Larry Ponoroff
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Many of you had the chance to
work with Larry Ponoroff during his deanship here, or
were fortunate enough to be one of his contracts or
bankruptcy students. Larry was just named dean at Michigan State University
Law School and will assume his duties on July
1, though
he will be traveling there throughout the spring as he
and Monica prepare for the move.
We will miss Larry and
Monica, and appreciate his leadership and service to the
College while wishing them well on this new opportunity.
You can send your best wishes as well, to
lponorof@email.arizona.edu.
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Naturalization Ceremony Held
at the College
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 On February 11, 25
new American citizens-to-be gathered in the Lewis Roca
Rothgerber Christie Lobby to take part in the annual
naturalization ceremony at our college. They shared this
special day with their families and the Arizona Law
community.
The naturalization ceremony
is held at the College of Law with the kind permission
of the U.S. District Court for Arizona and U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The Immigration Law Student
Association (ILSA) came up with the idea of holding an
annual naturalization ceremony at the college and
sponsors this event each year. ILSA
President Nadezhda Veniaminovna Andreeva (2L)
commented:
"ILSA is dedicated
to helping the immigrant community and to educating the
student body about the lives of immigrants. It is a
great honor for us to facilitate and sponsor the
naturalization ceremony at the College of Law every
year, and we hope to maintain this heartwarming
tradition in the future."
Two esteemed alumni of the
College of Law officiated the ceremony, the Hon. Frank
R. Zapata ('73) and the Hon. Javier Chon-Lopez
('82).
Each year I tell the
story of my grandparents and
great-grandparents coming from the Tsarist Pale of
Settlement to New York City, Winnipeg (Manitoba,
Canada), and a farm near Devil's Lake, North Dakota. I
look out and see my family in the hopes of our new
fellow citizens.
Among other new citizens was
one of Arizona Law's own -- student Sai Manthravadi
(2L). Sai says of the ceremony:
"It's a privilege to
be a citizen of the United States, the greatest nation
in the world. Gaining citizenship is kind of like
graduation for me because it took more than
one-and-a-half decades of trials and tribulations. The
ceremony held at our law school was definitely a silver
lining. Thanks to the College of Law administration and
ILSA."
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Arizona Journal of
International and Comparative
Law |
Editorial
Board 2016-17
Editor-In-Chief, Esther Sanchez-Gomez
Senior Managing Editor, Elizabeth Smiley
Senior Research Editor, Chelsea
Padilla-Frankel
Senior Articles Editor, Troy Anderson
Managing Editors - Meghan Lynch, Matthew
Mittelstadt, Joseph Radochonski
Note & Comment Editors - Lorena B.
Hutton, Demetra Makris, Dayna Michael,
Jessica Pekala, Alysha
Tseng
Articles Editors - Jordan Hartman, Rhonda
Martin, Christine Muir
Business Editor, Sarah Marie Bauer
Operations Editor,
Elissa Harshman
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Competitive Trial Teams Meet
With Success |
Trial
Team Advances to National Competition
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| The winning team
(l-r): coach Brian Chase ('11), Matthew Ashton
(1L), Jackie Kafka (3L), and Elizabeth Smiley
(2L). Doug Flanagan (3L) was also on the winning
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An Arizona Law Trial Team took down the
top-ranked competitor in a regional tournament to
advance to the National Trial
Competition, where they'll face the top 28
teams in the country.
Students Matthew Ashton
(1L), Jackie Kafka (3L), Elizabeth Smiley (2L), and
Doug Flanagan (3L) won five trials in the qualifying
competition, including a final against the University of
Denver, who was the top-ranked team entering the final
round. Now they head to Dallas, Texas, March 30 - April
3 for the national round. This is the second year in a
row that an Arizona Law Trial Team has advanced to the
national competition.
Arizona's other trial team of Jean Paul
Barnard (1L), Jonathan Leitenberger (2L), Erika Johnsen
(2L), and Sara Levin (2L) advanced to the third round of
the regional tournament, where they were narrowly
defeated by last year's national fourth-place finisher,
Brigham Young University. Barnard was named a
top-three attorney in the region (out of the more than
50 competitors), becoming the first 1L to win a top
attorney award.
Our thanks go out to coaches Brian Chase
('11) and fellow part-time professor of practice
Joel Feinman ('07). Brian notes:
"These eight
students have spent countless hours working to achieve
this amazing accomplishment.
Their hard work is
evident when you spend just a few minutes watching them
artfully navigate the courtroom. The winning team has
earned themselves a spot among the nation's top 10
percent of law school trial advocates -- no small
feat."
Team Argues at Pace National
Environmental Law Moot Court Competition
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Brad Pollock (3L),
Lorena B. Hutton (2L),
and Ian
McCloskey (3L)
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The Pace National Environmental Law Moot
Court competition is the foremost environmental
moot court in the nation. Arizona Law's team this year
consisted of Lorena B. Hutton (2L), Brad Pollock (3L),
and Ian McCloskey (3L). The team, hard at work since
November on its brief and practicing oral arguments,
traveled to White Plains, New York, for the competition
in February. The competition drew teams from 50 law
schools, and this year's complex problem concerned
climate change regulation in the context of permitting a
new biomass plant for generating electricity. The
Arizona Law team advanced through three rounds and Brad
won best oralist in the second preliminary round. The
team was coached by Kirsten Engel and Don Large. Well
done!
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The
LCA Annual Appreciation Dinner
On Saturday, April 16,
the Law College Association will host the 42nd Annual
Law College Association Appreciate Dinner.
Please join us for the
presentation of awards honoring and celebrating the
remarkable achievements of Ryan C. Flynn ('06), C. Max
Killian ('49), Peter W. Likins, the Honorable Roxanne
Song Ong ('78), Nicole F. Stanton ('00), and Gary L.
Stuart ('67).
When: Saturday, April 16, 2016, 6 -
9 p.m.
Where: Arizona Historical Society
Museum
1300 North College Avenue, Tempe, AZ
85281
$125 per person ($150 after March
16)
$1100 for a table of ten ($1500
after March 16)
Register
Early!
For more information and to
purchase tickets, please visit
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Gutter
Bowl -- We're on a Roll!
Once again, the lanes of the
Scottsdale Bowlmor beckon to all Arizona Law alumni and
friends for the 9th
Annual Arizona Law Gutter Bowl. You do
not have to be an alumnus to play. All are
welcome.
Join us and don't miss Steve Hirsch ('80)
and Chas Wirken ('75) as your 2016
King Pins; celebrity bowlers --
featuring the judges of the split 7/10
Circuit; individual and team
awards; Arizona raffle and door
prizes, including Wildcat basketball tickets, a
Biosphere 2 excursion, and a team-autographed UA
basketball.
Friday,
March 4, 2016, 6 - 9 p.m.
Bowlmor
Scottsdale, 7300 E Thomas Rd.
All participants will enjoy
complimentary shoe rental, appetizers,
pizza, salad, soft drinks, and
pitchers.
Individual Bowlers $125
Team of Five $500
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Professor Anaya Participates in
World Bank Meeting in Ethiopia
On Feb. 11 and 12,
James Anaya, Regents' Professor and James
J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy and
co-chair of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy
Program, participated in a high-level discussion
convened by the World Bank in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The
gathering included World Bank board members, cabinet
ministers and other senior-level government officials
from East African Countries, and experts in the field of
international Indigenous law. The event was one of a
series of consultations regarding proposed updates to
the bank's Safeguard Policies, including the proposed
Environment and Social Standard 7 on Indigenous Peoples,
which inform the bank's work in more than 100 countries
across the world.
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Online
Alumni Directory
Please take the time to join
your online alumni directory. We are creating
a shared resource to support our students and our
alumni. If you need us to resend your personalized
invitation, please email or
call (520) 621-8430.
The latest weekly Arizona
Law T-shirt drawing winner from among new directory
members is Lisa Thompson ('95). Congratulations,
Lisa, and thanks for joining!
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One of the signal characteristics of the
College of Law is how much everyone is engaged in our
community, and how much we are engaged with each other,
as students and teachers and alumni and mentors and
friends and champions.
Around the world Jim Anaya continues to
reshape conceptions -- and the realities -- of justice.
Closer to home one member of our own community and 24
others saw this spirit in the naturalization ceremony --
led by Judge Zapata and Judge Chon-Lopez. Many of our
students saw this spirit in the intense mentoring that
comes with participation in trial competitions.
It is this supportive, engaged, active,
distinguished community -- with alumni a central and
daily part of our lives -- that makes our College of Law
such a special place to be.
Warmly,
Dean & Ralph W. Bilby
Professor of Law
Shaping
the next century of legal education
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