2009 Faculty Activities
Current and forthcoming publications are also listed under each faculty member's page in the Faculty Directory.
Associate Professor Therese Clarke Arado
- Co-presenter (with Jeanna Hunter, Frank Lima, Elsa Miller and Meredith Stange), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).
Professor Elvia Arriola
- Will serve on the SALT Board of Directors beginning in January 2010.
- Served as chair/discussant of an interdisciplinary panel in the Fall 2009 Law, Crime and Social Justice Brownbag Series, organized by Visiting Professor Gwen Jordan in the Department of Sociology. The program brought together people working on socio-legal issues and provided a forum for faculty, law and graduate students to present works in progress and stimulate discussion. The panel included Assistant Professor of Sociology Keri Burchfield, presenting “Not in my Neighborhood: Assessing Registered Sex Offenders’ Experience with Local Social Capital and Social Control” and Melissa Hayes, a legal history graduate from the University of Wisconsin presenting her paper “Those who are not Maidens: Sex in the Countryside, ”on the regulation of rural sexual practices in the 19th century.
Paul Cain, Supervising Attorney, Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic
- Appeared on the "Rockford Raps!" radio show on WNTA 1330 AM on October 17, as part of a panel to talk about expungement and sealing of criminal records. Paul participated in a workshop immediately following the program to assist people in filling out the forms to expunge or seal their records, or advise them about what they need to do.
- Appeared on the "Rockford Raps!" radio show on WNTA 1330 AM on August 29, to talk about the legal issues and proceedings in the Barmore shooting case in Rockford in which two white policemen shot an African-American suspect. WTVO Ch. 17 covered the radio show and interviewed Paul.
- Co-presented (with Wendy Vaughn) "Emotional Intelligence: Collaboration and Constructive Discontent," AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Cleveland, OH (May 2009).
Professor Mark Cordes
- Working with an interdisciplinary group on the NIU campus developing academic and engagement activities related to environmental law.
Professor Marc Falkoff
- Talk, "Where is the World to Save Us from Torture?" McHenry County College (Crystal Lake, IL, Dec. 3, 2009).
- Talk, A Conversation About Guantánamo, French Institute Alliance Francais (Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 25, 2009).
- Talk, The America We Believe In Does Not Torture. Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI, Sept. 21, 2009).
- Poems From Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak (2007) (editor) has been published in about a dozen languages, including most recently Turkish.
- Talk, Guantánamo Then, Bagram Now. Federal Defender Program’s Criminal Justice Act Seminar for Criminal Defense Attorneys, Rockford, IL (June 25, 2009).
- Talk, Torture: From the Midwest to the Mideast. University of Illinois, Chicago (Apr. 7, 2009).
- Talk, Law Day Address at the Winnebago County Bar Association, Rockford, IL (May 1, 2009).
- Panelist, DePaul Law Review Symposium, Guantánamo Bay and Beyond, Chicago (Mar. 20, 2009). More information available at http://www.law.depaul.edu/students/organizations_journals/student_orgs/lawdlr/law_symposium.asp.
- Talk, Obama and the Future of Guantánamo, Voices for Creative Non-Violence “Camp Hope 2009” Event, in Chicago (Jan. 2009).
- Lecture, Executive Detention, Torture and Abuse, Amnesty International, Grand Valley State University, in Allendale, MI (Feb. 6, 2009).
- Talk, An Update on Guantánamo, Winnebago County Bar Association, in Rockford, IL (Spring 2009).
- Lecture, Guantánamo as Human Rights Violation, Whittier Law School, 2008–2009 Speakers Series on International Human Rights, in Costa Mesa, CA (Spring 2009).
Jeanna Hunter, Instructor
- Co-presenter (with Therese Clarke Arado, Frank Lima, Elsa Miller and Meredith Stange), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).
Assistant Professor Frank Lima
- Co-presenter (with Therese Clarke Arado, Jeanna Hunter, Elsa Miller and Meredith Stange), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).
Professor Guadalupe Luna
- Recently published "Women in Blue Jeans:” Connecting the Past with Geographic Transformations In the Present, 23 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc'y 313 (2008).
- Co-authoring a book chapter (with Fran Ansley), Global Migrants in the Manner of Local Shelter: Anti-Immigrant Backlash Hits Home (forthcoming 2009).
- Presentation, Chicano Studies History Class, NIU Latino Resource Center, DeKalb, IL (April 2009).
- Presentation, A Fence, Quails, and Ocelots on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Chasing Cross-Border Activism. Saul O. Sidore Lecture Series, Plymouth University, Plymouth, NH (March 2009).
- Presentation, Women in Blue Jeans. Women's Faculty Forum Gender and Sustainability Working Group, Yale Law School (Feb. 2009).
- Presentation, Food Law and Farmers of Color, Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Yale Law School (Feb. 2009).
Associate Dean Leonard Mandell
- Serves on the NIU Alcohol Education Council.
Elsa Miller, Instructor
- Co-presenter (with Therese Clarke Arado, Jeanna Hunter, Frank Lima and Meredith Stange), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).
Professor Malcolm L. Morris
- Named Chair of the ISBA Committee on Legal Education, Admission and Competence
Associate Professor Jay Naftzger
- Member of an interdisciplinary group planning a Health Care Policy and Management Program at NIU.
Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Parness
- Visiting professor at NIU College of Law for the 2008-2009 academic year.
- Published, Illinois Civil Procedure, Lexis Nexis, 2008-2009 edition.
- Greater Equality Through State Constitutions, __ CHARLESTON LAW REVIEW __ (forthcoming 2009).
- Appointed Member of the Illinois State Bar Association Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council.
Professor Daniel Reynolds
- Serves on the Working Group for the 17th Judicial Circuit's Pilot Project on Professionalism for Winnebago and Boone Counties.
- Served as Vice-Chair of the NIU Law Dean’s Search Committee.
Dean Jennifer Rosato
- Panelist, "Where and How: Succeeding in the Selection Process," Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership, a conference co-sponsored by Seattle University School of Law and SALT.
Professor Lorraine Schmall
- Presenter, Regulating for Decent Work (RDW) Conference, International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (July 2009); member, RDW Study Group.
- Visiting Scholar, King's College, London (Spring 2009).
- Book review editor for Perspectives on Work, a refereed publication.
- Panelist, USF Law Review Symposium: The Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker (Feb. 2009). More information at http://www.usfca.edu/law/academic/journals/lawreview/symposium.html.
- Awarded "Best Empirical Research" for the paper Worksite Enforcement of US Immigration Laws, delivered at The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) 16th Annual International Conference, Chicago, IL (October 2008).
- Serves on the Consultative Group for the Restatement on Employment Law.
- Elected as a research fellow at the Employee Benefits Research Institute, a not-for-profit and nonpartisan research organization in Washington, D.C.
Meredith Stange, Instructor
- Co-presenter (with Therese Clarke Arado, Jeanna Hunter, Frank Lima and Elsa Miller), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).
Professor David Taylor
- NIU Presidential Teaching Professor 2006 - 2010. The NIU Presidential Teaching Professorships were established in 1991 to recognize and support faculty who excel in the practice of teaching. Recipients of this award have demonstrated their commitment to and success in the many activities associated with outstanding teaching.
Wendy Vaughn, Supervising Attorney, Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic
- Co-presented (with Paul Cain) "Emotional Intelligence: Collaboration and Constructive Discontent," AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Cleveland, OH (May 2009).
Associate Professor John Walton
- Speaker, Kane County Bar Association's Diversity Seminar, "Declining Enrollment of Minority Students in the National Law Schools and the Impact it Has in the Legal Community" (Feb. 2009).
