Juli Campagna – Asst. Prof. of Legal Writing
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Specific to Lawyering Skills – Domestic and International
Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference, Marco Island, Florida, June 2010. Topic:
Teaching First Semester Law Students to Draft a Memo Supporting a Party in a Pending
U.S. Supreme Court Case. [With Asst. Prof. Mary Nagel and Asst. Prof. Lurene
Contento, both of The John Marshall Law School.] Tuesday, June 29, 2010.
American Association of Law Schools, New Orleans, LA. 2010 Joint Program for the
AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research and the AALS Section on
Teaching Methods. Topic: An Interactive and Interconnected Approach to Teaching the
Federal Court System to non-U.S. Law Students. Thursday, January 7, 2010.
Legal Writing Institute, One Day Workshop for New Legal Writing Faculty and Adjunct
Faculty Teaching Legal Writing, The John Marshall Law School, December 4, 2009.
Topic: Teaching State Law Research to First Semester Law Students.
Central Regional Legal Writing Conference, Marquette University School of Law,
October 10, 2009. Title: You Make the Call: the Law School Version: Teaching First
Semester Law Students to Draft a Memo Supporting a Party in a Pending U.S. Supreme
Court Case. [With Asst. Prof. Mary Nagel of The John Marshall Law School, Chicago.]
Instructor/Presenter, Basic Skills Training for newly admitted Illinois Lawyers (under
Illinois Supreme Court Rule 793), Chicago Bar Association, May and November, 2009;
May 2010. Topic: International Law in Daily Legal Practice.
Global Legal Skills Conference (GLS).
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GLS II, The John Marshall Law School, May 2007 – Teaching Negotiation Skills
to an Internationally Diverse Audience of Lawyers and Law Students. Also served
on Planning Committee.
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GLS III, Facultad Libre de Derecho, Monterrey, Mexico, February 2008 - Giving
an Effective Legal Presentation in English.
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GLS IV, Georgetown University School of Law, May 2009 – Examinations in Civil
Law Countries: Experience and Expectations of Foreign Law Students. [With
Prof. Radka Chlebcová, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.]
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GLS V, Facultad Libre de Derecho, Monterrey, Mexico. Topic: Plagiarism and
the non-U.S. Law Student: Away from Impeachment and Toward Education.
[With Asst. Prof. Lurene Contento of the John Marshall Law School.] Friday,
February 26, 2010. Also served on Planning Committee for GLS V.
Other Speaking Engagements
Keynote Speaker, Joint Meeting of NABE (National Association of Bilingual Educators)
and Mid-Western TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages),
October 17, 2009, St. Louis, MO. Topic: The U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Horne v.
Flores: What Does it Mean for ELL Students, Teachers, and School Boards?
Faculty Roundtable, The John Marshall Law School, October 14, 2009. Topic: Teaching
Law with non-Legal Content Experts: Proposal for Teaching U.S. and International
Marine and Fisheries Law with Marine Biologists and Oceanographers.
Guest Lecturer, Law School of the Universidad Anáhuac, Oaxaca, Mexico. August 13,
2009. Topic: The Emerging International Rights of the Families of the Missing and the
Duties of Governments Toward Those Who Remain. (In Spanish)
Radio interview, The Mike Nowak Show, Chicago’s Progressive Talk (WCPT 820 AM /
99.9 FM), Sunday, August 2, 2009. Interviewed with marine biologist, Michele HoffmanTrotter. Topic: Teaching sustainable development to undergraduates from an integrated
approach of science and law, and how our course responds to the Eight Framework
Goals of UNESCO’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development [2005-2014].
Presenter, Annual Convention of Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other
Languages and Bilingual Educators (ITBE), Naperville, Illinois February 20, 2010. Topic:
Is a Meaningful Education Precluded under the Limited English Proficiency Provisions of
the No Child Left Behind Act?
Presenter, Annual Convention of Illinois Teachers of English to Students of Other
Languages and Bilingual Educators (ITBE), College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL),
February 15, 2009. Topic: Students Speaking Languages Other than English in and out
of the Classroom at School: Legal Rights of and Limits on Teachers and Principals
under Illinois Law.
Panelist, Pathways to Employment in International Law, sponsored by International Law
Section of the ABA and held at Northwestern School of Law on October 15, 2008.
Guest Speaker, Midwest Association of Translators and Interpreters (MATI), September
6, 2008, Chicago, IL. Topic: Legal Implications for Interpreting at Interrogations where
Torture is Used.
Guest Speaker, Convocation of Graduating Law Students, Facultad Libre de Derecho,
Monterrey, Mexico, June 5, 2008. Title: Welcome to International Law (in Spanish).
Guest Speaker, Thai Ministry of Justice, and Bangkok Bar, February 14, 2008.
Bangkok, Thailand. Topic: Current U.S. Takings Law: Kelo v. City of New London.
Guest Speaker, Facultad Libre de Derecho, Monterrey, Mexico (May, 2007).
Attendees included members of city and regional lawyers and judges bars; professors.
Topic: Overview of U.S. Contract Law as Distinct from Mexican Law (in Spanish).
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