Syracuse University College of Law CATALOG 2006-2007 Syracuse University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, national origin, religion, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era or to any extent discrimination is prohibited by law. This nondiscrimination policy covers admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs, services, and activities. Syracuse University welcomes people with disabilities and in compliance with Section 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the Americans with Disabilities Act does not discriminate on the basis of disability. Services for students with disabilities are coordinated by the Office of Disability Services, Room 309, 804 University Avenue, 315-4434498 (VOICE), 315-443-5019 (TDD). 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You may also view the handbook on the Department of Public Safety’s web site at sumweb.syr.edu/pubsafe/safety.html. pursuing excellence in learning, professionalism, and service 1 contents The Program The People 3 Dean’s Message 46 4 Tradition and Vision 60 Administrative Deans 6 Excellence in Learning > The First Year > First-Year Course Descriptions > The Second and Third Years > Degree Requirements > Program Options > Academic Support 62 9 Faculty Professors Emeriti 64 Professor of Practice 64 Courtesy Appointments 66 The Office of Student Life 68 Law Student Senate and Student Organizations Curriculum Outline 70 Law Student Publications 12 Upper-Level Course Descriptions 72 Career Services 32 Innovation and Specialization 74 34 Interdisciplinary Learning Opportunities Employment Information Type of Practice, Starting Salaries 76 Selected Employers 35 38 41 Centers and Institute > Center for Indigenous Law, Governance and Citizenship > Disability Law and Policy > Family Law and Social Policy > Global Law and Practice > Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism; > Law and Business Enterprise > Technology Commercialization Law Office of Clinical Legal Education > Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic > Community Development Law Clinic > Criminal Law Clinic > Externship Programs > Low Income Taxpayer Clinic > Public Interest Law Firm > Securities Arbitration Clinic Advocacy Skills Trial Advocacy, Moot Court, International Moot Court Competitions 42 Other Opportunities for Specialization and Interdisciplinary Study 43 Joint Degree Programs 45 Other Joint Degree Opportunities Interdisciplinary Study The Place 84 The College of Law, The University, The City College of Law Complex, Barclay Law Library, The University, The Syracuse Community, Housing and Meals, Health Services 90 Visiting Syracuse Directions, Campus Map 92 Admission Admission Criteria and Requirements, Decision and Notification 96 Financing Your Legal Education 100 Excellence in Professionalism and Service 102 Tuition, Fees, and Related Expenses 104 Academic Calendar Forms and Instructions 105 Admission Application Instructions 107 Admission Application 113 Recommendation Forms 121 Financial Aid Instructions 122 Financial Aid Application 2 | Syracuse University College of Law Why study law? Each law student undertakes an exciting and rigorous journey. This journey expands analytical skills, knowledge in a professional discipline that informs all aspects of society—locally, nationally, and globally. Law graduates are distinctly capable of engaging the issues most critical to dean’s message any community. More than ever in our history, every area of endeavor has some legal overlay—the law informs every issue. The law and the policies it drives interconnect with the environment, technology, media, foreign policy, architecture, the family, human rights, and medicine. In fact, the list is as long as your imagination takes you. These limitless connections make a legal education so compelling and so important. The agenda you create, the path you take, the intellectual interests you bring with you, and those you generate throughout your life, will be profoundly enhanced by an outstanding legal education. Legal education prepares you for meeting the challenge of an increasingly complex world. A law degree has value whether you choose to practice law or to join the foreign service; whether Hannah R. Arterian Dean you start your own company or serve as counsel to a college or university; whether you work in the technology industry or in a hospital; whether you write a novel or edit a newspaper; and whether you serve as a public defender or work in the justice department. You name the career and law applies. Syracuse University College of Law provides every opportunity you need to create your future. This publication gives you a preview of what you can anticipate as a law student here. Read about our outstanding faculty, our wonderful facility and law library, the wide variety of courses, and the excellent programs, clinics, and joint degree opportunities designed to provide you with the skills you need to make full use of your education. We start with a firm grounding in courses you need to build on, and then you choose your direction, with the advice and assistance of faculty and staff who really care. All of this occurs on the campus of a great University with all it has to offer, at a law school with a long history and an eye on the future. No introduction can give you more than a taste of our community and what we have to offer. I hope you will look carefully at this catalog, and that you will think seriously about pursuing your legal education here at Syracuse. I encourage you to contact us with questions and to keep an eye on our web site (www.law.syr.edu), because new things happen all the time, and I hope they will interest you. 3 tradition and vision No two law schools are identical. Law schools differ by philosophy, faculty scholarship, student body composition, and programs offered. At Syracuse University College of Law we understand that the pursuit of excellence is a challenge that has to be met every day. That is why we promote a rigorous, dynamic, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of law. The College of Law celebrated its centennial in 1995-96 and is proud of its first 100 years of history. The college introduced interdisciplinary study in the 1930s, expanded the options it offers, and now, more than most law schools, encourages students to enrich their studies by pursuing interdisciplinary joint degree programs. 4 | Syracuse University College of Law Initially, the college’s mission was to train study in response to the changing needs of the lawyers for practice in upstate New York. In community. The college’s faculty is composed the 1950s, however, the college moved from of an unusually talented group of lawyers and a regional curricular viewpoint to one that educators who share a single goal: to prepare embraces a national perspective of the law. students for the diverse opportunities available The college’s interest in international law had to them as trained professionals. They have its inception in the early 1960s, when American extensive scholarship, prior law practice, businesses needed lawyers to represent them and years of teaching experience. Students in international transactions. The college’s find their instructors accessible, candid, and 30-plus years of experience with international dedicated to the teaching mission. legal education has developed into a well- At the heart of the College of Law community regarded program in which students can is a talented and diverse student body that pursue a concentration of study, international is actively involved in the process of learning work experience, or writing for the respected and practicing the law. Syracuse law students Syracuse Journal of International Law and represent more than 300 colleges and univer- Commerce. Students may also pursue a joint sities across the country. While many students degree in a field related to international law, choose to begin law study at Syracuse soon such as international relations. after completing their undergraduate work, In 1971, the college introduced its first some are nontraditional students, leaving full-scale clinical legal education program to careers as health care providers, engineers, provide students with both civil and criminal business managers, teachers, and law enforce- practice experience in a setting other than ment professionals to pursue the study of law. the classroom. Since the 1970s, that program Today, the college is committed to providing has been expanded to allow students to innovative approaches to law study while represent real clients in a variety of legal retaining the strongest elements of a contexts. Today, the college operates five traditional legal education. Through research, distinct in-house clinics. coursework, joint degree programs, and Throughout its history, the college has interdisciplinary centers and institutes, listened to the concerns of its students and the students and faculty engage the broader profession and has adapted its program of community in a collaborative process of discovery and learning. 5 Pursuing excellence in learning at Syracuse means taking full advantage of our unique position at one of America’s leading research excellence in learning universities. Syracuse University is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (the AAU). The AAU is composed of sixty leading research universities in the United States. Within this group of outstanding institutions, there are only 17 private universities with law schools. At Syracuse University College of Law, students benefit in many ways from our unique university setting. They benefit from the reputational value and the educational value of an elite institution. Our university setting also benefits students in terms of our many joint degree programs, opportunities for interdisciplinary study, programs abroad, and our various centers, institutes, and certificate programs. 6 | Syracuse University College of Law As part of a leading research university, our curriculum combines a respect for tradition with a curiosity for innovation to create an exciting and dynamic learning environment. Our first-year curriculum provides the broad view and foundation necessary to begin the study of law. A strong foundation for legal education emphasizes the development of substantive legal knowledge along with analytical and communicative ability. Ultimately, the most crucial legal skills involve analyzing the law and effectively communicating that analysis to courts, other attorneys, and clients. The college believes the best legal education provides heavy concentration in legal research, analysis, writing, and oral argument Fall Credits Contracts 5 Civil Procedure 4 Legal Communication and Research I: Legal Analysis and Writing 2 Torts 5 Total 16 Spring Criminal Law 3 Constitutional Law I 3 Legal Communication and Research II: Legal Research and Rhetoric 2 Legislation and Policy 3 Property 5 Total 16 The First Year Syracuse University College of Law is proud of the personal attention students receive beginning in their first year. The faculty considers interaction between student and teacher to be essential to a strong legal education. Students find their instructors committed to excellence in teaching and legal scholarship. During the first year of study, students learn the basics of public and private law. Because the first year provides necessary grounding in fundamental legal concepts, the following courses are required for all first-year students: civil procedure, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, legal communication and research, property, and torts. In addition, a first-year legislation and policy course was introduced as an elective to all students in their spring semester. Except for legal communication and research, all courses taken in the first year are one-semester courses. Students may not enroll in or audit elective courses, seminars, or other offerings for academic credit during their first year. First-Year Course Descriptions Civil Procedure (4 credits) Procedural processes that guide the adjudication of civil actions in American courts; allocation of judicial power between federal and state courts, focusing on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; fundamental policies underlying particular procedural rules. Constitutional Law I (3 credits) Problems arising under the U.S. Constitution; state and federal regulatory authority; judicial review; federal taxing and spending powers; separation of powers; due process and equal protection; and First Amendment issues, including freedoms of speech, of the press, and of religion. Contracts (5 credits) Legal protection afforded promissory agreements; contract interpretation; contract formation, including offer and acceptance, mutual assent, and consideration; parties affected by contracts and remedies for breach of contract. Criminal Law (3 credits) Elements of various crimes and problems of statutory construction and interpretation; substantive defenses, emphasizing the defense of insanity; as well as attempts and the specific crimes of conspiracy, theft, and homicide. Legal Communication and Research I (2 credits) Fall semester: Introduction to basic lawyering skills, including legal analysis, citation, and court hierarchy. Application of these skills to complex factual situations in a mock law firm setting. Legal Communication and Research II (2 credits) Spring semester: Skills introduced this semester include legal research, oral argument, and the written presentation of legal arguments in persuasive form. Legislation and Policy (3 credits) Introduction to the institutions and processes of public law making, including an examination of statutory interpretation and legislative and administrative process, as applied to a particular substantive area of law such as civil rights, federal Indian law, disability, employment discrimination, family, health, environmental, and labor law. Property (5 credits) Problems concerning the possession of land and chattels; methods of acquiring title to personal property; possessory and concurrent estates; landlord and tenant problems; historical introduction to real estate, including future interests, real covenants, and easements. Torts (5 credits) Imposition of liability for personal wrongs as viewed by traditional tort law and current alternatives; historical development and policy basis of liability for various types of injuryproducing conduct, including intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability. 7 The Second and Third Years Three-Year Program Joint Degree Programs A variety of opportunities in the second and third years allows students to learn more in areas that provide a strong grounding for issues likely to be encountered in the practice of law in the next century. Following the first year, students have only four prescribed course requirements to fulfill: Constitutional Law II, taken in the fall semester of the second year; Professional Responsibility, taken sometime during the second year; a third-semester research and writing course; and a writing requirement, usually completed in the third year. The remaining coursework toward the degree is completed through elective coursework, clinical experiences for credit, co-curricular activities for credit, and/or graduate-level coursework approved for credit toward the Juris Doctor degree. Law students may take as many as six credits in graduate coursework from other Syracuse University colleges with prior approval. Most students enroll in the six-semester program spanning three academic years. They must take at least 12 credits but not more than 19 credits each semester. Interdisciplinary study is an integral part of academic life in the College of Law. Students who desire a greater degree of specialization may select from a number of joint degree opportunities. Joint degree programs are structured so students can earn both degrees in substantially less time than required to earn each degree separately. Refer to page 45 for additional information about joint degree opportunities. Degree Requirements Syracuse University College of Law awards the Juris Doctor degree to students who successfully complete a minimum of 87 credits of prescribed and elective coursework taken during a period in residence equivalent to six full-time academic semesters. Each student must earn a cumulative grade point average and a final-year grade point average of 2.2 on a 4.0 scale to satisfactorily complete the course of study. The Handbook of Academic Rules contains the complete academic rules and regulations of the College of Law. All degree requirements and other rules and regulations, including those summarized in this publication, are subject to continuing review and may change at any time. Copies of the current handbook are available in the Office of Student Administration. 8 | Syracuse University College of Law Four-Year Program Each year, the college admits a limited number of students to study part time in an eightsemester program spanning four academic years including intervening summer sessions. Part-time students must carry at least 8 but not more than 11 credits each semester. Although the College of Law recognizes that in certain instances it must modify its regular program for some nontraditional students, personalized course schedules are generally not possible, especially in the first year. The college does not operate an evening division. Accelerated Program An accelerated program allows students to complete the J.D. degree requirements in twoand-one-half calendar years. Students must complete six semesters in full-time residence, including two-and-one-half academic years and two half-semester summer sessions. Combination Program A limited number of undergraduate students with outstanding academic promise are admitted to the combination program. Through the combination program, the final year of baccalaureate work is satisfied during the first year of law study. Candidates for this program must have only elective coursework remaining in their baccalaureate program and present evidence that their undergraduate college or university agrees to accept credit in the first year of law study in lieu of the final year of undergraduate study. Students applying through the combination program must apply for admission in the same manner as first-year applicants. Academic Support The College of Law recognizes that the transition to legal study presents special challenges for many students. The associate dean for student services is available for consultation on matters of academic or personal concern to students. During the first half of the fall semester, the Structured Study Group Program provides a weekly opportunity for all first-year students to learn effective legal study skills using torts material as the basis for learning and discussion. Tutoring is also provided for law students who encounter particular difficulty with first-year coursework. The Office of Student Services also helps to provide special accommodations for students for whom English is a second language and for students with disabilities or special needs. curriculum outline Advocacy and Litigation Commercial Law Advanced Trial Practice Alternative Dispute Resolutions Alternative Dispute Resolutions Seminar Appellate Advocacy Skills Clinical Program Courses Conflict of Laws Conflict Resolution Constitutional Criminal Procedure–Adjudication Constitutional Criminal Procedure–Investigation Criminal Law Clinic Domestic Violence Evidence Externship Placement Externship Seminar Federal Courts Judicial, Advocacy, and Public Interest Externship Courses Lawyer as Negotiator Lawyers and Clients Lawyering Skills Medical Malpractice New York Civil Practice Problems in Case Analysis and Appellate Advocacy Seminar Trial Practice Accounting for Lawyers Agency/Partnership Business, Finance, and Economics Commercial Real Estate Practice Commercial Transactions Consumer Protection Corporations Federal Income Taxation II International Business Transactions International Trade Law Secured Transactions Business Transactions Agency/Partnerships Bankruptcy Law: Business Bankruptcy Law: Individual, State, Creditors’ Remedies Business, Finance, and Economics Community Development Law Clinic Federal Government Contracts International Business Transactions Mergers and Acquisitions Principles of Business Valuations Real Estate Transactions I Secured Transactions Securities Regulations Constitutional Law and Civil Rights Advanced Constitutional Law Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic Civil Rights Constitutional Criminal Procedure–Adjudication Constitutional Criminal Procedure–Investigation Constitutional Law II Disability Law Disability Law and Policy Education Law Seminar Employment Discrimination Environmental Law: Constitutional Issues Seminar Federal Courts Indigenous Peoples Under American Law International Criminal Law Jurisprudence of Human Rights Mass Communications Medicine and Law: The Removal of Life Support Systems Seminar National Security Law National Security and Counterterrorism Research Center Public Interest Law Firm Clinic Race and Law Refugee and Asylum Law Religion and the State Sexual Orientation and the Law Sovereignty, Colonialism, and the Indigenous Nations Women in the Criminal Justice System 9 Corporate Law Criminal Law and Procedure Accounting for Lawyers Administrative Law Agency/Partnership Antitrust Bankruptcy Law Business, Finance, and Economics Business Planning Seminar Commercial Transactions Copyright–Literary and Artistic Works Corporations Deferred Compensation Disability Law Disability Law and Policy Employment Discrimination Entertainment Law Entertainment Law and Practice Environmental Law Federal Income Taxation II General Counsel Insurance Law Intellectual Property International Business Transactions International Environmental Law International Trade Law Law and Market Economy Mergers and Acquisitions Seminar Negotiating and Drafting International Transactions Documents Patents and Trade Secrets Perspectives on Terrorism Principles of Business Valuations Products Liability Real Estate Transactions Secured Transactions Securities Arbitration/Consumer Law Clinic Securities Regulation Taxation of Passthrough Business Entities Unfair Competition Administration of Criminal Justice Seminar Advanced Criminal Procedure Capital Punishment Seminar Comparative Criminal Justice Constitutional Criminal Procedure–Adjudication Constitutional Criminal Procedure–Investigation Criminal Defense Clinic International Criminal Law Jurisprudence of Criminal Justice Women in the Criminal Justice System 10 | Syracuse University College of Law Environmental Law Air and Water Pollution Control Environmental Crimes Seminar Environmental Law Environmental Law: Constitutional Issues Seminar International Environmental Law Natural Resources Law Family Relations Adoption Law Adoption Law Seminar Advanced Family Issues Bioethics and the Law Children and the Law Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic Decedents’ Estates and Trusts Disability Law Disability Law and Policy Domestic Violence Education Law Seminar Elder Law Estate and Gift Taxation Estate Planning Family Law Health Law Genetics and the Law Lawyering Skills: Planning for the Non-Traditional Family Lawyering Skills: Family Law Mediation in Family Law Poverty Law Family Law and Social Policy Center Service Learning Program Sexual Orientation and the Law Women and the Law Government Regulation and Administrative Procedures Administrative Law Antitrust Bankruptcy Law: Business Bankruptcy Law: Individual, State, Creditors’ Remedies Consumer Protection Disability Law Disability Law and Policy Education Law Seminar Employment Discrimination Environmental Law Environmental Law Seminar Government Regulations of Banks and Banking Immigration Law Indigenous Peoples Under American Law Intellectual Property Labor Law Land-Use Control Mass Communications National Security Law Natural Resources Law New York Civil Practice Patent Prosecution Patents and Trade Secrets Regulation of Electronic Mass Communications Regulatory Law and Policy Sovereignty, Colonialism, and the Indigenous Nations Tax Practice and Procedures Unfair Competition International Law Law and Society Chinese Law Comparative Law Comparative Criminal Justice Conflict of Laws Counter-Terrorism and the Law European Economic Community Immigration Law International Business Transactions International Criminal Law International Environmental Law International Human Rights International Law International Trade Law National Security Law National Security and Counterterrorism Research Center Negotiating and Drafting International Transactions Documents Refugee and Asylum Law Religion and the State Taxation of International Transactions Anglo American Legal Tradition Bioethics Civil Rights Contemporary Legal Theories Disability Law Disability Law and Policy Genetics and the Law Health Law Indigenous Peoples Under American Law Law and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Law and Market Economy Law and Society Seminar Law and Social Sciences Seminar Law, Economics, and the State National Security Law Poverty Law Products Liability Race and Law Sexual Orientation and the Law Women in the Criminal Justice System Labor Law Law, Technology, and Management Disability Law Elder Law Employment Discrimination Employment Law Labor Law Computer Law Copyright–Literary and Artistic Works Federal Income Taxation II Intellectual Property International and Foreign Intellectual Property Law Internet Law Law and Market Economy Mass Communications Patent Prosecution Patents and Trade Secrets Products Liability Technology Transactions Law Technology Commercialization Research Center Unfair Competition Legal History and Professional Ethics Anglo American Legal Tradition Contemporary Legal Theories Law and Literature Legal History: American Law Legal History: Modern Public Law Professional Responsibility Real and Personal Property Community Development Law Clinic Decedents’ Estates and Trusts Deferred Compensation Estate and Gift Taxation Estate Planning Seminar Federal Income Taxation I Information Law and Policy Insurance Law Intellectual Property Land-Use Control Patents and Trade Secrets Real Estate Transactions Unfair Competition Taxation Accounting for Lawyers Deferred Compensation Estate and Gift Taxation Federal Income Taxation I: Individuals Federal Income Taxation II: Corporate Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Real Estate Transactions State and Local Tax Tax Accounting Tax Practice and Procedures Taxation of Foreign Transactions Taxation of Passthrough Business Entities Taxation of Tax-Exempt Organizations Seminar Please note that this is a general overview of courses offered. All courses may not be listed, including new and revised courses. This listing is subject to review and modification. 11 Accounting for Lawyers Principles of financial accounting applied to business entities: proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations; accounting for and tax implications of business organizations; and problems with estates and trusts. Not open to students who have more than one year of accounting. Irregular course offering. Administration of Criminal Justice Seminar Jurisdictional and procedural rules in context of complex litigation. Relationship between procedural rules and the development of substantive law. upper-level course descriptions Administrative Law Nature and function of the administrative process; procedural constraints on administrative investigation, adjudication, and rule making; and judicial review of agency action. Adoption Law Legal theories involved in adoption law, the attorney’s role in adoption practice, and the various legal documents involved. Adoption Law Seminar Focuses on both traditional and non-traditional domestic adoption. This course enables the student to understand the legal theories involved in adoption law, the role of the attorney in adoption practice, and the various legal documents involved. Emphasis on legal research and writing. Irregular course offering. Advanced Constitutional Law Selected topics concerning the First Amendment. Irregular course offering. Advanced Constitutional Law: First Amendment The course surveys the development of the First Amendment in the 20th century. Roughly a third of the course is devoted to the religion clauses, which prohibit establishment and guarantee free exercise. The remainder considers the free speech clause, with some notice of press and assembly issues as well. 12 | Syracuse University College of Law Advanced Criminal Procedure This course is a two-semester applied learning course which will focus on pre-trial procedure: accusatory instruments, preliminary hearings, grand jury, discovery motions (covering suppression of evidence, dismissal for insufficiency, speedy trial, double jeopardy, etc.), plea bargaining and guilty pleas, and interlocutory appeals and sentencing. The course materials will consist of pertinent statutory materials and case files which will be the source of problems and simulations. Students will be required to draft documents, pleadings, motion papers, and memoranda for assigned cases. The course will focus on New York criminal law. Advanced Legal Research Advanced Legal Research expands upon the foundation of research skills acquired in the first year. The course addresses effective research methods and strategies, examines the structural and theoretical underpinnings of traditional and automated research systems, and explores specialized areas of research (such as legislative history, administrative law, and non-legal resources). Students will have ample opportunities to refine research techniques through hands-on practice sessions in the law library. Advanced Topics in Property Law Seminar This seminar will examine current important issues in property law and theory, topics to which students may have been introduced during their first year but that warrant investigation in further detail. The course will first review different notions of what property actually is, using historical and modern analyses both from political theory and from law. We will then consider the extent to which property concepts can be usefully employed to resolve an array of current social issues, such as the enforcement of surrogacy (parenting) contracts, the sale or other control of body parts, the fate of human embryos, eminent domain and takings, an individual’s control of personal information, employment rights, and environmental rights. Students will be exposed to and discuss the relevant law, where it exists, but will also pursue in more depth the conceptual and policy-based arguments that shape and underlie the public debates currently under way. Advanced Trial Practice Advanced training in direct and cross-examination, witness interviewing and preparation, negotiation techniques, voir dire and jury preparation, final arguments, discovery, pretrial and trial motions, pretrial conferences, jury trial techniques, and post trial procedure. Agency/Partnership The primary focus of the course will be on the many facets of agency and fiduciary law. Basic principles of fiduciary obligations, agency relationships, transacting business through agents, vicarious tort liability and long-term commercial relationships may be covered as well as basic partnership relationships. Irregular course offering. Alternative Dispute Resolution An introduction to the spectrum of processes other than courtroom litigation that are available for resolving disputes. This includes such “pure” processes as negotiation, mediation, and arbitration and such “hybrid” processes as the mini-trial and the summary jury trial. Anglo American Legal Tradition This is a legal history course that provides an overview of our Western legal heritage, beginning with Roman law and extending into the 20th century. Its principal focus will be on the development of English law and legal institutions, but it is not specifically an English legal history course. Rather, it is to provide students with a survey of the English roots of our own legal order and to demonstrate how the American legal system has developed from and blended with those English origins. Antitrust A survey of federal antitrust law and policy. This course will include horizontal restraints, monopolization, attempts to monopolize, vertical restraints and mergers. Appellate Advocacy Skills Development of skills used in the appellate process, including postjudgment practice, creation of the record, finding error, brief writing, and oral argument structure, emphasizing written skills. Required for second-year students seeking Moot Court Board membership. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Law Seminar This seminar examines the ethical, legal, scientific, sociological, and political issues involved in the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) to treat infertility and create children. Each week there will be a two hour class requiring preparation of readings on topics such as infertility, assisted insemination, in vitro fertilization, collaborative reproduction (formerly called surrogacy), reimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), “designer babies,” cryopreserved (frozen) embryos and gametes, posthumous reproduction, multiple gestations, cloning and genetic enhancement, and ART mistakes. In addition to seminar preparation and attendance, students will select a topic on assisted reproductive, research and write a seminar paper under the professor’s guidance, and present their research and arguments to the class. Irregular course offering. Bankruptcy Law: Business This course will focus on business bankruptcy law under Chapters 7 and 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The course will explore the rights of debtors and creditors in a liquidation proceeding under Chapter 7 and the power to restructure claims under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code to preserve a viable business entity. Bankruptcy Law: Individual, State, Creditors’ Remedies This course will cover state law remedies (how to collect a debt and how to defend a debtor) and representing debtors in individual liquidation and restructuring proceedings under Bankruptcy Code (Chapter 7 and 13). Bioethics This is an interdisciplinary analysis of problems that arise at the intersection of the medical and legal professions. Topics include the history of the American medical profession, ethical theory, procreative autonomy, distribution and allocation of medical services, death and dying, organ transplants, and the values and interests that inform the decision-making process on these matters. In alternating years, this course will be co-taught by professors from the medical school and law school and additional topics of study may include assisted reproductive technologies, genetic discrimination and enhancement, and cloning. 13 Business, Finance, and Economics This course will cover basic accounting, economics, finance, very rudimentary taxation concepts, securities and investments, and other topics, such as life and hazard insurance. Capital Punishment Seminar Review of Eighth Amendment and capital punishment decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, both recently and since Gregg v. Georgia, with critical and philosophical analysis of the foundations for those decisions. Examination of the views of particular justices. A paper satisfying the writing requirement will be required. Children and the Law Parent-child, child-state relationships. Education, health, welfare, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, and representation of children will be covered in this course. Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic The Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic addresses the unmet legal needs of children and their families by representing them in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies with respect to special education, school disciplinary and suspension hearings, emancipation, child custody and support, adoption, guardianship and divorce matters. They also assist clients in the Family Advocacy Program, a collaborative project with SUNY Upstate Medical University. Additionally, students have the opportunity to engage in non-litigation legal advocacy and educational outreach. Chinese Law Focus on the development of the Chinese legal system since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, with due attention to social, political, and economic factors. Close examination of areas of substantive and procedural law, such as constitutional law, professional responsibility, criminal law and procedure, and labor law. Chinese Law Seminar Overview of a legal system of another major power distinctive from the U.S. in terms of historical development, economic structure, and political organization; development of the Chinese legal system since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949; social, political, and economic factors. Procedure, contracts, labor law, and foreign economic relationships. Irregular course offering. 14 | Syracuse University College of Law Civil Rights Focusing on race, gender, class, and sexual preference, this course examines the social, political, and legal structures that determine what civil rights are and who has them. Significant attention will be paid to the role of U.S. Supreme Court opinions and federal legislation. Commercial Real Estate Practice This applied learning course will build on the fundamentals of the Real Estate Transactions I course and will focus on the development of a regional shopping mall which will provide a framework for the course outline. The course will not only provide ways to convey many of the concepts found in this type of real estate, but will also provide the basis to explore the relationship between the real estate concepts and the business framework of which they become a part. Case law will be utilized to supplement certain interpretations of Real Property Law. Real Estate Transactions I is a prerequisite for this course. Commercial Transactions Commercial practices under the Uniform Commercial Code, particularly sales, commercial paper and bank collections, letters of credit, bulk transfers, and secured transactions; business background, planning, and counseling. Communications Law Examination of the market structure and regulation of the communications industry as well as the relationship between the communications industry and the several branches of government. Topics include the authority of state and federal government to license spectrum and to regulate broadcast communications and cable, satellite, landline and wireless services. Other topics may include broadcast fairness, political broadcasting and regulation of the Internet and emerging technologies. Community Development Law Clinic The Community Development Law Clinic provides representation for not-for-profit organizations involved in improving lowincome communities. Students enrolled in this clinic practice transactional law for clients engaged in activities such as the development of affordable housing; creation of business and job development programs; creation and development of community centers, after-school programs, day care centers; neighborhood advocacy organizations; disability advocacy organizations; and community development corporations Students may also represent individual clients in real estate closings and the development of start-up businesses. Comparative Law Comparative approach to the law, stressing purposes and methods of comparative study; classification of legal systems, a historical introduction to civil law; and selected topics in civil law. Computer Law Intellectual property protection relative to computer technology, including software and “methods of doing business” patents, copyrights, and trade secrets; anti-trust concerns in the computer industry; contract formation and enforcement in the computer industry; and international concerns with computer technology. Concept of a Lawyer Lawyers are men and women of action. They are also individuals with power. This course explores a basic question that every practitioner faces throughout his or her professional career and that bears directly on the exercise of that power, what does it mean to be a lawyer? Students will examine a variety of conceptions of “the lawyer,” including “neutral partisan,” “moral activist,” “public servant,” and “businessman/businesswoman.” Students will also consider the orientations toward lawyering as “an ethics of care” and “for the situation.” Conflict of Laws Legal rules applicable to disputes with contacts to more than one state or country; the historical development of such rules; and their application in contract, tort, property, and other cases. Constitutional Criminal Procedure— Adjudication Constitutional and statutory requirements for adjudicative procedures in criminal cases. Topics include accusatory instruments, bail, discovery, guilty pleas, double jeopardy, speedy trial, fair trial, jury trial, assistance of counsel, and confrontation. Constitutional Criminal Procedure— Investigation Constitutional and statutory requirements for investigative procedures in criminal cases. Topics include searches, seizures, lineups, confessions, and electronic surveillances. Constitutional Law II A continuation of Constitutional Law I for second-year law students. Must be taken fall semester of second year. 15 Consumer Protection An introduction to the law of unfair and deceptive advertising practices, credit reporting and truth in lending, warranties, debt collection, and enforcement. Students will draft consumer complaints and discovery documents. Irregular course offering. Contemporary American Legal Thought This course will explore a variety of contemporary schools of legal thought, with an emphasis on their understanding of nature of law and, where applicable, the appropriate objectives of law and law reform. The course will begin with an overview of the historical roots of today’s thinking, exploring Langdell’s orthodoxy, Oliver Wendell Holmes’ reaction thereto, and the highly influential legal realists. The course will then turn to its more central focus: the legal process school and the contemporary progeny of legal realism (e.g., law and economics, critical legal studies, law and feminism). The course will also expose students to a powerful new alternatives to these popular schools of thought, namely the cultural study of law. Contemporary Legal Theories Selected articles by thought-provoking contemporary legal theorists who challenge accepted models of legal reasoning and practice. By examining the role of law in society and the power dynamics that our legal system replicates, these writers offer new frontiers of legal thought and transformative visions. Readings will vary, but topics may include critical race theory, feminist legal theory, critical legal studies, and law and literature. Irregular course offering. Contemporary Issues in Atrocity Law International criminal law is a new discipline within the legal profession. Over the past 12 years, the discipline has developed at an exponential rate. Cutting-edge rulings and decisions are setting the cornerstones in international criminal law for years to come. It is a rare opportunity for teachers, students, practitioners, and policy makers to be present at the beginnings of a new area of the law. Rarer still is the opportunity for students to be able to take a seminar from one of the senior international practitioners in the field, using his work as the basis for this seminar. Drawing upon unique experiences in West Africa, a great deal of the new ideas and fresh thinking began with his work as the chief prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone, called the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The seminar will use, as a case study, the entire creative process in West Africa of establishing the Office of the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, including 16 | Syracuse University College of Law planning, preparation, and executing the many tasks necessary to prosecute war criminals in a forgotten and tragic land. Using real-world and contemporary cases, vignettes, and scenarios, this two-credit seminar will give students a rare opportunity to study and do research with the practitioner who created the entire prosecutorial plan to prosecute those who bore the greatest responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity that resulted in the murder, rape, maiming, and mutilation of more than 1.2 million human beings. Copyright—Literary and Artistic Works Advanced copyright course. In-depth exploration of a number of copyright law areas in music, fine arts, and film, and issues on the boundaries of copyright law. Includes fair use, work for hire in both industry and academia, compensation for ideas, moral rights, right of publicity, the impact of new technologies on research, data bases and fact-based works, infringement on unpublished works, and international copyright protection. Copyright Protection of New Technologies Special adaptation of copyright law to computer programs, operating systems and microcode, screen displays, and electronic databases. Irregular course offering. Corporate Finance Seminar This seminar will study the basis for financial decisions of corporations and the shareholders, including an introduction to basic techniques of investment decisions, valuation and financial structure. We will concentrate on valuing the firm and its securities and senior securities (bonds, debentures, and notes). Interest and time permitting, we will explore capital structure and leverage and possibly do some work in mergers and acquisitions. Preor co-requisite: Corporations. Corporations This is a business organizations course covering both unincorporated businesses and corporations. The first half of the course pertains to small business forms: partnerships, LLCs, and close corporations. The balance covers public corporations, including regulation under securities laws. Students who have taken Business Associations or Public Corporations are not eligible to register for this course. Counterterrorism and the Law This unique, interdisciplinary course provides insight into the dynamics of terrorism and counterterrorism. Specializations are offered in four areas: law, politics, history, and communications. Law and other graduate students may register in any of the four departments, with the permission of the instructor. Although some class sessions will include disciplinespecific discussions in small groups, participants will also converge in a large classroom for presentations, discussions, and examinations of fundamental problems associated with terrorism. Criminal Defense Law Clinic The Criminal Defense Law Clinic provides representation to clients charged with misdemeanors and violations in Syracuse City Court. Students enrolled in this clinic are engaged in extensive fact investigation, interviewing, client counseling and plea negotiations. They also conduct hearings and trials and may have the opportunity to represent clients on civil matters related to their criminal cases, such as school disciplinary hearings and benefits issues. Decedents’ Estates and Trusts Law governing interstate succession; execution and revocation of wills; inter vivos will substitutes; the creation, nature, and revocation of trusts; and fiduciary administration. Deferred Compensation Tax and other consequences of various plans of deferred compensation for executives and other employees. Disability Law This class deals with federal laws prohibiting discrimination against people with disabilities, with particular emphasis on the American Disabilities Act of 1990. The goal of the course is to provide a legal, conceptual, and practical understanding of people with disabilities, forms of discrimination that occur on the basis of disability, and the protections against such discrimination that currently exist. Disability Law and Policy — Advanced This is a one-semester applied learning course. The goal of this course is to expose students to disability law and policy as applied to real situations. Each student will work on a project that has originated from a request from a “real client” or client organizations, such as the National Council on Disability, the World Bank, Mental Disability Rights International, or other organizations that work with and for people with disabilities. Disability Rights Advocacy Law Clinic The Disability Rights Advocacy Law Clinic is dedicated to providing representation to individuals with disabilities as well as groups representing the disabled community who are unable to secure representation elsewhere. Students enrolled in this clinic practice in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies in a broad range of disability discrimination matters. They also handle social security benefits cases, special education cases, and accessibility issues under federal and state law. Domestic Violence This applied learning course will analyze case law as well as other text and articles applicable to domestic violence cases. One of the objectives of this course will be to expose, through class discussions, some of the misconceptions regarding domestic violence and its victims. Students will have the opportunity to participate in simulated exercises designed to develop interviewing and information-gathering techniques necessary for the thorough representation of the domestic violence victim in court. Visits to the class by guest speakers are also planned. The course will delve into all of the possible issues that need to be addressed in representing the domestic violence victim. Education Law Seminar This seminar will introduce students to the issues surrounding the provision of public and private education and to enable students to develop understandings of educational delivery systems that will help them to address education-related issues in their legal practice. Topics will include federal and state roles in public education, use of public funds for private/parochial education, public school choice and school vouchers, special education, gender equality in education, affirmative action and diversity in higher education, and public school desegregation. Irregular course offering. Elder Law This course will address ethical issues related to the competency assessment of elder clients. Income maintenance, including Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, and other public and private pensions, as well as Medicare and Medicaid, will be considered. Guardianship, long-term care, and estate planning will be considered as well. Additional topics may include employment discrimination, housing, health care decision making, and elder abuse. 17 upper-level course descriptions 18 | Syracuse University College of Law Eminent Domain Seminar The seminar provides an opportunity to discuss important issues related to the relationship between government’s power to regulate private land and other property for the public health, safety, and welfare on the one hand, and the right of owners to be secure in their property on the other. We will survey the tests the Supreme Court has developed in determining when government action that affects the use or value of property amounts to a “taking”. As the semester progresses, students will look closely at the types of takings that have evolved because of the Supreme Court’s decisions in this area, paying particular attention to the elements required to establish a taking, government action that does or does not constitute a taking, and remedies available once a taking is proven. Finally, special emphasis is given to more practical issues, including the appraisal process and condemnation procedures. Topics will cover both federal and typical state policies and procedures. Employment Discrimination Discrimination in employment on the basis of race, sex, age, and disability; consideration of constitutional, statutory, and other remedies; and safety and health in the workplace. Employment Law This course will cover a wide variety of topics in the employment relationship. It is a complex area covered by both federal and state statutes as well as common law. Topics that will be covered include establishing the employment relationship, terms and conditions of employment, health insurance and other fringe benefits, the work environment, and terminating the employment relationship. English Legal History This course surveys the development of the public and common law of England from its origins in Roman law and the Anglo-Saxon society of the first millennium, through the creation of feudal society, to the modern era, concluding some time around or in the 19th century. We survey the growth of the common law courts (as well as others), legal education and treatise writers, and the evolution of selected phases of the common law. We pay special attention to the revolutionary 17th century and the impact of the Protestant Reformation. Entertainment Law Will simulate actual entertainment law practice and will emphasize the process by which contracts are developed and entered into so as to make use of copyrighted properties. The student will be required to draw upon and further develop multiple legal skills, particularly substantive analysis, drafting, analysis of and otherwise dealing with “paper” from the other side, practical research, formulation of advice, and participation in various kinds of oral discussions. Irregular course offering. Environmental Crimes Seminar Survey of federal environmental crimes and defenses, investigatory practices and evidentiary restrictions, compliance protocols, sentencing guidelines, issue of professional responsibility and attorney exposure to liability, and an analysis of regulatory objections and the feasibility of attainment through criminal enforcement. Irregular course offering. Environmental Law Pollution control and toxic substance regulation; the ends and means of environmental protection; the institutional responsibilities of legislatures, agencies, and courts. Environmental Law Seminar: Constitutional Issues Selected problems in environmental law. Environmental Law Seminar: Climate Change Science, Perception and Policy Climate change (global warming) is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century. This course introduces students to the challenges posed by climate change through a unique multidisciplinary exploration of the scientific, economic, policy, communicative, and even philosophical dimensions of the issue. The course will cover such topics as the current state of scientific knowledge about climate change, the role of the media in shaping public opinion on the issue, competing discourses of climate change, risk and uncertainty in decision-making, costs and benefits of different types of policies, the Kyoto protocol and other policy initiatives, actions being taken to address the issue, and the ethical dimensions of the choices facing humanity. Faculty from SU and ESF in law, economics/public administration, earth science, and environmental studies will co-teach this course and bring to students a unique dialog that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Moreover, emphasis will be placed on drawing out the general lessons obtained from a multidisciplinary approach to climate change: many of the insights will be applicable to other complex, highly technical environmental problems. This course is intended to bring together students from a diverse range of backgrounds and does not have specific prerequisites. 19 Environmental Law Seminar: Citizens’ Suits Environmental law statutes frequently rely upon private enforcement by the beneficiaries of environmental regulations. This seminar examines the law governing private enforcement of environmental law, probably including attorneys’ fees, justifiability, coordination with government enforcement, and notice requirements. It will require a short paper before the end of the semester and, for those fulfilling the substantial writing requirement and earning three credits, a longer paper due at the end of the year. Estate and Gift Taxation Taxation of transfers during life and at death. Planning and alternative modes of disposition. Estate Planning Seminar This seminar will explore estate planning from two perspectives. First, it will deal with the substantive aspects of estate and gift tax and property law (including joint interests, life insurance, and retirement plan proceeds) which must be considered in developing an estate plan. Wills, trusts, and other planning techniques will be considered in detail. Second, the practical aspects of dealing with estate planning clients will be considered in depth, including how to explain difficult technical matters to the client, how to present documents to clients in an understandable format, and issues of ethics and professionalism. Short drafting and writing exercises as well as a substantial paper, consisting of a package of client memoranda and documents, will be required. 20 | Syracuse University College of Law European Economic Community Movement toward European integration and the status of the legal order of the European communities in relation to national and international law; specific community rules dealing with trade regulation, international commerce, agriculture, and social policy. Irregular course offering. Evidence Procedural and substantive rules of evidence, judicial notice, presumptions and burdens of proof, rules governing the receipt of oral and documentary evidence, impeachment, direct and cross-examination, competency, hearsay, privileges, and the best evidence rules. Externship Placement Students enrolled in the Externship Placement work in government offices, judges’ chambers and public interest organizations throughout upstate New York. Externs engage in challenging assignments, including drafting decisions, memos, pleadings or other legal documents, researching memoranda, interviewing and preparing witnesses, participating as co-counsel at trials and observing trials, appellate arguments or in-chamber proceedings. Externship Seminar As part of their externship experience, students participate in the externship seminar, which allows them to reflect on their legal experiences at their Externship Placements. The seminar consists of classroom discussion, writing assignments, journals, and individual meetings with the faculty supervisor. Family Issues — Advanced This is an advanced family law course which will provide applied learning opportunities for students. Students will study topics in greater depth and with more skills training than is possible in the survey Family Law course. Typically, the course would include interdisciplinary, international, and ethical issues. Topics will include the use of experts in child custody evaluations, domestic violence, international adoptions, the evaluation of professional practice goodwill and licenses for equitable distribution, and problems interviewing children and using children as witnesses. This course will meet the writing requirement. Family Law State regulation of family relations; family autonomy; marital and non-marital contracts; adoption. Issues in divorce, separation agreements, spousal and child support, property division, and child custody. Family Law and Social Policy Center Service Learning Program The primary focus of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to work with actual family law problems, especially those involving low-income persons, and to provide needed services to the community. Students will study substantive materials related to family law and the intersection of family and poverty law in the context of developing training and other materials; assisting pro bono or nonprofit legal service providers; and assisting other nonprofit organizations related to family law. Federal Courts Essential functions of federal courts; and relationships between federal courts and the other branches of the federal government, the states, and the individual. Federal Government Contracts Overview of government contracts. Course will cover pre-contract activity leading to contract award, contract types, and the contractual document with specific emphasis on the Federal Acquisition Regulations. Federal Income Taxation I: Individuals Law and policy regarding the taxation of income of the individual taxpayer, including characteristics of income, personal and business deductions, principles of income splitting and tax accounting, dispositions of property, and capital gains. Federal Income Taxation II: Corporate Income tax problems of the corporation and its shareholders, emphasizing corporate organization, distributions, redemptions, liquidations, reorganizations, collapsible corporations, and S corporations. Prerequisite is Federal Income Taxation I. Forensic Evidence This course will survey the legal and scientific issues arising in forensic settings, such as fingerprint identification, handwriting identification, bite mark identifications, voice identifications, weapons identifications, DNA testing, alcohol and drug testing, and polygraph testing. Foundations in New York Law Focuses on the areas of New York law that are most frequently tested on the bar examination and provides practice opportunities to strengthen essay writing skills. General Counsel This applied learning course is designed to expose students to a number of areas of practice that are common for house counsel. Students will work individually and in teams and undertake simulations in litigation management, agreement negotiation and drafting, employment problems, and intellectual property practice. Students will learn how lawyers handle complex problems in such diverse areas and may conduct research, draft agreements and file memoranda, conduct interviews, and negotiate to resolve the issues found in the practical exercises that will be the backbone of the course. This course will meet the College of Law writing requirement. Genetics and the Law This new writing course examines the ways advances in genetics have affected law, ethics, and policy. No previous scientific expertise is required, but students must have a willingness to learn the basics of the science to understand the course materials. Readings cover eugenics, genetics research and its commercialization, genetics testing and reproduction, genetic screenings of newborns and children, genetic counseling and access to genetic services, gene therapy and pharmacogenetics, genetic enhancement, parentage and family law, forensics, behavioral genetics, privacy and confidentiality, and employment discrimination. In addition to doing the course readings and participating in the seminar discussions, each student will be expected to write a minimum 25page paper that meets the writing requirement. Government Regulations of Banks and Banking Federal and state laws and regulations affecting banks and banking in the United States. Irregular course offering. 21 Health Law Law as it affects the professionals and institutions that deliver health care in the United States. Will primarily address four major concerns: quality of health care, cost of health care, equitable access to health care, and respect for the patient. Immigration Law Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, exclusion and deportation, and nonimmigrant status. Indigenous Peoples Under American Law This course is designed to introduce students to the law of the United States controlling and regulating the Indigenous peoples and nations located within its borders. Topics to be addressed include Euro-American colonization, the sources of American power over Indian affairs, the scope of tribal governmental powers recognized by American law, the powers of states within Indian country, the trust responsibility, gaming and economic development, and decolonization. Insurance Law General principles of law that apply to casualty, life, and liability insurance, including modern developments like no-fault. Irregular course offering. Insurance and Society Seminar This course will explore the manner in which insurance affects society. Issues such as tort reform, reinsurance, racial redlining, and the current crisis over Katrina will be discussed. The basic Insurance Law class is a prerequisite. Meets the College of Law writing requirement. Irregular course offering. Intellectual Property Survey of the foundations of copyright, patent, unfair competition, and trade law. For students who wish to concentrate in intellectual property or who want a basic course as preparation for business planning or litigation practice. Co-requisite for Copyright—Literary and Artistic Works and for Copyright Protection of New Technologies. Patents course and Unfair Competition may be taken as co-requisites. International Business Transactions International law problems of doing business abroad and advising foreign clients on domestic operations; sales of goods, techniques of private contract financing, dispute resolution, and restrictions on freedom of contract in the international context. 22 | Syracuse University College of Law International Criminal Law This course will focus on topics involving prosecutorial tribunals, extraterritorial jurisdiction, extradition and abduction, cooperative investigation and enforcement, war crimes and gross human rights violations, terrorism and piracy, drug trafficking and money laundering, defenses, and new trends in international criminal law. Irregular course offering. International Environmental Law Study of international laws safeguarding people and natural resources from environmental degradation; consideration of the structure and function of the international organizations, the effect of international environmental law on domestic rights and liabilities, environment and trade. Irregular course offering. International, Foreign, and Comparative Law Research Topics The purpose of this course is to offer students a working knowledge of legal bibliography and research methods, both in traditional print sources and in electronic formats, for conducting research in the laws of foreign countries, international law, and comparative law. International Environmental Law Seminar This seminar is a study of the general concepts of international environmental law, problems of enforcement, and problems in treaty-making. The course addresses endangered species, ozone depletion, climate change, marine mammal protection, and free trade’s relationship to environmental protection. International Human Rights Provides an apparatus for analyzing the major social, legal, and political changes occurring everywhere from St. Petersburg to Soweto and from Managua to Manila, for critiquing governmental policies that precipitate and respond to them, for understanding the conceptual underpinnings of the human rights system, and for acquiring the tools to conduct legal and political advocacy of human rights. A major research paper and oral presentation are required. International Intellectual Property Law The purpose of this course is to place intellectual property rights in global perspective, giving students a clear understanding of procedures and potential pitfalls. While emphasis will be on current mechanisms for obtaining and maintaining copyright, patent, and trademark protection abroad, major evolutionary steps in both foreign laws and international relations will also be presented. Key provisions of pertinent law will be explained. Significant U. S. case law construing U.S. obligations under these conventions will be scrutinized. Irregular course offering. International Law Provides an introduction to public international law, the system of norms, rules, institutions, and procedures that regulate the interaction between states and between states and individuals, including the UN Charter. Besides studying the basic building blocks of the system and the forces that are leading either to its breakdown or its transformation (or both), students engage in a seven-week simulation in group negotiation, research, and drafting of multilateral treaties to resolve some contemporary transnational problems. Use of the World Wide Web is integrated into the course. International Trade Law Intergovernmental trade regulation through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/ World Trade Organization and regulation of unfair trade practices under U.S. law. Internet Law A survey of legal issues relating to computers and computer networks, including electronic commerce, the protection and enforcement of proprietary rights in software and electronic works, privacy and security, and content regulation. This course also explores the evidentiary use of computer records and other emerging issues in computer law. Jurisprudence of Criminal Justice Selected topics in criminal justice, such as sentencing, capital punishment, search and seizure, role of police, plea bargaining, and modes of determining guilt or innocence in light of jurisprudential reflection on goals of criminal justice. Jurisprudence of Human Rights Conflicting views of the legal decision-making process and the role of rights in that process, impact of judicial decisions, views of social scientists, and human rights in the international sphere. Labor Law Organization and representation of employees; union collective action; and collective bargaining, including the administration and enforcement of collective agreements. Land-Use Control This course involves an examination of basic land use and zoning laws. Attention is paid to a variety of zoning and regulatory tools as well as to local laws addressing environmental concerns. This includes basic zoning, density controls, variances, exceptions, special uses, exactions, inclusionary and exclusionary zoning, and the takings issue. Focus will be on the importance of private property rights and the protection of those rights in the context of public controls and regulations. The course will examine the way in which public and private claims to land are resolved through a mix of market and non-market mechanisms. Irregular course offering. Law and Literature The focus of this course/seminar will be the law, the legal process, and concepts of justice as they are treated in a number of works of fiction as well as by lawyers in judicial opinions and other writings. The fictional readings will be short stories (Tolstoy, Faulkner, Glaspell, Hawthorne, Cather, de Maupassant, Vonnegut, etc.) and two novellas. In-depth consideration of the materials should demonstrate to the student the wide gamut of emotions, human relationships, and ambiguities with which case law frequently does not adequately deal. The materials raise issues of morality, natural law, divine law, mercy, the limits of advocacy, and ethics, all of which must deeply concern any lawyer who strives to fulfill the true object of his or her profession. Law and Market Economy A basic introduction to understanding the form and structure of legal argument in a market context. The course will explore the basic terms and methods of economics that are relevant to understanding the ideas of competition, exchange, and transfer in a market context. Discussion of the relationship between law and markets will focus on the formulation of public policy. Students will study the practical implications, for law and legal institutions, of economic assumptions and conceptions. The course will explore the relationship between efficiency, externalities, the tragedy of the commons, the Coase theorem, transaction costs, public choice, game theory, cost/benefit analysis, and path dependency, among others, to create patterns of argument capable of strategically advancing particular substantive objectives. Law and Principles of Business Valuation Seminar Business Valuation covers valuation methodology and practices pertinent to income, estate and gift tax purposes, ESOPs, buy/sell agreements, etc. The income method, market method, asset-based method, and other methods of assessment will be studied. Students will learn fundamentals of financial analysis and evidentiary rules relating to business valuation. Irregular course offering. Law and Society Seminar The manner in which legal systems evolve and how they reflect the social structure, culture, and concepts of justice of the society; limits and prospects of effective legal action in effectuating social policy in contemporary American society. Irregular course offering. 23 Law and Social Sciences Seminar Legal study is increasingly interdisciplinary, making use of various other fields to challenge, inform, and assist legal theory and doctrine. This seminar will cover a number of social sciences—e.g. psychology, economics, sociology, political science, anthropology—to examine the connections between law and other disciplines. Topics to which these social science approaches will be applied may include capital punishment, juries, race, gender, paternalism, media violence, obscenity, expert witnesses, judicial decision-making, and others based on students’ interest. A thorough research paper designed to meet the College of Law writing criteria will be required. Law, Economics, and the State This course builds on ideas related to the course in Law and Market Economy, which is recommended but not required as a prerequisite. In this course, we will study the relationship between the state, the individual, and the community as relates to alternative forms of social organization. The course will touch on distinctions between the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors of the economy. It will explore the role of government and public administration in a market economy. Examples of ideas that may be discussed are: privatization, school and housing voucher programs, tax exemptions for not-for-profit enterprises, public/private partnerships for urban development and sports facilities, takings law, welfare reform, workfare, managed trade, industrial policy, and health care management, among others. Writing projects are required. Law, Economics, and the State Seminar This seminar focuses on the role of self-binding rules in today’s ever more interdependent societies. Like Ulysses tied to the mast, modern societies require the transfer of certain powers to controlling legal precepts (constitutions, international treaties) or institutions (national government institutions who share power, independent central banks, international organizations) that allow them to attenuate and possibly overcome the problem of opportunistic behavior. Democratic constitutions, independent central banks, trade agreements, and international conventions attempt to realize “good governance” goals by restricting the decision-makers’ ability to act freely and heavily discount the future in favor of short-term electoral or economic gain. While keeping such behavior in check, these self-binding mechanisms also provide cover for political leaders to undertake sound yet unpopular initiatives that, in the long run, are expected to greatly benefit society. 24 | Syracuse University College of Law The seminar will investigate different areas of the law (constitutional law/institutional design, economic law/monetary policy, and international trade law) where legislators and decision makers have used such self-binding tools, and ask whether self-binding mechanisms have contributed to outcomes that are not only economically efficient but also democratic. Lawyer as Negotiator A study of negotiation and the lawyer’s role in the negotiating process, ethical problems in negotiation, and negotiation skills taught through simulated negotiations. Lawyering Skills: Basic Attorney-client relationship, including interviewing, counseling and negotiation; preparation of pleadings and other legal papers; and local practice and discovery procedures. Lawyering Skills: Family Law This skills course will take students through a complex family law case. Students will draft pleadings, prepare interrogatories, prepare experts for trial, etc. The skills emphasized will be pretrial preparation and settlement strategies rather than trial advocacy. Family Law is a prerequisite. Lawyering Skills: Planning for the Non-Traditional Family Drafting of legal instruments for individuals and their loved ones who do not fit the traditional nuclear family model. Topics would include domestic partnership agreements, real property partnership agreements, estate planning instruments (e.g. wills, trusts, and corporate formations), tax planning, and second-parent adoptions. Lawyers and Clients Lawyers and Clients is a four-credit, onesemester applied learning course intended to introduce third-year law students to a variety of lawyering skills, including interviewing, counseling, negotiation, fact investigation, legal writing, financial and business concepts for lawyers, and time records and billing. The course relies heavily on simulations and participatory exercises. Throughout the course, the skills training will include the ethical and professional dimensions of the lawyering process. Irregular course offering. Law of Armed Conflict Mankind has attempted to regulate the horror of war for centuries. This seminar will review those attempts, focusing on the modern era. Particular attention will be paid to recent challenges related to the war on terror and the ramifications for future enforcement of these key principles. Any student interested in practicing national security law or going into international criminal justice must have a clear understanding of the law of armed conflict. This seminar will assist in that understanding. The student will have the opportunity to be involved in several practical exercises that will reinforce their learning and write a paper on various cutting-edge issues, of their choosing, related to the law of armed conflict. Legal Aspects of Future Wars The paradigm shifts we see through history affect our society, as well as our laws. These laws, however, are apt to lag behind the swift change in the social, political, and cultural dynamic of today’s information age. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the area of national security law, particularly after the declaration of the war on terror in September 2001. This seminar, a first for a law school, will allow both the law student and graduate student from the Maxwell School of Citizenship, to consider the new threats to our national security 5, 10, and 15 years out and review how the appropriate laws will need to be reviewed and to change. The field of national security law needs to be more preventative, proactive, and forward thinking, rather than reactive. The new threats and battlefields will be fought not on the desert plains of the Middle East, but in cyberspace, medical labs, nuclear reactors, corporate board rooms, bank vaults, and in dark corners of the world. The enemy may well be a soldier, but more likely a terrorist with sophisticated technology to attack asymmetrically and from places we have yet to imagine. This seminar will address these issues, looking for the next challenges, and will explore the ways the law can adjust to ensure we defend ourselves under the rule of law. Legal Communication and Research III Taken either in the summer following the first year or in either the fall or spring semester of the second year. The Legal Communication and Research program will offer a variety of courses that build on the skills learned in the first two semesters of the program. Course offerings will vary, but will include courses that focus more specifically on practice areas (such as civil litigation, criminal litigation, and transactional drafting), as well as courses that focus on legal writing (such as theories and strategies in persuasive writing and revising and editing legal prose). upper-level course descriptions 25 Legal History: American Law A history of American legal development and institutions from 1600 to present. Emphasis on the role of ideology, impact of the American Revolution, efforts to reform legal institutions, slavery and race, relationship between law and capitalism, impact of the frontier, formalist adjudication, legal realism, and legal education. Legal History: Modern Public Law A survey of American constitutional history from c. 1880 to the present. This course will include the emergence of substantive due process, the aggrandizement of presidential power in war time, all aspects of the First Amendment, various 20th-century schools of legal thought, the impact of the equal protection clause, and rights of privacy, autonomy, and association. Irregular course offering. Litigation in Regional Human Rights Cases Students in this course will take a critical look at the international human rights litigation before regional bodies such as the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission and Court, and the African Commission and Court. It will also analyze universal mechanisms established by the United States. Irregular course offering. Low Income Taxpayer Clinic The Low Income Taxpayer Law Clinic offers legal assistance to lower-income taxpayers who have controversies with the Internal Revenue Service. Students enrolled in this clinic handle income tax audits and examinations, administrative appeals, unfiled tax returns, and issues related to the collection of back taxes by the IRS. Students negotiate with IRS agents, and when necessary, file petitions in the U.S. Tax Court or complaints in the Federal District Courts. 26 | Syracuse University College of Law Mass Communications Selected topics examining law of the press, such as, defamation, privacy, reporters’ privileges, freedom of information, and access to judicial proceedings. Mediation Assistance This course is an applied learning seminar. Students learn about mediation from actual mediations and from exercises, simulations, and readings that are required for the course. Only students who have been accepted into the Mediation Assistance Program and have completed 25 hours of training in the fall semester will be eligible to sign up for the course. The purpose of the Mediation Assistance Program is to train students in mediation so they can provide free mediation services to community groups who do not otherwise have access to such services. Irregular course offering. Mediation and Family Law This course is an intensive theoretical and practical introduction to mediation in family law. Focusing on the law and jurisprudence of mediation, and the roles of attorneys in mediation, as both mediators and counselors, the syllabus also draws upon interdisciplinary insights from the fields of anthropology, sociology, linguistics, psychology, and conflict resolution. It is intended to be a theoretical and analytical class with a strong skills component, consisting of three simulations. Medical Malpractice This is a survey course that considers the elements involved in starting a medical malpractice claim. The course will include the defenses against and possible consequences of bringing medical malpractice claims. Mergers and Acquisitions This course is for students with a strong interest in capital markets, public corporations, and modern corporate practice. Topics covered include source of gains in business combinations, duties and risks of sellers, buyers’ risks in acquisitions, and securities laws. National Security Law Obtaining information about the government; restraints on publication; government surveillance; travel restrictions; war and emergency powers; nuclear weapons issues; civil disobedience and draft issues. National Security and Counterterrorism Research Center The National Security and Counterterrorism Research Center serves as a working research laboratory for law and other graduate students interested in national security and counter-terrorism issues. Students will work in teams on research projects assigned by the director. Other faculty within Syracuse University and experts outside the University may also participate in the development and implementation of research projects. Typically, the projects will involve assessments of legal and law-related issues of concern to federal, state, and local government officials in responding to national security and terrorism threats. Other projects may examine private sector security concerns. Research projects may be pursuant to contract arrangements with sources external to Syracuse University, while others may be developed from within the College of Law or the University. Native American Law Legal principles governing the relationship between Indian nations, states, and the federal government on disputes concerning jurisdiction, land, and water. Irregular course offering. Negotiating and Drafting International Transactions Documents In this two-semester applied learning course, students consider issues related to ethics and professionalism and will develop negotiating and drafting skills. In the first semester, the course will focus on an international sales agreement. Students will consider problems related to basic sales such as payment guarantees and products liability in the context of laws of different jurisdictions and trade agreements. In the second semester of the course, students will focus on a technological transfer and issues related to investment. This course will meet the College of Law writing requirement. New York Civil Practice Civil practice law and rules and interpretive cases and other aspects of civil litigation in New York. Not-for-Profit Organizations, Law, Taxation and Policy A study of the federal and state laws (corporate, tax, administrative) governing and regulating not-for-profit organizations, and the policy considerations underlying those laws. Among the many organizations to be considered are charitable, educational, and religious organizations; social clubs; civic and business leagues; political parties; and political action committees. The course will also examine the application of those laws in modern legal practice. Patent Prosecution This course is designed primarily for students who plan to practice in the area of Patent Law before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), which permits only registered patent attorneys and agents to represent clients in the prosecution of patent applications. The course will cover the process of procuring a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The course will also enhance students’ understanding of the legal standards for patentability (building upon the principles explored in Patents and Trade Secrets), will familiarize students with the PTO’s elaborate rules of practice in patent cases, and will provide students with practice applying these standards and rules to facts and situations encountered in basic patent prosecution practice. Patents and Trade Secrets is a prerequisite to this course. Patents and Trade Secrets Traditional patent course focusing on protection of mechanical, chemical, and electrical inventions with a trade secrets component. Poverty Law Surveys significant issues in poverty law and policy. Looks at poverty, poverty programs, and access to the civil justice system. Against the background of historic change in law and policy, students examine issues from differing legal, political, and social philosophies. Students examine the changing nature of poverty law practice. Specific areas of study include the nature of poverty, the history of access to justice, the constitution in the welfare state, and substantive topics such as access to a subsistence income, shelter, health care, nutrition, safety, and a prosperous future. 27 upper-level course descriptions 28 | Syracuse University College of Law Problems in Case Analysis and Appellate Advocacy Seminar Legal reasoning through practice in developing written and oral arguments and reaching solutions to legal questions taken from actual cases. The emphasis will be on analysis and reasoning, not on learning legal rules. Many of the problems will be modeled on cases in the New York Court of Appeals that resulted in four-to-three decisions where there is no “right answer.” A discussion of some of these cases will inevitably entail arguments concerning social policy and legal philosophy. Problems in Legal Writing Students will explore legal analysis, legal reasoning, and legal writing in a problemsolving context. Part I of the course will focus on instruction and reinforcement of basic skills. These include problem/issue assessment; hierarchy and weight of authority; research skills; logical reasoning; case and statutory analysis; analogical, policy-based, and principled reasoning; and deriving and synthesizing rules of law. Part II of the course will focus on legal writing and organizational skills, including writing styles, audience, basic macro- and micro-organization, “rule proofs,” the importance of comprehensive and succinct analysis, attribution, plagiarism, and professional responsibility. Part III of the course will offer a progressive series of analysis and writing exercises, each of which will culminate in the submission of a graded paper. Irregular course offering. Professional Writing for Lawyers This course offers second- and third-year law students an opportunity to develop further their written communication skills in the context of drafting civil litigation documents. Using civil litigation documents, students will learn/review/practice basic principles and strategies of effective writing, effective legal writing, and effective legal research. The course will emphasize the importance of organization, checklists, samples bank, point of view, audience, strategy, clarity, conciseness, self-editing, and teamwork. Further, the course will aim at helping students develop confidence in writing and create a personal writing style. Products Liability Legal tools for dealing with defective and dangerous products, including common law remedies for breach of warranty, negligence, and strict liability in tort. Definition of “defective product” and the measure of damages to the injured person. Professional Responsibility Relationship of the lawyer to the profession, community, client, and society. ABA Code of Professional Responsibility, ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, and American Lawyer’s Code of Conduct. Prosecuting Terrorists in Article III Courts The course will examine the use of civilian Article III courts to prosecute terrorist by following the logical course of a prosecution —legal basis, investigative techniques, litigation, and sentencing issues. Major topics include: principles of counter-terrorism prosecutions, major legislative packages, definitions of terrorism, numerous selected criminal statutes, overview of the intelligence community, overview of federal law enforcement agencies, use and protection national security information, Fourth Amendment framework, the Attorney General’s Guidelines, U.S. agents acting abroad, electronic surveillance, interviews and interrogation, use of the grand jury, material witnesses, the Classified Information Procedures Act, physical security, witness protection, relevant United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, litigation strategies, and case studies. Psychology and the Legal System An important goal of the legal system is to guide, constrain, and react to human behavior. In doing so the law makes numerous assumptions about people’s thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and conduct—assumptions that may or may not be true. Psychology, as the empirical study of human thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and conduct, is in an important position to evaluate such assumptions. Over the past several decades, increasing numbers of social scientists have devoted substantial attention to the systematic study of law and legal institutions. At the same time, social scientists themselves are testifying as experts in increasing numbers, and encouraging courts and policy-makers to use research evidence in adjudicating court cases and in setting public policy. This course will provide a survey of research in psychology as it relates to the legal and political process. Among the topics covered may be jury decision-making, the insanity defense, negotiation, race, trial consulting, obscenity and pornography, and capital punishment. Each topic will be considered from both a theoretical and an applied perspective. Race and Law This course explores the historical foundations of selected current issues where race has legal significance. It is not a comprehensive civil rights course. Half of the course will consist of a historical survey of the intersection of race and law in what has become the United States, from 1600 to 1954. The course will focus primarily on the legal condition of African Americans, first in the slave societies that prevailed until 1865, then in the condition of servitude that followed for another century. The course will also briefly consider the legal experience of Spanish-speaking peoples in what was successively colonial Mexico and then Texas and the rest of the southwestern United States, will note problems faced by Chinese and Japanese immigrants to the United States, will look briefly at the racial implications of American empire, and will consider the constitutional status of the Native American peoples. The emphasis in this part of the course will be on a survey designed to familiarize students with historical experiences seldom taught, and never integrated, in high school and college. The second half of the course focuses on problems that arose after 1954. These include the incidence of the death penalty; affirmative action; the desegregation, integration, and resegregation of American schools; voting rights; law-enforcement issues; and others. The course will also concern, almost exclusively, the legal opportunities and challenges facing African Americans. The focus of our work will be on answers to these questions: Is Brown v. Board of Education (1954) still the law of the land? To the extent that it isn’t, what has supplanted it, and what resemblance (if any) does that post-Brown society bear to the nation surveyed in the first half of the course? Irregular course offering. Race, Sex, Memory, and the Law Since the United States Supreme Court ruled antimiscegenation law unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia (1967), commentators have heralded the onset of the “biracial baby boom.” This type of law and thought, productive as it may be, treats mixed race as a new phenomenon, as if interracial intimacy had not occurred before then. This seminar analyzes juridical and historical dialogues of miscegenation that refer to this seemingly nonexistent past, with a goal of questioning our collective memory of discrete and impenetrable racial lines. We will examine past and present legal conflicts of miscegenation, including testamentary disputes, presidential sex, racial passing, and the myth of Pocahontas. Our aim is to interrogate anachronistic conceptions of racial boundaries that incorrectly rely upon present recollections of the past as seen through the eyes of law, specifically the antimiscegenist regime that preceded Loving. We will take an interdisciplinary approach to this legal analysis by relying on fiction, film, and theory, including Samuel Clemens’ Puddn’head Wilson, Dion Bioucault’s The Octoroon, and John Sayle’s Lone Star. Readings include, among others, Charles Chesnutt, Vine Deloria Jr., Randall Kennedy, and Annette Gordon-Reed. 29 Real Estate Transactions Standard residential and commercial real estate transactions, including consideration of brokerage arrangements, contracts of sale, methods of financing, methods of title protection, mortgage markets, construction loans, and permanent financing. Refugee and Asylum Law The course lays out the historical, political, and philosophical background to the development of the concept of “refugee” in the 20th century, followed by the legal framework, illustrating how U.S. law complements—and sometimes contradicts—the standards developed in international law. The focus then shifts to the procedural and evidentiary requirements for making a claim for asylum before the I.N.S. through a simulation in which students interview a mock asylum applicant and research and prepare a legal petition on her behalf. The course concludes with a reconsideration of the international refugee regime and its most pressing problems, such as the internally displaced. Regulation of Electronic Mass Communications Regulation of radio, television, cable systems, and new technologies; economic and First Amendment implications of administrative oversight. Irregular course offering. Regulatory Law and Policy An advanced exploration of regulatory decision making, focusing on the reasons for and methods used in implementing regulation; how policy and politics impact on regulatory decisions and relate to the legal authority of agencies; case studies of regulatory programs, their successes and failures. Course requirements include one or more research papers, which will meet the College of Law writing requirement. Administrative Law or Public Administration and Law are prerequisites for this course. This one-semester course is a J.D./M.P.A. program requirement. Religion and the State Introduces the concept of the law/religion interaction and the methodology of comparative law. Will focus on general topic of fundamentalism. Focus will also be selected countries (including three democracies) that represent major religions: Catholic Ireland, Shiite Iran (bracketed by an introductory class on Islam and a case study on Salman Rushdie), Jewish Israel, and Hindu/Muslim India. Irregular course offering. 30 | Syracuse University College of Law Rethinking American Law This is a topical course focused on the study of contemporary issues in American Indian law. Several issues will be addressed in depth that related to the indigenous nations and peoples within New York State, including (i) Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) land claims and their resolution; (ii) state efforts to require Indian nations to collect state sales taxes; (iii) Indian gaming and its proliferation within the state; (iv) federal agency efforts to apply general regulatory laws to Indian nations; and (v) criminal jurisdiction and its enforcement on Indian lands. Irregular course offering. Secured Transactions This course deals in depth with the creation and perfection of security interests in personal property, priority of claims, and remedies upon debtor’s default under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Additionally, some consideration is given to related concepts under the Federal Bankruptcy Code. Irregular course offering. Securities Arbitration/ Consumer Law Clinic The Securities Arbitration/Consumer Law Clinic represents small investors who have lost some or all of their investments as a result of improper conduct on the part of stock brokers, investment advisors, securities firms, and mutual funds, and who are required to use the arbitration process for the resolution of their disputes. Starting in fall 2006, students will also have the opportunity to handle a variety of consumer cases. Securities Regulations Securities Act of 1933: regulation of the distribution of securities, including the registration process, exempt securities, exempt transactions, enforcement, and liabilities; Securities Exchange Act of 1934: regulation of trading in securities and related market activities, including tender offers, proxy solicitations, market manipulation, disclosure requirements, insider trading, and express and implied civil liabilities. Sexual Orientation and the Law Legal issues as they affect the lives of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in the United States. Constitutional law, employment law, family law, property law, criminal law, and estate planning are the areas of primary focus. Sovereignty, Colonialism, and the Indigenous Nations This course will explore issues relating to the self-determination of Indigenous peoples and the sovereignty of Indigenous nations located within the Western Hemisphere generally and the United States in particular. Topics to be addressed fall into three main categories: (i) the meaning of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination and the relationship of these concepts to the survival of Indigenous peoples and nations; (ii) the threats to Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, in particular the threat of colonialism; and (iii) the means by which Indigenous nation sovereignty can be developed and strengthened. By focusing on the legal, political, and economic systems of Indigenous nations and peoples, it is intended that students develop a greater understanding of non-western legal and political systems and possibly gain greater insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the American legal and political systems. Sports Law This course will examine various areas of the law as they relate to sports (both professional sports and intercollegiate sports), including such areas as contract law, antitrust law, labor law, law regulating player agents, gender discrimination law, and personal injury law. Tax Practice and Procedures Study of procedural problems concerned with the administration of the Internal Revenue Code and the handling of tax disputes, including litigation. Taxation of International Transactions Taxation of nonresident aliens and foreign corporations on income earned in the United States and of U.S. citizens, residents, and corporations on income from foreign sources. Taxation of Passthrough Business Entities Taxation of partnerships and subchapter S corporations. Technology Transactions Law The classroom component offered in coordination with the Technology Transfer Research Center, which includes extensive readings on law, technology and business topics; case study problems; software simulations; and lectures and discussions based upon assigned work. Technology Commercialization Research Center Will operate in conjunction with CASE Technology-Transfer Research Center. Interns will work in the CTRC and attend a series of classes devoted to technology transfer subjects. Theories and Strategies in Persuasive Writing Using theoretical principles of human nature identified in classical rhetoric, psychology, and literary theory, Theories and Strategies in Persuasive Writing will focus on why certain writing strategies are persuasive and how and when a legal writer might use a particular writing strategy. Specifically, the course will consider the function and use of literary references in persuasive writing, the various persuasive writing strategies based on classical rhetoric theory, and persuasive writing strategies based on psychology theory. Irregular course offering. Transitional Justice Seminar The study of the evolving legal and sociopolitical processes by which formerly repressive regimes transform themselves into rule of law states. (Note: The phrase “Transitional Justice” has become a common way to describe this process, which includes the replacement of old laws, officials and governmental institutions; prosecution of the former regime leadership; truth and reconciliation mechanisms; reparations for victims of human rights and humanitarian law violations, etc.) Students will write individual research papers (which will satisfy the College of Law writing requirement) and, as a group, the class will draft a new constitution for a hypothetical “transitional” country. Trial Practice Courtroom techniques and tactics drawing on substantive and procedural law and evidence courses. Students prepare and conduct trial exercises under direction of instructor. Unfair Competition Common law tort and legislative remedies for civil wrongs arising from business conduct and commercial dealings; common law trade libel and product disparagement, mixed tort and contract remedies. Women and the Law Historical perspective of the legal problems of women in American society. Women in the Criminal Justice System This applied learning course will examine women’s increased involvement throughout the criminal justice system. The students will analyze the role of gender in criminal law doctrine, practice, and adjudication using an interdisciplinary approach to these subjects. In addition to the fall semester being devoted primarily to substantive discussions, visits by guest speakers, and initial development of student papers, and the spring semester being devoted to additional development of the drafts, presentations, and field trips, the course will also include a “community service” dimension. Students will devote approximately 10 hours assisting battered women in the Family Court in Syracuse. Irregular course offering. 31 innovation and specialization Innovation begins in a student’s first year of study at Syracuse. The legal communication and research courses and first-year Legislation and Policy elective courses introduce students to crucial legal skills and the legal environment. Following the first year, opportunities to specialize in one or more areas of the law are abundant at Syracuse. Students are able to explore and expand their career interests throughout their three years of law study. 32 | Syracuse University College of Law Legal Communication and Research As part of an on-going plan to blend substantive legal education with practical skills training, the college has instituted an innovative first-year Course called Legal Communication and Research. Each student is assigned to a small-group class directed by a legal writing professor. In the Legal Communication and Research Course, students develop legal writing, research, and problem-solving skills in connection with hypothetical fact patterns based on actual cases and controversies. This course introduces students to the multifaceted role of the lawyer early in their studies. The low student-to-instructor ratio of the class ensures close, personal attention to development of the most crucial lawyering skills. In addition to intensive writing exercises, the course exposes students to a range of practical skills required in actual law practice. Ever mindful of the effect of technological advances on the practice of law, the College of Law provides technology training as part of the course. Instruction in computer-assisted legal research methods begins in the second semester of the first year with structured training sessions for computer-assisted legal research. First-Year Legislation and Policy Electives All first-year students now have the option of electing one course in the spring semester. Students choose from several specialized first-year electives that may include civil rights law, consumer protection law, federal Indian law, disability law, environmental law, employment discrimination, family law, health law, labor law, voting rights and electoral process, and securities law. In these courses, students explore the institutions and processes of legislation, including an examination of statutory interpretation and administrative processes, as applied to the particular substantive area of law. To facilitate innovative teaching strategies and individualized learning opportunities, each elective course is limited in enrollment to fewer than 40 students. Innovative Opportunities Innovation continues into a student’s second and third years at Syracuse. A variety of opportunities allow students to learn more in areas that provide strong grounding for issues likely to be encountered in the practice of law in the next century. Syracuse Law has developed special opportunities that provide outstanding educational experiences. These include training in advocacy skills, international law, technology law, family law and social policy, law and economics, disabilities law, national security, the law of indigenous people, and a wide array of interdisciplinary opportunities and diverse in-house clinical and externship experiences. Upperclass students may select from a variety of elective courses and seminars listed on pages 9 to 11 and from the offerings described on pages 12 to 31. The Writing Center The Writing Center offers individualized writing assistance to students based on the philosophy that “all written work needs improving; every writer can improve.” The Writing Center supports the writing activities of College of Law students by offering one-on-one conferences, as well as small-group workshops and large-group presentations. The center offers a variety of activities focusing on the writing process, including document organization and presentation, principles of composition, expository writing, argumentation techniques, legal usage and style, and presenting a completed product. The Writing Center uses a variety of instructional methods to accomplish its missions. For students, the Writing Center is a resource for improving their writing; for faculty, the Writing Center is a resource to supplement their classroom writing activities. 33 interdisciplinary learning opportunities Syracuse University College of Law’s mission is guided by the philosophy that the best way to educate lawyers to practice in today’s world is to engage them in a process of interdisciplinary learning while teaching them to apply what they learn in the classroom to real legal issues, problems, and clients. Beginning in the first year and continuing throughout the curriculum, students are exposed to educational settings that integrate opportunities to acquire a better understanding of legal theory and doctrine, develop professional skills, and gain exposure to the values and ethics of the legal profession. As a result, Syracuse students are better prepared for the practice of law. 34 | Syracuse University College of Law Centers and Institute While law degrees do not include “majors,” by participating in a center or institute, students can specialize in certain areas and have real-life experiences related to the type of law they may choose to practice. Students can gain hands-on experience by working closely with faculty members and classmates in small groups on simulated or actual legal problems. Students may complete all requirements within the three-year course of study for the J.D. and receive certificates upon completion noting their accomplishments. Technology Commercialization Law Program (TCL) In a unique program designed to bridge theory and practice for students planning careers in intellectual property and technology management, the Technology Commercialization Law (TCL) Program emphasizes interdisciplinary and applied approaches to commercial development of new technology. In addition to law subjects, students are immersed in a business curriculum that includes business planning, finance, intellectual property licensing, venture capital, and tax issues. They are trained to research electronic databases and use computers and telecommunications systems as practice tools, and work in cross-disciplinary teams on real-world technology development arranged through SU’s Technology Commercialization Research Center with companies and research organizations. Although a background in a technical field is not required, the majority of TCL students have science or engineering degrees or have worked in technology-related occupations before entering law school. The TCL Program has recently been awarded a highly prestigious grant from the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR) to provide legal support services to university research centers and early-stage technology companies throughout New York State. TCL students will be actively engaged in this project. Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism (PCSE) When students study law in the Center on PCSE, they explore issues related to modern real estate transactions and finance; community development and housing; global property law systems; and access to ownership for inclusion of the elderly, the poor, and persons with disabilities. The PCSE curriculum provides students with the skills and knowledge that are essential to understanding the critical role of law in defining property, constituting markets, and fostering institutions of citizenship and governance. PCSE engages students in coursework, team projects, and research opportunities in all areas of property law and theory, including real, personal, intangible, intellectual, and cultural property. PCSE also addresses the special needs of business and of corporate counsel. Property issues are among the most hotly contested issues in the global marketplace and PCSE offers students a front row seat. Our curriculum is based on a belief that the modern lawyer must understand property and its regulation as part of the broader economic organization of society. This includes a need to understand relevant political, business, and financial factors. The curriculum prepares students for a variety of opportunities in law firms, government agencies, financial institutions, development organizations, business, and for graduate studies. Students may earn a Certificate in Advanced Property Studies, or the Corporate Counsel Certificate by successfully completing the core PCSE requirements. Both certificates are awarded by the College of Law at graduation, upon successful completion of all requirements. The core curriculum is outlined on our web site at www.law.syr.edu/pcse. 35 36 | Syracuse University College of Law Global Law and Practice Family Law and Social Policy Center Technological developments, the end of the Cold War, and increasing economic interdependence among nations have challenged legal education to keep pace in the expanding field of global studies. For more than 35 years, Syracuse University College of Law has been a leader in international legal studies. Out of that tradition, the Center for Global Law and Practice emerged, offering students a broad variety of opportunities in and out of the classroom. Students who participate in the center choose courses in the international area from a varied menu. From their first year, students may be exposed to the field of global law by being selected for the International Section of the Legal Communication and Research course, from which participants are selected for the First-Year International Moot Court Competition. Students may join the International Law Society, which sponsors a number of extracurricular activities, or write for the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, one of the oldest student-edited international law reviews in the United States. Students who fulfill certain course requirements can earn the Certificate in Global Law and Practice. Selected students may become Global Law and Practice research associates or research assistants working on global pro bono projects, such as the Sierra Leone project. For academic credit, students in the project draft legal memoranda on issues of international criminal law requested by the office of the prosecutor of the U.N.-created War Crimes Court in Sierra Leone. Students may also apply classroom learning by competing in the Jessup International Law Competition, the Vienna Arbitration Competition on International Sales of Goods, or the tri-lingual Inter-American Human Rights Competition. Students can also receive handson experiences through work on related cases in our clinics and Syracuse’s summer abroad program in London. An added advantage for global law students is the opportunity to take international relations and other courses at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, consistently rated the premier graduate school in public administration in the United States. The Family Law and Social Policy Center prepares law students for a career in family law by engaging them in interdisciplinary research, providing them with applied learning experiences, and connecting them with the community to provide services that benefit families and children. Students participating in the Family Law and Social Policy Center Programs are eligible to receive a certificate that recognizes their concentration in either family law or estate planning. Students interested in earning the Family Law and Social Policy Certificate must take Family Law and four elective courses from the family law curriculum. Those who would like to obtain the Estate Planning Certificate must take 17 credits in estate planning coursework. It is possible for students to achieve both certificates upon graduation, as many of the course requirements overlap. The family law curriculum includes a variety of courses to choose from, including: Bioethics, Children and the Law, Estate Planning, Mediation, and Domestic Violence. Additionally, students have the opportunity to take courses and perform research in other graduate divisions that will count toward the Family Law and Social Policy Certificate requirements. Students often take family policy-related classes at the highly respected Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs or Syracuse University School of Social Work. Through its applied learning courses, such as the Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic and the Service-Learning Program, students participate in hands-on learning opportunities that combine in-depth classroom learning with actual problem solving. These courses provide opportunities to interact with professionals in other fields as well as with practicing attorneys. In the Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic, students represent clients with legal needs that would otherwise go unserved. The Service-Learning Program enables students to assist pro bono or nonprofit legal service organizations in providing family law–related services to the low-income community. The Family Advocacy Program (FAP) is a medical-legal collaboration co-sponsored by the Family Law and Social Policy Center, the Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic (CRC), and Upstate Pediatrics and Adolescent Center of University Hospital and Upstate Medical University. Medical and legal professionals work together to provide legal assistance to address problems affecting a child’s health. Students have the unique opportunity to represent FAP clients in the clinic program or assist pro bono attorneys in providing legal services to clients ineligible for FAP services. From their first year, students are invited to participate in center events, such as speakers, conferences, and pro bono programs. Students are also encouraged to become involved in related activities such as the National Gabrielli Family Law Moot Court Competition or the Family Law Society. The center includes a diverse faculty of experts and practitioners in various areas of family law such as bioethics, children’s rights, disability law, and elder law. The center also employs a full-time executive director dedicated to organizing conferences and speakers on various family law topics, coaching the Family Law Moot Court Team, and assisting students in planning for and obtaining center certificates. The center offers unique opportunities that blend interdisciplinary theory and practice in the field of family law in ways that are both challenging and rewarding to law students. These combined experiences allow students to emerge from the program with the professional skills and experiences necessary to launch successful and satisfying careers in family law. For more information, visit the center’s web site at www.law.syr.edu/family. Center for Indigenous Law, Governance, and Citizenship Established in 2003, The Center for Indigenous Law, Governance, and Citizenship at Syracuse University focuses on programmatic activities that include: conducting research relating to citizenship, rights and responsibilities of Indigenous peoples and the governance of Indigenous nations in the United States and Canada; providing technical assistance to Indigenous nations seeking to reform their governing institutions and administrative laws; assisting federal, state, local and provincial governments who seek to reform their Indian affairs laws; and promoting a greater understanding of the law, governance, and history of the Haudenosaunee (“People of the Longhouse”). The issues and activities of these areas are inherently complex and multidisciplinary. They delve into such disciplines as law, politics, administration, finance, anthropology, and sociology, necessitating collaboration and partnership with other schools on campus. Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, a joint enterprise of the College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of important questions of law and policy related to national and international security and counterterrorism. In furtherance of this mission, INSCT supports the development of new and existing courses; sponsors conferences, workshops, and lectures; and administers a student research center. Responding to the growing interest in terrorism and other security threats, the institute and its sponsoring schools have developed an extensive security studies curriculum and offer students two certificates in security and counterterrorism studies. A prime example of this curriculum is the Perspectives on Terrorism course, which is team taught by faculty from the disciplines of law, history, political science, communication, international relations, and public administration. Disciplinespecific courses are also taught in almost all Maxwell School departments and at the College of Law, which offers such courses as National Security Law, Counterterrorism and the Law, Prosecuting Terrorists in Article III Courts, and Legal Aspects of Future War. Partnering with academic centers within Syracuse University, nationally, and internationally, the institute also sponsors conferences and lectures that are designed to further a research agenda in security or terrorism and bring together scholars, current and former government officials, and media representatives. Topics have included information sharing and homeland security, the global war on terrorism, reorganization of the intelligence community, terrorist financing, investigating and prosecuting terrorists, and violent extremists and the political process. Such topics are explored in more depth not only by faculty, but also by students in the National Security and Counterterrorism Research Center, where they conduct faculty and practitioner-supervised research and write reports for publication or dissemination to government and private entities. More information about the Institute is available at insct.syr.edu. Disability Law and Policy Program The College of Law’s new Disability Law and Policy Program is the first such certificate program of its kind in the United States. It offers law students the opportunity to gain legal research and practice experience in disability law and advocacy. The program sponsors courses, clinics, externships, research and advocacy opportunities, lectures, and co-curricular activities. A certificate in disability law and policy is available to those law students who complete the program’s academic requirements. The Disability Law and Policy Program also sponsors the nation’s first joint degree program in law and disability studies, as well as a joint degree in law and social work. The Disability Law and Policy Program is part of Syracuse University’s Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies which, itself, is the first such university-based multidisciplinary center, coalescing disabilityrelated teaching, research, academic and co-curricular programs, and national and international advocacy projects by SU faculty and students. The center promotes its mission of inclusion and equality of children and adults with disabilities in society by developing and sponsoring academic programs and courses, conferences and publications, research and training programs, and public education and advocacy efforts. The center is co-directed by Professor Arlene Kanter of the College of Law and Professor Steve Taylor of the School of Education. For more information about the Disability Law and Policy Program, see: www.law.syr.edu/academics/centers/dlp/index.asp. 37 Office of Clinical Legal Education In-House Clinics Community Development Law Clinic Legal concepts learned in the classroom come to life for students who participate in the Syracuse University College of Law’s InHouse Clinics and Externship Program. Clinic and externship students work with and as lawyers in law offices, becoming immersed in the actual practice of law through their work on real cases affecting real clients. At the same time, students reflect on their legal experiences through classroom discussion, writing assignments and one-on-one interactions with faculty members and supervising attorneys. The practical experience that our students receive through our In-House Clinics and Externship Program helps them develop professionally and fine-tune their lawyering skills. Additionally, by participating in our programs, students provide much-needed legal services to our community, as many of our clients are unable to afford private counsel. Essentially, clinic and externship students have the opportunity to become lawyers while still in law school. As such, all students are strongly encouraged to enroll in the In-House Clinics or Externship Program, which are offered during the summer and academic year. The In-House Clinics comprise a small law firm located in the College of Law’s MacNaughton Hall. Students enrolled in the In-House Clinics represent clients in our law office under the supervision of College of Law faculty. They work directly with clients, conducting interviews and counseling sessions, developing case theories, preparing investigation plans, conducting research, writing memoranda, and appearing in city, state, and federal courts and before administrative agencies. At the same time, students participate in clinical seminars that include training in ethical issues, substantive law, lawyering skills, and professionalism, as well as ongoing discussions of clinic cases. They are encouraged to examine the legal, justice and social systems in which they work to resolve their clients’ problems, and to discuss the rewards and challenges of representing clients for the first time. Workspace, computers, and staff support are provided in the Office of Clinical Legal Education. The Community Development Law Clinic is one of the oldest community development law clinics in the country. Founded in 1988, it provides representation for not-for profit organizations involved in improving lowincome communities. Students enrolled in this clinic practice transactional law for clients engaged in activities such as the development of affordable housing; creation of business and job development programs; creation and development of community centers, after-school programs, day care centers; neighborhood advocacy organizations; disability advocacy organizations; and community development corporations. Students may also represent individual clients in real estate closings and the development of start-up businesses. The work in this clinic applies corporation law, tax law, business law, contract law, poverty law, intellectual property law, and real estate law. Disability Rights Clinic Criminal Defense Law Clinic The Criminal Defense Law Clinic provides representation to clients charged with misdemeanors and violations in Syracuse City Court. Students enrolled in this clinic engage in extensive fact investigation, interviewing, client counseling and plea negotiations. They also conduct hearings and trials and may have the opportunity to represent clients on civil matters related to their criminal cases, such as school disciplinary hearings and benefits issues. 38 | Syracuse University College of Law The Disability Rights Clinic is dedicated to providing representation to individuals with disabilities as well as groups representing the disabled community. This clinic represents those who cannot afford private counsel. Students enrolled in this clinic practice in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies in a broad range of disability discrimination matters. They also handle social security benefits cases, special education cases and accessibility issues under federal and state law. “For me, the Criminal Defense Law Clinic acted as a bridge between Law School and the real world. My experience in the clinic encouraged me to seek employment in the area of indigent criminal defense because it helped me realize that I enjoyed being in court and litigating various aspects of criminal law, while working in the public interest arena at the same time. One of the most important things that participating in the clinic taught me was that as an attorney, I would always need to be open to learning new things, including how to interact with different types of people or how to think about different ways of approaching a case or an argument.” Melissa Kowalewski, L‘04 New Hampshire Public Defender Nashua, NH Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic Securities Arbitration/ Consumer Law Clinic The Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic addresses the unmet legal needs of children and their families by representing them in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies. Students enrolled in this clinic provide services in a variety of areas, including special education, school disciplinary and suspension hearings, emancipation, child custody and support, adoption, guardianship, and divorce matters. They also assist clients in the Family Advocacy Program, a collaborative project with SUNY Upstate Medical University. Additionally, students have the opportunity to engage in non-litigation legal advocacy and educational outreach. The Securities Arbitration/Consumer Law Clinic assists small investors who have lost some or all of their investments as a result of improper conduct on the part of stock brokers, investment advisors, securities firms, and mutual funds. Students enrolled in this clinic represent eligible investors who are required to use the arbitration process for the resolution of their disputes. Starting in fall 2006, students will handle a variety of consumer cases, potentially including mortgage foreclosures, consumer protection act violations, unfair and deceptive trade practices, unfair debt collection, and lemon laws. Low-Income Taxpayer Law Clinic “Participating in the Community Development Law Clinic was one of the most valuable experiences that I had while in Law School. It helped me to test what I had learned in the classroom, practice my legal skills and gain confidence and practical knowledge that I could take with me to a job when I graduated. It gave me the opportunity to learn how to relate to and communicate with clients and to understand the importance of using my legal experience to help them accomplish their goals.” The Low-Income Taxpayer Law Clinic offers legal assistance to lower-income taxpayers who have controversies or issues with the Internal Revenue Service. Students enrolled in this clinic handle income tax audits and examinations, administrative appeals, unfiled tax returns and issues related to the collection of back taxes by the Internal Revenue Service. Students seek to resolve these controversies and issues through negotiations with Internal Revenue Service agents and, when necessary, file Petitions in the United States Tax Court or Complaints in the Federal District Courts. Since its inception, students enrolled in the Law Income Taxpayer Clinic have helped their clients recover more than $201,000. Erica Levin, L‘05 United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Washington, DC 39 Externship Program Academic Year and Summer Externships in Upstate New York “Externs who are placed in our office will get hands on experience in legal research, writing briefs and troubleshooting problems that come up in our cases. This not only benefits our work, as they become an integral part of the office, but it also gives them the opportunity to experience what it is like to work in a District Attorney’s office and decide if it is something they want to pursue as a career path after graduation.” Jim Maxwell Chief Assistant District Attorney Syracuse, NY Externship Supervisor since 1990’s 40 | Syracuse University College of Law Students enrolled in the Externship Program work in government offices, judges’ chambers, and public interest organizations throughout Upstate New York. At the same time, students participate in the externship seminar, which allows them to reflect on their legal experiences. Students participating in the Externship Program will increase their understanding of the range of skills necessary for effective lawyering, improve their ability to perform lawyering skills, gain self-confidence in their lawyering abilities, and develop productive relationships with supervisors, clients, support staff, and peers. The Externship Program maintains relationships with offices that offer multiple externship positions to Syracuse University College of Law students each year in Syracuse, Rochester, Binghamton, Utica, Oswego, Auburn, Canandaigua, and Ithaca. The following have traditionally offered externship positions to our students, and the list continues to grow each year: Government Offices: United States Attorney’s Office Office of the United States Trustee New York State Attorney General’s Office New York State Attorney General’s OfficeCivil Recoveries Bureau New York State Department of Environmental Conservation District Attorney’s Office Onondaga County Attorney’s Office Corporation Counsel’s Office Judges’ Chambers: United States District Court United States Bankruptcy Court New York State Supreme Court—Civil and Matrimonial Parts Onondaga County Family Court Oneida County Family Court Auburn City Court Fulton City Court Oswego City Court Public Interest Organizations The Office of the Federal Public Defender Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York Legal Services of Central New York Legal Aid Society of Rochester Prisoners’ Legal Services At the beginning of each calendar year, students engage in a competitive application and interview process, which culminates in offers from the various externship placements. In addition to providing students with opportunities to practice their interviewing skills, this process also helps them meet and network with members of the local legal community, which will be important to their future job search. Externs engage in challenging assignments, including drafting decisions, memos, pleadings or other legal documents, researching memoranda, interviewing and preparing witnesses, participating as co-counsel at trials and observing trials, appellate arguments or in-chamber proceedings. Since they are enrolled in the program for an entire summer and/or academic year, externship students become an integral part of the law offices in which they work and receive valuable guidance and feedback from their supervisors, who are seasoned professionals in their fields. Summer Away Externships The Summer Away Externship Program offers students the opportunity to work at an approved placement anywhere in the United States or abroad during the summer. Typically, students identify their own placements, in government offices, judges’ chambers, or public interest organizations, which are then submitted for approval by the Externship Office. Advocacy Skills Moot Court International Moot Court Competitions Developing skills to be a lawyer requires more than briefing cases and interpreting statutes and law treatises. It means involvement with clients in real as well as simulated law problems and acquiring the knowledge necessary to solve these problems. Being a good lawyer requires superb advocacy skills. The College of Law is recognized for its award-winning advocacy programs. The college was honored with the Emil Gumpert Award for the best law school advocacy program in the United States by the American College of Trial Lawyers. The New York State Bar Association cited Syracuse as the best trial skills law school in New York State 11 times in recent years by awarding the college its coveted Tiffany Cup. A strong moot court program is an important part of legal education at Syracuse University College of Law. The student-run Moot Court Honor Society selects problems for the many intraschool competitions and invites students to compete in briefing and oral argument. The Lionel O. Grossman Trial Competition, held each fall, culminates in a championship moot court trial presided over by a distinguished jurist and a jury of the area’s leading trial attorneys. In the spring, the appellate advocacy program culminates in the Mackenzie Lewis Competition, in which finalists argue an appellate problem before a distinguished panel of nationally noted jurists and lawyers. Because of its extensive advocacy skills program, Syracuse dominates national moot court competitions. In the past 16 years, its teams have won three national trial championships, 16 northeast regional first place awards, and five best-advocate-in-the-nation awards. Six times in the past seven years SU law has been invited to the National Invitational Tournament of Champions, featuring the nation’s 16 best teams. Syracuse has won other national awards in appellate, minority rights, and international tax competitions during the past two decades. Syracuse law students participate annually in a host of international moot court competitions. Working closely with faculty coaches, year after year the select group of students continues to uphold the high reputation of previous classes. Students can choose to specialize in international law as early as their first year by being selected for a special section of the Legal Communication and Research course. Eight students from this class participate in an interschool moot court competition in Canada. The team took first place in 2003 and second place in 2005. A team of second- and third-year Syracuse law students competes annually at the Jessup competition, an intercollegiate event held under the aegis of the American Society of International Law. Teams compete at regional and international levels on a significant international law problem. In 2000, 2004, and 2006, the team won the “best memorial” award for the Northeast Region and in 2006, team members took home the “best oralist” award. Syracuse Law is one of a small number of U.S. law schools invited to participate with European and Australian law schools in an international moot arbitration in Vienna, Austria. The newest international team competes in the trilingual (Spanish, English, Portuguese) Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C. A member of the Syracuse team won “best English oralist” in 2005. Trial Advocacy Trial practice courses are among the most popular elective offerings for College of Law students. In beginning and advanced courses, experienced trial lawyers, judges, and college faculty members teach elements of trial process and techniques. Simulated trials take place in the college’s practice courtrooms throughout the semester. 41 other opportunities for specialization and interdisciplinary study 42 | Syracuse University College of Law Joint Degree Programs Syracuse University College of Law students who desire a greater degree of specialization may select from a number of interdisciplinary opportunities. In a joint degree program, a student may pursue concurrently a J.D. and a related master’s or doctoral degree. Formal joint degree programs exist in public administration, business administration, or accounting, communications, environmental law, education (disability studies), and engineering. The college will also assist students in tailoring other joint degree programs to fit particular career objectives. Joint degree programs are structured so students can earn both degrees in substantially less time than would be required to earn each degree separately. Students enrolled in a joint degree program must complete their first year of study in the College of Law. Students may apply to both programs before coming to law school, but most students elect to apply during their second semester of law school; regardless, students must apply and be admitted to both programs separately. Admissions requirements, including submission of standardized test scores, will vary by program. Consequently, applicants must check with individual departments about their program’s admissions requirements. Because a joint degree program involves the reciprocal application of electives, students are not awarded either degree until the requirements for both degrees are completed. In certain programs, this may necessitate a delay in taking the bar examination. J.D./Master of Business Administration and J.D./Master of Science in Accounting Business and industry must take public and private law into account in all decisions. The College of Law and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management have responded by creating joint degree programs in business administration and accounting. Students may obtain a J.D. and M.B.A. or M.S. in accounting in four years instead of the five years necessary when both programs are pursued separately. These programs are particularly appropriate for students with career objectives in corporate law, tax law, or labor law. At Syracuse, the M.B.A. curriculum is flexible enough to accommodate the interests of the law/management student. Students may pursue general management programs or specialize in such areas of concentration as finance, human resource management, international business, and marketing. J.D./M.B.A. students generally complete program requirements in four academic years. Program structure for the J.D./M.S. in accounting varies substantially depending on the student’s accounting background and desire for certification. J.D./Master of Science in Communications Joint degrees in communications, offered in cooperation with Syracuse University’s renowned S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, prepare students for careers in communications law and media public policy. Students may matriculate into one of a number of programs, including specialized sequences in advertising, media administration, newspaper, magazine, television/ radio, and public relations. The duration of the joint program in communications varies according to the program chosen and the student’s prior coursework. 43 “I chose Syracuse Law for a number of reasons, and I left with even more reasons for why I appreciate Syracuse so much. Just to name a few: my ability to concurrently earn a joint Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxwell School, Syracuse Law’s national reputation for its successful trial and appellate advocacy teams, and the ‘Cuse athletic teams that tell the world that our student-centered private university focuses on the education of the whole person. Specifically, Syracuse Law provided me with a solid foundation from which to build my legal career. Syracuse Law is truly a national law school with graduates at all levels of the practicing legal community, government, academia and business throughout the United States and the world. Aristotle Evia, L‘99 Gordon & Rees San Francisco, CA 44 | Syracuse University College of Law J.D./Master of Science in Education with a Certificate in Disability Studies J.D./Master of Engineering and Computer Science The College of Law’s newest joint degree program in law and education, with a concentration in disability studies was approved in January 2003 and offers students the opportunity to earn a J.D. and M.S. in education. Eligible joint degree students also may earn a Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) in disability studies, which is a New York State-approved concentration. Disability studies applies legal, social, cultural, historical, and philosophical perspectives to the study of disability in society. This new joint degree, with a concentration in disability studies, is the first such degree in the nation. In 1996, SU also became the first American university to offer a graduate program in disability studies, and the only one with a law school component. Joint degree students enroll in selected courses with the School of Education, which is ranked among the best education graduate schools in the country; its Special Education and Cultural Foundations in Education Programs are consistently ranked within the top 10 nationwide. Law students who graduate with the J.D./M.S. in law and education/disability studies are prepared to play leadership roles in the field of disability law and policy in such settings as federal and state government agencies, community service agencies, advocacy organizations, school districts, and law firms specializing in disability and/or education law. Students may obtain the J.D. and M.S. in three years instead of the four necessary to earn both degrees independently. This unique combination of programs has been initiated by the College of Law and the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) to benefit students who are interested in technology-oriented practice. A J.D./M.S. from one of the many graduate programs offered through ECS significantly enhances the scope of a student’s legal education in such areas as intellectual property, technology, computers, health care, and environmental law. The added dimension that an M.S. in engineering and computer science brings to a student’s legal education increases marketability and broadens career opportunities. With an appropriate undergraduate background, a student may obtain both degrees in three academic years and a summer term. Those pursuing an ECS graduate degree in an area other than that of their undergraduate degree may be expected to complete additional remedial courses. Other requirements vary by program. M.S. degrees in ECS are offered in aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, engineering management, environmental engineering, environmental engineering science, hydrogeology, manufacturing engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, neuroscience, solidstate science and technology, and systems and information science. J.D./Law and Environmental Studies J.D./Master of Public Administration Other Joint Degree Opportunities Students may earn a joint J.D./M.S. or J.D./Ph.D. in environmental science focusing on the legal aspects of resource conservation and environmental protection. Students enrolled in this program concentrate in: environmental land-use planning, water resources, environmental education/communications, environmental assessment and impact analysis, or policy administration. Students who are more interested in an applied degree may earn a joint J.D./M.S. of professional studies, a 30-credit program with no thesis requirement. A background in science at the undergraduate level is desired for the master’s degree or Ph.D. Interested students may also earn a Certificate of Graduate Study in Environmental Decision Making, a 15-credit program designed for graduate students enrolled in law, management, public administration, or information studies programs at Syracuse University. Students take coursework at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, adjacent to the Syracuse University campus. The program exposes students to specialized environmental study relevant to their primary professional interests. The distinctive environmental orientation of this certificate program will help students understand the complexities of environmental decision making from their individual professional perspectives. A partnership of law and public administration is essential to effective government. The public administration program educates individuals to work in government agencies and in organizations that conduct substantial business with government agencies. The highly respected Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse, where students pursue the M.P.A., is the oldest academic training program of its kind in the United States. Since its establishment in 1924, the Maxwell School’s Master of Public Administration Program and its outstanding faculty have greatly influenced the growth and development of public administration. More than 6,000 Maxwell School alumni worldwide work in federal, state, and local governments; nonprofit agencies; private firms; and colleges and universities. Students may obtain the J.D. and M.P.A. in three years instead of the four necessary to earn both degrees independently. The faculties of the College of Law and other SU graduate departments have authorized additional joint degree programs to accommodate student interests and career aspirations. Students may pursue master’s or doctoral degrees in conjunction with the J.D. in the following areas: > Economics > English > Fine arts > History > Information studies > International relations > Library science > Philosophy > Political science > Resource managment > Social work Interdisciplinary Study In addition to the formal joint degree programs, an array of interdisciplinary study opportunities exists for students during their three years of study at the College of Law. Interdisciplinary course credit may be awarded for courses in such areas as philosophy, education, business, communications, international relations, psychology, social work, and public administration, to name a few. Students who do not enroll in a joint degree program may, upon petition, earn up to six academic credits toward the J.D. degree by successfully completing graduate-level offerings in other Syracuse University colleges or other accredited colleges or universities. The Syracuse University graduate catalog contains course descriptions for all graduatelevel courses at SU. A copy of the catalog may be obtained from the Graduate Enrollment Management Center, Suite 303 Bowne Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244-1200; 315-443-4492. 45 faculty College of Law faculty are committed teachers, distinguished scholars, and experienced lawyers. Most practiced law before their academic careers and some still practice in their particular areas of interest. All faculty members engage in scholarly research and publication to remain current in and contribute to the theory and practice of law. They are strongly committed to blending legal theory with skills training. Furthering the college’s interdisciplinary vision, a number of professors possess other graduate degrees and teach courses that combine law with such fields as public affairs, management, health care, psychology, economics, and sociology. The faculty, wide-ranging in backgrounds as well as scholarship interests, creates a multi-faceted law school experience rich in opportunity. 46 | Syracuse University College of Law Administration Hannah R. Arterian Tomás A. Gonzalez Dean Assistant Dean for Student Life Lisa Dolak Mary E. Harblin Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Director of Career Services Robin Paul Malloy Janice Herzog Donohue Senior Associate Dean for the College Robert Odawi Porter Senior Associate Dean for Research Assistant Dean for External Relations and Administration Jo Ann Larkin Registrar Ronald M. Denby Assistant Dean for Information Technology Anikka S. Laubenstein Director of Admissions Cheryl A. Ficarra Associate Dean for Enrollment Management and Chief Financial Officer Thomas R. French Associate Dean, Barclay Law Library Lowell H. Lustig Associate Dean for Advancement Keith E. Sealing Assistant Dean for Student Administration and the Registrar Gina M. Soliz Director of Financial Aid 47 Aviva Abramovsky Aviva Abramovsky Donna E. Arzt Assistant Professor of Law B.S., Cornell University J.D., University of Pennsylvania Dean’s Distinguished Research Scholar Professor of Law B.A., Brandeis University J.D., Harvard University LL.M., Columbia University While at law school, Professor Abramovsky was the managing editor of the Journal of Constitutional Law, where she was published in the field of ethics. She was then associated with the New York law firm Anderson Kill & Olick, where she was a member of the insurance coverage group. Before joining the College of Law, Professor Abramovsky taught at the Florida State University. Her courses include commercial transactions, professional responsibility, and insurance law. Donna E. Arzt Rakesh K. Anand Assistant Professor of Law A.B., Stanford University J.D., Yale Law School Rakesh K. Anand Professor Anand graduated from Stanford University in 1989 with a bachelor’s degree in political science (with honors and distinction) and from Yale Law School in 1994 with a Juris Doctor. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Justice Ahon Barak of the Supreme Court of Israel and, from 1995-2001, he was a litigation associate at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco. Before coming to Syracuse University, Professor Anand was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, during which time he taught classes in legal ethics and criminal law and received the 2003-2004 Faculty Member of the Year award. Professor Anand’s scholarly interests focus on legal ethics and the legal profession. Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Arzt practiced public interest law in Boston and was an assistant attorney general for the state of Massachusetts in civil rights and regulation of charitable solicitation. She has published numerous articles on human rights in the Soviet Union and the Middle East and served as a consultant to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Human Rights Watch, and the U.N. special rapporteur on population transfer. She received the Michael J. Tryson Memorial Award for the Excellence and Leadership in the field of human rights law. Her book, Refugees into Citizens: Palestinians and the End of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, was published by the Council on Foreign Relations in 1997. At the College of Law, she serves as director of the Center for Global Law and Practice and the Sierra Leone Project. Robert H.A. Ashford Professor of Law B.A., University of South Florida J.D., Harvard University Robert H.A. Ashford Hannah R. Arterian Dean and Professor of Law B.S., Elmira College J.D., University of Iowa Professor Ashford was in private practice and served as chief operating officer and general counsel for a leading investment banking firm in San Francisco. Before attending law school, he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Stanford University. He has written or co-written articles on binary economics, implied liability, presumptions, professional responsibility, public utility regulation, securities regulation, socio-economics, tax, and workers’ compensation. Elizabeth A. August Hannah R. Arterian Dean Arterian received a bachelor’s degree in English, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Elmira College and a J.D. degree (with high distinction) from the University of Iowa. She was notes and comment editor of the Iowa Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. Dean Arterian was associated with the New York law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, where she practiced corporate tax law. Before coming to Syracuse, she taught at Arizona State, the University of Houston, and the University of Iowa law schools. She served as associate dean at Arizona State for 10 years. Dean Arterian has written in the area of Title VII, particularly the dilemma of the employment of women in fetally toxic work environments. 48 | Syracuse University College of Law Legal Writing Professor B.A., St. Lawrence University J.D., Syracuse University Elizabeth A. August Before joining the law faculty, Professor August practiced law in Syracuse, both as a sole practitioner and with the firm of Bond, Schoeneck & King LLP. A graduate of Syracuse University College of Law, where she served as lead articles editor of the Syracuse Law Review, she has practiced in the areas of education, business, and corporate law. Her clients have included large corporations, as well as small businesses and not-for-profit agencies. William C. Banks William C. Banks Leslie Bender Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence Board of Advisors Professor of Law Professor of Public Administration Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism B.A., University of Nebraska M.S., J.D., University of Denver Board of Advisors Professor of Law B.A., Chatham College J.D., University of Pittsburgh LL.M., Harvard University Professor Banks is recognized internationally as an expert on constitutional and national security law. Since 1987, when the Federation of American Scientists asked him to provide a legal perspective on the first use of nuclear weapons, Banks has helped set the parameters for the relatively new field of national security law. Working with Steven Dycus, Arthur Berney and Peter Raven-Hansen, Banks wrote the definitive text in the field. National Security Law was first published in 1990 and is now in its third edition. Professor Banks lectures extensively on these and other national security and constitutional law-related topics and on comparative legal systems throughout the United States and Canada as well as in South and Central America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Banks’ current research interests include domestic and international terrorism, emergency powers, covert war powers, problems of official corruption, civil/military relations, and appropriations powers. Professor Banks served as special counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in 1994 and worked with the committee on the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Stephen G. Breyer. Peter A. Bell Professor of Law B.A., Wesleyan University J.D., Stanford University Peter A. Bell After graduation from law school, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review, Professor Bell served as a law clerk to a U.S. district judge in Philadelphia, practiced law for a leading Washington law firm, and represented the impoverished throughout New York State as an attorney with a statewide legal services backup center. He writes extensively on tort law and theory, health law and patients’ rights, and the interface between law and science. He is past-president of the board of directors of the Central New York chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union. During the 1987-88 academic year, Professor Bell was a Fulbright Professor of Law at Wuhan University, People’s Republic of China. During the 1995-96 academic year, he served as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia. His latest book is Accidental Justice: The Dilemmas of Tort Law (Yale University Press). Leslie Bender Professor Bender graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Chatham College and magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She served as a law clerk for Justice Sam Harshbarger, Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court, and as an assistant attorney general, Antitrust Division, West Virginia Attorney General’s Office. After five years of practice, she returned to school and received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Professor Bender taught at Ohio Northern University Law School and Washington and Lee Law School. She was a Research Fellow at the Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center in Massachusetts and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Arizona Law School, where she also taught. Professor Bender publishes articles on tort law, feminist legal theory, bioethics, civil rights, legal education, and constitutional law. She is co-author, with Daan Braveman, of Power, Privilege, and Law: A Civil Rights Reader. Peter Blanck University Professor B.A., University of Rochester Ph.D., Harvard University J.D., Stanford University Peter Blanck Professor Blanck is University Professor at Syracuse University, which is the highest faculty rank, granted to only nine individuals in the history of the University. He is chair of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University. In addition to his appointment at Syracuse University College of Law, Professor Blanck holds appointments at the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, the College of Human Services and Health Professions, and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Blanck has written more than 125 articles and books on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related laws, received grants to study disability law and policy, represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court in ADA cases, and testified before Congress. His work has received national and international attention. He is a board member of the National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.), Disability Rights Advocates (DRA), and the Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC). His recent writings include a treatise and casebook on disability civil rights law and policy. At Stanford Law School, Blanck was president of the Stanford Law Review. Blanck is a former member of the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, former Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Washington Program, former Fellow at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and a Mary Switzer Scholar. 49 Jeremy A. Blumenthal Sanjay Chhablani Assistant Professor of Law A.B. / A.M. / Ph.D., Harvard University J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School Assistant Professor of Law B.A., University of Chicago J.D., Yale Law School Professor Blumenthal graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of Jeremy A. Blumenthal the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and received several writing prizes. Most recently, he was a Faculty Fellow at Seton Hall Law School, teaching 1L Property and Law and the Social Sciences. Previously, he clerked for the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and was an Associate for Latham & Watkins, LLP, in the Newark, New Jersey, office. Professor Blumenthal has published widely on topics in law and psychology, including demeanor evidence, the reasonable woman standard, victim impact statements, and more generally on the role of social science in assisting the legal system. He has also published in the areas of evidence and comparative law. His most recent publications focus on the role of emotions in the legal system; current research projects address topics in capital punishment, empirical work in law and psychology, and topics in property theory. Sonya G. Bonneau Legal Writing Professor B.A., Cornell University J.D., University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Sonya G. Bonneau Professor Bonneau graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and pursued graduate studies at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University before attending law school at Boalt Hall. She has practiced at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, LLP in New York City and Hancock & Estabrook, LLP in Syracuse, focusing on the areas of commercial litigation and appellate practice. Professor Bonneau also served as a law clerk to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. 50 | Syracuse University College of Law Sanjay Chhablani Professor Chhablani began his legal career as a litigation associate at a private law firm where, in addition to litigating commercial disputes, he represented death row inmates on a pro bono basis. After receiving an ABA Death Penalty Representation Project Fellowship, Professor Chhablani joined the Southern Center for Human Rights. During the past several years, he has represented indigent persons on death row in Alabama and Georgia on direct appeal and in state and federal post-conviction proceedings. Professor Chhablani is a member of the Illinois, Georgia, and Alabama State bars and teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, capital punishment, and evidence. Juscelino F. Colares Assistant Professor of Law LL.B., Universidade de Brasília (UnB)/Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil) Ph. D. / M.A., Political Economy, University of Tennessee J.D., Cornell Law School Juscelino F. Colares Professor Colares teaches International Trade/WTO Law; International Business Transactions; Law and Economics, and Civil Procedure. Originally trained as a Brazilian attorney, he began his legal career in private practice in Brazil, where he represented clients on export-related matters. He began his graduate studies at Université de Montpellier in France where he specialized in international economic law. Subsequently, as a Fulbright Scholar, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, writing a dissertation on the political economy of the U.S./Japan automobile trade. After five years as a professor in Brazil, Professor Colares returned to the United States to pursue a J.D. degree at Cornell Law School, where he served as lead articles editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. Before graduation, he published a comparative piece on law and monetary policy in the United States and Argentina. He later returned to practice in Washington D.C., where he worked on a variety of international trade disputes before the U.S. Commerce Department, the U.S. International Trade Commission, NAFTA, and WTO dispute settlement bodies. He recently published an article titled “The Evolving Domestic and International Law Against Foreign Corruption,” in the Washington University of Saint Louis Global Studies Law Review. Christian C. Day Christian C. Day Samuel J.M. Donnelly Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor Professor of Law A.B., Cornell University J.D., New York University Professor of Law A.B., Fordham University LL.B., Harvard University LL.M., New York University Professor Day came to Syracuse from the faculty of the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania. Following graduation from New York University, where he was a law review editor, he practiced real estate law and litigation with a leading Philadelphia firm. Professor Day is the associate director of the Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism. At Syracuse, he has been involved in moot court, where he has coached regional championship teams in appellate, trial, and international law competitions. Professor Day writes articles on corporate finance, real estate finance, legal history, and foreign affairs. He served as co-chair of the MacNaughton Hall Building Committee. Samuel J.M. Donnelly Before he came to Syracuse, Professor Donnelly was law secretary to a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, a teaching fellow at Harvard Law School, and a private practitioner in New York City. He served four terms as president and chairman of the board of Legal Services of Central New York. With Mary Ann Donnelly, his wife, he co-wrote Bankruptcy, Arrangements, and Reorganizations and Bankruptcy, Arrangements, and Reorganizations: 1974 Rules Supplement. He recently published A Personalist Jurisprudence, the Next Step. A Person-Centered Philosophy of Law for the Twenty-First Century (with forward by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.). A previous book was The Language and Uses of Rights, A Biopsy of American Jurisprudence in the Twentieth Century. Lisa Dolak David M. Driesen Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Professor of Law B.S., Duquesne University J.D., Syracuse University Lisa Dolak Professor Dolak practiced at a large, general practice firm, where she handled intellectual property litigation and prosecution. She is a registered patent attorney and a summa cum laude graduate of Syracuse University College of Law. Before attending law school, Professor Dolak worked for several years as a synthetic organic chemist in pharmaceutical research aimed at the development of new drugs. Her research centers on issues at the intersections of patent law and judicial procedure and patent law and legal ethics. She has written on declaratory judgment jurisdiction in patent cases, the use of electronic evidence to prove dates of invention, and ethics issues for intellectual property practitioners. During a recent sabbatical leave, she served as law clerk to the Hon. Paul F. Michel, now Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Professor Dolak teaches patent law, patent prosecution, Internet law, and civil procedure. Angela S. Cooney Professor of Law Visiting Professor, University of Michigan Law School, Fall 2006 B.A. Music Oberlin Conservatory of Music M.A. Music Yale School of Music J.D. Yale Law School David Driesen Professor Driesen teaches environmental law (domestic and international) and constitutional law. His publications include Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach (Aspen 2007) (with Robert Adler), The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law (MIT Press 2003), Standing for Nothing: the Paradox of Demanding Concrete Context for Formalist Adjudication (Cornell L. Rev. 2004); What is Free Trade?; The Real Issue Lurking Behind the Trade and Environment Debate (Virginia J. Int’l L. 2001); Is Emissions Trading an Economic Incentive Program?; Replacing the Command and Control/Economic Incentive Dichotomy (Washington & Lee L. Rev. 1998); and The Societal Cost of Environmental Regulation: Beyond Administrative CostBenefit Analysis (Ecology Law Quarterly 1997). He came to Syracuse from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a public interest environmental organization. 51 Richard A. Ellison Richard A. Ellison Elton Fukumoto Professor of Law B.B.A., City College of New York LL.B., St. John’s University Legal Writing Professor B.A., Harvard University M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles J.D., University of Washington Professor Ellison left the private practice of law to become a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He worked for a number of years as a legal services attorney and joined the faculty in 1970 to teach in the clinical education programs. He has been active in alternative dispute resolution and is experienced in divorce mediation. In addition to teaching and writing in the family law area, Professor Ellison teaches constitutional law and health law. Elton Fukumoto Professor Fukumoto was a law clerk for Chief Justice Richard P. Guy and Justice Bobbe J. Bridge of the Washington State Supreme Court. He is a graduate of the University of Washington Law School, where he was executive articles editor of the law review. Before going to law school, Professor Fukumoto was an assistant professor of English at the University of Hawaii. Ian Gallacher Thomas R. French Assistant Professor of Law Director, Legal Communication and Research B.A., University of Leeds M.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University J.D., Washington College of Law, American University Associate Dean, Barclay Law Library Professor of Law B.A., State University of New York at Oswego M.L.S., State University of New York at Geneseo M.A., University of Cincinnati J.D., Northern Kentucky Ian Gallacher Thomas R. French Martin L. Fried While in law school, Professor French was executive editor of the Northern Kentucky Law Review. He has held positions in either court or academic law libraries in Ohio, Kentucky, Maine, and North Carolina. Before assuming his present position at Syracuse, Professor French was the associate director of the law library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His special interests include Canadian law, legal research, library management, and Eritrean legal bibliography. He has published in the areas of historic preservation, Native American history, legal research using the Internet, and Eritrean legal bibliography. Professor French has served as a consultant for the United States Information Agency and the U.S. Agency for International Development in Africa. Professor Gallacher received a bachelor’s degree in music, with honors, from the University of Leeds, a master of fine arts degree in orchestral conducting from Carnegie-Mellon University; and a J.D., magna cum laude, from the Washington College of Law. After a two-year clerkship with U.S. District Judge Frederic N. Smalkin, Professor Gallacher practiced complex civil litigation in Baltimore as an associate and later as a partner at Goodell, DeVries, Leech, and Dann, LLP. In 2002, he returned to the Washington College of Law, first as an instructor and then as associate director of legal rhetoric. He has published a book, A Form and Style Manual for Lawyers, and has written articles on class action litigation, legal research, and legal history. Martin L. Fried Gregory L. Germain Crandall Melvin Professor of Wills and Trusts B.A., Antioch College J.D., Columbia University LL.M. (in Taxation), New York University Associate Professor of Law B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz J.D., University of California, Hastings College of Law L.L.M., (Tax) University of Florida Professor Fried was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School. He was in private practice in New York City and taught at Washington University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Cincinnati. He wrote Taxation of Securities Transactions and numerous articles on tax and trusts and estates. Professor Germain was a partner in a leading San Francisco law firm, specializing in bankruptcy litigation. While in practice, Professor Germain taught debtor/creditor law as an adjunct professor. After 15 years of practice, he went back to school and obtained an L.L.M. degree in tax law. He recently served one term as a legal advisor to a judge of the tax court. He specialized in tax, bankruptcy, corporate, and commercial law. 52 | Syracuse University College of Law Gregory L. Germain Richard I. Goldsmith Richard I. Goldsmith Paula C. Johnson Professor of Law A.B., University of Rochester LL.B., New York University Professor of Law B.A., University of Maryland at College Park J.D., Temple University LL.M., Georgetown University Professor Goldsmith spent his formative years on the sidewalks (and in the schoolyards) of New York City. At New York University, he was a John Norton Pomeroy Scholar and a law review member. Before coming to Syracuse, he was in private practice, specializing in corporate litigation. At Syracuse, he directed the Environmental Law Clinic; organized the Public Interest Law Firm; and currently teaches administrative law, environmental law, government regulation, and federal civil procedure. Paula C. Johnson Theodore M. Hagelin Theodore M. Hagelin Board of Advisors Professor of Law Director, New York State Science and Technology Law Center Director, Technology Commercialization Law Program B.S., University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School J.D., Temple University LL.M., Harvard University While a student at Temple, Professor Hagelin was editor in chief of the law review. After graduation, he was in private practice with a Philadelphia law firm and taught at the University of Cincinnati. He specializes in technology commercialization law and intellectual property. Professor Hagelin is the director of the Syracuse University New Technology Center (SUNTEC). He also serves as the director of the newly designated NYSTAR Science and Technology Law Center. Margaret M. Harding Professor of Law B.A., Boston University J.D., Georgetown University Law Center Margaret M. Harding Professor Harding graduated with honors from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was articles and notes editor of the American Criminal Law Review. After graduation, she entered private practice with a leading New York City law firm, specializing in corporate and commercial litigation. She teaches torts, alternative dispute resolution, and courses in the business law area. Professor Harding writes and publishes on arbitration law. Professor Johnson practiced criminal law and housing law in Massachusetts before becoming a teaching fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Legal Studies. She taught at Northern Illinois University and the University of Baltimore before coming to Syracuse. Professor Johnson was a member of the ABA’s International Law Section’s delegation to Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, investigating issues of democracy, development, law, and legal education. She serves on the boards of the Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society and the Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse. Professor Johnson has written and spoken extensively on matters of race, gender, sexuality, and law in academic arenas, the popular press, and community forums. Her most recent publications include the book Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison (NYU Press 2003) and “Ad-In/Ad-Out: Deciding Victory and Defeat in Affirmative Action Legal Contestations”, 66 Albany Law Review 443 (2003). She is the immediate past co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT). Hilary K. Josephs Professor of Law A.B., Radcliffe College J.D., University of Hawaii Ph.D., Harvard University Hilary K. Josephs Professor Josephs graduated from Radcliffe College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Ph.D. in East Asian languages and civilizations with a specialization in Chinese history and literature. Before her law teaching career, she clerked for the Supreme Court of Hawaii and spent several years in private practice in New York City as a corporate attorney. She has published articles on labor law, international law, foreign investment, conflict of laws, and comparative law. Her publications include the book Labor Law in China: Choice and Responsibility (1990), and Labor Law in China (rev. ed. 2003). She has lectured extensively in China. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, American Society of Comparative Law, and as chair, Comparative Law Section, American Association of Law Schools. 53 Arlene S. Kanter Arlene S. Kanter Deborah Kenn Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence Professor of Law Co-Director, Center on Disability Studies, Law, and Human Policy Director, Disability Law and Policy Program B.A., Trinity College J.D., New York University LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center Professor of Law B.A., Eisenhower College J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo Professor Kanter is recognized internationally as an expert in domestic, international, and comparative disability law. She is co-director of SU’s Center on Disability Studies, Law, and Human Policy, which is the first universitybased multidisciplinary center dedicated to disability rights-related research, advocacy, policy, and public education. At the College of Law, Professor Kanter directs the Disability Law and Policy Program, which houses the nation’s first joint degree program in law and disability studies. Professor Kanter has served as associate dean for academic affairs (1997-2000), and the director of clinical legal education (1989-2005), and in 1991, she developed the Externship Program, which she directed until 2006. Professor Kanter has taught at Georgetown University Law Center and Hebrew University in Israel. Before joining the law faculty, she represented clients with mental disabilities before the United States Supreme Court, Congress, and in federal and state courts. Professor Kanter writes and lectures extensively, and is the co-author of Cases and Materials on International Human Rights and Comparative Mental Disability Law (Carolina Press, 2006). Professor Kanter holds a courtesy appointment in the SU School of Education, and in 2005, Professor Kanter was awarded SU’s most prestigious teaching award, the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence. Gary T. Kelder Professor of Law B.A., State University of New York at New Paltz J.D., Boston University LL.M., New York University Gary T. Kelder Professor Kelder came to Syracuse following service on the law faculty at Cleveland State University. He was a Criminal Law Education and Research Fellow at New York University. 54 | Syracuse University College of Law Deborah Kenn Professor Kenn practiced environmental law and housing law before joining the faculty. Her teaching and work in the Community Development Law Clinic, of which she is director, reflect her expertise in affordable housing development, community economic development, and public interest law. She lectures and publishes on housing law, alternative forms of property ownership, and community development law. Nina A. Kohn Assistant Professor of Law A.B., Princeton University J.D., Harvard Law School Nina A. Kohn Professor Kohn earned her A.B. summa cum laude from Princeton University and her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. She clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Following her clerkship, she was awarded a fellowship by the Skadden Fellowship Foundation to work as a staff attorney with Legal Assistance of the Finger Lakes, where she provided direct representation to nursing home residents and frail elders. Professor Kohn’s current research focuses on elder law and elder right’s issues. Her work can be seen in the Stanford Law and Policy Review and in the Michigan Journal of Gender and Law. Professor Kohn is also a faculty affiliate with the Syracuse University Gerontology Center. M. Louise Lantzy Laura G. Lape M. Louise Lantzy Kevin Noble Maillard Professor of Law B.S., Pennsylvania State College M.L.S., Drexel University J.D., Syracuse University Assistant Professor of Law B.A., Duke University M.A., University of Michigan J.D., University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., University of Michigan Professor Lantzy began her library career at the T.F. Jenkins Memorial Law Library, which serves the legal needs of the Philadelphia Bar Association. She served as the director of the Barclay Law Library for 10 years. Her research interests focus on accreditation and standards relating to law school libraries, restructuring the academic law library for the digital age, and staff organizational structure in academic law libraries. In recent years, Professor Lantzy presented programs on reengineering academic libraries for the digital age to the regional gathering of the Association of American Law Librarians, the New England Law Librarians, and the Canadian Association of Law Librarians. Professor Lantzy has also written The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Annotated Guide to its Literature and Resources, 1980-1991. Professor Maillard’s research merges legal history, trusts and estates, and family law, with a specific focus on mixed race. He has written and presented papers on interracial will disputes and membership issues in American Indian tribes. His current book project questions the denial of mixed race in America as evidenced in law, literature, and culture. Before joining the faculty, he was an associate at Hughes, Hubbard, and Reed in New York, where he worked with the Native American practice group. As a Ford Foundation Fellow, he earned a Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Michigan. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he was symposium editor for the Journal of Constitutional Law. He is a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma (Mekusukey Band). Laura G. Lape Robin Paul Malloy Associate Professor of Law A.B., Smith College M.A., J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law Senior Associate Dean for the College Director, Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism Professor of Economics (by courtesy appointment), Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs B.S., Purdue University J.D., University of Florida LL.M., University of Illinois Professor Lape graduated with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She practiced as an associate in the probate department at a leading Boston law firm before beginning a teaching career. She taught at Temple University and at UNC at Chapel Hill before coming to Syracuse. She writes on copyright law. Lynn S. Levey Legal Writing Professor B.A., Clark University M.A., Syracuse University J.D., Syracuse University Lynn S. Levey Kevin Noble Maillard Before joining the law faculty, Professor Levey was the upstate director for the Center for Court Innovation, a think tank that functions as the New York State court system’s independent research and development arm. As director, Professor Levey worked closely with judges, attorneys, and administrators across the state to develop problem-solving courts, including community, domestic violence, drug, and mental health courts. Before that she worked at the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg and Arlington, Virginia, where she trained criminal justice personnel on implementation issues related to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. She has taught at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Robin Paul Malloy Professor Malloy writes extensively on law and market theory, and on real estate transactions and development. He has published 10 books, more than 25 articles, contributed to 10 other books, and advised on BMW vs. Gore in the Supreme Court. His case book, Real Estate Transactions, is used in law schools across the country, and his recent book, Law and Market Economy (published by Cambridge University Press), is being translated into Chinese and Spanish. His latest book is Law in a Market Context: An Introduction to Market Concepts in Legal Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Professor Malloy spent three summers in China advising on law and market economy, several weeks in Finland working on similar issues, and worked with The World Bank to develop a series of student projects on land and property issues for emerging economies. He was the 1996-97 Sun Life Research Fellow at Oxford University. Professor Malloy serves as chair of the Real Estate Transactions Section of the AALS and is a past chair of the Law and Humanities section of the AALS. Malloy is the series editor for Law, Property, and Society from Ashgate Publishing. He is the founder of a New Working Group on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism 55 (PCSE). Thomas J. Maroney Thomas J. Maroney Mary Helen McNeal Professor of Law B.A., LL.B., Syracuse University Professor of Law Director of Clinical Education B.A., Georgetown University J.D., University of Maryland Professor Maroney has been a member of the faculty since 1967. His areas of expertise include Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Federal Criminal Law and Procedure, Federal Court Jurisdiction, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He is a magna cum laude graduate of both Syracuse University (1961) and its College of Law (1963). He is a member of the New York bar and is admitted to practice before the federal trial and appellate courts for New York and the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Maroney was associated with the New York City law firm of White and Case (1965-67), served as the Assistant State Attorney General in Charge of the Syracuse Regional Office (1979-81), and as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York (1994-99). He has been a visiting professor at the Cornell (1975) and Colorado (1969-1970) law schools and a lecturer at the U.S. Naval War College (1969, 1971). He is a labor arbitrator for various appointing agencies and by direct appointment of numerous parties. Professor Maroney has been active in many community organizations. He was chair and volunteer attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union (1970-77). He is active in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and is past commander of Flotilla 2-1 of the Auxiliary. Mary Helen McNeal Suzette M. Meléndez Assistant Professor of Law Director, Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton J.D., University of Connecticut Suzette M. Meléndez Janis McDonald Associate Professor of Law B.A., George Washington University J.D., Hofstra University School of Law LL.M., Yale Law School Janis McDonald Before joining the law faculty, Professor McDonald litigated cases in federal and local courts in the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Several of her cases established new sexual harassment and medical malpractice laws. She taught at Ohio Northern University College of Law and Yale Law School. She was a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public and International Law and wrote articles on civil rights litigation and American legal history. Several federal courts have cited her civil rights article. She served as president of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations. Her publishing and teaching interests include employment discrimination law, American legal history, critical race theory, criminal law, legal ethics, and women in the law. She is lead editor of a new casebook, Employment Discrimination Law: Problems, Cases and Critical Perspectives (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005). 56 | Syracuse University College of Law Professor McNeal specializes in clinical teaching. Before joining the law faculty, Professor McNeal was the clinic director at the University of Montana School of Law, where she also taught Public Interest Lawyering. Her prior teaching experience includes clinical teaching at the University of Maryland School of Law and Boston College Law School. She has been active in the Association of American Law Schools and served as chair of its clinical section in 2001-2002. She is also very active in equal justice issues, having served as chair of the Montana Supreme Court’s Equal Justice Task Force and as a member of the Montana State Bar’s Access to Justice Committee. Professor McNeal’s scholarly writing focuses on ethical issues in legal services practice, equal justice issues, and clinical teaching. Professor Meléndez recently joined the faculty of the Office of Clinical Legal Education to direct the Children’s Rights and Family Law Clinic. Professor Meléndez came to the College of Law as an adjunct professor teaching a course on domestic violence in the fall 2002 semester. Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Meléndez supervised the statewide Domestic Violence Representation Project at Legal Services of New Jersey and served as a staff attorney at Essex Newark Legal Services in the area of family law. She also has worked at the Legal Aid Society in New York City, representing clients in the areas of housing and public entitlements. In addition to her litigation experience, she has engaged in policy work on issues affecting her clientele at various levels, including state and county domestic violence working groups, local and state bar associations, and judicial committees. Aliza M. Milner Aliza M. Milner Jill M. Paquette Legal Writing Professor B.S., Cornell University J.D., George Washington University Law School Legal Writing Professor B.A., Fordham College J.D., Harvard Law School Before joining the College of Law, Professor Milner served for seven years as an appellate law clerk to Judges Andrew L. Sonner and Patrick L. Woodward on the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, as well as to Judge Alan M. Wilner on the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Professor Milner also served as Assistant Legal Counsel to Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendenning and provided legal assistance to individuals seeking protective orders from abusive partners. She was a Dean’s Fellow in the Legal Research and Writing program at George Washington University Law School and an articles editor for the George Washington University Journal of International Law and Economics. While in law school, Professor Paquette represented indigent clients in connection with disability and public benefits claims for the Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She has served as law clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and has most recently been in private practice with leading firms in New York City and Albany. She has practiced in the areas of commercial litigation, employment law, and civil rights litigation. Jill M. Paquette Robert J. Rabin Professor of Law A.B., Cornell University LL.B., Harvard Law School LL.M., New York University Robert Odawi Porter Robert Odawi Porter Senior Associate Dean for Research Professor of Law Dean’s Research Scholar of Indigenous Nations Law Director, Center for Indigenous Law, Governance and Citizenship B.A., Syracuse University J.D., Harvard University Professor Porter is a citizen (Heron Clan) of the Seneca Nation of Indians and was raised on its Allegany Territory in upstate New York. After practicing corporate transactional law for two years in Washington, D.C., he served his own nation, the Seneca Nation of Indians, as its first attorney general for four years. During this time, he also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Buffalo School of Law and as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law. In 1995, Professor Porter left his position with the Seneca Nation to become an associate professor of law at the University of Kansas and adjunct professor at Haskell Indian Nations University. At the University of Kansas, he founded and directed the Tribal Law and Government Center. In 2002, he left Kansas to join the law faculty at the University of Iowa. He joined the SU community in 2003. Professor Porter has served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri and is a consulting expert or counsel to several Indian nations and Indian organizations. His many writings have appeared in such publications as the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, the Buffalo Law Review, and the Arizona State Law Journal. Robert J. Rabin A former Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow at New York University School of Law, Professor Rabin practiced labor law as a labor union counsel and as an associate with a New York firm. He remains active in the field as a labor arbitrator, mediator, and fact-finder. He co-wrote a case book on labor law and a book on the rights of employees. He is the editor of the American Bar Association’s The Labor Lawyer. Sarah H. Ramsey Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence Board of Advisors Professor of Law B.A., Duke University M.A., J.D., University of North Carolina LL.M., University of Michigan Sarah H. Ramsey Professor Ramsey has taught at Syracuse since 1983. She was an associate dean from 1993-1997 and was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School in 1990-91. In 2002 she was named a Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence. In 2005 she was named a Board of Advisors Professor. She is the co-author of the popular casebook, Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy, and Practice (2d ed. 2003) and of Children and the Law in a Nutshell (2d ed. 2003). She has written numerous articles on legal and policy issues relating to children, families, and stepfamilies that have appeared in both law and social science journals. She teaches courses on children and the law, family law, and advanced family law. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the Children and Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association and was chair of the Association of American Law Schools Family and Juvenile Law section. Professor Ramsey is the director of the Family Law and Social Policy Center. 57 LaVonda N. Reed-Huff Jenny Roberts Assistant Professor of Law B.A., University of Virginia J.D., University of Southern California Assistant Professor of Law Director, Criminal Law Clinic B.A., Yale University J.D., New York University School of Law Before joining the Syracuse University faculty, Professor Reed-Huff was a member of the faculty of the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, where she taught for LaVonda N. Reed-Huff five years. While at the University of Louisville, she taught courses in communications law, property, and decedents’ estates and trusts. She previously was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Donald W. VanArtsdalen of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and was an attorney in private practice with the international law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C., and Atlanta offices. While in practice, she represented businesses and financial institutions in various aspects of communications and corporate law. Professor Reed-Huff’s scholarly interests include the intersection of communications law and policy and property law. She has published articles and spoken on topics such as the placement of satellite dishes, the economics of broadcast ownership, minority ownership of broadcast stations, and broadcast diversity. Professor Reed-Huff is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia. She is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She serves on the executive committee of the Section on Mass Communication Law of the Association of American Law Schools, as well as on a number of other committees. Richard S. Risman Legal Writing Professor B.A., J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo Richard S. Risman Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Risman served on the faculty of Albany Law School. There he devoted nearly 10 years to its Lawyering Skills Program. He was also active in Albany’s Moot Court, Clinical Legal Education, and Continuing Legal Education programs and took part in a variety of other law school, college, and community-based legal education and skills training programs. During this time, and for some years prior, Professor Risman also practiced in the areas of commercial law, civil rights, and art law. He served as director of the College of Law’s first-year legal skills program between 1998 and 2001 and revised the program’s curriculum. He now teaches Legal Communication and Research and Problems in Legal Writing, an upper-level course. 58 | Syracuse University College of Law Jenny Roberts Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Roberts was a Senior Research Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center for Research in Crime & Justice. She was previously a member of the NYU faculty, where she taught for three years in the first-year Lawyering Program. Professor Roberts worked as a trial trainer and a staff attorney at the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society. Just before joining Legal Aid, she was a law clerk for Judge John S. Martin in the Southern District of New York. Professor Roberts graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from NYU School of Law in 1995, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays civil rights and civil liberties fellow and a notes and comments editor for the NYU Law Review. Michael A. Schwartz Assistant Professor of Law Director, Public Interest Law Firm B.A., Brandeis University M.A., Northwestern University J.D., New York University Law School LL.M., Columbia University Law School Ph.D., Syracuse University School of Education Michael A. Schwartz Once an actor with the National Theater of the Deaf, Professor Schwartz began his legal career as a law clerk to a Southern District of New York judge. He then served, in chronological order, as assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office; trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington; solo practitioner in the New York City metro region; and assistant attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Department of Law. A member of the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut bars, Professor Schwartz directs the Disability Rights Advocacy Law Clinic, where he supervises students in disability litigation and teaches disability law. He just successfully defended his dissertation in education and disability studies at Syracuse University. Roderick Surratt Roderick Surratt Steven Wechsler Professor of Law B.A., Baylor University J.D., University of Texas Professor of Law B.S., Cornell University M.B.A., J.D., University of Michigan After graduating from law school, where he was an editor of the Texas Law Review, Professor Surratt served as a law clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit andtaught at the law schools of Southern Methodist University and Florida State University. Before coming to Syracuse, he was in private practice with a leading firm in Dallas. His pro bono activities have included representation of plaintiffs in school desegregation litigation in Texas and presentation of testimony before committees of the New York State Legislature. He currently teaches in the areas of evidence, sports law, products liability, and torts. Professor Surratt also has served as associate dean for academic affairs and has taught as a visiting professor at Cornell University Law School. Professor Wechsler was an associate editor of the Michigan Law Review. Before joining the Syracuse law faculty, he was associated with a major Denver law firm and taught at the University of Colorado School of Law. His recent research and publications deal with various professional responsibility issues. Professor Wechsler serves as Associate Reporter to the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct. Terry L. Turnipseed Assistant Professor of Law B.S., Mississippi State University M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology J.D., Georgetown University LL.M., Georgetown University Terry L. Turnipseed Professor Turnipseed is an experienced estate planning and tax advisor. As an attorney with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., he developed and implemented complex tax planning strategies for more than $1 billion in assets. Professor Turnipseed also represented a number of large trust beneficiaries with fiduciary issues. He has expertise in complex domestic and international estate planning, including substantial asset protection. Prior to joining Covington & Burling, Professor Turnipseed was an estate and gift tax specialist with Deloitte & Touche’s national office. He has an LL.M. in Tax, cum laude, and a J.D. from Georgetown University and two graduate degrees from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. Professor Turnipseed received a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering, summa cum laude, from Mississippi State University, where he was a Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholar. Professor Turnipseed has written in the areas of trust fiduciary law, spousal property rights upon death, and transfer taxation. He teaches courses in eminent domain, estate and gift taxation, estate planning, wills and trusts, and property. Steven Wechsler William M. Wiecek Chester Adgate Congdon Professor of Public Law and Legislation Professor of History B.A., Catholic University of America LL.B., Harvard University Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison William M. Wiecek Professor Wiecek practiced law in New Hampshire and taught legal and constitutional history at the University of Missouri-Columbia for 16 years before coming to Syracuse. He has written nine books and numerous articles on republicanism, slavery and its abolition, 19th-century legal and constitutional development, nuclear power, and the United States Supreme Court. His most recent publication, The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953 (Cambridge University Press), was published in 2006. 59 Administrative Deans Ronald M. Denby Ronald M. Denby Cheryl A. Ficarra Assistant Dean for Information Technology B.S., Syracuse University C.A.S., Syracuse University Associate Dean for Enrollment Management and Chief Financial Officer B.Mus., Ithaca College M.S., Syracuse University Assistant Dean Denby has more than 20 years experience in managing networks and information systems. In his present position he manages a department with responsibility for information systems, web design and administration; client-server systems implementation and support, network installation and maintenance; database management; computer desktop support; computer cluster support; audio visual services; computer and technology training; and research and developement for the College of Law. Before his career in computing, he spent 13 years in banking with responsibilities that included managing secondary market portfolios, mortgage lending, branch management and auditing, and loan servicing. He currently serves as president of the board of directors for Onondaga Community Living, a not-for-profit agency that provides services to adults with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities within the Syracuse area and nearby communities. He is a 2007 candidate for a master of science degree in telecommunications and network management from Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. Cheryl A. Ficarra Tomás A. Gonzalez Assistant Dean for Student Life B.A., Ithaca College M.A., Buffalo State College J.D., Syracuse University Tomás A. Gonzalez 60 | Syracuse University College of Law Associate Dean Ficarra has more than 20 years of experience in higher education administration, including student recruitment, admissions, enrollment management, financial aid, career services, administrative computing, budget planning, and operations. She is a member of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the National Association for Women in Education. She has served on committees for the Law School Admission Council and as a member of the planning committee for The Access Group Financial Aid Conference. Most recently, she serves as a member of the Program Planning Committee for the Law Student Debt Summit that is being co-sponsored by the National Association of Law Placement and The Access Group. Assistant Dean Gonzalez oversees the newly created Office of Student Life, which is responsible for the overall quality of student life, academic counseling, diversity initiatives, leadership development, community service/ pro bono program, special needs accommodations, bar preparation, and academic support at the College of Law. His expertise includes leadership and community development, academic support programs, diversity education, and student success/ recognition programs. During his 16-year career in student affairs, Assistant Dean Gonzalez has held positions at Syracuse University, Alfred University, Buffalo State College, SUNY Cortland, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He joined SU’s Division of Student Affairs in 2002 as assistant director for the Office of Greek Life and Experiential Learning. At SU, Gonzalez has been the recipient of an Exemplary Achievement Award for Faculty/Staff and an ALPHA Award given by students to recognize staff representing student-centered values and contributions to student life. His professional affiliations include the American College Personnel Association; the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators; College Student Personnel Association, New York; and the Association of Student Judicial Affairs. Janice Herzog Donohue Janice Herzog Donohue Keith E. Sealing Assistant Dean for External Relations and Administration Assistant Dean for Student Administration and the Registrar B.S., University of Northern Colorado J.D., Temple University School of Law Assistant Dean Herzog Donohue has supported decanal affairs and the administrative operations of the Office of the Dean and offices of the faculty for more than 18 years. She is a member of the American Management Association and served as a member of the annual meeting planning committee for the American Society of Comparative Law. She was co-coordinator of a three-day symposium on the Impact of German Émigré Jurists on Modern Law in Bonn, Germany, sponsored by the University of Bonn and the German Research Council. As an advocate for women’s issues, she was invited by a member of the state legislature to serve on a Women’s Advisory Council. She is a past recipient of the Graduating Class Award in recognition of her continued and extraordinary dedication to students. She was a presenter at the 2006 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District II Annual Conference. Assistant Dean Herzog Donohue works closely with alumni in her role as liaison to the Board of Advisors. Keith E. Sealing Assistant Dean Sealing graduated magna cum laude from the Temple University School of Law, where he was a member of the law review. Before beginning his teaching career, Assistant Dean Sealing was in private practice with major national and international law firms in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, where his practice emphasis was international tax and trade. He has previously taught at Emory University School of Law, Georgia State University School of Law, and the John Marshall Law School. He has researched and published in the areas of constitutional law and international law, and his most recent scholarship includes NAFTA’s Elimination of Agricultural Tariffs: Will Globalization be Allowed to Destroy 7,000 Years of Indigenous Culture?, (18 American U. Int’l L.Rev. 101) and “State Sponsors of Terrorism” is a Question not an Answer: the Terrorism Amendment to the FSIA Makes Less Sense Now Than It Did Before 9/11, (38 Tex. Int’l L.J. 121. ) Lowell H. Lustig Associate Dean for Advancement B.A., Hunter College of the City University of New York J.D., Capital University Law School Lowell H. Lustig Associate Dean Lustig has more than 25 year’s experience in the nonprofit sector, including social services, health care, and higher education. He served as the first executive director of the American Sleep Apnea Association and has an extensive background in institutional advancement, non-profit administration, and board development. He has served in leadership positions with such organizations as the American Lung Association, B’nai B’rith Foundation of the United States, Children’s Hospital of Columbus, Ohio, and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Before assuming his current position at the College of Law, he directed the Campaign for the Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life at Syracuse University. 61 Professors Emeriti Joseph A. Barrette Joseph A. Barrette Patricia Hassett Professor of Law B.S., Providence College J.D., Catholic University Professor of Law B.A., Elmira College LL.B., Syracuse University LL.M., Harvard University Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Barrette served as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow with the Onondaga Neighborhood Legal Services Corporation and as a law clerk to the Onondaga County Court. He was in private practice, where he engaged in extensive litigation in commercial law and criminal defense and was supervising attorney and acting director of the Syracuse University Project for Prisoners’ Rights. Professor Barrette was a Fulbright lecturer at Sind Muslim Government Law College in Karachi, Pakistan. He has also lectured extensively on the law of Dharma and Buddhism and regularly teaches mediation to first-year law students as well as individuals and groups in Central New York. Professor Barrette has developed and teaches a Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) law course, the first to be taught in a U.S. law school. He has written a legal manual for practitioners of CAM and an article that analyzes the legal issues that affect physicians who practice CAM. He is a member of the American College of Legal Medicine. He is an adjunct faculty member with the College of Human Services and Health Professions. Daan Braveman Professor of Law A.B., University of Rochester J.D., University of Pennsylvania Daan Braveman Before joining the Syracuse faculty, Professor Braveman was a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and an attorney for the Greater Upstate Law Project of Monroe County, New York, Legal Assistance Corporation. He served as dean of the College of Law from 1994 to 2002. Professor Braveman is an American Law Institute member and was the reporter to the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group. He has published numerous articles on federal jurisdiction and constitutional law. He is the author of Protecting Constitutional Freedoms: A Role for Federal Courts and co-author of the casebooks Constitutional Law: Structure and Rights in Our Federal System and Power, Privilege and Law. Professor Braveman left the College of Law to become the ninth president of Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. 62 | Syracuse University College of Law Patricia Hassett Formerly a prosecuting attorney and a municipal government attorney, Professor Hassett served with the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct in England, advising on the education and professional conduct of persons providing legal services. She has also served as a consultant to the English Home Office on a project to improve the quality of bail decisions. Professor Hassett writes in the field of artificial intelligence and the law and has constructed a prototype of an expert system that makes bail recommendations. Peter E. Herzog Crandall Melvin Professor of Law A.B., Hobart College LL.B., Syracuse University LL.M., Columbia University Peter E. Herzog Professor Herzog was a New York assistant attorney general and Columbia University Project on International Procedure staff member. He was associate director of the Columbia University Project on European Legal Institutions, consultant to the New York Commission on Eminent Domain, and a visiting professor at the universities of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), Dijon, and Fribourg. He writes and co-writes many books and articles on comparative law, conflicts of law, the European Communities, and torts. Professor Herzog received the Chancellor’s Citation for Academic Excellence in 1983. Travis H.D. Lewin Travis H.D. Lewin Richard D. Schwartz Professor of Law B.A., LL.B., University of South Dakota S.J.D., University of Michigan Ernest I. White Research Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology B.A., Ph.D., Yale University Professor Lewin was in private practice and served as an assistant U.S. attorney before entering law teaching. He served as a consultant to the Michigan Department of Mental Hygiene, the Syracuse Department of Police, the U.S. Courts for the Northern District of New York (as reporter to the Speedy Trial Act Planning Group), and the legislative commission on the proposed New York Code of Evidence. He was interim dean of the College of Law and visiting clinical professor of law at the New York School of Psychiatry. He co-wrote two books and writes many articles on mental health, criminal law, and administering criminal justice. In 1984, he received the first Richard S. Jacobson Award for Distinguished Trial Advocacy Teaching by the Roscoe Pound American Trial Lawyers Association. He has also received the Chancellor’s Citation for Academic Excellence. Professor Schwartz came to Syracuse after almost 25 years as a distinguished teacher and scholar in both law and sociology. He is the author of many scholarly publications in both fields, including the books Society and the Legal Order, Unobtrusive Measures, Criminal Law: Theory and Process, and the Handbook of Regulation and Administrative Law. He is recognized as a leading authority on law and society. He taught on the law and sociology faculties at Northwestern and Yale universities and was dean and professor of law at State University of New York at Buffalo. Professor Schwartz was the founding editor of the Law and Society Review. Richard D. Schwartz Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke Professor of Law B.A., Duke University J.D., University of Michigan Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke Professor Reuben-Cooke came to Syracuse from the Georgetown Law Center, where she was an associate director of the Georgetown Institute for Public Representation. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke, she was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard University and John Hay Whitney Fellow at Michigan. She practiced law for a leading Washington law firm and the Citizens Communications Center. She earned commendations for her work and publications in telecommunications law from the Washington Association for Television and Children, and Black Citizens for a Fair Media, among other groups. Professor Reuben-Cooke left the College of Law to become the Provost at the University of the District of Columbia College of Law in Washington, D.C. 63 Professor of Practice David M. Crane Courtesy Appointments David M. Crane Keith J. Bybee Professor of Practice B.G.S., Ohio University M.S., Ohio University J.D., Syracuse University Associate Professor of Political Science Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute Associate Professor of Law (by courtesy appointment) A.B., Princeton University M.A., University of California, San Diego Ph.D., University of California, San Diego Professor Crane joined the faculty of the College of Law in August 2005 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. Before joining the faculty, he was an undersecretary general at the United Nations and chief prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in West Africa, called the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Appointed to that position by the Secretary General, Kofi Annan, Professor Crane’s mandate was to prosecute those who bore the greatest responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from the decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. He is the first American since Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg, in 1945, to lead an international tribunal. Professor Crane has a long history of public service, having served in the federal government of the United States as an officer in the United States Army and as a member of the Senior Executive Service for 30 years. He has published and spoken widely on human rights issues and holds numerous honors, including being named a Paramount Chief by the civil society organizations of Sierra Leone in 2005. Professor Crane teaches international criminal law, international law, and national security law. He is also a member of the faculty of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, a joint venture between the College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse. He holds a bachelor of general studies degree, summa cum laude, in history and a master of arts degree in african studies from Ohio University. Additionally, he holds a juris doctor degree from Syracuse University. 64 | Syracuse University College of Law Keith J. Bybee Before joining Syracuse University in 2002, Professor Bybee was a faculty member in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Bybee holds the Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics in the Maxwell School, and he directs the Sawyer Law and Politics Program (SLAPP). He also directs the Institue for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM), an institue jointly sponsored by the College of Law, the Maxwell School, and the Newhouse School of Public Communicaitons. Bybee’s teaching interests include American public law, legal theory, political philosophy, American politics, the politics of race, and LGBT politics. He is the author of Mistaken Identity: The Supreme Court and the Politics of Minority Representation (Princeton, 1998; second printing, 2002), a book that focuses on theories of political identity at stake in the debate over race-conscious redistricting. He is also editor of Bench Press: The Collision of Courts, Politics, and the Media (forthcoming, Stanford University Press), a collection of essays on judicial independance written by legal scholars, sitting judges, and working journalists. He is currently at work on a booklength project examining the role of courtesy and hypocrisy in the judicial process. Patricia H. Longstaff Associate Professor, Television, Radio, Film J.D., M.S., University of Iowa M.P.A., Harvard University Patricia H. Longstaff Professor Longstaff is an educator and analyst specializing in the business and public policy issues affecting the communications industry in the United States and internationally. She is also a research associate at Harvard University’s Center for Information Policy Research, where she works on issues of global communications policy. Her most recent work there involves the role of communications in the resilience of local populations who suffer a “surprise” such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster. She is also a member of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications Policy, and a member of the board of directors of the International Telecommunications Society. Her most recent book, The Communications Toolkit: How to Build or Regulate Any Communications Business, was published by MIT Press in 2002. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. L’68 of Delaware was the keynote speaker at Syracuse University College of Law’s 2006 commencement, as well as at the 1994 commencement, when his son Joseph III was among the J.D. recipients. Biden is the top Democrat on both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime. “I went to law school to become a lawyer, but my professors at Syracuse taught me about a lot more than the mere mechanics of the law. “Despite the upheavals and uncertainties that characterized the sixties, I arrived at Syracuse with a strong sense of purpose: I saw the law as an instrument for change, and I believed much in the world needed changing. What I learned from my Syracuse professors made that sense of purpose more powerful still. “They showed me that the personal values that led me to the study of law in the first place match the principles that underpin the Constitution: intolerance for the abuse of power, a respect for personal integrity and individual autonomy, and a sense of responsibility to family and community. They taught me that it is our system of law that has enabled us to apply those principles as a society. For an apprentice lawyer, that was an empowering discovery, and it made me confident I could serve the best in myself and in others through the practice of law. “I also discovered something else, no less important to me, about my professors, about the College of Law, and about Syracuse. If you earn their confidence, they repay you with their loyalty—and it is impossible to overstate the value of such support to students and to graduates of Syracuse. “Those of us who graduated from Syracuse 30 years ago could be no more certain of the outlines of our future than today’s students are, but the Syracuse University College Law endowed us with conviction that if we pursued the noble aspirations of our profession, could build lives of meaning and, in the process, improve our world. I believed that then and I believe it now. “That’s how it was when I was a student, and my older son who is a recent graduate from the College of Law tells me that’s how it remains at Syracuse today. I don’t think much more could be said for any law school.” 65 the office of student life The Office of Student Life is dedicated to working with our students to develop a shared sense of pride and ownership within the College of Law. The office has a friendly, open-door policy, and students are encouraged to stop in, ask questions, give suggestions, and get involved. 66 | Syracuse University College of Law The Office of Student Life provides a broad The Office of Student Life works with range of student support services, including: College of Law students, faculty, and administrators, as well as with a variety > academic and personal counseling of University-based offices, in developing programming to meet the needs of students. > academic support The office also informs students about > tutoring opportunities to explore an assortment of > leadership/professionalism training > community service/pro bono activities University-wide student organizations and activities, ranging from trips to the worldrenowned Finger Lakes wine country, to law symposia with world renowned speakers. > diversity initiatives The Office of Student life is dedicated to enhancing legal education with a commitment > wellness programs to student development and individual success > accommodations for students with disabilities through quality co-curricular programming and student services. > support for student organizations and moot court activities. “Working as a litigation associate at a large law firm like Clifford Chance in New York means being able to juggle many tasks from many senior attorneys all at the same time. I could be working on a brief for a pro bono criminal case, researching securities laws and managing a discovery project for billion dollar litigation simultaneously. There is no doubt I received strong classroom preparation at the College of Law. But for me, it was the opportunities the law school provided outside of the classroom that have given me the additional skills I’ve needed to succeed. The legal journals, moot court opportunities, and research assistant positions, along with the clincal/ externship programs are great opportunities. These programs helped me gain practical experience while also teaching me to juggle multiple tasks and issues at the same time. No matter where my legal career leads me, these experiences helped me form an invaluable foundation for working with colleagues and managing my workload. There is no doubt that Syracuse University College of Law was the right choice for me.” Juan Renteria, Jr., L‘04 Adjunct Professor University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX law student senate and student organizations Students take active roles in decisions that help shape the law school experience by participating in the Law Student Senate. In addition to representing student views on important issues, the senate appoints student representatives to faculty committees and administers expenditure of a substantial budget. Officers and senators are elected from each class. 68 | Syracuse University College of Law The Law Student Senate takes an active role in many community service projects, regularly providing volunteers for such activities as Habitat for Humanity, the Hurricane Katrina Alternative Spring Break trip, and the Special Olympics. Each year, the senate sponsors a local charitable organization (such as AIDS Community Resources or the Big Brother/Big Sister program) in the 5K “Ambulance Chase” fund-raiser. In addition, senate members have served as mentors at a local elementary school, have volunteered at area soup kitchens, and routinely organize food and clothing drives for local charities. The senate also hosts a series of social events throughout the year. The winter formal, known as the Barrister’s Ball, and the spring comedy production, known as the Libel Show, highlight the year for many law students. The senate serves as the umbrella organization for law student groups. The following organizations are recognized by the senate: Actual Innocence Society (AIS) American Bar Association (ABA) American Constitutional Society (ACS) Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA) Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) Black Law Students Association (BLSA) Christian Legal Fellowship (CLF) Corporate Law Society (CLS) Criminal Justice Society (CJS) disAbility Law Society (dLS) Environmental Law Society (ELS) Family Law Society (FLS) Federalist Society Feminist Action League (FAL) Grant Opportunity (GO) Program Intellectual Property Law Society (IPLS) International Law Students Association (ILSA) Irish-American Law Students Association (IALSA) Islamic Law Society (ILS) Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) Korean Law Students Association (KLSA) Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA) Middle Eastern Law Students Association (MELSA) National Security Association (NSA) National Women’s Law Student Association (NWLSA) Native American Law Society (NALS) Outlaw Phi Alpha Delta Republican Law Caucus South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA) Student Association on Terrorism and Security Analysis – Law Student Division (SATSA) Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS) St. Thomas More Society Syracuse Tax Society 69 Syracuse Law Review The Digest The most effective The Digest is the law advocates possess journal of the National exceptional skills in legal Italian-American research and writing. Bar Association. The Students can perfect Digest is a profes- Melanie Gray L‘81 these skills by editing the sional law journal Partner and Bankruptcy Litigation Co-chair Syracuse Law Review. publishing articles of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Houston, TX Now in its 57th year general interest to Member, Syracuse University of publication, the law the profession. It also Board of Trustees and College of Law Board of Advisors review provides an intense legal research and issues related to Italian and American trade, national forum for contributing scholars. The jurisprudence, and comparative law. editorial board publishes four law review issues “Early in my education at Syracuse University College of Law, I learned a life-long lesson that has continued to serve me well: preparation and commitment are the foundation for success in every facet of life. “By absorbing the knowledge shared by faculty and exploiting the experiential learning opportunities, I left SU College of Law aptly prepared and fully committed to tackle a profession in commercial litigation. Those principles of preparedness and commitment have guided my career from entry-level associate to partner, while navigating intricate bankruptcy cases for notable corporations, including representation of Enron in the most complex chapter 11 case in history.” “I extend those principles to every lecture I give and to every hour I donate to altruistic organizations, such as Girls, Inc. I do this because I learned another valuable lesson while attending Syracuse University: we are each responsible for serving the communities in which we live and thrive through the continual imparting of knowledge and generous giving of our time. These are the kinds of lessons learned at Syracuse University that make us good lawyers and good people.” The student board of editors, which annually, one of which is the Annual Survey of represents a diverse student population, is New York Law. selected based on writing competition results Law review membership is a prized honor at and personal interviews. Students write and Syracuse. Students are invited to join the law publish case comments while engaging in a review based on their first-year grades or their full range of editorial activities. In this way, achievement in an open writing competition students obtain valuable hands-on experience held at the conclusion of the first year. Second- in the law and in improving their own writing year editorial staff members write notes for skills, while performing a service for the bar possible publication in the Syracuse Law Review and community. and assist in editorial activities. The third-year editorial board supervises all aspects of publi- The Labor Lawyer cation, including the process of editing articles The Labor Lawyer is and notes selected for publication. the official publication of the American Bar Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce Association’s Labor and Employment Law First published in 1972, section. The College of the journal has the Law has the privilege distinction of being one of being one of a small of the oldest student- number of law schools edited international law that edit an ABA pub- reviews in the United lication. With more than 22,000 subscribers States. It features nationwide, The Labor Lawyer is a distinguished works by leading law journal aimed at bringing useful insights private and public and current legal trends in the area of labor international law scholars and practitioners. The journal also includes student notes and, and employment law to its readers. The staff of The Labor Lawyer is responsible at times, symposia organized by the College of for selecting and editing the articles for each Law faculty. annual issue. Students apply for a position Students are selected for journal member- on The Labor Lawyer editorial board at the ship based on academic ranking or success end of their first year. Selections are based in an open writing competition held at the on a writing sample, editing exercise, and conclusion of the first year. Members must personal interview. demonstrate mastery of legal research and writing skills by submitting scholarly articles of publishable quality. 70 | Syracuse University College of Law publishes articles on writing program for student editors and a law student publications 71 career services Syracuse University College of Law takes pride in its reputation as a distinguished national law school. Its graduates are employed throughout the United States and around the world. The Office of Career Services provides a full range of services to students, including a broad mix of innovative and traditional support, empowering students with the confidence and skills necessary to conduct an effective job search. 72 | Syracuse University College of Law The college’s Office of Career Services is dedicated to assisting current students and alumni with their individual job searches. The Office of Career Services hosts seminars during the year to teach students effective job search techniques and sponsors programs in which attorneys representing dozens of practice areas speak to students about what their jobs are really like. The office also conducts specialized workshops for students interested in judicial clerkships, career opportunities outside the traditional legal realm, and long distance job searching. Individual counseling and mock interviews are provided by the career services staff as well. The office takes pride in its specialized services and publications designed to assist first-year law students with skills assessment, career exploration, and the fundamentals of job searching. Beyond these services, the office maintains a reference library that houses many resources to assist students and alumni with career exploration. To keep students apprised of summer, fulland part-time job opportunities, the Office of Career Services electronically publishes and maintains this information on its web site (www.law.syr.edu). The web site also details upcoming seminars, writing competitions, fellowships, judicial clerkship opportunities, and other items of interest to job-seeking students. Every year, employers from across the country recruit Syracuse students through interview and resume collection programs. Throughout the academic year, the Office of Career Services schedules on-campus interviews for students and coordinates offcampus fall interview programs in New York City and Washington, D.C. Alumni Connection Syracuse law’s network of more than 8,500 graduates helps keep the college informed of employment opportunities. Our extensive alumni database is a source for providing possible employment contacts in a variety of practice areas throughout the country. In addition, many alumni serve as mentors to current students. Alumni are an important source of information about current trends and opportunities in various practice areas of the law and geographic areas. The Career Services Office and our law students benefit greatly from our alumni’s eagerness to share information and provide assistance. The Office of Career Services also assists alumni with lateral moves or career transitions. Individual counseling services and job searching resources continue to be available beyond graduation to meet the needs of alumni. Current job opportunities for alumni are posted on our web site. The Grant Opportunity Program The Grant Opportunity (GO) Program is an organization that encourages, supports, and funds summer employment for law students in the public interest sector. It is run primarily by students with the guidance, support, and assistance of the Office of Career Services. Each summer, a number of students receive grants to assist them financially while they work in public interest positions. Grant recipients must participate in GO fund-raising activities and complete a public service requirement duringthe academic year to be eligible for summer funding. A total of $44,000 was awarded to GO recipients for the summer of 2006. GO recipients typically engage in work for legal service organizations, nonprofit groups, and government entIties across the country. In the past, students have found summer internships with the following organizations: > Legal Assistance of the Finger Lakes Geneva, New York > National Coalition Against Censorship New York, New York > Los Angeles County Attorney’s Office Los Angeles, California > American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Washington, D.C. > Onondaga County District Attorney’s Office Onondaga County, New York > Center for Community Alternatives Syracuse > Office of the Public Defender, County of Winnebago Rockford, Illinois > Legal Services of Central New York Inc. (AIDS Law Project) Syracuse > Office of the Conflict Defender, Family Court Division Syracuse > State of Delaware, Department of Justice Delaware > Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society Syracuse > Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York Inc. Binghamton, New York > U.S. District Court - NDNY; Hon. David E. Peebles Syracuse > U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia Washington, D.C. 73 employment information Syracuse College of Law graduates have acquired impressive employment rates during the past several years. A survey of the Class of 2005 indicates that 43 percent entered private practice, 19 percent were employed by private sector corporations, 16 percent joined government agencies and other public employers, 13 percent became judicial clerks, and five percent entered public interest law practice. 74 | Syracuse University College of Law “SU Law provided me with the tools I needed to succeed as an attorney. I learned how to think critically through the hands-on training in the classroom. I was part of a team in my memberships on moot court and the journals. I was a leader through my roles as moot court coach for the Women’s Law Caucus and APALSA, class senator, and founder of the South Asian Law Students Association. But most importantly, I experienced the value of being a part of a community through my friendships with classmates, professors, administrative staff, and my mentor through the Alumni Association. In essence, SU Law laid the foundation for an amazing career in the legal field. Currently, I am a member of the health law practice at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., where I represent health care facilities in civil and criminal investigations of alleged violations of the Medicare Anti-Kickback Law, the Stark Law, and the False Claims Act. I also advise health care facilities on regulatory and compliance matters involving Medicare fraud and abuse laws and reimbursement regulations. My regulatory and litigation practices allow me to pursue two aspects of the law: counselor as well as advocate.” Ritu Singh L’00 Associate Jones Day, Washington, D.C. Type of Practice The chart on the upper right indicates the various types of practice selected by members of the Class of 2005. Many Syracuse graduates pursue traditional careers in private practice with specialized or full-service law firms or as judicial clerks in one of the many local, state, and federal courts. Other graduates choose employment in government, business, and academia. Starting Salaries Practice type and geographic location influence the starting salaries of law graduates. Compensation also varies widely between the public and private sectors and among employers within each sector of the marketplace. Other factors that may influence initial earnings for recent graduates are law school academic achievements and co-curricular activities. For members of the Class of 2005 who provided salary information, salaries ranged from $140,000 for large firm practice to $30,000 for public interest law employment. The average salary reported by those in private practice law firm positions was $69,000. The average salary reported by those in public sector government jobs was $46,800, while the average salary reported by those in private sector jobs was $64,300. The average starting salary for all employment types was $56,300. Salaries vary widely among geographic locations, with larger metropolitan areas typically offering higher starting salaries. The chart on the right displays the geographic distribution of the survey respondents from the Class of 2005. Type of Practice 10 20 30 Private Practice 50 60 70 80 90 100 50 60 70 80 90 100 43% Business and Industry 19% Government Agency 16% Judicial Clerkship 13% Public Interest Other 40 5% 4% Geographic Distribution 10 20 30 40 New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT) 6% Middle Atlantic (*NY, NJ, PA) 57% Midwest (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI, IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD) 6% South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV) 18% South (AL, KY, TN, AR, MS, LA, OK, TX) 2% Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY) 3% Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA) 5% International 3% *Graduates employed in NYS working in NYC: 28% 75 selected employers College of Law graduates have many employment options— from large private law firms to government agencies to Fortune 500 companies. The following is a sampling of employers who have sought or hired Syracuse University College of Law graduates. “As a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, I draw upon the legal education I obtained at the Syracuse University College of Law on a daily basis. The legal intricacies of conducting criminal investigations and providing physical protection to the President of the United States are complex. SU not only provided me with an exceptional education, it gave me the opportunity to tailor my law degree towards specific career interests.” Christopher C. McCauley L’02 J.D./M.A. Special Agent United States Secret Service 76 | Syracuse University College of Law Alaska Palmer Newport Beach Connecticut Gordon & Rees Knobb, Martens, Olson & Bear Alaska Superior Court Cheshire Nuzzo & Roberts Riverside Arizona Reid & Hellyer Mesa Sacramento Schmeiser Olsen & Watts Porter, Scott, Weiberg & Delehart Greenwich Bentley, Mosher & Babson Ivey Barnum & O’Mara, LLC Groton Phoenix San Diego Jones, Skelton & Hochuli Chapin, Fleming & Winet O’Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum Hartford Cruse & Hough Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP Raven, Kirschner & Norell Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye Cooney, Scully & Dowling Riley, Carlock & Applewhite Hecht, Solbert, Robinson & Goldberg Day, Berry & Howard Siegal, Bellovin & Karnas Latham & Watkins Dechert LLP Snell & Wilmer Lincoln, Gustafson & Cercos Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Stender & Larkin Naval Legal Services Office Halloran & Sage, LLP Steptoe & Johnson State Attorney’s Office Hartford Superior Court Scottsdale San Francisco Office of the Governor of Connecticut Bennett, Burke & Carmichael Gordon & Rees Office of the Attorney General Klimow & Associates Limbach & Limbach Pepe & Hazard Sarrail, Lynch & Hall Reid & Reige Tucson Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold Robinson & Cole Raven Kirschner & Norell Shook, Hardy & Bacon Shipman & Goodwin Siegal Bellovin & Karnas Steinhart & Falconer Sullivan, Campine & Connon California Colorado Irvine Boulder Ayco Company Caplan & Earnest Killingsworth & Beshears O’Brien, Shafner, Stuart & Kelly Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn Gerald C. Sloat, P.C. Los Angeles Lamm, Freeman, Butler, L.L.C. 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Felice & Associates Deloitte & Touche Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf Legal Services of Central New York Dewey Ballantine Wisehart & Koch Mackenzie Hughes Martin Ganotis Brown Mould & Currie Dorsey & Whitney Entwistle & Capucci Oneida McDermott, Doerr & Britt Epstein, Becker & Green Oneida Indian Nation Melvin & Melvin Ernst & Young Fulbright & Jaworski Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione Holland & Knight Kaye Scholer, LLP Kelley Drye & Warren KPMG Latham & Watkins LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae Legal Aid Society Martin Clearwater & Bell McCarthy, Fingar, Donovan, Drazen & Smith Meister, Seelig & Fein Mendes & Mount Moses & Singer New York City Administration for Children’s Services New York City Dept. of Law New York City Human Resources Administration New York County DA’s Office New York State Insurance Fund New York State Supreme Court, Commercial Division Nixon Peabody Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Postner & Rubin PricewaterhouseCoopers Proskauer Rose Renzulli & Rutherford Menter Rudin & Trivelpiece Queens National Grid Queens County DA’s Office O’Hara & O’Connell Riverhead Suffolk County DA’s Office Rochester Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor & Wilson Chamberlain D’Amanda Oppenheimer & Greenfield Eastman Kodak Company Ernstrom & Dreste Forsyth, Howe, O’Dwyer, Kalb & Murphy Onondaga County DA’s Office Onondaga County Dept. of Law Scolaro, Shulman, Cohen, Lawler & Burstein, P.C. Setright & Longstreet Smith, Sovik, Kendrick & Sugnet Sugarman Law Firm UAW - Chrysler/General Motors U.S. Attorney’s Office U.S. District Court, NDNY Wolff, Goodrich & Goldman Goldman, Newman, Shinder and Franklin Harris Beach & Wilcox Harter, Secrest & Emery Lacy, Katzen, Ryen & Mittleman NYS Supreme Court Appellate Division, Utica Calli, Calli & Cully Kowalczyk, Tolles, Deery & Johnston Utica National Insurance Group 4th Department Nixon Peabody Watertown Thompson West Carter, Conboy, Case, Blackmore, Underberg & Kessler Maloney and Laird U.S. District Court, WDNY Verizon Communications White Plains Woods Oviatt Gilman Baxter & Smith Kissel & Pesce Saratoga Springs Law Office of Joseph Senn, Jr. Lemery MacKrell Greisler McCarthy, Fingar, Donovan, Drazen & Smith O’Connor, McGuinness, Conte, Doyle & Oleson Texaco Inc. Legal Dept. Westchester County District Attorney’s Office 81 North Carolina Oregon Charlotte Portland Alston & Bird Bennett & Hartman Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Callahan & Shears, PC Kilpatrick Stockton Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue Rayburn, Moon & Smith Gosgrave, Vergeer & Kester, LLP Smith, Helms, Milluss & Moore Lane, Powell, Spears & Lubersky Seidl & Rizzo Greensboro Tooze, Shenker, Duden & Cremer Elrod, Lawings & Sharpless Smith, Helms, Milluss & Moore Salem Principal Financial Group Attorney General’s Office Department of Justice Raleigh/Durham Maupin, Taylor & Ellis Winston-Salem Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice North Dakota Pennsylvania Allentown Lea and Lea Erie Shapira, Hutzelman, Berlin & May Bismark Harrisburg Zuger, Kirmis & Smith McNees, Wallace, & Nurick Pennsylvania State Education Association Ohio Cincinnati Cors & Bassett Hamilton County Prosecutors Office Helmer, Martins & Morgan Lerner, Sampson & Rothfuss Procter & Gamble Thompson Hine University of Cincinnati College of Law Cleveland Baker & Hostetler Calfee, Halter & Griswold Jones Day McDonald Hopkins, LPA PricewaterhouseCoopers Thompson Hine Weston Hurd Fallon Paisley & Howley Brown & Levicoff Buchanan Ingersoll Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham Klett, Lieber, Rooney & Schorling Margolis Edelstein Meyer, Unkovic & Scott Nagel & Goldstein Strassburger, McKenna, Gutnick & Potter Thorp Reed & Armstrong Reading Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas Willamette University Citizen Action Group Duke University Pittsburgh Rhode Island Providence Adler Pollock & Sheehan Blish & Cavanagh Calenda & Iacoi Decof & Decof Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Gunning & LaFazia, Inc. 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Shapiro & Burson U.S. Patent & Trade Office McLean Troutman Sanders “My education from Syracuse University College of Law, combined with the strong network of contacts I developed while attending, are two key factors contributing to my continued success in this field. I frequently call upon my growing network of colleagues to assist me in managing Starbucks Coffee Company’s litigation throughout North America.” Zabrina Jenkins L’00 Corporate Counsel Starbucks Corporate Office Seattle, WA 83 Syracuse is located in the center of New York State, approximately 260 miles northwest of New York City. In the midst of a metropolitan area within Central New York with the college of law, the university, the city a population of 500,000, the College of Law is located on Syracuse University’s 200-acre Main Campus. It commands a panoramic view of downtown Syracuse and the Onondaga Valley. 84 | Syracuse University College of Law The College of Law Complex The H. Douglas Barclay Law Library Students find the law complex conveniently self-contained. Designed with the student in mind, the law complex features comfortable classrooms with wireless access for students’ laptops and multimedia teaching stations with computer platforms, document cameras, and VCRs. The classrooms are intimate, designed to allow lively discussion and interaction. Students have room to study and relax. The facility houses a dining room and cafe; a comfortable student lounge with a TV, microwave, and vending machines; and student lockers and mailboxes. The building features two moot courtrooms. The larger courtroom, equipped with high-tech videotaping capabilities, provides the setting for mock trials and moot court competitions. The caliber of this courtroom is so high that judges may hold actual hearings there. MacNaughton Hall and White Hall are joined by an open-air courtyard and connected by hallways on the first and second floors. White Hall houses the deans’, admissions, financial aid, career services, student life, student administration and registrar, and advancement suites; faculty offices and two medium-sized classrooms. Offices for the Clinical Legal Education Program, the Technology Commercialization Law Program, the NYS Science Technology and Law Center, and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism are housed in MacNaughton Hall. Grant Auditorium accommodates large gatherings such as public lectures. Nearby parking, with a walkway to the law complex, allows easy access to the buildings. The mission of the H. Douglas Barclay Law Library is to promote and to serve the educational and research needs of the College of Law community and to advance the development of legal scholarship and law librarianship. The Law Library creates, develops, and supports appropriate services, resources, and facilities; promotes the dissemination of information and creation of knowledge; and serves as a gateway to information sources beyond the scope of its collections. The Law Library’s four spacious levels house more than 450,000 volumes in print and microform; more than 3,300 serials; and extensive audio, video, and CD-ROM holdings—all accessible thought the Universitywide online library catalog. The Law Library adds approximately 2,500 new titles to its catalog each year, including a growing number of licensed electronic databases. The Law Library’s collection is continually being expanded and updated through access to resources on its web site. The Rosen Reading Room offers an elegant and comfortable study area with easy access to adjacent open reserves room. The circulation and reference desks offer conveniently located services and research support in close proximity to the Electronic Research Center. The Electronic Research Center features 18 workstations for integrated research across electronic formats. The Law Library offers full-text electronic collection, web-based indexes, and e-mail access. The Law Library’s service points are significantly expanded through the Law Library web site, where electronic research sources, library information, and services request forms are available 24 hours a day. All of the College of Law’s computer clusters and classroom teaching stations offer access to the Law Library’s online research services. These resources are also available to students via the Internet. In addition to the College of Law’s 24-hour White Computer Cluster, the Law Library has two computer clusters for convenience of students who wish to integrate print and electronic research. Wireless connectivity for laptops is available throughout all areas of the Law Library. The Law Library works in partnership with faculty to build print and electronic collections in support of the College’s centers and institute. Law librarians work closely with faculty in the classroom to offer instruction in topic-specific legal research. In addition to the standard primary and secondary tools of American legal research, the Law Library has important collections in the areas of legal education, legal history, trial practice skills, New York State Law, tax law and policy, and law, technology, and management. The Law Library is a congressionally designated depository for U.S. government documents. The Barclay Law Library is named in honor of H. Douglas Barclay, a member of the Class of 1961, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, former New York State Senator, distinguished member of the bar, and former chair of the University’s Board of Trustees. 85 Donald T. MacNaughton L’68 recently retired as a partner at White and Case, L.L.P., in New York City, where he concentrated on international arbitration and international litigation. In addition to his work in the New York office, he practiced in the firm’s The University Campus University Resources The University, situated on a hill in the southeast section of the city and overlooking downtown Syracuse and the surrounding countryside, is a sprawling 900-acre campus of grassy lawns, tall trees, and wide walkways. The buildings surrounding the University’s central quadrangle are a blend of contemporary architecture and landmark historical structures—a blend that reflects Syracuse’s rich heritage and the University’s commitment to providing the most modern technology and research facilities available. The University’s Main Campus houses 170 academic buildings, libraries, laboratories, and studios, providing the academic resources and facilities of a major research university. The Schine Student Center houses student organization offices, dining facilities, a large auditorium, and the main branch of the Syracuse University Bookstore. Hendricks Chapel is the focal point for all religious activities on campus. It offers counseling, study, and fellowship groups, as well as weekly religious services for many faiths. Surrounding the campus are residential neighborhoods and a small shopping center with a bookstore, shops, and restaurants catering to students. There are public schools nearby, and a day care center and nursery school are located on South Campus. Syracuse University is a private research university with more than 15,000 baccalaureate, master’s, professional, and doctoral students enrolled in 12 schools and colleges. SU students represent every state, almost 100 countries, and varied economic and social backgrounds. SU is proud of its reputation as a comprehensive university that provides study opportunities in many professional areas as well as in traditional liberal arts fields. Law students have access to the University’s collection in the Ernest Stevenson Bird Library and its branches that include more than 2.8 million volumes, 15,000 serials and periodicals, and 7 million microforms, as well as audio and videocassettes, laser disks, CD-ROMs, and a variety of electronic resources and databases. Washington, D.C., office in the mid-’70s and in its Hong Kong office from 1984 to 1989. “My legal training at the College of Law was first class. I came to a major Wall Street law firm in the late ‘60s at a time when most of the first-year lawyers at such firms came from well-known Ivy League law schools. I found that at Syracuse, I had received a better and more rigorous education in New York law than these other schools provided. “My class was a particularly strong one. The competition among us—while it was friendly competition—was also excellent preparation for living and working in the real world. “We have a number of SU alumni at White and Case and interview at Syracuse every year. We think it is a law school worthy of national stature. The SU graduates hired into White and Case are well prepared and very reliable. “White and Case is now an international law firm with more offices outside of the United States than inside and more lawyers practicing outside of the country than in the U.S. Almost all the litigation I’ve done has involved some international ramifications; either the events occurred overseas or some of the parties involved are from overseas. I believe that Syracuse’s curriculum offers excellent preparation for students who are interested in international work.” 86 | Syracuse University College of Law Beyond the Classroom Even the most conscientious and studious law student occasionally requires the rejuvenation of enriching leisure activities. The array of activities available to law students extends beyond the College of Law. Students can attend any of the numerous lectures and discussions offered by the University, individual colleges, and student organizations. First-run movies and classics are shown on campus almost every night. At the Carrier Dome, music fans gather for concerts featuring internationally famous entertainers—while jazz, reggae, and other musical events are presented in the Goldstein Auditorium. The Carrier Dome, the only domed stadium in the Northeast and the largest facility of its kind on any college campus, is the home of SU’s Division I football, basketball, and lacrosse teams. The campus also hosts soccer, track, and women’s field hockey, and softball competitions. Law students can use campus swimming pools; courts for handball, tennis, basketball, and squash; dance studios; ice rink; and other recreational facilities. The Syracuse Community The history of Syracuse dates to the origins of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, formed hundreds of years ago. This region also has a long and illustrious history in major American social movements, particularly abolitionism and women’s rights. Located in the center of New York State, the city is approximately 265 miles northwest of New York City. Major interstate highways provide direct access to Boston, Toronto, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C., each less than a day’s drive away. Syracuse is also accessible by rail, bus, and air transportation. Syracuse offers a wealth of cultural activities. The Landmark Theater, Syracuse Stage, and Syracuse University Department of Drama present many excellent stage productions. The Onondaga County Civic Center is home for the Syracuse Symphony and a resident opera company; it also hosts touring Broadway shows. Syracuse’s historic Armory Square district features specialty shops, contemporary arts and crafts galleries, clubs and a popular nightlife. The OnCenter Convention Center and War Memorial complex offers major rock concerts, sports events, circus performances, ice shows, antiques sales, and international festivals. The Everson Museum of Art, designed by I.M. Pei, features traveling art exhibitions. Minor league sports in Syracuse include the Syracuse SkyChiefs baseball team and the Syracuse Crunch hockey team. The Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (MOST) offers innovative, hands-on science exhibitions and one of the only IMAX movie theaters in the state outside of New York City. These downtown attractions are all a short walk or bus ride from campus. The city bus system connects all of Syracuse, including the University area. Syracuse is the seat of county government. The state capital, Albany, is only 140 miles away. Major corporations located in Syracuse include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Carrier Corporation, Cooper Industries/Crouse-Hinds, and Lockheed Martin. More information on business and industry in Syracuse can be obtained by contacting the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, 572 South Salina Street, Syracuse NY 13202, 315-470-1800. The Chamber of Commerce will send a relocation package of materials about the area on request. Syracuse is situated amid some of New York State’s most spectacular scenic areas. Nearby are Lake Ontario, the Finger Lakes, the Thousand Islands, and the Catskill and Adirondack mountains. Opportunities abound for swimming, boating, hiking, camping, downhill and cross-country skiing, fishing, golfing, ice skating, and horse-back riding. For additional information, visit syracuse.com. 87 Theodore A. McKee L’75, Commencement 2000 speaker, is a federal appeals court judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. He graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law, where he was active with the Project for Prisoners’ Rights and worked as a research assistant to Professor Thomas Maroney who was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, a position he held until 1999 when he returned to the College of Law. “Upon graduating from Syracuse University College of Law, I worked as an associate at a Philadelphia law firm, and then became an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. From there I became the deputy city solicitor for the City of Philadelphia, and, subsequently, general counsel to the Philadelphia Parking Authority. “In 1984 I was sworn in as judge to the Court of Common Pleas for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. I spent 10 years in that position until my recent appointment. “I feel that my legal education at Syracuse University gave me a broadbased, well-rounded legal education that allowed me to succeed at a very competitive law firm and at each of the positions that I have since held.” 88 | Syracuse University College of Law Housing and Meals All academic buildings and many undergraduate residence halls are located on Syracuse University’s Main Campus. Additional on-campus housing is available about two miles from the law complex on the University’s South Campus. Free bus service is available between Main Campus and South Campus each weekday during the academic year and on a limited schedule during the summer months. Law students new to the Syracuse community find the convenience of on-campus living to be an attractive option. Campus housing allows students to live within minutes of all major campus facilities and among others who share similar academic and personal interests. Such advantages as fixed costs, security, and interaction with student peers make on-campus housing a popular choice among first-year law students. All housing is furnished and utilities are included. Students interested in campus housing can apply for an apartment in the Slocum Heights housing complex for graduate students and families. Law students living on or off campus may purchase meal plans and/or SUpercard food accounts. Meal plans enable students to choose from many dining halls located near the law complex. Students may use SUpercard food accounts at the cafe in the law complex or at any other cafe or snack bar on campus. For further information about on-campus graduate housing and meal plans, contact the South Campus Housing Office, 206 Goldstein Student Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244, 315-443-2567. Law students who opt for off-campus accommodations can access the Office of Off-Campus Student Services (OCSS). The OCSS is dedicated to providing services and programs to support University students living off campus. Students can obtain information about finding suitable housing or learn about the network of education and community services available to them. For more information about OCSS, stop by the office at 754 Ostrom Avenue, call 315-443-5489, or visit the web site: students.syr.edu/offcampusliving/. Orange Housing, a local company not affiliated with Syracuse University, maintains an off-campus housing directory listing of available apartments as well as notices from people looking for roommates to share apartments. For more information about Orange Housing, visit its web site: www.orangehousing.com. University Health Services Syracuse University Health Services has a staff of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other health care professionals who provide primary services. These include, but are not limited to, routine exams and consultations, evaluation and treatment of acute illness or injury, immunization, and support for some chronic health problems. Referrals to nearby acute care facilities or specialists are made as needed. Office visits are provided by appointment. It is strongly recommended that students have health insurance to assist with medical costs not covered by the health fee and services provided at other facilities and hospitals. The University offers a student health insurance plan that meets student needs. For more information, see www.haylor.com/student/ or call our insurance coordinator at 315-443-2668. SU Ambulance Call 711 from a campus phone, #SU (#78) from a cell phone, or 315-443-4299. Medical Services 315-443-9005 89 visiting syracuse MONTREAL OTTAWA 87 91 401 81 TORONTO BURLINGTON NEW YORK VERMONT SYRACUSE 90 MANCHESTER ROCHESTER ALBANY BUFFALO MASS. BINGHAMTON 90 SPRINGFIELD 87 17 90 CLEVELAND SCRANTON PENNSYLVANIA 79 128 89 88 17 90 MAINE NEW HAMPSHIRE HARTFORD CONN. NEW YORK 84 BOSTON R.I.. 95 PROVIDENCE 495 NEWARK 80 81 PITTSBURGH 78 78 WEST VIRGINIA MD NEW JERSEY N 400 mile radius BALTIMORE WASHINGTON D.C. ➢ 87 PHILADELPHIA DEL. VIRGINIA The College of Law encourages prospective students to visit the campus. A structured From Interstate 81, exit at Adams Street (Exit visitor program is offered each spring semester. 18). Proceed up the Adams Street hill to the The schedule of visitor program dates and light at Irving Avenue. Make a right on Irving times is mailed to admitted applicants. At and proceed to the end. At the end of Irving other times of the year visits are scheduled on Avenue, make a right on East Raynor Avenue an individual basis through the Admissions and and a quick right onto Stadium Place. Irving Financial Aid Office at 315-443-1962. Garage is the first building on your right. VIP Appointments to visit are encouraged; VIP parking can be reserved for you in the Irving parking can be arranged in most instances for Garage on Stadium Place if you call and make visitors who call in advance of their arrival. arrangements with the Admissions Office in advance of your visit. Directions to the College of Law The College of Law building is to the left of the Carrier Dome and is accessible via the Syracuse is accessible from major metro- walkway on level five of the Irving Garage. politan areas such as New York City, Boston, After crossing the walkway, bear left and enter Washington, Philadelphia, Montreal, and the first door to the College of Law. Toronto. Each is an hour away by air and within a day’s drive. Visitors arriving in Syracuse by plane, bus, or train, will find taxi service convenient for the short drive to campus. Visitors driving to campus who take the New York State Thruway east or west to Syracuse should exit at Interstate 81 (Thruway Exit 36) and proceed south. Northbound and southbound travelers should also follow Interstate 81 to Syracuse. 90 | Syracuse University College of Law The Admissions and Financial Aid Office is located in Suite 340 of White Hall. The office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday during the academic year (including breaks), and from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday during the summer. Syracuse University Main Campus To ComArt, Lampe Athletics Complex, South Campus, Skytop Offices, Bernice Wright Nursery School To Interstates 81, 690, and 90 (NYS Thruway). From Downtown Syracuse, Interstates 81, 690, and 90 (NYS Thruway). DIRECTIONS TO THE WAREHOUSE Syracuse University has extended its campus in the newly renovated Warehouse at 350 West Fayette Street, which currently houses the School of Architecture and several arts programs. Served by frequent free shuttle buses, campus visitors can reach the Warehouse by traveling WEST on HARRISON STREET, turning RIGHT onto SOUTH SALINA STREET and then taking a LEFT onto JEFFERSON STREET. Curve RIGHT at ARMORY circle, taking a RIGHT onto FRANKLIN STREET and then LEFT onto WEST FAYETTE STREET. The Warehouse is at 350 West Fayette Street. Alibrandi Catholic Center Archbold Gymnasium, Financial Aid Office, and Bursar Operations Biological Research Lab Bird Library Boland Hall Booth Hall Bowne Hall Brewster Hall Brockway Hall Butterfield House Carnegie Library Carrier Dome Center for Science and Technology Counseling Center Crouse College, College of Visual and Performing Arts Crouse-Hinds Hall, Office of Admissions Day Hall DellPlain Hall Eggers Hall 113 Euclid Avenue Flanagan Gymnasium Flint Hall and Graham Dining Center Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center Hall of Languages, The College of Arts and Sciences Haven Hall and Dining Center H.B. Crouse Hall Health Center, Office of Residence Life 6 48 60 27 71 15 52 72 73 31 51 49 61 8 41 23 67 30 40 58 50 66 28 36 12 37 21 Hendricks Chapel Heroy Geology Laboratory Hinds Hall, School of Information Studies Holden Observatory Hoople Building Human Services and Health Professions, College of Huntington Hall, School of Education International Living Center Kimmel Hall and Food Court Lawrinson Hall Link Hall, College of Engineering and Computer Science Lowe Art Gallery Lyman Hall Machinery Hall Marion Hall Martin J. Whitman School of Management Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Newhouse School of Public Communications Physics Building Place of Remembrance 420 Ostrom Avenue 426 Ostrom Avenue Sadler Hall and Dining Center Schine Student Center, SU Bookstore, Goldstein Auditorium 46 44 35 42 22 57 20 64 16 69 55 54 32 34 17 10 39 24 47 25 13 14 70 26 Shaffer Art Building 53 Shaw Hall 62 Sheraton University Hotel & Conference Center 18 Sims Hall, Department of Public Safety 59 Slocum Hall, School of Architecture 56 Slutzker Center for International Services 19 Smith Hall 33 Steele Hall, Registrar 45 SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry Campus 68 Syracuse University Abroad 5 Syracuse University Continuing Education 9 Theaters, Department of Drama and Syracuse Stage 2 Tolley Hall 38 WAER 63 Walnut Hall 11 Warehouse 1 Washington Arms 3 Watson Hall 29 White Hall, Winifred MacNaughton Hall, College of Law 43 Winnick Hillel Center 4 Women’s Building 65 University Avenue Parking Garage 7 91 admission Individuals of demonstrated ability are invited to consider Syracuse University College of Law. Syracuse Law is proud of its talented and diverse student body. The class that entered in the fall of 2005 represents 147 colleges and universities, 37 states, and 8 foreign countries. Of the 266 matriculated students, 47 percent were women and 21 percent were students of color. The College of Law recognizes the racial and gender imbalance that exists in the legal profession and the public interest in augmenting the number of lawyers from traditionally underrepresented groups in the profession. Therefore, the college encourages qualified members of these groups to apply for admission. 92 | Syracuse University College of Law Criteria for Admission Admission Requirements Legal Education Opportunity Program In some cases, academic performance at the undergraduate level and Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score(s) are reliable measures for predicting probable success in law study. Thus, after review by the Admissions Committee, some applicants are admitted primarily on the basis of an index combining undergraduate grades and LSAT test score(s). The source and formula for the index are described more fully on below. However, the admission decision process at Syracuse is more complex than merely rank-ordering applicants based on a numerical formula. The Admissions Committee analyzes undergraduate transcripts closely for significant progression in grades earned or unusually difficult coursework. In addition, the LSAT Writing Sample is reviewed to assess an applicant’s skill level, writing ability, and preparedness to start learning to “write like a lawyer.” The committee also considers subjective factors such as undergraduate institution attended, graduate study in another discipline, work experience, leadership ability, and community service. The committee considers an applicant’s level of motivation by reviewing personal experiences indicating determination, patience, and perseverance. Past success in overcoming personal hardship, including such burdens as poverty or disability, are viewed as important indicators of motivation. Applicants are encouraged to provide pertinent information in writing for the Admissions Committee to consider. A personal interview is not part of the admission decision-making process at Syracuse; however, we welcome and encourage prospective students to visit the College of Law. Refer to page 90 for more information. At the time of matriculation, all applicants for admission must either have been awarded a bachelor’s degree by an accredited college or university or have been offered admission through the combination program (described on page 8) after successfully completing three years of undergraduate study. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age at the time of matriculation. All students are admitted to begin study in the fall semester only. Syracuse University is committed to a diverse student body as an integral part of its educational program and mission. Diversity within the law student body, generated through the selection of individuals having a range of experience and interests, greatly enhances each student’s legal education by encouraging a broad exchange of thoughts and ideas. Recognizing that numerical indicators are not always the best predictors of success in law school—even when considered in combination with other factors—the College of Law admits a limited number of students each year through the Legal Education Opportunity (LEO) Program. The program’s dual objectives are to recruit and admit persons who may have been deprived of equal education opportunities due to race, poverty, or other factors beyond their control and persons with unusual accomplishments, backgrounds, and experiences that suggest traditional admission criteria may be inadequate predictors of likely success in law study. Applicants are selected for admission through the LEO Program on the basis of grades, test score(s), and writing samples, but special weight is given to subjective factors pertinent to the program objectives. Students admitted through the LEO Program are required to complete an intensive threeweek summer program in legal methodology and legal writing before enrolling in the fall semester entering class. Explicit application for admission through the LEO Program is not required; all applicants not regularly admitted are considered for possible LEO admission. However, candidates who believe they may qualify for admission as a LEO candidate may include a separate statement along with their admission application explaining why they believe traditional quantitative admissions criteria may be inadequate predictors of success in their circumstances. LEO candidates who are recent undergraduate or graduate students are encouraged to submit three academic letters of recommendation. Detailed resumes and samples of written work may also be helpful in evaluating potential LEO students. The Index The Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS) provides to law schools a report that displays an applicant’s LSAT score(s) and index number(s) and summarizes undergraduate performance in a standardized format. The index number(s) results from combining the LSAT score(s) with the applicant’s undergraduate grade point average (UGPA), using weights selected by the College of Law based on validity studies conducted for Syracuse by Law Services. Validity studies show the relationship between LSAT score(s), UGPA, and first-year law school grades at Syracuse. The index currently calculated by Law Services for Syracuse is derived by applying the following formula: Index = [0.220 x LSAT] + [2.489 x UGPA] 4.00. The index formula is subject to regular review and modification. Personal Notebook Computer Requirement Syracuse University College of Law requires new students to purchase a personal computer for their own use. Having a personal notebook computer will enhance your classroom experience and allow you access to Air Orange, Syracuse University’s wireless network, which is available throughout most of the College of Law. Although Apple MacIntosh computers may work well for word processing and other needs, our exam administration software is not compatible with MACs. For that reason, we strongly encourage students to purchase a computer designed to run Microsoft Windows. If you have questions about what to buy or if you are wondering if the notebook you already own fulfills the requirement, please contact Information Technology Services via e-mail at lawhelp@law.syr.edu. The Syracuse University Bookstore sells notebook computers and offers significant savings on educationally priced software. Go to http://bookstore.syr.edu/computers/index.html for additional information or call 315-443-4089 or 1-888-284-5908. 93 Transfer Applicants Law students in good academic standing who have completed at least one full year of study leading to a J.D. degree in schools accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) or the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) may apply for admission to Syracuse as transfer students. Admission is competitive; the number of transfer applicants granted admission depends on available spaces in the second-year class. After transferring, students must earn at least 58 of the credits required for the J.D. degree at Syracuse University College of Law. Transfer applicants must apply for admission in the same manner as first-year applicants. In addition, transfer applicants must forward the following information: > written certification from the dean of the applicant’s law school stating that she or he is in good academic standing and is unconditionally eligible to return > an original LSDAS report from Law Services (We will also accept a file copy sent directly from the Office of the Registrar at the applicant’s law school.) > at least one letter of recommendation from a faculty member at the applicant’s law school; and > a current official transcript of all course work completed at the applicant’s law school. 94 | Syracuse University College of Law The deadline for transfer application is June 1, 2007. Transfer applications are typically considered between July 10 and August 10 each year. Transfer applications will not be reviewed until all first-year grades have been received in official form. Visiting Applicants A limited number of students from other ABAor AALS-approved law schools may be permitted to complete their third year as visiting students at Syracuse University College of Law. Students applying for visiting status must complete a current admission application. In addition, prospective visiting students must submit a letter from the dean of the applicant’s current law school verifying that the student is in good academic standing and that the law school will award the J.D. degree after the student completes all requirements. The letter must also state that the school approves of the student’s curriculum choice at SU, list any special course requirements that need to be completed, and provide the minimum grade acceptable for coursework completed at Syracuse. A current, official law school transcript is also required. The deadline for visiting student application is June 1, 2007. International Applicants Applicants who are not United States citizens must submit all materials required of domestic applicants, as well as the following documentation: >Educational Records: Syracuse University College of Law requires that your foreign transcripts be submitted through the LSAC JD Credential Assembly Service. If you completed any postsecondary work outside the U.S. (including its territories) or Canada, you must use this service for the evaluation of your foreign transcripts. One exception to this requirement is if you completed the foreign work through a study abroad, consortium, or exchange program sponsored by a U.S. or Canadian institution, and the work is clearly indicated as such on the home campus transcript. This service is included in the LSDAS subscription fee. A Foreign Credential Evaluation will be completed by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), which will be incorporated into your LSDAS report. >Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Test of Written English (TWE): Applicants whose native language is not English must submit a Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score, no more than two years old, as evidence of language competency sufficient to undertake law study. The Test of Written English (TWE) is also required. The Educational Testing Service (ETS) must be contacted to request that TOEFL scores be sent directly to LSAC. LSAC’s TOEFL code for the JD Credential Assembly Service is 0058. Your score will be reported in the Foreign Credential Evaluation document that will be included in your LSDAS law school report. To use the JD CAS, log in to your online account and follow the instructions for registering for the service. Be sure to print out a Transcript Request Form for each institution and send it promptly to them. More time is usually required to receive foreign transcripts. Questions about the JD Credential Assembly Service can be directed to LSAC at 215-968-1001 or LSACINFO@LSAC.org. TOEFL and TWE scores will be waived for non-resident students who have completed a four-year undergraduate program or minimum of two years of graduate work in a U.S. college or university. > Proof of Financial Support: International applicants, including Canadian applicants, must submit proof of sufficient funding to cover the cost of attendance for at least one academic year’s expenses ($52,000). This proof is required before an appropriate visa can be issued to the student and is therefore required as part of the admission application. Acceptable proof for privately sponsored applicants is an original signed letter of support from the sponsor that includes the U.S. dollar amount of support and certified bank statements indicating funds sufficient to cover at least the student’s first-year expenses. For government-sponsored applicants, acceptable proof is an official or certified copy of the award letter that includes the U.S. dollar amount of the award per year and any special billing instructions. Photocopies are not acceptable. Joint Degree Program Admission Admission Decision and Notification Applicants who are interested in pursuing a joint degree program must apply and be admitted to both the College of Law and the other Syracuse University graduate school or college. Students admitted to the College of Law are not guaranteed acceptance into other graduate programs. Refer to page 43 for more information about joint degree opportunities. Complete application files are reviewed on a rolling basis between December and May. Applicants will be notified in writing, via U.S. mail, of their admission, rejection, or wait list decision as soon as the decision is made. Final decisions on wait-list applicants may not occur until well into the summer. Joint degree students are required to complete their first year of study in the College of Law. Accordingly, most students apply for admission to joint degree programs during the first year of law school. However, applicants may apply for joint degree candidacy before beginning the first year of law study. Candidates for joint degree programs must obtain advance approval from the College of Law. Minimum academic requirements apply to joint degree program participation for law students. Admission to Practice Law Successful completion of law study at an ABA-approved law school does not guarantee admission to the bar of the various states. Most states require applicants to take and pass a written bar examination in addition to meeting certain character and fitness requirements. The written examinations, as well as the other requirements, may differ considerably from state to state. Prospective law students are strongly encouraged to fully inform themselves of the admission requirements of those states in which they may have an interest in seeking state bar admission prior to matriculation in law school. > Part C of the admission application: Complete Part C to comply with Immigration and Naturalization Services (I.N.S.) regulations. 95 financing your legal education The cost of attending a professional from a variety of sources, including graduate program represents merit-based Chancellor’s and Dean’s a significant financial commitment. scholarships; College of Law tuition Applicants must fully understand grants; University fellowships; and the long-term financial obligation from federal sources, including the that may be associated with work-study program and the Perkins earning a professional degree and, and Stafford Loan programs. consequently, develop a financial plan. Syracuse College of Law is own Financial Aid Office, which is separate from the University’s committed to assisting students Financial Aid Office. This allows for in financing their legal education personal, individualized service to through a comprehensive financial our students. aid program. Awards are made 96 | Syracuse University College of Law The College of Law operates its At Syracuse, approximately 80 percent of law students receive some form of institutional financial aid. Our financial aid program consists of both merit-based and need-based awards. An applicant’s financial need is determined using data from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) report, the College of Law Financial Aid application, and copies of student and parent signed federal tax returns and W2s. All applicants under 30 years of age, unless they have a dependent other than a spouse, are not considered for College of Law tuition grants unless their parents complete the parent section of the College of Law Financial Aid application. The financial aid application process is a separate process that should be undertaken simultaneously with the admissions application process. Prospective students should not wait for an admission decision to apply for financial aid. Students who plan to apply for financial aid should complete the required forms by the Priority Deadline: February 15, 2007. Instructions for completing the financial aid process are detailed on page 121 of this publication. Part-time students with demonstrated financial need may be considered for modest tuition grants. Part-time students are not eligible for scholarships, Perkins loans, or federal work-study awards. Syracuse University Graduate Fellowships Syracuse University awards fellowships each year to selected graduate students—including law students—who exhibit exceptional academic promise. Awards consist of a full tuition scholarship plus a generous stipend. Full-time matriculated graduate students in all fields of study at the University are eligible to hold these fellowships. The College of Law considers applicants with outstanding records of academic achievement at the undergraduate and/or graduate level for these prestigious awards. Applicants who believe they may qualify for a university fellowship are urged to complete the application process for admission by January 31. Fellowship candidates who are recent undergraduate or graduate students are encouraged to provide academic letters of recommendation along with their admission application. Fellowship candidates who are not recent students should provide recommendation letters from persons familiar with their qualifications for the study of law. College of Law Scholarships The College of Law awards Chancellor’s and Dean’s scholarships to incoming first-year students to recognize their prior outstanding academic achievements and to incoming first-year students who demonstrate exceptional promise for law study. Scholarships are awarded without regard to financial need. Scholarships are renewable from year to year as long as the recipient remains in good academic standing and maintains a minimum grade point average. Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and be enrolled full time to receive a Chancellor’s or Dean’s scholarship. Scholarships may be applied only toward tuition charges. Entering students who believe they may qualify for a scholarship are urged to complete the application process for admission by January 31. Scholarship candidates who are recent undergraduate or graduate students are encouraged to provide academic letters of recommendation along with their admission application. Transfer and visiting students are not eligible for these scholarships. Scholarships Syracuse University College of Law’s loyal alumni and friends make possible by their contributions many of the tuition grants and scholarships awarded to law students. Students are automatically considered for these scholarships when they submit the College of Law Financial Aid Application and the FAFSA. These scholarships are awarded based on financial need, merit, or both. Adoption Law Scholarship Robert M. Anderson Scholarship Black Law Students’ Association Scholarship John and May Boland Scholarship Bond, Schoeneck, and King Scholarship Hon. Theodore and Erna Bowes Scholarship Dean Daan Braveman Scholarship Joseph Brecher Memorial Scholarship Helen and Leo Breed Scholarship Neal Brewster Scholarship Fund Helen and Irwin Brodsky Scholarship Oscar J. Brown Memorial Scholarship Leon E. and Inez C. Bushnell Scholarship Edward M. Byrne Scholarship Class of 1965 Scholarship Class of 1968 Scholarship Class of 1987 Scholarship Class of 1990 Scholarship Arthur L. Cohen Scholarship Jeffrey S. Cook and Alan M. Epstein Scholarship Irving S. Devorsetz Memorial Scholarship Robert E. and Carolyn Bareham Dineen Scholarship Charles J. Dittmar Memorial Scholarship Dorn-Sparrow Scholarship Harry A. Dunsmoor Scholarship William H. Emerson Scholarship Fund David G. Fellows Scholarship J. Gordon Flannery Law Scholarship James P. Fox Scholarship Gerry Foundation Scholarship Christopher G. Gillam Scholarship George and Leora Gray Memorial Scholarship Melaine Gray/Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP Scholarship Lionel O. Grossman Scholarship Anthony Grosso Scholarship Kerry Hanlon Scholarship Peter H. Heerwagen Scholarship Barbara Dowling Heintz and Henry H. Kirwin Scholarship Dana B. Hinman Scholarship Hiscock & Barclay Scholarship Hon. T. Blake Kennedy Law Scholarship Ralph E. Kharas Memorial Fund Knight Scholarship Geraldine Koch Scholarship Robert F. Koretz Scholarship Labor Law Scholarship Joseph O. Lampe Bar Award Lampe Public Service Award Arthur L. and Rose Lewis Scholarship Lombino Family Scholarship Edward Hillyer MacKenzie Scholarship Mackenzie Strickland Scholarship Charles L. Mancuso Scholarship George C. McCrillis Scholarship Herbert and Ruth Meyer Scholarship Dean Robert W. Miller Scholarship Robert W. Miller ’29 Memorial Scholarship Monroe County Bar Association Scholarship Judge C. Leonard O’Connor Scholarship William E. Pelton Scholarship Rose and Norman Pinsky Scholarship Herman A. Pomeranz Scholarship Judge Edmund Port Memorial Scholarship Gerald Resnick Memorial Scholarship Rochester Bar Association Fund J. Russell Rogerson Fund Bruce B. Roswig Memorial Scholarship Gregory S. Rubin Scholarship Judge Bertha Schwartz Memorial Scholarship Lt. John A. Shaffer Memorial Fund Maurice Shapiro Scholarship Ralph and Bessie Shulman Scholarship Sylvia and Joseph Swarthout Scholarship Ferdinand Tremiti Memorial Scholarship Jay and Martha Wason Scholarship Louis Waters Memorial Scholarship David Weiss Memorial Scholarship Moses J. Winkelstein Scholarship Alfred Wohl Memorial Scholarship Louis and Harriet Young Scholarship 97 97 Irving and Pola Zwirn Scholarship College of Law Tuition Grants The College of Law awards partial tuition grants to students who qualify based on their demonstrated financial need. Tuition grants are not automatically renewable; as with all needbased financial aid, students must reapply each year. Tuition grants may only be applied toward tuition charges. Federal Work-Study Program “I have always been curious about government because there were many public policies that I didn’t understand as a child immigrant growing up in Houston, Texas. Getting degrees from the College of Law and the Maxwell School was the right decision for me. After graduating from Syracuse, I entered the Presidential Management Intern program and completed rotational assignments at the Office of Management and Budget, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Defense. As a program analyst with the Internal Revenue Service, I now work on the taxpayer compliance burden of our nation’s $2 trillion tax system. Education opens doors.” Peter S. Lee, L‘01 Program Analyst Internal Revenue Service Washington, D.C. 98 | Syracuse University College of Law Federal work-study (FWS) funds are awarded to a limited number of students on the basis of demonstrated financial need. These awards provide compensation for part-time employment opportunities. FWS students may be employed at the College of Law as research assistants or library aides, in other University departments or offices, in government agencies, or in nonprofit organizations. Pay rates vary from minimum wage to approximately $14 per hour. The College of Law awards work-study funds to first-year students as well as returning students. repayment period may extend up to 10 years and may be postponed up to 3 years if students actively serve in the U.S. military, Peace Corps, VISTA, or similar national programs. Students may not borrow more than $30,000 in Perkins funds for all post-secondary education. The availability of these funds for law students depends on their financial need and the amount of Federal Perkins Loan funds allocated to the University. New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) New York State residents may be entitled to TAP awards for law study from the State Education Department. The awards vary in amount from $75 to $550 for each academic year of professional school and are awarded based on the student’s New York State net taxable family income. Only students who are New York State residents should submit a TAP application. TAP applications should be filed online immediately after the FAFSA on the web has been completed. Federal Perkins Loans Federal Perkins Loan funds are awarded to a limited number of students based on demonstrated financial need. The Federal Perkins program enables students to borrow a specified amount without interest until nine months after graduation or withdrawal from school. The interest rate is currently fixed at 5 percent. The Federal Veterans Administration Benefits Financial assistance is available to qualified veterans and/or their dependents who attend law school. Students who believe they may qualify should contact their local Veterans Administration Office. Other Funding Sources Federal Stafford Loans Private Loan Programs A number of federal, state, regional, and private funding sources are available to law students who meet specific qualifications. The College of Law recommends that students research these outside funding sources. Local libraries offer catalog reference guides and books that identify financial aid funding sources. The College of Law Financial Aid Office maintains an outside scholarship directory containing notifications of outside awards. In addition, the web is another source of information about financial aid programs. Below are a few web sites containing financial aid information: The Federal Stafford Loan Program consists of both subsidized and unsubsidized loans. Currently, banks and other lending institutions throughout the country administer the Federal Stafford Loan Program. Graduate students may borrow up to $18,500 per academic year and as much as $138,500 in Federal Stafford Loan funds for all post-secondary education. Beginning on July 1, 2006, the interest rate will be fixed at 6.8 percent. The standard repayment period is 10 years, extended repayment is up to 25 years, and federal loan consolidation can extend the repayment period to 30 years. Students who apply for a Federal Stafford Loan must file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Through private loans, students may borrow up to the cost of attendance, less other aid, each academic year. Interest on these loans begins to accrue upon disbursement. Interest rates for these loans are variable. Recipients may defer payments up to 9 months after graduation. The maximum repayment period is 20 years. Because there is no interest rate cap, we highly recommend that students borrow from the federal loan programs before pursuing private loans. Only students who do not qualify for Federal Stafford and Federal Graduate PLUS loans should consider applying. Some private loans may be available to international students who have a credit-worthy co-borrower who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. A poor credit score from any of the three major reporting agencies may prevent applicants from obtaining private loan funds. Applicants who expect to use the private loan programs to finance their legal education are strongly encouraged to investigate their credit worthiness prior to enrollment. The inability to access adequate private loan funds has hindered some students in pursuing their law study. > National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA): www.studentaid.org > New York State Financial Aid Administrators Association (NYSFAAA): www.nysfaaa.org > Syracuse University Financial Aid: http://financialaid.syr.edu > New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC): www.hesc.com > U.S. Department of Education: www.ed.gov > FAFSA on the Web: www.fafsa.ed.gov > Mapping Your Future: www.mapping-your-future.org > The Access Group: www.accessgroup.org > Fastweb Scholarship Search: www.fastweb.com > The Financial Aid Homepage: www.finaid.org > Office of Indian Education Programs: www.oiep.bia.edu > Veterans Benefits and Services: www.gibill.va.gov Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans are awarded to students demonstrating financial need. The federal government pays interest on these long-term loans until repayment begins six months after graduation or withdrawal from school. Students may qualify, on the basis of their financial need, to borrow up to $8,500 per academic year through the Subsidized Stafford Loan. Unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans Students may borrow their remaining eligibility, up to the maximum of $18,500, through the Unsubsidized Stafford Loan. The government does not pay the in-school interest on these loans; therefore, interest begins to accrue immediately. Federal Graduate PLUS Loans Additional Information The financial aid programs described in this publication, particularly those funded by government agencies and private organizations, are subject to change at any time. Accordingly, applicants should consult their undergraduate financial aid office, the related government agencies and private organizations, or Syracuse University College of Law’s Financial Aid Office for current details on these programs. Through the Graduate PLUS loan, students may borrow up to the cost of attendance, less financial aid, each academic year. To qualify, students must file the FAFSA and exhaust federal Stafford eligibility. Additionally, students must pass the lender’s basic credit check for loan approval. The interest rate is fixed at 8.5 percent and interest begins to accrue at disbursement. Borrowers will be charged up to a 4 percent fee, depending on their lender and guarantee agency, which is deducted at the time of disbursement. The standard repayment period is 10 years. 99 excellence in professionalism and service 100 | Syracuse University College of Law Voluntary Pro Bono and Community Service Program Special Recognition for Pro Bono and Community Service Lawyers are professionals with an obligation to serve the legal profession and their community. This obligation begins with enrollment in law school. In order to meet this obligation and to implement a process for instilling a sense of service in our students, we encourage every student at the Syracuse University College of Law to participate in pro bono and community service activities. We undertake this as part of our commitment to the pursuit of excellence in learning, professionalism, and service. Pro bono and community service can take on a variety of forms. In order to count as pro bono and community service in our program, it must be done without compensation and not for credit. Activities that qualify as pro bono and community service under this requirement include providing services to: Because the College of Law is proud of our students’ commitment to pro bono and community service work, we have created a special recognition program. In order for a student to receive special recognition at graduation, a student must be in good academic standing and have completed at least 30 hours of pro bono and community service within this program. There are two categories of Pro Bono and Community Service Recognition Awards. > people served by legal services and legal aid organizations; > In addition, the top three graduating students providing the most pro bono and community service hours shall be individually recognized. > low- and moderate-income people served by Bar-sponsored programs designed to promote access to justice and the legal system; > nonprofit charitable and community groups and organizations (excluding political parties); > schools (grades K-12) in programs designed to advance an understanding of the legal system. > Blue Pro Bono Community Service Award: (complete the recommended 30 hours of service) > Orange Pro Bono Community Service Award: (exceed the recommended 30 hours of service by at least 1 full hour) The Special Recognition Awards will be given out in connection with the end-of-year graduation and convocation exercise and will be noted in the graduation materials. In addition, students will be permitted to wear a special signifier at graduation, as provided by the college. In the spirit of supporting our students in their efforts to provide pro bono and community service, faculty also strive to provide pro bono and community service on an annual basis. Serving the Community Syracuse Law students devote hundreds of hours of service to the community. They mentor children in local elementary schools, coach Special Olympic teams, build homes for Habitat for Humanity, collect food and clothing for agencies, raise funds for local charities, and visit children in hospitals. Students also participate in the Lawyers in Action project, providing free legal assistance to agencies who assist low-income clients in Western New York. Each year, law students also work in our six law clinics, providing legal representation to those with limited means. Participation in community and pro bono service activities helps students to develop professionalism and an understanding of a lawyer’s responsibility to the community. Moreover, it facilitates students’ involvement in the community and increases the availability of legal services to needy populations. Students also benefit by gaining practical experience and developing their lawyering skills. The Grant Opportunity (GO) Program This program provides summer grants to students who accept summer employment in nonprofit or certain governmental offices. In the past 12 years, more than 225 summer grants have been awarded through the GO Program. A total of $45,000 was awarded to GO recipients for the summer of 2006. The Joseph and Shawn Lampe Public Service Awards These one-time awards are available for two students who choose to work in public service positions after graduation. They provide an additional incentive for those who may consider beginning their legal career in nonprofit organizations or governmental agencies. 101 tuition, fees, and related expenses 102 | Syracuse University College of Law Tuition and fees for each academic year are established in the spring of the preceding academic year. Accordingly, applicants should be aware that the fee schedule displayed is for the 2006-2007 academic year and may not be current at the time of their enrollment. Applicants offered admission will be informed of the current tuition and fee schedule for the appropriate academic year. Application Fee: (required with admission application; nonrefundable) $70 Deposit: (required upon acceptance; nonrefundable) $400 Tuition (first year students): $35,120 Activity Fee (full-time students): $60 Activity Fee (part-time students): $49 Health Fee (full-time students): $468 Duplication/Computer Services Fee: $70 Legal Communication and Research Fee: $70 Tuition and fees are due on August 1, 2007, for the fall semester and December 15, 2007, for the spring semester. If payment of the full amount at one time imposes financial hardship, students may arrange a monthly payment plan with the University. The Monthly Payment Plan spreads charges for each semester over monthly installments. There is an annual nonrefundable application fee of $55 to enroll. There is no interest charge or finance charge for using this plan. For further information concerning payment plans, students should contact the Bursar’s Office, 102 Archbold North, Syracuse NY 13244-1140; telephone: 315-443-2444. The Bursar homepage is http://bfasweb.syr.edu/bursar/index.html The University reserves the right to change or add to tuition and fees at any time. School-Related Expenses Average costs for the typical law student are estimated to be as follows for 2006-2007: Books and supplies $1,160 Housing and meals $11,270 Additional expenses $3,590 (including health insurance, personal expenses, and transportation) The housing and meals figure represents an average cost both for students living in campus housing and those living off campus. Syracuse University College of Law requires new students to have a notebook computer for their own use. The estimated cost of a new notebook computer puchase is $2,500. Students are not required to purchase a new notebook computer if the computer they already own meets the minimum specifications. Tuition, Fees, and Related Policies For further information on the cost of attending and residing at the University, please refer to the publication Syracuse University Bulletin: Tuition, Fees, and Related Policies, available from the Bursar’s Office, 102 Archbold North, Syracuse NY 13244-1140, telephone: 315-443-2444. Charges for tuition, on-campus housing and meals, and fees will increase annually. Such cost increases are necessary to secure the highest quality instruction, facilities, programs, and services for students. The University considers carefully all increases in fees to ensure that they are reasonable. Information about refund policies is also contained in the publication Syracuse University Bulletin: Tuition, Fees, and Related Policies. 103 academic calendar Fall Semester 2007 Spring Semester 2008 July 5 12-Month Payment Plan enrollment deadline November 20 12-Month Payment Plan enrollment deadline August 1 Tuition payment deadline December 15 Tuition payment deadline August 20 - 22 Entering student orientation January 14 First day of classes (all students) August 23 First day of classes (first-year students) January 21 Martin Luther King Day–no classes September 3 Labor Day–no classes March 9-16 Spring vacation September 22 Yom Kippur–no classes March 21 Good Friday–no classes October 12 Eid Ul-Fitr–no classes April 22 Mayfest–no classes November 21-25 Thanksgiving vacation May 2 Last day of classes (first-year students) December 7 Last day of classes May 3-4 Reading period–no classes December 8-9 Reading period–no classes May 5-16 Examination period December 10-20 Examination period May 17 Awards Convocation May 18 Commencement 104 | Syracuse University College of Law Admission Application Instructions Our application may be obtained in the following ways: • In electronic format through the Law School Admission Council (please contact LSAC at either 215-968-1393 or www.lsac.org for information). The electronic application may also be accessed through the Syracuse University College of Law website at http://www.law.syr.edu/admissions/applyonline.asp • From the 2006-2007 College of Law catalog; or • Downloaded from the College of Law’s web site: www.law.syr.edu 1. You must complete and submit the admission application form, Parts A and B, and, if applicable, Part C, together with a $70 check or money order payable to Syracuse University. This application fee is neither refundable nor will it be credited toward tuition and fees. Applications should be mailed to: Syracuse University College of Law, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, Suite 340, Syracuse NY 13244-1030. 2. You must take and obtain a score on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and register with the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS). Registration materials for the LSAT and LSDAS are available directly from all of the following: your Pre-Law Advisor; Law Services, Box 2000, Newtown, PA 18940-0998, telephone 215-968-1001, www.lsac.org; or the College of Law. 3. The College of Law recommends that you take the LSAT no later than December of the year prior to the year you wish to enroll. Scores from the February test will be considered, but may delay the admission decision. Scores from the June test will not be considered for admission in the same year. LSAT scores cannot be more than five years old (test date in 2002 or later). 4. You must submit transcripts of all previous college or university study through the LSDAS. Graduate and prior law study transcripts also must be submitted to LSDAS. Failure to submit all transcripts will delay review of your application. 5. Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit up to three letters of recommendation. Statements from persons familiar with your qualifications for the study of law, especially professors under whom you have studied, often prove helpful. If you are currently in an undergraduate or graduate program, or have recently completed one, the Admissions Committee will expect to see letters of recommendation from professors under whom you have studied. We recommend that applicants submit their letters of recommendation through the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service (refer to the LSAT & LSDAS Registration Book for details). Your letters will be copied and sent to us along with your LSDAS/LSATonly Report, or as received by Law Services. However, letters of recommendation sent directly from the writer or from a career services office will also be accepted. Forms for recommendations are provided beginning on page 113. 6. Transfer and visiting student applicants must submit the additional documents outlined on page 94. 105 7. Students applying for the four-year (part-time) program should apply to the College of Law using the same application process as students applying for full-time status. Additional information about the four-year program is outlined on page 8. 8. Applicants who are not United States citizens must submit all materials required of domestic applicants as well as the additional documentation outlined on page 94. This documentation includes educational records, TOEFL and TWE scores, and proof of financial support. 9. If you are interested in a joint degree program, you should check the appropriate space on the application form. Joint degree applicants must apply separately to the College of Law and to the other Syracuse University graduate program. Application information and supporting documentation submitted to the College of Law will not be shared with or photocopied for other Syracuse University departments. In addition, joint degree candidates should be aware that consistent with Law School Admission Council policy, LSAT scores may be used for purposes of admission to law schools only. The College of Law and LSDAS will not report LSAT scores to other graduate departments. Potential joint degree applicants may have to take additional standardized tests, such as the GRE or GMAT. Candidates should request the Syracuse University graduate catalog and application from Syracuse University, Office of Graduate Admissions, 303 Bowne Hall, Syracuse NY 13244-1200; telephone 315-443-4492. 10. The deadline for receipt of ALL application materials is April 1 to be considered for admission in the fall semester of the same year. An application is complete and ready for review after the College of Law receives the LSDAS report from Law Services. If your recommendation letters will arrive after receipt of the LSDAS report, be advised that your file may be reviewed before receipt of the letter(s). Materials should be submitted through LSDAS no later than February 15 to enable LSDAS to compile and submit them to the College of Law before the April 1 deadline. 11. Students applying for financial aid must submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by January, 2007. The College of Law financial aid application forms, and all supporting documents, must be submitted to the College of Law by February 15th. See financial aid application instruction form for more details on this process. Application Checklist ■ Application forms, Parts A and B, dated and signed ■ Application form, Part C, if you are a non-resident alien ■ Resume or employment history ■ Personal Statement (include name and Social Security number) ■ $70 application fee, check or money order, made payable to Syracuse University ■ Signed Certification Statement (if applying electronically) ■ All Financial Aid application materials (by February, 15th) 106 | Syracuse University College of Law 12. It is your responsibility to make certain that all necessary materials and credentials are received by Law Services and the College of Law in a timely manner. You should retain for your records copies of all correspondence forwarded to Law Services and the College of Law, including your admission application forms, financial aid application forms, and all attachments and enclosures. 13. For additional information contact, the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid by telephone at 315-443-1962 or by e-mail at admissions@law.syr.edu The College of Law’s web site is located at http://www.law.syr.edu PART A Syracuse University College of Law Application for J.D. Admission Fall ’07 All applicants must complete this form. Refer to the instructions (on page 105) before completing this form. This form must be typed or printed legibly. 1. Full legal name ________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME 2. FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL SUFFIX (i.e., JR) Personal data ■ Female ■ Male 3a. Social Security Number __________ – ________ – __________ 3b. LSAC Account Number __________________________________ 4. Office Use Only: SUID: ___________________________ Fee status: S W I Date of Birth __________ / ________ / __________ (see statement on inside back cover) MONTH DAY YEAR Country of Birth _______________________________ 5. Citizenship ■ U.S. citizen ■ Permanent resident ■ Nonresident alien 6. Is English your native language? ■ Yes ■ No If no, please indicate your native language:___________________________________________________________________________ 7. If you wish to identify your race/ethnic background, please indicate: _________________________________________________ (see statement on inside back cover) 8. E-mail address ________________________________________ 9. Permanent telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ 10. Permanent address ___________________________________________________________________________________________ STREET NUMBER AND NAME APARTMENT NUMBER ___________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY STATE ZIP CODE 11. Present telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ 12. Present mailing address __________________________________________________________________________________________ STREET NUMBER AND NAME APARTMENT NUMBER __________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY STATE ZIP CODE 13. Last date on which mail will reach you at this address. __________ / ________ / __________ MONTH DAY YEAR 14. Enrollment Status for Fall 2007 ■ Full time ■ Part time 15. Application Category ■ First-year J.D. candidate ■ Transfer student, J.D. candidate ■ Undergraduate/J.D. (3/3) candidate ■ Visiting student, non-J.D. candidate 16. Indicate the date(s) you took the LSAT, or when you intend to take the LSAT. _____ / ______ ; ____ / ______ ; _____ / ______ MONTH 17. Have you registered with LSDAS? ■ Yes, give date of your current registration with them. YEAR MONTH YEAR MONTH YEAR __________ / ________ / __________ MONTH DAY YEAR ■ No, give date that you anticipate registering with them. __________ /________ /__________ MONTH DAY YEAR 18. Have you ever registered at any law school, taken any law classes on a matriculated or non-matriculated basis at a law school, or participated in any law school conditional acceptance program? ■ Yes ■ No If yes, give dates and details on a separate page and include complete official transcript(s) for all prior law study. 19. Have you previously applied to Syracuse University College of Law? ■ Yes ■ No If yes, give dates and details, including the decision, on a separate page. 20. Have you ever been censured for misconduct, subject to disciplinary action, or are any disciplinary charges pending or expected to be brought against you, for academic or other reasons (including academic or disciplinary probation, suspension, warning, or dismissal), in any educational institution you have attended or place of employment? ■ Yes ■ No If yes, give dates and details, including the specific action, on a separate page. See statements on pages 95 and 110. (Note: Misrepresentation may result in administrative sanctions. Refer to the certification statement on page 110.) 107 PART A 21. Have you ever been arrested, charged with, convicted of, plead guilty to, or are you currently under indictment for any violation of law other than minor traffic violations? Note: Although a conviction may have been expunged from your record by an order of the court, it nevertheless should be disclosed in answer to this question. Misrepresentation may result in administrative sanctions. Refer to the certification statement on page 110. ■ Yes ■ No If yes, give dates and details, including the disposition of such charge, on a separate page. See statements on pages 95 and 110. 22. Has your college, university, graduate school, or professional school course been interrupted for one or more terms for any reason? ■ Yes ■ No If yes, give dates and details on a separate page. 23. Have you ever been separated from any branch of the armed forces of the United States, the Peace Corps, or any other service organization under conditions other than honorable? ■ Yes ■ No If yes, give dates and details on a separate page. 24. List all colleges and universities attended, most recent first (other law schools must be listed here). Attach additional page(s) if necessary. Name ______________________________________________________________ Dates attended: _____ / ______ to _____ / ______ MONTH Date of Graduation: month/year _____ / ______ Degree Awarded ________ Name ______________________________________________________________ YEAR MONTH YEAR Major ________________________________ Dates attended: _____ / ______ to _____ / ______ MONTH Date of Graduation: month/year _____ / ______ YEAR Dates attended: _____ / ______ to _____ / ______ Degree Awarded ________ Name ______________________________________________________________ MONTH Major ________________________________ MONTH Date of Graduation: month/year _____ / ______ YEAR Degree Awarded ________ YEAR MONTH YEAR Major ________________________________ 25. On a separate page, provide a listing of any coursework you intend to complete prior to law school. This includes courses in your senior year of college or graduate coursework. If this coursework will be noted “in progress” on your transcript, please note this on a separate page. Include course number and title. 26. Who (please include names, as appropriate) or what (prelaw handbook, prelaw advisor, meeting with a recruiter, College of Law alumnus, etc.) prompted you to apply to Syracuse University College of Law? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 27. Joint Degree Applicant (Refer to instruction item 9.) ■ J.D./Public Administration (M.P.A. or Ph.D.) ■ ■ J.D./Management (M.B.A. or Ph.D.) ■ ■ J.D./Accounting (M.S. or Ph.D.) ■ ■ J.D./Communications (M.S., M.A. or Ph.D.) ■ ■ J.D./M.S. in Disability Studies J.D./M.A. in International Relations J.D./M.S. in Engineering and Computer Science ___________________ J.D./M.A. or M.S. in _______________________________________________ J.D./Ph.D. in ______________________________________________________ 28. In what areas might you concentrate while in law school? Please rank (1 highest) your responses in the corresponding boxes for your top 3 choices. ■ Bioethics ■ Indigenous Law, Governance ■ Public Interest Law and Citizenship ■ Civil Rights ■ Real Estate Law ■ Communications Law ■ Intellectual Property ■ Taxation ■ Corporate and Business Law ■ International Law ■ Technology Law ■ Criminal Law ■ Labor Law ■ Trial Practice ■ Disability Studies ■ Law and Economics ■ Women's Rights ■ Environmental Law ■ National Security and ■ Other ___________________________ CounterTerrorism ■ Family Law 108 | Syracuse University College of Law PART B Syracuse University College of Law Application for J.D. Admission Fall ’07 All applicants for admission must complete this form. This form must be typed or printed legibly. Name ________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL SUFFIX (i.e., JR) Social Security Number __________ – ________ – __________ 29. On a separate page, list the following information (a current resume may be attached): a) scholastic honors received; b) extracurricular activities in college and your role in each; c) jobs and number of hours worked per week while in college (distinguish between school year and vacation employment); and d) positions you have held if you have worked after college, including employer, dates of employment, and reasons for leaving employment. 30. Personal Statement: On a separate page, indicate as concisely as you can how your experiences, talents, and interests would add diversity to the law school student body or would benefit the educational experiences of your law school classmates. 31. On a separate page, provide any additional information about yourself or your experiences which you believe may be helpful to the Admissions Committee in evaluating your application. 32. Students who are interested in being considered for merit scholarships are strongly encouraged to provide responses to the following two questions (32 a & b). Responses should be typed on a separate page and limited to no more than 500 words per question. a) Syracuse University is a member of the prestigious American Association of Universities (AAU). The AAU is comprised of sixty leading research universities in the United States. Within this group of outstanding institutions there are only seventeen private universities with law schools. Syracuse University is one of the seventeen private universities; SU College of Law is intellectually and physically embedded within Syracuse University. Studying law at an elite research university provides advantages and educational opportunities that are not readily available at other private institutions. Many of these benefits are tangible in specific program opportunities, and other benefits are intangible as in the value of the intellectual environment of a major research institution, and in the name recognition it brings to one’s degree. With limited scholarship resources available, only some admittees will be offered a scholarship. If you were the person responsible for selecting scholarship recipients for the entering class, what factors would you use to determine who would be offered a scholarship? b) Syracuse University College of Law has dedicated alumni who have generously donated to our scholarship fund. What responsibilities do you think scholarship recipients have to their law schools during the time they are enrolled as students and upon graduation as alumni? 33. List the name, position, and business address of each individual you have asked to provide a letter of recommendation on your behalf. Please note: Syracuse University College of Law recommends that applicants submit letters of recommendation through the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service. Refer to the LSAT & LSDAS Registration Information Book for details. Letters of recommendation received directly from your recommendation writers will also be accepted. Name _______________________________________________________________ Position _________________________________ Address ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ■ Professor ■ Advisor ■ Employer/Supervisor ■ Other _________________________________ Name _______________________________________________________________ Position _________________________________ Address ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ■ Professor ■ Advisor ■ Employer/Supervisor ■ Other _________________________________ Name _______________________________________________________________ Position _________________________________ Address ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ■ Professor ■ Advisor ■ Employer/Supervisor ■ Other _________________________________ 109 PART B Certification Statement It is the policy of Syracuse University not to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, national origin, religion, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, status as a disabled veteran, or as a veteran of the Vietnam Era in its educational programs, admissions policies, employment practices, and other University-administered programs. Further information regarding this policy is set out in the statement of nondiscrimination on the inside back cover. Applicants should consult the statement of nondiscrimination before completing this form. Applicants answering “yes” to question 20 and/or 21 are strongly encouraged, depending on individual circumstances, to check with the state bar examiner’s office of the states in which they intend to practice law, regarding character and fitness for admission to the bar. I understand that all information submitted to the College of Law Admissions Office as a part of my application for admission will be used to evaluate my candidacy to the College of Law only. No documents from my application file will be copied or forwarded to other departments or individuals, including myself. I certify that the information I have provided in this application and in any related material is true and complete. I accept responsibility to promptly notify Syracuse University College of Law in writing of any change in the information that I have provided in this application. I certify that I am the author of the statements and/or additional information included with this application. I understand that the statements made herein are the basis upon which my application will be decided. I also understand that any misrepresentation can result in administrative sanctions and be cause for denial or cancellation of admission, removal from program if matriculated, and additional sanctions by the bar of any jurisdiction during their investigation of character and fitness for the practice of law. Signature ________________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ 110 | Syracuse University College of Law PART C Syracuse University College of Law Application for J.D. Admission Fall ’07 You must complete this portion of the application if you are a non-resident alien. U.S. citizens and permanent residents do not need to complete this portion of the application. The United States is tracking all student visas through the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). This is a database currently in use by the U.S. consulates around the world and all ports of entry to the U.S. In order to give you the best chance of securing a visa and arriving for study in a timely fashion, Syracuse University must have accurate information about your official name, permanent address in your home country, and any dependents who would accompany you while you are engaged in your studies. If you are admitted to the College of Law, this information will appear on your SEVIS I-20 form and the SEVIS I-20 forms of any dependents that you bring with you, so it is important that it is consistent with any information you provide for other official or travel purposes. If it is incomplete, inconsistent with other documents (such as your passport), or otherwise inaccurate, it may make getting a visa more difficult or impossible. 1. Full legal name (as shown on passport) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL 2. Personal data ■ Female ■ Male 4. Date of Birth __________ / ________ / __________ MONTH 5. DAY SUFFIX (i.e., JR) YEAR Foreign Address: Identified by INS as the address to which you intend to return after you have completed your studies. This cannot be left blank. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ STREET NUMBER AND NAME APARTMENT NUMBER ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY STATE ZIP CODE 6. Current U.S. Address: The address at which you are currently living. INS does not allow the reporting of post-office boxes. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ STREET NUMBER AND NAME APARTMENT NUMBER ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY STATE ZIP CODE 7. Country of Birth ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8. City of Birth ________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Country of Citizenship ______________________________________________________________________________ 10. Current Visa Status _________________________________________________________________________________ 111 PART C Dependents: The information below must be completed for EACH dependent that you plan to bring with you. Attach additional page(s) if necessary. Name of Dependent (as shown on passport) ________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL SUFFIX (i.e., JR) Dependent’s Date of Birth __________ / ________ / __________ MONTH DAY YEAR Dependent’s Country of Birth ________________________________________________________________________________________ Dependent’s City of Birth ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Dependent’s Country of Citizenship __________________________________________________________________________________ Personal data ■ Female ■ Male Dependent’s Relationship to You (i.e. husband, wife, son, daughter) __________________________________________________ If you are bringing dependents with you, you must also provide proof of financial support documentation for each dependent. This documentation should demonstrate sufficient proof as follows: Cost of Housing and Meals Student only: Spouse only: 1 Child: 2 Children: 3 Children: 4 Children: Cost of Insurance: Student only: Student and Spouse (or 1 child): Student and Family (Spouse and 1 or more children): $11,270 $5,600 $3,000 $6,000 $9,000 $12,000 $2,000 $4,068 $6,180 112 | Syracuse University College of Law Syracuse University College of Law Recommendation Form To the applicant: Do NOT use this form if you are submitting letters of recommendation through the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service. Refer to the LSAT & LSDAS Registration Information Book for details. If you choose not to use the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service, follow the instructions outlined below. This form must be typed or printed legibly. This form should be given to an individual under whom you have studied or worked and who is able to comment on your qualifications for law school. Please fill in the upper portion of this side. Have each recommender return this form directly to Syracuse University College of Law. Your name (as listed on the application) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL Your Address (as listed on the application) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ STREET NUMBER AND NAME APARTMENT NUMBER ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY STATE ZIP CODE Social Security Number __________ – ________ – __________ The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, provides an applicant with a right of future access to the contents of this recommendation once the applicant is enrolled as a student in this institution. The Act also allows an applicant to waive the right of future access, but prohibits a school from requiring an applicant to waive this right as a condition either of admission or review and evaluation of application for admission. I have read and understand this statement of the federal law governing my right of access to this recommendation form. ■ I have retained my right to access this recommendation. ■ I have waived my right to access this recommendation. Applicant’s Signature ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ Name of recommender __________________________________________________________________________________________________ To the recommender: Please give your appraisal of the applicant in terms of the qualities listed below. Rate the applicant in comparison with others applying for law school whom you have known. Characteristic Outstanding Unusual Good Top 5% Top 10% Top 25% Above Average Top 40% Average Below Average Mid 20% Low 40% Unable to Estimate Intelligence Independence of Thought Oral Communications Written Communications Initiative and Motivation Leadership Judgment and Maturity 113 To the recommender: Please provide a narrative description of the applicant’s qualifications for law school. In this regard, please include a candid assessment of how this applicant compares to others whom you have taught or with whom you have worked. Please type below or attach a separate letter on official letterhead to completed form. Name of recommender (type or print legibly) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL Address ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ■ Professor ■ Advisor ■ Employer/Supervisor ■ Other _______________________________________ Position ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ Signature ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ Return this recommendation to Syracuse University College of Law, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, Syracuse NY 13244-1030. Thank you. 114 | Syracuse University College of Law Syracuse University College of Law Recommendation Form To the applicant: Do NOT use this form if you are submitting letters of recommendation through the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service. Refer to the LSAT & LSDAS Registration Information Book for details. If you choose not to use the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service, follow the instructions outlined below. This form must be typed or printed legibly. This form should be given to an individual under whom you have studied or worked and who is able to comment on your qualifications for law school. Please fill in the upper portion of this side. Have each recommender return this form directly to Syracuse University College of Law. Your name (as listed on the application) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL Your Address (as listed on the application) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ STREET NUMBER AND NAME APARTMENT NUMBER ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY STATE ZIP CODE Social Security Number __________ – ________ – __________ The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, provides an applicant with a right of future access to the contents of this recommendation once the applicant is enrolled as a student in this institution. The Act also allows an applicant to waive the right of future access, but prohibits a school from requiring an applicant to waive this right as a condition either of admission, or review and evaluation of application for admission. I have read and understand this statement of the federal law governing my right of access to this recommendation form. ■ I have retained my right to access this recommendation. ■ I have waived my right to access this recommendation. Applicant’s Signature ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ Name of recommender __________________________________________________________________________________________________ To the recommender: Please give your appraisal of the applicant in terms of the qualities listed below. Rate the applicant in comparison with others applying for law school whom you have known. Characteristic Outstanding Unusual Good Top 5% Top 10% Top 25% Above Average Top 40% Average Below Average Mid 20% Low 40% Unable to Estimate Intelligence Independence of Thought Oral Communications Written Communications Initiative and Motivation Leadership Judgment and Maturity 115 To the recommender: Please provide a narrative description of the applicant’s qualifications for law school. In this regard, please include a candid assessment of how this applicant compares to others whom you have taught or with whom you have worked. Please type below or attach a separate letter on official letterhead to completed form. Name of recommender (type or print legibly) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL Address ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ■ Professor ■ Advisor ■ Employer/Supervisor ■ Other _______________________________________ Position ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ Signature ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ Return this recommendation to Syracuse University College of Law, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, Syracuse NY 13244-1030. Thank you. 116 | Syracuse University College of Law Syracuse University College of Law Recommendation Form To the applicant: Do NOT use this form if you are submitting letters of recommendation through the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service. Refer to the LSAT & LSDAS Registration Information Book for details. If you choose not to use the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service, follow the instructions outlined below. This form must be typed or printed legibly. This form should be given to an individual under whom you have studied or worked and who is able to comment on your qualifications for law school. Please fill in the upper portion of this side. Have each recommender return this form directly to Syracuse University College of Law. Your name (as listed on the application) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL Your Address (as listed on the application) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ STREET NUMBER AND NAME APARTMENT NUMBER ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY STATE ZIP CODE Social Security Number __________ – ________ – __________ The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, provides an applicant with a right of future access to the contents of this recommendation once the applicant is enrolled as a student in this institution. The Act also allows an applicant to waive the right of future access, but prohibits a school from requiring an applicant to waive this right as a condition either of admission, or review and evaluation of application for admission. I have read and understand this statement of the federal law governing my right of access to this recommendation form. ■ I have retained my right to access this recommendation. ■ I have waived my right to access this recommendation. Applicant’s Signature ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ Name of recommender __________________________________________________________________________________________________ To the recommender: Please give your appraisal of the applicant in terms of the qualities listed below. Rate the applicant in comparison with others applying for law school whom you have known. Characteristic Outstanding Unusual Good Top 5% Top 10% Top 25% Above Average Top 40% Average Below Average Mid 20% Low 40% Unable to Estimate Intelligence Independence of Thought Oral Communications Written Communications Initiative and Motivation Leadership Judgment and Maturity 117 To the recommender: Please provide a narrative description of the applicant’s qualifications for law school. In this regard, please include a candid assessment of how this applicant compares to others whom you have taught or with whom you have worked. Please type below or attach a separate letter on official letterhead to completed form. Name of recommender (type or print legibly) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL Address ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ■ Professor ■ Advisor ■ Employer/Supervisor ■ Other _______________________________________ Position ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ Signature ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ Return this recommendation to Syracuse University College of Law, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, Syracuse NY 13244-1030. 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is a separate procedure that should be undertaken simultaneously with the admissions application process. Do not wait for an admission decision to apply for financial aid. The Priority Deadline to apply for financial aid is: February 15, 2007. To apply for financial aid from the College of Law, you must submit: A. the 2007-2008 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the federal processor, B. the Syracuse University College of Law Financial Aid Application, C. a signed copy of your 2006 federal tax return (include all schedules and W2s), and D. a signed copy of your parents’ 2005 or 2006 federal tax return, whichever is available (include all schedules and W2s). Read the more detailed instructions below. Financial Aid Application J.D. Candidates Filing Date: February 15, 2007 Financial aid applicants must complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and send it to the Federal Processor in January, 2007. This form must be received no later than February 15, 2007 to be considered for a financial aid award from the College of Law. In addition, a signed copy of your (and your spouse’s, if applicable), 2006 federal tax returns, including all schedules and W2s, must be submitted to the College of Law Financial Aid Office. A signed copy of your parents’ (if applicable) 2005 or 2006 federal tax return, including all schedules and W2s, must be submitted. If you are under 30 years of age and do not have dependents other than a spouse, you will not be considered for a College of Law tuition grant unless your parents’ tax return is submitted and the “Family Information” (Section III) questions are answered. Retain for your records copies of all application forms and correspondence submitted in support of your financial aid application. Section I. Student Information 1. To apply for all types of financial aid, you must submit the enclosed College of Law Application for Financial Aid, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), a copy of your (and your spouse’s) signed 2006 federal income tax forms and W2s, and a signed copy of your parents’ 2005 or 2006 federal income tax forms and W2s. You should complete the FAFSA on the web at: www.fafsa.ed.gov or you can obtain the FAFSA from high school guidance offices or financial aid offices of most colleges and universities in the United States, or you can request it directly from the Federal Student Aid Information Center by calling 1-800-433-3243. Your financial aid application will be complete when we receive your College of Law Application for Financial Aid, the processed FAFSA information, your signed 2006 federal tax returns and W2s, and your parents’ signed 2005 or 2006 federal tax returns. 2. Complete the FAFSA on the web at: www.fafsa.ed.gov or mail your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the federal processor in January 2007 to ensure our receipt of the processed information by the financial aid application deadline (which is February 15). The estimated FAFSA processing time is two to four weeks. We strongly advise you to complete your FAFSA online in January to ensure our receipt of the processed information by the February 15, 2007 financial aid deadline. The College of Law is not responsible for failure of the processing agency to forward reports in a timely fashion. Deadlines January Submit FAFSA to Federal Processor February 15 Submit SU College of Law Financial Aid Application February 15 Submit your (and your spouse’s and parents’, if applicable) signed federal tax returns and W2s 3. To be considered for a financial aid award from the College of Law, you must complete both the admission and financial aid application processes by the published deadlines—February 15, 2007 for financial aid and April 1, 2007 for admission. Financial aid funds from the College of Law are limited and will be awarded until expended, consequently, students are encouraged to submit applications by the published deadlines. Late applicants should still complete all of the required applications in order to be considered for all remaining sources of funding and to begin the process to apply for student loans. 4. Do not delay the submission of your FAFSA beyond January 2007. If actual income amounts for 2006 are not available, you (and your spouse) should make the most accurate estimates available at that time. If necessary, you can report changes to original estimates at a later date. 5. We will receive your processed FAFSA information only if you use the appropriate school name and identification number. Name: Syracuse University College of Law, Title IV institution code: 002882 6. Retain for your records copies of all application forms and correspondence submitted in support of your financial aid application. 121 1. Full legal name ________________________________________________________________________________________________ LAST NAME 2. 3. 4. FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL SUFFIX (i.e., JR) Social Security Number __________ – ________ – __________ Citizenship ■ U.S. citizen ■ Permanent resident ■ Nonresident alien *If you are in the U.S. on an F1 or F2 student visa, you are not eligible for federal or institutional financial aid. Present mailing address __________________________________________________________________________________________ STREET NUMBER AND NAME APARTMENT NUMBER __________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY 5. STATE Last date on which mail will reach you at this address. __________ / ________ / __________ MONTH DAY YEAR 6. E-mail address ________________________________________ 7. Permanent telephone with area code ( ___________ ) _______________________________ 8. Date of Birth __________ / ________ / __________ MONTH 9. ZIP CODE DAY YEAR Fall 2007 Student Status ■ First-year J.D. candidate ■ Advanced Transfer student, J.D. candidate ■ Second-, ■ third-, or ■ fourth-year J.D. candidate 10. Check one: ■ Single ■ Engaged ______ / _____ / ______ ■ Married ■ Separated ■ Divorced ______ / _____ / _______ EXPECTED DATE OF MARRIAGE DATE OF DIVORCE/SEPARATION 11. Number of children in 2007-2008 (if any) for which you will provide more than one-half of their support ______________ Ages of children _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ Number of other dependents in 2007-2008 (if any; don’t include your spouse) ______________ State their age and relationship to you __________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Spouse’s Information Name _________________________________________________________________________________________ Age ____________ Present Occupation _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Present Employer ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Will your spouse be a matriculated student enrolled in a degree-granting program in the 2007-2008 academic year? ■ Yes ■ No If yes, full-time? ■ Yes ■ No or at least half time? ■ Yes ■ No If yes, give name of school and indicate graduate or undergraduate and year in school: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 122 Section II. Financial Information Section IV. Additional Student (and spouse, if applicable) financial information is required from every financial aid applicant. Do not leave blank. 1. 2. 1. 2. Please check one of the following: ■ Enclosed is a copy of my 2006 federal tax return and W2s. ■ I will forward a copy of my 2006 federal tax return and W2s. ■ I am not required to file a 2006 federal tax return. If you did not file a 2006 tax return, please list all sources of taxable and non-taxable income you received in 2006, and enclose all W2s, if applicable: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Employment Information Your Present Occupation: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Your Present Employer: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please enter your total current balance for questions 3-8. Answer “zero” if applicable. Do not leave any questions blank. 3. Value of your and your spouse’s cash, savings, and checking accounts: $ __________________________________ 4. Net worth of your current investments (mutual funds, certificates of deposit, stocks, bonds, education IRAs, and real estate, not including your home): $ __________________________________ 5. Value of all trusts of which you and your spouse are the beneficiary: $ __________________________________ 6. Value of your and your spouse’s IRA and/or Keogh accounts: $ __________________________________ 7. Amount of child support received in 2006: $ __________________________________ Amount of child support paid in 2006: $ __________________________________ 8. Amount of Social Security benefits received in 2006: $ __________________________________ 3. 4. (please list type of loan) 5. 6. 7. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MAKE/YEAR ____________________________________ Age: __________/____________________________________ Age: _________ FATHER ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MAKE/YEAR 8. AMOUNT STILL OWED Will you be covered by major medical health insurance during the 2007-2008 academic year? ■ Yes ■ No If yes, please indicate: INSURANCE COMPANY Yearly premium: $ ______________________ 9. Sources of Aid: List type(s) and amount(s) of any unusual expenses you expect to incur during the 2007-2008 year (i.e., child care). Attach a separate sheet if necessary. Documentation of these expenses may be requested. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parent’s Home Address __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ STREET NUMBER AND NAME __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ CITY STATE ZIP CODE Parents’ Occupation and Employer: Mother: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Father: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ In the case of divorced or separated parents, please answer the following questions about the parent who most recently provided more financial support. (If that parent is re-married, you must supply information about your parent and his/her spouse.) 123 AMOUNT STILL OWED __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MOTHER 3. Do you intend to apply for a Federal Stafford Student Loan for the 2007-2008 academic year? ■ Yes ■ No Do you intend to apply for additional educational loans for the 2007-2008 academic year? ■ Yes ■ No Will you (or your spouse) own or operate an automobile during the 2007-2008 academic year? If yes, please indicate: Own? ■ Yes ■ No Operate? ■ Yes ■ No ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Parent’s Information 2. Spouse’s total educational loans $ ______________________ (formerly GSL) POLICY HOLDER Parental information is required from every financial aid applicant under 30 years of age, regardless of your marital status or established financial independence, unless you have a dependent other than a spouse. Do not leave any questions blank. ■ If you are a student returning to the College of Law and your parents’ information is already on file for financial aid, please check this box and proceed to Section IV. ■ If you are 30 years of age or older and/or have dependents other than a spouse, please check this box and proceed to Section IV. ■ If you are a new financial aid applicant at the College of Law, please check this box and complete Section III as instructed above. Full legal name __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If you receive veteran’s education benefits, for how many months will you receive these benefits during the period of 7/1/07 to 6/30/08 ________ (number of months); what amount will you receive per month?: $ __________________________________ Indicate the total principal amount owed on the following educational loans as of 08/15/2007: Federal Perkins/NDSL $ ______________________ Other educational loans $ ______________________ Federal Stafford Student Loan $ ______________________ Section III. Family Information 1. Financial assistance for the 2007-2008 academic year from your parents and/or other relatives: $ ______________________ Financial aid for the 2007-2008 academic year from outside sources (do not include student loans for which you may apply): $ __________________________________ Sources of aid: 4. Value of parents’ cash and savings: $ __________________________________ Net worth of parents’ real estate (other than primary home): $ __________________________________ Net worth of parents’ investments (do not include retirement accounts): $ __________________________________ Net worth of parents’ business: $ __________________________________ 5. Amount of child support received in 2006: $ __________________________________ 6. Amount of Social Security benefits received in 2006: $ __________________________________ 7. ■ Enclosed is a signed copy of my parents’ 2005 or 2006 federal tax return and W2s. ■ I will forward a copy of my parents’ 2005 or 2006 federal tax return and W2s. ■ My parents were not required to file a 2005 or 2006 federal tax return. If your parents did not file a tax return in 2005 or 2006, please list all sources of taxable and non-taxable income they received in 2006 and enclose all W2s, if applicable: $ __________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Whenever there is a change in a financial aid recipient’s economic circumstances that may in any way reduce present financial need, the recipient has the responsibility to report that change in writing to the College of Law Financial Aid Office. Failure to report such changed circumstances may result in the reduction or cancellation of financial aid. Sign and return this form to the Financial Aid Office, Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse NY 13244-1030. This form must be received no later than February 15, 2007 to be considered for a financial aid award from the College of Law. Complete your FAFSA in January. I certify that the information I have provided in this application and in any related material is true and complete. I understand that any misrepresentation may result in the denial or cancellation of financial aid. I accept responsibility to promptly notify Syracuse University College of Law in writing of any change in the information that I have provided in this application. Signature ________________________________________________________________________________ Date ____________ It is the policy of Syracuse University not to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, national origin, religion, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, status as a disabled veteran, or as a veteran of the Vietnam Era in its educational programs, admissions policies, employment practices, and other University administered programs. Further information regarding this policy is set out in the statement of nondiscrimination on the inside back cover. Applicants should consult the statement of nondiscrimination before completing this form. 124 Syracuse University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, national origin, religion, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era or to any extent discrimination is prohibited by law. This nondiscrimination policy covers admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs, services, and activities. Syracuse University welcomes people with disabilities and in compliance with Section 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the Americans with Disabilities Act does not discriminate on the basis of disability. Services for students with disabilities are coordinated by the Office of Disability Services, Room 309, 804 University Avenue, 315-443-4498 (VOICE), 315-443-5019 (TDD). Syracuse University supports equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, or gender, and in compliance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, or gender. Questions about any of the University’s equal-opportunity policies, including compliance with Title VI, Title VII, and Title IX, may be directed to Neil B. Strodel, Associate Vice President for Human Resources, Office of Human Resources, Skytop Office Building, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 132445300; telephone 315-443-4224. The information concerning academic requirements, courses, and programs of study contained in this publication does not constitute an irrevocable contract between the student and the University. The University reserves the right to change, discontinue, or add academic requirements, courses, and programs of study. Such changes may be made without notice, although every effort will be made to provide timely notice to students. It is the responsibility of the individual student to confirm that all appropriate degree requirements are met. Campus Security Act It is Syracuse University’s policy to provide all prospective students, upon request, with a printed copy of the University’s policies and procedures regarding campus security and safety, as well as crime rates and statistics for the most recent three-year period. Copies of Your Safety and Security at Syracuse University, a handbook which provides this important information, are available from SU’s Department of Public Safety, 130 College Place, 005 Sims Hall, Syracuse NY 13244, 315-443-5480. 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