2009

November

• RWU Law Review Sets Ambitious Agenda

• Symposium Focuses on the Unique Issues Facing Gays in Rhode Island

• Employer in the Spotlight-APC/Schneider Electric

October

• Major Gift Propels RWU’s #2 Ranked Public Interest Program

• Top Comparative Law Scholars Hold Annual Meeting at RWU

• Faculty Edges Students in Jeopardy

• Heritage Pride

• Fall Programs Tackle Supreme Court Nominations and Gun Control

September

• A Reporter’s Privilege for Twitterers?

• RWU Opens Immigration Law Clinic

• Sea Grant Law Fellows Tackle Marine and Coastal Law Projects

• Public Interest Students Received Accolades this Summer

• Follow RWU Law on Facebook

• Golf, for a Good Cause

• Applications Surge, Large and Talented Class Enrolls

August

• Cool Summer Jobs

• Trifecta: 3 from RWU Law Help Shape National Law School Admissions Policy

• Hail to the (New) Chief!

• Chantal Tocci ‘04 Profiled in Wall Street Journal

• Visiting Justice Scalia

July

• RWU Law Awards First Loan Forgiveness Grants to ’08 Alums

• Roger Williams continues to give back

• Alums in the Legislature and Scholarship Winners Feted at Annual Meeting

• Grads in the Legal Arena

• Prof. Emily Sack - Reforming Domestic Violence Law

June

• Alumna named 2009 Woman of the Year

• Experiential Learning at RWU Law

• Innovative “Medical-Legal Collaborative” with Brown Medical School on the National Stage

• A Beautiful Commencement for the Class of ’09

• Top Faculty Member, Niki Kuckes, Awarded Tenure

• School of Law Director Connie Howes Wins Prestigious Award

May

• Prof. Teitz Testifies on Suing Foreign Manufacturers to the Senate Judiciary Committee

• RWU Law Student Wins Ethics Award

• Finding Justice Alito

• Alumna named to National Association for Community Mediation

• Lively Programs Slated for Fall Semester 2009

• Community Justice and Legal Assistance Clinic Wraps Up Year of Helping Families in Distress

• Champion for Choice Visits RWU Law

• New Board of Advisors Rolled Out

April

• The Victims of Crime Act at 25

• RWU Law to Open Immigration Law Clinic in Providence

• Good Works over Spring Break

• Prof. Cahill Joins Justice Ginsburg at Major Symposium

• Mighty Quahogs Make Elite 8 at U VA

• Singing for Civil Rights

• Hands Across the Ocean, from Liberia to Rhode Island

March

• RWU Advocates Take Top Spot in National Admiralty Law Competition

• Spring Flings

• The Honorable Ernest C. Torres in Residence

• Alum Ken McKay Named Executive Director of the Republican National Committee

• RWU Law Prof. Peter Margulies Takes on the Controversial Prof. Yoo

• Young Alums Diving In to Top Practices

• RWU Pro Bono Collaborative Update

• Federalist Society and American Constitutional Society Host Leading Blogger Eugene Volokh

• Prof. Jon Shelburne’s Work as Marine JAG Defense Lawyer Wins Accolades

February

• Roger Williams Advocates Win Accolades on Regional and National Stages

• RWU Law Professor’s Dream Comes True: The Debut of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams

• Two Judges Who Teach at RWU Law Play Unique Roles in “The War on Terror”

• NAACP Celebrates One Hundredth Birthday

• RWU Law Dozen Sworn into Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States

• Shechtman Halperin Savage and RWU Law: A Great Relationship

• MLK Week at RWU Law

• All the World is a Stage - an International Law Stage - for Professor Louise Ellen Teitz

January

• Beverly Ledbetter (HDR 2006) Featured in National Law Journal

• RWU Law and the Obama Inauguration

• Fifth Annual Legal Career Options Day

• Adjunct Professor to Speak on 9/11 Compensation on 20/20 This Friday

• Matt Jerzyk (‘08): From Labor Organizer, to Blogger, to ProJo Person To Watch in 2009

• Prof. Gutoff Opines on Pirates

2008

December

• RWU Law Grads at Top Firms: v. 3

• RWU Law Grads at Work

• The (Extended) RWU Law Family Celebrated the Holidays at Two Events that Have Become Traditions

• Boston Firms Welcome RWU Law Grads

• Professors Margulies and Goldstein File Amicus Briefs in Important Terrorism and Environmental Cases

• RWU Law Helps Create and is Featured in LGBT Applicant Resource

• Prof. Chung on Bankruptcy Reform

• Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Awarded

• RWU Law Grads Score Big

• RWU Law Grads Find Terrific Homes at Leading New England Firms

November

• RWU Law Grads Score Big (Again) on Connecticut Bar Exam

• Distinguished Jurist and Lawyers Join RWU Law Board of Directors

• RWU Law Grads Continue to Rack Up Big Numbers on Bar Exams, This Time in Massachusetts

• Clark Finals 2008 Argued Before RI Supreme Court

• No Big Surprise: RWU Law Public Interest Programs Ranked Second in New England

• Prof. Jorge Elorza: Making an impact in Rhode Island

• RWU Law Mighty Quahogs Win the “Battle of Boston”

• Alum’s story becomes Hollywood film

October

• RWU Law Students Praise their Law School Experience in National Survey

• RWU Moot Court Board Watches 1st Circuit Hear Arguments and then Discuss Judging

• 7th Marine Law Symposium

• One Student’s Story: Lavender Law Conference ‘08

• Students Finally Top Faculty in Jeopardy 2008

• “Incarceration Policy and the Effects on Black Men” - Professor Glenn C. Loury speaks at RWU Law

• RWU Law Students Nab Internal, External Scholarship Awards

September

• Libertarian Dr. Roger Pilon Visits and Says Supreme Court Has It Way Wrong

• “Genuine Tort Reform” Proposals Hit the Street

• Alum Working on Energy Issues on Capitol Hill

• Faculty Productivity Survey Released: RWU Law Scores Big

• RWU Law and Equal Justice Works

August

• Sarah Weddington

• RWU Law at Democratic National Convention in Denver

• Four Judicial Clerks in America’s Paradise

• Religious Liberty and Rhode Island

• Livin’ in the Ocean State

• One Student’s Story:  The London Program

July

• Blogosphere Buzzing About Works of Professors Margulies and Chung

• ‘07 Grad Serves as Delegate to the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law

• A VP From RI?

• Some Final Thoughts from Linda Greenhouse on Her 30 Years Covering the Supreme Court

• Art in the Atrium

• Alum Awarded Prestigious Public Service Award

• Graduation 2008:  A Grand Time Was Had By All

June

• Works by Prof. Cited By Supreme Court in Landmark Gun Case and His Analysis Sought By National Blogs

• Prof. Kuckes and National Experts Convene in D.C. to Discuss Grand Jury Reform

• Supreme Semester:  The Wrap Up

• ‘08 Grad Receives Prestigious Marine Policy Fellowship

• RWU Staffer Joins in Fight to Stop Violence against Women

May

• 1L Selected as the American Bar Association’s Environmental Law Fellow

• Innovative Course to Mix Buddhist Teachings and Litigation Skills

• The Supreme Semester:  Finding Justice Alito

• Earth Day 2008 at RWU

• The “Supreme Semester” Continues:  Justice Scalia’s Day at RWU Part 2

April

• Students Win Prestigious Fellowships

• Symposium Considers “The Culture of Same-Sex Marriage in New England”

• The “Supreme Semester” Continues: Justice Scalia’s Day at RWU Law Part 1

• 1Ls Duel in “Property (Family) Feud” and Bball

• Prof. Cook and Students Bridge the Classroom and Visual Artists in Post-Katrina New Orleans

• Judge Selya Named to Head Top Terror Court

• Professor Yelnosky Addresses Federal Judges on Racial Bias

• Supreme Semester Continues with Discussion on First Amendment with Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author

• MLK Remembered

• RWU Prof Sought Out Before and After Supreme Court Gun Control Argument

March

• RWU Law Students and Pro Bono Attorneys to Assist Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

• “March Madness”: SOL Basketball Teams Notch Wins in Intramural and Extramural Competitions

• Spring Coups for RWU 2L Kim Ahern, Who Wins Top Academic Honor and Election to be Obama Delegate

• Experts Debate Indian Law Case Going to US Supreme Court

• Multiple Moot Court Victories for RWU Law!

• 15th Annual Barristers’ Ball a Bash

• PBS’s Frontline Focuses on Haditha Case

February

• “Supreme Semester” Event No. 3: RWU v. Harvard on Gun Control and Second Amendment

• Judge Bruce Selya and “Selyaisms”

• RWU Law Meets (and Quizzes) the Chief Justice of the United States

• Marine Affairs Institute and Student Sea Grant Fellow Tackle Tough Environmental/Legal Issues

January

• Supreme Semester Features Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author of Gideon’s Trumpet

• Professor Kogan’s Mediation Clinic Wins Award

• Law School Celebrates MLK Week

• Sparks Fly in “Supreme Semester” Inaugural Event

• The Supreme Semester: “A Conversation with Chief Justice Roberts”

• Prof. Goldstein on Habeas Corpus Rights of Guantanamo Detainees

• Great News in Career Services

2007

December

• The Supreme Semester:  Justice Scalia Visiting RWU

• The Supreme Semester at RWU

• Legal Career Options Night Features Top Employers

• RWU Working on “the Pipeline”

• One Student’s Story: Breakfast with the Federal Bar

November

• U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Gun Control: RWU Prof. in the Middle of the Fray

• Slavery in Rhode Island?

• RWU’s Phenomenal Bar Pass Success

• Cape Wind Author Speaks at RWU - And on the Daily Show

• The Mass Bar Results Are In and It Is More Great News for RWUSOL

• Student-Faculty Jeopardy ’07—Another Win by the Oldtimers

• Sad news: Alum is killed in Iraq

October

• Another Record-breaking Performance: RI ’07

• The LGBT Alliance’s Busy Fall

• RWU Faculty Sparkles in Scholarship Survey

• Clark Competition Finals

• Alum Named President of RI Association for Justice

• Focus on Faculty: Tim Kuhner

• RWU Dominates CT Bar - Again!

• Mighty Quahogs Roll On

• American Law Institute

September

• RI Bar Embraces RWU Law Students

• Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in our House for Constitution Day

• Board of Directors:  Robin Steinberg

• RWU Law Faculty in the Media and Above the Fold

• One Student’s Story: Sea Grant Law Fellows Part 2

• Board of Directors:  Roscoe Howard

August

• Liz Tobin Tyler:  Innovator in Health Law

• Professor Zlotnick’s Unique Federal Sentencing Study

• RWU Welcomes Terrific Class of 2010

• One Student’s Story: Sea Grant Law Fellows Part 1

• RWU Lands Top Teacher/Scholar

• One Student’s Story:  The Lisbon, Portugal Summer Program

• Board of Directors: Gloria Larson

July

• Professor Jorge Elorza’s Story

• RWU Leaders Leading in Diversity

• Generous Gifts Support Key School of Law Programs

• One Student’s Story:  Summer at Sun Microsystems

• One Student’s Story:  The London Program on Comparative Advocacy

• Adjunct Stars

June

• One Student’s Story: On the Front Lines in New Orleans

• RWU - Texas Profs Debate Gun Control

• Major Players in National Security and International Law to Conference at RWU

• RWU Alums at Providence’s Largest Firms

• One Student’s Story:  International and Military Law

• Street Law

May

• Glen Manor: A Grand RWU Tradition

• Closing Thoughts of a First Year Teacher

• Tort Reform Video Posted

• MCLSA: Juvenile Justice Roundtable

• 1L Moot Court Championship

• Majessire Wins Another!

• Professor Bogus Quoted in New York Times on Gun Control

• Torts Symposium-Redux

• RWU Students Land Cool Summer Jobs

April

• RWU Tops in Connecticut!

• RWU Students and Faculty Pitch in to Rebuild New Orleans

• RWU School of Law Goes Green

• Top Scholars to Debate “Genuine Tort Reform” at RWU

• Inside Legal Washington

• Regional and National Leaders Debate Climate Change and Other Challenges to Marine Economy at SOL