Life Science research is intended to benefit society; yet, at times, it also
creates the potential for uses that threaten public safety.  Research that
can lead to both benevolent and malevolent uses is known as "Dual-Use
Research."  Concern over NIH-funded, dual-use research in 2012 refocused
public attention on the need for an appropriate balance between scientific
discovery and biosecurity.  In response, the federal government issued a new
policy defining "dual-use research of concern" and requesting agencies to
identify their dual-use research projects and manage the security risks
associated with them.

What constitutes "dual-use research of concern"?  Is it best managed by a
federal agency or research institutions?  Should any biosecurity risks
associated with life sciences research be addressed at the time public
funding decisions are made, and can they be managed effectively while the
research is in progress or after it has been completed?  How can we account
for privately funded dual-use research?  What international policies are
needed?  These are some of the questions to be addressed at the 25th Annual
Health Law Symposium.

Wilma Liebman, Former Chairperson and Member of the National Labor Relations Board

In celebration of the William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law's 25th Anniversary, Saint Louis School of Law will host Chai Feldblum on Thursday, April 19th. Chai Feldblum was nominated to serve as a Commissioner of the EEOC by President Barack Obama, and was confirmed by the Senate, for a term ending on July 1, 2013. Prior to her appointment to the EEOC, Commissioner Feldblum was a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center where she has taught since 1991. At Georgetown, she founded the Law Center's Federal Legislation and Administrative Clinic, which represented clients such as Catholic Charities USA, the National Disability Rights Network, and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. She also founded and co-directed Workplace Flexibility 2010, a policy enterprise focused on finding common ground between employers and employees on workplace flexibility issues. As Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union from 1988 to 1991, Commissioner Feldblum played a leading role in helping to draft and negotiate the ground-breaking Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Later, as a law professor representing the Epilepsy Foundation, she was equally instrumental in the drafting and negotiating of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. Founded in 1987, the William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law provides students with the foundation necessary for the dynamic practice of employment law by offering extensive curriculum with a broad range of courses addressing the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees.

This year's symposium will feature Kathleen M. Boozang, J.D., LL.M., Vice Provost and Professor of Law, Seton Hall School of Law; Robert I. Field, J.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Law, Earle Mach School of Law at Drexel University and Professor of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University School of Public Health; Kevin Outterson, J.D., LL.M., Associate Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights Boston University School of Law; Marc A. Rodwin, M.A., J.D., Ph.D., Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School; and, Jeremy Sugarman, M.D., M.P.H., Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine, Deputy Director for Medicine, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Nancy Neveloff Dubler
LL.B. Professor Emerita, Department of Family and Social Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine Senior Associate, Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics

This event is available for 1.0 MO CLE

Much comparative law scholarship focuses on technical questions of constitutional design, asking for example whether strong presidential or parliamentary systems better serve normatively attractive constitutional goals (separation of powers, federalism, rights enforcement, and so on). Missing from such literature, however, is sufficient discussion of the interpretive risks involved in abstracting constitutional texts from their larger cultural/temporal contexts, not to mention the role that those contexts play in creating constitutional meaning. For example, frameworks of practices, customs, and beliefs, particularly religious beliefs, can serve as invisible sources of constitutional law, social imaginaries that actually perform the role of invisible constitutions. To elaborate, this conference will use Missouri's pending anti-Sharia bill as an entry point for discussing current and past examples of "invisible" constitutions in the comparative context.

Interdisciplinary research and scholarship can substantially inform both the practice and creation of law. To highlight this symbiotic relationship, the Symposium on Battered Women Who Kill will bring together scholars writing in the area of domestic violence with advocates involved with the Missouri Clemency Coalition. Through the work of the Missouri Clemency Coalition, faculty from the four Missouri law schools have been successful in securing parole for women who were serving lengthy prison sentences for killing their abusers. This symposium will provide a forum for some of the attorneys involved in this effort to present their stories and will bring them together with scholars who study and write about spousal and partner abuse. This symposium will explore current legal responses to domestic violence, and suggest areas for possible reform.

This yearﾒs Childress program focuses on contemporary issues relating to ﾓJustice Systems Circa 2011: Public Courts, Military Commissions and Aggregate Processing.ﾔ Professor Judith Resnik of the Yale Law School will draw from themes presented in her recent book, co-authored with Dennis Curtis, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms, in delivering the keynote presentation, ﾓInvention and Challenges in Democratic Courts.ﾔ Following commentaries on Professor Resnikﾒs book by leading scholars, additional panels will present perspectives of prominent scholars, practitioners and jurists on ﾓMilitary Commissions: From Ex Parte Quirin to Guantanamo Bayﾔ and ﾓAggregate Processing: Wal-Mart, A.T. & T. and Aggregate Settlements and the 2009 ALI Principles.ﾔ

Dr. Carolyn M. Clancy
Directory, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
 

Hon. Eldin Kajevic, Consul General of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Chicago to present a talk on the potential of Bosnia and Herzegovina entering the EU. Refreshments will be served.

The Cross Cultural Center invites you to attend a Stand Against Racism Rally, co-sponsored with the YWCA of Metropolitan St. Louis. The rally is hosted to raise awareness that racism still exists in our communities and to work toward its elimination. The Stand Against Racism movement will be hosted across the country by YWCA affiliates to bring people together from all walks of life as a visible demonstration that hundreds of people in communities are willing to take a stand for inclusion, peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all people. Stand Against Racism is designed to bring people and organizations together that share in the vision to eliminate racism and celebrate the richness of diversity. Adrian E. Bracy, CEO of YWCA, will welcome and address the crowd. Norman White, Ph.D., director of criminal justice programs and assistant professor, will be the keynote speaker for SLU. He will present "Racism: The Blindness to Its Presence." Courtney Anvender, current SGA president, will speak about the importance of community and inclusion from a SLU student's perspective. She will also promote the student-created Oath of Inclusion.

5:30 p.m. - Reception
6:15 p.m. - Ceremony

2011 Honorees
Honorable Theodore McMillian Award
The Honorable Judy Preddy Draper
Associate Circuit Judge
Missouri Circuit Court, 21st Judicial Circuit (St. Louis County)

BLSA Service Award
Sheena R. Hamilton (ﾑ10)
Law Clerk to Chief Judge Catherine D. Perry
United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri

Parking is available in the Laclede Garage at the corner of Laclede and Grand for a small charge.

Please R.S.V.P. at law.slu.edu/BLSA by Friday, April 22, 2011.

Saint Louis University School of Law, in collaboration with the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), the United States Probation Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and the Saint Louis University School of Law Black Law Students Association, will host the conference ﾓOffender Reentry: The Challenges for Law Enforcement and the Communityﾔ from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20 in the Anheuser-Busch Auditorium in the John & Lucy Cook Hall at Saint Louis University

This event includes speakers, performances (by teens and adults), and an informational fair aimed at educating the local high school and college campus communities about domestic and sexual violence, resources and ways in which community members can help.

Law professors and students are invited to attend the first annual Saint Louis University School of Law Vincent C. Immel Lecture on Teaching Law at noon on Friday, April 15 in the William H. Kniep Courtroom. The lecture honors the late, revered SLU LAW Professor Vincent Immel’s love of teaching students about the law. Professor Anders Walker will give the lecture “Bramble Bush Revisited: The Rise & Fall of the Case Method.”

Critical Employment Cases before the Supreme Court, presented by Professors Matt Bodie, Marcia McCormick, Ann Scarlett, Elizabeth Pendo and Tonie FitzGibbon.

Complimentary, 1 MO CLE Credit available.
4 p.m. Presentation
Reception immediately following

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Come hear Michelle Schiller-Baker speak about her experiences as a domestic violence expert witness.

Come hear the stories of attorneys and their clients from the Missouri Clemency Coalition: Professor Patricia Harrison of SLU Law Clinic, Professor Mary Beck of UM-Columbia Law Clinic and her former student and this years Missouri Lawyer's Weekly "Lawyer of the Year", Amy Lorenz-Moser, Partner at Armstrong Teasdale, along with their clients; Vicki Williams and Carlene Borden. The Missouri Clemency Coalition helped 11 women in Missouri's Department of Corrections serving life without parole sentences for killing their abusers seek commutation of their sentences

The Saint Louis University School of Law and the St. Louis Beacon will welcome Linda Greenhouse, former U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, currently a scholar and lecturer at Yale Law School to Saint Louis University April 6-7. Greenhouse is this yearﾒs James C. Millstone Lecturer. Greenhouseﾒs lecture, ﾓShe Says. He Says. Says Who? A Critical Look at Journalistic "Fairness"ﾔon the role of journalists in reporting will be held Wednesday, April 6, 7:30 p.m. at the Xavier Grand Ballroom at St. Francis Xavier College Church on Grand and Lindell Boulevards. On Thursday, April 7 at noon, she will appear on a panel at the William H. Kniep Courtroom at the School of Law discussing the Supreme Court in a presentation titled ﾓThe Direction of the Roberts Court: Is It Making a Sharp Turn to the Right?ﾔ Both events are free and open to the public. The panel discussion is available for 1 hour of CLE credit in Missouri.

In response to the recent attacks against workers in Wisconsin and other states, the AFL-CIO has called for April 4th to be a national day of solidarity, movement building, and action. At noon on Monday, April 4th, in room 04, the SLU Law School ACS Chapter will host labor attorneys Chris Grant and Chris Hester of Schuchat, Cook and Werner to discuss the importance of organized labor in civic life and the connection between civil rights and labor rights. Lunch will be provided.

Clinic faculty and students will participate in the University's Homeward Bound event to aid the homeless in St. Louis on March 30 at the Simon Recreation Center. The Clinic will conduct intake for people who have legal issues. About 200 homeless people from local shelters attend this event which provides a variety of services in one venue. For more information contact Professor Ammann at 977-2778.

Melinda J. Dutton, J.D.
Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Honorable Kurt S. Odenwald (ﾑ79), Missouri Court of Appeals and Karen Callanan Schneider (ﾑ05), Judicial Law Clerk. Lunch will be provided.

Panelist include Karen Aroesty (Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League), Anthony Rothert (Legal Director for ACLU at Eastern MO) and Jennifer Scheesele (Director of Diversity and Affirmative Action at SLU). Panelist will talk about hate crimes, current events and recent incidences on campus and in St. Louis. Panelist will also discuss how hate crimes are prosecuted and how SLU handles bias incidences.

Sponsored by: Al-Ghazali Legal Society, Asian American Law Student Association, Black Law Student Association, Hispanic Law Student Association, J. Reuben Clark Society, Jewish Legal Society & OUTLaws

The Missouri Association of Social Welfare and the School of Law are two of the co-sponsors for this forum featuring the Supreme Court of Missouri Chief Justice William Ray Price and the Director of the Missouri Department of Corrections George Lombardi who will discuss advocacy efforts in the St. Louis Area.

Controversy continues, but the Affordable Care Act includes an ambitious timetable for implementing health reform that is quickly moving ahead. This yearﾒs symposium brings together scholars and policy makers to examine some of the key issues in implementing the actﾒs requirements for new Health Insurance Exchanges, Medicaid expansions and Accountable Care Organizations.

The Supreme Court's decision in Padilla v. Kentucky has signaled a new era for plea bargaining and the sentencing of people charged with crimes. In ruling that defense attorneys have an affirmative Sixth Amendment duty to provide accurate, individualized advice to their noncitizen clients when a conviction may result in their deportation, the Court blurred the line courts have drawn between the "direct" and "collateral" consequences of a conviction. Co-sponsored by the Saint Louis University School of Law's Public Law Review and the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, this symposium will bring together the nation's foremost experts on the collateral consequences of conviction, judges, criminal law practitioners, and experts on immigration law to discuss Padilla's implications.

Melinda J. Dutton, J.D.
Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Center for Health Law Studies Practitioner-in-Residence Melinda J. Dutton, will present "Implementing Federal Health Reform at the State Level."

BARBARA SEELY, Regional Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission "RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AT THE EEOC" ﾠ Barbara Seely is the Regional Attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission St. Louis Regional Office. She will discuss recent employment discrimination cases and will also address administrative developments at the EEOC.ﾠ Lunch will be provided; please bring your own drink.

Leslie Pickering Francis, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law, University of Utah

 

Language of the Court - Related Sciences Boot Camp

Frank A. Pasquale Schering-Plough
Professor in Health Care Regulation and Enforcement,
Associate Director, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy Seton Hall University School of Law
Visiting Fellow, Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy

The Missouri Court of Appeals ﾖ Eastern Division will hold a special session at Saint Louis University in John & Lucy Cook Hall at 3674 Lindell Blvd.ﾠ The Court will hear two new cases argued by the attorneys representing each side of the legal conflicts.ﾠ This session is free and open to the public.
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The Center for Health Law Studies at SLU LAW and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) welcomes the 2010 Health Law Scholars: Jeffrey B. Hammond, Associate Professor of Law, Faulkner University School of Law; Stacy B. Lee, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School; Jessica L. Roberts, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center; and, Katrice Bridges Copeland, Assistant Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University School of Law. The Health Law Scholars Workshop is a collegial forum in which faculty new to health law and bioethics scholarship present works-in-progress and receive in-depth advice from experienced scholars and teachers in the field of health law and bioethics. The workshop encourages health and bioethics scholarship, fosters the professional development of emerging scholars and furthers the sense of community among health law academics. Past scholars have placed their papers for publication in preeminent law journals.

Jay P. Krupin is Chair of the Epstein Becker Green law firm's National Labor Practice, head of the Hospitality Labor and Employment practice group, and Chair of the Firm's Health Employment and Labor (HEAL) Initiative. He also serves on the Firm's Board of Directors. Mr. Krupin represents many national and international businesses, counseling on appropriate employment procedures. He represents businesses all across the United States, advising on federal and state labor, employment and personnel law issues and defending them before administrative agencies and in court proceedings.

Mr. Krupin is well-versed in management-union issues, employment discrimination matters and wage-hour practices. He has been engaged to represent corporate clients in virtually every aspect of labor and employment law. In traditional labor relations matters, Mr. Krupin has successfully negotiated more than 350 collective bargaining agreements, and has represented companies in more than 100 union elections and campaigns. Additionally, he has directed the defense of EEO charges, wage-hour compliance, sexual harassment investigations, ADA claims, DOL audits, OSHA compliance, family and medical leave issues, and wrongful termination claims. He works with multinational corporations to establish effective procedures for dealing with labor relations and business immigration problems.

A frequent speaker and writer on a variety of topics related to his fields of practice, Mr. Krupin has been quoted in or has authored articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The National Law Journal, Legal Times and more than fifty other publications. He has appeared on television and radio programs throughout the nation addressing issues related to labor and employment law. He has also testified before Congress on labor legislation.

In 2010, Human Resource Executive magazine listed Mr. Krupin on Lawdragon's Top 100 list of "The Nation's Most Powerful Employment Attorneys."

Lawrence M. Friedman, the renowned legal historian at Stanford University who began his career on our faculty, will be our Childress lecturer this year. The program will focus on Professor Friedman's current work dealing with prominent non-political criminal trials in American history. Please mark your calendars for that day; the faculty colloquium and reception and dinner will take place on September 23.

Professor Friedman's lecture will provide an opportunity for the Law School to celebrate a tradition of outstanding legal historians on our faculty beginning with Professor Friedman and including Gerald Dunne, Barry Cushman, Dan Hulsebosch and Anders Walker. Anders and Barry will join Professor Friedman on the program. Other confirmed participants include Stuart Banner (UCLA), Sharon L. Davies (Ohio State), Carolyn Ramsey (Colorado), George C. Thomas III(Rutgers-Newark) and St. Louis mystery writer (the Rachel Gold series) and Bryan Cave partner Michael A. Kahn.

Attorney and radio personality Don Wolff will host the HEC-TV broadcast program in the Courtroom and address hot legal issues in the news with help from local experts: practicing attorneys, members of public interest groups and law professors, including those from SLU LAW.

Attorney and radio personality Don Wolff will host the HEC-TV broadcast program in the Courtroom and address hot legal issues in the news with help from local experts: practicing attorneys, members of public interest groups and law professors, including those from SLU LAW.

Fraud & Abuse Conference Reunion: At the Intersection of the new False Claims Act & Health Reform, with guests Dorothy McMurtry, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Andrew Lay, Assistant U.S. Attorney and Joan Killgore, Polsinelli Shughart PC

Critical tax scholarship seeks to uncover implicit biases in a nominally neutral tax system. In an international and comparative context, tax scholars will examine the distribution of tax burdens as that distribution discriminates in favor of wealthy individuals and nations or specific groups within the society. Complementary to that focus, scholars also will explore how tax burdens on wealthier individuals affect their behavior - leading them to seek means to reduce their tax burden - even to the extent of emigration. The conference will include a keynote address by Diane S. Ryan, National Director of Appeals of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and Alumna of Saint Louis University School of Law. For more information, call Kay Graeff at 314-977-3996 or by e-mail graeffek@slu.edu

The School of Law will host an Ethics and Professionalism program for graduating third year students on Thursday, April 8 from Noon to 2:00 p.m. in Room 303. We strongly encourage all third year students to attend this program. This program is sponsored by the Missouri Bar and will qualify for the two hours of Missouri Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit that Missouri Supreme Court Rules require all lawyers admitted to the Missouri Bar complete within 12 months prior to or after the lawyerﾒs date of admission to the Bar. Attendance is not limited to students planning to take the Missouri Bar. The program will provide valuable ethics and professionalism training regardless of where you plan to practice. We suggest that any students not planning to take the Missouri Bar check with the bar licensing authority in the state you plan to become licensed to see if a similar requirement exists and can be fulfilled by this program. For part-time and other students that are unable to attend on April 8, there will be a video replay of the program on Saturday, April 17, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in Room 02. The video replay will also qualify for the CLE credit required by the Missouri Bar. Please complete the registration form (available in the Office of Student Services) indicating which date you plan to attend and return it to the Office of Student Services by April 1.

The annual Deline Ethics and Professionalism Program will be held on Wednesday, March 31 from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Busch Student Center (for full-time day students) and from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the School of Law (for part-time evening and accelerated students). The Deline Ethics and Professionalism Program is required for all first year law students, and will explore the ethical and professionalism issues integral to law practice. The program will be a follow-up to the introductory presentation given by Thomas Weaver, member of the Missouri Board of Law Examiners and Missouri Supreme Court Judge Mary Rhodes Russell, during August orientation. The program will include a general session featuring a discussion of ethics and professionalism issues, followed by small discussion groups with licensed attorneys and faculty members to discuss hypothetical ethical and professionalism problems that may arise in law school and law practice. Further details and materials, including the small discussion group assignments and hypothetical problems, will be distributed closer to the program date. Times & Locations: 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Busch Student Center (for full-time day students) and from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the School of Law (for part-time evening and accelerated students).

In 1965, during the height of racially motivated violence in the South, Congress passed the federal Voting Rights Act. The Act prohibited states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color."

Congress has amended and extended the Act several times since its original passage, most recently reauthorizing the core provision in 2006. However, contemporary Supreme Court decisions raise questions about the extent to which the Act is still relevant and necessary today.

The Center for Health Law Studies Distinguished Speaker Series welcomes John T. Boese, Partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Mr. Boese's talk is entitled, ﾓTwenty-five Years of False Claims Act Litigation and Enforcement: Some Things Change, But Greed Never Dies.ﾔ Presented Mar. 13, 2010, 12:00 p.m., in the Kniep Courtroom at the Saint Louis University School of Law.

Robin Fretwell Wilson
Partner and Co-chair, Health Law Practice Group Jones Day, Washington, D.C.

Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson teaches in the areas of health law, bioethics and family law. She is the editor or co-editor of four books, including most recently Health Law and Bioethics: Cases in Context. Her work has appeared in the Cornell Law Review, The Emory Law Journal, The North Carolina Law Review, The San Diego Law Review, The Washington & Lee Law Review and numerous peer-reviewed journals. In 2007, Professor Wilson received the Citizen's Legislative Award for her work on changing the consent law in Virginia. She edits "Reviews in Medical Ethics" for The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics and is the past Chair of the Section on Law, Medicine & Health Care of the Association of American Law Schools.

Margo A. Bagley, J.D.
Professor of Law, university of Virgina School of Law

Professor Margo Bagley teaches a variety of intellectual property courses, including patent law and international patent law and policy. Her scholarship has focused on a number of aspects of patent law, including the role of morality in biotech patenting, access to essential medicines and business method patents. She also has taught international patent law and policy in Germany, China and Singapore. Professor Bagley worked as an associate with Smith, Gambrell & Russell and Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner before becoming a law professor at Emory University in 1999. She went on to join the University of Virginia faculty in 2006. Prior to pursuing a career in law, Professor Bagley worked in products research and development at the Procter & Gamble Company and as a senior research analyst for the Coca-Cola Company. Professor Bagley holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a law degree from Emory University.

It was an exciting and unprecedented weekend, as both of the Saint Louis University School of Law Moot Court teams advanced to the final round of the Regional Competition, which took place on Saturday, Nov. 14. However, due to competition rules, only one of the teams will be allowed to compete in the National Competition scheduled for February 1-4, 2010 in New York City.

Judy Feder, MA, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown Public Policy Institute and
Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

Professor Feder gave a lecture titled: "The Shifting Landscape of Health Care Reform" on November 2. Professor Feder is one of the nation's leaders in health policyﾗparticularly in efforts to understand and improve the U.S health insurance system. Her expertise on health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care is regularly drawn upon by members of Congress, executive officials, and the national media.

This day long conference will explore policy and legal issues involved in controlling abuses in the payment and delivery of health care services in the current era of reform and financial crisis. Speakers from a wide array of backgrounds will give their perspective on the extent of waste, fraud and abuse and the possibility of controlling costs by improved law enforcement and regulatory measures. Leading federal and state prosecutors will discuss priorities and enforcement methods and representatives of the provider and payor community will comment on the effect of regulations on medical care and delivery. The program is co-sponsored by the law firm of Stinson Morrison Hecker.

Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board, Ralph R. Tremain, will discuss "Recent Developments at the National Labor Relations Board". Will Congress pass the proposed "Employee Free Choice Act" strengthening the ability of workers to select a union and achieve a first collective bargaining agreement? Is the National Labor Relations Board legally authorized to decide cases, as it has been since January 2008, with only two members? From his perspective as a seasoned NLRB Regional Director, Mr. Tremain will address these and other current issues facing the NLRB.This event will take place from 12 - 12:50 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 7 in Room 02.

Lunch will be provided, but please bring your own drink.

Recent dramatic changes in economic markets and national economies, and advances in technology and communications have produced an evolving, global workplace. Employment and work-related issues can no longer be addressed only in local or even national termsﾗa broader perspective is required. This conference brings together a group of leading legal scholars to address current, critical questions, including: What is the practical role of worker representation and of collective action by workers in the global workplace? Lessons will also be drawn from diverse labor and employment experiences in Canada, Chile, and the European Union.

Speaker: Ellen F. Harshman, Ph.D., '92, Dean, Saint Louis University John Cook School of Business
Faculty Moderator: Professor Constance Z. Wagner
Alumni Panel:

The recent instability in the nation's housing markets has demonstrated the complex relationship between property ownership and economic stability for lower-income families. Until recently, many experts argued that such families could not hope to achieve the "American dream" without owning their own homes. Increasingly, events from the past year are calling the assumptions underlying these assertions into question. This symposium brings together a group of leading scholars and practitioners to examine the relationship between property ownership and economic stability, both domestically and abroad.

Eleanor DeArman Kinney Hall Render
Professor of Law, Co-Director of the William S. and Christine S. Hall Center for Law and Health, Indiana University

Eleanor D. Kinney is one of the nation's leading experts on health law. After earning her master's degree in public health, she served as program analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to joining Indiana University in 1984, she was assistant general counsel of the American Hospital Association. Kinney is a published author and lecturer on America's health care system, medical malpractice, health coverage for the poor and issues in administrative law. She recently published Protecting American Health Care Consumers (Duke University Press, 2002) and edited the Guide to Medicare Coverage Decision-Making and Appeals (ABA Publishing, 2002). Kinney was a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, President Clinton's Task Force for Health Care Reform and the Indiana Commission on Health Care for the Working Poor. She has been appointed by the governor of Indiana to the Executive Board of the Indiana State Department of Health. She currently serves as chair of the Patient Safety Subcommittee of the Indiana Commission on Excellence in Health Care.

Timothy Westmoreland
Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University,
Senior Scholar, Georgetown Health Law Institute,
Research Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute

Professor Westmoreland holds academic posts in law and public policy at Georgetown University and was recently named Senior Scholar of the Georgetown Health Law Institute. He served as counsel to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1995. Westmoreland taught in the Georgetown Law Center's Federal Legislation Clinic and was counsel to the Koop-Kessler Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. He was senior adviser on HIV/AIDS to the Kaiser Family Foundation and lobbied for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. From 1999 until 2001, he was the director of the Federal Medicaid program. At Georgetown, he teaches about health law, federal budget policy, and legislation and statutory interpretation. He is a recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Investigator in Health Policy Research Award.

George L. Lenard, partner Harris Dowell Fisher & Harris, LC will discuss "The Use of Online Personal Information in Employment Decisions" including the benefits of online technology to employers, job applicants and self-employed professionals, concerns under discrimination laws, and privacy issues. If you have a MySpace account, a website or a blog, this program will address how employers and recruiters may use your personal information in hiring and employment decisions.

Lunch will be provided; please bring your own drink.

Speaker: Shari Seidman Diamond, Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University School of Law
Faculty Moderator: Molly Walker Wilson
Alumni Panel:

A good part of the work in health law and policy is aimed toward influencing or directing physician behavior. At the same time, however, physicians often complain that the law makes them do bad things ﾖ provide futile care, neglect patients in pain, practice defensive medicine to the detriment of their patients and at expense to the health care system, and so on. And, regulators and advocates are frequently frustrated with the seeming imperviousness or hostility of doctors to efforts to constrain or incentivize particular behaviors on their part. This lecture will explore the rocky relationship among law, medicine and ethics. First, it will provide specific examples where law, medicine and ethics have clashed, drawing on experiences and studies regarding pain management, the response to managed care, the regulation of research with human subjects and medical futility.

Mark J. Cherry, Ph.D.
Associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Edward's University in Austin, Texas
Co-editor with H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. of Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
Senior associate editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Senior associate editor of Christian Bioethics
Editor-in-chief of HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum (HEC Forum)

In 1908, five women made history at Saint Louis University School of Law when they became the first women students in the history of the University. To celebrate the first 100 years of women at Saint Louis University, the School of Law is hosting a series of speakers focusing on issues facing women in the legal profession.

Professors Alan Howard, Susan McGraugh, Ann Scarlett, Elizabeth Pendo, Eric Miller, & Steven Puro speak about the Constitution.

A Day in the Life of Susan Stefan, Practitioner-in-Residence 2008-2009

Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have become a very important part of the world trade system in recent years. As World Trade Organization (WTO) membership has grown to over 150 countries, the interests of the WTO Members have diverged on numerous issues and negotiations have become more cumbersome. Many nations have turned to negotiating RTAs, which focus on the interests of countries in a particular region or group of regions, and not on global interests. RTAs allow for more efficient trade negotiations and permit countries greater freedom to choose their trading partners, trade deals and conditions of trade. By 2010, the WTO estimates that nearly 400 RTAs will be in effect.

In the past few years, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided several high-profile cases in which litigants have asserted that various sources of domestic and international law constrain the range of policy options available to the government in pursuing U.S. foreign policy objectives. Invariably, the opposing parties submit legal briefs that rely heavily on historical practice and precedent to support their respective positions. This symposium will bring together a group of leading legal historians and foreign relations law scholars to examine the use and misuse of history in framing legal arguments related to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy.

Rep. Connie L. Johnson
Minority Whip, Missouri State Legislature; Of Counsel, Armstrong Teasdale, LLP Ms.

Johnson received a J.D./M.H.A. from Saint Louis University in 1996. In 2000, she was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives to serve the 61st District. She is now serving her second term in House Leadership as the Minority Whip. At Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, she works in the litigation practice group with emphasis on medical malpractice and complex torts. Prior to being elected to the House of Representatives, Johnson served as the Assistant to the Director of the Division of Aging for the Missouri Department of Social Services, where she assisted with daily management and operations for one of the state's largest regulating divisions.

Presented by Center for Health Law Studies Saint Louis University School of Law, Co-Sponsored by American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law and the Saint Louis Area Health Lawyers Association

Gregory M. Luce
Partner and Co-chair, Health Law Practice Group Jones Day, Washington, D.C.

Greg Luce is co-chair of the health care practice at Jones Day. His experience includes health care litigation and regulatory matters, and he previously served as assistant attorney general representing the health agencies of Virginia. In private practice, Mr. Luce has represented the American Hospital Association, health care providers and institutions in litigation involving fraud and abuse enforcement, "patient anti-dumping" under COBRA, Medicare reimbursement and compliance programs. His current areas of practice include counseling and defense of health care providers, suppliers, pharmaceutical companies and physicians under state and federal fraud and abuse laws and the False Claims Act. Mr. Luce recently represented numerous not-for-profit hospital clients defending against class action suits. Mr. Luce is a member of the ABA Health Law Section, the Virginia State Bar Health Law Section and the AHLA, having also served on the board of directors from 1995-2001. Recently, he was elected to the inaugural class of Fellows of the AHLA. He is listed in Who's Who in American Law and The Best Lawyers in America and was named one of the "leaders in their field" in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.

Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Founding & Executive Director, CHHIRJ

A panel consisting of Senior Judge Myron Bright and Judges Diana Murphy and Duane Benton will hear oral argument on a docket of cases in the William H. Kniep Courtroom on Tuesday, April 10 beginning at 9 a.m.

Peter D. Jacobson is Professor of Health Law and Policy in the Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the University's Center for Law, Ethics and Health. He received his law degree from the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Law in 1970, and a Masters in Public Health from UCLA in 1988. Before coming to the University of Michigan, he was Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND from 1988 to 1996. His current research interests focus on the relationship between law and health care delivery and policy, law and public health systems, and health care safety net services. In 1995, Peter received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine the role of the courts in shaping health care policy. Currently, he is the Director of the Center for Law and Health Systems. Its focus is on developing an empirical understanding of how law influences both the health care delivery system and the public health system. Professor Jacobson is working with the RAND Corporation on a project examining how the organization of public health systems affects preparedness efforts. He is the principal investigator of studies examining how to measure the value of public health services and how public health practitioners define and respond to ethical challenges. He is also the principal investigator on a project examining how communities in Michigan organize to provide mental health and diabetes care to uninsured populations. Professor Jacobson's previous studies include ways to reduce youth smoking; the legislative and regulatory implications of defining and implementing medical necessity; the enforcement and implementation of anti-smoking laws; and the legal and regulatory influences on physician and hospital decisions to detect prenatal substance exposure.

Pamela H. Bucy is the Bainbridge Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law. She received her B.A. degree in 1975 from Austin College and her J.D. in 1978 from Washington University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. Upon graduation from law school. Professor Bucy served as law clerk to the Honorable Theodore McMillian of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. From 1980 through May 1987, Professor Bucy was an assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. She served in the Criminal Division, specializing in prosecutions of white-collar criminal fraud. She established and served as coordinator of the Health Care Fraud Task Force for the Eastern District of Missouri. While with the U.S. Department of Justice, Professor Bucy served as an instructor of the appellate advocacy course in the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General,s Advocacy Institute. Her books include White Collar Crime, Cases and Materials (West 2nd ed. 1998), Health Care Fraud (Law Journal Seminars Press 1996), and Federal Criminal Law (with Abrams, Beale, and Welling 1998). Professor Bucy teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and White-Collar Crime and publishes in the areas of white-collar crime and health care fraud.

David O. Meltzer is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, and an associated faculty member in the Harris School and the Department of Economics. Meltzer's research explores problems in health economics and public policy, with a focus on the theoretical foundations of medical cost-effectiveness analysis, as well as the effects of managed care and medical specialization on the cost and quality of care, especially in teaching hospitals. Meltzer is currently completing a randomized trial comparing the use of doctors who specialize in inpatient care ("hospitalists") with traditional physicians in six academic medical centers. Meltzer received his M.D. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, where he is also Co-Director of the M.D./Ph.D. program in the social sciences, and serves on the faculty of the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy, the Population Research Center, and the Center on Aging. Meltzer is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Institute of Health Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Economics, the University of Chicago Searle Fellowship, the Lee Lusted Prize of the Society for Medical Decision Making, the Health Care Research Award of the National Institute for Health Care Management, the Eugene Garfield Award from Research America, and the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Award. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served on panels examining the future of Medicare for the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. organ allocation policy for the Institute of Medicine (IOM). He is currently serving on an IOM panel examining the effectiveness of the US drug safety system.

Karen Rothenberg, J.D., M.P.A. Partner and Co-chair, Health Law Practice Group Jones Day, Washington, D.C. Professor Karen Rothenberg has focused her research primarily on the ethical, legal and social implications of genetic testing and research, including the legislative approaches to genetic information in the health insurance and employment context, the impact of genetic research on racial and ethnic populations and women's health care and the use of genetic information in the courtroom. Professor Rothenberg is co-editor of Women and Prenatal Testing: Facing the Challenges of Genetic Technology and co-author of five articles on genetics and public policy that have been published in the journal Science. Her other research interests include health insurance, privacy, the role of gender in health care, AIDS, research ethics, the right to forego treatment, emergency care and new reproductive technologies.

The ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law and the Public Law Review of the Saint Louis University School of Law are pleased to invite you to attend a national conference focused on ending homelessness and creating healthy communities. The conference will focus on permanent solutions to the housing needs of the lowest income families in our communities. Sessions will include discussions on how healthy communities are defined, how affordable housing with services can be provided for the poor in the context of other development efforts, who is homeless today, how recent weather disasters will impact programs for the homeless, and criminalization of homelessness.

The delivery of health care to athletes is an increasingly complex topic involving ethicists, lawyers, and regulators in both national and international arenas. This conference concentrates on three controversial medico-legal issues; drug and supplement use by athletes, disabled or injured athletes, and the effect of the complex relationships between amateur or professional teams, their doctors, and their athletes.

The conference will provide a unique opportunity for analysis and discussion among academics and activists regarding the sociological and economic impacts of the explosion of consumer debt, what consumer groups can do to mitigate damaging fallout and how the revolution affects bankruptcy policy.

Four substantive sessions and a Summary Session will analyze the economic and social impacts of the Lending Explosion, consider effective methods of consumer response and examine the effect on bankruptcy policy.

Former U.S. Solicitor General and Yale Law Professor Drew Days III will examine the impact of the most sweeping civil rights legislation in U.S. history, followed by additional insights from a distinguished panel that includes: Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll D. Cashin, former clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall and author of The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream; University of Virginia Law Professor George Rutherglen, former clerk for Justices Douglas and Stevens; University of Chicago Political Science Professor Gerald Rosenberg, author of Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?; University of Delaware Law and Public Policy Professor Leland Ware, former trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, and co-author of Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution; Washington University School of Law Professor Samuel R. Bagenstos, former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Saint Louis University School of Law Professor Peter W. Salsich Jr., former chair of the ABA Commission on Homelessness and Poverty; Mercer University School of Law Professor Harold S. Lewis Jr., author of Litigating Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights Cases; and Whittier Law School Visiting Assistant Professor Melissa Cole, adviser on disability rights and author of numerous articles on the Americans with Disabilities Act.

David Barton Smith, Ph.D., David R. Williams, Ph.D., and Harold W. Cruse

Keynote Speaker: Commissioner Thomas B. Leary of the Federal Trade Commission

Saint Louis University's nationally recognized Center for Health Law Studies represents the Schoolﾒs commitment to heightened and sustained contributions to education, research, policy analysis, publications and service. The Center utilizes the considerable expertise the School has developed over the past twenty years of Health Law teaching and research. The Center, in cooperation with the American Health Lawyers Association, publishes the Journal of Health Law. The Saint Louis University Law Journal publishes an annual Health Law Symposium issue based on the proceedings of the Center's health law conference which takes place each spring. The School of Law sponsors dual degree programs in Health Administration (J.D./M.H.A.) and Public Health (J.D./M.P.H.) and offers an LL.M. in Health Law. Graduates of both the J.D. and LL.M. programs are employed at health law departments of major firms, in the U.S. government, and trade associations around the country.

Academic medical centers are the targets of significant pressures from a variety of sources: federal and state governments cutting back on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and stepping up fraud and abuse investigations; marketplace competition for patients from other not-for-profit and for-profit providers; competition for funding with other units of the university; increased opportunities outside of academia for physicians and non-medical researchers; federal and state requirements under equal employment and disability legislation affecting faculty, students and staff; and demands for increased accountability from funding and governmental agencies concerning how research dollars are being spent. This year's Annual Health Law Symposium Conference sponsored by the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University (in cooperation with the National Association of College and University Attorneys and the Saint Louis University School of Medicine) will explore these and other related issues. William Peck, M.D. and Clifford Stromberg

Sponsored by: The Federal Trade Commission, Jeremiah "Jay" Nixon Missouri Attorney General, Saint Louis University School Of Law And The American Bar Association Antitrust Section

Alice G. Gosfield, Mark A. Kadzielski, Paul F. Gleeson, Laura Rothstein and Mary Anne Sedey

Lawrence O. Gostin, Timothy R. McBride, Ph.D., Professor Katherine T. Pratt, Professor Barry R. Furrow and Professor Thomas L. Greaney.