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The University of Illinois Alumni As--sociation will honor three graduates of the College of Law during commencement ceremonies Sunday, May 14, in Champaign. They are Alice Curtis Campbell ('43), John W. McDonald ('46) and Eugene N. Hamilton ('59).

Campbell will receive a Distinguished Service Award, McDonald a Professional Achievement Award, and Hamilton a Humanitarian Award.

Campbell and her husband, who founded a real estate firm, have made a significant financial contribution to the Alice Campbell Alumni Center, which will open in May, and have created the Alice Curtis Campbell Endowed Chair at the law school.

McDonald, a career diplomat and force for international development and peace, received a Nobel Prize in 1994. Since his retirement in 1987, he has been a law professor and chair of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, which he helped establish.

Hamilton, retired chief judge of the District of Columbia Superior Court, has created community programs to prevent juvenile delinquency, streamline adoption procedures and improve foster care. He established a domestic violence unit and a juvenile drug court.

Judge Priscilla Owen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit will deliver the annual Hiram H. Lesar Distinguished Lecture at the Southern Illinois University School of Law.

Owen will speak on “What Does the Future Hold for our Court System?” at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of Lesar Law Building, which was named for the school's founding dean in 1992.

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The SIU Center for Health Law and Policy will conduct its eighth annual Health Policy Institute, “Consumer-Directed Health Care: Legal and Policy Implications,” from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 19. Call (618) 453-8636.

The keynote speaker at 9:15 a.m. is Prof. Regina E. Herzlinger of Harvard Business School. Moderators are center co-directors Marshall B. Kapp and W. Eugene Basanta, newsletter editor for the ISBA Health Care Section.

The National Undergraduate Diversity Mock Trial Competition will take place Friday and Saturday, April 21-22, at The John Marshall Law School. Call Rory Smith, (312) 987-1412.

The John Marshall Center for Employee Benefits and Tax Law will conduct a public policy program, “The Future of Employer Sponsored Health Benefits,” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 28. Call Kathy Winiczay, (312) 427-2737, ext. 380.

The Chicago-Kent College of Law will conduct its 25th annual Federal Tax Institute on Thursday and Friday, April 21-22. Call (312) 905-5090.

Keynote luncheon speaker on Thursday will be University of Virginia Law Prof. George Yin, who was chief of staff for the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation from 2003 to 2005.

Chicago-Kent's 23rd annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Conference will take place Thursday and Friday, April 27-28, chaired by Prof. Sheldon H. Nahmod.

A conference on “Capital Markets and Corporate Governance: Short-Term Pressure in a Long-Term World?” will be conducted by the University of Illinois College of Law on Monday and Tuesday, April 24-25, at the University Club of Chicago.

Speakers include U.S. and European school faculty and public and private sector business and legal experts. Call Prof. Cynthia A. Williams, (217) 333-3966.

Prof. Michael P. Seng of The John Marshall Law School has been elected president of the Council of Higher Education, which provides college scholarships to students of Czech, Slovak and Ruthenian ancestry.

Arlington Heights attorney George T. Drost, former Czech honorary consul in Chicago, is treasurer. Seng succeeds Ernie Melichar, also of John Marshall, who has been president for six years.

University of Wisconsin Law Prof. Gregory Shaffer will become the inaugural Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law at the Loyola University School of Law on July 1.

An expert on international trade law and global governance, Shaffer has been director of Wisconsin's European Union Center, and co-director and senior fellow of the Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy. A graduate of the Stanford Law School, he practiced in Paris for seven years.

Shaffer has been a Distinguished Visit-ing Professor at the DePaul University College of Law, and a visiting scholar at the Columbia Law School and American Bar Foundation.