Curriculum

A $5 million gift from corporate lawyer Bernard J. Beazley to the Loyola University School of Law will help fund expansion of its nationally ranked curriculum in health law.

Renamed the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy, the program will be able to endow a faculty chair, to provide student fellowships and to increase course offerings.

“The remarkable gift by Bernie Beazley will enable us to move to another level,” said Law School Dean David Yellen, “on issues ranging from bioethics to regulation of health care delivery systems.”

A 1950 graduate of the law school, Beazley was general counsel and senior vice president of Dentsply International, a manufacturer of professional care dental products.

Other Loyola programs he has supported include the Beazley Distinguished Professorships. He serves on the university's planned giving society, Shield of Loyola, and is a former member of the President's Advisory Council.

Terence M. O'Sullivan, general president of the Laborers' International Union of North America, will give the Distinguished Labor Leader Lecture at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at 12 noon Tuesday, Feb. 28.

A former high school teacher and coach who is known for his motivational speaking, O'Sullivan has headed the 800,000-member AFL-CIO affiliate since January 2000.

He also is chair and CEO of ULLICO, a union-owned company that helps working people through innovative insurance, investment, financial and administrative products.

The free Chicago-Kent lecture is sponsored by its Institute for Law and the Workplace and the Chicago Federation of Labor. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.

The 2006 Van Arsdell Lecture on Litigation and the Legal Profession at the University of Illinois College of Law will take place at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, in the Max Rowe Auditorium. Judith Resnick of the Yale Law School is the speaker.

The 2006 Baum Lecture on Elder Law will be given at 12:30 p.m. Monday, March 6, by Laura Watts of the Canadian Centre on Elder Law. Her topic is “The Failure of Elder Abuse Legislation.”

Prof. W. Eugene Basanta of the Southern Illinois University School of Law has been designated its inaugural Healthcare Professor of Law. The investiture ceremony took place Dec. 19.

Newsletter co-editor for the ISBA Health Care Section, Basanta was cited by school officials as the driving force behind its Center for Health Law and Policy.

The new professorship was established last year to recognize a senior law school faculty member who makes significant contributions to law, medicine and health policy issues.

A team of Philip H. Corboy Fellows at the Loyola University School of Law placed third among 16 competitors in the National Institute for Trial Advocacy Tournament of Champions recently in Akron, Ohio.

Invited to participate for the first time, Loyola defeated law school teams from St. John's University, Suffolk University, the University of Houston, and Loyola of Los Angeles.

“As the only law school from Illinois, it was great to come away with such a prestigious win,” said Law Prof. James Carey, who heads Loyola's advocacy program. “This ranking is truly a testament to Loyola's approach in preparing future trial lawyers.”

Civil rights attorney Alvin O. Chambliss, currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Indiana University School of Education, gave two lectures related to Hurricane Katrina on Feb. 8 at Northern Illinois University.

His afternoon lecture, “Rethinking Ameri-can Democracy: Civil Rights Law from 1609 to the Katrina Disaster,” in the Francis X. Riley Courtroom at the College of Law was followed by a reception in the Thurgood Marshall Gallery.

An evening lecture, “Update on the Katrina/Rita Disasters: The Effects on New Orleans,” was presented in the Holmes Student Center.

Chambliss is working on a book on the historic role of Indiana University on race relations in higher education. He is a faculty member in the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University.