Curriculum

Associate Prof. Jeffery M. Brown of the Northern Illinois University College of Law has been named a J. William Fulbright Scholar for the second time.

He will teach a comparative law course, “Rule of Law in Emerging Democracies,” and a mini-seminar during the spring semester at Petrozavodsk State University in the Russian Federation of Karelia.

Brown first visited the university in May 2004 and has returned several times to the region. He taught a mini-seminar there in December 2004 and conducted research on the controversial election of a Ukranian president.

Brown served his first teaching and research Fulbright in 1996 in Bulgaria and Macedonia, where he had lectured for two years with the Yale University and Open Society Civil Education Project.

An NIU faculty member since 1999, he taught previously at the Syracuse University College of Law and Vermont School of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.

A comprehensive program, “The Tele-communications Act of 1996: A 10th Anniversary Retrospective,” will be pre-sented Monday, Feb. 13, at the Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale.

Speakers include Willem Korthals Altes of the appellate court in Arnhem, The Netherlands; Jane E. Mago, general counsel of the National Association of Broadcasters; Andrew Schwartzman of the Media Access Project; B. Keith Fulton of Verizon, and Prof. H. James Nelson of the SIU School of Business.

There is no charge to attend, but reservations should be made by calling (618) 453-8719 or accessing the Web site, www.law.siu.edu. A $20 luncheon will be available for registered participants.

The Champaign County Courthouse will be the site of Region 8 rounds of the National Trial Competition scheduled Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 9-11, with the University of Illinois College of Law as host. Call Prof. J. Steven Beckett, (217) 333-3608, for details.

Participating law schools include DePaul University, Chicago-Kent Col-lege of Law, Indiana University, The John Marshall Law School, Northern Illinois University, University of Notre Dame, Southern Illinois University and Valparaiso University.

Veronica Root, a first-year student at the University of Chicago Law School, has received the first Diversity Scholarship Award for minority students from Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago.

Root will receive $5,000 for each of her three years in law school and a guaranteed position in the firm's summer program. While an undergraduate at Georgetown University, she received the Black Student Alliance Vision of Excellence Leadership Award and was student representative to the alumni board.

The Vedder Price Diversity Scholarship program is administered by committee chair Lawrence J. Casazza and James V. Garvey, who heads the associate hiring committee.