Curriculum

DePaul University Law Prof. John F. Decker, a faculty member since 1971, received the College of Law's Via Sapiente Award during commencement exercises on May 20.

His achievements include founding the internship/externship and criminal law programs, being special advisor to the Criminal Law Edit, Alignment and Reform Commission, and writing several books and articles.

Leonard Hudson of Chicago, a May graduate of The John Marshall Law School, has received a Marie Adornetto Monahan Endowed Judicial Extern Scholarship, named for a professor who died in 2004.

The award will offset tuition for law school credit related to a spring internship with Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke during which he researched and reviewed briefs. He held a previous internship with Appellate Justice Themis Karnezis.

Hudson was a member of the law review editorial board and the Wilhelm C. Vis International Arbitration Moot Competition team that competed in Vienna, Austria. He has accepted a position with Reed, Smith, Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago.

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The Government Bar Association presented its first scholarship to David J. Mussatt, a student at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, during a Springfield ceremony in June.

A former Midwest region analyst for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, he plans a career in government law.

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Chicago-Kent student Angela L. Davis has received a Jenner & Block Diversity Scholarship for academic merit and commitment to community service.

An evening representative for the Kent Justice Foundation, which promotes pro bono and public interest law, she has been accepted in the litigation and alternative dispute resolution certificate program.

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Nathan D. Matthews, a student at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, is serving a George Overton Memorial Internship at the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union in Chicago.

Named for George W. Overton, an attorney with Wildman Harrold who died in 2004, the internship is provided by the law firm and the Public Interest Law Initiative, where he was a life director.

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Daniel Padernacht and Curtis Vosit, third-year students at John Marshall, participated July 2 and 3 in an International Negotiation Competition in Singapore. They were accompanied by their coach, adjunct professor Dawn Bode.

Padernacht and Vosit were selected after advancing from national competition conducted by the American Bar Association Law Student Division in February.

Michael K. Demetrio of Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago, has been appointed an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School, where he teaches a course on federal rules of evidence. He is a past president of the Chicago Bar Association.