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The DePaul University College of Law dedicated its new Lawrence X. Pusateri Welcome Center during a reception on Oct. 12. The center memorializes the alumnus who was a state legislator, appellate justice and president of the Illinois State Bar Association.

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The class of 2010 at the Southern Illinois University School of Law was inducted Oct. 5 during a Homecoming weekend ceremony in Carbondale. Supreme Court Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier administered the oath.

The law school will conduct a National Health Law Moot Court on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9-10. The competition is based on the pharmacist's right to free speech. Call Alicia Ruiz, (618) 452-8700.

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The John Marshall Law School's annual Kratovil Lecture on Real Estate Law will be given during a conference at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, by Prof. Daniel B. Bogart, director of the Center for Land Resources at the Chapman University School of Law.

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The University of Illinois College of Law will conduct an investiture ceremony for Prof. David Hyman at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the Max Rowe Auditorium.

The law school chapter of the Federalist Society will present a lecture on immigration reform by Jim Bond at 12 noon Wednesday, Oct. 24, in room A.

Marc Grossman, former undersecretary of state, will deliver the Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Rowe Auditorium.

Prof. Thomas S. Ulen, who holds the Swanlund Chair at the University of Illinois College of Law, received an honorary doctorate honoris causa on Oct. 5 from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

A world authority on the discipline of law and economics, Ulen recently served as foreign chair in international and comparative law at the University of Ghent. He has been a visiting professor in Germany and Slovenia and a Ford Foundation professor in Shanghai.

At the ceremony this month, Ulen delivered an acceptance lecture titled “Law and Economics in the Future of Legal Scholarship, Education and Practice.”

He is a founding board member of the American Law and Economic Association and co-organizer of the Midwest Law and Economics Association annual meeting. He is a member of the U.I campus honors faculty.

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The People's Republic of China has honored Dorothy In-Lan Wang Li, co-executive director of the Asian Alliance Program at The John Marshall Law School, for her contributions and dedication to social and economic development through outreach from the law school.

Wang Li is one of 50 worldwide recipients of Friendship Awards presented Sept. 29 in Beijing during a state dinner in the Great Hall of the People. She was nominated by attorneys in China's State Intellectual Property Office.

Thirteen new full-time faculty members have begun fall assignments at The John Marshall Law School. Among them are Richard Gruner, director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law, and June Liebert, director of the Louis L. Biro Law Library.

Others are Arthur Acevedo, William K. Ford, Samuel Jones, Jason J. Kilborn, Colin Miller, Justin K. Schwartz, Steven Schwinn, Corey Young, Mary Jean Dolan, Mary T. Nagel and Clifford Scott-Rudnick.

Schwartz, a former U.S. District Court law clerk in Chicago, was a visiting professor at John Marshall in the past academic year.

Dolan, a visiting professor in the Lawyering Skills Program, taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and was special counsel to the City of Chicago.

Nagel, a John Marshall alumnus and former chief legal counsel to the Illinois Department of Labor, also is a visiting professor in Lawyering Skills.

Scott-Rudnick, who taught previously in Lawyering Skills, is a visiting professor in Professional Responsibility. He is a Chicago-Kent graduate.

Melli Holley, a student in the LL.M. program in real estate law at The John Marshall Law School, has received a $2,500 George M. Brooker Scholarship for Minorities from the Institute of Real Estate Management.