SIU law dean set to resign

Peter C. Alexander, dean of the Southern Illinois University School of Law since 2003, has announced that he will resign at the end of the next academic year.

A former Champaign attorney and federal court law clerk, he was a faculty member at the Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University for 11 years before coming to SIU.

Vice chair of the ISBA Committee on Delivery of Legal Services, Alexander serves on the Committee on Legal Education, Admission and Competence, and the advisory board of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review.

NIU alums to golf

The Northern Illinois University College of Law will hand out alumni awards during its fourth annual benefit golf outing on Friday, June 27, at the River Heights Golf Course in DeKalb.

Proceeds from the foursome scramble event, including sponsorships and a raffle, will support the NIU Law Alumni Council Scholarship Fund. It will begin with a 12 noon lunch and 1 p.m. shotgun start. Awards will be presented during the 6 p.m. buffet dinner.

The cost of $100 per person includes golf cart, both meals, and refreshments on the course. Alumni may attend only the dinner for $40.

Registrations forms may be accessed at http://law.niu.edu by clicking on Current Announcements and Events. For assistance or information, call (815) 753-9655 or e-mail mmitchell@niu.edu.

Chairs visitor board

Judge Rodney W. Equi of the 18th Circuit has been elected to a two-year term as chair of the Northern Illinois University College of Law Board of Visitors. He has served on the board for seven years and has been vice chair since 2006.

John S. Monical of Lawrence, Kamin, Saunders & Uhlenhop, Chicago, is vice chair, and Cook County Associate Judge Lawrence E. Flood is secretary.

Equi, a 1979 graduate of the law school and former Wheaton attorney, has been a judge since 2001. Presiding judge in the Domestic Relations Division, he is a past member of the ISBA Family Law Section Council.

Loyola chair filled

John E. Nowak, the David C. Baum Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois College of Law, will join the Loyola University School of Law on July 1 as the inaugural Raymond and Mary Simon Chair in Constitutional Law.

In addition to teaching, researching and publishing, he will plan conferences, speaker series and other programs in constitutional law.

A graduate of the U.I. law school, Nowak has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, the College of William and Mary, and the University of Richmond.

He is co-author with former U.I. law professor Ronald Rotunda of Thomson-West’s six-volume “Treatise on Constitutional Law,” now in its fourth edition.

Nowak is a former member of the Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases and the Infractions Committee of the National College Athletic Association.

The chair was established last year by the Helen V. Brach Foundation in honor of Raymond F. Simon, its retiring president.

Interim dean at U.I.

Ralph Brubaker, associate dean for academic affairs and professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, has replaced Charles J. Tabb as interim dean while a search continues.

Prof. Bruce P. Smith, who will serve as associate dean for academic affairs, recently received a campus-wide Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching Award. He is co-director of the Illinois Legal History Program.

Faculty achievements

Associate Dean Lenny Mandell of the Northern Illinois University College of Law was honored recently for 25 years as advisor to the moot court program since its inception.

NIU Law Prof. Dan Schneider was honored in Washington, D.C., during a 35th anniversary commemoration of the Roe v. Wade opinion. He contacted doctors and conducted interviews while drafting jurisdictional briefs.

NIU law professor emeritus Gordon B. Shneider delivered the school’s 15th annual Francis X. Riley Lecture on Professionalism on April 1l.

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Former University of Chicago Law School faculty member Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. will receive the Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award next month from the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility.

The award will be presented May 29 in Boston during the 34th National Conference on Professional Responsibility. Hazard teaches at the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.

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Prof. William Davey, the Guy Raymond Jones Chair at the University of Illinois College of Law, has retired to emeritus status but will continue as a scholar and teacher. Former legal counsel to the World Trade Organization, he joined the faculty in 1984.