Hasti Barahmand (’12): A Voice for Troubled Youth
Clerkship Program Matches Students to Small Town Law Practices (National Law Journal, May 2, 2012)
Clerkship Program Matches Students to Small Town Law Practices (National Law Journal, May 2, 2012)
Congratulations to Professor Adrien Wing – 2012 Regents Award for Faculty Excellence Recipient
Professor Adrien Wing has been chosen by the Selection Committee to receive a 2012 Regents Award for Faculty Excellence. This award is one of the highest honors the University bestows and recognizes faculty achievement in teaching, scholarship and service. Please join us in congratulating Professor Wing on this great honor and extending our sincere thanks for all she does and will do for the College of Law and the University of Iowa.
Professor Yockey Comments on Wal-Mart’s Mexican Bribery Investigation
An investigation started this week by the Department of Justice into allegations that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. paid bribes to Mexico government officials may have an impact on the retailer beyond the court room, says a University of Iowa law professor.
Research from Joseph Yockey, an expert on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) that Wal-Mart may have violated, suggests that how companies handle such investigations can raise a variety of internal management and governance concerns.
Read More at http://now.uiowa.edu/2012/04/ui-law-professor-looks-possible-impact-wal-marts-mexican-bribery-investigation
Professor Onwuachi-Willig in Room for Debate: “The Definition of Marriage Bends Toward Justice”(NY Times, April 25, 2012)
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/04/24/are-family-values-outdated/the-definition-of-marriage-bends-toward-justice
Congratulations to Amy Beier (3L), 2011-12 Hancher-Finkbine Medallion Award Winner, and Ryan Melcher (3L), 2011-12 Distinguished Student Leadership Certificate Winner
Read more at http://now.uiowa.edu/2012/04/hawks-admire
Prestigious Huit Award presented to Professor Onwuachi-Willig
Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig received the M.L. Huit Faculty Award on the 95th anniversary of the 2012 Finkbine Dinner. The University of Iowa honored outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni at one of the university’s most prestigious award ceremonies. The M.L. Huit Faculty Award recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates dedication to, concern for, and interaction with students. [Read More]
UICIFD Explains the European Sovereign Debt Crisis in a New E-Book Section
UICIFD Explains the European Sovereign Debt Crisis in a New E-Book Section
See http://ebook.law.uiowa.edu/ebook/uicifd-ebook/part-six-european-sovereign-debt-crisis
Professor Estin publishes family law desk book
What began as a search for a good research project, ended in the publication of Ann Laquer Estin’s new book, the International Family Law Desk Book. Her journey to the tome’s publication began with membership in the International Society of Family Law (ISFL), which provided her with observer status at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. In 2007, she was appointed by ISFL to attend meetings of the Hague Conference that focused on a new international treaty for establishing and enforcing child support.
“The Hague Conference is a very impressive international organization that is doing important work on issues including child abduction and intercountry adoption. When I attended the first of these meetings in 2007, I was looking for a good project for my next research leave semester, and thought I could do something useful at their Permanent Bureau in The Hague,” said Estin. “Within the first day or two, I realized that I could be more useful if I worked in the United States helping lawyers and judges here to navigate the complexities of international family law practice.”
By the time she got home, she had a plan for a couple of law review articles and a rough outline of a book. Estin received a Global Scholar fellowship from the University of Iowa in 2009, which funded additional trips to The Hague and made it possible to devote an extra semester to writing the book.
The book takes a broad approach to international family law with regard to cross-border family issues—including topics such as, marriage, divorce, the financial aspects of divorce, parentage and parental rights, custody and child abduction litigation, child support, and intercountry adoption.
Estin often fields questions from lawyers who encounter these issues. She enjoys being able to open the book and provide a phone number or a couple of case citations to help them find the right answer.
“The other thing that surprised me in this project was discovering that child welfare cases with cross-border issues are particularly unwieldy and difficult, and not well understood by most of the players in the international family law system,” said Estin. “Immigration laws complicate these cases, along with the chronic lack of resources for child protection services. We have difficulty even with interstate child welfare proceedings in the United States.”
Estin’s book was published by the American Bar Association (ABA) in January 2012 and is available on the ABA publishing web site at: http://apps.americanbar.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=5210215.
Prof. Osiel Reviews the World’s Response 20 Years After the Start of Bosnian Civil War
Prof. Osiel Reviews the World’s Response 20 Years After the Start of Bosnian Civil War
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Bosnian civil war, when Bosnian Serb nationalists fired on demonstrators in downtown Sarajevo and sparked the bloodiest three years in Europe since World War II.
In response, the United Nations established a special tribunal to investigate, arrest and try the political and military leaders responsible for a war that dragged on until 1995. But Mark Osiel, a University of Iowa law professor who has followed the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, says the ICTY has been only partially successful. See http://now.uiowa.edu/2012/04/law-and-bosnian-break