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News in 2011

December 2011

Mon	12	Professor John Forry Appointed Director of USD School of Law's Tax Programs
Wed	7	USD School of Law Professor Gail Heriot
Mon	5	Professor Frank Partnoy Interviewed on 60 Minutes

November 2011

Tue	22	Prof. McAllister Appointed Visiting Scholar at UCSD Center for US-Mexican Studies
Tue	22	USD Legal Clinics Receive Multiple Grant Awards
Fri	18	USD Law Students Take Home Prized Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association Scholarships
Fri	11	Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP Funds $10,000 Diversity Scholarship for Second Year
Thu	10	Professor Partnoy Analyzes Works About Economic Meltdown in "The New York Review of Books"
Tue	8	Prof. Orly Lobel Elected to the American Law Institute

October 2011

Mon	31	Professor Lesley McAllister Appointed Wallace Stegner Young Scholar
Fri	28	USD Alumni & Students Sweep Top Awards at La Raza Lawyers Association Annual Dinner
Thu	27	USD Announces 2011 Distinguished Alumni and Rising Star Recent Alumni Awards
Tue	25	USD Alum Theo Epstein Named Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations
Wed	19	Bloomberg News: Patent Lawyer Demand Rises Following U.S. Legislative Overhaul
Mon	17	USD Takes Honors at National Civil Rights and Liberties Moot Court Competition
Mon	10	Intellectual Property Lawyers are in High Demand
Mon	10	Law Student Wins Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award
Fri	7	USD Among Travel and Leisure’s America's Most Beautiful College Campuses
Tue	4	Two USD Law Alumni Named to Top Posts at Qualcomm
Tue	4	USD School of Law Announces Bi-National Legal Education Partnership

September 2011

Tue	20	Professor Lisa Ramsey Leads "Hot Topics" Presentation at Cal. Bar Annual Meeting
Thu	15	USD School of Law Launches New African Legal Education Partnership
Wed	14	CAI Report Findings Lead Child Advocates to Sue CA Department of Social Services
Tue	13	USD School of Law Appoints Mary Jo Wiggins Vice Dean of Academic Affairs
Fri	2	Law Professors Honored for Academic Achievements

August 2011

Mon	29	Professor Frank Partnoy Featured on NPR's Fresh Air
Mon	15	USD School of Law Alumnus Gale Filter '89 to Head San Diego Coastkeeper
Mon	15	Law Alumni Board Member Douglas Friednash Appointed Denver City Attorney
Tue	9	Alumnae Give a New Twist to the Contract Lawyer Model

July 2011

Mon	25	Prof. Orly Lobel Among Foreign Scholars Invited to Present at Chinese Law Symposium
Fri	15	Ferruolo Interviewed by AmLaw Daily

June 2011

Wed	29	USD Appoints Stephen C. Ferruolo Dean of the Law School
Thu	23	Grant Morris Named Professor of Law Emeritus
Tue	7	USD Law Alumna Judge Jackie Glass '84 to Replace Nancy Grace on Swift Justice
Mon	6	USD School of Law Wins Diversity Matters Award

May 2011

Thu	26	Professor Nancy Carol Carter Discusses the Preservation of Balboa Park on KPBS
Wed	25	Law School Announces Inaugural Leonard Armato ’78 Scholarship Fund Recipient
Fri	20	USD Lawyering Skills Instructor's Paper Lands on Top Download List
Tue	10	Ron D. Parraguirre '86 to Deliver Law School Commencement Address
Tue	10	2011 Thorsnes Prizes for Academic Excellence Awarded
Tue	3	USD to Honor Law School Graduate Virginia Nelson with Career Achievement Award

April 2011

Thu	28	Professor Lisa Ramsey Discusses Social Media's Dark Side
Thu	28	USD Law Alum Wins State Supreme Court Case Against Williams-Sonoma Stores, Inc.
Tue	26	Professor Mike Ramsey Faces Off in Debate About Use of Force in Libya
Thu	7	USD School of Law Professor Lesley McAllister Receives Fulbright Award
Wed	6	Students Take Home the Bronze at the Jerome Prince Evidence Competition
Tue	5	USD School of Law Presents 3rd Annual Climate & Energy Law Symposium

March 2011

Wed	30	Law Prof. Lisa Ramsey Discusses Brandjacking on Social Networks with ABC Radio
Mon	28	Two Moot Court Teams Reach “Final Four” at Child Welfare Moot Court Competition
Thu	17	USD Law Students Win "Best Brief" at Duberstein Moot Court Competition
Wed	16	CAI Unveils "The Fleecing of Foster Children" Report at Congressional Briefing
Mon	7	USD School of Law's Entrepreneurship Clinic Featured in the Union-Tribune
Thu	3	USD Law Prof. Shaun Martin’s Arguments Win Unanimous Calif. Supreme Court Ruling
Wed	2	USD School of Law Names Dr. Nilmini Silva-Send First Friedman Energy Law Fellow
Tue	1	Child Advocacy Institute's US Supreme Court amicus brief named Brief of the Week

February 2011

Fri	25	Need a Mexican Legal Dictionary? USD Law Prof. Jorge Vargas Has an App for That
Thu	24	USD's National Trial Team Wins TYLA Regional Competition
Wed	23	USD Law Professor Ted Sichelman Lends Expertise to IP Law Panel
Tue	15	EVENT CANCELLATION: U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Special Sitting at USD
Mon	7	USD Law Constitutional Originalism Conference Lauded in New York Times
Fri	4	USD School of Law Alumna's Lunch Counter Incident Remembered

January 2011

Mon	31	Professor Partnoy Reacts to Financial Crisis Report: Congress Should Try Again
Mon	31	Law Professors Honored by USD for Academic Achievements
Tue	25	USD Law Appoints Inaugural Lawrence Irving Distinguished Senior Teaching Fellow
Fri	21	Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) '78 Selected as Chairman of Ways and Means Committee
Thu	20	Distinguished Law Alumni Praise Colleague Judge Larry Burns on NPR's Morning Edition
Thu	13	USD Law Alumnus Larry A. Burns to Preside Over Jared Loughner Trial
Sun	9	Professor Shaun Martin Provides Expert Legal Commentary on Prop. 8 Debate
Tue	4	Alumna Kirsten Widner Directs Policy at the Barton Child Law and Policy Center