- On September 10th, Professor Stephen Sepinuck gave a presentation entitled UCC Issues in Bankruptcy at the annual conference of Washington Bankruptcy Judges. Professor Sepinuck has also completed the latest edition of his Spotlight column. This column, published in the joint quarterly newsletter of the ABA Uniform Commercial Code Committee and the ABA Commercial Finance Committee, highlights and discusses poorly reasoned decisions interpreting the UCC and related commercial laws. Past editions of the column are posted on the website of Gonzaga’s Commercial Law Center.
- Professor Linda Kawaguchi was recently reappointed to a three-year term of the WSBA council on Public Legal Education.
- In September, Professor Linda Rusch attended the American Bar Association Section Officers Conference in Chicago, and made a presentation to the breakout group of Secretaries and Vice Chairs on long-range and strategic planning. Professor Rusch also recently attended the UCC Article 9 Review Committee meeting in Minneapolis as a representative of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and prepared a 22-page report of the meeting for the College.
- The National Law Journal recently published Professor Dan Morrissey’s opinion piece: Strengthen Investors Rights.
- Professor Sandra Simpson presented her article entitled, “Everyone Else is Doing It, Why Can’t We: A New Perspective on Mcleskey v. Kemp” at the Law and Society 2009 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. She also presented, “Thinking Critically about Teaching Goals by Drafting Effective Assessment Rubrics” at Institute for Law Teaching and Learning conference, Implementing Best Practices and Educating Lawyers: Teaching Skills and Professionalism Across the Curriculum, June 23-24, 2009, at Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington.
- In August, Professor Mark DeForrest presented at the Northwest Legal Writing Conference in Portland, Oregon, on the topic, “Using the Letter from a Birmingham City Jail to Teach Specific Strategies for Persuasive Legal Writing.”
- Dean Earl F. Martin and Professor Gerry Hess co-authored an article about Gonzaga’s new curriculum, “Developing a Skills and Professionalism Curriculum,” which was accepted for publication in the University of Toledo Law Review’s annual Leadership in Legal Education issue.
- Professor Buck Sterling’s bibliography, Sources of Washington State Legal History: An Annotated Bibliography, has been accepted for publication by the Law Library Journal, the official journal of the American Association of Law Libraries.
