Summer 2010

Summer 2010

Faculty Accomplishments:

Professor Judith Royster. Professor Royster taught a one-week course on Mineral and Energy Development in Indian Country at the University of Montana’s American Indian Law Summer Program.

Assistant Dean Kristine Bridges. Dean Bridges has been appointed by NALP President Carol Sprague (Skadden Arps) to serve as NALP Liaison to the ABA Law Practice Management Section. Her position will bring exposure to the TU College of Law, as well as provide more timely legal market issues and information to our administrators, faculty, students and alumni.

Professor Tamara Piety. Professor Piety's article, Citizens United and the Threat to the Regulatory State was recently selected for publication by the Michigan Law Review. Her article will be published in the “First Impressions” section of the publication.

Student Accomplishments:

The ABA Bifocal recently featured Amy Gioletti in its May/June Issue as the Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging Summer Intern. Amy is entering her third year of law school. She is enrolled in the health law certificate program and is the secretary of the Law and Medicine Society. During her second year of law school, Amy completed two semesters in her school’s legal clinic and was awarded several Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) “Excellence for the Future Awards,” including awards for elder law and health law courses. Ms. Gioletti also completed the first ever health law externship with the Center for Medical Genetics at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Upon graduation, Ms. Gioletti hopes to provide legal services to elderly and low-income individuals and help them gain access to health care and other social services. Ms. Gioletti is working with Assistant Director Erica Wood on a review of provisions concerning placement decisions in adult guardianship statutes across the 50 states, as well as a related literature review.

Arthur Lloyd (JD '12) and Sara Sharp (JD '12) recently visited the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Den Haag, Netherlands and were able to observe the former President of the Bosnian Serbs (Radovan Karadzic) on trial for genocide and war crimes.

Reba Redelman (JD '10 and LLM '11) has recently been offered an internship at the U.S. Tax Court in the chambers of Judge Crewson Paris for this coming fall semester.

Alumni News:

Kevin Kornegay (JD '06) is currently employed as an Assistant Attorney General in American Samoa. Mr. Kornegay states, “Throughout my employment in American Samoa, I have been very intrigued by its history, culture, laws, political policies, federal oversight/control (or sometimes lack thereof), and how these interact.” Mr. Kornegay is a former staff member of the TJCIL and hopes to work with one or our journals to publish a work detailing how the aforementioned have created a vast economic disparity, poor emphasis on education, a struggling economy, political corruption, and what has been called "legalized slavery."