pCongratulations rising 2Ls on your completion of boot camp.  Some in worse condition than others, but rising nonetheless.  And the immediate issue is what to do this summer.  You can take a summer job, and tread water until the fall semester.  Comfortable if not restful -- not bad./ppYou can do a lot better./ppJoin the emJournal of Law amp; Education/em.  As a member you will be writing responsible legal text, overseen by experienced student editors and professionals, before publication.  You'll enjoy the pains and pitfalls of communicative and precise legal writing.  You'll acquire what will over time become second nature.  Indeed, you can have an article available in print for employers (former law review members themselves) before graduation./ppAmong other benefits of Journal membership are scholastic credit, and an opportunity to satisfy the writing requirement./ppThe deadline for applications is May 29.  Find our application a href=http://www.law.louisville.edu/node/8549here/a./p

pWhy should you apply for JLE?  Two great reasons:/polliYou value your time olliWork is spread out, requiring most of all responsibility in meeting deadlines, a basic professional trait./liliNo office hours; ours is an unstructured time commitment./liliEach candidate has over six months, with reasonable deadlines, to write a Note./li/ol/liliAmazing opportunities olli4-5 opportunities for your note to be published!/liliYour written abstracts are published in EVERY edition.  That is four times you are guaranteed publication of your written work!/liliJLE is the leading journal in the field of law and education - ranking well above the median in law review circulation./liliSupportive staff; we want to help you develop as a writer./liliAbundant editorial board position opportunities for 3Ls./li/ol/li/olpApplication deadline is May 29 at 5 p.m.  Find our application a href=/note/8549here/a.  Mark your calendar for a mandatory orientation June 12 from 6 to 8 p.m.  To submit your application or if you have any questions, please contact Cassie Blausey at a href=mailto:cassie.restrepo@gmail.comcassie.restrepo@gmail.com/a. /p

pThere are seven writing competitions open to law students with deadlines in June, plus many more competitions with deadlines throughout the summer.  Below is a list of competitions with upcoming deadlines.  To view a more complete list, go to a href=/node/7044https://www.law.louisville.edu/node/7044/a.  Good luck!/ppnbsp;/ph225th Annual Law Student Essay Contest/h2pSponsor: American Judges Association/ppGeneral criteria: Essays submitted must be under the topic of quot;Comparing Hearsay Rules in Different Courts.quot;  All papers shall be the original, unpublished work of an individual student, but may have been prepared as a course assignment./ppDeadline: June 1, 2013/ppAmount of award: First prize is $3,000; second is $1,500; and third is $1,000./ppSubmission information: See a href=http://aja.ncsc.dni.us/uspan style=color: #0000ffhttp://aja.ncsc.dni.us/span/u/a. /ppnbsp;/ph2KBA Annual Student Writing Competition/h2pThe Kentucky Bar Association encourages UofL Law students to enter the KBA Annual Student Writing Competition.  This competition is open only to students at the three Kentucky law schools - UL, UK, and Chase!  /ppFirst ($1,000), second ($300), and third place ($200) awards will be given.  Entries must be received by strongJune 1, 2013./strong/ppStudents may enter their previously unpublished articles. Articles should be of interest to Kentucky practitioners and follow the suggested guidelines and requirements found in the quot;General Formatquot; section of the Bench amp; Bar Editorial Guidelines at a href=http://www.kybar.org/103uspan style=color: #0000ffwww.kybar.org/103/span/u/a. /ppOur very own strongLeah Rupp Smith/strong won the 2012 KBA Writing Award with her entry titled quot;Standing Your Ground: The Happy Medium Buried in Kentucky's Common Law.quot;   Let's continue the tradition for 2013!/ppa href=/sites/www.law.louisville.edu/files/2013%20KBA%20Student%20Writing_0.pdfuspan style=color: #0000ffSubmission Information/span/u/a/ppuspan style=color: #0000ff/span/u/ph2uspan style=color: #0000ff/span/u/h2h2National Student Writing Contest on Real Property Law /h2pSponsor:  The Texas Wesleyan Journal of Real Property Law (Property Journal) /ppCriteria: This is a national writing competition for all law students on any topic falling into the general theme of real property law. This is a great opportunity for students on law reviews and journals whose note or comment may not have made the final publication cuts, and students who have written excellent papers for a seminar class or independent study. There are cash prizes as well as an opportunity to publish in the Property Journal./ppDeadline:  June 1, 2013/ppAmount of award: First-place will receive $750; Second-place will receive $500.00; and if a Third-Place essay is selected, that author will receive $250.00./ppSubmission information: a href=http://www.realpropertyjournal.org/Home/national-writing-contestuspan style=color: #0000ffhttp://www.realpropertyjournal.org/Home/national-writing-contest/span/u/a. /ppnbsp;/ph2Employee Benefits Writing Competition/h2pSponsor: The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel/ppCriteria:  Papers must deal with employee benefits topics.  As an illustrative example, a paper might address legal issues involving health benefits, pensions, 401(k) plans, severance, executive compensation, claims, appeals, current or former spouses' or domestic partners' benefits, collectively-bargained benefits, benefits in bankruptcy, ERISA litigation or fiduciary obligations.  /ppDeadline: June 1, 2013/ppAmount of award:  Two cash prizes of $1,500 for the top two submissions.  The law students who submit the wining papers will be our honored guests at our annual black tie dinner in New Orleans on November 9, 2013. /ppSubmission information: See a href=/sites/www.law.louisville.edu/files/Employee%20Benefits%20Writing%20Competition.pdfuspan style=color: #0000ffcompetition rules/span/u/a./ppnbsp;/ph22013 Brown Award of $10,000 for Excellence in Legal Writing/h2pSponsor: The Judge John R. Brown Scholarship Foundation/ppGeneral criteria: Any law student currently enrolled in an accredited law school seeking a J.D. is eligible.  To be considered, four copies of a current legal writing must be submitted to the Foundation. There is no page limitation or restriction on the topic except that the writing must be on a legal subject.  The 2012 Award was presented to Daniel Alterbaum of Yale Law School for his paper entitled, emControl Share Acts, Closed-End Funds, and the Battle for Corporate Control/em.  /ppDeadline: June 7, 2013/ppAmount of award: $10,000/ppSubmission information: a href=http://www.brownsims.com/about-brown-sims/affiliations/judge-john-r-brown-awarduspan style=color: #0000ffwww.brownsims.com/about-brown-sims/affiliations/judge-john-r-brown-award/span/u/a /ppnbsp;/ppnbsp;/ph230th Annual Smith-Babcock-Williams Student Writing Competition/h2pSponsor: Planning amp; Law Division of the American Planning Association/ppGeneral criteria: The Competition is open to law students and graduate planning students writing on a question of significance in planning, planning law, land use law, local government law or environmental law./ppDeadline: June 7, 2013/ppAmount of award: The winning entry will be awarded a prize of $2,500 and will be submitted for publication in The Urban Lawyer, the law journal of the American Bar Association's Section of State amp; Local Government Law.  In addition to the first prize, the Competition will offer a second place prize of $500 and a third prize of $250.  Up to two additional submissions may be awarded Honorable Mention./ppSubmission information:  Visit a href=http://www.law.asu.edu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=epuHJYqwa-4%3Damp;tabid=937uspan style=color: #0000ffhttp://www.law.asu.edu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=epuHJYqwa-4%3Damp;tabid=937/span/u/a./ppnbsp;/ppnbsp;/ph22013 Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition/h2pSponsor: American College of Trust and Estate Counsel/ppGeneral criteria: Law students may submit an original, previously unpublished work that relates to an issue within one or more of the following topics in the area of trusts and estates: Businss planning; charitable planning; elder law; employee benefits; fiduciary accounting, administration, income taxation, or litigation; estate planning; professional responsibility; or wealth transfer taxation./ppDeadline: June 14, 2013/ppAmount of award: $5,000 for first place; $3,000 for second place; $1,000 for third place./ppSubmission information: a href=http://www.actec.org/public/WenigCompetition/WenigCompetitionRules.aspuspan style=color: #0000ffhttp://www.actec.org/public/WenigCompetition/WenigCompetitionRules.asp/span/u/a/ppuspan style=color: #0000ff/span/u/ppuspan style=color: #0000ff/span/u/ph2James Boskey Writing Competition /h2pSponsor: ABA Section on Dispute Resolution /ppGeneral criteria: The purpose of the competition is to promote greater interest in and understanding of the field of dispute resolution and collaborative decision-making among law students.  The essay may address any aspect of dispute resolution practice, theory or research that the contestant chooses./ppDeadline: June 14, 2013 /ppAmount of Award: $1,000/ppSubmission information: Visit a href=http://www.americanbar.org/groups/dispute_resolution/awards_competitions.htmluspan style=color: #0000ffhttp://www.americanbar.org/groups/dispute_resolution/awards_competitions.html/span/u/a/ppuspan style=color: #0000ff/span/u/ph212th Annual Environmental Law Essay Competition/h2pSponsor: Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan/ppGeneral criteria: The Competition is open to all law students.  Essays must be original and not previously published.  They may have been submitted for course credit or for law review, but not as part of paid employment.  Any environmental law topic of current interest to Michigan practitioners./ppDeadline: June 30, 2013/ppAmount of award: $2,000 for first place; $1,000 for second place; and $500 for third place.  Winning essays will be published in the emMichigan Environmental Law Journal/em./ppSubmission information:  See a href=/sites/www.law.louisville.edu/files/Twelfth%20Annual%20Environmental%20Law%20Essay%20Contest%20poster.pdfuspan style=color: #0000ffflyer/span/u/a./p

pProfessor Laura Rothstein was recently interviewed by KET for a story about Justice Louis D. Brandeis.   Special thanks to Scott Campbell, who was very helpful in providing background information for the story.  br /br /In episode 720 of a href=http://www.ket.org/cgi-local/fw_louisvillelife.exe/db/ket/dmps/programs?id=LOULquot;Louisville Lifequot;/a, the author of iBrandeis at 150: The Louisville Perspective/i talks about former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and his life in Louisville. /ppIt will air on the following dates:/pulliKET: Saturday, May 25 at 7:00 pm EDT /liliKETKY: Sunday, May 26 at 8:00 am EDT /liliKET2: Sunday, May 26 at noon EDT /liliKET2: Monday, May 27 at 7:30 am EDT /liliKETKY: Monday, May 27 at 6:00 pm EDT /liliKETKY: Tuesday, May 28 at 6:30 am EDT /liliKET2: Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 pm EDT /liliKET: Friday, May 31 at 12:30 am EDT /liliKETKY: Friday, May 31 at 8:00 am EDT /liliKET2: Friday, May 31 at 5:30 pm EDT /liliKETKY: Saturday, June 1 at 7:00 am EDT /li/ul

p style=line-height: 170%span style=line-height: 170%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9ptTuesday (May 21) is the last day students may register for the Southeastern Intellectual Property Job Fair (SIPJF) in Atlanta on July 30th.  Employers will be interviewing 2L students for summer positions for 2014 and 3L students for permanent positions following graduation.  All students interested in intellectual property law are encouraged to attend and contact Dean Hajek (a href=mailto:laurel.hajek@louisville.edulaurel.hajek@louisville.edu/a) for more details.  /spanspan style=line-height: 170%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9ptA tentative list of participating employers and student instructions are attached./span/p

The Dave Nee Foundation has named Professora href=/faculty/james_jones James T.R. Jones/a the recipient of the 2013 David S. Stoner Uncommon Counselor Award.br /br /This Award is given annually to a member or members of the legal profession who exhibit extraordinary compassion and concern for their co-workers, family, friends, and community and who also actively fight the stigma of depression and other mental illnesses within the legal field. Professor Jones was commended for his courageous leadership demonstrated by openly sharing his experiences as a person living with bipolar disorder and receiving effective treatment.br /br /a href=http://www.daveneefoundation.com/The Dave Nee Foundation/a was created in 2005. It's mission is to eliminate the stigma associated with depression and suicide by promoting and encouraging not only the diagnosis and treatment of depression among young adults, but also the education of young people, their families, and friends about the disease of depression. br /br /Professor Jones will be presented with the award atthe Foundation’s annual Gala scheduled on November 8, 2013 in New York City.

pWe have one spot open to a student, free of charge, for each day of the Warns Institute, the law school's annual labor and employment CLE program.  It will be held at the Seelbach Hilton on June 13-14.  More information is available at a href=http://www.law.louisville.edu/2013warnsinstitutehttp://www.law.louisville.edu/2013warnsinstitute/a.  Free attendance requires a commitment to arrive early in the morning and man the registration table.  It may also require missing parts of, or entire, lectures, but we will accommodate your preferences to assure that you hear those you are particularly interested in.  If you are interested, submit an e-mail to Becky Wenning, a href=mailto:becky.wenning@louisville.edubecky.wenning@louisville.edu/a, copy Maggie Bratcher, a href=mailto:margaret.bratcher@louisville.edumargaret.bratcher@louisville.edu/a, and Ariana Levinson, a href=mailto:a.levinson@louisville.edua.levinson@louisville.edu/a, and include a paragraph stating why you are interested in attending.  Please submit your statement of interest no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 20, 2013./ppStudents are also welcome to attend the entire program at the reduced cost of $70, or one day of the program at the reduced cost of $35.  If you plan to register at reduced cost, please do so by contacting Maggie Bratcher at 502-852-1669./p

pThe Executive Committee of the Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar has established the Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student Award.  The award was created to recognize both excellence and achievement in the field of bankruptcy and corporate restructuring law, and to encourage the pursuit of a career in bankruptcy law and corporate restructuring.br /  br /Dean Ballard is accepting student self nominations through May 17, 2013.  Nominees for the MRBS Distinguished Law Student Award will be a first or second year law student with a superior academic record, a strong interest in the practice of bankruptcy law and corporate restructuring, and a commitment to pursuing a career in the practice.  /ppTo self nominate, please send your resume and a statement of interest in the fields of bankruptcy law and corporate restructuring to Dean Ballard by May 17.  Members of the Executive Committee will select up to four students from law schools in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky to receive the award.  The recipients will receive: /pp• Complimentary registration at the Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar scheduled for August 22-23 in Cincinnati, Ohio;br /• Reimbursement for reasonable travel expenses;br /• Two nights stay at the Westin Hotel in Cincinnati;br /• Invitations to the Reds game on August 21 and faculty dinner on August 22;br /• Listing of the Distinguished Law Student recipients on the MRBS website; andbr /• Recognition and award during lunch on August 22./p

pThe Young Lawyers Division of the Kentucky Bar Association will award a $500 bar study award to a graduating University of Louisville Law student based on the following criteria:br /The $500 award shall be granted to a graduating 3L or 4L who: (1) has made a significant contribution to his/her law school community (with preference for participation in student organizations such as the Student Bar Association); (2) has a demonstrated need for financial assistance; and (3) intends to practice in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.   /ppThe award shall be used for expenses associated with taking the Kentucky Bar Exam in July 2013.  Individuals wishing to apply for the award should submit a one-page letter detailing why he/she should receive the award along with a resume to Dean Ballard by May 17, at 5:00 p.m.  The determination will be made in the sole discretion of the Executive Committee of Young Lawyers Division of the Kentucky Bar Association./p

div class=contentpThe Joseph L. and Shannon A. Hamilton Law School Bar Review Fund will be used to make financial awards to students for whom payment of expenses related to Kentucky Bar Exam Review courses and related course materials would otherwise result in financial hardship./ppInterested students must be currently enrolled (in good standing) or recent graduates of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville.  A recent graduate is defined for this purpose as someone who completed law school within one year of the bar exam review course for which support is being sought.  Qualified students will be of high moral character, demonstrate excellent writing and analytical skills, and show a commitment to serious preparation for the Kentucky Bar Exam.  A candidate’s grades will be taken into account as one factor, but not the primary factor for consideration.  A successful candidate for an award must show that he or she cannot otherwise afford to pay for a Bar Exam Review Course and/or the Bar Exam review materials. /ppTo be considered for a scholarship, you must submit the completed a href=/sites/www.law.louisville.edu/files/scholarship Application.pdfapplication/a and required documents to Dean Ballard by May 17, 2013, at 5:00 p.m./p/div

pWe have one spot open to a student, free of cost, for Thursday, June 13, of the Warns Institute, the law school's annual labor and employment CLE program.  It will be held at the Seelbach Hilton on June 13-14.  More information is available at a href=http://www.law.louisville.edu/2013warnsinstitutehttp://www.law.louisville.edu/2013warnsinstitute/a.  Free attendance requires a commitment to arrive early in the morning and man the registration table.  It may also require missing parts of, or entire, lectures, but we will accommodate your preferences to assure that you hear those you are particularly interested in.  If you are interested, submit an e-mail to Becky Wenning, a href=mailto:becky.wenning@louisville.edubecky.wenning@louisville.edu/a, copy Maggie Bratcher, a href=mailto:margaret.bratcher@louisville.edumargaret.bratcher@louisville.edu/a, and Ariana Levinson, a href=mailto:a.levinson@louisville.edua.levinson@louisville.edu/a, and include a paragraph stating why you are interested in attending.  Please submit your statement of interest no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 20, 2013./ppStudents are also welcome to attend the entire program at the reduced cost of $70, or one day of the program at the reduced cost of $35.  If you plan to register at reduced cost, please do so by contacting Maggie Bratcher at 502-852-1669./p

pCongratulations rising 1L's on your completion of boot camp.  Some in better condition than others, but nevertheless rising.  And the immediate issue is what to do this summer.  You can take a summer job, and tread water until the Fall semester.  Comfortable if not restful - not bad./ppYou can do a lot better./ppJoin the emJournal of Law amp; Education/em.  As a member you will be writing responsible legal text, overseen by experienced student editors and professionals, before publication.  You'll enjoy the pains and pitfalls of communicative and precise legal writing.  You'll acquire what will over time become second nature.  Indeed, you can have an article available in print for employers (former law review members themselves) before graduation./ppAmong other benefits of emJournal/em membership are scholastic credit, and an opportunity to satisfy the writing requirement./ppThe deadline for applications is May 29th./ppLawrence W. Knowles, Professor of Law Emeritus/ppnbsp;/p

pa href=http://patientprivacyrights.org/Patient Privacy Rights/a, the nation’s leading health privacy advocacy organization, will award its annual Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award to Mark A. Rothstein on a href=http://www.healthprivacysummit.org/events/2013-health-privacy-summit/event-summary-1bfa9be80d364092aeed1a8803377fa8.aspxJune 5, 2013/a in Washington, DC.br /br /Patient Privacy Rights established the award in 2012 to recognize significant intellectual, cultural, legal, scholarly, and technical contributions to the field of health information privacy. The award is given with the approval of the Brandeis family, and it will be awarded in conjunction with the Third International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy to be held at the Georgetown University Law Center. br /br /Professor Rothstein holds the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and he also teaches at the Brandeis School of Law of the University of Louisville. He indicated why the award is especially meaningful to him. /pp“Brandeis  was born in Louisville, and his influence still permeates the city where I live and the university where I work. I am deeply honored to receive an award named after the person whose name is synonymous with privacy.”  br /br /The other 2013 recipient of the Brandeis Privacy Award is Peter Hustinx of the Netherlands, Data Protections Supervisor of the European Union. The 2012 recipients were Congressman Joe Barton of Texas, Congressman Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and the late Professor Alan Westin of Columbia University./p

pThe law library will be closed Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12. Ekstrom Library will be open from 9AM-5PM Saturday. The law library will return to its normal schedule on Monday, May 13./ppHats off to the graduates! /pullia href=/library/about/hoursLaw Library Hours/a/lilia href=http://louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/hours.htmlEkstrom Library Hours /a/li/ul

p2013 Trustees Award winner Tony Arnold is a big-picture kind of guy. He looks for relationships between things that might seem unrelated. And, the law and urban planning professor and Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use is skilled at teaching his students to do the same.br /Law professor’s ‘ecosystem of learning’ resonates with studentsbr /br /“Because of professor Arnold’s instruction, I see the world differently now,” writes former student Lisa Matthews. “I can hardly drive down a road without wondering who owns the property and if there are any easements on it and what kind they might be. I also look at the water I see and wonder where did it come from and where does it go?”br /br /A big believer in the adage that people learn best by doing, Arnold, who is also the chair of the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility, challenges his students to integrate service learning, research and “getting their boots muddy” as part of his classes. He calls this approach “an ecosystem of learning”— an apt term since protecting the environment is his passion.br /br /“I had always loved nature and the outdoors, but my law school education helped me see the relationships among social policy and environmental policy,” Arnold wrote in an email response to a reporter’s questions.br /br /As early as elementary school, Arnold knew he wanted to study law. After finishing an undergraduate degree at University of Kansas, he went to law school at Stanford University as a Truman Scholar and, upon graduation, began practicing environmental law. But his love of learning eventually brought him back to the classroom. After teaching at several universities, he came to UofL in 2005.br /br /When asked about his interests and teaching style, Arnold used the word interdisciplinary (or a similar word) 16 times in his email response. That’s not surprising. His penchant for cross disciplinary-get-out-of-your-comfort-zone learning has made him a bit of a legend among students.br /br /“I had never spent so much time in the west end of Louisville,” writes former student Anshu Anand who took Arnold’s Land Use Planning class. “I was astonished by the proximity of businesses (particularly factories) that were extremely close to residential areas. During that semester, not only were we taught environmental law, but more importantly we were taught a lesson on community values.”br /br /Comments like this are important to Arnold because it means that he has been successful in getting students engaged and thinking.br /br /“The most important thing that needs to happen in a course is that students see how they can use their education to make a difference in the world,” Arnold said.br /br /As a Trustees Award winner, Arnold receives $5,000 and will speak at the commencement ceremonies May 11./ppSource: reprinted from a href=http://louisville.edu/uofltoday/campus-news/law-professors-ecosystem-of-learning-resonates-with-studentsiUofL Today/i/a (May 7, 2013)/p

pThe UofL Women's Center will present the seventh annual a href=http://louisville.edu/womenscenter/kwbfKentucky Women's Book Festival/a, Saturday, May 18 (the 3rd Saturday in May) at  Ekstrom Library. This event brings together Kentucky women writers and their readers./ppJudith C. Owens-Lalude will open the festival with a talk on the Underground Railroad. The author drew inspiration for her novel, “The Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom,” from stories she heard about her enslaved great-grandfather and his mother, travel to her husband’s native Nigeria and books by men who had been slaves in the same Kentucky counties as her family.br /br /Other speakers include:/pulliKristen Gentry, assistant professor of creative writing at SUNY Geneseo/liliNora Rose “Rosie” Moosnick, author of “Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky”/liliJudi Jennings, researcher and writer/liliBianca Spriggs, Affrilachian and performance poet who will give the luncheon keynote/liliSarah Garland, education journalist and author of quot;Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregationquot; /liliErin Keane, Sheri L. Wright and Amy Tudor, who will give a poetry reading /li/ulpbr /The lunch session is the only one that requires registration and has a charge. Registration for it is required by May 15 and can be made by calling the UofL Women’s Center at 502-852-8976. The cost is $16. People who do not want to eat lunch can attend for free. /ppThis year, one lucky festival attendee will win a $100 gift certificate from Carmichael's Bookstorea href=http://louisville.edu/womenscenter/kwbf/kindle-drawing.html/a!/ppIf you're interested in volunteering, please contact a href=mailto:virginia.smith@louisville.eduVirginia Mattingly/a immediately. /p

pThe Law Library will close at 5PM Friday, May 3rd, and will be closed the remainder of the weekend, May 4-5, to celebrate the Kentucky Derby. The library will reopen at 8 AM on Monday, May 6th, and will be open from 8 AM to 5 PM through Friday, May 10th./pullia href=http://www.law.louisville.edu/library/about/hoursLaw Library Hours/a/li/ulpnbsp;/p

pCongratulations on finishing your Spring exams.  As a result of feedback from students after the Fall semester, we will be releasing grades slightly differently this semester.  Rather than release grades to students piecemeal as they are posted by professors, the University registrar's office will hold all grades until after the grading and posting deadline of Friday, May 10, and then release grades to students all at once.  Your Spring 2013 grades should be available on the University website on Saturday, May 11.  /ppBest wishes to everyone for a happy and productive Summer. /p

div style=float: right p img src=/sites/www.law.louisville.edu/files/lawlapalooza_std_Page_1.png width=100% / /p /div pLawlapalooza, the Louisville legal community's battle of the bands, returns to the Phoenix Hill Tavern, Thursday, October 17, 2013./ppa href=/lawlapalooza target=_blankStay tuned for more information/a, including band registration details. /p

p Professor Tony Arnold’s innovative educational methods and “unparalleled devotion to students” have won him the University of Louisville’s 2013 Trustees Award. The annual award, selected by the Board of Trustees, recognizes a faculty member for extraordinary impact on students and is considered by many to be the highest honor the University bestows on a faculty member. Arnold will receive a plaque and a $5,000 cash award and will give a speech at the University Commencement ceremonies in May 2013. /p p Arnold is the Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. He holds an affiliated appointment in the Department of Urban and Public Affairs and directs the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility. /p p Twenty-nine of Arnold’s former students in law and urban planning wrote letters of support for Interim Dean Susan Duncan’s nomination of Arnold. When news of his selection was posted on Facebook, hundreds of his former students “liked” or commented on it. /p p The fact that Arnold remains connected with his former students, many of whom he counts as friends, says a lot about the importance of mentoring to him. He is grateful for the positive, lasting influence of his own mentors, which has motivated him to make mentoring a core part of his role as a teacher. He often goes out of his way to be available to help students. One student described Arnold as “a compassionate professor and mentor that always goes above and beyond his call of duty to see students succeed.” A former student talked about how Arnold’s belief in her helped her to overcome her under-confidence as an African American woman from a western Kentucky farm family. With his encouragement and support, she received a national fellowship from the American Association of University Women and went on to realize her dream of working on agriculture policy and justice with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. Others wrote about how he connected them with a job or internship opportunity. Many students credited their professional and personal success to Arnold’s mentoring. /p p His students praised his innovative experiential-learning methods that integrate intellectual rigor with development of practical skills. They stated that his methods should be a national model for legal education and that his courses were among the best they had ever had. He teaches a Land Use and Planning Law class in which interdisciplinary teams of law and urban planning students work on service-learning projects for government agencies or nonprofit organizations. Many of these projects have actually influenced public policy, and one – an urban tree canopy plan for Louisville – won a statewide planning award. His Real Estate Transactions class is structured around simulated negotiation and drafting of complex transactional documents based on real-world examples. Student after student wrote about how they were able to use practical skills learned in Arnold’s classes in the professional world, but also were able to see issues deeply, critically, and from multiple disciplines. /p p Students also expressed great enthusiasm for Arnold’s field-study land and water conservation seminars, in which he organizes many extensive field trips that take students to the sites of real-world environmental issues, where they discuss them with the participants. One student wrote, “It is one thing to learn about the conservation efforts taking place at the Green River dam in the classroom; it is quite another thing to learn about them at the riverside from the people on the ground. The courses were extraordinary and Professor Arnold really highlighted the intersection of the law and extra-legal disciplines as a vehicle for collaborative problem solving.” /p p Arnold is not only a distinguished teacher and mentor but also an internationally renowned multidisciplinary scholar. He received the University’s top award for outstanding research and scholarship in the social sciences in 2011, and his publications have been cited by scholars, policy-makers, and professionals over 1700 times. Arnold’s students articulated the tremendous value of being taught by a prominent expert. His obvious enthusiasm for his subject matter has created a positive and effective learning environment, as well as research innovations that are influencing our ideas and institutions. /p p University Trustee Bruce Henderson stated that Arnold’s “approach to scholarship, teaching and practice is cutting-edge, dynamic, multi-dimensional, and practical.” Arnold states that he hopes to make a positive difference in the world, not only through his own research and public service but also through the impact that he has on the education and lives of his students. /p p Arnold received his Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction from the University of Kansas in 1987, and his Doctor of Jurisprudence with Distinction from Stanford University in 1990. After five years in law practice, he returned to Stanford Law School as a Teaching Fellow in 1995-96. He has taught at several universities and joined the University of Louisville in 2005. /p pnbsp;/p p a href=/i-amimg src=/sites/www.law.louisville.edu/files/I_am_Footer.png //a /p