The $500 A.J. Jolly Scholarship will be awarded by the Northern Kentucky Bar Foundation to a current University of Louisville law student who has completed the first year of law school.  The recipient must have graduated from a Northern Kentucky High School.  Please stop by Dean Ballard's office (216) to pick up an application.  Completed applications are due by September 14

This is a friendly reminder that the end of the period for adding classes is tomorrow, Friday, August 24.  If you intend to add a class, you must do so no later than tomorrow. This includes obtaining all permissions and completing all paperwork that may be necessary to enroll.

 

On a related note, we still have a few classes that are enrolled to capacity and have students on wait lists.  If you are holding a seat in one of those classes, and you know that you intend to drop the class, please do so as soon as possible so that a wait list student will be able to enroll before the add period ends.

Enrollment remains open for the Kentucky Innocence Project Externship for 2012-13. This externship is open to any student who has completed the first year curriculum.  In this externship, attorneys from the Department of Public Advocacy teach students important investigatory skills useful for many practice areas, and help students use those skills in pursuing exculpatory evidence, possibly leading to attempts to overturn wrongful convictions. The externship requires a two semester commitment: students enroll for consecutive fall and spring semesters.  Interested students should complete the registration form found on the TWEN course titled Kentucky Innocence Project.

For more information, please contact Professor Jordan.

 
Professor Cross would like to point out that there are plenty of open seats in the M-W-F Federal Jurisdiction class.  Contrary to what you might think from the name, the class is not an upper-level Civil Procedure class.  Instead, it is a class in Constitutional law; more particularly, the role of the federal courts in the US constitutional system.  As such, the course would be very useful to anyone considering a federal judicial clerkship, or those who plan on practicing regularly in the federal courts, as well as to those feeling claustrophobic in another course and wanting more elbow room.  Coverage includes abstention, political questions, eleventh amendment immunity for the states, and enforcement of the right to due process.  The only prerequisite is Civil Procedure.

Please make note of the following room changes:

 

Professor Milligan - Jurisprudence  will now meet in LL71        

Professor Milligan - Criminal Law  Section 1  will now meet in 175

Professor Powell - Prof. Responsibility will now meet in LL75

Professor Powell - Constitutional Law will now meet in LL75

Professor Fischer - BLS Section 21 will now meet in LL71

Professor Abramson - Civil Procedure will now meet in 275

Professor Weaver - Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Issues will now meet in 275

 

Were you interested in taking Trademark Law in the Fall, but could not enroll because you had not taken the prerequisite course in Intellectual Property Law?  Professor Lars Smith is willing to consider waiving the IP prerequisite for students wanting to take Trademark Law this semester. 

Trademark Law is a three hour course which meets Mondays and Wednesdays at 1:00 in Room LL71.  For more information about the course, see Professor Smith.  If you have difficulty registering for the course, please see Ms. Thompson in the Student Records Office.  If you have any other questions, please see Deans Ballard or Hall.

The University’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT)  is looking for a few students to help work on various projects.  The OTT is the arm of the university that deals with inventions and other technology.  In addition to seeking intellectual property protection, the OTT deals with sharing of research materials, cell lines, data, and compliance with federal regulations.

These positions offer the opportunity to obtain significant exposure to and experience in the area of marketing inventions.  The number of hours required will vary depending on the project.  While unpaid, you will receive public service credit for each hour you work.

Interested students (2Ls and 3Ls only) should see Professor Cross for more information.  

Professor Lars Smith has placed a variety of books outside his office (Room 286) on a bookshelf.  Free to students to use as reference material.  Leftovers will be donated.