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NATHANIEL
PERSILY Assistant Professor of Law
, spoke on strategies for election reform at Georgetown Law Center
in February, and hosted attorney David Boies in his Election Law class
when Boies was at Penn to deliver the Irving R. Segal Lecture on Trial
Advocacy in November. In coordination with the Brennan Center for
Justice, Persily and 30 students in his Constitutional Law class are
writing an amicus brief in support of the Bush administration’s
position in Utah v. Evans concerning the Department of Commerce’s
use of imputation in the 2000 Census and Utah’s subsequent loss
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CURTIS
REITZ C’51, L’56, Professor
of Law ,is one of the Advisers for the American Law Institute’s
project to revise the sentencing and corrections articles of the Model
Penal Code. He and his son Kevin R. Reitz L’82, a professor of
law at the University of Colorado, were co-reporters for an ABA Criminal
Justice Standards project on Sentencing Standards in the early 1990s.
He was elected a Life Member of the American Law Institute in December.
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LOUIS
RULLI Practice Professor of Law,
presented “Attorneys’ Fees After Buckhannon” at the
annual program Litigating Employment Discrimination Cases at Federal
Court in December; he was selected by the Chancellor of the Philadelphia
Bar Association to serve as Consultant to the newly formed Task Force
on Pro Bono, charged with holding public hearings and developing recommendations
on how to improve the overall delivery of pro bono legal services
to the poor in Philadelphia. Rulli co-authored an amicus brief in
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on behalf of the Women’s Law Project
regarding issues of statutory interpretation under Pennsylvania’s
Child Protective Services Act. In addition, he chaired the Legislative
Subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Task Force
on Legal Services to the Needy and helped draft proposed legislation
that was recently introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
seeking to create an access to justice fund for civil legal services
to the poor. |
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