Recent Faculty Activities

Current and forthcoming publications are also listed under each faculty member's page in the Faculty Directory.

Associate Professor Therese Clarke Arado

• Co-presenter (with Jeanna Hunter, Frank Lima, Elsa Miller and Meredith Stange), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).

Professor Elvia Arriola

• Will serve on the SALT Board of Directors beginning in January 2010.
• Served as chair/discussant of an interdisciplinary panel in the Fall 2009 Law, Crime and Social Justice Brownbag Series, organized by Visiting Professor Gwen Jordan in the Department of Sociology.  The program brought together people working on socio-legal issues and provided a forum for faculty, law and graduate students to present works in progress and stimulate discussion.  The panel included Assistant Professor of Sociology Keri Burchfield, presenting “Not in my Neighborhood:  Assessing Registered Sex Offenders’ Experience with Local Social Capital and Social Control” and Melissa Hayes, a legal history graduate from the University of Wisconsin presenting her paper “Those who are not Maidens: Sex in the Countryside, ”on the regulation of rural sexual practices in the  19th century. 

Paul Cain, Supervising Attorney, Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic

• Appeared on the "Rockford Raps!" radio show on WNTA 1330 AM on  October 17, as part of a panel to talk about expungement and sealing of criminal records. Paul participated in a workshop immediately following the program to assist people in filling out the forms to expunge or seal their records, or advise them about what they need to do.
• Appeared on the "Rockford Raps!" radio show on WNTA 1330 AM on August 29, to talk about the legal issues and proceedings in the Barmore shooting case in Rockford in which two white policemen shot an African-American suspect.  WTVO Ch. 17 covered the radio show and interviewed Paul.  
• Co-presented (with Wendy Vaughn) "Emotional Intelligence: Collaboration and Constructive Discontent," AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Cleveland, OH (May 2009).

Professor Mark Cordes

• Working with an interdisciplinary group on the NIU campus developing academic and engagement activities related to environmental law.

Professor Marc Falkoff

• Panelist, The Guantánamo Lawyers, Chicago-Kent Law School’s American Constitution Society, Chicago (Mar. 2010).
• Talk, Torture and Guantánamo, National Lawyer’s Guild Midwest Annual Meeting, Chicago (Mar. 2010).
• Lecture, Representing Guantánamo Detainees, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL (Feb. 2010).
• Talk, Guantánamo, Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice, Oak Park, IL (Jan. 2010).
• Panelist, Pervasive Censorship in the Information Age, World Can’t Wait, Evanston, IL (Jan. 2010).
• Talk, Poems from Guantánamo, Revolution Books, Chicago (Jan. 2010).
• Talk, "Where is the World to Save Us from Torture?"  McHenry County College (Crystal Lake, IL, Dec. 3, 2009).
• Talk, A Conversation About Guantánamo, French Institute Alliance Francais (Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 25, 2009).
• Talk, The America We Believe In Does Not Torture. Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI, Sept. 21, 2009).
• Poems From Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak (2007) (editor) has been published in about a dozen languages, including most recently Turkish.
• Talk, Guantánamo Then, Bagram Now.  Federal Defender Program’s Criminal Justice Act Seminar for Criminal Defense Attorneys, Rockford, IL (June 25, 2009).
• Talk, Torture:  From the Midwest to the Mideast.  University of Illinois, Chicago (Apr. 7, 2009).
• Talk, Law Day Address at the Winnebago County Bar Association, Rockford, IL (May 1, 2009).

Jeanna Hunter, Instructor

• Co-presenter (with Therese Clarke Arado, Frank Lima, Elsa Miller and Meredith Stange), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).

Professor Yolanda King

• Presentation, Survey of Music Class, School of Music, NIU College of Visual & Performing Arts, DeKalb, IL (April 2010).
• Published, Book Review of From Servants to Workers:  South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State, by Shireen Ally.  14 Perspectives on Work __ (forthcoming 2010).

Assistant Professor Frank Lima

• Co-presenter (with Therese Clarke Arado, Jeanna Hunter, Elsa Miller and Meredith Stange), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).

 Professor Guadalupe Luna

• Presenter, The Purepécha and Agricultural Law, Food, Law and Value Panel, 2010 AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana (January 8, 2010).
• Published, Outsider Jurisprudence and Transformative Directions, American University Journal of Gender, Race and Law (forthcoming 2010).
• Published, The Civil Rights Act of 1964, The Encyclopedia of Latina/o Politics and Social Movement, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2011).
• Published, United States v. Sandoval, 167 U.S. 278 (1891), The Encyclopedia of Latina/o Politics and Social Movement, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2011).
• Published, Mexican Customary Law and Land Grants, The Encyclopedia of Latina/o Politics and Social Movement, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2011)
• Presenter, "U.S.-Mexico Border Fences and A Land Grant," Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois (April, 2, 2011).
• Contributor, "Agricultural Law," available here.
• Contributor, "Nuestras Voces Latinas Blog," available here.

Associate Dean Leonard Mandell

• Serves on the NIU Alcohol Education Council.

Elsa Miller, Instructor

• Co-presenter (with Therese Clarke Arado, Jeanna Hunter, Frank Lima and Meredith Stange), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).

Professor Malcolm L. Morris

• Named Chair of the ISBA Committee on Legal Education, Admission and Competence

Associate Professor Jay Naftzger

• Completed 12 years of volunteer service as a Board member of the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan and was honored by a resolution of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• Serves as a public appointee Board member to the Illinois Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association.

Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Parness

• Visiting Professor at NIU College of Law for the 2009-2010 academic year.
• Published, Illinois Civil Procedure, Lexis Nexis, 2009-2010 edition.
• Member of the Illinois State Bar Association Civil Practice and Procedure Section Council.
• Published, Web Auction Sales and Long-Arm Jurisdiction, 98 Illinois Bar Journal 486 (2010).
• Published, American State Constitutional Equalities, 45 Gonzaga Law Review 773 (2009/2010).
• Published, Red Light Cameras: Innocent But Guilty, 98 Illinois Bar Journal 158 (2010).
• Published, Judidical Versus Legislative Authenticity After LeBron, 98 Illinois Bar Journal 324 (2010).
• Published, Beyond Red Light Enforcement Against the Guilty But Innocent, 47 Willamette Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2010).
• Published, For Those Not John Edwards, with Zach Townsend, ___ University of Baltimore Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2011).
• Published, Using the New Illinois Evidence Rules, 98 Illinois Bar Journal ___ (forthcoming 2010).
• Published, The New Illinois Evidence Rules, Southern Illinois University Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2011).
• Consultant and Speaker, Kaplan Illinois General Bar Review, Summer, 2009 to present.
• Speaker, Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association, Improving Voluntary Paternity Acknowledgments: Securing More Dads for Nonmarital Children, Chicago, Illinois, May 27-30, 2010.
• Witness, Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee, July, 2010.
• Speaker, Midwest Law and Society Retreat, Reforming Voluntary Paternity Acknowledgment Procedures, Madison, Wisconsin, October 8-9, 2010.
• Speaker, First Loyola Constitutional Law Colloquium, Undemocratic State High Court Rules, Chicago, Illinois, November, 2010.
• Reporter, Biennial Allerton Conference (on evidence law reform), Illinois State Bar Association, (forthcoming April, 2011).

Professor Daniel Reynolds

• Serves on the Working Group for the 17th Judicial Circuit's Pilot Project on Professionalism for Winnebago and Boone Counties.
• Served as Vice-Chair of the NIU Law Dean’s Search Committee.

Assistant Professor Laurel Rigertas

• Published, Lobbying and Litigating Against "Legal Bootleggers"- The Role of the Organized Bar in the Expansion of the Courts' Inherent Powers in the Early Twentieth Century, 46 Cal. W. L. Rev. 65 (2009) (forthcoming).
• Presenter, Confronting the Challenges of Persons Who Are Mentally Ill:  Best Practices and Remaining Issues in the Law, Northern Illinois University Law Review Symposium, (April 2009).
• Presenter, Technology and Legal Marketing: An Ethical Perspective, Northern Illinois University Law Review Symposium, (April 2010).
• Presenter, Access to Legal Services – Current Issues, Northern Illinois University Law School Homecoming CLE Program, (October 2010).

Dean Jennifer Rosato

• Panelist, "Where and How:  Succeeding in the Selection Process," Promoting Diversity in Law School Leadership, a conference co-sponsored by Seattle University School of Law and SALT. 
• Quoted, Crimmins, Jerry. "Race Cuts Both Ways in Hiring, Study Finds." Chicago Daily Law Bulletin 156.69 (2010). 09 Apr. 2010.

Professor Daniel Schneider

• Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa College of Law for Spring 2011. 
• Writing, Federal Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders, with Andrew Eisenberg and Dan White.  Forthcoming, Spring 2011.

Professor Lorraine Schmall

• Presenter, Regulating for Decent Work (RDW) Conference, International Labor Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (July 2009); member, RDW Study Group.
• Visiting Scholar, King's College, London (Spring 2009).
• Book review editor for Perspectives on Work, a refereed publication.
• Panelist, USF Law Review Symposium: The Evolving Definition of the Immigrant Worker (Feb. 2009). More information at http://www.usfca.edu/law/academic/journals/lawreview/symposium.html.
• Awarded "Best Empirical Research" for the paper Worksite Enforcement of US Immigration Laws, delivered  at The Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) 16th Annual International Conference, Chicago, IL (October 2008).
• Serves on the Consultative Group for the Restatement on Employment Law.
• Elected as a research fellow at the Employee Benefits Research Institute, a not-for-profit and nonpartisan research organization in Washington, D.C.

Meredith Stange, Instructor

• Presenter, “Welcome to the Study of Legalese:  Teaching First Year Legal Writing as a Foreign Language.” Empire State Legal Writing Conference (May 2010).

Professor David Taylor

• Published, "Other Districts More Open on Filling Judge Positions," Rockford Register Star.  26 Jun. 2010. (link)
• NIU Presidential Teaching Professor 2006 - 2010.  The NIU Presidential Teaching Professorships were established in 1991 to recognize and support faculty who excel in the practice of teaching. Recipients of this award have demonstrated their commitment to and success in the many activities associated with outstanding teaching.

Wendy Vaughn, Supervising Attorney, Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic

• Co-presented (with Paul Cain) "Emotional Intelligence: Collaboration and Constructive Discontent," AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Cleveland, OH (May 2009).

Associate Professor John Walton

• Elected to the Board of Trustees at Lake Forest Academy, June 2010.
• Participating in the prosecution of a patent for a Universal Jack Stand before the U.S. Patent Office. 

Past Faculty Activities

• 2008
• 2009