The 2013 honorees who graduated from Bowen are:

• Amber Wilson Bagley, ’04
• Mary Elizabeth Eldridge, ’03
• Matt House, ’99
• David Jones, ’02
• Leo Monterrey, ’07
• Andrew Parker, ’09
• Robert Smith, ’99
• Keesa Smith, ’05

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The U.S. News and World Report uses alumni giving when ranking law schools. Average giving is 12 percent; however, Bowen would like to beat that by having an average of 15 percent giving from graduates.

Each class has representatives who are tasked with reaching out to their fellow classmates to encourage donations. Those representatives are:

• 2008 – Cory Childs, Matthew Glover and Jackie Harris
• 2009 – Ava Franks, Adam Fogleman and Carla Johnson
• 2010 – Sergio Ceja and Keith Pike
• 2011 – Kenya Gordon, Daniel Osborne and Allison Slinkard
• 2012 – Mona Wedad and Matthew Stauffer

To give, make a pledge online or contact Wanda Hoover.

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Dean Casey has taught at the law school since 1979 and is the longest serving faculty member. She has taught Evidence, Trial Practice, and Criminal Procedure.

From 1990 until 1992, while on a leave of absence from the school, she was Chief Counsel and Legislative Director for U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.  She left that office in 2001 to return to the law school.

July 1, Dean Casey will become the Interim Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School for UALR.

A reception will be held in the second floor Student Lounge with the portrait unveiling at 5:45 p.m. All alumni, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend to let Dean Casey know how much we appreciate her service to Bowen and our state.

We’re happy to announce that Dean Casey and her husband Gil Glover are endowing a trial competition scholarship to mark this milestone in her career and to support students who represent Bowen in trial competitions.  As you know, Dean Casey has spent the majority of her career at Bowen teaching legal skills and serving as the trial team coach.

If you would like to honor Dean Casey in her retirement, please consider a contribution to the Paula J. Casey Endowed Trial Competition Scholarship. Please contact Wanda Hoover for additional information.

To RSVP for the reception email Amy Jackson or call 501.324.9967.

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The event will be held Oct. 10-12, 2013, in Little Rock.

The American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is the leading organization in the United States promoting the comparative study of law. Founded in 1951, the Society publishes The American Journal of Comparative Law, the outstanding American publication of scholarship on comparative law.

Call for papers

The Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law invites submissions to fill a panel on “New Voices in Comparative Law,” to be held at the Society’s 2013 Annual Meeting. The panel will highlight the scholarship of new and younger comparativists.

Submissions will be accepted on any subject of public or private comparative law from scholars who have been engaged as law teachers for 10 years or fewer as of July 1.

The Scholarship Advisory Group of the Younger Comparativists Committee will review submissions with the authors’ identities concealed. A maximum of two submissions will be chosen for the panel. Submissions will not be accepted from scholars whose work has been featured in a prior younger scholars’ panel at the Society’s Annual Meeting.

The scholars whose entries are selected for the panel will be required to submit a final paper no longer than 30,000 words by Aug. 22.

To submit an entry, scholars should email an abstract of no more than 1,000 words (including footnotes) no later than noon EST on June 24, to Judy Yi. Abstracts should reflect original research that will not yet have been published by the time of the Society’s Annual Meeting. The abstract should be accompanied by a separate cover sheet indicating the author’s name, title of the paper, institutional affiliation, and contact information. The abstract itself must not contain any references that identify the author or the author’s institutional affiliation.

The Younger Comparativists Committee is pleased to announce that LexisNexis will award a Book Prize to the author of the paper judged most meritorious by the Scholarship Advisory Group.

Please direct all inquiries to Richard Albert, chair of the Younger Comparativists Committee, by email at 617.552.3930.

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The article is currently uploaded on the Social Sciences Research Network and has been named among the top 10 downloads in the following categories: LSN: Legal Education (Topic),  Journal of Legal Education eJournal,  Law Educator: Courses, Materials & Teaching eJournal, Law & Society: The Legal Profession eJournal, Legal Theories, Policies & Practices, Law & Society, Philosophy of Law eJournal, Humanities Network, Philosophy Research Network, and Subject Matter eJournals. It has been downloaded a total of 336 times.

In addition to the SSRN success, Silverstein’s article earned attention from legal blogs, commentators, and mainstream media:

• ABA Law Blog
• MSN Now
• WSJ Law Blog

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Arkansas Bar Foundation Scholarships

ABF Scholarships In Honor Of Sebastian County Bar, Mike Gorman, U.M. Rose & E.L. Wright – Kandace Turner

Arkansas Association Of Women Lawyers Scholarship – Dominique King and Virginia Baughn

Austin Mccaskill Scholarship – Kandace Turner

Bernard & Bud Whetstone Scholarship – Abigail Niehaus

Brian MacMillan Scholarship – Lanny Richmond

Colonel C.E. Ransick Scholarship – Evelyn Gomez

C.R. Warner Scholarship – Degan Clow

David Solomon Scholarship – Joshua Rouse

E. Charles Eichenbaum Scholarship – TBA

Edward Lester Scholarship – Meredith Strong

Friday, Eldredge & Clark Scholarship – Jenna Wells

Harry P. Warner Scholarship – Meredith Strong

Judge Thomas Clark Trimble Scholarship – Joshua Stramiello

Judge William R. Overton Scholarship – Whitney Murph

Judge George Rose Smith Scholarship – Jordan Vahdat

Judge Henry Woods Scholarship – Sevawn Foster

R.A. Eilbott, Jr. Scholarship – Kandace Turner

Rather, Beyer & Harper Scholarship – Jonathan Martin

Rose Law Firm Scholarship – Ashley Jones

Ruth Brunson Memorial Scholarship – Drew Bacon Benham

Sebastian County Bar Association Scholarship – Jonathan Arnold

U.M. Rose Scholarship – Jonathan Arnold

Wilson & Associates Ethics Scholarship – TBA

Wright, Lindsey & Jennings Scholarship – TBA

UALR Endowed Funded/University Of Arkansas Foundation Scholarships

Bell & Company Endowed Law Scholarship – Linda Burgess

Ben Core Arkansas Association Of Defense Counsel Scholarship – Jhanalyn Blount

Black Law Student Association (BLSA) Endowed For Public Service Scholarship – Dominque King

Chad Farris Scholarship – Leslie Fisher

Dean John Hugh Carmichael Scholarship – Vincent Escobar

Delta Theta Phi/James E. Baine Scholarship – Meghan Joiner and Sevawn Foster

Delta Theta Phi/John A. Fogleman Scholarship – Michelle Cossio

Edward L. Wright Scholarship – Jenna Wells

Governor Carl E. Bailey – Thomas Fosko

Governor Sid McMath Scholarship – Courtney Cato

Guy A. Moore Memorial Scholarship – Sarah Rigg and Degan Clow

Gwen Dewees Hodge Memorial Book Award – Lachrisha Gray

HLSA Endowed Scholarship - Jordan Vahdat and Kevin White

HLSA Endowed Scholarship For Public Service – Jordan Vahdat

Jack Waggoner III Scholarship – Margaret Hobbs

Jack Morton Wilhelm Endowed Scholarship – Melissa Brown and Meredith Strong

Jewel Minnis Scholarship – Nao Ueda and Destiny Young

John T. Haley Endowed Scholarship – Alexandra Rouse, Evelyn Gomez, Justice Brooks, Linda Burgess and Jhanalyn Blount

Judge Pat Mehaffy Endowed Scholarship – Keyi Chen and Lindsey Bailey

Judge Oren Harris Scholarship – Justice Brooks and Thomas Fosko

Sam Laser Endowed Scholarship – Courtney Cato and Melissa Brown

Law School Alumni Association Scholarship – Lanny Richmond

Nancy Hall Bailey Endowed Scholarship – Mary McCarroll and Tetiana Fayman

R. Julian Glover Scholarship – Courtney Cato and Lindsey Kuehn

Student Bar Association Scholarship – Riley Graber

St. Thomas More Society – Evelyn Gomez

Thomas Erskine Downie Scholarship – TBA

H. Maurice Mitchell Leaders In Law – Alexandra Rouse

Arkansas Community Foundation Scholarships

Sandra Wilson Cherry Legal Scholarship – Evelyn Gomez

Sheffield Nelson Scholarship – Nikki Morris

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The ceremony was held on UALR’s main campus April 24 and honored 300 programs or individual faculty and staff members.
Each honoree received a medal to be worn at graduation exercises May 18.

Bowen staff and faculty members honored were:

• Dean Paula Casey
• Professor Emeritus Dent Gitchell
• Gail Harris
• Steve Hyatt

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Bowen students who participated in the three-on-three games included Jason Cosper, John Driggs, Matthew Flemister, Richard Hughes,  Logan Parke, Eric Reed, Mitch Rouse, Vic Roy Jr., Sohrab Shahandeh, J.B. Smiley, Charlie Spakes, and Joshua Stramiello.

Though the team was unable to attend the regional event this year, its members plan to go to the tournament next year.

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Each meeting will allow students the opportunity to learn about the Journal, its goals, and the steps required for membership. Students will also be given information about logging into the Journal TWEN page in order to complete the membership application process.

For more information, email socialchange@ualr.edu.

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