Bench & Bar

JAN 2013

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KENTUCKY BAR NEWS Writing Competition with her submission titled "Standing Your Ground: The Happy Medium Buried in Kentucky's Common Law." Her submission focused on Kentucky's Stand Your Ground statutes enacted in 2006 as compared to the similar law in Florida, which was in the national spotlight following the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin in February 2012. Kentucky common law, later codified in the state's pre-2006 Penal Code, already provided that a "Kentuckian never runs." Gibson v. Commonwealth, 34 S.W.2d 936 (Ky. 1931). The analysis centers on whether this standard strikes a more appropriate balance between requiring a defendant using self-defense to prove he or she had no means of safe retreat (the Model Penal Code approach) and providing presumptions in the law favoring a defendant using self-defense (Kentucky's—and Florida's—current approach in the Stand Your Ground statutes). • Stephanie Carr won the 2012 Pirtle-Washer Oral Advocacy Competition. Carr is a third year Brandeis School of Law student and currently serves as the executive editor for the University of Louisville Law Review. She is a Louisville native and earned her B.A. in English from UofL and her Master of Library Science degree from University of Kentucky. • Professor Shelley Santry won the Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Gender Equity Award for her work with the law clinic and her long time commitment to helping women. The award is given to a member of the UofL community - broadly defined to include all of those, past and present, who have some affiliation with the University of Louisville - whose work has directly furthered gender equity. • Tony Arnold, Boehl Chair in Property & Land Use, professor of Law, affiliated professor of Urban Planning, and chair of the Center for Land Use & Environmental Responsibility, was elected to the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy of Kentucky. • Professor JoAnne Sweeny, one of our newest faculty members, gave a talk for the International Human Rights Section at the Association of American Law Schools annual conference. Professor Sweeny's presentation, "Balancing Anti-terrorism Laws and Human Rights in the U.S. and U.K.," compares anti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ench & Bar January 2013 terrorism laws in the United States and the United Kingdom, and how the two nations deal with detention of terrorist suspects. We are very proud of Professor Sweeney since AALS is the main national academic conference for law faculty members and generally more experienced faculty members are invited to present. • The law school adopted a number of curriculum innovations that are being implemented. In the fall, the faculty approved certificate programs that will focus on litigation and transactional skills. The award of a certificate is intended to demonstrate to potential employers that the student possesses additional training in lawyering skills and values associated with litigation or transactional practice. • The Brandeis School of Law remains strongly committed to diversity. This past fall, the Diversity Forum topics were both focused on the Mayor's Task Force to End Violence and how those in the law school and university communities can participate and respond to the October recommendations of the task force. Looking toward the future, I hope you will save the date and be with us when Brandeis School of Law awards the Brandeis Medal to Justice John Paul Stevens on April 18. The Brandeis Medal is awarded to individuals whose lives reflect Justice Brandeis' commitment to the ideals of public service. Previous recipients include Supreme Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Harry Blackmun, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Steven Breyer; Kentucky Justice John Palmore and Judges A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Abner J. Mikva and Charles Allen; social justice attorney Stephen Bright; and Senators Howard Baker and Christopher Dodd. To register for this event, please visit www.law.louisville.edu/event, or call Jon-Paul Moody at 502-852-6092. We are excited to ring in the new year and look forward to what is in store for our law school in 2013. Thanks for all your support!

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