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MAY 2013

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COLLEGIATE NEWS UK College of Law Welcomes 16th Ray Lecturer The UK College of Law announces Justice Albie Sachs as our 16th Roy R. and Virginia F. Ray Distinguished Lecturer. Justice Sachs, a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, spoke before a packed auditorium on April 12. His lecture, The Sacred and the Secular: South Africa's Constitutional Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriages, dealt in part with Minister of Home Affairs v. Fourie, a South-African Constitutional Court case in which the court ruled that same-sex couples did have the constitutional right to marry.  Justice Sachs authored the judgment, and the resulting Civil Union Act was passed in 2006.  Justice Sachs was appointed to the Constitutional Court by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and served through 2009. His career in human rights activism started at the age of 17, when as a second-year law student at the University of Cape Town, he took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign. Three years later he attended the Congress of the People at Kliptown where the Freedom Charter was adopted. At age 21, he started practice as an advocate at the Cape Bar, the bulk of his work involving defending people charged under racist statutes and repressive security laws. He himself was raided by the security police, subjected to banning orders restricting his movement and eventually placed in solitary confinement without trial for two prolonged spells of detention. an arm and the sight in one eye from a bomb which had been placed in his car by South African security agents. After recovering from the bomb he devoted himself full-time to preparations for a new democratic Constitution for South Africa. In 1990 he returned home and as a member of the Constitutional Committee and the National Executive of the ANC took an active part in the negotiations which led to South Africa becoming a constitutional democracy. He was appointed to serve on the newly-established court after the first democratic election in 1994. The Roy R. and Virginia F. Ray Distinguished Lecture Series is the pre-eminent lecture series at UK Law. Established in 1977, the Ray Lecture has featured outstanding jurists and public figures discussing legal topics of current interest for 30 years. gence community. He is principal of H. M. Riley Associates, LLC; CEO of United Building Services, Inc.; and managing partner of several real estate holding companies throughout the United States. He is also a member of KyForward. Earlier in his career, he was deputy assistant secretary of the Army, special counsel at the Department of the Air Force, and a commercial litigation attorney with the Washington, D.C., offices of Howrey & Simon. Riley spent three days at Chase talking with law students, faculty, and alumni about his experiences in law, business, government, public service, and philanthropy. He was joined by special guest lecturer James W. Morhard, principal of the government affairs consulting firm of Morhard and Associates, LLC. counsel for General and Administrative Law and Designated Agency Ethics Official, chief of staff, and the first director of enforcement. After leaving FERC in 2009, Court was a partner at Hogan Lovells LLP, in Washington, D.C. She is currently principal of SJC Energy Consultants, LLC, and also serves as a hearing officer for Reliability First Corporation. She is a frequent speaker on federal energy topics and issues. During her visit to campus, Court delivered a featured presentation entitled "Practicing Law within the Federal Government" to Chase students, faculty and staff. She also served as a special guest lecturer in the Administrative Law class and met with students and faculty in small group discussions. Susan J. Court '80 Receives Outstanding Chase Alumna Award Chase Teams are Both National Champion and Runner-Up at Moot Court Competition Susan J. Court, (1980), was named Chase's Outstanding Alumna of the Year by the NKU Alumni Association during its annual awards celebration on March 21. Court joined the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 1982 after clerking for Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Robert O. Lukowsky upon graduation from Chase. At FERC, Court served as associate general counsel for Gas and Oil, Deputy Solicitor, associate general The Chase team of Erica Blankenship and Sara Martin won the Championship at the National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare and Adoption Law on March 15 and 16 in Columbus, Ohio. Blankenship was also named best final-round advocate. In addition, the Chase team of Scott McDorman and Kathleen Shields was National Runner-up in the competition. This was the third Chase championship win in the eight-year history of the competition, and it was the first time in the competition's history that two teams from the same school met in the final round. B&B; • 05.13 27 In 1966 he went into exile. After spending 11 years studying and teaching law in England he worked for a further 11 years in Mozambique as law professor and legal researcher. In 1988 he lost

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