Professor Charles Norchi, Director of the Marine Law Institute chairs Conference on 25th Anniversary of Gulf of Maine Maritime Boundary case

Associate Professor Charles Norchi, Director of the Marine Law Institute, with Research Professor and Director of the Center for Law and Innovation, Rita Heimes, organized a Symposium commemorating the 25th anniversary of the International Court of Justice Case Concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area (Canada/United States of America), on November 13 and 14. It was a collaboration between the Marine Law Institute and the Marine & Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. The symposium began with a panel of lawyers that appeared before the World Court twenty-five years ago this Fall, and the remaining Judge who co-authored the opinion. That panel was followed by sessions addressing the significance of the Gulf of Maine case for international maritime boundary law, marine resource management, and ocean energy development. Participants came from Korea, Hawaii, Boston, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Washington DC and Portland, Maine, and included a range of academics, officials, researchers, and others. Judge Stephen Schwebel, former President of the World Court, delivered the dinner address: “The Establishment of the Court's Chamber: a Close Call." The proceedings and selected conference papers will be published in the Spring 2010 Symposium issue of the Maine Law's Ocean and Coastal Law Journal.

Visiting Professor Lateef Mtima Chairs Intellectual Property Program at Maine Law

Visiting Professor of Law Lateef Mtima, Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice at Howard University, chaired the two-hour program “Intellectual Property: Legal Issues and Social Justice Impact in the Information Age” on November 12. The program, organized with the assistance of Rita Heimes, Research Professor and Director of the Center for Law and Innovation, explored how patent, copyright and trademark law can be instruments of social justice and social engineering. Trademark and patent experts Phillip G. Hampton II (partner at Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Ochinsky, LLP, in Washington, D. C.; PTO Assistant Commissioner for Trademarks, 1994-98) and Thomas L. Irving (partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, in Washington, D. C.) discussed how intellectual property law and lawyers can be agents for the socio-economic advancement of marginalized communities.

Professor Christopher Northrop speaks on Juvenile Clinics at Denver Conference

Associate Clinical Professor Christopher Northrop gave a presentation in Denver Colorado at the National Juvenile Defenders Summit on October 17 entitled “Juvenile Clinics: The Next Generation.”

Professor Christine Galbraith makes presentation on technology, privacy and genetics at DePaul University in Chicago

Associate Professor Christine D. Galbraith on October 15 made a presentation at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago entitled “Genetic Information: Delineating the Technology and Privacy Intersection” at the DePaul Annual Symposium of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology. This presentation will result in publication in a symposium issue of the DePaul Law Review.

Professor and Director of the Marine Law Institute Charles Norchi speaks on Maritime Boundary Delimitation

Associate Professor and Director of the Marine Law Institute Charles H. Norchi on October 23 made a presentation on “The Law, Science and Policy of Maritime Boundary Delimitation” at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Policy Sciences in Boulder, Colorado, where he also served as panel chair.

Professor Lois Lupica speaks on Government’s Role in Automaker Bankruptcies in Conference of Municipal Analysts

Maine Law Foundation Professor Lois R. Lupica made a presentation in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 15 at an ‘Advanced Seminar on Bankruptcy and Workouts’ held by the National Federation of Municipal Analysts. Her presentation was on the topic of “The Government’s Role in the GM and Chrysler Bankruptcies,” and was part of a panel entitled: “The Automaker Bankruptcies: What Happened to Bondholders Once the Government Stepped In? Could Municipal Bondholders Suffer a Similar Fate?”

Professor Christine Galbraith publishes article on access to clinical trials data

Associate Professor Christine D. Galbraith recently published Dying to Know: A Demand for Genuine Public Access to Clinical Trial Results in 78 Mississippi L J. 705 (2009)(lead article). This article was also the basis for a recent article in Health Law Week.