In the Community

Pacific McGeorge faculty engage in the community through service, advocacy, and training of legal educators and lawyers around the world.

• Fred Galves spoke on "Why Civility & Ethics Matter" on Jan. 30, 2013 at an MCLE luncheon program sponsored by the Saint Thomas More Society of Sacramento and the La Raza Lawyers Foundation in Sacramento.
• Robert Hawley lectured on "Professional Responsibility Traps for the Unwary" on Jan. 12, 2013, and on Jan. 26 at MCLE programs sponsored by the McGeorge Alumni Association in Long Beach and Sacramento, respectively.
• John Sims spoke on "Trading for a New 'Model'? — The Unfinished Effort to Harmonize California's Rules of Professional Conduct with the ABA Model Rules" on Jan. 12, 2013 at the McGeorge Alumni Association's Southern California MCLE program in Long Beach.
• Kojo Yelpaala and Omar Dajani served on a dissertation defense panel on April 16 with retired World Bank lawyer Salman M.A. Salman, which approved a J.S.D. in International Water Resources for Rodrigo Rondon.
• Greg Weber and Michael Colatrella conducted a three-day (April 27-29), on-campus Advanced Negotiation Workshop for attorneys and other professionals.
• Raquel Aldana directed Pacific McGeorge's 4th Annual Summer Inter-America Program, which was held from May 26 to June 16 in Antigua, Guatemala. She also co-taught Legal Spanish for Lawyers at the program, which is co-sponsored by the Seattle University School of Law and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
• Jerry Caplan accepted an appointment to the board of the Children's Law Center, which is responsible for representation of dependent children in Los Angeles and Sacramento.
• Brian Landsberg and Dorothy Landsberg conducted a two-day (May 14-15) training, sponsored by the U.S. Russia Foundation, at the University of Arizona School of Law. The training was part of the foundation's Siberian Federal University Legal Education Project, introducing experiential legal education methods to SFU.
• Steve McCaffrey served as the external examiner on a PhD. dissertation defense panel on June 6 at the University of Dundee.
• Michael Malloy was appointed an executive member of the Athens Institute for Education and Research, an interdisciplinary research organization based in Athens, Greece, on June 23.
• Leslie Jacobs was a speaker at a rally on June 13 on the steps of the Gordon D. Schaber Courthouse to call attention to the adverse effects of deep funding cuts to the state judicial system that are included in the governor's proposed budgets.
• Fred Galves taught "Comparative Litigation in the Americas" from May 26 to June 16 in the Summer Inter-America Program in Antigua, Guatemala.
• Dorothy Landsberg's 90-minute video was added to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library oral history collection on June 28. In 1974, she was a researcher for the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment investigation into the Watergate scandal.
• Cary Bricker, Matt Downs and Brian Landsberg traveled to China in early June to complete an evaluation of the rollout of the law school's USAID project at eight different Chinese law schools. Cary was in China from June 2-9 while Matt and Brian worked on the wrap-up of the five-year long experiential learning program from June 2-16. They also participated in three different conferences in three different cities.
• Kimberly Buchholz and Mariam Elmenshawi organized an on-campus workshop, "The ABC's of Representing Victims of Crime," which was held on June 22. They are the new director and assistant director, respectively, of the Victims of Crime Resource Center.
• Mary-Beth Moylan was elected to a three-year term on the Association of Legal Writing Directors governing board on April 1.