News & Events
Nasra Hassan Comes to Visit
For more than 20 years, Ms. Hassan, UN Chief Information officer, has been a high-ranking executive at the United Nations, in Vienna, Austria and New York City. Ms. Hassan will be commenting on her influential role at the UN and also about her personal interviews with over 200 suicide bombers, offering a glimpse of their mindsets and motivations. To read her article published in The New Yorker, visit: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/011119fa_FACT1
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of the world’s experts on an issue of relevance to us all on Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 5:30 pm in the Courtroom at the Pacific McGeorge Campus, followed by a reception.
To RSVP and for additional information, please contact Jennifer Michelson at (916) 739-7141 or jmichelson@pacific.edu.
McGeorge Alumni Pass the New York Bar
Congratulations to Manchoog Ha and Clemence George for passing the New York Bar on their first try!
Rohwer Goes to Vietnam Again
Claude Rohwer leaves next week on his eighth trip to Hanoi to work on drafting Vietnamese commercial Laws. The focus of this trip is working with the Ministry of Justice drafting an Ordinance to implement provisions in the new Civil Code relating to secured transactions. Rohwer started background work in Vietnam on this topic in 1996 and the process received a major boost from Pacific McGeorge Adjunct Professor Walter Dahl on his trip to Hanoi in 2001.
Pacific McGeorge’s International Law Program Ranked One of Nation’s Top 20
The University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law has been ranked among the nation’s Top 20 International Law programs in the 2007 US News & World Report annual guide to “ America’s Best Graduate Schools,” published March 31. This elite ranking is made by experts in international law, and thus is especially valued. Pacific McGeorge’s faculty, with leadership by Professor Frank Gevurtz, is leading a national effort to ‘globalize’ legal education and Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker sees this national recognition as validating that focus. She noted that, of the highly ranked international programs in the West, “the top four schools are Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Pacific McGeorge—in short, good company.” [ Click here ]
International Alumni Reunion- May 19 th to May 21st
The growing international law community of University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law alumni will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark this May for a ninth reunion-conference. Our international law alumni in Europe and throughout the world form the European Chapter of the Pacific McGeorge Alumni Association. The conference program Saturday will feature lectures focusing on recent developments in European Union and international law. [ Click here ]
Malloy Examines Ireland’s Economics
Professor Michael Malloy spoke at the Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Law Teachers on April 8 in Cork. He delivered a paper on “Transfer Pricing Principles and Economic Development: The Tax Man and a Changing Ireland” as part of a panel on law and the economy. The paper examines the phenomenon of transfer pricing and its effect on corporate taxation within the EU -- a single internal market with 25 taxing authorities. Assessing the Commission's proposal to harmonize the corporate tax base, but not tax rates, he argues that tax base harmonization would blunt the comparative advantage of low tax rate strategies used by member states such as Ireland as an instrument of economic development policy and suggests the likely future approaches available to such member states.
Michelle Kaiser
Michelle Kaiser Bray, LL.M., ’95, has joined Baker & Daniels LLP in Indianapolis, Indiana as a partner in its Intellectual Property Group where she will focus her practice on trademark law. The former chair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Sommer Barnard previously was senior intellectual property counsel with Playboy Enterprises, where she was one of the first in the country involved in litigating the unauthorized use of trademarks on Internet Web sites.
