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Duke University School of Law, March 2002 Edition

We send New Year greetings to all of you and to your families. We are optimistic that 2002 will prove to be a joyous, peaceful year for everyone.

Thanks to so many of you who sent us messages from countries around the world after the events of September 11. The Law School is extremely fortunate that no one among our alumni was a victim of the crashes and that those few graduates located in or close to the World Trade Center were able to escape without injury.

In this Issue

International Students

The JD program has a total of 34 international students from 14 countries. China boasts the largest number of JD students with an enrollment of 8. Six of the new international students are enrolled in the JD/LLM program in International and Comparative Law. Two students entered the JD program as second year students after completing the LLM for non-American students last year. They are Wiroj Chartratanavanich from Thailand and Jinping Yang from China.

The LLM program this year has 63 students from 26 countries. Six new LLM's come from Japan, 5 each from France and Chile, 4 from Argentina and Taiwan, and 3 from Mexico and Korea. For the first time, there are LLM students from Ecuador and Nicaragua. Other countries represented include India, Peru, Brazil, Panama, Venezuela, Switzerland, South Africa, Austria, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Israel, the Netherlands, Thailand, New Zealand, China, Russia, and Italy. Applications continue to rise each year, especially from Latin America and Asia. Over the past ten years, the number of applications has tripled, and the qualifications of applicants are outstanding. It has become difficult to identify applicants who are not eligible for admission to the LLM program. Recommendations from alumni are very helpful to the admissions process.

The class of 2002 is a very strong group composed primarily of lawyers with 2 or more years of experience; a judge; fulltime and adjunct professors; very highly qualified new law graduates; members of the legal departments of corporations, banks, and a securities exchange; high court assistants; and staff members of various government ministries. Several members have advanced degrees and important publications. A significant number studied previously in the U.S. as high school students. Increasingly, European students have spent a semester studying in another country and many have also worked outside their home countries. Not surprisingly, many of the LLM's were student leaders while in law school, and many have continued in leadership positions in professional organizations. Almost all of them are sophisticated computer-users. Several speak 3 or more languages. One Japanese lawyer fluent in Mandarin spent the past 3 years practicing at the firm's Shanghai office.

Sports occupies an important place in the lives of most of the students, both men and women. One student was a member of the Rugby Team of Chile. Another is a skydiver, while his classmate recently ran the New York Marathon. Another woman was awarded her university's basketball cup. One woman was a five-time winner of the Yugoslav National Rowing Championship, and another is a tennis player on her hometown team. A third of the class is female, and the class includes 3 lawyer couples. So far, the class has produced two babies, and two more are expected in the spring.

A large percentage of the class have scholarships, awarded by the Fulbright Foundation, government ministries, the U.S. Department of State, law firms, corporations, the World Bank, and a Research Triangle Park pharmaceutical firm. Duke Law School was able to award a much smaller number of scholarships, including two to students from China with help from a Beijing law firm and from a Hong Kong resident originally from Hong Kong. Next year, thanks to help of a JD graduate living in Los Angeles, scholarship assistance will be provided to an Israeli student. The LLM class of 2001 has begun a scholarship fund to attract an outstanding student to the LLM program, preferably from an under-represented country. Contributions are still being solicited if any alumni wish to make donations.

LLM students have been very involved in the Law School this year. This was particularly true during the School's first International Week, from October 28-November 2. Activities began with an International Sports Sunday with JD and LLM teams competing in volleyball matches. The matches were followed by a Latin American Cultural Presentation, which focused on various aspects of Latin American ethnic and legal culture. LLM's were among the large audience at a Forum on Ethical Implications of Military Involvement in Afghanistan, and they led the panel discussion on "Practicing Law Around the World." LLM students suggested films and then helped to rate foreign films at International Film Night. But the highlight of the week was the International Food Fiesta held on the last night, where dishes from almost every part of the globe were served in the Law School courtyard to hungry throngs of students, faculty, and staff. Awards were given for categories of food. The overall winner, who received 2 roundtrip tickets to anywhere in the U.S., was Sang-Joo Jun (current JD student and LLM 2000). His entry was delicious Korean barbeque.

The Master of Legal Studies (MLS) program has one student. She is Mei Hui from Beijing. She worked for several years at the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission.

The SJD program has 3 new students. They are Orit Gayermann from Israel, who is working with Dean Kate Bartlett; Chih-Chieh (Carol) Lin from Taiwan, working with Professor Sara Beale; and Yoav Ostreicher from Israel, working with Professor Jerome Reichman. All three 2001 Duke LLM graduates took courses in their respective areas of interest during the fall semester and will prepare to be examined in those areas toward the end of the spring semester. Pakvipa Ahvipan from Thailand completed her doctoral studies with Professor David Lange during spring 2001 and received her SJD degree in September. She has returned to Bangkok. Struan Scott completed his dissertation and oral defense with Professor Deborah DeMott and received his degree in December 2001. He continues teaching at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand.

International Exchange Students

The Law School sent abroad a large contingent of JD students this year. During the fall semester, 21 students spent a semester at the following law faculties: University of Cape Town (2), Copenhagen (2), Bond (2), Hong Kong (3), Sydney (3), Paris II (2), Leuven (3), Waseda (3), and Austral in Buenos Aires (1). Duke during the same semester received students from Australia, from Sydney and Bond; Chile, from Catholic University/Santiago; Denmark, from Copenhagen; and France, from Paris II. Seven Duke students during the spring semester are scheduled to go to the University of Geneva, Singapore, Denmark, Sydney, and for the first time to ITAM in Mexico City. Exchange students at Duke are well integrated into the LLM program. While some Duke students elect to take basic law courses, many Duke students participate in LLM classes at the overseas universities.

Spring semester exchange students at Duke are from Bond and Sydney University in Australia and from Hong Kong University. Alexandra Macoun (fall semester exchange student from Sydney University) has a clerkship from January -May with the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC. She will have an opportunity to learn about public interest litigation, the Freedom of Information Act, online activism, and emerging Internet issues. Alexandra met EPIC participants at the Public Domain conference at Duke, heard about the clerkship, applied immediately, and was accepted. It is unusual but not impossible for exchange students to find positions such as hers.

Rousseau Moot Court Competiton

For the second year, Duke Law School sent a team to the Rousseau Moot Court Competition that is conducted entirely in French. Teams from 14 countries and 4 continents entered the debate. Duke competed with teams from McGill University, the University of Rennes, the University of Bucharest, and the University of Kinshasha. The Duke team did not make it to the semi-finals, but the members were lauded for their ability, especially against teams with native French speakers. LLM students Pirouzan Parvine (LLM 01) and Thibaud Van Rillas (LLM 01) were members of the team, and Mike Perry (LLM 2000) coached the team along with Professor Michael Byers.

Newly Developed Course

The Contracts Video Project, led by Duke Law Professors John Weistart and Jeff Powell, Georgetown Law Professor Gerry Spann, and Duke Law Senior Fellows Chris McLaughlin ('96) and Denise Thorpe ('91) recently completed work on the first version of The Contracts Experience, an innovative set of multi-media course materials delivered via DVD-ROM. These course materials supplement traditional cases, notes and reference materials with over eight hours of original and mass-media video and audio content. During the spring 2002 semester, the new course materials will replace traditional textbooks in the first-year Contracts classes taught by Professors Powell and Paul Haagen here at Duke and by Professor Spann at Georgetown University Law Center.

Spring 2002 International Events

This spring is off to a busy start in the international arena at Duke Law School. We will hold the first International Career Videoconference Series to connect our students interested in international careers with alumni working overseas. Should you be interested in taking part in international alumni/student events such as these, please don't hesitate to contact Lisa Wechsler at wechsler@law.duke.edu or 919-613-7280.

We are pleased to host The Honourable Anne McLellan, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, when she visits Duke Law School in March. We are also honored that Ambassador Richard Sezibera, Rwandan Ambassador to the U.S., will give a presentation to our students and faculty this spring.

The Global Capital Markets Center presented in early January a panel presentation on "Crisis in Argentina: Debt and Devaluation." Speakers included Professor Steven Schwarcz and Argentine LL.M., Sebastian Kielmanovich, with moderator Professor Stephen Wallenstein.

LLM students will go the U.S. Supreme Court on February 25 to hear oral arguments. (Our trip in early November was cancelled due to the presence of anthrax in the Supreme Court building.) After the arguments, Martin Schaefermeier (LLM 90) will host the group for lunch at his law firm, Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson Han.

Promotions; New Addition to our staff

Jennifer Maher has been promoted to Assistant Dean for International Studies. Tonya Jacobs has been promoted to Director of Overseas Programs. Judy Horowitz, as Associate Dean for International Studies, is head of the department.

Lisa Wechsler joined us last August as the new director of special international projects at Duke Law School. In this capacity, Lisa is organizing programming to support both the LLM and JD/LLM programs, connect international students and alumni, and help to further structure international career services. Lisa came to Duke Law from the University of Virginia, where she worked as the international career consultant. Previously Lisa worked with the Ministry of Education in Japan. Lisa holds a Masters in International Education from Harvard.

International Visiting Scholars and Researchers

A record has been set this year for the highest number of international visitors. In all, there will be 22, some for just a few weeks but most for at least a semester or longer. Korea tops the list with 9 visitors, lawyers, judges, a prosecutor, and professors. Others are from Australia, Austria, Japan, Brazil, Denmark, China, Italy, and Germany. Most of the visitors work on research projects, attend courses, and spend a little time consulting Duke faculty members. During the fall semester, Professor Hong Sik Cho of Seoul National University taught the Korean for Legal Studies course, and in the spring, Judge Shinji Oda from the Tokyo District Court will teach the Japanese for Legal Studies course.

Foreign Language Classes

In addition to Professor Cho and Judge Oda, 2002 LLM students Mia Dassas from France, Felix Streiter from Germany, and Ge Zhang from China will teach language law courses, all during the spring semester. Alejandro Posadas, LLM 95 and SJD candidate, who taught Spanish for legal Studies in the fall, will again offer the course during the spring semester. Language lunch tables in Mandarin, Japanese, French, Spanish, Korean, and German meet weekly and sometimes also include Portuguese and Russian lunch tables. The classes and lunch tables serve as a very good preparation especially for students who plan to study in a foreign language at one of the Law School's overseas exchange programs.

Conferences

The Law School has held a number of excellent conferences and institutes connected with the School's centers. At the end of August, the Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy sponsored The Summer Institute 2001: Genetics, Genomics, and the Law. Faculty members from the Law School-- including William Van Alstyne, James Boyle, Dorianne Lambelet Coleman, and James Coleman-- and other departments of the University made presentations and participated in panel discussions. Per Hakon Schmidt (LLM 83) attended the conference. Another very-well attended Conference on the Public Domain was held in early November. Speakers came from Duke and several other law schools as well as other institutions such as the National Science Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Intellectual property faculty from Duke-David Lange, James Boyle, and Jerome Reichman-set the agenda and made presentations. They were joined by professors Jeff Powell and William Van Alstyne. Many LLM students attended the conference.

Summer Institutes

The Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law celebrated its seventh summer at the University of Hong Kong. Sixty-seven students were in residence, 25 with a Duke affiliation. Students came from 15 countries in addition to the United States. Countries represented included Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, New Zealand, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, Portugal, and Gt. Britain. Eight students were pre-LLM students headed to Duke, and the majority of the other Duke students were enrolled in the JD/LLM or the JD program. Several Duke students worked in Tokyo and Beijing law firms before proceeding to the Institute.

Other American law schools sending students were UC/Berkley, Seattle University, Washington and Lee University, the University of Missouri, Georgetown University, Albany Law School, and St. Johns Law School. The majority of the non-American students were lawyers, members of the legal department of corporations and ministries, and mature undergraduate and graduate students. The largest group of Chinese law students came from Tsinghua University, with which Duke Law School has a special exchange relationship. Hong Kong students served as very helpful interns, who were available to help introduce students to special sites in Hong Kong and surrounding areas. Scholarships for students from Central Asia were provided by the Open Society Institute Network Scholarship Program, while students from Denmark received assistance from the Duke Law Alumni Club of Scandinavia. Duke Law School also offered students from several countries scholarship assistance.

Faculty from Duke were Professor David Lange teaching intellectual property law and professors Paul Haagen and Trina Jones, sharing the Introduction to American Law course. Other faculty were from the University of Hong Kong Law Faculty, University of California/Davis, Monash University, Doshisha University, the University of London/Queen Mary and Westfield College, and the Hong Kong office of Shearman & Sterling. Professor Paul Haagen served as faculty director with Lucy Haagen assisting with administrative responsibilities. Project Finance was taught for the first time along with a brand new course, New Frontiers in Securities Regulation: Derivatives and the Internet. As in other years, Introduction to American Law was taught, and other courses were Comparative Intellectual Property, Doing Business in Greater China: The Tax Implications, and the Role of Law in China and Japan.

The late-afternoon seminars began with an introduction to Hong Kong's history, an explanation of the Basic Law, followed by a discussion of "Freedom of Expression," and then Hong Kong attitudes "Toward One Country, Two Systems." From issues facing Hong Kong, the seminars turned more to the financial side of Asian law practice. The afternoon panels focused on information technology, advising Asian companies on U.S. capital markets, an overview of Hong Kong's economic and business roles, and a group of Hong Kong lawyers reporting on the kinds of law practice in which they are engaged. Mao Yibing (JD 89, head of the legal office of Marriott International, Hong Kong) invited speakers and served as moderator of the lawyers' panel. Jonathan Zonis (JD 90, Clifford Chance, Hong Kong) led the seminar on capital markets. A visit was also made to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. An especially popular afternoon session was that given by politician activist Martin Lee on "A Report Card for the HKSAR Government-Four Years after the Handover." In addition to the seminars, students and faculty were treated to a welcome banquet, a special meal at a restaurant at the Peak, and a Chinese farewell dinner. Students also held two ad hoc potluck dinners at which they had heated debates on topics like the death penalty.

Plans for the 2002 Institute are well underway. For information on faculty and courses, as well as an application, please consult the Duke Law School webpage at http://www.law.duke.edu/internat/hkg/.Lawyers attending courses or afternoon seminars at the Asia-America Institute will be able to receive New York, California, and Hong Kong Law Society CLE credit through the University of Hong Kong Law Faculty. For more information about CLE credit, please contact Ms. Flora Leung at (852) 2859 2941 or by fax at (852) 2549-8495.

The Duke-Geneva Institute in Transnational Law was held at the University of Geneva for the fifth consecutive year. Fifty-one students, 15 with a Duke affiliation, enrolled in the program. Students came from the following countries in addition to Switzerland the United States: Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. The Open Society Institute Network Scholarship Programs was especially generous in supplying financial assistance for students from former Soviet countries. The Duke Law Alumni Club of Scandinavia assisted students from Denmark, and Duke Law School also provided scholarship assistance. Duke University in addition was able to help Duke students with airfare stipends. Six Institute students were Duke pre-LLM students. American students other than Duke Law students came from Georgetown, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Illinois, Cardozo, the University of Iowa, and the University of Pittsburgh. A number of Duke students worked before the Duke-Geneva Institute with law firms in Brussels and Geneva. Students are also being encouraged for summer 2002 to seek positions in the public sector at international institutions in Geneva.

Duke faculty teaching in Geneva were professors Sara Beale, Michael Byers, Madeline Morris (also the faculty director of the Institute), Robert Mosteller, and Richard Schmalbeck. Other faculty members came from the University of Geneva, the University of East Anglia, and the University of Alberta. Justice Richard Goldstone of the Constitutional Court of South Africa returned to teach in Geneva and was joined by Steven Kay, a London practitioner in the area of criminal law. Courses included Introduction to American Law, Constitutionalism and Social Change, International Contracts, International Peace and Security, Taxation of Transnational Transactions, and Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: The Content and Enforcement of International Criminal Law.

Students and faculty enjoyed a full schedule of afternoon seminars and visits to international organizations in Geneva, such as the United Nations, the High Commission on Human Rights, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and International Committee of the Red Cross. Among the speakers at a panel on international law practice were Giordano Rezzonico (LLM 94), David Ledermann (LLM 99) and Pierre-Yves Mauron (LLM 00). Giordano and David also joined other alumni, Bharat Dube (JD 86), Martin Girsberger (LLM 98), Eric Buis, (LLM 99), Andreas Fabjan (LLM 99), and Sybille Gierschmann (LLM 99) for the Institute's traditional boat cruise on Lake Geneva, which added a program by an official of the Swiss Department of Agriculture on Swiss cheeses. Mark your calendars for the 2002 boat cruise date: Friday, July 12.

Another special event inaugurated at the 2001 Institute was a trip to Bern. Faculty and students traveled by bus from Geneva after classes and met Manuel Frick (LLM 95) in the central square for a guided tour of the city. Joining everyone later at Manuel's home for a dinner reception were Urs Maurer (LLM 92), Thomas Von Ballmoos (LLM 94), Martin Girsberger (LLM 98), and Christoph Kellerhals (LLM 00).

The Duke-Geneva Institute will have an ABA accreditation visit during July 2002. Several of the courses and faculty members will be new. The accreditation visit will be handled by Professor Madeline Morris and Assistant Dean for International Studies Jennifer Maher, who will also teach a term of the Introduction to American Law Course. Another new feature will be the enrollment of 5 Sanford Institute of Public Policy students. Professor Fritz Mayer of the Sanford Institute will also teach part of a course on WTO law at the Institute. Further information about the 2002 Institute is available at http://www.law.duke.edu/internat/gnva

To Alumni: We welcome your young associates at both institutes and appreciate your promoting the institutes to lawyers and students who might be interested. We will be glad to supply additional information, brochures, and posters. We also appreciate the willingness of a number of international alumni to take American students as interns for the period between the end of the spring semester and the beginning of the Institutes. We anticipate that students will intern at firms and companies in Asia, Europe, and Latin America this year. If you would be interested in taking an intern, please let us know.

Very Sad News

As most of you know, our colleague, teacher, and beloved friend Herbert Bernstein died of a heart attack at the Law School on April 20, 2001. A memorial service "Celebrating the Life and Career of Herbert Bernstein" was held at the Law School. Faculty members spoke at the service, and Trangthu Nguyen (JD 01) was especially moving as she described how Professor Bernstein befriended her as a new, lonely student. Letters read at the service also included one from Christoph Ann (LLM 88). The Law School is accepting contributions to the Herbert Bernstein Lectureship Fund, which will bring an eminent professor in the area of comparative law to Duke annually to give a distinguished lecture and to spend time with students and faculty. If you would like to send a contribution to the Fund, you are welcome to submit it to the Office of External Relations at Duke Law School. Please be sure to indicate that your contribution is specifically for the Bernstein Memorial Fund.

The Deans go to Asia

Dean Katharine Bartlett and Associate Dean Judy Horowitz flew first to Tokyo, arriving on October 16. They visited law firms, including those of Hideyuki Sakai (LLM 83) and Kenji Kuroda (LLM 89), the Supreme Court of Japan, and the law faculties of Waseda and Tokyo University. Dean Bartlett addressed an overflowing auditorium at Waseda on the topic of "The Many Faces of Gender Equality in the U.S.: Family, Workplace, and Education." At Tokyo University, she met with a smaller group of faculty and researchers. The highlight of the Tokyo visit was the reception for Duke Law alumni, which was attended by more than 50 alumni as well as Professor Koichiro Fujikura and Professor Yasuhei Taniguchi and the 3 third year JD Law School students on the exchange program with Waseda University, Aya Kabori, Fumiko Yokoo, and Eric Grouse. Special thanks go to Hideyuki Sakai, Masaki Kanehyo (LLM 99), and Masahiro Ouchi (LLM 99) for their superb help in making arrangements and to all our Japanese alumni for hospitality and continuing concern for Duke Law School.

From Tokyo, Bartlett and Horowitz flew to Seoul. They made stops on behalf of Duke University at the Korea Foundation and the Korea Research Foundation. They had a guided tour of the Supreme Court, visited law firms, and Seoul National University College of Law. Alumnus Ken Yun (JD 88) very graciously took care of the arrangements for the visit and assembled at least 30 Duke alumni at a lovely reception and dinner at the Coex Intercontinental Hotel. There were several opportunities for small reunions with alumni at the Supreme Court and law firms as well as at the dinner. Dean Bartlett spoke again on gender issues at Seoul National University to a full complement of faculty, researchers, and students. Professor Seung Hwa Chang, who will teach in the Duke-Geneva Institute in the coming summer and taught in the Asia-America Institute in Hong Kong in 97, served as the moderator and translator of the talk and helped arrange the visit to SNU. One purpose of the Korea trip was to explore the possibility of an exchange arrangement between Duke Law School and SNU that will facilitate the exchange of faculty and students. Duke next year will have an SNU professor teach a course on Korean law at the Law School and plans to send a Duke professor to teach or conduct research at SNU. In addition to the professional visits, the deans were taken to one of the imperial palaces and invited to dinner at the home of former Visiting Scholar Professor Chang Hyung Chung. On their one free day, they had a tour of the Korean Folk Village led by Chiyong Rim (LLM 96) and Chulho Chang (JD/MBA 91).

Alumni Events

The 2001 International Alumni Dinner was held in New York on December 8 at Trattoria Trecolori restaurant, just off Times Square. Despite a cold, driving rain, the gathering was large with about 40 alumni attending. The majority were graduates working at New York law firms, but alumni from Washington, D.C., and Chicago also came. Judy Horowitz and Jennifer Maher were present along with Associate Dean Linda Steckley and Annual Fund Director Ann Sundberg, both of the Office of External Relations. LLM graduates were joined by a smaller number of JD and JD/LLM graduates. Reserve this date for next year: December 7, 2002, in New York.

Recognizing the growing number of international alumni who return for Reunion Weekend, the Law School held a special dinner for International Alumni in April. Attending were Susi Haas (JD 87), Javier Firpo (LLM 91), Hiroyuki Hosoi (LLM 91), Henning Krauss (LLM 91), Juraj Strasser (LLM 91), Adriana de Florio (LLM 96), Vandana Shah (LLM 96), Margaretha Wilkenhuysen (LLM 96), Sebastian Guerrero (LLM 99), Mariana Simoes (LLM 00), Luis Palacios (LLM 00), Juan McKenna (LLM 00), Louise Stoupe (LLM 00), Valeriano Guevera-Lynch (LLM 00), Miguel Velutini (LLM 00), Ignacio Pallares (LLM 00), Nikos Constantinides (LLM 00), Lin Chua (LLM 00), Deborah Burkhart (LLM 00), and Arturo Banegas (LLM 00). A highlight of the entire Reunion weekend was the awarding of the International Alumni Achievement Award to Javier Firpo (LLM 91). The Award recognizes distinguished service by an international alumnus to his or her own profession and country, while maintaining strong ties to Duke Law School. Javier's parents were able to attend the award dinner. Mark your calendars for Reunion Weekend for 2002: April 12-14. The International Dinner will be held on Saturday, April 13. Alumni tend to come to Reunion at 5-year intervals (this year, classes of '97, 92, 87, and 82), but all are welcome.

Also in April, international alumni gathered to meet JD/LLM and LLM students attending the American Society of International Law meeting in Washington, DC. Thanks to Roberto Durrieu (LLM 01), the reception was held in the Argentine Embassy.

The Duke German Alumni Club held its inaugural meeting at Oktoberfest in Munich, September 21-23, 2001. Three Duke Law alumni at the BBLP law firm, Ralf Weisser (LLM 91), Markus Nauheim (LLM 96), and Sibylle Gierschmann (LLM 2000), organized the weekend. Duke alumni from Germany, Switzerland and Austria, joined by Jennifer Maher and alumni from London, Brussels, and the U.S., gathered to launch the Club. The festivities started with a Friday evening reception at BBLP's offices in Munich, where alumni discussed goals and activities for the club and received instructions for enjoying the opening of Oktoberfest the next day (arrive early; dress casually or in leiderhosen; don't take the mugs home as souvenirs). On Saturday, everyone met again in the "tent" where BBLP had reserved space for Duke alumni to join the opening day of Oktoberfest. Recognizing the events of September 11, the American ambassador was the guest of honor and some of the traditional activities were cancelled. Nevertheless, good beer and good feelings flowed, as evidenced by the photo gallery on the website, "New and Noteworthy."

Inspired by attending the Oktoberfest event, Eric Buis (LLM 99) is organizing a Duke Alumni Club of Switzerland. Its first event will be on March 1, 2002 Zurich. For more information, contact Eric at e.buis@decapitani.ch

Following the Oktoberfest meeting, Jennifer traveled through Germany meeting with a number of alumni in Munich, Frankfort, Bonn, and Dusseldorf: Henning Krauss (LLM 91), Michael Petersen-Gyongyosi (JD 86), Johannes Boeckenhoff (LLM 92), Michael Mueller (LLM 96), Hansjorg Piehl (LLM 89), Erik Schmidt (JD 97, Marc Eumann (LLM 95), Wolfgang Lenning (LLM 2000), Christian Moeller (LLM 93), Georg Seyfarth (LLM 93) Carsten van de Sande (LLM 2001), and on the way back through London, Giovanni Graziano (JD 97).

In England, Judy Horowitz met with several alumni in late May and June 2001. She had a lunch meeting arranged by Juraj Strasser (LLM 91) with 7 alumni at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Others attending were EBRD lawyers Sophia Van Woensel (LLM 94 & JD 96), Victoria Bilousenko (LLM 96) and former EBRD lawyers Ainagul Alimanova (LLM 98) and Oleg Bilousenko (LLM 96), both now with Dewey Ballantine. Greg Mose (JD 96), located at the London office of Freshfields, and Zhanat Alimanov (LLM 2000) also joined the lunch. Horowitz also met with Giovanni Graziano (JD 97), Henrik Fredback (LLM 98), Martine Schipper (LLM 97), Anna Trotman (LLM 92), and Lodewijk Van Setten (LLM 93).

The Duke Law Association of Belgium in September 2001 organized a barbeque party at the home of Chairman Olivier Van Ermengem (LLM 95) with the assistance of Paul Tulcinsky (LLM 86). Twenty or more alumni from Belgium, along with a few from the Netherlands attended. A smaller group of alumni attended an event organized by the Belgian American Association with the U.S. ambassador to Belgium in attendance.

Upcoming Alumni Event Dates

March 1: Alumni Club of Switzerland meeting, Zurich

April 12-14: Reunion Weekend, Duke Law School

Late May: University Dinner with President Keohane, London

July 12: Lac Leman Boat Cruise with Duke/Geneva Institute, Geneva

December 7: International Alumni Dinner, New York City

Alumni News

Duke Law School has more than 750 international alumni from the JD, LLM, and SJD programs. More than half of you stay in touch at least once a year, especially by e-mail. We are grateful.

Marriages. . .

David Chuang (LLM 97), on December 2, 2000; Deborah Burkart (LLM 2000) to Scott Carlson in Zurich on August 4, 2001; Shin Kato (LLM 2000), to Yukiko, on June 24, 2001, in Tokyo; Go Diamon (LLM 94), to Sachie Komiya, on April 21, 2001; Noriaki Abe (LLM 99), on March 11, 2001, in Shinzuoka, Japan; Aigoul Kendjebayeva (LLM 93), to Sayan, in Kazakhstan; Mohammed Alsheaibi (LLM 90 & SJD 93), on July 7, 2001; Diego Garrido (LLM 97) in Beunos Aires in December 2001.

Engagements. . .

Carsten van de Sande (LLM 01) to Lisa Flores (JD 03); Rita Pang (JD 99); Juliane Schmitz (LLM 01); Claudia Allatta (LLM 98); Sebastian Guerrero (LLM 99).

Births. . .

Lars Feuerpeil (LLM 97), a son, Rick, on November 14, 2001; Ido Warshavski (LLM 99), a son, Roy, May 17, 2001; Samantha Lin (LLM 99), a daughter, November 01; Jorge Wahl Silva (LLM 01), a daughter, Maria Paz, in October in Santiago; Felipe Lecaros (LLM 99) and Melvina Lansing-Carrick (JD 01), a boy, Jose Francisco, on October 16, 01; Vered Ortal (LLM 96) & Avi Ortal (LLM 96 & SJD 98), a son, Shai, in Israel; Struan Scott (SJD December 01), a son, Timothy, in Otago, New Zealand; Cameron Young (LLM 94), a daughter, Emmanuelle, in January 2000; Judge Hajime Morikagi (Visiting Scholar 2000), a daughter, Rina, May 26, 2001; Marie Evrard (LLM 86), a son, Romain, on April 12, 2001; Eliane de Vilder (LLM 87), a son, Pieter, in Amsterdam, on April 12, 2001; Junko Funahashi (JD 94) and Richard (Tad) Ferris, a son, Richard Kazuyoshi Ferris, on August 19, 2001; Tomas Allende (LLM 2000), a son, Tomas, on April 27, 2001; Bharat Dube (JD 86), a daughter, Ishta, in January 2001); Koji Hora, a son, Kent, May 9, 2001; Dan Sivertsen (JD 98),

a daughter, Danielle, in New York, on January 2, 2001; Flora Hsu (LLM 93), a son, Ian John, on July 25, 2001; Sheba Chacko (JD 89), a boy, David, in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2001; Barbara Nowotsch Leier (LLM 95), in Germany; Sergio Romero (LLM 01), a daughter, in New York; Atsushi Shimizu (LLM 93) a son, Shinji, born last August; Matias Sanhueza (LLM 01) and his wife, Canky (an intern in the International Studies department), a son, Diego, born in New York on December 20, 2001.

More News. . .

This is a summary of the news we love to receive from alumni who have visited, e-mailed, sent cards and letters, and called.

Diana Chiampi (LLM 98) is with Software AG in Darmstadt, specializing in intellectual property work. She says Professor David Lange and “the education at Duke surely opened this way into the virtual world for me.” Elin Jonsdottir (LLM 96) is legal counsel at the Financial Supervisory Authority in Reykjavik. Georg Zehetner (LLM 00) is at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the EU Department, negotiating with at least 10 nations on a variety of difficult issues and expects to be posted overseas for a six-month period in the summer. Shin Kato (LLM 20000) has moved to TMI Associates in Tokyo in order to be involved more with American business. Heinrich Baelz (LLM 01) is a foreign intern with the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins. Kotaro Tamura (LLM 95) is President and CEO of the Osaka Daily News and also a lecturer at Keio University Graduate School of Law and Political Science. Louise Stoupe (LLM 2000) moved from the Palo Alto office of Morrison and Foerster to its Tokyo office in November. Kris Van Hove (LLM 92) has become a partner at Van Bael & Bellis in Brussels. Giovanni Graziano (JD 97) is in London with Bass Industries working as a senior analyst. Alexander (Sasha) Cizek (LLM 95) has become a partner at the Vienna office of Weiss-Tessbach. Gordon Walker (SJD 99) is well settled at LaTrobe University in Melbourne and has invited Professor Jim Cox to spend a little teaching time there next summer.  Ramon Lafee (LLM 01) is working in Miami with Baumeister & Brewer. Stefan Radermacher (LLM 89) lives in Zurich and is the managing director of the international company KAEFER.  Kiyoung Kim (LLM 01) is at the Nonsan Branch of Daejeon District Court. Ori Demb (LLM 2000) is Project Manager with comverse and assigned to a project within the Indian region, including Sri Lanka and the Maldives; he recently had a visit from Louise Stoupe and Carlos.  Anders Jessen (LLM 88) is back in Brussels as Deputy Head of Unit in DG Trade and will be involved with GATS negotiations. Michael Gyongyosi is with the Management Consultancy of PricewaterhouseCoopers and travels a great deal but has an office in Frankfurt and his family in Munich. Alberto Eguiguren Correa (LLM 92) is President of Lab Chile, which has been acquired by IVAX Corporation. Guy Rotkopf (LLM 98) is a professor at the College of Management, Tel Aviv. Colin Jones (JD/LLM 93) is in-house counsel for Asia Global Crossing in Japan. Nis Clausen (LLM 85) is working on a major securities law reform for the Latvian Government. (His University in Odense in October awarded Professor Jim Cox an Honorary Degree.) Kresimir Pirsl (LLM 91 &SJD 93) is back in Washington, DC, at the Croatian Embassy as a Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Chief of Mission. As of this January, Stephan Strnad (LLM 00) is in Vienna at the office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Andres Halvorssen (LLM 95) is a partner at Anzola Raffalli y Rodriguez in Caracas in charge of the tax department, while Maria Fleury Halvorssen (LLM 95) is teaching at Merici Academy. Jennifer Maher heard from Salvatore Luise (LLM 93), who is in Milan with the Puopolo Sistilla Geffers & Luise law firm and has a son and a daughter. Felipe Guzman (LLM 2000) is a partner at Portaluppi, Guzman & Benzanilla in Santiago and is prepared a course in corporations with Jose Ignacio Diaz (LLM 2000) at Universidad de los Andes Law School. Sophie Gioanni (LLM 95) works for Commerzbank Securities in New York. Yevgeniya Rebotunova (LLM 01) worked for the New York office of White & Case and is now at the Moscow office. Mathias Cabour (LLM 2000) spent a year with TexacoChevron and will be relocated to Miami at the end of January 2002.  Yasuto Hashinaga (LLM 2000), after a year in New York at Skadden Arps, moved to London to work at Linklaters, where he is involved with capital markets work; he finds the difference between law practice in the U.S. and England quite substantial but will “have to spend more months to judge what is an optimal practice in the world.” Kai Ziegler (LLM 97) is working for the MaxPlanck Institute in Heidelberg and hopes to have completed the oral exam, practical training, and his thesis by the end of next summer so he can start work at a law firm. Bridget von Truetzschler Mahoney (LLM 99) has moved with her husband to Fayetteville, NC, where she is studying for the second state exam; she comes to the Law School frequently to use the library. Marion Panizzon (LLM 01) is working in Georgetown for the Journal of International Economic Law as well as on her dissertation for the University of Bern. Ralf Weisser (LLM 91) has moved to become an equity partner at McDermott, Will & Emory in Munich. Markus Nauheim (LLM 96) has joined Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Munich. Mike Perry (LLM 2000) is with the Legal Bureau at the Foreign Ministry of Canada and has also done some teaching at the University of Ottawa in the area of international human rights. Tom Telfer (LLM 92), who was a visiting scholar at Duke in spring 2001, competed as a member of the New Zealand Curling Team in the Pacific Curling Competitions; New Zealand won the Silver Medal after being narrowly defeated for the gold medal by Japan. Maria Oleinik (LLM 97) is located in London, where she is Legal Counsel and Company Secretary for Blue Ocean Associates. Adolfo Martin Gonzalez (LLM 01) is Securities Review Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, at the Securities & Exchange Commission of the Philippines. Weibo Jiang (LLM 97 & JD 99) returned from Hong Kong to practice law at the Haiwan Law Firm in Beijing. Dan Taylor (LLM 99) moved from the New York office of White & Case to Skadden Arps.  Ignacio Pallares (LLM 99) is in Barcelona with the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Cuatrecasas. After a year in New York, Nikos Konstantinides (LLM 2000) is qualifying for the Greek bar and also has joined the Greek army for the required 15-month long military service. Helene Bertaud (LLM 87) has been seconded by Agence Francaise de Developpement to the International Finance Corporation in Washington, DC, for 2 to 3 years (accompanied by her two children); she will work primarily on finance projects in Africa and South East Asia; her office is right next to that of Jean-Daniel Chablais (LLM 88), who has been with the IFC for several years. Hector Ibarra-Gamez (LLM 98) joined Eastern Seaboard Packaging, located in Cornelius, NC, as Corporate Counsel for International Business Development. Yoshishige Suzuki (LLM 95) is a Vice President for Deutsche Securities in the Tokyo Branch. Hans Brassler (LLM 92) is now Director of Legal Affairs at Symantec Corporation in California, where he heads the Asia-Pacific and Japan practice groups and is responsible for M & A and securities work. Shiry Trifon (LLM 01) is back in Tel Aviv doing banking, securities, M & A, and antitrust work for Weksler, Bergman & Co. Hitomi Yoshida (LLM 95) will move in April 2002 from Osaka to Kanto-gakuin at Odawara, about 40 minutes from Tokyo by express train. Tino Villarreal (LLM 97) is Corporate Legal Manager of Axa, a Mexican multinational company, and is also doing the executive MBA in Monterrey at IPADE. On July 1, 2001, two LLM alumni became partners at Allende & Brea in Buenos Aires: Diego Botana (LLM 97) and Diego Garrido (LLM 97). Lisa Hsu (LLM 98) is working as an in-house counsel for Auchan, a French company that is expanding its market share in China and Taiwan. Filip Ameloot (LLM 89) is taking a one-year leave of absence from NEC to take courses in interpreting English and French into Dutch and likely will include an East European language as well.  Andy McNee (LLM 99) is enjoying his new apartment, which is a block from Bondi Beach in Sydney, but he is watching out for sharks. Mattias von Buttlar (LLM 97) is with Latham & Watkins in Frankfurt. Ainagul Alimanova (LLM 98) is with the New York office of Dewey Ballantine. Ting-Ting Shi (JD 98) has moved to the New York office of Cravath but expects sometime in the next year to move to the Hong Kong office. Guillermo Perez Santiago (LLM 98) reports that he visited LLM classmates in Chile and Argentina last October. Ziyang Zhang (JD 90) is with the Shanghai office of Jones Day. Zhanat Alimanov (LLM 2000) is taking courses at the London Business School. Carol van du Vorst (Leuven Exchange Student 99) is completing an LL.M. degree at Melbourne University Law Faculty, which she reports is an excellent program. Noriko Higashizawa (LLM 94) reports that she and some others from her former firm, Konaka, Toyama & Hosoya, have formed a new firm, Kyo Sogo Law Offices which is affiliated with Dorsey & Whitney, a U.S. firm. Cameron Young (LLM 94) moved to Havana in 1998 and with a Dutch partner set up a legal consulting firm named Berger, Young & Associates; the firm advises foreign investors on all types of transactions in Cuba, primarily in the finance, tourist, high tech, telecom, and heavy industrial sectors. David Ledermann (LLM 99) has been seconded by his Geneva law firm to Slaughter & May in London for six months, after which he will spend another six months in Zurich. Denis Ladegaillerie (LLM 97) returned to Duke Law School in May to attend the graduation of his sister, Anne Ladegaillerie (LLM 01). William Kahn (LLM 98, JD 00) returned to the Law School in January to conduct practice interviews for LLM students going to the NY job fair.  Susi Hass (JD 87) spoke to the Duke Women’s Law Society about her career as in-house counsel. Manuel Sager (LLM 85) has returned to Bern to join the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in a newly created position as head of an office coordinating Switzerland's efforts to promote International Humanitarian Law within NATO's Partnership for Peace Programs. Atsushi Shimizu (LLM 93) has moved to New York with The Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd. New York Branch Americas Division to work on the reorganization of the bank's U.S. subsidiaries. Chih-Chieh (Carol) Lin (LLM 01 & current SJD candidate) published an article on “Gender, Race and the 4th Amendment” in the January 15 Taiwan Law Review and was also elected as a Committee Member of the prestigious Taiwan Women’s Organization. Takeru Tanojiri (LLM 96) was transferred to the Office of Judicial Reform, Cabinet Secretariat, in July for a three-year appointment, working on reforming the judicial system of Japan. Omar Houri (LLM 96) in September 2001 established the law firm of Houri & Ghalayini in Beirut, Lebanon. Pia Lavrysen (LLM 98) is working in the M & A department of her Brussels firm, now Linklaters De Bandt. Amy Chin (LLM 91) reports that her firm, LCS & Partners, was ranked No. 1 in M & A last year by a Taiwan publication; she was selected one of the members of the Economic and Finance Committee Taiwan Think Tank. Pakvipa Ahviphan (LLM 96 & SJD 01) is the Second Secretary of the Legal Division of the Thai Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs.  Junichi Tanaka (LLM 90) is now managing the sales offices of Sumitomo Life Worldwide. Hiroko Tanaka (LLM 91) was promoted to Executive Director at Morgan Stanley Japan (Ltd.) Malene Ehlers (LLM 90) is in-house lawyer for Egmont Imagination A/S, which is involved with the development and production of animated television series and features.

The Office of International Studies

The Office continues to function very well, this year with the excellent help of Jennifer Maher, Carrie Tran, Tonya Jacobs (well-known for her involvement with the summer institutes and overseas exchange programs), and Lisa Wechsler. The Office is also fortunate to have the help of interns Eleonora Anderson from Argentina, spouse of Martin Mengelle (LLM 01) who is working for Hunton & Williams in Raleigh, and Marcella Muzquiz from Monterey, Mexico, whose spouse is current LLM student Felipe Muzquiz. We all send you all our very best wishes for the New Year. Please continue to stay in touch with us, come to alumni reunions, and even better, visit us if you can. You can contact any of us at international@law.duke.edu.