Chicago, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/25/2006 -- Professor Leslie Ann Reis, director of Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law at The John Marshall Law School, was re-appointed to the Federal Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB). The federal appointment is given to people recognized as excellent in the field. ISPAB's mission is to advise Congress, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and Office of Management and Budget on issues affecting security and privacy of information in government computer and telecommunications systems.

She is co-chair of the Federal Privacy Policy Review Subcommittee, a joint subcommittee with the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee that is leading an 18-month project examining the extent to which changes in the nature and use of information technology by federal agencies have created the need for revision of the legal and policy framework of privacy in the 21st century. The subcommittee's research will result in congressional briefing and a fall 2007 report for Congress and several federal agencies.

Reis also is a member of the Illinois Integrated Justice Information System Privacy Policy Subcommittee working on privacy policy guidance to be used throughout the state's law enforcement and justice systems and a member of the Judicial Privacy Task Force, a special task force of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois Judges Association that has examined issues of safety for judges and recommended efforts to keep them and their personal information out of the hands of would-be attackers.

Professor Celeste Hammond, director of the Center for Real Estate Law at John Marshall, was re-appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of the Chicago School of Real Estate and the Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate, Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration at Roosevelt University. She has been a board member the past four years.

Hammond also was appointed chair of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) Amicus Brief Committee for 2006-07. The committee evaluates requests for ACREL to submit amicus curiae briefs to the US Supreme Court and other appellate courts on issues of significance to the commercial real estate industry. The committee recommends its evaluations to the Board of Governors. It may also get involved with getting a brief written for the College.

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Chicago, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/22/2006 -- Professor Ralph Ruebner of The John Marshall Law School recently was appointed chair of the Housing Committee of the Village of Skokie Human Relations Commission in Illinois, which is charged with enforcing the village fair housing ordinance. This committee has the power to mediate and adjudicate discrimination complaints. Under his leadership, the Village of Skokie Board of Trustees amended the ordinance to prohibit discrimination based on the source of lawful income. This provision puts Skokie and the City of Chicago ahead of the State of Illinois which has failed to legislate in this area.

Ruebner also was recently re-elected as a director on the Board of Managers of the Decalogue Society of Lawyers.

Ruebner has been a member of the John Marshall faculty since 1981, after 12 years of experience as an appellate litigator, heading the Chicago office of the State Appellate Defender and representing indigent criminal defendants at all levels of appellate review.

He has developed an interest in international human rights and has represented victims of government abuse in a number of countries, including the former Soviet Union and Peru. He has published articles and presented papers at various international conferences on human rights topics, and has testified before Congress on human rights conditions in Peru.

He has drafted legislation in Illinois, making it the first state to criminalize international terrorism. He has served as a faculty member of the National Academy for Judicial Education and a Reporter of judicial seminars in Illinois.

Professor Ruebner served as the law school's Moot Court Director for 16 years and was the Law School's Centennial Planning Committee chair. He teaches Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and International Human Rights.

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Chicago, IL -- (ReleaseWire) -- 09/15/2006 -- The John Marshall Law School is pleased to announce that six attorneys are joined the faculty for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Maureen Collins has joined the nationally-ranked Legal Writing Program at John Marshall as a clinical professor of legal writing. Collins was a legal writing instructor and the director of the Legal Writing Program at DePaul University College of Law.

William K. Ford has been a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is a visiting professor at John Marshall teaching Federal Courts and Unfair Competition.

Alicia Hilton is a visiting professor teaching Criminal Procedure and offering seminars in Undercover Operations and Informant Management Law, and Cultural Property and Museum Law. She is a former FBI agent and lecturer.

Kevin Kijewski, a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section in Washington, D.C., is a visiting professor at John Marshall's Fair Housing Legal Clinic as a visiting professor.

David Schwartz is an assistant professor working with the Center for Intellectual Property Law. He will be teaching the IP survey class, Patent & Trade Secrets Law; Patent Litigation; and Patent Planning & Drafting. Schwartz has been a partner at Wallenstein, Wagner & Rockey.

Justin Schwartz is a visiting professor teaching Civil Procedure II and White Collar Crime as a visiting professor. He was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

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