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Spotlight
True ‘Love’ stories sought from alumni
Did you meet the love of your life in Love Library? or Schmid Law Library? Was it love at first sight when your eyes met across the study table? Were those "study" sessions just an excuse for a date? If you answered yes, then the UNL Libraries wants to hear how the library played a role in your personal love story. Submit your story in a creative way (poem, prose, or link to your video on YouTube) and you could be picked to win a framed Valentine Day’s poem by Ted Kooser, award-winning Presidential Professor of English and United States Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress (2004-2006). Only family friendly fare is allowed. Stories can be submitted from January 25 until Midnight (CST), Feb. 10, 2012. Winner of the framed Kooser poem will be announced on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. Stories and links will be posted on the Libraries Facebook page for this event: http://go.unl.edu/vdu.
Student Happenings
Baughman, Johnson win client counseling competition
3Ls Christine Baughman and Audrey Johnson won Nebraska Law's 2012 intraschool client counseling competition beating out seven other teams. The duo won the competition last year as well, making them the first team in the school's history to win the school competition twice. Baughman and Johnson will represent the College at the regional 
competition at Creighton University on February 17th and 18th. They will be joined by Trevin Preble and Andy Hanquist, the team that placed third in the competition. Congratulations to second place finishers Alexis Kramer and Christina Neely, as well as all of those who competed.
Alumni Achievement
Hansen named Senior Litigation Counsel
Assistant United States Attorney Don Hansen, ’72, has been selected as a Senior Litigation Counsel for immigration issues and computer technology crimes. AUSA Hansen joined the Department of Justice in 1994. Prior to that time, Don was active duty military with the United States Army in the Judge Advocate General’s Corp. He served continuously on active duty as a Judge Advocate until his retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1994.
Faculty News
Schmidt returns to UNAM
Professor Steve Schmidt has returned to Mexico City to teach “Teaching Oral Trial Skills to Others” at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The three day "working seminar" is designed for UNAM professors who will teach trial advocacy at UNAM and other Mexican law schools. Schmidt is joined by Professor Peter Hoffman from the Elon University School of Law and Kristina Korobov from the Marion County Prosecutor's Office in Indianapolis, IN. Samuel Padilla, a Nebraska Law 3L, is also participating, giving a class on the oral advocacy system practiced in the U.S. The other faculty for the course consists of the Mexican professors who have received training at the Nebraska Law - Gerardo Molina Hierro, Patricia Ortega Cubas, Javier Gamboa Herrera, Moises Cruz Gayosso, Oscar Arriola Islas, Alberto Lopez Flores and Gonzalo Alanis Figueroa. This training program is a result of the UNL-UNAM Rule of Law partnership designed to assist Mexico as they adjust their criminal justice system from a mixed inquisitorial system to an oral adversarial system.
Duncan speaks on “The Tea Party’s Constitution”
Professor Rick Duncan spoke at the University of Chicago Law School on January 24, 2012, on "The Tea Party's Constitution." This program concerns recent calls by prominent scholars and commentators to amend the U.S. Constitution to shrink the size of the national government and increase the scope of state power. Duncan, who has published widely on constitutional law, has recently completed on article on this subject that he expects to publish in the very near future.
