Intellectual Life (Overview)

Thomas Jefferson School of Law, the Entertainment Law Society, in association with the Center for Law and Intellectual Property, present

Music Copyright Terminations:

The Ticking Time Bomb has Arrived

October 20, 2012, 11AM - 2PM, Room 325 Reception on the 8^th floor after the event

The 1978 Copyright Act provides that artists can terminate and thereby regain copyrights assigned to record labels and music publishers after thirty-five years from the grant. The first case involved Village People composer Victor Willis, writer of the hit YMCA, and led to a federal district court terminating the publishers copyright grant. We will now see a tidal wave of music artists seeking to terminate copyrights now held by major record labels and music producers from the 1970's era sound recordings and music publishers. This panel will explore whether the tick tock of copyright terminations sounds the death knell for record labels, or a liberty bell for artist's rights.

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Produced by:  Professor KJ Greene

Moderators:  Professor Julie Cromer Young & Professor Jeff Slattery

Directed by:  Najmah Brown, TJSL 2013 & Camara Mathis, TJSL 2013

Special Guest (Pre-recorded):  Brian Caplan, Caplan & Ross, LLP and Attorney for former lead singer of the Village People

Speakers:  David Branfman, Branfman Law Group, P.C.; Lisa Cervantes, Cervantes Entertainment Law; Valerie A. Dearth, Lapidus, Root & Sacharow, LLP; Michael Hosington, Higgs, Fletcher & Mack LLP; Donald A. Jasko, Digital Economics, LLC; James Leach, SESAC; Lacy J Lodes, Consor Intellectual Asset Management; Steve Marks, RIAA. Read speakers bios.

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Register by October 17, 2012

Registration is closed

Admission is free for the conference and reception. There is a small fee for the MCLE. All attendees please register online for RSVP.

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2.0 hours of MCLE* credit available

*Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit

MCLE credit is available upon request. Thomas Jefferson School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This program qualifies for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California.

For MCLE:  $15 for TJSL Alumni, $25 for General Public.

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Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the Center for Sports Law and Policy present:

Gladiators in the 21st Century: Violence and Injuries in Athletics

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Up to 3 MCLE credits available

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This conference is free for everyone and is funded through the generosity of an anonymous donor.

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8:30 a.m. Registration 8:50 a.m. Welcome (Room 325)

9:00 – 10:45 a.m. Panel 1: Medical Issues

Moderator:  Professor Joy Delman, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Dr. David M. Reiss, DMR Dynamics, Expert Witness for Concussion Litigation Dr. Jacob E. Resch, Director, Brain Injury Laboratory, University of Texas, Arlington Dr. Dwight Zach Smith, Medical Director, Beyond Wellness Talent Protection; Executive Director, New England Psychiatric Consultants, Plymouth, MA Dr. Kristen Willeumier, Director of Research, Amen Clinics

10:45-11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m.  - 12:45 p.m. Panel 2: Legal Issues

(1 MCLE Credit is available for this panel)

Moderator:  Professor Rodney K. Smith, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Jordan Kobritz, SUNY Cortland, Professor and Chair of the Sport Management Department Travis Leach, Attorney at Law, Sports Agent, Jennings Strouss Jeff Levine, Professor, Southern Illinois University Gary Wolensky, Attorney at Law, Hewitt Wolensky, LLP

12:45 – 1:00 p.m. Break

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.  Lunch and Keynote Speaker

Welcome, Dean Rudy Hasl, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Introduction of Speaker, Rodney K. Smith, Distinguished Professor and Director of Center for Sports Law and Policy, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Leigh Steinberg, Renowned Sports Agent, Steinberg Sports & Entertainment

Keynote Speaker and 2012 recipient of the Center’s Rudy Hasl Leader in Sports Award

2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Panel 3: Legal and Policy Issues

(1 MCLE Credit is available for this panel)

Moderator: Chris Saunders, Media Director, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Matthew Mitten, Professor of Law and Director of Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Rodney K. Smith, Distinguished Professor and Director of TJSL Center for Sports Law and Policy, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Break

3:45-4:45 p.m.  Panel 4: Athletes Panel

(1 MCLE Credit is available for this panel)

Moderator:  Professor Tim Wulfemeyer, San Diego State University

Billy Ray Smith, Former San Diego Chargers Linebacker

     Adam "Scrap Daddy" Pearce, Five-Time NWA Heavyweight Wrestling Champion

     Mike West, President, California Athletic Trainers Association

4:45 – 5:00 p.m. Break

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Panel 5: Solutions Discussion

All Panelists to Discuss Solutions

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MCLE

Up to 3 hours of MCLE* credit are available. Panels 2, 3 and 4 each qualify for one MCLE credit.

*Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit (MCLE) Thomas Jefferson School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This program qualifies for MCLE credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 3 hours.

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Women as Workers

Keynote Speaker: Professor Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford Law School

The Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s inaugural Women and the Law Conference in 2001, Women as Workers, featured as keynote speaker Professor Deborah Rhode, the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, former president of the Association of American Law Schools and former chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Legal Profession. Her keynote address focused on the status of women in the legal profession and the challenge for lawyers of leading balanced lives. She was followed by Thomas Jefferson Law School Professors Susan Bisom-Rapp,Julie Greenberg and Susan Tiefenbrun, who respectively touched on their research related to sexual harassment training, Title VII and gender non-conformity discrimination, and global trafficking of women sex workers.

Women and Family Law

Keynote Speaker: Justice Judith McConnell

California Fourth District Court of Appeals

The Second Annual Women and the Law Conference theme was Women and Family Law. The Honorable Judith McConnell, presiding Justice of the California Fourth District California Court of Appeal, delivered the keynote address, titled “Women in the Law: Changing the Way Courts Do Business,” which reviewed law reform movements aimed at eliminating gender bias in the courts and in substantive law. Her lecture was followed by presentations from Thomas Jefferson Professors Marybeth Herald, Ellen Waldman, Laura Adams and Ruth Philips, who discussed the rights of spouses to terminate life support, assisted reproductive technology, war crimes and family violence, and refugee laws and domestic violence.

Women and the Maternal Wall

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Joan Williams

University of California, Hastings College of Law

In 2003, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Thomas Jefferson School of Law and delivered an address titled, “Workways of the Supreme Court.” After this visit, Justice Ginsburg generously created the Thomas Jefferson School of Law Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture Series, one of only two lecture series in the world that bears her name.

At the Third Annual Conference, Women and the Maternal Wall, Joan C. Williams, then Professor of Law at American University and presently Distinguished Professor of Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law, delivered the first Ruth Bader Ginsburg lecture in 2003. Her talk, “Beyond the Glass Ceiling: The Maternal Wall as a Barrier to Gender Equality,” discussed the cutting-edge legal theories developing in the fight against family care responsibility discrimination and charted a course toward a new reconstructive feminism supporting women both in their traditional caregiving roles and in their desire for access to the traditionally masculine preserves of high status wage labor. Professor Williams’ keynote was followed by commentary from Professor William Bielby, discussing social science research on the maternal wall and its effect on litigation; Professor Susan Bisom-Rapp, analyzing employer reactions to maternal wall lawsuits; Jennifer Roback Morris, critiquing equality jurisprudence; and Professor Julie Greenberg, presenting a unifying theory of gender nonconformity that could be used to assist working mothers and other gender nonconformists.

What U.S. Lawyers Can Learn from International Law: Concepts of Gender Equality Across Legal Cultures

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Martha Albertson Fineman

Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University

The Fourth Annual Women and the Law Conference in 2004 focused on What U.S. Lawyers Can Learn from International Law: Concepts of Gender Equality across Legal Cultures. It brought together distinguished professors from law, the social sciences and humanities. Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory School of Law and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer, discussed how a more expansive, substantive notion of equality grounded in international human rights law can be used by progressive lawyers and policy makers to address systemic inequality in the United States and develop a robust vision of the role and responsibility of the state vis-à-vis its most vulnerable citizens. Her talk was followed by Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professors Linda Keller and Marjorie Cohn, who addressed worldwide noncompliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the failure of the United States to ratify the treaty; Professor Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, who focused on gender discrimination in Afghanistan; and Professor Abigail Saguy, who compared the sexual harassment laws in the United States to France.

Thomas Jefferson School of Law will host the 2012 Bricks and Bytes Conference, which is a law school facilities conference presented by the American Bar Association.  Bricks and Bytes will feature more than 40 programs designed for law school deans, faculty, librarians, architects, and law school information technology professionals who are designing or renovating law school space.

The conference will be held from March 11-13 at the law school, which is one of the most architecturally and technologically innovative law schools in the nation.

“I am very pleased that the School was chosen by the organizing committee,” said TJSL Dean Rudy Hasl. “It reflects the quality and imaginative design of the building. We are pleased that the School can be seen as a model for what law school architecture should be.”

For additional information visit:

http://www.americanbar.org/calendar/2012/03/bricks_bytes_continuousrenovation.html

Since the new downtown TJSL campus opened in January of 2011, it has won numerous awards for design and construction. TJSL is expecting receipt of LEED Gold Status from the U.S. Green Building Council (USBCG) for its environmental features.

In addition, the School received two Orchid Awards from the San Diego Architectural Foundation for Landscape Architecture and Programming and Planning. It received the Alonzo Award from the Downtown Partnership and Montbleau, the millwork contractor, received the Standard of Excellence Award from the Architectural Woodwork Institute. The USGBC awarded the building a credit toward LEED certification for the innovative use of Hycrete, a concrete admixture that creates an environmentally safe waterproof barrier. The Associated General Contractors of American awarded its 2011 Build San Diego Award to Gould Electric, the electrical contractor. Customs Components received a Crystal Achievement Award for its design of the metal fasteners for the grand staircase. The American Society of Civil Engineers selected Hope Engineering and Nasland Engineering for its Outstanding Civil Engineering Project Award. Sempra Energy –San Diego Gas & Electric recognized the School as a Sustainable Communities Champion and awarded cash to the School, the architectural firm, and the design firms.

TJSL is excited to welcome our guests for Bricks and Bytes!