UMLawyer • Table of Contents

On the Block: Professor aids victims of slavery

From the dean: Kill all the lawyers
Alumnus: Serving in Iraq
Graduation: Degrees awarded to 177 students
Practice, Practice, Practice: Student masters violin and turns to law
Building the Future: Officials break ground for new facility
Reliable Source: Research institute becomes law-information authority
Invaluable Experience: • Students argue cases before Court of Appeals
Courting the Future: • Law student pioneers externship
Overheard at Lamar Hall: • Lecturers highlight important law issues
Lawyer in the Library: • Speakers help students find professional paths

Coastal Challenge: • Policymakers discuss response to natural disasters
Flight Path: • Students land scholarships in space law
Now in Session: •Appeals panel hears cases while on campus
Free at Last: •Innocence Project helps clear men wrongly convicted; • Faculty Notes; • Scholarship recipients and donors meet at reception
• Campaign contributors honored at reception; • Alumna named associate counsel to President Bush; • First Winter Scholarship awarded; • Classmates honor friend with gift
• Spotlight on campaign donors; • Law Awards Day; • Professional Notes
• Alumni Highlights
• 2007 Lamar Order gifts

Chancellor: Robert C. Khayat
Dean, School of Law: Samuel M. Davis
Executive Director, Alumni Affairs: Warner Alford
Associate Dean for Development: Timothy L. Walsh

Development Officer for the School of Law: Jamie White
President, Law Alumni Chapter: Robert T. Jackson Sr.
Editor: Jennifer Farish
Contributing Editors: Sabrina Brown, Benita Whitehorn

Photographers: Robert Jordan, Kevin Bain, Harry Briscoe, Nathan Latil
Contributors: Samuel M. Davis, Will Mestayer, Deborah Purnell, Jennifer Farish

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