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| Graduate & International Student eNewsletter
Volume V, Issue 23 • March 4, 2014
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You are reminded that it is important that you take the time to read carefully the information contained in these newsletters, as this will be our primary means of communicating important information and deadlines to students.
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As most of you already know, our office lost a dear friend and colleague, Matthew Dzioba, this past weekend to complications from leukemia. Matt began working in our office as a student worker in February 2009, while he was a student at Fordham College Lincoln Center. We were fortunate to be able to hire him to join our staff full-time as an Assistant Director after he graduated. His contributions to our programs over the years are countless, but it is his spirit that we will miss the most.
Thank you again to those of you who participated in our Bone Marrow Registry Drive in the fall. Matt was incredibly touched by the generosity of this community he loved so much. If you were unable to join in the fall, but are interested in joining now, please go to
www.bethematch.org. Joining the registry will put you on a list to be possibly matched with a blood cancer patient in need of a bone marrow transplant. The Be the Match Registry is easy to join and gives leukemia patients like Matt their best chance to receive a life-saving transplant. Information about a memorial service will be forwarded as soon as it becomes available.
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| Highlights this Week... Happy March! We do not have a new post on the LL.M. Career Corner blog today, but in honor of our friend, Matt Dzioba, who was an endlessly and infectiously positive person, I will point you to an old post from almost exactly two years ago:
Being Nice
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| In This Issue... - Academic Enrichment Program
Student Life- Lunches with Assistant Dean Jaeger-Fine
- Summer Course Registration (March 24)
- Fall Course Registration - New Date
- CPC Event - Careers in IP
- GPDP Programs
- Fried Frank - Corporate Finance Position
- Queen's Law Journal - Call for Papers
- Toronto Group Conference – Conflicting Legal Orders
- Fordham Law Review Symposium: Chevron at 30 (Mar 7)
- Business Law Practitioners Series (Various Dates)
- The New York International Arbitration Center: Seated in New York (Mar 11)
- Reducing the Nation's Cyber Risk: White House Insights on the President's Critical Infrastructure Framework (Mar 11)
- Natural Law Colloquium (Mar 13)
- ABA Section of International Law 2014 Spring Meeting in New York (Apr 1-5)
- Kandice Thorn Office Hours
- LL.M. Program T.A. Office Hours
- Submission of Announcements for the eNewsletter
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| Academic Matters
Academic Enrichment Program
The Academic Enrichment Program is a program that is required for all new foreign-trained LL.M. students during their first semester of study and all exchange students. All sessions will be video recorded and posted on the Academic Enrichment Program website (accessible by going to law.fordham.edu/llm, then clicking on “Current Students”, then “Academic Enrichment Program”).
If you missed any of these sessions, you must follow the instructions on the video page to make up your attendance.
The schedule for the Spring 2014 semester is as follows: Case Analysis and Outlining (January 4 - video/slides posted)
The LL.M. Experience (January 4 - video/slides posted)
Study Tips Panel (January 16 - video posted)
Law School Exams (January 30 - slides posted)
Plagiarism/Bluebooking (January 30 - video/slides posted)
Writing Scholarly Papers (February 20 - video/slides pending)
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| Student Life
Lunches with Assistant Dean Jaeger-Fine
Any LL.M. students who have not yet had lunch with Assistant Dean Jaeger-Fine who are interested in doing so should email her assistant Bernard Daraz at
bdaraz@fordham.edu with their general availability. Additional dates will then be set up accordingly.
Summer Course Registration (March 24) Please note that summer course registration begins Monday, March 24. The schedule should be posted soon on the
Registrar's webpage. Full-time students who began their programs this term (Spring 2014) and who will continue to be full-time students in Fall 2014 may take summer courses at a significantly reduced per-credit rate ($200/credit) and these credits will not count toward your credit maximum for the LL.M. program.
Fall Course Registration - New Date Please note that the date for Fall course registration has changed. LL.M. students will now register on Monday, June 23. Be sure to mark your calendar so you can register early on that day so you will have the best chance of getting into your preferred classes.
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| Graduate Professional Development Program Note: Video recordings and slides of past GPDP programs are available on the GPDP website at
law.fordham.edu/llm/gpdp by clicking on “Current Students” then “Services, Resources, and Programs.” CPC Event - Careers in IP The following Career Planning Center event is open to LL.M. students: Practice In Action: Diverse Careers in IP Law and Strategies for Achieving Success (co-sponsored by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, the CPC and FLS Intellectual Property Law Journal) Wednesday, 4/2/14, 5:00 – 6:15 p.m., Room 20 GPDP Programs The schedule of live GPDP programs for the remainder of the Spring 2014 semester is as follows: Interviewing Skills for LL.M. Students
Thursday, March 13
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Room 203 Immigration and Visa Issues for Students Looking to Work in the U.S. Post-Graduatio
Wednesday, April 2
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Room 302
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| Opportunities
Fried Frank - Corporate Finance Position
The law firm of Fried Frank is looking for a LL.M. student interested in joining its Corporate Finance practice. You must have corporate finance experience in order to apply for this position. The position is a permanent position in the New York Office and will begin in October/November of 2014. Qualified applicants may send resumes to Kandice Thorn at kthorn1@law.fordham.edu by the end of the day on Thursday, March 13.
Queen's Law Journal - Call for Papers
The Queen's Law Journal, a Canadian peer-reviewed legal publication, is accepting papers for its Fall 2014 issue. The deadline for submission is May 1. For more information,
click here.
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Events: Around the Law School and Beyond
Fordham Law Review Symposium: Chevron at 30 (Mar 7) Business Law Practitioners Series (Various Dates) Date/Time: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. (dates specified below)
Location: Room 205
Tuesday, March 11
Patrick Foye ’81
Executive Director, Port Authority of NY and NJ
The New York International Arbitration Center: Seated in New York (Mar 11)Date/Time: Tuesday, March 11, 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: NYIAC (150 E. 42nd Street)
Information/Registration
Sponsored by The New York International Arbitration Center and Baker & McKenzie LLP. RSVP by March 7.
Reducing the Nation's Cyber Risk: White House Insights on the President's Critical Infrastructure Framework (Mar 11) Date/Time: Tuesday, March 11, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Lowenstein Building, 12th Floor Lounge
Information/Registration Sponsored by the Fordham School of Professional and Continuing Studies and the Fordham Computer and Information Science Department
Natural Law Colloquium (Mar 13) Date/Time: Thursday, March 13, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Location: McNally Amphitheater
Information/Registration Scott Shapiro, Yale University School of Law
“Goodness Grotius: Pirates, Prizes, and the Boy Genius Who Revolutionized War” ABA Section of International Law 2014 Spring Meeting in New York (Apr 1-5) Date: April 1 - 5, 2014
Location: Waldorf Astoria New York
Information/Registration
Very heavily discounted student rates are available. Early bird registration (discounted) ends February 24. Preregistration deadline is March 19. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in international law.
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| Office Hours/Miscellaneous Kandice Thorn Office Hours Kandice’s office hours for the next two weeks will be as follows: Wednesday, March 5, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Friday, March 7, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 12, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Friday, March 14, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. LL.M. Program T.A. Office Hours Molly Ryan, our LL.M. Program T.A., is available to consult with you on a wide range of issues, including study skills, understanding case law, outlining, exam preparation, writing samples, term papers and more. We strongly encourage you all to take advantage of her services, which are offered free of charge to you. Students are requested to email Molly at mryan81@fordham.edu in advance if they plan on attending office hours so she can plan her schedule accordingly. Her office hours this week will be 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. on Friday, and thereafter will be Wednesdays 3-5 p.m. Her office hours will be held in the Law School Cafeteria. Submission of Announcements for the eNewsletter Students may submit notices of events that they are organizing, as well as personal or professional news (i.e., marriages, births of children, job promotions, publications), for publication in the eNewsletter by emailing Kandice Thorn at kthorn1@law.fordham.edu.
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| Note: Events listed in the "Around the Law School and Beyond" are not included in this calendar. Thursday, March 13
GPDP: Interviewing Skills for LL.M. Students
12:30 p.m.- 2:00 p.m., Room 203 Sunday, March 16 – Sunday, March 23
Spring Recess- University Closed Monday, March 24
Summer Session 2014 Registration Begins Wednesday, April 2
GPDP: Immigration and Visa Issues for Students Looking to Work in the U.S. Post-Graduation
4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m., Room 302 Thursday, April 17 - Monday, April 21
Easter Break - University Closed Wednesday, April 23
Monday Class Schedule Friday, April 25
Last Day of Classes; all seminar papers and independent study papers due Monday, April 28 – Tuesday, April 29
Reading Days Wednesday, April 30 – Tuesday, May 13
Final Examination Period Monday, May 19
Law School Diploma Ceremony Monday, June 23
Fall Course Registration Begins
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