Fall 2003 Photo Gallery Jack M. Balkin With the fall season came the first college-sponsored event of the 2003-04 academic year. During the first week of September, Professor Jack M. Balkin of Yale Law School presented the inaugural lecture of MSU-DCL’s Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program directed by Professor Peter Yu. The lecture was titled “Free Speech and Copyright, or the Blob That Ate the First Amendment.” Dean Terence Blackburn with Irvin H. Yackness In September, the law college dedicated two amphitheater classrooms to Irvin H. Yackness, ’41, and his late wife, Dr. June G. Yackness. The Yacknesses’ $800,000 bequest will fund the college’s building endowment and a real property writing award for students. Mr. Yackness is vice president and counsel to the Building Industry Association of Southeastern Michigan. With MSU and the town of Bregenz, Austria, the law college hosted the 2003 Bregenz Art Exhibition, consisting of 59 contemporary paintings by Austrian artists, from October through December. MSU-DCL also hosted last year’s exhibition of works by MSU art students who had studied in Professor Nicholas Mercuro, exhibition coordinator, poses with two pieces by Manfred Egender. Bregenz. MSU-DCL hosted “The First Decade of NAFTA: The Future of Free Trade in North America” to mark the 10th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement in October. Speakers from academia, private law practice, the business sector and government in Canada, Mexico and the U.S., pictured above, made presentations and participated on discussion panels during the symposium, organized by Professor Kevin Kennedy. North American Free Trade Agreement Speakers In late October, ADR Program Director and Professor Mary Bedikian hosted “Breaking Through Barriers,” an alternative dispute resolution training course for lawyers. The two-day course featured speakers on international and domestic negotiations. Keynote speaker Scott Brown, presents to the group. Brown is the author of How to Negotiate with Kids…Even When Scott Brown You Think You Shouldn’t and former associate director of the Harvard Negotiation Project. In early November, Professors Amy Christian and Robert McCormick presented their video documentary, “Toil, Trouble, and Triumph: The Legacy of Michigan Labor Lawyers,” to the MSU community and friends of the college. The video, directed and co-produced by Professor Lisa Whiting-Dobson of the MSU College of Communication Arts & Sciences, focuses on the contribution of Michigan lawyers to the development of labor and employment law. Professors Christian and McCormick currently are adapting it for public television throughout Michigan.