Introduction: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers

Washington University School of Law inaugurated its Public Interest Law Speakers Series, entitled “Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers,” during the 1998-1999 school year. One of the goals of this on-going series is to highlight the social justice responsibility of lawyers. Through the series, the School hopes to send a strong message to our students and to the community that access to justice is an important part of the professional responsibility of lawyers and the professional responsibility education of Washington University graduates. Another goal of the series is to bring together students, faculty, alumni, and members of the community in an ongoing, interdisciplinary discussion about the future of the legal profession. A third goal is to highlight the excellence of the Law School clinical program, through which many of our students are exposed to pubic service and public interest law practice. In our clinical program, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1998-1999, law students assist indigent and underrepresented clients with domestic violence, employment rights, environmental, criminal defense, and death penalty cases, and work with state and federal judges, Congressional committees, and federal agencies. The year-long series featured a number of speakers, from diverse backgrounds and careers, each independently dedicated to providing access to justice, each demonstrating in their personal and professional lives the best of the legal profession–extraordinary integrity, inexhaustible courage, and unbounded compassion. The talks ranged in focus from international criminal justice, to systemic race and poverty biases in our legal system, to the role of our federal courts in influencing public interest law, to the day-to-day fights confronted by individual consumers, to public service in government and private practice. The series soundly dispelled the myth that lawyers work only for high wages and prestige, and provided an inspirational look, through the lives and words of real individuals, at the responsibilities and possibilities the field of law offers

Introduction: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers

Like the prior eight volumes dedicated to Access to Justice, most of the Articles and Essays in this volume are written by presenters in the School of Law’s annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speaker Series, entitled “Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers.” These presenters are prominent academics, practitioners, and authors from diverse backgrounds in areas such as international human rights, the economics of poverty, racial justice, immigration, capital punishment, conflict resolution, clinical legal education, government public service, and pro bono private practice, who share a commitment to access to justice. The Public Interest Law & Policy Speaker Series was developed in 1998–99 in celebration of the School’s nationally recognized Clinical Education Program, through which many of our students are introduced to public service and public interest law practice. The Series informs the Washington University community and wider community on issues of justice through the presentations of the speakers (that are posted on the law school’s web site), through the Articles drawn from the presentations that are published in the Journal, and through the seminar course that accompanies the series in which students have the opportunity to meet with the speakers, read their work, and develop papers that focus on the speakers’ ideas

Sr. Joey: Power Structure Within the Education System

I interviewed Sr. Joey on January 17th regarding her experience within the Catholic Church. This paper includes her experiences with the power structure and how it affected her life’s work

Badania stereochemii addycji H-fosfonianów do chiralnych i achiralnych diimin

Celem pracy doktorskiej było zbadanie stereochemii reakcji addycji H-fosfonianów do wybranych diimin. Praca w szczególności skupiała się na stereoselektywnej addycji do imin opartych na szkielecie (R,R)-1,2-diaminocykloheksanu. Jako modelowe związki wykorzystano pochodne aldehydu benzoesowego, salicylowego, piorolokarboaldehydu, 2- furfuralu i 2-tiofenokarboaldehydu. W przypadku pochodnych aldehydu benzoesowego i 2-tiofenokarboaldehydu reakcje prowadzone były w warunkach bezrozpuszczalnikowych przy zastosowaniu ogrzewania mikrofalowego. Aminofosfoniany oparte na układzie 2-pirolokarboaldehydu i 2-furfuralu otrzymywałem poprzez mieszanie iminy i odpowiedniego H-fosfonianu w temperaturze pokojowej przez całą dobę. Pochodne aldehydu salicylowego syntetyzowałem w warunkach zasadowych z użyciem wodorku sodu. Ta ostatnia reakcja charakteryzowała się nadzwyczaj wysoką stereoselektywnością (de rzędu 95%). Wykazałem, że metoda z użyciem wodorku sodu ma zastosowanie tylko w przypadku addycji do układów posiadających grupę -OH w pozycji orto do wiązania azometinowego. Nie jest natomiast konieczne użycie (R,R)-1,2-diaminocykloheksanu, ani w ogólności diiminy, gdyż reakcja z α-metylobenzyloaminą dawała również pozytywny wynik i znaczne nadmiary diastereoizomeryczne. W pracy przedstawiłem proponowane mechanizmy reakcji, tłumaczące stereochemię zachodzących procesów. Poza tym przeprowadziłem wstępne badania mające na celu sprawdzenie, czy metoda addycji do salicylidenoamin daje się rozszerzyć na układy, w których dwie grupy iminowe sąsiadują z jedną grupą -OH. Uzyskane wyniki pozytywne i równie dobre nadmiary diastereoizomeryczne jednoznacznie wskazują na możliwość rozszerzenia metody na inne, niż przedstawione układy.The aim of this study was to investigate the stereochemistry of H-phosphonates addition to several diimins. I concerned on stereoselective aspects of additions to imines bearing (R,R)-1,2-diaminocyclohexane moiety. As model compounds the derivatives of benzaldehyde, salicylaldehyde, 2-pirolkarboxaldehyde, 2-furfural and 2-thiophenecarbox- aldehyde have been exploited. In case of the derivatives of benzaldehyde and thiophenecarboxaldehyde the reactions were conducted under no-solvent conditions and the reaction mixtures were irradiated with microwaves. Aminophosphonates bearing pirolkarboxaldehyde and 2-furfural were obtained by simply mixing of the imine and appropriate H-phosphonate under ambient conditions for 24 hours. Derivatives s of the salicylaldehyde were synthesized with use of sodium hydride as base. This reaction was highly stereoselective (de up to 95%). I have shown, that the sodium hydride methodology is limited to additions to imines in which the azomethine bond is in ortho position to -OH group. However, it is not required to use (R,R)-1,2-diaminocyklohexane based imines as reaction with α-methylobenzylo- amine gave similar results. In the text I have presented proposed reaction mechanisms, that explain the observed stereochemistry for different substrates. Moreover, I have conducted experiments to test, whether the sodium hydride based method could be applied to imines, where there are two azomethine bonds neighbouring single -OH group. Positive results suggest that the method can be applied in such cases

Poetry: Two Poems

“Portrait of John L.” and “Happy Anniversary, My Cobalt Angel

Introduction

The 1999-2000 school year marked the second annual Washington University School of Law Public Interest Law Speakers Series, entitled “Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers.” This important Series serves to further three essential goals in educating students and the legal community: first, highlighting the social justice responsibility of lawyers to provide access to justice; second, bringing together students, faculty, alumni, and members of the community in an evolving, interdisciplinary discussion about the future of the legal profession; and third, celebrating the excellence of the Law School clinical program, through which many of our students experience public service and public interest law practice, and confront first-hand their personal and professional responsibility to provide access to justice to all individuals. This Series continues to dispel soundly the myth that lawyers work only for high wages and “prestige,” and provides a truly inspirational look, through the words and stories of real leaders, at the broad responsibilities and aspirations of lawyers

Poverty, Justice, and Community Lawyering: Interdisciplinary and Clinical Perspectives

This introduction recognizes the efforts toward social justice through interdisciplinary clinical teaching and practice. The goals of this project are three-fold: to raise awareness about interdisciplinary clinical teaching and practice, to inspire thoughtful discussion and debate, and to develop scholarship, guidelines, and course materials. Throughout the project, there has been a focus on questions raised in both academia and practice: What are the goals, the rewards, and the challenges of interdisciplinary teaching and practice? How does one go about designing and developing an interdisciplinary clinic or course? What are the ethical issues that arise in interdisciplinary education and practice, and what are some guidelines for resolving them? What can we learn from reports from the field as to what are the best practices, different models, and likely problems? In what ways do interdisciplinary collaborations advance or impede the delivery of legal services and justice