Law school welcomes
three new professors
By Lalnie Block
for the Oregon OiHty fmerekj
Tile University law school wel
comes three new professors to its
classrooms this fall.
Professors Keith Aoki. Robin
Morris Collin and Richard Painter
join a group of 10 new hires dur
ing the past three years, adding
depth and diversity to the law
school's faculty and curriculum.
Associate Professor Keith Aoki
will teach contracts, administra
tive law anti patent law during
the 1993-94 academic year Aoki
is a graduate of Wayne State t Ini
vorsitv (B.A. with High Distinc
tion). Hunter College (M.A.), Har
vard law school (J.U. cum iaude)
and the I Iniversitv o! Wisconsin
(L.L.M),
Aoki worked as an editorial
cartoonist for the Harvard Lan
Recordand has published a book.
Casual Lt- ’til Stltdirs. with three
years of cartoons front his days
at Harvard law school.
As a voting associate for the
leading Boston firm of Hale &
Dorr. Aoki played hiss guitar
with an off-heat hand of associ
ates who dubbed themselves The
Vulgar Parvenue.
''Let's just say the senior asso
ciates were not enamored with
the image their associates were
projecting.” Aoki said
As an artist. Aoki is most inter
ested with "the u ays U S. intel
lectual property laws tend to dis
count the cultural properties of
indigenous peoples,” he said
Professor Robin Morris Collin
joins the iau fat ult\ v\ith tenure
after eight years of teaching lavs
at Tulane and Mi George law
schools (ioilin, a graduate of ( ol
orado College and Arizona State
University law school, will teach
i ulturai property layv. perspec
tives in the layv. a seminar on
"sustainability” and legislative
and administrative processes dur
ing the 1993-94 academic year.
Collin's focus is on legal
regimes relating to cultural art
and antiquity
"Intellectual property (mean
ing film, television, video and
other products of the mind) is the
United States’ biggest import, lar
outstripping our other gross
national products.” she said.
Collin's latest article. "The Law
and Stolen Art, Artifacts, and
Antiquities,'' examines the ten
sion between artists' proprietary
rights in their art and the public's
interest in access to art.
Collin's husband will begin a
professorship at the urban plan
ning school, teaching courses in
planning and environmental
equity The two plan to collabo
rate on a book dealing with envi
ronmental equity and sustainable
technologies.
"We yvere attracted to Eugene
because of its physical beauty
and because we were very favor
ably impressed by the Universi
ty's commitment to diversity. "Hie
University got a great team."
Collin said.
Appointments Committee
Chairwoman Caroline Forell
agrees that the low school was
fortunate to add such impressive
faculty members to their ranks
when 1990's Ballot Measure 5
has imposed somewhat of a hir
ing freeze on the University
Forell credits the University
sponsored Target of Opportuni
ty program, which allows the
school to hire outstanding facul
ty of color when the need for
such positions has been c leorly
defined.
Assoi iate Professor Richard
Painter will teach business plan
ning, partnerships and i orpora
tions, and securities regulation
during the 1993-94 school year
Painter is a graduate of Harvard
College |B A sumina cum laude
with highest departmental hon
ors in history) and Yale Law
School, where he served as the
editor of the To/e lonmnl on //eg
nlntion.
Immediately after graduation.
Painter (lerked lor Judge John T
Noonan in the U S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Painter has prai tired Ian for five
years with the prestigious New
York firm of Sullivan It < jromwell
and the Connet tu ut firm of Finn.
Dixon s Hurling
In addition to his si holarlv
pursuits. Painter i strongly com
mitted to professional responsi
bility in the legal field Painter
was an active member of the
Committee on Professional
Responsibility of the (atv of New
A ork Bur He also founded and
operated a shelter for the home
less in Harvard Square.
While the recession plagues
res ent law grails in search of jobs,
Forell said "the interest in the
Northwest and the national rises
sion in law firms has resulted in
a huge pool of qualified people,
allowing us to target only the
most outstanding applicants.”
The new professors join an
equally impressive entering class.
From a pool of 1 834 applicants,
admissions selected 150 students
with a median LSAT score of 160,
and record-high median 3.5 CPA
The entering class is 55 percent
residents. 45 percent out-of-state
students.
For the first time in the histo
ry of the law school, women com
prise more than 50 percent of the
entering class, up from a low 33
percent last year.
Only 12 percent of the enter
ing class are minority students,
down from an already-low 16
percent Inst year
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A Rolls-Royce automobile was donated to the
University School of Law this summer by Uni
versity alumni as part of a $100.(KM) gift creat
ing a new fellowship for trial law advoc acy
Elmer and Phvlli* Sahlstrom of Eugene gave
the 1988 Silver Spur Rolls-Royce to the school
in further support of the University, which they
have tieen involved with for more than 40 years
"I feel indebted to the *< hool." Elmer
Sahlstrom said I got a good education, and it
has served me well,"
Elmer Sahlstrom received his bachelor's
degree in business administration in 1940 and
law degree in 1947, as well as other training,
at the University. He has worked as !>oth a lawyer
and a certified accountant since leaving the
school.
Phyllis Sahlstrom received lioth an English
degree in 1945 and a German degree in 1974
at the University and completed a master s
degree in German language and literature in
1980. She worked for six years as a research
assistant in the University German department
"I no longer want to drive Rolls-Royces," said
Sahlstrom. explaining why he gave the car away
"I am happy just driving mv jeep. 1 thought the
school c ould use it to transport professors or
speakers to and from the airport, or they could
sell it "
The law school opted to soil the car through
the University Foundation to a buyer in Van
couver. Wash . for $42,tKH). said the foundation's
finance Director David Weslcotl
The $58.(KM) needed to complete the pledge
will be paid In Sahlslrom in a more conven
tional way — (.ash, the foundation said
The gift was doubled to S200.000 In state
matching funds and will go to establish the
Elmer Sahlslrom Senior Fellowship for Trial
Law Advocacy, said the director of the devel
opment's office for the law school.
The fellowship will help to fund teaching and
research in trial law as well as support for sem
inars, lectures or institutes having to do with
outside speakers on trial prac lice and publica
tions in trial law
flie Sahlstroms have supported nthleth s at
the University for many years and Elmer
Sahlslrom is t urreotlv making another gilt to
the Visitor's Endowment,
The Sahlstroms are also Lifetime President's
Associates, whic h requires a substantial dona
tion to the t diversity and allows them to attend
special association events
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