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LAW IN ACTIONA EWSLETTER FOR ALUMNI AND FRI NDS SUMMER 2006

Henered at the Taiwan conference were (from left) uw Law School Professor Charles Irish:Ching Chang Yen. Chairman of the FLJhwaFinancial Holding Company and former TaiwaneseRepresentative to the WTO; and UW Law School Dean Kenneth 6. Davis. Jr.

Law School Gathers Globalnvestors for aiwan Conference

The committee was appoin r-ed by the National Academies, thenation's most prestigious scientificorganization. The work ~ollows onan earlier effort, for which Charwas a guiding force and committeemember, to draft the first set ofnational guid 'lines for the ethicalconduct in the politically centro-versial field of embryonic tern ellresearch. hose guideline have now

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Professors R. Alta haroand Pilar Ni Ossorio, twOUniversity of WisconsinLaw chool profe . aI'S who arenationally prornin nr in the field ofbioethics, have been appointed athe Human Embryonic Sren ellRe car h Advisory ornmirtee, anew national committee to monitorand rcvis voluntary guidelines onrhe conduct: of human ernbry nistern cell re earch, haro will al aserve as co-chair of the committee.

The work follows on anearlier effort, for whichCharD was a guiding forceand committee member.

Charo, OssarioNamed toNational StemCell AdvisoryCommittee

affecring access to iruernational capi-tal for Taiwanese companies,

Representing the UW Lawch ol were D an Kenneth B. Davi ,

]1'.; Profess I' hades Irish Directorof me East Asian Legal rudies Cen-tel' ar me Law School; and artorneyKeith Johnson '78, WI I ProgramDirector, who al 0 teaches at the LawSchool as an adjunct profes 01' ar dis of counsel wi th Reinhart BoernerVan euren,

avis, Irish and Johmon re-turned from the conference enthu-siastic about rhe venture.

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he Law Shoal's newWisconsin Inr rnarional

orporare ovcrnanceIniriative (WIC I), which. is dedi-cated [0 improving [he quality ofcorporate governance inrernari n-ally, especially in emerging mar-kers, made irs debut in Taiwan thisspring. The WI ,I conferencebrought internarional investors andtop-level Taiwanese governmenr andbusiness leaders together to sharinformation and suggesri ns regard-ing the regulatory, business corpo-rare governance, and cultural factors

WISCONSINLAW SCHOOL

FACULTY NEWS

Smith ElectedTo ALIProfessor D. ordon Smith hasbeen elected co membership inthe American Law Institute (ALI),which drafts and publi he vari-ous restarern nts of he law, modelcodes, and [her proposals for legalreform. Irs mcmb .rship consists ofjudges, practicing lawyers, and legalscholars who are "selected on thebasis of pr fe sional achievementand demonsrrarcd interest in meimprov mcnr of the law. '

rnith sp cializes in corporateand securities law, with a particularernpha is on entrepreneurial bu i-neSSC and venture capital, and isAssociate Oir ctor oflN IT - thelnitiative for rudies in TechnologyEnrrepreneu rsh ip, an in erdisciplin-ary group within the U nivcrsiry ofWisconsin that develops innovativeand comperirive re earch program[0 expand the contributions ofentr eprcncurship and rechnology onthe Madison Cam pus.

mid earned a ] •. from theUniversity of hicago Law Schoolin 1990 c nd a B.S. from BrighamYoung University in 1986. Aftergradu·lting from law school, helerked for Judge W. Eugene avis

in the U.. ourt of Appeals for theFifth Cir uit and was an associate inthe elaware office of the inter-narional law firm Skadden, Arps,Slate, Meagher & Flam, where hepecialized in corporate and securi-

ties transaction. P .ior to joiningthe University ofWisconsi.n's lawfaculty, Smith taught for six yearsat Lewis & Clark Law School inPortland. regan.

Smith joins ten other mem-bers of th UW Law School faculty

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who have been honored wi rhmembership: ardon Baldwin,Richard Bilder, Kenneth B. Davis,Jr .. Walter. ickey, Marc Galanrer,

inda reene, Marygold Melli,usan rcingass, crald Thain, and

Jun· Weisberger.

Monette DraftsNew ConstitutionsFor ribes

Professor Richard Monette, whspecializes in drafting provisions forconstitutions and codes for IndianTribes, has recently seen his workfor everal acive American tribesapproved in tribal elecri ns,

Monette has had manyyears of experience assist-ing tribes with constitutionalreform projects.

Monette worked with thehcycnn and Arapaho Tribes ofklahorna to draft an entirely new

constitution. which was approved inApril 2006 in an election conductedby the BllPaLl oflndian Affiirs(BlA) of the U .. Department ofthe Interior. Monette also assistedthe Havasupai Tribe in draftingseven substantive amendment totheir onstirution in 2005, All venwere adopted by a wide margin,in an election also conducted bythe BLA. The Havasupai Tribe isheadquartered in the bottom of the,rand Canyon's araract anyon.

Monette bas had many yearsof experience assisting tribes withconstitutional reform project,including drafting a new constitu-tion in 1992-93 for the Hop hunktribe. He also has been a rively

involved in leadership roles,Monette was a staff art mey withthe Indian Affairs Committee andserved as irecror of Legisla iveAffairs for the Bureau of IndianAffairs in Washington, O. . He hasbeen elected twice as chairman ofthe Turtle Mountain Tribe, and hasserved as Chi of Judge for the Pas uaYaqui Tribe, Special]udge for thHe-Chunk Nation, and pedalJudge f; r the rial ourt of the

urtle Mountain Band of hippewa,Professor Monette is

currently assisting the Sault Tribof hippewa Indians with a totalrevision f its constitution.

tern "db (continued from page 1)been adopted by universities acrossthe country, including rhe Univer-icy fWi c nsin, and have formed

the basis for stem c 11res arch fund-ing regulations ill alifornia andfor international research guidelinesadopted by the International S cieryfor rem ell Resear h.

'The current limitationon federal funding in this area,"

ham said, "made federal regula-tion impossible. Voluntary guide-lines developed by the NationalAcademies have closed [his gap,and demonsrrarc that rhe sci nrificcommunity is capable of bringingrhi promi ing area of medici ne tofruition within the be t traditionof etl ical research."

The University ofWis on-sin's tradition of interdisciplinaryscholarship and collaboration hasmade the aw chool a parmerwirh de life s icnces departmentin what promises to be an excitingand innovative source of medicalprogress for [he first half of thetwenty-first century.