UNJVERS y o F WISCONSIN H 0 0 L
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
4 u..w IN ACTION
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.