College of Education

Rehabilitation Counseling Professor Vilia Tarvydas’s The Long Term Training: Rehabilitation Counselor’s Training Project received a $150,000 U.S. Department of Education grant to increase the supply of qualified personnel available in Iowa’s vocational rehabilitation agencies. Through outreach, recruitment, value-added education, and enhanced learning strategies, the project will maintain and upgrade the skills and knowledge of employed rehabilitation personnel in Iowa, implementing evidence-based practice through applied research.

Art Education Professor Rachel Williams works at the women’s prison in Mitchellville, Iowa, helping the women to tell stories, write about their life, and read the stories of other women. She also teaches at Iowa City’s Oaknoll Retirement Residence every Friday. In addition, she received a $14,000 grant to create a ceramic tile mural at a men’s prison in Montana.

College of Pharmacy

Active in partnership with Medicaid to manage drug utilization through the Pharmaceutical Case Management contract.
Partner in Iowa Priority Senior Drug Program
Active in economic development and attraction of industry to the bioeconomy with the Center for Advanced Drug Development, The Division of Pharmaceutical Services and the Center of Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing

College of Law

Legal Services

The College of Law Legal Clinic served clients both on campus and through supervised externships in Iowa as follows:

75 law students provided 531 hours of faculty-supervised legal representation and advice at the College of Law’s Clinic

The Clinic had 237 – 270 active cases open at various times during this reporting period, 189 of which were newly opened cases and the remainder were ongoing cases that were opened prior to the reporting period.

40 law students provided 340 hours of attorney/court-supervised service through a variety of externships in Iowa, including the US Attorney’s Office in Des Moines, Iowa Attorney General’s Office in Des Moines, Legal Aid Offices in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and throughout the state, the Youth Law Center in Des Moines, several US District Court judges in Des Moines, US Bankruptcy Court in Cedar Rapids, the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Cedar Rapids, the Iowa City Human Rights/City Attorney’s Office, and Student Legal Services in Iowa City.

Legal matters for which the Legal Clinic provided representation included assistive technology issues, criminal defense, civil litigation, general civil law issues, consumer law, disability rights, domestic violence, employment law, immigration law, international law, nonprofit law, and public benefits issues.

Law and Public Policy Outreach/Service

In addition to their teaching, legal research, and participation as speakers at UI College of Law Continuing Legal Education programs for Iowa attorneys, various members of the College of Law faculty participated in the following activities that were of direct service to the State of Iowa and/or members of the Iowa Bar:

Professor John Allen moderated the district court judge panel and the magistrate judge panel at the Iowa State Bar Association Federal Practice Seminar in Des Moines, served on the Board of the Iowa State Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project, and spoke to the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association annual convention on the ethical considerations of cross-examination.

Professor Pat Bauer served as an advisory member of the Iowa State Bar Association Title Standards Committee and spoke on debt collection law and bankruptcy at the Iowa Judicial Institute.

Professor Randall Bezanson and Professor Margaret Raymond made a presentation to attorneys at the “Inn of Court” program on “Lawyer Ethics and the First Amendment”.

Professor Arthur Bonfield spoke to the Iowa Judicial Institute on judicial review of state agency action under the newly amended Iowa Administrative Procedure Act (of which he was the principal draftsman when it was originally adopted in 1974 and when it was amended in 1998).

Professor Willard Boyd chaired the Governor’s Task Force on Nonprofit Organizations.

Professor Lois Cox served as immediate past-president of the Johnson County Bar Association, as co-chair of the Board of Directors for the Domestic Violence Intervention Program, and as a member of an ad hoc committee investigating security measures at the Johnson County Courthouse.
Professor Marcella David was the keynote speaker at the Des Moines Women Bar Association.

Professor Nicholas Johnson made a presentation to the Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association, and at the request of members of the Iowa Utilities Board addressed the 2002 National Rural Telecommunications Congress “Building Demand for Broadband” Conference in Des Moines.

Associate Dean Linda McGuire served on the Johnson County Bar Association Grievance Committee, and was “of counsel” to the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Professor Len Sandler conducted workshops throughout Iowa to address the shortage of housing that is accessible to and usable by persons with special needs; provided training and advice on disability law issues regarding the new Cedar Rapids minor league baseball stadium and to the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch; worked with members of the Iowa Legislature to draft legislation to establish minimum “visitablitiy” standards for homes built in whole or in part with state money, tax breaks, grants or similar funding; participated in the Lt. Governor’s Summit on Housing for Persons with Disabilities; presented formal comment to the Iowa Department of Public Safety regarding proposed rules to adopt the ADA’s Accessibility Guidelines as the state’s comprehensive accessibility code; and made a presentation to rehabilitation counselors, lawyers, human resource professionals and others at the Legal Issues in Rehabilitation Conference in Des Moines on the interplay between the ADA and the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Professor Mark Sidel provided legal advice to assist in securing the transfer of nearly $500,000 from an estate and the National YMCA to the Cedar Rapids YMCA and Camp Wapsie.

The College of Law hosted the following lectures and symposia on law or law and public policy topics that were open to the public:

Richard S. Levitt Lecture
September 20, 2002—Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist
“The World in an Age of Terrorism: Reflections on September 11”

Shirley Webster Lecture
September 26, 2002—Prof. Howell Jackson, Harvard Law School “Accounting for Social Security and Its Reform”

Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Symposium
October 25-26, 2002

Journal of Corporation Law/Wayne A. Brooks Symposium on Corporate Law
April 4, 2003

Murray Lecture
April 18, 2003 – Prof. Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School
“Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education at 50: Gains and Losses”