Dean Emeritus and Professor Louis D. Bilionis’ article, Professional Formation and the Political Economy of the American Law School, 83 Tennessee Law Review 895 (2016) was published.
Dean Emeritus Bilionis accepted an invitation to deliver a series of lectures on American Criminal Law and Procedure at Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, China. The lectures will be given in October 2016.
In July 2016, Dean Emeritus Bilionis made presentations on strategies for effectuating change in law schools at two workshops hosted by the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, MN. The workshops were attended by representatives from U.S. and foreign law schools who are working to create or strengthen programs to help law students in the development of their professional identities.
Together with UC Law Professor A. Christopher Bryant, Dean Emeritus Bilionis reviewed the Supreme Court of the United States’ recently concluded term for the Lawyer’s Club of Cincinnati on August 18, 2016. The title of their program was “The Supreme Court’s October Term 2015: What Almost Happened But Didn’t, What Did Happen, and What It Means for the Court’s Future.”
Dean Emeritus Bilionis accepted invitations to speak at two law schools and two conferences on an emerging “enterprise-wide” model for the teaching of professional formation in law school. In October 2016, he will speak at Baylor Law School, and in November 2016, he will speak at Georgia State University College of Law In February 2017, he will speak at a conference commemorating the anniversary of leading studies calling for change in legal education (the 1992 MacCrate Report and the 2007 Carnegie Report). The conference is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center, the Parris Institute for Professional Formation at the Pepperdine University School of Law, the Center for Ethical Formation and Legal Education at the Regent University School of Law, the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism. In April 2017, he will speak at the NALP (National Association for Law Placement) annual conference together with fellow panelists UC Law Senior Assistant Dean Mina Jones Jefferson, Professor Neil W. Hamilton (U. of St. Thomas School of Law), and Kristen Uhl Hulse (Director of Attorney Recruitment & Professional Development at Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP, San Francisco).
Dean Emeritus Bilionis was appointed to the Board of Directors of Linton Chamber Music in Cincinnati.