Judicial Fellows for 2001 Selected

The Judicial Fellows for 2001-2002 have been selected. They are Louis M. Aucoin, who will serve his fellowship at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; Peter Bowal, who will serve at the Supreme Court of the U.S.; Karl B. Brooks, who will serve at the U.S. Sentencing Commission; and Patricia L. Shaughnessy, who will serve at the Federal Judicial Center. The one-year fellowships begin in August or September. Founded by Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1973, the Judicial Fellows Program provides Fellows an opportunity to study first-hand the administrative machinery of the federal Judiciary, as well as gain a perspective on the dynamics of inter-branch relations.

Louis Aucoin is a Program Officer in the Rule of Law Program at the U.S. Institute for Peace in Washington, D.C. He has acted as a technical advisor to the Cambodian Constituent Assembly in connection with the creation of Cambodia's 1993 Constitution. He also has served as counsel to the Haitian Minister of Justice, helping to develop a specially trained corps of judicial police and propose reforms to Haiti's Code of Criminal Procedure and to its system of justice for minors. Recently, Aucoin was acting head of the Judicial Affairs Department of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor. Included among his many publications are "Haiti's Constitutional Crisis," "The French Constitution", and "Judicial Review in France."

Peter Bowal is Professor of Law on the Faculty of Management, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He has been a Canadian Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor of Legal and Ethical Studies at Arizona State University. His research interests include the American influence on Canadian law. He is the former producer and host of the public legal information show, Law Talk, and he has served as staff editor for the Journal of Legal Studies Education and the American Business Law Journal. He has written extensively on business law and policy in North America. Bowal has made recent contributions to the Indiana International and Comparative Law Review, the Canadian Business Law Journal, and the American Business Law Journal.

Karl B. Brooks is an assistant professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses on environmental history, legal history, environmental law, and environmental policy analysis. Brooks has been a trial and appellate attorney with Boise Cascade Corporation and Holland & Hart of Boise, Idaho; served three terms in the Idaho State Senate, where he was ranking minority member of the Judiciary Committee; and served as executive director and legislative liaison for the Idaho Conservation League. He currently is a member of the Organization of American Historians, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society.

Patricia L. Shaughnessy is a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, where she teaches courses on comparative, European and American law. At the University, she assisted in the establishment of a Baltic exchange program that has developed into the Riga Graduate School of Law in Latvia.

Shaughnessy recently was awarded the Stockholm University Pedagogical Prize for Teacher of the Year. She has taught internal education programs at the SVEA Court of Appeals, worked on behalf of the Swedish Institute for Legal Development in connection with education for judges and lawyers from developing countries; and worked with a project involving arbitration legislation and a commercial law center in Sri Lanka.