Well I Got My Interview!!
It only took a day to get one of my interviews and it's with a PITT Law Professor. Mr. John M. Burkoff... who is a LAW instructor @ the University Of Pittsburgh. I sent a email to him today to request my interview be tomorrow and i'm waiting for a word back. I've decided to put the video of my interview on YouTube.com so I can post it on my blog. Once I hear back from Mr. Burkoff I will blog it! Here is some information on Mr. Burkoff that I dug off the internet.
"In the '60's, many people went to law school to change the world. When they failed to have a massive, visible impact on the legal system, many were frustrated and disillusioned. They had the right idea, but the wrong scale of vision. What lawyers can accomplish is what might be called 'little justices.' In representing people day to day, lawyers can get justice for people and change lives for the better. If over the course of a career, a lawyer does a thousand little justices for people, that's big justice. That seems to me to be a prime reason to go to law school."
Degrees: AB, JD, University of Michigan; LLM, Harvard University.
Areas of Specialization: Criminal Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Legal Ethics, Human Rights.
Currently Teaching: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Legal Profession.
John M. Burkoff is a prolific author, teacher, public speaker, lawyer, and expert witness. He has published eleven books and more than 50 articles in the areas of criminal justice, human rights, and legal ethics. In addition, Dean Burkoff was awarded the University of Pittsburgh's
Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987, and was the University's nominee for national Professor of the Year.
Professor Burkoff is also heavily involved with legal projects and legal education around the world. He has worked for U.S. Embassies in Burundi, Iceland, and Kenya on human rights projects, and on draft legislation or litigation for the governments of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Ethiopia. He has been a member of the faculty of the Institute of Shipboard Education's Semester at Sea program three times, including serving as Academic Dean of its Fall 1996 Voyage and Director of the Law at Sea program in the Summer of 2001.
A nationally recognized expert on legal ethics, Professor Burkoff often serves as an expert witness or consultant, and was the Reporter for the American Bar Association's third edition revisions of the national Prosecution and Defense Function Standards, the ethical standards for the criminal bar. He was the chair of the American Bar Association Task Force that revised the professional standards for criminal trial judges. He was also the first chair of the City of Pittsburgh's Citizen's Police Review Board. A Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow, he is a past chairperson of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
Professor Burkoff is also heavily involved with legal projects and legal education around the world. He has worked for U.S. Embassies in Burundi, Iceland, and Kenya on human rights projects, and on draft legislation or litigation for the governments of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Ethiopia. He has been a member of the faculty of the Institute of Shipboard Education's Semester at Sea program three times, including serving as Academic Dean of its Fall 1996 Voyage and Director of the Law at Sea program in the Summer of 2001.
A nationally recognized expert on legal ethics, Professor Burkoff often serves as an expert witness or consultant, and was the Reporter for the American Bar Association's third edition revisions of the national Prosecution and Defense Function Standards, the ethical standards for the criminal bar. He was the chair of the American Bar Association Task Force that revised the professional standards for criminal trial judges. He was also the first chair of the City of Pittsburgh's Citizen's Police Review Board. A Fulbright Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow, he is a past chairperson of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
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