News Scrapbook 1986

Rancho Santa Fe, CA (San Diego Co.) Mobile Home Courier (Cir. W. 16,300)

Del Mar, CA (San Diego Co.) Del Mar Surfcomber (Cir. 2xW. 1,845)

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Applications for priority reg- istr tion date and times are now being accepted at the col- lege. Application forms are available in the college's "Mira Costan" schedule of fall classes, available free at the Oceanside or Del Mar location, and at public libraries in the coastal orth County area and the Base Education office at Camp Pendleton. Complete registration in- ·truction are also available in the "MlraCostan" publication. For more Information, call the college at 757-2121 or 942-1352.

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STUART R. GRAUER 13 years in education Fairbanks

school names new director Stuart R- Grauer of Del Mar ha been named assistant d1redor of Fairbanks Counn Y Day School 111 Haneho Santa Fe. Grauer, a 13-veai t'ducator, i:; former principal of the lnterna- t ion a I School of Bose! in S\\itzerland and is completing a doctorate in educational leadership at the Univcr~ity of S,m Diego. Grauer speciali:.:es i(\.school development and cur- riculum innovation. Fairbanks Country Day, formerly the La Jolla School, is new to Rancho Santa Fe and will open its doors to students from pre-school through grades 12 in Septeml,cr. Set on nine acres, the school plans feature the striking, earth-form ~rchitec1 ure of Kendrick Kel- logg and the sophisticated and highly individualized compute- rized instructional programs of La Jolla educators Judson and Christine Cornish.

Terry Gardner, 74, holds a sample of wine up to the light at a wine-tasting seminar at the University of San Diego (USO) recently. The seminar is one of era classes conducted through the University of the Third Age, a program designed for older adults. For information, phone 260-4600, Ext. 4297. Donna Nyffenegger photo

r, 1/USD Trf $tes U.S. LawFor Foreign Lawyers 20Attend2-Week Seminar; ComparingOur Common Law To Most Of World's Civil 1,.,,Di,10DailyTr.,,scriptSla!fWri~r It takes two or three years to get a lawsuit to trial in Argentina. No one is surprised at the delay, that's The Japanese can't choose whether to file a complaint m state or federal court; there is no state Mexican lawyers wouldn't ex- pect to arbitrate a commercial law From New Gumea to Canada to Switzerland, 20 attorneys and law school graduates recently converg- ed on University of San Diego for a chance to trade insights into their legal systems r.nd learn about that They attended a two-week sum- mer program, "Orientation to U.S. Law," which concluded Friday at foreign attorneys to the American system," noted Professor Jorge Vargas, director of the school's Mexico-U.S. Law Institute. "A growing number of them are coming here to pursue studies, to get a master's degree in American law, or they want to become more familiar with our law to conduct business with American corpora- legal A two-week crash course, Vargas noted, gives graduate students a chance to adjust to the U.S. and learned about the California bar exam, and took a tour of big San Diego law firm Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye to see how such an opera• lion is run and how lawyers earn a Course lecture staff included six USO law professors and 10 practi- t1oner from here, Los Angeles and By PAULINE REPARD just the way ,tis. court system. case - they'd go to court. German la-.. presumes a guaran- ty for a debt is enforceable. ofthe United States. U~fLaw. "The program was designed three years ago to introduce tioDS." coursework in English. They living.

The Cornishes were students of world famous psychologist B.F. Skinner ,1t Harvard. Grauer believ, ; tlwt by merg- ing his international perspec- tive with this scientific and technological orientation, Fairbanks Country Day will be able to offer not only the finest mastery learning student pro- grams, but an educational sys- tem with one foot planted in the future. Interested parties should call 454-9191. / I ;;;

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master's degree in comparative law at USD. He, like Joch and Qui- jano, noted that one thing he par- ticularly liked about the two-week program was the chance to meet people from around the world. Tijuana attorneys Sylvia and Francisco Castro Trenti are brother and sister, and work in a law firm with one other partner. Sy!via Castro specializes in tax- at10n and corporate law, Francisco in civil and busines law. "The U.S. con11 on Jaw," noted S, !via Castro, "1. nductive, and our civil law 1s deductive. In the middle, the two systems are very similar, such as in areas of good faith and settlements. 'Codification is different. Civil law is very specific, very specializ- ed and strict. Under common law, a judge may make the law. You can petition to the Supreme Court and make a law. Not in Mexico." There, put in Francisco Castro, C ngress has to make all the laws. The two noted that more U.S. citizens are becoming interested in investing in Mexico, and they at- tended the USO program to better understand the laws here as they may relate to investments. In certain areas of Mexico, for- eigners are allowed only to use and lease land, not own it, and they must agree to come under Mexican Jaw to settle disp_u_te_s_·-~-~ /2

(Continued from Page lA) unheard of in their countries." He noted that most other coun· tries provide free legal education as undergraduate work, meaning students are often out of law school by age 21 instead of25 here. Bernd Joch, a Munich business attorney, noted after a Friday course on enforcing judgments in the U.S. that, "The law here is very different from Germany A lot of things are very strange to us in "In a case with guaranties, I asked an L.A. lawyer if it would be any problem to enforce here. In Germany, it would be no problem at all. But the lawyer said here, there would be a lot of problems, there were a lot of defenses against •·Someone spoke on that here, and I couldn't believe my ears. I had thought the other lawyer was just a bad lawyer. I learned to be more cautious about the way to understand American law_" Joch was sent to the program by his law firm, Schwarz, Schniewind, Kelwing, Khadiavi, which has a policy of sendmg junior partners to U.S. summer programs to learn the He chose USD t make contacts and pick up tips on his areas of in• terest: patent, copyright, trade- mark, motion picture law. "That's one reason why I wanted to go to California," said Joch, who has practiced law for five years. 'Tm going to Los Angeles next for Another participant, Hirohiko Maeke of Japan, was sent to the conference by his company, a steel ministrator. He came to learn labor and anti-trust law, and plans to at- tend the University of Washington School of Law m Seattle for further "Japan was greatly affected by U.S. labor laws after World War II," Maeke said. "The laws are very similar, but the function is very different. Japanese companies have their own unions, and they have few strikes. The stress is on negotiation with the union. I want to learn how VS. law deals with unions.'' This was Maeke's first visit to San b1ego, and he made the most of it by touring Sea World, MiRsion Bay, La Jolla, "and I ate dinner Europe it. legal system. the entertainment law_" firm in which he is an ad- study.

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Business News (Cir. 2xM. 3,500) U 18 h

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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/ .<1 1888 /' • 0)4 JJt~nt J.B. Orecchia, a judior'"""jat> tl!e' University of San D;eg12. received the $750 Sigma Chi 1 Foundation scholarship for the 1986- .---4 87 academic year. _-- i

Ja~k Hug, assi tant vice president for physical plant service~ at the Umversity of California, San Diego has recefved an award fo1 Mei ito_11ou erv1ce presented by the_ A oc1a11on of Physical Plant Admm1strator of Univer ities and Col- lege~ L...,..,...,.._____ ~---~--

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840)

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