The School of Law’s Faculty Speaker Series continues with UM Law Professor Kunal Parker, who will present his paper “Law, Time and the Republic: The Common Law, History, and Democracy in American Thought, 1790-1900” on Wednesday, February 17 in the law school’s faculty meeting room. The lecture begins at 12:35 p.m., following a lunch at 12 p.m. in the same room. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture. There is limited seating for this event. To attend, R.S.V.P. to Detra Davis at [email protected]. Priority will be given to those first to reply.

Before joining the UM law faculty, Parker taught at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where he was the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law. He has also held fellowships at New York University Law School, Cornell Law School, Queens University in Belfast, Ireland, and the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to teaching, Parker worked as an associate at the New York law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he practiced in the area of bankruptcy law relating to complex financial transactions.

Parker has written extensively in the areas of colonial Indian legal history, the history and theory of U.S. immigration and nationality law, the history of American legal thought, and the philosophy of history. He has served on the editorial boards of various scholarly journals. He is currently completing a book entitled Custom and History: Common Law Thought and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century America (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). His teaching areas and interests include American legal history, estates and trusts, immigration and nationality law, and property.

The Faculty Senate will hold a meeting on Wednesday, February 17 at 3:30 p.m. at the M. Christine Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies, Room 106. Faculty members are always welcome to attend all senate meetings; this one offers a special opportunity to address your questions and concerns directly to UM President Donna E. Shalala. Mark B. Rosenberg, president of Florida International University, will also be introduced at this meeting. For more information, visit the Faculty Senate Web page at http://www.miami.edu/FacultySenate.

Setting personal goals is a vital part of accomplishment and helps with personal as well as business planning. The Leadership Academy live course, “Setting Personal Goals,” sponsored by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, will help emerging leaders identify their values, set principle-based goals, and develop an appropriate action plan to achieve those goals.

Sessions will occur on Wednesday, February 17 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Max Orovitz Building, Professional Development and Training Office, Training Room 139. You must complete the corresponding CBL prior to enrolling for the course. To register for the session, visit ULearn.miami.edu and follow the instructions to log on. For more information, call 305-243-3090 or 305-284-5110.

Hiring and Onboarding Talent is a highly interactive course with two instructor-led training (ILT) sessions and a computer-based learning (CBL) module. Participants will focus on identifying talent needs in their department, developing techniques to determine ability based on past performance, creating an interview plan, peer interviewing, and developing an onboarding plan for new talent. This is a core requirement for any hiring manager.

Sessions occur at the Professional Development and Training Office Medical on the Miller School campus, Dominion Parking Garage, Suite 155. The first live session will be held on Wednesday, February 17, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. You must complete the corresponding online CBL prior to enrolling in the second live session. The second live session will be held on Tuesday, November 23 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. To register for the sessions, visit ulearn.miami.edu and follow the instructions to log on. For more information, call 305-243-3090 or 305-284-5110.

Receive advanced hands-on instruction on electronically submitting NIH applications through the InfoEd Proposal Development system. The focus of this session will be on the personnel and budget sections. This class will be held on Wednesday, February 17 from 9 to 11 a.m. in the Dominion Towers Computer Lab, tenth-floor, located on the Miller School campus. Registration is available through ULearn, or contact the Office of Research Education and Training at 305-243-5092.