- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/law/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:06:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock student finishes in 2018 Miss Arkansas Top 10 /news-archive/2018/06/19/miss-arkansas-top-10/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:06:59 +0000 /news/?p=70812 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock student finishes in 2018 Miss Arkansas Top 10]]> Miss Greater Jacksonville Brooke Cornelius, a second-year student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, was among the Top 10 finalists for the, winning $6,500 in scholarships.聽 Cornelius, of Hope, competed for the fifth time in the Miss Arkansas Pageant. She got the opportunity to compete an extra year when the Miss America Organization raised the maximum age to compete from 24 to 25 earlier this year. While Miss Historic Batesville Claudio Raffo was crowned 2018 Miss Arkansas on June 17, Cornelius had a successful run in the pageant as a preliminary winner who also landed a spot in the pageant鈥檚 Top 10. During the preliminary competition on June 14, Cornelius was named co-winner in the Talent Preliminary competition with a tap dance routine set to 鈥淭hriller.鈥 She also ran on an anti-bullying platform titled, 鈥淧rotect Our Youth: Bullying is Not Ok!鈥
Photo of Brooke Cornelius by Miss Arkansas pageant.

Photo of Brooke Cornelius by Miss Arkansas pageant.

As a Top 10 semifinalist, Cornelius received a $3,000 scholarship from the Miss Arkansas Scholarship Foundation. She also won the Buddy Coleman Memorial Overall Talent award with a $2,750 scholarship given by Buddy Coleman Family and the Sloane Roberts Overall Dance Award with a $750 scholarship provided by Michelle and John Mark Roberts. In 2016, Cornelius was the second-runner up. In 2017, she was recognized as a top-five Miss Arkansas CMN Miracle Maker fundraiser. Cornelius has a bachelor鈥檚 degree in accounting from Henderson State University and hopes to combine the expertise from her undergraduate degree and future law degree to pursue a future as a corporate attorney. In the upper right photo,聽糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Bowen law student Brooke Cornelius (left) won the Preliminary Artistic Expression award during the Miss Arkansas Pageant preliminaries on June 14. She is shown with additional preliminary winners Kelsey Stone and Darynne Dahlem. Photo courtesy of Miss Arkansas Pageant.聽]]> Bowen alum Cody Hiland confirmed as U.S. Attorney /news-archive/2017/09/29/cody-hiland-bowen/ Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:52:40 +0000 /news/?p=68127 ... Bowen alum Cody Hiland confirmed as U.S. Attorney]]> A graduate of the William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.聽 Cody Hiland, of Conway, serves as the 20th Judicial prosecuting attorney, which serves Faulkner, Van Buren, and Searcy counties. President Donald Trump nominated Hiland after receiving recommendations by Sen. John Boozman and Sen. Tom Cotton. Hiland was on Sept. 28 to serve a four-year term as U.S. Attorney. 鈥淚 am pleased that the Senate confirmed Cody, who I am confident will be an excellent U.S. Attorney,鈥 Boozman said in a press release. 鈥淗e has the commitment, experience, and expertise necessary to tackle the challenges he will face in this new role. I congratulate Cody and look forward to working with him to help make our communities safer.鈥 Hiland graduated from Bowen in 1998. He is a former partner at Hiland, Thomas & Cox, PLLC in Conway. He also previously served as staff attorney and rural and community liaison for the Arkansas Public Service Commission; program director for the Arkansas Transitional Employment Board; and legislative liaison and aide to Gov. Mike Huckabee. The U.S. Attorney鈥檚 Office Eastern District of Arkansas includes five divisions and 41 counties in the state. It is responsible for representing the federal government in virtually all litigation for this district. This includes criminal prosecutions for violations of federal law, civil lawsuits by and against the government, and actions to collect judgments and restitution on behalf of victims and taxpayers. ]]> Visiting 糖心Vlog传媒LR professor files friend of the court brief in 鈥楤lurred Lines鈥 case /news-archive/2017/01/12/blurred-lines-lawsuit-visiting-ualr-professor-friend-court-brief-marvin-gaye-robin-thicke-pharrell-williams/ Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:43:47 +0000 /news/?p=66086 ... Visiting 糖心Vlog传媒LR professor files friend of the court brief in 鈥楤lurred Lines鈥 case]]> William H. Bowen School of Law has weighed in on the聽internationally watched “Blurred Lines” case that pits the family of Marvin Gaye against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams. Bernard A. Burk co-authored an amicus 鈥媍uriae 鈥 a friend of the court brief 鈥 in the appeal of the copyright infringement case brought by Gaye鈥檚 family regarding the 2013 song 鈥淏lurred Lines.鈥 The brief was filed in support of the Gaye family on behalf of a group of eminent musicologists from Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago, and elsewhere.鈥 “It was a joy and an honor to be able to help present the views of such a distinguished group of music scholars in support of one of the greatest American songwriters and performers of the second half of the 20th century,” Burk said.鈥 In the original lawsuit, the Gaye family won a 鈥媘ore than $5 million 鈥媣erdict when the court found that Thicke, Pharrell, and rapper T.I.鈥檚 2013 鈥淏lurred Lines鈥 infringed on the copyright for Marvin Gaye鈥檚 1975 hit 鈥淕ot to Give it Up.鈥 The case is now on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The issue on appeal 鈥媡hat the amicus brief addresses concerns two 鈥媏xperts in musicology who testified at the trial. Thicke鈥, Pharrell, and others claim the experts鈥 testimony was 鈥媠o wrong 鈥媋nd inconsistent with copyright law鈥 that the jury should not have heard it鈥. Professor Burk鈥檚 co-authored amicus brief supports the testimony and the original verdict. Gaye, whose songs include 鈥淚 Heard It Through the Grapevine鈥 and 鈥淎in鈥檛 No Mountain High Enough,鈥 produced hits from the 1960s through the early 1980s. He died in 1984. Billboard named 鈥淏lurred Lines鈥 its song of the summer for 2013 after it led the Billboard Hot 100 list for 12 weeks starting in late June of that year. In a Dec. 28 online article titled The Hollywood Reporter wrote about the latest developments in the lawsuit, including the friend of the court brief co-authored by Burk. Pictured above:聽Bernard A. Burk. Contributed photo.]]>