In the News

The Future Ed Conference, a year-long contest of ideas about legal education that the Center is cosponsoring with Harvard Law School, continues to generate significant coverage in various news outlets. Click below for a sampling of recent stories.

The National Law Journal, "Consensus Emerging that Law School Model Is 'Is Not Sustainable'"

The American Lawyer, "In-house at the American Lawyer"

The Huffington Post, "Zed's Dead—Law, Finance, and the Future of Online Publishing"

AmLaw Daily, “Welcome to the Future: Are Law Schools ‘Beached’?”

New York Law Journal, “Project Urges Fundamental Changes in Law School Business Model” (link requires password)

TaxProf Blog, “The Future Ed Conference and Tenure”

Above the Law, “Obsession With Tenure and Money Likely to Ruin the Future of Legal Education”

Lawline, “Legal Professionals Agree: Law Schools Need to Kick up the Curriculum”

Above the Law, “Just How Crappy is Legal Education Today?”

Law360, “Lawyers Reimagine Law Schools For Changing Market”

Vault, “Law Schools and Law Firms: Change is Coming”

The National Law Journal, “Legal scholarship carries a high price tag”

The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Can Technology Save Legal Education?”

For more information on the Future Ed Conference, visit our conference website at www.nyls.edu/futureed.

In Spring, 2011, NYLS participated in the inaugural semester of Law Without Walls. Click below for a sampling of news coverage of the project.

Time.com, Amid Changes, Law School Tries to Get Real, http://ti.me/jdmbhp

The Chronicle of Higher Education, A Seminar Connects Law Students Around the World, http://bit.ly/jSpaBh

The New York Times recently profiled Center alumnus David Raskin '94, focusing on his work as a federal terrorism prosecutor. Click here to read the January 13 story. Mr. Raskin also recently spoke at the Law School about his work as Chief of Terrorism and National Security in the U.S. Attorneys' Office for the Southern District of New York. In his March 4 discussion, he explained how terrorism investigations and prosecutions proceed. Drawing on his own experiences including the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was convicted for his role in the September 11 attacks, he discussed some of the unique ethical issues that arise in the course of such cases.

 

Student Publications

Christine Garg ‘11, Affiliations: Foreign Law Firms’ Path Into India, N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. (forthcoming, 2011)

Mara Slakas ’11, The Work Family Balance for Lesbian Lawyers, IILP Review 2011: The State of Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession (forthcoming, 2011)

Anthony Bruno '09 completes Is Achieving Equal Educational Opportunity Possible? An Empirical Study of New York State Public Schools, 25.2 ST. JOHN’S J. C.R. & ECON. DEV. (summer 2010)

Anthony Bruno '09, Preserving Attorney-Client Privilege in the Age of Electronic Discovery, 54 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 541 (2009)

Andrew Rosenzweig '09, Mining for Metadata: The Ethical Implications for Lawyers, New York State Bar Association Law Student Connection Newsletter

Katherine Mikk '08, Making the Plaintiff's Bar Earn Its Keep: Rethinking the Hospital Incident Report, 53 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 133 (2008)

Erica L. Norey '07, Duty to Fill? Threats to Pharmacists' Professional and Business Discretion, 52 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 95 (2007)

Kevin Rubinstein '07, Internal Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley Section 806: Balancing the Interests of Employee and Employer, 52 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 637 (2007)

David A. Smiley '07, People v. Williams, 51 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 444 (2006/07).

Joshua N. Leonardi '06, The National Employment Law Project, 50 N.Y. L. SCH. L. REV 579 (2005-06).

Barbara Yan '07, People v. Yu, 50 N. Y. L. SCH. L. REV. 1023 (2005-06).

Jared Spitalnick '05, United States v. Irving, 49 N. Y. L. SCH. L. REV. 425 (2004).

Abigail Zigman '06, In Re Adoption of Gustavo G., 49 N. Y. L. SCH. L. REV. 1243 (2004).

Christine Aubin '05, United States v. Gayle, 48 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 847, 854 (2004).

Roy G. Locke Jr. '06, Anthony v. City of New York, 48 N. Y. L. SCH. L. REV. 647 (2003-04).

 

Student Awards

Christine Garg ’11 received the NYLS Alfred L. Rose award for excellence and the Trustee’s Prize for the highest grade point average.

Four Center students have received the New York State Bar Law Student Legal Ethics Award.  The award is made in recognition of an extraordinary accomplishment in one of the following areas: (1) a proposal outlining how members of the Bar can demonstrate their commitment to professional responsibility or legal ethics; (2) a written article, essay or other exposition, on the subject of legal professional responsibility or legal ethics; or (3) a substantial action of activity in furtherance of legal professional responsibility or legal ethics, performed or instituted in the year of this competition. The following three students were chosen based on works written as part of the Center's seminar series: