Tanina Rostain

Professor of Law
Codirector, Center for Professional Values and Practice
Cochair, New York Law and Society Colloquium

Publications by Professor Rostain

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Travails in Tax: KPMG and the Tax-Shelter Controversy, Chapter in Legal Ethics Stories (Foundation Press, 2006) (D. Rhode & D. Luban, eds).

Professional Power: Lawyers and the Constitution of Professional Authority, Chapter 9 in The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society at 146–169 (A. Sarat, ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2004).

LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

Introduction (Symposium: The Plaintiff’s Bar), 51 New York Law School Law Review 209-212 (2006-2007) (with A. Bernstein & M. Galanter).

Sheltering Lawyers: The Organized Tax Bar and the Tax Shelter Industry, 23 Yale Journal on Regulation 77-120 (2006).

The Emergence of “Law Consultants,” 75 Fordham Law Review 1397-1428 (2006).

Pockets of Professionalism, 54 Stanford Law Review 1475–1490 (2002).

Professional Commitments in a Changed World (Colloquium: What Does It Mean to Practice Law “In the Interests of Justice” in the Twenty-First Century?), 70 Fordham Law Review 1811–1823 (2002).

When the Towers Collapse Outside your Window: Teaching Law in the Aftermath of 9–11, 34 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 197–204 (2002).

“Educating Homo Economicus: Cautionary Notes on the New Behavioral Law and Economics Movement.” 34 Law & Society Review 973–1006 (2000).

“Ethics Lost: Limitations of Current Approaches to Lawyer Regulation.” 71 Southern California Law Review 1273–1340 (1998).

“Waking Up from Uneasy Dreams: Professional Context, Discretionary Judgment, and the Practice of Justice (Review Essay Symposium: The Practice of Justice, by William H. Simon).” 51 Stanford Law Review 955–972 (1999).

“The Company We Keep: Kronman’s The Lost Lawyer and the Development of Moral Imagination in the Practice of Law.” Book Review of The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession, by Anthony T. Kronman. 21 Law and Social Inquiry 1017–1039 (1996).

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, PRACTICE MATERIALS, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Travails in Tax: KPMG and the Tax-Shelter Controversy, Chapter in Legal Ethics Stories (Foundation Press, 2006) (D. Rhode & D. Luban, eds).

End of ‘Taxicab Rule,’ National Law Journal A27 (June 14, 2004), reprinted in the New Jersey Law Journal (June 21, 2004).

Preface. Symposium: Criminal Defense in the Age of Terrorism, 48 New York Law School Law Review 1 (2003/04) (with D. Ziegler).

Essay in Eight Blocks Away: Memoirs of September 11, 2001 at 171–180 (New York Law School, 2002).

Note, “Permissible Accommodations of Religion: Reconsidering the New York Get Statute.” 96 Yale Law Journal 1147–1171 (1987).

“Tribute to Robert M. Cover.” 96 Yale Law Journal 1699, 1713–1716 (1987).

Contact Information:

T: 212-431-2193
E: tanina.rostain@nyls.edu
O: SE-937
Assistant: Jennifer Seeger
T: 212-431-2143
E: jennifer.seeger@nyls.edu
O: E-1001S

Education:

Swarthmore, B.A. 1981
Yale, M.A. 1983, J.D. 1987.
Law Clerk, the Honorable Ellen Ash Peters, Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow in Legal Ethics and Professional Culture, Yale University, 1996-98

Authority on the legal profession, with published works on legal ethics, legal profession, and on behavioral economics and law.

Courses:

  • Evidence
  • Lawyers and Public Life
  • Legal Profession

At New York Law School since 1998.

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