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WSDK 1550 AM Radio, “The ACLU, Civil Liberties and Religion: What are the Issues?”
June 21, 2012

NYLS Faculty Nadine Strossen
Subject: ACLU

To listen to the coverage, click here.

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ABC News, “Convicted Killers Often Live a Life of Pleasure, Professor Says.”
By Chris Cuomo
June 20, 2012

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

“Most people imagine prison life for convicted murderers as being harsh, brutal, and isolated, a real-life ‘Shawshank Redemption.’ ‘They're playing on softball fields with lined base paths and umpires in uniforms, while other guys are hanging out, getting a suntan,’ Blecker said. ‘Those who committed the worst crimes, who deserve to suffer the most, generally suffer the least.’"

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Daily Mail, Radar Online, Yahoo News, Topix, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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JD Supra, “Can Your School Suspend You For a Facebook Post?”
By Aaron Kase
June 19, 2012

Adjunct Mitchell Rubinstein
Subject: Facebook & School Suspension

“A school district in Indiana last month finally settled a free-speech dispute over suspensions it handed out to two students who had posted revealing photos of themselves online. ‘These cases are nothing new,’ says Mitchell Rubinstein, an adjunct law professor at New York Law School. ‘They’re not breaking any new legal ground because there is a lot of established precedent dealing with off-campus speech of students and this is just a different media that it’s occurring in.’”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Media Post, “TRUSTe Pans Microsoft’s Do-Not-Track Proposal.”
By Wendy Davis
June 19, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Online Privacy

“Privacy company TRUSTe has weighed in against Microsoft's plan to turn on do-not-track by default in the next version of Internet Explorer. Questions about do-not-track headers also came up this morning at a House Judiciary Committee meeting about online privacy, where New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann expressed support for Microsoft's plan.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Tech President.

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The Reverse Review Magazine, “A HECM Hearing.”
By Jessica Linn
June 19, 2012

NYLS Faculty Houman Shadab
Subject: Reverse Mortgage

“Housing experts and reverse mortgage professionals testified before members of Congress last month in an oversight hearing established to examine the health and future of the FHA’s HECM program. Among those who testified were counseling representatives, including Daniel Fenton of Money Management International and Barbara Stucki of the National Council on Aging; AARP Policy Advisor Lori Trawinski; NRMLA President Peter Bell; CIS Chairman Jeffrey Lewis; HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary Charles Coulter; and two housing industry experts, New York Law School’s Houman Shadab and George Mason University’s Anthony Sanders.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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The Wall Street Journal, “Parks Chief Steps Down After 10 Years.”
By Michael Howard Saul
June 18, 2012

NYLS Dean Anthony Crowell & Carole Post
Subject: New Positions at NYLS

“Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday appointed a new commissioner to oversee New York City parks as the outgoing chief heads to a national nonprofit. Earlier this year, Anthony Crowell, who served as counselor to the mayor, left City Hall to become dean and president of New York Law School. Carole Post, who headed the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, resigned in April amid controversy. She joined Mr. Crowell at the school.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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The Hill, “Overnight Tech: Lawmakers Move Against UN Regulation of the Internet.”
By Brendan Sasso
June 18, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: UN Control Over Internet

“Lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee will consider a resolution that would urge the Obama administration to oppose efforts to give the United Nations more control over the Internet. The witnesses will be Scott Shipman, associate general counsel for eBay; Morgan Reed, the executive director for the Association for Competitive Technology; Chris Babel, CEO of privacy company TRUSTe; and James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Everyday Citizen, “Presidents and the Supreme Court.”
By Angelo Lopez
June 18, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Book Reviews

“In the next week or so, the Supreme Court will be ruling on whether parts or all of Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, specifically the mandate on making people buy health insurance, is constitutional or not. This will have a major affect on the President's prestige and political agenda, as this health care reform law is the President's major achievement on domestic affairs. This is not the first time, however, that the President and the Supreme Court has clashed. James F. Simon, a Martin Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at New York Law School, has written three books about different times in history where the Executive Office and the Supreme Court have had clashes over the limits of the federal government. “

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Publishers Weekly, “Google Appeal May Not Delay Trial.”
By Andrew Albanese
June 18, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Appeal

“As we reported late last week, Google has filed a petition with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals asking for an immediate appeal of the Authors Guild’s class certification granted by Judge Denny Chin at the end of May. The ‘real surprise,’ contained in the filings, Grimmelmann added, is that Google has added former solicitor general Seth Waxman, to their team.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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The New Yorker, “Benched.”
By Jill Lepore
June 18, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: The Supreme Court and the struggle for judicial independence.

“Originally, the Supreme Court of the United States met in a drafty room on the second floor of an old stone building called the Merchants’ Exchange, at the corner of Broad and Water Streets, in New York. Three weeks after Hoover laid the cornerstone for the new Supreme Court Building, F.D.R. was elected President, defeating the incumbent by a record-breaking electoral vote: 472 to 59. As the New York Law School professor James F. Simon chronicles in ‘F.D.R. and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal’ (Simon & Schuster), the President-elect immediately began lining up his legislative agenda.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Library Journal, “Google Appeals Class Action Certification.”
By Meredith Schwartz
June 15, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Fair Use of Google Books

“Google appealed Judge Denny Chin’s order granting the Authors Guild class certification in the ongoing litigation between the two over whether Google Books is fair use. ‘Obviously, Judge Chin won’t be one of the judges considering the appeal; this move does put his colleagues in the slightly unusual position of hearing an appeal from one of the fellow members of their court,’ Professor James Grimmelmann of New York Law School said on his blog, The Laboratorium.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Publishers Weekly, and Paid Content.

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JD Journal, “Judge Yet to Issue Ruling on Cooley Law School Lawsuit.”
June 15, 2012

NYLS Lawsuit Dismissed
Subject: Law School Lawsuits

“A lawsuit filed in 2011 against Thomas. M. Cooley Law School will be ruled upon by a federal judge as to whether or not it can proceed very soon. In state court, a lawsuit against New York Law School has already been dismissed.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Inside Counsel.

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Foreign Policy, “Obama’s Secret Hypocrisy.”
By Trevor Timm
June 15, 2012

NYLS Alum Trevor Timm ‘11
Subject: Classified Obama Info Leaked

“Since the New York Times published two important stories containing classified information two weeks ago -- one being U.S. President Barack Obama's "kill list" and another regarding a series of U.S. cyberattacks against Iran -- Congress has been replete with bipartisan outrage. “

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The Washington Independent Review of Books, “Snapshots.”
By Robin Friedman
June 15, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Book Review

“James Simon, Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at New York Law School, has written about constitutional confrontations between presidents and chief justices, including Jackson versus Marshall and Lincoln versus Taney. In his recent book, Simon explores the clash between President Franklin Roosevelt and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes over New Deal legislation.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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The Village Voice, “Is Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Supersized Soda Ban Unconstitutional?”
By Victoria Bekiempis
June 14, 2012

NYLS Faculty Michael Botein
Subject: Ban on Supersized Soda

“Anyway, opponents of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's supersized soda ban might argue in court that the proposed measure is unconstitutional, citing the commerce clause as proof of its illegality. Not fully sure how this relates to soda, we gave Michael Botein a call. He started the Media Law Center at New York Law School but also knows a lot about Constitutional law, and was willing to talk with us generally about the clause.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Government Technology, “Gang of 7 Big-City CIOs Forges Ahead Despite Turnover.”
By Merrill Douglas
June 14, 2012

NYLS Executive Vice President Carole Post
Subject: New Position

“Despite turnover that has shaken up its ranks, an informal group of big-city IT executives known as the G7 is pushing forward with plans to establish a shared data repository that could become a foundation for multi-city apps and performance metrics. Carole Post, CIO and commissioner of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), accepted a job as executive vice president and chief strategy officer for New York Law School.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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ZDNet, “ACTA, TPP Limit Scope of Copyright Review.”
By Josh Taylor
June 13, 2012

NYLS Faculty Dan Hunter
Subject: Copyright Act Review

“The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), under the guidance of commissioner Jill McKeough, has been tasked with reviewing the Copyright Act to make sure that exemptions are still relevant, given the massive technological advancements since the legislation was last updated in 2004. The Department of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly asserted that ratifying both agreements would not require any change in intellectual property law in Australia as it stands today. This is a view shared by expatriate New York Law School professor Dan Hunter, who told an Intellectual Property Institute of Australia briefing in Sydney last night that Australian law is mostly compatible with the agreements — for now.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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NPR, “Health Care Decision Hinges on a Crucial Clause.”
By Nina Totenberg
June 11, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Health Care

“All of Washington is breathlessly awaiting the Supreme Court's imminent decision on the Obama health care overhaul. ‘The conservative majority started with the proposition that laissez-faire economics was good and that any intrusion by the state or the federal government was necessarily suspect,’ says New York Law School professor James Simon, author of a book about the court and the New Deal.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in WNYC.

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Eureka-Wildwood Patch, “Should Children’s TV Selections and Use be Controlled?”
By Julie Brown Patton
June 11, 2012

NYLS Adjunct Brian Murphy
Subject: Parental Controls

“A total of 87 percent of U.S. parents think they do a better job of protecting kids than the government, according to a national coalition that opposes government control of TV programming and promotes the use of tools such as content ratings and parental controls. Individuals associated with TV Watch include: Brian Murphy, Adjunct Professor, New York Law School and partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.”

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The National Law Journal, “Judge Rejects Cooley’s ABA/NALP Defense in Fraud Case.”
By Karen Sloan
June 8, 2012

NYLS Lawsuit Dismissed
Subject: Fraud Case

“The American Bar Association and NALP are not "indispensible absent parties" to a proposed fraud class action brought by 12 recent graduates against the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, a federal judge has ruled. ‘So far, we're two for two on that,’ Strauss said, noting that a New York state trial judge in March rejected a similar argument by New York Law School before dismissing the larger suit.”

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This news also appeared in The Huffington Post and Law and More.

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LifeNews.com, “Senate Votes Monday on Obama Pro-Abortion Judicial Pick.”
By Steven Ertelt
June 8, 2012

NYLS Law Review
Subject: Obama’s Pro-Abortion Nominee

“The Senate will vote on Monday on Andrew Hurwitz, President Obama’s pro-abortion nominee to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In 2002, when Hurwitz was 55 years old and already a justice on the Arizona supreme court, he authored an article titled, ‘Jon O. Newman and the Abortion Decisions,’ which appeared in the New York Law School Law Review. “

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This news also appeared in The Blog of Legal Times here and here, and in America’s Conservative News.

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CityBizList, “Tai-Heng Cheng Joins Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as Partner.”
June 8, 2012

NYLS Faculty Tai-Heng Cheng
Subject: New Partner

“Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced today that Professor Tai-Heng Cheng will join the firm's New York office as a partner in its International Arbitration Practice. “

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Kinney Recruiting.

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New York Law Journal, “Speakers Offer Sage Advice to law School Graduates.”
By Laura Haring
June 8, 2012

NYLS Commencement 2012
Subject: Kenneth Feinberg Commencement speech

“Over the last month, nearly 6,000 J.D. and LL.M. students graduated from New York's 15 law schools. Most were treated to sage advice from featured speakers. Kenneth Feinberg, the founder and managing partner of Feinberg Rozen, gave graduates at a May 21 commencement three pieces of advice. First, he said, ‘do not be afraid to assume new challenges, to choose the road not taken,’ adding that ‘we lawyers can point with pride to the role we have played in our nation's history in pursuing the uncomfortable, the contrary view, often at odds with citizen sentiment.’"

To view this article in full, click here.
The Commencement Address can be found here.

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Virtual-Strategy Magazine, “The Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School Awarded $800K MacArthur Foundation Grant.”
June 7, 2012

NYLS’s IILP
Subject: MacArthur Foundation Grant

“The Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School (NYLS) was awarded an $800,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to convene an interdisciplinary planning group of leading researchers, public sector innovators, and technologists to design and develop a research network to study the impact of network technology on democratic institutions in the United States and globally, announced Dean Anthony W. Crowell.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Red Orbit.

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Opinio Juris, “Globalization and U.S. Sovereignty: The Contours of an Academic and Policy Debate.”
By Julian Ku
June 7, 2012

NYLS Faculty Tai-Heng Cheng
Subject: American Enterprise Institute Conference

“This past Monday, my Taming Globalization co-author John Yoo and I hosted a number of scholars at an American Enterprise Institute conference to discuss the impact of globalization on U.S. sovereignty. We were fortunate to have the participation of smart and interesting scholars like Tom Lee of Fordham Law, Tai-heng Cheng of New York Law School and Quinn Emanuel, our own Peter Spiro, Michael Glennon of Tufts, Jeremy Rabkin of George Mason, and John Fonte of the Hudson Institute. “

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The National Law Journal, “Experiential Legal Education.”
By Luke Bierman
June 4, 2012

New York Law School
Subject: Experiential Education

“Schools such as City University of New York School of Law, Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law and Charlotte School of Law more recently have put experiential learning at the core of their programs. Still others, such as the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, the University of Colorado Law School, New York Law School and Vermont Law School, are organizing reforms across the curricula.”

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Crain’s Chicago Business, “Northwestern, Loyola Law Schools Eye Cutting Class Size.”
By Lorene Yue
June 4, 2012

NYLS Lawsuit Dismissed
Subject: Class Size

“Northwestern University's law school, one of the top programs in the country, is considering shrinking its class size because of the continuing job crisis in the legal industry. Some graduates filed lawsuits in Cook County Circuit Court in February against DePaul University, John Marshall and IIT Chicago-Kent claiming that the job placement rates the law schools tout on their websites are misleading. A similar suit filed against New York Law School was dismissed by a New York Supreme Court judge in March.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Arkansas Business.

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Reuters, “Same-sex Marriage Cases Loom for Supreme Court.”
By Terry Baynes and Rebecca Hamilton
June 4, 2012

NYLS Faculty Arthur Leonard
Subject: Same-sex Marriage

“For advocates and foes of same-sex marriage, two names have suddenly taken center stage in the legal universe: Kennedy and Romer. The Supreme Court has become increasingly concerned with states' rights over the past 10 years, striking down numerous federal laws that intrude on state authority, said New York Law School professor Arthur Leonard.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in the National Journal (by subscription only) and the South Bend Tribune.

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The New York Times, “Eqypt Awaits a Verdict on Mubarak and Fallout.”
By David D. Kirkpatrick
June 1, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: Mubarak Trial

“On the third day of the protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed Amer Mohamed Hassanin saw through a haze of tear gas as the police fired live ammunition into the crowd in Tahrir Square. ‘It certainly doesn’t seem to address the many systemic issues that were at the heart of the protests,’ said Ruti G. Teitel, an expert on transitional justice at New York Law School.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Publishers Weekly, “After Ruling, Google and Authors Guild Appear Headed for Trial.”
By Andrew Albanese
June 1, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google and Authors Guild Trial

“The battle is on. On May 31, Judge Denny Chin rejected Google’s motion to dismiss the Authors Guild as an associational Plaintiff, and granted the Authors Guild’s motion for class certification, meaning that Google’s library scanning program, barring another settlement, is headed to trial as a class action. ‘Point to the plaintiffs,’ observed New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann, on his blog, the Laboratorium. ‘This doesn’t resolve the merits of the lawsuit itself, but it does doom Google’s hopes of keeping the lawsuit from ever getting to the merits.’”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Library Journal.

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Forbes, “Can Wall Street Reinvent Itself?”
By Bill Singer
June 1, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ronald Filler
Subject: Wall Street

“A few weeks ago I was asked by the Museum of the City of New York to participate on a panel with my fellow Forbes contributor and author of “Backstage Wall Street” Joshua Brown, and Marketplace radio’s bureau chief Heidi Moore on the topic of whether Wall Street can reinvent itself in response to the challenges of the 21st Century. The June 7th evening panel is part of the Museum’s exhibition Capital of Capital: New York’s Banks and the Creation of a Global Economy and will be moderated by Professor Ronald Filler of New York Law School’s Center on Financial Services Law.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in The Reformed Broker.

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New York Law Journal, “Graduating Without a Job: 12 Easy Tips to Becoming Market Ready.”
By Courtney Fitzgibbons
May 31, 2012

NYLS’s Courtney Fitzgibbons
Subject: Getting a job after graduation

“Congratulations to members of this year’s law school graduating class! Many of you are anxious about graduating without having secured post-graduation employment. And you are not seeing entry-level job postings, so you wonder, ‘Who will hire me?’ As someone who has counseled many 3Ls and recent law school graduates throughout the years, I have seen both positive and negative behavioral patterns that can influence the job searcher’s quest to find employment. You likely know about the value of bar associations and attending CLE programming. Thus, some of the tips below are intended to be creative and a little off the beaten path to help you gain some traction in this market before, during and after the bar.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Texas Lawyer.

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “Torture in your Backyard.”
May 31, 2012

NYLS Adjunct Sarah Kerr
Subject: Solitary Confinement

“Tonight, the Social Justice Committee of The Oratory Church of St. Boniface will screen the documentary, “Solitary Confinement: Torture in Your Backyard,” as well as conduct a presentation and panel discussion at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights. Presenters include Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, the director of North American Programs for Rabbis for Human Rights-North America; Sarah Kerr, a staff attorney at the Prisoners’ Rights Project of The Legal Aid Society in New York City.”

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The Wall Street Journal, “Google Suit Gets Class-Action Status.”

By Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg

May 31, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann

Subject: Google Suit

“A New York federal judge on Thursday granted class-action certification to a seven-year-old lawsuit brought against Google Inc. for its efforts to electronically scan millions of books in public and university libraries and make them available online.”

To view this article in full, click here. (By subscription only.)
This news also appeared in The New York Times.

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Above the Law, “Musical Chairs: Quinn Emanuel Picks Up Another Law Professor.”
By David Lat
May 30, 2012

NYLS Faculty Tai-Heng Cheng
Subject: New Partner

“Congratulations to Professor Tai-Heng Cheng of New York Law School. From the press release just issued by Quinn Emanuel: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced today that Professor Tai-Heng Cheng will join the firm’s New York office as a partner in its International Arbitration Practice.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This news also appeared in Global Arbitration Review (by subscription only,) Bloomberg Business Week, Thomson Reuters, and New York Law Journal.

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Brownstoner, “160 Imlay Gets More Time on the Variance Clock.”
May 30, 2012

NYLS’s CITYLand Blog
Subject: 160 Imlay Street

“Frankly we’d forgotten what the status of 160 Imlay Street was until Curbed unearthed a recent update from a New York Law School blog called Cityland.”

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Ars Technica, “Broadcasters Finally Tell a Judge: Aereo’s Business Violates Copyright.”
By Nathan Mattise
May 30, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Aereo

“Broadcasters got the chance to officially begin their crusade to shut down TV streaming startup Aereo. Ars previously asked James Grimmelmann, a copyright scholar at New York Law School, to evaluate Aereo's chances.”

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Virtual-Strategy Magazine, “Can Wall Street Reinvent Itself?”
May 29, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ronald Filler
Subject: Wall Street

“A panel of Wall Street analysts and observers discuss what needs to be done in order to fix the system, move forward, and keep New York competitive in the global marketplace. he program's moderator is Ronald Filler, Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Financial Services Law, New York Law School.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Media Post, “Can TV Survive Autohop?”
By Wendy Davis
May 25, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Autohop

“It's fair to say that people always had ways to avoid commercials on TV. Long before the days of the VCR, people who didn't want to watch the ads would stretch their legs, get a snack, or change channels during the commercials. Copyright expert James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School, tells MediaPost that the networks can make the argument that this technology allows users to go beyond time-shifting.”

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The Washington Post, “Henry Denker, Prolific Playwright and Novelist, Dies at 99.”
By Matt Schudel
May 24, 2012

NYLS Alum Henry Denker ’34
Subject: Obituary

“Henry Denker, a prolific novelist and playwright who may be best known for writing a long-running radio dramatization of the life of Jesus, ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told,’ died May 15 at his home in New York City. He was 99. The New York Times reported that he had lung cancer.”

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City Ethics, “The Gap Between Advice and Enforcement, and the Isolation of Independence.”
By Robert Wechsler
May 24, 2012

NYLS’s Center for NYC Law
Subject: NYLS Panel

“I was on a panel this week as part of the annual Citywide Seminar on Ethics in New York City Government, co-sponsored by the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB) and the Center for New York City Law at the New York Law School. The panel was called ‘Challenges & Solutions in Government Ethics in Other Municipalities.’"

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The Wall Street Journal, “High Noon for Diller’s Aereo.”
By Christopher S. Stewart and Merissa Marr
May 24, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Barry Diller

“When Barry Diller backed a start-up that streams local broadcast signals over the Internet, it looked like another unorthodox move by a famously offbeat mogul. Now that start-up has become a grenade that is threatening to wound the television industry.”

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The Village Voice, “Here’s Why Thomas F. O’Mara and Dean Murray Want to Ban Anonymous Online Speech.”
By Victoria Bekiempis
May 23, 2012

NYLS Faculty Jethro Lieberman
Subject: Anonymous Online Speech

“Earlier today, the Voice brought you news of pending legislation in Albany that would make New York-based websites, such as blogs and newspapers, ‘remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post.’ We still wondered: Would a measure like this even be Constitutional? Jethro Lieberman, a Constitutional rights expert and faculty member at New York Law School, doesn't think so.”

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The Wall Street Journal, “Single and Off the Fast Track.”
By Sue Shellenbarger
May 23, 2012

NYLS Faculty Anne Marie Bowler
Subject: Single and Self-Employed

“Anne Marie Bowler left work one day last week to enjoy dinner with a friend at a sidewalk café "before the sun went down," she says. Recently she ducked out of the office to attend a charity golf outing. And Ms. Bowler also likes to make time for long evening bike rides through Central Park. She could never have done these things at her old job.”

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CBS New York, “New York Law School Grad Crosses Stage with Guide Dog.”
May 22, 2012

NYlS Alum Amanda Davis ‘12
Subject: Seeing Eye Dog at Graduation

To view this video, click here.

This news also appeared on WNBCTV, Yahoo News, Daily News, Dogs Blog Today, Jezebel, JD Journal, Web Vet, and CBS News 12.

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Reverse Mortgage Daily, “Will FHA Make Way for More Private Reverse Mortgages?”
By Elizabeth Ecker
May 22, 2012

NYLS Faculty Houman Shadab
Subject: Reverse Mortgages

“Take the stress off of FHA and make way for private reverse mortgage products, was the message presented by two housing academics in testimony presented before a Congressional panel earlier this month. The progression might not be such a long way off, they said. ‘Conventional reverse mortgages will likely increase in market share as the economy recovers, housing prices stabilize, and credit conditions improve,’ Houman Shadab, Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School told the panel.”

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Bloomberg BNA, “Section 5 of Voting Rights Act Still Needed; Withstands Direct Attack by Alabama County.”
By Bernard J. Pazanowski
May 22, 2012

NYLS Faculty Deborah Archer
Subject: Voting Rights Act

A key provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires certain jurisdictions to get changes in their voting procedures cleared by the Justice Department or a federal district court before they take effect is constitutional, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held May 18 (Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder, D.C. Cir., No. 11-5256, 5/18/12). Professor Deborah N. Archer, Racial Justice Project, New York Law School, who filed an amicus brief in the case, also told BNA May 18 that ‘‘the opinion is critically important in the ongoing battle for fair and effective participation in our political process.”

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Daily Report, “Fair Use Limits Set in Ga. State Digital Copying Decision.”
By Alyson M. Palmer
May 21, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Fair Use Limits

“An Atlanta federal judge has set the standard for when schools can give their students access to excerpts of copyrighted works without paying licensing fees — although her approach may be revisited in a potential appeal by publishers who had challenged practices at Georgia State University. Associate Professor James Grimmelmann of New York Law School said it was difficult to find fault with Evans' decisions on each of the individual claims of infringement.”

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Publishers Weekly, “What the Georgia State Verdict Means for Libraries and the Publishing Industry.”
By Andrew Albanese
May 18, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Publishing and Libraries

“A “high-profile defeat” for publishers is how Brandon Butler, director of public policy initiatives at the Association of Research Libraries, described the May 11 verdict in Cambridge University Press et. al. v. Mark Becker et. al., a closely watched copyright case involving the use of electronic course reserves at Georgia State University. ‘I expect to see fair-use e-reserves codes that treat under 10% as presumptively okay,’ blogged New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann, ‘and amounts over 10% but less than some ill-defined maximum as presumptively okay if... a license to make digital copies of excerpts from the book is not available.’”

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Benzinga, “Prominent Attorney Kenneth R. Feinberg to speak at New York Law School’s 120th Commencement, May 21.”
May 17, 2012

NYLS Commencement 2012
Subject: Kenneth Feinberg Commencement speech

“Kenneth R. Feinberg, one of the nation's leading experts in mediation and alternative dispute resolution, will address the graduates at New York Law School's 120th Commencement on Monday, May 21, 2012, at Radio City Music Hall at 11 a.m.”

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This news also appeared in WMCTV, Times Union, and Digital Journal.

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NPR, “’Canal Zone’ Collages Test the Meaning of ‘Fair Use.’”
By Joel Rose
May 16, 2012

New York Law School
Subject: Fair Use

“Richard Prince is an art world superstar. His paintings sell for millions, and many hang in the world's great museums. ‘In this particular case, Mr. Prince testified about what his purpose was,’ Cariou's lawyer Daniel Brooks said at a recent panel discussion at New York Law School.”

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The Prague Post, “Death Penalty Advocate Speaks.”
By Benjamin Cunningham
May 16, 2012

NYLS Faculty Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

“Death becomes Robert Blecker. As a leading advocate of the death penalty, the New York-based law professor makes a highly rational argument in favor of capital punishment, even if the overall rationale for the policy itself remains in question.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Inside Higher Ed, “E-Reservations.”
By Steve Kolowich
May 15, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: E-Reservations

“As librarians and lawyers continue to pore over the 350 pages of a long-awaited federal court decision involving copyright claims levied against Georgia State University’s library by academic publishers, one thing everybody seems to agree on is that, all things considered, the university ‘won.’ ‘This [decision] provides so much specific guidance about quantities of material that I expect it will be used as a sort of default setting” as other academic libraries set about writing their own e-reserve policies, said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School.”

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This news also appeared in the Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.

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New Jersey Newsroom, “N.J. Needs a Justice Center for Protection of Developmentally Disabled.”
By Salvator Pizzuro
May 15, 2012

NYLS Alum Salvatore Pizzuro
Subject: New Jersey Justice Center

“Since the Governor created the “Taskforce on the Closing of New Jersey’s Developmental Centers”, this writer has been inundated with telephone calls, letters, and email messages from the families of people with disabilities who have been abused in New Jersey’s residential facilities, group homes, and nursing homes.”

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WKWOW, “Former New York State Judges Join Experts in Calling for Juvenile Justice Reform in New York in NYLS Law Review.”
May 15, 2012

NYLS Law Review
Subject: Juvenile Justice

“Just weeks after New York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo highlighted the need for reform of the state’s juvenile justice system by including in his 2012–2013 budget the Close to Home Initiative, which would allow New York City to take custody of low-level juvenile offenders by removing them from youth prisons and housing them in their own communities, Judith S. Kaye, former Chief Judge of New York and now Of Counsel for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Michael A. Corriero, Executive Director of the New York Center for Juvenile Justice and a former New York State judge; and Jeremy Travis, President of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York, join several juvenile justice experts in an in-depth examination of all phases of New York’s juvenile justice system. This call for reform of what some see as New York’s outdated approach to juvenile justice appears in the latest issue of the New York Law School Law Review.”

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Opinio Juris, “Human Rights: Political Not Metaphysical.”
By Ruti Teitel
May 14, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: Human Rights

“Sam Moyn, writing in this Sunday’s New York Times (“Human Rights, Not So Pure Anymore”) claims the current relationship of human rights is compromised, and nostalgizes the past.”

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Mbl.is, Velkomin(n) í Greinasafn Morgunblaðsins
May 13, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: Icelandic Media

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Library Journal, “Google, Author’s Guild Clash Over Class Action and Standing.”
By Meredith Schwartz
May 10, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Books Case

“Judge Chin heard oral argument in the Google Books case on May 4 and ultimately reserved decision. The parties will go ahead with their summary judgment motions, with oral argument scheduled for September. According to New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann’s Labortorium blog, Google argued that individual authors, not the Author’s Guild, should be the plaintiff because each author will present sufficiently different issues that their individual participation will be required.”

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WND, “False Sex-Assault Convictions Easier Under Obama.”
By Bob Unruh
May 10, 2012

NYLS Faculty Nadine Strossen
Subject: Sexual Assault in schools

“How many other Caleb Warners are out there? That’s the focus of a new letter to the Obama administration that pleads with officials to remove a threat to students the Department of Education created a year ago with directions that on-campus sexual assault cases be determined on a low-level ‘preponderance of evidence’ standard of proof. Signers included…Nadine Strossen of New York Law School.”

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Digital Journal, “Op-Ed: Are We Overdosed or Overmedicated?”
By Yukio Strachan
May 9, 2012

NYLS Faculty Michael Perlin
Subject: Medication for the mentally ill

The popular belief that we’re “overdosed and overmedicated” is not rooted in reality but rather in a blatant prejudice against the mentally ill. Speaking about psychiatrists who testify in court as expert witnesses, Michael L. Perlin told forensic experts at the annual meeting of the American College of Forensic Psychiatry that Mental health experts are not immune to having a "pervasive prejudice against the mentally ill. ‘Psychiatrists are not immune from the same prejudice that affects lawyers and judges and jurors and cops and newspaper headline writers,’ said Perlin, a professor of law who serves as director of the International Mental Disability Law Reform Project and the Online Mental Disability Law Program at New York Law School, New York City.”

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Nevada Public Radio, “Registering Ex-Inmates to Vote.”
May 8, 2012

NYLS Faculty Erika Wood
Subject: Ex-Inmates and voting

“After Antoinette Banks served time for a bogus check conviction, she left prison thinking she'd never be able to vote again. She was wrong.”

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Issaquah Press, “King County Library System’s Internet Policy is Unchanged After Court Ruling.”
By Warren Kagarise
May 8, 2012

NYLS Faculty Nadine Strossen
Subject: Library Internet Policy

“The use of software to filter Internet content for library patrons received support in a recent federal court ruling. Nadine Strossen, a New York Law School professor and former American Civil Liberties Union national president, advised library system staffers on Internet policies at a recent retreat.”

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Reverse Mortgage Daily, “Reverse Mortgages Take Center Stage in Upcoming Congressional Hearing.”
By Elizabeth Ecker
May 8, 2012

NYLS Faculty: Houman Shadab
Subject: Reverse Mortgages

“Reverse mortgage industry participants as well as non-affiliated housing experts will testify before members of Congress Wednesday in a hearing titled, ‘Oversight of the Federal Housing Administration’s Reverse Mortgage Program for Seniors.’ AARP representative Lori Trawinski, Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Consumer and State Affairs Team for AARP’s Public Policy Institute is scheduled to give testimony, as are two housing industry experts: New York Law School associated professor Houman Shadab and George Mason University professor of real estate finance, Anthony Sanders.”

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This news also appeared in Mortgage Professional Magazine.

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The Wall Street Journal, “Task Force Members.”
May 7, 2012

NYLS Faculty Anne Marie Bowler
Subject: Task-Force members

“Anne Marie Bowler Co-founding Partner, Gabay-Rafiy & Bowler.”

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All Voices, “Obama’s Secret Weapon for Debates Against Romney: John Kerry.”
By Punditty
May 7, 2012

NYLS’s Sydney Shainwald Lecture
Subject: Kerry on Romney

“John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and five-term incumbent senator from the Bay State, may be just the guy to give Obama the upper hand when the presidential debates roll around. Kerry spoke at the New York Law School in March, giving reporters from Politicker a chance to ask him if he thought Romney was shifting positions toward the center now that it appeared he would be the nominee.”

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The Florida Times-Union, “Fact Check: Does a New Law Restrict Protests and Violate the First Amendment?”
By Carole Fader
May 6, 2012

NYLS Student Russell Smith
Subject: H.R. 347

“Many Times-Union readers want to know: I received an email that says that H.R. 347, signed into law by President Barack Obama, forbids anyone from protesting in the presence of the Secret Service. And that essentially means you can't protest in front of Obama. Is this true? This is a law that has spawned a lot of debate. Russell Smith, who blogs for the New York Law School's Program in Law and Journalism, wrote: ‘... Since police can arrest and remove anyone in violation of [someone jumping the White House fence], the government doesn't need H.R. 347 in order to protect its property from damage and its officials from intruders.’"

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Constitutional Law Prof Blog, “Saturday Evening Review: Constitutionalism Beyond SCOTUS.”
By Doni Gewirtzman
May 5, 2012

NYLS Faculty Doni Gewirtzman
Subject: Lower Court Constitutionalism

“The role of the "lower" federal courts in shaping constitutional doctrine as it is taught and theorized can be under-rated. Many ConLawProfs have strategies to combat SCOTUS-dominance in our classrooms given our understandings about how constitutional law is actually practiced. But often our discussions of ‘lower court’ decisions are refracted through SCOTUS opinions as well as being very doctrinally focused.”

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Transportation Nation, “42 Bike Share Docks for Lower Manhattan Revealed in Semi-Public Rollout.”
By Jim O’Grady
May 3, 2012

New York Law School
Subject: Bike Share Docks

“The New York City Department of Transportation continues to show community boards in Brooklyn and Manhattan where it’s planning to install Bike Share stations in those boroughs. Kate Fillin-Yeh, director of New York City Bikeshare, said any proposed location that had been red-flagged in a previous meeting did not make the cut. She said the department tried to spread the the bike docks evenly throughout Lower Manhattan, and place them near subway stations, large institutions like New York Law School, and tourist sites like south Street Seaport and the boat to the Statue of Liberty.”

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The Escapist, “Teller Sues Over ‘Stolen Magic Trick.’”
By Andy Chalk
May 2, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Stolen Trick

“Performed by Teller, the smaller, quieter half of the magical duo Penn and Teller, the ‘Shadows’ illusion [which is playing below for the benefit of those of you who haven't seen it] is pretty impressive stuff. New York Law School Professor James Grimmelmann told Ars Technica that copyright law protects pantomimes and ‘choreographed works,’ so Teller's case could very well come down to how closely Bakardy's performance matches his own.”

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New York Law Journal, “Time at High Court Was High Point in Career, Ex-Clerks Say.”
By Joel Stashenko
May 1, 2012

NYLS Graduates
Subject: NYLS graduates equal to Ivy League

“While the food in Albany can be pedestrian, the pay poor by New York City standards, the workload unreasonable and the winter weather miserable, a new crop of attorneys will leap at the opportunity to become a clerk in 2012 for judges on the state Court of Appeals. Howard Levine, a Yale Law graduate and Court of Appeals judge from 1993-2002, said he found the products of Albany Law, New York Law School, Brooklyn Law and St. John's Law to be the equal of those from the more ‘elite’ and Ivy League schools.”

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Thomson Reuters, “Breakingviews: U.S. Legal Profession Makes Case For Its Critics.”
By Reynolds Holding
May 1, 2012

NYLS Lawsuit
Subject: Lawsuit Dropped

“The U.S. legal profession is making a slam-dunk case for its critics. Lawyers have pleaded guilty to insider trading. Law schools are fudging data on their students' jobs prospects. In February, scores of law grads sued their alma maters for exaggerating the odds of landing a job. A judge dismissed the suit against New York Law School in March, but remaining cases raise serious issues.”

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Mac News World, “Google, FCC Shutdown Spotlights Technology Law Lag.”
By Peter Suciu
April 30, 2012

NYLS Faculty David Johnson
Subject: Technology Law Lag

“Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is trying to do damage control and prove it had no nefarious goals with its ambitious Street View project, following an FCC into the search giant's collection and storage of data from millions of unknowing households across the country. Although the FCC concluded in its report that collecting the data was not illegal, one question the controversy highlights is whether laws have failed to keep pace with technology. ’Yes and no,’ said David Johnson, visiting professor of law at New York Law School. ‘The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (1986) exempts communication that is readily out there. Things such as low wattage radio signals, for example, are not protected by the wiretap laws.’”

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Publishers Weekly, “In Amicus Brief, Library Groups Assail Authors Guild Bid to Shutter HathiTrust.”
By Andrew Albanese
April 27, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: HathiTrust

“According to an amicus brief prepared by Jonathan Band, on behalf of three major library organizations, the motion for partial summary judgment filed in February by the Authors Guild in its lawsuit against the HathiTrust reflects a deeply flawed, distorted view of libraries’ rights. In its motion for partial judgment, Authors Guild attorneys hold that the HatiTrust’s mass digitization and orphan works projects do not qualify for any ‘defense recognized by copyright law,’ observed New York Law School's James Grimmelmann, who called the motion ‘a doozy.’”

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Foreign Policy, “Down with CISPA.”
By Trevor Timm
April 27, 2012

NYLS Alum Trevor Timm (’11)
Subject: CISPA

“On Thursday, April 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), the first major Internet-regulation bill Congress has tried to pass since mass protests led to the spectacular collapse of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in January. CISPA, while aimed at a much different subject, gained much the same ire as SOPA, given its potential effect on Internet freedom.”

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The Saratogian, “’Judge Judy’ to Deliver UAlbany Commencement Address.”
April 26, 2012

NYLS Alum Judge Judith Sheindlin
Subject: Commencement speech

“Judge Judith Sheindlin, the presiding judge on television's ‘Judge Judy,’ will deliver the undergraduate keynote address at the University at Albany’s 2012 Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 20, on the campus’s Grand Entry Plaza. Approximately 2,800 students are expected to graduate at the 168th Commencement ceremonies.”

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Gay City News, “Tim Sweeney, In Return NYC Visit, Feted by GMHC.”
By Paul Schindler
April 25, 2012

NYLS Faculty Arthur Leonard
Subject: LGBT Movement

“In marking its 30th anniversary with a Gotham Hall gala, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the world’s oldest AIDS services and advocacy group, reached back 19 years to honor a former executive director, Tim Sweeney, who for two decades held pivotal leadership posts in AIDS and LGBT civil rights work in New York before assuming his current role as head of the Colorado-based Gill Foundation. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was also enacted in 1990, which formalized many of the protections that legal advocates for those living with AIDS had been pressing for during the previous half-dozen years or so. Though the ADA was a landmark in disability law, New York Law School Professor Arthur Leonard, in numerous stories in these pages, has documented how federal courts on many occasions have constrained the scope of the important protections the law could provide to the HIV-infected.”

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Technology Review, “The Library of Utopia.”
By Nicholas Carr
April 25, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Copyright restrictions

“In his 1938 book World Brain, H.G. Wells imagined a time—not very distant, he believed—when every person on the planet would have easy access to ‘all that is thought or known.’ Some scholars believe that copyright restrictions will frustrate any attempt to create a universal online library unless Congress changes the law. James Grimmelmann, a copyright expert at New York Law School, feels that it will be ‘very, very hard’ to include orphan works in a digital database without new legislation.”

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Los Angeles Times, “Unemployment is a Special Challenge for Veterans.”
By David Zucchino
April 25, 2012

NYLS Alum Matthew Pizzo (’11)
Subject: Unemployment and veterans

“Matt Pizzo has a law degree, can-do attitude, proven leadership skills, and expertise in communications and satellite technology from his four years in the Air Force. Yet the 29-year-old has been told that he's overqualified, too old, too ‘non-traditional,’ and that he's fallen behind his civilian contemporaries.”

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This news also appeared in Seattle Pi.

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The National Law Journal, “Baltimore Looks to Justice Department for its Next Dean.”
By Karen Sloan
April 25, 2012

NYLS’s New Dean
Subject: New dean appointed

“The University of Baltimore School of Law's next dean comes not from legal academia, but from the U.S. Department of Justice. It is relatively unusual for law schools to tap deans with little or no experience in legal academia, although New York Law School and Brooklyn Law School recently named deans from government and law practice, respectively.”

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Star Ledger, “ALEC Laws Still a Threat to N.J.”
By Joanne Doroshow
April 24, 2012

NYLS’s Joanne Doroshow
Subject: ALEC laws

“Early this month, The Star-Ledger’s Salvador Rizzo wrote a groundbreaking report on the American Legislative Exchange Council, the influential organization that has promoted the agenda of corporate America and the political right in state legislatures nationwide, including New Jersey. Until now, ALEC’s corporate backers have had little problem with the organization’s range of issues, such as controversial voter-identification laws.”

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New York Law Journal, “1 in 5 Law School Grads Find Jobs at Small Firms, ABA Reports.”
By Laura Haring
April 23, 2012

New York Law School
Subject: Graduate Employment Statistics

“Nearly 20 percent of students who graduated from New York's 15 law schools in 2010 were employed by firms with 50 or fewer attorneys nine months after graduation, new data released by the American Bar Association shows. New York Law School sent 26 percent of its 481-member 2010 class to firms with fewer than 50 attorneys, with 82 percent of those students working in offices with fewer than 10 attorneys.”

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LLM Guide, “NYLS to Start American Business Law LL.M. Program.”
April 23, 2012

NYLS’s new LL.M. program
Subject: New program

“New York Law School (NYLS) has announced it will begin a new LL.M. program in American Business Law beginning in the fall. The program is students holding holding JD-equivalent foreign law degrees.”

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New Jersey Newsroom, “New Jersey’s ‘Crosswalk Law’ Needs to be Enforced.”
By Salvatore Pizzuro
April 23, 2012

NYLS Alum Salvatore Pizzuro
Subject: Crosswalk Law

“A few weeks ago, this writer reported that New Jersey’s ‘Crosswalk Law’ may be the most ignored legal measure of all time. Public Law 2009, passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Jon Corzine on January 18, 2010, requires motorists to come to a complete stop at a crosswalk when a pedestrian is crossing a street and to remain stopped until the pedestrian safely reaches the opposite sidewalk.”

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Zimbio, “Bill Clinton: Popular, Opinionated, and Still Relevant.”
By Tara Krieger
April 22, 2012

NYLS Legal As She is Spoke’s article re-posted
Subject: Bill Clinton

“President Obama assured him it would be ‘just like riding a bicycle.’ The ex-president would remember what to do. But former President Bill Clinton described that night in December 2010 when Mr. Obama ceded him the White House podium another way. ‘So weird.’”

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The Guardian, “Google v Oracle: A Far-Reaching Trial of Characters as Much as Copyright.”
By Charles Arthur
April 20, 2012

NYLS Faculty Mark Webbink
Subject: Google v. Oracle

“Though Microsoft survived the subsequent court-ordered sanctions, it was never the same again. And the effect could be just as significant if Oracle wins. It would, say observers, give copyright protection to elements of a computer language known as ‘APIs’ - application programming interfaces - that tell software how to carry out specified commands. ‘That could potentially turn the industry on its head,’ Mark Webbink, executive director of the Centre for Patent Innovations at New York Law School, told the San Francisco Mercury.”

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This news also appeared in The Telegraph.

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The New York Times, “Live Near a Great School? It’s Costing You.”
By Mary Ann Giordano
April 20, 2012

NYLS’s Street Law Moot Court Competition
Subject: Street Law program

“Here is some of what is going on in education on Friday: Students at Middle School 22 in the South Bronx will participate in a moot court competition at New York Law school from 10:15 to 11:45 a.m., and 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. The event is the culmination of their work with Street Law, a program brought in by the assistant principal, Joshua Brookstein, ‘to instruct, guide and mentor young, at-risk kids in skills such as critical thinking and public speaking, as well as the rights of the people.’”

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This news also appeared here.

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Tech President, “Riding Disgust Over GSA Scandal, Bill that Would Bolster Tracking of Federal Spending Heads Towards House Floor.”
By Sarah Lai Stirland
April 19, 2012

NYLS Faculty Beth Simone Noveck
Subject: Federal spending

“A new coalition of private companies, chaired by Issa's former Oversight Committee counsel, Hudson Hollister, also launched this week to promote legislation related to technology and transparency. The coalition of 13 tech vendors and a non-profit association of certified public accountants from Maryland launched this week with the goal of promoting more transparency across the government by encouraging proposals such as the DATA Act. Its advisory board include the Recovery Board's Devaney, Eric Gillespie, a managing partner at Viano Capital, an investment firm specializing in data and information services firms, Jim Harper, the Cato Institute's director of information policy studies, New York Law School's Beth Simone Noveck, a law professor and former White House deputy chief technology officer, and Campbell Pryde, the President and CEO of XBRL US. (XBRL stands for Extensible Business Reporting Language.)”

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Bloomberg Business Week, “Law Firms Paying Price.”
By Paul Barrett
April 18, 2012

New York Law School’s Lawsuit
Subject: Lawsuit dropped

“Partnership doesn’t nurture broad-minded managers skilled in running sizable operations. One such suit filed against New York Law School was dismissed in March by a judge who said aspiring attorneys should know the concept of caveat emptor.”

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This news also appeared in Legal Skills Prof Blog, Find Law, Slate, Washington Square News, and Thomson Reuters.

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Tech President, “To Write Open Data Standards, New York Opens the Floor.”
By Miranda Beubauer
April 18, 2012

NYLS Executive Vice President Carole Post
Subject: Carole Post Joins NYLS

“New York City's Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications has created a wiki for the public to help contribute to the implementation of the city's recently passed open data legislation. According to the wiki, DoITT will also be hosting two events related to its open data plans during Internet Week. The announcement comes after one of the key figures in the open data bill's creation, DoITT Commissioner Carole Post, announced her resignation Friday.”

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This news also appeared in Government Technology, Information Week, and Computing.co.uk.

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City Journal, “Vegan Cops.”
By Steve Cohen
April 18, 2012

Student Steve Cohen
Subject: Officers shot

In February, Detective Kevin Herlihy became the third NYPD cop shot in two months. Herlihy was comparatively fortunate; he managed to fire his weapon and kill his attacker, who was being sought for shooting his girlfriend’s daughter. Since then, five more police officers have already been shot.

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San Francisco Chronicle, “A Case Could Turn Software Industry on its Head.”
By James Temple
April 18, 2012

NYLS Faculty Mark Webbink
Subject: Oracle vs. Google

“The legal showdown between Silicon Valley giants Oracle and Google could test the very boundaries of copyright protections for software and rewrite the rules for much of the industry. ’Should Oracle be able to convince the court (that the APIs) are fully protected by copyright and were substantially copied by Google, that could potentially turn the industry on its head,’ said Mark Webbink, executive director of the Center for Patent Innovations at New York Law School, in an e-mail interview.”

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The New York Times, “Why Are Charter Schools Exempt from Bullying Law?”
By Udi Ofer
April 13, 2012

NYLS Faculty Udi Ofer
Subject: Bullying

“New York State’s heralded anti-bullying law is about to go into effect July 1. But the state Board of Regents recently took some teeth out of the law, known as the Dignity Act, when it said that charter schools don’t have to provide in-class instruction to schoolchildren about the dangers of discrimination and harassment, leaving their students without a key protection from bullying.”

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The New York Times, “No Chatting in the Lobby.”
By Jay Romano
April 12, 2012

NYLS Faculty Lucas Ferrara
Subject: Rent increase

“’Unless a residential unit is subject to some form of rent regulation, an owner is typically free to charge whatever rent the market will bear,’ said Lucas A. Ferrara, an adjunct professor at New York Law School and a Manhattan real estate lawyer."

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Bloomberg TV, “Vague Definitions in CISPA Raise Concerns of SOPA 2.0”
April 12, 2012

Alums Trevor Timm (’11) and Anthony Lee Pacchia (’06)
Subject: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act

“Trevor Timm, activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks with Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), a new bill that attempts to regulate the internet by allowing companies to share internet user data with each other and the federal government for the purpose of protecting against the ‘vulnerability of, or threat to, a system or network of a government or private entity.’"

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The Wall Street Journal, “Tech Commissioner Leaving to Join NYLS.”
April 12, 2012

NYLS Executive Vice President Carole Post
Subject: Carole Post joins NYLS

“New York City's commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications is leaving her post to join New York Law School.”

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This news also appeared in Government Technology, NY1, the New York Post, and WNYC.

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Global Warming, “How EPA Uses ‘Sue and Settle’ Agreements to Steal Power from the States (and what the Congress is doing to stop it.”
By William Yeatman
April 11, 2012

NYLS Faculty David Schoenbrod & Ross Sandler
Subject: “Sue and settle” agreements

“In late March, the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 3862, the Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2012, by a 20-10 vote. If enacted, the bill would make it more difficult for the Environmental Protection Agency to negotiate ‘sue and settle’ agreements that effectively exclude States from environmental policymaking, in seeming contravention of the Clean Air Act. There are several troubling implications of these ‘sue and settle’ consent decrees. For starters, they allow unelected environmentalist lawyers to create policy. Moreover, consent decrees are difficult to reverse, which means that a sitting President can use them to bind the discretion of his or her successor. (This point was aptly explained to the Judiciary Committee by New York Law School Professors David Schoenbrod and Ross Sandler.)”

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New York Nonprofit Press, “Calendar of Events.”
April 10, 2012

NYLS’s Rooftop Conference
Subject: Property Perspectives for Not-for-Profit Organizations

“What is the role of real estate occupied by not-for-profit organizations in connection with their charitable purposes? How does real estate (whether owned, leased, or in space hosted by others) present mission-related strategic choices, opportunities, and challenges, especially in today’s tough environment?”

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Internet Evolution, “Senators Seek To Limit Employer Scouting on Facebook.”
By Steven Bennett
April 10, 2012

NYLS Faculty Steven Bennett
Subject: Releasing social networking passwords to employers

“Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) recently wrote to the US Attorney General and the Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), referring to a ‘disturbing trend’ of employers demanding that job applicants provide their user names and passwords for social networking and email Websites, to permit employers to review such information as part of the interview process.”

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ARTINFO, “6 Points Worth Pondering from Last Night’s Appropriation Art Smack-Down at New York Law School.”
By Shane Ferro
April 10, 2012

NYLS’s Art in the Digital Age
Subject: Key points from Art in the Digital Age panel

“Three hours into last night's New York Law School double panel on appropriation art in the digital age, Sergio Sarmiento, an artist and lawyer who serves as the associate director for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York City, said the one thing that no one else had thought to bring up after endless circling through the pros and cons of current copyright law: Why do we care so much?”

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California Lawyer, “Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against NY Law School.”
April 9, 2012

NYLS Lawsuit
Subject: Lawsuit dropped

“New York Supreme Court Judge Melvin L. Schweitzer dismissed a lawsuit lodged by nine graduates of New York Law School who accused the latter of misleading them about their employment prospects after graduation, reports the New York Times. “

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This news also appeared in Bloomberg BNA and the New York Law Journal.

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Women 2.0, “Women in the Law, We’re Building an App For You.”
By Lynnett Brooks
April 9, 2012

NYLS Student Lynnett Brooks
Subject: Law Without Walls

“By way of introduction, three law students from New York Law School, University of Miami School of Law, and School of Transnational Law, Peking University. We are part of a program called Law Without Walls where we are prompted to identify a problem or ‘gap’ area within our topic in order to design a project to solve the problem using a method that incorporates innovation and technology.”

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The Careerist, “Law School News- Baylor Law’s Big Fiasco and Job Openings for Deans.”
By Vivia Chen
April 9, 2012

NYLS Dean Anthony Crowell
Subject: New dean and president

“Similar story with the much-maligned New York Law School, which recently hired Anthony Crowell as its new dean and president. Crowell is a battle-hardy veteran of New York City politics, reports The National Law Journal. Most recently, he was counselor to New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, overseeing city agencies and government reform efforts.”

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This news also appeared in Inside Higher Ed and Gotham Schools.

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Crains New York Business, “Gridlock Sam.”
By Jeremy Smerd
April 8, 2012

NYLS Faculty David Schoenbrod
Subject: Mass transit and tolls

To drive the city with the man New Yorkers known as Gridlock Sam is to behold a mess of potholed pavement and backward policy. Congress promised mass-transit aid in exchange for deep-sixing the toll plan, ultimately passing a law that made an end-run around the court-mandated bridge tolls. ‘What we got was the mechanism to fund transit, and it turned out to be billions of dollars,’ said David Schoenbrod, a lawyer at the time for the Natural Resources Defense Council and now a professor at New York Law School and an American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar. ‘I regard that as a huge victory for the environment and the city.’”

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The New York Times, “Florida. How Soon We Forget.”
By Erika Wood
April 5, 2012

NYLS Faculty Erika Wood
Subject: Florida election laws

“Last spring, Florida made some changes to its election law. Cloaked as technical tweaks, the new laws have the potential to swing the 2012 election. When it comes to presidential elections, Florida matters. With 29 electoral votes, Florida is by far the most influential swing state in the country. Who gets to vote in Florida could determine who will win the election.”

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Media Post, “Appeals Court Gives Viacom Second Shot at YouTube.”
By Wendy Davis
April 5, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Lawsuit against Google’s YouTube

“In a mixed ruling, a federal appeals court on Thursday revived Viacom's copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's YouTube. ‘Google avoided any holdings that would have been an absolute loss for it,’ says James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School.”

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National Journal, “5-4 and 50-50.”
By Ronald Brownstein
April 5, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Supreme Court decision on health care

“The Supreme Court’s oral arguments on health care last week offered a nightmare preview of what could await Washington after the 2012 election: a political system that is closely, deeply, and even bitterly divided. The coming Supreme Court decision on health care could escalate this confrontation like a grenade rolled into a bar fight. Substantively, the case represents the most important constitutional challenge to the federal government’s power since the epic decisions when a conservative Court invalidated key pillars of President Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1935 and 1936, notes New York Law School professor James Simon, author of a recent history of that period, FDR and Chief Justice Hughes.”

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The Wall Street Journal, “When the President Predicts Victory in the Supreme Court.”
By Joe Palazzolo
April 3, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: The President and the Supreme Court

“How should the President interact publicly with the Supreme Court? The WSJ story today by Laura Meckler and Carol E. Lee quotes James Simon, a professor at New York Law School: ‘I can’t think of a president anticipating a court decision as Mr. Obama has done and basically arguing in favor’ of his side. Mr. Simon, the author of several books on conflicts between presidents and the court, said, ‘Jefferson was very angry at the Marshall Court, but he [complained] in private,’ as did most other presidents.”

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This news also appeared in Active Rain.

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The Manhattan Institute interview
April 3, 2012

NYLS Faculty Nadine Strossen
Subject: Health Care cases

Nadine Strossen interviewed by The Manhattan Institute discussing the health care cases as argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and the constitutional issues.

The podcast can be accessed here.

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Metro Weekly, “Immigration Equality Files DOMA Challenge, Obama Administration Left Them ‘No Choice.’”
By Chris Geidner
April 2, 2012

NYLS Faculty Arthur Leonard
Subject: Same sex marriage case

“Filing what she described as the organization's ‘first big impact litigation,’ Immigration Equality's executive director, Rachel Tiven, tells Metro Weekly that the organization was ‘left with no choice but to sue’ the Obama administration today in order to protect what it claims are the constitutional rights of same-sex married couples who are prohibited by the Defense of Marriage Act from receiving equal treatment in the green card application process. As New York Law School professor Arthur Leonard wrote of the case in March, ‘This case thus joins pending DOMA challenges in the First Circuit Court of Appeals and district courts in Connecticut, New York, and California, but may be the first to proceed past a motion to dismiss in the immigration context.’"

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Legal Theory Blog, “Gewirtzman on Lower Court Constitutionalism.”
By Doni Gewirtzman
April 2, 2012

NYLS Faculty Doni Gewirtzman
Subject: Lower Court Constitutionalism

“While federal circuit courts play an essential role in defining what the Constitution means, one would never know it from looking at most constitutional scholarship. The bulk of constitutional theory sees judge-made constitutional law through a distorted lens, one that focuses solely on the Supreme Court with virtually no attention paid to other parts of the judicial hierarchy.”

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Hartford Courant, “When We Can’t Kill Those Who Deserve to Die.”
By Robert Blecker
April 1, 2012

NYLS Faculty Robert Blecker
Subject: Death penalty

“Once again the politicians think they know better than the people, preparing to abolish capital punishment in the teeth of popular support for the death of those who most deserve it. Ask the people about Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes — at least three quarters of Connecticut knows that these depraved and sadistic monsters deserve to die for raping then burning alive the Petit family in 2007. But the majority of Connecticut's General Assembly and governor would abolish the death penalty, call it "justice" and call it a day.”

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Democrat and Chronicle, “Expert: Technology Is More Than a Game.”
By James Goodman
March 30, 2012

NYLS Faculty Dan Hunter
Subject: Gamification

“Gamification — the use of game design techniques in non-game settings — is a term that, while not a household word, is gaining popularity in high-tech settings. A leading expert on gamification, Professor Dan Hunter of New York Law School, gave a presentation at Rochester Institute of Technologyon Friday that says a lot of good can come from this use of technology.”

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Asbury Park Press, “Former Oceanport Resident Heads to Law School.”
March 30, 2012

NYLS Dean Anthony Crowell
Subject: New NYLS Dean

“Anthony W. Crowell, a former Oceanport resident, has been named dean and president of New York Law School.”

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Tech President, “Expert Labs: Putting the ‘Public’ Into Public Policy Wasn’t Easy.”
By Sarah Lai Stirland
March 29, 2012

NYLS Faculty Beth Noveck
Subject: Expert Labs

“The closing down of an effort known as Expert Labs this month acted as a marker of sorts in the open government movement. At the time, Expert Labs' Founding Director Anil Dash said that the inspiration behind the project was, in part, New York Law School Beth Noveck's Peer-to-Patent project. That pioneering experiment sought to improve the patent issuance process by inviting the public to help the patent office reduce its backlog, in particular by assisting with the search for "prior art" that might invalidate a patent application.”

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The Star Ledger, “MF Global Hearing to Probe Finance Officers on Customer Fund Transfers.”
By Ed Beeson
March 28, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ron Filler
Subject: MF Global

“How much will four words come to haunt Jon Corzine? ‘Per JC’s direct instructions.’ This line, contained in an email that an MF Global finance official sent to explain a $200 million transfer to JPMorgan Chase from an MF Global account containing customer funds, will be a focal point of a congressional hearing today into the futures firm’s collapse.”

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Ars Technica, “Death of a Data Haven: Cypherpunks, Wikileaks, and the World’s Smallest Nation.”
By James Grimmelmann
March 28, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: WikiLeaks

“A few weeks ago, Fox News breathlessly reported that the embattled WikiLeaks operation was looking to starta new life under on the sea. WikiLeaks, the article speculated, might try to escape its legal troubles by putting its servers on Sealand, a World War II anti-aircraft platform seven miles off the English coast in the North Sea, a place that calls itself an independent nation. It sounds perfect for WikiLeaks: a friendly, legally unassailable host with an anything-goes attitude.”

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This news also appeared in Der Spiegel, The Verge, Longform/Foreign Policy, Slate, and Discover.

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Point of Law, “A Rose or a Tax, By Any Other Name...”
“It’s Not About Individual Liberty.”
“A Civil Libertarian Defense of the Minimum Coverage Provision.”
By Nadine Strossen
March 27, 2012

NYLS Faculty Nadine Strossen
Subject: 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Nadine Strossen did a week of guest blogging on Point of Law for the week of March 27- April 2.

To read her entries, click below:
“A Rose or a Tax, By Any Other Name...”
“It’s Not About Individual Liberty.”
“A Civil Libertarian Defense of the Minimum Coverage Provision.”

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Dallas Voice, “Tonya Parker’s Controversial Marriage Policy Continues to Attract Media Attention, Analysis.”
By Anna Waugh
March 26, 2012

New York Law School’s Legal As She Is Spoke
Subject: Tonya Parker Marriage Policy

“Despite lesbian Dallas County Judge Tonya Parker’s hope that her refusal to marry straight couples until marriage equality is gained in Texas will fade from the public’s attention, her name and stance still frequent headlines. Then, on Friday, a New York Law School blog post analyzed the legality of Parker’s decision, comparing her stance to a New York county clerk’s refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses last year after marriage equality became law.”

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Forbes, “Book Review: James F. Simon’s ‘FDR and Chief Justice Hughes.’”
By Michael Bobelian
March 26, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Book review

“In FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court and the Epic Battle over the New Deal, James F. Simon provides a moving account of two statesmen whose lives and careers intersected and in many ways paralleled each other as they progressed toward this showdown.”

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Ars Technica, “Dotcom Says Hollywood Studios Once Courted Megaupload.”
By Timothy B. Lee
March 26, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Megaupload

“Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom spent the first few weeks after his arrest in prison, with the US governmentarguing that he posed a flight risk. But he was finally released from prison last month, and his wife recentlygave birth to twin daughters. New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann told Ars in January that the government has "a pretty slam-dunk case on inducement."

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C-Span, “Washington Journal.”
By David Savage
March 26, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Anti-Injunction Act

“Guest will explain the Anti-Injunction Act & why it’s the focus of the first day of Supreme Court oral arguments on the health care law. “

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KCRW- To the Point, “The Supreme Court Takes on Healthcare.”
By Warren Olny
March 22, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Healthcare

“Led by Florida, 26 states have challenged President Obama's Affordable Care Act, passed two years ago without the vote of a single Republican. Next week, the US Supreme Court will hearthree days of oral arguments on the case — the first time that's happened in 45 years.”

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The Wall Street Journal, “Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Law School over Employment Rates.”
By Joe Palazzolo
March 21, 2012

New York Law School
Subject: Employment Rate Lawsuit Dropped

"A New York judge on Wednesday threw out one of the first of more than a dozen lawsuits around the country that accuse law schools of advertising misleading post-graduate employment statistics."

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This news also appeared in Bloomberg Business Week, The National Law Journal, Inside Higher Ed, CBS News, Thomson Reuters, New York Post, ABA Journal, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The BLT, Law 360, The Wall Street Journal, Above the Law, Adjunct Law Prof Blog, Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, Law Librarian Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, My Fox Philly, New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Magazine, JD Journal, Newser, The AM Law Daily, The Daily Record, Find Law, The Inquisitr, NPR, Sun-Sentinel, Newsday, Bar & Bench, Insurance Journal, Campus Progress, and more.

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Internet Revolution, “Line Between Privacy & Promotion Still Fuzzy.”
By Steven C. Bennett
March 19, 2012

NYLS Faculty Steven Bennett
Subject: Personal Information

“A recent New York Times Magazine article revealed that a major retailer employed a system of ‘predictive analytics’ to analyze a wealth of information on customers (acquired from in-store purchases, online activities, and for-pay data brokers). The goal was to determine which customers seemed to be pregnant and thus attractive targets for advertisements, coupons, and other strategies aimed at selling to expectant parents.”

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Today’s Workplace, “N-Word Lesson for Students and for Teacher.”
By Jaclyn Tyndorf
March 19, 2012

New York Law School’s Legal As She is Spoke’s repost
Subject: Racism

‘I still remember my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Ross, standing in front of me, hand outstretched, a stern expression on her face. Becky had passed me a note and I hadn’t opened it yet, and wasn’t even sure what it said, but there I was, holding the incriminating evidence. I was terrified. I bet this is how one student at Chicago’s Murray Language Academy, felt last October, when he was caught holding a passed note in class. The teacher confiscated the note and read it. As it turned out, the note included rap lyrics with the “N-word.”

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CQ Roll Call, “Does EPA ‘Sue and Settle’ Muddy the Waters?”
By Lauren Gardner
March 19, 2012

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Handling hazardous waste

“Three days before Christmas 2008, an earthen dam holding back a mountain of coal ash outside a Tennessee power plant burst. The toxic sludge flooded more than 300 acres, contaminating two nearby rivers and starting a debate about whether the federal government should regulate the material as hazardous waste. David Schoenbrod, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a New York Law School professor, says he was struck by the power he wielded while negotiating consent decrees in the late 1970s as a Natural Resources Defense Council attorney. He went to court several times to modify an agreement he helped negotiate involving New York state and local governments that were found to be in violation of the Clean Air Act.”

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Forbes, “Women Lawyers- We’ve Got an App for That.”
By Victoria Pynchon
March 18, 2012

NYLS Student Lynnett Brooks
Subject: Law Without Walls

There’s been a lot of criticism of law schools during the Great Recession. I’ve written about LawWithoutWalls before, a project of the University of Miami School of Law, New York Law School, and the School of Transnational Law, at Peking University. The medium and the message being created by three women LWOW students - Lauren Quattromani, Lynnett Brooks, and Tao Xu - is an app.

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Poughkeepsie Journal, “Author to Discuss New FDR Book.”
March 17, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Book Review

‘The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is pleased to present an author talk and book signing with Martin Professor of Constitutional Law and Dean Emeritus at New York Law School James F. Simon about his book, ‘FDR And Chief Justice Hughes: The President, The Supreme Court, And The Epic Battle Over The New Deal.’’

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This news also appeared in Forbes and Democrat and Chronicle.

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CNN, “Will Healthcare Law Pit Obama Vs. Roberts?”
By James S. Simon
March 16, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Affordable Health Care Act

“Seventy-five years ago last month, FDR proposed his ill-fated court-packing plan that would have allowed him to stack the court with new appointees sympathetic to the New Deal. Will history be repeated this term when the Roberts court decides the constitutional fate of President Obama's signature legislation, the Affordable Health Care Act?”

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The Wall Street Journal, “And Now Pitching for the Mets…”
By Chad Bray and Reed Albergotti
March 16, 2012

NYLS Faculty Rebecca Roiphe
Subject: Bernie Madoff case

“In a big-league showdown to save hundreds of millions of dollars and perhaps control of their team, the owners of the New York Mets are calling in an ace: Sandy Koufax. Katz and Wilpon actually knew there was a fraud, only that they ‘ignored these red flags because they were making all this money,’ said Rebecca Roiphe, an associate professor at New York Law School who has studied the legal concept of ‘willful blindness.’”

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NBC Nightly News, “Guilty.”
March 16, 2012

NYLS Faculty Susan Abraham
Subject: Bullying Case

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This news also appeared in The Star Ledger.

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Thomson Reuters, “Rutgers Hate Crime Verdict Sends Anti-Bullying Message.”
By Joseph Ax and Jessica Dye
March 16, 2012

NYLS Faculty Susan Abraham
Subject: Hate crimes

“Dharun Ravi's hate crimes conviction for spying on his roommate's gay tryst represents a victory for gay rights and anti-bullying advocates - and a warning that such behavior won't simply be treated as a youthful mistake, legal experts say. But Susan Abraham, a professor at New York Law School, said the evidence showed that Ravi had focused on Clementi's sexual orientation. ‘The fact that he was clearly chosen, whatever you want to call it - even if you don't call it hate, don't call it bias, he was selected because he was gay,’ she said.”

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This news also appeared in The Guardian, Firstpost, Ottawa Citizen, Canada.com, Calgary Herald, The Daily Press, The Orlando Sentinel, NJ Today, and the Chicago Tribune.

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Opinio Juris, “Book Roundtable on Tai-Heng Cheng’s ‘When International Law Works.’”
By Julian Ku
March 12, 2012

NYLS Faculty Tai-Heng Cheng
Subject: Book Review

“Opinio Juris is very pleased to host a Roundtable this week on Professor Tai-Heng Cheng’s recent book, When International Law Works: Realistic Idealism After 9/11 and the Global Recession(Oxford University Press). The Roundtable will proceed throughout the week and feature a fascinating and diverse group of discussants.”

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The New York Times, “Health Care Act Offers Roberts a Signature Case.”
By Adam Liptak
March 11, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Health Care Law

“When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. takes his usual center seat on the Supreme Court bench on March 26, he will begin presiding over an extraordinary three days of arguments that will determine the fate of President Obama’s sweeping health care law. James F. Simon, a law professor at New York Law School, said the battle over the health care case was reminiscent of the showdown between the Supreme Court and President Franklin D. Roosevelt over the New Deal. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who led the court from 1930 to 1941, had much in common with Chief Justice Roberts, said Professor Simon, the author of a new book, ‘FDR and Chief Justice Hughes.’”

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This news also appeared in the Herald Tribune and JD Journal.

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Bloomberg, “Viewers Guide 1: Should the Court Decide the Cases Now?”
By Edward Adams
March 11, 2011

NYLS Faculty Nadine Strossen
Subject: Health Care Reform Law Arguments

“All this week, experts on the left and right of the political spectrum will be previewing the issues the lawyers will address in the Supreme Court’s health care reform law arguments, which will take place March 26-28. First up in our Viewers Guide: New York Law School Professor Nadine Strossen walks Bloomberg Law host Spencer Mazyck through the arguments over whether the health care cases are even ripe for review by the High Court.”

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C-Span Book TV, “FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, The Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal.”
March 10-11, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Book Review

“James Simon, law professor and dean emeritus at New York Law School, recounts the confrontations between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes.”

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Today’s Workplace, “Starbucks Served Venti-Sized Discrimination Law Suit.”
By Leah Braukman
March 8, 2012

New York Law School’s Legal As She is Spoke repost
Subject: Discrimination

“Twenty-five year old Eli Pierre has only one full arm, but he says he’s never been told there was something he couldn’t do. That is, until last month, when a San Diego, California Starbucks interviewed and then refused to hire him. Mr. Pierre is now suing the Seattle-based company inCalifornia state court alleging discrimination and wrongful failure to hire “despite his capable work history,” in violation of California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).”

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Library Journal, “Author’s Guild Seeks Partial Judgment on Hathi Trust’s Fair Use.”
By Meredith Schwartz
March 7, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Hathi Trust book digitization

“In the ongoing litigation between the Hathi Trust and the Author’s Guild over the Trust’s book digitization in partnership with Google, the Guild filed for partial judgment on the pleadings on February 28. James Grimmelmann, associate professor, New York Law School said in his blog, ‘The only way the Authors Guild can get around the enormously high factual burden facing it at this procedural stage is to make a purely legal argument: that failure to comply with Section 108 categorically prevents reliance on fair use, across the board, no factual questions asked. But here, even its own sources betray it.’”

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Huffington Post, “Corporations in a Lorax State.”
By Tamara Belinfanti
March 7, 2012

NYLS Faculty Tamara Belinfanti
Subject: The Lorax

“Dr. Seuss' The Lorax debuted to much fanfare last Friday, raking in a cool $70.7 million at the box office this weekend. The genius of The Lorax is that Seuss was able to weave an enchanting children's tale of resource mismanagement as told through the dialogue of the two main characters -- the adorable Lorax and the "dirty old" Once-ler. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is most commonly described as being a story about the preservation of the environment.”

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International Financial Law Review, “Alternatives to the LSOC model Explained.”
By Ryan Bolger
March 6, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ronald Filler
Subject: LSOC Model

“Implementation of the legally separated but operationally comingled (LSOC) model for protection of consumer collateral is far from a sure thing in the futures market.”

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FIA Special Report, “CFTC Hosts Two-Day Roundtable Discussion on Customer Protections.”
March 6, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ronald Filler
Subject: CFTC Discussion

“The Commodity Futures Trading Commission hosted a two-day staff roundtable on Feb. 29 and March 1 focusing on a range of topics related to customer collateral protections. Ron Filler of the New York Law School warned that if the LSOC model were applied to the futures market, net capital requirements for FCMs must be changed. ‘If we start applying this to the futures world, there is not enough capital among the FCM community today,’ Filler said.”

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Advanced Trading, “Regulators Contemplate Slamming the Breaks on High-Frequency Trading.”
By Phil Albinus
March 5, 2012

New York Law School’s Center on Financial Services Law Welcomes Scott O’Malia
Subject: Electronic trading

“Regulators including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are struggling to keep up with and keep a grip on this warp-speed world -- and they are considering some severe measures as they struggle to understand just what high-frequency trading is. In a speech in February at New York Law School, CFTC commissioner Scott O'Malia admitted that his agency has failed to keep pace with the rapid evolution of trading technology.”

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The Daily Beast, “Bunny Ears Get An Upgrade.”
March 5, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Aereo

“Just as Netflix has forced cable networks and service providers to adopt a more expansive TV Everywhere approach to content, Aereo could help force the same sort of disruption in the broadcast space. Grimmelmann told us that the case is likely to hinge on a 2008 ruling that is emerging as a legal foundation for a number of innovative new business models.”

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Daily News, “Sandra Fluke May File Lawsuit.”
By Nina Mandell
March 3, 2012

New York Law School’s Sydney Shainwald Lecture
Subject: Sandra Fluke Lawsuit

“The Georgetown law student branded a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh may file a lawsuit against the conservative shock jock as he revs up his criticism against the woman who found herself at the center of the contraception coverage debate. The possibility of a lawsuit, according to the Daily Beast, was first floated by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) on Friday during a speech at New York Law School.”

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This news also appeared in Reuters, New York Politicker, Politico, The Daily Beast, New York Politicker, and New York Law Journal.

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Ars Technica, “Broadcasters Don’t Like ‘Tiny Antennas,’ Sue TV Streaming Startup.”
By Timothy B. Lee
March 2, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Streaming Television

“A coalition of major broadcasters has sued Aereo, a well-funded startup that hopes to offer New York residents television broadcasts streamed over the Internet. Ars Technica asked Jimes Grimmelmann, a copyright scholar at New York Law School, to evaluate the case.”

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This news also appeared in The Daily Beast.

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American Banker, “Back to Futures.”
By Heather Landy
March 1, 2012

New York Law School’s Center on Financial Services Law Welcomes Scott O’Malia
Subject: Scott O’Malia lecture

“On the day that customer claims against MF Global were due to the trustee overseeing the brokerage's liquidation, Scott O'Malia had some rather harsh words for the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission. In a well-attended lecture at New York Law School, O'Malia said it was regrettable that Congress had never granted the CFTC the authority to declare trading firms insolvent (in MF Global's case, this task was handled by the Securities Investor Protection Corp.)

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This news also appeared in Advanced Trading.

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Daily News, “’Alarming’ Number of Lawsuits Against Brookdale.”
By Conor Febos & Lore Croghan
March 1, 2012

NYLS Faculty Joanne Doroshow
Subject: Brookdale Hospital Lawsuits

“Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center is the target of more than 100 open lawsuits by patients who claim they — or their dead relatives — were harmed instead of healed, Brooklyn Supreme Court records show. ‘It sounds like there’s an epidemic of medical malpractice at this hospital,’ said Joanne Doroshow, executive director of the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School, who called the volume of suits ‘egregious.’”

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This news also appeared in Fierce Healthcare.

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The National Law Journal, “Veteran Political Hand to lead New York Law School.”
By Karen Sloan
February 29, 2012

NYLS Dean Anthony Crowell
Subject: New Dean and President

“New York Law School on Feb. 29 named Anthony Crowell, counselor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as its next dean and president. Crowell is no stranger to the law school; he has taught a course on New York City law as an adjunct professor since 2003.”

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This news also appeared in the Daily Journal, Thomson Reuters News & Insight, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times City Room, Crain’s New York Business, Capital New York, Digital Journal, Web Newswire, The Chief Leader, Tribeca Citizen, The Chief, Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, Capital Tonight, The Faculty Lounge, New York Law Journal, New York City Bar and The Associated Press (Picked up by the Wall Street Journal and some 30 outlets in various states): Beaumont Enterprise (Texas), Big News Network ,Buffalo News, Connecticut Post, Coshocton Tribune (Ohio), Courier Post (New Jersey), Daily Journal (Indiana), Dallas News, Fox 44 (Vermont), Green Bay Press (Wisconsin), Greenfield Daily Reporter (Indiana), Greenwich Time, Herald Globe (Vermont), Herald Times (Wisconsin), HTR News, I4U News, Marion Star (Ohio), Marshfield News Journal (Ohio), My San Antonio, New Jersey Herald, News 10 (Albany), Newstimes.com, NOLA.com (New Orleans), Post Crescent (Wisconsin), Poughkeepsie Journal, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Sheboygan Press (Wisconsin), St. Cloud Times (Minnesota), Stamford Advocate, Stevens Point Journal (Wisconsin), Syracuse.com, The Northwestern (Wisconsin), The Republic (Indiana), Wausau Daily Herald (Wisconsin), WCAX (Vermont), WFTV (Florida), WHIO TV (Ohio), Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, WJACTV (PA), WTOV 9 (Ohio).

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The Guardian, “The End of Online Piracy?”
By Charles Arthur
February 28, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Online Piracy

“If you use a smartphone and download apps, as half the UK population does now, you've probably used an app which pops up a dialog box pop asking ‘Find your friends?’ and offering to search some new social network – or one of the more familiar ones – for people you already know. ‘Between the Path debacle and Google's Safari cookies, [Silicon] Valley's moral bankruptcy on privacy was made obvious,’ commented James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School, on Twitter.”

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This news also appeared in TMC.net, The Hindu, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Taipei Times.

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Media Post News, “YouTube, Justin.tv Sued for Displaying Boxing Match.”
By Wendy Davis
February 28, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Illegal broadcast

“Streaming service Justin.tv and video-sharing site YouTube were sued this week by Ark Promotions for allegedly displaying a pay-per-view boxing match between Evander Holyfield and Sherman Williams. But Ark likely will face an uphill battle, says New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann. ‘The complaint seems weak,’ he says, adding that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's safe harbor provisions appear to give YouTube and Justin.tv a defense to the copyright infringement allegations.”

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The Post Chronicle, “Tyler Clementi Case Suicide (VIDEO) Dahrun Ravi Trial Begins.”
February 26, 2012

NYLS Faculty Susan Abraham
Subject: Bullying

“A New Jersey judge this week dismissed 57 potential jurors in the case of a university student accused of spying on gay roommate, leading to his suicide. The trial, which is expected to last four weeks, is expected to expose the uncertainty of the justice system when dealing with what Susan Abraham, a New York law school and former New Jersey prosecutor, called ‘this kind of emotional bullying. Should it be treated in criminal courts, or some other way? The problem with criminalizing these postings and the things young people do on the Internet is a lot of them don't know what the rules are. Maybe they should.’”

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Today’s Workplace, “Ex-NFL Player Can’t Score Medical Records.”
By Steven Ward
February 24, 2012

NYLS Legal As She Is Spoke Repost
Subject: Right to access medical records

"Anyone who watches NFL games each week is witness to organized warfare, with players delivering excruciating and merciless blows to the opposition. To deal with the frequent injuries, players are often given a shot of the painkiller Toradol, known medically as Ketorolac, before games."

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National Futures Association, “NFA’s Board of Directors Elects Christopher Hehmeyer to Serve as Chairman.”
February 22, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ronald H. Filler
Subject: Elected public directors

“The Board of Directors of National Futures Association (NFA) has elected Christopher K. Hehmeyer, Non-Executive Chairman at Penson Futures, to serve a one-year term as Chairman. In addition, the Board re-elected the following individuals to serve two-year terms as public directors: Ronald H. Filler, Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Financial Services Law at New York Law School…”

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Foreign Affairs, “Humanity’s Law.”
Reviewed by G. John Ikenberry
February 22, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: Book Review

“The human rights revolution of the last half century has begun to redefine the world’s understanding of the relationships among individuals, the state, and violence. This masterful treatise by Teitel, a law professor at New York Law School, offers one of the best explanations yet of the complex, shifting normative foundations of international law.”

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The National Jurist, “Tuition Three Times Faster than Inflation, but Some Schools Buck the Trend.”
February 22, 2012

New York Law School
Subject: Tuition

“Tuition for private law schools grew from an average of $21,790 in 2000 to $37,702 in 2010, an increase of 73 percent. New York Law School, the University of Illinois, and Mississippi College of Law in Jackson offer a flat rate, where the tuition does not increase for a student after they enroll.”

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This news also appeared in JD Journal.

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The Star Ledger, “Tyler Clementi Case to Ask: Are Bullies Criminals?”
By Star-Ledger Staff
February 19, 2012

NYLS Faculty Susan Abraham
Subject: Bullying

“In the 17 months since Tyler Clementi jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge on a September night, his roommate, Dharun Ravi, has been the focus of an emotional national debate on bullying and cybercrime. ‘Usually this kind of charge is associated with an assault or murder or some kind of violence where it’s much more clear that you’re trying to hurt somebody, physically,’ said Susan Abraham, a New York Law School professor and a former New Jersey public defender. ‘I think that’s part of the controversy. Maybe a hate crime isn’t appropriate, maybe it’s more anti-bullying.’"

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Ars Technica, “Is Megaupload ‘a lot less guilty than you think?’”
By Timothy B. Lee
February 16, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Megaupload

‘Is Megaupload doomed? Last month, we talked to three legal scholars who suggested that the shuttered file locker was probably in trouble. While the University of Virginia's Chris Sprigman thought Megaupload's principals had a fighting chance of being acquitted, James Grimmelmann of New York Law School argued that the government had a strong case—perhaps even a ‘slam dunk.’”

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Bloomberg Business Week, “Dondero Still Slays Bears at Highland with New Leveraged Loans.”
Editors Stryker McGuire & Jonathan Neumann
February 10, 2012

NYLS Faculty Houman Shadab
Subject: James Dondero

“Even in an industry full of risk takers, James Dondero stands out. ‘The CLO market was well governed before the financial crisis, and that is why it performed relatively well,’ says Houman Shadab, an associate professor of law at New York Law School.”

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City & State, “Ray Kelly is Key to Keeping NYPD Clean, Knapp Commission Counsel Michael Armstrong Says.”
By Adam Lisberg
February 10, 2012

NYLS Center for New York City Law
Subject: Ray Kelly

“The best defense against systematic police corruption in New York City is strong leadership, and that’s exactly what the NYPD has in Commissioner Ray Kelly, the head of the Mayor’s Commission to Combat Police Corruption said Friday. ‘In good times, when you have a good police commissioner, when you’ve got a vigorous Internal Affairs Bureau, you don’t have the highly-publicized corruption areas that cry out for investigation,’ Armstrong told a breakfast discussion sponsored by the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School.”

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Inside EPA Weekly Report, “Critics Warn House Bills Could Undermine Consent Decree on EPA Rules.”
By Bobby McMahon
February 10, 2012

NYLS Faculty David Schoenbrod
Subject: Consent decrees

“House lawmakers are pushing bills to overhaul the process for EPA and other agencies to enter into consent decrees to resolve challenges to rules by claiming the legislation will make it easier to revise or scrap decrees, but some Dem-ocrats and other critics say the efforts could undermine the decrees that ensure agencies, states and others follow environmental laws.”

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Tucson Citizen, “”Recommended Non-Fiction: FDR and the Supreme Court, Our Medical Care Mess, Inside Apple, and Modern Manners.”
By Larry Cox
February 9, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Book Review

“FDR and Chief Justice Hughes: The President, the Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle Over the New Deal by James F. Simon (Simon & Schuster, $28) Within days of Franklin Roosevelt’s inauguration as president in 1933, he began pushing through his New Deal programs in an attempt to get the nation moving again. During the first hundred days, Roosevelt sent fifteen pieces of legislation to Congress, each becoming law. The quick action reflected not only the desperation of the times but an astonishing spirit of cooperation between the new president and Congress.”

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The Christian Science Monitor, “FDR and Chief Justice hughes.”
By Terry Harte
February 9, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Simon
Subject: Book Review

“One of the central subplots in the history of the New Deal is the relationship between President Roosevelt and the Supreme Court. In FDR and Chief Justice Hughes, James F. Simon, a professor at New York Law School who has written a number of well-received books about the history of the Supreme Court, focuses on the events that lead to this epic conflict and its aftermath.”

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This news also appeared in The Journal News.

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The Michelangelo Signorile Show on Sirius Radio XMLQ 108
February 8, 2012

NYLS Faculty Arthur Leonard
Subject: Proposition 8

Interview discussing the Proposition 8 ruling in the 9th Circuit.

This interview is not available online.

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Salon, “The Making of Gay Marriage’s Top Foe.”
By Mark Oppenheimer
February 8, 2012

NYLS Faculty Faith Stevelman
Subject: Maggie Gallagher

“In September 1978, Yale freshmen would not have voted Maggie Gallagher the member of the Class of 1982 most likely to get pregnant before graduation. Another freshman suitemate, Faith Stevelman, now a professor at New York Law School, remembers Gallagher as intellectually provocative — ‘She was introducing me to ideas nobody else would introduce me to’ — but a bit of a killjoy. ‘I think she was somewhat socially immature.’”

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This news also ran in AlterNet.

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KPFK Los Angeles
February 5, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: Book discussion

Ruti Teitel was featured on KPFK Los Angeles to discuss her book, Humanity’s Law.

This interview not available online.

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Kotaku, “A defense of Video Game Cloning.”
By Kirk Hamilton
February 3, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Video Game Copyright

“There have been a lot of stories about game-cloning flying around lately, from Zynga's cloning of Nimblebit's popular iOS game Tiny Tower to Spry Fox's lawsuit against 6waves for cloning Triple Town. Warren speaks on the matter with James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School. Grimmelmann points out that games are difficult to copyright, since they exist on so many different levels of expression.”

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The New York Times, “On Keeping Church and Schools Separate.”
By Udi Ofer
February 2, 2012

NYLS Faculty Udi Ofer
Subject: Religion in Schools

“The United States Supreme Court refused in December to intervene in a 16-year legal battle against New York City’s prohibition on the use of schools for religious worship services. Some 160 religious congregations, almost all Christian denominations, now have until Feb. 12 to stop using schools as houses of worship. They won’t go quietly and have enlisted the help of state and city lawmakers.”

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Bloomberg, “’Little Child’ CFTC Ignores Futures Oversight Role, O’Malia Says.”
By Silla Brush
January 31, 2012

NYLS Financial Services Law
Subject: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

“The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is fixating childishly over Dodd-Frank Act rules while ignoring its traditional responsibility for overseeing futures markets, Commissioner Scott O’Malia said today. “The commission has acted like a little child, abandoning the old toy and ‘swapping’ them out for the new,” O’Malia, one of two Republicans on the five-member panel, said in remarks prepared for a conference at New York Law School.”

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This news also appeared in Finextra, aiCIO, High Frequency Traders, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and Futures Magazine.

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National Journal, “As Chief Technology Officer Leaves White House, Industry Looks for Signals.”
By Josh Smith
January 27, 2012

NYLS Faculty Beth Simone Noveck
Subject: Obama’s Chief Technology Officer

‘When President Obama appointed Aneesh Chopra as the first federal chief technology officer in 2009, it was seen as the beginning of a new era in the government’s relationship with technology. When Obama became president, rumors had him naming Google’s Eric Schmidt; Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist; Cisco Systems CTO Padmasree Warrior; Beth Simone Noveck, a law professor at New York Law School; or Vivek Kundra, who became the White House’s chief information officer, among others.”

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This news also ran in Nextgov.

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Thomson Reuters, “Civil Rights Law on Supreme Court’s Mind.”
By Rebecca Hamilton
January 27, 2012

NYLS Faculty Deborah Archer
Subject: Voting Rights Act

“A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that dealt with a narrow issue in a redistricting case from Texas suggests that the nation's top court is ready to reconsider a key part of the Voting Rights Act, a major piece of civil rights legislation. "Whatever the ruling is, I think the losing party will seek certification from the Supreme Court," said Deborah Archer, a law professor and Director of the Racial Justice Project at the New York Law School, which filed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. government position in the Alabama case.”

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The Wall Street Journal, “MF Customers Face Long, and Possibly Fruitless, Slog.”
By Jamila Trindle
January 24, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ronald Filler
Subject: MF Global Holdings

“Customers of failed futures firm MF Global Holdings Ltd. could be in for a long courtroom battle and—even after all is argued and litigated—still might not get all their money back.”

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Ars Technica, “Megaboned? Long Odds Against Legal Success, Say Law Profs.”
By Timothy B. Lee
January 24, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Megaupload

“On Thursday, the US government unsealed a 72-page indictment against Megaupload. The file locker was one of the largest sites on the Web, and major copyright holders had accused it of facilitating widespread copyright infringement. To help us understand the legal issues in the Megaupload case, Ars Technica spoke with three law professors: James Grimmelmann at New York Law School, Michael Carrier at Rutgers-Camden, and Chris Sprigman at the University of Virginia.”

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The Wall Street Journal, “The Daily Writing Sample: Morrison v. National Australia Bank.”
By Joe Palazzolo
January 24, 2012

NYLS Legal As She Is Spoke Blog
Subject: Racketeering and Copyright Counts

“Why dig out Morrison for today’s Writing Sample? The racketeering and copyright counts could be exposed by Morrison, according to Frankel, who credits the New York Law School blog Legal As She Is Spoke with raising the issue here..”

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This news also appeared in Thomson Reuters.

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Tech President, “White House Launches www.Education.Data.Gov.”
By Miranda Neubauer
January 23, 2012

NYLS Faculty Beth Noveck
Subject: Data.gov project

“The White House last week announced the launch of www.education.data.gov as part of the overall data.gov project. The site seeks to target developers, teachers and students. Professor Beth Noveck at New York Law School oversaw the creation of the Democracy Design Workshop Do Tank, Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani worked on a case study entitled "Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation," while Professor Ines Mergel at Syracuse University incorporated the site in a course on Government 2.0.”

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O’Reilly Radar, “Massachusetts Open Checkbook: Running Through the Ledger of Choices and Challenges in Open Government.”
By Andy Oram
January 20, 2012

NYLS Faculty Beth Noveck
Subject: Open Checkbook

“On December 5, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joined with state treasurer Steven Grossman to create an open government initiative with the promising moniker Open Checkbook. I asked Beth Noveck of New York Law School (and formerly the Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration) for a comment. She writes: ‘Open Checkbook is a fabulous exemplar of a government using open data to make itself more transparent to the public.'"

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The Washington Post, “Does the Megaupload Takedown Prove that SOPA is Necessary?”
By Brad Plumer
January 20, 2012

NYLS Student Asher Hawkins’s post on the Legal as She Is Spoke blog
Subject: Megaupload

“The logic behind Congress’ much-maligned online-piracy bills was that more weapons were needed to go after copyright infringers overseas. But last week, the U.S. government took down Megaupload, one of the biggest file-sharing sites abroad. Doesn’t that suggest new laws aren’t necessary? Update: New York Law School’s Asher Hawkins adds an interesting twist to this debate, wondering whether the Justice Department’s crackdown on Megaupload will hold up in court.”

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North Jersey, “Opinion: The Turbulent Story of an Epic Ruling.”
By Susan Abraham & Louis Raveson
January 20, 2012

NYLS Faculty Susan Abraham
Subject: Roe v. Wade

“TODAY is the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court’s historic opinion holding that women have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. Of all the constitutional issues that have come before our courts, few have been as intractable, as divisive or as impassioned as those decided there. The issue not only pits personal rights against public policy, but invariably evokes the most intense and deeply held personal beliefs about health, family, religion, privacy, the nature of life and a woman’s control of her own body.”

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Ars Technica, “Why the Feds Smashed Megaupload.”
By Nate Anderson
January 19, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Megaupload

“The US government dropped a nuclear bomb on "cyberlocker" site Megaupload today, seizing its domain names, grabbing $50 million in assets, and getting New Zealand police to arrest four of the site's key employees, including enigmatic founder Kim Dotcom. Law professor James Grimmelmann of New York Law School tells Ars, "If proven at trial, there's easily enough in the indictment to prove criminal copyright infringement many times over. But much of what the indictment details are legitimate business strategies many websites use to increase their traffic and revenues: offering premium subscriptions, running ads, rewarding active users.”

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This news also appeared in International Business Times.

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City Limits, “NY Prisoners Counted Differently, But Still Not Voting.”
By Jeanmarie Evelly
January 17, 2012

NYLS Faculty Erika Wood
Subject: Voting

“Now that they'll be counted in their hometowns rather than where they're incarcerated, state inmates could shift district lines. One thing neither they nor parollees can do, however, is vote. "People are still not allowed to vote even though they're living the in the community, contributing to the community, sending their kids to local schools,"says Erika Wood, an associate professor at New York Law School.”

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NextGov, “The Debate Over What’s Private or Public Online Is Just Warming Up.”
By Jessica Herrera-Flanigan
January 13, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Online Privacy

“On Thursday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting that the agency investigate Google's recent announcement to integrate its social network, Google+, into search results. The letter quotes James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School, noting that the change ‘breaks down a very clear conceptual divide between things that are private and things that are public online.’”

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This news also appeared in ZDNet, Lakestar Media, Network World, and The Atlantic Wire.

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Thomson Reuters, “Carol Buckler Named Interim Dean of New York Law School.”
By Moira Herbst
January 12, 2012

NYLS Faculty Carol Buckler
Subject: New Interim Dean Announced

“New York Law School announced on Thursday that its board of trustees had named Carol Buckler as interim dean of the law school. Buckler began serving in her new position on Jan. 1 following the departure of Richard Matasar. She will remain interim dean until the school appoints a new dean, the school said in a press release.”

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This news also appeared in New York Law Journal.

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The New York Times, “Google Adds Posts From Its Social Network to Search Results.”
By: Claire Cain Miller
January 10, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Search Results

“Google’s popularity was built on its ability to help people find just the right Web pages. “When Google shifts towards just searching itself, and it directs you away from stuff on the rest of the Web and other social networks, people are forced to stay inside the Google ecosystem,” said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School who specializes in Internet law.”

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This news also ran in The New York Times Bits, Today, The New American, and KSBW News.

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The National Law Journal, “Big Law Firms Don’t Care About Your LL.M., Recruiter Warns.”
By Karen Sloan
January 10, 2012

NYLS Faculty Marshall Tracht
Subject: LL.M. Programs

“Does a graduate law degree increase a lawyer's value on the legal job market? Not according to Steven John, a managing director at legal recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa. The programs were not without their defenders. Several panelists argued that they can help graduates get a leg up in the job market outside the large law firms that Major Lindsey serves. They also can help mid-career attorneys trying to break into new areas of law, or help attorneys enter new geographic markets, said New York Law School professor Marshall Tracht, who runs an LL.M. program in real estate law.”

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This news also appeared in Above the Law.

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SD Times, “What Developers Should Think About as They Build Mobile Apps.”
By Victoria Reitano
January 9, 2012

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Mobile Apps

“When creating an application, developers think about user experience, architecture and performance. But what about liability? Most terms of use, which most end users merely click through to get to their new application, provide some form of liability waiver, according to James Grimmelmann, associate professor at New York Law School.”

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The Sun, “Conn. Law Nixing Legitimate Malpractice Lawsuits.”
By Dave Collins
January 8, 2012

NYLS Center for Justice and Democracy
Subject: Malpractice

“After losing a baby because of an incompetent cervix, Patricia Votre thought she was well prepared when she got pregnant again. But the Center for Justice & Democracy recently released a report, echoing previous studies, saying that certificates of merit and other tort reforms have no effect on malpractice insurance rates. The report says rate levels go up and down based on insurance companies' financial performance and the economy.”

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This news also appeared in the Lebanon Daily News and KTIV National News.

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The Christian Science Monitor, “20 Non-Fiction Books to Watch for in 2012.”
By Monitor Staff
January 7, 2012

NYLS Faculty: James F. Simon
Subject: Book Reviews

“New York Law School professor James F. Simon tells the story of the struggle between two fascinating personalities – conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and the frustrated President Franklin Roosevelt who tried to “pack” the court with appointees more sympathetic to his concerns.”

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New York Law Journal, “Law School Roundup”
By Laura Haring
January 6, 2012

NYLS Diane Abbey Law Center for Children and Families
Subject: NYWBA Matrimonial Pro Bono Law Project

“New York Law School and the New York Women's Bar Association last month announced the relaunch of the NYWBA Matrimonial Pro Bono Law Project. The Diane Abbey Law Center for Children and Families at New York Law School, which provides legal assistance to families, will administer the program.”

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The New York Times, “China’s Speech, and Others.”
By Michael Botein
January 6, 2012

NYSL Faculty: Michael Botein
Subject: China TV

““China TV Grows Racy, and Gets a Chaperon” (“Culture and Control” series, front page, Jan. 1) raises an altogether too-familiar specter of government suppression of “sex talk” programming that unfortunately has striking analogues in the United States. “

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My West Texas, “MOSC to Present “The Planets” at Wagner Noel.”
By Missy Hallmark
January 3, 2012

NYLS Faculty Arthur Leonard
Subject: "The Planets"

“The first complete public performance of Gustav Holst's "The Planets" premiered in Queen's Hall in 1920. New York Law School Professor Arthur S. Leonard described "The Planets" as "a work of sheer genius.”

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Opinio Juris, “The ICC and Saif: After International Intervention, avoiding Victor’s Justice.”
By Ruti Teitel
January 2, 2012

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: The ICC and Saif Ghadaffi

“When the United Nations Security Council authorized the use of force to protect civilians in Libya, the Council also referred the situation there to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, and placed Libya under a legal obligation to cooperate fully with the ICC.”

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The Canberra Times, “Let’s Not Go Down the Failed Path of Megan’s law.”
By Astrid Birgden
January 2, 2012

New York Law School
Subject: Megan’s law

“I am a psychologist who has worked with sex offenders and recently I have studied the impact of Megan's Law through New York Law School.”

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National Jurist, “Best Schools for Public Service.”
January 2011

New York Law School
Subject: NYLS listed as one of the best schools for public interest

“We gathered data on every ABA law school in the U.S. from a number of sources, listed below.”

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Forbes, “Medical Diagnostic Test Taken Down by Copyright Claim.”
By Alex Knapp
December 31, 2011

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Test off the internet

“For twenty five years, doctors and psychologists made use, free of charge, of the of the Mini–Mental State Examination, a 30 item list of questions used to cognitively screen patients for different mental tasks. James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at the New York Law School, has a long analysis in which he suggests that the MMSE form is uncopyrightable.”

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CBS News, “Capital Punishment.”
December 25, 2011

NYLS Faculty Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

“Only 58 countries in the world still regularly impose the death penalty, but it is widely accepted in the United States. New York Law School professor Robert Blecker told "Sunday Morning" it is because "some people deserve to die, and we have an obligation to kill them."

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The Washington Post, “People in the News: Beth Noveck.”
December 23, 2011

NYLS Faculty Beth Noveck
Subject: People in the news

“A patent office where anyone with an internet connection can help review applications. An online conference that makes it feel as if you're sitting around a table. Bills drafted and edited entirely by constituents. These sound like far-off ideas, but they are all possible, thanks to tools pioneered by Noveck.”

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Publishers Weekly, “Google Files Motion to Dismiss Lawsuits.”
By Andrew Albanese
December 23, 2011

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google to dismiss lawsuits

“As expected, Google yesterday filed a motion to dismiss the Authors Guild as an associational plaintiff from the long-running book-scanning case, and also moved to sever the American Society of Media Photographers from its related suit against Google. On his blog, the Laboratorium, New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann explained the legal underpinnings of Google’s motion.”

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This news also ran in Ars Technica.

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Wired, “Can 17,000 Patents Help Android Win a Legal Cold War?”
By Jon Brodkin
December 22, 2011

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Patents

“’Patent lawsuit filed against Android’ has become a distressingly familiar headline for Google and its hardware partners. If Google had prepared for the coming patent storm, ‘they could have bought themselves a patent portfolio for much less than they paid Motorola,’ said New York Law School Professor James Grimmelmann, who wrote ‘Owning the stack: the legal war to control the smartphone platform’ for Ars.”

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The New York Law Journal, “Law School Roundup”
December 16, 2011

New York Law School for joint M.A./J.D. degree with John Jay College and partnership with the Center for Justice & Democracy.
Subject: Joint degree

“Cornell University next year will accept its first students into a dual Ph.D./J.D. degree program in developmental psychology and law. New York Law School also recently announced a partnership with John Jay College of Criminal Justice to offer an M.A./J.D. program in forensic psychology and law beginning next fall (NYLJ, Dec. 1).”

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This news also ran in The Law Street Journal Blog.

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Daily Report, “The Pack that Cried ‘Wolf.’”
By Robert Blecker
December 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty Robert Blecker
Subject: Death penalty

“We killed two convicted murderers that night of Sept. 21, 2011. One surely deserved to die. The other, well that's Troy Davis.”

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Canadian Broadcast Corp., “Lang and O’Leary Exchange.”
December 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ron Filler
Subject: MF Global

“Amanda Lang and Kevin O'Leary take you inside the business world with their trade mark thought-provoking coverage.”

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Bloomberg News, “MF Global Told CME It Used Customer Funds: Timeline.”
By Matthew Leising & Silla Brush
December 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ron Filler
Subject: MF Global

“MF Global Holdings Ltd. used about $700 million of customer funds to “meet liquidity issues” in the days prior to its bankruptcy, according to CME Group Inc. (CME), which had auditing authority over the failed futures broker. ‘A statement that $700 million was taken implies a rule violation,’ said Ronald Filler, who was a managing director in the global futures business at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. for 16 years.”

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This news also ran in NJ.com , Crains New York Business, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Huffington Post, “Insurance Companies Ready Push for ‘Devastating’ Rate Hikes on Businesses.”
By Max J. Rosenthal & Mollie Reilly
December 15, 2011

New York Law School Center for Justice and Democracy
Subject: Insurance Rate Hikes

“With the economy still weak, businesses may face a fresh blow from insurance companies next year, according to a new report published Thursday by the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School.”

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This news also ran in the Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, and Sun Sentinel.

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Bloomberg Business Week, “Singaporeans Deny Conspiring against U.S. in Technology Exports.”
By Andrea Tan
December 12, 2011

NYLS Faculty Tai-Heng Cheng
Subject: Singaporeans deny conspiracy

“Four Singaporeans, accused by the U.S. of smuggling radio parts found in Iraqi bombs, denied any wrongdoing in challenging an extradition request from the U.S. Cheng Tai Heng, an expert witness for Lim Yong Nam, Lim Kow Seng and Hia, testified the charge of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. isn’t an extraditable offense under a treaty between the two countries. Cheng is professor of law at New York Law School.”

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The Chronicle of Higher Education, “New Lawyers Hang a Shingle on Shpoonkle, to Some Colleagues’ Chagrin.”
By Katherine Mangan
December 11, 2011

NYLS Student Robert Grant Niznik
Subject: Shpoonkle

“Robert Grant Niznik had commiserated with other third-year law students about the lousy job market and was wondering what he was going to do after finishing his courses at New York Law School this month.”

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This news also ran in NY Convergence.

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Opinio Juris, “Ruti Teitel Responds to Shana Tabak.”
December 9, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: A conversation with Ruti Teitel

“I am happy to join the conversation on Shana Tabak’s ‘False dichotomies of Transitional Justice Gender, Conflict and Combatants in Colombia,’ forthcoming in the next issue of the NYU Journal of International Law & Politics. Tabak’s article is a thoughtful meditation on the difficult issues surrounding gender conflict and justice with specific reference to the ongoing situation in Columbia.”

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Government Executive, “House Passes Third Regulatory Reform Bill Under Veto Threat.”
By Charles S. Clark
December 7, 2011

NYLS Faculty David Schoenbrod
Subject: Regulatory reform bill

“The House on Wednesday passed the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which would require a joint resolution of Congress to allow significant executive branch regulation to take effect. David Schoenbrod, a law professor currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, defended the bill on political grounds. ‘In a representative democracy, the right way to find out which regulations the voters desire is for their elected representatives to vote on them,’ he said.”

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Forensic Psychologist, “First Joint Psychology-Law Program with Disability Focus.”
December 6, 2011

NYLS Faculty Michael Perlin
Subject: NYLS joint degree

“New York Law School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice have announced a new joint degree program in forensic psychology and law that will launch in Fall 2012 and focus on disability law.”

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Publisher’s Weekly, “Google Will Move to Dismiss Authors Guild Suit.”
December 5, 2011

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google suits

“Is the long-running legal drama over Google’s scan plan drawing down? But, as New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann noted, ‘Chin left in place all deadlines from his previous order, which means that Google’s motion to dismiss will overlap with the Authors Guild’s motion for class certification.’”

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Huffington Post, “Elected Lawmakers Accountable for the Law—Gasp!”
By David Schoenbrod
December 5, 2011

NYLS Faculty David Schoenbrod
Subject: Accountability of the law

“If Congress could not in 1970 have passed the buck on lead in gasoline by giving the EPA a vague mandate to regulate it, Congress itself would have issued a rule that would have gotten the lead out far faster than the fifteen years it took the EPA.”

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City Journal, “The Regulatory Thicket.”
By Iain Murray & David Schoenbrod
December 2, 2011

NYLS Faculty David Schoenbrod
Subject: Regulating business

“The economic consequences of regulating business are huge. Regulatory costs raise prices, depress incomes, and encourage companies to locate in friendlier climes, harming our economy and hampering recovery. Unfortunately, the perennial cry to reduce ‘regulatory drag’ has yielded few results at the federal level. Congress rarely responds to such pleas because voters usually regard regulation one-sidedly, believing that it simply reduces risks without imposing burdens.”

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ABA Journal, “The 2001 ABA Journal Blawg 100.”
December 1, 2011

NYLS Legal As She Is Spoke
Subject: Law Blogs

“On our 5th birthday, you'll see some familiar faces at the party: bloggers who've been on our list in years past. But 2011 also brought along a lot of newcomers, and we're delighted that so many RSVP'd our invitation to nominate their favorites.”

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The National Law Journal, “New York Law and John Jay To Offer Joint Degree in Law and Forensic Psychology.”
By Karen Sloan
November 28, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Joint Degree

“New York Law School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice announced plans on Nov. 28 to start a new joint degree program in forensic psychology and law. The program will take four years to complete, and students will finish with a Master of Arts in forensic psychology from John Jay and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School — shaving a year off the time now required to complete both degrees separately.”

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This news also ran in The Sacramento Bee , JD Journal, and Digital Journal.

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The New York Times, “Skipping the Legal Partner Track for a Shingle of One’s Own.”
By Eilene Zimmerman
November 23, 2011

NYLS Faculty Anne Marie Bowler
Subject: Solo Practice

“Five and a half years ago, after spending years as commercial litigation lawyers at Proskauer Rose in New York City, Sari Gabay-Rafiy and Anne Marie Bowler decided to strike out on their own. They started Gabay-Rafiy & Bowler more as a lifestyle choice than a money-making venture.”

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NewStatesman, “Books of the Year 2011: Geoffrey Robertson.”
November 21, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: Book of the Year

“The most abject failure of Labour governments has been their inability to do anything about, or even to comprehend, how tax avoidance through offshore trusts robs the country of trillions and accelerates inequality. Two works of significant scholarship were Dan Plesch's America, Hitler and the UN (I B Tauris, £20), showing how humanitarian intervention was a UN mission from the outset, and Ruti Teitel's Humanity's Law (Oxford University Press, £22.50), the best study yet of how international law is shifting emphasis from bolstering the security of states to protecting individuals from states.”

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Reuters, “Anger Mounts as MF Global Clients See $3 Billion Still Stuck.”
By David Sheppard
November 20, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ronald Filler
Subject: MF Global collapse

“Three weeks after MF Global's collapsed, furious former customers are still fighting for access to billions of dollars as they question why as much as two-thirds of their money is still stuck. "...The Trustee should publish a report showing how much funds have been accounted for, how much has been distributed and how much he is still holding," said Ronald Filler, director of the Center on Financial Services Law at New York Law School."

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Along with numerous other publications, this news also ran in the Vancouver Sun, Market Watch, Money News, Dow Jones, and Meat Trade News Daily.

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The Hollywood Reporter, “Will R&B Artist Who Offered $1 Million Reward on YouTube have to Pay Up? (Analysis.)”
by Eriq Gardner
November 19, 2011

NYLS Student Nadia-Elysse Harris
Subject: Reward Money

“Before any celebrity takes to Twitter and announces a big-ticket reward for solving the mystery of lost keys or for providing information leading to the arrest of a certain college football coach, they might wish to consider two recent lawsuits. Witness the analysis offered by Nadia-Elysse Harris, who is studying law and journalism at New York Law School. She writes on the Leslie case that the standard for figuring out whether there's an enforceable contract in these situations is whether a reasonable person would have assumed the offer for reward to be valid.”

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The New York Times, “Comptroller, Facing Inquiry, Promises ‘Full Accounting’ of his Fund-Raising.”
By William K. Rashbaum
November 18, 2011

NYLS CITY Law Breakfast
Subject: Fund Raising

“City Comptroller John C. Liu, whose campaign finances are under federal investigation, called the accusations of fund-raising improprieties ‘quite embarrassing’ on Friday and promised New Yorkers ‘a full accounting.’ Mr. Liu’s remarks, in a speech at New York Law School, represented his most-detailed response to date to the continuing federal investigation, which led to the arrest of one of his fund-raisers on Wednesday.”

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This news also ran in the New York Post, Capital, The Queens Gazette, City Hall and New York Press.

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The Wall Street Journal, “Fund Transfers Are Focus of MF Global Probe.”
By Scott Patterson
November 18, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ronald Filler
Subject: MF Global

“Regulators have unearthed new details indicating MF Global Holdings Ltd. shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in customer funds to its own brokerage accounts in the days before its bankruptcy filing, according to people familiar with the matter.”

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Ars Technica, “Are SOPA Sponsors About to Make Themselves Felons? Probably Not.”
By Timothy B. Lee
November 17, 2011

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: SOPA

“On Wednesday morning, reddit reader Dan Keshet made an interesting observation: Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the lead sponsor of SOPA, has copyrighted videos available for download on his website. And the Stop Online Piracy Act imposes new criminal penalties for unauthorized streaming of copyrighted works. But we're also a news site, so we contacted James Grimmelmann, a copyright scholar at New York Law School, (and judging from his tweets, not a SOPA supporter) to get his expert opinion.”

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This news also ran in Slashdot.

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WNYC News, “MF Global Puts Focus on Changing Rules for Customer Cash.”
By Janet Babin
November 16, 2011

NYLS Center on Financial Services “Pandemic of Panzimonium”
Subject: MF Global

“MF Global collapsed into bankruptcy last month. It got into trouble after it made failed bets on European debt. Speaking at New York Law School on Tuesday, Chilton said regulators have no clear idea what happened to the money, and are still searching for clues.”

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This news also ran in the New York Post and The Street.

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Marketplace, “The Battle Over SOPA Heats Up.”
By John Moe
November 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Online Piracy

‘The fight against online piracy is getting more aggressive. Exactly which sites would be targeted, however, can get a little vague, says James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School.”

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The National Jurist, “Faculty Diversity Impacts Law Review Membership, Study Finds.”
By Teirney Plumb
November 14, 2011

NYLS Diversity Report
Subject: Faculty Diversity

“Law schools with a diverse faculty are more likely to have law review members and leaders who are minorities or women, a new study suggests. The report, completed by The New York Law School Law Review, looks at female and minority representation among law review membership and leadership at ABA-accredited law schools. Membership on a school's law review is an indicator of future career success.”

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This news also ran in JD Journal and The Examiner.

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LIS News, “New Mobile Application Launched at New York Law School.”
By Terry Ballard
November 14, 2011

NYLS Mendik Library
Subject: Mobile Application

“New York Law School's Mendik Library is proud to announce the release of Mendik Mobile, a smartphone app that gives library users mobile access to some of our key services. The app enables users to search the library catalog for books and course reserve materials.”

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New Haven Register, “Memorial Service Held for Former Yale School Dean Harry Wellington.”
By Abbe Smith
November 13, 2011

NYLS Faculty Dean Harry Wellington
Subject: Wellington memorial service

“Paying tribute to a man they described as both scholarly and compassionate, friends and colleagues Sunday honored the life and career of renowned former Yale Law School Dean Harry Wellington at a memorial service.”

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Huffington Post, “Invoking Hitler’s Name: A User’s Guide.”
By Brandt Goldstein
November 11, 2011

NYLS Faculty Brandt Goldstein
Subject: References to Hitler

“On November 9, celebrity chef Mario Batali made the mistake of comparing Wall Street bankers to Hitler. (He also threw Stalin in there, but let's keep this simple.) Like so many others before him, Batali found out that carelessly invoking the H word is asking for trouble.”

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Reuters, “INSIGHT- Clients Who Fled MF Global Face Clawback Risk.”
By Jeanine Prezioso
November 10, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Ronald Filler
Subject: MF Global

Former MF Global customers like Koch Industries, who pulled billions of dollars out of the stricken broker's accounts weeks or months before its collapse, have counted their blessings in recent days. Ronald Filler, a professor of law at New York Law School who also worked on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, said that to the best of his knowledge, case law on this matter is nonexistent. In the cases of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and
former FCM Refco, segregated funds were never at issue – the money was never touched.

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This news also ran in Market Watch.

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The New York Times, “Who Gets To Vote?”
By Erika L. Wood
November 7, 2011

NYLS Faculty Erika L. Wood
Subject: Criminal Convictions and Voting

“Next November more than 5 million Americans will not be allowed to vote because of a criminal conviction in their past. Nearly 4 million of these people are not in prison, yet they remain disenfranchised for years, often for decades and sometimes for life.”

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The New York Times, “Reporting on Student Suspensions is the First Step.”
By Udi Ofer
November 7, 2011

NYLS Faculty Udi Ofer
Subject: Student Suspension

“We have known for years that the New York Police Department handcuffs misbehaving schoolchildren as young as 5. But just how deep and wide the use of punitive tactics against young children has been unclear — until this week.”

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The New York Times, “Is Death Row a Form of ‘Psychological Torment?’”
By Robert Blecker
November 7, 2011

NYLS Faculty Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Row

“To the Editor: ‘Lifelong Death Sentences,’ by Adam Liptak (Sidebar column, Nov. 1), says that ‘foreign courts have ruled that living for decades under the threat of imminent execution is a form of psychological torment.’ But the condemned do not live under threat of imminent execution; the long delays give the lie to that claim.”

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Hawaii Public Radio’s The Conversation, “Ancient law… new application for digital intellectual property.”
November 3, 2011

NYLS Faculty Richard Chused
Subject: Digital Intellectual Property

“Ancient law… new application for digital intellectual property.”

To listen to the interview, click here.

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The Wall Street Journal, “MF’s Fall Raises Broader Question.”
By David Reilly
November 2, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ronald Filler
Subject: MF Global

“MF Global's implosion doesn't so far look to be a systemic event for financial markets. But one aspect of its downfall could reverberate well beyond the firm and its immediate customers.”

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An interview also ran on Thomson Reuters.

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The National Law Journal, “Faculty Diversity Means Gains for Female Law Students , According to Study.”
By Karen Sloan
November 2, 2011

NYLS Law Review Diversity Report
Subject: Faculty Diversity

“A study of law review membership indicates that gender and racial diversity on law school faculties may translate into more opportunities for female students. Law schools with a high percentage of full-time women and minority faculty members on average had a larger percentage of female students on their flagship law reviews during the last academic year, according to New York Law School Law Review's 2010-11 Law Review Diversity Report.”

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The Diversity Report was also featured in Thomson Reuters and Tax Prof Blog.

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Project Syndicate, “Operation Actual Justice.”
By Ruti Teitel
November 1, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: Obama Foreign Policy

“Barack Obama has promised to send a group of 100 armed United States military personnel to Uganda – a high-powered posse to help bring to heel (and to justice) the notorious war criminal Joseph Kony, the leader of a brutal rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army. ‘These forces will act as advisers to partner forces that have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA,’ Obama wrote in a letter submitted to the leadership of the US congress.”

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New York Post, “La Cosa ‘No’stra- Wary Mob Goons Turning Down Promotions.”
By Mitchell Maddux
October 31, 2011

NYLS Faculty John Meringolo
Subject: Crime Families

“Becoming a ‘made’ member of one of the city’s five crime families was once the goal of every ambitious mobster -- and an offer definitely not to be refused -- but those days are gone, authorities told The Post. John Meringolo, a New York Law School professor, said that in the eyes of the Justice Department, ‘a ‘soldier’ is automatically involved in the RICO conspiracy.’”

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National Jurist, “NYLS Expands Mental Disability Law With Joint Degree.”
By Tierney Plumb
October 31, 2011

NYLS Faculty Michael Perlin
Subject: NYLS joint degree

“New York Law School students will soon be able to get a joint degree in law and a master's in mental disability law studies in four years, instead of five. ‘We offer more courses in mental disability than any other law school in the world. Most law schools offer zero or one — we offer 13,’ said Professor Michael Perlin, who designed and teaches the program.”

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Opinio Juris, “Ruti Teitel’s Humanity’s Law”
By Joanne Mariner
October 30, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: Humanity’s Law

“Ruti Teitel’s new book, Humanity’s Law, is an ambitious effort to make sense of the international legal landscape of our post-Cold War, post-9/11 world. Rejecting formalist distinctions between legal paradigms, she sketches out a bold synthesis of recent legal trends away from a state-centered understanding of international law and toward an international legal order in which individuals are the key actors.”

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The Awl, “One Google Books to Rule Them All.”
By Maria Bustillos
October 26, 2011

NYLS Faculty James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Books

"In 2002, Google began scanning the world's 130 million or so books in preparation for the ‘secret 'books' project’ that eventually became Google Books. I asked James Grimmelmann, who was kind enough to explain a lot of this stuff to me (as was Peter Brantley of the Internet Archive), what he thinks about the chances for a renegotiated settlement. ‘The settlement in anything like its old form is dead beyond hope of resurrection. Judge Chin's opinion made that very clear. Because he ruled that the use of a class action to launch a complicated forward-looking bookstore is completely impermissible, there really is no way to bring something like the settlement back. A new negotiated settlement would be so different — and so much less ambitious — that it should be thought of as something entirely different.’"

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Hartford Courant, “Why Joshua Komisarjevsky Must Die.”
By Robert Blecker
October 25, 2011

NYLS Faculty Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

“Earlier this year, the people's elected representatives almost abolished Connecticut's death penalty by stealth. Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky would never have been executed. At the last minute, a couple of legislators flipped, imagining themselves as victims, knowing that these rapist-murderers deserved to die.’"

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The American Spectator, “We’ve Lost a Great Teacher.”
By Ben Stein
October 24, 2011

NYLS Dean Harry Wellington
Subject: Memories of Harry Wellington

“Let me tell you about Professor Harry H. Wellington, who died on August 8, this year, 2011, of a brain tumor, and I only learned about it last night when my wife with tears in her eyes brought me a notice about his memorial service from Yale Law School. He was a great teacher.”

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Opinion Juris, “Book Roundtable: Ruti Teitel’s Humanity’s Law.”
By Peter Spiro
October 24, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: Teitel’s “Humanity’s law”

“We’re pleased this week to host a discussion of Ruti Teitel’s new book, Humanity’s Law, just out from Oxford University Press. Ruti is Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School, where she directs the Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy.”

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The Wall Street Journal, “Owner of NYC protest park navigates a dilemma.”
October 21, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ross Sandler
Subject: Occupy Wall Street

“For the activists of Occupy Wall Street, the plaza of Zuccotti Park has become their home away from home. But it's safe to say the corporation that owns the plaza never envisioned having these kinds of houseguests. ‘It was meant to be a major public space in the Wall Street area,’ said Ross Sandler, a professor at New York Law School. ‘That was the purpose of it.’"

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The Daily Star, “Critical visual judgment is needed to assess court evidence.”
By Richard K. Sherwin
October 21, 2011

NYLS Faculty Richard K. Sherwin
Subject: Amanda Knox murder case

“On Oct. 3, an Italian appeals court overturned Amanda Knox's murder conviction and ordered her immediate release from prison. In 2009, both Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty of the 2007 sexual assault and fatal stabbing of Knox's housemate, Meredith Kercher. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. She served four years before being released.”

This article available by subscription only.

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Think Progress, “Women Required to Sit at the Back of a Public Bus in Brooklyn.”
By Marie Diamond
October 19, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ross Sandler
Subject: Segregation

“Segregated public buses may seem like a anachronism that went out with Rosa Parks, but women are still required to sit at the back on one New York City bus line. Ross Sandler, a professor at New York Law School, says anti-discrimination laws apply to buses that are franchises but ‘the question is whether there is an exception for this particular bus line.’”

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Publishing Perspectives, “What Publishers Look for When They Buy a Company.”
By Martin Levin
October 19, 2011

NYLS Faculty Martin Levin
Subject: Publishers

“Those of us who work with book publishers who continue to seek growth opportunities by acquisition have found that the ‘game’ has changed significantly. We are living in interesting times. The publishing industry has passed the point of no return.”

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The AM Law Daily, “Meet the Lawyers Keeping an Eye on Occupy Wall Street.”
By Claire Zillman
October 18, 2011

NYLS Student Andy Izenson
Subject: Occupy Wall Street Lawyers

“‘Someone needs to get over to Bank of America". The shout aimed at a handful of National Lawyers Guild members gathered around a folding table came from a group of some 200 people bunched together in lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, a grassless plaza that is the headquarters of the month-old anti-corporate demonstration known as Occupy Wall Street.”

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School Library Journal, “New York Comic Con: Librarians Focus on Better Digital Access, Gaming.”
By Rocco Staino
October 18, 2011

NYLS Student Bacilio Mendez
Subject: Digital Access at libraries

“Librarians stood in lines that stretched 10 blocks around New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to find out the latest in comics, graphic novels, anime, and manga at the 2011 New York Comic Con. In response, audience member Bacilio Mendez, a librarian and student at New York Law School, questioned whether it was an illegal practice since most libraries should make these purchases from an authorized vendor due to licensing agreements and copyright infringement issues.”

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Business Insider, “Praise for Boston College’s Sports Professional Sports Counseling Panel.”
October 18, 2011

New York Law School’s Sports Symposium
Subject: NYLS Event

“I am looking forward to seeing my friend Warren Zola at the New York Law School Sports Law Symposium coming up on November 4, 2011, and I was thrilled to see the positive press that he recently received in an article titled, At some schools, advisers help navigate going pro, which was picked up by newspapers across the United States.”

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ABA Journal, “Lawyer for New York Law School Says Misleading-Stats Suit Is Baseless and Part of a Crusade.”
By Debra Cassens Weiss
October 17, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Law Suit Baseless

“A suit claiming New York Law School lured students to enroll with misleading job statistics is baseless and should be dismissed, the law school argues in a motion filed last week in state court in Manhattan. ‘The allegations are not only baseless, but also belied by the plaintiffs’ own complaint which demonstrates this case has nothing to do with New York Law School and everything to do with a crusade against the entire law school industry,’ Volpe says in the press release.”

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New York Law Journal’s 2011 Reader Rankings.
October 2011

New York Law School was ranked #1 for Best Banking/Bankruptcy/Tax LLM Program and
#2 for Best Other/Specialty LLM Program (Financial Services.)

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New York Post, “Subways Leaving the Paper Behind.”
By Jennifer Fermino
October 15, 2011

NYLS CITY Law Breakfast
Subject: Digital Subway Signs

“Those taped-up paper signs that provide service updates in subway stations -- which inevitably end up filthy and falling onto the tracks -- could soon be replaced with electronic announcement boards, an MTA official said yesterday. ‘We want to provide all of the information needed on electronic media,’ Horodniceanu said during a speech at New York Law School on the state of the agency’s capital program.”

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The National Law Journal, “New York Law School Argues Suit Over Data is Meritless.”
By Karen Sloan
October 14, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Motion to dismiss lawsuit

“New York Law School on Oct. 13 filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by three former students who claimed the school inflated its post-graduate employment rates and salary data in order to lure students.”

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This article also ran in Thomson Reuters.

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New York Law Journal, “Wachtler Calls on Law Schools to Focus on Teaching New York Law.”
By John Caher
October 13, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Ross Sandler
Subject: New York law

“Sol Wachtler, 81, who served on the Court of Appeals for 20 years, including six as chief judge, said he is concerned that there is too much emphasis on federal law when lawyers, whether practicing in state or federal court, are often bound by New York law. Ross Sandler, director of the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School, said he is complete agreement with Mr. Wachtler.”

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PCWorld.in, “Another Pioneer, Dennis Ritchie, of Unix Fame is Dead at Age 70.”
By Debarati Roy
October 13, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Dennis Ritchie

“Shadowed by Steve Jobs, the tech world seems to have missed the death of Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011).’Ritchie's influence rivals Jobs'; it's just less visible,’ was a Twitter post by James Grimmelman, associate professor at New York Law School.”

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Project Syndicate, “The Digital Trial.”
By Richard K. Sherwin
October 12, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Richard K. Sherwin
Subject: Digital Evidence

“On October 3, an Italian appeals court overturned Amanda Knox’s murder conviction and ordered her immediate release from prison. In 2009, both Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty of the 2007 sexual assault and fatal stabbing of Knox’s housemate, Meredith Kercher. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. She served four years before being released.”

To view this article in full, click here.
This article also ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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MSN News, “Should the UK Restore the Death Penalty.”
October 11, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Death penalty

“An e-petition on the UK government's own website calling for the reintroduction of capital punishment has attracted thousands of signatures. Lastly, professor Robert Blecker from the New York Law School believes that citizens have the right to expect that the state will deliver retribution on their behalf - and indeed that they have an obligation to do so.”

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MediaPost News, “Univision Objects to New Time-Shifting Service.”
By Wendy Davis
October 6, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Time-shifting service

“Entrepreneur Michael Robertson, who recently won a significant victory against the record industry over his cyberlocker company MP3tunes.com, recently launched an equally controversial service that allows people to time-shift radio programs. New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann says the legal issues remain unsettled, but the ruling in Cablevision weighs against Univision. ‘The Cablevision case certainly helps DAR.fm a lot,’ he says.”

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ArsTechnica, “Judge suggests DMCA allows DVD ripping if you own the DVD.”
By Timothy B. Lee
October 5, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Streaming DVDs

“A Monday ruling suggests that educational institutions are entitled to stream legally purchased DVDs on campus without the permission of copyright holders. New York Law School's James Grimmelmann emails to suggest an alternative explanation or the shortness of the judge's DMCA analysis. He notes that the plaintiffs focused their arguments on the trafficking provisions of the DMCA, but ignored the circumvention provisions.”

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The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against UCLA Over Use of Streaming Video.”
By Marc Parry
October 4, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Streaming Video

“A judge dismissed a lawsuit on Monday that had accused the University of California at Los Angeles of copyright infringement for streaming videos online. The decision means ‘universities will have a little more breathing room for using media,’ says James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School.”

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International Law Prof Blog, “Ban Ki-Moon Speaks at New York Law School.”
October 4, 2011

NYLS 2011-12 Otto L. Walter Lecture
Subject: United Nations

“UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tonight articulated his vision for a world where accountability, the rule of law and conflict prevention mechanisms are entrenched for sustainable peace, and urged students to consider joining some of the United Nations peace missions in emerging democracies to help build accountable justice systems. ‘At times of great flux and transformation such as those we are living through today, opportunities to make a difference are especially compelling.’”

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This article also ran in UN News Centre.

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Forensic Psychologist, “Forensic Trainings on the Eastern Seaboard.”
September 23, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Michael Perlin
Subject: Forensic Training

“The New York State Psychological Association's Forensic Division is holding a one-day conference that some are billing as the best single-day conference this year. Michael Perlin, JD on ‘There Must be Some Way Out of Here: Why The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is Potentially the Best Weapon in the Fight Against Sanism in Forensic Facilities.’”

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Forgotten New York, “Finn Square, Tribeca Subsection.”
September 25, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Tribeca

“If you have never heard of Finn Square, that’s perfectly understandable. In NYC parlance, a “square” can be any shape, and Finn Square is a triangle in Tribeca formed by the intersection of West Broadway and Varick and Franklin Streets. The New York Law School‘s glass tower addition (2009, SmithGroup) dominates the SW corner of West Broadway and Leonard. There are four underground floors. The school was founded by Columbia law school professors in 1891. The main school is at nearby 57 Worth Street.”

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New York Times School Book, “School Progress Reports to be Released.”
By Anna M. Phillips
September 23, 2011

NYLS City Law Breakfast Series
Subject: School Progress Reports/Events

“On the morning that the city plans to release its A to F report cards for public schools, The New York Post reports that this year, there will be more D’s and F’s than in the past. Around the city on Friday: At 8 a.m. Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott will speak at New York Law School’s City Law Breakfast Series. At 10 a.m., he is scheduled to attend the opening of NBC’s Education Nation at Rockefeller Plaza.”

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Ars Technica, “Ars subscriber chat: Law professor James Grimmelmann.”
By Nate Anderson
September 22, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Chat on Internet Law

“New York Law School Professor James Grimmelmann joins us tomorrow, September 22, at 2pm ET/1pm CT/11am PT to take your burning questions about Internet law.”

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Legal As She Is Spoke, “Speedo: Unflattering or Discrimination?”
By Jessica McElroy
September 21, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Lifeguards in Speedos

“Roy Lester believes in aging gracefully. And in his opinion, a sexagarian lifeguard wearing itty-bitty man briefs does look not graceful. Professor Arthur Leonard, who teaches Employment Discrimination at New York Law School, thinks that Mr. Lester’s claim seems frivolous. ‘Embarrassment is not enough for a discrimination claim.’ He continued, ‘If there are other people in his age category who are happy to take the test in whatever they ask them to wear, then he doesn’t really have an age discrimination complaint. He has a very individual complaint based upon his personal sensibilities.’”

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Inside Higher Ed, “Abuse of Trust?”
By Steve Kolowich
September 19, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Orphan Works

“Less than a week after the University of Michigan brushed off a lawsuit by the Authors Guild over the university’s move to make copyrighted “orphan” works in its digital collection freely available to students and faculty, the Michigan Library suspended the practice Friday, admitting “serious” flaws in its process for identifying orphans. ‘No one will ever be able to make the orphan works argument again without opponents bringing up the HathiTrust orphans that weren’t,’ Grimmelmann wrote in a blog post entitled ‘HathiTrust Single-Handedly Sinks Orphan Works Reform.’”

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New York Law Journal, “Southern District Taps Law Students For Role in Court Mediation Program.”
By Laura Haring
September 16, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Deborah Archer

“The Southern District has enlisted three area law schools in a new program that will give participating students a practical exercise in client advocacy and managing expectations and help the court cope with an expected upsurge in mediations. ‘Law students are often asked to write exams or canned memos, but writing these mediation statements challenges both their legal analysis and legal writing skills in a new way,’ said Ms. Archer in an interview.”

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Publishers Weekly, “Google Settlement Parties Pursue Separate Deals.”
By Andrew Richard Albanese
September 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Settlement

“After nearly three years stumping together to get the Google Book Settlement approved, the parties in the scuttled deal are headed for litigation. If the Google Book case is to proceed as a class action, New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann told PW, constructing new author classes that would pass judicial muster would be an arduous and costly task.”

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Wired Campus, “HathiTrust Acknowledges Flaws in Handling ‘Orphan Works.’”
By Jennifer Howard
September 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Orphan Works

“Faced with criticism over how it identifies ‘orphan works,’ the HathiTrust digital repository acknowledged that its procedure is ‘flawed’ and said it was working to fix the problems before it makes those works more widely available. Describing the guild as sounding ‘gleeful’ in its posts, James Grimmelman, an associate professor at New York Law School, said on his own blog that the guild’s experiment had cast serious doubt on HathiTrust’s procedures.”

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NPR on the Media, “The Issue of Orphan Works .”
September 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Orphan Works

“Law professor and blogger James Grimmelmann talks to Bob about the sticky legal issues that orphan works present.”

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Co.Design, “How To Fix The Nightmare Of Apple's Terms Of Service.”
By Alissa Walker
September 15, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Apple Terms of Service

“You're on iTunes downloading something. For the purposes of this article, let's just say it's the new Fast Company United States of Design iPad app (It's free!). You navigate the simple interface, click the well-designed icons, and then, suddenly, you're confronted by what feels like an alien transmission... that ugly, unreadable wall of text. Bernstein's finished product solves the problem from a design perspective. But the real test for an altered terms of service was out of his hands: Would it adhere to the lawyers' standards? To see, Bernstein showed the finished project to James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School who works with the Institute for Information Law and Policy, where he specializes in the intersection of law and technology.”

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The Daily Caller, “John Yoo debates civil liberties with former ACLU president, gets heckled.”
By Steven Nelson
September 14, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Nadine Strossen
Subject: Civil Liberties since 9/11

“Former Bush administration official John Yoo debated the appropriate balance between security and civil liberties with former ACLU President Nadine Strossen at a Tuesday discussion hosted by the Heritage Foundation.”

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The Heritage Foundation, “Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security.”
September 13, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Nadine Strossen
Subject: 9/11

“The 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is an appropriate time for reflection, both as to what the nation endured as a result of the attacks as well as whether the response has been appropriate.”

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Ars Technica, “Owning the stack: The legal war to control the smartphone platform.”
By James Grimmelmann
September 12, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Smartphones

“In the last few weeks, the smartphone industry appeared to produce more lawsuits than phones. Apple briefly managed to stop the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all of Europe, and is now going after the whole Galaxy line. Back Stateside, Google first complained that Microsoft and Apple were using ‘bogus patents’ to target Android, then spent $12 billion for Motorola and its patent arsenal. These are big, high-stakes fights—and the last company left standing may walk away with control over nothing less than the smartphone market itself.”

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The New York Times, “Lawsuit Seeks the Removal of a Digital Book Collection.”
By Julie Bosman
September 12, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Digital book collection

“Three major authors’ groups and eight individual authors filed suit against a partnership of research libraries and five universities on Monday, arguing that their initiative to digitize millions of books constituted copyright infringement. James Grimmelmann, an associate professor of law at New York Law School who has closely followed the Google lawsuit, said that a settlement in that case would have provided a framework to decide which use of the libraries’ books was permitted.”

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Media Post News, “Authors Guild Sues Universities Over Book Scans.”
By Wendy Davis
September 12, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Copyright Infringement

“Google's 7-year-old book digitization project has now landed five universities in court for allegedly infringing copyright by accepting scans of 7 million books from Google. New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann, who has been following the Google Books litigation closely, says the lawsuit raises at least two questions. The first deals with the legality of the mass digitization project, while the second concerns the libraries' plans for identifying and distributing orphan works.”

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The Atlantic, “The Secretly Awesome Things About to Transform Web Video.”
By Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg
September 12, 2011

NYLS Open Video Conference
Subject: Web Video

When I decided to go to the Open Video Conference in Manhattan this weekend, I really had no idea what to expect. The third annual Open Video Conference, held this past weekend at New York Law School, felt like a mini SXSW Interactive loosely dedicated to ‘making video more open.’"

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The National Law Journal, “Yoo: Since September 11, ‘civil liberties have grown.”
By Karen Sloan
September 9, 2011

NYLS Event: “Civil Liberties Ten Years After 9/11”
Subject: Civil Liberties since 9/11

“Did the Bush administration legally assume the executive powers required to respond decisively in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, or did it overreach the powers granted it by the Constitution at the expense of civil liberties, Congress and the courts?”

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This article also ran in the New York Law Journal.

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WNYC, “Civil Liberties after 9/11.”
September 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Nadine Strossen
Subject: Civil liberties since 9/11

“Nadine Strossen, former head of the ACLU, joins us to talk about how civil liberties have changed since 9/11, from domestic surveillance, body scanners, and indefinite detention to an expansive national security establishment that remains largely hidden from view.”

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Bloomberg Law Reports Student Edition, “The Value of Legal Education.”
September 6, 2011

NYLS Dean Richard Matasar
Subject: Current state of legal education

Richard A. Matasar, Dean of New York Law School, sat down with Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia to talk about the current state of legal education and the legal job market and to address some of the media’s recent criticisms of the industry.

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The National Law Journal, “Diversity Efforts Realize Modest Results, Institute Finds.”
By Karen Sloan
September 5, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Elizabeth Chambliss
Subject: Diversity in the legal profession

“Despite all the talk of boosting diversity in the legal profession, the percentage of minorities inched up from 9.7% in 2000 to 11.6% in 2009, according to a report by the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession. There was no shortage of data and articles about diversity — or the lack thereof — in the legal profession, said New York Law School professor Elizabeth Chambliss, who compiled and reviewed the data cited in the report.”

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Ventura County Star, “Oxnard business specializes in the art of courtroom visuals.”
By Stephanie Hoops
September 3, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Richard Sherwin
Subject: Courtroom Visuals

“Litigators around Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties know Craig Bates as the man who for nearly two decades has helped lawyers be more powerful storytellers with visual imagery. When lawyers, judges and juries are not "visually literate" and are therefore unable to challenge and scrutinize the imagery wisely, it can indeed be unfairly prejudicial, said New York Law School professor Richard K. Sherwin.”

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The Environmental Forum, “Statutory Arteriosclerosis.”
By David Schoenbrod & Melissa Witte ‘10
September-October 2011

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Clean Air Act

“Controversy over how the Environmental Protection Agency should control greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act has pitted the agency and some environmental groups against other environmental groups.”

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Publishers Weekly, “With the Freelance Settlement Rejected, What's Next?”
By Andrew Albanese
August 29, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Freelance Settlement

“On August 17, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sent the parties in the long-running class action suit known shorthand as Freelance back to the drawing board, rejecting an $18 million settlement struck in 2005. ‘The expense would be absurd—it would take months, or, more likely, years to pull off,’ observed New York Law School's James Grimmelmann, ‘and I still can't imagine those negotiations succeeding.’”

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Corporate Crime Reporter, “Roiphe Lays out Case Against Lawyers’ Willful Ignorance.”
August 22, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Rebecca Roiphe
Subject: Rules of Professional Conduct

“In general, our society does not allow us to get away with wrongdoing by engaging in willful ignorance – looking the other way. But lawyers? They get a special deal. The ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct define “knowledge” as “actual knowledge.” In so doing, the rules allow lawyers to avoid responsibilities to the community and the public by remaining ignorant of the relevant facts. Rebecca Roiphe would change all of that.”

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Publishers Weekly, “Second Circuit Rejects ‘Freelance’ Settlement.”
By Andrew Albanese
August 18, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Freelance Writers Settlement

“A two-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday rejected an $18 million settlement in the long-running class action suit filed by freelance writers following the landmark Tasini case, and in the process have likely killed the chances of a revised Google settlement. New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann didn’t mince words. ‘The Google Books settlement—any settlement—is now dead,’ he noted. ‘There is no square one: this case is going back to litigation.’”

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KCRG-TV Online, “One Nation Under Law.”
August 15, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Simon

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New Haven Register, “Former Yale Law School Dean Dies.”
By Abbe Smith
August 14, 2011

NYLS Former Dean Harry Wellington
Subject: Obituary

“A longtime former dean of the Yale Law School died last week at the age of 84. Harry Wellington, who served as dean of the law school from 1975 to 1985, died Aug. 8 in New York.”

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The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin also featured an obituary for Dean Wellington on August 16, available by subscription only.

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Constitutional Law Prof Blog, “Conference at NYLS: Civil Liberties Ten Years After 9/11/2001.”
By Ruthann Robson
August 9, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: NYLS Event

“Hosted by New York Law School - - - the law school closest to the former World Trade Center - - - this conference considers the state of civil liberties a decade after 9/11.”

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The New York Times, “Harry H. Wellington, Dean at Yale and a Labor Law Expert, Dies at 84.”
By Adam Liptak
August 9, 2011

NYLS Former Dean Harry Wellington
Subject: Obituary

“Harry H. Wellington, whose half-century of studying and teaching law included a decade as dean of Yale Law School and eight years as dean of New York Law School, died last Monday at his home in New York. He was 84.”

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New York Law School’s obituary for Dean Wellington appears here.

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The Wall Street Journal, “Court Rules Against Ban On Inmates’ Hormone Treatment.”
By Patrick G. Lee
August 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act

“A federal appeals court has struck down a Wisconsin state ban on hormone therapy for transgender prison inmates, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The state passed the law, called the Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act, in 2005 after a political frenzy erupted over media reports that taxpayers were subsidizing sex changes, according to New York Law School professor Arthur Leonard.”

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This article also appeared in the Associated Press.

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Ars Technica, “Spanish site claims forfeiture of link sites is illegal.”
By Timothy B. Lee
August 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Domain names

“Puerto 80, the Spanish company that owns the Rojadirecta sporting website, has asked a federal judge to dismiss the government's forfeiture of its domain names. We asked New York Law School copyright scholar James Grimmelmann to assess Puerto 80's arguments. He told Ars that Puerto is clearly right that linking to infringing material does not constitute direct copyright infringement. But he was less sure of the other arguments.”

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Construction Today, “Pavarini McGovern LLC: New York Law School.”
By Alan Dorich
August 7, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: NYLS Expansion Project

“Pavarini McGovern LLC is a construction firm with a knack for taking on projects that ‘are a little off the beaten track,’ Senior Project Manager Charles Worrell, LEED AP says. Pavarini McGovern is currently at work on a new academic building for the New York Law School. When finished, the building will cover approximately 209,000 square feet and sit on the southeast corner of the intersection of Leonard Street and West Broadway in New York City.”

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Bloomberg News, “Matasar Says Law Schools Receive Inordinate Amount of Scrutiny.”
August 5, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Dean Matasar
Subject: Cost of legal education

“Richard A. Matasar, Dean of New York Law School, talks with Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia about David Segal's New York Times article, "Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!" and the changes needed to bring down the cost of legal education.”

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New York Law Journal, “N.Y. State Bar Asks ABA to Support 'Practice Ready' Law School Education.”
By John Caher
August 5, 2011

NYLS Dean Richard Matasar
Subject: ‘Practice Ready’ Law School Graduates

“Arguing that in addition to knowing the law attorneys must "know how to do useful things with the law to help solve client problems," New York Bar leaders are pressing for a greater emphasis on making law school graduates and young attorneys ‘practice ready.’ Richard A. Matasar, dean and president of New York Law School, agrees that graduates need to be practice ready.’"

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Gay City News, “Before You Marry.”
By: Duncan Osborne
August 4, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Gay Marriage

“Some visas require visitors to prove that they have no intentions to stay,” Masliah said at a July 21 panel discussion on marriage that was sponsored by Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, New York City’s gay synagogue. “If marriage comes up, that person may be denied a visa or entry into the United States. Arthur S. Leonard, a professor at New York Law School and contributor to Gay City News, moderated the panel.”

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Opinio Juris, Judgment on Trial in Cairo
By Ruti Teitel
August 4, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Ruti Teitel
Subject: Hosni Mubarak Trial

“For many Egyptians, Hosni Mubarak’s trial is no mere consequence of Egypt’s revolution but the fulfillment of its promise. In the Arab Spring, accountability for the abuses of the past has not so much been a by-product of political change but a driver of it. This is an important development in the relation of transitional justice to politics, which deserves careful study and reflection.”

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Solo Practice University, ““SPU Classes in May, June, July…and much more!”
By Susan Cartier Liebel
August 1, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: The Bridges Program

“These past three months have been very exciting at Solo Practice University! SPU’s first New York Law School students have enrolled through the Bridges Program and we are in talks with a significant number of other law schools about helping their students and new graduates learn how to go solo through the Bridges program.”

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The Hill, “Law Professors: Issa Should Not Subpoena NLRB Documents in Boeing Case.”
By Keith Laing
July 29, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Boeing case

“Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) should not issue subpoenas for documents related to the National Labor Relations Board's legal complaint against airplane manufacturer Boeing, a group of legal experts said Friday. Thirty-four law professors signed a letter to Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, saying he should let the case proceed with requesting documents from the NLRB.’

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Online Media Daily, “Appellate Court Sides With Google Against TradeComet.”
By Wendy Davis
July 28, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google

“An appellate court has handed Google a victory on a procedural issue in an antitrust lawsuit brought by disgruntled search marketer TradeComet.com. Observers such as New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann have said that Google might have had valid reasons for increasing the cost per click of search ads.”

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Publisher’s Weekly, “Citing Wal-Mart, Objector Files Brief Challenging Google Settlement Status.”
By Andrew Albanese
July 28, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Settlement

“A week after judge Denny Chin gave the parties in the Google Books litigation until September 15th to come back with a revised settlement, an objector brief is asking the court to reject the class-action status of the suit, based on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes et al. …New York Law School's James Grimmelmann told PW he doesn't think Kunstadt and Maggione's heads up to judge Chin will have an impact on any litigation, either.”

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National Law Journal, “Poster Child’ Shares Frustration About Pace of Law School Reform.”
By Karen Sloan
July 26, 2011

NYLS Dean Richard Matasar
Subject: Law School Reform

“That law school tuition is skyrocketing at a time when law jobs are scarce is hardly news to anyone paying attention to legal education. The National Law Journal spoke with Matasar about the Times article and why meaningful change at law school is so slow to come about.’

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New Jersey Newsroom, “Cutting Programs for N.J.’s Blind Children Set Them Up For Failure.”
By Salvatore Pizzurro
July 25, 2011

NYLS Alum Salvatore Pizzurro
Subject: Cutting Programs for NJ Blind children

“New Jersey’s Parents of Blind Children, an advocacy organization, has recently begun alerting the public about proposed cuts in services for children who are visually impaired, partially sighted, or totally blind.”

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The New York Times, “The New Math of Law School.”
By Richard Matasar
July 23, 2011

NYLS Dean Richard Matasar
Subject: Letter to the Editor

“To the Editor:
The premise of “Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!” (July 17), is belied by reality: Reform can come from within.”

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Adweek, “Could News Corp.’s Board Fire Rupert Murdoch? Media Titan’s Stock Ownership Would Make Rebellion Difficult.”
By Katie Feola
July 20, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Jeffrey Haas
Subject: Murdoch

“The board could vote to fire Murdoch as CEO, but then, observes Jeffrey Haas, who teaches corporate law at New York Law School, ‘He is going to be in a position to get rid of the people who just fired him.’ After that, all he’d have to do is select new directors who’d vote him back in as CEO.”

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Shelter Island Reporter, “Union Chapel to Host SIYC.”
By Judy Inglis
July 20, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Robert Zito
Subject: Deacon

“The Reverend Deacon Robert J.A. Zito, J.D., chapel trustee and Chaplain of the Shelter Island Yacht Club, will preach. Reverend Zito has two professions. He is an attorney and partner at the Wall Street law firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP and the Parish Deacon of Trinity Church in lower Manhattan.”

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Associated Press, “Could Strauss-Kahn’s NY Case Include Paris Claim?”
July 19, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Frank Bress
Subject: Strauss-Kahn Case

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This article also ran in NPR by subscription only.

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Huffington Post, “13 Influential Women in Technology.”
July 19, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Influential Women in Technology

“The CTO for the Commander-in-Cheif, Beth Simone Noveck served as United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and led President Obama's Open Government Initiative. She is a proven expert on technology and institutional innovation.”

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New York Post, “A GSA Haircut at 1 WTC.”
By Steve Cuozzo
July 18, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: 40 Worth Street

“At Newmark Holdings' 40 Worth St., new tenants have signed for nearly 90,000 square feet in the past few months, bringing the 740,000-square-footer to full occupancy.
Among the new arrivals: Bevmax Office Centers, New York Law School and New York Down town Hospital. Newmark Knight Frank's Brian Steinwurtzel and Roy Lapidus repped the owner ship in all the deals.”

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “From Barbados to Brooklyn: The Caribbean’s Future Lawyers Visit America for a Dose of ‘Mom, God and Apple Pie.’”

By Samuel Newhouse
July 15, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Future Lawyers From the Caribbean Visit America

“The Inspire Mentorship Programme brought these students, ranging in age from their late teens to mid-20s, on their weeklong tour of various sites in New York City. Among the other stops they visited were the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Queens District Attorney’s Office, New York Law School, the United Nations, the Barbados Consulate, Manhattan Civil Court, and the NYPD’s Forensic Science lab.”

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LGPT/POV, “DOJ Files an Emergency Motion to Reinstate Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
By Karen Ocamb
July 15, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”

“The Department of Justice filed an emergency motion late Thursday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals seeking a reversal of the Court’s decision upholding District Court Judge Virginia Phillips’ ruling banning the government from enforcing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ New York Law School Professor Arthur S. Leonard had a particularly interesting take on the latest situation in this blog, putting the latest development into a very useful chronological context.”

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Forbes, “How to Cut State Death Taxes- Without Moving.”
By Hani Sarji
July 13, 2011

NYLS Faculty: William LaPiana
Subject: State Death Taxes and Estate Planning

“Bloom and LaPiana recommend that people who want to make deathbed transfers should have ‘a durable power of attorney with appropriate gift-making authority.’”

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The Wall Street Journal, “Law Schools Get Practical.”
By: Patrick G. Lee
July 11, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Teaching practical skills in law school.

“New York Law School hired 15 new faculty members over the past two years, many directly from the ranks of working lawyers, to teach skills in negotiation, counseling and fact investigation.”

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Legal History Blog, “Women’s Legal History: A Global Perspective.”
By Dan Ernst
July 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Lloyd Bonfield
Subject: Women’s Legal History Event

“Here, courtesy of H-Net, is an announcement for the symposium "Women’s Legal History: A Global Perspective," to be held October 13 and 14, 2011, at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. Other speakers include Barbara Babcock of Stanford University Law School, Lloyd Bonfield of New York Law School, Lily Chang of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge, Benedetta Faedi Duramy of Golden Gate University School of Law, Susan Hinely of Stony Brook University, and Adetoun Ilumoka of the University of Western Ontario.”

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Thomson Reuters, “Justice Department Shifts Policy on Same-Sex Bankruptcies.”
By Terry Baynes
July 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Same-sex Bankruptcy

“The Department of Justice will no longer intervene to block same-sex married couples from filing joint petitions for bankruptcy, according to a department spokesperson. Arthur Leonard, a professor at New York Law School, said the policy change is evidence that ‘DOMA is crumbling under its own weight.’”

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Politico, “Tech Experts Exit White House.”
By Kim Hart and Michelle Quinn
July 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: White House Tech Experts

“When President Barack Obama took office, he brought with him a pack of technology advocates with impressive résumés and ambitious visions. Beth Noveck, who was deputy chief technology officer for open government, returned to New York Law School in January and will consult with the U.K. government.”

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The National Law Journal, “First Amendment Veterans Weigh In on Free Speech in the Roberts Court.”
July 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Nadine Strossen
Subject: Free Speech

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Huffington Post, “Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Accuser Could Become the Accused.”
By Andrew Longstreth
July 7, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Lenni B. Benson
Subject: Strauss-Kahn Case

“Could Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser become the accused? The false statements on her asylum application could make her vulnerable to removal proceedings in administrative court, according to immigration law experts. Lenni Benson, a professor at New York Law School, said to succeed in deporting her, the government would have to show that the application contained false statements and that they were material to her reasons for seeking asylum.”

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Thomson Reuters, “Will tables turn on Strauss-Kahn's accuser?”
By Andrew Longstreth
July 6, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Lenni B. Benson
Subject: Strauss-Kahn Case

“Strauss-Kahn's accuser could be criminally liable for giving the grand jury a false account of her actions on May 14, when the alleged sexual assault occurred in a luxury suite at the Sofitel hotel in midtown Manhattan. Lenni Benson, a professor at New York Law School, said to succeed in deporting her, the government would have to show that the asylum application contained false statements and that they were material to her reasons for seeking asylum. She added that a deportation could have a deterrent effect on other immigrants. ‘Many immigrant women do suffer from rape and do fear for their daughters,’ said Benson. ‘It's unfortunate that such a high-profile case could call into question their complaints.’”

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ABC News, “Anthony Lawyers Blast Cable News After Acquittal.”
By David Bauder
July 6, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Michelle Zierler
Subject: Casey Anthony Verdict

“No sooner had Casey Anthony been acquitted on charges of killing her daughter than her attorneys lashed out against cable news coverage that they said unfairly cast the verdict as shocking. Michelle Zierler, director of the Project in Law and Journalism at New York Law School, said she had essentially been convinced that Anthony was guilty from watching the trial on TV.”

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New York Post, “’Preying’ With the Big Boys.”
By Mitchel Maddux
July 5, 2011

NYLS Faculty: John Meringolo
Subject: Mob Activity

"It's extremely rare. Historically, wives have not been involved with day-to-day criminal activity in the mob," said John Meringolo, a professor at New York Law School and a lawyer who represented John Gotti Jr.”

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This article also ran in My Fox New York.

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The Telegraph, “Government’s UK Patent Project in ‘American English.’”
By James Hurley
July 4, 2011

NYLS Peer to Patent Program
Subject: UK Government Patent Website

“The project was openly inspired by a successful US project developed by the New York Law School. A spokesman for the UK IPO said the American spellings remain because ‘this is a pilot project adapted from the US way of doing things.’”

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ArsTechnica, “Unlicensed: Are Google Music and Amazon’s Cloud Player Illegal?”
By Timothy B. Lee
July 4, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Digital Music

“James Grimmelmann, a law professor at New York Law School, spoke with us about the legal implications of Cartoon Network v. Cablevision. It was a groundbreaking decision but also a ‘bizarre’ case that fails to resolve a number of key issues, he said.”

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This article also appeared in the Daily Binary News.

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Care2, “Does the US Still Want to Be a Nation of Immigrants?”
By Kristina C.
July 2, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Lenni B. Benson
Subject: Immigration

“Some deportation cases processed at Ellis Island are relevant in our own age, says Lenni B. Benson, a professor at New York Law School who studies immigration issues. “

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Time Magazine, “Gay Marriage: The Coming Clash of Civil and Religious Liberties.”
By Michael A. Lindenberger
July 2, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Gay Marriage

"You need to understand the history on this. There have been disputes, mainly about Catholic adoption agencies refusing to provide adoption services for same-sex couples, and a few other disputes around the country, that provide the fuel for these demands for religious protections," he told TIME.

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This article also ran in Northwestern Law.

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The New York Times, “One Marriage, Many Laws.”
By Bill Marsh
July 2, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Gay Marriage Diagram

Professor Leonard contributed to creating the image.

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The New York Times, “A Welcome Mat? Not Always.”
By Neil Genzlinger
July 1, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Lenni B. Benson
Subject: Ellis Island

“Before I made my latest pilgrimage to Ellis Island last week, I had an e-mail chat with Lenni B. Benson, a professor at New York Law School with an expertise in immigration issues. I asked her to give me three stories out of the millions tied to Ellis Island that most people should know but probably don’t.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Los Angeles Lawyer, “International Affairs.”
By Heather Poole
June 2011 Issue

NYLS Alum Heather Poole
Subject: Immigration benefits

“When awarding immigration benefits such as permanent residency based on a family or marital relationship, federal immigration
authorities generally must defer to state law interpretations of marriage, divorce, and annulment.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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New York Observer, “Brooklyn Museum Announces New Trustees Amid Money Troubles.”
By Daniel D'Addario
June 30, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Tamara Belinfanti
Subject: Brooklyn Museum Trustees

“The Brooklyn Museum announced three new trustees today, including what the Museum said was the first artist in recent times to serve on the board. The new trustees are New York Law School Professor Tamara C. Belinfanti, Forest City Ratner Executive Vice President David L. Berliner, and Brooklyn artist Fred Tomaselli, whose work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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The National Law Journal, “Reformer dean to step down after long tenure at New York Law School.”
By: Karen Sloan
June 28, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Richard Matasar
Subject: Dean steps down.

“Longtime New York Law School Dean and President Rick Matasar will step down during the coming academic year, he informed the faculty on June 28.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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The Wall Street Journal, “Same-Sex Marriage and the Empire State: A Legal Roundup.”
By Ashby Jones
June 25, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Same-Sex Marriage

“If a significant portion of those couples choose to marry, it could provide a wealth of new information about the practical economic effects of such legislation, from employment and retirement benefits to divorce rates and wedding and tourism industries, said New York Law School professor Arthur Leonard.”

To view this article in full, click here.

This article also ran in Mercator Net.

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The Economist, “Musical absolution.”
By G.F.
June 24, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Digital Music

“James Grimmelmann, a professor at the New York Law School who follows issues of licensing and privacy closely, says that there is no doubt the labels signed contracts with Apple that prevent them from seeking information about users and their collections. And they are reportedly (and logically) receiving a percentage of Apple's iTunes Match fee.”

To read this article in full, click here.

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Miami Daily Business Review , “False Allegation of Homosexuality Remains Defamatory, Judge Says.”
By Andrew Keshner

June 16, 2011
NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Same sex marriage

While the New York Legislature appeared poised to pass a law legalizing same-sex marriage, a Broome County judge has allowed a man to proceed with a libel suit against a woman who alleged he was gay, finding that under appellate case law, the imputation of homosexuality was defamation per se.

To view this article in full, click here.

This article also ran in the New York Law Journal, by subscription only.

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Legal Writing Prof Blog, “Legal Writing Professors participate in law teaching conference.”
By Judith D. Fischer
June 14, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Law Teaching Conference

“Legal writing professors are deeply interested in good teaching, so it’s not surprising that many participated in a recent conference sponsored by the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning. Held June 1-3 at New York Law School, the event’s theme was ‘Engaging and Assessing Our Students.’”

To view this article in full, click here.

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ComputerWeekly.com, “IPO's Peer to Patent site gets 100 reviewers to assess computing patent applications.”
By Kathleen Hall
June 13, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer to Patent

“The scheme is based on a 2005 proposal by New York law professor Beth Noveck, who was recently appointed to work alongside Martha Lane Fox, Tim Kelsey and Tom Steinberg to harness new technologies to find ways of making the UK government more innovative and accountable.”

To view this article in full, click here

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SALTLAW, “Teachers as Students- How to make it work.”
By Olympia Duhart
June 11, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Teachers

“Kudos to the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning and to New York Law School for sponsoring such a successful conference June 1-3. The theme for the 2011 ILTL Summer Conference was “Engaging and Assessing Our Students,” and the session leaders breathed life into the theme.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Immigration Prof Blog, Immigration Article of the Day, “The Search for Fair Agency Process: The Immigration Opinions of Judge Michael Daly Hawkins 1994 to 2010.”
By Lenni Benson
June 9, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Lenni Benson
Subject: Fair Agency

“Judge Michael Daly Hawkins has been a member of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1994; but he has been concerned with the forms and varieties of administrative or bureaucratic process his entire career.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Law.com, “Microsoft Joins Article One’s New preemptive Troll-Fighting Service.”
By Andrew Goldberg
June 9, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Patents

“The company's crowdsourcing initiative isn't the first of its kind in the patent realm. For instance, the PTO, in cooperation with New York Law School’s Peer to Patent project, has even launched its own modest, one-year pilot initiative to crowdsource the search for prior art that might not otherwise be found during the patent examination process.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Gay City News, “Gay City News’ Leonard to be Honored.”
June 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Honoring Arthur Leonard

“The New York City Bar Association, in its annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month reception and cocktail party, will honor New York Law School Professor Arthur S. Leonard…”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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ABA Journal Law News Now, “A Professional Renewal: Why Great Lawyers of the New Age May Be ‘System Designers.’”
By Paul Lippe
June 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: David Johnson
Subject: Law Professionalism

“But as my friend David Johnson (formerly of WilmerHale and CounselConnect, now of New York Law School) wrote to me recently, efficiency is hardly the highest value for lawyers:‘Suppose, as a thought experiment, one took the view that the highest calling of the profession is to help people (and corporations) figure out how to ‘do the right thing’ — seek justice, avoid evil, prevent abuses of power, etc.? What, in the new technological environment, does that mean? Lots of interesting things. Using Kiiac to analyze contracts and avoid outliers. Using corporate data systems to detect customer abuse and flag questionable calls. Avoiding wasteful adversarial stances, to be sure. Building compliance systems ahead of the fact. etc.’”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Bloomberg News, “Primary Global, HSBC, BofA, UBS, Google in Court News.”
By Elizabeth Amon
June 8, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google

“The Skyhook lawsuits filed in September have gained broader importance as Congress reviews whether companies including Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google are improperly collecting private customer data as they track smartphone locations. The case also may become part of any larger U.S. government antitrust investigation into Google’s business practices, James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School, has said.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Web Newswire, “Baroness Wilcox launches Peer to Patent in the UK.”
June 7, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer to Patent

“The UK pilot goes live today (1 June) and follows on from successful Peer to Patent websites that have already been run in the USA and Australia. The project was developed by the New York Law School (NYLS) from the work of Professor Beth Noveck. The pilot will end on 31 December 2011.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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IT Pro Portal, “UK Asks Public Experts to Review New Patents.”
By Michael Ide
June 6, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Peer to Patent

“The UK Peer to Patent platform is based on the Peer to Patent pilot started by the New York Law School between June 2007 to June 2009 in association with the US Patent and Trademark Office.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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The Washington Diplomat, “Will the Responsibility to Protect Usher in New Global Paradigm?”
By Luke Jerod Kummer
June 6, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Ruti Teitel
Subject: Responsibility to Protect

“It was in large part the bitter soul-searching following the world's failure to prevent the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that gave rise to Responsibility to Protect, or R2P. ‘You hear it from both sides — from those who think that there will rarely be interventions such as Libya and others who fear the unbounded-ness of R2P,’ said Ruti Teitel, a professor of comparative constitutional law at New York Law School and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. ‘My view is that there are a variety of other principles and existing law that suggest that we're inevitably going to be in a case-by-case scenario.’"

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Wired.co.uk, “UK pilots ‘Peer to Patent’ scheme.”
By Duncan Geere
June 6, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer to Patent

“The scheme, which is based on a 2005 proposal by New York law professor Beth Noveck, invites anyone to sign up as a peer reviewer to help patent examiners make more informed decisions.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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National, “Authors’ dance with Google’s lawyer waltzes into court again.”
By Peter Kelton
June 5, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Google Books

“The New York Law School has published seven essays from a symposium that dealt with the proposed Google Book Settlement.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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SmartBrief, “Experts to discuss investment and innovation in smart grids Tuesday, June 21, at 9 a.m. in Washington, D.C.”
June 3, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Smart Grids

This article appeared in Smart Brief on June 3, 2011 (by subscription only.)
 

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The Drum, “Government launches Peer to Patent tool for patent applications.”
June 3, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer to Patent

“The government has launched a Peer to Patent social media tool to allow the public to view and discuss patent applications. The project was developed by the New York Law School from the work of Professor Beth Noveck, who has been appointed to lead open source policy in the government.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Computing.co.uk, “Peer to patent scheme launches today.”
By Computing Staff
June 1, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer to Patent

“A trial of the Peer To Patent scheme was launched in the UK today, with the aim of streamlining the applications process and promoting UK innovation. The initial project, which has also been successfully trialled in the US, Japan and Australia, was developed by the New York Law School from the work of Professor Beth Noveck.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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The Register, “IPO finally begins peer review pilot to test patent applications: Getting experts to wade in on invention claims.”
By Kelly Fiveash
June 1, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer to Patent

“The Peer To Patent scheme, which is already being tested in the US, Japan and Australia, was officially launched in Blighty this morning by Baroness Wilcox, who is the minister for Intellectual Property. Noveck just so happens to be the brains behind the original Peer To Patent project, which was developed by the New York Law School in 2006.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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New England Cable News, “Civil Unions and Marriage: what’s the difference?”
May 28, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Civil Unions and Marriage

"’Civil unions provide rights, but a lot of the rights that people rely on most are federal rights,’ said Arthur Leonard, a law professor at New York Law School who studies gay relationship and the law.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Patently-O, “Patently-O Bits & Bytes by Lawrence Higgins.”
By Lawrence Higgins
May 27, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Mark Webbink
Subject: New Editor

“Mark Webbink accepted the proposal and is officially the new writer of Groklaw.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Ithaca Journal, “Lawmakers must close Kendra’s Law loopholes.”
By: Vanessa Bellucci
May 23, 2011

NYLS Student: Vanessa Bellucci
Subject: Kendra’s Law

This article appeared in the Ithaca Journal on May 23, 2011 (available by subscription only.)
 

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The Daily Online Examiner, “Appellate Court Rules in Favor of Online Anonymity.”
By Wendy Davis
May 23, 2011

NYLS Student: Eirik Cheverud
Subject: Online Anonymity

“New York Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger disagreed that Sandals was entitled to that information. She ruled that the emails weren't defamatory because they were opinions, not assertions of facts. Only assertions of verifiable facts can be libelous. The decision sparked much commentary, including a critical law review article by New York Law School student Eirik Cheverud.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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San Francisco Bay Times, “Anti-Gay States of Play.”
By Ann Rostow
May 19, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Marriage Equality

“In related New York news, a federal judge in New York’s southern district has decided to finesse the Defense of Marriage Act and allow two women to file joint bankruptcy. The women were married in Vermont, and although federal law would technically require them to untangle their assets and file separately, the fact is that virtually all their finances and debts are co-owned. I read about the case on New York Law School professor Art Leonard’s blog, the source of many under-reported gay legal cases. Talk about under the radar, I could only find two other references to the ruling, which was announced May 13.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Adweek, “Sell Your Sole.”
By Robert Klara
May 18, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Dan Hunter
Subject: Trademarks

“Generally speaking, colors don’t function as trademarks,” adds New York Law School professor Dan Hunter. “But they can with enough use, enough marketing, and enough consumer recognition. Which is what happened with red-soled Louboutin shoes.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Phillipine News, “IMF sexual attack: Horrifying ordeal of a hotel maid.”
May 17, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Frank Bress
Subject: Hotel Maid Attack

“At a bail hearing on Monday, Strauss-Kahn's attorney Benjamin Brafman gave a glimpse of his future trial strategy when he ridiculed "inaccuracies" in the official timeline of the alleged rape attempt and flight. Frank Bress, a professor at New York Law School, noted Brafman is a "very good" lawyer whose team has surely nailed down the timeline ‘so it works to their advantage. Otherwise, they wouldn't be making such a public fuss of it.’"

To view this article in full, click here.
 

This article also appeared in Terra Daily and Capital News.

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Publishers Weekly, “A New Balance of Power: After the Google Book Settlement.”
By Calvin Reid
May 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Settlement

“In a wide-ranging webinar discussion on May 10, "What Comes After the Google Book Settlement," a panel of experts said they expected some adjusted form of the settlement to emerge from Judge Denny Chin's rejection of the book settlement on March 22. Moderated by PW features editor Andrew Albanese and co-sponsored by PW and Digital Book World, the webinar featured James Grimmelmann, New York Law School…”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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ZDnet, “Groklaw 2.0: PJ Leaves Groklaw but legal news site to continue under new editor.”
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
May 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Mark Webbink
Subject: Webbink New Editor of Groklaw

“Pamela “PJ” Jones, editor and creator of Groklaw, the leading open-source legal news and analysis site, has kept her word. After eight years, PJ is leaving Groklaw. The site though will continue under the guidance of Mark Webbink.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Expatica, “Grand Jury next step in Strauss-Kahn legal case.”
May 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Randolph Jonakait
Subject: Strauss-Kahn Legal Case

“In Strass-Kahn's case, if the alleged victim testifies, the grand jury is certain to move towards an indictment, explained Randolph Jonakait, a professor at New York Law School.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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New York Law Journal, “Equal Justice Works Fellowships Serve Appetite for Public Service.”
By Laura Haring
May 12, 2011

NYLS Student: Samantha Pownell
Subject: Equal Justice Works

“Fellow Samantha Pownell, who will graduate from New York Law School this month, hopes to follow this trend. Sponsored by Bingham McCutchen, Ms. Pownell will work with the New York Civil Liberties Union to provide legal representation in English and Spanish to students suspended from New York City schools.”

To view this article in full, click here.
 

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Staten Island Advance, “Donations Help Several Island Not-For-Profits: Victory State Bank, Richmond County Savings Foundation, Polonsky Dare to Dream Fund All Step Up.”
May 10, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Donations Help Not-For-Profits

“CDE is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help vulnerable consumers improve their financial-management skills. Involved in the program are Fordham Law School and New York Law School.”

This article appeared in the Staten Island Advance on May 10, 2011
 

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United Press International, “Bob Dylan Cited Most Often in Legal Cases.”
May 9, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Michael Perlin
Subject: Bob Dylan in Court Briefs & Opinions

“Michael Perlin, a New York Law School professor who used Dylan lyrics as titles for more than 50 articles published in law journals, said Dylan is so often quoted due to the impact he had during the young years of U.S. lawyers and judges, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.”

To view this article in full, click here.

This article also ran in the Los Angeles Times along with numerous newspapers nationwide.

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The New York Times, Five Thirty Eight: “Reads and Reactions.”
By Micah Cohen
May 8, 2011

NYLS Student: Russell Smith
Subject: Unpaid Bloggers

“Russell Smith at Legal As She Is Spoke (a project of the Program in Law and Journalism at New York Law School) put together a very informative analysis of the legal merits of the class-action lawsuit against The Huffington Post filed by unpaid bloggers.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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The Chronicle, “A Seminar Connects Law Students Around the World.”
By Katherine Mangan
May 8, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: “Law Without Walls” Program

“Each week this spring, two dozen law students from the United States, England, and China logged on to their laptops simultaneously to discuss challenges facing their profession and to brainstorm creative solutions.”

To view the article in full, click here.
 

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Federal Computer Week, “Rosetta Stone for Corporate ID’s Would Simplify Accountability.”
By Alice Lipowicz
May 5, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Corporate ID’s

“Many experts have concluded that for greater public accountability of federal spending and regulation, having unique numeric identifiers for businesses and organizations is vastly preferable to ad hoc naming. Beth Noveck, former deputy chief technology officer for open government at the White House, is spearheading a new project that seeks to address that problem, among others.”

To view this article in full, click here. 
 

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The National Law Journal, “Nebraska, New Mexico Win the Commencement Speaker Jackpot.”
By Karen Sloan
May 3, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: Commencement Speakers

“Newark Mayor Cory Booker will speak during New York Law School's graduation ceremony, while Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit will speak at Boston University School of Law.”

To view this article in full, click here. 
 

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The Sydney Morning Herald, “Data Call for Google Probe.”
May 1, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google

“Google is facing scrutiny from regulators as it bolsters its search business. It may be difficult for the FTC to build a case against it, said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor of law at New York Law School who specializes in internet law. Google has taken the market share it has ‘because their search results are better’, he said.”

To view the article in full, click here.

This article also appeared in the Brisbane Times.

 

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InsideEPA.com, “REINS Would Improve Environmental Protections.”
By David Schoenbrod
April 28, 2011

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Environmental Protections

“Former EPA Administrator William Reilly recently said of the statutory duties that George W. Bush’s EPA had failed to fulfill and so left to Barack Obama’s EPA, ‘They’re like little hand grenades that have been rolled out there by previous administrators, and now they’re ticking.’ The hand grenade analogy is apt: fulfilling those duties has triggered political explosions now leading legislators from both parties to call for shackling EPA.”

To read more, see InsideEPA.com (by subscription only.)

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The Star-Ledger, “League, Player Reps Have Different Perspectives on Lockout Ruling.”
By Zach Berman & Connor Orr
April 27, 2011

New York Law School
Subject: NFL Lockout

“George Atallah, assistant executive director of external affairs for the trade association
that was formerly the NFLPA, joined Jets fullback Tony Richardson on a panel at the New York Law School.”

To view this article in full, click here.

This event was also covered by Bloomberg News and Reuters.

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The National Law Journal, “Shifting the Focus From Inputs to Outputs.”
By Richard A. Matasar
April 25, 2011

NYLS Dean: Richard Matasar
Subject: Shift From Inputs to Outputs

“The years ahead portend a major shift, from inputs to outputs, from lawyer-centered to client-centered, and from self-entitlement to dedication in the workplace. Predicting the shift is as easy as saying, ‘Let's do outputs, not inputs.’ The trick is to move from identifying competencies to actually developing them.”

To view this article in full, click here. 

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 The Australian, “Call for Firing Squads as UK Bans Lethal-Drug Exports.”
By Giles Whittell
April 21, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Lethal Injection Drugs

“British efforts to halt the sale of lethal-injection drugs to the US have been seized on by American death-penalty supporters. New York Law School professor Robert Blecker said lethal injection should be abandoned -- not for practical reasons, but because it sanitised a process that should hurt.”

To view this article in full, click here. 

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 The National Law Journal, “Shifting the Focus From Inputs to Outputs.”
By Richard A. Matasar
April 25, 2011

NYLS Dean: Richard Matasar
Subject: Shift From Inputs to Outputs

“The years ahead portend a major shift, from inputs to outputs, from lawyer-centered to client-centered, and from self-entitlement to dedication in the workplace. Predicting the shift is as easy as saying, ‘Let's do outputs, not inputs.’ The trick is to move from identifying competencies to actually developing them.”

To view this article in full, click here. 

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 The Nation, “The Evangelical Adoption Crusade.”
By Kathryn Joyce
April 21, 2011

NYLS DALC & JAC’s Adoption Policy Conference
Subject: International Adoptions

“In late March Craig Juntunen told a group of Christian adoption advocates assembled at a Chandler, Arizona, home about his plans to increase international adoptions fivefold. He met a chilly reception recently at the Adoption Policy Conference at New York Law School when he spoke alongside State Department officials.”

To view this article in full, click here. 

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 The National Law Journal, “Legal Scholarship Carries a High Price Tag.”
By Karen Sloan
April 20, 2011

NYLS Dean: Richard Matasar
Subject: Future Ed Conference

New York Law School Dean Rick Matasar urged legal educators to consider the possibility of new, lower-cost law schools that rely heavily on untenured faculty and adjuncts to teach rather than write law review articles.

To view this article in full, click here.

This article also ran in:
ABA Journal
The New York Law Journal
TaxProf Blog

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 Chicago Law Bulletin, “Six law Schools Explore Idea of Collaborating.”
By Jerry Crimmins
April 19, 2011

NYLS Dean: Richard Matasar
Subject: Law Dean Technology Discussion Group

“Is this what the future looks like, law schools sharing courses and degree programs?
One goal would be to stabilize or lower costs, said Richard A. Matasar, dean of New York Law School.”

Full text of this article is available by subscription only.

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 The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Can Technology Save Legal Education?”
By John Fischman
April 18, 2011

NYLS Future Ed Conference
Subject: Future Ed Conference

“Law-school deans and professors, meeting in New York this weekend for the Future Ed 3 conference, invoked software and distance learning as tools that can rescue legal education from classroom doldrums, the National Law Journal reports.”

To view this article in full, click here. 

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 The New York Law Journal, “Technology- and Action- Emphasized as Tools to Improve Legal Education.”
By Karen Sloan
April 18, 2011

NYLS Dean Richard Matasar & Future Ed Conference
Subject: Future Ed Conference

“More than 100 lawyers, deans and law professors met in New York on April 15 and 16 for the last of three conferences dubbed "Future Ed." The conferences, spearheaded by New York Law School and Harvard Law School, were designed to swap ideas on how to update legal education, increase practical skills training, rein in costs and come up with ways to translate ideas into action.”

To view this article in full, click here.

This article also ran in Corporate Counsel, Texas Lawyer, Connecticut Law Tribune and on TaxProf Blog. 

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 ABA Journal, “6 Law Schools Form Global Group to Discuss Legal Tech Collaboration, Invite Others to Join.”
By Martha Neil
April 18, 2011

NYLS Dean: Richard Matasar
Subject: Global Group Collaboration

“The deans of six law schools have formed a global group to discuss how they might collaborate more effectively and develop new shared technology specifically designed for legal education.”

To view the article in full, click here.

This article also ran in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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 Thomson Reuters News & Insight, “’Eroded’ Takeover Law Favors Directors, Delaware’s Chief Business Judge Says.”
By Frank Reynolds
April 18, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Faith Stevelman
Subject: Delaware Case Law

“New York Law School professor Faith Stevelman predicted that, instead of adopting new laws or legal procedures, Delaware is more likely to resolve the tangle of rules for mergers and acquisitions in an evolutionary fashion, as case law development gradually addresses the various problems that have plagued this new wave of transactions.”

To view this article in full, click here. 

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 Anchorage Daily News, “Lower Military Drinking Age Would be Tough to Defend in Court.”
April 18, 2011

NYLS Legal As She Is Spoke Blog
Subject: Military Drinking Age

“The New York Law School's blog on legal journalism took a look at legal precedent surrounding the drinking age and believes the bill would have a difficult time surviving a court challenge.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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 TaxProf Blog, “HLS & NYLS Host Conference on New Business Models for Legal Education.”
By Paul L. Caron
April 15, 2011

NYLS Future Ed
Subject: Future Ed Conference

“Future Ed is a year-long contest of ideas for innovation in legal education, focusing on ways to improve quality while reducing cost.”

To view this article in full, click here. 

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 Reuters, “Rajaratnam Remains Silent in Defense.”
April 15, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Howard Meyers
Subject: Rajaratnam Trial

“The defense team for accused hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam rested its case without calling him to the witness stand, even though jurors already heard his voice on wiretaps submitted by the prosecution.”

To view the video clip, click here. 

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The State, “Future of Google digital library is hard to read.”
April 13, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google digital library

This article also ran in numerous other newspapers.

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 Real Estate Weekly, “Former Deputy Mayor Bob Lieber Arrives at the Forefront of Real Estate Distress.”
By Daniel Geiger
April 13, 2011

NYLS CRES Real Estate Capital Markets Breakfast
Subject: Real Estate Market

“Speaking at a breakfast yesterday in Lower Manhattan hosted by New York Law School’s Center for Real Estate Studies, Lieber discussed how Island Capital Group, the real estate investment firm he joined after working as the deputy mayor of economic development for two years, has positioned itself to take advantage of the wave of distress he still expects will hit the market.”

To view this article in full, click here. 

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 The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Future of Google Digital Library is Hard to Read.”
By John Timpane
April 10, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Digital Library

“James Grimmelmann, associate professor at the New York Law School, says he thinks the parties will ‘come back later this month with a revised and much more modest settlement.’ He thinks Google can win the case that its digitized book list constitutes fair use. He agrees that Congress should decide the orphan-books issue, and he suggests that Congress appropriate ‘the money for a national digital library.’”

To view this article in full, click here.

This article also ran in The State, along with numerous national newspapers.

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 Guardian, “Our Dedication to the Death Penalty.”
By Francis Welch
April 5, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

“Blecker cites Kant to argue that even a civilized state has ‘a moral imperative and a duty’ to act and that if you break society's rules by committing murder then as ‘a responsible agent, you've chosen to do what you did, then you deserve to die for it.’"

To view this article in full, click here. 

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 Capital, “Does the Google Books Settlement Set the Stage for a Congressional Intervention?”
By William McGeveran
April 4, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Books Settlement

“New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann's been following the case closely, maintaining a comprehensive website tracking the litigation, writing extensively about it, and hosting a symposium about it.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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 The Guatamala Times, “Debt, Dictatorship, and Democratization.”
By Ruti Teitel and Robert Howse
April 4, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Ruti Teitel
Subject: Debt

“As political change again sweeps across the Middle East, the issue of odious debt is back. But all debt that was contracted by a previous oppressive regime cannot, for that reason alone, be classified as ‘odious.’ The question is this: how much of the money went to meritorious development projects, and how much went instead to prop up the regime and line its leaders’ pockets?”

To view this article in full, click here.

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 SCOTUS blog, “Friday Round-up.”
By Kali Borkoski
April 1, 2011

NYLS LASIS Blog
Subject: Supreme Court Recusals

“The New York Law School Blog has a post contributing to the on-going discussion about the ethics of recusal for the Justices.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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 New York Post, “Death is Only Justice.”
By Robert Blecker
March 30, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

“Thousands of hours in prisons and over 25 years interviewing more than 100 convicted killers (along with dozens of correctional officers) has taught me: Life without parole can't substitute for the death penalty.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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 National, “Bob Dylan 70th Birthday Countdown- No. 55, ‘Bob Dylan and the Law.’
By Michael Perlin
March 30, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Michael Perlin
Subject: Bob Dylan and the Law

“If all you knew of Bob Dylan’s law-related work was Absolutely Sweet Marie (“to live outside the law/you must be honest”) or Ballad of a Thin Man (“With great lawyers/you have discussed lepers and crooks”), you might think that Dylan had little use for the law or the legal system. And you would be wrong.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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The Nation, “How ‘Enemy Creep’ Is Guantanamo-izing America.”
By Karen J. Greenberg
March 29, 2011

NYLS CityLaw Event
Subject: Terrorism

“The message that political correctness is allowing Al Qaeda–ish wolves in sheep’s clothing to penetrate the country’s defenses has been spreading, based in part on claims about unlearned lessons from past incidents of terrorism. Last month, at New York Law School’s City Law Breakfast Series, for example, Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush’s last attorney general and the former chief judge of the Southern District of New York, informed an audience of judges, lawyers, reporters and law students that political correctness had actually been responsible for the FBI’s failure to stop the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.”

To view this article in full, click here.

This article also appeared in:
Salon
CBS News
The Pacific Free Press
and numerous other outlets.

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The National Law Journal, “Civil War Lincoln Vs. Taney Lessons 150 Years Later High Court’s Terrible Crisis.”
By Tony Mauro
March 28, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Simon
Subject: Court During the Civil War

“Pre-Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court enjoyed a prestige that the elected branches of the federal government ‘could not emulate,’ says James Simon, dean emeritus of New York Law School.”

This article appears in “The National Law Journal” on March 28, 2011.

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The Wire, “Is Zediva’s New-Release Movie Streaming Service Legal?”
By Ryan Singel
March 23, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Online Movie Streaming and Copyright Law

“Zediva — a new online movie service that gets around the need for studio licensing deals by renting users a physical disk and DVD player from afar — has proven to be a hit with consumers, who have stormed the startup since its launch last week. ‘Zediva’s supposed ‘loophole’ in copyright law doesn’t exist,’ Grimmelmann wrote in a blog post after Zediva launched. ‘Zediva is about to get pounded by the movie studios, and hard.’”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Publishers Weekly, “Google Settlement is Rejected.”
By Andrew Albanese and Jim Milliot
March 22, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Settlement

“In a stunning setback, Judge Denny Chin today rejected the Google Book Settlement, some 13 months after its final fairness hearing. New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann, a close follower of the case, told PW the numerous filings of objectors clearly made a significant impact on Judge Chin. ‘His opinion recites many of the objections.’"

To view the article in full, click here.

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Library Journal, “Google Book Settlement is Rejected.”
By Josh Hadro
March 22, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Settlement

“According to Settlement watchdog James Grimmelmann of New York Law School (via his ongoing Twitter commentary), ‘the opinion is peppered with quotes from different objectors. Chin is using citations to demonstrate broad-based opposition.’”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Ars Technica, “Federal Judge Rejects Google Book Monopoly.”
By Timothy B. Lee
March 22, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Settlement

“James Grimmelmann, a law professor at New York Law School, suggests that the parties have two options: they can seek to appeal the judge's ruling, or they can submit yet another settlement in hopes of getting Judge Chin's approval.”

To view this article in full, click here.

This story also appeared in:
Wall Street Journal
The New York Times (by subscription only)
Library Journal
Bloomberg News
Publishers Weekly

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NJ.com, “Independence Native Hosts 24-Hour Podcast to Rally Fans of Anime Comic for Money to Help Japan.”
By Aliza Appelbaum
March 20, 2011

 

NYLS Student: Zach Nathanson
Subject: Disaster Relief in Japan Through Anime Comic Podcast

“The podcast series for fans was founded by Zach Nathanson, a 23-year-old student at New York Law School. Though he lives in New York, Nathanson said he helped organize the marathon fundraiser because he wanted to find a way to help.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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Asia Pacific Future Gov, “Beth Noveck, former US Deputy CTO in interview: part one, part two, part three.”
By Laurence Millar
March 18, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Interview in three parts

“Beth Noveck spent two years as Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the White House. She was responsible for defining and driving the open government agenda for the Obama administration, working at Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She left the position in February 2011, to return to her position as Professor of Law at the New York Law School.”

To view each article in full, click for part one, part two, and part three.

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The American, “Rescuing the Clean Air Act from Old Age.”
By David Schoenbrod and Melissa Witte
March 16, 2011

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Clean Air Act

‘The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) approach to greenhouse gases (GHGs) has revealed that we need a less antiquated way to control the kind of air pollutants it has long regulated.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Staten Island Advance, “Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan Says Budget Cuts Would Be a Crime.”
By John M. Anesse

March 16, 2011
NYLS Students
Subject: Budget Cuts

“If the city goes ahead and slashes District Attorney Daniel Donovan's budget, it is likely to set off an ugly chain reaction: Fewer prosecutors with a heavier workload and soaring NYPD overtime.”

To view article in full, click here.

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BNA Law School Update, “Special Tax Edition.”
March 15, 2011

NYLS Faculty Rosalie Sanderson and Ann F. Thomas
Subject: Tax Program

“Our curriculum includes a composite of classroom lectures and demonstrations, brief assignments, and a major writing project.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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ABA Journal, “As Law Student Readies Reverse Auction Site, law Bloggers React to ‘eBay’ of Lawyering.”
By intern
March 14, 2011

NYLS Student Robert Grant Niznik
Subject: Shpoonkie.com

“At 21 years old, Robert Grant Niznik began asking himself the same stress-inducing question looming over all law students: What am I going to do after graduation?”

To view article in full, click here.

To read more coverage, see:
Wall Street Journal

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The Jewish Daily Forward, “Arendt on Trial.”
By Michelle Sief
March 14, 2011

NYLS Faculty Ruti Teitel
Subject: The Eichmann Trial

“Our contemporary discussions about what law scholar Ruti Teitel named “transitional justice” are often muddled, because there is little explicit philosophical debate — let alone consensus — about the appropriate goals and standards by which such trials should be assessed.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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East Haven Patch, “Judiciary Committee Gets Earful About Killing Death Penalty.”
By James Albis
March 14, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

“As one of the hottest topics to go before the Judiciary Committee this year, the death penalty bills filled the hearing room with members of the public with vested interest and those testifying. Overall, 63 people testified with 45 in favor of abolishing capital punishment and 18 opposed.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “In Cyberspace, a War Over Names.”
By Michelle Quinn
March 12, 2011

NYLS Faculty: David Johnson
Subject: Web Domains

“The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opens its annual meeting here Monday, and its international board of experts will go about their jobs of mulling whether .love and .gay and .web should be added to existing domains like .com, .net and .biz.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Politico, “Budget Policy Talk in the Dark.”
By Jagadeesh Gokhale & David Schoenbrod
March 10, 2011

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Budget

“President Barack Obama says he wants an ‘adult conversation’ about the budget. He also wrote that the ‘administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.’”

To view this article in full, click here.

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Examiner, “GOP Leaders Persist With Bizarre Anti-Neutrality Arguments.”
By Wendy Davis
March 10, 2011

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Internet Rules

"Search engines compete to give users relevant results; they exist at all only because they do. Telling a search engine to be more relevant is like telling a boxer to punch harder."

To view this article in full, click here.

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Legal Post, “The Future of Legal Education.”
By Mitch Kowalski
March 10, 2011

Subject: Future Ed

“New York Law School has commenced a competition for innovative thought in how legal education should be conducted.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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DealB%k, “A Look at the Landmark Insider Trading Case.”
By Mac William Bishop
March 7, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Howard Meyers
Subject: Raj Rajaratnam Trial

“The trial of Raj Rajaratnam, the co-founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund, begins in Manhattan.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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Huffington Post, “Transit Data Drives Economic Engine for Open Government.”
By Alexander Howard
March 5, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Transportation Camp

“Technologists, trains fans, government workers and East Coast civic hackers have gathered for a sold out two-day unconference at the New York Law School Institute for Information Law and Policy. TransportationCamp East.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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The New York Times, Room for Debate, “When Free Speech Feels Wrong”
Debate opinion, “Freedom’s Price” by Nadine Strossen
March 4, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Nadine Strossen
Subject: Westboro Baptist Church

“The First Amendment appropriately protects expression that both expresses and provokes strong emotion. Even when expression stirs emotions that are overwhelmingly negative, as in the Snyder case, that cannot justify suppressing it.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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Connecticut Courant, “Robert Blecker: We Have A Moral Obligation To Execute”
By Rick Green
March 3, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

“Blecker told me he was concerned with the question of whether killers receive the punishment they ‘morally deserve.’ Punishment and the accompanying pain and suffering, Blecker believes, must be proportional with the seriousness of the crime.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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TaxProf Blog, “Chronicle of Higher Education on Law Schools”
By Paul L. Caron
March 1, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Dean Richard A. Matasar
Subject: Changes in law schools

“Richard A. Matasar, dean of New York Law School, summed up the attitude he sees at many campuses: ‘We're all old dogs trying to learn some new tricks, and all of us old dogs have got tenure and we're not going any place.’”

To view this article in full, click here.

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ExecutiveGov, “New Deputy CTO Starts to Take on Administration’s Open Gov Goals”
By Jack Moore
February 28, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: New Deputy CTO, Vein, who replaced Noveck

“Vein will have big shoes to fill; Noveck, the author of Wiki Government, a book on social media and democracy, led the government’s Open Government Initiative.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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techPresident, “White House Taps Top City CIO to Replace Beth Noveck as Deputy CTO for Innovation”
By Nick Judd
February 28, 2011

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: New Deputy CTO, Vein, who replaced Noveck

“Noveck said, by way of explaining why she would be conducting research from academia rather than from within the White House. ‘You're so busy 'doing' that you don't have the ability to communicate the details, not only what's going on in the White House, but across the agencies.’"

To view this article in full, click here.

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The Hellenic News of America, “Interview with Greek-American Law Student Elias Demopoulos”
By Markos Papadatos
February 25, 2011

NYLS Student: Elias Demopoulos

“One of my proudest accomplishments at New York Law School was being selected to be a part of its Law Review in my second semester there. Acceptance into the law review requires a high GPA and/or excellent writing skills. Its function parallels that of a publishing company. It receives and publishes articles from alumni and professors, as well as active members in the field.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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AdvisorOne, “The Political Realities of Broker Reregulation and the Fiduciary Standard”
By Bob Clark
February 22, 2011

NYLS Center on Financial Services Event
Subject: Fiduciary Standard

“On February 10, the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard and the New York Law School finally held their weather-delayed forum on the current state of the pending reregulation of brokers and RIAs. The panel featured an impressive lineup of distinguished and thoughtful academics, lawyers, regulators, and industry leaders who expressed a broad range of insightful views and predictions of the probable final outcome.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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American Banker, “Progress on a Uniform Fiduciary Standard Slow”
By Larry Barrett
February 15, 2011

 

Subject: Securities and Exchange Commission

“…A panel of academics, attorneys, and regulators gathered at New York Law School on Feb. 10 to address the challenges and opportunities that will likely follow the SEC’s recent mandate to create and enforce a uniform fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and financial advisors.”

This article appears in the “American Banker” on February 15, 2011.

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Bloomberg News, “SAC’s Trading Mimics Insider Dealings Identified by Prosecutors”
By Elliot Blair Smith
February 11, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Houman Shadab
Subject: Insider Trading

“While the trades by themselves don’t prove insider trading or fraud, they are consistent with patterns federal investigators are examining based on trading of nonpublic information.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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AdvisorOne, “SEC’s Fiduciary, SRO Studies Considered Linked, Experts Say”
By Kathleen McBride
February 10, 2011

 

NYLS Center on Financial Services Law
Subject: Financial Services Issues

“Although the…Fiduciary Study, and… the SRO Study, are separate, in the eyes of some industry experts and academics that specialize in financial services issues, the two are linked.”

To view the full article, click here.

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New York Law Journal, “Obama Policies Undermine Nation’s War on Terror, Mukasey Says”
By Mark Hamblett
February 8, 2011

 

NYLS Center for New York City Law
Subject: War on Terror

“On Thursday, the one-time Southern District chief judge continued his rolling critique of the Obama administration’s anti-terrorism policies, telling a breakfast gathering at New York Law School that the ‘bring-them-to-justice” approach to the war on terror is dangerous and incoherent.”

This article appears in the “New York Law Journal” on February 8, 2011.

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New York Law Journal, “Lawyers Face New Challenges From Global Competition”
By Joel Stashenko
February 4, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Dean Richard A. Matasar
Subject: Global Competition

“’We can make the case that we have angry law school graduates and that students have been borrowing…almost all the cost of their education,’ Mr. Matasar said. ‘The overall salary of a lawyer hasn't risen significantly at the same time.’”

To view the full article, click here.

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The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, “Does Global Competition Mean No Rest for Exhausted Lawyers?”
By Ashby Jones
February 4, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Dean Richard A. Matasar
Subject: Global Competition

“American companies are seeking ‘bigger, better, faster’ and ‘cheaper’ representation and do not care where they find it, Matasar said.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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The Huffington Post, “The Revelation of Relevance”
By Mehret Mandefro and Peter Levin
January 31, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Beth Simone Noveck
Subject: Technology

“Don Tapscott has written persuasively about the mechanism and culture of collaboration, and even produced a wonderful video on the notion of weak -- even unintelligent -- signals that result in glorious patterns of starling murmuration. His transcendent question, and ours, is what happens when we add scientific insight, operational planning, economic incentive, and societal compassion to the nodes of a network that is accessible, reliable, cheap, and everywhere. Clay Shirky, Alec Ross, Craig Newmark, Beth Noveck, and dozens of others are exploring, even colonizing, these boundaries.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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eCampus News, “$2 Billion that Could Change Online Education”
By Dennis Carter
January 31, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Beth Simone Noveck
Subject: Online Education

“…Noveck said that under the terms of the grant program, if a community college uses federal funds to make an educational video game, ‘everyone will have the benefit of that knowledge,’ and ‘anyone can translate it into Spanish or Russian or use it as the basis to create a new game.’”

To read more, see: eCampus News (subscription only).

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The Chronicle of Higher Education, “A Digital Library Guru Discusses New Rules on Sharing Scientific Data”
By Marc Parry
January 28, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Beth Simone Noveck
Subject: National Science Foundation’s New Research Requirement

“The policy will not go so far as to mandate public sharing of all data, which in this context could mean anything from glacier images to scientific papers to computer code. But it will ‘require people to essentially justify why they choose not to be open,’ says Beth Noveck, a professor at New York Law School who until recently directed the White House Open Government Initiative.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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The Huffington Post, “Beth Noveck, a Major Contributor to Open Government, Returns to Teaching Law”
By Craig Newmark
January 27, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Beth Simone Noveck
Subject: Beth Noveck’s return to teaching at NYLS

“Beth has been one of the core people inspiring Open Government and related improvements all over the US and beyond.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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New York Law Journal, “State Bar Annual Meeting Kicks Off Today”
By Joel Stashenko
January 24, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Dean Richard A. Matasar
Subject: State Bar Annual Meeting

“The first of two panels that day is on "Shaping the Future of Our Profession: Strategies That Will Guide Lawyers and Clients Through an Era of Change." The panelists are Simon Chester, partner at Heenan Blaikie; Deborah Epstein Henry, president of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC; Richard A. Matasar, dean and president of New York Law School; and Amy W. Schulman, general counsel of Pfizer.”

To view the article in full, click here.

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Herald Tribune, “Death Penalty May Await Venice Senior Citizen”
By Todd Ruger
January 24, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

“David Myers is 68. But this week, prosecutors intend to try the Venice man on capital murder charges and make him among the oldest people ever sentenced to Florida's death row...Robert Blecker, a New York Law School professor and death penalty supporter, says cost, age and the likelihood of execution do not matter when it comes to seeking justice for the community.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education, “$2-Billion Federal Program Could Be ‘Windfall’ for Open Online Learning”
By Marc Parry
January 22, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Beth Simone Noveck
Subject: Online Learning

“Online learning enthusiasts could get a windfall of federal money under a $2-billion grant program that the Obama Administration described on Thursday…Beth Noveck, a professor at New York Law School and former White House technology official, wrote that the openness requirement represented ‘a fundamental and laudable shift in how grants are made in government.’”

To view the full article, click here.

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CNet News, “Google Ready for Action Against Content Farms”
By Tom Krazit
January 21, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Search Results

“In response, Google pointed to arguments against the nascent concept of "search neutrality," which suggest that government intervention in search results could actually create a field day for spammers. Specifically, it chose to highlight the arguments of James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School, who wrote an essay on search neutrality that concluded "A good search engine is more exquisitely sensitive to a user's interests than any other communications technology."

To view the article in full, click here.

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The Wall Street Journal, “The Congressional Accountability Act”
January 14, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: The Reins Act

“Liberals attack the Reins Act as antiregulatory, and it's obviously true that rules would be written differently if they were subject to political give and take. But as New York Law professor David Schoenbrod points out, the bill is really pro-accountability. Congress could no longer get away with open-ended bills that evade the choices that make up public policy, while Administrations would need to seek support of a majority directly answerable to voters.”

This article appears in “The Wall Street Journal” on January 14, 2011.

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NY Times, “Hey, Kids, Let’s Put on a Reading!”
By Erik Piepenburg
January 20, 2011

 

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Theatre Readings

“Robert Blecker, a playwright and professor at New York Law School who attended Mr. Hinderaker’s reading, said he enjoyed watching a production being built from the ground up. ‘There’s something exciting about catching things in their infant state,’ he said. ‘The critics aren’t here. It’s a vehicle, a laboratory for playwrights and actors to explore a play before an audience without worrying about the play’s future.’”

To view the article in full, click here.

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