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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’"

To view this interview in full, click here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.”

To view this article in full, click here.

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

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.”

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."

To view this article in full, click here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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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This news also appeared in Futures and Opalesque.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Tech President, “White House Launches 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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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.

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.

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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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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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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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.”

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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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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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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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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.)

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.

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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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.”

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This article also ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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

This article is available by subscription only.
This article also ran in NPR by subscription only.

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 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 Carribean’s Future Lawyers Visit America for a Dose of ‘Mom, God and Apple Pie.’”

New York Law School
Subject: Future Lawyers From the Carribean 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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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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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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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.

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.

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.”

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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.”

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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 arist Fred Tomaselli, whose work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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

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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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…”

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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.’”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.’"

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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.”

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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.”

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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.)
 

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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.)
 

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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.’"

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This article also appeared in Terra Daily and Capital News.

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…”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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
 

This article also ran in the Los Angeles Times along with numerous newspapers nationwide.

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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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. 
 

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.

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.)

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.

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. 

 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. 

 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. 

 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. 

 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

 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.

 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. 

 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. 

 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.

 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. 

 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.

 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. 

 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. 

This article also ran in numerous other newspapers.

 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. 

 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.

 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. 

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: New York Law School Law Review Google issue

“Last year, New York Law School organized a conference on the Google settlement and now the school’s law journal has devoted its latest issue to the discussions about access, competition and copyright that ensued.”

To view the article in full, click here.

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Capital Punishment

“So why do so many Americans support the death penalty?...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.’”

To view the article in full, click here.

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: iCopyright V. Associated Press

“…In a complaint filed late last month in federal district court in New York, iCopyright alleges that The AP didn’t fulfill its promise to promote iCopyright’s service.

iCopyright’s platform was called into question last year by New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann, who reported on his blog that he paid the AP $12 to license a 26-word Thomas Jefferson quote, which as long been in the public domain.”

To view the article in full, click here.

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: Employment Law

“Florida Power & Light told a court and the Public Service Commission in sworn statements that a regulator it wants to bar from weighing its cases was ‘involuntarily terminated’ from the utility’s affiliate in 2002.

Arthur Leonard, an employment law expert and New York Law School professor, said that means he left on his own accord. ‘If they voluntarily accept the package, I’d say that’s a voluntary quit,’ he said. ‘If it said, “If you don’t accept it, you’ll immediately be discharged,” that’s a different thing.”

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NYLS Faculty: Peter Strauss
Subject: Estate Planning

“…Understanding the need for elasticity in a financial plan and the personal feelings involved, are the specialty of Peter Strauss, senior counsel with the New York law firm Epstein Becker & Green P.C. and founder of the Elder Law Clinic at New york Law School. ‘You’re healthy now, but what happens in 20 years if you become incapacitated with a chronic illness,’ Strauss says. ‘So we want to look at how we might structure your plan differently in either scenario. We might be looking at some loss of control for the person with long-term illness, and you may want to give up some loss of control, or you may be able to defer.’

To Strauss, these conversations should be happening with all clients, whether they’re 30 or swiftly approaching retirement.”

Full text of this article is available in the American Banker.

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: New York Law School Law Review Google Settlement Issue

“…the New York Law School Law Review will have perhaps the most comprehensive analysis of the legal issues at work, publishing a full issue dedicated to the settlement.”

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NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: New York Law School Law Review Google Settlement Issue

“…bringing law students from different continents together to work on problems within legal education or the profession — say, the way judges interact across national borders, or how to pay for international litigation. The program, Law Without Walls, will start in January with students from Miami; Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China; Harvard Law School; Fordham University School of Law; New York Law School; and University College London.”

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NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Lethal Injection/Death Penalty

“Let’s reconsider what we do by embracing lethal injection as our goal. By definition ‘punishment’ and ‘pain’ have been inseparably connected. Those who advocate ‘painless punishment’ call for contradiction. Punishment to be punishment must be painful.”

Full text of this article is available in The Tennessean.

NYLS Student Nick Spindler and Professor Tanina Rostain
Subject: FutureEd

“Nick Spindler, a student from New York Law School, in a program supported by my company Legal OnRamp and sponsored by his professor Tanina Rostain, engaged directly with a client in ‘virtual collaboration’ using modern technologies and project management approaches. This Legal Grand Rounds program connects students with corporate legal departments, and leverages their tech-savvy to make legal work more efficient.

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NYLS Faculty: Elise C. Boddie
Subject: Race/Employment Discrimination

“…Elise C. Boddie, a professor at the New York Law School who coauthored an amicus brief for the Racial Justice Project supporting New Haven Mayor John DeStefano in Ricci, agrees with Mollica. She told BNA Nov. 8 that ‘Ricci ultimately is a narrow case involving a relatively unique set of circumstances.’ She added that from her viewpoint the case ‘has not had a substantial impact in employment discrimination cases.’”

Full text of this article is available in the BNA Law Week.

City Journal, “The Case for Anonymous Juries”
By Steve Cohen
November 10, 2010

NYLS Student Steve Cohen
Subject: Anonymous Juries

“…In fact, the New York State Criminal Procedure Law requires just the opposite: defendants have a right to know the identities of jurors. For judges hearing high-profile cases, this lack fo juror anonymity can present serious problems.”

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “Protecting the Innocent, Pretrial?”
By Samuel Newhouse
November 4, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Marcey Grigsby, Publisher, New York Law School Law Review
Subject: New York Law School Law Review Exonerating the Innocent symposium

“‘I think what’s exciting about this symposium is that the purpose isn’t just to diagnose what the problem is,’ said Marcey Grigsby, faculty publisher of the New York Law School Review. ‘We’re going to spend the day talking about solutions. There are pretty bold proposals here that advocate for fundamental changes.’”

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NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Capital Punishment

“…followed by an address from prominent capital punishment advocate Robert Blecker…a professor at New York Law School and nationally known capital punishment advocate. He was featured in the documentary film ‘Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead.’ Which will be screened at UVU on Nov. 8.”

Full text of this article is available in the Daily Herald.

The AM Law Daily, “Is the Law School Model Ready for a Tune-Up?”
By Tom Huddleston Jr.
October 21, 2010

Subject: Sustainability of the current law school model and the NYLS/Harvard FutureEd 2 program

“The National Law Journal reports that the consensus that emerged from the conference--the second in a series of three conferences sponsored by Harvard and New York Law School designed to generate ideas on revamping legal education--was that the status quo isn't working.”

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IP Watchdog, “Peer To Patent Sequel: USPTO To Begin New Pilot Program”
By Gene Quinn
October 20, 2010

Subject: Peer-to-Patent Program

“Yesterday the United States Patent and Trademark Office announced a sequel to the initial pilot program and will begin a second Peer To Patent pilot program, again in coordination with New York Law School’s Center for Patent Innovations (CPI).

This new Peer To Patent program will run for a one year term and will commence on October 25, 2010.”

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Law Journal, “Consensus emerging that law school model ‘is not sustainable’”
By Karen Sloan
October 20, 2010

Subject: Sustainability of the current law school model. NYLS/Harvard FutureEd 2 program

“What will legal education look like in five or 10 years?

It will be more internationally focused, rely more heavily on technology and will incorporate more leadership and businesses skills, if the influential group of about 100 educators and law leaders who met recently to discuss the matter are to be believed.

Those themes emerged during the two-day FutureEd 2 conference last weekend at Harvard Law School — the second in a series of three conferences sponsored by Harvard and New York Law School devoted to generating ideas and consensus about how to make legal education more relevant in light of the changing legal industry.”

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Patently O, “Peer-to-Patent Begins Expanded Pilot”
By Dennis Crouch
October 19, 2010

Subject: NYLS’s “Peer-to-Patent” Program

“Even the most ardent supporters of the current US patent system will readily admit that the patent examiners do not see or consider all of the relevant prior art.

One project directed toward assisting the USPTO in improving its examination is the Peer-to-Patent project operated through New York Law School (NYLS). The USPTO and NYLS have just announced a new expanded Peer-to-Patent project that will open-up 1,000 patent applications to ‘peer-review’ through a novel prior-art submission and commenting system created as part of the project.”

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Law Journal, “Low score from World Bank prompts Brazil to examine its judiciary”
By Karen Sloan
October 15, 2010

Subject: The Harvard/NYLS FutureEd 2 program and Brazil

“…Brazil's legal system still has plenty of room for improvement, according to a panel of experts who discussed the connection between law and development in South America's largest country at Harvard Law School on Thursday.

The panel offered a preview of a two-day series of seminars called "FutureEd 2: Making Global Lawyers for the 21st Century."

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Law Journal, “China, India, Japan grapple with the quality of legal education”
By Karen Sloan
October 15, 2010

Subject: The Harvard/NYLS FutureEd 2 program

“Other countries face much larger problems when it comes to regulating the number of law students and quality of legal education. Legal educators from India, China, Japan and France spoke at Harvard Law School Friday during a panel discussion about the challenges they face in producing an appropriate number of good lawyers.

The panel was part of the FutureEd 2 program — a partnership between Harvard's Program on the Legal Profession and New York Law School. The multi-year project is focusing on incorporating globalization into legal education.”

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New York Super Lawyers, “New York Super Lawyers 2010”
October 2010

NYLS Faculty: Peter J. Strauss
Subject: Regional Recognition for NYLS Faculty

Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law and Director of the New York Law School Elder Law Clinic, Peter J. Strauss, was recently named a Super Lawyer.

Herald Net, “Coming out shouldn't be a hellish experience for gays”
By Julie Muhlstein
October 8, 2010

NYLS Student: Stephen Ritchie (2011)
Subject: Recent tragedies in the gay community and issues of “coming out”

“In 2003, Stephen Ritchie was an Everett High School commencement speaker. In 2008, he graduated from the University of Washington. He’s on target to earn a law degree from New York Law School in May.

Recent news of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi’s suicide has opened a door to discussions of bullying and the risks to gay teens.

‘I was absolutely shocked when I heard that news,’ Ritchie said by e-mail Wednesday. ‘It isn’t only an issue of sexuality, but is a broader issue of human decency.’”

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The New York Times, “Lamentable Speech”
October 6, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Nadine Strossen
Subject: 1st Amendment, Freedom of Speech Protection and Funerals

“To the American Nazi Party, Hustler Magazine, and other odious figures in Supreme Court history, add the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. and the members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Their antigay protests at the funeral of a soldier slain in Iraq were deeply repugnant but protected by the First Amendment.

Nadine Strossen, a former leader of the American Civil Liberties Union, pointed out the chilling consequences for protest-filled university campuses if the church’s position is not upheld.”

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New Haven Register, “Death Penalty Preview”
By Joe Amarante
October 8, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Criminal trials and the media

“The almost-inevitable conviction of suburban monster Steven Hayes on nearly all counts played out in tense missives on Twitter, which has usurped television (for rabid news hounds anyway) as the focal point of breaking news stories.

Hey, TV, join the crowd!

‘There really are two trials,’ says New York Law School prof Robert Blecker. ‘The first is the guilt phase…The second phase is the penalty phase, where the question is not “Did he do it?” but “What does he deserve?”’”

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “NY Law School Hosts Forum on Sustainable RE Development”
October 4, 2010

NYLS Center for Real Estate Studies
Subject: Sustainable Real Estate Development Forum

“Sponsored by the Center for Real Estate Studies at New York Law School, an independent law school in Lower Manhattan, the event is the school’s Fourth Annual Breakfast Forum on the topic.”

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TaxProf Blog, “NYLS (Not NYU) Named New York’s Best Graduate Tax Program”
By Paul L. Caron
October 1, 2010

Subject: NYLS’s No.1 ranking for best New York graduate tax program

“New York Law School was named the best tax LL.M. program. (NYU has been #1 in each year of the U.S. News tax rankings, and NYLS has never been named among the Top 25 schools in the rankings.”

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preLaw, “Taking a stand on employee rights”
Fall 2010

NYLS Alumnus: Jayne Ricco
Subject: Labor and employment Law

“When she entered New York Law School, Jayne Ricco had considered going into intellectual property. But at her father’s suggestion, she took private sector labor law class as a second-year student. Her father had worked in labor law himself.

This spring, Ricco joined Jackson Lewis LLP in Long Island, a law firm with a strong emphasis in the labor and employment area. She works in the affirmative action practice group, which advises employers about diversity, Equal Employment Opportunity regulations and other labor issues.”

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Natural Resources & Environment, “Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Protection That Will Work”
Fall 2010

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Breaking the Logjam

“The underlying premise of Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Protection That Will Work is that the major federal environmental statutes enacted in the 1970s were initially successful but now need substantive reform for managing the environment in the twenty-first century.

The reform effort reflected in Breaking the Logjam commenced in 2006 and involved over 50 professors, general counsel, CEOs, chairmen, and others.

As noted by the authors, Breaking the Logjam ‘is not a compendium of the proposals detailed in the law journal and summarized in the report’; instead, it ‘is a call for action through public understanding.’”

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Chicago Sun Times, “Bankruptcies Soar ‘Out Of Hand’”
By Sandra Guy
September 27, 2010

NYLS Staff: Marshall Tract
Subject: Recession, mortgage crisis take toll on Chicago area residents

“Judith Meredith was working two jobs when her work hours were cut and her income plunged 40 percent. Facing mounting credit-card debts and seeing no immediate way out, she filed for bankruptcy.

As she pays off her debts, she also faces foreclosure on her home.

Her situation is wholly consistent with working people struggling nationwide, said bankruptcy expert Marshall Tracht, director of graduate real estate programs at New York Law School.

A variety of situations push people into bankruptcy, noted New York Law School’s Tracht, primarily job loss, divorce and medical expenses.

‘These are people who’ve run into real hardships in their lives, and they’re struggling to find a way out,’ he said.”

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InsideEPA.com, “Despite State Concerns, SIP Reform Panel Will Not Address GHG Controls”
By Molly Davis
September 16, 2010

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: State air plans will not consider greenhouse gas emissions

“A major new EPA-state workgroup aimed at improving the process of crafting state implementation plans (SIPs) for meeting agency air standards will not address greenhouse gas (GHG) limits in air permits and will focus solely on criteria pollutants, an EPA official says, despite ongoing state concerns about permitting for GHGs.

Some observers say that only legislative reform of the Clean Air Act will achieve the necessary SIP reforms that states are seeking. New York Law School professor David Schoenbrod wrote in a Sept. 4 article in The Huffington Post that a national, multipollutant trading program is necessary to address today's air quality problems, but that such a program would require ‘an overt political decision by Congress on how much to cut pollution and who bears the burden’ Schoenbrod adds, ‘For Congress to take on the job, EPA will need to show some leadership.’

In a Sept. 8 interview with Inside EPA, Schoenbrod said, ‘My feeling is that it's EPA's job to tell Congress how its creations are working regardless of how likely it is that Congress is going to make the change.’ He added later in the interview, ‘If Congress wants to disregard a problem for public health and the economy, then the blame is on Congress. If EPA hides the problem then the blame is on EPA.’”

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New York Law Journal, “Best of 2010: Best NY LLM Program”
September 2010

Subject: NYLS’s Taxation LLM Program Ranked No.1 Taxation

The New York Law Journal ranks the New York Law School Taxation LLM (Master of Laws) program as the top Taxation LLM program in New York.

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New York Super Lawyers, “Metro Edition: Top 10 Law Schools”
September 2010

Subject: NYLS is ranked in the top 10 for law schools

The New York Super Lawyers ranks New York Law School as a top 10 law school.

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The New York Times, “The Imam and the Public: A Dialogue”
Letters to the Editor
September 8, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Richard Sherwin
Subject: Downtown Islamic Community Center

“I wish to applaud Feisal Abdul Rauf’s eloquent plea for unity in the spirit of ecumenical peace.”

To view the letter in full, click here.

PC Pro, “Google facing US competition probe”
By Stewart Mitchell
September 6, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelman
Subject: Texas anti-competition investigations into Google’s search rankings.

“Google is facing its first US anti-competition probe, after the Texas Attorney General approached the company following complaints over search rankings.

‘Various experts have taken a closer look at the quality of Foundem’s website, and New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann concluded: “I want Google to be able to rank them poorly.”’

Foundem, which Google claims is backed by the Initiative for an Online Competitive Marketplace (ICOMP), ‘an organisation funded largely by Microsoft’, had not returned a request for comment.”

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The Huffington Post, “The Clean Air Act Is in No Shape to Be Celebrated”
By David Schoenbrod
September 3, 2010

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Clean Air Act 40th Anniversary

“The Clean Air Act is 40 years old. On Sept. 14, 2010, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will lead a day-long celebration of the anniversary. It is appropriate to celebrate past successes, but in truth the Clean Air Act cannot handle today's pollution problems, and not just those caused by greenhouse gases.

EPA has found that traditional pollutants continue to harm public health, but the Clean Air Act, a statute passed in 1970 during the dawn of environmentalism, mandates an ineffective, inefficient response: a requirement that each state adopt its own plan to control emissions.

Congress should replace the state plan requirement with federal market-based regulation.

The time to celebrate will come when the Clean Air Act is itself reformed to make it capable of dealing with today's challenges. For Congress to take on this job, EPA will need to show some leadership.”

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New York Times, “Death Penalty Advocate Is a Challenge for the Defense”
By William Glaberson
September 2, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: The death penalty in Connecticut

“In the three years since his wife and two daughters were killed at his home in Cheshire, Conn., Dr. William A. Petit Jr. has become perhaps the most passionate and visible advocate for the death penalty in Connecticut. More than once he has indicated that the ultimate punishment ought to be imposed on the two longtime criminals who are charged with killing his family.

Dr. Petit’s feelings have been so widely reported that they may well reach the ears of jurors, swaying their opinions.

In other cases, when the relatives of murder victims have said the defendants do not deserve death, they have been embraced by defense teams, creating something of a double standard here, said Robert Blecker, a professor at New York Law School who is a nationally known proponent of the death penalty.

‘When you have survivors who are against the death penalty,’ Professor Blecker said, ‘the defense is perfectly capable of — and does — parade them in public to call for life. So why, when you have an articulate survivor who is in favor of the death penalty, does it suddenly become unfair?’”

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Law.com, “Legal Blogs Are Dead! Long Live Legal Blogs!”
By Robert J. Ambrogi
September 1, 2010

Subject: A legal blog created and run by NYLS students

“CaseClothesed, www.caseclothesed.com. If blogging is fashionable, this blog makes fashion law bloggable. Created, edited, and run by students at New York Law School, it covers fashion law and offers legal perspectives on developments in the fashion industry.”

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ABA Journal, “Un-Google That”
By Brendan L. Smith
September 1, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Concerns over the “Google Books” settlement

“The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers filed a consolidated class action in 2005 after Google announced agreements with several university libraries to digitize millions of books in their collections. Google didn't obtain copyright permissions from rights holders before scanning the books, arguing that its plan to use only snippets from the books to promote online sales was protected under fair use provisions in the 1976 Copyright Act.

Supporters of the Google Library Project say it will provide worldwide access to millions of books through an online repository. But critics have called it an end run around copyright law by a company more interested in profits than public service.

Under the amended settlement agreement, Google would be allowed to continue scanning millions of books and could display up to 20 percent of a book online to encourage sales.

Some legal scholars think the settlement raises too many problems for it to be approved. ‘The essence of the settlement is [that] it uses a class action to issue copyright licenses in a way that creates de facto exclusivity for Google,’ says James Grimmelmann, an associate professor with the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School. ‘It gives Google a very powerful position in the publishing industry.’”

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Publishers Weekly, “Will Google's Net Neutrality Shift Complicate the Book Settlement?”
By Andrew Albanese
August 23, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: The “Google Book” settlement and Google’s stance on the issue of “net neutrality”

“With the Google book Settlement still pending approval in Judge Denny Chin's court, observers say that a shift last week in Google's stance on the issue of "net neutrality" raises new questions about the deal.

…Now more than six months since the book settlement's final fairness hearing, New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann suggested that the company's retreat on net neutrality principles could complicate the already complex settlement debate. ‘What I think the [Verizon-Google] proposal sets up in sharp relief is the question of which services under the [book] settlement are optional and which are mandatory,’ Grimmelmann explained to PW. ‘Settlement opponents could well use the Verizon-Google proposal as evidence that commitments or options that don't actually bind Google may never happen, and therefore shouldn't be counted in the settlement's favor.’

The recent shift on net neutrality—and perhaps the ‘backroom deal’ nature of how the proposal came to be—only gives critics more ammunition. ‘Even if Google today goes ahead with these [settlement] terms, Google five years from now might not,’ Grimmelmann noted. ‘The settlement, for example, only says that Google ‘may' provide public access service.’

In a blog post, Grimmelmann suggested the company's shift on net neutrality at least raises ‘a credibility problem’ for Google.”

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Slate, “The Best Way for Proposition 8 To Lose”
By Emily Bazelton
August 13, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: California’s “Proposition 8” was ruled unconstitutional.

“In allowing gay marriages to go forward on Aug. 18, Judge Vaughn Walker noted that Proposition 8 proponents may not have standing to bring an appeal. How can that be, since they were allowed to defend Prop 8, the voter referendum banning gay marriage, at trial? And if they really don't have standing in court to continue the fight for Prop 8, would that be a good way to resolve the case?

There are a couple of other Supreme Court decisions, flagged by New York Law School professor Arthur Leonard, which more directly address the situation in the Prop 8 case, where the central standing problem is that the governor and the attorney general, speaking for the state of California, have opted not to defend this voter referendum in court.”

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Portland Press Herald, “Ex-warden urges N.H. to avoid executions”
Associated Press
August 13, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Former warden begs NH legislators not to bring back the death penalty

“A former prison warden who carried out eight executions urged a New Hampshire commission yesterday to stay away from the practice, saying the memories of those he has put to death haunt him.

The panel also heard from New York Law School professor Robert Blecker, who argued in favor of keeping the death penalty but applying it ‘only to the worst of the worst of the worst.’

Also, Blecker said, the commission should not view life without parole as a viable alternative to a death sentence, saying ‘lifers’ typically earn the most privileges and get the best jobs behind bars.”

This AP article also ran in The Eagle-Tribune, The Salem News, WBZ 38, and WCAX-TV.

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KCBS Radio, “Interview with Professor Arthur Leonard”
August, 12 2010

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: The “stay” issue behind California’s “Proposition 8”

Arthur S. Leonard interviewed on KCBS Radio on the Proposition 8 “stay” issue.

GayUSA, “Interview with Professor Arthur Leonard”
August 10, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: California’s “Proposition 8”

Arthur Leonard was interviewed on a syndicated cable news program, “GayUSA,” regarding Proposition 8 being ruled unconstitutional in California.

NYLS Faculty: Arthur Leonard
Subject: California’s “Proposition 8”

Arthur Leonard was interviewed on The Michelangelo Signorile Show on Sirius Radio Network regarding Proposition 8 being ruled unconstitutional in California.

The Toronto Star, “Kosovo ruling not an outright victory for secession”
By Ruti Teitel and Robert Howse
July 30, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Ruti Teitel
Subject: World Court ruling on Kosovo

“The World Court’s recent ruling on Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence is being widely touted as giving a green light to secessionist movements to gain statehood. According to Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu, ‘The decision finally removes all doubts that countries which still do not recognize the Republic of Kosovo could have.’

But this reading is largely wishful thinking by those who support secession. The court’s non-binding advisory opinion responded to a narrow question posed by the United Nations General Assembly: whether declaring independence is legal under international law.”

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The Miami Times, “More Black men become lawyers”
By Chad E. Quinn
July 27, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Elizabeth Chambliss
Subject: Racial gap in the legal profession

“As the United States becomes an increasingly diverse nation, the lack of Black legal professionals is cause for major concern, New York Law School’s Prof. Elizabeth Chambliss told blackpressusa.com: ‘The low level of Black representation in the profession may discourage promising Black students from considering law and limit Black lawyers’ chances to find mentor and role models within the law. And, to the extent that Black lawyers are more likely than others to be concerned with racial justice, discrimination, community development, and the like, the dearth of Black lawyers contributes to an already unequal access to lawyers in the United States.’”

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Newsweek, “Why Some Republicans Want to ‘Restore’ the 13th Amendment”
By Joseph Sohm
July 26, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Distinguished Adjunct Professor R.B. Bernstein
Subject: Restoring the Original 13th Amendment

“…In the world of the Thirteenthers, though, it’s all a conspiracy, and the leading suspects are those shady characters who put ‘esquire’ after their names.

…Naturally, most lawyers see it differently. ‘The esquire thing is ridiculous,’ says R. B. Bernstein, a professor at New York Law School and author of Amending America. ‘“Esquire” is not a title of nobility. Back then, they were worried about people accepting literal titles of aristocracy that convey land or privileges, things you can leave to your kids.’ Lawyers obviously command certain privileges, but they are not inherited.

There are, of course, other implications of Thirteenthism, such as ensuring that the United States never again suffers the humiliation of having a president win the Nobel Peace Prize.

But they could be playing with fire. ‘We’re in a constitutional silly season,’ says Bernstein, ‘and whether you are of the left or the right, if you take the Constitution seriously, it’s very troubling.’”

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New York Law Journal, “$550,000 Gift to New York Law Backs Financial Services LL.M.”
By Jeff Storey
July 26, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Ronald H. Filler
Subject: Clearing Corporation Gift to New York Law School

“New York Law School has received a $550,000 gift from The Clearing Corporation Charitable Foundation to endow scholarships for students enrolled full-time in its year-old LLM. program in Financial Services Law.”

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This article also appeared in The New York Lawyer.

The Huffington Post, “Watch: Young, Educated and Unpaid”
By Jett Wells
July 22, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur S. Leonard

Arthur S. Leonard featured in a mini-documentary titled “Young, Educated and Unpaid.”

To view the documentary and access the article about it, click here.

Record, “Supreme Court Decision Raises Software Patent Questions”
By David Worthington
June 30, 2010

Subject: Software Patents

“Some people claim that all software is an abstract idea, because programming is just a form of mathematics, while others believe that computers that control over machinery, or software that has very specific algorithms is not abstract at all”, said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School.

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SD Times, “Supreme Court strikes down Bilski patent claim”
By David Worthington
June 28, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Patent Claim Case at the U.S. Supreme Court

“The United State Supreme Court’s ruling in Bilski v. Kappos today affirmed a lower court’s decision to strike down a patent, but was too narrow to appreciably abate the confusion around which computer software patents are valid, experts say.

…The Supreme Court’s ruling strengthened the ‘abstract idea’ exclusion from patentability, but failed to provide an actual test or to give guidance to inventors, defendants or the United States Patent and Trademark Office, said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School. There will be continued uncertainty and confusion around the validity of existing software patents, he added. The abstract idea exclusion is a reference to the principle that laws of nature and abstract ideas are not patentable, he explained.

Some people claim that all software is an abstract idea, because programming is just a form of mathematics, Grimmelmann said. Others think that software is often concrete enough…‘The Supreme Court appears to come down somewhere in the middle, but doesn’t really say where.’”

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Downtown Express, “Legal Eagles” The Next Generation”
June 25, 2010

Subject: Nursery School Graduation Held at NYLS

“The Buckle My Shoe Nursery School graduation was held on June 11 in the New York Law School auditorium, through the generosity of Harry Althaus, NYLS Associate Dean for Special Projects.”

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Publishers Weekly, “Google Defeats Viacom’s $1 Billion YouTube Suit”
By Andrew Albanese
June 24, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Victory over Viacom

“It isn’t the books settlement, but in a major legal victory for Google, a New York court yesterday rejected Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement suit against the search engine giant over its popular YouTube service. In a ruling that stunned court-watchers, most of whom expected the case to almost certainly go to trial (and most likely settle along the way), the court granted Google’s motion for summary judgment.

Fricklas’ indignation aside, Viacom’s legal arguments were soundly trounced in court. ‘Basically, the court sided with Google/YouTube on every point and eviscerated the arguments of Viacom,’ noted Techdirt's Masnick. New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann, who has followed the Google Book Settlement closely, also noted the force of Stanton’s ruling. ‘The opinion reads like he didn't even think the case was close,’ Grimmelmann told PW. ‘He read the caselaw as pointing strongly in a single direction: YouTube’s duty is to respond to specific knowledge and notices, and that’s it.’ If the ruling is upheld on appeal, he noted ‘it’s a big, solid umbrella for online businesses to shelter under.’”

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International Business Times, “The 2011 capital gains tax rate hike and its impact”
By Hao Li
June 21, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Jeffrey J. Haas
Subject: 2011 capital gains tax hike

“…Since 2008, individuals in the two lowest tax brackets paid 0 percent long-term capital gains tax while everyone else paid 15 percent. In 2011, individuals in the lowest tax bracket will pay 10 percent while the rest will pay 20 percent.

Professor Jeffrey Haas of New York Law School sees the impact as only modest, noting that 5 percentage points is not enough to influence many investors who are in it for the long haul.

However, Haas does believe that the rate hike adds one more reason for investors not to invest in equities. In addition, shortly before 2011, the rate increase may create some artificial selling pressure as investors rush to lock in lower tax rates on gains.”

To view the article in full, click here.

Bloomberg Business Week, “High-Speed Internet Rules Might Prove Costly”
By Olga Kharif
June 17, 2010

NYLS Project: The Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute
Subject: Net Neutrality report

“Proposed regulation of high-speed Internet service providers by the U.S. government could cost the economy at least $62 billion annually over the next five years and eliminate 502,000 jobs, according to a study released by New York Law School.

The report estimates that broadband providers and related industries may cut their investments by 10 percent to 30 percent from 2010 to 2015 in response to additional regulation. At 30 percent, the economy might sustain an $80 billion hit, according to Charles Davidson, director of the law school’s Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute, which released the report on June 16.”

To view the article in full, click here.

The ACLP Institute’s Net Neutrality report also appeared in Ars Technica, The San Francisco Chronicle, UPI, and many other national news outlets.

KUER, “Death Penalty- Pro and Con”
By Doug Fabrizio
June 17, 2010

Subject: Death Penalty

Robert Blecker participated in a discussion on the death penalty.

To hear the interview in full, click here:

WAML Radio, “Mental Disability Law”
June 15, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Michael Perlin
Subject: Mental Disability Law

Michael Perlin was interviewed about mental disability law.

To view the interview, click here.

ABC News, “Mary Schapiro Says SEC Must Grow to Keep up With Demand”
By Emily Chasan
June 14, 2010

Subject: SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro at NYLS event with The Financial Women’s Association

“The Securities and Exchange Commission needs to continue to grow to meet demand for more regulation on things like ratings agencies, derivatives, and swaps, Chairman Mary Schapiro said on Monday.

…‘I understand and appreciate the concern that I think animates the Lincoln provision and much of the bill, which is to not have such great concentrations of risk,’ Schapiro told the audience at New York Law School, noting the need to manage capital and risks better in derivatives.”

To view the article in full, click here.

This event was also appeared in articles in Business Week, The American Lawyer Daily, The New York Times, and many other national news outlets.

CBS Sunday Morning, “The Slow Death of the Death Penalty”
June 13, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Robert Blecker
Subject: Arguments over the use of the death penalty

“…A recent CBS News poll shows 63% of Americans favor the death penalty, a number that’s remained fairly consistent over the past 20 years.
Why? According to New York Law School professor Robert Blecker, ‘Because some people deserve to die, and we have an obligation to kill them.’

Blecker is a well-known proponent of capital punishment.
‘It just comes from a sense that justice should be done,’ he said. ‘A feeling that we forget the past too easily, a feeling that the victim’s voices cry out.’

‘In your opinion, who deserves to die?’ Doane asked.

‘The cruel, the most cruel people deserve to die,’ Blecker said. ‘Those people who take intense pleasure from the suffering of others. At one extreme the torturer, the rapist-murderer, the child murderer; and at the other extreme, the callous, the cold, the wanton. They kill because someone is in their way.’”

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The Huffington Post, “Why I Sculpt: A Law Professor Makes Peace With Dyslexia”
By David Schoenbrod
June 8, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor David Schoenbrod
Subject: Dyslexia

“Fifty-seven years ago, something happened in school that left me puzzled until recently. Our sixth-grade teacher wrote an arithmetic quiz on the blackboard, but this time the quantities were stated in words rather than numerals. My answers were all wrong. She helped me see that the mistakes came in translating the words into numerals. What puzzled me was why this translation was so much harder for me than other students.

To view the article in full, click here.

AALS Spectrum, “Above & Below”
By Camille Broussard
May 2010

NYLS Staff: Camille Broussard
Subject: New York Law School’s New Library

“In August 2009, just before the start of the fall semester, New York Law School opened the doors to the brand new Mendik Library, a centerpiece of its new building in the heart of lower Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood…In addition to the library, the new building houses classrooms, an auditorium, event space, and the student center and dining area.

…Looking back at more than three years of planning for two complete moves, the staff views the adventure in building a new and outstanding library and research facility as an exciting ride filled with both challenges and triumphs.”

Full text of this article is available by subscription only.

National Law Journal, “New York Law School receives $20 million gift”
By Karen Sloan
May 26, 2010

Subject: Starr Foundation Gift

“New York Law School is in the money.

The School announced on Wednesday that it has received a $20 million donation from The Starr Foundation, an organization that finances initiatives in education, medicine, public policy and other areas.”

To view the article in full, click here.

This story also appeared in:
The National Jurist
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports
The New York Law Journal
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Philanthropy News Digest
New York Lawyer

Parade Magazine, “Cleaning Up the Mortgage Mess”
By Joel Brenner
May 23, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Andrew Berman
Subject: Mortgages

“Despite the federal government’s efforts to rescue distressed homeowners, foreclosures continue to sweep the nation.
‘Previously, most home loans were made by banks and savings-and-loans, which often had strict underwriting standards and held onto loans until maturity,’ explains Andrew Berman, director of New York Law School’s Center for Real Estate Studies.”

To view the article in full, click here.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, “New Campus Architecture: a Sampling”
May 21, 2010

Subject: The New Building

“The buildings in this compilation are examples of new facilities and renovation projects completed during 2009 on college campuses.
New York Law School’s facilities had consisted of disconnected structures, including several 19th century cast-iron buildings. The new facility unites many of the law school’s student-centered functions behind a transparent five-story façade that gives the school a memorable public presence while showcasing classrooms, lounges, study rooms, dining facilities, and a library.

This article appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education on May 21, 2010.

Publisher’s Weekly, “A Tantalizing Clue Suggests Google Settlement Might Keep Its Judge”
May 14, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Settlement

“Last week, Google settlement Judge Denny Chin, newly seated to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, issued a minor order in the recent lawsuit filed by visual artists against Google, to which he is also assigned.”

To view the full article, click here.

CNN, “Can people actually ‘own’ virtual land?”
By John D. Sutter
May 10, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Virtual Land

“Zed Drebin is an avatar in the virtual world of Second Life. He's controlled by Arthur, a 44-year-old who lives in New York City, and who didn't want his full name used for fear it would hurt his business.

Despite the fact that Arthur pays U.S. dollars to ‘own’ virtual land in Second Life, and that his renters also pay him in real money, it's unclear whether he, or any of Second Life's "residents," have lasting rights to these virtual tracts.

‘In these worlds, we are somewhere in like the 16th century’ in terms of legal systems, said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor New York Law School who focuses on technology and the law.”

To view the full article, click here.

The American Lawyer, “And now for Something Completely Different: The Future of Legal Education”
By Irene Plagianos
April 11, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Dean Richard A. Matasar and Professor Elizabeth Chambliss
Subject: Future Ed Conference

“Room 402 at New York Law School is usually reserved for lectures about civil procedure. On Friday afternoon, though, dean Richard Matasar introduced a different discussion topic to the crowded classroom: the need to change U.S. legal education--and to do it now.

… New York Law professor and program organizer Elizabeth Chambliss says several factors helped spark the initiative: deep cuts in associate hiring, recession-driven changes to the broader legal market, and the Carnegie Foundation’s highly critical 2007 report on how law schools are failing to teach students practical skills.”

To view the article in full, click here.

To read more, see:
Above the Law
The National Law Journal

The Associated Press, “Stevens carved liberal legacy on high court”
By Mark Sherman and Calvin Woodward
April 9, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor James F. Simon
Subject: U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

“The preservation of abortion rights, protection of consumer rights and limits on the death penalty are due in no small measure to John Paul Stevens' actions on the Supreme Court.

… He'd tell lawyers gently, ‘Let me ask a stupid question,’ then subject them to an intellectual grilling en route to decisions touching many aspects of American life. The justice prodded the government to take global warming more seriously, and he stood for campaign-finance controls in an imperfect world in which he acknowledged, ‘Money, like water, will always find an outlet.’

… Stevens was ‘the most independently minded and intellectually creative member of the high court, a man of great integrity,’ said James Simon, former dean of the New York Law School.”

To view the article in full, click here.

Publishers Weekly, “Artists and Photographers Sue Over Google Book Search”
By Andrew Albanese
April 7, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google settlement

“In the latest twist in the Google Book Search settlement saga, graphic artists and photographers today filed a class action suit in a federal court in New York claiming Google's book-scanning and display infringes the copyrights of artists and photographers.

… ‘In a sense the artists are doing what the parties and Judge Chin all but invited them to do,’ New York Law School's James Grimmelmann told PW. ‘The parties said “we're not required to include you in our settlement,” and Judge Chin said “you can't join as additional plaintiffs to negotiate, but you can have your own lawsuit.” The artists have called that bluff.’”

To view the article in full, click here.

To read more coverage, see:
MediaPost

Voice of America, “Pioneering US Supreme Court Justice Wants more Women, Diversity on Court”
By Carolyn Weaver
April 6, 2010

Subject: Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wants more diversity on Court/Sidney Shainwald Public Interest Lecture

“Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says she would like to see another woman join Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor on the Court, if Justice John Paul Stevens does decide to step down this year, as he has recently hinted he will.

… Speaking at New York Law School on Tuesday, O'Connor, who in 1981 became the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, said she also hoped for more diversity of professional backgrounds among future justices.”

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The Associated Press, “O’Connor: More justices may skip State of Union”
By Larry Neumeister
April 6, 2010

Subject: Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor/2010 Sidney Shainwald Public Interest Lecture

“The first woman to sit on the nation's highest court said Tuesday she wouldn't be surprised if fewer justices attend State of the Union addresses after President Obama criticized a recent ruling at this year's address.

…Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told several reporters at New York Law School that it was never easy to get justices to attend.

… ‘It is not much fun to go because you put on a black robe and march in and you're seated in the front row, (you) put your hands in your lap and have no expression on your face throughout the proceedings. You can clap when the president comes in and when he leaves and that's it. It's very awkward,’ she said.”

To view the article in full, click here.

To read more coverage, see:
The April 7, 2010 issue of the New York Law Journal
The Daily News
The New York Times

The New York Times, “Library Names New Fellows”
By Kate Taylor
April 1, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Subject: New York Public Library Fellows

“The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library announced its 2010-11 fellows, who include … the historian Annette Gordon-Reed, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner ‘The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.’”

To view the article in full, click here.

The Wall Street Journal, “Glitz Masks Woes for Trump Soho”
By Craig Karmin Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
March 28, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Andrew Berman
Subject: Trump SoHo

“The Trump SoHo hotel and condominium, first announced during an episode of Donald Trump's hit television show, ‘The Apprentice,’ is poised to open next month amid much public fanfare. But the road there has often been bumpy.

… The condo hotel ‘was a bull market development,’ said Andrew R. Berman, the director and a professor at the Center for Real Estate Studies at New York Law School. ‘It's a complicated structure to explain that appeals to a particular niche buyer during the best of times, and these are still difficult times.’”

This article appears in the March 28, 2010 issue of The Wall Street Journal.

Huffington Post, “Laptops in Class: A Professional Virus”
By Maureen A. Howard
March 28, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Mariana Hogan
Subject: Laptops in Class

“Although empirical and anecdotal evidence suggest internet use during class interferes with learning, student consensus is that it is merely a modern incarnation of classroom distractions of old: playing solitaire (with real cards), reading the newspaper, or passing notes. Nevertheless, more teachers--and schools--are adopting a ‘no laptop’ policy.

…Professor Mariana Hogan at New York Law School acknowledged this multitasking behavior can be risky for law students post-graduation, noting ‘we've added material to our Professional Development curriculum to alert our students that partners in law firms might not see these work habits the same way.’ Professor Hogan observes that students are surprised to learn that such multitasking might be frowned upon in practice.”

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Keene Sentinel, “Google library decision will change publishing”
By John Timpane
March 26, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google decision

“The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world's out−of−print and out−of−copyright books in a vast online archive. It could all be just a mouse click away from your computer screen if the effort, known as the Google Books Library Project, survives a legal challenge.

…James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at the New York Law School, said the crux of Chin's pending decision was ‘whether giving all these rights to Google precludes competition.’
Central, he said, is the ‘opt−out’ provision in the Google Books settlement. Its simplified form is: If Google wants to print a text to which you hold the copyright, it can unless you tell it no first. ‘This reverses the default of prior law,’ Grimmelmann said. Usually, the publisher must seek out copyright holders and secure permission before publishing. ‘Some people are afraid under such an agreement, no copyright is safe.’”

This article appears in the March 26, 2010 issue of the Keene Sentinel.

Real Estate Weekly, “Market spooked by dark secret”
By Jason Turcotte
March 24, 2010

Center for Real Estate Studies
Subject: New York’s housing market

“With increasing shadow space in the condo market – space that’s been built but is being withheld from the market – some industry insiders are predicting developers will have no other avenues but to begin with the sales-to-rental conversation process.

… Speaking at a residential real estate panel at New York Law School last week, Miller Samuel president and CEO Jonathan Miller estimated that 6,500 shadow units exist in the new development market.”

This article appears in the March 24, 2010 issue of the Real Estate Weekly.

The Daily News (Jacksonville, NC), “There’s disquiet in Google’s online library”
By Anonymous
March 21, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google decision

“Google has been busy. The internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world’s out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive.

… James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at the New York Law School, said the crux of Chin’s pending decision was ‘whether giving all these rights to Google precludes competition.’”

This article appears in the March 21, 2010 issue of The Daily News (Jacksonville, NC).

Library Journal “Libraries A Side Issue At Google Settlement Hearing”
By Anonymous
March 15, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google settlement

“Libraries were mentioned frequently at the fairness hearing on the Google Book Search Settlement held February 18 in federal court in Manhattan. But they were not necessarily directly represented, as only one librarian spoke.

… New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann commented that Judge Denny Chin took a pragmatic attitude and won’t decide quickly.”

This article appears in the March 15, 2010 issue of The Library Journal.

Architecture DC, “Legal Transparency”
Spring 2010

Subject: NYLS New Building

“New York Law School (NYLS) has never been a standard-issue legal institution.

…Thanks to the transparency of the facades, the entire city shares these beautiful spaces, especially at night, when the building truly becomes a lantern. NYLS’s community-minded identity is unmistakable.”

This article appears in the Spring 2010 issue of Architecture DC.

Bay Windows, “Supreme Court to hear Fred Phelps case”
By Lisa Keen
March 10, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur S. Leonard
Subject: Fred Phelps case

“The U.S. Supreme Court continues its unpredictable foray into LGBT-related legal conflicts, this week announcing that it will decide whether a protester has a First Amendment right to use a private funeral service as a staging ground for their hate speech against gays.

…Art Leonard, a well-respected LGBT law professor and commentator, said he thinks ‘the conservatives on the court are eager to cut back tort liability whenever and wherever they can.’ ‘Here’s a chance for them to say that people who speak publicly about controversial issues giving their opinion should not have to pay damages just because expressing their opinion causes emotional distress to somebody,’ said Leonard. The question here, he said, is whether the conduct of Phelps and his followers ‘steps so far across the line into truly outrageous conduct that it should be held to have sacrificed the protection of the First Amendment.’”

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Huffington Post, “MSCI’s Risky Bet on RiskMetrics”
By Tamara Belinfanti
March 9, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Tamara Belinfanti
Subject: MSCI acquiring RiskMetrics Group Inc.

“Last week, MSCI, Inc., a provider of investment support tools, agreed to acquire RiskMetrics Group Inc., the leading provider of risk management services, corporate governance ratings and proxy advisory services, in a deal valued at approximately $1.55 billion.

…While markets and analysts responded positively to the news, this exuberance may be short-lived thanks to RiskMetrics' wholly-owned subsidiary, ISS. ISS is incompetent and it is only a matter of time before markets and regulators realize.

…Ironically, the success of MSCI's acquisition hinges on the bet that once again ISS has miscalled it, and that contrary to ISS' ratings, the management of MSCI actually knows what it is doing.”

To view the article in full, click here.

San Mateo County Times, “Before Google can turn page…”
By Mike Swift
March 9, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google settlement

“Google Book Search has already spawned a class-action lawsuit, and now, a surge of opposition from scholars, consumer advocates and business competitors who contend the plan gives Google too much control over a priceless store of information.

… ‘It really is the most important copyright dispute we’re currently facing,’ said James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School and a former Microsoft programmer. ‘I would say this whole controversy has the potential to really affect how we access all kinds of media, not just old ones, but also new ones.’”

This article appears in the March 9, 2010 issue of the San Mateo County Times.

San Jose Mercury News, “Google's digital library faces key hurdles”
By Mike Swift
March 7, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google’s digital library

“Sometime in the near future, a federal judge will decide whether Google can proceed with its plan to create a digital library and bookstore out of millions of old books scanned from libraries around the world. Google Book Search has already spawned a class-action lawsuit, and now, a surge of opposition from scholars, consumer advocates and business competitors who contend the plan gives Google too much control over a priceless store of information.

…‘It really is the most important copyright dispute we're currently facing,’ said James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School and a former Microsoft programmer. ‘I would say this whole controversy has the potential to really affect how we access all kinds of media, not just old ones, but also new ones. If Google is successful in rewriting a major area of copyright law through its proposed settlement of the lawsuit, someone else could try something similar for music or photographs. It's a really interesting way to break a lot of logjams in copyright law, Grimmelmann said. But are we opening a Pandora's box?’”

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New York Post Starr Report, “The Media and Criminal Law: Fact, Fiction, and Reality TV”
By Michael Starr
March 5, 2010

Subject: The Program in Law & Journalism

“With Fox's ‘24’ in full swing, series executive producer Howard Gordon will deliver the keynote address March 12 at New York Law School's seminar, ‘The Media and Criminal Law: Fact, Fiction, and Reality TV.’ The seminar is part of the school's Program in Law & Journalism.”

To view the article in full, click here.
 

Probate & Property, “Profiles in Membership”
March/April 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor William P. LaPiana
Subject: Profile of William P. LaPiana

“For Bill, the best part about being involved with the ABA is the opportunity to have contact with practitioners. For someone who teaches full-time in wills and trusts, Bill believes that the opportunity provided by the [Real Property, Trust and Estate Law] Section to keep up with what practitioners are doing to deal with real life problems is truly priceless.”

This article appears in the March/April 2010 issue of Probate & Property. 

The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Colleges Await End of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’”
By Andrea Fuller
February 28, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Dean Richard A. Matasar, Professor Arthur Leonard
Subject: Military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Policy

“The timeline for a possible repeal remains unclear, and some members of Congress continue to support the policy. But with both Robert M. Gates, the secretary of defense, and Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advocating an end to ‘don't ask, don't tell,’ its repeal appears likelier than ever before.

…New York Law School, which has included ‘sexual orientation’ in its nondiscrimination policy since 1983, has a particularly long history of opposing the military's ban on openly gay service members.

… Richard A. Matasar, dean at New York, says the law school no longer believes that protest will be effective if only a handful of schools bar recruiters…. ‘Any single person who is now going to enlist who wouldn't have been able to enlist is a significant change,’ says Mr. Matasar, of New York Law School.

…‘There are certainly tensions,’ says Arthur S. Leonard, a professor at New York Law School who specializes in gay-rights law and who was instrumental in banning employers who discriminated based on sexual orientation from recruiting there in the 1980s. The law school has periodically barred military recruiters, too, but it dropped the ban after the 2006 court decision.”

This article appears in the February 28, 2010 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Waco Tribune-Herald, “Baylor University community, supporters of Starr expect new president to raise school’s profile, endowment”
By Tim Woods
February 28, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Nadine Strossen
Subject: Ken Starr to be Baylor University’s new president

“Many in the Baylor family are singing the praises of new university President Ken Starr, saying his national prominence can help the school make significant gains.

…Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor at New York Law School, has dealt with Starr on several occasions in the past 20 years and says people need to look beyond the negativity surrounding that investigation when assessing Starr.

‘From the media coverage of [the Whitewater investigation], a lot of people saw him as being mean-spirited, and he is anything but that,’ Strossen said. ‘It’s just the worst and most inaccurate of characterizations, anybody who would say he’s mean. I know it’s kind of an insipid word, the word nice, but he is literally one of the nicest people I have ever met. Just innately decent, humane, kind, considerate, compassionate and fair.’”

This article appears in the February 28, 2010 issue of Waco Tribune-Herald.

TaxProf Blog, “Rostain Presents Lawyers, Accountants and the Tax Shelter Industry Today at San Diego”
By Tanina Rostain
February 26, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Tanina Rostain
Subject: Tax shelter market

“Tanina Rostain presents a chapter of her forthcoming book, Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants and the Tax Shelter Industry.

…The book describes the historical, economic, and organizational forces that gave rise to the abusive tax shelter market in the United States between 1994 and 2004. After tracing the macro-factors – including the state of tax law enforcement, the booming economy, and the highly competitive atmosphere in which accounting and law firms were operating in the 1990’s – the book will offer a detailed account of the role of the high-profile organizations and individuals that spearheaded the rise of the abusive shelter industry.”

To view the article in full, click here.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, “3 Academics Are Among Recipients of National Humanities Medals”
February 26, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Annette Gordon-Reed
Subject: 2009 National Humanities Medals

“President Obama honored the recipients of the 2009 National Humanities Medals. They included Annette Gordon-Reed, a law professor at New York Law School and history professor at Rutgers University who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Hemingses of
Monticello.”

This article appears in the February 26, 2010 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

For more coverage visit:
The Washington Post
USA Today

Software Development Times, “Landmark software patent case settled”
By Alex Handy
February 25, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Mark Webbink
Subject: Patent infringement case settled out of court

“What was likely the most contentious court case in the history of model railroading wound down to an anticlimactic conclusion on Feb. 18, when the patent infringement case of Jacobsen v. Katzer was settled out of court.

… Mark Webbink, visiting professor at the New York Law School, said that it was Jacobsen's choice of license that opened him up to many legal attacks from Katzer, which began in 2004. ‘From the standpoint of quality of an open-source license, it's just awful,’ he said. ‘The court looked at it and said it still conveys the intent of the author of the code and therefore needs to be enforced.’”

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FINS from The Wall Street Journal, “From Contracts to Cupcakes: A Wall Street Career Change”
By Julie Steinberg
February 25, 2010

NYLS Alumnus: David Arrick
Subject: A Wall Street Career Change

“When David Arrick thought about using skills gained at an elite Wall Street law firm to transition from one job sector to another, real estate development in Dubai was his next logical career choice. When that didn't pan out, it was cupcakes. Mancakes, to be exact.” Before opening Butch Bakery, “an online delivery ‘masculine’ cupcakery,” Mr. Arrick attended New York Law School at night.

… “‘It's surprisingly a cutthroat environment for cupcakes,’ Arrick said. ‘But my negotiation, corporate and LLC compliance, and accounting skills have served me well. Plus, I can draft complex agreements and contracts.’"

To view the article in full, click here.

CrimProf Blog, “Perlin and McClain on the Role of Neuroimaging in the Criminal Trial Process”
By Michael Perlin and Valerie Rae McClain
February 24, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Michael Perlin
Subject: Neuroimaging in the Criminal Trial Process

“The robust neuroimaging debate has dealt mostly with philosophical questions about free will, responsibility, and the relationship between brain abnormalities, violence and crime.”

To view the article in full, click here.

New York Law Journal, “Courts Celebrate Black History Month”
February 22, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Annette Gordon-Reed
Subject: Tribune Society’s Distinguished Service Award

“Annette Gordon-Reed, a New York Law School professor and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for ‘The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,’ was honored with the Tribune Society’s Distinguished Service Award.”

This article appears in the February 22, 2010 issue of the New York Law Journal.

Library Journal, “Grimmelmann Weighs in on the Google Book Search Settlement Hearing”
By Anonymous
February 22, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google book search

“Three days after the Google Book Search Settlement hearing on February 18, New York Law School's James Grimmelmann, with help from his students, has posted on his Laboratorium blog comprehensive coverage and insightful analysis of each speaker. ‘I was impressed with Judge [Denny] Chin’s demeanor. He wore his intelligence and his authority lightly,’” Grimmelmann wrote.

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ABA Journal, “ABA Effort to Add Outcomes to Accreditation Standards Roils Law Deans”
By Sarah Randag
February 22, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Dean Richard Matasar
Subject: Adding outcomes to accreditation standard

“A proposed shift in ABA law school accreditation standards away from ‘input’ measures—such as student/faculty ratio or facilities—to student learning outcomes has law school deans talking; and worrying.

…New York Law School Dean Richard Matasar, president of the American Law Deans Association, told the National Law Journal that he is worried that requiring law schools to develop and execute ways to assess what students have learned could end up driving up tuition costs.”

To view the article in full, click here.
For more coverage, please visit:
The National Law Journal

Intellectual Property Watch, “Conference: Access to Knowledge, Human Rights Can Learn From Each Other”
By Kaitlin Mara
February 19, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Molly Beutz Land
Subject: Access to knowledge

“A treaty on copyright exceptions for visually impaired readers, open educational materials, use of the internet without surveillance, and early human rights movements around access to electricity were among issues debated at a recent academic conference on access to knowledge.

… But human rights, in particular the principle of state accountability, could help where barriers to access are systemic, suggested Molly Beutz Land, an associate professor at New York Law School.”

To view the article in full, click here.
For more coverage from Molly Beautz Land at Intellectual Property Watch, please click here.

“The Diane Rehm Show” on WAMU 88.5 FM, NPR station in Washington, D.C., “A Discussion About the Death Penalty”
February 18, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Robert Blecker
Subject: Death Penalty

Robert Blecker, a law professor at New York Law School and supporter of the death penalty, discusses “the state of capital punishment in America today,” as a guest speaker on “The Diane Rehm Show.”

To view the article in full, click here.

Grist, “Why Congress must revise the Clean Air Act”
By David Schoenbrod, Katrina M. Wyman, Richard B. Stewart
February 17, 2010

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Clean Air Act

“Most Americans breath dirty air -- in many places, levels of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and ozone are in violation of federal air quality standards.

… Congress has not revised the Clean Air Act or any of the nation's other major environmental statutes since 1990 -- this is an irresponsible omission because the pollution problem and our understanding of how to deal with it have changed radically since the early 1970s when most of these statutes were originally structured.”

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WNYC, “Government Transparency Online”
By Beth Noveck and Aneesh Chopra
February 10, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Open government initiative

“There is a truly impressive amount of data that has become readily available as part of President Obama’s open government initiative, the challenge now is to make it useful to anyone but the most enterprising data house.

… ‘It’s the opportunity for people to take that data, to use it, to analyze it, to mash it up, and to make it valuable, and to turn that raw data into knowledge,’” Beth Noveck stated.

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Publishers Weekly, “DoJ Concerns Could Be Big Problem For Google Deal”
By Calvin Reid with Jim Milliot
February 8, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelman
Subject: Google Deal

“The Department of Justice dealt a serious blow Thursday evening to the chances that the Google Book Search settlement will gain court approval later this month when it found that the revised agreement still raises class certification, copyright, and antitrust issues.

… James Grimmelmann, a New York Law School professor who has also filed an objection to the settlement, called the DoJ's ruling ‘very significant. Approval of the settlement is now less likely.’ He said the ruling showed the publishers ‘tipping their hand’ and citing legal issues and prior cases in front of the DoJ that they have not cited to the public.”

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MediaPost, “Showdown Looms Over Future of Google Books”
By Wendy Davis
February 5, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Deal

“The DOJ might be getting ready to again flex its muscle with Google, this time to force the company to abandon ambitious plans to publish out-of-print books.

… Settlement critic and New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann tells MediaPost he believes the DOJ will be troubled by any resolution that allows Google to publish out-of-print books. Instead, Grimmelmann thinks the feds will push for a settlement that allows Google to continue to scan and index such books, but not publish them.”

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MediaPost, “DOJ: Google Books Deal Still Raises Antitrust Issues”
By Wendy Davis
February 4, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Deal

“The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday that it still has concerns that a deal between Google and book authors and publishers could give the search giant an unfair advantage over potential competitors.

… The potential arrangement has drawn a host of critics, including New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann, potential competitor Amazon and broadband advocacy groups like Public Knowledge.”

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SDTimes, “USPTO likely to adopt ‘peer-to-patent’”
By Alex Handy
February 4, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Mark Webbink
Subject: Peer-to-Patent Project

“The goal of the Peer-to-Patent Project…is to allow the public to cite prior art to invalidate potential software patents, and in doing so, bring an end to the patent approval gridlock.

… Mark Webbink, a professor at the New York Law School who worked on Peer-to-Patent, said that the end result was a fairly simple process for citing prior art via the Web. ‘As part of the learning experience for a student, here I had them sitting down and doing prior art searches. I am not a patent attorney myself, but I worked on a few [patent prior art searches with Peer-to-Patent],’ he said.”

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MediaPost, “Critics Still Unhappy With Google Book Deal”
By Wendy Davis
February 3, 2010

NYLS Faculty: James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Deal

“Some critics aren't any happier with the revised deal in the Google Book Search case than they were with the original.

... James Grimmelmann, a professor at the New York Law School, initially expressed ambivalence about the deal, which allows Google to digitize and sell ‘orphan works’ -- books under copyright whose owners can't be found.”

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Law360, “Tight Job Market Could Drive Legal Ed Reform”
By Jocelyn Allison
February 2, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Elizabeth Chambliss
Subject: Job Market

“Now, with the associate market at U.S. law firms contracting and competition for starting positions fiercer than ever, experts predict schools will put their money with their mouths are.

… ‘We've had a one-size-fits-all model of law school in the U.S. for a very long time, and the reality is there are very different markets that student are trained for,’ said Elizabeth Chambliss, professor at New York Law School and co-director of the Center for Professional Values and Practice.”

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The Orange County Register, “First Amendment, unshackled”
By John C. Eastman and Nadine Strossen
Friday, January 22, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Nadine Strossen
Subject: First Amendment/Political Speech during Elections

“…The very nature of our representative democracy depends on a robust exchange of ideas in the political arena, for it is only through such interchange that the people we elect can be held accountable to us.

Yet, for decades now, Congress has been making laws abridging the freedom of speech at its core – political speech during elections. That trend was halted last week by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a key part of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, or McCain-Feingold). Civil libertarians and constitutional originalists alike, regardless of their partisan political views, should applaud the court's decision as a great victory for freedom of speech and democracy.”

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Publishers Weekly, “At NWU Event, Confusion, Strong Opposition to Google Settlement”
By Andrew Albanese
Thursday, January 21, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Search Settlement Event

“…The panel also featured literary agent and attorney Lynn Chu and New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann.

In his balanced talk, Grimmelmann, the only neutral voice on the panel, outlined three major points for audience members to consider when evaluating the deal: the settlement as a new publishing model; the deal’s alignment of authors’ and readers’ interests; and its implications for copyright policy.”

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The New York Times, “Judge Cites Discrimination in N.Y. Fire Dept.”
By Al Baker
Thursday, January 14, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Elise C. Boddie
Subject: Discrimination in the NYC Fire Department

“A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that New York City intentionally discriminated against black applicants to the Fire Department by continuing to use an exam that it had been told put them at a disadvantage.

…‘I can’t recall there ever being a finding of intentional racial discrimination in a pattern-and-practice case against the city,’ said Elise C. Boddie, a professor of constitutional law at New York Law School who formerly litigated employment discrimination cases. ‘I would say this is pretty big.’

…Ms. Boddie, the New York Law School professor, said such rulings against government entities were rare around the nation, adding, ‘To the extent there is a finding of liability, it is usually on disparate-impact grounds, not based on racially discriminatory intent.’

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Read more coverage at New York magazine.

TaxProf Blog, “NYLS Offers Summer Tax Institute for J.D. Students”
By Paul L. Caron
Thursday, January 14, 2010

NYLS Subject: Summer Institutes

“New York Law School has announced a 2010 Summer Institute (June 1 to July 27) for J.D. students in four areas of concentration, including tax:”

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Washington City Paper, “Getting the Courts to Stop Governing D.C.”
By Mike DeBonis
January 13, 2010

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Cases involving key District agencies

“In Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government, authors Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod argue why federal class action law suits and the ‘consent decrees’ they usually produce have been bad for local governments.

…These cases make judges, lawyers, politicians, and reporters feel good, the book argues, but it doesn’t lead to better services. Rather, it shifts power from duly elected officials, accountable to voters, to judges and plaintiffs’ lawyers. The result, the authors write, is that institutional reform litigation ‘has proved much less successful than its proponents admit,’ with the most durable changes coming through ‘politics as usual’ rather than through court intervention.”

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The New York Times, “Top Terror Prosecutor Settles Into a Familiar Role”
By Benjamin Weiser
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

NYLS Alumnus: David Raskin ’94
Subject: September 11th Terrorism Case

“…Now, nearly four years later, that prosecutor, David Raskin, looks as if he will get another shot at prosecuting a Sept. 11 case, and this time, he could end up asking that five men be put to death. Mr. Raskin, an assistant United States attorney in Manhattan, is widely expected to be the lead prosecutor in the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other terrorism suspects when they arrive from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, former colleagues say.

…He elaborated more recently in a talk at New York Law School: “Is the government allowed to sort of try Plan A and keep people, you know, detained on an island for years, and then when it doesn’t work out, can we just decide to go a different route?”

Mr. Raskin went on to write articles for several sports magazines before deciding to attend New York Law School. He went into law in part because he was encouraged by a comment by David Stern, the N.B.A. commissioner, during an interview with him, a friend said.”

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NPR, “Gay Marriage Ban Faces High-Stakes Test in Trial”
By Kevin Whitelaw
Monday, January 11, 2010

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur Leonard
Subject: Same-Sex Marriage

“Advocates and opponents of same-sex marriage both are anxiously watching a very high-profile, landmark federal trial that opened Monday in San Francisco.

…But it’s also a case that initially divided the gay-rights community, which is concerned that federal courts remain too conservative to rule in their favor.

‘The movement's organizers, who have been litigating on same-sex marriage over the past two decades, have made the very conscious decision to stick to state courts because of their view that the Supreme Court was not yet ready to take on this issue in a positive direction,’ says Arthur Leonard, editor of Lesbian/Gay Law Notes and a law professor at New York Law School. ‘I think they're taking a risk.’

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Washingtonian, “Top Lawyers”
By Kashmir Hill and David Lat
December 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Cameron Stracher
Subject: Top Lawyers

“Would you pay $1,000 an hour for this man’s time? The best legal talent doesn’t come cheap—here’s why lawyers make what they do, how they make partner (or don’t), plus the top 1 percent of the area’s 80,000 attorneys.

One Chance to Get It Right

…To be a lawyer, one must go to law school. The practice of law is a monopoly, essentially restricted to holders of law degrees who have passed the bar exam and satisfy other requirements for bar admission. That barrier to entry, coupled with the fear people encounter when they have to deal with the legal system, means lawyers can charge a lot.

…‘Lawyers beget lawyers,’ says New York Law School professor Cameron Stracher. ‘When one side lawyers up, the other one needs to do the same. It’s like nuclear deterrence in a way.’

Bill $250 but Pay Only $35

…Both surgeons and lawyers perform high-stress, high-stakes work. Lawyers, like some doctors, make sacrifices in their personal lives in exchange for big payouts.

…‘Corporate lawyers are essentially selling their souls for a large sum of money,’ says law professor Cameron Stracher, a former Covington & Burling associate and the author of Double Billing, a novel chronicling the misery of being a corporate attorney. Lawyers at large firms are ‘expected to be on call 24/7.’”

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Publishers Weekly “The Google Settlement: Why It Matters”
By James Grimmelmann
Monday, November 23, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: The Google Book Search Settlement

“The Google Book Search Settlement, which was amended November 13, is a big document and a big deal: $125 million and a dramatic shift in copyright law. Having spent the last year studying the settlement and writing about it, I'd like to explain why it matters so much. On Google's home turf—search—what it does is almost wholly good. When search engines work right, they empower users to seek out whatever they want to learn. That's the exact opposite of broadcasting, in which a few big speakers choose what everyone else hears. In a world where everyone can self-publish, search engines turn what would otherwise be deafening cacophony into the best party ever, where every guest can instantly join the conversation that most interests them. That's good for freedom, and good for democracy. Building better search engines is a moral imperative.”

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Library Journal, “Revised Google Settlement Offers Minor Changes on Antitrust Issue, No Response on Library Pricing”
By Norman Oder
Saturday, November 14, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Revised Google Book Search Settlement

“…New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann noted that, while foreign, non-Anglophone books had been taken out and the parties had made some tweaks here and there, the ‘heart of the settlement’s promise, peril, and problems has always been its treatment of unclaimed works—a category that contains the orphan works. Settlement 1.0 allowed Google to use and sell them on an opt-out basis, and Settlement 2.0 does the same. That gave Google exclusive access to a market segment that no one else can enter, and thus raised antitrust concerns.’”

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To read more about this issue, please visit CNET.

The Times Online (UK), “Barack Obama love affair with Google ends”
By Dominic Rushe
Sunday, November 1, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google

“…In the coming months Google will face a series of challenges as its rivals and critics lobby against its enormous dominance on the net and its ambitions elsewhere. The first test comes next week over Google’s controversial plans to build the world’s biggest online library.

…James Grimmelmann of New York Law School said so many parties were looking at the book deal that a settlement could be problematic. His main concern was over the precedent that any agreement might set. ‘The settlement is worrisome not to the extent that it validates the original scanning but in that it creates something in excess of the original submission.’

He said Google’s plans to sell books were ‘never on the table during the original scanning’ and that it was not yet clear what Google intended to do in future with all this new data. Grimmelmann said the case threatened to set a dangerous legal precedent for firms to force disparate parties ‘into a room together and say all of you are going to give up your rights as part of a new deal that we want to make.’”

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The New York Times, “Running Without a Narrative”
By Cameron Stracher
Saturday, October 31, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Cameron Stracher
Subject: Running

“It’s been 27 years since an American man or woman has won the New York City marathon, and the streak is unlikely to be broken this Sunday. Indeed, since Alberto Salazar’s victories in 1981 and 1982, only one American-born man. Ryan Hall, has managed to run faster than Salazar’s 1981 finish of 2:08:13. While Salazar’s time was a world record when he ran it, Hall’s time (set in 2008 on a faster course at London, where he finished fifth) places him 36th on the list of top marathoners.”

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The Register-Guard, “Uncommon jury trial begins”
By Karen McCowan
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Michael Perlin, Director of the Mental Disability Law Program
Subject: “Guilty but for insanity” defense

“A rare legal scenario began playing out here Tuesday as a jury trial began for a man who agrees he did the crimes but says he was insane at the time.

…The ‘guilty but for insanity’ defense is in itself rare, according to the director of a New York Law School program that focuses on mental disability law. But cases such as Gerlach’s, with a jury being asked to decide whether he was insane, are exceedingly so, said Michael Perlin, director of the International Mental Disability Law Reform Project.

‘Insanity is pled in one quarter of one percent of all cases, and is successful in one-third of that one-quarter, meaning one-twelfth of one percent,’ Perlin said in an e-mailed response to questions from The Register-Guard.

And in 90 percent of that small sliver of cases, he continued, defense and state psychiatric experts agree that the defendant was insane at the time of crimes.

‘Put another way, a jury finds a defendant to be insane when there is disputed evidence in 1/120th of one percent of all criminal cases,’ Perlin said.”

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Associated Press, “Lawyers want admitted al-Qaida member released”
By David Mercer
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Stephen Ellmann, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Collaborative Learning
Subject: Sentencing of al-Qaida member

“Defense attorneys for an al-Qaida sleeper agent plan to argue at his sentencing this week that his five years spent locked up without charge was enough punishment and he should be immediately released.

…Stephen Ellmann, a dean at the New York Law School and critic of military trials held at Guantanamo, said al-Marri’s admission that he was an al-Qaida member gives prosecutors a basis for seeking the maximum sentence.

‘The underlying rationale for military detention remains, even if military detention wasn’t appropriate or constitutional, that he might return to the battlefield or the terrorist struggle,’ Ellmann wrote in an e-mail. ‘And that’s a reason to seek the maximum possible sentence.’”

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Financial Times “Industry suffers image problem at crucial time”
By Tom Braithwaite and Gregory Meyer
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Houman Shadab
Subject: Hedge Fund Regulation

“Hedge funds will have a weaker hand during a crucial week for regulatory reform, according to people in Congress and the industry, as the alleged insider trading case involving Galleon Group’s founder dents their image.

…‘I do think that type of atmosphere is important, at least indirectly, and public perception that hedge funds have ill-gotten gains or are trading on illegal activities—that could [have an effect on regulatory reform],’ said Houman Shadab, associate professor at New York Law School.

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Library Journal “Institutional Subscriptions to Google Books with Advertising? Google Won’t Rule It Out”
By Norman Oder
Monday, October 12, 2009

Subject: Institute for Information Law & Policy’s D Is for Digitize Conference

“Would the massive Google Books database, to which many academic libraries presumably would buy institutional subscriptions, contain advertising, unlike with other databases libraries buy? Google says that’s not the plan but won’t rule it out...”

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For more coverage from the Library Journal visit:

Samuelson Says Google Book Search Settlement Doesn't Fully Reflect "Public Trust Responsibilities"

Google's Clancy Wonders: What Happens to Libraries When Ebooks Predominate?

Revised Google Agreement Due in Court November 9

Associated Press, “NYC Astor trial shines light on jury-room strife”
By Jennifer Peltz
Saturday, October 10, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Randolph Jonakait
Subject: Astor Trial

“Jurors in the epic criminal case about philanthropist Brook Astor’s fortune seemed to have hit a breaking point.

…As in the Astor trial, juries often are asked to work through clashes and do, said New York Law School professor Randolph Jonakait, author of “The American Jury System,” published by Yale University Press.”

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The New York Times, “Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement”
By Miguel Helft
Monday, September 21, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Lawsuit

“For months, Google and its partners in a class-action settlement that would allow the company to create a vast digital library appeared unmoved by a rising tide of opposition.

…‘The news out of this is that there are frantic negotiations going on in back rooms right now,” said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, which raised antitrust and other objections to the settlement. ‘The parties are scared enough to be talking seriously about changes, with each other and the government. The government is being the stern parent making them do it.’”

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UB Buzz, “New Law School Buildings Open Their Doors”
By Melissa Ezarik
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Subject: New York Law School’s New Building

“Located at 185 West Broadway, the new building is open for this fall. It’s a glass-enclosed, 235,000-square-foot structure extending five stories aboveground—doubling the size of the campus. The new building features The Mendik Law Library, lounge areas with WiFi, and an open-air terrace with a view of Manhattan on the fifth floor.”

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The National Law Journal, “Massachusetts case may be key in gay marriage fight”
By Marcia Coyle
Monday, August 31, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur Leonard
Subject: Gay Marriage

“While the high-profile, Ted Olson- and David Boies- managed legal fight against California’s Proposition 8 captures headlines, a carefully planned case quietly underway in Massachusetts federal court could be the gay marriage test with the greatest national impact.

‘If you’re looking to effect legal change, you’re looking for plaintiffs who have been harmed, a lawsuit reasonably well-funded, and the legal expertise to take it up [to] the appellate process,’ said Arthur Leonard of New York Law School, an expert on gay and lesbian legal issues. The Gill case meets that description, he and others believe.’”

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Publishers Weekly, “Time Nears to Opt Out of Google Deal”
By Andrew Albanese
Monday, August 31, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Search Settlement

“With the September 4 deadline to opt out of or object to the Google Book Search settlement just days away, the deal’s critics and supporters have, as expected, ramped up the volume…

…The September deadline represents a key moment in the settlement process—the date by which ‘any copyright owner who wants no part of the settlement has to opt out’ or ‘any party who wants to support or object to the settlement’ must step forward, explained New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann. Simply put, if you don’t opt out by that date, you are in. ‘At the end of the day on September 4,” Grimmelmann added, ‘we’ll know what the battle lines over the settlement are, and who’s on which side.’”

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The Observer, “Google’s plan for world’s biggest online library: philanthropy or act of piracy?”
By William Skidelsky
Sunday, August 30, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Books

“In recent years the world’s most venerable libraries have played hose to some incongruous visitors. In dusty nooks and far-flung stacks, teams of workers dispatched by Google have been beavering away to make digital copies of books. So far, Google has scanned more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Europe – including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford. The exact method it uses is unclear; the company does not allow outsiders to observe the process.

...Critics point out that, by giving Google the right to commercially exploit its database, the settlement paves the way for a subtle shift in the company’s role from provider of information to seller. ‘Google’s business model has always been to provide information for free, and sell advertising on the basis of the traffic this generates,’ points out James Grimmelmann, associate professor at New York Law School. Now, he says, because of the settlement’s provisions, Google could become a significant force in bookselling.”

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To read more news coverage, visit The Observer.

The Wall Street Journal, “The Cap-and-Trade Bait and Switch”
By David Schoenbrod and Richard B. Stewart
Monday, August 24, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor David Schoenbrod
Subject: Government/Environment

“As a candidate for president in April 2008, Barack Obama told Fox News that ‘a cap-and-trade system is a smarter way of controlling pollution’ than ‘top-down’ regulation. He was right. With cap and trade the market decides where and how to cut emissions. With top-down regulation, as Mr. Obama explained, regulators dictate ‘every single rule that a company has to abide by, which creates a lot of bureaucracy and red tape and often-times is less efficient.’

It’s no wonder that the House advertises its American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (also known as the Waxman-Markey bill) as ‘cap and trade.’ And last Thursday a coalition of environmental groups and unions launched a ‘Made in America Jobs Tour’ to sell it as a ticket to ‘long-term economic prosperity.’ But the House bill would, if passed by the Senate this autumn, fail the test of economic efficiency.

Mr. Schoenbrod teaches law at New York Law School, is a visiting scholar at American Enterprise Institute, and was a staff attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Mr. Stewart teaches law at New York University and was chairman of Environmental Defense Fund."

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The New York Times, “Lawyer and Author Adds His Objections to Settling the Google Book Lawsuit”
By Miguel Helft and Motoko Rich
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Lawsuit

“A growing chorus of authors, academics and other book industry figures is objecting to the settlement of a class-action suit that would allow Google to profit from digital versions of millions of books it has scanned from libraries.

…In the latest objection, Scott E. Gant, an author and partner at Boies Schiller & Flexner, a prominent Washington law firm, plans to file a sweeping opposition to the settlement on Wednesday urging the court to reject it.

…‘It may be the most fundamental challenge to the settlement yet,’ said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, a critic of the agreement whose blog tracks filings and commentary related to it.”

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Financial Times, “A Plan to Scan”
By Richard Waters
Thursday, August 13, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Settlement

“After facing copyright lawsuits in the US over the digitisation project, Google reached a settlement last year that seemed to have something for just about everyone: publishers and authors, because it gives them a chance to make money from long forgotten works; public and university libraries, as it provides them with a way to leap beyond their dead-tree stacks into the digital age; and readers, to whom it brings access to millions of works that would otherwise have remained out of reach.

But this agreement with the US book industry, which awaits court approval, has stirred up the sort of passions that always attach to books, those most cultural of manufactured objects. In particular, the deal has provoked the fear that a more centralised industry will arise as publishing turns digital, upending checks and balances put in place over decades.

‘The book world has done really well out of decentralisation - anyone who has ideas, or access to a printing press, can take part,’ says James Grimmelmann, associate professor at New York Law School, a leading critic of the settlement. Giving Google too much power over old, out-of-print works, he adds, could set the stage for its dominance of the broader digital book market: ‘Control over the past will translate into control over the future of books.’

…Having the world's most comprehensive collection could make it the default first choice for book buyers, overshadowing Amazon.com's claim to be the world's biggest bookstore. ‘You're much more likely to turn to Google first because they'll have many more titles,’ says the law school's Mr. Grimmelmann.”

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To read more news coverage, visit Inside Higher Ed.

The Detroit News, “Commentary: Signs point to a gay-friendly Sotomayor”
By Deb Price
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur S. Leonard
Subject: Gay and Lesbian Legal Protection

“To gay Americans, Sonia Sotomayor isn't just any new justice: She will likely hold the balance on a Supreme Court believed to be evenly divided over gay Americans' basic constitutional rights.

…Art Leonard, a New York Law School professor and "Leonard Link" blogger, sees positive signs in her handling of two gay-related cases, Holmes v. Artuz and Miller v. City of New York.

…‘At the time, the lower federal courts, heavily influenced by the Supreme Court's 1986 decision upholding the Georgia sodomy law, Bowers v. Hardwick, were routinely rejecting equal protection claims by gay litigants,’ Leonard explains.

But Sotomayor, then a district court judge, demonstrated a forward-looking mindset.”

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Metro News Canada, “NYC Residents and Visitors Alike Go Bonkers for Cupcake Bakeries”
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

NYLS Alum: Lev Ekster
Subject: CupcakeStop

“www.cupcakestop.com.
Check the truck’s daily location at www.twitter.com/CupcakeStop:

The cupcake truck’s owner, Lev Ekster, graduated in May from New York Law School. Law firm jobs were hard to come by, but Ekster noticed that the bad economy hadn’t hurt the long lines outside Magnolia and other cupcake shops.

…And so the CupcakeStop was born, a mobile cupcake truck. Devotees follow Ekster on Twitter to find out where he’ll be; flavours include Key lime and rocky road as well as classics like red velvet, $2.25 (minis, $1).

Ekster says cupcakes are “the ideal mobile food” for 21st-century New Yorkers on the go: cupcake in one hand, and coffee (or maybe an iPhone) in the other.”

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Daily Journal, “High Court Ruling Shapes Local Control: California Officials To Seek Relief from Court Oversight”
By Lawrence Hurley
Friday, July 24, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor David Schoenbrod and Professor Ross Sandler
Subject: Supreme Court Case: Horne v. Flores

“Lawyers for California's troubled Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation plan to file a motion Friday to test whether a little-noticed U.S. Supreme Court decision issued last month will help the state extricate itself from long-running institutional litigation.

…‘I think it could have profound consequences,’ said David Schoenbrod, a professor at New York Law School. ‘At last, newly elected mayors and governments can look to find another way to comply with the diktats of federal law.’

Schoenbrod and fellow New York Law School Professor Ross Sandler are known for their critiques of court oversight. Their work was cited in both the majority and dissenting opinions in Horne.

Schoenbrod said the decision could apply to thousands of cases across the country, although the extent of the impact rests on to what extent government lawyers take advantage of it and how lower courts interpret it. The ruling does not necessarily mean governments will be able to walk away from court orders, he stressed, but it will at least give elected officials the chance to suggest other ways of tackling alleged violations of federal law.”

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To read more news coverage, visit City Journal

The New York Times, “Ideas Online, Yes, but Some Not So Presidential”
By Saul Hansell
Monday, June 22, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Simone Noveck
Subject: Obama’s New Vision for Open Government

“The [Obama] administration’s goal is to devise regulations that would tell federal agencies how to make their operations more open to the public.

…Beth Simone Noveck, a New York Law School professor who is Mr. Obama’s deputy chief technology officer for open government…has permitted any proposal that was not abusive or repetitive onto the brainstorming site…

…Ms. Noveck has some confidence that the effort will result in better government because…as a professor, she worked with the United States Patent Office…[where] public comments helped patent examiners consider their applications more quickly.”

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To read more news coverage, visit The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Information Week, and Government Technology.

NYConvergence, Real Fun: State of Play 2009
By Gloria Sin
Monday, June 22, 2009

Subject: State of Play VI Conference  

“…the sixth annual State of Play, hosted by New York Law School in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood…featured…speakers fast-forward[ing] through their experiences of working with(in) virtual worlds…”

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The Baltimore Sun, “Stereotypes confound jury selection”
By Tricia Bishop
Monday, June 15, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Randolph Jonakait
Subject: Unreliable Jury Stereotypes

“While many lawyers have long relied on stereotypes to figure out how potential jurors might lean, those characterizations are increasingly turned on their heads, trial consultants said…

…‘The demographics of the jurors have at best a very minor effect on the outcome,’ said Randolph Jonakait, a professor at New York Law School who published the book The American Jury System in 2006.

‘Almost always, it's the evidence that wins the case, not the background of the jury.’”

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Government Technology, “Beth Noveck’s Wiki Government (Book Review)”
By Tod Newcombe
Monday, June 8, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Noveck
Subject: Noveck’s new book, Wiki Government

“As the president's deputy chief technology officer for Open Government, Noveck has the formidable task of leading the drive for more transparency, participation and collaboration within the federal government. Her new book, Wiki Government, is Noveck's vision for turning that mandate into action.

…Noveck's solution is to design a governance process that sets up an egalitarian, self-selecting mechanism for gathering and evaluating information and transforming raw data into useful knowledge.”

To read the article in full, click here.

The New York Times, “It’s a Cupcake Truck. Need We Say More?”
By Florence Fabricant
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

NYLS Alum: Lev Ekster
Subject: CupcakeStop

“…Lev Ekster… is now running CupcakeStop, a truck that travels between Union Square and Chelsea.

…He thinks he will sell 1,200 to 1,500 a day.”

To read the article in full, click here.

To read more news coverage, visit Crain’s New York Business.

The Washington Post, “Add Washington Book Prize to the 'Hemingses' Haul”
By Neely Tucker
Friday May 29, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Subject: Her book, The Hemingses' of Monticello

“Historian and author Annette Gordon-Reed has won a literary Triple Crown with her remarkable "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," her 798-page exploration of Thomas Jefferson and the family of slaves with whom he became intimately involved. The book has won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize and, yesterday, the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize, given annually to the ‘most important new book about America's founding era.’

…For a decade, Gordon-Reed worked on the new book -- which explores the relationship between Sally Hemings and her master, Jefferson, and their descendants -- in between day jobs as a professor of law at New York Law School, professor of history at Rutgers University and mother to two teenagers.

…‘It's new material for people who are not historians, who don't think about slavery as an institution, who are interested in how individuals coped with all this.’”

To read this article in full, click here.

To read more news coverage, visit The Plain Dealer and The New York Times.

The Boston Globe, “Obama nomination would boost ranks of Catholics on court”
By Michael Paulson
Saturday, May 30, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Nadine Strossen
Subject: Catholics in the Judicial System

“For the first 50 years of the Supreme Court, there were no Catholics on the bench, and for years after that, there was generally a single ‘Catholic seat.’

…and now, if Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, there will be six Catholics on the nine-member court. The percentage of Catholics on the high court will be more than double the percentage of Catholics in the general population.

…‘It's clear that neither the politicians nor the public nor the media are making any equation at all between Catholicism and even those issues where the church has spoken so strongly,’ said Nadine Strossen, a long-time court watcher as the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union and a law professor at New York Law School. ‘It's a very positive development, when you get to a point where what used to be considered noteworthy diversity goes without notice.’”

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Publisher’s Weekly, “Deal or No Deal: What if the Google Settlement Fails?”
By Andrew Richard Albanese
Monday, May 25, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Search Settlement

“In June, a tense four-year period of legal conflict between publishers, authors and Google over its library scanning program was poised to end with the approval of a visionary class action settlement. But just one week from a key May 5 deadline—by which authors and rights holders opposed to the settlement (agreed to last October; see time line) would have been required to opt out of or object to the deal—the federal judge overseeing the approval process surprised court watchers by granting a four-month extension…

…The solution to what began in 2005 as a simple copyright question is now a complex blueprint for an entirely new digital book business…

…For publishers and authors, that means the stakes are sky-high: if this settlement fails to win approval—and opposition is gathering momentum—what happens next? “Back to the world of private deals for putting books into digital formats,” suggests James Grimmelmann, a professor of law at the New York Law School, who has written extensively on the settlement. “No deals at all for orphan works, and one very big lawsuit over scanning and searching.”

…In his detailed critique, published shortly after the settlement was announced, New York Law School's Grimmelmann was among the first to point out the numerous antitrust issues raised by the settlement.”

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To read more news coverage, visit The Star.

The Advocate, “Marriage: ‘Too Big to Fail’”
By Julia Bolcer
Friday, May 8, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur Leonard
Subject: Marriage Equality

“A panel of legal experts discussed the recent nationwide progress toward marriage equality…

…Arthur Leonard, a professor at New York Law School, attributed the marriage emphasis in part to media cravings for a ‘sexy subject.’

‘It makes it look like we're all obsessed with marriage, when in fact marriage is only a fraction of the work we’re doing,’ he said.”

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ABA Journal, “Derivatives Regulation Becomes a Popular Law School Offering”
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Friday, May 8, 2009

Subject: New Masters in Financial Law Program

“New York Law School has seen so much interest in its derivatives course that is developing plans for a new masters in law program in financial services that will include eight separate classes…”

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The Catholic Spirit, “Panelists disagree on when conscience exemptions should be allowed”
By Beth Griffin
Monday, May 4, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Nadine Strossen
Subject: Freedom of Conscience

“Legislation in a democracy generally mirrors public consensus, but individuals who disagree with a law on moral grounds should be allowed to claim an exemption to it, according to panelists at a recent forum on ‘Matters of Conscience: When Moral Precepts Collide With Public Policy.’

…Nadine Stossen [sic], professor of law at New York Law School and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, said freedom of conscience may be limited only if the limitation is necessary to protect other basic rights such as health and safety.

With respect to abortion and contraception, she said sectarian institutions should not be required to provide services contrary to their beliefs, but they must give candid notification of their policy and make referrals to alternate providers. She said they should also provide the service if there is no other provider, especially in the case of an emergency.

Stossen [sic] maintained that the panelists, while disagreeing on a number of points, all supported ‘giving infinitely more protection to freedom of belief than the Supreme Court has done in the last 18 years.’”

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The Tribeca Trib, “A Grand Opening for New York Law School”
By Claire Moses
Friday, May 1, 2009

Subject: New York Law School’s New Building

“The New York Law School threw itself a party last month to celebrate the completion of its just completed glass-encased $200 million… 235,000-square-foot building, at West Broadway and Leonard Street, [which] stands five floors above ground and four below, doubling the size of the school’s campus.”

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To read more news coverage, visit Curbed.

The Register, “Microsoft’s TomTom patents under scrutiny”
By Gavin Clarke
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Subject: Post-Issue Peer-to-Patent

“The Post-Issue Peer-to-Patent site is a project of the Center for Patent Innovations at New York Law School, a project created last year and designed to improve the quality of patents, operation of the patent system, and access to information about patents.”

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Software Development Times, “Experts mull changes to software patent process”
By David Worthington
Monday, April 27, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Associate Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Software Patent Law

“In response to the controversy surrounding software patents, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has tightened up considerably on granting them…

…However, bad eggs have managed to slip past patent examiners largely due to a loophole in the patent process…

…That "loophole" is a central issue in patents on software, and U.S. courts are seeking to close it, said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School.

…The U.S. Congress could supplement the courts by passing a law that explicitly states the standard that divides things that are patentable from the un-patentable, Grimmelmann said.

…Grimmelmann, whose law school sponsors a community patent-review project, said that industry peer review would address some of the most recurring and serious problems with bad software patents…”

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The New York Times, “Google’s Plan for Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged”
By Miguel Helft
Saturday, April 4, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Settlement

“…Google has been scanning the pages of those books…as part of its plan to bring a digital library and bookstore, unprecedented in scope, to computer screens across the United States.

…Groups that plan to raise concerns with the court include the American Library Association, the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, and a group of lawyers…

…Some of Google’s rivals are clearly interested in the settlement’s fate. Microsoft is helping to finance the research on the settlement at the New York Law School Institute. James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at the institute, said its work was not influenced by Microsoft.”

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Wired, “Who’s Messing With the Google Book Settlement? Hint: They’re in Redmond, Washington”
By Steven Levy
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Google Book Settlement

“…Google settled the lawsuit brought against it by book publishers and authors concerning its massive book-scanning project…The only obstacle remaining for the settlement to take effect is final court approval…one party nudging its way into the settlement is an Internet-issues oriented group from New York Law School.

…the efforts of ‘the second oldest independent law school in the United States’ is funded in part by Google’s main competitor, Microsoft.

…The chief investigator of the New York Law School project is James Grimmelmann…Grimmelmann laid out the project in a proposal sent to Microsoft. The amicus brief is one of four initiatives the Law School will undertake. The others are a series of a white papers, a symposium on the settlement issues, and a website that will act as a hub of activity for those challenging or asking for changes on the settlement. Though Grimmelmann says other contributors may emerge, currently Microsoft is the sole outside funder of New York Law School’s Google Book Settlement Project.”

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The National Jurist, “In-house counsel”
By Ursula Furi-Perry, Esq.
March 2009

Subject: New York Law School Alum Justin Xenitelis ’06

“Justin Xenitelis clearly loves his job, his law school and his involvement in the community.

A 2006 graduate of New York Law School and now associate counsel at Thor Equities, LLC in New York City, Xenitelis works in-house as part of a three-attorney corporate law department.

…As a law student, Xenitelis was also involved on his campus. He said staying busy and active made for a gratifying law school experience. He organized his school’s AIDS fundraiser three years in a row, and he founded the Stonewall Law Students Association, which focuses on LGBT rights.

‘I think it’s important not only to attend classes, but to be involved on campus,’ he said, adding that staying active teaches important practical skills, such as learning how to work with students, faculty and others in small groups.”

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The Washington Post, “EPA Presses Obama To Regulate Warming Under Clean Air Act”
By Juliet Eilperin
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

NYLS Faculty: David Schoenbrod
Subject: Regulation under the Clean Air Act

“The Environmental Protection Agency's new leadership, in a step toward confronting global warming, submitted a finding that will force the White House to decide whether to limit greenhouse gas emissions under the nearly 40-year-old Clean Air Act.

…But even those who support cutting greenhouse gases warn that doing so under the Clean Air Act could be complicated. ‘This would be a regulatory maze far exceeding anything we've seen before,’ said David Schoenbrod, a professor of environmental law at the New York Law School.”

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Business Week, Peer-to-Patent: A System for Increasing Transparency
By John Hagel and John Seely Brown
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer-to-Patent

“One of the more interesting of these is an effort conceived at New York Law School by Beth Noveck, a professor there and director of the Institute for Information Law & Policy. This effort, called Peer-to-Patent is run in cooperation with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).

Almost two years ago, the New York Law School began the "Peer-to-Patent Community Patent Review Pilot" in collaboration with the USPTO. This pilot initiative is a milestone since it represents the first significant effort to apply social software directly to the decision-making process of the federal government.”

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The Washington Post, ‘Blecker’ Deftly Stands Alone On Both Sides Of Death Penalty
By Hank Stuever
Friday, March 13, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Robert Blecker
Subject: Documentary, “Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead”

“‘Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead’ wants to be a documentary about the vast amount of wiggle room between being for the death penalty and being against it.

…Blecker, a New York Law School professor, supports the death penalty on such a contrary and nuanced level -- he calls himself an ‘emotional retributivist’ -- that it has set him apart from both sides of the debate and a large swath of the legal realm. Blecker’s work has turned him into a lovably raving, single-minded gadfly who has the sole consolation of knowing he’s right.”

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To read more news coverage, visit The ABA Journal and the Washington City Paper.

Ars Technica, “Trolls Square Off Against Tech in Patent Reform Fight”
By Julian Sanchez
Thursday, March 5, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Mark Webbink
Subject: Peer-to-Patent

“Over 50 years after its last major overhaul, there's a widespread sense that the US patent system has gone off the rails.

…One portion of the bill, which recapitulates the Patent Sovereignty Act, is raising some eyebrows at the crowd sourced patent examination initiative Peer to Patent…According to Mark Webbink, director of the Center for Patent Innovations at New York Law School, that language ‘would appear to bar Peer to Patent or similar outsourced function from ever being mandated as a part of the examination process.’”

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The National Law Journal, “Next moves for newly-unemployed associates”
By Karen Sloan
Thursday, March 5, 2009

NYLS Staff: Margaret Reuter, Assistant Dean for Career Planning
Subject: Internet Job Searches

“…More and more, today’s jobs searches start by logging onto the Internet instead of with an informal face-to-face interview and a handshake.

…For all the benefits of Internet job sites, they have plenty of drawbacks. Margaret Reuter, assistant dean for career planning at the New York Law School, said that many job boards carry the same postings, which can turn off searchers.

‘There’s a huge amount of similarities between job search Web sites, and there’s a gazillion of them,’ Reuter said. ‘It’s easy to be numbed by the familiarity of the same postings, as people bounce from site to site.’”

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New York Law Journal, “Report by Law Schools Urge Cap-and-Trade on Pollutants”
By Michael J. Paquette
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor David Schoenbrod
Subject: Breaking the Logjam Report

“In a joint effort, New York Law School and New York University School of Law have issued a report concluding that an effective response to climate change requires Congress to adopt and cap-and-trade approach to conventional pollutants. David Schoenbrod of New York Law School…co-led the year-long project.”

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The New York Times, “An Advocate of Killing Killers Learns From One”
By Jeremy W. Peters
Friday, February 27, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Robert Blecker
Subject: “Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead”

“…A new documentary that opened on Friday at Cinema Village in Greenwich Village, ‘Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead,’ is something of an outlier as well. It devotes itself to probing Mr. Blecker and his deeply held view that society has an obligation to execute its most coldblooded killers if it truly aspires to carry out justice. By examining the case for capital punishment, Ted Schillinger, the film’s director, wades into territory largely ignored in the documentaries and feature films that have examined the subject.

…This film’s unconventional approach is the product of two most unconventional relationships: one between Mr. Blecker and Mr. Schillinger and another between Mr. Blecker and Daryl Holton, a man executed by Tennessee in 2007 for killing four young children.

…And that gave Mr. Schillinger a remarkable opportunity to examine the death penalty in all its emotional complexity.

…‘The movie is proof that if you’re going to open the door consciously and approvingly to your emotions, things are going to happen that you don’t expect and that you don’t mean to happen,’ Mr. Schillinger said.”

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To read more reviews of “Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead” visit:

The New York Times
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New York Law Journal

The New York Law Journal, “Man Found Entitled to Inherit Estate of His Same-Sex Partner”
By Noeleen G. Walder
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur Leonard
Subject: The Rights of Same-Sex Partners

“Recognizing the validity of a same-sex marriage between New Yorkers contracted in Canada, a Manhattan surrogate has ruled that a man is entitled to inherit the entire estate of his deceased male partner.

According to Arthur S. Leonard, a New York Law School professor who specializes in issues of sexuality and the law, Surrogate Nahman erred in failing to recognize the controlling authority of the Martinez case, which he did not mention in his decision.

He called Surrogate Glen’s citation of Martinez ‘significant.’ While only a trial-level decision, it signals the court’s willingness to give the same rights to surviving spouses of same-sex couples and heterosexual couples, Mr. Leonard said.”

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The Huffington Post, “Obama’s Guantánamo Mistake: He’s Not Closing Gitmo the Right Way”
By Brandt Goldstein
Thursday, January 22, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Visiting Professor Brandt Goldstein
Subject: Closing Guantanamo Bay

“President Obama is shutting down Guantánamo, but he’s doing it the wrong way. I am not talking about the practical matters involved: where to put the detainees, how to prosecute them, whether to send some to other countries, and so forth… Obama has issued an executive order -- a directive from the president -- to shut down the prison. That alone is not enough. What Obama must do now is work with Congress to enact a federal statute that outlaws forever the use of Guantánamo as a detention facility.

The problem with an executive order is that it can be changed -- easily. President Obama himself could reverse his new order tomorrow. That's almost certainly not going to happen, of course. But if Obama’s out in four years, or eight, and a new president -- say, Mitt Romney -- wanted to reopen Guantanamo as a detention facility, he could do so the moment he takes office. (Recall that Romney said he wanted to double the size of Guantánamo.)”

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preLaw “Most Innovative Law Schools”
By Karen Dybis
Winter 2009

Subject: New York Law School chosen as one of the most Innovative Law Schools in the country

“Staid. Boring. Predictable. These adjectives describe what some people think about law school.

Their opinions would change radically if they could see what a select group of legal institutions are doing these days.

New York Law School is making history — and getting its students top-notch careers — through its academic centers, which focus on project-based learning. The idea, said Dean Rick Matasar, is to give students real-life skills such as team building, how to work on a deadline and the ability to respond to criticism in a positive way.

‘The beauty of (project-based learning) is it challenges students to engage in the project — and lets the whole world judge their work,’ Matasar said.”

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The New York Law Observer, "The Other Big Transition: Change.gov Content Shifts to Whitehouse.gov at Noon"
By Gillian Reagan
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Noveck
Subject: President Obama’s Technology Innovation and Government Reform group

“Yesterday at Change.gov, the Technology Innovation and Government Reform group featured in a video on the site. Micah Sifry of TechPresident.com described ‘three rising stars of open and collaborative government’ featured in the video, including Beth Noveck, author of the forthcoming book Wiki Government.”

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The New York Law Journal, “Lawyer Cannot Be Prosecuted for Giving Advice, Panel Finds”
By Vesselin Mitev
Friday, January 16, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Adjunct Professor Oscar Michelen ’85
Subject: The right of attorneys to advise clients

“A lawyer facing criminal charges for advising 10 nurses they could quit their jobs at a Long Island nursing facility gave ‘objectively reasonable’ advice and cannot be prosecuted, a Brooklyn appeals panel has ruled.

…Oscar Michelen, a partner at Sandback, Birnbaum, & Michelen in Mineola, who represents Mr. Vinlaun, said he felt vindicated by the decision.

‘We won,’ Mr. Michelen said in an interview yesterday. ‘It’s a vindincation for the nurses, certainly for the rights of attorneys and for the lawyers who represent people in the labor and health fields. This was a dangerous prosecution from the beginning.’”

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The Boston Phoenix, “Speak no evil? Why tightening up on anti-Obama speech is a bad idea”
By Adam Reilly
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Nadine Strossen
Subject: Freedom of speech

“Anthony Lewis’s free-speech credentials are impeccable…Recently, though, Lewis has been reassessing the legal standard for how far threatening speech should be allowed to go.

...‘We need to have historical humility,’ says Nadine Strossen, the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union and a professor at New York Law School. ‘Each era tends to have historical hubris —“This is the greatest danger ever posed to the values we hold most dear.’ We tend always to exaggerate the danger — and to unnecessarily cut off civil liberties.’”

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Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, “The Top 10 Events of 2008 in the Legal Academy”
By Brian Leiter
Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Subject: New York Law School

“6. New York Law School, meanwhile, has made clear that it is the most underrated law school in New York.”

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The New York Times, “Early Test of Obama View on Power Over Detainees”
By Adam Liptak
Saturday, January 3, 2009

NYLS Faculty: Professor Brandt Goldstein
Subject: Barack Obama on Detainees

“Just a month after President-elect Barack Obama takes office, he must tell the Supreme Court where he stands on one of the most aggressive legal claims made by the Bush administration – that the president may order the military to seize legal residents of the United States and hold them indefinitely without charging them with a crime.

The new administration’s brief, which is due Feb. 20, has the potential to hearten or infuriate Mr. Obama’s supporters, many of whom are looking to him for stark disavowals of the Bush administration’s legal positions on the detention and interrogation of so-called enemy combatants held at Navy facilities on the American mainland or at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

…‘If they adopt the Bush administration position, or some version of it,’ said Brandt Goldstein, a professor at New York Law School, ‘it is going to be a moment of profound disappointment for everyone in the legal community and Americans generally who believe that the Bush administration has tried to turn the presidency into a monarchy.’”

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FindLaw, “Bringing Transitional Justice Home: President Obama’s Dilemma about the Past Administration’s Human Rights Abuses – What is to be Done, and Who’ll be the Judge?”
By Ruti Teitel
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Ruti Teitel
Subject: Punishing Human Rights Abuses at Guantánamo

“While we don’t know what Barack Obama will do first after he becomes President January 20th, it is clear that he has been given a mandate to end some of the worst abuses of the rule of law in U.S. history. President-elect Obama has already said he will close Guantánamo and put an end to torture, whether by the U.S. military or civilian operatives. But there is also a need to reckon with the last seven years. Those who both planned and carried out the abuses should be held responsible, while the innocent must have a chance to be cleared.

Yet who should judge is a challenging question…”

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New York Law Journal, “Cornell Tops in N.Y. Bar Exam Pass Rate; State Average Hits High”
Friday, December 5, 2008
By Thomas Adcock

NYLS Faculty: Dean and President Richard A. Matasar
Subject: Bar Pass Rate

“Ninety-nine percent of Cornell Law School graduates passed on their first attempt at the New York state bar examination in July, placing it first among the state's 15 law schools, which together tallied a historically high 91 percent average pass rate.

…Fordham Law and New York Law substantially increased their respective scores by six and four points

…Dean Richard A. Matasar of New York Law credits his school's persistent advance in pass rates -- as low as 68 percent in 2004 compared with this year's 94 percent -- with a full flowering of its Comprehensive Curriculum Program.

…"If a school is attentive, it can help its students with the skills they need to pass the bar," said Matasar. "I think all schools are serious about this. It's the name of the game."

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Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, “Law professor/historian Gordon-Reed Wins National Book Award”
By Brian Leiter
Friday, November 28, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Subject: National Book Award

“Law professor/historian Gordon-Reed Wins National Book Award”

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Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, “NYLS’s Reza Named 2008 Carnegie Scholar”
By Brian Leiter
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Sadiq Reza
Subject: 2008 Carnegie Scholar

“NYLS’s Reza Named 2008 Carnegie Scholar”

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The Washington Post, “Obama Names Team to Create ‘Innovation Agenda’”
By Cecilia Kang
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Noveck
Subject: Obama Innovation Team

“President-elect Barack Obama today unveiled who will oversee his ‘Innovation Agenda,’ a set of policy proposals that aim to make government operation more transparent, use high-technology to create jobs and get average citizens more involved in government.

Members of the group: …Beth Noveck.”

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The Washington Times, “Internet firm to reward researchers for patent evidence”
By Joelle Tessler
Monday, November 24, 2008

Subject: Peer-to-Patent

“A start-up company wants to have a say in the high-stakes patent disputes that loom over many industries.

The company hopes to build on the progress being made by Peer-to-Patent, a program run by New York Law School that publishes patent applications online in order to gather prior art to be passed along to the Patent Office during the examination process.”

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TaxProf Blog, “NYLS Hosts Conference on Representing Non-Traditional Couples”
By Paul L. Caron
Friday, November 21, 2008

Subject: NYLS Conference

“NYLS Hosts Conference on Representing Non-Traditional Couples”

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The New York Times, “Book Prizes Awarded With Nod to History”
By Motoko Rich
Thursday, November 20, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Subject: National Book Award for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

“Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday night for ‘The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,’ a sweeping, prodigiously researched biography of three generations of a slave family owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Ms. Gordon-Reed, who celebrated her 50th birthday on the night of the awards, was the first African-American author to win the prize for nonfiction since Orlando Patterson won for ‘Freedom’ in 1991. ‘I can’t say what a wonderful November this has been,’ she said. ‘It’s sort of wonderful to have the book come out at this time. People ask me if I planned it this way; I didn’t. All of America – we’re on a great journey now and I look forward to the years to come.’”

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The National Law Journal, “Law School Deans, Profs Ponder Reasons for Decline in Minority Enrollment”
By Thomas Adcock
Thursday, November 20, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Dean Richard A. Matasar
Subject: Minority Enrollment in Law Schools

“The controversy surrounding Columbia Law School's documentation of a ‘disturbing’ decline in enrollment of minority students at law campuses around the country has deans and professors in New York state discussing a perceived cultural bias in the LSAT examination, combined with the test's exaggerated importance as an element of the annual rankings of their institutions by U.S. News & World Report.

‘There is a lot of risk aversion in American law schools,’ said Matasar, who acknowledged the steady decline. ‘Schools are much more reticent to take chances for two reasons: fear of the U.S. News rankings and fear of taking more marginal students who might risk the school's bar exam pass rate.’”

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Wired Blog Network, Epicenter, “We Are All Patent Reviewers”
By Jeff P. Howe
Thursday, November 20, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer-to-Patent

“In my book I chronicle how Beth Noveck, a professor at New York Law School, was trying to harness the network -- which is to say, all of us -- to improve the process. She launched Peer-to-Patent in June of last year, in cooperation with the USPTO, as well as such companies as IBM and Microsoft, whose outsized patent portfolios exercise a magnetic force for frivolous litigation.”

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PropertyProf Blog, “Korngold on the Mortgage Crisis”
By D. Benjamin Barros
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Gerald Korngold
Subject: Mortgage Crisis

“Gerald Korngold (New York Law School) has posted Legal and Policy Choices in the Aftermath of the Subprime and Mortgage Financing Crisis on SSRN.”

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Scoop Independent News, “US: Keeping Minorities Out Of Law School”
By Lawrence R. Velvel
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Elizabeth Chambliss
Subject: Minorities and Law School Admission

“If law school enrollment today is made up largely of the white and the wealthy, it is because the American Bar Association, the chief accreditor of the nation’s law schools, has designed the rules that produce this outcome.

New York Law School professor Elizabeth Chambliss, author of the Commission’s report, described law as ‘one of the least racially integrated professions in the United States ...’ She called the LSAT ‘one of the main barriers to increasing diversity among law students.’”

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Popular Science, “Dear Mr. President”
By Daniel Engber
Monday, October 27, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Noveck and Peer-to-Patent
Subject: Information Technology

“Good morning, Senator (or should I say ‘President-elect’?)…

...As the next president, you should strive for something more substantial than online fireside chats, open-ended forums for public comments, and town-hall meetings in streaming video. Instead of devoting resources to these superficial, large-scale interactions, think small. New York Law School’s Noveck has worked to promote a radically different vision of how the opinions and expertise of regular Americans might be tapped to improve government decision-making.

…Her ideas are being tested at a social-networking Web site associated with the U.S. Patent Office called Peer-to-Patent. Here’s how it works: Government employees now spend much of their time checking that the ideas contained in patent applications are sufficiently novel and interesting. Peer-to-Patent allows them to recruit unpaid specialists from around the world by posting the applications online.

…The software behind Peer-to-Patent isn’t especially complicated or new, nor does the site strive for mass appeal. It simply tries to draw in the particular people who might be able to answer a particular question. Now imagine that instead of building some bloated, mass-interaction site like E-Petitions, you set up a multitude of these smaller, special-interest sites. Each government agency could thus reach out to only those users with the expertise relevant to a particular policy.”

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Internet Evolution, “Patent Reform Pending”
By David F. Carr
Friday, October 24, 2008

NYLS Staff: Christopher Wong, Project Manager at the Institute for Information Law & Policy
Subject: Patent Reform

“…Experiments like Peer-to-Patent could be part of the answer. It was launched by the Patent Office and the New York Law School in June 2007 to provide applicants with faster patent reviews. In its first year, only 23 patents passed through the system; a few dozen more are expected in 2009.

This solves the ‘information deficit’ plaguing areas like software, where the Patent Office often has too little information to make a good decision on whether to issue a patent, says Christopher Wong, a project manager at New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law & Policy, which runs the site. ‘That’s probably the most fundamental aspect of what’s wrong with the patent system,’ he says.

In its first report, Peer-to-Patent cited the Yahoo smart drag-and-drop application as one of its successes because of the number of quality prior art submissions participants provided. A lot of the attention it attracted was because it had a big name attached to it and because of the title,’ Wong says. ‘Bloggers looked at it and said, “Hey, they’re trying to patent drag-and-drop”’

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The American Lawyer, “Stealth, Cunning Needed to Land a Job”
By Cameron Stracher
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Cameron Stracher
Subject: Landing a legal job in today’s economy

“…there are a few things you can do to improve your odds and avoid the unemployment line.

…First, don’t despair. As a law professor and practicing lawyer, I have seen my share of downturns. Although the market may be bad, it’s never as bad as they say. The wheels of commerce never stop grinding; they just slow and, occasionally, roll over people.

…‘Make a mental – and financial – plan that the job-hunting process will take six to eight months,’ says Meg Reuter, assistant dean for career planning at New York Law School.”

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The Sacramento Bee, “Fate of 11,000 same-sex marriages uncertain if Prop. 8 passes”
By Jennifer Garza
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Visiting Professor Lawrence Levine
Subject: Proposition 8

“An estimated 11,000 couples have wed since the California Supreme Court ruled in May that same-sex marriages are legal.
Two weeks before the election, it's not clear what happens to them if state voters approve Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage.

…‘I can think of no other state where this right has been taken away retroactively. It would be extraordinary if it happened,’ said Larry Levine, who teaches at McGeorge Law School and is currently a visiting professor at New York Law School.
The bottom line, said Levine, is that this is uncharted territory. ‘No one really knows what's going to happen.’”

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Legal Times “Supreme Court Stays Above Economic Fray – for Now”
By Tony Mauro
October 1, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor David Schoenbrod
Subject: Supreme Court’s non-involvement in Economic Crisis

“As the nation’s stunning financial crisis competed with a riveting presidential election campaign for Washington, D.C.’s attention last week, the other branch of government – the Supreme Court – remained blithely uninvolved.

…Handing off huge gobs of power to the executive branch also can raise issues of unconstitutional delegation of authority. After the Depression, the Court invoked that doctrine in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, the so-called ‘sick chicken’ case. The Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act on grounds that it delegated too much power to the executive, declaring that ‘extraordinary conditions, such as an economic crisis, may call for extraordinary remedies, but they cannot create or enlarge constitutional power.’

That was then. The current Court is much more open to letting Congress delegate its traditional powers to the executive branch, says New York Law School professor David Schoenbrod, author of a book on the doctrine. He is also a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.”

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preLaw, "Best Public Interest Law Schools"
By Michelle Weyenberg
Fall 2008

Subject: New York Law School Named in "Best Public Interest Law Schools" List

New York Law School was recently named as one of the “Best Law Schools for Public Interest Law” in the fall 2008 edition of preLaw magazine; of the 75 law schools that made the list, New York Law School ranked 15th.

From the article:

"Today, more students want to work in the public interest field than in the last 15 years. By the time these students are getting to law school, many are already infected with the 'public interest bug,' said David Stern, chief executive officer for Equal Justice Works.

...To compile the rankings of the Best Law Schools for Public Interest Law, The National Jurist used a scoring system based on a 100-point scale to assign point values to law schools in three equally weighted categories--student involvement, curriculum, and financial factors."

To view the article in full, pick up the Fall 2008 edition of preLaw magazine.

The New York Post, “One Party Wasn’t Always a Problem”
By R.B. Bernstein
Sunday, October 12, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Adjunct Professor R.B. Bernstein
Subject: The possibility of Democratic control in the Presidency and Congress

“For the first time since 1993, a new presidential term may open with the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate in the hands of the Democrats. Although pundits argue that this is a prescription for government run amok, American history suggests that this is not always the case.”

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BusinessWeek, “Lehman: One Big Derivatives Mess”
By Matthew Goldstein and David Henry
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Kenneth Kettering
Subject: Lehman Brothers

“In 2003, legendary investor Warren E. Buffett called derivatives ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ Buffett predicted that the complex financial instruments would morph, mutate, and multiply ‘until some event makes their toxicity clear.’ The failure of Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ) may have been the disaster he imagined.

…It turns out that Lehman, like other big dealers, was running a perfectly legal but highly risky game moving money from firm to firm. It used the collateral from one trading partner to fund more deals with other firms. The same $100 million collected in one deal can be used for many other transactions. ‘Firms basically can use [the money] as their own collateral for anything they want,’ says Kenneth Kettering, a former derivatives lawyer and currently a professor at New York Law School. But when the contracts terminate as the result of bankruptcy, the extra collateral is supposed to be returned.’”

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The Chronicle for Higher Education, “Company’s Lawsuit Over Free Scholarly Organization Tool Generates Buzz”
By Jeffrey R. Young
Friday, October 3, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Thomson Reuter’s Lawsuit against George Mason University

“…Even if the lawsuit has merit, the approach of suing rather than working out a deal with the university is terrible public relations in an academic community that values openness, said James Grimmelmann, an associate professor of law at New York Law School who wrote about the issue on his blog. ‘Using lawsuits like this to squelch a freely shared and very valued piece of software has very terrible PR effects,’ he said in an interview with The Chronicle this week. ‘This is exactly the wrong way to sell to an audience that cares about sharing.’

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Newsweek, “A Lawyer’s New Jefferson Memorial: The next chapter in the Hemings saga”
By Jennie Yabroff
Monday, October 13, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Subject: Her new book “The Hemingses of Monticello”

“…That early, firsthand experience with the interplay of race and history informs much of Gordon-Reed’s work, including her compulsively readable new book, ‘The Hemingses of Monticello,’ in which she traces the family history of Sally Hemings, the slave who had a 38-year relationship with Thomas Jefferson. …she is best known for 1997’s groundbreaking ‘Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,’ which examined historians’ treatment of the Jefferson-Hemings liaison, and made a strong case that Jefferson fathered seven children with Hemings. DNA testing a year after the book came out vindicated Gordon-Reed’s assertion, and made her book a cause célèbre among Jefferson scholars.”

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Bloomberg News, “UBS Helps Lilly Buy ImClone, Says Price Too High”
By Zachary R. Mider
Monday, October 6, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Jeffrey Haas
Subject: Lilly Purchase of ImClone

“UBS AG bankers helped Eli Lilly & Co. strike a $6.5 billion deal to buy ImClone Systems Inc. while their own research analyst said Lilly was paying too much.

…‘That’s a very odd occurrence,’ said Jeffrey Haas, a securities law professor at New York Law School. ‘What would be troubling to me is if I was on the board of Lilly. I’ve got investment bankers telling me $70 a share makes sense, whereas a research analyst at the same company is saying otherwise.’”

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Bloomberg News, “Bloomberg to Seek Re-election, Term Limit Law Change”
By Henry Goldman
Thursday, October 2, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Ross Sandler, Director of the Center for New York City Law
Subject: Mayor Bloomberg and Term Limit Law

“New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he would seek re-election next year and is working with the City Council to amend a 15-year-old law limiting elected officials to two terms, as the Wall Street slump imperils the city’s economy.

…The City Charter would permit such a change, said Ross Sandler, director of New York Law School’s Center for New York City Law.

‘It’s a local law and can be changed the same way as any other, through council action, public referendum or an act of the state Legislature,’ he said.”

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The New York Times, “Seeing Past the Slave to Study the Person”
By Patricia Cohen
Saturday, September 20, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Subject: Her new book, “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family”

“When, 11 years ago, DNA evidence convinced most experts that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings, many people talked about what the discovery said about Jefferson. Yet few seemed all that interested in what it said about the young girl he owned.

Annette Gordon-Reed was one of those few...Their story is contained in her book “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” (W.W. Norton), to be released on Monday. In nearly 800 pages she follows four generations of Hemingses, starting with their origins in Virginia in the 1700s and continuing through 1826, when Jefferson died and his home, Monticello, was put up for sale.

‘I wanted to tell the story of this family in a way not done before’ so that readers can ‘see slave people as individuals,’ Ms. Gordon-Reed said.

...'Robert, James, Elizabeth and Sally are not concepts but people,’ she added, referring to the Hemings family.”

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Read the Washington Post article here.

Read the New York Sun article here.

Listen to the NPR segment here.  

The Associated Press, “Patent Program Polls the Public”
By Joelle Tessler
Monday, September 15, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer-to-Patent program

“Some of the biggest players in the technology industry complain that the U.S. patent system is broken, putting too many patents of dubious merit in the hands of people who can use them to drag companies and inventors to court.

‘The Patent and Trademark Office is the agency of citizen creativity, and it needs more and better information to do its job of awarding patents to those citizens who are truly the most creative,’ said New York Law School professor Beth Noveck, who came up with the idea for Peer-to-Patent. ‘A patent is a pretty significant monopoly, so we want to make sure we are giving it to the right people.’

…But some of the most contentious patents have come out of the tech sector, since software and other-cutting edge technologies are relatively new to the Patent Office and evolving quickly, explained Mark Webbink, director of New York Law School’s Center for Patent Innovations, home to Peer-to-Patent, and former general counsel for Red Hat.

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The Star-Ledger, “Books: All in the Family”
By Jonathan E. Lazarus
Saturday, September 13, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Annette Gordon-Reed
Subject: Newly published books

“For more than 600 always compelling, sometimes highly disturbing pages, Annette Gordon-Reed animates the saga of an American slave family whose enormous resilience and humanity helped compensate for their status as non-persons and allowed them to cope with the caprices and emotional cruelties of their master, Thomas Jefferson.

Most remarkable of all, however, is Gordon-Reed’s ability to chart the profoundly asymmetrical yet tightly bound-up relationship between master and slaves, leaving one astonished by the degree of interdependence and intimacy in a brutal system that should have engendered none.”

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Newsday.com, “People on the Move, Sept. 15”
By Laura Mann
Friday, September 12, 2008

NYLS Staff: Alissa Kane
Subject: New Hires

“Alissa Kane has been named center administrator for the Justice Action Center and the Center for Professional Values and Practice at New York Law School in Manhattan. The East Islip resident previously was legislative aide to the Islip Town Board.”

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The New York Times, “How to Know When Tax Deal Isn’t A Good Deal”
By Lynnley Browning
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Tanina Rostain
Subject: Tax Planning for the Affluent

“You have just left the accountant’s office with a plan to keep more of your hard-earned millions of dollars in your hands, rather than turning them over to the I.R.S.

Smart, legal tax planning? Or the first step toward a nasty audit — one that could cost you seven figures in unpaid taxes, interest, and penalties; might get you sued by the agency; and could even end in a perp walk?

With both the I.R.S. and the Justice Department’s tax division widening their crackdowns on questionable tax shelters to include scrutiny of offshore banking services and trusts, the issue of safe tax planning for the affluent has become more urgent than ever.

…‘Here are three warning signs that a tax deal should be avoided,’said Tanina Rostain, a legal ethics scholar at New York Law School: ‘When the tax savings promised are many times the amount of the initial investment, when you are told that there is no financial risk involved and when you are urged not to show it’ to anyone else.

‘When the stakes are big,’ she added, ‘getting a second opinion from a tax expert not involved in the deal is a good idea.’”

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The National Law Journal, “New York Law School appoints new faculty”
By Vesna Jaksic
Tuesday, August 27, 2008

Subject: New Faculty

“New York Law School has appointed five new full-time and three visiting professors, and has promoted an existing faculty member.

…New York Law School has more than 13,000 graduates and enrolls some 1,500 students in J.D. and LL.M. programs.”

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The New York Times, “LPGA sets our English policy”
By Larry Dorman
Monday, August 26, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur Leonard
Subject: English policy for golf players

“Concerned about its appeal to sponsors, the women’s professional golf tour, which in recent years has been dominated by foreign-born players, has warned its members that they must become conversant in English by 2008 or face suspension.

…Arthur S. Leonard, a professor of law at New York Law School and an expert on employment issues, said that in some states a potential claim of national origin discrimination can be made if the players can show that this rule targets players of Korean origin.

He added that the LPGA ‘would be subject to the New York State Human Rights Law with respect to any tournaments taking place in New York, and it is possible that the public accommodations provisions of that law could apply to this situation.’”

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Vermont Public Radio, “David Johnson on the new virtual headquarters law”
Interview By Jane Lindholm
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

New York Law School Professor David Johnson was interviewed by VPR about a bill recently signed into law by Vermont Governor Jim Douglas that will allow companies to set up virtual businesses in the state. Vermont is the now the first state to have such a law. In the interview, Professor Johnson, creator of the law, discusses the benefits of the law to the state of Vermont and the virtual companies.

To listen to the interview, click here.

Reuters, “Sordid Details on Offer In Celebrity Divorce Cases”
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Richard Sherwin
Subject: Celebrity Divorce

“…New York is the only U.S. state where parties in a contested divorce have to show fault in order to split. And battling spouses' efforts to prove cruel or inhumane treatment, abandonment or infidelity have provided valuable fodder for tabloids, Web sites and television shows.

‘It's the ultimate evisceration of the public/private distinction,’ said New York Law School professor Richard Sherwin, who writes about law and pop culture. ‘Everything that is private is now public.’

‘…The field in which (celebrities) operate involves their own self-interest and unfortunately they're not seeing how kids are injured in the process,’ Sherwin said.”

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Seattlepi.com, “Schultz sticks with Sonics suit”
By Greg Johns
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Marc Edelman
Subject: Legal action to reclaim Sonics basketball team

“While many are ready to dismiss the notion that Howard Schultz has any chance of unwinding the sale of the Sonics to Clay Bennett, the attorney for the Starbucks coffee mogul says there is good reason his client didn't take part in last week's settlement with the Oklahoma City ownership group.

…Schultz's suit is the lone legal weapon left that could bring the former Sonics club back to Seattle. A class-action claim by several Seattle fans still must play out in King County District Court as well, though that suit seeks financial damages instead of challenging the franchise's move.

…Marc Edelman, professor of sports law at New York Law School, said he doesn't believe there has been a single case where a team was ordered to reverse course after being allowed to play games in a new city at any level of professional sports.

‘It's extraordinarily difficult,’ Edelman said. ‘The biggest challenge is not the claim, but the remedy. It's extremely unconventional to unwind a transaction that has been closed for over two years, where the buyer of the team has already substantially performed by paying the purchase price of the team…’”

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CFO, “Vermont Wants to Be the ‘Delaware of the Net’”
By Alan Rappeport
Monday, June 30, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor David Johnson
Subject: Vermont on the edge for newer tech companies

“A bill signed into law earlier this month positions [Vermont] as a leader in incorporating so-called virtual firms — those without a physical headquarters, actual paper filings, and directors' meetings (they're all online.) If it succeeds, it could emerge with the nation's first virtual tech corridor.

…David Johnson, a professor at New York Law School and head of the Virtual Company Project has lobbied for Vermont to change its rules for Limited Liability Companies (LLC) as a way of adapting corporate structure to the Internet age.

‘People are coming together online to create valuable things,’ says Johnson. ‘They do that for social reasons or reputational reasons, but they find it difficult partly because of traditional barriers in corporate law.’”

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Computerworld, “eBay backs off controversial PayPal-only plan in Australia”
By Linda Rosencrance
Friday, June 27, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Marc Edelman
Subject: Australia’s competition agency forces eBay to pull PayPal-only plan

“EBay Inc. has, for the moment, backed off a plan that would force sellers in Australia to only use PayPal, which eBay owns, as their online payment method.

…Whether or not such a plan would pass regulatory muster in the U.S. is not so cut and dried, said Marc Edelman, a law professor at New York Law School and a former antitrust lawyer.

…‘If there are companies out there that compete with PayPal and provide the same services, and they feel that this would preclude them from having a real opportunity to compete in the market because eBay is requiring PayPal only, it will be interesting to see if they bring a challenge,’ he said.”

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Metro, “Should psychiatric hospital patients be permitted to have sex?”
By Harlan Spector
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Michael Perlin
Subject: Supervision of psychiatric hospital patients tread on human rights

“A Cuyahoga County court case involving a patient who had multiple sex partners at a psychiatric hospital highlights what one lawyer called ‘one of the most threatening issues’ facing mental health officials.

It may be inevitable that patients engage in sexual relations, particularly in state hospitals where they may live for months or years. But it represents a clinical and legal minefield.

Michael Perlin, a New York law school professor and legal-rights advocate for the mentally ill, argues that ‘the fact someone is in a psychiatric hospital is in itself not reason to rob them of their sexual autonomy.’”

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Managing Intellectual Property, “Peer-to-patent increases prior art submissions”
By Eklavya Gupte, London
Monday, June 23, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Simone Noveck and Mark Webbink, Executive Director of the Center for Patent Innovations
Subject: Peer-to-patent project

“The USPTO’s peer-to-patent project has led to a big increase in prior art submissions but has failed to bring in fresh patent applications in its first year, according to a report.

…Mark Webbink, executive director of the Center for Patent Innovations at the New York Law School, who was also one of the authors of the report, said it revealed some pleasing statistics.

‘The level of users was very satisfying. The sheer volume of prior art that was being generated showed that people were actively engaging in the pilot. We were very happy to get a good response from people outside of the US like the UK, Canada, Europe, and even in Japan. It was good to know that people outside of the US were paying attention to this development,’ he said.

…Beth Simone Noveck from the New York Law School, who helped launch the project with the USPTO, said: ‘As the first example of harnessing public knowledge to improve a government process, the first year of peer-to-patent was an unquestioned success.’”

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Weekly News Digest, “Peer-to-patent Pilot Releases Report on Pilot Project”
By Paula J. Hane
Thursday, June 19, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer-to-Patent

“Peer-to-Patent (www.peertopatent.org), the web based government social networking project, has released a report on the results of its 1-year pilot. Peer-to-Patent seeks to improve patent quality by connecting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to an open network of scientific and technical experts to enhance the patent examination process.

Launched on June 15, 2007, by New York Law School Professor Beth Noveck together with a network of corporate and academic collaborators and in cooperation with the USPTO, Peer-to-Patent is the first networking project with a direct link to decision-making by the federal government…”

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The Wall Street Journal, “Notes From China: Legal Education Playing Catch-Up, in a Hurry”
By Ashby Jones
Thursday, June 5, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Brandt Goldstein
Subject: Legal Education in China

“Editor’s Note: Brandt Goldstein, a visiting associate professor at New York Law School and author of the book, Storming the Court, is on a Ford Foundation travel grant speaking at several Chinese universities. He will file occasional dispatches with the Law Blog during his journey. Below is his first.”

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Cybercast News Service, “High Court Unlikely to Settle ‘Gay Marriage’ Issue, Experts Say”
By Pete Winn
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Albert Leonard
Subject: Supreme Court on Gay Marriage

“Last week’s decision by the California Supreme Court establishing homosexual marriage there has raised a number of questions, one of them being whether the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually take up the issue. Some of the nation’s top legal experts disagree on whether that will happen.

…New York Law School professor Albert Leonard, editor of Lesbian/Gay Law Notes, meanwhile, told Cybercast News Service that marriage is almost always regarded as a question of state law, and the Supreme Court is unlikely to pass judgment on the California’s court’s decision.

‘If the secretary of state out there in California certifies the initiative that has been submitted to amend the state constitution, and it goes on the ballot in November and it passes, it could be challenged as a violation of the federal constitution,’ Leonard said.”

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New York Post, “Groveling For Office”
By R.B. Bernstein
Sunday, May 25, 2008

NYLS Faculty: R. B. Bernstein
Subject: Presidential Candidates Sacrifice Dignity for Votes

“It's hard to say what it takes to be president, but it's easy to figure out one thing you don't need: Shame.

From Hillary Rodham Clinton's and John McCain's stilted appearances on "Saturday Night Live," to Barack Obama's reading the "Top 10 list" on Dave Letterman, this campaign season is less Lincoln-Douglas than torch council on "Survivor." Is anything beneath a candidate in these pop culture-obsessed times?

R. B. Bernstein, distinguished adjunct professor of law at New York Law School, is completing his new book, ‘The Founding Fathers Reconsidered.’”

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The National Law Journal, “New York Law School creates Center for Financial Service Law”
By Leigh Jones
Thursday, May 22, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Ronald H. Filler
Subject: Center for Financial Service law

“New York Law School has created a Center for Financial Service Law, led by Ronald H. Filler, managing director of Lehman’s Brothers’ capital markets prime services division.

…Filler, who joins the law school as a professor of law, will serve as the center’s director.”

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The Boston Globe, “Access to excess”
By Ross Kerber
Thursday, May 15, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Jeffrey Haas
Subject: Fidelity traders receiving gifts for business

“New government documents filed this week detail the extent to which financial firms jostled to win the lucrative trading business of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments of Boston.

‘There seems to be a historic tradition of broker-dealer firms engaging in these types of an old-boy system of compensation that loses sight of who the ultimate client is,’ said Jeffrey Haas, who teaches mutual fund regulation at New York Law School.

The filings also suggest how routine the practice was at the time. Haas, the New York Law School instructor, said the large number of firms vying for Fidelity's business may explain why Jefferies was so aggressive in dispensing benefits, to stand out from competitors.

‘It sounds like Jefferies calculated that because others are doing it, that this was going to be a cost of doing business,’ Haas said.”

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The New York Law Journal, “The Next Big Thing: Young Attorneys Envision Golden Future in Virtual Law”
By Thomas Adcock
Friday, May 16, 2008

NYLS: Institute for Information Law & Policy, Adjunct Professor S. Gregory Boyd, and 2L Brian Pyne
Subject: Virtual Law

“‘Virtual Law,’ as specialists call it, is not your father’s law. And according to some aspiring lawyers, it is the next big thing.

…To that end, Mr. Pyne, a second-year student at New York Law School, works at the campus Institute for Information Law and Policy. He has also secured a summer associate job with Drakeford & Kane, a small Manhattan firm with a growing practice in virtual law.

…Among Mr. Pyne’s mentors is S. Gregory Boyd, a 34-year-old associate at Davis & Gilbert… ‘These numbers tell a story greater than the interest in the virtual world among most attorneys,’ said Mr. Boyd, an adjunct professor of intellectual property law at New York Law.”

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The New York Times, “The Serene Life of a Fighter for Civil Liberties”
By Robin Finn
Friday, May 16, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Nadine Strossen
Subject: Leaving the ACLU

“Even before she exercised her civil liberties and resigned this week as president of the American Civil Liberties Union after an 18-year incumbency – somewhat spoiled by internal sniping in the past two years – an ‘On Golden Pond’-ish serenity was inescapable in Nadine Strossen’s weekend house at the Sedgewood Club, a bucolic 92-home enclave tucked into a Putnam County hillside.”

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New York Daily News, “DA boosts ranks of boro’s litigators”
By Nicole Bode
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Subject: New York Law School Alumni Named as New Prosecutors in Queens

“The Queens District Attorney’s office has added a slate of new prosecutors to its staff.

…‘It’s a kind of whirlwind,’ said Regan, a 2006 graduate of New York Law School.

…Dmochowski, a 2005 New York Law School grad, worked as an attorney for the NYPD.”

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Computerworld, “Sizing up Microsoft and Yahoo: Did anybody win?”
By Linda Rosencrance
Sunday, May 4, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Marc Edelman
Subject: Microsoft/Yahoo

“Microsoft gave up its effort to acquire Yahoo because the software company decided it wasn’t worth the cost and potential negative publicity involved with a proxy fight, said Marc Edelman, a law professor at New York Law School and a former antitrust lawyer, in an e-mail. Either that, or Microsoft figured it couldn’t win in a proxy fight, he said.”

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American Lawyer Daily, “Shearman Eliminates General Counsel Post”
By Susan Beck
Friday, May 2, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Elizabeth Chambliss
Subject: Elimination of Position at Shearman & Sterling

“Elizabeth Chambliss, a law professor at New York Law School who has written about law firm general counsel, says that Shutkin’s ouster surprised her, especially since so many firms are creating general counsel positions. ‘They’re swimming against the tide to some extent. It’s clear that the full-time professional model [for a general counsel], where it’s a separate job, is taking hold.’ Chambliss notes that Shutkin was respected in the law firm general counsel community and that the elimination of his job ‘raised eyebrows.’”

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National Law Journal, “Program allowing public review of patent applications on Net speeds the process”
By Sheri Qualters
Monday, April 14, 2008

Subject: Peer-to-Patent

“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that a pilot program involving public review of patent applications over the Internet has helped it quickly reject claims that are obvious or not novel in more than a quarter of the pilot’s patent applications. The USPTO has issued non-final rejections of at least one claim in five out of the first 19 patent applications in the…Peer-to-Patent pilot program, which it launched last June with New York Law School.”

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BNA, “Peer-to-Patent Project Has Already Produced Results, Sponsors, PTO Say”
Monday, April 28, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Noveck
Subject: Peer-to-Patent

“Prior art and commentary submitted by members of public under the nine-month old Peer-to-Patent examination project have already weeded out five patent applications that might otherwise have been mistakenly allowed, according to an April 25 statement by New York Law School, which initiated the project in cooperation with the Patent and Trademark Office.”

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Privacy & Security Law Report, “Class Complaint Alleges Blockbuster Violated Video Privacy Act in Facebook Data Sharing”
By Susan Pagano
Monday, April 28, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Lawsuit against Blockbuster

“New York Law School intellectual property and Internet law associate professor James Grimmelmann told BNA April 22 that he has expected lawsuits like Harris’ to be filed and was eager to see Blockbuster’s reply to the complaint.

…Grimmelmann said that when an individual rents or buys a movie from Blockbuster online, ‘Blockbuster sends a message to your computer that causes your computer to tell Facebook that you rented that movie.’ He said that ‘Facebook will then send an announcement to your friends that you rented or purchased this movie.’ ‘I am still puzzled as to what Blockbuster’s defense is going to be,’ Grimmelmann said. He did not see anything in the text of the Video Privacy Protection Act that would ‘give them an out.’”

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The New York Times, “The Verge of Expulsion, the Fringe of Justice”
By Adam Liptak
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

NYLS: The New York Law School Law Review
Subject: Federal Immigration Caseload

“…the Second Circuit is struggling with the output of prolific immigration lawyers like Frank R. Liu. In the last three years, Mr. Liu has filed more than 50 appeals in federal courts, most of them to the Second Circuit, in New York.

…Other immigration lawyers handle even more preposterous caseloads than Mr. Liu. Seven small immigration firms each had more than 100 appeals pending in the Second Circuit in the spring of 2005, according to a study published in The New York Law School Law Review. One of them had more than 300. These appeals are part of a yet larger phenomenon. In recent years, the number of immigration appeals has more than quintupled, a consequence of revisions to the way immigration cases are handled.”

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Government Executive, “Senator urges agencies, Congress to hire more disabled employees”
By Alyssa Rosenberg
Monday, April 14, 2008

Subject: Fourth Annual Tony Coelho Lecture in Disability Employment Law and Policy

“The federal government must hire more people with disabilities to meet its obligation as a model employer, said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., in a Monday lecture at New York Law School. ‘We should show employers by example why it makes good sense to hire and promote people with disabilities,’ he told students and professors during the fourth annual Tony Coelho Lecture in Disability Employment Law and Policy in New York.

…‘Congress, we should look at ourselves,’ he said. ‘We honestly don’t know how many people with disabilities work in Congress. In the Senate, each office is its own little kingdom. There is no central effort to engage more people with disabilities.’”

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The New York Law Journal, “Toward a Progressive Green Policy”
By Thomas Adcock
Friday, April 11, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor David Schoenbrod
Subject: Breaking the Logjam Conference

“More than 40 attorneys from across the country, drawn from academia as well as government and private practice, assembled in Manhattan for a recent symposium aimed at urging next year’s new president and Congress to end partisan squabbling and enact fresh policy for addressing a host of environmental problems from climate change on down. The symposium, titled ‘Breaking the Logjam: an Environmental Law for the 21^st Century,’ was held at New York University Law School, in cooperation with New York Law School and the NYU Environmental Law Journal.

…A ‘big fat book’ aimed at ‘an intelligent public,’ according to New York Law School Professor David S. Schoenbrod, will follow next spring, with the intent of stoking public demand for policy progress. ‘The current structure of environmental law is anti-innovation because so much is based on centralized, highly restrictive controls,’ said Mr. Schoenbrod, who as a staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council in the 1970s led efforts by the nascent environmental bar to force restriction of lead in gasoline. The symposium last month, said Mr. Schoenbrod, was ‘about finding ways of protecting the environment, while at the same time liberating the private sector to find smarter ways of making things.’ He added, ‘We think a law-making moment is coming.’”

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Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, “New York Law School on the Move: Bonfield, Chused, and Tracht”
By Brian Leiter
Thursday, April 10, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professors Lloyd Bonfield, Richard Chused, Marshall Tracht
Subject: New Hires at New York Law School

“In addition to Gerald Korngold from Case Western, New York Law School has also made (or recently made) tenured hires of…”

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “Other Web giants crowd Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo”
By Todd Bishop
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Marc Edelman
Subject: Bid for Yahoo

“Microsoft Corp.’s bid to acquire Yahoo Inc. has suddenly become a lot more competitive, or at last a lot more crowded.

…It’s not uncommon for one acquisition bid to spark a wave of industry consolidation, said Marc Edelman, a New York Law School professor. What’s unusual about this situation, he said, is the array of companies and markets involved in the possible alliances – including online services, Internet and social networking markets.

‘The net effect of all of this is going to be very complicated, and something presumably the Department of Justice, as well as possibly the Federal Trade Commisssion, is going to need to take a very close look at,’ he said. ‘It’s going to take very detailed economic analysis – more so than your traditional two-companies-into-one merger.’”

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The American Lawyer, “Commentary: There Are Only Two Kinds of Law Schools”
By Cameron Stracher
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Cameron Stracher
Subject: Law School Rankings

“What’s in a number? For law schools – and the students who love/hate them – everything. We’re talking rankings, and from the attention paid to the annual lists (the most prominent of which is U.S. News & World Report’s), it would appear that the only thing better than attending a school in the single digits is a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship. But do the numbers really matter? Put in a different way, will it change your life to claw a few more rungs up the rankings ladder?

…It turns out there are really only two tiers of law schools – those where students decide which firms they want to interview at and those where the firms decide. Most law schools belong to the latter group.”

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Washington Internet Daily, “Law School Project Seeks to Bridge E-Government, Grassroots Sites”
By Louis Trager
Wednesday, April 8, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Beth Noveck

“A Chicago civic-improvement site, meant as a model for bridging e-government and complaint sites, is planned this year by the creator of Web 2.0 collaboration tools for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Libya’s Gaddafi Foundation. Beth Noveck, the director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, said she’s raising money to start the site within six months.

She spoke Friday at a Stanford University seminar on human-computer interaction. Noveck said she wants to use advanced visualization technology and social-psychology concepts in the planned Green Chicago site. Those elements would make it an example of how much more effective online civic efforts can be if they break down the separation of government and activist work, she said.

Noveck’s work is based on principles of open-source software, she said: Groups are smarter than individuals, open processes work better than closed ones—so collaboration is preferable to people voting and commenting individually as in conventional civic action.”

New York Times, “Cleaning up the Environment in D.C.”
By John Tierney
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professors David Schoenbrod and Ross Sandler
Subject: Breaking the Logjam Conference

“…That message comes from scholars who met at the New York University School of Law last weekend for a conference titled “Breaking the Logjam.”

…Similar reforms of the Clean Air Act was proposed at the conference by David Schoenbrod and Ross Sandler of New York Law School, who represented the Natural Resources Defense Council in its lawsuit to take lead out of gasoline three decades ago, and by Joel Schwartz of the American Enterprise Institute, who was formerly with the Clean Air Coalition.

“We call for building on the parts of the Clean Air Act that have been most successful in reducing pollution,” Mr. Schoenbrod said. “All involve Congress taking responsibility for direct federal regulation of important sources with the sources given flexibility on how to achieve congressional targets.”

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New York Law Journal, “Ruling Says Divorce Available for Lesbian Canadian Union”
By Noeleen G. Walder
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur Leonard
Subject: Same-sex marriage

“A woman’s claim that her partner could not divorce her because their same-sex marriage was void under New York law has been rejected by a Manhattan judge.

The court also held that the woman’s partner, who was neither the biological nor adoptive parent to two children born right before and during the couple’s marriage, was entitled to a hearing on her continuing custodial rights.

Arthur S. Leonard, a New York Law School professor and expert in lesbian and gay legal issues, said that to his knowledge this case is the first time a same-sex couple married in Canada has attempted to invoke jurisdiction of the New York courts in a divorce proceeding.”

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Daily News, “Law students help small investors”
By Phyllis Furman
Monday, February 18, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Howard Meyers
Subject: Securities Arbitration Clinic

“For years, Jacoby did nothing until she heard about free legal advice offered by New York Law School’s securities arbitration clinic. Teams of third-year law students supervised by the clinic’s co-director, Howard Meyers, they took on her case. Recently, they reached a settlement with brokerage firm that sold Jacoby the annuity, and a check arrived in the mail.

…Over the last two months as the Dow has tanked, the clinic at New York Law School has seen inquiries surge by 50%. ‘It’s a great feeling to apply what you have learned and help someone out,’ said third-year New York Law student Lucas Charleston, 26, of Red Bank, N.J., who worked on Jacoby’s case.

…The clients of New York Law School’s arbitration clinic generally earn less than $75,000 a year. The damages in their cases often range from $5,000 to $75,000, though there are no limits. ‘We evaluate each client on a case by case basis,’ Meyers said. ‘We’re extremely cautious – we won’t take frivolous suits.’”

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Omaha World-Tribune, “New lethal injection protocol is possible”
By Henry J. Cordes
Sunday, February 10, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Robert Blecker
Subject: Lethal Injection

“As Nebraska now considers moving from electrocution to executing its convicted killers by lethal injection, it could be trading a legally rejected form of execution for a legally suspect one.

…New York Law School professor Robert Blecker is a strong death penalty supporter. He has no problem with painful executions, asking, ‘can’t some killers deserve a quick but painful death?’

But even Blecker accepts that the way states are administering lethal injection today ‘is replete with problems.’

‘It really does require a lot of skilled and trained personnel to administer,’ he said, ‘and there are so many ways it can be botched.’”

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The New York Times, “Always on the City’s Side in Court, and Without a Good Nickname”
By Clyde Haberman
Friday, February 8, 2008

NYLS Center: The Center for City Law
Subject: City Law event

“…The reason for bringing this up is that the department commanded the limelight at a symposium the other day at New York Law School, in TriBeCa. The occasion was the publication of “Fighting for the City,” by William E. Nelson, a law professor at New York University. His book is a history of the law office, written with its cooperation and published by the New York Law Journal. The main event was a panel discussion among seven men who served the last four mayors as corporation counsel, the cumbersome title assigned to the chief city lawyer, reflecting the fact that he represents the city in its capacity as a corporate entity.”

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “We Do, Says NY Appellate Court”
By Ryan Thompson
Monday, February 4, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Arthur Leonard
Subject: Gay Marriage

“New York must recognize same-sex marriages that are legally performed outside the state, according to one state appellate court. And perhaps most interesting, the appellate court that decided this on Friday sits in Rochester, not in New York City.

…“It’s interesting that it’s unanimous,” said New York Law School Prof. Arthur Leonard. “The Fourth Department in general tends to be more conservative.”

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The New York Times, “Ask About Tenant-Landlord Issues”
Thursday, January 24, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Adjunct Professor Lucas A. Ferrara
Subject: Tenant-Landlord Issues

“Lucas A. Ferrara, a partner at Finkelstein Newman Ferrara, is taking questions from readers through Jan. 30 on tenant-landlord issues. Readers are invited to submit their questions using the comment box below.

…In 2002, Mr. Ferrara was appointed an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School.”

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Tucson Citizen, “Noteworthy new paperbacks”
Thursday, January 24, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor James F. Simon
Subject: His book, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers’

“Simon, a professor at New York Law School and the author of six previous books, examines the passionate struggle that existed between these two men during the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War.”

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National Post, “Real life economic woes come to Second Life”
By Craig Offman
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor James Grimmelmann
Subject: Second Life

“While the bricks-and-mortar world reels from the subprime mortgage crisis, the imaginary universe of Second Life is suffering from its own easy-money schemes.

…‘This is just another phase in the site’s maturity where it’s affecting the real world,” said James Grimmelmann, a professor at the New York Law School and an expert on internet law. ‘There is now enough money flowing through that it shows that is significant. If it were Monopoly money people were losing, no one would care.’”

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The Wall Street Journal, "Tracking Stocks Are Now a Relic"
By Palash R. Ghosh
Wednesday, January 9, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Jeffrey Haas
Subject: Tracking Stocks

“Tracking stocks, once a popular innovation on Wall Street during the halcyon 1990s, now appear to be on the verge of extinction. Jeffrey Haas, a professor at New York Law School, estimates that at their peak there were about 40 tracking shares in the late 1990s.

‘The demise of tracking stocks is closely related to the demise of the dot-com boom,” Mr. Haas said. ‘Many of the trackers established back then were designed to take advantage of the tremendous valuations foisted upon anything related to dot-coms. So, any traditional conglomerate that had some kind of Internet-related business—whether an online brokerage or online travel—wanted to exploit the incredible price multiples that the market was giving to these unproven businesses.”

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National Journal, “Legal experts, labor leaders decry e-mail ruling”
By Aliya Sternstein
Monday, January 7, 2008

NYLS Faculty: Professor Carlin Meyer
Subject: Labor Law

“A recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that lets employers block employees from using company e-mail for ‘non-job-related solicitations’ flies in the face of a labor law meant to protect democracy in the workplace, some professors argue. N

ew York Law School professor Carlin Meyer said the board’s finding contradicts the labor act, which was supposed to guarantee a fair shot at unionizing.

‘This is one more decision that tilts against that goal and creates even more employer-dominant workplaces,’ Meyer said.”

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