Families, Technology, Globalization, Other Contemporary Legal Issues to Be Explored at Faculty Presentation Day
Contact: Edith Sachs, Office of Public Affairs, 212.431.2187, esachs@nyls.edu
Entire School to Take Part in a Day Dedicated to Research and Scholarship
NEW YORK, March 17, 2006 --- On Tuesday, March 21, 2006, the New York Law School community will come together for its third biennial celebration of scholarship, an all-day event called Faculty Presentation Day. On that day, classes are cancelled and the entire community—students, faculty, staff, alumni, and guests—will attend presentations of faculty research papers on some of the most timely and thought-provoking topics of concern to legal practitioners and academics today.
This year’s Faculty Presentation Day has been organized into a series of panels around the main theme of the evolving nature of the legal world.
“This year’s presentations are a striking illustration of the state of the law and of legal education,” said Stephen J. Ellmann, associate dean for faculty development and professor of law. “They also illustrate a startling fact: These old and seemingly conservative institutions are actually, or also, institutions caught up in change.”
Following is a sampling of panels and featured presentations:
- Evolving Families and the Law I
“Who Can Marry Whom? Answers from South Africa and the U.S.”
Arthur S. Leonard, Professor of Law
- Markets and Money: Making Law, Making Change
“Prognosticating About the New Bankruptcy Law”
Karen Gross, Professor of Law
- History, Literature, and Law
“Uncovering the Past: Lessons from Doing Legal History”
Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law
- Evolving Technology, Democracy, and Law
“What Is the Law of E-Democracy?”
Beth Simone Noveck, Associate Professor of Law
“Law in the Digital Age”
Richard K. Sherwin, Professor of Law
- The Reshaping of the Global Legal Order
“Fatwa: Deconstructing an Islamic Legal Opinion”
Sadiq Reza, Professor of Law
The full Faculty Presentation Day schedule and online registration form are available here.
A total of 33 academic papers will be presented and subsequently published in the New York Law School Law Review. The papers are available upon request.
The first Faculty Presentation Day took place in 2002. Its success inspired the New York Law School administration to make it a permanent part of the intellectual life of the school, taking place every two years in the spring semester.
To view the 2002 New York Law School Law Review Faculty Presentation Day issue (Vol. 46, Nos. 3 & 4), click here.
To view the 2004 New York Law School Law Review Faculty Presentation Day issue (Vol. 49, No. 2), click here.
ABOUT NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL:
Founded in 1891, New York Law School is the second oldest independent law school in the United States. Drawing on its location near the centers of law, government, and finance in New York City, its faculty of noted and prolific scholars has built the school’s curricular strength in the areas of tax law, labor and employment law, civil and human rights law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and interdisciplinary fields such as legal history and legal ethics. New York Law School has more than 11,000 graduates and enrolls some 1500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. program. It is one of only two law schools in the metropolitan area to offer the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Tax Law.
