New York Law School on iTunes U

 

New York Law School on iTunes U
 
New York Law School offers students, faculty, alumni, and the general public the opportunity to download and watch faculty lectures and conferences on a range of legal topics for free on iTunes U, the mobile educational site of iTunes.
 
Apple’s iTunes U is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and provides access to educational content from hundreds of colleges and universities.
 
“ITunes U is an innovative service that allows New York Law School to provide our students and anyone browsing the site admission to the intellectual discourse taking place on campus from the comforts of a home computer or on-the-go,” Dean and President Richard A. Matasar said. “This portable university provides the educational resources of our faculty not just to our students, but to a wider and broader audience that might not have been able to have such access before.”
 
New York Law School’s iTunes U podcasts can be accessed by visiting the School’s Web site at www.nyls.edu or the iTunes Store. The Law School’s iTunes U site is also searchable in the iTunes search engine by topic, professor, name, and school name. The podcasts cover a range of topics, from the environment to civil liberties to virtual worlds. Some of the featured podcasts currently available include:
 
  • “Ain’t No Going Back: Teaching Mental Disability Law Courses Online,” with Professor Michael Perlin, Director of the Online Mental Disability Law Program.
  • “Saving Our Environment from Washington, D.C.: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People,” with Professor David Schoenbrod.
  • “ACLU State of Civil Liberties: Supreme Court Justice Scalia & Professor Nadine Strossen.”
  • “Virtual Worlds and Learning” panel from State of Play/Terra Nova Symposium.
  • “SBA Presents,” the Student Bar Association’s weekly podcast featuring interviews with faculty and students about the New York Law School experience.
  • An interview with William Perez, Assistant Dean for Admissions & Financial Aid, about frequently asked questions regarding admissions for prospective students.
 
About New York Law School
Founded in 1891, New York Law School is an independent law school located in lower Manhattan near the city’s centers of law, government, and finance. New York Law School’s renowned faculty of prolific scholars has built the School’s strength in such areas as constitutional law, civil and human rights, labor and employment law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and a number of interdisciplinary fields. The School is noted for its seven academic centers: Center for International Law, Center for New York City Law, Center for Professional Values and Practice, Center for Real Estate Studies, Center on Business Law and Policy, Institute for Information Law and Policy, and Justice Action Center. New York Law School has more than 13,000 graduates and enrolls some 1,500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. program and its Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation program. www.nyls.edu