2006 Spring Symposium: March 31 and April 1, 2006

The Plaintiffs' Bar In recent years the plaintiffs' bar has faced increased pressures, from procedural and financing reforms to negative portrayals in public discourse. How have attorneys coped with similar challenges in the past, and how will they deal with them in the future? Practitioners, law professors, and researchers convened for two days to discuss the history, status, and future prospects of the plaintiffs' bar. Articles coming out of the symposium will be published in a forthcoming edition of the New York Law School Law Review in the spring of 2007. To request a free copy, please e-mail the center.

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2005–06 Trustees Lecture Series

Marc Galanter Distinguished Visiting Scholar Remedy and Recoil: The Late Twentieth-Century Turn Against Law In these lectures, Professor Marc Galanter will examine changing practices and attitudes regarding civil remedies in the latter part of the twentieth century, a period marked by a dramatic turn from an expansion of remedies and protections to a contraction of commitments to legal remedy as a path to justice and equality.

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2004 Spring Symposium

Criminal Defense in the Age of Terrorism The Bush Administration's "war on terror" coincided with a drastic change in the criminal defense bar's working environment. From tightening of INS enforcement procedures to passage of the USA Patriot Act, defense attorneys face a multitude of new or enhanced restrictions on their ability to represent their clients effectively. The Center for Professional Values and Practice looks at the challenges practitioners face in this new legal environment in a special symposium edition of the New York Law School Law Review published spring 2004. To request a free copy, please e-mail the center.

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