Program in Law & Journalism Upcoming Events Lawyers, Guns and Money: Reality Programming and the Law June 13, 2008 (9am to 2pm) Reality programming poses thorny new questions for legal counsel to dissect and analyze. To date, however, the analysis has mostly lacked a practical dimension. Recycle or preserve outtakes? Blur or leave subjects identifiable? Ask for a release, or leave well enough alone? Restricted to attorneys who practice in this area, this conference will consist of three workshops and a panel where attorneys can share their experiences and consult about “best practices” for the reality genre.   Read more here.   ABOUT PLJ The Program in Law & Journalism is New York Law School’s home for the study of the relation­ship between and among law, lawyers, the media, and the public. The Program is affiliated with the Institute for Information Law and Policy, the law school’s center for innovation in information technology, and the Center for Professional Values and Practice.  The Program hosts seminars, panels, and colloquia for practicing journalists on legal issues raised by newsgathering activities, for lawyers on the ethics and practicalities of dealing with the media, for academics on issues at the intersection of law and journalism, and for the general public on the role of lawyers in media and the influence of the media on lawyering.   The Program in Law and Journalism announces its distinguished eight-member Advisory Board, which includes noted and highly accomplished representatives from the legal, academic, and journalistic communities. PLJ ADVISORY BOARD Floyd Abrams, Partner, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, renowned First Amendment lawyer Catherine Crier, Court TV Anchor and Author Kristina Fischer, New York Law Journal Editor-in-Chief Jim Goodale, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton, acclaimed First Amendment and Media lawyer Brian Lehrer, WNYC Radio Adam Liptak, New York Times national legal correspondent Victor Navasky, Columbia Journalism School Professor, Columbia Journalism Review Chairman, and former editor of The Nation Stewart Pinkerton ’82, Deputy Managing Editor, Forbes    NOTABLE PAST EVENTS Inside the Author's Studio November 30, 2007 Inside the Author's Studio: A discussion moderated by Professor Lis Wiehl (Fox News) and bestselling author and ex-sex crime prosecutor Linda Fairstein. Registration required. Rsvp plj@nyls.edu Reporting the Law Panel November 8, 2007 The Program in Law & Journalism at New York Law School held its Third Annual Media Roundup. Legal stories that made headlines in the news this past year will be debated by our panel comprised of prestigious print, television and online journalists. The program will be moderated by Lis Wiehl (Fox News). You can see the Reporting the Law: A Year-end Review information here. See the video here. A Conversation with Linda Fairstein November 30 Linda Fairstein spoke to students and faculty about her groundbreaking career as Manhattan's sex-crimes prosecutor and her return to her first love, writing, in what has become an eagerly anticipated bestselling mystery series with...a sex crimes prosecutor as its heroine. Ms. Fairstein's next book to draw on her decades of experience will be published in March, 2008. A Conversation with John Yoo April 20, 2007 The Program in Law & Journalism presented a conversation on media coverage of the legal issues in the “war on terror” with Professor John Yoo, conducted by Adam Liptak, the national legal correspondent for The New York Times.  Professor Yoo has been widely credited for the Bush administration’s legal position that the Constitution gives the President broad authority to use force abroad in response to grave national emergencies and that Congress has limited authority to restrict the interrogation of terrorists.   Watch the Program      Writing About the Law: From Bluebook to Blogs and Beyond February 16, 2007 The Program in Law & Journalism and the New York Law School Law Review co-sponsored this symposium on writing about the law. The day-long program included presentations on everything from the structure and future of legal scholarship to the increasing appetite of the mainstream media and American public for all things legal. The symposium generated much publicity. Read the blogs about it:  Above the Law, Overlawyered, Althouse, Legal Theory Blog.  Click here for Ann Althouse's op-ed about John Osborn's keynote address.  Read the blog about the blogs. Also, some additional commentary from QuizLaw. Click here for panel information.

ARTICLES / BROADCASTS First Amendment and International Law (4/30) Disturbing News for Journalists (4/20) How to Judge a Would be Justice (4/14) Supreme Court Justices to decide network journalism speech case (3/18) Jeffrey Toobin on the death penalty in New Yorker Magazine (2/4) Lost Children, Lost Truths (1/14) Adam Liptak on the Supreme Court and the rights of journalists (10/7) Prof. Stracher on "Net Neutrality" on Brian Lehrer Live. 'What Lawyers Can Learn from Paris Hilton (7/8)   RECOMMENDED READING Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis, by Michael McCann and William Haltom Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture, by Marc Galanter When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture, by Richard Sherwin The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well, by Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman FACULTY COMMENTARY Prof. Stracher's Op-Ed on the Borat Lawsuit in the WSJ Prof. Wiehl's Column on Fox News.com: Lis on Law FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Dinner with Dad: How I Found My Way Back to the Family Table Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair The 51% Minority: How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It