Chair: Stephen Ellmann, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development

The Scholarship Luncheons meet almost every Tuesday during each semester of the school year. This series is meant, above all, as an opportunity for our own faculty to present their work in progress and get valuable comments and suggestions for their projects, but we also welcome scholars from outside New York Law School as the presenters at occasional sessions.

Fall 2007-Spring 2008

August 28, 2007 
Professor Randolph N. Jonakait, "The Rise of the American Adversary System: America Before England" Commentator: Visiting Professor Lloyd Bonfield

September 4, 2007
Professor Camille Broussard, “Your Library – Your Research Gateway”

September 11, 2007
Professor Robert B. Ahdieh, Emory University School of Law (Visiting Professor & Microsoft/LAPA Fellow, Princeton University), “Reflections on the (Misunderstood) Genius of American Corporate Law”
Commentator: Professor Jeffrey J. Haas

September 18, 2007
Professor Rosalie Sanderson (with Sarah Valentine), “Building Bridges to Practice: Teaching Students to Look Beyond Lexis & Westlaw”

September 25, 2007 
Associate Professor Tai-Heng Cheng, “The Universal Declaration at Sixty: Is It Still Right for the United States?” Commentator: Professor Stephen Ellmann, Associate Dean for Faculty Development

October 2, 2007
Professor Cameron Stracher, “How to Write (and Publish) an Op-Ed”

October 9, 2007
Visiting Professor Marshall E. Tracht, “Sale-Leaseback Recharacterization in Bankruptcy”
Commentator: Professor Edward J. Janger, Brooklyn Law School

October 23, 2007 
Professor Edward A. Purcell Jr., Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law, "The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005:  The Old and New in Federal Jurisdictional Reform"
Commentator: Professor Faith Stevelman Kahn

October 30, 2007 
Visiting Professor Dan Hunter, “Trademark’s Confusing Lie”
Commentator: Professor Beth Simone Noveck

November 6, 2007
Associate Professor Kenneth C. Kettering, “Securitization and Its Discontents”
Commentator: Professor James Brook

November 13, 2007
Professor Jethro K. Lieberman, “Tribeca Square Press: What Shall We Publish?”

November 20, 2007
Assistant Professor Anita S. Krishnakumar, St. John’s University School of Law, "Representation Reinforcement and the Court-Congress Dialogue"
Commentator: Professor Frank W. Munger

November 27, 2007
Professors David Johnson, Beth Simone Noveck, and Richard K. Sherwin, "New 'Best Practices' in Law Teaching"

December 4, 2007
Professor Frank K. Upham, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, NYU School of Law, “From Deng to Demsetz: The Implications for Law and Development Theory of China's Three Decades of ‘Property-Rights-Less’ Economic Growth”
Commentator: Professor William P. LaPiana, Rita & Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts & Estates

Fall 2006–Spring 2007

September 5, 2006
Professor Stephen A. Newman, “Evolution and the Holy Ghost of Scopes: Can Science Lose the Next Round?”
Commentator: Professor Harry H. Wellington

September 19, 2006
Professor Beth Simone Noveck, “Scientific Expertise in Policymaking: Open Examination, Collective Intelligence and Patent Reform”
Commentator: David Schoenbrod, Trustee Professor of Law

October  9, 2006
Professor Lenni B. Benson, "You Can't Get There From Here:  Judicial Review of Immigration Orders" Commentator: Professor Seth D. Harris

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Professor Susan A. Bandes, Distinguished Research Professor, DePaul University College of Law, “The Heart Has Its Reasons: Emotion and the Death Penalty”
Commentator: Professor Robert Blecker

October 31, 2006
Professor Frank Munger & Professor David Engel, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, “How Law Becomes Active: Toward a Recursive Theory of Law and Identity”
Commentator: Professor Tanina Rostain

November 14, 2006 
Professor Tanina Rostain, “The Rise of Lawyers as Law Consultants”
Commentator: Professor Elizabeth Chambliss

November 28, 2006
Professor Tai-Heng Cheng, “Odious Debt”
Commentator: Professor Ruti G. Teitel, Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law

January 9, 2007
Professor Timothy Bakken, U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Research Scholar, NYLS, “The Preemption of Nuclear Weapons”
Commentator: Professor Tai-Heng Cheng

January 16, 2007
Professor Gerald Korngold, Everett D. & Eugenia S. McCurdy Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, “Resolving the Intergenerational Conflicts of Real Property Law”
Commentator: Professor Andrew R. Berman

January 23, 2007
Adjunct Professor Mitchell H. Rubinstein, “Is a Labor Relations Evidentiary Privilege Developing?”
Commentator: Professor Seth Harris

January 30, 2007
Edward A. Purcell, Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor, “Positivism, Constitutionalism, and Democracy in America: A Troubled History”
Commentator: William P. LaPiana, Rita & Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts & Estates

February 7, 2007
Visiting Professor Lloyd Bonfield, “Filial Piety in Western Legal Systems: a Comparative History”

February 13, 2007
Distinguished Adjunct Professor David Epstein, “Pedagogy Using the Web”

February 20, 2007
Professor Kenneth Kettering, “The Law’s Reception of New Technology: The Case of the Telegraph,” and Distinguished Adjunct Professor Peter Strauss, “New York Guardianship Law and the Rights of Allegedly Incapacitated Persons”

February 27, 2007
Professor Michael Botein, “Regulation of  Municipal Wi-Fi”, and Michael Santorelli, Associate Director, Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute, Media Center, “Rationalizing the Municipal Broadband Debate”

March 13, 2007
Professor Ross Sandler, “Some Ideas About Teaching Cases”

March 20, 2007
Linda Cortez, Director of Academic Support, University of Baltimore School of Law, “Taking Advantage of Assessment Opportunities:  What You Learn May Surprise You”

March 27, 2007
Sydney M. Cone, III, C.V. Starr Professor of Law, International Trade and Finance, “The Interaction of Cross-Border Legal Practice and Multilateral Trade Negotiations”
Commentator: Alfred C. Aman, Jr., Roscoe C. O’Byrne Professor, Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington; Dean-designate, Suffolk University Law School

April 10, 2007
Professor Diane Fahey, “Tax Treaties: A Weapon Against Human Trafficking”

April 24, 2007
Professor Ronit Dinovitzer, University of Toronto (Sociology), "The Trajectories of Urban Legal Careers”
Commentator: Professor Elizabeth Chambliss

Fall 2005–Spring 2006

August 23, 2005
Unwritten works in progress.

August 30, 2005
Professor Lenni Benson, "In Which the Author Explains Why Court Stripping is Akin to Making Paper Dolls or Why Immigration Cases are Multiplying in the Federal Court."

September 6, 2005
Professor Edward Purcell, “Federalism and the American Constitutional Enterprise: An Historical Inquiry into the Limits of a Structural Norm.”

September 13, 2005
Kris Gledhill, "The Human Rights Act of 1998: Impact So Far in UK Law."

September 21, 2005
Professor Akhil Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School, “New York and the Federal Constitution.” (Excerpted from his book, America’s Constitution: A Biography)

September 27, 2005
Professors Beth Noveck, Richard Sherwin, and David Johnson, technology and pedagogy.

January 24, 2006
Professor Richard Sherwin
“Law in the Digital Age: Pedagogy for a Changing Practice.”

January 31, 2006
Professor Shavar D. Jeffries, Seton Hall Law School
“The Incapacity of Public Schools to Educate Stigmatized Minorities.”

February 7, 2006
Professors Faith Kahn and Lawrence Lederma
"Cox, Sox and Auction Blocks: Reforming Delaware's Going Private Law."

February 21, 2006
Professor Michael Botein
“The FCC’s New Indecency Enforcement Policy: A Cautionary Tale.”

February 28, 2006
Professor Joyce Saltalamachia
“Quality Assessment of Legal Education in Israel—Can the U.S. Model Work There?”

March 14, 2006 
Special videoconference meeting with faculty at the University of Essex in England and faculty from a school or schools in Colombia (who will participate in English). The topic will be “exceptionalism.”

March 21, 2006
Faculty Presentation Day

March 28, 2006
Professor Karen Gross
Lois Lupica, Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of Maine School of Law
"Legislative Messaging and the New Bankruptcy Legislation."

April 3, 2006
Ronan Keane, Former Chief Justice of Ireland
“New Directions in Irish Constitutional Law: The Rights of Immigrants, the Duties of Private Parties."

April 11, 2006
Visiting Professor Alfred Aman Jr.
"The Domestic Face of Globalization."

April 18, 2006
Professor Ann Thomas
"Three New York Law School Tax Law Leaders of the Progressive Era."

April 25, 2006
Visiting Professor Peter C. Kostant
"The Role of Law and Culture in Changing the Norms of Corporate Lawyering."

Fall 2004–Spring 2005

August 31, 2004
Professors Paul Dubinsky, Kris Franklin, and Anita Bernstein, New York Law School, New topics lunch #1.

September 7, 2004
Professor Büllesbach, with Professors Schwartz, Reidenberg, and Burkert, Global Privacy Law.

September 14, 2004
Professor Camille Broussard, New York Law School, “Using Class Web Pages: From Posting to Pedagogy.”

September 21, 2004
Professor Robert Blecker, New York Law School, "Depraved Indifference Recklessmess."

September 28, 2004 
Professor Denise Morgan, New York Law School, “The New Parity Debate: Congress and Rights of Belonging.”

October 5, 2004
Professor Stephen Newman, New York Law School, “Advocacy Lessons from Shakespeare: Persuasion Techniques in Julius Caesar.”

October 12, 2004
Professor Ed Purcell, New York Law School, “Federalism and the American Constitutional Enterprise: An Historical Inquiry into the Limits of a Structural Norm.”

October 19, 2004
Professor Beth Noveck, New York Law School, “Democracy, the Internet and Groups: The Future of Collective Action.”

October 26, 2004
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School, Introduction to “The Hemings Family of Monticello” (her forthcoming book) and one chapter from it, “The Children of No One.”

November 2, 2004
New topics lunch #2.

November 9, 2004
Professor Randy Jonakait, New York Law School, “The Fellowship in Defeating Terrorism; Defending Democracy: Is Israel a Good Model of the U.S.?”

November 16, 2004
Professor Anita Bernstein, New York Law School, “The Enterprise of Liability.”

November 23, 2004 
Professor Lung-Chu Chen, New York Law School, “Taiwan and the U.N.”

November 30, 2004
Professor Janet Gornick, Baruch College/CUNY Department of Political Science, “Work/Family Reconciliation Policies: The United States in Cross-National Perspective.” 

January 11, 2005
Professors Lenni Benson, Frank Munger, and Rudolph J.R. Peritz will discuss their unwritten works in progress.

January 18, 2005
Professor Sydney M. Cone III, “The Promotion of Free-Trade Areas Viewed in Terms of Most-Favored Nation Treatment and ‘Imperial Preference’”

January 25, 2005
Professor James Brook, New York Law School, “Problems and Protocols: The ‘What-the-Hey’ of Deliberative Practice and Formative Assessment”

February 2, 2005
Professors Art Leonard, Nadine Strossen, Ruti Teitel, New York Law School, “Interpreting Lawrence”

February 8, 2005
Professor David Schoenbrod, New York Law School, “Saving Our Environment From Washington”

February 15, 2005
Dean James Simon, New York Law School, “Dred Scott Revisited” (draft chapter from his book on Lincoln and Taney)

February 22, 2005
Professor Andrew Berman, New York Law School, “Beyond the Mortgage: Non-Traditional Financing Techniques in the Real Estate Capital Markets”

March 1, 2005
George Priest, John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics,
Yale Law School
”Buying Democracy: Campaign Contributions in the Context of Electoral Failures”

March 8, 2005
Professor Robert Blecker, New York Law School, "Death Row—A Living Hell? Life Without Parole—A Moral Alternative?: Preliminary Video From Oklahoma"

March 15, 2005
Professor Jeffrey Haas, New York Law School, “Legislating from Scratch: The New Saudi Arabian Regulatory Regime”

March 29, 2005
Professor Karen Gross, New York Law School, “Using Credit Scoring to Drive Social Policy: A Look at What Is Possible”

April 5, 2005
Professor Seth Harris, New York Law School, “Innocence, The Sopranos, and the National Labor Relations Act”

April 12, 2005
Professor Ann Thomas, New York Law School, “Three New York Law School Tax Leaders of the Progressive Era”

April 19, 2005
Kent Greenawalt, University Professor, Columbia Law School, "Religion, Conscience and Child Custody"

April 26, 2005
Unwritten works in progress #4.

Fall 2003–Spring 2004

September 30, 2003
Mark Osiel, University of Iowa College of Law and Visiting Professor at New York Law School, "The Mental State of Mass Atrocity: Legal Repercussions of Arendt's 'Banality of Evil' Thesis." (Cosponsored by New York Law School's Law & Society Colloquium)

October 7, 2003
Lenni Benson, New York Law School, "Alien Lives: People and Cases Who Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy: Chapter One—Expelling the Radicals."

October 14, 2003
Anthony Fletcher, New York Law School, "The Publication Requirement of the New York Liability Company Law."

October 21, 2003
Kris Franklin, New York Law School, "Legal Authority in Lawrence v. Texas."

October 28, 2003
Beth Noveck, New York Law School, "Citizen Participation and Electronic Rulemaking."

November 4, 2003
Aleta Estreicher, New York Law School, and Deb Quentel, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), "Using and Authoring CALI Lessons—A Valuable Part of Law School Pedagogy."

November 11, 2003
Nadine Strossen, New York Law School, "Current Civil Liberties Controversies."

November 18, 2003
Philip Bobbitt, A.W. Walker Centennial Chair, University of Texas School of Law, "The Shield of Achilles, War, Peace, and the Course of History." (Cosponsored by the Comparative Law & Politics Discussion Group)

November 25, 2003
Stephen Ellmann, New York Law School, "The Right to Counsel as a Socioeconomic Right."

December 2, 2003
Jules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, "Success Without Victory."

January 13, 2004
Dennis W. Archer, President, American Bar Association, "Diversity in the Legal Profession."

January 20, 2004
Howard Venable, Visiting Professor at New York Law School, Associate Professor of Law at New York University Law School, "Deconstructing Demsetz: Notes on the Relationship Between Historical, Anthropological, and 'Law and Economics' Views of Property Theory."

January 27, 2004
Diane Kunz, Executive Director, Center for Adoption Policy Studies, "And the Children Shall Lead Them: Adoption at the Center of American, European, and Transnational Law."

February 3, 2004
Peter Kostant, Visiting Professor at New York Law School, Associate Professor of Law at Roger Williams University School of Law, "Fairness Norms and Corporate Governance: An Experimental Test of Fairness Under Agency and Profit Maximization Constraints."

February 10, 2004
Robert Blecker, New York Law School, "The Myth of Race Discrimination in the Death Penalty."

February 17, 2004
Lawrence M. Grosberg, New York Law School, "Standardized Clients at New York Law School."

February 24, 2004
Michael Perlin, New York Law School, "'She Breaks Just Like a Little Girl': Neonaticide, the Insanity Defense, and the Irrelevance of 'Ordinary Common Sense.'"

March 9, 2004
Michael Botein, New York Law School, "The Cable Television Compulsory Copyright Law: Successful Private Resolution of IP Rights."

March 16, 2004
Arthur S. Leonard, New York Law School, "Whither Due Process and Equal Protection After Lawrence v. Texas? How the Supreme Court's Sodomy Law Decision May Affect the Development of Constitutional Rights."

March 23, 2004
Paul Dubinsky, New York Law School, "Law in the Age of Apology."

March 30, 2004
Elizabeth Chambliss, New York Law School, "The Ethics of In-House Ethics Advising."

April 13, 2004
Ann Thomas, New York Law School, "Religious Sources of Income Tax Advocacy in 19th-Century America."

April 20, 2004
Kendall Thomas, Columbia University School of Law, "What the Law Cannot Do: South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission and the Ethics Judgment."

April 27, 2004
Rudolph Peritz, New York Law School, "Nehru Suits, Pet Rocks, and Hi-Tech Stock: The Econmic Logic of Fashion."

Fall 2002–Spring 2003

September 3, 2002
General exchange of ideas on faculty work-in-progress.

September 10, 2002
Professor Michael B.W. Sinclair, New York Law School, "Anastasoff versus Hart: The Constitutionality and Wisdom of Denying Precedential Authority to Circuit Court Decisions."

Septmeber 17, 2002
Professor Robert Blecker, New York Law School, "At the Core: Today's Death Penalty in the Old Testament (and Ancient Greece): A Reinterpretation."

September 24, 2002
Professor Kris Franklin, New York Law School, "Academic Skills Pedagogy: Theories and Conceptions Underlying the Applied Analysis Course."

October 1, 2002
Professor Faith Kahn, New York Law School, "Bombing Markets, Subverting the Rule of Law: Enron, Financial Fraud and September 11, 2001."

October 8, 2002
Professor Michael Perlin, New York Law School, "'Life is in Mirrors, Death Disappears': Giving Life to Atkins v. Virginia."

October 15, 2002
Professor Randolph Jonakait, New York Law School, "The Law and Two Cultures."

October 22, 2002
Professor Edward Rubin, University of Pennsylvania Law School, "From Human Rights to Moral Demands on Government."

October 29, 2002
Geoffrey Stone, Harry Kalven, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago School of Law, "Civil Liberties in Times of National Emergency."

November 5, 2002
Professor Michael Botein, New York Law School, "Revisiting the Information Superhighway A Decade Later: Who Will Pay for It?"

November 12, 2002
Professor Sydney M. Cone III, New York Law School, "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002."

November 21, 2002
Professor Seth Harris, New York Law School, "Should Seniority Be Sacrosanct? U.S. Airways v. Barnett, the ADA, and the Misapplication of Internal Labor Markets Theory."

November 26, 2002
Stephen Ellmann, Professor & Associate Dean for Faculty Development, New York Law School, "Racial Profiling and Terrorism."

December 3, 2002
Joanne Ingham, New York Law School, and Professor Elaine Mills, Albany Law School, "A Meeting of the Minds? Learning Styles of Law School Faculty and First-Year Students."

January 14, 2003
General exchange of ideas on faculty work-in-progress.

January 21, 2003
Professor Richard Marsico, New York Law School, "Reform of the Community Reinvestment Act."

January 28, 2003
Professor George Dawson, University of Florida and Law School Admissions Council, "Use of the LSAT in the Selection of Law Students."

February 4, 2003
Professor Karen Gross, New York Law School, and Professor Marie Newman, Pace Law School, "The Scarlet 'B': Debtors as Dimmesdale."

February 6, 2003
Professor Eli Lederman, former dean of the faculty of law at Tel Aviv University and former director of its Institute of Crimonology and Criminal Law, "Protecting Information Through Criminal Law."

February 11, 2003
Professor Mark Osiel, University of Iowa College of Law and Visiting Professor at New York Law School, "How Lawyers Globalize."

February 25, 2003
Professor Pamela Champine, New York Law School, "A Therapeutic Will."

March 4, 2003
Professor Edward Purcell, New York Law School, "The Courts, Federalism, and the Federal Constitution: 1920–2000."

March 11, 2003
Professor Sadiq Reza, New York Law School, "Privacy and the Criminal Arrestee or Suspect: In Search of a Common-Law Right."

March 25, 2003
Professor Tanina Rostain, New York Law School, "The Players and the Code: Accountants, Tax Lawyers and the Development of Professional Epistemology."

April 1, 2003
Professor Eugene Cerruti, New York Law School, "Lifting the Veil on Brady."

April 15, 2003
Professor Richard Beck, New York Law School, "Comparative Constitutional Law of Tax."

Fall 2001–Spring 2002

September 25, 2001
Professors Robert Blecker, Paul Dubinsky, and Sadiq Reza, New York Law School, “Reflections on September 11.”

October 2, 2001
Professors Carol Buckler, and Lenni Benson, New York Law School, “Immigration Law and September 11.”

October 9, 2001
Professor Nadine Strossen, New York Law School, “Civil Liberties After September 11.”

October 16, 2001
Professor Sydney M. Cone III, New York Law School, “The Asbestos Case and Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization: The Uneasy Relationship Between Panels and the Appellate Body.”

October 23, 2001
Professor Jeffrey Haas, New York Law School,  and Steven Howard (Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison), “The Heartland Funds’ Receivership and its Implications for Independent Mutual Fund Directors.”

October 30, 2001
Richard Abel, Connell Professor, UCLA School of Law, “The Professional as Political: English Lawyers from the 1989 Green Papers Through the Access to Justice Act 1999” (cosponsored by the Law & Society Colloquium).

November 6, 2001
Professor Bernard Haykel, New York University (Middle Eastern Studies & History), “Islamic Dimensions of the World Trade Center Attack,” with comments by Professor Sadiq Reza, New York Law School.

November 13, 2001
Professor Arthur Leonard, New York Law School, “On Legal Recognition for Same-Sex Partners.”

November 20, 2001
Carl Weisbrod, Downtown Alliance, and Professor Ross Sandler, New York Law School, “The Redevelopment of Downtown New York.”

November 27, 2001
The Honorable Richard Goldstone, Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, “The World Trade Center and the Rule of Law.”

December 4, 2001
Professor William LaPiana, New York Law School, “Great Expectations: The Tort of Intentional Interference with Prospective Inheritance.”

January 15, 2002
Roundtable discussion on faculty works-in-progress.

January 22, 2002
Professor John Hagan, Northwestern University and University of Toronto, chapter 2 from his book, Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada (2001).

January 24, 2002
The Honorable Jon O. Newman, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, “Reflections on Restructuring Federal Jurisdiction.”

January 29, 2002
Professor Denise Morgan, New York Law School, “The New School Finance Litigation: Acknowledging that Race Discrimination in Public Education Is More than Just a Tort.”

February 5, 2002
Louis Henkin, University Professor Emeritus and Special Service Professor at Columbia University School of Law, “War and Peace in International Law: After September 11.”

February 12, 2002
Professor Robert Blecker, New York Law School, “Who Deserves to Die?”

February 19, 2002
The Honorable Evan J. Wallach, United States Court of International Trade, and Adjunct Professor, New York Law School, “Afghanistan, Yamashita, and Uchiyama: Does the Sauce Suit the Gander?”

February 26, 2002
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Law School, “Thomas Jefferson: A Life in the Law.”

March 5, 2002
Professor Ruth Wedgwood, Yale Law School and, in 2001–02, Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, “Legal Responses to Terrorism.”

March 12, 2002
Professor David Schoenbrod, New York Law School, “Politics and the Principle that Elected Legislators Should Make the Laws.”

March 13, 2002
Professor George Dent, Case Western Reserve University Law School, “Lawyers and Trust in Strategic Alliances.”

March 19, 2002
Ingrid Mattson, Hartford Theological Seminary, “Muslim Women Reclaim Islamic Law.”

April 2, 2002
Professor Seth Harris, New York Law School, “Coase’s Paradox and the Inefficiency of Permanent Strike Replacements.”

April 9, 2002
Professor Teemu Ruskola, American University, Washington College of Law (visiting at Cornell Law School, 2001–02), “Law’s Empire? The Jurisprudence of the United States Court for China.”

April 16, 2002
Professor Ann Thomas, New York Law School, “The American Income Tax and the Social Control of Wealth: The Rise and Fall of Withholding in the Progressive Era.”

April 23, 2002
Dean Kristin Booth Glen, CUNY Law School at Queens College, “Thinking out of the Bar Exam Box: A Challenge and Proposal for Change.”

April 30, 2002
Professor Paul Dubinsky, New York Law School, “Human Rights Law Meets Private Law Harmonization: The Coming Conflict.”