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Selected works from 2019 and 2020 are below:
Law Reviews
- “Penalties: Punishments, Prices, or Rewards” by Robert Blecker—New York Law School Law Review
- “Some Thoughts About Fair Use and Harm to Third Parties” by Richard Chused—UCLA Law Review Discourse
- “Court-to-School Pipelines: Meeting Special Education Needs for Students on Juvenile Probation in New York” by Lisa Grumet—New York Law School Law Review
- “Hidden Nondefense: Partisanship in State Attorneys General Amicus Briefs and the Need for Transparency” by Lisa Grumet—Fordham Law Review
- “Prejudice-Based Rights in Criminal Procedure” by Justin Murray—University of Pennsylvania Law Review
- “Education Delayed is Education Denied” by Samantha Pownall ’11—New York Law School Law Review
- “The Historical Significance of Judge Learned Hand: What Endures and Why?” by Edward A. Purcell Jr.—Arizona State Law Journal
- “Punishment Without Process: ‘Victim Impact’ Proceedings For Dead Defendants” by Rebecca Roiphe (co-author)—Fordham Law Review
- “A Typology of Department of Justice Lawyers” by Rebecca Roiphe—North Carolina Law Review
- “Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Free Speech Legacy” by Nadine Strossen—Hasting Law Journal
Books and Chapters
- Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All by Tamara Belinfanti (co-author) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019)
- Immigration and Nationality Law: Strategies and Problems, Second Edition by Lenni Benson (Carolina Academic Press, 2019)
- Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice by Lenni Benson (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019)
- Wills, Trusts, and Estates: A Contemporary Approach by Lloyd Bonfield and William P. LaPiana (West Academic, 2019)
- Legal Reasoning Case Files by Kris Franklin (Carolina Academic Press, 2019)
- Sexuality Law, Third Edition by Arthur Leonard (co-author) (Carolina Academic Press, 2019)
- Cases and Text on Property, Seventh Edition by Gerald Korngold (co-author) (Aspen Press, 2019)
- Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism by Edward A. Purcell Jr. (Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Residential Landlord-Tenant Law in New York, 2019–20 Edition by Andrew Scherer (Thomson Reuters, 2020)
- A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age by Richard Sherwin (co-editor) (Bloomsbury, 2019)
- Chapter: “Political Change, Activism, and the Evolution of Judicial Culture in the Scholarship of Daniel Lev” by Frank Munger in The Politics of Court Reform: Judicial Change and Legal Culture in Indonesia (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
- Chapter: “Sovereign Imaginaries: Visualizing the Sacred Foundation of Law’s Authority” by Richard Sherwin in Law as Religion, Religion as Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Other Works by Area of Focus
Arts and Culture
- “Sculpture, Industrial Design, Architecture, and the Right to Control Use of Publicly Displayed Works” by Richard Chused—Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
- “‘Temporary’ Conceptual Art: Property and Copyright, Hopes and Prayers” by Richard Chused—Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal
- Multiple pieces analyzing developments in cases affecting the LGBTQ community by Arthur Leonard—Gay City News and LGBT Law Notes
- “Character is a sacred bond: Reflections on sovereignty, grace, and resistance” by Richard Sherwin—Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities
- “Visual Literacy for the Legal Profession” by Richard Sherwin—Journal of Legal Education
- “Who Am I Now? Identity in the Age of the Digital Baroque” by Richard Sherwin—MaTerre
Business and Tax
- “Has the United States Really Moved to a Territorial System, Or Is It False Advertising?” by Alan Appel ’76 (co-author)—Tax Notes International
- “Farewell Downton Abbey, Adieu Primogeniture and Entail: Britain’s Brief Encounter with Forced Heirship” by Lloyd Bonfield—American Journal of Legal History
- “What is the Implication of the Recent Prime International Case on Global Trading?” by Ronald Filler—Futures & Derivatives Law Report
Constitutional Law
- “Let Us Now Praise Corporate Persons” by Doni Gewirtzman—Public Books
- “What the Constitution Means to Us” by Doni Gewirtzman—Public Books
- “Republications must not abandon originalism of the Constitution” by Edward A. Purcell Jr.—The Hill
- “The Senate itself is on trial” by Edward A. Purcell Jr.—The Hill
- “Trump and the Coming Moment of Truth for the Federal Judiciary” by Edward A. Purcell Jr.—The Hill
- “Why law of evidence supports the verdict that the president is guilty” by Edward A. Purcell Jr.—The Hill
- “Resisting Hate with Free Speech: Why the ACLU supports free speech, even when that speech is repugnant” by Nadine Strossen—Delaware Lawyer
Criminal Law and Public Policy
- “ICE Raids Bear a Disturbing Resemblance to the ‘Pass Raids’ of Apartheid” by Penelope Andrews—Slate
- “AG Barr is right to resume death penalty for vicious killers” by Robert Blecker— Fox News
- “Pittsburgh synagogue massacre is a crime that deserves death penalty” by Robert Blecker— Fox News
- “Eric Garner is proof that we need to reform laws on excessive force” by Alvin Bragg—The Washington Post
- “Police discipline: Turn on the lights. New York State law’s ban on releasing basic information about cops’ records hurts law enforcement and civilians alike” by Alvin Bragg—New York Daily News
- “We must reopen Central Park 5 prosecutor Linda Fairstein’s cases” by Alvin Bragg—Amsterdam News
- “Trouble Counting to Three: Circuit Splits and Confusion in Interpreting the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s ‘Three Strikes Rule,’ 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g)” by Molly Manning—Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
- “Americans Should Be Grateful to Mueller for His Decision Not to Accuse Trump of a Crime” by Rebecca Roiphe—Slate
- “Barr Is Wrong: Mueller Was Dead Right on Trump and Obstruction” by Rebecca Roiphe—Daily Beast
- “The Judge in Epstein’s Case Should Not Turn the Dismissal Into a Drama for the Victims” by Rebecca Roiphe (co-author)—National Law Journal
- “When Your Boss Trump Punches, Hit Back” by Rebecca Roiphe—Daily Beast
- “U.S.A. v. NYCHA: Judge Pauley Rejects the Proposed Consent Decree” by Ross Sandler— CityLand
International Law
- Book review on From Prohibited Immigrants to Citizens: The Origins of Citizenship and Nationality in South Africa by Penelope Andrews—Law & Society Review
- “An Alternative Path to Rule of Law? Thailand’s 21st-Century Administrative Courts” by Frank Munger (co-author)—Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
- “Criminal Justice and Human Rights: When Justice Is for the Peace” by Ruti Teitel—International and Transitional Criminal Justice & Human Rights
- “Should America Ever Apologize?” by Ruti Teitel—Project Syndicate
Professionalism and Ethics
- “Social Justice in Legal Clinics: The Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic at New York Law School” by Anna Cominsky ’05—Clinical Legal Education Association blog
- “Academic highlight: The need for transparency in state attorneys general amicus briefs” by Lisa Grumet—SCOTUSBlog
- “Growing the Resistance: A Call to Action for Transactional Lawyers in the Era of Trump” by Gowri Krishna—Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice
- “A New Trust Code for New York” by William P. LaPiana—New York Law Journal
- “Criticize Rudy Giuliani All You Want But Don’t Take Away His Law License” by Rebecca Roiphe—New York Law Journal
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