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Dean Richard Revesz, Retaking Rationality

Alex Boraine, A Life in Transition

Ariela Gross, What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America

 
Good Reads
The Law School magazine's annual roundup of NYU Law faculty publications (PDF) is a one-stop source for information on incisive published scholarship.
 
Faculty Workshops
On Monday, November 23, at 12:45 p.m., in the Faculty Library, Visiting Professor David Walker will be discussing "Evolving Executive Equity Compensation and the Limits of Optimal Contracting."
Newsmakers
Bar-Gill confronts critics of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency
In a November 18 op-ed in The Hill, Professor Oren Bar-Gill argues in support of the proposed new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). The House Financial Services Committee passed the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 in October, but the bill still needs to be approved by the Senate. The CFPA would oversee Consumer Financial Products (CFPs)—including mortgages, credit and debit cards, more—but first needs to win over critics that question what powers such an agency would have, and how those powers would be exercised.
 
Cohen comments on the effect of President Obama’s visit to China on human rights
President Obama disappointed many Chinese political dissidents during his first trip to China this November by skirting the issue of human rights. Obama postponed a meeting with Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and did not meet with dissidents before coming back to the U.S. On November 18, the New York Times blog Room for Debate asked a panel of Chinese law, history, and culture experts, including co-director of the NYU School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute Jerome Cohen, what effect Obama’s relative silence might have.
 
Marotta-Wurgler '01 testifies before Senate committee about misleading Internet marketing practices
On November 17, Professor Florencia Marotta-Wurgler '01 testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at a hearing titled "Aggressive Sales Tactics on the Internet and Their Impact on American Consumers."
 
Pildes gives Thomas M. Jorde lecture at Berkeley
Pildes gives Thomas M. Jorde lecture at Berkeley Richard Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, delivered the 2009-10 Thomas M. Jorde Symposium keynote address on November 16 at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Pildes presented “Why the Center Does Not Hold in American Democracy: Persons, History, Institutions,” with commentary by Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School and David Kennedy, a Pulitzer-Prize winning historian from Stanford University.
 
Neuborne proffers holistic reading of the Bill of Rights at Federalist Society convention
A 2004 article by Burt Neuborne, Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, was the subject of an engaging discussion on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at the Federalist Society's 2009 National Lawyers convention on November 13.
 
Chesterman argues for stricter scrutiny of national-security contractors in International Herald Tribune
Simon Chesterman, global professor of law, director of the NYU School of Law Singapore Program, and former executive director of the Institute for International Law and Justice, published an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune on November 13 about the need for more robust regulation of private contractors in the national-security field.
 
Stewart and Wyman selected to appear in the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review
The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) has selected an article by John Edward Sexton Professor of Law Richard Stewart for its 2010 issue. “U.S. Nuclear Waste Law and Policy: Fixing a Bankrupt System,” which proposes a new approach to managing nuclear waste, was also published in the NYU Environmental Law Journal in 2008.
 
Stevenson argues before Supreme Court against life sentences for juveniles
Professor Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), will argue Sullivan v. Florida before the U.S. Supreme Court today on behalf of the petitioner. The case involves a Florida man who was sentenced to life in prison for a rape committed at age 13.