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Listen to podcasts of lunchtime conversations with:
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 Tuesday, February 16, at 12:45 p.m., in the Faculty Library, Visiting Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff
will be discussing "Choice of Law and Jurisdictional Policy in the Federal Courts."
Newsmakers
As part of New York University’s 5th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week, Professor of Clinical Law Anthony Thompson was presented a 2010 NYU Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award for exemplifying the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. through positive contributions to students and the greater NYU community.
University Professor Anthony Amsterdam received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty at the NCADP's annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 16, in recognition of Amsterdam's "lifelong commitment to justice and extraordinary contribution to the cause of challenging and ending capital punishment."
Addressing a full house in Vanderbilt Hall’s Greenberg Lounge on Jan. 14, Mark Geistfeld spoke on “The Field of Torts in Law’s Empire.” Geistfeld, the first to hold the Shelia Lubetsky Professorship of Civil Litigation, focused on what he called the “vexing problem” of defective design, noting that Ms. Birnbaum, ’65, has encountered the issue repeatedly as a longtime defender of manufacturers facing allegations of products liability. Ms. Birnbaum is co-head of the Complex Mass Tort and Insurance Group at Skadden, Arps.
In an opinion piece published in the Los Angeles Times on January 15, Barry Friedman argued that the U.S. Supreme Court was wrong to bar video coverage of California’s Proposition 8 trial on same-sex marriage. “Like the Scopes ‘monkey trial’ with which it is sometimes compared,” Friedman wrote, the Proposition 8 trial “is not a legal case in the strict sense. It is a morality play aimed at all of us, speaking in a sense for all of us, and we should get to hear it."
United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston is calling for an independent investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka, following forensic experts' findings that video footage from a mobile phone of the summary execution of naked and blindfolded Tamils by Sri Lankan soldiers was authentic.
Choice has named Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation Daniel Shaviro’s book Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax a 2009 Outstanding Academic Title in economics. Each year Choice selects the best scholarly titles among over 7,000 publications reviewed by their editors. Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax, which reviews the corporate tax structure and maps a new path towards reform, was selected for its excellence in presentation and scholarship, originality, and importance relative to other literature in economics.
On December 28, Gruss Professor of Law Moshe Halbertal’s article, “The Goldstone Illusion” was selected by New York Times columnist David Brooks as one of the best magazine pieces of 2009. The piece, published in the New Republic, analyzed the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (better known as "The Goldstone Report"), which was written by a United Nations commission led by Judge Richard Goldstone.
Seventeen professors will come to the the Law School for the spring term, including visitors from Seoul, South Korea; Freiburg, Germany; and New Delhi, India. The incoming group includes an NYU School of Law alumnus, a Pulitzer Prize winner, President Bill Clinton's former economist, and two former judges. Read more about the line-up below.