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Jerome Cohen discusses the disappearance of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and the broader implications of the case for China and the world community.

Norman Dorsen discusses the highlights of his legal career, including his involvement with the Army-McCarthy hearings, his arguments before the Supreme Court, and his 50 years—and counting—at NYU School of Law.

Burt Neuborne discusses his article on the debate between Supreme Court justices Felix Frankfurter and William Brennan Jr. over Baker v. Carr, a landmark case in which the Court deemed redistricting issues justiciable.

Faculty Workshops

On Monday, May 7, Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law Sujit Choudhry will discuss “Group Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law: Culture, Economics, or Political Power?”

Good Reads

Margaret Satterthwaite ’99 analyzes “Indicators in Crisis: Rights-Based Humanitarian Indicators in Post-Earthquake Haiti,” in the current issue of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.

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Newsmakers

Former Justice John Paul Stevens reviews Jeremy Waldron's book on hate speech

In the New York Review of Books, former Justice John Paul Stevens writes that Waldron "elegantly and convincingly advocates that our leaders should not only avoid the use of hate speech themselves, but also condemn its use by others."

Turkish reforms are the focus of Center for Constitutional Transitions symposium

In new book, Moshe Halbertal looks at sacrifice

In his newest book, On Sacrifice, Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor of Law, develops a theory of sacrifice as an offering and considers sacrifice’s complex religious, ethical, and political dimensions. In religion, Halbertal suggests, sacrifice can be torn between grateful expression and a means of exchange. And in moral and political terms, it can both enable self-transcendence and justify brutality.

Jerome Cohen advises activist Chen Guangcheng in negotiations with China

As the story of blind, activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng’s April 22 escape from confinement and subsequent negotiation with Chinese authorities unfolds, Professor Jerome Cohen has been advising Chen behind the scenes. Cohen has also invited Chen to be a visiting scholar at NYU, either in New York or at one of the university's other global sites.

Second annual Law & Banking/Finance Conference examines risk in global financial system

The second annual Law & Banking/Finance Conference, titled “Tackling Systemic Risk,” took place at NYU School of Law on April 20 and 21. Co-sponsored by ETH Zurich, the top European science and technology research university, and NYU Law’s Center for Financial Institutions, the event gathered top American and European experts in the area of law and finance to discuss how to alleviate systemic risk to the global financial system. Among the topics covered were credit cycles with collateral constraints, banking and trading, regulatory design for monetary stability, and banking in transition economies.

Jeremy Waldron delivers keynote at Oxford conference

On April 19, the first day of the inaugural Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory at the University of Oxford, University Professor Jeremy Waldron delivered a keynote address, “Unbinding the Executive: The Challenge to Liberal Legalism.” The conference’s theme was “Political Theory and the ‘Liberal’ Tradition.” Waldron has delivered many of the most important named lectures in the field of philosophy.

In the Harvard Law Review, Richard Pildes considers issues related to the expansion of presidential power

In a longform book review of The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic by Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule, Richard Pildes discusses how much does law in fact constrain the exercise of presidential power.

Marcel Kahan and Stephen Choi retain primacy in Corporate Practice Commentator poll

For the sixth year in a row, articles authored or co-authored by both Marcel Kahan, George T. Lowy Professor of Law, and Stephen Choi, Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law, appear on the Corporate Practice Commentator’s annual “Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles” list. The poll tabulates the top selections by teachers of corporate and securities law from a pool of more than 580 articles published in 2011. Over the 18-year history of the annual lists, 17 of Kahan’s articles and 12 of Choi’s articles have been recognized by their peers, putting Kahan and Choi in first and second places, respectively, among all the authors selected since the poll began in 1994.

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