On November 6, Russell D. Niles Professor of Law Oscar Chase will present the keynote speech at Fordham University School of Law’s 4th Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium, “The Relationship Between Culture and Disputing Processes.”
John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law Philip Alston reports that the U.S. government’s use of unmanned drones or predators to carry out targeted executions may be violating international law. Alston is the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, and discussed the drone program as part of a report to the United Nations General Assembly on October 27. The report covered his investigations of extrajudicial killings in 2009 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Kenya, and the United States.
The October 21 installment of the NYU Law Forum, “The Supreme Court’s New Term (and New Justice),” convened a panel of experts to speculate on the Supreme Court’s 2009-10 term and the High Court jurisprudence of Sonia Sotomayor, former NYU School of Law adjunct professor and the newest justice.
University Professor Jeremy Waldron delivered the three-part Holmes Lecture Series, the most prestigious talks at Harvard Law School, from October 5 through 7. Named for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the lecture series occurs every three years.
In an October 5 New York Times article by national legal correspondent Adam Liptak, Richard Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, weighed in on upcoming Supreme Court cases concerning government intervention in the economy, an issue that will permeate the Court’s 2009-10 term.
University Professor Richard Stewart, the director of the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law, has received the 2009 Award for Excellence in Environmental, Energy, and Resources Stewardship from the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER).