Volume XVI

Autumn 2006

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Cover Story

What Price, Peace?
A rare in-depth profile of Mohamed ElBaradei (LL.M. ’71, J.S.D. ’74, LL.D. ’04), who runs the international Atomic Energy Agency, a multilateral organization whose mission is to safeguard the world against nuclear proliferation. The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner believes that, to forestall violence, the world’s powers need to address human rights injustices and quality of life imbalances. “It’s not just poverty per se, it’s the sense of humiliation and injustice. When somebody feels humiliated,” he says, “they just go bananas.”

Features

The Rules of the Game
At NYU, Civil Procedure is not just a basic requirement that first-year students need to suffer through. The magnificent civ pro faculty is passionate about the administration of justice and devoted to teaching procedure, which they regard as holding “the keys to the kingdom.” A well-conceived case, say these professors, is like a chess match. Anyone for a game?

Heads of the Class
The most contested area within the realm of civil procedure is mass harm litigation. How should a large group of injured parties seek redress? Is a trial the right way, or is there a better forum? A dozen faculty and alumni share their expertise on these complex issues in our roundtable discussion: How should justice be meted out?

Departments

Message from Dean Revesz
Dean Revesz reflects the 2005-06 academic year and previews the issue’s highlights.

Notes & Renderings
Three professors are honored; alumni help bring humanitarian relief and a sense of order to Sudan; Congress calls on law professors for voting rights advice; Chinese judges visit the NYU School of Law; and more.

Faculty Focus
Faculty News: The 63rd Annual Survey is dedicated to Ronald Dworkin; David Garland gets a Guggenheim; the American Bar Foundation honors Anthony Amsterdam; Joseph Weiler and David Golove give inaugural chair speeches; and the first Clinical Writers Workshop is held. Plus: In the Wall Street Journal, Jerome Cohen takes aim at China’s repressive criminal justice system; in USA Today, Noah Feldman explores how religion can coexist in public life; in the Daily News, Cristina Rodríguez and the Brennan Center’s chair James Johnson critique New York’s system of selecting trial court judges.
Additions to the Roster: The Law School welcomes seven new full-time professors, as well as 38 visitors from around the globe.
Faculty Scholarship: Four Law School professors—Oren Bar-Gill, Rachel Barkow, Daniel Hulsebosch and Katrina Wyman—share excerpts of their recently published work.
Good Reads: A list of all the work published by full-time, visiting, global and library faculty. Plus, reviews of books by Derrick Bell Jr., Oscar Chase, Paul Chevigny, Ronald Dworkin, James Jacobs, David Richards and Stephen Schulhofer.

Student Spotlight
Student News and Events: Rights (animal, human, constitutional and voting) are debated; the Journal of Law and Liberty offers its inaugural Friedrich A. von Hayek lecture; the Public Service Auction sets an all-time record; students help Hurricane Katrina’s victims; and more.
Student Scholarship: Chloe A. Burnett (LL.M. ’05) suggests replacing controlled foreign corporations tax laws with a reciprocal group-based model; Kristina Daugirdas ’05 notes that the effectiveness of an agency’s response when a policy is successfully challenged in court depends on whether existing rules are vacated or not.

Around the Law School
Highlights from this year’s swirl of events included: three Transatlantic Dialogues, with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and John Bruton of the E.U., among others; a conference on presidential powers attended by political players with widely disparate views, ranging from Republican stalwart Viet Dinh to Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal to former Nixon counsel John Dean; a compelling lecture by Chief Justice Randall Shepard of the Indiana Supreme Court; and the third annual counterterrorism conference that gathered top decision-makers.

Alumni Almanac
The Law School launches a $400 million capital campaign; Lester Pollack ’57, chair of the Law School board, gives his name to a center; alumni honor Judge Betty Weinberg Ellerin ’52; Jennifer Dalven ’95 and Monica Roa (LL.M. ’03) protect women’s rights.

Making the Grade
Commencement and Convocation: remarks by Carol Bellamy ’68 and student speakers Alexander Dmitrenko (LL.M. ’06) and Brandon Buskey ’06; Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy received an honorary LL.D.
Hooding Album: Law School alumni, faculty, donors and trustees proudly induct new graduates.

The Back Page
We interview Simon Chesterman, the witty native Australian who is the faculty director of our new program with the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.

Masthead

Note: Dean Richard Revesz has charged The Law School with one particular mission above all others: Choose one academic area each issue and focus on it so that readers will learn about a defining characteristic of this institution. During the first years of Revesz's deanship, we profiled the international, environmental and criminal areas. Last year, we zeroed in on philosophy and law. This year, civil procedure is under the microscope. Any objective body composed of professors from our peer schools would certainly agree that we set the pace in all these subjects. To call attention to the latest news and developments in these outstanding specialities, we have marked relevant stories with the icons above.

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