The Milbank Tweed Forum
Spring 2012
The Forum will be held on Wednesdays, from 12:25 - 1:50 p.m.
JAN. 25
Governments Gone Bust: Addressing and Avoiding State and Local Fiscal Crises
Jonathan Ballan, Member, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
Richard Ravitch, Co-chair, Volcker-Ravitch Task Force on the State Budget Crisis
Lillian Roberts, Executive Director, District Council 37, American Federation of State, Country & Municipal Employees
Moderator:
Clayton Gillette, Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
FEB. 1
Arab Spring: The State of the Revolution as it Turns One
Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Mohammad Fadel, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Kristen Stilt, Associate Proressor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Moderator:
Sujit Choudhry, Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
FEB. 8
Crooks on the Loose? Did Felons Get a Free Pass in the Financial Crisis?
Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
Eliot Spitzer, Former Governor and Attorney General for the State of New York
Mary Jo White, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern Discrict of New York
Moderator:
Neil Barofsky '95, Senior Fellow, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law; Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
FEB. 15
No Forum scheduled.
FEB. 22
No Forum scheduled.
FEB. 29
Topic and Panelists to be Announced.
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
MAR. 7
Topic and Panelists to be Announced.
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
MAR. 14
Spring break, no Forum scheduled.
MAR. 21
Topic and Panelists to be Announced.
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
MAR. 28
Topic and Panelists to be Announced.
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
APRIL 4
Topic and Panelists to be Announced.
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
APRIL 11
Topic and Panelists to be Announced.
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
APRIL 18
Topic and Panelists to be Announced.
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
APRIL 25
Topic and Panelists to be Announced.
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Fall 2011
SEP. 14
Supreme Court Preview - The 2011-12 Term
Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times
Patricia Millett, Partner, Head of Supreme Court Practice, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Kannon Shanmugam, Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP
Moderator:
Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
SEP. 21
No Forum this week.
SEP. 28
Life in the Law: Where Your J.D. Can Take You
William Allen, Nusbaum Professor of Law and Business, Director of the Pollack Center for Law and Business, NYU School of Law, Former Chancellor of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware
Rocco Andriola '82, Managing Director, Millennium Partners, L.P., Co-founder and Co-chairman, Save Lives Now New York
Jodi Balsam '86, Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School
Jonathan Bing '95, Special Deputy Superintendent, New York Liquidation Bureau
Joe Ehrlich '97, Executive Vice President, Owens Group
The Honorable Betty Ellerin (Ret.) ’52, Senior Counsel, Alston & Bird LLP
Brad Friedman '86, Partner, Milberg LLP
Steven Greenhouse ‘82, Author, Labor and Workplace Reporter, The New York Times
Alison Mikkor '02, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, NYU School of Law
Anne Milgram '96, Senior Fellow, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, NYU School of Law
Annalisa Miron ’04, Executive Director, Bickel & Brewer Latino Institute for Human Rights, NYU School of Law
Linda Silberman, Martin Lipton Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Jason Washington '07, Senior Policy Advisor, City of Baltimore
Moderator:
Arthur R. Miller, University Professor, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
OCT. 5
The State of the Threat: Ten Years After 9/11, Who Threatens Our Way of Life Most-Al Qaeda or Uncle Sam?
Jameel Jaffer, Director, ACLU National Security Project
Michael Leiter, Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Moderator:
Samuel Rascoff, Associate Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
OCT. 12
A Brewing Debate: Does the Tort System Need Reform?
"Hot Coffee" Movie Screening - Part of the Milbank Tweed Forum Series
Elizabeth Cabraser, Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
J Russell Jackson, Partner, Mass Torts and Insurance Litigation Group, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP
Andre Mura, Litigation Counsel, Center for Constitutional Litigation, PC
Victor Schwartz, Chair, Public Policy Group, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP; General Counsel, American Tort Reform Association
Moderator:
Catherine Sharkey, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
OCT. 19
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions: The Impact on Family and Community
Rossana Rosado, Publisher and CEO, El Diario-La Prensa
Julio Medina, Executive Director, Founder and CEO, Exodus Transitional Community
Glenn E. Martin, Vice President of Development and Public Affairs, Director of the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy, The Fortune Society
Melvyn Weiss '59, Founder of Milberg Weiss
Moderator:
Anthony C Thompson, Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
OCT. 26
Environmental Regulation, the Economy, and Jobs
Dina Cappiello, National Environment/Energy Reporter, The Associated Press
Laurie Johnson, Climate Center Chief Economist, Natural Resources Defense Council
Lewis T. Putnam, Partner, Head of Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Carter Strickland, Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection
Moderator:
Richard Revesz, Dean, Lawrence King Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
NOV. 2
No Forum this week.
NOV. 9
Taking Law School Exams: Is There a Method to the Madness?
Kirti Datla '12
Peter Farrell '12
Moderators:
Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Troy McKenzie '00, Associate Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
NOV. 16
Dispelling the Myth of a Post-Racial America
Ralph Richard Banks, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Paulette Caldwell, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Sumi Cho, Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
Moderator:
Kim Taylor-Thompson, Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
NOV. 23
No Forum this week.
NOV. 30
Global Warming or Nuclear Meltdown? The Future of Nuclear Power After Fukushima
Michael Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment; Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations
William McCollum, Chief Operating Officer, Tennessee Valley Authority
Christopher Paine, Nuclear Program Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
Moderator:
Richard B. Stewart, University Professor and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law; Chair and Faculty Director, Hauser Global Law School Program; Director, Center for Environmental and Land Use Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
DEC. 7
The Morality and Legality of Targeted Killings: From Bin Laden to al-Awlaki
Philip G. Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Richard H. Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, NYU School of Law
Moderator:
J.E. Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU School of Law
Location: Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
Watch the video.
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Schedule and Videos
Spring 2010 Schedule and Videos
Fall 2009 Schedule and Videos