New York Legal Update

Columbia Law School Announces Fellowship For Grads Pursuing Academic Careers In Reproductive Health And Human Rights

Columbia Law School and the Center For Reproductive Rights (the Center) have announced a new fellowship for law school graduates pursuing legal academic careers in reproductive health and human rights. “This collaborative effort between the Center and Columbia offers a unique opportunity to law school graduates,” said Carol Sanger, the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. “The Fellowship provides a blend of academic and scholarly activity, grounded in the real world of reproductive health law and politics.”

Sanger and Henry Paul Monaghan, the Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia Law School, sit on the selection committee for the Fellowship. The CRR-Columbia Fellow will be affiliated with both Columbia Law School and the Center and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs. The Fellow will be a member of the Law School’s community of graduate fellows, engage with the Center’s legal and policy projects, and have work space at both locations.

The fellowship will in July 2008 and last up to two full years. The full-time residential fellowship is open to all applicants who have earned a juris doctorate. The details, including application requirements and form, are available Here. The application deadline is March 24, 2008.

Families, Divorce & Children Conference

On June 6th, the Family Law & Social Policy Center of Syracuse University College of Law will sponsor a conference to educate community professionals on how to assist children who are affected by the separation or divorce of their parents. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll, director of programs for Families in Transition at the Children's Institute in Rochester, N.Y., will be the conference keynote speaker. For more information check my Legal Events Calendar in the left hand sidebar.

Columbia Law Hosts Campus Violence Conference

On April 4th, Columbia Law School will host a day-long conference on the disturbing trend of violence on college campuses entitled, “Violence on Campus: Prediction, Prevention and Response.” The event will feature academic experts from law and the social sciences, policy makers and practitioners. Sessions will cover such topics as predicting violence, how college violence differs from such incidents at the K-12 level, understanding and preventing campus suicide, media coverage of campus violence, the legal issues around privacy vs. public safety, and translating theories into practice. For more information see my Legal Events Calendar in the left had side bar.

NYU School Of Law To Offer Online Executive LL.M. In Tax

New York University School of Law has created a new online executive LL.M. program in tax. The program will allow accomplished professionals from around the world to have online access to the same professors and curriculum as students in the school’s part-time Graduate Tax Program.

The “E-LLM,” which will begin in the fall 2008, is virtually identical to the current part-time LL.M. program. Students will enjoy the same professors, courses, assignments and services and take the same exams. Applicants will be subject to the same admissions criteria, and then as students they will be held to the same grading standards as full-time and part-time LL.M. students. The primary difference between the part-time program and the E-LLM is that E-LLM students “attend” lectures by viewing videos via their course websites, and like the students on campus, they must meet attendance requirements.

For more information about the E-LLM, visit http://www.nyulawtaxllm.org

Columbia Law School Hosts “Bid For Justice" Auction

On March 6th, Columbia Law School's Public Interest Law Foundation will hold its 16th annual “Bid for Justice” auction. Half of the money from the auction supports the Law School’s guaranteed summer funding, which gives all Columbia Law School students stipends to work for a qualified public service organization during their first-year summer. The other half provides grants to non-profit legal organizations that apply to PILF’s Community Grants Program. For more information on the auction check my Legal Events Calendar to the left.

Communications Law & Policy Lecture

On February 28th, Syracuse University College of Law will host Bryan Tramont, former chief of staff for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) who will give a lecture entitled  “The First Semester Curriculum and Your Cell Phone—They Have More in Common Than You Think.” The lecture will address the classroom elements that affect communication law and policy. For additional information see my Legal Events Calendar in the left hand side bar.

New York Law School On iTunes

If you ever get boarded listening to music on your iPod here's some news. New York Law School now offers students, faculty, alumni, and the general public the opportunity to download and watch faculty lectures and conferences on may legal topics for free on iTunes U. Apple’s iTunes U provides access to educational content from hundreds of colleges and universities. “ITunes U is an innovative service that allows New York Law School to provide our students and anyone browsing the site admission to the intellectual discourse taking place on campus from the comforts of a home computer or on-the-go,” Dean and President Richard A. Matasar said. New York Law School’s iTunes U podcasts can be accessed by visiting the School’s Web site at www.nyls.edu or the iTunes Store.

Symposium: Art and Cultural Heritage Law in the 21st Century

On March 4, Cardozo Law School will host an all day Symposium on how to prevent looting during times of both war and peace, how to deal with looted cultural material that enters in the international art market, and legal issues related to restitution of art works. The former director of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Donny George, will be a presenter. For additional information, see my Legal Events Calendar in the left hand sidebar.

Attorney Ethics Lecture

On March 4th, Pace Law School will host its Seventeenth Annual Philip B. Blank Memorial Lecture on Attorney Ethics. The lecture will be presented by Steven C. Krane, partner at Proskauer Rose LLP and will be entitled: "Taking the Red Pill: A Search for the Intersection Between Ethics and Morality." For additional information Click Here or see my Legal Events Calendar to the left.

Self-Incrimination Symposium

On March 2-3, Cardozo School of Law will host a two day symposium on self-incrimination entitled: "The Future of Self-Incrimination: Fifth Amendment, Confessions, and Guilty Pleas." The symposium will take a fresh look at the use of confessions and guilty pleas as a means to establishing a criminal defendant's guilt. Specifically, it will discuss the Fifth Amendment and common law protections against coerced confessions, plea bargaining and the vanishing trial phenomenon, and the relationship between pleas and sentencing, and a number of related issues. For additional information Click Here or see my Legal Events Calendar on the left.