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  • 03.05.10 Law School Reports Over 20% of Class of 2009 Hired by the Nation's Top 250 Firms
    Brooklyn Law School

    Brooklyn Law School graduates are consistently recruited by the top law firms in the nation. Of our graduating Class of 2009, over 20% were hired as first-year associates by the nation’s top law firms. However, a recent issue of the National Law Journal, and its website, which highlighted law schools with the highest percentage of graduates hired by NLJ top 250 firms, omitted Brooklyn Law School from its “Go-To-School” rankings.  read more

  • 03.05.10 Matthew Handler ’10 Wins First Place in Oklahoma Supreme Court Writing Competition
    Matthew Handler

    Matthew Handler ’10 has won first place in the 2009 Chief Justice John B. Doolin Writing Competition sponsored by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. His article, “Tribal Law and Disorder: A Look at the System of Broken Justice in Indian Country and the Steps Needed to Fix It,” was published in the Oklahoma Supreme Court Sovereignty Symposium Compendium (2009), and was recently republished in Brooklyn Law Review (2010).  read more

  • 03.04.10 A Conversation with William F. Patry
    William Patry

    William F. Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, Inc. and one of the foremost copyright experts in the nation, spoke with students and faculty on March 4, 2010. He discussed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), fair use, digital licensing, and he also explored some of the pressing issues faced by new media companies. The discussion was co-sponsored by the Intellectual Property Law Association, The Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law, and the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic (BLIP).  read more

  • 03.03.10 Memories of an Exemplary Life: Eve Cary
    Eve Cary

    On February 18th, a memorial service organized by Professors Ursula Bentele, Betsy Fajans, Mollie Falk, Linda Feldman, Elizabeth Schneider, Marilyn Walter, and Carrie Teitcher, was held to celebrate the life of Eve Cary, a beloved colleague, teacher, and friend who lost a brave battle with cancer this September.  read more

  • 03.03.10 The National Jurist Names Brooklyn Law School Among Four of the Best Schools for Public Service Law
    Brooklyn Law School

    Brooklyn Law School is among the four best public service law schools in the nation, according to an article in the February 2010 issue of The National Jurist. Using data collected by The Equal Justice Works Guide to Law Schools, The National Jurist selected four schools for the “public service honor roll” – Brooklyn Law School, Boston University School of Law, Cornell Law School and the University of Maryland School of Law.  read more

  • 02.23.10 Supreme Court Justice Alito to Judge Final Round of the Prince Competition

    In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition this spring, the Law School is proud to announce that Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito will be one of the presiding judges for the final round to be held on April 10, 2010.  read more

  • 02.22.10 Professor Bernstein Featured as Guest Blogger on TortsProf Blog
    Anita Bernstein

    Professor Anita Bernstein was featured as a guest blogger on the TortsProf Blog, which provides an ongoing conversation among torts professors from law schools around the country. In her post, Professor Bernstein discussed how instructors can include professional responsibility and legal ethics in torts courses without these issues monopolizing classroom time. Among other points, she suggests explaining contingent fees, conflicts of interest, solicitation, and witness coaching to students during lessons on relevant topics.  read more

  • 02.17.10 Jason Jendrewski ’10 Wins State Bar Labor and Employment Writing Competition
    Jason Jendrewski

    A paper written by Jason Jendrewski ’10 won first place in the Dr. Emanuel Stein Memorial Writing Competition of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section. “The Wholesale Seizure of Major League Baseball’s Confidential Drug Testing Records and the Consequences for the War Against Substance Abuse in America’s Workplaces” will be published in the State Bar’s Labor and Employment Newsletter. Jendrewski also received an award of $3,000.  read more

  • 02.12.10 Professor and Producer: Aliza Kaplan's Post-9/11 Film, "The Oath," wins Sundance Award
    Professor Aliza Kaplan
    The Oath, a documentary co-produced by professor Kaplan, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January where it took the prize for Best Cinematography in a documentary.  read more
  • 02.08.10 Jacqueline Tate Wins 2009 Phil Cowan Memorial/BMI Scholarship Competition for Art Auction House Reform Paper
    Jacqueline Tate

    Jacqueline Tate ’10 has won a writing award for her paper, “The House Always Wins: A Call to Reform Art Auction House Regulations,” in a competition sponsored by the New York State Bar Association’s Scholarship Committee of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law (EASL) Section. The 2009 Phil Cowan Memorial/BMI Scholarship Competition award includes publication of the paper in the EASL Journal as well as a $2,500 scholarship.  read more

  • 02.06.10 Professor Herman Headlines Debate on Patriot Act

    Professor Susan Herman headlined the 26th annual Jefferson B. Fordham debate at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law about the Patriot Act, which will be reexamined by Congress this year.   read more

  • 02.05.10 David G. Trager Symposium on Punishing Collective Entities
    David G. Trager Public Policy Symposium

    On February 5, 2010, only a couple of weeks after the Supreme Court expanded a corporation’s First Amendment rights, sparking a public debate about corporate rights, Brooklyn Law School held the annual David G. Trager Public Policy Symposium, “Sharing the Blame: The Law and Morality of Punishing Collective Entities.” Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition and the Journal of Law and Policy, the symposium was organized by Brooklyn Law School Professors Michael T. Cahill and Miriam H. Baer.  read more

  • 01.31.10 Professor Shargel in The Daily Beast on Terror Trials
    Gerald Shargel

    Professor Gerald Shargel posted an article "Stop Dithering, Holder" on the blog The Daily Beast, where he is a frequent contributor. In his editorial, he opines on the ongoing discussion of where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the terrorist allegedly behind the September 11 attacks, will be tried.  read more

  • 01.28.10 Professors Kelly and Mazzone Elected to American Law Institute
    Jason Mazzone

    The American Law Institute (ALI) announced recently that Brooklyn Law School professors Claire R. Kelly and Jason Mazzone have been elected as members. The ALI is a leading independent organization producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. The Institute drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles of law that are influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.  read more

  • 01.25.10 Professor Adam Kolber Referenced in New York Times Editorial
    Adam Kolber

    Professor Adam Kolber was quoted in a New York Times editorial on the potential legal repercussions of a baby with more than two parents. Recent scientific breakthroughs have resulted in the birth of baby monkeys with one father and two mothers, in which defective DNA from one mother's egg is replaced with DNA from the second mother.  read more

  • 01.21.10 Professor Joel Gora in New York Times "Room for Debate" on Supreme Court Campaign Finance Ruling
    Joel Gora

    The New York Times Opinion Section's Room for Debate, which maintains a running commentary on recent news, explored the political spending case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.  read more

  • 01.19.10 Professor Gerald Shargel in Wall Street Journal
    Gerald Shargel

    Professor Gerald Shargel was featured on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog for his article "Haiti's Lawless Streets" in the online magazine The Daily Beast. In the post, he illustrates Haiti's legal system and how it both affected and was affected by the earthquake that hit the country on January 12.  read more

  • 01.19.10 BLS Moot Court Teams Start 2009-10 Season Strong
    Moot Court

    Brooklyn Law School’s Moot Court teams started the 2009-2010 competition season strong, becoming Regional Champions at the ABA Labor & Employment Trial Advocacy Competition;  read more

  • 01.15.10 Michael Pope ’10 Awarded Equal Justice Works Fellowship for Community Youth Reentry Project
    Michael Pope

    Michael Pope ’10 has received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to implement a project of his own design that will provide civil legal representation to New York’s indigent youth reentering society after a criminal or juvenile delinquency conviction.  read more

  • 01.13.10 Analiese Wilcox ’10 Accepted by DOT’s Honors Attorney Program
    Analiese Wilcox

    Analiese Wilcox ’10 has been accepted to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Honors Attorney Program, one of the federal government’s most prestigious and competitive honors programs. She is one of nine attorneys chosen from a group of about 2,700 applicants.   read more

  • 01.11.10 Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Address 2010 Graduates
    Michael Bloomberg

    Dean Joan G. Wexler announced that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be the speaker at Brooklyn Law School's 109th commencement on Friday, June 4, 2010. At the ceremony, at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, he will receive the Law School's honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.  read more

  • 01.08.10 Professor Gerald Shargel in USA Today's Opinionline
    Gerald Shargel

    Professor Gerald Shargel was featured on USA Today’s Opinionline, which compiled statements from various experts on the attempted terrorist attack on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day.  read more

  • 01.06.10 Alum Joshua Bauchner Quoted in the New York Times

    Joshua Bauchner, class of 2001, was quoted in the New York Times about the demographic shift in Harlem that has happened over the past decade.  read more

  • 01.04.10 Brooklyn Law School Mourns the Loss of Percy Sutton '50, a Trailblazing Civil Rights Leader
    Percy Sutton

    Percy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney, political leader and media icon, died on December 26, 2009 at the age of 89. A member of the Class of 1950, he was one of Brooklyn Law School’s most distinguished graduates and one of the nation’s most influential African-American leaders.  read more

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THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2010
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