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National Law Journal Names Boies Lawyer of the
Year
Cardozo Professors Participate in Summer Program
for Teens
Rosenfeld Elected President
Gilles Appointed to Faculty
John Duffy Wins Scholarship Award
Professional Honors
Speeches Papers Panels
National Law Journal Names Boies Lawyer
of the Year
Scheck and Neufeld Are Runners-Up
Professors Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld
Calling him "the Michael Jordan of the courtroom,"
the National Law Journal named David Boies, an adjunct professor
at Cardozo, the NLJ Lawyer of the Year. He was selected for his
successful representation of the US government in US v. Microsoft Corp.
and for his work this year on several other anti-trust cases, where he
showed off his "singular gifts - a steel-trap mind, a laser-sharp memory,
a head for chess and a skill with words - to raise the level of the game
for all involved."
In its year-end issue (December 27, 1999), the weekly
newspaper also named death penalty reformers, including Barry Scheck and
Peter Neufeld, runners-up for the title. Noting that Professors Neufeld
and Scheck, "themselves involved in three exonerations this year, helped
establish a network of clinical programs using both DNA testing and reinvestigation to expand the exoneration effort." Last June, Scheck and Neufeld convened a meeting of 19 lawyers, including representatives of 10 law schools, who came to Cardozo to learn how to start their own clinics and create curriculums on wrongful convictions. The goal of the Innocence Network "is to transform what goes on in American legal education," said Scheck.
"It is remarkable that all three lawyers honored
are associated with Cardozo," said Dean Paul R. Verkuil. "It makes clear
what we have long known - the intellectual climate at Cardozo is led by
exciting and challenging faculty who insure that our students are getting
one of the finest legal educations available."
Cardozo Professors Participate in Summer Program
for Teens
This past summer, no less than 10 Cardozo faculty
members, administrators, students, and alumni participated in a three-week
program, the Leadership in Law Institute, to introduce high school students
to the legal profession and to the study of law. This "think camp" consisted
of an intensive and vigorous curriculum, lectures, trips, and a final project.
Abe Tawil '98 founded the program, which was held at Columbia University.
Barry Scheck, Marci Hamilton, Stewart Sterk, and Michael Herz were among
the nearly 100 practicing lawyers and professors who donated their time.
In general, the program focused on decision-making,
admission to and surviving law school, and how to become an attorney. The
students also had the opportunity to become certified peer mediators by
participating in a three-day training course taught by Lela Love, Frank
Scardilli, Dan Weitz, and Simeon Baum, all of whom teach at Cardozo.
Also participating were Vielka V. Holness of the
Center for Professional Development, who discussed opportunities in public
interest law, and several Cardozo students and alumni, including Sonny
Shalom '00, Anieska J. Garcia '98, Cesar A. Perez '98, and Peggy Sweeny
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senfeld Elected President
Professor Michel Rosenfeld
Michel Rosenfeld was elected president of the International
Association of Constitutional Law at the organization's meeting last summer,
the first American to serve in that position. He is a founder of the organization
and an active member and officer of the US Association of Constitutional
Law.
Gilles Appointed to Faculty
Professor Myriam Gilles
Myriam Gilles, who for two years was director of
academic support and a lecturer at Cardozo, has been appointed assistant
professor of law. She joined the Cardozo faculty this fall, as did Peter
Goodrich, professor of law, and Mitchell Engler, associate professor of
law - whose appointments were previously announced (Cardozo Life,
spring '99). Gilles graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude
and from Yale Law School. She then became a litigation associate in the
New York office of Kirkland & Ellis before coming to Cardozo in 1997.
Her areas of teaching and research include civil rights and legal method.
John Duffy Wins Scholarship Award
Professor John Duffy
John Duffy received the ABA Section of Administrative
Law and Regulatory Practice Annual Award for Scholarship. His article "Administrative
Common Law in Judicial Review" was cited by the section for its "liveliness,
ambition, novelty, and success." According to the statement issued by the
ABA, "Professor Duffy's article É peels away many layers of folklore
that have grown up around the Administrative Procedure Act. His piece brings
political and legal history, structural analysis, and innovative but common-sensical
statutory interpretation to bear on some of the leading issues in administrative
law today. His discussion offers a wealth of detailed insight into particular
areas of administrative law while laying out a new theoretical lens from
which to view many recent developments." Duffy is shown between John Hardin
Young (left), section chair, and Daniel Oritz, co-chair, Annual Award for
Scholarship.
Professional Honors
Paris Baldacci was honored for his volunteer
work for the Housing Court at an awards ceremony hosted by Chief Judge
Judith Kaye and Hon. Fern Fischer-Brandveen, administrative judge of the
Civil Court of the City of New York. He was appointed a full member of
the judiciary committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, which reviews the qualifications of all judicial candidates for city,
state, and federal courts, and for the office of district attorney in all
five boroughs of the city.
Larry Cunningham has been engaged by the
Independence Standards Board (ISB) as director of its project on audit
firm practice structures. The ISB develops concepts, principles, and standards
that ensure the independence of auditors of public companies. At Barnes
& Noble at Rockefeller Center, he introduced and signed his book The
Essays of Warren Buffett, which is being translated into Chinese, German,
Japanese, Spanish, among others. Professor Cunningham is working on another
book, tentatively titled Business Analysis: How to Think About Markets,
Numbers and Managers.
Monroe Price was a l
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Bertelsmann Foundation for its 1999 Internet Summit on Self-Regulation
and Content Controls held in Munich. He was selected to prepare a background
document and coordinate an international seminar, under UNESCO auspices,
on international media interventions in Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Cambodia,
to be held next May in Geneva. The new newsletter, Communications Law
in Transition, which he edits, was launched as the successor to the
Post-Soviet
Media Law and Policy Newsletter. While spending the fall semester at
Oxford University, he co-chaired a roundtable on the enabling environment
for media law reform in transition societies.
Paul Shupack was appointed consultant to
the New York Law Revision Commission to prepare its report on UCC Revised
Article 9. His article "Making Revised Article 9 Safe for Securitizations"
was published in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. He was a panelist
for both the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the New
York State Bar Association panels on the new Article 9.
Richard Weisberg testified at the US House
of Representatives Committee on Banking and Financial Services hearings
on the handling of Holocaust victims' assets by French, British, and Austrian
banks.
Speeches Papers Panels
Peter Goodrich delivered a Stanford Presidential
Lecture, "Amatory Jurisprudence and the querelle des lois," at Stanford
University. He recently published a series of polemics that endeavor to
reinvoke the Renaissance notion of dialogue in and between law and the
humanities, including "Anti-Teubner" in Social Epistemology, "Law
Induced Anxiety" in Social and Legal Studies, and "The Critic's
Love of the Law" in Law and Critique.
Marci Hamilton represented 12 artist and
theater groups in the Brooklyn Museum of Art case and wrote an amicus brief
in that case. She also continued to write and speak on both copyright and
the constitution. She was the keynote speaker at the Washington Area Lawyers
for the Arts annual meeting, where her topic was "Copyright and the First
Amendment." She also spoke on "Domestic and International Database Legislation
and Proposals" at the Copyright Society of the USA, Southeastern Division
and at the International Intellectual Property Law and the Common Law World
conference in Auckland, New Zealand. Recent publications include "The Rev.
John Witherspoon and the Constitutional Convention" in Law and Religion:
A Critical Anthology, edited by Stephen M. Feldman and published by
NYU Press; "Sandra Day O'Connor" in the Encyclopedia of the American
Constitution; and "Database Protection and the Circuitous Route Around
the United States Constitution" in Intellectual Property Law and the
Common Law World.
Professor David Rudenstine
David Rudenstine wrote several book reviews
including "The Legality of Elgin's Taking: A Review Essay of Four Books
on the Parthenon Marbles" in the International Journal of Cultural Property;
"Sunstein's Law" in The Nation, "The Conscience of the Court: Selected
Opinions of Justice William J. Brennan Jr. on Freedom and Equality" in
the New York Law Journal, and "Reports from the Front" in Cardozo
Law Review. He moderated a panel at Cardozo on "Whose Art Is It, Anyway:
The Recovery of Cultural Property."
Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, adjunct
professor, have written with Jim Dwyer Actual Innocence: Five Days to
Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted, a book that
will be released by Doubleday Publishing in February.
Professor Scott Shapiro
Scott Shapiro gave papers on "Intentions
& Reasons" at the Rationality and Intentions Conference in Amsterdam,
on "Rules and the Rule of Law" at the SOPHIA XII Conference on the Philosophy
of Law and of Politics in Mexico, and on "The Normativity of Instrumental
Rules" at the International Society for the Philosophy of Economics at
the American Philosophical Association meeting in Boston.
Suzanne Stone published "Cultural Pluralism,
Nationalism, and Universal Rights" in the Cardozo Law Review and
"Religion and State: A Comparative Perspective" in the Proceedings of
the Luso-American Forum on Comparative Jurisprudence and Constitutional
Law. She participated for the second consecutive year in the International
Conference on Law and Philosophy held by the Shalom Hartman Institute in
Jerusalem and at the International Conference on Tolerance in Political
and Religious Traditions at the Institut für die Wissenschafterm Vom
Menschen in Vienna.
Peter Tillers spoke on "One or Two Difficulties
Confronting Systematic Assessment of Decisions about Proof in Litigation"
at the Decisions and Ethics Center of Stanford University. His topic was
"Is Proof in Litigation Predictable?" at the Buchmann International Conference
on Law, Technology and Information held at Tel Aviv University. He also
participated in a workshop on evidential reasoning sponsored by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency and JET, Inc. and organized a two-day
program on artificial intelligence and judicial proof at the Second World
Conference on New Trends in Criminal Investigation and Evidence held in
Amsterdam.
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