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Spring
Brings Visitors to Campus
Rosenfeld
Named Editor in Chief of New Journal
Faculty Publish, Earning Their Reputation
Appointments
Spring
Brings Visitors to Campus
Every semester, scholars from the United States and abroad visit
Cardozo and enrich academic life with fresh perspectives and unique
talents. This spring, the Law School welcomes visitors teaching courses
ranging from Psychoanalysis and Law to Intellectual Property Protection in the European Union Law, and coming from places as far away as
Estonia and as nearby as Syracuse.
Roger Berkowitz,
a lecturer at Amherst College, is teaching Criminal Law and Theories of
Punishment. Since 1993, he has been seen at Cardozo at many legal theory
conferences and as a visiting scholar. His academic interests meld
philosophy with the law; he writes and lectures on political theory,
legal history, and jurisprudence. He believes that "criminal law is the
most philosophical field of law. Modern criminal law can trace its
philosophical foundation back to post-Hegelian concepts of the
distinction between moral wrong and harm." His most recent projects
include translating a series of Heidegger's essays on art and technique,
an article on Nietzsche's interest in the legal and religious ethics of
the ancient Indian Brahmins, and a piece on Hollywood's image of
prosecutors. He is enjoying Cardozo students immensely; he likes their
"I'm here to work" attitude. "I hope to teach them to be good lawyers
and, secondarily, successful attorneys," he says. Professor Berkowitz
understands the challenge in overcoming cynicism found in the
profession and hopes to impress on his students the deep ethical
foundations of law. He holds a B.A. from Amherst College, a J.D. from
Boalt Hall School of Law, and a Ph.D. from the University of California
at Berkeley. His many honors include the American Jurisprudence Award
and three Max-Planck Institute fellowships.
Daan Braveman,
who has taught at Syracuse University College of Law since 1977 and was
dean there from 1994 to 2002, is teaching Constitutional Law. Among his
achievements at Syracuse, he was instrumental in starting the Public
Interest Law Firm, a clinical program. He says working with students in
practical situations gives him the greatest satisfaction. Students learn
best when they apply their knowledge. As others have said, "Tell me and
I'll forget; Teach me and I may remember; Involve me and I'll learn."
His expertise includes federal courts, civil rights, legal education, and constitutional law. Professor Braveman is working on the second edition of Power, Privilege and Law: A Civil Rights Reader with Leslie Bender, and an article on tribal sovereignty that grew out of his work representing the Oneida Indians of the Thames Band in their land claims litigation against the State of New York. He attributes the subject's urgency to surging economic development on reservations that raises many conflicting issues of jurisdiction and tribal authority. He is the author of Protecting Constitutional Freedoms: A Role for Federal Courts (1985), and coauthor of Constitutional Law: Structure and Rights in Our Federal System (2000). He holds an A.B. from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and an attorney for the Greater Upstate Law Project of Rochester, NY. His honors include the William H. Emerson Faculty Research Prize and the Ralph Kharas Award for Distinguished Services in Civil Liberties.
Frank Emmert,
who was until recently the dean and Jean Monnet Professor of European
Union Law at Concordia International University in Estonia, began
teaching at Cardozo in fall 2002 with courses on international trade and
European Union law. This spring, he is teaching his other fields of
expertise: International Business Transactions and Intellectual Property
Protection in the European Union. EU law in particular, he says, is
increasingly popular in the US with all major law schools now offering
a course. He adds, "it's an exciting time for the legal profession,
particularly in Europe, because there is so much flux and new legislation." This September, he
invited students in his classes to participate in the preeminent
European Union Moot Court Competition. He advised them on their written
briefs, and a team of four was selected from the Law School to go to the
semifinals in Bratislava for the oral arguments. It was the first time
Cardozo participated. Professor Emmert has taught at universities
throughout Europe and at Stanford Law School. He is the founder and
managing editor of the European
Journal of Law Reform, and has published 12 books and dozens
of articles. He studied law at the University of Munich in Germany, then
obtained an LL.M. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and a
Ph.D. from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. He also
holds a diploma in European and international law from the European
University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is currently writing papers
on labor law and world trade, the European Union's enlargement and
transformation, and globalization and human rights.
Renata Salecl's
course Psychoanalysis and Law is especially popular with students who
have an interest in the social sciences and want to explore other
dimensions of law. "We examine how different people understand the law
and concepts of legal prohibitions and remorse. The course makes
students think hard. They enrich the classroom by bringing their own
examples and case histories to the discussion. I learn a lot from my
students, too," she says.
Professor Salecl, a familiar face at the Law School, teaches law at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, her native country, and at the London School of Economics. She has taught at Cardozo previously and collaborated on conferences such as the recent Lacan and Crime. She sits on several think tanks, including the Remarque Institute, where she is investigating questions like "What is the West?" from varying European and American perspectives. In her country, she has been developing policy changes in feminist rights, maternity leave, and in vitro fertilization. She is, in general, fascinated by the contemporary human condition as it confronts anxiety, fear, and the "tyranny of choice" in our postindustrial society. She has written numerous books and articles, including Per(versions) of Love and Hate, published in 1998 by Verso and translated and published in German, Russian, Spanish, French, and Serbo-Croatian. She lectures extensively on such topics as "Anxiety in Arts and Wars," "Cultural Aspects of Violence," and "Law and Femininity in Cultural Context." She holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana.
Frank Tuerkheimer,
the Habush-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, where
he has taught since 1970, is a native New Yorker. He is glad to be back
in New York for the semester, where he enjoys "the bridges, rivers,
culture, friends, relatives, and memories." In addition to teaching
Criminal Law, he is representing an indigent on Alabama's death row, and
is working on a project that entails interviewing the remaining
Nuremberg prosecutors. Throughout his career, Professor Tuerkheimer has
often combined academia with public service. He held a US Senate
appointment as a commissioner from 1991 to 1993 on the National
Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, was US attorney for the
Western District of Wisconsin from 1977 to 1981, associate special
Watergate prosecutor from 1973 to 1975, assistant US attorney in the
Southern District of New York from 1965 to 1970, and a legal assistant
to the Attorney General of Swaziland from 1964 to 1965. He holds a B.A.
from Columbia University. After graduating cum laude from New York
University Law School, he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He
is of counsel to LaFollette Godfrey & Kahn in Madison, Wisconsin and
writes on criminal law, ethics, and evidence issues. He has also
written an electronic evidence text that contains jump links to a trial
transcript to illustrate otherwise abstract principles of evidence law.
Bernhard Schlink, who regularly teaches at the Law School and has been featured previously in Cardozo Life, is coteaching Religion, Law and Politics with Prof. Michel Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld Named Editor in Chief of New Journal
Michel Rosenfeld was named editor in chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), a new quarterly journal intended for an international readership. According to Professor Rosenfeld and NYU's Norman Dorsen, who is editorial director, "We hope that the journal will succeed in filling a need among scholars interested in sharing views on common problems of constitutional law."
I-CON, published by Oxford University Press, will feature articles, essays, book reviews, and shorter reports on familiar and emerging national, international, and transnational constitutional issues and those from a comparative perspective. Periodically, the journal will feature a profile of a constitutional court, discussing the composition of the court, reviewing its most salient decisions, and analyzing its jurisprudence. The inaugural issue contains articles by Jurgen Habermas, Frank Michelman, Mark Tushnet, and Michel Troper, among others, with reports from Australia, Chile, Germany, China, South Africa, and Hong Kong/China.
The journal's second issue will feature the first I-CON symposium on the transnational migration of constitutional norms. A special section devoted to the drafting of a constitution for the European Union will include an essay by Professor Rosenfeld, "The European Convention and Constitution Making in Philadelphia," along with essays by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, president of the European Convention and former President of France, Giuliano Amato, vice president of the European Convention and former Prime Minister of Italy, and Robert Badinter, a French Senator who is former Minister of Justice and former Chief Justice of the French Constitutional Council.
Faculty Publish, Earning Their
Reputation
The Cardozo faculty
regularly ranks among the more prolific faculties in the nation. That
reputation is well earned this year. Along with scores of articles, book
reviews, and op-eds, members of the faculty have written or edited at
least six books.
The dean hosted a party in January at which students, alumni, faculty,
and friends celebrated the publication of five of these books: Monroe
Price’s Media and
Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to
State Power (MIT Press); J. David Bleich’s Judaism and Healing, (Second
Edition, Ktav Publishing); The
Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy (Oxford
University Press) coedited by Scott J. Shapiro; The Dynamics of Judicial Proof:
Computation, Logic, and Common Sense (Springer- &
Physica-Verlag) coedited by Peter Tillers; and The Marketplace of Ideas: 20 Years of
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (Kluwer Law
Inter-national) edited by Peter Yu.
As the dean noted, these books range enormously in subject and style
but are united by their quality, reflecting both the diversity and depth
of scholarship of the Cardozo faculty. Earlier last year, Michel
Rosenfeld and Arthur Jacobson saw the publication of The Longest Night: Polemics and
Perspectives on Election 2000, published by University of
California Press and supported in part by the Floersheimer Center for
Constitutional Democracy. In addition, Stewart Sterk and Melanie Leslie
just published with one-time Cardozo visiting professor Joel Dobris a
new edition of a trusts and estates casebook, and Michel Rosenfeld
edited with three colleagues from other schools a new casebook, Comparative Constitutionalism, published
by West Publishing Company.
Peter Tillers will teach at the University of Konstanz, Germany this summer. His course will concern probability in various special sciences, including physics, economics, biology, and law.
Peter Yu will join the faculty of Michigan State University in the fall with appointments in the College of Law and the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. He will direct a new intellectual property and communications law program. Professor Yu helped launch the American Law Review, a scholarly journal on US law published in Chinese, to which he contributed his first article in that language, "Mickey Mouse Goes to the Supreme Court." He also published "The Harmonization Game: What Basketball Can Teach About Intellectual Property and International Trade." He was recently elected to the boards of the Asian American Bar Association of New York and the US-China Lawyers Society.
Paris Baldacci rejoined the committee on the judiciary of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York as an interim member. He previously served on the committee from 1996 to 2002. At the Second Triennial Conference on the International Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships in Turin, Italy, sponsored by the International Lesbian and Gay Law Association and the Center for Research and Comparative Legal Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, he presented "Tenancy Succession Rights of Surviving Life-Partners: An International Comparison." This paper will be published in a special volume of the Journal of Homosexuality and in a book by Haworth Press. Professor Baldacci also spoke to New York City Housing Court judges and law clerks on "Dealing with Difficult Litigants: The Particular Challenges of the Compulsive Hoarder."
Rabbi David Bleich spoke on stem cell research at the 12th Biennial Conference on Jewish Law in Jerusalem. His article on the same subject was published in Tradition.
Lester Brickman presented "Asbestos: What Went Wrong?" at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He also spoke at the US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform and the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute on "Magnet Courts & Class Actions: The Empirical Evidence," and at the University of Illinois Law School Conference on "Ethics 2000 and Beyond: Reform or Professional Responsibility as Usual?"
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Toni Fine participated
in meetings of the International Judicial Relations Committee of the
United States Judicial Conference.
Peter Goodrich has the lead article in the current issue of Critical Inquiry, entitled "Distrust Quotations in Latin." He also gave the 10th anniversary lecture at Birkbeck Law School, University of London, where he was the founding dean.
At a small meeting of academics and government officials hosted by Justice Anthony Kennedy at the US Supreme Court, Malvina Halberstam discussed the role of international law in protecting US national security. At the International Law Weekend in New York, she organized and moderated a panel on the International Court of Justice case The Congo v. Belgium and spoke on the evolution of the United Nations' position on terrorism at a panel on "International Law and Terrorism After September 11." As chair of the Association of American Law Schools section on international law, Professor Halberstam organized and moderated "The Role of National Courts in Dealing with War Crimes, Genocide, Terrorism, and other Human Rights Violations" at the AALS Conference in Washington, DC.
Marci Hamilton spoke at the Federalist Society and the Association of American Law Schools on school vouchers and the Constitution.
Justin Hughes was a panelist at the Kagan Digital Rights Management Summit on "HDTV Broadcast Flag: Content vs. Consumer" and spoke on the "Role of Scientific and Technical Data in the Public Domain" at the National Academies of Sciences, Washington, DC. He presented papers at Boston College Law School and the University of Dayton Law School.
Lela Love presented an article she wrote with Jonathan M. Hyman, "If Portia Were a Mediator: an Inquiry into Justice in Mediation," at a faculty colloquium at Rutgers Law School. She also led a workshop, "Innovations in Alternative Dispute Resolution Pedagogy," at the AALS conference.
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Monroe Price gave the
keynote address at a conference at the University of Toronto's Center
for Innovation, speaking on "The Internet and Jurisdiction." At the
Annenberg School for Communication in Philadelphia, he spoke on "A
Foreign Policy of Media Space." He also moderated a panel, "The New
Gatekeepers," at the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia
University, at which Justin Hughes also moderated "In Copyright We
Trust."
A Hebrew translation of Michel Rosenfeld's "Hate Speech in Constitutional Jurisprudence: a Comparative Analysis" will be included in a volume on propaganda and freedom of speech published by the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Israel, and a French translation of an article on Bush v. Gore is in Les Cahiers du Conseil Constitutionnel, the official journal of the French Constitutional Council. He was a respondent at a colloquium at the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur La Justice held at the Sorbonne in December and returned in January to participate in the conference La Constitution de l'Union Europeenne. Professor Rosenfeld presided over a roundtable held in Beijing on "Constitutionalism and Market Economy," organized by the International Association of Constitutional Law, the Chinese Association of Constitutional Law, and the China Law Society. While in China, he also lectured on the 2000 US election at the Nanjing University– Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies.
David Rudenstine reviewed Daniel Ellsberg's Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers for the December 23, 2002 issue of The Nation. His review of The Miner's Canary by Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres appeared in the autumn issue of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
Suzanne Stone was the keynote speaker at the Riverdale Jewish Women's Forum on "Jewish Law, American Law: Impact on Women's Lives."
Ellen Yaroshefsky moderated a panel, "First Monday: Civil Liberties in a New America," held at the Rutgers School of Law– Newark, and co-hosted by Cardozo's Jacob Burns Ethics Center.