Prof. Crawford Reviews Estate and Gift Tax Law Review Articles of 2010

Check out our first 2011 addition to the Pace Law Library Podcasts site titled Estate and Gift Tax Law Articles of 2010.  Prof. Bridget Crawford from Pace Law School reviews interesting estate and gift tax law related articles that were published in the year of 2010.  Her review is forthcoming as an article in Tax Notes, titled Estate and Gift Tax Law Review Articles You Should Have Read (But Probably Didn't) in 2010.  See the article abstract here and enjoy listening.

Prof. Nolon on Sustainable Development

Today, November 10, 2010, at 4:00 pm,  Prof. John Nolon, James D. Hopkins Professor of Law at Pace Law School, will present on Sustainable Development Law: Keeping Pace as part of the Hopkins Lecture.  The event will be held at the Judicial Institute at Pace Law School.  For more information, email bthornton@pace.law.edu.

Professor John R. Nolon is Counsel to the Land Use Law Center and Director of the Kheel Center on the Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes.  Prof. Nolon has been Visiting Professor of Environmental Law at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies since 2001.  He served as a consultant to President Clinton's Council on sustainable Development in the mid-1990s and, during that time, studies and wrote about sustainable development in South America as a Fulbright Scholar.  In 2009, he was presented the National Leadership Award for a Planning Advocate by the American Planning Association.  Prof. Nolon's current focus is on sustainable development law and managing climate change through land use practices.  He participates in the Experts meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  He has written a book on climate change and sustainable development law and is redrafting his law school casebook to include chapters on these topics.  

Can't make it here on time?  You can still attend by watching the lecture video in real time.

After Gender? Examining International Justice Enterprises

Since 1982, the Pace Law School has hosted a yearly event, the Dyson Distinguished Lecture series.  This year's title is After Gender? Examining International Justice Enterprises. The Pace Law School will welcome Janet Halley, Royall Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and an impressive group of exciting moderators, panelists, and commentators, as they all engage in a series of conversations about international law, sex, gender, and sexuality.

This one-day conference will explore contemporary thinking about gender in international law.  Traditionally, international law's gender analysis focused on women to the exclusion of other sexes.  More recent efforts to understand the complexities of gender in the international arena, including those in international criminal law, the United Nations, and other international organizations, have attempted to move toward a broader understanding of gender identity.  Do these efforts continue to rely on the exclusive centrality of "women" to understand "gender?"  If so, what are the costs to gender-related projects, if any? 

This event is scheduled on November 12, 2010 at 9:30 am and will be held in the Judicial Institute Lecture Hall on the Pace Law School campus. For more information, email plr@law.pace.edu.

The lecture will be available online in real time here.

Pace Law School phasing out part-time evening program

The rumors are true.  Dean Michelle Simon sent out a letter to alumni this week confirming that after this fall there will be no more part-time evening program.  Dean Simon writes

There has been, however, a confluence of factors over the years that has caused us to re-evaluate our evening program and nudged us toward the conclusion that under the circumstances, those resources need to be reallocated so that the law school can continue to evolve in non-traditional and flexible ways.  ... While we are sorry to be letting go of a program that has been a touchstone of the Pace Law legal experience, and has resulted in a cohort of such talented, successful, and supportive alumni, we are confident that the benefits far outweigh the losses and will result in your Pace Law degree becoming even more valuable.

 
I hope this is true, but as a 2003 graduate of the evening program at Pace Law School, I am sorry to see it go.  I understand the decision but don't agree with it.  Evening students participate in so many aspects of law school life, e.g. moot court and law review, and bring unique life experience to the classroom.  Many evening program students I know would not have been able to attend law school were it not for the part-time evening program.  I'll miss the interesting students it brought to the law school.

To other Pace Law alums and current students--what do you think?

Humbach on Sexting and the First Amendment

Sexting - a word that is becoming part of our vocabulary; a behavior most common among teenagers; a growing phenomena.  But what exactly is sexting?  Oxford Dictionary online does not have a readily available definition yet, so I turned to online Wikipedia.

Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photographs, primarily between mobile phones. [Wikipedia]

To learn more, please join Prof. John Humbach and Prof. Bridget Crawford, both from Pace Law School, as they discuss the implications of sexting and the First Amendment in the library's recent podcast titled Humbach on "Sexting" and the First Amendment. Prof. Humbach, in his article, "Sexting" and the First Amendment, writes that "[g]iven the reality of changing social practices, mores, and technology utilization, today's pornography laws are a trap for unwary teens and operate, in effect, to criminalize a large fraction of America's young people."

Article Citation
John Humbach, "Sexting" and the First Amendment, 37 Hastings Const. L. Q. 433 (2010).

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Alexander Greenawalt On Radovan Karadzic

Alexander Greenawalt, Associate Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law, regularly contributes to the New York Time microblog: Latets on Radovan Karadzic.  Check out the latest contribution. You may also subscribe to the latest updates via RSS feed.

Alexander Greenawalt On Radovan Karadzic

Alexander Greenawalt, Associate Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law, regularly contributes to the New York Times microblog: Latest on Radovan Karadzic. Check out the latest posts! View the microblog or subscribe directly to the latest updates via RSS feed.

Alexander Greenawalt On Radovan Karadzic

Alexander Greenawalt, Associate Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law, regularly contributes to the New York Times microblog: Latest on Radovan Kradzic. Check out the latest posts! View the microblog here or subscribe directly to updates via RSS feed.

New Podcast: Prof. Berger On The Creeping Codification of the New Lex Mercatoria and Trans-Lex.org

The Pace Law Library and the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace are proud to present another podcast. Damon Schwartz, Pace Law School and Vis Moot alum interviewed Dr. Klaus Peter Berger, a Professor of Law at the Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL) at the University of Cologne, in Germany, about his new publication The Creeping Codification of The New Lex Mercatoria and his latest project - a free research and codification platform for transnational law Trans-Lex.org.

Enjoy this 26 minute long conversation about transnational and international commercial law. The podcast is available at the Pace Law Library Podcasts blog.

Overcriminalization: The Past, Present, and Future Expansion of the Criminal Law

Pace Law School Invites You To The Criminal Law Symposium that will be held on April 9, 2010 at 8:30 am - 6:30 pm at Pace Law School. The topic of the discussion is Overcriminalization: The Past, Present, and Future Expansion of the Criminal Law. Among the contributors and speakers are Prof. Luise E. Chiesa (Pace Law School), Prof. Paul H. Robinson (University of Pennsylvania School of Law), Prof. Jesus-Maria Silva Sanchez (Barcelona's Universidad Pompeu Fabra), and Prof. Douglas N. Husak (Rutgers New Brunswick). For more information, directions, contact information, schedule, and more, please click here.

Eighth John Jay Lecture: The Intellectual Context of the 'Age of Experiments in Government"

The Eighth John Jay Lecture: The Intellectual Context of the 'Age of Experiments in Government' features R. B. Bernstein, an author of The Founding Fathers Reconsidered. The lecture is scheduled on Thursday afternoon April 8, 2010 at 5 pm in the Robert Fleming Court Room at Pace Law School in White Plains and will be followed by a reception.

A Distinguished Adjunct Professor at New York Law School, R. B. Bernstein has written books on the Founders and Constitutional history including: Are We to Be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution (Harvard, 1987); Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, Why Do We Keep Trying to Change It? (Times Books/Random House, 1993); Thomas Jefferson (Oxford, 2003); and The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (Oxford, 2009), which has recently been named a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.

The latest book is available for purchase in Pace campus bookstore before the lecture. The lecture and reception is free and open to members of the public, so please come and join us.

C-Span Video Archive

C-Span has made its entire video archive available for free here. It offers over 20 years of political history, and is searchable by keyword and browseable by program. It includes tabs for most recent, most watched, and most shared videos. It also features Supreme Court oral arguments, including Citizens United. A search for Pace University Law School retrieves videos with President Stephen Friedman, Professor Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Professor Nicholas Robinson.

PILSO Auction

Only two days left to bid in the PILSO auction. PILSO, the Public Interest Law Scholarship Organization, under the umbrella of Public Interest Law Center at Pace Law School, is hosting a silent online auction. The auction will run until March 11, 2010, at 9:00 am. The proceeds will fund grants to law students for unpaid public interest summer internships in direct legal services, prosecution, environmental law, government work, and civil rights. Click here to bid to get sports tickets and memorabilia, spa and travel packages, fine dining and more!

Pace Law School Initiative to Help Haitians In Westchester

On behalf of Pace Law School Public Interest Law Center (PILC), the Public Interest Law Center, the Immigration Justice Clinic of John Jay Legal Services and the Empire Justice Center are collaborating to create an organized pro bono/volunteer effort to respond to the legal needs of Haitians living in our community. Efforts will be focused around helping Haitian immigrants living in the US to obtain Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which may include outreach and community education, direct assistance in filling out applications, and other advocacy efforts.

A training session is schedule for Friday, February 26, 2010, at 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at Pace Law School. For more information, please contact the Director of the Public Interest Law Center, Jennifer C. Friedman.

Alexander Greenawalt On Radovan Karadzic

Alexander Greenawalt, Associate Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law, regularly contributes to the New York Times Microblog: Latest On Radovan Karadzic. Check out the latest post! View the microblog here or subscribe directly via RSS feed.

Sunny Schwartz, Author Of "Dreams from the Monster Factory," At Pace

The Pace Law School is holding its Nineteenth Dyson Distinguished Lecture, Can Prisons Make Us Safer?: Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice Reform, on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at noon in the Lecture Hall of the New York State Judicial Institute. The featured speaker is Sunny Schwartz, Esq., Program Administrator at the San Francisco Sheriff's Department and founder of the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP).

Sunny Schwartz has just written a highly acclaimed book, "Dreams from the Monster Factory," about her experiences working with inmates in the San Fransisco jail system.

In 1997, discouraged with this country's contemporary approach to 'rehabilitation' for inmates, she launched the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project which draws upon the philosophy of Restorative Justice to bring together victims and offenders.

RSVP unites diverse community organizations and individuals to collaborate on the first-in-the nation correctional program offering services to everyone harmed by violence: victims, offenders and communities. - Sunny Schwartz, Esq.

Prof. Leslie Garfield Is Featured On Legal Theory Blog

Article titled Don't Count Them Out Just Yet: Toward the Plausible Use of Race-Preference Student Assignment Plans by professor Lesli Garfield, Professor of Law at the Pace University School of Law is featured on the Legal Theory Blog.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Supreme Court's recent decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 could serve to broaden the permissible use of race beyond the boundaries presently permitted by the Court. in this highly fractionalized decision, five justices ultimately agreed that the race-based student assignment plans before their review could not withstand judicial scrutiny. One of these justice, Justice Kennedy, agreed with the plurality's conclusion, but rejected the plurality's assessment that it is never permissible to use race-preference student assignment plans absent evidence of de jure segregation. His concurrence, when read together with the reasoning of the Court's four dissenting justices, offers a plausible scenario under which future courts could find precedential support to uphold challenged race-preference student assignment plans as constitutionally permissible.

The article is published in Rutgers Race and the Law Review, Vol. 10, p. 340-361, 2008/2009.

Intersession Class at Pace: Advanced Health Law Research

Pace Law School is offering an intersession class titled Advanced Research Skills for Health, Disability, and Elder Law. Margaret Moreland, a Reference Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace, will be teaching this class during the January intersession.

Don't hesitate and take advantage of this incredible opportunity to learn advanced research skills in the area of health law, spend one on one time with the expert in this area, and earn 2 credits over just six days. You can take this class to lower your load in the Spring semester, or you can take this class as an overload.

To learn more about this class or how to sign up, please visit our Podcast site and listen to the podcast discussing what this class is all about, contact Ms. Moreland directly or click the picture to the right.

Alexander Greenawalt On Radovan Karadzic

Alexander Greenawalt, Associate Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law, regularly contributes to the New York Times Microblog: Latest On Radovan Karadzic. You can view the microblog here or you can directly subscribe to it via RSS feed.

Fundraiser For the Criminal Justice Society at Pace

On behalf of the Criminal Justice Society (CJS) at Pace Law School, please come and support the students' fundraising efforts by participating in any of the following exciting events:

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Please join the Criminal Justice Society for dinner and conversation starting at 7:00 pm in the Antipasti Restaurant located at 1 North Broadway, White Plains, NY.

Thursday, November 19, 2009
Attend a showing of the movie Dead Man Walking with a follow up lecture and discussion led by the Associate Professor of Law at Pace Law School, David D. Dorfman. The event is scheduled at 3:00 - 6:00 pm in Preston Hall, Room 401. Bring your friends!

Monday, November 23, 2009
It's bake sale time! Please stop by the CJS table located in the hallway outside of cafeteria anytime between 10:00 am and 6 :00 pm to get yourself a sweet dessert. What will be available is a surprise!

Please note that none of these events are sponsored by Pace.