Faculty & Staff Recognitions – Fall 2018
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FACULTY & STAFF RECOGNITIONS – FALL 2018 Professor Noa Ben-Asher participated in a conference at Queen Mary University of Law (6/14-6/15). The conference was for all book contributors (Professor Ben- Asher included) to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities (Forthcoming 2019). Adjunct Professor John Bandler published his article “Prepare for and plan against a cyberattack” in the July 2018 ABA Journal. Click here to read. Professor Jonathan Brown, Director of the Food and Beverage Law Clinic, had his article “Beyond Corporate Form: A Response to Dan Depasquale, Surbhi Sarang, and Natalie Bump Vena’s Forging Food Justice Through Cooperatives in New York City” published in the Fordham Urban Law Journal. It is an invited response piece originating from the Fordham Urban Law Journal’s 2017 Cooper- Walsh Colloquium. Click here to read. Professor Brown's article "Nurturing a More Just and Sustainable Food System: The First Year of Pace Law's Food and Beverage Law Clinic" was published in ABA's Natural Resources & Environment Summer 2018 Journal. Professor Emeritus Jay Carlisle participated in the annual Westchester ethics program of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association. He was also honored on Friday, June 29 in Hudson, N.Y. by Operation Unite Education and Cultural Arts Center. Professor Carlisle has been on the Board of Directors for the past five years and was honored for his many hours of volunteer work assisting the officers, directors and staff of Operation Unite. Congratulations, Professor Carlisle! Professor Emeritus Jay Carlisle attended the Annual Reception for the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation in Chicago during the ABA Convention. He has been elected life fellow of the Foundation since 1990. Professor Carlisle was featured in the Westchester County Bar Association’s August issue of “Westchester Lawyer” for being honored on Friday, June 29, in Hudson, N.Y. by Operation Unite Education and Cultural Arts Center at their annual gala – click here to see. On September 25, Professor Carlisle presented his 30th annual lecture on Jurisdiction to the New York State Trial Lawyers Association in Manhattan. He is teaching the mandatory second year course in Professional Responsibility at Pace Law with Judge Daniel Angiolillo. Professor Carlisle's article on "Significant Developments in Jurisdiction" will appear in the October edition of the Westchester County Bar Journal. The article is co-authored with Pace Law graduate Matthew Shock. Professor David Cassuto has been lecturing extensively throughout Brazil on a variety of topics in animal, water, and environmental law at a number of Brazilian universities, including UNIVALI, UNIVERITAS, and the Universidade de Caxias do Sul, where he was also recently named a visiting professor. You can listen to his most recent talk, which was in Florianopolis, here. Professor and Co-Director of the Environmental Litigation Clinic Karl Coplan, was featured on E&E News in the article Clean Water Act 'ambulance chasers'? Firm raises eyebrows. You can read it here. Professor Karl Coplan’s article, The Missing Element of Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis: Compensation for the Loss of Regulatory Benefits, was published in the Georgetown Environmental Law Review. At the Annual Meeting on Law & Society held in Toronto, Canada on June 7- 10, 2018, Professor Bridget Crawford’s co-edited volume Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (Cambridge University Press 2017) was featured in an Author-Meets-Reader session. Professor Bridget Crawford also presented her paper, “Is the Tampon Tax Constitutional?” in a panel discussion of Constitutional Structure and Gender Equality: New Directions in U.S. and Canadian Jurisprudence and she was the chair of a panel on “Sex, Mass Media and the Law.” On June 21, 2018, the Supreme Court decided in South Dakota v. Wayfair, 585 U. S. ____ (2018), that a state can impose sales tax on an out- of-state vendor that lacks a physical presence in the jurisdiction. The majority opinion written by Justice Kennedy and joined by Justices Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, and Gorsuch favorably cited the amicus brief of Professor Bridget Crawford and over 50 other law professors who argued that the physical presence rule was anachronistic and caused states to lose an aggregate of between $694 million and $3 billion in tax revenue each year. “In the name of federalism and free markets,” the court overruled its prior precedent in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992). A copy of the law professors’ amicus brief is available here. Professor Bridget Crawford is also one of 22 tax law professors who filed an Amicus Brief in support of the Appellees: Section 107 Housing Allowance For 'Ministers Of The Gospel' Violates The First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Click here. Additionally, Professor Crawford spoke to BBC World Services about India's repeal of the tampon tax and menstrual equality. She is featured in BBC's World Business Report - listen here. Professor Bridget Crawford and Professor Emily Waldman have written a new article, "The Unconstitutional Tampon Tax," arguing that the sales tax on menstrual hygiene products violates Equal Protection Clause. It will be published in the University of Richmond Law Review - click here to read more. Professor Crawford also has a forthcoming publication in the Boston University Law Review - "Tax Talk and Reproductive Technology" - click here and here to read more. Professor Jason J. Czarnezki, Executive Director of the Environmental Law Program, lectured on Eco-Labels, Neo-Liberalism and Private Environmental Governance in Copenhagen on August 28. Click here to read more. On August 30, he gave a talk about green public procurement at Ghent University. Professor Jason Czarnezki’s Utah Law Review article, The Neoliberal Turn in Environmental Regulation, was cited in a Huffington Post Article – click here to read more. Professor Jason Czarnezki was selected to be on the Fulbright Program Specialist Roster. Click here to learn more. A draft chapter on Eco- Labeling by Professor Jason Czarnezki and Professor Margot Pollans is now available - click here. For the past year and a half, Professor David Dorfman has been preparing to defend his clients in the AIM pipeline protester trial. On July 27, 2018, Professor Dorfman successfully won a trial order of dismissal after a week of trial, including intense oral argument. Three of Professor Dorfman's clients are relieved of the charges they faced, whereas the remaining three resume their defense case on the basis of Necessity in the fall. Professor Dorfman's clients were alleged to have climbed inside the pipeline and refused to leave for 18 hours in protest of a new high capacity pipeline conveying fracked gas from Pennsylvania, across NY state, under the Hudson River and junctioning within the footprint of the notorious Indian Point nuclear power plant in northern Westchester. Professor Dorfman has been assisted on preparation of the case by students in the Environmental Litigation Clinic and the Criminal Justice Clinic. The trial was covered on Channel 12 news Westchester and the case was also recently featured in The Journal News - read more here. Professor David Dorfman is quoted in the VICE News article A Grandma Chained Herself Inside a Ford Pinto to Try to Stop a Fracked Gas Pipeline in West Virginia – you can read more here. At the Annual Meeting on Law & Society held in Toronto, Canada on June 7-10, 2018, Professor Linda Fentiman’s book, Blaming Mothers: American Law and the Risks the Children’s Health (NYU Press 2017) was featured in an Author- Meets-Reader session. Professor Linda Fentiman authored a blog post on the University of Minnesota’s The Gender Policy Report titled: “Shaming and Blaming Mothers Under the Law: It’s Time We Stop Expecting Mothers to Be Perfect” – click here. Professor Emeritus Jim Fishman, an admitted addict of the genre of detective fiction and crime novels, discussed the nineteenth century origins of detective fiction, and focused on the so-called “golden age” of the Anglo-American detective story-- the period between the World Wars-- and beyond. He offered vignettes of the leading writers, a surprising number of whom used pseudonyms and were distinguished in other fields. Finally, he recommended some authors and novels that may be unfamiliar. Professor Fishman also remains in the top downloaded authors with the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Professor Bennett Gershman was quoted in the article, GOP Lawmakers Want Criminal Investigation Over Cagle Recording. You can read it here. In June, Professor Ben Gershman testified in a capital murder case. Read about the case here. Professor Gershman is also quoted in the Clarion Ledger article, Was Curtis Flowers the only suspect in the Tardy Furniture Store murders? Click here to read. Professor Bennett Gershman was quoted in the Esquire article, Mississippi's Lt. Governor Tried to Get a Road Built Straight from His Gated Community to a Mall. Click here to read. Professor Ben Gershman was quoted in the article Judge denies motion to remove DA's office in retrial of death penalty murder case. Click here to read. He was also quoted in the LA Times article Trump's former campaign chairman faces federal trial with a hint of a presidential pardon. Click here to read. Professor Ben Gershman was quoted in the article #MeToo takes a hit in Asia Argento underage sex case – click here to read. Professor Gershman was interviewed by News 12 on the “beginning of the end” for Trump– click here. On Tuesday, September 4, Professor Ben Gershman was on Bill O’Reilly’s podcast speaking about the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings – click here. He was also featured on News12 discussing the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings as well. Professor Lissa Griffin provided an analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Currier v.