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Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi The future is now: NYLS Makes Delivers the Shainwald Public Impressive Progress on Achieving Interest Lecture Strategic Plan Goals www.nyls.edu p6 p8 WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL SINCE 1891 The Center for New York City Law marked its 20th year WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL of presenting the CityLaw Breakfast Series in September, when it hosted Carl Weisbrod, Chair of the NYC Planning Commission. Dean Anthony W. Advance Your Career Crowell congratulated Professor Ross Sandler, Director of the Center, on the anniversary. The event received widespread through Specialized Training press coverage because Mr. Weisbrod laid out the De Blasio Administration’s affordable housing policy, announcing that the City will look to implement mandatory inclusionary housing on all City-sponsored rezonings.

Voted #1 five years in a row. 20th anniversaryFrom left to right: Dean Anthony W. Crowell, Carl Weisbrod, and Professor Ross Sandler. WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL LL.M. in American Business Law LL.M. in Taxation

The LL.M. in American Business Law offers qualified The Graduate Tax Program enables LL.M. students foreign-trained lawyers advanced training in U.S. to build a firm foundation in tax and pursue a corporate, securities, real estate, commercial, and tax concentration in depth. The program emphasizes IN THIS ISSUlaw and the opportunityE to prepare to sit for the New advanced training in tax research and practice-oriented York bar examination. writing, as well as practical experience through Features Departments externships. For further information, contact 2 • Alumni Titans of Sports 12 • Campus Buzz Professor Lloyd Bonfield at 212.431.2822 or For further information, contact Return to NYLS 14 • Meet the Authors e-mail [email protected]. Professor Ann F. Thomas at 212.431.2305 or 6 • Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi professor Edward A. Purcell Jr. e-mail [email protected]. Delivers the Shainwald Public professor Ruti G. Teitel Interest Lecture 18 • Faculty Highlights 8 • The Future is Now: NYLS Makes Impressive Progress on Achieving 30 • Commencement 2014 www.nyls.edu/AmBusLLM www.nyls.edu/TaxLLM Strategic Plan Goals www.nyls.edu/gradprograms New York Law School Major Progress on the Strategic Plan Magazine 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 In July 2013, New York Law School released a bold and groundbreaking Strategic Plan that covers every aspect Dean and President of the Law School’s activities. The Anthony W. Crowell plan draws from our rich history of innovative academic programs and Vice President charts a course forward, detailing how For Marketing and we are adapting the curriculum to align Communications with the new legal marketplace. This Nancy Guida past September, we followed up with Editor in Chief Strategic Plan Progress and Outcomes, our first annual report evaluating and Managing Editor presenting our progress over the past year. I am pleased to report that Ruth Singleton we have made great strides in implementing the Plan.

Creative Director This issue of New York Law School Magazine details many of those Regina Chung accomplishments, such as improved employment outcomes in both traditional and nontraditional placements, and national recognition for Production Manager our clinical programs, diversity, state-of-the art facilities, and part-time Melissa Pentangelo evening division. The issue also spotlights three of our most illustrious alumni, who, having Contributors made their mark in the business world, have gone on to acquire major Thomas Adcock, Meghan Lalonde, sports teams. Our Titans of Sports event in October was truly a special Melissa Pentangelo, Ruth Singleton night, featuring Marc Lasry ’84, co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks; Vincent Viola ’83, owner of the Florida Panthers; and Zygmunt “Zygi” Wilf Proofreaders ’74, owner of the Minnesota Vikings. Amelia Jonakait, Ruth Singleton 20th anniversary We also report on another exceptional event at NYLS: In September, Photographers Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, who made history in 2007 by becoming Jim Davis, Lance Edwards, John Halpern, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rick Kopstein, Meghan Lalonde, Laura delivered the 2014 Sidney Shainwald Public Interest Lecture. Landau, Jack McCoy, Rolland Smith And we celebrate two of our extraordinary faculty members: Edward A. Purcell Jr., whose article, “Understanding Curtiss-Wright,” offers penetrating insights into a notable 1936 Supreme Court case, and Ruti G. Teitel, whose book of essays, Globalizing Transitional Justice, traces the evolution of her reflections on the field since the publication of her seminal book, Transitional Justice, in 2000. Finally, we highlight several notable events on campus, major alumni activities, and our Commencement Exercises in May, when we returned to Carnegie Hall, the site of our first commencement in 1892. IN THIS ISSUE As we head toward our 125th anniversary, now only a year away, I look forward to your continued participation in the Law School community. We have made great progress in implementing our Strategic Plan. With your support, we will achieve all its goals, ensuring that NYLS continues 32 • alumni Events to be recognized as an influential leader and innovator in legal education and scholarship. Anthony W. Crowell 34 • alumni Spotlights Dean and President Elizabeth Dambriunas ’85 Pierre Ciric ’09 Copyright ©2014 by New York Law School. All rights reserved. 36 • class Notes New York Law School Magazine (ISSN 0747-3141) is published twice a year by New York Law School. Editorial contributions as well as submissions of copy and 44 • in Memoriam photos to Class Notes are welcome. This publication accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or photographs. All submissions are subject to editing and are used at the editor’s discretion. Opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect official positions of the Law School.

fEATURES 1 Milwaukee Bucks Florida Panthers Minnesota Vikings

2 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 From left to right: Duke Castiglione, Marc Lasry ’84, Vincent Viola ’83, and Zygmunt “Zygi” Wilf ’74.

Amid the popcorn machines, pretzels, and hot dogs, it might have been easy to mistake New York Law School for a sports stadium on the night of October 1. To add to the atmosphere, among the crowd of nearly 300 students, alumni, faculty, and other members of the NYLS community, stood three of the Law School’s most notable alumni, all from the world of sports: Marc Lasry ’84, part-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team; Vincent Viola ’83, owner of the Florida Panthers Hockey Club; and Zygmunt “Zygi” Wilf ’74, owner of the Minnesota Vikings Football Club.

It was a special night at the Law School. Their decisions are widely analyzed on lawyer and it’s been really helpful in the The main event was a lively and candid broadcast and print media and by fans sports world.” panel discussion in the Events Center on social media. with the three team owners, moderated by Born in Morocco and raised in Sports Anchor Duke Castiglione of Fox 5 The three NYLS alumni team owners Connecticut, Mr. Lasry refused to give Ne w York . took time out to come back to the Law up dreaming about basketball despite School for the event during a busy period his parents’ encouragement to pursue Professional sports as a whole today is for their sports: when the professional a more serious career in law. Still, he a 30 billion-dollar-a-year industry, and football season was well under way, and was regarded as a fierce competitor in team owners number among some of the when the hockey and basketball seasons both basketball and tennis while in high richest people in the country. In fact, just were just about to begin. They began by school. days before the panel discussion took discussing the career paths that took them place, both Marc Lasry and Vincent from NYLS to professional sports. During his time at NYLS, Mr. Lasry Viola appeared on the Forbes 400, the clerked with the Honorable Edward magazine’s list of the 400 richest people “I went to law school because my mother Ryan, the Chief Bankruptcy Judge of the in the United States. Because sports made me,” said Mr. Lasry with a smile to Southern District of New York, and he are so popular, and consumer demand a chorus of laughter from the audience. started his career as a bankruptcy attorney is so high, owners often receive as “But really, whether you use your law with Angel & Frankel. A year later, he got much attention as players and games. degree or don’t use it, it’s great to be a his start in finance and investment. After

fEATURES 3 “I manage the team exactly the same way I did my business,” said Mr. Viola. “It all begins with trust. Trust breeds communication. And discipline— discipline will always feed efficiency.”

The son of a World War II veteran turned truck driver, Mr. Viola was born in Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn Technical High School before receiving an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Like Mr. Lasry and Mr. Wilf, Mr. Viola was always a competitive athlete and enjoyed playing sports. But after graduating from West Point, he left with the intention of building a career in the military and achieved the rank of Major in the U.S. Army Reserves.

After leaving the Army, Mr. Viola returned to New York, where he joined the New York Mercantile Exchange as a local trader and began attending law school. He went on to become a member of the New York Mercantile Exchange in 1982—his third and final year at NYLS.

“I wouldn’t trade my legal education for any other education experience,” he said. “You take on a different understanding and you’re better able to think critically.”

Mr. Viola found himself gravitating toward securities law at NYLS, which led to an interest in investing. It was his founding of Virtu Financial—a high-tech, high-frequency trading firm—that proved to be one of the most lucrative decisions of his career. The success of Virtu led to Mr. Viola’s first foray into team ownership with a minority stake in the New Jersey Nets basketball team. But after the team’s a few years at various firms, including the successful in finance would work just ownership was sold and split, moving the Smith Vasilou Management Company as well to produce a winning team in franchise to Brooklyn, Mr. Viola went and Cowen & Company, he sought Wisconsin. looking for another team. the help of his sister, Sonia Gardner (also an attorney), and together they “I thought if I bought the team that I’d In September 2013, after a meeting with formed Amroc Investments and Avenue be able to play,” Mr. Lasry joked again. National Hockey League Commissioner Capital Group—both of which became “I guess there’s some kind of rule against Gary Bettmann, Mr. Viola found a incredibly successful distressed debt that.” new team to call his own in the Florida investment firms. Panthers. Mr. Lasry’s enthusiasm was matched by On April 16, Mr. Lasry’s basketball that of Mr. Viola and Mr. Wilf. Both But as all new owners discover, dream came true. He and partner Wes commented about their passion for sports unexpected challenges often crop up. as well as the differences and similarities Edens purchased the Milwaukee Bucks, “Some of these players are just so young, hoping the same strategy that made them between sports management and corporate management roles. they don’t understand that they are

4 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 their own individual brand,” Mr. Viola astonishing how much you’re in the and legacy of giving back to the remarked. He has begun to educate his public eye,” said Mr. Lasry. In answer to community helped ingratiate him with players about dealing with the public the question whether they would take the Minnesota fan base. All three said as well as taking care of their personal advice from fans, he said, “I do it all the they are heavily involved in day-to-day finances. time.” Mr. Wilf responded, “That will personnel decisions. change in a couple of years.” “The one thing I didn’t realize about If one thing became clear during the being the owner of a sports team is that Despite living in New York, hundreds of course of the discussion, it was that, we are all stewards and ambassadors for miles from their teams, the three owners despite their rather unorthodox career a team that is really owned by the fans,” spend as much time as they can in the paths, hard work and dedication can said Mr. Wilf, the 10-year veteran sports local communities. Mr. Lasry said he lead to opportunity, even in the exclusive owner. “You have to have passion and you gives a lot of speeches in Milwaukee. Mr. world of professional sports. • have to have money, but passion carries Wilf said that his family’s foundations everything.”

The son of Holocaust survivors, Mr. Wilf immigrated to the United States “I went to law school because with his family in 1951 and settled in Birmingham, Alabama, before moving my mother made me,” said Mr. to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where they Lasry with a smile to a chorus of were drawn by the local Yeshiva and synagogues. For Mr. Wilf, the experience laughter from the audience. “But of growing up as the son of Holocaust really, whether you use your law survivors not only instilled a strong sense degree or don’t use it, it’s great to of humility, but left a burning desire to succeed for those who had lost so much. be a lawyer and it’s been really helpful in the sports world.” As a teenager, Mr. Wilf played doubles tennis and was an avid fan of hockey, baseball, and football, especially the New York Football Giants. Sandy Koufax, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers “I manage the team exactly the was his idol—an admiration that was same way I did my business,” said solidified after Koufax refused to play the Mr. Viola. “It all begins with trust. opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. Trust breeds communication. And discipline—discipline will After graduating from NYLS, Mr. Wilf went on to join his family-run always feed efficiency.” businesses, Garden Homes and Garden Properties, where his legal education served him well. From owning a few humble shopping centers, Mr. Wilf ’s “The one thing I didn’t realize leadership resulted in the company’s expansion and acquisition of over a about being the owner of a sports hundred other properties, including team is that we are all stewards several large shopping malls and over and ambassadors for a team that 90,000 apartment units across the country. In 2005, drawing on the is really owned by the fans,” said success of the family businesses, Mr. Wilf Mr. Wilf, the 10-year veteran sports purchased the Minnesota Vikings. owner. “You have to have passion All three owners commented on the and you have to have money, but tremendous amount of attention they’ve received in the press and on social passion carries everything.” media after acquiring their teams. “It’s

fEATURES 5 Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Delivers the Shainwald Public Interest Lecture By Thomas Adcock

Representatives here,” said Ms. Shainwald. She then introduced Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York, who in turn introduced fellow Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi as “a trailblazer, ceiling breaker, and history-maker” who “actually got things done.”

Pelosi presented a conversational address, in which she responded to questions from James F. Simon, NYLS Dean Emeritus and Martin Professor of Law Emeritus. She was quick to excoriate what she considers obstructionist Republicans of Congress—especially in the chamber run by Speaker Boehner. The House majority is “anti-government, anti-science, and anti-Barack Obama,” she said. “What they’ve said to the President is, ‘Anything you want, we’re not interested; nothing is the agenda, never is the timetable.’” Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi greets a group of NYLS students before her speech. She added, with a laugh, “Pardon me for that Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, cheerfully outspoken as leader partisan word.” of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, Pelosi touched on how she briefly considered the fame-free option of entering a Catholic delivered the 2014 Sidney Shainwald Public Interest Lecture at convent as a young novitiate. As a nun, she said, “You could pray all the time, and do New York Law School on September 16, 2014. good deeds. But I just thought I might check In a wide-ranging talk, she commented then introduced Sybil Shainwald ’76 as “a out the world. The church is very important on legislative stalemate, marriage equality, groundbreaking legal pioneer, a visionary to me, [though] I may be less important to immigration policy, the recovering economy, who has made fighting for women’s health them as I speak out.” feminism, and what to do about the barbaric her unrelenting mission for the last three Pelosi is ardently liberal on issues such as Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). decades.” marriage equality, immigrant rights, and Dubbed “Grandma with a gavel” by a Ms. Shainwald, a New York Law School reproductive rights. Washington Post columnist, the Californian Trustee and women’s health lawyer, “I was taught to [honor] the dignity of every became the first woman Speaker of the established the Public Interest Lecture in person,” she said. “Part of that dignity is House in 2007, when her party controlled 2004 in honor of her late husband, Sidney the free will to take responsibility for your that body. In 2011, Republicans won Shainwald, an advocate for social justice own life. Whatever my thoughts are, what majority status, and Congressman John who worked for Consumers Union from business is it of mine to insist on that for Boehner of Ohio became Speaker. 1937 to 1982. Past speakers have included someone else?” U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day Dean Anthony W. Crowell welcomed the O’Connor and Stephen Breyer; then- “This is the time of year when Christ said to audience assembled in the Events Center, Senator, now Secretary of State John Kerry; the Apostles, ‘Love one another.’ This is love: observing, “The Shainwald Lecture is then-Senator, now Secretary of Defense letting other versions exist. I attribute this one of the premier events held at the Law Chuck Hagel; and the late Senator Edward to my upbringing in Baltimore,” said Pelosi. School. This series provides a unique “Ted” Kennedy. There, she said, three cultural pillars made forum for thoughtful and intellectual her what she is: her Italian American family, discussion featuring the most prominent “I am so honored and so pleased to have the Catholic Church, and the Democratic leaders in public and judicial service.” He the first woman Speaker of the House of

6 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Delivers the Shainwald Public Interest Lecture By Thomas Adcock From left to right: Sybil Shainwald ’76, Congresswoman Pelosi, Sybil Shainwald and Congresswoman Pelosi talk with Congresswoman Pelosi and Dean Emeritus James. F. Simon and Dean Crowell NYLS students.

Party. “Our Catholic teachings,” she said, She added, with another laugh, “It seems Before her conversation with Dean Emeritus “were in furtherance of respecting people.” inevitable to us that this has to happen, but Simon, Pelosi met privately with a group of inconceivable to Republicans.” NYLS students to answer their questions. Pelosi, mother of five adult children and grandmother to six (and counting), Pelosi was further resolute on the matter of Several city officials and dignitaries of the remembers a moment of disrespect during responding to the ISIS threat: “I will not bench and bar attended this year’s event. a House debate on abortion law, and how vote for troops on the ground. We cannot go They included Judge Jack B. Weinstein of it conflicted with certain less inclusive down that path. There’s no evidence it would the Eastern District of New York; New Catholic doctrine. “They said, ‘Oh, that even work.” York State Appellate Court Justice Helen Nancy Pelosi—she thinks she knows more E. Freedman; New York City Deputy about having babies than the Pope,’” she She expressed firm support for President Mayor Richard Buery Jr.; New York City recollected. “Yes!” Obama’s expansion of air strikes in Iraq, Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter; and into Syria, in order to “degrade and former New York City Comptroller In 2009 and 2010, a Democratic Congress ultimately destroy [ISIS],” as the president Elizabeth Holtzman; former New passed a number of hard-fought measures to declared in a September 10 television York State Attorney General Robert address the near meltdown of the American address. Abrams; and former New York economy, including the Dodd-Frank Wall State Appellate Court Justices In 2002, Pelosi voted “nay” on bills Street Reform and Consumer Protection Milton L. Williams and authorizing then-President George W. Bush Act. Pelosi said Republicans now want to Ernst H. Rosenberger ’58. to make war on Iraq. But “aye” votes in the overturn Wall Street reform and return to Justice Rosenberger is House and Senate prevailed. Air strikes policies that led to the crippling recession a Vice Chairman of against ISIS forces, ordered now by President begun in 2007. the NYLS Board Obama, are “a consequence of our going into of Trustees. The Suggesting that Republicans are willing Iraq in the first place,” said Congresswoman Chairman of the to manipulate statutory authority for the Pelosi, opining that the Iraq war “will go Board, Arthur benefit of wealthy Americans, and to the down in history as one of the most serious N. Abbey ’59, disadvantage of everyone else, Pelosi said, mistakes our country ever made.” was also in “We don’t begrudge anyone their success. attendance. • But we do resent the exploitation of working Pelosi said she strongly endorses the creation people, the environment, and consumers of international coalitions to deal with the when that success springs from something newest terrorist threat because, “it’s not just very unfair in our economy.” the United States fighting ISIS; it’s the world. If there is a need for combat troops on the On the topic of women’s place in the nation’s ground, they should not be combat troops of affairs, Pelosi’s stance is resolute: “When the United States of America.” women succeed, America succeeds. That is a statement of absolute fact. It’s not about Turning to immigration policy, she said, politics, it’s about values.” “There are 11 million people who need legislation, and we have the votes in the To elect more women to public office, she said, House,” but “one person is standing in the “It’s really important to do everything in our way.” She referred to John Boehner, who power to reduce the role of secret, undisclosed controls the House agenda and refuses to special interest money destructive to our allow debate. democracy and the middle class. “I’m very disappointed,” said Pelosi, whose “If we reduce the role of money and increase mother, Annunciata Lombardi, came to the level of civility, I guarantee you this: the United States with her Italian parents We will increase the number of women in in 1911. “Immigration is the constant politics, and that will be the most wholesome reinvigoration of America. Immigration thing we can do,” said Pelosi. “Not only makes America more American.” women, but younger people and minorities.”

fEATURES 7 The future is now: NYLS Makes Impressive Progress on Achieving Strategic Plan Goals

By Ruth Singleton

hen Anthony W. Crowell became Dean and an impressive and comprehensive document that focuses on President of New York Law School in May 2012, the School’s core strengths and charts its course forward in an he brought with him a drive for innovation, eloquent and convincing fashion. accountability,W and transparency developed during his nearly 11 years working as Counselor to Mayor Michael R. The Strategic Plan presents a systematic approach for Bloomberg. Soon after his arrival, he initiated a strategic attaining a new level of excellence with measurable outcomes review process with the faculty and administration that in every aspect of the School’s life. It sets forth five broad encompassed all aspects and operations of the Law School. strategic goals to be achieved in the areas of Academic That process included meetings, one-on-one discussions, Excellence and Innovation, Career Success, Intellectual Life, and surveys involving faculty, administrators, staff, trustees, Community Engagement, and Operations. Also included alumni, and students, as well as a comprehensive operational are 32 priority action items in support of those goals and review. The result was the NYLS Strategic Plan, issued in seven outcomes used to measure progress. One of the most July 2013, which has been widely praised for its innovative important objectives for the planning process was to help ideas, clear presentation, and focus on transparency. Arthur N. the Law School function better in a structurally changed Abbey ’59, Chairman of the NYLS Board of Trustees, hailed legal marketplace in order to enhance the career prospects it as “groundbreaking,” and said it “will ensure a bright future for students. Among the most important features of the for the students of New York Law School.” Strategic Plan, therefore, is offering students substantially more opportunities to engage in meaningful clinical and The Law School also received a great deal of positive feedback experiential learning, as well as enhancing academic advising from students and alumni, many of whom were involved in and career planning. The Strategic Plan spotlights the Law the process, as well as from other law school deans, many of School’s clinical offerings, notably reporting on the School’s whom said they were studying it to inform their own strategic recent doubling of the number of clinical offerings, from planning. Several deans said they considered the Strategic Plan 13 to 26.

8 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 New York City’s legal, government, financial, and technology centers; its enduring partnerships with the City’s most powerful institutions; its extraordinary community of trustees, faculty, staff, students, and alumni; and its embodiment of the qualities that make New York City the indisputable capital of the world: diversity, talent, energy, and independence of spirit. Channeling these unparalleled qualities, the Law School is experiencing a

Strategic Plan progress and outcomes major resurgence.

Strategic Below are some of the major areas of accomplishment documented Plan in the Progress and Outcomes report.

Ju ly 2013 Notable Recognition

WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL WE ARE NEW YORK’S LAW SCHOOL The Law School’s many initiatives have paid off in terms of Since 1891 SINCE 1891 recognition by legal journals and ratings publications. The Law School made a notable improvement in its ranking by U.S. News & World Report this year and was ranked highly by the magazine One Year Out: for its part-time evening division, clinical training programs, and Considerable Progress, diversity. National Jurist ranked NYLS as one of the top schools in the nation for practical training, and Hispanic Outlook magazine The future is now: with More to Come recognized the School for high enrollment and graduation of Hispanic students. Most recently, NYLS received high marks In September, the Law School issued Strategic Plan Progress and for diversity and best law school facilities in the November 2014 NYLS Makes Impressive Progress Outcomes for 2014, the first annual report on the Strategic Plan. issue of National Jurist. The magazine also listed both of the It includes a Strategic Priorities Scorecard, used to measure the Law School’s graduate programs in its LL.M. guide for foreign on Achieving Strategic Plan Goals progress made in completing each of the 32 priority action items attorneys. set out in the Strategic Plan. (See page 11.) The Scorecard, and indeed, the entire report, sets a new standard for transparency and accountability in a law school setting by measuring not only where Student Engagement and Satisfaction NYLS has achieved substantial progress, but also where the Law A primary focus of the last year was to improve student School has more work in front of it to do. engagement and the law school experience for each and every The Progress and Outcomes report details the progress made one of NYLS’s students. The Law School’s success in this regard toward achieving seven strategic outcomes. In most cases, that can be measured, to a large extent, by student satisfaction ratings progress is tracked in a quantitative manner reflecting measurable provided by the Law School Survey of Student Engagement results. For example, as a result of enhancements to academic (LSSSE). In 2013-14, student satisfaction rose significantly in advising and career planning, employment outcomes have several key categories where rates of satisfaction were once lagging improved in both traditional and nontraditional placements. And significantly. They are now in line with the national averages. participation in clinics in 2013-14 increased by 44 percent over In the specific categories of job search help, career counseling, the prior academic year. Additionally, nearly 30,000 hours of and academic advising, the rates of satisfaction now surpass the experiential training were offered in the form of externships across national average. an array of professional options. students responding “satisfied” or “very satisfied” When introducing the report, Dean Crowell said, “We are aligning our curriculum to meet the demands of the changing legal 74% 75% 68% marketplace; graduating students with the legal skills, knowledge, 64% 67% 63% 60% and values needed to achieve success; and doing it all with a sharp 56% eye on the bottom line, while continuing to maintain the highest 49% quality services to all our constituents—students, faculty, staff, alumni, trustees and the broader NYLS community.”

The Law School’s willingness to confront its challenges head-on and make public every step of its implementation of the Strategic Career Job Search Academic Counseling Help Advising Plan is one of the attributes that makes NYLS unique. NYLS also is singularly situated to adapt to the new reality of the job 2012 2014 2014 market and the profession owing to its location in the heart of (NYLS) (NYLS) (National Average)

fEATURES 9 Raising the Profile of the Faculty for Academic Affairs Deborah N. Archer and Professor Richard Because of the central place of the faculty in the life of the Marsico. Distinguished Adjunct Professor Andrew Scherer School, NYLS is devoting important resources to raising the serves as the Center’s Policy Director and also chairs an Advisory profile of the Law School’s extraordinary professors. Many Council made up of leading public interest law practitioners and faculty members have placed opinion pieces in print and online public officials. The Center’s website, www.nyls.edu/impact, lists and have been quoted in major media outlets. In addition, the all its initiatives as well as upcoming events. Law School has produced a compendium of faculty publications It also is a very exciting year for the Institute for Information showing the scholarly work of full-time and adjunct faculty; Law and Policy (IILP). The IILP has a new Director: Ari Ezra developed a Faculty Experts video series, in which professors Waldman, who was promoted to Associate Professor of Law as a offer expert insights on a variety of topics; supported academic member of the full-time faculty in July. Professor Waldman focuses entrepreneurship by assisting faculty in developing profiles and on the law and sociology of Internet life, with particular emphasis brands that can be promoted via social media; and publicized on the inequalities and injustices that arise in unregulated digital the awards and honors that faculty members have received. spaces. Additionally, the Law School hired Jacob Sherkow, an Dean Crowell recently named Professor Richard K. Sherwin the expert in biotechnology and patent law, as an Associate Professor inaugural Dean for Faculty Scholarship, as well as the Wallace to play an important role in the growth of the IILP. Speaking of Stevens Professor of Law. As Dean for Faculty Scholarship, he his plans for the IILP, Professor Waldman said, “We’re revamping a will be instrumental in helping NYLS to develop, support, and number of dynamic doctrinal courses; increasing the opportunities promote the scholarly strengths of the faculty. Faculty activities, for experiential learning; and opening up new clinics, such as our videos, and blogs can be found www.nyls.edu/faculty. certification pilot program with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. We’re intent on preparing students to hit the ground running as lawyers in the new innovation economy.” The Center’s Alumni Engagement website is www.nyls.edu/iilp. The NYLS alumni community plays a crucial role in sustaining the Law School. NYLS has provided new and innovative Both Co-Directors of the Center for Business and Financial opportunities for alumni to engage with the Law School such Law (CBFL), Tamara C. Belinfanti and Houman Shadab, were as working to help design new programs, teaching CLE courses, promoted to full Professors of Law with tenure in the spring, in speaking at career events, mentoring students, and providing recognition, in part, of the important research undertaken by the valuable assistance with career placement. NYLS is more focused Center and the leading-edge programs it hosts. On October 21, than ever on creating a strong foundation of support across the the CBFL hosted a half-day conference on a new technology with entire NYLS community. a huge impact on the financial world: bitcoins. That event, Bitcoin Law: Regulation and Transactions, drew major press coverage for its innovative look at this new payment system. The Center’s Academic Alignment website is www.nyls.edu/cbfl. In keeping with the Law School’s goal of adapting to a structurally changed legal marketplace, the Strategic Plan announced a Fiscal Responsibility particular focus on three areas—government and public interest; intellectual property, media, technology, and applied sciences; A major focus for Dean Crowell has been fiscal responsibility. and business and financial services—which, because they broadly NYLS has reduced expenses by 28 percent in the past two years encompass what will likely be major areas of economic growth in while keeping tuition stable for the third year in a row. In addition, New York City and beyond, will help make NYLS students the NYLS has doubled the amount of scholarship aid to students. most competitive they can be. Three Centers—the new Impact The School has also created numerous administrative efficiencies, Center for Public Interest Law, the Institute for Information Law largely through converting manual processes to electronic and Policy, and the Center for Business and Financial Law—are methods. Dean Crowell is also leading a campus consolidation distinctly aligned with these practice areas. effort that will bring administrative offices and academic programs occupying leased spaced into the Law School’s buildings. This will The Impact Center for Public Interest Law, which was launched result in greater personal interaction, eliminate the need for leased in the fall 2014 semester, brings together many public interest space, and enable the Law School to place all classes, programs, initiatives at NYLS—including the Racial Justice Project, the and activities under one roof. The plan is projected to achieve a Safe Passage Project, and the Diane Abbey Law Institute for reduction in overhead costs of $50 million over the next 17 years. Children and Families—under one umbrella. Dean Crowell Several trustees and alumni have remarked at how impressed they said, “Through real-world endeavors, our students, alumni, and are with the rigorous approach that New York Law School, under professors will make a difference in people’s lives on the defining Dean Crowell’s watch, is taking. They have said they believe the issues of civil liberty and the pursuit of justice. Our goal is to shape School is doing everything necessary to ensure its fiscal stability not only public interest lawyers, but also public interest law for into the future. the 21st century.” The Center is co-directed by Associate Dean

10 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 Important Milestones Dean Crowell said, “The support of the NYLS community— In this time of transition, the Law School is also observing several trustees, alumni, faculty, students, and staff—has been nothing important milestones. The Center for New York City Law began short of amazing. I am so grateful for the efforts of so many in its 20th year of hosting its CityLaw Breakfast this fall when it accomplishing so much. I look forward to our continued progress hosted Carl Weisbrod, Chair of the New York City Planning in implementing the changes that will take us where we need to Commission. The inaugural class of the new Two-Year J.D. Honors go.” Program is beginning in January. And, of course, a host of plans More information about the Strategic Plan Progress and Outcomes are under way to celebrate the Law School’s 125th anniversary in for 2014, including NYLS’s ever-growing milestones, is available, 2016, which will also be an occasion to celebrate the many goals of along with the Strategic Plan, at www.nyls.edu/strategy. • the Strategic Plan that have been achieved.

Strategic Priorities Scorecard intellectual life This scorecard depicts the progress made in completing our strategic Committing New York Law School’s resources to support the faculty’s priorities, which were identified as action items in support of the strategic scholarly priorities. goals. Some priorities require continuous effort; therefore, they are not Identifying and recommending opportunities for faculty to develop expected to be “completed” but rather will remain an ongoing activity. scholarship to advance societal goals in collaboration with the private, public, and nonprofit sectors in New YorkC ity and beyond. Increasing student participation in research and scholarship to enhance Academic Excellence and Innovation student learning and intellectual growth. Ensuring that the Law School’s students, faculty, and staff reflect the diversity and excellence that are New York City’s greatest strengths. Ensuring that there is adequate mentoring and other resources to help junior faculty realize their goals. Understanding and responding to the market forces that will shape and be influenced by the legal profession in the next five to 10 years. Promoting the expertise of the faculty in their respective fields to the media and scholarly conferences that will most benefit faculty Helping all students—part-time and full-time—achieve their members and the Law School. aspirations by focusing on core competencies they must possess to succeed, including fostering a culture of professionalism and Supporting faculty who wish to engage in the use of social media to intellectual curiosity from day one. reach mass audiences and have direct and immediate impact. Making bar passage a top priority for students through engagement Developing proposals to take advantage of unique funding and partnership with the faculty and administration. opportunities for faculty scholarship provided by foundations, individuals, corporations, nonprofits, and government. Rationalizing our curriculum through assessment, refinement, and new investment to align our academic programs with the needs of the market. R ecruiting new full- and part-time (adjunct) professors whose areas of community engagement expertise match the needs of the market and the institution. Strengthening connections among alumni and the NYLS community as a whole. Evaluating every center, institute, and program to enhance the student experience and ensure connections to project-based, clinical, Offering all students and alumni strategic connections to public interest, and other experiential learning opportunities, and pro bono service. government, and other organizations for pro bono opportunities. Assisting students, full-time and part-time, in the fulfillment of theirpro Strengthening experiential education by implementing 13 new bono requirement. clinics, including a clinical third-year, and providing opportunities for professional development and work experience. Creating new strategic partnerships to elevate the status of the Law School and generate new financial support. Developing new degree and certificate programs in areas where more specialized legal education can be critical to success and will help Expanding our Continuing Legal Education and Executive Education differentiate the Law School in the market. programming to provide lifelong learning opportunities to our graduates and others in the government, private-sector, and nonprofit arenas. Setting and assessing student performance outcomes to ensure that teaching methods and programs are responsive to the learning goals and needs of students. operations Being highly sensitive to the costs of legal education and making Career success every effort to stabilize tuition and expand the availability of meaningful scholarships to the student body. Requiring from every student, from day one, engagement and partnership with the Law School’s faculty, administration, other Fostering institution building by developing well-informed, short- and students and student groups, and the alumni community. long-term financial plans; using sophisticated data and econometrics, and predictive models; and focusing on disciplined and strategic investment.* Ensuring that our Admissions, Academic Affairs, Career Planning, Alumni Relations, and Pro Bono Initiatives offices work closely Continuing rigorous, timely, and accurate compliance with together to provide the right guidance and programming for day, accreditation standards and other requirements affecting operations. evening, accelerated division, and graduate students, to develop their Scaling operations to meet changing demands while ensuring quality personal academic, career, and bar pass plans. of service. Forging alliances with trustees, other alumni and friends, adjunct Ensuring that metrics, and a commitment to transparency and faculty, and employers to ensure that our students and graduates accountability, are infused into every aspect of the Law School’s have access to critical networks of firms, businesses, government staffing, planning, programs, operations, and communications. agencies, nonprofits, and bar associations and other professional organizations, to create a reliable pipeline of job opportunities in Creating new scorecards to report on key activities in support of our traditional and nontraditional roles for J.D.s. goals so that the NYLS community can monitor performance progress. Expanding career development programs and launching new initiatives Promoting a culture of professionalism; ensuring awareness of the to ensure that students and alumni develop and display leadership goals, mission, and objectives of the Law School; and fostering a and professionalism, and have the most advanced knowledge, skills, continuous engagement in the operational and academic institutional and mentoring needed to compete for and benefit from desirable goals—among staff and administration alike. externships, and summer and permanent employment opportunities. *Our short- and long-term financial plans did not rely on econometric or predictive models.

KEY: in planning STARTED Saubst ntial Progress Made COMPLETED

fEATURES 11 Institute for In-House Counsel Holds Inaugural Event While many law schools provide experiential learning centers focused on traditional lawyering skills—oral arguments, drafting, and trial advocacy—NYLS is one of only a handful of law schools to offer a program specifically aimed at preparing the next generation of in- house counsel. On March 26, the Institute for In-House Counsel launched with an inaugural conference featuring several speakers and panels, including Bloomberg LP‘s Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Richard K. DeScherer, who spoke about the necessity of training for organizations that employ in-house counsel. Moving forward, the Institute, under the direction of Distinguished Adjunct Professor Andrew R. Berman, will address emerging legal, economic, and business issues affecting companies from a variety of industries and sectors. It will also work to provide the legal community with practical advice on how to successfully navigate the in-house/outside counsel Launch of the relationship, and to communicate effectively with company leadership. NYLS Women’s Network On March 5, New York Law School launched its Women’s Network with a talk presented by television anchor, legal analyst, trial attorney, actor, and best-selling author Rikki Klieman. Ms. Klieman, joined by her spouse, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, delivered remarks to a large crowd gathered in the Law School’s Events Center, discussing the difficulties of balancing relationships with her work as an attorney, her journey to law school, and her transition from attorney to a television legal analyst. The goal Richard K. DeScherer of Bloomberg presents the Keynote Address. of the NYLS Women’s Network is to foster development and leadership among alumni, students, faculty, and staff. In light of this objective, the Women’s Network will provide opportunities for participants to meet, learn, share their experiences, and network. Mayor de Blasio Speaks at Seminar on Ethics in City Government

From left to right: Dean Anthony W. Crowell, Rikki Klieman, and NYC Police Commissioner William J. Bratton

Mayor Bill de Blasio presents the Keynote Address.

12 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 Two Law Review Events: Women in the Legal Profession and FATF Symposium The New York Law School Law Review hosted two successful events in spring 2014: a panel and networking reception dedicated to “Women in the Legal Profession” on March 17, and a full-day symposium titled “Combating Threats to the International Financial System: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF)” on April 25.

The Women in the Legal Profession panel included Professor The FATF is an intergovernmental body established in response Tamara C. Belinfanti; Lisa DelPizzo, Deputy Bureau Chief to international money laundering and terrorist financing. The of the New York County District Attorney’s Office; Marilyn FATF Symposium examined policy recommendations provided Flood, Counsel for the New York County Lawyers’ Association by FATF as well as their implementation at both state and and Executive Director of the New York County Lawyers’ federal levels and their direct impact on legal professionals in Association Foundation; Rhonda Joy McLean, Deputy General the corporate, financial, and trusts and estates fields. Panel I Counsel of Time, Inc.; and Gail Zweig, Counsel at Levi, Lubarsky presented “An Introduction to the Financial Action Task Force. & Feigenbaum LLP. They discussed the unique challenges Nicholas Turner ’12, Compliance Management Associate at Citi facing women in both law school and in practice, the need for served as the moderator. The panelists were: Saby Ghoshray, professional networking, and how to utilize mentor and sponsor Regulatory Risk & Compliance Advisor, WorldCompliance, relationships. and President, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies; Michael Rosen, Policy Advisor, United States Department of the Treasury; and Kevin L. Shepherd, Partner, Venable LLP. Panel II addressed “Federal and State Implementation of FATF Policies.” Professor Houman B. Shadab served as moderator, and the panelists were: Shima Baradaran, Associate Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law; Jean- Paul Duvivier, Director, Financial Sector Advisory—Risk and Regulation, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; and Laurel S. Terry, Professor of Law, Penn State—Dickinson School of Law. The topic for Panel III was “The FATF and Professional Ethics.” Professor William P. LaPiana served as moderator, and the panelists were: Nick Kazmerski, Counsel with the Enforcement Section, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Peter Margulies, Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School The members of the panel (l-r): Gail Zweig, Rhonda Joy McLean, of Law; John P. Sahl, Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Marilyn Flood, Lisa DelPizzo, and Professor Tamara C. Belinfanti Joseph G. Miller and William C. Becker Center for Professional Responsibility, University of Akron School of Law; and John A. Terrill II, Partner, Heckscher Teillon Terrill & Sager, PC.

On, May 20, the Center for New York City Law, hosted Mayor de Blasio the Twentieth Annual Seminar on Ethics in New York City Government. The seminar was co-sponsored by the Conflicts Speaks at Seminar of Interest Board (COIB) and financially supported by the on Ethics in City Department of Investigation. Over 400 participants, including many City government employees, attended the five-hour Government seminar. Ross Sandler, Director of the Center for New York City Law, opened the seminar by introducing the COIB Chair, Richard Briffault. Mr. Briffault welcomed Mayor Bill de Blasio to present the Keynote Address. Mayor de Blasio spoke about the importance of ethics in government and how those in public service need to always be mindful of ethical requirements and obligations. He said those in government have a dual job to not only do everyday work effectively and ethically, but to also dig Kevin L. Shepherd speaks during Panel I. deep to restore the public’s trust in government. Following the Mayor’s address, Dean Anthony W. Crowell welcomed guests. Dean Crowell also is a member of the COIB.

CAMPUS BUZZ 13 upheld the prosecution on the narrow UnderstandingCurtiss-Wright basis the government argued for: that the resolution was a valid delegation of power by Congress. Instead, the high court precedential authority is insignificant. He declared, 7–1, that the federal government concludes that the case’s constitutional had exclusive powers over foreign relations, significance “lies not in doctrine but in that these powers exist independent of the t the 2014 the light the case casts on the nature of Constitution “as necessary concomitants Commencement Exercises, Supreme Court decisionmaking and the of nationality,” and most controversially Edward A. Purcell Jr., dynamics of separated national powers.” that the President held “plenary and the Joseph Solomon exclusive” foreign affairs powers that he Distinguished Professor At issue in the case was a joint could exercise independent of Congress. of Law, received the Otto L. Walter congressional resolution authorizing the The Court cited little authority for its DistinguishedA Writing Award for his President to issue a proclamation making assertions, and the authority it did cite was article, “Understanding Curtiss-Wright,” it unlawful to sell arms to either Paraguay thin and dubious at best. Why the Court published in Law and History Review or Bolivia, which were at war with each would make such sweeping assertions (November 2013) This intriguing article . other. President Franklin D. Roosevelt about foreign affairs powers, especially examines a 1936 U.S. Supreme Court made the proclamation, and the federal the claim that the executive held “plenary opinion remarkable at the time due to its government subsequently prosecuted and exclusive power” in the area, has long endorsement of sweeping powers for the the Curtiss-Wright Corporation for puzzled scholars. President in the conduct of foreign affairs. violating it by selling 15 machine guns to Members of the executive branch, as well Bolivia. But the trial court dismissed the Professor Purcell said that he became as some judges and scholars, have cited indictment, deeming the resolution “an interested in the case while working on a the case, U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright Export invalid delegation of legislative power.” chapter in the 2012 book International Corp., repeatedly in support of unchecked Law in the Supreme Court. Examining executive foreign affairs powers. The Supreme Court heard the case on the period 1901–45, he was struck by the Professor Purcell argues, however, that its direct appeal and reversed. It could have fact that Curtiss-Wright was decided by

14 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 Edward A. Purcell Jr. Examines a 1936 High Court Case Used as Authority for Independent Presidential Powers in Foreign Affairs. By Ruth Singleton

“Everyone who wants expanded lecturer), rather than the Curtiss- Wright opinion’s author, Justice George Sutherland, was the driving force behind executive power the ruling. He not only shows how the Court’s opinion in Curtiss-Wright departs cites it, but it’s from Sutherland’s earlier and extensive writings on foreign affairs, but he also explains why Sutherland altered his views of exceptionally substantially to embrace the language of “plenary and exclusive” executive foreign uncertain Curtiss-Wright affairs powers. Professor Purcell similarly explains why Brandeis, a determined the 7–1 vote, that the majority included opponent of unnecessary constitutional worth—it’s both Justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin language and a skeptic about unchecked N. Cardozo, and that Justice Harlan F. executive power, acceded to Hughes’s utterly easy to Stone—returning to the bench after a long leadership on the issue. Professor Purcell illness—subsequently expressed his sharp argues most basically that the Chief disagreement with the Court’s opinion. Justice was able to convince all but one distinguish.” of his fellow Justices to sign on “for Professor Purcell noted that there were pragmatic reasons of foreign policy—to “rich sources available in this period,” lend support to President Franklin worth—it’s utterly easy to distinguish.” particularly the private papers of several Roosevelt’s efforts to limit congressional He observes in the article that the of the Justices and the collection of the neutrality legislation and to pursue case “presented no issue of unilateral Supreme Court’s Office of the Curator, an anti-Nazi foreign policy.” Justice executive action and no claim that which holds docket books of several of Hughes had served as Secretary of State individual constitutional rights were the Justices. By delving into these private under President Warren G. Harding, infringed. Thus, on truly critical and open letters and docket books, Professor an experience that engendered a deep constitutional issues, it quite literally Purcell gained crucial insights into the skepticism about the Senate’s role in has nothing to say.” But the case remains deliberations in the case. Even though “you foreign affairs and “confirmed his belief a noteworthy product of its time. And never find exactly what you’re looking for,” in strong and independent executive Professor Purcell offers a riveting glimpse he said, “you’re able to find enough.” leadership in foreign affairs.” into the dynamics and relationships among the Justices of nearly 80 years As for ’s lasting legacy, Based on this extensive archival research, Curtiss-Wright ago, a time when the Court was deeply Professor Purcell said, “Everyone who Professor Purcell makes a compelling polarized but still capable of forging wants expanded executive power cites argument that Chief Justice Charles an overwhelming majority in a time of it, but it’s of exceptionally uncertain Evans Hughes (a former NYLS special international crises. •

MEET THE AUTHORS 15 Globalizing Transitional Justice

Ruti G. Teitel Explores the Evolution of an Idea and the Development of a Field. By Ruth Singleton

16 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 Professor Ruti G. Teitel War period, when rifts developed, for example, over the assertion coined the phrase of the equivalence of political and economic rights in the Universal “transitional justice” to Declaration of Human Rights. Yet Professor Teitel argues that, Indescribe a variety 1991, of legal approaches used to seek accountability “despite the general record of failure of criminal accountability, and for past human rights violations following a transition from the Nuremberg Tribunal’s anomalous nature, the Tribunal’s impact authoritarian government to a constitution-based democracy. At has transcended its particular circumstances to contribute a guiding the time, the Soviet Union had recently collapsed, and some Latin force for a war-driven Century.” American countries had made the transition from oppressive regimes to democracy. Professor Teitel’s original insight was that “wherever In an interview, Professor Teitel elaborated on that point: “One can the criminal justice response was compromised or otherwise limited, see the symbol of the prior internationalist vision of accountability there were other ways to respond to the predecessor regime’s in the recent establishment of a permanent International Criminal repressive rule.” Such alternatives include truth commissions, Court, yet while there is arguably now a neutral site of judgment, of reparations, and political reforms. In Transitional Justice, published course, there remain important political considerations concerning in 2000, she fleshed out her original insight into a broad, detailed, the time and place of accountability, depending on the context.” and persuasive analysis of a diversity of responses to injustice following political upheaval. The American Journal of Comparative Other chapters address the trials of Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Law called it “essential reading for all scholars as well as activists Milosevic, as well as civil action mechanisms, e.g. the use of the Alien working in the field of transitional justice.” Tort Statute as a means of addressing human rights claims from other countries in U.S. courts, among other topics. In her latest book, Globalizing Transitional Justice, Professor Teitel addresses transitional justice as it has taken shape during the political Chapter 4, “Human Rights in Transition: Transitional Justice conflicts of the past 15 years. She defines the present period as a Genealogy,” gets to the heart of recent history. Here, Professor Teitel “global phase of transitional justice,” characterized by movement describes three phases of transitional justice in recent decades: a “from exceptional transitional responses to a ‘steady-state’ justice”; move from internationalism to a stage of local justice; a focus on from “a focus on state-centric obligations to a focus upon the restoration and reconciliation with less emphasis on punishment;

One can see the symbol of the prior internationalist vision of accountability in the recent establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court, yet while there is arguably now a neutral site of judgment, of course, there remain important political considerations concerning the time and place of accountability, depending on the context.

far broader array of interest in non-state actors associated with and the prevalence of more complex situations, often involving a globalization”; and from “advancing democratization and state- reliance on supranational institutions, with transitional justice as a building” to “promoting and maintaining peace and human security.” norm rather than an exception. As she describes it, “War in a time In addition to a new introductory chapter and an epilogue, the book of peace, political fragmentation, weak states, small wars, and steady consists of 11 essays previously published in law journals and as conflict all characterize contemporary political conditions.” chapters in other books. They are grouped into four parts: Overview, Roots, Narratives, and Conflict Transition and the Rule of Law. Certainly, political conditions in recent years exhibit those characteristics, as witnessed in the conflicts in North Africa and the The book begins with the legacy of the universal human rights ideal Middle East. In the interview, Professor Teitel observed, “While as epitomized by the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg following one can see from the very start of the Arab spring the demand for World War II. Professor Teitel observes that despite genocide and transitional justice—e.g., in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya—nevertheless, other atrocities perpetrated in Cambodia, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, and often the realities of such justice seeking has been complex, as where elsewhere, it took a full half-century after Nuremberg for another due process remains unavailable, trials or other measures will not human rights tribunal to convene. Moreover, she points out, the serve to promote rule of law in divided societies.” • universal human rights standard proved vulnerable during the Cold

MEET THE AUTHORS 17 Faculty Appointments

P rofessors Tamara C. Belinfanti and Houman B. Shadab became full Professors of Law with tenure in April 2014. Both are Co-Directors of the Center for Business and Financial Law.

P rofessor Belinfanti’s scholarly interests include general corporate governance matters, executive compensation, the proxy advisory industry, shareholder activism, and law, culture and identity. She teaches Corporations, Contracts, and a Corporate Transactional Skills Seminar. Prior to joining academia, Professor Belinfanti was a corporate attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where she counseled domestic and international clients on general corporate and U.S. securities regulation matters, and was co-editor of the securities law treatise U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Market (Aspen, 2003).

P rofessor Shadab is an internationally recognized expert in financial law and regulation whose research focuses on hedge funds, derivatives, bitcoins, and securitization. He teaches Contracts, Corporations, Startups and Venture Capital, Commercial Law, and Financial Regulation. He also serves as the Editor- in-Chief of the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions and blogs at Lawbitrage. Professor Shadab has testified before Congress on the compensation of public company executives, reverse mortgage securitization, and on the role of hedge funds in the financial crisis at a hearing that included George Soros, John Paulson, and other leading figures from the hedge fund industry.

Jacob Sherkow and Ari Ezra Waldman were appointed Associate Professors of Law in July 2014. Professor Waldman is the new Director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy (IILP), and Professor Sherkow will play a vital role in its continued growth.

P rofessor Sherkow was a Fellow in the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School. In 2010, he served as a law clerk to Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Prior to entering academia, he was a patent litigator at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in New York, where he litigated both pharmaceutical and high-tech patents. In 2011, Professor Sherkow, along with a team of attorneys, won the Frank Wheat Award for pro bono service. In addition to his legal training, he has several years of experience as a research scientist in molecular biology. He recently published “Preliminary Injunctions Post-Mayo and Myriad,” in the Stanford Law Review. He teaches Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Patent Litigation and Property.

As an Adjunct Professor, Professor Waldman served as the IILP Associate Director. Before entering academia, he was an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Winston & Strawn LLP in New York, focusing his practice on copyright, trademark, and appellate litigation. He teaches Intellectual Property, Privacy, Internet Law, and Torts. His research and writing focuses on privacy, hate, and harassment on the Internet, online social networks, and the LGBT community. He is a frequent speaker on issues facing the LGBT community and often appears as an analyst on radio, television, and in print-based media. His articles have been published in several leading law reviews, including the Hastings Law Journal, the University of Maryland Law Review, and the Temple Law Review.

18 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 T he following items represent a sampling of the recent activities of our full-time faculty. Full-Time Faculty Activities Compiled by Melissa Pentangelo

Alan I. Appel ’76 Productions, Lee Howard Law Journal Tamara C. Belinfanti Publications Pacchia ’06’s production (June 2014). Insider Trading 2.0 – company, regarding recent Keeping Up With the comments made by IRS Super Computer Arms Jodi S. Balsam Commissioner John Race, Business Law Koskinen on the future Prof Blog (March of the agency’s voluntary 2014). disclosure program for “Everything Must Stay foreign accounts (June, in Place”—President July 2014). Business, The Lego Movie, Scholarly Presentations Scholarly Presentations Business Law Prof Participated in the Deborah N. Archer Presented, with Stacy- Blog (March 2014). New York University Ann Elvy, a Master School of Continuing Class, “Rwanda and New Awards and Recognition and Professional Studies Governance,” at Oxford Lenni B. Benson Named to the Outreach Summer Institute in University for the third Committee of the Taxation. Discussed annual “Advancing Association of American outbound and inbound Good Governance Law Schools’ Section on investments as well as in International Legal Writing, Reasoning, financing strategies Development” seminar, and Research (February and other structures sponsored by Camfed 2014). that govern foreign (Campaign for Female Scholarly Presentations investments in U.S. real Named to the Executive Education), Oxford, Keynote Speaker at White estate, New York (July Committee of the AALS’s and Linklaters, Oxford, & Case’s Black History 2014). Section on Law and Sports England (June 2014). Scholarly Presentations Month Celebration on (February 2014). Moderated an event Spoke at a webinar on the topic of the 50th Moderator, “Insider titled “Preparing Tax Planning for Foreign Anniversary of the Civil Trading 2.0: A New Scholarly Presentations for Comprehensive Investment in U.S. Real Rights Act of 1964, New Initiative to Crack Down Represented NYLS Immigration Reform: Estate, sponsored by York (February 2014). on Predatory Practices,” Strafford Publications, and the Legal Practice hosted by the Center for Coalitions and Working Panel moderator, “What’s providing accounting Program at the Ninth Business and Financial with Law Schools,” Next For Reproductive and tax professionals and Annual Global Legal Skills Law and the Center for presented by New York Rights: An Insider’s counsel with a review of Conference at the Collegio New York City Law, New Law School and the Look at in tax considerations for Roe v. Wade di Giurisprudenza at the York Law School (March New York Immigration 2014,” hosted by Donna foreign investors in U.S. Universita degli Studi 2014). Coalition (January 2014). Lieberman, the Executive real estate (July 2014). di Verona, Verona, Italy. Director of the New York Presented “Identifying and Presented “Shareholder Projects Cultivation and New Publications Civil Liberties Union, Enhancing Global Reading Organized a Safe Passage New York (January 2014). Comprehension Skills in Governance,” for the Preventing End Runs Project in CLE program the Twitter Generation Section on Socio- Around the Dividend on “Best Practices Before Publications of Law Students and Economics’ panel titled Withholding Regime: the Asylum Office” There is No Santa Claus: Lawyers” (May 2014). “Corporate Theory Treasury’s Revised (February 2014). The Challenge of Teaching and Regulation in the Regulations Under Presented “Negotiating the Next Generation of Aftermath of the Financial Section 871(m) and Tactics in Sports Law,” Media References and Civil Rights Lawyers in Crisis,” at the Association Appearances the New Delta Test, 27 at the 2014 NYLS of American Law Schools’ a “Post-Racial” Society, Received widespread press Journal of Taxation Sports Law Symposium, Annual Meeting, New Columbia Journal coverage, in connection and Regulation of New York Law School York. She also participated of Race and Law with the Safe Passage Financial Institutions (February 2014). in the Association’s (February 2014). Project, in the New 21–26 (March/April 2014) reception for Teacher of York Law Journal, (with G.J. Galvin). Collective or Individual Media References and the Year awardees and The New York Times, Benefits?: Measuring Appearances faculty emeriti (January Voice of America Media References and the Educational Benefits Sunday Mirror: Heading 2014). Appearances of Race-Conscious to Court, Bloomberg News, New York Daily Interviewed by Mimesis Admissions Programs, BNA (April 2014). News, and Salon. Also appeared on many major

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 19 news outlets, including Robert Blecker Productions (February-July Alternative and Affordable Legal Skills Award in CNN, Univision, Al 2014). Legal Education: Head for recognition of her work Jazeera, CBS, ABC, and the Hills, Law.com (April with students to reduce Participated in a live WNYC. (January–July 2014). extreme fear of public Google Plus Hangout to 2014). Featured in videos speaking and increase promote a CNN series, FCC Passes on Seeking produced by alumnus performance in classrooms, “Death Row Stories” Supreme Court Review for Lee Pacchia ’06 and his oral arguments, and (March 2014). Net Neutrality Rules, Law. production company, client-centered legal com (February 2014). Mimesis Productions skills activities, Ninth (March, August 2014). Lloyd Bonfield Annual Global Skills Legal Scholarly Presentations James Brook Conference, Verona, Italy Testimonies and Legal Spoke at a debate with (May 2014). Consultation Adjunct John S. Baker Jr. For the second Invited to address a sponsored by the Federalist consecutive year, awarded White House Briefing Society for Law and a sponsorship grant by on expanding legal Public Policy Studies on the New York State Bar representation for child the topic of whether the Association to fund migrants. The meeting Constitution should be her five-part workshop was hosted by the ratified if the constitutional to mentor 1L students President’s policy advisors, convention were held today Projects suffering from extreme and the Vice President (March 2014). The Center for Publications public speaking anxiety addressed the invitees and International Law, under Sixth edition of Secured in advance of the Legal encouraged foundations, Publications his direction, sponsored Transactions: Practice Oral Argument corporations, and law firms Punishment Needs to Be a two-day academic Examples and Program (January 2014). to work with nonprofit Punishment, The New conference in cooperation Explanations (Wolters providers to help find legal York Times (April 2014). with two leading Italian Kluwer, 2014). Appointments representation so that the law schools: the Università Excerpts from The Served as a member recently arriving children’s di Siena and the Università Death of Punishment Camille Broussard of the Board of the claims could be addressed di Napoli Orientale at the (Palgrave Macmillan Trade, Committee on Balance in as soon as possible. Spoke latter’s campus in Procida. November 2013) published Legal Education for the about how a law school The colloquium’s topic in The National Post Association of American can build a model of was “Immigration and (January 2014). Law Schools (2013-14). pro bono training and the Right to Nationality” mentorship and expand (“Immigrazione e Diritto Media References and Scholarly Presentations resources for immigrant alla Cittadinanza”). At Appearances Represented NYLS children (August 2014). this academic conference, Received widespread press and the Legal Practice Invited to attend a special he presented a historical coverage, in connection Program at the Ninth interagency working group enquiry titled, “Give me with the death penalty and Scholarly Presentations Annual Global Legal Skills meeting of the Department your tired, your poor… his book, The Death Conference at the Collegio of Justice and Department better still send me your Gave a presentation of Punishment, in the di Giurisprudenza at the of Homeland Security entrepreneurs: English on NYLS’s use of Washington Post, New Universita degli Studi held in Washington, immigration policy in the ARCHIVE-IT at the York Law Journal, di Verona. Presented D.C. The focus of the late 17th century” (July member meeting for Dallas Morning News, “Identifying and meeting was the increase 2014). the Legal Information Kansas City Star, Enhancing Global Reading in the apprehensions of Preservation Alliance, The Atlantic, RIA Comprehension Skills in unaccompanied minor New York Law School Novosti, Hannibal Michael Botein the Twitter Generation children. Earlier that day, (January 2014). Courier-Post, Wicked of Law Students and she met with the staff of Local Rockport, Lawyers,” Verona, Italy the U.S. Citizenship and Donaldsonville Heidi K. Brown (May 2014). Immigration Services, as Chief, and Sydney Presented “Incorporating well as the head and staff Morning Herald, Civil Discovery Strategy of the Department of among others. Was and Theory Into an Justice’s Office of Legal interviewed on NPR, Upper-Level Memo and Access, about how to use CNN, Russian Radio, Brief-Writing Course: the Safe Passage Project Radio West, and several A Teaching Module” at as a potential model for BBC shows. Featured Publications the Southeast Regional law schools seeking to in videos produced by Legal Writing Conference expand access to legal Negotiated Rates for alumnus Lee Pacchia at Stetson University representation for children Broadband Telecom ’06 and his production Awards and Recognition College of Law, Gulfport, facing removal (December Capacity After Verizon, company, Mimesis Received a 2014 Global Florida. Also presented 2013). Law.com (May 2014).

20 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 her course design for an Anthony W. Crowell New York Veterans and Society Association’s Presented a paper, upper-level legal writing Families Summit. He and Annual Meeting, “Postcolonial State class she created for the Albany Law School Minneapolis, Minnesota Compliance with NYLS based on a 2013 Dean were appointed (May 2014). International Law: Teaching Grant from to lead a statewide A Case Study of the Presented a paper, “The the Association of Legal consortium on law school Sexual Offences Statutes Struggle for the Rule of Writing Directors (April veterans services. (March of Commonwealth Law in South Africa,” at a 2014). 2014). Caribbean States,” as conference titled “Twenty part of a panel on legal Attended a meeting of Years Later: South Africa imperialism at the David Chang all the law school deans and the Post-Apartheid Annual Law & Society Scholarly Presentations in New York State, held Condition,” at Emory Conference, Minneapolis, Interviewed NYLS Trustee in connection with the University, sponsored Minnesota (May 2014). James D. Zirin about his New York State Bar by Emory’s Institute of new book, The Mother Association’s Annual African Studies, Atlanta, Testimonies and Legal Court: Tales of Cases Meeting, hosted by Chief Georgia (April 2014). Consultation that Mattered in Judge Jonathan Lippman Presented “The In- America’s Greatest (February 2014). Selected by ABA- House Clinic in the New Trial Court, Brooklyn UNDP International Landscape of Experiential Public Library’s Central Media References and Legal Resource Center Education,” at the Branch, Brooklyn, New to provide expert legal Awards and Recognition Appearances Association of American opinion on anti- York (October 2014). Q&A: Maya Wiley, New Received the 2014 Law Schools’ Annual discrimination legislation Led a delegation of York Law Journal Teaching Award from the Conference on Clinical proposal for Jamaica faculty from NYLS at (May 2014). Class of 2014 (May 2014). Legal Education, Chicago, to benefit the rights of Oxford University for the Law School Leaders are Illinois (April 2014). vulnerable groups such as third annual “Advancing Dividing into Two Camps: women and children (July Bryan Choi Good Governance Stuck v. Serious, ABA Media References and 2014). in International Journal (May 2014) Appearances Development” seminar, Ellmann v. Leiter on Citations sponsored by Camfed Experiential Learning: the Proposed Clinical/ Cited by Leslie Claire (Campaign for Female Practice Makes Perfect, Experiential Learning Bailey in, Note: Out of Education), Oxford, New York Law Requirement, Brian Africa: Toward Regional and Linklaters, Oxford, Journal (April 2014). Leiter’s Law School Solutions for Internal England (June 2014). Lawyer Limelight: Reports (January 2014). Displacement, 39 Dean Anthony Crowell, Moderated a panel, Brooklyn Journal of Lawdragon (April “Understanding the New International Law Scholarly Presentations 2014). Stacy-Ann Elvy York State Nonprofit 353 (2014). Led an Institute for Revitalization Act,” at St. Information Law and Francis College as part of Stephen J. Ellmann Policy event on “Defensive the Brooklyn Chamber Ronald H. Filler Patent Aggregators (Anti- of Commerce’s Annual Trolls),” New York Law Nonprofit Summit, School (April 2014). Brooklyn, New York (May Presented “For Whom 2014). the Data Tolls,” at the Attended the Bi-Annual Intellectual Property Associate Deans’ Scholarly Presentations Scholars Roundtable at Conference at the Drake University Law Presented, with Tamara University of Colorado Belinfanti, a Master School, Des Moines, Iowa at Boulder, speaking on a Appointments (March 2014). Class, “Rwanda and New Appointments panel about collaboration Named Chair-elect of the Governance,” at Oxford Re-elected as a Public Participated in a panel on and discussing the NYLS Association of American University for the third Director of the National “Privacy and Innovation” strategic planning and Law Schools’ Section on annual “Advancing Futures Association at the Innovation Law operational review Africa (January 2014). Good Governance and elected for the first Beyond IP Conference processes, Boulder, in International time to the Association’s at Yale Law School, New Colorado (April 2014). Scholarly Presentations Development” seminar, Executive Committee. Haven, Connecticut Spoke as a panelist at sponsored by Camfed The National Futures (March 2014). Projects a plenary session titled (Campaign for Female Association is the Joined New York “Nelson Mandela, Education), Oxford, futures and derivatives Governor Andrew Law and the Quest for and Linklaters, Oxford, industry’s self-regulatory Cuomo at the State’s first Equality,” at the Law and England (June 2014).

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 21 organization, similar to Hall University School of Discussion Group, New he trained Palestinian Jeffrey J. Haas the Financial Industry Law faculty on lawyering York Law School (March public defenders and law Regulatory Authority pedagogy (with D. 2014). students, spearheaded (FINRA) for securities Gewirtzman), Newark, program assessment of Delivered a talk titled firms. (March 2014) New Jersey (May 2014). a pilot criminal defense “Law and Theater: The clinic at the University of Craft of Law Teaching,” at Scholarly Presentations Publications Hebron, and assisted in LegalEd’s “Igniting Law efforts to create criminal Moderated a panel on Empathy and Reasoning Teaching” conference defense clinical programs “International & Cross in Context: Thinking at American University at Arab American Border Payments,” at the about Anti-Gay Bullying, Washington College of University in Jenin and American Conference 23 Tulane Journal of Law, Washington, D.C. Appointments the Institute of Law at Institute’s Derivatives Law & Sexuality 61 (March 2014). Elected unanimously as Transactions Conference, (April 2014). Birzeit University in Chairman of the Board Washington, D.C. Ramallah. These were “Baton Bullying”: Publications of Trustees for American (January 2014). the first criminal defense Understanding Multi- The Seussian Dead Hand, Independence Funds Trust clinical programs in Delivered a lecture to Aggressor Rotation in Volume 58(3) of the New and Trust II (February 2014). the West Bank (April the National Futures Anti-Harassment Cases, York Law School Law 2014). Association’s Compliance Vol. 70, Number 3 of the Review (April 2014). Scholarly Presentations Department on how asset National Lawyers Participated as a panelist managers are regulated Guild Review (February Media References and Brandt Goldstein in BoardIQ’s March (January 2014). 2014). Appearances webcast, presented by His article, Lower Court The Financial Times Publications Projects Constitutionalism, (March 2014). Treatise: Regulation of Conducted an published in American Derivative Financial afternoon-long training University Law Kim Hawkins Instruments (Swaps, in alternative dispute Review (March 2012), Options and Futures) resolution techniques received a positive review (West Academic 2014) for more than 60 from Professor Stephen (with J. Markham). administrators and Wasby on Lawcourts, attorneys in the Employee the listserv for the Law Scholarly Presentations Media References and Benefits Security and Courts chapter of Speaker, “Storming Appearances Administration (EBSA) the American Political the Court: Twenty Lame Duck Bernanke at the U.S. Department of Science Association. Since Years After,” Howard Presides at Final Meeting, Labor (March 2014). its publication last year, University School of the article has been cited The Street (January Law, Washington, D.C. Scholarly Presentations 2014). in the California Law The event consisted of a Doni Gewirtzman Presented “What Law Review, the Columbia dialogue between Howard Professors Need to Know Law Review, the Ohio law students and the Kris Franklin about Visual Literacy,” at State Law Journal, real-life cast of characters the inaugural LegalED and the Yale Law from his book Storming , conference titled Journal Online, among the Court: How a “Igniting Law Teaching,” other places (January Band of Yale Law at American University 2014). Students Sued the Washington College of President—and Won Law, Washington, D.C. (Scribner, 2005) (January Mercer Givhan (April 2014). 2014). Scholarly Presentations Facilitated a four- Publications Mariana Hogan Appointments hour workshop for 10 Fears and Tears: members of the Seton Voted 2014 Chair- Halfpipe Bobsled and Hall University School of elect of the Section on Other Olympic Sports Law faculty on lawyering Teaching Methods at the NBC Would Love, pedagogy (with K. Association of American Huffington Post Franklin), Newark, New Law Schools’ Annual (February 2014). Meeting (January 2014). Jersey (May 2014). Appointments Presented “Narrative Selected as a fellow Scholarly Presentations Theory in the Classroom,” with the International Facilitated a four- for the NYLS Initiative Scholarly Presentations Legal Foundation in the hour workshop for 10 for Excellence in Law West Bank. During the Taught Fact Investigation members of the Seton Teaching’s Pedagogy one-month fellowship, to attorneys in the Social

22 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 Security Administration Publications Arthur S. Leonard 2014 (Tribeca Square Law Library Association (May 2014). Conservation Easements Press, 2014). of Greater New York’s 75th Annual Education Taught Deposition Skills and the Development of Media References and Conference, held at New to attorneys at Hogan New Energies: Fracking, Appearances York University School of Lovells; Covington & Wind Turbines, and Solar Law, New York (January Burling LLP; and Baker Collection, 3 Louisiana RIT’s Cary Collection 2014). Botts (Spring 2014). State University a Rochester Gem, Journal of Energy Democrat & Publications Media References and Law and Resources 1 Chronicle (February Appearances (forthcoming). The article 2014). Tablets and Mobile Device will be published as part Publications Management, Featured in a video, chapter in of a symposium issue (May Law Librarianship in “Summer Associate As contributing writer, Howard S. Meyers 2014). the Digital Age (E. Programs Are Extended published many articles in Kroski, ed., Scarecrow Interviews,” produced Gay City News (Spring Press, 2014). by alumnus Lee Pacchia William P. LaPiana 2014). ’06 and his production Media References and company, Mimesis Rudolph J.R. Peritz Productions (June 2014). Appearances Gay Marriage Rulings Could Ripple Across the Dan Hunter South, Time magazine (February 2014). Publications Interviewed twice on Replays Haven’t Made The Gist: The Baseball Any Better— Scholarly Presentations Michael Signorile Letters to the Editor, The Presenter, “New York’s Show, on the topic of Wall Street Journal New Estate Tax,” marriage equality in Utah (May 2014). Publications Richmond County and Virginia (January Co-Editor, TRIPS Surrogate’s Court 2014). Media References and and Developing Media References and Committee (May 2014). Justices’ Halt to Gay Appearances Countries: Towards a New IP World Order? Appearances Presenter, “Planning Marriage Leaves Utah Law School Clinic Wins (Edward Elgar Publishing, How Luxury Culture for Same-Sex Married Couples in Limbo, The Annuity Arbitration for 2014). Will Shape the Couples Living in a Non- New York Times Public Customer, Broke Law, Managing Recognition State,” 54th (January 2014). and Broker (May 2014). Media References and Intellectual ICLE Estate Planning The Growing Impact Appearances Property (May 2014). Institute (sponsored by of the Supreme Court’s William R. Mills the State Bar of Michigan) Something to Read: How the Rules of Social Gay-Marriage Ruling, The Acme, Michigan (May Four New IP Titles, The Games Are Creeping New Yorker (January 2014). IPKat (March 2014). Into the Real World, 2014). Killscreendaily.com Publications (May 2014). Michael L. Perlin The Geography of Jethro K. Lieberman Marriage, Bloomberg Gerald Korngold BNA (January 2014). Post-Mortem Planning, Chapter 5 in New York Scholarly Presentations University 72nd Gave a presentation on the Institute on Federal topic of tablets and mobile Taxation (LexisNexis, device management at Ark 2014). Group’s “Best Practices & Appointments Publications Management Strategies Service for Law Firm Library, Elected Co-Chair of Fight the Hypo: Continuing member Research & Information the American Society Scholarly Presentations Fake Arguments, of the Office of Court Services” conference, New of International Law’s Trolleyology, Participated in “Land and Administration’s York (February 2014). Disability Rights Interest and the Limits of the City: The 9th Annual Surrogate’s Court Group (April 2014). Hypotheticals, a print Featured speaker, Land Policy Conference,” Advisory Committee. edition of his Inaugural “Empowering Librarians presented by the Lincoln Publications Institute, Cambridge, Martin Professor Lecture, with iPads and Other “You that Hide Behind Massachusetts (June 2014). delivered on April 26, Mobile Devices,” at the Walls”: The Relationship

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 23 between the Convention moving papers) “gave Sadiq Reza with Chevron, Reuters Houman B. Shadab on the Rights of Persons interviews to the media (May 2014). with Disabilities and and started to write Terror Case Has Lawyer the Convention Against complaints to different with Several Distinctions, Torture and the Treatment bodies to ‘restore justice’” The New York Times of Institutionalized in Kazakhstan (2014). (February 2014). Forensic Patients, chapter in Torture and Ill- Edward A. Purcell Jr. Treatment in Health- Ross Sandler Care Settings: Reflections on the Publications Scholarly Presentations Special Rapporteur Due Process in Islamic Participated in a panel on Torture’s 2013 Criminal Law, 46 discussion, “Fraud-Free Thematic Report 195 George Washington Aid 2014—Closing (American University International Law the Loop on Citizens’ Center on Humanitarian Review 1 (2013). Expectations,” at Oxford Law ed., 2013) (with M. University for the third Schriver). Citations annual “Advancing Publications “Wisdom Is Thrown Cited in a D.C. Circuit Media References and Good Governance Semi-Wonderful Town, into Jail”: Using opinion, ACLU v. U.S. Appearances in International Semi-Wonderful State: Therapeutic Jurisprudence Dep’t of Justice, is his 2005 De Blasio Needs to Development” seminar, Bill Nelson’s New York, to Remediate the article on withholding the Find Carriage-Horse sponsored by Camfed 89 Chicago-Kent Law Criminalization of Persons names of criminal arrestees Compromise, Newsday (Campaign for Female Review 1085 (2014). with Mental Illness and suspects absent (April 2014). Education), Oxford, (The Criminalization of National League of a finding of probable and Linklaters, Oxford, Mental Illness: Turning Cities: Judicial Decision- cause of guilt, on privacy England (June 2014). David Schoenbrod making and the Nature of Patients into Inmates), grounds (May 2014). Moderator, “Insider Constitutional Federalism, 17 Michigan State Trading 2.0: A New 91 Denver University University Journal Initiative to Crack Down Law Review Online Rebecca Roiphe of Medicine and Law on Predatory Practices,” 179 (2014). 291 (2013). hosted by the Center for “Yonder Stands Your Business and Financial Projects Orphan with His Gun”: Law and the Center for Advisory Board, Supreme The International Human New York City Law, New Court Historical Society Rights and Therapeutic York Law School (March and Federal Judicial Jurisprudence Implications Publications 2014). Center, for Peter Charles of Juvenile Punishment Hoffer, William James American Voters Deserve Schemes (Juvenile Justice Media References and Hoffer, and N.E.H. Hull, Credit for Civil-Rights and Offending) 46 Texas Appearances The Federal Courts: Media References and Victories, Too, National Tech Law Review 301 Should We Regulate An Essential History Appearances Journal (July 2014). (2013). Bitcoin?, Marginal (forthcoming, 2015). Featured in a video A Small Step (Cough) Revolution (April produced by alumnus Projects Advisor, Federal Judicial for Clean Air, The Hill 2014). Lee Pacchia ’06 and his Center, for Daniel S. Holt, (June 2014). At the request of production company, Featured in videos ed., Debates on the the American Bar Mimesis Productions produced by alumnus Federal Judiciary: Media References and Association’s Center on on challenges facing law Lee Pacchia ’06 and his A Documentary Appearances Human Rights’ Justice schools (May 2014). production company, History, 1875–1939, Schoenbrod: SCOTUS Defenders Program, Mimesis Productions, Vol. 2 (2013). Patton Boggs Firm Ruling Helps EPA Deal filed a declaration with about the bitcoin Defends Role Reversal in with a “Stupid Statute,” JD the High Court of economy, derivatives Media References and Chevron Pollution Case, Supra (May 2014). Kazakhstan in the case of regulation, and start-up Appearances Reuters & The Globe Zinaida Mukhortova v. Featured in videos culture. (April, August and Mail (May 2014). Republic of Kazakhstan, Opportunities for Law’s produced by alumnus 2014). involving the involuntary Intellectual History: The Law Firm Squire Sanders Lee Pacchia ’06 and his Silk Road Shows the psychiatric commitment Baldy Center Conference, Suspends Merger Vote with production company, Flaws of the Laws, Simple of a newspaper reporter/ Legal History Blog Patton Boggs: Reports, Mimesis Productions Justice (March 2014). attorney who was (February 2014). Reuters (May 2014). on the Clean Air Act institutionalized because (February, May 2014). Ecuadoreans Try to Block she (quoting from the Patton Boggs Settlement

24 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 Jacob S. Sherkow and visual culture and that ensue when mass Spoke at opening Lynn Boepple Su presented as part of an media run with a story Plenary Session, “Can international conference even before the real trial They Do That? The titled: “Law and the begins. (A docudrama NSA, Privacy and the Visual—Transitions & about the Smart case Fourth Amendment Transformations” (July played on TV just two Issues,” Seventh Circuit 2014). days before jury selection) Judicial Conference (August 2014). (co-panelists were Cindy Appointments Cohn, Legal Director of Visiting Fulbright Chair the Electronic Frontier Nadine Strossen Scholarly Presentations in Law and Literature at Foundation, University Appointments Panelist at Stanford McGill’s Institute for the of Chicago Law Professor Appointed Co-Chair School of Medicine’s Public Life of Art and Geoffrey Stone, and of the Legal Writing Conversation on Personal Ideas (Spring 2014). Berkeley Law Professor Institute’s Clinical Genomics, Stanford, John Yoo), Chicago, Cooperation Committee California (June 2014). Scholarly Presentations Illinois (May 2014). (May 2014). Presented a lecture on Spoke at opening Appointed to serve Publications “Virtual and Actual Plenary Session of on the Mock Trial Performance: Film, Myriad Stands the Annual Federalist and Publications Theater, and Social Alone, Nature Scholarly Presentations Society National Student Subcommittees for the Biotechnology (July Media,” at the Institute Symposium in a debate Debater, Intelligence New York State Bar 2014). for the Public Life of about “Government Squared Debate: Association’s Committee Arts and Ideas, McGill Secrecy, Leaks and Preliminary Injunctions “Individuals and on Law, Youth and University (February Whistleblowers.” This was Post-Mayo and Myriad, Organizations Have a Citizenship (April 2014). 2014) and a paper on originally scheduled as a Stanford Law Review Constitutional Right “Law in the Flesh,” at debate against Michael Named to the Outreach Online (May 2014). to Unlimited Spending an interdisciplinary Mukasey, former U.S. Committee of the on Their Own Political roundtable at McGill Attorney General under Association of American Media References and Speech” (other debaters University, Montreal, President George W. Law Schools’ Section on Appearances were First Amendment Quebec, Canada (April Bush, but at the last Legal Writing, Reasoning, Elon Musk Opens attorney Floyd Abrams, 2014). minute, the debater was and Research (February Up Tesla Patents NYU Law School changed to Roger Pilon, 2014). to Everyone, L.A. Professor Burt Neuborne, Publications Director of the Cato Times (June 2014). and Fordham Law Law in the Flesh: Tracing Institute’s Constitutional Scholarly Presentations School Professor Zephyr The Mammoth Cometh, Legitimation’s Origin Policy Center. Gainesville, Represented NYLS Teachout), live at National The New York Times to ‘The Act of Killing,’” Florida (March 2014). and the Legal Practice Constitution Center, (February 2014). No Foundations: An Program at the Ninth Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spoke at Century Interdisciplinary Annual Global Legal (broadcast over National Association program Journal of Law and Skills Conference Richard K. Sherwin Public Radio) (June about “Church and State Justice No. 11 (June held at the Collegio 2014). in a Time of Politically 2014). di Giurisprudenza at Ambitious Christian Debate, sponsored by the Universita degli Fundamentalism: Literary, Media References and the Federalist Society, Studi di Verona. Legal and Religious Appearances New York City Lawyers Presented “Demystifying Perspectives.” (Co- Chapter, on “Construing the American Law Appeared as the lead panelists were James the Constitution: Should School Classroom for commentator in Jeremiah Kowalski, Dean of the it be Considered as International LL.M. Zagar’s new documentary Cathedral of St. John the Unchanging?” against Students: Oral Reporting film, Captivated: The Divine, and Fred Rich, Gerald Walpin, author of on Legal Research,” Trials of Pamela Smart. author of a dystopian Awards and Recognition The Supreme Court Verona, Italy (May 2014). Smart’s trial, the first to be novel about “Religious Received a Canada vs. The Constitution televised gavel-to-gavel, Right” takeover of the Presented “Using Fulbright award for spring (Significance Press, told the story of a high U.S.) New York Law Live, Recorded Client 2014, and a fellowship 2013). Moderated by the school teacher (played School (January 2014). Interviews to Teach Fact- award to serve as a by Nicole Kidman in To Honorable Loretta Preska, Gathering and Narrative,” Research Scholar at the Die For) who seduced a Chief Judge, U.S. District at the Southeastern Humanities Research student and convinced Court for the Southern Regional Legal Writing Centre, Australian him to kill her husband. District of New York, New Conference hosted by National University, The case/film offers an York City (June 2014). Stetson University College Canberra, Australia. Gave excellent illustration of Law, Gulfport, Florida a series of talks on law of the complications (April 2014).

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 25 Ruti G. Teitel Publications were approximately 50 Projects Citations Globalizing lawyers and many non- Began serving as the Her 2009 publication, Transitional Justice lawyers. In his remarks and Privacy Expert for About. Restoring the Right (Oxford University Press, in answering questions com, a ubiquitous news to Vote (Brennan May 2014). during and after the panel, and reference website, Center for Justice), was he spoke about the work to create and manage quoted at length in a Does Humanity Law he is doing at NYLS, its content on privacy. recent opinion by the Require (or Imply) a partnering with students Will work with several Iowa Supreme Court. The Progressive Theory of and local nonprofits to NYLS students to write opinion, History? (And Other Chiodo v. Section address the problem of short general-audience , No. 14-0553, Questions for Martti 43.24 Panel Appointments bullying and cyberbullying essays that explain 2014 WL 1464786 (Iowa Koskenniemi), Temple (July 2014). complex legal concepts April 15, 2014), limits Joined Columbia International & in an understandable and the meaning of “infamous University’s School Comparative Law Gave a lecture titled readable manner (March crime” under the Iowa of International and Journal (with R. “Intellectual Property for 2014). constitution, thereby Public Affairs as Adjunct Howse) (April 2014). Business Management,” Research Scholar to master’s degree reducing the number of crimes that result in the (February 2014). students and faculty in Erika L. Wood Ari Ezra Waldman New York University’s loss of the right to vote in Scholarly Presentations Graphic Communications the state (April 2014). Contributed to a Management and roundtable on the Technology program, and Michelle Zierler international rule of law selected undergraduates hosted by Cambridge majoring in business, University Press. Her marketing, and related contribution can be fields (April 2014). found in the spring 2014 issue of Ethics Publications Scholarly Presentations & International Awards and Recognition Presumptive Criminals: Delivered the keynote Affairs (March 2014). Received his Masters U.S. Criminal Law lecture at MetLife’s Law of Philosophy from and HIV-Related Speaker at the 2014 Day titled “American Columbia University in Aggravated Assaults, in International Studies Democracy and the Rule Media References and anticipation of receiving Handbook of LGBT Association meeting, first of Law: Why Every Vote Appearances a Ph.D. next year (May Communities, Crime, at a roundtable discussion Matters,” (May 2014). Ask The Experts: The 2014). and Justice (Dana on “Intergenerational Economics of Oscar Peterson and Vanessa R. Invited to present Global Ethics,” and next at Season, Wallet Hub Scholarly Presentations Panfil, eds.) (February “Borrowing from the a panel discussion titled, (February 2014). • “Security in Transition: Presented scholarly work 2014). Skills Classroom to Teach Are We Adapting to the on a panel at the New York Doctrine,” at the inaugural Security Gap,” Toronto, City Law Department LegalED conference titled Ontario, Canada (March titled, “Against Bullying: “Igniting Law Teaching,” 2014). A Panel Discussion on the American University Impacts of Bullying on the Washington College of LGBT Community and in Law, Washington, D.C. the Schools.” In attendance (April 2014).

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Karen Artz Ash ’80 Berwin Cohen ’99 Publications Weinstein, Korn & Miller Media References and Projects The FDA’s New Proposed Generic New York Civil Practice: Appearances Filed an amicus brief in the Wells Drug Rule, ACS Blog (February CPLR. 2d ed. (editor and release Women Leaders in the Law 2014, Fargo Internal Revenue Code case 2014). contributor) (LexisNexis, 2004) New York Magazine (March then before the U.S. Supreme Court (Quarterly Releases). 2014). (March 2014). Media References and Weinstein, Korn & Miller Appearances CPLR Manual. 3rd ed. Crisis Handler Kenneth Feinberg (editor and release contributor) John S. Baker Jr. Heather Cucolo ’03 Hired to Guide GM Through Maze (LexisNexis, 2010) (quarterly Scholarly Presentations Scholarly Presentations of Lawsuits, Detroit Free Press releases). Spoke at a debate with Professor Panel chair, “‘Something’s (April 2014). Robert Blecker sponsored by the Happening/And You Don’t Federalist Society for Law & Public Know What It Is’: Why the Citations Robert J. Firestone ’90 Policy Studies on the topic of Marginalization of Lawyers and the Supreme Court of Florida decision, Publications whether the constitution should Law in AP-LS is Bad for AP-LS, Estate of Michelle Evette McCall v. The Resident Income Tax Credit: be ratified if the constitutional Psychology, and the Law,” at the United States (March 2014). Did Maryland Misapply the convention were held today (March American Psychology-Law Society Commerce Clause? 72 State Tax 2014). annual meeting in New Orleans Notes 523–529 (June 2, 2014). (March 2014). Lucas A. Ferrara Scholarly Presentations Steven C. Bennett Presented a paper, “Why Shaming Michael Kliegman Sex Offenders is Counterproductive Guest commentary, “Ending a Appointments Publications and Antitherapeutic,” at the Discriminatory Property-Tax Joined Park & Jensen LLP as partner Half-Baked: Attribute Carryovers Annual Meeting of the Academy Structure,” National Institute for in Manhattan (March 2014). in Slowly Liquidating Asset of Criminal Justice Sciences in Latino Policy (April 2014). Reorganizations, 54 Tax Philadelphia (February 2014) (with Media References and Management Memorandum Adele Bernhard M. Perlin). Appearances 399–407 (October 2013) (with R. Awards and Recognition Media References and Fees Charged by Brokers, Condos D. Smith). The Post-Conviction Innocence Appearances and Co-ops, The New York Tax-Free Exchanges of Debt Clinic, which she directs, won Times (May 2014). exoneration for Tyrone Hicks, a Research Review II: Sexual Instruments: Defining Securities Bronx man who served 10 years in Predator Controversies, Forensic End Property-Tax Discrimination, Under Code Sec. 354, 14(10) prison after a conviction for rape. Psychologist (February 2014). NY Real Estate Law Blog Corporate Business Taxation Monthly 35–40 (July 2013). The students discovered untested Cucolo & Perlin on Adequacy (April 2014). scrapings from beneath the victim’s of Counsel in Sexually Violent On Leasing to a Consulate or fingernails contained DNA that Predator Proceedings, CrimProf Diplomat, NY Real Estate Law Paul Bennett Marrow ’69 did not belong to Hicks—proving Blog (February 2014). Blog (April 2014). Publications he could not have committed the Tenant is Late on Rent and The “Circle of Assent” and the crime. The news was featured in the Unreachable…, NY Real Estate Mandatory Pre-Dispute Arbitration New York Post (May 2014). Karolina A. Dehnhard ’09 Media References and Law Blog (April 2014). Clause: When the Unconscionable Contract Analysis Just Won’t Do, Media References and Appearances Dispute Resolution Journal Appearances B.I.G. Livingston to Hold Meeting David L. Ferstendig (with C. Penn) (March 2014). nyls.edu/faculty Local Case Challenges Shaken- on “A Smart Woman Knows How Publications Baby Syndrome, Democrat & to protect Her Ass(ets),” The Should Counsel for a Non-Party Citations for faculty scholarship news and updates Chronicle (April 2014). Alternative Press (April 2014). Deponent be a “Potted Plant”?, Squeezing Subjectivity from the Hearing Scrutinizes Shaken 2014 N.Y.U. Journal of Doctrine of Unconscionability, nyls.edu/experts Baby Science, Democrat & Joanne Doroshow Legislation & Public Policy Cleveland State Law Review for the NYLS faculty expert video series Chronicle (April 2014). Scholarly Presentations Quorum 52–62 (June, 2014) (2005) was quoted by the Pacific (with O. Chase). DNA Test Supports Motion for Facilitated a talkback discussion Legal Foundation in an amicus brief nyls.edu/bloggers New Trial, Panel Says, New York following a performance of “Lady LexisNexis Answer Guide: filed in the Supreme Court case Law Journal (March 2014). from Limerick” at the Theater for New York Civil Litigation. Sonic-Calabasas v. Moreno (March for NYLS faculty blogs the New City in the East Village 2014 ed. (LexisNexis). 2014). The People v. Hicks, 2592/98, New (April 2014). York Law Journal (March 2014).

FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS 27 Deborah McNamara Zvi S. Rosen Why We Need a Right to Counsel Eva Talel Publications Publications in Civil Matters Where Basic Publications Legalities of the Runway, Chapter 9 Discharging Fiduciary Debts, 87 Human Needs Are at Stake Nonresidential Use—Can in American Bar Association’s American Bankruptcy Law (Transcript of the symposium Enforcement of Restrictions Legal Guide to Fashion Journal 51–87 (2013). Winner at which he served as moderator Be Waived?, New York Law Design at 115–39 (D.H. Faux, of Otto L. Walter Distinguished and panelist on the topic of: Journal (March 2014) (with R. ed. American Bar Association, Writing Award for Adjunct Faculty “The Case for a Civil Right to Seigler). September 2013). Article (May 2004). Counsel: A Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Gideon v. Media References and Wainwright”), 64 Syracuse Law Appearances Dennis Parker Mitchell Rubinstein Review 369–390 (2014). Ratner Hails Role of Managers in Media References and Citations Market, Real Estate Weekly Appearances NYS Court of Appeals, Palladino v. The Richmond Plan: Using Eminent (March 2014). Celebrating Brown, Confronting Its CNY Centro (April 2014). Domain to Keep People in Their Challenging Legacy, Diverse (May Homes, 17(2) Urban Magazine Residential Managers Take Center 2014). 25–26 (Columbia Graduate School Stage at REBNY’s 16th Annual Andrew Scherer of Architecture, Planning and Leadership Awards Event, REBNY Publications Preservation, 2014). (February 2014). Samantha C. Pownall ’11 Residential Landlord- War Crimes Tribunals, Mass Publications Tenant Law in New York Atrocities and the Role of Peter J. Strauss A, B, C, D, STPP: How School (West Practice Guide, Humanity’s Law in Transitional Appointments Discipline Feeds the School- 2013–14 ed.) (Thomson-Reuters) Justice, The International to-Prison Pipeline (New York (Annual Updates). Elected as a fellow of American Journal of Transitional Civil Liberties Union, October College of Trust and Estate Counsel Toward Justice for All: Justice (February 2014). 2013). (ACTEC) (February 2014). Report of Civil Legal Justice Coalition to the Media References and Lis Wiehl Pennsylvania State Judiciary Sherry Ramsey ’98 Appearances Media References and (Pennsylvania State Judiciary, April Publications Appearances 2014). The Power of the Personal Story in The Implications and Risks of Talking about Aging, Elder Law Warren County Public Library to Animal Cruelty, and How the Land Rights and Mine Action Prof Blog (February 2014). Host Author/Legal Analyst Lis Criminal Justice Community Can in Myanmar. Do No Harm: Wiehl, Surfky (January 2014). • Help, Consider the Evidence Proposals for a Set of Eight (United States Department of Core Principles and a 14-Step Justice—Office of Justice Programs Sequencing Process for Land Diagnostic Center, July 2013). Rights Sensitive Mine Survey and Clearance in Myanmar (Displacement Solutions, January, 2014) (with S. Leckie & G. Myint).

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28 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 New York Law School

We Help Recruit are the Next New Generation of York’s NYLS Students

Law A s a New York Law School graduate, you School know what an extraordinary education we provide and what a remarkable community we have fostered. Here’s your chance to Since 1891 have a hand in the Law School’s future. The Office ofA dmissions is looking for alumni to recruit prospective students for future classes. If you know of college students, recent college graduates, or working professionals who you think would be a good fit for NYLS, please encourage them to apply and let us know who they are.

We are looking for candidates for our full-time day, part-time evening, and new two-year accelerated honors program.

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29 Commencement 2014

30 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 On May 19, New York Law School returned to Carnegie Hall, the site of its first graduation ceremony in 1892, for its 122nd Commencement Exercises. Steven Banks, a renowned public interest lawyer, and recently appointed New York City Commissioner, addressed the graduates. He also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in recognition of his long career in legal advocacy, including 33 years with The Legal Aid Society. In addition, the President’s Medal went to Trustee Kathleen Grimm ’80, Deputy Chancellor of Operations at the New York City Department of Education, in recognition of her leadership, service to the Law School, and outstanding accomplishments and influence in the fields of law and education. The Law School graduated 433 candidates for the Juris Doctor (J.D.) and 74 candidates for the Master of Laws (LL.M.). •

COMMENCEMENT 31 Reunion and Alumni Weekend 2014 April 26-27, 2014 New York Law School welcomed back nearly 200 alumni at its annual Alumni Weekend held on Saturday April 26, and Sunday April 27, 2014. The weekend celebration began with the Dean’s Cocktail Party at one of New York’s most iconic locations, Battery Gardens, where we celebrated what makes New York Law School great—you! Photographers were on hand to commemorate the occasion with class photos. Saturday’s events kicked off with an overview of existing immigration law and a discussion of the proposals for reform, presented by Professor Lenni Benson and Sophie Raven ’04, followed by the NYLS Alumni Association Annual Meeting, which featured the election of officers and directors for terms beginning July 1, 2014. Then, Professor Jethro K. Lieberman celebrated his appointment as Martin Professor of Law with a special lecture, followed by a Reunion Brunch in his honor. The afternoon brought a choice of tours: the recently dedicated Honorable Roger J. Miner ’56 Reading Room in the Mendik Library, which houses all of the judge’s archives and memorabilia from his time on the bench; the impressive art collection generously donated by our alumni, including one of the world’s largest collections of artist Emilio Sanchez’s work, hosted by Linda Sosnowitz ’73; and the National September 11 Memorial, led by Dean Crowell. In the evening we celebrated Homecoming and the fifth anniversary of our state-of-the- art new building, enjoying the one-of-a-kind views of New York City from our fifth floor terrace, and gambling for great prizes at our annual casino night. Alumni events Alumni

32 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 Scholarship Benefit Dinner 2014 April 7, 2014 Trustees, alumni, faculty, students and friends gathered at Tribeca’s legendary Odeon for New York Law School’s first annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner. Hosted by Marc Lasry ’84, it was a wonderful evening celebrating New York Law School’s tradition of giving back to help the next generation achieve academic and career success. Over $400,000 in critical scholarship funds—far exceeding the minimum goal—was raised! We plan to make this an annual tradition that will grow in attendance and impact as we approach our 125th anniversary in 2016.

Spotlight on Entrepreneurship Luncheon April 29, 2014 Students, faculty, and alumni gathered over lunch to network and attend a panel discussion on entrepreneurship at the Second Floor Events Center. The panel of distinguished alumni included NYLS Trustee Dr. Vincent Carbonell ’00, founder and president of United Reprographic Services; Christopher Coco ’96, partner at Public House Investments, which operates over a dozen restaurants including Butterfield 8 in New York City and Public House at the Luxor Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas; and Bray Kelly ’97, founder and managing director of JBK Capital, LLC. All three reminisced about their days at New York Law School and how valuable they found their legal education to be when starting up their own successful business enterprises. Alumni events

Scholarship Donor Reception 2014 April 30, 2014 Members of the Law School community mingled over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the Steifel Reading Room to celebrate our student scholars and the benefactors whose generosity is helping to make their Law School education possible. One of the highlights was the chance to hear donor Steven R. Harber ’92 and his scholarship recipient describe their experiences from the perspectives of donor and scholar. If you would like to establish or make a contribution to a scholarship, please contact Tara Tomlinson, Assistant Vice President of Development, at 212.431.2808 or [email protected].

ALUMNI EVENTS 33 Meet Elizabeth Dambriunas ’85, Associate Director for Alumni Advising

Ms. Dambriunas answered a short Q&A on her work with alumni: QWhat range of career services do you provide to alumni? I provide a wide range of career counseling services, from résumé review and cover letter assistance to help with exploring and clarifying a practice area or career path, developing an effective job search strategy, establishing and expanding a professional network (including connecting with other alumni), and preparing and practicing for interviews.

QWhat are some of the most frequently asked questions you get from alumni?

One of the most frequently asked questions is how to request an informational interview: An alum has the name of a fellow alum or an attorney he or she wants to meet, either for career advice or for a potential job opportunity, and doesn’t know how to initiate that contact. I can help the alum craft the right message to put him or her in the best position for a positive response. Another question that comes up a lot is how to answer those unexpected or awkward interview questions, such as “What would you say is your biggest weakness?” We can help our alumni avoid the pitfalls of such a question, and show their strength and self-awareness by identifying a professional challenge and how they conquered it. Elizabeth Dambriunas ’85 is the new Associate Director for Alumni Advising in the Office of Do you have any general words of advice for recent Qgraduates in the job market? Career Planning at NYLS. She provides counseling, programming, First, make sure your documents are in top shape—your résumé, cover and resources to NYLS’s recent letter, even your e-mail—to request an informational interview. That way graduates, assisting them in making you’re ready to move quickly when an opportunity arises. Second, make a the transition from law school to list of all of your contacts and plan out how you will approach them for help practice. Ms. Dambriunas has an with your job search. Third, don’t spend all day on your laptop job searching— extensive background in intellectual remember to get out there and talk with other lawyers. Fourth, identify property and entertainment law professional associations through which you can gain even more contacts and spent many years as in-house and experience. Finally and most importantly, make an appointment to see counsel for Warner Bros., Paramount me, so that I can add my efforts to yours! Pictures, Nickelodeon, and Viacom before opening her own transactional practice. Prior to joining the NYLS QIs there anything more you’d like alumni to know about Office of Career Planning, she served what the Office of Career Planning can offer them? as an alumni mentor, IP mentor, faculty externship supervisor, and We offer career counseling to all alumni, not just recent graduates. We have a great team of counselors here with a wealth of expertise and experience adjunct professor. She is also a in many different practice areas. We also have a great network of alumni to member of the Career Advancement turn to, and it’s especially rewarding when we can connect graduates who and Management Committee of the are job searching with experienced alumni in their desired practice areas for New York City Bar Association. any advice and help the alumni can provide. •

34 New York Law school magazine • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 By Ruth Singleton P ierre Ciric ’09 Makes Headlines as He Seeks to Recover an Impressionist Painting Stolen by the Nazis

Oklahoma House of Representatives’ Committee on Government Modernization and Accountability about the painting’s provenance. In his testimony, Ciric presented the specifics of how the painting had changed hands, including its theft by the Nazis on February 22, 1941, from a bank safe where Raoul Meyer had placed it. Their testimony received national press coverage, and in an interview, Ciric said he was “totally surprised by the publicity” the case has generated. He attributes it in part to the movie The Monuments Men, which came out in February 2014 and drew national attention to the systematic plunder of artworks from Jews by the Nazis in Europe.

On the day before their testimony, Raphael Meyer went to the museum to see the painting. Said Ciric, “It was very emotional for him—more than he expected as a second-generation family member.” Ciric explained that Raoul Meyer and his wife adopted Léone after World War II—as her birth family had died at Auschwitz.

Like his client, Ciric is French. He received an M.B.A. from a leading French business school and has been working in the United States for the past 25 years, most notably in the pharmaceutical industry. Ciric When Pierre Ciric ’09 was working in the finance attributes his decision to go to law school to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, department for pharmaceutical company Sanofi- the statute enacted in 2002 in response to corporate and accounting fraud at Enron and other companies, which requires top management Aventis and attending New York Law School as to individually certify the accuracy of financial information. “When an evening student, he could scarcely envision Sarbanes-Oxley came in, I spent all my time with lawyers. That’s when I realized, I can do this.” that in a few short years he would be testifying before the Oklahoma Legislature about an Ciric graduated summa cum laude from the Law School, where he was Notes Editor of the New York Law School Law Review. After working impressionist painting stolen by the Nazi at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice and at the law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP, he decided to start his own firm, which government in the 1940s. After all, he is not an focuses on commercial litigation services for businesses, nonprofit impressionist art expert by any means. But a law organizations, and individuals. Ciric came to represent Léone Meyer, degree from NYLS can lead to many unexpected through her son, Raphael. He observed that what is needed in such cases is not an art background, but strong investigative skills and a opportunities. deep understanding of the client’s needs.

Ciric represents Léone Meyer, a French woman whose adopted Ciric filed the lawsuit in May 2013 in the Southern District of New father, Raoul Meyer, was the owner of an extensive art collection, York. After the court ruled it to be an improper venue, he refiled the most notably a Camille Pissarro painting, “La Bergère rentrant des case in Oklahoma. He emphasizes that U.S. law differs from that of moutons” (“Shepherdess bringing in sheep”). The Nazi occupation European countries, such as Switzerland, where a plaintiff must prove forces in France confiscated Raoul Meyer’s art collection, including bad faith on the part of a purchaser in order to prevail. “Bad title is the 1886 Pissarro painting, in 1941. Unbeknownst to the Meyers, the issue in the U.S.,” he said. As he testified before the Oklahoma the painting entered the United States in 1956 through the David House of Representatives, “the original owner retains title to the Findlay Galleries, which sold it to Aaron and Clara Weitzenhoffer. stolen object. It does not matter if a subsequent purchaser did not In 2000, Clara Weitzenhoffer included the painting in a bequest to know the object was previously stolen.” The Oklahoma legislature the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. introduced a resolution demanding a return of the painting to Ms. And that is where the painting remains displayed today. University Meyer, but that resolution is nonbinding. officials have refused to relinquish it, taking the position that there are unresolved questions about its history. Ciric said that recovering the painting is a personal quest for Léone Meyer, and her whole family is united behind it. “She lost her birth In May 2014, Ciric, along with his client’s son, Raphael Meyer, and family to Auschwitz, and her adopted parents lost the art,” he said. art provenance research expert Marc Masurovsky, testified before the “They don’t want money; they just want the painting returned.” •

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36 NNewew York Law schschooool magazmagaziinene • 2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 2 Alumni Serving in the de Blasio Administration Since Bill de Blasio took office as Mayor of New York City at the beginning of 2014, a number of New York Law School alumni have joined his administration. In March, Darren Bloch ’04 left his position as Vice President for Public Affairs at NYLS to become Executive Director of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, and as Counsel to the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Partnerships. He remains a very active part of the NYLS community and continues to serve as an adjunct professor and as a key member of the Alumni Association. In addition, Kevin Ward ’95 was in February named Chief of Staff to New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, one of the highest-ranking officers of the NYPD. He was previously commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens South with experience in Detective, Internal Affairs, and the Organized Crime Bureaus. Also serving the City is Fernando A. Bohorquez ’99, who was nominated by Mayor de Blasio to the Conflicts of Interest Board in February 2014, and took a seat on the board in March. He is a partner at BakerHostetler in Manhattan who focuses his practice on commercial bankruptcy litigation, intellectual property disputes, and white-collar investigations. Class Notes of a new court show, Hot Bench, of the New York State Supreme   which premiered in fall 2014. She   Court by Governor Andrew M. 1950 is a family court judge and star of 1969 Cuomo in January 2014. This Maurice R. Greenberg was ranked the reality courtroom show Judge Myron Shapiro has been news appeared in several media No. 1 in Crain’s New York Business’ Judy. selected to serve on the Eleventh outlets, including The Brooklyn list of “Most Connected New Judicial Circuit Committee’s Daily Eagle, New York Law Journal, Yorkers,” published in June 2014. Professionalism Panels. The and the Staten Island Advance. He He was also featured in The New   panels’ members are charged with was also featured in “Island Out: York Times article, “C.V. Starr and 1967 receiving, screening, and acting Staten Island dad and daughter, Partner Buy Health Care Concern upon complaints of unprofessional Joseph and Julie Ann Maltese, earn E dward R. Zuccaro was elected in a $4.4 Billion Deal,” in February conduct by attorneys practicing simultaneous doctorates,” in the to the expanded board of directors 2014. He is the Chairman and within the Circuit. He is a partner Staten Island Advance in June 2014. for the Campaign for Vermont in Chief Executive Officer of C.V. at Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell in January 2014. He is a shareholder Starr & Co. Inc. in Manhattan. Miami, where he has practiced civil at Zuccaro, Willis and Sipples, P.C litigation lawyer for more than 35 in Burlington, Vermont.   years, and has been lead counsel 1975 in more than 50 complex product Daniel G.   liability trials. 1965   McDermott, a Hon. Judith B. Sheindlin was 1968 shareholder and featured in The New York Times the Co-Chair James J. Nolan published the article, “Others Fade, but Judge of the Maritime second edition of his manual Judy Is Forever: At 71, She Still   Litigation for the training of international Presides,” in May 2014 and “‘Judge 1973 Practice interpreters, Interpretation Judy’ continues to rule in ratings” Hon. Joseph J. Maltese was named Group in the Techniques and Exercises, in spring in Entertainment Weekly in Associate Justice of the Appellate Manhattan office 2014. He is a senior United February 2014. She is the creator Division, Second Department, of Marshall Dennehey Nations linguist. Warner Coleman & Goggin, P.C.,

CLASS NOTES 37 Classhas been named a Fellow of the Christina M. Employment Laws?” in July Notes Litigation Counsel of America Storm received 2014. He is the office managing   (LCA). The LCA is a trial lawyer the Connecticut shareholder and litigation manager 1980 honorary society composed of Bar Association’s of the Stamford, Connecticut, Charles W. Chiampou was less than one-half of 1 percent Citizen of the office of Jackson Lewis P.C. named to the Board of Trustees of American lawyers. Fellows are Law award in of Niagara University in February selected based upon excellence March 2014. 2014. He is a partner at Chiampou and accomplishment in litigation She is a partner at   Travis Besaw & Kershner LLP in and superior ethical reputation. Byrne & Storm, P.C. 1979 Amherst, New York. McDermott focuses his practice in in Hartford, Connecticut. the defense of marine construction Hon. Joan M. Azrack was Justin Driscoll was elected projects around the New York nominated by President Obama Executive Vice President and City Metropolitan area. His clients   to serve as a U.S. District Judge in General Counsel of the New York include general contractors, vessel 1978 the Eastern District of New York Power Authority, the statewide owners, municipalities, and various in September 2014. She has served public power utility headquartered other agencies. Marilyn Rae Baskin was a as a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the in White Plains. Before joining the winning co-plaintiff inBaskin v. Eastern District of New York since Power Authority, he was in private James P. Pagano writes that, on Bogan, a marriage equality lawsuit 1990, and she served as Chief practice for more than 30 years, June 26, 2014, he became the filed by Lambda Legal in the U.S. Magistrate Judge from 2000 to most recently as a partner in Brown 65th President of the Columbian District Court for the Southern 2005. & Weinraub PLLC in Manhattan. Lawyers Association of Queens, District of Indiana. On June 25, an organization for attorneys of Judge Richard L. Young ruled that Hon. Laura Safer Espinoza was Kathleen Grimm was honored Italian heritage. He is the principal Indiana Code Section 31-11-1-1, named a “2014 MAKER: Women with the President’s Medal at the of James Pagano, Attorney of Law which defines marriage as between Who Make Southwest Florida for 122nd New York Law School in Manhattan. one man and one woman and 2014,” by WGCU Public Media Commencement on May 21. voids marriages between same-sex in January 2014. She is Executive She is a New York Law School couples, was unconstitutional. On Director of the Fair Food Standard Trustee and Deputy Chancellor of   September 4, the U.S. Court of Council, which oversees the Fair Operations at the New York City 1976 Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Food Program, and she spoke at Department of Education. upheld the ruling, striking down the Second Annual U.N. Forum Michael A. Salberg wrote a letter marriage bans in Indiana and on Business and Human Rights in to the editor published in The New Wisconsin. On October 6, the U.S. Geneva, Switzerland, in December   York Times on February 4, 2014, Supreme Court denied a petition 2013. The Fair Food Program was 1981 in response to “Why Israel Fears for review, allowing marriage also mentioned in, “Advocates for Mark A. Conrad was quoted the Boycott.” He is Director of the equality to begin in Indiana. Workers Raise the Ire of Business,” International Affairs for the Anti- in The New York Times in January in “Doubt Lingers Over NFL Defamation League in Manhattan. Michael J. Soltis wrote several 2014. Settlement,” in The New York articles for The National Law Times in January 2014. He was Review: “Obesity, Like a Neon Stephen P. Moyer joined Grand also quoted in The New York   Green Mohawk Hairdo, Not View Hospital in Sellersville, Times article, “New Guard of 1977 an Impairment Under ADA Pennsylvania, as General Counsel Owners Could Be Key in Sterling’s (Americans with Disabilities in September 2013. Fate,” and in The Christian Hon. William F. Mastro was Act)” in February 2014; “Sixth Science Monitor in April 2014. Hon. Jonah Triebwasser has been presented with the 49th Annual Circuit Court Silences Horn in He is director of sports business named the Chair of the New York Rapallo Award by the Columbian ADA Accommodation Case— specialization at the Gabelli School State Bar Association’s Committee Lawyers Association in April Americans with Disabilities Act” of Business at Fordham University on Law, Youth & Citizenship. He 2014. The news was featured in and “Department of Justice (DOJ) in Manhattan. is the Town and Village Justice of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He is an Strikes Landmark Consent Decree Red Hook in Dutchess County, E. Christopher Johnson Jr. Associate Justice of the New York in Web, Mobile Access Case” in Ne w York . recently announced that he will State Supreme Court, Appellate March 2014; and “What is Your be leaving the full-time faculty at Division, Second Department in State’s Grade on Family Friendly Brooklyn, New York. Thomas M. Cooley Law School

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Class Notesin order to focus his life’s work on Simon S. Kogan joined the Holt, P.A. in Fort Myers, Florida, Nicholas F. Pellitta received the ending human trafficking. Johnson Cheyenne, Wyoming, office of concentrating in estate planning 2013 Hunterdon County, New now works as the reporter and Protek/Luxuriant Holdings as legal and administration, elder law, Jersey, Chamber of Commerce chief drafter of the American Bar counsel in March 2014. probate litigation, title insurance President’s Award at the Annual Association’s Business Conduct claims related to probate issues, Meeting and Dinner Dance in Standards to Eradicate Labor Barbara C. Meili was named business law, and taxation. March 2014. He is a member of Human Rights Impacts in Hiring among the 2014 “Top Dealmakers” the Bridgewater, New Jersey, law and Supply Chain Practices. He by Multichannel News in the article, Marc Lasry purchased the firm of Norris McLaughlin & is also a member of the Michigan “Legal Eagles Make Tough Deals Milwaukee Bucks basketball team Marcus, P.A. In April 2014, the Attorney General’s Commission on Fly,” in April 2014. She is chair of with Wesley Edens in April 2014. firm was selected as counsel for the Human Trafficking, and the State of the New York Entertainment and The news was covered in many Flemington Business Improvement Michigan’s Human Trafficking Task Media Practice in the Manhattan media outlets including The Wall District, and Pellitta will provide Force. Before he stepped down from office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Street Journal, NBA.com, The New legal services and guidance to the his role as LL.M. Corporate Law York Times, ESPN, Bloomberg Board of Directors. Vincent J. Viola was featured in and Finance Director at Cooley, he News, Bleacher Report, Journal “New Owner Giving Panthers was actively involved in a number Sentinel, The Modesto Bee, WSAW, Pauline C. Reich writes that she Some Hope,” in the Buffalo News of access to justice and access to law Fox 6 Now, The American Lawyer, has been a professor at Waseda in January 2014. He was also school programs, including Cooley’s and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. University School of Law in featured in “Billionaire Panthers high school and college pipeline He also hosted the “Give the Gift Tokyo, Japan, since 1995. She is Owner Takes Control of Eastern programs. of Education,” the first annual general editor of Cybercrime and Air Lines” in The Next Miami in NYLS Scholarship Benefit Dinner Security (Thomson Reuters/West), July 2014. He is the Executive in April 2014. (See also page 2.) which is updated quarterly, and Chairman of Virtu Financial and co-author/co-editor of Law Policy   owner of the Florida Panthers Philip R. West was elected and Technology: Cyberterrorism, 1982 hockey team. (See also page 2.) Chairman of Steptoe & Johnson Information Warfare and Internet Neil H. Kessner was featured LLP, which has seven U.S. offices Immobilization (IGI Global, in the Commercial Observer and three overseas offices, and 2012). She is the founder and article, “Adding Value with Neil   assumed leadership of the firm in Director of the Asia-Pacific Kessner,” in February 2014. He is 1984 January 2014. The appointment was Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Internet the Executive Vice President and covered in various media outlets Security Research Institute in E. Drew Britcher General Counsel of SL Green including The Washington Post, The Tokyo, and speaks at law and IT writes that he Realty Corp. in Manhattan. National Law Journal, Law360, conferences in Asia, the United was included Bloomberg Businessweek, and States, and Europe. She has also in New Jersey Politico. been a consultant to the United Super Lawyers Nations, and to information for 2014. The   security and other companies. 1983 news appeared   Andrew C. Kassner has been in Ridgewood- 1985 elected the next Chairman and Glen Rock Patch Chief Executive officer of Drinker and NJ.com. He is a Andrew C. McCarthy was   Biddle & Reath LLP, effective founding partner at Britcher, featured in The Washington Times 1986 February 1, 2015. He is a well- Leone & Roth, LLC in Glen Rock, article, “‘Impeach Obama’ is topic Holly Gregory joined the known restructuring lawyer who New Jersey. of new book by former federal Manhattan office of Sidley Austin has been at the firm for 28 years, prosecutor,” in May 2014. His LLP as a partner in January 2014. Eric Gurgold wrote a chapter, and led its corporate restructuring new book, Faithless Execution, She is co-head of the firm’s global “Strategies for Trusts and Estates practice group for almost 20 years. was published in June 2014 by Corporate Governance and in Florida,” published in Inside He has held several management Encounter Books. He is a senior Executive Compensation practice. the Minds by Thomson Reuters in positions with the firm, including fellow at the National Review April 2014. This news appeared a number of terms as a Managing Institute and the Foundation David N. Kelley was a guest on in Naple News and the Business Partner of the firm. for Defense of Democracies in MSNBC’s The Last Word with Observer. He is a stockholder at Manhattan. Lawrence O’Donnell in June 2014, Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & discussing with Ari Melber the

CLASS NOTES 39 Classprosecution of terror suspects in He is a co-chair of the Association’s John J. Howley writes that heNotes in January 2014. He is a partner non-military federal courts. He Supreme Court committee and was thrilled to go on stage at at Kasowitz Benson Torres & is a partner at Cahill Gordon & a partner at Borah, Goldstein, Carnegie Hall and present his Friedman LLP in Manhattan. Reindel LLP in Manhattan, where Altschuler, Nahins & Goidel, P.C. son Thomas Howley ’14 with a he focuses on white-collar defense in New York City. scroll representing his J.D. cum work. laude degree at NYLS’s 122nd   Hon. Wayne R. Keeney was commencement exercises in May 1992 Daniel J. Oates has been approved appointed Family Support 2014. He is the principal attorney as the new Chief of Police with Magistrate by Connecticut at the Law Offices of John Howley Sean T. Prosser joined Perkins the Miami Beach Department in Governor Dannel Malloy in March in Manhattan. Coie’s San Diego office as a Florida. He was featured in the 2014. This news appeared inThe partner in the White Collar & Miami Herald article, “Miami Hour, New Haven Register, Register Investigations practice in July Beach May Hire Police Chief Citizen, Greenwich Time, Stamford 2014. A former enforcement Who Oversaw Colorado Movie- Plus Magazine, CT Post, and Patch.   attorney with the U.S. Securities Theater Shootings,” in April com. 1990 and Exchange Commission (SEC), 2014. The news also appeared in Alexander D. Widell joined he has extensive experience in SEC The Denver Post, Fox 31 Denver, Gilda P. Riccardi was appointed Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP as a actions, shareholder class actions, and Miami New Times. He was to the Supreme Court, Appellate partner in the firm’s Commercial and derivative and corporate previously the Aurora, Colorado, Division, Third Judicial Litigation practice group in its control lawsuits. A litigator police chief. Department’s Committee on Garden City, New York, office in advising and defending clients Character and Fitness in April July 2014. He represents issuers, facing regulatory enforcement 2014. The news was featured in directors and officers, underwriters, investigations and proceedings,   the Daily Freeman. She is principal certified public accountants, and his private practice now includes 1987 court attorney for the Honorable other targets of litigation in federal representation of companies, chief Anthony McGinty, acting Supreme securities cases and investigations executives, directors and officers, Hon. Victoria B. Campbell Court Justice and Ulster County brought by the Securities and broker dealers, hedge funds, announced her intent to run for Family Court Judge of the Third Exchange Commission and private committees, accounting firms, and Orange County Family Court in Judicial District in Kingston, New plaintiffs, and in shareholder class public officials. Prior to joining February 2014. She is the Chief York . action and derivative litigation. Perkins Coie, he was a partner at Executive Officer of Victoria P. He was most recently at Bickel & Morrison & Foerster in San Diego. Hon. Scott Siller was featured in Campbell, P.C. and a City Court Brewer, where he was the senior “Siller Dons Robes, Takes Seat as Judge for the State of New York in ranking attorney responsible for Stewart Reifler Direct Court Judge,” in The Island Port Jervis, New York. the operations of the firm’s New co-authored The Now in January 2014. He was York City office. Compensation Steven M. Klosk was featured in inducted as Judge of the Nassau Committee the Investor Business Daily article, County District Court in January Handbook 4th “Cambrex Keeps Its Pipeline of 2014. Edition, released New Products Flowing,” in March   this year by John 2014. He is the Chief Executive 1991 Wiley & Sons Officer of Cambrex in East   Michael J. Bowe was featured on publishers. The Rutherford, New Jersey. 1989 PBS Frontline in January 2014, Handbook is a resource which focused on insider trading for compensation committees of Curtis F. Doebbler wrote, allegations at SAC Capital. He both public and private companies, “Coming to Ukraine: The represented plaintiff Fairfax and has been used by many senior   Hypocrisy of the American Financial Holdings, which sued executives, boards of directors, and 1988 Understanding of the International SAC, and the program featured their compensation committees Brian D. Graifman was featured Law,” in Jurist in March 2014. a video of his deposition of its since the first edition appeared in in the New York Law Journal in He is an international human CEO, Steve Cohen. Bowe was 2001. He is head of the Executive May 2014 for his participation in rights lawyer at the Law Office also mentioned in “Steven Cohen Compensation practice group in the New York County Lawyers’ of Dr. Curtis F. J. Doebbler in Appears Oblivious to Insider the Manhattan office of Vedder Association’s 2014 Law Day Washington, D.C. Trading Law,” in BloombergView Price P.C. Luncheon at Cipriani Wall Street.

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Class Notesbook is to be released in February Weekly in March 2014. She is Chair Returns from Deployment in   2015 by ECW Press of Toronto. of the Real Estate Practice Group Afghanistan,” in Newsday in 1993 He is a federal prosecutor in at Duval & Stachenfeld LLP in June 2014. A commander in the Charles E. Phillips was included Philadelphia. Manhattan. U.S. Navy, he was deployed in in Crain’s New York Business’ Afghanistan last July, 16 months list of “Most Connected New Jason S. Haselkorn became a Mary F. Breheney was featured in into his first term as Town Yorkers,” published in June 2014. candidate for Juno Beach Council, “Legal Late Bloomers,” in Inside Supervisor of Islip, New York. He was also listed as one of Seat 1, in March 2014. The news Counsel magazine in July 2014. Savoy Magazine’s “Top 100 Most was covered in Bloomberg Law The article focused on how she Bray B. Kelly was a featured Influential Blacks in Corporate and My Palm Beach Post. He is a attended NYLS in her late 30s and panelist at a “Spotlight on America,” in March 2014. In June, partner at Ciklin Lubitz Martens set up her elder law practice, Glenn Entrepreneurship Luncheon” at he delivered the keynote speech & O’Connell in West Palm Beach, & Breheney, PLLC, in Newburgh, New York Law School in April at Cloud Expo in New York. He Florida. New York, which serves the 2014. He is founder and Managing is Chief Executive Officer at Infor Hudson Valley. Director at JBK Capital, LLC, a Susan B. Henner’s article, “Vying in New York and a New York Law private equity and advisory firm in for Visas,” was published in the Christopher Coco was a featured School Trustee. Manhattan. Westchester County Business panelist at a “Spotlight on Steven J. Slutzky was selected by Journal in February 2014. She is Entrepreneurship Luncheon,” at Reginald A. Long Sr. spoke at The American Lawyer as one of the principal attorney at Susan B. New York Law School in April both undergraduate and graduate its “Dealmakers of the Year” and Henner, Attorney at Law, PLLC, 2014. He is a partner at Public commencement ceremonies was featured in “Steven Slutzky, which focuses on immigration law. House Investments, which operates of California University of Debevoise,” and “Can You Hear over a dozen restaurants across the Pennsylvania in May 2014. He Mojgan Lancman was nominated Me Now?”in the April 2014 issue. country. is a partner in the law firm of by the Queens Democratic He is a partner at Debevoise & Love and Long, LLP which has Party for a Queens Civil Court Richard Malagiere joined the Plimpton LLP in Manhattan. offices in Newark, New Jersey, and Judgeship, in May 2014. The news Jackson, New Jersey, office of Philadelphia. appeared in Crain’s New York Gertner, Mandel & Peslak, LLC Business and the Queens Chronicle. in February 2014 as of counsel in Jennifer A. McCool has been   She was elected in November. She its Intellectual Property Practice named Chief Legal Officer of 1994 previously served as a court referee Group. Related Companies in Manhattan. Connie J. Alimena was promoted in Queens Supreme Court. Before This news appeared inReal Estate Lance Topol joined Norcom to Regional Vice President in the that, she was a principal law clerk Weekly in May 2014. She oversees Mortgage as a wholesale account Manhattan office of Statewide under Queens Supreme Court Related’s corporate and deal-based executive in its Glen Cove, New Abstract Corp. in February 2014. Judge Roger Rosengarten. legal activities nationally and the York, office in January 2014. companies’ day-to-day compliance Stacey E. Ziskin Gabay was initiatives. featured in two Newsday articles:   one in January 2014 titled, 1995   Michael V. Solomita joined the “Gabila’s Knishes: From Humble 1997 Manhattan office of Sheppard, Beginnings to National Reach,” James H. McQuade joined the Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP Ann Schofield Bakerhas joined and one in December 2013 titled, Manhattan office of Orrick, as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Perkins Coie LLP’s New York “Knish Shortage to Linger, Says Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as Property practice group in May office as a partner in the firm’s Gabila’s.” She is Executive Vice a partner in January 2014. He 2014. The news appeared onStreet Commercial Litigation practice President, General Counsel, and specializes in employment law. Insider and Bloomberg Law. focusing on intellectual property and co-owner of Gabila’s Knishes in other complex commercial matters. Long Island.   She was most recently the head of   John Gallagher is the author of 1996 McKool Smith’s national trademark 1998 Black Ice: The Val James Story, a and copyright litigation practice. biography of the first American- Terri L. Adler was featured in Adrian G. Looney was Thomas D. Croci was featured in born black person to play in the “Adler’s an Action, Adventure interviewed by The Metropolitan “Tom Croci, Islip Town Supervisor, National Hockey League. The Kinda Lawyer,” in Real Estate Corporate Counsel in “Pfizer: A

CLASS NOTES 41 ClassFocus on Intellectual Property,” Competition in February 2014 Preethi SekharanNotes nominations, and peer evaluations. in February 2014. He is assistant and was named a Trustee of the was recently To be eligible for inclusion in general counsel at Pfizer Inc. in Somerset County Bar Foundation sworn in as the “Rising Stars,” a candidate must Manhattan. in March 2014. In July 2014, she new President be 40 years old or younger or in was named to the New Jersey Law of the Florida practice fewer than 10 years. Dawn R. Shanahan was Journal’s “New Leaders of the Bar” Association nominated to the Newark, New list. This special recognition is for for Women Dawn M. Aponte was featured in Jersey, Workers’ Compensation lawyers under the age of 40 who Lawyers, Martin the Miami Herald article, “Miami Court by New Jersey Governor are emblematic of the next wave of County Chapter. Dolphins Executive Dawn Aponte Chris Christie in March 2014. The leadership of the New Jersey bar She leads the Association is the Woman in the Middle,” news was featured in the New Jersey based on their career achievements in 2014–15. She is an attorney in in January 2014. She is the Vice Law Journal. thus far. Only 50 lawyers were Gunster’s Stuart, Florida, office and President of Football Administration selected for this honor. focuses her practice on commercial for the Miami Dolphins. litigation, including intellectual Lennie A. Bersh was promoted Jeffrey H. Ruzal published an property and trade secret disputes,   to of counsel at the Florham Park, article co-written with Barry probate and trust litigation, as 1999 New Jersey, office of Greenberg Guryan, “Pending Coverall Case well as noncompete, contract, Theresa de Leon has joined the Traurig LLP in February 2014. He in the First Circuit Could Have a and commercial landlord/tenant board of directors of Jazz House focuses his practice on intellectual Major Impact on Franchising in disputes. Kids, a nationally recognized Massachusetts,” in Blue Maumau property and technology. arts organization. She is a Senior in July 2014. He is senior counsel Vladimir Shuster joined the Regina P. Martorana joined the Vice President at PNC Wealth in the Labor and Employment Astana, Kazakhstan, office of Reed Florham Park, New Jersey, office Management. The news appeared practice in the Manhattan office of Smith as a partner in January 2014. of Bressler, Amery & Ross P.C. as in The Jersey Journal in June 2014. Epstein, Becker & Greene P.C. He advises clients on corporate and partner in January 2014. commercial transactions including Peter T. Sallata was featured in the cross-border M&A and private Press of Atlantic City article, “Brief equity, representing multinational Case: Manager Adds Business to   state and local Kazakhstan Stone Harbor Hotel,” in March 2001   companies in a wide range of 2004 2014. He is the corporate sales Seunghwan Kim was appointed investment and finance matters. Anthony Zurica writes that he has manager at The Reeds at Shelter Assistant Comptroller for Law opened a new division of his law Haven in Stone Harbor, New Jersey. and Adjustment by New York City firm, The Law Office of Anthony Comptroller Scott M. Stringer in Zurica, which will specialize in May 2014.   2003 adoption law. He has become an   active member in the adoption Allison L. Luskoff joined Michelle Almeida, 2000 community throughout New the Manhattan office of First an associate Dr. Vincent A. Carbonell York and is a volunteer Court Nationwide Title Agency as senior at Iseman, was featured in a “Spotlight on Appointed Special Advocate for underwriting counsel in March Cunningham, Entrepreneurship Luncheon” at Children (CASA) in Westchester 2014. The news was featured in Riester & Hyde New York Law School in May County. His new website is New York Real Estate Journal. LLP, has been 2014. He is a New York Law School www.nycadoptionlawyer.com. named a rising Trustee and President of United Thomas Proljoined the Sparta, star in health Reprographics in New York. New Jersey, office of Laddey, Clark care law by Super & Ryan LLP as a partner in its Lawyers, a rating service Adelaide Riggi was promoted Environmental and Government   of lawyers from more than 70 2005 to the membership at Norris Affairs group in March 2014. practice areas who have attained McLaughlin & Marcus P.A. in He was sworn in as First Vice Justin S. Coffey writes that he was a high degree of peer recognition Bridgewater, New Jersey, in January President of the New Jersey State elected shareholder at Ogletree, and professional achievement. 2014. She practices divorce and Bar Association in May 2014, and Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart The selection process includes family law. Riggi co-chaired the is the first openly gay officer in the P.C. in Atlanta, Georgia, in January independent research, peer Somerset County Mock Trial NJSBA’s history. 2014.

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Class NotesStacie Truesdell Michaels Will & Emery LLP in January 2014. Information Officer for the is a disability policy specialist in was recently promoted to Vice He works in the firm’s Chicago Financial Institution Supervisory New Jersey and holds an M.A. in President and Associate General office and practices in the corporate Group at the Federal Reserve Bank Disability Law from NYLS. Counsel of Wynn Las Vegas. advisory group focusing on private of New York in February 2014. equity and M&A transactions. Brian A. Seidenberg has joined Jeffrey D. Mullen was featured Michael F. O’Connell writes GrayRobinson’s real estate group in a CBS News video, “Dynamics, Alanna Iacono was appointed that he was appointed an assistant in its Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Inc. Fights Credit Card Fraud associate attorney at Jacobowitz attorney general in the Office office as an associate attorney. He with Hidden Electronic Credit,” & Gubits LLP in Walden, New of the Attorney General for the practices in the area of real estate, in April 2014. He is the Chief York, in January 2014. The news District of Columbia in May focusing on complex commercial Executive Officer of Dynamics Inc. appeared in The Daily Freeman 2014. His practice focuses on transactions, land use, and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. and the Poughkeepsie Journal. personnel matters, the defense of development matters. employment discrimination claims, Michael J. Zussman joined the and the review of contracts, draft Manhattan office of Cowan legislation, and regulations.   DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard   2006 LLP as of counsel in May 2014. Heather A. Schiavone joined 2010 Michael J. Forino Penino & Moynihan, LLP in 2013. R emington Gregg wrote an joined the She continues to focus her practice article, “The LGBT Community’s Hackensack,   on general insurance defense Struggle for Equality is Inspired New Jersey, 2008 litigation and medical malpractice and Legally Grounded in the office of Archer defense. Civil Rights Act of 1964,” for the & Greiner, P.C. Ken C. Biberaj writes that in American Constitution Society’s in May 2014 March 2014 he joined the Board blog in July 2014. He is legislative as an associate of Directors of the Lincoln Square   counsel for the Human Rights and member of the Neighborhood Center and took 2009 Campaign. Commercial Litigation a leadership role with a local Practice Group. Upper West Side political club, the Maryam B. Biazar was featured Daniel S. Makoski joined the Ansonia Independent Democrats. in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat Annandale, New Jersey, office Matthew S. Necci He continues to promote The article, “Santa Rosa Grad Serves of Gebhardt & Kiefer, P.C. in became a partner Russian Tea Room with a more Aboard USS Reagan,” in April May 2014. His primary areas of at Halloran active role on the real estate side of 2014. She is a lieutenant in the concentration are tax planning, tax & Sage LLP the business. Navy and serves as a judge advocate controversy, transactional business in Hartford, general aboard the San Diego- matters, and wills, trusts, and estate Connecticut, in Rory S. Clark writes that his based U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. planning. March 2014. article, “The Ins and Outs of a Successful Estate Sale,” co-authored Julia M. Greenberg joined the Luz M. Restrepo was a presenter David Schnurman, with Mary Croly, was published Manhattan elder law firm Lamson at the Safe Passage Project CLE on CEO of FurtherEd Inc. and in the Real Estate Weekly Opinion & Cutner, P.C. as a partner in “Best Practices Before the Asylum Lawline, was featured in several Section in February 2014. He is a January 2014. Office,” in February 2014. She is interviews on Sarder TV including licensed associate real estate broker an asylum officer in Newark, New one on the topic, “Are Leaders at Halstead Property, LLC in Cecilia V. Perez-Matos joined the Jersey. Born or Made?,” in which he talks Manhattan. Boca Raton, Florida, office of The about his belief that the skills Berman Law Group in February Amie L. Stepanovich joined needed to be a leader can be taught. George Esposito has joined Pepper 2014. She specializes in probate the Washington D.C., office of Hamilton LLP as an associate in and estate litigation and fiduciary Access Now in February 2014 the Manhattan office. Previously, administration. as Senior Policy Counsel and he was at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley launched her first project, www.   & McCloy LLP. Salvatore Pizzuro wrote “The encryptallthethings.net. She spoke 2007 Christie Watch…and How He Will to the NYLS Dean’s Leadership E lijah J. Hammans writes that he Joonho J. Lee was promoted to Move to the Right,” in New Jersey Council in spring 2014. was elected partner at McDermott Senior Vice President and Group Newsroom in January 2014. He

CLASS NOTES 43   Massachusetts, office of ActBlue as 2011 in-house counsel in February 2014. In Memoriam Alexander F. Spilberg joined Seena J. Ghaznavi was mentioned in The New Yorker article, “Man Zetlin & De Chiara LLP as Class of 1950 Class of 1960 and Machine,” in February an associate in July 2014. He Seymour Ira Feig Louis L. Padula 2014. He is a freelance producer focuses on the representation of February 3, 2014 March 24, 2014 corporations in complex litigation, at Bernstein Global Wealth including contract and commercial Management in Manhattan. disputes, real estate transaction Class of 1951 Class of 1960 Elliot S. Solop writes that he was and construction disputes, and Harold S. Braun Eileen White named the “2014 Young Lawyer of employment discrimination and June 13, 2014 March 13, 2012 the Year” by the Middlesex County wage claims in state court. Bar Association in New Jersey. He Claire R. Thomas has a conducted is an associate at Ansell, Grimm & Class of 1951 Class of 1965 a series of training sessions on Aaron, P.C. in Ocean, New Jersey, Royden A. Letsen Mario A. Monaco immigration law for law firms where he devotes his practice to May 26, 2014 February 24, 2013 and nonprofit organizations in matrimonial and family law. connection with her work as staff attorney at the Safe Passage Class of 1952 Class of 1965 Project. She was a presenter at the   Myles J. Ambrose Vincent F. Nicolosi Safe Passage Project CLE course, 2013 June 3, 2014 July 11, 2014 “Best Practices Before the Asylum Gloria M. Chacon has been Office,” in February and several Class of 1954 selected as an Immigrant Justice Class of 1965 subsequent CLE courses. Arthur G. Cohen Corps fellow beginning as of August 9, 2014 Marvin H. Stempel Trevor Timm was featured in September 2014. The news March 27, 2013 “Inside Edward Snowden’s Life appeared in the New York Law as a Robot” in Wired magazine Journal in May 2014. Class of 1954 Class of 1967 in June 2014. He was also quoted Irving Doynow Chaitanya (Shaq) Katikala was Cornelius O’Brien in “Snowden Joins Board of Press May 12, 2014 named the first fellow of the September 7, 2014 Group Funded by Daniel Ellsberg,” Network Advertising Initiative in The New York Times in January in February 2014. The news was Class of 1954 2014. He is Executive Director at covered by Bloomberg Law. Arthur Isaac Soybel Class of 1973 Freedom of the Press Foundation September 6, 2014 Reverend Mark A. O’Connell and an activist and writer for the Somya Kaushik writes that her August 22, 2014 Electronic Frontier Foundation in company, Esq.Me, has launched a San Francisco, California. live product and hosted a launch Class of 1955 party in May 2014. She is the William P. Kennedy Class of 1984 Ian M. Turetsky writes that Founder and Chief Executive March 28, 2013 Brian M. McGorry he published “‘Daimler’ and Officer of the company. February 27, 2014 US Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporations,” in Corporate Jacob Sirotkin and Douglas Class of 1955 Counsel with Jennifer L. Achilles in Varacalli founded a law firm, Bruce Coleman Lederer Class of 1984 March 2014. He is an associate at Sirotkin/Varacalli LLP, in July. April 2013 Rudolf L. Raines Reed Smith LLP in Manhattan. Their Manhattan-based firm October 13, 2013 focuses on intellectual property law, litigation, and corporate law. Class of 1956   It features a 99 percent paperless Peter J. Hayes NYLS Faculty 2012 office and a case management May 21, 2013 and Staff system allowing clients to see the Christopher G. Binns was named progress of their case. an assistant district attorney in the Class of 1958 Donald Blanchard Former Director of Facilities Bronx District Attorney’s Office Brandon H. Weinstein joined Harold N. Lederman February 6, 2014 in January 2014. The news was Rawle & Henderson, LLP as an July 1, 2014 featured in the New York Law associate in the firm’s Manhattan Journal. office in July 2014. He focuses Quintin Johnstone Class of 1959 his practice in the areas of Professor of Law Emeritus Melissa K. Flores writes that Herbert E. Berman civil litigation and workers’ June 27, 2014 she joined the Somerville, July 6, 2014 compensation. •

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