New York University School of Law Public Interest Law Center 245 Sullivan Street, Room 430 New York, NY 10012-1301 Root-TILDEN-KERN RT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program Professor Margaret Satterthwaite ’99 New York University School of Law New York University School of Law Faculty Director Office of Development and Alumni Relations Public Interest Law Center 110 West 3rd Street Deborah A. Ellis ’82 245 Sullivan Street, Room 430 New York, NY 10012 Director and Assistant Dean for New York, NY 10012-1301 Telephone: 212.998.6400 Public Service Telephone: 212.998.6207 Kate Polson Fax: 212.995.4529 Jorge Luis Paniagua Valle Associate Director for Development Operations E-mail: [email protected] Program Administrator and Editor, Root-Tilden-Kern Newsletter Kat Daly Senior Development Officer Article contributors: Julia Kaye ’13, Sara Cullinane ’12, Frances Kreimer ’12, Yan Cao ’13, Evelyn Malavé ’13, Relic Sun ’13 Graphic Design: Kara Van Woerden Root-TILDEN-KERN III RTK N RTK EWS F ALL RT Fall 2011 News2011 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM G olove Is Interim RTK Leadership Faculty Director Professor David Golove will be the Interim Faculty Director for the Root- Tilden-Kern Program for 2012 while H onored Professor Satterthwaite is on leave. All three administrators of the RTK Program were honored this year for their contributions to NYU School of Law and the field of public interest law nationally. Deb Ellis was honored twice this year for her work in public interest. First, she received the NALP (The Association for Legal Career Professionals) Award of Distinction for Public Service for her leadership in shaping 1. the public interest community at NYU through her role as an Golove is the Hiller Family Foundation informed and compassionate Professor of Law at the Law School. counselor, and nationally, He received his undergraduate degree for sharing her expertise and law degree from the University of with other public interest California at Berkeley and an LL.M. advisors through publications, from Yale Law School. His specialty is presentations, and mentoring. constitutional law of foreign affairs, an Deb was also deemed area on which he has published articles a “Champion of Change” by in major academic journals such as the the Obama Administration Stanford Law Review and the Harvard Law at a White House ceremony Review. He is known best for his book- hosted by Attorney General length article in the Michigan Law Review Deb Ellis ’82 with Attorney General Eric Holder at the Eric Holder with 15 other Champions of Change event entitled “Treaty-Making and the Nation: The lawyers who “dedicate their Historical Foundations of the Nationalist professional lives to closing the justice gap in America.” The ceremony was streamed Conception of the Treaty Power.” live as part of an online conversation to encourage law students and young attorneys The RTK Program looks forward to pursue a career in public interest law. to having Golove’s expertise and leadership. ■ continued on page 2 Alumni Working in Education Law 14 Golove Is Interim Faculty Director 1 Class of 2011 Employment Destinations 4 RTK Leadership Honored 1 Leaders in Public Interest Series 2010-11 5 Class Notes 16 issue Letter from the Directors 2 Journal Memberships 5 Honors 19 Judge M. Blane Michael ’68 Remembered 19 New Scholarship Created 2 RTK Class of 2014 6 Honor Roll of Donors 20 THIS Roots Speak at J.D. Convocation 3 2012 and 2013 Awards and Recognitions 7 N Leaders in Public Interest Series 2011-12 23 I Awards at Graduation 3 2012 and 2013 Summer Jobs 11 Orientation for the Class of 2014 13 LETTER from THE directors Meg Satterthwaite received the Albert Podell Distinguished Teaching Award, established in 2007 by Albert Podell ’76, Dear Root-Tilden-Kern Alumni, in recognition of the outstanding achievements of faculty in the classroom. Greetings from the RTK program and the Law School! This is a year of transitions in the RTK program: Letizia La Rosa received the inaugural Program Administrator Letizia La Rosa left in August Albert Podell Outstanding Administrator and Faculty Director Meg Satterthwaite will be on Award, established in 2011 by Albert leave for 2012. Podell ’76, in recognition of inspirational and innovative service and outstanding In August Letizia La Rosa became Program Coordinator contributions to the law school for the International Education Program and Education community. ■ and Social Policy Program in the graduate Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions at NYU Steinhardt. Letizia’s superb contributions during her more than four and a half years at the New Scholarship Law School were recognized by her receipt of the inaugural Podell Distinguished Administrator Award Created this past May. One of Letizia’s major roles was working We are pleased to announce the creation with the 60 students in the RTK program, where she of a new scholarship thanks to the gener- coordinated numerous logistics, supported students ous support of the Filomen M. D’Agostino in their academic and professional pursuits, and made Foundation. The Filomen M. D’Agostino mentoring matches among students that were widely considered “inspired.” In their Scholarship in Civil Rights, Civil Liber- nomination letter for the Podell Award, the Root students lauded Letizia for helping ties, and/or Criminal Justice will pay the students thrive and for being an “amazing ambassador” for the Law School. full tuition each year for three students of outstanding academic merit and leader- Our excellent new Program administrator is Jorge Luis Paniagua Valle, a graduate ship potential who demonstrate a strong of Loyola University Chicago, where he studied philosophy and ancient Greek. Prior commitment to work on civil rights, civil to joining PILC in early August, Jorge Luis was the outreach coordinator and a liberties or criminal justice issues for at conflict resolution associate for the Loyola Law School Center for Conflict Resolution, least three years after graduation from which provides alternative dispute resolution services to indigent communities in NYU School of Law. Los Angeles County. When not working, Jorge Luis enjoys doing archery, writing The new D’Agostino Scholars in Civil non-fiction, and exploring his new home, New York City. Rights, Civil Liberties, and/or Criminal Justice will be selected from the incoming Faculty Director Meg Satterthwaite will be on sabbatical in 2012. She will be working class of 2015 next spring. on a book on human rights methodologies. Professor David Golove (see profile on The scholarships are named after page 1) will serve as Interim Faculty Director from January 1, 2012, through the end Filomen M. D’Agostino ’20, a trailblazer of the calendar year. in the legal profession, and a rare woman lawyer in that time. Her generosity Welcome to both Jorge Luis and David! helped transform NYU School of Law. She and her husband, Max E. Greenberg, As usual, the newsletter is filled with stories of the inspiring work of our students donated D’Agostino Hall, one of the and alumni. As you contemplate year-end gifts, we hope that you consider a donation most important buildings on the NYU to the program. With tuition rising each year, our ability to continue to provide full- Law campus, as well as the beautiful tuition scholarships to 20 students is dependent on giving from our loyal alumni. Greenberg Lounge in Vanderbilt Hall, Most importantly, we want each and every donor to know that a gift of any amount and also endowed the Max E. Greenberg is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your generosity and a special note Professorship in Contract Law and the of appreciation to those of you who gave last year and are listed in the Honor Roll of D’Agostino-Greenberg Faculty Research Donors at the end of this Newsletter. Fund. The D’Agostino Foundation also supports three additional full-tuition Best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year. scholarships as part of the Root-Tilden- Kern Program, the Filomen M. D’Agostino Scholarship for Women or Children, Deb Ellis ’82 and Meg Satterthwaite ’99 created in 2004. ■ 3 Awards at Graduation N RTK Convocation, the Theater at Madison Square EWS Garden, May 20, 2011 F Roots Speak at ALL For Scholarship, Academic Excellence, 2011 and Related Achievements J.D. Convocation Benjamin F. Butler Memorial Award “for un- usual distinction in scholarship, character, and Martin Lipton ’55, founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & professional activities” to ERIN ADELE SCHARFF Katz, and Noam Biale ’11, spoke at the Law School’s Convocation For Service to the Law School on May 20, 2011. Martin gave an insightful speech about the Vanderbilt Medal “for outstanding contribution innovation of the Law School’s past deans. Noam inspired the to the School of Law” to STEPHEN B. KANG new graduates with lessons he learned from his classmates. Subject Area Awards A portion of Noam’s speech is reprinted here: Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American Law Alumni Association (BLAPA) Award for Clini- Thank you, Dean Revesz, and hello, this ticket for lack of probable cause. cal Service “to a member of APALSA, BALSA, everyone! I’m thrilled to be here today. We have no information here to determine LALSA, MELSA, MULSA, or SALSA for out- I had an interview for a job in the fall. how the officer knew Mr. Jones was standing work in a clinical course, dedication I thought it was going pretty well and drinking Hennessy or any other alcoholic to public service, and commitment to a career then they asked me, “How has law school beverage.” The prosecutor pipes up, “Well, in public interest law” to BETTY B. BAEZ-MELO, been?” I said, “Well, there have been the officer obviously used his training YIHONG (JULIE) MAO some ups and some downs; but overall and expertise to determine it was I’ve actually really enjoyed it.” The lawyer Hennessy.” Mark says, “Training? Do they Howard Greenberger Award “for outstanding interviewing me cut in and said, “I don’t have a course on Hennessy at the police achievement in the area of comparative law” to trust anyone who enjoyed law school.” academy? Did he go to Hennessy College?” ELIZABETH O.