Brooklyn Law Notes| THE MAGAZINE OF BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL FALL 2018 THE VISIONARY THE THE STYLEMAKER THE RENAISSANCE MAN THE ENTERPRISER THE TRUSTEE THE TRANSFORMER ESTATE THE DEALMAKERS THE INNOVATOR TRANSFORMING THE LANDSCAPE NYC IN AND BEYOND THE TITANS REAL OF Brooklyn law notes | fall 2018 | Brooklaw.edu • C1 SUPPORT THE ANNUAL FUND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS HELP US • Strengthen scholarships and financial aid programs • Support student organizations • Expand our faculty and support their nationally recognized scholarship • Maintain our facilities • Plan for the future of the Law School Support the Annual Fund by making a gift TODAY Visit brooklaw.edu/givenow or call Kamille James at 718-780-7505 C2 • Brooklyn law notes | fall 2018 | Brooklaw.edu Dean’s Message T IS A TREMENDOUS PRIVILEGE to serve as interim Today, all of us at the Law School—our preeminent faculty dean this year. As a longtime member of the Brooklyn and dedicated staff—are devoted to helping our students Law School faculty, I take pride in our community— succeed. Our alumni and friends have a critical role to play students, faculty, and alumni—and in our distinctive in this endeavor. We are thankful when you identify and history of opening doors to the legal profession for all. I help recruit applicants; we are delighted when you hire or Iwill continue to emphasize the Brooklyn Law School traditions recommend our students for jobs or internships; and, of of diversity and opportunity as I lead the school during the course, we are grateful when you support the Law School search for a new dean. philanthropically. I urge you to become more deeply engaged in In August, I was honored to open the academic year by our community in any or all of these ways. welcoming the entering class of J.D. and LL.M. students at As interim dean, I am working hard to ensure that Brooklyn our annual convocation ceremony. Our new students are a Law School continues to prepare students for today’s challenges talented and impressive group, and I look forward to seeing and for those on the horizon. To that end, we are embarking on the great things they will do with their legal education. I a transformation of the curriculum that will deepen students’ encouraged them to explore all that the Brooklyn Law School research, writing, and legal skills. We will help them envision community has to offer them, both in the classroom and the arc of their legal education, so that they can take charge of beyond. I also described our 23,000-strong global alumni their learning. This will place them in a strong position in the network and reminded them that they will—sooner than they job market and help launch their careers. Brooklyn Law School imagine—join that group. has always been a leader in legal education. We are very excited It was a particular thrill to introduce students that evening about this most recent development, and I promise you will hear to a special guest, Judge I. Leo Glasser ’48 of the U.S. District more about it in the months ahead. Court of the Eastern District of New York, who, impressively, is As we move forward, I will continue to rely on you to support still serving at age 94. Judge Glasser was dean of the Law School our students and to help us build an even stronger future for our when I joined the faculty, and it was powerful to weave together dynamic and vibrant Law School community. the Law School’s past, present, and future possibilities at the ceremony. After hearing Judge Glasser’s many achievements, from his early days on the Lower East Side to his bravery in Europe during World War II to his legendary days as a master teacher and scholar to his years on the bench, the students gave Maryellen Fullerton him a standing ovation. Interim Dean and Professor of Law Brooklyn law notes | fall 2018 | Brooklaw.edu • 1 Contents Features A Time of Restoring Titans of Opportunity and the American Real Estate p. 26 Innovation p. 18 Dream p. 22 Transforming the landscape in New York City and beyond Former Dean Nick Allard’s tenure What’s the government’s role in at Brooklyn Law School housing finance reform? Daniel Rabbani ’21 (L) and Oren Kadosh ’20 cleaning up at Prospect Park for Brooklyn Law School’s Service Day in August 2 • Brooklyn law notes | fall 2018 | Brooklaw.edu 6 22 26 Departments 1 Dean’s Message 48 Giving 4 News 51 Class Notes Commencement, convocation, new Board of Trustees members, NY Fed president on campus, and more 52 Alumni Profiles David Djaha ’88, head of Ropes & Gray’s global real estate 11 Clinic Update investments and transactions group; Karin Norton ’97, vice Disability and Civil Rights Clinic wins new grant, Carmen president and senior counsel at Samsung Electronics; Nicole Maria Rey ’06 joins Safe Harbor Project, and more Wyskoarko ’04, executive vice president of urban operations at Interscope Geffen A&M Records; and Patrick Taurel ’10, an 13 Spotlight on Intellectual Life associate with the immigration practice group at Clark Hill The future of the criminal justice system, international business law amid globalization’s waning influence, 60 Q&A sixth CUBE Innovator’s Competition, and more Bar association presidents Elena Karabatos ’86, Aimee Richter’93, and Marie-Eleana First ’98 on the importance of 37 Faculty Highlights lawyers making connections in an increasingly digital world Professors Anita Bernstein and Elizabeth Schneider among top scholars, Professor Andrew Gold joins faculty, K. 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We will web: brooklaw.edu Brooklyn Law School alumni, students, faculty, consider reprinting brief 250 Joralemon Street and friends. submissions in print issues Brooklyn, NY 11201 and on our website. Brooklyn law notes | fall 2018 | Brooklaw.edu • 3 News | on campus New Students Welcomed at Convocation Ceremony BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL welcomed 377 new students at the annual convocation ceremony, held in the Ceremonial Courtroom at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Vice Dean Steven Dean served as master of ceremonies for the event, which also featured remarks from Interim Dean Maryellen Fullerton; Hon. Robert A. Katzmann, Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and Stacy Caplow, associate dean of professional legal education. Hon. I. Leo Glasser ’48, U.S. District Court judge, Eastern District of New York, attended the ceremony as a special guest of Dean Fullerton. Glasser was dean of the Law School from 1977 to 1981 and a member of the faculty from 1948 to 1969. Professor Maryellen Fullerton Named Interim Dean AFTER SIX YEARS leading the Law School, Nicholas W. and Policy and Immigration and Citizenship: Process (“Nick”) Allard stepped down as president and dean and Policy, and multiple articles on migration and effective July 1, 2018 (see page 18). The Board of Trustees statelessness. She is one of the founding editors named Professor Maryellen Fullerton to serve as interim of the Refugee Law Reader, a comprehensive online dean as a nationwide search for a permanent dean com- resource on international refugee law available in menced this summer. English, Spanish, French, and Russian. “I am thrilled that the Law School is in such excel- She held the Distinguished Chair in Law at the lent hands during our search process,” said Stuart University of Trento through the U.S. Fulbright Subotnick ’68, chairman of the Board of Trustees, program. Fullerton also was a Fulbright Scholar at who will serve as president during the transition year. the University of Louvain in Belgium, was a German “Professor Fullerton is a longtime member of the fac- Marshall Fund Fellow in Budapest, and was a visiting ulty, and her knowledge and experience—as well as scholar at the Juan March Institute, Center for the respect she has garnered from colleagues, alumni, Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, in Madrid. Prior and students—will ensure a seamless transition.” to joining the faculty at Brooklyn Law School, Fullerton, an expert on refugee and asylum law, Fullerton served as a law clerk to Judge Frank Johnson teaches Civil Procedure and Federal Courts. She is a Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District prolific scholar and a frequent speaker throughout the of Alabama and Judge Francis Van Dusen of the U.S. United States and Europe. Her recent works include Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. two coauthored casebooks, Forced Migration: Law 4 • Brooklyn law notes | fall 2018 | Brooklaw.edu on campus | News LL.M. Program Is Top Ranked THE NEW YORK Law Journal ranked Brooklyn Law School second on the Best LL.M. Program list, marking the fourth consecutive year that the program has been ranked in the top two and the second year the Law School has achieved a “Hall of Fame” designation.