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Professor Dale Carpenter's essay, "Deference to What?" was featured in a New York Times online series. The "Room for Debate" series topic was the recent federal district court's decision ordering a halt…
Professor Steve Meili served as a panelist at a continuing legal education seminar sponsored by West LegalEdcenter. The seminar, "Acting on Appearances: The Role of Bias in the Drafting, Execution and Enforcement…
Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the turmoil in foreclosure following the publicity about falsely filed affidavits by foreclosing lenders. Cox commented on possible…
Professor Steve Meili presented a paper on public interest lawyers in Argentina, Brazil and Chile at the 4-day Latin American Studies Association conference held in Toronto. Meili's paper was based on interviews…
Professor Jane Kirtley was quoted in a CQ Researcher report on "Journalism Standards in the Internet Age." She discussed challenges to maintaining traditional principles of accuracy and fairness with the…
Professor Claire Hill was the Law '80 Visiting Lecturer at Queen's University Faculty of Law in Ontario, Canada. Her lecture, based on work co-authored with Professor Richard Painter, was entitled "Mindful of the…
Professor Nancy Cook was a speaker at the Clinical Theory Workshop 25th Anniversary Conference held at New York Law School on Oct. 1-2. Her presentation, entitled “The Medium is the Message: Client Voice, Story,…
Professor Nancy Cook presented a draft of an article, “Law as Science: Revisiting Langdell’s Paradigm in the 21st Century,” at New York University. Her talk examined the historical roots of the 19th-century idea of…
Professor Richard Painter was quoted on the Bloomberg news page about Elizabeth Warren's outside work while head of the Congressional Oversight Panel monitoring the $700 billion bank bailout. Warren was…
Professor Amy Kristin Sanders participated on a panel entitled "Building and Managing Online Communities," at a conference at the Center for Sustainable Journalism in Atlanta. The conference, "Media Law in the…
Professor Prentiss Cox was quoted in a Minnesota Public Radio story on Sept. 22 about the impact of foreclosures in…
Prof. Jane Kirtley was quoted by Bloomberg News in a story about a Second Circuit case that will consider whether an executive convicted of securities fraud for allegedly backdating stocks was denied…