May 16, 2012
In a guest column for JURIST, Adjunct Professor Michael Macchiarola discusses the role of the judiciary in settlements between the Securities and Exchange Commission and private parties. He cites Judge Jed Rakoff of the US District Court of the Southern District of New York, who, in some recent opinions, has “questioned the wisdom of the long-running settlement practice” of the SEC.
May 16, 2012
Prof. Jonathan Moore, who co-teaches a seminar on Section 1983 federal civil rights litigation, is one of the attorneys in Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al., challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policies. Today a federal judge granted class certification in the case. The class includes all persons unlawfully stopped and frisked since January 2005, including those stopped on the basis of being black or Latino. Moore, a partner at the firm of Beldock, Levine and Hoffman, was also a lead counsel on an earlier racial profiling case, Daniels v. City of New York, et al..
May 10, 2012
Fred Rooney, Director of CUNY School of Law’s Community Legal Resource Network (CLRN) and Office of External Relations, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to work at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo Law School (UASD) in the Dominican Republic during the 2012-2013 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. USAD was the first university established in the Western Hemisphere (Americas).
April 26, 2012
In March 2012, CUNY Law School’s Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality (CLORE) convened leading progressive lawyers and activists in an effort to chart out new strategies to address threats to civil rights
April 11, 2012
Thomson Reuters cites Professor Caitlin Borgmann in an article about Oklahoma Senate Bill 1433, or the Personhood Act.
April 10, 2012
In a Salon article, Distinguished Professor Ruthann Robson commented on recent initiatives in several states to restrict or ban registered sex offenders from online sites focused on social networking, virtual gaming, and online dating.
April 3, 2012
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has found that the government of Chile violated the rights of Karen Atala, a lesbian mother, when it stripped her of custody of her daughters because of their “unique family.” The ruling affirms
March 27, 2012
Dave Fields, university dean and special counsel to the chancellor, has bequeathed $1 million to CUNY School of Law. The funds will be used equally to support student scholarships and faculty and staff development.
March 23, 2012
Professor Paula Berg was quoted in the American Independent about a proposed Arizona law that would ban so-called “wrongful birth” lawsuits.
March 12, 2012
Prof. Jeff Kirchmeier recently published his essay “DNA Reminds Us that to Err Is Human” in Cato Unbound, an online publication of the Cato Institute.
