May 16, 2012
In one of the first Occupy Wall Street protest cases to go to trial, alum Paul Keefe (’07), along with Gideon Oliver, represented Alexander Arbuckle, who was taking photos at January 1 march and was arrested for disorderly conduct. Arbuckle was found not guilty, mostly due to the photographs and video taken by Arbuckle and others that contradicted testimony from police officers. “What’s happening is very similar to what happened in 2004 with the Republican National Convention,” Keefe said. “It’s just a symptom of how the NYPD treats dissent. But what has changed is that there is more prevalence of video. it really makes our job a lot easier to have that video.”
May 16, 2012
The National Law Journal features Fred Rooney (’86), director of CUNY Law’s Community Legal Resource Network, and his efforts to help Thomas Jefferson School of Law launch an incubator for solo practitioners. Rooney, who in 2007 launched CUNY’s Incubator for Justice, the first of its kind in the nation, traveled to Thomas Jefferson in San Diego to help the faculty there develop the program. “As more solo incubators are conceptualized by law schools, each one is going to be unique,” Rooney said. “I think the Thomas Jefferson model is going to emphasize cross-border matters.”
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).
May 9, 2012
More than 140 CUNY School of Law students will receive their Juris Doctor degrees at a May 18th graduation ceremony. “We are confident our graduates will make a difference in the lives of the underprivileged and disempowered. As public interest lawyers, they follow proudly in the tradition of CUNY Law alums who serve the greater good,” said CUNY Law Dean Michelle J. Anderson. CUNY Law’s clinical education program continues to rank in the top five in the country.
May 8, 2012
On March 30, 2012, a packed auditorium of human rights advocates, lawyers, students, and others gathered at the CUNY Graduate Center for the CUNY Law Review Symposium, “Looking Forward: Rhonda Copelon’s Legacy in Action and the Future of International Women’s Human Rights Law.”
April 27, 2012
Distinguished professor and constitutional law expert Ruthann Robson weighs in on ABC.com on the parameters of free speech in a case centering on threats made online between classmates.
April 27, 2012
In April 2012 students in the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Clinic (IRRC) provided free, confidential information in English and Spanish to individuals around New York City facing immigration issues.
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 23, 2012
On his recent visit to the Law School on April 12, New York State Assembly Member and alum Daniel O’Donnell (’87) inspired students with his work on championing key legislation that legalized same-sex marriage in New York State
