News
Immigration: Enforcement or Politics?
August 20, 2008, Business Week - Critics say the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who has recently stepped up raids and other enforcement action, is more politics than compliance with the law. Prof. Peter Markowitz said, "Something really shifted in the Bush Administration once it realized...
Published Date: 8/20/2008,
Peter Markowitz
Keeping evidence safe
August 19, 2008, Tuscaloosa News - Tommy Arthur's life is on the line as court officials claim DNA evidence taken at the crime scene of the 1981 murder he is accused of cannot be found. Alabama is one of many states that does not require by law for court clerks to preserve evidence presented at...
Published Date: 8/19/2008,
Innocence Project
Reception Honoring Lela Love
On August 7, 2008 Dean David Rudenstine held a reception honoring Professor Lela Love, as she begins her year-long appointment as the Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution. Over 70 colleagues, students, alumni, and practitioners attended the event, held in the lobby...
Published Date: 8/7/2008,
Dean's Office
Federal court ruling on funding for Christian school worries Jews
August 5, 2008, Jewish Chronicle - A recent ruling in the US Circuit of Appeals in Denver allows financial aid to a Christian university, setting a precedent that makes many Jewish officials uncomfortable. Prof. Marci Hamilton says, "This has been a long time coming where the courts are rejecting...
Published Date: 8/5/2008,
Marci Hamilton
Bin Laden driver's future rests with military jury
August 4, 2008, Sun Sentinel - In Guantanamo Bay, controversy surrounds a US war crime tribunal involving senior military officers hand-selected by the Pentagon to serve as the jury at trial for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former personal driver of Osama bin Laden. Prof. Ellen Yaroshefsky calls the...
Published Date: 8/4/2008,
Ellen Yaroshefsky
Texas Supreme Court Yet to Settle Exorcism Debate
July 27, 2008, Fort Worth Star Telegram - The Texas Supreme Court threw out a case involving a traumatic exorcism on grounds that it would unnecessarily entangle the court in church disputes. Prof. Marci Hamilton said this was the wrong decision, that the US Supreme Court has made it clear there...
Published Date: 7/27/2008,
Marci Hamilton
NY Court Establishes First Statewide Guidelines for Mediators, Neutral Evaluators
July 24, 2008, Law.com - New York has recently established guidelines for qualifications and training of mediators and neutral evaluators involved with out-of-court settlements. The new rules also allow the possibility of combining the two roles, an issue of much controversy in the ADR community....
Published Date: 7/24/2008,
Lela Love
Trends in New York City Residential Real Estate
On July 24, 2008 approximately 20 alumnae gathered at the Law School
for a mid-summer breakfast to hear a presentation on “Trends in New York City
Residential Real Estate.” The talk, given by Debra Peltz ’97 of Sotheby’s
International Real Estate and Melissa Cohn of Manhattan Mortgage, had a rapt...
Published Date: 7/24/2008,
Alumni Affairs
Freedom Of Speech In Rwanda: A Discussion
In January of 2008, Clinical Director Professor Sheri Rosenberg led a two-week long Study Abroad seminar to Rwanda and Tanzania, entitled “Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Rwanda.” Sixteen students met with representatives of the US embassy in Kigali, Rwandan officials and prosecutors...
Univ. of Miami Law School names interim dean
July 23, 2008, The National Law Journal - Prof. Paul R. Verkuil has been named interim dean for the University of Miami School of Law for the coming academic year. He served as dean at Cardozo between 1997 and 2001. While a professor here, he is also currently senior counsel at Boies, Schiller &...
Published Date: 7/23/2008,
Paul Verkuil