The Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law is dedicating its Spring 2021 programming to the question of "Legal Ethics After Trump – Where Do We Go Now?"   Our first event will be held on February 25th at 5:00 pm:   When Should a Lawyer be Disciplined For Lying to the Public on Behalf of a Client? Reflections on Rules 4.1 and 8.4(c)   Panelists: Andrew Kent, Fordham Law Peter Jarvis, Holland & Knight Rebecca Roiphe, NYLS   Zoom registration information forthcoming.

Panel on "Violating Rights: Enforcing the World's Blasphemy" Report which is coauthored by CLIHHR Director Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum and analyzes global blasphemy laws. 

Emerging blockchain-based financial applications and services are growing at a rapid pace. This movement—often referred to as “decentralized finance” or “DeFi”—has exploded over the past year with over $50B in assets currently being locked, deployed, or otherwise interacting with these new (often automated) financial protocols. Cardozo’s latest Tech Talk will explore the legal and regulatory challenges with DeFi and outline how these applications fit within existing regulatory regimes.

This event is co-sponsored by the Heyman Center on Corporate Law and Governance, the Cardozo Tech Talk Series, and Cardozo Alumni in Compliance and Financial Services.

How does the world imprison? Since the American approach to incarceration has come under intense scrutiny in recent years, considerations of international approaches have been neglected as a source of inspiration and direction. Baz Dreisinger is one of the few researchers who have realized the potential for change in adopting a comparative international framework, to change the way we view prisons and to step away from the Americentric model of criminal justice reform. She will be holding an informal Q&A to talk about her research and what she thinks about how we can use failures and successes from different existing models to enact meaningful changes to our system that will pave the way for abolition.