Mar 7, 2021 By: yunews
In The News
Cardozo Ranked #38 on Law.com's List of 2021 Go To Law Schools
鈥淐ardozo Law's Class of 2020 was 24% larger than the previous year, yet the Manhattan school managed to keep the percentage of grads going to BigLaw steady at more than 12%.鈥Immigration Justice Clinic and Make the Road New York Release White Paper to Future NYC Leaders on Protections for Immigrants
The white paper is authored by Cardozo students Jessica Wang, Adam Coretz and Sadie Casamenti, who participated in a press conference on March 3 and conducted briefings with City Council members and NYC mayoral candidates. It 鈥減rovides an action plan for the City to better protect immigrant community members," Casamenti tells Politico.Professor Ekow Yankah Speaks to the Wall Street Journal on Difficulty of Prosecuting Officer Who Killed George Floyd
The difficulty of prosecuting criminal cases 鈥渞eflects our commitment that nobody should go to jail unless the state can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed the wicked act with a wicked mind,鈥 says Yankah.Professor Kate Levine Discusses Impact of Public Opinion in Prosecution of Officer Derek Chauvin with MPR News
鈥淯ntil national attention was really focused on police causing harm, the prosecutors were able to sort of just accept what the police said, about incidents of violence by the police, and not really look too much further,鈥 says Levine.ADR Competition Honor Society Team Is Victorious at UCLA Transactional Law Competition
3L Geena Caporale and 2L Victoria Sadosky, won 鈥淏est Negotiation鈥 and 鈥淏est Overall鈥 at this year's UCLA Transactional Law Competition on February 26, during which 18 schools and 26 teams competed. 3Ls Marisa Masters and Michael Silbert served as coaches.Trophies for the Empire Panel Focuses on Professor Rudenstine鈥檚 Forthcoming Article
The article, which will be published in a special issue of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, is based on decades of historical research about the cultural property dispute between Greece and Great Britain over the Parthenon Sculptures taken to London in the early 1800s by the British ambassador, Lord Elgin.Faculty News & Scholarship
- Professor Lindsay Nash鈥檚 article, 鈥淒eportation Arrest Warrants,鈥 was published in the .
- Professor Stewart Sterk has published three new articles with an additional three forthcoming, including in Notre Dame Law Review and Boston University Law Review. They are currently available on . Sterk is the 6th most cited property law scholar in the U.S.
Events
FAME and FLS Present A Conversation with Designer Zac Posen & The New York Times Fashion Director and Chief Fashion Critic Vanessa Friedman Tuesday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m.Heyman Center Presents Real Estate in the Corporate World Wednesday, March 10 at 12 p.m.
16th Annual E. Nathaniel Gates Award Ceremony Thursday, March 10 at 6 p.m.
Intellectual Property Law Society Presents A Chat with Jennifer Jones, VP, Associate Counsel at Steve Madden Thursday, March 11 at 5 p.m.
