The New York University Law Review will begin considering Articles and Online Pieces for the winter selection cycle on February 4, 2020. We accept submissions by Scholastica only. For more information on our selection requirements, please see our Submissions page.
The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law and the NYU Law Review are pleased to present a lunchtime series on The Anatomy of Racism and Inequality. Racism infects the way policies are developed and applied at all levels of government. It infiltrates our laws, institutions, and systems, resulting in enduring racial inequities. This series will explore the use of the law as a tool to foster, sustain, confront, and address racial inequality in education, housing, democracy, and the criminal legal system. The series will focus on understanding the source, nature, and impact of racial inequality with an eye toward providing a framework and vision that incorporates and develops emerging strategies—legal and otherwise—to challenge race-based inequality. The series will feature three panels with distinguished experts, academics, legal practitioners, and policymakers that will address some of the manifestations of racial inequality. Selected articles from the series will be published in the NYU Law Review Online.
Please RSVP here.
October 28, 2019, 12:30 to 2:00 pm, Lester Pollack Colloquium
W.E.B. Du Bois famously predicted that the “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.” The same is true of the 21st century. Race continues to impact every aspect of life in America, and racism remains a potent driver of unequal opportunity and outcomes. The panelists will explore the impact of racism in areas including education, housing, community development, and economic opportunity, and explore how advocates can disrupt and ultimately eradicate the systems that disadvantage people of color.
Panelists:
Mehrsa Baradaran, UC Irvine School of Law
Richard R. Buery, The KIPP Foundation
Dennis D. Parker, The National Center for Law and Economic Justice
Kim Sweet, Advocates for Children
Phil Tegeler, The Poverty and Race Research Action Council
Moderated by Russell K. Robinson, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
November 4, 2019, 12:30 to 2:00 pm, Lester Pollack Colloquium
This panel will explore how racial identity has colored American democracy and political participation. Panelists will discuss how racism, xenophobia, and religious intolerance have impacted public conceptions of who is an American, and therefore who has the right to vote and otherwise participate in the nation’s political life. The panelists will also consider contemporary efforts to expand and restrict active engagement in the democratic process including discriminatory redistricting efforts, voter ID laws, and felon disenfranchisement.
Panelists:
Khaled Beydoun, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Atiba Ellis, Marquette University Law School
Ryan Haygood, New Jersey Institute of Social Justice
Danielle Lang, Campaign Legal Center
Myrna Perez, Brennan Center for Justice
Moderated by Vincent Southerland, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, NYU School of Law,
November 15, 2019, 12:30 to 2:00 pm, Lester Pollack Colloquium
Nowhere is racism more clearly ingrained than in our criminal legal system—the United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, the vast majority of whom are people of color. This panel will examine origins of structural injustice and racial inequality in the criminal legal system, and efforts to remedy biased and discriminatory decisionmaking by actors in the system, including the advent and adoption of technology and algorithmic tools. Panelists will also explore the collateral consequences of involvement with the criminal legal system, including the effect of criminal convictions on access to housing, employment, and education.
Panelists:
Deborah N. Archer, NYU School of Law
ReNika Moore, ACLU Racial Justice Program
Michael Pinard, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Vincent Southerland, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, NYU School of Law
Christina Swarns, Office of the Appellate Defender
Moderated by Alexis J. Hoag, Eric H. Holder Initiative for Civil & Political Rights, Columbia Law School
The Symposium held jointly by the NYU Law Review and the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law will discuss some of the issues in Professor Rachel Barkow’s recent book, Prisoner of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration, and will examine the pathological politics of criminal justice and how this has contributed to our current mass incarceration problem. Panelists will discuss specific examples of counterproductive criminal justice policies that were enacted in response to these broken politics, and how these policies actually fail to make us safer; discrete reforms that target how prosecutors exercise their power and discretion; the creation and/or consultation of administrative and expert agency reforms to help change decision-making and policy analysis in the criminal justice space; and a discussion of recent case law suggesting that judges can and should play a greater role in improving criminal justice outcomes, as well as a discussion focused on the need for judicial diversity at the state and federal levels. The keynote speaker for the symposium will be Shon Hopwood from Georgetown University School of Law.
Monday, October 21st, 8:30am to 3:30pm
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
Register here (Registration is required for an accurate headcount)
We are proud to announce the winners of the annual journal awards!
Paul D. Kaufman Memorial Award
The graduating student who has written the most outstanding note for the Law Review
Judge Rose L. & Herbert Rubin Law Review Prize
The graduating student who has written the most outstanding note for the Law Review in International, Commercial, or Public Law
Edmond Cahn Award
A third-year editor other than a senior editor who has contributed to the Law Review in an outstanding fashion
Morton Geller Award
A third-year editor other than a senior editor who has contributed to the Law Review in an outstanding fashion
The New York University Law Review will begin considering Articles for the spring selection cycle on February 5, 2019. We accept submissions by Scholastica only. For more information on our selection requirements, please see our Submissions page.
This symposium, held jointly by the NYU Law Review, the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies and the Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU School of Law, will examine how law does, should, or can affect data ownership, concentration, and control in a global digital economy. The symposium will take a conceptual approach to the law of data by confronting emerging issues in the global digital economy through analyses grounded in foundational legal concepts such as contracting, torts, property, trusts/fiduciary law, and more specialized areas of international economic law such as antitrust, tax, and trade law. The symposium will not be centrally focused on detailed analysis of intellectual property law or information privacy law, which already occupy a core place in scholarship on data law, although these areas of law may certainly figure where relevant to concepts and regulatory and structural arguments. Commentators with particular additional expertise will enrich the symposium. We are confident that this symposium will make a significant contribution to the foundations of an important and fast-developing field.
Friday, November 9th, 8:30AM-7:00PM
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
Register here: https://www.guariniglobal.org/registration
More information: https://www.guariniglobal.org/data-law
The New York University Law Review will begin considering Articles for the fall selection cycle on August 1, 2018. We accept submissions by Scholastica only. For more information on our selection requirements, please see our Submissions page.
The New York University Law Review will begin considering Articles for the spring selection cycle on February 6, 2018. We accept submissions by Scholastica only. For more information on our selection requirements, please see our Submissions page.
Panel One – A Historical and Comparative Look at Nominations Systems
Moderator:
Benjamin Ginsberg, Partner, Jones Day
Paper Presenters:
John Frederick Martin, Partner, Bancroft Private Equity
Richard Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law
Panel Two – The 2016 Experience: Rules, Parties, and the Media
Moderator:
Beth Myers, Co-Founder, Esplanade Strategies
Paper Presenters:
Bob Bauer, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, NYU School of Law
William Mayer, Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University
Panel Three – Thinking About Reform
Moderator:
Donna F. Edwards, former U.S. Representative, Maryland’s 4th Congressional District (2008-2017)
Paper Presenters:
Elaine Kamarck, Director of the Center for Effective Public Management, The Brookings Institution
Bruce Cain, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Keynote Address
Bill Bradley, former US Senator for NJ (1979-1997) and candidate for the Democratic nomination for President (2000).
In the 2016 election, two independent political figures—Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders—rose to prominence on strong populist, anti-establishment, and, to some extent, anti-party profiles. One did so with no prior government experience. Yet, for long stretches of our history, these outcomes would have been inconceivable under our presidential primary system. The NYU Law Review’s symposium will examine whether and how to redesign one of the most important features in American democracy: the legal structure through which presidential nominees are selected.
Thursday, November 2nd, 8:30AM-7:00PM
Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South
RSVP here: https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/
