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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

• Morgan A. McCollum, Local Government Plaintiffs and the Opioid Multi-District Litigation

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

• Meghan Racklin, Title IX and Criminal Law on Campus: Against Mandatory Police Involvement in Campus Sexual Assault Case
• James J. Mayer, Rejecting the Class Action Tolling Forfeiture Rule

Edmond Cahn Award
A third-year editor other than a senior editor who has contributed to the Law Review in an outstanding fashion

• Loren M. Scolaro

Morton Geller Award
A third-year editor other than a senior editor who has contributed to the Law Review in an outstanding fashion

• James M. Brennan
• Morgan A. McCollum

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/form/SV_b29PNOrz0yehUJT

We are proud to publish our April 2017 book, which pays tribute to Chief Judge Judith Kaye of the New York Court of Appeals.

Judge Kaye was a trailblazer as the first female Chief Judge for New York and the longest-serving judge in New York history. Judge Kaye utilized her tenure to reform and modernize the New York courts, and to ensure indigent parties could achieve justice in court.

In a recent op-ed for the L.A. Times, Executive Editor Getzy Berger (’17) discusses the merits of nationwide injunctions. Berger discusses how liberals criticized the sweeping nature of nationwide injunctions for halting President Obama’s executive actions, and how liberals have flipped their arguments as nationwide injunctions halt President Trump’s executive actions. Berger argues that it is a “bedrock principle of the federal judiciary that lower federal ccourts, meaning all courts below the Supreme Court, don’t make nationwide law,” and that the “structure and integrity of our federal courts are more important than the outcome of an individual case or two.” His op-ed is based on his Note, forthcoming in the Volume 92, Issue 4 (October 2017).

Berger’s post can be found here. A copy of Berger’s Note can be found on his SSRN page here.