Professor J. Herbie DiFonzo discusses the conflict between states and the federal government over medical marijuana. DiFonzo recently co-authored a piece with Ruth C. Stern for the Quinnipiac Law Review titled The End of the Red Queen's Race: Medical Marijuana in the New Century.

Watch the video at Youtube.com/HofstraLawSchool.

Professor Hillary Burgess ranked in the #1 slot of recent downloads for the seven (7) SSRN eJournals, including Cognitive Science Network: Law and Legal Writing. Additionally, she holds the #2 slot for the three (3) SSRN ejournals, including Law Educator and Law & Neuroscience, the #3 slot for the seven (7) SSRN ejournals, including Legal Education and the entire Cognitive Science Network. She is listed as a top 10 recent download on 20 SSRN eJournal topics and eJournals top paper lists, including Legal Education and Law, Brain, and Behavior. Her paper, entitled, Deepening the Discourse through the Legal Mind’s Eye: Lessons from Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, and Educational Psychology that Optimize Learning Law, applies interdisciplinary fields on adult learning to teaching and learning within the law school context, providing both a theoretical background on how law students learn and practical tips on implementing pedagogically sound teaching methods.

With her first accepted article posted to SSRN, Professor Burgess ranks in the top 30% of all SSRN authors. With over 185 hits for this paper, Professor Burgess has the highest number of recent downloads per paper of all Hofstra authors. The paper ranks in the top 25% of all papers posted to SSRN.

Professors Alafair Burke and Bennett Capers were among the presenters in a roundtable discussion, "And All the Pieces Matter...Thoughts on 'The Wire,'" on May 27 at the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association in Chicago. Other panelists included Susan Bandes (DePaul), Jeffrey Fagan (Columbia), David Sklansky (Berkeley), and David Simon, the creator of both The Wire and Treme. The Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law will be publishing essays arising from the roundtable discussion.

Government Bad/Corporations Good
Daniel JH Greenwood
Dissent Magazine
June 2, 2010

EXCERPT:

In a recession people save, if they can, because they are scared about their own financial prospects and those of their relatives—losing their jobs or their existing savings. Meanwhile, the financial industries, which are supposed to recycle savings into investments, fail to do so, because they see less potential for future profit. At the same time, increased savings means lower demand for current consumption, thus further reducing private profit potential and worsening the recession.

The judicial independence site Gavel Grab features Professor James Sample's new article in the post, "Scholar: Caperton Has Fueled Real Reforms". Prof. Sample's article is entitled, “Court Reform Enters the Post-Caperton Era.” The post includes some excerpts from the article:

“The groundbreaking recusal rule adopted by the Michigan Supreme Court…as well as the public financing system signed into law in Wisconsin, have the potential to mitigate the appearance of money influencing the judiciary in the courts of those states."

Read the full post at GavelGrab.com.