Professor Andrew Schepard participated in the Families Matter Symposium at the University of Baltimore School of Law organized by the American Bar Association Section on Family Law from June 24th to 25th. The purpose of the Symposium was to convene national leaders from different disciplines to create an agenda for “changing the practice of family law from an adversarial and divisive process to one that focuses on methods that are less destructive to families and children.”

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How Two Questions Caused Death Penalty Misstep
A. G. SULZBERGER
New York Times
July 1, 2010

EXCERPT:

“The prosecutor is not allowed to advance his or her case by exploiting the fact that the defendant did something that he has every constitutional right to do,” said Eric M. Freedman, a professor of constitutional law at Hofstra University. “If it were permitted, the constitutional right would be undermined.”

Read the full article at nytimes.com.

Professor Miriam Albert was a presenter at Emory University School of Law’s Center for Transactional Law and Practice’s biannual conference “Transactional Education: What’s Next” on June 5. Professor Albert was featured in an “Exercise Showcase” where she demonstrated how to include a significant skills component in a traditional doctrinal case analysis, even in a large classroom setting; she offered a new way to think about both teaching doctrinal transactional law, and teaching transactional skills law- highlighting the overlaps and synergies, to help erode the divide between these two conceptually-linked areas of teaching.

Professor Norman Silber has been formally appointed to the position of Visiting Professor of Law for the spring 2011 term at Yale Law School. During that semester, he will teach Comparative Consumer and Products Liability Law. For the coming fall semester, Professor Silber has been named a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, where he will begin work on an oral history of Judge Guido Calabresi.

Associate Professor of Legal Writing, Susan Joffe delivered a presentation to the Education Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association on “Risks and Opportunities: The Interview and Selection Process” on June 15. The presentation focused on complying with legal guidelines while gathering necessary and relevant information for effective hiring decisions.

Susan Joffe is also serving as a judge for the 2010 Scribes Brief Writing Award Competition for Scribes, the American Society of Legal Writers.