On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Professor Eric Lane will be participating in a panel discussion about "Charting New York City's Future." Professor Lane was the Executive Director/Counsel for the 1989 Charter Commission. The event is presented by Citizens Union Foundation and is being held at Baruch College.

Professor Scott Fruehwald has created a website entitled “Neurojurisprudence” at sfruehwald.com. Neurojurisprudence is the study of legal philosophy using techniques of evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and related fields. The website contains short articles, bibliographies, and links to other information on neurojurisprudence and law & behavioral biology.

On Friday, January 29, Professor Julian Ku appeared on News 12's program, Long Island Talks, to discuss the legal implications of the plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court in Manhattan.

Professor Eric M. Freedman was featured in the following Legal History Blog post highlighting his forthcoming scholarly work entitled, “Habeas Corpus in Three Dimensions." The post contains an outline of Professor Freedman's three dimensions.

AALS Legal History Panel on Habeas Corpus: a report
by Mary L. Dudziak
February 1, 2010

EXCERPT:

Professor Freedman began by recounting four New England cases of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in which wrongfully imprisoned plaintiffs were released by courts although their filings had not sought writs of habeas corpus. Presenting parallel cases of prisoners who were released through that writ, he argued that for many scholarly purposes to restrict research to writs explicitly labeled “habeas” is too narrow. He suggested that there is often little point in pursuing distinctions among writs in this context both because of the informality of colonial legal practice, and because the question was one on which nothing particularly turned when the issue was a potentially wrongful imprisonment – an issue which led the courts to cut through whatever technicalities they might otherwise have been inclined to enforce.

Hofstra Law alum and President of the New York Yankees, Randy Levine will be the keynote speaker at the Sports Industry Networking and Career (SINC) Conference. Joel Segal, NFL sports agent and Hofstra Law alum, will also be a keynote speaker. The Conference will be held at George Washington University in Washington, DC, on March 5-6, 2010.

Associate Professor of Law I. Bennett Capers participated as a commentator at the Young Scholars Roundtable, a two-day gathering of young criminal law and criminal procedure scholars, hosted by Vanderbilt Law School. The Roundtable included scholars from several law schools, including Michigan, U.Va., Wash. U., and Berkeley.

During the Northeast Regional Black Law Student Association Convention, the following Hofstra Law students were named to Regional BLSA E-board Officer Positions for the 2010-2011 school year.

Ashley Elem- Secretary
Mikos Theodule- Attorney General
Isis Davidson- Director of Programming
Madelyne Mostiller- Director of Community Service
Ruby Stowe as Director of Undergraduate Relations

Also at the Convention, Hofstra Law students competed in the Frederick Douglas Moot Court and Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial.

The Northeast Region of BLSA, comprised of all the law schools in New York State, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and the New England areas, was named Region of the Year by the national organization.

Professor James Sample was quotes in the following New York Times article.

Hanging a ‘For Sale’ Sign Over the Judiciary
by Dorothy Samuels
January 29, 2010

EXCERPT:

Thoughtful candidates known to look at the law on a case-by-case basis will be at a distinct disadvantage, forecasts Professor James Sample, a judicial elections expert at Hofstra Law School. The accelerated money war, he warns, will inevitably polarize the bench “because more moderate candidates are unlikely to be considered a bankable vote by any special interest group investing heavily in judicial campaigns.”