Archives for: June 2011
Monroe Freedman Comments On Ceglia's Ownership Case
June 30th, 2011In April, when DLA Piper agreed to take on case brought by Paul Ceglia, a businessman from upstate New York claiming to own 84 percent of Facebook, DLA partner Robert Brownlie said the firm "would not have gotten involved if we had any doubts about the f… more »
Bennett Capers Contributes to The New York Times Room for Debate on Religious Exemptions to Same-Sex Marriage Laws
June 30th, 2011Giving a Blessing to Bias
By Bennett Capers
The New York Times
June 30, 2011
Excerpt:
Religious exemptions allow marriage discrimination to continue. Such exemptions, indirectly, give their blessing to other forms of discrimination. To permit re… more »
James Sample Asserts New York Rule is “Ahead of the Curve” in Addressing Concerns Over Judicial Contributions
June 29th, 2011New Rule Takes Aim at Judges and Their Campaign Supporters
By Carlyn Kolker and Noleen Walder
Thomson Reuters
June 28, 2011
Excerpt:
James Sample, an ethics professor at Hofstra Law School, applauded New York for "being ahead of the curve in ad… more »
James Sample Says Wisconsin Supreme Court Has Gone from Being a “National Model to a National Punch Line”
June 29th, 2011Justice Prosser Was Asked to Get Help for Anger, Sources Say
By Patrick Marley and Emma Roller
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
June 28, 2011
Excerpt:
James Sample, a professor at Hofstra Law School in New York who has been monitoring Wisco… more »
Nora Demleitner Authors Editorial in The National Law Journal
June 27th, 2011Politics of fear tacticsBy Nora DemleitnerNational Law Journal June 27, 2011Excerpt:Ostensibly to decrease the number of crimes committed by deportable noncitizen offenders who have served their criminal justice sentence, Rep. Lamar Smith (… more »
Barbara Stark Presents at Law & Society Annual Meeting
June 27th, 2011Barbara Stark presented her paper, "International Law From the Bottom Up: Fragmentation and Transformation," at the Law & Society Annual Meeting, in San Francisco, on June 4, 2011. more »
Barbara Stark Publishes Two Articles
June 27th, 2011The following two articles written by Barbara Stark have recently been published:
What’s Left? (review of INTERNATIONAL LAW ON THE LEFT: RE-EXAMINING MARXIST LEGACIES (Susan Marks ed. 2008) 42 GEO. WASH. INT’L L. REV. 191-215 (2011)
At Last? Ratif… more »
Professors Capers, Stark, and Villazor among Participants at AALS Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality
June 27th, 2011Several Hofstra professors participated in this years AALS Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality, which was held on June 21-22 in Washington D.C. Professor Barbara Stark participated in a panel on Gender and International Human Rights, where she pres… more »
Rose Cuison Villazor presented paper on birthright citizenship at Law & Society on June 3, 2011
June 23rd, 2011Professor Villazor presentd her paper, "Revisiting Birthright Citizenship," at the annual Law & Society conference in San Francisco, on June 3, 2011. Her paper was part of a panel entitled, "Citizen/Noncitizen, Documented/Undocumented, and Maintainin… more »
Rose Cuison Villazor presents, "The Other Loving: Uncovering the Federal Government's Racial Regulation of Marriage," at the AALS Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality
June 23rd, 2011Professor Villazor presented her latest article, "The Other Loving: Uncovering the Federal Government's Racial Regulation of Marriage," at the 2011 AALS Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality.This article is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review. Go to www.… more »
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