Professor Hillary Burgess presented Structured Peer Feedback: Creating Experts from Novice Learners at the Empire State Legal Writing Conference. She reviewed some experientially validated techniques of using peer feedback within the law school context. She also introduced some original peer review techniques and linked these new techniques to empirically-validated learning theory. The conference focused on teaching legal doctrine in a way that integrates and emphasizes teaching students practical lawyering skills and ethical considerations. This presentation was based on a presentation she gave at the January 2010 AALS Annual Meeting.

Professor Ronald J. Colombo spoke at the annual conference of the GRUTER INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH on May 25, 2010. The theme of this year’s conference was “Law, Institutions and Human Behavior,” and Prof. Colombo discussed his scholarship on the role of trust in the financial services industry.

Professor Hillary Burgess presented a training on how to wikis to support learning in law school. The training focused on meeting the objectives of Best Practices and Educating Lawyers by providing more feedback, more professional development training, and more collaborative work. Professor Burgess talked about ways that wikis can help professors achieve these learning objectives.

On May 18, 2010, Professor Ron Colombo was quoted in the Newsday article: Suffolk to Mega winners: Pay property tax debt. Prof. Colombo discussed the difficulty that Suffolk County will face in attempting to “pierce the corporate veil” and hold the owners of a charitable corporation personally responsible for that corporation’s tax liability.

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Forcing the managers of a nonprofit group to pay off a tax debt can be tricky, said Ronald Colombo, professor of corporate and securities law at Hofstra University. He said the Morrisons' lottery winnings are "not one of the factors you would ever consider in piercing the corporate veil."

At the Immigration Law Teachers Workshop 2010, hosted by DePaul (Chicago), Dean Nora V. Demleitner was a panelist for "Clinical Design from the Perspective of Law School Administration.". Her co-panelist was Dean Kevin Johnson from UC-Davis, with Prof Sameer Ashar, Director of CUNY's clinics, serving as moderator.