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.

In 2008, New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board allowed landlords of rent-subsidized apartments to raise rents by 4.5 percent for one-year leases and 8.5 percent for two-year leases.

Last week, the Appellate Division First Department affirmed an earlier decision, which ruled in favor of City Council and advocates for New York’s lower-paying tenants, stating that the rent increase was a “poor tax.”

Professor Stefan Krieger reports that the ruling in the original case was based directly on a Second Department decision in a Law Reform Advocacy Clinic case: NY Tenants & Neighbors Coalition v. Nassau County Rent Guidelines Board, 53 A.D.3d 550; 861 N.Y.S.2d 766 (2d Dept. 2008).

“The theory in this case – which was newly developed by our students – is having a big effect” said Krieger.

New York City’s Law Department now plans to ask the state’s highest court to review it. Should the ruling stand, approximately 300,000 rent-stabilized tenants could receive rebates and small reductions in their rent.

For more details, read previous stories in the New York Daily News, New York Times, and Blogstra.

Professor Camille Nelson has been named dean of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts effective September 1, 2010.

Professor Nelson will be the first woman and the first person of color to hold the position of dean in Suffolk Law School’s 104-year history. Professor Nelson is a widely recognized scholar in the field of critical race theory and cultural studies. Her writings are respected for both their insights and creativity.

Before joining Hofstra Law in fall 2009, Professor Nelson was a visiting faculty member at Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law where she was the Dean’s Distinguished Scholar in Residence. From 2000-2009, she was a faculty member at Saint Louis University School of Law.

To read more about Professor Nelson’s new role, read news articles from The National Law Journal and the Boston Globe.