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Face Fear—Don’T Fake It, Heidi K. Brown

Articles & Chapters

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Hidden Nondefense: Partisanship In State Attorneys General Amicus Briefs And The Need For Transparency, Lisa Grumet

Articles & Chapters

In all fifty states, the State Attorney General (SAG) — as the state’s chief legal officer — is charged with defending state laws that are challenged in court. If an SAG declines to defend or challenges a state law on the ground that it is unconstitutional — an action scholars describe as “nondefense” — the SAG ordinarily will disclose this decision to the public.

This Essay discusses a hidden form of nondefense that can occur when SAGs file amicus curiae briefs on behalf of their states in matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Surprisingly, some SAGs have joined multistate amicus …

Temptation's Page Flies Out The Door: Navigating Complex Systems Of Disability And The Law From A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective, Michael L. Perlin, Mehgan Gallagher

Articles & Chapters

This article considers the difficulties inherent in the navigation of the legal system and the disability system, difficulties made more complicated when these systems intersect. Although this problem is not a new one, remarkably, it has never been the subject of any legal scholarship. We argue here that it is futile to consider either system to be a uniform one, and that to make any sense of the underlying ambiguities, it is necessary to consider both the potential conflicts both between domestic and international law (using fitness to proceed to trial as a case example), and the conflicts between social …

Are Make Believes Juries As Good For Prosecutors As Real Ones, Rebecca Roiphe

Articles & Chapters

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Tribute To Professor Lewis R. Katz: Beloved Mentor, Global Visionary, Entrepreneur, Gerald Korngold

Articles & Chapters

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A Man Of Ubuntu: A South African Colleague's Tribute To Stephen Ellmann, Penelope Andrews

Articles & Chapters

In Memoriam: Stephen Ellmann

Civility Reboot: Can Lawyers Learn To Be Nicer To One Another, Heidi K. Brown

Articles & Chapters

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Training Powerful Legal Communicators: What Does The Future Hold, Nicholas W. Allard, Heidi K. Brown

Articles & Chapters

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Learning Outcomes And Performance In Medical School: Programmatic Assessment At Nyu School Of Medicine, Colleen Gillespie Phd, Sondra Zabar Md, Adina Kalet Md, Mph

NYLS Law Review

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Bridging The Divide Between Assessment And Accreditation, Docia L. Rudley

NYLS Law Review

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Reflections On Identifying And Mapping Learning Competencies And Outcomes: What Do We Want Law Students To Learn?, Margaret Martin Barry

NYLS Law Review

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Assessment Of Professional Values In Experiential Education In Law: Becoming Who We Are Through Practice, John Erbes, Rebecca J. O'Neill

NYLS Law Review

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Assessing Law Students As Reflective Practitioners, Jodi S. Balsam, Susan L. Brooks, Margaret Reuter

NYLS Law Review

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Legal Education And The Civil Law System, Rodrigo Sadi

NYLS Law Review

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Visual Literacy For The Legal Profession, Richard K. Sherwin

Articles & Chapters

Digital technology has transformed the way we communicate in society. Swept along on a digital tide, words, sounds, and images easily, and often, flow together. This state of affairs has radically affected not only our commercial and political practices in society, but also the way we practice law.

Unfortunately, legal education and legal theory have not kept up. Inconsistencies and unpredictability in the way courts ascertain the admissibility of various kinds of visual evidence and visual argumentation, lapses in the cross examination of visual evidence at trial, and inadequately theorized notions of visual meaning and the epistemology of affect tell …

May Federal Prosecutors Take Direction From The President?, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe

Articles & Chapters

Suppose the president sought to serve as prosecutor-in-chief telling prosecutors when to initiate or dismiss criminal charges in individual cases and making other discretionary decisions that are normally reserved to trained professionals familiar with the facts, law, and traditions of the U.S. Department of Justice. To what extent may prosecutors follow the president's direction? In recent presidential administrations, the president has respected prosecutorial independence; while making policy decisions, the president deferred to the Attorney General and subordinate federal prosecutors to conduct individual criminal cases. In a recent article, we argued that this is as it should be because the president …

Distilling Fear, Heidi K. Brown

Articles & Chapters

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Exploring The Origins Of America's Adversarial Legal Culture, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

Other Publications

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Teaching Legal Technology, Camille Broussard, Kathleen Brown, Daniel Cordova, Sarah Mauldin

Articles & Chapters

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Can Government Lawyers Be Heroes?, Rebecca Roiphe

Articles & Chapters

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The Practice - And Rule - Of Law, Stephen Ellmann

Articles & Chapters

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Promoting Dignity And Preventing Shame And Humiliation By Improving The Quality And Education Of Attorneys In Sexually Violent Predator (Svp) Civil Commitment Cases, Heather Ellis Cucolo, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

In Strickland vs. Washington, the Supreme Court acknowledged that the role of counsel is critical to the ability of the adversarial system to best insure that just results are produced. Yet, the Court did not elaborately define the Sixth Amendment constitutional right to counsel and lower courts, have set the bar shockingly low.

In this article we examine the quality of attorneys who litigate Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA) cases, and conclude that a failure to apply a higher standard of adequate counsel – beyond what was set out in Strickland – results in humiliation, shame and lack of dignity …

Justice, Justice Shall Ye Pursue, Honorable Jonathan Lippman

Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law

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The Civil Legal Aid Movement: 15 Initiatives That Are Increasing Access To Justice In The United States, David Udell

Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law

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Pro Pro Bono: Volunteer Lawyers Are An Essential Part Of Access To Civil Justice, Amy Barasch, Esq.

Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law

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The Downside Of Disruption: The Risks Associated With Transformational Change In The Delivery Of Legal Services, Raymond H. Brescia

Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law

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Tort Reform: Blocking The Courthouse Door And Denying Access To Justice, Joanne Doroshow

Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law

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Access To Justice In Buffalo And Beyond: Making The Justice System More Welcoming For Refugees, Fidèle Menavanza, Ms, Llb

Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law

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Why A Right: The Right To Counsel And The Ecology Of Housing Justice, Andrew Scherer

Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law

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Expanding Access To Justice: Alternatives To Full Representation In New York State, Randal Jeffrey

Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law

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