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Caught In The Web: Immigrant Children In Removal Proceedings, Claire R. Thomas, Lenni B. Benson

Articles & Chapters

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Civil Government Lawyers In South Africa, Jonathan Klaaren

NYLS Law Review

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The Next Fifteen Years, Melynda Barnhart

NYLS Law Review

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Clinical Legal Education’S Contribution To Building Constitutionalism And Democracy In South Africa: Past, Present, And Future, Peggy Maisel, Shaheda Mahomed, Meetali Jain

NYLS Law Review

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Legal Education In South Africa: Harmonizing The Aspirations Of Transformative Constitutionalism With Our Educational Legacy, Lesley Greenbaum

NYLS Law Review

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An Organizing Approach To Human Trafficking In Domestic Work, Tiffany Williams, Leah Obias

NYLS Law Review

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The Next Fifteen Years, Melynda Barnhart

Articles & Chapters

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Said I, But You Have No Choice: Why A Lawyer Must Ethically Honor A Client's Decision About Mental Health Treatment Even If It Is Not What S/He Would Have Chosen, Michael L. Perlin, Naomi Weinstein

Articles & Chapters

This paper addresses a remarkably under-considered topic: the ethical standards for lawyers representing persons with mental disabilities. Although there is an extensive body of literature endorsing “zealous advocacy” as the standard for the criminal defense lawyer in “ordinary” cases, there is virtually no literature (or case law) on this question in this context.

Our thesis is simple. We reject the model of “paternalism/best interests” that is regularly substituted for a traditional legal advocacy position, and a substitution that is rarely questioned. We believe this presumption flies in the face of statutory law, constitutional law, and international human rights law, and …

The Decline Of Professionalism, Rebecca Roiphe

Articles & Chapters

Traditionally, professionalism conceived of the professions as central to democratic society. Because professionals gained their status through reputation not wealth, they were in the best position to suppress their own self-interest in order to ascertain and pursue the public good. This Article argues that this traditional understanding of the professions was lost as a market ideology took hold in the 1970s. Professionalism gradually became synonymous with the delivery of services. This Article draws on this intellectual history to argue that aspects of the traditional concept of professionalism can and should be revived today.

Promoting Justice From The Inside: The Counseling Role Of Local Government And School District Attorneys, Lisa Grumet

Articles & Chapters

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"Mr. Bad Example": Why Lawyers Need To Embrace Therapeutic Jurisprudence To Root Out Sanism In The Representation Of Persons With Mental Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

Litigants with mental disabilities are taken less seriously by their own lawyers, trivialized by opposing counsel, and disparaged by judges. This is largely a result of “sanism,” an irrational prejudice of the same quality and character of other irrational prejudices such as racism, sexism or homophobia. Recognizing and combatting sanism creates extra burdens on lawyers who do seek to provide effective counsel for this population. Such lawyers need special tools to combat sanism, and we believe that lawyering skills rooted in therapeutic jurisprudence provide the best foundation through which to create a positive psychology of persuasion in this representation. Our …

Access To Justice In Latin America: A Changing Legal Landscape, Joan Vermeulen

IMPACT: Collected Essays on Expanding Access to Justice

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Filling The Gaps: Another Way To Tackle The Access To Justice Crisis, Karen Simmons

IMPACT: Collected Essays on Expanding Access to Justice

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Moving Women Out Of Poverty: A Call To Action For Legal Aid, Catherine Carr

IMPACT: Collected Essays on Expanding Access to Justice

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

IMPACT: Collected Essays on Expanding Access to Justice

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

IMPACT: Collected Essays on Expanding Access to Justice

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The Tyler Clementi Internet Safety Conference, Innovation Center For Law And Technology

Innovation Center for Law and Technology

October 3-4, 2015

The Internet Safety Conference is an unprecedented gathering of policy makers, political and business leaders, attorneys, social scientists, academics, teachers, students, and nonprofit advocates all focused on combatting cyberharassment.

Today, we launch a first-of-its-kind pro bona clinic that will help victims of cyberharassment obtain justice. The Tyler Clementi Institute for Internet Safety will eradicate cyberharassment one client at a time. Over the next two days, our community will begin a conversation that will raise awareness of the problem of cyberharassment, identify what work needs to be done, and empower us to take action. In particular, we will …

Strategic Plan Progress And Outcomes (2015), New York Law School

Strategic Plan and Initiatives

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New York Law School Magazine, Vol. 34, No. 1, New York Law School

New York Law School Magazine

Features:

New York Law School Kicks off its 125th Anniversary Celebration

NYLS and the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School Join Forces

NYLS Ties Run Deep in Brooklyn

The Center for New York City Law Celebrates 20 Years

In memoriam: Kathleen Grimm ’80

Cynthia Senko Rosicki ’86 Launches London Fellowship in Law and Dramatic Arts

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2015 Commencement Program, New York Law School

Commencement Programs

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Viewbook 2015, New York Law School

Admissions Viewbooks

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Impact: Collected Essays On The Threat Of Economic Inequality, New York Law School

Articles and Writings

On April 17, 2015, the Impact Center for Public Interest Law at New York Law School hosted a symposium entitled "Tackling Economic Inequality" to bring together policymakers, advocates, academics, and community members to explore some of the causes and solutions to this growing problem. The essays collected in this volume, written by leading social justice advocates, are published to stimulate continued conversation on this critically important issue.

Contributors:

THE CHALLENGE OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY | Richard R. Buery, Jr., Honorable Fern Fisher

HOUSING AND COMMUNITY | Steven W. Bender, Elise C. Boddie , Andrew Scherer

CRIMINAL JUSTI CE REFORM | Michael …

How Teaching About Therapeutic Jurisprudence Can Be A Tool Of Social Justice, And Lead Law Students To Personally And Socially Rewarding Careers: Sexuality And Disability As A Case Example, Michael L. Perlin, Alison Lynch

Articles & Chapters

Therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) asks us to look at law as it actually impacts people’s lives and focuses on the law’s influence on emotional life and psychological well-being. It suggests that law should value psychological health, should strive to avoid imposing anti-therapeutic consequences whenever possible, and — when consistent with other values served by law — should attempt to bring about healing and wellness. The ultimate aim of TJ is to determine whether legal rules and procedures or lawyer roles can or should be reshaped to enhance their therapeutic potential while not subordinating due process principles. An inquiry into therapeutic outcomes …

Tilting At Stratification: Against A Divide In Legal Education, Rebecca Roiphe

Articles & Chapters

Critics suggest we divide law schools into an elite tier whose graduates serve global business clients and a lower tier, which would prepare lawyers for simple disputes. This idea is not new. A similar proposal emerged in the early twentieth century. This article draws on the historical debate to argue that this simplistic approach cannot solve the myriad problems facing the legal profession and legal education. Supporters of separate tiers of law school rely on a caricature of the early history to argue that the Bar is acting in a protectionist way to ensure its own monopoly and keep newcomers …

Residential Landlord-Tenant Law In New York, 2015-2016 Ed., Andrew Scherer, Fern A. Fisher

Books

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Lawyer Ethics And The Financial Action Task Force: A Call To Action, Jack P. Sahl

NYLS Law Review

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Remembering The Freedom Riders: An Interview With The Honorable Ernst H. Rosenberger, Ernst H. Rosenberger

NYLS Law Review

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The Financial Action Task Force And The Legal Profession, Duncan E. Osborne

NYLS Law Review

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J.K.C. V. T.W.C., Richard Pearsall

NYLS Law Review

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The Clinical Year Begins, Stephen Ellmann

Articles & Chapters

Law school clinics are inspired by medical school clinical education, but usually operate quite differently from their medical school counterparts. The Clinical Year, which this Article discusses, borrows more completely from medical education by immersing students in a full-year, 24-credit course in which students work full-time in three different law office placements, under the guidance of full-time faculty and of adjunct faculty members at each placement. This Article first outlines how such a course works, and demonstrates that it can be offered under therules that now govern legal education. Then the Article argues that despite the Clinical Year's differences from …