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Thirty-Fourth Annual Commencement Exercises, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law
Thirty-Fourth Annual Commencement Exercises, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law
Commencement Programs
Order of Exercises
Processional:
Herbert C. Dobrinsky, Vice President for University Affairs, Yeshiva University; Herald
Presiding:
Morton Lowengrub, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Yeshiva University; Chief Marshal
Richard M. Joel, President, Yeshiva University
National Anthem:
Cantor Ira W. Heller, Class of 2008
Invocation:
Rabbi Ozer Glickman, Adjunct Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Welcome:
Leslie E. Payson, Chair, Cardozo Board of Overseers, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Class of 1991
Remarks:
Matthew Diller, Dean, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Commencement Address:
Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Presentation of …
New Private Law Theory And Tort Law: A Comment, Keith N. Hylton
New Private Law Theory And Tort Law: A Comment, Keith N. Hylton
Faculty Scholarship
This comment was prepared for the Harvard Law Review symposium on “The New Private Law,” as a response to Benjamin Zipursky’s principal paper on torts. I find Zipursky’s reliance on Cardozo’s Palsgraf opinion as a foundational source of tort theory troubling, for two reasons. First, Cardozo fails to offer a consistent theoretical framework for tort law in his opinions, many of which are difficult to reconcile with one another. Second, Palsgraf should be understood as an effort by Cardozo to provide greater predictability, within a special class of proximate cause cases, by reallocating decision-making power from juries to judges. It …
The Distinctiveness Of Appellate Adjudication, Heidi Li Feldman
The Distinctiveness Of Appellate Adjudication, Heidi Li Feldman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This paper concerns two topics which, I hope to show, are vitally connected. One is the distinctive importance of appellate adjudication in the legal system of United States. The other is the workings of entangled concepts in the law. That appellate adjudication is important in some sense may seem obvious to everybody (to a few it will seem obvious that appellate adjudication is unimportant). My point will be that via appellate adjudication courts engineer entangled legal concepts, and it is this aspect of appellate adjudication that is both crucial and unique to it, at least in the U.S. legal system. …