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2017 Cardozo Life (Fall), Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Life

Table of Contents:

Cardozo and Yeshiva University Welcome New President, page 3

Top News & Events, page 4

Clinics News, page 9

The Independent Film Clinic: Lights, Camera, Transaction!, page 12

Faculty Briefs, page 14

In Brief, page 21

Coming to America, page 24

The Innocence Project Turns 25, page 34

Cardozo Law: Then & Now, page 36

Student News, page 39

Know What Your Work is Worth: Lessons from Prince’s Lawyer, page 40

Movers & Shakers, page 42

Alumni News & Class Notes, page 43

End Note, page 49

Immigration Law Lecture Series: Asylum, Cardozo For Immigrants' Rights And Equality (Fire)

Flyers 2016-2017

No abstract provided.

Immigration Law Lecture Series: U-Visa & T-Visa, Cardozo For Immigrants' Rights And Equality (Fire)

Flyers 2016-2017

No abstract provided.

Immigration Law Lecture Series: Citizenship And Naturalization With Sonia Lin, General Counsel, Mayor's Office Of Immigrant Affairs, Cardozo For Immigrants' Rights And Equality (Fire), Cardozo American Constitution Society

Flyers 2016-2017

No abstract provided.

Prosecutorial Discretion Power At Its Zenith: The Power To Protect Liberty, Peter L. Markowitz

Articles

On November 20, 2014, President Obama, frustrated by congressional inaction on immigration, announced an ambitious and potentially transformative prosecutorial discretion policy to forego the deportations of millions of low priority undocumented immigrants. That announcement immediately sparked legal challenges, which quickly wound their way to the Supreme Court, and a nationwide debate about the limits of the President’s prosecutorial discretion authority. President Obama’s actions are part of a larger trend whereby modern presidents have increasingly used robust assertions of prosecutorial discretion powers to achieve policy goals that they could not realize through legislation.

There are clear dangers in allowing a president …