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Can The Law Protect My Craft? How Gaps In Copyright Of Knitting Patterns Symbolize A Greater Struggle For Protecting Traditionally Feminine Forms Of Intellectual Property, Kysa Walzer

Seattle University Law Review

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the application of intel-lectual property rights within the context of copyright protection of knit-ting patterns. The article will discuss the underutilization of copyright pro-tection for knitters and crafters and its larger impact upon craft and indus-try traditionally comprised of women. Part I introduces knitting patterns and a short history of copyright protections. Part II discusses the specific areas within knitting patterns and the knitting community which give rise to legal grey areas for copyright protection. Part III discusses the larger implications of copyright and intellectual property in spaces where women traditionally make …

Role-Playing For Learning: Enhancing Skills In Doctrinal Courses, Yael Efron, Nellie Munin

DRI Press

This book addresses the need that educators have to make theoretical concepts tangible. Teachers across various subjects and educational settings grapple with the challenge of communicating abstract ideas to diverse audiences while aiming to ignite curiosity and sustain engagement. The authors offer their insight into the method of role-playing in various law courses in a highly diverse class. The book contains thirteen simulations with teaching notes, along with the theoretical background for this method of teaching.

This is the first in a series of skills books published as part of Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s Laboratory for Advancing Dispute Resolution …

Civility And Inter-Cultural Dialogue: Negotiating Respect In The Law School Classroom And Beyond, Chris Chambers Goodman

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

Increasing polarization magnifies the importance of inter-cultural dialogue, which can be fruitful if the participants treat one another with civility. Civility manifests in various forms, and this Comment will focus on civility through the lens of Stephen L. Carter’s lauded book Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy, applying lessons at the micro-level in the law school classroom. Part II explores various aspects of civility and the rules governing civility. Then, Part III focuses on civility in the legal profession and California’s new Continuing Learning Education (CLE) requirement. Next, Part IV briefly addresses views of civility from faith perspectives. …

Cardozo Law News Brief: July 11, 2025, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Briefs

This Cardozo Law News Brief highlights the school’s 10th annual Pride Brunch, where students and alumni gathered to celebrate Cardozo’s LGBTQ+ community while watching the NYC Pride March. It also features a major Immigration Justice Clinic court victory advancing transparency in ICE procedures, with students playing a central role in the case. In the media, Professor Jacob Noti-Victor spoke to WIRED about Meta’s win in a landmark AI copyright case, and Professor Haiyun Damon-Feng was quoted in Law360 on the Supreme Court’s decision limiting universal injunctions. Additional scholarship news includes Professors Matthew Wansley and Samuel Weinstein’s co-authored article No Exit …

Staff Development Day 2025: Topics On Jewish Law & Culture, Ellen Drucker-Albert

Library Staff Presentations

This presentation was delivered by Ellen Drucker-Albert, Head of Reference & Faculty Services, during Staff Development Day 2025 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. It explores key aspects of Jewish law and culture, including the sources and development of Halacha, intersections with U.S. civil law, Jewish holidays and food customs, denominations of Judaism, and symbols like the mezuzah.

Immigration Justice Clinic Students Secure Major Court Victory In Ice Transparency Case, Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic

Cardozo Law News Archive

Students in the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic secured a major legal victory in federal court, advancing transparency around the treatment of Black immigrants in detention. In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case filed in the Eastern District of New York, the court granted the clinic’s motion for partial summary judgment, compelling ICE to release key demographic data linked to records of abuse and misconduct. The successful motion was drafted by recent graduates Rob Cook ’25, Keisy Germosen ’25, and Stacy Moses ’25, under the supervision of Teaching Fellow Ellie Norton, marking an important step in government accountability.

Cardozo Celebrates Pride With 10th Annual Pride Brunch, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Archive

Cardozo celebrated the 10th Annual Pride Brunch on June 29, bringing together students and alumni in the Ruth & H. Bert Mack Pavilion to watch the NYC Pride March. Hosted by the Alumni Association and OUTlaw Alumni Group, the event honored the school’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community and marked the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges. Proceeds supported the Paris Baldacci Scholarship, which benefits students advancing LGBTQ+ rights through clinics, externships, or activism, honoring the legacy of the late professor and his groundbreaking advocacy.

Medium Matters In Preparing For Law Practice: Critical E-Reading, Amanda L. Sholtis

Faculty Scholarship

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Teaching With Ai - And Teaching Students To Use It Well, John Lande

Faculty Publications

This article argues that the rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into legal practice creates an opportunity-and need-for legal educators to rethink and improve their courses. While some faculty fear that AI will erode students' skills or encourage academic dishonesty, thoughtful use of AI tools in legal education actually can promote deeper learning, improve student writing, and reveal how students actually think. The article distinguishes between summative and formative assessment and explains how AI can produce meaningful formative feedback. It offers specific examples of AI-based assignments that can help students build core professional skills, and it highlights the importance of …

Facing Faculty Fears About Ai, John Lande

Faculty Publications

This essay addresses a widespread but rarely voiced concern among faculty: the fear of appearing uninformed, unprepared, or even outmatched by students when incorporating AI into their teaching. While worries about cheating, hallucinations, de-skilling, and loss of control are legitimate, this essay encourages faculty to shift from fear to curiosity. It argues that acknowledging uncertainty can strengthen faculty–student relationships and model the curiosity and humility we hope to cultivate in students.

It outlines two general strategies for faculty: restricting AI use when students need to build foundational skills, and requiring it when students are ready to develop professional judgment using …

Getting Help From Ai To Update Your Syllabus (Even If You Think It's Just Fine), John Lande

Faculty Publications

Law school faculty often reuse the same syllabi from year to year, assuming that if a course "isn't broken," it doesn't need fixing. But with the upcoming NextGen Bar Exam, new lawyer licensing regimes, and the widespread use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, the context for teaching dispute resolution is changing rapidly.

This short article encourages faculty to reflect on their syllabi and consider how generative AI tools can support thoughtful, efficient updates. It offers practical strategies for adapting to bar exam and licensing developments, incorporating AI skills into courses, integrating representation and neutral perspectives, and redesigning assignments to …

Moot Court Teams Earning National Accolades, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

t was a banner year for the Law School’s moot court competitors, as one team brought home a championship trophy, multiple teams made deep runs in national tournaments, and several students earned impressive individual honors.

“For our external competitions against other schools, we had to have tryouts this year because we had a record number of applicants,” said Professor Lane McFadden, who teaches Legal Writing and Research and Appellate Advocacy and supervises the Law School’s appellate moot court programs. “The rising 2Ls are now excited because the students who are only a year or two ahead of them have done …

Summer 2025

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The Role Of Proactive Management Based Regulation In Assisting Lawyers And Promoting Public Protection, Susan Saab Fortney

Faculty Scholarship

Increasingly, jurisdictions around the world are exploring and implementing proactive, management-based regulation (PMBR) as an alternative to traditional regulatory approaches that discipline attorneys after misconduct occurs. This essay examines the proof and potential of PMBR to empower lawyers and enhance public protection, while transforming the relationship between regulators and practicing lawyers. The essay is based on the Distinguished Lecture the author delivered at the Joseph G. Miller and William C. Becker Center for Professional Responsibility at the University of Akron School of Law.

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Dalhousie Law Journal

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Summer 2025: Retrograde

The Weldon Times

A student-run publication from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Co-Editors in Chief: Kimberly Gilson, Carleigh MacKenzie

Graphics & Layout: Kimberly Gilson

Using Ai To Promote Student Learning Through Preparation For And Reflection About Simulations, John Lande

Faculty Publications

This article provides model language for a course assignment in which students use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to prepare for and reflect on simulations. The assignment promotes deep learning and supports formative assessment by helping faculty see how students think, make choices, and develop insights. Students upload the simulation materials and the assignment to an AI tool, use it to plan for the simulation, and return to the same chat afterward to reflect. They then ask the AI to generate a draft paper, which they revise using the Track Changes feature in Word. Faculty can use the same feature to …

Boundary-Setting And Choice-Making With No "Adult" In The Room: Professional Identity Formation Opportunities For 1ls In The Transactional Context, Marni Goldstein Caputo, Kathleen Luz

Faculty Scholarship

Law schools are now required by the American Bar Association’s Standard 303(b)(3) to provide students with opportunities for professional identity formation throughout their legal education. It is critical that those opportunities be well-balanced and tied to the realities of practice. Yet until recently, we, as 1L lawyering skills professors at Boston University School of Law, only provided those opportunities in the litigation context. Further, our 1L lawyering skills curriculum was, since its inception, almost entirely steeped in litigation. This litigation focus matches neither the career trajectory nor the upper-level experiential opportunities of the majority of our students. In fact, transactional …

Taxprof Blog Op-Ed: More On The University Of Florida, The Adjunct Professor, And The Issues At Hand, Joshua E. Kastenberg

Faculty Scholarship

In assessing the conduct of the University of Florida’s law school leaders, Preston Damsky, Judge John Badalamenti, and the New York Times, I’ll concede that it is darn near impossible for any of us to be objective. But I’d like to contribute to this conversation in a way that at least attempts a degree of objectivity. This comment focuses on the judge turned adjunct professor, but to do so, there is a matter of context.

Proposed Updates To Aba Standards On Distance/Remote Education, Adrien Katherine Wing

Arkansas Law Review

Outside of the legal academy, distance education has expanded greatly over the past decade and this Article provides an overview of the history of distance education, generally and in law schools. In Part III, it assesses the pros and cons of this type of education. In Part IV, it concludes as to whether the system should be expanded, remain the same, or contract.

Be Curious, Not Judgmental: Neurodiversity In Legal Education, Katherine Silver Kelly

Arkansas Law Review

This Article takes the position that the curiosity associated with legal education is limited to those who are neurotypical. For students who are neurodivergent, law school is a place of judgment, not curiosity. The number of neurodiverse law students is increasing, yet they are not sufficiently supported in law school. This Article will seek to show how the current structures of legal education, although fundamentally sound, have become overly rigid. Instead of providing students with intellectual foundations of legal doctrine that prepare them for the challenges of practicing law, the existing status quo stifles those goals. By limiting our practices …

Cardozo Law News Brief: June 27, 2025, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Briefs

This Cardozo Law News Brief highlights the election of 33 members of the Class of 2025 to the Order of the Coif, recognizing their academic excellence. Faculty in the media include Professor Alexander Reinert in Bloomberg Law on the Supreme Court’s decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Professor Anthony Sebok in Law360 on the Senate’s proposed litigation finance tax, Professor Sam Weinstein in the Wall Street Journal and NPR on antitrust issues involving X and Google, Professor Lindsay Nash on NPR discussing ICE’s unprecedented subpoenas to states, and Professor Matthew Wansley in The New York Times on …

Flourishing: A Plan To Strengthen Public Legal Education And Information, The Bc Plei Ecosystem Project, Catherine Dauvergne, Aara Johnson, Shannon Srivastava

All Faculty Publications

The Public Legal Education and Information (PLEI) Sectoral Planning Project, headed by Dr. Catherine Dauvergne, K.C., was commissioned by the Law Foundation of British Columbia with the goal of making recommendations about how to improve public legal education and information in the province. The project was co-sponsored by the Law Foundation and the province’s Ministry of the Attorney General. We have come to understand this constellation of resources and organizations as the “public legal education and information ecosystem.” There is a wide array of high-quality, easily accessible, clearly written, legal information available in British Columbia. Ecosystem leaders are at the …

Sosiologi Hukum Dan Perubahan Sosial: Studi Kasus Uu No. 35 Tahun 2014 Tentang Perlindungan Anak Sebagai Respon Terhadap Kesadaran Sosial Yang Meningkat Akan Hak Anak, Fahrul Rozi

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Dalam konteks sosial yang dinamis, kesadaran akan hak anak telah meningkat, terlihat dari perhatian masyarakat terhadap isu-isu seperti kekerasan, eksploitasi, dan diskriminasi. Meskipun UU No. 35 Tahun 2014 memberikan kerangka hukum yang kuat untuk melindungi hak-hak anak, tantangan dalam pelaksanaannya masih ada, termasuk kurangnya sumber daya dan koordinasi antar lembaga. Anak jalanan, sebagai kelompok yang paling rentan, sering kali terjebak dalam siklus kemiskinan dan stigma sosial, yang menghambat upaya perlindungan. Menekankan pentingnya edukasi dan sosialisasi mengenai hak anak, serta peran aktif masyarakat dan media dalam mendukung perlindungan anak. Dengan kolaborasi antara pemerintah, masyarakat, dan lembaga swadaya masyarakat, diharapkan hak-hak anak …

The Hollywood Reporter Names Four Cardozo Alumni To Top Entertainment Attorney Lists, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Archive

Four Cardozo alumni were recognized by The Hollywood Reporter in its 2025 lists of top entertainment attorneys. Sasha Levites ’11 and Rachel Strom ’06 were named among New York’s Biggest Entertainment Attorneys, while Marc H. Simon ’01 and Gregory Slewett ’02 were included in Hollywood’s Top 100 Attorneys. Their achievements highlight Cardozo’s national strength in Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law, with alumni shaping major film, television, media, and digital industries.

Symposium Introduction: Interrogating The Hidden Curriculum: Implications For Formation Of Professional Identity, David I. C. Thomson

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This article provides an introduction to the Symposium, which was held at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law on September 22 - 23, 2023. The Symposium brought together law professors who have taken up the call in the Carnegie Report and the ABA Accreditation requirement that we make broad and integrated effort to provide opportunities for law students to form their professional identities as future attorneys while they are in law school. The law professors invited to participate in the Symposium have worked and written in the area of professional identity for lawyers for many years, and are …

Vandy Earns Top Prize In Auwcl National Health Law Writing Competition, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

Nicholle Vandy, a rising 3L from Knox, Ind., has become the first Indiana University Maurer School of Law student to earn top honors at the American University Washington College of Law National Health Writing Competition.

Vandy’s paper, “True Man, Captive Mother: Abortion as a Fundamental Self-Defense Right,” was named the winning entry of the 10th annual competition, which encourages law students from across the country to write scholarly papers on current topics of interest relevant to health, food, and/or drug law.

Cardozo Law News Brief, June 13, 2025, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2025

This Cardozo Law News Brief highlights the 47th Commencement, where Dean Melanie Leslie reminded the Class of 2025 of their duty to uphold the Constitution, and the pre-Commencement Awards Ceremony celebrating outstanding student achievements. It also announces the appointment of three new members to the Board of Overseers and features Rachel Strom ’06 joining a special edition of the SPARKS podcast with Deans Leslie and Grand. In the media, Professor Peter Markowitz spoke to PIX11 about ICE’s proposed office on Rikers Island, Professor Lindsay Nash spoke to WBUR on ICE’s use of warrantless arrests, Professor Michael Pollack was quoted in …

Rwu Law Alumni Association Breakfast And Annual Meeting 06-12-2025, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

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Presentations: Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment And Environmental Justice, Samantha Phillps Beers, John C. Dernbach, Emma H. Bast, Margaret O. Murphy

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

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