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Vol. 70, No. 3 (January 26, 2026)

Indiana Law Annotated

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P*Law 2026, Cardozo Center For Public Service Law

2026 Event Invitations

Cardozo's commitment to public service is highlighted every January during Public Interest Law Advocacy Week (P*LAW), a series of events that includes daily panels and workshops featuring inspiring conversations about the practice of public interest law. Join us for P*LAW 2026, which will feature panels discussing how to navigate student loans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness, trans rights, a client interviewing workshop, and more! Students must RSVP on Symplicity for the events they plan to attend. Faculty and staff are welcome to attend any session, no RSVP required.

Disability Rights In Today's America, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

2025–2026 Flyers

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Historical Revisionism And Public Institutions: The Smithsonian’S Dilemma, Natalia Palacino Camargo

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (ERSJ) Blog

On August 10, 1846, President James K. Polk signed legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution, created from the bequest of British scientist James Smithson, as “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Structurally, the Smithsonian occupies a unique legal status as a trust instrumentality of the United States: it is governed by a Board of Regents and a Secretary, is separate and distinct from governmental branches of the national government, and holds no regulatory authority beyond its own premises.  While courts have held that it is not a governmental agency, it shares immunity from state and local regulation and …

Lela Love Receives Charles M. Newman Award For Contributions To Dispute Resolution And Mediation Community, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Archive

Lela P. Love, Professor of Law (Emerita) and Founding Director of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution, received the Charles M. Newman Award from the New York State Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the fields of mediation and dispute resolution. The announcement also highlights her pioneering role in establishing Cardozo's nationally recognized dispute resolution program.

Cardozo Law News Brief: January 23, 2026, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Briefs

Highlights from the January 23, 2026, Cardozo Law News Brief include:

• The Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice and Derrick Hamilton celebrated the passage of New York State’s Prison Justice Omnibus Package, marking a major step toward prison reform.

• Professor Lindsay Nash spoke to The Associated Press about a leaked ICE memo allowing warrantless home entries, warning of serious constitutional concerns.

• Professor Kate Levine was quoted in The Economist on police accountability in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting.

Faculty news includes:

• Professor Rebecca Ingber appeared on the Main Justice podcast to discuss the legality of U.S. actions in Venezuela. …

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Women In Law And The Draft, Thomas Helgerman, Benjamin David Pyle

Faculty Scholarship

Between 1964 and 1973, women’s representation in full-time law school programs rose fivefold, from 3.7% to 20.1%. This paper examines whether Vietnam War draft policy contributed to this increase. In 1968, men enrolled in law school lost eligibility for 2-S student deferments, threatening law schools’ tuition revenues and incentivizing schools to admit more women to stabilize enrollment. To test this mechanism, we construct a school-by-year dataset of enrollment counts split by women/men and full-time/part-time status. Using a uniform adoption difference-in-differences design, we find that women’s representation rises by 2 percentage points in full-time programs relative to part-time programs (which were …

Live Screening Of Former Special Counsel Jack Smith's Testimony, Jacob Burns Center For Ethics In The Practice Of Law

2025–2026 Flyers

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All Things Adr Lunch With Faculty & Student Leaders, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Dispute Resolution Honor Competition Society, Cardozo Journal Of Conflict Resolution, Cardozo Dispute Resolution Society

2026 Event Invitations

Please join the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution for All Things ADR, to learn about the dispute resolution societies, competitions and clinics offered at Cardozo.

We will provide information about programs such as the Dispute Resolution Honor Competition Society, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Cardozo Dispute Resolution Society, the Dispute Resolution Clinics, and the Certificate in Dispute Resolution.

All Things Adr, Kukin Program For Conflict Resolution, Cardozo Dispute Resolution Competition Honor Society (Cdrchs), Cardozo Dispute Resolution Society (Cdrs)

2025–2026 Flyers

Please join the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution for All Things ADR, to learn about the dispute resolution societies, competitions and clinics offered at Cardozo.

We will provide information about programs such as the Dispute Resolution Honor Competition Society, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Cardozo Dispute Resolution Society, the Dispute Resolution Clinics, and the Certificate in Dispute Resolution.

Using Westlaw And Lexis: The Many Ways In, Joshua Levine

Library Staff Online Writings

Researching the law depends on finding connections between information. No case or statute exists in a vacuum. The primary advantage of using Westlaw and Lexis is that they point out, on a high level, the connections between individual resources. It is disappointing how often students use natural language search terms or basic AI queries to find all their answers. Within the limitations of class time, it is essential to teach our students as much as possible how pieces of information are connected on these platforms.

Vol. 70, No. 2 (January 19, 2026)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Law Schools Should Teach How To Integrate Ai Tools Into Practice, Robert A. Mackenzie, David J. Reiss

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Now that artificial intelligence tools for lawyers are widely available, we decided to integrate them for a semester in our Entrepreneurship Clinic. We have some important takeaways for legal education in general and the transactional practice of law in particular.

First, employers and educators need to account for law students who already are using AI tools in their legal work and guide new lawyers about how to use such tools appropriately.

Second, different AI products lead to wildly different results. Just demonstrating this to law students is very valuable, as it dispels the notion that AI responses can replace their …

From Contracts To The College Football Playoffs: Stephen Harper’S Unlikely Path To Iu Athletics, James Owsley Boyd

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

On Monday night, as the Indiana University football team takes the field with a national championship on the line, Stephen Harper ’11 will be where tens of thousands of IU alumni wish they could—on the sidelines of Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium.

For Harper, Indiana’s chief operating officer for athletics, the moment is the culmination of a journey that began far from packed stadiums and playoff spotlights. Before contract negotiations, NIL policy, and Big Ten championship trophies, Harper was a high school English teacher and basketball coach at Bloomington North High School.

The National Jurist Names Kellye Testy ’91 Most Influential Person In Legal Education, James Owsley Boyd

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

The National Jurist has named Indiana University Maurer School of Law alumna Kellye Y. Testy ’91 the most influential person in legal education, placing her at the top of its annual list of the 25 most influential leaders in the field.

The ranking is based on a survey of law school deans nationwide. In explaining the methodology, The National Jurist noted that respondents were asked to identify individuals who “sparked new ideas, introduced reforms, inspired their peers, or pushed them to see their work differently.” The resulting list, the publication said, highlights leaders who are “moving the field forward and …

Social Equity And Cannabis Explained: History, Regulatory Implementation And The Drug War Reform Efforts 01-13-2026, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

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Cardozo Law Photograph Collection, Dr. Lillian & Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library

Finding Aids

The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Photograph Collection documents the history of the law school through photographs of faculty, students, alumni, commencements, academic conferences, lectures, receptions, and other institutional events. The collection includes photographic prints, negatives, and related papers dating from the late 1970s through the 2010s, with the bulk of materials dating from the 1990s and 2000s. This finding aid provides a container-level inventory of the collection.

Extent: 4 linear feet (4 photograph boxes) and 2 oversize boxes (20 × 16 × 5 inches each).

Provenance: Compiled by former Cardozo Law administration and communications staff and subsequently transferred …

Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 12, 2026)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Law School News: A Quiet Success Story: Rwu Law's Enduring Partnership With The Center For Justice 01-09-2026, Helga Melgar

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Cardozo Law News Brief: January 9, 2026, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Briefs

Highlights from the January 9, 2026, Cardozo Law News Brief include:

• Dean Melanie Leslie was named one of The National Jurist’s Most Influential People in Legal Education.

• Professor Rebecca Ingber was quoted in The New York Times on the legality of proposed U.S. military involvement in Venezuela.

• Professor Matthew Wansley commented in The New York Times on robotaxi safety concerns after a power outage stranded Waymo vehicles in San Francisco.

• Professor Jessica Roth spoke to Bloomberg about the release of redacted Epstein-related DOJ files.

Faculty news includes:

• Professor Michel Rosenfeld appeared on Canadian TV to discuss U.S. legal issues surrounding …

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Dean Leslie Named One Of The National Jurist’S Most Influential People In Legal Education, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Archive

Dean Melanie Leslie was named one of The National Jurist's 25 Most Influential People in Legal Education for 2026 in recognition of her leadership at Cardozo School of Law. The announcement highlights her role in advancing social justice, innovation, institutional growth, and leadership development in legal education.

The Pedagogy Of Legal Synthesis, Stephen Mortellaro

Scholarly Articles

The ability to synthesize implicit legal principles from many ambiguous cases is a mark of a skilled attorney. But legal synthesis is notoriously challenging to teach, and law students typically receive little explicit guidance on how to synthesize. The literature likewise offers law professors little direction on how to impart the skill successfully. This Article serves as a guide for professors to effectively train law students to synthesize implicit legal principles. Drawing upon cognitive science, the study of logic, and educational research, this Article explains the challenges of learning legal synthesis and equips professors with pedagogical methods and curricular resources …

Clinic Highlights 2025, University Of The District Of Columbia David A. Clarke School Of Law

Clinics

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Turning Risks Of Cheating With Ai Into Opportunities For Better Teaching, John M. Lande

Faculty Publications

Many law school faculty are concerned that students may misuse artificial intelligence (AI) tools to undermine their learning and violate academic integrity policies.  Although some students will inevitably cheat, faculty can reduce the risk – and improve student learning – by rethinking assignment design and classroom communication.

This article frames the risk of AI-related cheating as an opportunity for pedagogical improvement.  It offers practical strategies to help faculty design assignments that enhance student learning, promote good decision-making, discourage inappropriate AI use, and foster responsible AI literacy.  It outlines approaches consistent with the ABA’s new requirement for formative assessment throughout the …

My Fifty Years, Bennett L. Gershman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

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Teaching Contracts: My Journey With Spellbook And Ai Pedagogy, Gregory M. Duhl

Faculty Scholarship

I am integrating Spellbook, an AI tool for contract drafting and review, into my first-year law school Contracts course in Spring 2026. Although Spellbook is highly effective, its educational value hinges on the pedagogical framework structured around it, a framework typically not licensed along with AI tools. In-house instructional design expertise can provide this framework, and the professor-instructional designer partnership offers one model for successful AI integration. Strong tools paired with robust instructional design yield learning experiences in which AI augments, rather than supplants, the cultivation of legal judgment and critical thinking. This collaborative approach, among educators, instructional designers, and …

Critical Lawyering Pedagogy: Transformational Legal Education, Carolyn Grose

Faculty Scholarship

In an era marked by democratic backsliding, systemic inequality, and widespread disillusionment with legal institutions, traditional legal education has proven not merely inadequate, but actively complicit in reproducing the institutional norms, professional identities, and hierarchies that have enabled democratic erosion and the misuse of law as a tool of exclusion and domination.

This Article describes a comprehensive, justice-oriented framework that reimagines the structure, content, and outcomes of legal education to better meet those needs. Critical Lawyering Pedagogy (CLP) draws from Critical Pedagogy, Narrative Theory, and Critical Lawyering and challenges the entrenched hierarchies and exclusionary norms that dominate most law schools …

Legal Professional Identity Development: An Exploration Of The Social And Emotional Processes By Which Law Students Transition From Novices To Professionals, David Hall Abney Ii

Theses and Dissertations--Communication

This dissertation seeks to heed the call for expansion of instructional communication research (ICR) beyond the undergraduate classroom and undergraduate learning objectives by exploring older learners and higher-order affective learning objectives. Legal professional identity development (LPID) is a discipline-specific type of higher-order affective learning that is conceptualized as a continuous nonlinear process that begins in law school and extends throughout a lawyer’s career, involving the internalization of the legal profession’s core values and norms and their integration with an evolving identity. Using a pragmatic ICR approach and a mixed-methods design, Phase 1 employed individual interviews and focus groups to investigate …

Relentless: The Pressures Shortening Law School Deanships And What Must Change, Katie Kempner, Patricia E. Roberts

Faculty Articles

It is no small thing when a law school loses its dean. The departure triggers a national search, stalls institutional momentum, disrupts fundraising, and requires rebuilding years of relationships with faculty, alumni, and university leadership, all while the institution navigates one of the most turbulent periods in legal education's history. Approximately 25 percent of the nation's law schools transition to a new dean in any given year. That reality prompted this study.

This study combined a survey of 624 current and former law school deans, which yielded 256 responses and data on 294 deanships, with 70 qualitative interviews conducted between …

Dual Purposes Of A Plea Bargaining Simulation: Pedagogical Skills Training And Controlled Data Collection Experiment About Crime Victim’S Access To Justice Via Counsel, Tung Yin

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

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