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Cardozo Law Mourns The Loss Of Gail Cohen ’83, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2024

Cardozo School of Law and Yeshiva University mourn the passing of Gail Cohen, a member of Cardozo’s graduating class of 1983 and a pillar of the Cardozo community.

Putting The Lawyer First: Framing Well-Being In Law As An Ethical Dilemma, Aric Short

Faculty Scholarship

A disturbingly high percentage of our students continue to be unwell. In the most recent and comprehensive survey of law student well-being in 2021, almost 70% of law students responded that, in the past twelve months, they believed they needed to seek help for emotional or mental health problems. Embedded screening tools in the survey suggested that 34% of respondents were clinically depressed and 54% suffered from clinical anxiety. 44% of respondents reported being drunk in the past thirty days, 33% had engaged in binge drinking in the preceding two weeks, and 38% had smoked marijuana in the past twelve …

Breaking Down Siloes And Building Up Students: The Transformational Possibilities Of Professional Identity Formation, Lindsey P. Gustafson, Aric K. Short, Robin Thorner

Faculty Scholarship

Under the ABA’s sequenced approach to implementation of Standard 303(b)(3), schools should now have developed plans for providing opportunities for professional identity formation and should be implementing them. These plans must provide students with an “intentional exploration of the values, guiding principles, and well-being practices considered foundational to successful legal practice.” In addition, these plans should provide for frequent opportunities for development, “during each year of law school and in a variety of courses and co-curricular and professional development activities.”

Because Standard 303(b)(3) is necessarily tied to the unique character, existing
structures, and available resources of a law school, each …

Dean Melanie Leslie Announces Six New Faculty Appointments, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2024

We welcome these six new members to the Cardozo faculty with great joy. Below are brief biographic sketches of each with links to full details of their academic and career achievements, which are too numerous to list here.

Cardozo Celebrates Public Service At 32nd Annual Inspire! Awards, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2024

Cardozo’s Center for Public Service Law celebrated the Inspire! Awards on May 28, a yearly event that honors students, alumni and community leaders who have made strides in public service over the past year.

Cardozo Law News Brief: May 31, 2024, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2024

Featured Faculty:

• Jessica Roth
• Alexander Reinert
• Saurabh Vishnubhakat
• Lindsay Nash
• Michel Rosenfeld

Campus News:

• Dean Melanie Leslie Announces 6 New Faculty Appointments
• Cardozo Welcomes Over 200 Alumni Back to Campus For Homecoming & Reunion
• Cardozo Celebrates Public Service at 32nd Annual Inspire! Awards

Cardozo Welcomes More Than 200 Alumni For Homecoming & Reunion, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo News 2024

More than 200 Cardozo alumni, from the first graduating class of 1979 to the class of 2024, were welcomed back to to the school for this year’s Homecoming & Reunion celebration, held on May 23.

While Administrators Fret, Prospective Law Students Are Losing Interest In U.S. News Rankings, James Owsley Boyd

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

Prospective law students across the United States are paying less attention and giving less credence to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of American law schools, according to new research from scholars at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law.

“The Decline and Fall of the U.S. News Rankings” was published this week on the Social Science Research Network by Indiana Law Professor CJ Ryan and Brian Frye, Kentucky’s Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law.

Contrary to what many in the legal education community believe, a rise in the U.S. News rankings …

Cardozo Law News Brief: May 24, 2024, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2024

Featured Faculty:

• Jessica Roth
• Matthew Wansley
• Young Ran (Christine) Kim
• Jacob Noti-Victor

Clark Memorandum: Spring 2024, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Byu Law School Alumni Association, J. Reuben Clark Law Society

The Clark Memorandum

• Facing Fear with Faith
• The Great Law(s) of Peace
• Grace in the Law School

Class Of 2024 Commencement, Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves

Graduation Addresses

Commencement took place on May 18, 2024 to recognize Juris Doctor, Master of Laws and Master in the Study of Law graduates in the University of Georgia School of Law ceremony. The School of Law will held its commencement for the Class of 2024 in the Classic Center Grand Hall. The Honorable Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves, class of 2006, delivered the keynote address.

A longer set of biographical information related to the speaker was shared alongside other Commencement 2024 details via email, and is duplicated below:

"The Honorable Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves was sworn in as a Judge of the United States …

School Of Law Commencement Exercises : Class Of 2024 : May 17, 2024, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Commencement (1996- )

No abstract provided.

Roger Williams University Commencement Exercises : Class Of 2024 : May 17, 2024, Roger Williams University

School of Law Commencement (1996- )

No abstract provided.

Law School News: Rwu Graduates Encouraged To 'Be Fearless' And To Always 'Seek Knowledge', Mel Thibeault

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Cardozo Law News Brief: May 17, 2024, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2024

Featured Faculty:

• Jessica Roth
• Kathryn Miller
• Kate Levine
• Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
• Young Ran (Christine) Kim
• Michel Rosenfeld
• Edward Zelinsky

Events:

• 2024 Homecoming and Reunion

Bad Therapy: Conceptualizing The Teaching Of “Thinking Like A Lawyer” As Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Chelsea Baldwin

St. Mary's Law Journal

Law students and lawyers experience mental illness and substance abuse at higher rates than the general population and other learned professions. This is bad for an individual’s wellbeing as well as their clients and society because mental illness and substance abuse increases stress which in turn decreases effective decision-making and judgment, and in worst case scenarios leads to attrition as individuals choose death by suicide which has cascading social and economic impacts. This Article identifies practices in legal education that likely combine in a causal mechanism, although not a sole cause, to the higher rates of mental illness and substance …

Law School News: Elisabeth D'Amelio Chosen As Class Of 2024 Graduate Student Commencement Speaker 5-14-24, Jordan J. Phelan

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Generative Artificial Intelligence And The Practice Of Law: Impact, Opportunities, And Risks, John Villasenor

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Cardozo Law News Brief: May 10, 2024, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Brief 2024

Featured Faculty:

• Samuel Weinstein
• Saurabh Vishnubhakat
• Alexander Reinert
• Jessica Roth
• Edward Zelinsky
• Kate Levine
• Michel Rosenfeld
• Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
• Young Ran (Christine) Kim
• Jacob Noti-Victor
• Gabor Rona
• Edward Zelinsky

Resurrection, Bassim Al Shaker

Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés

No abstract provided.