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Professor John Q. Barrett’s tribute essay, “Charles Reich, New Dealer,” appears in a Touro Law Review symposium on the late Yale constitutional law professor and best-selling author. Professor Barrett’s essay, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Litigating Against Gender Discrimination . . . and Remembering One Such New York Case,” appears in Judicial Notice, a publication of the Historical Society of the New York Courts. His recent virtual activities include delivering the Second Thomas J. Romig Lecture, Principled Legal Practice by Justice Robert H. Jackson at Nuremberg, to the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, VA; lecturing to the Project Nuremberg Emerging Attorneys cohort at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton, FL; lecturing on the Nuremberg Trials to the Illinois Holocaust Museum’s Summer Institute for Educators; and introducing and conversing with NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray for Chautauqua Institution’s Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States.
“Is it Socially Acceptable? Using Social Media in the Law School Classroom to Facilitate Learning,” an article by Professor Rosa Castello, will appear in the Southern Illinois University Law Journal. Her essay, “Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowdsourcing Activity,” will be published in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing.
{BOYLE} Professor Robin Boyle presented recently at three virtual conferences. At the International Cultic Studies Annual Conference, she discussed legal developments in the United States. For the Association of Legal Writing Directors’ Biennial Conference, she spoke on the topic of scaffolding course exercises. Writing outside the legal writing discipline was the focus of Professor Boyle’s presentation at the Empire State Legal Writing Biennial Conference. She also organized and led the scholars’ forum at that event. The online formative assessment companion to Professor Boyle’s workbook, Becoming a Legal Writer (Carolina Academic Press), will be available this fall, and she is currently producing teaching modules on legal writing topics for West Academic Publishing.
{CALABRESE} Professor Gina Calabrese co-presented before a drafting committee of the Uniform Law Commission on its model statute to reform consumer debt litigation, which has proliferated in state courts. As a Consumer Observer to the Debt Collection Default Judgment Act Drafting Committee, Professor Calabrese presented on behalf of all Consumer Observers. Drawing from her clinical teaching, her presentation described the due process issues implicated by collection cases and included recommendations to the Committee regarding the scope of the model law.
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{CHIU} Professor Elaine Chiu worked with the Asian American Bar Association of New York’s Anti-Asian Violence Task Force to research two important issues: (1) how New York City counts hate incidents and hate crimes; and (2) how hate crimes are processed through the criminal justice system, from charging and bail decisions to their final resolutions. She led a research team that analyzed incidents in the New York metropolitan area, as reported by news sources, social media, and official government agencies. Professor Chiu also co-presented a virtual webinar on the criminal implications of using force in self-defense or in defending others in New York.
{DEGIROLAMI} “The End of the Affair,” a review essay by Professor Marc O. DeGirolami, is forthcoming in the American Journal of Jurisprudence. It discusses Joel Harrison’s book, Post-Liberal Religious Liberty: Forming Communities of Charity (Columbia University Press 2020). Professor DeGirolami is now writing about the public/private distinction in the tort of nuisance, as well as the concept of traditionalist disestablishments in First Amendment law.
{GREENBERG} Professor Elayne Greenberg’s book chapter, “ADR’s Place at the Justice Table,” appears in Discussions in Dispute Resolutions: The Foundational Articles (Oxford University Press 2021). She also wrote “Meeting the Parties Separately,” a chapter on confidentiality and the ethical parameters of caucusing published in Mediation Ethics: A Practitioner’s Guide (ABA 2021). Professor Greenberg’s paper, “When Public Defenders and Prosecutors Plea Bargain Race—A More Truthful Narrative,” was the focus of her presentation at an ONU Law Review symposium. For a conference sponsored by the United National Association of Italian Mediators, she shared her paper “Hey Big Spender: Ethical Guidelines for Mediators When Parties are Backed by Third-Party Funders.” Most recently, Professor Greenberg presented her paper on “Remote Justice Still Justice? Shifting Dispute Resolution Online” to the Southeastern Association of Law Schools.
