HOFSTRA LAW
Vol. 14, no. 1
FACULTY NEWS
Sept 2014
Joanna Grossman, Unprotected Sex:
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act at 35,
21 DUKE JOURNAL OF LAW & GENDER 67
(2014) (with Deborah L. Brake);
Columns in Justia’s Verdict: The End of
the Road (Sept. 2); Mommy and Momma
(Aug. 20); Sex Behind Bars (Aug. 5);
Hard Labor (July 22); Federal Appellate
Court Rules Utah’s Ban on Marriage by
Same-Sex Couples Unconstitutional (July
8); The Legal Price of Adultery Goes
Down (June 24); If Being Married is the
Goal, Beware the ‘Symbolic Resort’
Wedding in Mexico (June 19); A Decade
of Change (May 27); Federal Judge
Turns Back Hunt for Gays in the
Department of Justice (May 20); Married
Couple’s Phone Sex Did Not Force
Divorce Clock to Reset (May 13).
PUBLICATIONS
Robert
A.
Baruch
Bush,
Transformative Mediation – A SelfAssessment, 2 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
OF
CONFLICT ENGAGEMENT AND
RESOLUTION 62 (2014) (with Joseph P.
Folger).
Susan Fortney, The Role of Ethics
Audits in Improving Ethical Conduct in
Law Firms: An Empirical Examination
of Management-Based Regulation of
Law Firms, 4 ST. MARY’S JOURNAL ON
LEGAL ETHICS & MALPRACTICE 112
(2014).
Eric Freedman, Federal Habeas Corpus
in Capital Cases, in AMERICA’S
EXPERIMENT
WITH
CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE
ULTIMATE PENAL SANCTION (Carolina
Academic Press 3d., ed. 2014) (James
Acker et al., eds).
Stefan Krieger & Katrina Fischer
Kuh, Accessing Law: An Empirical
Study Exploring the Influence of Legal
Research Medium, 16 VANDERBILT
JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT &
TECHNOLOGY LAW 757 (2014).
Monroe Freedman, Jury Nullification:
What it Is, and How to Do it Ethically,
42 HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW 1125 (2014).
Katrina Fischer Kuh, An Unnatural
Divide: How Law Obscures Individual
Environmental
Harms,
in
ENVIRONMENTAL
LAW
AND
CONTRASTING IDEAS OF NATURE: A
CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH
(Keith
Hirokawa ed.) Cambridge University
Press (2014).
Mitchell Gans, Supercharged Credit
Shelter Trusts Versus Portability, 29
PROBATE & PROPERTY (ABA 2014);
Private Annuities and Installment Sales:
Trombetta and Section 2036, 120
JOURNAL OF TAXATION 227 (2014);
Leimberg On-Line: CIRCULAR 230
AMENDMENTS (May 2014).
Amy Stein, Erasing Boundaries: InterSchool
Collaboration
and
Its
Pedagogical
Opportunities,
AALS
NEWSLETTER OF THE SECTION OF LEGAL
1 WRITING, REASONING AND RESEARCH
(2014) (with David Thomson, Ian
Gallacher and Robin Boyle).
Leon Freedman published How I Met
James Brown in the Huffington Post, on
July 7. He also published The Fiftieth
Anniversary of Fighting Southern
Injustice in the Huffington Post on July
9.
Vern R. Walker, Representing the Use
of Rule-Based Presumptions, LAW,
PROBABILITY
AND
RISK
(2014);
Annotating Patterns of Reasoning about
Medical Theories of Causation in
Vaccine Cases: Toward a System for
Arguments, PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST
WORKSHOP
ON
ARGUMENTATION
MINING (Association for Computational
Linguistics 2014) (with Karina Vazirova
and Cass Sanford, student members of
the Hofstra Law, Logic and Technology
Research Laboratory).
Monroe Freedman & James Sample
commented in the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel on May 3 on Judges’ recusals in
the Wisconsin Union Law case.
Grant Hayden co-authored with
Professor Matthew Bodie of St. Louis
University School of Law an op-ed
titled, Who Controls Corporate Culture,
and published in the St. Louis PostDispatch on July 16.
COMMENTARY
Irina Manta guest blogged on
PrawfsBlawg for half of the month of
August and will continue to do so for the
month of September.
Alafair Burke contributed to an article,
12 Movies with Pivotal Lessons
Featuring Lawyers, for the August issue
of the ABA Journal.
PRESENTATIONS
Robert A. Baruch Bush was featured
on a DVD titled, The Contractor’s
Contract: Applying Transformative
Mediation with Attorneys and Clients in
a Commercial Dispute, which was
released in June by the Institute for the
Study of Conflict Transformation.
Alafair Burke taught at a CLE titled,
The
Effects
of
Heuristics
on
Prosecutorial Discretion for the New
York County District Attorney’s Office,
regarding prosecutor “tunnel vision” and
the ways it can contribute to wrongful
convictions.
Susan Fortney wrote the foreword,
Thinking Systematically about Law Firm
Ethics, for Hofstra Law Review’s
symposium issue on the Conference on
the Ethical Infrastructure and Culture of
Law Firms that she organized and held
at Hofstra in 2013.
Robert A. Baruch Bush co-presented a
one-day workshop on Responding to
Conflict: A Relational Approach to
Negotiation
to
60
public-school
principals and teachers from the New
American Academy, Brooklyn, NY, on
August 26. He also presented as part of a
teleconference
on
Transformative
Mediation and Lawyers: Insights from
Practice and Theory for the Association
for Conflict Resolution on June 10.
Eric Freedman published a letter to the
editor of The New York Times titled,
Prisoners at Guantanamo: A Tally of 149
Cases on June 12th.
2 Juli
Campagna
presented
on
examinations in civil law jurisdictions at
the Global Skills Conference at the
University of Verona in May. She also
presented Generation 1.5 EnglishLanguage
Speakers:
The
Next
Generation of Law Students in Your
Classroom at the Biennial convention of
the Legal Writing Institute in
Philadelphia in July.
Conference on May 9. She also
moderated a panel titled, Sex and
Gender, at an AALS Workshop on
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Issues, in Washington, DC on June 7 and
presented Men Who Give it Away: The
Perils of Free or Non-Anonymous
Sperm Donation, at the Law and Society
Association Annual Meeting, in
Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 1.
Herbie DiFonzo delivered a plenary
presentation titled, The Odyssey of
Shared Parenting, at the Annual Meeting
of the Association of Family and
Conciliation Courts in Toronto on May
30. He also presented, Family Law for
Psychologists, at the Institute for Family
Forensic Psychology at Hofstra on Aug.
25.
Stefan Krieger spoke on Storyboarding
for Success as an invited guest at the 33rd
Annual Conference of the American
Society of Trial Consultants on June 6.
Katrina Fischer Kuh was a presenter
for the ABA Webinar, Year in Review
2013: Highlights of Developments in
Environment, Energy, and Resources
Law, on May 13. She was also an
invited presenter, discussing climate
change and public health, at the second
meeting of the Environmental Law
Collaborative
in
Jackson
Hole,
Wyoming, in July.
Susan Fortney presented on the legal
ethics in clinics and on developing a
Model Legal Ethics Code for Middle
Eastern countries at the Third Middle
East Regional Conference on Clinical
Legal Education in Instanbul, Turkey on
May 26-27. She also spoke at the
International Legal Ethics Conference in
London on June 11.
Theo Liebmann appeared on MSNBC’s
Nerding Out—a series of Web
interviews that explore current events in
depth—to discuss the current political
battle over Central American children
crossing the US border. He also spoke
on Real World Ethical Issues in Pro
Bono Practice at a CLE program at the
New York City Bar Association on June
16.
Eric Freedman conducted two sessions
at the New York City Bar Association’s
Annual
Post-Conviction
Capital
Defender Training Program on current
trends and issues for seasoned
practitioners and another on the ethical
duties of trial counsel during postconviction proceedings on July 14.
Irina Manta presented her co-authored
paper Judging Similarity at the
American
Law
and
Economics
Association (ALEA) annual meeting on
May 8, and presented it again on August
7 at the Intellectual Property Scholars
Conference at UC Berkeley School of
Law. She presented on a roundtable
Mitchell Gans presented at the ABA on
recent amendments to Circular 230 on
July 29.
Joanna Grossman presented Pregnancy
Discrimination: Providing a Right to
Accommodation at a NELA/NY
3 the 5th Workshop on Semantic
Processing of Legal Texts (SPLeT-2014)
in Reykjavik, Iceland held on May 2631.
Professor Walker presented
Annotating Patterns of Reasoning about
Medical Theories of Causation in
Vaccine Cases: Toward a System for
Arguments, at a workshop at the Annual
Meeting for the Association for
Computational Linguistics in Baltimore,
Maryland on June 26. He also presented
Computational Representation of Legal
Reasoning at the Law-Fact Interface at a
daylong
symposium at Stanford
University on Law and Rationality.
titled, Ronald Coase (1910-2013) and
The Future of Property Rights, held at
Notre Dame Law School on May 10.
Professor Manta also presented her
article, Intellectual Property and the
Presumption of Innocence at the New
York Area Junior Faculty Colloquium at
Fordham University School of Law on
May 14.
James Sample presented When
Corporate Law and Election Law
Collide:
Century
of
Regulating
Corporate Money in Politics on a panel
at the Southeastern Association of Law
Schools conference on August 6.
QUOTED IN
Andrew
Schepard
presented
a
workshop titled, Talking Changes with
Lawyers and Mediators: Case Studies in
Critical Reflection, at the Annual
Conference of the Association of Family
and Conciliation Courts in Toronto on
May 28. He served as faculty for a trial
advocacy program organized by the
National Institute for Trial Advocacy for
Medical Hygiene Legal Services of New
York which was held on July 9-11. He
also presented as a faculty member at the
Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute in
Boulder, Colorado held on July 15-20.
Ronald Colombo, Ousted American
Apparel CEO Charney Boosts Stake to
43%, The Wall Street Journal, April 22;
BofA’s SEC Admission Likely to
Disappoint Plaintiffs Attorneys, Law360,
August 21.
Eric M. Freedman, Don’t Trust
Oklahoma’s Death Penalty Panel, The
New Republic, May 8; Court Extends
Curbs on the Death Penalty in a Florida
Ruling, The New York Times, May 27;
California Death Penalty System Is
Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules,
The New York Times, July 16; Secrecy
Over Executions Faces Challenges, Wall
Street Journal, July 27.
Barbara Stark presented What Is
International Antidiscrimination Law
and Why Does It Matter? at an AALS
Workshop on Transnational Equality in
Washington, DC on June 24.
Julian Ku, Hundreds of Chinese
Families Seek Wartime Compensation
From Japan, Reuters, May 12.
Amy Stein presented Tom Buchanan v.
Jay Gatsby: Using The Great Gatsby as
the Basis of a Teaching Module About
Narrative Theory at the 2014 Legal
Writing Institute Biennial National
Conference in Philadelphia.
Irina Manta, The Morning Risk Report:
Redskins’ Ruling Could Spur Trademark
Scrutiny, The Wall Street Journal, June
19.
Vern
Walker
presented
The
Vaccine/Injury Project (V/IP) Corpus at
4 CITATIONS
CALRO § 8:1; 20 PSYCHOL. PUB. POL’Y
& L. 239; CLAIRE HUNTINGTON, FAILURE
TO FLOURISH: HOW LAW UNDERMINES
FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS (2014)
Miriam Albert: 3 LAWSECREG § 1.6.
Alafair Burke: 14 WYO. L. REV. 555; 47
U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1591; 47 AKRON L.
REV. 431; 61 UCLA L. REV. 858; 6 Y.B.
ON ARB. & MEDITATION 107; 83 MISS.
L. J. 373.
Janet Dolgin: 17 J. HEALTH CARE. L. &
POL’Y 219; 11 IND. HEALTH L. REV. 635;
PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY
DISSOLUTION § 2:02 (2002); 67 ARK. L.
REV. 91.
Robert A. Baruch Bush: 75 MONT. L.
REV., 335; NYPRAC-COMM § 48:16;
GADDRPRAC § 6:5; GADDRPRAC §
7:2; GAADRPRAC § 14:9; MEDIATION §
3:6; MEDIATION § 3:5; 29 OHIO ST. J. ON
DISP. RESOL. 167; MEDIATION § 3:3;
MEDIATION § 2:1; MEDIATION § 14:3;
MEDIATION § 14:2; ATNEGGUIDE § 20:9;
MEDIATION CH 15 REF; MEDIATION §
15:9; MEDIATION 11:1; MEDIATION §
15:2; 16 IAPRAC § 7:3 (E)(5); 45 WASH.
U. J.L. & POL’Y 145; 14 PEPP. DISP.
RESOL. L.J. 245; 45 WASH. U. J.L. &
POL’Y 41; 6 Y.B. ON ARB. & MEDIATION
180; 14 PEPP. DISP. RESOL. L.J. 311; 14
PEPP. DISP. RESOL. L.J. 91; 127 HARV. L.
REV. 2543; 24 ALB. L.J. SCI. & TECH
233.
Akilah N. Folami: 8 N.Y.U. J. L. &
LIBERTY 630.
Susan Saab Fortney: FTXIEG ¶ 85.3;
LEGETH § 1.13-147; LEGETH § 1.13-1;
TXCP § 2:20; 47 U.C. DAVIS L. REV.
1753; 92 TEX. L. REV. 1599; 2014 PROF.
LAW. 45; 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 2995; 62
BUFF. L. REV. 659.
Eric M. Freedman: 11 LOY. U. CHI.
INT’L L. REV. 79; 32 LAW & INEQ. 371;
73 MD. L. REV. 1173; 55 WM. & MARY
L. REV. 2071; 30 IUS GENTIUM 203.
Monroe H. Freedman: : 11 LOY. U.
CHI. INT’L L. REV. 79; 42 HOFSTRA L.
REV. 1125; 99 IOWA L. REV. 1893; 99
IOWA L. REV. 2245; LEGETH § 3.3-5;
LEGETH § 3.3-4; CRPMAN § 97:3; 16
IAPRAC § 5:6(J); 16 IAPRAC § 7:8(C); 16
IAPRAC § 7:4(B)(6)(A); DEFETHICS §
5:16; LEGETH § 10.2-2.3; 21 LACIVL §
14.4; 16 IAPRAC § 1:2; LEGETH § 10.22.10; LEGETH § 10.2-2.11; 61-AUG FED.
LAW. 79; 162 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE
165; 91 DENV. U. L. REV. 441; 30 GA.
ST. U. L. REV. 983; 82 FORDHAM L. REV.
2817; 52 FAM. CT. REV. 578.
Robin Charlow: 38 IUS GENTIUM 251;
DOJML COMMENT 6-1.130A; 102 KY.
L.J. 1; 89 N.Y.U. L. REV. 582;
EFSTATHIADIS V. HOLDER, 752 F.3D 591
(2D CIR. 2014)/
J. Scott Colesanti: 2013 SECLAWREV §
1:2; LAWSECREG § 3:10; LAWSECREG §
12.9; LAWSECREG § 22.3; LAWSECREG §
12:17.
Ronald Colombo: 2011 SECLAWREV §
5:2; 2011 SECLAWREV § 1:5; 56 ARIZ. L.
REV. 53; 65 HASTINGS L. J. 1393; 37
HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 1171; 99
CORNELL L. REV. 1185.
Leon Friedman: 32 QUINNIPIAC L. REV.
353.
Linda Galler: LOLGOL S 7.6; 19
SUFFOLK J. TRIAL & APP. ADVOC. 119;
LAWSECREG § 9.8.
J. Herbie DiFonzo: 2 MAPRAC § 38:1; 1
MAPRAC § 3:12; MODSCIEVID § 30:2;
5 Mitchell Gans: 2014 WL 4160090; 120
JTAX 227; 2014 ABATAX-CLE 0509048;
BOGERT § 234;WGL ASSET ¶ 13.01;
MERTENS § 37.49; BOGERT § 264.10;
BOGERT § 268.15; ASSETP § 14A:31;
CW005 ALI-CLE 1097; CW001 ALICLE 1097; CW001 ALI-CLE 535; 15
T.M. COOLEY J. PRAC. & CLINICAL L.
243; 36 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 201; 63
DUKE L. J. 1835.
Bernard Jacobs: 2014 ABATAX CLE
0509096
Elizabeth Glazer: 32 LAW & INEQ. 257;
62 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 1; 4 COLUM. J.
RACE & L. 225.
Julian Ku: 10 I/S: J. L. & POLICY FOR
INFO. SOC’Y 301: 37 HARV. J. L. & PUB.
POL’Y 901; 94 B.U. L. REV. 1359;
TRANSLIT § 1:5; 63 EMORY L. J. 1089;
622 AM. J. COMP. L. 515; 25 VILL.
ENVTL. L. J. 431; 62 AM. J. COMP. L.
457.
Lawrence Kessler: LEGETH § 1-6.
Stefan Krieger: 16 VAND. J. ENT. &
TECH. L. 757; 32 BUFF. PUB. INT. L. J. 1;
11 LEGAL COMM. & RHETORIC; JALWD
31; 38 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 371; 16
VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L. 757.
Scott Glick: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
(CENGAGE LEARNING, JANUARY 2014)
Daniel Greenwood: CORPC-RECR §
7:12: 46 TEX. TECH L. REV. 1229: 92
TEX L. REV. 181.
Katrina Kuh: 47 IND. L. REV. 791; 16
VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L. 757; 61 UCLA
L. REV. 1772; 47 IND. L. REV. 791; 29
OHIO ST. J. ON DISP. RESOL. 261; 32 VA.
ENVTL. L.J. 157.
John Dewitt Gregory: NC-FAMPRACT §
1:5; 99 CORNELL L.
REV. 1077;
PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF FAMILY
DISSOLUTION § 2.18 (2002); ADVELD §
37:25; LLCO ¶ 5.04; 55 WM & MARY L.
REV. 2003; 8 LAW & ETHICS HUM. RTS.
131; 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 2705; 67 ARK.
L. REV. 17.
Eric Lane: PATRYCOPY § 2:20; ENVLAW
§ 1:2; 44 ENVTL. L. REP. NEWS &
ANALYSIS 10413; 73 MD. L. REV.
ENDNOTES 66; 73 MD. L. REV. 1120; 58
N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 95; 58 N.Y.L. SCH.
L. REV. 165; 58 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 11;
58 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 43; 58 N.Y.L.
SCH. L. REV. 19; 58 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV.
119; 58 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 85; 58
N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 193; 30 EMORY
BANKR. DEV. J. 583.
Joanna Grossman: 99 CORNELL L. REV.
1077; 14 NEV. L. J. 723; 42 HOFSTRA L.
REV. 1077; 74 LA. L. REV. 1161; 66
STAN. L. REV. 333; 55 WN & MARY L.
REV. 2003; 89 N.Y.U. L. REV. 885; 47
U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1453; 10 STAN. J.
CIV. RTS & CIV. LIBERTIES 223; 100 VA.
L. REV. 629; STLOCCIVIL § 4:12; B. C. L.
REV. 719; 22 ELDER L. J. 1; 89 CHI-KENT
L. REV. 415; 62 AM. J. COMP. L. 151.
Irina Manta: 98 MINN. L. REV. 2025; 51
SAN DIEGO L. REV. 419.
Richard Neumann: 11 LEGAL COMM. &
RHETORIC; JALWD 51; 11 LEGAL COMM.
& RHETORIC: JALWD 153; 11 LEGAL
COMM. & RHETORIC: JALWD 31; LEGETH
§ 10.4-4; 16 VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L.
Grant Hayden: 2014 SECLAWREV § 1:2;
PTC § 2:5; PTC § 2:14; PTC § 2:15.
James Hickey: CALLMANN § 18:34.
6 757; 77 ALB. L. REV. 499; 30 TOURO L.
REV. 615.
EMORY BANKR. DEV. J. 529; 20 TOURO
L. REV. 499.
Elizabeth Nevins: 89 WASH. L. REV.
257.
Zvi Rosen: PATRYCOPY § 1:1;
PARTYCOPY § 1:37; PATRYCOPY § 1:41;
PATRYCOPY § 1:35; 5 CYBARIS AN
INTELL. PROP. L. REV. 353; 2014
B.Y.U.L. REV. 219.
Ashira Ostrow: 50 IDAHO L. REV. 245;
38 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 335; 77 ALB.
L. REV. 647; 41 B.C. ENVTL. AFF. L.
REV. 1.
James Sample: 47 AKRON L. REV. 375;
56 ARIZ. L. REV. 411.
Alan Resnick: DOJML COMMENT 45.000; 2014 NRTN-ASBL 32; 2014 NRTNASBL 9; 2014 NRTN-ASBL 28; 2014
NRTN-ASBL 31; 4C VRN-OKFORM §
9.39; LAWDRE § 30:71; LAWDRE §35:29;
LAWDRE § 34:66; LAWDRE § 34:58;
LAWDRE § 34:70; LAWDRE §29:64;
LAWDRE §34:74; LAWDRE §34:55;
LAWDRE CH 35 REF; SW006 ALI-CLE
1883; SW006 ALI-CLE 2219; SW006
ALI-CLE 2173; FR-TRNSFRS §14: 11; 33AUG AM. BANKR. INST. J. 36; TNPRACDIV § 29:14; MEDIATION § 5:2;
NYPRAC-COMM § 51:4; NYPRACCOMM § 51:19; NYPRAC-COMM § 51:1;
1C COPRAC § 52:83; BKRLIT § 16:54;
2014 NO. 6 NORTON BANKR. L. ADVISER
NL 1: CRELEASE § 27:3; 33-JUL AM.
BANKR. INST. J. 22; 33-JUL AM. BANKR.
INST. J. 46; 65 S.C. L. REV. 963; 2 ILPRAC
§ 9.2.9 FORM 1; 1 ILPRAC § 5.1.6; MCLANN §22.54; 2014 NO. 5 NORTON
BANKR. L. ADVISER NL 1; 23 NO. 2 J.
BANKR. L. & PRAC. NL ART. 5; 23 NO.
3J.. BANKR. L. & PRAC. NL ART. 3; 2B
ILPRAC § 5/9-109; WGL ASSET ¶ 13.08;
LTOXICT § 20:13.20; JNL. OF BANKR. L.
2014.06-8; HTHCFTM § 15:2: BKRLAWML
§ 9A:8; BKRLAWML § 9:44; BKLRLAWML
§ 9:17; FRREML § 6:4; FINBKRPROF
BIBLIO; 89 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 2299;
30 EMORY BANKR. DEV. J. 383; 30
EMORY BANKR. DEV. J. 347; 49 GONZ. L.
REV. 383; 33 CAL. BANKR. J. 87; 55
B.C.L. REV. E-SUPPLEMENT 47; 30
Andrew Schepard: MEDIATION § 15:5;
18 U.C. DAVIS J. JUV. L. & POL’Y 195;
52 FAM. CT. REV. 458; PRINCIPLES OF
THE LAW-FAMILY DISSOLUTION JUNE
2014; 55 WM & MARY L. REV. 2003; 14
PEPP. DISP. RESOL. L.J. 91.
Norman Silber: LAWDRE APP 18A;
PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF CHARITABLE
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS JUNE 2014;
91 DENV. U. L. REV. ONLINE 179; ULA
UCC § 3-102; ULA UCC § 4-103; 14 J.
HIGH TECH. L. 451.
Ronald Silverman: LAWDRE § 29:58.
Roy Simon: LEGETH § 5.5-7; LEGETH §
6.1-4; LEGETH § 5.1-1; LEGETH § 3.8-2;
VCPON CH 36 S 7 A; CCGERISA § 25:1;
SPARTNER § 18:11; GDMULTILIT § 2:11;
NYPRAC-COMM § 64:1; 16 IAPRAC §
9:4(C)(5); 16 IAPRAC § 8:2(D); 2014-JUL
BUS. L. TODAY 1; PPRMI MA-CLE 2-1.
Barbara Stark: 42 HOFSTRA L. REV.
1077; 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 2705; 62 AM.
J. COMP. L. 151; 22 AM. U. J. GENDER
SOC. POL’Y & L. 781.
Vern Walker: 20 ANIMAL L. 357.
7 HONORS, APPOINTMENTS AND
OTHER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Susan Fortney was appointed to the
New York City Bar Association
Committee on International Law
Practice.
Julian Ku was awarded a Taiwan
Fellowship to conduct research into the
treatment of international law in Taiwan
and China involving historical and
contemporary territorial and maritime
disputes. He conducted his research in
summer 2014 as a visiting scholar at
National Taiwan University College of
Law in Taipei, Taiwan.
Barbara Barron taught in three
different NITA (National Institute for
TrialAdvocacy) programs in May and
June 2014. She co-taught in a program
for an international intellectual property
law firm in Washington, DC. She was
also the director and principal teacher of
another program for the Social Security
Administration’s Office of General
Counsel in Dallas, Texas. She also
taught for the teacher training program
in New York City.
Stefan Krieger’s and Katrina Kuh’s
article, “Accessing Law: An Empirical
Study Exploring the Influence of Legal
Research Medium,” was highlighted by
the Legal Writing Prof Blog on June 23.
Alafair Burke was interviewed by Lee
Rawles for the ABA Journal’s The
Modern Law Library podcast series on
July 28.
Theo Liebman directed the NITA
(National Institute for Trial Advocacy)
program, which was hosted at Hofstra
Law from June 2-6 and which celebrated
its 10th year.
Juli Campagna was awarded the Global
Legal Skills award at the Ninth Annual
Global Legal Skills Conference held at
the University of Verona in May.
Professor Campagna was also reappointed to the International Legal
Education and Specialist Certification
Committee of the International Law
Section
of
the
American
Bar
Association.
Irina Manta’s article, Intellectual
Property Infringement as Vandalism was
one of four pieces to win a national
competition on the theme of "IP and
Free Enterprise" and will be included in
a related colloquium.
It was also
featured on two major blogs, namely the
Washington Post Volokh Conspiracy
and the Instapundit blogs.
Ronald Colombo was invited to
participate in The Conglomorate’s online
symposium on the Supreme Court’s
Hobby Lobby decision as a guest
blogger from July 16-18.
Amy Stein has been appointed a cochair of the Legal Writing Institute OneDay Workshops Planning Committee.
She was also invited to join the editorial
board of Perspectives: Teaching Legal
Research and Writing.
Herbie DiFonzo has been chosen to
deliver Dilemmas of Shared Parenting in
the 21st Century: How Law and Culture
Shape Child Custody as the Hofstra
University
Distinguished
Faculty
Lecture on October 22.
Vern R. Walker’s Law, Logic, &
Technology Research Laboratory was
the basis of Hofstra Law being named a
8 top 10 law school of teaching the
technology of practice in an American
Bar Association article on July 22.
PRO BONO SERVICE
Joanna Grossman co-wrote and filed a
pro bono amicus brief in Young v. UPS,
a pregnancy discrimination case
currently pending in the Supreme Court.
She also wrote and filed three federal
appellate
briefs
about
the
constitutionality of state bans on
recognition of marriages by same-sex
couples, in Latta v. Otter (9th Cir.),
Tanco v. Haslam (6th Cir.), and DeLeon
v. Perry (5th Cir.). Finally, she coauthored an amicus letter in support of a
petition for review to the California
Supreme Court in Patric v. Schreiber, a
high-profile case about parentage law
and sperm donors.
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