Graduating 3Ls are invited to apply for the Ford Foundation Post-Graduate Fellowship in Public Interest Law.  Six graduating NYU Law students will receive the fellowship, fully funding them for one year of work at a Ford Foundation grantee of their choice.  The fellowship application is due February 9 and requires the candidate to first secure a Ford Foundation grantee organization to serve as his/her host organization.  Detailed information about the fellowship is available on PILC’s website: http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/2015%20Post-Grad%20announcement_v2.pdf.

From the website:

Guarini Center Summer Internships in Public Interest Environmental and Land Use Law

This program, available to up to ten first and second year NYU Law students, is designed to provide students with public interest environmental law experience through summer internships, mentoring by the School’s environmental and land use law faculty, and exposure to leading practitioners in the field. The Program provides grants in the amount of $7,000 for 2Ls and $5,000 for 1Ls, for summer internships with environmental groups, government agencies, and other public interest law practice institutions in the United States or abroad.

The Center’s internship program provides students with unique opportunities to work on national, regional, and global environmental problems. These internships create valuable training and networking opportunities that help students secure full-time positions following graduation. Students have worked for organizations such as NRDC, Lawyers for Equal Justice in Honolulu, the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, the Mexican Center for Environmental Law, the Institute for Environmental Law and Economics in Paraguay, Earthjustice, the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and numerous state and environmental departments.

Interns must attend a specialized workshop by faculty before their summer internship. In the fall following their placements, interns are also invited to attend a series of workshops held by NYU’s environmental and land use law faculty; distinguished public interest environmental law practitioners will also participate. For more information about this program and the Public Interest Law Center, follow this link.

How to Apply

If you are interested in the program, you will be required to complete (1) the Public Interest Summer Internship Funding registration due on December 1, 2014 and (2) submit the Guarini Center for Environmental and Land Use Law Fellowship application due on February 9, 2015. Selections will be made by a faculty committee consisting of Professors Vicki Been, Richard Stewart, and Katrina Wyman. To apply, please submit a resume, unofficial transcript, and statement of interest in public interest environmental and land use practice including information about placements secured or contemplated to Professor Stewart’s assistant, Michelle Wolfson at michelle.wolfson@nyu.edu. Students are responsible for finding their own placements, but the faculty listed above will be happy to provide suggestions and other help.

Post-Graduate Fellowships for Academic Careers

Responding to the needs of alumni interested in pursuing teaching careers in environmental and land use law, the Center offers post-graduate research fellowships to help promising young scholars embark on academic and public service careers. These fellowships are awarded from time to time to NYU Law alumni, based on their academic commitment and excellence, and depending on a good match between their research interests and those of Center faculty. Under close faculty supervision, Center fellows work on research projects that culminate in law review articles and other publications, and thereby develop a credential essential for securing teaching positions in law schools.

Post-Graduate Research Fellowships

In addition, the Center provides fellowships for law graduates to undertake research and other activities in support of current Center projects. For example, Bryce Rudyk, NYU LLM ’08 served as a Center Research Fellow and is currently a director of the Climate Finance Project. His research focuses on financial mechanisms and architectures to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions on both the domestic and international levels and the corresponding regulatory and institutional structures. In collaboration with several faculty, research fellows, and students, Bryce helped lead preparations for the “Climate Change: Financing Green Development” conference in Abu Dhabi, May 2009 and co-edited the book that emerged from the conference and co-wrote the lead chapter. He is currently continuing to research and write on climate finance and its governance.

NYU is accepting applications on behalf of the World Bank for a 2015 JD summer internship with the World Bank’s Social Development Team in New Delhi, India.  NYU will provide the regular public interest summer funding for the selected intern.  1Ls and 2Ls are eligible to apply.

Intern Task Description: Unless the Bank decides otherwise, the NYU fellow will work in the Bank’s New Delhi office’s social development team under the supervision of Shankar Narayanan, Senior Social Development Specialist. Subject to the supervisor’s discretion, the NYU fellow will be responsible for research and drafting memos and documents relating to Indian or comparative land policy, economics, and law. He or she may also be given specific assignments by other Bank staff members in consultation with his or her supervisor.

Intern Qualifications: The fellow must have full competency in English and excellent legal and analytical skills. He or she must be able to hit the ground running, be willing to do long hours of research, and produce memos on short notice. She or he must obtain a proper visa to work as an intern in India—this requirement is not usually difficult for Americans. The Bank can provide a letter, but will not be able to assist in obtaining a visa. Costs of travel, relocation, and residence are the fellow’s responsibility (with the assistance of NYU summer funding). Standard Bank processing requirements, including security clearances, will apply.

To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume, unofficial NYU transcript, and writing sample by Friday February 13, 2015 to David Glasgow, Fellow, Public Interest Law Center, at david.glasgow@nyu.edu.

Monday, February 9, 2015  |  12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Smart Classroom 220, Vanderbilt Hall
40 Washington Square South

To be admitted to the New York State Bar, all students must complete at least 50 hours of eligible pro bono work.  Attend the Pro Bono Information Session with David Glasgow from PILC to learn what counts, what doesn’t count, how to find pro bono opportunities, and how to complete the necessary pro bono paperwork for your admission.

Please note, this will be the only information session on the pro bono requirement for the Spring semester.

The World Bank’s Anti-Corruption Unit in Washington, DC is accepting summer internship applications from 1L and 2L students. The deadline is February 6, 2015. Please see here for more information. Students would have to applying for PILC Summer Funding  to meet the Bank’s funding requirement.

For career planning questions that can be answered in 15 minutes or less, the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) offers drop-in counseling during the following days and times this week:

• Monday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with Linda Wayner
• Tuesday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with David Glasgow
• Wednesday, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm with Sarah Hudson-Plush

To make a full counseling appointment to meet with a PILC Counselor, please call our office at (212) 998-6686 during business hours (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST) or email pilc.appointments@nyu.edu.

The Office of Global Programs is pleased to announce that the online application to NYU Law Abroad and Exchange Programs for Academic Year 2015-2016 is currently open and will remain available until Friday, February 13, 2015.

To create an account and submit your application, please visit https://apps.law.nyu.edu/grad-app/.

Applicants will be required to register an account and login through the NYU Law Graduate Application online system. Once you have accessed the application’s main page, please select “NYU Law Abroad and Exchange Programs” from the list of programs to begin working on your application.

Please note: The online application form is the same for both NYU Law Abroad and Exchange Programs. Students will have the opportunity to apply for both types of programs in the same application. If applying for more than one program, applicants will be asked to rank your selections and complete a separate plan of study for each program.

Students interested in applying are encouraged to reach out to the Office of Global Programs at law.globalstudents@nyu.edu or (212)-992-8639 with any questions about the application process and program policies for NYU Law Abroad or Exchange Programs.

For more information on our Law Abroad and/or Exchange Programs, please visit http://www.law.nyu.edu/global/globalopportunities.

What Lawyers (and soon-to-be-lawyers) Can Do to Ensure Constitutional Policing
Roy L. Austin, Jr.
Deputy Assistant to President Obama
Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs, Justice and Opportunity

Monday, February 2, 2015
12:25-1:50 p.m.
Furman Hall Room 212

Last December’s grand jury decisions not to indict the police officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, as well as other recent police shootings of unarmed black men and boys, have raised urgent concerns about racial profiling, excessive force, and police accountability. These events have also prompted questions about whether the law and lawyers can play an effective role in helping to promote reform.

Roy Austin has devoted much of his recent career to addressing these issues — currently at the White House and before that as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where he worked on litigation involving NYPD stop-and-frisk, and police practices in New Orleans, Maricopa County, Arizona and other jurisdictions. He will speak and answer questions, in a discussion moderated by Professor Stephen Schulhofer.

Click here to RSVP!

We are pleased to invite you to the second session of “Emotional Intelligence: The Other Kind of Smart,” led by Vice Dean Jeannie Forrest. This interactive workshop will build upon the concepts introduced in the first session and will focus on the skills of social awareness and relationship management. Those who participated in Part I of the series are invited to attend:

Monday, February 9, from 12:25-1:50 p.m. in Furman Hall, Room 214
Please CLICK HERE to register.

LLM students, please take a look at your schedule and ensure that you are meeting all specialization requirements. If you find that you are not, please get in touch with OGA as soon as possible: law.graduateaffairs@nyu.edu.

2015 Black History Month Gala
Thursday, February 12, 2015 | 7:00 p.m.
Kimmel Center for University Life, Rosenthal Pavilion

The Gala will begin at 7:00 p.m. with a cocktail reception followed by a dinner program at 8:00 p.m. During dinner, Debo P. Adegbile ’94, partner at Wilmer Hale and Suzette M. Malveaux ’94, professor of law at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law will be honored for their outstanding contributions in field of law. Additionally on this evening, BALSA will award two Scholastic Excellence Scholarships for students of color aspiring to careers in the legal field. One scholarship will be presented to a high school student and a college student.

To RSVP, please email Ms. Amena Ross at nyubalsa@gmail.com. When replying please be sure to include your full name and class year.

Designing a Greater System of Protection for Fashion: The Future of Fashion Law

Thursday, February 19, 2015  |  6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Lester Pollack Colloquium, Furman Hall (245 Sullivan Street, NY, NY 10012)

RSVP online by 2/18/15

The panel will examine the current state of fashion law. Our panel members are preparing to speak about the (1) protections currently available to the fashion industry, (2) the possible need for further protection, and (3) the means of providing further protection. We will ask each panelist about current developments in the law regarding several current protections: copyright, trademark, design patent, trade dress, and utility patent. We will also contemplate why the United States has not implemented as strong protections for fashion as several European nations and whether those protections may be a good alternative to relying heavily on the existing protections. Our panel moderator will be Barbara Kolsun.

A reception will follow the panel.

Please register at: www.csusa.org/fashion

Monday, February 9, 2015  |  6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Lester Pollack Colloquium Room NYU School of Law – Furman Hall (9th floor)
245 Sullivan Street New York, New York 10012  map

Join the NYU Journal of Law & Business and NYU Latino Law Students Association (LaLSA) for a conversation with Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner in Washington, DC.  Clayton Gillette, Max E. Greenberg Professor of Contract Law at NYU School of Law, will moderate a discussion on Puerto Rico’s current economic climate and how the current political status has led to an unsustainable economic structure.

To RSVP, click here.

For questions, contact Monica Ramirez de Arellano at law.jlb@nyu.edu

Friday, February 27, 2015  |  8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

The New York University Annual Survey of American Law presents its annual symposium on Friday, February 27, 2015. This year’s topic is securities class actions and the US Supreme Court case, Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc. (2014). This day-long symposium will explore the ways that Halliburton II changed the securities class action landscape, the debate over the role of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and potential legislative action on both the state and federal level. Carter G. Phillips of Sidley Austin will be our keynote speaker. Panelists include a former SEC Commissioner, a former Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s litigation program, as well as numerous securities law scholars, appellate practice leaders, and securities litigators who have represented either shareholders or corporations.

To register for this event, click here, or copy and paste https://nyu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ctOw9noK0MXuugJ into your URL

Yoga is back-Start the semester with recharging your mind!

This class will be led by our own Assistant Dean Arthur Fama, Spring 2015 Yoga Schedule

Pointers and practices on how yoga can help you relax, rejuvenate and focus.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015  |  11:15 AM – 12:15 PM
110 West Third Street- D’Agostino Hall, Lipton Hall
New York, NY 10012

Tuesday, February 24, 2015  |  4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012  map

The Annual Survey of American Law will dedicate its 72nd issue to commemorate the legacy of Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York. The Dedication Ceremony will take place at the Law School on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, at 4:30 p.m. in Greenberg Lounge, located on the first floor of Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South. A reception with Judge Weinstein will follow.

The ceremony will include brief tributes to Judge Weinstein, delivered by his colleagues and friends. The speakers will include Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Leslie G. Fagen, Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Kenneth R. Feinberg, Managing Partner at Feinberg Rozen; the Honorable John Gleeson, US District Court Judge of the Eastern District of New York; Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law; and Diane L. Zimmerman, Samuel Tilden Professor of Law Emerita, at New York University School of Law.

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP here
You can also copy and paste https://nyu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6u5rYxkltbiph1b into your URL.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015  |  5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
40 Washington Sq. South
Greenberg Lounge – New York University School of Law
New York, NY 10012  map

Please register HERE.  For more information, vist NYU Journal of Law & Business.

This Symposium will bring together leaders in law and business to explore topical issues in corporate governance. The first panel, will explore the relevant agency problems in this relationship, and how those problems should shape the on-going debate regarding the shareholder-director relationship

Panel 1: What Does Fiduciary Duty Mean in an Investor-Fund Context?
Moderator: Gerald Rosenfeld NYU School of Law

Panelists:
Donna Anderson T. Rowe Price Group
Matthew Mallow ’67, LLM ’68 BlackRock
Nik Mittal ’98 JANA Partners
Sabastian V. Niles Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Brian L. Schorr ’82 Trian Fund Management

The second panel, will consider whether and to what extent the tax law encourages or discourages shareholder activism, such as through its preferential treatment of capital gains, and panelists will debate the merits of proposals, suggested by others, to implement tax reforms that could encourage shareholders to focus on long-term, durable corporate growth rather than short-term results.

Panel 2: Tax Implications
Moderator: Joshua D. Blank LLM ’07 NYU School of Law

Panelists:
Roy J. Katzovicz Pershing Square Capital Management
David S. Miller LLM ’94 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Deborah L. Paul LLM ’94 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

This event is seeking approval for New York State CLE credit.  If approved, it will be appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys.

Second-year students with a demonstrated commitment to work in civil liberties and civil rights and strong skills are invited to apply for 2015-16 Fellowships in the Arthur Garfield Hays Program.

The program provides 3L students with fellowship support as they complete two substantial internships engaged in impact litigation, policy work, or direct services related to civil rights and civil liberties. Specific areas of focus range from First Amendment freedoms to immigrants’ rights to criminal and racial justice issues and include everything in between.

Materials describing the program and the selection process are available on the NYU website and in Vanderbilt Hall, Room 308.

APPLICATIONS ARE DUE BY NOON ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
in Vanderbilt Hall, Room 308

The current Hays Fellows will discuss their experiences in the program and answer your questions in the East Wing of Golding Lounge from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 3 and again on Wednesday, February 4 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Vanderbilt Hall, Room 214. A video about the Hays Program will be shown. Please feel free to contact any of us if you have questions about the program or the application process.

Norman Dorsen
Sylvia A. Law
Helen Hershkoff
Adam B. Cox

You are invited to participate in an Emotional Intelligence (EQ) training led by Vice Dean Jeannie Forrest on Monday, February 2, from 12:25-1:50 p.m. in Furman Hall, Room 214.

Please CLICK HERE to register for the February 2 session.

EQ, also known as “the other kind of smart,” involves a skill set that many lawyers have come to recognize as the key attribute of true leaders in the legal profession. Increasingly, legal employers are screening candidates based on their demonstrated ability to manage themselves and relationships with others. They want to know that they are hiring someone who has the ability to work well with a broad range of personalities in a variety of settings.

This interactive workshop will help you hone the skills of self-awareness and self-management so that you are better equipped to manage the many and varied professional interactions that you will encounter throughout your career. Those who participate in Part I of the EQ workshop series will be invited to participate in Part II at a later date this spring.