We write to invite you to attend an information session on the Lederman Fellowship in Law, Economics, and Business on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, from 6:10-7:00 pm in Vanderbilt Hall, Faculty Library (Third Floor). The Lederman Fellowship aims to foster student research in law & economics and to create an environment that fosters collaboration among students and faculty interested in law & economics. Professors Ryan Bubb and Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, Directors of the Lederman Fellowship Program, will present the fellowship program, provide information about the application process and answer questions. We expect Mr. Lederman to be in attendance as well. Interested students should plan to apply for the fellowship in the fall of their 2L year.

Summary of program. Lederman Fellows will take a series of courses that provide a foundation in the concepts and methodologies of law & economics. The centerpiece of the fellowship program is a research paper in law & economics that each fellow will develop, advised by a NYU faculty member. Fellows will participate in a series of workshops and colloquium meetings in which they present their work to the faculty directors and other fellows. Further details on the program are provided below.

Area of study. The field of “law & economics” is defined broadly for the purposes of the Lederman Fellowship. A student research project can fit within the program by applying economic methodology (e.g., economic analysis, positive political theory, or empirical analysis) to a research topic in law or by examining a topic in an area of law that implicates economic issues, like corporate law or antitrust.

Program directors. Professors Florencia Marotta-Wurgler and Ryan Bubb co-direct the fellowship program.

Eligibility. All second-year J.D. students enrolled at NYU School of Law, as well as J.S.D. students prior to their final year at NYU, are eligible to apply. Those selected will hold the status of Lederman Fellow in Law & Economics for their remaining time at NYU. Applications are due in the fall of the 2L year for J.D. students, or the fall of any year prior to their final year for J.S.D. students. See the fellowship website for the application form and the exact application deadline.

Basis for selection. Fellows will be selected based on their demonstrated interest in law & economics and general aptitude for producing a high-quality research paper, as indicated by their research proposal, statement of interest, and transcripts. No prior background in economics is required, only sincere interest in law & economics, broadly defined.

Faculty advisor. To apply for the fellowship, students must have an NYU faculty member agree to advise their proposed law & economics research project for the fellowship.

Amount of award. Fellows will be awarded $5,000 upon completion of all requirements of the program in their 3L year / the second year of the fellowship program.

Program requirements. All fellows are required to complete the following program requirements.

• 2L year (first year of the fellowship program for J.S.D. students)

Spring

• 2L fellows enroll in the Colloquium on Law and Economics.
• Milestone #1: 2L fellows present their paper proposal to the 2L and 3L fellows and faculty directors in February.

• 3L year (second year of the fellowship program for J.S.D. students)

Fall

• 3L fellows enroll in an approved law & economics lecture course, such as Lewis Kornhauser’s “Economic Analysis of Law.”
• Milestone #2: 3L fellows submit a literature review to their faculty advisor and program directors for feedback.
• Milestone #3: 3L fellows submit an outline of the paper to their faculty advisor and program directors for feedback.

Spring

• Milestone #4: 3L fellows present their work at the Law and Economics Colloquium (1 hour per student). All 3L fellows will attend the colloquium meetings in which fellows present and submit written comments to presenters.
• 3L fellows attend the workshop in which 2L fellows present their paper proposals.
• Milestone #5: 3L fellows submit their final paper to the program directors.
• Milestone #6: 3L fellows present their work in a final fellowship meeting attended by Lawrence Lederman.

We write to invite you to apply to the Lederman Fellowship Program in Law, Economics and Business. The Fellowship provides an opportunity to work closely with NYU Law faculty and participate in a series of collaborative workshops designed to help you write a research paper on the topic of your choice. All 2L students are encouraged to apply! The application materials are available at: http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/laweconomics/scholarshipsfellowshipsandprizes/incomingandcurrentstudents The deadline for submitting applications is March 10, 2015.

Summary of program. Lederman Fellows will take a series of courses that provide a foundation in the concepts and methodologies of law & economics. The centerpiece of the fellowship program is a research paper in law & economics that each fellow will develop, advised by a NYU faculty member. Fellows will participate in a series of workshops and colloquium meetings in which they present their work to the faculty directors and other fellows. Further details on the program are provided below.

Area of study. The field of “law & economics” is defined broadly for the purposes of the Lederman Fellowship. A student research project can fit within the program by applying economic methodology (e.g., economic analysis, positive political theory, or empirical analysis) to a research topic in law or by examining a topic in an area of law that implicates economic issues, like corporate law or antitrust.

Program directors. Professors Florencia Marotta-Wurgler and Ryan Bubb co-direct the fellowship program.

Eligibility. All second-year J.D. students enrolled at NYU School of Law, as well as J.S.D. students prior to their final year at NYU, are eligible to apply. Those selected will hold the status of Lederman Fellow in Law & Economics for their remaining time at NYU. Applications are due in the spring of the 2L year for J.D. students, or the spring of any year prior to their final year for J.S.D. students. See the fellowship website for the application form and the exact application deadline.

Basis for selection. Fellows will be selected based on their demonstrated interest in law & economics and general aptitude for producing a high-quality research paper, as indicated by their research proposal, statement of interest, and transcripts. No prior background in economics is required, only sincere interest in law & economics, broadly defined.

Faculty advisor. To apply for the fellowship, students must have an NYU faculty member agree to advise their proposed law & economics research project for the fellowship.

Amount of award. Fellows will be awarded $5,000 upon completion of all requirements of the program in their 3L year / the second year of the fellowship program.

Program requirements. Current 2Ls who enter the program this year are required to complete the following program requirements.

• 2L year (first year of the fellowship program for J.S.D. students)

Spring

• Milestone #1: 2L fellows present their paper proposal to the 2L and 3L fellows and faculty directors in May.

• 3L year (second year of the fellowship program for J.S.D. students)

Fall

• 3L fellows enroll in an approved law & economics lecture course, such as Lewis Kornhauser’s “Economic Analysis of Law.”
• Milestone #2: 3L fellows submit a literature review to their faculty advisor and program directors for feedback.
• Milestone #3: 3L fellows submit an outline of the paper to their faculty advisor and program directors for feedback.

Spring

• Milestone #4: 3L fellows present their work at the Law and Economics Colloquium (1 hour per student). All 3L fellows will attend the colloquium meetings in which fellows present and submit written comments to presenters.
• 3L fellows attend the workshop in which 2L fellows present their paper proposals.
• Milestone #5: 3L fellows submit their final paper to the program directors.
• Milestone #6: 3L fellows present their work in a final fellowship meeting attended by Lawrence Lederman.

If you are a 2L or 3L (or an LLM*) student who has excelled in a particular substantive area and has a knack for teaching, we urge you to apply to provide tutoring service to a fellow student. If you agree to act as a tutor, you will be included in our tutor registry. When a student asks for assistance in a particular class, we will then match him or her with an appropriate tutor. We may also call upon you to assist with general skills tutoring areas such as note-taking, outlining or exam preparation. Tutors are paid by the Office of Student Affairs and are compensated at the rate of $12 per hour, the same rate of pay that Research Assistants receive.

To apply to become a tutor, please visit: https://nyu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1HohrwgyR6309CZ:

For questions please email law.studentaffairs@nyu.edu

*LLM students should contact the Office of Student Affairs to inquire about applying to serve as a tutor

Please be advised that both Kushner Lounge* and Golding Lounge** will be closed from 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 4 until 7:00 p.m. on Friday, February 6. These closures are due to PILC Fair related activities.

*Students with lockers in Kushner Lounge and students who use the refrigerator in this space must plan accordingly.
**Students wishing to make purchases from Golding Lounge may use the Wachtell Café in Furman Hall (which will remain open during this time).

We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.

For any questions/concerns, please contact the Office of Student Affairs at law.studentaffairs@nyu.edu

Greetings,

Please join us for the next International Tax Program Luncheon Lecture, entitled “European IP Boxes: Unlawful state aid or ‘just’ (unfair) tax competition?,“ to be delivered Johanna Hey, Professor of Tax Law and Public Law and Director of the Institute of Tax Law at Cologne University, Germany.

Friday, February 6, 2015
1:15 pm
Vanderbilt Hall 202

Contact Gregory.Zwahlen@nyu.edu for more information.

When: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 from 10:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.

Where: Golding Lounge

Description:

The SBA and OUTLaw are co-hosting a blood drive with the American Red Cross on Tuesday, February 17 from 10am-3pm in Golding.  The current FDA regulations prohibit men who have had sex with men from donating blood and, even if the newly proposed regulations go into effect, the majority of gay men will still be banned. Please give blood for those who can’t and learn more about the ban and what you can do to change it.

Visit www.redcrossblood.org (sponsor code: NYULaw) to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins are also welcome!

Tuesday, February 3rd at 6pm in VH 206

Come join LSHR for an exciting panel on career paths and internship opportunities in human rights law! Panelists include:

1. Reena Arora, Workers’ Rights Attorney for Empire Justice Center
   http://www.empirejustice.org/about-us/staff-profiles/empire-jusitce/yonkers/reena.html

2. Jamil Dakwar, Director of the Human Rights Program at ACLU
   https://www.aclu.org/human-rights/biography-jamil-dakwar

3. Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, Co-Director of the US Program for Human Rights Watch
   http://www.hrw.org/bios/maria-mcfarland-s-nchez-moreno

Linda Wayner, executive director of the Bickel & Brewer Latino Institute for Human Rights, will moderate.

This event will be a great source of advice for 1Ls and 2Ls looking for summer internships in human rights-related fields of law, and for 3Ls seeking job opportunities after graduation. Snacks and beverages will be provided!

Please contact Amy Zajac at acz255@nyu.edu with any questions.

The US-Asia Law Institute (USALI) is excited to participate in a post-graduate fellowship opportunity made possible through the generous support of the Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation Post-Graduate Fellowship in Public Interest Law will support fully-funded, one-year post-graduate fellowships at Ford grantee organizations for six graduating NYU 3Ls.

The application deadline is February 9. However, as the applications are competitive and judged based upon the quality of the candidate and project proposal, if you are interested please arrange a meeting with USALI Executive Director Ira Belkin (ira.belkin@nyu.edu) as soon as possible.

More information about the fellowship can be found here.

Thursday, February 12, 2015
4:00 PM – 5:50 PM
Vanderbilt Hall, room 202

The Innovation Policy Colloquium focuses each year on different aspects of the law’s role in promoting creativity and invention. This year, the colloquium will examine the topic of design in intellectual property law.

Presenter: Karl Ulrich, University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School

Topic: The Importance of the Raw Idea in Innovation: Testing the Sow’s Ear Hypothesis

2 New York CLE credits in the Area of Professional Practice is approved for both experienced and newly attorneys (those admitted to the New York Bar for less than two years) and is presented in traditional (in person) format.

For more information and a copy of Professor Ulrich’s paper as well as a related reading, go to http://www.law.nyu.edu/academics/colloquia/innovationpolicy

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.

Law Women Alumnae Reception
Friday, February 20, 2015 | 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge

Law Women will continue their tradition of honoring alumnae who have been groundbreakers in the field of law. The 2015 Alumna of the Year Award will be presented to Virginia L. Molino ’76, general counsel at McKinsey & Company. Immediately preceding the reception, the Office of Career Services will host a half-hour career networking session that matches current female students seeking job search advice and alumnae by practice area.

For more information and to RSVP, click here.

Attached please find two documents which we hope will be helpful as you create your paper and OSCAR applications. As set forth in the Instructions for Creating Paper Applications, also attached are two files that will assist you in creating a mail merge.

Attachments:
Creating Applications
FAQ_Applications 2014
LetterStarter
LabelStarter

What: Inequality, Human Rights, and Progressive Realization: Translating State Resources into Social and Economic Rights
When: February 18, 6:30-8:30pm
Where: Vanderbilt Hall (40 Washington Sq. S), Room 204
Valid ID and RSVP are required for admission. Please RSVP here or email Audrey.watne@nyu.edu. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights, a new book by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, and Susan Randolph, proposes an innovative framework for measuring government performance in meeting economic and social rights obligations against what could be achieved with available state resources.  The authors argue that traditional human rights indicators capture individuals’ enjoyment of economic or social rights, but not state compliance with the duties to progressively respect, protect, and fulfill those rights.  Their new approach uses data from countries across the globe to set relative benchmarks against which to evaluate more comprehensively how states apply their resources to realize economic and social rights.  Their findings reveal striking differences in governments’ success in mobilizing public resources to deliver socioeconomic benefits. Their findings also raise questions about persistent obstacles to global fulfilment of economic and social rights despite unprecedented wealth production and technological breakthroughs over the last century.  Fukuda-Parr will present the new rights index and discuss the book’s main conclusions.

CHRGJ Scholar in Residence Tine Destrooper will place this analytical project in dialogue with human rights practice.  Drawing on her own research into the rights-based approach and community conceptions of economic and social rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Destrooper will discuss how this new quantitative tool for assessing government performance could complement qualitative human rights research and efforts to achieve progressive realization of rights, and suggest areas for further exploration.

About the Speakers:

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor of International Affairs at The New School. She is a development economist interested in human development and capabilities and the broad question of national and international policy strategies. Her current research includes projects on public policies and economic and social rights, and the impact of global goal setting on international development agendas. From 1995 to 2004, she was lead author and director of the UNDP Human Development Reports. Recent publications include: Capabilities and Rights: an interdisciplinary conversation (with P. Vizard and D. Elson).

Tine Destrooper is a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.  Her research focuses on the local relevance of human rights, with an emphasis on the right to water, as well as the gender dimensions of these issues. She is also currently working on several papers regarding the local relevance of transitional justice processes. Tine Destrooper obtained her Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, where she specialized in the relationship between armed conflict, social movements and gender. Before she studied at University College London and the University of Brussels, where she completed a Master in Politics, Security and Integration and a Bachelor in European Politics.

Moderator: Nikki Reisch is the Legal Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.  Her work focuses on social and economic rights, with an emphasis on corporate accountability, economic inequality and environmental justice.

Visit www.chrgj.org to learn about other events and programs.

Event: U.S. Supreme Court Clerkship Applications Information Session
Date:  Monday, February 23
Time:  12:30-1:30 pm
Location: Furman Hall, Room 316
Videotaped?:  NO

If you are interested in applying for a Supreme Court clerkship, please attend this information session.  If you cannot attend the information session but are interested in applying for a Supreme Court clerkship please contact Michelle Cherande at michelle.cherande@nyu.edu.

Click here to RSVP or log into your CSM/Symplicity account and go to the “Events” page.

Interview schedules will be available on February 10.

Tuesday, February 10

The bidding deadline for resume collections is at noon. There are no exceptions.

February 9 is the last day to make interview time selections for the West Coast Job Fair. February 9 is also the last day to cancel a West Coast Job Fair interview. Please email Laura Mowry (laura.mowry@nyu.edu) if you have any questions.

A video recording of the International Pathways to Employment Panel is now available. Log into CSM Symplicity and click on the video link on your homepage to view the video.

This year’s Law Firm Speed Networking Luncheon For 1Ls is on Monday, February 9, 2015 in Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge. The Law Firm Speed Networking Luncheon For 1Ls provides an opportunity for 1Ls to meet with several firms during a two hour period.  Twenty-three firms will participate in this luncheon with the goal of helping to prepare you for the upcoming interview season, introduce you to their firms, and help you develop the comfort level to navigate the recruiting process.  All 1Ls with a long term interest in the private sector are encouraged to participate. If you would like to attend the Law Firm Speed Networking Luncheon For 1Ls and have not RSVP’d, please email Cassandre Stump at cassandre.stump@nyu.edu.

This lunch will give you the opportunity to sit down with current practitioners in groups of ten or fewer students to discuss tax careers. Each student will have the opportunity to rotate through up to three different tax practice areas during the lunch. We will have attorneys representing various areas of tax law, including Corporate Tax, International Tax, Employee Benefits, Estate Planning, State and Local Tax, and Tax Controversy. The tentative speakers are copied below. This lunch is generously sponsored by the ABA Section on Taxation. Please RSVP on CSM to reserve your seat.

1. Trusts & Estates – Christen Douglas, Pillsbury
2. Corporate Tax – Jonathan Stein, Pryor Cashman; Yonatan Tammam, Reed Smith
3. International Tax – Bob Pedersen, BDO; Michelle Murphy, BDO; Michael Hirschfeld, Dechert
4. State and Local Tax – Zach Gladney, Alston & Bird; Michael Tedesco, Baker & McKenzie
5. ERISA/Executive Compensation/Employee Benefits – Rose Ohanesian, Willkie
6. Tax Controversy – Meagan Brackney, Kostelanetz & Fink; Zhanna A. Ziering, Caplin & Drysdale; Clint Massengill, Cooley

Please RSVP on CSM (https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students).