Wednesday-Friday, February 11-13, 2015 | 8:00 PM
Tishman Auditorium
See and experience the multiple performances of the Vagina Monologues next week!
For any questions regarding these events contact:
Amy Wolfe
amw646@nyu.edu
See the first of the events in the law school calendar here.
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.
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
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.
What: CSD Series: Accountability for Somalia’s Security Service: A Case Study in US Federal Court
When: February 17, 12:30-1:30pm
Where: The Puck Building, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, 2nd Fl. (295 Lafayette St., New York, NY)
RSVP here.
Ahmed v. Magan, the first decision to hold a member of Somalia’s notorious National Security Service accountable for human rights violations, illustrates the challenges and possibilities for pursuing accountability in post conflict societies. Christina Hioureas represented Hassan Ahmed, a Somali constitutional law professor and human rights advocate who was tortured during the Siade Barre regime, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Using this case as a point of entry, Hioureas will discuss developments in Somalia in the last 40 years, beginning with the collapse of democracy, rise of the Siade Barre regime and the restrictions on human rights and constitutional rights, the end of the dictatorship, efforts to seek justice and accountability, and current efforts to build the country’s legal system from the ground up.
The Conflict, Security, and Development Series is co-presented by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School, the Center for Global Affairs at NYU’s School for Continuing and Professional Studies, NYU’s Global Institute for Public Health, and the Office of International Programs at NYU Wagner. Each Tuesday, this series will examine new research, discuss creative policy approaches and highlight recent analytical and practical innovations in responding to the challenges of security and development in the context of conflict and post-conflict situations.
Speaker:
Christina Hioureas is a Senior Associate with Chadbourne & Parke’s International Arbitration and Public International Law practice group. She represents States, private entities, and individuals on international disputes and public international law matters, including: international investment treaty claims (ICSID, UNCITRAL, NAFTA); structuring investments to obtain treaty protection; international commercial arbitration (ICC, ICDR, Swiss Rules) and litigation; treaty drafting and interpretation for State sovereigns; law of the sea / UNCLOS, international human rights and international criminal law claims, including crimes against humanity; and energy law.
She is also a delegate at the United Nations, handling among other matters, the Sixth Committee to the UN General Assembly (Legal Affairs) and UN Committee on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Ms. Hioureas also is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of California Berkeley School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley in Political Science and Peace & Conflict Studies. She is admitted to practice in California, New York, England and Wales, and before the U.S. Supreme Court. She was awarded the Center for Justice & Accountability “Partners in Justice Award” (2013) for her work on Ahmed v. Magan, and has been recognized in Legal 500 (2014) for her work in international arbitration and public international law and was awarded the Greek America Foundation’s “40 Under 40” Award (2014) for her work in human rights and public international law.
Visit www.chrgj.org to learn about other events and programs.
Regularly during the school year, the Dean hosts roundtable discussions with prominent guests who have utilized their law degrees in a variety of nontraditional ways. Over lunch with a small group of students, guests speak autobiographically about their work experiences, sharing valuable insight about how they found their chosen path. Please note that the roundtables are informal and off-the-record.
Carole Piwnica, LLM ’85, who will be the Dean’s guest on Thursday, February 19th, is the founder of Naxos Capital Partners and is the Managing Director of Naxos UK, making investments throughout Europe and the United States. Naxos invests in a range of sectors, including consumer, cleantech technology, mining, industrial and real estate, utilizing a broad range of investment structures, including leverage buyouts, growth and venture capital, and private investment in public equities (PIPE’s).
She is a director of some of Naxos’s portfolio companies, including Big Red, Amyris, Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc., RecyCoal and i20. In the course of her board role duties, Mrs. Piwnica travels extensively worldwide, visiting Naxos’s portfolio companies operations and expanding their networks.
She currently serves as an independent non-executive director on the Board of several French-listed companies, including Eutelsat, a satellite provider. There, she chairs the governance, remuneration, and nomination committee. Additionally, she is a member of the Audit Committee at Sanofi, a multinational pharmaceutical company. She is also a member of the Strategic and the Audit Committees at Paris Orléans, a financial holding company listed on Euronext Paris and controlled by the French and English branch of the Rothschild family.
She is a citizen of Belgium and a resident of the UK. She qualified as a lawyer at the University of Brussels in 1981 and received her LLM degree from New York University in 1985. She has practiced law with a number of international firms, including Shearman & Sterling from 1985 to 1992, where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions.
The Dean’s roundtables are open to 18 interested NYU School of Law JD and graduate students. In order to achieve a representational mix of students, we will designate a proportionate number of seats to JD students and graduate students, respectively, to be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. The roundtables will begin at 12:30 P.M. in Snow Dining Room. If you would like to attend a roundtable, please sign up in advance by emailing Julie DeVito at devitoj@exchange.law.nyu.edu. Please indicate whether you are a JD or graduate student, and whether you have any dietary restrictions.
Friday, March 13, 2015
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Snow Dining Room, Vanderbilt Hall
The Information Law Institute and The Center on Law and Security are co-sponsoring this panel on Cloud Data Access.
Abstract: More than ever before, people today rely on cloud computing services for email, online storage and backup, social media, video services, and gaming. However, the laws governing data privacy obligations were written long before anyone dreamed up the cloud. This makes regulatory issues very complicated at the purely domestic level, but even more so when cross-jurisdictional issues come into play as users, their data, and technology providers can all reside in different physical locations. In fact, government and industry are grappling with these issues on many front – in diplomatic discussions between the US and Europe, in legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate, and, most recently, in a large case brought by Microsoft Corporation challenging a U.S. government search warrant for customer communications stored in a company datacenter in Dublin, Ireland. This CLE will explore legal questions raised by these jurisdictional issues, the laws involved, and arguments on how these issues should be resolved.
Panelists: Professor Katherine Strandburg, NYU Law; Professor Ira Rubinstein, NYU Law; Zachary Goldman, NYU Law
1 New York CLE credit 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.
Email Sarvenaz Bakhtiar at bakhtiar@exchange.law.nyu.edu to register for this event.
Thursday, February 26, 6:00 p.m., 14 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10007
Wine, Cheese and Conversation: Share your thoughts about NYCLA with President Lew Tesser
Attention law student members! Join NYCLA President Lew Tesser for an informal hour of open conversation about NYCLA. Share your ideas and help us keep our finger on the pulse of what our law student members want and need from their bar association.
To keep these gatherings intimate and informal, attendance is limited to the first 20 people who sign up, so pre-registration is required. This event is scheduled periodically to give as many members as possible a platform to share their views and ideas.
*Registration is open to NYCLA law student members only*
Seats are limited so sign up today!
Following is a sample of job listings currently active on CSM. You can find additional jobs, as well as get more information on the specific jobs listed below and apply for these jobs through the CSM System: https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/
Following is a listing of currently active Spring RA positions on CSM. Full descriptions and application instructions are available through the CSM Job Postings Tab: https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/
We want you to read each week’s OCS Docket entries and we want to reward you for staying informed. Read carefully and you will frequently find a prize buried amidst the OCS content. If you find the prize and want to participate in a drawing for it, write by 9:00 am on Tuesday to law.careers@nyu.edu with the subject line “Reading Reward”. We will select randomly from the submitted entries. Prizes range in value and include a private study room in the OCS Interview Suite during exam period; books written by NYU Law alumni; a free night at a Hilton hotel; movie tickets; lunch with a hiring partner or recruiting administrator of a major NYC law firm; a suite at the Early Interview Week hotel in August; among others. These prizes are donated and do not come from tuition funds.
JD:.
Monday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Friday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
LLM:
Wednesday 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Additional Drop-in Hours for TIP:
Thursday, Feb. 19: 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 20: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
If you are planning to participate in Early Interview Week (EIW 2015) and did not attend a Small Group Counseling Session, please come to an OCS drop-in appointment. Below are the Drop-In Hours for JD students:
Monday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Thursday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Friday: 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Loyola University Chicago School of law is hosting the 2015 Patent Law Interview Program on Thursday, July 30 and Friday, July 31 in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The 2015 Patent Law Interview Program will be accepting registrations from:
Last year roughly 135 employers, 190 law schools, and 1,400 law students from across the country participated in the program. The program is entirely pre-selected, which means that students submit resumes and transcripts to bid on interviews with the employers they are interested in, and employers then review the materials of the students who bid on them and select the students they wish to interview at the program. Last year, approximately half of the participating students were selected for interviews.
Students with undergraduate or graduate degrees in engineering or a technical science should consider registering for the program. You do not need to be patent bar eligible to register, although the vast majority of employers participating in the program are seeking patent bar eligible students.
For more information on the program, please refer to the Loyola Patent Program website at: http://www.luc.edu/law/career/patent_students.html.
Online student registration for this year’s Patent Law Interview Program is currently open and will close on Monday, March 9. The registration page is located at: https://patentlawregistration.luc.edu/lawstudents/Default.aspx . At this stage of registration, you will only need to enter some basic information (you will upload your resume and bid on interviews later in the semester). Please note that our school is listed alphabetically as New York University School of Law on the registration form’s drop down menu of law schools.
There is a non-refundable $35 registration fee for which you will not need to pay; NYU will be covering all registration fees for students.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR STUDENTS
Monday, March 9: Deadline for Student Registration
Tuesday, April 14: Students receive CSM passwords/bidding instructions
Tuesday, April 14: Student Bidding Begins
Thursday, April 30: Deadline for Student Bidding
Monday, June 22: Initial interview schedules available on CSM
Monday, June 22 – Wednesday, June 24: Interview Cancellation Period
Friday, June 26: Final Schedules available on Symplicity
Wednesday, July 29: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Welcome Reception (Open to all participating students)
Thursday, July 30 & Friday, July 31: 2015 Patent Law Interview Program
Please direct any questions about the program to the Patent Program Liaison in our office, Jennifer Leibowitz at jennifer.leibowitz@nyu.edu.
Associate Dean Dorzback will be available to students on an individual basis by advance sign-up to discuss job search related issues during a walk around Washington Square Park. Sign up through the events tab on https://law-nyu-csm.symplicity.com/students/.
Thursday, February 19 through Tuesday, February 24
TIP Interview Schedules will be available on Thursday, February 19.
Pre-selects must accept or decline interviews by Friday, February 20 by NOON.
Alternates may schedule interviews, if there are open time slots, on Monday, February 23.
Alternates must accept or decline interviews by Tuesday, February 24 by NOON.
A representative from the U.S. Air Force JAG will be on campus on February 18, 2015 to discuss the U.S. Air Force JAG application process as well as provide information about the U.S. Air Force JAG and their diverse areas of practice.
This information session will take place:
Date: February 18, 2015
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: OCS/PILC Student Library (Furman Hall – Suite 430)
Please RSVP via Symplicity under OCS/PILC/JCO Events
If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Cassandre Stump (cassandre.stump@nyu.edu) or Jennifer Leibowitz (jennifer.leibowitz@nyu.edu).
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.
During the spring semester, a number of law firms and other employers are hosting luncheons or evening receptions for 1L students only; select firms are also hosting events for 1Ls, 2Ls and 3Ls. These events provide wonderful opportunities for students to learn about these firms/employers and meet their attorneys in an informal setting prior to the 2015 Fall recruitment season.
The following employers will be hosting events for 1Ls during the week of February 16. All events are for 1Ls only unless otherwise noted. For details regarding these events, please log-in to your CSM account and click on the Events tab followed by Employer Info Sessions:
Paul Hastings LLP (Los Angeles, CA): Tuesday, February 17
Morrison & Foerster LLP (New York, NY): Tuesday, February 17
**Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP (Irvine, CA): Wednesday, February 18. This event is for 1Ls, 2Ls and 3Ls with a technical background.
Hogan Lovells US LLP (New York, NY): Wednesday, February 18
Roberts & Holland LLP (Tax Law – New York, NY): Thursday, February 19
An RSVP is required for all events. If you have any questions regarding these events, please email Cassandre Stump (cassandre.stump@nyu.edu).