When: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 | 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Where: Seminar Room 110, Furman Hall (245 Sullivan Street)

The Fair Defense Project (FDP) supports local organizations that provide pre-trial services to indigent criminal defendants and that seek to create alternatives to the current criminal justice system. FDP partners with grassroots community groups that focus on 1) Fair Policing, 2) Alternatives to Prosecution, 3) Bail Reform, and 4) Public Health Alternatives to Incarceration. The group is brand new so come get in on the ground floor and help us develop effective structures of support to important community initiatives in an effort to advance restorative approaches to criminal justice.

Please contact Tristen Edwards at te524@nyu.edu with any questions.

Environmental Law Society 1L Welcome Event

Thursday, September 17, 2015

7:00-9:00 p.m.

Amity Hall

80 West 3rd Street

Join ELS at a local Village bar before Bar Review to have a drink and get to know your fellow NYU environmentalists!  Contact Sara Pahlavan (snp309@nyu.edu) with any questions.

For more information about the Environmental Law Society, see their student organization page: http://www.law.nyu.edu/studentorganizations/els.

2016 Mollie and Paul Hill Student Writing Competition in Medical-Legal Interprofessional Collaboration

In 2016, the Florida State University Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law, based in both the FSU College of Medicine and the FSU College of Law, will present awards for the outstanding original papers submitted by a law student and a medical student or medical resident in response to a question pertaining to collaboration between the medical and legal professions.

For information pertaining to applicant and paper criteria, paper format, judging, and deadline and submissions please click here.

Recommendations are now being accepted for the 2015 Samuel M. Kaynard Memorial Law Student Service Awards. The deadline for receipt of recommendations is the close of business on Friday, December 4, 2015.

The purpose of the awards is to enable New York State Law Schools to recognize excellence among their law students in the area of labor and employment law and to cultivate the relationship between the Labor and Employment Law Section and future labor and employment practitioners.

All law school students are eligible; however, student(s) must be nominated by the dean or the dean’s designee. Direct student applications will not be considered.

For more information including prizes, guidelines, and rules, please click here.

The Office of Student Affairs offers a tutoring program for students who are struggling academically, or who have missed a substantial amount of class time due to illness or other personal problems.

In considering whether to request a tutor, it is highly advised that students first meet with a class teaching assistant.  Teaching assistants often are in the best position to provide practical guidance.

Our free, confidential tutoring service is open to all JD and LLM students who have demonstrated need for tutoring.  These sessions are designed to assist students who are experiencing specific difficulties in a particular subject, or who  would like guidance with respect to study, outlining or exam-taking skills.
Tutors are fellow students who have demonstrated academic excellence in an academic area(s) and whenever possible,  students are assigned to tutors who had the same professor for the course.

Tutoring takes place at mutually convenient times, usually 2-3 hours per week.

Due to the limited number of available tutors, students may request tutoring for a maximum of two courses.

Please note: because we rely on student volunteers to act as tutors, we may not be able to assign a tutor in every case,  but we will make every effort to do so. Requests for tutors in more advanced classes can be difficult to fulfill. If we are unable to find you a tutor, we encourage you to speak with your professor and his or her teaching assistant about your specific difficulties.

The Fall 2015 Tutoring Program is open for requests beginning Wednesday, September 9 to Friday, November 13, 2015.  To register, please click here.

For questions please email law.studentaffairs@nyu.edu.

The 2015 Student Groups Fair will take place on Wednesday, September 9 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Greenberg Lounge.

Join the Fair to obtain information and meet with representatives from the many law student groups here at NYU School of Law!  To see the full list of NYU Law student groups, visitwww.law.nyu.edu/studentorganizations.

Register for Marden, NYU’s Moot Court Competition, 2015-2016

Deadline to Register – 5:00 PM on Friday, September 11, 2015

Register now for the Fall Preliminary Round of the 2015-2016 Orison S. Marden Moot Court Competition. This Fall’s competition will test competitors’ brief-writing and oral advocacy skills with a cutting-edge problem concerning electronic searches of overseas cloud data.

In the Spring, the best students from Fall will write on a different problem, with the top four students arguing before a panel led by Justice Elena Kagan.

2Ls and 3L JD students are eligible to receive 1 academic credit for successful participation in the Fall Preliminary Round.  LLM and JS.D. students are encouraged to participate but ineligible to receive academic credit.

You can register and find out more at: www.nyumootcourt.org/marden.

Submissions are being accepted for the 2015 Law Student Writing Competition.

All law students are eligible.

The winner will have his/her article published in a future issue of the Labor and Employment Law Section Newsletter and a prize of $3,000.00.  The second and third prize articles will also be published in a special edition of the Newsletter and receive a prize of $2,000.00 and $1,000.00 respectively.

The deadline for submission is the close of business on Friday, December 4, 2015.

For more information including topic, prizes, rules, and judging, please click here.

If you are a 2L or 3L 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 on 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. You will be able to indicate the classes in which you wish to provide tutoring, in addition to providing us with comments and/or suggestions.

For questions please email law.studentaffairs@nyu.edu.

On Thursday, September 10 from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m., Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates will be giving an important speech in Greenberg Lounge on the Justice Department’s commitment to ensuring individual accountability in matters of corporate wrongdoing.

For those who have not RSVPed, we wanted to encourage you to RSVP at this link today if you would like to attend or if you cannot attend the event but would like to be on our mailing list for future events. You can be placed on the mailing list (but not the event list) if you RSVP and select “no” for whether you will attend.

For more information on our program, please click here.

We look forward to seeing you on September 10.

Join the U.S.-Asia Law Institute and Paul Pickowicz,  Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies, University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese for a special lunch lecture.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
12:30-2:00 pm, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 202

To RSVP, please email Jean Lee at lee.jean@nyu.edu

Please join the U.S.-Asia Law Institute for a Special Event: Rule of Law Issues in Chinese Cinema: Paul Pickowicz,  Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies, University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History. Special lecture and screening.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
4:00-6:00 pm, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 214

Please RSVP to Jean Lee (lee.jean@nyu.edu)

Join the U.S.-Asia Law Institute for a special lunch with Justice Dennis Tang, Constitutional Court of Taiwan (Republic of China), a leading comparative law scholar and former head of the Law Institute of Academia Sinica (Taipei).
Monday, September 28, 2015
12:30-2:00 pm, Furman Hall, Room 120

To RSVP, please email Jean Lee at lee.jean@nyu.edu

Join the U.S.-Asia Law Institute for a special lunch with Rowena He,  Professor, St. Michael’s College and Author of the widely-praised recent book “Tiananmen Exiles.” Former Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Friday, October 9, 2015;
12:30-2:00 pm, Furman Hall, Room 326

To RSVP for this event, please email Jean Lee at lee.jean@nyu.edu

The Brennan Center for Justice presents:

Marriage Equality on Trial
A Book Talk with Professor Kenji Yoshino

Tuesday, September 15
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Lipton Hall, NYU School of Law
108 West Third Street
(between Sullivan St. and MacDougal St.)
New York, NY 10012

Professor Kenji Yoshino will discuss his book, Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial, which tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equality. Speak Now tells the story of a watershed trial that unfolded over twelve tense days in California in 2010. A trial that legalized same-sex marriage in our most populous state. A trial that interrogated the nature of marriage, the political status of gays and lesbians, the ideal circumstances for raising children, and the ability of direct democracy to protect fundamental rights. A trial that stands as the most potent argument for marriage equality this nation has ever seen.​

CLICK HERE TO RSVP. If you have any questions, please contact Brennan Center Events Manager, Jafreen Uddin, at jafreen.uddin@nyu.edu or 646.292.8345.

Interested in international humanitarian law? Consider joining an NYU Team to one of two 2016 competitions: The Jean-Pictet Competition on International Humanitarian Law and the Clara Barton International Humanitarian Law Competition. There will be an information meeting about how to become a member of the NYU Teams to these competitions on Tuesday, September 15, at 12:30-1:15 PM in Wilf Hall, Room 513. All full-time NYU law students based in New York are eligible to apply to be a member of the NYU Teams.

The Jean-Pictet Competition on International Humanitarian Law is hosted by the International Committee of the Red Cross and is a unique opportunity to gain in-depth and hands-on knowledge of international humanitarian law (IHL).  The competition is a week-long training event on IHL, consisting in “taking law out of the books”, by simulations and role plays, allowing the Competition jury to evaluate teams’ theoretical knowledge and practical understanding of IHL. The situations are founded on fictitious but realistic scenarios of armed conflict. Interested students should consult the competition website at http://www.concourspictet.org/index_en.htm for further information. The 2016 Jean Pictet Competition will be held on March 19 to 26 in Évian-les-Bains, France

The Clara Barton International Humanitarian Law Competition is in its third year and is hosted by the American Red Cross. It follows the model of the Jean-Pictet Competition.  Interested students should consult the competition website at http://www.redcross.org/rulesofwar/clara-barton-international-humanitarian-law-competition. The Clara Barton Competition will be held on March 12-15, 2016 in Seattle, Washington.

NYU School of Law will select an NYU Team to compete in both competitions. This process is coordinated by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ). Each team will be comprised of three law students. It will be the responsibility of both NYU Teams to apply to participate in the relevant Competition and if accepted, to prepare itself for the Competition. All full-time NYU law students based in New York are eligible to apply to be a member of the NYU Teams. The Hauser Global Law School Program will pay the registration fee and transportation expenses for each Team; both Competitions provide housing and food for participants during the event.

The selection of the NYU Teams will not guarantee participation in either the Pictet or Barton Competitions. The Team will be required to complete a separate, substantive application process that will be defined by the competition organizers, who ultimately decide which teams are invited to compete. The 2016 Pictet application will be due no later than November 19, 2015. The 2016 Barton application will be due no later than November 13, 2015.

Again, there will be an information meeting about how to become a member of the NYU Teams to the Pictet and Barton Competitions on Tuesday, September 15, at 12:30-1:15 PM in Wilf Hall, Room 513.

The application for inclusion on the NYU Teams for both competitions can be found on the CHRGJ website: http://chrgj.org/opportunities/students/jean-pictet-competition/. Applications are due by noon on Monday, September 21. After a review of the applications, finalists will be selected and interviewed during the week of September 28, with selection of the NYU Teams thereafter.

In summary: All full-time NYU law students based in New York are eligible to apply to be members of the NYU Teams to the Jean-Pictet and Clara Barton Competitions. Applications are due on Monday, September 21, by noon.

If you have questions, please contact Tish Armstrong at CHRGJ at tish.armstrong@nyu.edu.

The Public Interest Law Center (PILC) enthusiastically invites incoming students—1Ls, LLMs, and transfers—to attend a public interest student retreat at Furman Hall this Sunday, September 20!

The retreat will commence at 12:00 noon with a lunch, followed by a keynote speech and Q&A session at 1:00pm with NYU alum, Hayley Gorenberg.  Hayley Gorenberg is the Deputy Legal Director for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and people affected by HIV.

At 2:00pm, there will be four informal break-out sessions on topical public interest issues led by NYU alumni and students:

• Criminal Injustice and Civil Unrest: The fight for racial justice in America today
  Shannon Cumberbatch (JD ’12), Meghna Philip (3L), and Mitchell Brown (2L)

• Felons Have Families: The devastating immigration impact of a criminal conviction for a non-citizen and her family
  Isaac Wheeler (JD ’03), Katie Kavanagh (3L), and Molly Lauterback (3L)

• LGBTQ Rights After Marriage Equality: Beyond Obergefell v. Hodges
  Hayley Gorenberg (JD ’92) and Alok Nadig (3L)

• Supporting Chinese Lawyers and Activists: A conversation about the recent crackdown
  Allen Clayton-Greene (LLM ’14)

From 3:30 to 4:30pm, the retreat will close with snacks and a happy hour, where you can get to know other public interest students, panelists, and PILC counselors.

To register for the Public Interest Student Retreat, click here.  Space is limited, so please register as soon as possible–and by no later than Wednesday, September 16.  You will receive a confirmation email later in the week with full details of the event locations, times, and speaker bios.

We look forward to welcoming you into the NYU Law public interest community on September 20!

Help your students succeed by forwarding this offer along to your law student contacts!

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• Access to our Business Development webpage featuring videos and articles to help law students network, build a resume, and get a job;
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The Career Placement Committee for the Asian American Bar Association of New York (“AABANY”) is hosting the inaugural Diversity Career Fair at AABANY’s annual Fall Conference on Saturday, September 19th. The event will take place at the offices of Cleary Gottlieb at One Liberty Plaza in New York City. The Diversity Career Fair will consist of selected public sector and private sector organizations, including government agencies.

The Diversity Career Fair & Expo is open to all law students and alumni regardless of race, religion, gender, creed, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or veteran status.  The event is free for any AABANY members and/or Fall Conference attendees.  Anyone can sign up to join AABANY and/or attend the AABANY Fall Conference.  You can visit our website for more information.

The Diversity Career Fair will consist of selected public sector and private sector organizations, including government agencies.

The Diversity Career Fair is free for AABANY members and/or Fall Conference attendees.  To sign up to become an AABANY member, please click here.  To register for the Fall Conference, please click here.  Please note that Fall Conference attendees are also able to attend CLEs, lunch, and the networking cocktail session, in addition to the Diversity Career Fair.  Please visit our website for more information: http://conference2015.aabany.org/programs/diversity-career-fair/.

We are pleased to announce that the following employers have committed to participating in the Diversity Career Fair & Expo.

Employers Attending and Hosting Informational Table:

• Bronx County District Attorney’s Office
• Eastern District of New York, US Attorney’s Office (Civil Division)
• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
• IBM
• Kings County District Attorney’s Office
• Legal Services NYC
• MassMutual Financial Group
• NBCUniversal
• Office of the New York State Attorney General
• Queens County District Attorney’s Office
• Queens Legal Services
• RGP Legal
• Richmond County District Attorney’s Office
• Success Academy Charter Schools
• Southern District of New York, US Attorney’s Office
• [Check Back for More to Come]

Professor Anthony Thompson is looking for research assistants for the Fall 2015 semester to work on issues related to Prosecutorial Misconduct, leadership for lawyers and reentry issues (CSM ID 440236).