The New York State Department of State and the NYU School of Law are teaming up to make it easier for New Yorkers seeking security guard licenses and those facing license revocations or suspensions to receive free legal assistance. According to state law, a person has a right to be represented at licensure status hearing, but he or she is not entitled to have that representation paid for by the Department of State. While some individuals want to represent themselves, many say they want representation but cannot afford it. In those instances, eight NYU law students are participating in a new schoolyear-long clinic, which began in September, to represent them.
Hey, law students: do you have dreams of clerking for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia? Well, unless NYU Law was your "safe school," you probably don't have a shot. At a recent speaking engagement, Scalia was asked by a law student what she could do to be successful, despite the fact that she isn't attending one of the nation's elite law schools. According to a New York Times report, Scalia started off diplomatic.
Clueless. That's how Katherine Frink-Hamlett describes her younger self when it came to Kwanzaa. She had heard of it, but that was about it. But while at NYU Law School, someone suggested she attend a Kwanzaa celebration. The experience moved her and stuck with her. When she and her husband had a son, she wanted to make the African- American holiday part of their family tradition.
The only dissenter from the majority opinion was Derrick A. Bell, then visiting professor of law at NYU Law School, whose books include, Race, Racism and American Law' Afroantica Legacies, and Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. Bell's dissent is strong, provocative and clear; it practically mandates renewed debate on the U.S. Supreme Court's conclusions, as well as the tenets of the [Brown] opinion. A synopsis of Derrick Bell's dissent follows: I dissent from the majority's decision in these cases because the detestable segregation in the public schools that the majority finds unconstitutional is a manifestation of the evil of racism, the depths and pervasiveness of which this Court fails even to acknowledge, much less address and attempt to correct. The Court's ...
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, reviewed precedents from the 1955 remedy phase of the [Brown] case (known as the second Brown decision) - which created the insidious "all deliberate speed" formula for desegregating southern schools-through the 2003 University of Michigan cases, in which Justice Sandra Day O'Connor barely saved the consideration of race as a means to increase diversity at the university level. According to Roberts, educating children in a racially integrated environment and ensuring non-white students' access to desirable schools was different, according to the chief justice. "Racial balancing," or seeking to remedy "past societal discrimination," was just another way of discriminating on the basis of race. To Justice Clarence Thomas, concurring wit...
'We don't know' is the short answer," said Vicki Been, director of the Furman Center and an N.Y.U. law professor. "We don't have the data that would enable us to pin it down. "Everything that happens outside of school I zone it out," said [Diamond Malachi], who is now 14 and a freshman at the Green School: An Academy for Environmental Careers, a new public high school in Brooklyn. "I don't have to, but I choose to, just to get that off my mind." "We've seen an upward trend across the city in test scores, and the gap between black and Hispanic students and their white and Asian peers has narrowed," Mr. [Andrew Jacob] said. "What the chancellor is focused on is making sure that every student, wherever he or she lives in the city, has the opportunity to get an excellent education."
Given that my inside account of the Postville prosecutions had cracked the case wide open, I was approached by a team from NYU Law School to help prepare an Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of [Flores-Figueroa]. I told the legal team that, as a linguist, I saw no ambiguity in the statute: "Knowingly" as an adverb of a "transitive verb" must apply to the entire object phrase, "uses the means of ID of another person." Further, most of the detainees we interviewed did not even know what a social security number was. Many had their papers filled out at the plant because they could not read or write. I described the proceedings as a "lottery of justice": If the made-up social security number belonged to another person, you were hammered with identity theft; if it was a vacant ...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Jeanine Plant-Chirlin, +1-212-998-6289, +1-646-265- 7721, jeanine.plant-chirlin@nyu.edu, or Susan Lehman, +1-212-998- 6318, both of Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
Faced with massive disruption and the pressure caused by this strike, union leaders say that the NYU administration has also resorted to outright threats and intimidation. [Maida Rosenstein] says NYU Pres. John Sexton recently sent a threatening letter to graduate assistants telling them that striking students would lose their stipends and any chance of future employment at NYU if they did not return to work as of Dec. 5. In response, Sexton's office was "flooded with letters and calls of protest." To date the administration has not followed through on that threat. Still, the union remains defiant. Rosenstein says simply, "The strike will continue. During finals week the strikers have switched to "quiet picketing" and leafleting the entrances to campus buildings. Last week, they brough...
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