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  About New York Law School
New York Law School, one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States, was founded in 1891 by the faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia College Law School led by their founding dean, Theodore Dwight, a major figure in the history of legal education.
New York Law School students are 53 percent women, and 28 percent self-identified minority (in the entering class of 2006).
The Law School's curriculum is distinguished by its systematic effort to integrate the study of theory and practice and to include the perspectives of legal practitioners.
www.nyls.edu /pages/283.asp   (514 words)

  
  New York Law School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NYLS was established by then Columbia College School of Law faculty, students, and alumni who were protesting their trustees’ attempts to dictate the teaching methods used by professors.
The major figure in the rebellion against Columbia and the subsequent creation of NYLS was Columbia Law School’s founder, Theodore Dwight, a major figure in the history of American legal scholarship.
Among the school's more notable faculty members is Nadine Strossen, current president of the American Civil Liberties Union, who teaches Constitutional Law I and II, as well as an advanced seminar on individual liberties, James Simon, author of What Kind of Nation, who teaches constitutional law, and David Chang who likes to berate his students.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_Law_School   (500 words)

  
 The Media Center at New York Law School
Media Law and Policy have announced their new exceutive board for the 2008-2009 school year.
Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The Media Center, founded in 1977, is the home for media law research, scholarship, and academic conferences at New York Law School.
www.nyls.edu /pages/107.asp   (220 words)

  
 Employer Profile: New York Law School
New York Law School, one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States, was founded in 1891 by the faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia College Law School led by their founding dean, Theodore Dwight, a major figure in the history of legal education.
The Law School's faculty of noted and prolific scholars has built the school's curricular strength in the areas of tax law, labor and employment law, civil and human rights law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and interdisciplinary fields such as legal history and legal ethics.
It is the policy of New York Law School not to discriminate in its educational programs, admission policies, financial aid programs, employment practices, and other School-sponsored activities because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, national or ethnic origin, age, or disability.
chronicle.com /jobs/profiles/2473.htm?pg=i   (287 words)

  
 Business Wire: New York Law School Announces National Wagner Moot Court Winners; Loyola University of Chicago Bests ...
Law students from 34 law schools from every region of the country competed in the written and oral phases of the Competition, arguing a moot case arising under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.
In the fictitious case, authored by New York Law School students, the television character Carrie S. Bradshaw of HBO's Sex and the City fame, files an employment discrimination suit against her former employer, City Style, Inc., alleging she was fired after requesting accommodation for her epilepsy, the medication for which causes insomnia and drowsiness.
Founded at New York Law School, the Wagner Moot Court Competition is run entirely by students who author the fact pattern and the bench brief; score the written part of the competition; and organize the extensive series of oral rounds judged by distinguished practitioners and members of the bench.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_March_9/ai_98529941   (549 words)

  
 CRIVPage - Aspen Reverse Site Visit to New York Law School
The new Vista computer system deployed in the intervening time has not yielded all the improvements that were promised, and many problems appear to have worsened.
The new policy is a direct response to complaints from librarians in late 2001 about how the shipping charges were being calculated.
Aspen's executives displayed a keen interest in the library's procedures for selecting new acquisitions and the details of how the choice is made between print and computer-based sources.
www.aallnet.org /committee/criv/news/sitevisit/reverse/aspen3.htm   (874 words)

  
 About Pace Law School: New York Law School, located in New York 20 miles north of NY City. Environmental Law.
Pace University School of Law is located in White Plains, New York, in Westchester County, some 25 miles north of New York City.
Students are represented on the law school’s budget committee, and have substantial opportunity to participate in faculty hiring decisions.
The Law School is committed to providing its students with the knowledge and values necessary to be effective and ethical lawyers as well as community leaders.
www.law.pace.edu /aboutpace   (486 words)

  
 Proof for NYU Law School, Public Law & Legal Theory Vol. 7, No. 3
A global administrative law must, of course, draw on legal principles and practices from many domestic and regional legal systems and traditions, as well as sources in international law.
Law and emotion scholarship proceeds from the beliefs that emotion may be specifically studied, that it is relevant to law, and that its legal relevance is deserving of close scrutiny.
Theory of law: Analyze the theories of emotion embedded or reflected within a theoretical approach to the law.
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/sample_issues/177749.html   (2004 words)

  
 NY Law School gets big break for new building   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The law school will build a new 337,000-square-foot facility on Leonard Street between West Broadway and Worth Street, where it is currently located, using a $145 million bond issue approved by the city’s Industrial Development Agency.
The new building, which will be five stories tall and will have four underground levels, will house academic facilities and administrative offices.
“New York Law School is a valuable asset for Lower Manhattan,” said Andrew Alper, chairman of the IDA, in a statement.
www.newyorkbusiness.com /news.cms?id=12582   (209 words)

  
 Mental Disability Activists Call for U.N. Rights Law At New York Law School Forum
According to New York Law School Professor Michael Perlin, a mental disability law expert, the symposium was the first at a law school in the United States to look at the intersection of international human rights law and institutional mental disability regulation.
The New York Law School symposium took a special look at the case of Hungary, which recently started to address draconian conditions in its mental health institutions or "social care homes" after patients' advocates published a detailed report in October last year.
Issuers of news releases and not PR Newswire are solely responsible for the accuracy of the content.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-12-2002/0001705238&EDATE=   (558 words)

  
 Law.com - New York Law School Offers Guaranteed Flat Rate for Tuition
Beginning this fall, full-time and evening students will be offered a guaranteed flat tuition rate during the life of their careers at New York Law School.
But then came the "boom years" of law school in the late '70s and 1980s, with double-digit tuition hikes.
Long-established campuses such as Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law, he said, were able to keep increases a bit lower.
www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1046833592373   (457 words)

  
 U.S. Newswire : Releases : "New York Law School to Present Panel..."   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The law school's event is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 21.
Professor Morgan is an expert on race and public schools; she represents the Black, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Legislative Caucus and filed an amicus brief on its behalf in a landmark case against New York State to establish equity in public school funding for New York City's schoolchildren.
Founded in 1891, New York Law School is the second oldest independent law school in the United States.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=53518   (665 words)

  
 Women's Justice Center: New York Law School, located in New York 20 miles north of NY City. Environmental Law.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Women's Justice Center of the Pace University School of Law is dedicated to eradicating domestic violence and furthering the legal rights of women, children and the elderly through the skillful and innovative use of the law.
Funded through the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, the Program seeks to improve the criminal justice system’s response to sexual assualt in rural areas of the State and to design and deliver trainings to enhance trial advocacy skills and improve techniques for interviewing sexual assault victims.
While I was a Pace law student, I worked under the supervision of a staff attorney of the Pace Women’s Justice Center representing victims of domestic violence under a student practice order in family court.
www.pace.edu /lawschool/bwjc   (879 words)

  
 New York -- Sources [ ALSO! -- U.S. Law ]
[New York State Legislature] — The legislature provides (with a clunky interface using JavaScript and frames) access to the city's charter and administrative code.
[New York City Department of Buildings] — See also related materials including information on the electrical code (with the code text) and links to the department's policy and procedure notices (back to 1987).
[New York City Department of City Planning] — The text of the resolution (which is the city's zoning ordinance) and access to zoning maps.
www.lawsource.com /also/usa.cgi?ny   (1263 words)

  
 Epilepsy Fdn.-Tony Coelho New York Law School Speech
The law clearly says that only a person with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities has a disability and is covered under the ADA.
The Supreme Court recently ruled that diversity in law school admissions is permissible, and I believe that equal value should be placed on diversity in the workplace.
Under this law, however, only those employers who can prove that 75% of their labor hours are performed by people with disabilities are eligible.
www.epilepsyfoundation.org /epilepsyusa/coelhonylsspeech.cfm   (3330 words)

  
 Pace Environmental Law Review: New York Law School, located in New York 20 miles north of NY City. Environmental Law.
Established in 1982, the Pace Environmental Law Review (PELR) was one of the first scholarly journals established in the then new field of environmental law.
Service on law reviews such as PELR is considered a valuable credential by law firms and government agencies alike, when interviewing to hire new lawyers.
In collaboration with the law faculty, the Center for Environmental Legal Studies and the Pace Environmental Law Society, PELR sponsors and organizes an annual colloquium on environmental legal issues.
www.law.pace.edu /pelr   (325 words)

  
 Faculty Profiles
A law school builds its reputation on the excellence of its faculty, and New York University School of Law's faculty has received wide recognition for the quality of both its scholarship and its pedagogy.
NYU Law's full-time faculty is made up of more than 100 professors, deans, and librarians who have come to the Law School from all types of private practice, the bench, policy-making and advisory positions in government, business and industry, the nonprofit sector, and the faculty of other law schools.
Each year, the educational experience of students is enriched by the presence of distinguished scholars and teachers visiting NYU Law from other law schools in this country and around the world.
its.law.nyu.edu /faculty/profiles   (130 words)

  
 New York Law School USF Program--Peter Bluhm speech   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The principle of the new charge is simple: Those who benefit from the network pay to support universal service.
New York Telephone has entered a seven-year price caps plan with severe limits on dial tone increases.
Whether the old model or the new model for high cost funding is appropriate depends on how far along competition is in each state.
www.benton.org /publibrary/policy/uniserv/Conference/bluhm.html   (3041 words)

  
 New York Paralegal School
New York Paralegal School (NYPS) has undergone some changes since the events of 9/11.
Dr. May will be responsible for the academic environment of the school and the interaction between the school and its staff and students.
Hanratty is a graduate of New York Law School.
www.nyparalegal.com /newsletter.php   (359 words)

  
 CrimProf Blog: CrimProf Blog Spotlight: New York Law School's Sadiq Reza
Before coming to New York Law School, Professor Reza clerked for a federal trial judge in San Francisco and spent four years as a trial and appellate attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
Before law school, Professor Reza spent two years in Cairo, Egypt, where in 1986–87 he taught English and in 1987–88 studied Arabic as a fellow at the U.S.-government-funded Center for Arabic Study Abroad." For a list of Professor Reza's publications, click here.
This new coursebook is designed to explore the motivations behind terrorism, catalog the agencies that respond to it, and interpret the language and application of the various statutes and conventions.
lawprofessors.typepad.com /crimprof_blog/2005/09/crimprof_blog_s_1.html   (561 words)

  
 Nellco Members Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, law students from NELLCO libraries will be granted access providing they have a current student ID. LEXIS or WESTLAW terminals may be used by these students with their own password.
Students from other NELLCO law schools who have a valid student ID are permitted to use LEXIS/WESTLAW terminals, if available, in the CALR Centers, as long as they use their own passwords.
Student Access: Students from Research Libraries Group institutions, University of Connecticut Law School and Quinnipiac Law School will be issued a pass upon showing current valid ID from their school.
www.nellco.org /MemberSites.htm   (1187 words)

  
 Jet: W. Haywood Burns, first Black law school dean in New York State and prominent attorney, dies in car crash - dean ...
Haywood Burns, the first Black to become dean of a law school in the state of New York and a prominent attorney, recently was killed from head injuries in a car crash in Cape Town, South Africa.
He made history in the state of New York by becoming the first Black law school dean of the City University of New York Law School (CUNY), where he served from 1987 to 1994.
A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, Burns made a name for himself in the late '60s and early '70s as an attorney by representing outspoken activist Angela Davis against kidnapping charges.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n24_v89/ai_18233200   (373 words)

  
 U.S. Newswire : Releases : "Trends in Labor Organizing to Be Examined at New York Law School Conf...."   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Conference will convene union and other worker organizers; scholars in labor and employment law, industrial relations, economics, and political science; and technologists to discuss the future of worker organizing and organizing in general.
New York Law School has more than 11,000 graduates and enrolls some 1,500 students in its full- and part- time J.D. program.
It is one of only two law schools in the metropolitan area to offer the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Tax Law.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=134-01212005&site=rss   (414 words)

  
 Alumni Relations and Development: New York, Law School   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Pace Law School Annual All Class Alumni Reunion, held on May 8, 2004, was a great opportunity for alumni to reconnect with former classmates and to see the many exciting changes on the White Plains campus.
Held in the Omni Room of the New York State Judicial Institute, the event offered many of the graduates the opportunity to see the law school's newest addition for the first time.
Terry Jane Ruderman '80 are sworn in for a new term on the Alumni Board by Hon.
www.pace.edu /lawschool/alumni/reunion04.html   (305 words)

  
 GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: United States - New York   (Site not responding. Last check: )
New York Constitution (New York State Dept. of State) in PDF
New York Governor Office of Regulatory Reform Guide to New York State Agency Rules and Regulations
New York Legislature - composed of the Assembly and the Senate
www.loc.gov /law/guide/us-ny.html   (458 words)

  
 The New York Law Journal
Howard S. Denburg, an attorney in New York City, analyzes recent federal guidance on certain issues regarding the responsibilities of plan fiduciaries with respect to advice and other services provided directly to plan participants by financial planners or advisers.
Managing or, preferably, avoiding a crisis is the theme of this issue of GC New York, with articles on the good, the bad and the ugly of internal investigations, how to resolve outsourcing conflicts without resorting to litigation, and the difference well-drafted boilerplate language can make.
Law firm recruiters are coming closer to acknowledging what one innovative dean declares about the future of young corporate attorneys — as he was himself early in his career.
www.law.com /jsp/nylj/index.jsp   (642 words)

  
 New York Law School: Law School Vault Message Board (SImilar boat)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I have a great GPA from a small liberal arts school in PA and have yet to take the LSAT.
Im not interested in Big Law so NYLS kind of works for me. Im just using the law degree to continue forward.
However if you want to practice law because you will enjoy it as well as the education.
www.vault.com /messages/Law_School/Law_School944138.html   (304 words)

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