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her course design for an upper-level legal writing class she created for NYLS based on a 2013 Teaching Grant from the Association of Legal Writing Directors (April 2014).
Awards and Recognition
Received the 2014 Teaching Award from the Class of 2014 (May 2014).
Scholarly Presentations
Led an Institute for Information Law and Policy event on “Defensive Patent Aggregators (Anti- Trolls),” New York Law School (April 2014).
Presented “For Whom the Data Tolls,” at the Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable at Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa (March 2014).
Participated in a panel on “Privacy and Innovation” at the Innovation Law Beyond IP Conference
at Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut (March 2014).
Scholarly Presentations
Interviewed NYLS Trustee James D. Zirin about his new book, The Mother Court: Tales of Cases that Mattered in America’s Greatest Trial Court, Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch, Brooklyn, New York (October 2014).
Led a delegation of faculty from NYLS at Oxford University for the third annual “Advancing Good Governance
in International Development” seminar, sponsored by Camfed (Campaign for Female Education), Oxford,
and Linklaters, Oxford, England ( June 2014).
Moderated a panel, “Understanding the New York State Nonprofit Revitalization Act,” at St. Francis College as part of the Brooklyn Chamber
of Commerce’s Annual Nonprofit Summit, Brooklyn, New York (May 2014).
Attended the Bi-Annual Associate Deans’ Conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder, speaking on a panel about collaboration and discussing the NYLS strategic planning and operational review processes, Boulder, Colorado (April 2014).
Projects
Joined New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at the State’s first
New York Veterans and Families Summit. He and the Albany Law School Dean were appointed
to lead a statewide consortium on law school veterans services. (March 2014).
Attended a meeting of
all the law school deans in New York State, held in connection with the New York State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting, hosted by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman (February 2014).
Media References and Appearances
Q&A: Maya Wiley, New York Law Journal (May 2014).
Law School Leaders are Dividing into Two Camps: Stuck v. Serious, ABA Journal (May 2014)
Experiential Learning: Practice Makes Perfect, New York Law Journal (April 2014).
Lawyer Limelight: Dean Anthony Crowell, Lawdragon (April 2014).
Appointments
Named Chair-elect of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Africa ( January 2014).
Scholarly Presentations
Spoke as a panelist at
a plenary session titled “Nelson Mandela,
Law and the Quest for Equality,” at the Law and
Society Association’s Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 2014).
Presented a paper, “The Struggle for the Rule of Law in South Africa,” at a conference titled “Twenty Years Later: South Africa and the Post-Apartheid Condition,” at Emory University, sponsored
by Emory’s Institute of African Studies, Atlanta, Georgia (April 2014).
Presented “The In-
House Clinic in the New Landscape of Experiential Education,” at the Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Conference on Clinical Legal Education, Chicago, Illinois (April 2014).
Media References and Appearances
Ellmann v. Leiter on
the Proposed Clinical/ Experiential Learning Requirement, Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports ( January 2014).
Presented a paper, “Postcolonial State Compliance with International Law:
A Case Study of the Sexual Offences Statutes of Commonwealth Caribbean States,” as
part of a panel on legal imperialism at the Annual Law & Society Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 2014).
Testimonies and Legal consultation
Selected by ABA- UNDP International Legal Resource Center to provide expert legal opinion on anti- discrimination legislation proposal for Jamaica
to benefit the rights of vulnerable groups such as women and children ( July 2014).
citations
Cited by Leslie Claire Bailey in, Note: Out of Africa: Toward Regional Solutions for Internal Displacement, 39 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 353 (2014).
Anthony W. crowell
David chang
Bryan choi
Stephen J. ellmann
Stacy-Ann elvy
Scholarly Presentations
Presented, with Tamara Belinfanti, a Master Class, “Rwanda and New Governance,” at Oxford University for the third annual “Advancing Good Governance
in International Development” seminar, sponsored by Camfed (Campaign for Female Education), Oxford, and Linklaters, Oxford, England ( June 2014).
Appointments
Re-elected as a Public Director of the National Futures Association
and elected for the first time to the Association’s Executive Committee. The National Futures Association is the futures and derivatives industry’s self-regulatory
Ronald H. Filler
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