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Jacob S. Sherkow
Scholarly Presentations
Panelist at Stanford School of Medicine’s Conversation on Personal Genomics, Stanford, California ( June 2014).
Publications
Myriad Stands
Alone, Nature Biotechnology ( July 2014).
Preliminary Injunctions Post-Mayo and Myriad, Stanford Law Review Online (May 2014).
Media References and Appearances
Elon Musk Opens
Up Tesla Patents
to Everyone, L.A. Times ( June 2014).
The Mammoth Cometh, The New York Times (February 2014).
and visual culture and presented as part of an international conference titled: “Law and the Visual—Transitions & Transformations” ( July 2014).
Appointments
Visiting Fulbright Chair in Law and Literature at McGill’s Institute for the Public Life of Art and Ideas (Spring 2014).
Scholarly Presentations
Presented a lecture on “Virtual and Actual Performance: Film, Theater, and Social Media,” at the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, McGill University (February 2014) and a paper on “Law in the Flesh,” at an interdisciplinary roundtable at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (April 2014).
Publications
Law in the Flesh: Tracing Legitimation’s Origin
to ‘The Act of Killing,’” No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice No. 11 ( June 2014).
Media References and Appearances
Appeared as the lead commentator in Jeremiah Zagar’s new documentary film, Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart. Smart’s trial, the first to be televised gavel-to-gavel, told the story of a high school teacher (played
by Nicole Kidman in To Die For) who seduced a student and convinced him to kill her husband. The case/film offers an excellent illustration
of the complications
that ensue when mass media run with a story even before the real trial begins. (A docudrama about the Smart case played on TV just two days before jury selection) (August 2014).
Scholarly Presentations
Debater, Intelligence Squared Debate: “Individuals and Organizations Have a Constitutional Right
to Unlimited Spending
on Their Own Political Speech” (other debaters were First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams, NYU Law School Professor Burt Neuborne, and Fordham Law
School Professor Zephyr Teachout), live at National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (broadcast over National Public Radio) ( June 2014).
Debate, sponsored by
the Federalist Society, New York City Lawyers Chapter, on “Construing the Constitution: Should it be Considered as Unchanging?” against Gerald Walpin, author of The Supreme Court vs. The Constitution (Significance Press,
2013). Moderated by the Honorable Loretta Preska, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, New York City ( June 2014).
Spoke at opening
Plenary Session, “Can They Do That? The NSA, Privacy and the Fourth Amendment Issues,” Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference (co-panelists were Cindy Cohn, Legal Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone, and Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo), Chicago, Illinois (May 2014).
Spoke at opening
Plenary Session of
the Annual Federalist Society National Student Symposium in a debate about “Government Secrecy, Leaks and Whistleblowers.” This was originally scheduled as a debate against Michael Mukasey, former U.S. Attorney General under President George W. Bush, but at the last minute, the debater was changed to Roger Pilon, Director of the Cato Institute’s Constitutional Policy Center. Gainesville, Florida (March 2014).
Spoke at Century Association program about “Church and State in a Time of Politically Ambitious Christian Fundamentalism: Literary, Legal and Religious Perspectives.” (Co- panelists were James Kowalski, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and Fred Rich, author of a dystopian novel about “Religious Right” takeover of the U.S.) New York Law School ( January 2014).
Appointments
Appointed Co-Chair
of the Legal Writing Institute’s Clinical Cooperation Committee (May 2014).
Appointed to serve
on the Mock Trial
and Publications Subcommittees for the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Law, Youth and Citizenship (April 2014).
Named to the Outreach Committee of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research (February 2014).
Scholarly Presentations
Represented NYLS
and the Legal Practice Program at the Ninth Annual Global Legal Skills Conference
held at the Collegio
di Giurisprudenza at
the Universita degli
Studi di Verona. Presented “Demystifying the American Law School Classroom for International LL.M. Students: Oral Reporting on Legal Research,” Verona, Italy (May 2014).
Presented “Using
Live, Recorded Client Interviews to Teach Fact- Gathering and Narrative,” at the Southeastern Regional Legal Writing Conference hosted by Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida (April 2014).
Awards and Recognition
Received a Canada Fulbright award for spring 2014, and a fellowship award to serve as a Research Scholar at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Gave a series of talks on law
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