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Professor Stephen J. Ellmann
and
Professor David Chang
Professor Stephen J. Ellmann Professor David Chang
Appointed to Named Professorships
In August 2015, Stephen J. Ellmann,
an expert on South African Law, Constitutional Law, and Clinical Education, was appointed as the Martin
Professor of Law. Established with the support of the Martin Foundation Inc., the professorship was created in memory of industrialist, financier, and philanthropist Lester Martin (1907–59).
A member of the faculty since 1992, Professor Ellmann has been a dedicated mainstay of NYLS, both in his crucial role as Director of Clinical and Experiential Learning and in his service as Associate Dean for Faculty Development (later adding “Collaborative Learning” to his portfolio) from 2000 to 2011. He was instrumental in driving the recent expansion of clinical and experiential course offerings, including the doubling of the number of clinics offered in 2013. He also developed the Clinical Year program, which builds
on the medical school model and consists of three full-time clinical rotations. The National Jurist recently named the Clinical Year one of the 15 most innovative clinics in the nation. Professor Ellmann has written extensively on the skills and ethics of lawyers’ interviewing and counseling of clients. In 1990, he earned the Sanford D. Levy Memorial Award from the New York State Bar Committee on Professional Ethics for his article, “Lawyering for Justice in a Flawed Democracy,” Columbia Law Review (1990). He has published extensively about South Africa, including a study of law at the
end of apartheid, In a Time of Trouble: Law and Liberty in South Africa’s State of Emergency (Clarendon Press Oxford, 1992), and The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Perspectives on South Africa’s Basic Law (Witwatersrand University Press and Ohio University Press, 2001), which he co-edited with Penelope Andrews.
Professor Ellmann’s investiture took place on November 23, 2015.
In September 2015, David Chang, an award-winning expert in constitutional law, including interpretive theory, discrimination, freedom of speech, and hate crimes, was appointed as the inaugural Theodore Dwight 125th Anniversary
Professor of Law. This newly-created professorship honors the late Theodore Dwight, who was instrumental in founding the Law School in 1891.
Professor Chang joined NYLS in 1983. For a quarter of the School’s 125 years, he has been teaching thousands of students, attending hundreds of faculty meetings, and working with his colleagues to help fulfill the Law School’s mission and to move it forward. His NYLS roots go back even farther, to 1956, when his grandfather graduated from the Evening Division, connecting his family to New York Law School for fully half of the school’s history.
Professor Chang chaired the Academic Support Curriculum Committee, leading the effort to develop and implement the Law School’s Comprehensive Curriculum Program. He was honored with the Class of 2014 Teaching Award presented by the graduating class
at Commencement. Professor Chang has written extensively on hate crimes legislation and the constitutionality of affirmative action policies. His scholarship has been recognized as outstanding. In 1992, NYLS presented Professor Chang with the Walter M. Jeffords Distinguished Writing Award for his article, “Discriminatory Impact, Affirmative Action, and Innocent Victims: Judicial Conservatism or Conservative Justices?” Columbia Law Review (1991); in 2001, the Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award for his article, “Selling the Market-Driven Message: Commercial Television, Consumer Sovereignty, and the
First Amendment,” Minnesota Law Review (2000); in 2008, the Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award for his article, “Structuring Constitutional Doctrine: Principles, Proof, and the Functions of Judicial Review,” Rutgers Law Review (2006); and in 2012, the Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award for his article, “Beyond Formalist Sovereignty: Who Can Represent ‘We the People of the United States’ Today?” University of Richmond Law Review (2011).
Professor Chang’s investiture took place on April 28, 2016.
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