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Spoke on “The Clean
Air Act: The Need for Bold Reform,” at the 46th annual meeting of the Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association in Asheville, North Carolina (April 2015).
Publications
We Have a Dream,
in “Symposium: Remembering the Dream, Renewing the Dream: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have
a Dream’ Speech and the March on Washington,” New York Law School Law Review (2015).
Media References and Appearances Article, “Show Me
a Lawyer,” The Huffington Post (September 2015) (with N. Strossen).
Appointments
Named to the Editorial Board of Ledger,
the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, including related research in mathematics, computer science, engineering, law, and economics ( June 2015).
Named an inaugural fellow at the Coin Center, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit research and advocacy organization focused
on public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin ( January 2015).
Awards and Recognition
Winner of the 2015 NYLS Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award for full-time faculty for his article, “Performance-Sensitive Debt: From Asset- Based Loans to Startup Financing” (2015).
Presentations
Spoke at a panel discussion hosted by the Latin American Law Students Association at NYLS
on the law of social
media, finance, and the web. Among the topics addressed were: “Can anything you say on Twitter be used against you in a court of law?”; “Can banks use your Facebook account to
deny your home loan application?”; “Is bitcoin coming to turn those bits of paper in your wallet into so much linen?” (March 2015).
Publications
Bitcoin Financial Regulation: Securities, Derivatives, Prediction Markets, and Gambling, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review ( January 2015).
Advocacy and
Expert Testimony Testified before the
New Jersey Assembly’s Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance about digital currencies
in Trenton, New Jersey (February 2015).
Media References
and Appearances
Was quoted extensively in
the media about Bitcoin issues (2015).
Appointments
Selected as a 2016–17 Thomas Edison Innovation Fellow by the Center for Protection of Intellectual Property at George Mason University School of
Law. The Fellowship is a non-resident fellowship that brings together
both junior and senior patent law scholars for a series of invitation-only conferences on patent law and policy (September 2015).
Accepted as a member of the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences as certified Editor in the Life Sciences. He has the authority to evaluate the proficiency of manuscript editors in the life sciences and to award credentials similar to
those obtainable in other professions ( June 2015).
Publications
Stem Cell Patents after the America Invents Act, Stem Cell Magazine (May 2015) (with C. Thomas).
Law, history and lessons in the CRISPR patent conflict, Nature Biotechnology (March 2015).
Advocacy and
Expert Testimony Invited to report to the U.S. Senate Committee
on the Judiciary in Washington, D.C. on the
role of inter partes review proceedings—a type of administrative procedure to challenge patents at the PTO, rather than court— in connection with brand- generic pharmaceutical patent litigation ( June 2015).
Presentations
Presented a keynote talk
at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel titled, “Visualizing Law: Presence and Simulation Inside
the Courtroom,” for a conference on Law and Theater ( June 2015).
Chaired, “Ethics and Aesthetics in Cinematic and Theatrical Responses to Atrocity and Poverty,” and “Meta-Aesthetics of Law and Justice,” and was an invited panelist on “Author Meets Reader: Maria Aristodemou’s Law, Psychoanalysis, Society,” at the Law, Culture, and Humanities conference in Washington, D.C. (March 2015).
Publications
Law in the Flesh: Tracing Law’s Legitimation to “The Act of Killing,”
No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice ( June 2014).
Law, Culture and Visual Studies (Springer 2014) (co-edited with A. Wagner).
Media References
and Appearances Article, “Too Late for Thinking,” made the Top Ten list on the following SSRN journal and topic sites: Epistemology eJournal, PRN:
Perception (Topic), PRN: Philosophy of Perception (Topic), and Philosophy of Mind eJournal (November 2015).
Presentations
Debated former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey at the University Club in New York on “Balancing Civil Liberties Against Security Needs Of Our Country: The NSA Phone Data Collection” (November 2015).
Delivered the Annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press
at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her lecture was titled, “Free Expression: An Endangered Species on Campus?” (October 2015).
Panelist at the American Constitution Society’s annual Supreme Court Review at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Her research assistants, rising 3Ls Josephine Bahn and Chloe Coniaris, assisted her in preparing for this event. The panel discussion was covered by C-SPAN ( July 2015).
Jacob S. Sherkow
Richard K. Sherwin
Nadine Strossen
Houman B. Shadab
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