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Four Professors Receive Honors

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rofessor Richard K. Sherwin, who received the honor to work on a new
project called “he Moving Images of Law,” is the Fulbright Visiting Research

Chair in Law and Literature at the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and
Ideas at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the 2013-14 academic

year. Professor Stephen J. Ellmann received a Fulbright Specialist Award to work
on comparative constitutional law and clinical legal education planning last

Professor summer at the University of Capetown Faculty of Law in South Africa.
Richard K. Sherwin
Professor Sherwin, a faculty member of NYLS since 1988, is an expert in

and
visual communication, specializing in the domain of visual persuasion in
litigation and litigation public relations. He gained nationwide attention
Professor
with his well-received book, When Law Goes Pop: he Vanishing Line
Stephen J. Ellmann
between Law and Popular Culture (University of Chicago Press 2000, 2002).

were named His most recent books, Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque:
Arabesques & Entanglements (Routledge 2011) and Law, Culture and
Fulbright recipients.
Visual Studies, co-edited with Anne Wagner (Springer 2013), explore the
interpenetration of law and the visual in history and in the current digital

baroque era.

Professor Ellmann joined NYLS in 1992. He is an award-winning author on legal
ethics and an expert in clinical legal education, constitutional law, and South African

law. He pursues his deep interest in legal education through his work as Director of
New York Law School’s Oice of Clinical and Experiential Learning, one of the central

oices of the school working on developing new curricular programs focused on preparing
NYLS students for the challenges of the world of legal practice today. •

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t the 2013 Annual Otto L. Walter Tax Policy Lecture in October, Dean
Crowell oicially appointed Ann F. homas as the inaugural Otto L.

Walter Distinguished Professor of Tax Law. he endowed chair was
funded by a generous donation from the Otto and Fran Walter Foundation Inc.
Professor
Otto L. Walter ’54 was a renowned international jurist, specializing in U.S.-
German tax treaties. Professor homas joined NYLS in 1995. She has been a Ann F. Thomas

tenured professor since 2001 and the Director of the Graduate Tax Program
since 2003. At the event, held in the Ernst Stiefel Reading Room, Dean and

Crowell spoke about the life and work of Dr. Walter and Professor homas; Professor
Frank G. Helman, the Foundation’s President, ofered remarks about Dr.
Jethro K. Lieberman
Walter; and Professor homas gave a talk on “Tax Reform and Shared
Prosperity.”
were both appointed

to named
Also in October, Dean Crowell appointed Jethro K. Lieberman as the
Martin Professor Law. In April, during Reunion and Alumni Weekend, he
professorships.

presented a lecture as part of his investiture. he professorship was created
in memory of Lester Martin, a noted philanthropist. Now in his 29th year on

the faculty, Professor Lieberman has served in many of the Law School’s central
academic and administrative roles, including associate dean for academic afairs,

director of the Writing Program, and vice president and now director of academic
publishing. He has published more than 25 books; his Liberalism Undressed (2012)

was praised in the New York Law Journal as a “masterwork, a brilliant, provocative
and mature product of decades of thought about some of the most fundamental issues of

our time or any time. •

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