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Moving in the Right Direction
New York Law SchooL

MagaziNe
By Anthony W. Crowell
2014 • VOL. 33, NO. 1
As we continue to implement the

New York Law School Strategic Plan
issued last summer, I am pleased to Dean and President
Anthony W. Crowell
report some good news. First, our July
2013 New York bar exam passage rate
Vice President
jumped by 13.6 points to 83.4 percent, For Marketing and
following four consecutive years of Communications

decline.
Nancy Guida
Editor in Chief

In addition, New York Law School
moved up to the irst tier in the U.S. Managing Editor
Ruth Singleton
News & World Report law school rankings, with a rank of 140 out of 146
law schools, above 47 institutions in the second tier that received no
Creative Director
rank. New York Law School was not ranked last year. We received further Regina Chung
positive news that we are among the top schools nationally that U.S.

News ranked for Clinical Training, Part-time Law Programs, and diversity. Production Manager
We also received high marks and a key ranking for Practical Training by
Kathy Wong
The National Jurist.

We continue to build on these achievements. Over the summer we will Contributors
homas Adcock, Meghan Lalonde, Melissa
issue an update to the Strategic Plan, reporting on our progress and Pentangelo, Steven Seidenberg, Ruth
outcomes in a number of key areas.
Singleton

This issue of New York Law School Magazine details the success of our Proofreaders
bar prep programs, which were instrumental to the bar exam success of
Amelia Jonakait, Ruth Singleton
our graduates and a surging bar pass rate.

Photographers
The issue also features three distinguished members of our alumni Jay Frederick, Philip Greenberg, Nancy
community who looked to New York City as a source of inspiration Guida, John Halpern, Amelia Jonakait,
Rick Kopstein, Meghan Lalonde, Longview
for their remarkable careers. They were honored at our annual gala in
November, which raised $1 million for the Law School.
Photography, David Lubarsky, Jack McCoy,
SmithGroup, Jason Wyche
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We take great pride in being New York’s law school. One of our alumni,
James S. Oddo ’91, was elected as Staten Island Borough President last

November with a landslide 70 percent of the votes. We proile Mr. Oddo,
as he discusses his ambitious plans for his native borough.

Finally, we celebrate one of our prominent faculty members: Robert

Blecker, whose recently published The Death of Punishment has garnered
signiicant media attention and critical acclaim.

We welcome your continued participation in the Law School community
as we head toward our 125th anniversary. With your support, we look

forward to enhancing our status each year.
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Meet the authors
Professor Robert Blecker

26 • Faculty highlights

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in Memoriam
necessarily relect oficial positions of the Law School.

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