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Professor Richard K. Sherwin
Professor Nadine Strossen
Professor Richard K. Sherwin and Professor Nadine Strossen Appointed to Named Professorships
In November 2014, Richard K. Sherwin, In December 2014, Nadine Strossen, who
a pioneer in legal storytelling and visual
communication, was appointed as
the Wallace Stevens Professor of Law. The professorship honors the memory of Stevens, one of NYLS’s most accomplished graduates (Class of 1903), who was both a successful full-time attorney and a Pulitzer Prize- winning poet.
Sherwin’s commitment to a pedagogy that integrates legal theory and practice has been both a touchstone of his career at NYLS, which began in 1988, and an example of the innovative methods and curriculum that flourish at the Law School. He has gained international recognition for his path- breaking work exploring the interrelationship between law and culture. In his pioneering book, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture (2000), Professor Sherwin describes the various ways in which lawyers and judges use familiar narratives, metaphors, and visual images in everyday legal practice. In 2013, Professor Sherwin received a Fulbright award and served as the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Law and Literature at McGill University, where he was in residence during the spring 2014 semester. In 2014,
he received a Humanities Research Centre Fellowship and served as Visiting Research Fellow at Australia National University.
In February 2015, Kris Franklin was awarded tenure. The vote of the Board of Trustees moved her from the position of Professor of Law with a Long-Term Contract to Professor of Law with Tenure. Professor Franklin is Director of the Academic Skills Program.
An academic nonconformist, Professor Franklin brings a talent for creative and unconventional thinking to her teaching and to her leadership of NYLS’s Initiative for Excellence in Law Teaching. Professor
Kris Franklin Awarded Tenure
was the first woman to head the American Civil Liberties Union, was appointed as the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law. The professorship honors the memory of NYLS alumnus John Marshall Harlan II (Class of 1924), who served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court for 16 years during the mid-twentieth century (1955-1971).
Professor Strossen has written, lectured, and practiced extensively in the areas
of constitutional law, civil liberties, and international human rights for four decades. From 1991 through 2008, she served as president of the ACLU, the nation’s largest and oldest civil liberties organization. She also has held other leadership positions
in human rights organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Human Rights Watch. Currently, she is a member of the ACLU’s National Advisory Council, and was recently unanimously elected to the Board
of EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center. She joined NYLS as a professor
in 1988. More than 300 published works
of Professor Strossen’s have appeared in scholarly journals and general interest outlets. Her book, Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights (Scribner, 1995), was named by The New York Times as a “Notable Book” of 1995.
Franklin is an expert in legal pedagogy and experiential learning in law school, and
a national leader in the field of academic preparedness. She is frequently asked to speak and lead workshops for other law faculty, and has served as a Board Member of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Teaching Methods and President of the AALS Section on Academic Support. She is the founder of the New
York Academic Support Workshop, and a founding Board member of the Association of Academic Support Educators. •
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