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Media References
and Appearances Ronald Cohen, 47,
Dies of Brain Cancer; Helped Lead Post-9/11 Rescue and Recovery Efforts, Staten Island Advance (November 2014).
De Blasio Appoints 16
to Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, Brooklyn Daily Eagle ( July 2014).
Courts, Law Schools Gear Up for Pro Bono Scholar Program, New York Law Journal (July 2014).
Featured in the Summer 2014 issue of Mandarin Quarterly ( June 2014).
Presentations
Served as the principal organizer of the workshop on “Twenty Years of South African Constitutionalism: Constitutional Rights, Judicial Independence,
and the Transition to Democracy,” at New York Law School. The three-day workshop brought together close to 200 presenters
and commentators from South Africa, the United States, and elsewhere for wide-ranging discussions in approximately 45 separate sessions, and will result in two issues of next year’s New York Law School Law Review (November 2014).
Continued to lead scholarly workshops, chairing the Clinical Theory Workshop, which
met three times in fall 2014, co-chairing the South Africa Reading Group, which also met three times that semester, and also serving as a co- organizer of the NYLS Pedagogy Discussion Group (Fall 2014).
Panelist, plenary session titled “Nelson Mandela, Law and the Quest for Equality” at the Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota ( June 2014).
Participated in the National Symposium on Experimental Education in Law at Elon University. Served on the Alliance for Experimental Learning in Law Steering Committee and as the moderator of two plenary sessions: one discussing cost and sustainability, and the other discussing approaches from other disciplines, such as medicine, business, technology, and design, Elon, North Carolina
( June 2014).
Service
Participated, along with Dean Crowell and others, in the work of the New York State Law School Veterans’ Consortium, prepareda“Toolkitfor Veterans Programs” as part of that effort, and helped organize the Veterans Justice Clinic, in which NYLS students will work on veterans’ issues at Legal Services NYC under
the supervision of Legal Services attorneys who are now members of NYLS’s adjunct faculty (Fall 2014).
Presentations
Presented her article, “A Post-Colonial Theory
of Spousal Rape: The Caribbean and Beyond,” at CUNY School of Law, Long Island City, New York (November 2014).
Presented her article, “A Post-Colonial Theory of Spousal Rape: The Caribbean and Beyond,” at Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana (November 2014).
Presented paper, “Post-Colonial State Compliance with International Law:
A Case Study of the Sexual Offences Statutes of Commonwealth Caribbean States,” at the Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota ( June 2014).
Presentations
Spoke at a series of Member Training Programs sponsored by the National Futures Association, the self- regulatory organization for the futures and derivatives industry, the Executive Committee of which he was elected to serve as
the Public Representative (September, October, November 2014).
Was the keynote speaker at two programs sponsored by the Asia Pacific Economic Commission (APEC) (August, November 2014).
Was the keynote speaker at a program sponsored by FX World in Istanbul, Turkey (September 2014).
Led a discussion at a “Careers in Financial Services Compliance” panel as part of the
New York City Bar Association’s summer series on hot practice areas, New York (July 2014).
Media References
and Appearances Featured in Penny for Your Thoughts with Brian Barnhart, discussing the stock market and financial services law ( June 2014).
Appointments
Elected to a second term as a board member for the National Association of Academic Support Educators ( June 2014).
Presentations
Gave the inaugural talk, focusing on experiential learning and inverter teaching in the Socratic classroom, at Seton
Hall Law School’s new pedagogy presentation series , Newark, New Jersey (September 2014).
Taught a two-day law school preparation seminar for Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) law schools, New York Law School (August 2014).
Publications
Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Academic Success Classes,
part of the Wolters Kluwer “Strategies and Techniques” law teaching series (Aspen Publishing, December 2014).
Empathy Imperiled: Capitalism, Culture and the Brain by Gary Olson, Radical Teacher (Spring 2014).
Presentations
Presented a lecture at the Igniting Law Teaching Conference at American University Washington College of Law entitled, “Teaching and Theater: The Craft of Law Teaching,” Washington, D.C. (October 2014).
Participated in NYLS’s Second Annual Supreme Court Review Luncheon, New York Law School (October 2014).
Stephen J. Ellmann
Stacy-Ann Elvy
Kris Franklin
Doni Gewirtzman
Ronald H. Filler
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