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facULTY vISIBILITY

n featured numerous faculty members in the national press, media, and other outlets who were called upon
to provide legal opinions and expertise across a wide range of areas, including immigration, the death

penalty, broadband communications, diversity, marriage equality, visual perception in litigation, business
fraud, bitcoins, and spending on political speech.

n Supported faculty who published opinion pieces on everything from reform of the environmental Protection
act to same-sex marriage to the Federal arbitration act to the u.S. border crisis. media placements include
The New York Times, The Hill, The Hufington Post, NPr, U.S. News & World Report, National Journal, The

Nation, the New York Law Journal, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News.

Produced a compendium of faculty publications during the 2013-14 academic year, showcasing the scholarly
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work of our full-time and adjunct faculty. the compendium is available on the nYlS website.

Developed a faculty experts video series that enables NYLS to share its intellectual capital and thought
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leadership to a wider audience. this growing library of videos offers viewers expert insight from nYlS
faculty members on a variety of topics, including provocative discourses on capital punishment, international
crises, same-sex marriage, and inancial regulation. the videos are available on the nYlS Youtube channel

and the Jd Supra channel.

revamped the faculty section of the NYLS website to better promote faculty news, including the publications,
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speaking engagements, media appearances, afiliations, and recent activities of faculty members in shaping
the development and understanding of law, policy, and society.

n Supported academic entrepreneurship by assisting faculty in developing proiles and brands that can be
promoted via traditional and new media methods, including blogs, op-eds, Facebook, twitter, and linkedin.

Improved communications to, and engagement with, our adjunct faculty community, including inviting them
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to participate in the faculty’s tuesday Scholarship lunch Series and its Pedagogy Workshop Series. adjunct
faculty now receive a new monthly newsletter providing news and information to keep them connected to,

and better informed about, nYlS activities.

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fULBrIghT SChOLArS AT NYLS

in 2013, nYlS was pleased to honor two of our colleagues, Professors richard k. Sherwin and
Stephen J. ellmann, who were both named Fulbright recipients. this prestigious recognition
relects the high caliber of scholarship and intellectual activity occurring at new York law School.

Writing aWardS

three full-time faculty members were recognized with the otto l. Walter distinguished Writing
awards at the 2014 commencement exercises: edward a. Purcell Jr. for “Understanding
Curtiss-Wright”; robert Blecker for The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice among

the Worst of the Worst; and Michael L. Perlin for Mental Disability and the Death Penalty: The
Shame of the States. In addition, Zvi rosen won the award for adjunct faculty for “Discharging

Fiduciary debts.”

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