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Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of International Business Law, delivered a paper at an International Monetary Fund seminar on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 in Washington, D.C. Her paper, “Achieving Financial Stability Through Disclosure,” was presented at a seminar for bank counsels on “Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law: Law and Financial Stability.”  read more

In 1996, the Brooklyn Journal of International Law published a path-breaking symposium volume entitled “Bankruptcy in the Global Village.” The symposium was organized by the late Professor Barry Zaretsky at a time when efforts to regularize and harmonize international bankruptcy law and practice were in their relative infancy.  read more

Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice, the new book by Brooklyn Law School Professor Lawrence Solan and Professor Peter Tiersma of Loyola Law School, recently received an enthusiastic review in Law & Society.  read more

Professor Susan N. Herman’s op-ed article, “Five Years Later: Law and the Fog of 9/11,” was published in the forum section of the online legal news and research Web site, JURIST, on September 11, 2006. In the article, Professor Herman argues that the lingering fog of the 9/11 attacks has clouded our perceptions, blurred our legal categories, and perhaps also compromised our judgment.  read more

Professor Steven A. Dean’s op-ed article on tax evasion was published in The National Law Journal on September 11, 2006. In the article, he suggests a new direction in the fight against foreign tax havens by making the governments of the tax havens partners in the effort to crack down on tax evasion.  read more

Professor Stacy Caplow, Director of the Law School's Clinical Education Program, was selected by the Ireland-U.S. Fulbright Commission for a lecturing and research position at University College Cork for the fall 2006 term. She will work with the Faculty of Law to augment the clinical curriculum for LLB and LLM students.  read more

Professor David Reiss’s op-ed article on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage finance companies was published in The Christian Science Monitor on July 13, 2006.  read more

A judicial commission co-chaired by Professor William E. Hellerstein issued a report, released by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye on June 28, which calls for the state to take over the administration of legal services to the poor.  read more

On June 26, 2006, the Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 decision in Randall v. Sorrell, striking down Vermont’s extremely low limits on campaign expenditures and contributions.  The Court reasoned that such limits on campaign funding were tantamount to limits on campaign speech and therefore in violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.  read more

Susan N. Herman, Centennial Professor of Law, presented a compelling analysis of a 100-year old murder case and the classic novel that it inspired, “An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Dreiser, at the New York State Court of Appeals on June 26.  read more

An oral history of Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law and former SEC Commissioner, is featured on the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society’s web site. Audio and print versions of two recent interviews with Professor Karmel are part of a tribute to SEC Women Commissioners.  read more

Professor David Reiss was recently granted an award by the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers (ACCSFL) for his article, “Subprime Standardization: How Rating Agencies Allow Predatory Lending to Flourish in the Secondary Mortgage Market,” in the Florida State Law Review (2006).  read more

Over 100 members of the Brooklyn Law School community attended The First Annual Faculty Diversity Celebration on March 29, 2006 in the Subotnick Center. They came to thank and honor 12 full-time, clinical, and adjunct faculty members who identify with and support underrepresented groups at the Law School.  read more

Professor Anthony Sebok and co-author Peter H. Schuck's op-ed article on asbestos litigation was published in The Wall Street Journal on March 8, 2006. His article commented on the Senate's recent rejection of a reform bill for asbestos litigation, which would have created a fund for asbestos victims and taken asbestos suits out of the tort system.  read more

"A populist revolt is brewing on the left and on the right in response to the Supreme Court's recent eminent domain decision," David Reiss, Assistant Professor of Law, wrote in an op-ed published Sunday, March 5, 2006 in the Daily News.  read more

Roberta S. Karmel, Centennial Professor of Law, was invited to appear at a February 15th public hearing of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C. on self-regulation and self-regulatory organizations in the U.S. futures industry.  read more

Professor Stacy Caplow, director of the Safe Harbor Project, and Lauren Kosseff, a third-year student, wrote an oped, "Two Immigrants, Two Standards," that was published on February 11 in the Washington Post. The piece compares a Canadian ice dancer who was able to immigrate in a matter of days, in time to compete for the United States in the Olympics, with a 14-year-old African girl seeking to join her mother, who has asylum in the U.S.  read more

Brooklyn Law School and George Washington University Law School have joined forces to create an innovative online journal, Corporate and Financial Law: Interdisciplinary Approaches, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Organization.  read more

As Professor Norman S. Poser and students in his securities regulation class rode the train home from Washington, D.C. on January 18, he was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal Law Blog about their visit to the Supreme Court to watch oral arguments in Merrill Lynch v. Dabit, a statutory-interpretation case that addresses the viability of shareholder class action lawsuits brought in state courts.  read more

Professor Susan N. Herman, Centennial Professor of Law, was interviewed by Dan Abrams on MSNBC-TV News Live on the second day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court.   read more