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The securities markets are in the midst of unparalleled structural changes: electronic trading of securities is largely replacing the traditional floor-based trading system; the exchanges have been transformed from membership associations into publicly owned business corporations; and international mergers of stock exchanges are underway.  read more

In November Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Phylis Skloot Bamberger led two interactive seminars about the process of jury selection and how attorneys handle various jury issues during trial.  read more

In the movies, the director receives a possessory credit. Jaws is Steven Spielberg's Jaws, Psycho Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. In the theater, for as long as anyone can remember, this place of honor has been reserved exclusively for the playwright. No matter who directs it, Macbeth is Shakespeare's Macbeth.   read more

Recent legislative and scientific developments have only intensified debate over the ethics and regulation of human embryonic stem cell research. Baroness Ruth Deech, a renowned authority on stem cell research and reproductive technology, examined the ethical, political, and regulatory issues involved in the research through a comparison of relevant laws in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Italy.  read more

On October 5, Brooklyn Law School participated in an all-day virtual teach-in about the detention policies and conditions affecting prisoners at Guantánamo Bay in the post-9/11 era.  read more

The United States Supreme Court’s 2004 decision in Crawford v. Washington dramatically altered the landscape of the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause and its limitations on the admissibility of certain hearsay statements.  In Crawford, the Court categorically held that out-of-court “testimonial” statements made by a person who did not testify at trial were not admissible against a criminal defendant.  read more

Michael J. Perry is one of the nation's leading authorities on the relationship of morality and the law. He holds the Robert W. Woodruff Chair at Emory University School of Law, its highest honor, and has been a member of its faculty since 2003.  read more

Securities law enforcement has been in the news since the downfall of Enron and WorldCom and the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002. The symposium examined new methods of leveraging enforcement by both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice and analyzed whether more vigorous law enforcement techniques have been effective or have created new problems.  read more

On March 24, 2006, Brooklyn Law School celebrated 20 years of the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program. The Sparer Program continues to serve as the heart of the Law School’s public interest law community, offering students the opportunity to serve leading public interest organizations throughout the nation.  read more

“Writing Across the Curriculum” is of increasing pedagogical interest in the law school curriculum. But what educational justifications exist for integrating advanced legal writing into upper-class doctrinal and lawyering courses? Several prominent professors will discuss the practical and theoretical implications of this integration and offer four separate models of upper-class writing curricula.  read more

Does the ownership of a hospital make a difference in the type of service and quality of care that patients receive? This was the question posed by a Center for Health, Science and Public Policy theory-practice seminar held on February 9, 2006.  read more