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When the American Law Institute decided to launch a new Restatement of Torts in 1992, it started with the torts topic that most urgently needed restating: products liability. After being parsed in thousands of appellate opinions that took divergent paths, American products liability law needed clarification, which took form in Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability, adopted in 1998.  read more

Question: Who is the only Muppet to have regularly crossed over between Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, and does this have anything to do with the practice of law? Answer: Kermit, and yes, it has a lot to do with the law.  read more

The Brooklyn Law School Center for Health, Science and Public Policy sponsored the most recent installment of its theory-practice seminar series, “Preventing a Disaster: Guidelines for Dealing with Epidemics,” on October 2 to address the legal and policy issues that are likely to arise in an influenza pandemic.  read more

Professor Roderick Macdonald opened the recent Brooklyn Law School symposium, “Ruling the World: Generating International Legal Norms,” with a keynote address that described three metaphors – harmonization, transplantation and viruses.  read more

“Law constantly reassesses its underlying assumptions in light of scientific advances,” said Dean Joan G. Wexler in introducing the symposium held on September 26, 2008 at Brooklyn Law School, “Is Morality Universal and Should the Law Care?” Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law, Language and Cognition and the Brooklyn Law Review, the symposium was organized by Brooklyn Law School Professor Bailey Kuklin and Don Forchelli Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Lawrence Solan.  read more

Brooklyn Law School is proud to announce the creation of the International Human Rights Fellowship Program and the selection of its first fellows, Jared Watkins '09 and Katharine Bodde '09. The program offers participating students a unique opportunity to acquire experience working on international human rights matters during their law school careers in both a work and academic setting.  read more

Brooklyn Law School’s Visiting Assistant Professor Program provides an ideal environment for the brightest legal minds to prepare for a career teaching law. With the goal of helping to launch the careers of promising young intellectuals, the program attracts participants with strong academic backgrounds, and a range of experience in practice and judicial clerkships.  read more

On April 3 - April 5, 2008, Brooklyn Law School hosted the Twenty-Third Annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition. The competition honors the late Jerome Prince, renowned evidence scholar, teacher, and author of Prince on Evidence, who served as Dean of Brooklyn Law School from 1953-1971. Thirty-eight teams from around the country competed.  read more

With time still remaining in the 2007-08 moot court season, 14 Brooklyn Law School teams have already brought home competition prizes. Also, this year for the first time, BLS Teams competed internationally in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria and in the University of Puerto Rico National Criminal Trial Advocacy Competition in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  read more

In the mid-20th century, the Warren Court revolutionized constitutional law by nationalizing norms of rights and equality. From Brown v. Board of Education to Miranda v. Arizona to Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court invited those seeking to promote rights and equality to litigate in the federal courts. But, following changes in the composition of the Court in later decades, the tide has turned.  read more

Brooklyn Law School and the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law continued its Breakfast Roundtable series with Crispin Waymouth, First Secretary for the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States, on Feb. 25 at the New York Stock Exchange.  read more

Brooklyn Law School held a symposium on March 7 to assess the likely effects of Gonzales v. Carhart, the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court case upholding the validity of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act against constitutional challenge. "The 'Partial-Birth Abortion' Ban: Health Care in the Shadow of Criminal Liability" was co-sponsored by the Center for Health, Science and Public Policy and the Journal of Law and Policy.  read more

The Brooklyn Law School Student Bar Association held its Second Annual Spelling Bee in memory of BLS Professor and former librarian Sara Robbins on Jan. 30. Over 35 contestants, including students and faculty members, competed to win the top prize, dinner for two at the Michelin-rated Saul Restaurant on Smith Street in Brooklyn.   read more

Co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law in partnership with The Securities and Exchange Historical Society and theThe Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law.  read more

From the Nuremberg Tribunals to the creation of the International Criminal Court, the field of international justice has experienced an extraordinary evolution within the past 50 years. Come join us for a panel discussion with three expert practitioners and consultants who will share their views on prospects for justice through accountability drawing from their experiences working with several of these accountability mechanisms.  read more

The Corporate & Securities Law Association and the Brooklyn Law School Career Center on Jan. 31 organized a panel discussion at which practitioners from various fields advised students on how to break into legal and non-legal professions on Wall Street. The overall theme of the discussion was the myriad of professional opportunities open to law school graduates and the various paths that can lead to successful careers.  read more

Brooklyn Law School continued its Breakfast Roundtable series with Jernej Sekolec, Secretary of UNCITRAL, on Jan. 31 at the Harvard Club. Sekolec’s talk, which was hosted by the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law, addressed the emerging law of international commerce.  read more

David Andelman, the executive editor of Forbes.com, spoke about his new book, A Shattered Peace, at an event sponsored by the International Law Society in the Subotnick Center on Jan. 31.  read more