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Public Service Trailblazer: Victor Olds '77 Meet Victor Olds '77, the Bronx DA's first Chief of Professional Responsibility and Training Victor Olds ’77 never planned to be a lawyer. Growing up in the Cypress Hills public housing in East New York, he dreamed of becoming an aerospace engineer. He enrolled in the aerospace program at Brooklyn Tech and attended New York University in pursuit of that career goal. But then something changed. “It was more fascinating to think of myself as an aerospace engineer than actually doing it,” he said. “I discovered I had gifts in other areas that also challenged my analytic and reasoning skills, and that I actually enjoyed more than solving equations.” While in college, Olds met and was mentored by Carl Callender, who ran a Legal Aid office in West Harlem. Callender was the first lawyer of color he had ever met. “I was able to see, through Carl’s dedication and commitment to justice, how the law could help people, many of whom were from the same types of communities where I had grown up and who were in dire need,” he recalled. “I will always be indebted to Carl for sparking my interest in a career dedicated to social justice.” Today, Olds is pioneering a new role. Last year he became the first ever chief of professional responsibility and training at the Office of the Bronx District Attorney. The brand new role has Olds training ADAs in all areas of trial and appellate practice, as well as conducting and presiding over ethical and professional responsibility investigations. “The fact that there was no institutional position on training and ethics in any of the state’s 62 district attorneys’ offices meant that I would be the test case,” he said. “I thought, ‘If you do this properly, D.A. Darcel Clark’s office can be a model for the other 61 D.A. offices statewide.” But being first in something also carries with it significant risks. As Olds describes it, “it’s an exciting and daunting challenge, but the pressure’s definitely on!” Olds was clearly the logical choice to oversee and train his office’s 475 prosecutors—over the course of his career he truly has done it all. He spent eight years as an assistant attorney general in charge of the New York State Attorney General’s Harlem Regional Office and 12 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. As a federal prosecutor, he split his time between civil and criminal matters and earned a reputation as a passionate advocate for justice. “Friends told me I was going to the dark side, because I would be the reason someone would be going to jail, but I viewed it differently,” he said. “I thought that just maybe I could be the type of prosecutor who could not only help to vindicate society when it was victimized by crime, but who could also help to ensure that those accused of crimes got a fair shake from our criminal justice system.” Olds also has served as a federal criminal defense attorney on the Southern District’s Criminal Justice Act panel as a volunteer while simultaneously working as a litigation partner for the law firm of Holland & Knight. In addition, he spent four years as senior counsel managing director and general counsel for New York City’s Bedford-Stuyvesant Legal Services office. He also did a stint as first deputy commissioner (and thereafter, acting commissioner) at the New York City Department of Investigation, where he oversaw investigations of 345 mayoral and related NYC agencies, comprising a total workforce of more than 300,000. His current role harnesses four decades of experience and channels it into the work of teacher and mentor. In addition to conducting investigations into prosecutorial ethical breaches and violations of the rules of professional conduct, Olds oversees ADA training in all substantive and procedural areas of the law, including trial techniques. He also sits on the ethics committee of the statewide District Attorneys Association of the State of New York, which issues guidelines to prosecutors statewide on ethical and professional responsibility issues. There, he said, part of the challenge is to come up with a set of uniform principles on which all essentially agree when it comes to dealing with law enforcement authorities. “Right now, lots of D.A. offices do things differently,” he explained. “The challenge is for us all to deal with the same police force dynamics in a way that is consistent.” His experience as a student at Brooklyn Law School was life-changing. “When I saw that there were ways that I could apply my talents, help people, and earn a living at the same time, I knew I had found my calling,” Olds said. He credited Professor Gary Schultz as an inspiring mentor. “He had worked at Bed-Stuy Legal Services, and like Carl Callender, he was using his talent and training to help people in the most desperate need,” he said. Olds, currently an adjunct at Columbia Law School, spent 13 years as an adjunct professor of trial and appellate advocacy at the Law School. “I am sincerely grateful to Brooklyn Law School for giving me a sense of confidence that I could branch out into a variety of areas, including litigation, teaching, and on occasion, authoring legal articles for publications.” Olds, who aspires to the federal bench, said he is always seeking new challenges. “I never stop pursuing greater opportunities to serve.” —Andrea Strong ’94

Arthur Pinto Retires Arthur Pinto, Cofounder of International Business Law Center and Mentor to Students, Retires Professor Arthur Pinto’s 9th floor office is a sunny rectangular room with striking views of downtown Brooklyn that, quite frankly, resembles a paper factory in a wind tunnel. Reflecting on his retirement after 30 years of teaching at the Law School, Pinto eyes the tornado of paper strewn over the desk and floor and shrugs his shoulders. “This is nothing,” he says. Even the books on the shelves are lying down. “You should have seen it when I was teaching full time.” Teaching full time is something Arthur Pinto has done since 1975, but in 1984 he finally joined Brooklyn Law School after several false starts. The first time he applied for a teaching position at the Law School in 1975, he was fresh off a three-year stint as an associate in the corporate and bankruptcy groups at Weil Gotshal & Manges, and he was turned down. “They told me I came in second,” he recalled. He took a position teaching at Seton Hall instead. The following year, Brooklyn called him. “They had an opening and wanted me to join the faculty, but I was just starting out at Seton Hall and didn’t want to leave.” Then, in the mid-80s, after he had tenure at Seton Hall, he did a year as a visiting professor at Brooklyn and they made him an offer he could not—and did not— refuse. “That third time, I took the offer and never looked back. I love it here and would not have had it any other way.” In the decades he taught, Pinto has become one of the most well-respected and deeply engaged members of the faculty. He has taught nearly every business course, including Corporations, Agency and Partnership, Contracts, Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation, Business Planning, and Comparative Business Organizations, as well as seminars in Comparative Corporate Governance, and Mergers & Acquisitions. He also coauthored the book Understanding Corporate Law and coedited the book The Legal Basis of Comparative Corporate Governance in Publicly Held Corporations, and has written extensively in journals on the topic of corporate governance. But his contributions go far beyond academics and scholarship. Pinto has been instrumental in building the profile of the Law School, helping to put it on the map as a leading institution in the world of international business. He worked on developing the Abraham L. Pomerantz Lecture, the biennial corporate securities lecture that commemorates the life and work of Abraham Pomerantz, a 1924 graduate of the Law School considered by many to have been the “dean of the class action bar.” Along with Professor Roberta Karmel and Gerry McLaughlin, then the associate dean for development, he created and served as a codirector of the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law and its prestigious fellowship program, which has become an important resource for the international business law community. Pinto also founded and directed the Law School’s noteworthy summer programs at the University of Bologna, and the University of International Business and Economics Law School (UIBE) in Beijing. “Brooklyn Law School won’t be the same without my longtime friend and colleague, Arthur Pinto,” said Stacy Caplow, Associate Dean of Professional Legal Education and Professor of Law. “Ever since our first day in Torts class at NYU Law School we have been soulmates and co-conspirators. He reads balance sheets and Playbills with equal facility, sharing his expertise about both finance and the theatre with students, faculty, and staff. All of us will miss him greatly.” Outside the classroom, Pinto has been deeply engaged in the community as a mentor to many of his students, routinely inviting them to join him for brown bag lunches. “Professor Pinto was a very engaged teacher and a highly invested mentor in my, and my fellow students’ professional success,” said Lydia Tomitova ’12 an attorney in the Netherlands with Oikcredit Ecumenical Development. “His commitment to Brooklyn was evident not only in his close work with students, but also in his active work to build up the International Business Law program. Two of his personal qualities stand out vividly in my experience: his curiosity to get to know the person standing across from him, and the equal footing he related in a casual New Yorker way.” Pinto also served as the faculty advisor to the Brooklyn Law Review for many years and was the long-time faculty advisor to OUTLAWS, the Law School’s student group devoted to LGBTQ advocacy. He has endowed a summer fellowship to fund a student advancing LGBTQ rights. “They do really great work, and I wanted to do something for them that would enable more of the public interest work they do,” he said. Pinto grew up in Connecticut and was drawn to business from a young age. “I always had an interest in the world of finance,” he said. “I was 12 or 13 years old and I’d wake up and study the financial pages and the stock market. I have no idea why. I can’t say I have had very good investing strategies, but it interests me.” After graduating from Colgate University with a degree in Political Science he attended NYU Law School and then worked in private practice before joining academia. Now that he has been at it for over 40 years, though, he says it’s time to retire. “I am nearly 70 and I started teaching in 1975,” he said. “It’s been a long time. And I have told everyone who has asked me why I am retiring the same thing: you don’t do this forever. You have to leave to make room for the new blood. I’ve had my time.” Pinto says one of the most gratifying teaching experiences had been with students who didn’t start out strong but who found their footing along the way. “There were a few students who didn’t do as well they could have in their first year and then blossomed later on,” he said. “There is something about students who find their way, and discover their abilities over time and do not give up, that is very inspiring.”

A Conversation with Linda Lightman ’87 The founder and CEO of Linda’s Stuff explains how she made millions selling used clothes and accessories online. Linda Lightman ’87, a former labor and employment attorney, returned to Brooklyn Law School in December for the first time in more than 25 years to share her expertise as a fashion and technology entrepreneur. She spoke with students participating in Business Boot Camp, an intensive winter session course sponsored by Deloitte Financial Advisory Services in collaboration with Brooklyn Law faculty. The program, which was featured in The New York Times last year, aims to teach lawyers how to think like businesspeople by exposing them to accounting principles, financial statements, asset valuations, and other corporate basics. Boot Camp students also hear from innovative leaders like Lightman and network with other distinguished alumni. Dean Nick Allard interviewed Lightman in a packed Moot Court Room about the secrets to her success. In 2001, the Philadelphia-based entrepreneur created what is now eBay’s leading luxury consignment retailer, generating more than $25 million per year and sustaining a 99.5 percent positive feedback rating from customers. During their conversation, excerpted below, Lightman shared her insights on how to be successful by doing what you love. How did your career begin? When I graduated college in 1984, traditional success meant becoming a doctor or an attorney. Science was not my thing, so I went to law school. And I loved it. Brooklyn Law School helped prepare me for the success that I have now. It also prepared me for the New York bar exam, which I passed the first time I took it. I initially thought I’d become a public interest attorney because I had an incredible experience working at the NOW Legal Defense Fund while I was a law student. But as graduation approached, I got an offer with a higher salary from a large law firm called Jackson Lewis, so I took it and became a labor and employment attorney. Working at Jackson Lewis was a great experience for me—I liked the job and I met my husband, who at the time was also practicing law, but at another firm. We just celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary and continue to work together today. Soon after we got married, we moved to Philadelphia and I joined a local law firm, but I wasn’t happy. I was more passionate about fashion designers, particularly vintage pieces, than my work as an attorney. When I was a lawyer, I’d sometimes say I was in the library doing research, but really I was shopping. So when did you get the idea for your retail company, Linda’s Stuff? I left the legal field to raise my two children, and I worked part time for my husband, who had a business as a wholesale distributor. During one Christmas break, about 15 years ago, my kids wanted to sell their video games. We went to a local video game store, and they offered my kids $5 for games that we paid $50 for, which didn’t seem fair. My son said, ‘let’s put them on eBay.’ So we did, and that’s how Linda’s Stuff began. We figured out how to post the video games on eBay, which was a relatively new company, and the games sold for close to what my kids originally paid. Eventually, the supply of games that my kids were willing to part with ran out, but I was hooked on the idea of selling things online. I decided to put my own designer clothes that I didn’t want anymore on eBay, which I previously would have brought to a local consignment store. I wasn’t particularly computer savvy at the time, but my kids helped me, and my clothes sold. Most of my friends from law school still lived in New York. I had college friends who lived in Connecticut and California. As they heard about what I was doing, they started sending me their stuff to sell too. To keep momentum going, I created a UPS account, and told people I’d send UPS to pick up their things for free. Soon enough, people started sending me their stuff in droves, and I had to hire people to help me with the volume. I went online and I put ads up at the local college, and I started hiring. Today, the global resale business accounts for more than $34 billion a year. It’s chic to buy on consignment and to sell your stuff, especially in our sweet spot, which is luxury and designer goods. It just makes my head spin to think that I’ve contributed, even in a small way, to the industry’s massive growth. Why do you think you’ve been so successful? I’m very competitive and very driven. I’ll never do something halfway. If you give me something to do, even if it’s as simple as untangling a knot in a necklace, I will make sure that it’s done, and I won’t leave until I finish the job. What was one of the largest challenges you faced with the business? Space has always been a challenge. We started the company out of our house, and we grew to have about 14 employees working there before we moved to an office in 2006. We first moved to a 5,000-square-foot warehouse space, and I remember thinking we’d never outgrow it. But two years ago, we moved to a 58,000-square-foot office. This time, we hired a lawyer who made a deal to get us the right of first refusal to the contiguous space. That was smart—because after just a year, we expanded to 72,000. Six months ago, we moved to 93,000 square feet. What do you look for when you hire an attorney? Confidence. I also respect a lawyer who is articulate, and who can admit it when he or she doesn’t know something. No one knows everything, and I respect the honesty of saying, ‘I’ll have to get back to you about that.’ When did you recognize your own success? When my husband said he wanted to quit his job to work with me, I felt pretty proud of what I had accomplished. We started drawing up contracts and we hired an accountant to look over everything. We developed a process by which we were going to pay our clients, we hired bookkeepers, a customer service team, professional photographers, and a warehouse manager. Today, we employ 110 people and I still own 100 percent of the business. I built it with pure sweat equity, no venture capital.

Spotlight on Centers New leader joins CUBE and distinguished faculty organize symposia on international tax treaties, bankruptcy laws, cybercrime, and more. John Rudikoff ’06 Named to Lead CUBE John Rudikoff ’06 has joined the Law School as CEO and managing director of the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE). He is managing the center’s operations and strategy, cultivating partnerships, and leading fundraising efforts to expand opportunities for students, faculty, and alumni. Rudikoff previously served as general counsel and director of business development for the international architecture firm MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society) Design Group. “I’m thrilled to be back at Brooklyn Law School,” he said. “The sky’s the limit as far as the opportunities we have through CUBE.” Founded in 2013, CUBE is an innovative legal consortium of clinics, course work, and programs that prepare the next generation of lawyers for an entrepreneurial world and to be dynamic advocates and counsel for new businesses. Recent programs have included the CUBE Innovators Competition; global opportunities for students to work with businesses, startups, and nonprofits; consultation sessions with small businesses in Brooklyn; and networking events that give students an edge in their career. We’re focused on training our students to have a competitive advantage in the job market." “The mission of CUBE is threefold,” Rudikoff said. “We’re focused on training our students to have a competitive advantage in the job market. We want to provide essential legal services that startups need to scale up and become sustainable. And we will continue to serve as a high-profile platform for the dissemination of scholarship and thought leadership on innovation and the law.” Rudikoff has a decade of experience as an attorney. He served as an assistant district attorney in Kings County, Brooklyn, where he created the environmental crimes unit within the rackets division. Three years ago, he became general counsel at MASS Design Group, which provides infrastructure, buildings, and the human and physical systems necessary to promote the growth and well-being of individuals and communities around the world. Rudikoff also managed the firm’s development and marketing efforts, and he helped triple the company’s size. “We look forward to working with John and CUBE’s supporters,” Dean Nick Allard said, “as we continue the center’s dynamic programming.” Zaretsky Roundtable Examines Bankruptcy and Credit International and multilateral organizations have spearheaded efforts to modernize and harmonize the law of bankruptcy and secured credit. These projects, often sponsored by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), have for the most part presented as international standards rules that are generally consistent with U.S. law and practice. Last fall, the annual Barry L. Zaretsky roundtable, cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Business Law and Regulation and the American Bankruptcy Institute, brought together experts to discuss current UNCITRAL projects, including harmonization of the law governing the obligations of officers and directors in corporate groups, as well as the enforcement of insolvency-related judgments and orders. The Barry L. Zaretsky Roundtable Series honors the late Professor Barry L. Zaretsky, a distinguished scholar of bankruptcy and commercial law, a beloved mentor, and a dedicated classroom teacher. His work inside and outside the classroom bridged the worlds of theory and practice in these fields. The roundtable program brings together a distinguished panel of practitioners, judges and academics to discuss bankruptcy and commercial law topics. Zaretsky Fellows help draft the extensive materials that are central to the roundtable discussion. The day after the roundtable, the Law School hosted the annual Young Bankruptcy Scholars’ Work-in-Progress Workshop, drawing promising young scholars in the areas of bankruptcy, commercial law, and consumer financial protection who presented their work before leading national bankruptcy scholars. Organized by Professor Edward Janger, the workshop was developed to offer senior scholars a meaningful opportunity to mentor junior scholars and raise the profile of bankruptcy scholarship within the academy and the profession. Experts Discuss the Ethics of Deception and Dishonesty Judges are presented with dishonest statements by lawyers and witnesses alike. But not all dishonesty is created equal, either in the eyes of the law or in the way people speak. In February, the Center for Law, Language, and Cognition sponsored a roundtable—organized and led by Professor Lawrence Solan, director of the center, and Professor Adam Kolber—that explored lawyers’ experiences with the treatment of dishonest conduct in court. Discussions focused on the differences among flat-out falsity (lies), true statements that are designed to persuade someone to believe in the truth of what the speaker knows to be false (deceit), and statements intended to aggrandize the speaker without regard to the truth or falsity of the statement (BS). In October, the Center for Law, Language, and Cognition hosted another roundtable that explored deception in earlier stages of the justice system. Other countries have long banned deceptive interrogation tactics, using instead a method of investigative interviewing known as PEACE (preparation, planning, engage, explain, account, closure, evaluate). The presentations included remarks by Saul Kassin, distinguished professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and an expert on false confessions; Brent Snook, professor of psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland; Inspector Todd Barron of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary; and Glenn Garber, founder and director of the Exoneration Institute in New York, and an adjunct faculty member at the Law School. Scholars Reimagine International Tax Policy In just a few years, the foreign tax credit will celebrate its 100th birthday. That legislative action paved the way toward the modern network of reciprocal tax measures. The international tax regime grew into a tall oak from that small acorn, but recently has begun to show its age. Will today’s efforts—from BEPS to FATCA—reinvigorate the tax treaty or help us move past it? The insights these stellar thinkers shared will help to push international tax cooperation in the right direction." In October, the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law cosponsored the International Business Law (IBL) symposium to explore these questions. Organized by Professors Steven Dean and Rebecca Kysar, the full-day program brought together scholars from around the world to discuss important topics like tax jurisdiction in a stateless world and whether tax treaties will survive. “A parade of scandals involving tax evasion has brought the focus of global leaders and the public on the inadequacy of international tax enforcement,” said Dean. “We may be at an inflection point, and the insights these stellar thinkers shared at the IBL symposium will help to push international tax cooperation in the right direction.” TSI Symposium Addresses Cybercrime Risks In November, at the annual symposium sponsored by the Trade Secrets Institute (TSI) and organized by Professor Christopher Beauchamp, experts from government, academia, and private practice discussed how companies can defend themselves against cybercrime attacks and how to prosecute those responsible. During the first panel, “Investigating and Prosecuting Digital Trade Secret Theft,” Austin Berglas, senior managing director, K2 Intelligence, and former assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New York cyber branch; Glenn Graham, deputy attorney general in New Jersey; and Serrin Turner, assistant U.S. attorney and cybercrime coordinator, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, talked about cybercrime investigation tactics and how law enforcement is dealing with domestic and foreign threats. “State-sponsored cybercrime predominantly comes from China, Russia, and Iran,” said Berglas. “These countries are generally looking to gain economic, political, or social advantage over the United States by stealing anything and everything in the IP space. And just like criminal groups involved with corporate espionage or insider threats, nation states use the path of least resistance. Something like 80 percent of successful cybercrime attacks are due to human error. In the second panel, “Representing and Protecting the Targets of Cybercrime,” Berglas was joined by Joseph V. DeMarco, partner, DeVore & DeMarco; and Alexander Southwell, partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, to examine the industries that are most vulnerable to damaging cybercrime incidents. The panelists also addressed precautionary steps that companies can take to protect their intellectual property and confidential information, as well as the challenges of recovery after a cyberhack. Watch the IBL and TSI Symposiums-->

Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition 2026 Forty-First Annual Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition The Brooklyn Law School Moot Court Honor Society is excited to announce the Forty-First Annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition. The competition will take place from March 26th to March 28th, 2026. 2022 Prince Competition Registration – OPEN! The Competition is open to all ABA accredited law schools; however, space is limited to 36 teams and teams will be selected to compete on a first-come, first-served basis. Each school is permitted to send one team composed of up to three competitors and one coach. The registration fee is $700 per team. We expect to reach capacity quickly, so please submit the online registration as early as possible and no later than November 19, 2022. Payment by check may be received after that date, so long as the online registration form has been completed. Alternatively, a team may pay via credit card. But please note, a team's registration will be considered incomplete until payment is received. Register Online Payment Form Tentative Schedule --> Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition The Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition is named in honor of the late Jerome Prince, renowned evidence scholar, teacher, and author of Prince on Evidence, who served as Dean of Brooklyn Law School from 1953 to 1971. The competition is hosted in the spring by the Moot Court Honor Society on Brooklyn Law School's campus in the heart of Brooklyn Heights. The Competition provides law students from across the nation the opportunity to write and argue an appellate brief that addresses evidentiary issues in a contemporary context. Contact Information All questions and requests for additional information about the Prince Evidence Competition should be emailed to Caitlin Oakley, 2024 Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition Coordinator, at prince.competition@brooklaw.edu. Competition Problem Brief Certification Tentative Schedule Tentative Competition Schedule Competition Rules Competition Briefs Whether, under the Fourth Amendment, a suspect is subject to a continuous seizure where the suspect temporarily submits to police authority but then subsequently flees. Whether, under the Fourth Amendment, the government must secure a warrant issued upon probable cause to install a video camera on a utility pole outside of a residence to surveil an individual. Whether, under the Fifth Amendment, an objective or subjective standard should be used to determine if police questioning falls under the routine booking question exception to the Miranda requirements. View Competition Briefs 2019 Prince Competition Results Justice John Cannon Few, Supreme Court of South Carolina; Judge Michael J. Garcia, New York State Court of Appeals; and Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York presided over the final round of the Competition. Please join us in congratulating the 2019 Awardees: Winner: University of California Hastings College of Law Runner Up: Georgetown University Law Center Best Brief: Georgia State University College of Law Best Brief Runner Up: Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law Best Oralist in the Preliminary Rounds: Joseph Stuhrenberg, University of Georgia Law School Best Oralist in the Final Round: Laura Anderson, University California Hastings College of Law -->   The Brooklyn Law School Moot Court Honor Society is excited to announce the Thirty-Fifth Annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition. Preliminary rounds will begin Thursday, March 26, 2020 and the Competition will conclude with the final round on Saturday, March 28, 2020. The Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition is named in honor of the late Jerome Prince, renowned evidence scholar, teacher, and author of Prince on Evidence, who served as Dean of Brooklyn Law School from 1953 to 1971. The competition is hosted in the spring on Brooklyn Law School's campus in the heart of Brooklyn Heights. The Competition provides law students from across the nation the opportunity to write and argue an appellate brief that addresses evidentiary issues in a contemporary context. 2020 Prince Competition Registration will open mid-September 2019. All Registration information and additional Competition details will be posted as it comes available.--> Registration Registration for the Forty-First Annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition opens November 1 and will close on November 30, 2025. Teams will be notified as to whether they have been selected for the competition by December 1, 2025. Contact Information All questions and requests for additional information about the Prince Evidence Competition should be emailed to Vivian Mantzopoulos, 2026 Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition Coordinator, at prince.competition@brooklaw.edu. Watch the 38th Annual Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition. 2024 Prince Competition Materials Competition Rules Past Prince Competitions Competition Records 2022 Competition Record 2021 Competition Record 2020 Competition Record 2019 Competition Record 2018 Competition Record 2017 Competition Record 2016 Competition Record 2015 Competition Record 2014 Competition Record--> Competition Briefs 2023 Best Brief 2023 Best Brief Runner-Up 2022 Best Brief 2022 Best Brief Runner-Up 2021 Best Brief 2021 Best Brief Runner-Up 2020 Best Brief 2020 Best Brief Runner-Up 2019 Best Brief 2019 Best Brief Runner-Up 2018 Best Brief 2018 Best Brief Runner-Up 2017 Best Brief 2017 Best Brief Runner-Up 2016 Best Brief 2016 Best Brief Runner-Up-->

LL.M. Program LL.M. Application Process Our program is designed to help lawyers trained abroad connect with other international lawyers, our world class faculty, and more than 24,000 alumni. The LL.M. program facilitates specialized study in a number of areas, including business law, intellectual property law, and refugee and immigration law. We can also accommodate tailored study plans for those students who wish to specialize in other areas of the law. LL.M. students are very much a part of the Law School’s thriving intellectual and cultural life. To facilitate integration into our community, we provide guaranteed housing in Feil Hall to all applicants meeting our housing deadline. Feil Hall is a modern, furnished residence hall located just a few blocks from the Law School with more than 200 apartments. We Want to Meet You We want to meet you! Contact us at intlprograms@brooklaw.edu to discuss how Brooklyn Law School can help you move forward.  Admission Criteria To be eligible for admission to the LL.M. program for internationally trained lawyers, prospective students must: Hold a first degree in law from an accredited foreign university that is substantially equivalent to the legal education provided by an American Bar Association-approved law school in the United States; and Have a minimum Internet-based TOEFL score of 5 (or 95 for tests taken before January 21, 2026) with a minimum of 5 on each of the four sections (or 23 for tests taken before January 21, 2026)), or a minimum IELTS score of 7.0. The language proficiency examination requirement may be waived only for candidates whose native and working language is English and whose first degree in law is from a college or university in a country where both the language of instruction and the native language is English. NY State Bar exam The requirements for admission to Brooklyn Law School’s LL.M. program are different from the requirements for eligibility to sit for the New York State Bar exam. Only the New York State Board of Law Examiners can determine eligibility for the New York State Bar exam, and you must contact the Board with any questions on eligibility to sit for the exam. Application Submission Download Application Instructions All applications are submitted through www.lsac.org. If you need assistance or have questions about the application, please contact the Office of International Programs at intlprograms@brooklaw.edu. If you need technical assistance with the LSAC’s website or have questions about the Credential Assembly Service, please contact the LSAC directly. You will need the following supplemental documents: USD70 application fee Resume/curriculum vitae Personal statement (1-3 pages in length) Two letters of recommendation (completed online with LSAC by your recommenders or sent directly to LSAC) Official law school transcript, with certified English translation, if necessary, sent directly to LSAC Official TOEFL score report from the Educational Testing Service, or an official score report from the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), sent directly to LSAC. The Admissions Committee will only review an application once it is complete. An application is considered complete when all required documents have been received and processed by the Office of International Programs.The LSAC system is designed to show you which application documents have been received and which documents are still needed. We send all Admissions Committee decisions by email. Please keep the Office of International Programs informed of any changes in your contact information, including mailing address, email address and telephone number.Please keep in mind that, although the tracking system may indicate that all required documents have been received, the Admissions Committee may determine, upon later review of the file, that a clarification or additional information and/or documentation is required. Countries Impacted By Visa Suspension Brooklyn Law School welcomes students from all over the world, and we thank you for your interest in our LL.M programs. If you are from a country whose citizens are currently unable to apply for an F-1 visa to enter the USA, you might consider deferring admission. If you already have an unexpired F-1 visa, are a U.S. Permanent Resident, or hold dual nationality, this policy may not affect you. Please check here to find out if your country has been listed: Suspension of Visa Issuance. If you are impacted by this policy and have questions or wish to discuss deferring your admission to a later date, please contact intlprograms@brooklaw.edu. Scholarship We consider all LL.M. applicants for merit-based scholarship. There is no separate application. For the 2022-2023 academic year, Brooklyn Law School will offer one full-tuition scholarship with a customized fellowship research opportunity. The recipient will earn an LL.M. while developing independent research overseen by a Brooklyn Law School professor. They will have the option to take advantage of guaranteed housing in Feil Hall, our residence hall located a short walk from the main campus. The Research Fellow will work under the guidance of a faculty member to produce an academic paper within an area of law of their choosing.   Interested prospective students must apply to Brooklyn Law School's program through LSAC's credential assembly service. Applicants must indicate in their personal statements that they would like to be considered for this opportunity and include 1-2 paragraphs about a proposed research topic. Applications are due by April 30, 2022.--> Deadlines We accept applications on a rolling basis throughout the year. Estimated Cost of Attendance For details on cost of attendance, please check the LL.M. section of Tuition. 

Publications Gerald Baylin Professor of Law J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan B.A., University of Notre Dame Remarks at the 22nd Annual Business Law Symposium: Corporate Governance and Climate Change, Wake Forest University (Mar. 20, 2009) The Absence of Cross-Cultural Communication: SEC Mandatory Disclosure and Foreign Corporate Governance, 17 Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business 119 (1996) "Abuse of the Law" in U.S. Financial Law, Droit Commun et Droit Financier (Jan. 1996) Advising Compliance in Financial Firms: A New Mission for the Legal Academy, 8 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial, & Commercial Law 1 (2013) Anticipating the Unthinkable: The Adequacy of Risk Management in Finance and Environmental Studies, 44 Wake Forest Law Review 731 (2009)​ Book Review (reviewing D.M. Abdelhamid, International Regulatory Rivalry in Open Economies: The Impact of Deregulation on the US and UK Financial Markets (2003)), 27 World Competition: Law and Economics Review 162 (2004) Braking the Merger Momentum: Reforming Corporate Law Governing Mega-Mergers, 49 Buffalo Law Review (2001) Breaking Up is Hard To Do: Should Financial Conglomerates be Dismantled?, 79 University of Cincinnati Law Review 553 (2010) Broker-Dealer Compliance: A Case-Based Guide to Compliance Program Elements and Practices (forthcoming, 2023) Broker-Dealer Law and Regulation (5th ed. 2019) (with Jill Gross); (4th ed. 2007) (with annual supplements) (with N. Poser) Columnist (2003- ), International Company and Commercial Law Review Comparative Investor Education, 64 Brooklyn Law Review 1083 (1998) A Conflict of Authority: The Falling Out of Lanson and Brunetiere as Seen by Peguy, Michigan Romance Studies 2007 (1982) Contesting Authority: The Marginal, 1 GRIP Report 1 (1983) The Continuing Need for Broker-Dealer Professinalism in IPOs, 2 Ohio State Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal 679(2008) The Contribution of the Fund Profile to Investor Education, 1 Villanova Journal of Law and Investment Management 59 (1999) Corporate Governance in American and French Law (Association d'Economie Financière, 1997) (with A. Pezard) Dashboard Compliance: Benefit, Threat, or Both, 11 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate Finance & Compliance Law 1 (2016) Directors’ and Officers’ Liability (Practicing Law Institute, 2d ed. 2005) (with annual supplements until 2014) Emerging Trends in Corporate Enforcement and Corporate Compliance: Symposium Introduction, 14 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law 1 (2019) (with Miriam Baer) Financial Regulation Reform: Maintaining the Status Quo, 35 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 635 (2010) France, in The Legal Basis of Corporate Governance in Publicly-held Corporations: A Comparative Approach (Springer, 1998, A. Pinto ed.) Corporate Misbehavior by Elite Decision-Makers Symposium - Perspectives from Law and Social Psychology: Introduction, 70 Brooklyn Law Review 1165 (2005) Investor Education, Securities Disclosure, and the Creation and Enforcement of Corporate Governance and Firm Norms, 48 Catholic University Law Review 15 (1998) Justice Blackmun and Securities Arbitration: McMahon Revisited, 71 North Dakota Law Review 145 (1995) Justifying Board Diversity, 89 North Carolina Law Review 901 (2011) (with Lawrence M. Solan & John M. Darley) Looking Forward: Professor Roberta Karmel's Prescient Views on the Transformation of Self-Regulatory Organizations and of the Securities Market Structure at the Turn of the Last Century, 16 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law 123 (2021) Mandatory Disclosure and Foreign Corporate Governance, Issue Alert (May 1997) Mutual Fund Compliance: Key Developments and Their Implications, in Research Handbook on the Regulation of Mutual Funds (William Birdthistle & John Morley eds., 2018) Opinion d’Outre Atlantique sur l’Affaire Morgan Stanley/LVMH, 5 Revue de Droit Bancaire et Financier 226 (2004) Organizational Liability, 19 Journal of Law & Policy 45 (2010) Overview, IX Banking Law Anthology (Jan. 1995) Paternalistic Regulation of Public Company Management: Lessons from Bank Management, 58 Florida Law Review 859 (2006) Persuasion and Resistance: The Use of Psychology by Anglo-American Corporate Governance Advocates in France, 35 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1041 (2002) Quasi-Rationality in Action: A Study of Psychological Factors in Merger Decision Making, 62 Ohio State Law Journal 1333 (2001) Recognizing the “Bad Barrel” in Public Business Firms: Social and Organizational Factors in Misconduct by Senior Decision‐Makers, 57 Buffalo Law Review 1 (2009)​ A Report on the Attitudes of Foreign Companies Regarding a U.S. Listing, 3 Stanford Journal of Law, Business and Finance 51 (1997) (with R.S. Karmel) (reprinted NYSE Working Paper 97-01) A Social Defense of Sarbanes-Oxley, 52 New York Law School Law Review 517 (2007) Some Old (and New) Wine in New Bottles: the 2018 SEC and FINRA Examination Priorities, Practical Compliance and Risk Management for the Securities Industry, Mar-Apr 2018, at 13 Subtle Hazards Revisited: The Corruption of a Financial Holding Company by a Corporate Client’s Inner Circle, 70 Brooklyn Law Review 7 (2004) Surveillant and Counselor: A Reorientation in Compliance for Broker-Dealers, 2014 Brigham Young University Law Review Law Review 1121 (2014) Symposium Introduction: A Tribute to Roberta Karmel, 16 Brooklyn Journal of  Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law 1 (2021) Techniques of Regulatory Implementation: The Case of Reg BI and Form CRS, in The Cambridge Handbook of Investor Protection (Arthur B. Laby ed., 2022) The Governing Authority's Responsibilities in Compliance and Risk Management, as Seen in the American Law Institute's Draft Principles of Compliance, Risk Management, and Enforcement, 90 Temple Law Review 699 (2018) The Institutional Investor and the New Corporate Governance, 3 Academics' F. 13 (1995) The Necessity of (and the Threat Posed by) Consumer Financial Education for the New Financial Conglomerates, 26 Journal of International Banking Register 39 (2000) The Professionalism of Stanley Fish, 17 Critical Exchange 31 (1985) The Professionalization of Compliance: Its Progress, Impediments, and Outcomes, 35 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 183 (2021) The Role of Corporate Law in the Adaptation of French Enterprise, 1998 Columbia Business Law Review 97 (1998) The Role of Corporate Law in French Corporate Governance, 31 Cornell International Law Journal 31 (1998); (reprinted in The Legal Basis of Corporate Governance in Publicly-held Corporations: A Comparative Approach (A. R. Pinto & G. Visentini eds. 1998)) The Role of Financial Regulation in Private Financial Firms: Risk Management and the Limitations of the Market Model, 3 Brooklyn Journal of Financial & Commercial Law 29 (2008)​ The SEC'S 2008 Agenda for Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers, 1 Practical Compliance & Risk Management for the Securities Industry 43 (2008) The Vanishing Supervisor, 41 Journal of Corporation Law 117 (2015) The Transformation of French Corporate Governance and United States Institutional Investors, 21 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 1 (1995) The Transformation of French Corporate Governance, Issue Alert (Apr. 1995) Understanding Corporate Law (6th ed. forthcoming, 2023) (with Arthur Pinto) We’re All Capitalists Now: The Importance, Nature, Provision and Regulation of Investor Education, 49 Case Western Reserve Law Review 105 (1998) When Those Who Do Teach: The Consequenses of Law Firm Education for Business Law Education, 34 Georgia Law Review 839 (2000) Whistleblowing and the Public Director: Countering Corporate Inner Circles, 83 Oregon Law Review 435 (2004)

The Passion of PipS Fellows at Work Meet Brooklyn Law School graduates and students who are gaining valuable practical legal skills through an innovative fellowship program By Andrea Strong ’94 & Jen Swetzoff In 2014, Brooklyn Law School launched the Public Interest/Public Service (PipS) Fellowship, a pioneering program with the goal of improving the practical skills of new lawyers, while expanding the ability of nonprofit organizations and government agencies to provide legal services. Brooklyn Law School is the first law school on the East Coast to offer this unique fellowship. Professor Stacy Caplow, associate dean of professional legal education, developed the two-year fellowship program in cooperation with government agencies and nonprofit organizations throughout New York City. During their third year of law school, PipS Fellows work full time in entry-level positions receiving appropriate training and supervision at one of the partner legal offices, as well as attending a classroom component taught by Adjunct Professor Glenn Magpantay, who is a staff attorney at the Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund. After nine months of work, fellows graduate and take a hiatus to study for the bar exam before returning to their placement for a full year of paid work. Upon completing their fellowships a year later, the fellows have almost two full years of experience, which makes them highly valuable on the job market. The first group of nine PipS Fellows graduated in 2015 and are now working in public- and private-sector legal jobs in the New York City area. “Most of the students who apply for the PipS Fellowship see themselves as people who want to do public interest work for the long haul,” said Caplow. They know what they want. They’re very committed. This is their path.” The Law School’s newest group of PipS Fellows includes Rachel Russell ’17, who is working this fall at the Legal Aid Society’s Harlem Community Law Offices in its HIV/AIDS Representation Project. She handles a wide variety of cases including Social Security appeals, housing, and employment matters. “All the cases come in under the umbrella of clients who are HIV positive, which means there is a lot of interesting work in many different fields,” she said. “It’s a great experience.” Russell came to the Law School to become an advocate for the LGBT community. She has already interned at the nonprofit civil rights organization Lambda Legal and with the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. “I wanted to get as much experience as possible while still in law school and thought PipS would be an invaluable opportunity,” she said. Shalisa J. Cumberbatch ’16, a member of the second group of PipS Fellows, came to law school with one goal—to work in the public interest. “I was a paralegal at Bronx Aid Services, and I was so excited by that work that I gave my notice and applied to law school,” she said. She also was a Brooklyn Law Students for the Public Interest (BLSPI) Fellow and an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Fellow. As a PipS Fellow she worked at Brooklyn Defender Services—Family Defense during her third year. This fall, she began her first year as a staff attorney for the organization, which provides legal representation to those who cannot afford a lawyer. “Working during my third year of law school gave me the skills and depth of experience necessary to be fully prepared to start as a staff attorney,” she said. “I loved my PipS Fellowship. The best part was doing the work of an entry-level lawyer as a third-year student.” “PipS is a cutting-edge program in today’s legal community,” says Magpantay. “Students learn the theories underlying public interest practice and they put those theories into practice. It’s an innovative kick start to a career in providing legal services and a lawyer’s help for those who cannot afford counsel.” Meet three PipS Fellows from the inaugural class who are working on behalf of immigrants, victims of domestic violence, and youthful offenders in New York City, and who were hired to stay on with their employers after their two-year fellowship ended. Alexander Hu ’15 Staff Attorney at New York Legal Assistance Group “My parents are immigrants, so that makes my area of work especially personal for me,” said Alexander Hu ’15, a staff attorney in the Immigrant Protection Unit at the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG). “They moved first from China to Taiwan, where they met and married, and then finally to the United States, where my older sister and I were born and raised. Against the backdrop of my own immigrant history, my advocacy work for immigrants’ rights is particularly meaningful and something I know I want to continue doing for the duration of my career—and it all came together because I decided to apply for the PipS Fellowship.” Hu grew up in Long Island and received his bachelor’s degree in finance and social entrepreneurship from New York University. Before enrolling in law school, he founded and directed an anti-racism social venture called The Human Color, worked with the nonprofit ERASE Racism as a volunteer and research fellow, and interned at Baron & Goodsell, a local legal office. Against the backdrop of my own immigrant history, my advocacy work for immigrants’ rights is particularly meaningful." “I chose Brooklyn Law School because of its strong public interest programs,” Hu said. “When Professor Caplow told me about the opportunity to apply for a PipS Fellowship, I jumped at the chance. I liked the emphasis on joining an ever-growing community of fellows who are involved with public interest and social justice work. I also was drawn to the idea of working closely with faculty in a space beyond the classroom, so they could mentor and guide students and invest in their trajectory through law school and after law school. We came together regularly for discussions and Professor Caplow encouraged us to reflect on the experiences at our placement. We wrote journals about what we were learning in terms of substance, but also how to navigate the organization. That kept us connected to the Law School and ensured that we were growing in a direction we wanted to. I always felt that there was a strong safety net.” At NYLAG, Hu was placed in the Immigrant Protection Unit and he was hired as a full-time staff attorney after completing his two-year fellowship. Today, his fluency in Mandarin, which his parents taught him at home and at a local Chinese school they cofounded, has proven particularly helpful with the large number of Chinese clients that he serves from communities including Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and Manhattan’s Chinatown. “From the start, I had my own caseload, which really showed me what it’s like to work as an attorney,” he said. Before joining NYLAG, Hu had served as a legal intern at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the MinKwon Center for Community Action, and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and he participated in the Safe Harbor Clinic at Brooklyn Law School. An ambitious student, he also took a number of immigration courses and served as the vice president and treasurer of the Brooklyn Law Immigration Society. “Immigration law is such a challenging yet compelling area to me,” Hu said, “and I am grateful that I will have the opportunity to continue to hone my skills and knowledge over time at NYLAG.” Sara Friedman ’15 Staff Attorney at New York Legal Assistance Group In addition to employing Hu, NYLAG hired another PipS Fellow following the post-graduate year: Sara Friedman ’15. Friedman, who speaks Hebrew, helps victims of domestic violence escape their abusers as a staff attorney in the matrimonial and family law unit. She focuses on working with women in the Orthodox Jewish community through Project Eden, which goes beyond criminal justice interventions and includes a wide range of culturally sensitive and appropriate services offered through partner agencies. Since 2002, more than 550 women have benefited from Project Eden’s network of services, and more than 1,000 individuals have attended educational programming. “It’s an incredible feeling when you can help a woman feel empowered to leave her abuser and feel a sense of safety that maybe she hasn’t felt since the day she got married,” Friedman said. “There was never a question in my mind about what I wanted to do with my law degree. I knew I wanted to litigate and advocate directly for clients. NYLAG has been the perfect fit for me because it feels like a cross between a nonprofit and a firm. I see the importance of my work—the ability of the law to bring security to a woman and her children.” A native of Philadelphia, Friedman received her bachelor’s degree in political science and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies from New York University. During college, she interned at NYLAG for three years and then worked as a paralegal there for two years. There was never a question in my mind about what I wanted to do with my law degree. I knew I wanted to litigate and advocate directly for clients." “My favorite parts of school were always my internships and being in court,” said Friedman, who held internships at the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, the Children’s Law Center, Brooklyn Defender Services, and the Legal Aid Society before joining NYLAG. Danielle Sorken, director of the Public Service Office, guided Friedman in her career and suggested the PipS Fellowship. She explained to Friedman that the fellowship would allow her to do more public interest work and have a job lined up when she graduated. “We literally started filling out my application in her office that same day. It was really nice to know, after finals in my second year of law school, that I already had a job after graduation. And that I’d have my own caseload,” said Friedman. Friedman admits that the fellowship was not easy, but said that the experience was tremendously rewarding. In addition to working at NYLAG and participating in Moot Court, where she served on the executive committee, coached a team, and ran the first-year competition, she also enrolled in a criminal procedure class with Professor Bennett Capers during her third year to gain more knowledge in this area. “The PipS program is a huge time commitment, but it’s one of the best experiences you can hope to get in your career. It helped me determine what I wanted to do, and I would encourage any other student interested in public service to apply for the fellowship.” Friedman is clearly proud of her work at NYLAG, preparing petitions and motions to get a client the safety she and her children need, and the stability she deserves. “Going through family court can be a very long process,” she said, “and it takes three to five years for a woman to leave her abusive partner, and seven to 13 years for Orthodox women to leave their abuser, often because familial and spiritual alienation contributes to the abuse. But already in my first year out of law school, I’ve conducted a full custody trial. And I currently represent a number of clients in both family court and state Supreme Court,” Friedman said. “I sincerely love what I do and I look forward to continuing my work at NYLAG. It’s an opportunity for which I will always be grateful.” Eric Eingold ’15 Legal Fellow, Youth Represent “There’s growing awareness that legal education is changing,” said Eric Eingold ’15. “The material you learn in school is really important to get the substance of the law. But the course work doesn’t prepare you to jump into a career as an attorney. The training and the mentorship in a legal services office is really what helped me learn the ins and outs of practice.” Eingold grew up in South Florida and attended college at the University of Central Florida, where he became involved with antiwar activism. After he graduated in 2008, he moved to New York to get his master’s degree at the New School for Social Research. He then worked on social justice issues for several years—at Democracy Now, the New York Public Interest Research Group, and Ma’ase Olam, an Israeli-based nonprofit that promotes volunteering—before enrolling at the Law School. After his first year, the Center for Constitutional Rights awarded him the Ella Baker Fellowship, and he spent his summer working as a legal intern for the Community Justice Project in Miami. The experience convinced him that he wanted to pursue a legal career in social justice. When Eingold returned to the Law School, he heard about the PipS Fellowship and decided to apply for a placement at Youth Represent, a youth defense and advocacy nonprofit organization that provides holistic legal services to people under 24 years of age who have criminal records. Youth Represent was started by an alumna, Laurie Parise ’15. Several other graduates also work there, including Michael Pope ’10 and Maire O’Malley ’13. After working as a PipS Fellow there for two years, Eingold was hired as a full-time staff attorney. “It’s an incredible privilege to provide legal services and counsel to young people, particularly those who are coming from communities that are overly and unfairly policed,” Eingold said. “Despite traumatic experiences with the justice system, I see so many resilient individuals overcome the challenges they’ve faced to find work and build a good life for themselves.” He recalls the story of a client who had two misdemeanor convictions for crimes when he was young—one for possession of stolen property and another for an infraction at Rikers Island when he was briefly imprisoned there. He went through a reentry program, “Getting Out and Staying Out,” and quickly got hired to work at a local restaurant. Soon after, he applied for a security guard position that would double his hourly pay. The employer offered him the job, but then did a background check that came back with errors. It said that the young man had been incarcerated for five years instead of five months, and the company withdrew his offer based on the misinformation. At Youth Represent, Eingold worked to prove that the background check was incorrect and resulted in a loss of work for the young man, ultimately winning him a settlement of $10,000. Eingold’s diverse responsibilities include rap sheet review, representation in criminal and summons courts, and employment-related litigation. He also represents clients in housing court, family court, and even school suspension hearings. “I’m so grateful for this opportunity that PipS gave me,” Eingold said. “The fellowship was a great way for me to break into the public interest arena. It’s exciting and varied work and you are a year ahead of your classmates in building your skill set, while beginning the process of having your loans forgiven. It’s been an invaluable experience for me.”

Publications Rose L. Hoffer Professor of Law Emerita J.D., New York University School of Law M.Sc., The London School of Economics and Political Science B.A., Bryn Mawr College The Affirmative Dimensions of Douglas' Privacy, in He Shall Not Pass This Way Again: The Legacy of Justice William O. Douglas (S. Wasby ed., University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990) Battered Women: Reflections on Feminist Theory and Feminist Practice, in Columbia University Seminars: Selected Papers and Proceedings, 1991-1992 (1992) Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking, excerpted in Social Justice: Professionals, Communities, and Law: Cases and Materials (M. Mahoney and others, West, 2000) Battered Women, Feminist Lawmaking, Privacy and Equality, in Women and the United States Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice (S. Schwarzenbach & P. Smith ed., Columbia University Press , 2003) Building Bridges Between Theory and Practice, Activism and Scholarship, 40 Cleveland State Law Review 493 (1993) The Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, 4 Journal of Law and Policy 427 (1996) Constitutional Perspectives on Sex Discrimination in Jury Selection," 2 Women's Rights and Representation 3 (1975) (with R. Copelon & N. Stearns) Contradiction and Revision: Progressive Feminist Legal Scholars Respond to Mary Joe Frug, 15 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 62 (1992) (with J. Greenberg and M. Minow) Contributor, The Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue (Avon Books, 1972) The Dangers of Summary Judgment: Gender and Federal Civil Litigation, 59 Rutgers Law Review 705 (2007) The Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Women’s Movement, 61 New York University Law Review 589 (1986) (reprinted in Women, Welfare and the State (L. Gordon ed. 1990); At the Boundaries of Law: Feminism and Legal Theory (M. Fineman ed. 1990); and Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and Gender (K. Bartlett and R. Kennedy eds. 1991) and Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations (D. Kelly Weisberg ed., 1993) Domestic Violence and the Law: Theory and Practice, 2009 Supplement, with Teacher's Manual (Foundation Press, 2nd ed., 2008) (with others) Domestic Violence, Citizenship and Equality, in Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship (J. L. Grossman and L. McClain, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2009) Domestic Violence, Citizenship and Equality in Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship (Cambridge 2012) Domestic Violence Law Reform in the Twenty-First Century: Looking Back and Looking Forward, 42 Family Law Quarterly 353 (2008) Introduction: The New Economy and the Social Safety Net, 69 Brooklyn Law Review 395 (2004) Engaging with the State about Domestic Violence: Continuing Dilemmas and Gender Equality, 1 Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law 173 (1999) Epilogue: Making Reconceptualization of Violence Against Women Real, 58 Albany Law Review 1245 (1995) Equal Rights to Trial for Women: Sex-Bias in the Law of Self-Defense, 15 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 623 (1980) Feminism and the False Dichotomy of Victimization and Agency, 38 New York Law School Law Review 387 (1993) (excerpted in American Philosophical Association Joint Newsletters on Feminism and Philosophy, and Philosophy and Law (1995)) Feminist Lawmaking and Historical Consciousness: Bringing the Past into the Future, 2 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and Law 1 (1994) Feminist Legal Theory, Feminist Lawmaking, and the Legal Profession, 67 Fordham Law Review 249 (1998) (with C. G. Bowman) Task Force Reports on Women in the Courts: The Challenge for Legal Education, 38 Journal of Legal Education 87 (1988) Foreword: Ed Sparer’s Legacy, 60 Brooklyn Law Review 1 (1994) Gender Bias, Cognition and Power in the Legal Academy, 65 Brooklyn Law Review 1125 (1999) Gendering and Engendering Process, 61 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1223 (1993) Grief, Procedure and Justice: The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, 53 DePaul Law Review 457 (2003) Hearing Women Not Being Heard: On Carol Gilligan’s Getting Civilized and the Complexity of Voice, 63 Fordham Law Review 33 (1994) The Incomplete Revolution: Remember the Ladies, Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin (Fall 1987) Integration of Professional Skills into the Law School Curriculum: Where We've Been and Where We're Going, 19 New Mexico Law Review 111 (1989) Introduction Fifteenth Anniversary of the Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellowship Program, 66 Brooklyn Law Review 147 (2000) Introduction, in Teach Your Students Well: Incorporating Domestic Violence into the Law School Curricula (American Bar Association, 2003) The Law and Violence Against Women in the Family at the Century's End: The American Experience, in Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the US and England (S. Katz and others, eds., Oxford University Press, 2001) Legal Reform Efforts for Battered Women: Past, Present and Future (Brooklyn Law School, 1990) Law School Clinical Programs and Academic Freedom, in Regulating the Intellectuals: Perspectives on Academic Freedom in the 1980's (C. Kaplan & E. Schrecker eds., Praeger, 1983) Lesbians, Gays and Feminists at the Bar: Translating Personal Experience into Effective Legal Argument - A Symposium, 10 Women's Rights Law Reports 107 (1988) Markets and Women’s International Human Rights, 25 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 141 (1999) Mary Joe Frug’s Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto Ten Years Later: Reflections on the State of Feminism Today, 36 England Law Review 1 (2001) (with R. Austin) Feminist Jurisprudence - The 1990 Myra Bradwell Day Panel, 1 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 6 (1991) (with others) Our Failures Only Marry: Bryn Mawr College and the Failure of Feminism, in Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness (V. Gomick & B. Moran eds., Basic Books, 1971) Particularity and Generality: Challenges of Feminist Theory and Practice in Work on Woman-Abuse, 67 New York University Law Review 520 (1992) Perspectives on Women’s Subordination and the Role of Law, in The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique (D. Kairys ed., Basic Books, 3d ed., 1998) (with N. Taub) Political Interference in Law School Clinical Programs: Reflections on Outside Interference and Academic Freedom, 11 Journal of College and University Law 179 (1984) A Postscript on VMI, 6 American University Journal of Gender and Law 59 (1997) Power, Law and Final Thoughts: The Contributions of Peter Bachrach, 43 (1) PS: Political Science and Politics 93 (January 2010) Procedure as Substance, 64 DePaul Law Review 669 (2015) Reflections on Reflections After Casey, in Reflections After Casey: Women Look at the Status of Reproductive Rights in America: Essays (Center for Constitutional Rights, ​1993) Representation of Women Who Defend Themselves in Response to Physical or Sexual Assault, 2 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 19 (1978) (reprinted in Women's Self-Defense Cases: Theory and Practice (1981); and as a monograph (​Center for Constitutional Rights, 1978)) (with S. Jordan) Resistance to Equality, 57 University of Pittsburg Law Review 477 (1996) (excerpted in Cases and Materials on Social Justice: Professionals, Communities, and Law (West, 2003)) Rethinking the Teaching of Civil Procedure, 37 Journal of Legal Education 41 (1987) Revisiting the Integration of Law and Fact in Contemporary Federal Civil Litigation, 15 Nevada Law Journal 1387 (2014-2015) Revisiting Trauma and Recovery, 36 Women's Studies Quarterly 269 (2008) Roundtable: Subversive Legal Moments?, 12 Texas Journal of Women & Law 197 (2003) (with others) Self-Defense Work for Battered Women, in Women and the Law (C. Lefcourt ed., Boardman, 1987) Sex, Trump, and Constitutional Change, 34 Constitutional Commentary 43 (2019) (with Helen Hershkoff) Speaking Volumes: Musings on the Issues of the Day, Inspired by the Memor of Mary Joe Frug, 12 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 660 (2003) (with R. Austin) Structuring Complexity, Disciplining Reality: The Challenge of Teaching Civil Procedure in a Time of Change, 59 Brooklyn Law Review 1191 (1993) Student Stories, 76 UMKC Law Review (2008) The Synergy of Equality and Privacy in Women’s Rights, 2002 University of Chicago Legal Forum 137 The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education: The Past and the Future, 80 UMKC Law Review 733 (2012) The Changing Shape of Federal Civil Pretrial Practice: The Disparate Impact on Civil Rights and Employment Discrimination Cases, 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 517 (2010) The Conundrums of Unsexing Parenting, 35 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Online (Feb. 6, 2012) The Development of Domestic Violence as a Field: Honoring Clare Dalton, 20 Journal of Law & Policy 343 (2012) (with C. Hanna) Afterword: The Perils and Pleasures of Activist Scholarship, 11 American University Journal of Gender Social Policy & Law 965 (2003) Introduction: The Promise of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, 4 Journal of Law and Policy 371 (1996) The She-Side of Equality: A View from the United States, in The She-Side of Equality (J. Goldschmidt ed., 1991) The Violence of Privacy, 23 Connecticut Law Review 973 (1991) (reprinted in The Public Nature of Private Violence (M. Fineman ed. 1994), Violence Against Women (1994), Feminist Legal Theory: Perspectives on Sex, Violence, Work and Reproduction (D. Kelly Weisberg ed. 1996); excerpted in Gender and Law (K. Bartlett 1993), and International Human Rights in Context (H. Steiner and P. Alston 1995)) Transnational Law as a Domestic Resource: Thoughts on the Case of Women’s Rights, 38 New England Law Review 689 (2004) Two Decades of Intermediate Scrutiny: Evaluating Equal Protection for Women Centennial Panel, 6 American University Journal of Gender and Law 1 (1997) Violence Against Women [panel], in Women’s Rights in Theory and Practice: Employment, Violence and Poverty (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2002) Violence Against Women and Legal Education: An Essay for Mary Joe Frug, 26 New England Law Review 843 (1992) What Happened to Public Education about Domestic Violence, in Postmortem: The O.J. Simpson Case: Justice Confronts Race, Domestic Violence, Lawyers, Money, and the Media (J. Abramson, ed., Basic Books, 1996) Why Feminist Legal Theory Still Needs Mary Joe Frug: Thoughts on Conflicts in Feminism, 51 New England Law Review 1 (2016) Women and the Constitution -- Looking Back: The First 200 Years, in Women and the Constitution: Past, Present and Future (American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations, 1988) Women and the Law Stories (Foundation Press, 2010) (with S.M. Wildman) Women's Self-Defense Work and the Problem of Expert Testimony on Battering, in Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook (J. Lobel ed., Clark Boardman Co., 1986) Summary Judgment Revisited: EEOC Amicus Briefs, Muldrow and Loper Bright, ___ American Journal of Law and Equity ___ (forthcoming 2025)