New Professors Reenergize Intellectual Property Program

This year, Cardozo Law welcomed two high-profile professors into its Intellectual Property and Information Law Program. Susan Crawford, who began her academic career at Cardozo, returns to the Law School from the University of Michigan. Brett Frischmann comes to Cardozo

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Pair of Students Participate in Paris Mediation Competition

From February 4th to the 9th, Dov Gibor, 3L, and Dan Liston, 2L, represented Cardozo at the 6th Annual International Chamber of Commerce Mediation Representation Competition (ICC) in Paris, France. The team progressed to the quarterfinals to earn the distinction

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Heyman Center Sends Student to Hong Kong for Securities Externship

During the summer of 2010, The Heyman Center gave me an opportunity to work at the Enforcement Division of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). It was a unique and rewarding experience in the field of regulation because,

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Curve Carefully Considered and Reconsidered

At the end of every semester, after waiting for what seems like years, students get their grades back. Part of the reason that professors are allotted up to four weeks to report exam grades is so they have ample time

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Online Revolution Sparks True Revolution in the Middle East

 
“If you want to liberate a society, just give them the internet,” opined Wael Ghonim, one of the protest leaders of the recent Egyptian Revolution. Ghonim also told CNN that “the revolution started on Facebook.”
Could it be that the same

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Help Shift the Balance of Power: Back Unions

For years, workers around the world have been exploited but were too scared to do something about it. Finally, these workers have gotten so fed up with their terrible working conditions that they no longer will keep quiet.
In the U.S.,

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Jurist Staffer Interviews Dean Diller

Matthew Diller, who was named Dean in 2009, was a professor of law and associate dean for academic affairs at Fordham Law School and an attorney for the Legal Aid Society in New York before coming to Cardozo. He recently

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ITAP Provides Practical Experience for Students Over Winter Break

While most Cardozo students were enjoying their break and celebrating the New Year, 134 students were busy at school participating in the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (“ITAP”). A group of Cardozo Professors, led by Ellen Yaroshefsky, Peter Walsh, Barry Scheck,

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Cardozo’s Conspicuous Printing System: Friend or Foe?

If you’re interested in seeing law students at their most agitated, frustrated, and about-to-have-a-meltdown moment, spend some time near the library printers around finals. The scenes emanating from the seventh floor are like Greek theatre, replete with sprinkles of tragedy

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Fights Hunger and Funds Charity

As part of Cardozo’s 2011 Public Law Advocacy Week (P-Law) students Jeremy Davidson, 2L, and Rachel Jacobs, 1L, co-directed an event that provides food to local homeless shelters while raising money for charity. The event, a culmination of two separate

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