Event Invitations 2022

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  FTX and the Future of Crypto

  Heyman Center on Corporate Governance

  Join cryptocurrency and blockchain expert Aaron Wright, bankruptcy attorney Allen Kadish, securities regulation and fintech expert Professor Yuliya Guseva, and white collar crime expert Professor Andrew Jennings for a lively online conversation moderated by Cardozo Professor Matthew Wansley. We'll dive into cryptocurrency exchanges, the issues faced by FTX, why it collapsed, how bankruptcy will play out, and whether its executives face any legal liability.

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  Lawyers on the Edge: What Happened to Rudy Giuliani?

  Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law

  Please join The Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law for the second in their series of book talks, Lawyers on the Edge, with Andrew Kirtzman, author of Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor.

  Andrew Kirtzman, journalist and author, has been following the career of Rudy Giuliani since the 1990s. His new biography traces Giuliani from the beginning of his rise to his role as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.

  Professor Jessica Roth, Co-Director of the Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law, will lead a discussion with Kirtzman about his book. This is the second in a series of book talks exploring the circumstances that led certain lawyers to choose their controversial clients and to examine how easy or difficult it would have been for them to back away from the edge.

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  Negotiation Strategies for War by Other Means

  Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

  The symposium will explore the changing landscape of international conflicts and the role that dispute resolution can play in strengthening capacity to respond effectively. The keynote address will be given by Anne Leslie, who leads the Cloud Risk and Controls Europe division at IBM, as well as IBM’s Cloud for Financial Services.

  The program will consist of three panels featuring academics and practitioners in the fields of dispute resolution and cyber security who will discuss: the history of hybrid warfare and the way it unfolds in the real world; the various ways negotiation theory applies and how it can address threats of hybrid warfare; the future of these novel conflicts; and the ways the public and private sectors can respond to and prevent them.

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  SCOTUS on Immigration: A Review of Recent Decisions & What's To Come

  Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice

  Please join the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice for a panel discussion with seven immigration attorneys. The discussion will cover recent SCOTUS decisions impacting immigration, the impacts of these decisions and important cases on the docket for this upcoming session.

  Moderator: Mauricio Noroña, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law in the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, Cardozo Law

  Panelists:

  • Peter Markowitz, Associate Dean of Equity in Curriculum and Teaching and Professor of Law, Founding Faculty Member and Co-Director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, Cardozo Law

  • Lindsay Nash, Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, Cardozo Law

  • Angelo Guisado, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights

  • Victoria Jeon, Staff Attorney at UnLocal, Inc. and Equal Justice Works Fellow

  • Julie Dona, Supervising Attorney at The Legal Aid Society, Immigration Law Unit

  • Claudine-Annick Murphy, Staff Attorney at The Legal Aid Society, Immigration Law Unit Youth Project

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  A Conversation With Dahlia Lithwick

  Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy

  The Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy invites you to join us for a conversation with New York Times bestselling author and Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick to discuss her book, Lady Justice. Cardozo Professor Kate Shaw will moderate.

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  Intro to Sports Law with Hogan Lovells

  Cardozo Sports Law Society and Cardozo FAME Center

  Learn from experienced attorneys at Hogan Lovells about different legal paths relating to sports and how to combine passion with Big Law.

  Speakers include:

  • Michael J. Kuh, Partner, Corporate & Finance
  • Jimmy McEntee, Associate, Arbitration and Employment
  • Danielle Litwak, Associate, Corporate & Finance
  • C.J. Harrinton, Sports and M&A Associate

  Opening remarks by: Matthew E. Eisler, Partner and Global Head of Sports

  Moderated by: Dean Rosenberg, President of the Cardozo Sports Law Society

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  Intersectionality in International Criminal Law Symposium

  Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

  The Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review hosted a virtual symposium on intersectionality and how international criminal law can account for structural drivers of violence. Through critically questioning discriminatory systems and applications of the law, this symposium analyzes how the Rome Statute governs international criminal law, as exemplified by the International Criminal Court's rulings on enslavement.

  This symposium features Alexandra Lily Kather, International Criminal Lawyer and Co-Founder of Emergent Justice Collective; Nick Leddy, Head of Litigation at Legal Action Worldwide; Priya Gopalan, International Criminal Lawyer and Member of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; moderated by Ramya Kudekallu, Telford Taylor Human Rights Teaching Fellow of Clinical Law, and Chairperson of the New York City Bar International Human Rights Committee.

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  Labor Law: Sports, Starbucks, Amazon and Recent Union Activity from a Historical Perspective

  Cardozo Labor and Employment Law Society, Cardozo Business Law Society, Cardozo Sports Law Society, and Cardozo FAME Center

  Where are we in labor law and how did we get here? Why is labor relations so litigious in sports? What is contributing to the uptick in unionization efforts at Starbucks and Amazon, among others? Join us to hear our distinguished panel discuss current developments and labor law disputes from a historical perspective.

  Panelists include National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Member Gwynne A. Wilcox, Professor of Practice David J. Weisenfeld, and Former Adjunct Professor Dan Silverman, who held various positions at the NLRB including Regional Director in Manhattan and Acting General Counsel. Professor David Rudenstine will moderate the conversation.

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  Heyman Center Book Talk: Going Public

  Heyman Center on Corporate Governance

  Join us for a lively discussion with Dakin Campbell, author of Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street’s Grip on the IPO and Sparked a Revolution and Megan Baier, partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, moderated by Rachel Landy, Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Heyman Center at Cardozo Law School.

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  Why Florida Copied Its ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill From Hungary & What It Means for Democracy in the United States

  Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy

  On the eve of mid-term elections in which polls find large majorities of Americans worried about the future of U.S. democracy, scholars and journalists are tracking growing interest here in the successful path of autocratic leaders abroad. Do once-democratic countries like Hungary offer American populists a meaningful roadmap for reforming the structures of U.S. democratic governance and constitutional law?

  Moderator: Deborah Pearlstein, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy

  Panelists:

  • Zack Beauchamp, Senior Correspondent, Vox
  • Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University
  • Michel Rosenfeld, Professor of Law and Comparative Democracy, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights, Director of the Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory, Cardozo Law
  • Dmytro Vovk, Visiting Professor, Cardozo Law

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  Cardozo Launches the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice

  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

  The Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law will be comprised of two components:

  The Perlmutter Forensic Science Educational Program, an ambitious legal education program in scientific evidence for practicing attorneys.

  The Perlmutter Freedom Clinic, seeking justice for the unjustly incarcerated, will fight wrongful convictions based on the misuse of scientific evidence and work to obtain clemency for individuals that have been unjustly incarcerated.

  The Center will be led by prominent civil rights attorney and criminal justice reform advocate Josh Dubin, who will serve as Executive Director. The Deputy Director will be Derrick Hamilton, a formerly incarcerated individual who studied law in prison and won his own exoneration after serving a 21-year sentence. Mr. Hamilton went on to lead the effort to exonerate five wrongfully incarcerated inmates.

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  Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding the LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters, Ferkauf Professors Kailey Roberts and Jennifer Cooper

  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

  Kailey Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology specializing in bereavement and existential psychotherapy. Roberts' research and teaching focuses on understanding existential distress and supporting individuals facing adversity through connection to their unique sense of meaning, identity and purpose. Jennifer Cooper, is an Assistant Professor at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. Cooper’s research agenda is focused on preventing and treating youth mental, emotional and behavioral issues through improving the use of multi-tier frameworks and culturally responsive evidence-based practices in schools. They will discuss "Cultivating Psychosocial Wellbeing in LGBTQIA+ Individuals and Communities."

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  Weekly Pop-Up Class: LGBTQ Rights and the Crisis of Democracy, Deborah Pearlstein

  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

  Deborah Pearlstein is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Pearlstein has repeatedly testified before Congress on topics from war powers to executive branch oversight. Her work on the U.S. Constitution, international law, and national security has appeared widely in law journals and the popular press.

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  Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding the LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters, Kate Shaw

  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

  Cardozo Professor Kate Shaw is the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. Before joining Cardozo, she worked in the White House Counsel’s Office as a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President. She clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

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  Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding the LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters, Rachel B. Tiven

  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

  Rachel Tiven will discuss "A History of U.S. Immigration Exclusion." Tiven is a civil rights leader turned historian. As the head of national non-profits Lambda Legal, Immigration Equality, and Immigrant Justice Corps, Tiven fought for equality for immigrants and LGBTQ/HIV+ people. Tiven has been recognized for her work by the Advocate magazine, New York County Lawyers Association and United We Dream.

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  Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding the LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters, Dmytro Vovk

  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

  Dmytro Vovk, Cardozo Visiting Associate Professor will cover Religious Freedom and LGBTQ+ Rights: The European Court of Human Right's Perspective.

  Dmytro Vovk runs the Center for Rule of Law and Religion Studies at Yaroslav the Wise National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He was an expert on human rights and rule of law for USAID, OSCE/ODIHR, Council of Europe and Constitutional Commission of Ukraine.

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  Weekly Pop-Up Class: Understanding the LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Movement And Why It Matters: Professor Edward Stein

  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

  The first class will cover the evolution of LGBTQ+ family law in the United States and will be presented by LGBTQ+ legal expert and Cardozo Professor and former Vice Dean Edward Stein, author of The Mismeasure of Desire, The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation and other scholarly works on sexual identity and the law.