By Steve Cohen | November 16, 2023
The New York Law School dean and president reflects on his education and career, including where it overlapped, and offers advice to both current law students and those thinking of pursuing law school.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Alan M. Dershowitz | November 16, 2023
The thrust of the article is that the National Lawyers Guild, on the day after the Oct. 7 massacres and before Israel entered Gaza, praised the Hamas rapes, beheadings and kidnappings as entirely justified "military actions." I criticized the guild for its support of terrorism and its insensitivity toward the Israeli victims, Alan M. Dershowitz writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph W. Bellacosa | November 16, 2023
The better policy of wait-and-see, with diligent continuing deliberations among the permanent members, is a virtue well worth practicing because it affords the opportunity to pursue common-ground solutions inter sese for the decisions where recusals or absences occur, and the few where a vouch-in is unavoidably needed.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By A. Gail Prudenti | November 16, 2023
In this season of gratitude, it's appropriate to recall the "four freedoms"—freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear and freedom from want—articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the threshold of World War II and illustrated so memorably in Norman Rockwell's iconic renditions.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen and Richard Emery | November 13, 2023
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik's ethics complaint against the judge presiding over Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in Manhattan is an attempt to undermine the court process by making a further public spectacle of their largely silly allegations, former members of the board for New York's judicial watchdog write.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Roger Bennet Adler | November 11, 2023
The Court of Appeals should refrain from both usurping the constitution—and the will of the voters who approved New York's initiative to curb partisan political gerrymandering, a Law Journal columnist writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary|Letter to the Editor
By Alan M. Dershowitz | November 10, 2023
Law firms that hire such supporters of Hamas barbarism have an ethical obligation to disclose the decision they have made to their clients, and to not assign such lawyers to any client without getting their informed consent, writes Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Bennett L. Gershman | November 9, 2023
Trump's performance in Monday's segment was a disaster for Trump, his family, and his business empire. Trump acknowledged again and again that he was the central player in the scheme to inflate the value of his properties to get loans from banks.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Sol Wachtler | November 8, 2023
Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on Israel were "acts of unalloyed hatred of Jews"—the inhumane acts of anti-Semitic terrorists reminiscent of the Einsatsgruppen, Nazi mobile killing units which marched behind the Wehrmacht in World War II to conduct the murder and rape of over a million unarmed civilians, mostly Jews.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph W. Bellacosa | November 1, 2023
Early in Law Journal columnist Joseph Bellacosa's tenure at the New York Court of Appeals, a destabilizing financial meltdown was brewing back in the Big Apple. Hugh Carey was sworn in as governor was sworn in that year and he took leadership to get the state legislature to pass emergency temporary relief—a moratorium on the payment of New York City's short-term obligations of approximately $5 billion.
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