Faculty News
New York Law School’s faculty members produce influential and timely scholarship that advances legal education and breaks new ground.
Selected works from Spring 2024 are below:
Appointments, Awards, and Recognition
- Associate Dean for Upper Level Writing Heidi K. Brown was appointed to the International Bar Association's International Advisory Board on Well-Being in Legal Education.
- Dean and President Anthony W. Crowell has been named to City & State New York’s 2024 “Trailblazers in Higher Education” list and to the 2024 “Above and Beyond: Pride” list.
- Professor from Practice Shahrokh Falati ’08 has joined the Transactions Committee of the AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education.
- With New York Law School named a new co-host for the Journal of Legal Education (JLE) published by the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Dean of Faculty and the Rita and Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts, and Estates William P. LaPiana and Wallace Stevens Professor Kris Franklin will lead the School’s editorial team.
- Associate Professor Molly Guptill Manning was invited to be a Writer-In-Residence at the historic Ernest and Mary Hemingway House in Ketchum, Idaho.
- Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor Rebecca Roiphe was appointed to the NYC Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. She was also named a 2024 Trailblazer in Law by City & State New York.
- Professor Andrew Scherer was presented a Tenant Power Award by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition for his leadership and dedication to fighting for the Right to Counsel in New York City and beyond.
Books and Chapters
- Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law Ruti G. Teitel co-authored “Transitional Justice and Human Rights,” a chapter in The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2024)
- Associate Professor Britney Wilson was interviewed for “Hierarchies of Bodies and Mind: Disability and Race,” a chapter in Be A Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too (HarperOne 2024), and her commentary leads the chapter subsection “What Is Disability in Communities of Color?”
Law Reviews, Journals, and Articles
- Wallace Stevens Professor Kris Franklin co-authored “Attentive Reading: A South African Example of Law in Context” in Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy.
- Trustee Professor of Law Gerald Korngold authored “Repealing Single-Family Zoning is Not Enough: A Proposal For Removing Existing Parallel Private Covenants For Violating Public Policy” in the Missouri Law Review.
- Dean of Faculty and the Rita and Joseph Solomon Professor of Wills, Trusts, and Estates William P. LaPiana authored “The Future of Wills in New York” in the New York Law Journal.
- Professor Richard D. Marsico authored “A New Hope: Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools Opens the Courthouse Doors to Children with Disabilities” in the Belmont Law Review.
- Professor of Law from Practice Michael Pastor authored “How Artificial Intelligence Can Be Properly Used by In-House Counsel” in the New York Law Journal.
- Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor Rebecca Roiphe authored “I Was an Attorney at the D.A.’s Office. This Is What the Trump Case Is Really About.” in The New York Times.
- Associate Professor Britney Wilson authored “Predisposed: Race, Disability, and Death Investigations,” forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review.
News and Media
- Professor Kirk D. Burkhalter ’04 appeared on local and national news outlets, including CBS, Fox, the Texas Tribune, and the Washington Post to discuss breaking news on policing, gun violence, and legal issues. He provided his expertise on topics including the recent grand jury investigating the police response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and the trial charging the parents of the Oxford High School shooter in Michigan.
- Professor Anna G. Cominsky ’05 was a featured expert on national and international news organizations, including BBC News, PBS, the CBC News Network Canada, Mainichi, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. She gave legal analysis and context on a number of breaking news topics such as updates on the New York trial against former President Trump.
- As a CBS News legal analyst, Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor Rebecca Roiphe regularly appeared on national television to analyze breaking legal and political news, including updates on the cases against former President Trump, the ethics hearing against District Attorney Fani Willis, and the corruption case against U.S. Senator Robert Menendez. She is a widely sought-after legal expert for her scholarship in criminal law, ethics, and legal history in addition to her experience as a former Manhattan prosecutor, and she has also been featured on and quoted by numerous other national outlets, including MSNBC, the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.
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