Leap 2022 Symposium The Identity Capitalists past Nancy Leong

In this groundbreaking volume, Nancy Leong coins the term "identity capitalist" to label the powerful insiders who eke out social and economic value from people of colour, women, LGBTQ people, the poor, and other outgroups. Leong deftly uncovers the rules that govern a organisation in which all Americans must survive: the identity market.

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Prisoners of Politics

Prisoners of Politics

Featuring Vice Dean and Charles Seligson Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, Rachel Barkow and her book, Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Wheel of Mass Incarceration (Harvard/Belknap 2019). Professor Barkow besides serves equally the Faculty Director of the Middle on the Administration of Criminal Constabulary at NYU. From 2013-2019, she served as a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission. Since 2010, she has also been a member of the Manhattan District Attorney's Role Conviction Integrity Policy Informational Panel.

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The Color of Creatorship with Anjali Vats

The Color of Creatorship with Anjali Vats

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"The Color of Creatorship contributes to a rapidly-developing conversation in critical race intellectual property. Vats argues that once anti-racist activists grapple with the underlying racial structures of intellectual property constabulary, they tin ameliorate advocate for strategies that resist the underlying drivers of racially disparate copyright, patent, and trademark policy." — Publisher, Stanford University Press

The New England Law Review hosted a round-table discussion based upon the arguments set up forth past Anjali Vats in her peer-reviewed book, The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans.

In The Color of Creatorship, Vats argues that intellectual property formation in the United states reflects and shapes racial formation. The book explores copyright, trademark, and patent discourses and argues that it is interwoven together, operating to form American ethics about race.

The Bound Symposium hosted a round-tabular array discussion featuring Professor Anjali Vats, Dean Deidré Keller, and Professor Janewa Osei-Tutu.

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Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System with Alec Karakatsanis
Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It)

Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Human action Like It)

The New England Law Review hosted a symposium regarding Boston College Professor Kent Greenfield's book Corporations Are People Likewise (And They Should Act Like It). The panelists discussed the function of corporations in American society and their claims to ramble rights. In his book, Professor Greenfield suggests that catastrophe corporate personhood is non the solution since it is consistent with the purpose of corporations and the Consitution itself that corporations can claim rights at to the lowest degree some of the time.

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Courts and Informal Constitutional Change in the States

Courts and Breezy Constitutional Change in u.s.a.

The New England Law Review hosted a symposium regarding state constitutions and how their informal and formal amendments interact. The panelists discussed the findings of Professor Jonathan L. Marshfield in his forthcoming article entitled Courts and Breezy Ramble Change in u.s.a. set to be published in Volume 51, Outcome three of the New England Police force Review.

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The Kickoff Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi Threaten a Free Press

The New England Police Review spring book symposium was held on Feb 11th at New England Law | Boston. It showcased Professor Amy Gajda's book The First Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi Threaten a Gratis Press. Her book explores judicial oversight of journalism news judgment. She discussed how the expansion of adequate news content has shifted courts' focus from the Starting time Subpoena to individual privacy—a shift that curtails mainstream journalists' press freedoms. Both Professor Calvert equally well as Professor West responded.

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Sexual Violence in the U.Southward. Military: Discipline, Justice, and Control

The New England Law Review fall paper symposium was held on October 8th at New England Law | Boston. It showcased Professor Rachel VanLandingham's article "Discipline, Justice, and Command in the U.S. Military: Maximizing Strengths and Minimizing Weaknesses in a Special Society." She discussed why military commanders should exist removed from the prosecutorial concatenation, as this position constitutes an unethical do of law, and farther discussed the collateral consequences of such a removal.

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What Stays in Vegas

The New England Constabulary Review bound book symposium was held on February 25th at New England Police 50 Boston. It showcased Adam Tanner's book "What Stays in Vegas: The Globe of Personal Data-Lifeblood of Large-Concern – and the Terminate of Privacy as We Know Information technology." The book explores how American companies are threatening our privacy and gathering personal data without oversight.

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Educational Ambivalence: The Story of the Academic Doctorate in Law

The New England Law Review fall newspaper symposium was held on November 5th at New England Law 50 Boston. It showcased Professor Gail Hupper'south article "Educational Ambiguity: The Rise of a Foreign-Student Doctorate in Police force." Professor Hupper is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law Schoolhouse and her article explores the development of the J.S.D. and Southward.J.D. programs. Although originally designed for graduates of U.s. law schools, these programs are now primarily intended for students who obtained their initial legal instruction outside of the United States.

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A Look Back at the History of Capital Punishment

A Look Back at the History of Capital punishment

The New England Law Review's 2014 Book Symposium, "A Look Dorsum at the History of Capital punishment," spotlighted the New York Times reviewed A Wild Justice: The Expiry and Resurrection of Death sentence in America past Professor Evan J. Mandery. A Wild Justiceanalyzes the implications of Furman 5. Georgia and gives an in-depth, behind-the-scenes view of this historic moment in U.S. legal history.

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Benchmarks: Evaluating Measurements of Judicial Productivity

The New England Constabulary Review's 2013 symposium was inspired by an commodity by Judge William Young of the Us Commune Court for the District of Massachusetts and New England Law Professor Jordan Singer, which proposes "demote presence"—the number of hours a trial judge spends adjudicating issues in the open up courtroom—as a critical component of a trial courtroom's overall productivity. These manufactures served as a springboard to a broader discussion on the propriety and mechanics of evaluating both courts as institutions and individual judges as public servants.

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Redefining Theft In the Information Age

Redefining Theft In the Information Age

On Mon, March 18, 2013, The New England Police force Review hosted a discussion of Professor Stuart P. Green's volume, thirteen Means to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Historic period. In 13 Ways to Steal a Bike, Professor Greenish assessed our current legal framework in the context of an economy that increasingly commodifies intangibles and at a time when the means of committing theft and fraud grow ever more sophisticated.

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Crisis in the Judiciary

Crisis in the Judiciary

State court systems in America are facing deep challenges. Many civil and criminal matters remain idle for years before a judicial resolution is reached. Budgets are strained, impacting the administration of justice. In the face of this crisis, the New England Constabulary Review sought to provide a forum in which to consider these issues and highlight viable solutions, with input from experts from various sectors of the legal customs.

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Wrongful Conviction and the Judiciary

Wrongful Conviction and the Judiciary

Professor Brandon Fifty. Garrett discussed his book, Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Become Wrong, which analyzes the first 250 criminal convictions overturned on the basis of Dna evidence. Professor Garrett was joined by the Honorable Robert J. Cordy and the Honorable Nancy Gertner, who discussed the judiciary's function in responding to the critical problem that wrongful conviction poses to our criminal justice system. Gretchen Bennett, executive managing director of the New England Innocence Projection, discussed the Massachusetts General Court's contempo passage of SB 1987, which guarantees defendants post-conviction access to forensic and scientific assay.

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On The Table: An Examination of Medical Malpractice, Litigation, and Methods of Reform

On The Tabular array: An Test of Medical Malpractice, Litigation, and Methods of Reform

On Oct 20, 2011, the New England Law Review hosted its annual symposium entitled "On the Table: An Exam of Medical Malpractice, Litigation, and Methods of Reform." The 2011 symposium featured speakers from beyond the country discussing the crunch of healthcare costs and ideas for how to reduce the high occurrence of medical error. Additionally, the panelists examined innovative ideas for redressing plaintiffs' injuries after negligent medical errors occur.

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The Law of American State Constitutions

The Police of American State Constitutions

On March 10, 2011, the New England Police force Review hosted a lecture with Professor Robert F. Williams of Rutgers School of Law | Camden. Professor Williams is a renowned scholar in the area of state constitutional police force and is the acquaintance director of the Eye for Land Constitutional Studies at Rutgers. He joined the students and audience at NEL|B to talk over his publication, The Law of American State Constitutions.

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