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The Media Center of New York Law School has posted video of its recent Conference on Broadband in a Post-Stimulus Environment here. A transcript of papers will be available in Media Law & Policy this spring; papers will be posted...

... , advanced out of the New York regional in the ABA's National Appellate Advocacy Competition. A team from New England School of Law won the region's Best Brief Award. The Texas Wesleyan team tied with a team from Thomas Jefferson School of Law for second-best brief. Rounding out the top five briefs were submissions from Loyola's team 44 and New York Law School. Benjamin Dzivak of Texas Westleyan was honored as the region's Best Oral Advocate. He was following in ...

... speakers who will discuss the public policy issues raised by the proposed settlement and its long-term implications for publishing and for copyright law, including "a series of tutorial sessions that will explain the provisions of the proposed settlement and their associated legal issues in detail." The New York Law School Law Review will also publish a volume of essays from the panelists at the conference. Here is a press release from New York ...

... . Dahlia Lithwick, Supreme Court reporter, Slate. Brandt Goldstein (Moderator), Visiting Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School. This panel certainly engages an interesting topic--the difficulties of translating legal discourse for a non- ... 's criticism of legal journalism--that it focuses too much on the sympathetic character and doesn't disentangle the law from the story. The discussion then turns to the presumption of innocence. Jamie Heller says it is very difficult for defendants to ...

... wife, mother, colleague and friend -- she was not yet 45 -- is heart-breaking. Pam was a great find for New York Law School, materializing magically at a moment when we were eagerly seeking to add a full-time faculty member specializing ... to the store of human knowledge and to the advance of human progress, and now her contribution to that ongoing development of the law is stilled,a lthough one suspects that her published writings will continue to make a contribution by sparking further work and ...

... the core analytical skills needed to be successful with large, complicated litigation. Although New York Law School in Manhattan is one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States, it's also one of the most innovative. ... , lawyers use technology in every area of practice. Familiarity with the basics is essential for the well-trained lawyer and for the law student who wants a "leg up" in the marketplace. Lawyers practicing in fields that relate to technology directly, such as ...

Professor Michael Perlin of the New York Law School sent along this interesting report on an expanding innovation at his institution: This fall, New York Law School will be offering four courses from the nine-course array of its online, distance...

Jenifer Amore and Shawn Fabian of New York Law School won the 55th Annual Sutherland Cup Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law. Shawn Fabian of NYLS was named the tournament's best oralist. The Sutherland Cup tournament is, according to its organizers, the oldest national moot court competition in the United States. NYLS's account is here.

Dan Hunter (intellectual property, Cyberlaw) at the University of Melbourne Law School has accepted a tenured offer from New York Law School, where he has been visiting.

Karen B. Brown (George Washington) delivers the inaugural Otto Walter Distinguished Chair International Tax Law Lecture at New York Law School today on Can Cross-Border Distribution Serve the Caribbean Region?: What should be the goals of US and OECD tax...