Five civil rights attorneys will be speaking about their law school experiences, careers, and civil
rights cases, with questions and networking to follow.

Panelists include:

- Sunu Chandy, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

- Alina Das (NYU '05), NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic

- Matthew Faiella, New York Civil Liberties Union

- Caryn Lederer, Special Litigation Unit, New York Legal Assistance Group

- Ben Wizner, American Civil Liberties Union

Collectively, these attorneys have experience litigating civil rights cases involving immigrant
rights; federal antidiscrimination law; disability; national security; lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) issues; police surveillance and other civil liberties; and constitutional law.

Please join us to hear about civil rights as a career, to network in preparation for the summer job
search, to meet other students interested in civil rights, and to enjoy free lunch!

Co-sponsored by CoLR and SALSA.

Living Up to Our Constitution
A Living Constitution Lecture with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Moderated by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor-in-Chief, The Nation

Friday, November 20, 2009
Reception 5:30pm, featuring the cuisine and libations of Rhode Island
Program: 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Floor
Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street

Space is limited.
Please call (212) 992-8647 to reserve seats.
The Brennan Center for Justice Living Constitution Project brings together thinkers and policymakers to further understanding of the Constitution and its role in a changing world.

More information at the Brennan Center Web site.

Foreign-trained LL.M. candidates are encouraged to join this panel discussion on the LL.M. job search. The panel will feature LL.M. graduates who have become partner in New York City law firms, or who have started their own practice here in New York, as well as US practitioners with international practices who will discuss global career options for foreign-trained students. Gain advice for the job search and learn tips for interviewing and networking to help you prepare for the search ahead. This panel will be videotaped for those unable to attend. We know that there is a class beginning at 6:00 p.m., and we will allow students in that class to leave a few minutes early to get to class.

Important Reminders for Fall OCI:
Please remember to enter your class schedule upon bidding in order to avoid being scheduled for an interview during this time. In addition, please note that the deadline to cancel a scheduled interview is 12:00 midnight the Wednesday prior to the employer’s scheduled visit to campus. Cancellations will only be accepted due to an emergency or an extenuating circumstance after that time.

Open Sign-Up for Week 7 of Fall OCI will begin at 12:00 noon on Thursday, November 12, and will close at 12:00 noon one day prior to the employer’s interview date. Students may sign-up for any open slot with an employer, as long as they meet the employer’s degree and/or specialty requirements. Open Sign-Up is conducted in real-time through CSM and is not a lottery. To sign up for an interview via Open Sign-up, simply click on an available date and choose a time slot. *Please note: If you are already logged in to CSM prior to the opening of this module, you must LOG OUT and log back in to view all available Open Sign-up slots. The “refresh” button will not function if you logged in before 12:00 noon.

Please feel free to contact Rebecca Linden, Associate Director, Recruitment & Marketing, with any questions at rebecca.linden@nyu.edu.

The Hauser Global Law School Program and the Office of Graduate Affairs invite you to a brown bag lunch discussion with Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the Moscow-based NGO SOVA Center.  Russian society has experienced widespread intolerance and a sharp rise in the incidence of violent hate crime in recent years. Mr. Verkhovsky, a leading Russian human rights activist, will discuss his organization’s efforts to monitor the surge in neo-Nazi violence, the inadequate government response to it, as well as the possibilities for progress on these issues.

Alexander Verkhovsky is the Director of the Moscow-based SOVA Center for Information and Research, the leading Russian NGO monitoring hate crimes in the Russia.  Since 2004, the SOVA Center has engaged in monitoring, research and advocacy work on the subjects of extreme nationalism, hate crimes, hate speech as well as on the government response to these problems.  The SOVA Center publishes daily bulletins and quarterly and annual reports. Alexander is the author and co-author of a number of books on extremism, nationalism and xenophobia in contemporary Russia and is a regular commentator in the Russian press on these issues.

Paul LeGendre, Director of the Fighting Discrimination Program of Human Rights First will put Russia’s hate crimes into an international human rights context and will discuss how the U.S. can use the “reset” in bilateral relations to improve mechanisms for combating hate crime in Russia.

Mary Holland, Director of NYU’s Graduate Legal Skills Program, will moderate.

2Ls:
Employers offering positions for the following summer to candidates not previously employed by them should leave those offers open for at least 45 days following the date of the offer letter.
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3Ls:
Employers offering full-time positions to commence following graduation to candidates previously employed by them should leave those offers open until at least November 15 of the candidate’s final year of law school. Candidates should reaffirm these offers within thirty days from the date of the offer letter. Employers may retract any offer that is not reaffirmed within the 30 day period.

Important information for NYU School of Law Students
• NYU students holding more than 2 offers for summer employment should make an appointment to speak with an OCS counselor.
• As students receive callbacks and offers, they should update the fall recruiting survey on Survey Monkey (using the link sent via email)
• Drop in appointments are available to discuss any career concerns: M-F 2:00-4:00pm

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
12.45 to 1.50 pm
Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall Ninth Floor

Panelists
Mr. Jarrett Barrios, President of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Dr. Charles Silverstein, Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry, NYU College of Medicine
Dr. Christine Smith, Principal of Deloitte and Board Member of Out & Equal

We have some very exciting practitioners lined up to discuss important issues for women in the private sector, how to approach/deal with them, as well as initiatives firms are taking to address some of those issues. This is also a great opportunity to ask questions you may have about firm life and to meet several highly successful women in private practice. Our panel includes:

Julie Allen (Partner, Proskauer Rose)
Julia Engel (Associate, Greenberg Traurig)
Sharon Katz (Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell)
Laura Norman (Partner, Greenberg Traurig)
Valerie Radwaner (Partner, Paul Weiss)
Carrie Reilly (Associate, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz)

This promises to be a great event, and there will be free pizza and soda to prove it!

Please RSVP to NYULawWomen@gmail.com to make sure you have a seat.

Valid NYU ID Required

All submissions should be on a legal topic, and be between three and nine thousand words in length. Submissions are also welcome in Irish, French and German. Book reviews and case notes will also be considered. The closing date for submissions is the: 19th December 2009.

All interested parties should submit their articles and enquires to: editor@corkonlinelawreview.com

Join more than 50 leading communications professionals for a full day of education, career advice, and networking as they address innovation, the evolving world of communications, and the unfolding opportunities for the next generation.

For more information, please click here.

You’ve made it through the Socratic method, mandatory classes, outlining, and first-year finals. Now what? Come hear panelists discuss the ways in which you can continue to develop your skills and make yourself marketable. Panelists will cover topics such as important classes to take, the Bar Exam and the Multistate Professional Responsibility Test, internships, externships, clinics, study abroad programs, and Bar Association membership. A reception will follow and light refreshments will be served.

For more information regarding the event, please click here.

An expert panel discussion, open to all NYU Faculty, Staff, and Students, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 5-6:30 p.m. , in the Kimmel Center, Room 914.

Panelists:

Carol Shoshkes Reiss, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, NYU

Martin J. Blaser, M.D., Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine, Chair, Department of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center

Carlo Ciotoli, M.D., Deputy Executive Director and Medical Director, NYU Student Health Center

Fall Ball 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Vanderbilt Hall

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Time: 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: 245 Sullivan Street, Furman Hall, Room 212
Topic: Broken Promises of Privacy: The Limits of Anonymization and the Power of Reidentification

Abstract: Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information like names and social security numbers. These scientists have demonstrated they can often ‘reidentify’ or ‘deanonymize’ individuals hidden in anonymized data with astonishing ease. By understanding this research, we will realize we have made a mistake, labored beneath a fundamental misunderstanding, which has assured us much less privacy than we have assumed. This mistake pervades nearly every information privacy law, regulation, and debate, yet regulators and legal scholars have paid it scant attention. We must respond to the surprising failure of anonymization, and this Article provides the tools to do so.

For more information about this Colloquium and the Information Law Institute, please visit: http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili/colloquia/fall2009/index.htm

 John Suydam ’85, the General Counsel & Chief Administrative & Compliance Officer of Apollo Management, L.P. will be the Dean’s guest on Thursday, October 22.  From 2002-06, John was a partner at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he served as head of Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and co-head of the Corporate Department.  Prior to that, he served as chairman of the law firm O’Sullivan, LLP (formerly, O’Sullivan, Grave & Karabell,) which specialized in representing private equity investors. 

 He also serves on the board of directors of the Private Equity Council and the Big Apple Circus and is a Trustee of St. Agnes Cathedral Parish in Rockville Centre, NY. 

 John earned a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1985, and he graduated magna cum laude with a BA in History from the State University of New York at Albany.

 The dean’s roundtables are open to 18 interested NYU School of Law J.D. and graduate students. In order to achieve a representational mix of students, we will designate a proportionate number of seats to J.D. students and graduate students, respectively, to be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. The roundtables will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Snow Dining Room, on the fourth floor of Vanderbilt Hall. Lunch will be served. If you would like to attend a roundtable, please sign up in advance by calling Barry Dorsey at (212) 998-6004 or by emailing her at barry.dorsey@nyu.edu. Please indicate whether you are a J.D. or graduate student, and whether you have any dietary restrictions.

Fordham Law School, Lincoln Center, Room 211Projects of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT, and OAS-CIDIP process often deal with areas of law that in the United States have been governed by state, rather than federal, law. This panel will explore those relationships with reference to treaties already negotiated, and in future projects, providing the perspectives of representatives from the Department of State, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, and academic commentators.

Please click here for more information.

Panelists (alphabetically):

John J. Cannon III – Partner in Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits, Shearman & Sterling LLP

Jeremy L. Goldstein (moderator) – Partner in Executive Compensation and Benefits, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz

Jeffrey N. Gordon – Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Kyoko Takahashi Lin – Partner in Corporate Department Specializing in Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Martin Somelofske – Principal in Executive Compensation, Deloitte Consulting LLP

David I. Walker – Maurice Poch Faculty Research Scholar and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law (Visiting Professor at NYU School of Law Fall 2009)

Hope to see you on the 29th! Please RSVP to JLB.RSVP@gmail.com.

The Office of Student Affairs offers a confidential academic tutoring program for J.D. and LL.M. students. Students seeking tutors must note the following:
• Tutoring is not available to first-semester 1Ls.
• Tutoring is available on a limited basis to LL.M. students.
• Students may request a tutor for a maximum of two courses.
• You must request a tutor no later than Friday, November 6.
• We will attempt to assign tutors to students in academic need, but cannot guarantee that we can do so in every case. (Generally need is demonstrated by having received two B- (or lower) grades during your career at NYU.)
• The program is free of charge.

To request a tutor, please send your name, your class, your telephone number, the classes in which you are seeking a tutor (including the instructor’s name), and a copy of your unofficial transcript to law.studentaffairs@nyu.edu.

Tutoring Program: Tutor Recruitment

Students are needed to work with other students who have requested tutors. Students who tutor must have received a grade of “A-” or better in the course(s) of interest. The tutoring stipend is $12 per hour. Specific hours for tutoring sessions are arranged between the tutor and tutee. Tutees usually require two to three hours of assistance per week. If you are interested in acting as a tutor, please contact Paul O’Grady, Associate Director for Student Affairs at 212-998-6397 or paul.ogrady@nyu.edu.

The First-Year Faculty Lunch Program enables students to meet faculty outside of the classroom. First year students, often in groups of four to six, invite professors to lunch. The Office of Student Affairs will cover the costs through an arrangement with faculty. Annually, this is one of our most successful programs. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity.

Anne Chwat ‘87, who will be the Dean’s guest on Thursday, October 15, is executive vice president and general counsel for Burger King Corporation. Anne is also the company’s chief ethics and compliance officer and the president of the Have It Your Way® Foundation, the charitable arm of Burger King Corporation. She reports directly to CEO John Chidsey and serves as a key member of the executive leadership team. Anne is responsible for the worldwide legal affairs of the company, managing all legal aspects of the company’s global activities. As chief ethics and compliance officer for Burger King Corporation, Anne oversees the company’s worldwide ethics and compliance program.

Prior to Burger King Corporation, Anne was senior vice president, general counsel and chief ethics and compliance officer of BMG Music, the music division of media company Bertelsmann AG. In that capacity, she was the head of BMG’s Worldwide Legal and Business Affairs department and oversaw all legal aspects of BMG Music’s merger with Sony Music, which created SonyBMG Music Entertainment, the second largest music company in the world. Chwat also served as associate corporate counsel for Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., the parent company of Universal Studios, Universal Music Group, Universal Theme Parks and the Seagram Spirits & Wine Group. Anne’s primary responsibilities at Seagram were corporate transactional and compliance matters.

Prior to Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc, Anne was in private practice with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton of New York City. At Cleary Gottlieb, Anne specialized in mergers and acquisitions and project finance transactions.

Anne also serves on the executive board of the Women’s Leadership Forum at Burger King Corporation. In addition, she is currently vice chairman of the Florida Education Foundation, a non-profit corporation which provides direct support to the Florida Department of Education, and is a member of the International Women’s Forum.

Anne earned a J.D. from NYU School of Law in 1987 and a B.A. from NYU in 1984.

The dean’s roundtables are open to 18 interested NYU School of Law J.D. and graduate students. In order to achieve a representational mix of students, we will designate a proportionate number of seats to J.D. students and graduate students, respectively, to be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. The roundtables will begin at 12:30 p.m. in Snow Dining Room, on the fourth floor of Vanderbilt Hall. Lunch will be served. If you would like to attend a roundtable, please sign up in advance by calling Penelope Fernandes at (212) 998-6003 or by emailing her at penelope.fernandes@nyu.edu. Please indicate whether you are a J.D. or graduate student, and whether you have any dietary restrictions.

Monday, October 12, 2009 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge