http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:17:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tuesday, November 10th 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (free lunch!) Poe Room in Furman Hall 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 - ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/student-organizations/litigating-civil-rights-civil-rights-as-a-career/2071/ The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law presents: 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 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/events/senator-sheldon-whitehouse-d-ri-to-deliver-annual-living-constitution-lecture/2069/ Join David Benzaquen, Farm Sanctuary’s New York Advocacy Organizer, and Patrick Kwan, the New York State Director for the Humane Society of the United States, for a seminar that will teach you how to become an effective citizen lobbyist for farm animals. Held THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5TH from 6:30 to 8:30 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/student-organizations/nyc-lobbying-for-farm-animals-workshop/2065/ Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:30-8:00 p.m. Furman Hall, Room 212The South Asian Bar Association of New York and the NYU South Asian Law Students Association is sponsoring the Alternatives to Big Law Career event and invite you to come hear from practitioners in various sectors: medium-sized law firms in NYC and CT, ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/career-services/alternatives-to-a-big-law-career-tips-for-securing-a-job-in-todays-economy-wednesday/2063/ November 10, 5:00-6:00 p.m. Furman Hall, Room 216 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 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/career-services/global-reach-career-for-foreign-trained-llm-candidates/2054/ The Office of Career Services will be hosting one additional week of Fall OCI, Week 7, from November 16-20, 2009. Please continue to login to CSM for the most up-to-date list of participating employers. You can begin requesting interviews with employers this Monday, November 2. Bidding will close the following ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/career-services/ocs-announces-an-additional-week-of-fall-oci-week-7-november-16-20-2009/2058/ Monday, November 9 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Refreshments will be served Furman Hall Room 120 RSVP: graduateaffairs@exchange.law.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 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/graduate-affairs/hate-crime-in-todays-russia-a-talk-with-alexander-verkhovsky/2049/ Please be reminded that NYU School of Law is committed to upholding the NALP Timing Guidelines for both students and employers. • A candidate should not hold open more than five offers of employment at any one time. 2Ls: Employers offering positions for the following summer to candidates not previously employed by them ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/career-services/nalp-timing-guidelines/1836/ If you are conducting a private sector job search for Summer 2010, we ask that you log into your Mandatory Fall 2009 Recruiting Survey ("Recruiting Survey") today and fill out Sections 1‐4. You may also include any individual comments in Section 7. Please also go back into the survey each ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/career-services/reminder-update-your-fall-recruiting-survey-every-friday-on-survey-monkey-2ls/1787/ How do non-legal institutions contribute to LGBT rights? Come discuss this question with the President of the nation's premier LGBT media-monitoring institution, a psychologist who was instrumental in the 1973 removal of homosexuality from the list of mental disorders, and a Board Member of the leading LGBT workplace equality organization. Wednesday, ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/student-affairs/deans-workshop-series-on-lgbt-rights-lgbt-rights-outside-the-law-the-media-medicine-and-industry-as-engines-of-civil-rights/2046/ Law Women's annual Women in the Private Sector is this Wednesday, November 4, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in Golding Lounge! 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 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/events/women-in-the-private-sector-panel/2044/ Increase your chance of staying healthy this flu season - stop by for your seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccines.  The Department of Residence Services, in coordination with the Student Health Center, will be offering flu vaccines to NYU School of Law students on Monday, November 2, from 3:30-5:30PM in the ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/other/free-h1n1-seasonal-flu-vaccinations/2042/ The Editorial Board of the Cork Online Law Review at University College Cork (more fondly known as COLR), Ireland would like to invite submissions for the 9th edition, due to be launched in March 2010.COLR is a non-profit Law Review which provides an opportunity for undergraduates, and graduates alike, to ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/other/cork-online-law-review/2037/ November 7, 2009, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Grand Hyatt in New York City 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. http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/career-services/2009-student-communications-career-conference-saturday/2033/ November, 2, 2009, 6:30-8:00 p.m. 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 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/career-services/ny-city-bar-presents-you-survived-your-first-year-of-law-school-now-what/2029/ In response to a high interest in positions with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel from students in the LL.M. program who have prior work experience (and are therefore ineligible to apply for the Honors Program), the OCS has arranged for IRS attorneys to come to campus to have lunch ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/career-services/lunch-with-the-irs-office-of-chief-counsel-for-tax-llm-students-not-eligible-for-the-honors-program/2026/ Why did H1N1 appear?  What can we expect? What are the key symptoms? What targe groups are impacted by H1N1 flu-and why? What are NYU's strategies to contain and mitigate the impact of flu? An expert panel discussion, open to all NYU Faculty, Staff, and Students, is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 5-6:30 p.m. ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/other/everything-you-want-to-or-dont-want-to-know-about-h1n1-influenza/2022/ Come join the Law School Community for a night of music and festivities at the Halloween Bash. Costumes or semi-formal Attire Suggested. Fall Ball 2009 Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. Vanderbilt Hall http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/events/fall-ball-2009/2019/ The Information Law Institute ITS Colloquium presents a talk by Paul Ohm, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School. 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 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/colloquia/information-law-institute-its-colloquium-paul-ohm/2016/ Regularly during the school year, the Dean hosts roundtable discussions with prominent guests who have utilized their law degrees in a variety of nontraditional ways. Over lunch with a small group of students, guests speak autobiographically about their work experiences, sharing valuable insight about how they found their chosen path.  ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/deans-office/dean%e2%80%99s-roundtable-with-john-j-suydam-esq-%e2%80%9985-general-counsel-chief-administrative-compliance-officer-of-apollo-management-lp-on-thursday-october-22-2009/2009/ Friday, October 23, 2009, 4:00 p.m. 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 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/career-services/federalism-issues-in-the-implementation-of-private-international-law-treaties/2003/ The NYU Journal of Law & Business is pleased to invite all students, faculty, alumni, and friends to our fall panel on executive compensation on October 29, from 5:30-7:30, in Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, Room 214. The area of executive compensation regulation has received increased scrutiny from lawmakers, businesses, ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/journals/nyu-journal-of-law-and-business-executive-compensation-panel/1993/ Tutoring Program: Tutee Eligibility 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 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/student-affairs/tutoring-program/1990/ First Year Faculty Lunch Program 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 ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/student-affairs/first-year-faculty-lunch-program-2/1980/ The Dean’s Town Hall meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, October 20, has been cancelled. http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/student-affairs/town-hall-meeting-2/1985/ The Office of Student Affairs invites applications for Prominence funding. This fund supports three types of student activities. First, it supplements student group expenses in connection with sending representatives to national conferences. Second, it supplements student group participation in national or regional moot court-type competitions. Third, it aids individual students ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/student-affairs/prominence-fund-2/1982/ Sylvia A. Law needs a 2L or 3L research assistant, beginning now and through the spring semester. The primary work involves research on current issues in health law and financing. Knowledge and experience in these areas is important, as are research and writing skills. Send a resume, transcript, and short ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/research-assistants-needed/professor-sylvia-a-law-needs-health-law-ra/1976/ In honor of New York Week for the Animals, Farm Sanctuary presents “Farm Animals and the Law,” a panel hosted by New York University Student Animal League Defense Fund (SALDF). Animal law professors David Wolfson and Mariann Sullivan will join Farm Sanctuary’s Director of Legal Campaigns Delcianna Winders to discuss ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/student-organizations/farm-animals-and-the-law-during-ny-week-for-animals/1973/ Regularly during the school year, the Dean hosts roundtable discussions with prominent guests who have utilized their law degrees in a variety of nontraditional ways. Over lunch with a small group of students, guests speak autobiographically about their work experiences, sharing valuable insight about how they found their chosen path. ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/deans-office/dean%e2%80%99s-roundtable-with-anne-chwat-%e2%80%9987-general-counsel-chief-ethics-and-compliance-officer-of-burger-king-corporation-on-thursday-october-15-2009/1971/ Come join us for the first annual Wellness Fair. It will provide you with information on healthy living that will leave you energized for the second half the semester. The Fair will include: flu shots, massages, healthy food/drink, and valuable wellness information. Monday, October 12, 2009 4:00–6:00 p.m. Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg ... http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/student-affairs/wellness-fair-2009/1968/