New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Alani Golanski | March 6, 2024
For instance, law schools could more pointedly offer interdisciplinary rule-of-law—and pedagogy as broadly as they have included law—and subjects within their curricula, a Law Journal columnist writes.
By Joseph W. Bellacosa | March 1, 2024
The current appointive system for Court of Appeals judges discarded the statewide elective method, a Law Journal columnist recounts. Centralized administration with statewide fiscal resources shifted executive leadership responsibility to the chief judge and chief administrative judge.
By Roger Bennet Adler | February 27, 2024
Beyond dealing a major rebuke to New York City Council leadership, the Appellate Division, Second Department's recent ruling that a local law giving noncitizens the right to vote protects the rights of other minorities who played by the rules and would have had their votes diluted by the votes of noncitizens, a Law Journal columnist writes.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By James E. Mercante | February 27, 2024
In his Admiralty Law column, James E. Mercante discusses the collision between Navy warship USS John S. McCain and oil and chemical tanker Alnic MC, as well as the trial that followed in the Southern District of New York.
By Timothy Driscoll | February 26, 2024
A Nassau County judge recounts a exchange in which "his" judge—the judge he spent his clerkship with as a young lawyer—wielded his "rapier" wit to disarm a fellow jurist and got a room "doubled over with laughter."
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen and Bennett L. Gershman | February 26, 2024
A 26-year-old man allegedly kills a young woman in New York City. He flees to Maricopa County, Arizona to avoid his arrest and where several days later…
New York Law Journal | Commentary|Letter to the Editor
By Kelli Owens | February 25, 2024
The head of New York State's domestic violence prevention office responds to a recent Law Journal column that she said was written without due diligence on the part of the authors.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Bennett L. Gershman | February 23, 2024
Former President Donald Trump will soon be tried in Manhattan for using campaign funds to pay for a woman's silence over an extramarital affair. It might turn out to be "the most followed criminal trial in American history," Law Journal columnist Bennett Gershman writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Roger Bennet Adler | February 21, 2024
As the Trump Organization processes the court's decision (and its financial implications), attention will inevitably focus on the Trump Organization's reliance on disclaimers as a defense to fraud.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Scott Fein, Patrick A. Woods, and Harrison Robbins | February 12, 2024
What is the constitutional 'standard of review' the courts should use to judge a government action that allegedly violates the Green Amendment? The standard of review will decide its long-term importance.
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