New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Rob Maier | March 26, 2024
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published new guidance explaining the requirements for patent examiners to reject patent claims for obviousness in view of what was already known in the prior art.
By Benjamin E. Rosenberg | February 5, 2024
Despite the prevalence of private crime fighting outfits, they largely escape the scrutiny of academics and analysts who think about criminal justice. The organizations, disparate though they are, raise a host of overlapping questions, many of them involving the absence of protections for the accused.
By Michael J. McDermott | December 27, 2023
The First Chief Justice: John Jay And the Struggle of a New Nation By Mark Dillon SUNY Press There are many of us who enjoy historical works…
By Jeffrey M. Winn | December 12, 2023
Prior to the United States' entrance into World War II, the U.S. Supreme Court -- mostly nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, had issued several important decisions that enforced the civil rights of a variety of Americans against government discrimination. But after America became a combatant, the court would issue morally corrosive rulings that ultimately deprived 120,000 people of the equal protection of the laws.
By Denny Chin | November 13, 2023
In his new book, "Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe," Eric L. Muller, the Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina Law School, provides a fascinating account of life in "America's World War II Concentration Camps" and of the important role played by lawyers in the camps.
By Barry Kamins and Diana Fabi Samson | October 25, 2023
This insider's view of the political storm that led to Cuomo's forced resignation raises serious questions about the roles played by power politics, a compliant media, and an attorney general who wished to be governor, in orchestrating the forced resignation of a duly elected governor.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By George Heymann | October 24, 2023
This book is a former Queens prosecutor's tell-all from his early years as an academic "underachiever" to becoming his office's chief ADA, which he considers the highlight of his career.
By Jeffrey M. Winn | September 20, 2023
In the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. was a radical who was feared, hated, and considered dangerous. But in the years since King's 1968 assassination, he has become saintly and mythological. Pondering this dichotomy, a biographer set out to write a book about King, the man, focusing on his humanity, hopes, flaws, and anxieties.
By Daniel Kornstein | September 12, 2023
A partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel tells the sordid story of how Martin Manton, a potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee, chief judge of our prestigious U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and before that a federal district judge, solicited bribes from litigants and was ultimately convicted in 1939 and went to prison.
By Joel Cohen | August 24, 2023
In his conversation with Sam Freedman, author of 'Into The Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights' Joel Cohen looks at how Freedman was able to present Humphrey as a hero, even as he's associated with the Vietnam war.
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