New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Rolando T. Acosta | June 13, 2023
A recent report on New York City judges contains cherry-picked data and unsound methodology and is clearly designed to encroach on judicial independence by intimidating judges into making decisions that align with the authors' ideology, a retired presiding justice of the Appellate Division, First Department writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Kate Mogulescu | June 7, 2023
For survivors of violence and abuse who have been criminalized, the proposed Clean Slate Act would allow them to access what they need most in order to rebuild their lives and support their children: housing, employment and education, a Brooklyn Law School professor writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Raymond Tierney | June 6, 2023
In their rush to help convicted criminals, state legislators are throwing out decades of criminal law developments that protect victims and help keep us safe, the Suffolk County district attorney writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Samuel Estreicher and Tal Fortgang | June 6, 2023
Writing on Israel's courts, two contributors say that enduring change, in the absence of a highly unlikely constitutional convention to establish more circumscribed roles for the legislative and judicial branches, will be in tailoring the reforms to sound principles of liberal or republican democracy.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen | June 6, 2023
How far should a law school go in offering a platform for unquestionably divisive speech that claims to support such "human need" using the medium of scurrilous attack?
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Irwin S. Izen | June 5, 2023
As property owners mount challenges to laws prohibiting short-term rentals, it will be up to the Constitution to balance the equities in both recognizing this evolving "home sharing" right and regulating it, a Suffolk County real estate attorney writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph W. Bellacosa | June 5, 2023
Since human intelligence is finite in this world by its nature, and retired Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa is counting on humanity to once again defeat tech artificial intelligence, just as the Enlightenment turned out to be not so enlightened.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Harry Sandick and Nicole Scully | June 1, 2023
It has been common knowledge to criminal practitioners for years that a criminal defendant's sentence for a crime of which they have been convicted can be increased based on consideration of conduct that the jury acquitted. This outcome can make a partial acquittal in federal court into a pyrrhic victory.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen | May 30, 2023
The jury room is different than what might take place during an informal conversation among acquaintances at a Starbucks. In court, we're not allowed to make the type of judgments we make about people and their motivations at Starbucks.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By John Bandler | May 25, 2023
Critics are deeply skeptical and have expressed fears that the Russian proposal is a smoke screen to help allow it and others to further their totalitarian propaganda aims and block dissent at home and abroad, a former prosecutor writes.
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