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Learning from Alumni Practitioners: The Implications of Non-Compete Covenants
At the end of the Fall 2017 semester, first-year students heard from CUNY Law alum practitioners about employers’ use and abuse of non-compete covenants, the primary legal issue in their lawyering...
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CUNY Law Student Awarded 2018 Skadden Fellowship
Third-year CUNY School of Law student Jessica “JP” Perry has been awarded a Skadden Fellowship for 2018. The Skadden Fellowships founded in 1988 by the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom...
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Office Hours with Professor Frank Deale
Professor Frank Deale has taught at CUNY School of Law since 1989. Prior to entering academia, he served in multiple roles at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York based, nonprofit legal...
View ArticleFebruary Bookmark List
This month’s list is brought to you by CUNY Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA). Check out their roundup of books, articles and more that are not to be missed. We Were Eight Years in Power: An...
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Advice Column for Students: Recharge to Take Charge
This advice column is written by students for students, with a particular focus on useful information for students in their first year of law school (1Ls). Recharge to Take Charge is brought to you by...
View ArticleCUNY LAW CLINICAL PROGRAM RANKED THIRD IN THE NATION
Faculty, students, and community partners collaborate to create singular clinical experience One of the best clinical programs in the nation can be found at the City University of New York School of...
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Sorensen Center to Host Darren Walker in Conversation with Justice Albie Sachs
Join us for the next part of the Sorensen Center’s Speaker Series, “Critical Voices: From Local to Global,” on addressing inequalities and what it means to live in a constitutional democracy today...
View ArticleWhat Public Interest Law Looks Like: Areas of Practice
For most of us, the type of work we do and the way we do it is one of the most critical components of happiness. If you’re heading to law school to make justice accessible and attainable for more...
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ON DISPLAY: After Decades in Prison, Women Pose for Portraits in their Own...
“When you see this photo I took of you, what does it make you think?” This post features the work of Pete Brook, writer, curator, and educator focused on photography, prisons, and power. You can find...
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MARCH BOOKMARK: OUTlaws Edition
This month, our Bookmark feature is brought to you by OUTlaws, CUNY Law’s intersectional queer community for people of all genders, sexual orientations, and HIV statuses. OUTlaws strives for...
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IN THE BALANCE: Ting Ting Cheng ’09
How alumni are pursuing liberty and justice It’s been a whirlwind twenty-four months for Ting Ting Cheng, a Class of ’09 alumna currently serving as an attorney for the New York City Commission on...
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KEEPING COUNSEL: Richard Celestin ’06
ADVICE FOR ALUMNI, BY ALUMNI ON HOW TO BECOME YOUR OWN CAREER INSPIRATION By Richard Celestin ’06 While at CUNY Law, Richard focused his studies on criminal defense and juvenile justice while nurturing...
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Office Hours with Professor Babe Howell
Professor Babe Howell has been teaching Criminal Law, Trial Advocacy, Criminal Procedure, and Lawyering at CUNY Law for nearly nine years, work she approaches with a focus on the reality behind...
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1L Advice: How I got the Fellowship
When Victor Cheng ’18 was an undergraduate, he studied marketing and international business, inspired by his Chinese immigrant father’s entrepreneurial spirit and drive. A few short years later and...
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Office Hours with Professor Victor Goode
If we asked you to pen your own introduction, what would you add to the “standard faculty intro” to give us the really important stuff? In many ways, I’ve been a “legal architect” throughout my...
View ArticleAmplifying the Sound of our Voices
This post comes to you from the City University of New York Law Review. In the coming weeks we’ll share more highlights and stories from our Law Review team highlighting student authorship and...
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Office Hours with Nina Chernoff
Nina Chernoff cemented her place in the CUNY Law Professor Hall of Fame this year when she was given the Outstanding Professor Award by the graduating class of 2018. Proving for perhaps the first time...
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In the Balance: Edwina Richardson-Mendelson
The Honorable Edwina Richardson-Mendelson is Class of ’88 alumna celebrated for her commitment to Family Law and Criminal Justice. Currently a Judge of the Court of Claims, as well as a state-wide...
View ArticleCUNY Law’s INRC and The NYIC Publish New Report on Policing and Surveilling...
On May 18, CUNY Law faculty members Nermeen Arastu and Talia Peleg, of our Immigrant and Non-Citizen Rights Clinic (INRC), and Babe Howell, expert in criminal law and gang policing and surveillance,...
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New Alumni Practice Groups Launch at CUNY Law
The first iteration of a new Alumni Engagement initiative united alums working in solo and small firm lawyer for the school’s first Practice Group meeting on May 23, hosted in the co-working space...
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ON THE DOCKET: The Supreme Court Ruling on Masterpiece Cakeshop
Today’s 7-2 Supreme Court ruling on Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission has a lot to unpack. The central question, of whether the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause could be...
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What Will We Tell Our Son?
Two queer members of the CUNY Law community on the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruling. By Professor Allie Robbins (’09) and Lisa Zayas (’11) The cake toppers from Robbins’...
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In Response to Attacks on Our Values and Community
WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW In this moment of national reckoning, we must move from outcries of distress and disgust to conversation, action, and transformation. Now is the time to lead: mobilize,...
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ON THE DOCKET: Trump v. Hawaii
In a decision that stands to echo throughout American history for generations to come, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Trump v. Hawaii that the president’s “Muslim Ban” to restrict travel to the United...
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Letter to AG Sessions: Grant Asylum for Domestic Violence Survivors
On June 11, 2018, Attorney General Sessions issued a decision in Matter of A.B., which overturned a lower court decision and prior caselaw recognizing domestic violence survivors’ claims for asylum....
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