Archived News and Events

2002-03

•	Arthur Helton ('76), a member of our adjunct faculty from 1986 to 1999, was killed in the bombing of the United Nations building in Baghdad. He was attending a meeting with the senior U.N. officials. At the time of his death, Arthur was in Baghdad on a humanitarian project, doing the work that distinguished his long career in international human rights and working with refugees. At the time of his death, he was Program Director of Peace and Conflict, and Senior Fellow for Refugee Studies and Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he directed the Refugee Project at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. In 1987, he received the Public Interest Award from the NYU School of Law Alumni Association. Aug. 19, 2003.
•	The Center on Law and Security, directed by Professors Noah Feldman, David Golove, Stephen Holmes, and Richard Pildes, joins the Law School's already varied centers as a vehicle for examining the legal dimensions of counter-terrorism and peace-keeping at the national and international levels. Aug. 14, 2003.
•	Dianne Dixon is named the August 2003 Alumna of the Month. Dianne Dison is the executive director of the Access to Justice Center, an entity established within the New York State judiciary to focus exclusively on civil legal services issues. She has worked in the public interest arena for more than two decades, including recently at the New York State Department of Law as deputy bureau chief in the Consumer Frauds Bureau. Aug. 1, 2003.
•	NYU School of Law Professor Rick Pildes will lead a discussion seminar on Property issues related to race in American history and contemporary policy. The discussion will include the rise and fall of black landholding and family farms from the end of the Civil War to the present, exploring the ways in which newly freed slaves acquired property, such as General Sherman's famous "forty acres and a mule" military Field Order, as well as the causes of the great decline of black landholding and farming in the mid-20th century. Jul. 14-16, 2003.
•	Fifty state and federal appellate judges attended the Institute of Judicial Administration's program for new appellate judges. The seminar, coordinated with the Federal Judicial Center's orientation for new federal judges, has alumni on every federal court of appeals, state supreme court, and intermediate state appeals court in the country and on the Canadian and Australian appellate benches. Jul. 13-18, 2003.
•	The Hauser Global Law School Program and the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at NYU School of Law hold a colloquium on "The Constitutional Future of Europe: A Transatlantic Dialogue." The colloquium will bring together the most highly regarded judges and academics from both sides of the Atlantic comprising of United States Supreme Court Justices, selected European senior judges and a number of academics from the U.S. and Europe. Jul. 9-11, 2003.
•	International Law Expert Catherine Lotrionte ('93) is honored as July's Alumna of the Month. Ms. Lotrionte is Counsel to President Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board at the White House. Previously, she was Assistant General Counsel at the CIA, where she was the primary legal advisor on international law, foreign intelligence and counterintelligence activities, covert action and international terrorism. Jul. 1, 2003.
•	University Professor Dorothy Nelkin passed away today. The NYU School of Law community remembers Professor Nelkin. May 28, 2003.
•	The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law appoints Tom Gerety as its new executive director. William J. Brennan, III, chair of the Brennan Center Board, attribute's the Board's decision to Gerety's experience as a legal scholar, a social justice advocate, and president of a premier liberal arts college. May 2, 2003.
•	Vanita Gupta ('01), assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, played an integral role in a case which has become a national symbol of racial injustice. Ms. Gupta compelled local prosecutors to admit their mistake in arresting more than a tenth of Tulia, Texas' black population during a drug sting operation. Lynda Richardson, Young Laywer, Old Issue: Seeking Social Justice, N.Y. Times, Apr. 16, 2003.
•	Ron Noble, Secretary General of Interpol, will moderate a panel on 9/11 and war on terrorism's impact on civil liberties, law enforcement and policymaking. Apr. 5, 2003.
•	New York University School of Law will host a conference on "The Legal and Socio-Economic Status of Israel." Organized by the Law School's Professor Samuel Estreicher, and assisted by NYU Public Services Scholar Jamil Dakwar, the conference will focuse on a range of issues of critical importance to democracy in Israel -- pertaining to the treatment of its Arab citizens. Apr. 3, 2003.
•	Baroness Helena Kennedy will discuss "The Retreat from Civil Liberties: The United States and the United Kingdom" at the 9th Annual Rose Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence 2003 Lecture at New York University School of Law. Author Salman Rushdie will introduce the Baroness. Mar. 31, 2003.
•	John Sexton, president of New York University and former dean of the Law School, will be honored at the New York University Annual Survey of American Law's dedication ceremony where a roster of distinguished friends and associates of the honoree will reflect upon his achievements-both personal and professional. Mar. 27, 2003.
•	Second-year student Anika Singh ('04), is a contributing editor and co-founder of The Next American City, a quarterly magazine devoted to urban and suburban planning. The magazine seeks to explore global transformation and the future of communities through housing, transportation, and land use solutions. Jim O'Grady, Enchanted by Cities, N.Y. Times, Mar. 9, 2003.
•	Alumnus and Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar Thomas Buergenthal ('60), has been elected to serve on the International Court of Justice. Buergenthal will be the only American on the court wich is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Burgenthal is recognized as a world leader in promoting international human rights law and is the author of more than a dozen books and numerous articles on the topic. Mar. 2, 2003.
•	Deborah Goldberg, acting director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, offers analysis and insight in a New York Times story about how the United States Supreme Court, in the case Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, struck down a state rule that prohibited candidates in judicial elections from taking stands on disputed legal or political issues. Feb. 22, 2003.
•	Dean Richard Revesz, reaffirming NYU School of Law's commitment to public service, names Deborah Ellis as assistant dean for public interest law. Dean Revesz also announces new initiatives that include a commitment to repay student loans and a gurantee of paid summer public interest grants. Feb. 11, 2003.
•	Korein Foundation gives grant to establish the Korein Foundation Environmental Program which will provide ten students with a grant to support a summer internship with a leading environmental organization.
•	Dean Revesz appoints Professor Lewis Kornhauser as the new director of the Institute for Law & Society. Professor Kornhauser will assume the directorship in Fall 2003.