On Friday, March 31, 2017, the City University of New York Law Review will be hosting a Symposium entitled: Transformative Immigration Defense: Law in Support of an Intersectional Movement.
Below is more detailed information regarding the Symposium.
If you have additional questions please email us at: cunylr@mail.law.cuny.edu.
Today CUNY Law Review will join New York City’s legal community at Legal Community Strikes Back at 60 Centre Street.
We hope to see you all there.
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This spring, the CUNY Law Review will host a Symposium exploring the role of legal practitioners at the intersection of aggressive federal immigration enforcement and emerging people’s movements for racial, economic, and social justice. Responding to a dramatic expansion of the deportation and criminal enforcement infrastructure in the United States in recent decades, multiracial movements from #BlackLivesMatter to #Not1More continue to organize, march, and build toward a more just future.
Organizing and legal action have reached a fever pitch following executive actions by the Trump administration. As thousands of Americans take to the streets to combat these racist and xenophobic policies, this Symposium asks how members of the legal community can be part of an alternative vision for the future in which we can all be free.
By bringing together legal practitioners and organizers working on the front lines of multiple justice movements, this Symposium will explore what works (and what does not work) in past and current legal interventions. We will also ask how legal practitioners can best work in collaboration with intersectional movements for racial, gender, economic, and social justice towards a transformative and expansive vision for immigrant defense.
The Symposium is free and open to the public. Lunch and a concluding reception will be provided. Please RSVP here.
CLE credit available.
Join CUNY Law Review for some exciting spring events!
We invite the whole CUNY School of Law community to join us for a welcome back happy hour!
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | 6:00pm
Bierocracy
12-23 Jackson Ave.
Long Island City, NY
Join us for our semiannual Bluebook Training! We’ll review common errors, oft-forgotten rules, and correct some sample law review citations together. Please bring your Bluebooks, any office supplies you use to mark important pages, and your computers!
Thursday, January 18 | 1:45-2:45pm
Room 1/202
Join us for a discussion with Cassie Veach, CUNY School of Law 2017, and Shailly Agnihotri, Founder and Executive Director of The Restorative Center (TRC), about their article Reclaiming Restorative Justice: An Alternative Paradigm for Justice that will be published in CUNY Law Review’s 20th volume, issue 2.
Wednesday, February 8 | 6:00 – 7:30pm
Room 1/202
Dinner & refreshments provided.
CUNY Law Review will host a symposium exploring the role of legal practitioners at the intersection of aggressive federal immigration enforcement and emerging people’s movements for racial, economic, and social justice.
More information to follow.
Friday, March 31 | Half Day
CUNY School of Law
CLE Credit Available
Join us for a discussion with focus on the nuances of providing services to those at risk of homeless, barriers to accessing services, and larger scale policy reforms geared directly or indirectly at homeless prevention.
Thursday, April 6 | 5:30 – 8:00pm
Community Room
Dinner & refreshments provided.
Join us to find out more about the process of writing, submitting, and publishing with the CUNY Law Review.
Thursday, April 13 | 6:00 – 7:00pm
Community Room
Join current staffers, the incoming and outgoing boards for a toast!
Monday, April 24 | 5:00 – 9:00pm
The Beast Next Door
42-51 27th St
Long Island City, NY 11101
Join CUNY Law Review for some exciting events this fall in our 20th year of publication!
Join us for our semiannual Bluebook Training! We’ll review common errors, oft-forgotten rules, and correct some sample law review citations together. Please bring your Bluebooks, any office supplies you use to mark important pages, and your computers!
Tuesday, Sept. 13 | 7:30-8:30 PM
Room 1/205
Note: a makeup training for evening students and others with immovable conflicts will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 1/204.
We invite the whole CUNY School of Law community to join us for our annual welcome back happy hour! Help us kick off a new school year and celebrate the beginning of our 20th publication year.
Friday, Sept. 16 | 6:00-9:00 PM
The Beast Next Door
47-51 27th St
Long Island City, NY
Save the date! Join CUNY School of Law Professors Janet Calvo, Jeffrey Kirchmeier, Stephen Loffredo, and Ruthann Robson for an evening discussion about the Supreme Court’s docket for the upcoming term. Learn about contested public interest cases and hear predictions for when the 8-member Court might deadlock this term. This event is open to the public!
Thursday, September 29 | 6:00-7:30 PM
Community Room @ CUNY School of Law (3rd Floor)
Join us to learn more about publishing as a student author! CUNY alums and current students will discuss how to navigate the process of preparing your scholarship for publication. Featuring Allie Robbins (CUNY Law ’09, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs), Tom Power (CUNY Law ’16, CUNYLR Managing Editor ’16), Navid Khazanei (3L, CUNYLR Executive Articles Editor ’17), Shawn Simpson (Writing Fellow).
Wednesday, October 5 | 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Community Room, 3rd Floor
LUNCH PROVIDED (Taco Bar)
Join us to learn about how and where to get involved in supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement as a legal advocate. Panelists will include Erin Cloud of the Bronx Defenders, Carl Lipscombe of Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Thenjiwe McHarris of Blackbird and Vision for Black Lives, Victoria Phillips of the Urban Justice Center, and Anthonine Pierre on behalf of Communities United for Police Reform. Moderated by Chaumtoli Huq of Law@theMargins & CUNY Law’s own Nicole Smith of the Criminal Defenders Clinic.
Monday, November 7 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Community Room, Room 3-115 [3rd Floor]
2 Court Square, Long Island City, NY
Sponsored by CUNY Black Law Students Association [BLSA], Law@theMargins, and CUNY Law Review.
Food will be provided. This event is open to the public & will be live-streamed (link forthcoming).
Please join the CUNY Law Review and the Sorensen Center for International Peace & Justice for an exciting presentation and conversation with Dr. Enrico Bonadio, Visiting Scholar from City Law School in London.
Dr. Bonadio will discuss his research on graffiti, street art, and copyright law. He will address how corporations have used the work of street artists without compensating them for their work.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Beacon Atrium (1st Floor at CUNY School of Law)
Reception: 4:30 PM (cannolis & coffee provided)
Presentation: 5:00– 6:00 PM
Join us afterwards for a Happy Hour at the Beast Next Door Cafe & Bar:
42-51 27th St, Long Island City, NY 11101
On Friday, April 8th, we hosted our 2016 Symposium, Reimagining Family Defense. More than 100 people attended the half-day event to engage in a discussion of how family defense can become more available throughout the U.S.
The plenary panel featured contributions from Professor Kara Finck of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Diane Redleaf, Founder and Executive Director of the Chicago based Family Defense Center; and Lauren Shapiro, Director of the Brooklyn Family Defense Project.
Marty Guggenheim, Director of NYU Law School’s Family Defense Clinic, moderated the plenary session, which focused heavily on the need to increase legal representation for parents in child welfare cases. Professor Guggenheim was presented with the CUNY Law Review Scholarship for Social Justice Award.
Making parental voices more prominent in child welfare cases was a focus of the symposium. Members of Rise Magazine, a publication written by and for parents involved in the child welfare system, were invited to share their thoughts on how attorneys and judges can make parents’ family court experiences more empowering.
Come join us and toast to all of the hard work the outgoing 2015-2016 CUNY Law Review Board did this year and send well wishes to the incoming 2016-2017 CUNY Law Review Board!
Making parental voices in child welfare cases more prominent was the focus of CUNY Law Review’s recent symposium.
“We are the professionals, but [parents] are the experts,” Angela Burton, a former CUNY Law professor and now with the New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services, said in her opening remarks.
More than 100 people attended the half-day symposium on Friday to engage in discussions of how family defense can become more available throughout the U.S.
CUNY Law Review members invited representatives from Rise Magazine, a publication written by and for parents dealing with the child welfare system to ensure that parents’ voices were included.
The plenary panel featured contributions from family law professors from NYU and University of Pennsylvania, along with legal defenders from Brooklyn Defender Services and the Family Defense Project (based in Chicago).
“All of the presenters today start from one basic premise—families matter. Every family matters,” Burton added.
Please join us at our exciting upcoming spring Symposium, Reimagining Family Defense, which will discuss multidisciplinary family defense models and strategies to support families involved in the child welfare system in an effort to gather support for innovative structural and policy changes to child welfare.
The symposium is not limited to the legal community in New York City, for it aims to engage all who are invested in this issue. We strongly welcome the participation of directly-affected community members and practitioners across interrelated disciplines, such as social workers, parent advocates, community organizers, and educators. Additionally, we welcome practitioners working on this issue outside of New York City.
Further details to come!
Please join us for our second CUNITY Conversation of the year, with author Aliya Shain and Professor Ruthann Robson on Wednesday, March 30th at 6:30pm in the Community Room!
The CUNITY Conversation Series features our student
authors, who will have their scholarly articles published
in an upcoming edition of the CUNY Law Review. This event
gives the student body an opportunity to engage with the
student author’s ideas and creates a conversation around
interesting issues in public interest lawyering.
This session will focus on 3L Aliya Shain and her article entitled: A Veil of Anonymity: Preserving Anonymous Sperm Donation While Affording Children Access to Donor-Identifying Information.
Further details to follow!