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CUNITY Conversation: Fast Food Sweatshops: Franchisors as Employers Under the FLSA

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The CUNY Law Review invites the CUNY Law Community to join us at this year’s
first CUNITY Conversation on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25th at
7:00pm in Room 1-205!

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 CUNITY Conversation will feature our own
Managing Editor, Tom Power, whose article, Fast Food
Sweatshops: Franchisors as Employers Under the FLSA,
will be published in the CUNY Law Review this summer. He
will be joined by Professor Shirley Lung, and they will
facilitate a conversation on the legal issues discussed in
the Note, specifically the challenges that low-wage
workers face when they try to bring lawsuits against their
corporate franchisor employers.

Wine and food will be served!

We look forward to seeing you all there!

From Stoop to Storefront: The Fight for Housing Justice in New York City

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From Stoop to Storefront: The Fight for Housing Justice in New York City

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CUNY Law Review hosted its fall premier event From Stoop to Storefront: The Fight for Housing Justice in New York City on November 10, 2015 at CUNY School of Law.

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This event featured panelists (from left to right): Andrea McArdle, Moderator and CUNY Law Professor; Victor Bach, Community Service Society of New York; Hyun-Jung Kim, Community Action for Safe Apts. (CASA); and Greg Jost, Longtime Housing Advocate in the Bronx.

CUNY Law Review hosted this event because the demand for affordable, decent housing is at the heart of economic and racial justice in New York City.

CUNY Law Review constructed this event to reflect on the historic roots of the housing crisis, highlight strategies by which tenants are organizing against soaring rents, harassment, and creeping gentrification, and to discuss the role that the legal community can play in supporting New York’s housing rights movement.

The panel was followed by three breakout-style workshop sessions.

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Housing Court 101 and Tenant’s Rights was facilitated by Hyun-Jung Kim and Jean Stevens, CAMBA Legal Services.

Administrative Law as Informal Advocacy to Increase Access to Housing was facilitated by Doug Seidman of The Legal Aid Society.

Organizing Against Displacement: Tenant-Led Campaigns for Justice was facilitated by Greg Jost; James Rodriguez, Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES); and Tania Mattos, Queens Neighborhoods United.

CUNY Law Review thanks all of the speakers and participants for coming out to discuss these important topics and take concrete steps toward addressing housing injustice in New York City.

CUNITY Conversation: Is it Worthless to be “Worth Less”? Ending the Exemption of People with a Disability from the Federal Minimum Wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act

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CUNITY Conversation: Is it Worthless to be “Worth Less”? Ending the Exemption of People with a Disability from the Federal Minimum Wage under the Fair Labor
Standards Act

The CUNY Law Review invites you to join us at this year’s second
CUNITY Conversation THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19th at 7:00pm 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.

Our second CUNITY Conversation will feature our own Public Interest Practitioner Section (PIPS) Editor, Alanna Sakovits, whose article, Is it Worthless to be “Worth Less”? Ending the Exemption of People with a Disability from the Federal Minimum Wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act, will be published in the CUNY Law Review this winter. She will be joined by Professor Sofia Yakren, and they will facilitate a conversation on the legal issues discussed in the Note: workers’ rights, disability, and employment law.

CUNITY Conversation: Expectations of the Exemplar: An Exploration of the Burdens on Public School Teachers in the Absence of Tenure

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CUNITY Conversation: Expectations of the Exemplar: An Exploration of the Burdens on Public School Teachers in the Absence of Tenure

The CUNY Law Review and the Education and the Law Society was proud to host this year’s first CUNITY Conversation, this past Tuesday, September 29 at 7:30pm 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.

Our first CUNITY Conversation featured our own Managing Articles Editor, Jacqueline Meese, whose article Expectations of the Exemplar: An Exploration of the Burdens on Public School Teachers in the Absence of Tenure will be published in the CUNY Law Review this winter. She will be joined by Professor Ruthann Robson where they will engage in a conversation discussing employment law, education reform, or gender discrimination.

Event: First Toast

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First Toast
Tuesday, April 28 @ 5-11 pm

The First Toast is a celebration to honor the work of the Law Review.  The outgoing Board toasts to a successful upcoming year, and the incoming Board toasts to the old Board‘s hard work and achievements throughout the past year.

The event is open to the entire student body, regardless of whether or not you are a member of the law review.

Come out to celebrate the year, mingle with Law Review, and enjoy discounted drinks!

Alewife NYC
5-14 51st Ave Long Island City, NY
11101

 

EVENT: TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY TO RANA PLAZA

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TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY TO RANA PLAZA: Building Movements for Labor Rights & Corporate Accountability

6PM, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015
CUNY School of Law, Room 1/202
2 Court Square
Long Island City, 11101

CUNY Law Review, in collaboration with the Labor Coalition, is hosting a compelling panel next week on labor rights and the garment industry.

Prof. Shirley Lung will be moderating the conversation
featuring:

Katherine Gallagher
Center for Constitutional Rights

Chaumtoli Huq
American Institute for Bangladesh Studies
(Skyping in from Bangladesh!)

Sophie DeBenedetto
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops

There will be a wine and hors-d’oeuvre reception following
the panel.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Please register at: bit.ly/shirtwaist2rana

CUNITY Conversations: Toxic Sweatshops: Regulating the Import of Hazardous Electronics with Allie Robbins

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Come join us for the fourth and final installment of our discussion series, CUNITY Conversations!

CUNITY Conversations is a discussion series designed to create discussion around a particular topic. It is an informal time to get together, hang out, and talk about a relevant social justice issue.

The next installment of the CUNITY Conversation series is Wednesday, April 1, from 1-2:45 pm, in the Community Room, 3/116.

Bring your lunch and join us for snacks plus great conversation discussing Allie Robbin’s article, “Toxic Sweatshops: Regulating the Import of Hazardous Electronics.”

The article discusses the rise in consumer use of personal electronic devices and how it has led to a boom in electronics manufacturing worldwide. Along with the expansion of production have come serious questions about the safety of production processes, as large numbers of workers and their children have become seriously ill. This article proposes that the United States, as a leading importer of electronic devices and components, create an Electronics Import Safety Commission to make sure that both workers and consumers are safe. This commission, modeled after the Consumer Protection Safety Commission, would monitor and regulate electronics manufacturing and would enhance transparency and accountability throughout the supply chain.

Join the dicussion on Twitter and Facebook on the hashtag #cunityconvo.

Storytelling Guantánamo: Using Creative Advocacy & Lawyering to Challenge Dominant Political and Media Narratives

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WITH A SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY SCREENING OF WAITING FOR FAHD

CUNY Law Review, in collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), presents:

A CONVERSATION WITH
Omar Farah, Staff Attorney, CCR
Murtaza Hussain, Journalist, The Intercept
Professor Ramzi Kassem, Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic
Aliya Hussain, Moderator, Advocacy Program Manager, CCR

STUDENT CONTRIBUTIONS
Andrew Adams & Syeda Tasnim
Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic, Law & Security Docket

6PM, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015
Reception at 6pm, panel begins at 6:30pm
CUNY School of Law, Community Room, 3/116
2 Court Square
Long Island City, 11101

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Please register at: bit.ly/storytelling-gtmo

CUNITY Conversations: Exploring Sex Work, Harm Reduction, and Housing Rights in NYC with Chelsea Breakstone & Zoë Root

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Come join us for the third installment of our discussion series, CUNITY Conversations!

CUNITY Conversations is a discussion series designed to create discussion around a particular topic. The discussion leaders are the Law Review’s Note and Comments student authors, along with professors and practitioners. It is an informal time to get together, hang out, and talk about a relevant social justice issue.

The next installment of the CUNITY Conversation series is Wednesday, March 4, from 6-8pm, in the Community Room, 3/116.

Notes and Comments student author and 3L Chelsea Breakstone will be presenting “Exploring Sex Work, Harm Reduction, and Housing Rights in NYC,” along with Zoë Root, Staff Attorney and Human Trafficking Intervention Court Part Coordinator from The Bronx Defenders.

Join the dicussion on Twitter and Facebook on the hashtag #cunityconvo.

Video — The Long Crisis: Economic Inequality in New York City

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The City University of New York Law Review presented The Long Crisis: Economic Inequality in New York City, on November 12, 2014, at the CUNY School of Law.

The Long Crisis reflected the theme of the Law Review’s 18th volume, which focuses on the role that economic inequality and injustice play within the context of social justice legal issues and practical solutions lawyers and activists are employing to help overcome the inequality.

The panel featured: Fahd Ahmed, acting executive director of DRUM—South Asian Organizing Center; Tom Angotti, professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and Director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development; Stanley Aronowitz, Distinguished Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center; Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO and executive director of Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; Shawn Blumberg, legal director of Housing Conservation Coordinators; and Robin Steinberg, founder and executive director of The Bronx Defenders.