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  • Professor Gabriel Weil on Artificial Intelligence

    Assistant Professor of Law Gabriel Weil is currently writing about the risks presented artificial intelligence (AI) and how the law and legal system may address them.

    In late March, presented his paper on AI liability paper at an AI governance workshop organized by the Harvard AI Safety Team. The workshop also included a panel with Harvard Law Profs Lawrence Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain (among others), moderated by Ketan Ramakrishnan from Yale Law, as well as presentation on AI timelines from Daniel Kokotajlo, who was an OpenAI employee at the time and recently quit “due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI.”

    In addition, Professor Weil recently was a guest on the AI X-risk Research Podcast, hosted by Daniel Filan. The episode is available here: https://axrp.net/episode/2024/04/17/episode-28-tort-law-for-ai-risk-gabriel-weil.html

  • Professor Hal Abramson Presents Paper on Deadline Negotiations

    In late March, Professor Hal Abramson presented the most recent draft of his article, “Deadline Negotiations,” as the featured speaker at the University of California in San Francisco.  The paper addresses a common experience that has received surprisingly little attention in the literature – what do when in a rushed negotiation. Professor Abramson presented his paper in San Franscisco to both an in-person and even larger zoom audience.

    The announcement for Professor Abramson’s presentation is available here: Deadline Negotiations – UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings) (uclawsf.edu).

  • Professor Lauren Roth Presents Paper at Michigan Law Junior Scholars Conference

    Assistant Professor Lauren Roth attended the University of Michigan Law School’s 10th Annual Junior Scholars Conference this month in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The conference organizers invited papers related to the theme of Reimagining the Public-Private Divide because of recent assertions that “the dividing legal line between the public sphere and private sphere is increasingly being blurred—or vanishing.” 

    Professor Roth’s abstract, The Fiduciary Game, was chosen from approximately 400 applications after a peer review process.  The conference is considered to be one of the most prominent for junior legal scholars.

    In her paper, Professor Roth asserts that fiduciary duties do not sufficiently constrain self-interested behavior by fiduciaries who engage in public or quasi-public functions (e.g., corporate directors and health plan administrators) and therefore fail to protect beneficiaries.  She uses game theory to demonstrate why fiduciaries do not behave in socially desirable ways in spite of public perception about the efficacy of such legal restrictions.  Her proposals include more targeted regulations and less outsourcing to private actors when fiduciaries continue to put their self-interest ahead of beneficiaries’ interests. 

    During the conference, Professor Roth presented her work and received feedback from peers and members of the University of Michigan faculty.  Notably, Professor David Miller from the Department of Economics spent a significant amount of time discussing game theory during and after her panel, and Professor J.J. Prescott, Co-director of Michigan Law School’s Empirical Legal Studies Center and Program in Law and Economics, also provided important feedback.   

  • Professor Rodger Citron Publishes Review of the Hon. Gary Stein’s “Justice for Sale”

    Associate Dean Rodger Citron’s review of the Hon. Gary Stein’s biography of Martin Manton, “Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham,” is below at the link.

    The Federal Judge Who Sold Justice: | Rodger Citron | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia

    As Judge Stein describes, Manton served on the Second Circuit for more than two decades and nearly was appointed to the United States Supreme Court but resigned from the bench in disgrace in 1939, before he was indicted on federal corruption charges.

    Bonus track: Here is Associate Dean Citron’s podcast with Judge Stein about his book on the Touro Law Review: PODCAST: The Hon. Gary Stein on Justice for Sale, his Biography of Martin T. Manton – Touro Law Review BLOG (wpcomstaging.com)

  • Professor Richard Klein quoted in Financial Times Article on Donald Trump Case in New York

    Professor Emeritus Richard Klein was quoted in a recent article in the Financial Times on New York County’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump. Trial of the case began this week.

    Klein was quoted in two paragraphs. Here is the first:

    “But even legal scholars and experienced lawyers from across the political divide have expressed scepticism. ‘The weaknesses in the case are clear,’ said Richard Klein, a professor at Touro Law school. The conduct in question is so slight, he adds, that it amounts to ‘a silly, trite, trivial case’.”

    And here is the second (in a discussion of two important prosecution witnesses, Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels):

    “Klein said: ‘For any jury to assess the credibility of the star witnesses for the prosecution, it’s gonna be a . . . tough barrier for Bragg’s office to overcome.’ In effect, he added, the prosecution will be saying: ‘Well, they’ve lied in the past, but now they’re not.’”

    The entire article is available here: Donald Trump’s ‘zombie’ case lurches towards an unlikely place in history.pdf(Review) – Adobe cloud storage.

  • Professor Michael Lewyn Publishes Article on “Green Amendments”

    Professor Michael Lewyn recently published an article on “Green Amendments, Land Use and Transportation: What Could Go Wrong?” in the Pace Environmental Law Review. The article is available here:

    “Green Amendments, Land Use, and Transportation: What Could Go Wrong?” by Michael Lewyn (urlisolation.com)

  • Professor Richard Klein Quoted in Newsday Article on O.J. Simpson Case

    Professor Emeritus Richard Klein was quoted in a Newsday article on the O.J. Simpson case. The article states:

    “Richard Klein, a criminal law professor at Touro Law School, said the Simpson trial introduced millions of Americans to the concept of jury nullification — when a jury decides not to convict, even though it was shown beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime. 

    “At the heart of the verdict, Klein said, was racial division and the often adversarial relationship some minorities felt toward law enforcement.

    “‘The country was so racially divided,’ Klein said. ‘Whites, by and large, thought he killed his wife and a lot of Blacks didn’t. They also didn’t want to see their hero convicted. And they wanted to punish the police because of what they thought was racism.’”

    The entire article is available here: J. Simpson’s fall from grace a perfect tabloid storm – Newsday

  • Professor Meredith Miller Joins Board of Judges & Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert

    Professor Meredith Miller has joined the board of the Lawyers Division of Judges & Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert (“JALBCA”).  For more details about JALBCA, see https://jalbca.org/about/.

  • Touro Law Review’s Latest Issue Features Articles by Touro Law Alums

    The Touro Law Review has published its most recent issue, available at Touro Law – Vol. 39, No.2.

    The issue features articles by graduates of Touro Law Center. The authors include Michael J. Borger, Alyaa Chace, Samantha Karpman, Christopher J. Manettas, Giulia R. Marino, Alisson Sandoval, and John R. Sepulveda.

    There also is an article by Steven Pepe, Samuel Brenner, and Michael Morales (Pepe and Morales are alums) and an article by Joshua J. Schroeder.

    The issue concludes with a note by Jacqueline Fink, a Touro Law student who will be graduating in May.

  • Professor Tal Kastner’s Conference Presentations in March

    In March, Assistant Professor Tal Kastner presented her work-in-progress (Against) Against the Drafter (with Farshad Ghodoosi) at the Winter Deals Conference hosted by BYU Law. She also presented this project at the University of Virginia School of Law as part of the Sokol Colloquium: Landmines, Blackholes and the Contract Production Paradox, a gathering of experts on the production and implications of boilerplate contract provisions.   

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