Faculty Highlights: Fall 2023
New York Law School faculty are dedicated educators and renowned experts in their respective fields. Their scholarship and professional achievements advance the rule of law and legal educational excellence in New York, across the nation, and around the world. These items represent a sample of the activities of NYLS’s full-time faculty.
John Marshall Harlan II Professor Penelope Andrews was awarded the Deborah L. Rhode Award, a joint recognition by four sections of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).
Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law Lenni B. Benson was an advisor for the NYC Mayor’s Office on the establishment of their asylum application assistance center.
Dean and President Anthony W. Crowell was featured in AM New York/PoliticsNY’s “Power Players in Education” 2023 list
Wallace Stevens Professor Kris Franklin is a new member of the editorial board of the Journal of Law Teaching and Learning.
Associate Professor David Simson is the Chair Elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Employment Discrimination Law Section.
Dean for Advocacy and Co-Curricular Programs Lynn Boepple Su served as a Fulbright Specialist in a program run by the U.S. State Department and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Assistant Professor Claire R. Thomas ’11 was selected for a three-year term as a Peer Reviewer for the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.
Associate Professor Britney Wilson was selected as a 2023 Health Law Scholar by the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and the Saint Louis University School of Law's Center for Health Law Studies.
John Marshall Harlan II Professor Penelope Andrews authored “The Casserole Constitution: The South African Constitution and International Law,” a chapter in Laws: Rigidity and Dynamics (2023).
Associate Professor Molly Guptill Manning authored The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II (Blackstone Publishing, 2023).
Associate Professor Justin Murray authored “The Procedural Architecture of Mass Incarceration,” a chapter in Mass Incarceration in the 21st Century: Realities and Reflections (Routledge, 2023).
Assistant Professor Amy Wallace authored “Flexibility is Everything,” a chapter in Street Law: Theory and Practice (Hart Publishing, 2023).
John Marshall Harlan II Professor Penelope Andrews authored “Reflections on South Africa’s First Black Chief Justice” in the Law and Society Review.
Professor Richard Chused authored “Mural ©ontroversy” in the Vermont Law Review.
Professor from Practice Shahrokh Falati ’08 authored "A Singular Disclosure Requirement Is Necessary For Patent Law" in the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review and “US Patent Law Hinders Life-Saving Cancer Therapy Development” in Bloomberg Law.
Professor Doni Gewirtzman co-authored “Practice Perfect Constitutional Law II” (Aspen Publishing), a study supplement on constitutional law and constitutional rights.
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Institutional Strategy Matt Gewolb authored “Law Professors’ Conceptualization and Use of Students’ Prior Knowledge and Experience in Developing Subject-Matter Understanding,” (Ed.D. Dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023)
Professor Gowri J. Krishna co-authored Expanding Your Worker Cooperative Business: A Guide to Licensing & Franchising (Democracy at Work Institute, 2023)
Associate Professor Molly Guptill Manning authored “Fight back! Stay curious, expand your mind and ‘don’t become sheep’” in the Miami Herald.
Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor Rebecca Roiphe co-authored “Depoliticizing Federal Prosecution” in the Denver Law Review.
Associate Professor David Simson authored “Methodological Gerrymandering” in the Cleveland State Law Review.
As a nationally-recognized immigration expert, Distinguished Chair in Immigration and Human Rights Law Lenni B. Benson shared her legal expertise with several national news organizations, including Bloomberg, Law360, and the New York Times.
In addition to being a regular legal expert for the Law & Crime Network, Professor Kirk D. Burkhalter ’04 appeared on local, national, and international media outlets, including CBS, CP24, and CTV News, to discuss breaking news on policing, gun violence, and legal issues. He provided his expertise on topics including the Philadelphia police shooting of Eddie Irizarry and the arrest in the shooting death of Tupac Shakur. He also was featured in a documentary film on a shooting involving ex-NFL players, entitled Behind The Crime: Self Defense or Slaughter.
Professor Anna G. Cominsky ’05 was a featured expert for several national news organizations, including Time, Business Insider, and the Washington Post; she offered legal analysis and context on a number of breaking news topics such as updates on the indictments against former President Trump and the charges against Twitch streamer Kai Cenat after a chaotic giveaway in NYC.
Dean and President Anthony W. Crowell featured in “What I Wish I Knew Then: Anthony Crowell” in the New York Law Journal.
As a CBS News legal analyst, Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor Rebecca Roiphe regularly appeared on national television to analyze breaking legal and political news, including updates on the cases against former President Trump and Sam Bankman-Fried's defense in his fraud trial. She is a widely sought-after legal expert for her scholarship in criminal law, ethics, and legal history in addition to her experience as a former Manhattan prosecutor, and she has also appeared on numerous other national outlets, including Bloomberg, CNN, and MSNBC.
Associate Dean for Upper Level Writing Heidi K. Brown spoke at the World Congress of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) in Vancouver on a panel called "Positive Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities." She also presented on her latest book, The Flourishing Lawyer, to the Swedish Bar Association.
Dean and President Anthony W. Crowell spoke on innovation in bar success programs at the Ninth Annual AccessLex Legal Education Research Symposium in Chicago.
Professor Anna G. Cominsky ’05 presented on the ethics surrounding the use of artificial intelligence and the interplay of attorney mental health and ethics at the New Jersey Association for Justice's Meadowlands Seminar 2023.
Assistant Professor Catharine Du Bois led the legal writing portion of the Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDF) and the Latino Justice Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy training for practicing attorneys. She also co-presented a two-day course on persuasive legal writing to over 40 public defenders in Lagos, Nigeria, at the invitation of the Lagos Office of the Public Defender.
Associate Professor Molly Guptill Manning curated "The Best-Read Army in the World" exhibit at the Grolier Club and presented a talk there on the theme of censorship, propaganda, and book bans.
Associate Professor Justin Murray presented at a Cardozo Law School symposium at Cardozo Law School on the future of the criminal legal system.
Professor Andrew Scherer presented on his article for the Seton Hall Law Review, "The Case Against Summary Eviction Proceedings: Process as Racism and Oppression," to the entering class of new housing rights attorneys at Legal Services NYC as part of their orientation program. He also presented at a Manhattan Housing Court program on the future of NYC Housing Court and how to improve it, and was one of the experts at a national roundtable on the growing movement to establish a right to counsel for tenants in eviction cases and in other civil proceedings, organized by ChangeLab Solutions.
Associate Professor David Simson organized and moderated three workshops on employment discrimination law for the Employment Discrimination Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS).
Dean for Advocacy and Co-Curricular Programs Lynn Boepple Su designed and taught a course, which introduced Chilean law students and lawyers to the U.S. legal system and common legal terminology, at the Facultad de Derecho Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile.
Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law Ruti G. Teitel presented a chapter of her forthcoming book: Reckoning with our Global Wrongs: Profiles in Executive Leadership (Oxford University Press) at an international conference in Frankfurt, Germany, marking the bicentenary of the Monroe Doctrine.
Assistant Professor Claire R. Thomas ’11 presented on asylum and fear-based relief at the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) 's 56th Annual Immigration and Naturalization Institute.
Assistant Professor Amy Wallace presented a workshop on the importance of personalizing street law lessons at the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine 2023 Street Law Competition. She also facilitated workshops at the U.K. and Ireland Street Law Conference in Cardiff, Wales.
Associate Professor Britney Wilson presented on her forthcoming article on the function of race and disability in death investigation at the 22nd Annual Health Law Scholars Workshop in Saint Louis. She also presented on her University of Pennsylvania Law Review article, “Making Me Ill: Environmental Racism and Justice as Disability,” at the Western New England Law Review Symposium entitled “The Color of Law: The Intersection of Race and the Law” and as a guest lecturer in the Law and Social Movements Colloquium at Georgetown University Law Center.