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Jeremy Sheff
At the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in January, Professor Jeremy Sheff was elected to the board of AALS’s Intellectual Property Law Section. AALS is a nonprofit association of 178 law schools, and also serves as the learned society for the more than 9,000 law faculty at its member schools. Professor Sheff is the Director of the new St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center.
On December 16, 2014, Professor John Q. Barrett was the guest speaker at Columbia
John Barrett
University’s Seminar on the Problem of Peace. The Seminar, founded by Phillip C. Jessup in 1945, is a trans-university forum concerned with peace, security, international organizations and dispute resolution. Professor Barrett spoke about the ICC and the problems of attempting to investigate and prosecute criminally, nationally and/or internationally, through the ICC or ad hoc, sitting heads of state.
Jeff Sovern
In an American Banker op-ed, Consumers Fare Better with Arbitration, Alan Kaplinsky, Mark Levin, and Daniel McKenna, lawyers from Ballard Spahr, a leading firm representing banks and others in the consumer financial services industry, commented on the St. John’s Arbitration Study, and responded to an earlier American Banker op-ed authored by Professor Jeff Sovern. Sovern rebutted in another American Banker op-ed, Arbitration Tricks Consumers into Giving Up Their Rights. In addition, Maryland law professor Peter Holland offered his own views on the study in a blog post.
Vincent Di Lorenzo’s article, “The 2008 Amendments to the New York Adverse Possession Law: Unresolved Ambiguity and Suggestions for Clarity,” has been published in the winter 2015 issue of the N.Y. Real Property Law Journal. He will present his findings at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Bar Association on January 29, 2015.
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