Professor Lazaro also participated on PLI’s Securities Arbitration 2020 program. She moderated the panel, Arbitration and Mediation Settlement Practicum, which discussed settlement strategies and handling mediations in an online setting. Professor Lazaro also participated as a speaker on the panel, Staying Ahead of the Curve: Hot Topics in Securities Arbitration and Future Trends, during which she discussed changes to the standards governing investment professionals and other issues on the horizon in securities arbitration for 2021. Additionally, Professor Lazaro and Scott Eichhorn co-authored the article, Telephonic Mediations of Small Claims, for the program materials.
Christine Lazaro Professor of Clinical Legal Education Director, Securities Arbitration Clinic
The article focuses on Bloostein v. Morrison Cohen LLP, 2019 N.Y. Slip Op. 50199(U) (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. Feb. 2019) (Westlaw), which held that additional taxes caused by a tax advisor’s negligence may be recoverable under New York law. While this holding seems unexceptionable under traditional New York tort law, it is important because several cases decided between 2007 and 2014 held such additional taxes were not recoverable. These other cases, rather inexplicably, relied on precedent decided under the fraud measure of damages. Todres is hopeful that Bloostein has properly reset the focus in this area.
Yesterday Professor Christopher Borgen posted an essay, “Space Power, Space Force, and Space Law,” on the new Articles of War blog, which is under the auspices of West Point’s Lieber Institute. In it, he describes aspects of the current transformation of civilian and military space activities and introduces some of the ways that the law of armed conflict and space law overlap in this rapidly evolving environment.
A link to Professor Borgen’s essay is available here.
Christopher J. Borgen Professor of Law Co-Director, Center for International and Comparative Law
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