Posted in Podcasts on Mar 12th, 2013
In July 2012, the Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) presented a program at the annual conference in Boston, MA titled Access to Indian Legal Information in Digital Environment: A Comparative Study of Commercial Databases and Public Domain Resources in Law. The FCIL-SIS Executive Committee was proud to welcome the eleventh recipient of the FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, Ms. Priya Rai. Ms. Priya Rai, the 2012 recipient, is the Deputy Librarian In-Charge at the Justice T.P.S. Chawla Library, National Law University Delhi, India. She has worked in this capacity since June 2009, and is responsible for providing legal information services to law students and faculty. Ms. Rai provides legal research training at the National Law University, Delhi, but is also engaged with the wider legal community, contributing to the Legal Information Institute of India Project, and providing legal research services to attorneys, judges, and parliamentarians. Click here to read more about Ms. Priya Rai.
Ms. Rai delivered an enriching presentation to a room filled with experts in international, foreign, and comparative legal research, addressing the process of publishing and publishers of Indian Legal Information as well as the digital access thereto. She has provided invaluable insight into the differences between commercial and public domain access to Indian legal information and where to access authoritative Indian legal documents. The audience engaged in a live question and answer segment at the end expanding on the presentation. To listen Ms. Priya Rai’s presentation, please access the MP3 file below. Click here to access Ms. Rai’s slides.
MP3
Access to Indian Digital Legal Information by Priya Rai
Playing Time: 48:06
Parts
Introduction by Sergio Stone (2012 FCIL-SIS Chair) at 0:00
Introduction of the speaker by Ryan Harrington (2012 FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant Selection Committee Chair) at 2:16
Ms. Priya Rai (2012 FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant Recipient) at 5:48
Questions & Answers Segment with Priya Rai at 33:54
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Posted in Podcasts on Dec 21st, 2012
Hello! For our last podcast of the year 2012, the Library is proud to feature one of our John Jay Legal Services clinical programs – Pace Investor Rights Clinic, also known as PIRC. With the leadership, mentoring, and support of PIRC Director, Professor Jill I. Gross, and its Assistant Director, Visiting Professor Ed Pekarek, Pace students have the priceless opportunity to experience first-hand the ups and downs of representing clients in disputes involving modest means customers of securities brokerage firms.
Please join Ed and his 2011-2012 class of Kat Davydov, Dave Haimi, Charlie Italiano, Joe Jacobson, Kristen Mogavero, Jay Park, Gena Shingle, and Jaime Trevino, Jr., as they share experiences they gained and observations they made while representing real clients in arbitrations, mediations and negotiations, and being named National Champions of the 2011 FINRA / St. John’s Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon as part of their clinical program at Pace. Student-interns in PIRC have recovered almost $130,000.00 for modest means New York investors in 2012 and well over one-half million dollars since its founding in 1997.
MP3:
Investors Rights Clinic at Pace: Intro by Prof Pekarek
Pace Investor Rights Clinic: Taking on Wall Street
Playing Time: 37:27 min
Parts:
Prof. Ed Pekared introduces PIRC (at 0:00)
Students’ Roundtable Discussion (at 4:27)
Related Readings
PIRC
Investor Rights Clinic Brochure
Investor Rights Clinic Client Eligibility Standards and Questionnaire
Clinical Programs at Pace Law School
Featured Music
“Sue Me” by the Donman Band, available from PodsafeAudio.
Posted in Podcasts on Jun 4th, 2012
The fourth annual Bookbag to Briefcase program was held on April 11, 2012 at 3:00 pm at the Pace Law Library, offering a wide range of tips and tricks to students on how to succeed in a law firm environment. Students attended this collaborative effort of Pace Law Library, Pace Center for Career Development, LexisNexis and Westlaw in high numbers again. After Marie Newman introduced the program and speakers, Dean Rachel Littman delivered insightful presentation on how to make a good and lasting first impression, how to be proactive, and how to overall succeed during summer internship, externship, or postgraduate program. Cynthia Pittson followed with a presentation covering the free and low cost legal research alternatives to LexisNexis and Westlaw that students might want to be aware of during their summer jobs. Mary Beth Drain from LexisNexis and Harrison Thompson from Westlaw concluded this year program with vibrant presentations listing a number of cost-effective search tips and techniques students can implement during their respective summer jobs to keep the cost of research down.
If you missed it, could not come, or would like a re-fresher, please, click the MP3 below to listen to the entire program. Expanded guide on free and low cost legal research alternatives is availabale here. Should you have any questions about this program, or recommendations, ideas, or suggestions on how to make it better, please submit those at 
or leave a comment below.
Speakers
Marie Newman, Pace Law Library Director (at 0:00 min)
Rachel Littman, Assistant Dean for Career Development (at 2:33 min)
Cynthia Pittson, Head of Reference Services (at 26:59 min)
Mary Beth Drain, LexisNexis Representative (at 45:40 min)
Harrison Thompson, Westlaw Representative (at 57:37 min)
MP3
Bookbag to Briefcase 2012
Playing Time: 1:14:45 min
Posted in Podcasts on Feb 29th, 2012
In July 2011, the Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) presented a program at the annual conference in Philadelphia, PA titled Never Again, Never Forget: The Role of Libraries and Archives in Reconstructing Memory of Argentina’s Dirty War. The FCIL-SIS Executive Committee was proud to welcome the tenth recipient of the FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, Ms. Gloria Marcela Orrego Hoyos. Ms. Orrego Hoyos, the 2011 recipient, is the Legal Reference Librarian and a Professor of Law and Legal Research Methods at the Biblioteca Max von Buch, Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a librarian there since 2004, she helps patrons find domestic and foreign law; oversees the library’s legal database subscriptions; organizes, promotes, and delivers library instruction to the university community; maintains and updates the online reference service; and is involved in a project to create a unified citation system. As a Professor of Law since 2008, she teaches legal research and is responsible for ensuring legal information literacy. To read more about Ms. Orrego Hoyos, please click here.
Ms. Orrego Hoyos delivered an excellent presentation to a room filled with over hundred attendees. She addressed the history of the sad and incredibly sensitive Argentine’s Dirty War, the current debate and the important role the librarians, libraries and archives have played in reconstructing the memory of this dark chapter in the history of Argentina. To listen to Ms. Orrego Hoyos’ presentation, please access the MP3 file below.
MP3
Argentine Dirty War and Libraries and Archives by Ms. Gloria Orrego Hoyos
Playing Time: 54:53
Parts
Introduction by Jeanne Rehberg (2011 FCIL-SIS Chair) at 0:00
Introduction of the speaker by Teresa Miguel (2011 FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant Selection Committee Chair) at 3:06
Gloria Marcela Orrego Hoyos (2011 FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant Recipient) at 8:52
Questions from the Audience at 51:21
Related Readings
- Gloria Orrego Hoyos, FCIL-SIS Ellen Schaffer Grant 2011: A Two-Way Experience, FCIL Newsletter, Feb. 2012, at 1, http://www.aallnet.org/sis/fcilsis/vol26/Feb2012.pdf.
- Juan Forero, Argentina’s Dirty War Still Haunts the Youngest Victims, NPR (Feb. 27, 2010), http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124125440.
- Press Release, State Department Opens Files on Argentina’s Dirty War, National Security Archive, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB73/.
- Monographs available at Pace Libraries.
Posted in Podcasts on Apr 5th, 2011
On March 18, 2011 the Pace Law Library hosted its third annual Bookbag to Briefcase presentation. The students have found this collaborative effort of the Pace Career Development office, Pace Law Library, LexisNexis and Westlaw to be useful and valuable. The presenters, Rachel J. Littman for the Career Development Office, Cynthia Pittson for the Law Library, Mary Beth Drain for LexisNexis, and Harrison Thompson for Westlaw shared information on how to start a successful summer internship or post-graduate position. Tune in and don’t miss the opportunity to learn about the free and low cost alternatives to traditional research, how to be cost effective when using Westlaw and Lexis, and basic tipson how to be a successful legal professional from the start.
Please click the MP3 file below to listen to the entire program. Anexpanded version of the Free and Low Cost Resources is available here. If you have any questions, email us.
Speakers
Marie Newman, Pace Law Library Director (at 0:00min)
Rachel J. Littman, Assistant Dean for Career Development (at 2:27 min)
Cynthia Pittson, Head of Reference Services (at 20:24 min)
Harrison Thompson, Westlaw Representative (at 34:09 min)
Mary Beth Drain, LexisNexis Representative (at 43:50 min)
MP3
Bookbag to Briefcase 2011
Playing time: 50:05 min
Posted in Podcasts on Feb 7th, 2011
In January 2011, Prof. Bennett Gershman of Pace Law School, New York, has participated on a panel as part of victims’ rights seminar held by the Ministry of Justice for prosecutors and judicial officials in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Prof. Gershman was invited to appear as an expert next to Ms. Jennifer Long, the director of Aequitas Resource and an expert on victims of sexual assault and Mr. Marcel Vanpeet from the Netherlands Forensic Institute, an expert on collection and preservation of forensic evidence.
The panel discussed a variety of very important issues surrounding the victims’ rights and their participation during criminal and/or civil trials, and emphasized the importance of bringing the rights of victims to the forefront of criminal justice systems. To hear more, access the below MP3 file and join Prof. Gershman as he reflects on his experience.
MP3
Gershman on Rights of Victims
Playing time: 32:18
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“D” by Aaron Derington, available from PodsafeAudio.
Posted in Podcasts on Jan 31st, 2011
In July 2010, the Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) presented a program at the annual conference in Denver, CO, titled Conflict of Laws in a Federation: The Nigerian Experience. The FCIL Executive Committee was proud to welcome the speaker and the 2010 recipient of the FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, Ms. Ufuoma Lamikanra from the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, where Ms. Lamikanra is in charge of the Readers’ Services Section. She engages in reference and noter-up services, indexes and abstracts legal publications, and compiles bibliographies and reading lists. Ms. Lamikanra taught Legal Methods, Environmental Law, Use of the Library, and Evidence during her sabbatical leave at the Babcock University Law School, and she is an adjunct lecturer in Business Law for the Distance Learning Institute at the University of Lagos. To read more about Ms. Lamikanra, please click here.
Ms. Lamikanra delivered an excellent presentation where she addressed the complexity of the Nigerian legal system and its literature, including the issues associated with the influence of English law, customary law, and Sharia law in Nigerian legislation and judicial decision making. She also discussed the administration of justice in Nigeria, the system of reporting (its evolution, trends and challenges), the publication of primary and secondary Nigerian legal materials and the challenges facing the industry, and the challenges law librarians face in the acquisition of Nigerian legal materials. To listen to Ms. Lamikanra’s presentation, please access the MP3 file below.
MP3
The Nigerian Experience by Ms. Lamikanra
Playing Time: 51:59
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Posted in Podcasts on Jan 13th, 2011
Please join Professor Bridget J. Crawford as she reviews 10 noteworthy law review articles on estate and gift tax law published in 2010. This 22-minute recordingcovers the same material as her article Estate and Gift Tax Law Review Articles You Should Have Read (But Probably Didn’t) in 2010,forthcoming in Tax Notes, and is designed to allow listeners tomulti-task while catching up on some important reading from the prior year. See the abstract here.
Articles Reviewed (in alphabetical order by author’s name):
- Jeffrey A. Cooper, Ghosts of 1932: The Lost History of Estate and Gift Taxation, 9 Fla. Tex. Rev. 875 (2010).
- William A. Drennan, Surnamed Charitable Trusts: Immortality at Taxpayers Expense, 61 Ala. L. Rev. 225 (2010).
- Frances H. Foster, American Trust Law in Chinese Mirror, 94 Minn. L. Rev. 602 (2010).
- Iris J. Goodwin, How the Rich Stay Rich: Using a Family Trust Company to Secure a Family Fortune, 40 Seton Hall L. Rev. 457 (2010).
- John H. Langbein, Burn the Rembrandt? Trust Law’s Limits on the Settlor’s Power to Direct Investments, 90 B. U. L. Rev. 375 (2010).
- Alberto B. Lopez, Re-evaluation of Cy Pres Redux, 78 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1307 (2010).
- Kelly A. Moore, Previously Taxed Property Credit and the 2035(b) Gross Up, 34 S. Ill. U. L. J. 275 (2010).
- Kerry A. Ryan, Human Capital and Transfer Taxation, 62 Okla. L. Rev. 223 (2010).
- Carla Spivack, Why the Testamentary Doctrine of Undue Influence Should Be Abolished, 58 U. Kan. L. Rev. 245 (2010).
- Stewart E. Sterk, Rethinking Trust Law Reform: How Prudent is Modern Prudent Investor Doctrine?, 95 Cornell L. Rev. 851 (2010).
MP3
Playing time: 22:25
CrawfordEstate&GiftTaxLaw
Posted in Podcasts on Sep 15th, 2010
Sexting is a new phenomenon thatis growing exponentially each day. Join Prof. John Humbach and Prof. Bridget Crawford, both from Pace Law School, discussingProf. Humbach’s article, titled “Sexting” and the First Amendment, asProf. Humbach explains the First Amendment and the implications of teenagers engaging in creating, sending, receiving and possessing sexually explicitimages. Prof. Humbach writes that “[g]iven the reality of changing socialpractices, mores, and technology utilization, today’s pornography laws are atrap for unwary teens and operate, in effect, to criminalize a large fractionof America’s young people. ” Access the full article.
Recommended Citation
John Humbach, “Sexting” and the First Amendment, 37 Hastings Const. L. Q. 433 (2010).
MP3
Playing Time: 15:05
HumbachOnSexting
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“D” by Aaron Derington, available from PodsafeAudio.
Posted in Podcasts on Apr 28th, 2010
International and transnational law is a growing and quickly evolving area of law. We are pleased to invite you to join Damon Schwartz, Pace Law School and Vis Moot alum, currently clerking for the Honorable Judge Delissa A. Ridgway at the United States Court of International Trade as he interviews Dr. Klaus Peter Berger, a Professor of Law at the Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL) at the University of Cologne, in Germany. Prof. Berger is the founder of CENTRAL. He conducts research in transnational law and provides for the integration of practical training in the study of law. Prof. Berger is the author of The Creeping Codification of The New Lex Mercatoria and the founder of a free research and codification platform for transnational law, Trans-Lex.org available at www.trans-lex.org, both discussed in this podcast.
Links of Interest
Trans-Lex.org
The Creeping Codification of the New Lex Marcatoria 2nd Revised Edition
Private Dispute Resolution in International Business: Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration
MP3
Playing time: 26:29
BergerOnLexMercatoria&TransLex.mp3
Featured Music
“Sue Me” by the Donman Band, available from PodsafeAudio.
