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Too Many Law Students, Too Few LegalJobs

By STEVEN J. HARPER. August 25, 2015

Sunday Review | EDITORIAL

The Law School Debt Crisis

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD OCT. 24, 2015

TWO GREAT EVENTS YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS: MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29^TH:

FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS:

Is the two-state solution dead? What is the alternative?

Prof. Khalil Shikaki and Prof. Shai Feldman, Brandeis University

Moderator: Prof. Richard Flanagan,

CSI Dept. of Political Science & Global Affairs

Thursday, Oct. 29th, 2:30 – 4 p.m.

The Performing Arts Center (1P),

Room 223 (Screening Room)

Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs

Professors Feldman and Shikaki are co-authors of a new book entitled Palestinians and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East. They will discuss the current stalemate in Israeli-Palestinian relations, drivers behind the conflict, and implications for both sides using data from a large-scale survey project measuring public opinion in both Palestine and Israel. They will also discuss necessary next steps for Israel and Palestine, the U.S., and the international community in order to ensure peace in the region.

Prof. Khalil Shikaki is Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, and Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. A world-renowned expert on Palestinian public opinion and a widely published author, he has taught at several institutions, including Birzeit University, An-Najah National University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of South Florida. He was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC in 2002.

Prof. Shai Feldman is the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics at Brandeis University. He is a Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard University’s Belfer Center and an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute in London. From 1997 to 2005, he was Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and in 2001-2003, he served as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.

This event is CLUE certified.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4^TH

The CSI Legal Studies Institute Presents:

Studies in Race, Crime, and Public Policy

Naomi Murakawa

Associate Professor of African-American Studies

Princeton University

“The First Civil Right: 

How Liberals Built Prison America”

Wednesday, November 4^th

5:00 p.m.

Williamson Theatre

Center for the Performing Arts

Reception to Follow

Naomi Murakawa is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She studies the reproduction of racial inequality in 20^th and 21^st century American politics, with specialization in crime policy and the carceral state. She is the author of The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Oxford University Press, 2014).  Professor Murakawa received her B.A. in women’s studies from Columbia University, her M.Sc. in social policy from the London School of Economics, and her Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.  

Sponsored by the CSI Legal Studies Institute, The Campus Activities Board (with student activities fees),

 the CSI Student Government Association, and the Staten Island Foundation.  This is a CLUE certified event.

REMINDER: LECTURE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19TH

The CSI Legal Studies Institute Presents:

Fall Lecture Series: Studies in Race, Crime and Public Policy

Lecture I:

Khalil Gibran Muhammad,

Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library

“The Condemnation of Blackness:

Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America”

Monday, October 19^th

5:00 p.m.

Williamson Theatre, Center for the Performing Arts (Building 1P)

Reception to Follow

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. He is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2011). A native of Chicago, he received his Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University, after which he spent seven years on the faculty of Indiana University. Muhammad recently served on the National Academy of Sciences committee to study the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration, and is currently working on his second book, Disappearing Acts: The End of White Criminality in the Age of Jim Crow.

Abstract of Book and Lecture:

The idea of black criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America, as were African Americans’ own ideas about race and crime. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, The Condemnation of Blackness reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.

Dear students interested in law school:

LSAC Law School Forums are held around the country to give prospective law students an opportunity to talk personally with representatives from law schools and to collect admission materials from schools throughout the country. 

See the information below about the New York City Law School Forum this weekend.

If you are thinking about law school, Law School Forums are an excellent resource for you.

Admission to all Law School Forums is free.

To save time at the forum, we recommend that you preregister by clicking one of the “Register Now” buttons below.  Click on this link to register:

http://www.lsac.org/jd/choosing-a-law-school/law-school-recruitment-forums

LSAC Law School Forum NYC October 2015

New York, NY

Friday, October 16, 2015

10:00 am–4:00 pm: Workshops

noon–5:00 pm: Talk with School Reps

Saturday, October 17, 2015

9:00 am–4:00 pm: Workshops

11:00 am–4:00 pm: Talk with School Reps

Hilton New York

1335 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10019