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The College of Staten Island’s Legal Studies Institute (LSI) is housed within the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs and the Department of Philosophy.

Friday, November 4, 2016

Free Full-Day LSAT Workshop with PreProBono

The College of Staten Island Legal Studies Institute Presents:

PreProBono LSAT Prep. One-Day Workshop 
at the College of Staten Island

Open to all CUNY students


November 13th, 2016 at College of Staten Island
Sunday, 10am - 7pm, Building 2N, Room 220
7 hours of Intensive LSAT training


All Students Attend for Free!  A $50.00 deposit is required.  The full amount of the deposit will be refunded after you complete the one-day program.

Registration closes 11:59pm on November 6th, 2016.

If you have any difficulty registering on the PreProBono Website, then please contact Ms. Alina Artunian directly at:


Questions?  Contact Professor Michael Paris, Michael.Paris@csi.cuny.edu

The Future Looks Just. Like You.

PreProBono is a NYC based 501(c)3 non-profit organization in operation since 2008 and with an alumni network of over 1,000 students who have been accepted to top law schools across the country, including Stanford, Harvard, Columbia and NYU. 

Monday, October 31, 2016

Reminder: Law School Admissions Process Workshop Tomorrow

Please join us for the following event on the law school admissions process (Pizza and drinks will be served):

The CSI Legal Studies Institute Presents:


The Law School Admissions Process:
A Discussion With



Ziva Cohen, Esq.
Associate Director of Admissions
Cardozo School of Law

Degna P. Levister, Esq.
Clinical Law Professor/
Interim Assistant Dean of Admissions
CUNY School of Law


Tuesday, November 1st
2:30—4:00 pm
Building 2N, Room 220


Pizza and drinks will be servedContact Prof. Michael Paris:  Michael.Paris@csi.cuny.edu

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Law School Admissions Process Workshop, Tue., Nov. 1

Please join us for the following event on the law school admissions process (Pizza and drinks will be served):



The CSI Legal Studies Institute Presents:


The Law School Admissions Process:
A Discussion With



Ziva Cohen, Esq.
Associate Director of Admissions
Cardozo School of Law

Degna P. Levister, Esq.
Clinical Law Professor/
Interim Assistant Dean of Admissions
CUNY School of Law


Tuesday, November 1st
2:30—4:00 pm
Building 2N, Room 220


Pizza and drinks will be served
Contact Prof. Michael Paris:  Michael.Paris@csi.cuny.edu

Monday, October 17, 2016

Legal Career Night at St. John's Univ, Tuesday, October 18th


You are invited to a Legal Career Evening 

featuring:



St. John's University
300 Howard Avenue
Staten Island, NY  10301

For more information, contact:
kennyj@stjohns.edu

Sunday, September 11, 2016


The College of Staten Island Legal Studies Institute’s 2016 Annual Lecture in Law, Philosophy, and Public Policy

The Abortion Conflict and the Court:
From Casey (1992) to Whole Women’s Health (2016)

Reva Siegel
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Thursday, September 15th
Williamson Theatre, Center for the Performing Arts
Building 1 P
5:00 o'clock

Reception to Follow in the West Lounge


Professor Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Siegel’s writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. 

Her recent articles include Casey and The Clinic Closings: When “Protecting Health” Obstructs Choice, 125 Yale L.J. 1428 (2016) (with Linda Greenhouse); Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics, 124 Yale L.J. (2015) (with Doug NeJaime); Meador Lecture: Race-Conscious, But Race-Neutral? The Constitutionality of Disparate Impact in the Roberts Court, 66 Ala. L. Rev. (2015); The Supreme Court, 2012 Term — Foreword: Equality Divided, 127 Harv. L. Rev. (2013); and The Constitutionalization of Abortion, in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law 1057 (Oxford University Press 2012). Her books include Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (with Paul Brest, Sanford Levinson, Jack M. Balkin, and Akhil Reed Amar, 2014); Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling (with Linda Greenhouse, 2012); and The Constitution in 2020 (edited with Jack M. Balkin, 2009). Professor Siegel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History, and serves on the board of the American Constitution Society and on the General Council of the International Society of Public Law.

For more information, contact Professor Michael Paris, Michael.Paris@csi.cuny.edu