Attorney Joel Berger (joelbergerlaw.com) is the latest guest on the New England Law Review Podcast where he discusses his latest article, published on The Forum, entitled "Reforming the NYPD and its Enablers Who Thwart Reform." This article, and many others, can be found at https://newenglrev.com.
Podcast for the New England Law Review Podcast. This article, and many others, can be found at https://newenglrev.com. "Good and great work is being done in the field of criminal law. The First Step Act has improved thousands of lives, promises to save taxpayer money, and offers a bipartisan template for success. But if that is all we hope for, we are leaving far too much on the table when the stakes are measured in lives and freedom. This is not a time for brutal timidity, and it never was."...
Hear from Professor Kent Schenkel in a NEW episode of the New England Law Review Podcast where he discusses both the challenges that face the law of trusts and also proposes potential solutions to those problems.
Can social media use cause problems for the courts? Professor Jordan Singer answers this question and more in this NEW episode of the New England Law Review Podcast. Find his blog at https://interdependentcourts.com/.
Professor Mohamed Arafa is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt; Adjunct Professor of Law at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indianapolis; Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Brasília School of Law (Brazil); and recently a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell University School of Law via the Clark Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East in Ithaca, New York. He has authored sever...
The New England Law Review hosted a symposium regarding Boston College Professor Kent Greenfield’s book Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It). The panelists discussed the role of corporations in American society and their claims to constitutional rights. In his book, Professor Greenfield suggests that ending corporate personhood is not the solution since it is consistent with the purpose of corporations and the Consitution itself that corporations can claim rights at least so...
Interview with Attorney Elizabeth Vulaj on the College Admissions Scandal. Elizabeth Vulaj is an associate with the New York office of Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney. She has written on the College Admissions Scandal extensively, including article for the New England Law Review and the New York bar Association Journal.
Interview with Professor Manus of New England Law | Boston. This interview explores the Supreme Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie.
Podcast with Professor Nicole Noel of New England Law | Boston. This podcast was record by Nicholas Babaian for the New England Law Review. The subject discusses the death penalty in America.
Fall 2019 New England Law Review Podcast- Attorney Genevieve Torres Counsel for the Educational Opportunities Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law answers questions regarding the Constitutionality of Holistic Admissions
Professor P.J. Blount joined the New England Law Review Podcast to discuss if forthcoming article entitled: Outer Space and International Geography: Article II and the Shape of Global Order. Professor Blount is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg. He is also an adjunct professor in the L.L.M in Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Professor Blount holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi School of Law, an L.L.M. from ...
This podcast was recorded in place of our Winter 2017 Symposium, which was cancelled because of harsh weather conditions. Our panelists included New York Times bestseller Alafair Burke, Honorable Michael Ponsor, and New England Law | Boston Professor Peter Manus, and they discussed our symposium topic, "The Novelization of the Criminal Justice System & Its Effect on Pop Culture."
We were joined by Professor Paul Teich, a Professor at New England Law | Boston, to discuss his recent Article published in On Remand: The Near-Term Employment Prospects of American Law School Graduates. Professor Teich has studied this topic in depth, and has compiled various data available including graduation rates, retention rates, and employment rates of new graduates. An analysis of this data, according to Professor Teich, will actually lead to a shortage of law school graduates who can fi...
On our latest podcast, we were joined by contributors to the On Remand inaugural Online Symposium, which focuses on the Market Basket saga. Dean Eric Gouvin, who is Dean of Western New England University School of Law, discusses his contribution to the symposium, titled, “What's Law Go to Do with It? An Essay About the Balance of Power in Corporate Governance Between Officers, Directors, and Shareholders.” We were also joined by New England Law | Boston Professor Eric Lustig, who is the director...
We were joined by Professor Victor Hansen, a Professor at New England Law | Boston, to discuss our recent Fall Symposium: Sexual Violence in the U.S. Military: Discipline, Justice, and Command. Professor Hansen has studied this problem in depth, and has served as a JAG officer in the US Military. In addition, Professor Hansen discusses Professor Vanlandingham's thesis that more oversight in the prosecutorial chain in the US military would help alleviate this issue. If you missed our Fall Symposi...
We were joined by Professor Tigran Eldred, a Professor at New England Law | Boston, to discuss his work in behavioral legal ethics. Professor Eldred's scholarship in this area was cited in a landmark legal ethics decision, United States v. Kentucky Bar Association. In addition, he blends this area into his Ethics class at New England Law. Professor Eldred explains the topic, the effect behavioral legal ethics has on lawyers, the United States v. Kentucky Bar Association decision, and his work in...
Today, we are discussing a recent Mass. Crim. Digest blog post on Commonwealth v. Vacher, decided August 14, 2014. The Mass. Crim. Digest, formerly known as the Massachusetts Criminal Digest, was the New England Law Review’s online case-summary database that provided citable, straightforward summaries of recent criminal law cases decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, or SJC. In 2014 the Mass. Crim. Digest was retired, though summaries of cases decided by the SJC under Articles 12 ...
Today, we are joined by Bruce Sunstein, founder and partner at Sunstein Kahn Murphy & Timbers, LLP, to discuss his forthcoming article “How Prometheus Has Upended Patent Eligibility: An Anatomy of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank.” His Article discusses the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, in which the Court ruled on the patent-eligibility of computer-related inventions, clarifying confusion of the application of the Court’s 2012 Mayo v. Prometheus decision to these inventi...
Today, we are joined by Louisa Gibbs, the New England Law Review’s former Executive Online Editor and a recent graduate of New England Law | Boston, to discuss her Comment entitled “EEOC v. Boh Brothers Construction Co.: Expanding Same-Sex Sexual Harassment Jurisprudence Beyond Sexual Desire,” which will be published in Volume 48, Book 4. Her Comment discusses the Fifth Circuit’s EEOC v. Boh Brothers Construction Co. decision, in which the court found the evidence sufficient to establish Title V...
Today, we are joined by Professor Steven Morrison, a Visiting Professor of Law at New England Law | Boston, to discuss his two latest pieces of scholarship. The first entitled “Brandenburg for Groups,” which seeks to recover the right to assembly as a core First Amendment right and proposes a test that would protect group activity. The second is entitled “The Membership Crime Origin of the Frist Amendment” and provides a historical overview of the World War 1 era during which time the First Amen...
We are joined today by Professor Natasha Varyani, faculty fellow of New England Law | Boston, to discuss her latest piece of scholarship entitled “Taxing Electronic Commerce: The Efforts of Sales and Use Tax to Evolve with Technology,” which explores the imposition of sales tax to online retailers and how those online retails, particularly Amazon.com, appear to support this move.
We are here today with Professor Peter Karol of New England Law | Boston to discuss his latest piece of scholarship entitled “The Constitutional Limitation on Trademark Propertization,” which explores whether the federal government has the constitutional authority to propertize trademark law.
The defendant, Daniel Horne, was convicted by a Superior Court jury of second-degree murder, possession of ammunition without proper firearm identification (“FID”), and two separate counts of unlicensed carrying of a rifle in an unpermitted area. The defendant appealed, arguing for reversal of his convictions due to the numerous errors that occurred at trial. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (“SJC”) vacated and set aside the conviction of second-degree murder, but affirmed the other c...
Learn more about the New England Law Review's Fall symposium "Benchmarks: Evaluating Measurements of Judicial Productivity" to be held at New England Law | Boston all day on November 8, 2013. Discussing the symposium, we have Professor Jordan Singer of New England Law | Boston. He co-authored with the Honorable Judge Young of the U.S. District Court the two articles that inspired the symposium. We also have Volume 48 Symposium Editor Kristen Muller.
The defendants, Cory A. Moody and Devin Newman, were indicted in Superior Court for various violations of the Controlled Substances Act found under General Laws, Chapter 94C. Prior to trial, the defendants filed motions to suppress the evidence obtained as a result of several search warrants issued under the Massachusetts wiretap statute, General Laws, Chapter 272, Section 99. The warrants authorized the interception of calls and text messages sent over the defendants’ cell phones. The motion ju...
A Superior Court jury convicted the defendant, Lewis Franklin, of first-degree murder based on deliberate premeditation for killing the victim, John Falcone; the defendant appealed. The Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) affirmed and declined to order a new trial or reduce the murder conviction. On August 23, 2004, three people, including the victim, wanted to buy a “twenty rock” of crack cocaine. The three people pooled together fourteen dollars, called the defendant (known as “G”), and asked to pu...
The Mass. Crim. Digest is the New England Law Review’s online case-summary database that provides citable, straightforward summaries of recent criminal law cases decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ("SJC") that most impact Massachusetts criminal law and procedure. Editors of the New England Law Review compile the summaries. This episode will review the recently decided SJC case Preventive Medicine Associates v. Commonwealth decided on July 15, 2013. The citation is 465 Mass. 810 ...
