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Selected Recent Guest Speakers, 2012-2013 DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal Marks 30th Anniversary
Howard and Iris Kaplan Memorial Lecture Hon. Denny Chin, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Philip J. Shapiro Endowed International Visiting Scholar Lecture Thomas R. Graham, Member, World Trade Organization Appellate Body European-American Consortium for Legal Education Visiting Scholar Lecture Hon. Luc Lavrysen, Professor of Law, Ghent University, and Judge, Constitutional Court of Belgium Distinguished Visiting Scholar-in-Residence Lecture Roberta Romano, Sterling Professor of Law and Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, Yale Law School Sidney and Walter Siben Distinguished Professorship Lecture in Family Law Carol Sanger, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS
Relations
of the Hofstra Labor & Employment
work that he and his colleagues on
Law Journal celebrated the 30th anni-
the NLRB have been engaged in since
versary of the journal’s founding on
he joined the board in 2010, includ-
February 7. The event, held at Dechert
ing recent cases involving employers’
LLP, was hosted by Andrew L.
social media policies and whether they
Oringer ’84, partner and co-chair
tend to chill employees’ rights under
of Dechert’s ERISA and Executive
the National Labor Relations Act.
Compensation
Board,
addressed
the
so
David B. Feldman ’82, partner at
many people who are interested in
Moses & Singer LLP and the journal’s
Risco Mention-Lewis ’93, Deputy Police Commissioner, Suffolk County
labor and employment law — former
founding editor-in-chief, spoke about
editors-in-chief and current journal
the late Dean Eric J. Schmertz, prais-
members — together in one place
ing his tireless work to turn the Hofstra
Richard A. Small ’80, Vice President, Enterprise-wide Anti-Money Laundering, AntiCorruption and Sanctions Risk Management, American Express
really shows how much the journal has
Labor & Employment Law Journal into
accomplished over the last 30 years,”
a reality. (On March 24, 2011, Schmertz
said Joshua Seidman, the journal’s vol-
was presented posthumously with the
ume 30 symposium editor.
journal’s Samuel M. Kaynard Award for
BREAKFASTS WITH THE DEAN
Steven C. Witkoff ’83, Chairman and CEO, The Witkoff Group
Group.
“Seeing
Honored guest Mark Gaston Pearce, chairman
Hofstra Law Report • SPRING 2013
of
the
6
National
Labor
Excellence by Feldman.) H