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What Price, Peace? Mohamed ElBaradei (LL.M. ’71, J.S.D. ’74, LL.D. ’04) . runs the International Atomic Energy Agency, a multilateral organization whose mission is to safeguard the world against nuclear proliferation. ElBaradei, who won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, believes that, to forestall violence, the world’s powers need to address . human rights injustices as well as quality-of-life . imbalances. “It’s not just poverty per se, it’s the sense of humiliation and injustice. When somebody feels humiliated,” he says, “they just go bananas.”
The Rules of the Game At NYU, Civil Procedure is not just a basic requirement that first year students need to suffer through. The magnificent civ pro faculty is passionate about the administration of justice and is devoted to teaching procedure, which they regard as holding “the keys to the kingdom.” A well-conceived case, say these professors, is like a chess match. Anyone for a game?
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Three professors are honored; alumni help bring humanitarian relief and a sense of order to Sudan; Congress calls on law professors for voting rights advice; Chinese judges (above, on the NYC subway) visit the NYU School . of Law; and more.
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Faculty Focus Faculty News.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 The 63rd Annual Survey is dedicated to . Ronald Dworkin; David Garland (above) gets a Guggenheim; the American Bar Foundation honors Anthony Amsterdam; Joseph Weiler and David Golove give inaugural chair lectures; and the first Clinical Writers Workshop is held. Plus: In the Wall Street Journal, Jerome Cohen takes aim at China’s criminal justice system; in USA Today, Noah Feldman explores how religion can coexist in public life; in the Daily News, Cristina Rodríguez and the Brennan Center’s chair James Johnson critique New York’s system of selecting trial court judges.
Feature Updates Dean Richard Revesz has charged The Law School with one particular mission above all others: Choose one academic area each issue and focus on it so that readers will learn about a defining characteristic of this institution. During the first years of Revesz’s deanship, we profiled the international, environmental and criminal areas; last year we zeroed in on philosophy and law. This year, civil procedure is under the microscope. Any objective body composed of professors from our peer schools would certainly agree that we set the pace in all these subjects. To call attention to the latest news and developments in these outstanding . specialties, we have marked relevant. stories with the icons above.
Additions to the Roster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 The Law School welcomes seven new . full-time professors as well as 38 visitors . from around the globe. Faculty Scholarship.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Four Law School professors—Oren Bar-Gill, Rachel Barkow, Daniel Hulsebosch and Katrina Wyman—share excerpts of their recently . published work. Good Reads.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 A list of all the work published by full-time, visiting, global and library faculty. Plus, reviews of books by Derrick Bell Jr., Oscar Chase, Paul Chevigny, Ronald Dworkin, James Jacobs, . David Richards and Stephen Schulhofer.
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Student Spotlight Student News & Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Rights (animal, human, constitutional and . voting) are debated; the Journal of Law & Liberty offers its inaugural Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture; the Public Service Auction sets an all-time record; students help Hurricane Katrina’s victims; and more. Student Scholarship.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Chloe A. Burnett (LL.M. ’05) suggests replacing controlled foreign corporations tax laws with a reciprocal group-based model; Kristina Daugirdas ’05 (above) notes that the effectiveness of an agency’s response when a policy is successfully challenged in court depends on whether existing rules are vacated or not.