News
New Faculty Appointments IN SEPTEMBER IRINA D. MANTA
of the Yale Law & Policy Review
joined the Maurice A. Deane School
and editor of the Yale Journal on
of Law from Case Western Reserve
Regulation.
University School of Law, where she
THIS PAST FALL KEVIN McELROY
most recently served as an assistant
was named associate professor of
professor of law. She is
legal
a rising star in the area
joining the Hofstra Law
of intellectual property,
faculty in 2006 as a visit-
with a focus on trade-
ing assistant professor of
marks,
and
legal research and writ-
in
ing, he had represented
copyright
criminal
sanctions
intellectual property.
clients
Manta was a Bigelow Teaching
Fellow
writing.
in
Symposium Examines Interplay of Immigration and Family Court
Before
civil
litiga-
tion before federal and
and
state courts across the
Lecturer in Law at the
country since he began
ON NOVEMBER 9 the Maurice A.
University
practicing law in 1987.
Deane School of Law hosted the
of
Chicago
Law School from 2007-
time
symposium “Immigrants and the
2009. She clerked for
McElroy was affiliated
Family Court: Policies, Practice and
Judge Morris S. Arnold
with
Long
Systemic Change.” The conference
on the U.S. Court of
Island’s largest and most
examined the vital and frequently
Appeals for the Eighth
prestigious
firms,
complex interplay of immigration
Circuit for the 2006-
including Rivkin Radler
issues and family court matters,
2007 term. Her articles
LLP, Nixon Peabody LLP
and featured prominent practitio-
have most recently been
and Farrell Fritz, P.C. In
ners, agency officials, reporters
published in the Boston
addition
engaging
and academics. The full-day event
College
Review,
in litigation, trials and
included workshops and panels
Harvard Journal of Law &
appellate practice ven-
that discussed ways to improve
Technology and Arizona
ued in the courts, he
how family courts serve immi-
Law Review.
has represented clients
grant youths and families, and the
before arbitration pan-
statutory and ethical obligations
els
for judges, practitioners and agen-
Law
While earning her J.D. at Yale Law School, Manta was the grand-prize winner
During some
and
to
that of law
governmental
agency hearing boards.
cies. The symposium was held in
of the Foley & Lardner LLP Intellec-
McElroy teaches Legal Analysis,
conjunction with a special issue
tual Property Writing Competition.
Writing and Research; Pretrial Skills;
of the Family Court Review on
She also served as tributes editor of
and Selected Problems in New York
“Immigration and the Family Court”
the Yale Law Journal, articles editor
Civil Practice. H
that was published in October. H
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